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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13

""ri"'" an" a>hin$fon Steamboat
company.
Rational Peace .ynbircr
washington. ID G. Way n:.-u nI,h NM,
25ih,
Tor The ah4Xe celebrAiinn. this com
pany Will sell special tlckefs - N-7sh-
inSton ANA return at $S.O0-on sale N5v
"a ana 3D. limited TO 10Th inclusjvc
StateroomS can now be reserved al
company's Office ON the wharf.
d. J. CALLAHAN.
Phone No. III General Nnsnt
myl2-5t-eod
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13
CALENDAR

sun rises a 4:57 n. III. and sets at
7:o4 y. IN.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13
Norfolk AMI Vicinity.
WEATHER FORECAST FOR TO

Showery, with fresh south winds:
temperature nearly stationary.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-05-13
THE ATLANTIC HOTEL
FORMERLY Inverness lnn)

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA.
Open MAY Ii. Immediately on the Ocean.
Rates. 500 10 81 ~ per day: SO To SID pc.
week. Special rates TO families and travel
ing men. Cuisine and service the very
best. Write for folders. my7-lm
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
RAINIER RESERVE FIGHT.
SHEEP MEN HAVE PREPARED A
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
They Seek Such LeEislation as VIII
Permit Of GrasinE In the District
The Present Attitude Threatens
Destruction OF the Industry.

The sheep mer Of The Mount Rainier re-
serve district have prepared a memorial 20
be presented 10 the next congress. asking
tina, sheep be allowed 70 craze on the re-
serve during the open season. John n
Latlmer. who has just returned from, the
district, says the sheep raisers are much
put out over the attempt 20 drive them
from the pasture lands Of Mount Rainier.
and will send a delegation 20 washington
TO work for the memorial
The sheep men, ne saia YESTERDAY;
have raised A large fund. which will all
be expended IN bringing about desired
legisla tion. II the government persists n
following out the policy II has outlined. II
will simply result In killing the sheep-rsis-
ing Industry in this district. There are
now about ooo0o sheep in the neiEhoor-
hood Of Mount Rainier. During the SUM
mer months they have heretofore grazed
on the high grass that grows on what IS
known as the Rainier forest reserve.
Sheep. the memorial points out. instead or
being an injury 10 the reserve. are a eenest
10 ii. as the grass is kept short and danger
OF fall fires are thereby lessened. The
way injured, as sheep do not modest the
bark as is the case with cattle.
The reserve is the largest pasture land
suitable for the purpose. and TO drive the
sheep out Of II means TO drive them out OF
the district In all. | understand, the
sheep men have raised fund OF 5000 4
committee will be sent 10 Washington city
as soon congress opens, and besides IN
teresting the Washington delegation. Will
lobby for the passage of some measure that
will permit of the use OF the reserve for
the purpose Of grazing"
Mr. I4atimar also says that the residents
OF the country tributary 10 the district In
volved ars almost 10 unit IN favor OF the
steps 10 secure the reserve for sheep graz
ing PURPOSES,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

Prosecution Of Chinese for roruery
Tangies His Aecouuts

out Of The recent determination ~ United
states District Attorney Gay to pros
ecue'c for forgery under the Tinted
states statutes every Chinese hereafter
round III this Federal district Nth forged
or traud'iiently altered registration papers
has grown a controversy which seriously
threatens the happiness " United States
Marshal G W Ice. of Tacoma and hts
Seattle deputies Heretofore II has hen
IN" custom II doport In tie usual manner
Chinese arrested for being In the Unite
States with fraudulent certificates The
half dozen Chinese Nit Gay - now taking
steps 10 SEND behind the hairs ror forsery
Were rrst arrested for being uniaws eliv
III The country ard weFs ordered fAusrt . I
befoEs criminal proceedings were com
Glenced against them
Now when Chinese are held In the coin y
jail here awaiting deportation. she t'i2t,e.i
States marshal. as their cusfod an charges
the osnensa - their maintenance 10 IN
government Chimes exclusion fund ,,ftt
~ which deportation expenses are r.ls
All Chinese sentenced 80 deportation snus.
remain in tat for hail is net allowed Rn.
az soon the Chinese are charged sith
forgery their e1tnse he oaar% hst}Ah-e asa
the msfshai would ia or3!n y cases charre
thy cost ~ ils'r keeping - the vrisuins.
expens" ftni
The question Is what fund shall ~.
marshal charge the EXPENSE e kasping
~ been rendered AMI IL the meantime
Deputy United states Marshais Tvier afsl
Sttlnser are wrestling win Ghefr account
hooks and COR ssmuire al Chinese ire
srectNNe - AZ. Sex III eolor. 10 e,etasl
Iuu}a1 nent
Mr. cay Is e the eplnlou that the ~
fe%e prisoners sr~ criminal. ana hat penA
rs ttesg trsai ana imprisonment. II sucn
should p mn thn wtSs - deportation
arc suspended
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"JtIn the Pensnan :"

The Shaw company Will return to the
Third Avenue theater next Sunday even
ing, and vii produce for the first time in
Sny popular priced theater the great En-
s!ish society drama. made famous in this
country by A. NJ. Palmers company, Jim
the fenman" TIE play had phenomenal!
run q over a thousand nights in London
and 800 nights In New York city Seattle
theafer-SoSrs can congratulate themselves
that they will be enabled to see this great
play at popular prices. produced by such
an excellent organization as the Shaw com
pany. The sale OF seats. which is always
very large at the Third Avenue thsater
for sunday night. ts already larger than
usual Notwithstanding the expense Of
this attraction the management announ-
Ces that The prices Will remain as usual
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

owners say She VIII bring the Iowa
Men Time.

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct Go-The Ch-ons-
Gle says.
There Is itttie cause so- alarm at present
over the taCf that possibly the Tinted
states transport Senator. with the Iowa
troops aboard es c0lntered a tY9g0or
shortly after leaving Yokohama. a~r6r. Ing
"a marine men and ire owners " the
steamer The fsct fhat iha Fnpr.xs1 ~
India dia net sight the transport AMI was
hefsef caught IL The .yphoon Is not 70
gtreed 80 oFn3nous tor The Senator IN
Tact, RE army officers and heta rresnSe-s
e tie 'rna %: Goodslt. Perkins j CO. re
nN'>eTs. sT@ firm fn their belief gAat ne
senator NIL arrive On Monday. as ser ea
lied, oF. a, ne most. rot later than T;4as-
las The Senator - a'siit o. steel and cast
S4'sfsn she - only two years Oh ard -
ore ~ ne stanHh@Si vessels on the Pacific.
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BREVITIEs.

The will Of Thomas Price. late Of Black Diamond.
filed for probate yesterday.
Laura P rremwil minor. was adopted in the
superior court yesterday By Mr., and Mrs. Albert n.
Jagcox.
J. J. Ferguson II Wellington Yesterday fled
petition with the county commissioners asking that
body to reconsider its action revoknz hts liquor
license. The petition was signed by several business
ma
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

as is Mary Stuart There are characters
In all % the plays In Mod1ssxas present
repertoire which she could portray admir-
aosy, but her tenAcity in perGsting In the
delusion That she is a. young as she used 10
% Las kept her from achieving her ap-
parent purpose. that OF living UP 10 her
reputation The Seattle playgoers who
have seen her regret that they did not fol-
low the dictates OF judgment and renem-
Der Der by her ackiev ements in the past
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
THIEVES AT WORK.
w. c. r. L. Convention Prevents an
Inviting Field,

Thieves We're active at the w c. T. T.
convention last night. and the large crowds
present offered them an opportunity to
work with little fear Of nolcstation A c.
kahike, OF the Dexter Horton bank who
ofcisted as one Of the ushers lost fine
overcoat and a silk umbrella.
II was reported in an Indirect way al
.oi!ce headquarters that two women
present at the convention had had their
purses snaiched hy thieves. One Of the
women. so IL said recovered her
purse, bot the other woman did not. De-
tails OF these two affairs were not obtain
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

Judge Jacobs granted i've divorces yes
terday by default In four OF the cases
wives were plaintiffs, each accusing tbs
husband Of desertion. Following are these
cases Alice Gourdon ~. Charles Gour-
don, Liiah + Csyiness VS.. 7. r Cavtness
Priscilla Boardman vs. S H Boardmar
ard Helen Rowland w i.ycurgus How
land. John Gillespie was granted Adivorct
from ra'harine G. Gillespie on the grount
OF cruelty.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
PERSONAL.

W A. Gordon has returned from the Kiondike.
and for the present Is stepping with the John
Schram Company
Or NJ A. Mclaughlin ard wife Of Chicago. are
in the city. Dr. Mclaughlin is president Of the
Mclaughlin Belt Company. which has branch Of
and in Mexico
Charlie. y Ttiii. head Of the transportation de-
par,nent o; the Central New Jersey railway IL in
the city visiting his brother. V. +. Tull Mr.. Ttii
visited here twenty syo. and 10 greatly pleased
with the Seattle Of today.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
KAISER KNOWS TUE FEELING.
says He Knows How II L. to he In.
active While War Il About

NEW YORK. oct' "A dispatch - ,ha
Heca't from Sr-flr .sys
ire rpsror ye~t s3aaY. uhar - k>zr4
re Es.Ae wat-ag wR., AZ Ar3s Samoa 4 ~.
So tie acEhsri-1eHt. te}a ne as ..rx faat
- ccu8 tes. MIA, n NE - eek CT IN
Ait around
AT tgecT s.+e~4:e act .: a sfrg.e man e
ere CIV. - sxt. Nigh have haa .atal u
So cc~ssassUceS The e-re-er thanked
fH* - sTs fcr their services and con-
,c:tr1 several drsNo-a.fcrs
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

CARACAS. Oct. 2.--An attempt was
made last night to dynamite the residence
OF Senior Matos. Andrades representative
In the negotiations with the insurgent
commander Gen Castro.
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CRIME BRUTALLT AVENGED.
Negroes Murder n Family and Are
Burned at the stake

ST. LOUIS, Oct. "a special to The
Post Dispatch says: a posse last night cap
tured Joe Lefiore, a negro VINO confessed
that he and Bob Anderson on the preceding
night went to the house of n Gambriil
at st. Annes, Miss, tied Gambrils wife
and four children together. piled feather
mattress on them. poured oil on the pile
cremated the family and robbed the house
Lefore was burned at the stake. Andcr-
son was caught and partly burned. but the
fire was extinguished before he was dead
because information which may clear him
was received
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from Commander Hemphill. of the De-
troit, dated LaGuayra:
Andrade has fed. going toward La
Guayra with 500 men, He has not re-
signed the presidency. The vice pvesi-
'oent. who holds authority during the
presidents absence. has telegraphei Cas-
tro to enter Caracas. No disorder here
In Caracas thus
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct 20-Judge I,aconlbe
In the United States circuit court, handed
down decision today dsmissing the writ
OF habeas corpus in the cGSe of former
Capt. Carter, who Is under sentence OF 1--WE
years imprisonment for conspiracy to de-
fraud the government in contracts The de-
cision was given in a lengthy opinion which
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

Horsense
Vanity Fair.-Thackeray.
First Violin.
Tom Browns School Days.-Hughes.
Called Back.-Conway.
Joseph Baisamo-Dumas.
Fremont. Jr. and Risler. Sr.-Dau-
Diet
Sign Of the Four-Doyle.
Napoleon and Marie Louise.-Du- -
rand.
Reproach OF Annesiy.-tirey.
Origin Of Species. -Darwin.
In All Shades.-Ailen.
Arabian Nights Entertainments-
Three Men In Boat-Jerome.
She Fell In Love With Her Husband.
--Nirner
Mystery Of Hanson Cab.-Hume.
Change az Air.-Hope.
Iron Master.-Ohnet.
Story of an African Farm.-Schrein-
er.
Master of Ballansrae- Stevenson.
Soldiers Three.-KipIing
Swiss Family Robinson.-Wyss
Tales From Shakespeare.-La
Shadow OF Crtme.-Hall Caine.
Black Tulip.-Dumas.
Big Bow Mystery.-Zangwin.
Hypatia.-Kingsiey.
Jane Eyra-Bronte.
Danira Werner
Great Kinplats ExperiMent.-Doyle.
What's Bred In the Bone-Aiien.
Children of the Abbey. Roche.
Country Sweetheart. Russell
Light That Failed-Kipling.
Heir OF Observation-Disclosures.
My Lady Nicotine Barrie.
House Party.-~Ouiia.
Price-He Paid-Werner
Dark Days--Conway.
Danesbury House.-Wood.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
Fishing Boat sunk I'm Collision.

BOSTON. Oct. 20-The British steamer
Ardandhu. outward bound for Halifax,
tonight ran down and sunk the Gloucester
fishing schooner Two-Forty. OF the nine
fishermen on board. only two, 1t is
thought have been saved.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
OPER ATIONS IN LUZON.
Two Bastaiiona Disperse n land of
Three Hundred Insurgents

MANILA Oct 20. 10 p m~Capt McRae.
with a battalion Of the Third infantry,
and Capt Chineweth with a battalion Of
the Seventeenth iDfantry. marched 10 the
town OF Dos Marinas for the pur,ose OF
dispensing band Of 80 Insurgents who
had recently been annoying our outposts
and travellers along the road from Santa
Ana 20 Arayat. The insurgents fed In the
direction Of MsEalanE
Ths country between Angeles and Arayat
liz now reported clear
The pemocracia reports that the juntas
In the Orient and In Europe intend 10 send
a delegation 10 Washington 10 present the
Filipino cause. Agoncilio and Anacihla
wilt probably DO among Its members
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

Gen. Castro. fnsursens Leader. VIII
Eater Caracas

tA3ANAs EnnexUs.s. Oct - The crt-
>.s = virtually ever GeG- An3ra6a tss
-c@s51e1,. h-s accepted The coaaft ie-x
s~@E~rSe4 ~ re trsCrsar: commando
N.~a ast-a, ana III e ah~es5 IN. pves-
'-erre N44v.r-s -S@a tia vso- pres gds1t.
49, a.4 easeT Caracas geacs.4sly thar
dix AoatsAe5 a.. e &.ctstaysslo
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ARE you GOING EAST
Call al the Northern Pacific Office, Seat.
tie. and make arrangements Effective
september 18th rate 10 Chicago s4s %.
and all points in the East I'm proportion
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
Youns's Capture Of san I.iaro

WASHfNGToN. Got ~ The war de-
partncnt received the following from Gen
OTIS at Manila
'l-Awtcns advance under Young is In
san is!dro. whefe garrison was est blsh-
"a tonsld@rsse resistance was encoun-
tered yesterday. Casualties were one kill
~. three wound ID, OF the Twenty-second
infantry. The enemy suffered considers bly,
one Spaniari ard fifteen insurgents were
rspturcd Young reports the Inhabitants
N that section Of the country mostly
friendly
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20 Gents a Volume.
The Bon Marche.

David Copperfield.-Dlc
House OF the Wolf.-Weyman.
Karma -Sinnet.
Misjudged. -Heimburg.
Guy Mannering. -Scott.
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Reade.
hess-Duchess.
Beyond the City.-Doyle.
keniiw orth.-Scott.
Light of Asia.-Arnold.
Last Of the Mohicans. Cooper.
East Lynne.-Mrs. Wood.
Bryant's Poems.
Man OF Mark.--Hope.
Descent OF Man.--Darwin.
Earrs Atonement.-Cla
John Halifax. Gentleman.-Mu
Ivanhoe Scott.
Wee Willie Winkie.-Kipling.
Woodlander--Har
Donovan.-Lyail.
Marriage a, Sea.-Russell.
Red Sultan.-Cobhan.
Romance Of TIVE Worlds,--CorelN.
Andersen's Fairy Tales.
Little Rehel.-puchess.
Marooned. Russell.
ON the Heights.-Auerbach
httnZl.-l.SttOU.
Grim's Fairy Tales.
Grim's Household Tales.
Memoirs of a Physician.-Dumss,
Handy Andy.-Loveli
Marvel.-Duchess
Nicholas Nicklehy.-Dickens.
Michael craie-Allen.
Cast Up ny the Sea.--Baker.
Master of the Mine buchanan.
Scottish Chiefs.-Porter.
Micah Clarke.-Doyle.
Middlemarch.-E Elliott.
Kidnapped.-S
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PARALYSIS
MAYCOME
FROM
WEAK
NERVES.

IL ~ = - fNst1 ~
paralysis ard loco
n otor atsyia are
8 <~sses ~ ths
rerycs and nerve
eenters These most
serious diseases
NAV come as a re-
Salf % ovsr-w0yk Or
cvtr-tA.ej nerves.
There are always
warning symptoms
20 tell one q the
miuk danger. the
n ~ important ~
Which are defective
hearing ard :hroo-
ifF II ears (@e J..
De. cttve Nts'on lst
;wEtching 20 eyellds
tdE a. aisc1iored
digess; n ara sore
nsSs - stomach erx
3 absence ~ krse-
3ck taG g PANS
slo1s sas1s Ssg 81.
PAS n feet SO g..
Another very N
p~art&af synute-n 1.
i'a,g7. .,<,0 ~ Tut-
;%'c< - h~agr ard
pein L. lett side 81.
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LONDON, Oct 2l-The Daily Mails
Kuruman correspondent says. under date
Of October Is: Nryburg surrendered on
Sunday without resistance. at the request
Of the towuspeopie. on the approach Of a
strong Roer force with artillery. Maj
Scott. the officer in charge Of the Cape
police at Vryburg shot himself through
chaSrin At being compelled to evacuate the
town.
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= VS. Yer Mia
s~T - - ess ss1lr-
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While expressing sympathy for the gal
liant officer and regret that his services are
lost 10 the forces. the editorials in this
mornings papers are ringing with songs
OF victory and ridfcule Of the Boer threats
10 drive the British into the sea The gen
eral belief is that the Beers will now con-
fine themselves to Guerrilla tactfrs
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21

CAPE TOWN. Oct. 3-A6viceS from the
Orange Free State announce that Presi-
dent Steyn has issued another proclama-
ton calling upon the burghers TO man
to take arms and to fight against an I'M
scrupulous enemy. I'VE are lighting a Jus,
war" says the proclamation land canno,
be defea ted. as God is on our side
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
SHOULDER STRAP ON OVERCOAT.

During the recent convention of the ma
tional guard officers at the Palmer mouse
several officers appeared wearing uniform
overcoats with the hood hanging down
the back and bright new shoulder straps
glaring on the shoulders. says the Chi
cagO Chronicle. These officers seemed to
be unconscious of the unusual display.
Landsmen wear insignia On the sleeves
of their overcoats, narrow festoons of
black silk braid being all that is needed
to tell the grade. So as these officers en-
tered the club room with shoulder straps
outside their overcoats considerable COM
ment followed.
whats the meaning of that, do you
think?' was the question of one grizzled
colonel, who has participated in two wars.
"Give it up" his companion answered.
Guess they are afraid we won't know
they are officers. First thing you know
some of these militiamen will wear Shout
der straps on their undershirts."
A closer inspection revealed the fact
that the officers under discussion were
naval militiamen. The uniform prescribed
for naval officers on shore duty calls for
shoulder straps on the overcoat, and they
were simply complying with regulations.
One of them expressed his disgust be-
cause of the enforced display and conse-
uuent ridicule from those u~nacquainted
with the law, but he was powerless.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14
HIGHLAND DEER FORESTS.

A Highland deer forest is not, of course
a vast, densely wooded park. AS a High
lander has said to an Englishman who
wondered that trees were wanting there,
"Who ever heard of a forest with trees"
There may happen to be trees in the for
est; natural birch wood may cling to the
sides of a glen, or the lower slopes of the
hills around the lodge may be clothed
with modern plantations of fir and larch.
But these are merely ornamental fringes
of the forest, says the G~entleman's Maya
zine. The forest itself is a great waste of
mountainous moorland, treeless, brown
with heather, or gray with coarse grass
"a wilderness sacred to red deer, from
which human dwellings are banished.
The many hundreds of square miles
o fbleak, high-lying moors now devoted
to deer forests never could have main
tanned a large population. There have
been farms and crofts in the green
patches in the glens. n in the summer
to the sheilings high up among the hills.
Now the only people who live in the forest
throughout the year are the forester and
his family at the lodge, with perhaps an
under keeper there, and one or two other
keepers at the opposite side of the forest
some dozens of miles away.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-14

woods that could speedily win a place in
art and commerce thrive throughout the
islands, but very few of them have ever
been offered in the market of the world.
CHINA and Japan are the only heavy buy
ers, and if samples of the wood worked
up have found their way to Europe or
America their identity as a product of the
philippines has. as a rule, been lost.
Ihere are several firms engaged in the
trade, and the amount of local business
is quite large, but the trade does not seem
TO nave ever been worked up on the large
scale mat the merit of the woods de-
mands.
The chief drawback seems to have been
inaccessihllity, for the best of the hard
wood forests are in the less civilized local
tiles, n first costs made it difficult to
compete with the other wood producers
of the east. Still. it is strange that the
manifest superiority Of the finer woods
of the islands has not won them recog-
milton even when allowance is made for
the difficulties Of operating and the ex-
pense of transportation.
The SO odd varieties run the scale of
color from the jet black ebony to the
lighter shades of cedar, and many Of them
offer as much resistance to the elements
as steel. Dozens of them Withstand the
teredo, so troublesome in Pacific coast
waters, and several of them are impervi-
ioUs to the attacks of the famous white
ants of the east. White ants are vicious
ly destructive, and but few substances
besides metal are capable of withstand
ing their attacks.
The best known ofthePhilippine woods
is molave. 1t is a heavy brown wood, al
most as hard as steel. The teredo and
! white ant respect it, and the trying damp
/ ness and burning heat of it's native coun-
try do not affect it. 1t has come into
| general use, and in Manila you may see
it in use as a railway sleeper. in a panel
in some drawing room, as the keel of a
Ship, or fashioned into the figure of some
saint in a church 1t possesses immense
strength, and enters very largely into the
heavier building operations, but it seems
! almost unfortunate that it cannot be pre-
served for more artistic purposes. The
interior of the Jesuit church of Manila
is finished in molave, and there are few
r~rettier pieces of woodwork in the world.
The carvings are by master hands and
are of SURPRISING beauty. The wood takes
a splendid polish. The trees are nearly
! all defective, in that they have heart cup,
but that does not affect the wood.
Dungeon is the substitute for molave
when the latter canno be obtained in
! sufficient sizes for the purpose desired. 1t
is a variety of the Heculia ambiformis,
| and is generally known as ironwood. 1t
is largely used for ship building, although
! it is said that it does not resist the teredo.
and is also used in building. 1t is rarely
| put to iner uses.