El Paso Daily Herald. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 20TH YEAR, No. 147, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 23, 1900 Page: 10 of 12
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l . pas;. m-LY HERALD SATU1 . JUNE 24 -00
10
THE FUN IN BADNESS.
IT IS POOR COMPENSATION FOR A
CAREER OF CRIME.
The Famous I.oclnrer Q. Hope Jones
Ci(m Some Noted Canes In History
to I'rore His Contention That Coss-
fdnrna Uotsn't I'ay.
Copyright 11)00 by C. B. Lewis.
Fillow Citizens of Oshkosh Permit
lue to say that I am protul and grateful
for this largo attendance this evening.
Although the admission is free and
rverybody came expecting a chromo
as a free gift I am grateful all the
fame. Kefore beginning my lectures it
Is usual for me to take up a collection
and I will now proceed with the task.
Tin's collection is not necessarily an
evidence of your good faith iu any-
thing particular but is intended to
pay my back rent and laundry bills
and assist me to reach Heaver Dam.
It doesn't matter to the undersigned
nrhether you give cheerfully or grudg-
XERO THE WHITEWASHES.
isgly so long as you give. A liberal
spirit on your part will still further en-
courage me but if there is one single
Laockkneed slab sided son of a father
in this audience who conscientiously
Xeels that I ought to be sat down on
then let him hang on to his nickel. The
collection is finished and the proceeds
counted. The 250 enlightened and cul-
tivated people before me have chipped
in about half a cent apiece and my
labors can be continued in other fields.
My dear people I want to say a few
words to you this evening about the
badness of human nature. It is easy
to be bad. There is also a good deal
f fun in it. It is the bad man who has
a fur lined overcoat in winter a duck
suit in summer and champagne and
Ice cream in the intervals. As I turn
the stereopticon light on the canvas
yon behold the picture of Nero. Up
to the age of 24 he was a good man.
While other young men were off to the
circus or races he was at home helping
his mother cut carpet rags or white-
wash the cellar. He retired to his
couch at 8 o'clock at night instead of
whooping things up at the Tivoli. He
rose with the lark and he rose without
a head on him no swearing no smok-
ing no drinking just goodness. One
day after young Xero had been saw-
ing a cord of hickory wood in two he
sat down to rest his back and figure a
bit. The result was that he decided
to make a change. He had come to the
conclusion that goodness didn't pay.
That's where he made a mistake
weighing a ton as all the world knows.
History has told you his career. He
walked right into the house as a first
move and kicked over the churn and
upset the flour barrel and then de-
manded a quarter of his astonished
mother and went off on a spree. From
that day on he was a cuss on wheels.
He painted the old town red every
night in the week and got up next
i day to paint her blue. His mother died
of a broken heart and he sold her flat-
irons and quilt frames to bet on a
chariot race. His father was found
dead with tears in his eyes and young
Xero sold off the chickens and pigs and
the old homestead to back a gladiator.
There was no holding him down except
when the Roman constables sat on
him. He became a sort of holy terror
to the whole Roman empire and when
he finally died there was such general
satisfaction that the factory whistles
tooted and the wages of the hired girls
were advanced a dollar a month.
During his career" Nero swam In
champagne reveled in quail on toast
and wore the best toga in the empire.
He had money in every pocket admir-
ers on every corner and high rolled to
beat the band. And yet what did it all
amount to? He died poor and disgrac-
ed and history hasn't got through
abusing him yet. He had traded off
an orange grove for a cabbage patch.
I say to you all and I say to that
squint eyed lantern jawed man in the
third row in particular that whoever
figures that badness is a good invest-
ment is going to get left. It is full of
CAPTAIN KIDD.
snampagne and race horses and going
s-fishing; but alas it is also full of
Wighted souls.
Let me herewith present you the
picture of Captain Kidd the pirate.
He was a man who had honor and
fame and the respect of the world
within his reach. He had only to keep
on being good to arrive at that point
where men would doff their hats to
him and women fall over each other to
Ket a view of the back of his neck.
Then he suddenly changed. He flung
his goodness to the winds and went in
to be a screaming old pirate. He was
a hummer from Hummersville. He
I knocked seven bells out of everything
he came across and bad money to
I bury on every island he came across.
lie thought he was having a high old
time and that it would last to his
eighty-fifth year and that he would
then give .$100 to an orphan asylum
and die in his bed. All of you know
how he ended. He was still prancing
and cavorting and high rolling when
the law seized him nml he was hung
by the neck. He figured it all out be-
fore he went his way and he came to
the conclusion that he hadn't been in
it. He wrote it down on his shirt col-
la i- in red ink that his having had a
high old time was all a mistake and
that the farmer who had stuck to corn
and potatoes was ahead of the pirate
business. I see before me a bald-
headod broad backed man who is evi-
I dently itching to become a pirate bold.
I I call on him to pause ere it is too late
Let us take a still more historical
case. Heboid the picture of Judas Is-
cariot. It is a sketch made of him
while he was a young man and you
t-ee that he holds the plow behind an
ui. Judas was a tiller of the soil for
many years lie was naturally good
and daily contact with nature added to
his goodness. He came to be known
far and wide as a man who always
shoveled the snow off his sidewalk
clear up to the line and if he had a
lawsuit about a line fence he didn't
drag in the vhole country. When he
went up to Jerusalem he was honored
and respected of all men and his daily
life was without a blot. No one has
tried to explain why Judas suddenly
made up his mind to change and give
things away. He was rewarded with
24 pieces of silver but he had no note
coming due and was not hard up for
cash. But change he did and he no
doubt expected to have high old times
and lead the band. His career as you
all know was brief and rocky. Things
didn't turn out as he hoped for. He
was shunned of men dodged of dogs
and died without having enjoyed him-
self for a day. I am now looking at a
man in this audience who closely re-
sembles Judas Iscariot and who may
be planning to sell out and cut loose.
If so let my words sink deep into his
heart when I say that the result of
JUDAS AT THE PLOW.
badness is inevitable. It may prosper
for a short time but the bad man is
! busted and laid low when his pride is
greatest. It may not pay above 3 per
cent to be good but with a clear con-
t science a good crop of potatoes and a
sure interest on your money you can
fall asleep on the cellar stairs or the
kitchen roof and know that all will be
j well with you when the cows come
. home to be milked. M. Quad.
FREAKS OF THE MIND.
Some of the Strange Powers It Often
Has Over the Will.
Did you ever think how often you eat
j i i f . ; i
anu never suck your iur& iu juui vje ;
You always stick your fork in your
mouth. If you ate In the dark it
would be the same thing. You would
never put out your eye by putting your
j fork iu it. Why? Because your sub-
conscious mind is doing its automatic
J duty and knows very well that you eat
with your mouth and not with your
! eye-
Many other actions are automatic.
For instance 20 people have gathered
on a street corner to board a passing
car. The very fact that they are there
means that the car will stop. The first
man has already signaled the motor-
man. So do the other 10. And the
; same thing happens if ten people
gatner to descend m an elevator xne
; first comer rings the bell. So do the
' other nine merely automatically. The
sign says "Ring" so each man takes
this sign to himself and rings.
I A shoemaker once had a shop in the
basement of a large building down
town. The shoemaker worked with
his back to the door. Every time the
door opened the shoemaker turned his
head to the left to see who entered.
For ten years the shoemaker worked
and turned his head almost every hour
in the day. Before many years had
passed the shoemaker's head turned
automatically and now that man has
spent all the money he has ever made
trying to be cured of this automatic
habit. But his head still jerks so that
he looks over his left shoulder con-
stantly. New York Herald.
Hla Tonching Appeal.
"Can't I teach you to love me. Miss
Genevieve?" pleadingly asked the
young man.
"I fear not Mr. Spoonamore" she
answered.
"Then won't you please teach me
how to teach you to love me?" he In-
sisted eagerly.
This appealed to the essentially mas-
culine or pedagogic element more or
less latent in every woman and she
promised to take it under considera-
tion. Chicago Tribune.
j Moral of the Garden.
Nothing teaches patience like a gar-
den. You may go round and watch the
opening bud from day to day but it
takes its own time and you cannot
urge it on faster than it will. If forced
it is only torn to pieces. All the best
results of a garden like those of life
are slowly but regularly progressive.
Weekly Bouquet.
ACCIDENTS FROM GAS.
Carelessness and Icnoranee In Cook-
ing KiKlitints and Hentiiiur.
Numerous accidents occur annually
in the use of gas for lighting cooking
or heating through either carelessness
or ignorance says the New York News.
The largest number of accidents prob-
ably occur from ignorant persons
either blowing out the gas or turning
it off and subsequently turning the
cock on sufficiently for the gas to es-
cape unnoticed.
Many other accidents are the result
of the bad practice of turning down a
gas flame particularly in a bedroom.
This is always ill advised for such a
turned down flame may be either
blown out by a draft of air from an
open window or else it may be ex-
tinguished by a sudden variation or
reduction in the pressure. When this
happens in a small bedroom without
ventilation there is great danger of
asphyxiation particularly so if water
gas is used. Much can be done to avert
this danger by a proper arrangement
of the gas piping in houses.
Another dangerous custom is to shut
off the gas at the main service or at
the gas meter during the night and nu-
merous accidents some of them fatal
have resulted from it. It is almost
equally bad to turn off the gas at the
meter during the day.
Notwithstanding the universal intro-
duction of gas lighting there are still
many persons who would be benefited
by receiving plain instructions on the
use of gas in the household. Gas com-
panies would benefit themselves and
the public by paying more attention to
this matter. Among available statis-
tics may be found numerous incidents
of death or accidents due to faulty
management of gas. Among the more
remote causes the writer finds the fol-
lowing mentioned: In one of the two
adjoining rooms supplied with gas
from one so called prepayment gas
meter a man retired for the night when
the gas supply from the meter was ex-
hausted but forgot to close his gas
! burner. The occupant of the adjoining
room came home late at night dropped
a coin In the slot of the gas meter and
got a fresh supply of gas which mean
while also escaped in the adjoining
room killing the occupant.
Escape of gas and explosions have
also happened in the use of gas cook-
ing stoves where boiling water run-
ning over the vessel extinguished the
flame. It has already been mentioned
that the so called independent gas con-
nections with two keys may lead to ac-
cidents by the wrong one being turned
by mistake. 'Where the gas in the cel-
lar freezes in winter time it is danger-
ous to attempt to thaw out the gas
meter or service with a flame. A gas
meter should never be examined with
a burning light nor should any tools'
be used near a gas meter known to be
leaky on account of the danger of fly-
ing sparks.
Keeplne Cool by Machinery.
A decided summer season novelty
says the Philadelphia Record is th
auto-rotary hand fan the power for
turning the fan being supplied by
means of a rack and pinion arrange-
ment which gives this fan the advan-
tage that it can be carried around and
Is not dependent upon any outside
source of power supply. One pressure
of the hand rotates the blades for sever-
POCKET POWER FAN.
al minutes the speed reaching a maxi-
mum of 2800 revolutions per minute.
The guards as well as the blades may
be folded up and the fan may then be
carried in the pocket. It weighs less
than five ounces and is finished in
heavy nickel plate. Its operation as
shown in the illustration as stated is
on the rack and pinion principle the
reciprocating motion being obtained by
means of tongs which are held in the
hand.
Machine For Basket Making
Just before he died the noted Mer-
genthaler completed a wonderful ma-
chine for making the cheap baskets
such as grapes are commonly packed
j in. Where an expert operator former-
I Iy produced 300 grape baskets daily by
hand the same operator with the ma-
chine with greater ease can now pro-
Juce 4000 baskets daily and these
i machine made baskets are said to be
superior in every way to the hand-
made article. He has utilized several
of the principles of his linotype ma-
chine. Popular Science.
Electrical Ilomenhlpi.
An electrical horsewhip described in
a recent number of Electricity gives
the animal a shock instead of a cut.
A small battery is imbedded in the
celluloid handle and this is controlled
by a push button.
DOROTHY'S FAIRIES.
A Little Guess Story That Any Bright
Girl or Boy Slay Unravel.
Mamma had been telling Dorothy a
pretty story about a friendly fairy who
always came just at the right moment
to help a little girl in her work or play.
Dorothy thought about the story very
hard for a few minutes and then she
looked up into mamma's face and said:
"I wish I had a little fairy like that
mamma to help me."
"All little girls have fairies to help
them Dolly."
"Is it another story mamma? Tell
me about it!" for mamma's stories
were the nicest stories in the world.
"But these fairies are truly ones Dor-
othy!" "Truly mamma?"
"Truly Dorothy. Jump up here and
I'll tell you all about it."
So Dorothy jumped tip Into mamma's
lap again for she had jumped down
when she thought the story was ended
and mamma gave her a kiss and a
"bear's hug" and began:
"Each little girl has ten real fairies
to help her Dorothy and she can make
them go to work whenever she likes."
Dolly's eyes opened very wide indeed
and she said:
"Have I got ten fairies too mam-
ma?" "Oh yes Dolly you have got ten
fairies too just the same as other lit-
tle girls. Your ten little fairies are
very busy useful little servants and
they love nothing better than to work
for you all day long. The more they
work the better work they can do for
they become quicker and more expert.
That means they learn how to work
better. Do you understand Dorothy?"
Dorothy nodded.
"Oh yes; I know. Just like when I
pick up all the scraps and papers. I
know better how to do it next time."
"Yes and just so. If you make your
little fairy servants work they will
serve you better each time. So you
ought to keep them busy all day long.
Don't you think so Dorothy?"
"I just wish I knew where they
lived mamma" said Dolly wistfully.
"They live with you in this house
Dolly girl" replied mamma smiling at
Dolly's puzzled look.
"Dear me!" Dolly exclaimed with a
long breath.
"They are not so very big Dolly'
went on this funny mamma squeezing
Dolly's plump little hands. "Two of
them are about two inches long and
the rest not more than three."
"How much Is three inches mam-
ma?" So mamma got out her pretty tape
measure with the bird on the cover
and measured one of Dolly's fingers
and showed her just how long three
inches was.
"Oh I do wish I knew where they
were mamma!"
"Such dear busy faithful little serv-
ants they can be Dolly" mamma went
on her eyes twinkling fast with the
little shiny sparkles in them that Dol-
ly loved.
"Do do tell mamma!"
"And your fairies have learned how
to do such nice things Dolly. They
can pick up the baby's toys or bring
papa's paper or carry grandma her
knitting" and mamma laughed ever so
hard.
"Oh I know mamma; I know! I've
found out!" cried Dolly. "I know now
who my ten fairies are!"
And since every little girl has ten
fairies just like them who knows what
Dorothy's ten little fairy servants
were ?
Door Opened by Magic.
The priests of ancient Egypt had a
very simple method of imposing upon
the credulity of the people. They were
well acquainted with many laws of
physics and did not hesitate to employ
them to mystify the people. When
Hero the Greek who invented the first
6lot machine was writing his book on
natural laws he Included a drawing of
the temple doors which were opened
as if by magic by the Egyptian priests.
The altar stood outside of the temple
Itself and it was by utilizing this altar
that the doors of the temple opened as
if by the Invisible touch of the god
Apis and the faithful were invited in-
to the holy temple to complete their
HERO'S DIAGRAM.
worship. How this was done is easy
to see from Hero's diagram. Beneath
the altar was the whole machinery.
When the fire was lighted on the al-
tar it warmed the air in the tube run-
ning down to the vessel II almost full
of water. The expansion of the heated
air forced the water into the curved
tube KLM transferring some of it to
the vessel X. This vessel was sus-
pended by a chain and as it filled with
water the weight pulled on the chain
which was wrapped around pivots that
moved the doors open.
When the sacrifice was all over and
the fire was quenched on the altar the
air inside of it cooled the water poured
back Into the vessel II emptying X
and the weight seen at the extreme
right hand of the drawing pulled the
pivots around so as to close the doors.
Of course none but the priests knew
anything about this mechanism.
Through Train Service
BETWEEN
EL PASO and CAPITAN
El faso & Northeastern Railway Co.
AND
lamogordo k Sacramento M'nt'n Ry. Co.
WHITE OAKS ROUTE
TIMETABLE NO. 5.
Mountain Time
Train Leaves EJ Paso 10:30 a m.
Arrives AUroogordo 2:30 p. re.
Ai rives Oapltao 8:30 p. n.
Train Leaves Capltan 8:45 a. m.
Arrives Alamog-ordo 2:00 p.m.
Arrives El Paso 7:00 p. re.
(Dally Except Sunday)
Trains run via Jarllla the great gold ant
crpper camp on Tuesdays and Fridays.
1 rains leave Alamogordo for Toboggan. 01
the summit of the Sacrarcentos twice a day
Stage Connections.
At Tularosa For Mescalero Indian Ageo
ay and Ban Andreas mining region.
At Carrizosa For White Oaks Jlcarllla
ialllnas and surrounding country.
At Walnut For NogaL
At Oapltan For Ft. Stanton Sanitarium
irttv I.lncnin. Richardson. Kuldoso anC
Bonlto country.
At Toboggan For Pine 8prlngs Elk Weed
Oouor Penasco. Penasoo and the entire Sac
ramento Mountain region.
Kuf Information of any kind regarding the
railroads or the country adjacent thereto
oall on or write to
A. S. GREIQ
Qen'lSupt& Traffic Mgr. Alamogordo N. M
H. ALEXANDER
Ass't Gen'l F. St P Agt.. Alamogordo. N. M
The Pecos Valley
& Northeastern
A New Road. Opening a New Country
New Towns! New Opportunities!
Last year 120000 head ol cattle passed
over this new thoroughfare. This
year the number will reach 200000
head.
Stations from Roswell east are within
thirty to thirty-five hours of Kansas
feed lots and no seed of unloading
stock In transit.
Shipping stations on tueline in perfect
order. Portalls Bovina Hereford
and Canon City can accommodate
with feed and water 5000 to 10000
head of cattle each.
Bona-flde settlers wanted. Every effort
will be made by the Railway to
assist them.
An abundance cf water! Rich soil'
Cheap lands! Quiok transportation
and fair honest rates.
For particulars as to the various open-
ings in the Pecos Valley and its
neighborhood address
D. H. NICHOLS Gen. Manager oi
E. W. MAETIXDELL G. F. & P. A..
Roewell N. M.
Every One Eats
AT THE
SILVER KING CAFE
Most popular lunch counter In the
city. Anything you want: the best of
food and the beat of service.
"The best OhlU Con Oarne in the city
every night at 8 o'clock."
Open Day and Night..
STEIN & UHLIG Props.
209 San Antonio St - - EL PASO
Link Saloon and
Short OrderRestanrant
Cool Letup's Beerf Always ion
Tap.
Oysters Fish and Game Id
Season.
Wine Rooms Attached.
Service firat-clasa.
SIS El Paso Si
Atlanta & New Orleans
Short Line.
Atlanta & West Point
RAILROAD COMPANY.
AND
SlWesteniRy.ofAla.
THE SHORT LINE BETWEEN
ATLANTA AND NEW ORLEANS.
Operate Magnificent Veatibuled Trains ba
tween Atlanta and Montgomery Mobil
and New Orleans.at which latter point
cloae and direct connection!
are made for
vll Texas Mexico and California Point
In Addition to thlg Excellent Throujrh
Train and Car Service
seuallroads offer moat favorable acconu
Odatlons and Inducements to their patront
coresident along their line. Any ont
ntemplatlng a change of home can fine
no location more attractive nor more con
luclve to prosperity than Is to be found o
the line of these roads.)
"THE HEART OP THE SOUTH"
beautifully Illustrated book giving detail
ed Information as to the Inducements anC
attractions along these lines can be hac
upon application to the undersigned wh.
will take plealure In giving ail desired in
formation.
B.F. WYLY. Jr. R. E. LTJTZ.
en. pass. Ticket Agt. Traffic Mgi
ATLANTA OA. MONTGOMDBY. ALl
tEORQB O. BMITH. Pres. St Gen. Manage
Atiuitta Ga.
ICE
IN THE
Coffee Pot
every morning July and August.
That's what Texans may enjoy
while camping during' the Summer
in the mountains adjacent to the
TEXAS -COLORADO
CHAUTAUQUA
The session opens at
BOULDER COLO. Sunday July I
Closes August 15-
Four days every week devoted to
Etudy and instruction. Two days
utilized for every kind of pleasure.
Mountain excursions accompanied
by out door lectures. Fishing na-
tive trout full of gaminess. Ideal
sport and health for young men.
Then too each will have as asso-
ciates the intellectual young
womanhood of the Continent.
No Other Combination
of pleasure intellectual growth
ard healthful association equal to
that provided at the Chautauqua
and adjacent resorts.
Send name and address for free copies of the
IJluetrated Chautauqua Journal.
A. A. GLISSON G. A. P. D. or
W. T. STERLEY A. G. P. A.
'The Denver Road" Ft. Worth Tex.
For the
NorthEast;
Via
MEMPHIS OR ST. LOUIS
la Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars.
This is the Short and Quick Line
And
Hours are Saved
By Purchasing Tour Tickets via this Route.
For further Information apply to Ticket
Agents of Connecting Lines or to
J. C. Lewis Traveling Pass'r Ageit
Austin Tex.
fl. C. T0WXSE5D G. P. and T. 1. ST. L9E18
R. R. Tickets
AT CUT RATES
Ticket Brokers Jewelers and
Money Loaners.
Mexican Money Bought and Scld
Brock and O'Connor.
126 EL PASO STREET.
DR. F. T. SAM
SANITARIUM
Chinese Teas
Herbs and his
Vegetable
Compound
cured over 50
diseases In tfcla
city
No minerals used.
The secret of bis
success is: He cores
the people.
Medicine mailed
to any addresp.
Office:
311 St. LoulaSt.
2? H?5S!S555Sa
ULU ... X
TRAVELERS I
always ose the luxurious Service of the
j Queen & Crescent Route
the Short Line to the EAST AND
; - norm.
i THROUGH SLEEPERS .
Shreveport to Chattanooga. ;
PULLMAN BUFFET SLEEPERS
: New Orleans to New York
Cincinnati and St. Louis.
T. M. HUNT. GEO. H SMITH.
M. AttT.. GCN't AM ST..
ALIAS. TeK. NFW ORLEANS LA.
SIERRA MADRE LINE
(R. O. S. M. & P. Ry )
EI Paso Tex. to Casas GrandesCbia.Mex
Distance 151 Miles
Opens to capitalists and prospector
the most resourceful and inviting
section of Mexico.
Convenient to American and Mexican
markets.
LEADING INDUSTRIES: Mining
Lumberlnii Stock Raising farm-
ing and Fruit Growing
The policy of the Sierra Mad re Line is
to encourage and foster in every
consistent manner all legitimate
Industries in its territory calcu-
lated to promote thejwelf are of the
country.
Correspondence solicited.
J. T. 1-OOAN Gen. Traffic Agt..
El Faso Texas
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