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e& By Talcott Williams.
IIEIIE has grown a consciousness that trade, business, me
organization of capital, the corporate activities of men in all
the fields of material activities have been untouched by this
new principle of human action. In business the individual
will, sometimes arbitrary, 13 still supreme. Trade is still
under a competition which approaches war. Our corpora
tions are under a despotic personal control, little modified
by the votes of shareholders. Through all the world of
trade and of production the old rule and the old system with
which society began and out of which it has grown in religion and in the
lusifcess of government, still remains supreme. Its working, instead of tend
ing'tO equality, tends to inequality. Nothing has so grown upon the public
consciousness as the conviction that the economic system of which we are a
part is at war with the democratic principles which control the rest of the
rganized acti ies-of our nation.
As self-rule is applied to the control of economic agencies, experiments
will come, failure will succeed, aud the successes will at last bear fruit. In
. tfme the lesson of ascertaining the will, of awakening the responsibility, and
securing the rule of a great mass of scattered policy holders or shareholders
-will be solved. But the mere circumstance that the attempt is made to solve
It, that the absolute rule of our great insurance companies, which a short
-three years ago seemed as powerful, as impregnable, and as permanent as
ny Old World despotism, should have disappeared in a day and been succeed
ed "by even an attempt to govern through the many for the many, Instead of
4y the few for the few, is itself a gauge of the rising tide of a democratic
economy.
Financial Puzzles
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By Louis Windmuller.
HE ways of Wall Street look dark and the tricks of corpora
tion managers are peculiar. The announcement of every
increased dividend is followed by further issues of bonds,
stocks, or notes. Underwriters know how to float these
loans by dividing their commissions with confidential cus
tomers. None of the subscribers worry about the issue, as
long as it remains profitable to them. The capacity of
American financiers to borrow surpasses the proverbial
"Pump Genie" of John Law; they announce a new loan
before the last has been digested.
If a curious stockholder should stroll into a perfunctory annual meeting
md inquire what benefit the company may derive from a flotation made nec
essary by the acquisition of new feeders of the "system," he would be con
fronted by the astonished president and silenced with a condescending ges
ture; if he had the audacity to question the accuracy of any statement made
by liis sworn accountant, he would be snubbed for his impertinence. As long
as the majority of stockholders perpetuate the directors' power by signing
what proxies they mail, they can expect no better treatment. And while the
greater part of speculative stocks is held by speculative brokers who control
the property and who look for their own temporary interest more than tc
the permanent interest of their customers, so long will present conditions re
main.
Speculative abuses and corporate mismanagement will not be corrected
Jjy legislative enactment. They may, however, cause temporary revulsions
by which fortunes are diminished- and margins swept away; but all parts ol
the country will continue to grow in spite of them, and the feeders that seem
premature today will become valuable tomorrow.
Success1
By Ji. C. Benson.
SAGACIOUS, shrewd, acute man of the world is sometimes
a mere nuisance; he has made his prosperous corner at the
expense of others, and he has only contrived to accumulate,
behind a little fence of his own, what was meant to be the
property of all. I have known a good many successful men,
and I cannot honestly say that I think that they are general
ly the better for their success. They have often learned
self-confidence, the shadow of which is a good-natural con-
contempt for ineffective people; the shadow, on the othei
hand, which falls on the contemplative man is an undue diffidence, an indo
lent depression, a tendency to think that it does not very much matter what
any one does.
Cut, on the ether hand, the contemplative man sometimes does grasp one
very important fact that we are sent into the world, most of us, to learn
something about God and ourselves; whereas if we spend our lives in direct
ing and commanding and consulting others, we get so swollen a sense of our
own importance, our own adroitness, our own effectiveness, that we forget
that we are tolerated rather than needed. It is better 011 the v. hole to tarry
the Lord's leisure, than to try impatiently to force the hand of God, and to
-make amends for his apparent slothfulness. What really makes a nation
grow, and improve, and progress, is not social legislation and organization.
That is only the sign of the rising moral temperature; and a man who sets
an example of soberness, and kindliness, and contentment is better than a
.pragmatical district visitor with a taste for rating meek persons. From Put
nam's Monthly.
The
Power of a Voice S
By Kate Clyde. jj
IFETNf ygu live in hotels a great deal, as have I more or less
this summer, you realize the power of the human voice to
fcoothe, or quite the opposite.
Oh, what a lot of harsh, disagreeable voices there are
in this world women's voice, too! The pity of it!
One morning I was on the beach at the bathing hour
when I heard some one call "Tommy!" in discordant tones
that set my nerves atingle with their acid sharpness. The
child so called frowned and answered back in a peevish
way. I turned, expecting to see some uncouth nursemaid', and to my surprise
I beheld the extremely elegant mother of the boy.
Now, that woman's husband is always irritable and peevish, just like the
bo', and who shall say her voice is not responsible for it?
One of the worst-tempered men I know married a woman with a sweet,
tote voice and an even disposition. lie is now completely changed. You
tnow, you simply can't quarrel all by yourself when everything is peaceful and
oothicg all around you. It seems to me if more women realized tfcl3, there
m-outd be more happy homes. Pittsburg Christian Advocate.
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waist In tailor stylo ia a favorite one
of the season, and la. to bo noted in
silk, iu flannel and In caahmere, made
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A new portrait of Miss May Sutton, and regarded as the best ever
made of the young American, who has defeated all opponents in the con
tests for first honors among the women tennis players both in this country
and across the water. In England Miss Sutton's record Is regarded as sim
ply marvelous.
Home-Made Marcel.
For a long time the professional
hairdresser had a monopoly of the
marcel wave business. The fashion
able coiffure required a professional
touch, which, it seems, could not be
ecured at the hands of the amateur.
Many a girl in the privacy of her
bedroom has wasted hour after hour
in the endeavor to "marcel" her own
hair, only to succeed in making a
mass of burned or tangled tresses
not to be likened, for a moment, to
the beautiful undulation of the
Didn't Mind the Ladder.
A ladder leaned against a store
! front in Nassau street, near Spruce,
yesterday afternoon. Its foot was so
far out that it was easier far for one
to go under it than to pass outside
it.
Every one knows it is considered
bad luck to walk tinder a ladder. Did
many of the crowd hurrying toward
the bridge pay deference to that su
perstition? A man in a hurry paused a half
minute to see.
Out of thirty who passed only
seven avoided the supposed hoodoo.
Those seven must have done it out
of superstition, because it would
have been easier for them to go un
der the ladder as the other twenty
three did.
The man who paused to see had,
himself, not passed under. New
York World.
ocean's waves, but rather to a knot
ted bunch of seaweed thrown up on
the shore.
The inventor has corns to her re
lief in the presentation of a tool by
which, so it is claimed, she can her
self give her hair a "marcel" which
will put the professional dresser to
blush. At first glance this device
looks like something which might be
found in the doctor's kit, but its
mission is entirely harmless and It
can do no more damage than possibly
burn a lock of hair if handled too
carelessly. The teeth shown are slid
ing in a groove and after the thing
has been heated the hair is wound
around one of the arms of the tongs,
and when the hair has been drawn
tight, by pulling the teeth along the
slot, the other jaw of the tong is
closed down and its heat gives the
hair the desired curl. Washington
Star.
Old Potatoes Made New.
The "rejuvenated potato" is the
latest form of adulterated food to
which State Food Commissioner R.
W. Dunlap's attention has been
called. Local dealers are treating po
tatoes of the crop of 1906 with some
liquid that peels off the skin after
the manner of the "new potatoes"
and at the same time gives the pota
to the characteristic pink tinge.
Columbus (Ohio) Special to the New
York World.
The negro republic of Liberia has
twenty-two species of rubber trees.
A New Pied Piper.
A new plague protective," or rat
poison, has been discovered in India.
It consists of a pasty substance inoc
ulated with a bacillus. According to
report, a rat which takes enough to
cover a pin's head will not only die,
but will infect every other rat with
which it comes in contact. Five vil
lages have been selected by the Gov
ernment in which to make tests of
the new poison. Chicago Daily
News.
The Two Handles.
Everything has two handles; one
by which it may be borne, another by
which it can not. If your brother
acts unjustly, do not lay hold on the
affair by the handle of his injustice,
for by that it can not be borne; but
rather by the opposite, that he is
your brother, that he was brought
up with you, and thus you will lay
hold on it as it is to be borne.
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Typical Soldiers of the Korean Army
Lately Disbanded by the Jap
anese Government.
From Leslie's.
STRANGEST OF STRANGE FUNERAL CORTEGES.
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In various colors to match the pre
vailing suits, so that, while there is
a separate blouse worn the one color
can be maintained throughout the
costume, as well as in washable fab
rics. This one is distinctly novel
and smart in effect, while it retains
the simplicity essential to waists of
the sort and is finished with stitched
Fancy mouse Waist. .
Whatever feature tho new, up-to-date
waist may Include, the one alb
essential one is some arrangement ot
trimming whereby . the seams that
join the sleeves to the blouse are con
cealed. Hero Is a distinctly new
model that is both simple and effect
tlve, and which Is trimmed to bring
about this desirable result, while the'
shoulder line is by no means over
broad, and it consequently is becom
ing to almost all figures. In the il
lustration it is made of crepo de
Chine in a new lovely grey-green
with trimming of velvet in a darker
shade and of soutache braid and rib
bon frills, while the yoke is of ecru
lace. The combination of several
materials on a single garment, as
well as the color, mark the very
latest style, and the blouse is alto
gether one much to be commended.
It can be utilized both for the entire
gown and for the separate waist, and
is really appropriate for every fash
ionable material of indoor wear,, in
asmuch as all are soft and caa be
made full with success. Trimming;
of various sorts can be substituted
for the velvet and soutache. The-
shoulder portions, for example, 'could
be made of Oriental embroidery 01-
of bands of embroidery held by nar
row straps of velvet ribbon, or they
could be of. some contrasting ma
terial embroidered, while the frill
can be of ribbon, as in this instance
of silk, of lace, or of the material.
The blouse is made with a fitted
edges. Buttons are used as trimming
as well as for practical closing, how
ever, and as there are numberless
beautiful ones found in the season's
display, there is ample opportunity
for excellent effect. In the illustra
tion the blouse is made of heavy
white linen trimmed with large pearl
buttons and with collar and cuffs em
broidered in eyelet style; but later,
when actual cold weather shall have
arrived, silk, flannel and the like,
will be in demand.
The waist consists of the fronts,
the back and the pointed panel at the
centre front. The waist is closed at
the front but the panel is buttoned
over into place at the left side. There
are tucks at the centre front and back
that extend full length with wider
ones to yoke depth only; at each side
thereof and the outermost tucks of
these groups serve to conceal the
arm hole seams. The sleeves are
quite novel and are pleated at both
their upper and lower edges, while
they can be finished in three-quarter
length with rolPover cuffs or extend
ed to the wrists and finished with
plain fitted ones.
Finest of Velvet.
A new velvet Is so fine that entire
width can easily be put through a
small ring.
Moorish Soldiers Escorting the Remains (in Casket on Muleback) of Dr
Mauchamp, the Frenchman Murdered by Moors, From Marakesh to
Maragta (Two Hundred Miles) Through the Moroccan Desert.
L'lllustration.
When Lining Dresses.
For dresses in light weight mate
rials the lining of the bodice should
be quite a small affair, extending
back and front just below the waist
line.
lining on which the yoke and the
full portions are arranged. The
shoulder straps, or epaulette like
trimming, are arranged over it, and
the regulation stock collar completes
tho neck. The sleeves, also, are made
over fitted linings, and the lower
edges of these linings are covered
with frills.
Dainty Petticoats.
Petticoats are lovelier and more
fluffy than ever before. Fine hand
embroidery and masses or ruffles are
the daintiest that can be worn with
evening gowns. -
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is three and
three-quarter yards twenty-one, three
yards twenty-seven or one and three-
quarter yards forty-four inches wide
with three-eighth yard of all-over
lace, four and three-quarter yards ef
velvet ribbon, and ten yards of rib
bon for frills, to make as illustrated
in the medium size.
Long Wrap Popular.
Take it which way you will the
long enveloping wrap Is an insignia
of the hour.