New-York tribune., 1901-01-11
THE PASSING THRONG.

"A cousin of mine who lives in South Africa"
said B. A Conyers. OF Cleveland. Ohio. at the Hor-
man House yesterday told me
TALE curious story OF Barney Barnato
OF THE and Cecil Rhodes. and how the
DIAMOND latter outreached the former. My
FIELDS cousin told me Barnato told him
the story himself. and said at the
time that in the course Of his CBarnatos) adventur
Gus and remarkable career Cecil Rhodes was the
Il seems that the work OF sortinS out diamonds
IN n the rough Is an extremely Long and arGq0SS e
with minute care and then valued. and the process
sell the oupat 5S 81 ' the daoad Ia 5 eds to the shes
bidder and as you probably know the diamond
an under an iro1elsd agreenent that only 50 many
Rhodes made this plan years ago. 70 prevent over
t6a # To R R3'd5 day Thd E 30 a to-
Rhodes s6d The 20 Tea sIppv Of dsmonds To
Barnsto Tie stones had of Course been saTeiuly
wen satisfied with the transaction. a bottle OF
their jo1 in each Others society '0'''''S'e
Stories were being swapped. and the two men
were having thoroughly good time. All at
Rhodes turned to Barnato, as
CECIL though the idea had just struck him.
RHODES Barney said he. that years
ASTONISHES yield of diamonds will fill a bucket.
BARNEY Now l don't believe any one ever
BARNATO. heard of, much less ever saw.
bucketful of diamonds. What say
you TO filing bucket with them and then having
our picture taken with the bucketful of diamonds
Bring On 6uce and 9 g0r fe gnTfS TR
bucket was secured, the diamonds emptied into it.
and the picture duly taken. Then quoth the guile
full Rhodes: I thought, Barney" you'd fall into
that trap. I've got number of left stones to
dispose Of which il will take about three months
10 work on, and that opine is just about the time
Barnato sat with his mouth open for few minutes.
and then twinkle came into his eye he got up
and soleunly shook Rhodes by the hand, but the
only comment he made was, Well I'll be -!
We have been having end Of trouble in Cali
fOVT1in Will O1r GrrS'' said old of
Angeles. at the Holland House yes
CALIFORNIA terday. They looked all right to
FIG the eye but they left much to be
CULTURE desired N the matter of taste. We
IMPROVED tried everything but could not
seem TO better them. Finally the
Agricultural Department in Washington took the
matter up, and. thanks to them | think California
ngs from now on will be able TO compete with any
that are grown in the world. The best hgs, and
from Smyrna, and 10 improve the quality Of ours
We imported large number of cuttings from fS
trees in smyrna These grew all right in our soil
Until they reached certain height, and then they
one and all up and died. What il was that killed
them stumpcd us, and we feared that il must be
something in soil and climate that was fatal
perts belonging to the Agricultural Department
visited Smyrna and made exhaustive study of
the figs. He discovered that in Smyrna along with
the ng tree bearing the figs of commerce grew a
stunted wild fig bush or tree Wherever he found
the commercial fig tree thriving. there he also
found the wild fg. The people there had never
tings from both fig trees. with instructions 70
plant and allow them TO grow together. We did
as he told us, and presto. change! our imported
fig trees this time grew a goodly height and
in their native land. It's curious. the way Mother
Nature does her work isn't it,?