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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

wife or dependent mother, and 81 for
each child. The allowance to the fani
lies of deceased employees is 81 to a
widow, So to each child under II, and
50 each to aged and disabled parents.
In addition to this, medical attendance
is provided in some cases and reasonable
funeral expenses are paid.
Educational Work.
The educational fund was also a fixed
sum at one time, but now there is an
endowment of $4,000 Of the stock of
the company. This educational fund is
even more literally bestowed than the
provident fund. To be beneficiary IN
der the provident fund man must have
been in the employ Of the company for
six months. To benefit through his chill
dren by the educational fund he need
not have been in the employ Of the
company at all.
Few Restrictions.
The streets of Leclaire have been laid
out by the company. and not only the
public but the private lawns are kept in
flowers by the public gardener and sup
piled from the public greenhouse. Gin
ders cover the well laid roads, and there
are plank walks feet wide as far as
the houses extend. Water mains have
been laid to all the houses, and running
water, the distillation of the steam from
the company's shops, is furnished free
to all. Electric lights are in all the
houses, and the charge for them is %
cents a month each. There are no sew
erS yet.
The House Owners.
The company does rent houses tenn
porarily, although it prefers in all cases
to sell. In fact, if it was willing to rent
all that were wanted, great number Of
the workingmen would be living in Lee
claire. But one of the chief objects of
the town is the encouragement of thrift,
and house renting is a luxury when
house owning is possible-to the poor
man at least. Rents in Leclaire range
from Sc to $12 a month.
In spite of these inducements less
than Is men have bought homes in Lee
claire. though there are 900 men now
working in the shops of the village. A
dozen men live at the clubhouse, not on
the cooperative plan, but as patrons of
a caterer. Mr.. Nelson says that he is
satisfied with what has been accom-
plished. He does not expect to make a
revolution in one year or many. He be-
ieves that his scheme has made some
men happier and more prosperous and
that it will help others. The success Of
his experiment is being watched by
many who have made a study of social
problems. Among these are DIR. E. E.
Hale and Professor John Fiske, who
have visited Leclaire and delivered lee
lures in the course which is held in the
schoolhouse every winter.
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
[special Correspondence.l

loPSSAS4 OOAACokOA0SaCSsI
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17.-Elghteen miles
from the city of ST. Louis on the line Of
the Wabash and the "Clover Leaf" rail-
roads is the town of Edwardsville, the
busy center Of a prosperous agricultural
country. Just outside the town limits
of Edwardsville, in what is known as
Leclaire village, an experiment. is being
tried-one of the many experiments con-
tinually being made with view to i'm
proving the relations of the working
man. The experimenter at Leclaire is
N. 0. Nelson, a prosperous st. Louis
manufacturer. Mr.. Nelson is an enthusi-
astio student of labor problems. Nine
years ago he attempted to solve one Of
them by establishing a system of profit
sharing in his factories. Most Of the
employees Of the corporation of which
Nj. Nelson is the moving spirit are
shareholders, and they divide with their
employer the profits of each year work.
Four years after the adopting of profit
sharing in his establishment Mr.. Nelson
began the execution of his idea for the
establishment of community in which
his employees could live more comfort
ably than in the crowded city, and in
WHICH bu6y COu1O D0 encouraged 10 D0-
come the owners Of their homes.
a Model Town.
Mr.. Nelson's first step was to buy a
farm of 1875 acres. 1t was located just
outside the town of Edwardsville, so
there should be no compulsion about
living there. The workmen in the shops
may, and, in fact, most Of them do,
live in the town. 1t was located beside
the railroad track for convenience in
shipping goods. It was situated between
groves of thick green woods, and two
well filed ponds guarantee supply of
water for the boilers. On this tract Of
land Mr.. Nelson began the erection of
workshops, moving his business gradu-
ally from st. Louis to Leclaire. About
one-haf his men are employed now at
Leclaire.
The place is called Leclaire village,
yet it has no government except the
laws of Illinois. 1t has not been incor-
porated under any municipal scheme.
There is no policeman to be found any
where within it's limits, and Mr.. Nelson
believes neither police nor sheriff will
ever be needed. It is, in fact, commu-
nifty, but since it is styled a village, for
the better understanding Of those who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
ALBERT GRIFFIN'S
BOOK.

He Has Written a New One on FL
nanciaI Subjects.
Albert Griffin. the well known Kansan,
who during the last state campaign
made free silver speeches from Repub-
lican standpoint, at Populist meetings,
has written book on the money ques-
ton which will be Issued from the print
ing house of his brother, s. l. Griffin &
Co, in Philadelphia, about January /.
Mr. Grifin's book is entitled "The Key
Note" The book is divided into five
parts on the following subjects: "Cause
and Cure of Panics;" Real Money and
'Standards';" "The Golden VAMPIRE"
"The Silver Cornucopia" and "What
Must We Do to be Saved"
The title page of the book reads: "The
Key Note, Substitute Honest Money for
Fictitious Credit. Honest money neither
cheats creditor nor robs debtors but
fictitious credit does both. An appeal
for genuine money from a Republican
standpoint. Facts and arguments sui.
mitted to those who think for themselves
by Albert Griffin"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
COLONEL w. F. CODY.
Some of His Varied Money Making
Schemes,
Especial Correspondence.1

Especial Correspondence
ATLANTA, Dec. 16.-A few days ago
it was my good fortune to run across
Colonel W. T. Cody in the corridor of
the Kimball House here, and 1 asked
him to tell me something about his vari-
Gus enterprises. Colonel Cody has so
long been familiar to the public through
his vast outdoor entertainment that it is
not generally known perhaps that he is
identified with numerous other money
making schemes. The colonel is aging
little; there are gray hairs in his mus
tache and goatee where none was no.
ticeable few years ago, but his figure
is still erect, his eye bright and his skin
as rudy as that of boy. He said:
LAS you may know. there were thou
sands Of acres of land in northern Ne
braska which were almost valueless by
reason of lack Of water. Several years
ago Ex-Governor Thayer Of Nebraska;
Paxton, the Omaha capitalist and hotel
man, and myself got few New York
ers interested in irrigating this vast
waste. We formed a stock company,
and, as result, now have the satisfac-
ton of seeing big crops growing where
before cactus could not subsist. We get
the water from the Platte river. All
this part of the state is now settled
largely by ex-New England farmers. I
also partly own the stage line which
runs from Sheridan, Wy, through the
Black Hills country, distance of sew
eral hundred miles. 1t pays big money,
although the railroad and the iron horse
are slowly encroaching on our territory.
Our line goes right through what was
the seat Of the great 'rustler' war of a
few years back. The Burlington route
has its terminus near Sheridan. put
up $40, 900 hotel at that place, and
even now it is regarded as a superb
structure, although there are stables in
New York which cost five times that
amount. had George Gould and Colo
mel John A. Cockerill out there as my
guests some time since.
''Then up at La Crosse, Wis, DR..
Powell and own and operate coffee
factory-that is, we make imitation
coffee, and call it tan malt. Powell is
an old scout whom the Indians used to
call White Beaver He was mayor of
La Crosse for several years. Tan malt
is not high sounding name, but it is
all right. It is not anything like the
'slum gullion' coffee Mark Twain tells
about in 'Roughing 1t. Uncle Sam
thinks enough of it to supply his army
and navy hospitals with it We also fur
nish some of the transatlantic steamship
lines, circuses and county jails with tan
malt. don't want to talk about my
self too much, but since you ask, own
1000 horses at North Platte, Neb., and
am constantly shipping them to the
markets of the east. I am also part
owner Of a daily newspaper published
at Duluth. -
Cody is wildly extravaganza or he
would be worth a great deal more than
he is. He lives like a prince. He did
not say anything about the Cody SAM
tarium" at Duluth, but it is fact that
he endowed that institution with $751;
600. AID. VANCE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

that the president has distorted the Mon
roe doctrine, with insinuations that he
has done SO for the purpose of serving
personal ends. Another's OK is gored.
Any construction of law or doctrine was
all right as long as only the common
people were robbed, and Mr.. Cleveland
was great man with a great head, but
just as soon as he said something likely
to affect disadvantageously the interest
of Wall street, he becomes in the Ian
guage of the New York World, guilty of
''causeless and unprovoked incendiar-
lam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

There were seventeen editors at the
recent Seventh district Republican edi-
torial association. Only one of them was
in favor of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and he was willing TO COM
promise. The others were in favor of
Observation-Disclosures News
That is. the editors were on the fence.
That's the reason many of theRepublican
editors of Kansas haven't a particle of
influence. They wait to see what their
local political boss tells them to say &C.
fore they speak. This kind of editors
are scarcely ornamental to the profession
aud they don't make any money, either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

WHILE the president and his secretary
of the treasury were Selling the consti-
tuition and the law and twisting them to
suit their own purposes and the purpos-
es of syndicate of bankers, there was
20 protest from Chauncsy NJ. Depew, or
any of his kind. As long as the common
people were the sufferers it was all right.
The law which provided that the obliga-
lions of tia government should be paid in
either gold or silver, and the law which
provided that bonds should be issued
only when necessary to redeem the
greenbacks, could both be ovsrridden
without a word Of complaint from the
sources above mentioned. But Just as
aoon as the president issued his Vsnezue-
Ian message, carrying with it a prospect
of war and the consequent demeraliza-
tion of the stock markets, and insstima-
bic pecuHiary loss to Depew, and
that crowd. q great howl goes up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
A Household Treasure.

D. w. Fuller, of Canajoharie, N. Y,
says that he always keeps DR.. Xii )
New Discovery in the house, and AIS
family has always found the very best
results follow its use; that he would not
be without it, if procurable. G, A. Dyke
man, druggist, Catskill, N. Y, says that
DR.. Kings New Discovery is undoubt-
eddy the best Cough remedy; that he
has used it in his family for eight years,
and it has never failed to do all that
is claimed for it. Why not try remedy
SO long tried and tested. Trial bottles
free at J. K. Jones' drug store. Regular
size SOC. and 81.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

COMMENTING on the detection of a
number of individuals and newspapers
who have hitherto been among the most
loyal supporters of the president in his
every act, the Atlanta Constitution says:
Above and beyond all the rest of the
phenomena that have sprung out of the
Venezuelan matter, the changed attitude
of the monied moguls and their retainer5
toward Mr.. Cleveland is the queerest
and most interesting. Men who have
been burning costly incense before the
presidents shriue-men who have fatty
declared that Mr.. Cleveland is a demi-
god, not only the wisest president that
ever sat in the executive chair, but by
far the greatest man the world has ever
seen-are now insisting that he is a
fraud, a humbug, and criminall Think
of thatl
1t was not Mr.. Cleveland they wero
worshiping after all, but the almighty
gold dollar, which the president has
helped to make more valuable. While
he was engaged in charging the profits
and filling the pockets of the moneyed
moguls he was a sage, solon, a demi-
god; but now that he turns his attention
TO the necessity of resisting British ag-
gressions on this continent he is fraud.
What an object lesson for the people of
this country!
It will be fortunate for the country if
Mr.. Cleveland should open his eyes to
the fact that the hysterical furry and
hutter in Wall Street is due less to hts
message than to the inherent aud incur
able weakness of the single gold stand
ard. 1t will be fortunate indeed for Mr.
Cleveland if he should open his eyes to
the fact that the representatives of the
money power will fawn on and flatter
him only so long as he confines himself
to ministsring to their demands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

The silver Republicans of Kansas will
find that in the approaching contest for
the election of delegates to the national
convention who will represent the senti-
ment of the majority they will be COM
PEELED to overcome the Influence of the
officials Of the state and of the Republi-
can organization, who are clearly on the
other side and will vote the state for a
goldbug candidate if permitted to do So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

Occasionally a teacher discovers rare
gift of condensation in a child at school.
One teacher in primary school the other
day told her small pupils the story of the
ass who put on the lions skin, and then
she commanded each child to write down
and hand in moral for the fable. This
was the moral which one little girl, aged
s, handed in: Don't be what you ain'tP'
If all our false color people would frame
that moral and hang it up on their
walls Boston Transcripts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

TIE agitation instituted by the Chicago
Civic Federation for three cent car fares
has caused a voluntary reduction on the
part of the managers to about 80 cents
or seven tickets for % cents. Chicago's
Civic Federation is continually doing
something for the good of the city and
the good of the people. What perfec-
ton We must have attained here in To-
peka since our Municipal League has
complained that it can find nothing to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

The history of Topeka shows that it
doubles itself every ten years. In 1870
it had 1900 people; in 1880, it had $4,000;
in 1890, it had 10000. So by a similar
method of computation it ought to have
10000 by 1900. This is not beyond the
reach of possibility, either But we must
work for our town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
A MnRK1NGMAN,s HOME

hear it spoken of, village will call it
in this brief description. Between the
shops and the community's tract of land
is high hedge fence which Mr.. Nell
son regards with peculiar fondness It
is the dividing line between authority
and independence, for the authority Of
the shops does not exist in any form in
the community, and the people of Le-
claire, whether they own or rent their
houses, are entirely free from restraint
at the hands of the company. Through
a break in the hedge a cinder drive leads
past the village store and the headquar-
tiers of the Pastime club to a public
parking, which is decorated with we'll
kept beds of Towering and foliage
plants. At this parking the road divides.
To the right it passes the new school
house, a small building of the Grecian
type, brilliant in its new coat of yellow
paint. To the left the road leads past
the clubhouse, which once stood where
the school now is, but which now turns
its back on the school building. Oppo-
site the clubhouse and beyond it are the
dwellings Of some Of the people Of Le-
claire. There are others opposite and be-
yond the schoolhouse. On a crossroad
which connects these parallel divisions
Of the main street are other dwellings.
All are of modest type, built of frame,
two stories high, differing one from an
other in style of architecture. The lots
on which the houses stand are all 100
feet front by 100 to $50 feet deep. The
price charged for this land is 50 per
front foot for interior and 50. so per
front foot for corner lots, with interest
at per cent from 1892. The company,
of which Mr.. Nelson is the head, builds
the houses after plans mutually agreed
on and sells houses and lots to employees
on monthly installments of $40 to $40
per month. The charge for the houses is
the cost of raw material and labor plus
the average profit made by the manufac-
turing business.
Rules For Payment.
The rules as to payments for houses
are not ironbound; nothing about Mr.
Nelson s plans is. Mr.. Nelson takes a
personal interest in each case and adj
justs the conditions to suit it. For ex-
ample, there is a neatly kept house in
Leclaire occupied by a man who has
been out of work for nearly year. He
was disabled shortly after he bought it.
He has paid nothing on the house since
he met with the accident, and the 1iv-
ing expenses of himself and his family
have been paid out of the proYident
fund of the company.
The provident fund and the educa-
tional fund are two features of Leclaire
which are worth noticing. The provi-
dent fund is an indefinite sum, appro-
priated to relieve the necessities of those
who are disabled while in the employ
of the company or those dependent on
them, and to provide for the widow ]
and the orphans of those who die while
in the company's employ The allow
anee on account Of disability is approx
mately So week for a grown employee,
So for a minor, So for an employees
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

WHEN the new bridge is started, the
new gas plant under way and the Santa
Fs shops running at full capacity, as
they doubtless will after the receivership
is ended, there should be prosperous
times for Toneka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

When Congress becomes really in
earnest about doing something for the
relief of the treasury embarrassment and
also for the benefit of the people, it will
take some action looking to the coinage
and use of the idle silver lying in the
governments vaults.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
Robert stephenson released.

Robert Stephenson was today released
from the county Jail by the county COM
missioners. He was sent to Jail from
Justice Guys court in default of paying a
So fine and costs, amounting to quite a
sum. He tried to get out on habeas
corpus, but failed. He will pay his fine
on the instalIment plan,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

THIS Democratic administration which
has been so industrious in the exercise of
economy in certain directions, should aid
in the passage of Congressman Curtis
bill for abolishing useless custom houses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
HOLIDAY RATES.
SANTA EE ROTTE

One aud one.third fare for the round
trip to points within 200 miles. Tickets
sold December "a, 20, 81 and January l;
good for return including January 2.
For further information, see
J. P. RowLEY,
City Ticket Agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
Americans In London.

A calculation recently mado gives the
number Of Americans in England, more
or less resident in London, at 10000.
twice as many as there are Frenchmen,
four times as many as there are Italians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

The Missouri Pacific will sell tickets
on Dec oath. 25th, 31st and Jan. 1st at
rate of one and one-third fares for the
round trip between all stations within 200
miles distance. Tickets will be limited
70 Jan. End for return passage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

We mend and sew on buttons free of
charge. Peerless Steam laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

II you want ALL the news subscribe
for the JoURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

Weather indications.
CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-For Kansas
Generally fair; rising temperature;
-southerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
FOR THOSE WHO TOLL
THE EXPERIMENT OF A PHlLAN-
THROPlC EMPLOYER.

Relations of Labor and Capital at Leclaire
vfllage-An Enterprise That Is Being
Closely Watched by Many Students of
the Social Problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

Try us on collars. We can make
them look like new. Peerless Steam
Laundry, 112 and ia W. Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

We can keep you cIean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. Eighth.
Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless
Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

By its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1885, it is shown 70
have a circulation. during the hrst six months
as stated, of a -
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-07-19
THE NEz PIERCE LANDS.
Thousands of Acres to Be Thrown
Opento Settlement in Fertile
Rapion.

Region.
Secretary Smith has requested
the treasury department to pay the
100000 due to the Nez Perez In
dians in Idaho, for their land sold
to the government in Idaho. The
payment was stopped two months
ago ON account Of chorges of fraud
of various sorts. Those have been
proven nnfounded, and there is no
further reason for delay. The
tribe comprises 1929 persons, each
of whom will receive a little over
$4,000.
The following section Of the law
sets forth the conditions and terms
Of entry of the lands to be thrown
open to settlement by the presi-
dents proclamation:
"That Immediately after the in.
surance and receipt by the indians,
Of trust patents for the allotted
lands, as provided;for in said agree
ment, the land SO ceded, sold, re-
linquished and conveyed to the
United States shall be opened TO
settlement by proclamation of the
president, and shall be subject to
disposal only under the homestead
townsite, stone and timber, and
mining laws Of the United States,
except the 10th and Both section
in each congressional township,
which shall be reserved for common
school purposes and be subject to
the law Of Idaho: Provided. That
each settler on said lands shall be-
fore making proof and receiving i
certificate of entry pay to the Uni
ted States for the land taken by
him, in addition to the fees pro-
vided by law, the sum Of So rs per
acre for agricultural lands, one
half of which shall be paid within
three years from the date Of or
iginal entry; and the sum Of $5 per
acre for stone. timber and mineral
lands, subject to the regulations
prescribed by existing laws; but
the rights Of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and sailors, as de-
fined and described in sections o.
304 and 2305 of the Revised Stat
utes Of the United States, shall not
be abridged except as to the sum
TO be paid as aforesaid"