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pvNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

It's lucky that horses are dumb.-L.
A. w. Bulletin.
When q man becomes sadder and
wiser his sadness usually exceeds his
wisdom.-Chicago Daily News.
Spite Work-Maude--"I understand
she married him out of spite" Clarice-
"ReallyY' Maude-"Yes; she said If no
other man would propose to her, she
was bound he should propose to no
other girl."-Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
Bass-"Talking about joe Miller,
wonder what he would say If he could
cbme back to earth and hear some OF
the jokes of the present day?" Fogg-
"Guess he'd think the world stood still
when he died and hadn't started up
again."-Boston Transcript.
Teacher-"You may tell us, Tommy.
some of the ways in which the element
of fire confers benefit on the human
race" Tommy (who knows something
of his fathers business methodist
'.Nhen the amount of the insurance ex-
ceeds the value of the stock on hand
Tit-Bits.
Mrs. Fogg-"For mercy's sake, Dam
lei, what are you doing down there on
your knees peering under the bureauY'
Fogg (who has lost his collar button.
and is rot in sweet frame of mind)-
Looking for the Spanish feet; what
do you suppose I'm looking for?'-
Boston Transcript.
He Knew All.-"What do you know
about the newspaper business?" asked
the editor. 81 know all about it," re-
piled the applicant for job. "Then
give me the three principal divisions OF
war news" said the editor. "Official
news, semi-official news, and real news"
OF course he was put to work.-Chicago
Post.
Misled.-"Durn you and your old
grocery" shouted the man who had
backed up against the fresh paint.
didn't you see that sign, Fresh
paint?' asked the grocer. ''Of course
/ did, but I've seen so many signs hung
out here announcing something fresh
that wasn't that / didn't believe it,
INDIANAPOLIS Journal,
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bled with IN
ovarian tumor,
each year grow.
ing worse, un-
til at last 1
was compelled
to consult with
. physician.
He said
nothingcould
be done for

me but to go under an operation.
( In speaking with friend of rnine
about it, she recommended Lydia e.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, say
Ing she knew it would cfre me. then
sent for your medicine, and after talk
Ing three bottles Of it, the tumor dis
appeared. Oh! you do not know how
much good your medicine has done
me. Ishall recommend 1t to all suffer-
ing women.--Mrs. Rosa GAuM, 72o
Wall St, Los Angeles, Cal.
The great and unvarying success of
Lydia p. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
pound in relieving every arrangement
OF the female organs, demonstrates
1t to b the modern safeguard Of wo-
mans happiness and bodily strength.
More than million women have been
benefited By It.
Every woman who needs advice
about her health Il invited to write e
Ars. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass.
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LESSONS In WARFARE.
Some That Have Been Taught by the
United States I'm the Present
Trouble with Spain.

A fact in connection with our national
existence is both curious and interest
ing, and it is this: Although essen
tally unwarlike and at all times main
tanning but small army and either no
navy at all or one of very meager pro-
portions, when compelled to fight we
not only have been always victorious.
but also we have taught our older and
more experienced neighbors many of
the most important lessons connected
with naval warfare.
From the United States was learned
the lesson of the value of privateering
las an auxiliary to the movements of
the regular naval force; again, we DEM
onstrated the paramount Importance OF
good gunnery even against superior
weight of metal, and that "the man be-
hind the gun" was, after all, the main
factor in naval engagement; then,
too. we proved the superiority of our
shipbuilders by producing the finest
types of ships afioat. The first steam
frigate on the navy list of any nation
few the stars and stripes; the Monitor
revolutionized all existing naval theo-
ries as to offense and defense, and at
once rendered obsolete the type of man.
of-war then constituting the fighting
strength of foreign fleets. It would
be strange indeed If it should be the
destiny of our nation to solve for the
world the as yet unsolved problems in
naval warfare consequent upon the use
of steel ships and of modern guns and
armor, and to determine the practical
utility and destructive power of the
dreaded torpedo under all possible con-
ditions, In fleet contests or in single
ship combats.-Henry W. Raymond, in
CbAgtauQpap,
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The first emancipation proclamation
is said to be on the gravestone, at Con-
cord, of John Jack, native of Africa,
who died in 1773, aged 60. 1t begins:
God wills us free; man wills us slaves;
! will as God wills; Gods will be done,
Though born in a land of slavery, he
was born free. Though he lived in a
land of liberty he lived slave, till. by
ibis honest though stolen labor, he ac-
quired the source of slavery which gave
him his freedom" The rest of the epi-
taph, which must have been written by
a forerunner Of Wendell Phillips. i
equally bltips,vcineiapatl Esspisey,
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AN OPERATION AVOIDED.
Mrs. Rosa 0aum Writes to Mr.,
Pmkham About it. She Says:

DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I take pleas.
ure In writing you few lines to in
form You Of the good your Vegetable
Compound has done me. cannot
thank you enough for what your medi-
cine has done for me; it has, indeed,
helped me wonderfully. I'M
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Silence of Jean-L0uiS.
BY MICHEL TRIvELEy.
hNOME here, if you want to see
Mile. Aline. She's coming down

Mile. Aline. She's coming down
che street"
Christine, the inn-keeper, seated be-
fore her door knitting, dropped her eyes
upon two figures coming along the lit
tie street. 1t appeared that from each
doorstep like summons had been
given, for almost all the inhabitants of
Coubertin were gathered at their front
doors.
Mile. Aline, the object Of all this in
terest, passed along, accompanied by a
young fellow dressed after the manner
of a farmer, with whom she talked, and
never seemed to notice the tumult which
her radiant beauty had caused. She
smiled and bowed to those whom she
knew, and finally entered store which
bore above its door the sign: Louvre
de Coubertin." AS soon as she was out
of sight the tongues began to move.
"Oh, my, but she's pretty!"
There's not girl in this town that
can stand next to her!"
sits her husband who will be the
lucky mani"
"It's funny she hasn't married."
"If only she would have accepted that
NJ. Duviquet!"
"Or NJ. Bonnassal, the rich old adj
vocate's nephew!"
"Oh, well. look at Jean-Louis, the
nephew of NJ. Beaujars. He seems hap
py with his cousin, doesn't hep"
II wonder if he is in love with her?''
"He? He's too stupid. All he thinks
about is the cows and chickens on his
pncle's farm. He couldn't fall in love.
Aline Beaujars merited her reputa-
tion for beauty. Nothing could be more
exquisite than this young girl of IS
years, with her blonde hair, her gray
eyes, and her brilliant complexion. She
lived happily at her fathers farm, where
everyone loved and worshiped her as
a sort of queen, beginning with jean
Louis, who. in spite of his stupidity,
possessed marvellous ingenuity in salts
flying the young girls caprices. He was
an orphan, and had been adopted while
child by his rich uncle, M. Beaujars,
and now occupied on his farm the po-
sition of general manager.
IF it were not for Jean-Louis," Beau
jars had often said, 81 would not be as
well off as am. He is treasure. But
1t is queer that he seems SO stupid about
other things"
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sen.ation An Jeru.alem.

The ringing of the peal of bells be-
longing to the new German Protestant
church at Jerusalem on Easter Sunday
created sensation in the Holy City, as
they are the first Protestant church
bells which have yet been heard there.
1t seems, however, that the Greek and
Latin friars attached to the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre were by no means
pleased at the favor extended to the
Protestants, whose presence in Jerusa.
lem is strongly resented.-N. Y. Sun.
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The best time to pick a strange water
melon is in the dark of the moon.-L. A. W.
Bulletin.
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Total Number of Sheep In the World.
The number of sheep in the world il
estimated to amount to 100000 OF
this number between one-third aud one
heli are believed to be msTilos.
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Pigs do not squeal when they are feeding.
Rams Horn.
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1t was on account of this reputation
for innocent stupidity that Jean-Louis
was allowed to be the constant compan-
ion of Aline when she went to town.
He was protector, nothing more, in the
eyes of the girls parents. In reality, he
and the girl were fast friends, and Aline
found him anything but stupid as a
companion. She used to question her.
self as to just how much her regard for
her old friend had to do with her de-
sire to remain unmarried. Once she
said to him. little wistfully:
"Jean, Bristol has asked me to marry
him. What do you say?"
"He's fine fellow" replied her
cousin, without meeting her eyes.
"Then you would advise me to ae-
cept him?"
why not, since you must marry some
day? AS well he as another"
Nevertheless, Aline determined to be-
come an old maid, and in this resolve she
reached 20 years. NJ. Isidore Bertoulin
proposed to her. He was considered a
splendid parti, and Beaujars was de-
termined to secure him as a son-in-law.
He was good-looking. rich and clever.
Alsne consented, and was hurt because
Jean-Louis semed glad. He didn't care
for her, she decided, and she might
just as well go away from him.
M. Isidore came often to see his be-
trothed, and treated her with every
mark of attentive affection. She
seemed content, and the wedding day
grew gradually nearer. 1t was her Gus
tom to walk with her lover as far as
Coubertin, when he returned home In
the evenings, and on these occasions
Jean-Louis walked some hundred feet
behind them and accompanied Aline
back home again. On one of these
walks Isidore said to her:
"Jean-Louis is very devoted to you,
Is he not?"
Yes; he always has been. When /
was child he played with me; later he
taught me to read. As grew up he
surrounded me with everything for my
good. He has been my playmate, my
teacher, my dear friend"
"And now he is family servant?"
you are much mistaken. He is not a
servant. / have the deepest affection
for him, and I want you to promise
that, after our marriage, you will al
ways treat him with consideration"
In general way, yes"
NO; more than that. He must come
to our house whenever he will. and
stay as long as he will. You will make
him feel that he is welcome, will YOU
uot?"
Eyes, yes. The devotion he feels for
you is common trait among faithful
servants."
Aline felt irritated.
"Please let me repeat that II is dis
agreeable to me to have you consider
Jean as servant. He is friend, rela-
tive"
adopted through charity?"
"Oh!" breathed Aline Indignantly.
They had arrived at the first houses
IF Coubertin, where they always sep
arated. As Jean-Louis joined them
Bertoulin. with natural lack of tact.
and wishing to show something Of 1
husbands authority. said:
Good night. Jean. conade made
pa'sf|lf y yes. Take ysFy geea esr.
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After physicians had given me up, wss
;sved by Piso's Cure . Sadg Erles' WI"
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AMONG THE LATEST BOOKS 90 ~
YESTERDAYS in JHE. PHILIPPINES.


conviction to the mind of the reader. 1t
has the same air of plausible unreallty as
the stories that flow with equal ease ana
velocity from the pen Of Archibald cav
The heroine-"Queen of the Streets
a great operator in stocks, and, hand In
glove with Senators, she is able to specu-
late with safety, making fabulous sums IN
and mars the fortunes of adventurous
and penniless young men.
One Of the Senators. hitherto a vague,
unseen entity, appears like the ghost at
band who deserted this wonderful woman
and their infant daughter many years be-
fore In the far West. She had put her
baby in an asylum, from which 1t had
staked a claim that made her rich. A
change of name and the conquest or wall
street and New York society followed
easily. The husband had also changed his
name and won fame and fortune, when
he now wished to unite with hers against
her will.
In the meantime the mother has mirac-
ulously recovered her long lost daugh-
ter who, of course, is a rarely beautiful
and cultured woman. The father wishes
mother hides her In remote places In Eu-
rope, while she takes flying trip around
the world to put the villain off the scent.
He dies opportunely while holding an
interview with the Queen of the Street,
and is mourned only by mysterious
vate life and marries an obscure person
age while the daughter marrtes another,
All who have done wrong are terribly
punished and those who have done well
are suitably rewarded.
TN THE SWIM" BY Richard Henry Saw
age Chicago and New York. Rand. McNaliy
& Co.
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CHOW SHOP ON A STREET CORNER. STEWED Or
HOPPERS FOR ONE CENT
From yesterday in the Philippines" published

entitled Sketches and Cartoons" It being the
third book of the series. of which Drawings
by C. D. Gibson" was the first and Pictures
of People the second.
new book by George Manville Fem, to be
published in the autumn by E. p. Dutton &
Co. is TO be entitled Mic Revel or, White
Slaves Adventures In Alligator Land"
the Laburnums." will also be issued by this
firm in the early fall.
promised next week by Longmans. Green &
Co 1t is collection of essays. and l. entitled
papers are The Jews of East London, ''wo-
men and Factory Acts The Difficulties OF
Individualism," and Socialism: True and
Longmans Green & Co. will shortly publish
new book by Andrew Lang, entitled, The
Companions of Pickle-Being a Sequel to
Pickle the Spy The author induced to
undertake this work owing to certain criti-
that pickle, the Spy was Glengarry.
Charles Scribner's Sons have arranged with
library edition of the novels of Henry Fielding
1t will be strictly limited in number. and Eng
lsh handmade paper VIII De USED Edmund
work, and no pains will be spared to secure
scholarly and accurate text The first two vol
umes will be ready in September;
The Commercial Advertiser writes: 80 the
Chap-Book is dead. and the theory on which it
tice. So far have observed there are no
mourners, and to the numerous tmftators
that for a time sprang up and flourtshed. prac
tically all of them died of nnarasmus long ago.
The literary world. therefore will go right
along as though nothing had happened; and, IN
fact. nothing OF any consequence has hap
pened.'
The fine editions of standard authors that
Charles Scribner's Sons are bringing out
will bring out in the near future form quite a
feature by themselves; Those now appearing.
or about to appear, at the rate of one two
volumes a fortnight, are THE Works of George
Meredith 1.-THE Works of Henry Fielding"
1.-The Poetical and Prose Works of Lord By
rom the only complete and authorized edi-
tion), 1.-The Waverley Novels of Sir Walter
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Charles Dickens (the Gadshill edition.. The
Works Of Thomas Carlyle (the Centenary edi-
toni Besides these are the standard subscrip-
ton editions of 1.-The New Authorized Edition
of Charles Dickens" Ito be completed in thirty
four voumes), THE Homestead Edition of
James Whitcomb Riley (ten volumes).
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uniform. smoking cigarettes playing chess and
tanning themselves In their comfortabie seats
our arrival. and made one boil within as they
upset the baggage and searched for smusgied
dollars.
The huge "punka," to make breeze,
which is IA most Important article OF fur
niture in every tropical establishment !;
the precautions against damage from
of plaster walls and ceilings; no tiles on
the roofs-impressed him early. Down in
the town. outside the city walls, the
buildings 'all have an appearance Of
feebleness and senility and look as if a
good blow or a heavy shake would lay
them fiat but In the old city, behind the
Notifications, ARE heavy buttressed build
ings of bygone days, built when 1t was
thought that earthquakes respected thick
buttresses so occupy the narrow sidewalks
that pedestrians must travel single file
We. already know much. however. OF
paper pictures; of the situation of the
city, on the bay and Pasig River, of old
6ral.
Here is a statement of the population in
1894:
AS to the population. Manila, IN tho larger
sense. may hold $50. 600 souls, besides few dogs.
OF the lot call 80. 600 Chinese 5000 Spaniards,
$50 Germans, 30 English and Americans The
rest are natives or half-castes OF the Malay
Chinese. Spanish and what-not proportions.
and whose Chinese eyes. fiat noses and high
Spanish accents Thus the majority OF the
souls in Manila-ltke the dogs-are mongrels,
or mestizos. as the word is, and the saying
goes that happy is the man who knows his own
father.
The travellers first night in Manila was
not reassuring. In the Spanish hotel Ell
Oriente, Mr.. Stevens made acquaintance
with the Philippine bed:
1t is a four-poster, with the posts extending
whose caves hang copious folds OF deep lace.
The bed frame is strung tightly across with
regular chair bottom cane, and the only other
over the cane. a pillow and surrounding wall
OF mosquito netting that drops down from the
roof and is tucked under the mating. How to
get into one of these cages was the first Ques-
ton that presented itself and what to do with
myself after I got in was the second.
Breakfast consisted of a cup of thick
chocolate and a seedcake to sop it out
of the cup, blotting- paper fashion. He
began the first morning by ordering a
dozen suits of white sheeting from a ma
tive tailor-price, 81 so each. Then he was
introduced at the English Club and began
to feel more comfortable:
The club affords shelter and refreshment TO
its fourscore members at two widely separated
points of the compass, one just on the banks
OF the Pasig River, where its waters, SLOUGH
ing down from the big lake at the foot OF the
mountains, first introduced to the outlying
suburbs of the city, and the other in the heart
of the business section. The same set OF ma
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THE CHEEKY BOOK
BY joe Ksr.

Joe Kerr and his writings are so well
known as to need no elaborate introduce
ton. His delightful merriment and ten
der pathos appeal to all classes. Although
still q young man, he has been New
York favorite for several years.
The sentiment of all his poems is ex-
quisite. The dialect verses are genuinely
mirth provoking.
Many of the poems are uproariously
funny, and display unusual shrewdness
In lighting up the foibleS of human ma
ture From first to last the book is thor
oughly enjoyable. The reader who ap-
preciates spontaneous, vivacious and orig
the slightest faint of coarseness or vul-
garity and with just an appetizing dash
CHEEKY Book" The practical reader. too,
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REGRET OF SPRING.
BY Pitts Harrison Burt

The more profound as well as the more
charming and modern of fiction writer's
study the soul. The interest in the prob
lens of mans higher nature is to them
far more absorbing than the constant
clash Of swords, or strange adventures,
as there are more tears and laughter,
more trials and more hairbreadth escapes
in a mans fight with himself than with
savages. The mystery and fatality of the
sub-conscious part in us Is their latest
field Regret of Spring in its meaning
or motive is a truthful and powerful addi-
ton to this class of deep and moving
stories of the heart. The story is the his
tory of fateful crisis in a matured ca
reer. An intensity Of noble passion per-
vades it.
G. w. Dillingham; Company, publishers,
New York For sale by San Francisco
News Compan. Price 81 so.
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Fary point ae Of view! VieT can aln be found
NM with Yesterdays in the Philip
VI VI pines" by Joseph Earle Ste
Il vens, there is no doubt that
the book is entertaining and bound to be
of a great deal Of use in imparting q
knowledge CT the true state of things IN
the domain that has just come under our
Jurisdiction and to which so many Amer
leans will soon be hurrying.
Mr. Stevens was for two years a clerk
in the last American mercantile house in
Manila, that of Henry W. Peabody & Co.
of Boston. He was compelled to live the
life of the people and also came into con-
tact with all classes. His business and
pleasure took him into the rural districts,
where he had full opportunity of judging
of actual conditions. He certainly knows
the facts as they would appeal to an
American, and it is to be taken for grant
ed that he has set them before the reader.
In opening his book Mr. Stevens gives
his opinion as to the advisability of Amer
lea holding the Philippine Islands; but
the reader had better Judge of that after
he has finished the last chapter.
AS far as style goes Mr.. Stevens writ
ing is not what would be called good"
1t is careless and even flippant in certain
paragraphs. Nevertheless, there is a
pithiness and dtrectnesS about 1T that
holds the readers attention from begin
ming TO end. The language is simple, ana
the scenes portrayed are all interesting.
In short, the book is readable. And after
finishing it few, indeed, will be they who
find fault with the style. Indeed, most
readers will be likely to declare it TIE
most interesting and instructive book of
travel that has appeared in many day
Mr.. Stevens begins his account from
the time the steamer leaves San Fran
CISCO and describes all of interest on the
way across the Pacific. The big Pacific
Mail steamer took him to Hongkong, from
where he took small craft to his desti-
nation.
The voyage from Hongkong to Manila.
100 miles to the southeast, he calls 'one
of the very worst short ocean crossings
in existence" The boat has a cork
screw motion" until 1t gets fairly under
the lee of LuZon. The first view, OF Ma
Mia and the shore from the bay is IN
SPRING but once ashore the unacclima-
tized traveller encounters much discom-
fort:
It was piping hot at the low Custom house
on the quay. Painting carabao-the oxen of the
East-tried to find shade under a parcel of
bambocs, shaggy goats nosed about for stray
bits tof crude sugar dropped from bags being
discharged by coolies. piles OF machinery were
lying around promiscuously dumped into the
deep mud of the outyards. natives with barred
backs cleaning in the sun We're Juggling hemp
OF prying open boxes, and under officials with
sharp rods probing -four sacks in the
search for contraband- Spanish officials in full
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A new method of preserving wood
from decay, known as the Haskin pro-
cess, is being tried on a large scale in
England. Instead Of Withdrawing the
sap and injecting creosote or some 9TH
er antiseptic substance, as Is usually
done, Mr.. Haskins submits the wood
to superheated air, under a pressure
of fourteen atmospheres. By this pro-
cess, 1t is. averred, the sap is chemi-
cally changed into a powerful antisep-
tic mixture, which, by consolidating
with the fiber, strengthens as well as
preserves the wood