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g World Daily Magazine Mondays, Janu “The Evenin " os. 53 to Published Dalty Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Park Row, New York. fT JOSEPH PULITZER, Pree., 1 Kast 24 Street, 3. ANGUS STIAW, 01 Went 118th Street, Class Matl Matter, Office at New Yo Entered at the Po: ci nd_and the Con- Gubscription Rates to the Canada. Ian C Evening World for the || Caan Es Sarna tonal on ari sus ry | DEAS 3 She eI Gnion » 50] Ane month....eeeeee One month. VOLUME 48,.......c00eeeeeees «NO. 16,946. PRICES AND MIDDLEMEN. QUESTION which a valued reader asks is occurring to tens of thou- sands of people. He says: “Where are the decreased prices that were everywhere prophesied to follow close on the heels of the panic? Personally 1 have not found them anywhere. I refer to the pro- phesied drop in the cost of living.” | One place where lower prices can be found is in the advertising col-| umns of this newspaper. Take to. | day's paper and compare the ad- i vertisements now appearing with the offerings and prices quoted months | ago. Everything is cheaper, particularly those goods which the great} department stores buy direct from the manufacturer. | The value of the advertising columns of a newspaper with wide cir- culation among the consuming public is that thereby manufacturers are | enabled quickly to exchange their goods for cash. | Therein consists the great advantage of the modern department store to both consumer and manufacturer. Stores with thousands of customers can afford to take all of a manufacturer’s stock, paying him at once the cash which he needs and being assured that by truthful adver- tising they can speedily sell these goods at a reasonable profit. Such things as coats, dresses, hats, shoes, furniture, curtains, umbrellas, clocks, | underwear, stockings, pianos, dressing sacques, wrappers, blankets, sheets, pillow cases and like necessities of living are selling at reductions of from 10% to 40% from the prices at which they could be purchased before the panic. | However, the criticism is entirely correct that all prices have not come down, The price of kerosene has not been reduced. The Standard | Oi] Company controls that. The price of coal has not been reduced. The Anthracite Coal Trust fixes that. The price of lumber is kept up, by the Lumber Trust. The price of live hogs paid to the farmer has dropped $2 per 100! pounds, or one-third. It would be thought that the price of lard would also be reduced a third. The price of tierce lard has been reduced one-fifth. Joun! \ JOHN! ANSWER MEI ary 13, 1908. The Day of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. = GET UP JouN ¢ You'RE GOING To CHURCH WITH ME To DAY BREAK DOWN THAT DOO! t SOMETHIN RQU coe TERRIBL HAS HAPPENED ARE You. * DEAD? HERE 15 A BATH SOWAISE pee Refined lard has dropped 10%. Lard in tins sells perhaps one cent al pound less. The successive middlemen, beginning with the Packing Trust at Chicago, have absorbed to themselves the drop in prices. Likewise in eggs. The wholesale price of storage eggs, which make up four-fifths of the consumption, has dropped to less than 20 cents a dozen. Yet not one grocer in ten gives his customers the full benefit of the drop. Meat of all kinds has dropped, as the farmers’ quotations in the agricultural papers prove. There should be a corresponding reduction by the retailer of 25%. How many retailers have made that cut? When wholesale prices rise the middlemen promptly jump their prices, and the retail price goes up BARGAIN COUNTER J = iz within twenty-four hours. When DIAmonof 2 HY] primary prices drop, especially in such commodities as meat, butter, CHEAP eggs and vegetables, where there is a long string of middlemen, each mid- | dleman holds to the increased protit as long as he can. Consumers will not get the benefit of lower prices until they buy more intelligently, for it is not natural for any seller to charge less than he can get or to lower his price before he has to. If every reader of this paper would consult its advertising columns | thins before buying he would realize how much prices have dropped, for every advertisement is necessarily a story of low prices and good purchases Nobody advertises staple supplies at a higher price than they can reason- You Can’t Save Your Money and Spend It, Too, Says the Wise Mr. Jarr; But It Isn’t Poor Woman Alone Who Needs This Axiom Hurled at Her. Just be Why, to uk “But I don't need shirts and the house does 8, Saad Mr. Jarr. “Yes, and we “Oh, well, m By Roy L. McCardell, | e cents,” sald d prefer to waste the m own way,” said ints at seventy-n the paper. “Tae ad-/ Mrs. Jarr, “I know that we will need those things and then we'll have to pay lsement says ‘b too. You ought to} double for ther u'll need some new shirts next summer.” r Mr Jarr, “But, don't you see that there is no economy tn buying said Mr, Jarr, “but I don't need p haven't the money, or have to go in debt, prac y speaking, or No matter how nportant things? eap things are what's the fed Mrs. Jarr, “but that’s just t. If you want) do e to take advantage of oppc n before you need them? I'd ra pay double price when I a vale of ¢ ) spare than to stint myself when I di tring : ; b yet you ave always finding fault with me, and I'm always stinting my- n~ that way,” said Mr. Jarr. . if we can You a y Something , as you “What we ought to do the rest of the women; 1 never d you a them the! cA ave just been saying, we haven't y haven't we any me 4 don't need by ey? asked Mr use you think mnetrent asked Mr. Jarr, “the company d Mrs, Jarr, “I think Io ago and paid 1 you are always eaper than put them away 80's to have them in Atteer | When really je econ asked Mr. Jarr, i | Wasted ten s!" surieke! Mrs. Jarr abliarsate PAE NIE abt aste? And I don't thank you for those gutter expressions, calling me an ‘eco- t place,” said Mr. Jarr, "bo e family finances? Have you any al kM" Have Tal all the things I had to pay ft That was only a joke; you are not a kid and you are not economical,’ sald t's, all the end nts’ as they 2 thay, and much you apprectate ! Jarr. ip she w the other ones ‘to close up the} Mr. ' ‘ 4 you ever speak to me again as long as vou live!" said Mrs. Tarr, and nto the next room and s!ammed the door Jarr went downtown in a very grouchy state of mind until, as he ore near the office, he saw there was a special sale of a brand he rent reduction, and he bought two hoxes and gave one to his bo: n In good humor the rest of the day, He thought he'd 1 in finan deposit and have these things held for me,” sald Mra, em home next week C. 0. 1D." getting shirts for next summer or a set of dishes when passed a cigar asked Mr. Jarr. lked ata fift of sail Mrs I'm always doing some- ani that put h te \ dollar. sa: kel Jarr. Mr. Man #3 Tries to Win a Very Important ably be sold for. Letters from ‘the People. Not a Tree; a Parasite Plant. loafing there would Editor of The Evening World ones Ww e mist! tree or doss It grow] by the more successtuy is To. Is more w less men on upon anc IGNOR. 5 aan ‘The mistletoe is a parasite plan’ INDPPENDENT. tachi: the trunk or brat of some larg Infrequent Ninth Avenue Trains, land City Plea for Smoking, a Offices Women To the Exitor “Unempio minded enoug weno. ledged fac: present time | prefer the serv os i offices, Owing to : in the andli brains, good close application to : 1 of business, ‘They car fei tormeny iat end found at their desks at all times,| dows in the office are open our clotes BM te quite true that there ts not a posi-; Will never absorb the odor of the @on in the business world to-day that |t@hacce., Therefore, girls, be reavo : able not object. to - fannot be successfully filled by © wo-| ing a litt Pats comfort in the office in t BROOKLEN GIRL, Ban. If more men spent lesa time in wey ef @ smoke, TE anne On, TOURE Suck AD tet SIT DOWN) SW TTT...) NICE MAN-YOU Yo 2 Are ys CES Pe HERE ON THE STAIRS AND TALK IT OVER JA ( A SS Ste I'm Au Rion) (Y, WN THE WORLD hd HA Atl 9) e KA EuL MAT | J a Y Yost C poe You'RE TOO HANDSOME \ Oe TO REMAIN A BACHE LONROO MS I LIKE or (wow! 1 FERGOT ) Act ABOUT ~ THat Courr ) ~R.00m ook! /E case suas ye {)) K WY No. 86.—CIVIL WAR (Part IV.)—Dark Days, HE third year of the Civil War—1868—opened gloomily enough for bot sides. All hope that the struggle might be econ ended was long sincy past. Both North and South were fighting with ever increasing furg and stubbornness, and the end seemed many years off. In the Southwes? the strategic centre of the whole struggle—Lee and Jackson had checked every aggreasive move worthy of the name and had put ¢o rout the stronges® At this time, too, the North was hampered by lack of competent gem erals. McClellan had been removed from chief command and Burnside ha@ the Rappahanaoock River, opposite Fredericksburg. There he was oblige@ to walt an interminable time for the arrival of pontoon bridges to carry his army across the river. Governmental delay again marred the War Depar® ment's plans. For, by the time the pontoons -t last arrived, Lee had planted |river, and on Dec. 18, 1862, tried to capture these batteries, But he waa | driven back with a loss of 13,000 men, | Burnside asked to be relieved of command after thie setback, and Gea. | Hooker replaced him. In the spring of 1868 Hooker, with the Army of the | of crushing Lee and attacking Richmond. At Cham Battle of cellorsville, just beyond Fredericksburg (May 4), Chancelloreville. Lee met the advancing army and a terrible battle sy ensued, in the course of which “Stonewall” Jackson |The Union forces were defeated with great loss, and Hooker resigned bis command. Gen. Meade succeeded him. The Government had a way of | getting rid of a commander as soon as he was thought to be incompetent, | and of trying general after general in quick succession in the hope of finding jseheme in the end was successful, when Grant was chosen, But many | Biectoue months and many fatal blunders were to intervenc before thaf | time. | President Lincoln meanwhile, on Jan. 1, 1863, issued a proclamatioy |step. Barlier it would have been premature. Coming as it did, at the opem ing of 1863, the action was of incalculable effect on all the nation’s future, Negro regiments were raised, officered by white men, and the abolitionists threw themselves into the Union's struggle with added zeal. The effect of | there that nothing short of a reunited and wholly free nation would satisty the United States Government. The Confederacy fought henceforth not only for secession, but for the privilege of keeping its slaves. It had, too, a stil) | more serious drawback to success. |money was what the South lacked. The pinch arising from shortness og ‘funds and from absence of the sheer necessities of life began .o be cruelly \felt throughout the seceding States. President Lincoln had ordered a | blockade of Southern ports, thus cutting off communication and trade from which brought in clothing and other commodities and carried cargoes of cotton to Europe, yet such vessels were too few te supply the Southerners’ | needs. Cotton, the chief export of the South, could no longer bring revenue |to its owners, Manufactories were scant. Hence, as the war and the | clothed, Their sufferings were pitiful. Non-<o} tants felt the grind of poverty as the district’s natural resources became exhausted and no new |supplies were received from outside. The Confederate Government tried to solve the financial question by according to the historian, Anderson, were printed and given out in sheets to young girls in Richmond, who signed them at so much a thousand and | returned them to the treasury. As the South was in a state of war, with | no immediate hope of victory, and as the Confederate Lee Invades plentiful, had almost no value. One Virginian, Pennsylvania. quoted by Anderson, wrote to a friend: My dinner at a hotel cost me $20, and for some wretched tallow candles I paid $10 a pound. ‘Before the war,’ a facetious back my purchases In a basket. Now I take the money in a basket and bring the purchases home in my pocket.’ Money is of so little value that we This lack of funds and of necessaries did not dampen the military ardor of the South. It stimulated the Confederates to increased activity In pur he pushed forward with about 100,000 men In a daring, brilliant raid of the Northern States. Passing through Maryland, he invaded Pennsylvania. The aggression. But now a Southern army had marched successfully into the free States, and might, if unchecked, attack Philadelphia or New York. In- “Lee will stable his horses in Fanueil Hall, Boston, and dictate peace terms in New York.” and far South the North had won important victories. But in Virginta— Union armies. taken his place. Burnside made a direct march for Richmond and reacheg heavy batteries on the hills behind Fredericksburg. Burnside crossed the Potomac, crossed the Rappahannock with the idem | was accidentally killed by one of his own soldiera, j@t last the right man to lead the United States armies to victory. This | freeing all the slaves. He chose the very best possible moment for this great the proclamation was no leas potent at the South. It was now understood Money 1s probably the chief factor to be reckoned on in every war. And other countries. While the blockade was often eluded by merchant shipo. blockade progressed, the Confederate armies grew half starved and half jissuing vast quantities of paper currency (treasury notes). These noter —~~~~"_ treasury was depleted, this paper money, though é “1 bonght coffee at $40 and tea at $30 a pound friend tells me, ‘I went to market with money in my pocket and brought part with it gladly whenever it will purchase anything desirable.” suing the war. When Lee beat the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville whole North was aghast. Heretofore the war had been largely one of Union deed, more than one Confederate boasted: It was the decisive moment of the Civil War. ~ Fishes That Fish and Shoot. By William Abados, gentleman angler casting bis fly upon the ripple ts unique—surely ne nal can matcu the rod and Une! Yet there is a fish with a long, ider filament drooping forward from its head. ped ith a fleshy, wormlike uppendage, The flsl) les quietly on the bottom and awaits a nibble, Soon a minnow makes a dash for the waving luscious morsel, The huge mouth opens, and—the tinny angler has dined! A veritable Shylock, this, with rod, line and bait of his own flesh and bone Perhaps the most terrtble invention of man ts the rifle. by which he cam slay when far from his victim. And this fact makes the shooting fish of Java a more interesting creature, writes Willlam Abados in the Sunday Magazine. A fly alights on a leaf, a foot or more above the surface, basking in the sun, tts many faceted eyes on the lookout for danger in all directions except below. A small fish rises slowly through the water and carefully protrudes its long painted snout into the alr, A long wait follows, when the fish 1s apparently taking aim, and then a aflvery stream of drops shoots unerringly upward and tumbles the fly headlong into the eager walting mouth. The natives keep thie fish in @nke, and {t Inn great favorite on account of its curtous habit. When {t becomes accustomed to Its new surroundings, !t will readily shoot at a fly oF bit of meat held between the fingers. _—— Women the Best Fibbers. By Edna Wallace Hopper. N oath does mean something to @ woman, but she 1s more clever than the man when placed on the stand and can usually get around things tn a better way ‘A woman will lle and fib ff It 1s necessary, but back of it all there 1s more tact used than she is generally given credit for. Any woman who goes on the stand to testify should know perfectly well what she is going to say and do. The lawyers are mighty clever, but Ip the majority of the cases they are outwitted by the women. I would not believe a man in the world, They tell little falstties, but usually entrap themselves, There can be no great division, however, between the man and woman when It comes to perjury, as the man will tell = lie just as readtig as a woman, and vice versa. HE + How Adam Was Punished. PROMINENT pastor tells this story: A “{ visited a certain school one day where Bible instruction was pert of the dally course, and in order to test the children's knowledge, asket some questions, One class of little girls looked particularly bright, and I asked the tallest one: ‘What sin did Adam commit?! | "He ate forbidden fruit.’ g Who tempted Adam? “Not really Eve, but the serpent. And how was Adam punished? “The girl hesitated and looked confused, Behind her sat a Uttle eight year-old, who raised her hand and said: ‘Please, pastor, I loow.’ “Well, tell us, How was Adam punished?! “He had to marry Eve.’ "*—Harper's Weekly. } Oddities in the News. HE Southern Pacific has forbidden the empbyees in its lumber yards te wear stiff hats or boiled shirts. Laborers complained that those so cos tumed “‘lorded” !t over the others. Dunn aaid she wouldn't have put her foot in the hole, because he eeuldn’t, Hie foot ia to be measured im court, : In contesting a demage suit by @ woman against Willimantic, Conn., Mayor .