Editorial McDonald has never before shown such signs of permanent prosperity as she does this summer. Confidence has been restored among the people. No longer is it predicted, as with reason it was, that the town will be destroyed by fire. Men are now willing to put their money into new buildings, and we have many fine residences going up in all parts of town. No longer is the pedestrian on our streets obliged to hear at every step the profanity and obscenity of the creatures that came here from every quarter in the wake of legitimate oil operators; nor are we compelled to hear the ravings of people, theretofore sane, about the fortunes to be made in oil, and about the leasing of little lots, about putting half a dozen derricks on an acre. No more do we see men on every side deserting the lines of business to which fortune had assigned them and for which nature and educated had fitted them and rushing headlong with their last dollar and their last energies into the o! uter darkness of oil prospecting and oil speculation. Every man almost has regained his senses, and to our population has been added many a good man and good family from among those who came among us to work intelligently at the oil business which has now ceased to bury every other business and has taken its proper place in the minds of the people along with the coal, the mercantile, agricultural and other interests that are rapidly making McDonald one of the most important places in the state. Thanks to Providence that we are all once more upon our feet never again to be bedeviled by any kind of a "boom". We may now with confidence invite the stranger to enter within our gates and dwell here. Here he may with safety invest his capital and here he may bring his family and make his home. One year of Hades we've had; we may hope for a thousand of peace and prosperity now.