El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-26
A CALL BOYS ROMANCE.

A CALL BOYS ROMANCE.
"Hully gee, Gully. what you lookin
down your nose so fer?" asked the
news butch as he jumped off the train
and saw the call boy standing in the
depot door has yer little girl turned
you down.?
Yes, she done trun me down long
ago" answered the call boy. but / am
not looking down my smeller on that
account, for that shock happened so
long ago l am gittin' over ii. L was
lust Iookin' to see if this bile is ready
to pink. Hadn't you heard about the
grocery clerk winnin' my girls afec-
lions from me? Well. he did but he is
in the back ground three notches al
ready himself. She came to town and
met the counter jumper and fell in love
at first sight. Then she went down 10
the house of a frien' on the It. & p. and
got to fiiTtin' with the engineer OF
switch engine. What do we think of
that? Soon that grocery boy got the
stony stare and the heart he fondly
believed he had slowed away for all
time fell into the possession of that
switch engineer.
.'Oh. my heart is healed away up to
the sioe of the grocery clerks and as
misery loves company l am consider
ably consoled by this time. Did she
marry the engineer. did you say? Oh,
rats. that engineer didn't get to buy but
a few nickels worth of candy for her
until she changed her affections to an
actin steward at the post
The steward would sit on the edge
of a government bunk for hours and
hours and whisper sweet things into
her ear and thought he had won her fer
true. They would sit out on the front
in ho
the stars and plight their troth, but his
loves young dream awoke to be a hor-
rible nightmare. for the law would not
permit an actin steward to get tied up
to even the purtiest girl that ever walk
ed the streets of Ell Paso. l used to
think that and 1 guess he did, too.
"A few days ago purity lootenant
appeared on the scene and the girl fell
in love with him at first sight The
chances are he will have to divvy up
for her. that is if some other geiser
don't come along and make a mash
on de gal. Accordin'to her past record
there is plenty of time fer that to hap
pen.
"Oh. ! am not worryin'. There are
others whose wounds are fresher than
mine yet there is thorns even to vic
tory and consolation in defeat, where
a Teller is relieved from buyin' the
Christmas presents. Say, butch, does
this bile need pickin'?'
BY WEIGHT INSTEAD OF HEIGHT.
In reply to a suggestion made by a
general passenger agent that the fares
of children should be regulated by
their height, the Railway Age suggests
that weight would be the better stan
dard by which the fare should be reg
uiated- and in support of it's sugges-
ton the journal says: Why should
not passengers be shipped by the pound
as well as other freight? Why carry
free lusty 100-pound infant who
claims to be under five, and charge
half fare for a 5O-pound child who
may own to five years and one day?
True. the weight test, if just, should
be applied to all passengers, old and
young. without regard to age; and
why not? What is the justice in
charging two fares for carrying
young copule. weighing in the aggre-
gate. say. $50 paunds, and occupying
considerably less than one seat with
apparent comfort. while collecting only
a single fare from a 350-pounder. who
not only fills a double seat with his
breadth. but probably overfiows with
his legs and bundles into the opposite
seat? Manifestly, there is no justice
in it. Why not as well apply the unit
rule to the transportation of other
animals and charge no more for car
rying a horse than a hen? 1t is the
weight hauled that determines the
cost of transportation to the railways,
not the age or even the height of the
transported. There are laws on the
statute books against discrimination
by common carriers between persons. |
1t Is not gross discrimination to
charge twice as much for carrying one !,
person as for carrying another, per- |
haps weighing half as much, simply on |
account of a difference in age, for
which neither is responsible. Should
we not. therefore, have legislation
forthwith making avordupois rather
portation charges?''
MARK YOUR BAGGAGE.
Mark all your baggage That is
the injunction of every man in any
way connected with the baggage de-
partment of railroads. 1t means little
to the passenger and yet it's fulfilIment
would relieve the baggage man of
much care and trouble and in hundreds
or instances assists materially in ia
cilitatfng matters when it comes to
making close connections. and is often
the case in these days of rai1roading
An agent. who has made the hand
ling of baggage at big union stations
a study, speaking of this subject, said:
why is it so many people do not
have some initial, name or other mark
Oh identification put on their trunks
and valises. Simply because they
have the utmost confidence In the rail-
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