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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03
ANOTHER
SURVEY
Now In Progress From Bis
bee 10 the Pacific
The ROCK ISL N D
persistentIv Connected With This
Latest Scheme Which May IN
volve California Ortlet.


The Rock Island railroad is headed
for the Pacific coast
With an air OF positive knowledge
this expression came from a prominent
official of great mining and railroad
company. who is in a position to
know something of what is going on
in this section of the country.
He has been spending several days
in FL Paso and said yesterday that rail
road men generally believed that the
Rock Island was going to San Diego.
California and that this opinion was
not based on hopes alone.
Last week two corps of engineers
went out from Bisbee. Arizona, to get
the preliminary survey of a road to
San Diego and the general opinion
was that the Rock Island was at the
head of the scheme.
There is no longer the slightest
doubt but that the Rock Island has
made all arrangements to come into
FL Paso and 1t is well known that some
of the most determined railroad pro-
meters in the country are now at work
on a plan to consolidate all the min
eral lines west of this city into one
system to be turned over to one of the
great companies entering here. No
other road but the Rock Island is bid
ding for Pacific coast connections and
it is generally conceded that the Rock
Island is at the bottom of the scheme
and will soon have complete control
of all the roads in the Bisbee and Gill
ton districts.
Now since the announcement that
some one is surveying to the coast
from Bisoee there can be no doubt that
the consolidation mentioned so often
in the Ell Paso papers is going to be
effected and the Rock Island will go
through Ell Paso to the Pacific coast
and share the heavy oriental trade
with the Southern Pacific and Santa Fee
roads. This has been the dream of
the Rock Island since it started out of
Chicago and the way now seems clear
for the realization of their hopes. Ii
will get to the coast, but whether in
United States or Mexican territory re-
mains to be seen.
Employees of the Phelps-Dodge COM
not In the railroad business but the
public does not understand why they
have built nearly three hundred miles
OF railroad in one of the richest coun-
ri I'm ha rAsr sstfl
ing more and yet do not want to do
railroad business. The freight bust
ness of that company is not more than
half that of the district they control
exclusively and IL is known that their
business alone would not justify the
building of several hundred miles of
road and if II would they could not
refuse business fully as large as their
own
When the Santa Fe started to the
Southern Pacific by getting a new COM
pany to build from San Francisco
down through the valley and Join them
in the southern part of the state. The
Rock Island is up to the same trick
and will get into Los Angeles and San
Diego in the same way. 1t is said that
the Rock Island had a hand in the
building of the White Oaks road and
are now going to take possession of it
and it is believed that the connections
the same way
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03
A New Sunday School

Rev. J. F. Kellogg and Mr.. Rush. of
the Myrtle avenue Methodist church
went over to the smelter yesterday af-
ternoon and organized a Sunday school
which is to NEE every Sunday here
after. 1t will be known as the "Smel-
ter Sunday school, and adopted as its
motto the potent FL Paso word I'VE
will" w. G.. Dowell is superintendent
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

El Paso Steam Laundry, Phone At.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

Moki Tea positively cures sick head
ache. indigestion and constipation. a
delightful herb drink Removes all
eruption of the skin. producing a per-
feet complexion or money refunded
% cents and so cents. NJ A. Webb,
druggist.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

Solid Gold Brooches The largest
line in the city-costing from $500 to
$500. A. II. Richards. the Jeweler.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

Account ill health will sell or trade
half interest in well established real
estate agency. Call 1925 Overland.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

Deming water delivered daily. Tel
ephone 5S7.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-03

Grazing lands-15 cents per acre.
Mariana S. Rey, C.. JuareZ. Chihuahua.
Mexico.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-07
Tales Of Yankee EnChantnlent.
AWlNAOAB SKELCH AND HIS FREE LIBRARY.
The Story of Really Good Boy With Defective Moral
Sense.
By Charles BatteIl LOOMS.
Copyright 1890 by Charles Battell Loomis)

Aminadab Sketch had a defective
moral sense, but You must not blame
him for it too harshly. What could
any one expect of Il boy who, having
such a dreadful name as Skelch, had
been saddled with Aminadab when he
was too young to protest. Of course
the boys called him Dab or Dabby for
short, or else Amen which was Just as
bad, and he is certainly entitled to
some consideration on that account. If
he had been called Gaudensius Stew
art or Alcihiades Montrose he might
have been very noble little fellow but
the name of Aminadab prepared people
for the worst, And yet he was not
the worst by any means He had
love for the beautiful and he liked to
10 little kindnesses for people and he
was generous to fault. His CHIEF
failing was that he did not know the
difference between mine and thine and
it was this that led him into the trou-
bic that / am about to describe.
One day he went to Philadelphia ana
while he was there he saw many fine
buildings. Now the little town where.
he lived, up among the mountains near
Plainfeld, New Jersey, did not boast
of VI building more pretentons than n
wooden house and so these great stone
buildings seemed to him like fairy
palaces and ne determined when ne
returned 10 Mullinsville to build
handsome library and present it to his
fellow townsmen.
1t is proper at this point to say that
while Aminadab did not boast any ac
quaintanceship with the fairies he did
have strength that was little short of
supernatural. He was SO strong that he
could pull young saplings from the
earth with one hand and could raise
a six hundred pound bag of meal as
easily as you could handle five pound
bag Of salt. Beside this he was re-
markably handy. He was own cousin
on his mothers side to the boy who
made a trolley car with Il jack knife a.
his only tool
Now if Aminadab had possessed
good moral sense he would have gone
to the proprietor of some stone ward
and would have said, Il want enough
stone to build Il very handsome library.
l have not the money to pay for ii
today and | may never have it but
If you will trust me and my health does
not give out. | will pay YOU before
die. Most any stone seller would
have given him mt least enough for
basement. Then he would have said
practically the same thing mt the pane
of glass factory and the store where
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store his property if he objects. And
| will make good any stone or glass
or timber that is needed"
Aminandab seized the good mans
hand and wrung it and few minutes
later he was on his way home, and
before nightfall he had visited every
man who had mknowingly contributed
to the new library. And TO the glory OF
the inhabitants of Mullinsville, only
one man refused to let Aminadab keep
what he had taken and that one was an
old fellow who had miles ON miles of
stone fences and from whom the boy
had taken one stone. He insisted ON dts
being returned to him and as it was the
bottom stone in the foundation wall.
Dabby had Il hard time getting it and
plenty of time to reflect on his misdoings.
1t is a singular fact that after the
library was dedicated there was no one
who spent so much time in it as this
old man who had refused to contribute
q single stone towards its erection.
The day of the dedication was made
holiday in MullinSville and every one in
town came to see what one small boy
had been able to do and old Mr. Straw
bridge or Lippincott told them all that
they ought to be proud of Aminadab,
on the whole. because while dishonesty
was Il grievous quality, still it could be
repented of and doubtless Aminadab had
already repented. but public spirit was
thing SO rare that it ought to be ell
couraged by all possible MEANS
Then Aminadab got up and said:
Il thought that | was going TO give
YOU this library myself. but since my
kind friend here has opened my eyes
see that / had only two things to give
YOU; my labor and what taste ] may
possess. The rest you have given your
selves and the books he has given. So
| say let's give three cheers for him.
The cheers We're given Justify and
then mach to Aminadab's surprise Mr..
Hamerton, who had come in late and
unexpectedly, rose and said: 'Dabby
has forgotten that | owe the ground on
which he built the library but | cheer
fully give it to him to give to YOU be
cause | think that he is the most gen
erous and the most pubhc-spirited boy
in New Jersey And after this we will
trust him with anything"
And Dabby has proved faithful to that
trust.
CARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
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mona through the loss of his doors, it
would be your fault"
Aminadab had not thought of that at
all To give man pneumonia was the
last thing he would have wished to do,
and his eyes began to fill with tears.
While he was trying hard to keep back
the sobs, large, stout kindly looking
old gentleman came down the broad
staircase and seeing one of his doors
off its hinges and Il policeman on the
steps. said: Hello. what's the mat
Ter here. Is this the way YOU come III
doOrs-by taking the doors OFF,
Then Aminadab did what he ought to
nave done in the first place. He took
off his hat and made II low bow and
said i'll a manly tone: Il am building a
Library at Mullinsville, New Jersey
which | am going to give to the town
and / need pair of doors for it and
seeing that you must be rich or else
YOU wouldn't have mahogany doors when
black walnut would do just us well,
helped myself to them and didn't sup
pose that yOu's miss them"
Didn't suppose that I'd miss them?
Hoity, toity am | so old that | can't
see when my front doors are gone?
However, | am glad to see that you
are so public spirited and if you and
the officer will come inside out of the
draught, I'd like to talk to you
Aninadab motioned TO the officer to
go in and them he placed the door in
position and put back the screws. Then
he came inside and sat down in the
old gentlemans drawing room.
Now, see here, young man, where
did you get the rest of the material for
your library?'
II got the stone from the stone walls
around the country
'lAnd did YOU have permissionT
why, no. said Aminadab, wonder
ingly. whats stone out of a wall
here and there?'
1Vhe policeman looked at Mr.. Straw
bridge or Mr.. Lippincott or whatever
his name was and shook his head sadly.
70 him the boy seemed pretty bad and
if he had had his say he would have
carried him off to the police station.
But the old gentleman smiled kindly.
And who helped you take all this
stone? Didn't your helpers tell YOU that
it is wrong to steal:'
II had no help, sir" said Aminadab.
Il did it all myself"
well. you must be unusually strong
And how were YOU going to carry my
doors back to Mullinsville:"
ON my back" said Aminidab, sim
ply.
a young Sampson" said the old
gentleman, looking over the tops Of his
glasses ut the policeman, who nodded
affaibly.
land the glass and timber, where
did you get those"
Aminadab told him. Somehow he was
not afraid in the presence of this fine,
patr:urchal old man. He had heard Of
iails, but he did mot believe that the
gentleman was going to punish him.
Mr.. Lippmcott-if that was his name
heard him through and then he said
Officer, L don't think that this is a
case for you. He has put back my
door and | will deal with him III Il
way that seems fit"
The officer rose and bowed and went
out.
When Anlinadab and the old man
were alone together, the latter said:
MY boy. little fellow who has SO
much strength of body and such kindly
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instincts ought to learn that it is never
kind to take things that don't belong
to him. Now, | believe that You acted
tboughtlessly and / ann not going to
punish you, although YOU committed
crime in taking down my door. IN
stead, l am going to make you a pres
emit of the doors and will have them
sent out to Mullinsville and / viii also
give you ten thousand books to put
on the shelves, for a library without
books is like cake without sugar. Only
first you must so to each man from
whom yolt-er material ana
tell him what you have done and re-
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get, and | think that the way i'll which
Aminadab got them was thoroughly re-
lrehonsible, for. instead of buying them
or even taking them without leave from
a glazier. he stole a glaciers diamond
and cut the panes out of various houses
in town. thus letting in the cold air and
putting the people to lot of trouble.
You may say that in the end it gave
the glazier plenty Of work that he would
not otherwise have had. but l tell you
that right that comes from Il wrong
IS not the right kind of right.
AT noon of the fourth day the boy had
finished everything but the front doors
and he was puzzled to get them. lie
wanted something handsome, but he
didn't think that he was able to make the
doors with the few tools at his COM
mand and he knew of no ready made
doors that would do. So he took a day
off and went to Philadelphia, and there
on Market street or Chestnut or Arch
| can't be more exact, because those
are the only Philadelphia streets | know
he saw two mahogany doors, most
beautifully carved, and evidently very
valuable.
Oh, why did not Aminadab ask per-
mission to carry those doors away with
him? The owner. who was a rich man,
might have granted his request If the
lad had been courteous. But poor lit
lie Amimadab, the boy with the per
verified moral sense, went up the steps
and taking a screw driver from his peck
It began TO unscrew the hinges
In fewer minutes than you can count,
"A policeman passed by and when he saw
the boy he asked him what he was doing.
Aminadab had taken one door off and
had leaned it up against the house and
food of keen autumn air swept into the
rich hall.
Now, whatever else Dabby may have
been he was at least truthful. and ne
said without hesitating: Il am going
TO take these doors to Mullinsville TO
put them in my new free library there.
They are just the right size and ! can't
make any nearly as good.
But, my son. said the policeman.
who had children Of his own, and knew
how to speak to boys, don't you know
that it is dishonest to take a mans
doors away without his permission:
Suppose Mr.. Lippincott or Strawbridge
or whatever the name of the gentleman
is who lives here, should geS pneu-
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they sell planks of wood and the nail
bazaar and the paint depot. But ne ana
none of these things. He said to NM
self: Here, l am going to give my
fellow townsmen a fine library. l am
going TO make it all myself and l con
see why | can't help myself to material
wherever | can find it.
Now, as you and j know. this was
very wrong, but I'm not telling You
what ought to have happened, bun what
did happen TO a little New Jersey boy
who didn't know any better
First he selected plot of ground on
which to build the library. This was
next door to the summer residence Of Il
man who had gone to New York for
the winter and it was part of his land.
When people saw Aminadab digging for
the foundations they did not stop him
for it was none Of their business and
besides, for all they knew, he had re
ceived permission from Mr.. Hamer-
ton, the owner. AS | neglected 10 say,
Aminadab was an orphan and not an
swerabe to any one.
OF course. to such strong and handy
boy the work of digging cellar thirty
ny MY Iccl WIS NOT II ililliS " httI'
him busy long and by nightfall Of the
day he had started it, it was all ready
for the mason work.
1t would not be very interesting to tell
YOU how he mixed his mortar and did
all the other prosy things that 60 TO the
making of house. The remarkable
thing is that he got every stone that went
into the building of that library from the
stone walls of the adjacent country ~
stone here and stone there will never
be missed, said he and he was right,
but although they weren't missed ii was
wrong in him to take them without ask
ing. I'm not standing up for Dabby by
any MEANS.
There was a very thick evergreen
hedge running along the front of the
Hamerton place and no one noticed
what was going ON behind it. so Dabby
was able TO give his whole strength 70
his task without interruption. And il
took good deal Of strength, and the
boy ate his meals with a workman $
appetite. 1t is no slight task to carry off
two or three fifty pounds stones for q
mile or two, and set them up in place,
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but he was a cheerful worker and be
knew that he was building memorial
to himself and that made the task an
easy one.
An armful Of planks at planning mill
here and there, taken at the noon hour
when the men were off eating their lun-
cheon and few kegs of nails which he
shouldered, two at a time, and some
quick, deft work and the floors were laid.
And he had only been at work two or
three days. | think he must have had Il
strong natural taste in architecture, for
when the building was completed, several
New York architects said that it was
worthy of Richardson at his best You
ought to know if you don't that Richard
SON was one of the greatest of Ameri-
can architects and it is a pity that he
is not living today.
The panes of glass were harder to
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R1CE's FIRST CIRCUS TUMBLE
(Atlan-ha Journal.)

Ibid you ever hear Of the joke which
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''No-what was it"'
Dan, while still in his teens, ap.
Piled to a circus manager for posi-.
ton
What salary do you want| asked
the manager.
Eight hundred dollars a night,
replied Dan.
Tell you what I'll do, said the man
ager.
"'Well, speak quick, returned Dan.
I'm losing time
"I'ii give you 81 week
"'All right said Dan, it's a go.
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