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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-13

CAsApIAN PACIFIC NAVIGATION co.
~ u1mited.D
sTEAMER PREMIER
EoUxD SOUTH.
vsncouver Monday and Townsend. Thursday
Thursday 3 > m and Monday 3 30 p m
Townsend Monday and Seattle, Friday and
Thursday Ii p N Tuesday p m
Seattle, Tuesday and Tacoma Friday and
Friday ...........s N Tuesday -....... 10 N
Seattle. At midnight Townsend ...... 81 q m
Tuesday and Friday whascom = 20 N
Townsend .. a N Roche HaTbor-l2 30 p IN
Whafc0n ..... q 80 m Vancouver. 2 pm
Roche HarhoF 1 pm
The company reserves the right TO change the
time table or pieces OF call without notice
DAYS OF DEPARTURE FROM SEATTLE
Tuesdays and Fndays
rAYs OF ARRIVAL AT SEATTLE
Tuesdays ard Fridays
JOHN A. o'BRTRN, Master
F.w. PARKER, Agent
JOHN IRVING. Manager c. P. n. Co. Ia
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R4EEWAx.
THE GgEAr TRAsscoSr1sKSrAr ROUTE
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
IVA THE
CASCADE DIVISION
Eow completed. Hsksnw istAe snorass., sess and
guaekes-
lars FASTEST trains. loves rates 3 Cgssrsss,s
ard Al points East Tickets s0sd % Al
prominent points throughout the K3sx
and Southeast. Through Pnflrnan
G-awsnw-roorn Sleeping cars
Reservations csn Sc -
cured in &dF2acA
70 East RorxD PASSENGERS
e careful and DO not msks mistake. nns be
sure 70 take taa
NORTHERN PACIFIC RarEgoAn
And see that yoar ticket reads via his nnn. -.
Gus delays occasionea BY osher rousex
Through tourist sleeping cars ran en- regaiar
express trains tuA length a the Lima Bertaa
ffee Lowest rates. quickest TINA
sene,si 9. ne III FiFss ssrset
$500 40. CHARLTON.
Asst Gen Pass. Agt, No. III First street. eorneS
WI. sPFscEg,
e. TONKIN
Ticket Agent 2. s. 3 X. s. depot
A CHI HEkgf. Ttrknf Ar2rt7 @4aaftta
Northern Pacific Company st Graham & Daai-
tons. Boston block
rT,o SAN FRANCISCO. cAL.-BY WAY OF
SOUTHERN PACIFIC cos LINE
THE MOUNT sEAsrA ROUTE.
Quicker in time than any other Foass
between
SEATTLE AID San FRANCISCO
GRAND SCENIC ROUTE OF rHH PACIFIC coAsE
= Pullman buffet sieeperS
Ieurs. sleeping cars. for accommodation q
second-elRss passengers. attached -
expreas train&
TeItckets and other Information cali "a
A.CHHBERG, Ticket ACT Seattle VIC
Z. K0EHLER, Manager.
EP. kOGEkS, ASST General Freight and
Passenger Agent. Portland, Or.
BfSKS
pANK OF COMMERCE
Paid 10000
Transaets general banking business
r. HoIYoKE President
l. B. sPENcFk-...-...-..,-..............-. ssoisr
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF sEArrEs.
i seattle, Washington Territory.
PAD.uP CAPITAL siso.on
.GooDFEILow..... cashisE
General banking business transacted
Sight and teiegrapbic exchange. payable in all
the principal cities OF the United states and
Europe.
yUAsHINGToSL LOAN TRUST COMPANY
w uncorporstedJ
n iaSss' KaeTs Secretary and Tressurs:
Authorized capital .........+.4...-..,..S $40 ool
RAID up asltAk sfstsrs-t oe,V1
Mortgage loans on improved farms ard city
property Lowest rates No delay
BRANCH oFFgcE.
Room S. Kilsen block, Seattle, W. T.; George
Fowler, manager.
EASTERN OFFICES.
No. IS Wall street. New York; ; Sears baIlding.
Boston.
WESTERN OFFICES
Home office, Maiia Naisa. W. T.; branch or
fees. ColfAx and Seattle.
WASHINGTON SAVINGS BANK-INcoR-
w pSrated under the territorial laws
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TsIAND TRANSPORTATION Co.-HERBERT
j y. Heechef. manAgeE
THE STEAMER POINT ARENA
leaves Seattle every sunday afternoon at
i n m. for Port Townsend and the san Juan
Islands from Haffeld's wharf Leaves Port
Townsend st .soa N. every Monday. wednesday
and Friday for Whstcom. calling st smiths
islanA, and Richardson's weather peFmiuingl.
Argyle, Lopez FridEy HArbcr. Maple ION Men
day going north and Thursday going SOUTH,
Roche HarboF. oFcas and East sound
Returning leaves Nhatc0n 81 80 a "a. Tues
days Thursdays and Saturdays. On the Satar-
day trip the Point AFens goes through 20 Seattle.
Fare from Port Townsend 10 seattle, 81. Until inr-
thex notice passengers or freight from Seattle Tor
Husbands ay the Port Arenas "Wednesday aud
Friday trips will BE- carried on the Washington
Steamboat and Transportation Cos steamer
Edith 10 Port Townsend on Tuesday and ThuFs-
DAY nights ard transferred direct To the Port
Arena on these Gays the W. 4 a r. Co. viii
issue tick cts aud hill freight throagh 20 deSti-
HERBERT T. BKEcHER. Manager
J. A. HATFIELD. Agent, Seattle.
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AND SHIPPING.
.,,.rsnces for the Week,
s1,01S,l0738.
.,ooucE MARKET UNCHANGED,
80. Coed Demand Poultry scare.
q Hseh-asTchandise ard Prod
ace Keesipss-Marksss-
srar7Lr, Jan. II.

SEATTLE, Jan. II.
r...,,nees At the Seattle clearinghouse
,.ssy we're sis4 SIS y making = sos .s. ior
y xesk Of sly0is, =. Rseapituiatlon
- - seek Is as follows.
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Hoops CANAL ROUTE -srEAMER JOSE
III FAiSE
The STEAMER 1eSenhfne wsn ieaTe HAt&ss4s
roassAa hart sae& II Mhfioo street. Nssiaess- AZ
saa SATURDAY, HaoxninE ~ 80 = N for Port
car t3s. -eaezTx mon civ aad Isl way posat&
On HcSsf' ana kesHrGfHE lSateS Insoa cry
Nsss,.sar and ThaFssay saSgving. FOE fsxsght %
passage Apply ~ hatne 4 olsaaa whAsf o. oa
AgaT,s goMN ANpERs ~ Master.
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LekVe4 FoWet H0dsa
Leaves At g n. for JnAnits and way
Tcrt2
Leaves .. "a "a. and 4:lsn N for Newcastle
and way ports
Leaves ~ ? n m for Jaanits and war
pori6 ]. Il LOUGHEAD. Manager.
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RAIIH4YS.
cEArTLE LAKE SHORE & EAsTERs RAIL
- waY.
Time OF arrival and departure OF trains
from seatt4e
DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY
Leave Arrive
ME s and way polrsts.a..S sssam 4ispm
For Gilman and way points. s55am .I5pm
For Snohomish and wRyl swan S5Sam
points-.............-..-i ssspm 415pm
For Suburban points ten trains daily each way.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
For South BEND. snoqual-l
ME Gilman and wayi swan Us N
points .....................s.a--.l
For ao; snohemish sae way ass ssspm
For suburban points six rains each way.
+. w RUFF. Gen. Pass. Agt,
r. W d. HoLBRooK Manager.
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TTNf0N PACIFIC RAILwAT-PACTFTC DT-
4 vixlon- Efae fuEIswfng ache1nle fse this
eeEpaay steamers % Pu<ef SoaEa viii BE Ia
fher aosfce-
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CHARLES r EMERY REAL ESTATE LOAN
u COMPANY,
BOSTON And KANSAS CITE
MORTGAGE loans on business aad regsie7cs prop
eTty. Building loans . specially.

save brokers. AMI agents commission By deaf.
tuv direct win this company and aoE through
representatives of other companies
Ready cspit&l slways on hand 40 spplica
tons sent sway tor approval i41weSs rates 81
interest Leans closed WiineHt 1elaY
Il n PALMER,
Manager feg nTRnrs ofss0A
Rooms. Phsnney Glock Front and seaecs 5t1
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rAsr IIxE


wss, leave Yessersx ssscG 81 q Es. ever NondRv.
II asfssss8av aua Fraaay saF TsetFe- ase Folas,
Eaunnsss &urkA1es. MagysNiiae. iaNe2 art
s,gs-a.s,-sesn eesgsFn8nw fu3sewznE DAYS e. a. ~
GRO. u. EosTkS, AgxaE
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Portland Departnres-st south Coast.
TFllamook; ship Oriental. Tacoma: ship
" ina. Nanaimo.
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Viz the Albert lea pcute.

sassd pxurnsa TrAzns daily between CalcaRn ard
wFr1aaEsosts ard ST. panA with EHACU9A As-
esinsn1 cnA4r Cars sFAEEl - And 1rnEn tlaose
fsssrts and Kansas City Throa@n Gtaasf - a..
ssssa8E between Peoria. spirit tsss&s hka 49,
$50 s-sa 80 Lead. Tsn FzvsEate LARA g
vFa.nvaown sloax Falls Tia sssrlnstz AescEtz sss9
Ha-szaer and FislasEz 0rsorEs q saa &extGss~sN
Tasa ebert z.sse ~tA aeneeA aaa KsnsAkse csleEs
s.ssssss =, srssl - A. frsra 1adsaaspslis ca
e5rrae8 GaA otkar SeutrGxz roszss
yer Tsokesn Mara Toz12Fs, desired s=ssrzaA-
ssess esxay az any GesxEgn TaSot Cse1. O. sAsssa
E.gT. JOHN. JOHN SEBASTIAN
a. sxannesr Esez.I IkG q xsass 40
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FI~o NoSTEsANo AND All FONTS on
GRAY's HARB0g
VA
PUGET SOUND 4 GRAY's HARBoR Z 4
TAruaga n enc Gag from seattle
Trains cunneef calls a. kznaiesss A. I 3. e.
ME4E ss1sEs4T EEoEa seattle
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For rates. maps and particulars call on or cd
dress
c. G. Mcc0RD
No Washington street. Portland. OF.
R.W. McSINSESS. seattle. VT
RE Hills, Tacoma W. Il.
Il. X BROWN, Asst tTen. Fgeixht R11 Pascal
ger Agent, Vancouver. r. g
Correspondence respectfully solicited
Canadian Pacific To- postcnlce.
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last TINE
PASSENGER STEAMER FLEETWOOD
seattle, Taeorsa. Olympia. Stellaeoom and
McNeifs Island
WINTER TIME CARD.
Commencing Tuesday, November L.
GOING.
Leave Olympia, daily exoept Monday po u
Arrive Tacoma. lie 90 . "a
Leave TscnHa III GO %
Arrive seattle. 90 N
GETT ENfS1.
Leave Seattle. dsiiY except Monday s0o N
as4ap1 Tacoma. = 800 y "a
Leave Tacoma. +" 20 p n
arrive 0iEmpss. 49, tp9 = m
fSbs,-seagtle. Nealer's wharf: Tacoma
MIR r. wharf Olympia. HosF's wharf
Meals on board. oay a0as making rOsnd
trip Sunaxss CaFsioa NORTH western and Wells
Fargo express and fast freight
a.. HATCH, President
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NEReHASEs NATIONAL BASE
Dezixassea 1epasisozy and aa&zzl1
agent O. t1te
g~frEu s4k4Es 8gFEezNZSz
r@x1x ID foreign &sa4 domestic eNehanEsA
Makes sasrgsannle trAnssezG. Ard ISSUES ieZf1rH
G. crsdat
tJtasral AanEsag SMssnsss tgassszess1
Caes Eeawa 6as Il So soasa3Aax esFneE
esza.1 ed Estegfy sxseas@
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81 Through Coaches. E1eerers KFee k@eszMtns
cnnir fars and gEass Of 10 RIVER p1nsns casS
daily between CHICAGO, DIS Aysss -. :, ss
Isa ehatr Car 20 NORTH PLATTE tNcn , sne
between CHICAGO and bAHtAk- t1As1a.ssAsH
asRT wfsH eed PUEBLO. via 81. JsGeEhs 81 A&1t-
aan City and Topeka. Hplenlitd L1z1sa& hases4
srr~e Of St goseYlh ami Kansas CITY hxezEfHsefis
aes1v sss,sh cl,oi-e 81 RrxtEs ard fT0sn SAL
Lake Yestlnnd. Los AuGeias ard Sa1 = Aaesssst
Ths rlr4cs Lsns to ard frura Pixies Peak Ma9i-
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C1icagO. RoCE Island & Pacific RT.

Including zAsaas East and West Of taN Missouri
Rivar Tne ptreLs Route % and from C1lxCA9n.
ROCK IEIsAN1e DAVENPORT DkH NOM -
COUNCIL BIsUFFa, WATEKTOWN, sioux
SAIYss rIMsgrAp1I.xE, ST PAUL. 81. yOs~
CITY ruPEMA. DENvEg. coIoRADo 81 Nos
ara PUEHIOs Free ReeIizsiag Chair cSfe e Flla
nom CEgTCAao. cAIDW &f-L. EsAIS1A14tsell
So xssgss3v rsr1@Y sad Palaces sleepin9 Cars tst-
s,srs@1 ssETT,AcsSl. sNIcfETT IA and HUTCHINSON
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TsLANp TRANSPORTATION co.-HERBERT
i y. HeecheF. manageE
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CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY THE ONLY
TRAEscoSTSENTAL LINE
Running solid trains from
PACIFIC To ATLANTIC COAST.
-cosisrlxG Of
Palace sleeping and paFlor cars.
Elegant day coaches.
LnxnFious dining cars
Connexions eolonist sieeping cars-the latter
free.
THROUGH TICKETS
To Sc Paul. Chicago. Detroit. Toronto Mon
treat, Qnebec, Halifax. ST john. New
York, Boston, Portland, ansl all
points IN the Uuif@f States
aad Canada,
Can be purchased at less rate than via any
other line
Passengers booked to and frOn ali European
roints
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Drafts drawn on All parts Of the world In.
sereSt paid on savings and time deposifS
Hours-f0a 70. to 5 p M, and saturday even
inFs from 90 o'clock.
Deposits may be made IN person or by regis
teresi letter money order or express. and deposit
books viii be returned as requested.
Money ioaned ca real estate ~ reasonable rates
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C,oLu2slA : FUaEr soUSD : r
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YTyHE FAST AND CoMMOpfoUS PASSENGER
4 sTEAMkk NuETN0MAH.
sarFnssrToS BoSr
Leaves TIE :. 2. wharf das sf7 a IA feF OlyD-
Pa Ksmiiehe an6 tSrays harhcT. E@tarnlag 20
Tacoma Al ?. X. psanscting with aoats for
sEATIE.g AND HHArcoN.
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WILLS PUGET SOUND LINE
STEAMER JEANNE
Leaves San Francisco for Seattle, January 90
taking all freight offered At reduced rates.
GEORGE II. FOSTER, Agent, Seattle.
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%seksN1h GHAtS NARKET.
sefSFesat, Jan. n. 49, Wheat - Quiet.
-A 49, ofssv moderately.
- , :. demand fallen or. rev
-sN western, A. "a per eeagSi.
The Iola register., 1890-08-15

| Il
established right TO name ana make the
rulers of the people. Not only is it
treason punishable by murder in South
Carolina to speak boldly as Republic
an. but also to demand as . Democrat
that the Democratic farmers, artisans
and small traders should be permitted
to inquire freely as to the acts and deeds
Of the Democratic oligarchs.
We trust that these three dispatches
have obtained general reading; IL
they have they will create q general
impression. It is the sublimity of false
hood which represents the political con-
dition Of the South as favorable to free
dom OF speech while yesterdays dis
patches remain uncontradicted. 1t IS
the abysmal depth Of traitorous COW.
ardice in which is conceived the idea o.
leaving such condition rs these dis
patches reveal to go unheeded and un.
reformed by National law.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Iola register., 1890-08-15
A Word of ADVICE to the women.

No man of sense offers to make coat
for a clergyman unless he is tailor; no
woman of brains desires to teach school
unless she has prepared herself as a
teacher; no man is audacious enough to
demand position as bookkeeper, un-
less he understands keeping books.
False estimates of work should be dis
countenanced. The girl who might be a
good cook aspires to be poor, inferior
clerk; one who has talent for making
dresses, essays to write poems for the
papers, and after seeing her sickly
rhyme in print in some obscure paper,
becomes at once convinced that litera-
ture is her forte. and utterly fails in it.
There is no phase of labor which is not
honorable and capable of being made
higher and better by skilled workmen.
The young women of America are cap
able of great things. All limitations of
sex are fast disappearing. TO the VIC
tors belong the spoils," whether it be
in the college, or the work of the world;
but failure must write itself in large
letters upon the efforts of all who dare
to assume high duties without careful
preparation.
When women feel this, when they re-
alize that it devolves upon them to sur
pass the efforts of women in the past,
when principle weighs more upon the
conscience, and pence less in the pocket,
we shall have better workers.-Kate
Tannatt Woods, in the Chautauquan.
The Iola register., 1890-08-15
Mr.. B,aine.s DIplomatIc victory.

Mr. Blaine's old-time admirers are
well pleased with the manner and
matter of his Behring sea correspond
ence. While there has been no prog
ress toward a settlement of the contro-
versy, the grasp Mr.. Blaine has Of the
situation and the vigor of his express
sions and power of his argument are
commented on with considerable enthu-
siasm. The verbal agreement which
he has tried to hold Lord Salisbury to
was that made with the Democratic
Minister. From Lord Salisbury's cor
respondeace it appears that the British
Minister of Foreign Affairs had an idea
that Mr.. Blaine would be ready to
agree that his predecessor or another
party had blundered, and that the posi-
ton of her Majesty representatives had
been misrepresented. II Lord Sails
bury had such an idea it was very prompt
ly dispelled by Mr.. Blaine's vigorous de-
fense of Mr.. Phelps and the declarar
ton that in him the United States put
its trust. This had received a great
deal of favorable comment from men
in both parties, who admire the broad
views and manly course of the Secretary
of State. Lord Salisbury's attempt to
play upon party feeling is severely
criticised. The contrast between this
subtle attempt on Lord SalisbEry's part
and the generous and manly position oi
Mr.. Blaine is regarded as most honorable
to the latter.-Washington Star.
The Iola register., 1890-08-15
DEMOCRATIC LIES.

Mr.. Cannon shows That There VIII Be
No Treasury Deficit.
The Democratic press has for weeks
been full of reckless statements to the
effect that the present Congress has
passed legislation, including the dis
ability pension measure, requiring 50
much money that there will be an enor-
nous Treasury deficit Representative
Cannon, chairman of the House COM
mittee on appropriations, has made q
clear and concise statement showing
the falsity of the Democratic charge.
He says:
The ordinary revenues of the Government
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1889, are re
ported by the Treasury at s402, ,0S3OOO; under
existing laws there Is no reason to anticipate
q less sum from the ordinary revenue during
1891. The postal revenues for 1891 are es
timated by the Postmaster-Generala at s65, ,414,,
600, making a total Of S467, $1,000 Deductine
aggregate appropriations Of s3500o0,OO0, there
will be surplus of sl17, ,49 600, which is more
than ample to meet the requirements OF the
from the enactment of the Mckinley bill, eS
timated at s6O,OO0.0O0 -7'- 7--T-'r---------1--'
With surplus of over s117. 900, 900
there is ample funds to pay expenditures.
The one item that will show any large
increase Of expenditures is that for pen.
sions, and we are quite sure that the
Republicans of the Nstion-and good
many Democrats, too-will not grumble
at this.
Any reasoning person knows that, &C
the country grows in population and in
wealth -and our growth in both these
is rapid-the expenditures necessarily
increase. And he knows, too, that the
revenues steadily increase also. And he
also knows that The money expended by
the Government at once goes into circu-
lation,, and helps the business of the
country. So long as expenditures are
wisely made-and none has been au-
thorized by the present Congress that is
not-there is no reason for fault-find-
ing, If the expenditure is within the
revenue. That this is the fact is con.
clusively shown by Mr. Cannon.-Toledo
p1o1n
The Iola register., 1890-08-15
POOR ARGUMENTS.
Senator Vests Foolish Objections tc
Woman's Suffrage.

Senator Vests Foolish Objections to
woman's Suffrage.
In his recent speech against the ad-
mission of Wyoming into the Union,
Senator Vest frankly declared that he
would never consent to admit into the
Union any State with constitution that
adopts woman suffrage. First because
woman's voting is antagonistic to the
U. S. Constitution; second, because
woman's impulsive, emotional, senti-
mental nature units her for taking part
in government; third, because the evils
of negro male suffrage in the South
would be greatly intensified by allowing
ignorant negro women to vote.
Let us consider these three objec-
tions:
1. Senator Vest can not find a sem
tence, line, word in the Z. S. Consti-
tuition which excludes women from vot-
ing. The principles of the preamble
imply the equal right of all citizens
irrespective of race or sex. Not only so,
but the constitution was adopted by one
State, New Jersey, which had already
extended suffrage to its women upon the
same terms as men, and whose election
laws contained at that very time the
words ''he or she" and ''his or her bal
lot" The Z. S. Constitution was
framed in part by New Jersey delegates
representing q constituency composed
in part of women voters. On the
second day of July, 1776, on motion of
Rev. Mr.. Cooper, Quaker minister, the
New Jersey State Constitutional Con-
vention in session at BurH gton, amend
ed the suffrage clause of the provincial
charter by changing the words male
freeholders worth forty pounds" to ''all
inhabitants worth forty pounds"
Women and free colored men of proper
ty voted in New Jersey from 1916 until
1907, and John Adams received the cleo
toral vote of the State over Thomas JEFF
ferson in 1900 because most of the wom-
en- voters were Federalists, and this fact
led 10 their exclusion in 1907 by an un-
constitutional act Of Democratic Legis-
The Iola register., 1890-08-15
CEYLON'S TREASURES,
Primitive Methods Employed by p
and Dlssolute Miners.

Primitive Methods Employed by Poor
and Dlssolute Miners.
Ratnapura, the city of gems, is the
center of a district twenty or thirty
miles square, in almost all of which d
stratum Of gravel six feet to twenty feet
under the surface exists. Throughout
this area gem pits are to be seen near
the villages, some being worked now,
others being abandoned. The natives
work there in companies of six or eight
and pay rupee per man per month for
the privilege of working certain allot-
ment, where they begin by marking OF
square of about ten feet
After removing about three feet of soil
the sounding rod, a piece Of iron about
half an inch in diameter and six feet
long, is used to sound for the gravel. II
successful the digging is begun in earn
est till about four feet deep. On tho
second day gravel Is taken out by bask-
cts handed from one man to another till
all within the square Is excavated.
Should the miners find the soil fairly
firm at the bottom of the pit, they tun-
mel all around for about two feet. draw
ing out the gravel and sending ia up al
so to be heaped with the rest, which
usually completes the work Of the sec
ond day, a watchman remaining neari it
all night
On the third day the gravel is all
washed in wicker baskets by a. circular
jerking motion, which throws ont all
the surplus light stone and rubbish till
good quantity of heavy gravel is left
in the bottom, which is carefully exam
ined. There is hardly basketful that
does not contain some gems of inferior
value, which are usually sold by the
pound for about nine rupees. Should no
valuable stones be found another pit is
sunk, and so on until one. or two or per-
haps three really valuable gems are un-
earth, when the work f.stopped and the
whole party goes off ta,Ratnapara with
the prizes. If these are worth say a
few Thousand rupees they arc kept Sc
cret and only shown 10 one or two men
of money, who make the owners an ad-
vance and look afser- the custody of the
precious stones.
Then the mine1s< gamble and drink for
some time, till another advance becomes
leteSSGTl. SV St1 Ant1 nan tDo
value is obtained Then the party,
with the mortgage, proceeds to
Colombo, or Etalatara, where rich
Moorish trodsrs are summoned to
purchase, and the gems soon find
their way to London The general pub
lie knows Hoshing about these transac-
tions, and valuable gems are never
heard OF in c. ylon and never see the light
of day until taey reach Bond street.
The natives have great fear OF ex-
posing their finds till they are sold.
and they have 'superstitious ideas abous
showing them. This system has been
q vogue for centuries. It is only occa-
sionally one hears OF native having
enterprise enough to dig few feet be-
low the first gravel to see IL a second
bed of gravel Is within reach, for they
fear the expense of bailing out water.
which increases as the greater depth Is
attained, although the second gravel is
well known to be much richer than the
Hrst.-Jewelers' Weekly.