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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

the Kimberly, De Beers and the Premier.
The Bultfontein and Dutoitspan, though
controlled by the company, are not work
ed. He visits the convict station, the va
rious departments of each mine, pracu-
cally handles every diamond shipped from
the country, and in general takes care of
his family which consists OF n,OU0 nat
i've Africans and 1000 white miners.
Digging for the Gems.
Mining diamonds requires more kinds of
attention than any other industry and
Mr.. Williams has his work cut out Tor
him. He knows exactly how many loads
are hauled out each day, and how many
feet of blue earth have been eNcavated.
This blue clay is the home of the dia-
mond. Ii runs in veins and the process
Is to sink a shaft and blast along Levels
al distances regulated SO that one Will
not fall on another below. The De Beers
mine has now been carried down TO and
beyond 1,4oO feet, and the Kimberly 10
1900 feet. The Premier is less rich than
these two, but has a larger area, and is
very easily worked, so that much lower
cost of production compensates for
smaller yield.
The amount of blue ground reported as
in sight was estimated at that time as
100000 loads in the De Beers and 100000
in the Kimberly; while in the Premier
there were 2,750,00O loads above the 125-
foot level. and 100000 loads brought 10
view by further exploration to 167 feet,
in all 6,275,000 loads. The total in the three
mines would thus be over 15,000,00O loads.
That is enough to keep them busy at Kim
berry for five years, but Mr.. Rhodes is
cautious and advocates constant dimi-
mutton in the yearly output for fear thar
this vein of blue ground may suddenly he
exhausted and humanity deprived of its
supply of diamonds.
Watching for Thieves.
He has also instructed Mr. Williams to
tighten the watch against diamond thieV-
ing, for when the employees learn that the
stones have increased in value nearly one
half there is sure 10 be an outbreak KIN that
direction, which the Illicit diamond buyers
will take advantage of.
Although the J. u. b. traffic has been
suppressed to a great extent the Kimberly
DETECTIVES are kept very busy and the sur
geo.is at the hospital in the compound
have plenty of sore legs to baudage While
visiting there recently / saw a Mat abele
boy dying of lockiaw caused by a tetTible
wound in his right leg. He had cut open
the calf and concealed a diamond weigh
ing 81 carats in the flesh.
This seems TO be the favorite place of
concealment. Formerly the boys did a
thriving business by swallowing the dia-
mouds, but Mr.. Williams has put a stop
to that by penning up these II, 900 natives
i'm one great Enclosure called the compound
and 1t is safe 10 say that no such habi-
tation like this is to be found on the face
of the earth
II is built in the form of a square and
includes about five acres Along each side
of the square are built one-story corugat-
ed iron buildings divided into rooms hold
ing twenty natives each.
A high iron fence is erected around the
compound, ten feet from the building. and
guards armed with Martini rifles patrol
thereabout.
Even with this arrangement. however,
it was found that many diamonds were be-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

DIAMOND or two. The company RECEIVERS
about 100000 worth of diamonds a year
from the native employees in this way.
The boys in the compound are a iolIv
lot. The convict laborers, on the contrary
present sullen appearance and look like
murderers. These men are employed most
~ in sorting the diamonds as they come
from the washing machines. Renewed
guards, with Instructions 10 shoot the first
man who attempts to escape, watch every
movement of these unfortunate beings
The law again 1. d. b, in fact Is terribly
stringent. Any person caught in Cape
Colony with a rough diamond in his pos
session and no certificate OF registry gets
q snort shift. If a white man he IS sent
TO the Breakwater convict station at
Cape Town for perhaps ten years, where
he Is employed In excavating for the new
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01
DIAMOND MINES MAY FAIL.
MIRA NAY FURNISH THE NEW
yields AND SUPPLY JEWELS.

ar Of the De Beers Combine.
my BarnatO Put the Year Out
nut OF Gems in /" Bucket One Day
md bought the Whole Lot-This
s.arted the Plan of Restricting
.no output and Increasing Prices.
c.ciI Rhodes Afraid supply viii
1.iI-4mazing Resources of Dia-
mond Thieves-one stone Hidden
n the Calf of a Boys Leg-$2, 0OO,-
ooa worth n Year Recovered From
PiIferers.
New York, Sept. 29.-The price Of dia-
.,onas are going up and this is why:
ono dlv. about ten years ago, Barney
earnato. who began life in South Africa
a. a peddler of cheap jewelry and ended it
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01
MOZLEY's LEMON ELIXIR.
REGULATES THE LIVER, STOMACH
BOWELS AND KIDNEYS

For biliousness, constipation. aud maIa-
ria.
For indigestion, sick and nervous head
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For sieeplessness, nervousness and hear,
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For fever. chills, debility and kidney
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Ladies, for natural and thorough or
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Prepared only by Or. II. Motley. At.
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

MO that dumped all the rough diamonds
mat had been mined during the year 1888
Ihey flied it to the brin.
Now" ne said, I'm buy that bucket
d diamonds from you, Rhodes, just as
they are inserted"
The two quickly agreed upon a price,
ana then and there was laid the founda-
Non Of the famous diamond syndicate
winch IS now attracting the attention of
"'e gem-wearing public, for when Bar
iato packed up the stones and sent them
10 London and Amsterdam it required the
experts there three months to accomplish
Tue sorting and in that period diamonds
necame so scarce on the market that they
nesdh TO bring fancy prices Mr.. Rhodes,
VINO can awaken 10 such an lopporttinftv
Nllhout being roughly jo.ted,,s aw it was
- 5000 thing and since then his syndicate
.as oeen buying up the Kimberly dia-
'uohd crop in advance. doing out the
stones as it sees fit
lie product is now arranged for until
June, 1900, and If the demand for these
epdIkIlhS baubles continues to increase
u" one can say what diamonds will be
worth year from now, The De Beers
ohsoildated Mines Company, has the
N'rld at its mercy Not enough diamonds
a,e produced in Brazil, Australia and 9TH
scattered localities 10 supply the de-
au'hd OF the city of Philadelphia alone
lo jewelers. in Maiden Lane say that the
market value of stones IS already 10 per
cent higher than it was a year ago. with
u.alcalions that the high water mark has
'ot been reached. Every few weeks the
~ udlcate makes 10 per cent advance
""d the buyers must pay 1t or leave their
oonIcacts untitled, which is a costly pro
coeding.
Enormous Profits.
Meanwhile the De Beers Consolidated is
Song right along paying 40 per cent. divi-
"'nu ana the following financial state
"sht Tor the year ending June 80. 1895,
[AoWs Just what profit is being made
rom humanity's love of adornment.
i lhancial Statement De Beers Consoll-
amount realized from dia-
1, niouos produced .....,s s...S, 6i7S74 10 II
expenses, including
mounts written off ma
rnlnery and plant account rs 2eO II &
redemption OF debentures
%'H obligations .............. $4,000 % O.
interest on above ......... 177226 IA 6
De. 1s7O079 1 )
proat ....'......, .1,77,795 y 6
front and Loss Account
u.l. SD.
I rald,ce as above ...........1 ,777 795 u s
~ ~. stments and rents ..... 22242 3
-'''eresl on consols .....,.....-31, O36 0 10
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01
A CARD.

This is to certify that used DR.. MOI
ley's Lemon Elixir for neuralgia of the
head and eyes with the most marked ben
eft to my general health. would gladly
have paid $500 for the relief il has given
me at a cost of two or three dollars. H.
A. Beail Clerk Superior Court, Randolph
County, Georgia.--ad.
In the trousseau OF the Princess Can
taeuzene is new kind Of dress, an auto
mobile costume.
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PROMINENT MEMPHIAN WRITES

Dr. Fl. Mqzley, Atlanta: Having been
a great sufferer for three years from in
digestion and been treated by many ply
sicians, who failed TO give me any relief
Continuing to grow worse my brother
advised me to try DR.. Mozleys Lemon
Elixir, which remedy he had used for sew
eral years / commenced its use. and must
say that your Lemon Elixir Is the great
est medicine on earth. / have never suf-
fered a uay since 1 commenced using Lem
on Elixir. r. l.. Rocco, 206 fernando
street, Memphis, Tenn.
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A PROMINENT MINISTER WRITES

After ten years Of great suffering from
indigestion, with great nervous prostra-
ton. biliousness. disordered kidneys and
constipation. have been cured by DR..
Mozley's Lemon Elixir, and am now a
well man. Rev. c. c. Davis, elder M. r.
Church. South. No. 2s Tattnall street, At
lanta, Ga.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

American who has displayed such wonder
ful mana gefial talent that the stockhold-
ers look to him, as it were, for their year
ly dividends.
Gardner Il. Williams, though compare
lively unknown in this country, is one of
the few prominent characters in South
Africa, for he is head and front of the dia-
mond industry and has metamorphosed
the town of Kimberly from struggling
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

Thy his own ac0 as the diamond king, pro
posed to Cecil Rhodes that they put all
the diamonds at Kimberly in a pail
Good enough said the continent grab
Der Pour them in. I'd like to see how
they look"
Barnato put a large bucket on one of
The sorting tables in the main office and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-01

There was, therefore, nearly eight mill
ions of dollars to divide among the stock
holders in the De Beers Consolidated for
the year 1888 and these fortunate persons
will be enriched in a still greater proper
ton when the accounts for 1899 are cast.
The NyorIS of an American.
Contrary to the general impression. the
man wh9m the directors Of this company
hold responsible for It's prosperity is not
Cecil j. Rhodes. He is not even an Eng
lishman, but thorough whole-soulel
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02
Written for The Prison Mirror.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

While we are, under the impulse,
presumably, of lofty sentiment shed
ding the blood of our soldiers in an at.
tempt to prove foreign race in dis
tant islands incapable of self govern
ment, it will not be amiss to take a
look at the barbarism and cruelty
practised under our own flag at home.
Perhaps it would be considered i'm
pertinent to suggest that we sweep
some OF the dirt from the front of our
own doors before we easay to set our
selves up as censors of the sanitary
conditions of other peoples houses.
The following is from leaflet pub
lished by the Howard Association, at
London, and, coming from that source,
it will be unnecessary for me to vouch
for its truth-it will in fact. not be
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02
TERMS. Shopper year, in advance
Six Months so cents,

city for long time," said Mrs. Spadina,
land I'm sick and tired of this place.
We can't send him over to that school
any longer, with it's rowdy names and
its gangs and its fighting. Harold has
clearly been fighting, for the boy said
as much"
The father was looking silently at
the ceiling and putting at his evening
cigar. He generally thought matters
over before giving his decision, and
Mrs. Spadina cautiously went upstairs,
where she found the formidable Mike
Spad sound asleep and with the cloth
ing kicked off him.
And Mr. Spadina blew whiff from
his cigar and said: cat school they
used to call me Bump" And present.
ly he smiled, and knocking the ash off
his cigar he chuckled: "There's good
stuff in Mike. l wonder how big that
boy was that he walloped?"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02
THE LITTLE SCAMP!

"Where's the boy?" inquired Mr..
Spadina, cheerily, and it occurred to
him that it was about time for his
seven-year, old son to bid him good
night, says the Toronto Saturday Night.
"The boy" replied Mrs. Spardina
severely, is in bed"
Not sick ?"
"No. He is not SICK" said Mrs.
Spadina, in tone that implied some
thing even worse. give been waiting
for an opportunity to tell you all about
it, but have not had a chance until
now. 1t just means this, that we must
move away from this neighborhood.
It's no place to bring up boy, and
just won't stand it. We must get a
home in some part of the city where
Harold will have nice children to play
with"
"But what's the matter?" asked the
husband, with concern. "What has
happened ?"
"Well, Pm telling you just as fast as
l can. This afternoon Harold had lust
got home from school when the door
bell rang. l was in the hall and an
swered the door myself, for 1 saw a
boy there. On opening the door, the
boy said to me: please, can Mike
come out to play ball p told him that
we had no Mike here, and said he had
called at the wrong house. No. he
said, 4 mean Mike, you know-your
boy, Mike. j guess you call him Har-
DID, he said.
"Now, what do you think of that :?
Well, you may be sure l told that. boy
what | thought of him, and he began
to Whimper and said that Harold had
licked him-that's just what he said
Harold had licked him yesterday for
not calling him Mike, and everybody
called him Mike at school. And it's
worse than that for they call him Mike
Spad--nOt Harold Spadina, but Mike
Spad"
"Well, upon my wordp' exclaimed
Mr.. Spadina.
81 marched out into the dining room
where Harold was eating some bread
and butter" continued Mrs. Spadina,
"and 1 went for him, and do you know
that child sat up in his chair and said
that he'd rather be called Mike than
Harold, and that since his chums have
started to call him Mike the other
gangs afraid of him. Well, just Mike
Spaded him with strap and sent him
off to bed at o'clock and he's there
yet. Mike SpadI' she added with in.
tense feeling on each repulsive word.
"The little scamp~ exclaimed Mr..
Spadina.
"We have been talking of getting a
better house in some other part of the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02

SNAKE FISHING.

Wall yas, I've done sum nifty good
fishin' in my days; but l rekon thet
erbOut the best L ever seed, war up on
the Little Spokane erbout eight mile
frum the falls. Good place ter fish !?
Wall l rekon! Why when l first went
thar in tha 7O's, the fish war so thick in
thet thar stream thet one had to push
'em aside with tha oars agoin' down
stream. Any snakes did yer say?
Wall kalkalate thar were-and thet
reminds me of my pet, OF Mox, he's
ded now; but in his time he war a
mighty fisher. Yer see L war a fishin
up there about four-years ago an one
cold day found water moccasin gest
frozen stiff. So picks EN- up an ties
EN- to the shack an put em near the
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02

fire; and burned if thet ar snake dident
gest stay around like a pet cat-and
Kill noise an chipmunks, wall l rekon
he did! Wall used ter feed EN-: and
ne an L got ter be purity good chums.
Wall, one even l war down at ther
stream afishin', and were havin' slow
work with one of them darned reelin
things, when [ happens to look down
at my feet, and thar were OF Mox: a
rolled up an kinder watchin' me
close-like, until 1 pulls out a burned
OF bullhead. Then thet thar moccasin
gest er glided down inter the water,
an the next thing | seed were fine
ten pound bass come a fiop'in' up to
the edge of the bank with OF Mox
aholdin' him hard an fast. Wall sir
gest reached my pole hook inter his
gills, an Mox seed 1 had EN- an he let
go: and in ten minutes l had huff
fish ter feed hotel or boardin' house,
Vas thet snake he'd powerful sinse,
an after thet | jess took EN- along
when [ wanted fish, an | rekon oil
MoX armed more for me acatchin' fish.
than l did amakin' hay which were
powerful good in the Spokane Valley.
Wall yas, I'll take a little of thet ar
cider an a few snops.
JAN O'RURICK.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02

81 can remember a good many years
back" said Detroit veteran in politics,
"and whatever may be said as to the
integrity of our present statesmen,
campaigns are conducted in great
deal more moderate tone than they
used to be. Then it was the usual
thing to indulge in the strongest possi-
BILE abuse of men and parties.
81 once heard joint debate between
couple Of candidates for our legisla-
ture that will serve to illustrate. They
taunted and berated each other till all
other questions were lost sight of in
the popular anxiety to see which ex-
celled in this style of warfare.
"Finally the hotter headed of the
two burst out in an announcement
that he could whip his rival or any of
his friends.
"'That reminds me- said the other
coolly, of dog my father used to
have that could whip any dog in the
neighborhood or any that came that
way with the teamsters.'
"'What's the application, STRIP roared
the other. 'I'll stand no innuendoes,
sir. Make your application if you dare.'
"1t is simply this, my pugnacious
friend; no one ever thought of sending
fathers dog to the legislature
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02
Wf1tten for The Prison Mirror.
A FREE GIFT.

''It is Gods free gift to man." The
words came "trippingIy" from the
tongue; and | wondered why ne had
come to the conclusion that it was free.
Would the speakers conclusion have
been the same if Nature, or Omnipo-
tence had seen fit to reverse the rela-
tive proportions of the land area to the
water area, and rich individuals, cor
porations or trusts and secured for
themselves and their heirs forever, all
of the choice bodies of fresh water.
The words were used in as lovely and
logical sermon as [ ever listened to;
used as simile, to illustrate the gratu-
ity of that higher gift, the Water of
Life. How very often that simile is
used to express absolute freeness.
Water is Gods free gift to man. And
if the water, why not the land,
and the fullness thereof? And since
the interpreter of Gods intentions an
nounces water to be free, we cannot
but wish he had gone a little farther
and shown us wherein our Heavenly
Father had made any distinction in IA
vor of water as against land.
[ know that water is free, and I
know that land is not. know that it
is just as impossible for puny man to
create a pint of one as to create a
pound of the other; and l ask: from
what has grown the distinction?
One cannot for moment suppose
that the speaker intended to preach
that all the water and all the land was
Gods free gift to man; still one can
not help but wonder. w. E. A.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02

Woe to the women and girls who are
sent to such camps. Their life is, and
must be, an Inferno, Men and women
frequently run away and are then
chased with bloodhounds and guns:
those killed being sometimes registered
as ESCAPED"
The cOlOred population furnishes
about nine-tenths of the Southern con.
vlcts: and it is reliably stated that
considerable portion of them are either
quite innocent, or are punished by long
sentences for the most trifling offences,
and frequently, on merely trumped-up
charges. 1t is to the interest of the
local officials and contractors that the
number of convicts should be as large
as possible, and their detention as pro-
longed as it can be made.
A very sad feature of these chain
gangs is the number of young children
sent to them. A leading phianthro-
plSt of Baltimore, Mr.. G.. S. Griffith,
President of the Maryland Society for
the Protection of Children, was panied
to find in the gangs so many children
from nine years of age and upwards!
In one of the better class of chain
gangs, in North Carolina, he found 55
prisoners, including three women, and
one boy OF eleven years of age. And
he says:-"These men, women and
boys, all sleep under tent 70 by "a
feet This prOmiscuous and most de-
moralizing association of the various
ages and sexes, by day and night, is
the usual feature oEthe private camps,
and, sometimes, even of the State
establishments.
Judge Chandler, of Georgia, says
"My experience is that when a boy is
sent to the chain gang, he is ruined"
Judge Berry, of Atlanta, says:-"I
have seen too many cases where boys
have been ruined by being sent to the
chain gangs" Then what must they
be for girls?
Fearful brutaiities are perpetrated
by the captains" in the lonely, remote
places where many of the gangs are
located, as in forests and mines. Some
times convictS have been flayed alive!
On one prisoners corpse forty injuries
were found. He had been literally
beaten to pieces. Another had been
disgustingly dismembered by kicks,
and there was a great hole gaping in
his side. A young white girl of seven
teen years, after being repeatedly out
ragged by the officers of a camp, fled to
the woods. She was overtaken by
bloodhounds, her clothes stripped off,
and she was then fJgged in the pres
ence of jeering men. Another poor
girl, similarly treated. gave birth to
child, but both mother and offspring
were speedily relieved by death.
Women and girls are habitualIy sub
jected to the grossest indecencles and
exposures. In one camp was found
woman who had Segen children whilst
there, and another had had six there.
And such cases are legion!
Christian America sends hundreds of
missionaries to Asia a. Africa. But
Is there not here 8 vast mission field
for effort and influence?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1899-03-02
Vol. XII.-NO. 80.
<a&poEFRf:>
sly yyz~z8SS~ SS~
Written for The Prison MlrrOr.
The Dream.

L had last night dream so sweet
And in it came my mother;
The parting years had passed away
And left us one another
On her sweet face the lines of care
Were smoothed again to beauty,
And sin and sorrow so it seemed.
Had taught me love and duty.
Dear, patient hands that had seen
Grow hard, and cracked, and chappy;
In struggles with her household cares.
To make her neStlingS happy.
Were firm again, and fair to see;
Her form was slim and tasteful.
The smiling eyes were clear and bright.
The lashes long and graceful.
She looked with yearning in my face,
Her voice in accents broken
Said: NAY, nay my son, Heaven never sent
10 man a useless token.
Your mothers smiles you think dream.
But know, tits gladstone waking;
For mother watched your troubled sleep
And saw the new dawn breaking,''
Upon my head she placed her hand.
felt its GOODNESS stealing
Ger all my wretched throbbing heart
Its love-balm gently healing.
Then slowly, surely to me came,
Dim sense of things most needful.
AS there | stood at mothers side
More patient wise and heedful.
The willful lad that went astray
In his impetuous blindness,
And brought the silver to her hair
BY acts of gross unkiDdneSS-
Was but thing of Shadowland-
OF ME an adumbratiOn,
BY Heaven sent to teach me love
And duty on that occasion.
There was unrOlled before my gaze
A life begun with SHINING.
That which had thought was the end
found but the beginning.
In pleasant vices which at first
L thought but dissipation,
now could see the pleasant path
That led to desperation.
There was no time of prison grind.
No years of hopeless yearning;
NO severed friendships nor disgrace.
Nor red shame deeply burning;
1t all had been bitter dream
A nightmare most unholy;
Yet showing forth the value of
Deeds patient, kind, and lowIy.
And so indeed it really is,
My mother has not grown Olden:
No lines are on her sweet young face.
Her hair it still is golden.
And as | see that it is so.
To Heaven there does ascend
A promise that of her I'll make
Chief cOuncelOr and friend
And Ger my soul there rushing comes
A wave of gratitude.
That have yet life in which
To make my promise good:
For am young and there is time
My errors to redeem
Mother, youth, and home are real:
The other was 1.-The Dream"
WILDER E. ANDREWS.