Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 30, 1893, Page 16

16 SAUNTERING ON T0 KESWICK A Target for Empty Hampers and Whips from “Gentlemen” in Gay Coaches. HOME OF SHELLEY AND HIS BONNY BRIDE The Town Filled with Annuai Relig to Sleep In the ot Attendants on the % Convention-Allowed Tuge Tent- St “Keswlok Movement.” [Copyrighted, 18931 Krswick, Eng., July 15— [Correspondence of Tne Bee.]— My first night's experience in this ancient Cumbrian capital of the English lake district wa peculiar a one that in my pilgrimings in Britain [ am often drawn back here at this pleasant season of the year foran undefinab® sort of contempla tion and rest. 1had come over the moun tains on foot from vagrant loiterings among the veasantry of Miterdale, Wastdale, Watenalath and Borrowdale, and striking into the old conch road from Windermere had lingered a bit in the mystic vale of St John Resuming my way along the coach rond leading over bold Castle Rigg into Keswick, being dusty and travel-stained, and doubt- less regarded as a tramp by the hundreds of tourists passing in their gay coaches, traps, gigs and wagonottes, I saw American manners abroad illustrated by o millionaire American tourist, whom 1 recognized, toss- ing the remains of a lunch hamper upon my head and shoulders, at which exploit his dinmoud-spangled brood laughed merrily and long; English manuers exemplified by several ‘‘gentlemen whips” attempting to sutmy shoulders ‘or faceas they dashed past; and Scotch and Irish manners shown by a delicious old Scotchman and an equally delicious young Dublin barrister—men of account in theirseparate places, in their vacation-time really seeing the lake country on their own legs—jogeing along toward Grasmere together, contending with amiable ferocity as to- which race had priority in Britain, and both, as they met me, as valiantly wsistingon being the first to accost me and offer me roadside consolation from their respective flasks, (=] Looking South rd from Castle Rigg. With these and like engaging diversions 1 trudged cheerily to the north up Castle Rigg. Iteaching its top I turned for u farewell iook towards the glorious southern scenes of the lake region. On the one hand were the scem- ingly endless fells, odorous with the ne blooming heath, and here and there masses of blue from the banks of violets, a gentle breeze stirring the sea-like expanse of color as if with riotons motion and delight. On tho other, as if some misty cauldron fash- ioned out'n nether earth, the purple shapes and shadows of St. Johu's vale; and above it—below, within and above the clouds, mon- arch Heivellyn—forest-hung at its base; cloft and searred above; still higher, striped with far-descending torrents like' mighty plumes of white: and its lofty, broken sum- mit and famou thousands of blacker vertical fur- rows in the eternal stone of its peaks und ridges. To the > 50 orth the Glorlous Vale of Keswick. If here was one of those ravishin which can never be effaced from the mem- but a few steps over the mountain top furnished another of equal beauty and im- veness. It was perhaps an hour be- Land the glorious vale of Kes- wick or Derwentwater, o thousand fect be- low, came full and fair in view. Keswick ray and snug was half hidden within its psom. To the right Suddleback and Souter KFell lay in lofty billowy moors against the horizon, and the silvery threads of Greta river wound in and out of the lush meadows below. Tothe left and the west gleamed the upper reaches of Derwentwater with the heights of Causey pike and Grassmoor beyond, peaks of saffron and purple in the slant rays of the sinking sun. Beyond the tower of old Crossthwaite churchi, where Southey lics buried, shone the blue’ bed of Bassenthwaite witer. And beyond the whole lovely vale, where the, farms were spread in checkered splatches of color be- tween sinuous threads of hedge and wall, lofty Skiddaw stood monarch suolime of the Cumbrian north. On my loitering way down into the town I came o a quaint, little erooked-roof house, trim and neat and tidy as a chipper old woman at a pleasant fair. “Chestout Hill? was the inscription upon thestone gate post. A huge sycamore stood sentry beside the cottage. An old serving man was cropping the hedge by the gate. ‘Where Shelley Brought His Schoolgirl Bride 1stood and looked at the place for a little time, for it seemed tome the house must have a history. The old man, obscrving my own obscrvance, paused m his toil, drew his horny fingers slowly along the hedge shear: and said with an uir of propristary superior: A bor.” Ilooked and looked again as bidden, but 80 mquiringly that the old man, resuming lipping and clearing his throat portentous announcement, 1o explain: “Twas in this verra hoos maister Shelley 1 witt | wife, laing syne. Th pleed (pla; W pleed, an’ niver wark'd, ll v laird dreav'n oot. I beukish (bookish) folk oulus (always)ha' nowt but plee o'maun- der'n 1’ yewlment (sorrow.) Tha be nowte ‘at dowe ! (it for nothing.) 1 thanked him for the bitter reminder of a great truth, which carried the sad memory with it that this was indeed the veritablo cottage where Shelley brought his school- girl bride, and where they chused cach other like hapoy children about its lower beds and little lawn, until the stern Cumbrian_ land- lord chased them botn away for luck of rent, and with this plaintive Tomance still in mind turned up past Greta bridge into the quiet though crowded streets of Keswick, 11l Lodged In the 01d Town, The old Columbian_capital clusters closely on either side of one long street which turns abruptly at its centor, and at sowe distanc from this begins to stragglo away north- ward, countryward, to lonely and ancient Crossthwaite church. Facing this street, er just removed within curious and often ‘winsome courts and closes, are centuries-old shops, homes and iuns. The shops are just s they stood almost 80 long ago as when this region was Little Britian, and hundreds of pack horses passed and repassed daily with their rude mountain trafie. The homies are almost as they were in the Sixteeath and seventeenth centu with their solid old doors, tiny windows, protruding wpper stories, picturesque gables, trim dormers and curious hand worked oak, fron and bra And the inns are just us they were when they lodged the true’ genii of the lake district, Gray, Scott uud Wordsworth, Colo- ridge, DeQuincey and Shelley, Southey, “Christophier North' and Ruskin, Fitzgerald, Tennyson aud Dr. Arnold, Harriet Mur' tineau, Charlotte Bronte and Mrs. Heniaus, and hosts of others whose aftertouch of brush or pen has given all this lovely region its most tender and imperishable ebarm All this oue may largely know before com- ing, but only truly know and fcel when here; ud that soft and gentle influcnce pervading all the fine ola place, which is largely of & later and different growth than out of the spell puton the town by the immortals, is something one can alone comprehend when sbaring here its sunuy actuality. Modern Fashionings ou Old Habitations, Huddled closely as is the ancient town scenes yemu! weel leuk agin an’ agin, nec- for con- Trae al shops and inus, there is o flne, brave face of modern fashioning even upon these oldest habitations; a face of sunuy welcome, one wight say, brightened in countless ways by the pretty things and showiugs of modern luxul) and use. ‘The shadowy old shops ure from their neat wrray of London warcs. The funs and homes are prim and smart with flashing bragses, rich curtainings aud shiviug varuish and paiat. From street end to end the long crookea thoroughfare is ely in it groupings of color iu luscious vegetables, fruits aud flowers. While lead- ing out from this the lanes, courts and broader streets of later days give charming vistas us one may fnd; modern howes of opulcnce, villas large aud awple, old babi ta- tions trabsformed to uew, aua all ses abouy insuch wealih of ledge, tree sad lwvur.l 15 its single busiuess thoroughfare of | a8 to tell & cheery, pleasant story of Keswick folk and town. Inne Already Filled with Touriat All these are things the traveled traveler instinctively places by contrast at a glance; but as I wandered up and down the fine old street, seeking in vain for a piace to lay my head during the night, and at each inn or house of entertainment being met by the same commiseratingly expressed words of “Full o' tourists,” or “very last place taken by * k movement' folk!" T could not then quite understand the significance of the “Kes'ick movement,” or account for a kindliness of speech, gentleness of manner and tender hush that seemed to pervade all Keswick town, though every street was filled with people, Indeed, in the half-shad- owy, saffrony light which came with the close of day, there was such softness of footfall and such modulation of activities and speech as scemed to give the effect of throngs moving in & dream. The gay coachloads announcing by shrill bugle notes and resounding horn their re. turn from a day's outing in the mountains checked their vociferousness as tha town- edge was reached, and crept quietly to the booking stations and inn yards, The cyclists, shooting from the heights on spheres of flash and speed, dismounted and walked to their lodgings beside their gleaming wheels. e renchers and saivatl The street preachers, those windy relig fous blackguards of summer evenings i ail English towns, held the crowds around them in respectable und subdued discourse; and even those pansy-hooded wenches of the Salvation army, who gathering up the pennies of the poor in England at the rate of nearly n balf million pounds r, sounded their loud timbrels in consonance with the pervading benignant spell, and salaamed, pirouetted and ricocheted as though somewhat oful in grace. If 1t could be properly said of ten thousand folk of all degree, to the stranger Keswick town scemed in a dreamful sort of purring ecstacy from bestowed, rather than anticipated, material and spiritual content. Tuoticed too, as the evening advanced, that at least half the folk upon the streets held in their hands folded shps of paper, large folios like programs, or tiny bound copics of the gospels, their pages inter- spersed with pressed mountain leaves and flowers or with ribbons, each apparently at the place of some timely text. Most of theso folk gradually changed the course of their various promenades to a common direction. After a time, partly from vagrant impulse, something from curious interest, largely because I knew not where else to go, andno little from those emotions which are always active in the wandercr's breast from somcthing like a homesick fervor for human companionship, even if every face and form you look upon have alien ties, 1 followed the crowds through a few squares of the compact old town. A uge Tent Filled with Worshipers, Just at its southern edge, where the green sward dipped prettily to the water way of the romantic Greta stream, 1 at last came with the latest comers to a huge teut filled with perhaps 5,000 worshipers, then engaged m prayer. T erept into the place, secured an unoceupied settle along the tent ' edge some distance from the door ana strove with a keenly awakened interest tocomprehend the exact significance of so great a religious gathering in so remote a part of Eugland, and,with something like eritical curiosity,to judge 1f 1 might discern the real spirit of an assemblage, composed, as could be instantly discovered, of fepresentatives of widely di- vergent faiths and creeds. traight opposite the ecntrance was a broad, raised platform. Its zentral portion was reserved for leaders and speakers, and o large wing at cither sido was filled with members of the choir. There was naught else between the benches, ranged arena-like around the frontand ends, with their oc ts, and the canvas roof above. Plain to as the place of this great convo- The ser purely of prayer and ¢ in song, scemed equaily free from the many common .artifices for exciting ex- sous interest. Nor was there in the entire evening service a single_ebullition of those physical phenomena which often at- tend certain conditions of ‘religious” ex- citement, Prayer in Softened Tones, I never elsewhere heard p softened tones. Oue might almost liken it to a barely audible aspiration of spiritual long- ing for larger peace through faith, rather than as in many similar_gatherings, a ling verbal argument with the Almignty for failure in granting greater lung power.” The hymns were from a collection called *Hymus of Consecration and Faith.” They spoke tenderly und devotedly those two_essentials to the perfect Christian life,and those alone. Tt was us though an unbroken and unutter- able pence possessed every one of those 5,000 souls. Krom opening invocation to closing word of blessing, there was but one exalted, peaceful strain swoetly thriling through human tone—*I_am thine and thou artmine!” And then they went away with calm or glowing faces into the balmy sum- mer night. As the tent was being closed, not having plice to lay my head that night, T still sat at the tent-edge on the old settle. Unnecessary Compassion for the Traveler. A half-dozen men and women came to me. I uttempted to cxplain that T could not se- cure lodging in Keswick, though quite able t pay my reckoning. They woula not hear me out. Their hearts were attuned to the spirit of the place and the words of the serv ice they had uttered. ‘They saw me, travel stained and houscless, only with eyes of compassion acd help. Two gave me a six- pence each, another u shilling, another a thri'penny bit, with words of material and spiritual consolation for the uight, the mor- row, and eternity on the old caretaker, having scen these good souls out and extin’ guished the last lamp, stumbled back to me wWith an ancient_lantern i his hana and let even his feeble light so shine that he found & huge copper penny which he pressed into my hund with the kindly admonition: “Bide 'cre v moarn, o' I'll let tha oot for a beet (bite) t' my ain table. Ma’ ta’ Laird be wi' tha ower neet un’ oalas (always) ! Isank into a_dceamless slumber, and was awakened betimes by the old caretaker, Truo to his word lie took me to his cottag for breakfast, where with explanations I 50 kindly forced upon me the ht; and, having had the honor of z the only ' person ever exclusively en- ned over night by the Keswiek con- veution, after | had got well settled at o comfortable inn, where departing tourists gave me place, 1 leisurely enjoyed old Kes- wick town and its romantic surrounding and u cursory study of tho “Keswick move- ment.” What the “Keswick” Movement In. now noted Keswick conventions ars y great gatherings of Engiish, Scotel and Irish_clergymen and other Christian workers of all orthodox faiths the outgrowth of meelings Many years ugo in the north and west of England of local bodies of the International Evangelics lisuce, and their infiucnce upon the spiritual lives of individual clergymen, particularly the luto Canon I . Harford-Battersby, incumbent of St. John's church, Keswick, who, perhiaps also aided by the geatle spoll of tne Inke district genii, gradually de parted from tractarian principles to the Evangelical sehool. His hife and work were those of o grand, sweet and indecd holy man, sorrowing for the metes and bounds of creeds separating those working for the sal- vation of men. nnd fersidly striving for complete Christian unity in essentials through realization of an exalted faith In September, INT4, was held the Oxford couvention on similar lin It created an epoch in the lives of many hundred believing Chiristians, and set on foot & movement of great and increasing poser for the promo- tion of hotiness. Cunon Buttersby attended this. Itremoved his last douht. Ho “en- terod into the rest of faith,” he wrote, at this convencion. In June of 'the next year the “Keswick movement,” which had now sactically become the Battersby movement within the church of England, culminated in the first of the Keswick conventions. Thoy have been held every year since, during the lust week in July; und on the 231 of July, 1583, their founder died here at Keswick, with thousands of these convention folk about him as bis gentle spirit was “lost in the unutterable glow” and “faded before fuith's visi lessly.” A “Keosting! ith the Aspiration of All Theso meethigs continue for a week. Tney may be said to differ from the Ameri- can chautauqua gatherings in the particulars of possessing no scculurly educative or divertiug features and in the sole aspiration by attendants of a “resting’” rather than a niere “secking” faith. ladeed the formeris the keynote of every phuse of effort here. Five daily services are held. All those who getber at Keswick can be seon but . tow days belore t onStreet sts, IIII< ()\l \II/\ I)\ll .Y BEE: SUNDAY, .lll\ I the remotest places of Britain—ove' worked town elergy ; lonely country parsons, devout women from merciful fielas of labor, gray-haired veterans in church and mission ary work and young men and women Just entoring that battle whicn has no end. The Cross is tho one center of all teaching. ~Ac: cording to the mauifold individuality of all | who come, who are teachers elscwhere and learners hete, every phase of the possibili ties of the life of faith is presented, and above all clse they are all united in the one common desire for the attainment of a ‘‘rest ing” faith through personal holiness. *‘RRest- g indeed is your faith and mine in the de- votion of men to their sacred and often thankless calling from calm and solemn scenes 1iko these. Out of the tender heart of this lake district land of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey have issued countless streams of purest everliving thought and imagery, reaching with their beneficent in- fluence to uttermost lands; and how fitting that in these later days from almost the selt same source should flow as strong and pure those kindred streams of everlasting love ae.1 joy through faith Evaan L WAKEMAN, —_—— THE FIRST TIME I KISSED SARY. Nizon Waterman tn Puck, The first timo T kissed Sary—well, it OCTIS L0 e As it that happy incident took pl terday: An’ thouzli 't was fifty years ago, to this day | ken shet My eyes an’ think about it yet. 1'd been her stiddy sort o o Just yese an' fairly taste it company for purty nigh « T, I'd taken fier to spellin’ schools an' an’ near. But she—well, many fellers would '’ o Wis contrary, An' 1 half thouglit'so, too, until the first tino T Kissed Sary. doin's fur 1 she Lord knows how wis my ideo When first wo met I'd kiss her, too, but she suid “no sivron!” I'd never dreamed of such an independent miss hefo An' though she always had her way I loved NOF HoTe an' more. But finully, one Sunday night, along in June, As we was walkin' home from church and lookin' at the moon, Its 1ight w-restin’ on her lips as red as any cherry, T asked her 1t she'd. wed—an' time I kissed Sary. iany girls I'd kissed; an’ it somewhere then's the first How yours ko skurryin’ around! an' yot some- 10w 10 e Tt seeir s s though our love's as youns as whit s Fershe an’ u avo stendfast been through sunshing an' through clouds, Herhands have fushioned baby weddin® gowns an' shrouds. But paths have all been pleasant other's suuny sl Some dewy tlower gladd milej An' of the nary A one thit ¢ 1 Kissed 8 clothes, an’ In each s uson every dusty any varied days 1 wouldn't alter s sentus since the first time Mental exhaustion and brain fatigue Promptly cured by Bromo-Seltzer. sy et THE WORLD'S CONGRESS OF AUTHORS. A Notable Gathering of wn Wo of Lotters. Iuis safe to s tno recent event has excited more widespread interest among lit- erary people of both sexes and all nationali- ties than the congress of authors held ut Chicago this mouth under the auspices of the World's Fair auxiliary, an orgaunization having chargelof the severaliseries of great world's congresses and so ably presided over by Hon. Charl Bonney, whose executive ability and whose breadth of culture huve now become appavent to the leaders of thought, knowledge and progress in all parts of the world. The congress of authors, or as it is officially described, the congress of the department of literature, included the general subjects of tibraries, history, philol- ogzy. authors, folk lore and last, but far from least, the important subject of copyright, which hitherto been an international vone of contention. Never before has any nation been able to gather together such & representative body of people of lesters,such an amulgamation of the brainiest writers of the present men and women whose names as writers ard household words everywhere: and anfproudly say without any tinge of ng that to her and her alone belongs ditof being able to out so succesfully such a notable ev 5 the re cent literary congress—an event which must cm:!:nul,\' tend to bring her into clos touch with the nations of the old world, and show to the people of those old world nations: that America, although comparatively young.can and does produce men and women *des belles lettre whose works wil! com- pare with if not surpass any produced by them at present or in the ages gone by, Monday evening, July 10, the c formally opened by a zencral vec which some notable speeches of wi responses were made by Charles Dudley Warner, Richard Watson Giider, Gec Cuble, Walter Besaut aud others, Warner in particular paying a magnifi tribute to the beauties of the World's fi Mr. Gilder evidently scemed to touch sympathetic chord, judging by the tre- mendous applause which greeted him when during the cour rks he said: 1 for one w the nance to stand up a worla's congress of authors if within a short time we, as a nation, had not wiped out the unbearable disgrace of international piracy.” Tuesday's session was entirely devoted to the general subject of copyright, a matter of vital importanc and interest to both authors and publishers. Mr. George Io. Adams, to whose e s the enactment of ous Men and the copyright law of 1501 was lurgely presided and opened the meeting by re an admirable paper on our copyright leg uion, pust und future, Dr. Surigge, of the London * Society followed with o short “The International _Copyright written by Sir Henry Bergne of England. He also read a paper of his own on the present status of copyright legislation. Messrs. Gilder, Cable, Dudley Warner, Prof. Loundsbury of Yale and others wade several remarks on the subject. Copyright again was the opening theme on sduy's session, the principal feature o powerful paper by Walter Besant on *“The Rights and Interests of Au- thors;™ a puper on syndicate publishing by Morris Colles of London, and # general di cussion by the members present consun the balance of this day’s session Thursduy the session opened with Charles Dudlay Wirner presiding, when the generat subject of “Criticism and’ Literature” occu- pied the attention of the members. Mr. Warner read the opening paper, in which he made some sound and pertinent suggestions as to how criticism should be regarded by literary people 1 this conntry. A forciblo paper by H. D. Trail of Oxford, Eng., en titled *The Relations of Literature 'and Journalism,” was read at_this day's session and received most favorable comment. An paper which came i for its share of wits one by Humilton Mabie entitied m as an Educational Fory Priday's session was tuken up with the subject, “Aspects of Modern Fiction,” and the selection of George W. Cable as | ing ofticer wus a just tribute to that man’s fame as & writer of modern_fiction. Mr. Cablo read a paper ou *The Uses and Methods of Fictious.” Mrs, Catherwood then followed witha paper on “Form and Condensation in the Novel,” a paper which was generally admitted to be one of the very best read before the congress, Miss Alice French, Mrs. MeMahou, Hamlin Garland Joseph Kirkland also read very interestin papers dealing with the subject of *Fiction in its different phases. ‘This session, which seemed 10 arouse a mwore general public in- terest than any of the preceding, brought to & termination the literary congréss which is calculated to mark a new era in international literature, especially so far as copyright 1s concerned, and will tend to increase that “esprit de corps” which should does exist amoug those who follow the pen as 4 profession or as & pastime. late seeretary of Authors, paper o Union, Firaxg Froon - Rusy peopie have no tume, and sens ble people have no inclination to use pills thut make them sick a day for every dose they take. They have learned that the use of De Witt's Lattle Early Risers does not in. terfere with their heilth by causing naussa pain or griping. These little pills ure per, fect i action and resulte, regulating the stomach and bowels 5o that’ headaches, diz ziness aud lassitude are prevented. They cleanse the blood, clear the complexion and oue up the systew. Lots of healih iu ihose 18 ] hnleleliows, (718 BUT ALPASSING SHOW Yot it Illustrates san Industry to Which Mankind PaysHandsome Tribata, DIAMOND DIGGINGS: AT THE BIG FAIR ot the Sparkierss Are Procured, Separ- nted and Pollshisdic A merican Helps— Rich and Vassed Exhibits of the Dark Continent. Ciieago, July Bek.]—A most intor the exposition is to be found at the Mining building, and is thatof the dismond industry as represented by the display of the Da Beers and Kimberly mines of Kimberly, South Africa. These mines are the richest inthe world, in fact they control the dia- mond market of the world by limiting the production and exportation of stones to amounts that will not overstock the market, and thus they protect the fature diamond industry. The yet unknown wealth of these mines cannot be estimated, as the deeper the min- ing the richer scems to grow the soil. The De Beers and Kimberly mines now furnish employment for 1,400 white men and 5,000 native Kaftirs. 1 saw two of these black people who are with the exhibit. Tney speak no English, but chatter in their native tongue. One of them answers to the name of “Jim," and is a muscular looking fellow between six and seven feet in height and possessing u remarkably good natured face of ebony hue, ‘“Jim" is valued for his honesty and noted for his abhorrence of the American style of dress, much proferring his native costume, which, this warm weather, consists of anecklace and a—smile. 28 —[Special to Tue sting exhibit at Process of Mining. Powerful engines are used to howst from the depths of earth the dismond-bearing rocks, or as it is called, “blue clay.” When ches the surface it is tipped automati- into bins, from these bins to trucks, and in them conveyed to the depository floor, which is simply a hard rolled, leveél picce of ground. Upon this earthen floor the “blue” is allowed to remain from four to eizht months, subjected to the disinte- grating effectsof thesun and_rain, which it to crumble to picces, for the hard, blue rock which hides within its ast the sparkling wem, is but a conglom- eration of clay and_pebblés, which are sep- arated from éach other by the process of washing. Only about one ton of concentrate is obtained from 100 tons of bluo soil. Fight machmes are i operation at the exhibit, which handle 14,000 loads of the blue soil per day. A load weighs 1,600 pounds carat. Allof this cluy is of cour brought from the Do Beers and Kimberly mines. The concentrates now pass through the pulsating machine, or one which might very properly be called a sieve graded into three differént sizes, aud thus capable of scparatiug from each’ other three sizes of pekbles which aro found in the clay, the smallest pebble being not larger than a tiny flower sced. The water used in the pulsator is carried back in small buckets by means of a pulley, and pass 's again through the machine to’ prevent any possible loss. The residue of pebbles is thrown upon the soiting tabie and sorted by oxperts. Real Dinmonds, T was allowed the rather exciting pleasurc of examining some fifty pounds of tne peb- bles, pushing them about with a little trowel and to my delight finding a real dimond. It was not, however, a perfect brilliant, but one which would " be subject to th | of cleaning. The diamond has a erai | same as wood, and_few stones are perfect or frec from fiaws, When they are they pa ctly to the cutter. The expert can tell at u glance the ruiof the e zution of a stone and when a stone is to be cleft itie first placed in a metal holder, which is & mixture of lead and pewter about the size of a hen's exg and fastened upon a small stick of wood. ‘The metal holder is now made soft by being held over a flame. While the me s soft the dinmond to be cleftis inserted in the end opposite the stick, with the portion of the stone exposcd whercitis to be split. Another diamond with a sharp po'nt is fastencd ina similur holder. These holders are placed in separ; vises, the two dinmonds fucing each other and are pressed togethor at the desired points and the required incision produced. A small steel knife used us u wedge com: pletes the splitting _process. The small picces thus oroken off are called “vase dia- monds,” and are used largely in making up vase-leaves und other flowe 1 jewelry. Rendy for the Cutter. The diamond is now ready for the cutter. whose experienced eye must first determin the mode of cutting to make the stone turn out two, threeor four-point stone, The dia- mond is prepored for the cutting process | being placed in the same knd of i holder that used by the cleaver and fastened in the | cutting machine, the stones being rubbed | against each other produce the large facets. A little box underneath catches all th reeious dianmond dust, which is used by the polisher, who mixes it with olive oil aud spreads it upon an iron plate, which is turned by steam and revolves at the rate of 2,500 times per minute. The dinmond. which bas been soldered in a swall copper zup, is ol \ed by being pressed upon the revolving dis h facet requiring a change in the position of the stone in 115 metal c The fine expert, who gives me the “pomnts,” is the finest digmond cutter m the United | States, it not inthe world. He has spent cighteen years at tho work, is using a cut- ting machine of American mvention, and th gauge used by the polisher to determine th ungles of tho facets is also of American wake, which is uo small compliment to the skillof American workmen. The Hol- | landers, with hereditary knowledge of the fine work, are no longer cousidered the best, cut for weight and not for the more valuable quality of brilliancy. A dimmond in the matrix is seldom scen. But 1 saw u very hundsome one, and_brilliant it looked | imbedded in the side of the rock. Some very lurge dismonds in the rough ave seen ind case at the exhibit, the value of the whole being three-quarters of a million One of the diamonds is pink, the largest of its kind in existence. The biue-white is the most valuable and one of that color has bee found within & month past in the Jacques Foutein mine. This blueawhite diamond weighs 968 carats and is valued at a fabulous price. Ameriean Trad The first diamond found in America was found at Frazier & /Chalmer's pluce, which Chicago firm are now making four triple ex- pansion engines for uso in the De Be il Kimberly mines. Noarly all the lumber used in those mines comos from the Bultic sea, but arrangenents are being rapidly made o experiment with Pacific coust lumber, it beilug estimated o be of a better quality and can be obtained ut less cost thun that wow in use The manager of the De Beers mines is Gardencr 1. Williams, who formerly resided ut Oakland, Cal. He displays & great deal of iuterest in opening up a profituble market for Pacific const lumber. Thus it will bo seen thut American ma- chinery will be and 15 used to operate the far away dismond flelds of South Africa Awerican braius areneeded to look after its s and soom American lumber will find u steady market. The yield of jes about 200,000 carats of the rough diamonds per month. The largest diamond fovnd (previous o the one found within the last month) weighed in the rough 4281 curats and was recently sold in India for £10,000. The writer of this article was made very appy by the kindness of Mr. Berlinner of the diamond exhibit, who presented her & piece of the blue rock from which the aismond is extracted, the provision being that should euriosity overcome good sense to such an extent as to induce the welting of | the “blue” and a diamond be found therein itis to be returned. She is also the happy possessor of one pink and two red garncts and two Cape Town emeralds, which will be setina ring and carefully treasured as a souvenir of her visit to and the kindest re ception at the South Afries dismond ex hibit Other Exhibits. Lot us now visit the rest of the Cape Colony exhibit, which is located n th 'm IH‘M SINTEL V PAG Is There Too Much S Silver? We have heard that there was an over- production. We know there has been an ovcr—production ot Moquette Carpets so will exchange a few Mcquette Carpets for a little silver. The Dbest moquette made, in newest designs, at $1.15 a yard. Made up rugs in large sizes, $1.00 per yard. We shall not change the price until every piece is gone.and they are going to. Small Moquette Rugs at about half usual price. Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Co., Douglas, tractive. both in the numerous shown and in the excellent tasto and judes ment which has goyerned the different arrangements. 1t s quite evident that the exhibitors do not believe in doing things by halves and have spared neither money, time nor 1 in collecting tho various pro- ducts and articles of intgrest from far aw. South Af) Before the door is pluced a revolving case of oil paintings representing the various flora of the cape; near that is a pyramid of ostrich eggs:a uumber of glass cses contain a valuable collection of beauti- fal ostrich feathers, b white and natural. ‘The taxidermal display consists of specimens of the Angora goat, the Boar goat, the fat-tail sheep and springbock; also an ostrich family, the female bird and the male, while on the ground at the feet of the parent birds sit & number of six weeks old chic A large painting of an ostrich farm hangs just back of this family and here and there upon the floor of the large room are a uumber of mats, made from the pretty pelts of the springbock. One almost gives a sigh of regret at the number of the dainty little creatures that have yielded up their lives n order to furnish the pelts for these numerous brown and white striped mats. “The fat-tailed sheep derives it name from its immense big tail and its hide is used to make the strongest gloves in the market, Drapea from o namber of boxes, on whic aro placed other exhibits, are the' karrasses of the golden and the siiver juckal and of the musk cat, goatskins and the polts of Merino shoep and Angora goat, with its long, sitky and from the number of the latter u arge demand could be supplied. On s are placed numerous flecces of Groece wool, and also the washed. all daintly ticd with blue ribbons. Leaning aguinst ‘a box are four lurge clephant tusks, the largest one measuring seven and & half feet and ching 158 pounds, valued at 81,300, A glass case contuins tropical birds in_ gorgeous plumage of red and blue and yellow. At tho foot of the case stands a specinien of the valug ble guano bird, and near it a jar of the fertil- izer. Nothing scems omitted, for near the cen- ter is o pyranud of the white everlasting flowers and small baskets filled with those of various colors. On exhibit are many Kafir and Zulu curios, implements of wavfare, Bushman's stones, Zulu stabbing assagais, breast shields made of skin, and skin saddle bags and spears aud arrows, wooden dippers fashioned like gourds. and used by the Kafivs to dip their native beer. A Great Country, One begins to have n great respect for this country, which, while it can furnish dia- monds for the whole world, can also produce the finest wheat, oats, barley and beans,lso fzood corn, all of which ure put up so tempt- ingly in nice clean sacks or in giass jars. Ono cercal I want to taste is the Kafir corn. 1 think it must be the corn spoken of in the seriptures, 1t would be well nigh impossiblo to name ull to be seen in_this exhibit. But one to be spoken of is that of the native wine; it is an old industry in_the colonie that of grape culture, and o fine display is made of swall casks and bottles containing “ved wmuscadal,” old brown sherry and “sweet fontignae,” with numerous~ other brands. There can be seen also some picees of the peculiar “wine stone,” from which is ma ream of tartar. Now, I wint to go back and mention that the karrasses, which apbear to be whol skins of unimals, are really long strips of the fur, not more than an inch wide, joined on the under side by soams so fine that they a equul to the work done on seal skin sacques, wud are made by native workmen. Oné feature of its display which is very agreca- ble to visitors, 18 the absence of “for sale” cards, uud all who have visited this exhibit will remember with pleasure the glimpse iv afforded them, not of *darkest Africa,” but of & country where civilization has gained u fim foothiold and planted its banuer of progress. Guace Hises, article- ONAL Yale's students next freshman class will have 600 more than there were in the whole college only @ few years ago. The will of the late Murtin filed at Y . contained £45,000 to Yule University At the recentconvocation of the Univer- sity of Chicago President Harper announced the comy of the buildings, costing uearly #1, Eighteen hundred and ninety-three will mari another red letter date in"the history of the higher education of women, no fo thun ten of whom have passed the examin tion for the mathematical tripos at the Enplish university of Cambridge. The bequests from the Depauw estate to Depauw university at Greencastle, Ind which were expected o reach $1,600,000, urc said Lo amount to but #00,000. ~I'he trustecs have made, within the lust two years, largo improvements in the belief that they would gel the expected sum from the Depauw be. quests: and now that theso are falling short “greut incouvenicnce' is likely to result, Colonel Richard T. 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The eminent snectallst in intorod graduato in medict success, eatarrh, | mercury used by corraspondonce. eato contents or sandor. Oug parsonal lntar vate. Hook (Mysteries of Life) sent froe. tamp for olrcular, . wemlnal worknuss, troatmont for loss of vital po arvous. chronio, private. blood. skin and urinary disea o, s diploman and oert 2 or. P'artl Modlcino or Instrawoats sent by mail or ¢ xpi ow oroferred. Consultation free. Otlice hours, 9 am. t0 ¥ p.m. A rogular ana saton el o 13 W1 (roating with, (18 groniped lovsds and ail forms of private. ai b linabie to visit momay Socaraly packeds no mar Correspondence striotly Sundays, 10 a. m, 40 13 1 greater work when her mind gavo way under the strain to which she had subjected it. “Those who knew her will think of her not as a suicide, but as a victim of overwork. Mr. Anthony J. Drexel made a wise use of his fortune duriag his life. and the spirit which characterized his benefiactions while living finds expression i the bequests made by his will. The most _important of those affecting the public is the legacy of #1,000,000 placed in the hands of trustecs, who are authorized to crect and maintain an art gal- lery, museum or other public institution in Vicinity of the Drexcl ipstitute, or, in their aiscretion, to apoly the income to the support of the institute,should this be ncees- sary for the full development of its work. The receut examination of public school 1ls for admission into the Normal College of Now Yorl ed the Sun to make an anulysis of some featurcs of the contest. Thoso who seeured admittance were required to get seventy-five out of a possible 100, and G52 out of 1,000 obtained this high grade. 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