El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-28

now that doesn't uneRrth body will.
ling to take his bible oath that the
Chinese are on the imminent verge OF
overrunning the whole earth and eatin 6
US all for dinner without even the
''poor courtesy of pepper and salt
saw a long attack of hys.
terra on the subject csbled from
London this evening and 1 suppose
after 1t is pu blished tomorrow there
won't be much less than q brigade Of
men meet me and reel off that mess
of stuff with an easy air of having
secreted it all In the back part Of
their little cerebrum. Whereupor
knowing my duty to my fellow man
I'll try and bray him in mortar.
There is q peculiarly incandescent
future ahead of the men who memorize
that eort of thing and then retail it or
the general public, more or less mixed
up.
AS matter of fact, my mil tant
| friends tell me, while it is unwise to
underestimate the job ahead of us
white people in invading China, there
is no particular reason to fear the
Chinese can do any aggressive d hitting.
The yellow races had their innings un-
der Genghis aud Timour and their
glory as fighters has long since depart
Ell. Stupid old Russia hol 8 down any
number of them without their daring
to whimper. although the Russians are
not much as soldiers.
Moreover if the Chinese were the
best fighters known they could not
manage any important aggregation of
troops either at home or abroad be-
cause of their lack of transportation
facilities. 1t Is fixed fact that every
m 4 n must have over q pound of food q
day and t. more men you have the
more pounds of food you have to send
theC Tally. Any railroad man ia FL
troubles Prince Tuan would have
providing for his army of $50 900
men, of which We hear so much, if be
tried to work 1t Is o unit In country
without railroads, steam boats, or the
humble, necessary mule. Shipment of
million pounds offood per day, without
considering ammunition, forage, and
so on, is problem to tax better sd-
ministrators than the Chinese Paren-
thetically, let me say that applied ma
themstics of this kind takes all the
gloss off our school book stories about
the enormous number of men Alex
snder and those other fellows used
to travel around with.
All of which ia respectfully submit
ted to those who want to calculate; it's
too hot at THE end of the line to do 1t
today. The departments closed down
at noon today on account of the heat
be spared" to go. II there was any
clerk who thought he oouldn't-on
this occasion-his name hasn't been
reported. It's safe assumption that
. good big fraction of the
employees promptly went
trolley riding. That's Washing ton q
staple amusement now, summer opera
And miscellaneous amusements having
been completely beaten out of the field.
Within the District of Colum bia a con-
tinuOus ride from any whence to any
whittier costs only. four and fraction
cents, an act of congress compelling
the car lines to sell Elk tickets for q
quarter good on any road and to give
free transfers over their own lines.
The act is stringent and few years
ago when herdic line began to accept
three cent fare 1t had to Issue six
tickets for quarter" just the same.
All the car lines in and around the
city, except one system, have been
absorbed by trust which now owns
fourteen or fifteen lines inside the
city and outside, aud transfer from any
one of these to the other within the
district lines is absolutely free. By
proper plan ming of routes . man can
ride Is to 20 miles on a single ticket.
Outside the city and over the Maryland
line beyond the reach of congress the
company gets square by exacting q
full nickel fare every minute. But 1t
is spending q lot Of m oney now and pro-
badly needs all 1t can get. Every line
ia the town is now provided with un-
trolley, i. e., IL has a slot ex-
actly like a cable line, through which
travels q pillow making contact with
two suspended electric wires. New
G ars, enor nous II to Is ton fellows.
are being put on and they are run
through from all manner of places out
side the city limits-some of them
coming in 1s miles-through to the
oenter of the oity where they are loop