pr — CUESTS I~ 1998 CAN Su ERICAY Ship CARRIED 8 ju cent OF AMERICAN COMMERCE. Host—‘‘It seems to me, gentlemen, fowl left for my own family.” === ee WITH RAVENOUS APPETITES. . a INCREASING FOREUN TRADE. QECREASING CARRYING [RADE. there isn’t going to be much of this SURVEYING THE FIELD.| POLITICAL SURPRISES IN THE RE- CENT ELECTIONS. How Ilepublican Control of Congress Was Saved by the Strength of the Tariff Issue in States Previously Wedded to Free Silver. A The potency of the tariff issue in de- termining the results of the Novem- ber elections becomes more and more apparent from a survey of the leading events of the campaign and of the marked changes wrought thereby. It was in the Middle West and the Far West, in States where the free silver craze had been the strongest, that the battle was fought and won. Party managers were never before so com- pletely at fuult. They figured that the East would be found more solid than ever for the gold standard and that the West was and would remain un- sound on the money question. They were diametrically wrong in both cal- culations. In the Eastern States the losses to sound money and the gains to the free coinage ranks were so great as to wholly reverse the alignment of parties in the House of Representa- tives, giving the control of that body to the Democrats, Populists and other free silverites by a safe working ma- jority. In the West, on the contrary, there were enormous gains for Repub- licanism and sound money, and by these gains the control of the House was saved to and now rests with the Republican party. What caused this extraordinary re- versal of political form in the States of the West and Far West—in Cali- fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, ‘Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Xansas and Missouri? Wherefore the gain for sound Republican doctrines and the loss for Populistic heresis in these twelve States? Let the question be answered be the Chronicle, an ably conducted daily newspaper of Spokane, Wush. Nowhere in the country has the case been more plainly or more truthfully stated than in the following, from the paper just mentioned: ‘“There is something vastly more im. portant to this section than free sil- ver, even if this were not the delusion that it is. That something is a proper protective tariff. Why was it thatthe West was so prostrated that it grasped at free silver or any other remedy that even promised a relief? Because Democratic policy had enacted free wool, and flocks of sheep that cover our mountains and feed in our valleys were a burden rather than a source of profit. Because Democratic policy had declared for free lumber, and the mighty wealth of our boundless for- ests was unclaimed and could not be realized. Because a Democratic policy had made lead free, and our richest mines lay idle since it would not pay to work them in competition with the cheap lead brought in from without. These three items of Democratic free trade meant depression and ruin to the West. And that section, in its misery and distress, knew not cer- tainly what was its disease or what the remedy, but sought blindly for relief, from free silver or from anything that might remove the new conditions and restore the old. It distrusted both the old parties; and the Republicans, remembering the slump to free silver, distrusted it.” : After adverting to the fact that in some of the old tariffs the interests of the West had been ‘‘slaughtered by the cry for low duties on raw ma- terials,” whereas in the Dingley tariff the balance was held equally and the ‘Western producers of lumber, coal, wool and lead received fair treatment, the Chronicle continues: ‘“Now comes the proof, and these States, supposed to be devoted to the worship of cheap money and popu- lism, wheel solidly into line. The answer to a ‘Republican protective - tariff, which for almost the first time does full justice to the West and gives it its rightful place in the national economy, is a Republican victory in Washington, another in Oregon, an- other in California. Itis the redemp- tion of the Dakotas. It is success in Wyoming. It is such a tremendous gain in Idaho that the State is surely Republican at the next election. And all these gains are won not only with- out any compromise or concession to the cheap money sentiment, but on platforms that declare outright for the maintenance of the gold standard and against the free coinage of silver. ‘“This is the magnificent answer -of the West to the offer by the Repub- lican party of a scheme of protection that protects all adequately and equally. answer to = “was so infected with the This is its answer to the cheap money virus that 1v would never return to sound national policy. This is its answer to the Democratic claim that the West had renounced its Republicanism permanently. And that answer is proclaimed at a time when it means most for the party and the country; at a time when it saves the House from a Democratic majority, and restores the United States Senate to Republican control. It is, in all ways, a most happy event for us. It comes at a time and in a manner when it will be most to our ad- vantage. The West will be restored to its old seat of honor in the Repub- lican party. It has shown that it needs but consideration and fair treatment to be loyal when others falter. = It has proved that it can lay aside manfully an error and accept its party gospel from the lips of a ma- jority, if only it believes that equal justice will be done to all and that it is not to be a sacrifice to older and more influential sections. ‘“The West knows now what it owes to the Republican party, and the Re- publican party knows what it owes to the West. There will be, we predict, no more misunderstandings between them; and henceforth there will be none more influential in the national councils of the party than the repre: sentatives of that section where the great, decisive and - unexpected victories of this campaign were won against what appeared to be over- whelming odds.” The sum of it all did it! is, protection SAFE FOR EIGHT YEARS. Stable Conditions Assured by the Novern- ber Elections. The particular triumph of November 8, in comparison with which every other political triumph of that day sinks to secondary place, was involved in the election of Republican Legisla- tures, which insure a safe, strong Republican majority in the United States Senate for eight years and pos- sibly for ten years to-come. The splendid significance of this fact to the business and industrial in- terests of the whole country cannot be estimated. Uncertainty and distrust as to what might be the national policy touching the currency, touch- ing the tariff, touching our foreign re- lations, have been the primary cause of industrial and commercial disaster, wide-spread and often repeated. which the last twenty years have wit- nessed. Now, all this is suddenly and radi- cally changed. The manufacturing and trade interests now known what to fig- ure upon. They know the established Republican policies touching ‘these great concerns, and in consequence of the recent elections know that if Re- publican national policies (by which alone our great trade interests have been fostered) are not consistently followed in the legislation at Wash- ington, at least no anti-Republican policies will be countenanced. The trade and industry and com- merce of the country can adjust them- selves even to unfavorable conditions, if such conditions have the quality of stability. And now they are to be given opportunity toadjustthemselves to the most favorable conditions, with practical guarantee that such condi- tions shall hold as long as the Senate remains Republican, even though the House and the Administration itself were to become Democratic. For eight years at least, with a Re- publican United States Senate as its trusted bulwark, the business of this country will now go forward without even a shadow of fear of free trade legislation, or free silver legislation, or Democratic incompetency in con- trol of the Government at Washing- ton. In view of present bright business conditions, the eight years coming ought to be and promise well to be the eight ‘‘fruitful years’ in the com- mercial and industrial life of the American people.—Syracuse (N. Y.) ost. His Only Alternative, Little Dot was very fond of Bible stories, and one day after her mother had read the story of Lot’s.wife she asked: “Mamma, what did Mr. Lot do when his wife was turned into a pillar of salt?” “What do you think he did?’ asked mamma. “Why,” re- plied the practical little miss. “I s’pose he went out and hunted up a fresh one.”—Chicago News. All Put On. =] hate to see a man sailing unde: false colors that way.’ “What way?’ “The way Kidder is. Why, he’s iv OR. TALNAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. Subject: “Architects of Fate -Voung Men Are the Molders of Their Own Destiny, and They Are Admonished to Build on the Right Foundation. TEXT: “Run, speak to this young man.” —Zechariah ii., 4. There was no snow on the beard of the prophet of my text and no crows’ feet had left their mark near his eyes. Zechariah was a young man, and in a day dream he saw and heard two angels talking about the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. One of these angels desires that young Zechariah should be well informed about the rebuilding of that city, its eircumfer- ence and the height of its walls, and he says to the other angel, ‘‘Run, speak to this young man.” Do not walk, but run, for the message is urgent and imminent. So every young man needs to have immediate ad- vice about the dimensions, the height and the circumference of that which, under God. He is to build—namely, His own character and destiny. No slow or laggard pace will do. A little further on, and counsel will he of no advantage. Swift footed must be the practical and im- portant suggestions, “or they might as well never be made at all. Run at the pace of five miles the hour, and speak to that young man. Run, hefore this year of 1898 is ended. Run, before this century is closed. Run, before his character is inexorably decided for two worlds, this world and the next. How many of us have found out by long and bitter experience things that we ought to have been told before we were twenty-five years of age. Now I propose to tell you some things which, if you will seriously and prayerfully observe, will make you master of the situation in which you are now placed and master of every situation in which you ever will be placed. And in order that my subject may be eli- macteric, begin on the outside edge of that advice, which will be more and more im- portant as the subject unfolds. Now, if you would be master of the situa- tion, do not expend money before you get it. How many young men irretrievably mortgage their future because of resources that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the money either in your hand, or in a safety deposit, or in a bank, or in a United States bond before you make purchases, or go into expensive enterprises, or hitch a- spanking team to a glittering turnout, or contract for the building of a mansion on the Poto- mac or the Hudson. Do not depend cn an inheritance from your father or uncle. The old man may live on a good deal longer than vou expect, and the day of your en- forced payment may come before the day of his decease. You cannot depend upon rheumatism or heart failure or senility to do its work. Longevity is so wonderiully improved that you cannot depend upon people dying when vou think they ought to. They live to be septuagenarians, or octogenarians, or nonagenarians, or even centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs go into Dbankruptey, or, tempted to forgery, or misappropriation of trust funds, or watering of railroad or mining stock, go into the penitentiary. Neither had you better spread yourself ont because of the fifteen or twenty per cent. you ex- pect from an investment, Most of the fif- teen or twenty per cent. investments are apt to pay nothing savethe privilege of be- ing assessed to meet the obligations of the company in the affairs of which you get involved. Better get 314 per cent. from a government bond than be promised fifteen per cent. from a dividend which will never be declared, or paid only once or twice, so as to tempt you deeper in before the grand smash up, and you receive, instead of a payment of dividends, a letter from the president and secretary of the company saving that they are very sorry. Do not say you have no chance, but re- member Isaac Newton, the greatest astronomer of his day, once peddling cab- bages in the .street, and Martin Luther singing on the publi: square for any pennies that he might pick up, and John Bunyan mending kettles, and the late Judge Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, who was the son of a charcoal burner, and Turner, the painter, who was the son of a barber, and Lord Clive, who saved India to England, shipped by his father to Madras as a useless boy whom he wanted to get rid of, and Prideaux, the world renowned scholar and theologian, scouring pots and pans to work his way through college, and the mother of the late William E. Dodge, the philanthro- pist and magnificent man, keeping a thread and needle store, and Peter Cooper, who worked on small wages in a glue factory, living to give $500,000 for the founding of an institute that has already educated thousands of the poor sons and daughters of America, and 2owditch, the scientist, beginning his useful learning and affluent career by reading the books that had been driven ashore from a ‘shipwreck at Salem. There is, young man, a great financial or literary or moral or religious success awaiting you if you only know how to goup and take it. Then take it or get ready to take it. The mightier the oppo- sition the grander the trinmph when you have conquered. Again, if you would master the situation, when angry do not utter a word or write a letter, but before .you speak a word or write a word sing a verse of some hymn in a tune arranged in minor key and baving no staccato passages. If very angry, singtwo verses. Ifin a posi- tive rage, sing three verses. First of .all, the unhealthiest thing on earth is to get mad: It jangles the nerves, enlarges the spleen and sets the heart into a wild thump- ing. Many a man and many a woman has in time of such mental and physical agita- tion dropped dead. Not only that, but it makes enemies out of friends, and makes enemies more virulent, and anger is partial or consummate suicide. Great attorneys, understanding this, have often won their cause by willfully throwing the opposing counsel into a rage. There is one man you must manage or one woman you must con- trol in order to please God and make lifea success, and that is yourself. The hardest realm that yon will ever have to govern is the realm between your scalp and heei. The most dangerous cargo a ship can earry is dynamite, and the most perilous thing in one’s nature is an ex- losive temper. If your nature is hope- essly irascible and tempestuous, then dramatize placidity. If the ship is on fire and you cannot extinguish the flames, at any rate keep down the hatches. When at some injustice inflicted upon you or some insult offered or some wrong done, the best thing for you to say is to say nothing, and the best thing for you to write is to write nothing. If the meanness done you is un- bearable or you must express yourself or die, then I commend a plan that I have once or twice successfully adopted. Take a sheet of paper. Date it at your home or office, Then put the wrong- doer’s name at the head of the letter page, without any prefix of ‘‘Colonel” or sufiix of “D. D.,” and begin with no term of courtesy, but a bold and abrupt ‘“8ir.” Then follow it with a statement of the wrong he has done you and of the in- dignation you have felt. Put into it the strongest terms of execration you can em- ploy without being profane. Sign your name to the red hot epistle. Fold it. En- velop it, Direct it plainly to the man who has done you wrong. Carry the letter a week, or two weeks if need be, and then destroy it. In God’s name destroy it. I like what Abraham Lincoln said to one of his cabinet officers. That cabinet officer had been belied and misrepresented until ina fury he wrote a letter of arraignment to his enemy, and in tersest possible phrase- ology told him what he thought of him. The cabinet officer readit to Mr, Lincoln and asked him how he liked it. Mr. Lin- coln replied: “It is splendid for sarcasm and scorn. I never heard anything more complete in that direction. But do you think ‘vou can afford to send it?’ That calm and wise and Christian interrogation of the president stopped the letter, and it was never sent. Young man, before you get for on in life unless you are an excep- tion among men, you will be wronged, you will be misinterpreted, vou will be out- raged. All your sense of justice will be in conflagration. Let me know how you meet that first great offense, and T will tell you whether your life is to be a triumph or a failure. You see, equipoise at such a time means so many’ things. It means self control. Itmeans a capacity to fore- see results. It meahs a confidence in your own integrity. It means a faith in the Lord God that He will see you throush. Again, if you would be master of the sit- ation put the best interpretation on the character and behavior of others. Do not be looking for hypocrites in churches, or thieving among domestic servants, or swindlers among business men, or mal-' feasance in office. There is much in life to make men suspicious of others, and when that characteristic of suspicion becomes dominant a man has secured his own un- happiness, and he has become an offence in all ecireles, religious, commercial -and political, The man who moves for a com- mittee of investigation is generally a moral derelict. The man who goes with his nos- trils inflated trying to discover something malodorus is not a man, but a sleuth- hound! The world is full of more people, generous people, people who are doing their best—good husbands, good wives, good fathers, good mothers, good offi- cers of the law; good judges, good gov- ernors, good State and nationat legisla- tors, good rulers. Doessome man growl out, “That has not been my experience, and I think just tke opposite.” Wall, my brother, T am sorry for your afflietive ecir- cumstances, and that you had an unfor- tunate ancestry, and that you have kept such bad company and had such disecour- aging environment. I notice that aftera man has been making a violent tirade against his fellow men he is on his way down, and if he live long enough he will be asking you for a quarter of a dollar to get a drink or a night’s lodging. Behave vour- self well, ob, young man. and you will ind life a pleasant thing to live and the world full of friends and God’s benediction every- where about you, Again, if you would be master of the situ- ation, expect nothing from good luck. or haphazard, or gaming adventures. In this time, when it is estimated that gambling exchanges money to the amount of $80,- 000,000 4 day. this remark may be useful. There come times in many a man’s life when he hopes to get something for which he does not give an equivalent, and there are fifty kinds of gambling. Stand aloof from all of them. Understand that the gambling spirit is a disease, and the more successful you are the more certain you are to go right onto your own ruin. Hav- ing made his thousands, why does not the gambler stop and make a safe investment of what he has gained amd spend the rest of his life in quiet or less hazardous style of occuvation? The reason is he cannot stop. Nothing but death ever cures a con- firmed gambler. Dr. Keeley’s gold cure rescues the drunkard, and there are antitobacco preparations that will arrest the vietim of nicotine, and religion can save any one ex- cept a gambler. The fact is he isirrespon- sible. Having got the habit in him he is no more responsible for keeping on than a man falling from the roof of a four-story house can stop at the window of the sec- ond story. Here and there you may find an instance where a gambler has been re- ported or reports himself as being con- verted, but in that case the man was not fully under the heel of the passion. The real gambler is a through passenger to death and perdition. The only use in re- ferring to him is in the way of preven- tion. He began by taking chances on a bookcase or a sewing machine at a church fair and ended by getting a few pennies for his last valuable in a pawn- broker’s shop. The only man who gam- bles successfully is the man who loses so fearfully at the start that he is dis- gusted and quits. Let him win at the start and win again, and‘it means fare- well to home and heaven. Most merci- less of all habits! Horace Walpole says that a man dropped down at the door of a clubhouse in London and was ear- ried in, and the gamblers began to bet whether he was dead or not, and when it was proposed to bleed him for his re- covery the gamblers objected that it would affect the tairness of the bet. What noble men they must have been! But more and more ladies are becoming gamblers. They bet at the races and have prizes in social groups which are nothing but the stakes of gambling. A good way for a lady to get into the gamester’s habit is by beginning with ‘‘progressive euchre.” That opens the door in a fashionable way. In one of our great cities invitations were sent out for such a meeting at the card tables. The guests entered and sat down and began. Afterawhiletheexcitement ran high, and the lady who was the hostess fainted and fell under the table. The guests arose, but some one said: “Don’t touch the bell! Let us finish the game. She would have done go herself and would wish us if she spoke.”” The game went on for thirty minutes longer. and then a physi- cian was called. After examination of the case it was found "that the Iady had been dead twenty minutes. As the guests lift their hands in surprise I exclaim in regard to them, What delicateand refined and angelic womanhood! Young man, seek only elevating and improving companionship. Do not let the last scion of a noble family, a fel- low with a big name, but bad habits, for he drinks and swears and is disso- lute, take your arm to walk down the street or spend an evening with you, either at your room or his room. Re- member that sin is the most expensive thicg in God's universe. I have read that Sir Brasil, the knight, tired out with the chase, had a falcon on his wrist, as they did in days of falconry, when with hawks or falcons they went forth to bring down partridges or grouse or pigeons, and being very thirsty came to a stream struggling from a rock, and, re- leasing the falcon from his wrist, he took the bugle which he carried, and, stopping the mouthpiece of his bugle with a tuft of moss, ha put this extemporized cup under the water which came down drop by drop from the rock until the cup was full, and then lifted it to drink, when the falcon he had released with sudden swoop dashed the cup from his hand. By the same process he fllled the cup again and was about to drink when the falcon by another swoop dashed down the cup. Enraged at this insolence and violence of the bird, he cried, *‘I will wring thy neck if thou doest that again.” But, having filled the cup a third time and trying todrink a third time, the falcon dashed it down. Then Sir Brasil with his fist struck the bird, which flut- tered and looked lovingly and reproach- fully at him and dropped dead. Then Sir Brasil, looking up to the top of the rock whence dripped the water, saw a great green serpent coiled fold above fold, the venom from his mouth dropping into that from which Sir Brasil had filled his cup. Then exclaimed the knight, ‘What a kind thing it was for the falcon to dash down that poisoned cup, and what a sad thing that I killed him, and what a narrow escape I had!” So now there aré no more certainly waters that refresh than waters that poison. This moment there are thou- sands of young men, unwittingly and not knowing what they do, taking into their bugle cup of earthly joy that which is deadly because it drips from the jaws of that old serpent, the devil, and the dove of God’s spirit in kindly warning dashes down tho cup, but again it is filled and again dashed down and again filled and again dashed down. Why not turn away and slake your thirst at the clear, bright, perennial fountain that breaks from the Rock of Ages, a fountain so wide and so deep that all the inhabitants of earth and all the armies of heaven may stoop down and fill their chalices? FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Senate. > a saw o FOURTEENTH DAY. ® In the Senate to-day the vice-presi- dent announced the committee on the centennial celebration of the eity of Washington as the capital of *the na- tion as follows: Senator Hoar, Hale, Perkins, Simon, McLaurin, Clay and Turley. Senator Mason, of Illinois, intro- duced.a resolution touching on legista- tion on the part of Germany, ‘intended to prohibit the exportation of Ameri- can sausages and other meat products into Germany. Senator Hanna introduced in the senate and Representative Payne in the house a bill to grant subsidies for American shipping. FIFTEENTH DAY. Mr. Teller (Col. 'S.) occupied the first half of to-day's session of the Senate with a speech in advocacy of the theory that there are no restric- tions upon the right of the United States to expand jts borders so as to include far distant territory. Mr. Teller “spoke upon Mr. Vest’s resolu- tion declaring that under the consti- tution, no power is given to acquire territory to be held and governed per- manently as colonies. “If we are a Nation,” he declared, “we have the power to exercise all the rights of any sovereign power. We have already acquired this ter- ritory. By right of conquest—a right undisputed—we came in possession of Cuba, Porto Rico and the -Asiatic ar- chipelago. The (question is now, ‘What disposition shall we make of the territory that has come into our possession?’ “If this Government will say to the people of this acquired territory,” said Mr. Teller, * ‘We will give you self-government,” we will’ not need an army of 50,000 men in Cuba, 20,000 in Porto Rico and 30,000 in the Philip- pines. - To say this to those people is the only way to escape the great standing army. In time we may make them States.” Mr. Proctor here interrupted Mr. Teller to read an extract from a letter from Admiral Dewey concerning the character of- the Filipinos, as follows: “These people can be governed with- out the slightest difficulty. They readily give in to reason, and I have not had the slightest difficulty in dealing with them.” ’ The Senate voted to adjourn from December 21 to January 4. SIXTEENTH DAY. Senator Morgan secured the passage by the senate of a resolution author- izing the Nicaraguan canal committee to investigate the alleged éfforts to obstruct the construction of the Nic- araguan canal. House. THIRTEENTH DAY. Representative Hull, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, introduced a bill giving two months extra pay to volunteer troops recently serving abroad, and one month for those serving at home. Other house bills introduced were: Representative McRae, of Arkansas, extending the alien labor laws te Ha- waii, Representatives Hay and Lamb, of Virginia, separate bills for copying Confederate records from the war de- partment; Representative S. Ww. Smith, of Michigan, for a national military reserve consisting of one regi- ment for each congressional district. Representative Rixey of Virginia in- troduced a bill for the admission of confederaté as well as union soldiers to all ‘soldiers’ homes and government institutions maintained by the gov- ernment. FOURTEENTH DAY. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, introduced a resolution in open House, directing the Judiciary Committee to investigate and report on the question as to whether the members of the House who ' accepted’ commissions in the army had forfeited their seats in the House. The committee on military affairs made considerable progress on the Hull bill to increase the army. The only party division was on the motion of Mr. Hay (Virginia) that all troops above 26,000 be confined to those required for foreign service, the Re- publicans voting against it. Among the important provisions in the sec- tions passed is that for one lieutenant general. FIFTEENTH DAY. The House to-day listened to the first speech on the annexation of the Philippines. Mr. Williams, of Mis- sissippi, a Democratic member of the foreign affairs committee, took ad- vantage of the latitude allowed in de- bate while in committee of the whole on the agricultural appropriation bill to make an argument in opposition. Physically, he said, the islands would prove a great disappointment. They were thickly populated with peoples heterogeneous races. They could never afford homes or opportunity for American citizens. He argued that under the fifteenth constitutional amendment citizenship could not be denied the natives of the islands if they were annexed. While he opposed the annexation, he said he should not return the Philippines to Spain. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed without material amend- ment. It carried $3,696,322, or $187,120 more than.the current law. The pro- vision to be used as a means of retal- iating against Germany and other countries was passed with a slight amendment. “ The House passed resolutions to ad- journ December 21 to January 4. SIXTEENTH DAY. The last session of the house before the holiday recess lasted but an hour. The Bailey resolution, directing an in- vestigation of the right of the mem- ers who volunteered in the Spanish- American war to seats in the house, was adopted, and several bills of min- or importance were passed. of ENGLISH JESTS FROM RIVALS. Brown—“Why did you countermand your order for those fountain pens?” Jones—*“The agent took down my or- der with a lead pencil.” “Tommy, what did I say I'd do to you if you touched that jam again?” “Why, that’s funny, ma, that you should forget, too! I'm blowed if I can remember.” “I’ve called to tell you, sir, that the photographs you took of us the other day are not at all satisfactory; why, my husband looks like an ape.” “Well, madam, what trouble did you find with the photographs?” “Why can not a woman become a successful lawyer, I should like to know?” asked a lady of a cynical old judge. “Because, madam,” he an- swered, ‘she’s too fond of giving her opinion without pay.” “Have you ever made an effort to solve that mystery?” inquired the de- tective’s friend. “Sir!” was the haughty reply, “I'd have ' you under- stand that I am working for the city. I am not a newspaper reporter.” INDUSTRIAL NOTES. China Sends a Large Order for Locomotives to the Baldwin Company — Big Contract for Coffins. The Baldwin Locomotive Works has within the last few days received or- ders for 56 locomotives, of which 16 are for the Tmperial Railway of China, making the second order re- ceived from that country within ten raonths. A contract with the Reading Railway Company calls for'25 freight engines and five switching engines of the heaviest type over operated on the system. They are to be specially adapted for use in the subway. The Chicago & Western has also ordered ten large freight engines, while num- erous small orders have been received from railroads all over ’'the country. In addition to working day and night it has been recently found necessary to increase the force of .men at the works. : The Morgan Engineering Company of Alliance, O., has shipped out nearly 100 carloads of finished machinery dur- ing the past five weeks. Over thirty carloads were disappearing gun car- iages for the government, for coast defense along the Atlantic and gulf coasts. The outlook for the coming Year was never so bright. The com- pany has received orders for a lot of machinery from three foreign coun- tries amounting to $200,000. Organized labor in Elizabeth, N. J., is disturbed over an innovation which has been introduced during the past week by the Worthington Pump Com- nany in its foundries. This is the em- ployment of girls instead of men and boys to do core making. The wages of experts are about $13 a week, but the girls will get, it is said, $4 to $5 a week. Ten girls are now employed. The London Daily Mail makes the fellowing announcement: The Car- rnegies have secured an order for 40,- 009 tons of steel rails for the Cape, at 15 shillings per ton, under the English tenders.” Pittsburg steel will enter into construction of the Mexican Central Railway, now being built. An order from the contractors of the road for 700 tons of structural material has the . been placed with the Pittsburg Bridge Company. ’ The National Casket Company, =of' Pittsburg, have received from. the United States government an order for 4,000 caskets, the largest single or- der of the kind ever given. The cof- fins will be used for the purpose of bringing to this country the bodies of all the soldiers killed in battle in Cuba, or ‘who died from disease there. The caskets ordered arg far superior to those used by municipalities: it is said they would retail anywhere at $106 each. Every one of them is zinc lined and this makes them expensive. Ac- companying the order for coffins was one for 4,000 rough boxes. In case the fallen ones have no friends, the re- mains will be buried in the national cemeteries. The 8. George Company has com- pleted a new glass plant at Wellsburg, W. Va., and will commence operation about January 1. It will run on lan- tern globes exclusively, employing about4125 hands. The Erie road has contracted for 28 new locomotives. The road is exper- iencing a rush, and within the last few days has 1,300 freight cars which could not be moved. The Pennsylvania Steel Company has received an order for 80,000 tons of rails for the Trans-Siberian railway. Iron and Steel says: “One estimate of the pig iron sold at Chicago within a week is 50,000 tons. An inquiry from the Russian government for 75,000 tons of rails to be delivered at Vladivostock within a year, beginning next March, had to be turned down by the Chicago mills because deliveries could not be made. The new tin plate trust has taken possession of all the mills in the East Liverpool section. W. H. Branfield, of the Irondale mills, is to manage this district, embracing Irondale, Lisbon and New Castle. Shipbuilding companies of the great lakes that build steel vessels already have under contract for next season 12 steel vessels, 8 of which are modern freight carriers, 2 passenger boats, 1 an oil tank barge and 1 a large tug. These vessels will foot up in value a little more than $2,000,000. The com- bined capacity of the eight freight car- riers will be about 59,000 net tons. Shenango Valley, Pa., furnaces are all producing, with the exception of six mills. The average weekly produc- tion for the month of November is rlaced at 16,250 tons, against 15,150 tons for the month previous. An offer for the equipment of an un- derground railway in Paris, now un- der construction, is being executed by the General Electric Company at the works in Schenectady, N. Y. This will be the first electric over need in. the city of ‘Paris A thousand tons of shia plates just been landed at 3 Ean Norfolk, Va. The event is m re not- able, however, in the fact that the steamer which bro ht them was fly- ing the American flag. which in itself is a rare sight in the Clyde. George Anderson will at once build a spoke, rim and handle factory at Grove City. Pa. Imam. railway have from LABOR WORLD. Theve have been no lockouts or sirikes in China in more than 2000 years. Compositors in the Trench national printery work fourteen hours a day. Graye pickers in the vineyards of Portu- gal are paid about twenty-one cents a day. I'he National Garment Workers’ Union issued 8,000,000 of its labels during the past year. 3 The cigarmakers of this country are said to spend $30,000 a year in advertising the union label. : The "boxmakers and sawers of Chicago lave unionized all box factories in the city and vicinity. British trade unions have started a fight on firms that print the Bible and refuse to pay union wages. Printers only work forty-two hours per week in the Government printing office in the South African Republic. The labor unions of Sweden have or- ganized a national labor congress with permanent headquarters at Stockholm. Miners of South Wales refused, by a vote of 51,836 against 12,534, to abolish their monthly holiday known as ‘‘Mabon’s day.” Labor in Canada is about the same as in this country so far as conditions and wages are concerned. Many Canadians work in the United States, and viee versa. As a result of the strike against a reduc- tion of wages in the Carter shoe factory at Nashville, Tenn., a union shoe factory, on the co-operative plan, has been established. Organized labor in France is in a flour- ishing condition. According to the last report of the French Labor Department, there aro 2253 trade and labor unions, with a membership of 422,777. . ; The Labor Commissioner of Missouri re- ports that seventy per cent. of the women applying for work at tne public employ- ment bureau in St. Louis have deserted their husbands or been deserted by them. + There is not much to be said of the laborer in Egypt, as no one is hired by the day or week except in agriculture, when laborers receive about ®4{ a month and toard and work as long as daylight lasts, THE
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