Mexico Missouri message., 1901-03-14
AMERICAN EXPORTS.
ODD ARTICLES SENT ABROAD
FROM THIS COUNTRY.
American Wood Cutting Machinery Used
In Northern sweden-Iankee Pumps
LIT Water from tho Jordan to Sci
to European Churches.

There is no civilized land in the
world and few savage ones where evil
dence of American ingenuity and skill
do not confront the traveller on every
side. Up in the north Of Sweden trains
of reindeer are drawing American
wood-cutting machinery to points not
far distant from the North Cape. The
machinery has to be hauled hundreds
OF miles over the plains of snow, but
the shrewd Swedish lumbermen have
found that its use almost doubles their
profits. Again puntas Neras in TERRA
del Fuego Is the most southerly CONT
mental spot on the globe. The impor-
tant lighthouse there is equipped with
electric machinery manufactured with
in few hundred miles of New York
City. Some of the schemes devised by
the cnterprising Yankee are so daring
that they might have been almost sac
rilegious in less practical age. A
large consignment of steam pumps was
lately shipped to the East. Their des-
tination was the Jordan. Formerly
pilgrims with an eye to the main
chance had found it profitable to Sc
cure calabashes of water from the sa-
cred river and sell their contents to
churches and converts to be used as
holy water. A wideawake American
saw his opportunity. He devised a
steam pump of convenient size, Il num-
Der OF which were set up at suitable
points along the banks of the Jor N.
The result was a profitable business in
retailing to the churches all over Eu-
rope. Al lin, American devices are
finding their way into the vatican it,
self. The sovereign pontiff has recent
ly been our customer for a fiashlight
apparatus, which stands by his couch
and can be ignited at any moment dur
ing the night by pressing button.
Tradition has assigned to Bagdad the
honor of producing the most celebrat-
ed of lamps. But New York house
has superseded Aladdin and his genii.
The lamps are of fanciful pattern, and
are decorated with devices often more
pleasing to the eye of the oriental than
the morals of the asCetic. They a"e of
simple design operating without a
chimney, on the principle of the blast
furnace. They are conveyed to a pc mt
on the Persian gulf, from whence they
are hauled over 30 miles of desert on
camel back. They are then transferred
to RATS and towed a hundred miles up
the Euphrates, where they are again
loaded on Camels. which convey them
to their destination. two hundred miles
from the river. These lamps are quite
the thing in the orient. Among the
residences that they decorate are the
palaces of the sultan of Morocco, the
prince of Siam and several rajahs in
British India. In India, too, it looks as
though at no distant date the punka
will be a thing of the past. and the
punka walla seeking a new job. A de-
mand for electric fans Of the more up
to-date of the native princes, little
sultan in Borneo in particular having
laid in a considerable supply. The
torrid climate of India opens up a
number of opportunities for American
enterprise. Nor does the ancient land
of Egypt turn up its nose at our new
tangled contrivances. The supply Of
Images in the pyramids having run
rather low, owing to the depredations
of curio hunters, an American firm has
been filling up the vacancies with most
interesting and antique appearing little
statues. AS matter of fact, they are
manufactured by a new patent process
from various condiments. but they look
so like ancient stone that they would
deceive any but an expert Egypt ap-
pears to be getting frisky in its old age
IN American merryg o-round Of the
Coney Island type has recently been
set up at Cairo. 1t is largely patro-
nized by the Arabs, who cut fine fig
ure in their snowy burnooses bestrid-
ing the green and gold tigers and ele-
phants.--T. G.. Knox, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.