X' "' v ii;s' 'Tct i-W-MIH-w '"nf '"cy-TS-TfiTsll w f" ITT? " .?! rlfiwJwnrT fw.'1-f ..- ''i' ' i-rj THWIAMON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1900. 5 THE DYING CENTURY PASSED IN REVIEW REVOLUTION IT HAS WROUGHT ON THE TARM. Spirit of Invention, Typical of the Country, Applied with Such Direct Benefit ns to Mnke the Oldest of Occupations New How AkiIcuI tuie Has Fiotlted Thtoufih Amer ican Ingenuity. Wlmtcwr lmo been tlie nr niiiplMt nictits of the century in nuiteilal tlitnui. tlm tiller of tlio Hull has bean nt the foundation of It. Whllo llileli tlons liiiMi been building up tliu vut Intlusttlcs which employ so large a number of tin- catth's teeming mil lions, the Inventor no loss has been busy with the problem of their feed ing. Without hliu tbo fannet's task would have proved too nuii'h. Tlio In- enter hart walled upon the farmer's ntnlfr In the emcrgemey until the In fluence of the pittnt olllce upon th agriculture fit the now wmld W as niatked us that lnflueiue has been upon any oilier lndustiy. INVfcNTOKS' ENCOURAGEMENT. In the foundation of the United States Its designers, with almost pro phetic vl.lon, made ccitain the pio tecllon of meelrinlcnl genius by a clause In the Constitution ghlnp con gress power "to promote the piogrcss of sclenn- and useful nils by pecan lug for limited time to authors and Inveti tois the exclusive tight to their re spective wiltlngs and discoveries." In ITrO the llift statute was flamed on nhli.li letters patent weic gi ant ed, and it is significant for agriculture to iete that th" seventh npnli'-atinii for a patent In the new otr.ee was upon the designs for a thmslilug mu'lilrio. the Invention of Samuel Mtilllken, of Philadelphia. Thcie ate aieoniplNluneiits of the rentuiv not to be mc-isiiied by dollar", but aside fmni these the woildV prac tical Inventions ate the things that will mail- It for futn'e ages and in thl in genuity tin failed States has boon inieniot above all nations. Piom the time of wooden nutmeg i the handicraft of the v.inl.ee has Iteen I'cknowkelged by the "world, and his c-oii'itty has put the United States began to turn his at tention In the needs of the farmer. The cast Iron plow was the Hist Inno atlun. which took Klowly with the peo ple. Kor luoic than tin cuta them after the wooden tool was used widely. The thieshlng machine came net, but It was not a success. Two bun dled and foity patents had been gi ant ed on these machines pi lor to 18.'.", but not until 1S10 were the machines per fected and available to farmers' needs. I'p to tills time the trending -Moor and the Hall weio the methods In thresh ing and ten bushels of wheat a dav was a good average for one man. Since then mote than 2,000 patents have been taken out on threshers until the mod ern pi en in machine, self-feedlnu and stacking Its own stiaw, poms a stream of winnowed guiln Into bags faster than one man can r mow tlioin. Where the giett "heading" machines are upd ated, a steam thtesher inns from ",000 to f,.ooi) bushels of wheat In a day The leaping hook ot a thousand eais ago was used In the Tnlhd States at the beginning of the pic-eiit century. With his left h.nul the hat voter grasped the bent dud gialn In a bunch and with the eiescwit blade cut the straws at the ground. Thus by hand fuls the sheaves weio made and bound. CYlll'S 11. M'COHMICK'S MACHINE. The sc the came next, being used for grass cutting. Soon the linger at tachment above It way conceived and the "cradle" was. adapted to the cut ting of sheaves. The cradle was Hvuns after the manner of the sevthe blade, the live wooden llngeis about it catch ing the stiaws as they wc.-e cut and carrying them In a bunch to the left, out of the way of the next sttoke. Cm us II. McCuiiuiek icvolutloned methods with his tlrst mow Ins ma chine, driven by hoi so. power and In volving the principle of the saw-tooth sickle. Kieim the mower of the hav field came the "dioppei" of the gialn field a tilting, sickle-bar attachment through which the grain was can led in .stialght bunches until It was laige enough for a sheaf when a movement of the driver's foot released it. A tiouble with the dropper, however, was th.it It left the grain In the way of the machine on Its next round. Piom this came the si lf-iake machine, which col lected the bundle on a platfoim. When It was of sunk lent sl.e the rake aim ill optical down and swept It In a qu.it ter click- otf the table, (hopping It out of the tiack ot the machine on Its net lou 111' In the peifectloa of the self-lake It t Ion, s.Nstem and method have put their stump upon (mining. As the nl lest occupation o man. It has evol cd Into one of the newest and i.s mull It Is ono of the promising Industrie. to take upon Itself the Imprint ot the twentieth century. BATS AND SWALLOWS. UNITED STATES NOW FIRST IN THE RACE GROWTH OF ITS IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY. ,. nrr.mllll.1 1111., II tile limilllct llf his I WUS thought tllJlt IllllUllll illgOtllllty ll.lll bialn and hand beyond trat ot anv been exhausted In Its work In the har- Looking from the entrance to the placj Myriads Occupy a Cave Together In North Borneo. Correspondence New York Tlnus. One should by no meant' lull to nvik a trip to the Ciotnanton Caves while staying at the hospitable statlnli of the Hiltlsh North IJoineu Trullm: company at Sanilnkan. The trip b the ravis Is of Intetest to the spoils, man, for in loute ou can get a shoe now and then at a wild pig. the meat of which Is exceedingly savoiy; then, too, vou stir up an occasional alligator and have a. lino chance for a display of maikstiianshlp. Ti.u.ks of wild cat tle show still larger game Is to be had. while 'pigeons Innumerable help the larder out most agiee-ably. The giett things to be avoided nio th leeches, those pests of the land that make i hunter's, life an thing but n happy one. A trip thtough the heay Jungle, at- tei leaving our boats nt the river's bank, brought us at the end of a brisk t walk to Senuid Hltair. the lower cave, . the principal tenant of which are' swallows and bats, illng In a stylo j veiy much like the little man and th" little woman who form the weather sign when the woman Is In the man i Is out, and vice vers-u In the case In , point the swallows oempy the cave at night and the bats bv day. Kent Is .collected fteun the swallows 111 tns. ! shape of edible Mills' in sts, while th ' bats nie piepared to pay up airears I in guano. I The esculent nests of these swallows consist of a marine fuclis a species of , I sea-weed ill other wonls elaborated I by the bird The Japanese- are said to have dlscoveied a means of preparing the seaweed by hand so as to exactly Imitate the consistency of thu nest. The nets uic femiul throughout the Is- I lands. In this section of the aichlpe- h-go and aie often sold In the markets ' They mnke mi excellent soup without I I any veiy decided t iste beyond that of I I gelatine. The bliils weave them with much patience ami Ingenuity In spite of the continuous depredations made upon them. ' The exit of the immense swainis of bats eveiy evening fiom the Setnud llltam Is decldrcUy a unique 3lght Mr. Charles H. Cinmp Gives Some Interesting Facts, which Show That the English and German Shipyards Bust Come to This Country ns Puichnseis of Knw Ma terial and That Gcimnny Will In Time Equal Gieat Britain ns a Maritime Power. other nation. No other country of i "' "em. nm.rv one man ami two lirst Importance has printed so long ' homes, with a binding machine, go i life to a patent, whiles In fees the J round and lound a field, cutting the cheapness of the piocc"-s In the United States Is strikingly shown In the fol lowing table: wan u fee" 41 3J0 SI Life In ears. Germany 1" Hinzll 1 iltoat Britain I H Uolgtum Spain & .!:" Aiistrli-Ilungary 1 "" Argentine llepublle 1 j''''1 Trance T. 'W lt.ilv 1" " HrltMi India I1 -''" Kiissi.i i n ra I'nn.ula 1" '"' riiltid Statis 17 "u In these ilguies nlone niav be seen an Incentive to American genius, and one of the chlet reasons for the thous ands of small patents which have made foi tunes for manufacturers and In veiitots In the United Stales The law In this country has Imposed no bin den upon the Inventor. It leuulres only that he file in the patent olllce a ileal description of his Invention, so that a skilled ctaftsiuan may be able to duplicate the aitlele when the life of the patent Is ended. PATENT LAWS STILL FOITOHT. Itiiogul.iitg what patents have done In the pi ogress of the wotld, It Is odd to lecall that In lM'.H, when .'.00(1,000 oxen weic tolling In the yoke In the Vnlted Statis, that nil element In the EnglMi paillamciit was attempting to abolish the patent laws of that couu tiy. Speaking against the; laws, H. A. McFle held that the state was not bound to giant patents; (hit the weie evldeiii es onlv of loval favor. "Kvery patent." he elecl.ued, "Is a Miltint.il v tiansfi lenie bv the state to an Individual of power for font tt en ears to tax nt pleasuie other poisons for unking in doing the thing patent ed, ave. If hi likes, to ptohlhlt or withhold the thing altogether." I'.tlt since thu time elieat Tllltaln bee anie a member of the Intel national union, having for lis object the pio teetloii nf the Inventor in foiclgn lands. Neatly a seme of countries me In the league, and In any one of them an in ventor may claim a right of priority tor six months following his nppllca Hon at home: or. it the countrv be nciiiss seas, he may have sev . n months ot time in whlili to make his applica tion Not all of the animosity to patent laws Iris died out. Thej have been teNts for the ndveis.iries of monopoly for many .ve.ns, but to small practical lesuitj. The vital welfaie of the Vnlt ed States has been too closely connect ed with the patent olllce to admit of bloc king Its piogiefs t the beginning of the nineteenth rentuiy the fanner was scratching the Sllll.ice gialn, meisiiiing It Into sheaves, bind ing It, and caii.vlng It, twelve sheaves In a bunch, to the hands of the one hhoek-bullder the driver and the "shocker" doing the work of u dozen men In the time of the McCoiinlck "dropper." The evolution of the bind er, however, was through a stormy period. The United States scarcely was ready for It when it came and In many states of the central west th displaced laborer'- of the hail est Held made war upon it burning barns and smashing the machines in the llelds. Now with all the labor-saving devices of faini m.ichlnety, the fnimeis of this panie terrltorv complain of a scaielty of help in harvest suggestive of the fact that wheie machinery has un made one Industr) It has established two moie. MAIN CHANCE? EEMAlNINOS. In every line of faun work the in lentor has eabed the bunions of the man who tills the soil. The ti.ictlon engine has come to the aid of his hoises. and the chemist has put new life Into the Mry ground that lelds him Its! abundances Indl in coin is the plant of the cereals In ciop piuduction, as It may be always, for this the In ventor has done nothing save in the peifectlon of tools for cultivating an! . Planting. Its billions of bushels ai hai vested every year by the patient hands of the fanner. The r.teel husk-Ing-peg Is his only equipment and even that seems to have been made accoi cl ing to his own specifications. The cot ton picker, too, has only his hands. Hnth the coin Held and the cotton pent nave Intel ested the inventor and In which so.no of the nest colli etors live, we had a line ch nice to see this initiation and weio amply lepald fo.' whatever haul woik we had been thiough. We viewed the ontianco to the cue over a yawning gulf some 100 . yards across and of a shape closel I icsembllng that of a hoi seshoe. In ' which space the bats po through their wouderlul clicuiniotatlorp. About a half hour or so bcfoie sunet the fit st. column of bat" appca.'ed, anil after w hilling aieund from left to right. In i a dense chees'o-shaped n.ass, the bead of the coiumu wheeled to the right, almost over our heads, and went down the valley follower, by the rank and tile In a long coM winding over thi trcetnp In wonderfully cloo and reg- ular c nle. Four or live hawks appealed and . dashed voraciously Into the thick rf I the bats. In half a minute the second c oluinn Issued, and after a prelimin ary i evolution, followed the first, .dis appearing In the distance like a wreath j of smoke Jn fusty minutes by the I watch, fortv-seven distinct columns weie counted, each about (Ml feet log bv ten feet thick. A rough estimate of 10 000 bats to each column would I give a total of not far from half a mil- ' lion bats, not one of which went away i without a piellmlnniy gyi.itlon to I stutch th Willis. The last two lots were somewhat smaller than the oth- I eis, and were, peihaps. fatigue paitles i left behind to put things away so that they would not be swallowed. Siuik"' ' of a ellnwsh hue appealed with the litst ot the bits, but as fi.r as we I could see did not have any luck In ! catching a bat. The swallows .ippcnied i lose upon the clepaituie of the last winged bit taxed his brain, but the irvolutlon of! """" ' """ ,"," "'?' ,""' i',ero ,l,,8,n ,. ,,i i .....,".. eeiseless vvhli r of vvlnrs. The- attend- com and cotton hai vesting methods is for the tutuie. Everywhere the vielelr. from fmin I ants, bv waving Micks, knocked down I two swallows, whrse diet had evident- I plantings and sowlnss m'e g.catcr than, ! ,;i'tn l,,Us ,h,e ' I'"5011, Wi they weie fio.n the virgin rich..e-s, ,,t ? ';;""'. "hoilly after dawn, the ine eeiuuiiy a uunelieil e'.s ago. liven as between 1S0 and ISyo, th' eiop pioduetlon of the United State half million bats letuined and llteial- lv i.iliud Into the horseshoe space In I'pcn oicier, wnn me Fame time a showed an In '.eased per c ent. of j'leld ' "'s' tUc of :M iwulnj: fiom the to each aeie. ("mil icitatlons. Inipiovcct iii'iihlnes In eultlvatlng and hai vest lng, and above all the one o despised "book tanning." aie lcvponslblo for the ihange. The successful fariuei of today Is a student in methods. lie knows something In I'himWtry, he has the henetit nt sed s' lections thul have been nuule ae ecu ding to the sclenee of nature, and moie than ever In the vvm Id's hlstoiy he Is exempt fiom the stiess ot unfavorable sea sons. I IV l The men who collect the nests ate a shoit, thick-set i.ice, and have piob.i- I bly Inherited the vocation. They lli on their backs on lattan laddei.s soiu 100 feet, moie or less, ovei'ie.ul. calmly i smoking cigarettes, while detaching the msts with long poles, and iiuietlv ill opplng them Into baskets suspended I under the ladders. A couple of iat- I tans dangling from tbo ladders aft md a means of swinging to more distant places, wheie they hold on In some In the United Stales he has Linked,' ""'Merious manner while- driving pegs actiiultuie above ev.ov nth.... a. ,.,. I OI ,M "' Hiiiiu hole oi i rantiy to se- I .. -..,... i,,,,rt ,i. , ,,... ,.-. r !.... ...... lion tie ins seen the evolution of the business within the km fcnty )eati. Five million fauns iiav- been laid mil over the couutiy. vnlued at SlO.Ol'O.OOO,- rw ana piodtiiiiig Jl.nni.iifio.ow) annii.il- ISiiD Idlng oxen i denied fmni the vokc us too slow lot service. He has made the of glint ei.iln elevatots have giown tip. and the nilyln. business of tha United States has become on of the Kie.it Industries. The entile trails nf the West have been obllteiated by the plow, but his blooded he-own bring prices such as the- cowboy never dreamed of In his lound-ups of the "long-hoins" of the pialiles. Inven- ot the eaith with a wooden plow, unplug his gialn with the sickle ly In live stoek and ciops. Since of a thousand ) ears ago and Heading he has seen neaily 2,(W),H00 ploi ji .'i. an mil me ancient i;gvptlnn in the time of Muses. Today the wheat ncieage of the United States Is sown by the uutomatle drill, cut by binding machines, the shed and winnowed by the steam thie-sher and me-siiicil In total beyond r.00,000,000 bushels a year. THRESIHNO MACHINES PEE FECTEO. The American fanner of sixty yeais ago was hard-headed and conservative bc)ond leason. His Interests weio varied He was hunter, trapper nnd settlei. tlrst; for the rest, fanner. His anee-stois had built log cabins, cleaied foiests, giubbed stumps and planted, nnd for hlni, only the heavy tlmbeied liver bottoms had uttiactlon. It was a common belief that the smooth prairie land, with Its tough sod, was worthless fur agriculture, and In this very nearly was the death knell of the forests, sacrificed to an almost wanton waste. He split walnut tic-es for lull femes, that today would puichuse the lands that he tolled for ten tinier, over. He diagged Into heaps und binned saw lots that woujd have made- his grandchildren rich. "jeiv giound" was his watchword, and he giubbed and tugged and tolled, uged long hefoie his time, nnd died at last the victim of the philosophy, "Daddy did it." Today, on a homestead claim, fenced iv 1th u few stiands of barbed wire, a Krandson cultivates more upland prairie than one man ever cleared in u lifetime, und- his crop averages are for more buslnds than the grandfather ever dreamed of. About the year lfc.'j the inventor In cute the Litt.m to. Lives are often lost, but on this subject we couldn't get the colli etuis to say much. 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One Cent ooooooooooooooooo A Word Is all it costs to make your wants known through the columns of .Till; TRIBUNE; and there is no better ad vertising medium printed in Scranton. v SITUATIONS WANTED MtfK INBERTEO FREC, () AAsyAsA6AftAAAAxiX 6000000c000000 0 Prom a Letter In the- Washington Post. The statistics of Iron and steel pro due Hon nnd of the correlative output of oie, coal and coke exhibit that the United States begun to runre up along side of Client Hrltalu in lsvj; that be tween that )ear and ISM there iva- a close nice, with sometimes, one and sometimes the other slightly In tho lend; that in 1SU7 the United States passed Croat Britain by a million tons In output of pig It on, and that In 1S0S tho lead was by neatly two and a halt million tons In fivor oftlie United States, the totals for that v-.u beln.j 11,77:1.000 tons for this lountty .in against 9,34J,000 tons for diet.! liritaln. The- output of the United States for the first half of If l'i was fi 29,n0ii tons, which Indicates u total for the year of about 12,"00,00' tons. Complete Hrltlsh Ftitbtlcs for tho (list half of 1S99 ate not accessible, but enough Is known to Justlfv an estimate for the whole year but little If .v.iy In excess of lSC'S say. 'i.r.OOOOO tons. This would put the United States In the lead for the year S99 by the cnoimous amount ot :i (100,000 tons, or n latto of excess over Croat Eilt.iin ecpial to ot', per cent. This lead can never be broken. Tho economic laws that ptoduced It must continue to opeiuto, and their oper ation must tend ulwa)s to widen the gap, never to close or even lessen tt. For seveial yus Prof. Oolilwln Smith has periodically announced tho attainment bv England of her climax as the supremo power among nations. Various causes have fn.in time to time operates! to postpone the actual verifi cation of the piofessot's theoiy: and it Is within the ran?e. of possibility that the Iron and steel pioduot for 1SJ3 or lSIi'.i may be slightly eve-ceded In the futuie. He this ns It may one ele inent at least of Pi of. Smith's doleful piophecy hir at last become an es-tabll-hed fact, namely, that England has been, by the advance of the United States, pcrnnnently relegated to Hip second place as a pioduccr of iion and steel. 15ASIC INDUSTRY OF ALL. It will, I think, be conceded without nigument that tho production of lion and steel Is, under modern conditions, the basic Industry of all. nnd thnt the tendency In every direction Is to em phasize that tact moie and more year bv vc.ir. It Is not necissarv to ad duce paitleuiarx In verification of this gieat fact. Suffice to say that all ti.iflio by land N now done on steel roads, all tialllc bv sea In sUc-l ships, nil fabrics aie- made by steel and Iron machines, nnd that th affairs of ln dustiy and commerce aie day by day more and moio tiantaeted In steel buildings. From this point of view and with out minifying the impottance of any other industry, it Is not too much to say that the capacity to produce iron and steel has become the gauge or stnndaid ot natioral supremacy: and that the ilxlty or pim.ineiiuy of that standard Is already srettkc! beyond per udientute. Having seen that the United States stands at the head of nations In the primal v Industry of modern civiliza tion, and that no p-isMble- comblnatl' n of events can ever disturb that supre macy, we may now turn Lilcflv to considerations of the components, or the natiunl bases of that supieniaey In the law or primal y condition. Tho foundation of steel and lnm pro line Hon Is, of couise, eoal and Iron oie. In the case- of the United States to coil may be- added, to limited extent, howevet, and thus far iiulte localUed natural gas. However, for geuet.-.l put poses It Is wor h while to consider enlv the two prime elements, coal and lion oie; and In this contuctioii the colt element must le limited to th.- kind of that material uiltublc for cooking or gas pi oducing. The total aiea of Eilti.in coal Hold". and it intiv be said that there is ivj undeveloped ccvil niea lemalnlug In Great I.titaln. is 'i.OOU Mjuato miles, all the Lrillsh coal area, or at leat so nuiily all that the leslduc- is net worth mentioning, is suitable for cok ing or gas-pi chIucIiut: p.ullcularly In view of the latest approved pioeess-s known as the otto-Hoii'man und tho Semlt-Solvn.v. COAL AHEA OF UNITED STATES. The giand total coal nrea of tho United States, exclusive of Alaska, Is 107,000 sipiaie mlU". This, means only the areus when- coal his actually been developed bv sinking shafts In greater or less number In each coal belt. Hut ot this vast aiea not all Is sus ceptible of the uses of lion and steel production. The United States geological survey gives 1,70) ns the- so,u.uo mileage of anthiaclte coal llelds of Pennsylvania which, of couise, must bo excluded. A gieat part of the far western coal at ens may also be excluded fiom tho trcn and steei nuiklng categoty, the cor.I deposits In that region being fonns of lignite in greater or less stages of development, but not up to tho point of coking or gas-pt oducing. Making the most liberal allowances for all these deductions. It Is sutllclcnt for the puipose of this paper to say that the coal area of the United States known or developed wholly or In part which bear coking or gas-pioduclng coal Is eonsldeiably moie than 70,000 sou no miles Tho vertical extent, or, In other wonls, tho depth of these deposits us compared with those nf dent Urltoln, are at this tlmo Indeterminable for the ie.ifoiiH that they have nowheie been woiked to the point of exhaustion or driven to such depths as to render the hoisting of the product neaily or quite unpioiu ibl". which Is beginning to bo the case in ceitnln paits of the Hiitlsh coal lid Is. On the whole, It Is safe to s.i) that the coking or gas-pioduclug uie.it of tho United States aie to thobe of Ureut Ulitaln at least In the ratio of 8 to 1, and all the inedibilities of future de velopment point to a considerable aug mentation of this ratio In favor ot'the United States without taking account of tho possibilities of veitk-al exhaus t'p- -vff -4S y 7y tP" KjjffjB' yj JHr. iSsHofi aVDS' vw iffrr .-,- -!JjP- rST.J s.R W? M A NEW BUSINESS FO? SCRANTON. w f 4&& J&& Ku V- w The Scotchmen Are Coming With loads of fine woolens, direct from their own mammoth woolen mills away back in the picturesque lowlands of dear old Scotland, land of romance, land of the bag-pipe's strain, land of Bruce and Wallace, and the historic.haunts of Scott and Burns. On our great sheep ranges, nestled among the hills and mountains of far-away Australia, we grow the wool; in our great Scotland Woolen Mills, we spin and weave it into the finest and purest woolens and wor steds that the human mind can conceive. We send it direct to our great chain of tailoring stores, which will soon completely encircle the earth, where we make it up into perfect fitting, perfect custom-tailored suits and overcoats, into any style you wish, for the one single exclusive price, $15. You cannot possibly pay more, even if you want to. We give our customers all of the profits, dibcounts and commissions that used to go to rich London and New York wholesalers and commission men. We pay a profit to no living man. You get our goods from first hands almost at first cost. For $15 we will dress you like a millionaire. You may select the finest and most beautiful piece of cloth in the whole store and we will carefully cut and make it to your personal measure, with all the little painstaking attention to finish and detai Is as if you were paying $40 for the suit. You m.w take a suit all alike, a nice black coat and vest with stiiped trousers, an overcoat made in any style from any material, select your own lining, try on your garment before finishing, and your bill will be but $15. This price has made us famous. $pb AH Suits, All Overcoats, $15 None Higher. None Lower. ALL SEPARATE TROUSERS, $4. We will open about 10 o'clock next Thursday, (Feb. 22). Come and listen to the strains of the bag-pipe and see the graceful Scotch girls dance the Highland fling. Established sixty years ago. i $2 ScTKWMiimSQ Dyers, Spinners, Weavers, Tailors, Scranfon Branch, Lackawanna flveniie, Opposite Wyoming flueniie NORTHERN HKADQUARTKRS, WHSTCN HUADQUXRTK'S, SOUTHERN HUAllOUARTRRS, 303 Wain St., 4 Erie M., Buffalo, 191-195 Superior Street, Cleveland. 306 in: Street, Louisville. LONDllN HI? VUQIHRTERS. M1W CM1LAND IIUADQUARTLRS, 13 A. Chester Couit, England. ui Went ! .ster St, Providence. We now 1 nine- naturally to the other I'le'iiicnt Invoheel, that Is to hay, lion ore. CONSUMPTION OK 1HON Otti:. In ISIS Gieat Ulitaln consumed In lounel tlKures IN.OOiHmO tons of Iron oie, of which onc-thliil vus impoiteil, the ex.iet IIkuics helllK .r.,9'S,000 tons. The pilme Iniport.uiee of tills eiy laige Importation and of thu i.itlo vlilch It beats to the total unuimt of I oie us-ed In (Jioat Hiltain durlliff thu I .Mar wlec'teei an .111 example Is that 1 It lepiesents or e-picsses the fact that the InelHrenous ores of Oieat Hiitaln I aie In the hlphest degree, or In any e onsIlerable quantity suitable for the pioduetlon of mild steel; theiefoie, In the pit-sent state, and under existing reciutic-ment of t-tcel production, Oieat Uiltaln hus within her own area onlv the- single element of coal. I On the eotitraij, the- United States post-esses In what Is known as the "lake legions" apparently inexhaustible sup plies of the most perfect Bessemer, or, , In other woids, steel-producing 01 es, In the known world. To these losourees may be added tho etensle llelds of Cuban oie, the real ity of which la quite equal to that of any of the Southern Uuiopean or Afri can ores which England uses. And the Cuban ores niav bo said to He at our veiy eloois, If not within our own aiea, 11 question at this time- rather of politics than economies, The foiegolng geneial lesume of prl the basic or fundamental leason for the attainment by the United States of the absolute and Ineveislble qu inary conditions may serve to Indlcato piemacy over Great Hilt.ilu as an lion ore and steel-pi oduc-lng power. xVo may now, partly for the purposes of an-Interesting Illustration and part ly to lay foundation for comment far ther along upon the financial and In dustrial conditions necessarily Involved call nttontlon to the fact that the statu of Pennsylvania, lepiescntlng mainly one-slNty-slxth of the area and one-thlrtec-nth of tho totnl population of the United Stales, has ever since tho year IS!).! produced more than one-half of tho entlte output of Ameiican pig Iron, nearly thiee-fouiths of the out put of all kinds ot steel Ingots nnd e'astliigb In the United States, more than three-fifths of the total output ot Ues-semer steel rails and between one-half nnd four-seienths of all kinds of rallioad Iron and steel In ilnlshed forms. During the Firm period TVmnyl vanUi has produced In the annual aver ur nlno-seventeenth5! of all tlm coal mlnnl In the United States, and In round figures a little ovi-r two-thlrds of nil tho coko maele In Airierlci. PIG lltON IN PUNNSYIAWNIA. To this exhibit It only remains to b. added by way of showing the relative progress duiing the sen yeais taken ' us a basis of rons-lileiatlon that tlt pioduetlon of pl" iimi in PennsyUanl i lias glow n fiom .1 minimum of ::r.T0,iM) tons to .1 maximum In tv.is of -.,757.0')) the pioduetlon of steel Ingots and east ings fiom .1 minimum if 2,07!i fi00 tons ' to a maximum of VJMi.O'io, tin- pro duction of s-teel ialls fiom :i minimum of 71 Wi to a maximum of l.otl.iHjo, the pioduetlon of :-ll Muds of 1 illi-und lion and stul in tlnls lieu lot 111 fiom a mln'mum of :7t'J000 tons to .1 max imum of l,!..' iion, in 18'i: tlie proline- I tlon of 10.1l fiom n iiiliilmum of 91,. I 8uJ,0)0 to a I'laxlmi'in of US.ni7.o0O tons In 1V)s, and of eoUi- fiom a miiilmuiu ot ij.U6J,000 tons- to .1 iiaiuium of In - ' 71.-..000 in l'-D's. j In conclusion It leniaint onlv to be said that tin- establish il hill li-rn.ii-y of the United States .u. an 11011 and steel pioilueer niui-t bilng tl-o Hhsllsli an 1 German shlpy.uds to the United Stat-.s as i-ubtomcrs for i.iw mateilil. ThU will Increase the adiantuge of 'ieimanv 01 er Gu-it lllifiln mmu and moie, as each nation becomns more and more dependent i.pon the United States for law miteriil; bo that ultl- 1 mately and not fur distant the sltu.i- tlon thus In ought Into effect will pio- l mote the- uallz.itlon of the- ambition' so often expressed by the Oiman ein peror of making Geimany at least equal to Great Tliltatu ns n niailtlm- power, and whatever these eiCects wy be in these directions their ultimate . effect upon the geneial neiltli of tho United States must be incalculable. STRANGE PHILIPPINE PETS. A Baby Bhlnoceios and n Ferf 01 til ing Sun Bear Cub. Hollo Corrofpemdenco Now York Times. One see1' strange pet.'i in these jtjv possessions of oui.s in the tiopies. Oivjv that amused us all vnv much during a lecent ilslt was a baby thinoccio.3 that was being bioiiglu up by hand. "Master, what happens when one finds a little rhlnoeuos that had no mother " was what the ti Hive who had the little, one aske'd mj, fiund "Win Is thero that has killed tho inntner of the young 0110V" was the guaided ro- It Is a misdemeanor to 1:111 thoso animals except undei eeitniii (Ircuin- QtllinctU mill lw nntli'.t. Iin.l m aIi ilkh svhiivih, hum nt: ltvili.n inill ojuimui) . lieen playing high jlnkn In the Jingle Of couise all knowledge eif the deinlso 1 of the inothei- was r.lisclutely denied, but the possible suspicion that If tlu elrcutnstnnces were found out honie-- I body would puffer In ought tho price of tho baby down to the very lowest limit. ( Tho anlmnl was th& peit-onJflcntlou of ugliness. The horns on ls hugi upper j.'.w weie Just about forming rend Its let's looked for all the woild like those of an tld-fasliloiied equal o piano. Two teeth liml uliiadv in lela their appeai.uue and then- .en el ileuiib of others about to come. Thu dally diet was supplemented by e.it-s) that the j-uiing Kllmv enev.e-d in gieat sliaie. Hut he ibatlv lo.-d bis bottle of milk, and tin- tuss he ni.u'e about It was liuly laughabli. Then. too. .in othei' liiteiestlng thiiiT lie did wis In set up a teiiille whining whi-ui-ier those who had i Nit-d lilm wall- d aw.i. The drollest ue.itiiie or all was a, Malayan sun In. 11 that was a peifect limning ili-i- nt h.umlet!' nieirlnienl. He had been picked up In the Juiigl.j as a eiy small cub, and wlu-n on all fouis, his most inftequcnt position, was about .1 jarcl long and half is high. He was an sdmlialjlo perfoni. ir as a biped, .u.il the Jlist sight S lilm was eiiaugh to urset most jhu. pie's gravity as In- i-ninr foiw.ud t Biect the ptr.inge-r with .1 lofllng. liiichlng gait and a m-st ahsuiel ; -semblance to .1 minimum mariner In nu overcoat of black fur and slightly the woise for llqui 1. No sttai'ge'l could ever be peruailcd that the e"ctraoidln,iry iieifoiniames of tho animal were not ihe lesuits j t"achlng. instead of being roh-ly tlm wo ik of native gcilus. IU possesse-d for he eiulto und i stood ',melllu,, If not "teum" .1 jouRli ' w cod.' n f.all abnut the size of a Uulcli ehecs'e. .111 I with this ho would cons'taiitly praetlen a selles of feats with as Hiilous and solemn an air as If he were trnlnin? tor a. toninnstle champlor.fhlp. Ho would dellbeiate-Iy htand on his head for some minutes, the ball bal anced on the holes of his hind feet. Then ho would -hop it into his tiont paws and shiilHo along to tho edge of the veranda, climb the posts, hugging tho ball with ono aim, and In '.01110 nay cont'lve- to Ho 011 his back on tho top tail, about two inches bio.id, whllo ho kept tho ball Incessantly rollln-? Letween his four and lilud pews. An other trlik was to clasp tho ball with both arms, ami In this position to turn slowly hods over head tho whohi length of tho M-ianda. These and oth er tricks ho did at his own will and pleasiiie, icfuslng steadily to lea,tn fiom man any aconipllshments. He was the most Inquisitive bc.ins imaginable, and wco to tho storeroom or wardrobe that was ever left op-n. In two minutes Uiuln's long, sltkle shaptd claws would drag its contemn in a heap on to the lloor, whllo hli flexible snout would bo looting It In every coiner. On one occasion ho was dlscoveied In the act of canylng ntf a clock for Investigation at leisure, and on another, lulng accidimtally shut Into tho "go-down,", or storeroom, ho entlicly ruined u brand-now saddle and gnaw i'd Into bl'.reds n quantity of lloor Hunting.
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