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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-06
Special Notioe.

The ministers, lawyers, doctors.
clerks. insurance collectors, market
men, porters, laborers, boot blacks.
men in every occupation, members of
minstrel troupees Grand Lodge of Ma.
sons, Grand Army OF Republics, samar-
ltans, True Reformers and all other
bodies that meet in Richmond. take
their meals at Thompson's Dining
Room.
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The most valuable Christmas pres
emit you Gan give your child is one of
Rector's Pictorial and Historical
charts. 1t will delight your child
sens By mail to any address on receipt
of one dollar.
address, -
JoHN K. EEOroR,
Little Rock, ARK.
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An Oriental CxEic.

Marriage" said the proverb quoter,
els lottery"
Yes" answered the suitaz Of sufu,
a. he sadly waved his hand toward the
harcm. ''and there's . bunch Of blanks"
-washln9ton Star.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-06

"This Is my profile, count, and this
Is front view"
"Ze photographs are peaatiful, my
dear young lady. How-how charm
eengly two-faced you arei"-Chicago
Tribune.
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DecOllete.

"She says she hasn't worn half her
new gowns yet this season."
"Indeedr should have said from her
appearance that she was in the habit
OF wearing just about Chicago
Post.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-01-06

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The age-herald., 1900-10-24

titles. Here 1t Is spread out on floors five or six hundred acres in extent. Here it lies for several months
 Exposed to sun and air, the hard, blue ground gradually crumbles, and when it Is finally reduced to dust the valuable dia- monds are collected in the washing ma chimes.
 To leave this enormous quantity of pre- cious gems exposed for so long in such a large open-air area would naturally be thought rather a risky proceeding. When, however, you know that the floor area is enclosed by very lofty fences, and that armed guards are placed at short dis tances who keep watch night and day. while on an eminence Is sort of observa- tory furnished with powerful telescopes and searchlights, you understand how very small is the chance of losing even single stone.
 The washing machines are most ingepiess5 pieces of mechanism. They are in the form of great vats, containiug centrifugal wheels. As these rovolve they crush the blue earth. allowing the heavy particles containing the diamonds to sink to the bot tom of the vat. Then the light earth IS f1oated off What remains looks like mass of blue pebbles and this goes to the next machine, known as "pulsater
 Here the pebbles are sorted according to size. This done, they are placed on long, flat benches, and careful hands pick out the rich gems With small troWeIS. Nol d single gem ever escapes the vigilant search, and this is mainly on account of their bril- liant, sparkling appearance, even in the rough state.
 An armed escort accompanies the dia- monds to the chief offices of the company, and the final process is carried out under the eye of its most trusted servants. Last ly, the diamonds reach the exhibition ta- bles, where, in glistening, tempting heaps, they await buyers.
 Some phenomenally large lots have at times been sold to European and American buyers In recent years, perhaps, the largest single order was for 250,o0O karats- worth about 100000. The largest diamond ever found at Kimberley was named the "Jagerfontein." It weighed 91 karats- nearly half pound. It was three inches long, one and half inches thick and two and half inches wide. Its value was fixed at s25O,00O, and it was presented to His Holiness the Pope by President kru- ger,
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

will come to America" said Colonel Lynch, "and l believe that his presence in America will make a very great impression on the American public. They will see that this old leader of South Africa, so much scoffed at and mallgned Is not only one of the grandest figures of our time, but also one of the most advanced in history.
 "I believe that he has just the qualities to appeal to the American public-simplicity of nature and strength of mind combined with great and lnhexible pupose."
 "Alles gal regt komen" Gall shall come right. That was for many years Paul Kruger's favorite motto, quoted in season and out of season to all. If he was criticis- ed he used 1t as an excuse; if he wanted to comfort his people 1t was his standby
 For many years his self-chosen motto was Justified In so far as he personality was concerned but there has come now day of reckoning when the old sententious phrase Is applicable no longer.
 To great extent the Transvaal was Paul Kruger, and Paul Kruger was the Trans vaal. His life story was so intimately bound up with the history of the South African Republic, that to tell the tale of the one is to tell the tale of the other.
 II is fairly certain h lger is a Ger man descent though the .lany guesses at his precise genealogy are al more or less
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

A principle enforced by the daily experi ence of these judges of spellbinders is ex- pressed in the homely adage that You can't tell by the looks of a toad how far he will jump" Rough diamonds of ora torical talent at premium at national headquarters and it is recognized at the speakers bureaus that the best spellbinder timber is often clothed with shaggy bark. silk hats, spotless linen, white ties and faultiess Pince Albert suits do little to as-. sure the candidates of acceptance.
 A distinctive feature at national head quarters is the army of bright young col lege men who are impatient to try their mettle on the stump No young college man need hesitate to make application to the chief of either bureau, for both are
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

beside the mark He was bc~a on october 10th. 1895. at Coesberg in the Cape Colony, his father being 2. small ...-.' -cunious far mer As boy Stephanus Johannes Pauius Kruger had a very hard life. He herded the oxen, he shot sprinzaok .or the l1rder, and he had practically no ea.edtion al. al.
 When he was between ten and eleven years old. his parents took him with them m the Great Trek when several hundred Roer families shook off he vli7s of EnS-sh government fer reasons winch they deemed satisfactory, and trekked t2r into the un- known North to carve out new country for themselves. They were hardy, inaom- itable pioneers, but only a minority or them survived the numberless hardships of many years of wandering in strange land, amid hostile native tribe es.s---: ~s-w1tA no other s.,ioiT1ee s.Vo eiie oX wagons in when they travelled.
 Paul Kruger was one of the most active of all the pioneers and his strength A wis dom early made him a ..- ?. iie gave the greatest assistance to the early colonlsts. Rustenberg, Potchefstroom and eventually Pretoria were founded by .hos1 hardy Vo T. trekkers who certainly proved themselves to be intrepid pioneers a.l,. iii .acaoie loes to the natives.
 This rough nomad veldt life of shooting. fighting and pioneering, hardened fdui Kruger into the man of irc: N 10 gradually developed into the porn Ieau'r ol insll. HIS hard, rough, gruff, ,stolid personality had peculiar attraction for all tnose with whom he came into contact. and :; IS easily con ceivable that even as a young man he held many places of honor ana high trust among his fellow Boers.
 He followed the fortunes of his country in prosperity and diversity, and by ms simple, untutored eioqul thee held his burg hers fast in unquestioning obedience to him. l His sincere, If mistaken Purtanical relig- 1 ious opinions are austere in their naked l simplicity. He is really d man of deep re- l ligious feelings, and essentially a man for l whom the Bible Is the only source of know ledge and good conduct. He clings pr~c-
 tically to the rule of life of s.xteenth-cen- 1 tury Protestants. He soemnly believes that i the sun revolves round the earth, and that l the latter Is flat
 There are unfathomed depths of fanatac- 1 ism in his character, which drove him out as youth into the solitude of the wilder ness to fast and to pray, as the old Hebrew l prophets were driven. or the hermits of the l second century.
 True patriot he has always been elected and re-elcted president he held his position l as much by fear as by love. for he an
 overbearing bully and a hard taskmaster. I Still, he ruled as wisely as he knew how, until the foreign influx broush~ ~Amoney into 1 and turned a barren waste into land flow l ing with raw gold. This was too much .or
 Kruger, who found the amassing of money i which he could not spend the one absorbing ! thought of his declining years.
 How to squeeze the uitlander, so the
 English declare, was his one and only
 desire and thought to a certain extent he
 may have had the welfare of his country
 at heart, his personal greed was no small
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

factor in the degeneration of his later years.
 There are two points about the ex-presi- dent of the TransvAal which have never hitherto been adequately dwe1t upon. These are his native idiosynerasies and his pecu> liar ignorahce.
 As child even as a young man, he as- sociated much, as South Africap always do, with native servants, Hottentots, Basutos, Shangaans and Zulus. iInstinctively, cer- tain traits of native character are inevit- ably picked up, for children are notoriously receptive He should, therefore, be treated much as one would treat a puissant native chief, with courtesy, with absolute fair ness and justice but also with very diff ferent form of diplomacy to that employed with Great Power or the head of A civil- ized nation.
 Many folks have found a likeness in Paul Kruger to quite a number of eminent people of the past, such Cromwell, Washington, Ulysses, Butcher and Lincoln. But there Is "a native simplicity about the man which snone of these people approached. He Is gi- gantic in his ignorance, beautiful in his simplicity.
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
On Exhiifion in Louis SakS' Show
 WiHdOW-ISf Ave. and 10Th Sf.

The Bound Volumes containing the In- struction and Question Papers of these Courses, the Drafting Outfits Electrical Outfit, and Designing Outfit, to be given with the Courses, are on exhibition at Louis Saks', corner First avenue and Nineteenth street, and the public is cordially invited to come and see them.
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

Hoxy +o Vo+o Cut out the attached Voting zz0 - " " Coupon, and pail or bring it to the business office of the AGE HERALD Birmingham Ala
 Each Coupon must Bear the name of the person for whom you wish to vote
 The records of the S4pRStoFs Till be shown in each ceived until midnight of December 15 1900
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
TONS AND TONS
 OF COSTLY GEMS
Most Complete and Graphic Des- cription Ever Written of the
 Kimberley Diamond Mines

ing. The limb was examined by the sus- piclous officials, and in self-inhicted wound were discovered ten small diamonds, whose united value was not less than thousand dollars.
 When the laborers In the underground galleries dig out the diamond-yieldng earth, 1t is loaded on small trolleys. These are run to the shaft and brought to the surface by machinery in astonishing quan-
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

The news has just been cabled around, the world that the mines of Kimberley are soon to be again in active operation, since the war in the Transvaal has practically come to close.
 These mines are the most marvellous In the world. It Is estimated without exag- geration that they have produced ten tons of diamonds at a value of almost a thou sand million dollars, an amount so vast
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

the average is close to 200 a day. The writ ten applications brought in by the mails are atou. equal to the nu.lber of those made personally. First impressions carry great wescht with the men who select the orators. s.nd they depend more upon their ability to "ea1 human ure than upon
 the results of any categorical examination.
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
DOM PAUL MAY
 LECTURE HERE

Citizens of the United States may have the pleasure during the coming winter of attending d series of lectures at which Prsi- dent Kruger of the South African Republic will be the lecturer, If the predictions of Colonel Arthur Lynch, the famous author and war correspondent, come true.
 'I hope and expect that President Kruger
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
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The age-herald., 1900-10-24
Seit oslng spellbindcrs

From the Saturday Evening Post. F It is a slow day which does not bring a hiindred candidates for ora torical honors Ito eltner oI the national headquarters, and
The age-herald., 1900-10-24

emphatic In the declaration that the col- leges and universities of the present day are turning out better campaign timber than ever before, and that the humolest undergraduate Is assured of a courteous welcome if he chooses to seek place in the ranks of the spellbinders
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
Each Course in Bound Form.

Each of these Courses will include the Instruction and Question Papers and Draw. ing Plates necessary to study with and in addition complete set of the same papers handsomely and durably bound ip lea th&r, including a boob of Formulas 6hd Keys for the whole work of the Course. for use as reference books.
The age-herald., 1900-10-24
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The age-herald., 1900-10-24

See display in Louis Saks' window of books and instru- ments to be given away as prizes in the Age -Herald's Educational Contest. See d. vertisement in another col umn explaining contest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11
Why, Oh, Why?

why is it," demands Mr.. Bryan,
in his finest high tragedy, "crown
of thorns and cross of gold'' manner,
why is it that the Republican party
allows trusts to grow?n We do not
know that he expected any answer to
be given, save that which he present
ly supplied in his own inimitably il
logical way. If he did not it was
most kind of him, because it might
be a trifie difficult for any one else,
especially for Republican, to give
an answer that would be satisfactory
to Mr.. Bryan. 1t was always trifie
Earring to sensitive nerves to be re-
quired to respond, categorically and
courteously, to the interrogation
"Where did you get that hat?''
Nevertheless, it is the indefeasible
birthright of the Yankee to answer
one question with another. Where
fore, if Mr.. Bryan should press his
conundrum too strenuously for an
answer, some desperate Republican
might be moved to ask in reply why
the great statesmen of the Democrat
ic party, in framing the last Demo-
cratic tariff law, were so uncommon
ly regardful of the welfare and of the
desires of the Sugar Trust. Or, com
ing down to the present moment, it
might be asked how the foremost
leaders of the Democratic party in
the chief city of the chief State of the
Union come to be so particularly in
terested in the Ice Trust and how the
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee happens to be SO intimate
ly connected with the Cotton Bale
Trust. 1t might further be asked if
any trusts exist which more directly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11

General Lew Wallace has recently
pledged himself, unreservedly, to the
support of President Mckinley, and
he emulates the late General Lawton
in charging to the so-called antrim
perialist spectre-chase in this coun-
try the continued hostilities of Agui-
naldo and his Tagals against Ameri-
can authority in the Philippines. He
says:
l hold Mr.. Bryan directly and per-
sonally responsible for the death of
every American soldier slain in the
Philippines. He is responsible for
every wound and for every tear shed
in the war, which would have long
since been ended but for the encour-
agement and promises held out by
Bryan and Others of his like to the
rebels in arms against the govern
ment to which Bryan processes 10y
atty.
These charges may seem too severe
and unfair to Mr.. Bryan, who doubt
less has no intention of being disloyal
VI SolAlIN llis5 az bllC IloCOLllUUT0 anu
death of American soldiers, but Wal
lace and Lawton are far too high
minded to indulge in political bun
combe. Gen. Wallace is best known
to the public as the author of "Ben
Hur." If he and the late Gen. Law
ton have seen fit to express similar
statements regarding the outcome of
the very novel mode of campaigning
INDUCED in by the Bryanites, it is
reasonable to suppose that there are
a large number of other Americans
who share their opinions and who
will record their protest at the polls.
1t cannot be denied that Aguinaldo
and his crowd of Tagals have much
to hope for, in the event of Bryanite
success, and those who regard the
Aguinaldan crusade as mere effort
to exploit the Philippines for their
own gain, have great provocation to
condemn anything which fosters their
purposes, and Mr.. Bryan's mode of
campaigning certainly has fostered
the Aguinaldan insurrection.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11
Married in Cumberland Yesterday.

Mr.. Charles Deffinbaugh and Miss
Sue Elizabeth, daughter of Mrs. s. NJ.
Miller, of the Commercial Hotel, went
down to Cumberland yesterday morn
ing and were married in that city by
Rev. A. J. Gill, of Centre Street M. E.
church. Mr.. George o. Miller, brother
of the bride, and Misses Annie and
Margaret Miller, sisters of the bride,
were present. The wedding couple
are now east on the bridal tour. Mr..
Deffinbaugh is foreman in the Demo-
cr0t Office and is model, industrious
young man. The bride is one of Oak
lands charming young ladies. They
will occupy Mr.. D. G.. Smiths house
on Third street ON their return to
Oakland. We join with their many
friends in wishing them long, pros
porous and happy married life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11
Campaign Lies,

1t has been learned that the cam
paign lie is on its stealthy rounds in
the district. and many erroneous
statements are being made about
Col. Pearre's record in public life,
which only need discovery in order to
be disproven. These fabrications do
not court the light of publicity, but
they have rapid underground tran
sit. One of the speakers at the Mount
Savage meeting last night took oc-
casion to drive a nail into one of the
misrepresentation, and the nail-keg
is still open. Congressman Pearre
did not oppose the eight hour law and
he did not oppose other measures he
is being accused of opposing in GER
tain quarters. No voter should al
low himself to be influenced by I'M
authentic statements. Let him take
the pains to make inquiries as to their
truth or falsity, for in no other way
can he deal justly with candidates
before the people.-Cumberland
News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11

The Dorcas Society met at the resi-
dence of the president, Mrs. DR.. Hine-
baugh, on Alder street, ON Thursday
last. Mrs. Percy Proctor was present
and made donation of flannel and
also became an honorary member of
the society
With the near approach of winter
and the treasury almost depleted the
society has decided upon the follow
ing plan to raise funds to carry on
the work: Each gentleman in Oak
land will be invited to become an
honorary member of the Dorcas So
ciety and to contribute the sum of 25
cents per month toward its support.
This will enable the society to go on
with the work and will also relieve
each honorary member from contrib
ing to other appeals for charity. In
case demand is made for help or as
sistance the member can refer the
case to the society and in this way be
rid of all demands.
We trust that all who are invited
to become members will do so. A
great number haye already become
members. A member of the society
will call upon the honorary members
the first Monday in each month for
their dues of 25c. The October dues
will be collected the last Monday in
October
The next meeting will be held the
last Friday in October at 3 o'clock D.
IN. at the residence of Mrs. DR.. Hine-
baugh. MRS. BOWIE JOHNSON,
Secretary