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Show The American Faea. Wt tend life and money fail. Eyen fnnerall in our big cltiet, trot. Wish, sa a recent vititnrrenmrke, none ofllioie long, alow, aad proceaiona, w here the living take pleurihy, hmncl.itii Hnd pnetimnnia in honor of the dead. AH It done with aueed and preclaion. "Excellent. "Excel-lent. The deal do not liirmnWi Ihe living. They have had their turn. The place ia ours. It is with this lack of cir-cumttauc cir-cumttauc that the American world Is preparing to conduct tha obaetpiiea of old Europe." If we do bury Europe, In trade and worldly power, the raiiM- will be partly our natural - rusouirea, Imi parity wren li - e!- w htetr- llva. We do not stop f.r fnnerala to wand their solemn n ay along ; soma would tty we do not slop for sentiments to ritien or thoughts lo deepen ; at least wt do not atop for small economies, or for any kind of habit Ibat checkstus pare. Industrial Europe ia inclined to lay, with Corporal Nym, "the bnmorof it It too hot." It teems rather hard, at timet, Ibat neceitltles and eomforta ibould coil several sev-eral timet here what they do abroad, but our profuaeneaa In expense ia part of the piotluctlva energy of Ihe country. j Old-M'hnol econotiilttediatingulali pains-lukingly pains-lukingly between productive ami unpro-duciivs unpro-duciivs expenditure, but the old-echnol econoiiiitta were narrow in pnychology. If lieing willing 10 throw silver dollars into tl.s water, for the pleaanre of watching watch-ing them link, to take an extreme cae. , makea a uiau'a diapn-ition inoni conll dent, more carelets of the extraneous, more energetic and original when lie thinks alaoit the piinciplct uf lilt bnii-ne, bnii-ne, even those doll ua are p-o.hu llm Conlldence the apeed and coniaiicy wlih wbicli credit and oilier capital ai j in iiu dii a liuu'a aharn toward In-Creiiting In-Creiiting pro.luctivo power; and ihe I great conlldence ol America It liard.y I separable Iroiii her spirit ol profusion. Th .) pica) nimlern huilimaa man knoaa the dillerence between personal and b i-itie.s economy. He know a that a thini.iind doilaia, tpent for a iiiiull , wnim, may never be mited, but that a fraction of a cent saved on each object Unit be manufactures may mean auccen and weulib. Economy In production allows al-lows ex'ravagunce in living, and Ihe greateti economy In production inolien r-'acbe-l by geueruut expendiiuis for wagi-a, for materi il, for Inilrhiiiery, for taltriei, for whatever will "maka guorl." We may do later the thing, thill lake pattern e and long luiHiding. ur -ni-cern, juat now, la to get rim, and ua do Ihut on ihe grand nvle. Collliir'i Weekly. |