El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-01

to the top. Nearby is a sign that
says Here fell Major So and So" A
Providence man was looking at the
sign the other day, when, between
chews at his tobacco Quid and tugs at
his goatee as he looked up at the top
Of the monument, he suggested: Bet
1t must killed m"
It is also a free privilege to look at
the common of Lexington, where the
first skirmish of the revolution oc-
Cured; likewise at the Concord bridge.
where the second fight took place. but
the street car company seems to have
stood In with the local guides, for it
ran so far from the Concord point of
historical interest that 1t Is necessary
to hire a carriage to go out or run the
risk of manufacturing corn or two.
It is a shady walk, however. The old
graveyard at Concord is also free-for
a wonderful 1t is necessary to take
a carriage to that If you wish to see
where Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne
and Alcott are buried. All have very
pjlais graves and $50 would cover the
cost of any of their tombstones, show
ing that while the New Englanders
talk much of their dead heroes, they
take 1t all out in talk.
One Reasonable Guide.
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a Dane in Lexington, who took me TO
Concord in surry for SO and showed
us all points of interest along the in
tervening six miles and ar Concord for
So a very reasonable charge, and he
told me he had been in Lexington Fl
years and had made enough money to
build himself the three story house In
which he was living, another small
one beside It, and buy himself three
horses and surreys. He has an II year
old son who drives a surrey, too. and
sings his story of the historic points in
better grammar and English than the
naturalized paterna1 end of the tour
list agency. This shows that the guild
ing business is some business And
the guide says that besides making
money, he meets all the very best
people He may some day hove the
privilege of meeting C. E. Kelly, of Ell
Paso, who knows?
Some of the guides above 81 in age
are smooth faced, but the majority are
like the other natives, trimmed up IN
whiskers. There arc enough whis-
kers in the villages around Boston to
west at one cutting Whether It IS
local habit or for economy that they
wear whiskers, I cannot say, but
note that there are very few barber
shops in the villages snd you never see
the advertisement OF Gillette racer
in the region outside of the Massa-
chusetts metropolis
F'lagpoles are as numerous Up here
as whiskers and guides, Every public
house of any importance has one, ev-
cry park has one or two and most
residences have one; whether it is pa
triotism or habit. I can't say. but it
ought to be out of gratitude, for these
people owe more to that old flag than
any others in the country. II 1t hadn't
been for that flag. which led the rev.
soldiers on to their victory.
these people wouldn't have had any
revolutionary points of interest to ex-
hibit and their source of income would
have been largely curtailed.
Cold Coffee and Pies.
You will see cold coffee and pies adj
vertised in the restaurants for break
fast and you will see a sign on
restaurant window that you can get
''carry-out lunches" All soft drinks
are 'tonics." A sign reading "ice
cream and -tonics" means that you
can also get soft drinks, the kind that
are advertised as sure cures for tired
feelings, headaches, etc Some places
have out signs: "Automobile stalls" in
stead OF garages as we ignorant west
erners say. One man suggested that
maybe these places were only for
stalled automobiles
Almost all roads and streets up here
are named for great people-dead peo-
pie, of course-but there seems to have |
been scarcity of names for a few |
streets, SO we find a School street and |
a University Place; a Milk street and |
a Water street: Winter street and a
Spring street. Milk and Water streets |
are very properly close together.
Boston and surrounding cities de- |
serve credit for one thing, and that ia !
that they have had respect enough for |
their dead great or great, dead, as you
choose. not to disturb their remains 1