The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-06-19

be borne to n hot coal or end OF n cigar
In case of poisoning, excite vomiting
by tickling the throat, or by warm water
and mustard.
For acid poisons, give alkalies for
alkaline poisons, give acids, white OF
egg is good in most cases; in a case OF
opium poisoning give strong coffee, and
keep moving.
If in water, float on the back, with
the nose and mouth projecting
For apoplexy, raise the head and
body; for fainting, lay the person Hat.
The Cooperative Movement.
Bat it is impossible to bring before
you in the space ] have at my disposal
any thing like proofs OF n 1.-THE OF the
good which this movement has done
how it is steadily strengthening and
purifying the daily lives of a great sec
ton of our people, | wish ] could
induce all here to look into tho matter
carefully for themselves. Meantime l
may say TINT it has in the first place
| delivered the poor in q number OF our
great towns from tho credit system,
which lay 30 hard on them twenty years
ago, for the cooperative system is
founded s%crupulously on rcady-money
dealings. Next, it has delivered the
poor from adulterated goods and short
weight and measure. 1t has developed
among them honesty, thrift, fore
thought, and made them feel that they
cannot raise themselves without help
ing their noighbors.
The management of business concerns
of tlis magnitude has developed IN ex-
tr~aordinary amount of ability among
the leading members, who, in com
mittoes, and as secretaries and buyers,
conduct the affairs of the stores through
ont the country. As their funds have
accumulated, they have been invested
in cOrn-millB and cotton-mills, most Of
which have been managed with great
ability and honesty, and are returning
IargG profits. There have been failures,
Of course, as there must be in all move
ments but in scarcely any cases have
these been owing to the deep-seatcd
dishonesty, the lying, the putting, and
trickery, which have brought down in
d~isgraccful ruin SO many OF our joint
stock companies. | have been speaking
hitherto chiefly Of the societies known
as cooperative stores which are con-
cernoa with distribution; but associa-
tions for production are now multiply
ing, and Mt least as great results may be
looked for from them. In those few
which | have had tho opportunity Of
watching, / can speak with the greatest
confidence Of the admirable influence
they have exercised on the character
and habits Of the associates. But |
prefer to call in here the -stimony Of
ono who has had as much experience
and done Us much work for the Co
operative movement in England ms any
living man. off," writes Mr.. Ludlow,
ga cooperative workshop has sufficient
elements Of vitality to outlast the in.
evitable storms and struggles of its first
few years, it begins to develop n most
remarkable series of results. Co-opera-
ton first expels from the shop drunken
ness, and all open disorder, which are
found wholly inconsistent with its sue
cess introducing in their stead a num-
Der of small adjustments and contri-
vances of u nature to facilitate work, or
promote the comfort Of the worker. BY
degrees it exterminates, in turn, the
small tricks and dishonesties of work
which the opposition Of interests be-
tween the employers and employed too
often excuses in the workers eyes it is
felt to be the interest of each and all
that all work should be good-that no
time should be lost. Fixity of employ
ment meanwhile, coupled with a COM
mon interest, creates new ties between
man and man, suggests new forms of
fellowship till there grows up n sort of
family feeling, the only danger of which
is, its becoming exclusive toward the
outside. Let this state Of things last a
while and there is literally developed a
new type OF working-mon, endued not
only with that honesty and frankness,
that kindness and true courtesy, which
distinguish the best specimens of the
order wherever they may be placed, but
with a dignity and self-respect, a sense
of conscious freedom, which are pecu-
lar to the c~o-operator. The writer met
such a type first in the Associa-
tons Ouvrieres Of Paris. He has since
mad the happiness Of seeing it repro
duced, with variations as slight rs the
ainerences Of nationality might render |
unavoidable, in English co-operative
workshops and he therefore believes {
that its development may be conadar,' ,
ly looked forward to a. a normal ,e.u,.
of cooperative production."-Macmn
lan's Magazine.
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