El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-19

forth at pigbt with a lantern and scar
ched over the battlefields, fearing that
some of her Buys might have been owe
lookedby the surgeons, and be needing
her strong arms and cheerful words.
Awkward and rough-hsnded as she
was, she won from the men the title of
MOTHER which meant more than
"sngel".
Helen Gould has helped to the ex-
tent of giving 500, 900 to the govern
m .nt, off, ring another hundred thous-
aud if there is need. Another We althy
woman has turned over her Flori q
re idence to be used as q government
hospital.
The Red Cross VOW, taken by every
nurse, besides involving the pro mise Of
devotion to the sick, wounded and dis
tressed, and of absolute nuetrality in
m Illustrations, requires also the solemn
p-omise that any nurse making mis-
take or seeing any one else making q
mistake will Immediately report it to
the physician 10 charge, and that 30
consideration shall hinder her from
performing this part of the vow.
Physicians declare that this is q mat
ter of great moment-that often
nurse will m AXE q mistake and will
fear to report it or will not like to re-
port the mistake of another, and great
distress that might have been averted
has been brought about.
While everyone was waiting with
int nse interest for the navy depart
ment to decipher its dispatches an
noun cling Deweys victory, and were
besieging the bulletin boards for more
news, one private telegram that was
posted tickled the crowd immensely
1t was, ''Spaniards surrendered; am
we'll" Oilers of the SINE cheerful
tone came later. but this expressed the
situation the most neatly. Another
hing that has tickled the fancy of
WASH gtonians and New Workers., is
a phrase got up by an English news
Pr per which dubbed this THE Yanko-
Spanko war"
The sons of famous men are getting
a good many plums, and the ordinary
folks who watch the applications and
appointments sigh for some son to have
g. it Ell ough to go in as a private ard
win his spurs if he be worthy of them.
It was q Georgia girl who thus pic
tured the times as she sees them: 80.
our boys are SO anxious to go to war
that they wear their uniforms all the
time, even to sthe germans, and they
dance with their swords on, and all my
frocks are ruined, ard We always dance
to national airs all the evening, though
it is very hard to two-step to the "Ssar
Spangled Banner"
victories, believing ss we do that our
r asons for going to war are ignite ou-
ones, but one is reminded of the reply
that the stern old Duke of Wellington
made to q won An who asked him what
a victory was like. "The sad lest sight
in the world, madame, except a de-
feat"
A little bill that passed the senate
the other day, being ipp d in among
the war measures, rapid mail servic.
bill, and o,hsr weigh y aft .irs. was it.
self frsuph t wi b much interest, for it
provided that M ~ 4 instead of March
4 should be Inauguration day. Any
one who has taken q part in the TO-
augura,ion cerem ,pies and festivities
on ome of our cold, wet, freezing,
windy March 'fourths will appreciate
how desirs be this change IS ADD wi II
wish that the bi l may have success
full career In the house. The chances
are ten to one that March fourth will
be cold, aud almost as m my tina. it will
from the president who acknow-
lodges. the cheers of he crowd, as he
dr. ives down the Avenue from tt cap
itol to the white house, to the little
bootblsck who stands on his kit tn
watch b m, and hops from one foot to
the other 10 q vain effort to keep his
toes comfO ia ol,,
The Spaniards having expressed a
supreme cont .mpt for our business
capabilities and havino crowed all
along over their great dash, fire. and
courage that should triumph over the
Ameri an 'pig-like," money-making
characte istics, are in turn being call
Ell "med eval' by the Americans.
I hat procession at Cavits of priests and
holy sisters carrying crosses and COM
i to beseech the Anne rican COM
m nder not to turn his guns on the
hospi ais amazed US who live in the
10Th century. E. P. MCELROY.
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