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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1903)
tfovemtor Si 1006. TI1E 1 1 JjUSTRATED ber Carpenter's Letter (Continued from rag Twelve.) called tho Chicago of tho Con rex Tbe river la navigable for steamers as large as thorn on the Mississippi for 1.000 miles further op and it hu branches which com munlcate with almost the whole Congo bauin. Railroads are now planned to run from Stanleyville on the Upper Congo to Lake Albert Nyanaa and from Nyang to Lake Tanganyika. The latter road will be connected by boat on the lake with the railroad which la to be built by the Ger man from the Indian ocean somewhere opposite Zanzibar to Tanganyika, and then the trip across Africa will be compara tively easy. These roads will probably also have connection with the line which la to be built from Cairo to the Cape. Both the Lower and Upper Congo have excellent steamers. There are thirty steam ers on the Upper Congo, a large number of them belonging to the government, and there are several ocean lines which sail regularly from Liverpool, Hamburg, Rot terdam and Lisbon to Boma and MatadL There are ships every three weeks for Antwerp, so that in all Z30 steamships visit Boma every year. There are seven gov ernment steamers which ply between Boma and Matadl making the trip up stream In about six or seven hours and down In about half that time. The United States ought to have more trade on the Congo, but It will not get it until it sends Its own steamers from New York to Africa. At present all the busi ness Is done by European companies. The Belgian Commercial company deals largely In the Upper Congo. It has stations at Matadl and all along the river. There are also large Dutch firms. At the time that Belgium took possession of the country there was a Rotterdam com pany with a capital of $750,000, which had eighty different stores on this great river. It had Ave steamers and 160 white agents. Another big firm was Daumas, Beraud & Co., founded forty-eight years ago. It had twelve trading stations, with head quarters at Boma. In addition was Hot ton aV Cookson of Liverpool and the Central Africa Trading company, which was afterward reorganised as the British Congo company, with Its offices at Man chester. At present the Belgians . are crowding the British and Dutch out of business. They are Increasing their trade right along and are rapidly developing an African mar ket for their factories. They had prac tically no trade when the king took pos session, but now the Imports amount to about 60,000,00 franca a year, and the ex ports to more than 100,000.000 francs, of which Belgium has by far the lion's share. Belgium gets about nine-tenths of the products of the Congo shipped abroad, and Its tariff arrangements are such that it promises to do better in the future. It has now export duties on ivory and rubber and there are import duties as well. It Is selling factory rights and other rights along the Congo, and is disposing of farm lands and estates In the Interior. At pres ent lands are selling for less than $1 an acre and factory sites for $100 and upward an acre, with a minimum price of $600 if they are situated beyond Stanley Pool. A license of $1,000 Is charged to all who engage In the rubber business, and there are other taxes as well. The government Is now establishing plantations of Havana and Sumatra tobacco. It is potting out coffee plantations and cocoa orchards and In time it hopes to be able to raise enough cotton to surnriv its own factories. FRANK a. CARPENTER. The Ariierican pearl (Continued from Page Five.) river could accommodate a great many more fortune seekers, but the depth of the water In many places prohibited fishing except in sections. These sections were along the shores of Iowa and Wisconsin and were richer than anywhere else throughout Its length and ultimately a great crowd of pearlers centered there. Out of all the great excitement there grew an Industry, and that was the utilisa tion of clam shells in the making of pearl buttons. Factories were established all along the Iowa shore and fifty-five of them were centered In Muscatine. The estab lishment of these factories reduced tho romantic work of pearl hunting to the oc cupation of shell gathering, so that now the pearler Is no longer required to toll all day in the hope of bringing up a prize bivalve. He Is sure to get something for his labor, as the shells bring from $12 to $18 a ton, and an Industrious man can ' bring up from a quarter to half a ton of shells a day. Thus persons who had given up pearl hunting again turned their at tention to dredging for shells, with tho result that both clams and pearls are di minishing rapidly. The government and the states affected have been unable thus far to make a law that will protect the clam. Various bills have been Introduced in the legislature In several of the states, particularly in Ar kansas, but all have been turned down and pearling everywhere la the Mississippi Valley la- unrestricted at all seasons of the year, and by any persons or methods. The method of Ashing for clams has not changed since the Industry began. They are tricked to their death. A clam has a propensity for seising on to every foreign substance that comes within Its rench. This characteristic has been utilised by the pearl fisher. He rigs up a lot of hooks on a rack and drags this rack along the sandbeda. The clam Ilea on Its back with the shells open and facing np the stream. As the hooks dangle along the shells close quickly over them and hold on for denr life. Hence the saying, "Don't be a clam." When the rack gets loaded the grasping clam is hauled to the surface. When n sklfTload of clams haa been obtained the fisherman makes for the shore, builds n fire and bolls them out. Sometimes they are stored In bins on the river bank and the boiling out process Is left for a time when the weather conditions are disagree able for pearling on the river. Nearly all the pearls are snapped up by New York buyers at ridiculously low fig urea. Not long ago Alfred Hastings, a boy It years old, found a "button" shaped gem weighing ICS grains. He sold It to a local buyer for $3,168. The buyer brought It to New York, took off Its outside skin, set a price on it of $10,000, and got it. DOUGLAS M. THAYER. St. Paul's Cathedral (Continued from Page Thirteen.) was about to begin. Already several hun dred bad assembled In the seats placed under the dome, and before the service was over the number had Increased to several thousand, but they filled but one little spot In the vast Interior. The voices of the solo singers and the clergyman who officiated that day could be beard In every corner of the cathedral, so perfect are the acoustic properties, but the latter mumbled his words so that we could not understand anything he said. Yet we knew that he was praying for our salvation and for the salvation of the world, and we were able to bow our heads at the right places. Ills amen was followed by a volume of sound that might remind an Imaginative man of a purple sunset and the prayers and praise of such Incomparable harmony must be acceptable to Him who created music. The only criticism that can be made of the music at St. Paul's Is that It ends too soon and no encores are allowed. ( Country of Trouble (Continued from Page Eleven.) and then continue firing. 1. passed clone to him and saw that he had 'a mall blue mark in the middle of his forehead. Then he turned and I saw that almost all the back of his head was gone. A Mauser bul let had entered his head still he kept on fighting, firing fully twenty rounds before he fell back dead. "It looked very much as If the Yaquis were going to dislodge us, when suddenly I thought of the Maxim we had 'borrowed' from the boys at the post. It wasn't on tha regular list of our ordnance supplies and so had slipped my mind temporarily. "Well, we got out that small Maxim and let It loose on those Indians, and that turned the tide of battle. It was like turn ing on a hose of fire. The ranks of ad vancing YaquiH simply withered and shriveled up. Those who didn't tumble among the rocks turned "and ran, and we never saw or heard of them again. "And that's the way a Yankee gun gained a Mexican battle. A month later the re bellion was over and I returned to my post with the Maxim and a commission of lieu tenant colonel in the Mexican army, but I prefer being a captain In the ranger serv icethere's more real fighting in it." LUDWIQ LKICHART. 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