El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-17

ever conceived by man. 10 properly
articulate the words man must have
an elastic neck, a rubber mouth and
leather lungs. In mild conversation
it Is necessary to use both hands aud
feet to make yourself understood.
Then he reflected over the proposition
a minute and said Lithuanian was
worse. The examination takes place
February 6.
Mr.. Rockefeller has been sending in
statements to the Industrial Com mis-
sion from which it appears that the
Standard Oil is a prosecuted, misun-
derstood martyr.
The peroxid blonde is going out and
the henna-hair taking her place.
Henna ia az Egyptian leaf which dyes
hair red-brown shades and very pretty
ones at that. "Titian-haired" young
ladies are becoming numerous on the
streets.
The Pennsylvania system has bought
| big block of stock in the Baltimore &
Ohio and the two roads are to stop
terms hereafter. 1 wish the Pennsyl-
vsnia in the excitement would forget
about the civil war. Before the war
the various states had three-cent a
mile laws as they have now, but when
congress imposed tax on railway
tickets in go and 81. the rsilways
were allowed to add it to the regular
70 xuhy
gress repealed the tax, but the rail-
roads haven't to this day. The dis
lance between Washington and Bslti-
more Is 40 miles, which at three cents
q mile should make the fare of course
be S1.20, but the railroads calmly col
lect five cents additional for that for
gotten war tax, making it come to
81 .25. I think the railways all over
the north are still collecting it as a
matter OF fact. Almost any one-way
ticket eau be computed on the three
cent-a-mile basis plus the additiora
five cents for war tax.
Captain Scidmore, who was formerly
of the Boer army, but who has since
reformed, is at thesArlington. He sis
pro-British, but is not favorably i'm
pressed with the alleged strategy be
ing shown in South Africa. AS he |
feelingly remarks: "Buller is just
Braddock over again; trying to pull
across all opposition by main strength
and stupidity. And he can't make
good against the Beers doing it.
That sort of thing against white men
simply doesn't go. Grant tried it at
Cold Harbor-I was in the opposition
at the time. He put his men up
against works at few hundred
yards and lost 10000 men in twenty
minutes. We only had muzzle leaders
but they we're a plenty. When the fell
low in the works has good modern gun
and plenty of ammunition he simply
can't be approached by assault. The
Russians tried it once. The Russian
isn't good fighter except in q passive
sort of way. He'll stay where he's put
on: if he's started once he'll keep on,
but that's oil. The Turks at Plevna
had lot of men up in works armed
with Berdan rifles and lots of ammu-
milton. They didn't keep a watch or
DO anything much, but it wasn't neces-
sary. When the Russians made up
their minds to fight they would simply
come up and butt out their stupid
Muscovite brains. A big body of a I
hundred thousand men or so would
form out in the open two miles away
and begin to march up. By the timo
they were within mile they would
lose about fifty per cent and
make up their minds, or what
oy courtesy, answers to the word
n Russian, that they didn't want any
more and go home. After they bad {
ost $4,000 men in this way, with the
Gm peror and the scientific staff stand t
ng around watching the slaughter, I
me day Skobeloff had an idea. His
intimate friend was an American cor :
named MacGahsn, which q
nay explain the phenomenon. Anyhow, l
le reasoned that those fellows up there
N the hill must be eating occasionally
nd he sent some men around to cut ,
he cracker line. Whereupon the Q
turks collapsed. And now Butler, s
dethuen, etc., etc., are trying the =
7hole dreary experiment over again. r
bur American attache in London the 8
ther day listened patiently to the &C. C
cunts of the strength OF the Boer 3
forks in front of Butler, and finally ask
d: But why don't he 60 around?' And f.
the whole country
D. O. F..
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