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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-07
THE MORNING NEWS: TUESDAY. DECEMBER Z. 1897.

quarser Kegs, s5.75; 1-pound canisters. $lOO.
less 2 per cent. f@t
Irot,-Market very steady; swede, 41sG
Nahs-Cut 81 60 base wire. 81. So base.
Advanced national list OF extras, adopted,
Dec. l, 1896
Dry Goods-The market is firm: demand
brisk; prints, 3I5G5ci Georgia brown shirt
ings, Sc; g. 4c; IA brown sheetings, 4lbR
Sc; white osnaburgs, &c, checks. 4d5c I;
brown drillings, 5IRd6i5c.
Lime, Calcined Plaster and Cement-Ala-
bama and Georgia lime In fair demand
and selling at 75c per barrel, bulk and
carload lot special; calcined plaster, s.. so
per barrel; hair, 4G5c; Rosedale cement
81 .10Q1 20; carload lots special; Portland
cement, retail, 81. 20; carload lots, 50. 90.
Bagging and Ties-The market is steady;
jute bagging, 214-pound, 7q7Ac; 2-pound
6l6G6%c; 1% pound, 696Ac; quotations are
for job lots; small lots higher; sea island
bagging, SdSiRc; standard Arrow ties,
steel, As pounds, large lots, soc; small lots.
90c ...
Lumber-Demand, both foreign and do
nestle, is firm; ordinary sizes. $40 50GI11 90 ;
difficult sizes 12.00d1l 90: flooring boards.
SIS OO@17 90; ship stun, $14.5OqlS.O0; sawn
ties $3.50.
Tobacco quiet and steady;
smoking, domestic, 22460c; chewing COM
mon, sound, 24GI27c; fair, 236S5c; good Sec
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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Series of Accidents Happen In DIFF
Work on the II. Johns River and
Its Costa Monument to tie Erect
ed TO Col. ChipIey at Pensacola.
sight of Blood Followed by N
Painting Fit and Permanent Loss
of Speech.
GEORGIA.
Gus McNIan fell out of the top of T. G.
simmons barn at ElRjay Friday and died
Saturday.
The charter for the Fifth Regiment Arm
DRY Association has been granted and the
plans for the building of the armory at
Atlanta will be arranged at once.
WIN jackson, l6 years old. went hunt
ing about four miles from Albany Satur-
day, and was dangerously wounded by the
accidental discharge of his shotgun, the
load tearing away part of his head and
entering the breast Immediately over the
heart.
Near Jacksonville Saturday, while Rev.
j. Ware Brown of Dublin was on his way
to his appointment at Richland church,
his horse became frightened and Mr..
the buggy and broke his right leg near
the knee.
Jack j. Spalding executor of the estate
of Catherine 7. Flynn, deceased, has filed
his resignation in the court of ordinary at
Atlanta, and has asked to be relieved from
the trust Strained relations with mem
bers of the family as the reason given for
resigning.
Capt. A. b. Woodbridge, the newly APP
pointed assistant postmaster of Columbus,
died Friday night after a prCtracted ILL
ness. Capt. Woodbridge was 80 years of
age, was a brave confederate soldier and
represented Chattahoochee county several
terms in the legislature
While hunting near Cecil Saturday Ar
thur johnson was accidentally shot by AL
len Tyler, a friend. They were an a
swamp, whittier they had driven covey
of partridges and the birds had come be-
tween them, and when Tyler fired into
the covey Johnson was directly facing him
on the opposite side and received the great
err part of the load in has right thigh. The
wound although of a painful nature, is
not considered dangerous.
Revenue Agent Colquitt has made his
report of the work of the department in
Georgia and Alabama for the last month.
The figures show no decrease in the moon
shine business. In Georgia eighty-two
distilers have been captured, tifty-nine
stills and 1888 gallons of spirits Fifty
of these STILLS were found in the ninth dis
trict Thirty-seven distillers were caught
in Alabama, thirty stills found and forty
one gallons of spirits destroyed
Marshal Haslam of Marshallvile came
near meeting with fatal accident a Few
days ago Early in the morning. while
opening his fathers store, he discovered
some tinware and other goods scattered on
the floor behind the counter Being dark
he struck a match to see what it was. He
dropped the match and there was a flash
and explosion of powder, resulting in pain
fully burning his face and hands. 1t was
discovered that a cat or something had
knocked over a can of powder which was
scattered on the floor and caused the ex-
ploslon.
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COMPRESSED FLOUR. az
IL Seems Less Liable to Injury When
Pressed Into Bricks
From the New YORK Sun

rom the new i DIX sun.
London, Dec.4-Both the British admiral
ty and the war department are testing I'M
der various climatic conditions the new
method of conserving -four. One objection
to the establishment of national eranarIes
has been the difficulty of storing wheat
for any length Of time. The grain ger
inmates and is ruined, and to keep vast
quantities in sound condition has been
pronounced by the royal commission I'M
practicable. af.Cl-f
Experiments are being made with a sys-
TEN of compression into bricks by hy-
draulic pressure. The trials show that
-four so treated is not affected by damp
even under unfavorable conditions, Is free
from mold, and is sweet and wholesome.
Moreover, compression destroys all forms
of larval life. and hour is thereby render
ed safe from the attacks of insects. The
saving in storage is enormous as the cubic
space occupied by 100 pounds of loose flour
will hold more than 300 pounds of the COM
pressed article.
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DRY GOODS.

New York. Dec 6.-The week opened in
dry goods with a return to the dullness
peeted that within the next day or two
there will be reduced prices made on GER
tain staple cottons. The reduction in the
lu any heavy increase in business beyond
BUYERS needs. In general the market for
cotton goods is entirely unsatisfactory,
with sellers entertaining hopesNfo the flu
i4re, but unable to give any satisfactory
account of the present trading.
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OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market easy; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds: Boston, per bale, 81 %
New York per bale, S100; Philadelphia,
per bale 500; Baltimore, per bale, 81 90:
Direct-Barcelona, 5Sc; Genoa, sac; Reval,
SOC; Bremen. 4Sc; Liverpool. Ale; Havre,
43c; Hamburg, Acc; Gothenburg, SIC; Tri-
este, 5Sc; Rotterdam, 45c; Antwerp 45c
Client, SOC Via New York-Liverpoo 43c
Bremen, 45c; Amsterdam. 45c; Hamburg,
400: st. Petersburg, 6cc; Manchester, soc
Havre. soc; Gothenburg, soc.
Lumber-By Sail-Freights are firm at
ruling rates Foreign business is more
or less nominal The rates from this and
nearby Georgia ports are quoted at 81 1000
80 for a rangeAincluding Baltimore and
Portland, Me. Railroad ties, base "A feet,
to Baltimore, 12c; to Philadelphia, lSc; to
New York, 13I9c. Timber rates SOCIAL 90
higher than lumber rates. To the West
Indies and Windward, nominal; to Rosa
rio. $12 .00d13. 90; to Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo $40 .00I11 90; to Rio Janeiro,
S14 90; to Spanish and Mediterranean ports,
81 .30G11 so; to United Kingdom for or
ders, nominal for lumber, "a 5s standard.
By Steam-To New York, $500; to Phil
adelphia, via New York SIS 50 to Boston,
Sc 90, via New York. to Baltimore. $500.
Naval Stores-By Sail-The market is
firm. Medium sized, Cork for orders, are
as follows: Rosin, Is 1015d, for barrels of
80 pounds, and per cent primage; spir-
its, As 11ad Genoa, rosin, IS 3d6D3s Cd; Ad-
Ratio Is 6dG2s Sd; South American, rosin,
soc per barrel of $50 pounds. Coastwise-
Steam-To Boston, 10c per 100 pounds on
rosn. SOC on spirits; to New York, rosln,
size per 1ee pounds; spirits SOC.
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GRAIN. PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York Dec. 6.-Flour quiet and
shade lower. Rye flour, quiet Corn meal,
Wheat, spot. easy; No. 2. red 971Rc f. o.
D. Options opened easy under bearish sta
tistics and weak cables, rallied on foreign
buying and local covering, broke sharply
under Shows increase of lA per cent of
the winter wheat are and unloading, and
closed ssql5e lower; May closed 917sc
Corn, spot, steady; No. 2, 1880. Options
opened steady, advanced on decrease in
the visible supply figures and local stocks,
eased Off Slightly with wheat, and closed
unchanged; May, 3S1gG3S7sc closed, 391sc;
nal; No 2, 26laG26s4c Options were dun
but very steady all day, closing 1sG14c net
higher; May, 27Ac; December 25l3c. Hay,
meats, steady. Lard, steadier; western
steam. $3.50 Pork, quiet Rice steady;
Japan, 5hc. Molasses, quiet Cotton seed
l8lsc; prime summer yellow, 221ac; off
summer yellow, 2l1gc. Coffee, options
opened steady at an advance of 15M20
points, closed steady at a mel gain of 10d
20 points; sales. 21,GC0 bags. including De
cember, 575d5 .S5c; March, 5.95d6. O0c; spot
Rio; firm; No. invoice, 67sc; jobbing, &c;
raw, strong; fair refining. SSsc; centrifu-
gal 96-test, 37s@3 15-16c; refined, firm. Bnt
ter, armi western creamery, 14II23c fac
tory III NC; Cheese, quiet; large white,
TENDER, sa9Ac; large eoiored, September
Sh4S12c; small colored, September, $685. C ;
large, late made, 7l3cs small, late made.
8A@Slac light skins, 606lac; part skins
412G6c full skins, 304c.
Chicago, Dec. 6.-AlI the grain and pro-
vision markets were quiet and compare
lively narrow to-day. May wheat opened
lower and advanced, but broke badly on
very liberal seeding estimates and closed
&c lower Most of the statistical news
favored low prices. Corn and oats were
unchanged at the close, while provisions
showed small advances.
The leading futures ranged as follows,
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing
Wheat No
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JOHN 6. BUTLER,

DEALER IN
Paints. Oils, and Glass, Sash. Doors.
Blinds and Builders Supplies, Plain and
Decorative Wall Paper, Foreign and Do
nestle Clements, Lime. Plaster and Hair.
Sole agents for Asbestine Cold Water
Paint. r
20 Congress street west ana 10 ST. Julian
street west.
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Pat-Biddy darlint, there's bin ter
rible railroad accidental poor divll had
his head cut off an his body was frown
fifty feet
Biddy-Was he kilt / dunno? t
Pat-Sorra a bit does the paper shtate
whether he was or no.-Judge.
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Ocean Steamship Co
FOR
New York, Boston
AND
THE EAST.

Unsurpassed cabin accommoda lions.
All the comforts of a modern hotel
Electric lights. Unexcelled table Tickets
include meals and berth aboard shin.
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SAVANNAH To nosToN pIRECr.

CHATTAHoOCHEE. Capt. Lewis. WE'D
NESDAY, Dec. s. at 400 p. m.
CITY OF MACON. Capt. Savage. WE'D
NESDAY, Dec. 10. at 1890 a. m.
CHATTAHOOCHEE Capt. Lewis, WE'D
NESDAY. Dec. %, at 400 p. M. -
CITY OF MACON, Capt. Savage. WE'D
NEsDAY, Dec. %. at 1900 a. m.
Steamers leave New York for Savannah
p. m. daily except Sundays, and Boston
for Savannah Wednesdays at IL noon.
w. G. Brewer, Ticket Agent, 80 Bull st..
Savannah Ga.
p. w. Smith, Cont Frt Agt.. Saw. Ga.
r. G. Irrelevant, Agt., Savannah. Ga.
f. II. Hinton, Traffic Manager.
Jno. M. Egan. Vice President
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Naval STORES.

Spirits Turpentne-There was good
demand for the days receipts at &c below
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Passenger Fares From Savannah

TO NEW YORK-Cabln. $50; Excursion,
$S2' Intermediate. 81; Excursion. s24:
Storage. $40.
TO BOSTON-Cabin, S22; Excursion. s3s:
intermediate. $17; Excursion, $2s: Steer
age, $1l.75.
10 PHILADELPHIA (via New York;
Cahln, So; Excursion. $35; intermediate.
III; Excursion, $27; Steerage. S12
The express steamships of this line are
appointed to sail from Savannah, Central
SOth) meridian time. as follows:
SAVANNAH To NEW YORK.
KANSAS CITY. Capt. Fisher, TUESDAY,
Dec. T. at 500 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith. WEDNES-
DAY. Dec. 8, at 500 p. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Capt. Daggett, FRI
DAY, Dec 10, at 500 p. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM Can't Burg.
SATURDAY, Dec H. at 400 q. m
GATE CITY, Capt Googins, MONDAY
Dec lS, at 700 p. m.
IALLAHASSEE, Capt. Askins TUES
DAY, Dec, IA, at 500 y. M
KANSAS CITY, Capt Fisher, WEDNES-
DAY. Dec. 10, at Q D. m.
NACOOCHEE Capt Smith. FRIDAY
Dec. H. at 10 D. m.
CITY OF AUGUSTA. Cant. Daggett
SATURDAY. Dec. IS. at II 80 D. m.
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Capt. Burg
MONDAY, Dec. %. at 4 D. m.
GATE CITY, Capt Googins, TUESDAY.
Dec. p, at 1870 p. m.
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RED STAR LINE
For BIufftOn and Beaufort, S. c,

Steamer Doretta will leave wharf foot
of Abercorn Qtthels WHARF street at 3 D.
m. for Button daily except Sundays and
Thursdays. Wednesdays trips extended
to Beaufort. leaving Bluffton Thursdays
at a. m. Returning same day.
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Wheat, No. , -
Key Key :>: :s 81 S.: s. s..
Pee Pc; . "a gl95, 25l4 2gs 2s3
N Oats '' No oo'5e4zS'A z0'S 2SAQ2S% 2S's
P Pee; .55Ss7sa2OA s,sg94g9e31 9osq9o& gS4
0 Mess 81, PORK Or per 6 3 q2s% 2l'' p
Nay u IS F. -, SSs& SSs4 Sc
May May .:. 1870: ~ y 20 4 ise H. e
Short Ribs, per 100 lbs
5 R RSS t5 s.. lie III. t:E E..
Cash quotations were as follows: Flour,
Teat, S21@d$gc; No red ca s5 1S errNSH No
2 corn, 2519d2534c; No yellow corn, 26s4 %
267sc; No 2 oats, 211sc; No. 2whte, I. o. b.,
No. 2 rye, 4674c; No. 2 barley. 26q42c;' prime
timothy seed, $685., mess pork, per bbl.,
$7.S5a7; 40; lard. per 100 lbs, 4.So; short rib
ders (boxed), 4Na5c; short clear sides
G6oxed), 554a5.59c; Sugar, cut loaf, I'M
s45o@4 4o fami SG ss5as Sa VINE wheat fae eey
Ter; No 2, red, 921ac. Corn active; No. 2.
mixed, Naq27Ac. Oats strong; No. 2, mix.
Bacon quiet al $5.65 Whisky, a.is. '-'
St Louis. Mo-, Dec. 6-Flour very quiet
and unchanged. Wheat closed ss0s{c low
err. No. cash. elevator. SEC: track, $3.50
9z3ic; December. &c; January; 931kc; May,
9!Ac: July, S6c: No 2 hard, cash, S5d8JJsc
24lsc; January, 24izc; May, 2624c. oats,
weak; No. ?, cash, elevator, 2O1hc; track,
2119d22c; May, 221bc; No. white, PIC Rye,
firm at 4519c. Butter, steady Whisky
steady at $l.l9. Pork, jobbers lots, stand
ard mess. 1926. Lard, higher; prime.
A.1712; choice, SAP Bacon, and dry salt
meats. quiet, with jobbing sales al previ-
Gus prices.
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COTTON.

Ii was quiet and dull day in the local
spol market. No sales We're reported at
any of the calls. at the Cotton Exchange.
The market at each call was bulletined
closing.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23

the diminutive bobbins, kept constantly
revolving by delicate running gear.
BY means of this machine he solved the
great problem of how to wind the
thread All former efforts to wind the
web had been made after the spider had
spun it, in the way they had wound the
silk of the silkworm. But, the spider 8
web being much finer than that of the
silkworm, every attempt to wind it had
resulted only in hopeless tangle, the
breaking of the thread and finally in ex
hausting the patience of the expert
menter. M. Cachot proposed to let the
spider do the winding.
He caught the end of the web while
it was still attached TO the body of the
spider and fastened it firmly to the bob
bin. Then the machine was gently put
in motion. The spider. finding his web
Keeling away from him, apparently of
its own volition, naturally pulled in the
opposite direction to get away. This
was the crucial point of the experiment.
If the spider pulled with sufficient force
to break the thread, the experiment
would, of course, be failure. To NJ
Oachot's great delight he found that
the spider seemed to enjoy the process,
and did not pull harder than was neces-
sary to keep the web moving. The tiny
thread continued to wind off on the bob
bin until the spider had been completely
deprived of its web. Then another spi-
der and still another were treated in
the same way, until enough thread had
been wound off to fill the bobbin, when
new one was put on the machine and
the process repeated. When sufficient
quantity of the web had been collected
to make thorough test of its fitness for
manufacturing purposes, the thread was
woven into fabric. 1t was found to be
the finest quality of silk, and experts to
whom it was submitted declared it to
possess a particularly high market value.
M. Cachot claimed and received the
reward from the British manufacturers
and has exhibited the new fabric in
many of the large manufacturing cities
of England and the continent, where it
has excited the liveliest interest
M. Cachot has arranged to begin the
manufacture of spiders web silk on a
large scale and has taken a factory in
Paris for the purpose. New York Her
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23

metallic plate. A seismic shock causes
the needle tip TO strike the platinum
rim of the above mentioned hole, thus
completing the circuit and being trans
mitted to the recording instrument in
another building.
This register is a revolving cylinder
which moves by clockwork and makes
one revolution every six hours. A broad
band Of paper cross ruled with heavy
hour lines, between which the space is
subdivided by finer five minute lines,
passes around the cylinder. Pressing
against the moving paper ribbon is a
small arm, tipped with a fountain pen,
which is so controlled by the clock as
to make spiral line upon the record
ing sheet for seven days without
changing. The clock, which keeps
standard time, is connected with the
arm in such manner that the pen is
made to move every hour. thus making
points in the otherwise even line. An
electro magnet on the base of the regis
ter, which is connected with the pen
arm, is connected electrically with the
seismograph. When, therefore, the cir
cult is closed by the needle being Jared
the platinum rim, the vibration is in
dictated by offsets in the spiral line be-
tween those regularly made.
The time of such disturbance is as
certained by counting the hours since
the revolution began, as indicated by
the points regularly made, then the five
minute lines exceeding the last hour
point, and then applying delicately
graduated scale for the seconds and
fractions thereof. Finally any error in
the clock which drives the cylinder is
determined by comparison with a pen
dulum clock which is regulated by tele-
graphic signals from the naval observa-
tory. The duration is indicated by the
number of successive lateral strokes
made in the tracing by the fountain
pen.
This seismograph was invented by
Professor 9. +. Marvin and has regis
tered six earthquakes during its four
years service, that of May 81 being
most pronounced 1t is so situated that
only tremor of the earth itself can
affect it, but although It's utility for re-
cording the time and duration of seis-
mic shocks has been fully demonstrated
it does not indicate their direction, be-
ing in that respect inferior to many in
struments now in use in Japan.
Scientists are anxious to have accurate
seismographs placed in all the observa-
tories throughout the country, believing
that with network of such apparatus,
carefully installed, such phenomena
could be observed upon broader scale
than ever before within the worlds his
tory.-Scientific American.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23
Bacteria In Ink.

DIR. Marpmann of Leipsic has recent.
ly published the results of the micro
scopical examination of 81 samples of
ink used in schools. Most of them were
gall inks, and contained sapropbyte
bacteria and micrococci. Nigrosin ink,
taken from freshly opened bottle, was
found to contain both saprophytes and
bacteria. Red and blue inks also yielded
numerous bacteria. In two instances
DIR. Marpmann succeeded in cultivating
from nigrosin ink a bacillus which
proved fatal to mice within four days.
The presence of these pathogenic organ
isms in ink accounts for the nasty sores
which sometimes result from the scratch
of pen. Chemist and Druggist.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23
Snake Homeopathy.

That like occasionally cures like is IL
Illustrated outside of medical practice.
The means used by the negroes on the
Guinea coasts, the race of Eisower in
Barbary, some fakirs and snake charm
ers in India, the inhabitants of Mozam-
bique and some Kaffirs in South Africa
to secure immunity from snake venom
consist in taking as medicine the ven
ON, either fresh or dried, from the
venom glands of snakes The majority
eat the venom, but in Mozambique the
same result is gained by inoculating
with it, That these peoples really do
make themselves proof against snake
bites in this way seems to be sure be-
yond doubt. Although this method
was made known long ago in Europe by
travellers, nobody seemed to take any
notice Of it until the experiments of
Pasteur and his school had demonstrated
the possibility of utilizing it-Popular
Science News.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23
Street Ice Cream Examined.

An investigation into the nature and
quality of the creams vended on the
streets of London has been made by the
British Institute of Preventive Medi-
cine, with some strange results. The
report shows that such ice cream has
only 26. per cent of solids, the rest be-
ing water, and that the solids consist
Of fats. per cent; of sugar, ~ per
cent; starch, 6 per cent; albuminoids, 4
per cent and mineral matter one-half Of
l per cent. The microscope shows the
presence of various insects legs, straw,
hair, coal dust, wooden and linen fiber,
tobacco muscular tissue. Still worse,
meteorological study reveals in the
street barrow cream "a maximum num-
Der of 7,000,0 900 microbes per cubic
centimetre, while the shops have only
1000, 600 thus reckoned. The character
Of the micro organisms is extremely
mixed, including the bacteria coli COM
NUNS, besides spirille and putrefactive
microbes of various kinds.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
An American Machinist Thinks IL Has
Been Overdone In Germany.

An American Machinist Thinks IL Has
Been Overdone In Germany.
We hear very much in America about
German technical education, and what
a great thing il has been for their re-
cent industrial development. One is
not in Berlin long before he comes into
contact with this feature of Germany's
industrial organization, and so far at
least as mechanical engineering goes,
and especially SO far as it has to do
with the designing of machinery and
the management OF workshops, one gets
the impression that technical education
is somewhat overdone--that too much
dependence is placed upon il and too
little importance is attached to practical
shop experience by those who direct in
dustrial operations.
There are great plenty of men in
the German shops who can make very
profound mathematical calculations and
can present the most beautiful analyses
of mechanical problems; who are filled
with the knowledge of Grashoff and Of
Reuleaux, and because of this are in
trusted with responsibility in positions
where an American shopman, knowing
little or nothing of them, but trained to
rely largely upon his own individual
and inherited skill and store of expert
ence, would make much the better
showing. OF course | do not mean by
this that technical education is detri-
mental, nor in fact anything more than
that here it seems in many cases to be
carried too far.
Many men are met with in the shops
who know lot that is to be found in
books, but nothing whatever of skilled
workshop manipulations, and they seem
to have been deprived of the power Of
acquiring the habit of independent
thought.
There are exceptions, of course, and
do not mean to imply either that
technical education, generally speaking,
has been detrimental here, but it is the
opinion of those whose experience and
observations qualify them to judge of
the matter that there has been too little
of the practical element in it and that
it has not, so far as it relates to the art
of machine construction, been so bene-
fetal as might be supposed, Berlin Let
ter in American Machinist.