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Show Train p tdibor Colonic. PaatorTun ftocUlKchwinght UcMhlml he ought to tnc -ced In aaythin? I( ho luia tuccooded In learning how to pro-nonnce pro-nonnce hit own name hat deri-eil a 1 method of doing away with vagrant In Onnany which la worthy t!t terlont con I tlderatlon In all dvilliM countries. Th i method hat worked ao well tlwt In Prut' eta ragrancy lias fallen off One third, with an wi naal eating to thottateof I,000,UOO. In WwtphilU, where ten years ago there were 4,0p0 tramp, there I are now "next to noneV anil to that trovincola tared lu consequence 1I.V bOOajenr. This Is tho practical aide of 1 the I Ian and the one which cotmnenJ ltaelf ruoat to tho American mind. I In Germany, of courw, oper relief, 1 like everything else, It under government i control. Wandering pnuprrt aro tilt ael of In three separate entabllthmenta. 1 I'lrat then are "station aJmilioOtet' at ; rrgular Interrala, In which, for n amall a urn or Its equivalent In Ulwr, a vagrant may obtain loJglng and a meal. It It th'-n provldetl with a certificate wbl h enable him to tramp on to the next tU-tion. tU-tion. Tliero are lodging housva callmt friendly inn," rather better thau the station almihoute, where not only I trarnjia, but renpt-ctable persons out of work, may find food and shell' r. Tlnte are maintained by a ayitem of pilule bvnerolence. Tims nobody la alb we J 1 to prey on private InJMduaU Third aro the labor colonh, If a pron cornea begging to a farm-I farm-I house or area door he It sent to the station sta-tion almtltonw or friendly Inn. Idt must carry alao the olllclal ccrtiflcato I with him that he la lut Iain English a i trump, aul h must beside walk for nine hour or work that long before h can get the food nnd lodging. In (ler 1 nnny the goernment even preacriWt thelcnet mttuKrof luileaA tramp ahull I walk In a day, Thoofllclal certificate which hetnntt In every cam) proluce ihowt jnttnhat he la and where he came from hut, or ho la arrested aul tent to tho hou-wiof cur rvrtluu. I Tho lalior colonist, pnro and simple, however, promise the mot hopeful aIu tion of the tramp ijneatlon Ihe station glmahouao and friendly Inns give tern-jrary tern-jrary rvllef and employment The colonlet prondMi p anunt reform It la lure that th work of good I'arami von IMelaxhwitighcouioftln. ! lie bought a farmhouse and tome wild land iiiarltlehucU, where ho lived, I borrowing the pnrcba4 tnotiey. The working thoory with which he began his task was thlat Kti p the ragrnnt at Wflj t busy, lie must work hit due phH , portion cf the time at regular stated b-jtire. He imut ilevpthe regular stutk-d I time, ho limit pray during the allotted period, or at least go through the mo- tlout of It Not ono hour I allowed him to rrlapae Into hia old Idle hahllt. 'l'ray and work It tlu motto of all tho (leriunti lab)r colon W, of whiuh there aro now acveral, estibllihud on the foundation laid down by the trauu with the name. Till genuine labor reformer Announce that food, lodging and moderate pay Will bo given to all iwlw work nnder hit regnlatlona. The footjand lodgtns are of tufllclintly fair quality, the pay li Uveceuta a day, which wuuldumouut to perhapa flftoon centt In America. The in vi receive no money, however He gets orders on the store which U maintained on the farm, Money he could epriid for liquor ur make his vt-cape vt-cape with. Nobody, however feeble, It excused from work something it found hi employ all. A man nuyataynt the labor culoulttt two) ran nd must stay three or four months. The work of th t vagrant culouy hat changed tho wild lands of tho farm into a bloomlug garden gar-den and beautiful Itmlnonpo. Tho lvtt part of Uio ttory It, liowoxcr, that the iwrton aud hit aid find that only ouo man in twenty U an Incorrigible Incorrigi-ble vagrant, riftetn r cent of Ihe jruii discharged from the labor colonlet colo-nlet go luto permanent tllnatlona, and onfuurtIl of those who lurolcft the tolouict are known tu have become re-tpi-ctable dtlxens. Tlie union of public with prhalo charity char-ity In Germany lot resulted wvlt. |