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Evening star., 1900-06-30
FISH ARE BITING.
Great Sport After Rass-COttagers Ar
riving.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BELMAR, N. j., June %, 1900.
Fishing has been the main sport at this
resort of late. ALI the big bass do not live
off the Deal Lake f1ume and the Asbury
Park fishing pier. as has been proved six or
seven times this week. The result Of the
successful catches is all that the men
visitors with any sporting blood have be-
taken themselves to the pier and the outlet
of Shark river, where many Of them spend
the entire day and part Of the night seek
ing to lure on shore a catch that shall ex-
eel the champion forty-eight-and-a-ha,f
FOUNDER at Deal Lake.
Bathing Is now in full swing, the largest
pavilion having opened this week. The
boardwalk has been greatly improved since
last summer.
This week has been very lively one in
the cottage colony. Euchre parties, for
which Belmar attained fame among the
Jersey coast resorts last year, have again
started. Among the hotels the guests are
rapidly increasing in numbers.
Evening star., 1900-06-30

lower end of that section of Manila called
Bnondo. Cascoes and ships loaded wil.l
tobacco and hemp lay before it and bales
of hemp were being carried out of and into
it by half-naked Chinese coolies The
coolies were laboring in pairs, each pair
carrying bale in a rattan sling upon a
pole which rested upon their shoulders. In
front of the warehouse quantity of hemp
was spread out under the sun to dry and
inside Of It, were stacks and bales of this
stuff, half filling the great room from floor
to ceiling.
Strange Methods for the Nineteenth
Century.
I went inside and watched the baling and
sorting Of the hemp for shipment 1t was
indeed a strange sight for the end of this
century Of invention and progress. Every
thing was done by hand. About fifty Fill
pinos were at work tearing the bales apart
and sorting the stuff, Ahich looked like
strands and twists Of silvery white hair,
but which was really great hanks of
hemp. From time to time the men would
carry a great bundle of these hanks and
pile 1t up on platform until they had as
much as an ordinary mule cart would hold.
They would weigh this upon immense
steelyards which hung from the roof, add
ing or subtracting in order to get the $50
pounds. the amount comprised in a bale
ready for shipment.
Next would come the pressing The
hemp is first packed in a framework of
boxes which rest one upon the other, SO
that press operated just like a letter
press can be forced down upon them. The
queerest thing was the working of the
screw. This was done by Chinese. Upon
a platform high above the press thirty-two
half-naked, yellow-skinned mortals trotted
about, pushing the spokes of a wheel.
Four grasped each of the eight great
spokes and all ran round and round al fast
as they could go, turning the screw which
formed the axle Of the wheel, thereby
pressing the hemp tight in the bale A
bell rung below was the signal for their
starting and stopping, and when they
moved it was on the dead run, pushing,
straining and sweating as they did SO.
The bales are put up in the most eco
nomical way. They are wrapped in basket
work mats Of palm leaves and are tied
with strips Of rattan, so that the cost of
ties and saeking is practically nothing.
asked the proprietor of the warehouse why
he did not put in machinery and save the
employment of so many men. He replied
that 1t would be cheaper for him to do So
but that his insurance would be thereby
increased, and he preferred to work by the
Evening star., 1900-06-30

Monmouth County Horse Show Association.
to be held on the associations beautiful
grounds at Hollywood on July 26, 81 and
- The grounds have been greatly beaau-
titled with plants and shrubbery. and the
association announces that it will. distribute
prizes amounting to $1,000. The prize list Is
the most attractive ever offered at the
Branch. Dealers will this year exhibit their
horses in classes open TO them only The
number Of special prizes this yearis twenty-
one, many of which are given by the sum
mer residents of Long Branch. The asso-
cation has begun preparing for the show
much earlier this year than heretofore, and
the secretary and treasurer. P. J. Casey
of West End, says that the number of en-
tries at this early date promises the big
sest exhibition In the history of the asso-
citation.
Evening star., 1900-06-30

large amount Of undeveloped territory
would lead to the supposition that such a
trust might he q failure in the develop
ment which will probably come through
the American occupation. At present no
systematic combination of hemp planters
has been organized. The business is almost
entire.y in the hands Of the natives and
the Spaniards, very few Of the estates be-
ing owned by the friars.
Hemp raising is not like sugar raising
In that It needs large capital. A man
himself for the three years required to
bring the plants into bearing, but after
that an outlay of a few dollars will fur
nish him with all the machinery he needs,
is concerned. run his plantation on shares.
Even II he pay& for his labor he will not
give his hands more than 15 or 20 cents
day. In Manila, where wages are at their
warehouse told 6pe he was paying amounts
equal to g to 4qeentl gold, and he evident
Pronts mp Raising.
It seems to me Il Vt hemp raising will.
after matters arc ssetled. form one Of the
best openings fqr Aeerican capital. 1t is
estimated that sbout50O plants can be set
out to the acreS asp told the plants can
be bought for spoutl cent apiece. Each
plant should p16ducss about ten ounces of
fiber, and II scientifically treated it might
it is said, harvest about 800 pounds in
week, and this at present rates would be
worth sh,ul $50 (silver). cannot give the
deta .s, but have beeh told by number of
planters that from % to 80 per cent is not an
uncommon profit, and that if care is used
in gathering the crop the profits might be
still larger
At present a great deal of the hemp goes
to waste, on account Of the rude machinery
used in its extraction, but so far all at
tempts to improve upon the present meth
ods have been failures. There have been
numerous machines invented, but all have
either torn the fiber, or stained 1t, and
there Is still a good chance for Yankee In
genuity.
1t is said that the English who have
attempted hemp raising have failed because
they have not been able to handle the
workmen, and that only the natives or the
Spaniards can use the Filipino labor with
profit. 1t might be the same with American
Evening star., 1900-06-30
THE OLD CAMP GROUND,
Services Well Under Way-Capftal
Guests.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
OCEAN GROVE, n. j., June %, 1900
For the opening week of the services of
have this year been much larger than
usual. Religious enthusiasm, too, has
started off at a fervid temperature and
Bishop John N. Fitzgerald and the devo.
tional committee are prophesying grand
harvest of souls for 1900 The annual
camp meeting in August will be almost a
week longer this year than usual, as it be-
gins on August - and lasts until Septem-
ber 3. The camp leaders say that the
crowds have complained that the camp has
not lasted long enough, so that the Ocean
Grove fathers have arranged to give them
sixteen days of song and sermon Bishop
Fitzgerald says that he will maintain the
same high standard of sermons during the
entire camp and that he is securing the
ahlest pulpit orators in Methodism and in
other denominations for the services.
Ocean Grove is in high glee over the
failure of Founder Bradley and the Asbury
Park common council to get the railroads
to stop Sunday trains at the North Asbury
Park station. The Methodist preachers of
the New Brunswick district at their meet
ing this week voted to draw up resolu-
tions thanking the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for turning down the wouldb be
Sunday breakers.
The leader of the O clock young peoples
meeting. Rev. Chas. A. Yatman, who has
just returned from evangelistic tour
around the world, has named the service
Six minutes of sunshine" 1.-The meeting
is for young people" he says, between one
and one hundred and one years. Mr.. Yat-
man has also tabooed the word "collec
tion." He says "offering' is the proper
term for financial contributions.
Washington party summering at the
Queen consists Of Mrs. NJ. B. Jeffries, Miss
Rebecca Jefferies and Miss L. Armstrong
The New Arborton Is entertaining Mrs
F. c. Glover and Miss Blanche Glover of
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Baker of Frederick
Md, are stopping at the Seaside.
Mrs. E. c. Ford is a Washington lady
recreating at the Eldorado.
Evening star., 1900-06-30
old method, which has been in vogue here

old method which has been in vogue here
since the beginning.
A Hemp Trust.
There is danger that there will be hemp
trust organized which may control the
production and marketing of all the hemp
produced in the islands. and the conditions
would seem to be favorable for such an or
ganization. 1 met before / left Manila an
American who was just starting for New
York for this purpose. The facts in favor
of the success of such trust are that hemp
can be raised nowhere outside the Phi lp-
pines and also that the business is already
in such few hands that it might easily be
consolidated or manipulated that the
exporters could be forced into the combina-
ton. This man told me that many of the
hemp Planters are in debt, and he seemed
to have little doubt of his success in the Or
ganization of a possible syndicate. AS to
the facts, however, l am not sure, and the
Evening star., 1900-06-30
Harvesting the Crop.

Hemp farming. in fact, seems to me the
softest and easiest kind of agriculture I
have yet met with. A plantation once
started, its owner is practically independ-
ent, aud If his farm Il big enough he can
Evening star., 1900-06-30
AT THE BRANCH.
Horse Show Will BE One of the Early
Attractions.

Special Correspondents Of The Evening Star.
LONG BRANCH, N. J., June 20, 1900.
The season at "the Branch" has already
struck midsummer pace. All the big hos
telries are entertaining such crowds as
they hardly ever accommodated in previous
years before the middle Of July, and the
bookings for the Fourth indicate that the
crowd for that date will be something to
make the Oldest ''Brancher' open his eyes.
The West End, Hollywood, Ocean,
Brighton, United States, Rowland and Ell
beron daily present scenes that remind one
of horse show days.
Unusually elaborate preparations are max
ing for the seventh annual exhibition Of the
Evening star., 1900-06-30

John Dolz. colored. who has been spend
ing much of his time in Seaton Park, was
locked up last night on charge of vagran-
cy. He failed to give a good account of
himself in court this morning, and Judge
Scott sent him down for a month.
Evening star., 1900-06-30

The Best Prescription for Malaria
Chile aud Fsv.r b = bottle of GROVES TASTE
LESS CHILL TONIC; 1t is simply iron and Gull
nine In tastess FORM No curs-no pay. Price. soc.
te28-s,tu, th-39t
Evening star., 1900-06-30
VIM. H.Mcknew, 933 Pa.Av
Piles of Pain.
"For Twenty Years I've
Suffered, and Now 1 Ann
WE'LL"
A MIRACLE PERFORMED FOR A FATHER AND
HIS THREE YEAR-OLD son. MILLIONS
OF PEUPLE NEED RELIEF.


What causes them?
Nothing but irregular working Of the bowels
When nauseous mass of undisested food ferments
in intestines instead OF passing cut Of the body,
its pressure congestS the blood vessels. and pro-
duces all kinds of piles Bleeding blind, itching, all
horribly painful and annoying.
Nothing Will them except to go at the cause,
make the bowels regular, and then tone up the In
testine> they can keep regular. Only strong in
t.stinai tonic can do II, and Cascarets Candy Ca
thartlc are the hest known. The best kind of
proof is the experience OF Mr.. Heitz:
Chicago ILL.,. February 49, 1899.
Gentlemen-I have been using your Cascarets for
almost year with great success not only relieving
chronic constipation. but they have cured of
bleeding piles (which two surgical operat ions failed
do, putting me great expense and needless
PAIN l have recommended them TO many friends.
with good results. Very truly yours. FRANK
RtrstS No. 22s East Forty-fiyst St. Chicago, III.
Sufferers from piles. Go and do likewse. Buy
and try Cascarets today. It's what they do. not
what say they'll do, that proves their merit.
They make the liver lively the bowels regular, the
blood pure. All druggists Ice. 25c. or soc. or
mailed for price. Send for booklet and free sample
Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago; Montreal,
Can. New York.
This is the CASCARET tablet
Gg 6; !: ;: e; e.; ::
Nv tinns and substitutes.
If you want light. strong. correctly
do
Evening star., 1900-06-30

Always Use PIatt's Chlorides
.or household disinfection. You VIII Nke Il.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
Now. for the first time you
can get a trial bottle of Cherry
Pcetor.l for IS cents. Ask
your druggist.
Hay Sent to Efrc,.

Baled hay is going from Brooklyn to
the Philippines and South Africa in
wholesale quantities. Cavalry horses
must be fed, ard it is natural for Eng
land, as we'll as the United States army,
to look to Americans for the fodder a
consignment Of 5000 tons was sent from
this port to South Africa Thursday,
this port to South Africa tomorrow.
and one Brooklyn concern has so men
at work baling hay, to catch up with or
ders. The oldiashioned bales has been
found inadequate for use on the march,
and an inventive genius in Brooklyn has
hit upon a plan OF COMPRISING the
amount of hay in an ordinary bale into
a cylindrical mass one-third the size OF
a regulation bale. The new bales are
about as large as nail kegs, and are SO
compact that they can be transported on
nlule-back without difficulty. The reg
ulation daily feed of hay for horse in
the United States army is II pounds, so
that an animal can carry enough fodder
on his back to last him two weeks. Hay
is considered by common carriers to be
most undesirable freight. because it so
easily spoils, but by the new process it
is found possible to squeeze all the
moisture out OF the bale, and there is no
danger of the hay deteriorating, even
when kept for a long time An expert
ment was made lately with bale of hay
squeezed in the great press, and it with
stood a fire test Tor 72 hours before it
was consumed. The British War Of
fee requires that the emergency store OF
hay at Woolwich shall be baled so that
it will last for four years without losing
any OF its original quality. This the new
process insureS. and the consequence is
that the British Government is sending
orders for all that the Brooklyn firm can
supply, and more, too.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25

scalea ON the Farm.


Every piece of machinery or con-
venience which time has demonstrated
is money maker or saver ought to
be added to the farmers outfit just as
soon as he eau afford it. And some
times we can afford thing before we
think we are able to buy it. There is
always something to sell off the farm
at certain seasons of the year, either
grain or stock products. And when
you sell thing it is great satisfac-
ton to know that you are getting out
of thing all there is in it. You can't
always know this unless you have q
reliable scale On the farm. You can't
well afford to send your wheat or corn
crop, your cattle or your hogs to mar
ket without first knowing the number
of pounds you are selling. We make
it rule never to deal with man who
is dishonest, and all tradespeople
will not cheat, wrong or defraud you
knowingly. but few will if they know
they have every advantage of you, so
4 is no harm to take the precaution to
know just what you are doing. Mis-
takes often occur, and when you
know just how many pounds of any
thing you. have sent to market it is an
easy matter to rectiiy them. You also
know whether to sell by the pound or
in bulk, as stock is frequently sold. In
feeding, also, scales are very eonven-
lent, for you can tell just what your
feed is doing and bringing you, and
when the profitable limit has been
reached you can stop.-Fatmers'
Guide.
Convenient Poultry House.
The central room may be used for
storing grain or a stove placed in it
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
Pottery in Cave Ages Old.


A boy, while hunting on Indian
Mountain, in the eastern part of
Duchess County, N. Y, few days
ago, made discovery that will
prove of considerable Importance to
archeologists.
The boy is Robert Dakin, son of
Charles Dakin, of Millerton. He
was hunting in the widest part of
the mountain when he saw hole in
the mountain side, partly overgrown
with brush. He crawled in, struck
match and found himself in a large
and spacious room, which extended
considerable distance into the
mountain.
He lighted dry stick and by its
light saw evidence of the cave having
been inhabited. There were piles of
broken pottery, turtle shells, teeth of
animals and the skeleton of O man.
Some of the pottery was in an excel
lent state of preservation, and appa.
rently was in the same position it had
been left by Its savage occupant ages
ago. The pottery bears every indica.
ton OF being of ancient manufac.
ture, but none of those who have
seen it can form any conception of its
age.
The boy. after he had made care,
full examination of the place, filled
his game-bag with relics and went
home, but he was careful to mark the
spot, and will have no difficulty in
finding the place again. New York
Press,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
A Pal CT Ina ARMY

John n. Greedy is the pet OF all the
army and the especial protege OF the
signal corps. He is the son OF the chief
OF the signal corps. The young man
can boast just II wears, yet, he is as tall
as many men when they get their full
growth. He wears a suit OF khaki and a
service hat, cats anything from candy
to camp rations and keeps on growing.
John went to the Philippine Islands
with the cable shop Hooker. and he
was present at the laying OF the cable
from Taguig to Calamba in Laguna de
Bay. lie learned all about reels and
lengths and coils before the casco had
got well out OF the bamboo swamps,
and sometimes he gave Colonel Max
held palpitation OF the heart by leaping
from the steamboat TO the casco which
was in tow. 1t was during this cxpedi-
ton that John had his first taste OF camp
LIE. He slept in hammock and his
pillow was life preservcr blown full
OF air, and not bad thing TO sleep on,
after all. There was a splash and a
spluttering. and then a hurrying Pres
entity some ono flashed a lantern down
upon the man in the water. And it was
seen that the colonel had his revolver in
one hand and his other grasped life
preservcr. The colonel was quickly
hauled on board and. no one knew
where the lifepreserver came from UNI
I'll John confessed that he had thrown
his pillow to the colonel.
The boy is anxious TO get under
fire. few times, and he pleads with
those who hold his fate in their hands
10 let HIM go on campaign. They
SHOOK their heads One night at An
geles the insurgents made an attack on
the. town. Young Greedy heard the
bullets sing and he heard one or two
shells go over his head and burst in the
distance. He is not satisfied, and wants
TO go to one OF the outposts where there
IS heavy firing. He pleaded hard to go
with General Lawton on his northern
campaign. His strongest argument was
that the little son OF General Lawton
had been under fire often. and once had
horse shot from under hin,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
Got Even With the G,yernm.nt.

In the rank and file OF the army no
subject is more frequently commented
upon than General Otis extreme con-
scientiousness in matters OF petty detail,
says the Chicago Tribune. During an
advance on the north line recently one
company had to lie down at the side of
the road for shelter from the wcll-drect-
ed volleys OF the insurgents. One OF the
privates had dropped his haversack in
the middle OF the road away back, and,
after the company had laid down, he
calmly stood up and walked down the
road toward the lost haversack. He
made a fine target for the insurgents and
the bullets ratified around him pretty
lively.
Here, come back here O'Malley,"
yelled the Lieutenant OF the company
You'll be killed"
Well" replied O'Malley over his
shoulder, Il might jest as we'll be killed
as have General Otis runnin' me up
hill and down dale and comm over to
me house livery mornin' and a -sayin',
O'Malley, why don't you pay the Gov
eminent for that haverSack?
Then he calmly walked on and got
the lost piece OF property and. as he
came back and sat down just in time to
escape volley OF Mausers, he threw
the haversack on the ground and said
"And when he does come tomorrow
mornn' to me house I'll say, Otis, me
little man, you're dead wrong, | never
lost no haveysack. There's your bloody
old potato bag. Take it to the Govern
nent with me compliments
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
HC,1rrancy9o
WISE WOODS.

Love constrains is conservation.
Tact is not a1other name for trick
cry.
True lg1e is the secret of full conse-
Grafton.
Death rs darkness, because it leads
to dawn.
What you are within, that you will
be without.
The world-spoiler has no use for the
steady toiler.
Most men begin to save after they
have spent ALL
Practice what you pray-particular
~ ut the ballot-box.
The first thing You see in boiling
water, is the scum. z@s
Care-not is a greater hindrance to
success than cannot.
Self forgetfulness is only acquired
by remembering others
Songs OF triumph are possible only
to the sons of tribulation.
We are welded by our wishes,
rather than by our wisdom.
The world is vessel in whose hold
the fire is already burning.
Some graves are more potent to per.
suade men than many pulpits.
Your life will strike no higher note
i'll public than it is keyed to in pri-
vate.
When a man shows his goodness in
his home, the chances are that good
ness has its home in him.
The worldly are spending the win
ter OF life in collecting srow-b balls,
forgetting that the summer comes
Rams Horn.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-01-25
Steamers on African Lakes.

The lakes of Central South Africa
are no longer sacred to native canoes
and the roughly constructed sailing
vessels which have formed SO import
AMI part In the trade with the inter
Tor of Africa. Lake Tanganyika is the
latest point to be invaded with an
IRON steamer. Her name is Cecil
Rhodes
She was shipped from London to
Chinde to be ansported in sections
through the mountains on the east of
this lake, which is the centre of the
chain OF lakes of which Victoria
Nyanza IS the northeast link.
The importation of this class OF
steamers will, it is thought, faci tate
the trade with the natives Of Nasal.
land and other countries which tie
lakes traverse. and will prove far SUI
perior to the previously used wooden
vessels because of their speed and
durability. The experiment will be
watched with interest here, and if
successful, will revo lutionize the
methods of trade now in vogue, in
Central Africa.