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Osaka employs 1900 hands. principally
young girls. Ii Is only in such parts OF
the process as require physical strength
that men are employed or where the
duties to be performed as essentially
mems work. such as soldering tin cases,
wheeling trucks. stocking furnaces, etc.
In his factory the splints are i'm
ported ready cut from the northern
island of the empire. Before being
dipped in the chemical preparation they
are placed in the frames by women,
who become marvelously expert at
their work.
THE woman takes "A number OF
splints between her fingers and prac-
tice o teaches her how many are re-
quired. With a rapid pass of the fin
gers she spreads the splints along a
hin piece OF wood an inc wide and a
foot long. into which have been scored
so shallow grooves at regular intervals.
BY deft manipulation n pass of the
fingers leaves about As duly
filled and with lightning rapidity the
five empty grooves receive their little
stick: then another strip of wood Is SUI
perposed and keeps the lower one in
position. The process IL repeated IS
times and then the frame is full. Thus
$50 splints go to each frame. A very
practiced hand will nh 50 frames IN q
day of 10 hours. and thus earn liz
cents. but in this establishment there
were few who could fill more than 40
frames a day. As in every other de-
partment where the nature Of the CO.
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in Massachusetts, IL not encouraging as
to the future of Americans. He says
that marriages mon American born
reveal a steady diminution of the birth
rate. The cause of this he finds In the
principle of democracy. h develops
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES desire of each per-
son to live his own life for himself. 10
obtain all the pleasure there is In life.
whether Intellectual or material. tie
maintains that as they do not propose
to miss the chances of personal devel-
opment. Americans, or any republican
people. will not burden themselves with
children. He say there Is a poison IN
republican civilization. n the more
intense r-epublicanism becomes the more
acute individualism il. Eventually. he
asserts. this must destroy the race and
its culture. He says republics might
escape this fate II they would submit
to the rule Of science.
Q Perhaps IL is this determination not
to sacrifice any Of the pleasures OF life
for the pleasure of children that Is the
cause of the decline of the birth rate in
France. 1t is more reasonable than the
explanation commonly ~given-that in
the absence of a law OF entail French
parents are led to limit the number OF
their children. The code Napoleon does
not allow a man to leave the bulk OF
his fortune to his Oldest child as In En-
gland. 1t Is hardly reasonable 10 THINK
that in order to bestow an estate on a
single child a man would deny NM
self the pleasure Of rearing a numpe
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the original cover on to the full case,
the woman pushes the latter into q new
cover. and in doing SO pushes out an
empty case. which in its turn as soon
as filed displaces another tenant. rms
work is rewarded at the rate oil oH
cents per 100 dozen. n q very quick
worker may earn % cents.
In the box-labeling room IL Is again
women's work. Each IN has In
front OF her a board on which are laid
a pot of paste and a small pile of labels
face downward. Al her side are the un-
adorned match boxes. A small quantity
of paste is spread on the board, and
then almost more rapidly than the y
can follow the flat brush Is dabbed on
tn the paste. swept across the topmost
label to which IL adheres, h label Is
slapped onto the box. and a rub OF the
finger secures IL I'm its place. The best
women can label 1000 boxes a day.
and while l was noticing n girl my
watch told me that she was doing more
h one a second. but n was the
show worker of the room n on her
mettle. and such rapidly could not be
kept up for long. This work Is paid i
cent per 1000 boxes.
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game. The umpire's duties are to give
all decisions except on first, second and
third bases and the deciding points of
running on such bases. An exception
to this may be made in regard to third
base when any other base is occupied
by a base runner. in which event the
umpire" is to decide all points of play
at that point. Various rules and sec
tions were passed suppressing rowdy-
ism. all of which are too familiar to
be repeated here. Minor changes pro-
that uniformed players must not
occupy seats anywhere among the spec
tators, and that all players must re-
main seated upon the bench, excepting
coachers and a batsman when called
to the bat. The other changes are so
immaterial as to be of no consequence.
President Young has announced as
umpires for the season Emslie. Lynch,
Mcdonald, O'Day. Connolly, Heydler.
Woods, Charles Cushman, Swartwood,
Curry, Charlie Snyder and Ed Andrews.
1t Is said that there were nearly 200 ap-
plications for the positions. Most of
the men mentioned have either served
as umpires before or have held playing
positions in the league. Snyder will be
recalled as Boston's famous old catch
er, and Andrews as Philadelphia's old
time star center fielder, who became
prominently identified with the Players
League revolt, n played in Brooklyn
and Cincinnati. 1t is well nigh impos-
sible to safely predict how the teams
will finish this season, but he who
guesses hat Boston or Baltimore will
finish one. two; New York or Cincin-
natl two, three, will probably be not
far out Of the way. There is a long
season ahead from April 10, and 1t is a
safe assertion that it will not pass
without accident. dark horses and other
factors carrying sufficient weight to
spoil a great majority of predictions.
All hail t the baseball season of 1898!
1t will be a good one.
FRANK BULLARD.
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cupation allows IL. this work Is paid by
the piece at the rate of Sis cents for 10
frames. The women work on the floor,
each In her little penlike compartment,
rallied off by bamboo poles. The Jap
anese woman's attitude at work, in
which she will emain for hours, is to
kneel and sit back on her feet, which
are turned toes inward under her. Each
worker has her box with a supply OF
splints, and a number of frames at
hand. and an overseer comes around
periodically TO count and remove the
full frames. In one room were working
some hundred young girls. some OF
them mothers. with their babes
strapped on their back or crawling
around clinging To the mother and in
nocently impeding her in her work.
After the splints in the frames have
received the chemical treatment and
passed through the drying-rooms-all
his being the work OF men-the match
es again come into the hands of WON
en-, and in the box-flling and boN-la-
beling rooms the visitor Is again
amazed NJ the celebrity Of human I'm
gers. In the boX-hlling room young girls
and women are again sitting on the
fioor in rows. and the small babies re
appear either on the mothers back or
at her side. A rapid worker will fill
400 dozen boxes per day: with unerr-
ing Judgment the delicate fingers pick
up the exact quantity of matches and
with "A shake or two lay them evenly
In the box; then. instead Of replacing
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Dun DOOM eRoNoUNceo.
French Statesman Forsees tho Extinction
of Native Americans.

French Statesman fOrsees tho Extinction
of Native Americans.
From the Washington Star.
! Surely a Frenchman ought to be rec
ognized as an authority. On h question
of a declining birth rate. France is tie
one nation where the birth rate mas
steadily decreased until at last the
deaths outnumber the births. Since
1880 there has been an annual loss OF
something like 10000 population In
France. 1t Is a Frenchman OF science.
Arsene Dumont. who predicts the de-
struction OF the American people. In
the Journal OF the Paris Statistical So
ciety he reports the result OF his study
of the vital statistics Of Massachusetts,.
In spite of the efforts made in New
York and other states. IL Is an exas-
perating fact that Massachusetts, alone
collects Trustworthy M comprehensive
vital statistics. and II il on these NAT
foreign statisticians rely for infoirma-
ton a. to the tendencies OF American
life. Yet Massachusetts, Is hardly rep
r~esentative. She has an
proportion Of foreign born people. ana
hey are more absorbed in the manu-
factures than the people of other states.
The proportion of the two sexes In tnat
state is unlike the proportion OF the
West and South. and many important
conditions are peculiar.
Mr.. Dumont's study OF the birth rate
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Of children. But in order to find q
larger amoun of liberty n pleasure
for himself he might be willing to go
childless.
1t is strange that a French scientist
should dwell on the declining birth rate
Of Massachusetts, and make no refer
ence to that of his own country. At the
beginning of the century there We're 80
births for ach 1000 of population in
France. In 1850 il had declined to q,
and in 1895 to %. At the same time the
birth rate of Germany and Austria re-
manned at 80. that Of England at 80.
and that of Italy had increased from
81 to IS. The decrease Is general
throughout France. and Mr.. Bertillon
says il means the disappearance of the
French people.
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ShELvEO BY THE SENATE.
Why the Danish West Indies DO Not
Belong to Uncle sam.

From the London Times.
1t was recently in the
Times that certain OF the
United States congress were about to
revive the scheme for ~annexating the
Danish West Indies. This scheme, as
the New York correspondent of the
Times remarks. has been in allegiance
since 1865. The circumstances OF the
project at hat time n of its humil-
iating collapse may not be without in
struction.
At the time Of the civil war the
United States government became sud
denly aware that its Atlantic coast
was in a very unprotected condition.
OF all the islands lying off it's South
eastern shores, the union possessed not
one, and the majority were in the
hands of a power regarded as semi-hos-
tile. To remedy this state of things.
the American government planned the
acquisition of the three islands OF st.
Thomas, st. John and Santa Cruz. gen.
orally known as the Danish West In
dies. An informal proposition was
made by the authorities at Washing
ton. but the conservative government
at Copenhagen refused to hear a word
about the matter. In the end of 1866,
however. a new ministry came into
power in Denmark, and h United
States renewed it's suit. A II of
81. OOO. 900 was made for the three isl
ands. The temptation was great. Den
mark had just emerged from her strug-
gle with Germany, and was bent on
getting new Notifications. Here was
the money ready to hand without the
.disagreeable necessity of taxation.
The Danish government said that the
United States could have the three isl
ands (subject to the consent OF France
in the case OF Santa Cruz. a OF
an ancient treaty. for $4,000, 900. or two
of the islands for e2. 900, 900. After some
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Plague Among indian MONKEYS.

The monkeys i'm the vicinity of Hard
war, India. are said to be seriously affect
ed with the bubonic plague, which they
are supposed to have contracted through
visits to infected rooms in the town OF
Hardwar. The proposed determination of
the monkeys. with a view to putting an
end to the disease SO far as they are con-
cerned might clash seriously with the re-
ligious views of the Hindoos.
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more frequent than ever before. The
nine that weathers these conditions
successfully must be composed of men
who can stand the additional physical
and mental strain.
The public Is always interested in
new blood, and a brief sketch of a few
of the more prominent youngsters may
be died. Pitcher Jacob Jimeson. a
Carlisle ndian signed by Philadelphia,
will perhaps attract the most attention
of any of the new corners. Jimeson Is
a full blooded Indian, a m of the
Seneca tribe Of he IroquOis nation, and
received his experience as pitcher and
all-round player on the Carlisle school
team. He has played with success in
every position in baseball. He is %
years of age and said to be not only a
good ball player, but a man of no little
literary ability. His best ball is said
to be a puzzling drop curve. and his
career will be followed with a great
deal OF interest.
Philip Corcoran Is another promising
'youngster" and a been drafted by
the Cincinnati club. He is a brother
OF Tom Corcoran, the old Brooklyn
short stop, now with Cincinnati. Cor
coran pitched for the Meriden, Conn.
team last year, and has made a most
excellent record in his own state. He
Is said to be cool. with good command
and plenty of speed. He lacks expert
ence in a major league. to be sure. blu
If he stays with Ewing he will get
plenty Of that.
The st. Louis club has drafted a
conner" this year in George +. Gil
patrick of San Antonio. Tex. Gilpat-
rick is conceded to be the crack pitcher
of Texas. Last year he won q out of
% games played. He is % years OF age
and has been playing baseball since he
was the smallest kind of a ~youngster.
IL is believed that in fitzpatrick the st.
Louis club has a pitcher who will de-
velop into a very valuable man.
Eugene DeMontreville, who will this
year play with Baltimore. is also a
'~'youngster," although this Is not his
first year in the league. Two seasons
ago he was found in a minor league,
and suddenly doomed up in the Nation
al league ranks as a sensational in
fielder and heavy batsman. DeMontre-
vile Is "a years old and has been play
ing professional baseball for the last
four years, during which time he has
appeared in Albany, n. Y; Toronto
and Washington. He bats around $50.
and will unquestionably develop into a
very strong man.
William f. Dahlen, who will again
cover short for the Chicago club, Is
also a young man, being about q years
of age. He has been playing ball for
the last ten years or more. though not
professionally all of that time. Arson
picked him up in 1891. Arson and Dab
len did not pull well together. how
ever. with the result that Dahlen has
not been a signal success for a season
or two. hut he is a very young man
and looked upon to develop into one
Of the most brilliant short stops in the
lea pue under Burns MANAGEMENT.
John Clements was for many seasons
a leading catcher for Philadelphia He
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Il feel it my duty to give you a truth
full statement OF what Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
did," writes ]. 8. Collins of Moore, 5. c.
II had a child about two years old that
had the diarrhoea for two months. L
tried all the best known remedies, but
none gave the least relief. When this
remedy came to han / gave IL as di-
rected, and in two days the child was
completely cured" Sold by druggists.
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Batter up" II the imperious COM
mand which every crank. great and
small. is now awaiting with feverish
interest. hardly surpassed 10y that
which preceded the report OF the
Maine" board of inquiry. The small
boy IL already laying plans how %
pre-empt his favorite mot hole: the
large boy is carefully sizing up the
chances of sickness among his rela-'
tives. or funerals among his friends CD
which will give him afternoons OFF.
while the wholly mature, but none the
less enthusiastic boy" IL already al
lowing many Of his thoughts to center
upon the bleachers or in the grand
stand. where IL is his wont to sit sea-
son after season and cheer his favor
ties on in their struggle for the pen
nant.
1t Is a strange season when predic-
tons are not numerous that This sea
sons struggle for the pennant bids fair
to be closer and more exciting than
ever before and while II would in
deed be an exciting struggle which
would ~outpoint the finish of last year.
IL does not seem that this years con-
test between Boston. Baltimore, Cincin-
natl and New York ought to create
more interest than has ever before been
known. Considering league teams. OF
the -four above mentioned, we find Bos-
ton with practically the same team
that won the p%ennant last year. All
of the old players are still with Boston
and to the list have been added sew
eral young and very promising players,
prominent among whom are Hickman
and Willis. both of whom are pitchers;
and If either one of these two should
fulfill Manager Selee's expectations. or
IL Pitcher Sullivan should regain his
old time form this year. Boston's
ahanna for the nannanf for lAgS would
appear to be very bright. In Tenney.
Lowe. Long and Collins on the infield.
and Duffy. Hamilton n Stahl in the
outneld. Boston has players Who are
hard to excel. Martin Bergen Is slated
for the buik of the catching his year.
while of course to Nichols. Lewis and
Klobedanz viii fall most of the work
in the box.
The Baltimore nine will present quite
a different front han IL did last year.
There will be McJames. DeMontrevllle
ami McGann. who have been secured
from Washington, in exchange for
Amole. Reitz and Doyle. The deal has
probably strengthened Baltimore. yet
IL largely depends on how Mccain
turns out at first. McGann Is a hard
hitter, a fair base runner, but a rather
slow infelder unless he has greatly
changed since his trial with Boston.
He is not the baseman or general play
er that Jack Doyle Is, but Doyle was
a disturbing element in the Baltimore
nine and Hanlon had To let him go.
New York has beer strengthened by
the addition OF Hartmann, who will
play at third. and Grady, who will be-
hind the bat. joyce is slated to play
first base as well as TO captain the
team. The team Is relying chiefly upon
It's pitching staf to win the p~annant.
However. and II the men hold out. there
is no question of their doing tremen
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CHEAP LABOR IN JAPAN.
Marvellous Work by Women In IA Match
Factory.

From the Manchester Guardian.
In his export to the foreign office on
the subject of commerce In Japan By
ron Brennan says: 1T is perhaps i'm a
match factory that the advantages of
cheap labor can best be seen. Osaka
and Kobe are the centers of this IN
dustry. which employs some 1900 per-
sons. Nearly the whole process Is done
by hand, and the cost of making ma
chimes chiefly resolves itself into a
question of wages. A large factory at
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CannIbaii.m Amonv I..b.ssrs.

HOLSTERS cannot be persuaded to grow
up together p~eaceably. IL a dozen newly
Matched specimens are put into an aqua
rum. within a few days there Will be
only one-a large. fat and promising
youngster.
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SIMPLE CATARRh CURE

have spent nearly Fifty years in the treatment
~ Cnt.rrh. and have effected more cures thsn any
.eD>~ialisf In the history of medicine. As must
<.roo retire from active life. j viii. from this time
- eend TIE means Of treatment and cure ~ used
~ nv practice. Free and post paid 20 every reader
- this paper who suffers from this losthsome.
Ilsngerous and disgastiag disease This sa sin
<drezs. PROFEsSoR
]. 4. lawrence, ~ W. 32d ST., New York.
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baptist Churches.
FIRST CHURCH.

Whoever goes to DR.. Cooper's church on
Sunday next will certainly not be disap-
pointed at the quality Of the music to be
heard there. The congregation have good
cause for the boast that Is made that the
church has one OF the best quartette
chofrs in the South. The programmes are
here given:
Morning-Orertory in G., organ. Ba-
tiste): AS It Began to Dawn fBuck); The
Day of Resurrection Vogrich); postlude
In C. organ fWhlting).
Evening-Easter hymn. by Novello. ar
ranged for organ by Armstrong; Christ
Our Passover Shepperd): I Am He that
IAveth Uling); postlude In G (Whiting).
Choir-Mrs. Volney Bennett. soprano;
Mrs. George w. Bethel. alto; Captain f.
w. Cunningham. tenor: Mr.. III. I. Car
doza, bass; Mr. Leslie +. Watson, organ
list and director.
SECOND CHURCH
This church has always been noted for
the excellence OF its music. A very nne
programme has been arranged ana IL
sure OF en- artistic Interpretation.
Morning Service-Organ professional
voluntary, He Is Risen cShilling) Doxol-
ogv: invocation: Lords Prayer chsnted
nrst hymn; Scriptures; anthem, IT'S
Easter Day Crowley; Scriptures; prayer
offertory. God Hath Appointed a Day
(Tours); second hymn; sermon; thirc
hymn; organ occasional.
Eyening Servfce-Organ professional
voluntary. Christ Is Risen. Pilgrims
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known steamboat engineer, had peen
drowned, and that his body was caugnt
in a drifting shad seine about twenty
miles down the river. He was IN ru
ton about week ago, and his irenos
told him OF the rumor. and congratuiateo
him on being alive. Mr.. Kersey request
ed the writer to state that ne ~ not
dead.
The condition Of Mrs. Thomas Grace
who has been very III for some time
has reached an alarming state. and little
hopes are entertained OF her recovery.
Little Johnny Grady. the you've son OF
Mr.. John Grady, OF Louisiana street, was
quite badly hurt last Monday while play
ing ball with his young playmates. one
of the boys, I'm his endeavor TO bat the
hall failed TO connect with the sphere,
and little Johnnie, who was near by. was
accidentlly struck under the eye WIN the
bat, which left a gaping wound
Baseball teams, composed OF members
Of the Fulton Social and Athletic Cluh
play match games on the X. 10. Lee
Grounds every Saturday evening. ana
from the large crowds that attend svi-
dence Is given that the sport Is not des-
tined to die out.
Mr. Thomas Einnegan Is the recipient
OF a letter from the Secretary OF the
Navy, In answer TO one sent Tor inior-
nation pertaining to the interest OF
serving his country In the event OF war
with Spain.
Mr.. r. Martin is critically III at his
hons on Denny street.