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diamonds by the ton.
A Monte Cristo Find of Gems in New
South Wales.
the Story of * Miner Which, if True,
Will Prove Him the Owner of the
Richest Diggings on Earth-Report
of a Commissioner.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.
Australia is a prodigious lucky bag,
out of which somebody is always fishing
up some surprise. There is scarcely a
nomadic who has not a hoard of red and
blue and green stones which he cannot
make up his mind to sell for the trifle
offered by the jewelers. He means to go
home some day, and then he will get a
price for them. Meantime he carries
them about in a little gold dust bag,
sometimes getting wheedled out of one or
two bv a barmaid or “£oing on the tan
gle" and losing the lot. Occasionally one
tecs in a breastpin or a ring a fine sap
phire, vouched for as native; but the em
eralds, rubies, spinels and almandines
found are mostly of small size. All the
world knows the magnificent opal from
the White Cliffs and all the world will
soon have an opportunity to admire the
superb turquoise found at Herdi, in Vic
toria says an Australian correspondent.
We ’ have pearl fisheries; we
have the biggest silver mine
In the world and gold reefs so
rich that a drive is sometimes described
as a “jeweler's shop,” but surely we have
bit upon the gnomes’ treasure-house when
we talk coolly of a mine with “a ton of
diamonds in sight!” There have been
such sentimental rumors of late concern
ing the diamond fields of Bingafi, on the
Horton, in New South Wales, that
we had grown callously incredulous, and
are the more astonished to find from the
report of a special commissioner just re
turned to Sidney that the rumors were
less than the truth. The diamor.difer
ous tract is some thousands of acres in
extent, and the mine, the Monte Cristo,
already opened up, belongs to one man.
He has been working it by himself, deter
mined to prove it before taking the pub
lic into his confidence, and that is why
we have heard so little of what was
going on there. Before describing the
held some account of his career is due to
this Austrailian count of Monte Cristo.
WAITING PATIENTLY FOB HIS OPPORTUNITY
Mr. (captain by mining courtesy) Rog
ers is a Cornishman, active and resolute,
but now over 80 years of age. After
opening up tin mines in Tava, Penang and
elsewhere, he came to Victoria in the
first Hush of its gold fever and gained his
colonial experience in several rushes.
His practical shrewdness was early dem
onstrated. He argued that instead of fol
lowing the alluvial the cold should be
traced to Us matrix. Acting on this con
viction in 1858 he opened in Wattle Gully,
Forest Creek, the first quartz reef in Vic
toria, being jeered as a madman for ex
pecting to find gold in a lode. His exam
ple was, however, quickly followed, and
then came the difficulty of extracting the
gold from the cruelly hard quartz. The
captain claims to have erected the first
quartz crushing battery in Australia. By
the by. home people cannot imagine what
a dazzlingly beautiful thing in the sun is
pure white quartz crushed. The streets
of Ballarat are metaled with it, and make
one think of that little surprise the
French king prepared for his mistress
when he had the park avenues spread
with salt.
Capt. Rogers acted as manager to va
rious mining companies, till in 1876 he
was appointed expert to a Sydney sindi
cate. He was sent to report on Bingara
as a gold field. It struck him the country
was likely for gems, and he resolved to
return at his leisure and prospect it. It
was not for eight years that this “leis
ure" moment came, but he had not for
gotten. He came all the way from Hal
larat in the adjoining colony, and after
two months’ prospecting found a lead
which averaged three carats to theload.
Although at this time there was-uncer
tainty as to the market value of Austra
lian diamonds (so called), some specula
tors at once offered $17,300 for his claim.
It was probably this want of definite
knowledge about the stone found here
that induced Rogers to accept the offer—
a proceeding he soon regretted, as the
purchasers made a ring and took up every
acre of diamondiferous country in the
district.
Here again the Cornishman’s innate
shrewdness stood him in good stead. He
alone knew the trend of the country and
the dead work needed to develop it. He
argued that some of these mining leases
would inevitably' be forfeited owing to
non-compliance with labor conditions. So
he waited. His foresight had not de
ceived him. As the leases fell through
he lodged his application and secured
theni, always keeping his eye steadily on
that big plumb, the Monte Cristo block.
He waited five years before this last
lease was obtained.
fabulous richness or ths find.
Then he went to work all alone, some
times not seeing another human being for
5!° n }hs. He sank a shaft, timbered it,
hlleu bags with dirt below, climbed to the
surface and hauled them up. He drove
and cross-cut on two levels, and sank
again through about thirty feet of very
hard oxidized cement. How a man of his
age could have done this work unaided is
marvel; but of this drive he washed fif
teen loads for a yield of 2,180 diamonds,
and proved the drift to be the commence
ment of a deep lead. After this he sunk
an air shaft, which was destroyed by
hood, and before he could get another one
completed he succumbed to bad air and
laid up for six months. As soon as he was
able to work again he followed up this
unve with a tunnel 200 feet to test the
extent of the drift, sunk a third shaft,
ana from this one opened up a shallow
te'cl so rich that he christened it the Bo
nanza.
fai ", although sending parcels of
F. ms t 0 London, Capt. Rogers has kept
ms own counsel, but now, having proved
ns property, ho invited experts to visit
i: an “ ver .v much astonished they were,
‘ground that tijis dauntless octogena
an had, with hisownhand accomplished
no work of opening up a great mine, dis
playing such consummate judgment that
ne upper level offered room for 200 men
to start blocking; that the drift had been
within >SO feet of its matrix
inch crops outon an adjacent bill), and
. ,* cieat °i the 40 feet laid bare to yield
, ot diamonds! The whole of this
i vL 1 ls diamond-bearing; it is found to
„ ra s° stones to a one-horse load of
'l. cuhl f f eet ..and in one part yields 2,500
nis t° the load. This one lease is for
t" enty acres.
Monte Cristo mine Itself is a veri-
We mountain of diamonds, pronounced
iS • the richest mine ever known
1 ~„j w °f The stones are declared In
tr, rv? ot L' -Amsterdam and New York equal
Brazilian gems, but of so ad
.,l: “ ln ® a hardness that special ma
fn _ r y has had to bo erected in London
err-„ U i* tln ? Its output must intlu
whiM.u" o*the 0 * the diamond market,
c ,,.5“ has already bad to be nursed be
tin. rf . 0f * he inflex of Cape stones.- Should
inu J atr . Prove as rich as the surround
*• W?' indicates, the mine will be
kingdom. The quite recent dis
of ?r n,rlßnd of twenty sample bags
d rt taken from all parts of the
i am ij S ,* tre ngthened the revort that
frmr, /*°d**rs has received overtures
Kothi.Mi5 rß ** house, believed to be the
tla His advanced age and par
him ti w eM ~ whlch tatter now compels
table “ #v * 110 ta-'latsnt at the sorting
reaii-,i. < * re ? tr °dg arguments in favor of
but the plucky old fellow says
if he were twenty years younger or had a
Urn hiß *? lace ' he would not accept
JIU.UUO.OUO for the property. In spite of
this bit of bluff he will have to deal, and
as money is still scarce here the Monte
Cristo mine will probably become the
property of capitalists.
OTHEK PRECIOUS STONES AND METALS.
The commissioner, from whose report
we glean these particulars, says the wash,
when seen underground, is of an uninter
esting grayish color and all water-worn
material. A dark green pebble, shaped
like a kidney bean, runs through it like
plums in pudding and wherever the peb
, 8 • thick the diamonds are thick
also. Like that in the diamond mines of
India and Brazil, the wash dirt contains
jaspers, quartz, agate, sandstone dis
colored by oxides, manganite, trimonte,
conglomerate, quantities of small gems,
rubbies, garnet, sapphires, zircons, tour
maline and topazes; also gold and and
Plating in sufficient quantities to con
tribute materials toward the working
expenses. In passing through the drives
the commissioner noticed in parts of the
face of the lead disturbed “as if rabbits
had been searching there.”
“That’s where the ladies have been,”
said the captain, who gallantly permits
lady visitors (and you will not be sur
prised to hear he has a good many) to
carry away aouvenirs. The Bingara dia
monds are white or yellow, but mostly
white. Some red ones have been found,
and one rare green one, which, unfortu
nately, someone took a fancy to. The
largest, as a rule, are about two carats,
but one of eleven carats has been found.
It Is believed that large stones will be
unearthed when the matrix is driven on.
The price received up to the present is
about $7 per carat for white stones and
about $2 per carat for sn a 1 ana off-color
diamonds. The excessive hardness of the
Bingara stones, which increases the cost
of cutting, affects their price. A curious
characteristic of some of the dia
monds is a cobweb formation in the
stone and twin diamonds have also been
found. Warden Lawson, recently sent
by the mines department to inspect the
Monte Cristo, broke down sixty-five
pounds of wash dirt, washed it in the
presence of a party, and obtained from it
sixty-five very nice stones. He broke
down and sent unwashed a similar quan
tity of dirt, to the Chicago exhibition, to
gether with a number of diamonds. From
the commissioner s account it is evident
that Capt. Rogers’ methods of washing,
sorting, etc., are primitive, and not
adapted to deal economically with large
bodies of the dyift. He is just now inun
dated with visitors, and no doubt it is an
intesting spot. A story is told of a
learned professor who went to spend a
day; on the ninth day he bad to be
dragged away.
DOGS USED AS SENTINELS.
How a Famous Moonshiner so Long
Evaded Capture by Revenue Off
icers.
From the St. Louis Republic.
The most noted mountaineer in West
Virginia, and perhaps in Kentucky and
North Carolina—Jim Day—has at last
been captured. The government officers
have been trying to arrest Day for over
fifteen years, but failed on every occa
sion. Day, who is a tall, muscular,
shrewd looking fellow, has been running
illicit stills for over fifteen years. Du
ring this time he bad sometimes as many
as a dozen stills running at one time. The
stills were located in the depths of the
primitive forests or in caves in the moun
tain sides, a long distance from roadways
and trails. The stills were always located
near some prominent height or at a point
from which a guard or spy—con
stantly on the alert—could overlook all
approaches and advise his companions of
the vicinity of suspicious looking strang
ers. In fifteen years only two of Day’s
stills have been captured and destroyed.
On each of these occasions Day and his
men all made their escape. Time and
again revenue officers have attempted to
waylay and ambush Day. They found
roads and trails over which it was known
he would be forced to travel and they
then placed squads in ambush, but, al
though Day had been seen or traced
along the road, he always slipped through
their fingers without a scratch.
At last the secret of his success in
evading the officers became known. Day
had a number of thoroughbred dogs
which he had trained to scent out reve
nue officers or strangers and to notify him
of their presence long before they could
come in sight. When traveling over the
routes or trails leading to and from any
of his stillls two of Day’s dogs always
trotted along in front several hundred
yards, taking opposite sides of the road.
Two would fall back in the rear and one
would advance like a scout on each side.
In case of an ambuscade the dogs in front
would scent the presence of the deputy
marshals before thev got within 100 .yards
of them. They would then return quickly
to their master and inform him by their
actions of the presence of the enemy. Day
would then take to the woods to the right
or left, with a dog in advance, and pass
around an ambuscade without being
seen. In case pursuers should
come up behind Day’s dogs, which
had been trailing along’, would quickly
hear or scent them, and'then would hurry
forward to theic master, who, knowing
by their actions how close the enemy
was, could easily evade them. With
such guard* it was almost useless for the
officers to attempt to capture Day. They
often gave up in the search in disgust, to
start out a ,month or two later reinvigor
ated and encouraged by rumors or reports
of spies, to fail again and again. Day
could be heard of in McDowell county one
day, and the next someone from Taswell,
in Virginia, fifty miles away, would re
port that he had been seen in that sec
tion. He proved to be an ignis fatuus to
the officers, and although they could hear
of half a dozen stills running in as many
p ares in the officers in the entire fifteen
years were successful only in capturing
two of his stills.
WATCH BUNQ TO HIS BUTTON.
The Queer Predicament of a New
York Policeman.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Jan. 26.—The question is
often asked of wbat use are the two but
tons on the back of a man’s coat. The ex
perience of PolicemaD David Kedner last
night suggests a practical present-day use
for them of which the old sword-bearers
never thought.
He was in the Seventy-sixth street sta
tion at the Third avenue elevated railroad
last night when a man who crowded past
him from the train exclaimed that he had
been robbed, and held up the end of his
watch chain, dangling loose, for inspec
tion. The watch was gone, and so, ap
parently, was the thief.
When the officer got off at Eighty
seventh street something tapping him on
the back, in the region of his pistol
pocket, two or three times, made him
turn quickly enough to see something
swinging from his coat. He put his hand
behind him, and there, dangling from one
of the two useless buttons, hung the
missing watch, held fast by its end of
broken chain. . . ,
The button had caught it as he pressed
through the crowd. The watch is now at
police headquarters.
He— Give me a kiss, won’t you? She
(hesitatingly)-—Well, I will if you won’t
give it away.—Somerville Journal.
A mendicant approached a benevolent
looking old gentlemen the other day and
said, ‘’Dear sir, 1 have lost my leg;” to
which the benevolent looking gentleman
replied as he burned away: “My dear
friend, I am very sorry, but I have not
seen anything of it." —Tit-Bit*.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1894.
HAS QUIT THE GAME.
Hurt, the Gambler, Says He Will
Never Play Cards Again.
Won a Fortune at Poker and Spent it
in High Living—The Cause of His
Reformation.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
William W. Hurt, the gambler who 1 re
cently caused a sensation in New York,
has reformed. At least he says he has,
and In saying so admits many of the
charges made against him. And his re
formation Is directly due to his exposure
by the New York newspapers. He said
to-day. as he held up a newspaper con
taining an account of some of his doings:
“I’ve come to the conclusion that if I’m
as big a scoundrel as this paper makes
me out to be I’ll quit.
“A fellow doesn’t know how .much of
a low down cuss he is until he sees it set
forth in plain print, and then it knocks
him endwise.
“I’m done. No more poker for me. I
went down to breakfast in my home over
in Oakland this morning and caught m,v
old mother crying, while my sisters tried
to comfort her, and the governor just sat
in his chair looking mighty thoughtful.
•What’s the matter!’ I says, and the dear
old lady came over and kissed me and
patted my cheeks, saying: ‘Don’t be
angry with me. Will, for carrying on, but
here’s the reason.’
“She gave me the copy of the paper,
and then went and laid her head on dad’s
shoulder. I read the paper and then went
upstairs and thought hard fora long time.
“I said to myself: ’Billy Hurt, you're
a dead hard game. You haven’t done all
the things they lay at your door, but
you’ve done the least of them, and that
makes you about as poor sort of a tnan as
ever kept out of jail. Now, you've dis-
f raced your sisters and the old folks, and
guess you’re playing the biggest game of
your life now, William, and you hold the
top hand if you only know how to play it.”
“Then I went down stairs and told the
folks that I’d never touen a card again
as long as I lived. They' came to me all
at once, and I had to run to get away
from them.
“I want you to publish that I’ve passed
out of my last game of poker. You cau
print my picture so that folks will know
me wherever I go around and if anybody'
ever sees that phiz behind tivo cards
again they can football me from here to
New York and back again.”
Hurt said he was willing to tell the
story of his life, but he wanted first to
deny some of the things that had been
said about him. He said:
“I am not a bunco steerer, thimble-rig
ger, three card monte man, gold brick
swindler or any of those things. I never
won a cent in my life that didn’t come to
me in a game of poker. The police de
partment has never ordered me to leave
town. Ifitdid I wouldn't go.
“I have done no unlawful act. I pay
taxes here, and they can’t force me to
leave. The hardest thing they can say
about me is that I haven’t played honest
poker. I have beat every sucker that I
could catch at the game, but I have never
done anything worse. Now, lam here
for the purpose of opening a duplicate
of Koster & Bial’s New York Theater. I
have a location in sight, and intend to
run an honest business, i’ll never touch
a card again.”
After making some more denials, chiefly
concerning events alleged in his local ca
reer. Hurt said he was born in Kentucky.
His father was a Methodist preacher, and
the family early crossed the plains and
settled at Davisville. Here Hurt grew
up. working as an engineer and giving all
of his money to his mother. He lost his
place and then became a telegraph opera
tor on the Southern Pacific.
“While there,” he said, “I invented an
electric dice battery, which afterward, in
company with Budd Gafford, a Davis
ville gambler, I made money on at the
Sacramento fair. The scheme was a bat
tery concealed under the table, and con
nected by wires with the top. All I had
to do was to press a button with my knee
under the table and magnetize it. My
dice I would bore out on the ace spots and
fill the cavities wfth steel filings, over
which I would paste black putty.
“When I wanted to win I’d press the
button, throw the dice on the magnetized
table, and, of course, my throw would be
five sixes. Then I’d take my knee away
from the button, and the other fellow
would get whatever he was lucky enough
to throw, but I’d get his money.
“Gafford advised me not to gamble, but
when he found I was bent upon it he
showed me lots of tricks.
“I came to San Francisco about
eighteen years ago and skinned every
body in town, even the old time gam
blers:
‘•I had plenty of money and lived on the
best In the land. Four years ago I went
east, and was taken from Chicago to Du
luth in a private car by a vice president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railroad. He had been unlucky at poker
with two bankers at Duluth, and he took
me along to introduce as a friend of his
and skin them. That’s the kind of a
chap he was, and I’d like to know who
was the bigger rascal, he or I. I found a
good deal of that in my time. Men who
hold their heads the highest in the land
have run me in on their best friends and
divided the spoils with me.
The bankers happened to be out of
town, and, not wishing to make a profit
less trip, my vice president told me that
there were a couple of gamblers in Duluth
that I could ‘go against.’ The game came
off in the Hotel St. Louis. My friend told
me they had two decks of marked cards.
Well, I soon managed to spoil those decks,
and we played with others.
“The railroad man and 1 divided $2,900
on that game, and I still hold some real
estate 1 bought with my share, Gater I
went to New Orleans and won a few
thousands at the Shakespeare club. Then
I went to Louisville and Lexington, Ky.
My first game in New York was in the
English room of the Hoffman house. Mr.
Day, of Schoebel & Day, Wall street
bankers, and a namesake of mine, T. H.
Hurt, also a broker, played in the game.
For the time being I was a millionaire
miner from California. Oh, how thoes
men did Jump for me! From California
and a rich miner. I was a ‘turkey.’ They
had the hardest time dragging me into
the game.
“My namesake Hurt showed me sights
for two days befor the game came off and
insisted that we were relatives. He fin
ally convinced me that we wereithird or
fourth cousins, and it cost him $6,000 to
discover me.
“He was a blood,’ though. When he
finally ‘dropped’ to my game and I knew
that he saw through it, 1 ashed him if he
didn’t think I was an expensive relative.
“He replied: ‘Oh. no not at all, When
are you coming down to the office?’ Af
ter that he fixed up a small game for me
at the Hotel Searboro with one Jennings,
a noted New York gambler. There was
a dinner which lasted all night. They
lost S6OO cash and Hurt was compelled to
Indorse Jennings’ check for $2,200.
“How do I beat even the old gamblers?
Well, that is my secret, Ido it all with
my fingers in the shuffling and the deal
ing. I’ll roll my sleeves up to the elbows
to show you that I have no machinery
and I’ll deal you any hand I want and tie
Just as good to myself I’m not going to
tell how It’s done, though, because It
might start a whole lot of young fellows
off on the same life I have led.
“At the Hotel Waldorf I met a Califor
nian, a druggist, named H. Sidney Smith,
whom I knew here. Smith told me that
he had a capitalist named McDonald who
owns a corset house at 500 Broadway,
and who thought he was a very ‘slick’
hand at poker. McDonald had a friend
named Levy, who also had plenty of
money and a yearning to increase his pile
at my expense. We had a little game.
McDonald suggesting a $2.50 limit, and
we played Otltll the place closed at 5:80
in the morning.
“They had won probably SIOO and they
were crazy to stuff their pockets full of
those crisp SIOO-bills that I was display
ing so lavishly. So McDonald rented a
room at the Hotel Cosmopolitan and after
playing nearly all day he owed me $65.
Then he went around town telling people
that he had lost $6,500. I was giving a
little dinner party prior to a little game
at the Waldorf that night when McDon
ald brought a reporter.
“The next day five papors jumped on
me with both feet. I was going to grin
and bear it, but along come a couple of
lawyers, who talked me into suing the
papers for $50,000 each. Those two block
head ’chump' lawyers were the ruin of
me.
“Each paper published about three
columns a day about me. and if there ever
was a mean incident of my careerof some
thing that I didn’t want known they
raked it up and told all about it. They
had the cases continued twice in court,
and then I went to a mighty good friend
of mine and asked him what he thought
I’d better do.
“ ‘Billy, old bo.v,’ said he, ‘buy a ticket
for somewhere; dig a grave and bury
yourself; go up in a balloon and stay up;
jump off the Brooklyn bridge; do any
thing, but don’t keep those papers mad.’
I took his advice, and here I am.”
On his way east Hurt says he met a
man who. deceived by his story, intro
duced him and even got his name posted
for membership in the Manhattan Club.
Out of respect for this man the gambler
refrained from cards while at the Man
hattan as a visitor, and later had his ap
plication for membership withdrawn.
He went to Europe and within two
hours of Sandy Hook was in a game. A
Wall street clerk was the victim, losing
$8,700. He was broke and H urt proposed
to give him SSOO and one-third of all he
could win in games which the clerk was
to arrange. The first game was with a
South African diamond merchant, and
netted the clerk $6,200. The clerk had
his $3,700 and $4,100 more when the ves
sel reached Liverpool.
Through friends in London he was in
troduced to Lord Koseberry, who had him
posted for membership in the Pelican
club. He learned to play nap and bacca
rat there and also met Lord Charles
Oglesby and so “swelled his head” that
he was able to “rope in” all his friends
and got so rich that he decided to go to
Paris.
There he met Charles Fair, but the
latter did not expose him. He learned
rouge et nolr and won at it. Then he
went to Carlsbad and mat Theodore
Rothschild. • His only regret is that
Rothschild escaped him. He says:
"We swam and drove and had some
dinners. A sure-thing gambler named
Tarbaugh, who represented himself as a
western cattleman, got Rothsohild Into
a little bunco game and won £B,OOO.
“I could have skinned him out of
enough to make me easy far life, but he
got a telegram one day saying that his
wife was very ill and he had to leave me
and go home. I never had a chance to
meet him again. Wasn’t that tough? I
could have got the earth from him at
cards, but I thought 1 would have more
than the earth by not skinning him and
using him in other ways.
“I got through with France and re
turned to England in time to play the
races and lose about $200,000. i dropped
$60,000 on the derby alone. Then 1' got
disgusted and came home on the Ma
jestic. - M-t ■■ ~
“I dipped dteY ttfChieUgd* Ih timd to
win $4,000 on one Jhand with Warren F.
Leland, the proprietor of the Iceland ho
tel. It was the same old game of the
miner from California. I bet $500; he
raised me SI,OOO. I raised him $5,000, and
he nearly fainted.
“He studied a long time, but finally
called, and I showed down a straight
flush to his four aces.
“He looked hard at me for a minute
and said: “Mr. Hurt, you had the deal,
I believe?’ I said ‘Yes’ and he sighed and
left the room But Leland is a thorough
gentleman, for next morning he sent me a
check for the money. I found time while
in Chicago to learn baccarat from Count
Achilles Verdalle at the Hotel Rich’elieu,
and the count paid $7,000 for the pleasure
of teaching me the game.
“All I have got to show for my life is
$15,000 worth of property, dyspepsia and
a broken constitution. I wouldn’t go
through the past twenty years again for
$100,000,000. It’s a hard game to beat,
and there’s nothing in it. ”
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appreciated should be without it. For sale
by reputable medicine dealers everywhere.
Mr. Randall Pope, the retired druggist of
Madison. Fla., says [Dec. 3, IHSB| he regards
P. P. P., (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potas
sium I as the best alterative on the market,
and that he has seen more beneficial results
from the use of It than any other blood medi
ctne.
Exhausted vitality, nervousness, lost man
hood, weakness caused by overtaxation of
the system will be cured by the powerful P.
P. F., which gives health and strength to the
wreck of the system.—ad.
A BRIO AND OF ALGIERS.
Capture of the “Hyena of the Kabylea”
After a Uniaue Career.
From the New York Tribune.
A recent press dispatch announced that
the notorious brigand chief, Areski-ben-
Bachir, who had long been a terror to the
people inhabiting the frontier districts of
the provinces of Algiers and Constantine,
had been arrested. The members of his
band had been seized one after the
other by the expedition of 400 men sent
out against the brigands. The record of
this “Hyena of the Kabyles,’’ as he has
been called, is one of the most extraordi
nary iu all the annals of Algerian out
lawry.
A few years ago Areski was captured,
tried and convicted of various crimes. He
was sent to penal servitude at Cayenne,
from which shortly afterward he escaped
and returned to Algeria, hiding in the
dense woodlands. After a time he organ
ized a band of robbers, formed of a num
ber of outlaws, and began his career of
pillage, abduction and murder. His first
step in the form of reprisals was to be re
venged on all the witnesses who had given
evidence against him at his trial. Ho
killed every one of them in turn, either by
stabbing or shooting them. That system
of squaring accounts being settled to his
satisfaction, be adopted a form "of impos
ing a tax on certain inhabitants, cither in
the form of an exacted tribute in cattle
or abducting any native woman or girl
who was so unfortunate as to at
tract his notice. Wherever and when
ever he met opposition he invariably
slaughtered his opponents. On one oc
casion, assisted by two accomplices only,
he waylaid a caravan composed of fifteen
Kabyle traders armed to the teeth.
Being informed of their coming, he
quickly placed among the bushes on
either side of a turn on the road a largo
number of burnous-white woollen cloaks
with hoods—and rifles pointed road ward
The traders, being under the impression
that they were in the presence of a
numerous body of armei men ready to
fire at them, and believing that, resistance
was useless, yielded, and quietly handed
over their money and merchandise to this
adventurous brigand.
On another occasion, when he was
availing himself of the hospitality of a
native, who had given him a night's shel
ter in his tent to screen him from pursuit,
he was informed by one of his spies that
the gendarmes had discovered his escape.
Quick as thought he threw over his shoul
ders the cloak of a chief, or donar, draw
ing the hood close over his forehead.
Leaving the tent, he made his way to
ward the approaching party, and, ad
dressing the commanding officer, said:
“Areski is not hare; after robbing us he
went away. Como in and see for your
selves." No sooner were the words out
of his mouth than the gendarmes sprang
from their saddles and entered the tent.
The momeut their backs were turned
Areski vaulted into theoffleer’s saddleand
dashed off at full speed. It is recorded
that Areski had made up his mind to try
and capture the Prefect of Algiers on his
journey through the forest of Yaeouren.
It is said that he was late in reaching the
spot where he. had intended to effect the
capture; and it is also said that at tho
last moment he hesitated; moveover, he
frequently intimated his desire not to in
terfere with the authorities if they would
only let him alone, ami to colonists with
whom he was in peaceful communication
he observed that he could see no reason
why he should be interfered with, inas
much as lie regularly paid his taxes.
And, strange as it ma.v appear, he cer
tainly did regularly pay them, if not di
rectly, at all events indirectly, either
through his wife or his father, who lived
in Algiers in a house in which he (Areski)
routed in the Casbah quarter. Like the
erstwhile Corsican brigand. Bellacoscias,
he could boast of being "domiciled.”
Year before last the authorities be
lieved they wero aliout to capture him.
A battalion of zouaves, with the assis
tence of a number of gendarmes, formed
a circle around him, but ho managed to
elude their visrilance, and within a few
days he committed a series of barefaced
robberies ami murdered inhabitants who
he believed had put the authorities on
his track. He was tried and sentenced
to death in contumaciam, and a price was
put upon his head, with tho unsatisfac
tory result that a number of innocent na
tives who were mistaken for Areski were
hunted down and seriously wounded in
resisting their aggressors, who were anx
ious to obtain the reward. And all the
while Areski, whose haunts were in the
dense underwood of the forests of Yacou
ren, was hiding in safety and laughing in
his sleeve. So great was the sense of
terror he inspired that even his victims
who escaped with their lives dared not
mention his whereabouts. “Areski’s
dagger is a long one,” thoy said, in their
expressive words, “and will surely reach
tho hoarts of his enemies.” And so ho
levied blackmail on the natives, who,
nevertheless, kept him well informed of
what the authorities were doiug in order
to capture him, and always warned him
of approaching danger. lie exercised an
influence over them to which they in their
fanaticism believed they were doomed to
submit. The list of troops mobolized to
capture this baudit included 200 riflemen
500 native troops and several brigades of
gendarmes. And it took them a long time
to do it.
HE STUDIED THE BUZZARDS.
That’s What John Fowler Did Before
He Began Inventing the Flying ma
chine.
From the Mobile Daily Register.
A reporter, accompanied by a friend,
who is a mechanical engineer, went out
yesterday to Magnolia cemetery to see
John Fowler working on his flying ma
chine. Upon inquiring the way, a high
fence inclosing about an acre of ground,
fust outside the cemetery gate, was
pointed out.
On entering the gate the visitors saw
an enormous network of wood and wire
that seemed Jumbled up in lnexticablo
confusion. The machine is eighty-five
feet from bow to stern, and fifty-three
feet from tip to tip of wings The wings
have a gradual slant upward from the
center. The bow slants gradually upward
until within ten feet of the end, when it
curls up like the bow of an Indian ca
noe. From the center to the stern is
an almost l straight line, with a slight de
pression. Joined to the stern is the
rudder. The rudder is about 20 feet long,
10 feet at the widest place, tapering to a
fine point. A simple turn of a crank will
throw the rudder either way or up and
down at will. When it is worked up and
down it throws the oow up and the pres
sure of the air will raise the machine.
The propeller is a wheel 10 feet in diame
ter covered with canvas. The propelling
power is furnished by gas pumped into
the cylinder and exploded by a spark
from a single cell battery. The whole
machinery weighs only 525 pounds, will
give a pressure of 15-horse power, which
will give the propeller 800 revolutions per
minute. The enormous spread of canvas
will make the machine self-sustaining
when 800 feet from the ground.
Fowler claims that the propeller, with
out any assistance from the wind, will
give a velocity of 60 miles an hour. John
said that he had been watching the buz
zards flying for years, and had studied
their methods of rising from the ground,
and it was really from them that he got
his idea of starting and soaring. A pair
of common wagon wheels and 50 or 100
yards of level ground are all that he re
quires for starting, as, like the buzzard,
his machine must gather velocity before
leaving the ground. He says he is going
to practice in the environs of Mobile,
when it is completed, until he has time to
remedy and defect, and get the entire
control of his machine, when he will
make a trip to New Orleans and thence
to Washington, where he will present the
machine to the United Statesgovernment.
John said that he did not want the name
of the bird mentioned from which he got
his ideas, as he thought the buzzard was
not a very elegant bird.
He stated that the people here thought
him a fool, and that he built a boat last
summer to show what a fool could do
Hewent from here to New Orleans in his
little boat, running an average of 10 knots.
On his return ho encountered a terrible
storm, which proved that the boat could
not be swamped, as ne threw his oars,
rudder, and sail overboard and let him
self be washed ashore.
The idea of building a flying machine
has been in his head since he was a boy,
when he made a model, but he has never
since attempted to carry out his ideas,
but has confined himself to studying the
methods of alt birds.
When the reporter and his companion
took their leave silence was maintained
for some time, and when finally the re
porter asked what he thought of it the
ougineer, who is a careful and practical
man, said that he thought it was as fine
a piece of work as he had ever seen; that
it had the main principle of all success
ful inventions, simplicity, and that,
though not willing to say it would fly suc
cessfully, he would not laugh at Fowler
or his flying machine again; that he was
very much interested in the principle and
did not foresee any natural cause to pre
vent its successful operation.
An Urgent Case.—Lady—Doctor, I wish
you would call around to see my husband
some evening when he is at home. Do
not let him know that 1 asked you, be
cause he declares that he is not sick; but
I know he has consumption or something.
He's going into a decline. Doctor—l am
astonished, but I will call. WZhat are his
symptoms? He hasn’t any except weak
ness He used to hold me on his lap by
the hour, and now even the baby tires
him.—New York Weekly.
DRY GOODS.
BROUGHTON STREET.
REMOVAL SALE.
We sell Biarritz Kid Gloves at 83c: former price 98c.
We sell 4-b. Suede Kid Gloves at 85c; former price $1.25.
We sell Ladies’ Gauntlet Driving Gloves at $1.25; for
mer price $1.75.
New Embroideries, New Veilings, New Laces.
New Dimities, New Lace Insertions, New Hosiery.
The celebrated P. D. Imported Corsets at $2.13; regular
price $2.75.
All at cut prices to reduce stock prior to moving to
our new store, 139 Broughton street, about March 1.
HUYEM raw WALSH
Have just received a drift of Snow White Embroideries, consisting of Guipure,
Pique, Nainsook, Hamburg, etc. Novelties in Wash Pongee Suiting, with
Embroidery and Inserting to match. Serge Waists reduced.
All our Kid Gloves at cut prices. 8-button Mousquetaire, $1.49; formerly
$1.75. 4-button Glace and Suede, 98c; $1.25.
HIYiIHBMALSMo
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
RON MARCHE
44 BULL. STREET.
SFKING GOODS! SPK WG GOODS!
100 pieces Franck Chaliles at 2Be.
100 pieces French Chaliles at 30c.
100 pieces French Chaliles a! 45c.
100 pieces French Chaliles al 50c.
10 000 yards Embroidery, half the usual price.
10.000 yards While, Creim and Black Laces.
5,000 yards Plain, Stripe, Plaid and Figurod While Goods.
Everybody call on Monday and take a look at our New Chatties, Em.
broideries. Laces, etc.
WHO WILL CET THE PICK OF THE PLUMS 7
I. LEVKOWICZ.
MILLINERY.
AT KROUSKOFF’S.
The preparations for the most successful spring open
ing are completed and consignments of Novelties and Mil
linery are received by every steamer from France, Ger
many, Switzerland and England. The coming season open
ing will be equal in elegance to the finest that New York
will offer. All our winter millinery we sell at any price.
We also offer at cost our Brocaded Dress Goods, in most
beautiful designs and shading.
The KROUSKOFF MILLINERY COMPANY
FURNITURE ANU CARPETS.
TO LEA DWELL
MHSS TO BE WELL FOLLOWED.
The horde of grotesque and ridiculous imitations,
which our really phenomenal success has brought to the
surface, is but another flattering tribute paid by follow
ers to their leader.
In presenting to the public our offerings for 1894,
we can reasonably assert, without fear of contradiction,
that we have brought together the most comprehensive
display of Furniture and Carpets ever shown under one
roof, and beyond question the most pre-eminent consoli
dation ever attempted in the annals of the furniture
business in this city.
We submit to the public the achievements and
products of the very foremost manufacturers of this
country, the whole forming a perfect blending of cheap,
medium and high class goods,
The latest designs in Furniture, Carpets, Mattings,
Oil Cloths, etc., to be found at
EMIL A. SCHWARZ’S,
BUCKEYE ROADTcARts.
Rides Ilka a buggy, and no weight on th© horse’s back. Nowon
display. Also, Buggies, Wagons, Harness and Whips. At
Hu PnUFN’Q leader in low prices,
i Mi UUllLil Of BAY AND MONTGOMERY,
SAVANNAH, GA.
ART GOODS AND TRIMMINGS.
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