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The Mulhausen Industrial Fund for
Aged WOrkmen.

The Industrial Society, interesting it.
self IN considering the too generally sad
condition Of the wage-worker when the
season OF his activity had passed, saw
that it can hardly be expected that dur
ing his working season he could make,
without assistance, adequate provision
tor his old age, since the amount he could
possibly save from his wages was made
duate, and, besides, the wage-worker has
seldom the opportunity to become an ex-
pert In the technicalitics of investment.
As result Of their Investigations, in 1851
an association, which now consists of nine
| firms, was formed to meet the difficulty.
Their rules are as follows The work
men from the age of sixteen are given
the opportunity to deposit three per cent.
of their wages with the state treasury,
and at the same time the employers, for
the purpose Of encouraging this saving,
and to increase the amount deposited.
agree to contribute also three per cent. of
the wages paid the workers of both sexes
in their employ who have reached the
age of eighteen and sixteen. Two
| thirds of this last sum are to be added
to that deposit by the workmen, the
other third being used as fund for
paying the expenses of the accounts, to be
| distributed for the assistance of aged or
infrm employees, and finally for increas-
| ing the pensions, which were too small
to support their cipients. To further
the objects Of this association, from funds
collected by subscription, a large build
ing has been erected to serve as an asylum
for aged and Invalid workmen, and it
now shelters 256 such-men and women.
Hhe funds thus raised, invested, and on
hand to invest, amount to very nearly
100000 francs, and the manufacturers
have reduced their contributions to one
per cent. upon the amount Of wages paid
by them. The principle has. however,
been so thoroughly introduced into the
industry of Alsace that it is almost rule
! without exception, that the large indus
trial enterprises of that country consider
it duty they owe to their operatives to
provide for and to assist them by some
such plan. In some cases,where the fund
invested is large enough, the pensions are
paid without requiring the operatives to
! continue their contribution, thus enabling
| them to make immediate use Of all their
waOnS
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The Verdant Plumber.

Plumbers are looked upon as the nat.
ural subjects for jokes, doubtless from the
fact that only in that way can one get
even with their bills.
A plumbing establishment a few DAYS
ago took on new hand, just arrived from
Wales. On the day after his arrival a
water-pipe in downtown establishment
burst. He was told to go and attend to
it.
Seeing the owner of the house in the
shop he went up to him and got the par
ticulars of the accident, and then made
ready his tools and started The propri-
etor shouted:
"Where are you golng?"
The new man told him.
"Do you mean to tell me that you are
going down there to fix that pipe without
examining it?' he gasped.
"Why, l am going to look at it when
get there, said the man.
"Why,'' said the proprietor, catching
hold of the desk for support, s'can it be
possible that you would do job Of work
at one visit? Don't you know your trade
better than that? Have you no pride in
your business? Why, you'd rum the en-
tire community in less than year,"
And the speaker burst into tears. AS
soon as he grew calmer he explained to
the new man that he should first visit the
house and make thorough examination
Of the building, get the lay of the streets,
find the location Of the nearest hydrant,
go upon the roof Of the house, and then
return thoughtfully to the shop for his
tools, keeping an accurate account of the
time.
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Singing at Seaside Hotels.

Tea over and the weekday machinery
cleared away from the parlors and piazzas
in all the houses, the piano is opened, the
"Carmina Sacra" got out, and for an hour
or two the whole village is vocal with the
sober strains of ssHamburg' and "Mear-
or the lifting inspiration of ''Hold the
Fort" and "Pull for the Shore. As mu-
sic it doesn't touch the highest artistic
mark, certainly, but it is soothing and
sympathetic. Thoughtless misses and
stalwart young swells, who for six days
week know little melody but ssConasci
il suol" or MADAME Angot" feel the gen
tie infection and those who came to sheer
remain to sing. Quaint. isn't it, to see
young Biceps, just arrived with all his
blushing Springfield honors thick up on
him, roaring away like sturdy, red faced,
six-foot sucking dove, and rasping his
manly larynx with an intractable chro-
matte, as he locks over the book with
sweet Nelly s. the dainiest little devo-
tee who ever carried poor fellows
thoughts skyward on the wings of earth
ly sentiments But there is nothing like
proximity. Biceps won't be the worse for
little vicarious devotion; and if Nelly
can make him available in CONVERTIBLE
lor other) bonds, why shouldn't she?
So none Of your SOOTHING, you aesthetic
heathen If you don't like the music or
the spirit Of it, Light your cigarette and
take a stroll down the promenade. By
the time you get back the singing will
be over, and the crowed piazzas IN much
the same tide Of unsatisfed gossip and
Irritation as on ordinary evenings.
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Too Much in a Name.

Gentlemen who go about the world
burdened with names of great length and
unwieldiness should take courage. A
young man in Chicago has set them a
valuable example. His name was Charles
Oliver Brewster Brockway. His mother,
in brief season Of gratitude, had pinned
this potential patronymic to him. She
had been cured Of some serious malady
by one DR.. Charles Oliver Brewster, and
by the way perpetuating the name of her
benefactor, she had inflicted it upon her
helpless son. The other day the young
man, weary Of his load, appeared in the
Superior Court of Chicago and asked for
an abridgement. He set forth in his
petition that his concentrated name
could not be spoken without great labor
OF speech and great use Of time, no:
could it be written without uncommon
knowledge and skill in English lltera-
ture." These reasons were thought suf-
ticient by the Court, and by the petition
eG's instance he was permitted to lop of
the Brockway, there being to many Of
that name already. It has been sug-
gested that the young man should have
gone step further, suppressed the
SOLVER and stood before the admirino
world as plain Charles Brewster, with
license to condense the Charles in case
OF urgency. The tendency to overname
children is very great, and it is nuts.
ance against which CIVILIZATION should pro-
test. There is nothing SO simple aud
effective as simple Christian names. Men
with double names are always tempted tc
DIVIDE them In the middle, and this is
an abomination against which civilization
protests. A foppish title, such as j
Braithwaite Bogardus, or Joyce B. Bur.
joyce St. Arnard, when compared with
such a simple and powerful name as
John Smith, is as a bedecked bedizened
drum major to the unostentatious Napo.
leon in gray overcoat.
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That Awful Cow.

0There probably isn't a woman in North
America who isn't afraid of COWS. and
there is not COW in North America
which would harm one hair Of any wom-
ans head if it had the best chance in the
world and no other job on hand. We'd
nesday forenoon stray COW, perhaps from
the country for taste OF baled hay, found
gate open and entered yard on Second
street. The woman came to the front
door dressed to 60 out, but seeing the
COW she uttered scream and hurried
back. There wasn't thing in the yard
for the COW to damage or eat, and beng
tired she raised her cud, lay down and
began to chew away as if she had got
home from long visit to Europe. The
woman next appeared at side window
and called upon the COW to "get out"
A dog might have got but the COW
didn't. Then the woman threw rag at
the COW and called for the dog. The
dog didn't come and the rag didn' t
scare. Then the woman shook pill
low at the cow and peremptorily Or
dered her off the premises, but the bo
vine half closed her eyes and
let her thoughts run ahead to fly time.
AS the cow wouldn't go, and as the wo-
man couldn't go till the COW did, sterner
measures were resorted to. A tin pan
was held out of the window and beaten
with spoon, but that COW couldn't be
fooled into believing that the Fourth of
July had come. Then the woman went
into the back yard to throw clubs over
the fence and knock couple OF horns
off. The first one hit the window and
the next one banged the blinds on the
next house, and the cows horn stuck
tighter than ever. Cries of ''git out!"
were again resorted 10 without effect. and
then the woman watched at the front
door till she saw boy come along and
she opened it and cried out, ooh! bow
there's horrible COW in our yard! Prop
the gate open and get all the boys you
can and drive her out, and I'll give you
whole quarter Of dollar Hurry up, for
she looks as if she was getting ready to
come right in here.!'" The boy ''humped"
the dangerous animal out in thirty sec
onds, received his pay and the woman
gave up going down town for fear she
would have nervous spell.'
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There's the Difference.

Mr.. Bowerman and wife left for the
country yesterday. One could tell that
their trunks were not over half full, as
they were pitched into the baggage. car
with a crash. They began packing a
week ago. When the subject was breach
ed, he said he preferred to pack his own
trunk: and he didn't propose to be whole
month at it, either. All he intended to
take along was an extra suit, and he
could throw that in most any way.
1t struck him that he'd better put in an
extra pair Of boots as foundation, and
he flung 'em in and braced cm in The
corners with his clean shirts. The shirts
didn't seem to ride very well, and he
braced them with two pairs of trowsers.
Then he stuffed his Sunday coat pocket
with collars and cuffs, and found a place
for it, used his white vest for sschinking, .
and the balance of his clothing Just fitted
in nicely.
'The man who takes over ten minutes
to pack trunk is dolt!' said Mr.. Bow
erman, as he slammed down the lid and
turned the key.
Mrs. Bowerman had been at it just
seven days and seven nights, and when
the husband went upstairs at ten o'clock
she sat down before the open trunk with
tears in her eyes.
ssYou see how it is" she explained, as
he looked down upon her in awful con-
tempt. "I'ye got only part Of my dresses
in here, saying nothing of thousand
other things, and even now the lid won't
shut down. I've got such headache
must lop down for few minutes"
She went away to lop, and Mr. Bower.
man sat down and mused
"space is space. The use of space is
in knowing how to utilize it,
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Electric Executions.

That species of solemn fantastlcism for
which the Germans are famous has
reached about It's climax in letter of
leading Berlin papers The epistle reads
as it the ghosts Of Hoffman, and Hauf
had been galvanized from their graves
especially to write 1t.
Its author commences by deploring the
fact that our modern punishment for
murder simply makes the executiener
guilty Of the same crime as his victim;
that we can only avenge one ASSASSINATION
by another. A second source of regret to
him is that an execution has virtually be-
come species of brutal and degrading
show. In view of these facts, he suggests
the following Improvements in capital
punishment: ~
The scene of an execution shall be the
courtroom in which the sentence was
pronounced upon the murderer. The
walls of the room shall be draped in
black, and the windows somberly cur
tanned, in order to exclude all light. The
only article of furniture in the apart
ment shall be the Judges desk and an
arm chair. In the middle of the room
shall be an iron figure Of Justice, with
her scales and sword. This effgy shall
have IN place Of bowels as powerful an
electric battery as may be necessary.
The battery shall be connected with the
arm chair, and governed by mechanism
in connection with the scales. The scene
shall be lighted by single torch, burn
ing on the Judges desk. .a-....
The only persons admitted to the ex.
ecution shall be the Judge, jury and 9TH
er officials concerned in the condemna-
ton of the victim. That person shall be
brought in and seated in the chair, to
which he shall be manacled immovably.
Then the Judge shall read the story
of his crime to him and reiterate his sen
tence. This performed, he shall break a
rod of Office and toss it into Justices bal
ance. g.......
The scales will be weighed down by
this, and the electric current thus set in
circulation. AS the balance descends the
Judge shall distinguish 1.-THE torch, signi-
flying that he thus puts out the victims
So, in utter darkness, the subtle cur
rent Of the great battery will do its work
Unseen by mortal eyes the condemned
man will expiate his crime and justice
will literally avenge itself.
1t is understood that Edison will be
commissioned to make an experimental
electric statue at once.
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'HE GIvErH HIS BELOVED SLEEP,

Twas the sunset hour, and over the hills
The stately king of day,
With royal pomp like conqueror old,
through crimson arches and gates of gold,
Marches on in his glorious way.
In low-roofed cottage where woodbines
chung
And clustering roses smiled,
With reverent mein and robe Of white,
In the passing sunsets lingering light,
There kneeled little child.
The folded hands seemed tropical flower
With petals half unrolled;
And the sweet young face, like rosebud fair
With clustering rings of shining hair
Clasped like caly Of gold
A voice as sweet as blue-brd's note
Broke soft on the perfumed air,
While the rose bent low from the sheltering
And the woodbine hushed its whispering
As he breathed his evening prayer:
Now lay me down to sleep,
May be kept and blessed;
II should die before wake
pray thee, Lord, my soul to take
Into Thy perfect rest"
Slowly dropped the heavy lids;
Closer the the shades drew nigh;
Sleep, like tender mother, pressed
The weary head upon her breast,
And sang her lullaby.
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Born Lucky.

The New York correspondent Of the
Boston Gazette writes:
"It is better to be born lucky thar
ricb,' the proverb says, and believe it
You may be born rich and die poor, but
if you are lucky you will never want
A case IN point is that Of Mrs Mark Hop.
kins, the widow Of the California mil.
lionaire. She was school teacher IN
this city, and no longer a young girl,
when Mark Hopkins happened at the
same boarding house, wooed and won
her. They had no children, so she adopt
ed boy of seven years of age by the
name of Tim. He is nineteen now, and a
very amlablle, unspoiled fellow, not par
tlcularly bright, and not at all dull. His
adopted mother is perfectly devoted to
him, and INDUCES HIM in all his desires.
She is anxious for him to love literature,
and IS building a magnificent library for
him. During her last visit to New York
she bought $1,000 worth of rare books
from one importer. She buys knowingly
too. The house she has Just completed in
San Francisco cost $2,OOO,OOO and Her
ter fitted up two floors at 5000 900.
- AS ANoAAA 40 AAehSu1uCcui, Sdlu lin,
"lJust gave Herter carte blanche, and suits
of armor are hung on the walls, and he
has made it look like a CASTLE" Mrs
Hopkins travels en- princesse in her own
drawing room car, with French cook and
silver table service. Her bed room has a
large double bed in it, anu there is q
handsomely furnished parlor and kitchen
besides. When she stops anywhere the
car is switched of, and waits her pleas.
ure on side track. The last time she
was in New York it was brought up with
in few blocks of tie Windsor Hotel. ]
would not pretend to say how many mil
lions the widow Hopkins is worth, but
you can imagine from her manner of liy-
ing that it is goodly sum. And Tim
has he not been fortunate2 A poor bow
picked up to be the he + to such fortune
SO | say again it is better to be born lucky
than rich, for neither Mrs. Hopkins no,
Tim were bonn rich; but see what luck has
done for them.''
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Removing everything .hc began ,cnack.

Removing everything Ihc began rcpack-
ing. He found that silk dress could be
rolled to the size Of a quart Jug. A fresh
~ starched lawn was made to take the
place of a pair Of slippers. Her brown
bunting fitted into the niche she had re-
served for three handkerchiefs, and her
best bonnet was turned bottom up in its
box and packed full of Undertaking.
He sat there viewing sufficient empty
space to pack in a whole bed when she
returned and said he was the only real
good husband in this world, and she
kissed him on the nose as he turned the
key.
Its simply the difference between the
sexes was his patronizing reply as he
went down stairs to turn ON the burglar
alarm.
When that wife opened that trunk last
night ! But screams and shrieks
would avail nothing.
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Whom Victoria Has Outliyed,

And now, she looks back on the two and
forty years of her reign, what changes
has her majesty seen in the personnel Of
her privy council, her parliament and her
cabinet ministers, to say nothing of her
judicial and episcopal bench! She has
outllved every bishop and every judge
whom she found seated on those benches
in England, Scotland and Ireland. She
has witnessed the funeral of every premier
who has served under her except Lord
Beaconsfield and Mr.. Gladstone. Not
single cabinet minister of her uncle and
predecessors days now survives; and of
those who held inferior offices under her
first and favorite premier, Lord Mclburne,
I can find among the living only Lord
Halifax (then Mr.. Charles Wood and
Lord Howick (now Lord Grey.
OF the members of the privy council
which sat at Kensington palace on that
bright summer morning in June, 1887,
to administer the oaths to the girlish
queen. can find in the land of the living
only four indlviduals-Mr George S. By
ing (now Lord Strafford), Lord Robert
Grosvenor (now Lord Ebury), and the
veteran earl of Wilton.
Indeed, it may be said that her males
ty has lived to receive at court in very
many, perhaps in most, instances, the
successive wearcrs of the same coronet,
and she has been four Lords Beauchamp,
four Lords Aberdeen, four Dukes of New
castle, four Dukes pf Northumberland,
and five Lords Rodney. She has received
the homage Of four archbishops of Canter-
bury, of four archbishops Of York and of
five bishops Of Chichester, Litch6eld, and
Durham successfully. She has filled
each OF the three chief;justiceships twice
at least; she has received the address of
four successive speakers of the house of
commons; she has entrusted the great
seal of the kingdom to no less than nine
different Lord Chancellors, land she has
commissioned eight successive premiers
to form no less than thirteen different
administrations.
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81 . . y . p . e
beasts, the old fellow with the artistic
tendency was lost, mingling with the
crowd which surged around the animal
cages.
I do not know exactly whether there
is any more to this latter story. It is the
old thing of men missing their oppor-
tunitles, I suppose. Many of us blunder
through life, and make whole series of
miserable failures because we have not
found the profession we were adapted to.
That narrowing process of stopping up
round wholes with square pegs must ever
be going on. God only knows if that
chlrpy old man, who now, at seventy, is
making drawings of the lion, might not
have had In him once, many years ago
all the elements Of a Snyder or q Land
seer. He might have been the master
artist of the century.
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"FOUND DROWNED"

See where she lay, there, dead, alone,
Stretched on the cold, damp marble stone;
Naught but the constant drips
That fall upon her upturned lips
Disturbs the solemn, silent gloom
Which reign within the cheerless room.
otis but suicidew you say,
And thoughtlessly you turn away;
But could you know the wOeful tale
That lies behind that visage pale,
Perhaps you'd turn and heed once more
Her tale of sorrows full store.
"Found drowncdw-this is the verdict giver
Without thought of how she had strivcn,
With all her might, to force her way
'Ganst fearful trials, every day
Encountered in her path, and save
Her from Il watery grave.
You do not know the suffering borne
Ere from this earth herself she'd torn,
Upon this cold world cast away,
Mid sin and trouble doomed to stray,
She, to preserve spotless name,
Had drowned herself. Is she to blame?
10 rcSt ner weary nead-nO place;
Starvation stares her in the face;
No one kindly hand extends
No one her wretched lot befriends.
And thus, in her sad, frendless state,
Alone she met her dreadful fate.
Cold charity has closed its door-
Quite useless now to struggle more;
So, in her dark and blank despair,
Her pale lips murmur one short prayer.
With eyes upturned to Him who saves,
She leaps into the tossing waves.
And thus Dame Rumor every day
Announces in casual way
The story of a "body found
Of one who probably was drowned"
But seldom does she ever tell
The SORROWS which the wretch befell.
Let's pray with universal breath
For one who meets untimeIy death
Let all the bells of pity toll
A requiem for the poor ones soul;
And maybe God, e'er just and right,
Will bless and make her future bright
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AGOlden Crown.

If there is any class of persons who
need sympathy, tenderness and encour-
agement, it is the tired women Of our
pleasant land. Weary limbs and hearts,
puzzled brains, all attest the fact. There
should be special privileges granted to
them as much as to invalids. IT'S said
"Oyer all pathways the clouds must lower,
Under all feet some sharp thorns spring,
Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds,
Or entering the heart with their bitter sting;
Upon all brows rough winds must blow,
Over all shoulders cross must be lain,
Bowling the form in it's lofty height.
Down to the dust in bitter pain"
True, into all hands there are duties
thrust, and into all arms some heavy bur
dens given; to women doing double work,
anxious, scheming, planning and econo-
mizlng how they can manage every de-
tail Of domestic life with least expense.
Doing double, Oh! tri pie work themselves
to save for this and that until their nerves
are strained and shattered to degree un-
bearable to themselves, and particularly
offensive to others. But into all hearts
and homes and lives Gods dear sunshine
may be brought, gliding the ruins of
life's great plain, if only husbands or
fathers would but deal gently with the
wife or mother, cheer and brighten her
life by all the means in their power, for
she needs your help, and your sympathy
does much to buoy Der up, that she may
be nerved with fresh vigor to irnpart sun
shine in her home and to all who are a
constant drain upon her life and energies.
I believe it to be woman's duty to be a
cheerful companion, making her home a
model one, place where her husband
delights to be. And if trials come she
will find him ever ready to sympatbizc
and assist III making the pathway of life
smooth, and when our time on earth has
expired we have woven golden crown