Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 September 1897 — Page 6

THE FOREST GIANTS.

MARIPOSA'S BIG TRF-ES THAT PIERCE THE SKlcS.

Somo of Them Are 100 Feet In Circoiuftrcrc^ and 300 Feet High The Bedwoods and Those of the Sierra#—Pine* and Silver Flnu

[8peclal Correspondence.]

WAVVOXA,

CaL, Sept. 15.—Another

dream realized! Another project, many years held in abeyance, at last become grand reality! During the last week I have walked in wonderland, with my head in the clouds. How shall I descend to sublunary things and describe what I have ccen?

Well, I suppose the best way is to just sit right down hard on old Mother Earth and spin my yarn the best way I can.

Imprimis, as the legal men begin, this is a big state. I have wandered over the length and breadth of it and haven't seen half of it yet It came upon me as I was drinking the natural soda water of Shcsta springs and inhaling the balmy forest breath of the northern woods that I had not seen the big trees.

Now, the woods are full of big trees, in the ordinary sense, and there are several groups of most extraordinarily big ones, which tower head and shoulders above all others of their kind. Down near the coast and Santa Cruz there is a tract of 20 acres with scores of trees rising 800 feet and 20 feet in diameter. These are tho Sequoia sempervirwns, and they are peculiar to the coast range, well worth seeing, to be sure, but not the "big trees" of California. Then again, there is the Calaveras grove, comprising, with South grove contiguous, 1,470 big trees, somo of them— many, in fact—over 100 feet in circumference and above 800 feet in height Here may be seen the well known Father of the Forest, now prostrate on tho ground, but who when standing towered aloft 485 feet and had a circumference of 110. He may be styled tho grandest of the giants, but he is fallen now and no longer supports the flky on his shoulders.

Then again there is the Tuolumne grove, on the Oak Plat road, with its Dead Giant, 81 feet in diameter, through which the coaches drive with their loads of tourists. And there are the Merced and the Fresno groves. In truth, as has

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A VIEW OF THE BIG TREES.

been sairl, tho woods are full of them, and all aro peculiar to California. Of tho more than 80 species of tho genus soquoia which at one time or another have lived in tho world only two species at present survive, and these aro found exclusively in tho Golden State.

With such an embarrassment of riches, I decided to choose that group of sequoias which could bo reached en route to some other attraction—the Yoseiuite, for instance—and so chose the Mariposa grove, which is probably as typical as any other and as beautiful. There was another reason—it is said that the Mariposa contains a tree for every day in the year, aud au odd oue or two for leap year, or 86o big trees, each oue charted and vouched for by the state geologist.

Before 1 go further, however, I must set myself right on a technical matter or some lea rued botanist will come along and trip me up on my classification. It is merely this: The so called "big trees" of tho coast range are known as tho redwoods, and those of the Sierras are the "big trees" proper. Their habitat is among the mountains, their «iam:cr of growth is different from that of tho coast species, and they aro always found peculiarly grouped.

Now, then* are three recognized routes to the Yost*mite—one from Stockton via Chinese Camp and the old gold country another from Merced via Coultervillo, and a third from Berenda, on the Southern Pneillc railroad. 21 miles by rail to Rayimud and somo 60 miles staging to the valley. We chose the last named route because, in the first place, our tickets mid that way, and, in die second, tJbere was less staging than by the other routes by 20 or 80 miles. The route via Raymond also gave us the Mariposa bij trees, with but a slight diversion from tho traveled road into tho great Yo^nnite.

The Yoseiuite lies about 150 miles westward from Francisco, over toward the Nevada lino, and is guarded by the snowy peaks of tho Sierra Ko vadas. You don't want to stop at Boreiuia any longer than to change cars for Raymond, and you don't feel an overwhelm iag desire to tarry at Kaymaud either, for both places are hot to a degree perfectly Plutonian. Why, the landlord of the single hotel there admitted that he had to feed his fowls crocked ioe to prevent them from laying hard boiled eggs, and when a man interested in a place makes such an admission as that you are obliged to admit there mayboiome trotb^a it.

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stage at Raymond and are

Jolted ov-r oaeof the most dusty roads

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in the universe. The dust prevented me from seeing much of the scenery, but 1 recal I that some ten miles out we passed through a picturesque canyon called Grub gulch, which in the mining days was a successfully worked gold center. It derives its name from its reliable' 'finds'' of the yellow metal, for, when a man had spent his last dollar in prospecting somewhere else he could always return to Grub gulch and dig out enough to furnish him with grub to tarry over a hiatus. Hence the name. From the looks of the place today, with its flourishing saloons and billiard halls and its hairy faced miners in jumpers and overalls, it is still maintaining its ancient prestige. Indeed, not far beyond we passed through King's gulch, where a I don't know how many stamp mill was hammering out gold from a richly streaked quartz lode, the machinery being run by electricity generated four miles away in the Fresno river. The scenery, when the dust will permit you to view it, is typical of the gold regions, dry and uninteresting, but after some 20 miles of staging and about the time you feel the gnawing of a California appetite a refreshingly green valley is entered and halt is called at a hotel farmhouse, where a most delightful meal is served and you stretch your legs awhile. This is the halfway station of Ahwahne, and beyond for 22 miles you journey through the glorious pine and fir forest of the Sierra foothills.

Some 17 miles of this sort of staging over a narrow, winding road, beneath the shade of giant pines and under steep banks, all the way getting more and more picturesque, and a sharp- turn is made to the right off the main trail and the scenery grows yet more entrancing. You wind your way through forests of tall "sugar pines," with their huge cones two feet in length adorning the branches like hanging bells on a pagoda. Then, almost without warning, you come abreast of a huge, skyscraping forest monarch with corrugated bark, which you are told is the Grizzly Giant. He is not the tallest of the giants, being only 285 feet high, but he measures 92 feet in circumference and sends out broad armed limbs 6 feet in diameter away up 100 feet aloft

Now the sky towering trees press thick and fast upon you, and the trail winds among such enormous sequoias as the Mariposa, the Longfellow, Whittier, Washington, Chicago (broad based), Lincoln, Grant, Ohio and many others. One of the largest is called the Andy Johnson and is prostrate on the ground. It probably fell down on receiving news of his impeachment In a little clearing near the Grant, Johnson and Ohio trees is a log cabin, where ccnes and bark and various souvenirs of the trees can be obtained. It astonishes one to be told that tho great cones, 2 feet in length, that are seen lying on the ground are not from the sequoias, but from that tall, graceful tree called the sugar pine. The cones of the giants are very small, hardly more than 2 inches in length, and would be passed by unobserved if they were not pointed out One does not get adequate comprehension of the vast diameters of these trees until he has driven through the hewn out opening in the Wanona tree, 27 feet across, which affords passago for the largest coach with its load of passengers. The tallest of these trees is over 800 feet, the largest round has a circumference of above 100, and there are 885 of them in this group alone. On all sides the vast forest, opeii and attractive, filled with other trees, such as the pines and silver firs, would enchain one's attention anywhere. Here we seem to wall: among the gods of old, to hold converse with the giants of antiquity. It is the usual custom to hurry through after a feverish journey to reach this gvc. forest, but I would advise at least a day for rest and contemplation.

FRED A. OBER.

BICYCLES AND SAVINGS.

How Back Deposits Have Been Affected by the Purchase of Wheels. [Spccial Correspondence.]

DETROIT, fc'ept 21.—I met the president of a prosperous savings bank in oue of the minor cities of the middle west on a railroad train yesterday aud we fell to talking about the evex increasing popularity of the bicycle. "Everyone understands, of course," he said, "that the use of the wheel has come to be well nigh universal, and that millions on the back of millions cf dollars must be invested in the silent steeds, but you can hardly realize to what au extent they are used unless yen are placed in a position somewhat like mine. In a small town, like the one in which I live, tho savings bank men may easily become personally acquainted with practically every depositor, and I make it a point to take full advantage of that circumstance. Consequently I am often advised with concerning the financial affairs of our depositors, which, though intrinsically small, are of vast importance to them. This makes it all right for me to question depositors now and then about their savings. "Early last spring I noticed that a number of mechanics who had long been in the habit of making regular deposit? and whom I supposed had steady employment became decidedly irregular in their visit»to the bank. Others stopped depositing altogether, and still othen who continued to deposit regularly put in less each time than formerly. Katrally I began to make inquiries, and more than three-quarter® of those spoke to confessed that their surplus money was being used to meet installment payments on bicycles instead of finding its way to the savings banks. 1 suppose our bank's deposits must have fallen off some thousands of dollars from this cause, though I haven't taken the trouble to make a careful estimate. In the whole country installment payments tor bicycles must have decreased the tc&al savings banks' receipts by rerr targe amounts, though, of course, there have probably been compensatory depod ts from workmen in bicycle shops In towns where such establishments are looated." A. JL

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TEKEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897.

AT BELGIUM'S CAPITAL.'

fho Cafes, the Lace Girls, the Long BOli and the Workers. [Special Correspondence.]

BRUSSELS, Sept 11.—Brussels is aptly nicknamed "Little Paris." Only big Paris is not so expensive. In the Belgian Paris the soup costs as much as a whole dinner in French Paris.

In the evening we came to a cafe where there were many tables and no people. We liked the exclusiveness. So we sat down. A fat man with goatee and velvet coat collar waddled forward, shaking his head and wringing his hands in aggressive despair.

Jim said to him in French, "What ails you anyway?" Then the fat man talked through 15 hungry minutes. He was the proprietor. His waiters were on a strike had struck for salaries instead of the tipping system, like the waiters in all the cafes where salaries were not paid. They were tired of depending upon tips alone. Many of them even had to pay big for the privilege of being waiters and earning small tips. It seems that in Brussels tips have a habit of fluctuating like stocks. Tips go up or down, according to customers. For instance, when independent travelers come tips go up, for there is one tip from each traveler but when a gang of Cook's tourists arrive the tip market drops, for the tourists gorge and the "personal conductor" will leave one tip for the gang. Now, the waiters had struck for regular salaries. Refused, they had struck, and "grandly sorry, but messieurs could not be served."

We strolled on therefore to a sidewalk cafe of fewer tables and many customers. The waiters here must have worked on the salary plan. They waited until they were good and ready to wait upon us. When our bill was presented, Jim said, "No wonder Cook's people can't tip." Then he proposed we leave Brussels soon as we had seen the carpet men and the lace girls. Jim hates costly places.

By carpet men he meant the weavers of a carpet more celebrated in America than in Europe—brussels carpet By lace girls ho meant those who make the brussels point lace which American ladies affect on parasols at Newport also veils, such as brides wear. More brussels bride's veils and more brussels point lace are marketed in America than in Europe. American estates, with laces included, are not entailed.

Jim liked the lace girls Their haggard faces touched his heart You always know when a girl is a lace girl. She has a deep, red ring round her eyes. Her face looks peculiar, like a mask, or as if "made up" for a grotesque part on the staga Why not? Usually a Brussels lace girl works for a week of days on a single square inch of stuff that is like cobweb. At the end of a year she has produced one handkerchief. After years of such work the rings around her eyes are very deep and very red. M^n-

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AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSION.

while brussels lace handkerchiefs sell in the United States for $250 each, and the girls who make them receive 1 franc per day, or about 350 francs, or $70, for a handkerchief and a year's work. And this arithmetic ignores tho lace girl's eyes. When Jim had been in Brussels only 24 hours, he said he could tell by the rings aror.nd her eyes how many years a girl had been lacemaking.

Tcday is one of Brussels many fete days—one of Belgium's days for the industrials, a day similar to our American Labor day. The lace girls are everywhere in holiday costumes. The carpet men are having an outing corresponding in its nature to an American picnic. The Bourse and the Palais de Justice, two of the finest buildings of the kind, are closed, and the flower market out in the suburbs, the most gorgeous flower market in Europe, is open. The figurehead king, more ornamental than useful, has gone out to his country placc. The people own the streets, as in Paris on the day of the Bastilo. Awnings are stretched across the streets from house to house. The Manikin, the world famous fountain of the Manikin, is dressed up in a suit of blue jeans. Tonight there will be an industrial parade, a sort of torchlight procession. The striking waiters will bo at its head. The industrial parade, by the way, is of almost weekly occurrence in all the cities of Belgium.

We had fc^en out driving. In the narrow streets the tram cars pulled off the track, rattled over the Belgian blocks around our carriage, then resumed the track. The passengers made no sign of impatience.

We passed a carriage manufactory. It was a big house. The poet Byron called it a palace, for that was tike residence of the Duchess of Richmond who gave the big ball on the eve before Waterloo, wbcfi "there was a sound of revelry by nigh\ l^ie carriage manufactory seemed prosperous.

Jim has decided that the distinguishing features of life in Brussels are the lace girls' red eyes, the waiters' bine prospects, the cafes" long bills and the dogs short .tails, for Brussels believes that ioug tailed dogs go mad.

Ftxm E. DCSHAM.

How V%lmbtes Are Made.

Dies of the different sizes are used, Into which the metal, whether gold, silver or steel, is pressed. The hole punching, fiuishing, polishing dud tempering are done afterward. Celluloid and rubber are molded. The best thimbles are made in France, where the process is more thorough. The first step in the making of a Paris thimble is the cutting into a disk of the desired size a thin pieoe of sheet iron. This is brought to a red heat, placed over a graduated hole in an iron bench and hammered down into it with a punch. This hole is in the form of a thimble. The iron takes its shape and is removed from the hole. The little indentations to keep the needle from slipping are made in it and all the other finishing strokes of the perfect thimble put on it. The iron is then made into steel by a process peculiar to the French thimble maker and is tempered, polished and brought to a deep blue color. A thin sheet of gold is then pressed into the interior of the thimble and fastened there by a mandrel. Gold leaf is attached to the outside by groat pressure, the edges of the loaf being fitted in and held. by small grooves at the base of the thimble. The article is then ready fGr use. The gold will last for years. The steel never wears out, and the gold can be readily replaced at any time.—Dry Goods Chronicle.

Her Awkward Norse.

Helen Hunt Jackson's descriptive power was eloquent, even on a sickbed. I find this picture of her awkward nurse in a letter written in March, 1872 To Dr. Nichols:

A communication, 6:45 a.m. Can 1 endure tho presence of this surly, aimless cow another day? No! Whyf

She has less faculty than any human being 1 ever undertook to direct in small matters. When 1 ask her to bring me anything, slit rises slowly with a movement like nothing 1 ever saw in life, unless it be a derrick.

She sighs and drops her under jaw after every exertion. She "sets" with a ponderous inertia which produces on me the most remarkable effect. have a morbid Impulse to fling my shoes at her head and see what would come of it.

She asks mo in dismal tones if 1 am well in other ways besides my throat, conveying the impression by hor slow rolling eye that I loolt to her like a bundle of unfathomable diseases.

She takes the tray out of a trunk to get some article at the bottom—where articles always are—and, having given me the article, n-ks helplessly if she shall put the tray back again. Happy thought! Next time I'll tell her: "No We keep the trays in piles on tho floor." fa this Christian? No, for she is well mean ing and wishes to do aright, and I don't doubt every glance of my eye sends a thrill of unex piainable discomfort through her.

But us a professional nurse she is the biggest joko 1 ever saw. I honestly believe a person seriously ill might bo killed in a few hours by hor presence. If you ever wish to practico euthanasy with safety on one of your hopelesj cases, send Mrs. to nurse it, unless tb° patient has a sense of humor keen enough t-o rise above all else. HELEN HUNT JACKSON. —Time aud The Hour.

Just Like Him.

The Rev. Walter Colton, author of "Ship aud Shore" and other books, gave a most forcible illustration of the character of au officer on board the ship to which be was attached as chaplain.

The officer was always meddling with other people's business and was seldom in his own place. Consequently he was most unpopular with the sailors.

Oue of them, goaded to unusual irritation, said one day, "I do believe that at the general resurrection the lieutenant will be found getting out of somebody else's grave."

Just Do It.

Evadne, after failing many times to seach a desired goal, arrives at this conclusion:

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do a thing aud don't

talk about it. This is the great secret of success in all enterprises. Talk means discussion, discussion means irritation, irritation means opposition, ~nd opposition meaus Ijindrance always, whether you are right or wrong."—"Heavenly Twins."

The oldest lock in existence is the one which formerly secured one of the doors of Nineveh. It is a gigantic affair, and the key to it isuear] ittrt6 feet in length aud of the thickness of a four inch drain tile.

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the truth my mother has lived with one foot in the grave, writes Mrs. Eugene Stantzenberg, of No. 1 6 0 4 W a Ave., Houston, Texas, in a letter to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. "With a most thankful heart I •w- 11 tell you about the won­

derful cure effected in her case. She has been a perfect wreck for seven long

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Tens of thousands of women have found complete and permanent relief from obstinate and seemingly incurable disease by using the wonderful remedies referred to above. The "Golden Medical Discovery" possesses the peculiar property of nourishing and vitalizing the blood with the lifegiving red corpuscles which build up healthy flesh and muscular strength.

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For weak and nervous women these two medicines taken conjointly constitute the most marrelously successful course of treatment known to the medical profession.

For nearly years Dr. Pierce has been chief cansaltine physician to the Invalid*" Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y.. at the head of a splendid staff of awodit* specialist*, graduates from the Iradimr medical universities of America and Europe.

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Good Rules For Living.

Much of late has been written about the various kinds of food which particularly nourish or supply the waste of the brain. That the labors of the brain are exhausting to the animal economy is very true, but the experience of tho studious has proved that it is not so much the intensity of the study,as the length of time speut on it and neglect of relaxation that produce the exhaustion. German students generally study more hours thau we do here, yet breakdowns very rarely occur among them The reason of this is they take better care of the body for the ?uke cf tho miiid —of the house because of the tenant that occupies it.

The real fact is that the majority of us rust out rather thau wear ear*. That the brain is af.ccted both by the quality aud quantity of the food and drink like other parts of the body—perhaps more in proportion to the amount of blood it contains—no physiologist will deny. But that there are certain kinds of food—say fish and milk, as some have maintained—which are specially adapted to repair the exhausted brain has never been actually demonstrated. The best way to preserve the brain is above all not to unduly tax it, to eat temperately of such food as has been found hy experience to agree with the stomach, to avoid late suppers and night work and to sleep as much as nature requires.—New York Ledger.

Quaker Honesty.

In the "Ghronioles of a Kentuoky Settlement" is given an instance of integrity which deserves to be made historical. It is related of three brothers who were importing merchants in North Carolina before the war of the Revolution. They were Quakers, as were many of the early colonists of that state. The story, if true, goes to show that in this country private honor is too often superior to the public conscience.

During the war North Carolina, and, we believe, others of the colonies, passed an ordinance requiring citizens owing money to subjects of Great Britain to pay the amount into the treasury of the state, which thereby assumed the position of debtor to the foreign creditor.

Harcourt Bros, owed at the time a large amount for goods imported, and this amount they paid as soon as possible to the state treasurer. After the termination of the war and the signing of the treaty of peace, the English creditors, unable to recover the amouut due them from the state, which had been hopelessly bankrupted by the long and severe struggle for independence, demanded payment from the original debtors, as they were allowed to do by the terms of the treaty of peace.

The Harcourts, who wero honorable merchants, paid again in full, althoi:?:!. in so doing they were,in their old ip. left comparatively poor.

"Salvation Oil cured me of a shoulder lameness and pain in back, contracted playing ball last season. I tried several other remedies and all failed. Chas. Meat's.. 122 Water St., Cleveland. O."

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Wartime Fare In Virginia.

Tho income of the professors of tho University of Virginia, says Professor B. Gildcrsleeve in The Atlantic, was nominally the same during the war that it was before, but the purchasing power of tho oujreuoy steadily diminished. If it had not been for a grant of woodland, we should have frozen as woll as starved during the Inst year of the war, when the quest of food had become a serious matter In otir dlre-v straits we had not learned to dispense with household service, and the household servants were never stinted of their rations, thonprh the masters had to content themselves with the most meager fare The fanners, generous enough to the soldiers, were' not overcons^Jfato of the noncombatnnts Often tho c-nly way of procuring our coarse food was by mak-. ing contracts to l»e paid after the war in legal currency, and sometimes payment in gold was exacted The contracts were not always kept, and the linforturiato civilian had to make new contracts at an enhanced price.

Before my first campaign in 1861 had bought a little gold and silver in raise of capture, and if it had uot l)een for that precious hoard I might not have been writing this sketch but, despite the experience of the airy gnntlemen who alighted in Richmond during the war. even gold and silver would not always work wonders. Bacon and corned beef in scant measure wero the chief of our diet, and not always easy to procure. I have ridden miles and miles with silver in my palm seeking daintier food for the women of my household, but in vain There was nothing to do except

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tighten one's belt and to write

editorials showing up the selfishness of the farming class and prophesying the improvement of the currency.

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gAMUELM. HUSTON, Lawyer, Notary Public.

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I have now taken several bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and used three packages of Sanative Wash, and can say I am perfectly cured. I do not think I could have lived long if Mrs. Pinkham's medicine had not helped me.— MRS. JOSKPH PETERSON, 513 East St., Warren, Pa.

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