El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-31
The Spectator.

The old white haired woman who for
the last few days has been singiog on
the street to the accomplishments OF
a guitar, left the city yesterday on the
east bound I. p, Before she left the
city however che told part of her story
to a reporter OF the HERALD. She
said that she lost the sight of her
eyes from the effects of case OF meas
les, which she contracted while nurs-
ing q 81 k friend. After she lost her
sight she lived with her only d laughter,
who was married, but her daughter
died and then her son in law married
again and she could not expect him to
support her any longer. She beard Of
q place where she could find home if
she had five hundred dollars to pay up
on entrance. This amount
she said was put out at interest
aud the proceeds of it would be
enough to insure her a home there as
looR as che might live. AS soon as
she heard of this home for old ladies
who we're not able to take care OF
Themselves she started out to try and
raise the money. She bought gui-
tar. for she knew how to play, and
commenced to sing on the streets. At
first she ssid she would sing two
hours every day and then go to her
little room and cry two hours, but she
SION saw that she was wearing herself
out in this way and she began to pay
for strength to make her successful in
her undertaking. She put on a brave
heart and kept at 1t. She has paid her
expenses and has one hundred
and sixty dollars saved I'D. She hopes
to make the balance by the time win
ter il over. She was very grateful for
the way the Ell Psso people had treated
her, and in talking of her success here
said that she would have stayed auoth-
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on the town as she heard that there
were a good many tranps here, so she
would go somewhere else. She will
stay in the south this winter and hopes
TO enter the home in St. Louis in the
spring.
FL Psso is noted in all parts of the
country as resort for cousum ptives,
and while this city ha. never advertis-
ed itself as health resort and il not
bidding for the patronage of iuvslids,
they come here nevertheless, and when
early frost fails in the eastern states.
flocks of burgers" with hard ''g''l
begin their fight toward the south
west. Their migration begins at about
the same time that wild ducks and
geese begin hyiog southwark. Many
of them cone here and hundreds of
cures have been effected by the climate
| of this locality and manv lives prolong
| ed indefinit 'ly. Probably the saddest
spectacle to be met with 10 all the
broad west is the pauper who in addi
| ton to his poverty is cursed with con-
! sumption. A spectacle of this kind Is
| calculated to excite the pity of the
most heartlesS, and the appeals of the
| invalid for financial aid usually meet
| with success. At present hollow
| chested young man is csnvassing the
city for assistance. He has fearful
cough and his voice is at best nothing
but a hoarse whisper. He begs for en-
ouRh money to buy bottle of medi-
cine, which, he says, has been pre-
scribed for him to stop his bemorrhages
| and, to Judge from the numbe of per-
| sons who have contributed toward pur-
chasing the medicine, he should have
| already acquired sufficient funds to
purchase case of the preparation.
who appeal for charity under false pre-
lenses, but 1t is better for the donor to
bestow upon mauy unworthy objects
than to neglect to assist one unfortun-
ate who is actually in need.
Three handsome brick cottages are
| being built at present all in bunch at
the northwest corner of Wyoming and
North Kansas street THE three houses
! represent total Investment of about
| $500, costing from $1,000 to $4,000
| each. Two of the cottages being built
belong to Messrs. Wright Bros.
and Ponsford. The Wrights own con-
siderable property already which they
rent. The third house belongs to Geo.
, E. Wallace. He recently sold his home
| on Kansas street to h. G. Murray and
| immediately commenced to build an
other, the plans of which are most
elaborate and will cost more to carry
| out. Fred Schaeffer has purchased the
lot Just north Of where WAllace,s new