El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-28
The Spectator.
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An Ell Paso telegraph operator is re-
spousible for the following:
We called him ''the Busy Bird, he
was short and why, energetic, and
full of business, no matter whether he
had any thing to do Or not. There
were three of us seated around a glow
ing fire slipping few hot toddys Bird
spoke up and said, did | ever tell you
an experience l once had in Atlsnta?"
No one had ever heard 1t and the busy
boy continue; "Well. perhaps you
gentlemen do not know that during
seven or eight years of my wild career
before l made that lucky strike in Mex
leo, L was q telegraph operator work
ing at Atlanta at the magnificent sala-
ry of SO, with extra" per month. 1t
was customary with the boys
to have two weeks of sobriety in which
we talked of what use we would put
our half monthly stipend when pay
day came; how much 'time" we had
in; the fight we had with that fellow
in Chicago yesterday; how many mes
sages we had handled, ETC., etc. One
pay day rolled around AID IS L had
been working hard, l had roll of
about 90 bones in my jeans. | had
worked until 3 the morning before and
had gotten up early to get good seat,
l was feeling pretty rocky but with
this so in my clothes 1 felt like a mil
lionaire. Well TO make long story
short took q drink, in fact L took
several and after 1 had imbibed a
quart or more and had begun to get
into a confidential mood with the bar
tender L started out to distriq-
ute the fifty. AT the
corner l met bum operator, who had
been working extra.at the Office. After
an exchange OF greetings we concluded
we had better have one, we'll you
know how those things go 1 had only
intended to buy drink and pass him
up like a Mexican cent, for he was
about as tough specimen as you would
ever meet. He had on an old greasy
suit with hat to match, a pair of
dancing pumps, dirty shirt with no
collar and about three days beard, but
instead we came out of that saloon arm
in arm with this BUSY Bird giving
him the right steer where to buy him
new suit of clothes. In we walked
into the SWEETEST tailor shop we could
find. After getting there | concluded
l needed pair of pants and selected
pair and paid 81 down, L never remem-
bered where the shop was and l never
did get the pants or the 81 Mr.. Bum
was particular and couldn't he suited
and WIS about to go out when he no
ticed dress suit hanging up and en-
quired the price. He concluded that
q dress suit was the very thing he need
ed and he wouldn't have suit made,
but would just buy that and to show
them he was all right put it on right
then and there. The bargain was con-
cluded and we sailed out. Mr.. Bum
with dress suit, a dirty shirt, no col
lar and pair OF dancing pumps on, at
in the afternoon. At the corner we
struck popcorn stand ard we bought
four bags, MIR. Dusty Rhodes putting
his into the tail pockets of his coat.
Ye Gods it was a sight to make
a craven image laugh. I lost
him somewhere, 1 got pinched for
whipping people on the legs with
cane, was driven to the station in the
hurry-up wagon, and after they ab-
strscted $l3 so from my pile they
drove me to my boarding house and
threw me out. Two days later L show
ed up at the Office just in time to get
fired. In the corner was Weary Willie
working away still attired in the dress
suit"
Mexicn has not yet entirely emerg-
ed from the shadow of ignorance aud
superstition into which the people
were thrust prior to Hidslgo's revolt.
Although Diaz has done wonderful
, things for his country, he hat not yet
succeeded fully in eradicat-
ing the superstition implant-
ed there before the revolution.
| A story told by the Mexican Herald
serves TO illustrate one of the most
deep rooted beliefs of the common peo-
pie. 1t is as follows: Yesterday morn
ing a man of the common class by the
name of Lorenzo Domin-
guez presented himself at the
sixth ward police station with the
dead body of his two months old son.
Francisco, saying that he and his wife
! had found the child dead in the morn
ing. Lorenzo said that he did not