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"Man orid. sas w S-ejwly ffnf-pw, yn -r-- stock farmino the basis of our inoustmss. ruwi.. : J.. y EIGHTEENTH YEAR. WA KEENEY. KANSAS, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1896. , NUMBER 27. PATEKNALIS3I IN BERLIN Sow the Municipality Cares for the Working' Classes. Bavin Dank Maintained by the City, with Scores of ilrKDchns Located in the y Barters Inhabited by tne Poorer Clnsees, Special Berlin (Germany) Letter. J The great majority of Berlin's popu lation is formed, of course, as in other targe cities of the world, by the labor ing classes. Sow, it is true that nine tenths of these, people are socialists, either outspokenly or by force of as sociations, and at the reichstag elec tions this fact becomes plainer year after year, for the successful candi dates are invariably socialists. It is all the more to the credit of the municipal govenftncDt here that nothing1 is left undone which by any sensible person is deemed the duty of the common wealth towards what is, perhaps, some what indefinitely and erroneously, styled "the masses." I do not mean to say that in this respect Berlin stands Alone among- German cities; quite the reverse. Among the institutions tending to Iceep the toiler with small earnings from slipping and going further down the social ladder the municipal saving3 banks deserve a prominent place. In Berlin there are about 468,000 deposit ors in these banks, with deposits rang- MUNICIPAL ASYLUM FOR ing from a couple of marks up to thou sands, the total in these banks amount ing to nearly 200,000,000 marks (or about $50,000,000). The rate of interest is low, being three per cent, or less, but to make up for that these banks are absolutely safe, no matter in which of her 75 offices the savings have been paid. In Berlin there is, besides, less red -tape discernible in the raanagemept of these banks than is noticeable in other Jerman cities, such as Dresden and . Breslau. To show how popular every where are these municipal . savings Thanks. I will cite: Hamburg, with 4') "branch offices in the city and about a -total in deposits of 130.000,000 marks: Tresden, with nearly 200,000 depositors comprising more than one-half of the -total population) and exceeding 60,000. O00 marks, Altona and Bremen, with de positors aggregating two-thirds of the -entire population and deposits figuring ip about 20,000,000 apiece; , Lelpsic, "Magdeburg, Frankfort-on-Main, Han over, Koenigsburg, Dusseldorf, with a similar state of affairs. Aue Aachen Aix-la-Chapelle) atands relatively fore most, for the statistics show that the number of depositors is about equal to - lhat of every man, woman and child in -the whole city. An adjunct, one might say, to the city - savings banks are the municipal pawn shops. They, too, accomplish much jrood", or, more properly speaking, mini mize an evil. Such pawnshops in Ger man cities are conservatively and cau tiously conducted, and only that pro portion of the intrinsic value of an ob ject is advanced - on it which it would -fetch at a forced sale, after deducting -the percentage for management, rent, etc., but on the other hand money is loaned quite readily on almost every article of 'household goods provided it be not too perishable or too bulky from a tinpan or sodiron to a stove, and every article, if it comes to a sale, finds its purchaser again, so that no losses are ever met with through reckless or Joolish management, and both re demption or sale of the articles conw asy. The public pawnshop of Berlin -was established 60 years ago, and branch offices were added as the need for them arose with the growth of the city. - But tome of the public loan offices in other ierman cities are much older, such as -the out in Kurembery, dating from 1618; Augsburg, 1601; Hamburg, 1650; and those at Dresdon, Munich. B res Ian, Frankfort-on-Main, and - other cities are all more than 100 years old. while those of Leipsic, Cologne, Strass burg and a dozen other cities date from the beginning of this century. General ly speaking, these municipal pawn shops are conducted in such a way as to satisfy the needs of the poorer classes, and complaints as to their management or their cost have not reached the press for many years. As to the Berlin system of poor re lief, which may, indeed, be termed a model one, data were- furnished in a previous article, but, properly speak ing, that chapter does not belong in this place. On the other hand, though, the sys tem now evolving and perfecting all over Germany and, particularly in Ber lin, having in view the facilitation of labor employment on both sides em ployer and employe deserves a spe cial word of comment. As I hinted, this system is still developing and is by no means a uniform one as yet. It is, however, on the way to be so, and as it finds employment and active aid from both the central government and the municipal authorities in hundreds of tierman cities, it is bound to work successfully in the end, its fruits thus far being, beyond question, highly beneficial to state, community and laborer alike. It will carry me too far to explain the system, so fax as the word may be used, in detail, but I will UNEMPLOYED LABORERS. here say that it is based on an ingeni ous Interchange of notices as to local ity, number, character and pay of la bor needed, this interchange of notices being carried on between, all the cities and provinces within the "pool, so to speak, and being furnished free of cost to both employe and laborer or me chanic Being still in the initiatory stage it cannot be said that this system of supplying labor where needed, of acting as a gratutious intelligence of fice on a large scale, is as yet working with any degree of perfection. But its results are, even now, of vast bene fit. Outside of Berlin it has been most successfully put in use throughout the industrial region of Rhenish Prussia and Westphalia, where there is always a large and diversified shifting popula tion. In Berlin, however, the system has largely decreased the number of unemployed all through the year and will decrease it more as tune goes on. In commenting on this important branch or public aid to the laboring classes I ,must not forget to mention, with some laudatory remarks, the kind ly efforts made by one Berlin newspaper towards the same end. This paper is the Local-Anzeiger, with a circulation of about 230.000.-1 believe, and whoso publishers, August ScherL, and editor. Hugo von Kupffer, are infusing some American pluck and enterprise into the otherwise rather sluggish journalistic world of Berlin. With a single motive of assisting the laboring classes in their endeavor to find remunerative employ ment, these gentlemen issue every day the Arbeit's market, a list of openings for every kind of mechanic and artisan furnished gratis to everybody applying tor it. All this, however,' is not charity, t-ut merely intended to aid those able and willing to work to find places where they may do so at a fair rate of re muneration. Purely charitable, though only of a temporary character, are the municipal asylums for the homeless and unemployed working classes. These in stitutions are more numerous and bet ter patronized, especially in winter oud during times of large strikes or general industrial depression, than similar in stitutions in New York or Chicago and other American cities. They are also, as far as I am able to judge, better con ducted. WOLF VON BCHUCBBRAKiX THE SODAWATEKTEADE. Pretty Girla Add Much . to Its : . Volume in Cities. Venermble United States ' Senator Telia Why Be Prefers Bright Eyed Women Clerks How the . Stall Is Blade. Special Washington Letter-! "I am fond of boys and young men, said an elderly senator to me this morn ing, "and I like to see them prosper. I always take pleasure in helping young men whenever I can. But I would rather walk three blocks on a hot day to have my. soda' water drawn by a pretty girl than a boy. ' There is a drug store on the corner near my residence. There is another on Connecticut avenue. There is an other at the Shoreham. But boys handle the faucets there, so I walk past all of them and go down to the drug store opposite the treasury department. because there I always find a couple of pretty girls, and I enjoy my soda bet ter in that place. While I sip it I look at the girls, and also at the customers. Lots of young fellows feel as I do about it, for I see them in that place every day flirting with the girls, and sometimes drinking two glasses, just for the sake of staying and talking with the little auburn-haired, vivacious, plump girl or her black-haired, sedate bister. "One morning, after several young fellows had been in there, while I was standing back taking my ice cream and vanilla soda, I asked the blond it she had ever waited on a sensible man. She looked at me quizzickly for a second. and then said: I can't remember a single one. They all think that we girls are light-headed fools, and we know that they are making fools of themselves all the time. "Then I asked her if she had many old gentlemen customers, and she re plied: 'There are seven or eight, count ing yourself, who come here to buy coda and flirt with us. That staggered me a bit, and I quit asking questions. I had no idea of flirting with the girls, but simply liked to see their bright faces and hear their chatter. But the girls had put me down as one of the old fools, and I came to the conclusion that they were right. Nevertheless, 1 shall continue to buy my soda there.' It is on a principal thoroughfare, and I "concluded to go there and see the girls myself. They are both very pret ty. The elder is always smiling. Some body, or a looking-glass, has told Tier that she has a pretty row of pearly teeth, and there is no reason why she should not smile. Her little sister is stately and dignified, but a thorough student of human nature, as she sees it from her station beside the foun tain. The young fools whom Senator S had mentioned were there buy ing soda. The girls were busy hand ling the faucets and making change. Several ladies came in, but the boys had the entire counter to themselves, nnd not one of them moved aside. Lit tle Miss Dignity mildly said: "Gentle men, will you kindly allow those la dies to take your places? She said it in a manner which indi cated that she was really weary, and if Mill . . I HAD NO IDEA dF FLIRTINO." the Johnnies, all of them reminded of their rudeness, stepped back and made room for the ladies. There were four of them, and all swell-looking. Not one of them was as pretty as either of the soda fountain girls, and they were as rude as the young gentlemen who had been driven away. They talked boisterously, and debated concerning the various sirups, as though the safety of the national treasury depended upon their conclusions. Meantime two el derly ladies stepped up to the end of the counter and gave their orders, and the girls promptly responded to thorn "I'll never come here again, said the loudest of the girls. "Come on. Julie. Come on, Mary. WeHl go somewhere else, where we can be waited on, and she flounced out of the door. Her com panions slowly followed her. It was awfully rude. Not one of them had given an order, but they were all offended because the elderly ladies were waited upon before they were attended to. The little girls behind the counter merely smiled, made change and con tinued drawing soda for others. II was a hot day. and the loss of a few ill-natured and ill-bred customers made no difference to the working girls. Be sides, in the course of a day in any city, a dozen of such experiences wonld not be uncommon. The world is full of cranks, and the real ladles and gentle men are not in the majority, by any means. Waiting for a lull in the trade, I or dered a glass of soda and had a chat with the girls. They will talk with any body, for that is a part of their business. to be entertaining. The elder said that she received four dollars per week and her little sister $3.50 per week, and that they were very glad to be help ful to the family. . We don t care whether it is a man or woman who orders soda, said the elder beauty. We are here simply to wait on customers. We don't care whether the customers are old or young, neb or poor, if they have the nickel to pay for their orders. We do not have any preferences concerning customers. If those young ladies had given their orders they would have been served first, - because they were here first. But the other ladies came right in and knew what they wanted, and got it. If that tall girl had given her order instead of going out complaining she would have been waited on very quickly and there would have been no delay. Yes, some fellows come here to flirt. but they don't make much progress. I guess we are as good as any of them, even if we are poor. We belong to Epiphany church and Sunday school. and nobody slights us because we have been obliged to go to work. One of the oldtime druggists saye: "When I waa a boy we made our own "WE'LL GO SOMEWHERE ELSE." soda water. Nowadays it is made for us, and we have simply to dispense it. It comes to us in ten gallon steel and metal-bound receptacles, highly charged. - We put the tanks under the fountain and draw from them until they are empty, and send them back to be re filled and recharged; and so the busi ness goes on from day to day. We get ours from Baltimore, and there are fac tories in all of the larger cities. We j ay 15 cents a gallon for our soda, and it costs us less than a cent a glass. We sell it at five cents, and the syrup costs us less than half a cent per glass, ion see we are making about 300 per cent. "Did you ever see soda water made? It is very simple, and very interesting. Soda water Is merely pure spring water charged with carbonic acid gas. It is made in large quantities. Water is abundant, and ordinary marble is full of carbonic acid which is easily re leased. At the factory they put a couple of barrels full of marble dust into a strong metal receiver, and pour over it an equal amount of water. The re ceiver is then hermetically sealed with no vent except one small pipe leading out of the top. That pipe leads into a little reservoir of water through which the gas must go to be purified,, and then the gas goes through a tube into a ten gallon receiver which is two-thirds full of pure spring water. That is the tank for the customers. "As soon as the marble dust and water have been sealed, a faucet is turned which allows sulphuric acid to slowly drip into the mixture. Violent chem ical combustion results. The carbonic acid in the marble is separated from the lime in the form of carbonic acid gas. and that ascends through the little pipe into the reservoir, and so on into the ten gallon tank. The latter is kept shaking violently on a swinging cradle, in order to keep the water in motion so that it will take up all the gas. When this ten gallon tank is thoroughly charged it is hermetically sealed and another tank put in its place, until all of the acid gas is extracted from the marble, and then the process is repeat ed. It is a dangerous business, and sometimes the tanks are exploded. blowing the factory to flinders. and maiming or killing the workmen. "The mineral waters are all manufac tured," continued the druggist. "You can order any kkal of mineral water and get it, but it is not genuine. The mineral waters are manufactured after the chemical formulas of the waters they represent, and they are practical ly as good, while being much cheaper. After talking freely about Vichy. Geyser, Kissengen and other waters, the old druggist said: "Did you ever drink root beer? A grea many men take it as s spring or summer medicine, but it isn t anything of the kind. Ne Kngland firms sell root beer in pack ages of dried roots, leaves and so forth. One package will make five gallons of root beer, after being stewed with sugar and finally diluted and boiled. The packages contain wintergreen. dandelion, spikenard, sarsaparilla, checkerberry, hops and juniper. That combination ought .to make anybody sick or well. . It is supposed to be a tonic, and maybe it is. but pure water and a little quinine will do me quite much good, and 1 know what I am tak ing.- - . BAH TH ii. FBI. Mot Inviting- More Collision. v "No, sir, Baid the man who bad wavered, "I won't learn to ride a bi cycle. I had thoughts of trying it, but I- have just heard of a peculiar trait in the machine that caused me to change my mind. 'What's that?" "I understand that when you first try to ride if you see anything you es pecially wish to avoid, you're almost certain to run into it. ' "There's a great deal of truth in it." "Well, that settles the wheel for me. I have enough trouble with bill col lectors as it is. Washington Star. " Hoist by Ills Own. Tffte. "You look all broke up this morning. What is the matter? . . "You know I bought a folding bed be cause my wife's mother was to visit us?" "Yes?" "She came last night.1 ill "And?" - . - "My wife put me in the room with the folding bed." Truth. MEAN, SELFISH MAN. Husband I wish you would stop this everlasting picking holes in your neigh bors. Wife Yes, that's just you. You never want me to have the least pleasure. Collier s Weekly. UBmbllnff In Kemedle. May I know to a certainty that Belle used to regard Jack as a veritable pill. - Frank She does yet. Didn t you know that she was preparing to take him for better or worse? Town Topics. V fRCDCRlClC Tis hr 5)oW tfie pub5Jl Ard ffjaflitfte a . ' s Wiih inK Wll pray One on the Old Man. WMCZZZ Mr. Chaftie Johnnie, your mother complains that you are disobedient. That's got to stop. You must o'o-y your mother. Johnnie Not much. It's you who have to obey her. It isn't me that's married to her. Texas Sifter. 2Vet;hborly Comment,' ; "I see the Jacksons, have put screens all around their piazza." "Yes, and I have my opinion of people who are so stingy they won't even let Dies ait on their porch." Chicago Bec ord. Load EnonfA. He Willie Westside was excused from carrying a bell on his wheel. Sine Why did they make him an ex ception ? He The judge said the trousers an swered every purpose. Buffalo Timt-s. Xne Bonrco of Supply. T see it speaks in the paper, hus band, about a town where there are 5,-000-odd inhabitants." . "That must be the place where all the freaks come from." Detroit Free Press. Tfnelr Inwardness. A man afflicted with strabismus came Into the street car and sat down rm the opposite aide. "Look, mamma!" exclaimed Tommy. His eyes is pigeon-toed, ain't they?" Chicago Tribune. sS S- v v- w , v TLnek of Experience Kvident. Old Physician What You called im Dr. Blank during my absence? Why, he's just out of college. : Patient Indeed? He certainly "b no a young man. Old Physician No, Toe's of middle age; but it's plain to see Toe's new to this business. . Why, I saw him this very morning looking sadly depressedl just because he had lost a patient. N Y. Weekly. i One on the Landlady. ! A Houston landlady makes a special ty of buying old chickens. Last Sun day she said to the star boarder! 1 "Mr. Smith, will you be so kind as to carve the fowl?" . . "Please excuse me. I have con scientious scruples," replied Smith. , "Conscientious scruples? "Yes, ma'am; this is Sunday, and X am opposed to hard work on. the Lord's day." Texas Sifter. j Heady for Anything-. Fair Patient Is there no way of tell ing exactly what is the matter witt me? Dr. Emdee Only a post-mortem ex amiatibn would reveal that. Fair Patient Then, for heaven's sake, make one. I don't see why I should be squeamish at such a time as thisv Pick-Me-Up. i . r Her .Response. ! "There's one thing," remarked Williei Washington, "that I have made up my: mind to." 1 "lleally? responded Miss Cayenne. with languid interest. "Yes. I shall never be a man of one idea." 1 "Don't say that.' You are still too) young to be discouraged. Washing ton Star. , . , A. Cruel Remark. "When are you going to publish thatt criticism on tny last novel?" asked an author oi tne euitor oi toe uaiiy nooier "To tell the truth, I haven't read yet." "But you told me that you would lose -no time in reading it." "Well, that's just what I've done." Texas Sifter. ( Lone Felt Want, He would be quickly rich and great , And never. harvs to beg, -Who could make for the candidate A patent rubber leg. 'Qphe pfirfirs pevil always-roatfo TW irx frc cWel fly; t. dhostCAK5 "The faTlcsT 1a0 . j reporters tyeir'm'ykKcpi ? fhe-edilorioJ fcKes doiesyor. devil -i "Dje JacT hoX meJ(e old "typo5 jort djvSSd . -i3ec.o.ux he 5Ayi lteir Proofs are bad. AndjuiTto m&Xfi Tpc f'ei . r . of dnetnorw, 'Wtyen prints o.devil are'no morr. vT Jinj lljcnr &nTbem$ hiqh. Aiorvq th&T qlirlcrinq. Golden ihore, ah6 tvoe. vd aAlorc. or printers gone before. , JTlrst Lessons In Business. Mrs. Wiggles How shall 1 indorse this check that Uncle John ha sent mt; simply sign my name on the back? , Mr. Wiggles Well, a better way will be to write on the back: 'Pay Algernon Wiggles, and then put your name un derneath. I will attend to the re at: . Somerville Journal. Frefemble. "Go to," said the city man to the hard fisted agriculturist, "you have hayseetl in your hair!" '. "I think that hayseed in my hair to preferable to wheels in my head, sucht as I perceive you harbor, was the rn ralite's reply. Vogue. A Question of Liability. Mechanic I've just been married antr I would like a raise in my wages. Employer I am sorry, but the com pany is OKly responsible for accidents that happen to the men while in the factory- Brooklyn Life. . . IVhy He Was Harocl. Teacher How did Pocahontas comer to save Capt. John Smith's life? Pupil 1. suppose she thought therev weren't enough Smiths in the world. Town Topics. Not WenK-Kneed. "I am afraid that man who aspires to your hand is too week-kneed to maker you a good husband," said her father "Oh, papa, he's not that! He's held, me on them for hours at -a tiiael" Illustrated Bits. , , 1