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Evening star., 1898-08-06

Will carry $50 pounds. He will climb up
ladders or notched sticks with such load
of ore upon his back and will go off on 4
dog trot with his burden. The ore is
broken up into small pieces with hammers
by children. 1t is then ground by circular
stones being rolled about over it and then
mixed with quicksilver after the patio pro-
cess by driving mules around through It.
These Hualgayoc mines are the ones which
humboldt says produced So, ,000, 900 worth
OF silver In thirty years. Much of the ore
is now reduced to sulphide and taken on
mules to the coast and shipped to Europe
for further treatment.
The Cerro de Pasco Mines I'm 1898.
The same sort of work goes on at the
famous Cerro de Pasco mines in the Andes
above Lima, and, in fact, in nearly all of
the silver regions of Bolivia and Peru The
Cerro de Pasco mines which are now in act
i've operation number about 300. and there
are 225 silver mines being worked at Yauli,
on the Oroya railroad, about sixty miles
away. Cerro de Pasco has always been
thought to be the crater of an extinct vol
cano. 1t is situated about IA, 900 feet above
the sea, in one of the bIeakest parts of the
Andes. The town, which is now only one
OF about 5000 people, lies in a basin sur
rounded by barren rocks. The deposits con-
sist OF great body of low-grade silver ore
over mile and half long by three-auar-
ters of a mile wide. This has been worked
down TO depth of about 2J0 feet and
tuHheis nave been run In at that
ieSei TO drain the mines. The great trouble
is the water. and further mining can only
pc done by lower tunnels or heavy pumps.
Henry Meiggs, the American engineer who
constructed SO many great works in Peru
years ago, began tunnel $50 feet below
the present levels. The work was stopped.
however at. distance of 300 feet from
the surface. and at present nothing is be-
ing done The tunnel will need to be ex-
tended from 800 to 1.S00 feet further before
ore Is struck. and at the present low price
OF silver there is little prospect of this be-
Ing attempted. Within short time there
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again food the markets with her product
There re today in the dun ps Of the aban-
dOned mines of this country millions upon
millions of ounces of silver which fine ma
Chinerv may some time reduce at profit.
The methods of mining have been waste
fu. in The extreme. and the high freight
rates now prevent anything but the rich
est ores being touched. The Tin and sill
yer-bearing territory of Bolivia is about
leo miles long and 30 miles wide. 1t
runs clear through the mountainous parts
OF the country from south to north and
everywhere throughout it. at distances
from fifteen to twenty miles apart. may
be seen these abandoned mines, which
were worked by the SpaniardS. In 1913
the number Cf these mines was estimated
at lU,UO. Few such mines were exhausted.
The SpaniaTds forced the Indians to labor
In them. and they buTrowed through the
earth. taking out only the richest parts
of the veins. The owners gave one-fifth
of y hat they mined to the Spanish crown,
and it is known that between the
time of the coming of the Spaniards to
Bolivia and the year 1879 the country
produced more than three and one-thiri
billion dollars in silver. From 1900 to 1925.
when Bolivia secured her independence of
Spain. siXty-seven million dollars We're TAX
en- out of the mines, and up to the present
it must be, l should say. a very low esti-
mate TO say that Bolivia has given the
world the enormous amount of four bill
lion dollars worth of silver The greater
part of this metal came from the famous
silver mountain of Potosi the mines of
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which have produced more than three bill
lion dollars worth of silver. Today the
POtosi mines are to large extent exhaust
ed. and the town. which had at one time
more than 10000 people, has now hardly
ole-fourth of that number.
Lawyer Vow President.
At present Oruro is far greater as a
mining center than Potosi. There are some
very rich mines here, and one not far from
the city has netted the present president of
Bolivia a fortune This mine is called the
San Jose. 1t was, / am told, discovered by
q Scotchman named Andrew Penny who
came out here years ago as common me-
chanlc- He was a drunken sort of a fellow
and was By no means particular as to the
character of his female friends. At least
he married an Indian and was living with
her when his mine began tc produce fabu
lous amounts 1t continued good and soon
made him very wealthy. He invested Some
of his surplus in an estate in the old coun-
try and then died. BY the Bolivian law
his estate went to his wife and to his adopt
ed son, who was half breed The widow
concluded to go to Scotland and see If she
could not capture the estate there. She
failed but her lawyer. who seems to have
been as little particular as was the old
Scotchman, made the ancient Indian widow
a proposal of marriage and came back with
her TO Bolivia to live. The old lady soon
died, and the now president of Bolivia was
the lawyer who settled the estate. He did
this in such way that Tor consideration
the Scotch lawyer husband withdrew, leav-
ing the balance of the estate, including the
mine. to the president and the adopted son.
The president, l am told. now owns five
eIghths OF the mine and he has from ii an
income of something like fifty thousand
Bolivian dollars a week, or more than fifty
thousand of our dollars month. The mine
has ore in sight for long time to come.
and as his excellency is the president thsre
is little danger of his title being disputed.
Visit to q Bolivian Silver Mine.
Oruro 10 q mining town OF u 900 people
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bed of valuable minerals. In the Hua-
mani CWah-nah-ne) tin district there is a
conical mountain, which has network OF
tin veins, in some of which the pure
has been followed down from the top of
the mountain a distance coo feet. In the
Arecaya district, near this, the tin lodes
are from one to three feet thick and
and then contain great masses of solid
tin ore. Other veins are from six to eight
feet wide in places. and some of the ore
is so pure that it is shipped to Europe as
it comes from the mines. Other ore is
crushed by means of rocking stones and
is smelted the spot in little blast fur
naces and run into ffty-pound pigs. All
of these tin mines are situated at least
1900 feet above the sea.
Bolivia has perhaps the richest silver
mines EARTH She has produced a vast
amount of the silver row in the world
and did the price of silver rise she would
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1t makes you think of the larger villages
of the valley of the Nile, save that there Is
no green surrounding it, 1t lies at the edge
of bare gray hills in a desert. The streets
are narrow. Most of them are unpaved
and most of the houses are of one story,
matched with straw. The town water
works are mules who carry barrels of this
precious fluid about on their backs and a
large part of the population is made up of
Quichua (Keech-wa) Indians. The most of
the miners are half breeds or Cholos, and
as mining is the chief industry you
Cholos everywhere. There are also saloons
everywhere. You know them by the little
red flags which are stuck in balls over
their doors. Just above the city on the
mountain is the Chilean mine called Sa-
cavon La Virgen. This is a famous old
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has been something of a revival of the sill
yer industry at Cerro de Pasco, owing to
the copper ores lying under the low-grade
silver ores and the camp today is more one
of copper than of silver. In the past the
Cerro de Pasco mines have produced enor-
nous quantities. Between 1880 and lS24
q, 300 tons of pure silver were taken out or
them, and the dumps of the mines, If they
were scientifically worked, would bring
fortune. Twenty years ago Cerro de Pasco
was turning out more than million ounces
of silver a year. and / am told that $780,
100000 worth of silver was taken out from
under the ground which the town of
Cerro de Pasco now stands. These mines
were discovered in the seventeenthscentury
by an Indian. He camped out one night
near the site of Cerro de Pasco. Before GO
ing to sleep he built fire upon some stones
Evening star., 1898-08-06
Cuban Courtesy.

From the WomEn's Home Companion
The ever-present politeness OF the Cuban
is perpetual wonder An American lady
entered shop on Obispo street some time
ago and asked for an article which the mer-
chant did not have in stock. IF the sonora
will permit me. 1 will beg to assist her in
finding it," said the obliging shopman. He
thereupon closed and locked his store and
accompanied the stranger to shop after
shop. until she ad been supplied. The Gu
ban then simply bowed and bade her
"Adiosr" to return again to his place of
business, content In the thought that he
had rendered only the kindly duty which a
true Cuban holds is always his due toward
others.
Evening star., 1898-08-06
NEW CURE FOR POISONING.
Wan BIed Almost to Death to Save
His Life.

His Life.
Frcm Pearson's Weekly.
The bleeding of a man almost to death
in order to save his life seems like con-
tradiction in terms, but it is, nevertheless,
a fact, according to the statement of the
chief of the medical staff of a London hos
pital The case was common enough
one a poor wretch tired of life having
taken a large dose of laudanum in order
to put an effectuai end to his miseries.
AS soon as he was taken to the hospital
the physician set to work with stomach
pump and exhausted all the usual meth
ods known to the fraternity in treating
cases of poisoning, but to no aVal. Inc
poison had passed from the mans stomach
into his blood, and in spite of everything
he sank lower and lower. until he was
actually breathing only five times In hVe
minutes.
was practically dead, his blood which was
circulating slowly in his body, being inn
pregnated with the poison, when suddenly.
with a brilliant inspiration, which 1t is
believed marks a new era in the treatment
of this form of poisoning, the physician de-
cided that the only way to get the poison
out Of the mans body was to remove the
blood which contained it.
He knew, as everybody knows, that the
body ordinarily is equal to any demand
made upon it, and will soon manufacture
blood for ITSELF provided that the quantity
of blood withdrawn from the veins is made
up by a corresponding quantity of solu-
tion of salt and water of the same degree
of saltness as the blood itself.
The risk WAS, of course. enormous, but
the circumstances warranted the taking of
it. for such life as there was in the mans
body was good only for very short time
and was hardly life at all, seeing that
consciousness had almost, If not entirely,
vanished.
Accordingly. two pints of blood were
taken from the man, and it was found to
he las black as ink" Two pints of salt
solution were then injected into his veins
and in the course of a few minutes he be-
gan to breathe more rapidly. and one by
one the organs seemed to begin to resume
the normal exercise of their functions.
For days the man had to be carefully
treated but now he's thoroughly well and
without any suspicion of having gone
through the valley of the shadow OF death.
Evening star., 1898-08-06

RURO Is ONE OF
the great mining
centers of Bolivia.
There. are rich de-
posits of silver and
tin in the Andes all
about ii and the
work goes on in the
mines night and day.
There are rich cop
per mines on the De-
saguadero river, not
far from here, and
the whole country,
~ foot cnaD,c rn hn
Evening star., 1898-08-06
A REORGANIZATION.

From Harper's Bazaar.
Florida Native-"They say that thah rich
gent FUN the nawth has got a hslf-grown
alligatuh.'
Second Florida Natiye-"Ya-as; an bime,
by they'll say that q full-grown aliigatuh
has got that thah rich gent FUN the
nawth."
Evening star., 1898-08-06

CLEAN SKIN AND
a sound stomach are
two of the prime pre-
requisites to health,
and the phrase ap-
plies with equal force
to every one of cur
big fighting ships of
today. only, with
them, the cuticle Is
of steel-not flesh as
we ordinarily under
stand 1t and the
boilers are the prin-
cipal organs that reg
,,1otA vitality
Evening star., 1898-08-06
The Richest Silver Mines Found in
Peru and Bolivia.
WOMEN MINERS and HOW THEY WORK
Yankee Smelling Works Earning
100000 a Year.
THE LII a NJ A Z r a / n S

Copyright. 1898, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening STAR
ORURO, Bolivia, June 26. 1S9S
Evening star., 1898-08-06

Museum freak-"Yes.'
Jay Greenr"Hml Wal. what makes you
wild?'
Museum freak-."The fool questions th.t
are being constantly asked ms"-Pu.k.
Evening star., 1898-08-06

Doctor-"well. nurse. did my prescription
prove effective?''
Nurse-"s6re. an. 1t did. sor He died
this morntn' as quiet ~ tamb!'-Judy.
Evening star., 1898-08-06
A Battle Ship Must Have Clean
Skin and Sound Stomach.
DUTIES OF THE CRAWLING BOARD
She Must Be ) dust as spick and
Spanii Outside.
BUT CLEANLINE EsS PAYS

Written for The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1898-08-06

and awoke to find that his stones had
melted and that a lump of silver Stag had
taken their place
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
NEWS FROM NASH.


The Ex-Populists Outnumbered the
Democrats in The Democratic County
Convention.
Mr. II. s. Spruill, OF Franklin, who
has been speaking in Eastern North Car
DINA, was in Raleigh yesterday morn
ing He is confident OF Democratic vic
tory.
THE most notable convention and
meeting yet held in North Carolina was
held in Nashville this week" he said.
Il never saw anything like it. It was an
open air nominating convention and there
were more than 1000 present.
There were more ex-Populists present
and participating in the convention than
Democrats, and they have come back
full of fight They say that their neigh
bors are coming back and that Nash
will be redeemed.
1.-THE ticket nominated is n very strong
one. Mr. Ellen, the House nominee, is
very popular and will run well. Mr.. IL.
A. p. Cooley, nominee for the Senate,
will not only carry the Democratic vote
but get hundreds of Republican and Pop
ulist votes as well. Mr.. L. S. Collie, the
other nominee for the Senate is also pop
ular, and the indications now are that
we viii carry that senatorial district. 1t
sounds almost like an impossible thing.
but the changes are so many that |
really believe Nash will be redeemed
this year.
Governor Jarvis made a great speech
at Nashville and it did much good. The
party in all parts of the East is thor
oughly aroused and the campaign is going
our May."
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A SECRET CIRCULAR LOST.
The Damage was Done by Holton AMI
the Injury Can't be Remedied.


the Injury Can't be Remedied
The world has lost another choice piece
of literature and the Southern Railway
has escaped. by the mere skin of its long
iron teeth, powerful drubbing and Il
scathng denunciation at the hands II
Republican Chairman Holton.
In his waste basket yesterday the
rough darft of a circular was found, III
which the Southern was attacked for
the accident to Jim Young's train near
Asheville the other day, and the man
agement of the road was charged with
being in sympathy with, and in the EN-
ployment of. the Democratic party. The
document said:
I'VE denounce in unmeasured lam
guage If it had been measured It
would have PANIED out about a quarter
of a column the attemtpy of this grasp
ing monopoly to destroy Republican
votes. kill our own beloved negroes and
thereby seriously impair the volunteer
service of these United States, thus en-
aiding the Democratic party to carry the
election for ever hereafter and making
our great and glorious country in future
the football and by-word of other ma
tions"
Why the chairman did not have a few
thousand of these wonderful documents
printed and distributed. we are ut
loss to understand. Certainly they con-
tain as good literature and much better
sense and finer Judgment than many cir
culars that he IS now scattering broad
cast over the land.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
THEY CANNOT DODGE.
1t is Not the Chemists or Station Coun-
ell we Criticized.

ell we Criticized.
Some days ago the News and OBJ
server published a criticism of the
connection Of J. II. Chamberlain
a fertilizer manufacturer Of rath-
er shady repute, with the Board
of Trustees of the A. IL NJ College, who
elected the professors and officers of the
college. 1t so happens that the Board
of Agriculture elects these gentlemen (by
virtue Of their professorships) as the
Station Council. There need be no
lodging. This paper dsclaims criti-
cism of President HOLIDAY. Prof.
Withers, Prof. Massey and Prof. EN-
cry. These gentlemen are well known f.
be of irreproachable character And we
made no criticism of the assistant chem
lists who perfom analytical work. No no.
it is Chamberlain, of dark fame the
public is interested in. He is the man
who remains on the board and gives eX-
cuse for criticism. Had he the fa.ntest
conception of propriety or delicaey Of
feeling he would not remain for a mo-
ment when his presence, because of his
known evasion of the law, gives color
to criticism and really reflects not only
upon his associates on the board of trus-
tees but his business associates as well
as the officers charged with the analysis
of fertilizers. He should get out. Ever
this rank administration can't stomach
him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
THE JEWISH NEW YEAR.
Israel's Great Religious Holiday Began
at Sunset Yesterday.


The Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashana,
began at sunset yesterday, and in ac-
cordance with ancient practices, the
New Years eve ritual was read in the
Hebrew temples and synagogues all over
the land yesterday evening. The services
We're brief, there being no sermons, and
only prayers and the reading Of the ritual
prescribed by Jewish faith for that
sacred day. To-day the New Years day
services viii be held in both churches,
and the rabbits will preach.
Religious ceremonies win be continued
for ten days, the last being the great
fast day, from Hakkipnrini, the day of
atonement. the Jews celebrate also the
Christian New Year, which they look
upon as time for merry-making and
happy social meetings. bur their own
New Year they regard as strictly a re-
ligious and sacred period, when the
thoughts Of men should be turned to the
Most High and to the betterment of
their own inner selves.
The Hebrew New Year falls regularly
in early autumn. The calendar is divi-
ded into lunar months of twenty-nine and
thirty days, there being twelve months
in an ordinary year and thirteen months
in leap year. BY inserting an addi-
tional month in seven out of nineteen
years, the calendar is made to coincide
with the solar periods.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
ADVENTURES OF MISS BROWN.
Or it May Sometimes Pay to Be a, Wo
man-For just Little While.

'sThe Strange Adventures OF Miss
Brown" to be at the Academy of Music
Monday night, is an exceedingly funny
farce in three acts. So bright aRl swift
in action is it that it is considered a
competitor to "Charley's Aunt 1t CON
tains all the homogeneous situations that
a man can conceive while masquerading
in feminine attire.
The play deals with the adventures OF
a young army officer, in disguise of q
school girl, sojourning in an academy
for young ladies, while in search of his
wife whose guardian separated them on
the eve of their marriage. The compli'
cations and situations keep the audience
laughing from start to finish.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
RELIEF IN SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
1t is a great surprise on account of lis
exceeding promptness in relieving pain
in bladder kidneys and back, in male or
female. Relieves retention Of water al
most Immediately. If you want quick re-
lief and cure this is the remedy. Sold
by Heartt & Heartt, druggists, Raleigh,
n. G.
Nature has demonstrated that only the
fit survive. Our thirty years OF sue
cessful business prove that
ROYSTER'S CANDY
is a survival OF the fittest.
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WANTED.

BY a Virginia lady of much experience,
situation either in College, Institute
or private family. Qualifications: En-
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Theory and Photography. Music a
speciality. Having studied three years
at the New England Conservatory of
Music, Boston, Mass. References given
and required Miss f. f. Miller, Slate
Mills, Va.
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FOR SALE.

The beautiful residence of the late DIR.
r. d. Fleming within few hundred
yards of the limits of the town of War
renton, n. c., is offered for sale. 1t is
nine room dwelling with n 70 acre
farm, well watered and improved, with
good stables and silo. Convenient houses
for servants. Good well and cistern-
delightful and healthy location. Write
or apply to Mrs. A. V. Fleming.
Warrenton, n. G.
9-14-4t
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WANTED.

Wanted by Baltimore Wholesale
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ern North Carolina, Western North Caro-
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Only those with established trade, and
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PHYSICIANS WANTED.

To buy an established practice, in
Guiding my property, in Il town of
5000 inhabitants. in one of the best dis
tricts in the State. Little opposition.
Best of reasons for selling. Address
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
MUSICALE LAST NIGHT.

The musicale at the Carrollton last
night was a success. The crowd in at
tendance was a very large one, and
over $40 was taken in by the manage
ment The music was of very high
order, all those on the programme acquit-
ting themselves with great credit.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17

If You don't take home fry OF oysters
81 21c from Dughi's, your wife don't like
oySlcrs, CT you don't love 1er. Judge
and jury decide the case-she liked the
oysters, but you don't love her-Dughi.
of course.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-17
A FINE CAFE.

The cafe at the Capital Club is meet
ing with deserved success. Both the
cafe and the bar are magnificently fitted
M and under the management of Col.
l.. ]. Walker. They will be kept strictly
np-to-date.
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FOR SALE.

Physicians practice and drug store
combined 70 physician only. Price,
100000 cash 80 visits daily. Big Of
flee work Store cashes $500 daily.
Address, Box 90 Wilmington, Del.
14-3t.
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DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve has the
largest sale Of any Salve in the world.
This fact and its merits has led dishonest
people to attempt to counterfeit it. Look
out for the men who attempts to deceive
you when you call for DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve the great pile cure. ]. Hal
Bobbitt and Henry r. Hicks.