The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-05
Mrs. Barker Enterlains
In Honor of Mrs, Rickey

Mrs. C. f. Hickey, the charming wife of
the assistant superintendent of the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad, is receiv-
ing number of social courtesies in Rome,
where she is the guest of Mrs. Benjamin
Barker. Among the affairs which have
been given in her honor was a tea the past
week. OF this beautiful function the Rome
Georgian says:
Among the most enjoyable of the several
social events marking the week was Mrs.
Benjamin Barker's Wednesday afternoon
reception, given complimentary to her
guest, Mrs. Hickey, who is both lovely
and charming. The rooms We're beautiful
ly decorated with potted plants and cut
flowers, and the prettiness and fragrance
by physical labor, find that cooperation is
needful in their avocations, and organize
clubs and associations for the promotion
of their part in the progress of civillza-
ton. They seek lawfully and honorably to
regulate their relations to each other and
to society by rules that are intended to
educate and elevate their class, and have
accomplished much for the welfare of the
people.
"They have, within these limitations, ac-
cepted the theory of government that gives
to each community the largest liberty
that is consistent with the good of the
whole body of the people The best gov
eminent for small communities and the
safest for the larger aggregations into
states, is what we are fond of calling
local sef-government.'
This is the theory of our wisest state
men, and it is proven by experience. The
care that a small and compact community
takes of Its own affairs in matters of local
interest is greater and wiser than can be
obtained from larger bodies, who are stran-
gers to local wants and conditions.
above every other consideration, the
feeling of the guild or special body of la
borers, like that of the family, or chain,
for each member of the body is a personal
regard where that noblest of all the vir-
ues-charity-always presides like the
angel at the pool of healing waters what
has been done for suffering mankind
through these agencies can only be re-
vealed on the pages of the Lambs book OF
eternal life. In a labor organization, prop
erly conducted, there must be an upward
tendency of every member, so long as there
is one good man or woman connected with
it.
On Firm Foundation
1.-THE scaffold will never fall, or the
foundation crumble, while there is one such
prop beneath 1t. Good men and women
never organize LOT evil purposes, ana Dau
ones dare not openly unite to foster crime,
Solitude and the refusal to enter into So
cial obligations are more to be dreaded
than any open associations for the sake of
gaining power
zone who is ignorant of the purposes of
labor unions would find it difficult to i'm
agine the good that could come from
union of hod carriers
"1lhat vocation is hard enough, II would
seem, to require some alienation If any
can be found, and the union that can add
@ charm to a life so laborious and trying
to mind and body must have something
very good in it,
The Hold Carrier Manhood
"Yet, the hod carrier, mounting the
frail ladders to dizzy heights with his
dead load of mortar, feels that his man.
hood and his peril are adding the cement
that holds a vast pile of strength and
beauty that will stand to the credit of his
craft, while ages shall race by.
HE is not dwarfed in soul or body while
he is in the upper air laying the tribute OF
his toll to cement the capstone of a monu-
ment to George Washington, or in laying
the last round that supports the dome Of
st. Peters.
1.-THE poet who fingers to sing his praises
and lament his faults may pity him and
go off to perish for food; but the hod-car-
rier, strengthened by his labors. will de-
and will live to boast of his opportunity to
perform such honorable labors, until his
head is as white as the capstone of the
great structure. The men of this ancient
and honorable guild of associated hod car
riers and brick masons, 1t will be recalled,
projected the greatest political and and
moral revolution that has occurred in
Christian history.
The Bondage of the Jews
1.-THE revolution that released the Jews
from Egyptian bondage had it's first formal
declaration of independence in their COM
plants They were required to make
bricks without straw, and the brickmakers
and hod-carriers rebelled, and all Israel
was released from bondage This was con-
federated labor. driven together by neces-
sity and oppression, making Its protest
against an abuse of its rights. which rose
into the grandest Of all the political demon
STATIONS in all history. 1t prepared the
way for the Carpenter Of Nazareth, and