El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-02
LAREDO.

Beecher, but the spe ;ial class herein
me toned lies between Laredo and the
deep sea, SO the title of Laredo desig-
mates the spot.
The devil in hell we're told was chained,
And a thousand years he there remained;
He neither complained, nor did ne groan,
But determined to start hell OF his own
Where he could torment the souls of men
Without being chained in a prison cell.
So asked the Lord if he had on hand
Anything left when he made the land.
The Lord said Yes, have plenty on hand,
But left it down on the Rio Grande;
The fact is, old boy, the stuff Is poor,
1 don't think you can use it in hell any
more"
But the devil went down to look at the
truck,
And said that if it came as a gift he was
stuck,
But after examining it carefully aud we'll,
He concluded the place was too dry for a
hell,
So in order to get it off his hand
The Lord promised the devil to water the
land;
For he had some water or rather some
dregs-
A regular cathartic that smelled like bad
eggs.
Hence the trade was closed and the deed was
given,
And the Lord went back to his home IN
heaven.
And the devil then said 1--WE all that's
To make a good hell" and hence he sue
ceeded.
He began to put thorns on all the trees
And mixed up the sand with millions of
feas.
He scattered tarantulas along all the roads,
Put thorns on the cactus and horns on the
toadS
He heightened the horns on the Texas
steers,
And put an addition on the rabbits ears.
He put little devil in the bronco steed,
And poisoned the feet of the centipede.
The rattlesnake bites you, the scorpion
StingS,
The mosquito delights You with his buzzing
wings.
The sand burrs prevail and SO do the ants
And those who sit oown need half soles on
their pants.
The devil then said that throughout tn q
land
He'd manage to keep up the DEVILS own
brand,
And all would be "maver;cks' unless they
Marks OF scratches and bites ana thorns by
the score.
The heat in the summer is one hundred and
ten
Too hot for the devil and too hot for men,
The wild boar 70 inns through the black
chaparral-
lis Il hel. of Il place he has for Ii ell.
People who know little of the news
paper DuSloeS5 should not set them
selves up as judges OF who is and who Is
LOT newspaper men. The pubic is
the best judge OF newspaper
and newspaper men, and they
generally take the paper that furnish
eS the uewS IN the most reliable form
~ man that Is capab. e of earning his
living with MS work on a newspaper
is newspaper man-some are good,
some are Ii. <.
Judge Fitch, Of the Evening Tribune
mas oe ,ldeu the question as 10 who Is a
Constitutional lawyer by saying that ali
are CONSTITUTIONS lawyers woo are ad-
mi tied to the bar. Inc judge, how
ever, failed To say wnlcn bar.
The New Orleans Picayune gives a
local base ball team the following send
Oft free of charge: The Soil d Legs
mad an important meeting last nigni,
preparatory to meeting the Casey Kids
nine on the diamond field next Sunday.
Tney have elecGed the driver of a
brewery wagon honorary presid en-, and
expect to have his acceptance and a
keg of beer at the next match game. !"
"Why is it," asked man about
town, that You so often hear the ex-
pr e7sion like a Kentucky gentleman:
L have always b1eu raised to under
stand that a gentleman was always d
came from Texas, kentucky or Maine,
SO l see no necessity of comparing q
gentleman to u fine old KenJucky gen
tleman.'
Poor Olin Wellborn. Once the pet
ted son of Texas VINO could get " :
thing IN sight he asked for. Always
prom in politics and always Il
leader, he represented the Fort Worth
and Dallas dlSLric1 III congress for TWO
terms ana wa, then recOgnlzet as u
rising politician i'll Texas politics. Now
he Is IN disgrace and is being hunted
down as fugitive from justice and an
EN- bezzler. In an evl moment DIN
Wellboru left TeXas and went 10 Cali
fOrnla. There he again became pro-
minent in politics and In '92 stumped
the country for Grover Cleveland
When Cleveland Was indicted into Of
flee one of his early appointments was
to make Ohm Wellborn collector of
int nal revenue for the San Francisco
disti let. A short time ago mis- chief
clerk was notified that his books would
be investigated and he Immediately
committed suicide. The investigation
showed a shortage of $40, 900 anu tnen
ali of a sudden Wellborn disappeared
and up-tO-dale nOthibg has been heard
from hun. 1t is hard tor his OLD frieuds
to believe there is anything wrong
with him-but they argue that any man
who will quit Texas 10 go to Callfor-
MIA IN uSt nave screw loose some
where.
Those people who have money to
burn will have to burn it outside IF the
city limits as the police have instruc-
lions to str ictly enforce the Ordinan &c
prohl biting the use of fire works in the
city limits. The Fourth can b. cele-