of payment of compensation. In a number of countries each transfer is obligatory. Provision is usually made for the protection of the beneficiaries in case of insolvency of employers.

The acts of nearly all of the countries are framed with the view of obviating the necessity for instituting legal proceedings. The laws are so specific with regard to the compensation allowed and the regulations for its payment that agreements are usually amicably made between the employers and the victims of the accidents. If disputes arise, however, the law specifies the necessary procedure for their settlement either by special arbitration tribunals or by the ordinary law courts. Elev. Worker.

SOLD HIS PRINCIPLES.

Fate of a Strike Breaker Who Put Gold Above Manhood.

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In a recent issue of the Iron Molders' Journal is an account of the suicide of Joseph La Fleur, known as "Gunpowder Joe," whose body was found in the canal at Dayton, O., a short time ago. Fleur had a national reputation as a strike breaker in the iron molding industry and in times of industrial disturbances drew $8 and $10 a day and was the first man called upon by antiunion employers.

Commenting on La Fleur's terrible ending, the Journal says: "For many years he was to be found where molders were on strike plying his profession and selling his manhood for the few extra dollars offered. Shunned by his former friends, his only associates became those who, like himself, sought to secure an easier livelihood by following the Hessians' calling. The larger wages cured under these conditions squandered in living the life of the mercenary, and the excitement of the strike, the life behind the stockade, replaced the home with its comforts and the respect of his neighbors.

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"When old age began to make its inroads and the life he had led commenced to tell upon his vitality, no friends except those of the cup stood

by to assist him. He gave up friends, gave up family and gave up manhood for a few paltry dollars to be buried at last in the potter's field.

"There is another side of the picture well worth looking at. This unfortunate was known to the foundrymen wherever there had been a prominent strike during the past decade. He was one of those whose services were considered of great value when the foundrymen had entered into a struggle with the union molders. Time and again have they paid his fare from one part of the country to the other and given him higher wages than the molders had struck for. He became a most valuable man to them, and his services were in frequent demand, and yet when the end came so little did they respect him that his body was allowed to go to a pauper's grave.

"At the time of his death he was plying his profession as a strike breaker, yet his very associates paid no attention to his remains. No one came to see that the body was properly laid at rest, no token of respect or of friendship was laid upon the rough pine coffin, no shop collection was taken up for the widow; evidently no one cared. He had shaped his life by disregarding the interests of his fellow men, he had sold his principles to the highest bidder, and, while his services may have been valuable to the foundrymen, for the man his employers had no respect.

"What did he gain?"

APHORISMS.

The two essential instincts of humanity are the love of order and the love of kindness. By the love of order the moral energy is to deal with the earth, and dress it, and keep it, and to deal with all rebellious or dissolute forces in lower creatures, and in ourselves. By the love of kindness the moral energy is to deal rightly with all surrounding life. So shall every passion have full strength, and yet be absolutely under control. Ruskin.

That which thou blamest in another, do it not thyself.-Grecian.

Every mother's child is handsome.-German.