"Years ago I was a prosperous oil-producer in Ohio.

Yet, in the efficiency of its co-operations, and in the co-ordination of the needs and supplies of producer, middle man, and consumer, there is no one of the great organizations of the captains of industry which can for a moment approach it.

It is mainly due to the works of the Nobel family that Sweden has attained the reputation of Master Producer of Explosives.

Still, I liked the plea for Protection against foreign imports in literature and art by way of helping the native producer, though even here some condensation would, I thought, have sharpened the point.

Cause N. cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner^, prime mover, primum mobile [Lat.]; vera causa [Lat.]; author &c (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation &c (support) 215. spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo

Producer N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker &c (agent) 690; prime mover.

Producer N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker &c (agent) 690; prime mover.

He is not a mere intruder, a parasitic party, who forces his way between employer and worker, or between producer and consumer, and without conferring any service, extracts for himself a profit which involves a loss to the worker or the consumer, or to both.

On the one side is the third generation idle richarrogant and parasitical, and on the other, the actual producer, economically helpless and denied access to the means of production unless he "beg his lordly fellow worm to give him leave to toil," as Robert Burns has it.

Up to that moment, all the efforts of author, producer, and actor have centred in begetting in us a particular order of illusion; and lo!

So out of joint are the times and seasons that the foreigner is allowed to cut out the home producer.

Until the eleventh century Szechwan had remained the leading producer, and tea had been drunk in the Tibetan fashion, mixed with flour, salt, and ginger.

In the period of political fragmentation Szechwan, as the principal tea-producing region and at the same time an important producer of salt, was much better off than any other part of China.

It is the producer of fertile soils.

[Illustration: Proud Producer.

A 50 horse simplex at Marseilles, in Barataud's flour mill, is said to have run for the last 2 years on 1.12 pounds of English anthracite per effective horse power; and thus M. Witz says his predictions of 10 years ago, that the gas producer would some day replace the boiler, are being verified in such a way as to surprise even himself.

The steam engine uses coal, the producer requires English anthracite, which is dearer; the gas motor uses a great deal of water and a great deal of oil, which cost money; and gas motors are dear, while gas producers and their adjuncts cost a tidy bit of money, and wear out pretty fast.

units of heat, and to make gaseous fuel in which 6,343 units are available; a return of 70.6 per cent, in the producer.

For a Corliss engine and boiler, with chimney, etc., complete, and putting these up, he allows £1,280; for a Simplex gas motor and Dowson producer complete, including putting up, he allows £1,290, which he explains to be average actual prices; but these prices do not cover cost of transport, and M. Witz does not go into cost of masonry for buildings, apart from foundations, etc., for the apparatus and machinery.

For as though in reply, approaching from behind the house as if already the producer had nearly made its circuit, there sounded close under the balustrade the walking of a horse.

'Besides its great importance as a fruit-producer, it has a special beauty of its own when the clusters of dates are hanging in golden ripeness under its coronal of dark-green leaves.

But if the pine is not all that can be wished as a shade-producer, he is in all his varieties a beautiful object to look upon.

The Astute Reader knows what happens in a Family when Mother and the Only Child put their Heads together to whipsaw the Producer.

Hay was fifteen dollars a ton, and all it cost the producer was a year's foresight and the labor of putting it up; for there were millions of acres of wild grass going to waste which made the sweet-smelling hay that old horsemen still prefer to tame hay.

And so, while the increase of the artistic conscience tends in more ambitious works to brevity and impressionism, voluminous industry still marks the producer of the true romantic trash.