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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
He Once f.neHy Something.

A middle aged gentleman who has
been looking over his old school exam
inatiOn papers writes to The Academy
expressing his chdgrn at the discoy-
cry of the fact that he knows less than
he did years ago. Il knew some things
then-arithuetic, for example. Today
L am at the mercy of any waiter who
brings me change. At booking offices
L keep vast crowds waiting and miss
ing their trains while L do laborious
subtraction sums in my head, but at
school what a hand L was at figuresI
Look at this:
'Three graZiers, a, B and G, rent
piece of pasture land for a month A
puts on 81 cattle for 81 days, B 10 for
"a days and G % for % days. If at the
end of the month the rent and other
charges amount to f23 5s 1Od., how
much of this ought to be paid by
each?
Il could do that in 1884. 1 couldn't
do it now. L have no idea where to be-
gin. 1t may be easy, but the point is
that L have not the key. There used
to be a jugglery with X, and l could
manage it. Now that 1 pay income tax
and have statements of account from
my publisher every half year 1 can
manage it no longer And 1 seem to
have known zoology too. Zoology!
seem to have been able to describe and
draw diagrams of the heart and princi-
pal blood vessels of the crayfish. Once
good heavens-once I was a well
Informed boy. Today don't see how
1 should pass the third class college of
Academy.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
MOSTLY personal
News of the Coming and Going OF
Railroad Men.

John B Lloyd, brakeman OF the Sar-
Ia Fe, has been transferred to Iucsop.
Henry Atkins, switchman on the u.
H., is going TO Austin to be married.
George Culberson OF the Santa Fe,
ACCOMPANIED by his wife. are mere
from Las Vegas on little pleasure
trip.
r.eter Erickson, night Waterman OF
thee. H, will be transferred to the
office of Freight Agent Mccarthy,
August1st
Peter r. Kendrick, nephew OF the
late Catholic arch bishop OF st Louis,
is in the city and will go to work for
the s. p. as switchman.
VIM. c. Hendershott OF Chicago, pro-
minently connected with the Eft. Scott
Is Memphis road, Ia recuperat1ng his
w,Ited energies in our city. He reports
Chicago as hotter'n any place.
Jesse d. Coplan, for some years in
the City of Mexico in the office of the
auditor of tt Mexican Central. passed
through Ell Paso yesterday enroute for
Clsrks burg, w. Va, where he Is now
in business.
r. L. Anderson, an old track man on
the Southern Pacific for the last
twenty years, who has been making
his home in Nogales, Arizona, with his
wife aud three childeen, Ia now In Ell
Psso, expecting to remain here per-
manently.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
CONTRACTORS TAKE NOTICE.

Ell Paso Lodge, No. 40, A. F. g. A
NJ, requests bids for the erection Of
q three story stone and brick buildin g
in the city of Ell PssO, Texas.
Specifications must beprepared separ-
ately for building and for plum bling and
heating, and plans are ready for inspec-
tion with G. W. Newell, at Ell Psso,
Texas; the secretary of Los Angeles
Lodge, No. AZ. A.F. &c A. M, Los An
geles, California, the secretary of Tan
nehill Lodge, No. so, A. F. & A. M.
Dallas, Texas: and at the Office of Thos.
A. Winterrowd, architect, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
Each bid must be accompanied by q
guaranty, in the form of q certified
check payable to the order of J. O.
Lakeland, treasurer, that the bidder,
If awarded the contract, will within
ten days after acceptance, enter into a
contract and bond in accordance with
his bid, those with the bids on the
building to be for 81, 900 co. and those
with the bids on plumbing and heating
to be for five per cent of the amount
of the bid.
All bids must be sealed and present
ed to the State National bank, Ell Paso,
Texas, on or before 1900 O'Clock noon,
August l, 1900, aud will be opened
In the Masonic hall in said city 1t
300 O'Clock, p. m. same day, when all
bidders are requested to be present.
The bidder to whom the contract is
awarded must, within ten days enter
into . written contract with the usual
covenants, and give good and
suffioisnt bond in the sum of thirty per
cent of his bid for the faithful per.
formance of the contract.
The Lodge reserves the right to
reject any and all bids, and the checks
the rejected bids will be
returned to the makers within ten
lays from August /, 1900.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
The Clergyman and the Sheriff.

A libel suit brought by the sheriff of
Shiawassee county, Michigan, against
Methodist clergyman residing at
Owosso, Mich, arising out Of a game
of baseball played on Sunday is decided
by the supreme court of Michigan.
By statute in Michigan games of base
ball are forbidden on Sunday, and
when q game was announced through
the paper for a certain Sunday, the
Methodist clergyman called up the
sheriff by telephone the night before
and notified him that the game was
advertised to take place. The sheriff
contends that he made an effort to stop
the game, but neverthelessit was played.
Tb en- the clergyman published an open
letter to the sheriff in two local news
papers. charging him, in severe Ian
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
AURORA SOCIAL CLUB
Will Give Its First Dance Tonight

The Aurora social club will give its
first monthly ball at the court house
this evening and an enjoyable program
has been arranged. The club ia
composed OF the INSTRUMENTATION
residents OF Ell Paso, The officers are
Isaac Alderete, president; Jesus
Gsmeros, vice-president: Fernando
Valdez. treasurer; and CleOfas Cazsres,
secretary.
The memb ers of the committees are,
RECEIPT ion. Antonio Arellanes, Francis
CO Silva, Domingo Moutoya, and
Candelario Rodallegss; arrangements.
Crispo Enriquez. Tomas Guerra,
Nestor Chsparro and Leon GoIza1es;
program, G. a. Escajeda and Jose
Cazsres.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
Only One Left.

The county physician has reported
that the negro cook Thomas. who ar
rived here fr m Cochise county, Ariz-
Ons, some timo ago, and adjudged tenn
porariiy insane and confined in the
county Jail. has recovered his reason,
and he was consequently released yes
berdsy, by order of the court. This
leaves one Mexican as the only occup-
N o. the insane ward at the jail at
the present time.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14

ly follow from bodily injuries, without
breaking an arm. or leg, or bone Of
the body The body and mind are so
intimately connected that the mind is
very often directly and necessarily
affected by physical Injuries. A
nervous shook, without blow to the
person, might under some circumstan-
ces be 80 great as to cause bodily in
juries. '-Commercial Appeal.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-14
Some Recent
Interesting
Decisions
Blu Cket Shop Turned Down
SSSS

A bucket-shop concern in Chicago
had the astonishing impudence to go
into court and ask for writ of In juno
ton against the board Of trade and
the Western Union Telegraph COM
Quotations. Judge Tuley satisfied
himself by judicial inquiry that the
bucket-shop although making Grades"
amounting to 157 ,0o0, 900 bushels in
a single year, never handled bushel
of real grain from fret to last.
''Gambling in prices on the Chicago
board of trade is the main business of
the complainant, he said, "the quota
tions being used as dice are used to
determine the result Of bet." Then
he sent the bucket-shop men away
sorrowful. without their INJUNCTION
Hartford COurant.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Mispronouncinu Ourselves.

The name of this town Is not of Alabama origin. The name was transported from the town which is England's chief seat of hardware and metal manufacturing-a town of fully half million people, sending seven members to Parliament, as we in Jefferson County send seven members to the Legislature. The name means that the town was at some time Blrme's hamlet, or something of that sort, becoming con- tracted at last to Birmingham.
 Now, If we take a name from another town, it is reasonable to expect that we will take the pronunciation of that name also. If a man in Birmingham, England, should speak the word with an accent on both the second and third syllables he would probably be hurried off to the near est asylum for looms. The correct pronun- citation is very easy, smooth and happy Bir-m' ghm, with the accent on the first syllable
 Some Americanisms smack of the soil and are very desirable; but when we accept an English name let us keep for consist encys sake the English pronunciation; for no matter how much we may try to dis guise the fact we are still Anglo-Saxons, heirs of Shakespeare, and children of the greatest family on earth
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
HE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Women in the Prin ari.

There are times when women want tine ballot. and one of those times is coming at the end of this month, when the city primary will be held. The cause of law and order and of public education is at stake, and when such subjects are before the peo- pie every good woman is very much alert. But the laws, handed down from other ages and other civilizations, are against her and she cannot vote.
 But because she cannot vote, let no one think she is without influence. She will vote on the last day of this 1non,h very largely and very freely by proxy, and every vote thus cast will be for better govern ment, for better schools, for a better and more orderly city.
 Let no woman therefore think she is ab- solved from consideration of the public welfare because she cannot cast a ballot. She does vote indirectly. Her representa- tive goes-to the polls and sine should, and assuredly will, see that her agent correctly represents her there Any politician who leaves out of his calculations the influence ~of woman is generally found at the bot tom of the poll. He leaves her out as "a rule because he has a cause that she will not heed.
 Every woman has right to take a deep interest in the coming primary. This right rises into dntv fOr fpf hot is dear to her is at stake, and she should know how her representative stands, be he father, husband, brother or sweetheart The government of this city is at stake. Shall 1t be good or bad? The women of this city hold the decision in their own fair hands
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
THE DUKE S VISIT.
From the Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

T TOiH the JdcRSOn Cldr1On-LeuSer.
 A recent press dispatch from Birming- ham, in making mention of the Southern tour of the Duke of Manchester and bride, states that preparations are on foot to give the young couple royal reception In Jackson if they will permit it.''
 This illustrates the old adage that one must Ego away from home to get the news" If Jackson is preparing royal reception for the duke and his American bride nobody knows anything about it, and if any such preparations are under way they are being kept exceedingly quiet. There is nothing in common between the Duke of Manchester and the citizens of Jackson and there is no sensible reason whatever why he should be entertained in this city. Royal blood, so-called, may pos sess alurements for some to an extent that it makes them snobbish, but a different type of Americanism prevails in this sec- ton of the South, and there are fifty thou sand people right here in Mississippi whose blood Is pure and fresh as the stuff that courses through the veins of any member of the British nobility When the Duke of Manchester comes this way doubtless many of the curiously-inclined will go to the de- pot to take a peep at him, but if any plan of entertainment is under way the public has not been made aware of it.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Let Us Be Reasonable.

Alabama Is State of about average size in this union, its rank in forty-fve States being eighteenth. It Is said Chairman Bur trying to keep the forthcoming bill of the committee down to s25, 5,0O0, ,O0O Alabama's share of such an aggregate would be s6OO.- 900 or thereabouts. It is exceedingly un- likely that Alabama, great as her needs are, will be given much more than her due proportion, for river and harbor bills are made up on the basis of average distribu-
The age-herald., 1900-12-09

Washington. December S.--(SpeciaL )-This session of Congress promises to be strictly business. To date there-has been but little talk and much action. The Republicans feel that they are thoroughly in the saddle and they are riding full tilt. The Demo- crats are split into factions, are fussing bit among themselves and apparently feel that they are not in it.
 Some want to let the Republicans go ahead, others are striving to toss clogs in the wheels of legislation. But their efforts can amount to naught. The House has al- ready passed the army reorganization bill and the Senate will soon do likewise. We shall, therefore. have standing army of 5S, S,0OO men and the President may increase II to 100, O0O when in his opinion the neces- sity arises.
 Congress will make some reduction in the war revenue tax. It is almost certain that the beer tax will be reduced. The brewers have demanded it, ande the brewers are a powerful political factor and contributed
The age-herald., 1900-12-09

largely in the last campaign Some of the very annoying stamp taxes will also be eliminated-perhaps on bank checks and express packages and telegrams.
 
 It looks like the ship subsidy bill in it's present form will certainly fail. The Con- gressmen from the middle and north een- tral states are afraid of such radical ap- propriations in the form of gifts to the big steamship lines as the pending Hanna Payne bill provides. I refer to Republican Congressmen. They are looking after their seats two years hence. Nearly all the Democrats oppose the bill as it stands at present Should it be amended to apply to tonnage alone. and not give practically all the appropriation to the fast passenger transatlantic liners, the bill would pass Almost every Congressman believes in the government aiding in the development of our shipping interests, but they believe in the development of the freight-carrying ships more than aiding the fast passenger steamships. which are already earning tre-
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

From the Chicago News.
 Exemplifying duty is better than ex- blaming 1t.
 In order to live long it Is necessary to live slowly.
 A girls lover is a poor suitor if he does not suit her.
 The job of police court judge is certainly a trying situation.
 Many a man starts out to gather wool and gets fleeced himself.
 No man ever expects his wife to make as many mistakes as he does.
 A woman is never satisfied so long as there is anything she can't get
 It Is a sin to steal a pin--especially if it has a diamond attached to it.
 ParadoXical though it may seem the gas 1t always shut in when it is turned out.
 Many woman of an inquirng turn of mind has been able to make dumb waiter answer.
 Nearly every married woman thinks her husband Is smarter than any other man of her acquaintance.
 A large number of married men have been reported missing from various parts of the country recently. This behooves wives to treat their husbands to more beeksteak and less tongue
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
AESoP,

By Andrew Lang. He sat among the woods; he heard
 The sylvan merriment: he saw The pranks of butterfly and bird,
 The humors of the ape, the daw. And in the lion or the frog
 In all-the life of moor or fen In ass and peacock, stork and dog,
 He reads simlitudes of men. "Of these, from these" he cried, Eve come, Our hearts, our brains descend from
 these"
 And, lo the Beasts no more were dumb, But answered out of brakes and trees. "Not ours," they cried; Degenerate, "Ye fools, who war with God and Fate Who strive and toll; strange race of men. For We are neither bond nor free,
 For we have neither slave nor kings; But near to natures heart are we,
 And conscious of her secret things Content are we to fall asleep
 And well content to wake no more; We do not laugh, we do not weep,
 Nor look behind us and before: 'sBut were there cause for moan or mirth, Iris we, not you, should sigh or scorn, Oh, latest children of the Earth,
 Most childish children Earth has borne" They spoke, but that misshapen slave
 Told never of the thing he heard. And unto men their portraits gave,
 In hkenesses O beast and bird!
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
leJ0qoea~
THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

attendant came swiftly and fairly, in light and sweetness, and every face had been to these watchmen of the new bridal rosy and ruddy and dear, and many still bright encd the world, but not as of the younger years; some faded and scanned with care. and hope deferred and still others Hidden under the cold marble the mosses have kissed many year in the gloom.
 They came, the phantom faces of the be- loved; he and she, he and she, this~on and that the lovers and the loved, and they seemed to greet the comrades of oth- CT days in pleased surprise wondering at the work of less a score of years with their million heartthrobs, upon the two old young watchmen of this new bridal of this latest Autumn day of century whose end the hours are counting.
 Few in fact were the years of their past in bridal service in the old church, but those two servants of this last and love Hest of all the brides of their wide know- edge felt emotion that their time had pass ed faster than they knew, and many jest and wink and nod and shrug ex- changed they as their friends of today came dropping in with kindly greeting, and mock rebuke that the years were suffer- ed to speed whilst they two tarried in tr- bute to the brides of other men: whereat there were winks betwixt the two as if they could if they would, an unharmful deception maybe Many thoughts they had, these two, and the years had taught them the value of silence: thought of comrades long since welded, and maidens, loved of their long ago, whose children came to claim their loving service in viewing this bridal Celebration they were serving. One little sylph gave her name and it stirred in them nameess grace; and another, whose lisp opened a primrose path trod in dalliance to bower of violets long pass ed; and one more who merely laughed, and that laugh burst the bar of the past anf led them to a dream that was splendid 1T the Palace Beautiful. One fair young mothers thou, O thou" broke away the barriers of circums tanee, and they heard the splash of silver oars in a summers sea far away
 And very happy they were, happy as men may ever be without brides and by and by when they advanced to receive the bride upon the stair, they swore in faith that Sn6 was IdlTSSt Ol dll lte ptiuSS tfSs ever had greeted, and had they paused to reflect they could have sworn to having never themselves known a moment of calmer joy.
 And so come and speed all the things of this life my beloved; the bright and the beautiful and the blessed giving us joy as lifes story of love and faith is told in the rosary of the years!
 An, beloved,
 Take this, and pray that he, Who wrote it, having 1nonored your sweet
 faith in him,
 May trust himself; and spite of praise and
 scorn,
 As one who feels the immeasurable world, Attain the wise indifference of the wise; And after Autumn past-if left to pass His Autumn in seeming-leafless days Draw toward the long frost and longest
 night,
 Wearing his wisdom lightly.
 THE MURMURER.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
LITERARY NOTES.

Brimful of good things for the holidays is the Christmas number of Golfers, which has come to be universally recog- nized as the most enterprising American Illustrated Weekly. Besides an exception ally excellent array of stories by writers of worldwide fame, this number includes what is probably the most striking double page colored picture of the year. Its title 'The Flying Dutchman," but faintly ex- presses the realistic scene portrayed by hte brush of that famous painter-Howard Pyle.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
PoLAND'S MANUFACTURING.
rom the Cosmopolitan.

From the Cosmopolitan.
 Warsaw has population of 6I5.000. In ten years this will be doubled. Besides be- ing a distributing point for-what Asia wants to send to Europe, it is a manufac- turing city. It makes sugar, leather cot ton, wool, iron, gold and silverware and shoes for the rest of the continent. It lars worth of beet sugar alone in a year to America Warsaw's outlying neighboring city, Lodz, known as the Polish Manches- ter. is fast gaining on its English rival.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
Office BuiIdinq Needed.

A sky-scraper is needed in this city Cor porations that need a dozen rooms, more or less, cannot today be accommodated. Such enterprises want heated, lighted, we'll cared-for rooms in building provided with -~ift elevators, postoffice chutes and like e-nven!ences. There is no such building in this city, and the city is a loser on that account.
 The want of such building drives com panies away from this city when they would for other reasons prefer to stay here. They are for this reason concentrated in Atlanta, which is fast becoming an off, flee city It is not perhaps the most stable foundation for city, but 1t is a great help towards the building of city, and there is no reason why it should be ne glected in Birmingham. The want of cap ital for the erection of sixteen-story of- flee building does not explain the case, be- of the needed capital could be readily se- cured in the money centers of the country. It is an investment that suits capital, be- cause it Is safe and secure without any clement of speculation in it. In this case 1t would be an inves tment based on the coal and ores of this district No, capital is not lacking. It is enterprise that is lack ing, that is all. And it is lacking to the furt of this town, ae eSe Age-Herald has know
The age-herald., 1900-12-09
AMERICAN GOODS IN ZANZIBAR.
From Ainslee's Magazine.

From AlnSIeeTS MagaZlne.
 Zanzibar is a free port for all imports except liquors, arms ammunition, tobacco and rice. At all African coast ports the uniform duty is per cent ad valorum. Ex- port duties are the same, and the list in- cludes rubber, ivory, cloves, hides, pepper cocoanuts, tea, coffee and many tropical products. The exports last year from zan- zibar amounted to s7,567,095. Of the imports those of America for one month amounted to more than the combined shipments of all Europe.
The age-herald., 1900-12-09

ton. Whatever she gets beyond that sum will be due to the skill and influence of her delegation. and primarily to the influence of Congressman Bankhead, who has long been a member of the rivers and harbors committee.
 Before we proceed to blow skyhigh an untiring and efficient member of Congress or nine members for that matter it would be well to take into consideration the fact that while Congress Is Republican in both branches Alabama is not and does not pro- pose to be, and that therefore, she has no particular "pulr' on a Republican chair man, a Republican committee and Re- publican Congress. MT. Underwood, MT. Bankhead and all the other members from the State are doing all that Democrats can do in the matter of opening Alabama riv- CTS. What is most needed in this State con- ssts in asking that the sum which can be obtained for the State shall be used to the best advantage of the State. The Age-Her- aid has urged that the Warrior should first be opened to slackwater navigation, and then that the Alabama and Coosa be inn proved to the limit of their volume and power. Business sense is needed in the matter of river improvement as it is in most other affairs of this world. Of one thing we may be assured, Messrs. Under- wood and Bankhead will do their level best" and that best will be all that two men can do, for both are experienced, ca pablo and popular members.