Show american method imitated next to china in importance as a market for american goods comes japan but the cleverness of the japan ese is an obstacle to extended trade As imitators they have no equal and it Is their custom to buy a few am eilean samples and reproduce them in large quantities in spite ot the abuse that has been poured forth on our beer and the unfavorable comparisons that have been instituted between it and the foreign product the foreign era apparently see something in our methods it Is not so long since mr allsopp the famous brewer of bigerton bierton on trent england started a large beer brewery in which american methods and american machinery were exclusively employed and even germany herself whose beer Is usually considered without rival has recently been importing american brewing ap and adopting the system of milwaukee germany thoroughly wide awake as she is in matters commercial has not been blind to the merits of american methods and wares A great deal of the caviale which Is served at the tables of our hotels and private houses and fetches a high price owing to the belief that it is manufactured abroad really has its birth within the confines of the united states and having been shipped to germany Is reshipped hither under a german label germany too as well as france and italy is one of our cus bomers for colored glass which is manufactured here by a patent pro cess and almost equals in beauty of coloring that which adorns the old cathedrals of europe many of the new european churches are aped with this american glass in matters of the toilet too we have strode to the front even the muscovite who it we are to believe the pictures should not have much call tor shaving appliance Is a good customer of ours for barbers clears and toilet clippers france too is buying our dress shields and OUT boot polish luxuries which she herself was the first to devise and of which for many years she held the monopoly finally australia which has long been our customer for axes to chop its plentiful timber has at last turned to america even tor articles of wood and is buying plentifully of our wooden handles for tools clothespins and golf clubs and if further proof of our skill in ahe manufacture of ar tides of sport were needed than the last article all europe recognizes that american clay pigeons have no equal T G knox |