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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1903.
QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF OREGON
TTTR continuing steady decrease Jn
the world's production of quicksil
ver, in face of increased demand
and higher prices, is significant. The
United States and Spain, from -which
countries the bulk of the -world's supply
has been obtained for the last 50 years,
have shown, -with slight variations, a
persistent decline in production since 1893.
During the past few years, under the
stimulating influence of prevailing higher
prices, many new mines and prospects
have been opened in various parts of the
world. Some of these have become pro
ductive. But the increase from this
source has not been sufficient to offset
the steady decline of the old mines, and,
excepting for a slight increase shown in
1902 over the previous year, the world's
record of a constantly diminishing pro
duction of the metal remains unbroken.
During the later part of 1302 the visible
supply of quicksilver in New York and
San Francisco touched the lowest point
in the history of quicksilver for the last
25 years. On several recent occasions
New York dealers in the metal were
forced to the expediency of borrowing
quicksilver from their larger customers
in order to supply the demand of the
. smaller consumers.
Numerous' attempts have been made to
find a substitute for mercury in some of
its uses, but so far without success. In
the meantime the demand for the metal
is constantly Increasing. This demand
comes chiefly from its metallurgical use
in recovering gold and silver In ores and
placer gravels. "With a continuance of
the present rate of expansion in these
branches of mining in nearly every part
of the world, it will be a matter of only
a short tlmo when the present producers
of quicksilver will bo unable to keep up
with the consumption. A continually in
creasing demand comes also from the
arts and sciences. New uses for the metal
are being constantly found. Its applica
tion to numerous electrolytic processes,
including the manufacture of caustic soda
and chlorine. Is only the beginning of a
use likely to undergo further expansion.
The employment ef mercury in the manu
facture of electrical machinery is one of
the constantly growing sources of trade
to dealers in the metal; nor is the con
sumption In the manufacture of vermilion
4 paint, carried on chiefly in China and
England, likely soon to diminish. Its use
for this purpose is almost as old as his
tory Itself, for even centuries of experi
ence and constant scientific experiment
ing, howsoever actuated by the commer
cial instinct of later years, have been un
able to discover a cheaper substitute. In
the paint of commerce, such adulterations
as red lead, chrome red, and gypsum are
used, but they are easily detected and in
variably vitiate the brilliant vermilion
and rich carmine colors produced by the
mercurial paints.
California's Product.
The bulk of the quicksilver produced in
the United States Is handled by an asso-'
elation of the leading mineowners of Cal
ifornia, known as the Eureka Company,
of San Francisco, and commonly spoken
of as the quicksilver trust. This concern
operates under an amicable agreement
with the Rothschilds, whereby the world's
market for the metal is divided, each
company being limited to certain pre
scribed countries. Thus all compe
. tition between the two large concerns
handling the quicksilver product of the
world, is eliminated. But since the de
mand is greater than the supply, the
smaller 'independent producers profit by
the compact between the two leading con
cerns. Their output being eagerly sought
by outside dealers, they are generally able
to get a little .better than the prevailing
trust prices.
For more than 50 years California has
hold practically a -monopoly of the Amer
ican production of quicksilver, very little
having been produced outside of that
state. During the last few years, how
ever, under the stimulant of Increasing
demand and higher prices, explorations
have been extended beyond the borders
of the state, with the result that
discoveries of Importance have been
made in Texas at tho south and Oregon
at the north. In 1901 Texas produced 2935
flasks of quicksilver, as compared to 5252
flasks in 1902, but as the persistence of
these doposlts is regarded with misgiving,
the future of the industry in America
would appear to lie with the northern
extension pf tho California belt into the
neighboring State of Oregon, where the
geological conditions appear to be espe
cially favorable.
Oregon Deposits.
As far back as 1SSS, when very little
was known of the Oregon deposits, the
eminent geologist, Mr. George F. Becker,
recognized that the quicksilver belt of
California, which has brought over $SS,
000,000 of wealth into that state, extended
far north into the Stat of Oregon, and
that the volcanic phenomena with which
the cinnabar ores of California are so
closely related, as well as the associ
ated chemical conditions leading to
tho deposition of cinnabar, had been
repeated In the Cascade Mountains
of Oregon, which mountains Mr. Beck
er regarded as merely a continua
tion of tho Sierra Nevada and Coast
Range of California after they come to
gether. In his monograph upon the quick
silver deposits of the Pacific Slope, pub
lished by the United States Geological
Survey, Mr. Becker says: "The entire
belt of the country from the mines of
G-ROUT'S AUTOMOBILE BREAKS DOWN
New York Controller's "Whirlwind Campaign Night Winds Up in Wearisome Plodding.
Brooklyn Eagle, Nov. 1.
FOLKS who happened to be on the
Brooklyn Bridge at 2 o'clock this
morning, somewhere between the
center of the main span and this borough,
if they had looked down upon the north
roadway could have seen two men pushing
an automobile along toward Brooklyn,
while one man sat In tho front seat of
the machine and steered.
The man who sat in the front seat with
tho lever, was of portly Agure, comfort
able aspect, and seemed to be in a sereno
frame of mind. He was enjoying the situa
tion because he didn't have to do any
of tho hard work. His name was William
J. La Roche, one a State Senator from
Brooklyn.
One of the men who did the pushing was
a stern-faced young fellow who wore an
automobile cap, goggles and a leather
overcoat. Ho was the chauffeur.
The other man was of medium height,
somewhat spare build, - with very black
whiskers and a tired look. He was doing
a lion's part of tho shoving, but he did not
seem to relish tho Job. His name was Ed
ward M. Grout, Controller of New York
and candidate for another term at the
same job.
The automobile was a big gasoline devil
and weighed 3000 pounds.
Why Mr. Grout helped to push a 3000
pound automobile across the Brooklyn
Bridge at 2 o'clock in the morning Is ex
plained as follows: ,
Mr. Grout was making speeches In
Brooklyn last night and was whirl-winding
it around town in an auto, that being
the modern way of campaign hustling,
approved by such experts as Jerome, Low,
McClellan and a whole lot of lesser lights.
The Controller's last speech was made at
Visitation Hall, in the Ninth Assembly
District. During the evening he had been
accompanied by Senator La Roche. When
Mr. Grout, the Senator and the chauffeur
loft Visitation Hall It was laU. yet the
Controller decided to go to the Hoffman
Houso and spend the night. So the bis
Douglas County (Oregon) to Santa Bar
bara Count' (California) is thus struc
turally continuous. In a broad sense the
entire zone, 000 miles in length, may be
considered as a quicksilver belt."
Although for many years cinnabar de
posits have been known to exist in a
number of. localities in the western por
tion of the state, Oregon has been slow
to recognize their commercial possibilities,
and until the past four yeara compara
tively little attention had been paid to
them, and even up to tho present time
only one cinnabar property in the state
has been developed to any considerable
extent.
First Discoveries.
The existence of cinnabar in Oregon
first became known through the pioneer
placer miners of the auriferous gravel de
posits of Jackson County. Tho heavy
purple-red sand which settled In their
sluice boxes, clogged tho riffles and inter
fered with amalgamation, was a source of
great annoyance. When it became known
that the "red sand" was cinnabar, the
ore of mercury, that necessary metal for
which the miners of the then Isolated dis
trict were paying upward of $2 per pound,
several attempts were made to recover
the mercury by distillation in common
gold retorts, and more than one instance
is reported of miners who were thus able
to distill sufficient mercury for their own
use. In operations of the present day
many gravel miners of Southern Oregon
And cinnabar In their riffles, although no
attempt is being made to save it.
About 35 years ago cinnabar was discov
ered near the head of Little Applegato
River, on the northwest slooe of Siski
you peak, in the southern part of Jackson I
County. In 1S71 a man by the name of
Mullen constructed a crude furnace and
attempted In a primitive way to reduce
the surface ores. For a short period he"
succeeded In supplying the local demand
of the placer miners, but the escape of
mercurial fumes from his rudely con
structed furnace soon salivated his men,
and the project was abandoned. 'In 1S93
these claims were relocated, and in 1901
the property was acquired by a Montana
company, which has done considerable j
development work, resulting in the open
ing up of a promising property. Other
claims have been located In the same lo
cality, and are being developed.
The cinnabar of this district occurs In
very flne crystals, saturating a gangue
of granular calclte; the veins have nearly
a north and south strike and dip at an
angle of about 48 degrees west. They lie J
In near proximity to the granite on the J
east. The footwall is a much decomposed
arcose sandstone; the hanging wall Is a J
dark, massive, serpentine, passing over
into carbonaceous shales and slates a
.6hort distance from the veins. The shales
are serpentinoid. Some of the veins of I
tho district have a comparatively thin i
casing on the hanging wall, consisting of
dark - colored crushed country rock, fa- j
mlliarly known among the Mexican j
miners of California as alta. In general i
the geological structure of the district
differs in, but few particulars from the
conditions found at many of the quick
silver mines of California.
Further northward cinnabar is again en
countered in the region of Evans Creek,
a tributary of the Rogue River, about 20
miles northeast of the town of Gold Hill,
a station on the Oregon & California
Railroad. Cropplngs of cinnabar appear
at intervals for a distance of some six
miles, stretching from the Meadows to
Ramsey Canyon; the belt appears to bo
about three-quarters of a mile wide.
Within this belt four prospects have been
opened to some extent; two of these make
a fair, showing, but sufficient work has
not been done to demonstrate the extent
of the deposits. Here similar geological
conditions exist to that described in the
Applegate district, except the gradual
disappearance of the serpentine, which
trends toward the northwest, while the
cinnabar deposits appear to bo following
a diverging line toward tho northeast.
In the calipooias.
On Calapoola Creek, in Douglas County,
where the next cinnabar deposits to tho
north are encountered, the serpentine has
wholly disappeared, and it is not encoun
tered again at any of the quicksilver de
posits further north. In this locality,
eight miles east of the town of Oakland,
two quicksilver mines, known as tho
Bonanza and Nonpariel, were opened
some years ago. At one of these a small
f urnace was built, but as the furnace was
in advance of development work, after
a short period of operation and the pro
duction of a few flasks of quicksilver, the
usual Inevitable failure followed, slnco
which time the discouraged owners havo
never attempted to reopen the property.
Twelve miles north of the Bonanza and
Nonpariel, in the extreme northern part
of Douglas County, on a branch of Elk
Creek, is located the Elkhead mine. This I
property Is credited with having produced
about 530,000 gross value of quicksilver.
Some 15 years ago surface ore was quar
ried from a large pit on the top of a low
hill and treated in a coarse ore furnace.
Subsequently the property fell into tho
hands of new owners, and in 1895 a ten
ton Scott continuous furnace was built.
This was operated for a short time on tho
screenings of the old coarse ore furnace.
The death of the principal owner and tho
lack of ore reserves caused the mine to
be shut down. It has remained idle ever
since.
In the present workings ef this prop
erty two veins are disclosed. These veins
have nearly tho same strike, but opposite
and converging dips. The main vein dips
to tho south at an angle of about SO de
grees, while the lesser vein dips to the
auto was headed for the bridge and
whooped it up at a fast gait through tho
almost deserted streets.
Something began to go wrong with the
machine before the bridge was reached,
but if the chauffeur regarded it as a
serious ailment he refrained from saying
so. He was determined to land Mr. Grout
at the Hoffman House, and, although sev
eral times he tinkered with the machine,
he expressed no misgiving. Things began
to go worse with the devil wagon after
it got on the bridge roadway. The grade
wasn't steep, but it was long and remorse
less, it seemed as if, at one time, tho
Brooklyn tower would nover bo passed,
but the auto managed to snort by it after
ajot of coaxing. Up the incline toward the
center of the main span it began to go
slower and slower and to groan plteously.
It hesitated several times and Anally,
when about 200 feet from the center of the
bridge, stopped and could not be goaded
into another foot of progress.
"She's done," said the chauffeur. "She
won't go any further tonight."
A very brief conference on the matter of
getting out and pushing developed this
situation: Mr. Grout wanted to get to
Manhattan. If the auto was pushed tho
rest of the way across, however, it was
still useless when It reached the other
side. Anyhow, It belonged in Brooklyn,
and It was a shorter push to Brooklyn
than it was in the other direction. There
fore, it must go back. The chauffeur was
young and husky and he could push. Per
haps one of the other two would have to
help him.
Mr. Grout looked at Senator La Roche's
sturdy bulk when this phase of the dis
cussion was reached. The "Senator evident
ly detected a sinister design in the Con
troller's eye. for he spoke up hastily:
"You'll nave to do tho pushing, Con
troller," he said. "You see, somebody bas
to steer this thing while It is being pushed.
I can steer an automobile and you can't.
I've had a lot of experience with them."
"I remember your first experience," said
Mr. Grout.
"Never mind that," said Mr. La Roche,
with & hurt .expression, "the point Is, I
north at an angle of only 20 degrees from
tho horizontal. To reach the level of in
tersection of these two veins would require
a vertical shaft about 00 feet deep.
In an airline four miles east of the Elk
head mine, in the southern part of Lane
County, lies the Black Butto quicksilver
district. Slnco the development work In
this district has been quite extensive it
will be described later in a separate para
graph. All of the above-described cinnabar de
posits are located on the westerly slope
of the Cascade Range.
Recently, however, a discovery of cin
nabar was made on the east slope of the
range, about 30 miles from the town of
Prinevllle, in Crook-County. Some good
ore from this section has been exhibited.
A number of claims have been located
and one of tho properties recently passed
Into the hands of a company with suffi
cient capital for its development.
So far as the writer knows, no cinna
bar has been discovered In tho Coast
Range In Oregon, although he has seen
somo specimens of rich ore said to have
come from the region of the Six River In
Coos County. The Coast Range, however,
has not been prospected for cinnabar. In
fact, very little prospecting for the min
eral has been done in any part of Ore
gon. The dense growth of timber and un
derbrush covering the entire mountain re
glou renders prospecting of any kind diffi
cult, slow and uninviting.
Black Butte District.
The Black Butte quicksilver district is
about four miles long and two miles wide,
and lies on the northern slope of the
Calapoola Mountains, near tho head of
tho Coast fork of the Willamette River,
in tho southern part of Lane County. The
elevation at the apex of Black Butte
Mountain, the highest peak in the district,
is 2750 feet above sea level.
The entire district is owned by two
companies. A private company of Port
land, Or., controls about 1000 acres, Includ
ing the Bald Butte and Cinnabar Butte
mines. The Black Butte Quicksilver Com
pany, a Washington State corporation, to
gether with Its allied Interests, controls
practically the balance of tho district.
Somo Ave years ago this corporation ac
quired the mine. A Scott continuous fur
nace, having a capacity of 50 tons per
day, was Installed, together with other
surface Improvements. Subsequently the
control of tho corporation passed Into new
hands, under whoso management over
12,000 feet of underground work has been
accomplished.
Tho Black Butto mine Is admirably
placed for economic mining. Situated at
a moderate altitude, mining operations
both above and below ground are unhin
dered throughout the year; an ample sup
ply of water, abundance of water power,
unlimited timber for fuel, wide veins and
soft rock, are some among the favor
able factors. The erosions that lef o Black
Butte mountain standing abruptly 1750 feet
above the valley at Its base have made It
possible to reach tho veins of its Assure
system to a depth of 1600 feet by compar
atively short adits, thus affording natural
drainage and the opportunity for gravity
haulage of the ore. Over 2000 feet of
'backs,' on the dip of the main vein,
may thus be explored at minimun cost,
before it will become necessary to install
any pumping or hoisting machinery. It
would seem that nature has afforded every
possible facility for cheap production. The
average cost of quicksilver ore mined
and treated in California, as shown by
the published reports of the principal min
ing companies, ranges from 53 to JH.S0
per ton; the average cost of production at
the Black Butte mine has been ?L40 per
ton. These figures include all charges of
every kind, such as mining, transport of
ore, treatment, flasks, and delivery of the
markotable metal at the railway station,
excepting pro rata charges for develop
ment work. Interest on capital invested
and deterioration of plant. The manage
ment estimates that with increased fur
nace capacity and- facilities for handling
the ore on a large scale the above pro
duction cost can be appreciably reduced.
Geological Features.
The conspicuous geological feature of
the Black Butto district is the Immense
vein of cinnabar-bearing volcanic breccia
which apexes along tho ridge of Black
Butte mountain and Is exposed by Its
outcrop for a continuous distance of over
7500 feet. Tho average strike Is a 70 deg.
E., and the average dip 57 deg. A remark
able outcrop of ore crowns the summit of
the mountain, huge boulders, massive col
umns, and gigantic cliffs of cinnabar
bearing rock, furnishing an immense ton
nage susceptible to open-cut quarrying.
In main geological features, general
structure, occurrence of the ore in asso
ciation with tho volcanic phenomena, etc,
the Black Butte quicksilver deposits do
not differ materially from tho quicksilver
deposits of California, except, perhaps, in
tho noticeable absence of tho serpentine
rocks with which a majority of the Cali
fornia deposits are more or less closely as
sociated. In common with all other mer
curial deposits of commercial value, the
Black Butte ores consist mainly of tho red
sulphide of mercury, known as cinnabar,
although the black sulphide (meta-clnna-bar)
and a little native mercury have also
been encountered.
The main Assure of Black Butte mqunt
aln is 400 feet wide. This entire width 13
cinnabar-bearing. Tho richest ores, how
ever, occur along several partition walls
within this mass of lode matter. While
for the most part this partition forms
the footwall of the ore, yet the occasional
occurrence of the ore underneath it, and
again on both sides, has necessitated ire-
can steer. I can't go over the bridge rall
I Ing, anyhow. This young man can't push
ii aione, so you win nave to help him. It
seems to me a strong candidate ought to
be able to push a little auto like this."
Whether the Controller regarded this as
a just argument or not, he said ho more,
but got out and helped the chauffeur turn
the auto around. Then he took his place
in the rear, alongside the man with the
goggles, and they heaved together. Tho
automobile started grumbllngly. Senator
La Roche sat In front anQ steered and
gave necessary directions. The Controller
buckled down to tho task and the 3000
pound gasoline devil moved slowly along.
It was easier pushing as the down grade
became more pronounced, and Senator La
Roche urged and coaxed his companions to
greater efforts, at the same time explain
ing to them that his part, though it
seemed to involve no labor, was none the
less important, because it required skill,
judgment and a nice eye to avoid running
into the steel girders on either side of the
roadway.
A few jeering and unsteady wayfarers
on the footpath looked over the railing arid
made fitting remarks. The cops who pa
troled the driveways also said things and
laughed. They didn't know the Controller
from Adam.
Thus tho whirlwind campaign arrived
back in Brooklyn, with a placid man sit
ting in front and two perspiring men
shoving behind. Some bystanders at the
Brooklyn end of the bridge recognized the
Controller as he boarded a bridge train
for Manhattan. One man, who had prob
ably been reading the Mary and Ann prob
lems In the Eagle, said:
"If Controller Grout can push one-half
of a 3000-pound automobile half way
.across the bridge, as a Tammany candi
date, how far could he push a three-ton
machine, without any help, starting from
the Battery and going up Broadway, as
a Fusion-Tammany candidate with a
Devery indorsement, and how old would
he be when he reached tho Controller's
office at the corner of Chambers street?"
"Gwan now," said a cop, "and see how
old you'll be before you get home,"
"W. B. Dennis in tne Engineering
and Mining Journal.
quent cross-cutting. Tho richer ores along
this wall furnish stoplng widths ranging
from 7 to 20 feet in addition to a very
wide adjacent area of lower grade ore
which will come in for treatment under
the system of averaging a largo tonnage.
Besides the main Assuro three others of
Importance have been discovered on the
property and opened up sufficiently to in
sure a large supply of ore. Two of these
have a parallel strike of S. 20 deg. E., but
dip in opposite directions. Openings on
these veins have been made at a depth of
1300 and 1600 feet respectively, below the
apex of the mountain. While these open
ings are, topographically speaking, near
tho present surface, geologically they must
be regarded as affording evidence of the.
depth of the deposit since the present
canons which havo exposed these veins
are unmistakably due to the direct process
of erosion. The openings described may
therefore be regarded in mine practice,
as deep levels upon the deposit,, and the
presence of cinnabar at these exposures
must be regarded as indicating that the
hydro-thermal solutions, from which the
mercuric sulphides of this region were un
doubtedly precipitated, began the process
of deposition at a level below the present
exposures.
The frequent occurrence of exceedingly
rich ores, assaying from 40 to 70 per cent
mercury, led tho early exploiters of the
Black Butte mine to expect the immediate
discovery of great bonanzas such as were
encountered some years ago at New Idria
and New Almaden, but, while similar ore
bodies may be found, none have been en
countered as yet, and tho present man
agement has confined its atentlon to the
development of the immense masses of
average and lower-grade ores. In spito of
the exceedingly rich ores which the Black
Butte mine produces, a conservative esti
mate of the district from a commercial
standpoint, so far as present development
shows, must deal with tho question of
handling large masses of ore of average
low grade, calling for extensive reduction
works, modern appliances, and general
operations on a large scale, for which
local conditions are peculiarly favorable.
HOW BETTBEN WENT TO TOWN
The Born New Yorker Has Learned
Over Again an Old Lesson.
Washington Post.
Some months ago a few Southern men,
headed by Mr. W. P. Brown, of Louis
ville, went on to New York with the
avowed purpose of buying up all tho cot
ton in sight and taking advantage of tho
great demand for the staple which they
believed would occur later on. They made
no concealment of their plans. They
frankly stated tho conviction that the
crop would be very late on account of
weather conditions, and prophesied that
the great metropolitan wiseacres, who
were selling right and left for August and
September delivers, would bo caught with
contracts they could not readily fulfill.
Of course, they were ridiculed by the
great men of the great city. They were
Ignorant hayseeds, desperate gamblers,
impudent charlatans. The famous com
puters who sit In their offices near the
cotton exchange and tell the country all
about everything doomed the provincials
to early destruction and thought no more
about It. The idea of any one coming
from the remote wilderness, hundreds of
miles from Hoboken, coming to the very
homo of Anancial and comercial genius,
with the idea of teaching its anointed
prophets and high priests why, it was too
preposterous for consideration. The ora
cles had spoken. New York had de
cided on the crop and had proclaimed Its
infallible decrees. Let the Southerners
go to their ruin If they would.
Along In July the great men became
aware of a vague, but persistent uneasi
ness. Of course. It could be nothing se
rious. To suppose that they could fall
short of perfection in human wisdom was
to suppose the extravagantly Impossible.
Nevertheless, the provinlcals went ahead
In their temerity. Soon It became whis
pered about that they bad actually bought
all the cotton then in sight. They had
bought even the stocks held by a number
of factories which wanted to close down
for repairs and could sell at a handsome
proAt and to great convenience besides.
Still, tho great metropolitan authorities
could not believe there was any cause for
serious anxiety. They could not be mis
taken in the end. They had given the
matter their august attention, and, of
course, they must be right. The mis
guided rustics held a great deal of cotton,
no doubt, and they would smart for their
folly in due time. Was it not always so
when the rustics ventured upon liberties
with them? Were the lambs not always
treated to a closo shearing when they
wandered into that particular pen? It
was to laugh, and laugh the anointed ones
did, right loud and merrily. It wis al
most pathetic, it was so funny.
And the hilarity ceased on Tuesday,
when time was up for the delivery of
September cotton. The New York mag
nates who had contracted to furnish the
material, found that they didn't have It,
and couldn't get it, except from the Louis
lana hayseeds, who had bought it, and
whose destruction they had eo contemptu
ously predicted two months before. The
hayseeds had bought the cotton itself
with their good money, and had it to sell
to those who wanted It. The great met
ropolitan magnates had contracted to. de
liver a certain thing at a certain time,
and when the time came they had to buy
from the despised provincials. It was a
question of knowledge, judgment, nerve,
and the hayseeds won at the expense of
the city wiseacres.
How your genuine New Yorker loves
to sneer at and to despoil the innocent
and credulous rustic! With what flne
scorn does he dismiss from respectful
consideration every one who has had the
misfortune of birth In the outer wilder
ness! And yet, during the past 40 years,
Reubens havo been going Into that town,
squeezing millions out of the natives and
taking pretty much everything they
wanted. Their palaces stand on Fifth ave
nue, at Newport, at Tuxedo, and when
they need more they go down among the
New Yorkers and segregate it. Mr. Brown
of New Orleans will join them if he wants
to. New York is fairly bursting with easy
money.
STILL LOYAL TO TEE BUZZARD
This Is No Time to Prate of Santos
Dumont and Other Foreigners.
Washington Post.
Has it come to pass that we must dis
miss the Langley flying machine from our
philosophy of human progress and tako
to Heart the devices of mere foreigners
Frenchmen, Brazilians and so on? Perish
the irreverent thought! It may be true
that the Langley buzzard has for three
long months been poised upon its perch
at Wldewater and never spread a wing.
The ribald and incredulous groundings
may insist as, indeed, they do that a
bird which has had every kind of wind
and weather known to man, without once
venturing to leave its roost, can hardly
be of value in any practical emergency.
But shall we lose faith and hope on this
account, and brand the buzzard for an
impudent humbug and maligaerer? We
say, never!
This is no time to talk about Santos
Dumont, who careers foolishly In a
ridiculous balloon, paying calls, visiting
the race track at Longchamps, etc., or
about tho Count de la Vaulz, who has
just made a voyage from. Paris to Eng
land in his little machine, and .Is now
strutting and grimacing in his pride be
cause of it. These contrivances may
amuse and mislead the unthinking by
virtue of their meretricious performances,
but they shall not divert us from a rev
erent contemplation- of science In its real
truth and beauty.. Theso are impudent
and pretentious toys simple mountebanks
in the scheme of serious achievement.
They go about from place to place, of
course, and they carry this or that pre
posterous foreigner, who has no more
conception of the principles of aerial
flight than a cow has of the binomial
theorem. But what of that? Professor
Langley's thoughts are flxed on higher
things. He scorns the base and sordid
considerations of mere success. He
doesn't care whether his machine flies
SOO.OOO.OOO or SO.000,000 feet; whether it
dives to the bottom of the Potomac River,
carrying Professor Manly along with It,
or "wings its triumphant flight even to
Prlnca George County, and adds another
voter to the Mudd contingent. What he
seeks is the apotheosis of a principle. And
there he stands, undismayed, still seeking.
Come, then; let us take the buzzard to
our bosom and be superior!
EEABS ADULTERATION.
Mrs. Eddy Would Keep Christian Sci
ence Pure and Potent.
THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,
SCIENTIST, Boston. Mass., Oct. 31.
(To the Editor.) Yon have some Chris
tian Scientists in your city and know of
their good behavior and good works, and
you can understand without any stren
uous argument how they must feel to
have their leader's name connected In
any way with tho irrational proceedings
of fanatics.
Do you know that Mrs. Eddy's "pala
tial homo In Concord" is a very simple
wooden house that cost, perhaps. JS.000
or $10,000? It is a model of cleanliness
and taste, in perfect keeping with the
modesty of its worthy occupant.
While Mrs. Eddy has wisely taken
every precaution to prevent Christian
Science from becoming adulterated and
perverted and thus losing its efHcacy and
power for good in tho world, she Is anx
ious that all should share with her tho
full beneflts of this Science.
Mrs. Eddy enters Into no contests for
power and place. She 13 modest and re
served and seeks no "notoriety." She Is
a model of meekness. I havo known
her intimately for about 18 years, and
during the oast Ave yeara have been
closely associated with her in Christian
Science work, and I want to assure you
that she Is as far from what you pic
ture her to bo as any Individual that you
will And upon this earth; and I regret
that you should participate in any dis
courtesy toward so noble a woman, one
who is contributing more toward the
health and happiness of tho world than
any woman who ever lived.
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COFFEY. DR. R. C. Surgeon 405-400
COGHLAN. DR. J. N 713-714
COLLD3R. P. F., Publisher; S. P. McGulre.
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