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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
MAGNIFICENT IN HIS LAZINESS
Remarkable Achievement of a New
Orleans Tramp Which Holds the
Record for Ease.

At about noon yesterday fat and
healthy looking but phenomepally tat
tered tramp sat furtively doing ON a
bench in Lafayette square. The near
by tablet of the geodelic survey an
nounced that he was in eXactlv Latitude
20 degrees, 56 minutes and SO seconds
and longitude 80 degrees, minutes
and seconds, but the fact disturbed
him not. Leaning back luxuriously,
he appeared to be bursting from every
seam of his dilapidated attire, and as
he.passed in and out of cst-naps he nod
ded solemnly, like a porcelain mands-
rim. His legs were crossed and his
in shoe from which
most of the forward portion of
the sole was missing, exposing his bare
and dirty toes from below. 1t WAS
held to his foot by string tied around
his instep; in fact, he WAS literally Ion
his uppers." q circumstance which evil
IDENTIFY bothered him as little as the
geodetic tablet. Presently, in one of
his waking intervals, he espied half
ment, about yard from the bench.
For moment he surveyed it calmly,
dispassionately, almost judicially. Then
he executed q remarkable strategic
movement. Without stirring the up
per portion of his body, he slowly un-
crossed his legs, lowered his foot &C
curstely and deliberately over the
treasure trove, gripped it in q convul-
sive clutch of his toes, reversed the mo-
ton. raised his foot, carrying with it
the stump, crossed his legs, languidly
stretched forth his hand and secured
his prize. equity clubman, who was
out for constitutional, and who Lad
watched the proceedings from another
bench. was lost in admiration. "Why,
the man is wonder!" he exclaimed to
a friend. "There is something mag
niHcent, almost supernatural, in such
laziness as that! He has elevated it to
an art, to a-but hold! 1t would be a
thousand pities if he were disturbed
for match I must offer him one!"
The equity clubman arose with difficult
ty. hObbled down the walk. and draw
ing silver match case from his pock-
ct, extended it with a polite bow. The
tramp manifested no surprise, but
slowly extracted match and ignited
the stump. 'T'anks," he murmured.
and closed his eyes. "He is superbri
said the clubman when he rejoined his
friend: "he is a record breaker. he is
the LATEST man in the rld!"-New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
Earnings of Mexican Roads.

The Mexican Central in 1889 showed
gross earnings Of Sc. 337 ,225 and in 1898
of S13, 5SS, 966.
The National railroad in 1889 show
ed gross earnings of So, TO, 124 and in
1898 of Sc, $50, 9l9.
The Mexican International in 1888
earned. gross, $911 ,698 and in 1898 had
increased to So, 49,, O74.
In other words, the total gross earn
ings of these Mexican roads in 1889
amounted to $40, 6O9. O47 and in 1898 to
S23, 416, $50, or a gain of 12,sO7, 912, a
remarkable showing, and one which
we may add was cOincidental with q
marvellous increase in the general
wealth of the country.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
Railroad Time Tables.

MILL U6u llllIt l6UlCS.
MOUNTAIN TIME.
SANTA FEE ROUTE,,s
Arrives, $50 a m Leaves, $50 a m
TEXAS & PACIFIC. -s
Arrives, 9:15 a m Leaves, 2:1O p m
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Arrives, 1:3O p m Leaves. 1886 p m
G. n. & 9. A. 80
Arrives, 2:45 m Leaves 1:5O p m
MEXICAN CENTRAL.
Arrives, 1886 pm Leaves. lao p m
Leaves JuareZ 2:40 D m -;
r. g.. g. m. & PACIFIC.
Daily Except Sunday.
Arrives JuareZ. 3:55 m -..e
Leaves JuareZ, 1925 m
Ell PASO & NORTHEASTERN.
Arrives, $50 p m Leaves, 1890 m
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
Highest Rates Interest

paid on savings deposited with National
Guarantee, Loan and Trust Co. of Dallas.
Apply to
ID. Z. DURRELL Room IA, Bronson Blk
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
Wichita and Denlson Road.

Articles of Incorporation :have been
filed at Gruthrie, o. T., by the Wichi-
ia ana Denison Railway company. The
road is to run from Denison, Tex,
through Grsyson county, Chickssaw
nation, Pottawatomie. Lincoln, Noble,
Payne and K or Pawnee counties in
the territory of Oklahoma, and the
counties of Cowley, Summer and Sedg-
wick in the state of Kansas to the city
of Wichita. The road is to run near
or through the towns of Shawnee.
Chandler, Perkins. Tyron and Still
water. 1t will be 1926 miles long. The
cost is estimated at 50 $780, 600 and the
capital stock is 100000. Ex-
change.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10

Ask for "EL PASO TRANSFER"
the best cent CIGAR on the market.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
THE T. & p. CANNON BALL.
1t Will Be Put On Between Texdr-
kama and This City About the
18th OF Next Month.-WiII Meet
the Southern Pacific Fast
Mail Train At This Point
Faster Time Than the Limit

1t has been r. mored for some time
past that the Southern Pacific was go
ing to put on fast mail train between
New Orleans and San Francisco and
such Is now known to be fact al
though the sch. dule has not yet been
issued.
The fast train will start on or
about the ID d of next month over the
Southern Pacific lines and will be met
at this point by IL cannon ball over the
Texas & Pacific from ST. Louis.
The Iron Mountain will put on fast
train between St. Louis and Texar-
kama which is to be known as the "Cy-
clone" AZ that point the Texas q
PaciGs Will meet the ''Cyclone" and
be known on the Texas & Pacific tracks
as the Cannon Ball" 1t will come
straight through to Ell Psso with COM
paratively few stops and it is said that
the new train will make much better
time than the limited did during the
winter months. The train will reach
here early in the NOR ming and leave
late in the evening in connection with
the fast mail train on the Southern
Pacific for points west.
The passenger train which reaches
this point at 1905 daily over the T. &
p. will, after the fast train has been
put on, come no further west than Big
Springs and will do all the local work
between Texarkapa and that point.
leaving nothing for the Cannon BalP'
to do but come straight through from
the east border of Texas to this point.
The T. & P. has been running sort
of relief train from Dallas to Wealth
erford and it is thought that, after the
fast train has been put on and Nos. B
and assigned to local work. from Big
Springs east, the relief train will be
abandoned.
This change in the passenger ser
vice will be greatly appreciated by the
travelling public because if there were
ever a time when traveller wishes to
reach the west caast in a hurry is dur
ing the heat of the summer season.
The Cannon Ball. is said to be one of
the haudsomest and best equipped
trains Ia existence and will greatly re-
duce the time made by the limited on
that line. It is thought that every
thing will be in readiness to start the
trsins running by the 18th OF next
month.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-10
To Cure a Cold in One Day.

10 CUTt d COIU III VHt Ody.
Take Laxative Bromo Quiniue Ia
blets. All druggists refund money If 1T
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has
B. Q. L. on each tablet. .-..
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

Sometimes I go to a carpenters ship and
see a man skillfully using tool after tool
with a dexterity and intelligence that
seem TO me scarcely less than marvellous.
But the poor carpenter tolls away day
after day for what he regards as poor
wages, perhaps discontented troubled
weary with his lot, disgusted with life
and longing to fly away from II all. It
is commonplace because 1t is too familiar.
Go into great cotton mill and look for
the first time upon marvellous machine
in operation. But what will the poor
weaver tell you If you ask him what he
thinks about It? The wonder is all gone,
curiosity all gone, interest all gone; per-
really in all these spheres what the un-
is wonderful, it is interesting to the last
degree; but the one who is living in it
has grown so familiar with 1t that his
interest is all gone and he becomes weary
and disheartened.
So in every walk and every work in
life The housekeeper feels it, the
teacher feels it, the lawyer feels 1t. the
mechanic feels it, and each one comes to
say at last: "Oh, what a commonplace
life this is I am leading!" Commonplace
because it is familiar, and there is no
longer an appreciative heart to see the
wonder and glory of it all.
Weary as we grow of our common little
lives they have their value, and 1 want
to point out few important facts.
In the first place, we find here the real
tests of character. What was the real
measure and test in the life of General
Grant? 1t was measured not on the bat
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sions; the blood is up, courage runs high,
there is inspiration and hope. How much
more difficult it is to be great amid the
grinding cares and tolls of ones common
life from day to day! How hard to be
great when there is no banner, no music,
no applauding multitude-but when, si-
lent and lonely, one sees the simple du-
ties needing to be done without word
of praise or a ray of hope. How many
brilliant women there are in the face of
other men and women, social stars and
suns, fitted TO dazzle and charm and in
terest by their. graces of manner or cul-
ture of mind, who are absolutely unin-
teresting and nearly useless amid the
petty cares and simple duties of life. 1t
is so much harder to be great in common
life than to be great on the special oc-
casion.
No; for the real tests of life you shall
not go to the battlefield, nor the Senate
chamber, nor the ballroom, nor the stock
exchange, nor the regal forum. You
shall go to the home and study the spirit
of the girl in the kitchen who does the
drudgery of the family life, or see the
patient wife and mother. with infinite
care and painstaking doing the simple
things from day to day which need to
be done to hold the home intact; or to
the husband returning after his day of
toll in shop or field or office and watch
his intercourse with wife and child and
servant. or follow him back again on the
morrow and see how he acquits himself
at his work. Is he brave. is he patient,
is he earnest, is he temperate in this
common little life which he is living from
day to day? The test is there.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

OF 1127 yards, or within 633 yards of the
goal; and the swiftest living walker, to
rival w. Perkins speed in 1874, when he
covered a mile in minutes % seconds,
would require a start of no less than 1904
yards, leaving him little over a quarter
of a mile to cover.
Our handicap for the most exciting race
of all time stands thus: bicycle scratch;
Persimmon, 20 yards; trotter, 31S yards;
skater, 653 yards; runner. 1854 yards:
racing eight, 1927 yards; and walker, 1894
yards A race with these handicaps would
furnish the closest finish in sporting an
nails, for all the competitors would break
the tape at exactly the same moment un-
less one or other broke the record and
came in by a neck.
To introduce the locomotive into our
lend of the century race, we will credit
it with speed of 60 miles an hour, and
should have to place it 1914 yards behind
scratch.
The speed per hour developed by the diff
ferent competitors would be: Locomotive.
60 miles; cyclist, 80 miles; thoroughbred. A
shade under SO miles; -trotter %; skater
% Is; runner, Il Is; racing eight about
1874; and walker. over 9 1-3 miles an hour
But more marvellous even than the cy-
clist's speed is his power of endurance.
To cover a mile in l minute fl 2-5 seconds.
and "a miles 1920 yards in an hour is by no
means as astounding as to maintain a
rate of 25 % miles an hour for "a consec-
utive hours. as NJ. Cordang did in his mar
velous days ride at the Crystal Palace. in
1897.
The stupendOus nature of this feat be-
comes apparent when we consider that he
could have run sixty-one of the swfftesr
horses in England to standstiH racing
them one after the other for ten miles
each: probably the most wonderful evil
dence of human endurance and perfect
mechanism ever seen in the worlds his
tory.
Almost equally remarkable. when we
consider the difficulties of surface, gradi-
ent and weather are the long distance cy..
Gle records on the roads. Last year F. r.
Goodwin covered a distance of AIS miles
on the road in tvtEtY four hours, MAIN
tanning All average speed Of nearly eig ht>
cen miles an hour.
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

81 remember it was just after my
eleventh birthday" said Sebastian, in re-
counting how he came to California in
1912, that I was down at the wharf in
Montreal. Some sailors asked me if I
would like to go on board their ship. I
was full of curiosity and of course said
yes. They took me into the cabin and
gave me nuts and candy to eat and
strange shells TO play with. This was
part of their trick to kidnap me and use
me as cabin boy.
'I fell asleep, and when I awoke I felt
terribly sick. After We had been out to
sea a few days I got over the seasick-
ness. Then 1 began to cry for my father
and mother. I wanted to play with my
little brothers and sisters. But the cap
tain told me it would be a long time be-
fore I would see them again. He said
we were going to a strange country
called California. The captain was an
Englishman, but many of the sailors
spoke French, and as my parents were
French-Canadians and I could speak the
language they grew very fond of me.
Every one was very kind to me. I never
forgot the name of the captain nor the
ships name 1t was the Colombo and
the captains name was Umphrey.
1T seemed years TO me before I woke up
one morning and found that we were not
moving. Soon some sailors took me on
and to that we went. That was the first
house on the spot that afterward became
San Francisco. While the sailors were
bartering for hides ard tallow 1 talked
with the padre. He was French and the
only one who could understand me- The
rest of the people on shore were MeXi-
cans. I told him my name and then he
made me tell him all about the sailors
taking me from Montreal
There was a tall dark gentleman in
big sombrero who stood near US and lis
tended to what we said. The father spoke
to him in Spanish and the gentleman pat
ted my head and smiled at me.
After supper the padre asked me II
would like to go with the gentleman. I
said yes and that very night l was put
on a horse and rode away with the gen.
tleman We travelled for several days.
cit was Senior Pacheco, father of Ro-
muaIdo Pacheco, and he took me to
his ranch. 1 soon learned to talk Span
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tired of them. Why IS 1t?
Familiarity without appreciation makes
things seem commonplace. Supposing the
moon were to rise only once a year-then,
whether seen in crescent or with its full
face of light, we should all turn out even
at midnight to see it; but we have grown
familiar with the sight, and so, perhaps,
careless. Yet to the heart with appreca-
ton it is still just as silvery, just as
beautiful, just as wonderful as 1t ever
was. Men will prepare for months ahead
for an eclipse of the sun, and all the
world stands gazing in wonder before the
creeping shadow which slowly shuts out
the light of day. But every day of the
suns shining, with its warmth and light
and comfort and life-givng power, is a
thousandfold more wonderful than the
eclipse.
1 remember with what wonder I took
my first kuruma ride through the streets
of a japanese city. Everything I saw
from the curious little wagon in which I
was riding, the queer little people swarm
ing around me, the strange little band
box houses and shops, to the wonderful
five-story pagoda and the old medieval
castle, seemed nothing less than marvel
Gus TO me. 1 felt if I were to stay in
the country for fifty years the wonder
of it would never pass away. But 1t was
the same old story. l actually lived there
only four years, and long before 1 left
could ride from end to end of the great
city of Toxic without a single thrill of
wonder. Our own land, our streets. our
CITY, our people are just as wonderful to
the eyes of the stranger; there isn't a
commonplace spot in his own town to
man of appreciation who has not lost the
art of seeing things.
SO it is with our lives; they are not
common and never commonplace, save to
him who grows too familiar to see the
wonder and the glory contained therein.
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~ twenty years, there have been few
Ia things more remarkable than the
l development of speed in cycling.
1t seems but yesterday that there
were only four men in the world
who could ride mile on a track under
minutes, and that Cortis' feat of COM
passing twenty miles within an hour was
a worlds wonder. To-day Major Taylor,
the lightning black rider of the States.
can ride a mile in l minute. Il 2-5 seconds
or, with flying start, in go seconds,
rate of 80 miles an hour; and Elkes, an
other American racer, has covered "a
miles 1920 yards within the hour.
After thirty years of development the
cycle has at last eclipsed in speed every
means of travelling except the locomotive.
1t can give the swiftest thoroughbred
that ever flashed round Tattenham Cor
ner a start and a beating in a mile race.
while for shorter distances Persimmon
even would be left painting in the rear.
To illustrate the relative speeds of the
different methods of human progression,
let US in fancy start them all in a mile
handicap. No such thrilling race has
ever been seen on any track. and it would
be worth travelling a thousand miles TO
see it.
We must place Major Taylor on his
cycle at scratch. We will take Persim-
mon in his marvellous form of Derby day,
1898, when he covered the course in the
astonishing time of minutes 42 seconds.
and, mounting Watts on his back, we will
give him 20 yards start of the bicycle.
The fastest mile ever trotted is credited
to Alix, who brought down the mile time
to minutes, 1874 seconds. ur cyclist will
be able to give this lightning trotter a
start of 31S yards. The fastest mile ever
covered on skates was j. Missions mile
at Montreal. which he covered in min
utes AIS seconds. a speed which would
admit of a start of 63 yards from Taylor.
w. G. George. in 1886. ran mile in four
minutes 1874 seconds, and would require a
start of no eless than 1854 yards, or 154
yards more than half the mile.s
The winning Oxford crew of 1898 COW
cred the course, from Putney to Mortlake,
at the rate of minutes ~ seconds a mile,
and would claim start from the cyclist
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ish, and the senior was always very
kind to me. He wrote down my name and
the date that we put into port and said
that If ever ne got a chance he would let
my parents know what had become or
me- I grew up just like the other Mexi-
can boys and I was never lonesome for
Montreal.
Years afterward. when young Vallejo,
who afterward became General Vallejo,
went to Sonoma he took me with him
Senior Vallejo, his father, sent him there
to manage the large tracts of land that
the Vallejos owned around what is now
Santa Rosa At the mission of San Fran
cisco Solano was padre and used 10
talk English with him. General Vallejo
told him my story and he wrote to the
American Consul at Monterey. Through
this Consul my parents heard of me
But I did not want to go back to Mon
treal i loved my friends, the NalleJos,
Pachecos and the rest of them too much
to leave them:
General Vallejo always treated the
Americans. kindly, but they took every
thing away from him and from all the
rest of the Mexicans, who had this coun-
try long before the Americans came to
it. When he died [ lost my best friend.
I will never forgive the Americans. They
killed him. Not with shot, but they broke
his heart. All my other friends were
treated the same way. NOW tney are ali
poor; once they had everything.
''Have got no one to take care Of me?
I never married, and my friends are all
Mexicans and they are dead or too poor
to help me. What little they have they
will share with me, but l cannot accept
anything from their small savings. L
never made friends among the gringos.
They did not treat the Mexican right, and
I hate them"
It is like showing the proverbial red rag
to the bull to mention the gringo to John
Sebastian. Attempt to defend the Ameri-
cans and his weak gray eyes light up with
an intense hatred. He Immediately re-
fuses to talk, and his anger usually
brings on an asthmatie attack.
Addressed in Spanish, however, he
told his story willingly and in very
clear, connected manner considering his
years. Though he often wandered from
the main thread of his interesting story
he would never say anything of the hap
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tlefieId, but in his home at Galena, in
communication with his officers around
the camp fire, in the hours when off duty
and off his guard. What was the true
measure of President Lincoln? There
are those who say it is to be found in
the heroic patience with which he en-
dured the four years struggle in the
White House. But far more truly was
the measure of the man taken in the
years of preliminary preparation as rail
splitter, surveyor law student, success
full lawyer and politician on the frontier
of Illinois.
Many men acquit themselves spleslid-
ly on public occasions, rise to great
heights of eloquence and power when in
view of other men, who are mean and
petulant and critical and overbearing and
difficult to live with in private. 1t is not
so difficult to be great on great occa-
The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05
Special to The Sunday can.

VERY ore will recognize these words
as belonging to the Masters answer
to the first servant, in the parable OF
the talents. He was given one talent,
or pound, which he straightway in
vested; and when his Lord comes he
has. instead of one pound, ten pounds to
return The point of interest is to be
found in the fact that the servant did not
despise his opportunity.
NV purpose would be served nearly as
well. perhaps, with the answer of the
third servant. Lord, behold here is thy
nound which I have kept laid up in nap
kin" Probably one reason Of this action
was TO be found in the fact that the man
had so very little to use. 1t seemed to
hin, communicates small 1t was hardly
worth investing The easiest thing was
simply to keep it and give it back when
his Lord came. What was he? poor,
unworthy servant! What were his oppor-
tunities? Poor and mean at the best.
What could he do with his common little
life? Not much, surely; and so he under
valued the whole thing and threw away
his opportunities.
There is a good deal of that same spirit
in the world to-day. We think Oh our
lives as common, of our opportunities as
poor and mean, and so we come at last to
underestimate the common day, with It's
common task; to underestimate the com
mon event with its common settings, and
altogether to overestimate the occasional
day with its occasional task. l would like
70 hold the thought before you that, when
looked at from a high point OF view, there
are really no common days, nor common
lives, nor common events, so long as they
are linked with some genuine moral pur-
nose. And yet things really do seem COM
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81 hear you have a little sister at your
house"' said the grocer to small boy.
Yes, SIR" replied Johnny
do you like her?" was the grocer's
next question.
81 wish it was a boy" said Johnny, so
I could play marbles with him, an ball,
an all those things when he got bigger"
Well said the grocer, why don't you
exchange your little sister for boy?'
Johnny reflected for a minute, then
said. rather sorrowfully:
I'VE can't now. It's too late. We've
used her four daysr'