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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
A GROUP OF RICH ISLANDS.

According to the report to the
State department of Consul Oscar F.
Williams, the Philippine islands are
a little empire in themselves. Mr..
Williams is Rochester, n. Y,
man, and the Democrat and Chroni-
Gle of that city vouches for his per-
feet reliability. His report contains
the following main points.
The area of the islands is estimat-
ed at 100000 square miles, with a
population of 100000. They ex
ceed by 10 per cent the area of all
the six New England States, New
York, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland combined.
But the surprising statement is
that the great bulk Of the trade of
the islands is with the United States.
Mr.. Williams says there are twenty
two consulates representing the
leading commercial nations, at Ma
nilla. but that the volume of the ex-
port trade coming under his super
vision equals that of all the others
combined. He explains and gives
details of the trade and notes its
rapid increase. Here are some
samples: Today l have authenti-
Gated invoices for export to the
United States amounting to $13S,-
066." "The exports amounts to
s4,OO0,O00 per month" Two hum
dred and sixteen thousand bales of
hemp were exported during the past
three months, of which 1873, 1872 went
to the United States, and $4,000 to
Great Britain and other countries" :"
"The United States has "a per cent
of the export trade against 36 per
cent to all other countries" The
trade is growing rapidly with our
country and falling off with other
countries. OF the increase in ship
ments the United States has "a per
cent.
Fifty-fve per cent of Manila su-
gar is shipped to the United States.
One first class railroad runs out of
Manila.
By the last census Manila had
100000 natives, $1,000 Chinese A.
100 Spanish and $50 Europeans 9TH
er than Spanish. There are four
steam lines to Hong Kong and a
monthly line to Liverpool. The Es-
Gotta is the Main business street and
is lined with European stores and
bazars. The Rosario is lined with
Chinese shops. There are six daily
papers, three banks, mint, Cham
Der of Commerce and complete cleo
trio light and telephone plants. The
Mexican dollar is in general use.-
Salt Lake Tribune.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
THE PIONEER PRESS WRONG

While we do not believe what the
Pioneer Press states in full we do
believe in part. We take exception
to the statement that Mr.. Letter and
others have had little or nothing to
do with the advance price of wheat.
A corner on any commodity will be
noticeable by the rapid rise in price
follow just as rapid fall, which has
and is taking place with wheat The
main reason why we print the arti-
Gle is to show that silver and wheat
do go hand in hand under normal
conditions. Wheat in the United
States, if the rest of the world had a
sufficient crop, today would be as
low as silver and perhaps lower.
This will surely happen under the
gold standard. AS the Pioneer
Press states, everybody knows that
the present high prices stimulates a
larger acreage to be sown. Espec-
tally is this true in the United States
where the farmers are reaping the
benefit of present conditions. Take
that fact in connection with a good
supply abroad and what will wheat
be worth at home? AS forecast
of good supply abroad the coming
year we print below from the tele-
graphic news the following clipping.
St. Petersburg, May l6.-Reports
received as to the condition of the
grain crops throughout the country
show that the state of winter wheat
is generally satisfactory and that on
ly few of the central districts have
suffered
If a good crop is promised in Rus
STA most likely the same can be said
of all Europe.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
TIE DREYFUS CASE.

The intense anti-Dreyfus feeling now
prevalent in France shows you how far the
pendulum will swing in his favor when it
once makes the turn. Dreyfus may be a
hero yet. et.-Indianapolis News.
From his iron cage in his penal isle
Dreyfus, if he looks across the ocean and
sees Paris bristling with bayonets and
with bowling mobs seething through her
streets, may realize that, after ALL he has
not lived in vain.-San Francisco Bulle-
tin.
The Dreyfus case grows worse and
worse. Deputies come to fisticuffs over it
in the chamber. The government declines
even to consider a reOpening OF the con-
vict's sentence to a fate worse than death.
In that'it may, of course, be right, but it
fails to convince a large and respectable
portion of the public Of that fact.-New
York Tribune
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
ANIMAL ODDITIES.

The South American fish known as the
river dolphin has 222 teeth.
Startishes are found at almost every
depth in the sea. Some have been drawn
up from 1000 fathoms.
Young doves and pigeons are fed with a
sort Of pap secreted by the parent bird. 1t
is necessary to their existence. They die
without il.
A French naturalist named Galien has
made the startling discovery at Mines that
II sparrow Is put in the same cage with
finches it will soon learn to initiate their
song like a mocking bird; also the chirp-
ing Of a cricket.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21
INCREASING.

The bullet " hich killed Stonewall Jack
son Is in the possession OF man in Jer-
sey City. Exchange
Turn about is fair play. Several years
ago 1t was in the possession Of dozen or
more people in as many states. 1t goes the
rounds and multiplies rs it goes.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

To Sen. Lee Mantle the HERALD
is indebted for valuable public doc
uments, including the full report of
the board of inquiry into the cause
of the destruction of the Maine.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

The Spanish gunboat Callao has
been captured by the American feet
at Manila.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-05-21

The following is a list of the letters
remaining uncalled for in the post office
at Neihart, Mont, for the month ending
Mar. 81, 1898.
Morrison Arthur
Deller William Mackey w II
Dupston Geo Mutton w II
George N C Strand Miss Margaret
Hutton Geo Zupaneie Frank
Hasty John
Parties calling for the above will
please say advertised"
E. <. ABBOTT, p. NJ.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
LOVE LORD OF ALL.

SWEETHEARTS AND FRIENDS-By
 Maxwell Grey. New York: D. Apple
 ton & Co. Fore sale at Doxeys.
 This is not the dramatic, psychological sort of work we look for from the author of ''The Silence of Dean Maitland" In "Sweethearts and Friends" Maxwell Grey gives us a sketchy story illustrating the hopes, fears and trials of the latter day young woman whose ambitions are not limited to social gayeties and matri- monial success. The heroine is & very charming girl who, in defiance of family prejudice, cuts out a medical career for herself, closing the door of her heart against little Love in the belief that his advent would imperil her mental saliva tion. But Love wins the day, as he has done from time immemorial, and sweet Dr. Amy marries the friend" who has al- ways been her sweetheart, albeit he went astray for time under tutelage of a f1ip- pant fairy whose shallowness seemed to him more womanly than Amy's independ- ence. This gentleman, alternately dubbed The Immaculate and Bayard, is a preux cheValier rather out of joint with modern prose, yet he learns to bend to circum- stances and accepts meekly his wife's de-
 Votion to her profession. The love of these twain is literally tried by fire and the scene in which Bayard rescues a child and Dr. Amy rescues Bayard savers a little too much of the melodramatfc to be
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THE CENTURY.

H. Phelps Whitmarsh writes Tn the Century for February of "The Steerage of To-Day his article being illustrated by Andre Castaigne. Mir. Whitmarsh draws this picture of one of his compan- ions in the voyage that he made:
 Kneeling in an upper bunk near me- a middle-aged Irishman was hanging pot containing a shamrock plant. entered into conversation with him, and learned that he was going to join his son in Cali fornia, to whom he was taking the sham rock as a present
 T hope it will live,' he said, looking wistfully at the pot as it swung from the beam. "'Twas the wan thing the bhoy wanted. Lave iv'ryting, says he in his letther, 'an' come over. nave enough for the both of us now says he; an can make you comfortable for the rest av your days. But says he, fetch me livin' root av shamrock if ye can.
 All Sunday we were in smooth. water, running under the lee of the Irish coast. The day being fine and warm. the steer age swarmed on deck in full force. Men, women and children all crowded about the after hatch, some playing cards, some dancing and some already making love; but for the most part they lay about the deck, sleeping and basking in the sun. In the afternoon my friend the lrlShman appeared with his shamrock. He wanted to give 1t a taste" of fresh air, he said. At sight of it many of the Irish girls shed tears; then, seating themselves about the old man, they sang plaintive Irish melodies until the sun went down. The sad faces of the homesick girls and the old father sitting among them holding in his lap the precious little bit of green presented sight not easily to be for
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
THE AMERICAN COOK.

TWELVE LESSONS IN SCIENTIFIC
 COOKERY-By Miss Susy Tracy. San
 Francisco: H. s. Crocker Company.
 Miss Tracy probably knows why she prefaced her lessons with the adjective scientific As a matter of fact, they are addressed to students who have not yet mastered the A B c of the culinary art, and their merit lies in their direct simplicity. The veriest tyro could hardly spoil meal when following Miss Tracys directions, but the more ambitious cor don bleu must go further afield for in- struction Had Miss Tracy professed to teach only American home cooking, she would have saved her artistic reputation; as 1t Is, certain of her recipes irresistibly recall poor Du Maurier's definition of roast chicken, such a different thing from poulet roti." In like manner Is our authoress's bouillon a different thing from the French article, being nothing else but ordinary English beef-tea. Her directions to steep French fried pota
 toes'' in cold water would make the hair of the humblest French cook stand straight on end, while her views on the subject of boiled fish are an insult to piscine aristocracy; no self-respecting fish condescends to boil tastefully in plain
 broiling, too, Miss Tracy might study with advantage the preliminary use of marinades or sauces. But to the unso- phisticated American family cook her handbook will probably prove helpful.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

And so amid all this queer pean to the Boston street-car conductor, the accented note, after all, is not so much the praise of him as the corresponding disparagement of his Western brother I am glad some conductors, somewhere, are getting little praise, for their po- sition is at best a thankless sort of one, and I confess that for my own part I have been prone to forget the favors I received at their hands and to cherish the memory of the times I have been carried beyond my corner; the occasions when I have been drowned upon for forgetting to ask fer transfer, the days when cars have passed me by, while the conductor whfstled and regarded vacancy, on the platform.
 Some time ago I had occasion to go to a part of the city with which I was quite unfamiliar. Seeing block or more away, large building in course of construction, I asked a conductor what it was to be. He told me, and when, few seconds later we passed another half-completed structure, he volunteered the information that it was a new orphanage, and during the rest of the trip he called my attenetion to several features of the district that were unknown to me. All this with no
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familiarity but with perfectly frank and friendly wish that l might see all that was to be seen of a very interest ing part of the city.
 It was a gripman on this same line who, during the Christian Endeavor Convention here, confided to friend of mine his anxiety lest the Endeayorers should catch cold during their stay here. They ain't warmly enough clad for this climate" he said. I've been advising 'em to get warmer under wear"
 On one of the park lines, recently, l noticed a child of perhaps years, in charge, apparently, of her father. The little one wore a -tormentor, in the shape of bonnet with mon strous friIl that fell down over herface, completely hiding her eyes and render ing her vision an impossibility. She kept throwing her head back and peer ing from under her shelter tent in the endeavor to see something of her surroundings. The conductor was rather surly looking. I heard him speak with quick decision to a passenger who persisted in stand ing. without holding on by strap while the car rounded a curve, and the two had little dispute, the passenger
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an exceedingly vivid insight into the joys that befell survivors who intruded upon regions where there was opposition to surveying in general and railroading in particular. The story is not a pleas ant one: the scenes-more especially the domestic scenes-in the saloon or Potts- town which was the Mcguire rendez- vous, are repulsive in the extreme. yet their air of reality suggests that the au- thoress has based her little romance on hard historical facts. A Vcin Of poetry is supplied by the loves of Toola. the rustic beauty, whose only dissipation IS an occasional wagon trip to Pottstown. and Jennie, the refined stepdaughter of the "Bodymaster," or chief of the infa- nous Mcguire brotherhood; and the life like personality of Danny, the Bodymas- ter's crippled, warm-hearted, viciously inclined son. gives opportunity for some very pertinent theories on heredity Mrs. Moque is not yet mistress of style, but her conceptions of character are powerful and with her capacity for stirring plot we may look for some fine work from her pen in the future.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
THE ATT ANTIC

An article in the February Atlantic which will attract wide attention to an evil hitherto largely unknown and unsus- pected is that upon the relations of the laoor unions to the negro, contributed by John stephens Durham, late United States Minister to Hayti. MT. Durham shows the grave injustice and injury done 10 the whole colored race by the system of exclusion practiced by the labor organi- zatlons of the country. He does not con slder that this was originally a conscious crusade against color, but that it is part or the general system of exclusion like the dlscrlmination against women and the imitation of apprenticeships. But in ef- feet, the color limit is drawn by them so absolutely and so strictly that no man suspected of the slightest tinge of color IS permitted to join trade union or to work Tn company with a union man throughout the United States. The result or this sweeping exclusion is to shut out the colored man, no matter how capable or well trained, from all skilled employ- ment whatsoever, and to degrade him to depend upon unskiled labor or menial service entirely for his support
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tlcles is enough to make every woman In the unfavored West wish that she might go to Boston and place herself under the protection of Boston's newly discovered glory"
 something of this sort I was think ing the other day as I got aboard an electric car at the outskirts of the citv. hdd travelled some distance before taking the car, and my coat. was GOV cred with an all-too-palpable powder. Il was dabbing ineffectively at my sleeves, handkerchief in hand. when the conductor, Just a mere Western con- ductor, approached with a little brush Let me brush you,' he said, simply. and leading me to the door he very deftly and gently removed every par ticle of dust from my back and shoul- ders Then, having other duties. he handed me the brush and finished the process in comfort.
 It Is a peculiarity of the human brain that dispraise makes a greater impression upon it than does praise. In one of his recent pleasant Talks on Writing English Arlo Bates told an amusing instance of this. He said to his audience: "If I were to say to you that The Heavenly Twins is mor- bid and unhealthy rubbish; that 'Trilby' is a pleasant transient ex- citement; but that The Return of the Native seems to me the most notable English novel since Thackeray you would have no difficulty in remember ing that 1 condemned The Heavenly Twins. You would have fairly clear idea that I had been less enthusiastic than the general public about Trilby,' ! and you would perhaps vaguely recall that there was something else-really 1t IS astonishing how quickly name sips from the memory-which l praised''
 AS the audience left the hall one lady said to another "a stranger, T beg your pardon, but could you tell me the name of the third book that was given, the one the lecturer said we should for get?"
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13
CALIFORNIA AND
MANIFEST DESTINY.

\ N early decree of Manifest Des-
 ~ tiny was that the great West ~ should some time become a part 1 Aof the empire of the United States.
 With American history there be- gan mighty expansion of the Anglo Saxon race, which was destined to con- tinue till the farthermost Occident should be reached.
 Benjamin Franklin in 1754 prophesied that in less than century the vast trans-Alleghany country must become "a populous and powerful dominion" Washington caught a true vision of the West, and his sagacity and knowledge of remote regions served him we'll in public and private life. Wolfe's vic- tory at Quebec was a door opening to the Anglo-Saxons an infinitely vast re- zion.
 Napoleon Tightly offered the province which had come to him so cheaply," and all Louisiana was acquired. By the treaty of 1919 Florida was ceded to the United States. Notwithstanding Span ish possessions and the claims or covet- ous desires of England, France and Russia, Manifest Destiny" had decreed that the great California territory should belong to the United States.
 We are indebted to the question of slavery extension for the accession of California;: slavery extension owes it's downfall to the admission of California. It has become an admitted principle in American politics that free States could come into the Union only when accompanied by slave States. After the admission of Texas, when there were fifteen slave and fifteen free 4zl the disposition of California. Mani fest Destiny" answered the question and forever turned the tide against human slavery. Neither the climate, nor the soil, nor the production of any portion of California was adapted to
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insisting upon his right to do as he pleased. The conductor had not looked amiable, but presently he came into the car, bent over the baby and very gent ly folded back the big ruffle, smoothing 1t down so as to give the child unhin dered vision. There" he said to the father, now she can see out" The lat ter was not offended. He smiled, and when the frill fell down some time after he turned 1t back again. But do not believe that even Boston con- ductor ever showed manlier bit of consideration for the comfort of little child.
 I do not think that it could be suc- cessfully maintained that her street. car conductors are San Francisoco's s chief glory. The city has one or two other features to which her people may point with pride, but for just mere men, the majority of whom do not speak with a cultured. accent" most of our knights of the bell-punch do very well indeed. Now and then one encounters an unamiable one among them, but as a rule they are honest, kindly men, who make up in patience and willingness to serve what they lack in culture and opportunity.
 ADELINE KNAPP.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

shave. es: ciose shave, Is Cd; hair cut, 13s; hair cut, London style. 16s'; Four men wanted at La Dues sawmills. Noth- ing to do but work. Pay G3 a day and three drinks Mule outlet As 2d'; dog, tenderloin, los 3d. The Times has a poetical department. humorous illustra- tions and thrilling account of an as- sassination in saloon over cheating at cards"
 More than six months ago David Christie Murray went out into the desert places of North Wales to devote him. self to work of fiction, animated by serious purpose, which has long lain at the back of his mind. This book is to be called "Despair's Last Journey" and will represent the writer's own view of the facts of life; it will probably be finished in time for publication in the spring MT. Murray has also recently seen through the press a volume of tales and poems shortly to be issued by Messrs. Chatto 6 Windus of London. This will be the first collection of MT. Murrays verse which has appeared.
 Book News" which publishes in each issue an expression of opinion from lead ing authors in regard to their own per sonal view of their work, gives in its Feb-1 ruary number the following remarkable utterance by Sarah Grand in regard to her purpose in writing '"The Beth Book in which, as will be seen, she touches up- on the errors of the critics:
 "In influencing their daughters choice of husband parents are apt to consider a mans means, manners and position rather than his principles or ideals. If he prove to be a good fellow in society they are content to inquire no further. Many men of excellent manners in public are men of most corrupt mind, whose con versation in private is continual source of suffering to their wives. 1 wrote The Beth Book to show what a refined wo- man must suffer when forced to associate with such man, the inevitable blight, the certain deterioration that settles upon her even when she has the force of character to escape absolute corruption. The critics have almost all missed this, the one purpose of the book, and bounced upon something quite incidental, and merely introduced by way of illustration, and as the Vivisective incident, to which they attribute an exaggerated impor- tance. The subjects discussed came in- evitably into the life of an intelligent wo- man situated as Beth was at the time of which l was writing; she could not have avoided them, and, therefore, no picture of her would be faithful that ignored them; but 1t is in the conditions of her life, not in her intellectual pursuits or opinions, that the real significance of her story is to be found''
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slave labor and slavery had not ex- isted In Mexico since 1S29
 Although there were early indica- tions of gold, a favoring Providence concealed the illimitable stores of wealth until after the American con- quest and after hope of slavery exten- sion had faded. The fortunate acci- dent of Marshall gave to America the golden wealth of California. And now for fifty years California has been a most influential factor in the worlds development. In the dark hours of civil strife it was our gold that SUD- piled an indispensable element of strength and steadiness to our Federal finance
 The Manifest Destiny of California, so far as it relates to past days. Is not merely trumped-up expression of to- day for retrospective use. Numerous prophetic utterances of the pioneer press and observant travellers afford an instructive commentary on subsequent history. Read in the Californian and the Star. beginning with 1S46, and in contemporaneous speeches such express sions as these: The destiny of Cali fornla is fixed-she is to become a free and independent State. She is to make her own laws, manage her own re- sources, and found those institutions in which her children are to find hap py home" This (English) is to be the language of California. The vast tide of immigration from the United States will inevitably make 1t so It becomes. therefore, every parent to have his children taught this language "Who can now doubt the importance to which California Is destined?' Our com mercial capital. San Francisco. is des- tined to be the center of the exchange, of the world. and is destined to suppiT the world with large share of its cur rency."
 Manifest Destiny is calling to-day for native sons and native daughters of moral fiber and excellent virtues ROCKWELL D. HUNT.