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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.
A Bachelor's Reflections
I've seen young women spend three
months' time and hundreds of dollars of
their fathers' money in getting a trousseiu
for the purpose of marrying a SO-cent young
man.
I had just as lief promise to obey a man
as to promise to love and honor him. It's
as easy to do one as the other, and some
times a great deal easier.
Many a widow marries a second husband
A FREE came inside
each package of
Lien Oof f GG
60 different carries.
In order to get even with the MX.
Marrying in haste Is no worse than any
other kind of marrying.
Brlgham Young was merely a man who
had the opportunity. Chicago Tribune.
Poor Richard Junior
That prosperity dollar which rolled
through Wall street looked like 30 cents be
fore It got out.
Pattl comes over for another farewell
tour Just as Russia Is announcing another
evacuation of Manchuria.
Thus far Mr. Joseph Chamberlain has not
placed on his tariff schedule any duty on
American heiresses.
Last year the people settled the coal
strike. This year they are settling the coal
bills and the bills Include the strike.
Saturday Evening Poet.
Dr.CSIARLES
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