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[portrait] [Photo]graph by Pach, New York
MR. JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN
[portrait] LORD CHAS. BERESFORD
The Idol of the Lower Deck.
[portrait] Photograph by Pach, New York
MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR.
BREAKS WORLD MARK
FOR TWO-MILE TROT
Ed Bryan, Bay Gelding, Smashes
Record Made in 1865 by Dex-
ter--Time, Four Minutes
Forty-Five Seconds
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.--Ed Bryan
the bay gelding trotter, owned by Will-
iam Robinson, in a trial against the
Belmont Park track record today broke
the world's two-mile record, which has
stood for forty years. The time was
4:45. The best previous record was 4:56 1/4
made by Dexter, on Long Island, Oc-
tober 27, 1865.
Today's performance was considered
remarkable by horsemen who saw the
event, as Dexter's time was made to a
skeleton wagon while Ed Bryan's rec-
ord was made to a bicycle-wheeled road
wagon. The average time of the quarters
was 35 3/4 seconds. The horse finished
strong and looked as though he could
go another mile at the same clip.
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HORSE SENSE REMINDERS
Don't leave me hitched in my stall
at night with a big cob right where I
must lie down. I am tied and can't
select a smooth place.
Don't compel me to eat more salt
than I want by mixing it with my
oats. I know better than any other
animal how much I need.
Don't think because I go free under
the whip I don't get tired. You would
move up if under the whip.
Don't think because I am a horse
that weeds and briars won't hurt my
hay.
Don't whip me when I get frightened
along the road, or I will expect it next
time and maybe make trouble.
Don't trot me up hill, for I have to
carry you and the buggy and myself
too. Try it yourself some time. Run
up hill with a big load.
Don't keep my stable very dark, for
when I go out into the light my eyes
are injured.
Don't say "whoa" unless you mean it.
Teach me to stop at the word. It
may check me if the lines break, and
save a runaway and smash-up.
Don't forget to file my teeth when
they get jagged and I cannot chew my
food.
When I get lean it may be a sign
my teeth want filing.
Don't ask me to back with blinds on.
I am afraid to.
Don't run me down a steep hill, for
if anything should give way I might
break your neck.
Don't put on my blind bridle so that
it irritates my eyes, or so leave my
forelock that it will be in my eyes.
Don't be so careless of my harness
as to find a great sore on me before
you attend to it.
Don't forget the old book that is a
friend of all the oppressed, that says:
"A merciful man is merciful to his
beast"--Farm Journal
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ERRORS IN CIGAR LORE
White Ash No Test of Quality, Nor
Dark Wrapper of Strength.
White ash upon a cigar has been popu-
larly supposed to indicate the excellence
of the weed, but, as a matter of fact,
its only indication is of the presence of
potash in the leaf.
Tobacco rich in chloride of sodium
burns with imperfect combustion and
with a dark ash. As the value of a cigar
is dependent upon the freedom with
which it burns, a white ash may be a
rough test of excellence, but a cigar with
a dark ash, properly rolled, may burn
more evenly than one rich in potash but
imperfectly made, and at best the "white
ash" is but a rudimentary test.
A cigar which burns freely is a better
cigar, no matter what the grade of the
leaf, than one which is rolled so tightly
as to prevent free combustion, but the
question of fragrance is quite another
matter.
Another cigar fallacy is that a cigar
in a black wrapper is necessarily a
strong cigar. The wrapper weighs but
one-tenth of the qhole and a cigar with
a wrapper almost black may be a mild
smoke, while one with a pale wrapper
filled with imperfectly cured tobacco is
often rank and unpleasant.--New York
Herald.
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MOLYBDENITE MINING
The Sentinel has obtained from Mr.
H.F. Evans, who is up from Ashcroft,
some facts and figures as to the occur-
rence and production of molybdenite on
the Tamarac group of mineral claims on
Gnawed mountain, 25 miles south of
Ashcroft, says the Kamloops Sentinel.
Mr. Evans is here in connection with the
work of the economic geology of the
territory represented on the Kamloops
map sheet. Since the map sheet was is-
sued very little work has been done in
the immediate neighborhood of Kam-
loops and up the north Thompson to
verify the conditions recorded on the
sheet, especially as to Kamloops strati-
graphy, and as considerable interest is
taken in the subject by eastern mining
capitalists, some preliminary reports
have been asked for.
On the Tamarac group three shafts
have been sunk respectiely on veins
one two and five, and some molydenite
in the massive, free granular and triox-
ide forms has been produced from No. 1
vein, but it was not until development
work had begun on No. 2 vein that the
important character of the occurrence
of this mineral became evident.
At 10 feet in No. 2 shaft a series of
pockets and strings was uncovered
which yielded several sacks of massive
or earthy molydenum, and then it was
found that a dark blue quartz rich in the
free granular (molybdenum disulphide)
extended across the bottom of the shaft
four feet wide and bounded on the south
side by a rust-stained and sub-translu-
cent quartz also holding free granular.
As only the two men have been at
work, Mr. Leitch (one of the owners)
and a minder, the work of taking out ore
has necessarily been slow, but enough
progress was made to enable the owners
to make a shipment of 2,100 pounds to
New York, which shipment was made
September 26.
Molybdenum is used in a variety of
ways in the manufacture of steel and
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other metals for industrual uses. The
ore is named molybdenite, and molybden-
um is present in several forms, viz., as
massive or earthy, free granular, foli-
ated, as trioxide, and in the scale form
as a replacement. All that can be done
with molybdenite at the mine is to con-
centrate it, as it requires a metallurgical
process to separate the mineral from its
ore.
[handwritten over text, Oct 1905]
To be saleable, molybdenite must carry
at least 45 per cent molybdic acid and as
much above that figure as possible up
to 60 per cent, as the remaining 40 per
cent is sulphur molybdonite, holding 50
per cent mylybdic acid is worth $1 per
pound.
Dr. George Sanson of Ashcroft, is the
chief owner of the Tamarac molybden-
ite group on Gnawed mountain and it
is largely through his enterprise that
this group has been opened up and a
transhipment made to New York. The
development work has been done under
the direction of Mr. A. Leitch, one of
the owners, who has been assisted by a
miner of practical experience. The scien-
tific and commercial portion of the work
has been in the hands of Mr. Evans.
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[illustration of two hardcover books, Practical
uses of the Steel Square] Steel Square, two vols. $2.00
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How to Plant a Tree
First cutt off smoothly the broken root
ends which are over half an inch in
diameter. Next trim the top if it can-
not be easily reached from the ground
after planting. With an oak or other
hardwood tree, cut back severely, reduc-
ing the number of buds 60 per cent
to 80 per cent. If the leader is ut off
a tree later forms two leaders, which are
apt to split the trunk and ruin the tree.
After the hole has been prepared, it
should be partially refilled so that the
trees are at their natural level. Spread
the roots out straight. Work fine, mel-
low soil under the scenter of the tree.
In the case of fine roots, it may be nec-
essary to do this with the fingers. With
coarse, fibrous roots the earth can be
packed in with a pointed stick.
Next see that the tree stands vertically.
The simplest way is to stand off, then
hold up the shovel so that it forms a
plumb bob, and then take a sight. Then
stand around and look at the tree from a
direction at right angles to the first
line of sight, seeing that the trunk stands
erect on both lines. Packing the early
firmly around the center will hold it in
position in most instances.
Watering fall-planted trees is rarely
necessary as the ground will generally
have sufficient moisture.--The Garden
Magazine.
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Death of a Pioneer
[handwritten across text, 1893]
Mrs. Lucinda Hastings, the first white
woman that ever came to Port Towns-
end beach, diesd there on Friday after-
noon at 1:45, after a lingering illness,
surriounded by her six living children
and the members of their families. Mrs.
Hastings was a pioneer of Oregon and
Washington. She came across the plains
behind an ox team in 1847, and settled
with her husband in Oregon near Port-
land. Her husband soon afterwards
came to Port Townsend by way of the
Cowlitz river and Olympia, and it was
from the fact that he came across to
Port Townsend bay from Oak bay
through Long harbor in a scow that the
latter arm of water, running nearly
across the neck of the land and into
Oak bay, acquired its more common
name, Scow bay, by which it is generally
known. Mrs. Lucinda Hastings came
around from Portland in the old schooner
Mary Taylor, along with the Pettygroves
and when she landed on Port Townsend
beach on January 19, 1952, she was the
first white woman to set foot on what
is now the townsite of Port Townsend.
Hastings' donation claim embraces a
greater portion of the original townsite.
The deceased was born in Littleton N.
H. April 15, 1826 and was therefore
67. On May 21, 1843, she was married
at Laharpe, Illinois, to Lorin B. Hast-
ings, who died in Port Townsend June
11, 1881. Six children survive Mrs. Lu-
cinda Hastings, as follows: Captain O.
C. Hastings of Victoria; Hon. Frank
W. Hastings, state senator for Jeffer-
son and Clallam counties; Mrs. Maria
C. Littlefield, Captain L.B. Hastings,
at the head of the Hastings Steamboat
company; Mrs. Jessie M. Allen, and War-
ren I. Hastings, attourney at law. The
funeral took place on Sunday afternoon
at 2.
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