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[ bromide, iodide or chloride on an in- dustrial plan and scale as is now done with it's cyanide has ever been sought until Mir Pack began.
 Most of the silver now produced is by-product of copper, lead and gold mines which are not worked for the silver
 "To me it is simply practical busi- ness proposition" said MT. Pack, and I shall experiment as I am able to in a practical way and without forming any companies. As a business proposi- tion I now regard this bittern as worth from 50 cents to $1 50 a ton. An cleo trolytic method appears to me most promising"
 Almarin B. Paul, the well-known pio- neer mining engineer and writer on mining themes, was the first to intro duce the cyanide process in this State a few years ago and he has given much study to this subject, which is kindred to MT. Packs problem. In dis cussing MT. Packs idea he said:
 T have read Mir. Packs article and I consider his suggestion worthy of consideration and experiment. If there
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.ium and sodium The magnesium would crystalline next if the process were continued. The gold which is present is not discoverable by the or dinary processes of chemical analysis and if it is not specially sought, gen. eraIly by electrolytic process, it es- capes observation.
 When the residue or b1ttern is run out of the vats in which the salt has crvstallized it has been reduced in vol ume about 100 times. If the original sea water contained 2 cents worth of gold to the ton this residue would con- tain $2 worth to the ton.
 The problem set by MT. Pack is the invention of a process which will prof itably recover gold from a solution of bromide or iodide of gold carrying values of $2 a ton or a little less. There will be no element of speculation in the reduction because the values will be constant.
 No process for getting gold from its
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few sanguine ones are confident that the fall of the hated northern Tartar is near at hand, all of which means q return of the Ching family to the throne, or the organization of a stronger and more liberal form of gov- ernment. Either change would be con- sidered a distinct gain for the people, for they all declare themselves tired of the corruption and misrule of the party in power. Ii Hung Chang Is thorough ly hated by the Chinese of this cOun- try, and they have less confidence in the wisdom of the Dowager Empress.
 At the offices of the Ghee Kung Tong the simon pure revolutionary society of this country-the excitement has about reached the boiling point, and it's members do not hesitate to say that they think the Emperor has been as- sassinated. and even intimate that the murder was done bv one of their num- ber They claim to be thoroughly fa~ miliar with the visit of their agent to Victoria, and say his mission to that British province is to collect funds, and aid the Ghee Kung Tong in every pos sible manner in it's attempt to over throw the present imperial Government of China. They say that shipments of arms from the port of Victoria has been going on for some time, and will continue so long as it is deemed neces- Sary, or they are called to halt by the English Government.
 Eli Tia Kee, a member of the firm of Wing Chong Wo & CO., and a very in telligent man, born in this country but educated in China, gave his views on the subject as follows: We are very much in the dark as to what has been done in China during the last few days. We all feel that something serious has happened, but we are unable, so far, to get anything like satisfactory news through the regular channels. The Minister at Washington, in reply to our telegrams, says l have not been officially notified of the EmperorS death,' and we can't get another word out of him. We all know that the in- surgents are ] aking it very lively for the imperial troops in Southern China, and from all we can learn through private correspondence the rebels seem to have a shade the better of the game
 "Yes I think every Chinese who has seen anything of the world would very willingly take up arms against the present dynasty. Of course you know that we do not consider them even countrymen-I say we with consldera- ble reservation, for I am a native Of California-but mean the Chinese peo- ple The Manchurians are in power, however and have been for few hun- dred years, during which time the country and it's people have been stead fly deteriorating, and l believe any change of rulers would be warmly wei comed Could we but have something in the way of liberal and progressive government for China, you would see one of the greatest boons in trade that the world has witnessed for many year.
 '.The empire is rich in natural re- sources, and could be made the great est mining and agricultural country on earth. It's many rivers offer the cheap est of all means of transportation. All that is needed is steam. iron and lot of Yankee enterprise to make China great commercial power.
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o From the Cities Before the Conquerng Rebels Advance

the lower part of the character "Ching''-that is the Ching dynasty; and the third is the lower portion of q character used to express the word ..Manchu." The top parts of the Ching and Manchu are dispensed with-that is the heads are cut off. Making the character headless gives this interpre- tation: That the designers or the lag yVish to convey to the native mind the fact that the rebellion is directed against the ruling Manchu dynasty; that they are fighting for Chinese as opposed to the corrupt Tartar rulers, and that they have bound themselves to decapltate the Manchurian rulers.
 There passed through this city few days ago, on his way home after some years residence in Southern China, Carl Weiner, an Austrian engineer MT Weiner was at Wuchow when the re- port reached there of the rebel ad- vance on that city, and he paints a strange picture of the sudden evacua-
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French army stationed at Tonquin, and a few Black Flags, who have long been known as the best fighting men In China worthy of the name. This, cOupled with the fact that they are being led by foreigners, is significant or what may result, for the Chinaman Is a good soldier when given a good lead CT as was fully demonstrated by Gen eral Gordons ever victorious army.
 Tt is fully believed that the insur- gents can make matters very warm TOT fhe inDeriaI troops and this was shown a short time ago when they succeeded in capturing nine cities of KWang Sl and sxnally defeated the lmperlal troops in two great battles.
 "The rebels are treating the people very we'll" said MT. Weiner- They distribute among the peasants ana small shopkeepers large portion or inc money and Valuables seized in the caDtured cities and are disrloutlng far and wide pamphlets setting 1orth the misery and wretchednesS' even tile degradation which has fallen to the lot of Chinese as a result of the greed, ig- norance and intolerance of Manchu- rian rulers. They declare their inten- ton to promptly regard each village, town or city that supplies n9htlns men without impressment.
 "At the battle of WuchoW the lnsur gents fought a division under the com mand of no less a parsonage than Lac Yun. a brigadier general in the Cnlnese orrnv After the fall of the city n1teen bundred dead and wounded were ieI' i1non the field and according to Chlhese ciIstom the wounded were killed py the yictors. A majority of the purple-
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ton. Boats, junks and sampans were hired by every one who could afford them, and as fast as possible their money and valuables were shipped to escape the footing and pillage which must be the inevitable result of the place falling into the hands of the in surgents MT. Weiner joined the eXo- dus, for he had no desire to be present at the fall of Wuchow
 If I had remained another day he said q might not have been able to reach here and tell you the tale.
 At Canton he found the Chinese au- thorities had taken flight and were hastily making preparations to repel the invaders. But Chinese methods are notoriously behind the times and the rebels were allowed to gain fast hold on many districts before the authorl- ties were prepared and the chance oI nipping the revolution in the bud was lost.
 The authorities purchased 5000 Mau- ser rifles and a number of machine guns which were sent to Wuchow, but 1t is doubtful if they were ever re- ceiyed, for 1t is reported that the con- voy Joined the rebels and the arms were used against the very authorities who purchased them. The three or four native banks of WuchOW were taken by the insurgents when the city fell
 "Rebellions in China" Mir Weiner continued, generally come to grief owing to the Chinese greed for loot, all order being lost in the rush for per sonal gain. The leaders are unable to restrain their followers even if, as sell dom happens, they are not themselves a party to mercenary motives. The leaders in the present revolution are, beside Dr. Sun Yat Sen-the Chinese saved from the clutches of his country men at the legation in London-two French adventures and German army captain. The ranks are full of Anamites and deserters from the
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on the Alameda salt ,r,arebas in making the compaI~aeis ~ sets ;s crnau amount of salt proouSoo oa,,rt bnt a small fraction or tiie .ncld's similarly thrown away Ill lIle ,e+bod nroduction of salt by this saiiAe
 of obtaining salt. 1s72 men ware as ignorant of the almost uhlN et = sal nresence of gold in sea WaleI erS thev were then of the presence ol t'i S; q o i' in the air. In that year oonSIaus E.Io I, In a covered gold in sea water. ol'Eel 1osI been discovered in sea water III ,oa loU' bI,t that element may be ignored neIe. Other chemists in other parts oI the world confirmed the discovery.
 Tba contribution to the d1ScuSSloh oI tho suhiect which has attracted the most attention was that ot ProIess0r A A. T,iversidge of the New Soutn " dies d 19ovaI Societv. who found that the sea ,,.o{o,. e off New South Wales contained fror,, fve-tenths to ten-tenths of a grain of gold to the ton, or from two to four cents worth Professor LfVersldge estimated the bulk of the oceans or the world at 307,710,679 cubic mlles. lie figured 1t out that on this pasls anu at one grain of gold to the ton @ oo one worlds oceans held in solution $4S,000,- 0oo 00O worth of gold. This is but a be gatelle compared with all the gold in tbe aarth's composition and awaiting nrosnectors and assayers. It illustrates the universality of this hard-to-get metal, which smart assayer can now fnd in almost every brick and cobble- stone.
 At only three cents ton the gold in +be waters of San Francisco Bay would be worth over $32S, ,O0O,0OO
 "I find the gold in the ocean water proper." said MT. Pack, "only in solu- tion and amounting to about 0.5 Of a orain-in value about cents-while the gold in the San Francisco Bay is probably about twice that amount, but
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The Black Floqs Kiog RennoDts rial RoteoioD

is $1 50 worth of gold in the material it can probably be recovered with profit, but the discovery of a process is a mat ter for experiment and probably of loss in the early ges of development.
 "Everything depends upon how cheaply gold may be recovered from it's bromide or iodide and upon the quantity that can be worked at once. Processes are constantly getting cheap CT The cost of operating the cyanide process varies from 90 cents to s a ton according to conditions. A process that will profftably handle bittern for it's gold must have a very low cost in power labor, time and so on. l regard Mir Packs idea as a practical possi- bility as well as interesting in scien- tific way"
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Y VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. That
 I maze of filthy lanes and dirty
 shacl5s which constitute China
 U town-the little China, which
 stands like a city within city below Government street (the prlhel- pal street of VictOria), hides many mysteries behind it's portals and many stories which would read most strange ly to those who never wander beyond the city walls In these narrow lanes the wanderer sees iron-barred Win dows, which screen Chattering Chinese women who are slaves, although, as in hollow moCkery, the Union Jack hutters from the Joss-hOuse near by.
 In many of the lanes are entrances to various secret societies and hidden away in back rooms the aImond-eyed pagans gather to plot-and to plot means to gather fees-fOr the main tenance of their secret war against the Chinese empire.
 At the present time these societies are agOg with the excitement COnse- quent upon the reported death of the Emperor. With the news that the re- be.lIOn is progressing faVOrably all Chinatown is alive with but one topic of cOnVersatiOn-the overthrow of the Manchurian dynasty.
 The Chinese of this city are mostly kWangs, relatives of the two great Kwangs of Canton, the prime movers in the present revolution in Southern China To intensity the excitement a native of the rebel junta has just ar rived He is in Chinatown, securing funds and asking for other assistance to help the overthrow of the Manchu. rians. This agent was seen by the writer at his present residence on Fis- gard street and appears to be quite an intellectual man. He discOurses most learnedly on the aims and objects of his mission and of the revolution. The man seems without fear of detection, but death never seems to trouble Chinese while living in the Occident even though he be a rebel. If he were to use the same methods in China de- capitati0n might be expected to follow in short order.
 We are successful beyond our most sanguine expectations, he said, with bland Oriental smile. Since the stand ard of revolt was raised south of Wu- chow on the 24th day of the sixth moon. which is to say, according to your account. the 11th of July, thous- ands have fiOcked to this banner and before I left Canton nine walled cities had fallen into our hands. We had two big battles with the imperial troops and killed nearly two thousand. Would you like to see our flag"
 1 replied that I would. He slipped on his shoes and led the way through Innumerable passages and doors which
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were opened sesame-like by attend ants, to back room where about twenty Chinese. in their holiday garb. sat around table. My guide, the agent, joined in the chorus of voices and at the conclusion of each sentence every man went through ths dumb pantomime Of cutting off his queue. That will come" said my guide, when the success of our cause is ac- complished."
 Then came a chant. I would like to have joined that. but the brogue Vas beyond me. My guide shouted in screechy gutturals:
 Out with the Ching.
 In with the Ming"
 I joined with my little tenor and if I can rely upon what I have been told of China under two hundred years of Manchurian misrule I meant it with all my heart
 "This would be the expression of all
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tion of the town. He says the signi- hcance of the outbreak cannot be over estimated, for, although apparently but provincial uprising, 1t is the child play that must soon grow into man affair, all of which means the over throw of the present power. Those who are at the bottom of the trouble are members of the young China party, which during the last few years has sent emiSsaries abroad wherever there are numbers of Chinese They have succeeded most wonderfully in enlist ing sympathy. This party has sworn not only to have new government and policy, but new rulers and officials on every side. To accomplish this young China has gained the sympathy-much of it being paid sympathy-of the Tai pings, a great many of whom are in the Wuchow district. It has been said at Hongkong and other settlements that the rising is but local affair, and that importance is attached to 1t only on the ground that 1t began In the same province as the old Taiping rebellion. There are some, too, who, hearing the r1ImOrs dismiss them, for they know that the people of this district are the most troublesome in all the empire.
 They are mostly Kwangs, and they are the people who cross the Pacific and after a few years residence abroad their characters are changed without being improved, and on their return they become ultra-radical, always looking for trouble.
 MT. Weiner was at Wuchow on the memorable Saturday when messengers arrived, announcing the news that the rebels were advancing with their ban ners and the terrible 'tBlack Flag" waving in the fore. On receipt of this information. which was mouthed about the city, all were thrown into panic. Bullock carts were at a premium and long trains laden with goods and val uables were soon on their way to Can-
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with the hlgh- ly concentrated "bittern" which Is thrown away
 at such salt works after the salt is secured,
 instead of be- ginning opera tions on the nor nal sea water. He would start in with raw ma terial having an assay value 100 tim e s greater than plain sea water. This $40,- ? 900 worth of gold that IS
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your countrymen." said the agent, did they but know what this revolution will mean to them. Regardless of our object, the conquest of Peking and the restoration of the Ming dynasty, it means a commercial advantage to the rest of the world that is almost be- yond comprehension. If the Manchu ruling of China were broken down and a new dynasty substituted it would have a far-reaching effect and prove a stronger barrier against the Russian advance, which is now causing sU much talk in Europe, than all thenup- lomatic machinations of the worlds statesmen. With such a dynasty Rus sia, whose dream is to succeed in Man. churia, would be forestalled.
 But you want to see the flag"
 A clap of his hands, and one of the men at the table went to a cupboard and brought out a red triangular flag with gold borders inscribed with Chi nese characters in black.
 To a majority of the Chinese the characters on this flag are unintelligi- ble Two are hierOglyphics which the best scholars are unable to recognize as Sanscrit, Manchu or Chinese. The first character is complete and the agent said may be taken to mean Pierce as a tiger" The second and third are incomplete. The second IS
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rbosa who delight to caicula.e a.,,-,d in
 ot Imoot of loose gold floating arounu no,,,a tt. ta ocean figure out that the sat aU mU' n of ene LII tbe Alameda shore of the pay pay, n Ur z, e, on 'iF Francisco are yearly throm1nS e, az. 0an sao GOO worth or more or eolo al away a,'aHoTating a little of the bay ~dIea the eor salt further, they figure tn1r ',+tnn tno ahoIt M%aTt { s3OO 900 900 worth of gold o, of me man who has conceived d "ey oa oa .oaarsaring | me ilrr at least slight percentage lFo4h pf tbis is gold is J. W. Pack lie coine le PET lpa Tnited States Mint at san flan- oisco on September 1, ana has 'ii1Je Ie Snan eisCo retained as assistant assayer. ne Tie pos p been studying and experimenlins ls nIlfetIv naS for years on the recovery Of gold from sea water .,,o rob1an bv
 Mir Pack approaches the propleli oS
 ;ndirection and proposes the novel loea S of making it a by-product of the nanu- e- faotnre of salt by evaporating sea rr'1 tTater His idea briefly is to start Tn
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At the Soda Fountain.-Party Waiting W1aiterEGoming, sir. Your wink is be- ing deciphered.-Detroit Journal.
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r MING gold in concentrated M ':: : :: : : 5: : :::; $ = : :::
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%@NEH R}3<ng o< he 38zack E74gs m China

Insurgents,
 his friends the attack g/
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 WINNING FOR GOLD IN SEA WAlER

Experiments metal as GoPo yPan9 nnuan7 m @ s d ~
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Special to The Sunday Call.

Y VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. That
 maze of filthy lanes and dirty shacls which constitute China y town-the little China, which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06

Finally fashion came 10 H. St Johns PARK
extending from tho church doors 10 the North
River. was laid out as a beautiful private pleas
ground. Here was Hudson Square and the
trim. red brick houses that lined this green were
occupied by men Of prominence For these 81
Johns. modelled after a design Of Sir Chrlstophef
Wren's was the browning feature. In the early
thrties the fashionable society of the town was
c,rtred here. Little by little, as the district OF
H,nry-st and East Broadway itself fell from io
high estate, SO did the region Of 81. Johns ParA
The uptown movement set in during the httieS
ard fashion moved away The building OF the
Laight-st freight depot OF the New-Norh CEN
trail on the upper end of the park was - Jon"
death blow. This was in the early SIXTIES a"0
Of all the famous men who had lived under Wv
shadow Of Its spirs but one remained-'0~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06
ROW OF OLD HOUSES IN BOWLING GREEN.

have histories, varied histories. and they are III
within the reach Of the real estate mans anu
the builders eagle eye The Broome-st. WOODEN
house is already doomed, though it does not lie
in what might be thought fine section Tor real
estate Improvement. But the wealthy Heore"
landowner who purchased this property the Quiet
day decided that the land was too valuable tor
such a building and towering brick tenement
house Is to rise on its site. The curious quaint
little red brick building at the corner or Duane
st and Broadway, which has the honor accord
ing to tradition, Of having been President van
Burens stopping place while that worthy was
in New York has not been directly attacked YET,
but it's land is one OF the parcels most sought
after in the city. AS landmark 1t has recently
lest its chief glory. In It's Duane-st. end has
teen running for half a century and more New
Yorks genuine "Cobweb Hail." public house
OF the real old time This has now gone to be
replaced by a saloon that is modern.
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called seventy years ago when the houses were
bran new and handsome-has been sold In i'm
agination a dozen times these last ten yecrs
The National Government came very near buy
ing IT, II cannot be long before that. too. goes
st. Johns Church. with its fine spire and its
dignifed severe porticoed front, IL by all odds
the most impressive OF all these. 1t has some
what strange history. When the foundations
were being laid, very early in the century,
they were laid in marshy ground, Lspenard's
Meadows that lay to the west being salt
meadows, and Of little use except for cattle
Then Canal-st was a canal in very truth, drain
ing off the Collect Pond, where the Tombs now
stands. In 1907, and for several years there
after QSO7 being the year this church was fin
ished), ST. Johns was obscure and little known
being too far out Of town.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06
COBWEB HALL, AT DUANEST. AND BROADWAY.

st. Johns Church in Varick-st., Is seeing its
las. days. Though Trinity Corporation denies
the report that time has been fixed for It's
f-ssing, the officials do not hesitate to say that
its destruction has been determined upon some
day in the near future And what Is now
Steamship Row." the red brick houses at the
cot Of Bowling Green-"Mushroom Row" 1t was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-06
ANCIENT DWELLINGS.

70 stop and gaze. OF course, in the riverward
sections Of the city, especially far downtown,
few curious old buildings have been left unds-
tuibed. But these for the most part. always out
OF the lire Of affairs, have no story TO tell
What is Of chief interest about such landmarks
as these is. however. the question whether they
are soon to be destroyed The four shown here