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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Washing Day In Madrid.

Ten thousand women souse and beat
the linen of Madrid in the scant waters
Of the Manzanarss every day. Not an
article Of clothing is elsewhere washed.
No other than these Manzanares Law
enderas are permitted to labor as 1aun-
dresses and for three miles up and
down the stream they work in groups.
Each lavendera brings her own huge
roll of bread, and perhaps a bit Of
cheese; and just before noon they
breakfast in great wooden sheds on
salt fish, potatoes and coffee, with u
measure of red wine, duplicating this
meal as a dinner at four in the after
noon. They eat like animals, and the
moment their food is disposed Of the
tinkle of the guitar is heard, and any
kindly disposed passer may dance with
them until the thirty minutes allowed
them for food and amusement have eX-
pired. On these occasions everyone
dances, girls of Is and women of so,
and the scenes along Manzanares are
very picturesque and interesting.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Ex-Soldiers Colonizinp.

Several thousand American regular
soldiers are to be mustered out in
Porto Rico and Cuba in the next few
weeks, says a Washington correspon-
dent of the New York Press. They will
receive their extra pay, orders for pas
sage home on government transports,
and the mileage from the port to the
places where they enlisted It will
be optional with them to return to
the United States.
These soldiers will be turned loose
on the islands. What proportion of
them will elect to remain where they
are discharged the government has 10
means of judging. Discharges are now
being granted to regulars who enlisted
for the war at the rate of about 100 a
day in Cuba. Many Of these discharg-
ed men are apparently in no haste to
return to this country, and there are
so many of them now in Havana that
they cause uneasineSs among the Gu
ban police. So far these Americans
have behaved remarkably well. They
have given as little trouble as a like
number of recently discharged soldiers
might in an American city.
The growth of a disposition on the
part of these soldiers to settle the is
lands is being observed with much in
terest from Washington. 1t has a
bearing on the question of assimilation
the United States.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
An Australian Puzzle Solved.

A traveller in Australia, Mr.. J. Gar
nier, has lately solved a problem that
has puzzled many people who know
the country and the natives. 1t has
been a difficulty to foreigners to I'M
derstand how the natives of some parts
of the island-continent live without
water, for there seems to be no nat
ural supply. The general explanation
has been that they had to depend upon
the water that collects once or twice a
year in the hollows of rocks. As the
water there found seemed quite mad
equate, the explanation was unsatis-
factory. Mr.. GARNER questioned. pros
pectors, and negroes that knew a little
English, but none Of them could throw
any light on the subject. At last a
missionary put him in communication
with native who was able to ex-
plain the mystery. He told the travel
err of the existence in that country of
a tree the roots Of which were impreg-
mated with fresh water. These roots
spread out near the surface Of the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
The Chinook.

There comes to my heart this morning
On the western breeze's wing
The chant of the crazy chinook,
The drunken demon of spring:
MY home is the broad Pacific;
But youth cannot bide al home,
I spread my wings for a frolic
And flew DER the oceans foam.
ct kissed the tops of the ranges
And severed the lee Kings chain;
I whispered of pleasant valleys
And the waters Weakened again.
ct raced them down the mountains
Barring bouIders aside we'd fling;
I called to the sleeping streamlets,
Come, dance with the devil of spring.
"They came with a rush and gurgle,
They came with leap and dash,
With the roar of distant thunder,
With the speed of the lightning flash.
Down we raced through the gorges,
Melting the ice and snow,
And filled to it's overlooking
The Yellowstone below.
1.-The river itself grew drunken,
Mad with chinook champagne;
It burst the bridges man builded-
Though steel, they were rent in twain
'It played with the sleeping children
They will never waken more;
1t tossed strong men on it's pillows
And left them. still, on the shore.
There's nothing that can Withstand us.
AS abroad together we fly,
Abroad on our springtime frolic,
The snow of the hills and I.
For I am the harlequin chinook,
And, tho soft as the Zephyr'S wing,
When I kiss the mountain ranges
I'm the mischievous imp of spring"
Detroit People.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
The Curse of the Nation.

The civilized nations Of the earth are
putting cause and effect together on
the alcohol question as never before.
In France, Switzerland and Belgium
the increasing use of alcohol is recog-
nized as the cause of physical decline
in stature that is filling those nations
with alarm for their future. Close in
vestigation is proving to the Kaiser
that the beer drinking soldier has only
about 80 per cent of the endurance of
the total abstainer, and economists are
calling attention to the bad effects
that increasing drink habits are hav-
ing upon German industries. The
young car of Russia, alarmed at the
inroads which he sees alcohol making
upon his army and people, is striving
to stem the tide.
Thoughtful Englishmen are saying
that Britain's greatest enemy is alco-
hol. In our own country its effects
upon our soldiers in home camps and
on the field have been made sadly evil
dent to the American people. The
truth against alcohol is out. Every
thing that its advocates can say in it's
favor is controverted by the strongest
scientific authorities of the world, who
pronounce it a poison-the genius Of
degeneracy. Nothing can hide this
truth from the people and their chill
dren whose heritage it is.-Mary H.
Hunt
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Chemistry and Liquor.

Nothing whatever in physiological
chemistry authorizes the statement
that alcohol has a favorable influence
on muscular work. Bunge asserts that
the effects felt are only a symptom of
brain paralysis, a benumbing of all
feeling of WEAKNESS.
1T is a common idea" remarks the
author, that alcohol gives strength to
the weary, and renders one better able
to endure further exertion. The SEN
sation of fatigue is the safety-valve, as
it were, Of our machine. To stiae the
feelings Of fatigue in order to be able
70 work on is like forcibly closing the
safety valve to increase the steam pres
sure The belief that alcohol gives
strength to the weary is particularly
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
A Brave Man.

"That is one of the bravest men 1
ever knew" said Gen. Eosecrans,
pointing out his inspector-g Ar
thur G. Ducat. Il saw him cody face
almost certain death, to perform a
duty. Three on the same duty had
fallen before his eyes, and he had to
run the gauntlet of a thousand mus
kets, but he did it."
The words were spoken to James R.
Gilmore, while on a visit to "Old
Rosey's" army at Murfrees borough,
who records them in his Personal
Recollections."
Gen. Rosecrans referred to Ducat's
behavior at the battle of Iuka. The
inspector-general had observed that a
regiment of Gen. Stanley's division was
about to be overwhelmed by a much
larger force Of the enemy.
ride on and warn Stanley at once, -
said Rosecrans, as Ducat reported the
danger. An acre on fire and swept
with bullets lay between him and the
menaced regiment. Ducat glanced at
1t and said:
General, 1 have a wife and chill
dren''
You knew that when you came
here" answered Rosecrans, coolly.
''I'1l go, SIR" said Ducat, moving his
horse forward.
"Stay moment. We must make
sure of this" said the general, begin
ming to write dispatches, the paper
resting on the pommel of his saddle.
He wrote three; gave one to each of
three orderlies and sent them off, at
intervals of about sixty yards, over
the bullet swept field. Then he look
ed at Ducat, who had seen every one
Of the orderlies fall 1ifeless, or desper-
ately wounded. Without a word, he
plunged into the fire, ran the gauntlet
in safety, got to Stanley, and saved
the regiment, but his clothes were
torn by MIME balls, and his horse
received a mortal wound.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Ell PASO DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1899.

, him in his carriage. AT NeAlereS, the
want of fresh horses delayed the i'm
perial party from half past ten until
! midnight. When at last they got off
the soldiers of the garrison shouted,
give TEmpereur!' until the last car
riage had passed the glacis.
The next evening at Laou, Faubourg
de Vaux, the emperor alighted in the
courtyard of the post house. Through
the wide open door they could see him
from the street, walking up and down,
his head bent, his arms crossed upon
his breast. There was a quantity OF
straw scattered in the court upon
which the stables opened. One of the
bystanders said, in a low tone: "See
Job on his dung-heap!' Napoleon
seemed so downcast, the scene was so
impressive, even to the rustic mind,
that they dared not acclaim him. A
few timid half-stif1ed shouts of give
PEmpereur!" came from the crowd.
The emperor stopped and raised his
hat
A detachment Of the National
Guard arrived to form the guard of
honor. The emperor made every pro-
vision for rallying his scattered forces.
Then, after nightfall, without waiting
for Marshall Soult,, whom he had left
with orders at Philippeville, he re-
sumed his hurried journey to Paris,
where his enemies were conspiring and
where his greatest danger lay.
Without soldiers, and without cannon,
he could not face the enemy on the
frontier. Soult and the generals were
as competent as himself to collect and
reorganize the stragglers. From Paris,
with Davoust and Carnot, he hoped
to forward to Laon all available troops,
all stores of provisions and arms; with
the cooperation of the Chambers, to
secure fresh levies of men and supplies
and in three or four days return to
take command.
1t has been charged that Napoleon
abandoned his army" as in Egypt
and Russia. AIasi Napoleon had no
longer an army. He knew nothing OF
Grouchy, with the divisions of Van
damne and Girard, but believed him
to be in great peril. Of the $4,000 COM
batants of Waterloo, possibly 10000
might have escaped across the Sambre,
but more than three-fourths Of these
men were scattered from Cambria to
Rocroi, making their way homeward,
singly or in little parties. When Ma
noieon left Laon for Paris, the goth of
June, he had $500 soldiers assembled
at Phillippeville, and about 5000 at
Avesnes. This was the army.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
A Euloey on Whisky and a Reply.

"A Eu1ogy on Whisky and q Reply.
Robert G. Ingersoll once delivered
himself of this eulogy on whisky:
Il send you some OF the most won
derful whisky that ever drove the skel-
eton from the feast, or painted land
scapes in the brain of man. It is the
mingled souls of wheat and corn. In
it you will find the sunshine and
shadow that chased each other over
billowy fields, the breath of June the
carol of the lark, the dew of the night,
the wealth Of summer and autumn s
rich content, all golden with impris-
oned light. Drink it, and you will hear
the voice Of men and maidens singing
the 'Harvest-Home,' mingled with the
laughter Of children. Drink it, and
you will feel within your blood the
starred dawns, the dreamy, tawny
dusks of perfect days. For forty years
this liquid joy has been within slaves
OF oak, longing to touch the lips of
man.
To this a Doctor Buckley made the
following reply:
'1 send you some of the most won
derful whisky that ever brought skel-
eton into the closet or painted scenes
Of lust and bloodshed in the brain Of
man. 1t is the ghost of wheat and
corn, crazed by the loss of their nat
ural bodies. In it you will find a
transient sunshine, chased by shadow
as cold as Arctic midnight, in which
the breath of June grows icy, and the
carol of the lark gives place to the
foreboding cry of the raven. Drink it,
and you shall have woe,' sorrow,
ebabbling' and wounds without cause,
your eyes shall behold strange wom-
en- and your heart shall utter per-
verse things Drink it deep, and you
shall hear the voice of demons Shrek
ing, women wailing, and worse than
orphaned children mourning the loss Of
a father who yet lives. Drink it deep
and long, and serpents will hiss in
your ears, coil themselves about your
neck and seize you with their fangs;
for at last it biteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder For forty years
this liquid death has been within
slaves of oak, harmless there as purest
water. I send it to you that you may
put an enemy in your mouth to steal
away your brains And yet call my
self your friend"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
City of MaIolos

| Malolos is located in the province of
Bulacan. This is one of the smallest
but richest provinces in the archipel-
| ago. It is bounded on the east by
Neuvra Eciia, on the south by Manila,
on the west by the bay and province
of Pampanga and on the north by the
province of Pampanga. The area is
965 square miles and the population is
$780, 900.
In this province are in the neighbor-
| hood OF twenty-five cities, all but one
of which, according to the Bangor
5000, and the population of some of
which runs up as high as 10000. In
fact, the province is so thickly settled
that all these cities may be said to be
| but slightly separated divisions of one
great city.
The capital Of the province of Bula-
can, with population of 13, 1856. It is
situated % miles from Manila, has a
church, town hall and about 1000 stone
houses. Angat, with a population of
5000, is situated 10 miles from Bu1a-
can; Bailuag, with a population of a.
| 122, is situated 13 miles from Bulacan;
Barasoain, with a population of 1875,
| is situated six miles from Bulacan;
Bieaa, with population of S,12O, is
situated three and one-half miles from
Bulacan; Bocaue, with a population OF
10,345, is situated four and one-half
miles from Bulacan; Bustos, with a
population of 7,025, is situated two
miles from Bulacan; Calumosit, with
a population of 15,072, is situated IL
miles from Bulacan; Guiginto, with a
population of 5,115, is situated two
miles from Bulacan; Hagonoy, with q
population Of 2O,12O, is situated 20
miles from Bulacan.
| MaloloS has a population of Ia, 500,
and is situated six miles from Bula-
can; Marilao, with a population of s.
075, is situated eight miles from Bula-
can; Meicauayan, with a population of
S,119, is situated eleven miles from
Bulacan; Norzagary, with a population
of 5,035, is situated sixteen miles from
Bulacan; Obando, with a population
of 7,94S, is situated seven miles from
Bulacan; Paombong, with a population
of 1O,297, is situated eight miles from
Bulacan; Polo, with a population of
7,549, is situated seven miles from Bull
acan; Quinga, with a population Of g.
S54, is situated seven miles from Bula-
can; San Ildefonso, with population
of 6,6O1, is situated nineteen miles from
Bulacan; San Jose, with a population
of 2,297, is situated sixteen miles from
Bulacan; San Miguel de Mayumo, with
a population of 20,460, is situated
twenty-five miles from Bulacan: San
Rafael, with a population of S,469, is
situated twelve miles from Bulacan;
Santa Isabel, with a population of
| S,125, is situated six miles from Bula-
can; Santa Maria de Pandi, with q
population of 1O,50S, is situated eight
miles from Bulacan; Pulilan, with a
population of 1O,05S, is situated eight
miles from Bulacan.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Temperance Notes.

Temperance Notes.
A burial ground containing ITO
acres for animals and birds has been
established at Coxsackie, N. Y.
The city of Picking has only one
street lamp, and that is in the street
where foreign ambassadors reside.
The Epworth League of Canada has
chosen DR.. Mary Wood-Allen's physi-
ology, 1.-The Marvels of Our Bodily
Dwelling" as one of the textbooks for
its course of reading for the coming
year.
Confirmed drunkardS are Shamed
into reformation in many of the towns
of the Argentine Republic by being
compelled to sweep the streets for
eight days each time they are arrest
ed for intoxication.
A Glasgow Evening News CORE
spondent reports a marriage in which
the father of one of the contracting
parties was a publican, and yet the
function was a strictly teetotal one,
in Difference to the wishes of both the
bride and groom.
The Rev. H. Brensinger Of Fleet
wood, Pa, has announced that he will
no longer hold English services on
Sunday evenings unless his congrega-
ton increases his salary. He has just
received his semi-annual pay, and it
is SO little that he says he will give
his flock only half as many sermons
until they agree to pay him more.
Arrangements have been made by
the National Temperance Council of
Scotland for a temperance week in
T,,1x,
tractive programme has been issued,
consisting of conversations, confer
ence and other meetings. There will
also be excursions to the Crystal Pal
ance on July 5, on the accation of the
national temperance fete, and eto Kew
and Richmond on Friday, July z.
A general abstract of marriages,
births and deaths registered in Eng
land in 1898 has just been issued as
a parliamentary paper. The estimated
population of England in the middle
of last year was 81 1897, 078, the mar
riages numbered 254 955, the births
922, 1873, and the deaths $50, 04O. OF the
children born 46S,7SO were male and
454, 093 were female, and of the deaths
2S4, 154 were those of males and 267,-
$50 of females.
A law has recently been passed in
Norway prohibiting the sale of to-
bacco to any boy under the age of 16,
without a signed order from an adult
relative or employer. Even tourists
who offer cigarettes to boys render
themselves liable to prosecution. The
police are instructed to confiscate the
pipes, cigars and cigarettes of lads
who smoke in the public streets. A
fine for the offense is also imposed,
which may range from two shillings to
five pounds.
The great increase in the convic-
tions for drunkenness in Leeds, Eng
land, has spurred the corporation into
action. There were 1885 cases of
drunkenness last year and only one
licensee convicted of permitting drunk
enness A special committee has been
inquiring into the matter, and they
recommend the appointment of a pub
lie prosecutor to conduct licensing
prosecutions, an addition to the po-
lice force specially to watch suspected
houses, and the addition of another
column in the charge book, in which
''in a prosecution for drunkenness, the
name of the house at which the per-
son proceeded against was last sup
piled with drink shall be entered
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
Liquor In Africa.

The liquor curse among the natives
of Africa is kept up by expectations
from the United States, and Boston is
reported to be the chief port of ex-
portation. On the west coast Of Africa
and far inland, bottles of gin and demi-
johns of rum are used as the common
currency; and on the Congo one-half
of all that the natives produce is paid
for with liquor. Testimony before a
committee of the House of Representa-
tives showed in 1890 that about 12,00O,-
600 gallons Of spirituous liquors are
annually sent from Europe and Amer
lea to Africa.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
In Darkness.

In Darkness.
will be still.
The terror drawing nigh
Shall startle from my lips no coward cry;
Nay, though the night my deadliest dread
fulfill,
1 will be still.
For, all I know
Though suffering hours delay,
Yet to eternity they pass away,
Carrying something onward they flow.
utlaSting woei
Yes, something won;
The harvest of our tears
Something unfaded, plucked from fading
years;
Something to blossom on beyond the sun,
From sorrow won
The agony
So hopeless Low of balm
Shall sleep at last, in light as pure and
AS that wherewith the stars look down
thee,
Gsthhsemane.
Florence Earle Coates.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR
THE VETERANS.

After the Greatest Battle in the Worlds
Hero-Napoleon wept Tears OF Sorrow
When He Saw His Army Shattered
Retained His Presence of Mind.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

The City of HIaloIos-Facts About the
Late Capital of the Philippine Insur-
gents-An Australian Puzzle Solved
The Nawab of BahawaIpur.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
NOTES OF INTEREST TO THE
ANTI-LIOUOR LEADERS.

A Eulogy on Whisky and the Reply
How DIR. Buckley Distorted the
Glowing Words of Robert g. IngersolI
Tho Curse of the Nation.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10

Frogs and toads are gifted with a
remarkably acute sense OF hearing.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10

Great Britain makes go ,O0O, 600 q
year profit out of its postoffces
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-10

There comes to my heart this morning
On the western breeze's wing
The chant of the crazy chinook,
The drunken demon of spring:
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-05

AT the meeting of the city council to-
night among the business to be brought UP
Is the matter of the Fifth avenue bridge.
There is a difference between City Engineer
Etnyre and the Union Pacific railroad as
raising the bridge, as ordered by the city
council several months ago. The city engi-
neer has outlined one plan and the railroad
company another The difficulty that pre-
sents itself in the reconstruction of the
bridge is to raise II the required height to
allow for proper flow of the water in
Indian creek without interfering with the
street traffic. IL the bridge was to be
raised in it's present position 1t would be
several feet above the street grade. The
railway wants the city to change the course
of the street by putting a bend in it to
the north and crossing the creek at point
above the proposed railroad bridge. This
the city engineer Is opposed to- His plan
as suggested to the railroad company Is
that II change its tracks for a short dis
tance and construct it's new bridge at a
point north OF the present structure over
Fifth avenue. This plan, Mr.. Etnyre con-
tends, would do away with all the trouble
OF different levels and the need of changing
the course OF Fifth avenue What the rail-
road company objects to is that by adopting
the city engineers plan 1t will be forced
to make curve In its tracks at this point.
Another matter to come up is the ordi-
nance granting a Chicago firm a franchise
10 establish catch boxes for waste paper
and other refuse in the streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-05

OTTUMWA, Ia, June 4.-(Special Tele-
gram.)- of the most successful skin
grating operations ever performed by ply
sicians in this country was done here today
at the hospital Samuel Byrum, a poor la
borer, had his right arm crushed by the cars,
leaving the flesh entirely bare for space
of twenty-four square inches. The Ottumwa
lodge of Elks volunteered to furnish enough
of its members from whom could be taken
the skin necessary to graft on to Byrum's
arm, thus making it so he can use it. The
operation was performed this morning
nearly all of the physicians in the city taking
part Thirty members of the order among
the most prominent people of the city, went
to the hospital and barred their arms while
physicians cut a square of skin from each,
which was grated on to Byrum's arm. The
operation was successfully performed.