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There is a legend af1oat that the en-
peror of Japan has certain decoration
the ninth class order of the Wall
Eyed Elephant, or something of that
sort-which he hands round when he
runs short of cigarettes. Be that as it
may, the ease with which travellers Sc
cure such honors has given rise to in
Vulnerable quaint. stories, the latest Of
which has special local interest. Ac-
cording to the yarn, a breezy English
girl was visiting a sister in Leeds, and
while attending a little society func-
ton, she encountered an important in
dividual who had recently made a trip
to Japan.
Among the trophies which he brought
back from the land of the chrysanthe-
mum was an exceedingly spectacular
decoration, bestowed upon him heaven
only knows why or how. The only fear
that seemed to disturb the late traveller
was that somebody would overlook the
ornament. At any rate he had ex-
changed hardly dozen words with the
young lady visitor when he lifted it
delicately with his finger tips.
by the way, Miss Blank" he said,
"I suppose you have never seen any
thing like this before?"
"Oh, dear me, yes" replied the young
woman, glancing carelessIy at the gilt
tering gewgaw, Eve have thousands
of them at our childrens fete every
year!'
The knight of the order Of the Wall
Eyed Elephant went out into the con-
servatory to catch his breath.
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sacred music.
Her late husband was a gifted COM
poser of hymn tunes and a remarkably
fine performer on the organ. When
the queen is at Windsor her grandchil-
dren, Prince Arthur of Connaught and
the young Duke of Albany often spend
Sunday at the castle, getting special
permission from the school authorities
for so doing.
The queen is always present at the
morning service, and no one in the
congregation could be more attentive
than she. The preacher is usually en-
tertained at luncheon by her majesty,
and some kindly word is, as a rule,
said to him concerning his discourse.
The bishop Of Ripon and the bishop of
Winchester are among those most fire.
quently commanded to preach before
the queen, and it has been noted that
men occupied the pulpit when the
queen is in residence. She has never
disguised her leaning toward the Evan
gelical party, and has great sympathy
with various developments connected
with the Evangelical movement. The
queen took a deep interest in the mis-
sions conducted by Messrs. Moody and
Sankey several years ago; and al
though she herself was not present at
any of the great meetings, the Princess
of Wales and the Duchess of Teck gave
the queen full accounts Of the pro-
ceedings.
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he'll go home inside or outside one of
these lead boxes.
Word is going about here that re-en-
forcements are on their way to Manila
at the present time and that we are. to
have an addition of some long needed
cavalry, besides some American negro
troops. But the officers are very ret
icent about discussing such things be-
fore the men and consequently we are
pretty we'll kept guessing. So in the
meantime, during this period of en-
forced inactivity when we have more
time to think about our little griey-
ances, there is a general feeling of de-
preston hanging over this place. 1
suppose this is mostly due to the cIi-
mate, for when one is inhaling mucky.
humid, fever germed and debilitating
air such as you get when the rains are
on here they are not likely to feel es-
pecially chirpy and clipper. When the
occasional chance does come for a
brush with the enemy, however, our
boys soon forget their little discomforts
and show spirit enough in wading after
a bunch Of insurrectos through half
flooded ricefields.
But as the off season advances here
there is a tendency for our forces to
recOncentrate in and about Manila.
The result is, of course, that much of
the territory which has been won and
occupied by our men at considerable
loss will pass once more into the hands
of "Aggie." This is resented by many
of our boys, who protest that they
would rather wade through muck up to
their necks from one end of Luzon to
the other before giving the niggers''
even temporary reprieve. 1t gals
our boys to see so many so called non
combatants" passing in and out
among our lines when they know well
enough that each and every one of
them will take up arms against Uncle
Sam just so soon as the first oppor-
tunitY arrives
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babbling deIiriously of his home and
his sweetheart, and at the end, as a
rule, of his mother. 1t is a terrible
thing to see big, stalwart, careless men
stricken down in this mysterious and
deadly way, and it makes you think
over all the little things you have done
in the past and the things left undone.
and starts you wondering just when
your own time is going to come The
haunting fear of it takes the spirit out
of men who would laugh in the face
of 40 armed Filipinos. 1t is a microbe
guarded ambuscade that no scouting
party can ever foretell.
When it is not fever it is dysentery,
and three days of it is often enough
for the stOutest and strongest man. 1t
seiZes him i'll an hour, and though he
is hurried off to the hospital, he seems
to melt away like April snow in Ken
lucky, and before word has got round
camp that he is down a burial squad
is ordered out and his last bed is made
in four feet of Philippine mud. Some
times the man you may be putting to
bed in this grim way is a campmate or
old comrade OF yours, who perhaps
went to the same little schoolhouse
with you when you were boys together
and when this thing happens you find
that you can't swallow your soggy bread
for day or two or sleep at night be-
tween your moist blankets, and if you
happen to get facing a band of Fill
pInos, God help them, because you
won't, for there is a sort of deadly
madness in your heart which nothing
but killing can ease away or make you
forget.
The officers of the different regi-
ments here are, of course, doing their
utmost TO fight off the fevers and keep
the camps in a sanitary condition and
look after the welfare of the boys, but
the brainiest and bravest officer who
ever came out of West Point is not
worth much when it comes to fighting
against atmosphere. Gunpowder isn't
going to clear away the miasma laden
air that broods over the damp woods
and valleys Of these pestilential islands
during the rainy season, and the Off
GERS themselves feel their helplessness.
SO it is only a matter of looking for
the highest and dryest quarters, retir-
ing closer upon Manila, as we have
done, swallowing tons and tons and
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SOLDERING DURING THE RAINY SEASON

Some of these pious and meek looking
Filipinos who come about our camp are
prodigiously eloquent in their protesta-
tions of friendship to the Americans.
Not long agoAa handful of our men got
hold of one Of these amigos who was
suspiciously military looking in his
bearing. He was ostensibly carving
baskets of rice into camp, but seemed
to look about him and size up the sit
uation altogether too inquisitiyely.
Quick as a flash three or four of our
men nabbed him. cone of them tore his
gingham shirt from his shoulders. and
there, plain as day, was the telltale
sign of his treachery. The hollow of
his right shoulder was black and blue
Now there is only one, thing that
causes that peculiar marking of the
shoulder front, and it is the repeated
kicking of rifle butt against it. In
other words, here was a ruan who had
probably but a few days before been
actually raining hostile bullets among
our men now calmly meandering
through an American camp and spying
upon us. The orders respecting the
treatment of friendlies by our men are
very strict; otherwise there would have
been one lynched insurrecto that day.
These deceitful tactics of the Fill
pinos have served to harden the heart
of the American against him, where
otherwise there might be some natural
compunction about killing half civilized
negroes when it was remembered that
the killers in. question came half
way round the world to do up
the hated Spaniard and not to
pepper at ignorant Asiatics. But as
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William R. Walters, In a Letter From the Philippines. De-
SCrbeS the f1dd5hip5 Involved In Summer
Campaigning In The Philippines

then more tons of quinine until the
very taste of it haunts your nightmar-
ish dreams, and praying to God that
you may last out the rainy season and
live to help plant Old Glory on the re-
motest mountain top in all the Philip
pine archipelago for all time
Over this forlornly picturesque and
tumble down old city of Manila the
stars and stripes are waving as 1
write this, but just at present among
the warworn boys who are patrolling
it's ancient streets and it's gray old
fortresses there is a sort of temporary
feeling of hopelessness. Not that they
have by any means given up. But be-
tween now and next October, it is
we'll known, little can actually be. done
toward finally rounding up "Aggie"
and bringing this undesirable war to a
close. The shipIoad of leaden caskets
which has just arrived here to carry
home the American dead has not ex-
actly frightened up things about camp,
for one can't help speculating whether
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soldiers of Sunday morning, stripped
to the waist, and making the soapsuds
fly like Montana snoWstorm. This
is the only chance the boys have of
freshening up their soiled and grimy
linen, and though you come across an
occasional soldier who seems to have a
rooted antipathy for water and cleanli-
ness, the American trooper as a rule
is somewhat of a crank about the con-
dition of his own cussed skin. Men
who have been used to an enamel bath
with nickel plated faucets are here glad
enough to get hold of a discarded dish
pan, and in it perfom their morning
ablutions with both grace and dispatch.
AS for water, heaven knows there's
enough of it! There's water every
where. Blankets are soaked with it.
Bread is soggy with it. Leather boots
are Nnoldy and clothes are perpetuaIly
steaming with it. If you don't watch
out your rife Will rust with it and you
will wish in the depths of your aqueous
soul that you were born a duck For
this is what is known as the rainy
season" in the Philippine Islands, and
any unsOphisticated agnostic at home
who thinks it is misnamed ought to
come over here and try to live through
it under canvas. Ricefields that three
months ago looked as green and gently
Undulating as Indiana meadowland
are now a desolate stretch of water
swept bog, marsh, swamp, anything
that suggests the superlative of ter
restrial ooziness. Through this our
boys have to plow their weary way
time and time again. When tired of
the bog they are given a little taste of
the bush, where they push their way
through underbrush reeking with the
too generous rains of heaven. Travel
ing by road they sink up to their boot
tops in black mud. From showering
dawn until drizzling dusk they are
rained upon from above, and when the
clouds let up there are always a few
F'ilipinOs in ambush somewhere about
to provide a leaden substitute The
trenches are filed with water and con-
verted into miniature canals up and
down which you could all but ferry an
Erie canalboat. insignificant little
streams, once no more than ankle deep,
now hem US in with six or ten good
feet of mud laden, raging water.
But this is not the saddest part of
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a DAY IN CAMP DURING THE RAINY SEASON

mains have been recognized as those or
some old friend or camp comrade.
It is the usual thing for an American
soldier when shot down and left for
even the shortest space of time on the
field to be found stripped from head to
heels. His arms and shoes are always
taken first, and, when there is a chance,
clothing is carried away as we'll. I
know of the case Of one private who
was shot through the neck and fell.
He was overlooked in the excitement,
and when, three hours later, he was
found by the Red Cross people he lay
on the ground as naked as the day he
was born. The Filipinos, it seems, had
sneaked out and, finding him uncon-
scious from his wound, straightway
fell to stripping him. Thinking, pre-
sumably, that the wounded private was
already dead, they did not take the
trouble to dispatch him. The strange
part of the affair was that the wound
of the private in question was merely
superficial, and in a day or two he was
about again, but not before he had Sc
cured a new uniform of blue flannel
shirt and an old pair of duck trousers.
This costume, by the way, has come
to be the general order of the day If
it is not a flannel shirt, it is gingham
one, and the trousers, it must be con-
fessed are often enough rather un-
military looking, with their grotesque
patchings and innumerable rents. The
regulation ''slouch" hat now reigns the
favorite, since those officers who i'm
ported Asiatic pith helmets soon found
that pushing ones way through dense
underbrush ruined a cork hat in about
one-half day. So the good old slouch-
the slouch that has poked it's adven-
turous way through the bullberry
thickets of Montana and down the
canyons of Mexico and chased up the
redskin from Manitoba to Mexico and
bobbed up and down about the slopes
of San Juan hill, and has always in
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look about me and see what has
taken place all around Luzon it seems
to me that just this little birth of ha-
tired is one of the most hellish features
of war. 1t is not only the loss and
suffering which warfare imposes upon
innocent people, but more the harden
ing of the hearts of the soldiers them
selves to the instincts of humanity and
sympathy. Such warfare naturally i'm
plies a process of EQUALIZATION, but it
is very like the hard heartedness of the
surgeon who has to cut away the rot
ting limb.
Before any final judgment can be
passed upon our boys it must be re-
membered that they are contending
against an enemy which does not make
war under the principles and methods
of civilized nations. In their ways of
fighting they are more like those old
Apaches of Arizona than anything I
can think of in this connection. They
never stand up and meet us squarely
face to face. They fire, retreat and melt
away, crawling back through under
brush to fire again and still once more
decamp. In many of their strategic
movements, in fact, they are even more
INSCRIPTIONS than the red man. This
1 can best illustrate by an actual oc-
currence. which took place near the
railroad line that runs from Caloocan
to Malolos, where companies of the
Thirteenth Minnesota and the Second
Oregon were stationed on guard duty.
These guards had been fired on so
often by insurrectos that scouting par
ties were sent &ups the Marilao river,
and a few of thesesscouts were camped
one midnight near the Bocave bridge
Here their sentine1s were fired on and
driven in, and the captain, seeing that
he was all but surrounded by Filipinos,
quietly withdrew land left the enemy
raining lead into his empty camp.
Meanwhile a second party, hearing the
firing, came to the, assistance of the at
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none that compares to your Little
Breeches. " Il quite agree with you,
madam said Mr.. Harte, "but you have
put the breeches on the wrong man.
A friend recently remarked to Gener-
al Wheeler upon the small stature of
most prominent southerners. Il once
said the same to a giant old cracker
woman" remarked the general, land
she said it was because they had to be
raised mostly on prayer and hickory"
Before the revolution in France it was
customary when a gentleman was in
Vited out to dinner for him to send his
servant with knife, fork and spoon,
OF. if he had no servants, he carried
them with him in his vest pocket A
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over 92 years Of age. He was probably
the last living man who knew person.
ally Lafitte, the famous pirate of the
gulf of Mexico. Iaams was but boy
when he knew the buccaneer in Bata-
via, but he often earned money from
him by running errands.
Benjamin Harrison" says the Bos-
ton Herald, has never been noted for
his sparkling wit or humor, and yet he
is reported to have made the whole
Venezuelan arbitration commission
smile by remarking that four days in
the week was all that ought to be ex-
pected of ordinary men and that the
gentlemen assembled to arbitrate the
Venezuelan difficulty were all ordinary
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men. This delicate bit of humor car
ried the day, and the commission will
sit but four days in each week"
The new Union railroad station at
Buffalo. which is to cost $4,000, 900, is to
have waiting room so by 235 feet, said
to be the largest in the world. The 9TH
er accessories and the train shed ar
rangement are on the same liberal
scale. Every street car line in the city
will pass in circuit under the waiting
room. The upper floors of the building
will be used as hotel.
Louis Candee Weir, president of the
Adams Express company, is the exact
double of DR.. Faunee, the new presi-
dent of Brown university. So close is
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the likeness that an enterprising New
York photographer sent to Providence
500 copies of Mr.. Weir's picture, which
sold as bona fide likeness of DR..
Faunce. % -
Sievking, the Dutch pianist, who was
imprisoned for awhile in Austria last
summer for disrespect to a religious
procession, has eloped with the daugh-
ter of Vienna hotel keeper. II
There is trouble in the Irish courts.
The lord chief justice of Ireland re-
proved The McDermott, Q, c., who is
attorney general, for appearing in
court in 'unprefessionaI costume" be-
cause he wore white waistcoat under
his gown on hot day.
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MATTERS OF INTEREST.

James A. Rappe of Marinette, Wis, a
veteran of four wars and 81 years Old,
proposes to ride from his home to the
national encampment of the Grand Ar
my Of the Republic, a distance of 1900
miles, on a bicycle. He expects to make
about 80 miles a day
EX-Congressman E. H. Funston was
introduced at Ottawa, where he spoke,
as the father Of Fred Funston The
old man took it all right and said: ''The
speaker has introduced me as the fa-
ther of Fred Funston. 1t has often been
said, No great man ever emanates
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from a great father but the converse
of this may be true in my case, "A great
father may emanate from great son."
Bret Harte is so frequently compli-
mented as the author of Little Breech-
es" that he is almost as sorry it was
ever written as, is Colonel John Hay,
who would prefer his fame to rest on
more ambitious work. A gushing lady,
who prided herself upon her literary
tastes, said to him once: My dear Mr..
Harte, I am so delighted to meet you.
have read everything you ever wrote,
but of all your dialect verse there is
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few of the ancient regime follow the
custom. The peasantry of the Tyrol
and parts of Germany generally carry
a case in their pockets containing a
knife, fork and spoon.
A memoriatrhas been erected at Can
terbury in memory of the Al Protestant
martyrs burned atthe stake during the
reign of Bloody Queen Mary. The me-
mortal is a fine and well proportioned
monument of gray Cornish granite and
consists of a square pedestal on a rock
base, from which rises shaft 13 feet iE
height, surmounted by a reproduction
of the ancient Canterbury cross.
An interesting character died lately
in Galveston in John Iaams. an old man
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THE STORY OF A HIGH PRIVATE.

the story. When the rainy season
comes TO these islands it brings with it
foe that stout hearts and good steel
and all the gunpowder in Manila can
not withstand. This foe makes his
presence felt first by a feeling of de-
preston and uneasiness, then stiff.
ness, then a chill that shakes the vic
tim till his teeth chatter. and then
raging fever that puts him on his back,
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nee her fellow serv-
ants on account of her regular attend
ance. In some way or other the affair
reached the ears of the queen, who, on
learning the whole state of the case, 3
said, Il shall go to the meeting my
self and see if it is a fit place for my =
servant to attend" The queen was
true to her word, and attended the
class. saying. on her return to the pail i
ace, to her servant: Never neglect Z
your class meeting. 1 only wish that
my other servants would go also"
The queen has always had scrupulOuSl
regard for the different beliefs of other
people and, as is we'll known, is in no
sense of the word a high church wO-
man. When she is in Scotland the SIM.
pie service of the Kirk well satisfies the.
most powerful sovereign in the world:
For many years she rarely missed the
annual communion service at Crathie,
with it's impressing simplicity and pa
thetic ,solemnity. During the visit aef,
the young Czar Nicholas and his bride
to Balmoral the queen and the czart Of
Russia, onesthe head of the Established,
Church of England, the other the head
of the Greek Orthodox church, knelt
together in the simple edifice among the
ordinary worshipers drawn from high,
land villages. i
The queen is an excellent judge of !
preaching, as one may easily believe, !
considering the remarka BILE variety Of
preachers to whom she has listened. /,
An interesting story has been told in
connection with the late John Card,
whose sermons were so much appre-
cfated by the queen and Prince Albert.
1t seems that on the first occasion of
his command to preach before her.
majesty there was a delay in accepting3
it, owing to his absence from hoRe-p.
DR.. Caird, however, offered to go, Ito
Crathie, although Sunday was so near,
and there was. no time for him to pre-
pare a special sermon. He took with
him an old discourse which was written
on the text, mot slothfuI in business.
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."9
He preached with so much acceptance
before the queen that the Duke of Arsi'
gyIl wrote shortly afterward, saying
that she and the prince consort would =
like the additional favor of being.
permitted to peruse the sermon in /.
MS. Later, by her majesty's COM :
mand the sermon was published,
under the title Of Religion in
Common Life" Dean Stanley, no
mean Judge of sermons, considered
that this was the greatest single SER
mon of the century.
On Sunday afternoon, when the
queen is at Windsor, it is usual for one.
of the military bands to play on the
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ga ERE in the Philippines Sunday is
always washday among our SOL
der boys. The only exception to
this general rule is when there is trou-
bic on hand and the American troops are
too busy upholstering the hills of Lu-
zon with dead Filipinos to stop and
WELD the soap bar and washboard.
But when things are quiet around
camp you can always see hundreds of
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terrace-a privi-
lege much ap-
preciated by the
public, who
throng in thou
sands to listen
to the sacred
music. Often
the windows Of
the quee n S
a p a r t m e n s.,
overlooking the
park, are open,
and the strains
Of the music
reach her. There
is no need to
say how fond
the queen is of
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apples down on the old farm are ripe
yet, or some hairy and sunburned son
of New York sadly speculating if She
is spending her summer at Newport or
at Saratoga.
WILLIAM R. WALTERS.
Manila
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General Antonio Luna, who now ap-
pears to be the fighting leader of the
Filipinos, is a mixture of Spaniard, Ia
gal, Chinaman and Igorgote.
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not long ago by
a leading Meth
odist, who said
that in the
early part of
t he queer 8
reign his father
con d uc te d a
lar g e society
class at Sloane
Terrace chapel,
Chelsea. One
of the members
of the class was
a servant at
B uekin g h a ms
palace, and shei
suffered a good
deal of ridicI1Ie
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HAD LOTS OF THEM.

Manila.