El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29


when Mr.. Croker is said to put up
500, 600 against $50, 600 it behooves men
to scale down the figures q little, so
as not to unduly strain oredulity.
Credulityis needed for many other pun
poses Ia an election year than believ-
Ing bet stories. Our record here, SO
far, is an alleged wager of $1,000
against 81 500 between two whiskey
men, with side bets OF 500 even on
Michigan, on New York, on Kentucky,
aud on Maryland.
Other stories current here and need
ing careful revision are those about
Hsnna's having fund of $50, 900 600
which 10 about 81 . bead for each OF
our Is. 600 ,0CO voters-and about Bryan
having received Is, 600. 900 from Agui-
naldo's HonR-kong junts-which is a
little over 60 cents from every man,
woman and child of the 5000, 900 people
of the Philippines.
RATHBoNE'S JOKE.
One Of the current jokes is the effor t
OF the Rathbone post-ofice ring In
Havana to procure the extradition of
fourth assistant postmaster general
Bristow, who stirred them up 90 vigor-
ously awhile back and is still keeping
up the performance. They charge him
with dereliction in his Official duties,
in that he did not at once discharge
Rathbone's gardener, coachman and
fOotmsn who we're carried on the post
Office pay roll. They are virtuously
indignant. Bristow ia not worried.
He says An investigation lie like an
anti-fAt cure, in that it is not expected
to be instantaneous and that he Drop
ped the men as coon as he got around
TO that end of the question.
He could not decide whether or not
their salaries should BE- refunded by
Rsthbone, az that question must be
settled at the trial, but he could and
did decide that the Havana post Office
did not need footman, coachman or
gardener and dropped them according
~. Rathbone's attorneys declare that
technicslly Bristow is more culpable
than their client In allowing tie reten.
tion of the men for even q day after
asking for Rathbone's prosecution.
Strangely enough the Cuban Judge
couldn't see It in that light and refused
to issue extradition papers.
ByBoNIC PLAGUE.
Talking about Cuba, the people at
the surgeon generals Office are worried
about our evacusting the island, on
sanitary grounds. They cay that We
should retain Havana until it is thor
oughly cleaned up, not merely superb
cislly as at present, and thereby avert
the annual nuisance of yellow fever
scares in the south. Our little epide-
mics never cost many lives, but they do
cost great deal of money in shot gun
and interruption 10 busi-
ness.
Aforesaid medicos are busily prepar.
ing themselves to handle the bubonic
plague IL it makes any further incur
sions on our territory. 1t Is raging
all over the world now and in the
course of human events must get to
New York. 1t is not likely to prove
dangerous to white people of cleaniy |
habits and wearing shoes bare feet |
get scratched and poisoned-but there
are many quarters in all our big cities |
In which it would be q bad guest. Not |
that IL will ever be as bad as it was in |
Europe during the Middle Ages when
. quarter of the population died off 10 |
one epidemic of the 'Black Plague"
which was almost certainly the same |
it can be worse than
smallpox.
Only one in ten or thereabouts ever |
from the 'pneumonic FORM
which Is caused by inhaling dried |
containing the bscilli-when 1t
Is severe enough to diagnose. The
disease is caused by short rod shaped |
organiem which gets into the blood and |
Is carried from sufferers to victims in |
} great variety of wsys, besides the
inhalation just mentioned. Fleas.
and uncomfortable small |
game of the like kind, are active In
oculstors. Rats take the dieease more |
readily than men and pass 1t from one |
place to another. The outbreak In the |
white quarter of Honolulu was traced |
back to q clerk who lived and worked |
10 one of the clesnest and best grooe-
-ies of town, and It remained . mystery |
II I'll 1t was found that he had discover
81 pile of rats in the cellar and |
handled them in removing them.