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) his 38?; Lerw ear. 25c. Tea Iapan: a OISOI mmsgz ij 0, DURH‘LLM ceived ‘hv‘fixm 101': You 595‘ W - SH, thing. $7 'I b’ " I ‘3‘! I ‘ \ I \V 71‘.“ ’Ih‘ ’13? ’13‘ 1'0 ure :39. a! 4i 118 m5 \k» 1..“ ma». \Zo ‘ .2245“ b. t0 ’m‘ '5“ ‘9’. 'o’h‘ NI; 'In‘ 7:9 5‘ 'fi.l ‘05 «V "n‘ "u‘ If; ,‘nay be said of Cape Town thafil: unot only metropolitan, but cosmo~ 1 ‘,,.m 1here are a few Asiatic j :i 19.5 which may surpass it in the var. 1 1 38:5 of national and racial types to be met in their streets but they are few ‘ there are none where these . _...3 brought so clearly out or set in; uch sharp and striking contrast. 1-315 was not so true a quarter of a ”wry ago, when Cape Town had egthanwow people. Since the rush: ., he South African gold and diamond 5131/5 this condition has grown more :nrked. Cape Town has become one {the gay capitals .of the world. A we 01' years ago it was rather a a; s-y place, with not a few of the evi- dances of civilization and culture, but wi h small inducement to the tourist; :1.1111ger,;1fter seeing the castle and the government house and the fine pug, with its stately oaks of manyi centuries‘ growth, between the govern- went house and the botanic gardens. All this looked like a corner of Eun rape dropped down near the end of 'he African continent. but if one ob- 9c ed to traveling so far to find him- self in Europe still, there was little to Console him for the disappointment. 'l‘o be sure, there were the Malays, a picmresque addition to the English and Dutch population. And the Ma- lays llild brought into the religious life of the place what was even more pieturesque than themselves, THE TOURIST OF THE DAY. if he was lucky enough to be in the neighborhood of the .Mohammedan uneque, could see what any tourist equally lucky can see now. ”After the 11 oniay clangor of what the true 31.3mm calls the “infidel bells” of L‘igre Town, the Muezzin would appear '1 the top of the mosque. Through the brilliant sunshine of that inter- 4 11d W110 TD 7 TY - AT COLONIAL CAPITA L 0F reE 535 soUTH AFRICA. tropical clime the hundreds of eyes of the faithful would be strained up to- wtrtl him. Down on the docks, where; the Malay ’longshoremen watched for the uplifted hands, and the Lascar Sailors. aboard ship or on shore leave,i cast their eyes aloft with more of ven-‘ erzltiou than they ever contemplate a tag/gliiant sail, there came so much of a bush in the roar of. waterside traffic thu, as the mosque stood on the first of the two great terraces on , which Cztpe Iowa is built. the faithful could at times hear the chant calling them to prayers. And as the traveler was liable to meet the Malays everywhere -â€"in the open booths of. the commercial part of the town, or as caterers and iLiuer_tnts of all sorts in the residence streets. higher up and further back, there was a comfortable sense of se- cuz'iiy in the thought that, without acting far enough from Europe to run any risk, one was enabled to see the heathen at his devotions. Cape town was then, and is more now. one oi these spots on the map where, "tin-ugh the shadow oi the globe W6 sweep into the younger day.” its one of these spots, of which there are [137. many, Cape Town has an inter- ‘35 pecuimrly its own. As the capital 9: the British Colony, which fronts the hsttie Boer frontier, and the port 130‘ Wilfd which umny BriliSh troop Ships :‘tl't: now moving, Cape Town has be- W 9., guise never Inade any settlernent :97-9- Ihtmgh they always. put into 13”“? Bil-F. the Cape Town harbor. to Expire for the dangerous trip around a“ 05198 of Good Hope. ’When the Dpch "Egan to double the cape. in 80- I ‘9‘“ and returning from their East qn‘un DCssessions, they established a :59“? depot there, but finding that F” C'Juntry back of the town. was fer- ti‘e “(1,9333 01? conquest, they began “13" rearing of. a new. Dutch colony; If” the port om Table Bay as Its en- i?" cud chief town. Such was the “in 111: of Cape Town. “in the place fell .into the hands 38 English in the first years 118 century, it was a. miserabh ge at the foot of the first slope 1518 Mountain. which rising at 2 Bay. Where it attains an em- he i d cheering of the thousands Lined the streets through WhiCh marched, and many wondered sor: of city it is so far \below th6 is. and. so near that Cape of as. the dread at which was much 3 inspiration of Columbus‘ VOY- Li> discover a shorter and 1683 ms route to India. That he dis- 8d a new world, and not a new 1:; an old one, accounts for the 11mg of Cape Town. The _Portu7 the A GREAT NEWS CENTER. 1d of a Premier who outlines VBIHHIBUL policy in the Parlia- :1 t ‘1 ye Town, and is interrogat- 'L‘e :‘pposition just as the Prem~ Lmuon is. The other day we L 1h» iixiding of British troops at on I) on their way to the front, Thy Now In the World’s Eye- here All the Continents Ice: 5 of the City and "3‘ Lifeâ€" : of Past, Present and Future. rn has outgrown its name. get a city of 100,000 inhabiq commercial and political; and capital of a vast cound as to be suburban. It is med ence of about 1000 {‘feet above the sea level, continues to use as it recedes to- ward the south. until” in the promon- tory which is called{ the Cape of Good Hope, it reaches a. height 0113582 feet. The town is distant from. the cape about fifty miles. It fronts Table Bay m we nortneast, and for perhaps hafi a mile back from the water the ground rises but slightly. Then begins the elevation of - s but the height of: 1000 feet, reached: Within the limits of. Cape Town, is; reached gradually by two slopes upon} the sides of which the town, or rather' City, is built. The streets of Cape Town are laid out. at right angles. Many of them are well paved, and nearly all of them which are given "up“ to the uses of residences of the weal-I; thy and middle classes have a decided-t 1y European appearance. Whafl i strikes the traveler as the most mark-l ed difference in architecture of the buildings is the number of private houses in Cape Town which have thick, heavy walls and flat roofs. This is de- cidedly the Eastern fashion, and smacks nothing of Europe, but the number of such houses in Cape Town occupied by Europeans is not a sur- render of Europe to the Orient, but to the climate. Climate may not modify the European type to any appreciable extent, but it forces the European to some concessions for‘ his own comfort, and one of these is the thick walled and flat-roofed house in Cape Town. There are gardens on some of the roofs, and some of the houses surround central courts, such as you sometimes see in Mexico or countries farther {south. These houses in Cape Town are modern compromises with; what is perhaps the most remarkable climate in the world. . ' Cape Town is nearly on the same 2 parallel of south latitude, as Valparâ€"i] also and Santiago, in Chill. Female]: who rave of the climate of these South :1 American cities, and of. the equablelt temperature of that zone, can not find {c much fault with the variations of temâ€" ,:( perature at Cape Town. The variaâ€"E] tion from the extreme cold season tel; that of extreme heat is but 18 degrees, 1 the mercury only rising from J 58 IN WINTER TO 76 IN SUMMER.,‘ The west slope of the South Atrioahi} mountain range is watered in winter « by the rains which the Northwest 1‘ Atlantic winds bring with them. The; eastern slopes are watered by the;1 summer winds blowing off the Indian l‘ Ocean- These are winds which should i‘ cool Cape Town, and which would cool fi' it if. they brought over the mountains? such cooling rains as they have show. 3‘ ered upon their eastern slope. It is? the remarkable peculiarity of these South African winds, however, both of: those which blow from the southeast? and the northwest, that they only fer-3 tilize that country lying on the side; of the mountains nearest the sea out of g which they come. The northwest; 'Atlantic winds, which make the Cape; 'Town winter, do not carry over the; mountain tops their wealth of waters,: and the tropic winds which come hot‘ over the Indian Ocean leave their, 'deluges of warm water on the easterni slopes of. those mountains, and, freed! .from the only element which had tem-i ' perecl their fierce heat, go shrieking} down the opposite mountain side toward the Atlantic, taking Cape Town; in their course, already parched andé dry from weary rainless months. It isi well. then, that there are the thick! walled houses with the flat roofs. The? Government House is one of these, and as it is there the official records of; temperature “in the shade” is taken,' it is easy to understand a record of 76 5 degrees while outside the tempera-. 'ture is much higher, _ . i .LU" 1.1.. AU AU uu‘-_ place in all the Britiéh OBthies. â€"The streets leading down to the docks and slip are always thronged. There is “But though for, perhaps, a. quarter of the year Cape Town has siesta weather, the siesta is unknown in Cape Town. It is hard ‘to find. a busier BUSTLE AND ACTIVITY. everywhere. There was more business at the city front before the completion of the Suez Canal than there has been since. The rise of Cape Town, in fact, began after England’s acquisition of India and the development of her trade there. Then Cape Town was a port of entry for every vessel bound to or from India, and this was true not only of English ships but of those of other nations bound for points in Asia. It was during these years of maritime prosperity the splendid breakwater in the harbor was built, and the fine docks and ship constructed. Since the ~â€", __---4._ “vv.--v "â€" Suez Canal was opened to navigation! there has been a great falling off in] the number of port entries at? Cape Town but the harbor remains and must always remain an important one in the world’s commerce. The de- velopment of the South' African coun- try and the sale and exchange of its products arford the basis of on ever growing trade. The English had a monopoly of this trade for many years, but now there are many Americans in business at Cape Town and not. afew Dutch. The Jews are numerous enough to have ereCLed' a magnificent synagogue, and there is hardly a faith without its temple. Even the Chinese, within the last few years, have put up lians, Lutherans, Wesleyans, Congre- gationalists. Dutch Reformed and Free Church, the last an off-shoot of the Dutch Reformed. These church stat- and it is the opening years of the new century, which are t0 bring a period of. great development to that land, TABLE MOUNTAIN THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. in ancient days led, to Rome. It is hardly to be doubted that the early years of that century will see the construction of the Cape to Cairo rail- ‘ road. now being promoted on Euro- pean bourses. In the meantime the South African export trade, of which Cape Town is the port, is growing and hold out the strongest assurance of the city’s future. Cape Town has nearly doubled in population since the discovery of the diamond mines at Kimberley and the great gold fields in the Rand. Immediately after the gold discoveries it was believed that Cape Town: was to be the Frisco of the South African gold fields, The era of irailroads has made new Friscos impos- sible. and the extension of an old linei to Johannesburg. on the edge of the igold fields, disappointed the high ex- gpectations of the Cape Town boomers. gBUt the certainty of the great future idevelopment of South Africa, a fact Smade patent to many of the successful 1 prospectors, and to some of the largest iinvestors in the South! African mines, {led to heavy investments in the real gestate market at Cape Town. Among Ethe best of the assets left by the dead éplunger, Barney Barnato, were the {titles to realty in Cape Town, on some gof which ornate modern buildings had ibeen erected, t The last few years have brought some transformations to the city. This is particularly true of buildings in the business section. In former years the store buildings. and in fact every style of building in the heart of the city,had the look of similar; structures in an English provincial town; solid and many of them with some pretensions to elegance, but all of them wearing . THE COLONIAL LOOK of being able to know and keep their proper stations, as enjoined in the parody of the English church litany. Now there are buildings in Cape Town rivaling some of those in London’s more modern streets and throwing in the shade everything to be. seen in any of London’s old-fashioned places. Ifl once the visitor to Cape Town thoughtj himself in Europe, it will not: be long, ias things are now going until he will 1think himself in the U.S. Hundreds of French families settled near the Cape soon after the revocation, and the large majority of them near Cape lT'o“ n, where they went into arboricul-i ture and wine growing Intermarriage twith the Dutch families has not extinâ€" ‘guished the French names There is :‘,a gayety in the burgher society of ECape Town which one impressed with fexaggerated stories of Dutch solemn- :ity can never understand until the story of the French refugees is told. There is a fine intellectual life in Cape Town. The wealthy, Boer famiâ€" lies from upâ€"country send their sons and daughters to the Cape Town col- leges and universities, of late years, in increasing numbers; but what is equally important, or perhaps more important as to the future history of South Africa and Cape Town, the sons of some of the native chiefs of the up-country are sent there ’for a fin- ished education. They show you, at Cape Town,. on one of; the heights, with. walls, turâ€" rets and bastions, after the most ap- proved mediaeval fashion, and tell you that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, pined ful event some of the Zulu youth have to his death there. Since that mourn- graduated from Cape ‘Town institu‘ tions of learning. Besides the castle, theie is the GOV-1 bers. Standing back of the Botanic Gardens, already referred- to, is the museum and library, perhaps the fin- est to be found in any colonial city in the world. The Supreme Court sits in the government building, with the judicial dignity of courts in England. gowns and all. The avenue which, in running from Government House to the museum. passes the gates of the fine park, with the splendid oaks, of ernment House, where the Colonial Parliament sits when in; session. Cape Town has about one-fifth of the mem- which the Cape Town' folk are so proud, is the Cape Town promenade. Of a fine afternoon the promenaders make a brave display of wealth, beauty and fashion. This is much more notable since the era of gold and diamonds. He Sits Upon the Ground While a; Work. In awardflnce with the invariable custczm of all eastern artisans, the carpenter! sits upon the ground while at work. Instead of a bench, a strong stake is driven down before him, leav- ing about ten inches above ground, and upon this he rests his feet. The facility with which the Work is ex- ecuted while in this position has al- ways been a matter of surprise to European workmen. \ In the royal arsenals English tools are used and a better system of work- ing has been introduced under the sup- erintedence of British officers, but in the native workshops the workmtm are still to be seen squatting on the ground, and, being used to this posi- tion from infancy and their tools being formed to work with more efficiency: when used in this way, any alter when used in this way, any altera- tion is scarcely to be expected. Their principal tools are the frame saw, adze, planes, hammers, nails and a few. smaller tools. The young mag, w1tn an aue regam for conventionahtg, hastened to say: I have done nothmg but think of you THE PERSIAN CARPENTER. THE OLD CASTLE ., wi_th gll dge ‘regard ., November 9, 1899 LEARNING TO DO WITHOUT. The man who has learned to do with- out has taken the first step toward wealth. In the present age of the world man’s wants, and woman’s too. are le- gion. They are num‘berless as the sands upon the seashore. The fact of it is, man wants almost everything he sees, and the limit is never reached because he goes right on seeing till he finishes up his life course. Half the people in the world are engaged in fashioning, manufacturing, designing and putting upon the mar- ket for sale things which the other half spend their lives in desiring and buying. This is all right, if the pur- chasing party has the means for these expenditures and the money is burn- ing his fingers so that he must let go. But the man of moderate meansâ€" the man on a small salary, the me- chanic, the day laborerâ€"ought to learn, first of all things, the lesson of doing without. Did you ever stop to think how worse than useless are so many. of the articles upon which the people of your acquaintance are lavishing their hard-earned money ? Quantities of the things which are purchased because they are pretty, because they attract the eye, and be- cause “ everybody has them,” are en- tirely superfluous, and after a short time become tiresome, and we tell our- selves how foolish we were to buy them I Look around you over your own house, over the houses of your friends, and count up the things you see that are not in any way essential to com- fort or convenience. You will be sur- prised at the rapid swelling of the sum total. The more things one has in a house the more laborious housekeeping be- comes, and our housekeepers are near- 1y murdered; as it is, if. we credit their doleful confidences. ‘ vuw- V'â€" “But,” somebody says, “ you must feed the thirst for art and beauty; and it is every woman’s duty to make her home just as beautiful and artistic as she possibly can.” . L -__A_- wuv rv~â€"â€"~-‘ This is all correct; but when a house is turned into a museum, of all the things under the sun which ever wore the form of beast or birdâ€"which ever flew through the air, or roamed the earth, or was dug out of its bowels, or which swam in the sea, and you are afraid to plant your foot anywhere lest it crush out some curio, or speci- men, or old fossil,-â€"-then, from such a home made beautiful in that way, good Lord, deliver 118! ‘ u ‘I i Then,again, nobody should have any- thing too good for use, unless it is kept in the most remow chamber in the house in a glass case. Let us have comfortable chairs and sofas, in 'which it will be a delight to repose, and in the knowledge that no- body’s peace will be blighted if a tidy is skewed round or a bit of fringed tinsel is ripped off somewhere. A manâ€"and when we say a man we mean a woman alsoâ€"needs to turn his back on the five and ten-cent allure- ments which everywhere spread their nets for the unwary. These five-cent “rackets”-â€"excuse the slamg, just for1 onceâ€"pick away more collateral than one has any idea of. “ Only five cents!" Fatal phrase, whose specious seductiveness has bank- rupted many a man’s cash account, and hopelessly flattened out many a sorely tempted woman’s pocket-book. Learn to do without. There is no ne- cessity of buying some “ pretty little thing ” every time you go on the street. Save something against the time when sickness, or disablement. or old age, shall overtake you, as it sure- ly will, ;unless death steps in ahead of it. ' But our friends tell us, “W'e mean to have a good time as we go along. And so we take no thought for the morrow, just as the Bible tells us.” ‘ You can have a good time, and still Lnot spend on follies everything you :earn. You can be just *as happy with- :out these nonsensical nothings which .do not survive the season, and which {next year will have become worthless I rubbish. ‘ ‘ ' 1 7â€" __--11 jou, to conceal a large excrescence on one of his feet. When Francis I. of France, was obliged to wear his hair "Short, owing to a wound in his head, short hair became the fashion of the It is every man’s duty to dress well, to live well, to be comfortable, if he can; but there are hundreds of things he buys which he does not need, and he should learn to do without them. The people who, without regard for the morrow, have a good time as they go along, are the people, generally, who save nothing against adversity; and they are the people for whom thrifty souls are continually called upon to head subscription lists, or to make up purses, “because,” the promoters of the charitable enterprise tell us, “they have been so dreadfully unfortunate.” formity of some leader of society. 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