The Press., 1892-04-14
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.

The best things any mortal hath
 Are those which every mortal shares. The air we breathe, the sky, the breeze,
 The light without us and within Life, with it's unlocked treasuries,
 Gods riches,-are for us to win.
 The grass is setter to my tread,
 For rest it yields unnumbered feet; Sweeter to me the wild-rose red, F.
 Because she makes the whole world
 sweet. Into your heavenly loneliness
 Ye welcomed me. o solemn peaks! And me in every guest you bless
 Who reverently your mystery seeks. And up the radiant peopledsway
 That opens into worlds unknown,
 It will be life's delight to say: |
 Heaven is not heaven for nae alone" Rich through my brethrens poverty! - Such wealth were hideous! I am blest Only in what they share with me,
 In what share with all the rest. Lucy Ldrcone.
 Edward Everett Hale. in the Cosmopolitan.)
 Proflt-Sharing.
 The end of 1891 saw one anniversary, at the very heart of this country, which may prove to mark an epoch in the social problems of our time. Three hundred workmen, belonging to the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company, of St. Louis, celebrated at Leclaire the successful transfer of it's works from the city of St. Louis to the town which has taken the name of the great Frenchman. Jean-Ld- mee Leclaire is the successful head of the cooperative industry in France, which has resulted so favorably for those who have united in it. MT. Nelson is, so far as I know, the largest manufacturer in America who has come cordially into this system. Satisfied sometime since that the expansion of the works of the Nelson company required their removal from St. Louis, MT. Nelson found in Illinois, not far distant from that city, 8 proper place for the erection of new works and for 8 village for the workmen. That town is now well forward, and the celebration oi the 18th of December last may be consid, cred as its baptism. The co-operators gave it the name of Lee laire, as have said, in honor of the great, Frenchman.
 Profit-sharing was inaugurated by the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company or March 6, 1886, to take effect on the 1st oi January preceding. The plan was out lined by MT. Nelson at the time of tht first announcement in March. At the close of the year the profits were to .bt divided as follows: first, the capital in vested was to be allowed the lowest mark ct rate of interest, which in 1886 was sev en per cent; second, ten per cent. of thu balance of the profit was to be set asid, as 8 guarantee fund to.provide agains losses in q bad year third, Q certain sun was to be set aside as . fund for the relic of sick and disabled workmen, and tn, relief of their families and of the familiei of deceased workmen. The rest of tn, profits was to be divided among the work CTS according to their earnings, and alst according to the amount of their stock every one being accorded the privilege O investing the dividend on his earning il stock. Employees who had not served the company six months within the yea; were to be excluded from the profit-shar ing.
 This plan, as then outlined, has beel followed with only few immatel ia changes ever since. The first year thu company paid the workmen dividend which amounted to five per cent. on thei earnings; the second year, ten per cent the third year, eight per cent; the fourtl year, ten per cent; the fifth year, ten pei cent, and the sixth year, the year 1891 seven per cent. Most of the 300 employ ees have become stockholders, and hay been drawing on an average nearly six teen per cent. on their stock. The n el who bought stock with their first year. f profits at the close of 1886 have receives interest on it as follows since then: fl 1887, regular dividend of seven per cent and special or second dividend of ten pc cent, making seventeen per cent. for tha year; in 1888, seven per cent. regular an eight per cent. special dividend; in <1S8 and 1890, six per cent. regular dividen and ten per cent. special, and in 1891 5 seven per cent. regular and six per cent special dividend. Every employee .wh has worked the entire six years has re ceived about half years extra salary i dividends on his earnings, and if he in vested his dividends in stock he has re ceived nearly as much more in dividend on that stock. If his salary has been, fo example, $600 year, he now has stock the amount of about $500, and has bee paid nearly $500 in cash on that stock. J This year the plan of division was s far modified that in future wages will rt ceive two per cent. for each one per cen that capital gets, after paying it the mil imum rate of interest. :..
 At the collation. which took place ( this meeting the workmen passed serie of resolutions, which are an interestin comment on the whole plan. The last { these resolutions is in these words: Resolved, That system which demol strates the possibility of reducing th . working hours from ten to mine withot any reduction in the wage standard which, in addition, gives every man 6 : interest in the profits proportionate to th salary he earns ;s which creates con munity such as this about us, with its ol portunities for independence and comfol such a city does not afford, and whic steadily prospers in commercial wa from year to year-a system which doe all this is no fabric of & dream, no evolv' ment of the impractical enthusiast. It
 business, it is humanity. Everybody is interested in such succes because it Is so clear that there is an il telligfble theory, at bottom on which SUI cess is founded. There is not 8 chaos rivalries or mush of compromises at concessions, from which success has bet dragged, like stray diamond, from u head of thistle.