El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-02

A short time ago the police of this
city were wrestling with the hobo pro-
blem. The city was filled with d throng
! of idle men who prOfessed to be hunt
: ing work but unable to find it and COM
PEELED by necessity to beg.
During the present prosper
Gus condition of the country
there seems to be absolutely no ex-
cuse for an able bodied man to-. beg and
less excuse for citizen TO supply the
idlers with money. In all parts of the
country mines, railroads. farms, and
factories are complaining that they
cannot procure sufficient laborers. r.
M. Quigley, contractor, of st. Louis,
is thus quoted by ''The New Orleans
Picayune":
Labor is the scarcest thing in
America today. You may not have
thought of it, but such is the case.
There has never been time since 1887
when wOrkmen were so hard to get. I
do not mean skilled labor, either. 1
mean men who can do ordinary labor,
such as is required by contrac-
tors. have just sent to
the papers An advertisement for 200
men to go to Tutweiller, Miss next
Monday. We are shipping so men out of
Chicago for Georgiana, Ala, because
they could not be had in the south.
These men are to do work on the Ala
bama and Florida road. Every con-
tractor in the country is complaining
about the inability to get laborers.
They are not to be had in any section,
Many are already employed. I have
been up and down the Mississippi riv-
err good deal in the last few weeks,
and L know that five thousand men
could right now be placed to work on
| the river levee construction between
here and Memphis.
| The apple is such a common fruit
| that few persons are familiar with its
remarkably efficscious medicinal pro-
perties. Every body ought to know
that the very best thing he can do is to
The apple is excellent brain food, be-
cause it has more phosphoric acid in an
easily digestible shape. than any other
fruit known. 1t excites the action of
the liver. promotes sound aud healthy
sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the
mouth. It also agglutinates the sur
plus acids of the stomach, helps the
kidney secretion and prevents cscul-
Gus growth. viii e it obviates indiges-
ton and is one of the best preventives
of diseases of the throat. Next to lie.
mon and orange, it is also the best an
tidote, says in exchange, for the thirst
and craving of persons addicted to the
alcohol aud opium habit.
1t will interest musicians to learn
that the singing of certain masses has
been forbidden in the Roman Catholic
churches of Cincinnati, because they
too closely resemble operate music, OF
to use the words of one of the leading
priests OF the city. are too STACEY. Here
after, says the Buffalo Express, the
committee on church music of the
diocese will pass upon each piece be
fore 1t Is allowed to be sung. 1t is like
ly that there will be considerable op
position to the stand of the com mittee
but 1t will soon be seen that its posi-
ton is a commendable one. In view o
the great amount of exceedinQly
: beautiful and appropriate church must,
to be had, there is little excuse fol
using the objectionable kind. The &C
ton of the church authorities in Gin
cinnati Is not part of general move
ment throughout the United States.
Jos. W. Speers. manager of the Muir
ray q Mack company, is native o
Memphis, Tennessee. He began hi
theatrical careeer as ticket seller for
summer opera company which was Civ
ing mig htly'perfOrmances at a suburban
park. Theleading,lady of the'troupe wa
was CudTmluR llttlS dCGteSSudIuGu L dt
ii Stone, whose favors all the gild
ed youth of the town were anxious t.
win. Speers married her before the en-,
, of the season. He afterwards travel
ed with his wife and subsequently be
came manager of company of players
A few years ago Patti: Stone died Q
I consumption. Apparently Speers ha
: since married again for when in FL Pa
so he registered at one of the hotel
with his wife.
The Moore brothers, of Chicago, VIII
) went under two years ago owing 81
600, 900 through the collapse OF thei
, bold speculation in Diamond Mate
Z shares, have paid their creditors al
r are on their feet again with more mi
, lions to burn, made in the same gres
game of speculation.