THE RAINBOW IN THE FINANCIAL CLOUDS (Continued)

the Middle West in the course of its fabrication. Doubtless there are many others. We ship Southern cotton to Massachusetts, and back to Texas in the form of manufactured goods. The Western paper mills ship paper to the East and the Eastern paper mills send their paper to the West.

The iron ore that is brought from Duluth to Cleveland goes back to Minnesota in countless different forms, and probably one-third of our railway tonnage consists of articles whose transportation would be unnecessary if we could relocate our factories scientifically.

Of the need of greater intelligence and intelligent economy and expenditure I hardly need speak. It is so obvious that it requires no demonstration, though it may require much study.

My point is that the present depression in business and every depression that has ever occurred is largely due to waste-to the waste of war, which is, I think, largely avoidable, to the waste of mistaken or ignorant speculation, to the waste of material, of labor, of capital, and to unintelligent economy and expenditure.

If, from a close study of the rainbow that I believe to be discerned in the clouds that now overhang the world of business, we can discover how to reduce this waste, the hard times will speedily be ended and the winter of our discontent will soon be made glorious by the sun of a greater and a more substantial prosperity than we have ever known.

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An example of the extreme democracy of present-day conditions in Russia is given in George Lansbury's "What I Saw in Russia:' "One night I suddenly said that I would like to go to the theater. We asked our interpreter to ring up and try to get us seats. He came back beaming; we were to have the Czar's box at the national theater. So off we went, only on arrival to discover that a couple of working-class families had got there before us and we had to be content with the next box."

Advertisement writers are usually meticulous to a degree and know what they want when they prepare their copy. Sometimes they make mistakes, according to a writer in the "American Printer," but want their copy followed just the same. He cites an instance: An advertiser's copy read: "A few ladies' waists, just a might soiled." This was changed to "mite" by the compositor. The advertising man rushed in when he saw this in print and had it changed back to "might." He reasoned thus to the astonished printer: "A mite," he said, "is something you find on hens, not on ladies' waists!"

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The sagacious countryman sometimes delights in "putting one over on the alert city visitor, and occasionally makes a retort to which there is no rejoinder. An example from "Harper's:" One Saturday evening three Boston men arrived at an ancient seaport in New England. "What a desolate country!" one of them exclaimed as they drove to the solitary hotel. "We certainly have come to the jumping-off place this time. I don't believe we can even get a Sunday paper in this place. Can we, driver?" "Wal, not to-night!" the driver drawled.

The Piedmont and Northern Railway is one of the Southern roads that are "onto their job" of unloading freight cars, according to the "Railway Age." Fifty-seven cars loaded with automobiles recently arrived at its yard in Charlotte, North Carolina. A specially contrived derrick picked off the automobiles at the rate of about one every two minutes, and the fifty-seven cars were, it is stated, all unloaded and returned within twenty-four hours.

"When General Grant was proposed for a second term as President of the United States, the cry of 'Cæsarism' was raised." So reads an article in the December "Atlantic." This should read third term, a subscriber writes, and reminds us of the famous "306" delegates to the Republican National Convention in 1880 (after General Grant had been out of the Presidential office for four years and was again proposed as a candidate for President) who stuck by Grant till the thirty-sixth ballot. On that ballot James A. Garfield, who had not a single vote on the first ballot and only one on the second, received majority of the votes and became the Presidendential nominee of the Republi

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People of modest means who shop in Fifth Avenue stores sometimes wonder at the expensive articles seen there. An observing citizen recently reported that in one ultra-fashionable shop jeweled mesh bags could be had for $1,400 up, and hatpins for from $4,000 to $5,000. Do the Cuban millionaires get all these things? or

Indian princes? or South African nabobs? And what does a hat cost that bears a $5,000 pin?

The official printed roll of the Cherokee Indians, a subscriber writes, contains many queer names. Here are a few samples: Runabout Mink, Sunday Hogtoter, Lee Galcatcher, Ben Hungry, Anna Longbone, Jack Rabbit, Sister Rattlingourd, Goingsnake Kingfisher. It would be interesting to know whether these names are actually used by the Indians or whether they are merely English equivalents of presumably more mellifluous Cherokee syllables.

New Orleans has jumped ahead of Galveston, New York, and Baltimore as the greatest grain-exporting port of the country. Until last July the three cities named headed the list in the order given. This year, according to "Shipping," New Orleans will probably nearly double the grain exports of any previous year.

The jobless but persevering man applied to the stage manager for work, says the "Argonaut." The manager was hearing the candidates for the chorus. He asked the persistent applicant to sing. The man responded with some hesitation. Disgusted, the manager stopped him. "Why, you can't sing a note!" he said, wrathfully. "I don't claim to be able to sing," was the reply; "and I don't want to sing. I am a stage carpenter. I only sang to please you people."

"Topsy-turvy" pronunciations:

"When I was a small lad, an older brother read from the Bible, 'And Moses was an oyster man, and made ointment for the shins of the people.' When I grew up, I found that he was something of a joker and suspected that this home-made Scripture was an evidence of this propensity."

"The Ten Commandments must be interpreted by the Sermon on the Mount,' said the minister. One member of the confirmation class wrote this: The Ten Commandments must be turpled by the serpents on the mountains.""

A reader sends in this example of newspaper English:

"We urge our patrons to report irregulations in the delivery service."

"Your story of the visitor to the English church who didn't think much of the choir because they had to sing Amen over so often reminds me of another," a subscriber writes. "A small boy went to a revival meeting. A woman evangelist addressed the meeting. The boy afterwards said the woman preached a fine sermon but 'wouldn't do what the preacher told her to.' What do you mean, Johnny?' his mother asked. Well, the preacher said Amen two or three times out loud so any one could hear and she wouldn't stop talking.""

Vapo resolene,