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...South lay in this steadily growing competition. The Southern mills were nearer the raw material; cheaper and more tractable mill sites and more American labor are to be had there, too. In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line...
...Bureau of Mines, under 0. P. Hood, Chief Mechanical Engineer, is working on a process to produce lignite char, a fuel similar to anthracite, but softer. In Germany this material is widely used for heating and cooking, but the competition of high-grade coals has kept it back in America. With the gradually increasing scarcity of good anthracite and bituminous, lignite will become a valuable substitute...
Next day the President bad the pleasure of driving the electric locomotive of his train for twelve miles- down the steep grade of the St. Joseph River and the fire-charred slopes of the Bitter Root Mountains...
Eclecticism. There are a number of "eclectic" medical schools in the U. S., invariably of low grade, which aim to select and teach methods of value from all schools. They are gradually dying...
...Critics. Throughout the career Mr. Lindsay has been praised and attacked with the utmost heartiness by critics of high grade and low. However, it is generally admitted by any with a modicum of intelligence that he is one of the most individual and interesting poets of present-day America...