El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-27

do in the meantime is to wait" The
railroad man betook himself down
stairs wearing on his f,ce a discour-
aged look. That's all 1 can do for
: him." remarked Superintendent Put
nam. There are more than twenty
five pupils ahead OF his child on the
waiting list and L do not believe she
will get a seat this session. If we do
not get that bond money hundreds Of
children will not be able to attend
school next session"
Mexican children who attend the Ell
Pa-o public schools ard finish the
course of Instruction provided for them
are turned loose in full command of
the Eoglish tongue and as conse-
quence their value as citizens vastly
increses as well as their value to them
selves and these dependent upon them
for support. 1t is claimed by many
that so long rs the sun rises in The
east and sets in the Pacific ocean
the Mexican will cling to the la ,guage
of his Spanish ancestors. That may
be true, but it is never theless q fact,
TIE American pu bile school system has
alresdy won many of them over to the
English tongue and induced them to
adopt American costumes and con form
A prominent insurance man COM
plsios that Ell Psso was visited by FIVE
Insurance agents from Dallas last week
| and each of them made a number of
contracts with residents IN this city.
\ He thinks that the agents who reside
| here and spend their earnings here
ought to receive the exclusive patron
age of citizens of FL Paso. Grocery
| men complain That a business man
purchased q car load of provisions for
his family in ST. Louis some time
ago. They think he should buy his
supplies in this city, since his interests
are all here and are identical with
theirs 10 the upbuildipg of the COM
mercial Importance of the town.
| ''Singeiug hair has not yet become
popular in the southwest" said the
| barber. as he deity applied a lighted
wax taper 70 the locks of a young man
who was threatened with premature
badness. Very few people in this
section know that it will stop the hair
from falling out. Whenever 1 have a
customer who wants his hair singed
the operation is sure to at
tract the attention of half the people
in the shop and be regarded by them as
a curiosity
E B. WEIGH, the furniture dealer, is
a strong advocate for the establish
vicinity. 'Plenty OF ore,'' he says lis
shipped through here each day to
] Pueblo and other points to furnish ma
| terial for another smelter. Smelt-rs
| bring laborers and laborers need din
ner buckets and plenty to fill them
with. That's what makes business for
| a town"
| A fact much commented upon by
strangers who visit Mexico and the
border, is that while American pedes-
trians in passing invariably turn to the
right, a Mexican always turns to the
| left and will pass on that side If il is
possible to do SO. Just why this pecu-
liarity exists no one seems able to ex-
plain, but it is, nevertheless, well es-
| tablished custom.
| Considerable complaint is heard
about the imperfect lighting of the
opera house this year. The light is so
dim that it is next to an impossibility
to read program. Some .of the au-
dience clsim that it is the smoke pro-
duced by the cigarette fen 6
in the gallery which dims the
brightness, but this is denied by
others, although cigarette smoking
among the gallery gods is said to be a
common practice. And great clouds
of nauseating smoke float from the gal
lery until above the parquet and then
| settle down.
| z. t. Barnum once said that his
creed was: