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Show 0 a jo? your lite you wish to apologize to me. There is no occasion. I would do as much for a dog." "Then the chief walked quietly away and refused to listen to anything further. But he told his friends among the pearl divers how he had been treated and after that the Scotsman Scots-man found it almost impossible to buy pearls at any price. Within a few months he had left the islands for good and gone back to England. "The native divers all work for themselves and sell what they find to the highest bidden among the dealers. They go out two or three in a boat to spots where the water is from six- . I Monsieur Henri Barceaux was in this country recently on his way home from Paris to the South Sea Islands. Though a native of the French capital M. Barceaux has little in common with the inhabitants of any great city. the men who daily risk their lives In the work. Often they are abused and imposed upon by the whites, and yet, almost without exception, they retain what might be called an ideal Christian Christ-ian attitude of mind. If a dealer cheats one of the native divers, for instance, in-stance, the native will not attempt to 'get even' in any way. He will, however, how-ever, go to the man who has defrauded defraud-ed him, and state the case in a mild and gentle way, thereafter refusing to have any business dealings with the delinquent. As nearly as I can judge these natives are ideal gentlemen. gentle-men. "There was a crabbed old Scotsman who came out to the islands a few years ago to buy pearls. He thought it legitimate to take advantage of the natives in any way he could and once he swindled a native chief out of more than half the value of a considerable consid-erable collection of pearls. The chief said nothing, but waited his opportunity. opportun-ity. Finally, one day the Scotsman wanted to be rowed over to a neighboring neigh-boring island and could find nobody to make the trip but the old chief, who at once, when asked, agreed to take him over in his canoe. Once out on the water the chief freed his mind, telling the Scotsman that he knew he had been defrauded and saying that a man who came from a Christian 1 ' Jfe far,. SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS DIVING FOR PEARLS. ' i WISCONSIN PEARL HUNTERS AT , WORIC except the desire to make money and plenty of it. At his island home in Tahiti, In Paris and in New York, he Is known as a dealer In pearls, which he buys from the native pearl divers and sells to the jewelers of the great capitals. M. Barceaux stopped off in Chicago for a few days and made an excursion up into Wisconsin to look into the pearl fisheries of the Inland rivers and creeks of which he has heard so much. Personally M. Barceaux looks least of all like the popular idea of a Frenchman. He is a huge fellow, more than six feet tall, and both his hair and his beard are yellow. He speaks English with only the slightest slight-est accent. Incidentally he told interesting inter-esting things about the brown skinned divers who bring up the pearls-bearing bivalves from the bottom of the South Pacific. "As I suppose everybody knows," he said to a reporter In Chicago, "pearls are now the most fashionable and popular of jewels and have Immensely Im-mensely Increased in value within a few years. Also I believe they are yearly growing harder to get, so that ty to 100 feet deep, Without doming of any kind on the diver drops over the side of the boat, his feet resting on a heavy stone which is fastened to a rope. When they are ten or fifteen feet from the bottom they dive off the stone head foremost, and so reach the bottom, where they grope around for the precious shells. The first shell a diver secures he places under his left arm, the second he holds in his left hand, and the others, if he is fortunate fortun-ate enough to get more, he carries like an armful of stove wood in his left arm. Then, swimming with his right arm and his feet, he comes to the top and Is lifted into the boat. "I have lived in Tahiti sixteen years. All my children have been born there and it is home to all of us. Even la belle Paris has not such attractions for me as my far off island home. Life and property ar perfectly secure there. In fact, the only demoralizing influence is the greedy and domineering domineer-ing white man. No where else in the world have I found such unselfishness and such gentle manners." PREPARING PEARLS FOR JEWELERS. country ought not to stoop to rob a poor heathen. The Scotsman grew angry and abused the native shamefully, shame-fully, as he himself, afterward admitted. ad-mitted. To this abuse the chief made no answer, maintaining a dignified silence. "While the canoe was still two miles from land a sudden and violent storm swept up and struck the frail boat. In spite of the efforts of the native the craft was overturned and both of the occupants thrown into the water. The Scotsman could not swim and felt sure that he would be drowned, but, to his great surprise, the native chief swam at once to his side, told him to lie over on his back and placed his own hand under him, so that his head was kept out of the water. Thus handicapped the natives swam a distance dis-tance of almost two miles, finally landing the exhausted and almost unconscious un-conscious Scotsman on the sandy beach, where he left him and went to give warning to his friends. After the Scotsman had recovered he sought out the chief and tried to apologize to him. But the native would not listen lis-ten to him. " 'You cheated and robbed me,' said the native calmly. 'When I complained complain-ed you abused me. Because I saved THUS HANDICAPPED THE NATIVE SWAM ALMOST TWO MILES, the increase in price is perhaps natural. nat-ural. , . "The most remarkable thing about the pearl fisheries In the South Sea islands is the beautiful character of |