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Show I Current Topics JVebrarcif'r Senai or-Elect. Joercph A MW&vPJ flr&,rW A Diarrtch Li'rv.'r I' ' ivn m cohort IiTtN. , A "Radical Earl. I Karl (lrty wln piopoacs to mu-nltlpallze mu-nltlpallze all the italonna of Kngland, j and thus rrdun the drink evil, la one of the big i uinntiTi I tl noblemen of (Irent llrltaln He waa appointed government gov-ernment manager of tho South African Chartered Company In conjunction with Cecil miotics, was ono ot tho eompJn) nnd tine of Ita largest stockholders stock-holders and waa a favorite ot the late queen, who locd him beeauso tho i prince contort was hla godfather Lord Orey la a Handsome man of 41, nnd succeeded to tho title only a few yeara ngn at the death of hla granduncle, who win said to have been the most cantankerous, censorious and quarrelsome quarrel-some old gentleman within tho rccol- HAUL OlinY. lection of tho most ancient ot the realm, The new earl lives In Northumberland, Nor-thumberland, In one of the stateliest manrlons In England, aurrounded by (wooded and watered catatea covering 20,000 ncrca. In I-ondon ho occupies a One house facing Hyde Park CAr Anthracite Coal CrUU. An artlde In tho April Atlantic by Taltott Wllllama throwa light upon tho real cauaea of the threatened atrlko In tho Pennsylvania coal fields. Thla writer ahowa that strikes are often tho result of Intense competition. i:vcry new marhlno and otcry shilling of trade haa In It tho possibilities ot latrlkea In the Industries affected. .Thus the Invasion ot Kngland by lAmcrlcan aleel products Is likely to .produce labor troubles In English ateel (mills. It ta a change of thla kind that haa forced the anthracite mlno-lowncra mlno-lowncra and their employee Into a slate conatantty bordering on conflict. For jtho Oral lime both aides aro now thoroughly thor-oughly organized and each feela tho prcaauro of condltlona which seem to lt unendurable. Tho real cause ot the anthracite '.troubles la the Increasing competition ot bituminous coal From 1840 to 18C0 tae annual output of each of tbo two klnda ot coal waa practically the aame. lly 1870 tbo antbraclto bad forged anead ot Ita rival In the proportion propor-tion of 10,000,000 tona to 14,000,000 of soft coal. Antbraclto had everything In Ita favor and the Iron ot the country coun-try was made with thla kind ot coal, itinera got good wages and capital made largo dlvldinda. Then tho capitalists capi-talists did aa they usually do in such caeca they watered their atock. Uetwcen 1870 and 1880 the capital engaged In anthraclto Increased from 460,000,000 to 1B4,000,000. Yet during tbo aame period bituminous coal aud-denly aud-denly leaped far ahead of anthracite. ln 1880 the hard coal output was 23 .000,000 tona, while the soft coal waa nearly 42,000,000 tona. The uao of coke bad been discovered, and tho Iron In-idustrlca In-idustrlca bad begun to aubstltute bltu-.mlnous bltu-.mlnous for antbraclto coal. The an-ithraclto an-ithraclto Interests thua found thera-aelvoa thera-aelvoa heavily overcapitalized and face ito face with otrong nnd unexpected icompctltlon Their decline datea from that time. In tho laat twenty yeara tho anthracite output has doubled, but that of bituminous coil has quadrupled. quad-rupled. The Pennsylvania ownera sought to save themselves by employing employ-ing cheaper nnd less Intelligent labor. They sealed down wages through the company store, a high price for now-1 dcr, and various dovlces for mulcting tho miner In weighing hla output, ' Strlkea followed Inevitably Theao conditions aro still prcaalng upon th mine owners with Increasing force, siys the Chicago Tribune In ttt fluiB days of thirty yeara ago the tufts un!) too or 600 feet deep W ""J ' tbrke that depth, and luosta ami, more to tiring each ton, (gUie -surface The ateel Industrie o formerly eonllncil tu the Hast, Mr the lathraclte mines Now tho Ebtap Western ore and cheap bltumtn-caj bltumtn-caj coal art steadily drawing the Iron InJuatrlei tosanl the West The overcapitalize! over-capitalize! anthracite Industries havo Injenalnc ullllrully In making dlvl-dnda. dlvl-dnda. Tit result la an Imminent dan-Vf, dan-Vf, of strloua disturbances, yet, as 11 Wlllltmi says, tho danger from a further deterioration of labor and tea would be still worse. A. Coed American Tlan. .an IlmclUh shipbuilder tays that British shipbuilders are able to get Aajtrlcan steel at from ti to 8 Icaa a tin than the aamo ateel ta aold for on Us side of tho Atlantic. Adherence on the partot tho American manufactures manufact-ures to this policy of asking a high rjrke at homt and a lower price abroad Ytt, ho saya, keep up the prlco of ahlpa Inix In thla country and keep down lljprlco jl those built In Groat, ml-taliMhero ml-taliMhero la no'doubt that American ehfct: iDdcrs havo Wen made to pay cxts Ire ptlccs for steel. The boncfU of t grea reduction In the coat of matt acture of that metal In thla com: y has not been enjojed by them aa k laa been enjoyed by men In tho aani business In a foreign country. If tii United States Steel company wen lo add tho building ot slrcl and Irogililpa to tho Industries It la to bo engird In It could turn out audi ahlpi for v In the foreign or coasting trado at plrca which would defy competl-lion competl-lion If the lompany were to build ahlpa and aell them at a icaaonablo flgun I Americans would buy and uae then to carry on trado with foreign couti)es. Corn the "Rtdtr-t Oiltr. Proprietors of amusement enterprises enter-prises who are looking for a novelty to take tbo place of tho common roller coaahr, toboggan slide, "shoot-tho-chulftf etc., will find In tho Invention prcsMtcd herewith sufficient novelty to Itit for one season at least In fact, nost people would be Inclined to think there was too much novelty to tho apparalua, alnco It turna tho pats-engen pats-engen completely over In the early part rf Ita Journey around the circuit The liventor clalme thla can bo done with r"'ct aafety, aa tho centrifugal force f the moving weight In tho car holdatvery pasaenger In place almoat In aplto of himself, Edwin I'reacott of Arne;ton. Maaa., la tho Inventor, and the Idea hero applied la that of CENT1UFUOAL UAILWAY. Imparting such high apeed to the car by earning n t0 ,c,cenj a ,teep grsl9 that wben K changes Us courso aa It does lo passing through the vertical loop of track, tho center of gravity will tend toward tho bottom of tho car, thua forcing overy rider more firmly Into hla seat. The passage through the loops Is accomplished ao quickly that It Is hardly realized, and then tho car proceeda with tho leaa exciting portion of Its Journey. Tho cor Ukce on Its load In tho position shown, and the cable elevatea It to tho top of tho tteep Incline, with tho pass-engera pass-engera fating backward through tbo Brit ttagt ot tbo Journey. |