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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
AGGREGATE MAN AS A WALKER
He Takes a Stroll of 10. o. Miles Every
Second.

From the London Mail: If the av-
tary habits were told that during his
life he had walked as many miles as
would compass the earth at the equator
six times he would probably be much
surprised. And yet such a pedestrian
effort only represents an average walk
OF six miles a day for a period of
sixty-eight years. Similarly, the man
who is content with the daily average
walk of four miles will consider him
self an athlete on learning that every
year he walks a distance equal to a
trip from London to Athens. When
one considers the aggregate walking
records of the world, the figures are
even more surprising. Assuming that
each individual averages a four-mile
walk a day land this cannot be CON
sidered an e~xtravagant estimate when
n remembers that Thomas Phipps
Of bingham has walked 440, 900 miles
on postal duty alone), the startling
conclusion is arrived at that the world
covers a journey of 69,444 miles every
time the clock ticks, night and day.
This means that the worlds walking
record for a second of time is equal
to two trips around the equator and
more than thirteen jaunts between
London and Naples. Every minute
the aggregate mar walks a distance
equal to eight return trips to the noon,
supplemented by over fifteen walks
around the earth's waist In an hour
he could walk as far as the sun and
back again, take a trip to the moor
from the earth) 140 times, while still
leaving himself a stroll Of 1870, 900 miles
to finish the cigar he lit at the COM
mencement of his journey of sixty min
utes. But considering the rate of his
progress, it is probable that even a
slow smoker might require a second
cigar before finishing the walk. In a
single year the aggregate man walks a
distance of 2,190, 000, 600, 900 miles,
which, after all, inconceivably great
as it is, would take him less than one
eleventh part of the way to the nearest
fixed star. 1t is well for the aggregate
mans eXchequer that he walks these
distances instead of covering them by
rail. Ht the rate of a penny a mile, the
worlds annual walk would cost f9, 1885,
600 1000, or ten times as much gold as
is current throughout the entire world.
1t would be necessary to mortgage the
entire United Kingdom to three-fourths
Of its full value.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
FUN in the Philippines.


A typical Yankee trick was played
on the enemy over at Paombong the
other day. There is a church over
there, which is just across a narrow
stream from the house occupied by our
extreme left outpost of tw%enty-eight
men from battery H, Third United
States artillery, who are serving here
as infantry. The sentry on duty on
the church side of the river conceived
the idea of tying a long rope to the
clapper of the bell in the belfry, car
rying the rope over his post in the
road. Just as had been anticipated, tho
Filipinos came sneaking down close to
the church the other morning an hour
or so before daylight. The sentry
heard them coming and promptly rang
the bell. In a twinkling the Filipinos
opened on the belfry, and that and the
church are o well denied by bull
let's. The outpost refrained from an
swering the fire, which was doing no
harm, but after every volley at the
belfry the sentry with the rope gave
the bell two or three frantic peals. Be-
lieving the outpost to be still in the
belfry and sore1y pressed, the insur-
rectos crept nearer and poured in, as
they thought, a still more deadly fire.
All this time the men of the outpost
kept quiet, noting just where the en-.
envy were. At daylight our soldiers
opened so briskly that sixty or seventy
Filipinos found their error and hit the
road briskly back to their own out
post, carrying several wounded men
with them. The handy rope has been
extended to reach across the river.
Manila Correspondence Leslie's
Weekly
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
LIVING IN
II Docs Not Come Up to Our American
Ideas of Comfort.

Ideas of Comfort.
We exaggerate in our minds the lux
ury of life on the continent. No hotel
there equals any of the first-class no.
tells in our great cities. The first thing
to disappoint us is the lift-what we
deliberately call the elevator. 1t is a
poor piece of machinery abroad, always
stopping and always out of order, says
Harper's Bazaar. In the best hotel in
Paris, the Continental, one gets lux
ury, comfort and even %splendor, but
never ones cards or notes. There is
a fatal gulf for these. One is a num-
Der, To- IN individuality. The table is,
however, very luxurious. 1t is a clean
and well-ordered caravansary. AS for
the comfort of warmth in winter, they
do not know the meaning of the word.
We are justly accused of exaggerating
the heat Of our rooms in America; the
furnace is denounced; but after freez-
ing to death in Paris, one of the cold
est of cities, very far north, cursed
with an abominable winter climate,
one returns willingly to the heated
rooms OF America. We exaggerate the
excellence of the French bed. There
is no such thing in France as that COM
Portable, broad, low thing which we
call a French bed. A high, hard, mar
row shelf is the apology for it. We ex-
aggerate our comforts by having gas
in our sleeping-rooms, and hot and
cold water in our stationary washbowls
and bathrooms. They never eXagger-
ate comfort in France. You have as
many candles as o will pay for, and
no bath, unless you order it, when men
laboriously bring you a tub filled with
hot and cold water, and take it away
after you have bathed. We exaggerate
very much the supposed good living in
France. To go to a hotel in Paris to
live we must expect out of the season
very little good food, very little that
is sustaining and nourishing. 1t is
"all sauce" There are no good joints
Of mutton, no good American desserts.
There is an especial discomfort to
the sick, who never get good toast,
good custard, good tapioca pudding nor
oysters that they like.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
Kipiing's Gift to His Physician.

DR.. James Conland Of B%rattleboro,
VT, feels himself to be the richest man
in his part of the country. He is
the Kipling family physician, and he
accompanied Mr.. Kipling in his vari-
u trips to the Great Banks when the
famous author was getting informa-
ton for his Captains Courageous"
The other day Mr.. Kipling made his
doctor a present of the original manu-
script.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
The MannIicher Rifle.

The power of the Mannlicher rifle
was recently demonstrated in an acct
dent near Prague. Two gendarmes en-
tered a room in an inn and closed the
door, putting their rifles in the corner.
One rife fell and discharged itself,
the bullet going through the door into
the next room where a party was
dancing. 1t passed through the body
OF a musician, killing him, and then
through the bodies of five of the men,
all of whom were dangerously
wounded.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25

STELVIO PASS: AUSTRIAN SIDE.
through the pine woods are those of the
Maloja pass which leads from the
southern limit of the Engadine to the
world-famed Lake of Como. In the
former case these curious zigzags are
typical of the last twelve miles of the
ascent on either side. The Maloja, on
the other hand, is a single ascent-or
descent as the case may be-the Enga-
dine, to and from which it leads, being
a lofty plateau, with 60 miles or more
Of comparatively level road.
Has the bicycle a place in a region
such as this? The many who have
not betaken themselves thither awheel
would probably say No." the few who
have would answer with an emphatic
Yes" The corners may look bad; as
a matter of fact, they are worse than
would appear from the photographs
themselves; but men have steered a
tandem round all the Stelvio curves on
the Italian side, which is cen sleeper
than the Austrian, shown herewith,
and what a tandem can do in this di-
r%ection, the single can do still more
easily. 1t requires a certain amount
of nerve, for the road is none too wide,
is without ratings at the edge, and on
the Italian side is covered with loose
stones.
But the end attained is not one to be
spoken of lightly. The scenery is al
most unrivaled in the Alps, which is
saying much, and the laborious ascent
is amply rewarded from that reason
alone. Then follows a descent of un-
mitigated glory. For 81 miles can the
cyclist ride to Tirano, with feet upon
the foot-rests almost the whole way.
1t may be doubted whether anywhere
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
AS HE GOT TO THE DOOR HE LET
FLY

of the manhole, and, if he has no lad
der, must swing himself up. When the
officers asked him to remove the I'VE
he suddenly lost all his politeness.
IF you want to go up there you'll
have to remove the cover yourselves"
he said.
Davis took him at his word and re-
moved it, Smith was in the room. AS
soon as the cover was removed Davis
leaped into the opening He had hard
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
REMARKABLE ROADS.

Corners like these are not encounter
ed every day. The first picture repre-
sents the final stages of the Stelvio
pass, the highest road in Europe, and
9,055 feet above the sea; the windings
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25

else there is a ride to equal this joyous
progression from the ice-cold summit
of the Stelvio to the Italian valley in
Tirano n~estles, during which
one experiences all the varia-
tons of scenery and verdure which are
furnished by a fall from over 5000 to
| 500 feet.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
Away on.

Yeast-The north pole seems to be
away off, doesn't it? Crimsonbeak-
Yes, and so do the fellows who think
they can find it.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
Why He Hated Water.

Washington Post: They were talk
ing at the Metropolitan club the other
night about the ha~rd-fighting and
hard-drinking old generals of the
American army in its early days, and
some stories of old General Abercrom-
bic, who never tasted water" went
around. my father" said one of the
members, "once asked General Aber-
crombie why it was hat he had such
a natural distaste for water. I'll tell
you of an incident that'll help to ex-
plain it, was the frank old soldiers
reply. A good many years ago l was
crossing the great continental divide.
1t was colder than Greenland. In one
of my saddle pockets 1 had a jug of
whisky and in the otherr a jug of wa
ter. Well, it was SO cold that the jug
of water froze up and busted. Sup
posing it had been inside of MEL"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
A Deadly Insult.

To salute with the left hand is a
deadly insult to Mohammedans in the
Hast,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25

Only one-half of those who enter the
military academy at West Point con
tinue in it long enough to OBTAIN a
commission, and in part because Of the
severity of the discipline. Six thou
sand six hundred and ffty-eight cad cts
were admitted to the academy 10 to
and including 1886, and only 1884 of
these were graduated.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-11-25
ILLICIT STILLERS.
CONSTANT PERIL THAT BESETS
REVENUE OFFICERS.

'JAxa" edmon Narrates Some Excit-
fng Adventures which Occurred In
Sho North Carolina Mountains, and
AnoRg the E~artnesses of reuaessee,
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29
GRAZING AND RECLAMATION.
important Subject. That VIII Occupy Ir-
rigati Congress-.

Important subi.ct. That VIII Occupy Ir-
rigation Congress.
Missoula. Mont. Sept 26.-The
eighth annual session of the National
irrigation Congress began her to-day.
Delegates are present from nearly ev-
cry western state and the Mississippi
valley has aesuhstaniial representation.
The morning session to-day was de-
voted TO the work of organization.
There are about 30 accredited dele
gates as reported by the committee on
credentials.
President Stubbs of the Nevada
state Agricultural College was made
temporary chairman. Senator Edwin
Norris. president OF the State Senate
OF Montana, welcomed the Congress on
behalf of Montana. Responses We're
made by ex-Prcsident C. b. Booth and
Lecturer q. NJ. Maxwell of California.
i. III. Woody. president of the Nilsson
In Board of Trade. extended welcome
ON behalf OF the city to which Hon. J..
c. Brady OF Idaho and Director En-
ory OF the Montana experiment station
responded.
This session of the Congress prom
ises to be very important. There are
two specific propositions for which
work is being done. First, the equit-
able settlement of the grazing land
problems; second. the proper presenta-
tlon OF the question of the reclamation
OF the arid lands with justice to the
western states.
ne AFTERNOON session was opened by
a Few brief remarks from DIR. Stubbs
This was followed by report of the
credentials committee II was decided
TO admit ns delegates all members of
corporations having the interest of the
Congress at heart.
Edward Norris president of the State
senate. was then introduced and on be-
haif of the State of Montana, deliy-
cred an address of welcome.
G. Il. Booth and George II. Maxwell,
ooth OF California, responded. On be-
half OF the Board of Trade and citizens
OF Missoula. Hon. Frank ii. Woody
"eicomed the delegates in an address
tymcal OF the Montana pioneer. He
said In the course of his remarks:
am not here to discuss the uues-
uon OF territorial expansion. but may
say that had the United States given
one-half of the sum that has been di.
rectly or Indirectly expended upon the
Philippines upon the reclaiming of
waste land. millions of acres of land
would have been transformed from
deserts into rich fields of golden grain
ana orchards bending beneath their
ioads OF fruit furnishing homes where
IN men of Drawn and might might
ABIDE, men upon whom the country
could rely in all cases.
Ihe attendance at the Congress to-
night Is said to he the most represen-
tafive that has been present at any
previous session of the Congress. and
the oihcers are elated over the pros
poets of splendid session.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29
LARGE ELECTION EXPENSES.
New York Judges Had to Pay Well Fo,
nmre~

Omces.
New York, Sept. 2G.-To-day was
Judges day" ut the Mazet Legislative
investigation committee. A number of
the judges of the city were called for
the purpose of ascertaining the opin-
ions of the different members of the
Judiciary as TO the advisability of the
passage of stringet law prohibiting
the paying of election expenses by can
didates for judicial offices.
This action was taken. Chairman
MaZet explained. at the request of the
City Club, the Chamber of Commerce
and other bodies of n similar charac-
ter. Justice Edward Patterson. of the
appellate division of the Supreme
Court was the first witness of the
day. He testified that he had paid
several thousand dollars. he could not
remember exactly how much. He
thought that political parties needed
money for legitimate expenses, but
that it would be great relief and n
wholesome thing IL contributions were
not allowed.
He thought 1t would be an advantage
to the public il all candidates, judicial
included. could be relieved from cleo
tion expenses. Judge Bischoff paid
Tammany Hall $4,000. He thought
judicial candidates should be exempt
ed.
Justice McAdam said that he paid
$4,000 mt the time of his nomination.
He did not see why judicial candidates
should be exempt
Justice Dugro said he paid $4,000.
He thought II law doing away with
contributions would be good thing.
Justice Fitzgerald paid $1,000. He IA
vored law forbidding contributions
by judicial candidates
Justice Beach paid Richard Croker
S5,O62. He knew of no reason why n
judicial candidate should be relieved
Of the payment of legitimate election
| expenses.
Justice Henry C. Beekman paid
S4,I9S. He favored exemption for ju-
dicial candidates. Justice Truax said
he paid over $500. He could see no
harm in the payment of small sums.
Justice Charles MacLean said that
no suggestion had ever been made to
him TO pay campaign contribution.
He had no opinion as to whether it
would be a good thing to abolish the
system Of assessing candidates for the
bench.
The committee adjourned until to-
morrow.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

Russian policy in China has been
-iewed with considerable distrust. in
IT'S bearing upon the commercial inter
ests Of other powers. \ recent decree
OF the tsar, however. goes far TO re-
on exclusive privileges. The tsar. ad-
dressing the Russian minister Of
finance, directs that the important part
Of Ta-lIen-wan shall be open to the
commerce Of all nations as long as the
treaty with China holds, which is for
80 years
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

The name OF G-year-old Rudolph
Becker OF New Brunswick. n. j., be-
longs in the list OF those who have
given their lives to save others. The
boy was playing in the street with his
younger brother and sister one day
last month. when runaway team Of
horses, attached to heavy wagon.
came around the corner. Rudolph was
near the curbing and might have saved
himself. but instead he ran out, drew
his little sister one side, then darted
right in front OF the horses, in an effort
to save his brother. Both wheels
passed over him. and he lived but
two hours. the only words he spoke
being the question, Did baby and
Nathan get hurt?" The other children
were both saved
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29
A Vessel Founders.

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept oG.-The
Atlas steamship Company's steamer
Adula, Captain McAuley, from Kings
ton for Baltimore, foundered to-day off
Port Morant, on the south coast of
Jamaica.
Five people lost their lives, including
MIR. Percy. the first officer, whose home
was in New York.
The Adula, which was built in Bel.
fast in 1889, was of 362 tons burden,
She was 212 feet long, 29.1 broad and
II feet deep. The vessel was seized as
prize by the United States during the
war with Spain.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

When the Joint High commission
suspended its sittings at Washington.
last February. 1t was with the expecta-
ton OF reassembling at Quebec on
August End. But the main question at
issue, that OF the Alaskan boundary,
has not been brought any nearer set
tlement by the intervening negotia-
tions, and the meeting OF the commits
sion has therefore been postponed to a
later date. not yet named. Canada
wishes to secure port privileges on the
Lynn canal, so as to obtain access to
the Pacific; but the American claim.
under the treaty OF 1926. between Rus
sia and England. is for continuous
strip OF territory following the wind
ings OF the coast. Just as the situation
seemed hopeless. the British govern
ment resumed direct negotiations. on
the basis of an American proposition,
once rejected. which may furnish a
way oet OF the difficulty.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

Swimming a river in the face OF the
foe was one of the most talked-of bits
OF heroism in the Philippine war 1t
fully merited the applause given 1t.
But what are We to say to the railroad
watchman who swan a raging torrent
at the risk OF his life to signal train
and save the lives OF its passengers,
who refused the purse of gold offered
to him by the grateful passengers. and
then swan back through the angry
waters to save another train? There
was no excitement OF battle to nerve
him to his task: no glory; no hope of
promotion: no mention in the bulletins,
nothing but a meagre three-line item
in the papers-and his sense OF duty.
Yet who can say the obscure watchman
was less OF a hero than the soldier?
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

Lies pathos and humor are often
commingled. and the contrast is not al
ways so violent as to pain or shock BY
its ineongruity. One of the rules of the
New York Floating hospital prohibits
the giving OF food to ailing infants
that Is not prescribed by the attending
physician. AS the vessel neared the
city after a recent trip seaward, a
watchful nurse came suddenly upon
two small girls and their baby brother
A frightened, furt!ve hiding OF some
thing In paper bag awakened her sus-
picion. She Investigated, and found
that the children had been attempting
to feed the baby with fragments OF lob
ster and cucumber. Stern questioning
brought a fearful confession from the
frightened children. Baby's too rapid
convalescence threatened to deprive
them OF further delightful outings in
the hospital, and to prevent this they
concluded to give him a convenient re-
lapse. But" said the Mortified nurse,
baby might have died!" "Oh, no,
miss" was the eager reply, I'VE know
ed he wouldn't die. Deed we did, miss
all our family is SO strong in their
tpsides."
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

Says an old bachelor: Women
sometimes shed tears because they
-hink love. like beef. is best preserved
by brine"
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

The father who walks the floor with
crying boy baby is a sub-mail-car-
rieT.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

The prettiest girl at the banquet is
the dinner bell.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

People who are always harping on
their troubles have a lasting topic Of
conversation.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

What's more miserable than discon-
tent?
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

It's difficult to pose as an optimist
when the rent collector calls.
The Holly chieftain., 1899-09-29

II man can't trust himself he has
no right to expect others to trust him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-23
ANOTHER MANIFESTO.
.Aguinaldo Prefers Death to Submission
/. to America.

Hong Kong, February 22.-Aguinaldo has
issued manifesto accepting the situation
caused by the unexpected provocation of
the Americans" while lamenting the hos
! Titles, which. he says, he tried to avoid
by every means in his power making
humiliating concessions and tolerating in.
suits and outrages of the army of occupa-
.tion against the people of Manila" He
adds that he Is prepared to sacrifice eyery-
thing to maintain the Integrity of the ma
tional honor" calls upon all ito witness
the good faith and honesty" of his inten-
tons, and complains that he has been
treated as rebel because I defended tho
national interests instead of becoming the
tool of the American preposterous preten-
TONS"
The rebel leader further alleges that the
country Is unanimous in his support; that
the people will perish rather than ACCEPT
the odious American dominion" and alleg-
ing that even the corrupt Spanish domin-
ion Is preferable"
The Philippine commission Is considered
by Aguinaldo to be farce, and Otis,
Dewey and Secretary Harden are classed
as pronounced annexationists," the latter
being charged with having "maliciously
DETAINED" the "Filipinos in newspaper re-
ports" He is classed as being especially
obnoxious to the Filipino government"
Finally Aguinaldo expresses the wish to
proclaim to the world and officially dis
pei the false rumors that Germany or any
other power has rendered assistance, moral
or material" to the Filipinos. adding nor
have the Filipinos solicited IT,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-23

DR.. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio:
Dear Sir-The bottle of Pe-ru-na at
hand. It is splendid and most inyig-
Grating; refreshing to the nerves and
brain. 1t is one of the best tonics I have
ever used. It makes me feel like new
man. Yours sincerely, r. B. Mantell.
Catarrh and Nervousness.
A nervous person nearly always has
catarrh. Catarrh Is one of the ways in
which depressed condition Of the ner-
vous system shows itself. Catarrhal
people are soon made nervous. The re-
Iation between chronic catarrh and ner-
vous debility is most intimate.
Catarrh Is chronic congestion Of some
mucous membrane. The nerves, which
should guard the mucous membrane
against congestion, are depressed and
their function partly destroyed. The
nerves that should control the circula-
ton in the mucous membrane are called
the vasa-motor system Of nerves. De-
preston Of the general nervous system
soon leads to depression Of the vasar
motor system. Depression Of the vasa-
motor system Of nerves at once causes
chronic catarrh.
Any remedy to effect radical cure
of chronic catarrh must operate directly