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.1 socurlly offortHl l»y iluiii 

 .-.l uilli ;:ri'!it scviTlty. 

 ••Ifiipc 1111(1 pri>s|uTliy of ilio cimii- 

 mil tliiit tlu' li';;itiiiiiit<> biisiiir^i 

 ^1, ill lint U' ('niiu|M-tl for lack "f 

 < iliniii, niitl when ttiu-li m 

 . . i.i : .11 .iM-i^ ii will Ih> time oiioiicli \« 

 I ..ii-iil< 1' llic cniK-tniiMit of fiirtlicr Diiiiiu'iiil 

 lf;:lslatlun. At ptvsoiit iu> Hllcli ooiulllloii 

 exists. The liuiulrt'ds of iiiillions wliitli 

 till- liMliks liiive lii'oil fdivol to witliiliMW 

 from Wall street lieeaiise of the sliriiikiiye 

 ill eollateral, liave not heeii lost or ile- 

 stroyinl. Tliey liave simi>ly Ihh-ii with- 

 drawn from Wall street ami an' (-(iiise- 

 (|ueiitly nvnilaMe for the use of the li-irili 

 iniite liiisliiess interests. 



Wall stnnn is mistaken. There is iilciit.v 

 of money In the country. 



What Wall street needs Is collateral. 



WHAT BECOMES OF IT ? 



This is the ape of labor-saving devices 

 of all kinds, and when we look back to 

 the day when the farmer cut his grain 

 with a cradle and his grass with a scythe. 

 when the housewife had not only to do 

 all her sewing by hand, but had to canl 

 her own wool, spin her own yarn and 

 weave her own cloth, when the only 

 means of conveying freight or passengers 

 was by wagon train or rowboat. we won- 

 der that the people were able to get along 

 at all. 



In the old days, if it were necessary to 

 send a message in a hurry, the best time 

 that could lie made was by a relay of 

 couriers on horseback. Nowadays we can 

 send the message clear around the world, 

 over the mountains and under the seas, 

 in less time than tlie old courier -would con- 

 sume in going a mile. 



Nowadays the farmer drives through his 

 wheattield with a machine which not only 

 cuts the grain at the rate of 20 acres a day. 

 but binds and bunches the sheaves, so 

 that one man will harvest more wheat in 

 a day than ten men could under the old 

 conditions, and do it better. 



The housewife goes to the store and buys 

 the garments for the family, all finished 

 and ready to wear. If one wishes to hold 

 converse with a friend he does not need, 

 as in the olden days, to make a tedious 

 journey in the family carriage or by st.'ige 

 coach. He simply calls him up on the 

 telephone. 



In every direction we save time — heajis 

 and lots of time. The question is. what 

 do we do with if.' Kor there was never a 

 generation so busy, so rushed and so 

 cramped for time. 



Had anyone told a farmer of fifty years 

 ago that the time was coming when lir 

 would have all these various labor-savin',: 

 devices— that one man would be able In 

 harvest 20 acres of wheat a day, and --d 

 on, his natural supposition would have 

 been that the life of the farmer, undir 

 such circumstances, would be a mighty 



liisy life, and that he would have more 

 leisure than he would know what lo do 

 wilh. 



Itiit the fact Is, that the farmer still be- 

 gins work at daylight and tinishcs iifler 

 i!:iik. as of yore. And with all tin- advance 

 ill ilie mechanic arts, which has miiKlplied 

 iiimu's capacity for achievement many folil, 

 I lie human race Is working harder, faster 

 and llerci-r to-day than ever. it seems 

 lliat the more labor-saving machinery we 

 gel the hardi'r we have li; work, it Is 

 loiueiled that the strain of e.vislence is 

 gri'aler in this country than in any other — 

 iind we are far in the lead in labor-saving 

 devici'S. it .seems that, instead of the hu- 

 man race escaping the curse of labor to 

 any degree, it is getting into it worse than 

 ever. 



We save a lot of time, but what be- 

 comes of itV It seems a safe proposition 

 to assert tliat a man can accomplish as 

 much under present conditions as four 

 men could accomplish under conditions ex-. 

 isling half a century ago. and yet, should 

 ihc man, with all the multiplication of his 

 IMiwcrs, take life in the leisurely manner 

 Ills forefathers took it, he would starve lo 

 death. 



It seems a toiigh proposition at llie lirsl 

 glance, but it really is not so strange when 

 you come lo consider it. We consume the 

 lime we save by the advance in our meth- 

 ods over the methods of our forefathers, 

 in supplying wants our forefathers did not 

 have. 



The man who gets his li\ing with the 

 least expenditure of effort is the savage, 

 who li.is no labor-saving machinery of any 

 Uind. The farther man advances into 

 civilization the greater his productive ca- 

 pacity, but Ids requirements increase in an 

 ei|iial ratio. In fact, his desires outrun his 

 acliievemeuts, and the more civilized he 

 becomes and the greater his productive ca- 

 pacity, the harder he has to work. A 

 modern man with modern equipment can, 

 in a few days, produce that which would 

 have met the requirements of a family in 

 a primitive state for a j-ear; but all the 

 work that the modern man, with all his 

 modern equipment, can crowd into an en- 

 tire year will scarcely suffice to meet the 

 reiiuirements of his modern family. 



That is where our time goes. You can 

 look back to the time when you were mak- 

 ing .$1,000 a year and you and your^wift 

 and babies lived on that amount in com- 

 fort and saved money. Now that you have 

 reached a point where you are making 

 ^I.OOO a month, maybe, you find that your 

 reiiuirements have increased in an exact 

 ratio with your earning capacity. If you 

 and your family could still live on !fl.O<X) 

 a year you could earn enough in one month 

 to keep them and would have eleven 

 months of leisure. But you don't live on 

 the $1,000 and you haven't the leisure. 

 You can hardly spare a week or two for 

 a summer vacation. That is where our 

 time goes. 



And It Is nit right. Who wants in loaf 

 for eleven nionlliK'/ There Is more pleas- 

 ure In Will-King llian In bi-lng idle, .\iul 

 while lliere really Isn't any need In spend- 

 ing more lliiin .'SJ.iHNt for living, there is a 

 lot of satlsfaclloii In knowing thai yon 

 are living as well as. the ne.vt fellow. 



And so we go on producing more and 

 eoiiKiniilng more: Inventing tabor-snving 

 machinery anil working hanler than ever. 



CYPKESS FINISH. 



It lias I n remarkfKl that cypress "Is 



nut a siilisiilute f<u- white pine." No; and, 

 relatively speaking, for about the same rea- 

 son that wool or silk is not a snlistitule 

 for cotton. For after nuiking all due al- 

 lowance fur the high <|ualiti<'S for which 

 while pine is noted, including prices, It 

 remains that as a finishing material Its 

 claims are largely r'oniprise<l In the ease 

 with which it is worked. It Is not at all 

 ad:ipleil to pur|ioses of natiu'al finish, and 

 if paiiileil the iiriucipal thing to commend 

 it for that inirpose over other much cheaper 

 woods is in the working of it. And even 

 in this respect cypress suffers little. If any- 

 thing, by comparison. White pine retains 

 the favor of a certain class of the com- 

 munity lor much the same reason that young 

 men loirsiie the political bias of their sires. 

 There is about tis much serious thought 

 and no more analytical (consideration Up- 

 stowed upon the merits of the matter in 

 the one case than in the other. 



While white pine interior finish is best 

 painted, it is a positive sin to hide the 

 natural beauties of cypress. C.vpress re- 

 quires no disguise and is improved liy none 

 — it nelllier paints nor stains, and for the 

 same season that the lily needs no adorn- 

 ment. "Reaut.v unadorned is adorne<l the 

 most." It is easy to run a jack-plane over 

 a white pine board, but nature has done 

 for cypress what no other wood can boast 

 — invested it with every honest virtue 

 essential lo easy working, general utility, 

 (Itnviliility and ornament. There is no fin- 

 ishing wood of equally moderate cost that 

 can approach cypress as an embodiment of 

 .so man.v and equal native virtues. The 

 whole world will have an opportunity of 

 verifying these facts for itself at the 

 World's Fair in St. Ivouis next year. — New 

 Orleans Lumlier Trade .Tournal. 



The cfirporation heretofore known as 

 the Shnrtlcff Company of Marengo, 111., 

 has been reorganized and will hereafter 

 be known as Seward & Redpath Company. 

 Mr. K. E. Seward, who has acted as sec- 

 retary and manager of the Shnrtlcff Com- 

 pany for the past eight years, has been 

 elected president of the new company. 

 Mr. Geo. W. Redpath is vice-president and 

 treasurer; Mr. D. B. Boyle, secretary. 



The entire plant of the Hardinsburg 

 Milling Spoke & Lumber Company at Har- 

 dinsburg. Ind., was destroyed by fire on 

 the 21st inst. 



