Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 8

NG STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1897—24 GES. Peseetoatoasoedongoateeaendentondontoaseatengontendontoasoete eagentoatiety The Second Week Of Our Great Midsummer Clearance Sale. Three insurmountable causes combine to make this great sacrifice event. Each one in itself is sufficient to force a sale. First, came the buying up of that Pearce stock of Par- lor Furniture, five carloads of goods that we got so cheap that we couldn't help but take. Second, the immense lines of Dining Room, Bed Room and Library Furniture that weren't represented in duplicate stock and which took up room we'll want for our fall goods. Third, those alterations and improvements in our building which make it neces- sary to change around many of our departments and give up room for the building opera- tions that we really needed. These three combine to make this the greatest Summer Sale ever known hereabouts and the necessarily forces down of values in a manner such as you never saw before. To the list of Furniture we've added for next week's sale a big list of Rug reductions, Kensington Art Squares, Ingrain Carpets, etc., that must be cleared out. : Furniture Department. Parlor Suites. sedenteote Worth $18.00 Mahogany Finish, 3 tapestry. $21.00 $37.00 scocenonys $37.00 v $26.00 $42.00 $50.00 $50.00 $50.00 3 $53.00 $58.00 $65.00 OPPO I MAMMA MANIA A IITA NING ~ $65.00 $50.00 ", $100.00 $63.75 $50.00 $52.50 $85.00 $62.75 $65.00 $48.00 $00.00 $67.50 $55.00 $61 $82.00 $80.00 $50.00 $48.00 $35.00 $40.00 Odd Parlor Pieces. afeeonteesertentnnse toateatonsoege te sioeserionseatonsedgeateriensn teraweseatensoete she age shoazeee Worth Mahogany - fiinish ‘ide Chair, mask... $10.00 $18.00 $12.00 $18.00 $11.50 $12.00 $9. $25.00 $18.75 Se $16.00 $11.60 *% - $12.00 2 $15.00 z = $20.00 : = $10.00 = Sa pestry...- ence $5.00 ad Mahegany - finish ls + damask... $29.00 = 25 = - $12.50 + $22.00 = $23.00 - $14.50 = ie, damask $10.50 jeogany - finish ~ es ee 7.00 $4.70 = = ——— & = & . B. MOSES > : F St. Cor. 11th. | Storage,22d&/. pA aa a a we EE ee ee ee ee aT { Parlor Cabinets. 5.00 $8.50 $10.00 $11.50 Worth Mahogany F | Mahogans i Maho Oak $6.00 $3.40 Mahogany 2 $25 Chamber Suiies. Worth _ For Solid Oak, pieces: $16.00 S10.85, 3p 3 So Solid Cherry. Bedsteads. White and Brass. bedsteads........ Dressing Tables. id Oak. id Oak. Bird's-eye Maple ' Chiffoniers. Oak Finis! Soli Sol! Jak Finish, Oak Finish, with mirror Enameled, Enameled, with mirror... Solid Oak. Solid Oak, with mirror. Bird's. Maple, wi $33. Kensington Art Squares. Extra qualit The entire stock of last spring’s and fall’s patterns in All-wool Art Squares to be cleared out in this sale. An immense variety of goods, in patterns equally as choice as any that will be turned out this season. $20.00 $12.00 grain Carpets. A lot of F Ingrain Carpets, In_chotce Patterns and ors, any quantity from 1 to 35 yards. rns 25c. Best quality All-wool Ingrain Carpet, about 20 patterns to choose from, quantl: ties from 5 to 40 yard F Gc. and 75e. values. RUGS. Smyrna Rugs. 25 27 by 64-inch... Yiddo Rugs. 36-inch 00-inch. 18 by 30D Russia Mats. Was Now 300 18 by 36-inch.. 45c. 35e. Japanese Rugs. Was Now 800 36 by 72-inch $2. 1.30 50 9 by x 6.75 sR 520. $13.75, Kelim Rugs. Now 50 30 by 60-ineh. oe $1.35 60 36 by 72-ine oe $1.75, Kashkoo Rugs. Was = Now eoadoogedeatoese osdpatrasreseaseasontoaseasrasrasafoatoatresresoateatestoasrairesreseeatoatoatresreteatoatedsneseateateateatoaieetneteatente ocfonfontontont 500 30 by 60-inch + $200 $1.60 Rockers. Imitation Mahoga amy one goer imitation Mahogany and Ouk, saddle seats... $3.75 $2.50 Imitation Mal 4 suddle seat. $2.75 4 Mahogany = Onk, saddle seat. $4.00 92.75 SE Imitation Mahogan; re. Oak, cobbler se: $4. 4 Imitation Mahogany + Oak, cobbler seat. . $7 © $2.50 3 Imitation Mahogany . 2 $4.75 $2.80 $450 $2.75 Mahogany Oak, saddle seat. $5.00 $3.60 Imitation Mahogany Onk, sudidle seat. $7.50 $4.25 Imitation Mahogany Oak, upholstered in tap- $5.00 $3.90 “ SONS, Sg Pickling Season Get some of our Pure Apple Vine- spices youll need here. The est. of everything needed for veedingly modest. W.R. Brown, 20th &Pa.Ave Carpets Cut. on the threshold of the carpet season —ts ut hand. gar and all: the © reduced the price of our elega sist $1.50 Axminster $1 25 Marpet, pe pi azo as aasees : Mids? te int free. This cffering holds good for one week only. ‘The rarity of such a bar- gain makes it imperative for you to order quickly. the Houghton 1.14% g 1214 F St 20-21 USE DR. KILMER'S SWAMP RCOT For the kidneys, liver, and every part of the urinary passages. 353-s,th.3m i rk and then leave you co Liver Pills regulate y From the Detroit Legul News. The supreme court of Michigan held in the recent case of Murfin agt. Detroit and Erie Plank Road Company that a statute providing that toll-road companies may ex- act toll from “persons traveling on their road for any vehicle, sled, sleigh or car- riage drawn by one or two animals,” &c., does not authorize such company to charge toll for the use of its road by persons rid- ing bicycles. The eourt said: “There is nothing in this act that gives the right to charge toll against pedestrians, and we have never heard it claimed that such charges were made. Nor have we known of tell being charged for wheelbarrows or cars or handsleds or baby carriages pro- pelled by human agency, though a good road is as essentiai to these as to bicycles. * * * The bicycle is not subject to the payment of toll by the strict letter of the act. Neither is the motorcycle, get we incline to the opinion that payment ef toll by the driver of the latter is within the spirit, while such payment by the user of the former is not, -because of the apparent intention to confine payment of toll to those who do not depend upon their own powers of locomotion for the propulsion of the vehicle used. This view seems to receive significant support in the fact that we find few cases where the question has arisen. The bicycle has been used as a toad machine for a quarter of a century, and we cannot conceive of the users sub- mitting to a general practice of charging toll without protest that would have led to an adjudication of the question. Fur- thermore, we have never heard that it was the ge of the ~companies to charge toll, and we have reason to believe that this company is no exception, but that the cause is here to ascertain whether the company may safely provide exceptional facilities for wheelmen with the expecta- tion of toll.” A National Gathering to Meet Next Month in Boston, From the Boston Transcript. Philatelists from all parts of North Amer- ica will meet in Boston next month to at- tend the annual convention of the Ameri- can Philatelic Association, which will be held cn August 24, 25 and 26. This body comprises the leading stamp collectors cf the United States, and consists now of more than 1,200 members. There are probably 10,900 collectors of postage stamps in Bosten and vicinity, and some of the finest collections of stamps in the country are eld by philatelists in t's vicinity. Probably the juveniles are in the ma- jority among the half million stamp collec- tors in the United States, but there are many business and professional men of eminence among them. In this neighbor- heod the largest collection, probably, was that of Fred. W. Ayer of Bangor, a part of which was sold in London only a short time ago for $250,000. Mr. Ayer is one of the members of the American Association, and will attend the convention. The most notable sale for cash of postage stamps in this country was made last month in Bos- ton, when the magnificent collection be- longing to Mr. Nash of Nash, Spaulding & Co., was sold to the New England Stamp Company. Mr. h_ some time ago re- fused an offer of $40,000 for the collection, and while the terms are priyate, it is under- stood that the price paid was about $50,000. The foreign stamps in the collection are on their way to Europe, to be disposed of there by Howard K. Sanderson of J.ynn, who will visit the London stamp dealers and attend the great exhibition to be held there this month, at which the Duke of York and other collectors will offer prizes. here was a rush by local collectors to secure some of the treasures of the collec- tion as soon as the sale was announced, and some of them have been disposed of, but the broken collection is a magnificent one. It contained four ef the rare Hawaiian missionary stamps, of which the 2-cent denomination is one of the rarest of stamps in existence. There were-two complete plates of the St. Louis stamps, which were at once bought by a specialist in the ccl- lection of local issues. The original collec- tion also included four $5 State Depart- ment stamps, the 4-pence and 8-penze val- ues of the first issue of Ceylon stamps, used and unused, and a pair of the shilling pence issue. Whole “countries, including Brazil, Canada and British Honduras, were represented by complete issues. There was one page which contained a Milbury, a Brattleboro’, two Baltimores and a fine lot = a gaia Ral Poheie stamps, the Brat- leboro amp ing invoiced at $700. The collection also includes some double Genevas, Tuscany trinacrias, a 3-lire, a of 2-soldia, complete set of Nevis shill and two or three 6-pence lithographed, to SF en of oe issue of circular na stamps, many type-set va- rieties, and other rare issues for which collectors pay sums varying from a few dollars to several hundred dollars. Among the interesting matters which will be considers d pen considered at the coming issue of the Cab and the jubilee issue of Canad These stamps, issued less than a ionth ago, have been extensively pur- chased by Canadian stamp dealers ‘and Speculators, who hold them at fancy prices the half-pence stamp alone being valued at 1 cyte Speculation in these stamps. is something lIfke that in the Columbian stamps in this country at the time of the Chicago exposition, but the enormous is. gue of the Columbian stamps—more thaa 2,000,000,000—made them so common that most varieties are now a drug on the stamp market, and many of them are still ordinary postage. The New- convention ponent for ‘oundland issue was much small nd collectors may realize much highes prives for them, but they are likely to find the foreign demand less than they have antici- pated, and there may be a slump in prices. Such was the experience of the Argentine collectors at the time that country issued a series of stamps to commemorate the Giscovery of America by Columbus. On October 14, 1892, the Argentine government placed this issue of stamps on sale, and sold them in quantities to sult, for that day only, with the understanding that all unsold stamps were to be destroyed and the dies broken the next day. The result was a riot in Buenos Ayres at the post office, so great was the rush for stamps, and the militia had to be called out. The stamps were bought in enormous quan- tities for speculation, but the speculators found out, soon after, that they had ovyer- estimated ‘the demand, and there was no stich call for the stamps in other countries as they had expected. The.stamps soon sold for little more than their face value. ——~-oo-__ Bequeaths His Birthday. From the Chicago Chronicle. The following charming story is told of the late Robert Louis Stevenson. He was visiting a friend, afterward consul to Sa- moa, in northern Vermont. This gentleman had a little daughter about eleven years old, who very speedily became a devoted friend of the novelist. In pouring forth her Joys and sorrows in existence she confided to Mr. Stevenson the woeful fact that. she was born on February 29, and therefore had enjoyed only two birthdays in all her eleven years. The poet sympathized not only in comforting words, but also in ac- tion. He mediated a few moments, then went to her writing desk and drew up the following document: “I, Robert Louis Stev- erson, in a sound state of mind and body, having. arrived at that age when I no long- er have any use for birthdays, do give and peruest™ my birthday, the 13th of Novem- r, to Miss Adelaide Ide, to be hers from this year as long as she wishes it. Robert Louls Stevenson.” The little girl’s delight at this rare and most welcome gift has ore itself se de preg hacced zeae) for sev- eurs pas! new the ive ‘will be doubly d eecid = ee In Colorado, Teacher—"Define ‘fanatic.’ ; ““A man who does not believe in THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY a Views of the Disputation as Given by Gen. Duffield, i When Definitely Settled There Will Be No Apprecmble Difference From Lines Now [ Recognized. In speaking of the boundary line crept Alaska and the Britigh possessions today, Gen. Duffield of the coast and geodetic survey said: c i “I do not believe that when the matter of the boundary line between the tvo countries is definitely settled there will be any appreciable change from what is down on the map at present. There certainly will not be, as far as regards the Klon- dike region, which is beyond all manner of dispute in the British northwest terri- tory. “Dawson City is a hundred miles or more east of the fist meridian, which is the boundary line. “In beginning the survey, the start was made from the southernmost point of Prince Edward Island. That was the case, as it were. The iine was followed up Portland cana) till latitude 56 degrees north was reached. “Then the survey was projected ten ma- rine leagues from the continental coast- line, as was agreed upon. This was fol- lowed until the intersection of the ten ma- rine league line with the 141st meridian, and this was run out clear to the Arctic sea, Mt. St. Elias. “Mt. St. Elfas is near the intersection of the ten marine league line, with the l4Ist meridian. To be exact, the summit is 140 degrces and fifty-five minutes, or five min- utes on the Canadian side, which in that latitude represents two and one-half miles. But on the southern side it is only twenty-eight and one-half miles from the ceast, which brings it inside of the ten- league line, or thirty-mile limit, and one and one-half miles on American soil. “At Forty Mile Creek our survey agrees with that of the Canadian survey, under Ogilvie, within fourteen-hundredths of a second, which in that latitude represents six and one-half feet. “The Canadian line steals the six and a half feet from us.~Crossing the Yukon river, the difference in the two surveys is fourteen seconds, which in that latitude represents 300 feet, According to the line of Ogilvie, the Canadian government sur- veyor, we gain 300 feet on the British sid “We are anxious to compare the tw lines at the Porcupine river crossing, which is several hundred miles further uorth, but the Canadian government have:given us no notice of where they have fixed their line there. I do not suppose that the difference willbe worthy of note.” Ten-League Const Line. Gen. Duffield states that if there is any dispute between the two countries over the boundary line it will be in regard to the ten-league coast line, in the southern por- tion of Alaska, as that is a question which admits of considerable diversity of opinion. The new maps of the Klondike and Yukon territories, recently made by the survey. which will contain a vast amount of 1 teresting material as. to names and locali- ties, will be ready in a few days. A BIG RACE. Persimmons, Galtee More and Old English Cracks to Meet. The following extract from the London Sportsman of August 6 gives promise of a race the result of which will be awaited with interest throughout the entire racing world: It is no lorger any secret that what promises to be oneuof the races of the century will be decided at Lingfield this autumn. The executive committee is add- ing £3,000 to a sweepstakes of 1500 each for starters, over one mile, and the full condi- tions of the race will be advertised in next week's calendar. It was at first Intended to make the race a private sweepstakes, the horses to be entered by invitation only, but, according to the rules of racing, no added money can be given in such a race. So the original conditions have been modified, and the race will be thrown open to the world. Under the original idea invitations were issued to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, for Persimmons; to Mr. J. Gubbins, for Galtee More; to Lord Rosebery, for Velas- quez; to Mr. T. Worton, for Victor Wild; to H. McCalmont, for Knight of the This- tle; to Mr. A. F. Basset, for Clorane; to M. R. Lebaudy, for Count Schomberg; to Mr. J. C. Sullivan, for Winkfield’s Pride, and (by special request) to Captain Greer, for Kilcock, but under the amended conditions any one who cares to will be able to enter. The meeting of Persimmons and Galtee More would create immense excitement, and we believe that if Persimmons runs the Derby winner will certainly oppose him, but concerning the prince’s horse. no decision had been come to up to the mid- dle of yesterday afterncon at Lewes. Wink- field's Pride has an engagement on the fol- lowing day, so will scarcely run, while Clo- rane, Count Schomberg and Velasquez are doubtful, but Victor Wild is a certain run- ner. ENGLAND AND LIQUOR. No Change in the Regulation of the Traffic for Thirty Years, For nearly thirty years there have been no important changes in the English meth- ods of regulating the liquor trade. In fact, the changes made in the course of a cen- tury are exceedingly few, and in its main features the English licensing system is pretty much in the condition that it was when the century opened, says Harper's Weekly. From 1828 to 1869 England tried the experiment of free trade in beer. For forty years almost anybody who liked could set up a beer shop. But the experi- ment was a direful failure. In 1869 it was finally abandoned; not, however, without leaving disagreeable traces, which are easily discoverable today in every old Eng- lish town. Wherever half a dozen squalid beer houses stand side by side there is a monument of one of the most daring ex- periments ever made in regard to the liquor trade. In 1870 grocers were per- mitted to retail beer, and in 1874 the hours of closing of public houses at nights and on Sundays were fixed by parliament. These are the only important changes of the cen- tury. In other respects English public houses are controlled by laws which were passed last century, and now, as then, the local magistrates appointed by the lord chancellor administer the licensing laws, and issue licenses for the retail sale of all intoxicating drink.. Quite receatly the Eng- ling people have been taking stock, as it were, of their eens system. Lord Peet, the late speaker’ of the house of commons, Is at the head ofa réyal commission which has been inquiring with much detail into the working of the licensing laws, with a view to discovering at what point they stand in need of idment. The commis- sion is one of the most interesting of the numerous royal‘commissions of the queen’s long reign. It Has ‘thrown much light on the social and*ecofomic changes which have been taking pliice in England during the last two or tnres generations. A “Human; Lorgnette.” From the Chicago Inter:Ocean, $ Gaston Seguy ‘6f Pris has invented what he calls the “humay lorgnette.” He was the first man in;Fragce to successfully re- peat the experimenw of Roentgen. He is thirty-two years old, is director of the Radiographic Institute of France, and has invented a dozen scientific appliances. The great advantage of his new apparatus is that it Is no longer and is as convenient to handle as a parlor stereopticon.. In its small compass he has put all the elec- tric storage ‘cells, transformers and tubes necessary for obtaining the X-ray. He claims that it will show the interior of the human with as much facility and exactitude as it reveals the contents of a trunk or traveling bag. “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. POLITICS IN MICHIGAN Plans of the Various Parties for the Coming Campaign. Im the General Mix-Up Governor Pin- gree Seems to Be Gaining Strength With Voters. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., August 19, 1897. The silver democratic campaign in Michi- gan has assumed the form of farmers’ pic- nics. These picnics will be held in every county in the state and have already be- gun, with ex-Gov. John P. St. John of Kan- sas and Rev. Dr. Nugent of Des Moines as the principal speakers, St. John covering the entire state while Nugent makes only a few addresses in chosen localities. Other speakers will be brought into the state later in the season, as the campaigns in other states permit, and the oratorical ef- focts will be supplemented by the distribu- tion of free silver literature, both in pamphlet and newspaper form. The silver cause is seriously handicapped not only by a lack of funds, but also by the rise in wheat and the unmistakable revival in industrial and business activity about the state. The silver campaign is based as firmly as ever on calamity, and it will be extremely difficult to switch it off on any- thing else. Sound Morey Democrats. The sound money democrats have main- tained headquarters in this city through the summer in charge of Lucius E. Torrey, assisted by several young lady clerks, and much literature and many letters have been sent out. In addition to this Mr. Torrey has made several long bicycle tours about the state, taking in all the territory south of a line from here to Saginaw, and scme north of it, and on these tours he has hunt- ed up the sound money democrats, to be- come personally acquainted with them and to learn the Jocal sentiment in different parts of the state. With cool weather the work will be pushed with still greater ac- tivity, and itis proposed to have clubs and organizations in every county and In most of the cities in the state. The sound money democrats are maintaining a stiff upper lip when the silver wing is mentioned, and con- scious that they in a manner control the situation, will not yield a point on the financial question. They would cheerfully combine with the silver brethren on the tariff if the silver crowd would elfminate silver and Bryan from its platform, but the silverites are not yet ready to eliminate anything. Plans of the Populisis. The populists will begin operations early in September, and it is their plan to organ- ize clubs in every county, town and voting precinct. The party, reorganized since the spring campaign, will be unalterably op- pcsed to anything like fusion, and will fight their recent allies with even greater bitter- ness than they ed in the campaign against the republicans last fall. They will nominate tickets of their own in the local elections next spring and will put straight tickets into the field for everything from | governor to coroner a year hence. They do rot expect to elect anything, but the lead- ers count on having lots of fun next sea- | son, and will at least have a force that will afford capital for trading purposes. Republicans on a Still Hunt. The republicans have not ceased their activity since the polls closed last fall, but it has been mainly on a‘still hunt and boiler-plate lires. Supplements have been prepared for distribution through the coun- try papers, and in these supplements the coming prosperity has been glowingly de- scribed. These supplements have done much to keep the farmers in line, and 80-cent wheat, with $1 wheat in prospect, will do the rest. The republican campaign- ing thus far has been for the benefit of the whole party, but when it comes down to business a few months hence, it will be different. The party will be divided as it never has been before, with Senator Mc- Millan and Governor Pingree at the head of the opposing forces, and Senator Bur- rows attached to the tail of the McMillan kite seeking a re-election. It is possible, but hardly probable, that the McMillan fight will be made against the renomination of Pingree for a second term, because, with the natural reaction that follows a sweep- ing victory like that of last year, and the certain loss of the big sound money demo- cratic vote which went almost solidly for the republican ticket, the McMillan leaders realize that to slaughter Pingree, if they could, would result in the probable loss of the state. But. letting Pingree have a sec- ond nomination, they will go in for a legis- lature that will prevent any great amount of Pingreesque lawmaking. Pingree’s Strength Growing. As governor, Pingree is steadily setting up the pegs for future use, and there is little question that he is stronger today by a good deal than he was a year or six months ago, and he is growing in strength with a great deal of regularity. Last week he made himself very solid with the state troops in camp at Island lake, and this means that he will have 2,500 young men plugging for him when the next election comes around. He laid a founda- tion for his popularity in military circles by appointing to his staff and to the mili- tary department men fro1: the ranks, those who had long served in the militia, and to whom the appointments came as_promo- tions. The militia had long asked for this, but no former governor has done anything eise than to distribute the honors in pay- ment of political debts. Then when the boys were settled in camp Governor Pin- gree, as commander-in-chief, came sailing in on a black charger, which he rode with perfect control, and set up in front of his tent the old flint-lock carried by his grand- father in the revolytion, the back-number musket carried by his father in the war of 1812, and the gun carried by himself in the rebellion. It was an unique display of weapons, but a great card, and Governor Pingree did credit to his own record as a soldier and to his ancestors by mixing up with the boys in true soldier style, taking pot luck with them in camp, telling stories and being a good fellow generally. —— CONDENSED LOCALS. Lieut. Heffner complained to the pump doctor today of three disabled pumps. Leaky water mains at 11th and E streets and H street and Delaware avenue, in South Washingtgn, were reported by the police today. Lieutenant Hollinberger complained to- day that pools of stagnant water near the watering trough at 9th and D streets south- west emit offensive odors. lice have asked the parking com- mana to remove the broken limb of a tree from the north side of Pennsylvania avenue between 2d and 3d streets. ——_-_— AFTER THE SEASON ENDS. Baltimore and All-American Teams to Travel Together. The trip of the Baltimore team, of the National League, and a team of all-Ameri- can players to California and the west next winter is now dn assured thing. Final arrangements were completed in Brooklyn yesterday. Manager Barnie of the Brooklyns and Manager Selee of the Bostons, assisted by J. Prank Eline of Bal- timore, the financial man of the venture, will pilot the teams from the Atlantic to the Pacific by way of the south. ‘With one or two exceptions the Balt‘- more team will go as at present consti- tuted. The all-American team will com- prise Griffin, A. Smith and Anderson of the Brooklyns, Collins and Stahl of Boston, Lange and Callahan of Chicago and possi- bly Rusie and Van Haltren of the New Yorks, Delehanty of Philadelphia, F. Clarke ot uisville, Hallman oe Louis, Tom MINING FOR DIAMONDS Graphic Description of the Methods Followed in South Africa. The Kimberley Mines Have Produced Over Ten Tons of the Prec: Stones Since Opencd. From the Chicago Bening Post. Under the corditions present in nature's laboratory the wonder is not that dia- monds are found as big as one’s fist, but that they are Lot found as big as one’s head.” The above impressive sentence was spok- en by Prof. William Crogkes in a remark- able lecture upon the subject of diamonds given at the Royal Irstitution in London a short time ago. This lecture is the most tn- teresting and authoritative exposition of this subject given in recent years. Prof. Crookes, who is one of the foremost chem- ists and physicists of our day, made a trip of inspection early last year to the African diamond fields, and gave in, his recent speech the results of his travels abroad and of the experiments in his laboratory at heme. This lecture deserves to be read in full, but as it is of considerable length, we can consider only its most striking and in- teresting points ia this brief review. The most noted clamond mines, the Kim- berley, the De Beers, the Dutoitspan, the Bulfontein and the Wesselton, are tained in a circle of ground thre haif miles in diameter. The m are irregularly shaped round or oval pipes extetsling vertically downward to an un- known depth. They are filled with broken fragments of various rocks cemented to- gether by a hard blue clay called “blue ground,” In which the diamonds are found. At first the mines ed frum above, as a stone quarry or gravel pit is worked, but that system proved unsatisfactory, and at present underground workings are the rule. In carly days they belonged to dif- ferent people and different ecmpanies, but they have gradualiy fallen into the hands of cne rich soncern, the De Beers Con- solidated Mines, Limited, which today owns practically all the valuable diamond mines in this region. The method of min- ing is to sink shafts in the solid rock at some distance from the diamond pipe then run In tunnels to the “blue groun) which is cut away and mined cut by a fF cullar system that enables the mine take out all valuable materizl and lea’ refuse rock behind. The System in the Mines. Prof. Crookes says of this mining: “The scene below ground in the labyrinth of gal- leries is bewildering in its complexity and very unlike the popular notion of a dia- mond mine. All below is dirt, mud, grime; half-naked men, black as ebony, muscular as athle*es, dripping with perspiration, are seen in every Cirection, hammering, pick- ing, shoveling, wheeling the trucks to and fro, keeping up a weird chant, which ri in force and rhythm when a iitanic ta calls for excessive muscular strain. The le scene is more suggestive of a coal mize than a diamond mine; and ali thi mighty orgsnization, this strenuous expen- diture of energy, this costly machinery this ceaseless toil of skilled and black bor, goes Cn day and night, just to win a few stones wherewith to deek my lady's finger.” The work immediately after the “blue ground” leaves the mine looks more like farming than mining. When the “blue ground” is broight to the surface it is as hard as sandstone, and has to be exposed to the influence of the sun, the air and wa- ter to prepare it for the pulverization nec sary later in the work. The hard lumps and bowlders ure spread out on the floor, ex- posed to the weather, and are allowed to stay there with occasional waterings and harrowings until they begin to crumble very readily. The friable mass resu!ting is then taken to revolving, perfcrated cylin- ders, in which it is agitated for some time with water. Refractory lumps which re- fuse to pass through the holes are taken back for more weathering. The material running through the perforations is led to immense pans, provided with ten arms, in which teeth are set spirally. When these arms revolve and when plenty of water is made to flow over the pans the very light stuff is carried away by a waste pipe in the center, while the coarse material con- taining the diamonds collects around the edges of the pan. By a somewhat similar arrangement this diamantiferous gravel is concentrated until the diamonds can be picked out by hand. The men who pick over the coarsest gravel are the most trust- worthy employes, since, of course, the most valuable diamonds are found there. Sometimes as much as $50,000 worth of dia- monds is separated in one day. From the sorting room they go to the office, to be cleaned and sorted according to value. In this office may be seen heaps containing white, black, cinnamon, blue, green, pink and orange diamonds. It is quite remark- able that the diamonds of different mines possess certain distinctive characteristics which enable experts to know at once from what mine each stone came. A Stone Weighing Half a Pound. De Beers and Kimberley diamonds cre large and yellow! Dutoitspan stones are mainly colored ones; Bulfontein—haif a mile off—produces pure white but small stones; Jagersfontein yields extremely valuable gems, with a peculiar steely luster, while those of Leicester have a remarkable, frosty appearance. Large diamonds are rather common; it would be quite easy to collect in Kim- berley a hundred gems which would weigh an ounce aplece. Prof. Crookes saw a set of eight diamonds, seven of which weighed an ounce each and the eighth two ounces. The largest diamond known in the world is one found four years ago in Jagersfontein. It weighs ove: half a pound, and, though per- fection in color, is marred by a little black speck in the center. Nearly half a ton of diamonds are turned out by the Kimberley mines every year. These Mines have pro- duced over ten tons of diamonds since they were first opened; an amount more than sufficient to fill a box five feet square and six feet high with these blazing gems. The supply is so large that the consolilated company which owns this region has had to limit the production to keep up the prices. The majority of diamonds when examined under polarized light show the jewels to be in a state of tension caused by the impris- onment of a little colorless gas in the,in- terior. This gas was caught in a little hole or flaw in the stone when it was being formed and is always straining to escape. In con- sequence of this internal tension valuable diamonds not infrequently explode or fall into pieces when exposed to heat. Cunning dealers sometimes allow unsuspecting and rich clients to carry in their warm pockets, or to handle in their warm hands, large crystals, fresh from the mine, and then if the stones break the dealer demands satis- faction for the loss of a valuable gem. To guard against losses due to this explosion of diamonds, large jewels are frequently shipped to Europe imbedded in raw pota- tees. It is most interesting to note that the artificial diamonds now being prepared ex- plode just as the natural ones do. Hardness of the Gems. Different stones and sometimes different parts of the same stone vary greatly in hardness. Scme very brilliant diamonds which came to England from New South ‘Wales were foi to be so hard that it was impossible to grind them, and they had to be used for rock drills instead of for jew- elry. The intense hardness of the diamond 1s strikingly shown by the fact that if a two pleces of steel and great pressure ap- plied it will be forced clear into the steel without being injured in the least. Some diamonds when put into a vacuum and subjected to a current of electricity give out considerable light. Professor Crookes owns a beautiful green diamond which, in thi enough it lake through Woodward Lothrop, 1oth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. Uatil September cur business bours are 7 to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 743 to 1. Midsummer Requisites and Helps For Go-Awaysand Stay-at- Homes, Including the scarce sorts, are here in complete assortments today, to- morrow, and will be as long as vou have need of them. Our storekcep- ing is never allowed to run down. A good time to visit the store now. There are desirable things in various departments that can be used for several weeks yet, and they are, in many instances, greatly reduced in price. 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