Ninety nine Percent
Of the Country's Wealth Is Owned by One
Percent of the Population.
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By Henry
IFTY years aro, tbere
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in the whole of the Unite:! States, and their commneo.
tunes including the half-miiiicnalres as well did not ex
ceed a probable $100,000,000, or 1 percent of the then ag
gregate wealth of the nation. Sixteen years ago the com
bined fortunes of this class were estimated at $3G,500,000,-
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000, or 56 percent of our national wealth. Today a Dare
1 percent of our population owns practically 99 percent of
the entire wealth of the nation.
As a result of this wealth concentration, industrial society is practically
divided Into two classes, the enormously rich and the miserably poor: our
18,000,000 wage-earners receive an average ef but $400 per year; nine-tentb.8
of our business men are notoriously failures; our clergy receive an average
annual salary of about $500; the average for the educators of the land is
even lower; and the income of other professional men in proportion, while
of our 6,000,000 farmers one-third are tenants, and the homes of one-third
of the remaining two-thirds are mortgaged, and a debt burden is almost
universal.
We are, in fact, a nation of debtors, our public and private mortgage,
bond, and general indebtedness alone reaching a probable total of $30,000,000,
000, or $375 per capita; in other words, an amount equal to 13 1-2 times our
per capita money circulation, and 22 times our savings banks deposits. But
the stocks of our industrial, financial, and public service corporations are ex
pected to draw dividends, and constitute as truly an indebtedness upon the
part of the public to the owners of wealth, "as do mortgages and bonds them
selves; and these, under their present enormous over-capitalization, would
swell our indebtedness to a probable total far in excess of the $110,000,000,000
estimated as the total aggregate wealth of the nation, the whole being a first
lien upon the toil and property of the nation, with the power given to these
corporations to levy what tax they please thereupon.
These conditions are not normal nor the result of national law or causa
tion, but are instead the result of a monopoly of land and mineral resources;
of money, of transportation, and other public utilities as also of industry.
This monopoly has, moreover, been brought about by means of the corpora
tion. Industrial, financial, and public service.
...Why...
Girls .. Don't.. Marry
X By Beatrice Fairfax.
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E hear a great many
Wll why gins ion i marry.
Here is a reason that we dont hear very much about, ano
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ried for a home, for the modern, capable girl can provide
a home for herself. There is only one reason why she
should marry, and that is for love.
But when you see a splendid girl married to a miserable
little whippersnapper of a man, it is very hard to believe
that she married him for love.
It seems impossible that an insignificant nothing of a man should dare to
ask a fine, intelligent girl to marry him.
And yet when girls remain unmarried the reason is nearly always as
srrihed to "lack of opportunity."
This is not true, for there are very few women in the world who have
never had the chance to marry. But ther? are a great many women who have
never met the right man, and therefore have remained single sooner than
marry a man whom they did not love.
Woman is not the beauty worshipper that man is, so she does not demand
an Adonis; but she does want an able, intelligent man, whom she can honor
as well as love.
Woman, I am glad to say. is getting much harder to suit in the husband
line. Time was when good looks, good clothes and a dashing manner were
enough for her.
Nowadays she realizes that even if she does not marry life may still
hold much for her. There are better things in life than marriage with a poor
little specimen.
To marry a good man is the best fate that can befall any girl.
But to marry a man whom she can neither love nor look up to is about
the worst fate that can befall her.
Don't throw yourselves away, girls; don't be in a hurry to marry the first
man that asks you unless you sincerely love him.
Remember that married life has its ups and downs, and that It requires
a great deal of love to keep the way smooth.
And the next time you hear people saying that the country is full of old
maids, just say to them, "Bring out a more satisfactory lot of men and you
won't find so many old maids." New York Journal.
The Coming
American
By Mark
71 UMAN nature bei: v Iv-t it Is, Isuppose we must expect
Hto drift into monarchy by and by. It is a saddening thought,
but we cannot change our nature; we are all alike, we hu
man beings; and in our blood and bone, and ineradicable,
we carry the seeds out of which monarchies and arlstocra-
Hcies are grown, worship if gauds, titles, distinctions, power.
We have to worship these things and their possessors; we
are all born so and we cannot help it We have to be de
spised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we
are not happr; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we can
not be content.
In America we manifest this In all the ancient and customary ways. In
public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker
. after them, and when, we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.
Sometimes we get a good man and worth the price, but we are ready to take
him anyway, whether he be ripe or rotten, whether he be clean and decent
or merely a basket of noble and sacred and long-descended offal. And when
we get him the whole nation publicly chaffs and scoffs and privately envies,
and also is proud of ..the honor which has been conferred upon us. Wc run
over our list of titled purchases every now and then in the newspaper and
discuss them and caress them and are .thankful and happy.
In a monarchy the people willingly and rejoicingly revere and take pride
in their nobilities, and are not. humiliated by the reflection that this humble
and hearty homage gets no return but contempt Contempt does not shame
- them; they are used to it and they recognize that it Is their proper due. : We
are all made like that, In Europe we easily and quickly learn to take that
attitude toward the soverlgns and the aristocracies; moreover, it has been
observed that when we get the attitude we go and exaggerate it, presently
becoming more servile than the natives and vainer of It The next step- is to
rail and scoff at Republics and Democracies. All of which Is natural, for we
have not ceased to be human beings by becoming Americans, and the human
race was always Intended to be geveried by kingship, not by popular vote.
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were not to exceed miy nu"""""'"
reasons good, bad and indifferent
Monarchy
:ain.
New York City. No smarter or
more attractive waist for receptions,
the theatre and all occasions of the
sort well can be' devised than this
one. It includes an exceptionally at
tractive little bolero, the exceedingly
low cut of which leaves much of the
lace gulmpe exposed, while there is a
girdle of unusually becoming lines
and proportions. As illustrated the
bolero Is made of ivory white broad
cloth with trimming of a stitched
band of the material on which discs
are embroidered, while the gulmpe is
of lace and the girdle is of taffeta
held by a plain gold buckle, the but
tons on the bolero also being of gold,
but carved. The combination is an
exceedingly handsome and distinct
ive one, but such a model as this can
be utilized In almost numberless
ways. It is at its best perhaps with
bolero and skirt made to match, but
the bolero can be made of a heavier
and different material if liked, whilo
silk and the lighter weight wools,
such as voile, eolienne and the like,
are quite as appropriate as cloth.
The lace gulmpe is always handsome
and always dressy, but lingerie ma
terials are many although very at
tractive, and these are quite appro
priate when a simpler effect Is de
sired, bo that the waist can be made
either adapted to really formal occa
sions or to every day ones as one
combination or another is chosen.
The gulmpe is made with front
and backs, and its lower edge is. at
tached to a smoothly fitted founda
tion girdle, over which the full one
is arranged, the two closing together
at the back. The sleeves extend Just
below the elbows and are moderately
full, but are tucked to fit snugly at
their lower edges and finished with
roll-over cuffs. The bolero is entire-,
ly separate, made with fronts and
back, and closed at the front. .
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is one and three
eighth yards twenty-one, . seven
eighth yard twenty-seven or three
quarter yard forty-four inches wide,
with three yards of banding for the
bolero, one yard of silk for the girdle,
three yards eighteen or twenty-one
or one and three-quarter yardsforty
four inches wide for the gulmpe. ..-
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. Skirts are much more severs than
those of last season.
Flowers, Pins and Combs.
Flowers are comparatively little
worn In the hair, but the Empire
wreath still continues in vogue. Tortoise-shell
pins and combs In every
variety, as well as colored and carved
horn, are also much to the fore.
Blouse Waist.
The blouse that can be worn over
any pretty separate yoke or gulmpe
as liked 1b one of the novelties of
the season that has been very heartily
accepted, and which has extended
vogue. Here is one that Is adapted
both to the entire gown and to the
separate waist and that appropriate
ly can be made of silk or wool ma
terial and a little later of the pretty
washable stuffs. In this Instance It )
is made with three-quarter sleeves
and the material is taffeta trimmed
with soutache braid and French
knots and edged with velvet banding.
But the trimming as well as the ma
terial' depends upon Individual taste
and need, and any finish that may be
liked is quite appropriate for the
prettily shaped bertha. The feature
of the waist consists of the fact that
It can be varied in a number of ways.
It can be made either lined or un
lined with a separate yoke, or with
a fitted lining faced to form the yoke,
or it can be worn over any entirely
separate waist that one may possess.
Also the sleeves can be either In
three-quarter or full length.
The waist is made with front, backs
and bertha. The front and backs are
tucked at their upper edges and the
bertha is arranged over them. The
moderately full sleeves are arranged
over fitted linings which are faced
to form deep cuffs when long sleeves
are used.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size Is four yards of
material twenty-one, three and a half
yards twenty-seven or two yards
forty-four inches wide, with three-
eightn yard of all-over lace and six
and a half jards of braid to make as
Illustrated, one yard of all-over lace
if long sleeves are used.
Broadcloth- Beauty.
Exquisite new broadcloths are in
the following colors at $3 per yard:
Burnt rose, dark ' rose claret. Delft
blue, French blue, peacock-blue, ele
phant gray, mode, . golden brown,
chestnut brown, drab, purple, plum,
lavender and heliotrope. : Pale
shades rfor dressy , afternoon and
evening wear are pastel blue, baby
blue, pastel pink, oyster white, bis
cuit, paste! green and chamois.
DOMESTIC
He "It's absolutely useless to
that. My will is of iron."
She "Yes, I know pig iron."
Toothbrush Holder.
A simple, but novel, device recent
ly patented is a combined toothbrush
and holder, shown below. It was de
signed primarily for use in traveling,
Folds Into Case.
but, nevertheless, is equally conven
ient for use in the home. The brush
is similar to the ordinary toothbrush,
with the exception that the handle is
shorter. This disadvantage is over
come by connecting the end of the
handle to the holder, the latter thus
affording a grip for the hand. The
holder is of a hollow metal case,
shaped to accommodate the form of
the brush. Where the end of the
handle and the holder are connected
there is a pivloted Joint, so that the
brush can be folded back into the
holder. The latter is made in two
sections of equal size, one section
serving as a cover, the two sections
being joined by hinges. An Ohio
man is the inventor.
Well 2013 Feet Deep.
An encouraging report has been
made by Professor Hull on the water
being "pumped from the bore which
has been sunk to a depth of 2015
feet in search of a pure supply. At
first the water had an excessive pro
portion of salts, which made it un
suitable for drinking purposes, but
with continued pumping a purer sup
ply has been obtained, the proportion
of solids falling by nearly one-half.
The professor urges that the bore
should be carried 185 feet lower. It
is described as the deepest bore In
England. London Daily Mail.
USED BY MEDICAL CORPS FOR
RAILROAD OPERATORS. '
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AMENITIES.
argue further. You ought to know
From London Opinion.
Mop For Oiling Floors.
The aim of the majority of inven
tors at the present time is In the di
rection of designing some contrivance
which will supplant hand labor, and
In the main they are successful. One
of the latest is a simple device having
a clamp which holds one or more
pieces of felt, the latter being saturat
ed with oil to be applied to floors.
A Massachusetts man is the patentee,
an illustration of the device being
shown here.
The clamp which holds the felt is
made of metal, the front and rear be
ing plates exactly alike. The upper
edges of the plates are bent Inward
to give additional stiffness, and the
lower edges also bent inward and
formed with toothed projections. The
plates constitute a jaw for folding
and engaging the layers of felt. The
two plates are connected at points
above the centre by a horizontal
plate, the latter serving as a head
and guide for the felt, which can be
pushed up against It and be retained
in a horizontal position.
The upper portions of the plates are
held, apart by a pair of stiff springs
which surround two bolts connect
ing the plates. To release the felt
For Oiling Floors.
the upper edges of the plates are
pressed toward each other against the
power of the springs. A handle at
tached to the rear plate serves as a
mode of operation. In use. the plate
is saturated with oil and applied to
the floor very much like --a mop.
Philadelphia Record.
A Whale-Headed Stork.
Among the many, curious and un
usual animals which have been found
by Sir Harry Johnston, the African
explorer, in the Uganda Protectorate,
is the whale-headed stork. . The bird
resembles the common stork in every
thing but the head, which is anything
but beautiful. The beak Is enormous
and gives the stork a peculiar whale-
like appearance. It is rather a pus-
zle to scientists to discover the rea
son for this enormous appendage.
The whale's mouth is built to catch
o mitlMf Af email Aafe And nosathlv.-
the stork s beak may have tne same
tendency. Kansas City journal.
At Last an Error.
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The New York Sun has at last 'ad
mitted an error. It called a football
an oblate spheroid,' when it stanKi
have said prolate. But pigskin would
have been better still. Atlanta Jeur-'
uaL .tM.
. Editor Stops the Stork.
" Owing to the overcrowded condi
tion of our columns a number of
births and deaths are unavoidably
postponed this week. Leesville
(Mo.) Light ' r : - s