The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-01

but tri1e. The compounds secure to the
miners good food, regular hours, the saving of
their money. and give opportunity for mis-
:sionary work by preaching and schools. Best
! Of ALL it keeps them from the curse of rum.
| Without some kind of protection their moral
and physical Generalization is fearful A
common remark is: "The natives come to the
gold and diamond mines savages; they go
away devils" The compound system is a
good thing.
Sir Alfred Miner, Governor of Cape Colony,
and high commissioner of Rhodesia, was also
on his way to Bulawayo, and spending the
Sunday In Kimberley, and he and his special
suite were guests in the principal compound
In the afternoon. We were also invited. Rev.
Mr.. Morris, the Wesleyan missionary to ma
| tives, took us an hour earlier than the Gov
urnor was to arrive, so we could join in his
native service. The company had erected q
neat chapel for the use of ministers of differ
emit churches, and hours are arranged so there
Is no conflict, and each has his crowd Of ma
tives who wait on his ministry After both
Mrs. Hartzell and myself had spoken the
words of each being passed by two interpret
ers), the natives sang led by the organ and
cornet There We're some genuinely converted
men in The audience, and Brother Morris told
OF letters from some who had returned to
their people and continue true to their pro-
fession.
tives in honor of the Governor and invited
guests. Men Of the various tribes united to
see who could give the best concerts, marches,
or war dances. It was the African show at
che Worlds fair multiplied thousand times
In quantity and quality. There was an open
OF visitors were given chairs, and then gath
cred about on all sides were the three thou
| sand natives who live in that compound. To
my. dellght one company sang several jubilee
songs, including 'Who Made the Ark? go
Down, Tell Noses" and "Steal Away" A
jubilee troupe, led by an American negro, had
sung to them recently, and these black men
reproduced the songs from memory. On Sun
day evening preached to a large Wesleyan
Methodist audience, and fell asleep at mid
! night, planning how the Christian world could
best reach those blacks in the compound, vino
marched, played On their rude instruments,
danced and sang so we'll; the thousands in all
| the compounds, and the millions they rep
| resent!
Kimberley has %, 71S inhabitants, 1858 Of
whom are Europeans. A few years ago The
site OF the city was only few acres Of Karroo
Veldt, In the midst of other hundreds of miles
| OF acres, valueless, except occasionally where
river had water enough no. to get lost en-
| tlrely IN the sand just when water is most
neeoed, or where there is a living spring, or
! well with water In it. Now there is we'll
appointed city with avenues, parks, water
works, hospitals schools, churches, and
properly valuation of $4,000, 900.
In 1870 Dutch farmer had a finely cofored
stone among her playthings which was &C
c1dentally noted by trader. It first sold for
$1,000 Two years later another was found
| In the hands OF Hottentot, who sold it for
$4,000. 1t weighed eighty-three and one-half
carats, was christened "The Star of Africa"
is worth 100000, and belongs to the Countess
OF Dudley. Soon ten thousand men of every
| language and nationality were digging in the
sands OF the river beds, where the Vaal, Mod
aer' ana orange come together. Four mines
! were discovered twenty miles away from the
rlvers, and results soon showed that the
precious stones were to be found in peculiar
blush clay. These four mines are within
space three and One-half miles square, and
| from this little area nine tenths of all the
diamonds CT Africa have thus far been taken.
Inc mines at Kimberley are the craters and
pipes or extinct volcanoes encircled by stone,
and filled with hard blue clay that has been
! subjected to enormous heat, and thrown up
from the depth below. In this mud or clay
the diamonds are scattered. None Of this
! peculiar clay is scattered beyond the lips of
| the craters. Perhaps when the eruptions oc-
! CURED the plain was the bottom of an island
| lake which finally broke over it's barriers to
| the sea- and the diamonds found in the river
sands collected there from the overflow blue
| clay: the waters subsidized and the rivers were
uAeQ III tnelr present bedE.
imagine an immense stovepipe, half or
| three-fourths of mile in diameter, thrust
| down into the earth and filled with hard.
blue clay, with these valuable stones scat
| tered through it, like occasional "goodins'
| in stingily made plum pudding, land you
have the shape and appearance of a KIM
| berley diamond NINE
Kimberley in 1870 was, as we.say out West.
int
thousand men were scrambling pell-mell, in
dust and heat, sleeping as best they could.
and eating such canned stuffs as could be
hauled 500 miles, suffering, and many dying
from sickness and exposure; the whole mass,
enthused with an almost insane ambition for
wealth, only the few succeeding, and the vast
majority more insane still over defeat. For
ten years the mines were developed with
varying success to individuals and COM
panies: BY that time it was fully demon
strateu mat the supply was practically mex
taustlble. Cut-throat competition began. and
the whole industry was threatened with de-
struction. Then was begun the organization
OF th> de Beers Mining company which soon
owned all the mines and controlled in out
put and price the diamond market of thu
world; - -" :
mated, ten tons, were secured, worth $780,
O0o,OO0 at the mine, and worth twice that
amount when cut and offered for sale to the
world! This does not include $4,000, 900
worth secured from the river mines.
Returned K1ondiker and Hi. Alaskan
Wife Amuse People of Seattle.
People who come West with the idea
that gold can be picked up in the
streets would not have been disap-
pointed had they happened to be in
the vicinity of the Seattle hotel, at Seattle,
WASH, when George Carmack who has just
returned from the Klondike country with
many sacks of nuggets-and also an Indian
wife and several of her Alaskan relatives
decided to have some recreation. The sport
he decided on needed lots of ready cash, but
Carmack has it "to burn"
Carmack and his wife and retinue wendell
their way to the top of the Seattle hotel with
large supply Of coin, and then proceeded to
have what they very evidently considered
good time; and unquestionably the effect of
the first shower of coin into the streets was
amusing. In few moments there was
scramble that would have put a college cane
rush In the shade. AS the merry Jingle Of
coins resounded, the pieces bounding from
the pavements on to the street. men dived
from the sidewalks and off the passing street
cars and butcher carts, and transfers hurled
themselves Into the air from seats, conductors
and motormen forgot all about their charges
ana policemen forgot to say Move on!' The
street became seethfng mass Of struggling
humanity. Hats were broken and lost, faces
were bruised and bleeding, coats were torn.
and linen was soile6. III
"A barber who had been standing on the
corner when the golden deluge began was one
OF the nrst IN the scramble and the last to