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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
Snap Shots at Franklin,

All day Friday Benjamin kiln
sat for pictures in the big chair ON top
of the. granite pedestal that rests on
the Chestnut street pavement of the
p~ostofice. Like an actor, actress or pu-
gilist of the present day, he was taken
from all sides, full face and profile.
1t was a case of constantly keeping his
eye on a sign on the south side of
Chestnut street and looking pleasant,
for hardly an hour went by without
somebody, male or femaie, taking a
plate picture or swapping a shot of the
man who figured so prominently in the
nations affairs of the last century.
The pictures will probably all turn out
we'll, for the sun was just right, and it
is certain that the subject did not spoil
any OF them, for he sat perfectly still
throughout the ordeal. 1t is a wonder
he did not stir, however, when a man
was run up to the front of the statu,
in an automobile propelled by the mys-
terious electricity which Franklin
helped to make known to the world.
and with a small camera took a snap
shot Of the eminent man in bronze
Philadelphia Record,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09

former customs. The splendid Lions"
described in THE Thousand and One
Nights are still to be seen; the ia
nous gardens still bloom; while the
people have chung to the costuming of
the times of Omar and Anoo Shirsin.
The people wear the turban and the
abba, a kind of overcoat made of cam
els hair. The women know not the
tailor-made. Today they insist on en-
veloping themselves in their impene-
trable veil, which hides their faces
even from their own family. And you
will still see floating on the Tigris the
same old boats, or kouffa, that might
have floated any time 1000 years and
more. These boats are made of straw
and date-tree mats, covered with
pitch, and look exactly like the float
ing basket in which Moses was found.
To sail down the Tigris is a veritable
dream of pleasure, for the banks are
lined with beautiful trees, and in
spring time the climate is delicious.
One can imagine the scene being cine
autographed on the panorama princi-
pie at the Alhambra or Empire.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
A BOSTON

The stranger from the country, com
ing to Boston for the first time, gets off
the train at the Union station, feeling
very much confused and lost in the IN
accustomed din and hustle of large
city.
He finds his way through the crowd
ed station to the sidewalk in front, and
now he is worse off thar ever. Here
are cars going in every conceivable di-
rection, and how under the sun can he
tell which one he wants?
In this emergency he spies a man in
uniform, who stands near the edge of
the walk, blowing a whistle now and
then. To him he goes with all his
troubles, and is quickly set straight.
The man in uniform is Edward La
vim, starter for the Elevated Railroad
at the North Union station. His rec
ord is thirty-two years continuous
service, attested by the six blue stripes
he wears on his sleeve. For more than
twelve years Mr.. LAWN has occupied
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
IN LAMPS.
There Has Not Been as Much Develop
ment as Might be Supposed.

There Has Not Been as Much Develop
ment as Might be Supposed.
The story of lamps from Herodotus
down to 1880, Henry C. Mercer says,
in an instructive study on Light and
Light Making" in the contributions of
the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, His
torical Society, is not 1ne of develop
ment. In principle and form they re-
main the same, whether as the tin
cylindrical or boat-shaped cups on
candlestick pedestals and the round
tin cups with hemispherical lids, or the
lieiess cups resting on wooden stands
such as were recently rescued. by the
author from the garnet rubbish of old
Bucks county. And before Herodotus,
as we follow the lamp back into the
tombs of the old world, we find the
boat-shaped form of earthenware pre-
ceding the boat-shaped form of iron
and possibly even that of bronze. The
chalk cup lamp found by Canon
G~reenwell In the neolithic flint mines
at Grimes Graves, England, perhaps the
Oldest wick lamp in the world, is not
essentially different from the oyster
shell filled with lard and provided
with wicks that may be found among
Virginia negroes today. The Egyp-
tian, Grecian, Phoenician and Roman
lamps, as they have been found in the
tombs and as we see them in the muse
ums, are not unlike the lard lamps that
were most in use early in the nine
teenth century. Then crude grease
gave way to sperm oil and lard oil,
with especial adaptations of the lamps
that made them more convenient and
improved the light; and burning fluids
that were convenient and clean and
gave a brilliant light, but were danger
GUS; and kerosene, with other improve
ments in the oil that enabled it to give
the most perfect artificial light yet
found, and to keep up the fight for
quality with gas and electricity-all
these having come in within the life
time of men still among us. Besides
the old lamps, our ancestors had
candles, nodded when the price of tin,
the material for the molds, did not for
bid the luxury, and before, them tai
low dips; a suspended wick was dip
ped into a pot of hot tallow, On a cold
day, and the operation was repeated
till layer after layer of grease harden
ed, and the candle was thick enough.
These candles were, however, trouble
some in hot weather, on account of
their propensity to yield to the tenn
perature and fall over. "Who shall
say, however, that candle dipping is
older han molding, when we know
= + = that they nodded candles in
County Galway, Ireland, in late years
by punching holes in peat and pour
ing in tallow on the down-hung wick
of twisted fax fber?" The Irish had,
too, as had the negroes, the rush light,
a creased rush set in a hole in a wood
en- block serving as a candlestick; or
rushes Joined in a triple twist which
flies apart when lighted, increasing the
blaze. From this Mr.. Mercer passes
to forms of candlesticks and torches
and cressets and methods of produc-
ing fire, whittier we cannot follow him,
for the multitude of details he notices,
which will not bear abstracting.-Phil-
adelDhia Times.
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SOLD HIS CHILDREN.

An atrocious case of the selling of
Two chinese girls as slaves has just
startled the people of British Column
bla. Two little girls of tender years
were sold by their father with no more
consideration than if they had been
nogS carcasses. Packed in narrow
boxes, they were delivered like live
STOCK to their destinations. The whole
story is the most brutal of it's kind
that ever occurred on the Pacific coast.
h fact hat white men are impli-
Gated places a crime Of horrible cruelty
IN a worse light. The fact hat for
years Chinese women have been sold
as slaves is well known, but the diff
Guilty has always been in fixing the
crime. The two girls were the pride
OF a mining camp where women are
few. When they disappeared under
mysterious circumstances, within a
few weeks of Il another, every miner
in Quesnelle camp was indignant and
every one tool an interest in ferreting
the mystery to the bottom. Shortly
afterward the whole details came out,
and now the authorities are investigat-
ing the matter with a view to punish
ing the brutes implicated.
An old Chinaman, whose family
name was Quong, was the inhuman
father of the two girls, and it was he
who proited by their sale into slavery.
Twenty years ago Quong was among
the first of the Chinese gold hunters
who went to the rich Cariboo fields,
and there he has lived ever since. For
three or four years he was a prosper
GUS miner among his countrymen. Dur
ing that time he managed to save
enough money from his gold-digging
operations to bring out his wife from
China. But before this he had taken
another woman in with him on a sort
OF common-law partnership. Before
wife No. ! arrived from China, Quong
married this secon woman under the
Canadian law. Hers were the children
whom the brutal father sold into slav-
cry. When Quong's first wife arrived
from her home in China Quong evil
IDENTIFY thought that with the two
women he could not be expected to de-
mean himself with work any longer.
So for over ten years Quong has re-
tired from active personal labor. He
forced the two women to wash gold in
his placer claim during the day, and
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
COMMERCE OF THEPHILIPPiNEs
Sugar and Hemp Are the Principal COM
modities for ExDortatIon.


modities for Expectation.
A population that car never be as
Simulated, and whose most active in
dustry Is rebellion against foreign
domination, promises little in the way
OF progress through internal change
otner than through determination.
This may be accomplished by war, by
labor akin to slavery, or by contact
with a higher civilization and its con-
sequent disastrous results to the weak
er race. Even if the native population
be subdued, they will make unwilling
tollers; If driven out of the larger and
more fertile islands, some form of
labor must take their place. 1t will
not be American. it will not be Euro
pean, Tor 1t cannot be either. 1t must
De Aslatic; and, if left to a free settle
ment, would be Chinese. Yet our laws
as applied to the Hawaiian islands
prohlbit the Introduction of the Chi
nese, n Is 1t right to apply another
rule to the MISREPRESENTATION ter
rltory? Products take care of them
selves. Climate and soil and a mild
pressure of commercial exchanges have
determined that the Philippines should
contribute to the worlds trade a few
leading commodities. The most i'm
portant is hemp, a natural monopoly;
Tor though many species of this plant
are found in the tropics, none pro-
duces the same or as good a fiber as
Is obtained in the Philippines. More
than that, attempts to raise this par
tlcular variety elsewhere have failed.
The value of the exports of hemp in
1897 was s. $500, 600, and a nearly equal
value OF sugar was also exported
$4,000, OOO), these two commodities
making nearly IA per cent of the value
or the total exports. If three other
Items be taken from the export tables
-copra ($2,6S7,9 7S), tobacco in leaf
Sl,323,445), and cigars (S8O5, OOO-
o 81 per cent of the entire export
value is accounted for, and every lead
Ing article entering into the export
moVement.-Harper's Magazine.
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BLACK JAKE, OUTLAW
BIG REWARD FOR HIM DEAD
OR ALIVE.
An Outlaw from Youth who Has Ter
rorized Arizona and New Mexico His
Career of Crime in Arizona Worth
Five Thousand Dollars.

Black Jake, the Arizona desperado,
is worth $4,000 to the nan who takes
him either dead or alive. This outlaw,
who has been terrorizing Arizona and
New Mexico for several years, has sue
~cessfully eluded the detectives and
cowboys who have been on his trail.
Black Jake has been a tough from
boyhood and committed his first mur
der when but 20 years old. He was
left 81, 500 by a relative in 1893, and
spent all the money in a month in
Phoenix and Yuma. Then he drifted
down to Sonora, Mexico, and the few
people who remember him thought he
was probably dead down there until
the news came that he was the head
OF a reckless gang of bandits who were
after gold coin at the sacrifice of any
life that bafled their efforts.
About August 8, 1896, several men
employed in the general merchandise
store of the Hualipi Mining Company.
two miles north of Kingman, Arizona,
were reused from their MONDAY siestas
behind the counters one hot, blistering
day, by four cowboys who walked in
and asked to see some saddles. One
of the store men started to go upstairs
to show the strangers his stock of sad
dies. The others were too warm and
sleepy to move, but the moment they
saw each of the supposed purchasers
whip out two long, murderous revolv-
ers at full cock they were instantly
very much awake.
When each of the store men looked
into the muzzle of a pistol as if into
the mouth of a railroad tunnel he saw
that he and his store companions were
in the hands of bandits. While one
bandit, a tall, dark complexioned fell
low, with deep-set eyes and mammoth
tattooed stars on his hands, went
about the store seeking money and
transportable ~valuables, the store men
were kept looking at very close range
into the muzzles of cooked revolvers.
In ten minutes, perhaps, some $l,400
in coin was taken, for there is not the
convenience of bank deposits in from
tier settlements.
Then the storekeepers were bound
and gagged. One of them, John A.
Bishop, resisted, and in the scrimmage
was stabbed to death. The bandits
bound the other men tighter, and,
fastening out, were o o on their bron-
cos outside. Before any of the len
in the store could get loose and give
the alarm the bandits were miles away
on the alkali desert, where no one but
a few poor, starved Hualipi Indians
live in a territory of about 700 square
miles.
The sheriff had no sooner set out to
seek the bandits thar the information
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
SOON TO BE FREE.
MRS. MAVERICK NOW SURE OF
RELEASE.
Her Arrest as Sensational as the prey-
fus Case-Injustice Done an American
Woman by an English Court-Story of
Her Case.

After ten years in Aylesbury Jail, in
England, charged with poisoning her
husband, Mrs. Florence Maybrick
stands at last in the shadow of free
dom. The efforts of the American
government, the press of that country
and the American ambassador to Eng
land, Joseph H. Choate, are at last to
bear fruit. Ever since his arrival in
Londo Mr.. Choate has taken the
greatest interest in Mrs. Maybrick's
case and has several times talked it
over with Lord Salisbury. A review
OF the case furnished him by j. H.
Levy, n of Mrs. Maybrick's advo-
Gates, has convinced him of the injus-
tice of her Imprisonment, and acting
under instructions from his govern
ment he has determined to see the
case through and secure Mrs. May
bricks freedom.
The Maybrick case in London has
been as celebrated and sensational as
the Dreyfus case in Paris. In both
cases it seems that after years of in
justice both countries are ~endeavoring
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09

About twenty years ago a bright,
pretty American young woman, Miss
Florence Holbrook, arrived in London
and was at once received in the best
society. She was a lovely, vivacious
girl, sought after by the women and
admired by the men. She came from a
good family, was highly educated, and
took an active part in the society gay
cites of London. Among the ac-
quaintances she made was a wealthy
old London merchant, who fell des-
perately in love with the charming
American. So attentive was he that
it was quickly noticed, and soon after
society received the announcement Of
their engagement with considerable
surprise. The wedding was one of the
social events, and after a continental
tour Maybrick and his young bride set
tied down in a beautiful country seat
outside of London. Apparently the
marriage was a happy one. Three
children blessed the union.
NMaybrick died very suddenly and an
investigation revealed the presence of
arsenic in his stomach. Upon this fact
the young wife was arrested and
charged with murder, her children
taken from her, and she was thrown
into prison, pending a trial. The case
excited the most profound excitement.
Influential friends of the accused wom-
an, both of her own nationality and of
England, ~endeavored to secure her re-
lease, but without avail. She was shut
up alone, denied visitors and harassed
for a confession. Her protests of in
nocence were useless. Finally real
lzing her position, she secured learned
counsel and awaited trial. When the
case finally came before the courts the
one thing lacking in the case of the
crown was the proof of motive. 1t is
true the queens counsel endeavored to
show that Mrs. Maybrick was prompted
to rid herself of her aged husband and
secure his estates, but there was abso-
lutely nothing to substantiate this ale
cation. On the other side, however,
counsel for Mrs. Maybrick produced
proof to show that her husband had
been a confirmed arsenic eater and that
his death was due to this habit. Med
zeal experts verified the statements of
the accused wife, yet in spite of the
testimony she was convicted and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment. The YER
dict and sentence created as much ex-
element as her arrest. Influences were
Immediately set to work to have the
case retired. The American govern
ment, through it's ambassador, took an
active part and has continued to do
SO ever since Mrs. Maybrick's conyic-
ton.
Sir. Jas. Stephen, who presided at the
trial, vas afterward declared incompe-
tent and forced to resign from the
bench, but in view of this Mrs. May
brick vas kept in prison. Soon after
her Imprisonment her baby died. Her
other two children, a son and daugh-
ter, have been denied to her from the
day she was taken from the court
room. Pictures of them, which are
taken once a year, are sent to her, but
neither of the children has been al
lowed inside the prison gates. The boy
is being educated by relatives, while
the girl has been adopted by a we'll
known London physician.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
A Unique Violin.

A unique violin has been made by a
Missouri man. The back is of cherry
from a table more than a century old,
which formerly belonged to the How
ard=Payne College. In the center of
the back are inserted twenty-one
pieces of wood from the Holy Land,
one being from a grapevine that grew
in the Garden of Gethsemane. Around
the margin are set in a row small
pieces of wood, acknowledged, gath
cred from all over the civilized world.
In one end of the back is inserted a
horseshoe made of castor wood, and
in the other end is the image of a rab-
bit carved in cherry. There are in all
over one hundred and fifty pieces of
wood, and the only tools used in the
manufacture of the instrument were a
pocket knife and a half-inch chisel.-
New York Tribune.
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RIACK Jake

came that the Office force of the Reso-
lutte Mining Company, fifty miles over
toward Ash Fork, had been held I'D.
bound, and gagged by the same gang
on the day previous to the robbery
and murder at Kingman. Some thirty
noes of gold and coin to the amount
of $500 had been stolen from the safe.
In the latter part of the following
month Black Jake and his gang robbed
the bank at the rich cattle and mining
town of Nogales, Arizona. 1t was a
very bold deed. Three entered the
bank. One covered the president, who
was outside the railing; another
stepped to the window and called the
teller, who was sitting at some dis
lance, and ordered him to hold up his
hands. The teller promptly obeyed,
n started to walk to the window, but
vas stopped before he could get there.
h third man went down to the end
of the railing to get behind it and at
the cash. At the end he saw an open
door leading into a room where sew
eral men were planning an irrigation
scheme. He promptly held them up.
Each man was thus busy holding some
person with his six-shooter, and there
was no one left to shovel the money
into the bag.
Realizing that something must be
done to change the combination, the
man who had the irrigation conven-
ton at bay promptly shut the door on
it. The slamming of the door at
tracted the attention of the gentleman
at the teller's window, and he turned
to see what the trouble was. The in
slant the robber turned, the teller
made a jump for his window, under
meath which, on a shelf, reposed the
bank s~ix-shooter, which he grabbed
and began shooting.
Over one hundred shots were fired
inside of three minutes. Every man
h could get a gun and a horse took
the trail. A skirmish ensued among
the rocks in the Los Animos canyon.
Black Jake lost his horse. but got the
one ridden by the sheriff of Pima coun-
ty and escaped into Sonora, Mexico.
Three months passed and the -Ari-
IONA people began to hope and then
to think that the Black Jake band had
decided to remain permanently in the
republic of Mexico. Late one night. in
January, 1897, when the air was a lit
tie chilly in the semi-tropic regions,
FIVE men i'll masks walked in upon a
faro game at Deming, N. M. Wine
four Of the masked men covered the
eleven gamblers and kept their hanos
away above their heads, the tallest of
the masked men gave his whole at
tention to the cashier of the layout.
That official reached for his pistol. but
he was TOO slow. He was shot in the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-09-09
A
NOW on their Summer Trip In Foreign

~ oh 1htIT SuDlmG Erlu in FOREIGN
Waters.
one OF the most pleasant things
about being an Annapolis cadet is the
chance they have of going on summer
cruises. The second class men are now
aboard an old-fashiOned sailing vessel,
such as was used by our navy before
we mad steam Warships. These young
men are required to do the work OF
Common sailors; in fact, they do every
thing there is to be done on the boat.
Ihey started in June, and will return
in September. They stop for a week
or so at Plymouth, England, and ar
rangements have been made for them
to spend a few days in London. Then
they sail for Lisbon, Portugal, and the
boys are wondering how Spain's neigh
bors will receive them. After that they
go to Gibraltar, and then home again.
Of course there is a good deal Of fun
to be got out of the trip, and a great
deal to see; but it is a part of their
four years course at the naval acad-
envy, and they have to work hard
s%crubbing decks and taking in sails,
and the slightest disobedience is pun
ished. Before they left this country
they stopped off Hampton Roads for a
few days and went through a lot Of
drilling, including the "deserting of the
ship" In this drill the crew puts pro-
visions in the small boats, launch them
and row away toward land, just as they
would have to do if the ship took fire
or were in a sinking condition.
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MADAME LILIJENSTOLPE.

Nine. Marion ~Lilijenstolpe, lust en-
tering upon her work as professor of
swimming at the new athletic club for
women at Chicago, wears two beauti-
full gold medals, of which she is de-
servedly proud. One bears testimony
to her unchallenged championship of
the world, SO far as women swim
mers go, and the other was given her
b ythe hand of King Oscar of Sweden
himself at her graduation from the
Royal Swimming association of Stock
holm.
Few men, indeed, rival Nine. Lili-
jenstolpe in her aquatic feats. Diving
backward from a height of eighty feet,
and turning a somerset before striking
the water, is just a little trick to be
INDUCED in by her upon any casual
occasion. From a height of fifty feet
she goes through the same perform
ance with a depth of only six and a
half feet of water to recover herself
in. Indeed, she has made successful
dives from the same height into a
sheet-iron tank containing but three
and a half feet of water.
One of her prettiest feats, however.
is to lie gracefully on her back, hold a
Japanese parasol in one hand, and fan
herself with the other, while she pro-
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Bones Are Thrown Away if Lot Rent
Is Not Paid.

Bones Are Thrown Away if Lot Rent
Is Not Paid.
Away off in a far corner of the I'M
used part of the cemetery was an in
closure about rs feet square and so feet
deep, with CHASTITY skulls and BID mes in
all conditions of preservation, and
piles of burial cases of all degrees,
from a costly casket down to a cracker
box or an oil-can. This is the inhu-
man name of disposing of the bodies
buried in a plot upon which the rental
is not renewed every three years.
There is ample room that is unused,
SO it is not the lack of space that
causes the disturbing of the rest of the
dead; it must be merely for gain for
the cemetery corporation. In many
cases the bodies of the poor are never
buried at all, but at one side of the
cemetery is a building called the
"dead-house." in which arrangements
are made for burning the bodies with
lime until there is nothing left but the
bones, which are then thrown into
this pit. Thousands upon thousands
were here in a pile that was fully forty
feet deep and as large as the area of
the pit.-Scribner's Magazine.