S 1 MOST WONDERFUL AUTOMATIC ORE CNLOADEK AT CON.NEAUT, OHIO. The most wonderful mnchiue on tlio chain of great lakes will bo in oper ation the coming season on the Carnogio dock a at Conneant, Ohio. With its introduction nt all lake port there will be littlo demand for unskilled labor. The hovelers at Conneant, realizing thin fact, regard the now machine with owe and displeasure. During its construction it was deemed prudent to guard it at night for a time under the glare of sereral aro lights to insure its completion. With the new machine six men can unload a vessel in the same time that it reqnires a force of 100 to do the same wcrk. The weight of the new machine is 400 tons, Its height is more than fifty feet. Equipped with many swivel and hinge joints its movements are almost human. In the same veriod of time that one laborer can sink his shovel into the ore in a vessel's hold and lift a few pounds, the 50CO DOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO California's ijiaitf TpfEBS jre Saved. The I'nlleil RlntCH Government linn Arqiitreil tlio Puinone llotlwonclH. O0000030003O00000C 00003003 -"VALlFOnXIA'S grove of the I f Calaveras mammoth redwood V trees has beer, saved from the hands of the vaudnl. At the opening of the United States Senate's sossion, on March 0, Mr. Uansbrongh, of North Dakota, re ported the House joint resolution di recting the Socrotary of the Interior to place under bond the "Mammoth Tree Grove" and the "South Park Grove of Big Trees," in Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, Califor- :' IHH "flBIZZLT OIAJfT" 03 FEET CIIl CUMFEREXCE. tiia, and the resolution was adopted, and the Government acquires the groves. Some months ago a lumberman bought on option on the ground for the purpose of cutting down the big trees and sawing them into lumber. A ory went up in Calif onia from the now of Mount Shasta to the orange groves of Los Angeles, to sate these mammoths of the forest. By the ef forts of the women of California the matter was brought before Congress With the above result. These are the "sequoia giganteas," or redwoods that first gave California her reputation for haviug the biggest trees on earth. Through one of thorn a Conoord stage coaoh may be driven. The stamp of another, thirty feet in diameter, is used as a Uuuoicg pavil ion. Bedwoods like these tower up 200 feet without a limb, ntd then burst out into a crown of foliago, rising 100 to 200 feet higher. GOVERNMENT GUARDIAN'S Some scientists say they are 1S00 years old. Others insist that they tuuat be tiOOO years old older than Christianity, older than the Mosaic law. Theso trees have outlived the natu ral age or cycle is which they be- fflm ft, If 1 f If I IP IP v" - ' """r" OF MACHINES. scoop of this machine grasps ten tons. longod. Tho climate and surround ings of to-day are not congenial and they aro slowly dropping their limbs and wearing away with age and weather. Some of these grocves of trees wero offered for sale recently at ridicitonsly low prices S'20 an acre for large tracts that have in somo places six or YOSEMITE STAGE COACn ON seven of the great trees upon each acre. It is difficult to realize that but for the prompt action of Congress, for a few dollars one could have bought a tree so old that our entire oivilization has lotted for a time which is only the fraction of its age. People of Cali fornia have been accustomed to look upon them as the deities of that land. No wonder a summer day spent in the Sierra Nevadas under the red woods is one never to be forgotten. The win 1 may blow if it will, but bo faintly does sound descend that it seem more like the rolling of a dis tant ocean. Hound and silence alike re majestic and impressive in those surroundings. Ilore Bret Hart located one of his most fascinating stories, with an In dian lover living in a spacious hall within a hollow tree. Here he bides and shields from danger of outlaws his paleface sweetheart. What more romantic, placo iu which to unfold the love of a wild, passionate child of na ture? Many of the hollow trees in the grove have served the more prosaic purpose of homes for minors and pros pectors. In 1853 one of the largest trees in the Calaveras grove was cut down and the trunk smoothed off. Five men wero busy over three weeks I felling it by means of burning and me use 01 pump angers, rue stump is twenty-four and a half by twenty three feet, and Professor Whitney eonuted 1255 auunlar rings, which, making allowance for tho core of the tree, iudicates au age of about 1300 years. That a vast difference exists be tween the ages of these trees is now Generally acceptod as a fact, and this tree was evidently of the younger CABIN, MARITOHA GI10VE. generation. The stump of the tree cut down has served various purposes theatrical performances have been held upon it; over thirty people at a time have danoed upon it; a news- Sapor, the Big Tree Bulletin, flour bed for a time from its surface. . . . i Upon the fallen tree itself was main tained a tenpin alley and reocpMon room. The Baptist Church in Rants Rosa was, with the exception of the arches, . built entlroly of lumber secured from one redwood, and but half ,of the tree was nsod nt that. The age of this giant was estimated at 1200 yoars. When one of these big trees gives up the ghost and falls nnder a stress of wind, it goes dowu like an avalanche of the Sierras. The ground trembles nnd the crash and ruin in its path mark a tragody of nature The "Father of tlio Forest ' in tlio Calaveras grove, which fell not. long ago, had seen a thousand years when the great majority of its present asso ciates wore either non-existont or literally but little larger thau mustard seeds. Its first limits are 100 feet from the base, and, with a diameter of six feet, compare favorably with the Inrgost trees of the country east of tho Kockies. There are 125 trees in tho lower nnd nppor groves ever forty feet in circumference. In the Yosemito National Park, iu a belt about two and a half miles long by two miles wido is the next largest grove of redwood trees. Here are somo 000 trees which would be con sidered too large as shade- treea for the broadest avouue. The largest has a circumference of eighty-one feet three feet above the earth. It is in many ways tho greatest and grandest forest on the globe. Tho big trees are generally wearing away with time and weather, and seem to have outlived the ago in which they bolongod, so that they will drop their limbs and topple themselves all too soon without the vaudal's axe to bring them down. Many of them i show signs of decay, mid some are hollow at the base, though still living. with the heart gone. Iu tho hollows of thoso woodland giants there is fro qiiontly plenty of spneo for a comfort uhlo houso of tin oo or four rooms, and iu one of them seventeen horses THE "FALLEN MONARCH." have been sheltered at the same time from a storm. The gigantea is wont to ploy jokes on travelers, and they are elephantine enough to be serious. The camper is never tempted to seek rest in the grasses and ferns and shrubs at its base, for he is liable to be bombarded with cones, aud as they are about the size and weight of eggs, a drop of several hundred feet gives them surprising force. But the real danger lies in the limbs, which frequently fall, though the tree may apparently have none to spare. In the Mariposa grove there are standing 3G5 large sequoias one for every day in the year. This grove was donatod by Congress to Califor nia in trust at the same time (1804) and by the same act as the Yosemito Valley, and is mauaged by the same board of commissioners. A troop ef cavalry guards the domain. Wherein Woman U Superior to Man. In three things only are women superior to men; they aro superior to men as nurses, as teachers of young children, and no man can trim a hat equal to a woman. In all other re spects men are the superiors of women. The best oooks are men; the best housekeepers are men. Although nearly every girl takes piano lessons and Btudies music, all of the great piano-players and musicians are men. These facts have been demonstrated by thousands of years of experience. Women who are trying to become lawyers, and who imagine that they oau divide up the world's material re wards with men, should remember that they carry a serious handicap; nature intended that women should travel in certain paths, and will not reward them in other direotions. Women are natural nurses and natural teaobers. They should be natural housekeepers and oooks; they would be if they didn't fritter away so much of their time iu running after foolish things. Atohison Globe. The tramways, omnibuses and un derground railway in and around Lou don, within a radius of five miles, earry each year, it is calculated, about 453,000,000 passengers. TI1E ROADWAY BUNS TH ItOTTOH TIIE TBKB FIFT Y-SIXTH CONGRESS Senate. SP.VF.NTY-FIFTlt DAY. The Senate rejected the sectarian school amendment to the Indian ap propriation bill offered by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, by n vote of 30 to 16. Without division the bill was passed. The measure carries about $8,414,000. The bill for the government of Ha waii, as passed by the House, was pre sented and nrdcrhl printed. Mr. Cnl- I lorn said he wou'l not at present ask for a conference. The house spent the day on the agri cultural appropriation bill. , SF.VKNTY-S1XTH HAY. I At a special meeting of the ways and means committee it was decided bv a vote of 8 to j to report the Puerto Rico bill as it passed the Senate without amendment nnd to move a concurrence in the Senate amendment. This meani the acceptance of the territorial form of government for Puerto Rico as add ed to the bill by the Senate and other lesser changes on the tariff nnd other features. The report was submitted to the House. Senator Per rose Introduced nn amendment to the army appropriation bill providing that nil appointments to fill vacancies in the regular establish ment of the adjutant general, inspector general, judge advocate general, quar termaster general, subsistence, medical and pay departments and the signal corps may be made from the volunteer officers now serving in those depart ments. SKVF.NTY-SFVENTII HAY. The House spent a large part of the day in discussing and passing the bill offered by Mr. Sibley. Uemocrat, Penn sylvania, and reported from the insular affairs committee, to authorize the sec retary of the treasury to designate the banks in Cuba, Puerto Riro and the Philippines that shall be depositories of government funds. The Senate decided to continue the Philippine bill as unfinished business in preference to the Nicaramia canal bill. SKYKXTY-F.IGIITII DAY. !!y a vote of .'40 to 15 the House pass ed a resolution for a constitutional amendment prividinir for tin. el, 'rt inn of senators by direct vote of the people. The House committee on militia agrees upon an allowance of $1,000,000 to the militia of the States. For various rea sons. Mr. Burton thinks the Nicaragua!! canal question should be postponed to next winter. MINES AND MINERS. Hew Company Formed to Mine Lead In Ken tuckyJapan Cold Fields Promts Rich Returns. Gold is now being found in large quantities at Hokkaido, in the province of Kitanii, in Japan. A territory em bracing 650 square miles, the central point of which is Mount Horo-Noborn, is being worked with such splendid re sults that old diggers have styled it the Japanese Klondike. Almost all the gold is found i" li'.'Jr pools and streams, which have their source in Mount Horo Noborn. Until recently there was only a small village in this district, the inhabitants of which numbered about 100, whereas to-day there is a flourishing city with a population of more than 0.000. as to the exact yield of gold up to the pres ent it is not easy to obtain reliable sta tistics, for the reason that the diggers arc very reticent on the subject, evi dently fearing that if their good for tune becomes generally known a host of adventurers will Hock to Hokkaido from all parts of the world. It is cer tain, however, that one company, which has been buying gold from the diggers, has exported 000 kilogrammes of the pure metal within the past nine months. Major John W. Ovcrturf, of Colum bus, Ohio, has organized a company, incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, for the purpose of mining for lead in Rowan county, Ky. Major Ovcrturf has spent sonic time in the region in which the company will operate and feels sure that paying deposits of the mineral will be found, lie has sonic line specimens of galena which he found on the property owned hy the company. The enterprise has ample capital behind it and will pro ceed at once to develop the mines. Ma jor Ovcrturf has for some time been engaged in the lite insurance business in Columbus and is prominent in G. A. K. circles. The company is composed of Ohio and Kentucky men and Mr. Ovcrturf has been elected president. Rowan county is in tht. wildest part 1 ol the mountains of Kentucky and has made its share of the feud history of the commonwealth. Of the copper mines of importance in North America to-day, those of Montana, Arizona and Michigan are in the front rank, and Rio Tinto, in Spain, stands practically alone in Kurope. Owing to interminable lawsuits, Untte's production is not increasing, but rather diminishing, and in Michigan, notwith standing the investment of enormous capital in the opening up of new mines, the increase in production is small. The greatest individual copper mine in this country, if not in the world, is unques tionably Senator Clark's United Verde. Despite her ample deposits, Ecuador is at the bottom of the list of South American republics in gold production, largely on account of lack of roads. From June to October, 1809, the South American Development Company ex ported about $.?d.ouo worth; they are now shipping about $7,500 per month. It is believed that this product will soon be doubled or trebled. About 1,500,000 persons arc employ ed in the coal mines of the world.' Favorabls Conditions In India, In spite of the plague, famin and oth er troubles, the financial condition of India, as shown by the latest official figures, is far more favorable than was expected. There is au actual surplus of 2.55,i,oco, against the estimate of 3,622.000 made a year ago. There was a loss of land revenue due to famine of 1.187x00, hut against that has to be put improvements, in railway receipts of 824.000; in postofficc, telegraph and mint receipts of 423,000 and in opium revenue of 401.000. Terth is one of the most delightful residential towns in the eastern part ol Ontario. ' NEW YORK Designs For Costumes That Have De come Popular in the Metropolis. New Yonn City (Special). Slash ing is picturesque always, and has a flavor all its own. It is to be seen ou garments intended for all ages of femininity, embroideries with ready made slashings through whloh rib- HIE SLASH. APPLIED TO TIIE MADE BODICE, bons are run being indulged in evon by infants. An example of slashing suitable for young matrons is shown In tho ao eompanying illustration. The example, iu pastel rose broad cloth, appears iu a promenade dress in semi-tailor effect. - The under ITANDHOME bodioe is of fulled moussoline in a pulor shado, while the scarf, which in this case is laoed through slashings whioh go round the figure, is of panne velvet, a shade darker, crimped at the ends. It is knotted at the loft front in obon effoot. These slashed and laced effects are seen on skirts also, soft lace or con trasting silk being used on the lighter materials while cloth, panno or heavy liberty satin may figure on the cloth dresses. ": The Shirt Walet Prohlein. In the everlasting matter of shirt waists there is yet more to be said, though it does seem that the subject has beeu done to death. Look about yon and yon'll admit there's room for more such wretohed taste and judgment as is to be found on every side I The stout woman, as likely as not, is partial to plaids aud checks, and a straight-aoross, accentod yoke; while the slender sister is equally in love with up-and-down lines. .. As a matter of fact, stripes are very much more the thing thau plaids or ohecks. In fact, plaids and cheoks give one tho horrors unless managed by an artist; you may call them the ehoals of Dressdoml The number of tair ones who come to grief upon their treacherous squares is simply appall ing. Ferfectly managed, they are often most effective; but the number of botohes is enough to soare most of us out. What we're getting at is the fact that white is the safest ehoiee. Those who are ever after oolor ef feots, however, are iuterested iu the varied showings. There aro stnuuing stripes, mostly white and a color, and there are plain colors in tho dainty pastel shades, as veil as the more oronouuoed hues. If one doesn't care for the abso- FASHIONS. lutoly plain oolor (which is modish), one mny choose a piece with polka dots, or other unobtrusive figures. In the double column cut two hand some spring waists are shown. The waist on the loft is of corded colored taffeta, with flue valonoiouues inser tions between homstitched and slight-' ly puffed strips of silk, and has n small box plait back nnd front. That on the right is of mnuve taffeta, with groups, of tiny tucks, a fancy white ribbon being attached by hemstitching to either side of the tucks; Pabrtrs Tlmt An Favored. Thread, silk and cotton appear ia the fabrio gloves. This style of glove has boon brought to a great state of perfection lately, so the mi rubor of those who wear it is increasing. The weave is due and smooth, the Angara graduated and tapering, the shape per fection, and the finish and shades just the same as a kid glove. Long open work gauntlets, reaching to the elbow front, is the style of fabrio glove in troduced for wear with elbow sleeves, but probably it will not be generally adopted. Where a gown has elbow sleeves it is dressy enough to require kid gloves in keeping. White Khla. The exceedingly popular white kill glove will be as much la mode as ever. In kid and Swedish kid they will bo well liked, while a new style of white doeskin will make its initial ap pearance) and promises to have a very favorablo receptiou. These last are grent favorites iu la belle France, and while the skin is quite heavy, yet they do not give the hand a bulky or largo appearance. They are in white, or chamois color, with double stitched backs iu self-color and have three large mother-of-pearl buttons. Wnlut, Skirt nnd Uortlce. If yon wish to acquire distinction in dress with your separate waists, see to it that there is some relation in BrniNO WAISTS. in color between the skirt and Tho black skirt with bright waists whioh have no black composition is no longer eonsytered swell. For example, a blue anIfawn checked silk blouse is very gooJ style with either a fawn or a bluJ cloth skirt, while with very ordinary. black it woild be A Lace-Trlinuietl llouie Jacket. This is an indoor bodioe, or, rather jacket, front Paris. It is of pink satin, with masses or rather heavy cream laoe used for frills and revere. The front is of aocordion-plaited white ohiffon, having straps of narrow black velvet aoross the ohilTon, held by tiuy rhinestone buckles. bodicfe, oolorij in thir .
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