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The Banco nol-FfIpinO has always
been a mon .yrll; king institution. and al
though il lost considerable at the time of
he conquest Of Manila through the Spanish
officers it, stock is now quoted at 1U.I per
cent above par It paid not long ago
haifyearly dividend OF 5 per cent. and that
on S1-.ftiV1. the amount to which the cap
!tal has been increased from time to time.
by the laws Of the bank the governor gen
cal OF the islands is its chief director. and
10 pr cent OF tDe profits must so to the
directors and the government board so that
Of the sl2O.sg that the bank earned during
the above six months 30 should be d.
v!ded among our government officials who
are By law officers OF the bank
saving and Pawning.
There is only one savings bank in Manila
and this * combined with sort Of a gov
ernmant pewnbrckers shop. The institu-
lions are run by the church. and the arch
bishop Is practically the head. The capital
stock amounts to about siG.oOp. The saw
ings department gives an interest rate Of 4
per cent. and the pawn department charges
! per cent on loans with gold. silver and
clothes as collateral. The savings bank is
open every Sunday morning for the with
for the good Christian VINO has money in
the bank aot u pay his church dues.
should think COOL savings bank on the
American plan wculG pay well. There VIII
be a large force Of American soldiers f.-.
for years. and at present the.e : $50 Ila,r
for them to deposit email savings he b.;
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split by the frost and water from some
ledge far up the side of the mountain. and
carried by an avalanche down to the gulch
did not suggest to them that they make g
serious examination OF the mountainside
to find the ledge. They staked out the
claim where they found the 'fioat''-the
odd chunk Of ore-cracked open the chunk
to get piece Of 1t with no moss on. and
then took that piece to an assayer who
would run it through his retort and ask no
questions. The assayer's report was sent
to the confiding capitalist who furnished
the grub stake to encourage, him.
Prospectors of this sort are the mine
camp tramps Their sole ambition ii l'fe
Is to keep themselves supplied with grub
stakes that they may live in idleness about
the mine camps in bad weather, and In the
summer sunshine wander over mount aims
where fish and game abound.
The most remarkable of these rascals Is
the desert tramp-the one who haunts the
desert region between and including the
Staked Plains of New Mexico and the No
1aVe In California. The barrenness of the
region helps him. There ought to be
mineral here; If there amt there amt
nothing else worth anything" is a common
expression. And then the colors of the
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IN That region the power for factories could
easily be had from the streams and the
great market of China might be partially
supplied from here The same might be
done in other parts of the islands.
The Only Railroad of the Philippines.
AT present there is but one railroad in
Luzon. and this is the only one In the Phil
ippine Islands. 1t is 12O miles long. running
from Manila north through the valley tn
the Gulf of Lingayan. 1t taps one of the
rich rice and sugar raising centers of the
Island. but one which is no better tba,
much Of the country south of here ana
which is not SO fertile IL is said AZ tba
rich valley OF the Cayagan, further north
The Manila Dagupan railroad as II ia call
ed. is the property of a syndicate of Lon
don capitalists. 1t was started with a can
ital of S5,UDo00. on which the Spanish eoy-
eminent guaranteed interest of \ Nor
poets the United States to continue. The
term OF lis concession was ninety-nine years
from about lSSS and at the end of that
Time 1t was TO belong to the government
/ ne railroad has not conformed to the
terms or the original concession The first
company failed and ii was not completed
as agreed 1t has since increased its ca nj
td4 10 Sl'NS.uNo, and it probably can paw
dividends on that amount. The road is well
ltl't. hut * now In very bad repair having
Ier-- ;"Fn up again and again during the
N.,'r it Is now being operated by the
H.t-@ states army. two passenger trains
"a way passing over it every day. The
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graph telegraphed from Arizona announc-
ing strike ''of what IS reputed to be
very rich white gold-bearng quartz" Ii
admits that the ground has been pros
pected for many years. and heavy cuts
were made through it," when the railroad
was graded No one suspected the pres
ence of the precious metals" OF course,
but "a hole four feet deep has been made
and sample assay shows $4,000 worth of
gold to the tom
1t is possible, of course. that this dis
patch is founded on fact. There may have
been a strike of ore assaying $3.50 or s23 a
ton in a place where the ground has been
prospected for many years" but the ear
marks Of the tramp prospectors are in the
dispatch. The ore in their claims either
yields thousands of dollars per ton or else
there are millions of tons of low-grade ore
lying where it can be worked at a cost not
to exceed $3.50 per ton.
There are other tramps of the desert,
broken down specimens of humanity. who
on that inhospitabie trail that leads from
Mojave. Cal. to the settlements in south
ern Utah. How they live is more than
know. but l have seen natural formatio
of waters lying over the range to the east
of Death valley that is known as Resting
Springs, and 1t got its name because 1t was
a favorite with the tramps Of both kinds
that frequent the desert. The beggars
however, are very little. II any. different
from those found in the east. They are by
no means to be compared with the pictur-
esque tramps whose ability as story tellers
of tales about lost mines and leads enables
them to wander at idle will among the fas-
cinating scenes of the American wilderness
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company demands heavy damages Of the
Americans for the destruction caused by
the war, it's claims running up into the
millions of dollars.
Some Possible Railroads in Luzon!
Among the railroads which will probably
be planned as soon as the Islands have be-
come thoroughly pacifed are lines from
Dagupan north along the west coast to
San Fernando, Vigan. Loag and the ex-
treme northwestern end of LuZon. and also
from Bacolor or Manila through the prov
inces of central and northeastern Luzon 10
APART. Both of these lines could be easily
built They would be of immense adVan-
tage to the government in a military way
and would probably pay from the start, as
they open up some of the richest lands OF
the Philippines. They would bring me
great tobacco fields of the Philippines WIN
in day of Manila and would open up ter.
ritory which is now worth little because II
is 50 far from the markets: They would
open some of the best of the timber lanos,
and also u rich grazing and agricultural
country.
Another railroad which would parallel
this a part of the way or which might DE
an extension of it Is projected from Ma
Mia around the great lake at the east
Laguna de Bay running along the shores
through the towns of Calamba, Los Banos
and Santa Cruz and thence southeast
through the whole peninsula to the port OF
Sorsogon in the bill of our Dig piru OF
Luzon This railroad should be a goid
mine to Its builders. The country Is r1ch
beyond conception. and its possibilities IN
the way of hemp and other money products
are enormous. 1t would bring the not
mineral springs of Los Banos WITHIN easy
access of Manila and would make them a
resort The military value of the railroad
cannot be overestimated.
FRANK c. CARPENTER.
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IS one run by Filipino ponies. 1t gives the
poorest kind Of "a service. with cars at such
irregular intervals that you often have to
wait from fifteen To thirty minutes for a
car The fares are l to 3 cents, gold ac-
cording to distance. but with good service
and an electrical equipment the travel
""uiu ne So great that the company would
pay well. At present there are only about
SIX miles Of track. but this could be %. most
Indefinitely extended. bringing in a lumber
OF the suburbs not now reached.
The climate here is such that few pen- lie
walk. The chief means of getting about
Is in little cabs called Quilez and caramat-
tas pulled by ponies. which jolt one terri
biy as they carry you over the cobblcstone
streets. As It Is, there are not enough of
these to supply the demand, and tn only
way that one can be sure of transportation
Is 10 Keep his own carriage
The Electric Lights
Manila has a very good electric lfeb+
plant The machinery is American. and the
company has Il concession for twenty wears
from 1882, at which time the plant was nut
In 1t has a capital of half a million pesos
and pays Il dividend of 6 per cent
Outside the plants above mentioned there
are no electrical works in the Philippine
Islands, although the country is one esna-
ciaIT fitted to furnish electrical mower
Every one of the islands has numerous
streams flowing down its mountains There
- many Hdtti itIIS anu strong currents
which run the year round and which could
be used for the generating of power for all
KINDS OF factories Some Of the sugar mills
are now turned by Old-fashioned water
wheels. while others which are run by
steam engines and buffaloes, are near to
splendid water powers Power to move
railroads across the Island of I.uZon mig mt
DE gotten from the mountain streams and,
Indeed all the manufacturing of this island
could be done with the aid Of dynamos In
the past cotton was successfully raised in
liocoS, one OF the provinces of the north.
but the government discouraged 1t and
caused the plantations to be turned over to
tobacco. If cotton should again be planted
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to more than S20n.H'e, This was
capital Of S1nVh.noo. and il means 4 profit
Of 70 per cent in six months, or of co per
cent a year
During that period the hank did bust
ness of more than S-htlo;at.noO. Its dep DSits
were more than S~I.HD nn. and it had
credits. loans and discounts Of more than
S5HtH0,fHD 1t paid SJnD.nsl TO its stock
holders. added almost a million To new
profit and loss account and put away half
million TO its reserve fund. which already
amounted TO Sl1,6nOun. or 81 900. 900 more
than its capital stock.
This bank has always made money. but
its profits have heen materially Increased
since the Americans came to Manila by the
business Of the branch here. which is the
chief depository Of The United Stares gov
erHm-nt. and handles several million dol
lars worth Of our government funds
monthly 1t charges the highest rate OF
exchange. and does It in such n way that
many Of thc Americans are praying ard
hoping for an American bank. Such
hauE would. Of course. have the govern
nent funds. and upon these alone it could
make profit.
A Queer Hank for the United States.
The Banco E-panol-Fiiipino claims that
the United States. by the treaty of Paris
has no right 10 establish national bank
nor to issue gr-enhacks or other circulating
notes doubt. however. whether its claims
will hold, and / am much inclined To he
lieve that It's extension Of charter to 1927
was made after our war with Spain was in
pr g~r~S, and with a view to such q COM
plicafian as has arisen. / have had access
10 the bylaws # the bank. and can give a
little % its history II was established in
1N-ri with capital of SiDn.OsI. and a char
ter of twenty-five years. In 1876. he time
at which This charter expired. an extension
OF twenty-five years was granted. thus
bringing its life up to 1901 The last cx-
tension on which the claim Of the bank is
made IS not mentioned in the translation
Of the bylaws and regulations OF the bank
on file with our governor general. and II
was probably Of too late date to get in.
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Counsel.

II thou shonldst bid thy friend farewell
But tor one night though that farewell should
be
Press thou his hand in thine; how cans: thou tell
How far from thee ~
Fate or Caprice may lead his feet
Fer that tomorrow come? Men have been
known
Lightly to turn the corner Of a street,
And days have grown
To months. and months to tagging years
Before they looked in loving eyes again.
Parting at best is underlaid with tears
With tears and pain.
Therefore lest sudden death should come between
Or time, or distance, clasp with pressure true
The palm OF him who soeth forth. Unseen
Fate gocth, too!
Yea. ins Ssou always time to say
Some earnest word bctwixt the Idle talk
Lest with thee heneeforti night and day,
Regres Should walk.
M. L n. DAVIS
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banks do not encoura ge small accounts, and
they do not like draft or check Of less
than so.
There will be chances for building and
loan associations later on. and indeed, for
all sorts of money-Iending institutions. The
interest rates out in the country are high,
running from l per cent a month to p and
70 per cent and even more a year. Much
money is loaned upon crops. and in many
cases the lender stipulates that the interest
be paid not in money. but in part of the
harvest In such cases much as 30 per
cent is often charged. This business, how
ever. is chiefly done by the Filipinos.
Concessions for Manila
The government will have to do some-
thing to number of so-called conces-
sions which a. in the hands Of parties
here as to street railroads. telephones, eloc-
tri- lights and other things.
There is a telephone company which s
established in 1889 with capital of S14O.-
900 and which has paid on the average div
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place he drove his stake. and ore was pro-
duced, together with an assay, to prove the
statement OF course. there was not even
the ghost of a chance of developing a mine
there but the prospectors had received the
usual grub stake from some confiding spec
ulator and were making their usual return.
Taking the grub stake-a quantity OF food
to last. say. sixty days-together with
means of transportation and the necessary
tools for working a claim, they had gone
away to the newly discovered claim which
some honest prospector had located. Then
they had built little shelters. and had en-
tered upon the life of the camp with zest
To while away the time in pleasant weather
they wandered around the region until
this ore was dropped by miner from the
vein that gave the camp Its existence was
nothing to these prospectors.
How Mines Are Found
mines are where you find them," Is a
common proverb CT the camp. That the
chunk was piece of floating ore-a piece
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Some Rank Outsider.


Down about Sugar Grove there are sew
eral families Of Kipl,ngs. tillers Of .e soil
and choppers of cordwood.
One of them-the one with the freckled
face-went to the post office at Gum Tree
the other day TO see If there was any mail
for his people.
How are you, Hiram?' said the post
master. Il don't think I've seen you since
the time when the most illustrious member
or your tribe came near dying"
Which 'un's that?' asked Hiram
"Rudyard.'
He must be one O. them Kiplin's over on
Spring crtck. said Hiram. But / hant
heerd of none of 'em bein' sick"
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rocks suggest mineral. Iron in various
combinations is generally responsible for
the colors. but copper is found in quanti-
ties sufficient to stain a mountain side,
and yet not yield dollar ton in an as
say. Then, too, the people who go to the
region, with rare exceptions, go there eX-
presSly to get rich out of mining. and for
no other reason. They are not there for
their health, and they are willing to listen
to the tale of even a known liar.
The Marvellous Tales Told.
Marvellous are the stories told and related
in the desert camps. They get into print at
frequent intervals, and the tramp pros
pector knows them all. Who has not heard
of the Gun Sight Lead lying somewhere in
the Panamint mountains just west of Death
valley! one of the Old emigrants who
crossed that fearsome gorge got separated
from his companions, but managed at last
to reach civilization in California. He had
picked up piece of white metal beside a
spring and carried it with him, though he
had no idea what the metal was. Then
having lost the front sight Of his trusty rifle
he carried the white metal chunk to a gun
smith to have new sight made of It.
There was striking tableau when the gun
smith saw the chunk, for he recognized it
as native silver.
In strict confidence the tramp prospector
tells his victims that he has picked floating
rock from the foot of the very mountain
in the Panamint range where Gun Sight
ore showing native silver to prove his
words. But when he thus had d fortune
within his grasp his supply of food gave
out and he had to return to the railroad.
Now. if the listeners would fit him out for
sixty days he could go there, stake every
thing in sight and sink the ten-foot shafts
required by the law where claims are to
be held.
Or the prospector has seen those mar
vicious little buttes-the Twin Buttes''-
that rise through the MESA somewhere be-
tween the AmagoSsa valley and that of the
Colorado. These buttes were discovered by
a man who was lost on the desert. so the
tale runs, and he cracked off piece of the
chocolate-colored rock because it was stud
ded with gold as thickly as a miners shoe
with hobnails. and evidently got to civ
iliZed locality. He never could find the
place again, but the tramp can If you will
believe him. He says he found it by acct
dent just as his food gave out. He has a
piece of chocolate-colored rock with tiny
specks of gold in 1t to prove his words
Now, if the listeners would fiji him out for
sixty days he could go there and stake
everything in sight.
I heard that story told in hotel in Mag
dalena, New Mexico. one day. There were
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Wa.hinS Decantera.

To prevent wine stains from marking ;he
inside of decsnters NIL the bottles directly
they are drained of the wine with warm
water and shake them briskly. II the dress
are allowed to remain any length of time,
IL will be more difficult to clear the g;ass
Obstinate stains in glass bottles, whether
due to wine or anything else. need some
thing more than water to remove then1.
Shot is sometimes used. bu. this IS too
heavy for very fine glass, which is bette.
treated with crushed eggshell or pellets Of
brown paper. Whatever is used must he
shaEen UP and down inside The bottle of
wafer, and the friction will remove the
STANG
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half dozen listeners. including a CONNER
cial traveller. When the tramp produced
his chocolate colored ore with gold nuggets
visible on opposite sides, the commercial
traveller asked to see 1t. After some hest
tation the tramp let him take 1t. 1t Ger
tainly was heavy enough and 1t looked
quite like half rotten breccia with gold
showing two sides. but the commercial
man dropped 1t accidentally and it struck
on a nail that projected eighth of an
inch above the floor. The shock broke the
specimen, and then 1t was seen to be a
piece of broken brass around winch the
tramp had cemented some chocolate col
ored earth.
The tramp then explained that he had
exhibited the specimen" for joke on
the tenderfoot present. but citizen told
me the fellow had worked one man al
ready for a grub stake.
Tenderfo0t Traps.
That tenderfeet should be caught by the
mine camp tramps is matter of course,
but the surprising fact is that he idle
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Concerns Paying 90 Fer Cent in the
Philippines.
THE THREE Big BANKS OF MANILA
Possibilities for investments in Rail-
roads and Other Ventures.
CHAN CES FOR PROF
tcopyri=ht, 1891. by Frank g. Carp"ntcr-)
Snacf.1 ,..rr..s r-,r,I,.nre Of The Evening Star

Copyright 1899. by Frank G. Carpcnter)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
MANILA June Is. 1900.
/ have been looking UP the chances for
American capital in the Philippine Islands,
and l find they are legion Millions of dol
lars could be invested right here in Manila
and made To pay su.h dividends as would
bulge out the eyes of the stockholders with
astonished delight.
Take. for ms ance. the establishment of a
big American bank with branches in China.
Japan. New York and London. This is a
country Of S.U00.O0O people. with a foreign
business aIproxmating SIo.Goo.ooO (goltD a
year and it has on,y three banks worthy
of notice These are the Hong Kong and
Shanghai Bank. the Chartered Bank of
India. Australia and China. and the Banco
E.~pannI-F Filipino. Tn, first two are British
institutions AMI the third is the bank
which did the business Of the Spanish gov
erument before The American occupation
These are practically the only banks in the
Philippine Islands.
SIXTY Per Cent II Year.
The British banks have large capital
The Chartered Bank is represented by
about s11 ."00.H0 gold and the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank by more than S15.pOD.
uO0, including tho p4id-up capitals. reserve
funds and reserve liabilities Of the stock
holders
As an evidence of the profits IF these in
st'tuti"ns. ! have before me the half-yearly
statement Of the Hong Kong and Shanghai
Bank for IN" six months ending wi n last
December. The figures are in silver. the
money / shall use in the remainder Of this
letter. You have only TO divide the amounts
by two to reduce them to gold. This state
ment shows that the bank made during
that six months. after deducting all bad
or doubtful debts. total profits amounting
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guild should be steadily supported by the
old-time residents of these camos-the
merchants and sober citizens. 1t costs Sc y
500 to stake prospector. II four men d.
vide the risk 1t is only twenty-five each,
and that is like betting a nickel against a
hundred on horse race or the turn of a
card. The sober citizen will try 1t once
for luck. who knows but what a new
camp like Creole may grow out of the ven
ture, as Creole grew out of similar ven
ture? II the fellow is telling the truth.
and his story certainly is plausible. why
then" So says the mine camp capital
list and what he thinks about following his
why then is of the wondrous joy OF life
when the shipments of ore from this to-be-
located mine yield thousand dollars a
day.
For 1t is the region of the mirage.
When the Alaskan developments first
reused the country. the tramp prospectors
found their occupation badly hurt. Some
got grub stakes for an Alaskan trip. re-
markable as that may seem. but the specu-
lative capitalists in so many cases Joined
the rush for the north that the tramp
prospectors We're often left stranded. The
business men who did not leave the home
camps had far less money to risk on VEN
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lures. The number of men who were found
picking for food among the refuse OF the
mine camp restaurants was never so
large.
The Tramp ProSpector.
But the tramp prospectors genius has
risen superior TO this, as it has always
risen superior to every i'll. He knows there
is but one remedy for the stagnation in the
deserted Rocky mountain camps and that
remedy is a new strike. He is now going TO
the mine camp capitalists and IS saying that
this is the very time to venture. 1t is in
the nature of the ENTHUSIASTICALLY the
desert capitalist-tO listen. More ingenious
still, the tramp prOSpccto- has been known
10 announce his wundrous discoveries
through the newspapers. When he has
tried to beguile the speculative capitalists
in vain this tramp, in these last days. an
nounces through the press that he has
made a discovery of wondrous riches
Through the mine camp newseathersr he
IS even able to reach the papers of the
whole country. Only day or two ago the
days New York papers contained a para