The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-21

without Guessing over the story very
much.
We'll" asked the manager. do you
think you are through with the booze
game
In all human probability | am" re-
piled johnson cautiously, a. usual with
him in those days. Il have made a
good many resolutions. but I think |
am through. | think | have a little
sand left"
After this talk Johnson was put to
work in the shipping department,
where he had a good chance to become
acquainted with the finished goods. a
couple of months later he was on the
road as a salesman. He made good
and after four years became manager
Of an important branch store. in which
position he has now been for three
years. His salary has been raised re-
peatedly.
He is on his feet Financially. physi-
cally and morally. His home is re-
established. His wife keeps house for
her own husband and the children are
back under me roof tree.
For our next example, in which the
springs of action are more subtle than
in either of the previous cases. we
must shift the scene from Massachu-
sets to New Jersey and to the Self
Master Colony. This colony sits on
the crown Of a hill a few miles from
Elizabeth, y. j. II consists of nifty
acres of land, surrounding an old
Colonial mansion-lately lefurhlshed
tin its tall columns CLEAN like marble
shafts among the trees-with the
usual complement of outbuildings,
which. however, instead of housing
horses, cows. fodder and agricultural
machinery, contain a printing office, a
rug factory and other features of an
industrial home, with a very limited
farming equipment crowded into one
side Of the large barn.
Along II side of the colony runs a
country road with an interurban street
ear line. and on the side of the terrace
overlooking this road, where all
passcrS may see, the words self
Master Colony are embroidered IN
CObblcstuues. ON two other terraces
in other parts of the grounds the same
legend appears, also crucheted IN
cobbles, Self Master" This one idea
is branded all over the place, which is
a strangely unconventional home for
men who from whatever cause have
lost their grip and want to get their
hands back on the rope. As whiskey
is the greatest grip loosener known to
civilization the most of the men at the
colony are alcoholics,
The presiding genius is a man
named Address Floyd, but there is an
assistant genius of great importance,
Lillian Blanche Floyd, who is his wife,
The Floyds are young. Address was
born in New England, but for all that
is a Greek mystic. A few years ago
he was a Wall Street broker picking
up hundreds Of thousands on IA turn
of the wheel, but the wheel turned
once TOO often aud he iost-,ost ,vory
dollar-lost even every interest In
making dollars. Since then he has de-
voted himself to picking up mer
after the very strange principle en-
bodied in the Self Master Colony.
Across the road from the colony Il
Rilcys-a typical country saloon
Rilcy's and the mansion are antipoda
institutions, they oglc each other
Frequently. Between them is "A great
gulf fixed. Men stand uncertainty IN
the door of ltiiey's and look across n
the colonial mansion as into a uuiel
side park of heaven. Men sit on the
lawn of tho colony and gaze back a
Riley's as into the "hole of tho phi
whence they were diggcd"
TO the inmates of the colony Riley's
IL a sort OF testing machine, If
man can sit on the colony well curt
and look at itiley's indiffercntly-as y