Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 September 1897 — Page 7

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SIGHTS L\ A SAWMILL

AN HOUR IN ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD.

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teen Engine*. Hake* Its Own Fuel, and Its Firvi Never Go Oat— MiLl* Hamming With Activity Near Seattle.

[8pc-cial Correspondence.]

PORT BLAKELY, Wash., Sept 1.— About the

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a sawmill. And when we find one like thiH at Port Blakely, tban which there is bat one other larger iu the world and none bigger in the United States, we are inclined to stop au hoar or so to regard it. Arriving here after an boar's ran across the sonud from Seattle, I found the landlocked harbor fairly chokcd with vessels. Along the wharfs in front of the mill rose a perfect forest of masts. And the vessels—ships, barks, brigs, big foar masters and square riggers—were from every part of the known world—from London, Liverpool, China, Australia, New Zealand, South America, from around the Horn and the cape of Good Hope.

The sheltered cove in which they rested was as quiet as a mill pond, and in another water nook beyond lay millions of feet of lumber in the shape of giant logs, waiting to be converted into boards and scantlings, beams and planks, and tie« to be thrust into the great cavernous holds of the ships in waiting.

Behind the boom limits rises the mill, two stories high and covering an area of 100 by 450 feet, and with the yard adjoining over ten acres. To furnish steam for its 17 engines 155,000 gallons of water is daily fed to them from four spring fed reservoirs on the hills with a capacity of 30,000,000 gallons. These also supply the pure water for the little town and fill the five miles of pipes which are distributed through the buildings, giving protection from fires by a perfected system of automatic sprinkling.

These water pipes are affixed to the ceilings and rafters, with plugs at intervals of ten feet, sealed with a composition which melts at a low tempera-

BOOM AND MILL, PORT BLAKELY.

turo and thus automatically precipitates a shower to quench a blaze in its iuoipiency. As an additional precaution, two day watchmen and five night men prowl around the premises on the lookout for fire and mischief making combustibles.

Tho batteries of boilers, at least a dozen in number, are fed with sawdust, which is carried direct from tho saws by an endless chain arrangement and sprayed into the furnaces by the operation of a hand lever. One man can attend to several lires. and these fires are kept, perpetually burning. It is many months since they were out, years even since the boilers have been cooled, so constant lias been the demand for Washington lumber and so great portion of the globe is supplied with it.

Kven with all these boilers roaring, devouring tons of sawdust and refuse, it is impossible to consume it all, and another endless chain "conveyor" carries the surplus along to a blazing pyre in the open air, where it is dumped and where smoke and flame are constantly ascending. Beside this mound of fire rises a tall steel refuse burner 100 feet high, at the base of which a whirlwind of flame is roaring and up its great throat fiercely darting. It is said the preachers of Seattle, when they are at a loss for similes fiery enough to startle their hearers (and it takes a redhot terror to shake up Seattle), come over here and gaze pensively at this hurricane of

tlame and then go back to their studies yon mast travel a long way to find and produce a sermon on hades—aregu- them, and the only serving class of any lar score her. 1 consequence that is still free from tip

It is on the upper floor that pande-1 greediness are tbe girl waiters. It is moninm reigns. Cautiously threading true they no longer look so horribly ofyour way about in charge of a courteous fended as of yore when you thoughtfulgnido, you tread gingerly among crawl- Jy tender a small silver disk in return ing and darting "carriages," mechanic ally moving logs aud a general asset"? inent of diabolical "niggers." "hogs" aud "slab slashers." The air is hamming with the sound of innumerable saws—circulars and double circulars, gang saws, band saws, every kind except a handsaw—whizxiug aud whirling, shrieking aud buzzing, cutting their way through the itumeuse logs as though they wore but pasteboard, and

constantly crying out for more food for to give a shilling to every one who does their insatiable maws. bim a service about hia hotel, and this At tho boom end of the mill are two American is not a rich man, either. It large "bawl ups" which yank tbe logs ig» a tale with Englishmen, however, out of the pond with a coierity that not to give waiters more than 10 per makes you shndtk r. l*p comes a giant cent of the regalar charge, and tips for of the fo:est f«»t in !i:tni„tr, sliding porters and other service* are also regthe slippery shoot with the siime of the nlated by reason. cove aud the im\«s of the woods still ou bis broad k\ The chain is ca«t off, be is sejwd by steel hooks and rolled over on the carriage, while up from below ^on.es a *t«l Herouiv*. v,ho butts and po*h«a biui into plact VVutu some

clanips fall, he is secured in position and starts instanter for the doable circular's remorseless teeth. In a few minutes be is converted into merchantable lumber and is on his way to the ship's bold over a 1,400 foot tramway.

There is economy in this business where the trees are cat on the company's own laud, of which they own 80,000 acres in Washington alone, taken to the coast on its own logging railroad, 25 miles long, to its mills by its owu tags, and finally ran direct from the saws into the holds of the ships that are to carry the lumber all over the world.

The whole plant is lighted by electricity, and at present the mill is running night and day, with three shifts of men for the 24 hours. Electricity is also used for motive power in the planing and finishing departments and in the blacksmith and pattern shops. Their lathes, planes, molding and pattern workings are so complete that they are enabled to supply any portion of disabled machinery at short notice, and last year famished 60 tons cf castings for their own repairs. The company al so owns and runs a gristmill for a sup ply of the logging camps, a hotel for visitors, a hall for public meetings and church purposes and a town of some 200 houses. Their general store carries a stock complete in every line, from a package of pins to the largest hawsers and cables. At the time I write the company is sending a vessel load of supplies to the Klondike, their goods being particularly available for outfitting miners and explorers.

FRED A. OBER.

GROWTH OF TIP GREEDINESS

It Is Extending From the Cities to the Towns of the Country. [Special Correspondence.]

MILWAUKEE, Sept,. 7.—Little by little the area wherein liberal tippiug is necessary to insure even half decent service is increasing, and it will not be many years before every town of 10,000 inhabitants or upward will be included within the lines. Men who are not yet gray can remember when tipping, even in Washington, Boston and New York, was not the invariable essential to secure good treatment from the barber, the waiter, the porter and all the rest,

but that time has passed never to return. Twenty years ago, when I was new to the "road," a slender young barber in a western capital city, whose shop was much frequented by members of the legislature, told mo one day of a certain lawmaker's inexcusable extravagance. "Why, that man's a fool!" said the barber. "Every timo he comes in here to get shaved he adds a 10 cent tip to the 16 cents we charge, and then he always gives the fcrush boy 5 cents, making 80 cents for every shave, or twice the prico we ask. I suppose be thinks it makes us think more of him, but it only makes us think of a certain class of folk who are soon parted from their money."

One day last week I dropped in at the same shop, for the first time since I had heard that barber express himself regarding the foolishness of tipping. To my surprise he was now in charge and not au employee. Bu£ I soon saw that his bearing toward the nontipping customer was such as to make the latter feel like a worm of the dust He confessed in the conversation with which be begniled the time 1 was in his chair that it was practically his tip money that bad euabled bim to become a proprietor instead of an underling.

There are still small towns in which the barbers and the men waiters do not look for extra dimes and quarters, bat

for prompt and intelligent waiting but, as a rale, they do not cxpect any such thing.

It is the common impression, and no doubt a correct one, that tipping is much more general in England tban in tbe United States, bat Britons often complain bitterly that most Americans when traveling abroad tip far too liberally. I know of one American living in Louden whoee invariable custom it is

NEWELL STEWART.

Nothing will so quickly dissipate the halo which surrounds a girl as the sight of a bote in her sock.—Atchison Globe.

6 TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 11, 1897.

CURES BY THE TOUCH.

A New

York Doctor Claims They Are Easily Explained. [Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, Sept 6.—It is the common saying among people who donbt tbe mysterious and scoff at tbe supernatural that tbe so called miraculous cures by toacb, such as Schlatter was said to have performed, are either hum bugs or delusions. Tbey complain that they are asked to believe in a thing which tbey have bad no opportunity to investigate.

Now, however, there seems to be a prospect of reaching a decision of the question wbicb must of necessity be accepted by science. A healer who has publicly healed many sick folk right here in New York, inviting inspection by any and all critics, has thrown down a challenge which is tolerably certain to be tal.en up. He has, to my personal knowledge, proposed to some of the leading newspapers of this city that be will perform test cures in tbe presence of a committee of newspaper men under any fair conditions that may be agreed upon.

Tbe man who makes this offer is Professor S. J. Damon, who is already known to a portion of the community as one who has a certain strange power of tbe same sort that made Schlatter and others like him famous all over tbe world. As to the genuineness of this power in Professor Damon's case there seems to be no possible question. He appeared in Masonic hall some months ago for ten consecutive weeks, offering to heal free of charge all who presented themselves, and among the 2,000 aud odd cases that he treated some seemingly miraculous cures were effected

Professor Damon himself emphatically disclaims all idea of his work being miraculous, though he says the gift he has is undoubtedly an endowment from some higher power. "There is no such thing as a miracle," he said to me. "Cures have been effected in every age of the world by physical contact with the healer. It is sometimes called the 'laying on of hands.' And because tbe natural law which operated in the cure was not understood people have called tbe cures miraculous." "Do you really believe, then," I asked bim, "that aotual disease is removed by the touch of the healer, and not by imagination or faith or eome mental process in the patient?" "I do not believe it," he said. "I know it And I perform such cures. My power to cure was discovered, when I was a boy, by my father, who was a practicing physician. I laid my hand on bis forehead one day when he had a severe headache and his pain ceased instantly. He understood it no more than I did, but he experimented with me on his patients with remarkable results. Then, when I studied medicine, I did so with direct reference to this gift, striving to develop it and understand it, and when I became a practicing physician myself I learned to rely on it almost to the exclusion of drugs. I do not go so far as to discard drugs, for after I have imparted the vital energy needed to institute a cure I often recommend a patient to undergo treatment by some specialist. "What, then, is the secret of the cure?'' I- asked. "The transference of vital force from one person to another," be replied. "There have been in every age individuals who have this force in abundance and who can impart it toothers. Schlatter was one, though he cured perhaps only one in 20 whom he treated. He could have cured many more bad he understood his gift and used it aright. The possession of this power does not imply that the person having it understands it On tbe contrary, he is as liable as anyone, perhaps more liable than others, to have delusions, but I know of others now living who have it. This giving of vital energy by one person, perfectly healthy and peculiarly organized, to another person,diseased or weaker or negatively organized, has been partially understood for ages." "Is anything of the nature of hypnotic influence involved in it?" "Emphatically no. The greater inherent force a patient has tbe quicker be will respond to treatment. That is not the law of hypnotism." "Then can any one who is sick or injured in any way be cured in this fashion?" "No, I do not claim anything of the kind. As a general statement, I would say that such a care is possible in any case of illness in which there is not actual disintegration of the tissues of tbe body, or what may be called mechanical difficulties, such as fractures." "But what is vital energy?" "That is the mystery of life itself and is beyond human knowledge. We do not know what electricity is, but we know what it will do, and we can produce it and transmit it We cannot produce vital eDergy, but there are some persons who can transmit it to others." "How is this done?" "That, too, is a mystery. I would not undertake to explain bow, bat I can prove tfeat it is done by doing it, and that is what I offer to da I have declared my willingness to allow a fairly constituted committee to investigate and to watch tbe progress of tbe care of some person wbom it shall select, the conditions of tbe trial to be thoroughly understood beforehand. Of oonrae I insist upon fair conditions. I do not propose to be made tbe victim of any trick." "But, if cures of this kind can be performed, will it not lead to a complete revolution in the science of healing?" "It might do so," mid tbe professor, with a aligbt smile, "if there were healers enough for aJl tbe sick, bat, although maay people have an abundance of vital force, it is only those of a peculiar organization who are able to Impart it. Moreover, the giving of this force airs the power. I am often eorupe..id tc atop treating others in order to recuperate my own strength."

DAVID A Corns.

The World as It Is and Was.

The earth, which we find today bright with •onried hues, vocal with innumerable sounds, rich iu fruits and fragrant with odors, lay for an almost incalculable period cf lime destitute, or all but destitute, of color, soundless save for tbe noise of wave and tempest, and with no promise as yet cf the rich profusion of vegetable and animal forms that now diversify its surface and fill it with tbe thrill and manifold activities of life. We often speak of man as "the heir cf all the ages," but not often, probably, do we pause to realize tbe significance of the word. We talk of evolution, but seldom make any due effort to grasp the plenitude and grandeur of the tbocght These senses of which we have the use, and each of which brings a different world within our ken, whence are hey? It seems so natural to $ee, it seem? so natural to hear, to touch, to smell, to taste, that we forget through what slow processes, by what an incalculable number of slight accretions and delicate modifications these wonderful channels of knowledge and sensation have been made for us. We go back through the ages, and we come to a sightless, voiceless world.

For a period probably as long as all tbe rest of geological time the only forms of life were protozoa. Sight was developed among the wonderful crustaceans of the Silurian period, but as yet there were no organs of hearing. The first stridulation of an insect wing was heard (if it was heard) in the devonian age, the birth epoch of the first vertebrates—fishes—but long ages had to pass before the first bee hummed over a flower or the first butterfly fluttered its wings iu the sunshine.—Popular Science Monthlv.

A Vision of the Future.

One day in October, 1883, Laely A., living in Rue du Bel-Respiro, Paris, found that f-iie had been robbed of a sum of 8,500 francs. She notified the commissary of police on Rue Berryer, who instituted a search and questioned the servants, but discovered nothing. Lady A., when enumerating her servants, begged the commissary to exclude from his suspicions her Becond valet de cbambre, a youth of 19, very good looking, very respectful, and very well qualified for bis duties, who had been nioknamed "le Petit," not on account of his stature, for he was rather tall, but from a feeling of delicate, protecting familiarity yrhich his good qualities had won for him. Meanwhile, among the friends of Lady A. there had been a good deal of talk about a certain Demoiselle E., who, they, said, could see tbe most surprising things in a bowl of coffee grounds. M. L. d'Ervieux had the curiosity to accompany his governess to the house of this person, and was quite surprised to hear her describe exactly each piece of furniture in Lady A.'s apartment, pass in review her seven servants, and say that, though she could not name tbe thief, he woi.Sd be guillotined witbin two years. Some weeks later "le Petit" left the service of his mistress without giving any reasou, and two years later he mounted the scaffold. This servant, so highly esteemed, was none other than Marchandon, tbe assassin.—Arena.

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"I once showed an old lady much given to good works of the Lady Bountiful order how some proteges of hers who were constantly on the verge of starvation might be placed in possession of a small but regular and sufficient income 'My dear,' she said, '1 don't think it is a good plan They would get too independent I like them to come to me when they are in difficul ties and ask for what they want. "Rich and Poor," by Mrs Bosanquet.

One of Ian Maciaren's.

Ian Maclaren tells of a parishioner of the late Dr. Norman McJad who, on her husband falling ill with typhus fever, called in another clergyman. "Why didn't ye fetch your own minister?" was asked. De'ye think," was the woman's reply, "^e would risk Norman with typhus r?"

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