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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

there IS free competition at home,
America can undersell her competitors
in any market in the world. Anything
that interferes with this free compet1-
ton operates to close the worlds mar
kets against us and invite a flood of
importations. However, if working
men are to participate in the price ele-
walton, there will be rich compensation
for the enhanced cost of articles to
commodities booming, and iron and
steel products in particular, it seems
to the Tribune that the upward move
ment has hardly yet assumed the
proper proportions"
These two extracts are significant, as
take them. They come from a strict
ly conservative newspaper, not given
to exploiting new theories of econom-
les, yet they assume as matters OF
course-and the assumption is correct
that competition is dead, and that
syndicate of trust heads can--and
does-say who shall work, how long
he shall work, and what he shall re-
ceive for his work. However, if
worhingmen are to participate"-say
the Tribune, recognizing that the de-
cision of the point whether the laborer
shall get what is his rests altogether
and honest enough to give it to him,
or greedy and dishonest enough to
keep the most of it,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Personal Independence Lost.

have several times called attention
to the startling fact that industrially,
there is practically no longer such a
thing as personal independence. He
who works has given or allowed"
to him about what his employer choos-
es That competition among men own
ing capital is practically dead, or on it's
last legs where not dead. is so obvious
as to be simply referred 70 as mater
of course, needing no proof. Thus,
last week the Pittsburg (Pa) National
Labor Tribune, in discussing two in
terviews with Trust presidents, said:
eff wages are not raised this spring
and summer in the degree that ths
general assurances Of prosperity would
appear to warrant, the conclusion is
inevitable that the ruling spirits of the
country's great trusts Will be almost
wholly to blame for it, inasmuch as
the industry or trade which is not at
present in the control of trust is de-
cidedly exceptional. Take
iron and steel for instance. For most
of the finished products of the mills
prices have advanced about 25 per cent
i'll sixty days. 1t would be strange if
increased value of the output The
only cloud on the horizon is, as the
has remarked before. the
trusts themselves"
And in the. same column, discussing
trade with foreign lands, 1 notice the
But it is none the less Disappointing
to see our export trade falling off, par
ticularly since it can hardly be ques-
toned that the elevation of stap,e
prices by trust movements is largely
for the phenomenon. While
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

The Nearness of God to Common Lift.
The world has need of knowledge.
but larger need of insight. 1t need
information less than inspiration an
impulse. 1 sometimes think that pee
pie are destroyed by excess Of know
edge. and long to have them forget (.
little that truth may strike them with
some degree of freshness. 1 believl
that there is no greater fallacy thai
the comm opinion that the merc
learning o. fscts - q panacea for tn :
worlds fills. What the world needs i
what Christ came to teach-the near
ness Of God to common life, the So
credness of what we call the secular
the reality Of the spiritual world, pres
ent and future, and a conception O
the glory of working together wit:
God. which shall make life dignifieG
earnest and fruitful, Rev. w. =. Bar
ton.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Organization Keeps Pace.

From statements made by repre-
sentative labor leaders and papers l
find that, contrary to quite general
experience, organization of working
people is fully keeping pace with rise
in wages and increase in number of
employed. This marks advance in
thought. The time to create, develop.
and intrench organization is when men
have money to icveE and arc II ds
mand by en- ployers. It means that
when, sooner Or later, a more or less
pronounced slump comes, Labor will
not be the earliest victim selected to
fore been the case.
1t is old advice, but nevertheless the
best, to tell all isolated men to organ
ize, and gain the stability and strength
that come only with compact numbers
You may not like every feature of the
union that invites your presence and
aid. Possibly you may not like every
particular duty and association that
goes with American citizenship. Yet
you do not therefore remove from
America. You should not let the fact
that the union isn't exactly your ideal
restrain you from joining it, Go in.
Benefit yourself If you see where it
could be improved, try to improve it.
1t is as much a workingman's duty to
attach himself to a trades union as it
is for him to provide shelter and food
for his family and life insurance for
his widow and orphans
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Sunday School Union Convention.

Sunday School Union Convention.
The American Sunday School Union
whose headquarters are in Phdladei
phia, with Morris K. Jesup of New
York as president, will on the 18th o
next May celebrate its seventy-ffth an
niversary in Philadelphia. A specia
committee of arrangements has been
appointed: Clarkson Clothier, chair
man; William H. Wanamaker, William
c. StOever, H. G. Cara of Philadelphia.
Robert T. B. Easton and John N. Beach
of New York, with J. NJ Andrews as
secretary and Elmer B. Stevenson of
Iowa as assistant to the chairman.
The Academy of Music, one Of the
largest auditoriums of the city, has al
ready been secured for the meetings.
Many leading speakers of the country
are to be here, and representatives of
the union from all parts of the United
States will be present. No pains will
be spared to make this one of the
greatest gatherings of the kind ever
held in this country.
This Is the oldest and largest Sun
day school missionary society in Amer
lea, having for its field of operations
the whole United States, and has Or
gained over one hundred thousand
Sunday schools during its seventy-hve
years of work.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Cigar Makers Union.

One of the most energetic and thor
oughly organized trades unions in
America is the Cigar Makers Inter-
national Union. In all movements for
the furtherance of the industrial well
fare of the people the members of this
sterling organization throughout the
country are ever in the lead, notwith-
standing the fact that there is no
branch of production in which so many
discouraging conditions have to be met
and counteracted. Prison and child
labor, sweat shop and tenement house
production, Chinese labor in western
states, machine competition, and con-
slant warfare with unprincipled manu-
facturerS and dealers, who counterfeit
and infringe on the use of their trade
label; these are some of the daily and
never-ending problems and contests
with which the International Union
and its affiliated local organizations
have to deal. The admirable benefici-
airy features of the union are a tower
of strength and constitute one Of the
strongest elements of it's success. 1t
pays a loan travelling benefit, strike
benefit of SIS per week, So a week out
of-work benefit, S. a week sick benefit,
a wife or widowed mothers funeral
benefit, and a death benefit ranging
from $50 to $3.50. according to length
of membership, which latter sum is
payable to the heirs of a member OF
fifteen years standing.
During the long industrial and COM
mercial depression which began in
ha Tn Tnin
in benefits about four hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars annually,
the out-of-work benefit being the larg-
est item, and which for the year 1896
amounted to nearly one hundred and
seventy-six thousand dollars. The
strongest and most interesting features
of the union are its system of high
dues, its protective benefits, the union
blue LABEL and the initiative and
referendum method of elections, voting
and legislation. The beneficiary feat
ures have a cohesive tendency that
serves to hold the membership intact
during periods of industrial and COM
mercial stagnation, and the famous
blue LABEL is given gratuitously to all
manufacturers who pay the union scale
regulations The most notable
achievement of the International
Union was the successful Inauguration
of the eight-hour day on May 1, 1886.
and the increasing of wages from 10 to
so per cent wherever it's organization
extends. Records Of the Cigar Makers
Union show that wherever non-union
shops have been organized, wages have
risen from 10 to so or more per cent.
The same is true of other crafts. The
organized" man always gets more for
the same work or time than does the
unorganized" man. Possibly you, as
an individual, may not care to get
more pay for your work than you now
receive. If So keep out of the union.
But if you are not averse to getting
more money than you now receive,
come in.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Penitenco.

Hen1tencos
I've given Thee so little of my Life,
So little of my heart and q 10,
thought;
The first fruits of my mind I hav =
not brought,
Because 1 was absorbed in this world
strife.
Alas! that trials and temptations rife
Should make me overlook the thing
1 ought,
With joy, to do!-that pleasur
warmly sought
Should make me unaware of truer life /,
My God, do beseech Thee, look below
The surface of my ill-expressed re
gret,
Down to the heart o'ercome with YER
woe,
For days misspent. pray Thee thu;
Thou'll let
The time to come my souls contritioI>
show
In gratitude that Thou hast paid nv
debt.
L. G. Shelby
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
The lncODoclast

A thousand years shall come and GO,
A thousand years of night and day,
And man, through all their changing
show
His tragic drama still shall play.
Ruled by some fond ideals power,
Cheated by passion or despair,
Still shall he waste lifeS trembling hour,
In worship vain, and useless prayer.
All! where are those who rose in might,
Who fired the temple and the shrine
And hurled, through earth's chaotic
night
The helpless gods it deemed divine?
Cease. longing soul, thy vain desire!
What idol, in its stainless prime
But falls, untouched of axe or fire,
Before the steady eyes of Time?
He looks, and 10! our affairs fall,
The shrine reveals it's gilded clay.
With decent hands we spread the pail,
And, cold with wisdom, glide away.
Oh! where were courage, faith, and
truth
II man went wandering all his day
In golden clouds of love and youth,
Nor knew that both his steps betray?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
A Hard Fight.

There is a certain class of people
those who, as we say, "have such an
easy time" They have no burdens to
carry, no storms to encounter, no bai-
ties to fight. All about them is peace
and comfort, and over their heads the
sky is always blue. While we are quite
young We expect to see representatives
of this class on every hand, but as we
grow older our estimate of its numbers
is constantly changing. We discover
that the rich man, whose wealth we
envied, is lonely and friendless; tina.
the woman who had SO much leisure
on her hands is never out Of pain; tft.,
poet, whose reputation seems to us to
be the most desirable thing in the
world, has won fame through; putin;
into words the anguish of his owI;
breaking heart. BE pitiful, for every
man is fighting a hard battle''' Ona
cannot always tell with what oppo-
nents his neighbors are contendin;-,
whether with disease or poverty O..
temptation or any of a thousand othe-
foes. The heart knoweth its own bit
terness. Outsiders can only frame poo
guesses. But it is safe to expef al
envy from the heart, and keep 1t sym
pathetic and pitiful, like the heart o.
our Heavenly Father, who, seeing tn
hard fight each man must make, and
his wayward children most of all, j.
full of compassion and the mercy thai
endureth forever.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Earth in Heaven.

Somewhere, my friend, in the beautiful
Awaiting US lovely and clear,
We shall find all beauty that leaves our
eyes
So vacant in vanishing here:
Not the human alone has died
To go up and be glorified
1 shall find my childhood playing there
In the grass where it used to play,
And see our red-birdS brighten the air;
Again as a girl 1 shall stray
On the hills where the snow-drops grew,
And hear the wild doves in the dew.
1 shall feel the darkness dripping with
rain
On the old home-roof: shall see
The white rosebud in the yard again,
And the Sweet-brier climbing the. tree,
With it's pretty young blooms that fell
Below to be drown'd in the WELL
And sometimes night, with blossoming
hours
In a creScent'S early CLEAN,
Will let a Dream flutter out of it's flow
ers
With no other name but a Dream,
To my best, with a tirnid grace,
And wings DER its blushing face.
All! you smile in the dark; you SMILE
and refuse
My faith in these sweet faded things;
But 1 tell you 1 know that my soul
would lose
One-half of the strength in it's wings
If these were not keeping their light,
AS the angels in Heaven, tonight.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

the saloon closed, there is but Just one
method by which he can be recognized;
but just one law under which his opin-
ion can declare itself, and his convic-
ton make itself felt, and that law and
method are fulfilled when he drops
into the box a ballot that calls for
prohibition as a law, and for a pro-
hibitionist as it's enforcer.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
NV Friend.

L will not wrong thee, o To-day,
With idle longing for Tomorrow;
But patient plough my field, and SOW
The seed of faith in every furrow.
Enough for me the loving light
That melts the clouds repellent edges;
The still unfolding, bud by bud,
OF Gods most sweet and holy pledges.
L breathe His breath; my life is His;
The hand He nerves knows no defraud-
ing
The Lord will make this joyless waste
wave with the " heat of His rewardIng.
or His rewardingi Yes; and yet
NOT mine a single blade kernel;
Inc seed is His; the quickening His;
Inc care, unchanging and eternal.
HIS, too the harvest song shall be,
When He who blest the barren furrow
snail thrust His shining sickle in
AND reap my little field Tomorrow.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
Dinner for Paris Fair Directors.

Commissioner General Peck one
evening last week gave a dinner in
Chicago at his residence for the d.
rectors of the various departments of
the Paris Exposition. A conference
of the directors was held In the after
noon,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

No man can ask honestly or hopeful
" TO De delivered from Temptation un
less he has himself honestly and firm
ly determined to do the best he can to
keep out Of it.-Ruskin.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
RELIGIOUS READING.
RELIGION AND REFORM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

Weekly Prayer Topics for the Christian
Endeavor societies-How to Conduct
Successful AIeetinE-A Hard Fight
Religious Notes.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SCME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORkMEN.

General Recog milton of Fact That Few
Men TODAY Control the Producing
Interests of This Magnificent Coun-
try.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20
TEMPERANC.I iUL'ICS.
NOTES OF INTEREST TO THE
ANTI-LIOUOR LEADERS.

Prohibition" Extract from
Famous Address Delivered by the
Late Miss Willard Reform News
from All Over the World.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-20

thousand years shall come and GO,
A thousand years of night and day,
And man, through all their changing
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07
Fish THAT Sport Double Tails.

Two tails attached to a fish, Few
people have ever seen such freak of
nature. Nearly every one has seen the
pretty bushtail goldfish that have four
or five, or sometimes more, long, wavy,
fflmy tails, but very few people know
but that very few of them are born that
way. When the little goldfish are very,
very young their flesh is as clear as
glass. so that one can see every bone
in their tiny bodies. At this time the
few that are born with two or more
tails are put by themselves. and then
a queer looking old Jap, with great
magnifying glass fastened in front of
his eye, and wee sharp tools handy,
reaches down under the water and cuts
off the tails of the plain little fish, and
then three or four of these tails are
iointed on the back bone where the one
was cut off and fastened there with
tiny bandages until they grow fast.
The Japanese. who are very skilful
in queer things of this kind, grow the
finest goldfish in tho world, and it is
very good business. for very fine fish
of this kind often bring as much as
$500 to $500. and on sold not long ago
for $1,000.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07
SILK HAT CAUSED A RIOT.
1t Was the First of It's Kind Seen on
the Streets or Nondon.

Jan. Is. 1897, was the date fixed by
Mr.. Hetherington for the first appear
ance in public with the new hat. the
silk hat of to-day, says the Hatters'
Gazette. He believed that in the
natural course of events he would
create a sensation, but he was not pre-
pared for the commotion which follow
ed. 1t was with no little trepidation
that, about IL o'clock in the forenoon,
Mr.. Hetherington emerged from his
shop in the Strand. His family advised
against it, but he was determined, and
forth he sailed.
The Strand, as now, was one OF the
busy streets OF London and Mr.. Hether-
ington had not walked ten feet before
merchants and others, attracted by the
unusual sight, stopped and gazed in
wonder. Mr.. Hetherington, however,
moved on, but men who had only stop
ped to look now followed after him
and in less time than 1t takes to tell 1t
the street was crowded was bowling
mob. Those on the outskirts of the
crowd did not know the nature of the
trouble, IL there was any, but they help
ed to swell the din. How Mr.. Hether-
ington Jared, however. is best told by
the Journals Of that date, whose pages
have been searched by the tailors' and
cutters special commissioner. One
Gazette gave this account of the re-
markable event:
John Hetherington, haberdasher OF
the Strand. was arraigned before the
lord mayor yesterday on a charge OF
breach of the peace and melting riot
and was required to give bond In the
sum of $500. 1t was In evidence that
Mr.. Hetherington, who is well connect
ed, appeared upon the public highway
wearing upon his head what he called
a silk hat (Which was offered in evil
dence), tall structure having shin
ing luster and calculated to brighten
timid people. AS a matter OF fact the
officers of the crown stated that several
women tainted at the unusual sight,
while children screamed, dogs yelped
and young son of Cordwainer Thomas
who was returning from chambers
shop, was thrown down by the crowd
which had collected and had his right
arm broken. For these reasons the de-
PENDANT was seized by the guards and
taken before the lord mayor. In ex-
tenuation of his crime defendant
claimed that he had not violated any
law of the kingdom, but was merely
exercising a right to appear In a head
dress of his own design-a right not
denied by any Englishman."
Another paper of the same date (Jan.
16, 1870 in commenting upon Mr..
Hetherington's appearance said:
'In these days of enlightenment 1t
must be considered an advance in dress
reform, and one which Is bound sooner
or later to stamu its character upon the
entire community. The new hat Is
destined to work a revolution in head
gear, and we think the officers of the
crown erred in placing the defendant
under arrest"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07

Dr. Cady'S Condition R0zOae,y, are just
what horse needs when in bad condition
Tonic, blood purifier and vermifuge.
They are not food but medicine ard the
best in use to put horse in prime con-
dition. Price IS cts per package. For
sale by Feldmeyer Bros. City Drug
Store.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07
Cot the Best of the Pawnbroker.

A good joke is recorded on a down.
town pawnbroker He rushed into his
place one morning last week when II
was rather chilly and laid spring
overeoat on the counter, not noticing
a negro standing there. A clerk emery
ed from behind a partition a few mo-
ments later and asked the negro what
he wanted. The negro laid his hand
on the coat and said, What will you
lend me on thisg'
The clerk examined 1t infinitely and
replied, 1.-TWO dollars"
The negro was satisfied and receiv-
ing the 50 departed, nd when he had
gone the pawnbroker came into the
store again and demanded his coat.
The clerk said he had not seen it, caus-
ing the owner to exclaim: "Why.
there it is, back there" pointing TO the
clerks desk.
That yelled the clerk. "why / just
loaned a negro 81 on it," and both
made dash out Of the door to catch
the fellow.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07

"Then shall thy light break forth as
the morning, and thine health shall
spring forth speedily; and thy right
eousness shall go before thee; the glory
of the Lord shall be thy reward"
Therefore, my heart Is glad, and my
glory rejoices; my flesh also shall rest
in hope. For thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell: neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou
wilt show me the path of life; In thy
presence is fulness of joy. at thy right
hand there are pleasures forever
more"
On Esther's Sarcophagus are these
inscriptions.
Here is the ark in which is Inferred
Esther the Righteous. May her merit
protect us! Amen"
"Then Esther, the queen, the daugh-
ter of Abihail, and Mordecai, the jew,
wrote with all authority. to confirm
this second letter of Purim."
"And the decree of Esther confirmed
these matters of Purim; and 1t was
written in the book. And the king,
Ahasuerus, laid tribute upon the
land, and upon the isle of the sea-"
Fac-similies of the inscriptions have
been taken from plaster impressions
now in the possession of DIR. Zadoc
Kahn, chief rabbi of France.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07

"That man cheated me out Of cool
million"
"Ah,-wouldn't let you marry his
daughter, / supposeF
NO: he let me marry her. and doesn't
ore us a cent"-Detroit Free Press.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-07

.-he burgomaster of the little town of
Poelitz. In Pomerania, entered into Of
nee q year ago. He believed himself
invested with the functions of a civil
state officer, which had not been con-
ferred upon him by the superior au-
thority. He united twenty couples in
marriage and in consequence of an OBJ
lection these marriages were declared
illegal. At the same time. the magis-
trate was nominated civil state Off
Ger, and now the marriages have TO
take place again-proyided, a French
paper, says, the couples. after a brief
experience of married life, are willing
to 60 through the marriage ceremony
a second time.-London Globe.