WE SHOU Se LD BE THE BOOM IN STEEL AND IRON AN EAGNEST OF AMERICA'S PRIMACY. Qur Recent Production Ia Comparison . With the Output of Other Conntries. Manunfmeturers Should Strike Out For & Fair Share of Export Trade, The object lessen now presented by the irom and steel industries is a most cheering indication of the prosperity in store for American manufactures and Jaber. Despite all the fears and predic- tions of eslamity Bowlers, the projuc- ‘tion of iron in this country is now (in a scale of tverampled magnitude. For _ #ome weeks the Output, as shown by re- Some wegks the Supt . »* { ports ho furnaces, has been at the rite of 10,500,000 tons a year, and sed mates have heen freely made that it will soon reach 220,000 tons a wek— a rate equal to pearly 11,500,000 tons pe annum. The significance of such emormony fig ares cannot be realized sven in part un- Jes cumpared “cith the output of ron furnsces in other vountries. Before the late worldwide depression—i. e, dur ing the year [R99 the total outpat of dg iron in Sweden was 475,886 nee tans (527.833 American tous) or ha per cent of the present monthly prodoo- tion in the United States. During the same year the total prodoction in (ler many was only 4 037.461 metric tons (5,443,350 American tonsi, or if of the amount which at the rate our for pots are now workirg will be prixdisced hore: In 1502 the production mm the y British islands was 6, 708,000 Tog tons, and bat litte mors in 1595, op to whieh time the maximrm British prodogtion was B81 803 Jou tps (9, DEER American toro, reported in 1888 and never, we balifve, expending ny the UD od Kingdom. utes hing fiscal year ending pig from provdnecd fronted to FU S00 LES 1898 abit the : Ie is mot rons alin people, ipnnratt of of the frou tr against fo § fron as pon nals sre volo the forure © atts of cnr Presonus boon fry Foon. Uae! semer pan Sx JE BS fastain while. Bow lose of the iwlustry can ie the home doanamd for ourrent prices tes Yi one to say. But if the bora Ba te oon the prosperity of tho on dustries da to bo expan farts oust at ome be put fond tand tive export trade in thes and in all the £rldud which iron or steel Ents component. Thor bs roan ih courage mannfsoinrers to sir boldly for a large share in the wip Crem trade. In Angust Tet thers Ws a Juoided increase in the exports ol jean from and steel and bi ir of B30 908 340 ; Bigher export than bas boon us But it Jsvery far ¥ pp td Aa ewer how, And the export of nations Ghat we | taped in Fron prodoct though inferior to the L the prodaction of fron, exports annnally gpore than $100,000, 000 worth of ina and steel and manufactures theronl Dy wean of her well sustained and pow increasing supremacy in the pro duction of all irom snd steel wares, as well as ber unequaled facilities nnd re sources for angmenting that production indefinitely, the United States is al ready folly preyared to amert ber pri. macy in supplying the work s mirkets with all maunfactures of iron and steel and almost overy other manufactire of which iron or steel is the chin compo ment. Why, then, postpone the day when an enormous wealth will apcrue to cur leading indostries by the expan. sion of our foreign commerce in their products? Let cur manufacturers hast. ab to earry their commercial war into Africa’ energetically and systemuitioal Iy at the earliest possibile moment and thus enlarge their conqoests bayorid the oan : The present vast outpnt in this coun try of fron and steel, the basic elements of all manufacinres, is an earnest of their ability to do this without delay. When our iron gi steel products onoe gain a firm foothold in foreign mr kot, thoy will soon be followed by tivo of other American wanofactures, and United States will take its dartined place as the commervial head af the na tions ~=Now York Herald ie "© BILL NYE'S FARCE, Collaborating With Fan] Potter — Playwrit. ing In Prisons Bill Nye is going to try again fio util fue his humor in a farce. His fret at tempt waa an utter failure. He talked other day abont the second, which taken the form of **A Stag Party’ is in rehearsal for early production. It is a collaboration with Paul Potter “Sometimes 1 fancy,” said Mr. Nye, + that Potter looks npon homor si a sart of literary varnish that can be applied with a brush whenever and wherever it may be deemed necessary. I know he has a pleasant habit of handing me the manuscript of a scenes and saying, “Here, old man, just pus a little repar toe in that, will you? “Sometimes I bave fancied from his manner that be espected me todo Rt while he waited, just as if be wera hay ing bis hat blocked. 1 have fund ont already that there is a great deal of dif- ference between a joke that is intended or the stage apd one that is intended for publication in a magazine or Dews to roll a good bit of humor ander yonr tongue, or to hear ft over again, where as if you come across something funuy in a book yom can go back and read it over again and stedy its subtletion and enjoy it at your leisure Dr. Holmes, whise humor, by the way, was of the kind that will boar the closest sort of stady, said that a Jecture was never thormghly seocessfal until it bad been delivered about 100 times and had been shorn of all the things that the man who wrote the isctore and delivered it considered clever and enriched with all the cheap and obvious jokes that be could pick op in the course of his trav els “Well, I have consoientionsly tried to put rome original jokes into my work, although it has been a sore temptation to got even with the farce comedies and eomio operas which have been using my stuff for the last 10 or 15 years. Potter and 1 have worked together very har. ponionsly, although wo have been sepa- rated from cme another (uring the period cf our collaboration 7 a greal many hundred miles of epacs He does the trank snd branches of 1 0 dramatic tres and I put av the faliag: Yom mustreal- Ix mee Porter and get sone of bis ideas on dramatic constrosticn He claime that every man can become his own dramatist if he tor rales of instroction. I must ey, foo, that he is always willing to let other pecpie prof by bis experience, and hie ion se “What do yon mean by that?’ “Well, he has a very praiseworthy and charitably plan for belpige the city's poor. A great many intelligent yong men are pither ont of employment br ples worlang Gor very moaRyT WARes, and Potter purprses to open a class at tha pinht aphedl and teash them the frail tar writing. Eo tells nie that of i have aan string wd healthy yong Fan winter he wi bard at work writing plays for Pabwer aid the Frohmans and making wag and that in the conres of Paolo A af Aen. n few yours there will baa of in every tran Naw, 1 ke his idea very tlmes 18 © Bite that iis $a ¥ ERE PE # Roan pat fn the oo & thhl managers in ne % Wark ¥ 30 # i have Fist pe uf of weawentitioe snd A : hy # don iF heave 8 STOR Recretare Carlinie’s ¥Flanry Polpwes A Ton IES CF THE oa LF One of tha Frais Pome Lldres 4 commie Mr Ianoleein, Wi amd along fend of aioe 4 Cand od htesing sor Ci came the dead r ard which mar have an Doportant war Fug id ef i {irover sit venier 80 | ar awd remarked whey raise Before the dene, Wo Lo Seat staid oo paper. In the theater yon have no time 111 only stody the Pot Henry Watterson, belligerent, A ©" PENN-YAN BILL. {By Engoar Fold] wery lus, Where the Hgner 48 the amoothest and the iris ape fair and frase, Where the crop of bo gawd path oF boars seal mand, And the wtock of Tar time winaers is the fn wt in the and, Where the Demrratio party in is bead won is fall aries Bapdd Where nol the Back oyiod Basan $6 the prad tie of the rll There there Lefe Bl the wowing of Pear Yan Down yonder in the ootfage that is nesting in the sheds Of the walnut trees that seen io Jews that { quiet Hite gi | Abides 8 pretty maiden by the bonny nar of : # - An pretty ss the bisck pve Bowers and quite aa molest 100, : And Jovers ontne there by the more, of every | age and kind, Pat oot one the sory goes) was Quite tO Hay protestations and ther vince Bor (ile wo wpm the soene hiovn Po THE all at ang ee Ye Hiss Hu 2d Montana, and a a A # Hin bat was wigs atan Jatast scheme ia so teach in Couper I'n- inh Poke RDA Lie SF Poms penal, added snctber raise, which was : pwd by Willies C. Whitney, Joba {» Carlisle trailed in. ti tad Watterson, and the others said, Mr Cleveland now | eccent that Watterson again jerked two bine chips instead of « of the table Thers were several more risen backwaril and forwand between Cleveland and Watterson, and the pace came #0 hot between thes wo that the others discreetly dropped with tiseir single pairs—ail except Carlisle, who continued to trail in By Re Finally Cleveland stop the frisky War cprilE Were Arad and everybody linaw be of & kind or two big ood par, and fir a biol of every one Biman 6: f psneh aueaesd Bt Lanarenes ; Gre Ab ve ORY ik Rory Carlisle Kentucky Le that b bad merely pot, and Wattersin had ©9 apcther Yige, therm Was Ih rent. 4 fo niarly sd blges Cleve und posponded with er rater Walierson beld hin cards to the anda his mise aud retudu the charge, and the other Keplucks tilted thes again, After the oente fergie RK pal Estas, 4 iseninyedl LR OB te Bias dugn Bad eatilie $i 9 Fania $VPY re melons mel. 3% et TS ES { the table bad teen piled high with bine chips. the man with the four cand draw { yoaking the last raise, thers was 3 show Cdowen, | (leveland had flied wo pairs, Wgtreson had a pat straight, bee Lar | ligle snevad int four sees. As he shoved the bine pile toward the leas Keutuck- ian Mr. Cleveland exclaimed: = Drew four cards to an ace andl got the other : three, by thunder! That's genios: thad's : finapeiering! Carlisle. if I come back ‘for m second time, you're the man | want for my secrvtary of the treasury. rr —- 3 EY 5 tated. — New s te the middle ah ur Saal Lop SAmRAIIIG FEE 8 SETTAY 80ne A species Pris and taptars | whois £3 Mat « of Poas-Yan BOs Some Hd Weaphns Waa al [owner tho, Lari & San wade I proand 10 a) fac tive he 5: Fomaten BECTON Y © & Be i pay axed fos 2% tad compiling t i Jule. It abs Avevrding iy 6 ea fomales axcend! The popniation i sipee 1880 There ace dra im the stuie. GIG Ceapibies The firey 887. 108, of wh 3 : 833 Germans and yee Poked, 145 3.538 of other Ba i tions. In gallus old Eemteucky. whees the grass is FICTION AND MORA HALL CANE POINTS THE MORAL WAY 1 Por mors thas half a centory unterrifiad has { | permon. His subject wax ‘Moral Re- | i i | $ i Fa SA A IN THE NOVEL gery A Plea For the “Moral Nude fu Flethoun” | Huge, Tolstel and Seott vhe Greatest Nov. slists 6f This Centory Ths Writer's Alm : the Great Test. Befora the Nineteenth Century club, in New York, the other evening, Hall Calne. the novalist, delivered a literary sponsibility In the Novel and the plea for liberty of conacienon in fiction. The sadience saw before them a man pparently abot 40 years old. of medium height, ratber slemder and with sone thing of a stoop in the shooiders that | The tawny hair and beard were the fret | things noticed abont the fare then the | tremendons domelike forvhind aamertad ite pre-eminence So broad is tha novel. ist's forehead that the waole face seems | to lope away from it sharply. The dyes are well sot and expressive, and the face, as aw ovate of eXIvene sOnsILIvonaMN ard nervons Dry ime es which are QO RUT 03D poster. This Muproasiom if ig Borne 3 an, & val sore Hae fad rose Vente, THE POWERS cnr by the bawds, fetid with SEEM TO HAVE AGREED ON A DIVISION OF TURKEY. kA $ Problees Would Be Exay. Lord Salishary snd of the French minis ter for foreign affairs regarding the state | of things at Constantinople the stronger * and bis trestment of it Was 8 heoomnes the impression. that ati agree ropean powers for the distribution of the | Of eourss the Turk, though mortally | wick, is pot yet dead, and he is unlikely | to He supine while bis assets ave divided. | But in these days of perfected arms and | ammunition one canpot fight long or | effectively without money, and of moo rey the Turk has next ta none | Ruowis Fas Chnnged Her Policy In. ead | te Mediterranean Outlet. But Por the Cisimis of the Bear and the Lion the The pore one reflects on the simalta. peous and barmonions ulterasces of From | | sheer lack of fands Abdo] Humid would | | that st least $30,000 000 of this addi | tional revenue be specifically devoted to | be nuable to call out the reservos of te . keep any considerable army in the fel al . It in not even certain that Moslem fa 4 | paticiem wonld be srrayed upon EL a 1 Irpatsnedd po match for maxim guns | spgression fron withont, the present i % £ i s and the or #. | struction of the janizatries ganization of a pew military Ti Lowi pore rn beret | with ease, and might i geet of the Bo onay of ther Chris i Put,owhii the Ear son Adriano for the wal ALE. ey choosen with Turkey of their abils EEE TRY Wel c Ruoseda the avpuis 4 be inealealahly | Barn gota on Twitter poros, and by Efvouy Emre en J 1 thn ean fant SPEARS W hi Wane ARE tive weal REE pope of an aim in speaking. And seeing Uae siuhyent Tiverary pan of Literary dninry. Who SAntRTY, ie Wall aR onr Digi man of the nineteenth both fmmeasurably bevoed all aominanied the world's var. bad nothing fo osmy ar preformsl too be Gin summberad by an giterior alin, 180 gronies x gland 4 he” cided that in a novel beat to rane this wok AY 8 £ Wo CERISE Baad EIA lit dee A Hal the Worl as Waid Hes men 1 CRRGeRE, | Naw Hybrid Yegetabbes - 3 SHR Aa ato pants have potato plants 1 Eogland, giving of Lomaties above grout toe below. Porasows gralisd 3H toms Rave proaduesd Duwess aug appa and a flow valeas Na Fant esi eel SEO $t Deeasel deta TREY Yor y wa oan FEOE AT # Sin a yar art ¥ eomadilord SHE 3 Paprsidaes Lhe at the Head of ane Pesan ga ft ti ft apna atation of Enel SOTERA 80 WA Larpresty that mepdire A ARTEL santied genuisinion of pia and Novd | RArinn monarchy Sasi A 3A, +5 asd Hazar, Voy Whoa FEall AA Te Aw 3k aED ie #” 20 Go STINE tang arasiteed svosteen Asie Minar, nding Hxiiprni Frans Tt Paw pEasRy Elder Gilleat’s 1 frome A A3% SGA ZETA Se YEAS Ineans 3 pi gn Sy a Ro ¥ FG fin the Noventh DIY AGVRLTIN in lim miedo, | and if it ween, fanaticism wonld prove : vo Money All For Interns] Improvements. Wore Duties ou Certaln Goods Trstanees of Needed Improvements. Seftor Quay of Pennsylvania, whes congress mets, will propose a plan con- cerning the revenues «f the government and the pomnletion of river and harbor fruprovements which will excite much discnmion in congress atl (nterest every peotion of the country. It will have far- reaching political vignificance He has pot vet elaborated his plan. but in essential features it is to raise 2n additional revenne of $30 .000 000 or $40,000,000 » year by increasing the fmport duties of eugar, woolens, cul. Jory and other articles that need more protection. Senstor Quay does not stop with resedying the present tariff for deficit. He goes farther, by proposing a internal imaoremeits When asked bout this plan, Seastor Quay said to the oorrespondent that | there were several great schemes for "| af once with internal anarchy and with | | pught to be carried to a speedy comple gultan wwms to be in (be inlew a cond: i ties a% was that moch alder ruler Mab mond 11 in the interval betwaen the de | poblie woeks in this country which tion, but which wnder the prvsent con- dition moet fail from lack of money. “Here are, for instance,” he asid, [ta few axamples—-the pr ss) canal sn the Ruosisus under Dieditech, it] tile have gained pos | | within the Atlantic const fri the Uinif of Mexico to ty 10 87 : the sr Their fi oh band i taste across New Jersey ponnecting New York harbor with the Imlswary: the deepening of the Delaware: the entire system of water commnnicstion ne the canal New England | thar 3030s the dae internal HRY i a Bye Yengrs se TRB hat wind Shaw PvE pera ETRE tE. of ton TERS tin ba pty wt the ise TRB iw thpegieral Git wrigiy of # eR INSTI ROE I TE Ge a fF at ar me CERISE snd Thu 10 i: be komm oh can standiod lovteed of Deing ree dosed to the Eaupesn level | would have thes great worksdone by aatret, ae onde De crompedition to the ow. responsi ile dds, aud executed rR RNG POVEIRINAERT Sujet ieiig Webb ta Boston Joar SHY nanny and inspection ™ nal
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