8 COMMODORE SAMUEL TIMER iock TO I Per Cent uetej73 August 1 mm THE Ott An A' DAILY TXT.V,: SUNDAY. JULY 23, 1905. Forgottn Hero of the Evolution Lie in a Unknown Grev. INSTANCE OF A REPUBLIC'S INGRATITUDE Mam Who served Faithfully n Well Hla Coon try Allowed to Die In Ob eearlty and Wl and Ills Very Mtnorr Neglected. rh removal of the remain of the naval hero, Paul Jonea, from France to America In a warship, the Interment of the same In this country and revival of the picturesque career of this patriot so long deeping and neglected In an unknown grave In a foreign land without monumental stone to mark the spot where his remains reposed, vividly recall to my mind the Ingratitude and neg lect of the services by this country of an other equally deserving naval hero and patriot, a contemporary of Commodore Jones, Samuel Tucker, a native of Marble head, on Cape Cod, In the state of Massa chusetts. Tucker received a naval cap tain's commission from Washington In' 1776, and was In actus', servloe during the revo lutionary war as commodore during much of the time. He captured sixty-two British vessels, 600 pieces of cannon and 3,000 prisoners, besides out maneuvering the enemy's vessels and carrying John Adams safely to France as envoy. For all of this he received the empty honor of a vote of thanks from congress, and this was all he ever got for his Invaluable services to this country and nation. After the close of the revolutionary war he removed to the town of Breeman, In my native state of Maine, where for a livelihood he followed his chosen vocation of captain of merchant vessels. Services ta second War. During the war of 1812 with Great Britain, when English privateers and war vessels were devastating our commerce along the Maine coast, after the pencil of time had furrowed his noble face and sketched his brow and the frost of years had whitened his hair. In a schooner with a crew of undaunted and heroic Maine sailors, armed with two brass cannon from the fort at Wlscassett, he chased, and, after a hard fight, captured the privateer Crown and drove from the coast of Maine the war vessels of the enemy which had been so successfully devastating the American com merce. Bamuel Tucker was universally honored and respected by the people of Maine who elected him one Of the selectmen of the town of Breeman, where he lived. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1820 and a presidential elector when Maine was admitted to the union, and after the state's admission was a member of the state legislature. Defrauded of the fortune that belonged to him from his share of the prlxes he captured, Commodore Samuel Tucker ap plied for the compensation he had Justly earned as captain of the navy. This he was denied because barred by the statute of limitations. In old age he eked out a precarious existence In his accepted voca tion and died In poverty In 1S33. He was burled on a bleak rocky neck of land which runs out Into the tempestuous At lantic In the town of Breeman and his grave Is unmarked and without a monu ment or stone to show where his remains 11a. Grave I'nmnrVed and Ignored. A few years ago the selectmen of the town of Breeman through Mr. Dingley, on of the noblest representatives In con gress, chosen from the district In which the town la located, presented to congress a petition stating that "the grave of Com modore Samuel Tucker would soon be un known unless measures were taken to provide a permanent memorial monument and In view of the commodore's services It would seem that the least congress could do would be .to grant the prayer of the petition." This petition was pigeon-holed and on It no action, as I understand, has ever been taken. Many a time have I sailed past this rocky, bleak, barren cape and neck of land where the remains of this hero lie, ex tending Into the ocean against whose nuies the wcves of the tempestuous At lantic beat high and rebounded and receded wl'.h a dismal roar. How vividly at this time and In this connection am I reminded of the Ingratitude of the human race. Socrates and the Greek philosophers taught that the first and greatest crime that could be committed was Ingratitude and the second was neglect of parents. Another Greek sage said: "To pass now to the matter of gratitude and ingratitude; there never was any so abandoned and base as not to admire tne lormer ana as- test the latter." 6nneca, I think, said: "Of all the guilty train of human vices, base Ingratitude Is the most to be abhorred and detested." WILLIAM GA8L1N Alma, Neb., July 11. 1806. . . Fatal Wreck la Texas. EL, PASO, Tex., July a. Engineer Thompson and Fireman Taylor have been killed In a wreck of westbound passenger train No. 10 on the Galveston, Harrisburg A San Antonio railway, fifteen miles west of Sanderson, Tex., caused by spreading of the rails. The spikes holding tne ram down it Is reported had been removed. "$.500 REWARD XgPf QJUESOT CfJT eSSZD As traiformly rirceeaful km Dr. Pierce's Fx rente Prescrrption proven U all forms , f Frtaala Weakness, Prolapsus, or Failing of Womb, aad Lcoeorrbea. that, after over a taira of ceatury's experience in curing the1 wont oases of these distressing and cWMUtatinf ailments. Dr. Ftcrte bow fcele fally VMMk(. ta oaYrinf to pay $J ia caaa for say raoa ef these diwtnrs which be cannot cut. ti a-ranee Atom. The nfavorrca Pro. acripttoa etande alone, as Lb DBS and only rewdy tat r distressingly com mon forms of weakaesa. possessed of sack positively specific curative properticaas M warrant it makers in jropeaiag, and blading tatmscVres to fcrfcit, as we, the Bnetraigncd pivot actors of that woadrrfal Csiray herewy do, to py ta earn of feao lagwl money of the Uaitxa States ta any ease of tk above daseene ia whka after a fair aad teasooau tend ef oar treatment, we mil so care. Ho other aaedicin for the care of wemaaa peculiar ailments is backed Vt seen a remarkable ruaraatee ; ae other meaioine for woman's ills hi pos sessed of the unparalleled curative prop erties that weald warrant its maaafactorers ia making sweh aa efter ; no other remedy has such a record of raw saw kit la bane each a remarkable oaer. m Therefore, tmnst oa havfsg De. Item's Favorite Pteserrptioa sod tans roar hack on any anscrepeloo dealer who weald fosalt year intelligence by attempting to foist apoa yoa soma inferior snasutote, Bsdcr the plea that 'it ia J est as goad. la.urt oa having the article which baa a record of third of eentary of cores and which is hacked by those willing, to forfeit fjoo if they cannot care yoa. la cases attended by a leacorrheel drain solution of Dr. Pierce' Lotioa Tablets should he aacd conjointly with the in of the Favorite rvesnipdoa. The are sold y all drnrgmta. or scat post-paid to any address, oa receipt of 0$ cents ia stamps, brad 31 cents ia stamps for Dt. pi tree's Comawa Bcaae Medical Adviser. Addresa Woild'I "JiarSJtaaa. Basalo, K V Weak aad tut woenea are invited to tea ss it Dr. Pierce, ca, by letter, rse. All 1 held as strictly arreesa. Pierce, Buffalo. N. T. urn lenpemdewe la Addme I. E. V, Vt, j'ttrc'! Pt&sU est. feUffUttO Wilt Make .t Profits of Over S7.V) Ier Day. Few people realise what a great enter prise the L'ncle Sam refinery really Is. Come down to Cherryvale and see for your self as the hundreds of barrels of crude Is manufactured dally Into the finest grades of reAried oil at profits that will In time pay handsome dividends to every stockholder. Figuring on a most conservative basis, the L'ncle 8am Cherryvale plant will make net profits of over Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars (1750) Per Day. When you buy Uncle bam refinery stock you" secure prop erty that Is really increasing In value every day, because the rapid development and the erection of machinery goes forward with vim and energy. The refinery is now turning gold into the treasury every day. Two Carloads of Barrels Arrive. The Uncle Sam company is now selling oil and big money la already being realized on the Cherryvale plant. Just completed. The Uncle Sam company received the first shipment of two carloads of barrels a tew days ago in which to ship oil to patrons until the tank stations are completed. Twenty carloads of barrels will be re ceived during the next few days. Orders for Uncle Sam refined oil are coming in from all over Kansas and all will be tilled Just as fast as the refinery can turn out the oil, and the plant Is now running lght and day. Write at once for prices on refined and fuel oil. Stork Will Be Advanced 25 Per Ceat at Midnight, Tuesday, August 1. The Uncle Bam company has met with uch great success In raising the necessary capital to crowd the work, both on refinery nd pipe line, and In Its oil field develop ment, that stock advertised at the present prices will either all be sold or advanced 26 per cent from present prices at midnight, Tuesday, August 1. The company has sufficient funds to crowd the work and you hould not delay an hour In sending In your remittances, for this company Is now In communication with over Six Thousand Investors, scattered all over- the United States. These Investors are fast finding 1UCH WEALTH UNDERWATER mportance of the Pearl and Shell Fisheries of the Philippine!. SULU GROUNDS SAID TO BE UNRIVALED Methods Pursued by Natives and Organised Companies Profitable Snap Enjoyed by the Saltan. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, July 22.-The pearl and shell fisheries in the Sulu group of the Phil ippine archipelago promise to be an Import ant Industry In the near future. In fact, it has already assumed very large propor tions, but the manner In which It Is con ducted has prevented very much In the way of actual knowledge of the Industry fro.-n coming to publio notioe. More than two years ago the secretary of state wrote to the secretary of war suggesting the advisa bility of taking some action looking to the preservation of the pearl fisheries of the hlllpplne Islands for the benefit of the United' States. The secretary of war Im mediately directed the governor general of the Philippines to make a thorough Investi gation of the pearl fisheries of the Sulu group with a view to protecting the inter ests of the United States government. Un der this authority the governor general of tha Philippines has made a complete Inquiry and gathered all Information possible con cerning the pearl and shell fisheries, an! the various reports whleh he has submitted are an important part of the bureau of In formation In the Insular division, relating to the Philippine Islands. Coder tho Saltan's Control. On account Of the lmDortanca of tha fisheries in th Phllinnin rrnn n It wilt probably be necessary for the United States 10 negotiate wun tne sultan of Sulu In or- aer mat tnts government shall obtain com plete control and dlsDosltlon of this vain. able industry. The sultan of Sulu has prac- ucaiiy aosoiute sway in the group of Islands Where the pearls are found mil under the Spanish laws and the Moro cus toms, ne baa exercised Jurisdiction and as sumed ownership of everything from the straits soutn 01 Mindanao to Borneo, and from an Indefinite line in the China sea west of Palawan to an Indefinite line In the ocean east of the chain nf forming the Sulu group and Including tho important islands of Baailan. Sulu (Jolo), Slassl. Tabul and Tawl TawL H. claim. the ownership of all the shells and pearls in id arcnipeiago, ana these claims are and always have been recognised by the aioros. -tne natives who, do most of the fishing pay for their prlvileee bv eivit, or selling to tha sultan at a nominal price all pearls of a certain slxe or value. These natives regard the pearls simply aa an In i-iaeiu 10 mo industry, as the shells. walrh Ing about three pounds a pslr.'ara tn ihm the most valuable product of the com merce, inese "hells are sold In Singapore and In China, and also In London. Chinese merchants who deal largely In shells pay from 40 to to cents a pound, Mexican for tne sneus and SO to 40 cents In ,ja The shells which enter larralv in k- commerce are found In beds In different parts or the archipelago, and In water of from one fathom to greater dentha tf,.n the natives can dive for them. Diving suns, nowever. are used to a limited ex tent, and two companies, ods Chinese and the other English, with headouartera at Jolo, are engaxed In tha hn-in... gather mother of pearl, black and snail shells. Tha black shell Is conslderad nur! as valuable as the mother of pearl. Some question win undoubtedly arise over the rights of these companies to fish In the waters of the Sulu group If the United States asserts Us rtghta. The English company claims an exclusive right, but It is doubtful whether such rights granted by the sultan of Sulu will be recognised. nla Crooads said to Bo lartvaled. Although all peart and shell flaharina are covered with water, they are always technically referred to as "grounds," a designation that baa been used for a great many years. The Sulu "grounds" known up to the present time have been practically unknown to the world at larva and vei-y little to commerce, but experts wlit have made an Investigation say that so far as the quality of the product and the possibility of development are con cerned, these "grounds" rank with the famous ancient 'grounds" of Csylon and the Persian gulf and the more modern areas developed In Australia and Torres strait. Borne authorities say that the Sulu archipelago now contributes the greatest number of the finest pearls known to commerce, while others say that while the pearls are very valuable and can be ob tained In large quantities, the principal feature of the commerce will be the mother of pearl and other stalls. out thnt our refinery stock Is good prop erty and hundreds are buying It every day, net sales on this stock running as high as Sixteen Thousand Dollars In a 8lngl3 Day. The stock is bound to advance In solid values to 60 cents per share within the next nine months and possibly In ninety days. It's now or never with you If you secure stock at present prices. Hy sending draft or money order at once you can se cure stock as follows: IW lno shares t 14 00 - tr 2.0 shares , 33 m) tV fruo shares 60.00 . IW 1,00 shares lwuiO M I- 6,1m) shares 690.00 i IV Ki.imo shares 1.175.00 t tr 20,000 shares 2,2J0.UO Monthly Payment Offer. 100 shares, $3.00 cash, six monthly pay ments of 62.00 each; 250 shares, $4.00 cush and six monthly payments of $5.00 each; 500 shares. 111. 00 cash and six monthly pay ments of 19.00 each; 1,000 shares, I1G.00 cash and six monthly payments of J19.00 each; 3,01.0 shares. ftfc.OO cash and six monthly payments of $o".no each; 10,000 shares, $156.00 cash and six monthly payments of $175.00 each. Block Is nonassessable and the par value is $1.00 per share. HOW TO SEND MONEY Make all checks, drafts or money orders to The Uncle Bam Company, or II. It. Tucker, and stock will be sent promptly by reg istered mall. Assets Back of This Company Rea sons Why the Stork Will Certainly io to CO Cents Per Share Within Nine Months. The Uncle Bam company now has one great refinery completed and In full opera tion. This refinery Is now worth, 011 a con servative basis, a Quarter of a Million Dollars to the stockholders of the com pany and ts already being Increased In capacity. The company has miles of lat eral pipe lines completed, connecting about three-fourths of the Cherryvale field, and is laying more lateral lines. A franchise for 179 miles of main trunk pipe line across nine Kansas counties, clear through to the banks of navigable water, is now secured and owned by the company. Forty miles The conditions existing in the southern waters of the Philippine possessions of the United States and particularly about the numerous Islands of the Sulu archipelago, are almost perfect for the development of mother-of-pearl and the pearl-bearing mol Iusk, which requires a reefy bottom near mud, and especially one where there Is a luxuriant supply of submarine weeds, coral cups and a growth of coral resembling coach whips from four ' to five feet In length. The sweeping tides and abun dance of living reefs are particularly favor able to the growth of the mother-of-pearl oyster. The so-called "pearl grounds" of the United States In the Philippines oon tatn an area of about 15,225 square miles, and lie between latitude 40 degrees 45 min utes north, the southern boundary of the United States' islands, and 60 degrees 30 minutes north, and between longitude . 119 degrees "35 minutes east and 123 degrees east. s This area Is about 106 maritime miles from east to west and about 145 miles from north to south. There are about 136 islands In the group, nearly all Inhabited, some large and others small, dotting the sea surface 173 miles la length 'from the Basilan Strait, northeast to the Slbutu Pasjage southwest, to the breadth vary ing from thirty-four to seventy-five miles northwest and southeast. At present the most productive pearl grounds can be found In the extreme western waters of the Lap aran cluster of the Tawt-Tawl group. The depths range from thirty to eighty feet, the most favorable for naked or unhel- meted diving. The Tapul group Is also particularly famous for the excellence of Its pearl grounds, and the superiority, and quantity of the output. Throughout these Island waters the depth seldom attains more than sixty feet, and the average Is about half that figure. Experts declare that there are very few pearl shells In the Sulu waters under nine fathoms (fifty-four feet). Methods of Pearl Fishing. Modern pearl fishers are equipped with diving apparatus and all paraphernalia to carry on the work In a businesslike manner. These operators do not waste time in sending down a diver to find whether or not pearls exist in the bot tom of the sea, but ascertain the condi tion of the ground by sounding with a leaden weight, coated with soap, which brings to the surface samples of the bot tom. If sand and gravel are found, the search in that particular locality Is abandoned, but If there are any Indications of coral or grass seed, the boat Is anchored and operations are Immediately com menced. The diver equips himself practic ally in the same manner as other divers, and takes with him the necessary tools for dislodging the shells and a basket In which to send them to the boat The great est depth at which a diver can work la twenty-five fathoms, but the pressure Is so great that labor cannot be sustained more than five minutes at a time. Be cause of the danger and limited results at this great depth, the shallow beds In from fifteen to twenty fathoms, where the diver can work almost an hour without rest, are most sought after. About eight hours are easily employed in diving, after which the shells are opened, cleaned and the pearls extracted. The slxe of the shell la usually about nine Inches In diameter. The divers find the fishing a good deal of a lottery, as only about 1 per cent of ths shells con tain pearls, and these are found within the shell or imbedded In It, and often tn the oyster meat Itself, the slxe varying from a pin head to a large bead. They are either leaden gray, golden hued or water colored, the last being of the highest value. Sometimes as many as a dozen pearls have been found In one shell, and It ts related that one shell was found some years ago containing sixty-five pearls. The pearl fishery carried on In a modern way is exclusively In the hands of the Chinese, head ' man, Tiana, at Jolo, who owns a fully equipped fleet of six boats of ten tons each. A crew of seven men besides the captain mans each boat. , The Chinese market both the shells and pearls at Singapore. Pearl Flahlng by tho Katlves. Ths pearl fishing of the natives is on such a very small scale that the output Is not very great. They dive without any equipment of any kind, but manage to reach the depth of ten fathoms, and at times they will remain under the water for two minutes and return to the surface with a shell tn each band. On the best grounds a diver seldom makes more than fifteen dives in the course of a morning and often obtains shells enough, without counting the chances of securing pearls. In five or six dives to support himself and family for a month. Slaves are compelled to go out more frequently and dive ofiener. The pearllag season in the 6ulu group Is from April to December, during which months It ts conducted with the greatest activity. The natives use boats or smalt canoes, which are well built and capable of resisting rather fierce weather. They are equipped with the Malay triangular mast and the sail Is of grass matting and reeds. Ropes of Manila hemp are used. Any Coonty ta Kansas That Will Ray Fifty Thousand Miares nt Present Prices Will Secure an Oil Station for Both Refined and Fuel Oil at Once. As before stated, the Uncle Sam company Is al ready at work Installing stations In Kansas. Any man or club of men who will band together and take Sixty Thousand shares at present prices can name the man they wish to be put in chniKn of the company's Inter ests In their, county and the company will at once commence to supply them with both refined and fuel oils. It will lsa Install a station at their county seat town Just as quickly as the machinery can be secured from the manufacturers. fa w II' ' iif fi Irons; Msnnfaelirlng aad Rich Growing Enterprise. The Uncle Sam com pany has kept its prom- of the main trunk pipe lino is now on the ground along the pipe line route at Neosho Falls, LcRoy, Tiqua and Cherryvale. More pipe line is arriving and being unloaded ready to complete and to pump oil through. The company owns and controls over Thirty Thousand Acres of valuablo oil and gas lands, located In some of tho richest oil fields In Labette, Montgomery, Klk and Chautauqua counties, and also south of Bartlesvllle, In the five hundred barrels district, right up against the Osage line In the Cherokee nation. On these properties In these boats the "sea gypsies," as they are known, have their wives and children and sail about, living entirely upon the products of the sea. The Sulua, owing to practice from childhood, and having a fine physique, are the best divers In the world. They go in head first and without artificial assistance whatever, and they can remain In the water from sixty to eighty seconds, they can descend twenty fathoms (130 feet), and some of the more expert even more, but this Is regarded as the extreme limit In naked, unhelmeted diving. The divers, naked and unarmed, must possess un daunted courage and excellent health. They have to attend as carefully to their modes of living and diet as do professional ath letes. Their powers of staying In water must also be remarkably great. They have to brave dangers from the shark, sword fish and octopus, or devil fish, which In fest those waters. With the combatlve ness and resolution of the Moro, under proper direction, they become tho most daring and enduring divers In the world, and there exists among them a keen de sire to excel one another in the length of time they can remain under water. Divers Compared. The Malay divers ' are quick to learn from white men, and easier to. teach, but their powers al endurance are Inferior to those of the Sulus. Tho Polynesian divers are very superior, aid the women are bet ter than the men. These people anoint their bodies with cocoanut oil before going Into the water. In western Australia the native divers, after proper training, go in feet first and turn In the water, this form being considered leas exhausting than head first. But the Sulu divers disdain to Imitate the Australian methods and plungo in head first. In training for diving, at tempts are first made In about three fathoms (eighteen feet) and even this depth generally causes bleeding at the nose. It usually requires nearly six months' prac tice to reach ten and a half fathoms (sixty three feet). A man who has been accus tomed to the water and ceases to dive for a few months, experiences great suffer ing In the ears when again he takes to the Water. There Is a record of one dlvor remaining below 180 beats of the pulse, or two and a' half minutes, while tho great est depth attained by divers noted by wit nesses la seventeen and a half fathoms, or 105 feet. This same man made fifteen and a half fathoms In the presence of an officer of the English ship Champion. The temperature of the air must range about 76 degree, Fahrenheit, and the water about 70 degrees for successful pearl diving. Tho Commerce in Shells and Pearls. Until about lSSti Manila was the great center of the pearl and shell trade in the orient, and the products of these seas be came known as the Manila shells, and reached the highest point of excellence and price. The post lion of Singapore, how ever, and the enterprise of the Chinese steamship owners completely transferred the wholo traffic from tho port of Manila to the '. port of Singapore, The United States purchases a large portion of the mother-of-pearla that are produced in tho Bulu ground, but they pusa through for eign hands, through Singapore, and thtu direct to London, Vienna and other Euro pean ports before being entered for con sumption in tho .United States. The valuo of pearls for the fiscal year 1100 and the nine months of litul endtd March 31, are given as follows: Pcirls entered at New York, not split, and paying 10 per cut duty, $l,412,9i! for lSJi, $l,lo3,3bi for 19o0, and $:3,2tv3 for 1901. Pearls split, etc., not especially provided for, paing 20 per cent duty, $3!),W9 for 1SK9, $i32,5:!) for 10u0, and $To3,197 for I'M. Shells not sawed or cut, polished or otherwise, entering free, $1,069,319 for 1S99, and $1,01,728 for 1SU0. Re cent statistics of foreign shell exports show that the value of mother-of-pearl shell from the leading pearl grounds shipped In 1899 from the Bahrein; Islands In the Persian gulf, was $2,211,115, while from Ceylon there has been none since 1891. From the Torres Strait district, $ikS.8C2, and from western Australia, $440,514. Statistics are also pro duced showing what a great loss of trade then has been to Manila because of the Sulu pearls and sheila going to Singapore But these are largely of an estimated character. Complications I.lkely to Ensue. The United States government Is likely to find considerable difficulty In securing con trol of the pearl fishing groundu In the Sulu group, as, apart from the fact that the sult:tn of Sulu claims absolute sov ereignty over all the Islands and the sea In that particular section of the Philippines, and that the natives give Mm the pearls that are obtained with the sheila, he has made various agreements with companies who are now operating arid intend to operate on the pearl grounds, English and Chinese companies paying him for the privilege. There are also contracts known to have been made bv tha sultan with cer tain Germans for the privilege of pearl fishing. An article of the protocol signed at Madrid by representatives ef Great Ises In the past and will ket-p them In the future. In a year from now you will see this stork selling for five times or over the present prices. The com pany Is a common man's company. It takes an Immense amount of capl , tal to complete this gi gantic undertaking, but the good work goes for ward with a vim. If you can't buy over 100 shares take some of this stork and get lined up right for the oil Industry of Kansas. If you have from one thousand to ten thou sand dollars to Invest, come down and look these properties over and have a confidential talk with the manager and offi cers of the company. Personnel of Company. James Ingersoll, presi dent; J. H. Ritchie, vice president; II. II. Tucker, Jr., secretary and treas urer. References: The Mont gomery County National bank, the Peoples Na tional bank and Cherry vale State bank, all of Cherryvale, Kan. there are Seventy-Nine (79) producing wells and five pumping plants. The company ) has room for over 6,000 oil wells. Thou sands of barrels of oil are owned and In storage, ready to be refined and turned Into money. More oil Is being stored every hour. The company has thousands of barrels of tankage completed, one big tank aWrne having a capacity of One Million Six Hundred Thousand Gallons. There are two dwelling houses at the refinery and four more In tne oil fields. The company also has a fifty-five acre tract close to Kansas Britain, Germany and Spain tn 1885 con tains a provision allowing commerce and direct traffic of vessels and subjects of Great Britain and Germany and the other powers with the Archipelago of Sulu, and In all Its parts, which are declared abso lutely free, and also grants the rights of fishing. This, of course, would include the pearl fishing. It Is a question whether the agreement with the sultan of Sulu, taken In connection with this article of the proto col, would be considered as having force under the treaty of Paris, concluded be tween the United States and Bpaln, at the close of the Spanish war. This will be a subject of negotiation whenever the United States attempts to prevent various com panies from operating in the pearl grounds of the Sulu group. Another question has already been brought up by the claim of a certain Englishman presented to the War department. In which he asserts 1 fishing rights over a large portion Of the Sulu group, and speclally the larger Islands of Palawan and other sections of the Philip pines occupied by the Moros. This English man has already presented his claim to the War department, but his rights have been questioned for several reason, principally on the ground that the sultan of Sulu can not control that large and extensive group of Islands. His authority must be confined to what Is known as the Sulu archipelago. Even then It Is questioned whether be has the right to grant away valuable fran chises which ought to be owned and con trolled by the United States, the revenue from which should be a part compensation for the expenses that the government has incurred in the Philippine Islands. Officers of the army and other experts who have visited the pearl fisheries have pointed out that owing to the possibilities of the pearl ing grounds they can be made of great value as a revenue producing feature of the Philippine group. It Is evident from the steps already taken by the War de partment and the United States govern ment in the Philippines that the United States proposes to exercise authority over the pearl fisheries. There' Is no doubt, however, that parties who have made pre vious contracts with the sultan of Sulu under former treaty stipulation with Spain will Insist that their rights are protected by that clause In the Paris treaty confirm ing all concessions made by Spain previous to American occupation. At the same ttme, the theory upon which the American gov ernment Is now proceeding Is that conces sions of contracts 'made by the sultan of Sulu cannot be construed as contracts made and confirmed by the Spanish gov ernment. Until the legal status of the pearling grounds Is definitely determined their development by American capital will be delayed. JEW BAITER RESUMES TALK Man Slleneed by Berlin Police Is Again Permitted to Begin Agitation. BERLIN, July .-(Speclal Cablegram to The Bee.) Count Puckler, the notorious anti-Semitic agitator, who had for some time been deprived of his liberty of speech 011 the ground that his utterances were dangerous and provocative of a breach of the peace, has had this prohibition removed and appeared recently before an enthusi astic crowd of his admirers. Although the police were present In the hall, Count Pueckler was allowed to utter the moat revolting Incitements against the Jews. He gloated over the methods employed In Russia, . regretting that he could not Im port some Russian Jew-baiters Into Berlin. "Let us," he said, "crack the heads of the Jews as we would crack nuts. Then only can Germany attain a supreme post tion In the world." "Away with those princes," he cried tn conclusion, "who permit Jews to visit them. who decorate them with orders, and grant mem titles. " FRIEND OF THE FRIENDLESS Dr. Barnado Hopes to Build Homo for Waifs fay Popnlar gab. -aerlptlon. LONDON, July 22.-(Special Cablegram to The Bee.) Dr. Barnado, "The Father of Nobody's Children," has just completed hia, fioth year. In connection with this notable anniversary appeal has been made In a letter signed by many notable names urging that the great service which he has rendered to the nation by his forty years' strenuous work should be fittingly recog nixed. Dr. Barnado does not want a na tlonal subscription himself, but he hopes for a national subscription which will place the National Waifs' association on a sound financial footing. Dr. Barnado Is practically In loco pa rentis to I.&JU children whom he feeds from day to day. Ia the last few years he has placed In the colonies 18,600 children, of whom less than t per cent have failed to do well. City, on which refinery No. ! and the big tank farm will be completed durliiK the next six months. The company has pur chased tank cars and has storage tanks for stations that will In, mediately be Instalh-d at Concordia. Hutchinson, Toprka, Wichita and Sallna, Kan. More Stations ia Prospect. Forty-five more distributing stations will be established in Kansas as the company completes another refinery and Increases the capacity of the one at Cherryvale. The refinery and ell lands and oil produc tions, owned and controlled by this com pany, with its franchises, pipe lines and machine)', are Worth, on a conservative basis, today close to Six Hundred Thou sand Dollars. In addition to the above mentioned property back of this company there are over One Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($125.0lut subscribed on gilt-edged Installment contracts, which will all be paid In during the next four months. This money is for stock that is already allotted and on which two and three payments already have been re mitted by the purchasers. There is not a shadow of a Uoubt but that all of the money will be paid promptly as It falls due, at fro n $1,2U0 to $1,IU0 daily during the next 120 days. Will On n Property Worth Over Five Million Dollars In Less Than a Year. The x authorised capitalisation of the Uncle Sam company la Ten Million Dollars. Blxty-one per cent -f this stock Is now owned by anti-trust haters of the first degree. Thirty-nine per cent of this stock, or Three Million Nine Hundred Thousand shares are still In the treasury and will be sold at from 12 to DO cents per share. At least Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars will be raised from the remainder of this treas ury stock. The proceeds from the same will be Invested In the development of the vast oil holdings of the company and in the completion of tha main trunk pipe line to tho Missouri river and of a fuel oil line to central Nebraska. Heftnery No. 2, on the banks of nnvignblo waters at Kansas City, and refinery No. 3, in central Okla homa, where the company is now securing large oil holdings, preparing to furnish sufficient production to feed refinery No. 3, will also be built. Distributing stations MARTYRDOM OF JOHN MISS Life and Labor of tbe Great Bohemian Reformer Recalled. CITY OF CONSTANCE AND ITS HISTORY Moaamrnts of the Past That Speak Across the Abyss of Years to the People of the Pres ent Day. In view of the fact that my visit to the city of Constance Is so imminent to the anniversary of the day that the great Bo hemian reformer and martyr was con demned to death by the Universal council of 1414 and burned at the stake the follow ing year on July 6, I feel constrained to write a few lines about the city. Tho historic landmarks that have left their imprint upon this storm center of the reformation are very weil preserved today and only go to exemplify and commemorate the horrors and absolutism of a papal de cree. The papal schism was inaeea a scheme of universal enslavement by estab lishing a universal sect. The council was convoked for the purpose of amalgamating very diversified priesthood and exter minating originality of thought, called "heresy." John Hubs was a man of orig inal thought and his teachings comprised of Immortal words, which condemned him to death, "Hold the truth, hear the truth. learn the truth, keep the truth, defend the truth even unto death." About as High as Omaha. Constance Is one of the most beautiful towns In all of Europe, situated about 400 meters above the level of the sea, at the point where the Rhine Issues from the Lake of Constance to enter the lower lake. The old city of Conetanoe, chief town of the Lake district of the grand duchy of Baden. with 22,000 population, Is by Us active trade and industry, Its curiosities and historical remembrances, the most Important on the take. The climate Is very agreeable In summer, as the vast surface of the lake has a neu trallilng effect on heat and oold; the heat of the summer Is especially tempered by the breexes blowing from the mountains. Constance, Itself, owns a sight of most picturesque charms, with a commanding view of the vast sheet of water, which, by continually changing Its colors, produces an incessant magle sensation and beyond It of the mountain colossi encircling the attractive scenery. The Chrnnists Sehulthals mention Con- stantlus Chloren as the founder of the town, adding - that already before him Drusus Oermanlcus had built a castle on the Rhine. In 611 St. Frldolln is said to have established here a Christian com munion. Between K0 and 570 Constance be came a see; since 1527 the bishops resided t Meersburg, having been forced to Ioave Constance by the storm of reforms. In 11R3 the Peace of Constance between Fred eric Barbarossa and the Lombards was concluded here. Freedom F.nrly Established During the middle ages the town was a free city of tho empire until 1548. Already In 990 Its money, wolghts and markets were honorably mentioned. In 1213 Constance decided the destiny of the German empire by opening Its doors to Frederick II and by shutting out Otto IV. In 1414 and 1415 It was the stormy center of the Reforma tion and the focal point of the events dur ing the struggle for religious reform. Here Is where the famous councU of Constance (1414-1418) sat and there were present, be sides Emperor Slglsmund and Pope John XXIII, twenty-six princes, 140 counts, more than twenty cardinals, seven patriarchs, twenty archbishops, ninety bishops, 800 pre lates and doctors, and about 4.00 priests. The mandates and decrees of this council are well known to the reader of history and the scars that mark the wounds en acted by that body of unreasonable men are still unhealed and never to be for gotten. Huss and Jerome were burned alive, and the papal schism was brought to an end. The landmarks of the martyrdom of those who dared to think for themselves and who stood by their convictions in the face of the most painful torture and death are here. They are here for generations, but In the hearts of men forever. Where Hass Wns Tortured. The dungeon tower In which Huss was tortured, his home, the council hall wherein sat that august assembly of unchristian prelates, led by the whims of an ungodly pope to deeds at which the world doth shudder, where Hums was adjudged a heretic. Ths cathedral ts a magnificent structure of the eleventh century, but Is tainted by a blue spot where stood the great Huss when he was condemned to death by being burned alive at the stake. This spot Is often pointed out to a vUltor with reluctance. Shame should indeed creep Into the hearts of those who love their Cod and revere tblr church, (or will be located at the leading county seat towns all over Kansas. Tanks for sta tions at Hutchinson, Pallna. Wichita, To peka and t'oncorrtia are now on the way. At loust fifty stations will be completed and eqtilpiwd In Kansas during the next three months. The l'ncle Sam company la a home concern; It Is hacked by the laws of Kansas. suparted and approved by about nine-tenths of the people In tha state, and the l'ncle Sam refined and fuel oils will be the most popular Kansas prod uct ever sold In the state and will com luiind good prices. lllg Urals Are Being Closed Dally OM This Stock. Investors can depend, as before stated, oa this stock advancing $5 per cent on August 1st. However, this does not mean that yoa have any certainty that It will remain at the present price for even the next flva days. His deals are pending all over tha United States This announcement wilt bo read by close to Fifteen Million People. The saving" banks of the country are full tf money that Is bringing the depositor practically no Income, and It Is not any safer than It would be It Invested In this company, as tho Uncle Sam company ia paying as It goes. It is not running In debt a dollar. In fact It bits thousands of dol lars in the treasury. Every well managed refinery company that owns Its own pro duction succeeds. The Uncle Sam companp has oil lands enough to feed the present refinery and the two that will be built dur ing the next year for over a oentury. When you buy this stock you Invest ia one of the greatest growing enterprises In the nation. It will be to the west what tha Pure Oil company Is In the east. Ton should not delay an hour after reading thle announcement. Send your remittance now and secure stock, for It Is easily worth Twentv-Five Cents Per Share Bight Now and will he selling for that In less than six weeks. Severn! deals for ten and twenty thousand shan-s have been closed In tho last three davs. If, however, you only take one hundred shares at $14.00 you are welcome to Join us, for this company will live and prosper bv the help of its many friends and the thousands of small stock holders and influential men who will de mand and force a square deal for Ita products In every part of the union. For further particulars write or wire II. II. Tucker, Jr., Secretary, Cherryvale, Kan. wHhln this divine temple which was eonso crated to the teaching of a universal brotherhood tho brethren were not only denied brotherhood but denied the right t life which Ood had given them and had only the right to take away. On July t, 1415, as the sun rose over the land John Huss was taken to the out skirts of the city, where he was chained to a stake, and as the flames rose to lash the life from his body there was heard not a murmur, not a quiver of relentment cama from those lips or shone from those up lifted eyes. Thus died the hero to religious reform, died the defender of truth. Aa I stood by the stone which marks this spot whore John Huss was burned I thought of the moment that I stood by the tomb Of Napoleon; looking down a beautiful sarco phagus I thought of the extreme difference tn the alms of the twt. One strove to conquer the world by arms, the other to free the peoples of the world by teaching freedom of thought one with tho aim of enslaving, the other .with the aim of liberat ing humanity, Leaaon of a Great Life, I thought that I could Indeed see tha great Huss as he stood tn his funeral pyre with uplifted eye and silenced lip, still knowing that he was right and unfaltering 1 in his convictions as the flames bora him beyond. Is there in all history an example of such fidelity to a conviction and has any other principle liberated the people mora than the teaching of Huss? He was indeed Inspired, as are all Immortalised heroes. VICTOR H. DURA 8, Constance, July 1, 1905. MACHINE TO WAKE PIE Confections Such as "Mother Used ta ' Make" Ontclassed by Machine-Made Article. Lovers of the great American dainty pie will rejoice to learn that a new era has set in for Its unlimited production. It is a far cry from the "pies mother used to make" to a superior product made by machinery, but this has been aoeora pllshed by a machine invented by a Fhlla delphlan. For years there has been progress in al most every line of baking, with the excep tion of the succulent pie. . Bakers and prac tical Inventors along those lines, who ex perimented, have declared that, maehine made pies were as Impossible as perpetual motion There are so many step in tha operation that it would seem their con tention was well founded. Undaunted by precedent, however, the Philadelphia!! In ventor has continued his experiments for two years, and at last has reached hia goal. The plemaklng machine has beenf In stalled in a baking oompany'a plant In this) city, and Is now grinding out a steady stream of pies of all kinds and varieties. With the machine an operator can now produce thousands of pies where he form erly turned out hundreds. Not only wQl this serve to cheapen produotlon, benefit Ing the consumer by making it possible to use better materials, but, as most of the work Is mechanical, absolute eleanU news and uniformity Is assured. The pie machine Is long and narrow, being about ten feet by twenty Inches. One man and three boys constitute tha operating force, turning out sixteen to eighteen finished pies a minute.' An eleo tiic motor furnishes power, while a gag jet keeps the forming dies warm. Bus-. pended over the machine is 4 tank which, holds a sufficient amount of filling for 408 pies. An agitator revolves within and keeps the fruit from packing at the outlet. After the "paste" for crusts haa been propurly mixed It Is weighed and out into proper sized pieces by a dough dlvldsr. A tray full of lumps of dough for bottom crusts Is placed at one end of the msohlno and another tray containing lump for ton crusts at the other end. At the rear Is a stack of plates, automatically fed by a ratchet. A magnetised arm swings around, picks up a plate and places It on a die made to receive It. A piece of dough ia placed on the plate and the next move ment brings it under a die which forms the lower crust. Then the fruit la de posited from the tank and the plate moves forward. By this time another lump of dough has been flattened out and stamped with an Initial such as "L" for lemon while an automatic bellows blows a puff of flour over the dough to keep It from sticking. The next movement brings the filled pie and this upper crust together, one operator being statlom-d here to adjust the top cover if necessary. Then the covered pie comes under the edging die, which cote off all scraps, and the pie passes forward oa an apron which leads to the oven. One motion succeeds another with sMch regis lartty that the finished pie is passing to the oven almost before one can grasp tha Idea and purpose of the machine. With, no fuss and little noise the empty plate starts at one end and passes off tho Other end of the machine, a finished pie la leea than four seconds. Philadelphia Heoerd,