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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

on the "pickaninny' plan and look
something like our narrow gauge loco
motives The carriages are of three
classes, all being divided alike into
three compartments, with an outside
gangway. Each compartment will seat
eight persons. and the first class car
riages have comfortable cane chairs,
while the second and third classes have
wooden benches.
All the buildings along the line are
of first rate quality, and they are large
and roomy. The Manila depot is a well
arranged two story wooden structure
with great train sheds in the rear The
general Offices are located in the second
story of the building There are 2S 9th
er depots on the road and they are all
of uniform type, although they differ
in size.
The machine shops of the road are at
Caloocon, four miles from Manila,
where General Manager Higgins has
his residence. With the exception of
few English overseers, the road is oper-
ated by natives, who work for salary
of less than $50 per month.
The rates on all kinds of traffic are
considerably lower than ordinary rates
for corresponding distances in the Unit
ed States. Sugar and rice form the
great bulk of the tonnage. At present
there are thee freight and three pas
senger trains each way daily, and the
passenger trains cover the 1870 miles in
about eight hours. An ordinary passen-
ger train is composed of eight or ten
coaches, half Of which are third class,
and these are usually filled with natives
on short journeys The passenger rate
varies from 2 to cents in gold per
mile. There are at present no statistics
as to the original cost or present finan-
cial standing of the road.
The line Of the road traverses diago.
nally continuous level or slightly roll.
ing area and passes through the six
provinces of Luzon-namely, Manila,
Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Nueva
Ecija and Pangasinau Imagine vide
level landscape with the view inter
cepted at many points and often entire
ly shut off by groves of bamboo, some
times 90 feet high, and in and around
the groves dense thickets of tangled
shruDbery open spaces filled with i'm
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01
Bundy'S Shoe Store,
c. B. WEEKS, Manager.
As Main Street.
The Little Giant
Fire ExtinguiSher.

Price So each. The Little Giant gets
better results on fire than xtingushers ost-
ing from SIS to $25 The only fire extin-
guisher Endorsed a, d used by the Fire and
Marine Insurance Companies. as a whole, in
New ork City; also used in the New York
Fire Department. Every Municipal building
belonging to New York City is equipped with
this extinguisher; aso adopted and used by
the United States Navy and United states
Army Light cheap, simple, durable and
efficient.
Have extinguished hundreds of accidental
fires in the past two years. Ntver fails to
put OFT fire. Needs no care or attention.
Any child can work it. No acids are used
and no gases are generated until the solution
comes in contact with fire, thus preventing
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

Rural New Yorker an apple, seed
ling of the Gravenstein, of which Mr..
Burbank wrote as follows:
"By this mail send you medium
to small sample of my new Gravenstein
Seeding, six weeks later than its parent,
ripening exactly with Baldwin and
Rhode Island Greening The tree is q
grand grower and as productive as an
apple can possibly be. l think the quail
ity, tenderness and texture remarka-
BILE.
OF the specimen in question, half
section of which is illustrated, The
Rural says The apple was slightly
shriveled when it was received. The
flesh is yellowish, exceedingly tender,
spicy, rich, subacid 1t has flavor all
its own, and we do not think, taking it
all and all, that we have ever eaten an
apple that more nearly approaches all
that we need ever hope to get in an
apple. In appearance and coloring we
may say, in a word, that it resembles
the Ben Davis
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

supplies Of food and ammunition were
stored within the strong stone walls
For four days and nights they kept the
Insurgents at bay, but the water supply
was gone, and there were no signs of
rain as it was the dry season.
Two days longer the garrison held
out and then retreated under cover of
darkness to the cemetery chapel, no
doubt believing that they were safe
from the vengeance of the natives I'M
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

Spanish grants of land, its priests be-
ing paid from the money extorted from
the natives through excessive taxation
and customs fees. The church as it ex-
lists here today is not the true Catholic
church. There are many ecclesiastical
orders here, some of them being strictly
native and naturally in sympathy with
the insurgents. 1t is to some of these
ecclesiastical orders that the real cause
of these native uprisings is largely due.
WILLIAM GILBERT IRWIN
Manila.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

Just before Senator Morrill, left the
senate for the last time he received as
gift handsome solid silver soup tureen
taken from the Cristobal Colon. The
tureen had engraved on the side of it
the letters &C. c." Senator Morrill,
noticed the letters, said that they stood
for Charlie Clark and sent the dish to
the famous battleship, the Oregon, where
it is now doing duty. Mr.. Morrill, and
Capt. Clark were well acquainted
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01
OUTLAW. BANDS.
A Vendetta vows TO kill an American Soldier
every week.

There ale inany native outlaw or
CARNATIONS on these islands, and at
first we credited this outlawry to the
natives as "A class, but we have learned
our mistake. They are not confined to
any one class, foreigners as we'll as ma
tives being members Of the various
bands.
Probably the greatest of these organ
izations is the Maccabebes, who are
especially strong in Manila and on the
island Of Luzon Almost every night
these organized freebooters find victims
in the city and suburbs. Chinese Span
iards, natives and Americans all fall
prey to these outlaws. Lately they have
made vow to kill at least one Ameri-
can soldier each week, and they have
been succeeding in their resolve The
death Of the Maccabebe organization in
Manila will be only the question Of a
few months, for our officials are now
hot on the trail of it's leaders There are
other lawless classes of natives on these
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

AT this season OF the year good many
people are wanting to know where to 90
to escape the severe winter weather.
The climate OF North Carolina is particu.
larry pleasant during the winter months.
1t is not so warm as the climate of Flor.
ida and yet it offers relief from the severe
weather of this locality Southern
Pines, N. c., is newly founded village
where hundreds OF Northern people are
solournlng. We advise the reader to
take a run down to that locality and see
what it is like during the winter months.
The railway fares cost but little and
Piney Woods Inn, the new big hotel, an
elegant hostelry will care for you at
moderate rates.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01

An enterprisine South London under
taker displays in his window this notice:
why walk about IN misery when YOU
can be decenlly buried tor 30s. ?"-[ Tit.
Bits.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01
A Soldiers Retrospect.

The following poem was written by
the poet OF the Third Tennessee regiment
U. S. ", while the regiment was ENJOY
ing (?) camp life at Chickamauga in the
summer OF 1898. 1t was first published
in the Chattanooga Times.
Backward. turn backward o'time in your
fight
Feed me on grub again just for night;
am so weary of sole leather steak,
Petriied hard tack a sledge would not
break, 1T
Tomatoes and beans in watery bath,
Sow belly as strong as Goliath OF Cain;
Weary of starving on what can't eat
Chewing on rubber and calling 1t meat.
Backward turn backward, for weary am,
Give me taste of grandmothers jam;
Let me drink milk that has never been
SKINNED,
Let me eat butter whose hair has been
trimmed,
Let me eat once again an old fashioned pie,
Then I'll be ready for Cuba and die.
Leander G. Cole, one OF the wealthiest
residents of Oakland, Cal, was stricken
with paralysis Feb. II. He is native
Is hdo,tDol;ar ond well RENE m bPred bV
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-01
The New Empire Separator

Terms Easy; few parts to oil and few to
wash. say it Is the best and my word 10
eebiiecd TO take It. An examination Of t nTs
machine and those of my competitors shows
the truth of my statement.
1T rs ABSOLUTELY THE h EST.
D. c. GAGE
Agent for this county.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
LOUIS PHILIPPE IN EMILE.
He Wanted to Marry An American
Girl, but Her Father Objected.

4 merchant prince was great man
In old Philadelphia far grelter man
than the master of little school, even
though II were the most select in the
city--even though the teacher were All
exiled French gentleman Of royal
blood, Duke of Orleans then, King
Louis PHILIPPE in after years
The story OF how the princefy
schoolmaster courted the charming
Abigail daughter of Thomas Willing.
is related with new detail in a recent
number of the Ladies Home Journal.
Dressed in his best, and probably, not
withstanding that he was a modest and
sensible young man. little in fear OF
an unfavorable response, the exiled
prince called on the American mer-
chant, and asked him for his daughter
There was, perhaps. more pride than
humility in the answer he received;
Sir should You ever be restored 10
your hereditary position, you viii be
too great a match fcr my daughter II
not, she Is too great a match for YOU
So the poor schoolmaster went
away disappointed, and, although only
his position" and the lady's appear 10
have been considered by the hard
hearted parent, IL is probable that il
Mistress Abigail had not agreed With
his opinion she would have made her
influence felt AS i, was, Louis Phil
ippe married the Princess Marie
Amelie daughter of the King OF
Naples, while Abigail Willing, OF Phil
adelphia, who might have been Queen
OF France, became flain Mrs Richard
Peters.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
EXAMINER KIDD SAYS THEY
ARE PROSPEROUS.
CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION
Private and State Banks Increasing
So Fast AS To Almost ImQeril
Their Stability and Earning Pow
ers-Legislature Should Be AL
lowed to Make Banking Laws.

The largest and most valuable re-
port yet issued from the state banking
department was filed with Gov. Sco-
field Thursday. The report shows a
remarkable growth of state and pri-
vate banks, and an encouraging deyel-
opment in every line of the business.
One danger, however, Mr.. Kidd sees
The rapid increase In the number of
banks and the resulting close compe-
tition, may result, he thinks, in i'm
pairing their stability and earn
ing capacity. Mr.. Kidd urges another
effort to secure the passage OF a bank
Ing law similar to the one defeated at
the recent election. The objections to
that measure, he says, are to It's minor
features. Mr. Kidd also suggests an
amendment to the constitution max
ing it possible for two-thirds or three
banking laws, without it being neces-
sary to submit them to the people.
The report follows;
I'm compliance with law | herewith
especially submit the seventh semi
.nnual report of this department ex-
ibiting the financial condition of
he several state, private and savings
banks OF Wisconsin, at the close OF
business ON December !, 1898, from
reports made to this office
"The changes since the last report
OF May 5. 1898, are as follows New
state banks: State bank, location Kiel.
capital. s25,000 Commercial State
bank, Neillsville, s25 1000; New private
banks: Bank OF Iron River, Iron
River, $4,000; Union bank, Winnie
come, no capital; Bank of La Fargo,
La Fargo, $4,000 Bank of Union
Grove, Union Grove, no capital; Bank
of Lake Nebagamon, Lake Nebaga-
mon, $4,000. The following banks
have ceased business: State banks:
Bank OF Kewaunee, Kewaunee, $685.
600; Bank of Iron River. Iron River,
$4,000; Private banks: V. Il. Hunts
ECKER, Nellsvllle, $4,000; Bank OF
Mellen, Melen, s1,92973; Bank oi
Melrose. Melrose, S12,SS4,44 Bank ot
Winneconne, Winneconne $4,000.
The bank of Algoma at Algoma,
changed to a state bank. Its capital
is $4,000
The aggregate resources and la
bilitles OF the state, private and saw
ings banks on the date of this re-
port are as follows:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
MAGi> "o.u.,l - RAIN.
Barren Australian Plains Are Sud
denly Transformed

The whole of the interior Of Austria
liza moi, as some people appear TO
think, a desert. II is trayersed by
river courses, such as those of the
Finke, Barcoe and Warburton, all
dralning southwark toward Lake Eyre.
Nothing could be more striking than
the contrast petwen the dry and wet
season, states Professor Baldwin
Spencer, who visited central Australia
on scientific mission last year.
In the former one travels mile after
mlle, over bare, stony plains, with
scarcely mile oil plant or animal
life. The sun beats down holly on
shining fields OF brown and purple
stones. crossed every now and hen by
thin bands oil dreary looking mulga
trees.
Such plants as there are aare com
paratlvely few and far apart, AS to
che animals, they have TO survive as
best they can: ants, flies and grass
hopers exist in countless numbers and
aord food to lizards, and perhaps to
smaller marsupial rats and mice.
In the rainy season, which may oc-
eur only once in eighteea months,
every thing Is changed From the high
lands in the center and from every
range of hills the water rushes down
in torrents Vast areas, previously
impossible by reason of drought, now
become impossible from food With
IN n few hours the whole scene is
changed. The water has loosened the
hard ground, and countless animals
have appeared,
Clap pans and water holes are noisy
with the eroaking of frogs; crustace-
ans hatch out with wonderful rapdity
from eggs which have lain on the dry
small molIusks buried in clay are re-
leased and every. inhabltant OF land
and water sets TO work TO make the
best of its short life.
The ground within day or two is
green With the leaves of countless
seedlings. which grow rapidly; birds
appear as If by magic. and the once
dry and silent country is now bright
with flowers and foliage and animals
all decked out In their liveliest colors
After perhaps a few days the rains
cease ana the waters quickly become
confined TO the river channels. scour-
ing out holes here and there, where 6
small supply viii remain for time
/ after the shallower parts have al
T dried UP
As the water disappears eyerythin.
returns to its arid state, and It Is onl!
/ those acimals and plants that hav,
( succeeded in reaching n sufficiently ad
yauced stage OF growth that have an!
+ chance OF surviving The weaklingi
among the plants are quickly killed of
1 Pail Mall Gazette
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
FOREIGN.

Fifty gamblers commit suicide al
Monte Carlo each year.
Baron of Kedleston, the new vice
roy OF India, and family have arrived
AT Calcutta.
Russia is reported TO be negotiat-
ing for her loan of $150,000,000 with
the Rothschilds.
Count Goluchowski, 1t is said, Is
about To resign as foreign minister
of Austria-Hungary.
All least six duels were fought as a
result of the recent disputes in the
hungarian diet.
cabiegram from Hanoi. Tonkin
confirms the news Of clash between
the French and Siamese.
Revolutionary socialists in Paris
have organized committees to watch
for the expected coup d'etat.
Aguinaldo is said to have ned' with
few followers, TO an inaccessible
region because he fears assassination
Lord Salisbury has proposed &c
France that a joint commissioa be
appointed for the delimitation oil
frontiers in Africa
General Rios cables 10 Madrid thai
he has surrendered lioilo, the last
stronghold OF the Spaniards in the
Philippines He surrendered TO the
insurgents
1t Is stated on the best authority
in Rome that the pope has issued d
formal order directing that attacks on
the ecclesiastical policy termed
"Americanism' must cease.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
WHO CARRIES THE GUM

Who carries the gum
A lad from over the Tweed
Then let him go, for we'll We know
He comes OF a soldier breed.
So drink together to rock and heathei
Out where the red-deer run,
And stand aside for Scotland
pride
The man who carries the gun
Who carries the gum
A lad from the Emerald Isle
Then let him go, for well We know
We've tried him for many a While,
We tried him East. we tried him Yves,
We've tried him sea aud land;
But the man 10 beat old Erin's best
Has never yet been planned
"A. Conan Doyle
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05

figuring out his trip. The design is
from life. Some time ago we'll
known Chicago artist, while waiting
for train in the depot at Ogden,
Utah, noticed travelling man stand
ing before a wall map OF the Rock
island road studying out his route
The artist made sketch OF the man
and map and sent it to General Pas
senger Agent sebastian. who was so
struck with the picture that he i'm
mediateiy adopted 1t as a trade mark
for the road. several thousand OF
the little statues will be sent over the
country for advertising purposes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05

cism, were. in the main, OF minor i'm
portance. Most, II not all, of thu
criticisms which were directed aea;nst
the measure can be fully satisfied
without in any way impairing its most
important features. and respectful
ly suggest a further effort to secure
the enactment of carefully formu-
lated revision of the banking law at
the coming session OF the legislature,
to be again submitted to vote of the
people.
In this connection / would further
suggest the advisability of an amend
ment to the constitution providing
that two-thirds or three
fourths vote Of the members of the
legislature may enact laws for the
regulation and control of the business
of banking, without the necessity OF
submitting such acts to a vote OF the
people. AS the result of an investigR-
ton of the methods in force, con-
trolling such legislation in other
states, find that in nearly all states
of the union banking laws are enacted
either by majority vote of their re-
spective legislatures or by two
thirds vote of all the members-elect
Among the former, | find the states OF
Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Kan
sas and Nebraska; and among the lat
ter the states of New York and Mich
igan. The national banking law
is also altered or amended
by majority vote of the
national congress. Frequent changes
in the banking laws are not desirable.
yet, taking into consideration the
well-known conservatism of the citi-
zens of our state, 1t would seem rea-
sonably safe to permit any legislature
which its voters may elect to enact
laws of this character without fear OF
jeopardizing either banking interests
or the interests of the people.
The examination of banks which
is now being made shows steady i'm
provement in their financial condition
and where, in Individual instances, II
becomes necessary to require the
adoption of more systematic and bus
mess like methods in the keeping of
accounts, and the charging off of bad
or worthless paper, ETC., these de-
mands are as a rule cheerfully COM
piled with.
THE constantly Increasing number
OF banking situations, (now number
ing 24S) and the additional labor in
volved in the supervision of the build
ing and loan associations, (now num-
bering $50 which were by act of the
Legislature of 1897 placed under the
supervision of this office, renders the
present force inadequate to efficient
ly perform the duties required. The
labor involved is double that which +
required of national bank examiners
or examiners in other states where
supervision OF state banks prevails,
and, | will add is far less expensive
than that of any other state In the
union where like duties are required
| would therefore suggest that the
chief clerk be empowered to make
examinations of banks at such times
as the clerical work in the Office will
permit. This would be of material
aid in the making OF examinations
and would be accomplished with but
little il any additional cost TO the
state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
FILIPINO GIRL.

\ correspondent Of the Kansas City
star says the Filipino girl is "as ugls
as sin Those who can afford It
dress in thin. gauzy stun, diaphanous
ana iridesccut fabric woven from sill;
mixture OF pineapple lea, The Fiji
Pine girls wear their thick, black,
glossy hair done MP In rolls much Hike
the Chinese and Japanese women On
thei feet are wooden slippers which
cliek. click. click ON the Haestones as
they trip along the street sometimes
with a basket OF something balanced
on heir heads, and again with a huge
Manila cigar between heir lins
stained with betel nut
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05

By comparing the number and con-
d4uou of The banks reporting on No
yember 6, 1897. which reports We're
shown in the December report OF that
year, the following increase is shown:
Number of banks on Nov ., 1898,
State 1870: Private. no. Savings, 1;
total. pa, on Dec /. 1898, State, 1888;
Private; ia. total, PAS; total increase
= Of which 3 are state and private
banks.
1T will be seen from the above Ia
BILE that the aggregate increase in re-
rources is ss.423,7 90; loans and dis
counts, s4.267 ,576.T2: deposits, SS.S31
il4SS; and available cash, 1880. $751;
a. rhe increase in the items OF re-
sources loans and discounts and de-
posts is by far the largest which has
been made in any previous equaI
length Of time in the history of the
state have at all times strongly
urged EQon bank officials the necessi-
Is for charging on all had or worth
less pager The decrease OF surplus
and profits amounting To the sum OF
So. 1916, notwithstanding the large
increase in the volume OF business. il
evidence that this policy Is being fol
lowed The aggregate cash reserve Il
now 3S.6S per cent q slight decrease
since the making OF my June report;
such decrease being the practical re
suit OF the large increase IN loans anC
discounts
The increase and decrease in the re
sources, loans aud discounts, capital
etc, during the period covered by thii
report are as follows, all suns men
I t,oned being increases except those fol
lowed by the word decrease: Privat,
banks Resources. 1853 $50 St.
loans and discounts. sS2+2. e0l7a. cap.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05

~ Ike that young Hicks said Eth
els father He's the kind OF mau
that doesn, know more han do"
Yes" returned Ethel's mother.
but 40 you think young man who
Knows as little as that viii ever get on
"a the world"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED.

New York, Dec 29.---The Herald says
the engagement OF Miss Virginia Fair
and William X. Vanderbilt, Jr.. was
formally announced yesterday.