The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 5, 1892, Page 6

GOLD IN TIBET. A Region Which the Enterprising Miner: of the West Will Some Day Invade. It has been known for centuries that gold exists in the mountains of Central Asia, but we had no definite informa- tion until Prejevalsky began his series of explorations. Much of the informa- | tion he obtained of these auriferous re- mere hearsay derived from s,andit has been left for Mr. Bogdanovitch to give a somewhat de- tailed account of them. He was the geelogist of the Pievtzof scientific mi: sion, which traveled in central Asia in 1889-90. In his geologieal report he describes twelve regions in Khotan-Daria and the Kwen-Loun aud Altyn-Tagh moun- tains, where gold exists in considerable quantities. These mountains are on the northern border of Tibet. He has studied nine of these districts himself, and he gives a particularly interesting description of the gold-bearing sands and conglomerates found in the Kwen- Loun ranges. He tells a curious story of the native method of separating gold from the earth in regions where water is not obtainable. He says the gold diggers, most of whom are Chinese, make air do the work of water. That is to say, they employ the same process by which farmers used to winnow their grain be- fore fanning mills were invented. They lift the baskets containing earth and gold to an elevation, and then slowly empty the contents tothe ground. In those regions strong winds prevail a large part of the time. The gold, being heavier than the sand, falls vertically, while the earth is blown a little to one side or the other, and in this way the gold is fairly well cleaned. On Prejevalsky’s last journey he met in northeastern Tibet a party of thirty men who were engaged in gold wash- ing. He said that gold is very plentiful throughout northern Tibet. At the dig- gings he visited the Tangutans went no deeper than one or two feet from the surface, and the washing was of the most primitive description. Neverthe- less they exhibited whole handfuls of gold in lumps as big as peas, and often twice or thrice as big. ‘‘Without doubt,” said Prejevalsky, ‘‘with more careful workings, vast treasures could be found here. I believe, on the whole, that I am not over bold in predicting that in the course of time northern Tibet will become a second California, perhaps even richer than the first in precious metals lying in the soil over the vast surface of the desert land.” Mr. W. Mesny, in 1885, wrote of the Koko Nor region in northeastern Tibet: “I saw men digging down under a peb- ble bed over twenty feet thick, but they did not wash the upper stuff. They only commenced to wash within a couple of feet of the solid rock on which gold was found in nuggets vary- ing from the size of a turnip seed to a pea, and I was told that lumps uf sev- eral taels’ weight were occasionally un- earthed. On the other hand I have seen nuggets of gold in eastern Tibet varying from the size of a pea to that of a hazel nut and, asin the first case the gold was almost pure and perfectly malleable. I also found traces of plati- num in the Koko Nor region, but the diggers did not prize it enough to col- lect it, as they were unable to melt it.” Mr. Bonvalot, in his journey across ‘Tibet in 1889-90, found,when he reached Lob Nor, that there was considerable talk among the natives about the gold that could be hail by comparatively easy digging among the Altyn-Tagh mountains. He found that China, to which all this immense region belongs as a dependency, isin the habit of col- lecting its ta in gold from the nomads and other natives who are able to procure the precious metal. He was told at Lob Nor of one man who had be- come so deeply involved in debt that he had given the services of his son to his principal creditor, who was to enjoy the benefits of his labor until the debt was discharged. The father had set out for the mountains with a native- made pick and shovel, intending to dig for gold, and he said that he should not return until he had sufficient gold dust to discharge all his debts and ransom hisson. Hemade a considerable quan- tity of gunpowder himself and _bor- rowed a good supply of shot in order to kill the game upon which he exvected to live. Sohe set out into the solitude, without any expectation of seeing a human being for many months, intend- ing to devote all his time to digging for gold and killing game. Some time later, while Bonvalot was ascending the great Tibetan plateau south of the mountains, he met a native who had recently seen this solitary miner, and reported that he had met with fair, but not great, success in his hunt for gold. This auriferous mountain region is now not very inaccessible, provided the permission of China is secured to travel there. It can be reached in a few weeks’ march from Kuldja,on the frontier between the Russian and Chinese pos- sessions. Every year it is getting a little easier to visit these formerly in- accessible mountains, and the day is not far distant when prospectors will carefully investigate this country to ascertain the extent of its gold-bearing resourees. It is not atall improbable that these mountains, of which one range, the Altyn-Tagh, was never heard of until Prejevalsky discovered it, will before many years be thescene of much activity and the resort of hundreds of miners from the western world. They will, at all events, not complain that the climate is unhealthful. The eleva- tion is too high to make the region a very comfortable place to live in, but there is no danger of incurring there diseases which are common in many warmer climes—N. Y. Sun. eS, A Remarkable Echo, There is a splendid echo in this wood Herr Lehmann. It repeat four times, and long too!” “There's nothing in that, mein frau- lein, When I go to bed at nights at my villa in the Grunewald I shout into the wood, ‘Willem, wake up!’ and the echo wakens me at five prompt the next morning.” —Tagliche Rundshau. — our call interval, DROWNING SUPERSTITIONS. In Many Countries it Is Considered Folly to Save the Victim. In many parts of this country the superstition still survives that it is folly | or madness to save the life of a drown- jing man, as he will sooner or later do | | | | | | aboriginal sources. an injury to the rescuer. The super- stition comes down to us from our Euro- | pean ancestors, yet traces of it exist among the Sioux and other Indians, who seem to have inherited it from In Great Britain the belief is most prevalent in Cornwall and various parts of Scotland. Sir Walter Scott, in “The Pirate,” tells how Bryce the peddler refused to | help Mordaun to save the shipwrecked | peddler, |in Zetland, | | | body row to and fro witha sailor from drowning, and even remon- trated with him on the rashness of such a deed. “Are you mad,” says the , ‘you that have lived sae lang to risk the saving of a drowning man? Wot ye notif ye bring him to life again he will be sure to do you some capital injury?” It is found, too, among French sailorsand the boat- men of the Danube, and is widely credited in Russi Mr. Barry, in his “Ivan at Home,” gives a_ striking instance of the Russian repugnance to save life from drowning. One day a drunken man walked into the water and disappeared. A number of specta- tors stood by and gazed on the scene with the utmost indifference, but no one tried to rescue him. A court of in- quiry was held, but as, on examination, no cross was found on his neck, a ver- dict was quickly agreed upon by the villagers, who declared that the man was drowned “‘because he had no cross on his neck.” The Bohemian fisherman shrinks from snatching a drowning man from the waters, fearing that the water demon would take away his luck in fishing and drown him at the first opportunity. This, as Dr. Tylor points out in his ‘Primitive Culture,” is a lin- gering survival of the ancient signiti- cance of this superstition, the .explana- tion being that the water spirit is nat- urally angry at being despoiled of his victim, and henceforth bears a special grudge against the unlucky person who has dared to frustrate him. Thus when some one is drowned in Germany the remark is made: “The river Spirit elaims his yearly sacrifice;’ or, ‘The nix hastaken him.” Out of Europe. also, the accidental drowning of a per- son is attributed toa similar seizure, and the Siamese dreads the Pnuk, a water spirit that seizes bathers and drags them under to his dwelling. The Sioux Indians have a similar fanev, and tellhow men have been drowned by Unktahe, the water monster. For the same reason, it apped the Kam- tehakais far from helping a man out of the water would drown him by force. If rescued by any chance no one would receive sucha man into his house, or give him food, but he was reckoned for dead. The Chinese reluctance to save a drowning man arise from quite a differ- ent belief, it being supposed that the spirit of a person who has met his death in this way continues to flit along the surface of the water until it has caused by drowning the death of a fellow-crea- ture. “A person, therefore,” writes Mr. Jones in his ‘‘Credulities Past and Pre ent,’ ‘who attempts to rescue another from drowning is considered to incur the hatred of the uneasy spirit, wh i desirous, even at the expense of ar life, to escape from its wandering Superstition everywhere has many curious modes ef recovering the body of a drowned person. Again, the univer- sality of this form of superstition is shown by the fact that in one form or other it is shared in this country by white man and Indian alike. Sir James Alexander, in his account of Canada, tells us: ‘‘The Indians imagine that in the case ofa drowned body its place may be discovered by floating a chip of cedar wood, which will stop and turn round over the exact spot. An instance oeeurred within my own knowledge in the case of Mr. Lavery, of Kingston Mill, whose boat overset and himself drowned near Cedar island, nor could the body be discovered until this ex- periment was resorted to.” Not many months ago a@ man was drowned at St. Louis After search had been made for the body, but with- out success, the man’s shirt, which he had laid aside when he went in to bathe, was spread out on the water and allowed to float away. For a while it floated and then sank, near which spot, it is reported, the man’s body was fonnd. A loaf of bread is a favorite talisman in most Europeancountries. Sometimes it is found sutticient of itself, sometimes it needs the aid of some other sub- stance. Thus in England the loaf is usually weighted with quicksilver. The London Standard recently told a story in point. Some years agoa boy fell into the stream at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, and was drowned. The body not having been recovered for some days, the mode of procedure was thus: 4 four-pound loaf of best flour was pro- cured, and a small piece cut out of the side of it, forming a cavity into which a little quicksilver was poured. The piece was then replaced, and tied firmly in its original position. The loaf thus prepared was thrown into the river at the spot where the body fell, and was expected to float down the stream till it came to the place where the body had lodged. But no satisfactory result oc- cured. In Britanny, when the body of a drowned man cannot be found, a lighted taper is fixed in a loaf of bread, which is then abandoned to the retreat- ing current. When the loaf stops, there it is supposed the body will be recovered. In Java a live sheep is thrown into the water and is supposed to indicate the position of the body by sinking near it But the objects used for this pur- pose vary largely in different countries. A correspondent tells how a corpse was discovered by a wisp of straw around which was tied a strip of parchment in- scribed with certain cabalistie char- acters written on it by the parish priest. | A curious custom is practiced in Nor- way, where those in search of a drowned boat, fully expecting that the bird will erow when the boat reaches the spot where the corpse lies. It was a popular theory in days gone by that the body of a drowned man ne a a re a ee ee a ne ne a {vails in the county of Durham. would float the ninth day. a notion which, Mr. Henderson informs us, pre- Sir | Thomas Browne alludes to it as de- | lieved in his time, and in his ‘‘Pseudo- doxia Epidemies” there is a discussion ii on this fanciful notion. It was also be- / lieved that the spirits of those drowned | at sea were doomed to wander fora hundred years owing to the rites of | burial having never been properly be- | stowed on their bodies.—Notes and | Queries. THE ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION. Story of the Golden Fleece Takea From the Ancient Mythology. Perhaps there has never been any other society which has numbered among its members such high and mighty ones as the Order of the Golden Fleece during the middle ages in Eu- rope. Kings, emperors, prels War- riors were enrolled in it. ‘ow, what was the Golden Fleece? It was to obtain this golden fleece that | the “‘Argonautie expedition” set out from Greece in the far-off ages of fable and tradition. The fleece belonged to the ram of Phrixus, and the story runs thus: Jason, the rightful king of Ioleus, had to perform some great deed to prove himeelf worthy to occupy the throne, which was then held by a usurper. Jason’s uncle Athamas and his wife Nephele had two children, Phrixus and Helle. Nephele died, and Athamas mar- ried Ino, who hated her step-children. She persuaded her husband by a false oracle to offer up his son Phrixus asa sacrifice. But before the sacri the shade of Nephele appeared, bringing a ram with a golden fleece, on which Phrixus and Helle were to escape over the sea. Helle fell off, and was drowned in the strait which afterward become the Hellespont, or the Sea of Helle. Phrixus reached the shore in safety, proceeded to Colechis, on the northern shore of the Black Sea, sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung up the golden the grove of Mars. To bring back this fleece was the task of Jason. So Jason, gathering together a num- ber of Gr chieftains, among whom were Horacles, Caster and Pollux, Or- pheus, Boreas, Admetus and others, set out for Colchis in the good ship “Argo,” and from this the expedition became known as the Argonautic Expedition, or the voyaze of the “Argo.” ‘Tne adventurers passed through mar- velous scenes on their way, landing once at Lemnus, the land of the Ama- zons, or the female warriors, where a son was born to Jason. Finally they reached Colchis. But the King (Etes’ refused to deliver up the fleece until Jason should plow the land with the fire-breathing bulls and sow it with the teeth of the dragon who guarded the fleece. Armed men were to spring from these dragon teeth. (Etes daughter, Medea, who was a beautiful sorceress, had fallen in love with Jason and gave her aid to the ad- venturers. She anointed Jason's body so that the fiery breath of the bulls would not destroy him, and instrueted him to throw a stone among the armed men that sprang up from the teeth of the dragon. Then the armed men fell to slaying one another. Medea put the dragon to sleep, Jason slew him and} vore off the golden fleece in triu Then the homeward Medea accompanying father (Etes pi then him, Medea dismembered her brother, Absyrtus, and scattered his limbs about over the sea for his father It was a dong journey back, rful a iventures, but} reached Tole uit and Circe granting abso- | » murder of Absyrtus. was placed ina i of theo. es, fleece in age began, and her To de ng | | lution fe The * to ‘ove | sacred r on the Is . Jason, th myth says, was ¢ killed by a part of the stern falling and killing | him. amous of the h perhaps the e the sub- terature than the ancient NUT world. — HOW TO HANG PICTURES. Some Suggestions Which May Prove Use- ful to the Housekeeper. When the chairs are taken out of their summer linens, the mattings replace: by carpets and rugs, curt tieres hung and all prep way for the winter arrangement of the home, then, perhaps, the way the pict- ures are hung may not exactly suit and afew ideas as to their arrangement may prove of value to the harrassed | housekeeper. Unless a picture is gen- uinely good do not keep it on your j walls at all. but give it or store it away, unless, indeed, there association connected with it that makes it valuable in your eyes, when it would be best to keep it where oniy you could gaze upon it. Do not think it necessary to have a painful regularity that may be precision itself but far | from artistic. Nearly all pictures are hung sloping outward from bottom te | top. as very few look well when placed | squarely against the wall. Do not mix } up etchings, oil paintings aand photo- ; gravures in one room. Paintings cer- | tainly do not look well when placed | beside the cold and formal etchings, yet | etchings and engravings can be used | together in efiective harmony. Pictures containing small tions under range of vision that one cannot discern | The shadows ina picture should turn | from the windows of the room in which itis hung. Companion pieces are no, longer considered good form, yet if you own those containing peures. if they cock in the | | —“That, are hung side by side, be sure that the forms represented on the canvas face each other. Break the set lines of the walls and the shape of the room by commingling panel, round and sq { frames, aking care, however, that | your efforts to produce arti you do not achieve a hodge podg | the reverse. hia Times. the pin in the chai. 3 a point well turned. —Washington Star | gans. nd gives a good eomp a cellar toa counties greatest shops. 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