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Show I Current Topics f Cost of the Steel Stride. President Shaffer's public statement of the terms upon which the steel strike has been settled contains nothing noth-ing of importance that was not known before, but his attack upon the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor and the United Unit-ed Mine Workers adds another significant signifi-cant item to the losses of the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Association throughout the strike. Mr. Shaffer indulges in bitter censure of Mr. Gompers and Mr. Mitchell Mit-chell because they did not call out ,their followers, irrespective of contracts, con-tracts, as he had done. His words scarcely can fail to complete the alienation alien-ation of the two large organizations thus attacked. The strike also has shattered the Amalgamated Association Associa-tion itself, perhaps beyond repair, besides be-sides making non-union mills of many which were nominally union before. During the two and a half months of the strike the workmen lost about $10,000,000 in wages. The losses of the company can be recouped to a considerable consid-erable extent, but lost time and wages are never found again. The average number of men idle during the strike was something over 50,000. At one time the number was nearly 100,000. She Fingered Man In the current number of the American Amer-ican Naturalist Professor H. L. Osborn gives the tracings of the hands and feet of a student at Hamline University. Univer-sity. Each foot is provided with a supernumerary su-pernumerary toe. While one hand is. normal, the other is provided with an extra finger. The case is that of a -RACINGS OF HANDS AND FKSCT. young man 25 years of age. His par- ents, grandparents, and all of his relatives rela-tives so far as known were perfectly formed. Cases of this sort are not uncommon, un-common, and are known as poldactyl-ism. Central American German German business houses in Gaute-mala, Gaute-mala, Nicaragua and Costa Rica control con-trol almost the entire foreign trade of the five republics with England and California, besides the entire traffic between be-tween Germany and Central America. The shipping along the Central American Ameri-can coasts is al3o to a large extent in German hands. These conditions are causing an immense loss of trade to Great Britain. With the taking of the commerce from Great Britain has arisen in England a hatred of things German until the nations that were at one time allies are now not far removed re-moved from the point of war. Moistens Stamp. Most envelope and stamp moistenera are complicated or bulky affairs which are unhandy for use when It is desired de-sired to dampen a single envelope, but the device in the illustration seems to surmount these objections. It is the invention of W. E. Kentrick of Vermont, Ver-mont, who states that the implement la adapted for use with mucilage as well aa with water. The rear portion of the moistener is a reservoir for the storage stor-age of the water, which feeds through a tube to the bottcm of the compartment compart-ment containing the sponge. The feed, Is regulated by a valve located between be-tween the reservoir and the sponge, and the parts may be easily separated! HANDY IMPLEMENT FOR DESK USE. for refilling. To use the moistener It' Is grasped by the thumb and finger, as; shown, the finger pressing the spring tongue against the flap of the envelope envel-ope to squeeze the water from the sponge as the envelope is drawn between be-tween the two with the other hand. |