Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-14

to the aus,ere farmer-patriarch's contented
family. the harmonium. or melodeon. round
winch they gathered in the cleaning 10
sing their sweet old Psalms and hymns and
Gospel sonS/ The hymn book and the an
Gent Holi;ssd Bible (Staten Rtbel-RIble OF
the state) were two books found in every
dwelling. True, Il is not the picture pre-
scented to US by our one-time fellow com
tryman. the now British Henry NJ Stanley.
when he showed the Boer family throwing
colossal blur with the same illustrated
family Bible. These people are great buy
ers. he says. Of the prnfuseIy illustra ted
family Bibles that are the rnainstay 81 n
certain class pf subscription book PUBLISH
ers Issued in weekly or monthly parts
payable on delivery-the unhappy family
that has once subscribed remains through
out the rest OF its earthly experience, a
victim {" the pictorial deiuge. ii seems.
however. that the Rocrs fairly reveI in n
The whole family. gathered round The even
ing lamp. gives itself up to looking at the
pictures in defaul; of ability To read the
text. II is against such cruel travellers
tales. says Mr.. Pierson, that the exhibit
makes its protest IF you doubt that o1Ir
farmers girls and boys can read" he saws.
Indignantly. look at our school exhibit,''
Changes Wrought by Gold.
1t is only in the third building that the
Boer trfumphs unquestiunably The ewes
OF visitors CLEAN with cupIdity as they
gloat over the gold the gold that the Boer
farmer has found underneath his pasture
grounds
Hreat Heavens!" exclaimed Mr.. Pier
son as We Stood there ''is there any history
more pathetic than ours2 Think Of thoss
sihpie farmers forced, suddenly and uupre-
ppai' 10 treat complicated social problemst
zen L looked last on the vast camp Of
ooi'siiihesb0rS, with its chimneys vomiting
smoke ITS great buildings. its shrieking
raIways Its population Of 10000 Kafirs
ana So.en whites tearing at the bowels ~
n,J,sa,f &C., satth IKE so many demons, / ask
% MIA
rev years ago my fathers flocks of sheen
sized on the lonely plain. Instead of thai
So So city there Were only a few sea ered
nuts instead of this anxious hustlIng nonu
iation few shepherds in their inn,I i,Ia
ulS. sat contemplating the bare horizon
now mink of these farmers and shenhards
starTo " i t pS the necessity of circum-
1t t'uces INTO people Of administrators
r-Niaehtly they had no knowledge of noiit-
lcaI economy. They knew nothing ~ s,ciaI
H. ssttohs, yer they set themselves to study
ing me problems. And they succeeded he
gond all hope. is IT not prodigin,1sS tn
Iransvaal may not have produced a snInp
OF Lycurgus, but II has found seriou, ,,.,
,,nipns L!s citlzens; honest men; laborfous
psinstaklhg men Ought they not be es
teemed at their true value? If vou cow
pdte the administration of witvarersrand
", WIN mat Of other mining camps ii is easv
10 decide which is the best Ash +bosa ~
dixie ana anu the hlon-
,a Lnls IS the Boer story-and are we no,
'0hpi5 III lHS BOer eXhibit2
Geld in All Shape,.
mere the Boer gold is seen in its every In
1ermediate state from the mine To tha ,a,,,
eier showcase. The two constructions
the mine and mining building proper with
pig cyanide process wheel between tham-
form one single consolation 70 ~ -
sdhds OF good Partisan bouryaoisia -
torn between Boer sympathy and snltebt'
ehed seif-interest, are lust now asSin,,
~ e .ns what they are likely to gel ONT
OF thelr South African gold shares L.
Is palpable evidence of the rfcbnass os -
mines: FOR weeks We have stood ana 70
speciuiiy gazed at the great nile 81 ~,
d;raL.t t 1a sachs OF imported ore, imported
urect from the TrausvaaI" and with 1,,ht,t
tne mine is now lined. 1t is the frst exarn'
Pie Vi salted mine Parisians have eyer
seen Ihey have held plenty of sbaras -
no da 1js. OUT TINS Is an albright one and
10 deception Around the hill of sacks he
holders OF "exposants tickets''-alwavs foII5
"a SUBSTANCE, with sufficient Influence 10 na
Sfu.Iaee the coveted passes-held for weeks
VII Up parliaments droll enough to
French. as 'hey say IN
Inc richness of the ore in those bags the
taS,s.I OF the cyanide process. the capt.
atiIa.ion OF the companies. the Threatened
.dxatlon OF the British commences -
last and most terrible the runors ~,
tleir friends the Beers would blow m, rba
h hlLhes IN which their friends the French
'toSh bTOuSll OUT diSCuSSiOpz
IN which dignified women, common 49,
AIsHen, grave old decorated penfIarnan
elegant young dawdlers ffower-facai bnri
t1h1aies ana precocious school BOYS sauab
pied TN the setting of the sun. Tine o. =.
now IN place. The mine is sailed E,a -
a prics the visitor may go down and CONF
up again. The gold is SURELY tbara. -
the, is no deception! 'Galere de prospec-
uon, puts d'extraction''-the Partsians
roll these technical terms in their n,aa',hs
as as something sweet and precious. "Verita-
Die mineral auriferer"
The Cyanide Process.
large portion of the ore that came !,
the sacks has been reserved for the cyanide
process exhibit. Hers the public follows
all the phases of "the extraction and nren-
aradon of the precious metal" As to the
prepa ration, IL is divided into four nar,s~
in ,.iis m, erushins, stamping and amaIgamat-
ing. The ore. after being crushed. passes
10 tns stamp, where 1t is reduced to a fine
Po~oer. Thence 1t is conducted In the
FORM OF liquid mud, TO the amaIgamatine
.Hi,h me ore-mud once amalgamated
with the mercury, the gold cleared Of its
quartz and mixed with the mercury 10
many extracted in great Retorts which
soiatillze the mercury and leave the yellow
treasure in the shape of spongy cakes In
the fourth building, which is tbs 80, IN
the good Paris stakeholder NAV obserye
ms gold pass through all the divers Anal
processes before it is ready to be given IN
to commerce. oA up
And now the visitors attentio, &C. o,,,os
10 the triumph of the Concession AZ b..
energies from thu mining building hayins
passed from the gold mine to the cyanide
wheel from the cyanide wheel to the stann
mill and from the stamp mill RI ~, fa,...p
dry, he sees before him, towering I'M aboya
the trees and the pavilions, a fair obeIist
1nat SHINES bllndingly golden in the sun
,,sa., - Is commemorative obelisk-com-
memoratfve of no victory or defeat Of no
trek or treaty. of the founding of no school
or post or telegraph. 1t touches the snot
= tablet with this legend tells the taIa.
ms oeeHsk represents the entire outnut
OF the Rand fields from the discovery of fba
nrst mine until the breaking out of tbs
war. STERLING HELLO.
Second Nature With Him.
From the Yonkers Statesman