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Show V The pig-iron production o this, country coun-try is at a low-ebb for us. The May record wajs l,U3S,S0O tons, compared with 1,758,000 tons ln the May of 1903 a shrinkage of- 224,500 tons. BUt It was a decrease of bub 20,206 tons from April, and it vas,SG,335 tons .greater than that of March. Consumption fell 100;000 tons below production in May, the mer-, chant furnace stocks at the opening of the month having teen 414,030 tons, and at 'the close, 544,039 tons. The product by months for thelprc'sentyear-has been1 January, 921,231 tons; February, i;242,3S2; March. 1,447.065; pril, 1;553.-70C; 1;553.-70C; lay, 1,C33,500; a total of 6,697,854 tons for the five months. A very low total, this, for the United States; but for any other nation it wotlld be 'a rftgh record. The examinations in this country for the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford have passed one hundred :and twenty iHinbl-' tipus young Americans. It will, be a good thing 4,0 have that .number of Uncle' iSam!s boys-o abroad; It wrii make them cosmopolitan, and clinch the relations 'between the two great En-gllsh-'speakihg nations. It Is of'cours6 desirable -on general lines and racial affiliations to have these scholarships; and 1 some rich American would make like provision for as many young Britons Brit-ons to come to some of the great American Amer-ican universities for their' education, it would Kg so niuchJthe-ibetter. It would be a fair exchange, too, for we believe I |