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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03

He had come to talk further about til at
duel, he explain ed.
All right 1 said, nonchslantly.
I'm opposed to pistols-they're
customary he argued.
"My answer was to the effect that 1
didn care damn for CUSTOM wan
ed blood, and 1 was going to have it.
Then made him fix time and place
for the encounter. He tried to evade
the first, but 1 penned MIN down,
and ere he left all details were ar
ranged.
"Bsck to his principal again e We
with the sour of my blithe whistli pg
ringing in his ears and a vision of hi at
pistol that b. d already st c. ed small
sized graveyard dancing before his
eyes.
HE came back again.
sAnd again.
''And again.
"And again
"He wanted to know if an annie able
settlement couldn't be reach ed.
'Impossibler told him savagely.
''As the time approached he grew
more and more desperate.
1.-THE day before the one set for the
fight I was strollipg up the principal
tered q newly opened shooting gallery.
AS picked up one of the little rifles to
try my hard 1 happened to look over
my shoulder. and 10! and behold, there
was my Dutchman and his second
standing across the street watching
me.
"NOw-do or dep said to myself,
and took careful aim. There was 8
flash and i n explosion, and the target
"a glass ball DANCING in a jet of water
flew into thousand pieces.
HThat night Q0D08rm0 arrested
me. An ANONYMOUS note to the police
caused it The chircgraphy of the
note was compared to that of the
Dutchman's Tn some sheet music at
the conservatory.
"The long-limbed SOD of Holland felt
constrained to seek another cline.
81 became lion. AT lanta Journal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03

The line of the new mineral railroad
which is to be built from Durango tn
Panuco, is being gone over by party
of engineers, who have an eye toward
purcb ssing the anchise.-Monterey
Globe.
It is proposed to start bank in
Chiapas under the name of the Mex
icau Agricultural bank, and also to
construct a Railroad from 'TonalO to
MALAGA tlan, passing through Tapachuls
and Tuxtla Chico.
1t is reported that the Williams tun-
mel is still much too hot to be entered
for airy distance by workmen. Ar
rangements fer handling freight over
the Southern Pacific are said to have
been definitely settled for three weeks,
and "a three of the engines of the San
ca Fe Pacific have been sent down to
the Southern Pacific it looks as though
the management expects some little
delay 10 the reopening of traffic over
the Santa Fee Pacific. The popular
opinion among those best fitted to Judge
is that the tunnel will have to be en-
tirely blown out.
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail
raneement with Kuhn, Loeb & Co..
and Soeyer q Co., for q refunding OF
the So, 1882 500, 7 per cent first mortgage
bonds maturing November l, 1900. in.
to an equal amount of consolidated
bon reserved for this purpose. The
rev bonds will be issued at Al per
cent, and when the refunding is &C.
compi he'd the entire Issue of CONSOLE
dated bonds will become q fret mort
gage on the system of the Denver 4
Rio Grande railroad. The reduction
in fixed charges will be about $3.50, 200
per annum.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
The Mexican Central railway b

The Mexican Central railway has
established in Mexico City Bureau
of Information which is prepared to
furnish reliable data as to lands, their
prices, titles and resources, whether
grazing, mineral or agricultural; about
the mining industry; about the desir-
able locations for manufacturing en-
terprises. or any general information
relative to the resources of Mexico,
latent or developed. Address either:
A. V. TEMPLE,
Mgr. Bureau of Information,
Mexico City
G. A. MULLER,
Cont Agent, Ell PAso
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
A DUEL THAT NEVER OCCURRED.
The German Student-Bully Was Afraid
of the Texas Pistol.

81 tell you,. gentleman, duels are
terrible things" observed one of AL
lenta's most prominent musicians the
other evening, to prominent insur-
ance man, a prominent lawyer, pro-
miuent railroad official and promin-
ent dentist-a little coterie that every
day rides in and out together on'one II
the suburban trains.
European duels, professor" mildly
inquired the lawyer, who is something
of wit.
eyes, sir: yes, SIR" replied the pro-
fess or earnestly, all unmin dful of any
sarcasm; but he saw it when q smile
went around the crowd, and then he
added quickly:
sob, you may laugh, gentleman, but
"But what, professor" encouraged
the lawyer smili'g..
"But know said the professor.
a." modestly lowering his eyes and
voice, s'speak from actual experience.
The LAWYER DR. essed him for the stor y;
and the arailroad official. the insur-
apce man and the dentist all crowded
up closer to hear how so soft man
pered fellow ever came to figure in
such bloodthirsty role.
well, it was when 1 was student in
in, but meyer mind the town-the
country vas Germany. was the only
American herewith one exception.
The one exception was the ause of the
trouble She is now Mrs."
"Ah! 1 begin to see-je alously!'
broke in she member of the bar:
The professor smiled assent ana con-
tinued:
NATURALLY we felt attracted toward
ach other-straugers in a strange land
together-both very patriotic-all that
sort of thing, you know. But somebody
else was attracted besides me-a great
big, double jointed Dutc man, who L
never did like anyhow. He had PEN
chant for bullying everybody he came
IN contact with, and he wasn't any sort
of q musician either. But he was an
excellent swords mana most excellent
one. And his reputation as a duelist
wasn't bloodless. So, of course, when
we two met-and we met frequently
1 was naturally diplomatic. But it
WASH t long before friction commenced
n spite of me, and the more concilia-
tory 1 became the more domineering
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Consult free DR.. Re-
gister about the New
Cure for Consumption,
Bronchitis & Catarrh.
Prudential Block.

sierra Madre Route to the Yaqui Gold
Fields.
Take the r. G., S. M. & p.
Ry for Casas Grandes, San Buena-
bentura, and the Yaqui gold fields
Trains leave Ciudad Juarez Mondays,
Wednesdays aud Fridays at $50 8. m.
A rrive Ciudad Juarez Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 4:3O p. M,
Mexico City time. Depot opposite
Mexican Central passenger depot.
J. T. LOGAN,
Gen1 Traffic Agent.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03

Multiplication notices for sale .
tHa HERALD Job Office,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Mardi Gras at New Orleans.

Account of Mardi Gras at New
Orleans February 2!st and 22nd. The
Texas & Pacific r. r., Ell Paso route,
will sell you round trip tickets
February 18th, 10Th, sO>h aud 2ls.,
limited for return to March 5sh, at one
fare for the round trip, $500 For
further Information call on or address
B. F. OARBYSHIRE, S w. F. g. P. A.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
MRS. ROSA SONNENSCHEIN.

"A n has he
MI a devoted
Hebrew abbinical
1y1 family Vienna people hodcx Jewe At
imbibing liberal spirit of
being devoted history
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Horace B. Stevens,
Real Estate and InSur-
anCe Agent.
| Solicit Collection of Rents
and make no charge for
Advertising.
FOR SALE

NORTH STANTON, STREET. near
Hildebrand residence, 2 lots; $500.
Oce-third cash.
NORTH KANSAS STREET, 81 lots
for 500 cash.
UPSOM AVENUE, between N. Ell
Paso and Santa Fe Sts., As feet for
5000; one-third cash.
NORTH OREGON STREET, corner of
Rio Grande, 175x175. Room for 5
houses. CHEAP.
MESA AVENUE, 2 lots, corner, for
500.
IDAHO STREET. 3 lots at sacrifice.
BUSINESS CORNER, Mesa avenue
= Ard Texas street. 115x60 feet. A bar
gain and terms to suit.
IL LOTS on San Antonio street facing
MagOffin homestead.
TWOLOTS on East Overland. Cheap.
ONE LOT, near Mesa school.
6Ox12O feet on West Overland street.
BUSINESS PROPERTY, paying $40
per month, for $4,000
"a 800 will buy row of houses paying
S64 month.
MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS aud
small cash payment will buy 7-rOOm
brick house, 116 Upsom Avenue.
GA N. OREGON STREET brick house
rooms. Easy terms.
4O7 N. Ell PASO STREET, rooms,
cheap.
400 n. Ell. PAso STREET, rooms,
brick.
BRICK HOUSE of 5 rooms on North
Stanton Street; southeast corner; .
Pleasant home.
NEAR S. p. DEPOT, on N. Kansas
Street, Broom brick.
GOOD PAYING LODGING HOUSE,
Is rooms.
LARGE BRICK RESIDENCE. CEN
trally located. Suitable for fashion
able boa dino
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Mardi Gras. New Orleans.

Tickets on sale via the G. II. g. S. A.,
Sunset route, February II, Is, 10 and
70, 1898 -good for returning at at any
time within Is days from date of sale
at one fare for round trip. On Friday
the 18th and on Saturday, the 10Th,
tourist car service and on the 18th din
ing car service. Frs class coaches
and Pullman buffet sleeps RS daily.
T. E. HUNT. II. r. TURNER,
Com. Agt. G. T. A.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Mr. Ward L. Smith, of Ere derrick

Mr.. Ward L. Smith, of Fire dericks-
town, Mo-, was troubled with chronic
diarrhoea for over thirty years. He
had become fully satisfied that it was
only question of short time until he
would have to give up. He had been
treated by some Of the best physicians
in Europe and America but got no per-
manent relief. One day he picked up
a newspaper ard chance1 to read an
advertisement Of Cham herlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He
got bottle of it, the first dose helped
him and it's continued use cured him.
For sale by all druggists.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03

I have given Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy n fair test and consider it one
of the very best remedies for Group
that have ever ,und. One dose has
always been sufficient, although I use
it freely. Any cold my children con-
tract yields very readily to this medi-
cire. l can Consistent ously recommend
it for Group and colds in children
Geo. E. Wolf, Clerk of the Circuit
S Goars, Esrn'ndin"' Fla S0ld by all
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Pure Hygellia Ice.

Made from distilled water. Ask
your family physician or druggist as.
TO purity and healthfulness of our ice.
Telephone No. IA
ELPAsO ICE & REFRIGERATOR G
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
Forever Fifty Years.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used for children teething It
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and is
the remedy best for diarrhoea.
Twenty-Five cents bottle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-03
The COMPOUND locomotive.

At the St, Louis Railway club meet.
irg Mr.. J. S. Thurman, mechanical en-
eineer Missouri Pacific railway, said:
~ tn nix the trouble that has ben ex-
perienced with the compound engine
snd the essOn it has not been adopted
by more roads than at present is be-
cause the builders have been designing
these engines and selling them to rail-
rosd companies The railroad men
take q certain amount of pride in what
they have designed themselves, and
they maintain that they can overcome
the defects that are found in them.
These matters take time, and we a e
not yet really prepared for the change
from simple to compound locomotives.
But my opinion is that the features en-
tOdied in the compound engine are es.
sentially correct, and, With the slight
notifications that may be found neces-
sary. believe that it will become the
standard American locomotive.
Prof. J. b johnson Washington un-
iversity) said: with reference to the
future of the G ,mpound locomotive,
my opinion is that the compound loo =
motive has come to stay. 1t ia pecu-
lia~ly adapted to American conditions.
With BIT avy loads at moderate spe DIS,
it Ger tainly does save from Is to 20 per
cent of the fuel cost, as now built and
operated, and his i cOnsidera bic
item. On light trsio Or on high speed
SD ed service there is little saving of
fuel, but where he IVY passenger trains
are to be hauled at the highest speed,
or when the speed is limited by the
steaming capacity OF the boiler, there
lie q considerable reduction in the water
to b, evap ia ed, ar d hence less diff
Guilty in maintaining the pressure.
While the cylinder repairs are increas.
e. or perhaps doubled, the boiler re-
pairs are greatly reduced, thus
reducing the total expens', because the
boiler ranairs are the main it am.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

mean are all very proud Of our pins,
and commenced wearing them at once.
Some of the other girls since seeing the
pins are sorry they didn't join the club,
TOO but we have decided to take in no
more members for fear we might get
some weak-minded ones who might
be led to Join us for the sake of wear
ing one of the pins, and then as soon
as the novelty wore off (they wouldn't
wait for the enamel; that would take
too long, bring disgrace on the club by
getting married.
No. it will be safer to stick to the
original membership-the six strong
willed. vigorous-mi founders Of the
p NJ T. A We are reasonably sure
that they at least will be faithful
.sThe Stub stationery also came to-
day and I couldn't help feeling glow
OF bachelor maidenly pride as l saw the
words Phyllis Potter. president, in
the daintiest of script under the name
of the club at the top Of the letter.
heads and on the envelopes.
4 Immediately sat down and wrote
a note TO every friend l could think Of
using the club paper, OF course-just to
impress them with my new title
THAT Bachelor Maids Triple Alii-
ance' stationery is going TO come
handy hy the way, in case a young
man ever has the misguided audaeity
TO propose To me. All that will be neces-
sary is To hand him one of those letter
headings and he will see at once that
there is no hope for him. This viii
be much simpler than writing or ex-
planning matters to him verbally be-
sides an easy way Of letting him down.
.'June 22-Tonorrow is graduation
day when the members of the b. NJ
t. Az must separate and go out into
the world to battle for themselves, so
tonight we had a sort of farewell joili
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some advantages but their
axes are so badly arranged that the
guns which they carry would be out of
combat as soon as they began to op-
crate THE Texas has very deficient
armor: it can not carry the
torpedoes intended for it" and the crit
ic does not spare even the Inflated
Maine, but informs us that tits best
speed was Is miles tit was 171a knots,
and that at this speed it shipped water
at the bow" iz
The Katahdin can not go into bat
tie on the high seas, and Its crew can
not sleep on board for lack of space"
The Miantonomah (sic), Monadnock
and Terror, ARE provided with a CEN
trail compartment easily separated
from the body of the monitor
an eccentric and senSeless idea We
are further informed that the stability
of the Baltimore and Philadelphia is
endangered by their heavy guns, and
that the armored deck of the Cincin-
natl and her class lis source of dan
ger rather than defense" Even the
famous run of the Columbia across the
Atlantic, at a speed of IS knots, is dis
credited on the ground that the last
days run could no longer be made
under forced draught" AS matter of
fact, the whole run was made under
natural draught
This remarkably lucid and accurate
account of our warships concludes by
assuring the Spanish public that the
rest of the vessels are not worth men
TONNE"
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the enemy has invaded our ranks and
captured one of our most promising
members. Maud Spencer is no morei
Poor girl she has exchanged her final
cognomen for the plebeian name of
Smith-or is it Jones? O. yes, here it
is; Maud Jones is the way she signs
it to her letter, and the paltry excuse
she gives for marrying the creature,
Jones, is that she loves him. The idea!
Just as if that was any justification for
breaking her vows and deserving the
standard Of the b. NJ. A. AS, Well. [
am glad she had the grace to promptly
notify me in my capacity of president
and return the badge which she is no
longer worthy to wear, Won't / write
Mrs. Jones a sseathing letter tomorrow
when ! get at it,
Jan 8, 1S97-Bad news again and
more of, it, Today came two letters adj
dressed to Phyllis Potter, president of
the Bachelor Maids Triple Alliance,
one containing the announcement of
the marriage of Edith Wilson and the
other stating that Belle Richardson
had met with the same fate. They
each returned the club pin and said
they were very sorry and all that sort
of thing, but they loved the men whose
names they had assumed and felt sure
they were loved in return, and under
the circumstances they felt it was
their. duty TO give up the B. NJ. T. A,
etc, etc.
These excuses are a trifle weak. but
! presume it is the best the poor things
could do Well, if they prefer love to
liberty, all right. but / feel it incum-
bent on me to write and tell them what
I think of the step they have taken
just the same.
1t is not only discouraging, but
shocking-yes. actually shocking-to
think that in one short year half of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08
SIX BACHELOR MAIDS:
Or, the Downfall of the Triple Alliance.

Jan. 1, 1S96.-Perfectly lovely time
today. No young men callers were al
lowed at the Advanced Young Womans
college, and it seemed so nice not to
be compelled to smirk and smile and
listen to a lot of silly compliments and
speeches. 1 never fully realized before
what bore the men are!
Half a dozen of us girls got to talk
ing the matter over tonight and finally
resolved 10 paddle our own canoes
through life, and let the men do the
same, so far as we are concerned. To
make the resolution more binding we
formed a club known as the Bachelor
Maids Triple Alliance. l suppose we
ought to have called it the SeXtuple Al
lance, seeing there are six of US, but
Lottie Burton said Triple Alliance
sounded better and was just as binding,
so we called it that After we had the
name settled on one of the girls said
there WAS a triple alliance of some sort
in Europe and we might be infringing
on their copyright, but none of us could
remember exactly what it was about,
or who got it up, so We decided to take
the chances of their being patent
on it.
L am the president of the club-won't
it look grand when il comes to be print
ed on the club stationery ?-'Phyllis
Potter, president of the Bachelor Maids
Triple Alliancei'-and the other mem
bers are Lottie Burton, Maud Spencer,
Edith Wilson, Mabel Thurston and Belle
Richardson. There are to be no dues or
admission fee, except 81 each for a suit
able pin with the monogram B. Nj. t.
A engraved on it. Each girl is to wear
the pin constantly as a reminder of the
vow she has taken. ana she is to eX-
plain fully just what the letters mean
to any one who is curious enough to
ask.
''Of course we don't expect any of the
members Of the alliance to be weak
enough to ever fall in love with a man
and marry him, but if such an unlikely
event should happen the offender is to
strip off her badge of maiden bachelor
hood, the club pin, and return it to the
president, with a letter of apology, and
giving some good reason Gf such
thing is possible) for the step she has
taken.
This latter was a suggestion of my
own, and l think it is a grand idea.
How I viii lecture the backslidersi That
is, of course, if there are any, which I
hardly expect, judging from the way
the girls all talked tonight. What a
jolly, independent lot they are! No
clinging ivy business in theirs. thank
you Men are all we'll enough in their
p.dCeS-EuHIlIS IdllTOduS, 6uSlHttIIIiS
political caucuses, etc-but when it
comes to marrying one Of them and be-
ing dependent on him for home aid
living-well, the B. NJ. T. A respect
,ully beg to be excused.
Jan. S-The pins came from the jew
eler's today, and they are too sweet and
Ovely for anythingl The monogram is
/ dark blue enamel, and there is q deli
cate spray of forget twining
gracefully around il, making the pin a
very tasteful and desirable ornament.
I'VE girls (the six bachelor maids, I
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08
WEALTH In NINE DEBRIS.
Prospector Who Bought Tailings For
$4,000 Will Make 100000.

San Diego Sun: There are some
men in this world who have to toll
for a mere apology for a living-and
then there are others. One of these
latter is Mr. Luce of Cargo. Muchacho.
Luce's experience reads like a
romance. For 20 years he had knocked
about the coast, on the desert, in the
mountains, prospecting and mining,
and had finally, by hard work and the
closest economy managed to scrape
together q few hundred dollars.
One day on the shores of the Colo
RADIO, some 20 miles north of Yuma, he
met an old Mexican, who told him of
a deserted mine some ten miles back
from the river and seven miles north
of Hedges. Luce'S interest was aroused
and he visited that mine, to find there
an abandoned 20stamp mill which had
pounded away for many years and
then shut down. He then learned the
story. The mill was on leased ground.
The lessee had mined the property on
shares and had done fairly well, al
though the ore was not entirely free
milling One day the vein ''pinched
out" The mining man was sure he
had simply lost the lead, and that it
was there all right, but the owners
refused to put up cent to help him
find it again, and, tired of living on
liz NtSoCA - III Ill ~
business and left.
Luce examined the property and
discovered that there was a small
mountain of tailings, the accumula-
ton of years, piled up behind the mill.
He tested these tailings with cyanide.
Then he measured the pile roughly
and estimated there was over 100000
tons of the stuff there. That night he
wrote to the president of the company,
in New York City, offering them 10
cents per ton for the tailings on a
basis of GOO tons. The president
read the letter. looked surprised, and
called the directors together. They
read the letter. looked wise, tapped
their foreheads significantly, and
laughed to each other.
This poor fellow Luce should be
called Goose" said one.
Deserts proved too much for him
probably gone daft" observed another.
Not one of them thought that those
tailings were worth anything. and they
had almost entirely forgotten that old
mine ont or the Colorado desert. But
they answered the letter. telling Luce
TO go ahead.
This was in April of last year. On re-
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key-hole. and listened to the remarks of
the B. NJ. T. AS on this occasion.
Guess their ears would have tingled
and they would have gone away with
their stock of conceit percepubly
lowered
The final toast for the evening,
drank with our farewell cup of tea, was
the following eloquent and noble senti-
nent: The Bachelor Maids Triple AL
lance the Gibraltar of single-blessed-
ness and blessed independence; may it
never fall by assaults from without or
treachery from within
Dec. 26-Only six brief months have
flown by since the members of the B.
NJ. T. A. parted with mutual pledges
of constancy to the great cause of
single blessedness, and-it grieves me
to write it, but write it l must-already
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elements of pinhole burner. The thick
end of the tube must be fitted to the gas
bracket: a short piece of rubber tubing
forms a good connection When gas IS
sent through the burner and lighted, it
will burn in long, thin flame. Ii Il high
pressure of gas is turned on. the flame
will be found very sensitive If the room
is cuiet the long point of the flame will
stand quite steady. but if a watch is held
near Il will wobble and flare back and
forth in perfect time TO the ticks. If you
shout at it, it will jump to one side as if
scared. and if you scold it in loud voice,
it will dance about in perfect frenzy of
excitement 1t is much more sensitive in
this respect than "a bad-b boy.
An amateur English scientist once sent
to Professor Tyndall an idea for a. gas
burner which produced a very sensitive
flame II was made of 32-meSh gauZe and
anv one NAV make one by examining the
illustration. 1t is really
nothing more than a little table made of
gauze and having a wide round hole cut