There is every reason to believe that the Inland Empire, with the rest of the country, will enjoy a good fall and winter business. In fact, it is impossible to see how it can be otherwise. Every man who is willing to work has been employed throughout the summer at good wages, and there has been an enormous production to turn into money, throughout the entire Inland Empire, and especially in the Palouse country.

The price of wheat is considerably below what it should be, if the wheat farmer were to have an even break with the rest of the world, there are many other products bringing a fair price, and the big yield of wheat will bring to the country a large sum of money, at present prices. This should mean a generally larger volume of business in all lines than in a number of years past, and should bring the country back a long ways toward the normalcy which has been talked for so long.

A Missouri paper proposes a "Be Kind to Husband Week," and suggests that seven days be set apart during which none are to be shot. We are strong for it. While so far as we know, no Moscow husbands are in danger, anyone who reads the daily papers knows that it is becoming a form of amusement to take a shot at husbands.

One of the hallucinations which strike men occasionally, is that the world, or that part which is within the reach of them must function to their especial advantage. This is probably human nature, but does more to loosen a man's grip than any attitude he can take. 