Show SAME CONDITIONS EVERYWHERE Things are arc pretty much the same all the world o over Hero Here is js s a dispatch showing that German Germany is affected much as the tile United States has lias been According to recent and trustworthy statistics the prices of provisions in ill Germany German have since the year rear 1906 increased as follows Butter Dutter from 1 13 c to 36 per cent eggs 28 S potatoes 22 flour 10 fruit 14 beans 43 rice 16 groats greats 11 beer In bottles 10 herrIngs herrings herrings her her- rings 20 pepper 53 peas 2 27 onions 20 and other necessities of life ife In proportion Coal has gone up 16 15 per percent percent cent and bids fair to exceed that figure during JIH the present winter Inter as winter prices have already reached ed 22 per percent cent wood has increased in the cost of domestic help is said to have increased at least 25 5 per cent Wages although they have Increased somewhat somewhat some some- what have baye no not k kept hept pt pa pace e with th the therise r rise s In price luice of the necessities of lire life I Germany has bas enjoyed a n. great period j. j o p ri tu n recent years and aud yet Jih to to seem 1 0 w profited profit ed by little by Jt it One of the wise men says sas that work work- ingmen wage earners are only beginning beginning begin begin- ning to apply business rules to their conduct Before Defore prosperity brought the opportunity the they made enough to live on from year ear to year ear and the mass of them never Oer planned to nave have more U than an that If a man Ilan got a home paid for it was about the limit of his accumulation The They had all the work they could do do ilo for years ears at a very good price Of course course the price of or ro foodstuffs increased in increased increased in in- creased but the fact that there wa was plenty plent of work that work was secure that the income was certain these certain these i I factors in III a a. business man mans man's s were were n-were were entirely overlooked Th The average wage earner did no better than he le had bad done before He kept kep t teven even ven and that yas is as all But the wise man man declares the therma thema- mo j r or of American wage earners earners in in America h have ve proved their p possession of ot business qualities They have set their faculties at work They have thought out money making plans They Ther have caught the general movement to accumulating to acquiring and theare they the are going to ie be the better belter off for it V Very V ry likely that Is the solution of the whole problem Men len of our Amer mer lean country the highest type of wage earners in the world world-will world will prove with each passing year hereafter that the they can tal take tahe c advantage of or the opportunities u ties s afforded them by Ih good times Umes They The not waste waste- nor Ignore They will utilize t their opportunity their opportunity their steady und and assured income Income as as a basis basin on or I which to make something like fortune They will so fix themselves that asey as ai i they ey gc get old the they will have something 1 more ine n re than the tho home borne They will have IH I funds with which to support their old oh I age In ease case and their loved ones in Ii I comfort 1 |