| Show II THE KIMBERLEY DIAMOND FIELDS No one visiting Cap Coony on bul new or pleasure feel he Iw done liii duly unless he lots I visited the famous I diamond fields situated about five hun dIed miles from Cape Town on Ihe north bank of the Orange river The scene at the railway depot At Cape Town every evening U A very animated one more ao n hen a mall steamer has armed that day A more cosmopolitan crowd could not be found at any spur In Ihr universe flute nre represents liven from every country on earth Abe A-be ililorman over yonder ho I probably peculating when civilisation will reach the Miullu rn lumlnphere in the shape of Pullman I an You get a prod In the 1J 1 k I nod hear a mothered voice from brhln I lo armful ol Mrcel any Peg f I rdmif mine Irlendt another Uraellle IUlilld t > lur the New Jerusalem lIe < Unl ly German there n IOn of IJ Hel e 1 mce keeping up his national rrputa hUll judging rum Ins Intern he h creating in the treat ol a buiom Eng hh I cxbarmald Dude soldiers sailor Doers nigger coolie all are there ither going out on the train or looting around to kill time At lat the bell ring all aboard and Jon scramble into your compartment md are locked In I guess they do that so one wont got out and walk on to i Klmuetley to let I them know the tram n i coming h you ore caged up with only one iniomcalcd I nun you mayfeel lucky tI r ai it seems tu be more olien me ruin than the exception Th railroads in South Alnci Are run l > y the government and are very lair considering the ililh I rattles Hut had tu IK I uvercome Apart I J front heavy grides and 1 ski lul nlII < erIn er-In the were the liters they would T hear of It idnl their f oilier ridden oa OKUIH and why cuuldn I they The Under and transport riders lieiKhlert promptly utthou n on thi w hole scheme I and ai they are n ery InllimmUl class nf voter It looked lor a tune though I I ape Colony was tu be denied I steam ebd I transportation wl Hut shin got It all I right In the end as two trunk linn teniify Ihe one tunning trout fort hiabein I Inking in the eastern province joining unit 1 the Cape Town line nl Drear lo pti red lo Klrnherlf v Illoemluiilein Im I the Orange Free 1 State tine ram are built on thin old coiiMrvatlvi I IIIUIHMII Platt 1 in compaitmenu with lute improve relent however ol having the padded back of the seals on binges 10 hy J dipping out n catch 1 a lop beilh may be Improvised South African scenery with a few ex I 1 crptlons ran be summed up ai com In Ing of Karroo bush copies and boulders 1 lioiilden copies Jo Karroo i bush with i n few sheen < alter ostriches and red 1 bunk I tedKifliK l thrown In to relieve 1 tie howling wilderness Uimbciley when 1 hint saw It seemed 10 have tOIl > built late one night and then In a limit ol A hurry Ai lumber li a terrible I pen lve article the mistily ol haiuws wen composed ol sheets ol galvanlitd iron screwed together roof and all Ito m < manufacluied ol tin unite article I t tt araii 414 toy In I the shade and the cay and ret vo II y la on the war path File 11 anything but t bed ol row Hut men will take any amount ol discomfort and risks If OIly they Lucy limy see a chance lo get hold of a Mule more of I this worlds goods What are camp I fever and tun stroke when placed In the balance I against prospective wealth t I A rough diamond it I a very Innocent II ins lo look alJ pure carbon ct > > iil take II from Its brthlla l and suul 111 adult In thug world what a commotion It vvlll cause as It passe Irom band to hand I Now on the neck of A popular nclicos again ticketed wJUI a pawnbroker pawn-broker eafe f peihip adorning aome millionaire a upollee hlit bosom ort or-t > be In the hands of B Ihlelil pass trout one lo I Ihu usher breaks up I a I mlly and goes Oil slIrllnll anti dau link for all time no matter In whit walk of Wo Il is cant fits dclii ale gill I who 11UIS upon her to I taie ring I and I mur burn That a dear old boy Charlie I u tithe Uu w about the various cuie thIIIII lIng jewel bat been Ihru itil 11 coure there is l a corner on dint I mofcls ui on every thing rise 1 The venous t Iallllluhl have bug time been bought or froien out by the ayntli cafe Were Ihe I three great times Mmberley Drllcer and t f j igeiifonteln running at heir lull cupicii dhmondi would be at cheap a < c irneU Kimberley claim thin largett pick ind hotel bole on oailh tho dtmeiiiioni b uiKBonieHheieln Ihe neighboihooil of luaa jeet by 8uu Wire cablet am ftr tched dUgon ill Irom top lo bottom ulth bukcK lunnniR up and down ctcrn lly One itcps into one of those In kits 11ml hut ryes and before he Ins iot thrut th the lint three uordi of a in neat prayernn tinke the bottom The lus1 I nun Idu I in Klmberley re fiches an nhiming liriiihl at tunes MI mu n to II at Hide la alwaya a stock ol ohms kept on jnd I the rid would rav in at most tnuppi mine moine it hula tong ant wan milv iilggera dual wrrc puherucd It was all right Hut a five ton rink on a down rade li I no dii crimln itor ol pawn and things beigun to luck in Iliuu li the supply I of while IMJSSCH inikhi I nun out So now the old slyly of > haft and tunne hug lire urted to hit Is I not emery Torn Dirk or Harry that can get a permit to visit the mines 1 considered I mytelf I lucky In holding rl introduction h I k I rod letters I ol II whereby was grlclouly pcrnillteil tu Invcttigate II ni3leilc I ill > iinond mining L ry one bnim I morning 1 started hut um lompanied by a ry sociable very tcnll blunt as gouty with another to keep I n vc on us both lo see tliit ue did not I run ui with the mine Uur lint Intro dtictlun was to Compound the hoinv and town ol tin real into kernthe natives lvcry South Alrlcan tribe tat there reprt tnlc lKjlliri lingoes ondos I lUiutii Zaluo11 make the heliU l tom ir goal A years work at n pound a week make them Independent for hue I for on I they not take their earnings and nlh nail r J buy ten or a doses I cows trade tw I niilnul fur two or throe KIVM soot Ilk + town tutu qukt dometic lift sit II > II side all day and smoke wlnUt Il I ulimof 1 their bearih lion the mean mea-n I its I hill I i d spate hut chop wood 1 tu ul 1 1 li > veil water from the nearest m 11111 I herwisi rust r for thou lord I Ibm I time boys all native am ii I II hay be they sixty > tar old in < I u id vela In lie chronic Mate < 1 i merry with a perpciiul 1 gum on 1 > hollY I couiileiiHiKeh and lolled L tithed I in Irsh air muatly I I the air linn mm I iheir lallithle 1 J ri my rhil II here mural < en lrolll Scorn hI Y 1410 IllhmYa III tl s 1 utul and mm hen mice uilrniile I yore not allowed lo Kavi or hull y communion i with the gutsldi world without lint giving notice lo the bosses when they are taken Into shanties nnd kept there lor ten days with Ihelr hands I incased In large I leather mitt so II the grntlemin has any gem necreted 1 round hi anatomy or Ina wound It inflame the padlocked mini preventing pre-venting him i from removing the gem and W nf1e seeming It elsewhere The company pendi millIon of dollars a year on their detective service alone and very town In Cape Colony rms Us I I II detective and spoilers A smpic IOIK stronger Is I kept continually under their I eye traps are laid for the erring and woe betide him who bites It li I 111I111 in visit the convict stations and hurrah water at Cape fown and see Ihe nun lierol young fellows college gradual and men of refinement working out Ihelr ten years sentence side hy sunk I X th some ver nln covered Don Pnglx i caking naive felon And what was heir fJIVSI having I in their possession a stone for which ilisy could how no registration ctrtllkale Surely ihu I way ol the transgressor li hard It us a learlul lempiallon when a man comes to you wills a tale of woe and a gaud lone or nrhap a lottentot I with Jii night or ten carat slope who oilers sell n 10 sell It yon for schoolboy prkethere is a fortune In your grasp Shall I risk up < you nrgiie with yoiirsell If you Gf give in Gal help I you for In nine cases out of ten the man ls 11 apolter rand at the n1 Hussion another I U I Ii lilt IIII Diamond Buy Is I doomed lor the leu ten yuan at a living hull labor In tnl tli1 t the bulling sun amongst f thieves black and while lo die of lever or he shot down In an attempt In escape Yet men will link all that In I order lo get riches and some do get nch very mysteriously I dr < pne all I the snares laid l I lor them I They have to be men ol resource AIIII 1 n active brain combined with nu erual mart accomplice Inside the mine I r watches heels gold dental OM ualuming a stone down n chicken and shooing him over the compound fence if kv b r lId rcen are all back numbers which only a greenhorn would practice It Is tick tali work as no unite man on leaving the IIIln knows when he may be snarclted lie I may mane thin office for t week and lien 1n called In 1 andaearc lur > the next ten days Searching It no child ploy either every part of the naiomy are gone over from the hair of one head and beard lo the soles of your feet l In a s ilcrn tlc and careful r Ir luckless ICmf fr manner I If the luckless miner it u < peeled nf swallowing n stone they simply give him an emetic and sit down and wait for Ihe result the blue clay In which diamonds are found 1 lies In strata I xperls claimed when the fields fit began to bo devel opeil lint Ihe stones were only on Ihe sin face and In river washings but subsequent sub-sequent et ents prove thai Ihe deeper lluygo Ihe richer line blue The blue Is brought to the surface and dumid on huge lumber Hoots to under 10 lor the next two or three month the ulverlimg I effect of Ihe clement illS then scraped up null put through the huge wasnlni machines whole ctaicleM clatier goes on night and day The clean up exposes 1 a vast amount of instils garnets with the diamonds all are taken to the sorting room and 1 spread out on tables where they are sotted roughly I and finally pasted onto anexptit who tort the tinest I water from the oft colors and Haws then each stone II Is weighed levered smut done I tr up In IKUCCIS rcaily for tire broke and lo be shipped In England or llrussels to auu bo cut unit polished I was allowed lo hold a luiillul as a great treat If I promised lo roll my sleeves up nnd I noticed tint they had a peculiar soapy feel lo I them The outk III the mines goes on day alum uighL Asicgards to the natives It I is work with 1 a vengeance They work ISI In gangs with a wliite overseer who gets a percenUge on nil trucks delivered on thin dump each shlll The poor niggir leads the life of n dog and If din does not lly last enough there Is I always a man around l with a two foot piece of fuse in his hand to assist things generally I and the patient boy t digs all the harsher and never dreamt I r turning on his tak master and knocking the stulhng out ol him It is strange but licteiUielesa true that Ihe average black respects a bully KmdniM to him seems to be n sign ol weakness on the I part of his hats The atmosphere surrounding sur-rounding a good and healthy black I under Ihe best auspices docs tot ic semble Cashmere bouquet l get twenty sumealung lurd I working bo > s In a ton f d conihuuneuwith Shl fined Mute conibinedwilh their Infdl Ible rule slnclng grunting and inaklng I ilialHillllial 1 nurses the hvcloiu day whilst uotklng and a while botss lilt It not a happy one He can hardly be I i pr I Jrl Ytl blamed lor losing Ins temper In that pandemonium Lfmtt strikes one very forcibly at the heldi It I Ihe 1 apparently earless sal diamonds dia-monds I are handled and dat very week n man strolls down to the put olhco with a parcel worth all toe way from Sl 5 non up gut It re g IlertI It Is I dropped in thin null I bag and starts on its 7000 mile Journey to I urope with a bilious looking mail cleric In < large 1et In the history ol I the country there has never been a train held up What a chance for 1 lease James society In < nIonnte brJtalnaey of course very mixed land one mu > l not judtc a mm by his cut of ills coal for many a tattered l one covers the back of a Greek scholar whilst vice and tojniery Iwrdn In broadcloth One of the richest ladle there used to tend l bar In days lone by nnd it Is I whispered that Ihe good nalnred l vulgar wife ol look In washing at some remote period of her history Kinlher loy Is I issentully a spot I loving loanptile lights I polo gnomes leeilecliaM foot bill unlit crkketare Indulged Incessantly and 1 when I them pall on the appetite I there is always l the II irNI slack exclnnge lo 1 pliv for all ills 1 worth Money Is I plentiful consequently I living It I liighlhe only thing that in l cheap beingdrlnk he cu rue 01 South A Ilca llotr l brandy fining retailed lit a khllllni a pint Iwcnly five cults Klmberley Is no place for the poor min Ills I erdone but anyone with some gold In his belt Stu < conscience plenty of gall and craltl ness ls sure to get along Clio r C KfbNIKK |
