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LITTLE FOLKS OF REED0M
SEARCHING FOR HONEY DEW,

Farmers are not The only ,srsoa. ~.
watch anxiously IL the summer sktsp b.
sunny or stormy. with the soul-s.nkns Snat
comes of fear IL their whole year, labor
is threatened by that powerful abstraction.
the weather.
Right at his door-or, TO be s1ao3. in hi.
GaTden-is a great community, which de-
ponds more surely than he upon the turn OF
the TN rooster on the barn roof for tn.
necessaries of life. This IS q collection of
monarchles whose sovereigns have no power
to save II the cock faces too often to the
east. as he has done this season all through
the Middle West.
AND the Httle folk OF Beedom are starving
by the millions in the midst OF a paradise
cI r!oIoUs clover blooms and fragrant buck
wheat flowers. To paraphrase the old line,
tEer. is Honey. honey verywhe and not
q drop to drink" And all this famine and
consequent high death rate among the bee
workers because the heavy rains rave
washed the pollen and honey dew from the
flowers.
The denizens Of the bee world may be
compared TO a family OF reduced GENTLE
women. whose pantry shelves are stored
vIth rare Old ChiHa-Sevres. Royal wor-
cester ana -okv.ood-but destitute OF pro-
visions The bees fly distractedly over their
empty larders and the gay tints Of their
thousands OF lovely but uneatabIe flower
cups must be only d despair: they search In
vain for the sweet necessaries Of life and die
Of h1ager In the midst of plenty. Only the
plenty has gone down the streams of the
foods. leaving tragedy and desolation be-
hind.
And so next fail. when the unthinkiuz
head Of the commissary department. goes
down TO do her marketing. she will hold IN
her hands in horror over the scarcity and
sky scrapinS price OF the golden honey
cakes for her table. and all unknowing the
history OF the Ercat delu2e, will wonder
Grossly Why IN the world a body can't
get decent honey any more at a decent
price. There must be n honey trust"
And the honest gentlemen whose artistic
business it is to manufacture 'the genuine
article out Of glucose and other things win
find no trouble in securing all the corpses
OF bees they need to intersperse casuaIIy
through the spurious product. whereby 70
people Of the genuineness of tbs
aamA
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Special Correspondence o, The Sunday Republic
Bloomington, Ill. Aug. 15.-Stil standing
in all the grandeur OF q monarch OF the for
est, IS a noble oak tree which IS deeply VEN
Grated in this city because OF historical as
sociations. Under the oaks ranches Abra-
ham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas en-
gagged in a political debate IN 1858. The tree
stands in the yard Of e. NJ. Bowen. It gp-
pears to be centuries old. In 1883 the tree
marked an Enclosure than known as Hin
shaw's pasture, a former public meeting
place. George Hinshaw. the owner vas a
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that the men were not doing halt work.
The masons were laying only $50 bricks a
day. and upon his directing. he was told
that $50 bricks were the tale required of
each man by the London County Council.
Mr.. Stewart ted the men that they ought
to lay as many as 1900 bricks a day. and
they laughed at the idea. BY pushing and
by rewards ne at last got them up to an
average OF 500 bricks a day. but there
stopped. He then imported some Ameri-
can masons and set them working beside
the English laborerl The Americans easily
laid from 1850 to $3.50 bricks daily. and
the Engiishmen. who we're too proud to be
beaten by the "blarsted Yankees" put on
a squirt and did equally well. Stewart in
creased the pay according to the work. and
there was no objection from the trades
unions. The Griaklayers kept UP their hus-
Ting from that tine on TO the end. and the
result was tia he got an average ~ 200
bricks daily out CT each OF them.
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Democrat Hs arranged - hxve xe
debate there. being IN a6nfrsv o<
DorElaG The Two cadidates FOR
United Soates Senator had engaged
Fl g series OF debates and shs ono
held in Bloomington attracted votrs<<rom
far and near. A platform for the oen61-
dates was constructed directly UNDER the
bouEhs of this old oak. It's shade protested
the audience as web as the speakers Only
three men are now living in B~looatnston
who heard the famous orators. Thsy ara
John Dawson, Adam Guthrie and W. q. De-
nav
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Quadrupled Product of
Steel and Iron Works.

lie pushed the carpenters n much the
same way and by the Use 90 automatic ma
C.iLe,y qua1rUp Ell the p-uuuct OF has stetl
and lion works. To MAKE n long story
short. he put Up ali the buildings in the
time he had contracted for and made il
reputation for himself as a wonder among
the contractors of England. He is still in
the country and has been asked to take
charge Of the building of the Midland Hotel
in Manchester. This hotel was begun be-
fore the LAYING of the foundations of the
Westinghouse works. but little or no prog
ress has been made upon ii. The Midland
Railway wants the work rushed. and they
have given the charge of 1t over to Stew
art. Mr.. Stewart gays that there is no
trouble in handling English labor If YOU
do il after the American methods of pay
ing big wages and of insisting that Il be
done your own way.
These Westinghouse works are shaking
the ghosts Of feudalism. They stand upon
the old Trafford estate. which has been cut
up to make n builGing site for them. The
Trafford estate has been in one family for a
thousand years. 1t consisted Of 1000 acres
and is known as Trafford Park. Ralph
Trafford held 1t at the time OF the Norman
conquest. and as you stand in the Westoing-
house buildings. you can plainly see the old
ancestral hall. which was erected when
Queen Elizabeth reigned. looking out of the
trees. Sir Edmund Trafford was knighted
by Henry VI. it may have been because the
King thought he had discovered. as he
claimed. the secret of the philosophers stone
which would turn everything 1t touched in
to gold. However. this may be. the Traf-
ford family has been a rich one throughout
the generations and 1t has. 1 understand.
other valuable estates outside this to-day.
How Hooley Made Three Million
Dollars Out of Trafford Home.
In the past few years. however, the e
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with HIS family and started for America
The father and mother died while crossing
the Atlantic Five children. of whom four
were daughters, were left unprotected. The
Oldest was II years old. The children be-
cana separated On reaching country.
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Mr.. O'Brien did not meet his sisters for
more than thirty years.
Mr.. o'Brien's son. Attorney William H.
O'Brien. visited Ireland last winter and had
photographs taken of his parents homes.
He took tea In the house in which his
mother was born. She died In 1893.
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Michael o'Brien. father OF the Reverend
}. J.. oBrien, pastor Of st. Margaret's
Church. was recsntiy made the happy pos
SCISSOR Of a picture OF the house in which he
was born. and also OF the house in which
his wife was born, both Of which are in
r->iaaA
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The O'Brien home. IN County Limerick, Is
In ruins. The walls were built OF stone, with
a matched roof.
The birthplace OF his wife IS In the Coun
ty Tipperary, Ireland. Her fathers name
was Rrisrisy. Ths house In which abe vs1
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ETIOTETTE POINTS Defined by an PM TTF REHiVT0R
LII lUli LII Authority on | ULlIu DuuhTIUlt

you TO 20 to a notei where you WIN BE-
likely to meet some friends. Tbs chances
are that II you are modest. well behaved
and Of preSentable appearance you Will
make the acquaintance Of some Of the peo-
pie in the hotel before the summer 10 ovor,
but there IS no certainty OF that, 30 that
you would better take the trouble before
going to try to secure q letter Of innsroduc-
ton to somebody who Is to be there and
who viii vouch for you. Promiscuous 40
~quantipces are not desirable.
Can a lady wear a low nechsH ana saos
sleeved dress-a regular evening dreks-os the
made so transparent about the shoulders thas
they might Just as well bs low nscksd, but I
have not seen IN This country any rsai bali
dresses at the theater. FORE10NER-
No. il Is not fashionable IN this country
for ladies to wear evening dress At tia
theater. II Is only within the last two or
thros years that It has been fsshionneas 10
wear as elaborate gowns to the theater a.
are now In style. There must be Lace over
the shoulders and arms of any gown wsrn
at the theater.
Aro any flowers fsshienabls 10 wxsr b o.
street? Is a corsage bouquet Of rossz quats sut
OF date with q thin muslin dress7
COUNTRY Cr1k
1t Is not fashionable for ladies' In v,ap
flowers in their street gowns during The
spring and summer. or even in winter.
lunches Of vio!ets arc worn, but roses are
not considered fashionable, nor are any port
OF corsage bouquets in style.
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born Is also Of stone. It 10 still occupied.
but by strangers. The only change In the
house is that the matched roof has given
placed to a corrugated one.
Mr.. oBrien IL 60 years old. He was but
10 ysars old whsn his father lsfs Ireland
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Of Sir Humphrey de Trafford became Grip
pied by eXtravagances of various kinds
and he sold his ancestral home, so It is
said, to pay debts of honor. AZ any rate
it came into the hands OF Hooley, the mush-
room millionaire. who made a fortune in
floating companies in association with Lords
and Dukes. whom he bought by the score
at so many Guine2s per head for the use
of their names Hooley paid about 5000 ol
for the property five years ago and later
on sold 1t to the Trafford Park Company
for 100000. making a cool 10000 out
of the operation.
The Trafford Park Company still owns
the most of the estate and 1t was from
them that the Westinghouse Companv
bought the land for their shops. They
nave $50 acres. and. therefore, plenty of
room for expansion.
Other shops have sprung UP on other
parts Of the park. for the place IS specially
htted fer manufacturing. It is tust on the
edga of the sister cities of Manchester ard
Salford, which have a population of 500 0l
and is in the most thickiy settled part OF
industrial England. The park borders up
on the Manchester ship canal. so that the
factories within it have a water route TO
TIE sea. The country about it IS grid
ironed with railways, and machines can be
shipped 10 every part Of Great Britain.
There is no doubt in my mind but that a
$3.50 WIZ '' ~ I'll
the next few years in Great Britain in all
sorts of electrical undertakings. The coun-
try is just on the edge of its electrical de-
velopn1ent. but * is growing so rapidly in
this respect that the factories cannot keep
pace with =. In 1887 the aggregate capital
employed in electrical industries was about
SOD.CIr.G on. and this has now increased to
almost $500, coo. 600.
Electrical Enterprises Pay
Handsome Dividends.
There are, / am told, about 1.Jb) different
electrical enterprises in the United King
dom and these during the year 1900. paid an
average dividend of ~ per cent. Great
Britain and America together have 1900
miles OF electric car tracks. and OF these
only 900 belong to Great Britain. Still this
country has almost as many largo towns as
we have. It's people live In towns and the
most of them In towns large enough 20
have electric cars. The towns are situated
close together and in the future the whole
country will be covered with a network OF
electric lines as though by a spiders web.
The field of electric lighting is also great.
Very little of It is found in private houses,
and the municipalities will eventually sup
ply electric lights to their citizens at q
moderate profit. Fifteen million dollars
worth of loans were sanctioned by Parlia-
ment for such lights in 1900. and in the two
years preceding the total loans authorized
amounted to more than s0,00).oo Of
So far the chief establishments for maxi
ing electrical supplies here nave originated
in or have been backed by the United
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Company Has a Capital of
Ten Million Dollars.

OF all the electrical works. however, the
British Westinghouse Company has by far
the greatest. 1t has put more money into
its business. and is doing everything on the
largest scale. Its capital Is S10.000,0Go. and
it Is already paying 6-per-cent dividends on
its preferred stock. l get this from a state
ment made by Mr.. George westinghouse at
a meeting of the shareholders in London
not long ego. In his speech he referred first
TO the wonderful prosperity of the Pitts
burg works. which had paid 7-per-cent div
idends right along on a capital of 2O.0O.00
ard at the same time accumulated a sur
plus. He said that the British company
during the last year had made enough to
give the preferred stockholders 6 per cent
and in addition n surplus oc 10000. This
had been done although AL the orders had
To be executed In America, and, now that
the works in Great Britain were in opera
ton. the profits should be much larger.
In this speech Mr.. Westinghouse spoke Of
the gas engines which were being made in
the United States and which will be also
turned out here in Manchester. He believes
that gas, rather than steam. is to be the
future motive power. and is making simple
gas engines at P~ittsburg which will furnish
a. high as 25o horsepower.
am told that the wsrks here are already
loaded with contracts, among which are
some OF the largest ee1.-4ots ever issued.
Ont Is the TRANSPORTATION OF the Mersey
Tunnel Railway at 1vsTpool from steam to
electricity. and others are the power-houses
and equipment Of the enormous railroad sys-
tenn of underground London. The metropol!-
ran roads,. which are headed by AIR. Yerkes,
wifi have sixty-oine miles of double lines.
and the District Railway. which runs out
side Of these. Will have thirteen miles of
doubts lines. the cars OF both companies run
the other. FRANK @. CARPENTER.
Copyright. 1902 by E. G. Carpenter)
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Some time nEo I was foolish enough 70 intro
Guce a very young gentleman to a married lady
Of my acquaintance. Since then. the lady has
obtained a divorce from her husband and be-
come engaged to the young gentleman whom I
presented to her. HIS mother. who seemed from
the very first to entertain some absurd prejudice
against the lady in question Cwho. By the way,
possesses charm OF manner and the highest
charactcr>. knows nothing OF this engagement.
and her son has asked me to break the news 10
her during his absence on a vacation. This I
do not care to do. as she knows TINT It was I
who introduced her son TO his fancee. VIII you
kindly tell me how I am to do this with the
TRUTH SEEKER
To impart such news through Il letter
would scarcely be kind. If you really have
the interests of the persons N heart. it
would be better for you to request a per-
sonal interview witt the mother OF tho
young gentleman: but. after all. II IS enc
Of those cases In which It IS scarcely wise
for & third person TO interfere. The oaiy
honorable thing to DO is for the young man
to break the news 20 mis- mother himself.
After all. 1t is not any one else's affair. and
your interference wouli probably lead cuiy
to disagreeable complications for yourself.
and certainly will s9arceiy be of any service
in the matter.
VIII you kindly answer this question in your
Sunday issue? What IS the proper form of word
lIE u WtuusIg announcement wren tue LFlUe Il
not to be married at home: In explanation.
would say that the bride and bridegroom will
both be many miles from their own homes"
and the marriage Will be by a stranger Tn 4
strange land" hence the ordinary announcements
given out by the brides parents Goes not apply.
Should the CITY where tie marriage occurs DE
mentioned7 Should full names be used2
". W. r..
Unless there Is some reason why 1t IS de-
sired not TO mention the brides parents,
the wedding announcement can read in the
same way as usual, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
announce the marriage OF their daughter,
Alice Maude Smith, to Mr. John Edward
Jones. on Wednesday. July IL" If the
brides parents are not living. the announce
ment can be made in the name of n sister.
a brother, or any near relative. The fact
that the bride and bridegroom will not live
where the marriage takes place makes no
difference whatever in the accepted worl-
ing Of the announcement. IT is simply 4
formula that has been used for some time.
II. for any reason, It Is not desired TO men
tlon the name of any relative. the announce
meIt may read. Mr.. and Mrs. john Id
ward Jones announce their wedding 81
Sacramento. Cal. on Wednesday. JJlv Sc
and then the bride $ card. Tearing nor
maiden name. should Ire enclosed. The fgIl
names ii 10th bride ard bridegroom s.t.r!I
be use6 in the announcement. az It IS the
fashion at present TO use the fuil n.u:c On
all cards.
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Work of Yankee Contractor and
His English Employees.

The Westinghouse Company thereupon
went to America for its builder. They
chose a smooth-faced stocky contractor
named Stewart. who had made a reputation
for quick work in Pittsburg. Chicago and
New Orleans. They Shove him the plans
and told him that they wanted the build
ings completed within fifteen months. Mr..
Stewart replied that he could do it, and he
put the plans in his left breast pocket and
started for England. He hac never crossed
the ocean before, but this did not reeZe
him. He took a corps Of Yankee assistants
with him to use as superintendent and
settled down IN a little hotel outside the
works. He had only Z6 men when
he began, but four weeks later his force
numbered 2,500. and by advertising extra
wages he got the best of the English brick
layers and carpenters for miles around to
work on his job. His men kept a record Of
what each hand did. and the prospect of
completing the building was daily esti-
mated by the amount being done.
He soon saw that he must get more work
out of his men or the buildings would not
be completed in time. He was surprised
at the poor results obtained in comparison
with what he had been accustomed to in
the United States, and It seemed to him
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States. All the companies are under Brit
ish names. and tEey use to a large extent
British employees. although more or less
Americans are connected with all Of them.
The British Thomson-IOuston Company IS
closely associated with the General Elec-
trio Company of New York. 1t has just
finished building large electric works at
Rugby at a cost of more than 100000. The
Dick. Kerr * Co. makes electrical supplies
at Preston, near Liverpool. It has bought
the Walker patents, AMI has Professor Sid
ney Short. who was manager of the Walker
combination in the United States, at its
head. In addition to these, there are many
smaller electrical companies which are en-
tirely British. but the bulk Of the electrical
machinery used here in the future will be
made in the works originated by the Ameri-
cans. The people here want American ma
ch!nery. and even the engineers of the mu-
inequalities frequently stipulate in their con-
tracts that their engines. cars and dynamos
shall be of American make.
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How should a letter OF Introduction b. asked
for? Must tac.e have been some previous ac-
quaintance to warrant il or can the c.ergy,ren
of the parish furnish 1t? Is it a good plan. when
taking UP a residence in a new city. to t.k-
letters Of intr1Guctiln. especially from ones
clergyman TO tile other clergyman. and is 4; best
TO join tie church az once? SOCIABLE-
You should ask for letters Of introduction
only from PERSONS who know you and v,hc
are willing to 1--we them. IL is always well.
In going to a strange place. to have letters
OF introduction from your clergyman to
the clergyman Of the parish you intend 20
become a part Of Social introductions
nowadays are not likely to come through
church work 50 much as was formerly ,ls
case. nut undoubtedly are Of service. to a
certain extent. IN other words. IL is as
srrarce OF your staining and OF the fact
t!;at you are AIS WI if you have a lette~
fioTn your own clergyman.
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am n young man and a comparative stranger
In the North. When my vacation comes. next
month. 1 intend 20 go 10 some fashionable hotel.
VIII you kindly inform me Of any way in which
! can made the acquaintance OF the ladies in
the hotel. as l knew 1 should find It very lone
some If 1 did not have any one TO speak to-
DIXIE.
It is much more difficult IN these days to
make acquaintance at summer hotels than
in the days when IL was more fashionable
to go to them. If you have any letters of
introduction. or If 1t is possible for you TO
secure any. 1t world be better to have them
at hand: but still better would IT be for
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employees. and the workmen Will probably
be the envied OF their kind in the British
Isles. The buildings have cost, so 1 am
told. about 100000 and the machinery
within them about 100000 more.
An American Town in the
Heart of England.
When these works are in full operation
they Will employ about 5000 hands. and a
town built on the American plan is growing
up there to house them. y building COM
pany entirely independent of the electric
company has been formed. and this COM
pany now owns 80 acres of land adjoining
the works. 1t has laid out a town just as
we lay out our towns in the West. The
streets are in regular blocks, and they are
marked by numbers The ordinary British
street has no, name that indicates its loc2-
tion. and the people here are surprised at
this settlement of First street. Second
street, Third street and .'curJh street
and of numbered avenues. About 5000
buildings are to be erected am
about COO are under roof. The houses
are called cottages. but they are in reality
little two story bricks of from four 20
six rooms. built in blocks. Each house
has its bath and it's electric light. wn.cl
are quite curiosities in workman's dwellings
in England. The houses Will be rented 1T
cheap rates to the Westinghouse men. but
there will be no compulsion, and any man
can live where he pleases.
The town COMPANY expects to put up n
large hotel for commercial travellers. and
will also have schools and club buildings
and recreation grounds. I understand thai
a number Of Americans have stock in the
company and that some have bought land
adjoining the town. expecting to grow licn
off the increased values created by The
Westinghouse works.
The rapid construction of this factory has
been a miracle to the English. The job was
offered to the local contractors on the con-
d,tion that It should be finished within
twenty months. The Englishmen replied
that no man living could put up buildings
like these in less than five years.
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IT TIT EMIT IND, Frank G. Carpenter Says American MIionarss Industrial
N LIN UNUuAID. Palaces Seemed to Sprng Up n a Night
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sm-Trafford Park, Out of Which Hooley Made

Growth of Electrical Enterprises Shakes the Ghosts of F~eudarsm-Traf
Three Million Dollars.