El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-23

gin and gospel on the west coast; cOais
and cotton at New Orleans
''And do not send our steamers for
the business of trade alone, MIR. Cambel.
We pick our captains and officers with an
eye to n hOlier purpose We trust that they
spread a Christian influence in all their
ports Of call
Yes, I saw them at work once at AKIN
on a tramp you sent down there. They
were taking krooboys on board The
skipper received them on one of the bridge
| deck ladders with knuckle duster and
kicked EN- along. The chief stood by with
a monkey wrench and baptized EN- with
that as they passed down the lower deck
aft. They mentioned ct the time that this
process had a rarely outstanding influ-
ence. Prevented the boys from being up
pish. Showed 'em what the white man
could do when he spread himself, taught
'em humility, in fact say, there's a
pull toward this bottom pocket. People
have been sitting on the table"
Mr.. Cambal, MIR. Cambel, you are
I making il very serious accusation against
, of my ships companies.
Accusation; [? Never Il bit of it. The
fellows only acted according to their
lights. That's the only way sailormen
know of getting krOoboys to work, and Ii
{ was case of getting them to work or hav-
ing the natural sack from you. And so as
they didn't know another method they
IcI1 Ddch Oh hllHthls tuSbcI anu luouhcy
wrench. I'll play you SO up
Mr.. Shelf put up large white hand.
''No, no, L don't play billiards myself SO
many young men have been ruined by the
pursuit that L refrain from it by way of
setting any example. But my friends
) who visit here are not so scrupulOus, and
/ have the table for them. y
'-Bea -utiful!' said Cambel He might
have been referring to his own billiard
shot or to Mr.. Shelf's improving senti-
ment
You see, Mr.. Cambel, from my posi-
ton, many people look up to me that
it is nothing short of my bounden duty to
deprive myself of certain things and be, so
far as possible, humble model for them
to form themselves by Long before Il
constituency sent me to parliament l de
voted my best energies to outstanding
the lower classes, and hope not without
success. If appreciation is any criterion,
1 may say that l was elected president of
no less than IL improvement societies. 1t
took me much timo and thought to attend
to them. Yet I wish l could have given
more
That pocket does pull. There's a regu-
lar tram line toward it. HIM! Mighty
good work of yours. But doesn't it sour
on you sometimes? Don't you want a day
off occasionally? a run down to Monte
Carlo, for instance?'
Monte Carlo You horrify me, Mr..
Cambel. You are my guest, and cannot
speak strongly, but this is very poor jest
of yours"
Well, perhaps you know best about
that place. Monte Carlo is risky at the
best of time for some folks, because you re
bound to meet crowds of people you know,
and If they aren t on the raZzle dazzle, too
and pinned to diplomatic silence through
their own iniquities some of them are apt
to split when they get home again. But
Il = Il fed
seeing that we are entire quatre yeux here
and not one of your pious example
platforms. You know, you've been in
far hotter shop than Monte Carlo Watch
me pocket that red. All, rouge perd-Bar-
celona to wit. If you remember, you were
staying at the Quatro Naciones, and at
nights you used to cross the Rhambla,
and''-
My God, how did you know all this?''
DO You remember Directing to take
sheaf of obviously spurious notes, and
there was a row, and somebody whipped
out knife, and somebody else hoored the
knifeman with a chair?'
''YeS-nor
After which you very sensibly bolted.
Well, senior, 1 had only just that moment
come in, but / saw you We're fellow is
lander, and that's why l handled the
chair. You don't remember me, and 1
didn't know your name, but recognized
you the moment your wife introduced us
here because l never forget a face. -
You re mistaken. I never was in such
a place in my life, sir Think of the po-
sition occupy. Why the things absurd"
Now, my good sir, don't play Peter
here I'm not going to give you away. No
fear. Why should 1? 1t would probably
ruin you and should stand self convict
ed of having been in the lowest and most
desperate gambling hell in Europe with
out being made sixpence richer by the
transaction. Only you didn't know me,
and you thought didn't know you, and
1 fancied it would be handler if we were
open about one another's little ways at
once before we went on any further. Who
knows but what we might stand in at
some profitable business together? Oh
that Bad fluke and an eight shot,
Mr.. Theodore Shelf stood before the fire
place and drew handkerchief across his
forehead with trembling fingers.
What business did you refer tor he
asked at length.
None whatever. I'm not a business
man. I make discoveries and don't know
how to use them. You re a business man
and may be able to see where the money
profit comes in. If you can, why, then
we'll share the plumber. If you can't,
we're neither of us worse off than BEFORE
But this is vague. What sort of dis
ccveries5 Have you found a mine?''
mo. sir, in the present instance a chan
nell
"A channel? don't take you
"A deep water channel leading up to a
coast and in beyond ii, where everybody
else supposes there is nothing but shallow
water. The government charts put down
the place as partly unsurveyed, but all i'm
possible for navigation. The upgrowth of
coral, they say, Is turning part of the sea
into dry land. In a large measure this is
true but at one point, which have dis
covered. down from