Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-10-13
TWO B0NANZAS.
Country People Leaving Mil
lions in Chicago.
South Africa's Wonderful Gold Fields
---katiyes are Fighters.
Hes the ceaafpmsa hass Surprised III:
Western Newspapers.

WORLDS FAIR. Oct. Especial -
The city is full OF country people, as it
never was before. and has been for 10 days.
Not long ago I noted that OF the daily
visitors 10 the fair. l.0,o0o or so. a. least
two-thirds were OF the farm and village
class, and | supposed they were all who
had come here, but every day there arequite
as many down town and in public resorts
All the parks are crowded whenever the
weather admits; ut every matinee, regard
less Of the grade Of the thea.er. many are
turned away. and all the popular price
stores are thronged. 1t is estimated by
the best informed retailers that 30, GO
country people per day are spending on an
AYERS 1e SO each, aud when | see the big
bundles carried i,v7ay by all who leare
our hotel cannot e.8lbt IT, Ii our iolAs
are poor, they have a queer way of showing
it, but the country merchants say il VIII be
mighty hard On them for the next three
months.
The Financial Problem.
All the visitors talk with, especially in
the Mining building, and all the exhibitors
there, are intensely interested in the gold
mining news. The smallest item ia the
papers is eagerly scanned. My talks are
chiefly with men in the Indiana and Kan
SIS buildings aud at a hotel patronized al
most entirely by Indiana and Ohio people,
and il seems to me that Americans now
understand financial questions better than
ever before. When DIR. Matthews Of Cape
Town reached the Mining building a few
days ago, he was beset for the very latest
news almost as eagerly as the president
would lie for offices or views, as he is u SCI
enlist who came especially in the mining
interest have had a talk with MIR,
MilIerton Of Port Natal. who came direct
from the new goldfield and says that al
though the British are on the eve probably
of the worst African war in their history.
it is overshadowed By interest in the mines.
1t is, as he says, u great pity bloody
shame" he called it1 that the Transvaal
has no exhibit here. as it is the center Of so
many interests. ''Of course the first re
ports are gross exaggerations," says Mr..
Millerton, but unless all the practical
miners and all the men of science are mis-
taken there is gold enough in reach to over
supply the word. It's the bloody Mata-
belle that worry us now and your blessed
Rider Haggard sort of scratchhards who
make every body suspect that every writing
Kimberley are good workers, keep the drink
away from them, but up farther the mig
gers are the hardest fighters in the world.
And then your romances"- And here,
regret TO add. the gentleman used some
language be evidently did not learn in sun
day school,
Late, Ohieial and Interesting.
Mr. s. Berliner, secretary Of the Cape Of
Good Hope commission, has just received the
latest report from the new mines aud kindly
allows me to copy. So, as matterof inter
est to miners, | take the official statement
for one company's workings. In the month
ending early in September there were taken
from the Henry Nourse claim 1881 tons OF
quartz, which yielded e, ,sSl Is. Sd in gold.
Mining and reduction cost 81 lss. 3-3Sd-
per ton. Adding incidental cost, the clear
profit for the month was el, ,133, or s., 53,54.
This is new mine. The kaffirs," said
Mr. Berliner, get from to shillinss n
day and work splendidly. 'katlfr,' you
know, is only a nickname and means some
thing like servant. They are Of the same
stock Is the Zulus."
And are the blacks down there like our
colored Americanst"
"Oh. bless your soul, no! None Of them
was enslaved. You can't find negro III
both Americas who traces his descent to q.
BafIir, much less Zulu. They don't know
what fear is Here's the morning paper
says the 4 eco British soldiers are advanc-
ing from Fort Salisbury, and II one of them
gets out Of Matabele land alive he may
cali himself a lucky chap. 10 Bengula has
about 5000 men, and they'll fight any
thing. They aren't a bit afraid OF a lion OF
any other beast, and for fighting in that
country they are as well drilled as the
British. Now, among those low niggers OF
the west coast we can go in and knock 'em
about anyhow, but these fellies are fight
ers And there was no need Of interfering
anyhow. A prime set of British boys are
to be knocked on the head for a quarrel be-
tween two chartered companies and two
sets of dashed niggers." And here again
must add that extreme terms were used.
And as he talked the crowd rapidly grew
denser around the diamond working.
though the fair gates had been opened but
a few minutes. Asthe pale blue or grayish
rock lies in stacks, the rough diane onds can
be seen projecting from the broken edges
here and there and looking much like
nodules of lead ore-no brightness. nothing
to indicate their value. AT the stairs lead
ing to the narrow platform from which one
can look down on the big washer a long
cue is already formed, and 100 or more peo-
pie are waiting their turn to get up. And
50 it goes all day. with a continuing chorus
of Obs and "Ahsl' Now, who would
think that was a diamond" and so on. On
the other side, and behind heavy plate glass,
the skilled lapidaries cut and polish the
diamonds, and really it is no wonder the
crowd is great. for the sight is well worth
seeing. And as the staiwart Zulus come
and 90 even the ladies express admiration,
| aud occasionally an OLD soldier says: You
can bet there's good stuff in 'em. Wouldn't
| be in hurry to fight them fellows"
No More Country Jays"
When this exposition began, the witty
paragraphers Of Chicago took it for granted
| that the blunders and ignorant remarks Of
| the country greenhorns' would furnish
| material for no end of fun But it has not
proved 50. The ruralists have taken very
| good care of themselves. Not one Of them
| has been killed or seriously injured by the
| cable cars, though Chieago's uuwary con
| tinue to suffer. Visitors who want infor-
| nation usually ask the guards in low
| tone, and in the presence CT wonders and
mysteries they talk with their friends or
| keep still The entire crop of good jokes
| would scarcely fill a column The truth is,
| we have very few unsophisticated country
| people left, and of those few, very few, get
| here. There is a big percentage of very
| plainly dressed people, and many man
| meet looks as If he had just left his OK team
| In the suburbs and walked over to see the
fair without change of clothes. But they