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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals. viii he received at tho
Office o. lhe -G--tX- Engineer. Norfolk. Va
uhul T. clock n5on Of the S'rtI DAY on
MARCH. ~ II. 1899. for constructing
sewers IN ihe Fifth or B.ambieto. Wn-d
OF the CITY Of Norfolk, Va
Forms OF prop, sails copies of s1sc,dc,,-
lions, approximate schedule of work and
INSCRIPTIONS 10 bidders may DC obtained.
and plans and pfoiiles OF proposed work
Seen ~ The office of the City Engineer,
Ncrioik. Va. h.a,sh BID must be accom-,
panied by a certified cheek in the sum OF
Two Thousand Dollars 81. COO as /, .ssf1 r.
an,ee of the god faith or the biif,er
Which check viii be forfeited ms liG1i,
dated damaSes in the event OF the taiIiJrs
Or refusal of the successful bidder tS
entcr INTO contract within two ~ weeks
OF the date OF the awarding the contraet
20 him. S
=, \ satisfactory bond IN the sur, az
twenty Thousand Dollars $50, COc) Tor the
be required VS.
The right to reject any or oil bids is
specially reserved
Tile LOCAL BOARD OF IMPROVE.
MENT OF RRAAIBLErON WARD.
NORFOLK, VA
feS-lot-eod c. j. JONES, President.
" IRGINTA.-IN THE CLERK.s OF
nee Of the Circuit Court OF the coun-
y 81 Pr.ncess Anne. in vacation. ON the
Sth day OF February. 1899.
H. D. OLIVER, who sues. &C..
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Admr., ct ais.
IN cIIANcERY.
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Probably light snow; still cold; fresh
hortheasterly winds, becoming north
west toward night.
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WEATHER REPORT.

Washington. Feb. 11.-weather fore
cast for Sunday:
Virginia and North Carolina-Snow:
continued cold; brisk northeasterly
winds.
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AiETEoRoLoGIcAL DATA.

:. ME METEOROLOGICAL DATA.
Maximum temperature ..... II
Minimum temperature ......... S
Normal temperature ..... Al
departure from normal .....minus 80
departure since Jan. Istminus 81
Rainfall In past 81 hours. ...... IL
halniall since LIST of month. ......2. 40
Mean humidity IS
j. ]. GRAY, Observer.
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Norfol1-High water at 1926 a. IN.
and 1859 p. M; low water at APPS u.
m. and 4:46 p. m.
Old Polnt-High water at 1915 a. m.
and 1o:SS p. M; low water at 4;O4 a.
m. and AIS D. M.
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EslE:Vp.


FOlsD.-At his residence. No. 81 Vir-
gina street. Saturday, february lith.
aged rs years
The funeral will take place from ST.
MarX.s Catholic Church THIS (Sundayj
Ar Ar LI'RNOON ut 3 o'clock. Friends vi
the family are invited To attend.
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CALENDAR
IDl:S.

Sun rises at 6:57 a. m. and sets q,
e:4S p, m.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-12
IN CHANCERY.

The object OF this suit Is to subject thu
fSaI estate OF which Isaac Weathering-
payment of his debts o
And atiidavtt having been made that
ana Lewis G. Weatherington are not resi-
cents OIL the State OF Virginia, they are
nargny rennired To Z nnlaaI- isl-ttae- =
otticc or this Court within fifteen DAYS
after due publication hereof and do what
may De necessary to protect their IN
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BUSIlN' { NOTICE..

the public thrt We have associated cur
selves with Nh. s. DdZi1r. 90; Main street
and earnestly solicit the patronage of our
friends ard the pubic.
GEORGE s. WEST,
fe12-3t &. T.. OUTTEN
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Read announcement Home STUDY
Circle"-5th page.
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Notice OF Removal.

j. Il. r. CARPENTER. ARCHITECT.
has removed his offices from No 100 and
40 Columbia Building To No. 500 and SOB
Citizens Bank Build.nE foi2-3.
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7',ic NIoucru Way.

Ccmmends itself to the vell-lnformed
to do pleasantly ana ettcetually what
was formerly done in the cruaeSt man
Ter ana disREreeably as well. To
cleanse the system and break up colds.
headaches ana fevers without unplras-
ant after effects. use the delightful IL
quid laxative remedy. syrup of Fiss.
Made by California Fig syrup co.
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Weak Eyes Are Often Due to Caianh.

CDR. Fircy's treatment entirely cured
me Of troublesome persistent cough
and greatly strengthened my nervous
system. MY eyes which We're quite weak,
have improved very mulch also.
''KERFOOr MARCfIANT,
Matthews. Va.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-12
EISER V. BLANTON.

Supreme Court OF North Carolina
December 90. 1898.
WHERE THE MORcGAGEE OF \
AFTER DEFAULT. AND REFUS-
AL TO DELIylI. SUCH &C
TON IS ONE FOR POSSESSION OF
THE PROPERTY AID NOT AN
ACTION IN CONTRACT-IN SUCH
CASE THE MORTGAGEE MAY SUE
BEFORE A JUSTICE OF THE
PEACE FOR A PART OF THE AR
TICLES INCLUDED IN THE
MORTGAGE.
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NOrfoik AM, Vicinitv.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR
TODAY.
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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-09

An industrious swarm Of hornets
built their nest in a cherry tree. They
Did not select the cherry tree because
they liked cherries, but because 1t
stood in a field remote from houses.
Besides, the branches were convenient
Tor architectural purposes
The hornets went about the business
OF life in quiet, unobtrusive man.
ner. They 'molested nobody and want
ed no one to modest them. They were
Tor peace and in wholesale chunks.
Bnt one day band Of farmers boys
came that way. They discovered that
the tree was loaded with fine, ripe
cherries; also they discovered the hor-
nets nest; likewise the hornets dis
covered the boys. In plain hornet
language they told the boys to go
sway. but the boys hung around.
Their mouths watered.
1t Is not necessary to tell the rest Of
the story. No swarm Of hornets that
ever buzzed could keep crowd of
boys out of cherry tree.
The foregoing is fable. Here are
some facts which bear a family re-
oemblance to the fable:
Nearly half century ago little
band of Beers trekked northward from
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there stretched away to the north for
an unknown distance fertile table
land on which grew juicy grasses that
would fatten cattle and sheep. 1t was
trayersed here and there by streams of
white water ~
The weary Beers asked for nothing
better. Here was land which the
grasping English, who were neither
herders nor farmers surely would not
covet. They would settle there undis-
turbed. They would raise their fami-
lies and their focks, establish an indie
pendent government and praise the
Lord after their own manner.
Never did people make greater
mistake. Seldom has the value Of any
land been SO grossly underestimated.
Under the green veldt over which they
trod with careless heel were streaks Of
rock which almost groaned with the
weight Of gold. Hidden by the cunning
hand of Nature in this then trackless
wilderness was mass of precious
metal big enough to have made each in
diyidual Boer in that pioneer band
veritable Prince of Monte Christie.
But the Beers did not know it. They
would not have cared If they had
known it. We who believe that gold
can command every known aid to hap
piness can hardly realize the state of
mind Of men who could take such an
attitude.
However, this was exactly the atti-
tude which the Beers did take when
the gold was discovered, for of course
it was discovered, just as the boys
found the cherries.
And what a find it has been! Little
by little the enormous wealth Of the
Transyaal has been unfolded to the
amazed eyes of the earth digging Eng
lishmen who have been lured from the
far corners of the earth by the glitter
of the yellow metal.
During the last ten years there have
been extracted from the crushings of
the Rand fully 1,O4O tons of pure gold.
1t is estimated that there remain in the
ground more than $500 tons Of gold
which has as yet been untouched.
1t is easier to speak of the riches of
the Transvaal in this way, although it
is unusual to measure gold by the ton.
But when you come to give the value
Of the gold in figures the numbers are
so great as to be beyond human COM
prehension. For instance, it is es-
timated that $5OO,OoO,0O0 worth Of
gold has been mined and that there is
yet So, 500 100000 to be dug out. None
but the trained mind Of skilled
mathematician can realize the true
significance Of millions and billions
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and observed the rules and regulations
framed BY them. This proclamation at
tracted large crowds to the field, and
soon big camp sprang into existence.
1t was then that the adage that ''all
roads lead to. Rome" should have been
changed to "all roads lead to Johannes
burg" for from every district in the
south and even from every other land
and cline an interminable stream
focked into the golden city.
Englishmen, Beers, Dutchmen, Amer
leans, Kaff1rs, Zulus and Hottentots jos
tied one another In the rude streets Of
the camp. Some of them built reed and
daub huts, others put up tin shanties,
the material nothing more than Eng
lish kerosene tins f1attened out, and
others crawled under wagons until
some better place of rest could be OBJ
tnined. All had come to stay.
The air was filled with the shouts of
bustlfng men, the cracking of the long
hide whips-in the hands of Kaffirs and
Beers driving their oxen teams through
the streets-the sudden yell of a cab
driver, enveloped In cloud Of dust, on
finding his plunging horse about to ride
you down, and the rumbling of heavy
wagons and the sounds of hammer and
ak.
The camp was the scene Of constant
turmoil. Every man was filed with
feverish excitement and animated by
the widest hopes. Scenes Of violence
were hardly noticed. Indeed there was
no time for such. The excitement Of a
murder died away in an hour. All SEN
timent, all order, all decency, was lost
in the wild, tumultuous, all absorbing
race for gold.
But soon the tumult OF camp life
subsidized, the wild scramble settled In
to steady, organized persistence, and
a change came over the scene, and
the cause Of the change was gold
more gold. Capitalists from England,
from Paris and even from Australia
flocked to johannesburg, bought up
claims. organized companies, hired la
Dor and issued stock. Some were sue
cessful and made fortunes. Others
failed and lost their all. Still the mum.
Der Of companies increased with be-
wtldering rapidity till at length, in
1890, there were $50 gold concerns,
with capital Of $55,OOO,0OO. In time
the mining properties were consolidat-
ed as they are today.
Johannesburg is, for all practical
purposes, an English settlement. The
first to flock thither when the gold
fields were proclaimed were English
men, mostly from Kimberley, Natal
and Cape Colony. English is the gen
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STAMP BATTERY, WHERE ORE rs CRUSHED.
white walls Of the compound; the
huge, regular heap. Of gray waste rock
and the enormous watts where the tall
ings are cyanided.
It looks jumbled throughout, but If
one could obtain a birdseye view of
the Witwatersrand one could trace the
course Of the outcrop by the chimney
stacks of the mines as regularly and
as easily as it can be followed by the
red line on the maps hanging on the
walls In the offices Of the Consolidated
Goldfields company. -,
The conditions Of mining In the
Transyaal are strikingly different from
those which obtain in California.
Roughly speaking, the Witwatersrand
reef is a vast plane of gold bearing
rock, dipping to the southwark at an
average angle of As degrees.
According to the mining laws of the
Transvaal, the claim holder has not
the right of the lateral pursuit Of his
reef in depth. He has only the right
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Se>9>e>s>e>&~e>G~9~&><1e
IN HIS STEPS.
,1G>GeAS9>e
Continued from page OIL

Continued from page Oh
redeemed and going in turn to others,
.onquering their passions by the Divine
grace and proving by their daily ives
:he reality of the new birth, even in the
lowest and most abandoned.
And now the vision was troubled. Il
seemed to him that as he kneeled he be-
gan to pray, and the vision was more
of q longing for future than reality
in the future. The church Of Jesus in
the city and throughout the country
would it follow Jesus2 Was the move
ment begun in Raymond to spend itself
in a few churches like Nazareth Avenue
and the one where he had preached to-
day and then die away as a local move
ment, a stirring on the surface, but not
to extend deep and far2 He felt with
agony after the vision again, He
thought he saw the church Of Jesus in
America open its heart to the moving
Of the Spirit and rise to the sacrifice Of
its ease and self satisfaction in the
name of Jesus. He thought he saw the
motto, sWhat Would Jesus Do7'' in
scribed over every church door and
written on every church members
heart The vision vanished. It came
back clearer than before, and he saw
the Endeavor societies all over the
world carrying in their great process
sions at some mighty convention ban
ner on which was inscribed, "What
Would Jesus Dor and he thought in
the faces Of the young men and women
he saw future joy Of suffering, loss,
self denial, martyrdom, and when this
part Of the vision slowly faded he saw
the figure Of the Son of God heckonino
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that the product for the present year
was expected to have reached 4,2SO,O0
ounces, worth $1OO,OOO,OoO.
OF course it must be remembered
that this is not all clear profit to the
English mine owners. The ores Of the
Witwatersrand district are of low
grade. A ton of rock must be crushed
and chemically treated in order to ex-
tract from $40 to $50 worth of gold.
Think Of that-in whole ton of rock
only one ounce of gold!
But there are profits enormous
enough. The reports from the London
Stock Exchange Year Book show that
In 1898 the mines of the Rand paid to
English shareholders the enormous
sum of $24, 100000 in dividends.
Where does the rest of it go? Well,
some of 1t goes for labor (the Kaffir
miners get SO cents day.. some Of it
comes to the United States in ex-
change for mining machinery, some of
1t Is added to the reserve funds of the
big mining corporations. and little
slice, about $5,OO0,OOO annually, is
paid to the Beers in taxes.
There are about 80 leading mining
companies in the Transvaal. The
lowest dividend paid is Is per cent.
The highest paid by the rich Jo-
hannesburg Pioneer mine, is 675 per
cent.
steady stream Of gold flows from
johannesburg and Pretoria across the
ocean to England. Thdt $24,45O,OOO is
each year distributed among the big
and little shareholders scattered all
over the United Kingdom. Every mail
steamer leaving South African ports
for England carries on an average
$50O.000 worth of Transvaal gold, most
of which is coined into shining guineas.
The wonderful gold bearing deposits
OF the Rand form single reef about
30 miles in length, a narrow strip only
few feet wide, but running down into
the earth slantwise for miles apparent
~. On the very edge of this reef is sit
uated the city of johannesburg, and
along 1t are scattered more than 60
mines. owned by different companies,
representing British capital chiefly.
Naturally the choicest locations for
the mines are directly upon the out
cropping edge of the great reef. Other
properties are located at short dis
tances from the reefs edge, but in the
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TWO SONGS.

ssing me song" quotfi she.
30 he sang how for years and for years nd .
day !Fi.s
BE had sighed for maid that was deaf and
was blind
That waa blind to his love. that was deaf 70
the wind
OF his sroaning and sighingl "Ah. zir. lack.
adayi"
Said the lady that listened as sad as could b.
"Ah. me- lackaday II answered he
"Sing me q song" quoth he.
30 she sang how for years and for years and .
day
Her head had been full Of a poor lovers signs
For nights and for nights with the love in his
eyes.
oh. well might she pause. for that gentleman
gay .a
Kissed her quick on the lips. most joyous to
"Ah. love. thou vert biindl' answered she.
ST. Paula
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L. ~ =
seral language Of the place. The Beers
have learned 1t and many Of the
Kafiirs too.
America is Represented by about
1000 Of Uncle SANS citizens. Most
of them came from the western mining
districts. They took with them to the
Transvaal practical knowledge of the
mining of low grade ores, and 1t prov
ed invaluable to them. Many Ameri-
can mining engineers have made big
fortunes there. John Hays Hammond
Ia an example.
The Johannesburg Of today is n
splendid, substantial city of brick and
stone which has been built there on
the veldt practically by Englishmen.
It IL the counting room Of the mines.
The Beers take no pride in 1t.
But gold mines are not the only rich
es' in the Transvaal. There ore vast
coal deposits. stretching from Pretoria
clear to Delagoa bay. There are also
deposits of silver, copper and lead. A
bed of magnetic iron ore, from 20 to
40 feet wide and yielding 70 per cent
Of metal extends for several miles
alongside Of the coal seams.
None of these mines has the Beers
developed. When the English work
them, the Beers discourage the indus
try by imposing heavy taxes.
So you see that the barren plateau
which the Beers settled upon half
century ago has turned out to be a
veritable Golconda. The riches of
their land have brought them much
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direction Of its slant, SO that vertical,
pits may strike the ore body; farther
along after passing through barren'str-
face strata. 9'tE1F5 fftFsHAtf II
The reef goes down at a tilt, you see,
like one side Of the pent roof Of. a.
house. Some Of the holes thus exca-
waited in pursuit Of yellow wealth are
among the deepest ever dug in the
crust of this old planet, and, one Of
them, the Victoria, has penetrated over
half mile into the bowels, of the
earth.
The Witwatersrand is a veritable
field Of gold, or, more exactly, basin
whereof the sides are furnished with
series of beds of gold. Imagine book
with leaves very broad, but compare
lively thin, ranging from inches to 13
feet. Bury these leaves, formed Of au-
riferous conglomerate, in the ground
SO that their upper edge may be at the
level Of the soil. Suppose that, after
penetrating the earth ut a varying angle
to a depth of about $500 feet, some of
the leaves curve up so that the edge
buried first reappears at the surface.
You would thus create a sort of basin
with both sides very uneven, but con-
tinuous, and you have the gold bearing
beds Of Witwatersrand.i In place OF.
isolated rocks, Of alluvial deposits
sown with grains Of gold discovered
by chance and leaving, when exhaust
ed, to the gold hunters nothing but
the hope Of another lucky ind-in the
Rand there Is series Of concentric
beds more or less near to the surface,
according to the part of the basin
where the miner works, and without
"faults" or breaks.
The mines of the Witwatersrand en-
ploy today somewhat more than 10000
laborers. Enormous sums of money
have been expended in the purchase
and installation of costly machinery,
which includes about 5000 stamps for
crushing the ore, or "banket," as it is
called.
Blanket is the Dutch word for nut
cake, and the ore is thus termed be- 4
cause of its resemblance to that favor
lite product of the Boer housewives
kitchen. Biologists call it conglom-
crate, which signifies that 1t Is hard
ened mixture of sand and pebbles.
They say that the reef was once sea-
beach, millions of years ago, and the
sand of the beach contained minute
specks Of gold brought down from the
land by streams.
Today, solidifed into rock, 1t still
holds the precious metal, though the
ore is Of such low grade that all the
deposits of the Rand would not be-
worth cent IL 1t We're not for the
cyanide process, which makes 1t pos
sible to extract the yellow stuff at a
cost Of only So per ton of conglomerate
handled.
But the available supply Of banket
is unlimited. 1t is Of an even richness
throughout no matter from what part
=
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4 LAY OF THE LINKS.

IT'S up and away from our work today,
For the breeze sweeps over the down;
And It's hey for game where the gorse bloc
SONS flame,
And the bracken IL bronzing to brown.
with the turf meath our tread and the blue
And the song of the lark in the whin:
There's the flag and the green, with the bunk
orH between y "a 10
Now, will you DO over or inl
The doctor may come. and wen teach him 10
A tee where no tannin can lurk;
The soldier may come, and ven promise -
show ,l
Some hazards soldier may shirk;
The statesman may joke ~ he tops ever.
stroke,
That at last he is high in his aims,
And the clubman will stand with club IN his
That is worth every club in st. James,.
The palm and the leather come rarely together.
Gripping the drivers haft,
And It's good to feel the Jar Of the steel
And the spring Of the hickory shaft.
Why trouble or sock for the praise Of q CLIQUE.
A cleek here Is common to all;
And the lie that might sting is very anal
thing
When compared with the lie Of the ball.
Come youth and come age, from tho study a
stage,
From bar or from bench-high and lowi
green you must use as a cure for the blues
You drive them away as you go.
We're outward bound on a long, long round,
And It's time to be up and away.
II worry and sorrow come back with the mes.
row,
At least we'll be happy today.
"A. Conan Doyle's Songs of Action
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ed. with II will admit that tits extreme
gly unsatisfactory. ~ 4
u Gradually these various mining prob
5lems,iare being solved, and nowadays
there issyery little gold left in the ore
after the tailings are dumped out OF
the back doors Of the big mills. IS,
~ Asyiew of the Transvaal mining dis
'triet fs impressive. In all directions
and in apparently the greatest com
fusion one sees nothing but the same
scene repeated-the tall, black stack,
with its. own arrangement of colored
bands like the funnel of a Cunarder;
the headgear, with its scaffolding,
wheels and cables; the corrugated iron
engine houses and machine shops; the
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duced to a powder about as fine as
cornmeal.
This powder is then run over copper
plates covered with mercury, which
has strong affinity for gold, causing
it to adhere to its surface, from which
it is removed from time to time.
!. The waste matter is then treated
with cyanide Of potassium In large
yats, and much Of the gold that would
otherwise be wasted is recovered in
this manner.
4 But the newer process Is called chlo-
rination. While the cyanide process Is
undoubtedly useful, every one connect
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green hills which barred their prog
ress The creaking wagons came to
standstill. The tired oxen were out
SPAWNED. and a scouting party was
sent to climb the hills and see what
was on the other side.
After day or two the scouts came
back. They said they had found the
promised land. From the top Of those
green hills they told their companions,
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Poetical illusions. )
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THREE SONGS

A poet in the rosy prime
And blithe and dewy morn OF TIME
When song was natural as breath.
Three songs sent forth to fight with death,
And one emade to please the crowd.
y pleased them. and his praise was Loud:
u pleased them greatly for day,
And then Its music died away.
And one he made to please the few.
1t lived century or two;
Twas sung within the halls Of kings,
Then vanished with forgotten things.
And one he made to please himself.
Without Thought Of fame or pelf,
But sent 1t forth with doubt and fearA
And 1t outlasted all the years.
No other cong has vital breath
Through endless time to fight with daatA
Than that the singer sings apart +
To please his solitary heart.
New York Sun.