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EBAY’S FRAUD PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE EBay has had a problem with fraudulent sellers since its inception back in 1995. Some aspects of the platform have improved with algorithms and automation, but others such as customer service and fraud have gotten worse. Small sellers have definitely been hurt by eBay’s “enhanced buyer experience”, but more on that later. WHY THE PLATFORM CONTINUES TO GET WORSE My view about eBay is that it has been fully captured by Wall Street. In 2014 eBay employed over 34,000 people. Today that number hovers around 12,000. In a fair world, one where corporations “took care” of their employees, one would expect the employee head count to grow with profits. Shamefully, in America today, Wall Street can actually force a corporation into making detrimental decisions not only for their employees, but in the long run, the quality of the customer service that the business delivers. Let me share with you the number one most common Wall Street scam perpetuated on unsuspecting corporations. I will use eBay for example. It goes as follows:
Thus we are now left with a very dysfunctional eBay and PayPal where the once stellar customer phone service has all but disappeared for both companies. And with eBay, they can no longer adequately police their own auctions. They simply do not have enough employees to address the growing fraud problem. OK, so what about the watch fraud? NOW ON TO THE WATCH FRAUD: Looking at various watch auctions tonight, I ran across two interesting auctions; one by a seller in Japan, the other by a seller located in India. The Japanese seller has 200 plus feedbacks and the Indian seller only has two. My intuition tells me it is most likely that the Indian seller committing the fraud here, but I will let the reader decide. So please take a look at the photos of the two listings below. The first one is from the Japanese seller (3 screen shots) The second listing is from the Indian seller (3 screen shots). It is my belief that the Indian seller is stealing the Japanese sellers photographs and posting false listings. Of course, it could be the Indian seller has a cousin living in Japan selling from the same inventory, but that is highly unlikely. Conclusion: See his feedback below…it is more likely that this is one and the same seller and is located in India but stating that the watch is in Japan as a “marketing” ploy. Or, he is attempting to establish a second account in order to outrun his rather long string of negative feedback. CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO ENLARGE JAPANESE LISTING:  Japan 1  Japan 2  Japan 3 Now for the Indian listing. The last two photos are identical to the ones provided by the Japanese seller….same movement, same description:  India 1  India 2  India 3
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Today I shall share a bit of market wisdom that will be hard to swallow for some Rolex owners, especially if they bought their Submariner at the top of the magical Covid Watch Bubble that has now collapsed.
Over the past four years we have amazingly witnessed no less than four bubbles:
The astute speculator could have made a fortune off of any one of the above. But, it is unlikely the next bubble will involve any of the above. So if you think the value of your Rolex will once again shoot to the moon, I would advise buying a good bottle of scotch, drink your blues away, sober up, and then chalk it down to valuable lesson learned. Tulips anyone?
HomeTop of Pg. Full Cover, rear, spine, and front Published by Piranesi Press in collaboration with Country House Essays, this beautiful paperback version of the King James Bible is now available for $79.95 at Barnes and Noble.com This is a limited Edition of 500 copies Worldwide. Click here to view other classic books produced for this site. Continue reading King James Bible — Knights Templar Edition HomeTop of Pg.
King Arthur, Legends, Myths & Maidens is a massive book of Arthurian legends. This limited edition paperback was just released on Barnes and Noble at a price of $139.00. Although is may seem a bit on the high side, it may prove to be well worth its price as there are only 150 copies being printed. The book has 674 pages and is in a 6″ x 9″ format. This edition is published by Piranesi Press in collaboration with Country House Essays. They have put a lot of effort into the layout which book lovers are sure to enjoy. Continue reading King Arthur Legends, Myths, and Maidens HomeTop of Pg. St.Helen’s on the Thames, photo by Momit
From a Dictionary of the Thames from Oxford to the Nore. 1880 by Charles Dickens Abingdon, Berkshire, on the right bank, from London 103 3/4miles, from Oxford 7 3/4 miles. A station on the Great Western Railway, from Paddington 60 miles. The time occupied by the trains varies from one hour and threequarters upwards ; the station is about twelve minutes’ walk from the river. Population, 6,506. Soil, gravel. Abingdon is situated at the junction of the Ock with the Thames, and can boast very considerable antiquity. It appears to have grown up round a great abbey which was founded here so far back as the 7th century, but it is probable that much of the early history of Abingdon is entirely of a legendary kind, and that. little is known about it with absolute certainty until the time of the Conquest. The evidence of Domesday Book goes to show that the abbey at that time was rich in landed property. Desperate quarrels occurred between the monks and the citizens, and in 1327 n great part of the abbey was burnt in a riot in which the Mayor of Oxford and certain disorderly students of that University took the part of the inhabitants of Abingdon. The town gradually grew into importance, principally through its extensive cloth trade, but received a severe blow when the abbey was abolished in 1538 and its large revenues diverted into other channels. Another reason for the importance of the town in ancient days was the building of its bridge by John Huchyns and Geoffrey Barbur in 1416. In the reign of Queen Mary, 1557, a Charter of Incorporation was granted to the town at the instigation of Sir John Mason, an influential inhabitant, and it has ever since been represented in Parliament, the original number of two members being now reduced to one. The borough is now represented by Mr. John C. Clarke, a Liberal. The number of voters on the register in 1878 was 890. The town is governed by a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors. The principal business centre is the Marketplace, with High street, Stert-street, East St. Helen’s-street, the Square, and Ock-street. It is a clean, quiet little place — quiet even to the point of dulness—with many good houses both modern and ancient. Among the latter may be instanced an excellent example of old timbering in a house in Stert-street. Notwithstanding its apparent quiet a fair amount of trade is carried on in Abingdon, and one of its principal industries is that of the manufacture of ready-made clothing, thus, oddly enough, carrying out the old traditions of the place, which, as Leland says, atone time “stood by clothing.” The market-house stands on an open arcade of stone pillars with a timbered roof, and is the work of Inigo Jones. Built in 1667, it was restored in 1853, and stands on the site of the famous old market cross which was destroyed by the Parliamentary General Waller in 1644. A curious picture of the cross is on the outside of the south wall of Christ’s Hospital, facing the river, The abbey gateway still stands to the eastward of the market-place, and a little beyond it, on the right, are some very interesting remains of the old abbey itself, now in the occupation of a brewer, but readily accessible to visitors. Here, at the extreme end of the yard, on the right, some crumbling steps with a time-worn wooden balustrade at the top lead to the abbot’s apartments, now used as lofts, in which are the remains of a fine fire-place, said to be of the time of Henry III., with a capacious chimney, some good windows, and well-preserved pointed arches to the doorways. The roofs are lofty and the walls of immense thickness. Underneath this room is a remarkable crypt, also unusually lofty, which is at present used for the storage of bitter ale. The entrance to the crypt is close to the backwater of the Thames, and is shaded by some splendid chestnuts—for which indeed Abingdon is remarkable. The upper windows facing the river at this point are in good preservation, and, from a lane between the brewery and the abbey gateway, is a very picturesque view of the great chimney above mentioned. The church of St. Nicholas ad joins the abbey gateway, and will well repay a visit. Close to the pulpit is a painted mural monument, with a carved stone base, reaching from the floor almost to the ceiling, dedicated to the memory of John Blacknail and Jane his wife, “who both of them finished an happy course upon earth, and ended their days in peace on the 2ist day of August, 1625.” They are represented by two figures in black kneeling on red and gilt cushions, she with her two children praying behind her; and the epitaph runs as follows :
Blacknall was a great benefactor to the town, and among his charities is a dole of forty-seven loaves of bread, which are distributed from his tomb every Sunday. There is a small brass with an inscription, to the Bostock family (1669), some curious old stained glass panes with an almost undecipherable inscription, and an old carved stone font. Behind the altar, hidden by a wooden screen, is an old reredos, unfortunately considerably mutilated. The registers date back to 1558, are in splendid order, and most carefully bound and preserved, and contain many curious entries ; among others, the records of several civil marriages, after publication of the names three times in the market, attested by John Bolton and others, mayors of the town in 1657. The church has a tower with a singular square turret attached, and a good Norman doorway. A much finer church is St. Helen’s, close to the river, the spire of which, with its flying but tresses, is a landmark to this portion of the Thames. This really handsome church has a nave and chancel of equal breadth, and side aisles, with timbered roof good throughout, and in the nave and chancel very elaborate. In the north aisle the roof is still decorated with curious paintings, many of which are gradually but surely fading. There is a new carved marble font and modern oak roodscreen, both of considerable beauty.  John Roysse – (1500-1571) Photograph of a portrait copy of John Roysse at Abingdon School by unknown artist. photo by Racinemanager Among the monuments is the stone memorial in the north aisle to John Roysse, the founder of the Abingdon Grammar School, who died in 1571, leaving express orders that the great stone in his arbour in his London garden should be the upper stone of his tomb at Abingdon, round about which four-and-twenty pensioners should for ever kneel on Sundays to receive alms; and with further careful provision that ” twelve pence in white bread, being good, sweet, and seasonable,” should be distributed every Sunday at his tomb, to twelve old widows, ” women or men,” of whom every one, at the receipt thereof should say, ” The blessed Trinity upon JOHN ROYSSE’S soul have mercy ! “ Another stone monument in the west of the north aisle, bears the following inscription: “This tombe is honord with the bones of our pious benefactour, Richard Curtaine, gent., a principall magistrate of this Corpâ, hee was buried July ye 18, Ano Dominy 1643;” and elsewhere on the tomb are these lines, which at the time were no doubt considered to embody a quaint conceit :
At the foot of this tomb is a brass, with, a half-length figure in action of prayer, Galfridus Barbur, 1417; and behind the organ is another brass, nearly obliterated, displaying a full-length female figure. In the east of the south aisle is a curious painting of the genealogical tree of W. Lee, 1637. Mr. Lee was five times Mayor of Abingdon, and “had in his life time issue from his loins two hundred lacking but three.” The organ displays a quaint woodcarving of King David, with gilded harp and crown. The tomb of Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins, 1780, is a capital example of what should be avoided in the way of monumental sculpture. It is crowded with busts of fat naked children, weeping tears of colossal size, and ail the usual devices and properties of the most conventional stone mason. The perpetrator of this work of genius was, it appears, one Hickey, who was fortunate enough to receive for it £400 under the deceased lady’s will. In the churchyard of St. Helen’s is a row of almshouses in memory of Charles Twitty, 1707, who gave ,£1,700 for building and endowing “an hospital for maintayning in meate, drinke, and apparrel, and all other necessarys of life 3 poor aged men, and the like number of poor aged women.” Abutting off the churchyard also are the cloistered buildings of the charity at Christ’s Hospital, which was refounded in 1553—having been dissolved by Henry VIII.—at the instance of Sir John Mason, who procured for it a charter frorti Edward VI. Over the central porch of the hospital are ‘ some curious old paintings, representing such subjects as the giving of alms, the story of the Good Samaritan, and other scripture subjects, as well as a portrait of Edward VI. The picture of the old market cross has already been noticed. The oak-panelled hall, which is lighted by a lofty lantern, has several odd pictures, among them one representing the building of Abingdon Bridge, in memory of ” Jefforye Barbur and John Howchion.” On the frame is inscribed : ” Frauncis Little, one of ye governors of this hospital, gave this table, An. Dm. 1607,” and underneath the picture stands the table in question, a fine one of oak, with curiously carved legs. A portrait of Edward VI. hangs, with several others, in the hall ; and there is also preserved the original charter, which shows considerable signs of age. The later portion of the hospital buildings, which runs parallel to the river, dates from 1718, and it is just below this point that the waters of the Ock and of the Wilts and Berks Canal join the Thames. At the north side of the town is the Albert Park, presented to the town by the trustees of Christ’s Hospital is 1864. It is well laid out and planted, and in it stands a monument to the late Prince Consort, with his statue in the robes of the Garter. Adjoining the park are the new buildings of the grammar school, founded by John Roysse in 1563. The profligacy of John Roysse’s son was the immediate cause of the foundation of Abingdon Grammar School. It is said that nothing but the universal estimation in which men held his father, ” as well in the west country as also in Kent or otherwise,” saved the criminal from the penalties of the law. Roysse disinherited him, and, after making provision for his grandson and making certain other bequests, bequeathed the residue of his fortune, directing that as it was endowed A.D. 1563, and in the 63rd year of its founder’s life, it should educate 63 boys for ever. Thomas Teesdale, the first scholar admitted into this school, endowed an ushership in the school, and left funds for purchasing lands for the maintenance of fellows and scholars from Abingdon school at Balliol College, Oxford. His trustees, however, combined with Richard Wightwick to found Pembroke College, Oxford, at which college the school possesses five of the incorporated scholarships. Of these one is filled up annually, and two boys who have been educated at the school for two years are nominated as candidates. Each scholarship is of the value of £50 per annum, with rooms rent free, and is tenable for five years. The fees for boarders under the age of 13 are £57 ; over 13, £63. Hard by Roysse’s school is Sir Gilbert Scott’s elaborately decorated church of St. Michael,1 which Serves as a chapel-of-ease to St. Helen’s. The street leading to the park from Ock-street is by the side of the alms houses founded by Benjamin Tompkins in 1733.  Sir George Gilbert Scott 1 Link is to the website of the Scott family. They have quite fascinating family history. Claims to fame include:
 Mausoleum from which the British red telephone box was design inspired. George Basevi’s painting of Sir Soane’s Tomb – 1816 The angler should not be afraid of fishing near the town, as there are some excellent swims close by. In Blake’s Lock -pool there are arbel, chub, perch, &c., and on the tow-path side, opposite Thrup, just past the overfall, there is a swim of considerable length, and full six feet deep, reachable from the bank.
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Charles Dickens wrote much more than novels. In fact he turned out several very interesting dictionaries to include one of London, one of Paris and one on London’s long meandering river Thames. Click here to read a copy of the Dictionary of the Thames. HomeTop of Pg. Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the mendicant Order of Friars Minor, as painted by El Greco. Catholic religious orderCatholic religious orders are one of two types of religious institutes (‘Religious Institutes’, cf. canons 573–746), the major form of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church. They are organizations of laity and/or clergy who take solemn vows (in contrast to the simple vows taken by the members of religious congregations) and who live a common life following a religious rule or constitution under the leadership of a religious superior. According to the Annuario Pontificio, there are four branches of religious orders: Continue reading Catholic Religious Orders HomeTop of Pg.
VITRUVIUS The Ten Books on Architecture TRANSLATED By MORRIS HICKY MORGAN, PH.D., LL.D. IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY NELSON ROBINSON JR. PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE CAMBRIDGE
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Dec. 10, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 477-479 Zulu. The little ship shown in the accompanying plans needs no description, as she speaks for herself, a handsome and shipshape craft that a man may own for years without any fear that she will go to pieces under him or that she will become obsolete and out of date in appearance. She is intended as a day sailing boat, with large cockpit, but at the same time she has a snug little house for “week end” cruises; and as a proof of her capabilities at sea, she made the trip from Cobourg, Ont., on Lake Ontario, to Erie, Pa., a distance of 200 miles, early last May, in fairly heavy weather, running into Erie in a N. E. gale and big sea. On this trip she accommodated four very comfortably, and her performance showed an excellent sea boat. In the summer races of a mixed fleet she has shown very good speed, though not regularly raced.
Zulu was designed and built by Mr. H. K. Wicksteed, of Cobourg, Ont., for Mr. F. W. Grant, of Erie. Her dimensions are:
Though thoroughly well built, the total cost was but $600, including 8ft. dinghy, spinaker, side lights, anchor, cable and small fittings; less than one-half the cost of a racing 2o-footer with nothing save racing outfit.
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Dec. 24, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 513-514 The Standard Navy Boats. Above we find, The accompanying illustrations show further details of the standard navy boats, the lines of which appeared last week. In all of these boats, as stated previously, the quality of speed has been given but a subordinate place, the consequence is that the boats in all classes represent a high degree of serviceability and real efficiency. Great attention has been paid to the construction, to insure Below we find the design for a whaleboat.
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Nov. 12, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 396 The Veterans to the Front. Ironton. O., Oct. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: I mail you a target made here today by Messrs. E. Lawton, G. Rogers and R. S. Dupuy. Mr. Dupuy is seventy-four years old, Mr. Lawton seventy-two. Mr. Rogers sixty-four. They used a Stevens Sure Shot .22cal. U. M. C. long rifle. The shot in the center of No. 1 is Mr. Dupuy’s. There was a tack in the top of the paper; Mr. Lawton drove it for his last shot. 1 don’t think you can _____________________ The annual meeting and election of officers of the Brooklyn Revolver Club will take place on Thursday of this week. HomeTop of Pg.
Nov. 5. 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 371-372 The Black Grouper or Jewfish. New Smyrna, Fla., Oct. 21.—Editor Forest and Stream: It is not generally known that the fish commonly called jewfish. warsaw and black grouper are frequently caught at the New Smyrna bridge on the North Indian River. The depth of water (23ft.), the velocity of the tide, and the protective facilities afforded by the numerous piles composing the foundation of the draw, together with the enormous numbers of sheepshead which frequent that locality and vicinity, and which appear to be among its choicest food, render this place its favorite feeding ground. The beginning of the present season for sheepshead fishing demonstrated by the number of lines, sinkers and hooks lost that some unweildy denizen of the deep was entering a vigorous protest against relinquishing its share of the sheepshead supply. After exhausting his patience in renewing his fishing outfit, Capt. Alf. Sharp, of the sharpie Coronado, resolved to capture the voracious monster. Having a line specially prepared, baited with a live sheephead, after an entire day of patient waiting he hooked the fish, and while laboring to bring it to shore the line fouled round a spile covered with barnacles, cutting it, allowing the fish to escape, not, however, without revealing itself to be over 5ft. in length and heavy in proportion. Not to be discouraged, the next day found him patiently awaiting the convenience of the fish to take the bait proved, when late in the evening his perseverance was rewarded by a successful strike, and with the combined efforts of several men the fish was by main strength pulled to the surface of the water, thence over the railway of the bridge, thereby preventing the repetition of the experience of the day previous, On being weighed, it was found to tip the beam at 110lbs., and was over 5ft. long and nearly 20in. diameter. During the past “season a number of the same variety of fish were taken, one colored man coming with his wheelbarrow in regular anticipation of his catch. The following, from the “Fisheries and Fishing Industries of the United States.” published by the United States Fish Commission, relative to the above-mentioned fish, may be of interest: “A very large jewfish will follow and finally swallow a hooked fish, usually a red snapper, with hooks, lead, line and all. If the line then does not break, the fish may be hauled in with gaffs. The jewfish attains an enormous size, and specimens weighing from 80 to 1oolbs. have been caught. The smaller fish are quite choice, but large ones are too coarse and tough to be salable.” Nowhere on the East Coast of Florida are there better facilities for obtaining sport of a piscatorial nature than in the vicinity of New Smyrna. With suitable lines and reel the varieties of fish to be taken may be anticipated by the use of bait. Fiddlers or shrimp are commonly used for sheepshead, and cut bait or mullet for the majority of the other varieties of fish. Of the size of the strings taken in one day by one person, 125lbs. have been recorded. Sheepshead range from 1 to 7lbs. in weight. Other fish, consisting of choper, cavally, sea bass, trout, whiting and bluefish, arc commonly caught by our winter visitors. Fishing parties in launches and sail boats from Daytona frequently visit these celebrated fishing grounds. Suitable accommodations for sojourning fishermen can be had in New Smyrna and near the fishing grounds at reasonable rates. The most desirable method for those who can afford the time and expense is to engage a boat with suitable cabin accommodations and cruise about the waters adjacent, breathing the pure salt atmosphere and enjoying nature free from the unhealthful and contaminating influences of city life. John Y. Detwiler.  A modern photo of the jewfish HomeTop of Pg.
Oct. 22, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 324 An Alaskan Moose Head. Tacoma, Washington; Oct. 1.—Editor Forest and Stream: In your issue of March 6, 1897, you showed cut of a pair of moose horns belonging to me that spread 73 1/2 in.— at that time the largest moose head on record, I have the pleasure of sending you photograph of a set of moose horns that break all previous records, and stand to-day the largest and most massive moose head on record. Spread of the horns is 78 1/2in.; width of the blades following the curve. i8in.; with 40 prongs, four of the prongs on the under side not showing in photograph. I have some seventy-five moose heads, and have handled and seen hundreds of them, but this discounts by far any moose head I have seen. The horns, as you will notice, are on the natural skull, and just as the animal was killed. In showing this photograph to the readers of Forest and Stream. I wish you would make the cut large enough to show the figures on the tape line, and also show that the skull has not been cut. When you published the former cut of moose horns, although the cuts were splendid, they were not large enough to show figures on the tape, and I received hundreds of letters asking if the horns really spread that much, and what size was the man standing alongside, and all manner of questions. While it showed that Forest and Stream is read far and wide, it caused me to answer a great many letters, and if you will show the figures on the tape it will save me lots of writing. You might also mention that the horns are not for sale. W. F. Sheard. Fighting Porcupines. Oct. 8.—Editor Forest and Stream: One characteristic of the Canada porcupine, which I have never seen noted, but which no doubt is common enough, is its pugnacity at certain seasons. As the two instances which I have noticed occurred in October, I suppose the manifestation is directly connected with the rutting season. In both instances I had stopped to listen while still hunting deer, having heard some noise made by the porcupine. The animal approached from a distance of 30 or 40yds., moving quite slowly, its quills erect and making a snapping noise with its teeth. In the first case, which happened four years ago, it gave utterance also to a kind of noise like the clicking of a small hydraulic ram, but in the latest instance, two days ago, no such noise was made. In both cases the porcupine came within 6in. or so of my foot, and not wishing to lose any of my toes, for the animal could easily have bitten through my moccasins, I gave it a tap on the first dorsal vertebra with the end of my rifle barrel. In the first case I killed the porcupine, but in the other instance I purposely did not hit very hard, and after it had regained its feet it waddled off at a pretty fast gait along its runway, under a slash of fallen trees. I am curious to know how the porcupine would have given fight. It is possible it might have wheeled at the last thought and given me a slap with its tail, as it fights dogs, but I rather imagine it would have tried to bite my feet or legs, judging from the way it was snapping its teeth. Its action impressed me as being mote than a bluff; if it was a bluff the porcupine certainly had the nerve of a monumental poker player. J. B. Burnham. HomeTop of Pg.
Sept. 3, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 188-189 How to Distinguish Fishes. BY FRED MATHER. HomeTop of Pg. Hudson Bay: Trappers, 1892. N’Talking Musquash.’ Fur Trappers Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Talking By A Fire. Engraving After A Drawing By Frederic Remington, 1892. Indian Modes of Hunting. IV.—Musquash. In Canada and the United States, the killing of the little animal known under the several names of water rat, musquash and muskrat is so well understood by the average frontier boy that any information I can give would be perhaps a repetition. Still there is one way that the Indian practices which is certainly not known to the whites, and is at a certain time very successful. That is spearing them on the ice; and another mode in which the Indians are very successful in the fall is digging them out, or “trenching” them, in the same way they do the beaver, only with much less labor, as it is done before the ponds and creeks freeze up. I will describe the latter way first, see ing it comes before that of spearing. Continue reading Indian Modes of Hunting — Musquash HomeTop of Pg.
Jul. 30, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 87 Indian Mode of Hunting. I.—Beaver. Wa-sa-Kejic came over to the post early one October, and said his boy had cut his foot, and that he had no one to steer his canoe on a proposed beaver hunt. Now nice, fat beaver, just before the ice takes, is one of the tidbits that come to the trader’s table, and having spare time just then I volunteered to accompany him, knowing I would get a share of the game. As we made our way over the several small portages between the large lake on which the post is built and the one in which he had located the beaver, he told me there were two lodges on the lake to which we were making our way. We pitched our tent on the last portage, so as not to make a fire near the beaver. Beavers have very poor eyesight, but very acute hearing and smell, and once they are frightened the sport for that night at all events is finished. We had something to eat and then started for the lake, leaving our tent and things ready to return to after dark. Smoking and talking are forbidden when one is in a beaver lake; care also must be taken that the paddle does not rasp the side of the canoe. The beavers had built an immense dam across the discharge of the lake, and left a small cut in the middle for the overflow to pass. Here Wa-sa-Kejic placed a No. 4 Newhouse trap in about 4in. of water. On a twig 9in. high and set back about a foot from the trap he placed a small piece of castorum. The smell of this attracts a beaver. Then he lengthened the trap chain with three strands of No. 9 twine, tying it to a stout pole, which he planted very, very securely in deep water, out from the dam. The beaver, when he finds himself caught, springs backward into the deep water and dives to the bottom; here he struggles to get away until shortness of breath compels him to rise to the surface, and this is repeated until the weight of the trap is too much for his exhausted condition, and he dies at the bottom, from whence he is hauled up by the hunter when next visiting his traps. After placing the trap on the dam Wa-sa-Kejic opened another ready for setting, tied the poles, and had every thing ready; then giving me implicit injunctions not to make the last noise, told me to steer the canoe quietly We were now going to try still-shooting them. Be fore night sets in about sundown each fine evening in the fall the beavers leave their lodge, first, to eat the young willows along the shore, and after satisfying their Hunger to patch the dam, plaster their houses and cut young trees to store up for their next winter’s food! They come to the surface on leaving the lodge, and unless something frightens them swim on the surface in and out along the borders of the lake until they see a favorable spot to go ashore; and here they set to nibbling the bark of young birch or poplar, and if the hunter is careful may be shot at close range. As I said before, talking while hunting beaver is forbidden; and the hunter conveys his wishes to the steersman by signs, thus: To draw his attention he oscillates the canoe slightly; to move the canoe ahead the motion of paddling made by throwing the open hand inboard; to alter the course of the canoe is done by signing with the hand either to the right or to the left, as desired; to stop the canoe’s headway when getting too close to the game is done by gentle downward patting of the hand, etc. Being already versed in this dumb language, we shoved away and took up a position near the lodge, but to the leeward of it, and waited. The sun having already gone down behind the forest, on the other side of the lake, we had not long to wait until a beaver broke water and swam away in a direction from us. Wa-sa-Kejic shook his head, as much as to say, “We will go after that fellow later on.” The first was followed quickly by a second, a third and a fourth! Then, after waiting for fully fifteen minutes and no other appearing, Wa-sa-Kejic made signs to go ahead; this we did slowly, without taking the sharp-bladed paddle from the water. Presently we heard a noise as if a pig were supping up from a trough. This was one of the beavers crunching up young twigs in the water. The canoe was edged slowly toward the land, with Wa-sa-Kejic on the alert, both dogheads full-cocked and ready for action. Presently the downward motion of the hand was given, the gun brought deliberately up to the shoulder, and the next instant the explosion, followed almost as one shot by the second barrel! A thick smoke hung between us and the shore, but we could hear kicking and splashing of the water; that told the shot was true. The beaver had ceased to struggle by the time we reached the shore. ‘”But for what was the other shot?” I asked Wasa-Kejic. “For that,” he answered, pointing to another beaver, stone dead on the bank; and then he laughed, for there was no necessity of keeping quiet any longer, for the shots had frightened any other beaver in the vicinity. “We may as well go to camp now,” continued Wasa-Kejic, “and we will see our traps in the morning.” From the fact of our having come ashore late, and perhaps more because of the hearty supper we made off of roast beaver, we did not awake until the sun was high. We, Immediately partook; of a hasty breakfast of tea Gallette and pork and went to see the traps. “Fortunate?” Well, yes! We found one in each trap; and returned during the afternoon to the post. The Indian gave me the meat of two beavers for myself. He left his traps set to visit at some future time, because there were several animals yet in the lake. Describing the mode of killing beaver would not be complete unless we explained that of “trenching.” This method of killing them is largely practiced by the Indians after the lakes and rivers are frozen over. I cannot do better than to describe a small lake that Wasa-Kejic and I went to trench in December. This beaver lodge I had found the very last day of open water, for that night the wind turned round north and froze up everything! As it was close to the post, and I had found it, I simply made a bargain with Wa-sa-Kejic to do the trenching for a pound of tea. In those days tea was tea in the remote interior, and meant many a cheering cup to the Indian. Wa-sa-Kejic whistled his dogs after him when we left camp in the morning. The lake lay in the hollow of a mountain of considerable height, and could be compared to an inch of water in the bottom of a teacup. Before we were half down the precipitous sides we saw the dogs nosing around the shore, scenting for the beavers in their “washes” or breathing holes. Wa-sa-Kejic, when he cast his eye around the small body of water, said, “This is an easy lake, and the beaver will soon all be dead.” He now produced an ordinary socket chisel of 1 in. point, and in a few minutes had this handled with a young tamarack about 6ft. long. We each carried an axe, and the first order I got was to cut some dry sticks that stood at the discharge, each stick to be about 4ft. long. These, as fast as cut. the Indian drove across the creek after he had cut a trench in the thin ice from shore to shore. This was to prevent the beaver from going down the creek. The next thing was to break open the lodge from the top. This was done to scare the beavers out into the lake and make them resort to the washes. The Beaver washes vary in number according to the formation of the lake, from two to three up to twenty. The practiced eye of the hunter tells him at once ‘if the lake has few or many. And this is why Wa-sa-Kejic said we would soon kill the beaver. At last the three dogs remained pointing and listening about 12ft. from the shore under a spruce of considerable size. The Indian set to work to stake up the entrance, which he did as fast as I could furnish the sticks. On the shore of this barricade he cleared away the ice and snow, making an opening about the size of a bar rel head, and then he paused, and pointing to the water said, “See frat! That’s the beaver breathing!” This was shown by the water’s surface gently rising and falling. He now took off his coat, and baring his right arm up to the shoulder he gave me the ice chisel and told me to pierce the ground where the dogs were pointing. I had hardly given a blow or two before I saw Wa-sa-Kejic stoop over the hole and plunge his naked arm into the water. Instantly it was withdrawn, and a big fat beaver, securely seized by the tail, was struggling in his grasp. A blow of his axe on the spine finished him in quick order, and this was repeated from time to time as I continued to enlarge the hole where the beavers were huddled together under the roots. We got six out of this wash, and two out of another, which constituted all that were in the lake. Two each made a very good load for us going home, and the next day I sent a man with a flat sled to bring home the remaining four. The three principal modes of killing beavers are by shooting, trapping, trenching. Martin Hunter. HomeTop of Pg.
Horn Measurements. Editor Forest and Stream: What constitutes a record head? Certainly not the one that merely has the widest spread across the horns after being mounted, which seems to be the most popular plan of deciding by some innocent though wily taxidermists. Providing the head, or rather the horns, of a moose, elk or deer are measured fairly and squarely (for with these animals it is really the horns that are considered, generally speaking), several measurements are necessary. Many claim the largest head on record in consequence of the horns spreading to a greater width than any recorded. This means nothing unless . one simply wishes to claim the record for spread alone. This single measurement is of little consequence when taking into consideration general size, beauty, massiveness, number of points and weight. Continue reading Horn Measurement HomeTop of Pg.
July, 16, l898 Forest and Stream Pg. 48 Tuna and Tarpon. New York, July 1.—Editor Forest and Stream: If any angler still denies the justice of my claim, as made in my article in your issue of July 2, that “the tuna is the grandest game fish in the world”; and moreover, if he still maintains that his pet. the tarpon,, deserves to be classed facile princeps amongst all the subjects for the rod and reel; then both Prof. Holder, the conqueror of the now record tuna, and Mr. O. A. Mygatt, greatest of tarpon fishermen, have both written in vain in the above number of Forest and Stream. Continue reading Tuna and Tarpon HomeTop of Pg.
An angler with a costly pole HomeTop of Pg.
July 9, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 25 Some Notes on American Ship-Worms. [Read before the American Fishes Congress at Tampa.] While we wish to preserve and protect most of the products of our waters, these creatures we would gladly obliterate from the realm of living things. For we have been studying and combatting them for a century and more, but we have found no adequate means of counteracting their depredations. During the summer of 1893, while engaged in observations on the oyster at Beaufort, North Carolina, for the United States Fish Commissioner, I became interested in the various ship-worms which are found so abundantly in the waters of North Carolina. During the summer I made some observations on their natural history, and returned for periods during the two succeeding seasons to continue them. The results have been incorporated in a paper on “The Natural History, Organization and Late Development of the Teredinidæ,” which is almost ready for publication. Continue reading Some Notes on American Ship Worms HomeTop of Pg. |
 
Copper Kills Covid-19 and the Sun is Your Friend
The element copper effectively kills viruses and bacteria. Therefore it would reason and I will assert and not only assert but lay claim to the patents for copper mesh stints to be inserted in the arteries of patients presenting with severe cases of Covid-19 with a slow release dosage of [...] Read more → 
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How Long is Your Yacht?
Dominion, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club,Winner of Seawanhaka Cup, 1898. The Tail Wags the Dog. The following is a characteristic sample of those broad and liberal views on yachting which are the pride of the Boston Herald. Speaking of the coming races for the Seawanhaka international challenge cup, it says: [...] Read more →
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The Hunt Saboteur
The Hunt Saboteur is a national disgrace barking out loud, black mask on her face get those dogs off, get them off she did yell until a swift kick from me mare her voice it did quell and sent the Hunt Saboteur scurrying up vale to the full cry of hounds drowning out her [...] Read more → 
The Mayfair Set
Herbal Psychedelics – Rhododendron ponticum and Mad Honey Disease
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Modern Slow Cookers, A Critical Design Flaw
Modern slow cookers come in all sizes and colors with various bells and whistles, including timers and shut off mechanisms. They also come with a serious design flaw, that being the lack of a proper domed lid. The first photo below depict a popular model Crock-Pot® sold far and wide [...] Read more → 
Take Me to Pitcairn by Julian McDonnell
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The Diamond Empire
JP Morgan’s Digital Currency Patent Application
J.P. Morgan Patent #8,452,703 Method and system for processing internet payments using the electronic funds transfer network. Abstract Embodiments of the invention include a method and system for conducting financial transactions over a payment network. The method may include associating a payment address of an account [...] Read more → 
Protecting Rare Books: How to Build a Silverfish Trap
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Fly Casting Instructions
It is a pity that the traditions and literature in praise of fly fishing have unconsciously hampered instead of expanded this graceful, effective sport. Many a sportsman has been anxious to share its joys, but appalled by the rapture of expression in describing its countless thrills and niceties he has been literally [...] Read more → 
King Lear
Edwin Austin Abbey. King Lear, Act I, Scene I (Cordelia’s Farewell) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dates: 1897-1898 Dimensions: Height: 137.8 cm (54.25 in.), Width: 323.2 cm (127.24 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
Ought King Leopold to be Hanged?
King Leopold Butcher of the Congo For the somewhat startling suggestion in the heading of this interview, the missionary interviewed is in no way responsible. The credit of it, or, if you like, the discredit, belongs entirely to the editor of the Review, who, without dogmatism, wishes to pose the question as [...] Read more → 
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert W. Service (b.1874, d.1958) There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night [...] Read more → 
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
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An angler with a costly pole Surmounted with a silver reel, Carven in quaint poetic scroll- Jointed and tipped with finest steel— With yellow flies, Whose scarlet eyes And jasper wings are fair to see, Hies to the stream Whose bubbles beam Down murmuring eddies wild and free. And casts the line with sportsman’s [...] Read more → 
The Public Attitude Towards Speculation
Reprint from The Pitfalls of Speculation by Thomas Gibson 1906 Ed. THE PUBLIC ATTITUDE TOWARD SPECULATION THE public attitude toward speculation is generally hostile. Even those who venture frequently are prone to speak discouragingly of speculative possibilities, and to point warningly to the fact that an [...] Read more → Jerry Lee Lewis – Hammersmith Odeon, London, 1983Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
Looking for a Gift for the Book Collector in the Family?
Buying a book for a serious collector with refined tastes can be a daunting task. However, there is one company that publishes some of the finest reproduction books in the world, books that most collectors wouldn’t mind having in their collection no matter their general preference or specialty. Read more → 
On Bernini’s Bust of a Stewart King
As reported in the The Colac Herald on Friday July 17, 1903 Pg. 8 under Art Appreciation as a reprint from the Westminster Gazette ART APPRECIATION IN THE COMMONS. The appreciation of art as well as of history which is entertained by the average member of the [...] Read more → 
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
Vishnu as the Cosmic Man (Vishvarupa) Opaque watercolour on paper – Jaipur, Rajasthan c. 1800-50
CLAIRVOYANCE AND OCCULT POWERS By Swami Panchadasi Copyright, 1916 By Advanced Thought Pub. Co. Chicago, Il INTRODUCTION. In preparing this series of lessons for students of [...] Read more → 
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Shooting in Wet Weather
Reprint from The Sportsman’s Cabinet and Town and Country Magazine, Vol I. Dec. 1832, Pg. 94-95 To the Editor of the Cabinet. SIR, Possessing that anxious feeling so common among shooters on the near approach of the 12th of August, I honestly confess I was not able [...] Read more → 
Commercial Tuna Salad Recipe
Tom Oates, aka Nabokov at en.wikipedia No two commercial tuna salads are prepared by exactly the same formula, but they do not show the wide variety characteristic of herring salad. The recipe given here is typical. It is offered, however, only as a guide. The same recipe with minor variations to suit [...] Read more → 
Napoleon’s Pharmacists
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Rendering Amber Clear for Use in Lens-Making for Magnifying Glass
by John Partridge,drawing,1825 From the work of Sir Charles Lock Eastlake entitled Materials for a history of oil painting, (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846), we learn the following: The effect of oil at certain temperatures, in penetrating “the minute pores of the amber” (as Hoffman elsewhere writes), is still more [...] Read more → 
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Method of Restoration for Ancient Bronzes and other Alloys
Cannone nel castello di Haut-Koenigsbourg, photo by Gita Colmar Without any preliminary cleaning the bronze object to be treated is hung as cathode into the 2 per cent. caustic soda solution and a low amperage direct current is applied. The object is suspended with soft copper wires and is completely immersed into [...] Read more → 
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Why Beauty Matters
Roger Scruton by Peter Helm This is one of those videos that the so-called intellectual left would rather not be seen by the general public as it makes a laughing stock of the idiots running the artworld, a multi-billion dollar business. https://archive.org/details/why-beauty-matters-roger-scruton or Click here to watch [...] Read more →
Chinese Duck Cooking – A Few Recipes
Chen Lin, Water fowl, in Cahill, James. Ge jiang shan se (Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, Taiwan edition). Taipei: Shitou chubanshe fen youxian gongsi, 1994. pl. 4:13, p. 180. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. scroll, light colors on paper, 35.7 x 47.5 cm
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Historical Uses of Arsenic
The arsenicals (compounds which contain the heavy metal element arsenic, As) have a long history of use in man – with both benevolent and malevolent intent. The name ‘arsenic’ is derived from the Greek word ‘arsenikon’ which means ‘potent'”. As early as 2000 BC, arsenic trioxide, obtained from smelting copper, was used [...] Read more → 
The Stock Exchange Specialist
New York Stock Exchange Floor September 26,1963 The Specialist as a member of a stock exchange has two functions.’ He must execute orders which other members of an exchange may leave with him when the current market price is away from the price of the orders. By executing these orders on behalf [...] Read more → 
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Fruits of the Empire: Licorice Root and Juice
Liquorice, the roots of Glycirrhiza Glabra, a perennial plant, a native of the south of Europe, but cultivated to some extent in England, particularly at Mitcham, in Surrey. Its root, which is its only valuable part, is long, fibrous, of a yellow colour, and when fresh, very juicy. [...] Read more → 
Chantry Chapels
William Wyggeston’s chantry house, built around 1511, in Leicester: The building housed two priests, who served at a chantry chapel in the nearby St Mary de Castro church. It was sold as a private dwelling after the dissolution of the chantries. A Privately Built Chapel Chantry, chapel, generally within [...] Read more → 
Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs
INTRODUCTION The idea of compiling this little volume occurred to me while on a visit to some friends at their summer home in a quaint New England village. The little town had once been a thriving seaport, but now consisted of hardly more than a dozen old-fashioned Colonial houses facing [...] Read more → 
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Mocking Bird Food
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A Summer Memory
Here, where these low lush meadows lie, We wandered in the summer weather, When earth and air and arching sky, Blazed grandly, goldenly together. And oft, in that same summertime, We sought and roamed these self-same meadows, When evening brought the curfew chime, And peopled field and fold with shadows. I mind me [...] Read more → 
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Popular Mechanics Archive
Click here to access the Internet Archive of old Popular Mechanics Magazines – 1902-2016 Click here to view old Popular Mechanics Magazine Covers Home Top of Pg. Read more →
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The Billesden Coplow Run
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Art Fraud
A la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres – by Chagall – 1911 Marc Chagall is one of the most forged artists on the planet. Mark Rothko fakes also abound. According to available news reports, the art market is littered with forgeries of their work. Some are even thought to be [...] Read more → 
Hunter’s Fruit and Nut Bread – Apples, Cranberry, Dates, Figs, Apricots, Walnuts, Pecans, and Such
Hunters at Work This is a recipe I created from scratch by trial and error. (Note: This recipe contains no eggs, refined white flour or white sugar.) 2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour – As unprocessed as you can find it 3 Cups of Raw Oatmeal 1 Cup of [...] Read more → 
The Kalmar War
Wojna Kalmarska – 1611 The Kalmar War From The Historian’s History of the World (In 25 Volumes) by Henry Smith William L.L.D. – Vol. XVI.(Scandinavia) Pg. 308-310 The northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, as already noticed, had been peopled from the remotest times by nomadic tribes called Finns or Cwenas by [...] Read more → 
Temples, Walls, And Some of the Roman Antiquities of Bath
A Lecture Delivered at the Guildhall, March 2, 1853 by Rev. H.M. Scarth, M.A., Rector of Bathwick. To understand the ancient history of the country in which we live, to know something of the arts and manners of the people who have preceded us, to ascertain what we owe [...] Read more → 
The Perfect Salad Dressing
The following recipes are from a small booklet entitled 500 Delicious Salads that was published for the Culinary Arts Institute in 1940 by Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc. 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. If you have been looking for a way to lighten up your salads and be free of [...] Read more → 
The Master of Hounds
Photo Caption: The Marquis of Zetland, KC, PC – otherwise known as Lawrence Dundas Son of: John Charles Dundas and: Margaret Matilda Talbot born: Friday 16 August 1844 died: Monday 11 March 1929 at Aske Hall Occupation: M.P. for Richmond Viceroy of Ireland Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Lord – in – Waiting [...] Read more → 
Blackberry Wine
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Birth of United Fruit Company
From Conquest of the Tropics by Frederick Upham Adams Chapter VI – Birth of the United Fruit Company Only those who have lived in the tropic and are familiar with the hazards which confront the cultivation and marketing of its fruits can readily understand [...] Read more → 
An Accurate Transcription of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat
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Traditional JuJutsu Health, Strength and Combat Tricks
Jujitsu training 1920 in Japanese agricultural school. CHAPTER V THE VALUE OF EVEN TEMPER IN ATHLETICS—SOME OF THE FEATS THAT REQUIRE GOOD NATURE In the writer’s opinion it becomes necessary to make at this point some suggestions relative to a very important part of the training in jiu-jitsu. [...] Read more → 
A History of Fowling – Ravens and Jays
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Of Decorated Furniture
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Twelve Thousand Three Hundred and Fourteen Diamonds – King George IV’s Empty Crown
King George IV was known far and wide as the dandy king, incompetent, ugly, and vulgar. As Prince regent, prior to his assent to the throne, he kept fast company with Beau Brummel, King of Dandies, a man sixteen years his younger. And decadence followed. King George was a gambler, philanderer, and [...] Read more → 
How to Distinguish Fishes
Sept. 3, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 188-189 How to Distinguish Fishes. BY FRED MATHER. The average angler knows by sight all the fish which he captures, but ask him to describe one and he is puzzled, and will get off on the color of the fish, which is [...] Read more → 
On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “It’s Just One of Those Casts…I can get’em at the British Museum”
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News from the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX-No.165 – Allen’s Indian Mail
Filed under Miscellaneous. The Jubbulpore School of Industry is so thriving that the pupils, 800 in number, are obliged to work till ten o’clock at night to complete their orders; this they do most cheerfully. They are all Thugs, or the children of Thugs, and the hands which now ply [...] Read more → 
The Apparatus of the Stock Market
Sucker The components of any given market place include both physical structures set up to accommodate trading, and participants to include buyers, sellers, brokers, agents, barkers, pushers, auctioneers, agencies, and propaganda outlets, and banking or transaction exchange facilities. Markets are generally set up by sellers as it is in their [...] Read more → 
The Character of a Happy Life
How happy is he born and taught. That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance [...] Read more → 
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Fortune, Independence, and Competence
THE answer to the question, What is fortune has never been, and probably never will be, satisfactorily made. What may be a fortune for one bears but small proportion to the colossal possessions of another. The scores or hundreds of thousands admired and envied as a fortune in most of our communities [...] Read more → 
Carpenters’ Furniture
IT requires a far search to gather up examples of furniture really representative in this kind, and thus to gain a point of view for a prospect into the more ideal where furniture no longer is bought to look expensively useless in a boudoir, but serves everyday and commonplace need, such as [...] Read more → 
The Hoochie Coochie Hex
From Dr. Marvel’s 1929 book entitled Hoodoo for the Common Man, we find his infamous Hoochie Coochie Hex. What follows is a verbatim transcription of the text: The Hoochie Coochie Hex should not be used in conjunction with any other Hexes. This can lead to [...] Read more → 
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King William III on Horseback by Sir Godfrey Kneller
Reprint from The Royal Collection Trust website: Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his [...] Read more → 
Sir Joshua Reynolds – Notes from Rome
“The Leda, in the Colonna palace, by Correggio, is dead-coloured white and black, with ultramarine in the shadow ; and over that is scumbled, thinly and smooth, a warmer tint,—I believe caput mortuum. The lights are mellow ; the shadows blueish, but mellow. The picture is painted on panel, in [...] Read more → 
Describing the The Federal Reserve and the Acts Thereof
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Artist Methods
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Gilbert Stewart – Sir Joshua Reynolds
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How to Make Money – Insurance
Life insurance certificate issued by the Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company to Samuel Holt, Liverpool, England, 1851. On display at the British Museum in London. Donated by the ifs School of Finance. Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor [...] Read more → 
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FTC Rules Guiding the Jewelry, Precious Metals, and Pewter Industries
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On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases by Nathaniel Bagwell Ward
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Mudlark Regulations in the U.K.
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Formulaes for Re-Creating the Old-Fashioned Drug Store Counter
A Real Soda Jerk FORMULAS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Pineapple Frappe. Water, 1 gallon; sugar 2 pounds of water. 61/2 pints, and simple syrup. 2 1/2 pints; 2 pints of pineapple stock or 1 pint of pineapple stock and 1 pint of grated pineapple juice of 6 lemons. Mix, [...] Read more → 
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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A terrestial globe on which the tracts and discoveries are laid down from the accurate observations made by Capts Cook, Furneux, Phipps, published 1782 / globe by John Newton ; cartography by William Palmer, held by the State Library of New South Wales The British Library, using sophisticated filming equipment and software, [...] Read more → 
The Basics of Painting in the Building Trade
PAINTER-WORK, in the building trade. When work is painted one or both of two distinct ends is achieved, namely the preservation and the coloration of the material painted. The compounds used for painting—taking the word as meaning a thin protective or decorative coat—are very numerous, including oil-paint of many kinds, distemper, whitewash, [...] Read more → 
Ovation Guitars Factory Tour
Click here to visit Ovation Guitars Ovation Patent Drawing 1975 Click here to read a copy of the 1975 Patent for the Ovation Guitar Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
Man looks at severed hand and foot….for refusing to climb a tree to cut rubber for King Leopold Click here to read The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan DoyleVictim of King Leopold of Belgium Click on the link below for faster download. The [...] Read more → 
What’s the Matter?
A rhetorical question? Genuine concern? In this essay we are examining another form of matter otherwise known as national literary matters, the three most important of which being the Matter of Rome, Matter of France, and the Matter of England. Our focus shall be on the Matter of England or [...] Read more → Saving Notre DameHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Fox Control with Jack Russell Terriers in ScotlandHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Texas Tarpon
Early Texas photo of Tarpon catch – Not necessarily the one mentioned below… July 2, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg.10 Texas Tarpon. Tarpon, Texas.—Mr. W. B. Leach, of Palestine, Texas, caught at Aransas Pass Islet, on June 14, the largest tarpon on record here taken with rod and reel. The [...] Read more → 
Thomas Jefferson’s Garden BookHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690
San Felipe Model Reprinted from FineModelShips.com with the kind permission of Dr. Michael Czytko The SAN FELIPE is one of the most favoured ships among the ship model builders. The model is elegant, very beautifully designed, and makes a decorative piece of art to be displayed at home or in the [...] Read more → 
British Craftsmanship is Alive and Well
The Queen Elizabeth Trust, or QEST, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of British craftsmanship through the funding of scholarships and educational endeavours to include apprenticeships, trade schools, and traditional university classwork. The work of QEST is instrumental in keeping alive age old arts and crafts such as masonry, glassblowing, shoemaking, [...] Read more → 
Mrs. Beeton’s Poultry & Game – Cooking Poultry; Baking and Boiling
Baking is a very similar process to roasting: the two often do duty for one another. As in all other methods of cookery, the surrounding air may be several degrees hotter than boiling water, but the food is no appreciably hotter until it has lost water by evaporation, after which it may [...] Read more → 
Making Chocolate From Tree to Treat
Donate to the YouTube site owner Gabe and he might send you some chocolate…. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
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Unarmed Combat – Imperial War Museum Archives
Watch Fraud on eBay
EBAY’S FRAUD PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE EBay has had a problem with fraudulent sellers since its inception back in 1995. Some aspects of the platform have improved with algorithms and automation, but others such as customer service and fraud have gotten worse. Small sellers have definitely been hurt by eBay’s [...] Read more → 
The Real Time Piece Gentleman and the Digital Watch Vault
Paul Thorpe, Brighton, U.K. The YouTube watch collecting world is rather tight-knit and small, but growing, as watches became a highly coveted commodity during the recent world-wide pandemic and fueled an explosion of online watch channels. There is one name many know, The Time Piece Gentleman. This name for me [...] Read more → 
Mrs. Beeton’s Poultry & Game – Choosing Poultry
To Choose Poultry. When fresh, the eyes should be clear and not sunken, the feet limp and pliable, stiff dry feet being a sure indication that the bird has not been recently killed; the flesh should be firm and thick and if the bird is plucked there should be no [...] Read more → 
Clover WineAdd 3 quarts clover blossoms* to 4 quarts of boiling water removed from heat at point of boil. Let stand for three days. At the end of the third day, drain the juice into another container leaving the blossoms. Add three quarts of fresh water and the peel of one lemon to the blossoms [...] Read more → 
He Put a Hook in Me by Lil’ Lost Lou
Click here to visit Lil’ Lost Lou and purchase a copy of her latest album. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
A Creative Approach to Saving Ye Olde Cassette Tapes
Quite possibly, the most agonizing decision being made by Baby Boomers across the nation these days is what to do with all that vintage Hi-fi equipment and boxes full of classic rock and roll cassettes and 8-Tracks. I faced this dilemma head-on this past summer as I definitely wanted in [...] Read more → 
Tuna and Tarpon
July, 16, l898 Forest and Stream Pg. 48 Tuna and Tarpon. New York, July 1.—Editor Forest and Stream: If any angler still denies the justice of my claim, as made in my article in your issue of July 2, that “the tuna is the grandest game [...] Read more → 
WaterlooHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
The Charge of the Light BrigadeHalf a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Home Top of [...] Read more → 
The Fowling Piece – Part I
THE FOWLING PIECE, from the Shooter’s Guide by B. Thomas – 1811. I AM perfectly aware that a large volume might be written on this subject; but, as my intention is to give only such information and instruction as is necessary for the sportsman, I shall forbear introducing any extraneous [...] Read more → 
Pickled Eels
Vintage woodcut illustration of a Eel
This dish is a favorite in Northern Europe, from the British Isles to Sweden. Clean and skin the eels and cut them into pieces about 3/4-inch thick. Wash and drain the pieces, then dredge in fine salt and allow to stand from 30 [...] Read more → 
The First Greek Book by John Williams White
Click here to read The First Greek Book by John Williams White The First Greek Book - 15.7MB IN MEMORIAM JOHN WILLIAMS WHITE The death, on May 9, of John Williams White, professor of Greek in Harvard University, touches a large number of classical [...] Read more → 
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Audubon’s Art Method and Techniques
Audubon started to develop a special technique for drawing birds in 1806 a Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. He perfected it during the long river trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans and in New Orleans, 1821. Home Top of [...] Read more →
Something about Caius College, Cambridge
Gate of Honour, Caius Court, Gonville & Caius Gonville & Caius College, known as Caius and pronounced keys was founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, the Rector of Terrington St Clement in Norfolk. The first name was thus Goville Hall and it was dedicated to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. [...] Read more → 
Classic Restoration of a Spring Tied Upholstered Chair
? This video by AT Restoration is the best hands on video I have run across on the basics of classic upholstery. Watch a master at work. Simply amazing. Tools: Round needles: https://amzn.to/2S9IhrP Double pointed hand needle: https://amzn.to/3bDmWPp Hand tools: https://amzn.to/2Rytirc Staple gun (for beginner): https://amzn.to/2JZs3x1 Compressor [...] Read more →
The Preparation of Marketable Vinegar
It is unnecessary to point out that low-grade fruit may often be used to advantage in the preparation of vinegar. This has always been true in the case of apples and may be true with other fruit, especially grapes. The use of grapes for wine making is an outlet which [...] Read more → 
Proper Book Handling and Cleaning
Book Conservators, Mitchell Building, State Library of New South Wales, 29.10.1943, Pix Magazine The following is taken verbatim from a document that appeared several years ago in the Maine State Archives. It seems to have been removed from their website. I happened to have made a physical copy of it at the [...] Read more → 
Welcome
The English Tradition of Woodworking
THE sense of a consecutive tradition has so completely faded out of English art that it has become difficult to realise the meaning of tradition, or the possibility of its ever again reviving; and this state of things is not improved by the fact that it is due to uncertainty of purpose, [...] Read more → 
How to Make Money – Banking & Insurance – Part I
Royal Exchange and The Bank of England From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor based on the works of Thomas A. Davies Revised & Rewritten with Additions by Henry A. Ford A.M. – 1884 CHAPTER XXVI BANKING AND INSURANCE. I [...] Read more → 
Books of Use to the International Art Collector
Hebborn Piranesi Before meeting with an untimely death at the hand of an unknown assassin in Rome on January 11th, 1996, master forger Eric Hebborn put down on paper a wealth of knowledge about the art of forgery. In a book published posthumously in 1997, titled The Art Forger’s Handbook, Hebborn suggests [...] Read more → 
Marchmont House – The Genius of Sebastian Cox
Sebastian Cox is one of the UK’s premier custom furniture makers with a unique background and love for the forest. Click here to visit SebastianCox.co.uk Home Top of Pg. Read more →
The Hardwood Handbook – An Illustrated Guide to Appalachian and Southern Lumber
Carya Nuts This Handbook is Published by SLMA or the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturer’s Association Click here to read the handbook or click on the link below for a faster download. Hardwood Handbook Home Top of Pg. Read more →
A Short Note on Manners for the Young Man Wishing to Make a Goodly Impression Whilst Avoiding Duels
Over the years I have observed a decline in manners amongst young men as a general principle and though there is not one particular thing that may be asserted as the causal reason for this, one might speculate… Self-awareness and being aware of one’s surroundings in social [...] Read more → 
The Legacy of Felix de Weldon
Felix Weihs de Weldon, age 96, died broke in the year 2003 after successive bankruptcies and accumulating $4 million dollars worth of debt. Most of the debt was related to the high cost of love for a wife living with Alzheimer’s. Health care costs to maintain his first wife, Margot, ran $500 per [...] Read more → 
Patek Phillipe Service and Maintenance
Patek Phillipe hand makes the finest watches in the world. Click here to learn more. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
English Cottage GardensHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Of the Room and Furniture
Crewe Hall Dining Room
THE transient tenure that most of us have in our dwellings, and the absorbing nature of the struggle that most of us have to make to win the necessary provisions of life, prevent our encouraging the manufacture of well-wrought furniture. We mean to outgrow [...] Read more → King Arthur Legends, Myths, and Maidens
King Arthur, Legends, Myths & Maidens is a massive book of Arthurian legends. This limited edition paperback was just released on Barnes and Noble at a price of $139.00. Although is may seem a bit on the high side, it may prove to be well worth its price as there are only [...] Read more → 
A Short Note on Manners for the Young Man Wishing to Make a Goodly Impression Whilst Avoiding Duels
Over the years I have observed a decline in manners amongst young men as a general principle and though there is not one particular thing that may be asserted as the causal reason for this, one might speculate… Self-awareness and being aware of one’s surroundings in social interactions [...] Read more → 
Abingdon, Berkshire in the Year of 1880
St.Helen’s on the Thames, photo by Momit
From a Dictionary of the Thames from Oxford to the Nore. 1880 by Charles Dickens Abingdon, Berkshire, on the right bank, from London 103 3/4miles, from Oxford 7 3/4 miles. A station on the Great Western Railway, from Paddington 60 miles. The time occupied [...] Read more → 
Zulu Yawl
Dec. 10, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 477-479 Zulu. The little ship shown in the accompanying plans needs no description, as she speaks for herself, a handsome and shipshape craft that a man may own for years without any fear that she will go to pieces [...] Read more → 
Life Among the Thugee
The existence of large bodies of men having no other means of subsistence than those afforded by plunder, is, in all countries, too common to excite surprise; and, unhappily, organized bands of assassins are not peculiar to India! The associations of murderers known by the name of Thugs present, however, [...] Read more → 
Slaughter in Bombay
From Allen’s Indian Mail, December 3rd, 1851 BOMBAY. MUSULMAN FANATICISM. On the evening of November 15th, the little village of Mahim was the scene of a murder, perhaps the most determined which has ever stained the annals of Bombay. Three men were massacred in cold blood, in a house used [...] Read more → 
Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life – Fox HuntingHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Indian Modes of Hunting – Musquash
Hudson Bay: Trappers, 1892. N’Talking Musquash.’ Fur Trappers Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Talking By A Fire. Engraving After A Drawing By Frederic Remington, 1892. Indian Modes of Hunting. IV.—Musquash. In Canada and the United States, the killing of the little animal known under the several names of [...] Read more → 
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A Note on Ill-Breeding from a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
“Saint John’s Gate, Clerkenwell, the main gateway to the Priory of Saint John of Jerusalem,” black and white photograph by the British photographer Henry Dixon, 1880. The church was founded in the 12th century by Jordan de Briset, a Norman knight. Prior Docwra completed the gatehouse shown in this photograph in 1504. The gateway [...] Read more → 
Gallop of the Common Horse by Eadweard Muybridge 1887
Eadweard Muybridge was a fascinating character. Click here to learn how Eadweard committed “Justifiable Homicide” after shooting his wife’s lover in 1874. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
History of the Cabildo in New Orleans
Cabildo circa 1936 The Cabildo houses a rare copy of Audubon’s Bird’s of America, a book now valued at $10 million+. Should one desire to visit the Cabildo, click here to gain free entry with a lowcost New Orleans Pass. Home Top of [...] Read more →
So You Bought a Rolex Tulip but Now It’s Time to Move On
Today I shall share a bit of market wisdom that will be hard to swallow for some Rolex owners, especially if they bought their Submariner at the top of the magical Covid Watch Bubble that has now collapsed. History often repeats itself, even in the stock market, but when [...] Read more → 
Money Saving Recipe for Gold Leaf Sizing
Artisans world-wide spend a fortune on commercial brand oil-based gold leaf sizing. The most popular brands include Luco, Dux, and L.A. Gold Leaf. Pricing for quart size containers range from $35 to $55 depending upon retailer pricing. Fast drying sizing sets up in 2-4 hours depending upon environmental conditions, humidity [...] Read more → 
Target Practice
Nov. 12, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 396 The Veterans to the Front. Ironton. O., Oct. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: I mail you a target made here today by Messrs. E. Lawton, G. Rogers and R. S. Dupuy. Mr. Dupuy is seventy-four years old, Mr. Lawton seventy-two. Mr. Rogers [...] Read more → |
Thomas Jefferson Correspondence – On Seed Saving and Sharing
The following are transcripts of two letters written by the Founding Father Thomas Jefferson on the subject of seed saving. “November 27, 1818. Monticello. Thomas Jefferson to Henry E. Watkins, transmitting succory seed and outlining the culture of succory.” [Transcript] Thomas Jefferson Correspondence Collection Collection 89 Read more →
Clover WineAdd 3 quarts clover blossoms* to 4 quarts of boiling water removed from heat at point of boil. Let stand for three days. At the end of the third day, drain the juice into another container leaving the blossoms. Add three quarts of fresh water and the peel of one lemon to the blossoms [...] Read more →
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Kenilworth Abbey Fields – Photo by David Hunt Click here to read Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott Click here to view Kenilworth Notes Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Fox Hunting – A Great British TraditionHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Some Notes on American Ship Worms
July 9, 1898. Forest and Stream Pg. 25 Some Notes on American Ship-Worms. [Read before the American Fishes Congress at Tampa.] While we wish to preserve and protect most of the products of our waters, these creatures we would gladly obliterate from the realm of living things. For [...] Read more →
Why Beauty Matters
Roger Scruton by Peter Helm This is one of those videos that the so-called intellectual left would rather not be seen by the general public as it makes a laughing stock of the idiots running the artworld, a multi-billion dollar business. https://archive.org/details/why-beauty-matters-roger-scruton or Click here to watch [...] Read more →
Valentine Poetry from the Cotswold Explorer
There is nothing more delightful than a great poetry reading to warm ones heart on a cold winter night fireside. Today is one of the coldest Valentine’s days on record, thus, nothing could be better than listening to the resonant voice of Robin Shuckbrugh, The Cotswold [...] Read more →
British Craftsmanship is Alive and Well
The Queen Elizabeth Trust, or QEST, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of British craftsmanship through the funding of scholarships and educational endeavours to include apprenticeships, trade schools, and traditional university classwork. The work of QEST is instrumental in keeping alive age old arts and crafts such as masonry, glassblowing, shoemaking, [...] Read more →
History of the Cabildo in New Orleans
Cabildo circa 1936 The Cabildo houses a rare copy of Audubon’s Bird’s of America, a book now valued at $10 million+. Should one desire to visit the Cabildo, click here to gain free entry with a lowcost New Orleans Pass. Home Top of [...] Read more →
Here’s Many a Year to You
” Here’s many a year to you ! Sportsmen who’ve ridden life straight. Here’s all good cheer to you ! Luck to you early and late. Here’s to the best of you ! You with the blood and the nerve. Here’s to the rest of you ! What of a weak moment’s swerve ? [...] Read more → 
Muscadine Jelly
Muscadine Jelly 6 cups muscadine grape juice 6 cups sugar 1 box Kraft Sure Gel or Ball Fruit Jell Home Top of [...] Read more →
What’s the Matter?
A rhetorical question? Genuine concern? In this essay we are examining another form of matter otherwise known as national literary matters, the three most important of which being the Matter of Rome, Matter of France, and the Matter of England. Our focus shall be on the Matter of England or [...] Read more →
Mudlark Regulations in the U.K.
Mudlarks of London Mudlarking along the Thames River foreshore is controlled by the Port of London Authority. According to the Port of London website, two type of permits are issued for those wishing to conduct metal detecting, digging, or searching activities. Standard – allows digging to a depth of 7.5 [...] Read more →
Henry Miller
The Hardwood Handbook – An Illustrated Guide to Appalachian and Southern Lumber
Carya Nuts This Handbook is Published by SLMA or the Southeastern Lumber Manufacturer’s Association Click here to read the handbook or click on the link below for a faster download. Hardwood Handbook Home Top of Pg. Read more →
The King James Bible – 1611
Spem In Alium performed by The Tallis Scholars
Fly Fishing How to GuideHome Top of [...] Read more → 
King James I, Witch-Hunter
Mortlake Tapestries at Chatsworth House Click here to read copy of Daemonologie Home Top of Pg. Read more →
A Conversation between H.F. Leonard and K. Higashi
H.F. Leonard was an instructor in wrestling at the New York Athletic Club. Katsukum Higashi was an instructor in Jujitsu. “I say with emphasis and without qualification that I have been unable to find anything in jujitsu which is not known to Western wrestling. So far as I can see, [...] Read more →
The Stock Exchange Specialist
New York Stock Exchange Floor September 26,1963 The Specialist as a member of a stock exchange has two functions.’ He must execute orders which other members of an exchange may leave with him when the current market price is away from the price of the orders. By executing these orders on behalf [...] Read more →
The Legacy of Felix de Weldon
Felix Weihs de Weldon, age 96, died broke in the year 2003 after successive bankruptcies and accumulating $4 million dollars worth of debt. Most of the debt was related to the high cost of love for a wife living with Alzheimer’s. Health care costs to maintain his first wife, Margot, ran $500 per [...] Read more →
Take Me to Pitcairn by Julian McDonnell
ZZ Top at Gruene HallHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
The American Museum in Britain – From Florida to Bath
Hernando de Soto (c1496-1542) Spanish explorer and his men torturing natives of Florida in his determination to find gold. Hand-coloured engraving. John Judkyn Memorial Collection, Freshford Manor, Bath The print above depicts Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his band of conquistadors torturing Florida natives in order to extract information on where [...] Read more →
The Character of a Happy Life
How happy is he born and taught. That serveth not another’s will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill Whose passions not his masters are; Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath; Who envies none that chance [...] Read more →
Winter Fox Hunt in Michigan, USA – Fantastic FootageHome Top of Pg. Read more →
Indian Modes of Hunting – Musquash
Hudson Bay: Trappers, 1892. N’Talking Musquash.’ Fur Trappers Of The Hudson’S Bay Company Talking By A Fire. Engraving After A Drawing By Frederic Remington, 1892. Indian Modes of Hunting. IV.—Musquash. In Canada and the United States, the killing of the little animal known under the several names of [...] Read more →
Mortlake Tapestries of Chatsworth
Mortlake Tapestries at Chatsworth House Click here to learn more about the Mortlake Tapestries of Chatsworth The Mortlake Tapestries were founded by Sir Francis Crane. From the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 13 Crane, Francis by William Prideaux Courtney CRANE, Sir FRANCIS (d. [...] Read more →
How to Make Money – Insurance
Life insurance certificate issued by the Yorkshire Fire & Life Insurance Company to Samuel Holt, Liverpool, England, 1851. On display at the British Museum in London. Donated by the ifs School of Finance. Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor [...] Read more → 
Producing and Harvesting Tobacco Seed
THE FIRST step in producing a satisfactory crop of tobacco is to use good seed that is true to type. The grower often can save his own seed to advantage, if he wants to. Before topping is done, he should go over the tobacco field carefully to pick [...] Read more →
Ovation Guitars Factory Tour
Click here to visit Ovation Guitars Ovation Patent Drawing 1975 Click here to read a copy of the 1975 Patent for the Ovation Guitar Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
The First Christian Man Cremated in America
Laurens’ portrait as painted during his time spent imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he was kept for over a year after being captured at sea while serving as the United States minister to the Netherlands during the Revolutionary War. The first Christian white man to be cremated in America was [...] Read more → 
Curing Diabetes With an Old Malaria Formula
For years in the West African nation of Ghana medicine men have used a root and leaves from a plant called nibima(Cryptolepis sanguinolenta) to kill the Plasmodium parasite transmitted through a female mosquito’s bite that is the root cause of malaria. A thousand miles away in India, a similar(same) plant [...] Read more →
Making Chocolate From Tree to Treat
Donate to the YouTube site owner Gabe and he might send you some chocolate…. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Palermo Wine
Take to every quart of water one pound of Malaga raisins, rub and cut the raisins small, and put them to the water, and let them stand ten days, stirring once or twice a day. You may boil the water an hour before you put it to the raisins, and let it [...] Read more → 
Clairvoyance – Methods of Development
CLAIRVOYANCE by C. W. Leadbeater Adyar, Madras, India: Theosophical Pub. House [1899] CHAPTER IX – METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT When a men becomes convinced of the reality of the valuable power of clairvoyance, his first question usually is, “How can [...] Read more → 
Limerick Harrier’s Meet at Bulgaden 2018Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
The Famous Kilkenny Hunt – 1930Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
44 Berkeley Square
The Clermont Club Reprint from London Bisnow/UK At £23M, its sale is not the biggest property deal in the world. But the Clermont Club casino in Berkeley Square in London could lay claim to being the most significant address in modern finance — it is where the concept of what is today [...] Read more → 
Arsenic and Old Lace
What is follows is an historical article that appeared in The Hartford Courant in 1916 about the arsenic murders carried out by Mrs. Archer-Gilligan. This story is the basis for the 1944 Hollywood film “Arsenic and Old Lace” starring Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane and directed by Frank Capra. The [...] Read more →
Traditional JuJutsu Health, Strength and Combat Tricks
Jujitsu training 1920 in Japanese agricultural school. CHAPTER V THE VALUE OF EVEN TEMPER IN ATHLETICS—SOME OF THE FEATS THAT REQUIRE GOOD NATURE In the writer’s opinion it becomes necessary to make at this point some suggestions relative to a very important part of the training in jiu-jitsu. [...] Read more →
Suir Vale Harriers Hunt Clonmore Jan 2020Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Why Beauty Matters – Sir Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton – Why Beauty Matters (2009) from Mirza Akdeniz on Vimeo. Click here for another site on which to view this video. Sadly, Sir Roger Scruton passed away a few days ago—January 12th, 2020. Heaven has gained a great philosopher. Home Top of [...] Read more →
Texas Tea
If a Woman asks you to Change, Politely Excuse Yourself and Walk out the Door; Forever
If a Woman asks you to Change, Politely Excuse Yourself and Walk out the Door; Forever Nobody changes; character is built early in life, and by the time one is involved in adult relationships, it is highly unlikely that one can rebuild one’s character. Recognizing this early on in ones adult [...] Read more →
On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases by Nathaniel Bagwell Ward
What follows is a chapter from Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward’s 1852 treatise on terrarium gardening. ON THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF PLANTS. To enter into any lengthened detail on the all-important subject of the Natural Conditions of Plants would occupy far too much space; yet to pass it by without special notice, [...] Read more →
How to Make Money – Banking & Insurance – Part I
Royal Exchange and The Bank of England From How to Make Money; and How to Keep it, Or, Capital and Labor based on the works of Thomas A. Davies Revised & Rewritten with Additions by Henry A. Ford A.M. – 1884 CHAPTER XXVI BANKING AND INSURANCE. I [...] Read more → 
English Fig Wine
Take the large blue figs when pretty ripe, and steep them in white wine, having made some slits in them, that they may swell and gather in the substance of the wine. Then slice some other figs and let them simmer over a fire in water until they are reduced [...] Read more → 
A Survey of Palestine – 1945-1946
This massive volume gives one a real visual sense of what it was like running a highly efficient colonial operation in the early 20rh Century. It will also go a long way to help anyone wishing to understand modern political intrigue in the Middle-East. Click here to read A Survey of Palestine [...] Read more →
Mrs. Beeton’s Poultry & Game – Cooking Poultry; Baking and Boiling
Baking is a very similar process to roasting: the two often do duty for one another. As in all other methods of cookery, the surrounding air may be several degrees hotter than boiling water, but the food is no appreciably hotter until it has lost water by evaporation, after which it may [...] Read more → 
Bulgarian Fox Hunting
Gold: The Story of Man’s 6000 Year Old Obsession
Abingdon, Berkshire in the Year of 1880
St.Helen’s on the Thames, photo by Momit
From a Dictionary of the Thames from Oxford to the Nore. 1880 by Charles Dickens Abingdon, Berkshire, on the right bank, from London 103 3/4miles, from Oxford 7 3/4 miles. A station on the Great Western Railway, from Paddington 60 miles. The time occupied [...] Read more → 
Storing Drinking Water in Copper Vessels for Microbial Purification
Are you considering purchasing a copper water pitcher for storing drinking water but have questions about the effects on your health? The following study may help jump-start your research. Storing Drinking-water in Copper pots Kills Contaminating Diarrhoeagenic Bacteria ABSTRACT Microbially-unsafe water is [...] Read more →
A Short Note on Manners for the Young Man Wishing to Make a Goodly Impression Whilst Avoiding Duels
Over the years I have observed a decline in manners amongst young men as a general principle and though there is not one particular thing that may be asserted as the causal reason for this, one might speculate… Self-awareness and being aware of one’s surroundings in social [...] Read more → 
A Couple of Classic Tennessee Squirrel Recipes
FRIED SQUIRREL & BISCUIT GRAVY 3-4 Young Squirrels, dressed and cleaned 1 tsp. Morton Salt or to taste 1 tsp. McCormick Black Pepper or to taste 1 Cup Martha White All Purpose Flour 1 Cup Hog Lard – Preferably fresh from hog killing, or barbecue tableCut up three to [...] Read more → 
The Black Grouper or Jewfish.
Nov. 5. 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 371-372 The Black Grouper or Jewfish. New Smyrna, Fla., Oct. 21.—Editor Forest and Stream: It is not generally known that the fish commonly called jewfish. warsaw and black grouper are frequently caught at the New Smyrna bridge [...] Read more →
Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Memoranda on Painting – December 1755
Gilbert Stewart – Sir Joshua Reynolds
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS‘ WORKING COLOURS, WITH THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY WERE ARRANGED ON HIS PALLETTE. “For painting the flesh, black, blue black, white, lake, carmine, orpiment, yellow ochre, ultramarine, and varnish. “To lay the [...] Read more → 
Platform of the American Institute of Banking in 1919
Resolution adapted at the New Orleans Convention of the American Institute of Banking, October 9, 1919: “Ours is an educational association organized for the benefit of the banking fraternity of the country and within our membership may be found on an equal basis both employees and employers; [...] Read more → 
Magna Carta: Myth and Meaning – Discussion at the Royal Institution
Note on Watercolour: F.A. Molony (fl. 1930-1938) was a Major in the Royal Engineers. The National Army Museum hold his work. His work was also shown at an exhibition of officers work at the R.B.A. Galleries (Army Officers’ Art Society) Description from Youtube: June 2015 will see [...] Read more → 
The First Pineapple Grown in England
First Pineapple Grown in England Click here to read an excellent article on the history of pineapple growing in the UK. Should one be interested in serious mass scale production, click here for scientific resources. Growing pineapples in the UK. The video below demonstrates how to grow pineapples in Florida. [...] Read more →
Artist Methods
Como dome facade – Pliny the Elder – Photo by Wolfgang Sauber Work in Progress… THE VARNISHES. Every substance may be considered as a varnish, which, when applied to the surface of a solid body, gives it a permanent lustre. Drying oil, thickened by exposure to the sun’s heat or [...] Read more → 
Naval Stores – Distilling Turpentine
Chipping a Turpentine Tree DISTILLING TURPENTINE One of the Most Important Industries of the State of Georgia Injuring the Magnificent Trees Spirits, Resin, Tar, Pitch, and Crude Turpentine all from the Long Leaved Pine – “Naval Stores” So Called. Dublin, Ga., May 8. – One of the most important industries [...] Read more →
Krieghoff Shotguns Factory Tour
How to Sail a Full Rigged Ship
The rigging of an old square rig in London, United Kingdom. Photograph taken by Melongrower. Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World
The magician delighted in exposing spiritualists as con men and frauds. By EDMUND WILSON June 24, 1925 Houdini is a short strong stocky man with small feet and a very large head. Seen from the stage, his figure, with its short legs and its pugilist’s proportions, is less impressive than at close [...] Read more → 
Glimpses from the Chase
From Fores’s Sporting Notes and Sketches, A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of British, Indian, Colonial, and Foreign Sport with Thirty Two Full Page Illustrations Volume 10 1893, London; Mssrs. Fores Piccadilly W. 1893, All Rights Reserved. GLIMPSES OF THE CHASE, Ireland a Hundred Years Ago. By ‘Triviator.’ FOX-HUNTING has, like Racing, [...] Read more →
Classic Restoration of a Spring Tied Upholstered Chair
? This video by AT Restoration is the best hands on video I have run across on the basics of classic upholstery. Watch a master at work. Simply amazing. Tools: Round needles: https://amzn.to/2S9IhrP Double pointed hand needle: https://amzn.to/3bDmWPp Hand tools: https://amzn.to/2Rytirc Staple gun (for beginner): https://amzn.to/2JZs3x1 Compressor [...] Read more →
Fresh Water Angling – The Two Crappies
July 2, 1898 Forest and Stream, Fresh-Water Angling. No. IX.—The Two Crappies. BY FRED MATHER. Fishing In Tree Tops. Here a short rod, say 8ft., is long enough, and the line should not be much longer than the rod. A reel is not [...] Read more →
Welcome
History and Facts on American Newspaper Production from the Colonial Times Through the 1890s.
NEWSPAPER.-Printed sheets published at stated intervals, chiefly for the purpose of conveying intelligence on current events. The Romans wrote out an account of the most memorable occurrences of the day, which were sent to public officials. They were entitled Acta Durna, and read substantially like the local column of a [...] Read more →
The Preparation of Marketable Vinegar
It is unnecessary to point out that low-grade fruit may often be used to advantage in the preparation of vinegar. This has always been true in the case of apples and may be true with other fruit, especially grapes. The use of grapes for wine making is an outlet which [...] Read more → 
Arban’s Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet(Cornet) – Free Download
Click here to view a copy of Arban’s Complete Conservatory Method for Cornet Click on the blue button to download a free copy of Arban’s Complete Conservatory Method for Cornet Arban's - 11.8MB For trumpet players wishing to practice daily using an iPad, simply click [...] Read more → 
Snipe Shooting
Snipe shooting-Epistle on snipe shooting, from Ned Copper Cap, Esq., to George Trigger-George Trigger’s reply to Ned Copper Cap-Black partridge. —— “Si sine amore jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in &more jooisque.” -Horace. “If nothing appears to you delightful without love and sports, then live in sporta and [...] Read more →
The Master of Hounds
Photo Caption: The Marquis of Zetland, KC, PC – otherwise known as Lawrence Dundas Son of: John Charles Dundas and: Margaret Matilda Talbot born: Friday 16 August 1844 died: Monday 11 March 1929 at Aske Hall Occupation: M.P. for Richmond Viceroy of Ireland Vice Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Lord – in – Waiting [...] Read more →
Blackberry Wine
BLACKBERRY WINE 5 gallons of blackberries 5 pound bag of sugarFill a pair of empty five gallon buckets half way with hot soapy water and a ¼ cup of vinegar. Wash thoroughly and rinse. Fill one bucket with two and one half gallons of blackberries and crush with [...] Read more →
Marchmont House – The Genius of Sebastian Cox
Sebastian Cox is one of the UK’s premier custom furniture makers with a unique background and love for the forest. Click here to visit SebastianCox.co.uk Home Top of Pg. Read more →
U.S. Plant Variety Protection Act – Full Text
WIPO HQ Geneva UNITED STATES PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION ACT TITLE I – PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OFFICE Chapter Section 1. Organization and Publications . 1 2. Legal Provisions as to the Plant Variety Protection Office . 21 3. Plant Variety Protection Fees . 31 CHAPTER 1.-ORGANIZATION AND PUBLICATIONS Section [...] Read more →
Audubon’s Art Method and Techniques
Audubon started to develop a special technique for drawing birds in 1806 a Mill Grove, Pennsylvania. He perfected it during the long river trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans and in New Orleans, 1821. Home Top of [...] Read more →
How to Tie Knots, Bends, and HitchesHome Top of Pg. Read more →
The Real Time Piece Gentleman and the Digital Watch Vault
Paul Thorpe, Brighton, U.K. The YouTube watch collecting world is rather tight-knit and small, but growing, as watches became a highly coveted commodity during the recent world-wide pandemic and fueled an explosion of online watch channels. There is one name many know, The Time Piece Gentleman. This name for me [...] Read more →
A Day in the Life of Scottish Highland GamekeeperHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Simon Mann – The MercenaryVitruvius Ten Books on Architecture
VITRUVIUS The Ten Books on Architecture TRANSLATED By MORRIS HICKY MORGAN, PH.D., LL.D. LATE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND ORIGINAL DESINGS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF HERBERT LANGFORD WARREN, A.M. NELSON ROBINSON JR. PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE IN HARVARD [...] Read more → 
Knots The Sailors Use
Blunderbuss Mai Tai Recipe
Blackbeard’s Jolly Roger If you’re looking for that most refreshing of summertime beverages for sipping out on the back patio or perhaps as a last drink before walking the plank, let me recommend my Blunderbuss Mai Tai. I picked up the basics to this recipe over thirty years ago when holed up [...] Read more → 
Country Cabbage and Pea Soup
Add the following ingredients to a four or six quart crock pot, salt & pepper to taste keeping in mind that salt pork is just that, cover with water and cook on high till it boils, then cut back to low for four or five hours. A slow cooker works well, I [...] Read more →
Chinese Duck Cooking – A Few Recipes
Chen Lin, Water fowl, in Cahill, James. Ge jiang shan se (Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368, Taiwan edition). Taipei: Shitou chubanshe fen youxian gongsi, 1994. pl. 4:13, p. 180. Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei. scroll, light colors on paper, 35.7 x 47.5 cm
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Italian Tart Recipe
Mocking Bird Food
Mocking Bird Food. Hemp seed……….2 pounds Rape seed………. .1 pound Crackers………….1 pound Rice…………….1/4 pound Corn meal………1/4 pound Lard oil…………1/4 poundHome Top of Pg. Read more →
Thomas Jefferson’s Garden BookHome Top of Pg. Read more →
The Apparatus of the Stock Market
Sucker The components of any given market place include both physical structures set up to accommodate trading, and participants to include buyers, sellers, brokers, agents, barkers, pushers, auctioneers, agencies, and propaganda outlets, and banking or transaction exchange facilities. Markets are generally set up by sellers as it is in their [...] Read more →
The London PoacherHome Top of Pg. Read more →
Of Decorated Furniture
DECORATED or “sumptuous” furniture is not merely furniture that is expensive to buy, but that which has been elaborated with much thought, knowledge, and skill. Such furniture cannot be cheap, certainly, but the real cost of it is sometimes borne by the artist who produces rather than by the man who may [...] Read more → 
What is the Meaning of the Term Thorough-bred Fox-hound
Reprint from the Sportsman Cabinet and Town & Country Magazine, Vol.1, Number 1, November 1832. MR. Editor, Will you allow me to inquire, through the medium of your pages, the correct meaning of the term thorough-bred fox-hound? I am very well aware, that the expression is in common [...] Read more → 
The Stuart Kings and King James I & VI to Charles II
Armorial tablet of the Stewarts – Falkland Palace Fife, Scotland. The Stewart Kings – King James I & VI to Charles II Six video playlist on the Kings of England: Home Top of Pg. Read more →
On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “It’s Just One of Those Casts…I can get’em at the British Museum”
From the classic British Movie, The Shooting Party, a 1985 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges based on Isabel Colegate’s 9th novel of the same name published in 1980 we find a scene set in the billiards parlor whereupon the host of the weekend shooting party Sir Randolph Nettleby walks in [...] Read more →
Pickled Eels
Vintage woodcut illustration of a Eel
This dish is a favorite in Northern Europe, from the British Isles to Sweden. Clean and skin the eels and cut them into pieces about 3/4-inch thick. Wash and drain the pieces, then dredge in fine salt and allow to stand from 30 [...] Read more → 
Carpet Cleaner Formulae
The Ardabil Carpet – Made in the town of Ardabil in north-west Iran, the burial place of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili, who died in 1334. The Shaykh was a Sufi leader, ancestor of Shah Ismail, founder of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1722). While the exact origins of the carpet are unclear, it’s believed to have [...] Read more → 
Making Apple Cider Vinegar
The greatest cause of failure in vinegar making is carelessness on the part of the operator. Intelligent separation should be made of the process into its various steps from the beginning to end. PRESSING THE JUICE The apples should be clean and ripe. If not clean, undesirable fermentations [...] Read more → 
Rabbits and Badgers – Blue Terrier Trials 1923Sea and River Fishing
An angler with a costly pole Surmounted with a silver reel, Carven in quaint poetic scroll- Jointed and tipped with finest steel— With yellow flies, Whose scarlet eyes And jasper wings are fair to see, Hies to the stream Whose bubbles beam Down murmuring eddies wild and free. And casts the line with sportsman’s [...] Read more → 
Commercial Fried Fish Cake Recipe
Dried Norwegian Salt Cod Fried fish cakes are sold rather widely in delicatessens and at prepared food counters of department stores in the Atlantic coastal area. This product has possibilities for other sections of the country. Ingredients: Home Top of [...] Read more →
Popular Mechanics Archive
Click here to access the Internet Archive of old Popular Mechanics Magazines – 1902-2016 Click here to view old Popular Mechanics Magazine Covers Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Seeds for Rootstocks of Fruit and Nut Trees
Citrus Fruit Culture THE PRINCIPAL fruit and nut trees grown commercially in the United States (except figs, tung, and filberts) are grown as varieties or clonal lines propagated on rootstocks. Almost all the rootstocks are grown from seed. The resulting seedlings then are either budded or grafted with propagating wood [...] Read more →
Art Fraud
A la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres – by Chagall – 1911 Marc Chagall is one of the most forged artists on the planet. Mark Rothko fakes also abound. According to available news reports, the art market is littered with forgeries of their work. Some are even thought to be [...] Read more → 
A Few Wine Recipes
EIGHTEEN GALLONS is here give as a STANDARD for all the following Recipes, it being the most convenient size cask to Families. See A General Process for Making Wine If, however, only half the quantity of Wine is to be made, it is but to divide the portions of [...] Read more → 
A General Process for Making Wine
A General Process for Making Wine. Gathering the Fruit Picking the Fruit Bruising the Fruit Vatting the Fruit Vinous Fermentation Drawing the Must Pressing the Must Casking the Must Spirituous Fermentation Racking the Wine Bottling and Corking the Wine Drinking the WineGATHERING THE FRUIT. It is of considerable consequence [...] Read more →
Zulu Yawl
Dec. 10, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 477-479 Zulu. The little ship shown in the accompanying plans needs no description, as she speaks for herself, a handsome and shipshape craft that a man may own for years without any fear that she will go to pieces [...] Read more →
Modern Slow Cookers, A Critical Design Flaw
Modern slow cookers come in all sizes and colors with various bells and whistles, including timers and shut off mechanisms. They also come with a serious design flaw, that being the lack of a proper domed lid. The first photo below depict a popular model Crock-Pot® sold far and wide [...] Read more →
The Charge of the Light BrigadeHalf a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Home Top of [...] Read more →
Describing the The Federal Reserve and the Acts Thereof
THE ABC OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WH Y THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM WAS CALLED INTO BEING, THE MAIN FEATURES OF ITS ORGANIZATION , AND HOW IT WORKS B Y EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY AND MEMBER OF [...] Read more → 
Cocktails and Canapés
From The How and When, An Authoritative reference reference guide to the origin, use and classification of the world’s choicest vintages and spirits by Hyman Gale and Gerald F. Marco. The Marco name is of a Chicago family that were involved in all aspects of the liquor business and ran Marco’s Bar [...] Read more → 
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Target Practice
Nov. 12, 1898 Forest and Stream Pg. 396 The Veterans to the Front. Ironton. O., Oct. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: I mail you a target made here today by Messrs. E. Lawton, G. Rogers and R. S. Dupuy. Mr. Dupuy is seventy-four years old, Mr. Lawton seventy-two. Mr. Rogers [...] Read more → 
Wine Making
Wine Making Grapes are the world’s leading fruit crop and the eighth most important food crop in the world, exceeded only by the principal cereals and starchytubers. Though substantial quantities are used for fresh fruit, raisins, juice and preserves, most of the world’s annual production of about 60 million [...] Read more → 
Mr. Bert Gripton, a Great TerriermanHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
Fox Hunting Season 1964Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Watch Fraud on eBay
EBAY’S FRAUD PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE EBay has had a problem with fraudulent sellers since its inception back in 1995. Some aspects of the platform have improved with algorithms and automation, but others such as customer service and fraud have gotten worse. Small sellers have definitely been hurt by eBay’s [...] Read more → 
Country House Essays
Country House Essays has returned after a good long summer holiday. More essays soon. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Patek Phillipe Service and Maintenance
Patek Phillipe hand makes the finest watches in the world. Click here to learn more. Home Top of Pg. Read more →
Feeding the Hounds at Chateau Cheverny
Public Attitudes Towards Speculation
Reprint from The Pitfalls of Speculation by Thomas Gibson 1906 Ed. THE PUBLIC ATTITUDE TOWARD SPECULATION THE public attitude toward speculation is generally hostile. Even those who venture frequently are prone to speak discouragingly of speculative possibilities, and to point warningly to the fact that an overwhelming majority [...] Read more →
Mrs. Beeton’s Poultry & Game – Choosing Poultry
To Choose Poultry. When fresh, the eyes should be clear and not sunken, the feet limp and pliable, stiff dry feet being a sure indication that the bird has not been recently killed; the flesh should be firm and thick and if the bird is plucked there should be no [...] Read more → Saving Notre DameHome Top of Pg. Read more →
Fly Casting Instructions
It is a pity that the traditions and literature in praise of fly fishing have unconsciously hampered instead of expanded this graceful, effective sport. Many a sportsman has been anxious to share its joys, but appalled by the rapture of expression in describing its countless thrills and niceties he has been literally [...] Read more → 
Beef Jerky
BEEF JERKY Preparation. Slice 5 pounds lean beef (flank steak or similar cut) into strips 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, 1 to 2 inches wide, and 4 to 12 inches long. Cut with grain of meat; remove the fat. Lay out in a single layer on a smooth clean surface (use [...] Read more →
The Beaufort Hunt 1914Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
The Sinking of the LaconiaHome Top of Pg. Read more → 
There’s a Lesson or Two in Here Somewhere if you pay attention
Absolutely Brilliant! And as I am quite certain you will become a fan, there’s more! Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil
If ever it could be said that there is such a thing as miracle healing soil, Ivan Sanderson said it best in his 1965 book entitled Ivan Sanderson’s Book of Great Jungles. Sanderson grew up with a natural inclination towards adventure and learning. He hailed from Scotland but spent much [...] Read more →
Copper Kills Covid-19 and the Sun is Your Friend
The element copper effectively kills viruses and bacteria. Therefore it would reason and I will assert and not only assert but lay claim to the patents for copper mesh stints to be inserted in the arteries of patients presenting with severe cases of Covid-19 with a slow release dosage of [...] Read more →
King Lear
Edwin Austin Abbey. King Lear, Act I, Scene I (Cordelia’s Farewell) The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dates: 1897-1898 Dimensions: Height: 137.8 cm (54.25 in.), Width: 323.2 cm (127.24 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
Philly Dips – Some Philadelphia Cream Cheese Classics from the 1950s
1 garlic clove, cut in half 1 8-oz. pkg. Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese 3 tablespoons clam broth 1 7-to 7 1/2-oz. can minced clams, drained Home Top of [...] Read more →
This…is inspiration…Home Top of Pg. Read more → 
List of the 60 Franklin Library Signed Limited Editions
The following highly collectible Franklin Library Signed Editions were published between 1977 and 1982. They are all fully leather bound with beautiful covers and contain gorgeous and rich silk moire endpapers. Signatures are protected by unattached tissue inserts. The values listed are average prices that were sought by [...] Read more →
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The Late Rev. H.M. Scarth
H. M. Scarth, Rector of Wrington By the death of Mr. Scarth on the 5th of April, at Tangier, where he had gone for his health’s sake, the familiar form of an old and much valued Member of the Institute has passed away. Harry Mengden Scarth was bron at Staindrop in Durham, [...] Read more →
Land of Hope and Glory: British Country Life – Fox HuntingHome Top of Pg. Read more →
Ought King Leopold to be Hanged?
King Leopold Butcher of the Congo For the somewhat startling suggestion in the heading of this interview, the missionary interviewed is in no way responsible. The credit of it, or, if you like, the discredit, belongs entirely to the editor of the Review, who, without dogmatism, wishes to pose the question as [...] Read more →
The Basics of Painting in the Building Trade
PAINTER-WORK, in the building trade. When work is painted one or both of two distinct ends is achieved, namely the preservation and the coloration of the material painted. The compounds used for painting—taking the word as meaning a thin protective or decorative coat—are very numerous, including oil-paint of many kinds, distemper, whitewash, [...] Read more → 
Salmon Caviar
Salmon and Sturgeon Caviar – Photo by Thor Salmon caviar was originated about 1910 by a fisherman in the Maritime Provinces of Siberia, and the preparation is a modification of the sturgeon caviar method (Cobb 1919). Salomon caviar has found a good market in the U.S.S.R. and other European countries where it [...] Read more → 
Preserving Iron and Steel Surfaces with Paint
Painting the Brooklyn Bridge, Photo by Eugene de Salignac , 1914
Excerpt from: The Preservation of Iron and Steel Structures by F. Cosby-Jones, The Mechanical Engineer January 30, 1914 Painting. This is the method of protection against corrosion that has the most extensive use, owing to the fact that [...] Read more →
Fruits of the Empire: Licorice Root and Juice
Liquorice, the roots of Glycirrhiza Glabra, a perennial plant, a native of the south of Europe, but cultivated to some extent in England, particularly at Mitcham, in Surrey. Its root, which is its only valuable part, is long, fibrous, of a yellow colour, and when fresh, very juicy. [...] Read more → 
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Stoke Park – Granted by King Charles I
Stoke Park Pavillions
Stoke Park Pavilions, UK, view from A405 Road. photo by Wikipedia user Cj1340
From Wikipedia: Stoke Park – the original house Stoke park was the first English country house to display a Palladian plan: a central house with balancing pavilions linked by colonnades or [...] Read more →
An Accurate Transcription of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat
The downloadable audio clip is of FDR’s Second Fireside Chat recorded on May 7th, 1933. FDR 2nd Fireside Chat - May 7, 1933 - 18.5MB The transcript that follows is my corrected version of the transcript that is found The American Presidency Project website that was created [...] Read more → King Arthur Legends, Myths, and Maidens
King Arthur, Legends, Myths & Maidens is a massive book of Arthurian legends. This limited edition paperback was just released on Barnes and Noble at a price of $139.00. Although is may seem a bit on the high side, it may prove to be well worth its price as there are only [...] Read more →
Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690
San Felipe Model Reprinted from FineModelShips.com with the kind permission of Dr. Michael Czytko The SAN FELIPE is one of the most favoured ships among the ship model builders. The model is elegant, very beautifully designed, and makes a decorative piece of art to be displayed at home or in the [...] Read more →   |
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