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Show Peep sea sailors used to laugh at their brother ninrlnors of the coastwise trade, nnd refer to them as men who "liked to go to sen when they could get home to dinner." The gibe would have little point In the Philippines, the const line of which has been found to mensure more thsn ll.txio mlleo. This Is double the const line of the Vu It il Ktntes outside of Alaska. In the Philippines there la one mile of coast to every ten miles of area. In the Pulled Mtntea the ratio Is one to fc0. The Philippines have a string of parings out of all pruKirtlon to the apple Itseif. Mr. P. II. Mr A nee, the Chief Factory Inspector In Indians, says that the factory fac-tory workers themselves nro often a grent hindrance to the Introduction of safety devices. They refuse to use them eveu after they have been bought. In one large factory the employer ordered or-dered a number of dust protectors for machines. After they a. rived Die workmen neglected to usa them, though the dust wna a oerloua menace to their lungs. Another man wbo waa at work on a ripsaw had thrown away the guard that had been provided for him to protect bla lingers from the aaw. Three weeks after Mr. McAbce'a visit the ir.in had one of bla arms complete, ly cut off by the saw. Exports of manufactured goods make a gratifying allowing for the past seven months, but the practice of Including copper Ingots and refined mineral oil witb the manufactures makes the comparison more favorable than It would be If the word were used In lta commoner and more restricted sense. Tbe export! of manufactured manufac-tured goods In seven months of tbe fiscal year were $lii,isSI,(KM) greater than tbey were In the corresponding portion of the previous year. Hut the Incrcnso In copper Ingots was fu.ouo,-OUO fu.ouo,-OUO and tho Incrense In rellned mineral min-eral oil was nearly 17,000000. In other manufactured goods than these the net Increase was about $1,000,000. The exports of Irou and steel In the seven months were more than $:i.UO0,000 greater than a year r.go, and the aggregate aggre-gate exports of this class show an Increase In-crease for the seven months over any previous year. The Spaniards, still sensitive Over the loss of tbe Philippines, resent the appointment of tbe former Archbishop of Manila to the bishopric of Valencia, announces the Youtb'a Companion. They charge him with "unpatriotic truckling to the Americans after tbe disaster at Cnvlte," and even go ao far aa to call him a traitor. There were rlota at Valencia wheu news of the appointment ap-pointment reached there. Tbe Prime Minister regards the agitation agulust the Archbishop aa the work of the political po-litical enemies of the Cuhliict, and he said, lato lu January, that the Archbishop Arch-bishop would go to Valencia "even If be bad to enler the pluce between hedges of bayonets." Public meetings have been held lu many parts of the country, and the soberest of tbe speakers speak-ers havo declared thut tbe Archbishop "persoullles all those forces and Inllu-encca Inllu-encca which tho uutlon Is couvlnced were tho cause of the loss of the Philippines." Phil-ippines." Tbe protest la popular rut her than purtlbiiu, uud 1 evidence of the existence of a lively national self-respect. In the Delineator Allan Motherland writes of a reinurkublo sociological experiment ex-periment no longer an experiment, for lta practical vuluo has been dem onstrated thut has been tried In several sev-eral largo cities, of chuiiglng utibcau-tlful utibcau-tlful vacant lota Into gurdeu spots. Vacant tracts of hind are borrowed from generous owueri of leal estute, divided Into siuull tracts and loaned to needy people, chlcily old meu, Invalids In-valids and children. They are furnished fur-nished wllh seed, tools, etc. and their work la directed by couipemt supervisors. super-visors. Among tho uiuuy beuellceut results of the efforts of the Vacant Lota Association, tho following are men Honed lu tho urtlclo: Huiideds have found employment who would otherwise have been Idle; land has been rescued from weeds and rubbish and liiado to bring forth fruits ami dowers; Utile -blldren who at best only hipu for a "country week" have fojnd a s orlous "country summer;" they have had iu largo meusiiru at leust suggestions of country life, witb lta blessings of pure air, wholesome food and health giving exercise, aud many huve ulreudy act their faces resolutely to look for pleasant homes In tho country; Indeed, the demand from suburbun property o ners Is rapidly rap-idly Increasing for these youthful trained workers of the soli. |