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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-10-12, Page 7114 li DOHS CHANGE VERY SLOWLY 1`IQ, lltAPID II:YELOPMJ T IN BERM, SOUTH AFRICA, Old Types Are Gradually Disap- pearing Before Advance of Education, A few days ago Capt. SPeltcrini, the famous aeronaut; matle.the Sirst balloon ascent ever witnessed in the Transvaal, rising to a height of 7000 feet above Johannesburg, he was ascending near the N see State border two Boar fsidmers noticed the strange app rition in ell perturb - arming hineself with a ready -recti- ener, The trader worked out the tt000llnt by a form of mental arith- metio peculiarly his own, "!But," objected the Boer, puzzl- ed at the result, "that is wrong, I have done tl e sum with B roadY- reokoner an It is different,' The trade paused a moment, "Let me see ," he said, taking the book. "Ah l" ll{exolaiined, "Ithought. tie. This ;reckoner is last year's. It is out, of date," And/the Boer accepted the ex- planation without is suspicion pf doktiot. Some of: the old Dutch farmers used to be given to petty pilfering in . stores when making purchases, but the trade's said nothing. They just kept a sharl5,eye. on the things INVESTMENTS OF MONEY AFFECTS SECURITIES. and beoanne, yielding a higher rate, the. money market is not yet too high to in. Eunice then[ seriously GIPSY I'ORTUNE-TELLING. Archduke Joseph i easood to in Bad Timor—Now Resp ' t i7►eir Sagacity. Investment Mari°$ ,Id as any other form of of fortune-telling is no Y Ea5 tjASM®aAAr with numbers, as in the r with the "investor" earliest study of the stars, of as e articles contribut- ed by and with the shuffling . for the solo purpose of guiding un otpeav- astrology, ther form of chance. laciug it In "Wild -eat" nterpris e mysinal and . y be lreliedrupton. it tha The ter'•s knowledge of h. -n?n u� by thean rites r those may It has not yet been g v p. titer epap'articles and tate to servo •5 it likely t0 be lost paper' e this p p ,-. than h Chert ltt atter v a commotion with this m thin is to be g In uo anything the sky. They were ed, They 'seized deliberated" ' beadvis aar• ption. It has had con- Batylonian comneetions, in e active investors, and, if possiblecards or any. o, ng them. from lasing money ,tkrnu h "art" the 'fOrtune-tel- es T�° Th `art lies in .eir. Mousers and ther it would not aie to •shoot the mysterious intruder, which seemed to tem to be some unknown monster of the air. Happily they hesitated long enough to see that thereev ere human beings in the my us globe, writes a South Afriean cor- respondent of the London Daily Mail But the incident should serve to remind those who expect exceed-• ingly rapid development in; rural South Africa, that many of quaint ideas of the simple Poortrek- kers still cling to the veld. The old type of Boer farmer is disap- pearing before the advance of edu- cation. But he is 'going slowly. you read the Dutch papers you will in- dignant very y t veryearnest still find tin correspondents protesting that the destruction of locusts is ItOY4VL RE$TDT Si•'Y, ED Old J ODDA. P Archaeologists Send ing Stories of Wo . Rol, d, j ori in 1 no t nOT have ie 1 G i s s Y h p ed --,at:ose of the reader. long as y th credulity so of man. In the from a and the Hunger- �a.�•- b k "Ranges, d lila, an investor asked the taken and put them down In Prof. 'Ernest Egyptologist, rc found in the I near the road and Jericho, r wh'oh he belies built by Herod 1 sat.,, The buildizl�;serti aright easily be t ;east the original plans T. financed by Jacob $•iii York, has now brr� a® many remarkable rtVIO tine, of Wbial: the not the least. The semains of Isr capital are.to be found part, on a huge 1501 feet in height, leis of Nablus, other Shechem, o from the Medlterral mount' is covered •w- olives, figs and pome. The first that is k hill in history is w bought, about 900 B.1 who built a town call afterwards known There Ahab, the son a temple to Baal, and palace. In the ivory ed the northern kin 722 B. C.—as see th i. Kings K the Book of g nt. me .,. the bill.- A storekeeper told me ^" d a antordeie d a bag ficoffee GOLD RUSH THEN AND NOW among ether things. White look- ing around the store he noticed sev- eral heavy lead pipes, and, when he thought the trader was not look- ing, he slipped them into the bag of coffee. The storekeeper made no remark. When . the trading was over he simply placed the bag on the scales and weighed it, and charged the Boer for it at the full price of coffee per pound. And the coffee in those days was many times dearer than lead, And these incidents, which have their parallel to -day, ."'show that change .is working but slowly in South Africa. 00 sans o the author devotes a chap- . A BLASPHEMOUS ATTEMPT Joseph is especially interesting. of the On one occasion the late arch- ishmentofor uthe11ssnfuln ss farmers. duke, when visiting the Gipsies on people. that the natural dis- his mission of reform, asked. Lever protesting women to tell him his fortune. eases of stock d suggesting t all en, in 'however, he addressed them the govern country.. in their own language, they refused the government veterinary surgeons and on being .asked the should be turned out of the to proceed, The traders and prospectors of they 1 reason, they declared that t ythe Transvaal tell adeli htfu would not "cheat one of .their' story of the simplicity manyf these old pun- On 521 h recent was a good time to u This was a very eimpla by , but rather a large order tog afc le, , [cos controlling the price le, lett ,°aurftios, comparing them , ! in the Past and 4oracust• e .This. is a mot important Wootton with'ler"estiug • almost abstessou• th , or even the same security st than at. semis other not fill speculatio investment ,a, ned not tare of geneditions aura a steadne anis. better rate of income with _- ,1_a... ocean- almost easily choose a time, when involved carefully soruttn- is- a be s i ter to the Gipsies and their cur- oppose the will of the Almighty, toms. A story of the Archduke t who had sent the scourge .as a mot this, for. whilo failure ectly involves the speculator it merely nlreots the in - using him some disgust at ' longer, or et not purchasing course. the trun.inveetor need over this feature, but even intend never to sol] your 1I is always a source of sat - teal's°: that you bought it Qwi,c nrico than it would bring at • e. two things that affect the negotiable scourities—that' is ditch aro readily bought and As the loaning price of mt,n0Y, '{or is the general condition. of Xometimes these work together,, ,in 'opposition.. -When working heir power 'la irresistable. Usu• ' Asked by the archduke whether whose Ili hosun- pitality f own." they sincerely believed in fortune Ourne of the best known i of paid. eiing, the women laughingly te- r plied, "No, that is good enough for stories relates how a wall -known mining magnate purchased a rich the non-Gipsies."another old -bearing farm. It was,at the On as rhal warned bythe arch- time that the Boers first. began to duke was u t really warned b a Gipsy. realize that some of the intruding dIt was just 180,before the Battle of sleeping strangers into their country were a pea nt's and he whenn'unaccountably willing to pay large ins a l peasant's thes cottage, -was sums for land. Prices rose, not be - middle of night he was a gingak- cause farmers had the faintest idea cued by a Gipsy. On the man being of the value of the sums they de- duke,ht to the bedside of rapidarch- mantled, but simply because the duke, ec burst out into large amounts sounded well in their any, declaring that the enemy was ears. So when this magneto wish- approaching with she intention of ed to buy a particular farm he was surprising the Austavensn met with a demand for one hundred "The outposts have not heard thousand: pounds in gold. The own - anything suspicious; the archduke er would not hear of anything loss. remarked. „ho- He did not know what one hundred "No," replied she. Gipsy, thousand pounds meant, but the cause the enemy is still a long way sound of the globular sum pleased off.,, him, At last the mining man con - "How do you know this said the. seated. The transfer deeds were "Dome' d the window, drawn up and wore to be signed on Gipsy, leading the archduke for- a given night. the When +t,., evening en,Y,c3 they mal; - INL G -PO , 1\ LYt EAL THE How a Young Wonsan NS as Cured of the Habit of Fretting. There was once a young woman who fretted about everything, is true that she Was sick, unsuc- cessful and poor. People were al- ways failing her, troubles were al, aIt' 1 ing. Her friends used THE GUGGENHEIMS NOW OWN THE KLONDIICE. Skagaay and Dyea Rave Passed Frc:n Pioneers tato Hands of Syndicate. The glory of Skaguay, in Alaska, has departed, writes a ,newspaper correspondent ill that far-off place. It was in 1888 the port of entry to the Klondike—and 100,000 men then and in the"two years that followed struggled to get to Dawson, capital t around two i Just Klondike. ke the of lies rocky points, three miles away, Dyea, whence in 1897 went other' thousands to the Klondike. One man lives in Dyea—its 'glory . also has. departed. In those days no railroad ran from this -arm of the sea.. Men went into the interior over the passes, and thence by small boat down; the Yukon to the gold fields MODERN METHODS, The crude placer mining methods of the early days are no more. To- day huge dredging and steam -thaw- ing machines are operated. The hills are being washed away, the beds of the creeks overturned, and the gold extracted from the frozen soil upon a scale quite different from that of the rush times. arts This thus the glory of these p departed, Then it was crudity, dis- organization, chaos. Now itis cold, calculating, 'methodical work, gov- erned from the Guggenheim head- quarters in New York, city, 5,000 miles away. It is system against what once was indescribable con- fusion. It is the selfish, organizediz dollar coming in where bray looked but the country and located mineral wealth, and in. this unequal has strife the weaker individual lost. , Mho .4.i o- the Pl. .rot an en J gr, s, of a Eone o4 Wadm en to say* it took courage to go to see of the Klondike river. The tial s over both the:Ohilkeot and White passes—the former from. Dyea, the latter from Skaguay—were grave- yards in which many skeletons lie buried beneath cool snow slides. Other skeletons lie whitening. Alongside are the bones of thou- sands of horses, mules, oxen and goats—pack animals which_ fell ex- hausted during the awful rush to the north. • her, they were so sure of being met by a complaint. This went on. says the narrator of her story, e was thirty. Then one day the read the story of a great naval disaster, when the officers, knowing that their ship. must go down before thelenemy,eset the band to playing, Eying, and, dressed in uniform, with -their white gloves on, waited to go down with their ship. As she read the story she sudden- ly grew ashamed of herself. How had she met disaster;f Never with anything but teams and complaints. Iver, they are in opposition; ward to the narrow opening rn '}natally being low when -bust• wall and directing his gaze ,,°ad and high when business is act of those conditions is tliie. t,neg rates are low and business ,t likely. to get worse, high-grade gob. as good municipal debentures Prance. The reason is, of course, niclpal bonds aro practically un - by adverse business. oonditione herefore, their price is influenced entirely, by the money Market. mond, le cheap, Mutt is loaning at it�hd four Per cent. on good doouriE, ,hada—it has been many yearn since .,,caurred, and will probably be many e before we see it .again—bands yield.. .412. and,5 per cent. are eagerly sought by banks and insutiance, companies, as they present a return—coma run to 11.2 points above what could be nbtaiued in loaning on the market -and- at the same time the safety of whieb is not affected by oonditione of general business, This foot onuses the price of the bonds to advance and the yield to fall until the loaning price of money and the return On bonds aro approximately equal. But Middle grade bonds will remain station. toy for bad business conditions, tending to depress prices of all but best bonds; aro offset by the effect of cheap money, 9peoulative bunds whose safety depend very largely on the condition of bust. nese will.weaken in market -price, es their safety is in clanger to ooat snob.. ot cheap • teat as to offset any money, On the other hand, when busi. seas is good and money dear there is o tendency for high-grade bonds to de. Once; for the banks Man. sell them as they otdy. Yield a low rate of 4 to -41.2 per cent at such a time, and loan the mono, at a better rate. Other bonds, Yielding a higher rate. and becoming the mere swum the bettor the business out- look ls, will tend to advance. Clio present tendency in 51110. money is dear and business very geed, indeed, In Oanada, Therefore high-grade bonds not do do to any ereciable se off. TheY extent lllbeemise high, era app trade muniaipai betide aro not handled n [iia. Canadian markets, but aro dealt 1n Wholly by private gale, But You will tido that the prices which good mn• os.. et .for their' betide aro Ices rem all down sip• rough to the dark sky illuminated by the rays of the moon. "You see those birds flying over the wood toward the southi" "Yes," replied the archduke, "I see therm What of ill" "What of Al" retorted the Gipsy. "Do not birds sleep as well as Men 7 They. certainly would not fly about at night-time thus had they not been' disturbed. The enemy is marching through the woods south- ward, and has frightened and driv- en the birds before him." Immediately orders were given for the outposts to be doubled and the entire camp to be awakened. In less than two hours after the visit of the Gipsy, fierce fighting was begun, and the greatest friend the Gipsies ever had was &hie to realize that his camp and division, toPther with his military reputa- tion, had all been saved by the sa- gacity of Gipsy. nate drove up to the farm with a bag of gold. All was ready, but the Boer insisted that this money must be counted out before his eyes. The other agreed. He set out one thousand sovereigne in lines ON ONE SIDE OF THE TABLE. TRAILS ABANDONED. Trp the gulch from Shaguay, at Dead Horse Canyon, it is asserted that 5 060- horses died in the winter PASSING OF PIONEER. It is but a repetition of the his- tory of the pioneer work done by venture some men in the western parts of the United States—by the Marcus Whitanans, the ' Daniel' Boones, and all of that honored ,company of conquerors of our wild- ernesses. Five minutes ago I met a man I knew fourteen years ago •as a Klondiker. Be pub in eleven years in that region, and, finally,. as he said, he "just got out of the country; the Guggenheims had tak- en complete possession of the dig- gis." The'S.'ukon Gold Company was the concern organized by the Gug- genheims, the stock of which was flowed by Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, in one of his sensational advertising campaigns. Control of it is held by the Guggenheim brothers. f-1898 Over the Dyea trail, the "I won't be as I have be ea any other day, we Saw twenty sacks of more." she said to herself. "There is a thousand pounds," he snid. Then ,at right angles he laid Out, one hundred' gold coins. "That is one hundred pounds," he explained; "so you have the hundred thousand pounds." And tho, Boeif sired the deeds 'and trekked away into the unknown with the gold; happy in th thought that be had sold his farm for a re- cord price. , It is not difficult to believe such a story when -one remembers that the chosen legislators of these old Boers advanced publicly in the Raadzaal those quaint ideas re- printed in an appendix. to Sir Percy Fitzpatrick's book "Tho Transvaal From Within." One of those old parliamentarians denounced a proponal to erect pil- lar boxes in Pretoria. as extrav- agant and effiminate. bl come to me though I per- ish ish as those officers did, I will meet them as. they did—with flags flying, the band playing and my white gloves on." ---- +- ..l.lea A;8 come Ever eo to her, but every time she met a and of course, no one -travels Y new one she to ers ' "The flags must fly to -day, the band play, and you moat have your white gloves on!" ment in work seemed especially keen, she would even actually dress herself in her best clothes and with smiling face go out to see a sick friend or to perform some act of cheerful kindness. And now, after ten years, if you were to meet her, you would say she was sailing only Smooth and pleasant seas. Good things • come to her, she does not know why. She is a gentle, considerate, genial wo- man, whom every one loves. Peo- ple tall her fortunate, and only the other day some fretful woman sal!3 to her "Oh, it's well enoligh for y to 'talk, you who have neder kooirti troulale in your life." ' cheerful woman said to h.erself, and stopped to think, '1A trouble! Per- haps not; but now, at any rate, those which I thought I had seem no longer to have belonged to me, but to some, other person who lived centuries ago!" ' flour lying by the way, pieces of broken vehicles, crumbling road- houses, fallen footbridges over. roaring mountain streams. These trails are abandoned, for the White Pass and Yukon Rail- way from Skaguay has been built, „ MUCH THE SAME. A foreman,' seeing a workman crossing a scaffold to another along a plank on his hands and kneeo, shouted oot to him: "Ate you afraid of walking on one planbi" ''No," replied tho workdnan, promptly ; "I'm afraid of walking "Ile appears to love his wife very much I" "Yes." bile, must bo charming talker:1" "No; she is a charming keep -stiller." "He eould not see," he said, crude trail when he can. spee aeross the' summits of the coast ranges in steam cars tethe head of stelimer navigation on the Yukon, and thus shorten the time requir- ed to go to Dawson, Forty Miles, Fort Selkirk, Fairbanks and Other interior points. But in those days of the initial ex- citement over the discoveries of fabulously rich placer gold fields in the north, these two towns were veritable maelstroms. Through them ruihed a tornado of human- ity, crazed with the 'lure of the northa-men and women from every part of the globe. Each -carried an average perhaps of $1,000. The 100,000 who hurried here in 1897 and 1895, therefore,. brought approxi- mately $100,000,000. • Most of them, went away "broke." FACIOUS CLEAN-UPS. "why people always wanted to be 'writing letters. He wrote none himself. In the days of his youth he had written a letter and bad not been afraid to travel fifty miles and morOon horse -back and by wagon to post it, and now people tom- pinined if they had to gn smile." These old farmers were horrified to hear that godless people in Johannesburg had insulted the Al- mighty firing bombs at the sky in time of clrouth to endeavor to bring rain. The Rand railway was only built through the subterfoge of calling it a "tram," Fierce dig - troy locusts, and sionto members were so offended at the ties affected by their more up-to-date colleagues that they proposed that the size, and shape of the no/dr-ties wern by leg - DEFINED BY LAW, Where ignorance is bliss, Ais fol- ly for a doctor to tell a patient what he has -written op his prescrip- Stella—Do you belieye in, mono- poly or competition Bella—W'ell, I think the men should oompote and I should monopolize them. Itl be clone in a Cane "What shou AN OLD ple int he left i the reign and the cit gon and Esar isms in pleine The next, con Alexander t continued to down to the t rebuilt and and named it just before the Herod had. a cities, and lauds and cruel ver IN GRASP 'OF COMBINE.. The evolution of existing condi- tions in the Klondike is in process in -Alaska, American territory, from Ketchikan, in the uttermost south- eastern part, to the most north- westerly point, where Behring Straits run into the Arctic Ocean. The individual pioneer prospector struggles against the onward march of the all -conquering syndicate formed .in 1906 by John Pierpont Morgan, the Guggenheims, Taeold Graves, representing Close:Broth- ers, of London, and others. Unless something be done to check its pro- gress all of Alaska will p.ass, like the Klondike, hopelessly into the hands of the combine. FATTIER OF TELE FLEET. Lora John IItty, G.C.B., Who is 84 Years Old. , The senior Admiral of the Fleet on the retired list is Lord Sohn Hay, 0.033., who has 'celebrated his eigthy-fourth birthday. A younger brother of the present Marquis of Twecdditle, bo was born at Geneva on August 23, 1827, and entered the Navy as a midshipman in 1859. Three years later he was engaged in the Chinese War, and in 1854-5 served in the Crime ''''" ,gthe stampeders have cleprirted for fore) Sebastopol. He was Corn MA, -idler centres of excitement. Cabins dere on the East India, Station in 'sleincl on every hand, deserted. Along streets where once thou - 1861 -3, and during his oommand of sands of men and women roshed, the Chanuel Squadron in, 1877-9 with courage and hope and energy, took original possession of and ad - and high resolve, stalk the dejected ministered tho Island of Cyprile. From 1883 to 1886 he was in eom- employes of the ytoteh Cold Com_ mond of the Mediterranean Station, vizor., owned by She Guggenheim Chief at Devonport. terd John, 0 i who sinee his retirement has resided The ettire sweep 01 the von:dike at Iva:her Placa', •Blmigli. "'as fed has been taken over from the Cana - brief periods M.P. for Wick, Scot- dian cievertment hy ;1110 angen. land, and Ripon, and four times, a heims. Practically not another Lord of the Admiralty, ititereet is there, and such na are known that it is, only a question of a treder took the precaution r.o -eolith 11141!":--i-1-14-1-1-r-11:0:11 a few mom& when the inust sell for the East End dealer, A farmer Steil k Seereti ' ont t7 thn 9agprilieirtts. Thn Mon- 13tit the Beer was netait a 'ingot' The. Klondike placer fields were ers, some by old-timers, called "sOur-doughs," ethers by "checka- kos," nevacomeri. Some of these claims were marvellously r A claim was 500 feet up and down the creek hed, 'and as wide as from rim rock to rim rock. Single claims washed oat in one winter, accord - to the crude methods of those days 5250.000. Clean-ups of $50,- 000 to $100,000 Were numerous.. 'The winter of 1897-8 the Klen- dike produced $19,000,000 ip gold, and 11101'0 the next year, with lib- eral outputa for years to come. NO CHINESE TYPEWRITERS. The Reason for That is Found. in the 50,000 Word Signs in Use: Typewriters are now made fer uso in nearly a hundred different lan- guages, and they are seld a. ov the world ; but there is still nee „g„ed,„Ni.tb Pa gi in A offerm and a' clay ho "Assyrian identification of replete. Ahab! iaRstoAinininaS°n:111331au•tinb.gedelerierpr'0' Qlfef1st been uncovered the temples h. the apse great nation which, for a yery Arabia Imp le reason, has no typewriters that Gre,ek Write its toogue. Ihe nation is The English alphabet has twenty- six lettere, the Russian thirty-six. The typewrAer prodneed for the Russiao market is the largest made: but no typewriter could be made that NV•01.11(1 begin to be big enough for the Chinese language, which ha.s no alphabet but is repro sented by sign charaeters, of there are abont fifty thr the great number the English small portion same is true in the Chin number of ( manly ompl than eould writer non people But that typewriters a and more CI other langtiages and Chinese mere].) foreign merchants Use thq arc llSed ill leg in consoler <,1flices and ill shipping offices and missiouaries, veal Altogether there etre so a good many typewrite STAMPEDE ENDED. Yet to -day Dawson, at one time glittering brilliant with its sprinkl- ing of millions of gold dust, is as quiet almost as a country grave - rd The stampede has •endled. broken, 1 with sive and D Of th • • "• Ts he a. elever t rnn talk of things about without one that a wise 1110.11 11"