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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24
cmmIsrMAs IN THE CHURCHES.

Al Bt Mary'u Catholic church tOmor.
row high mass will DO celebrated at iO.y
Holy communion az $50 ana a. m.
Special Christmas music will be rendered
al high mass.
Christmas tree and enrol services AZ
Grace church this (Chrintmas) eve NJ {
o'clock Tho Offering al tho carol services
will DO for tho bonofit OF no ohild's com
fort cot, No. 3, In the Good Samaritan
hospital. Services will DO held tomorrow
Christmas day AZ go a. M. II u. m.
and 1.o p m, and Holy Innoccntr'. IN
fiant Astoria. "a n. m. Tho offerings
AT hoao services. IN accordance with the
usual custom. viii be for the aged and
inirm olcrgy fund scNicca will bo
conducted at N. Thomas -by-ihe-s Sea.
sklpanon. on Monday evening. ST. sleph-
ona' day. at 7:l5
Early Christmas services viii b. held
al tho Swedish Lutheran church tomor.
row ~ Q a. IA Services w.ll also bo held
at n n IN. There viii be no services IN
tho evening.
ChrAtmBa services will bo held at the
Presbyterian church tomorrow. The
morning theme will be. Christmas Joy:''
tho evening theme. -rransformations. -
Special Christmas music will be rend-
cred n, bath services.
AZ tho Baptist church the Sunday
school will have It's annual Cfristmal trce
on saturday evening. the exercises be-
ginning as i:30. Tho theme for Sunday
rvrnpns both morning and evening. will
bo Tho Birth of Christ"
AZ thc Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
church Christmas services In tho Nor.
wrsian language viii bo held at 1895 a.
m. Christmas day. There will bo no
scrvtccu In tho evening.
AZ tho NJ. r. church the Christmas SER
mon Sunday morning will be held at II
O'Clock. Tho Sunday school viii give
Christmas entertainment az 7;S0 p. m.
Al tho Congregational church Christmas
will bo appropriately observed. The
church Ia beautifully decorated The
Sunday school Will celebrate this evening
s. Arrangements have been made with
Santa Claus TO give this school tho first
visit Tho topic OF tho Christmas SER
mon will bo "Pcaco" In the evening a
double quarto,to will rondGr a Christmas
prllso service The program win appear
tomorrow morning.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24
MiLEg EXPLAINS DEFICIENCY
IN AltMY BEEF RATIoNB.
Tho donoral Admits That Largo guam
tliy of Iioof Aont to Cuba wns
Unnt for Food.

'fTl Dor B,-sutnchl Mllcl
returned 90 Washington today, afigr bo
lng mo guoet of honor horu last nlghl
NJ tho Nov England banquet. Tho Chi.
oago Tribune today has the following In.
tofylow with him.
Whom asked 40 10 the investigation
Into tho boof ration scandal no IN now
making, 90 which no referred In Lsntl.
m0ny Wednesday, General Miloa said,
my snaplcl0nn were aroused several
months ago and ut once Instituted an
investigation INTO tho matter Of sending
boof 10 dho army IN tho West Indies.
Tho llom in my testimony Of Wednesday
relating 20 ga t0Da Of refrigerator beer
uiid lss.0U pounds OF canned fresh beef.
which WIS uniit Tor food, was only one
tom. This wns pont TO Puerto Principe.
How much moro waH som TO Porto Rico
do not kn0w.'
''ilow about mo boof supply for tho
army In cubar
~ was IuH as bad Tho conditions
lh"ru were uu bouier than they were IN
Porto Rico. as indicated IN my toati.
m0ny."
"IlOw about tho railonn before tho army
oinbarkod7 Was the supply no bollrr BE-.
fOfo the transports sailed than after tho
army was established In cubaT
III was tho uama at T'nmpa and the
same at Jacksonville"
'wIll you giyo little moro light on
what you mean by your testimony before
tho war commission yesterday"
General Miles suggested that tho food
was sent io HE largo army under thn
prelenHo ~ an experiment.
~ think." continued ucipgral Miles.
that that sentence In sufficiently plain"
Prestige u tho precise term 10 bo
uncd Il II absurd 20 pretend that these
enormous quantities Of beef wcro eont -
an entire army simply ~ an experiment.
10 expect that boof can BIO EXPOSED "a
tho tropical sun for sixty hours without
morlifying IL out of tho question"
How about tho chemicals used In pre-
pairing this bcefr'
"AH I stated Ia my testimony. believe
That tho action OF these chemicals wia
largely responsible for tho sickness IN
tho army have medical authority for
this statement and believe II TO be
true"
.''lloW far along has your own invea.
ugttion Into ,hls subject pnogrcasody'
"lt bvgan several months ago. have
tho testimony OF large number OF ON.
oors and mon upon this matter. some OF
which ! save IA my testimony before no
commission yesterday. Ny inquiry IN
Hiill in progress and some OF tho most
important information l have received
has bcon acquired In the paat few days"
what channel will this lnyeallgSi0n
lako upon iln oonoiuaionr
Il will not discuss that Il II my duty
10 investigate any wrong existing IN
uio army. and that / am now doing In
no regular military manner. Tho work
Ia not completed ycl. and until II lu done
have nothing 10 add 10 tho statement
m.,ir before tho war commission yosicr.
day"
what wuH tho matter with tho lenin1"
"ThcFn was not enough Of them. They
were not suited TO stand tho wear and
tear and some of them wcrc poor"
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a. y. q. TEAM READY FOR
THp BIO FOOTBALL CANE;
Lineup shows Inc Eleven 10 He me
Strongest Which Ever Represented
the Blue end white.

All IN IN readiness for the big football
gano at Fort Stevens Monday afternoon.
Tho Astoria Football club's team has
praGtiocd faithfully and tho mon are IN
nno form. 11Io llno-uD IL very strong,
and tho blue and white will be- m5rc
formidable this year than over befofs.
The coming ramo has aroused the inter.
ogl of all tho football enthusiasts In
Astoria, and II IN expected tho maieh Will
bg iho bost over seen IN this portion or
tho state 1hs Fort Stevens team IL the
naino M whom tho Fort canby-Sleyons
iamo took place. Tho local team aver.
ag,s M pounds IN weight. and will not bo
outwdgMod by tho soldiers. Tho team
has two q. Of o players -slgfrcd Young
and II, Knapp. myo greatly strong-
lhonod tho limo Both Young and Knapp
arc members " the A. n. q.
There Will be- no lack Of transportation.
A special trnin will leave Astoria at i2.l5,
and tho steamers Miller and Eclipse have
also been engaged. II ls expected that
very large crowd will SEQ tho game
T'h1 lineup follows:
H. Knapp. center. Thomas Spencer. left
gimrd. g. Jordon, right guard. Il. II. But-
ton, loft tackle, u. Marion. right tackle,
H. c0saoll. loft end. Sigfrcd Young. hight
end. !, Burlington, quarterback, b. Allen.
loft half. c. Abcrcrombe, right hall: ".
w. Crosby. goal
Burlington. Ailon and Young aro tho
hEhtoat mon on tho team. and weigh be-
tween no and 80 The othor mon all ITO
tho beam at over 100. This II very
strong team. and tho boys are as certain
Of victory as they arc that tho sun will
rise on Monday. Practice has shown
thom 10 DO erpcriH AZ the game and the
soldiers will have a dlnicult umo In
making any material gains against them.
MAJ Taliahi. WIN Jones Ross Trii!in-
ger VIII Curtis and others will 20 along
NJ Substitutes.
Unfortunately tho club was unable 70
place tho Smiths Point grounds In con-
dition for this seasons playing. or the
team would have been much stronger.
as tho men could have had more practice.
Tho stree, car nno will be- extended 20
tho Point next ycar. however. and some
exciting games are looked for.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24

Acker's English Remedy win stop a
courN at any time, and will cure the
worst cold In twelve hours, or money re-
funded S and 80 cents, For sale by
Estes-C Conn Drug Co,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24

Dishes in Plain and Decorated
.Semt-P5rcelaia, Boris, PdtterS,
Pitchers, Plates, Vegetable
Dishes, Chamber Sets
Giuca array free 'cith
AMERICANS BEST
TEAS, CoFFEES, SPICES
Grsat American Importing Tea Co,
81 Commercial strcet,
We also sell
China. Crockery, Glassware
Cheapest Prices in America.
Write for Catalogue
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24
SPORTS BLOCKING TO HAVANA.

NEW YORK, Dec 9--A dispatch 10
tho World from Havana, says:
on the heels OF tho announcements that
Jim Corbott will open saloon here comes
the news that Bat Mastorsosn, wyatt
E0rp, OF Tombstone, Arlz,, doc" Holll-
day, ED Casey The Kid" OF Skagway,
Alaska, and DOC" Brown, OF Spokane,
arc coming TO Havana to engage In vari-
ous enterprises Judging from appear
ances the early history OF the western
towns of America will be repeated In
llavana. Gambling houses will be opened
everywhere II Is poor building busl-
ness street which has not bids on II for
a location for an American bar, That
seems to be tho idea among the sporting
fraternity that Huvana win be made an
other Monte Carlo, TO endure through the
reconstruction period at least.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24
HTT AS AMBASSADOR,

NEW YORK, Dec, GA dispatch to
tho Press from Washington says
Tho Indications are that Robert II.
HIT, chairman OF the house foreign af-
fairs committee, has been asked to accept
tho Enthusiastically TO Russia BY the
president. Senator Cullom recently rec
commended Mr., HIT for tho British post.
This Is Of Importance as an indication
that Mr., Hltt Is willing to leave congress
to enter the diplomatic service.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-12-24
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.

SAN rnANoIHC0. Get
LaUIavILl.E. ~. New YouR. M
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03

tive musicians from the backwoods. two
of whom are depicted here. These
are a couple of male Sahai, the abor-
isinal inhabitants Of the peninsula.
You will notice the extraordinary way
in which they are playing their bam-
boo flutes, blowing into the hole in the
reed through the nose instead of with
the mouth. Why they do this no one
has ever been able to find out. We
now pass to another form of amuse-
ment at a Malay picnic, which is abso-
lutely unique. "Given a fine, sunny
morning. says Sir Frank, you will
drive four or five miles to the appoint
ed place of meeting, and there you will
find a crowd of about 200 Malay men,
women and children, who have been
duly hidden to meng-gelunchor, or tha
unique sport of the water slide, and af-
terWards to take part in the picnic:
which forms "a recognized ACCOMPANY
ment of the proceedings. "a walk of a.
couple of miles along the shady jungle
path brings the party to the foot Of
the hill, whence a clear mountain.
stream leaps down a succession of cas-
cades that fertilizes the plain. Here
is a stiff climb of several hundred feet,
until the party gains a great granite.
rock in the bed of the stream. At.
certain seasons this rock may be COW,
cred, but now the water flows round it.
and dashes itself wildly into the falls
below. Up stream, however, there is
a sheer smooth face of granite about so
feet long, and inclined at an angle of
As degrees.
Nov, o must understand that
while the main body of water finds it's
way down one side of this rock and
then across it's foot, a certain quantity
of swiftly flowing water, never more
than three or four inches deep, dashes
down it's face. The depth Of water
here can be increased at will by bam-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03
China's Death-Dealing River.

The Yellow river, which has been
named the Sorrow of China" is prob
ably the most destructive stream on
the face of the earth. In less than 1000
years it has changed it's channel four
times and the point where it empties
into the sea has from time to time
been moved up and down the coast a
distance of 800 miles. 1t runs through
a vast alluvial plain, and is fed by
streams from a great system of o
tains in the north. When the SNOW
melting on this range comes at
a time of heavy rains the result
is sure to be a terrible flood.
1t has been estimated that in the past
three centuries over 10000 900 human
beings have persisted in the floods of
the Yellow river. For dest~ructiveness,
both of life and property, this stream
is unparalleled and the %sobriquet be-
slowed upon it is simply justified by
its history.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03
Products.

The Philippines possess a very fertile
soil, though their capacities have been
but imperfectly developed. In many
localities the soil must be quite or
nearly virgin. Where cultivated the
products are sugar, hemp, tobacco. rice,
coffee, cacao, gums, arrowroot, indigo,
cotton, hides, pepper, cochineal, gutta
percha, sesame betel root, arecanut, CO.
coanut, c%ocoanut oil ,pinacloth, tortoise,
shell, birds nests and trepang; also
bamboos and rattans, with logwood,
ebony and other hardwood timber. The
material known as Manila hemp" is
not produced from the plant of hemp
with which We are familiar (Cannabis
sativa), but from the fiber of a species
of banana (Musa textilis). The rice of
the islands is the staple food of the ma
tives. The cultivation of sugar is jeo-
%pardized by the terrible plague of To-
Gusts, to which this crop is subject;
these insects arrive in "swarms of mil
lions" The manufacture of cigars,
ETC., was for a long period the monop-
oily of the government, and extensive
cigar factories were established in
Manila and Cavite, but the monopoly
induced a universal c~ontrnband traffic.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03
MORE ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES.
Racial, Commercial, Political and Social Con-
ditiOnS of the Inhabitants CT
Those Islands.

The Philippine group were discover
ed by an expedition under Magellan in
1921, the islands, on the occasion of a
later expedition under Villabos, were
named Philippine in honor of the then
Prince of the Asturias, afterwards
Philip ii. Manila was founded in 1871,
and since that date has been held by
the Spaniards, except for a brief in
terval between 1862 and 1854, when it
was occupied by the British.
Situation, Topography.
The islands of the Philippine archi-
pelago are described by Sir John Bow
ring as "innumerable." Other author
tiles ~variously estimate them at from
400 to 1000 in number. The eleven
most important, embracing some So per
cent of the total area computed at
ll4,350 square miles,, and the great
mass of the population are Luzon, Min
danao, Negroes, Panay, Mindoro, Cebu,
Samar, Leyte, Palawan, Bojol and Mas
bate. Lying between Borneo and For
mosa, the archipelago extends some 300
leagues from north to south, and 1870
from east to west, and covers 14R de-
grees of latitude and 9 degrees of lon
gitude. Luzon and Mindanao together
exceed all the other islands combined.
Manila, the capital, situated on the
west coast of Luzon is in latitude IA
degrees 36 minutes north and longitude
40 degrees 81 minutes east. It's posi-
ton, as a central point between ia
pan, China, AMMAN, the English and
Dutch ports of the Malayan archipelago
and Australia" is, observes Jagor, Eek
tremely favorable to the development
of a worldwide trade" Some 1000
miles distant from San Francisco, it
is but $50 miles from Hongkong, while
from the northern extremity of Luzon
to the south capt of Formosa is little
more than 200 miles.
The Town of Manila.
The site of Manila was selected chief
ly on account of it's fine harbor or bay,
circular in form, and capable of hold
ing all the navies of the world" Into
this ~debouches the river Pasig, which,
with a breadth of about $50 feet, flows
through the city, dividing it into Ma
Mia proper or old Manila, and new
Manila or BinondO. Tho former, &C.
cupying the left or southern bank of
the river, Is the fortress or citadel. 1t
contains, besides the principal fortif-
cations, the palace and the cathedral,
and is surrounded by old walls, Jas
toned and moated, and dating back
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03
A Wedding Day in Kansas.

Ambrose Southwell and Miss Della
Schmidt were married last Saturday
evening, the Rev. J.. H. Countermine
performing the ceremony. The bride
is a daughter of John Schmidt and has
been employed for the last three years
at the dry-goods store of J. w. Walker
& Co. Mr.. Southwell is connected with
the Symms Grocery company. They
have taken rooms at Mrs. Peaks. The
marriage, which took place shortly
rfter 6 p. m. Saturday at the residence
Of c. A. Stuart, was a complete sur
prise. The family of the bride, who
opposed the marriage, was not ever IN
formed of it. Miss Schmidt was at
Walkers store as usual on Saturday
and left the store at $50 p. m. for sup
per. Going home, she donned her
wedding gown, me- Mr.. Southwell and
proceeded to Mr.. Stuart's, where thew
we're married. She Their returned 10
her home, attired herself in the dress
che had worn during the day, and went
back to the store as if nothing had hap
pened. She had been absent only an
hour and ten minutes. - Atchisop
Globe, .
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03
WAY HIS MOTHER COOKED.
tie Has Never Said Anything About 1t
Since That Visit Home. >

iht Una y I1oInes -
my husband was forever telling me
about the things my mother used to
make during the first few months OF
our marriage" said a young Washing
ton matron. to a Washington Star re-
porter, but he stopped doing that af-
ter we made a summer visit of a week
at his mothers home out West about
half a year after I became a Mrs 1t
had up to that time been My mother
used to make this and hat so it would
melt in your mouth and My mother
had a knack of cooking that stuff that
would simply make a man glad he was
born and all that sort of thing, I'M
ii | was almost distracted and | grew
to believe that his mother, whom |
had never seen, must be the greatest
preparer of food that ever lived in this
world. Then, as | say, we went il to
his mothers home to stay a week. His
mother is an old-fashioned woman,
who likes to do the cooking herself.
The first breakfast We ate was simply
a marvel OF awfulness. There was
fried round steak, tougher than leath-
er; potato biscuit as heavy as lead,
gallery coffee that tasted like dishwa-
ter, big hunks of fried potatoes, ter
ribly greasy; thick slices of fried pork,
all shriveled up; cornbread that was
only half-cOOked-oh, my, it was real
ly frightful, Ny husband, | could
plainly see, was crestfallen but he
stuffed himself, said everything was
out of sight looked daggers at me
when l said that the long journey had
taken my appetite, and announced af-
ter breakfast that he hadn't eaten a
meal in a decade that he had enjoyed so
much. He didn't want to own up, you
see. Well, every meal was simply a
repetition of this breakfast-'old-fash-
toned cooking, you know, that I'm sure
| can't understand how our forefath-
ers and foremothers endured. My hus-
band stuck it out for three days that
he was enjoying his meals hugely. but
I could see him becoming somewhat
tireder-looking all the time, and, fin
ally, after dinner on the third day, he
came upstairs with me and said. 4
fear my mother is sort o. losing her
grip in cooking By the time we left
his mothers home he was the picture
Of a dyspeptic and 1t was fully two
weeks after we arrived home in Wash
ington before he could as much as
think of eating a quare meal. But
after he recovered from the attack OF
dyspepsia he certainly did enjoy our
little meals, and he has never referred
since to the things my mother used
to make Men, you know, only re-
member how they used to enjoy their
food at home when they were raven
ously hungry boys, returning from
swimming or walnuting expeditions
but nothing but their return to theil
b%Oyhood home after an absence OF
many years, during which they have
~rown to manhood, will ever convince
hem that the things they had to eat
when they were young ones were not
the greatest ever served"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-03

boo troughs leading out of the great
pool which lies at the head Of the wat
erfall. Directly at the base of the rock
is an inviting pool four or i've feet
deep.
cit is delightfully."- picturesque, with
all these people in their many colored
garments grouped in artistic fashion
on the bank and rock. They only stay
for a brief rest after the climb to COL
lect wood, make fires, and get the work
of cooking started. Then you will not
be left long in doubt as to the meaning
of meng-gelunchor. 1t is to slide, and
the game is to toboggan down the
smooth face Of the water covered rock,
and finally fall headlong down the lit
tie precipice into the deep pool below.
A crowd of little boys are already
walking up the steep, slippery rock.
They go to the extreme top, sit down.
there in the shallow water on a piece.
of banana bark, with feet straight out
in front of them, and a hand on either
side for guidance. Next moment they
begin the slide down 60 feet of water
covered rock, gaining before they have
gone halfway SO great a speed that the
final descent into the pool is like the
fall of a stone. Passengers succeed
each other in a constant stream, those
behind coming on top of those who
have already reached the pool.
But now the men, and lastly the
women, are drawn to join the sliders,
and the fun becomes indeed both fast
and furious. The women begin timid-
ly, only halfway UP the slide, but
soon grow bolder; and in due time
mixed parties of four, six and eight
start together in rows, and with a good
deal of laughter and ill directed att
tempts at mutual assistance, dash fran
tically into the pool, which is constant
ly full of a struggling, screaming crowd
of young people of both sexes. 1t is
we'll to leave your dignity at home if
you go to a meng-gelunchof with a
Malay party, for those who do not
weary themselves with tobogganing be-
come absolutely exhausted with laugh
ing at the antics of the sliders.
"If you understand the game, the
slide is a graceful progress; but if you
don't, you will fail to sit erect, and
your descent will be far from graceful.
1t may even be slightly painful, and
the final plunge into the pool will be
distinctly u~ndigniied. After tome
hours of this uproarious sport, every
one will be tired, so dry garments are
put on, and a very hungry company OF
picnickers sit down to an ample meal"
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in part to the sixteenth century. These
walls have been cracked by earth
quakes, and could easily be preached
by modern artillery. Jagor describes
the old town as "a hot, dried-up place,
full OF monasteries. convent, barracks
and government buildings" 1T still
preserves" says a later writer, "all the
austere appearance Of a city of the
reign OF Philip IL" Upon the walls,
however, and beneath them, have been
arranged pleasant promenades, where
the sristocrscy stroll and drive and
ride IN the cool OF the evening. The
district of Blnondo. on the right bank
OF the river, is the place of business.
the real commercial capital; and here
are the shops and warehouses and the
movement of modern life. Here, also,
and in the pleasant suburban villages
or pueblos behind the citv, live the
foreigners and the weather. class. Be
lind the city stretches a fiat region
rich in tropical vegetation, through
which flows for some twenty miles the
river Pasig which forms the outlet of
q great f:csb-water lake called the La
suns; the ccuGtry around being known
e. the l.aguna province. Beyond this
region the land rises towards the ir-