Show soap mid l the steel manufacturer is subjected to tock rather singular annoyances at the hands of his customers for example the other day a pittsburg manufacturer received a complaint from a firm which uses a good deal of his steel that there waa something wrong with the last consignment sign ment of steel sent inasmuch as th men alleged that if was soft this surprised the manufacturer as large quantities of the same steel had given satisfaction elsewhere and he himself went to investigate the matter he was still more surprised when he round that the steel was soft after heating and submission to the usual bath the blacksmith before whom he mada the teat and the other workmen standing around tools little pains to hide their enjoyment of the experts discomfiture you see it is soft said the blacksmith with a grin and for a moment the manufacturer was at a loss what more to do then an idea struck him Is this bath all right he asked and without waiting for an answer he plunged his hand into the trough and fished up a good sized lump of soap no steel will harden in a soapy bath and the mystery was at an end of course the blacksmith alio had played the trick was discharged and he confessed a rival manufacturer of steel had given him 50 to put the soap in the bath pittsburg dispatch |