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He also states that three and one-half
miles east of Ely in section 80 there is un-
doubtedly the greatest outcrop and surface
showing of ore that has ever been found in
the Vermilion Or any other iron range.
The title to this property is in dispute, but
its settlement Is only a question of time.
Iron men estimate that from it an output
for the first year of at least 500, 900 tons can
be made. 1t is said to be worth 81, 900, 900.
1t is well known as the "Hyde 40'' After
all it must be borne in mind that the
development of this iron country is only in
its infancy and with a future which almost
staggers belief and intimidates prophecy.
Seen at distance at night the Minnesota
and Chandler mines present a brilliant
spectacle, as they are lighted by powerful
electric plants. The mines of the former
company are now being lighted bv electricity
underground as well. Four times during
the "a hours, a series of blasts are fired in
the Minnesota mines, warning whistles and
danger limit contributing to guard against
accidents. Intermingled with the deep
boom of the giant blasts will be heard the
shrill singing of the rocks as thev go flying
through the air and woe betide the man or
spot where they alight. Everybody makes
no scruple of seeking shelter at such times.
The larger masses can frequently be seen in
the air as they mount or descend.
A HOSPITAL AND SURGEONS.
To cover cases of sickness or accident and
provide for skilled medical and surgical
aid, the company provides a hospital and
competent doctors. Each workman pays a
small fee toward this fund, and becomes
thereby entitled to medicines and the best
of treatment. There was no one in the
hospital when we were there. The miners
also have a protective association or mining
club to which they contribute an assess
ment from their pay roll, and when one of
them is killed his heirs get $500, snd smaller
sums in proportion for smaller injuries.
The Minnesota Iron Company is one of
the largest, if not one OF the very largest
iron mining corporations in existence. One
OF its prominent officials told me that its
property was bought for about $S, 0OO, 900,
and is now considered by them to be worth
$14, 600, 900. In many respects the interests
and ownsrs Of the mining property and of
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A RACE HORSE ON THE OCEAN.

He Was rs Cool as the Coolest Tar Under
Trying Circumstances.
New York Tribune.1
The writer once travelled with q racehorse
on board steamer, and became deeply in
terested in the animals behavior, as in fact
did the entire population of the vessel. 1t
was generally acknowledged that there was
no better sailor on board, before the mast or
behind it. His stall, few pieces of scant-
ling nailed together. was in the steerage, 20
feet from the port bow, and he stood there
in one position for IL days and nights. No
one saw him move hoof during the voyage.
He was not afraid. In the roughest
weather, and some of it was so rough that
the vessel which had been going with the
storm, turned around and steamed in the
teeth of it for eight long hours, he kept his
nose in the oat-box, swaying back and forth
and from side to side as gracefully and con-
tentedly as an old tar. At times it was i'm
possible for sailor to stand on deck with
out support.
The horse never lost his balance. Three
hundred sheep were in the steerage with
him. The first night out 180 were washed
overheard. Fifty died from exposure. He
did:not seem to suffer in the slightest degree,
and when the ship reached port he, pranced
down the gangplank as sportively as
thoroughbred ought to prance.
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Three Feet Of SnolO. of the largest output
of the first-class Bessemer ores is at Sou
dan, on the Vermilian range and lake just
back of Tower. The Minnesota Iron Com
pany's mines are here The company's
present winter force of LOO men will soon
be increased to over 800. Its output last
year. as returned to the State Auditor, was
535, I'll tons. 1t plans to make its output
this year 100000 tons larger. Its present
output is over 2 1000 tons daily.
THE ENORMOUS SHIPMENTS.
The immense stock piles accumulating
are an impressive sight. The company is
now shipping 20 car loads day to its harbor
pockets at Two Harbors, &c miles distant.
Later this shipment will be at the rate of
200 car loads daily These shipments last
season from here and the Chandler and
Pioneer mines at Ely, q miles to the east
ward, at the present terminus of the Duluth
and Iron Range Railroad, reached the rate
of 3S trains of 19 loaded cars, with 20 tons to
the car, every "a hours. The company is
now preparing to Immediately build rail-
rood extension around back of the range
proper. so as to mine its property along the
Vermlllon lake slope and carry out the ores
from the two shafts already in operation
there. There is large amount of ore on
that slope awaiting mining until the ex-
tension is built so that 1t can be shipped ad-
vantageously. The flats to the left of No.
u it also expects TO mine as it has been
found that it is full of rich ores. Of the
shafts at Soudan, No 12 Alaska, Arm
strong and Butte are new and this year will
be their first seasons operation. Beside
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THE WIDOWS OF INDIA.
Strange Superstition That Makes Her Lot
Doubly Hard TO Bear.

Strnage Superstition That Makes Her Lot
Doubly Hard to Bear.
Woman's Journal
In India widow must not change her
clothes for 13 daysa after her husbands fu-
neral. No one pays any attention to her or
gives her a kind word. She must be con-
tent with one meal day and at the end OF
this time her head is shaved. The Hindoos
say the soul of man after his death goes to
heaven quickly and pleasantly in proportion
to the sufferings Of his wife during the
month after his death. Consequently the
mother-in-law and the rest of these relatives
try to make these suferings as great as possi-
BILE. Even in death she has not the funeral
of other women.
In the northwest provinces of India,
where the holiest of the Hindoos live, the
woman is often dragged along with the
husbands corpse to the cremation. She is
pushed into the water and made to stand
there while the body is burning. She comes
home in her wet clothes, and she dare not
change them. It matters not if she be sick,
or whether the weather be warm or cold.
She sleeps in these clothes for 13 days, and
she is prosecuted by all.
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IContinued From Last Sursday.J

living on erusts. To-day am ready to do
anything. Ii anyone were to ask me to
steal 1 verify believe could do it; if were
asked to libel and SANDER anyone L could
do 1t; if they wanted me to commit murder
I would be able to do even that. Hunger is
powerlul!'
Schelm had listened attentively to the
words Of his old schoolmate. When he
paused he shrugged his shoulders and said
brutally:
"What is all this to me?'
"You are just as kind, see, as you used
to be," replied Miller. 81 thought would
please you by telling you my history. I felt
a certain comfort in seeing you, whom ex-
pected to find rich and happy, looking any
thing but happy-your disordered dress
your melancholy face-all this encouraged
me to offer you my hand"
"Who told you was poor and unhappy"
interrupted Schlem. "On the contrary, I
hold high office and have a salary of II, 900
rubles. Perhaps you like to hear that
news?'
81 6 Is it po 'sible?" cried Miller, "that's very
different, I'm sure. Pardon me, but be 90
XII Id as to lend me 25 rubles.'
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as soon as the owners are ready to give the
word it can and will become one of the
heaviest shippers of the range. 1t is con-
sidered very fine property. Hon. John C.
Spooner is one of its principal owners. Its
Chandler. .-. ....
Immediately adjoining and east of the
Pioneer, is the Zenith Iron Mining Com
pany's property and the BerriDger and
section 26, all said to show fine deposits of
ore, but at present being held for sale. I'M
mediately west is the famous Lockhardt
property, the title to which is now being
contested at Washington. West and north
of Ely it is said that the explorations bid
fair to develop separate range. Imme-
diately south again James II. James, ESQ.,,
of Duluth, has developed enough to satisfy
him that he controls extensive deposits.
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blankets were embroidered with minute and
varied designs in fancy colored bead work.
They wore high collars, a la Russian style.
from which dangled and tinkled little bells
FOR SNOW, ICE AND WATER.
The toboggan was about ten feet lonp
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CHAPTER III.

The drizzling rain had, in the meantime,
become very hard rain-it poured. And
yet Schelm was still wandering about, un-
min dful. without his hat or spectacles. His
egotism had been terribly wounded, and this
aroused in him all his evil passions. He
was so excited that he could not even devise
plan OF revenge, and yet his mind, as well
as his heart, thirsted for revenge. His in
stinct told him that he could form plans
only in the ministry, and without any clear
purpose he returned to his Office. The per-
spirat1on ran from his brow, and his scanty
hair was damp. His eyes. always infamed,
were bloodshot and bleared. He looked
horrible in his dumb despair. Only after
he had walked about half way he stopped
and tried to collect mis- turbulent thoughts.
''There we see what human life is" he
said to himself. Yesterday fancied I
was on the high road to honors and riches;
to-day all is over, at one blow"
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these there are in active operation Nos. 1. 8
8, z, s, 9, 10, 13 and 19.
Superintendent Pope informed me that
ive-eighths of the companv's ores are
Bessemer ores, and of these nine-tentbs of
the three grades are frst-class. Ofthe non
Bessemer ores the company ships three
grades, tkree-fourths of which are first-class
This last year about two-thirds of the
products went to Cleveland and Lake Erie
ports, including 100000 tons to Buffalo
The other third went to Chicago. He stated
that great deal of the Chandler soft ores of
Ely, went to Asthtabula. The Bessemer
ores which are styled frst-class are those
which come up to the guarantee of 66 or 67
per cent of metallic iron with not over .O55
OF phosphorus.
To speak of these great lodes of ore as
veins, when they are 80, 60, so and even 100
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perhaps about two-thirds the size of Tower,
but is growing rapidly. The woods close in
all around the clearing which it and the
mines occupy, and some of its streets are
thick set with stumps, which have not yet
been removed.
Some of the miners at Soudan make a
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fine mine. Messrs. Conkey and Warren, of
Minneapolis, with Is men and diamond
drills are exploring 62-9-17, east of Ely.
They have been there and thereabout for a
year past. spending great deal of money
satisfactorily to themselves. There is also
an extended series of similar developments
along the Mesabi range, in the future of
which there is a great deal of interest.
1t is astonishing now much OF Upper
Minnesota is as yet unexplored and nm
surveyed. am told that this is true of one
seventh of the State. The counties of ST.
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feet wide and of an unknown depth, seems
hardly expressive enough or sufficiently de-
scrlptive. They have been found 60 feet
wide 400 feet down. One can more readily
picture them as great molten rivers of iron
which have become solid and fixed in their
channels, and which mankind are now en-
well-directed and united hands of labor and
capital are stripping Minnesota's surface
soil, exposing her iron veins, discharging
their contents into the centers of trade, from
which, Through the varied arteries of COM
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doing more work of this kind than ever be-
fore. 1t is expensive work, but it pays.
Three miles to the east the company has an
exploration camp of 20 men and diamond
drills, meeting with magnificent results, as
also another highly satisfactory camp near
Armstrong Lake and another toward Ely.
There seems to be hardly any limit to the
distance under ground, and through rock
and even solid jasper and flint, which these
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PILES OF ORE AT ELY,

by shaft or pit here and there. Then too,
it is said, the company is now reserving on the
lands of the grant to the railroad the min
eral rights, and that wherever mines should
be discovered, the Minnesota Iron Company
would be found stepping forward to control
and mine them. Its iron possessions, present
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and prospective, are therefore practically in
exhaustible. G. B. Coffin, OF Chicago, is
its secretary.
THE MINING POPULATION
The company is building "a new mining
houses. 1t had 81 old ones These are
rented to the miners for about IS month.
Nearly 200 houses are owned by the miners,
built, however, on leased ground, for which
the company charges ground rent of 90
cents monthly. The population at Tower
with that about the mines in the Soudan
district nearby will aggregate about 1000
people. The company will not allow any
stores or saloons to be kept at Soudan, and
the miners and everybody else have to buy
at Tower. Ely and its mining population
and stores, etc., are all together. About
700 miners are now employed there. Ely is
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good deal by taking in boarders and dodgers.
One was pointed out as having a monthly
income from his boarders of $170 and an
other of 5000. Their houses are one and a
half and two stories high and contain from
six to eight rooms. The average charge per
month for room and board is about $40.
While at Soudan your correspondent was
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Louis, of which Duluth, at its southeastern
end, is the county seat, and of Itasca and
Beltrami, contribute large part OF this
area, and are each larger than the States OF
Connecticut and Rhode Island combined,
and indeed approximate well to the size OF
Massachusetts,. Through this northeastern
end of the State lie the known and unknown
iron ranges and mines, as to the extent and
prospects of which there was never so much
reliable information as now. Neither has
there ever been time when those who have
had an opportunity of acquiring informa-
tion upon the subject have felt SO strongly
as now the overwhelming truth of the extent
of
THE AMAZING DEPOSITS
of metallic ores awaiting development
throughout this portion of Minnesota's I'M
perial realm. In the language of noted e1-
pert: "There is no part of the country now
developed where as great quantity of iron
ores, rich in metal and within the 'Besse-
mer limit of phosphorus, can be obtained
as within radius of 100 miles of Duluth"
The owners of the famous Chandler mine
at Ely last season, its second year, shipped,
according to their returns to the State Au-
ditor, 30S, 744 tons of soft or granulated
specular ore. They expect to repeat (if not
exceed) that unparalleled record again this
year. The Pioneer, near by, has not been a
heavy shipper heretofore. Carnegie is said
to have taken its output last year. Prepara-
tions have been going on, and it is said that
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the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad are
one and the same. There are at least be-
tween six and seven square miles of the
mining property proper, although not
over about two miles in extent of the range
are now in active production, and that only
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HE surprising rich
ness and marvellous
extent of Upper
Minnesota's iron ore
deposits is a matter
ofthe greatest import
ance to the iron manu-
featuring world. Your
correspondent has
just returned from a
several days trip
along the Vermilion
range. A partial res
ume of what is there
presented to view and
now being freshly de-
veloped will interest
Pittsburg's iron men.
The central point
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SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS.

opensin
Peowki
CountIa ndtohm
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MINERS HOUSES AT soUDAN.

machines can reach, and then bring to light
the core of strata or ore much as the core of
an apple is extracted by the little apple
corer and parer. Records are kept of every
core, and thus a history of the strata is
known in any direction so far as is desired
and practicable. In jasper, with single
bit the operators will bore about two rect a
day, but in the soapstone rock &c feet is
reached.
OTHER EXPLORATIONS.
For six months past the Chicago and Min
nesota Ore Company, to which the Chandler
mine at Ely belongs, has been exploring
township 62, range IA, section 10, with a
force of 30 men and diamond drills and a
plant of machinery, and has developed
many excellent showings beside, in particu-
lar that which the company holds as very
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induced to undertake a trip to Jasper Peak,
about two or three miles distant, and said to
be the highest point in Minnesota. It
scarcely looked mile off, Mr.. F. NJ. Card
well, in charge of the company's Office, was
to act as guide and counselor. Mr.. E. j.
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carrying thereon box somewhat canoe
shape. Over its frame was tightly stretched
tanned moose skin, the surface of which
was elaborately decorated and painted.
The whole thing was so designed that if
they should get into the water in crossing
lake they could set the dogs to swimming
and by padding so escape. The trailer
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WEALTH UHDREAMED
Hidden Away in the Iron Ore
Veins of Minnesota.
THE BUSY DIAMOND DRILL
Has Revealed Deposits Sufficient to
Supply the World.
GREAT ACTIVITY THIS SEASON.
Many Tons of Steel Plate Wanted for the
Whale-Back Barges.
WONDERFUL DOG TEAMS In CANADA
GREAT ACTIVITY THIS SEASON.
Many Tons of Steel Plate Wanted for the
Whale-Back Barges.
WONDERFUL DOG TEAMS IN CANADA

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcB.1
DULUTH, MINI, April 9.
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How History 10 Made.
: Chicago Tribune.

Excited Congressman addressing the
House)EI say 1t 10 an infamous falsehood,
Mr.. Speaker, originating in . heart as
black a the innermost dungeon in the
lowest pit OF perdition. uttered by lips, sir.
from whose mildest breathings the demon
of pestilence itself would shrink in unutter-
able horror. and emanating from per-
sonality In whose presence the foul fiends
of envy, calumny, treachery and assassi-
nation. sir, would bow their hideous heads
and acknowledge that they had found a
meaner, viler, more leprous and abomin-
able creature than themselves!
Same Congressman (reading same speech
few hours later, as revised for the Con-
crcssionaI nI)-Permit me TO say, Mr..
Speaker. that my conception of the dignity
that pertains to the position hold. and my
appreciation of the constituency have
the honor of representing on the floor of
this House forbid me from descending to
the plane of personal abuse in replying to
the insinuations that have been made by
the honorable gentleman on the other side.
shall content myself by merely chat
lenging the honorable gentleman 70 pro-
duce the proof of hisinnuendoes. Passing
ON now TO the consideration of the main
question at issue, etc.
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Alarming Incrsass Of 1nsanity TIE
Poor-House or Starvation.
Report b Commanded Agent smyth, Of Hud.
dozSneld.
The report Of the Lancashire poor law
inspector, which has just bsen submitted
% the board Of guardians Of the county,
furnishes interesting information on
The subject Of pauperism. In con-
nectton with this report . state
ment Il superadded which in
clndes statistics for England and Wales, 20
that fairly correct idea Of the extent and
cost q pauperism IN these two countries
can b formed.
The most remarkable feature about the
report shows that, while the march Of
pauperism y pretty well held In check, the
progress Of lunacy seems to 30 spreading
with : sad and almost startling energy.
In 1850, In the county Of Lancashire alone,
there were about 6,e00 lunatics Of al
grades. In 1850 this number had increased
to nearly 9O00. The returns for England
and Wales for 1850 showed that over 81 COO
lunatics we're under treatment or hope
!sssly Affected, while the report for 1890 in
the verge Of 5000.
The total cost to the county of Lanc1-
shire tor maintaining its paupers during
the year 1889 was nearly 81 SOC, 600 on rata
bic valuation Of something like so, 600 goo.
In England and Wales the cost Of main
tanning IT, pauper systena for the same year
was shout s2l 900 ooo. raised By {. ssssmen mt
On poor rata valuations of SEC, 600 600
During the wears from 1850 the cost Of pau
peYism In these two countries had increased
$84. 900 600 over &, COO. 900 year.
One OF the Lancashire papers this morn
Ing expresses its satisfaction with the
showing 10 far as pauperism il concerned,
but heaves deep sigh over the dishearten-
Ing fatality under which such large per-
ceutage Of her majesty's subjects are laps
ing into the miserable and helpless condi-
ton Of lunacy.
Iramps are given . special column.
although classified IS paupers under the
caption OF Migrants obtaining outdoor re-
l1eL In 1880 the county hardened to the
appeals OF z66 of this class by relieving
their wants, while In 1890 it did the same
thing for almost the same numbers 2--
thirteen having gone 10 the grave or the
mad-house. 1t is said to be characteristic
OF the English tramp, when driven to the
necessity Of choosing between the poor
house and starvation, to strike compro-
mise. IL possible, by Stimulating mild form
Of lunacy. and thereby becoming legiti-
mate and inotiensive charge on an insane
asylum. In 1880 there were 5,347 tramp
paupers In England who were relieved at
the expense OF the rate-payers. In 1880 the
number was 6,l34, being . very small in
crease for that period
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-11
what Women Like In Men.
Chicago Herald.

What do women like most in menu
Force. A feather-headed girl may choose
a dancer or society gallant for her ideal,
but every sensible, earnest woman Will
forego the dancing and the posing every
time and choose mental ana physical Drawn
and muscle. Small feet and banged locks
and dress coats attract their like, but a
hand that is stretched out OF shape with
manly toll and face that shows the chisei
marks Of life's rugged experience, command
the admiration OF the womanly woman far
sooner. Compare the soulless young man
of the period, as he puffs his cigarette be-
tween languid bits of naughty talk, with
the brave fireman returning from his COM
bat with some mighty confiagration. that
but for such as he would have eaten into
the fair center of Chicago's prosperity, or
with the brave engineer who maintains MS
post in the teeth of wind and heat and
storm, and pilots his trainioad of passengers
safely to their journeys end, and which
one would you choosef