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VOL. XIII. NO. 32
Samuel 1'. Orth writes as follows
in tlie New York Times of co-operative
enterprises in Great Britain:
After over sixty years of earnest
attempts in Great Britain to establish
co-operative productive societies there
are now seventy-nine societies in ex
istence whose combined capital is $3,
017,(MX), with an annual trade valued
at $0.23".(!(i0. Assuredly this is not a
formidable showing. This is largely
due to the lack of capital to finance.
On the other hand, it is easy to start
a co-oper.-itiVe store and keep it going,
because the amount of capital required
is not large, the number of employees
|s small, the amount- of managerial
*klll needed is limited, and the market
Is always at hand among those who
back the enterprise. As a consequence
the wholesale and retail societies have
grown enormously and with rapidly
Increasing wealth.
IN LABOR'S SHOPS
ik
HOW THE SCHEME WORKS.
Stores Are Prosperous, but Manufac
turing Societies Are of Slow Growth.
Spirit of Solidarity Manifest In Co
operative Workshops.
STATUS OF CU-UPlik ATI VE [NOUS 1 Rl At ISM IN EINULANI).
Leicester, a flourishing manufac
turing town, may be called the center
of co-operative production. Here the
Co-operative Productive federation has
its headquarters. This federation is
the practical organizing body of the
co-operators. The secretary of the
federation. Robert Halstead. was a
weaver's apprentice, became a eo
partnership workingman and now Is
a leading spirit in the movement. With
him as my guide I visited a number
of the productive societies in Leicester.
One of the oldest is the Co-operative
Printing society, established in 1S7G in
a little shop. It has flourished
found all the external evidences of
thrift and enthusiasm. These were al
ways ju evidence in every co-operative
shop I visited. I asked the various
foremen if they had any difficulty in
getting labor. One of theiu answered
"We have a long waiting list, almost
all of them shareholders in this con
cern. We get the pick of tlfe men.
Mind you. we consider printing an art.
and a very intelligent class of men up
ply."
I learned that there were very few
labor ructions. Once a foreman had
become unpopular and was retired.
But there lia\e b»eu no strikes. 'If any
employee becomes unreasonable or un
endurable he is fired, as in any other
shop. Only the committee gives him a
chance to be heard. The fact that he
is a stockholder does not shield him.
I questioned a considerable number
of the workmen. I found that nearly
all had experience in competitive shopn
and that they greatly preferred to
work for themselves, as they termed
their present employment.
One man said: "The spirit in this
shop is very different from that of any
other I have ever been in. There is
more care for the product here, the
men are not so wasteful. *ind we have
a self Interest in the output."
In one of the shoe shops I was told
that a workman was overheard saying
to his neighbor. "John, you have a biy
pile of waste today." The quarterly
balance sheet shows the profits of each
department, and there is rivalry among
the departments to make a good show
ing. "We always read the balance
sheet," one of the women told me
And I suppose that this vigilance is
one of the indications of the Success of
the copartnership idea
What I found in the Leicester shops
I found elsewhere in shoe factories
textile mills and printing works. One
may say that the productive co-opera
tive shops have always the pick of
the most industrious and ambitious
workmen that self interest stimulates
them to the greatest industry and
economy in their work. It would be
interesting to measure the waste In
a co-operative shoe shop and a com
petitive shop.
I was impressed with the superior
quality and intelligence of the man
agers and the up to date methods in
vogue.
It is not surprising to find a spirit
of solidarity among these workmen.
One of the elder women In a boot fac
tory put it this way: "Yes, I have
worked in other shops, but I like it
here best because we earn better
wages. And then we have sociables
and teas and all get acquainted, so
that we feel like one big family."
Secretary Halstead said to me: "It
takes brains and heart to be success
ful in co-operation. Not every kind
of business can be conducted on this
plan. We can succeed only in lines
of business that enlist intelligent and
expert workmen. Unskilled labor
would not be a practical field for us.
and contracting, for instance, is not
a good business for copartnership.
There is too much risk in it"
"Them.** I asked. "It take* money
too?"
He turned quickly and smiled
That is where, after all. we have our
greatest difficulty." he replied. "The
rlcl,
have not the heart to come to us
Compared with
nil
the great industries
in Great Britain we are small and in
significant financially. But our ob
i* .apt. t^gmke ftJl
industry eo-
t.
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onomriv\ nut on
Impossible a task. But we do elalin
to set an example of what industry
might be If organized more accord
ing to the heart and less according to
the purse."
VICTOR HUGO IN EXILE.
And the Attic Room In Which He
Wrote His Masterpiece.
A graphic description of a visit to
Victor Hugo in Guernsey and of bU
quaint home there is given by the late
Sir William Butler In his autobiogra
phy:
"Of the many curious things to be
seen in Hauteville house the master''*
sleeping room was the strangest. He
had built it on the roof between two
great blocks of chimneys. You as
cended to his workshop bedroom by
stairs which somewhat resembled a
ladder. Quite half of the room was
glass, and the view from it was mag
nificent. The isles of .lethou and Sark
were in the middle distance, and be
yond lay many a mile of the Norman
coast. A Id era ey lay to the north, and
beyond it one saw the glistening win
dows of the triple lighthouses of the
Casquet rocks and still more to the
right the high ridges overlooking Cher
bourg. The bed was a small camp
bedstead, with a table on one side of
it and a small desk chest of drawers
on the other, with pens, ink and paper
always within reach.
"Near the bed stood a small stove,
which lie lighted himself every morn
ing and on which he prepared his cafe
au lait: then work began at the large
table which stood in the glass alcove
a few feet from the foot of the bed.
This work w*it on till it was time to
dress and descend to dejeuner in the
room on the ground floor already de
scribed. As the sheets of writing pa
lter were finished they were number
ed and dropped on the floor, to be
picked up. arranged and put .away in
the drawer desk at the end of the
morning's labor. He called the writ
ing table his 'carpenter's I tench' and
the leaves which fell from it his 'shav
ings.'
"It was at this table and in this airy
attic that most of the great work of
his later life was done. Here wert
written 'Les Miserables.' 'Les Travail
leurs de la Mer' and many volumes of
poetry."
PAID WITH A FLAG.
Rich Ducal Estates In England With a
Curious Rental.
It is not generally known that on
the anniversary of Waterloo each year
-June IS. 18 in. was the original day
the I»uke of Wellington is required to
present the sovereign with a new flag
bearing the French colors as an ac
knowledgment that his grace holds the
manor of Strathfieldsaye at the will
and pleasure of the king, that estate
having been presented to the Iron Duke
as a natioual gift for his success over
Napoleon at Waterloo.
The ceremony of the presentation of
the flag Is today much shorn of fts
ancient glory, for formerly the ruling
duke used to bring the trophy himself
on horseback and personally offered it
to the monarch. Nowadays it is sent
by deputy, however, and is then placed
by some appointed equerry in the po
sition assigned to it—namely, over the
marble bust of the old *f)uke of Wei
llngton that stands on Its pedestal In
the guardroom at Windsor castle. The
flag which has rested there during tlie
preceding year is then taken down and
returned to the duke's messenger.
It is on the special condition of thus
rendering this annual tribute of feudal
service, as we may call it. that the
reigning duke Is allowed to retain the
splendid estate already mentioned. If
he omits to send the banner on the
proper day he forfeits the right to the
estates.
The same principle applies to the
beautiful domains of Blenheim held
by the Duke of Marlborough, who sim
ilarly has to send a new flag on each
anniversary of the battle (Aug. 13,
1704). The banner is placed over the
bust of the noted Duke of Marlbor
ough, also in the guardroom at Wind
sor.—London Sphere.
Terrors of Anticipation.
An old German farmer entered the
office of a wholesale druggist one
morning and addressed the proprietor,
"Mr. Becker, I haf der schmall pox"—
"Merciful heavens. Mr. Jacobs!" ex
claimed Becker as the office force
scrambled over each other in their
hurry to get out. "Iop't come any
nearer!".
"Vot's der madder mit you fellers,
anyhow?" quietly replied Jacobs. "I
say 1 haf der schmall pox of butter out
in mine wagon, vot der Mrs. Becker
ortered las' week alreaty."—National
Food Magazine.
A Story of Beau Nash.
Beau Nash was not eutirely a butter
fly, as Is proved by the following anec
dote: His father was a partner in
it
glass business at Swansea. This was
little known, and the Duchess of Marl
borough once twitted him with the ob
scurity of his birth. "Madam." replied
Nash. "1 seldom mention my father In
company, not because 1 have any rea
ww to i*e aajjuuied of him. but because
he has some reason to ne asimiueu at
me."
Another Maxim Mangled.
"Success will come to any one who
perseveres."
"I am not so sure about that. I have
been married for ten years now, and
my husband hasn't liked anything that
1 have had for dinner yet"—Pittsburgh
Post.
A Glaring One.
Teacher—)n the sentence. "The sick
boy loves his medicine." what part of
speech is "love?" Johnny—It's a fib,
loum—London Tit-Bits.
Long Was Short.
Manager Did you collect that bill
from oh' man Long? Collector—No he
was in, but he
was out—Boston Tran
script.
MADE A GOOD GUESS.
He
Had
No Thermometer
to
Tell
The winner's mean temperature
agreed within a few tenths of a degree
with the actual mean temperature of
the month, and the mean of all the
competitors' mean temperature gave a
result that was almost exactly correct.
So if we had-been so unlucky as to
lose all our thermometers we should
not have been entirely at a loss.
What Pepys Saw In Church.
Once Pepys goes to Hackney church,
"chiefly," he says, "to see the young
ladies of the school, whereof there is
great store and very pretty." And on
another Sunday, "After dinner I did
by water alone to Westminster to the
parish church, and there did entertain
myself with the perspective glass up
and down the church, by which I had
great pleasure of.seeing and gazing at
a great many very fine women and
what with that and sleeping, I passed
away the time till the sermon was
done." And again on a Sunday after
noon to the same church, "thinking-to
see Betty Michel! and stay an hour in
the crowd, thinking by the end of a
nose that I saw that It had been her,
but at last the head was turned to
ward me and It was her mother,
which vexed me."—George Hodges in
the Atlantic.
He Had Been "There.
"Can you direct me to the best hotel
in this town?'' asked the stranger who,
after sadly watching the train depart,
had set his satchel upon the station
platform.
"1 can," replied the man who was
waiting for a train going the other
ray, "but I hate
to do It"
"Why?"
"Because you will think after you've
seen It that I'm a Mar."—Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Physical Geography.
The following answer was recently
given in a geography examination in
reply to the question, "From what di
rection do most of our rains come?"
Most of our rains come straight
down, but some
of
way*.
He
them
come side-
Told One Truth,
(during the quarreli—'Then,
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY,
Hint
the Temperature.
It often happens on sledge journeys
among the arctic ice that the thermom
eters are broken. In that case the
party finds itself without any means of
determining the temperature. But
Roald Amundsen, tlie discoverer of the
south pole, says that if the explorer
accustoms himself to guess the tem
perature it is possible to estimate the
mean temperature for a month with a
fair degree of accuracy. This fact he
proved by means of a guessing compe
tition during the winter that his party
spent In camp on the great ice barrier.
As each man came in in the morning
he gave his opinion of the temperature
outside, and each guess was entered in
a book. At 'the end of the month I
went over the figures, and the man
who had guessed correctly the great
est number of times won the prize—a
few cigars. Besides giving practice in
estimating degrees of cold, it was a
very good diversion with which to be
gin the day. When one day Is almost
exactly like another the first hour of
the morning is likely to be a little sour.
The competition engaged every one's
attention pleasantly. Each man's en
trance was awaited with excitement,
and one man was not permitted to
make his guess in the hearing of the
man who followed him. Therefore
they had to speak as they came in, one
by one.
"Now, Stubberud," 1 would say,
"what's the temperature today?"
Stubberud had his own way of cal
culating. which I never succeeded in
understanding. One day. for instance,
he looked about him and studied the
various faces. "It isn't warm today,"
he said at last, with a great deal of
conviction. I could immediately en^
courage him with the assurance that
he had guessed correctly. It was —09
degrees F.!
The monthly results were very inter
esting. So far as 1 can remember, the
best performance In any month was
eight approximately correct guesses
A man might keep remarkably close to
the actual temperature for a long time
and then suddenly one day make au
error of degrees.
by
your own account. 1 didn't tell you a
single truth before we were married.
She—You did one you said you were
unworthy of me.—Boston Transcript
No true nnd permanent fame can be
founded except in labors which pro
mote the happiness of mankind.—
Charles Sumner.
Moderation is the silken string run
ning through the pearl chain of hU
Virtues.- Fuller.
"to
THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
It* Name Does Not Quite Fit Thia
Wondrous Constellation.
The Southern Cross, wonderful alike
to those living In the southern half
of the world and to the tourist thereto,
is one of the most conspicuous and in
teresting of all tlie southern configura
tions.
Situated at a distance of about thirty
degrees from the south pole, it Is plain
ly visible In all regions south of the
equator, and also to some distance
north, about as far as the tropic of
Cancer. The farther south one travels
the higher in the heavens will appear
the cross, and naturally the more con
spicuous It becomes.
It seems to have received Its name,
not like the northern constellations
from the ancients, but. like* most of the
southern configurations from the Por
tuguese navigators, during their ex
plorations Into the southern waters.
It Is said that when Dante came out
from "Inferno" he declared that he
had seen a mighty cross set in the
southern firmament, and the ravlga
tors set about to find such a figure
and settled upon this one as best ful
filling the conditions. That It Is diffi
cult, at first glance, to picture this as
a true cross. Is not suprlsing, for had
It been named the "kite," a much
closer representation could have been
imagined. The so called "false cross,"
midway between the cross and the
bright star Canopus. although coin
posed of fainter stars. Is much more
regular and symmetrical in shape.
Taken all in all. this constellation of
the Southern Cross, which has been
the wonder of centuries, still holds Us
place as a remarkable curiosity, even
with the advance of astronomical lu
vestigatlon. and with the data obtain
ed from the spectroscope and the
photograph, our efforts still find un
limited problems yet to be solved. And,
above all others, that of the Southern
Cross is vet far from a complete solu
tion —Leon Campbell In "Peru Today."
PUZZLES OF SLEEP.
Noise and Slumber and the Marvelous
Rapidity of Dreams.
Both Bismarck and Pepys found that
noise enhanced the value of a night's
rest. Bismarck confidef in his old age
to an interviewer that he could "never
sleep In Berlin at night when it is
quiet, but as soon as the noise begins,
about 4 o'clock in the morning, 1 can
sleep a little and get my rest for the
day."
Pepys records in his diary on Sept
23, 10tn, niat WM^f jrt"Wetting "and
still remember It that of all the nights
that ever 1 slept in my life I never did
pass a night with more epicurism of
sleep there being now and then a
noise of people that waked me, and
then it was a very rainy night, and
then I was a little weary, that what
between waking and then sleeping
again, one after another, 1 never had
so much content in all my life."
The probability that we get snatches
of sleep at odd moments when we sup
pose ourselves to have remained con
tinuously awake Is supported by the
phenomena of dreams. Mark Twain
accounted for his own "disappearing
visitor" by the belief that he had un
consciously had a very short nap. and
many have explained visions of ghosts
as due to dreams during such short
naps
For nothing is better established la
connection with dreams than that an
apparently very long one can occur
during an almost infinitesimal time.
Alfred Maury had a long, vivid dream
of the reign of terror, including the
trial of himself before the revolution
ary tribunal and his execution, and
was able to show that I# all happened
during the moment of awakening by
the fall of a rod from the bed cauopy
upon his neck. —London Chronicle.
Nogi's Nerve Tonic.
Having been dedicated to the pro
fession of arms. (Jeneral Nogi was
taken, while still a small boy, to see a
criminal decapitated and was rebuked
for shuddering at the spectacle. After
nightfall, when all was darkuess and
silence, he was required to go alone to
the burial ground and bring back the
culprit's head The ordeal was de
signed to strengthen his nerves and
teach him to fear nothing, living or
dead —Francis E. Leupp In Atlantic.
Our Language.
An intelligent foreigner is said" to
have expressed himself after the fol
lowing fashion on the absurdities of
the English language: "When I dis
covered that I was quick, I was fast
if 1 Rtood firm. I was fast if 1 spent
too freely. 1 was fast, and that not to
eat was to fast. 1 was discouraged.
But when I came across the sentence,
'The first one wou one $1 prize,' I was
tempted to give up English and learn
some other iauguage."
Neatly Turned.
Jack—I hear that you called on your
girl's father. How did you come out?
Tom- So so! I said to him. "Mr. X.,
love your daughter He said. "So do
I now let's talk of something else."
Jack-And. then— Tom—Then-well,
we talked of something else -ftoston
Transcript
Her Talk Not Dead.
"I understand that your wife Is
a
student of the dead languages."
"Yes," replied Mr. Meekton "But her
studies are of no particular advantage.
When she talks to me she ipsists on
using language that 1 can't fail to un
derstand "-Washington Star.
Talent's Advantage.
Willie— Paw. what is the difference
between genius and talent? Paw
Talent gets paid every Saturday, my
vm.—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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NOVEMBER 14, 1913.
MODERNIZED THE ANGEL
Mounted on Ball Bearings, It NowAeta
as a Weather Vane.
There are many kinds of angels
ranging in style from those we read
about In the Bible to those who bring
out talent on the stage. It has remain
ed, however, for a writer in the Amer
ican Machinist to discover a new type
of
the seraphic assortment. This an
gel Is "ball bearing" and entirely un
like the common or garden variety
of angels. It stands on top of the fa
mous tower known as the Campanile
di San Marco, In Venice, and swings to
the wind like a weather vane.
The statue of the angel San Marco,
which surveyed the old city of Lagunes
since the sixteenth century, was found
but little damaged among the ruins
after the collapse of the tower. It was
repaired and now stands again on the
iofty height, but is supported in a very
different manner from the old, for it
now rests on modern ball bearings.
This method of mounting allows the
statue to be turned around a vertical
axis by the wind, so that It swings au
tomatically into such a position that
the angel always presents the small
est surface to the wind or storm. If
one considers that the large wings of
the angel, which are eleven feet high,
project straight backward, It may be
imagined that the difference of the
wind pressure is considerable, whether
the wind blows against the small front
surface or against the side exposing
the large face of the wings.
THE DREAM CAME TRUE.
But Washington Warned "Light Hor*c
Harry" to Dream No More.
The relations that existed betwe
General Washington and his young'
friend, "Light Horse Ilarry" Lee—tl
father of General Robert E. Lee—we
exceedingly close and tender. It
an authentic tradition In the Lee fai
lly that Washington regarded the br
liant young cavalry officer almost
the light of a son.
Lee was Inclined to be a spendthril
and his lavish use of money oft
brought on him the paternal reprowi
of his older and more discreet friend—
and the reproof was often followed by
affectionate assistance in extricating
him from his embarrassments.
Mrs. Washington was almost equally
fond of the young officer, who often
made long visits at Mount Vernon.
During one of his sojourns there,
Harry Lee remarked to his host at
the breakfast table:
"General. I had a singular dream
last litstitrwirfch-1tfmgrtetl your i
actually dreamed that 3'ou made me a
present of your Westmoreland place."
The next day, at the dinner table,
Harry Lee found under his plate a
document—nothing less than a deed to
him of the Westmoreland estate. For
some moments, dazed with astonish
ment. he stared at his friend.
"Now. Ilarry." said Washington
calmly, "take good care not to dream
"Mount Vernon away from me!"
Juvenile Ideas.
A little girl once said to me. "Are
there people on the moon?" I said I
didn't know, but that perhaps there
were. "Well, what do they do," she
said, "when there's only a little bit?
They must get very crowded. Don't
they?" Which was almost as perplex
Ing as the query put to me by another
little maiden, who asked. "What do
angels do with their wings when they
lie down and go to bed?"
Very quaint was the idea of a little
girl who was once visiting a house
where a small child had died recently
She was asked to draw something. So
she drew a grave with some flowers
on it. Her mother, on seeing it, said.
"Janle. you mustn't do that Mrs.
wouldn't like it You see. it reminds
her of very sad things." "Oh. well,"
said the child, "perhaps it was thought
less of me, but I can easily turn it into
a beehive." And she did. with all the
bees coming out -Hilda Cowham in
Strand Magazine.
Time Enough.
"Some women make me very tired."
said the first agitatress. "I asked one
woman if she believed in woman
suffrage, and she didn't know she'd
have to ask her husband."
"Did you find out how long she had
been married?" asked the second agi
tatress.
"Yes. Three weeks."
"Oh, never mind I guess she'll do
to call on again in a year or so."—New
York World.
An A Curiosity.
The following paragraph Is made up
of twenty-six words, each beginning
with a different letter of the alphabet,
their arrangement corresponding exact
ly with the sequence of the alphabet-
A boy certainly does enjoy fun great
ly. He Incites Joy. keeps laughin
makes noises or plays quite riotous!
seeming to unceasingly vibrate wi
x-cessive youthful zest! New Yo:
World.
Mutual Worry.
Mrs. Call—It's too bad of you. Ethei
to worry your mamma so. Ethel lag. i
five, tearfully)-Oh. well. Mrs Call,
you'd live with mamma as long as 5
have you'd know which of us was u
blame.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Poor Jack.
Clara—Jack, intends to have all bi
own way when we are married. Clari
Mamma—Then why do you want
marry him? Clara—To relieve hi*
mind of a false Impression.
Poor Man.
"Is the man your sister is goia*
y
Quite Superfluous.
Mrs. Ellsworth had a new colored
|tnId. One morning, as the maid came
downstairs, the mistress said:
"Emma, did you knock at Miss
Flora's door when 1 sent you up with
her breakfast?"
'No. ma'am." replied the maid, with
preternatural gravity. "What was de
nse ob a-knockiir at her do' w'en 1
knowed fo' sure she was In dar?"—
New York Post
In the Same Boat.
Her Dad (sternly)- So you want to
marry my daughter, do you? Scared
Rultor -Y-yes. sir. b-b-but not any
worse than she wants to marry
me.—
Boston Transcript.
He Is the truly courageous man who
never desponds. —Confucius.
Placing the Blame.
Mr. Knagg ~lt may be true, as yon
say, you were too young to marry me.
Mrs. Knagg—Don't try to shift the
blame you were too old for me.—Chi
cago News.
The eventless time Is the happy
time, but we do not realize that till we
have had the exciting experiences
which break us.
A man who covers himself with cost
ly apparel and neglects his mind is like
lne who illuminates the outside of bis
house and sits within in the dark.
The
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to
marry rich?'
"Naw. Every time the marriage is
mentioned pa sayB, 'Poor manfM—
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Checking It Up to Father.
That parents should exercise the
greatest care In speaking of family se
crets In the presence of little children
was proved by the experience of a
.North avenue resident recently:
The man in question was visiting a
maiden aunt, who is extremely stout
and very sensitive about it.
A four-year-old boj who accompa
nied his father looked very carefully
at the rotund form of bis relative and
then inquired, with a friendly smile:
"Aunt Myrtle, you don't have to put
ashes in the bed to keep from slipping
out. do you?"
Then when the man held up his
hands In consternation the youngster
exclaimed:
"There, papa she says she doesn't,"
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Fun In Space.
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nun. earth, moon and stars.
"I'm no coward." said the earth.
"No. but you have two great fears,"
said the sun hotly.
"And those are?"
"The hemispheres.'
"You've forgotten
put in the moon.
who had no business to
wagged his tall with Joy.
the atmosphere,"
And the comet,
be there,
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