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INTERVIEW FAILED.
senor Lopez Again Unable 10 Get an
Interview with Secretary Hay.

senor Lopez Again Unable 10 Get IN
Interview with Secretary Hay.
Washington, January 2i.--Senor Lopez,
secretary TO Agoncillo. the Washington
representative OF Aguinaldo, called 1T the
state department at o'clock this after
noon and lodged with the chief clerk q
communication which. to the common cx-
peetation, marked The critical stage in the
Philippine question. This is the third
attempt made by the PHILIPPINE representa-
tive to secure official recognition from
the United States government
Secretary Hay, at the time the commit
nication was presented, was attending .
meeting OF the cabinet ut the White House.
so that all that Chief Clerk Michael could
do under tho circumstances WAS 10 re-
ceive the paper az he would any other
handed In to him,
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THE Madrid PRESS.
situation In Philippines II Grave for
the AmerlcAnH.

situation In philippines II Grave FOR
the AmericAns.
Madrid, January 24.--A Hong Kong dis
patch to the Reforma Of this city says 1
letter received from the Philippine islands
dated January 20, announces that the rup-
ture between the PHILIPPINES and the Amer
leans is an accomplished fact and that the
lives OF the spsniards In the archipelago
are endangered.
The Impartial says; IAN the inteili-
gcnce from the Philippine islands
shows that the Americans recognize
their inabIlity 10 overcome the insnr-
gents In the island OF L,izon and the
VIzoayas. The PHILIPPINES understand
that the Americans wish TO tyraupize
over them and exploit them as tbs
spaniards never did. The Americans
Intended 10 exercise their powers
merely at The import ports, but they
are already convinced that Us domi-
nation viii NOT b. officscious- They
would be constantly fighting the In
surgcnh and tho latter would coon put
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lower Mississippi valley to the Pacific coast.
The Temperature has fallen in the lake re-
gions, the Ohio valley aud the Middle Gnlt
States. and has remained nearly stationary
elsewhere. including the Pacific coast.
the weather will be clear In tho North AT
lantic States and tho Temperature WILL remain
nearly stationary elsewhere.
J. Southeasterly gales, shifting to Northwestern
and nortllwesterly gales, diminishing In force.
on tho middle and south Atlanticgcoast
storm signals are displayed on the Atlantic
coast from Jacksonville to PASSPORT.
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m end 10 tho Americans. us Tho lhll-
ipinos have on their side nc. only the
soldiers, but tho climate and the sits
uatson VIII tell On tho Americans, Tho
Americans desire 10 tirst get thu
treaty OF Parts voted and lihcn open
negotiations with the rebel chief IN
.ordor@to sec it ARulnaldn aud his co.'s
. leagues viii consent pt least IL accept
. an American protectora,c With srlt-
: rpVt,rt,n,ent ~ II ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-25

Washington, January 44.-The ways and
means committee today indefinitely post
ponod the bill relating to the Greater
America exposition at Omaha, which was
designed to show the resources OF Cup;',
the Philippines, Porto Rico and the La
drones. ,,,,
nermittinp spirits to be shipped in tins,
which is designed to secure a larger irsdc
in Japan.
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WEATHER rsroRMAr1o,.

tales May Be Expected on the North
Atlantic Coast Forecast.
washington, January 2i.--Weather condi-
ilops and general forecast:
pc storm central Monday night over Mis-
4 nisln- has moved with great velocity to tie
Nlddle Atlantic States, increasing markedly in
ltcnsi,y, and has caused rain from the Mis-
vi piayalley to tho Atlantic coast, except
Ialn or snow In the lake regions Rain has
e ialien on tho extremJ north Pacific coast.
n. second storm appears TO be developing u
uS North of Montana
DC rfessure is high from tho middle and
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-25
ARMY BILL STATUS.

May Pass the House, but Not the
Senate.
Especial Dispatch to The Post.)
Washington, January 24.-The big debate
of the army reorganization bill began today
and will occupy the balance of the week.
The bill will probably paas the house in the
shape the president desires it, but It Will
have some stiff opposition from prominent
republicans, among them the eloquent
Johnson of Indiana. The prediction is
confidently made that II Will fail In the
senate unless the administration forces
Weld some concessions in the peace treaty.
and IL is also said that the president is
willing TO make the sacrifice on the treaty
TO carry through the army bill.
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new DANGER POINT
Manila Instead Of lIoiIo Is Now the
Real Scene Of Trouble.
---.-----,-- .-
CABLES ARE NOT REASSURING
Adyices from General Otis CAUSING
American Officials Uneasincss.
THE NATIVES DEMAND INDEPENDENCE.
Statutes Between Warships Caused the
PHILIPPINE Troops to Assemble.
THE NATIVES DEMAND INDEPENDENCE.
LINE OF BATTLE FORMED, But NO ATTACK
ARuinaldo Hns Thirty Thousnnd soi-
1 dicrs nnd Is Supplied with Maxim
Guns-TroubIc Predicted.
Washington, january a4.--Thy

Washington, January a4.-The
advices from Manila, which have
reached the war department, are far
from reassuring. It's understood that
General Otis reports an expectation
on his part that The insurgents are
about to force an issue and if this
should be so the result connot be fore
seen. Manila itself and not lloilo, as
might at first be supposed, is regarded
as the danger point just now.
Manila, January 2is~-Againaldo has Pros
claimed the Philippine republic at Maloias.
There was no public demonstration Ia Ma.
lila. M
The Spanish civil prisoners viii be act
free by the insurgents,
Rival native authorities Mt cebu are :e,,
ported TO be lighting, aud Che town is en-
dangered- Il
Aguinaitos government can not MAIN.
tain Order in the interior OF I.uzon, and The
native authorities are otter murdered.
If Aguinaldo commences bostilItics1
against the Americans the northern Prov.
ince Will probably attempt to shake off his
woke 4f fsAaf
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pHILIplNos, SIDE oE IT.

Washington, January 24.--In his COM
munication to the secretary OF state to-
day. Senior Don Felipe Agoncillo calls at
tention to the fact that On January II he
addressed a letter to him on the question
Of recognition. forwarding with II memo
randum demonstrating that, according TO
all American prccedents. the Philippine
republic was entitled to recognition, and
in the same lctted Invited the attention OF
the secretary to the present conditions ut
Manila, where oyerzeal on their side might
create a condition resulting 10 grieyous
loss Of life and urging the necessity of an
early and frank communication between
the representatives OF the two countries
He further calls attention to the fact that
since his letter was written the very cir
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PROBABILITY OF A BATTLE.

Washington, January o4.--whi1e the in.
avoid any hostile clash with the natives,
so far as that plan is consistent with the
maintenance of his position, 1t is realized
here that it is within the power of any ex-
cited or intoxicated person to precpitatc
a battle between the two opposing forces,
for, it must be understood, there is MOTH
ing in General Otis Instructions to pre-
vent him from most vigorously defending
himself and the interests confdcd TO his
charge.
General Otis Is SO sure OF his ground
that the officials here feel no doubt as TO
the outcome Of hostile collision between
the Americans and the insurgent forces
under Aguinaldo, particularly as General
Otis would have the enormous advantage
Of the fun cooperation OF the American
feet under Dewey. Bit II is particularly
desirable that even n battle ending in VIC
tory be avoided just now. for the president
had by no means surrendered his conyic-
ton that the Philippines can be brought
to an understanding OF the real objects of
the United States and peacefully accept
the situation sought to be imposed.
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Probnbii,te..

Louisiana, East and West Texas, New Mex
ioo Oklahoma. Indian Territory and Arkan
sss---Fajr; light variable winds.
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General observations.

Observations taken by the United States
weather burenu at p. m. yesterday. 7ssn
The Republican., 1899-03-23

with letters of credit, so that you can
start business at the west on your own
account"
what promises do you wish me to
make?" inquired the young man.
First, that you will not drink in
toxicating liquors of any kind"
Il agree to that"
Second, that you will not use pro-
fame speech"
81 agree to that"
Third, that you will not become a
politician"
81 agree to that"
The young man started in business
at the west, and, by minding his own
business, in few years he became a
rich man. At the close of the war he
came east, and called upon his friend
and accepted father. In the course of a
happy interview the philanthropist
asked his adopted son if he had kept his
total abstinence pledge.
Eyes, SIR" was the answer.
'Have you abstained from the use OF
profane speech?"
"Yes, SIR" said the man with en-
phasis.
''Haye you had anything to do with
politics?"
The visitor-the adopted son, perhaps
l should have said-blushed and said:
without my consent was nominated
for governor of my state and elected.
am now on my way to Washington to
transact important business for the
state."
Did ever hogshead turn out so good
a thing as teetotal governor before :?
1t had to be emptied of it's wine before
it could be a shelter for the little Arab
who ran wild in that wilderness of mar
bic and mortar, the great city of New
York.
The streets and wharves of the great
metropolis of commerce invite mission
airy effort, and the writer hopes that
the little waits ahoat on the wave of
outward life will not be neglected.
George W. Bungay, in National TIE;
perance Advocate.
The Republican., 1899-03-23

from the time of his first seizure would
have warded off the disease, and given
him, quite possibly, ten years more of
health and strength? And what a
grievous thing it was that the wreck of
that grand personality should have
been fastened by two such miseable
agents as whisky and champagnel And
who can doubt that in cases without
number the same agents are working
out the like destruction, and the wreck
ing process must go on without ceas-
ing, until the public sentiment against
alcohol becomes more strong, and until
it comes to influence far larger num-
ber in the community? The saddest
thing of all is, that such multitudes can
witness the process of wrt ckage, so con-
stantly occurring among us, unmoved
and unchanged.
No doubt people say lard things
against total abstinence; but can they
say that it ever did such evil as moder+
ate drinking has done, or that it ever
paralyzed the brain or shortened the
life of one SO illustrious as Sir Walter
Scott PROF. W. Garden Blake, d. D.,
LID, in United Presbyterian.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
The Best Way to Cook spinacb.

To cook Spinach wash and pick the
leaves from half peck of spinach.
Have ready "a large kettle, throw in
the spinach, sprinkle over teaspoon
full of salt and not more than half
pint of water Stand the kettle over a
brisk fire; shake or sort of toss the
spinach almost continually for ten min
utes; drain and chop very fine. You
may then press it through colander
Dr. use it simply chopped. Put it into
& saucepan; add TWO tablespoonfuls of
butter, two tablespoonfuls of cream,
half a teaspoonful of salt and a dash
of pepper, and stir continually until
smoking hot. Dish in a hot vegetable
dish, cover with small squares of toast
ed bread, and serve at once. or, when
you return the spinach to the fire to
teheat, you may add two tablespoon
fuls of stock, two tablespoonfuls of
butter, tablespoonful of vinegar, and
garnish the spinach with hard-b boiled
Eggs. When desirous of serving spin
ach cold, cook as directed, chop fine,
season with a tablespoonful of lemon
juice, half a teaspoonful of salt, a
quarter of teaspoonful of pepper;
pack at once into egg-cups and stand
away to cool. When ready to serve
turn these out on thin slices of cold
boiled tongue or sAees of cooked tur-
nip. Serve as salad with French
dressing.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
GOVERNOR IN A HOGSHEAD.
Was Robbed of His Father by Drink,
But He Improves His
Opportunity.

A good-natured philanthropist wa,
walking along the docks one Sunday
morning, when he found boy asleep in
a hogshead. He shook him till he was
wide awake, and then opened the fol-
lowing conversation:
"What are you doing here, boy?"
81 slept here all night, sir, for had
no other place to sleep in"
How is that? Have you no father or
mother? Who takes care of you?"
"My father drinks, sir, and 1 don't
know where he is. have to take care
of myself, for my mother is dead; she
died not long ago" And at the mention
of her name the boys eyes filled with
tears.
well, come along with me. I'll give
you a home, and look after you as well
as l can"
The child thus adopted on the wharf
was taken to happy home. He was
sent to common school, and after
wards employed as clerk in the store
of his benefactor. When he became of
age, his friend and benefactor said to
him: you have been a faithful and
honest boy and man, and if you will
make three promises, will furnish you
The Republican., 1899-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The human voice can in a few cases
utter 296 words a minute.
Rapid growth of the finger nails is
considered to indicate good health.
OF 10000 attempts at suicide in Prus-
sia only 6,497 cases were successful.
Dealers in pet animals and birds say
that women buy more than half the
dogs.
At Queen Victoria's dinner table
there are separate servants for each
person.
The average age at which women
marry in civilized countries is said to be
1914 years.
Siberia is said to be a country of
enormous natural wealth which no eff
fort has yet been made to develop.
A church in London still possesses an
income originally given to it for the
purpose of buying faggots for burning
heretics.
Two-thirds of the total number of
children under ten years of age in the
United Kingdom are insured in one
form or another.
Judge Pelton, of the Georgia supreme
court, recently adjourned court be-
cause one of the witnesses preferred,
instead of testifying, to keep an eng
gagement TO be married.
A Paris reporter recently counted in
one hour on one of the avenues 20 auto
mobiles, AZ motorcycles and 152 BIZ
cycles. The emperor of Russia has Or
dered an automobile in Paris.
An eminent German physician de-
clares that as long as bicyclist, after
long tour, has good appetite, does
not feel a desire to go to sleep at once,
and is not annoyed by heavy dreams
on the night following, he may consider
that he has not made too great a de-
mand on his physical resources.
The Republican., 1899-03-23

Make dough as for biscuit, only
richer. Roll one-fourth of an inch
thick; line a baking-pan, bottom and
sides-a round pan is best-and fill in
with clean white rags; roll out top
crust somewhat thicker, place over the
rags without pinching the edges to-
eether, bake, and when done take off
the top crust, remove the rags, and put
in the oysters already prepared as fol-
lows: Drain one quart of oysters; heat
the liquor, and skim, add one-half a
pint of milk, and skim again after It
boils; then add the oysters and lump
of butter, salt and pepper. Thicken
with one heaping teaspoonful of corn
starch moistened with cold milk.
When it has cooked thick and creamy
it is ready for use. Pour a very little
ketchup in if desired.-Farm and Fire
side.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
Football and the Seed Market.

An agricultural seed market report
is surely the last place in which one
would expect to find discussion on the
influence of football. In the last re-
port of the London agricultural seed
market, however, the connection is
clearly pointed out. There has been a
steady decrease in the sale of canary
and other seeds, and this has been
traced to the fact that huge numbers
of people, especially in the north of
England, who used formerly to keep
cage birds or devote their leisure to
small gardens now give all their spare
time and interest to football.-West-
minister Gazette.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
ADnuhIe-Headed BuIl.

On the occasion of a public reception
at Napier, Australia, the school chill
dren of the town, after being duly COM
plimented by his excellency from Coun-
ty Tyrone on the hearty manner in
which they had rendered the national
anthem, were so@@mnly assured that If
they put their shoulders to the wheel
they would be sure to reach the top
of the tree! Upon which a compatrot
turned to me and said: Sure, it was
an axle-tree he meant, bedadi"--Lon-
don Spectator.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
Evidence of Ability.

"Well," said the merchant prince,
"what excuse have you to offer for ask
ing me to let you marry my daughter?"
Il will be honest with you," replied
Fergus Finnington. my principal ex-
cuse is that l am deeply in debt. Of
course love your daughter, but could
live even if that love were shattered.
Living without the fortune that eX,
pect to come with her hand is another
matter. l must make raise in some
way"
"Um," the old gentleman returned;
show much do you owe?"
"About $20,000."
"And what property have you to of
fer as security for all this?"
''None. 1 never was worth a hun
dred dollars in my life"
"Say, l want you in my family. A
man who can owe $4,000 without any
assets is worth saving" - Cleveland
Leader.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
PICTURES OF LONG AGO.
Odd and Amusing Effects Which old.
Time Photograph Albums
Reveal.

In our day of artistic professional
photographers and enthusiastic anna
teurs by the thousand it IS amusing to
look through old albums and view thu
frequently grotesque results of early
photography.
The conscious sitters, the hard lights
and shadows, the ill-chosen accessories.
the constrained poses-how they make
us smile to-day! And it is true that the
very qualities most dreaded were often
those we now admire. and those we
most dislike were hel3 in high esteem.
Above all, it used TO be assumed, it was
desirable that everything-everything
should come out clear" Softness Ct
effect was a thing to be aLhorred.
One lady, whose family cherished the
custom of having the children's pictures
taken every two years, recalls wildly
the length, the solemnity and the elab.
Grafton of her childish sittings in
famous New York studio, and especial
ly the care bestowed upon her toilet.
Her dress for the occasion consisted
year after year, of large black and
white check, chosen because black and
white was supposed to come out"
more effectively than anything else. 1t
did indeed! She can now display a Sc
ries of childish portraits in every one
of which she is arrayed in a frock about
as plant and becoming as a checker
board. The polish on her poor little
button-up slippers is so high it took
white in spots, and she is posed wearily
against dark screens or light ones, in.
elaborate chairs of impossible outdoor
scenery, reproduced in violently obvi-
GUS detail-looking each time like the
exhausted little martyr she felt her
self.
An entry in an old diary recently
read by the young descendants of the
chronicler, who are eager enthusiasts
in the use of the camera afforded the
family much amusement. 1t ran:
Jane and Emmeline have had their
pictures took by the new process.
James fiowered silk has come out ber-
tiful, every leaf plain to see, and her
lace coler, too. Her mouth does not look
quite naterall, and her hands are rather
large, but the black mits are most ele-
gent and becoming. 1t is fine picture
and much admired.
pore Emmeline's is not such a sue
cess. The small figgurs il her muslin
scurcely show, and, being blue, it came
out a dinjey gray, and her coler was
small pattern, too, and one would not
know she wore one hardly, but for the
brooch. And she says that nobody
could tell whether it was a brooch 81 a
spot of ink! She was so dlsapinted she
cryed, pore girl! The face isvery good. -
1t is easy to infer that if there had
been tears over either picture in our
time it would not have beer Emmeline.
with her pretty, soft muslin and her
sweet young face, who world have shed
them but the unfortunate Jane, tri-
umphantly caricatured for posterity il
her fine, flowered silk and "elegent'
mitts.-Youth's Companion.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
GLEANINGS.

Drink buries sorrow that rises again
to-morrow.-National Temperance Ad-
vocate.
To countenance wrong is TO do a
wrong, He who shelters a criminal be-
comes himself criminal. He who leg
alizes crime is morally a criminal and
wrong cannot be rightfully legalized.-
Prohibition Pulse.
Some people are showing a great con-
cern lest the liuqor traffic be established
in our new possessions. Well, that is
all right, but how about our own coun-
try? Is it more important to protect the
black children of the Philippines than
American boys at home?- Patriot Pha
lanx.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
QUEENLY EVEN IN PRISON.
A Truly Pathetic Incident of the Last
Days of III-Fated Marie
AntOinette.

The author of Foreign Courts and
Foreign Homes" relates a very pa
thetic story of Marie Antoinette, told
to her by an old man who had, when
boy, during the days of the terror,
to take some water daily into the room
of the unhappy queen. The boy did
not know the rank of the prisoner as
she was spoken of as Veuve Capet, and
her daughter as Cheyenne Marie! The
first time he was gruffly told by his
uncle to put the pitcher down. On
entering the room he looked up and
saw a pale, cold, stern-looking woman,
with snowwhite hair, standing bolt up
right facing the three men and the boy
as they came in. She started violently
when the boy entered, but said moth
ing. No doubt he reminded her of her
own unhappy son separated from her.
Some childish instinct made the boy
reverently bend his head to her, and
if he had dared he would have doffed
his cap and bent his knee. In the
guardroom he asked who this Veuve
Capet was, and was told bad, wicked
woman, who had been the curse of
France. Constantly he carried the
pitcher to her, and one day, when his
uncle was more drunk than usual, and
not noticing him, he slipped three little
primroses, which he had in his hot lit
tie hand, into hers. The queen took
them, hid them in her dress, and burst
into tears. ."-Longman' Magazine.
The Republican., 1899-03-23
Runts and Weddings Among Fishes

Among the red snappers from Ber-
muda, now in their second winter here
in one of the tanks of the aquarium,
there is one, the weakling of the flock,
that has not grown any since it was put
into the tank. 1t was long ago expected
to give up and die, but it shows no signs
of doing that yet. Though it doesn't
grow, as the others have done, and
though it is slower in its movements,
yet it has fair appetite, and it holds
its own, always about the same. There
are runts and weaklings among fishes,
Just as there are among other animals,
and they may be as tenacious of life
as their more favored brothers, but the
big and vigorous are better able to pro-
vide themselves with food, and as rule
they live longer.-N. Y. Sun.