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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Not As L Will.

Blindfolded and alone L stand,
With unknown thresholds on each hand
ne darkness deepens I grope,
AFRAID to fear, afraid to hope;
1et this one thing 1 learn to know
Each day more surely as 1 go.
mat doors are opened, ways are made.
burdens are lifted. or are laid
p some great law unseen and still
CnIathomed purpose to fulfill,
Not 1 will
6llndfolded and alone 1 wait;
LOSS seems too bitter, gain too late;
LOO heavy burdens in the load,
AND too few helpers on the road;
And joy is weak and grief is strong.
ana years and days so long, so long!
let this one thing I learn to know
Each day more surely as 1 go.
mat L am glad the good and ill
by changeless law are ordered still,
Not as will
Not as I wilIi' The sound grows sweet
Each time my lips the words repeat.
NOT as L Will!'' The darkness feels
More safe than light when this thought
steals
Like whispered voice to calm and bless
All unrest and all loneliness.
Not as l WILL" because the One
w no loved us first and best has gone
6eiore us on the road, and still
or US must all His love fulfill
Not as we will"
Helen Hunt Jackson.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Municipal Ownerahip.

Labor believes in municipal owner
ership. 1t is fighting that battle to
victory, just as the shorter day move
ment is succeeding. After long
and bitter strife, the Michigan legisla-
lature passed a bill authorizing De-
troit ito construct, acquire, maintain
and operate street railways, and to
construct extensions thereof Gov.
Pingree approved the measure March
"a, and Saturday, April 1. the council
of the city of Detroit passed a resolu-
ton appointing Gov. Pingree and
Messrs. G. Stevenson and Carl E.
Schmidt as the Detroit street railway
commission, for terms of six, four and
two years respectively. Under the
law this commission has the right to
seize the street railways, turn them
over to the city for operation, and OBJ
igate the city for payment of the
price fixed by the commission or by
however, proposes to consult the coun-
Gil before closing the deal. Detroit's
street railways are worth millions, and
there is no reason why the municipal
ity cannot run them. Michigan is a
progressive state, largely because it
has one man-Hazen S. Pingree-in-
tensely interested in progress along
popular lines. Mr.. Pingree believes
that the people come first. He COM
PEELED Michigan railroads to reduce
fares. They said they would "be
ruined and be damned" if they did.
He stuck to it; fares went down; the
roads were not ruined, but Pingree
was damned right heartily by them.
The time to advance argument in ia
vor of municipal ownership has, in
my opinion passed. There is no ne
cessity for more argument. 1t re-
mains simply to take back for the peo-
pie things they should never have
parted with, and to fix the bill for
damages. Detroit's success in secur-
ing street railways cannot fail to be-
come an object lesson of greatest value
for all communities paying heavy trib-
ute to water, light, and traffic corpor-
atoms.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Christian Endeavor Topics.

Wheat and Tares-Monday, May 20,
Among the Prophets II. Chron.
xviii, 1-27; Tuesday, May 80, Among
the Twelve" John vi, 66-71; Wednes-
day, May 81, In the Early Church.
Acts w., 32-37, W, Iii; Thursday,
June 1, I'm Samaria," Acts viii, 9-24;
Friday, June 2, In Pergamos," Rev.
H., 12-17; Saturday, June 8, How Dis
tinguished," 1. John ill.,, LIP; Sunday,
June 4, topic, Wheat and Tares,
Matt. xiii. 24-30.
Mere money-getting must not rank
with the wheat of your lives, though
you should gather a million dollars.
But the spending of 10 cents-or, the
getting of it, either, for that matter
is to be counted wheat.
Do not class your failures among
the tares, unless they were brought
about by your departure from the line
OF duty. If. when you failed, you were
doing your best, they were not tares,
but wheat for the granary.
There are certain heart-Soils which
invite the tares, and nourish them
into strength. One, Of these is worry;
another is doubt.
Only one thing can be done with
tares, and that is to burn them up;
and the best fire for heart tares is the
flame of love.
The only way to keep out evil plants
is to crowd in the good ones. An at
tempt to divide your life between
wheat and tares will result in giving
it over to the tares
Illustration: When both are young
you cannot tell the difference between
the wheat and the tares. There is
need of watching with especial care
the little beginnings of deeds and feel
ings.
Illustration: Weeds grow faster than
good plants, because they are native
to the soil, while the cultivated plants
are mostly imported. Now, sin is ma
tive to our hearts.
Illustration: Often the tares are
planted with the wheat, if your seed
is not pure. The worst evils you can
get into your heart are those that
creep in accompanied with what is
good.
illustrations: How if we get to lik-
ing the tares better than the wheat?
Some very beautiful weeds grow in
our felds-lovely red tulips, the iuno- |
cent, great-eyed daisy. But both OF |
them are weeds. Any sin, if cher |
1shed, becomes so lovely that we can
not bring ourselves to tear it I'D.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Languid Labor.

The Mexican labOrer, at least as he
is found in New Mexico, seems to find
it impossible to maintain order and
neatness. Edith M. Nicholl, a ranch
woman, says of him and the TERRITORY
over which he reigns:
eff, after many weary days, your
Mexican has been induced, with occa-
sional lapses from grace, to keep his
tools and wagons in their appointed
places, there still remains for YOU the
felicity of picking up after him.
HE has been led to mend the gate:
there lies the hammer on the ground.
A rope has been used to tie a horse:
there lies the rope. You wander
through sheds and barns, gathering
or making him gather, pieces of har-
ness, spades, hatchets-everything n
short, that should not be just where
1T is. Or you don't, and the unfailing
moment arrives when work presses.
and some indispensable article is miss
ing. Where is it? Quien sabe? Who
knows?
Now, there is Hernandez; he is al
ways polite, sober, honest. Yet he is
capable Of exasperating his employer
to the last degree. One day there was
large onion order to be filled by 10
O'Clock in the morning. At $50 O'Clock
Hernandez strolled languidly to the
scene where another man had long
been at work. He met nv anxiety
lest the order should not he filled
with the gentle plant:
I'm not used to being hurried"
Later, as he sat in the wagon. his
assistant carrying the onions to him
he begged that when he got to town
he might have a man to heLp him
lift the UNDERGROUND sacks to the
ground. Hardening my heart. I re-
fused; whereupon he delivered him
self thus:
Sometimes l feel like WORKING
and sometimes donti'
THAT is the trouble with them all"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

I warning which it would be we'll for
England to take to heart: IF the
state does not soon control the liquor
traffic, the liquor traffic will control
the state IF 1 could destroy tomor-
row the desire for strong drink in the
people of England said Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain in a speech at Sheffield
some time ago, what changes we
should see. We should see our taxes
reduced by millions sterling. We
should see our jails and warehouses
empty We should see more lives
saved in twelve months than are con-
sumed in a century of bitter and saw
age war"
whether we succeed or whether we
fail" sai6 Sir. w. Harcourt, in 1895.
ito this cause of local option in my
public and my private life, I am ir-
revocably pledged. If permitted, de-
sire to devote to it what remains to
me of life, and depend upon it 1 shall
do so to the end" To these 1 may add
the testimony of Lord Curzon, the new
Viceroy of India. He said, a few
years ago: Drink is a leper spot on
the surface of the nation, moral
canker, eating into the vitality of the
people, and producing effects which do
not die with the year, or the life, or
even with the generation, but which
will be repr~1uc from year to year.
from generation to generation, in
terrible pc. ,entous legacy of poverty.
misery and crime" Are such words
from such men, speaking, under so
grave sense of responsibility, to be
lightly brushed aside by the nation as
though they were of no moment?
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
The Co-operative Brotherhood.

At Olalla, Wash, is published the
Co-operator, a neat weekly newspaper
devoted to advancing the interests of
the Brotherhood colony there estab-
Ished. The colony is prospecting. A
short editorial in a late issue of that
paper makes a strong point in favor
of the substitution of governmental
or -operative-conduct of some af-
fairs, in place of the prevailing pri-
vate ownership principle. Here it is:
-Four hundred and fifty-nine orders
in a single day, amounting to nearly
$4,000, shows an activity unprece-
denied in postal matter in Seattle
Seattle Times. When it is considered
that this postoffice does a business ev-
cry day greater than any bank in the
city at a cost of only $4,000 (the low
est salary of the bank president in
Seattle being $4,000, the advantage
and economy Of government over pri-
vate banking is clearly apparent"
The Co-operator's comment on
proposed educational meas Ire is also
keen:
STANDARD Oil Harper president of
Chicago university, has prepared for
Mayor Harrison of that city a bill to
be introduced into the legislature pro-
viding that during the first five years
of a child's school life it shall not lie
bothered with arithmetic. This is
the most insidious and cunning blow
against popular education yet devised,
and it will be seen in it's entirety when
it is considered that the children of
the masses do not have over five years
of schooling on an average, before
they are obliged to go to work The
future American voter is not to know
about arithmetic, else he
might figure out how much Rockefel-
Ter is robbing him. For Mephistophe-
liam subtlety this is something sur
passing reward
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
Reform News.

A third violation of the prohibitory
! law of Kansas will, if the bill passed
by the senate becomes a law, subject
the saloon-keeper to the penitentiary
from one to three years.
! A bill has just passed the lower
forbidding the sale of Intoxicating
liquors in department stores, except in
separate building provided for the
purpose. The bill was urged by the
w. c. T. U.
Rev. John Bradford, pastor of the
Methodist church at Hampton, N. H.
| is to be appointed chief of police at
that place. His appointment is the re-
suit of much dissatisfaction over the
way the liquor laws have been en-
forced in the past.
An all-day's prohibition rally was
recently held at Syracuse, N. Y, under
the management of the state commit
tee. About $500 was raised for state
work, $1,000 Of which is to aid in the
circulation of the state paper, the De-
fender. OF this amount, Hon. w. T.
Wardwell donated $500.
The ST. Charles Total Abstinence So
ciety was organized with a member
ship of 200 at the recent monthly meet
ing of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of Chicago. The union now in
cludes twenty-five societies in Chi
cago, with a membership of nearly
1000. The national convention will be
held in Chicago in August.
The anti-gambling bill, known as
the Crap Bill" which was before the
Tennessee legislature, and was de-
feated in the Senate, has been recon-
sidered and passed by good majority
1t was signed by the governor, and is
now a law. AS a result of this, sew
eral gambling houses and saloons have
gone out of business in Nashville
This law makes the keeping of
gambling house, used for playing GER
tain games, especially CRAPS a fell
ony, punishable by both fine and i'm
prisonment.
The National Reform Party Confer
ence Movement has issued a call for
a national conference of reformers who
favor the abolition or suppression OF
the liquor traffic and other reforms
sought for by the people, to be held
at Pittsburg, Pa, on June s. The OBJ
JeCl III Tie conference Will De tnat OF
the conference movement
into all the several states of the union
and to appoint delegates to the Ma
tional Conference of Reformers to
meet in Buffalo, June % to July 4.
and to arrange a plan of conference
with all reform organization seeking
a union of reformers.
The following dispatch comes from
Newport News, Va: "One of the
Phoebus saloon-keepers some time ago
wrote to a prominent New York law
yer, requesting an expression of opin-
ion regarding the provision in the mil
itary law passed by the last Congress
abolishing the army canteen, and ask
ing if the application of the law
would extend to the canteens estab-
ished at the homes for veteran SOL
1iers. The lawyer replied that ac-
,ording to the Interpretation of the
Judge advocate general, the canteens
On all government reservations, in
.ludinG the soldierE' homes. will have
o co.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
A Sprfngtime.


One knows the spring is coming;
There are birds; the fields are green;
There is balm in the sunlight and moor
light,
A dew in the twilights between.
But ever there is a silence,
A rapture great and dumb,
That day when the doubt is ended,
And at last the spring is come.
Behold the wonder, o silence!
Strange as If wrought in a night
The waited and lingering glory,
The world-old, fresh delight!
o blossoms that hang like winter,
Drifted upon the trees,
o birds that sing in the blossoms.
o Disseminating bees
o green. green leaves on the branches,
shadowy dark below,
o cool of the aisles of orchards.
Woods that the wild flowers know
o air of gold and perfume,
Wind, breathing sweet and sun.
o sky of perfect azure
Day, Heaven and Earth in one!
Let me draw near thy secret,
And in thy deep heart see
How Jared, in doubt and dreaming,
The spring that is come in me.
For my soul is held in silence,
A rapture great and dumb
For the mystery that fingered,
The glory that is come!
William Dean Howells.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

The grand difficulty is to feel the
reality of both worlds, so as to give
each its due place in our thoughts and
feelings, to keep our minds eye and
our hearts eye fixed on the land of
promise, without looking away from
the road we are to travel toward it
Augustus Hare.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
NOTES OF INTEREST TO THE
ANTI-LIOUOR LEADERS.

Famous Public Men OF England Give
Their Views on the Liquor Problem
All AssaiI Liquor as An EVIL That
Must BE Extinguished.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

Temptations are the crises which
test the strength of ones character.
Whether we stand or fall at these
crises depends largely on What we are
before the testing comes.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

1t is the spirit of that life to which
we should attain 1t is not by saying
Christ's words, or by doing Christ's
acts, but it is by breathing His spirit
that we become like Him.-Frederic
w. Robertson.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

I am in receipt of copy of a hand
some publication issued by the Ma
tional Cash Register company of Day.
ton. Ohio, containing an account of
the last semi-annual distribution of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.

Detroit to Buy Street Railways-Co-
operation Practiced by q Large
Manufacturing COncern-Some Keen
Criticism from OIalla, Wash.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
RELIGIOUS READING.
RELIGION AND REFORM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

Weekly Prayer Topics for the Christian
Endeavor Groups Ask and Walt
The Living God-God's Doors-Both
Worlds.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

There are many things for which
we can only ask and then wait in
quiet Stiffness, things which We can
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27

One knows the spring is coming;
There are birds; the fields are green;
There is balm in the sunlight and moon
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22

In recent years it has been a con-
tinual struggle between. the support
ers of football in Montana and the in
clement weather which unfortunately
has been too prevalent during every
season. Handicapped as. the enthusi-
asts have been, they have not allowed
the royal sport to die out, and this
year finds the game more popular than
ever.
Butte and Anaconda particularly
have been instrumental in keeping the
game alive and both cities continue to
turn up with good teams. considering
the adverse circumstances with which
they have had to contend. AT the be-
ginning of the season the prospect for
continuation of the former interest
did not look very bright. In Anaconda
most of the old players had left the
city, and without q team in Anaconda
Butte could not expect to do much.
Owing Chiefly to the energetic en-
deavors of a few lovers of the sport the
Anaconda club once more organized.
and in a game played a week ago at
Butte demonstrated that the players
on the present team are in no respect
inferior to their predecessors, going
down to defeat at the hands of the
Butte team by the narrow margin of
one point.
Butte this year has two teams, one
organized by Jim Hooper, the Old
stonewall of the teams of '96 and 49,
and the other by Percy Benson, who
for many years has held the reputa-
ton of being the headest captain in
these parts. 1t is the latter team, which
consists of most of the old-time play
ers, that Anaconda will to-day tackle
in deadly combat.
While the Butte men are almost all
well-knoWn players and up to all the
tricks of the game, the Anaconda team
has the advantage in training, having
been hard at work for the past six
weeks. An interesting contest is eX-
pected and there is a good deal of spec
ulation as to the outcome.
On the Butte side such veterans as
Harry Brahm, Bill Slater Percy Ben
son, Bud Jones and Mickey Harrington
will line up. while Anaconda will have
Wilson of Cornell fame; Kellar, once
with the Deadwood team; Barney FitZ-
patrick, than whom no better end
ever played on a Montana gridiron,
Kilroy, who scored against Butte a
week ago. and others who distinguished
themselves in the same game and on
many a hardfought field.
The Butte team. which hoists the
banner of the Montana Athletic club"
is as strong a team as ever represent
ed the Smoky City, and if Anaconda
wins to-day, as many believe she will,
the Copper City boys will have good
reason to rejoice.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22
BASEBALL
6eeeeG@Geeaaaeaae

Something is bound to drop in the
baseball world pretty soon. The new
league, that dreaded b4gaboo of the
moguls, will not down. The eprojectors
of the rival organiZation,-age not say
ing much, but according to reports are
industriously saving wood, The new
leagues weakest point seems to be its
seeming lack of capital. The men be-
hind the scheme, however,, assert that
when the time comes they will come
to the front with all tlles money neces
sary to make the project success
they confidently declare it will be.
Already the magnates are preparing
for the storm which they feel certain
will come with the April zephyrs in
1900 Never before in the history of
the National league have so many
players been signed to contracts at
increased salaries year in advance.
The managers and owItars uof every
team have approached their best play
ers and urged them to atfix their sig
natures to fat contracts for next year.
1t is argued that if the matter ever
came into the courts the reserve
rule, the leagues mainstay,, would be
knocked out in one round. That is
perhaps the chief reason Why the mag
mates are hustlng to get their star
signed enough men to supply two
teams. st. Louis is offering all sorts
of money inducements to it's top
notchers to sign. Childs was given a
5000 raise and Young, too, was given a
big advance. Chicago has already
signed more men than ever before at
the close of a season. The signing
fever has struck every club in the
league, and struck it hard.
Many good men have signed, but
many have refused to sign until
spring. Griffith, Lange, Callahan. Nc
Cormick and others on the Chicago
team are holding out, and refuse to
come into camp. The fact that Aanson
will be interested in the club to be
placed in Chicago lends color to the
belief that the Windy City team will
be a strong one 1t would not be at all
surprising to see some old league stars
on the new teams pay roll.
Captain Arson says that the new
league is bound to be a success. An
son Is said to be sore because Spaulding
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22

who had ridden a mile in 81 seconds
surrounded by hugseshield built out
from the last car of a train the phe-
nomenal speed being due of course. to
the enormous suction produced by the
train. Following this came grusome ac-
counts of a fanatic who was cycling FOR
week around the top of a high fac
tory chimney. and an American woman
has now ridden 700 miles on the road
in 81 hours. This Amazon is said TO
look 20 years older in consequence. and
the example may we'll be commended
to ladies who consider themselves of
too youthful appearance. The same ma
MIA is also exhibited in the case of the
cyclist who has been attempting to
ride 100 miles daily for a year. Is there
some subtle connection between cycling
and dementia? No one seems inclined
to ride a horse 20 miles in the hour sit
ting the wrong way in the saddle, or
proposes to run the Derby around the
dome of St Pauls. If he did, his
friends would look after him carefully.
Much to the disappointment of the
racing fraternity along this coast, saws
dispatch from San Jose, will come the
somewhat tardy announcement that in
all proha bilty The long promised Win
ter race meets, managed by some of
the big riders win not come off. This
word comes in q letter written by Har-
dy Downing, the young san Josean,
who went on the national circuit for the
first time this season, and it is believ-
ed to be authentic.
He writes that the race meet recent
ly held in Chicago under the manage
ment of Dave Schafer proved to be a
sublime failure from a financial stand
point Chicagoans, apparently took
no interest in the racing and conse-
uueutly ii was a decided frost. 1t was
to cold for the racing men, even the
hardest Of them, who are accustomed
to all sorts of conditions, and after the
third day spent in watching their
wheels go round they jumped the town.