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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-12

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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-08-12

WE ,OFFER TO CLOSE OUT THIS
brpARTNrN'r OF OUR BUSINESS
OUR STOCK OF
TUBULAR AND LOCOMOTIVE
BOILERS.
from 10 s0-horse power,
HORIZONTAL CENTRE CRANK
ENGINES.
Detached or mounted on boiler H'"'
10 l2-hOrse power
These Engines ana Boilers arc ~
-, go standard designs. that are we'll
We also offer a lot OF PuLLEfS
cRANfS. SHAFTS. etc. rough an.
finished. Any OF these can be bo"sn'
very low.
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SCHEDULE IN EFFECT
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

Probably everybody has heard of that
famous saying of a cockney groom: Hit
hisn't the 'urrying that 'urts the 'orse;
hits the 'ammer, 'ammer, 'ammer on the
ard 'ighway."
l thought of this the other day, as ]. was
one of party of riders who were merrily
galIOping along a good dirt road on the
outskirts of the city. l had proposed a
run across country. but we were deferred
by the fact that the others in the party
could not jump fences.
This is an accomplishment few women
riders in this part of the State have at their
command, owing largely TO the fact that
our roads are such that, ordinarily, good
riding is obtainable WITHOUT having re-
course to lanes and fields. In fact. we lave
no lanes and few pleasant fields.
In England, where the cockney axiom
originated, these are necessary for the
pleasure-rider, as there is neither comfort
nor safety in cantering a horse over the
hard highways that traverse that country
in every direction. We in this country are
somewhat given to laugh at the riding
Englishman for a dude on account of his
preference for the trot as a travelling gait,
But this pace is absolutely the only safe
one on an English road if rider has any
humane feeling for his horse. They are
almost as hard as are our asphalt pave
ments, and continued rapid travel over
them would soon destroy the soundest
shoulders, knees and hoofs A 1900
pound horse going at a rapid canter
brings down each front foot with a thou
sand pound blow, from whichw may Judge
OF the conclusion when that blow is
struck upon a rock-like road. This is also
true of horse tr0tting at a three minute
gait. and constitutes main reason why
that great American institution, the gen
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tleman's fast roadster. is practically I'M
known in England. There are SO few
roads upon which the owner of
fast trotter would dare show his
aged to own these splendid crea-
lures. English roads are perfect
for wheelmen, but owners of crack road
sters may we'll be pardOned for not grow
ing enthusiastic over the paper-cOvered
literature with which the apostles of ''the
gospel of good roads" have of late flooded
the country. When the good dirt road
now common in this country shall have
given way to the hard macadam and
paved ways dear to the cyclists heart, tie
fast roadster will be retired permanently
from business and we will all drive street
cabs and ride trOtting hacks.
So far as travelling is concerned, could
our dirt roads be kept in good repair thew
are better for US than the cnstier and
much-yaunted highways of Europe, but
the appearance of a great number of our
public roads is a disgrace to the country
California would be an ideal place for car
rage and horseback travel. in the delight
full weather that we enjoy for nine months
in the year, but for the fact that our roads,
Tor the most part, are desolate stretches
OF suG-scorched dust, upon which, in warm
weather, no one will venture during the
heat OF the day, unless compelled by
necessity. Were our roads but shaded and
beautihed what wonderful difference
could, in few years, be accomplished in
this regard.
The law in this State now allows the
farmer 10 tighten the burden of his taxes
somewhat by planting roadside trees. For
these he Is entitled TO a certain rebate on
his road tax, believe. If every farmer
IN the State were to take advantage of this
provision 1t would not be more than few
years before our roads could be made
avenues of loneliness. Moreover, if the
far-sighted farmer, in beautifying his high
way, were to put out nut-bearing trees
his shady row would in due time become
source of profit to him. The almond. the
walnut. pecan, all grow to a large size
here and, moreover, as they drop their
leaves in the fall the objection could not
be urged against them that they would
shade the road and keep it muddy in
winter.
l was riding along barren, surburnt
road one day last summer when, some dis
lance before me, [ noted a solitary tree by
the wayside. I'll pull up there and rest a
BIT. decided, and fastened forward to
gain the grateful shade. As drew near
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-14

Cantaiu Thomas Spencer, who died in
Honolulu nine or ten years ago, was one
ofthe most enthusiastic and uncompromis-
iny Americans that ever maintained with
voice and muscle the prowess and dignity
of the great republic in foreign land.
And he possessed an abundance of both.
for he was man of grand proportions.
with the strength of an OK and lungs of a
lion. In disposition he was eminently
ioyial, kind and peaceful; but any word
in his hearing of Intentional disparage-
ment Of the land of his birth promptly
aroused his wrath. and a fight or an apology
was the inevitable satisfaction demanded
His patriotism was boundless and uucon-
ditinnal. and extended not alone to a de-
Tense Of the institutions of the republic,
hut to lis prominent leaders as well. no
matter TO which OF the political parties
they belonged. OF course, such a man
couId not always be reasonable in a cham
Dionship so broad and ureQuivocal, but his
hobby was understood and tolerated by his
friends Of other nationalities, not only be-
cause OF his many good qualities, but for
the further reason that he seldom spoke
disreSpectfully OF other nations, or denied
to their citizens patriotic instincts as in-
tense as his own.
Nor was Uncle Tom Spencer" as he
was familiarly called. more noted for his
sturdy loyalty 10 the land of his birth than
for ms reckless generosity and almost
limitless hospitality. AS the captain of a
wrecked whaler from Cape Cod, where he
was born and reared, | believe he landed
on the Hawaiian Islands more than forty
years ago. The conditions pleased him.
and lie sent for his family and remained
there up to the time of his death. He took
delight in noting the wonderful growth of
the republic from his far-off home in the
Pacih d, and MS love OF country seemed to
increase in full measure with the added
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party OF Arabs whom Sheik Hadji Tahar
Ben Mahomet has at the Worlds Fair.
lslia is a young and beautiful girl from
Agadiers. Her father is a man of wealth
and prominence, and when he found that
his daughter was in love with Salem Ben
Jalijah, good enough you1g fellow. but
OF no particular consequence, he lost his
temper and swore by the beard of the
Prophet that she should not marry him,
but should go TO ses the fair in the land of
the infideis in the company of Sheik
HadJi. She started accordingly, but the
party had not gone very far from Morocco
when Salem drew near and asked the
sheik'S permission to make one of the
party. As he had the needful shekels,
and proposed to pay his own expenses, the
sheik, knowing nothing of the love affair,
consented, and SO the lovers came on TO
Chicago together. But no sooner were
they arrived than they came before the
sheik and asked him to make them one.
In his own land the sheik has the power
to do so. but he is in doubt whether this
power may be lawfully exercised in this
country, OF whether the marriage would
be recognized in his own country, so he
feels compelled to refuse. The lovers
take it very much to heart. Islia spends
her time dissolved in tears, and refuses to
eat, and Salem wanderS about the hotel
sad ana discons olate.
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Pasadena. where the sidewalk passes for
some distance under an arched way formed
by the meeting branches of English wal
nuts on Que side and pomegranate trees on
the other. Anything loYelier have never
seen than this, which was revelation OF
possible roadside decoration in California.
What might not be done with that barren
stretch OF road between two important
elites that leads across country from Oak
land to Alameda. were some ore only
sufficiently interested to manipulate such
steal from the county as was engi-
the famous boulevard around Lake Mer-
rift? The work Of reclaiming the
marshes might be begun with the road.
Palm trees would grow along it, and
do well. Graceful willows could be made
to arch across It, That much abused but
really exquisite tree, the eucalyptus, would
shade and beautify il, dropping its leaves
TO shut out the ugly stretch of the marshes,
and by its cleansing, malarla-killng in
fluence counterfeit the masmic breath of
that hideous waste. Few CalifOrnians
seem TO realize how beautiful a thing the
eucalyptus tree is, with its dancing, grace
full branc hes against the sky, its pungent-
smelling, many-colored, multiform leaves
and its fairy-lke blossoms. Were it less
common we would travel miles to admire
Its beauty and grace. It's pre-eminentIy
tree loved of artists.
a oPioHulu leatuIe dUOut CdllloTHldu
roads is that they are generally wide.
They were set apart in early DAYS by no
nlggardly hands and are all ready to lend
themselves to Improvement. They are
singularly deficient however. in that they
make no provision for the pedestrian. Cali
forDia Is the country Of all others where
walking might be a comfortable and de-
lightful recreation. but there are no foot
paths along most of cur great highways,
and only mile after mile of burning heat
and choking dust to tempt the foot
passenger. One of these days the Cali
fornian of the future on the road
OF the future Will begin really to
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enjoy life. He will know the delights
Of walking to start out some lovely April
day for an all-day tramp. He will
merrily jog the shaded footpath way
OF the great tree-lined. fower-edged
thoroughfare leading from town to
town, from village to village, by farms and
orchards and fields, and have no occasion
to envy for moment the silently gliding
wheelman, the galloping horseman or he
driver of the free-stepping roadster, as all
rush past him, for he will be as we'll pro-
vided for as they.
There is no reason why we should not
have just such roads to-day. 1t is well
and necessary that we should have laws to
protect and preserve our public forest
lands and natural passes, but equally
necessary and desirable that the common
highways that the common people travel
day after day all over the country should
be rendered pleasant and comfortable If
only our horsemen and pedestrians were as
active and enthusiastic in canvassing the
subject of needed improvements rs Wheel
men have been we would soon see a change
in this respect.
Tie bicyclists have written and talked
and agitated until they have created n
widespread sentiment in favor of good
roads, but few and far between have been
the pleas for beautiful ones. As a cOnse-
quence use and beauty have long since
gone devious ways in this great Slate. 1t
is time we recanciled them and persuaded
them to walk hand in hand along our public
roads. Miss RUSSELL.
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out and broken up into small particles and
placed with the dust from the collector in
a grinding machine.
The revolving pan, in which the ma
terial is ground, is feet in diameter, q OF
an inch thick and about eight inches in
depth. The two cast iron wheels which
crush the material revolve loosely on the
shaft running across the center OF the
pan; these wheels are feet in diameter.
inches in width and weigh 200 pounds
each. Running through the center OF the
pan is vertical shaft which passes
through large gear-wheel contacted TO
the bottom of the pan. This wheel cen
meets with the main shafting, and when it
is set in motion the pan revolves. causing
the large wheels to revolve and crush the
material. After grinding to powder, 1t IS
run through 40 mesh sieve, the material
not passing through being put back into
the grinding-machine. The fine pnwder,
with u little lead and fiux added, Is then
put into erucible and smelted. On break
ing the crucibe after cooling, the lead but
ton taken out contains the gold and silver.
The button is put into b0ne-ash cupel
and placed in mutfle or assaying furnace.
Ihs cupels are from one and half inches
TO two inches in diameter and from three
quarters To one inch in height The muffis
IN which the eupel is placed is made of fire.
clay and is about fourteen inches in length.
seven Inches in width and about six inches
in height and oval-shaped on top.
The muffle is completely surrounded by
hre when in the furnace. and when the ire
becomes of whtish red heat the lead
mets and is sucked up by the porous bone
ash cupel leaving the gold and silver but
ton. The gold and silver are afterward
separated by what is called parting.
which consists in boiling the alloy after
rolling it out to thin plate in strong nitric
acid. The value of these sweeping varies
greatly, averaging about So per barrel. al
though it has been known to run up as
high as $500 per barrel
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l have been travelling iot some time
1t is destined to be one of the wealthiest
and most pOpulous States Of the Union,
and it has already been called the Ohio
and Pennsylvania of the West. 1t has
some of the richest lands on the face of
the globe, and in this Puget Sound region
the land is as black as your hat and a
rich as guano. Between here and Tacoma.
distance of about forty miles, the rail-
road passes through wilderness of hop
fields. which net their owners, am told,
something like 500 per acre profit each
year, and which in some cases produce
1000 pounds Of hops to the acre. Hops are
selling now for 90 cents pound; but they
have, / am told, been sole as high as 81 q
pound, and a man with a ten-acre hop
farm is well off Senator Squire told me
short time ago that he had made good
deal of money off his hop raising. and
some men here have made fortunes in
hops.
The Washington hops are among the
finest raised and they are putup in bales and
shipped from here all over the world. The
biggest hop ranch of the world is not far
from here. 1t contains 1900 acres and has
more than 400 acres in hops. This be-
longs to the Seattle Hop-growers' Ass ocia-
tion Much of their land produces 1000
pounds TO the acre, and they are increas-
ing their acreage so that they Will eventu-
ally have the whole ranch one big hon
field. 1T costs cents a pound to raise,
pick and market hops. and even Mt 90 cents
the business is good one. The picking
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standing armies in Europe week to kill
mat 10000 men in pitched battle. 1 have
Inquired the thing down, and don't believe
there IS any mistake in the calculation"
qualntance OF Captain Tom while visiting
the Islands as a lecturer on English au-
thors. de started with Dickens.
Hold orr roared the captain, who was
a listener. Not another woid bout that
scoundrel who abused forty millions of
Gods people," and Dickens was skipped.
AT the age Of about 20 the captain was
brought TO Honolulu with the final and
almost only illness Of his life, and cared
for in one OF the Hawaiian Hotel cottages.
Circulation ceased in his lower limbs and
could not be restored. He was visited by
his old friends, including the members OF
the royal family, and to the last was full
OF quaint conceits and good humor. On a
stand at his bedside perched his bronze
eagle, and small American flag hung over
his door. The United States Minister
called frequently. very greatly TO the cap
taln,s satisfaction. aud few hours before
his death asked him ii he had any special
requests to make. He said he had but one.
and that was that his body might be
wrapped In an American flag, with an
other around the easket, when he was laid
away.
He was assured That his request would
be complied with to the letter, and that he
should be spoken of as he deserved in the
announcement OF his death to the State
Department.
GOD bless You" said the captain, with
emotion, extending his great hand to the
% .,iit a and God bless our country and
IT'S nag! | shall now die happy
,t, maappeg In American flags. with Two or
hra, kpl8htiy decorations upon the
breast the body of Captain Tom. nre.
e te,ie Dy the Royal Hawaiian band and
iolioMed Dy large conconrse of mourn
e eIs, was borne TO its last home in Nuuann
s g9.aetepy, he was rough, reckless,
HE did not observe all the Christian cano ~
una hand mlents, perhaps. bnt patriotism was
Tue religion OF CAPTAIN Tom Spencer and
III ne one could it find a more earnest mr.
conscientious deyotee. ga "e'' VI
RoLLIN NJ. DAGeETT.
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A DEADLY TRADE.
Story of the Human Beings Who
Frequent the AillaIi Works.

Frequent the AillaIi Works.
Fortniehtly Review.
The alkali works go on all the year
round, day and night, Sunday and week
days, and St. Helens and Widnes are the
chief seats of the manufacture. If you
have a fancy for knowing how that part of
the wurld lives which serves the industry
that Lord Beaconsfield used as his trade
barometer you will do well to gain ad-
mittance TO the strange and lurid scene
where the prodigious processes are car
ried on.
By the glow of furnaces and the waver-
ing light of al occasional gdsjet you make
out bit by bit. a rough picture of uneouth
buildings, gaunt frameworks of timber
Notwithstanding lead chambers looming
overhead, and general confusion of
towers, platforms, revolving and station
airy furnaces. great caldrOns where the
cauStc CLOVIS IA Sullen red, threatening
looking tanks full of corrosive liquids and
other strange half animate monsters
which beset you as you pick your way
along narrow plankS or up stairs half
eaten away with acid.
There are figures moving about the
place, wheeling barrows up the plank,
standing at the furnace mouth, tanning the
whlte-hot mass within, welding huge ladies'
at the caustic pots, raking, straining and
laboring ID terrific heat and glare and
amid sckening fumes. a man steps back
from the furnace now and again and lowers
the muffierfrom his mouth to gasp more
freely in the chill air. and you can see his
face, arms and chest shining with the
sweat.
Figures are to be seen by day which are
scarcely recognizable as men, win great
goggles over their eyes and huge pro-
tuberances Of flannel corded ever their
mouths and necks. These are the men
who pack The bleaching powder. The
pow der-packer. his feet Incased in
thick wooden clogs aud his legs in
brown-paper CATERS, steps into the chic
rine chamber. shovels the bleaching
powder into the cask, aud presently
shufies out again and unlasheS his swath-
ings, gasping as though at deaths door
There are some 1900 men in the employ
Of the United Alkali Company, including
special process men" and laborers.
The story of their daily and nightly toll
is told by the faces ana forms of the worn,
detected men who pass you in the streets,
by the deaths from respiratory diseases,
which carry OF the strongest men before
their time; by the evidence of horrible
sunerings from constant contact with the
biting lime, by teeth retted away by the
salt cake fumes, by scars and sometimes
blindness from caustic burning, by Vitriol
burns and by the deadly nausea from the
gas inhaled. and the recurring exhaustion
brought on by fearfully protrActed toll
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writer. He Lad been attending to some
business in the Treasury Department. and,
leaving the building, lie jumped into enc
OF those curious Washington stages, known
as herdics, to ride to he Capitol. Passen-
gers in these vehicles are expected 10 act
as their own conductors and deposit their
own fares In the box in front of the herdc
Justice Lamar. then a Senator, took
quarter from his pocket, and with tn 0ughts
intent on far-away things, dropped it into
the box.
Why. Senator" exclaimed a fellow
passenger, who knew Mr.. Lamar and no
tlced the mistake, don't you think it's
little extravagant 10 pay % cents for a
herdic ride when the fare is only cents ?'
WHY. that's fact, that's faett' re-
sponded the Senator. waking up from his
day dream. Then, to the astonishment of
his friends, he drew out handful of
change. carefully picked out nickel,
dropped it into the box and sat down,
satisfied that he had reetified his mistake
and paid the right fare at last.
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said the heirs are trying to defraud Seattl
out of a million or SOP"
ut is still pending" replied Mr.. Craw-
ford. "and il is a queer affair. Henry l..
Yesler was one Of the remarkable men this
country has known. He came here when
Seattle was village to look up a site for
sawmill. and he died last year worth mil
lions. When he came here he found the
best site for his mill cut off by the claims of
three men, DR.. Maynard, Mr.. Boren and
Arthur Denny. They were anxious to
have his mill here and they shifted their
claims so as to give Mr. Yesler a strip 800
feet wide from his mill to the waters edge.
This strip eventually became the center of
the city. The best Of our business build
ings are built on it. and it is now worth
millions. One of the main streets of the
city, Yesler avenue, goes through it, and
Yesler held property on 1t when he died
He was very enterprisiug man. and was
always doing good for the town.
AT the age of rs his first wife died,
and he married again soon after,
taking as his second wife yonng
girl Of 90. named Minnie eagle. She
was distant relative and she came,
| think, from Masillon. OHIO. Mr. Yes
ler told me once that he married her in
self-defense. He was besieged BY fortune
hunting adyenturesses. who tried 10 get
him into all sorts of trouble ana attempted
to blackmail him. Well. two years after