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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

OUR dispatches yesterday told of
Day celebration committee \ to
pay tho fare of every member of the
Rough Riders to Chicago and back if
the regiment would hold its reunion
there on October ninth, when the
corner stone of the new post Office will
he laid. Colonel Roosevelt did not
give any definite answer to the PROPOSE
ton, and it is believed that personally
he would prefer 20 have the reunion in
this section of the country. He has
already promised to visit New Mexico
this year, and it has been believed all
along that he would approve of the
selection of Ell Paso as a proper place
for holding the reunion.
1t is not yet too late for this city to
make formal offer to the Rough
Riders. As we said a few days ago, IL
present plan are carried out Pres
ident Mckinley will be here this sum-
mer, and there is no reason why the
visit OF the president, the Rough
Riders reunion. and great mining
exposition could not be so arranged as
to fall within the same week. The |
governors of the states and territories |
around US. should be invited, and also |
President Disz. The metropolis of the |
southwest could thus have such an OPP
portunity as seldom comes to any city
to show what she can do in the way of
q big entertainment.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

THERE is no use in grieving over de-
feat. 1t was fighting fire with fire
anyway, and while the democrats
stopped to game of Infamous treach-
cry, to acts of rascally double dealing
that have called down the execration
of every decent citizen of whatever
party, still the republicans entered
into alliances and engaged in practices
that are far from being clean politics.
The HERALD proposes to keep up no
cry of fraud or unfairness.
We shall publish as matter OF news
whatever we discover with relation to
the schemes of the Gang, but as for
perpetuating the conditions Of the last
few weeks the HERALD has no such in
tention. What is done is done, and
nothing but harm could be accomplish
ed by continuing the campaign another
day. So we offer our congratulations
to Mayor Msgoffin, our condolences to
Mr.. O'Keeffe, and will proceed to
whistle about the same old tune.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

DOODLE was used freely on both
sides at yesterdays election. So far as
the election was concerned charges of
one as to the other The condition of
public morality in this community
that makes such a thing possible ought
to be study for every decent citizen.
The fact is that no matter how the
honest voters stand on any question in
this city the purchassble vote, mostly
Mexican, can turn the election either
way. The side that has the most
money to spend and the best workers
at the polls will win, regardless of the
right or wrong of the issue.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

THE general sentiment among all
classes and all political factions yester-
day was that Dryer had Eperpetrated
the most disreputable fraud, the most
villainous act of treachery, against
O'Keeffe that has ever been known in
Ell Paso politics. At the same time,
that honest sentiment of democrats and
republicans alike was and is tempered
by another that O'Keeffe made grave
mistake when he entered into any sort
of an agreement with the Dwyer boys.
and that he got about what he deserv-
ed. It will be lesson to both parties
that they will mot soon forget.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

THE little game that the Times said
would be sprung on the voters OF the
city is realized at last. Pat Dwyer's
shameful and treacnerous betrayal of
O'Keeffe was only the last stage in the
game which opened with the steal of
the registration petition, and the fail
ure on the part of the commissioners
court to order registration. 1t will be
readily seen that with an Australian
ballot such an outrage would have
been impossible. Pat Dwyer at the
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

PAT DIVER, by his act yesterday at
the polls, simply fulfilled the scheme
that was Matched by the democratic
Gang and acted upon by Judge Harper
and the commissioners court when
they refused to order registration, al
though their action was dead against
the law. If anything, the offense of
Judge Harper and his friends was the
more blameworthy inasmuch as they
were more intelligent men, knew the
law, and ought to have been in better
business.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
TO-
ADVERTISERS,
THE DAILY HERALD

Reaches % per cent more
residences in Ell Paso than
any other newspaper.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

door would then have had nothing to
do with the ballots, and he would not
have been placed in q position by
virtue of which it was possible for him
to turn dead against the man he had
promised to support. violate his agree
ment, deceive the Mexicans, and dis
gust every decent man in the city.
The subject is one 80 thoroughly dirty,
the act itself was so very villsinous,
that we do not care to advertise the Of
fender any more than is necessary in
order to put his foul deed on record.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

Albion w. Small, who has just de-
ltvered such warm denunciation of
trusts, is professor of sociology in the
University of Chicago, of which John
d. Rockefeller is the mainstay and
principal supporter.
Sam Meeks, owner of the Arizona
mine at Pinos Altos is timbering the
mine and putting in whim, prepare
tory to doing some great work in it
Exchange.
gings" have been found again. These
famous dfggings have been found
very numerOusly of late years. The
latest discovery of them locates them
in Navajo county, Acknowledgement
Miner.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
Their Guns EffectuaIly Spiked.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Only about ten thousand men are
affected by the advance of wages atthe
Carnegie mills" say the free-braders.
Only about ten thousand meuI The
supposittOn is that an increase of
wages for so many hands would be a
source of delight rather than Of fault
finding, but the GROWERS see their
whole case slipping out OF their hands
and bear the loss with bad grace.
The increase, it appears from what
the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
says, was granted to all of the employ
es except the tonnage and contract
men. What reason there WAS for with
holding it from the tonnage people
does not appear. but the presumption
Is that they were receiving proportion
ately more than the others and that
the contractors. having made their
contracts, were held to them as is the
case in business Of all kinds. All the
Others, however, from the commonest
laborers to the skilled hands, share in
the increase, whether members of
labor unions or not. The conditions
of the trade were such as to Justify the
advance, and IL appears to have been
cheerfully granted by the company. 1t
Is of course asserted by the free
traders that the advances which are
being made will shortly be revoked
and certainly if business goes to smash
under the threat of injudicious legisla-
ton itself, some reductions will have
to be made. Just at this time, how
ever, there is no such peril.
And the guns of the opposition are
spiked by still another fact. |
Had these advances been made in the |
spring OF congress election year the |
DID cry that they were given for cam
oaign purposec would be raised in ev-
cry district. Coming as they do i'm
nediately after such an election and
With few important state contests to
De decided. they cannot by any pos
Utility be distorted into such meaning,
mother fact which adds to the discom-
it ure of the democracy
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

THE city made a big success out of
the corner stone celebration. Why
can we not do far better with the
Rough Riders?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

Take Notice-Fifty dollars fine for
hiding Cleveland Bicycles on the side
walk.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12

1T WAS said that tha last election in
Chicago was ''disgracefully quiet and
orderly"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-12
TO ADVERTISERS.

In ordersto insure proper changes in adver-
tising copy for same should be at the bust
ness Office not later than 10 a IN
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
Seasoning Lumber by Electricity.

A new process is announced for sea-
soning wood by electrical action. The
timber TO be treated is put into Il quad
rangular tank of liquid, immersed to
rather more than half its depth. and an
electric current applied through met
allie conductor. so arranged as to dis
tribute it throughout the area. and it is
stated that in Il space of four minutes
the sap begins to eXude at the lower
end of the wood; in six hours it is all
extracted. The wood is then placed in
another tank from which a septic solu-
ton is forced into the pores by an cleo
tro-capillary method. If, says the
Builder. this process has successful re-
suits at cost which will not be com
mercially prohibitory, 1t may prove of
great Importance.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
Surprised the Psr.sians,

All the French papers are caught by the
fact that the five American commission
ers appeared in evening dress at the last
nights session of the peace commission.
When the American delegation first ar
rived in Paris the Madrid papers spread
members We're ill-mannered il-dressed
and without personal servants-that, in "A
word, they looked like company of per
Monson's recent reference to American
diplomats had revived the French phrase.
'shirt-sleeve diplomacy" so that the
comme-il-fatLt appearance of the Amer
leans In the final scene of the negotia-
items made quite an impression on the
public mind. The explanation is found In
the simple fact that the commissioners
had dressed not for the signing of the
treaty. but for dinner party to which
but that humdrum circumstance thus far
has escaped the Partisan newspapers.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
M ARRIED NUNS.
Ponce. Porto Rico.

Sister Marie Magdalene, nun of the
Dominican Order" who formed the
subject of book recently published in
France by the religious press, is no
other than the late Duchess of Allen
con, sister of the Empress of Austria,
and who perished in the flames of the
charity bazaar at Paris about two
years ago. says the Marquise de Fon-
tenoy in the Washington Post Few
people are aware of the fact that this
duchess. who at one time of her life
had been afiianced to the late King
Louis of Bavaria, was a nun through
out the last ten or fifteen years of her
life, although married and living with
her husband
/ am perfectly aware that this may
sound extraordinary. But the Domin-
lean order has several branches and
divisions. One of these Is known as
the Third Order of Dominicans," and
while it imposes certain VOWS Of the
order upon its members, 1t neverthe-
less admits of their remaining men
and women of the world, and at the
heads of their respective families. They
wear the scapula of the order, but not
outwardly, and the only sumptuary OBJ
legation imposed upon the women of
this Third Order is the avoidance OF
any undue luxury as regards dresi.
They are supposed to make a public
profession of their connection with the
order as long as they remain in the
world, the understanding being that
they should do all the good work possi-
Bile, and that on becoming free from
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
JONATHAN AND JOHN.

Should Jonathan and John fall out
The world would stagger from that bout;
With John and Jonathan as one
The worlds great peace will have begun.
With Jonathan and John at war
The hour that havoc hungers for
VIII strike in ruin of blood and tears
The world set back thousand years.
With John and Jonathan sworn to stand
Shoulder to shoulder, hand by hand.
Justice and peSce shall build their throne
From tropic sea to frozen zone.
When Jonathan and John forget
The scar of an ancient wound to fret
And smile to think of an ancient feud
Which the God of the nations turned to
good.
When the bond of common creed and
speech,
And kindred binds them each to each,
And each in the others victories
The pride of his own achievement secs
How paltry thing they both will know
That Grudge of a hundred years ago
How small that blemsh of wrath and
blame
In the blazonry of their common fame!
Charles G. ID. Roberts in the January
Century.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05

package containing the medal. accom-
panied by note from Col. San Martin
begging me to accept it as a slight to-
ken of his esteem and expressing the
hope that should always remember
the donor. again visited the bar
racks to thank him in person, and was
more than ever impressed by the
pathos of the old mans position.
In the meantime I had met quite a
number of our own officers, and the
case of Col. San Martin was a matter
of frequent conversation. Finally
scheme to aid him was broached, and
l was permitted to assist in carrying 1t
out.
Letters were received from Gen.
Brooke, Col. DeRussy and other officers
prominent in the Porto Rican cam
paign, explaining in minute detail all
the military manoeuvres and showing
the futility of any course other than
that pursued by Col. San Martin.
These letters were gladly furnished,
for the fate of the old Spanish war
rior had made deep impression upon
our officers.
On Oct. % Col. San Martin sailed
for Spain on the transport Montevideo.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
Advantages of the Nicaragua Canal.

Captain Crowninshield, writing in
the January Century of the "Advan-
tages of the Nicaragua Canal" sum
mariZes some of them in this wise:
When the divide between the Allan
tic and the Pacific is cut through. part
of the waters of the lake, which for
untold ages have flowed east to the
Caribbean sea. will flow west TO the Pa
cific. Lake Nicaragua, covering as it
does nearly 5000 square miles, be-
comes not only part of the water
route itself, but grand reservoir To-
Gated exactly where 1t is most needed
at the summit level. Thus it will be
seen that while nature has not quite
opened through Nicaragua n complete
water route to the Pacific. she has
come very near to 1t. In fact, of all
the routes for an interoceanic canal
that have received consideration, it
must be admitted that so much has al
ready been accomplished by nature to-
ward this end that the work which re-
mains for man to do will be far less
than by any other route
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
COL. SAN MARTINS PRISON.

Despite the fact that he was armed
with the letters from the American
officers, l know he felt his case to be
utterly hopeless. / could see it in his
face as he bade me farewell before
going aboard the vessel that was to
bear him to Spain. l had further evil
dence of it when l returned to my
hotel.
There 1 found bundle awaiting me,
aud on opening it 1 found the old
colenels gold-braided coat, with the
four remaining medals still pinned up
on its breast. had been enabled to
do him service and he hoped would
do him the honor to accept his coat
and medals. This was all. But it
clearly showed that he felt he was
going home to die the death of a trait
or
The majority of the medals worn by
officers in the Spanish army are pur-
chased by themselves. The govern
ment has an economical system of
simply giving for conspicuous bravery
a certificate emitting the bearer to
wear a medal of certain degree, and
the officer, II he is wealthy enough,
purchases it.
This veteran of Spain goes back to
his native land to be made a scape-
goat of by his superior officers at San
Juan. Our own officers in Porto Rico
are anxiously hoping to hear that
their efforts in his behalf have borne
good fruit, and that the sentence of
the court-martial may be averted
But, in view of what has transpired,
they fear their hopes will prove in
vain. They have their own way of
doing things in Spain, and even now
the bones of the old warrior may be
mouldering in dishonored grave.
PATRICK GORAN.
Ponce, Porto Rico.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
COL. SAN MARTIN.


ernor-general of Porto Rico, and the
fenced to be shot.
The old colonel was too proud to
show how keenly he felt the disgrace.
He bowed to the judgment of the drum
head court, and had only one request
to make. If he must be shot, would
the honor of shedding his last blood
on the mother soil be refused him? He
should like to die in Spain. Could the
sentence not be carried out there in
stead of in Porto Rico, which was vir-
tually in the hands of the enemy?
The court deliberated. Yes, in view
of his many years of meritorious SER
vice, his request would be granted.
Then he was confined in the barracks
to await the sailing of the transport
for Spain.
could not help admiring the mans
fortitude. He made brave show of
dignity. but l could see that his heart
was breaking. He was n fine old man
of sixty, straight as an arrow, and full
of that restless energy which even
years can not rob the born soldier of.
His smooth-shaven face was full of
character. 1t was rugged, strong
face, combining the determination of
the soldier with the tenderness of a
sympathetic nature.
We had long talk, OF n rambling
character, and It was with some trepi-
dation that l broached the subject OF
his own misfortune. His eyes became
moist, and his reserve melted away.
He recounted to me his many years of
military service, of how he had fought
for his country, and how finally Spain
had cast him away, like battered
old hulk that had outlived its useful
ness"
He was in full uniform. and flye
medals hung from his breast, medals
that had been awarded him for BRAY
cry ! committed the solecism of ad-
miring one of these which hung sep
arately. the other four being attached
to one bar. To express admiration for
anything in the possession of n Spanish
gentleman is wrong. as | learned sub
sequently. Etiquette demands that
the article which has been admired
must be presented to the person who
has admired 1t.
The next day | was somewhat sur
prised to receive at my hotel sr,s,l
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
Trained Colored Nurses.

The Training School for Nurses at the
colored institute at Tuskagee furnished
four nurses for the army at Santiago and
nine for the camp at Chickamauga. one
parade before the President down there
was n float representing the old kind of
nursing in the South compared with the
new. On the first float was the interior
of a negro cabin, with an old nanny
in the chimney place. while her patient
lay on a pile of straw in a corner covered
with ragged bedquilt. The other float
bed dressed in snowy linen, a nurse in
uniform with white cap. and the differ
ent appliances that are in common use in
well-ordered hospitals. 1t made a very
striking contrast, as we'll as n pretty pi-
ture.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
INDIANA TRUANCY LAW.
1t Is Resulting in Increased Attendance
School.

The state truancy board of Indiana has
Just completed appointments Of the truant
ofhcerS for the present year. The report
which 1t has prepared shows what Indi-
ana new compulsory education law, in
the hrst year of its enactment, did in In
diana schools last year.
In 1897 there were 237 truant officers
Two hundred and ten of these made full
reports, showing that their cost to the
state was $25,5i4.61. or about $l6S for each
oiilcer AS consequence of the law and
its enforcement 32 900 non-attendants were
forced into the schools.
In assisting the poor to clothe their chill
dren and to buy school books. only $l5,-
S0643 was necessary. The law being new
there was considerable trouble last year
in enforcing 1t, and a little needless eX-
pense The anti-child labor law. which
rather co-operates with it, is also better
Understood. and 1t is thought that about
lOoOO more children falling under the re-
quirements of the law will be brought into
the schools, There are some defects in
the law which one years experience has
brought out. but they will be remedied by
the next Legislature.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
ROMANCE OF THE WAR
HOW AN OFFICER WAS COURT
MARTIALED.
sentenced to he Shot Because He Was
Outeeneraled by Powerful AmerI-
can Coup-Gsve Away His Medals-A
Pathetic Farewell.

Many of the tragedies of the Spanish
American war will remain unwritten
and many will probably never be told.
For the soldiers of Spain the horrors
Of the war did not altogether cease
with the declaration of peace. The
story which am about to relate proves
this.
| knew OF at least one gallant officer,
who mad served his country well for
many years, and whose reward was
sentence of ignominious death at the
hands of his own countrymen. For
aught l know the execution of the de-
cree may already have taken place.
At any rate I saw him sail for Spain
a hopeless and broken old man. The
death sentence had already been pass
ed upon him and at his own request he
was going home-to die. l was in
San Juan, Porto Rico, about a week
before the evacuation. The streets
and cafes were filled with Spanish Of
ticers. l found them to be both cour-
tecus and dignified. Yet there was
much of pathos in their bearing Like
the French who contemplate the drap-
ed statue, representing Strasburg, in
the Place de la Concord and think OF
Alsace-Lorraine, SO these men gazed
fondly at Casa BIanco, once the resi-
dence of Ponce de Leon, and thought
sadly of their four centuries of pos
session. One of our officers volun-
teered one day to take me on visit
to Col. San Martin, who had command
ed the Third battalion of the Spanish
troops, and who was then prisoner
in the barracks. When l was told
that he was under sentence of death
for cowardice l was not predisposed to
his favor. But when l saw the man
and talked with him my feeling of re-
vulsion changed to one of great pity.
The story of his disgrace is soon
told. He was in command of the
Spanish troops in several of the inte-
rior cities, and, being opposed by our
Eleventh regulars, under command of
Col. De Russy, he retreated from place
to place without as much resistance
as the Spanish commander at the capi-
tai thought brave man should have
made.
AS matter of fact, his forces were
entirely inadequate to cope with ours,
and the Spaniards were so out-general-
ed by the United States troops that re-
sistance was suicidal. Upon Col. San
Martins arrival at San Juan he was
court martialed in a most theatrical
manner, by order of Gen. Macias, gov
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05
s,ronr plen for pIatr,monv.

Every almshouse in the land is full
Of old bachelors, pale, moping men,
who mediate on chilsheOd and its
memories Of friends. r. old age comes
with wealth then the bachelor realizes
that the sweetest things of life cannot
be bought. His bouse is not home.
Those who wait In him work not for
love, but for wages. He is like trav-
eler in n strange land, who wishes for
genuine resting place, and some one
to look at whom he loves.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Gilpin observer., 1899-01-05

Moro Equipment for Baltimore y Ohio.
The improvements that have been
made on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road during the past two years have
rendered it possible to operate cars Of
heavier capacity than have been in
use in the past and the receivers have
just ordered from the Schoen Pressed
Steel Company of Pittsburg 1000 steel
coal cars of capacity of 100000
pounds each. These cars will be used
for the seaboard trade and are ex-
pected to be in service during the early
part of 1899. In addition to these cars
the receivers have also ordered from
the Pittsburg Locomotive Works so
more of the consolidated locomotives
with 22x2S~inch cylinders.