The Brussels Post, 1905-9-28, Page 70+c+0+0+0+0+0+o+o+o+0+.04-0+040+.0+,04-0+°+0+0+0+
• WONDERS OF COBALT
A Miner's Appreciation of
the New Mining District.
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ors, merchant 3), leers end 1 etiorers!Glasenapp, ritli ten ofneers mid
are mining through northern Ontario thirty-six men, lost (emelt with his
and every now wed then 11 gOOLI 1131i1 1111110 body, and was surprised by
Pi ree01'1.1011, proving every desoe that the Hierefros, losing seven officers
northern Out 31r11), as well efi north. 1 awl flosses)) 13,0 moss, In 11313
ern Quebec's is teatime:gels; Heil iniit- 'same 11108111 It, 13.1114 officially fin-
als, Already HeVeril 3 parties Mom minuets' that. 0,000 1 loreros were
started north to prospeet in he 'II" 1 In the field. In April Von Glamen-
reel ion of 1(031118 Bay and lientlieral aim „„b ravvaaa by d„1„1.0 bar, a
Qtiebec. fore' or 4,000 ilereros, killitig 000
The Ontario gevernment sold out of thonl
the town site of Goleta, by 331)1)311
13 111,1 N 1s0 1 E38TEN'S:8 13EO,III*571,10.
esis woosse, weer," hRf3 ViL111.- 30ee11111 Iti eamp ilre the le. P. 13,71, actl'al=alts T:,)nlV 13113),"arid las Leal 1 Things looked )11) blark at (11)1 he -
.cent 3,3,11.1.0 111IS WateS aboV0 jittui,(;:-,%71113,80°11i7, 601,'" PrO1)11, 11011gbt would sell for 1 gin 3310g of May that Col. Le111Wel113
ieti the prille11111 1 mining minim of re- Company's claims.
1110 Moll! 1001 Wi111 1,118 front Cobalt, 41 3)13)11 to 3413)0. sold all the way from the Governor and Commander-tn.
Ont., giving a plain unvarniffigsl
storY of the silver mines of Northern
Ontario,. as lie sees them:—
. loving followed mill ing 10)' the
paa tea soars in British Columbia,
.Atlin and Dawson, and being; on iny
'return onets more to the west, after
pe,ying n. visit to the cast, the nest
In afteee yenes, 1 decleled to get off
at North Bay and proceed to Cobalt,
1. 1111. le hamet on the TeiniskamIng
and Noethern Ontario Railway, hav-
ing heard of the great silver strike
there, to find out h what 1 hoard
wns true. I soon came to the (10113'
103)810)1, after the strongest of evi-
dence, that Northern °Mail°, that
Is, the Cobalt, district, was not only
rich but WaS fabulooly wealthy, a
good place for' miners, prospeetors,
or a man who would try to make
'himself useful. This view I took af-
ter visiting the most talked of mints
in the camp. 1 was inost cordially
received at the various mines and ob-
tained all the information I desired,
and consider it, only right to let the
'people of Canada know what; a
'wealthy camp this is.
The silver mines in the Cobalt dis-
trict are the richest mines that hate
ever been nnearthed. The silver mines
of the great American west; and of
British Columbia Mlle into issiKstii-
calico whet( compared with the mines
'here,
.1. Feench-Canadian blacksmith by
the 11 11111 0 of Larose, while working'
;for the Tem iskaming and Noel burn
.Ontario Railway discovered the nest.
anine in the camp, called the :Larose
Mine. He sold it to Messrs, Tim-
mons, Dunlop and Company for $28,-
000. Tho purchasers then got out. a
.earload of ore, and paid foe the
mine by the returils made by this
,eLle of oar.
Chtlin after claim has been stahed
since then, so that now practically
all the township of 0010111011, six
miles square, is staked, as welt as
parts of the adjoining townehics.
The 'Istrenge Mine,' the oldest and
ono of the hest, hoe ten rich veins,
all the way from three and a half
inches to twelve inches in width, un-
ccvered, and have only stripped a
very small part of the ground as yet.
.4.1 one of the veins two shafts have
been sunk to 110 depth of ninety
feet and a. drift of 200 feet run. The
ore is as good at (he bottom of the
shaft as on top, the only difference
being that the von) widened out to a
-width of three and a half feet. This
firm has already installed a steam
plant, air compressors, and have
four ra1131 drills at work. This mine
has been running for tWelve months
and luts been an extensive shipper.
Fifty men are employed opening up
and mospecting 11.
The next. mmes I SLIM Were the col-
ebreted . New Ontario clahns of
Trothoway & Company. These
two claims are certainly wonderful
ones and their richness has not been
4.ixriggerated,
"J. B. 6," ono of them, has seven
veins and the other, "J, 13. 7," has
three veins. These ere from one
inch to eight inches wide, and new
ones are being continually found, as
only a. very 81113/11 part of these
elninis have been prospected. These
elnims have twenty-five 11100 111 WOO:
oPeniug up and prospecting them, a
steam plant has been installed mut
the Little Giant Iland drills are used
hero, A. considerable amount of ore
1100 been shipped from these ethics.
One et/rifled from those properties
netted $00,000, the cost of produe-
Von being $3,000.
The Buffalo Mining Company's
delta, alongside the New Ontario
mines, has ton voles, from,three inch-
es to eight inches wide., of very rich
ore, running from $250 to $3,000 to
the ton. A force of 35 men are open-
ing up property. Two carloads of
ore have already' been shipped. Mach-
inery is about to bo installed in this
/nine, which will certainly be one of
the great shipping properties of the
camp.
To the south of the Buffalo Mining
Company claim is the much -talked -
of claim of the Hudson's Bay and
Temiskatning IVEining Company. This
claim has three veins of rith ore,
from three inches to eight inches in
width. A force of fifteen men 0.10
opening it up, and have sunk a shaft
to the depth of 85 feet. 1 13111)1)59"
o(1 the hoistieg of five buckets of ore,
certainly of the riehest kind, By
throwing a little water on the ore
0110 could see leaf silver all over it.
This ore assays from $8,000 to $1,-
000 to the ton. 'Phis is a stock com-
pany capitalized to the exteet of
$25,000 at $1,00 a share. These
shares have advanced itt six months
from ono dollar to fifty dollars 13
share, foul nre ilot to be bought at
this price.' A 51011111 plant is going
to he put on this claim.
The Cox claim., lying alongside this
hod ;mined claim, has all eight -inch
'vein ot splendid oeo, but/ unfortiniate-
ly Mod up at present owing to
litigation.
The next claisis to eatch nty oye was
that of lifeesrs. MOICitiley and Dar.,
roegh, tho opposite aide of Co-
balt. Lake, Masers. McKinley arid
Darrough at, the time of the diseov-
ery were eating ties for the Tanis-
kaming and Northern Ontario
Ilail-
W07. They immediately staked the
claim, which turned out, very valu-
able. Fifteen mon are busy develop-
'. ing arid sacking the gravel Which
Oovere tho shore of Cobalt Lake, on
which thls tette-hes. This trim -
vet runs in value from $250 to $500
to the ton ht natiVe silver and ox-
ido of silVer. Fifteea care of gravel
and three ears of ore have been
Shipped from this property. Three
veins of very rich ore have been un-
eovered on this property, which, It,
114 PO1101'1011, 0111111ged hands lately for
$250,000,. years.
The most Interesting peopeetieS at Already Mine buyers, mining brok-,
18)131, 10 Everyhody 11118
Mestere, Portend, Ohainhere, itiese..1. seem ga sem) ojot.
"L "I', r'ir $2533,000, w".1 0")"Primu 0 merry stores, 11133(1 811310 stores,
800 '10cr. rhteleand tet
(alin, cabled urgently for 1.000
men and two batteries of atillery,
to.,00asbake-----------1,,,,,o, li,
The Cleetnan Government thereupon
It la rumored- the( flui Ontario but not least, two bruits have iitina appointed Lieutenant -General 1'011
03'er11111e111 11111.3' 1hrO30 11111-1 111efle 140,11, bar1nerS, 10 the breeze, viz: the Teethe, as Conunander-In-Chief of
heldings open to the public to lie Canadian flunk of (iommerce and the the forces, and he flErleeLl at. A wit-
restaked, 'There aro over twenty-two Imperial Bank of Canada, The con- kopmund on Juno 1 3, 190'1.
veins ou these claims, and the owners r0e1' of dynamite can he heard When the Coinniander-in-Chier ar-
have been the most; extensive shippers on all sides denotiog the 111151110101 rived he found that the lighting had
up to date, oyer eighly leen are ems
PloPscl, and, the force Is being grad-
ually increased. The company has
needed Revels very fine m11)0 buildings
has installed a; steam plant, end a not sold here) makes life fee from
very neat assay Wilco. Mr. Lumey, monotonous in the town of Cobalt.,
the manager here, Is a `bear' on. the do not advise men to come to this
camp, as he says 110 belieVes the ctimp looking for work this fall, but,
lodes here are only surface cropping8. a loan who has means could 1101 go
Nevertheless the company is increase to a more promising district than
11W its force, awl am2d0US for that of Cobalt and sureounding
more ground.
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YOUNG
FOLKS
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"LITTLE COMPASS,''
801110 years ago a family of five
grew tired of life in a great crowded
(Sty of (Me east mid 1111011, 1111 their
111 311111 to 330 111 1 0 the beau Wu I, big
west, whole there is room enough
and to spare. They went. away
many miles, and "took up" some
land that the government gale to
anyone who would Ilse) upon its
They carried their Bibles and all
their books. will) them, fur they
knew that they would have many
lonely days.
There were flvo in this family—
Mrs, nankin, the mother, 071e SOU,
twenty years old, another eighteen,
a daughter of eixteen, and Tad, a
small boy of seven.
After some months they had clear-
ed a place on the edge of a great
wood, built a pretty log house, and
fairly begun life in the neW, big
way. The large boys emit owned a
horse. The mother used her little
all to buy a 03),,V and a few sheep
and pigs, They had chickens, too,
after a good deal or trouble, and
life woof going on very 'even.
Not far away there lived another
family, al of whom t he Ilankins
came te lenow and to 'like, so Well
that visits were made hack and
forth—though you can imagine that
these visits were not made often.
After a time a. lady came to spend
the wintee with the other family.
This lady Wag not well and the doc-
tors had said that if she would lie
for six months in the mountains she
would get quite weill again.
The lady had. a big, strong horse
which she rode every day. She often
came as far as the log house of the
Hankins, and brought them the
newspapers and other thinge that
had been sent to her. She became
great friends with Tad and often
took him up before her on Prince,
her big, strong horse; and they
talked together about tho trees and
the birds. Sometimes she told him
pretty fairy tales,
Thus they grew to he very fond
of each other. Tad liked nothing
better than to stt and listen to her
pleasant veice, mingled With 1110
crackling of little branches undue
the feet of the tall horse, or the
soft sinking of his feet in the cush-
ion of moss. Still, you must know
that Tad was a busy little worker.
Ho did many little chores about
the place, and so good-natured
about it. all that people called him
the little farmer.
la ope matter Ile was very wise.
Ile never forgot a path or a Vail
throttgle the wood, if he had once
followed it. The family noticed and
wondered at this, lf cow, a sheep
or a pig got lost and all hands went
searching for it, Tad was pretty
sure to find it and get it home first,
to blow the big dinner horn, that
called the others to come.
"How do you do it, Tad?" asked
one of the big boys.
"Oh, I don't know," said Tad. "I
sort o' feel it, don't you know'?"
"I'll tall you," said the other
brother, ''rati has a little compass
in him, that always points towards
mother, She's his pole -star."
After that they called 111111, "The
Little Compass''; end 1110 mother
smiled, because- she loved her little
boy so much.
Ono day when the lady had be-
come so well that she was going
home in another week she came over
to bid the Ttenkins good-bye and to
tell a last little fniry story to Tad,
While she 3811.S still upon her horse
—it was quite early in the morning
—a man eferno riding in great haste,
to briag her a telegram. It had
been two days on the way and
would cost the lady a great deal of
money. Bet she dicl not care, for
when it was opened F1110 learned that
1101' dear father WaS very, very ill.
Tho lady felt that she must go at
once. And she wanted to go the
very mild:est and shortest way. 13
she went back by the other farm it
would take her two days to get
home. lInt if she went on through
the Rankine' farm. and crossed it log
bridge up the stream she e011131 reach
the stage mate and get there the
next attuning. She decided to go
that way. But she had never beim
08,10tristita1 this time ono of the Han-
kies's horses was 8e17 ill. This
WaS a very sacl thing for the family.
Every one of them was in trouble
about It. The loss of a horse
meant geeat deal to them. They
had spout, all of their money anti
bad not begun to get mach hack.
It. WaS hard work to take care of
the sick horse. Neither of the
large boys could leave and go with
hor. Sho was about to turn hor
horse's heed and gallop back the
other way whon Tad spoke out:
"I know all the way to the stage
road," he said, "I'll go and show
yekti.11,013,—,esitt eovfeillretlayillityletiolonlece,'d) at
0a'1'11 10,031.1110e1;:e the little Com puss tlocs
know it," said the oldest boy,
" 'Course he does," said the other,
."bet how'll he get back? We crot't
run the chance of losing Tad."
"Put me up some dinner end 33
can walk. back. Mother's here, you
know."
"l'ivraty miles? I think nett"
said the big brother,
"1301," said tits lady, "what can
/ del I am losing time. S.onto
awful thing may happea before I
roach my father. 0—"
"Let me gal" cried Tad.
"Do Iet. him!" tried the lady, "if
yott are sore he rould find the Way."
"Sore as can bet" said the big
II71?1Ttrisi'':01111.1(' 1 hint back on Wince. Tad
do it!" she cried. "And
shall haVe Prince for his very wen,
if he will. see me safety through!"
So it lytts settled, and the tWo
dashed oil upon the big horse, who,
the district, together with the must- been mutely in a wide aim not 5.1,.
cal ring of the tirill and the carpon- of Windhoek. The bravest efforts Or
ierS' hammers- Ao oeeRsional sisior the (1 01'11111118 had been thwarted
) ier (as intoxicating ch•inks are again and again by want of water,.
as was the case in the 'British cam-
paigns in Somaliland. Including the
murders of settlers, 111' German
loeses amounted to about 600 dead,
General von Trotha found 11 Motel f
with 8,000 afters and men and six-
ty guns opposed to about 1.5,000
country. IIereros, many of whom had rifles.
In August he advanced In torce 10
Hereres, who Were ell -
NATIVE WAR IS COSTLY "t';',Vchetcli' in the Waterberg clistelet,
about 200 miles north of 'Win(1hoek,
a severe battle resulting
GERMANY HAS NOW SPENT 3)01,
in nearly (00 casualties to the Ger-
PIETY MILLIONS. mans, the Hereros, after loineg 1,-
400 or their men and thousands of
Colonists oif Cape Colony sa cattle, managed to disperse.
, Charged With Supplying 131 October the greatest disaster of
Guns to the Hereros, the war befell the Germans. Hendrik
Withoi and his clan, who had hither -
Germany's "Colonial War" has
to fought for the Germane, rebelled,
proved an expensive proposition up ,
rhe Withots occupy the Oilmen (135 -
to the present time, and it gives trict, 250 iitiles south of Windhoek,
promise of proving even more ex- and so a new eampaign in the south
eerillitene
ed. The reason fol this de -
faction was probably the ef.ppoint-
meet of General von Trotha over
the head of Clolonel Leutwein, whom
the Withols regarded as the embodi-
ment of German authority. The
story that a missionary of the Etho-
Man Church was the cause is believ-
ed here to be incorrect. The outlaw
Wereega and the 13ondelzwarts (who
had been "pacified") joinod Hendrik
Wi the , and the 81 tu of ion in the
south became hopeless, 13y now tho
Germans had 10,000 11301) in the
WAR COST FIFTY MILLIONS.
At the present moment there aro
some 15,000 Germans under arms,
and reentureementS are Still being
sent out. The loss ie. men amoners
to about 1,200 dead and probably a
hundred women and children. The
war has uost between 550,000,000
and $60,000,000 up to datii,
though tho Gorman Socialist paper,
Vorwaerts, puts it at $100,000,000.
Tho value of the colony is proble-
matic. The colonists having been
ruined, farming is of course Impos-
sible under the existing state of af-
fairs. A feature of the present situ-
ation is the establishmeat. of 1011-
centration camps for the natives
who have been captured,
The people of the Cape Colony
have been constantly abused with
breaches of neutrality in spite of
emphatic denials by Dr. Jamieson,
the Premier, arid Dr. $mart, thac
e t-
ing Premier of Cape Colony. Prob-
ably the most continent accusation
has been that of "gem running."
The people of Cape Colony, on the
other hand, assert that no guns aro
carried over the British border, but
that many a rifle passes over the
Cunene River, which separates
Portuguese West Africa, from Herman
South West Africa.
Tho eanses of the rebellion seem to
be:
First, 11)30)180 1113813110 of the Ger-
mans and the belief of the natives
01 their own strength.
Second, the tactics of some or the
traders, who allowed natives to run
into debt and 11)0,1 salted their
g'71°Ods.
OllBE HER. LIN OTCOLONIES.
It is said. by those who have trav-
eled through 0131303311 80100(18 of
Southern Africa that the colonists
there are 3)133)81)134 through tho same
oxperlenees which have confronted
the colonists of all lancls,'viz., trott-
ble with the aborigines and the
shortage of crops due to uneettled
conditions. The representatives of
the Government aro insisting that
Germany cannot afford to abandn
o
her African colenies at the first,
blush of trouble. To (to this would
be to confess to the world, it is
Urged, that the people of Germany
are incepaslo of becoming a eolony-
founding race. Arid It is claimed
that wliat is needed hy Germany at
present is more colonies. It will
probably regain a great many (318-
5,51800)4 defeats at the hands of the
natives to compel Germany to re-
linquish her hold on South A Erica.
And serious though the situation
may appear, it eau hardly be said
th
at Germany's colonial wars are
likely to bring about the downfall
of Get•nia.ny's African Colonial Em-
pire plans.
North of the Earls holdings is the
claim of Messrs. 1i'01113111(1& 011a-
1)0319, 'There are 14 men prospecting
and developing this claim. A. car
load of 010 has been :hipped from
this claim, which turned out very
rich. Three veins have already been
uncovered, and the deeper the ore the
better It seems to be, A steam. or
electrical filant is to be installed on
this property. This claim. is report -
e 1 to be in litigation.
Next to this 010101 is the O'Brien
claim, which has 131 men working,
developing the property. Two veins
of very rich cobalt and silver ore
hove been foetid. A shaft do by 40 pe»sive in the hear MAIM- 1)83)317
feet has been stink, and the Ore holds once 01 a while the Gorman C0te:111-
Ra own with depth, but unfortunate- meet semi -officially gives out the M-
b this claim. is 01811 in litigation, formation that matters are improv -
Cobalt Lake, soon ended by damaging )(138L)3.'813134, but these optimistic feelings are
These mines are all situated around
two miles freak Cobalt, where I saw Mountains, fent instance, where the
from the front. 111 the Matumbi
I then proceeded to Glenn Lake,
one of the greatest mines mys-v
08 local authorities were soon able to
ever rested on, the well known 105 suppress the local disturbances, no
Ler ))1i3101, It was Wid.
e , vet ,
everywhere. There are 25 men at
work prospecting and developing the
chi im. Thirteen veins have been un-
covered, from two inches to eight
inches in width; three cars have been Liwale districts has lately become
more precarious. According to 1)11.'
51.13)104(1, which art:waged $60,000 to
live reports which have reached -Kik
11013, r1eV0101)1110I7 1 haS Oeell 1 led, 1
the 0111011 hand, the Governor of
German East Africa had telegraphed
that the situation in the Donde and
the car. Any man who discovers a
vein of ore On this property guts a.
bonus of $100 an inch in width. A
steam plant Is to be installed here
81101117., It is reported that a mil-
lion dollars has been offered for this
property, and refused.
Next to this Is the Lawson claim,
which bide fair some day to be a
keen rival of its neighbor, the Foster
claim, but which is at present tied up
by litigation. There are two good
e101311f4 011 this property from ono to
eight inches in width.
Proceeding east to Kerr Lake we
reach the property of a Montreal
syndicate, the Jacobs mine. Twenty
111011 are employed opening up the
property. Pour veins have bten
found from 0110 111011 to eight inches
Wide. Three cars of ore have been
shipped, which netted $75,000 to
the car. Title company 11.1 about to
Instal a steam plant, ale compres-
sors, hoisting plant, furnace and ore
crusher. Adjoining this claim is the
Hargraves mine—a. very good one—
which has 23 men at work on the
property. Three veins aro 'uncover --
eel, from two to three inches wide.
This mine) Is bound to be a heavy
producer It/ the near future,
The next claim is another actually
fortunate, the Montreal Syndicate
(the Drummon)l mines). This pro-
perty is a, close corporation, but
Nom what I have seen I can safely
say that this claim is second to
none. A piece of ground about 80 to
40 feet, which is uncoyeee(I, 511079
up six veins of the richest ore, 3.1.1
One 10 SilL* 11111105 in wilith, which
rem parallel. This company is going
to place n gasoline Winch on Cross
Lake to freight out, ore.
Proceeding to Cross Lake the first
claim one reaches is the Watt mine,
situated on the shore of this lake. A.
car load of very rich silver gravel is
11033' ready for ehipment. One vein of
silver ore bas been located. This pro-
perty has been bought by a syndi-
cate of Otte-twa rind Boston people,
The adjoining property, the Glen-
denning and McLeod claim, hes had
17 men at Work prospecting claim.
Thirteen Ve1.118 have been uncovered,
from two inches to eight inches in
width. This Property has been sold
to a Toronto syndicate for $250,-
000.
The next claim is the Hasn'ty mine,
which is a very pretty 111-1)0 proper-
ty. 'About ten men are at work
opening it up, and there is evely in-
dication of its being a good producer
in the near future,
I visited but onednino in the Town-
ship of Books, a propertsy which was
purchased lately by Air. 0, GI. Pow-
ell, of New York, called the Hunter
claim. Work has 01113' been. started
lately on this property. One vein of
very rich ore ha8 already been un-
covered, bat it promises to be ono
of the leading mines in the near fu-
ture.
Those are the leading 11113108 111
Mound the town of Cobalt. Many
other clahns I have not referred to
which aro Certain to be hummers, and
the amoun1. of territory prospected
as yet practically amounts to noth-
ing. Mining: experts claim, that the
daires of Messes, Timmomi, Dunlap
& CO., and Messrs. Tretheway ate
worth $40,000,000 aplecce but as
reining experte are very otter). wtong.
I will not pasS an opinion on that
itIdgment. Two Million live hundred
thousand dollars worth of oro had
been shipped up to July, and einee
then there have heen many ship».
mesas.
Prospectors by the score ere proe,
Pecting into Cobalt, and the town will
neon be a second Daweoti, only that
instead of blinding up rapidly, like a,
mushrootn, and 'dropping out ot
sight ae quickly, it Will 1180 for
wa, the Catholic bishop, spies, am
Tolle missionaries—Brother Gabriel
Sonntag, Brother Andreas Scholzen,
Sister Felicitas Thither, and Sister
Cordula Ebert—have .been murdered
while travelling from ICtlwa to Id -
wale. The bishop had been advised
to return by the district authorities
of Kilwa, and was several times re-
quested to abandon the journey, but
he replied 'that Ile would travel on
his own responsibility. The Gover-
nor in his telegrams asks for an im-
mediate reinforcement of the 111111 -
Lary forces at his disposal, ,
EXPENSIVE FAILURES.
It has been noted by the news -
Papers in Continental Europe tha1
the colonies of llerrunny have proved
expensive failuree even fit the tint fi
of peace, but this particular colony
of German South-West Africa, with
338 present widely -scattered, harass-
ing wan, nothing less than a
tragedy of had achninistrat ion with
110 itievite.ble nemesis of native
trouble. Before 188.1 what. is 11011
German South-West Africa was the
happy hunting 34roundt3 of a few ad-
veliturous spirits, German, English,
and Dutch, 18110 shot big game and
traveled with the natives. Some
German missionaries also labor 01
this uninviting district, over which
Cape Town exerted a very slight all-
thority,
In 1888 a Gorman Veined Lacideritz
bought a (011C05)31011 from a 1401:11011 -
tot in the South, and in 1884 Prince
Bismarck proclaimed a protectorate
over all of the territory between 'the
Orange River in the south and
Portuguese West Africa in 01e north,
the area being finally arranged at
832,450 square miles, containing a
native ponulation of 250,000, made
up of tribes of Kaffir and Hottentot
blood, some half eastes, and a. few
bushman.
The colony has maimed almost
continuously fro118 drought and pee-
petually froni the false economy of
the German Government. 'Ilia 1 1 i -
tory strength has alwnys been in-
adequate, andthe eXPooditure 011
useful works meagre. The natives
showed no love for their 11033' mas-
ters, whose severity appears not to
have been moderated by tact. Hen-
drik Wi the!, the Hottentot oh tut,
fought the Germans for more than
two sfearS, yieldtng only on favor-
able terms, tie the natives were
quick, to notice. Tbere was a slight
trouble with the Harems (who aro oi
ICaffir bloo(3) in 1806, and then
Germany settled &ma to peaceful
development with inadequate re-
8ourCe8.'
A SHORT-LIVED REBELLION.
In November, 1203, the Bonclolz-
wart Hottentots Welted Up in in-
serrection at Warrnbad the 133)-
treme south, the immediate cameo be-
ing the execution of a thief by a
German officer. At that time there
Were Only 800 soldiers in the Whole
of this vast territory. The colonists
numbered about 3,600, A hastily -
organized 801111111) harried front Wind-
hoek, in the centre of the colony,
and after three voey 0.111110118 months
the rebellion wag patched up. In
the osiantime, in January, 1004, the
Hereros had taken advatitage of the
abSenee Of troops froin the centre of
the colony, and 1'080 in their 11113'0,
starting the real War, 'which is till
devastating the country. Maesatres
and looting followed. NVitulhoek
wan threatened. ra robtruary troops
froin Germany bega11 to pour -into
the country, 'MA could make little
headWay against the blaeks. Oka-
hantlytt, to the ace*, and Oinartirti,
still farther north, were sureonntled,
and Only relieved after desperate
' 1 ti Isti March Major Von
_
little while When the sick horse grew
better. At this the Oder brether
Jumped on hle 011a heree and fol-
lowed the Mo.
"Do the best you ran," he said.
"I'll be back as 80011 LLB I can; but
I can't help going."
Iles horse 1108 not as swift as
Prince. The best he could hope to
do was to meet dear little Tad on.
the way back.
Tud and the lady rode and rntin.
They were on the last mile and had
come o the stream, which must he
crossed before they could reach the
stage reute. But thov could not
find any bridge, 'rad began to 100::
51411.0118, Teill'S Mille 11)10 1.113, lady'
eyes.
"0, Tad!" she cried. "Are we
lost?"
The boy sprang down and looked
about, Then ha turned his face to
the. sky and stood still for a minute.
After that he went to one of the
trees and than ran to the rocks be-
side the stream. "We are rightt"
he said. And he was so glad. that
he laughed aloud, "Hero ia an ar-
row that I cut in the bark of a tree.
And here is a stone with green
stripes through it. The bridge be-
gan at this stone. It is washed
away, But; we can get over."
Prince knew that -he must do his
very, very best. He held 1131' head
high and picked his way carefully.
Tad looked up into the lady's face.
It. was white with fear.
"Clod will take care of us," he
said. "I looked Into 1110 sky and
asked Him. Then he showed. me at.
once, the tree and the striped
stene.''
They crossed safely and hastened
on, reaching the stage route just
(11 thno to hear the rumbling of the
old stage. It had gone by, but they
galloped on and overtook it. The
lady gave Tad a lovieg kiss, patted
Prime's neck, and was soon lost to
sight. Prince neighed. after her; but
because be had. Male 10 1(11017 Tad
so well, and because ho liked the
free mountain ho obeyed the
boy's hand on the. rein and bore him
back.
As they reached the stream again
it was late afternoon,
helloal Is that you
Tall?"
It 110.8 the big brother on the
other side, looking pale and anxi-
ous. A few miuutes more and the
stream was crossed. Then the hig
brother caught Tad in his arms and
the two kissed each other as if they
were girls. It was a happy family,
on the big new farm, when the two
reached the pretty log house late
that night. You can imagine it,
can't you?
ABOUT STOLEN JEWELS
TO SELL TI-IEM wmzvns MUST
TURN TO THE EAR EAST.
Diamond of 10 Carats or Mere
Must Be Cut to l'ind
Suyer.
Disposi»g of stolen jewels is a
(Wilma underfahieg, particularly if
tho jeW1118 are of great vidue, says
the New York Sun, 13, le almost
1101.01sible to get rid of large stones
in this 00101117/, anti harder still to
dispose 01 them 1>1 England and
France if they are stoIen, The only
Way lo do it, withsafety, is to cut
the 810110 tIP, and when a large stoae
Is out it decreaees greatly in value,
Diamond dealers all over the
world aro on the lookout now for
the large pear-sha,ped diamond that
was stolen from the Tiffany work
rooms 801110 weeks ago. Every re-
putable dealer woold refuse to buy,
that brilliant lf 11 were offered for
sale in the shape Which it was stol-
en. That there are. dlaI11011d dealers
who are not reputable goes without
saying', but if they bought this stoee
they would buy it with the idea of
cutting IL.
Large diamonds are 1101 00 numer-
ous that they cannot be kept track
of. When a large (Hainan() is found
it sooner or later finds its way to
the grealost diamond market in the
world, which is Lonclon. Persons
through whose hands a large stone
passes aro careful to note Rs good
points as well as its (Ideas, if it
has any.
ICNOW DIG DIAMOND.
Every diamon111 over ten karats is
considered a large one and worthy
of particular note. Every dealer
who handles such a stone can give a
minute description of it. The purer
the stone the motet attention it at-
tracts from the persons who handle
it. That Is why it Is hard to dis-
pose of stolen diamonds of any ac-
count, for when one is stolen every
dealer throughout the world hears
of it and has such a good descrip-
tion of the missing Stone that ha
can hardly fail to identify it.
The ordinary stolen jewels find
their way to pawnshops and fences.
There are jewelers in this town who
have the reputation of being fences,
but 110110 of them does business di-
rect with a thief.
When a large stone is stolen hero
or In England or *France the first
place the searchers look for it to
turn up is in Amsterdam, which is
31)8 00011)0 of the diamond -cutting in-
dustry. If it doesn't appear there
within a. reasonable time its owners
can bid good -hyo to it, for it 'will
probably be disposed of Without
trouble in the Orient, India, Persia,
and Turkey are the three countries
where largo diamcinds can be sold
without cutting theta up.
Once they are taken into one of
these countries they are 111(1(1011 just
as If they were put pack into the
ground. Diamond dealers say that
the greater number of important
jewels that have been stolen have
found their way to thole countries.
110(13310330113 D•Evicm.
The Icelanders have a strange but
effective plan. for preventing horsos
straying; away from any particular
spot. If 1180 340)111011111)) 14a93)1311 to be
riding without attendants, and wish
to leave their 1101805 for any reason,
they tio the head of ono horse to the
tail of another, and the head of this
to the tail of the 101.1111'. In this
state it is utterly impossible for the
horses to 1110V0 011, either backwards
or forwards. If disposed to move at
all, it will bo only in a, circle, and
even then there must he mutual
agreement to turn their heads tho
same way.
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Mary Ann—I've tome to tell 7013,11331.1, that tit' gasoline Above has
gene out.
Mistrees—Well, light 11 again.
"I , 00311, Sore, it went out.
t rotIgit the roof.'t
MILLIONS OF FENNIES.
Imprisoned in Slot Machines311
London, England.
The enormous decrease in the coin-
age of pennies, half -pennies and far-
things, from 4148,4:99 worth in 1902
to g,77,895 worth in 1004, is an af-
termath of the boom in pennies
caused by the greatly extended use of
penny -in -the -slot machines a few
years a.go.
Tho experts in coin production The Indian princes will buy an
state that there WRS something like ask no questions.
a "penny famine" a few years ago, The high-class nati've of India is a,
and this lecl to a large production of remarkable judge of all kinds of
new coppers by the mint. Then came precious stones, and many of them
a, "glut of bronze coins," and the yount most of their wealth in this
form.
authorities have now greatly reduced
she issue.
"The circulation of the penriy is a
curious thing," Haiti ono of the Lon-
don and South -Western bank 1)1(1130.'
330)5 in the cits . "For Instance, we
think nothing of remises at oree
city branch Of ollr brink £1.00 worth is lost 101111 its buyer dies and 111)4
of pennies ill one week, and the geeat Property is divided. among Ids wives
LOST IN THE ORIENT.
Diamond dealers and pollee all
over the civilized world have long
realized that as soon as a precious
stone finds its way to the Orient it
producer of pennies is Peel:hum.
Many branch banks where business
men run in and ask for a sovereign's
worth of pennies, get their supply of
or his relatives.
Tho large precions stones general-
ly find their Way blip 1 110 MUMS 01
royalty. The Orloff, which weigh8
coppers from Peekham. j935 karats, is in the Russian.
-The eecret of this is the 11811 )),y_ crown jewels. That stone formed
in -the -slot gas meter. The. South
Met ',,poli tan Gee Company • s army
ot men who spend their time empty-
ing the pennies out of household me-
ters, bank the money at Peckham,
district. At preseat We 1111d the de-
mand for big packets of pennies
brisks'
to Europe.
English ship captain and so got in -
One of the secretaries of the South
Metropolitan Gas Company' gave an
account of the five weeks' huprison- It turned up in Amsterdam in
meet of millions Of pounds. 1701 and for a time it was called
"Wo have 182,000 penny -in -the -slot the Amsterdam (Hammitt. It got its
gas meters, A large corps of inspec- name of orlo5 when 'Prince Orloff
tors spend their time in going around
1 u ht it for 1,400,000 Dutch florins
one of the eyes of an idol 111 1)1(3
11,11,111.110.11 temple on the Island ot
Si yang= in the KLIVel.l.
near Trichinopoli. The 8( 1)')' 111)3
it, nal. it WaS 5101011 from there
early in the eighteenth century by
a French soldier. From him it
und its way into the hands of an
calling. They had been 30110 01117
emptying these. 'They get 1 ounc
this enormous number of meters
about once every five weeks.
"It is quite a asual thing for 1 110111
to empty ont 2,500,000 penaies in a
few days. These millions of pennies
have been. locked tip for five weeks
in many easee, and if we let the
emptying process stand still very
long we should make a material dif-
Serene() to the stream of coppers in
eirculation."
4
SUNSHINE FOR TlIla HAIR,
There is no bettor tonic for the
hair (hall sunahine, Sit outdoors in
the sunshine an hour every day.
Loosen the hair and let the sun
shine on it and the air blow through
it. In the summer days go without
a hat as much as possible. The hair
needs to be ventilated to keep it
healthy. Airing arid sunning the
hair every day riot only keeps it
s.Weet rout clean, bet is good for the
scalp also. The sun will soon cure
any disease et the scalp and melte
it healthy arid active, and a healthy
scalp makes strong, beautiful hair.
Brushing the hair every day, "a
hundred strokes," as our grand-
mothers used to say, Will maim it
soft and glosey as silk. WOrth $224,000,000.
A11011181. largo stone cm which
there has been a 340(3 deal of spoon-
abt.1 presented it to the Empress
Oathrine 11. of Russia. This jewel
forms the head of the imperial scep-
ter,
Three other fatuous jewels in the
possession of tho Russian crown are
the Shah, the Troon of Mountaine,
and the Polar Star—the first of SS
karats,n
3110 secod of 120 karats,
and the third of 40 karats. Tho
Shell is all engraved diamond, ono
of the very few large engraved dia-
111011C18 ill existence. All are per-
fect blue white stones. Catherine II.
bought the Moon of litolintains for
4150,000 rm
rubles, an awity of 4,000
rubles, and letters of royally,
TUE DRAGANZA.
These are not by any moans the
largest known stones in existence,
but they 11)8 among the Moat valu-
able, becalm of their purity, Some •
of the largest diamonds on record
aro 11133871111811e
sters, but doubt al-
ways has been cast on thole 3411(111'
131011055. The 1113833811130. 18 a Brazil-
ian stone as big 13)4111015 egg and
weighing 1,680 Iterate, It is pre-
served in the Portuguese 01013)83e19e18, but there has (1,11803'8 1100111
doubt as to its genuineness. 11
is 340,11131(o,diemond exports say, it
"You say ,you thiak your a
lation as to its genuineness ae
oWited by the Rajah of Malang,
Homo. It Weighs 807 'karats.
RAKING UP THE vAsT,
Markley—Say, Tineroughs, hoW
about that $10 you've owod rtie since
last year'?" '
. Derroughs—Oht come, 'old man,
why can't yon let bygenee Do bp
goDoorl
going back on you? 'What leads you
to such a, supposition—did she snub
you?" "No, but, she called her
llttIo sister into the parloe last
night and bad her recite to me."
"No," declared Mr. Nagget, "there
never was a wOman on earth Who
could refrain tee133 turning arotind to
rubber ,at 801110 other woman's
cIothea." "No?" replied his wife,
sweetlY, "Didn't you ever hear of