MONSTER STEAM SHOVEL

the Iodk »rm r*i*od asJ Iwwwed that ; SWINDLE FOLKS BY MAIL

It la accounted slow work If mart) j than flrtf'Tnlnut#* -b«* conaumod iu loading a car. and not frequently cars

ed and puilied

toe way of the shovel at tlie rate of I one every two minutes. From eight to a dozen men are required- to I operate a shovel of fair capacity, and | by steady work they can place fully

Ot .11 a* rabuM! .orkb... ! “f* to ..I.. b„„„ eo.™, to porfortulBK h ”"f' tntal uoU-noklom prol»W tb, mo.t i " ‘‘ «<“••»-! tUt U- moo ioM-fol .. .,»m olio.- | ><• «-» °'‘ .to A duoiImt ot iB»o Hum .110 ' >U ^ 11 ”?>

lr -i„„ nills _ I necessary to resort to blasting to loos- . en tlie ore. so that It may slide down . . / _ to the shovel, and It la further easenUal

rur. z'ztzz'z. ™, ^ ■» “““ u ' - ^

been adapted has directed an Increas- [ Ing degiee of ^ttenUon to this import- i

. WHY POST OFFICE PEOPLE THINK “A SUCKER’S BORN EVERY MINUTE.”

tM> of U«rth KsImU St Os* H Lsrg* Uock.t. Which MU as Car with Orest Kspldll? — Kugu Which Dll. Carry and Lin.

shift the cara as rapidly ss they are filled, thus preventing delay.

o,, o.t,, i.po,. i lmiiltan«>u.ly ... j |oi ^ oU> . j faiturlng establishments. Some of the

That Ar* Oatllas Klch Miruuah -Scbam*." Which OusItt Not ta Kr.a Katrap a Shrewd Child of Tsa. "Notwithstanding the fact that we are generally credited with being a newspaper-reading nation. I am often tempted to believe that there mutt be many millions of Intelligent persons In the United States who’ never so much as glance at the head lines of - "“••~tper,"

)01ce

rate. If these millions to whom 1 refer ever actually do read the newspapers, their gullibility must be bo as to be unfathomable. The

the country that he had got hold of ■ lot of ‘lucky stones’ on his travel* through India, which he was willing to purvey by mail upon the receipt of a fl per atone. The money that chap got was something fabulous. The dollars were Jual raining In. when the Inspectors swooped upon his offlee and cleared him out. He didn’t core taen whether be was cleaned out or not

He had got the money.

"Something over a year ago the department nailed a clever woman who was operating uer little dodge down In Florida—a woman of tremendous

i. She s

was.

and sen

Washington street, docs all repair-1 ing neatly thoroughtly and at reasonable prices. He has been! doing business in Cape May for elven year*. Rips in uppers sewed oy machine with tilk to match. Losl or broken eyelets or hooks replaced.

saving miu bines. Simultaneously new domands have been made upon the manufacturers, and the new recrulta In the army ot Inanimate shovellers are each fully one-third beav|er and correspondingly more powerful than

the old type.

Already these machines have some surprising achievements to their credit in m&Llog ex.-avations for railroads and canals. Thus far. however, one of dhe principal uses of the steam shovel has be«n that of handling raw material. Such as coke, coal and limestone* unload lug ^from mi I load cars, transferring from stb^k piles to furnace*, etc. v PraUlcalty-Ajll of the steam shovels In use throughout the country are oC one general type. Inasmuch as \ the shovels pre designed for almost continuous service at the hardest kind of work, and. from the' nature of things and the undeveloped portion of the country In which they are often employed. must not only be subjected to all kinds of weather, but also receive

in short. a$ nearly unbreakable os possible. lo theU:onstruction of the up-lo-dau- steam shovels there are employed steel beams, steel and Iron forgings and steel plates and castings. Comparatively little cast Iron is used In any part ot the machine, even the gearing being of cast steel and the shafting of hammered steeT. The parts are Joined with a filling of white oak. To manipulate the monster scoop that does ns much shovelling as a force

forth the fact^t. If ■

machines put to such use are operated by electric motors Instead of by steam. Numerous improvements have of late been made in steam shovels In general. One of these gives greater latitude of movement to the dipper. The old-fash-ioned steam shovel dipper was limited to a vertlcle thrust, but iu the newer machines the big scoop is not only enabled to revolve In a complete circle, but the dipper is fitted with a sliding trolley, to which Is suspended by an adjustable arm. and about which it rotates. Indeed, the present mechanism even renders It possible to remove the dipper entirely and make use of the machine as a locomotive crane. In the new-etyle machine all the movements are controlled by levers so arranged as to be operated by one man stationed on a platform at the front of the machine. Within the past year or two many steam shovels have been exported to Europe, where they are coming into extensive use for railroad and canal excavation, as well as for irons tening material in manufacturing establishments.—Philadelphia Becord.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

A curious coin used by the Gauls about 2000 years ago was shaped like a horseshoe or the capital letter U. and was about a quarter of an Inch

thick and two inches across.

. Pennsylvania was originally settled

of TO ooturoll, tout™, coo.10.r- j by Swea „ , t!7 „„ .^'T; “ ! •oWoi.t.O In rsss b7 th. oMsbOorlo. ” - . - - D u t c h of New Amsterdam (New York),

who themselves passed under English rule In lt>$4. Philadelphia and Pennsylvania proper were founded by Penn

in 168*.

half a dozen engines. There are a pair of swinging engines, a pair of reversing engines and a pair of thrusting engines. so that every motion of the ponderous shovel is accurately controlled. Thy water tank connected wi:h the shovel and the storage bln for fuel ore of sufficient capacity to enable the largest size shovel to be. In operation continuously for fully eight hours. There U a wide range in the size of the scoops or buckets, of steam shovels, according to the work for which they are Intended. In some Instances a shovel lr. fitted with a bucket which will not held more than one or two tons, but os a rule the capacity is such that from four to eight tons of material are lifted at every ai-oop ot the tre-

{ A St. Petersburg medical student. M. Kalomaizeff. has Just completed a cu1 rlous scientific experiment: be has hatched out a turkey's egg by carry-

ing it about for 18 In consequence of

J crowd of people In St. Petersburg are now endeavoring to hatch out geese. : hens and ducks in the same manner. ; It is a healthier occupation than hatch-

ing plots.

8 days u >f his su

The dwarfs as well as the giants are

: _ ~ ; caught in the net of French compul».y b. ..a TOnamlal’ ! bm'artTOal

1, Iron ,1a.. b,aTO..r. ; aoaaTO«p/ | , a U „ | „ u „ ll „ H l. 1.

ba '> Frucl, FIma; 1. come* from Moat AUodAM gauge. Ami, 1, ,h« mAln. ear, ; j,,,;., ,, ^T , ..DPOrttb.tAr. le . ^

* IrMCl-ta It IA Urn. «u„pM u, , lt , M b. imma cat., a r *" 1 “ '* U ™“ " l “‘ | - ; or Ac, -Ill AU com-Aa... bat In, .ad mtloAdlat ol -.Web It m.y b. a^. h

engaged, or If It U desired to transfer : through town the shovel from one place to another it

mAf b, bAoW a. Ab oraioAn Mrtt At oo. tlm.. If a JAwomm ,lrl mAr.

' ried a foreigner, she was instantly de-

One of the remarkable attributes of ; capitated. A Portuguese was probathe modern steam shovel is the ability b i y flrst European to toarry a of the great, ungainly machine to lift daughter of the land of the chryson-

department Is cunstan.ly Issuing fraud 1 orders against individuals ai firms engaged In getting rl j operation of schemes that it would seem as If any shrewd child of 10 j ought to be able to see through with-

' out the least bother.

"The other day. for example, the department got after a chap out In Clnclnna.l who for some months bad been ; conducting what he called a ‘turf bureau.’ He allaged to his really admi’-•ubly-wrltten circulars that he had private and absolute certain methods of obtaining Information as to the horses that wi re slated to win races on tracks all over the United States, and be guaranteed returtis of .remendous proportions. Well, when we looked this ' fellow up. he promptly skipped, and his Incoming mail was seized. It seems j Incredible, but every day’s mall brought In thousands of dollars. In amounts ranging from $5 actually up to 8500. and the letters inclosing rash and checks were nearly all of them I apparently written by persons of education. The book in which the man kept his simple account of cash received showed that since he put his scheme into operation he had taken I In no less a sum than 8185.000. almost - out of the question as It may appear. 1 He has go; away. but. even if he Is cap- ] lured. I very much doubt If any very | heavy punishment can be visited upon j him. Those slippery chaps who work j their dodges by means of the mails j have the money to employ first-rate ] lawyers, and these lawyers can generally successfully construe their clients’ I circulars as not having really prom- | leed anything to the gulls after all. “The endless chain schemes that the deportment run* down year after year are all of them money-makers for their : operators. It would actually seem as ; if all a ‘busted’ Individual bad to do to get rich Is to get a lot of circulafa ; printed and send them out. borrowing j the money for postage, and there will always be enough gulls to start him : on his. way. The cherry-tree scheme I worked by a gang of southern men. ! one of them a clergymen, was a col- ! ossal success for IU promoters, sad j yet not a man in the crowd had a coin j to bless himself with when they start- ! ed the endless chain scheme In mo- | tlon. The more recent fountain-pen j fraud, worked by a couple of Pennsylvanians. yielded returns that went In

circulars to the effect that she natural-born healer of any old disease I that was ever Included In a medical : physical, and she act )

anything, she i

: healer -

than ehe was as s contact healer. All ^ the persons afflicted with any sort of j disease had to do wa; to hike a 85 | note along to her; and she would spend | five minutes at a certain hour of the j day or night thinking of the person | remitting the money. Thus, the afflict- j ed one would be made whole. If I ! remember correctly, this little woman pulled in some-tiling like 8200.000 with her scheme, and If she had really devoted five minutes of thought each day to each of her subscribers the day | would have had lo be about two 1 months long. The beauty of the sltua- i tlon in her case was that absolutely : nothing could be done in the way of ' punishment to her. She clung to It when nailed that she really was on ab tent healer all right—although there was a merry twinkle In her eye as she said it—and the government hadn't . way of proving that she wasn’t what

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to speak. Almost any of the steam shovels now in use will dump material 1C or 1? feat above the level of the rails on which the shovel stands, end some of them, which have exceptionally long arms, will lift the huge dippers 20 feet or more above the track. As might be expected. « Is necessary when constructing a machine which Is to perform such work as this tc provide every possible safeguard against the constant wrenching and twisting which ore inevitable, particularly when the dipper Is operated rapidly. To minimize the drains It la the custom to place cushions of wood between the steel parts of the machine. Probably the most Interesting steam shovels In the world ore to be found on the “Mesaba Range." one of thefflve districts which go to make the T Superior mining region. Herethey render possible in !u present scale of magnitude the so-called "open-pit mining the shovelling of iron ore directly from Its natural reeling place in the earth to the railroad car* .which are to carry 1C to market. An "open-plf mine Is nothlnf more or less than an Immense hole In/the ground, perhaps half a mile squat*. Into this railroad sidings are run,' as they might be Into a vast quarry, and in some of those mines, where fully a million tons of ore is taken out each year, there Is In operation simultaneously anywhere from half a dozen to a dozen of the large

The type of shovel mod extensively used In mining operations U 40 fset In length and nearly 10 feet in width. The holler is nearly 5 fed In diameter, and the boom or arm of th* ■hovel ranges In length anywhere from 2S to 30 feet. Such a shovel weighs more from 87.000 to 810,000. Uii tath*>n£ the moot remarkable reoords df rapid

themum with impunity. He went there 30 years ago. an J fell In love with a Japanese girl. Her parent* warned her of the fatal consequences of marrying him, but she persisted, with the result that the Mikado decided that she must be beheaded. However, after a correspondence of over five years’ duration between the Portuguese and Japanese governments, she was per-

mitted to live.

The horse# of the Pilgrims were all alike In form and size. After cutting down trees and Rawing logs of suitable length, the men fragged them by hand along the ground—for there were no horses or other beasts of burden—and upon another, thus fonnProbably the chimneys

paper taking the place of glass for windows. At the best, these log-houses were poor makeshifts for dwellings in the severe winter along the bleak New England coast. For furnishing these simple homes, the Pilgrims had brought over such articles as large arm-chairs, wooden settles, hlgh-pogtc 1 beds, truckle-beds for young children and cradles for babies. The cooking was done In a big fireplace. Here th* housewife baked bread in large ovens.

haven’t

! ber of similar endless-chain schemes I are belngworked this very day that ’ we shall have to go after later on. "The people who bite on these end- . leas-chain schemes all obviously want j a vHJole lot for nothing, or little or I nothing, and this, combined with their ; strange simplicity, is at the bottom of | the success of the fellows who attempt to make their fortunes through the : use of the mails. ! "You would naturally suppose that persons sufficiently intelligent to possess an Interest in stock speculation j would be able to steer clear of 'invest- ; ment agents' whom they only know of i through circulars, would you not? And j yet the department Is constantly in ! receipt of tales of woe from indiviI duals who hare Invested sizeable sums ; of money with New York and Chicago swindlers claiming to conduct speculative businesses. who operate entirely through the molls. These outfits are broken up by the United States postoffice authorities as soon as their fraudulent character Is dearly established. but it seems Impossible to drive these fellows who run the alleged investment agencies wholly exit of -business. The game's too easy for them, and they are fully aware of the great difficulty found In convicting them. As soon as one ‘brokerage’ firm carries on Its business entirely by mall Is smashed the men who have been successfully conducting it simply move down to another block and open up another ‘brokerage’ offlee under another firm name. -The shift only Involves their getting out another batch ot literature. The thousands and thousands of dollars which these

hod to keep turning In b all sides of the roeet allk various kinds of food la hong over the fire.

1. Next to being womanly is lot* womanliness. There Is, massure of the Ml* Quality

makes It patent i men and worn-

themselves on

that they are educated

en la a perpetual source of astoalsh-

“The smaller fry of moil swindlers ore the fellows who advertise that they will send ‘solid gold watches' and all that sort of thing upon the receipt of •one dollar.- Now docent It seem reasonable to Imagine that any man or perfectly well UyUs! soUdgold watch, or whatever other article It may be. perhaps % genuine diamond- ring/ cannot be bought for the sum of ‘one dollar?' And yet there are responses

j dodges nearly always get rich. ' a fello a very

any such a contention. "Not in recent years have any of these mall swindlers been so bold as that Humorist who. advertising that he would send a certain way M getting rich on receipt of a 81. sei out little slips containing the words,“Work like the devil and never spenff a cent.' but manipulators of the malls almost as brazen are constantly requiring suppression. When one stops to reflect upon how many years this sort of moil swindling has been going on. and then -considers how many teas of millions of newspapers containing accounts of such swindles are constantly being thrown off of American presses, one Is tempted to take stock in that old aphorism of Hungry Joe’s that ‘there's a sucker born every minute and they never die.' "—Washington Star. THE SPIDERS' WAYS.

Thtm Well. In'connection with the question of whether adders swallow their young upon danger threatening, a correspondent wrote, it may be remembered, ask-

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tend to their young at all? This tlon. like the other, has been more than once. Some have declared the belief that the common lizard will tend its young: others that the ringed

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where she has deposited her egj thing hard to credit It is very I estlng to notice the wide dlffei that exists among animals In the

ter of yratchlng over or of neglecting ! *». ■■ their eggs and hatched offspring. ! _ . - , ____ _ TtiG Herald their offspring In embryo. But there 1 " —— ..i.ii

ore spiders, on the other hand, that mko a most lively interest In their eggs and young, and carry them about At the present time of year a spider

called—I ‘ -

I know of no English name foi

field or g a white nilk beg. about the size of her *b.e.oerres ths body, to which be attached by some viscous .matter. 1 1 found the other day some -difficulty In ranking her yield possession for a while of this receptacle. She clung to ‘ it with the utmost tenacity, and If one lifted the bag one had to lift the spider with IL At length, without Injury, the spider and the bag were separated.

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eagerness. This she appeared to do not by sight so much as by feel. I With her forefeet she seized and ex- 1 omlned but Instantly rejected several ! things lying about which bore no re- ; semblance to the silk bog. Her touch ; was unerring. I never recognized be- : fore the full truth of the lines: ! "The spiders touch, how exquisitely : fine! Fee& at each thread, and Uvea along the line/*

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louse—which at the

If up into 1 at once

armadillo 1 flrst sign ol

a ball—and relinquishing this

try whether a tiny clod were her lost ;

These creatures do not make wet*

by which to capture their prey, but i ■talk It on the ground. The moat fa- :

mans spider In this family It the B-^tlsh tarantula, which is also 1 attached to her egg-ball and her y-

when they ore born. Another wolf I spider of England, which closely resemble# the comprestrls In habits. Is | called Lrooea eaccata. She. too, carries about on her person a precious : bag of eggs Bonnet the French notnr- J allst. to whom some of the famous let- 1 ter* of Huber on bee* were addressed, | once, to test the affection of this spider ' for her eggs, put her in a hole where i an ant-lion lurked, watchful for prey, i The wider tried to escape, but the i ant-lion seized and took away her bag , of eggs The spider gave^attle at once 1 to the a«t-Uon. and struggled deeper- 1

sUn her lost delight-

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