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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-08

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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04
NEIHART, MONTANA, JUNE 4. 1898.

stars or dimmed the lustre of his early
fame blythe furnishing of his own smoke.
How much truer is the verdict of
posterity. than the illconsidered and
shallow opinions of the present.
The biase1 historian sees, but does not
recognize, many such heroes who are
daily performing acts Of heroism of
which the world may never know.
Like the flowers of the plains:
Full many n gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
They come, they go, and the world is
the better for their having lived in it.
When we think of the sad and early
death of DR.. Whitman, that he went to
sleep while still breathing the air of
life's morning, how wildly comes back
the words. "We live in deeds, not
years; in thoughts, not breaths; in
feelings, not in figures on dial
In the phantom of memory, what a
splendid image he has set of all that
is sweetest and noblest in life! The
shadows heightened where he lay, the
stars came out as if in sorrow DER his
grave. Side by side, in that little
Walla Walla cemetery, he lies sleeping
with his faithful wife = this grave
alomst unknown and unLeard
AS the years pass by and we do
homage to our national heroes, let us
not forget him, but bow in reverence,
and in the temple of fame, carve in
spotless marble the name of the PARROT,
the hero, the martyr, DR.. MARCUS
WHTTMA
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04
The Finest Train in the World.

The Finest Train in the World
The finest train IN the world is the
"New North Western Limited" which
leaves Minneapolis and st. Paul every
night for Chicago, via the North western
line. This magnificent train, from the
mammoth engine, patterned after the fa-
nous "999," to the last car in the train,
is brand new, and represents the latest
and best ideas for absolute comfort and
luxury while travelling.
Besides the splendid buffet library car
really clubroom on wheels, there is a
magnificent private compartment sleep
ing car, just the thing for ladies, famil
les or those desiring privacy, luxuriously
appointed standard sleeping cars and the
most comfortable and well-equipped day
coaches ever offered the travelling public.
This "New Limited" train is admitted
by the press as we'll as by thousands Of
people of Minnesota and states west who
have inspected it, and also by many
others of this western country who have
recently rode on it, as being without any
question the finest tram in the world,
and no extra charge is made for any class
of passengers for its superior accommo-
datiOns.
Tickets via this popular line may be
secured from agents of the Northern Pa
cific railway, who will also make sleep
ing car reservations; or, apply to Capt.
NJ. M. Wheeler, travelling passenger agt.,
Miles city, Mont, or to r. W. Tcasdale,
G. p. A., st. Paul, MINI.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04

be set as a model in spotless marble for
the coming generations.
Talent, genius and power may be
called the gifts of nature, but none of
these alone will form the perfect charac-
ter. Napoleon who rearranged the map
of Europe with his sword, had all of
these gifts but at heart was cruel des-
potic monster and his military victories
are so on forgotten, while the names of
King Alfred, Washington, Gustavus
Adolphus, Florence Nightengale and
Clara Barton will be held sacred by the
civilized world forever.
In order to meet with the greatest
success in life, we must he firm and
we'll grounded in our views and inten-
tions and not swayed from our purposes
by every wind that blows.
Those who have made success of
life you will alway find to be the ones
who are not swayed from their purpose
by influence or disappointment, who are
not depending, from day to day upon
the favors of others, but regardless of
the influence and opinions of others, re-
gardless of trials and disappointmcnts;
act in accordance with their own CON
science and depend upon themselves
alone.
So we see that our lives will be sue
cessfu or not, just as we choose to
make them.
Nothing which we do is without some
effect either good or evil and that which
seems but wasted labor oftcntmcs helps
us to do better other things winch we
attempt to do For the little acts
and deeds of each day Of our lives are
the blocks with which we build the
mansions for our souls, and if we try to
make each block perfect one, in the
end we shall have Il dwelling of which
we may we'll be proud. One that will
not crumble to dust as soon as our souls
have left it, but will stand pure, unique
and beautiful rs memorial of life
that was we'll spent.
Only the Master can say when it shall
be finished. Life for us all should be a
verging towards completeness. The
lofty purpose in any life consecrates the
lowest place and the humblest laborer
1t is Owen Meredith who says
"Honest love, honest sorrow,
Honest work for the day, honest hope
| for the morrow.
Are these worth nothing more than the
hand they make weary.
The heart they have saddcned, the life
they leave drearyt
Hush The sevcnfold heavens TO the
voice of the spirit
Echo: lie that o'ercometh shall all
things inherit.
Let us then go forth in life always re-
membering that we are architects of our
own fate, that ain Ourselves the Fu-
ture Lies" To this end then, let us
strive to seek for and accept that which
will make us better and stronger, and
that shall place us nearer the ideal of
actual perfection, To this end we must
open cur minds and our hearts to the
influence of the good the noble and the
true from whatever source it may arise.
whether moral mental or spiritual.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04
Advertised Letters.

The following is list of the letters
remaining uncalled for in the post office
at Neihart, Mont, for the month ending
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04

May 81, 1893.
Baler William Lindquist Alex
Bremen Charles Lindquist Uno
Boyd John A Luke Ida S
Chambers Jesse Mintzel Frank
Daniels Levi Perry Babe
Edwards Samuel $ Peter
Ericsson Carl A Sing Lee
Eccles William Sing Lee Hop
Fices A G Wrightson RObt l.
Fickes A G. Welch Thos
Fancione Maria Welsh Thos
Parties calling for the above will
please say advertised"
L. X. ABBOTT, p NJ.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-06-04


Only when seen from far,
Sails lose their whiteness
When inside the harbor bar"
"Some lights are big near by but early
disappear, but stars shine forever"
Beecher once said, "You cannot tell
what any man will do until he is deadr
True, and you cannot tell what aEy
man has done or has been until scores
of years have placed him among the
The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
CARRIAGES
 ARE CLEARING JHE WAY

held their own with them. There were only few in use, but they competed successfully with the cabs and received a fair amount of patronage. It is as- serted that this would have been more if the horseless carriages were more plentiful. As 1t was they attracted so much curious attention many people disliked them. Were they in general use this objection would be removed.
 And they are going to be in general use, in Paris at least, within the next few months, or as fast as the machines can be built, for the big cab company over there has decided to adopt them entirely.
 The few that have been in operation In Paris during the last three years demonstrated to the cabmen that they could be made more profitable than horses if certain improvements were made. But how to get the improve ments was another matter that was at last overcome by offering large prizes to builders of the vehicle In order to stimulate them to greater efforts.
 This plan has borne good fruit, for last year number of big improve ments showed up. Again the cabrnen offered prizes and the exhibition" has just closed, the result being a number of carriages that answered all require ments and stood all tests. The Judges pronounced at least dozen to be per feot,'' but have not yet decided as to
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thoughts of the great victory in which the illustrious Nelson played such a memorable part. At Trafalgar, in 1895, British fleet of B ships of the line and frigates Ohe armored cruisers of modern fieets), engaged a combined French and Spanish battle array of 40 ships and frigates, and of the con- f1ict which ensued NJ. Thiers has said that such a scene of horror at sea had never been witnessed in the memory of man."
 A single broadside from the Tem- eraire, a British ship, swept 200 men from the decks of the Redoubtable and hurled them into eternity. This par ticular French ship numbered 572 dead in a crew of 6S0 officers and men, only eight officers escaping of the forty on board At the close of the terrible struggle F French and Spanish ships had been captured and one blown up, and between killed, wounded, drowned and prisoners the losses of the allies amounted to nearly 1000 men; on the rendered their lives How ludicrous seems the vaunted destructiveness of the modern engines of war, when four teen Spanish ships, in their own harbor and backed up by strong shore bat teries, could not make the slightest i'm pression on the gallant Dewey'S six large vessels nor even l-ill a single man! And the recently published re- suits show that the awful destruction that was done among the boats of the Dons was accompanied by the death of but 78 of the sailors and marines that manned them.
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agers disputed this conclusion. Their own historians, however, and the gen. eral acknowledgement of the people have fairly established the custom be- yond a doubt, though it appears to have somewhat abated previous to Cook s visit, and had gradually decreased un- til scarcely a vestige of any of the hor rible custom remained. There can be no doubt this humaniZing improvement, so different from their other habits, was the result of the example and in structiCn received from the earliest white visitors, as we'll as self-convic- tion of its own abomination. strong public sentiment of disgust in regard to it prevailed at that time, and it was highly creditable to them as nation and distinguished them from their more savage contemporaries of the other groups of the Pacific.
 It was in this state of transition that the early settlers found these islanders,
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of Charles. afterward Martel, and with only 30,000 followers the cham piOn of Christendom determined to give battle to the oaracen. The cause of the cross prevailed against the almost overwhelming numbers of the heather, and the victor was accompanied by the inevitable wholesale destruction of the VanQuished.
 Instances of the enormous lists of casualties in ne battles of the early centuries could be multiplied without difficulty. but sufficient has been said to show that for every man killed in a modern fight hundreds and even thousands pad the penalty in the mighty hand-to-hand strugg.es of an- cient days. when primitive spears and arrows took the place of the mathe- matically precise weapons of to-day An interesting table can be made showing the percentages of slain in a number of the most important battles of history:
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these old temples and look upon them as the great connecting link between the past and the present. The first mention in civilized records of these buildings appears to have been about 1919. Travellers and missionaries were beginning to enter the country and the most striking objects were naturally the immense piles of stone, totally diff ferent from any other buildings in the world.
 At this time Kamehameha had suc- ceeded in conQuering and subduing the natives of the adjoining islands and their chiefs had been compelled to ac- knowledge his supreme authority as king, and these people, for the first time in their history, were to be united un- der one government
 It took nearly forty years to accom- plish this unity but Kamehameha was a man of iron and we'll deserves the name he bears In Hawaiian history, "the conqueror.
 During these years of conquest and bloodshed a great change was coming over these most interesting people, and the last acts of heathenism. accom- and other abominable customs, were passing away.
 Some doubt formerly existed as to whether cannibalism ever prevailed in the Hawaiian group or was practiced at any time. The natives themselves al- ways manifested a degree of shame horror and confusion when spoken to upon the subject and this led the great navigator. Captain Cook. and his officers, without any direct evidence, to believe in it's existence, but later voy-
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June were repeated, in order to ascer- tain the disturbances that had been in- troduced into the running of the ve- hfcleS by a service of nine consecutive days. On the 18th, the day of the grand prize, the carriages went to Versailles, distance of about twelve miles, and returned through the Bois de Boulogne. in order to figure in the classic return Of this very Parisian solemnity.
 In the nine itineraries commissioners accompanied each vehicle and carefully noted upon a service sheet all the incl dents of the daily trip, the real speed upon level and upon certain known gradients. etc.
 The jury consisted of twelve mem. bers, six selected from members of the club and six selected by the competi- tors. The report of this jury has up to the present. not been made known
 In London the tendency of the horse> less carriage seems to be in the direcA t1on of large vehicles to replace the om- nibuses. The cabmen who were at the exhibition and tests in Paris have ex- pressed themselves as delighted with the machine and have decided to adopt 1t in some modified form.
 There are to be steam omnibuses, motor omnibuses and petrol cabs. As regards the first, the steam Is creat- ed by a slow combustion stove, which consumes only a very small quantity of coke or petroleum. These omnfbuses are of 20 horsepower, to be increased presently to 30 horsepower. One vehi- cle will 1t Is as: erted, carry twenty eight passengers, and, where necessary, is capable of being fastened to another omnibus of equal capacity The cost per passenger Is stated to amount to one-tenth of a cent per mile; speed from eight to ten miles an hour, to be increased to fifteen miles an hour.
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which one is the very best But the cab company has decided to adopt them, feeling sure of success on account of the perfection of so many
 The cabmen who have encouraged this work have formed themselves into an organization known as the auto mobile club.
 At the exhibition that has just closed twenty-six vehicles were put through the tests despite the severity of the programme, which made obligatory daily run of thirty-six miles. at a mini mum. within a period of sixteen hours.
 The vehicles admitted to the compe- tition figured in the following six cate gories:
 l. (a) Closed carriages for two per sons. (b) Open carriages, with hood, for two persons. Co Mixed carriages for two persons, capable of being in simultaneously closed or opened. space for baggage. sixty-five pounds to each person. (b) Open carriages. with hood, for four persons.
 B. Closed carriages for six persons, with space for baggage, sixty-H ye pounds to each person.
 The vehicle had to be so constructed that all .-le passengers should be com fortably installed therein, and had to be provided with an odometer or kilo- metric counter with two brakes, one progressive and the other instantane- ous. Out of the twenty-six vehicles booked sixteen were electric and ten gasoline.
 The first of June was devoted to an examination of the conditions of estab- lishment and of the system and run ming of the vehicles. From June to June 10 the carriages had to make nine specific itineraries, the same for all. On the 1th the experiments of the first of
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IS WAR BECOMING
 MORE MERCIFUIL /?
Figures Which Show That Men Killed Battle if Oden Times and the Pe:cenage of Dead Was Greater in Mode Enoa

simple, in the belief that success was not assured until every enemy had been killed, or captured, with view to sub seQuent torture and execution
 Three memorable battles took place in France shortly after the advent of the Christian era, and the story of each of them is fraught with intense interest as marking the successive dOWnfalls of three powerful races that strOve in turn to obtain mastery over Central and Western Europe; every one was a bloody butchery. At Deth- mold, A D. g. 16,000 Roman troops un- der Varus, with some 25,000 camp fol- lowers, were skillfully surrounded and cut to pieces by a large force of Teu- tons under Arminius, not one of the unfortunate descendants of ROmuluS, it is believed, escaping to tell the tale. Four centuries later, at ChalOns, Attila, at the head of his villainOus multitude of rapaciOus Huns. met the allied forces of Romans, Franks and GOths, three hundred thousand strong. At tilas strength was estimated at fully TOO, 900. The night before the great con- fiict a ''skirmish" took place between outlying pickets in which over 15000 troops were killed, but the following evening the plain was strewn with the corpses of the slain to the number of close on a quarter of a million!
 Attila's vast assembly of freebOoters ned like cnaH DefOre the W1nQ when they met the we'll disciplined legions of Rome, but the cost of victory was great and it's immediate value but little ap- preciated at the time. It is worthy of notice that the number of the slain in this single conflict was far in excess of the total of those killed In battle dur ing the entire Civil War of 1S61-65 though it has been computed that at least five million men carried arms in the course of the struggle between the North ond the South.
 The third of the epoch-making con- tests was fought at Tours, in the year 732, and resulted in the driving back of the MOors across the Pyrenees, which they had crossed, under the leadership of Abderrahman, with the intention by one bold stroke of conquering FrankIand and crushing the rising faith of Christianity that was striding rapid ly through WestCrn Europe. At the head of 400, 900 Arab troops Abderrah- man arrived at Tours without encoun- tering the slightest opposition, and pro- ceeded to encamp at a little distance from the ancient Roman city. The thoroughly alarmed Christians had meanwhile assembled und the banner
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"HE horseless carriage Is at last
 declared to be a success.
 It Is true that this vehicle Is
 hardly likely to ever come into
 general use In San Francisco on account of the hills, but in most of the big cities of the world the horse is destined to soon become curiosity, pernaps only to be seen in menageries and museums. The chatter of hoofs over cobbles and asphalt is about to give place to the whiz of the electric motor, the puff of the gasoline engine and the soft rattle of the coal oil loco- motive. And the general verdict of thinking men Is that 1t is well.
 For the last ten years horseless car riages have merely been in the experi- mental stage. In a number of cities they have been put on the streets to replace cabs, but people have looked upon them as curiosities and the pa tronage has not been what was ex- pected A number of wealthy men have bought them for their own use or amusement, but heretofore the number of horses displaced has hardly been worth counting. Now all Is changed.
 The principal work at developing the horseless carriage has been done in Paris and Londo, Most of the machines on New Yorks streets were of foreign make. although 8 number of native ones
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N TX hundred shots a minute!"
 What a frightfuT slaughter must
 accompany the use of these terri \ } ble weapons. capable of throwing - such a relentless hail of death dealing projectiles! How destructive of life a modern battle must prove!
 Such is the opinion one hears con stantly expressed in these days of Afaxims and dynamite guns; yet sur prising as it may seem, an investigation into the facts, coming down to the bed rock of figures and statistics, reveals an entirely different state of affairs from that usually imagined. Not only were there more men actually killed in the battles of olden times, but also the percentage of dead was often far great CT than in modern engagements. For instance, compare the battle of Mara thon. which was fought in the year 391 B. c, and is one of the earliest of which there exists any authentic record, with that of Ha-Shan in the ChinO-Japanese war of 1894.
 Tn the former conflict out of a total of some 10000 troops engaged, nearly 1000 were left lying on the field, while in the latter only 750 dead were count ed. though the opposing forces amount ed t0 more than 23, 900 men; a dispar- i+v that seems incomprehensible when we remember that throughout the war the Japanese were provided with all the latest types of guns and ammuni- tion. Some of the battles of ancient times showed a proportion of dead or disabled that cannot be accounted for unless we accept the view that the wars of those days were Waged in the spirit of a policy of extermination pure and
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ever made on the Hawaiian Islands. The victims were executed in the pres ence of Kamehameha himself, who stood at the door of the house within a stone inclosure to witness this slaugh- ter.
 There are a few other Heiaus still in excellent preservation, one of which is near Kohala, on Hawaii, and another at Kealekakoa Bay, which is said to have been used by Captain Cook to re- pair his sails, and by whom the sandal wood altar had been removed. It was from this temple that Kalaniopuu then King, took the three-headed god, "Lo- no," off to Captain Cooks vessel, the Discovery. Whether these monuments of the past ages will be kept in preserve by Uncle Sam, now that we have pos session of the islands, remains to be proved.
 CAPTAIN c. E. G. JACKSON.
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1NCLE SAM came into posses
 sion of some wonderful ancient
 heather temples when he an-
 J nexed Hawaii, and curious tour
 ists and scientists are begin ming to ask what he is going to do with them. Native Hawaiians regard them as something much more than histori- cal landmarks, something to link the past with the present, and for years the native kingdom has appropriated money for their careful preservation.
 Father Damien, the leper priest of
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Molokai, made a careful study of sev- gathered a great deal of material con- corning their history.
 The following is one of the legends obtained and written by him con- corning the Heiau in the Mapulahu Gulch on that island. He obtained 1t from one of the oldest natives on the island:
 A company of spirits who
 brought over the stones of
 this Heiau from Wailau,
 gulch on the other side of the
 island. Each spirit got only
 one stone to build this inn
 mense Heiau. The name of
 the company of spirits was
 "Kamenehuni."
 Whatever the legend may be there Is ample evidence to prove where the stones came from which went to form this building. It Is said that they were passed over the mountain from the other side of the island by natives standing in row about six feet apart and handing them from one to the other.
 AS the structure is 400 feet long and of 10 feet some idea may be formed of the enormous population that must have existed upon Molokai at that pei riod. It took nearly 1000 cubic yards of material to build this temple
 At present the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands are Christians, but they still have certain reverence for
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LAST HEATHEN TEMPLE BUILT IN HAWAII

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