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Show Joiin (.illiuvr Speed has n-iltten for Success nlioiit "The Il imaiiee of the Savings Itauks." According lo statistics, statis-tics, be linda Unit there are l'..77o,SU7 men, women nud children In the 1'iilted Suites w ho own deposits lu these banks niiiontillng to f'J.77'J.:iss.i",il. The hv-crime hv-crime belonging to cacti depo .tor la furi'.vi. Women, It appears, ure better savers than men. fleorge Slieigold, who wna credited with having Invented the safety bicy-etc, bicy-etc, recently died a pauper In the public pub-lic workhouse of Gloucester, Knginnd. nt the ngo nf seventy live yeara. It would aecin that of tlin millions upon millions of dollars that have been made out of this useful Invention, tbe man who first thought It nut ought to have l.ml enough nt least to muke hla declining de-clining year comfortable. "The Irony of fate" aotnetiniea performs strange antlca, philosophize tbe Los Angeles Times. I College football Is strenuous, but not nivcasnrily dangerous. An Investigation Investiga-tion mado nt the end of the Inst football foot-ball aeason by Professor Dexter, of the L'ulvcrslly of Illinois, showed that In the last ten years there were, as far as could be ascertained, only three men who bnd died from tho effects of tbe gnnio of football In tho collegia. Of thcc, ono wna a man who had been forbidden to piny 'bo f .uno because of a weak heart, nnd another was man who plnyed without training. Less than three per cent, of the men who played on regular colli to teams w ere eri-j eri-j ously Injured. Chicago Record Herald anyat "The announcement of new discoveries regarding re-garding tho cause and Infectious na-turo na-turo of tuberculosis la naturally followed fol-lowed by new tlienrlea of prevention and cure. Tho world-wide prevalence of 'the white acourgo' Invests tbeae announcement an-nouncement of tbo doctnra and sciential scien-tial with more than ordinary public interest Wbllo tuberculosis la robbed of much of lta terror through the discovery dis-covery that the Infected lung tissue Is curable, at the same time the public I Impressed with a new senss of Iff dangerous cburucter through the very discovery that it is coniinunlcnula and that no ono Is Immune from It New York City now contains more people thnn tbcro were In tho Auicrl-tlc Auicrl-tlc piquancy. They aro busy little can colonies when they nchleved tbelr Independence. It baa a million more Inhabitant thnn the Kingdom ef (recce, over a trillion nrore tbnn tbe Kingdom of Servln, Is nearly ciiunl In population to tbo Kingdom of Portugal, Portu-gal, nnd nlso lucks not much of eiput lug the Kingdom of Holland. It bis a larger population tlinu any of tbi Central American Republics and mors than any South American nation, Until Un-til and the Argentine Republic excepted. except-ed. It has about twice the population of Donmnrk and more than twice tint of Norway. Lnck of work turns men Into tramps, but It does not keep them tramps, declares de-clares the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Tbl man and the Job cannot always keep apart unleas the mnn so wlabee. The proof Is the fact tbnt thousands of men hare been tramps and are so no longer. long-er. And these men did not owe tbelr escape from trnmpbood to inytblnf that anybody did for them. They owed It entirely to themselves. Taking bit life through, tbe average tramp Is such because he wishes to be because he fnlla Into tbe delusion that It 1 easier to beg and steal than to work. One of tlioio economic lulls known aa "bard times" may have set blm to tramping. But when this lull wns over be did not remain a tramp unless ha wished to. Ten yenr ago the American Federation Feder-ation of Labor the moat powerful representative rep-resentative body in tbe United Slates, comprising from two-thirds to three-quarters three-quarters of tbe forces of organize! labor la-bor had perhaps 200,000 members. President Compcrs, at the lust animal convention In New Orleans, announced that the organisation In eleven months to October, 10o2, bad added 300,000 to Its membership, a figure greater than It total enrollment In 1SIIS, and nearly equal to IU membership In 181)0. Tbe present membership, in 11103, of tbe American Federation of Labor being let us soy, 1,(100,OIKI. nml assuming that tho Independent organizations have at least lielil tbelr own slnco l'.!'0. we huvo a total for tho United Slates nt tlio present time of about two millions, na against about l.Duo.UUO for ijrenl 1 linuiiu uud Ireland. |