. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . c morality andgenerous good feeling be
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . c morality andgenerous good feeling between man and man prevailed at that fa primitivetime, which is fascinating now to look back upon, and which it period locksis equally fascinating to find the traces of to-day in the rural and ™ Yded**isolated communities of different parts of the country. The doorwas seldom barred, and then only at night. The treasures of the householdwere kept in unprotected drawers and closets. People rested secure in theenjoyment of the privacy of their homes and the possession of their articlesof value, not so much by reason of bars and bolts as by reason of the virtue 3o6 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY and self-restraint to which people were so rigidly bred in those days, and tothe absence of a vicious class in the community. With immigration, theincrease of wealth, and the disappearance of native Americans in the ranksof household servants, there came a different state of things; and peoplefound themselves under the necessity of securing their houses carefully against. BURGLAR-PROOF LOCK. the intrusion of unauthorized persons, and their valuables within the house-hold against even their own domestics. The change has been very great. Ahundred years ago the bolt on the outer door, and the lock upon the onebox of private papers and valuables in the house or upon the strong-box atthe store, were almost the only barriers erected against plunder and of To-day, in the large cities, the wh
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