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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

The Prince Of Wales has one invariable
companion in all his travels. This Is the
Dandie Dinmont which belonged to the
Duke OF Clarence and has since then be-
come the princes ~favorite among the nu-
merous dogs which he possesses. He feeds
It always himself. Other. though lesser.
favorites are Newmarket Tip. a collie:
Sam. a clever poodle Of many tricks: Little
Billy. beloved of the Princess Of Wales:
the famous Basset hound, Of prizetaking
notoriety, and q glorious Lapland sledge
dog, unique in England.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

OHItSS IN ypui6 iuh uiAS hAo toStASE
he may soon be unable to recognize lin.
self.
The beast is driven out. but the people OF
Havana will not know the full blessings
of their deliverance until the cage is
cleaned.
How would it do for the anti-expansior
statesmen to send the F%ilipinos a few in.
voices of canned oratory? The goods could
be spared.
It requires no optimist to predict thai
Governor Stanley will give the Kansas PEG.
pie a better administration that Leedy
gave them.
The hip is on Mr.. Bulls shoulder al
right. The chance for a fight depends OF
whether Johnny Krapaud has the courag,
of his itching to knock it off.
The Massachusetts man who killed him
self to avoid being married must have bee,
pursued by a widow. There are less des
perate ways of escaping a maiden.
Senator Berry's official duty is an i'm
portant one. 1t devolves on him to show
the world that Arkansas has one senator
who is not a wild-eyed demagogue.
"A Buffalo man has died after whistlini
| for ninety hours The fact that the neigh
bors didn't go cunning sooner shows a higl
regard for law and order in Buffalo.
The New Jersey pastor who was dis
charged by his congregation because h
reads the newspapers must deeply reSre
having to leave a people in such a woefull,
benighted condition.
1t is unnecessary to say that the. anti
| expansionists glory in Aguinaldo's spunk
| The. more he embarrasses the government
| that is trying to do his people good III
better they Will like him.
In his efforts to run this country in III
Interests of greed and monopoly the In
famous Mark Hama hesitates at nothing
His latest step for the enslavement of tn
masses Is to nave himself v~accinated.
The fact that Pennsylvania has RENAME
overwhelmingly Republican under Senate
Quay's leadership shows that the people {
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-10

Senator Pettus, Of Alabama. Is said to
be the most Industrious tobacco-chewer IN
the senate. As he sits In his seat in the
front row, with his old-fashioned glasses
balanced on the tip Of his nose. a little
bunch OF whiskers on his chin bounding
up and dow with the motion Of his
lower jaw. he presents. an observing cor
respondent declares. an amusing living pic
ture. The silence Of the n Is often
punctured by an occasional bulls eye into
the cuspidor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12

exclusive right to farm cut the expanse
OF ocean where the rare nacre shells lay.
ne Sultan. under the new treaty-ur,
rather. the agreement made with him by
General Bates-has not the right to COL
iect imports, but as he is still To be the
Suprt me authority over the Moros and
the established laws, religion and customs
among them are not to be disturbed he
will most likely consider his levy Of tax
for pearl fishing to continue in force, and
ne viii still control the issue Of conces-
sions for diving in his own waters. It can
be said however that just al the present
time with the cordial rela onship which
General Bates has apparently established
for the Americans with the Moros. 1t is
quite possible to secure privileges for car
ryine on the pearl industry off in the
deep waters, where the naked native
divers cannot 20. provided one IS willing
to pay the Sultan a comparatively nom
inal annual stipend.
Ten years back the Spanish granted ner-
mission to some Germans to fish for pearl
shells off the town Of Joo. Who received
the bonus that was paid for the favor
does not appear, but, for that matter the
spanish official had, no doubt an easv
conscience and a complicated system Of
rake-offs, whereby his small salary was
materially increased. The foreigners s,,c-
ceeded IN cleaning up everything in the
shape Of shells. large and small. within
the radius Of rife range about Jolo. much
10 the disgust of the Sultan, who didn't
get cent, and since that time this terri
tory mas been practically barren of shells
ne Germans dared go nowhere else for
tear OF being exterminated SO the enter
prise fell through
captain Iiana, well known to the Moroe
through a generations trading and asso-
citation, gained the confidence of the SuI-
tan, and was given the concession bafore
referred TO. He was also in exceIIant
standing with the Spanish garrison ~
Jolo, where he suppned the officers with
all the necessities and luxuries of life on
credlt. 80 friendly was his RELATIONSHIPS
with them that' when they departed for
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breath only by the effective working Of
the pump, twists the side valve on his
helmet to control the escape.
He is assisted down the short rope lad
der over the side, as he is almost help
less In the weighty trappings, and the
last act before he goes bubbling down
ward out of sight is to add more weights
of lead to his shoulders
1T is only fourteen fathoms eighty
TOUR teeO here, remarks Captain Tiana
as the stream of bubbles alone tells the
man walks astern the boat, and as he
moves away the lifeline the hosting
rope and the jealousy guarded air pipe
are played out. and as the remaining pOr-
tl0n on board becomes shorter four mem
bers of the crew in the bow let out yard
by yard, the anchor hawser.
In the pumping room the men are
straining the pump, which ran so easily
before they We're overcoming a pressure
OF fifty pounds weight of water to the
square inch. one wonders what the sen
Saton Of breathing air condensed to such
degree would be like.
Fifteen minutes, and the signal cord
gives a jerk and q half dozen men are
pulling for dear life on the submerged
rope. The novice expects to see him come
up underneath the boat, but Tiana points
aStern, and there, through the surface
water, plows a sputtering, Topping sea
monster, which finally assumes the shape
of diver.
He cannot climb even the first rungs of
the ladder and has to be lifed on deck.
doubling up with his legs dangling in the
water over the low board around the boat.
The front glass is quickly unscrewed, but
before it comes off the men at the pump
suddenly stop turning. Up goes the
divers hand in signal of distress. ana
he grabs his side valve to ease it to the
suddenly diminished pressure. A veil
goes up from those outside, and the throb
of the pump is heard again until the glass
plate falls open.
Six or eight times day this man under
goes the suffering that leaves him now
pallid. nerVeless ana shivering. so fright
fully exhausted that he is helpless to as
sist in the undressing. He may, if he
work on good bank of shells. bring up
hundred shells day is excellent work
and mint of money On this exhibition
trip, over barren ground, he had but a
single fair sized shell, some six inches in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12

diameter, and half dozen Of the curious
spiny star FISH of these waters.
A big shell, whose Inside naCre is beauti-
full even in its unpublished condition, will
measure a foot in diameter though the
majority of the shells do not average six
or seven inches.
The price of pearl shells, which weigh
several pounds apiece. fuCtuate between
30 and 90 cents pound, depending not so
much upon demand. which is always
above supply, as on size, luster and color:
but 1t will be seen that with a crew of six
men, who receive $40 a month and cheap
rice for food, a diver a $50 and 2 man
ager for all the ten boats at 800 month
the enterprise is a money NAL king one. 1t
should be remembered that these prices
are Eastern silver ones, or Mexican dol
The precious pearl is not found in every
shell. and not very often in a hundred
shells Its pursuit is a game of chance
entirely. Now and then great finds are
made. and again during a whole month
but dozen OF the milk white drops nelp
sven tne revenue: There have been some
immense pearls found in Moro waters
pearls which bring $4,000 after polishing
by native hands. The average fine large
pear o. perfect color and they are very
rare, doeS not bring much above 25O0
pesos, while but 10 per cent of the finds
bring over 250. The other 50 $40 per cent
grade into large pearls of bad shape. or
co!or, smaller pearls of perfect shape but
OH the pearl white tint, and hundreds OF
tiny fellows, good. bad and worthless.
The. There are numbers of yellow pearls
lighter colors. but on the open market
they bring poor prices. as yellow pearls
are not the fad. The black pearl found
in another shell is much in demand, but
the mollusk itself is rare.
The pearls which Tiana secures far
more than pay the entire running ex-
penses Of his boats and the hagging and
shipping of the shells to Singapore.
Pearls are doubtless lost now and then
by theft, but in view of the fact that each
boat has crew who watch the opening Of
the shells with the greatest interest, and
that where pearls are found they have to
lusk. il is difficult for a single individual
to cause them to disappear The China
men, who are the merchants among prim-
tive people all over the East and the only
Continued IN De- rr,,.on+,. +hroo
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their own vinelands, Tlana held unpaid
bills to the amount of more than 500 900
At the request Of General Bates the
merchant gave us an exhibition of deep
shells. Two little sailing craft that had
come in from the main shell beds. forty
miles to tho south, were scrubbed into a
state Of unusual cleanliness for the recep-
ton Of the generals party. They were
less than five tons burden. English cutter
built and yacht rugged. But what sails!
made from native cloth and apparently
go up fat, and the stitches in the seams
ready to draw through the
rough porous fabric! Both boats steered
with lee helm, but that is no matter. ex-
cept that a self-respecting white man
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
BY William DinWlddle,
Special corre sPondent Of the Col-Herold
In the Philippines

In the Philippines.
THE now American Sultan of the
Sulu archipelago, in the Philippines.
is said to have a pillow case full Of
pearls, which he keeps carefully
i guarded in one Of his big iron
chests. Whether this Is true or not
no white man knows, but Il has been one
Of the laws Of the Moros for centuries
that all big pearls 90 as tribute to the
Sultan, as well as one-fourth Of all the
finds made b. his subjects. SO the Sultan's
pearl revenue has in the past been a very
substantial one. and there is every reason
70 believe that during his refs he has
owned enough pearls to Ill several old
pillow slips If he so desired.
There may be millions for Americans IN
the pearl shell fisheries Of our new posses
siOns when the complete paciication n
the bloodthirsty. warlike Moro comes 70
pass. Neither experts nor lavmen. nor
even the Moros themselves, are familiar
with the extent Of the pearl shell banks
along the hundred or more small islands
Of the southern portion of the Philippines.
That they are scattered over large terri
tory is testified 10 by the natives who sell
small quantities Of shell and many pearls
to BOrneo and Chinese traders That some
banks are very extensive has been we'll
determined by the rich Chinese merchant
Captain Tiana, OF Jolo who has for eight
years held the exclusive concession from
the Sultan to fish for pearls by means of
diving suits in the Sulu archipelago.
A commercial man will naturally ask
why the beds have not been worked. If
they represent such submarine mine Of
wealth, to a greater extent in the past
The answer is apparently a simple one
because nobody has dared.
The sovereignty Of the islands was os-
tensibly SPANS; the real sovereign was
the Sultan To make pearl i.shing pos
sible for foreigners or Spanish subjects.
1t would have required a double conces-
sion and boats armed with Calling guns
Spain would not give foreigners who had
the daring to fish concessions, because.
dog in the manger" as she was she
feared to lose a good thing she could not
herself develop. She dared not work them
herset or give concessions to Spanish
subjects, as that would have provoked
war with the Sultan, who claimed the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12
Millions for Americans i'm the Great Pearl Fields
of the Archipelago Now Controlled by
the Crafty Sultan of the Sulu Islands,

would never trust himself on a long voy-
age in such a craft
rhe crew were Tagalogs and Moros
The divers were fagalos. both pinched
as If their lives were being squeezed out
of them by inches. Such is literally the
truth. For ten years of comparative affiu-
ence, AT the enormous salary-for the
East-Ot sixty pesos, or $50, a month
they forfeit their chance Of a longer life
and undergo, it is said, the most fright
full torture day by day in watery,
close-ttting mold, which brushes the
life blood back upon the struggling heart.
twenty-five fathoms under water, in
rubber diving suit, with only the head
protected from the grinding pressure of
the ocean grasp by copper helmet!
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-12

ocean floor for hundreds of yards-a floor
oVergrown with enormous coral groves,
IN whose shadows turks the giant devil
fish with his outspreading tentacles from
whose. embrace it is well nigh impossible
Tor Dlgmy man to escape.
The boat comes to anchor and the diver
begins his initial preparation for
descent by donning a thick red blanket.
Whlch encases his whole body in it's soft
folds a great bag comes next with
arms and legs to it. open only a the neck
where the heavy brass collar plate sup
ports the helmet, and at the rubber wrist
let's, through which the hands are pain
fully thrust. 1t is no easy task to get
into neavy unwieldy sack of this kind.
made of alternate thicknesses of canvas
and pure red rubber. and two men work
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ana tussle to get this muffied object Of
ced flannel shaken down inside. At asst
he is in, and the hands are squeezed
through constructing rubber rings at he
wrists, which Theoretically seal thenA-
selves on the soft flesh, but over which
as further precaution, are snapped
heavy rubber bands
PRECIPITATION begins to pour down the
divers face and trickle into his eyes as
his assistants struf yle again with the gro
tesque metal shoes, much like a large pair
of Dutch wooden shoes Now the metal
neckyoke is slipped over his head, with its
encircling row of perpendicular bolts.
which are sir ed through the holes in the
rubber collar one by one 1t could hardly
be called an artistic ruffle, this throat en-
circling chevauX-de-fris of iron bolts
over which the ponderous, glass-eyed he'll
met is dropped and bolted down into po-
sition, until the soft rubber ring of the
suit makes a water-tight joint between
the two metal rings.
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The front bulls eye of plate glass is left
out TO the last moment, as the diver is
equipped with corded basket for shells
and heavy knife with which to fight big
fish or cut off the arms of some frightfuI
cling frame, the divers ordinarily saIlow
face is colored with hot blood and his
breath comes faster from the steam hath
clothes.
Down in the hold two Tagalogs. nude to
the waist. are grinding round and round
on the handle of the pump, and the hot
pours out at the back of the divers head
where the pipe Joins the helmet The
plate glass front Is put in position and
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ment is not felt until 1t is said that these
men work at the wonderful depths of a
hundred and forty to hundred and
sixty feet, for ten or fifteen minutes at
tlme, under the most overpowering
weight of water, exerting a pressure Of
from sixty to seventy pounds upon every
square inch of their flesh. The craving
ing,
Not only do these divers, in their
h1ty-pound copper shoes, which hold
them to the bottom, go down through
topical sea, confronting daily the
danger of immense fish making direct at
tack or appropriaimg their air tubes for
palt' but they walk along an uneven
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-12

In addition to having good bread Christ
mas 1t IS equally necessary that the
goodies. such as cakes and pastries, should
be OF the best. Results will be found en-
tirely satisfactory, and the Christmas bak-
ing a pleasure and grand success If the
old reliable Ceres" flour is used. For
years this flour has been the mainstay Of
go0d COOKS, and 1t has never failed to
yield good results. This Information 10 Of
Invaluable aid to the young housekeeper
VINO probably for the first time has the
Responsibility of the Xmas baking on her
BESIDES being most reliable brand
ceres Hour has been proven by a test to
make SD one-pound loaves to the barrel
a flour. ueo
Ceres Hour can be secured from your
grocer-and. he should offer any other
refuse It, VIM. M. Calf & Co.. 1st and In.
alana avenue, are the wholesalers Of
Ceres -four. "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-12
ANNUAL ELECTIONS
District ORGANIZATIONS Choose Officer,
for Ensuing Terms

meeting Of the WOman's Bindery Union
was held last evening in Typographical
Temple. and officers for the ensuing wear
elected as follows: President, Miss Kate
V. Smoot; vice president, Mrs. Hannah Sea-
man: recording secretary, Mrs Marye;
financial secretary, Mrs. A. B. Pelts, and
treasurer, Miss E. ]. Richie. The union is
composed of employees of the government
printing office and has about 300 members
Eureka Lodge No. ), F. A. A NJ. Tor
GaniZed 1859. elected the following off,
GERS unanimously, December H. for the
ensuing year: John p. Turner worshipful
master; Ellis W. Brown, s. w; H. j.
Davis. ]. w; l.. C. Bailey twenty-third
term. treasurer: E. A. Watson, twenty-fifth
term, secretary. Appointed: John c. Nalle
D.: f. L. Webster. ]. D.
At the recent regular meeting of Armi-
MUS Lodge, No. %, F. A A NJ, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: H. H Gerdes
w NJ; Chas. Gersdorff. S. W; Harry
Rothschild. J. w; Henry T. Ries treas
urer; Chas. katzenstein, secretary; Chas
Bischof, tyler; Moritz Glaeser VIM F.
Meyers. John Toense, proxies; Morftz
Glaeser, delegate Masonic relief; Louis
Goldschmidt. delegate st. Johns Mite AS
ISOLATION: VIM. F. Meyers, delegate Ger
man Orphan Asylum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-12

because the consumption not great.
The situation, as summed up In special
report, is that with all his resources the
deputy commissioner is only able to bring
into his distributing reservoirs about So
100000 gallons day. The people use daily
between 9O00O,O0 and 1O0,000,000. The
reservoirs have been drawn upon until all
are exhausted except a few days supply
in the Ridgewood reservoir. In 1882 no.
tice to consumers, such as has just been
sent out, saved 100000 gallons day.
and a like saving now would avert the
danger Such a warning has not been
necessary at any time since Lack of rain
fall is, of course, the primary cause of the
present shortage in supply.
CrOtte's TubercuIOsis Cure.
Crottes cure for tuberculosis has in
vaded St. Luke's Hospital There. in a de-
tached building that the uninitiated may not
observe what is going on, Crotte's electric
machine whirrs. Its static currents pass
through sponges into the lungs of the pa
tients. Crotte and his assistant make
notes, Investigations, analysis. But they
do not talk to outsiders about what they
are doing. 1t is a secret. Nine physicians
are watching Crotte, his assistant and
their work. The board of health receives
from time to time ticketed walls that are
evidences Of the cures progress. Long
charts. the printed lines of which are in
French. are piled up on the desks of the
nine physicians that are watching. They
are jury. They are to tell officially IL
Crotte's cure Is effective.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-12

achievement and of success in meeting all
its pledges that 1 believe it will endure in
history one Of the great epochs in the
country's Efe Prosperity is everywhere.
Labor is abundant, and we are entering a
new year that promises even greater re-
suits. For the railroads l predict that the
year 1900 will be far beyond anything ever
known in earnings. One feature of
present prosperity that should be noted is
that our business men and railroad man.
ayers are not losing their heads over it.
They are planning with conServa tism-in-
tense conservatism, l should say-in rail-
way management as in business affairs so
as to be prepared for any future rainy
days. This is evidence that whatever
progress we are making is of a substantial
character"
There may be two delegations from this
state to the next democratic national con-
vention. Democrats who have remained
steadfast to the Chicago platform of 1896
have kept up an organization under the
name of the state committee of Chicago
platform democrats This committee has
issued an address to its enrolled followers
asking their cooperation in calling state
convention the first week of next March to
elect delegates to the democratic national
convention in 1900. Here is an extract from
the address:
counties in this state are controlled by
those in favor of the Chicago platform, the
delegates to the next machine state con-
Vention and the delegates to be elected to
and controlled by Hill and Croker, and any
delegation selected in this manner will not
and could not be representative of the de-
moeracy of this state"
The address also says the democratic
machine in this state is controlled by men
who either openly or secretly opposed the
election of Bryan in 1896, and who there
fore have no right to call themselves dem
ocrats.
Brooklyn Fears Water Famine.
The storage reservoirs Of Brooklyn are
nearly empty. The consumption is about
100000 gallons greater than the supply.
Never since 1882 has the danger of water
famine been so great as 1t is today. Even
in 1882, when a similar shortage of supply
was developed, the situation was less acute