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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.