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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01

low water along the inshore with COM
mon garden rake. When he had finished
a few gross. he offered them for sale.
The tariff bill Of 1890 had advanced the
price Of pearl buttons, and, as he asked
less than was paid for the same button
before this advance, he had no difficulty
In disposing Of them, and in few weeks
was overwhelmed with orders.
No sooner had Mr.. Beopple demon
strated what could be done with fresh
water clam shells than there was q rush
to this new field Of industry Button
factories sprang up In almost every town
of any Importance on this part Of the
river. In Muscatine, Iowa, are twelve
factories. Large concerns in New York
and Chicago, which UP to this time had
imported shells, established branches for
the cutting Of button blanks, which were
packed and shipped to the city factories
to be faced and finished.
The first clam fisher who sold shells on
the Mississippi was Captain Fox, now one
of the largest dealers in shells on the river.
At that time he was keeper Of the govern
ment light Huron island, and as he
made his trips ne gathered shells for Mr..
Beopple who paid him at the rate OF $40
per ton for them. Equally good shells are
now sold at $11 to S14 per toni but the
present methods enable the fisher to take
more in am hour than he could at that
time In q day.
He now has q wide, fiat-bottomed row.
boat fitted with what clammers call a
"crowfoot dredge." This consists Of two
standards fastened firmly to the sides OF
the boat at each end. Resting In grooves
on these standards. and extending along
the sides Of the boat. gre two hollow metal
pipes-usually section Of gas-pipe Is
used for this purpose. On these pipes are
fastened many lines, from twelve to TWEEN
ty inches long. and on each line Is one or
more our-pronged, barbless hooks These
are known as 'crowfoot hooks" and are
simply pieces Of heavy wire cut the re-
CURED length and bent upward. These are
usually made by some one in the camp
fond of "puttering," who furnishes then
to his fellows for small sum-
The fisher in using the outfit, when he
has reached a desirable position, turns his
boat across the current and puts out his
drift board, which is a sheet anchor tha
keeps his little craft In position. He Their
drops first one bar and then the other
over the boats side. to which they are Sc
curely held by heavy lines. AS the boa
drifts slowly down stream the many hook!
dangling from these bars drag along tbs
river bed. p.
Nothing could be more uninviting thar
the big, rough. undated hooks, but they
serve their purpose as well as do the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01

Just how long the Father OF Waters can
stand this continual giving without getting
It Is not possible to say Clam fishing Is
by no means as profitable as it was a few
years ago, and each year tho fisher must
labor for smaller and yet smaller returns.
and elsewhere in this country are not pro-
tected, as they are In Europe, they will, Of
course, in time be exhausted There are,
however, great many shells, rejected
few years ago, that now, as the supply of
the more desirable kinds Is less, are being
used. Others still declined at the button
factories, no doubt later on will be accept
ed, as it requires only slight changes in
the machinery and more skilful workers
to utilize them. Great beds Of these, prin-
cipally the yellow sand SHE'LL have not an
yet been touched, and the pearls found in
these shells are beautiful In color and Of
brilliant luster.
s Miles from any town or railway It
would seem that the arcadian clammers
camp would be lonely and eventless; but
interest, like happiness, Is relative here
as elsewhere. The farmer comes down
the steep bluff road to bring supplies and
to get clam meats for his chickens and
pigs. There are rowboat journeys to the
town. An occasional visitor comes from
other camps, and now and again a steamer
puts In to land a pearl-buyer or some GU
rious stranger. The finding OF q good
pearl Is always a time Of excitement, and
the coming Of the shell-buyer. in his
naphtha launch, with its big barge in
tow, is an important event, since II bring.
| each fisher his wages.
These shell-buyers supply the button
factories located farther down tho river,
| at La Crosse, Muscatine, Clinton Dayen-
port and other points. Those factories
which are not connected with large con-
Germs In New York and Chicago finish
the buttons and ship them direct to whole
salers and jobbers. The. workers in each
Of these factories are paid, not for their
time, but for the work they do, and there
is much emulation among them as to the
amount each is able to earn in his par
ticular line In a day. From the man who
fishes the clans to the girl who sews the
finished button on the cards, these work
ers, and, all told. there are something
more than 10000 OF them, are happy and
satisfied. Over s2O,000,00 worth Of but
tons, up to the present time, have been
made from Mississippi river clam shells.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
THE tsCLAMMING" INDUSTRY
How the Material From Which Pearl Buttons Are Made Procured
The Hope Of the "Clammer, to Find Big PearHow the
Pearls Are Forned-Iife in Clam Town. ~

l<arsoL Magazine for July contains an In
dUstrial story of the clam fisheries Of the Mis-
8isissippi. This Is one Of series Of special
industrial articles that this magazine Is, among
other things noted for. The story itself deal
ing AS 1t does with subject little known to
many people, illustrates what 10 practically
modern industry and shows the danger OF 1t
being crippled unless something Is done to
regulate It.
Fir sh-water clam fishing is a unique
ocu.ation, since it insures modest in
come, and at the same time offers the
alurement Of a game Of chance In which
Is no risk. It Is the shell, in which the
clam has his singularly wise yet stupid
being, that insures the fisher an income.
These are used for making pearl buttons
and 1.-The clammer, as he Is called, gets
from So to $50 ton for them. Like other
commodities, the price fluctuates with tho
supply and demand. There is also a
great difference in the value Of the varl-
Gus kinds Of shells. and 1t Is safe to say
that there are as many varieties OF CLAIMS
as OF fish In the waters from which they
are taken.
From the sale Of the shells the clam
fisher averages, taking the summer thru,
a wage Of from 81 to 81 a day. In add
ton to this, there Is scarcely day that
he does not find baroque and seed pearls
OF more or less value. The uncertainty
us to these values, and the ever-present,
enticing possibility of finding a pearl Of
fascination that lures the gambler.
This industry-for, tho peculiar 1t is
a recognized industry-is of comparative
ly recent origin. The story Of it's begin
ming Is that about twelve years ago a
German. who knew something Of pearl
button making, was gathering clans for
fish bait along the shore Of the MisSis-
sippi river. In the vicinity of Huron island.
AS he took out the clans he observed that
the mother Of pearl lining Of the shells
was particularly fine In color, texture and
luster In considering this, 1t occurred to
him that the shells might be utilized, and
he sent few of them to q friend in Hol-
stein, Germany, who was an expert pearl
button maker
This friend, M. J. Beopple. at once rec
ognized In them a fine material for but
tons, and decided to come to this country
for the express purpose Of utilizing them.
He arrived here in 1890, and, single
handed and alone, began the manufacture
of pearl buttons from Mississippi river
clam shells. He invented a circular saw
for cutting the shells into neat pieces
known as button blanks, but the grinding
of these to the required thickness, the
facing. drilling. and polishing, which in
factories Is done by means Of chemicals
and machinery, Mr. Beopple did by hand
He also. In the beginning, gathered the
shells. raktng the olalns from the shall
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
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Get NpOvS the Level OF IIS oSds 3.
"or May 81. when the volcano lost nearly
200 feet of its summit. the apex reached the
$500 feet. At the present time 1t rises slight
ly above 5000 feet On the four days pre-
ceding June IT the rise of the tower was
extrusien was nearly twice as rapid. On the
day preceding my departure a faint line OF
steam was seen issuing from the absolute
| apex, showing the assures and passages that
exist In the mass which permit the interior
steam to travel thru completely from the base
to the summit.
"Geologists will continue to watch with
extreme interest the development of this
remarkable structure and to follow the career
| Of the great volcano which has plugged or
corked itself. How the present degrees Of
erupttve activity of Mt. Pelee stand In rela-
ton with the symptoms of unrest that are
manifesting themselves in one or other Of the
neighborng islands, in Guadalupe, Is also
a question that may find it's solution at not
very distant day."
WHEN THE CONE EnPLODEs.
Professor Feilprin, when asked whether the
| area OF devastation OF the volcano had in
| creased and what the inhabitants on the
slopes of Mont Pelee were doing, said:
| 'Of course, material from the cone keeps
| on failing down the slopes and in patches
covers up the formerly fertile soil. Many
plantations, however, are maintained on the
| ere in quite quandry as to what to do
| for the local scientific representative Of the
French government from time to time advises
them to flee as he believes there Is no safe
ty in the shadow of the great cone. They
however, prefer to stay and when they asked
to say. They may be safe, but the question
continually arises, where will the ruin stoI
when the great cone explodes as whole, al
undoubtedly it will do some day."
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
.WHISKEY AND BEER HABIT
PERMANENTLY CURED BY
sfORRANE"

: Physicians and scientists throughout tho
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a disease of the nervous system, creating
as to the kind of drink that will satisfy this
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Mr.. Z. T. Sims, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes I:
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01

Philadelphia Press.
Fresh from what he terms the most Won
derful spectacle nature has ever presented,
Professor Angelo Helprin is back in Phil
adelph1a after a two months visit to Mont
Peee on the Island of Martinique. He
calls 1t the greatest volcanic show on earth,
and, to use his own epigrammatic and pic
raised up Natures monument to the dead.
THE NEW CONE. .
Mt. Pelse differs from most volcanoes in
having no central chimney, the discharges
taking place from assures in the core It
self, which core is continually being pushed
der. In spite of this disruption Of the
conc, however, it steadily grew In height I'M
til early winter, when 1t had reached
height Of 800 feet.
Since May Professor Heilpr1n has spent
nearly two months in the Island of Mar
Unique studying the phenomena In connec-
ton with the volcano, and on being seen by
reporter of tho Press yesterday, he said
1.-THE disting gushing features of Mt Pelee,
and that which makes this volcano unique
among the volcanoes of the world, Is the giant
tower or obelisk Of rock which Is being ex-
cone, and which obelisk now rises up In SUI
preme grandeur $40 feet above the summit
of the cone proper, with thickness at the
base of from 300 to $50 feet. @
A MAGNIFICENT EFFECT.
Zone can form no conception of its mag.
nifcence and terrorizing aspect. The old
summit OF Mt. Pelee. which was rounded
and about 1900 feet high, Is now overtopped
by this new creation by nearly 1000 feet, SO
the old dome. is found at g. height Of $500
feet above the sea- and the cone, together
with its surmounted obelisk, has still sur
rounding it a crater basin of about 300 feet
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
BOTH WRONG.

Philadelphia LEDGER
Isn't 1t ridiculous to call sleeping ears sleep.
eyes, that's way off,"
Because It isn't the cars that are slsspsrs
but the people who occupy them"
That's where you're way of. Evidently yor
never tried to sleep in one."r s77,-' - 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01

In Berlin insane asylum is a patient, It Is
said, whose hair changes color with
her hair is a light yellow, but when she 81 rert
less and excited 1t becomes auburn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
MARGARET KNEW.

margaret think you cheaper yourself by
going much to the theaters with Mr.. Jones'"
mo, mother. On the contrary, I'm making
myself very DEAR
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-01
A MAGNATE.
New York SIM

us he very r1ch?"
erich? Why. he's so rich he daren't look
twice at girl for fear she'll bring breach Of
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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-11-27

AS a rule. ! do not begin a book un.
Ill II is finished" the elder Dumas used
often 20 say. And certainly the pace
at which he put his works on paper
seems TO bear out the statement. No
fewer than sixty volumes Of his ap-
pcared within a single year. a record
probably never equaled before or since.
on one occasion he made a wager Of
EioO that he would write the first vol
N of n new book he had planned
within seventy-two hours, including
the time for meals and sleep. TIE work
was to occupy seventy-fve large fools
cap pages. each page containing forty
i've lines and each line fifty letters-a
total Of 1915 lines. He won the bet
with ridiculous ease. accomplishing the
task in six hours less than the specified
time
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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-11-27

The first patron Of patent system
was Thomas jefferson. who during
three years gave his personal attention
10 every application for a patent. He
used to call the secretary Of a and
die attorney general 10 examine and
scrutinize with him. and they did * so
thoroughly that in one year-the first
they granted only three patents. The
very first patent of all was given TO
Samuel Hopkins in 1870 for pearl ash
es. Mr.. jefferson held that the patent
system was not one for creating rev
enue. but for encouraging a production
of that which is 10 be of benefit to the
whole people. In the first twelve years
a single clerk in the state department
and a few p~igeonholes were all that
the business OF the Office required.
Then a Or. Thornton took charge of it
and devoted himself TO il as 10 a hobby.
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md you are saved the trouble of writ
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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-11-27

A violinist says spiders are notori-
ously and historically fond of music.
At one Of his performances the concert
hall was made disagreeable by a sud
den invasion OF spiders, which We're
drawn By his violin out from the
cracks and crannies Of the ancient
building. They crawled about the floor
and on to the stage. and he could see
the annoyed audience stamping on the
insects. The writer adds that he has
known q small garden snake TO be at
tracted by piano playing and a young
calf to whisk his tail and prance about
most gleefully at the first notes of q
French horn. His neck would curve
about proudly. his hoofs tread lightly
and his ears wag joyously when the
footing began, and he never quoted
down till the music ceased.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-11-27

Botanists and others who have made
a life study Of flowers have recently
discovered that the perfume Of bios
SONS is often increased by growing
:hem under colored glass. They state
also that some plants are fragrant only
at night and others only in the hot
sunshine. that the season affects the
odors and that some perfumes power
fully affect the human organization
sometimes giving rise to serious nerv-
Gus troubles. Flowers Of delicate per
fume quiet tie aerves of invalids, it is
asserted. but the violet. lily of the val
ley and carnations are really harmful
70 the sick.
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Wines and Liquors

The Leader saloon desires to in
.orm the public that it is now pre-
pared to fill all orders for choice
foods called for by family trade. A
Jew stock of carefully selected wines
nd liquors for the holiday season has
lust been received. Choice claret
rom 25c a quart up; the finest grade
u WHISTLES. 81 per quart and up. Port,
angelica, Sherry and Muscatel, the
choicest in the market, at wholesale
prices during the holidays. Orders left
or family trade will receive prompt
attention. n24tf
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HOw'S Your Wardrobe?

Good dressers should bear in mind
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Notice to Water Consumers

Beginning with July 16, and con
lnulng until further notice. water will
e shut on from Second, Third. Fourth
nd Railroad streets from IL noon tc
p. M. and from 8 p. N. to 6 a. m.
All other patrons are hereby noti-
Led 10 not 9 water for irrigating
IMPOSES between the III of 6 p. IN.
md 8 a. M. or it will be necessary
0 shut of the water supply from the
own at night.
W.. l.. AKIN. Supt. W. W. & L. Co.