Show AN OLD FOLKS' FOLKS HOME There are a great many people in this town town own who do not know that same years ago Mrs Mary l 1 Judge built a magnificent structure out on the east cast bench to be used for fot a minors miners home When the building was completed she said that she thought she had done her part that it was the part of so me some one else now tp to furnish that home and provide for its being converted con to the uses intended Discussing this yesterday erday a gentleman said 1 That building ought not to stand there and then BO so much of the work about the mines is do done no by machinery ma ma- chinery that the tho old brigade brigado of minors miners is being very much dwindled And he suggested that working workingmen men in the mines or out of tho the mines should agree agree to assess themselves a tr trifle Be of their monthly wages the tho amount to go into a fund and that when hen that thai f fund nd was sufi sufficient dent the house should be furn furnished anc and the tile expenses of running a n homo home for disabled workers be be paid from it It seems to us that is a good scheme Doubtless an arrangement could be made with Mrs Irs Judge anc and there is no working no man earning a fair salary that thai would not be willing ruling to contribute a trifle triBe out of his monthly wages to swell that fund It seems to us th that t an un organization could be he formed with th officers that would have the tho full trust trus of every one and that then membership should be bc is Solicited from tho the working hosts in the country each one agreeing to pay a certain amount monthly to become the support of that institution In a a. country country coun coun- try like th this s where there are many maDY working men who do not save much from their wages and who as tho they y grow old become a burden upon their friends would bo be DO glad to help endow such a place as that that as ashe the he old and disabled fall out of the ranks s they can be betaken betaken taken up aP and cared for i We Ye think i if an appeal was made that a good goodman man many of our rich men would subscribe to help endow the building and that thereby it could become a beneficent institution and save a u great many heartaches heart- heart aches and much suffering Certainly it is too bad that hat a structure as fine as that should remain with doors closed year rear after year ear The building of the home lome was a most generous act N l'- l' lW W that generosity should be thing put on a business basis and it ought to be done clone right awa away Could it be je fixed up in the next nett two months the first investment investment invest invest- ment might be for a thousand cots and bedding and and the first occupants might be a thousand of the theold old veterans that will win be here in August We have said the thc above on our own account but we believe we have hae made a fair statement of the facts acts and that it would be a pleasure to Mrs Judge to know now that the building at last was to become a areal areal areal real retreat where the cares of the declining years ears of working men might be taken away and a I world of suffering avoided |