TNX AUTOGRAPH BOOK O' BLUE
Cat aaea Mb hrr iMtok to write
Be Mriwnok boa of hliM
Aasl A MM: "Writ H strahjbt, now,
THU17,
trine nice and true."
' awl 'inarelr he ml a line
Twr his aarm with the nn of blu
riwrfly. aod aimed it, "Tommy"
MigW, I lor you true."
A yoeth came from a col'epe
A student rrave and wise
II looked at the little old autograph book
He looked at her true blue eye.
And he scrawled, with cynical smiling,
In the old, old book of blue.
Of the folly of lore, and signed it.
Reginald Hugh."
A not fcawe from his labor.
LMW!d in the school of years;
GaaeJ at the little bit? book, and dream
AH fazed, as he dreamed, through
tars.
TWa he looked and uw hr smiling,
With tears in her eyes of blue,
knd he wrote and signed it, "Tommy'
J 'v v(,u true."
-Llfciu.? Home Journal.
J2r IE "WHITE
HORSE" VAULTS.
N V I'd pive a
year's salary to lay
hands on the iinpu
dent rogues."
The chief consta
b 1 e of Wallburn
was speaking t o
one of his subor
dinates, Inspector
Miller.
"So would I, sir,"
responded that of
ficial; "and I don't
hHieve there's a member of the force
who wouldn't give a trifle to scrape an
acquaintance with this Flash Jim or
winterer the fellow's name is. How
ever, we've nothing to work upon."
"Bnt these," put In the chief, display
ing a number of coins. "Really, Miller,
tUl fellow is an artist a king among
washers. These coins are as near the
real thing as It's possible to make them,
and I've not the slightest doubt that I
should have accepted them myself If
they'd been tendered to me."
"Very possible, sir," went on Miller.
"Mr. Markhaui. landlord of the White
Home, is as smart as most men, but he
wan bitten."
At that moment the magistrate enter
ed the court house.
"Well," whispered the chairman,
leaning over the table to the chief con
stable, "have you heard anything?"
"Several complaints this morning, sir.
The racal is still at work, but we have
Bo clew as yet!"
"Confound the fellow," muttered the
chairman. "He's making a laughing
stock of the finnst force in the prov
ince." There was only one Item on the
Charge sheet that morning, and the
prisoner pleaded guilty to having been
drunk and disorderly.
"Ten shillings and costs or fourteen
days," said the chairman, as soon as
the constable had given evidence.
A gentleman in clerical attire here
stepped forward and explained, with
a profound lisp, that lie was the curate
of Sto. Oiave's, Westmeath.
The prisoner, who was formerly one
of bis parishioners, had hitherto borne
a blameless character, and, to give him
another chance in life, lie (the curate
woold pay the tine.
Having done so, lie lred politely to
the bncb and led the protege from the
court.
Half an hour later Inspector Miller
hurried to the chiefs room. lu his ex
citement lie forgot the respect due to
by superior, aud rapped out something
ry ui'h like an oath.
"Millar? ejaculated the chief eon-
" itfcij your pardon, sir," stammered
inspector, "but er that Is the
- "ate."
-wear
"He'sslipped through our fingers, sir;
can't be found anywhere."
"What on earth do you want him
.for?" demanded the chief.
"Beg pardon, sir, I forgot. He paid
-the fine In court this morning."
"I know that, man. Is that a crime, or
are yon "
"Well, here's the money, sir," blurted
out the inspector, throwing down a
number of coins on the table.
With grave doubts as to the other's
sanity, the chief picked up one of the
coins and examined it then another,
and another, until all had been in
spected. "Spurious, every one of 'em!" he
gasped, sinking into his chair.
For some minutes neither of them
spoke. The very audacity of the thing
had taken their breaths away.
Suddenly Miller Jumped to bis feet.
-He bad a vague notion that be had seen
the curate lefore.
"Can I have a fortnight's leave, sir,
and permission to take what I want
from the police museum?" he asked.
"Take what you like, Miller, but for
goodness' sake let us have the lust
Jangh on our side."
The inspector promised to do his lt.
and shortly afterward be left his chiefs
presence.
II.
"The police! Bah! They ain't worth
tupea a dozen."
Hiltf Markham, landlord of the
Wars Horse," and owner of another
WJf-dsarn licensed houses in Wallburn,
folded bis arms over his broad chest,
are utterance to the abort cod-
ma remark.
Tuey don't possets the wits they
were bora with,' be went on. "Why,
ftor Dunking Dan there would give
CM beat f 'an poluU and beating."
IV Individual referred to was lean
fcj tiateadlly against a pillar. He was
A weXkaWwn ckaxacttr, waa Da, For
4
a year or more he had Nen missing
from his accustomed hauntav-rtunor
nald he bad passed the time la J!! -and
It was only the other day that he turned
up and claimed his corner la the bar of
the "White Horse."
"Aye, aye," chuckled the old toper an
he waddhd ovpr to the bar for "anoth
er two ienn'worth o' Scotch;" "Drink
ing Dan ain't bic) the blggext fooil
alolve."
"Of course, not, Dan. you're only one
of "em," returned Markham, as he pock
eted the twopence.
The laugh was against Dan, and
there was a dangerous gleam in the
eyes of the half-witted wreck, as he
lurched over to his old jsisition in the
corner.
About 5 o'clock on the following af
ternoon Dan staggered into the bar, a
tritle more intoxicated than usual. The
landlord, however, who was the sole
oecupaut when Dan entered, served
him with the uual 'Cwoieun'orth."
The customer placed a half-crown
piece on the coiuucr. which the laud
lord after giving the change-threw
toward the till. It fell on the floor, and
something in its iound roused Mark
ham's suspicious.
ricking up the coin, he examined it
closely, while Dan began to shuttle to
ward the door. Too late, however.
Markham sprang over the counter,
seized the other by the collar, and drag
ged him into a private room.
"Where did you get that coin?" he
hissed.
"Lemme go," pleaded Dan, huskily
"Where did you get it?" related the
other.
"A gint give it to me," stammered
Dan, "and "
"It's a lien 'hissed Markham. "Come,
out with the truth."
"All right," responded Dan, desper
ately. "Let go ray throat, will yer? I
made it"
"So you made It, did you? And
where did you get the die?"
"Stole It," growled Dan. "It once be
longed to a fellow you knew Hntton,
the coiner."
Hush, you crazy fool," hissed Mark
ham. "D n't you know where you are?"
Stepping softly to the door, the land
lord locked it, then, producing a bottle
from the cupboard was it the sight of
that bottle that brought the triumphant
gleam Into Dan's eyes? he poured out
a couple of glass.
Come, Dan, here's to your health,"
said Markham. "It won't do for us to
quarrel. I wasn't aware you knew
him."
I knowed him twelve years ago," re
plied Dan, adding, with a keen glance
at bis companion, "an' I knows 'im
now."
Markham winced, and glanced uneas
ily toward the door.
"Well," be demanded at length,
"what do you want?'
"Work," replied his companion.
"And what about the dies?"
"I'l bring "em whenever you like."
. Half an hour later Drinking Dan
emerged from a side door and sham
bled off down the street
The "White Horse" was a money
making establishment night and day.
When "closing time" came round, and
the last shilling had rolled Into the ea
pacious till behind the counter of the
bar, business was resumed in the
vaults.
In the wee sma' hours of a Novem
ber morning this particular branch of
the business was In full swing, and
profits were being literally coined.
Three or four ghastly figures flitted
altout in the semi-darkness. Silas .Mark
ham was engaged in earnest confab
with bis son alias "Hutton the coin- i
er." alias "Flash Jim." alias our old !
friend the curate at. the far end of the
cellar, while Drinking Dun was I.umIv
engaged, near the heavily ttolted door
in the manufacture of spurious florins.
Suddenly tue low but ditiin-t nif'
of a cat reached the ears of rue alert
Dan.
Before the others were even aware of
his intentions, the supposed drunkard
sprang forward, shot back the bolt and
faced around on the others with a re
volver in each hand.
"Trapped, by heaven," roared Mark
ham or, rather, Hutton, Sr. as a jiosse
of police with the chief constable of
Wallburn at their head rushed in.
The struggle was tierce but brief. The
elder Hutton was soon overpowered;
but his son, w ho had previously served
a long term of Imprisonment, for a sim
ilar offense, fought like a tiger. With
his capture resistance was at an end,
and the whole gang was secured.
"Tricked by a miserable gin-sodden
druukard," groaned the elder Hutton,
as the handcuffs clicked on his wrist.
"You're wrong, my friend, if that's
any consolation to you," said the indi
vidual referred to, stepping forward.
"Inspector Miller, at your serviceone
of those men you valued at 'tupjeence
a dozen.' "
The prisoner did not reply, but the
Inspector owed bis life to the fact that
glances are not deadly wenfiona.
Shortly after the gang had lieen con
victed Inspector Miller wss promoted.
At a little supper, organized In honor
of the event, he was asked where and
how be picked up his clow.
"It was a pfece of luck." he laughed.
"Twelve years ago in the Assise Court
at, Westhesth, when Hutton, the young
er, was sentenced to ten years' penal
servitude.
"I i.::.'. never forget the prisoner's
jaunty ..jijiea ranee on that occasion. He
never turned a hair, and when the
Judge passed sentence on him he re
ceived It with a low, sweeping bow
that would have done Infinite credit to
a Parisian.
"He repealed the Ikw exactly when,
as the curate, be put In an appearance
at Wallburn police court to pay that
fine Inflicted on a member of the gang.
"It was only when seated In the
chiefs room, after we bad been so bad
ly sold, that I connected the 4 wo Incl
deata, and recognised tty men.
"Drinking In who Is, and has
for twelve months an Inmate of the
Wallburn work ho umt-had beets Bj
member of the Hutton gang years ago, I
and from blm I olrtalned all that I
wanted to Insure admission to the
vaults of the 'White House,' and well,
you know the rest" Cassell's Satur
day Journal.
RECENT INVENTIONS
There have recently liecn one or two
unpleasant accidents lu Venice through
gondolas being cut down by the "pen
ny" steam launches.
In a new magazine camera the plates
are placed In a row In a chamtsT oppo-
site from the lense and held ty a
spring, each plate dropping down late
a recess iu the Isjttom of the camera!
after it is exported.
An Illinois mau has invented an at
tachment for guitars consisting of a t!,):"i' ftup roller K kcls gave spe
fiame to I screwed on the bead with a ciul i"""11""" " subject in his re-
number of padded bars set in it with
keys to lie depressed by the lingers and
produce different chords.
To support pie crust so it will not fall
while; the pie is bauing a new appliance'
consists of an inverted cup with a wide
flange aiuniul the top on wh li tht
crii.st rests, with an outlet '.n th - center
for the escape of ga.-cs.
An automatic door for furnaces and
locomotive boilers has a standard set
on the end of a rod which runs through
the floor and operates a lever to raise
the door and swing It back whenever
the standard is stepped on.
In a new winding mechanism for
watches a set screw Is placed In the
two-part key to adjust the fractional
contact so as to jut overcome the ten
sion of the mainspring until nearly
wound, when the key slips, thus pre
venting over-winding.
Casks and barrels are automatically
tilted In a new holding frame as they
become nearly empty by weighted piv
oted levers under the rear of the bar
rel, the weight of the contents being
sufficient to counterbalance the weights
until It is almost gwie.
A Maryland man has Invented a shirt
with a detachable bosom, which Is
made double to fold through the center
and form four woarlng surfaces, so
that as fast as one surface becomes
soiled it can be replaced by another
until the four are used.
An Improved tie for horses or cows
has a shield or apron stretched across
a frame and fastened to the edge of the
manger, the halter rope being secured
to the outer edge of the apron frame
to keep it tipped up while the animal is
feeding and prevent waste.
An electric bath cabinet has been in
vented by a German which has wood
en racks arranged at each side of the
tub with electric connections to the
racks and bars across the top so the
body of the bather completes the cir
cuit by touching the bars.
Two Frenchmen have Invented a tan
dem attachment for single wheels, con
sisting of a supporting frame, to be at
tached to the rear shaft and saddle
post, with a pair of oscillating pedal
cranks, to be mounted on the rear shaft
to push the front cranks forward In
turn.
The shock of collisions between shls
can be lessened by means of a new de
vice, which consists of a number of
cylinders having pistons set in tlicm
to extend out from the sides of the
ship, with an air-cushion In the cylin
der to net as a buffer when the blow la
struck.
Cor.luroy Jtoaul of Aucii-nt Days.
Considerable interest has been occa
sioned among the people of thai nwlgh
ImrliiMwl. and particularly among gol
ojglsts. by the discovery of a wcijliarly
const ructcd roadway iu the I,;ike
Shore otiipiiiiy"- grave pir a'. Atnboy,
seven miles ia.s m Ashtabula, Ohio.
The remarkable find has the appear
ance of having been a corduroy road,
rtlfllll. t.t blli'jtl ruul'i, t ivui n rwl t - .1 n
.1 i .1 1 ' , . , . I with some safer place of deioit for
unearthed thirty-eight feet below thai., . .v. , ,
surface of the ground. The wood Is in
a i-rfect state of preservation. Over
twenty feet of tills road has been un
covered. It was laid on hard clay and
was covered by a thick vein of gravel.
I'rofessor Carl Wright, teacher of
geology In Oberlin University, visited
the gravel pit and secured piece of the
wood, which he examined. He gives It
a his opinion that the wood had been
where it waa found since the glacial
epoch, and that It has retained its nat
ural condition several thousand years.
A piece of a mastodon's tusk, two feet
long, was unearthed. It is also perfect
ly preserved, the Ivory Iwing a natural
color after the dirt was removed.
Posters On Their Hkuils.
rouievaru loungers in I'arls wers
amused the other day when ten men,
correctly garlx-d all exactly alike,
walked Into a cafe and gravely ordered
drinkH, for, as they removed their hats,
each man had painted on his bald head
one letter of a word, advertising a new
dramatic sensation. They were arrest
ed, however, for evading the law that
requires sandwich men and posters to
pay a tax of S2 francs, but they were
discharged on promising to affix Ut
necessary stami to their skulls, a poll
tax, as It were. New York Mall and
Express.
Hard Up.
Widower (thinking of proving)
Have you any objection to widowers,
Miss leftover?
Miss leftover (eagerly Oh, no; 1
only object to married men." Pick Me
Cp. A Ranihoo Lighthouse.
A lighthouse of bamboo baa Juat
been built In Japan. It Is said to bar
trotter power of resisting the waves
than any other kind of stood, and 4oss
not rot like ordinary wood.
There is always room at tbt top of
Freemasonry, but one baa to work op
to It If 4fra.
FROM HANK FAILURES
AMERICAN PEOPLE LOSE LARGE
AMOUNTS ANNUALLY.
Mart ling Cintr iron the Ll Re
port of te Comptroller of t h Trraa
ur xCoin" Harvey' Vie oa Bl
mrtalllaui, I'oatal Sarvif Hunk.
It Is imjio.-sible to tell with accuracy
the amount of money lost to the Amer
ican peoplr every year as the result of
jiJuiik failures. For national banks the
utatiaiics kepi by the comptroller of the
' cut remy are sufficiently satisfactory.
The same oilicial has tried from rime
!0 time ! compile Information relating
to insolvency f other bunking iiisiitu-
IM.ri for ISMi, haNlng made ue of the
fifty-eight u.iftotial bank examiners as
ageueies for collecting material in rela-
Muii to failed banks of all kinds and the
('hicjign Uecord make an analysis ot
rl.em after the following fashion. The
figures rims collected, however, neces
sarily were nor lu all cases complete,
i.itt tiiey serve to throw uiu-.'li light on
the subject.
Comparisons Indicate that the Instl
tutiors under national supervision are
much safer places of deposit than are
the State ami private banks, as Is
shown by the following table from
Comptroller Eckels' , report gives fail
ures for the year;
So in nlt-
ne. "-t.
Cl. 31. S!.
.Visional bank 3,67f
State banka and trout
rompanlea 4.544
Kavlugi banka IM
Private bauka 3.tV2
Fallura.
No Per ct.
27
.73
1.01
1.1
MS
42
Totala 12.H2H
137
1.06
The percentage of failures of nation
al hanks, which for the most part are
for the exclusive use of the larger de
positors, is seen to be considerably
smaller than for any other class. The
percentages of failures Is highest for
savings and private banks, the clans of
Institutions with which persons of
small mean are most likely to come In
contact. These figures, therefore, give
direct force to the statement commonly
heard that the government dws more
for the rich than it doe for the poor.
In a aieasitre it throws the mantle of
paternalism over the large deposits of
the wealthy and leaves the poor to safe
guard their own scanty savings as b"st
they can.
The figures as to js-rcentage of fall
tires, however. lo no fell the whole
story. Since Jftf Xi national banks,
or alxuit ii'j per cent, of all created,
have failed. The average percentage
of dividends paid to creditors of na
tional banks whose affairs are entirely
closed Is aliout 75 jer cent. The re
isrts of State banks failed since JSci,
so far as information concerning them
could be secured by the comptroller,
show that 1!2 such Insolvent banks
paid dividends to creditors of less than
i" per cent.; 'M paid 2o per cent., and
over, but less than 50 per cent; 184
paid 50 per cent, and over, but less than
75 per cent.; YJS paid 75 per cent, and
over, but b-ss than 100 per cent., and
158 banks paid 100 per cent. While
the average dividend payment of In
solvent national Umks, therefore, was
75 per cent., nearly as many insolvent
Sta'e banks paid less than 50 per cent,
dividends as paid that amount or over.
The dividend payments of Insolvent
private banking Institutions are small
er yet. but the figures cannot be given
with accuracy. In many such cases the
creditor have ni-eivd nothing what
ever. Not only, therefore, are there
fewer failures of national banks than
of olhei banking institutions, but the
percentage of h to creditors is small
er in the case of uational-trauk failures
than in the case of insolvency of State
or priva te banks.
Workiugmcu ought to lie provided
their small savings than banks of
which more than one in the hundred,
on the average, is likely to fail every
year, especially when the class of banks
with which workiugmcu have dealings
are wurt to fail so disastrously when
they do succumb. By establishing jkb
tal savings banks the government could
provide for all. persons of small means
an alsolutely safe place of deposit, so
that ben-after bank failures need not
le a source of terror to small deposit
ors. By protecting the weakest and
those most likely to suffer loss On
gre would be protecting all.
4 if the XH) national bunks that have
failed since the leg!nn!ng of the sys
tem the accounts of H'i had been closed
on Oct. 1, lMi, for which the comp
troller of the currency gives the follow
ing figures:
Total claims proved, $41,.V.l3,(VJ9; to
lal dividends paid, ZW.UXIJM ; lotnl
losses, 10,G5,ttflH. At the same ratio
the total losses for the entire 3.W na
tional banks faibd N't ween and
1HJS probably would approximate lt5,-
S (0,00ft.
It Is difficult to estimate what may
have br:o Ibe loss from failures of
other than national banks for the same
period, hot the amount very greatly
exceeds the losses by national Irmk
failures. For the year closed Aug. 31,
lstHi, there were failures of lift State
Unks and trust companies, savings
banks and private banks, with asset
of $7,44T,M and liabilities of il,174,
102. Ou the face of the figures this
statement shows a loss for the single
year of nsarly $2.0ft0,ftfjft, which In real
Hy will be greater, as the assets prol
ably will shrink before final settlement
Is made. For the panic year of 1HM8
the number of failure reported to the
comptroller wss 211 banks with nomi
nal assets of M.ft2fl,f0, and liabilities
of I4ft,70f..l, upon wblcb dividends
had been paid In 1W to the amount of
17.012.274 The most attractive fea
ture of the postal savings bank system
is that panle years, like others, would
! T!?"
in at j a 1 soi i' ' -
rkel publishes figures giving fallurs
as reported to blm for the year lh04
tm. of which the totals are at follows:
Number of failures, 1.2M; uomlnal as
sets, r.'H;il2.1is; liabilities, I 0.2,-
WS; dividend paid at time of making
rerrt. f W',0872'.. It Is probably
fair to estimate that when the accounts
of suc h of these failed banks as arc still
oien are finally closed the different
between liabilities ac' dividends paid
will still Ik- $ iKn.tMHi.fm This repre
sents the losses from fallurif from lHtCl
to !s; of bank other than national of
w hieb the comptroller has been able to
secure definite Information, but neces
sarily the figures are far from com
plete. It Is Inevitable tti.it there should be
some Irntik failures. But every consid
eration of prudence and statesmanship
demands the strictest government su
pervision in order to make the losses
j fn,m RfK., failure as small as possible.
j For the savings of the oor the govern-
r,)(lll Riti,j n,., provision for abso-
lute safety by establishing Kstnl
banks. The small depositor is entitled
to better protection than the record of
failures shows lie has received during
the last ttilrtv vears.
"Coin" Harvey on UiinctdlliHm.
The Influence of the money dciders
In bringing our business men to agree
with them Is the danger most to be
feared. The influence of the former Is
much greater than is generally under
stood. The merchants, traders and manu
facturers, as a rule, are bury some of
them very busy trying to save them
selves from insolvency; and most of
them are either nnder obligation to the
banking class or are trying to curry
favor with them for the use of money
in their business; or court their good:
will and indorsement and fall Into the
habit of letting the bankers do their
thinking for thern.
Few business men have the moral
courage to speak out plainly to a bank
er and combat his argument a selfish
one In favor of the money dealers. To
the day of his failure the business man
Is a supplicant for favors from bis
banker, and in his presence is a moral
coward.
Money gives jiower to the man who
haa it; It takes courage and lndeiid
ence out of the man who baa 15 not
The man hnlf insolvent with credit lu
danger, wishing to borrow money from
Feter to pay I'aul, like the fly entan
gled In the mexhes of a spider's web,
Is willing to listen to the spider's argu
ment that If the latter's policy Is adopt
ed money will be easy and the loan se
cured. Immediate relief and the hope of bet
ter business 'obneures from view to the
average business man a study u.f the
problem ef government, and ho the
money dealers are making wealth by
law for themselves to the disadvantage
of business men engaged In other pur
suits. So long as the IwnkerV pojlcy Is
pursued, the "business men" will find
themselves, on an average, from year !
to year, more hopelessly entangled in
the spider's web.
But they are too busy to study for
themselves, and Just so long yi they
neglect that duty, the bankert will
continue to do the thinking for .cham
bers of commerce and business men, In
dividually and collectively.
As the stringency increases, the, pow
er of those who have money Is enlarg
ed, except with those who understand
the problem and have the courage of
their convictions. A proprietor ef a bi
metallic newspHiwr has been known to
virtually close his columns to that side
of the question to hold the advertise
ments of the bankers in his towr-. The
power of money for evil, to et.rich a
selfish few and despoil n :iat!oa, was
never greater than it is now.
Our duty to ourselves and to ooster
lty is to rise equal to the occjisl.m and
restore manhood to America! To re
gain for this country Its Independence
and renounce the power of Great Brit
ain. We can do it In I'.kx), and by a
thoroughly American policy sratter
gladness and happiness throughout this
land. The Kngllsh press has recently
referred to us as a fourth-class nation.
Let us, In Bi0, break the shackles she
has placed upon us and henceforward
stand forth recognised the first nation
In the world. W. II. Harvey.
tied a Heroic Death
Henry George died the most heroic of
deaths. He fell as the greatest heroes
of thp world have fallen at the post of
fluty. In spite of the terrible hck of
his death, It may W perceived, In time,
when the great grief of hi taking off
Is lessened, that he could not himself
have chosen a death more beautiful
ami more appropriate. It waa as If
destiny had fashioned the details with
the most exact nicety to give point to
the adage that death loves a snlnlng
mark. And all the world Is now think
ing of this great man. Had he died a
few weeks ago or a few weeks Jience,
even as the mayor of the greater cpy
Itself, there would have been wanting
that element of mightiness which
make bis fate so brilliant. These are
the considerations which may be of
most weight In all contemplation of the
end of the grealest economic thinker of
any age or country, the first man to
rouse the masses of all the world from
the lethargy of their boisdessness and
to teach them that the earth waa made
for them. Others had taken up this
truth, but be made It mighty. Twen
tieth Century.
McKlnley In 1WM),
"During all of bis years at tbc head
of the government he (Mr. Cleveland)
was dishonoring one of our precious
metals, one of our great products, dis
crediting the price of silver and en
hancing the price of gold. He endeav
ored, even before bis Inauguration to
office, to stop the coining of silver dol
lars, and afterwards and to the end ef
Ma adatalatraMoa psrsisteDUy used bit
sower to that sad. Be
to coctrsct the rtrrnlatiag
dYiiMiiiftifcr oa of the reins of
merce, limit the volume of
suiotig the people, make money
and therefore dear. He would sav
Increased the value of money as4 di
minished the VHlne of everything esse
money the master, everything else IU
servant" Sf-ech of Wlllljun McsUn.
ley In 1M0.
Prlrea t'unuot Hold.
Now that the American wheat oncap
has leen sold and the money spent,
whar of rlie future? Kverything indi
cates another disastrous run ef gold
standard low prices, with closing fac
tories and foreclosed farms. Wharton
Barker says: There Is no reason to look
for an Increased demand or better
prices for manufactured goods In the
Immediate future. On the contrary,
there Is reason to hsik tor lower with
the approach of next year's harvest, for
there is no reason to suppose that the
crojis in F.uroM? next year will le be
low the normal, there Is every reason
to expect that the crops In Argentine
and Australia to le garnered In the
coming winter will be lHiuutiftil and
with such crops prices for agricultural
products will fall, farmers will suffer
in credit, will not dare to Increase pur
chases even if they could; then will
come lessened consumption of manu
factured products on the farm and
plantation and hence lower prices for
such products.
And In this connection let ua soy
that our farmers, even the most favor
ed with bountiful wheat crops, have
not had money to reduce their Indebt
edness by the great suma of which we
are told. Thus we are told of the far
mers of Nebraska paying off millions
of mortgages. Millions of mortgages
have, Indeed, been cancelled, but they
have been cancelled by the mortgage
companies foreclosing the mortgage.
On investigation we find that more near
mortgages have been made la Nebraa
ka during the present year than bars
been paid off. The mortgage Indebted
ness of Nebraska is $318,000 greater to
day than It was a year ago. So we see
there has been no production of farm .
Indebted uets in Nebraska save by fore
closures. And reduction of Indebted
ness In this way Indicates anything bat
farming prosperity. Farmers who
have lost their all by foreclosure sale
are not promising purchasers (or man
ufactured goods. Of course these fore
closure sales are the results of defaults
nnrt in this year, bnt during the last
three or four.
So, to recapitulate, the great rise lo
agricultural prices during the pat
ouarter has resulted from crop f si lore
abroad, yet It is doubtful if onr farm
ers will realize more money this year
than hist, Iteeanse of shortage In some
crops. And, further, with the approach
of the new harvest year, agricultural
price are likely to fall.
Fake Prosperity.
A dispatch from St IaiuI gives the
account of a failure of a Qur wis wars
merchant and give his assets at twice
,,, jalMHrtt-. Such Is the prosperous
condition or tue country tDat a man
with twice as much goods as he owes
canncrt raise money to meet his obiiga-
tloiis. Is it because all the people hare
nil the china they want? Is H because
the man bought goods that nobody
wanted? Is It because men with mon
ey w 111 not take two for one for secur
ity? It Is a pretty state of affairs when
a man bus twice what he owes and still
must lose all he has. If bankers had to
have twice what they owed there
would not be a solvent bank ta the na
tion. "I Watt GoIuk To."
Children are very fond of ssylng, "I
was going lo." The Isjy lets tlx- rat
catch his chickens, lie was going to
fill the hole with glass and set trap
for the rats; but he did not do it lo
time, and the chickens were eaten. He
! console himself for the loss, and ex
cuses his cnrelesv saying "I was
going to attend to that."
A horse falls through a broken plank
in the stable and breaks his leg and Is
killed to put him out of bis suffering.
The owner was going to mend that
weak point and so excuses himself.
A boy wets bis feet and slis down
without changing his Iswts, catches a
severe cold, and Is obliged to have the
doctor for a week. His mother told
mm to cuange Die wet boots, when ha
rm rn A In n r A V . . . . ... I ... . . . .1 . 1 .
.,.T7 nuu tir vn gum; 10 110 II, UUl
did no.
A girl tears her dress so badly that
nil her mending cannot make It look
well again. There was a little rent
lcfore and she was going to mend H
but forgot It. And so we might go on
giving Instance after Instance, such a
happen In every home wirh almowt ev
ary man and woman, boy and glrL
'Trocnuetlnarlon Is" not only "the thief
of time," but Is the worker of vast mis
chiefs. If Mister "1 Was Oolng To" lives at
your house, Just give him a warning to
li-ave. He is an Idler and a nuisance.
He has wrought untold mischief. The
' oy or girl who begins to live with blm
vill hsve a very unhappy time of It,
r id life will not be successful. I'ut
1 ter "I Was Going To" out of yout
i se and keep hlrn out. Always do
t e things which you are going to do.
Imperial ftouvenlra.
The Empress Bugenie baa always
-fully preserved a email piece of
i . wedding dreas and orange bloesom
v .eath. Her wedding ring, a is the
'' torn In France, Is made in two por
i .as, which close together tightly,
hen unjolnted, on cue le found the
p. ne of the bride, on the other the
iiume of the Imperial bridegroom.
Engllairaafry arwliTeirs"tate thai
1' " Kngllsh cows produce 1.400,000,008
i ins of milk annually, of wblcb eoo,
,000 are used for making butter sad
i cese, 600,000,000 as milk for tbe la
Me, at aa average of sliteen gailooa
per Inhabitant, anal 400,000,000 la fat
toning calves.
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