El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-07
The Spectator.

There was squally scene in a
North Oregon street househ old yester-
day afternoon when the lady of the
house discovered letter in fine
feminine hand addressed to her theOre-
tical lord and master. The letter be-
gan "Dear Ola Boy" referred to tiff
with the writer which the dear old boy
should have forgotten, and included q
pressing invitation to call. AS the
good lady read her heart sank and her
indignation rose. So this accounted
for his having to do so much night
work at the Office. This was why
times were so hard and money sd
scarce. 1t was for this creature that
she had been econOmizing and de-
priving herself and children of the
comforts of life. Fortunately for the
recreant husband she was so over
whelmed that she took five minutes to
denOuement thoroughly crushiugs then
she scornfully demanded to know where
that letter came from. The abashed
culprit reluctantly admitted that it
came through the mail.
''And who is Nellie? who is the
creature you take bicycle rides with at
night?" Kissed the irate lady.
Il don't knows don't believe there
is any such person." stammered the
$50 have found you out at last,
have 1, you villain. 1 always kne "
you were deceiving me and now I've
got the proof. What do you mean by
bringing such letters into this
, house?"
Then followed a long pause during
which the guilty one vainly endeavor-
ed to muster courage to meet the
blazing eyes of his indignant spouse.
,all - I'd halt Les
gested that it might be bicycle ad-
vertisement and innocently suggested
that the outraged wife and mother
read it again. Il have been carrying
it around for four days, now" he add
cd, land L began to be afraid you never
! would go through my pockets
''Well, it was mean trick, and
| think McCutcheOn, Payne & Co. might
| be in bigger business than trying to
men had found such q letter, there
would have been pretty row.
Mrs.--for instance. I'm just 60
ing to take it over and drop it on her
floor tomorrow and see what she
does.'
Woman! Womanl
A well known citizen told HERALD
reporter yesterday that he had j st
been made the victim of a bunco game
which surpassed any that he had ever
heard of. He was at the Southern Pa.
cific depot when the train pulled out.
A man dressed like tourist rushed to
the ticket window at the moment the
conductor cried "all aboard" and hasti-
ly bought ticket. He snatched out a
fifty dollar greenback. So great. was
the travellers haste and anxiety to
catch the train that he failed to notice
the loss, but seized the ticket and
sprang on the rear platform as the
train was pulling out. Two rough
looking trampS were standing near the
ticket window and each saw the money
hutter to the ground and made a dive
for 1t at the same instant. Both seized
the money at the same time and q
stru gle for the possession of it ensued
The hand of one clutched one end of
the bill and the hand of the other the
| other. Each seemed determined to
get possession of it and the struggle
threatened to result in tearing the
gresnba in half Finally one of the
tramps besought the other not to de :
stroy the value of their find by persist
ing in his efforts, but the other seemed
determined not to yield an inch
until his adversary proposed to
divide the find. The Ell Paso "a an had
grown interested and drawn near. TIE
| tramps appealed to him to settle the
difficulty by changing the money for
them so they could divide it. Both OF
them agreed to give him $40, if he
would take the $50, and turn over $40
to them. He considered that a fair
proposition and handed over forty dol
lars. The $50 was delivered to him and
the two tramps i'm mediately disappear
ed. The Ell Paso man subsequently, dis
covered that the bill was from the mint
of George de FOntaine and decided thai
he had been the victim of q neat buncC
game. He related the foregoing de.
tails to reporter with the under.