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DIAMOND DISCOVERIES.
The Stories Told of the First Finding
of Gems in South African Fields.

The stories connected with the dis
coVery of the various great diamond
nelds OF the world are all of the most
romantic interest. Perhaps the most
remarkable OF them relates to the South
african field. For many years the ru-
NOR OF a magnificent diamond, said to
be in the possession of q far-away
| tribe of natives, had been current,
| Many had gone in search of it, but in
vain. About this time, in 1869, a
Dutch farmer, named Van Neikerk, got
on the track. He wandered from tribe
to tribe-from village to village-one
day hopeful of success and the next
respondent. At length he was directed
to certain witch doctor, residing in a
Katfir village, and. after a good deal
of palaver and plenty.of stuff to drink,
discovered him to be possessed of a
pure white stone of extraordinary size
and lustre. The witch doctor, how
ever, was unwilling to part with 1t.
and would not give it up until the
Dutchman agreed to pay over all his
| oxen, his tent wagon, and about every
| thing else he had. The offer finally
brought the witch doctor to terms and
| Van Neikerk carried off the gem. 1t
| 'Ss @ h'Ot beti Stilli, lOl IL JNeu
a flawless diamond of the purest water
and worth s125,OOO. The stone is now
| owned by the Countess of Dudley. It's
| discovery first attracted serious atten-
tion to the South African diamond
| field.
| There is nevertheless, another story
| which relates that the Dutch farmer
! showed a stranger some bright pebbles
with which his children played. and
that the stranger honestly told him
that he suspected them to be diamonds.
| subsequently this proved to be the
case, so that the poor man became
very rich. A similar account is given
Of "A poor gardner OF Ciolconda, in India.
who, finding in his garden a beautiful
stone, sold il for enough to provide
himself with a competence. It was "A
poor negress who, in July, 1858, found
in the sands of Bagagem, Brazil, the
Star Of the South, a pure white gem OF
2J4 carats.
The blue clay which contains the
diamonds Of Kimberley, in South
Africa, is brought from deep mines to
the surface of the ground and spread
out so as TO expose II to the influence
of the sun and moisture. Thus treated
IL soon crumbles, so that at the end
Of three months II may be put into
great washing machines, in which, by
means of running water, the gems are
! separated from the blue stuff. Then
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ings. After a long time he hit upon a
plan that filled him with glee.
Aha" he cried, 81 will get me up
and away to the far frozen northwarl,
where my brother Peboan (winter)
reigns, and l will help him to strip
these forests, still these rivers and
send the icy blasts flying over the
great lakes and waters, and the whirl-
ing, powdery snow drifting high about
the wigwams. 1t will be rare sport to
make my brother Seegwun (springl
work till he sweats to repain my mis-
chief, and I'll be back to see him at it."
Then, overcome with this labor of
thinking out things for himself. to
which he was not accustomed, and be-
ing yet surfeited with the great feast
of the Midway, held in the month Of
the Sturgeon, when all the fruits and
grains. the game and the fish are most
abundant and delicious, the lazy sun
god failed to note the sly approach of
Wseng, the Spirit of Sleep, who with
many hued pinions came softly fiutter-
ing in the air with a gentle browse Of
murmuring noise which in time stole
away the senses of the Manito, and
while not at all meaning to lnger, yet
ne fllllleu away INTO pedCelul SlumDef.
Then. while he thus sleeps, summer
gayly tarries and haunts her most vivid
colors in the face of the stupid sun
god; the waters laugh softly, the winds
murmur in gentle undertone and all
things in nature conspire together to
laugh at and mock him, and yet so
quietly as not to disturb his slum-
bers. While he dreams the smoke from
his peace-pipe fills the air-you see it
resting there on the far hills in purple
haze. in the still valleys, on the quiet
waters, over all the landscape like Il
simmer veil. And not till his mighty
calumet is smoked out to the very last
spark will the fat and lazy Manito
awaken.
This, then, is the Indian summer.
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INDIAN SUMMER.
A Poetic Legend of It's Origin and
Significance.

olBIlluCdlACe.
From the Muskegon (Mich) News,
There is a beautiful tradition OF the
Indians in the poet lore of this vanish
ing race of the coming of these marvel
Gus days-the aftermath of summer,
which now crown the year with a fair
fleeting glory,a dreamlike beauty evan
escent and lovely beyond compare. The
legend runs somewhat in this wise:
High up in the heavens the s.In god,
he whose symbol is the white bird,
WakehOp, looked down upon the earth
and smiled to himself to see how well
he had performed his labors of the
year Now, the sun god is not the One
not, Ta-ren-ya-w WACO, the holder of the
heavens; 40, he IS only the Manito Of
the sun which is the heart of the sky.
He is fat and fair and lazy, and some
times he is cross and very much out
of temper and at these times earth
sky, air and water all feel his frowns
and often, too, he is good humored and
then things rejoice in his smiles. But
looking down and seeing all we'll done
all the grain ripened and gathered, all
the truit perfected and stored, the
meadows lying tranquil the forests
still and peaceful, the game abundant
then the Manito grew restive and be-
thought himself that he was mucE in
need OF a respite from such exceedingly
good behavior--of which he some
times grew very tired. He was not
much given to thinking, hut he set
himself to 1t now to find some speedy
way of indulging in such mischievous
pranks as he felt disposed, The bet
ter to help his meditations he filled and
lighted his great calumet his mighty
peace pipe, and sat down to his mus
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CHINESE HISTORY.
Some idea of the Antiquity of the
Celestial Empire.
From Self Culture.

Authentic history and biography in
China embrace period from the year I22
OF our era back to the remote period of
1857 years before Christ. The historians
of China embrace succession or unin-
terrupted series of more than 2,i0O years
The full and continuous history OF the
empire was compiled in the second CEN
tuTy of our era.
The great libraries of Peking contain
volumes of books numbered by the hum
dreds OF thousands. In the archives of
the government are still to be found the
ancient predictions Of eclipses made with
great accuracy, together with works on
astronomy which show a fair knowledge
of that interesting science, Biographies,
very succinctly written, of the emperurs
OF the most ancient dynasties still exist,
and writte1 works Of learned men are as
voluminous as those Of European nations.
And all this learning and love of learn
ing has been acquired without help or
suggestion from any foreign people. II
their authentic histories reach back To
nearly five centuries ago, mythical his
tory reaches still further back into the
very night of time.
When Nineveh and Babylon We're in the
splendor Of their might men of China
were predicting eClipses, making cata-
logues, and giving names TO the stars.
But NineVeh and Babylon were mere
mounds of earth and rubbish when China
was great, and TO this date the civiliza-
tion and life of the empire is the wonder
of the world.
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the residue is placed in large gobs on
tables, where it is sorted with small
troWels. The diamonds occur in all
shades from deep yellow to blue white
and in a great variety of green's, blues.
and pinks. They vary in sic from a
pins head upward Next, the dia-
monds are cleaned by boiling them in
acids, after which they are carefully
sorted as to size, color and purity. On
an average, 100 tons of blue clay will
yield 100 carats of diamonds
The diamonds are sold in parcels to
local buyers, who represent the leading
diamond merchants of Europe. In one
instance nearly 25O,OOO carats were sold
in one lot to a single purchaser The
company sustains a loss of from 10
to Is per cent. Of it's production by
stealing, it is reckoned. The native
workmen are engaged fora period of
three months during which time they
are confined in "a compound surrounded
by a high wall On retiring from each
days work they are obliged to strip off
all their clothes. Stark naked they
proceed to the searching room, where
their mouths, their hair, their toes-in
fact, every part of their bodies-are
subjected to an elaborate examination,
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move could be made without her in
tervention.
Rhodes is a bachelor. He did every
thing in his power to win Miss Shaw,
but she was not to be won. She held
her own from beginning to end and If
there is any responsibility for the war
talk that has gone from one end of the
world to the other it must be ascribed
to her. Chamberlain is not responsible
neither is Rhodes. Had the Beers and
British come together in armed con-
tiict no one could have been held re-
sponsible more than this young woman
who came from the north of England
and enforced position on the London
Times which gave her a place of colo
NAL editor,
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when the capacity for motherhood ceases
1.-THE change of life.
DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription was
devised to make these three periods safe
and painless by restoring to vigorous
health the organs involved II soothes,
heals, nourishes. 1t gives Nature Just
the help 1t needs. Ii is the only prepara-
tion of its kind devised by regularly
graduated physician and skilled spec
ialist in the diseases of women.
Me too medicines are preparations
without standing or success. They are
the substitutes sold as "just as good"
Having no record of their own, when DR..
Pierce's cures are referred to they cry
me-too, me-too, like the cuckoo in a
Swiss clock, Don't accept me-too medi-
cines for Favorite Prescription.
Mrs. NJ. Barnes, Of Balls Ferry Shasta Co, Cal,
writes: My physician said was suffering from
the effects Of change Of life l had heart dis
ease, and female trouble and rheumatism. My
head was SO dizzy could hardly stand up. When
began Dr. Picrcc's medicines improved right
along, ttook seven or eight bottles OF the Ia
vorite Prescription a tcaspooniul three times
day, and the Pleasant Pellets at night. | feel
as well as ever did. / take great pleasure in
recommending DR. Pierce's medicines to suffer
ing women. J think that they are the best
Niediciue3 in the world"
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CONCLUSTON.-Thu in the twelve
lessons, detached as they have been,
taken out of various books that were
written at various times, we have the
high truths of religion, needed in every
age. oh, that men would hear the
gracious invitation of God and turn to
Him and live. that they would stand
fast and be true to their principles in
the time of trail and persecution! Oh,
that all might believe in retributive
justice that steadily pursues and event.
ually overtakes the sinner oh, that
the ungodly might know, however far
away they wander, however much they
suffer they may be restored, that the
river of salvation flows on forever, that
they may yet rebuild the broken walls
of their wasted lives and make a
temple in which to worship. oh that
all men would turn away from earthly
helps and look up, remembering that t
is not by human might but by Divine
power that the great enterprises of this
world are carried to success.
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trouble. on the contrary his righteous
ness will expose him at times to the
jealousy and ill-will of the wicked.
Those trees that bear best fruit will
be clubbed most by the boys. Two il
Illustrations of this truth are TO be found
in the Quarters lessons. Nebuchad-
nezzar in his great vanity set up an
image which he required all Of his sub
jects to worship. For their refusal to
comply with this decree. the Hebrews
were cast into the fiery furnace. The
princes, in the time of Darius, the
Mcde. secured a mandate fOrbiddng
anyone to pray to any god except the
king-who thereby exalted himself and
assumed to control the worship of his
subjects. All this was aimed at Daniel,
whose habit of prayer was well known
But he did not refrain from his acCus-
toned petitions. As result he was
cast into the den of lions. And yet i'm
both cases the prosecuted sustained no
loss. {
JUDGMENT G.esson IV)--Only one
side of Gods dealing with men has
been considered when the blessed state
of the righteous is shown. The other
are inflicted upon the wicked. The
downfall of Babylon and the death of
Belshazzar preceded by the handwrit-
ing on the wall. is one of the most
notable events in history. The empire
| had been built up through Gods favor
and had been used to punish the Jews.
Nebuchadnezzar had many reasons to
give glory to the Almighty. whose hand
l.. 4 1T, ,1n..
| his son, unmindful Of all this, had be-
come vain and licentious, adding one
| sin to another. The crowning act of
| folly, which cost him his throne and his
! life in single night, was his use Of the
| sacred vessels at a feast given to his
lords and concubines To show to what
| imbecilty he had fallen it may be
| stated that while the revelry proceed
ed the Medo-Persian army was besieg
ing the city which was taken by
| strategy.
RESTORATION. blossoms vi, VII
and IX)-Three lessons, two from
| Ezekiel and one from Ezra, treat the
return of the Jews from captivity. We
| had first the promise, accompanied ty
a statement of conditions The people
must repent, they must obey, they
| must renew the convenant and then
they would be prosperous. humble and
! influential. Next we had the proof that
the return was possible. The vision
of the dry bones. restored 20 rre at the
prophets word, was a symbolic repr,-
sentation of the dead natiol corning
forth again to stand among the nations
| and act it's part After came the
realization. when by authority of CyrL &
seventy years after ;he destruction at
| Jerusalem, ZerubbaDel led his fifty
thousand volunteers across the plain
to the land of their fathers. Here is
the substance Of Ezekiel's work to de-
liver the promise and encourage men
| to believe it. Here is Ezra's task to
| record as a fact what had before been
! a prediction.
| SALVATION. Uesson VIIIO-It
was given to Ezekiel To forsee the
happy results of the restoration. His
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No ingenuity of barbarism-no devil
ish invention of the masters of torture
during the time of the Spanish inquisi-
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STEADFASTNESS Gesson ~
Daniel in Babylon is a beautiful ex-
ample of spiritual constancy. A young
man, carried captive to a foreign coun-
try, takes with him the principles and
habits of his childhood. Being of royal
blood he is set apart in the new land to
service at court. Placed under prepar-
alton that he may be physically and
mentally qualified for this high posi-
ton he resolves not to partake of the
food or drink assigned to him, because
these were first cOnsecrated to the god
of the Chaldees and by their use he
would be defiled. But while his pur-
pose was fixed he resorted to gentle
measures to gain his end, and his re-
quest for plain diet was granted by
the officer in charge. Fortunately at
the end of the years appointed he ap-
peared in every way superior to those
other youth who had complied with the
usual requirements. Thus he main
tained his integrity and lost nothing
but gained much. The lesson shows
that it is always best to adhere to ones
convictions of the right. Nothing shall
hurt those who walk in the good way.
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or diseased. There
are three most trying
times in every wom-
ans life ; Ist-when
girlhood blossoms
into womanhood; ed
when motherhood
iS arhiaNed ad -.
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RHODES oUrGENERALED.

Had there been only Mr.. Rhodes and
Mr.. Chamberlain TO be considered there
could have been no such talk as there
has been of war between England and
the Transvaal republic Miss Shaw,
remarkable woman as she is, stood off
Chamberlain on the one side and
Rhodes on the other. They had a
counter plav hut there was not a
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ton ever de-
vised an agony
so intense, SC
persistent, Sc
long enduring,
so nerve = har,
rowing as that
which is suf.
fered day after
d ay by t h {
women whose
distinctly femi'
nine organism
is deranged d
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SALVATION. Uesson VIIL)-It
was given to Ezekiel To forsee the
happy results of the restoration. His
vision of the river emerging from the
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KEY To SITUATION.

cecil ftnOueS undertook TO display MS
wares in person before the secretary Of
the colonies. He was gravely disap-
pointed. He discovered at the very
outset that this remarkable young wo-
man, Miss Shaw, held the key to the
situation. She was better informed in
everything than any of the men with
whom he came in contact. She knew
her business well. Messages were writ
ten at her dictation and policies We're
formed. Great as Mr.. Cecil Rhodes
was in South Africa, he found himself
almost a nonentity when it came to his
dealing with the Home Office in Eng
land.
This was especially CALLING to Rhodes.
In all his life he had been a woman
hater. His most cherished plan had
never been communicated except to
men. His own sister had never been
able to divine his intentions in a single
point of public policy. Wherever he
went women were far away from him.
He would not have them near He de-
spised them, as he frequently admitted
for their lower intelligence. They could
never mingle in his affairs, whether
public or private.
When, however, he ran up against
the state of affairs in London, he was
figuratively compelled to bend his knee.
baked by n woman. In all his dipo-
matte life Cecil Rhodes has been ac-
customed to buying people. Whenever
he had anything in hand to accomplish
he found it the easiest way to spend
his money and gain his desired ends.
But here was a woman who could not
be bought She held exactly what he
| desired. She had the immediate ear of
Mr.. Chamberlain, and Rhodes would
| have been willing to eXpend a fortune
to gain her sympathy. 1t was not to
be, She was not a person who could
be made use Of. Rhodes made the most
| fattering offers to her. and in an out
side way this woman became his Lon
don press agent. But that is where II
ends. She was willing to accomplish
| for him the small matters he had in
| hand, but she would not take hold of
those that We're greater-those that
We're nearer to his heart. For a time
| she was the GO between of the premier of
| South Africa and Secretary Chamber
lain. Months of this may have passed.
| There Is no telling, no record how long
| it continued, But it Is quite sure she
| held from beginning to end the key to
the situation. That was one thing she
would never let so; she knew the game
too well.
RHODES OUTGENERALED
Had there been only Mr.. Rhodes and
| Mr.. Chamberlain TO be considered, there
| could have been no such talk as there
| has been of war between England and
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Sunday School Lesson for September "a.
Third Quarterly Review.
BY J. E. GILBERT, ID. D., L. D.,
Secretary of American Society of Religious Education.

INTRODUCTION The lessons Of
the Quarter have been taken from six
books,-Hosea, Daniel, Ezekiel Ezra,
Haggai and zechariah. The first, fifth
and sixth were written by prophets,
the second by a statesman, the third
by priest, the fourth by scribe.
Hosea was the last of the prophets that
were raised up for the northern king
dom. Daniel and Ezekiel fourished
during the captivity of Judah Ezra
assisted in the return from captavity.
Thus we have extracts from the sacred
literature of three periods of history,
extending from about $50 B. c. to $40
b. c. The lessons contain much his.
torical information, but they are chiefly
profitable because of the presentations
of important spiritual truths. That
these truths may be set forth to the
mind in an orderly way this review will
be conducted topically.
INVITATION. Desson Lit is a
most impressive fact that Hosea, the
last Of the holy men inspired to speak
to the ten tribes. delivered to them a
tender message, inviting them to return
to God. His was the only voice. lifted
up for the space of half a century, in
the midst of abounding wickedness.
calling for repentance and reform. He
! continued in that ministry until 730 r..
c., never weary though the people
turned a deaf ear. He pointed out the
mode of a true reform, desiring that
| 1t might be of the heart. with sincere
confession and suitable amendment. He
makes positive and gracious promise
| of Gods willingness to forgive the
! erring nation and to grant with His
! favor the blessings which had been
| previously enjoyed. Moreover, he por-
| trays the influence which reformed
| Israel might exert upon surrounding
! peoples. This first lesson of the Quar-
! ter is a concrete exhibit of the Divine
! forbearance. While men are posting
their way to ruin God is calling after
! them.