Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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New Methods Have Chanced the W?lk of ?atheiing. PEARLER WELL EQUIPPED With a Suit of India Rubbert Coppei lirons lu?alas, and Leuden Weight! Ho Descern?s (o UK* IJolloiii of UK Ben-Spends From Six io Kighi Hein -, Xl i ere. Tho Servilia pearl given by Jullul | Causar to Brutus' mother waa ?aid tc luivo been worth ? 175,001?, saya Lon don Tit-Iii ta. For H pearl an incl) in diameter a Persian Bilah ol' th?' seventeenth century ls said to hav< puid (320,000. The pearl market in somewhat lower nowadays, but pricer ure still high enough to make tiivinji profitable. The ern of naked divots exposed to peril from sharks has passed away. Modern progress equips lit? pearler with a suit ot' india rubber, copper breastplate, with leaden weights buck and trout; helmet, nias* panelled and willi telephonic attach menta; air pipes, life lines and ;> submarine searchlight, 'rims equip ped the pearl diver may spend six o: eight hours al the bottom ol the sea, whereas in olden limes three mi au toi made a record. Although pearls are found in neal'" ly all mollusks and even in univulvcr like the Australian halletts, a kind ot barnacle, true pearls arc produced only by the pearl oyster or mot bei ol pearl shell. The latter is rouilj the diver's bread anil hinter. Tilt sholls ai o as big as dinner platCB an.' weigh l\.o pounds when cleaned j They fetch from $?.00 to $7;".0 a loll The ancient fisheries were ch le ll) I In tho Iudiatl Ocean and Persian (Jilli but nowadays the best pearls com; from Coy i o ii and from Australian waters, especially Torres Strait: Pearl hali.og in Ceylon ls a govern mont monopoly, In March Um Heel ?tarts for tue pearling grounds, eaell vessel with tWenty or thlrtj div erk ? and their assistants. Uni th? head" ! quarters oi pearling arc? tc bu lo cud in the de dato Country extending from lOxn.muli Gulf lo Kine Soi.nu lu Western Austin lia. A gllsl. mug while coast lino i> thia, whoa? monotony ls broken onlj by mango .tinged salt ivntei creen and scorching deserts ol' spinifex anti sand, Lon,, before inland g<dd a Chinese nn?i Malays IIB ... mi ut | tribes of native black lollo.ws there to-day, but Oe old nude ii ly* ors, the reign of terror and ptracv when a largo haul was made lim... and similar conditions have p.i.vi;,, away, giving place to Hems and I ig gcrs carrying modern diving nullit* and ropresontatlves ol the Ineyitnbh capitalist In the person ol tin- masiei pearlers. Here aie six hundred julies ol' coast line, with perhaps ii\? thousand hardy adventurer! m./ m ed in the pearl trade. There aro some thousands ol' .lap ane.se, Manilamcn, Malays and men ol oilier races acting chiolly tis ere., for the vessels. The vesacls an schooner rigged and from seven m fountoen tons burden. Kaell carrie' li master diver and a crew ol' foul one ot' whom ls til?* diver's usslstaill and works the air pumps. Another holds the life line and pays ultnillloi to slguala; another is catching lisii or peeling potatoes for dinner, an . it may be a third has gone off in tin dingey for fresh water ami lire wood Th? sludls aro lound ou ledger ?bout nlnet) feet down in tho ,-:e? but they aro far moro plentiful ai greater depth. Fortune awaits th? inventor ol' a diving apparatus which will enable the pearler to work in comfort one hundred fathoms down Tho lugger bas a low freeboard KI allow the diver with his heavy dress and gear to bo easily hauled m board ile earrie? a net holding '! sh. ils tv ill! Iii III . a nd U hen i il i. lull be bas lt hauled up so that A:' himself may run no risk ol entang ling lifo lino or air pipe, When tho pearler works al, suv twenty fathoms he moves easily, not withstanding his forty-pound boots, amid groves of coral trees, Interlac ed with fluttering, fern-like plants, among whoso branches swim gorge ous tropical fish and sinister water Bankes, which neem to resent the In trudion of so strange a monster. A good day's work ls anything moro than two hundred pairs of sholls. Tho business ls absolutely speculative. One diver may gathei ton after ton of shells without so ctirlng anything of greater valu, than a few seed pearls, while an other may tako a fortune < ut in a day's gathering. Tho most famous pearl (IISCOVCI cd In Australia of late years ts known lui the Southern Cross. lt consists of a cluster of nine pearls in tim shape of a cross 'rbis freak of na turo was picked up at low water on the Lad pode Island liv a beacbconib ei flamed Clark, who, after burying lt for some time for superstitious remains, sold It for $?0; later, ii brought $f>0,000. Tho pearl diver of to-day, protect ed as he ls by every dei Ice known to modern submarine engineering, lu exposed to many perils. He may IOHO his life by the tearing of hi? dress upon tho aharp coral rocks. 8RNT HACK HOME. Thc Time? Says Florence Police Aid in Rescue Work. The Florence Times soys a very sud on an wah brought to Um ut lon lion of tho town authorities there Sunday morning when two young girls. Mag gie Smith and Idilio Campbell, ages about IG and 18 yours appealed to tho police to help thom got back to their home in Columbia. Lillie. Campbell told tho story to Officer Cain of how she and her friend had boon pursuuded to como to Florence by a woman who lived there. Saying that everything had hoon misrepresented to them. They wore told that this was a linc place to Uvo and that they could easily obtain employment ?nd would gol along well. Lillie accepted her story and came down her?; with this woman Friday. When they arrived al this womat) s house they at once realized Hutt they could nojt bo satisfied tit such a pl ac?. They became dissatisfied and wuntcd to leave and were ill treated ly I lils woman who tried to force then-, lu stay. They said that I hey were de termined to leave that place and go back to their people in Columbia if possible. They went to the residence of ll citizen about IO o'clock Saturday night and were allowed lo Bpend thc night. The nexl morning their case was reported to the police and tho result of tho whole thing was thal the woman who had pursuaded them to come down ben- was made lo pay their way back to Columbia. ?JOHNSON'S PLATFORM. Please Wall Street and Hie Thieving Trusts. The Springfield Republican says Hie plat lot in adopted liv (lie Minne sola Democrats in placing Gov. John son before the conni ry as a Presiden tial candidate, is manifestly keyed lo soil (le- Rastern and Southern inn serval ive wing of Hie parly, while containing coin pli men I s and conces sions calculated to conc?tate the fol low (hu. bf Mr. Bryan. No one who was ignorant of Hov Johnson's re cord in Minnesota would know fro ni this pla! foi ni bow much of a radii al ho hud boon in his present olllce, for Hie platform contains., ne bim ol' some of the policies which, as Gov ernor, be bas advocated. This appeal to lite conservai ive liol hy compel mu willi Mr Divan in lils own line, inn by ?ottIn? himself ni' as a contrast. Hov. Johnson's Presidential candidacy had KM origin In thc growing desperation of those Democrais who could liol endure the though! of (mother Brynn candi.luci or the though! of Bryan in Hie SViii'i House, and Ks cluer dynamic force hs derived from Ibo bitterness fell foi Bryan b> tho elements represented most conspicuously bj tho New Vork World. Th<' Johnson plat loi in will not displease those elements, They are making a stubborn coolest in the hope ol' laking advantage of the two thirds rule, and il is upon thai aloin that, practical!} spooking; Gov. John son's hopes now rest. NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS COSTLY. .Amounts spent by Parties iii Presi dential election Veal's. Recent debates in Congres.- on a national puhlicit.v bill have revealed some Interesting facts, not the leasjl of these being thal as far back n* 1SG0. winn Lincoln and Douglass were Hie opposing candidates ol' Hie Republican and Democratic parties respectively, tremendous amounis of money were expended for campaign purposes. in only two Presidential elections sice 1S If Cl has thc R?pub licain Miein les;' :|r ?i Hie Dnnio?i'nls Those two y ba i's were i"i INN,, when James G. Blaine and Grover Clove land were Hie candidates, and in I s ; 12. when Harrison and Cleveland were Hie nominees ol' theil' party. Tho following, which is believed lo ho as accurate as il is possible lo make it, shows the tot ii I expendi tures of boih the Republican and the Democratic parties since i860: I860, Abraham Lincoln. ?I0O. OOO; Douglass, $50,000. I 80 I, Abraham Lincoln; $ i 25,000 . McClellan. $50,000, I ses, ?. s. Grant, $150,0001 Sey mour, $75,000. IK?L', U. S. Crant, $250,000; Hor ace Creely, $50,060, I 870, lt. .15. liayi s. $050,000; Til don, $000,000, issn, Garfield, $1,100,000; Han cock, $355,000, ISSI, James c. Blain, $ 1,300,000; Cleveland, $ 1,400,000. I SILL Harrison, $1,850,000; (Move land. $2,350,000. 1806, McKinley, $16,500,000; Rrj an, $<;7.'.,000. 1000, McKinley, $0,500,000; Dry an, $425,000. 1004, Roosevelt, $8,1500,000 Par ker, $1,250,000. * "What made you kick Jimpson?" "Ile called me an ass." "Oh, weil, kicking is a character istic of asses, but I shouldn't think you'd want to confirm Jin p.'on's statement so quickly," * xo so.VT? Ni:?:i>Tr> vi DA: DJ cr Wonderful Spring lb?}. Cnlh'orat. Desert-Kl as? lc i .ottom. m>*\ in i\iif Californio d?-?ert; if-' ir '< (ro.ni ' s A IR; le'j. an J sri; tn : ' fro tV'?i Hf o:' the BH'S'*?1!III li. t? i i>.i;rc..'. art t.ic. leiiiu.i:!" o win ; was <>nc* tho ''tYarcH'ii of IO?* Som*; twf nty-llvo year?i ago so.no S: Lot i. Mr! i??vat:avilly capitalists cor .oiv I li? Ultu that tho desert tan. coule u<) nilli ed, and by Irriga ?u-' could be made a groat fruit-pro 'tic ing country. Accordingly they pet out an Im mense orchard of young tree*- -api <:ot. lemon, orango and citron bull' substantial bu Hollian for their over seer ?nd workmen, laid artificial walks and tieauilficd the ground w tb shrubbery and flowers. The) made a contract with n com pan, which owned a reservoir on tlc San Bernardino mountains, and soon Mi liquid life from the uplands wai flowing into the garden, beautifying and transforming every growlr.': tiling. rbis wont on for several yea?' and from that sandy wa i' grew Into promis ? and beauty, a love ly orelia rd. So V>M"-'!"O v>r'? t'm pro niel e**? thal lbey Incurred tho expenso ot' a narrow guage railway from their properly Mo tho Southern Pacific, making connection at Palms Sprin *. Stalle.i. The grove was now at al un: tho hearing point and thc luve: lors were looking forward to quick dividends, when, ns a result pl an altercation between tho grovo owner i a ti 'in? water company, thc latter cul oft tile water supply, and lou;, heft the matter could lie adjusted by tiie courts tin- (lowers had with e.- >c\ t lie t rees had dled and t he win.le estate had reverted to He desi i with otily the stump of a tree 1 re and there to point the mora' and adoi a i he (ale." A few miles from this wreck, saya i ho Louisville "Courier-Journal.'' around the spur of a mountain, ls a little rn ll ey j owned hy n canny Scotchman, Dr. Murray. The doctor has .nought tl ?> water from th m mululu nefir by and has created ali 'onsj. ju the desi rt.*' ile has about ten acres In orange . ned alfalfa, anti nothing could bu , nt pleasant to tho eye, after ran" lng over a sandy waste, than thi' rdia rm lng Utile valley. An Indian reservation adjoins thc doctor's ranch, and from thom hu lea ie -vu SI Oil pei n ti mi ut. a rare ?sprillg. The pool formed hy thi-' pun.; ls about as largo as a good \/> i! room and is covered hy a ruin -lia. !. The uniform temperature ol ibo water i^ inn detr rees, and it \i you aie apj'?reiitly in water about ? S in.-, e.- deep,. Al! al on fi a rip;.it ito s over the surface, much as if t ie.- nad boon thrown in. and no.ti on \ou not Ice the sand has opened, disclosing a hole as large as the cir inferencia of vom- hod v. but li o VJ . > ?a are frtj i tl tn think. itv,} the dorter culla there ls. ml d'jilger and yoi like your life ?il niiig hands and plunge in. Down you go up to your neck, and, fenri?t;| a k|tllcl, sand, you call out to the doe. w>t ion h? s.niling Import urhly, i.i > \ o i keep quiet ti ucl await results. Presently you feel a soft, im ;? t . non tho soles ol' your feel, ai 1 -'owly but Irresistibly you feel you si lt' being forced to the surface. Wlt'i in thc space of tbiee minutes yin are ugnlti standing in eighteen In he', of waler, and the bole hits disappear o', only to appear a tew feet further on. ? ou hasten to lt, plunge In timi a nhl reach the surface as before, Oill) om- ludo is formed .'it a tillie lind between ti- closing of one an I the appearing of another, there H nu Interval of about five minutes. In ihi? wonderful hath you dd not I'Oijr'fO any brush or soap, but when ..m come out your skin is smooth and spotless, here anti there appenr llig upon your bod) minute scale: nf s lien After dnshlng n hucket of d water over VOU you tool wonder full) Invigorated and refreshed. People come hundreds of miles to ho i. . .iCs?e beal'nu waters-, dud I he doctor could only move tin; pring to Los Angeles ho could tn a kn h.r- fortune in a few years. TbC In linns Mho Mission tribe? attach g rent value to tho water nnd uso Hie overflow of the pool for bathing and drinking purposes. lt. S. Cemetery in .Mexico. '".'hough very few people aro aware il the lac'," said nu army ofllcer thu ?tiler day. "the l ulled Stales (?nv ?Min .-ni owns and maintains anallen ?il cemetery in Mexico, ii ih locate I ?il Sn ll Cosme mar the City of Moxl .o, nutt was purchased and establish* d in tho year iNf.u for the purpose ,f Interring tho remains of soldiers if tho United Slates who died Ol' .vere killed in that vicinity (lil ri HU ho war with Mexico and also for 111 terring the bodies of citizens of tho tinted States who have died in thal vicinity since that period." "Seo here," asked Hm caution:) stranger, "if I decide to slay herc for i week, how much is lt going' lo cost 'ne? ' "You can answer that bc t ?.ourself," replied the clerk of tim |>'l.M da lietel, "Hov much have yon -, >V!"- Philadelphia Press. (inmigration has almost stoppet, lt ls reported from the East. Ho lo.qi an lt Wrings in Black Ifnnd gauge i| seems d?sirable to havo it cons? ab together, I Actaeon's "Ogs Again. The Socialists of tho Eighth Con gressional district, of Ohio, aro jub ilant over tho nows that two English duchesses have agreed to stump that fl IM riet in the interest of their can didate f<.'t' Oont',rea.v. Tno?c <;uen .j&Si?s have plenty o? money and Hu ent tongues, find will appeal espec ially to thc negro voters. There ad vent bodes no good for the Republi cans of Ohio. The negroes are among the most susceptible people in the world to the influence of mon ey, line clothes, and fine phrases. They may yet be drawn into the ranks of the Socialist party, which was born of the protective policy of the Republican)?. And, in that case, we shall have another instance of Ac teon devoured by his own dogs. We Shall Sec. The Charleston Evening Post says it does not believe that a serious ef fort will be made to pass, thc bill reducing thc repr?sentation of the South in Congress and the Electoral College because the more liberal minded people of the North, though they do not altogether understand our problem, have an instinctivesym pathy with us in our efforts to solve it and do not wish to make it more difficult than it is by nature, and public sentiment will not support an undertaking to punish the South for maintaining the barriers of race integrity. The Post thinks the Crumpacker amendment was passed alibis time for campaign purposes ar.d it would not be s uri ritt d if it acted as a boomerang upon the Republican party by arraying against it intelli gent men who do not. approve of playing with sole mn thingsand who do not favor oppression of the South for its'refusal to \ield an in stinct that is ce n mon to all white men of right mind in thc land. The Republicans have no serious notion of enacting this amend ment Into law at this time. It was passed by thc Republican Congress men as a feek r, M d if they win the fall elections by decisive majorities, they will accept that os an endorse ment of theil war on the South and proceed to er act the amendment in instructed their active agents, me Republicen porty, to r< h the D?mo cratie South vi ( v.o third (f its rep resentation in Congress and the Electoral College and thereby ma terially lessen the ehti.ee of the govcrr.ment falling into the hands of Hie people. But as the Pest says it will prove a I o< n erai g. 'Jin-: Republicans say tl.ev will re vise the tarill' after the election. They want to wait and see how lib erally the trusts will contribute to the campaign fund so as they con be rewarded according to their liberal ity in furnishing money to defeat lilyan at the polls in November. IT is about fixed that Taft will be nominated for President on the first ballot by the Republicans. He may lack a few votes now, but he will tap a fresh barrel at the con vention and the colored delegates from Die South will fal) over one another in an effort to got to the pie counter. SENATOR Tillman's contention that the solution of the lace prob lem is the disfranchisement of the negro has been enclosed by every Republican Congressman by voting ti rechice the Scuth'fi representa tion in Congress and the Electoral College because of the property and educational qualification for voters in this section. 'Jin: so-called currency bill as pas sed by ('e ngross was fixed up by the conference committee . to suit Wall Street and tho frenzied finan ciers, So these enemies of the pub liol have things in their own hands. WK would rather lose one-half of our Congressmen and half of our representation in the Electoral Col lege than to nee the return of the days of "good stealing" that held sway in the days of the carpet-bag ger and scnllnwag. THE prese nt Congress has done nothing for the people of real value. It stood pat arel squandered over one billion dollars. DON'T discourage the boy when he comes to you with his eau s or trou bles. Sympathize with^him, and thanktjod he confides in >ou. TlIE sweetest, purest ornament tnat a woman can wear, and of which she SI should feel proudest, is the clinging I necklace of her baby's arms. Wan-in;* on tho Mouth. Thc passage by the House of Rep resentatives on Fr ?day of au amend ment to the publicity bill providing for a reduction in Congress and in t.be Electoral CoUeg? nf the reprc s< ntativee nf those Stau.i winch ai.ridge thc suffrage in violation of the fourte? nth amendment to the Constitution is u direct blow at the South. The measure will not be come a law at this session, but if the Republicans carry the elections this tail with decisivo majorities they will no doubt pass this measure as a punishment to the South for not voting the Republican ticket and helping that party uphold the Trusts and other diabolical schemes for rob bing the people. This is the first deli mite step taken to enforce the alter native provision of the fourteenth amendment since the failure of the main provision of that amendment in thc killing of the force bill several years ago. The adoption of this amendment s a concession to the sentiment of thc South on the race question and agrees with Senator Tillman's con tention that the negroes .should be disfranchised, its adoption by the Republicans would be an acknow ledgment on their part of their abandonment of the negro, as well as thc abandonment by the Federal government of the undertaking to enforce negro suffrage in the South ern States. This solution of the race question has no terrors for the South. As it has been said frequent ly this section is prepared and is willing to pay the price of maintain ing white supremacy in politics, to the extent of conceding a reduction of its representation in the national government. This abandonment of the negro in the South by the Re publican party means his ultimate disfranchisement and loss of all poli tical rights by the enactment of new laws on the subject. "If the worst conies to the South in a choice between negro suffrage and reduction of representation, there will be no hesitation on its part in choosing to be shorn of a part of its political power in the na tion rather than to share that and H.. V?r>?>>r? (fnimrnyy\(%T)f ?r> ..w.ll tvith and progress to such a pei pie as those who have redeemed the South ern States and have made them to ilourish and grow rich in the face of terrific odds. But iho Trusts are badly frightened ami it is no telling what they may do to perpetuate their power in the government. If they order the Republican party to make a political raid on the South or have their campaign contribu tions shut off tiley will make the raid. So we need not bo surprised at any thing tho Republican party does to please its lords and masters, the iniquitous and theiving Trusts, itogua Iteiorm. One of the chief clauses of the railroad rate law passed by the last Congress was "the commodity clause" which wont into efi'ect on May 1 of this year. There has evidently been collusion be tween President Roosevelt, his Attorney-General, and thc Interstate Commerce Commission to nullify tho clause by refusing to prosecute those railroads which are openly dis obeying the law. Tlie provision that railroads after May 1 could not, without being law-breakers own or sell commodities Which they controlled, was intended especially to cover thc mining and selling of coal by the so-called coal roads. That provision was added to the law in defference to the united pub lic opinion that for the railroads to own and also transport coal was a monopoly that was undesirable and added greatly to thc cost of coal to the people. When the law was un der consideration by Congress, Pres ident Roosevelt and a majority of the Republicans in Congress were insistent that the commodity clause should be added to the law. But the law is a dead letter, and has been nullified by the Executive of ficers of tho government refusing to enforce it. Yet the Republicans claim to be reformers. Tn KKK is a good deal of talk about idle money, but it is all nonsense. lt is just about as hard to get a dol lar now as it was when the panic was in full blast. THE negro can now see how much thc great Republican party cares for him. Fvery Congressman of that party has voted to abandon tho negro to his political fate in thc South. Haired tu Deutli. Some of the Republican members of Congress fron? close and doubtful districts are almost neared to death at their political prospects because of the do-nothing record of Congress. Som?' of the Western members were so frustrated that they pre sented an ultimatum to Speaker Ca'.non, the diclutor of (he Republi can party, that they would join tho Democrats in voling not to adjourn unless an anti injunction bill was re ported from the Committee on the Judieiacy and an opportunity given to vote up">n it. They also demanded that they be allowed to make an ef fort to save their political scalps by, being allowed to vote for the pas sage of the campaign publicity bill which was before the House on a favorable report. The Republican leaders immediately got together and agreed to lot tho last bi*. I come to a vote but so loaded dow ; with absurd amendments that it would have no chance to pass even if the Senate would stop to consider it at this late stage of the session. So this bi il was allowed to come to a vote on Friday with an amendment that the vote of the South be cut down because of the disfran chisement of the negro vote in this section. Cannon and the other conspirators knew that the Senate would have the excuse of not having sufficient time to consider such a measure at this time, so the bill will have to go over as Cannon knew it would when he allowed it to come to a vote in the House. Wall Street Hupports Taft. ^ There may be some doubt about how great the revolt of labor will be against Secretary Taft, but that Wall Street interests will warmly support him with its money and votes seem certain. That represen tative Wall Street banker, Jacob H. Schiff, the partner of that "male factor of great wealth," Mr. Hard man, has accepted the Vice-Presi dency of the Taft organization of the vState of New York. He declares, "that with a rigid insistance for due and proper regard of the law, all classes of our citizens will, with Mr. Tuft ns President heeome readily receive the united support of the Wall Street influence, and that bankers und railroad managers will vie with each other in filling the "dough-bags" of the Republican putty. The malefactors of great wealth have evidently as Mr. SccifT says: "Become readily convinced that they 'will be safe' in the hands of Taft." Thc Spurious Congress. The Sixtieth Congress will pass in to history as the Spurious Congress. It has done nothing worthy of a great representative body. In its appropriations, it has been more ex travagant, than any of its predeces sors, and will leave the government $60,000,000 in arrears on the first day of Julv next, and $100,000,000 in arrears on .luly 1,1909, soithat money will have to be borrowed even for running expenses. It has refused to modify the tariff even on wood pulp and print paper, lt has enacted currency legislation of the worst possible type, legislation not in favor of the interests of the peo ple at large but of Wall Street. It has upheld the President in his wild and dangerous assertion of the su premacy ol Ute military over the civil power. Its sins of commission and its sins of ommission are equal ly flagrant, because both are as bad as possible. Its early adjourn ment should be welcomed by the American people. The only defect in our Constitution is that it re quires this Congress to meet again before its dissolution. A Itoforinor Quizzed. A very pertinent question was asked Mcdill McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune by Representative Ryan, a Democratic member of the Committee investigating the Paper Trust. "If similar couditionsshould be shown to exist in other industries should the tariff affecting them not be revised also?" Mr. McCormick declined to express an opinion other than through the editorial columns of thc Tribune. As the Tribune has been noted for exploiting I tariff reform in "off years" and then sup porting standpatters for election, it really hinders tari if revision more than helping it. Thero takes place many a slip aftor thc cup has hoon to the lip.