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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
Jim and His Brother.

The car remained at a standstill for
30 long a time that every one wondered
II something were wrong. 1t was soon
seen, however, that a sturdy little ur-
chin was very tenderly helping a lame
child aboard, and as the car moved on
his CHEEKY "goodby" called a smile to
the cripple's wan face.
The latter seated himself so that he
could look out of the window, and ev-
cry few minutes he waved his hand at
some one on the street The other peo-
pie in the car became curious and. look
ing out, saw a little fellow running
along the sidewalk
"Who is that?" asked a lady Of the
lame boy.
why, that's JIM" was the proud re-
Spouse.
Eyes, dear, but who is Jim?
"Why, Jim's my brother. Of course"
By this time every one was listening
and smiling in sympathy.
'Ob. I see." said the lady; chats
the boy that helped you on the car.
But why does he not ride with your
why" he said. 1--WE only had a
nickel. and Jim said I must ride. You
see" he added after a pause, 81 can't
walk well, but Jim. he can run fine"
.'See! What is this?" the lady said.
With eyes big with delight the child
caught up cent piece that had
miraculously appeared In his torn little
cap that lay on the seat between the
lady and himself. And then with fran
tic gestures he hailed Jim. who board
ed the car at the next corner.
1t would be hard to say who was the
happiest on that car during the re-
mainder of the trip. but surely Tire boys
thought that they were.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

with a crash as the hill again closed,
and instead of the gray mare there
stood n handsome prince, thanking his
deliverer.
Now he shall have half my kingdom
and shall be my chief adviser, and we
shall not forget to make an earl of
him." the king said.
But L have not the education to be
an earl" faltered the lad.
"Bosh,' the king said, and the prince
and princess said:
Certainly, certainly"
So. after all. he must have become
an earl. but be sure he did not forget
to become, too, Il great hunter, and all
those that had laughed Mt him died of
envy-yeS, every one of them.
For thus says the old myth.--Edgar
Penfield in Philadelphia Times.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 232.-Charade.

No. 232.-Charade.
There was once Il surly man
Who kept little store.
And he had 4 young assistant,
But the store is there no more.
The clerk, who was n FIRST,
On n SECOND slept at night,
And often, when the work was DER,
With the young men he would fight.
Such actions much diSpleased
The people of the town,
So they all at last did WHOLE him,
And his business was shut down.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
He Was Sensitive.

4 benevolent old lady said to a small
boy who had recently acquired dignity
by going to n boys school:
Charlie. shall we come in this shop
and buy you n bum"
"Y-yes," agreed Charlie in n whisper
But. l say, you won't say the buns
for this little boy, will you?"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
Riddle. and An.wers.

Why is a bald head like Greenlandf
It's n great white bare Cbear) spot
Why is mouse like grass? Because
the cattle (cat'lD eat it.
Why is dough like the sun? Because
when it rises it's light.
Why is boy doing sums like a ser
pent erect? He is an adder up.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 233--Behe en- d m en- t..

1. Cut off the head of large wild ami
NAL and leave part of his head.
2. Cut off the head of a smaller, very
sly, wild animal and leave a large tame
animal.
3. Put the first animals head on the
tame animal and have Il tree, the wood Of
which, being very hard and smooth, is
much used by engravers and the makers
of mathematical Instruments.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 23O.-word Puzzles,

1 am a word Of seven letters, express
ing the want of a most important neces-
sary of life leading to disastrous conse-
quences, particularly in the vegetable
kingdom.
Take away the first and last letters,
and you will see something unpublished.
3, 4, 5, 6, will suggest the idea Of
duty.
Z, 3, 4, 3, is unpleasant when applied
to food.
6. 3, 4. . is one of ~ divisions of time.
10, 4, 5 is found in chemists shop
5, 8, 4, Z is a very painful disease.
Take away the second and last letters,
and you will see a certain stage in the
life of a loaf.
5, 3, 4, 2, 1 is the name of a plant Of
the melon kind.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 236.-Anaxrams.

(Old songs-1
I. "Nay, yet sin be hew debt"
2. Even teach aloof n wine"
8. 81 rue an alien"
4. New regent are of height"
3. Lest an strange harp bend"
6. "A most part done weather"
Z. 20 darling. a ruby"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
THEf :.||!I)1FN
No. 22S.-Rbombofd

Across: ]. Destructive. 2. A small
three masted vessel used in the Mediter-
ranean sea. ;. To hesitate f. Instructor
8. Acting in revolt
Down: 1. A consonant. 2. Used for
chopping. B. boys nickname. 4. To
help. 3. One of a family of nocturnal
mammals allied to the monkeys. 6. Clev-
er. Z. To steal. 8. A Prefix. 8. A letter.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
ooseO0oeOeOoS

up %
Hans md Bess md Yong md
Wait for the happy N
Nov,th the pac to got trout
owing froEI
Il vouId n great to "A
n tn
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 23I.-Quotations.

Find from which of Shakespeare's
plays each quotation comes, and their in
itials will form the name of a calcareous
substance found in the ocean
1. Action is eloquence."
.. "Men should be what they SEEM"
8. Small showers last long, but sud-
den storms are Short
4. Great floods have flown from SIM
pie sources"
8. "a light heart lives long,"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

1. He likes jam. especially raspberry.
2. Hurry on, Gerald, or you will b
late.
3. have lived here a decade.
4. Lilly ate some bread and butter.
8. am sure did.
6. He was quickly pursued by the mob.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08
No. 234.-CrOSsword.
ctnon hut nat in hillu.

No. 234.-CrOSswor
In steep, but not in billy;
In rose. but not in lily;
In gain, but not in loss:
In fern, but not in moss;
In moss, but not in mold:
In silver, but not in gold;
In rain. but not in dew;
In captain, but not in crew;
In ruler, but not in slate;
My whole's a famous place OF late.
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or accept anything whatsoever from
member of the male sex. And they never
did.
AVOIDED ALL MEN.
They plowed their own land and pick
ed their own cotton and spun their own
cloth, and even made their own shoes,
such as they were. They approached
the habitations OF the people in town
when they had produce to SELL but never
when a man was known to ha about, and
they were openly partial to old maids
and widows.
Their wares, from the sale of which
they derived their only source of in
come, were in great demand by the
houSekeepers of Tuscaloosa. Personally
the wild women were scrupulously neat,
IN blue homespun dresses, white neck
erchiefs and blue sunbonnets and no
COOLERS were as white as theirs nor
sweet potatoes so clean. Their chickens
were all white. and the hens nests We're
neatly arranged III the house on the
mantelpiece. Each as It was laid was
carefully washed and dried, placed in
little separate bag, with the large end
down and hung out in the fresh air in
tree until it was taken to town and sod.
Now, being women, there were GER
tain store" articles which from time 10
time they felt were. necessary to their
mouse trap, for instance, and it would
seem that they must have broken thstr
solemn VOW of never speaking to man
But when such an emergency arose the
wild women were equal to the occasion.
Two of them entering d store together
one of them would say to the other in
the hearing of the clerk:
Sister, the mice are very bad at
home. Don't you think we need a mouse
trap?"
Yes" the other would reply, 'I think
we do" and when the shepkeeper with
surprising intelligence would place a trap
within their reach, they would leave the
money on the counter and take the par
eel with profound Inconsistencies of his
presence.
DYING SISTER REFUSED AID.
After several years of such hermit life,
1T became noised about one winter that
the eldest, Elizabeth, was seriously Ill
with pneumonia, and some of the more
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as how mackrel was just crowdin the
water In them parts, and a man could
make more money catching 'em than he
could diggin' gold Capn JabeZ used to
be a mack relman, you know, and this
Set him right on edge. He clean forgot
about the shingles bound for bingham,
and got out all his mack'rel gear and set
all hands at it. The fish took hold Dret-
ty well, and it looked like a good thing
-bettern luggin shingles-when all of a
sudden 1t shut in thicker'n hasty puddin'
Praps you remember the fog that lasted
thfrty-three days? Well, that was the
Ann Bateman was as much lost as If
shed been in the middle of the desert or
Sahary. Twice steamboats, bound for
bangor came near slicing the stern off n
banged into some Of those handliners. At
long and at last Cap'n Jabez felt mis- way
into Herrin Gut, and there he held on
to his anchor for dear life
nile she was bangin' round in the
storm they. eat up everything aboard cf
her. and when they got into Herrin' Gut
they were about the StarvedeSt crowd YOU
ever heard tell of. They fitted out
again. at dou BILE prices, and was just
goIn 10 get under way for bingham when
along came a southeastern that set the
Story Ann an everything else away up
in the woods.
'"rhey didn't get her off until high
course of tides long in November. and
then, not bein' damaged any to hurt. she
raced up TO bingham and landed them
shlhgles Two days afore Thanksgiving
the Glory Ann Bateman come sailin' up
shingles went for Cap'n Jabez red hot.
They wanted to know, as they put it.
where In hell he'd been all that time An
all they could get ont of him was that
ne d sot no time for getting to bingham,
and that there were other things to tend
to in this world sides a-luggin' Shingles.
On, mes d'Hbrate critter!"
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NVER 70 LOOK At A MAN
VOW TAKEN BY THREE SISTERS
WHO INHABITED A SPOT IN
ALABAMA
THEY WORKED ON A FARM
Lived Alone, Made Their own Cof-
fins and Refused to Ac-
cept Aid When
Dying.

The story Of the wild woman" Is a
familiar one in Tuscaloosa. Ala. where
Tor many years they lived and We're the
terror Of timid women and children
They were three sisters. No one knew
whence they came nor when they arriv-
ed. When first seen they were living
like foxes in a hole, and the hole was q
shelter they had made by placing planks
against the huge trunk of fallen tree
They were white women, the New
York Journal says, decently clad, but
so wild that no word from an outsider
could elicit reply. They scurrted away
II approached by man or women, though
1t afterwards became known that their
especial abomination was man
Soon after their arrival they began
the erection of a log hut III the outskirts
of the town. They chose site where
the pine trees and brush hid them from
the observation of travellers in the ''big
road. They went about their work ST
lently and swiftly and vouchsafed no
reply when help was offered. They laid
in logs and built the house, and if the
lines were not straight and the doorway
so low that they had TO stoop to enter
1t they at least had a shelter for which
they were beholden to no one but them
selves
AS near as could be learned they had
suffered a great wrong from some man
or men in their former home and they
had made a vow to go among strangers
and never again speak or look at man
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courageous of the good women in town
took it upon themselves to drive out and
proffer assistance. They took with then,
delicacies such as wine, tea and sugar.
and even more substantial comforts In
the way of warm clothing I remember
hearing that one Of the latter articles
was a striped balmoraI
The good women went and they came
back. To this day their interest reyiyes
when asked to tell about that visit
Elizabeth, poor creature, was really ill
unto death, but she was sitting bolt nm
right with set, tragic face, before the fire.
and Ill as she was she still resented the
offer of help.
Take back your gifts" she cried.
shaking her horny finger Take back
your gifts. They are gifts from men
and I'll have them not!'
No words could persuade her that the
gifts were not sent by men, and even
in the face of death the wild woman
kept her VOW.
The visitors, chagrined, attempted to
leave at least the balmoral but as they
Were driving homeward they heard a call
and, looking back saw its gay strjt;cs
Tapping in the wind on the rail fence
where one of the sisters had thrown it
Elizabeth died and was buried. But
she was not buried by men The two
surviving sisters made her shroud and
likewise made her coffin.
Beneath a group of pines at a short
distance from the hut they dug a grave,
and the body of Elizabeth was laid away
without the desecrating presence of a
man.
When the next of the wild women died
she. too was buried by her sister, as
Elizabeth had been And when Dorcas.
the youngest, passed away, it is said that
she was found dead lying in the rude
coffin which she herself had prepared
AS far as she was able she kept her
VOW, and if after death she suffered the
touch of a man she was not conscious
of the desecration. At least 1 suppose
not.
The story of the wild women was never
known There have been many surmises
as to their secret and the reason Of their
vow, but the truth was never revealed
In death, as in life they are apart from
their fellows. and three unmarked graves
on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa are point
ed out as those of the wild women"
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without any backln' an film, but that he
never had, and didn't expect to on Long
Island. anyway.
CONVERTED TO METHODIST FAITH.
We'll, sir. as they told it to me down
there, the parson. stead of gettin' mad
at Capn Jabez, Jest talked to him good
natured, an invited him and the other
Keller to the house where they were
goln to mold sort Of revival. Cussed IL
Japez didn't, get so interested he staid
oa onere a week after that, and when he
come away he was a bowling Methodist,
ana MIN Baptist o. the first water
%hen he landed. All bets on the fish of
the sea of Gallilee were declared off, all
hafuS parted friends, and Cap'n JabeZ
made the parson a present of six punches
OF shingles right off the top of the deck
Ioad TO fix the roof of his barn. He said
Inere was more. shingles where them
come from, and 1t was cheap religion at
that, shingles of that kind being then
only $2.25 thousand.
IN such fooiery as this Cap'n Jabez
had then wasted 'leven days but that
didn't count much with him. He owned
the Old nooker and lowed he'd go and
come IN her when he pleased After he
goe under way again he suddenly made
up MS mind that he'd oughter go home
10 vote, an it was bout chip an up the
eastern bay to Cape RozherWay (Rozier1
Where he lived. There wasn't much of
anytning any. up that lection, but he said it
was every mans business to vote, an if
the conSfgneeS couldn't wait in peace an
patience for that little load of shingles
he had in the Glory Ann Bateman. they
could wait Uneasy and be damned.
HELD ON TO HIS MUDHOOK."
After he'd voted he stayed around to
wait for the return. and by the time the
Bangor papers had got it all figured up
ana the papers had reached as far as
cape Rozherway five days more had gone
into eternity. Then the wind came ahead,
ana there was nothing to do but stay
there to an anchor or made a dead beat
4gin 1t. Not bein' fond of work Capt.
Jabez held on to his nudhook and took
life easy goin' to huskins and such like
Wen, sir, 1t was four days more be-
fore the weather come right again and
then. havin' swapped three kits of maclzs
rel for two bushels OF potatoes aud LOT
of onions and other truck. Cap'n Jabez
Sot under way, sayin' he'd land those
blasted shingles in bingham inside of TWO
days, and then he'd have some peace to
go somewhere and do somethin
Wen, he tucked sail onto the old sled
and she went down past Owls Head
lly1n 1t looked as If he really would
make a straight streak for bingham this
time, but off Georges Islands he fell in
with fleet of small boats and hove to To
nave some CAB with them. They all said
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TRAMP CLOTHES
worn by an Eccentric Groom at q
Fashionable wedding.

Groom a
Fashionable Wedding.
From Australia comes the latest tale
of freak marriages. Two years ago Ed
ward Hunt, of New York, died. leaving
his second son, Thomas, Sl5O000 The
young man had no expectation of coming
into any money at his fathers death. and
had gone to Australia to seek his for
tune.
He worked as an ordinary miner at the
Broken Hill mine, and became engaged
to Aline Murray, the daughter of a rich
sheep farmer. Her father refused to give
his consent TO the match, and Hunt, in
despair. threw up his job at the mine and
went to another part of the country.
Luck was against him. He went down.
down, until he was nothing more than
tramp, Or "sundowner,' without hope
or ambition in life One evening he
reached farm house, weak and i'll, worn
out with hopeless. pIrposeless tramping.
He begged for a meal, for werlz-any thing.
His old fancee was staying at the farm
with some relations. and she came to
the door. She did not recognize him,
but he knew her and SUNK away He
could not let her know he was a tramp.
Three days later he saw an advertise
ment IN a EiX-months-old paper He wrote
TO the address given and found that he
was heir to a fortune. Then he called on
Miss Murray again. gained her father S
consent and bought the engagement ring.
A few days ago Miss AIine Murray. in
white satin and orange blossoms, married
dllapidated "sundowner' In verv
ragged coat and hat without a brim.
When he was poor he said, ''he was
ashamed Of his old clothes; now he was
worth s150.Oo0 he was rather proud of
them"
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Saturday from Manila after five
months voyage. that could not be bought
for considerable money, although there
was a time when part cf the crew would
have contributed half their wages to get
rid of it.
When the ship started from Manila
dysentery and malaria had taken ho.l
Of every white member of the crew, and
the Captain, c. i. Cam, of Yarmouth.
died. Then the sailors began to look
about for the Jonah and fixed upon a
little Inongoose. Six sailors, with irons
heated in the galley stove, attempted
Oh the evening of June So to drive the
animai into the sea. Every one of the
six was bitten, and then the nongoose
escaped.
From the moment they were bitten
The sailors began to improve in nealth
and soon they were entirely well Later
they learned from two Filipinos on board
that the mongoose inhabits m4rshy
ground, and is proof against malaria and
swamp feyerS It's bite. In turn they
We're informed, had inoculated the sail
ors and had overcome the dysentery end
ague in their system. Mongoose oil is
highly valued In the Philippines as a
cure for swamp rheumatism
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~ Ozz1@z" sRzud DaGzQE1fexo.

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Almost every woman has seen once or twice the
counterpart of these types of healthy wonanhood
And every woman knows how rare they are
Why is it that such splendid wonlanhood is so
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PRESCRIPTIONS
For the treatment of acute p.eurisv
DR.. Hartshorne recommends: Acetate of
potash, Is grains; sweet spirits of pIter.
II drachm; wine of ipecac, drops; syr,:n
of tolu, Il ounce. This is one dose, to
be repeated four times daily.
In the treatment of neuralgia the fol-
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trate of iron. sulphate of qIinine artarie
acid and extract of nux vomica; # each,
Il grain. To make one pill, to be repeated
three times a day.
AS an ointment for rheumatic joints
Bourget- recommends: Salicy1ic acid, ian
olin and turpentine. Of eaca ; drachms;
lard ounces This is to be rubbed freely
over the painful joints. Some Of the SAIL
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acts Immediately on the system
Leon Noel