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El PASO DAILY HEHALD. MONOAY. FEBRUARY II. 1901. , i Neighborhood Notes. in 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 " "" TEXAS. SIX CABLES CUT. About two o'clock last Friday morn ing there was a concentrated attack upon the property of the Southwestern Telephone company at San Antonio by the enemies of the company. It is sup posed that there were at least half a dozen of the miscreants and by agree ment they simultaneously cut six ca bles of the telephone system. Blood hounds were sent for and a determined effort was made to capture the partici pators in the dastardly deed but the tracks were'too old to follow when the dogs were secured. The cables were apparently sawed in twain with hack and keyhole saws. The telephone company has been having a great deal of trouble with vandals, supposedly union men. ever since the strike of emploves in which the union came out second best and it is supposed that this work was done by soma of the employes who lost their jobs on ac count of the strike. DRANK DISSOLVED MATCHES. Laurino Munoz, a young Mexican confined in the Corpus Christ! jail on a charge of murder, committed suicde by dissolving match heads in water and drinking the water. Munoz was convicted of killing his sweetheart at Rio Grande City three years ago and at the last term of the distrct court at Corpus Christl he was sentenced to 99 years n the penitentiary- He awoke the jailor by his screams of agony and when the jailor reached him he was in a comatose state and the fumes of sulphur pervaded the cell. Investi gation revealed the fact that he had soaked a box of matches in a glass of water and drank the solution. He left a note to the jailor saying that he had suffered unjustly and was tired and would leave a note In order that no one would be blamed for his death. The body was sent to his parents, who are wealthy citizens of Rio Grande City. "FAUST" AND FIRE. There was a stampede at the audi torium in Waco during a presentation fof Lewis Morrrison's "Faust." Dur ing the scene in which Mephisto shows Faust the revels of demons, a frame house a half a bloc from the auditor ium caught fire. A strong east wind was blowing and the fire shone so brightly on the auditorium building that the audience thought that it was on fire. There was a wild rush for the door and the performance was stop ped for some time, but luckily no one wa3 hurt and when it was learned that It was not the auditorium that was afire the audience quieted down and the performance continued. EB'TORS WILL MEET IN HOUSTON. Th-- executive committee of the Tex as Press association met in the par lor of the DrisKill hotel ian Austin and fivori thn nlaf e and dates of next meet ing of the association. It will be held in Houston on May 23, 24. and 2a. A committee on program was appoint ed and the forthcoming meeting of the association at Buffelo, N. Y., was inci dentally discussed. Hon. B. F. Baillio, of the Cleburne Review, is the presi dent of the national association and the meeting of the executive committee developed the fact that a large number of his newspaper friends ni Texas are preparing to accompany him to Buf falo. NEW MEXICO. SAW A BRIGHT METEOR. A correspondent from near Aztec to the Index of that place writes the fol lowing interesting description of a meteor which he claims to have seen: "Last Saturday about 6 o'clock, while it was yet light enough to see all objects quite plainly, there appear ed a very brilliant meteor, moving slowly across the southe rn heavens. It was first seen by a party, of which the writer was one, in a direction near ly west by southwest, and appeared to be moving slightly north of due east. It was about thirty-five degrees above the horizon when nearest the zenith, and not until it burst did the attrac tion of the earth seem to affect it in the least, although the bursting was probably due to its entering a denser strata of air. To the naked eye it seemed to be traveling parallel to the earth's surface. Its apparently slow motion can only be explained by its great distance from us. as it very like ly passed over Santa Fe, or farther south. The length of time of its burn ing (nearly one-fourth minute) would Indicate its height to have been be tween fifty and one hundred miles, a height at which the atmosphere is very rare, and, of course, would not burn, out as quickly as nearer the earth's surface." HIS HEAD CUT OFF. At Winslow two men, or rather a man and a boy. as the younger was only about 18 years old, who had beat en their way from Gallup on a train, having arrived about 10 o'clock at night started across the tracks for the business portion of the town. The wind was blowing and the boy pulled his coat up over his ears for protec tion from the sand. The engine that pulled the train on which they came was backing up to the round house and when it was in about four feet of the man and boy the boy steeped into the middle of the track. He was knocked down and fell with his neck across the track. The engine passed over him and cut his head off as smoothly as if it had been severed with a sur geon's knife. The boy had nothing on his person by which he could be iden tified and the man who was with him had not learned his name, but he said the boy told him that he had a brother and sister living in Sonoma county California. The coroner's verdict that the deceased came to his death through his own carelessness. No relatives have been located. BOY TRAIN-JUMPER KILLED. At Albuquerque. Alberto Juarez, a 13-year-old Mexican boy, who with a mi iimim ! i . i . i . . . i number of companions have been in the habit of jumping on trains and rid ing in the yards, was killed while at the sport. He was in the act of climb ing on a car when another bumped against it. He was caught between the bumpers and his head was almost sev ered from his oouy. As is the case in every town a gang of boys make a hab it of riding the trains in the yards of Albuquerque and although cautioned of the danger la which they were plac ing themselves and were threatened with prosecution, they continued the dangerous practice. The employes of the railroad company were exonerat ed from all blame Dy the coroner's jury. NEW READING ROOM. A Winslow correspondent says he is informed that it is the intention of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad company to build a larger and more commodious reading room at that place in the com ing spring. When the building is com pleted, says the correspondent, the company will convert the building which is at present occupied as a.read Ing room, into a hospital. The estab lishment of a railroad hospital at Winslow will save transportation of patients from points west of that place to Albuquerque and will be a conve nience to those who may be taken sick or meet with an accident on the third division of the road. ARIZONA. GILA MONSTERS FOR ZOO. A. J. Chaney, of the Zoo garden at Cincinnati, came to Arizona to get some Gila monsters for the 'zoo. He secured a number of them in the vi cinity of Phoenix and in northern So nora. Mexico. "I want to show the people of Ohio," said Mr. Chaney. "that a Gila monster Is a real thing not a myth as many of them believe and then will subject the reptile to scien tific examination to ascertain the char acter and virulency of the poison it is said to secrete. If the reported dead llness of a Gila monster's teeth and breath is a dream, or has been exag gerated we want to know it. I have no doubt myself that tne monster is poisonous. It enjoys the distinction of being the only poisonous lizzard in North America. If that is true natural science, which has thus far only delved into the surface of the southwest's des ert mysteries, would like to be fully satisfied of it. I know, though, that there has been more or less doubt re garding the venom of a Gila monster and doubtless many tales told of their jumping from ambush at pedestrians, and withering human forms by merely wafting their breath along the breeze are made of whole cloth." ELUDED THE OFFICERS. William L. Curtis, who is believed to be the man who held up and robbed the stage that runs to Briggs and a short time after robbed a store at Co lumbia in Yavapai county, was located in Phoenix one day last week and an attempt to capture him was made but he eluded the officers and is again at large. The officers have been con vinced of the identity of the robber for some time and have been keeping a sharp lookout for him He was located in Phoenix by his having secured a license to marry and an officer from Prescott who was looking over the rec ords at Phoenix saw his name and no tified other officers of Prescott. Three officers went to the house of the wo man he was to marry and surrounded it. They knocked on the door and the man they wanted opened the door, but they did not recognize him and asked for the woman. She came out and the man walked away and made good his escape before they knew he was Cur tis. PUT HIM TO SLEEP. There is a woman named Woodward lecturing in Tucson and according to the Star she Is affording fun galore for those who go to hear her. She placed a young man in a hypnotic sleep and carried him to a store where she placed him in a show window. He was left there and he slept soundly all that night and the next day when he was taken back to the lecture hall and awakened, after twenty-four hours solid sleep. MEXICO. PARDON FOR NEW ORLEANS MAN A Mexico City dispatch to the Dallas News, says: A petition will be pre sented to President Diaz for the pardon of Edward Adams of New Orleans, who in 1892 killed Carlo Sarquet. a waiter in the National Opera House restau rant. President Diaz, at the request of the American legation and in view of the extenuating circumstances com muted his sentence to twenty years. The law provides that the president may grant a pardon at the expiration of half the term on proof of goo con duct. For the weakness and prostration following grippe there is nothing sr prompt and effective as One Minute Cough Cure. This preparation is high ly endorsed as an unfailing remedy lor all throat and lung troubles and its early use prevents consumption. It was made to cure quickly. Fred Schaefer, druggist. If you are going to California tb.Ii winter, or expect to yisit Arirna or Northern New Mexico, It will pay yon to make the trip via Trinidad Gateway using the unequalled service of "The Denver Road." in connection with the Santa Fe through Berrtee to the coast Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold on a positive guarantee. Cures heart burn, rafeing of the food, distress after eating, or any form of dyspepsia. One little tablet gives immediate relief. 25 and 50 cents. M. A. Webb, druggist Million? of people are familiar with DeWitt's Littl Eearly Risers and those who use them find them to be famous little pills. Never gripe. Fred Schae fer, druggist. Will We? WATCH US 1902. LANq TAM'S COURTSHIP. Although it Is many years since Lang Tarn's courtship, it Is still spoken of in the Shaws. I myself have heard the sto ry told at more than one ingle within the month, and the last recital interested me as much as the first. In the main I think Lang Tain was a philosopher. What has made his oue amour a part of the unwritten history of the village was not that courtships were senrce, that young men were few or young women distant. Time and manner were what did it, but as to the former the Shaws were notorious. It was always slow in arriving at its own mind; but. having once reached it, there was no turning back. This was cardinal, and the reputation of the Shaws rested upon it. The subject made little difference, and if much depended upon the issue the more deliberate it was. It looked at it from all sides and then tried to reckon with the future. The Shaws browsed over every thought it got and then chewed the cud at leisure. But it even carried this into its love af fairs. The young men were exasperating, nd had the young women known any thing better very few marriages would have taken place in the Shaws. The lat ter were accounted douce, a trait that was altogether in their favor, but it was caused by nothing more or less than their training in patience, both by precept and example the first in their childhood and the second when they were old enough to observe for themselves. A young man of the Shaws uncon sciously followed the leading of his heart, but only eo far. He took love and fact, weighed the one against the other and be came reflective. A struggle usually en sued, and love sometimes won, sometimes other considerations, in which latter case he would retire from the field with the admonition to the young woman that love was terribly deceiving and dangerous to meddle with. The two would part in si lence, and the Shaws would exonerate the young man. No one ever knew how Lang Tarn be gan his courtship of Peggie Wilkie. but the first real symptoms of his love, as far as the Shaws has any record, was the Sabbath morning he gave Peggie a pep permint when they met at the kirk gate. Peter Pirn stood by and saw them. Lang Tarn, he afterward said, was like one transfigured. He seemed to grow in height and strode as no one had ever seen him do before, even to leaving reggie a step or two behind in that moment of his tense emotion. He stumbled when he reached the kirk steps, which was inter preted as a certain sign that his happi ness blinded him. Peter said they would make a match of it some time, and the Shaws settled down to see what would come of it. It was soon made manifest that Lang Tim and I'eggie were thick in love. At kirk and market they were seen together. on the brae in the evenings and down by the Mains Loan. Kirstic Powrie, who regarded life only from its prosy side, de clared that "they carried on like perfect fules." The Shaws withheld its judgment. though they recognized the seriousness of the situation. True love had its mien, the heart was never to be permitted to get the better of the mind, but Lang Tarn and Peggie were beyond all reason. It was as if they were the only two in the Shaws and made no disguise of it. Their love ripened too early. The Shaws shook its head, but waited. What it feared was what happened. Lang Tarn and Peggie were engaged before the end of two months. The Shaws frowned and said it was a scandal. Mary Wilkie mildly re monstrated with her daughter. Jeames Ford took his son to task for his perver sity and prayed that a right mind might be vouchsafed him. , Peter Pirn declared years afterward that Jeames prayer was the most effec tual he ever delivered, and. on the whole, he thought that he might have asked for less. It was nearly four years since the engagement, and Lang Tarn and Peggie were still unmarried. Had the probation ary courtship lasted that time nothing would have been thought of it. The Shaws was seized with another fear and felt that its reputation was in jeopardy. Lang Tarn had long before returned to his normal mind, the only difference not ed being an absent manner whether with Peggie or alone. According to a report brought to the village by young Willie Purdie, who had watched them one even ing under covert for two hours on the edge of the Caithly woods, about the only thing Lang Tarn said in answer was: "Aye, umpha, just so aye." And Peg gie's answer was: "It is terrible hoo the time gaes by." One or two believed that Lang Tarn was carefully considering the matter, while others feared that his long reflec tions were induced by a desire to with draw and that he was simply planning the safest means to do it. Jeames was consulted as to the behavior of his son at table, and when he told Peter that he was "just a kinda aff his meat" Peter, who was an oracle on the subject, pro nounced it "naething ava." Seven months later, when Jeames was again asked for the signs, be announced hopefully: "Wee!, the laddie's beginnin to fike, fike. wi' only half o' her parrich gane." "Ye tell me sae?" Peter said, with the light of import in his eye. "Then, Bal, things is gettin serious. Keep a gude lookoot, Jeames, an let's ken again hoo he behaves." A month later Jeames was striding down the brae toward the wynd when he almost ran into Peter and William Duf fy. "He's gettin on fine," Jeames said, re assured. "This vera mornin he cud just ta" a spunefu', an it was na suner in than it was oot again. Ou, aye, he's gettin on fine." Peter and William exchanged glances and nodded simultaneously. There was no fear of Lang Tarn now. He would soon marry Peggie. Some time after, when Peggie was Mrs. Thomas Ford, Lang Tarn explained In a moment of confidence to the ques tioning stare of Peter: "It was sne sweet tae think that Peg gie was mine that I just roucd an roued it like a sweet morsel under my tongue until I cudna keep the lassie waitin ony langer, but the mair'I tbocht o' the time when we wad get married it was maist o cud get thro' wi. I lived in a kinda heaven for weeks, an my heart kept loup, loupin until I really thocht it wad stick I' my mooth. I, aye, thocht muckle o' Peggie, but no' I ken there's no' the mar row o her iu a' the Shaws." Exchange. Too Far Behind. Milly I understand that Miss Elderly is getting to be very fast. Willy Yes, but she'll never make up the time she has lost. Smart Set. MISCELLANEOUS. Gasoline Engines We sell a Gaeoiloe Engine that baa the least cumber of working part ttc. e&aleat started ait) operated of auy In the market. Sailed for HOISTING, PUMP ING or driving acy kind of MACHINERY. 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The meeting at the First Baptist church is fast taking on the spirit of a true revival. It looked yesterday morn ing as if the rain and mud won 11 cut off the audience altogether. But be fore the evangelist took his text, the house was well nigh filled up. The morning theme was the 'Two fold gift of power." For forty-five minutes the speaker held the closest attention of his audience showing by the scriptures and apt illustrations, that it is one thing to receive the spirit for sonship or entrance into the family of God. and another to be filled with the spirit for service. AH receive the spirit In regeneration, whereby they are sealed as God's own. but many go on in re ligious life practically destitute of pow er to live and serve as God intends. He cited instances in the fourth chapter of Luke, showing that Jesus was "Full of the Spirit." "Id by the Spirit. "In the power of the Spirit," and "Annoint ed by the Spirit." He then appealed to the audience In the language of Paul to the church in Ephesus. "Be not drunken with wine but be filled with the Spirit." Just as a man intox icated with wine yields himself to its promptings, so we should be so filled with the Spirit as to be wholly led by and dominated by. "In the power of the Spirit" every day of our life. Mrs. Kelly sang "Saved by Grace." during which nearly the whole of the audience came to the front or kneeled at the pews, and there was a powerful suppli cation led by a leader of the Salvation Army, Deacon Eli Nations and others, for the power of the Holy Spirit, to come upon the ministers and the church for service during this series of meetings especially. There was a full house in the even ing. At the close of the sermon on the subject of "The Prodigal Son's Father" in which the speaker sought to show the love of God to sinful men, more than a dozen rose for prayer; a half dozen kneeled at the inquiry pew. four of whom made professions of faith. The choir did some splendid sing ing, under the direction of Mr. Brew er. Mr. Brewer sang the beautiful solo entitled "Tbe Homeland." Pastor Mil lican says. "Seldom in the experience of the evangelist or the pastor has a meeting started out with deeper Inter est or better results. The facts are that for several months there has been a mighty calling on God on the part of many in the church, and the interest manifest in the evening services. Young people's meetings and after ser vices since the middle of November, showed clearly that the church was on the eve of a healthy and possibly a powerful revival. The services of this last week seem to confirm this feeling and great results are looked for." Services 3 and 7:30 p. b. every day. 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