THE GRIND OF PROGRESS. Modem progress i3 sometimes a heartless master. . Here is a story from San Francisco of an inventive genius who has supplied the government with a machine for counting- money which, in the mint in that city, has displaced thirty-five women, all civil service em-ployes, em-ployes, who had worked for years, but are now thrown out to seek other work. . . Uncle Sam has been trying for years to increase the capacity of his mints and at the same time reduce the operating expenses. Recently Re-cently an inventor named Lambert, assistant superintendent of the machinery at the Philadelphia mint, produced a machine which will count 40,000 pieces a day or $800,000 in gold coin. .Lambert has been ; installing three of these machines. Many of the women displaced are of mature years, some being more than fifty, and for nearly half of their lives they have been sit-: sit-: ting at tables in the mint weighing coins. They have become experts in the work and capable of weighing 7,000 coins in a day, but the most capable woman is unable to compete with a machine that weighs 40,000. - The machines are six feet long and four feet high. They are equipped with ten feeders each, in which, the coins are placed. The feeders are kept full by the operator, a man. With incredible rapidity the coins are dropped into a basket, weighed and thrown out. If they are ever so slightly overweight, they are thrown into one receptacle ; If ever so light, into another, and if standard are ready for stamping and weighing. It has been found necessary to have the machines operated by men because of their mechanical delicacy and the necessity neces-sity for removing heavy boxes of coins. The new machines, however, do not adjust the weight, and a few of the women will be kept for that work until the machinist perfects an adjusting machine, the invention of an employe. This, it is believed, will be in working order within a month. The story of the displacing of these women is but a repetition of the displacements which have been going on for years, as inventive ability has asserted itself. In the long run, all mankind is benefited by the changes, but thousands are made to suffer for the good of the whole body of society.