El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-13
FRIDAY THE Thirteenth
Why One FL pdso Business Man
Took A Vacation Today

mo, sir, - sald well known man OF
business today, ''you don't catch me
doing lick of work today; there's no
uss-its the worst kind OF bad luck.
Why, I've been dreading this day
for a month, and now it's hare, 1 am
going to keep to my room.
"Friday Is the only thing l am
su perstitious about. Every bit of bad
lu tx in my life has come On a Friday,
aud to make it worse today is tn :
thirteenth of the month, and that
makes il a double twisted Jonah on
me. I'd stay in bsd all day today if
1 didn't have ons of those tricky
fol ling up things that would be certain q
to shut up on me. I'd stay in cyclone
cellar if had one.
"I'll play poker with no money up,
AID that's about sill. 1 won't even
answer a telegram today. L won't
talk business Or start q new deal. 1
know too much about what it means.
It's quite story, il you can stand
it.
"A few years ago had string Of
calami,ies that lasted year and broke
me up pretty near la business. They
Frid ", the thirt,en:h of the month.
l. Tas I. cattle hipm sut that we we're
to take out from Casas Graudes.
Everything went wrong from the be-
ginning.
"Wnea We started down we bought
some new bedding. Tae Mexican
customs officers made US divide i'll up
and carry it under our arms, aad
charged Us full duty on il.
I'VE got to Cssss Grandes behind
time, aud there wasn't any place to
stay. So we took some of Brother
James's straw and made our bads in q
box car.
"We expected the cattle to be
there when we got thers, but they
didn't come, and didn't come
We had TO wait seven days for the
bunch to show up, and we had nothing
80 do but play poker in tina, box car.
E very man of US lest
Finally the castle cana Some
other fellow slipped 10 ahead of US and
got possession of the loading pens.
We lost auothe day.
Those cattle loaded the mesaest l
ever saw. We broke all our prod
poles. One of the boys got an iron
through his foot and he is lame yet
from it. Another got his nose broken
and another hurt his hand.
I'VE started north with the cattle
aad the cripples at three In the morn
ing. We had orders to lie over at
Corralisos siding for south bound
special. The special never came
till nearly noon, and the cat
tt stood there all that tins.
''On the way to Jusrez the engine
broke down and We lost some more
time. You know nothing kills beef
like standing in the cars.
when we got to Juarez there
wasn't enough yard room to unload all
stand in the cars all night. You see
this was when the road was Just new
aad not regularly opened for traffic.
well, we got in quarrel over the
telephone with the manager OF the
road. and everybody got mad and
bad hard work to prevent a fight.
Both sides lost again, and we had to
AXE our medicine.
Through an error In classifying by |
he Inspector, we paid a lot more duty
han we should have paid. W. had to
,ut in a claim at Washington for e re-
,ate. It was six months bafore we got
t and then most of it went to the a.
orneys.
when we got to Kansas with them
'ur LUCK turued. We sold the cattle az
| fair price. The purchaser branded
hem and turned them out.
'By ard by his check went to pro-
est, and we had to round up the cat
lie and take them sll back
''It was year before we g t rid OF
hem, and then we lost money.
mo, sir, Frlday the thirteenth is no
lay to do business ip,aad I'm resting"
Great 1900" Edition cf she HERALD
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