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ARSOLUTEEY PURE
Proper Hair Cutting.

The intelligent barber, says the
Chicago Inter- Ocean, looked pityingly
at a young man who had just gotten
a shave in the next chair, and was
taking his departure through the
door.
"Look at that gentleman's head"
he remarked with indignant emphasis.
"Every bump in the back and every
scar he ever got there in his boyhood
Is as plain as the nose on your face.
The trouble is that he had his hair
cut by some barber who doesn't know
his business. -.
There are dead loads of BARRIERS, !"
continued the speaker, whacking his
razor on the strop, "who sing,
Johnny, git your hair cut short, and
don't know anything else in their
trade. They cut away at mans hair
as long as the comb'll take hold, and
don't stop till there isn't any more
hair to cut. A barber should never
cut customers hair short unless he's
ordered to do so. Hair should never
be cut so as to disfgure person. A
barber should be something of an
artist. He should feel customers
head and find out if it has any pro.
nounced bumps, and the hair should
be raised to see if any scars are con-
cealed. If either OF these blemishes
exist the hair should be cut 80 as to
hide them as far as possible. The
razor should never be used, except
sparingly, on the neck. The hair
should be graduated gently from the
crown and shaded on the neck with
care and patience. 1t makes me tired
to see the work Of. some so.called
BARRIERS. Next"
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IRON AND STEEL
MARVELLOUS GROWTH OF PITTS.
BURG,S GREAT INDUSTRY.
Its Numerous Blast Furnaces, Roll
ing Mills and Steel Works - An
Immense Outfit-Women
Work In Mills.

- ONE startling statistics regard
~ ing the iron and steel industry
| y of Pittsburg have just been
made public by the annual
statistical report of the American Iron
and Steel Association. They were
compiled by James NJ. Swank, the
general manager of the association,
and were presented to the members.
Mr.. Swank Is the publisher of the Iron
and Steel Bulletin and recognized
authority on the matter. His figures
may be accepted as reliable.
Pitttsburg, says correspondent of
the New York Journal, has now twenty
seven blast furnaces, twenty-nine steel
works and thirty-four rolling mills.
In 1892, when the iron industry was
booming, there were produced in the
twenty.six blast furnaces (tbe number
existing at that time) 1,775,257 gross
tons of pig iron. In 1893, with one
more furnace, the total production
was 1,697,2O7, or only 7S,050 tons
less.
This wasthe panic year during which
wages were cut lower and lower until
the workers rebelled and long strikes
we're the result. In 1894, which was
also hard times year, the production
of pig iron was 1882, ,O79, or 6S22 tons
more than during the boom year of
1892.
The report also shows that in 1892
there were sixty-two rolling mills and
steel works which produced 1,6o5,974
tons of crude steel. In the following
year the decrease was only 15,201
tons, while in 1894, when the country
began to feel the beneficial effects OF
tariff reform, the production was l..
893, 696, or almost 800, 900 tons more
than in 1892.
The total production of pig iron,
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steel ingots, crude steel, rails, sheets,
plates, rolled iron and steel, etc., in
1892 in this city was 1851, 397 tons.
In the following year there was slight
decrease to 7,377,8S1 tons, which in
1894 jumped to S,561,8l9 tons, or
700, ,422 tons more than during the
big year of '92.
The origin of the iron and steel in
dustry, its growth and development
is marvellous story. The beginning
of the manufacture of iron in West
ern Pennsylvania, and the first fur.
mace built, dates back to 1870. 1t was
then located in what is now the most
fashionable residence section of Rltts.
burg, Shady Side. A rolling mill on
a small scale was erected there in
1911.
The close proximity to the mex.
haustik ke supply of soft coal fields and
the natu\al shipping facilities afford.
ed by the Ohio, Monongahela and
Allegheny Rivers, made Pittsburg a
magnet for the iron and steel pio-
neers, and the one rolling mill plant
quickly spread and multiplied.
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horizontally at the line of greatest
girth. The halves, however, are
firmly clamped together with a water
tight connection, when the toy is
dumped into the water. to which it
takes as jauntily ss rubber feather,
and the only means of entrance and
exit then is via a little upward open
ing like melon plug, and very easily
made use of. as also readily rendered
watertight in its turn. At the top are
several little holes for ventilation, but
which can also be closed at will.
Furthermore, there are six windows,
round as portfolios in the ordinary
chip. Over all this is ahagstaff which
can be lowered and put up at pleas
ure, with waterproof connections and
ventilation device, and on the top of
the flagstaff is q lantern. There are
two oar holes also, one on each side,
similarly water-tight in the play OF
the pair of strong serviceable oars.
And, last and most important of all,
the appa, atus always rides the wave
neutrality-suspicious., because of the
abundant ballast in the bottom. The
interior of the miniature is fitted up
completely, with seats all around the
wall, and there are straps for addi.
tional support in case of storm.
For practical use, the inventor pro-
poses "life-boat" of this description
which shall be either eight feet high
by six feet in diameter, at the widest
girth, with a seating capacity of ten
persons, or else one ten feet high and
eight feet wide, seating twenty-five
persons. The former style, made
Wholesale, would cost only $l25, and
would carry 1OO0pounds without sink.
ing more than four feet in the water,
riding as buoyant as a top. In the
base would be plenty of room for sup.
plies and water to last fnom ten to fif-
teen persons several weeks, without
any danger from water or vitiated air.
For the trst.named size of boat the
circular entrance would be three feet
in diameter. and thu windows one
foot. Chains are attached on the out.
side for people out in the water to
catch hold and climb up by. The life.
boat cannot possibly tip over. but
simply bobs up and down like cork,
Already on Lake Calumet there Is
little 'life-boat" of this pattern, and
the inventor expects soon to have one
on Lake Michigan. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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gentle pull on it; then it touches the
end of the animals nose or upper lip;
and that mere touch, which should
not be increased much, does the whole
business.
Mr.. Small's contrivance consists of
a simple ( cad strap, properly brsced
and coming down between the horses
eyes and nostrils. to its end in the
shape of sort of little metallic up
per lip. This latter little piece of
metal, only about two inches long and
not half IN inch wide, is humorously
called a "trolley Bit" Its curving
side-ends, like an ordinary bit, are so
devised that a very slight, gentle pull
on the reins brings the "trolley bit"
against the tip of the horses nose.
In complete absorption in the study
of new experience the horse may be
driven right up by the side of noisy
locomotive, or of gong-banging troll
ley car, that presents to the horse,
under ordinary circumstances, the
sinister aspect of moving, perhaps
living thing, going without any visi-
BILE means of compulsion; and in his
strict attention to the new sensation
at the tip of his nose he will take no
notice of the car of the locomotive.
The queerest thing of all is the fact
that no amount of use OF familiarity
with the nose-toucher arrangement
seems to lessen the horses interest
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Within a few years virgin forest
trees gave way to smokestacks, and at
night scores OF furnace fires around
which toiled brawny, half-naked men
lit up the surrounding hills and gave
an awesome weirdness to the small vii
la2e.
In 1903 an iron and brass foundry
was established. It afterward cast the
cannon which blazed in victory from
Perry's little feet on Lake Erie. Can
non have been made here for three
wars. During the last Civil War over
1000 guns were made.
The "Iron City" produces one-ffth
of the entire amount of iron and steel
made in the United States, and one
third that of the State of Pennsylva-
MIA, the production of the latter being
over one.half of the output of the
country. The largest Bessemer steel
works and the greatest crucible plant
are located here.
A year ago the total number of op-
eratives was 1000. This of course in
cludes Homestead, Braddock and 9TH
er towns within few miles of the
city, and which will be included in the
Greater Pittsburg. The employees re-
ceive in wages in one year between
$4,000, 900 and SlO,0O0,000.
The largest concern is the Carnegie
Steel Company, which is capitalized
at S25, 1000, ,000.-It employs 10, 900
men and boys. In the way of produc-
tion It turns out 100, 900 tons of pig
iron per month, and the same number
of tons of open hearth and Bessemer
steel blooms, billets, structural shapes,
etc.
The finished product aggregates
from twenty to twenty-five cars per
day. At the Braddock rail mill steel
rails thirty feet long are rolled out at
the rate of two each second, or 12O
Der minute. An average days work is
,ighteen miles Of single track.
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ing the carbon out of IL by means Of
immense draughts. The sheets of
flame one sees are incandescent car.
bon. Later the steel is remelted and
treated with speigle iron, etc., to re.
store the right quantity of carbon.
Next to the Carnegie interests the
largest plant is that of Jones & Laugh
lins. At the head of it is B. F. Jones,
who, as Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, ran the Blaine
campaign. The firm employees $500
men and treats them better than any
other company.
Within the past few years the iron
business has been revolutionlzed.
Pudding iron has given way to the
improved and cheaper methods of
making steel. Steel has taken the
place of iron in all kinds OF structural
work, and scores of pudding furnaces
are idle.
Steel does not wear as well as good
iron, and shrewd manufactures predict
return to the days of pudding.
Jones & Laughlins have less than one
fourth of their pudding furnaces in
operation, but will have use for them
later.
The day Of high wages in the iron
and steel business has passed never to
return. Up until the time when the
Carnegie Steel Company, after great
loss OF life, succeeded in almost break
ing the Amalgamated Association,
scores of men who we're paid accord
ing to the production of the mills upon
which they worked, received from
S25 per day upward.
Rollers came to the mills in cor.
riages and behind fast horses, and
lived on the best they could get. Hun.
dreds OF men who few years ago, if
they did not make from $40 to s15 per
day would have bemoaned their hard
luck, are now working for So and So
per day.
Notwithstanding the reduced duty
on tin plate, which the manufacturers
claimed would compel them to close
their mills, the tin plants are flourish
Ing. One of the odd features of the
erection of tin plate mills is the intro
duction CT women in the iron and
steel trades. At the plant of the Mo-
nongahela Tin Plate Company i'll
South Pittsburg, and which is now
partly owned by United States Senator
Quay. women work on the floor of the
mill alongside men. They wear coarse
clothing, with heavy aprons, and on
their hands they have gloves.
The women stand at the rolls with
tongs and catch the plates rs they
come out. They cut, "dip" and sep
arate them, and do the work better
than men. The women learned the
business in Wales, and earn from SIS
to So per week. Husband and wife
work in the same mill, the former at
the furnace and the latter at the rolls.
For years girls have been employed
in the bolt and nut factories of that
city, but this is the first time they
have actually worked On the eoor of a
mill with the glare of furnace on
one side and the whirr of heavy rolls
on the other.
AS it is the custom for women to
work in tin mills in Wales, the men do
not object to the women. The latter
will be taken into the Amalgamated
Association, as the work they perform
is covered by the scale.
The iron and steel business will fur
ther develop by the building of new
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White Elephants.

Knighthood is not an honor that
you can obtain in Siam as easily as
you can in many other countries.
You have to qualify for it by captur-
ing a white elephant, which is, by all
accounts. a good deal more difficult
than to write Indifferent poetry.
The white elephant is the National
emblem of Siam, and all the speci-
mems that can be caught are kept IN
the royal stables and live on the fat
of the land. There are five OF them
at present in honorable captivity.
All the work they ever have to do is
to take part twice year in a State
procession, and to support the King
by their majestic presence whenever
he has to receive foreign Ambassa-
dor. Besides being knighted, their
captors receive large money rewards.
The more white elephants there are in
the Kings news, the luckier does he
reckon himself likely to be.-Phila.
delphia Public Ledger.
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On the opposite side of the Monon-

On the opposite side of the Monon-
gahela River, and three miles below
Braddock, are the Homestead works,
made famous by the strike and riots of
1892. Armor plates, beams, etc., are
the principal products OF this plant.
The armor mills are now practically
shut down on account of no work.
The company has finished its con-
tracts for Government work, and is
now ready to make armor for any for
eign Power. In the structural mills
the employees are getting out an order
of 81, 900 tons of beams and girders
for the Manhattan eel" road system.
Since the armor plate frauds it is
almost as hard to break into the
Homestead mills as it is to get out of
jsil. No one is admitted without a
pass, uniformed guard standing as
sentinel over bridge at the main en-
trance. As the visitor who is fortu-
nate enough to secure ticket ap-
proaches the mills from the yard the
whole interior appears to be filled with
a shower of gold. From the mouth OF
the "converter, q fan-shaped flame of
vast proportions sweeps roofward. and
from this comes the torrent of fiery
sparks which sweep high in the air,
and then fall on the earthen floor,
kept continually covered with water.
On a narrow ledge at tho far side of
the building, high up in the air, and
directly opposite to the converter, l"
stand three lnen, the "melter" and his
assistants. They are in covering at
t;tude, as though shrinking from the
flood of fire, and the 'melter, with a
glass held to his eye, watches the
flame coming from the converter, "
until by its color he recognizes the
right moment for turning out the
molten steel into the molds.
At his signal the converter" is
tilted forward. sending out metal as
bright as silver. Thus all day and
night the melter stands and makes the
basis of wealth for the world by the
control of living fire. Personal skill
alone qualities him for his Office, for
there is no thumb rule by which he
can control this mighty element.
The practical process of making
Bessemer steel consists in putting pig
iron into the converter" and blow
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dressed to the possessor's household

dressed to the possessor's household
god.
The Japs pay their Buddhist and
Shinto priests from one to two cents
for these prayers, which serve the
double purpose of being lucky charms
as we'll as prayers, says the San Fran.
cisco Call. The priests bless the charm
upon receipt of the cash. The posses
sor praYs by sliding the little pouch
up and down the strings and saying
something similar to "These are my
sentiments" He is very particular
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Hc Will Not Grown Himself.
(From t,s5 Troy, N. r, Times,


R.W. Edwards. OF fLansingturgh, was pros.
trated by sunstroke during the war and II
has entailed on him peculiar and serious
consequences. At the present writing Mr.. E
is prominent officer Of Post Lyon, G. A. r.,
Cohoes. and past ai1 de camp on the stnn
OF the commander-in-chef OF Albany Co. In
the interview with q reporter he -aid.
II was wounded AMI sent to the hospital
ut Winchester. They sent me, together With
others, to Washingtor-a ride OF about 19o
miles. having nc room in the box cars we
were placed face up on the bottom OF fat
cars. The sun beat down upon our unpn'
tected heads. When reached Washington
I was insensible and was unconscious for ten
days while in the hospital. An abscess gath
cred in my ear and broke; it has been gath
ering and breaking ever since. The result
OF this 100 mile ride and sunstroke was heart
disease, nervous prostration, insomnia and
rheumatism; n completely shattered system
which gave me no rest night or day. As
last resort took some Pink Pills and they
helped me to wonderful degree. My rheu-
matism Is gene, my heart failure, dyspepsia
and constipation are about gone. snd the Alb
scess In my ear has stopped discDargiog aud
my head feels az clear as bell, when before
1t felt as though 1t would burst, and nly once
shattered nervous system Is now nearly
sound. Look ut those fingers" Mr.. Edwards
said, "do they look as II there was my rheu-
matism there?" He moved his fingers rapid
ly and freely and strobe about the room hke
young boy. "a year ago those fingers were
gnarled at the joints and 80 stif that could
not hold q pen. My knees would swell mp
and could not straighten my legs out. My
Joints would squeak when ! moved them.
That is the living truth.
"When I came to think that was going
to be crippled with rheumatism, together
with the rest OF my ailments, tell you life,
seemed not worth living. I suffered from
dependency. cannot begin to tell you"
said Mr.. Edwards, as he drew long breatn,
you lifted ten years right of my life and left
me prime and vigorous at fory-seven,
could feel no better. I was an old man and
could only drag myself painfully about the
house. Now I can walk of without any
| trouble That in ITSELF" continued Mr.
Edwards, "would be sufficient to give me
cause for rejoicing, but when you come to,
consider that am no longer what You
might call nervous, and that my heart Is az
parentlY nearly healthy, and that can sleep
nights. you may realize why may appear to.
speak in extravagant praise OF Pink Pills:
These pills quiet my nerves. take that awful
depression from my head and at the same
time enrich my blood. There seemed to be
no circulation in my lower limbs year ago,
my legs being cold and clammy at times.
| Now the circulation there is as full and as
brisk as at any other part OF my body. 1
used to be 80 light-headed and dizzy from
my nervous disorder that I frequently fell
while crossing the floor Of my house. Spring
is coming and never felt better in my hfe,
and I am looking forward to busy season
Of work" ...r. ... st;s
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For Shying Horses.

A really remarkable device for
making any shying horse perfectly
calm and tractable is the new lnven.
tion of Henry Small, of this city, says
the Hartford Times. Properly speak
ing it is not "Dit," for it does not go
into the horses mouth at all, bnt Is
only a simple nose-piece that goes
over the horses upper lip, but does
not necessarily draw on or even scarce
ly touch it unless the driver has q
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Experiments With Eyesight.

Experiments have been made to de-
eide how far spiders can see, and it
has been determined that they have q
range of vision of at least foot. 1t
is not always possible to tell, however,
whether the lower animals perceive
by sight or hearing or by the action
air in motion has on their bodies.
Experiments tend to show that mice
are sensitive to motions of the air
which to human ears create no sound
whateyer. York World.
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Solitude Made Her Insane.

An insane woman was Brought to
Seattle, Wash, from a ranch in the
interior of the State last week and sent
to an asylum. The supposed cause Of
her insanity suggested by the doctors
was "the solitude of ranch life. -
New York Sun.
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A Napoleonfc Relic at the Paris Fair.

A French engineer, NJ. Edouard
Gras, has conceived the idea of repro
ducing the historic house OF Long
wood in which Napoleon lived at st.
Helena as an attraction during the ex-
hibition of 1900. The house, which,
according to his scheme, will be an
exact copy of the original, will be sur
rounded BY panoramic canvases repre-
senting the natural surroundings -
New York Post.
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The daily income Of the principal
rulers is said to be-: Emperor Of RUS
sia, s25. 600; Sultan of Turkey, $ls,.
600; Empero, of Austria, $40, 900;
Emperor OF Germany, $4,000; King of
Italy s64OO; Queen Victoria, $4,000;
King of Belgium, Sl640; President OF
France, $4,000; President Of the United
States. SlS7.
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Old Rip Van Winkle went up into the
Catskill mountains to take little nap of
twenty years or so, and when he waLened.
he found that the "cruel war was over"
the monthly magazines had fought it
over" the second time and blown up"
all the officers that had participated in it.
This much is history, and it is also an ms:
toricai fact that, it took the same length OF
time, for DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery to become the most celebrated, as
it is the most effective, Liver, Blood and
Lung Remedy of the age. In purifying the
blood and in all manner of pimples.
blotches, eruptions, and other skin and
scalp diseases, scrofulous sores and swell
ings. and kindred ailments, the Golden
Medical Discovery" nauifests the most
posifi1e curative properties.
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NON.SINKABLE LIFE.BOAT.

Description Of an Interesting Craft
Constructed by Chicago Inventor.
A. L. Hed,erg, o Swedish inventor
residing in Chicago, exhibited in the
Inter-Ocean office the model of new
life boat which he has just patented.
Made of galvanized iron-in actual
service different materials can be used
the miniature looks like q large
turnip, and is in two parts, cut apart
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railroads and the Lake Erie and Ohio
River Ship Canal. The latter is Ger
tainty, and, when completed, will
make Pittsburg in reality the greatest
manufacturing city in the world.
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DOSB V16W
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JAPANESE PRAYER BAGS.

Evidences Of ldolatry Found on q
Lot Of Coolies.
The immigration Inspectors at San
Francisco examined lot Of japanese
coolies few days ago and found that
each one had strung about his neck q
kamisama or praying bag. These bags
contain prayers written on silk or
stout paper and are specially ad-