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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
wanted: A Bureau of Information.''

Under above caption Mr.. Paul J.
| Mas, who conducts the labor depart
ment of the Chicago TimesHerald
publishes the following incisive and
pertinent article that must, 1 think
commend itself to all fair men who
read it. He says:
Although the American labor move
ment has long ago grown out of it's
swaddling clothes and has grown to be
bi and healthy, is recognized as fac
tor in every walk of life, and is here
to stay, doing good within it's sphere
wherever it can, there is still in the
movement too much that savors of
child's play. 1 refer to the proneness
of labor bodies, great and small, to
numerically score and condemn pub
lie men and public officials without an
investigation or hearing for some real
or fancied injury or wrong done or in
tended to the laboring man or his
cause The labor movement in this
country has arrived at that stage
where it is absolutely necessary and
essential that either the American
Federation of Labor or the central la
Dor bodies in the large cities should es-
tablish a bureau, having for it's object
the collection and dissemination of in
formation relating to the acts or
stands taken by men and women in
public life for or against labor, wheth-
er the labor is organized or not This
information could be gathered very
easily and with little or no expense,
and many labor union could be saw
ed from the humiliation of having con-
demned or judged a person too harsh
ly and too severely. Almost every
day we read accounts of this or that
organization in all parts Of the country
having adopted resolutions which
placed stigma on some public person
Such acts as these usually occur when
some member or clique in an organiza-
ton has failed to impress some public
man or public official with their
greatness" and in their eagerness to
sacrifice their valuable time and tall
ents" have failed of obtaining politi-
cal preferment; again, it occurs when
these persons decide to remove some
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
When I am Dead.

When I am Dead.
I do not want a gaping crowd
To come with lamentations loud,
When life has fled;
Nor uld I have my words or ways
Rehe = perhaps, mid tardy praise.
7hen 1 am dead.
I do not want strange, curious eyes
To scan my face when still it lies
In silence dread;
Nor do want them If they would,
To tell my deeds were ill or good,
When I am dead.
I only want the very few
Who stood through good and evil, too,
True friendships test;
Just they who sought to find the good.
And then, as only true friends could,
Forgive the rest.
They who, with sympathetic heart,
Sought hope and comfort to impart,
When there was life;
Not keeping all the tears and signs
Till weary, worn-out nature dies,
And ends the strife.
I'd have them come. the friendly few"
And drop. perhaps, a tear or two,
By kindness led;
Not many tears I'd have them shed,
Nor do 1 want much sung or said,
When 1 am dead.
To have them each come in alone,
And call me in the old, sweet tone,
Would suit me best;
And then, without a sob or moan,
Go softly out and leave alone
The dead to rest.
Just I've lived, almost unknown,
A life unmarked, obscure and lone,
So let me die;
Just one who lived, and loved, and died
A mound of earth and naught beside,
There let me lie.
Selected.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Corundum Versus Steel.

Within a few years past the use of
corundum has greatly increased, partly
as a result of the discovery of corun-
dunn deposits in North Carolina and
Georgia. More lately it has been found
in Ontario. Originally corundum was
derived almost exclusively from India.
Ranking next to the diamond in hard
ness, it has long been employed for
grinding gems, and other materials. At
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Toy Balloons as Life Preserver

Toy Balloons rs Life Preserver.
M. Janet, French chemist, has
made a new use of children's toy bal
looms which is likely to commend itself
to sea travellers. He has been expert
menting with the object of proving
that by means of rubber balloons.
which may be carried in a very small
compass, and readily filled with air in
time of danger, a person who knows
nothing of swimming can keep afoat
in the toughest weather. He puts the
apparatus in box about the size of
lady's purse. 1t consists of a yard or
two of whipcord, to which are attached
four balloons" rolled up ready for be-
ing blown out. The rubber balls
should be filled to only about one-half
their full extent, SO as to offer better
resistance to the waves. Mr.. Janet
gave a startling illustration of the
merit of the system he advocates. Hav-
ing fastened the apparatus to the upper
part of the body of two of his children
he threw them into the water, violently
agitated by the opening Of sluice gates.
They were whirled into the eddies and
drawn under by the force Of the cur
rent. But their disappearance was
only momentary, and they were soon
seen striking out for a landing place.
They had evidently not made the
slightest effort while in the eddy, leav-
ing the apparatus to do its own work.
Many strong swimmers under the same
conditions would have run a risk of be-
ing drowned.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Animals That Climb.

In New York men cheerfully go up
to the twenty-seventh story in ele-
vators and sleep on the third floor O.
nights, but primeval man is not a
climber, nor do animals take to it
without a long course of development.
African natives who have lived in one
story huts show the greatest fear of
climbing stairs, and will sometimes go
UP on hands I'D knees. Dogs often
have to be trained to climb stairs, in
stinctively distrusting the upper sto-
ries. 1t has been conjectured that this
is because the dogs fore1egs break
easily below the. shoulder, and the
beast seems to realize this. The fox
has no such fear, and has been known
to climb tree with plenty of small
limbs to the height of seventeen feet.
Swimming comes easier than climbing
to most animals, as we'll as to many
races of men. Rats and guinea pigs
can swim we'll and climb not at all,
although their cousins, the squirrels,
are at home in the trees. Prairie dogs,
which live in plains and have no use
for climbing, can be taught the trick;
but when they try to jump from a
hO16hI InCy usually 1dIl I'll IASAI ACdVy,
stupid heads, and either stun them
selves or break their teeth. They lack
the inherited instinct that should teach
them what can and what cannot be
done. Australian rabbits, OF the same
family of rodents, can climb very we'll,
having lived for generations in forests.
Bears can climb well if little, but the
grizzly and other large species stay
mainly on the ground. A bear always
climbs down a tree stern foremost, as
does the domestic cat until she has
nearly reached the ground, when she
turns and jumps; but most wildcats
run down a trunk head first, even the
heavy leopard being a more skillful
climber than the light house cat. The
tiger and lion, however do not climb,
for no discoverable reason except that
they fear falling On account Of their
weight.-New York World.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Their Apprecia ton.

The transforming crew had not eaten
for two days and two nights. Sud-
denly the eldest soubrette appears with
a quantity of eggs.
Where did you get them?" breath
lessly inquiries the heavy man.
81 got them for a mere song" she
replied. And it was even so. She
furnished the song and the audience
furnished the eggs.-Chfcago News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

obnoxious CO being and Ill the place

obnoxious CO being and Ill the place
| with some one after their own heart,
never stopping for a moment to con-
| slider what the incumbent may have
done for the cause of labor in the past,
much less what he may do in the fu-
| ture. AS a rule, words of condemna-
ton generally follow a TRADE of some
glib-tongued wind-jammer, who envies
everybody success in life; a person
| whose greatest pleasure is to tear
down rather than build up The speak
er Of more lung power than eloquence
is followed by several in the same
strain, and when all have exhausted
their vocabulary of invectives flip
pant set of resolutions is adopted and
the harm is done. The friend of the
abused party who has the temerity to
rise knows little heed, if any, will be
paid to his words of defense, and very
much less to his suggestions for an in
vestigation. AS it is, we of the labor
ing class allow ourselves to be influ-
enced or become prejudiced against
policy or person through the opinions
or advice of our friends without max
ing a personal investigation for our
selves that we may know the advice
has not beon prompted by Interior mo-
tive.
No cause can prosper when it adopts
falsehood or Misrepresentation as its
foundation stone All well-meaning
citizens will gladly support every le-
Ultimate effort to aid the cause of Ia
Dor. This cause, however, can only be
injured and in no way benefited by
acts of unwise friends CO, who intro
duce and carry resolutions based on
tissue of falsehoods. Justice for all
just what labor unions stand for-de-
mands a personal investigation or ac-
quaintance before judgment is passed.
If the American Federation Of Labor
or the central bodies in industrial CEN
tiers have bureau Of information
the information to be collected by fair
minded mmittees-many distressing
incidents, some of which are a dis
grace to organized labor, would never
occur. Justice to all demands that
some action along these lines be con-
sidered, and a more convenient time
cannot be found than the present.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Funny!
moment

Funny!
Doctor Ito Gilbert, aged 4-Put your
tongue out, dear. Little Gilbert pro-
truded the tip of his tongue. Doctor
No, no, put it right out. The little
fellow shook his head weakly, and the
tears gathered in his eyes: 81 can't,
doctor: it's fastened ON to me-"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
months.

You seem strangely Indifferent to-
night said the fair girl, as she Twill
ed the large solitaire on her engage
ment finger.
Pardon me- replied her plumb Der
lover Il must admit that l am not
much good at cooling, but when it
comes to billing I'm strictly in it,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
Notes.

The United HatterS of America have
appointed a committee having for its
purpose the unionizing of all non-uni-
on hat factories in this country.
The Boot and Shoe Operatives union
of Great Britain has forfeited $1,000,
because a branch struck work contrary
to the terms Of the arbitrator's award.
One-half Of the worlds production of
petroleum is credited to the United
States, and the Standard Oil company
controls pretty good share Of both
the home and foreign yield.
Mr.. T. H. Young, the livery man of
Syracuse, N. Y, who precipitated the
trouble that ended in the disruption
of the Hack and Cab Drivers union.
of that city, a few weeks ago, has
been sold out by the sheriff.
The federal industrial commission
as body has adjourned for the sum-
mer vacation, although three or four
subcommittee will remain at work
during the two months when the COM
plete body will not be in session.
Packing house employees to the
number of about 500 held a meeting in
the stockyards district of Chicago,
and formed the Packing House En-
ployes' union, the purpose of which is
to take into one organization all the
employees in the yards other than
those which are organized at the pres
ent time
Factory inspectors in the district in
and around Pittsburg have started a
crusade against violators of the state
factory laws. Proceedings are being
instituted against laundry companies
and owners of large establishments
where women, girls and minors are
employed more than sixty hours per
week.
The settlement of the street railway
strike at Cleveland is a victory for the
strikers. They went out because the
company refused to recognize their la
Dor union and to deal with the en-
ployes as an organized body, and they
come back with the union ''recog-
nized" and under an agreement that
taken back and the rest within a very
short time.
The Journal of the knights Of Labor
says: lone Of the leading questions
which must be decided next year is
whether the now all-powerful trusts
shall be permitted to exist and -four
ish, regulate the supply and fix the
price of nearly every commodity which
the people require, despotically rule
legislatures, congresses, the national
administration and the courts-in
short, whether the trusts or the people
shall hereafter control the American
Republic
Discussing the outlook for the ma
chinery trade, the Iron Age says that
additions to the iron and steel pro-
ducing capacity of the country will not
be made so rapidly as many people
hope. Brick and stone can be had in
unlimited quantities, but projectors of
new works find trouble in securing
equipment. Builders of engines con-
forming to modern requirements are
crowded with work, and it is doubtful
if contracts could be placed for the de-
livery of blowing engines or heavy
rolling mill engines much under
year and a half. A large steel COM
pany recently arranged for engines
for a projected plate mill, and the best
delivery that they could get was fifteen
months.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

rails in swarms, completely COVERING
them. Although the facts necessarily
sound somewhat "ishy," they were,
nevertheless, substantiated to US by re-
liable parties.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Why Labor Laws Are Knocked Out
The Ultimate Responsibility Rests with
the People, Those Who Toll Are in
the Great Majority-Wise Words.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

Why Labor Laws Are Knocked Out.
A few months ago the legislature of
Michigan enacted law empowering
commission to purchase the street rail-
ways of Detroit and turn them over to
the municipality. The commission or
ganized and entered upon the dis
charge of it's duty. Now the Supreme
court of the state has declared uncon-
stitutional the law under which it was
proceeding, and further progress is i'm
possible. Things remain as they have
been. This is but a repetition of what
is constantly occurring in every state.
1t emphasizes the fact that those who
desire a speedy accommodation OF laws
to new conditions, industrial as we'll as
otherwise, must direct their attention
not simply to the makers of laws, but
also to interpreters of the same. They
must elect or insist upon the appoint
ment of judges who will resolve a
doubt, when it arises, in favor of ac-
commodation to show conditions.
rather than against it, as is now almost
uniformly the case. 1 do not mean to
suggest that the judiciary is fagrantly
corrupt. Speaking strictly for myself,
1 believe that higher degree of in
tegrity characterizes the bench as a
whole than characterizes any other
profession or calling, except possibly
the medical. know very many of my
readers do not share this opinion, but
I am sure they will accord me the same
right to form opinions they themselves
exercise. What 1 do mean to call at
tention to is this: Every condition Of
his surroundings tends to make a
judge, no matter how upright, very
fearful of sanctioning an innovation,
if he can possibly avoid doing so. On
this rock many labor law has suf-
fered shipwreck. 1t is incumbent upon
the people, and especially upon the Ia
Dor element, to strive to elevate men to
and honest, but imbued with the con-
viction that new conditions need new
remedies, and ready to act on this be-
lief. The law moves slowly; judicial
Interpretation lags still further behind.
Revolutions have been precipitated
solely on this account-their sole pur-
pose being to bring law and the inter-
probation thereof up to date. 1 don't
imagine we are to have any revolution,
except one kind: A revolution in the
ideas of the people when they set about
choosing those who shall make and in
terpret laws, or appoint the interpre-
tiers, as the case may be. And that
revolution should come as quickly as
possible. 1t can't arrive too soon.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
IN THE ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.

That Climb-Prehistorfc Man
Files Stopped the Train - School
for Monkeys - Story of the Fighting
Ostrich.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

She sleepeth: wherefore doth she start?
She sigheth: doth she feel no pain?
None, none! the dream is near her heart,
The spirit of sleep is in her brain.
He cometh down like golden rain,
Without a wish, without a sound;
He cheers the sleeper (ne'er in vain)
Like May, when earth is winter-bound.
All day within some cave he lies.
Dethroned from his nightly sway
Far fading when the dawning skies
Our souls with Weakening thoughts ar
ray.
Two Spirits of might doth man obey;
By each he's wrought, from each he
learns
The one is Lord of life by day;
The other when starry night returns.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

A time-honored paper Is q promis-
sorry note that is not duly protested
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30

rail may be utilized as a conduit to
contain telephone or telegraph wires,
thus avoiding the stringing of them on
poles at the side of the road.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
A RepoRe.

She sleeps among her pillows soft,
CA dove, now wearied with her flight,
And all around, and all aloft,
Hang flutes and folds of virgin white:
Her hair out-darkens the dark night,
Her glance outshineS the starry sky;
But now her locks are hidden quite,
And closed is her fringed eye!
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-30
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.

Motorman's New Duty-Improvemsnt In
Rail MISUNDERSTANDING by Fireworks
Toy Balloon rs Life Preservers-A
New Use of ChIIdren's Toy Balloon.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
A Colony Of Outlaws.

Writers of fiction have frequently pictured the idea of an unknown trop- ical paradise turned into a general asylum for outlaws and criminals. In the Bonin isles, not far from Japan, such refuge has actually been dis covered. Men of every nationality, who have made civilization too warm for themselves, having decamped to this ideal rendezvous, leaving the po- lice to record the unsatisfactory re- suit of their investigations as "gone abroad No rates or taxes have to be paid, and government seems to be entirely dispensed with. The discovery was made by Japanese vessel which called at the isle. In future the aliens will have less freedom, and conse- quently less happiness, for the Japa- nese dominion will have to be rec ognizd. Their dream is o7er-West- ern Morning News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
s-,.. Inn Keeper.a Profits.

:. switzerland last summer there
 = aa 79O hotels, boarding houses, Fsls ss;rg and health resorts to accom- 0as 5afe the travelling public. When p0s includes about 1,50O smaller ope s.1ories. with accommodations for aoss. tsaf ten persons, there were sleeping aDoz, Dosromodations for 140.0OO travellers s'ss Beforehand. During the main trav- lp ,,aa '. season, from the middle of July z sl'tS t5o end of August, the minimum ex-
 .aditure y of the average summer p.arder with his children and serv- gts Dsts is placed at the low sum of D s.ancs. sl Nevertheless, this means a sai1y income to the inkeepers of $50, ooa oa francs. Making allowance for fav- ..s sobie travelling weather, these esti-
 sstes mean an income to the hotel uoaners during the month and one ss1f s of summer of 28,00O,O00 francs. In m ruzerne alone there are fifty-two arst-class hotels.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
valne of Cl1eerfu1ne.s.

Cheerfulness, says the Northwestern Christian Advocate, can become a hab- it, and habits sometimes help us over hard places. cheerful heart seetb cheerful things. A lady and gentle man were in lumber yard situated by dirty, foul-smelling river The lady said: How good the pine boards smell.'' "Pine boards!" exclaimed the gentleman. Just smell this foul river:a No, thank you" the lady re- piled, I prefer to smell the pine boards" And she was right. If she, or we can carry this principle through our entire living, we shall have the cheerful heart, the cheerful voice, and, cheerful face. There is in some houses an unconscious atmosphere of domestic and social ozone which brightens everybody Wealth cannot give it. nor can poverty take it away.--Ram' s Horn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
They Want the Nema.

eve want the news,9 says the Gib- son (Ga.l Banner. "If your wife whips you, let Us know it, and we will put you right before the world. If you have company, tell us-if you are not ashamed of your visitor If you have party or gathering of any kind, bring around the cake, seven or eight pies and a side of ham-not necessarily to eat, but just to show your friend ship and appreciation. You needn't mind inviting us, as it may be too cool for our wardrobe. We want the news-that's all"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
lNoUlsIToRTAL
Methods Of Collecting Taxes InstItuted
 by an Official of San Francisco.

Methods Of Collecting Taxes Instituted
 by an omciaI of San Francisco.
 They are going to collect the tax, the whole tax, and nothing less than the tax out in California. It seems that there have resided in the city of ups and downs many of that ubiquitous class of citizens who believe it cheaper to lie than to pay taxes. Salaries, 1t is rumored, were falling behind; his honor needed cuspidors in his office. The methods adopted by the new as- sessor, elected on a reform platform of his own making, whose name, cur lously enough, is Dodge, savers pung- ently of the ancient inquisition. The way the thing has been done in most cities is for the deputy collector to call and leave a blank. This re- eeiYing no attention beyond few minor items such as "Steinway piano, twenty-five dolls;" household goods. furniture, chattels, etc, one hundreF dolls" the deputy humbly pockets what he knows to be lie and goes his way; the result being that the very signer of such a libel is obliged for another year to stumble over the pave ments he has since childhood decried, and stand up for more months in the street cars, whose overloaded condl- ton he has in print so violently exc crated. These unmethods are de- elared by Dodge archaic. The new way is to force ones way into house and estimate the value of the goods rom the standpoint of an outsider. The procedure is naturally meeting with much opposition, even by those who voted for reform and MT. Dodge. The latter gentleman, however, ls seemingly careless of a reelection and pursues the even tenor of his way all undisturbed The constitutionality of the case is being contested in the San Francisco courts.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
California Beetle for Portugal.

The useful beetle known as NoYius cardinals, and employed in California to eat up the white, or fiuted scale.
 insects of the orange groves, has been exported to Portugal for the same purpose. The beetles were packed in moss with quantity of scale insects to eat and sent by mail to Lisbon. Only a few reached their destination alive, but they are prolific and in a few months thousands were available for work on the scale insects which in fest the orange groves of the Tagus.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-30
Why Sheep Have vsol.


 If you want to ask sheep where he got his wool and why, take dog into a mountain pasture band, and if the sheep are afraid of the dog they will invariably run uphill. rather than down, You have your answer. The ancestors of the domestic sheep, like wild sheep of the present day, lived among high mountains aud needed their woolly covering to protect them against the constant cold of high att mospheres. They chose the high and inhospitable region to live in because they found the fierce fesh-eating ami mals of the plains too strong for them. X proof of these facts is that wool grows on a sheep the year 'round.- Chicago News.