Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-06
aisbee and Miscellaneous.
STRAnnlIM, HE LINE.

Col Baker has given me job to be paid by private subscription. The International boundary is an imagi. nary line splitting NacO squarely up the back. YuO cant tell exactly where it is and a fellow running away from Mexico or vice-versa, may exert him self attar the danger is over. My du- ties will consist in taking a crayon. tracing out that line in front of the Custanl house as fast as travel oblit. crates 1t. patrol il with one foot on either side and point cut to the be nighted Jenderfoot, the spot where he ceases to be amenable to the admins traitor he loves so well,-to cuss.
 Incidentally I shall belong to both countries while on duty and shall have tu adopt the ways and customs of 1Oth at the same time. / I shall have . @ pay taxes in both countries. shall have a bottle of Gughenhe.mer r in one pocket and a vial of mescal m the other,-mescal is always vile J shall take alternate bites from a slab Of corn bread in my American sand and Q tortilla in my Mexican fiDPeC- l shall wear a diggin' shoe on one foot and Yaqui moccasin on inc other. One side of my Panama will be decorated with the stars and stripes, the other will represent a bug ard ssrenely perched on a pin cushion cactus, leisurely choking the essential gizzard out of a side wind ar 1 will certainly grow cross-eyed trying to drink in the Yolupuous. in tOzicatiag beauty of dainty senorita with one eye and keeping cases on an American school nam with the other. One leg is growing percepibly larger than the other, since in obedience to the habits of the people I have to use it more. In one side of my face there is 2 Kentucky stogy, in the other a fragrant cigarette.
 With one ear I gather in the home " melody of 'Auld Lang Syne," with Ghe other I register the melting notes of Roses abrojos." When not or duty ! five in Naco, Sonora, where nm trying to make a padre politico (father=n-law) of a sturdy old Don 1 have his consent, also the old lady's b;st the girl seems to constitute the subnmated Quintessence of procrasti nation.
 HNC i've Utd1IlS Du It uOts not agree with me. Last night re tired on a plate of minudo and had . night mare seventeen hands high.
 On that side of the line they make yoe pay before you take drink fol rhe reason that their booze is liable 70 Xii you before you can get you money out of your pocket.
 The Mexican kids assert that th' old bull pen is haunted and that or moon light night, low believing car he heard and phantom bulls profuse gy decorated with banderillos can b' seen playing hide and seek all owe the grand stand. You can't get Kid up ao that institution after nigh Tor love or friioles.
 The Cananea train has so manI different classes of passenger accom- snodation I can't remember them all The cheapest class costs 90 cents golt from Naco to Cananea and constitute' a comfortable observation car, if yoV don't mind bugs. As is well known nobody kicks on passenger accor1mo dafi0ns are ample and airy and th' rervice and employees eminently cour Feous and obigins.
 ! a-n threatened with damage sult not for breach of promise. for any sen able daughter of Montezuma would
 . o Glad to have me break away