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VOL. XXXI.
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1902.
THB RICHEST OF NATIONS,
Steel Profits And Prices.
Associated Press, Washington. 1
The standing of the United
States with her neighbors, and es
pecially with the nations of Eu-
ropes,is illustrated by some state
ments made by the London Daily
Mail Year Book, a copy of which
has. just reached the treasury - bu
reau of statistics. In its various
Now York World.
General prosperity is certainly
a continuing condition so far as
9ur backbone iron and steel in
dustry is concerned. For the last
nineinonths of 1901 the Steel
Trust’s net earnings were close
upon $85,000,000, This is a fact
of gratifying import. It means
Wasn’t Larger than Carnegie.
chapters it discusses various feat- : bu8i ™ ss ’ '“fi ptoBto.more
<* conditions in the United ^ uplo y. men ‘’ - better ’"«••• for
ures
States. Under the head of Wealth
it placces the United States at
the head of the list of great na
tions, the figures being:
United States, £16,350.000,000.
United Kingdom, 11,806,000,000.
France, 9,690,000,000.
Germany, ' 8,052,000,000.
Russia, 6,425,000,000.
While the United States heads
this list of countries in its wealth,
it shows the smallest national in
debtedness. the figures being:
United States, £ 221,000,000;
Germany, 651,000,009;
United Kingdom. 706,000,090;
Russia, 711,000,000;
France, 1,289,000.000.
The percentage of debt to wealth
is given as: United States, 1.4;
United Kingdam,6; Germany,8.1;
Russia, 11,1; France, 12.8.
Under the head of Commercial
Competion, it says that “the first
year of the twentieth century’
opened badly for two of the four
leading industrial nations. The
trade of the United States was
good and showed no decline from
the booming period of 1899 and
1900, in most industries a contin
uance of [the boom of which the
United States ljas had so dispro
portionately large a share, and
France t which has responded less
expansively to the boom,remained
unaffected by the decline and pro
gress elsewhere. In England and
Germany, however, the decline
was felt acutely.”
Under the head of the “World’s
Wheat Crop,” it shows the United
States far ahead of any other
country in the production of
wheat, with an estimated crop of
720 million bushels in 1901.
Under the head “Fight for the
Iron Trade,” it calls attention to
the fact that the United States is
now the world’s largest producer
of pig iron and steel,and says: ‘It
will be noted .that the United
Kingdom has lost ground, produc
396,749 tons less in 1900 than in
1899, the total for Great Britain
being nearly five million tons less
than in America.’.’
The president is his message to
congress uses language which in
dicates that he recognizes the pos
sibility of a break in the prosperi
ty of which the republicans have
boasted and desires to decrease
the effect of the break when it
does come. “Moreover,” he says,
“no law can guard us against the
consequences of our own folly.
The men who are idle or credu
lous, the men who seek gains not
by genuine work of head or hand*
but by gambling in any form, are
always a menace not only to
themselves, but to others. If the
business world loses its head, it
loses what legislation cannot sup
ply.”—The Commoner.
the capital and labor engaged in
producing American iron and
steel.
In this period of plethoric pro
fits why cannot the great steel
combine afford to be as generous
to American as British buyers of
its products?
It is now selling steel rails, for
example, in England at $22.50per
tou, after paying the railroad and
ocean freights. The ocean freight
alone is $5.11 per ton. So that
American steel rails are really be
ing sold in England at $17 per ton
net.
The American price is $28 per
ton—$11 higher than the English
price. As 2,000,000 tons of steel
rails are consumed in this country
every year, the Steel Trust is col
lecting at least $22,000,000 a year
from its American customers in
excess of what it would eagerly
accept from its foreign customers
for the same quantity of rails.
In view of those $85,000,000 net
earnings in niue months, would it
not be reasonable to take off the
Dingley duty*of $7.84 per ton on
steel rails? That would bring
the American price down to $20
per ton, which would still be $8
per ton more than the trust is
selling them for in England.
Why Young Men Succeed.
One thing that keeps some young
men down is their fear of work.
They aim to find genteel occupa
tion, so they can dress well and
not soil their clothes, and handle
things with the tips of their fin
gers. They do not like to get their
shoulders against the wheels, and
they prefer to give orders to oth
era, or figure as masters, and let
some one else do the drudgery.
There is no doubt that indolence
and laziness are the chief obsta
cles to success.
When you see a boy, who has
ju3t secured a position, take hold
of everything with both hands
and “jump right into his work
as if he meant: to succeed, we have
confidence that he will prosper.
But if he stands around, and asks
questions when he is told to do
anything; if he tells you that this,
or that, belongs to some other boy
to do, or that is not' his work; if
he does not try to carry out hia
orders in the correct way; if he
wants a thousand explanations
when asked to run on an errand,
and makes the employer think he
could have done the whole thing
himself ; one feels like discharg
ing such a boy on the spot, for he
is convinced that he is not cut
out for success.—Exchange.
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Every year a large number of
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Edward Rosewater, founder and
editor of the Omaha Bee, is a mau
of unique personality. He ia
small in statue and speaks in a
low voice, but he is a politician of
most pronounced fighting abili
ties, says the Saturday Evening
Post.
At a hotel in Washington a few
nights ago he was speaking of Mr.
Andrew Carnegie. “Carnegie and
I,” said Mr. Rosewater, were fel
low telegraph operators nearly
four decades ago. He was station
ed out west and I was in Wash
ington. We got acquainted, as
operators do, over the wires at
night, and would call eaoh other
bp our first names when we spoite
through the medium of our in-,
struments, aud for nearly forty
years we have been promising our
selves the pleasure of meeting.”
“I drifted out to Nebraska, and
Carnegie’s history you know. Nat
urally, I was much more anx
ious to meet him than he could
possibly be to meet me, aud a
few days ago I called upon him.
“I.assured him when he greeted
me that I sought none of his
money for librery or other pur
poses. Carnegie looked at me
searchingly, You can see that I
am a small man. I am five feet
4 inches in heighth. He is no tal-
ler;'and is even slighter in build
than I.
“Suddenly he extended his
hand and exclaimed with unmis
takable sincerity af feeling:
“ T am glad to meet you, Mr.
Rosewater; lam glad to associate
with a man ivlio is no bigger than
I am.’ ”
Evidence is |accumulating raj>
idly in support of the democratic
contention that American govern
ment in the Philippines is even
more extravagant than was the
Spanish administration. Six of
the American office-holders in
Manila draw salaries that aggre
gate $63,000, an average of $10,-
500 apiece. It is not surprising
that some of the unenlightened
Filipinos regard American owner
ship as an expensive luxury.—
Oceana Tribune.
A Georgia negro, asleep on th
track, came in contact with a
train, derailing several cars. He
got up, brushed the dust from his
coat, and remarked to the engin
eer: { ‘Efj,'you foks ain’t mo’ keer-
ful how yer gwine, yer’ll sho hurt
sumbody sum er dese dnys, en git
sued fer damages.—Constitution.
The connection between rpos-
qmtoes and malaria was suspect
ed as long ago as the time of Lan-
cisi, the great Italian physician,
who flourished at the end of the
seventh and the beginning of the
eighth century.
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A package in the Christmas
mail at the Indianapolis post-
office, opened, in the office because
it had neither stamps nor address
upon it, was found to contain a
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