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Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
is A FAVORED SPOT.
Report on the Resources, Climate
and Natives Of Philippines.
state Department Issues q Pamphlet
of Notes on tho Islands-GoId
Deposits Found-Yellow
Fever Unknown.

"Notes on the Philippine Islands"
have been issued by the state depart
ment as No. 1871 of the advance sheets Of
the consular reports.
One expert extensively quoted, Frank
Karuth, says that extensive gold de-
posits have been opened up quite near
the sea, assuring a large output for
many years TO come. Ii has also been
proved that they extend over wide dis
irict.
Alluvial gold is found In the island
OF MindannC, and there are extensive
copper deposits in Luzon. While no
true coal has been found there is lig-
mite OF a very good quality, quite useful
for steam vessels. This in great guam
THY. Roughly washed alluvial gold has
been found TO contain rubics and hya-
cin;Ls. There is no want Of labor at
cheap rates. and on the whole the gen
eral conditions for mining are excep-
tionally favorable.
Some facts Of interest aside from min
ing are noted. For instance. the Phil
ippihe archipelago contains nearly
1900 islands. Two of them are larger
thda Ireland, Luzon with 1900 and
Mindanao with $4,000 square miles.
Earthquakes are nol infrequent. The
rainfall is not excessive, nor is IL con-
tinuous.
The climate Is very healthful for a
tropical region, and diseases such as
yellow fever are unknown. The natives
are mostly Malays, but in the interior
ere remnants of a race Of Papuan ORR
Siu.
The author OF the pamphlet speaks in
'he highest terms Of the character of
-Se natives. The family tie is very
strong. children are orderly, parents re-
spected and the race has an inbred
courtesy and prudence. and ready hos
2itality is never missing. Eight mill
s:"n inhdbi, the Philippines; food re-
sources are ample and famine is un-
known
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
The Wood Pain Industry.

1t is estimated that 1900 to 1000 cords
of pulp wood day enter into the manu-
facture of paper in the United States.
At the minimum, 1900 cords, the total
for a year would be the enormous
amount of 900, 900 cords. 1t is safe to
call it 100000. If this wood were piled
in one continuous string it would make
a wall four feet wide and four feet high
a little over 1915 miles in length. 1t
can be seen what a prodigious thing the
wood pulp industry is, and at what a
tremendous rate it is devouring trees,
mainly spruce. Yet all this wood is
converted into paper. which, after be-
ing used, vanishes from sight in few
days and goes back to dust, out Of which
element the trees grow.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
III,
e Are In q P1t.
Ready Cash Gone.

Those who have been most
years in advocating the disso
the Ioarites, near Toledo, o.
gret their action. After the
of outstanding debts there w.
ing left but land. about 1900 acres. -
a part is of the best, some is worth
less for farming purposes. The men
and women who receive the land have
rot a cent Of money for improvements
or for living, and they never have had
any. When they lived in common they
had plenty. Now they are in need.
They have land. nothing else. The 120
members are causing the appraisers so
much trouble that they are about ready
to abandon the task as hopeless. whcn
such peculiar legal ea1 plications
would be involved that 'r~t is . con
occurring where it would end.
The raising Of crops for the year was
abandoned. ard the members will have
absolutely nothing except land. Many
are complaining of their allotment, and
it begins TO lock as though the courts
would soon be appealed to and much
litigation follow.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
THE MOUNTAIN STREAM.

rise exultant from the mountains crown,
Leaping. sparkling.
Through dark and rocky courses rushing
down.
Shining, darkling,
I throw my spray TO kiss the ferns and
daisies
And keep them green;
The harebell and the lily sing my praises
And DER me lean.
7 tarry not within the shady dingle
To rest and sleep.
But with the rugged rocks I rudely mingie
And rush and leap.
The precipice invites me 10 its border
But cannot keep.
Z spring impetuous from each would-be
wsrder
And downward sweep.
hear along the pebbles and the grasses
In merry play,
And many q howlder In the narrow passes
! turn astray:
Curvetting, dancing TO my music springing.
haste along.
Far down the hillside all my treasure
ninging
OF happy song
~Edlsh G. Hawkes.. in Springfield (MsssD
Republican.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
CHAPTER XXVIl.
.PfECEa OF EIGHT ("

Owing 70 the cart OF the vessel the
snssts hung far out over the water. anil
from my perch on the cross-trees
lsd nothing below me but the sur
face Of the bay. Hands, who was no;
70 far up. was. in consequence. nearer
10 the ship. and fell between me and
the bulwarks. lie rose once 10 the
surface In a lather of foam and bloc.
and then sunk again for good. As the
water settled I could see him lying
huddled together on the clean, bright
nand in the shadow of the vessels
sides. A fish or two whipped past his
body. Sometimes, by the quivering o.
The water, he appeared to move little.
Hs II he were trying to rise. But he
was dead enough. for all that, being
both shot and droYncd, and was food
for fish in the very place where he had
designed my slaughter.
I was no sooner certain of this than
I began TO feel sick. faint and terri
fed. The hot blood was running over
my back and chest. The dirk, where IL
had pinned my shoulder to the mast,
tccnucQ 70 OuIu Inc hot iiohs ySh
II was not 30 much these real suffer
ines that distressed me, for these, 1t
neemed to me, I could bear without q
murmur; IL was the horror had upon
my mind of falling from the cross
trees into that still green water, beside
the body of the cockswain.
chung with both hands till my nails
ached, and I shut my eyes as IL to
cover up the peril. Gradually my mind
came back again. my pulse quieted
down to . more natural time, and !
was once more in possession Of myself.
II was nv first thought to pluck
forth the dirk; but either II stuck too
hard or my nerve failed me, and de-
sisted with . violent shudder. Oddly
enough that very shudder did the bust
pess. The knife. In fact, had come the
nearest In the world TO missing me
tltogethsr; It held me by a mere pinch
pf skin, and this the shudder tore away.
The blood ran dpxn the faster. to b
SIRE; but ives my pwn master again
aud only tscksG n The mast BY my
.-nst and shlrt.
rhsse Isss - dh Z
taeass " so asess
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
A Fault Admitted.

A Georgia farmer has son who
writes verse, but is too modest to sub
nit ii for publication. One day, when
the farmer was going TO town, he took
a bundle of Rfems along with him aud
handed them to an editor.
They're pretty fair" said the editor.
"HIs rhyme Is all right. but ttere's
somethInelwrong With his feet"
"wei'." Paid the farmer. u waat
deny III he has got cosnst"
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
Different Idens n. to Clothes,

IL the native women of Sumatra have
their knees properly covered the rest
does not matter. The natives of some
islands off the coast Of Guinea wear
clothes only when they are going on a
journey. Some Indians of Venezuela
are ashamed to wear clothes before
strangers, as it seems indecent to them
to appear implanted.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
NEW COAST DEFENSE SHIPS.
latest Naval Appropriation Biii Pro-
vidcs for Vessels of Novel
Contraction.

An even dozen is the preponderating
figure in the designs just practically
completed by Chief Constructor HIGH
born for the four coast defense vessels
authorized in the latest naval appropri-
alton bill. These vessels are. to be the
most formidable ever constructed for
their peculiar purposes, and will in
clude many novelties in modern naval
architecture. Under the provisions of
Ne bill their cost, excluding armament,
tied to s1.25O,OOO each They will
uots speed, IL feet draught,
ttes, l2-inch Hichborn in
l2-inch guns, l2-inch
'2f their twin screws
horsepower en-
ut will be just
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17

found experimenting with hoe aud
pillow and sickle, and you know they
will be farmers. And others are al
ways swapping jacLknives or balls or
bats and making something by the
largain. and they are going to be mere
chants. When Able de Rance had 40
advanced in studying Greek that he
could translate Anacrcon at IL years
of age. there was no doubt left that
he was intended for u scholar. But
in almost every lad there comes n time
when he does not know what he was
made for. and his parents do not know.
and il is a crisis that tod only can
decide. Then there are those born for
some especial work and their fitness
does not develop until quite late
When Philip Doddridgc, whose sermons
and books have harvested uncountcd
souls for glory. began to study for the
ministry, DIR. Calamy. one of the wiscst
and best men. advised him to turn his
thoughts TO some other work. Isaac
Barrow. the eminent clergyman and
Christian scientist his books are
standard now. though he has been dead
over POO years was the dishcart"u-
mcnt of his father. who used TO say
that if il pleased tod to take any of
his children away he hoped il might
he his son Isaac. So some of those who
have been characterized for their stu
pility in boyhood or girlhood. have
turned out the miChticst bencfactOrs
h.an af.,..f r,sS nf he human RI.
These things being so, am | not right
in saying that in many cases God only
knows what Is the most appropriate
thing for YOU to do. and lis is the one
To ask? And let all parents and ali
schools and all universities and all col
legcs recognize this and a large mum.
Der of those who spent their best years
in stumbling about among businesses
and occupations, now trying this and
now trying TINT and failing In all.
would he able to go ahead with a def.
mite. decided and tremendous purpose,
saying: ITO this end was born"
But my subject now mounts into the
momentous. Let me say that you are
made for usefulness and Heaven.
judge this from thu way you are built.
You go into a shop where there is
only one wheel turning and that by a
wcrkman's foot on a treadle, and you
Jay to yourself: Here is something
good being done, yet on a small scale, -
Lut II you go into a factory covering
many acres and you find thousands of
lands pulling on thousands of wheels
and shuttles flying and the whole
scene hewildering with activities
driven by water or steam or electric
power, you conclude that the factory
was put up to do great work and on
vast scale. Now, look at you, and il
J should find that you had only one
faculty of body, only one muscle, only
one nerve, II you could see but not
Lear. or could hear and not see, il you
had the use of only one foot or one
hand, and, as to your.ligEs
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
PART v.
CHAPTER XXvI.-CoNrINuEp.

We were both Of us capsized in sec
ond, and both of us rolled. almost to-
gether, into the scuppers, the dead red
cap. with his arms still spread out,
tumbling stiffly after us. So near were
we, indeed, that my head came against
the cockswain's foot with a crack that
made my teeth rattle. Blow and all,
I wns the first afoot again, for Hands
had got involved with the dead body.
The sudden canting OF the ship had
made the deck no place for running
on; | had TO find some new way of es-
cape. and that upon the instant, for
my foe was almost touching me.
Quick as thought l sprang into the
mizzen shrouds, ratified up hand over
hand, and did not draw a breath till
1 was seated on the eross-trees.
I had been saved by being prompt;
the dirk had struck not half foot be-
low me. as pursued my upward fight;
and there stood Israel Hands with his
mouth open and face upturned 10 mine,
a perfect statue of surprise and Gisap-
pointment
self, | lost no time in changing the
printing of my pistol, and then, having
one ready for service. and TO make as
surance doubly sure, / proceeded TO
draw the load of the other and re-
resh from the beginning.
Sploymsnt struck Hands
O.. began TO see the dice
-and after an OBJ
I'm hauled him
Ms. and. with
and pain,
u no end
- wounded
ietly fin
~,rstss. e he was
much i.or,s.@ the way up.
Then. with pt--S either hand, ]
addressed him.
One more step, Mr.. Hands," said !.
-snd I'll blow your brains out! Dead
rueu don't bite, you know" ] added,
with q chuckle.
He stopped instantly. could see by
the workings OF his face that he was
trying TO think, and the process was
80 slow ana -,aborious that, in my new
found security, laughed aloud. Al
last, with a swallow or two, he spoke,
his face still wearing the same express
sion Of e>crcmc perplexity. In order
20 speak he had to take the dagger
from his mouth. but in oil else he re-
inclined unmoved.
Jim" says he, IL reckon we're
foTIed. you and me. aud wen have to
sign articles. I'd have had you but for
that there lurch: but l don't have no
luck. not 1; and I reckon I'll have TO
strike. which comes hard. you see, for
master mariner to a ships younker
like you, Jim"
was drinking In his words and smil-
ing away, as conceited as a cock upon
walk. when. all In breath. back went
his right hand over his shoulder. Some
thing sung like an arrow through the
cir. ! felt a blow and then a sharp
papg. and there I was pinned by the
shoulder to the mast. In the horrid
pain and surprise Of the moment-I
scarce can say IL was by my own wolf
ton. and ! am sure IL was without n
conscious aim-both my pistols went
on. and both escaped out of my hands
They did not fall alone; with choked
cry the cockswain loosed his grasp upon
the shrouds and plunged head first into
the water.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17

Genius is loftier quality than talent in
the sense that genius often lives in the attic,
while talent has apartments on the ground
hoor.-Town Topics.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17

Manners are largely deceit's own name for
itself-Detroit Journal.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
A RETROSPECT.
The Man of Years Gives the Youth .
Little Food for Rumi-
nation.

81 was thinking" said the man who had
just given deep sigh, "of the departed days
OF youth"
"Ah, yes," answered his companion, as he
stroked his downy mustache; youth Is the
springtime of life; the period when all our
ideals are undimmed."
1T is, it is. IL is the time when the
blossoms are fresh and fair, with no sus-
picion of the blight which may come to harm
the fruit"
II suppose that when a man gets a lit
-lAax IAs-nsrs. say-er-hke yourself.
deal if he could only turn
sde or So"
po use denying II;
feeling gloomy
days whenJ
~Bismar
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17

You will be disabled by Rheumatism. Use
st. Jacobs Oil and cure il.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
Fool Her.

I'VE must lay in an extra supply off-
this winter said the credulous business
man while talking to his practical wife the
other evening. The cornhushs are un-
usually thick, and that means a long, hard
winter"
who told you?'
The man we always buy coal FROM"
II thought so. We will Just give the
usual order."-Detroit Free Press.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17

VIII it cure? Use st. Jacobs Oil for lame
back and you'll see.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
WHAT WE LIVE FOR
Dr. Talmage breaches on What Our
Lives Slould Be.
Thc object cf OUr Existence Down
10 the End should he Action
Paradise L. only for
the Workers.

Washington. Nov. II. - To all hose
Iho feel that they have no csI, cial
! mission in the world, this sermon of
DIR. Talmagc will come a. a che ring
,crelatiOn; text, John xviii, 81: ITO
this end WAS born"
After Plate has suicidrd. trad tion
SAYS that his body Was thrown int" the
Fiber. and such storms cnsucd on and
about that river that his body WAS
| taken out and thrown into the Rhone
and similar disturbances swept that
liver aud It's banks. Then the body was
taken out aud moved to Lausanne and
lGt into deeper pool, which immcdi-
airly became the center of similar at
mosphcric and aqueous disturbances.
Though these are fanciful and false
traditions, they show the cNrcra;ion
with which the world looked upon
rilatc. 1t was before this man, when
lac was in full life and power, that trrist
was arTa@u,d a. in the court of oyer
rnd tcrmiutr. PLATE said to his prison
cr: Art thou ii king, them and
Jesus answered: TO this end was |
lorn." Sure enough. although all earth
and hell arose to keep him down, lac is
today ,mpalaccd. euthroncd and coro-
neted king of earth and king of iieGv-
en-. That is what lie came for and that
is what he accomplished.
by the time a child reaches ten wears
Of age the parents begin TO discover
that child's destiny. but by the time he
or she reaches 10 Years of age, the ques-
lion is on the child's lips: What shall
dc? What am going to be? What
was | made forn" Ii j. a SENSIBLE and
righteous question. and the youth ought
10 keep asking il until il is so fully an
Swcrrd that the Young man or young
woman can say with rs much truth as
lis author. though on less expansive
scale: TO hi, rud was born"
There j. too ruch divine skill shown
j.. the ply steal, mcntai and moral coh-
btitution of the ordinary human being
60 suppose that he was constructed
without any divine purpose. II you
take me out on some vast plain and
show me pillarcd temple surmounted
hy dome like ST. Peters and having a
floor Of precious stones and arches that
must have taxed the brains of the great
st draughtsman to design, and walls
scrolled and niched and paneled and
wainscoted and painted. and | should
;,sk you what this building was pat up
Tor and you answered For nothing a
ell" how could believe you? Ant: il is
impossible for me to believe that any
ordinary human being who has III his
muscular. nervous and cerebral orsani-
2ation more wonders than Christopher
Wren lifted In st. Paul's. or aPhdias
ever chiselrd on the Acropolis. aud built
in surh a way that il shall last
Z.
Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-11-17
NAPOLEON'S LAST WORDS.

FRO DE Continued
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-27
The Debut Of the BOvte Knife.

To the public mind duels were really
a necessity. The man who would not
fight sat the drop of hat and drop it
himself" was soon made to feel that he
had very much better not have been
born.
There were progressive duels too,
from which the popular mind no more
revolted than it does In this era from
progressive whist or euchro. 1t was one
of them which gave Bowie and his
knife to fame. In some way there had
como to be bad blood, black and bitter,
between him and certain Colouel
Norris Wright. After long pickering,
it was agreed to meet upon the leyee
opposite Natchez, Miss, each with half
a dozen friends, duly armed, and there
shoot the matter out. There were doz-
en- on each side when it came to fight
ing. The battle was arranged to begin
with threes, the rest standing by. and
coming in only when those of the first
fight were dead or disabled. But they
had miscalculated their own self con-
troll After the first fire there was a
general melee-the reserves to man
gripped pistols hard, drew knife belts
to a handy clutch and went into the
combat to do or die.-Martha McCul-
loch- Williams in Harper's Magazine.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-27
The Climate of the Philippines.

In regard to the climate which for
eigner encounters it is easy to exagger-
ate it's discomforts Although it is
tropical, still even in summer the eli
mate may be called healthy. From De-
cember to March there are warm days,
with cool nights and little rain. Dur
ing March, April and May the days are
hot, dry and dusty, while the thermom-
eter rises to SO degrees at noon, but the
nights are not uncomfortable. In the
latter part of May and Of June there are
thunderstorms every afternoon with a
tremendous downpour of rain. The
greatest heat occurs in these months,
the thermometer rising frequently to
1915 degrees in the shade. July, August
and September are the months of the
great typhoons, and while Manila es-
capes the greatest fury of these still
enough of their force remains to demol-
ish many houses. During October and
November storms lessen in frequency
and severity, and the weather gradual
ly settles into the fine days of Decem-
ber.-Isaac M. Elliott in Scribner's.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-27
Heroism Of tho Fishermen,

It is always with vague regret that
WI read the sagas. and are thrilled by
the Vikings exploits. It seems as If the
deeds of daring had gone by forever,
and as if the heroes of the deep were
myth Of the past. Absorbed in the
Morse romance, we forget that the vik-
ings were only pirates, and that they
dared for slaughter and for booty. If
the Gloucester Of today had only existed
then, what heroic saga would it not
have inspired! For to risk life for glory
or riches or rescue or love is in the
heart Of every man to do, but to risk
life for bare existence, for other PEG.
ple's profit and for an anonymous end
partakes Of that commonplace sublimity
which does not form the favorite plot Of
poets, although once in awhile it is the
subject Of daily paragraph.
For the vikings are not dead. From
Portland to New Orleans our harbors
are full Of them. They lounge upon our
wharfs, and we do not recognize them.
They loiter on our streets, and we know
them not. But if there is = more mod.
est, unconscious, or Drawer fellow than
Jack the Fisherman, our eyes have yet
to rest upon his face. He is the hardest
and most daring, the best sailor in the
world today. Any continental kingdom
would give it's wealth to possess him for
its defense. He is the envy of every
maritime nation. Has he no value for
us, beyond the halibut and the cod, the
paddock and the cusk?-Herbert D.
Ward in Century.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-27

General Markets.

New York, July ~.
rIOI-R-State and western dun ana lowei
IN sell: winter patents, S4.ua+''' "in'e 81
straivhts. a. 45a4.55 Minnesota patents @4'"
mn winter extras, S3.40a3M ~,
WHEAT No. red ruled weak an 'h'
forenoon because of lower cables ana more
i;haral REGENTS west; July, 1Ga1Sc.; September
7l4a71 l3-l6c. ~. Riff
falo. ,;or .hrougb realiz.
I'M, and scattered rains September o'A''74c'
December, 3Gac. .ro,l
oATS-No. dull and barely steady; 'rach
white. state, 3la31c.; track, white WESTERN ID
PORK Steady; mess, Sloalo.:'; FANNY
LARD-Quet; prime western steam s'''
nIITTER 49, Firm; state dairy, l"1aaio'ac'
state creamery, l4al719c.
Enthusiastically; large, white '1ac-' S'''a'i
white, sac. ,,,,,,n;o 1lu
i'e ci-cAR - Raw firm; fair refining o'ee;
7trifnanl. 06 test, 41sc.; refined firm; crusheu
h7lc.: powdered, $3.50. o-,<,
MOI. ASSES Steady; New Orleans ~o YS,'on
RICE-S Steady; domestic, H'sao94c'' '"p''''
57labi8c. .... a;,, alla3sec.: country
3,4a3'sc. ,,,,,,;n, mn tDc good to choice
lhn1UC.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-27
His Only Opportunity.

"Hattie, said the clerk at the blan-
ket counter in the department. store.
speaking rapidly and in an undertone,
"iust a moment. Will you-what is it,
sir? Harness department? Six aisles
down-Hattie, do you think you could
furniture, madam? Third floor. Take
the elevator-Hattie, I'd like to know
handkerchiefs ma'am? Third counter
to your right. Blankets, sir? Right
here. Wait on you in a moment-Hat-
tie, will you marry me?"
eyes, Tom," whispered the girl at
the notion counter, still tapping with
her pencil on the showcase. "Ca-a-a-a-
a.ash y"-Chicago Tribune.