The Portland daily press., 1900-11-21

try, ana there is a call for more. Anoth.
or article considered Indispensable In
many parts OF this country, mosquito
curtains, Is becoming popular In the east,
ana lArxs consignment has recently
been shipped TO syria
Nor does the ancient land OF Egypt
turn up Its nose at our new tangled cob
| trivnncss. The supply Of images In the
pyramids having run rather low, owing
| 70 the dspredations OF curic hunters, an
American nrm has been filling up the
vacancies with most interesting and an
tlqus appearing little statues, AS
matter offaot, they are manufactured
| BY new process from various oondi-
fnents but they look 80 like ancient stone
that they would deceive any but an ex-
pert. Egypt appears to be getting risky
| In Its old age. An American merry-go-
round OF tbs Coney Island type has re-
Gently been sst up at Cairo. 1t is large-
Iy patronizsd by the Arabs, who cut q
| fine figure In their snowy burnooses be-
striding the green and gold tigers and
elephants. II is driven BY steam, and It's
music is the same old American ragtime.
Another country which has become
customer for American merry -go-rounds
Is Spain.
But Internationally our most impor-
tant customer In the East u China. The
greater part of the railroad equipment,
engines, rolling stock, rails, all subject
OF the deepest annoyance TO the Boxers.
come from this country. And In this
connection It may DO observed that one OF
the prin cipal reasons that the Chinese
show such q violent hatred Of railroads Is
that they ara afraid that the graves OF
their ancestors, which are scattered
pretty freely over the country and not
confined 70 graveyards, may be disturbed
by the liking OF the ties. An important
and novel recent shipment to China 10
the machinery for wRterworks to be set
mn In the northern part OF the empire
and operated by native labor. This VIII
be O remarkable innovation In country
whose people have hitherto contented
themselves with wells, and not bothered
about typhoid germs.
Manchuria is one OF the most fertile
countries in the world. Seven crops OF
wheat oan be raised In the year at Ger.
tain parts, yet flour for the Russian
troops is being imported. Tne cause OF
this is the completes absence OF modern
-four mills, the Chinese still clinging to
the old, slow and wasteful processes
which they employed 1900 years ago.
However, an up to-date flour mill has
Just been erected In the interior, the
machinery of which Is American. Others
are to follow, and there ia no question
but that at no distant date Manchuria
will feed Its own teeming population and
the Iegions OF the Gar, with considera-
BILE surplus for export.
But the most remarkable testimony to
our mechanical ability comes IN the
form OF an acknowledgment that we are
superior even In matters OF washee-
washee to those whom we are accustomed
to regard as apostles and high priests OF
the science An American firm has
shipped to China the machinery OF
monster laundry plant on which China
men are to be exclusively employed,
where there is no hand labor, ana from
which 5000 pieces are turned out daily at
cost OF one cent piece, whether 1t be
large or small, complicated or simple.
The cost OF the machinery is sac. 900.
Next to China in Importance as mar
ket for American goods comes Japan, but
the cleverness OF the Japanese is an obsta-
ole to extended trade. AS imitators they
have no equal, ana 1t is their custom to
buy few American samples and repro
duce them In large quantities.
In spite of the abuse that has been
poured forth on our beer and the unfavor-
able comparisons that have been institute
ed between ie and the foreign product,
the foreigners apparently see something
in our methods, 1t is not so long since
Mr.. Allsopp, the famous brewer OF Bur-
ton-on-Trent, England, started large
lager beer brewery, IN which American
methods and American machinery were
exclusively employed, and even Germany
hersslf, whose beer Is usually considered
without rival. has recently been import
ing American brewing apparatus and
adopting the system OF Milwaukee. Ger
many, thoroughly wideawake as shs Is
| in matters commercial, has not been blind
to the merits or American methods and
wares. A great deal OF the caviare which
is served a. the tables OF our hotels and
private houses. and fetches hign price
owing to thu belief that 1t is manufac-
tured abroad, really has its birth within
the confines OF the United States, and
having peeu shipped to Germany, Is re.
shipped htther under German label
Germany, too, as well as France and
Italy, Is one OF our customers for oolored
glass, which Is manufactured here by u
patent process, and almost equals in
beauty OF coloring that which adorns tht
old cathedrnls of Europe. Many OF tins
new European churches are equipped witt
this American glass. .
In matters OF the toilet, too, I'VE are / .
the front. Even the Musoovlte, who, IL
we are to believe the picture, should not
have much call for shaving appliano ID,
Is q good customer of ours for BARRIERS
chairs and toilet clippers. France, too
| Is buying our dress shields and our boot
| polish, luxuries which she herself was
| first co devlso, and OF which for many
years shs held the monopoly. Finally,
Australia, which has inng bssn our GUS
toner for axes to chop It's plentiful tim
| Der, has at last turned to America even
for ARTICLES of wood, and Is buying plenti-
| fully of our wooden handles tor tools,
clothespins and golf clubs. Ana II fur
| Their proof of our skill In the manutac-
| ture OF articles of sport were needed than
| the last article all Europe recognizes that