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The men of the so-called Filipino
army are uniformed and all are armed
with Mausers and Remingtons. There
was little discipline among them ac.
cording to OUR ideas.
AS nearly as we Gould ascertain,
writes Captain W. G.: Bates; u: s:
", who has just returned from Ma:
Mia, it was the custom of these SOL
diers to prepare at their homes food
sufficient to last Two or three days,
and cd with it to the trenches, where
they would remain till all their food
was exhausted; when they would GO
home again and get d fresh supply:
There was, therefore, d Constant
stream of these soldiers on the Gale
Real (the main road near our posi-
tion); and many Of them walked
through our camp. They were CT all
ages, but principally young men and
boys: / found them very enthusiastic
and filled with ardent and genuine pa:
triotisrn:
Their method of fighting seemed
somewhat peculiar to us: I saw sew
eral of their night engagements with
the Spaniards. 1t was the custom Of
the Filipinos at some time during the
night to open fire on the Spanish lines
and keep it up for two or three hours.
The Spaniards from their works would
reply in the same manner, and large
amount of ammunition would be ex-
pended by both sides with little re-
suit, beyond few men wounded and
possibly one Or two killed. Such
fights as these were Of almost nightly
occurrence, and I have no doubt that
it was O fight of this kind that the
Filipinos began on the night Of Feb
ruary 4th. According to their GUS
tom they probably considered it over
when they stopped firing, and never
for one moment supposed that the
Americans would continue the battle
the next morning and advance to the
attack. When that happened they
were not only surprised, but utterly
unprepared. They had never been
in the habit of fighting or seeing
civilized troops fight outside entrench-
ments, and it was beyond their COM
prehension that soldiers could be got
to advance across the open and attack
fortified positions. The experience is
similar to nothing in their history,
and the lesson, while it is q severe
one, was necessary and will have a
most salutary effect on all future deal
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KIPLING TO VISIT MEXICO.
The Famous Author in Search of Fresl
Literary Material.

The Famous Author In Search of Fresh
Literary Material.
Rudyard Kipling, the famous novel
ist, arrived in this country the other
day after an absence of two years. He
is not content with having given to
the English-speaking race his inimit-
able stories of the "Fuzzy- -Wuzzy"
and "Tommy Atkins" but he intends
to visit Mexico and there to study the
poems, the peasant class of that coun-
try, as we'll as to acouaint himself
with the local coloring and to gather
material for a new series of stories.
Mexico is more OF less q virgin field
for an English-speaking writer, and
its unwritten tragedies and romances,
its untold stories of the workings of
human love and deeds of heroism, in
the hands of such writer as Kipling,
will add to our literature. if they can
not place fresh laurels upon his al
ready well-laureled brow.
Mr.. Kipling's latest poem, ''The
White Mans Burden, published only
the other day, has created more talk
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Reflections of n Bachelor.

Love is divided into quarters-one-
quarter vanity, three-quarters jealousy.
1t makes woman shudder to think
how happy she could have made you.
When woman is convicted she ac-
quits herself by saying she has been
misiudged.
Constant nagging wears away the
heart.
The shortest. honeymoon is longer
than brides delusions.
Youth thinks of love with passion,
middle age with reverence. old age
with comfort.
when girl peers into the future
she sees herself in photograph with
a baby's naked arms around her neck.
Tt isn't the striving and never
achieving that wearies the heart; it is
the achieving and then finding itwasn't
worth while. :.
If man does not unbosom himself
to a woman who likes him she shud-
ders to think Of the life he led before
her example brought repentance to
him.-New York Press.
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THE UIFE-SAVERS

iro THE MEN oF, o. s. LIFE-sA'lNd sEA'ioh'i
When The Lord brcathes His wrath ABOVE
the !, ,osom Of the waters,
{ytsu ehe rollers are a-poundin' on the
shcre, ..-,-,-, =, bic ,visa
and sons and Daughters.
And the little home hell, maybe, see no
more; tho
When the bars are white and yeasty ana Inc
shoals are all a-frothin', -. ,,,
When the wild no o'theaster's cutiln hAe q
knife. ho,s
Thyoaeh the seethin' roar and screen nes
oatrollin on the beach
The coy'ment's hired man fer sayln lhe-
He's strugglin' with the gusts that strike ana
bruise him like q hammer,
He's iightin' sand that stings like sWarmlh
bees,
He's Ijst'nin' through the whirlwind and the
thunder and the clamor,-
A ltst'nin for the signal from tne seas.
He's breakiE' ribs and muscles iauhehih
lifeboats in the surges,
He's drippin' wet ana cnliieo IL eSefs
bone. a,
He's brincin' men from death back ter fesh
and blood and breath.
And he never stops ter think about his own.
He's a-pullin' at an oar thet Is 1reehin sea
his fingers,
He's a-clinsln' in the riggin' OF wreck.
He knows distractions nearer every minute
that he fingers,
But it don't appear ter worry him speck.
Hos draggin' draggled eorpses from the
clutches of the combers-
The Kind Of job common chap 'ould
shirk-
su; he takes 'em from the wave and he fits
'em ter the grave. -
And he thinks it's all includedin his work.
BE is rlgger, rover, swimmer, sailor, doctor
undertaken,
same,
And be risks his life fer others in the quick
sand and the breaker,
And thousand wives and mothers bless
his name.
He's angel dressed in oilskins, he's saint
In a ..sou'-wester,
He's as plucky US they make, or ever can,
He's hero born and bred, but 1t hasn't
swelled his head,
And he's just the U. s. gov'ment's hired
N-"A' Joe Lincoln.
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The other night, while with num-
ber os friends, I heard story of
woman who had been driven to
strange suicide by terror and remorse.
She was highly bred and cultured.
Suspected of completely in crime Of
which she had been mute witness,
in despair at her irreparable coward
ice, tormented by perpetual night
mare that showed her her husband
pointing her out with his rotting fin
ger to the magistrates, she became
the helpless prey of her overwrought ht
nerves. A trifing circumstance de-
termined her fate. Her little nephew
was living with her. One morning, as
usual, he was learning his lesson in
the dining room; she was sitting near
by. The child began to translate,
word for word, some verses from.
Sophocles. He said over the Greek
and French terms as he wrote them
out: 'Kara teton, the divine head;
Iokastes, of Yocasta; letneked, is dead
Sposa konnen, tearing her
hair; kalei, she calls; Laion nekron,
dead Lais. Eisedomen, we
saw; ten gunaika kremasten. the
woman hanged" He wound up with
flourish of his pen, stuck out his
tongue violet with ink and sang:
stHanged! hanged! hanged!" The
wretched woman, her will-power ut
terly destroyed. obeyed the sugges-
tion of the thrice-heard word. She
rose without word, without glance,
and hastened to her room. A few
hours later the commissary of police,
called in to Investigate her violent
end, made this reflection: I have
seen many woman who has COM
mitted saiciue. This is the first one
I've known to hang herself.
This case recalled a similar one to
my mind, that of my unfortunate com
rade aud friend, Alexandra Mansel.
In the foregoing story the heroine
was killed by verse of Sophocles;
my friends life was brought to an end
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BY ANATOLE FRANCE.

which lie infinitely preferred to all the
rest of his domain; he lived among
his hens and had almost lost the
habit of talking with human beings.
The odd little figure at this moment
vanished, and loud cackling rose in
the air.
During the short stroll We took in
the garden. Mansel toldme that at din-
ner I would meet his grandmother;
that she was a good old soul, but that
1 must not pay much attention to what
she said, MS she was often little out
OF her mind.
The bell rang for dinner. NJ. Man
sci followed us into the house, carry
ing basket OF eggs. Eighteen to-
day." he said, in clucking voice.
A delicious omelet appeared. [
was seated between Nine. Mansel,
signing under her diadem, and her
mother, round-cheeked, toothless,
old Normandy woman, who smiled
with her eyes. She seemed delight
ful to me. While we were eating our
roast duck and creamed chicken the
old lady told us amusing stories that
showed no signs of weakening facul-
ties. On.the contrary, she appeared
the merriest and sanest member of the
family.
After dinner we went into parlor
furnished in black walnut and yellow
Utrecht velvet. Under the globe of
the gilt clock on the mantel lay q
purple egg that at once drew my at
tention. With child's inexplicable
curiosity I could not take my eyes off
it. But I must add that the egg was
of strange and splendid color-a
royal purple, not in the slightest man
ner recalling the wine-colored Easter
eggs, dipped in beet-juice, that de-
light the children at all the fruit
stands. I could not resist making
remark about it.
NJ. Mansel replied by an admiring
cackle: "My young sir, that is not a
dyed egg, as you seem to think. 1t
was laid just as you see it there IL
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room where I had left Mansel. l
found the unfortunate fellow in an
alarming state. He was showerlns
blows on a book open before him that
I at once recognized as translation
of the "History of Augustus. In a
loud voice he kept repeating this sem
tence of Lamprides: "On the day
when Alexander Severus was born, a
hen belonging to the father of the
babe laid red egg, a presage of the
imperial purple which the child was to
assume.
His excitement rose to fury. He
foamed at the mouth. He shouted:
''The egg, the egg that was laid on
my birthday! I am an emperor! L
know you want to kill me! Don't
come near me, wretchl'
He paced rapidly up and down.
Then coming back toward me, with
his arms spread wide, he said: my
friend, my old comrade, what do you
want me to give you? Emperor
emperor!-my father was right-the
purple egg-emperor I shall and must
be-scoundrel! why did you hide
that book from me? will punish
you for high treason-emperor!-em-
peror!-I must be it!-yes, it is my
dutyp'
He rushed out. I vainly tried to
stop him. He escaped from me. The
rest is well known. All the papers
told how on leaving my house he
bought revolver and blew out the
brains of the sentinel who barred the
gate of the Elysee palace against him.
Thus phrase written in the fourth
century by Latin historian causes
1900 years later the death of an un-
lucky French soldier. Who will
ever unrayel the skein of cause
and effect? Who can be sure
of saying, 'T know what am
doing" as he performs some triding
act? This is all there is to tell. The
rest concerns only medical statistics
and can be summed up in few
words. Mansel, placed in private
asylum, remained there fortnight in
a state of violent madness. Then he
lapsed into utter imbecility, during
which his gluttony led him to eating.
the wax used for polishing the floors.
He choked to death, three months ago,
swallowing a sponge. ge.-Argonaut.
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oUK FARMERS IN LUCK.
Made Moro Money in 1866 rhHn Ever Be-
fore in tho Couutry's History:

fore in tho Couutry's History:
The farmers of this country made
more money in 1898 than ever before
ia it's history. The statistical report
from the department of agriculture
shows unprecedented crops, unpre,
cedented prices and unprecedented
prosperity. The corn crop in 1896
amounted to 2,2s3, ,S75, 166 bushels,
valued at s449, a76, O3O; in 1897 it was
1,9O2,,967, 933 bushels, valued at S5Ol,-
072,S52. In 1893, according to pres
ent estimates, the volume was not only
largely Increased, but the farm value
of corn throughout the country aver
ages "a cents a bushel more than IN
1897.
The VIII at crop in 1895, at 72 cents
d bushsl, was valued at S427, ,6S4, ,346;
IN 1897; at S0.S per bushel, it was
valued dt S42s, ,547, 121. The increase
in 1898 was /, All, ,692 acres, the largest
in history, and the crop was unprsce.
dented in quality, quantity and
price:
The barley crop in 1897 was worth
S25;142; 1879 at 81 cents Il bushel. The
figures for 1898 are not in yet, but the
price is Ala cents btshel and the
preliminary report shows crop slight
ly above the average. The same may
be said of rye. which is quoted at46.3
cents bushel, against A. in 1897.
The farm price for oats in 1898, ac-
cording to the official figures of the
agricultural department., is 26.6 cents
bushel, against 2l.2 for 1897 and
1875 III 1896. The totals ore not in
yet, but in 1897 the crop was valued
ct S147,974,719.
Potatoes are now worth II A cents q
bushsl ON the farm, which is large
falling off from 1897, when they sold
for "a. 7 cents, but 1t is said that the
difference will be more than made up
by the increase in the volume of the
crop, which is believed to be 81 per
cent. greater than in 1897, when the
total was valued at $sS, 643, 059.
The hay crop Of the United States
in 1897 was valued at $40l, 800, 72S,
with hay selling at S6.62 ton. In
1898 the crop was the best on record,
and it is selling on all average OF So a
ton throughout the country.
During the calendar year ended
December 81, the value of the bread
stuffs sold abroad was S317, 600, 600,
provisions STA, 100000 and cotton
$233, 900, 900, making total of $724,-
900, 900 worth of farm products ex-
ported and sold at better prices than
were ever known before.
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times hatch what they haven't laid,
and if some mischievous neighbor
should happen to slip into their nest
a"
"Don't listen to her!" broke in her
grandson, violently. ''You know
what told you! Don't listen to
her!"
'Tt's fact" repeated NJ. Mansel,
fixing his round eye on the purple
egg.
Not long after I lost sight of Alex
andre. My mother sent me to Paris
to finish my studies. I entered the
School of Medicine. About the time
that was preparing my doctors the
sis, I received letter from my
mother, in which she told me that my
friend had been very i'll; he had had
some strange seizure, on recovering
from which he had become exceeding
ly timid and suspicious; but be was
quite harmless, and, in spite of his
troubled health aud reason, he showed
remarkable gift for mathematics.
This news did not surprise me. Many
time, while studying diseases of the
nerve-ce centres, had called up men
tally my poor friend from st. Julien
and, in spite of myself, had made
prognosis of general paralysis threat
ening this son OF a neuralgia mother
and a microcephalic, rheumatic father.
At first I seemed to BE on the
wrong scent. Alexandra Mansel, on
reaching manhood, regained normal
health and gave unmistakable proofs
of his fine intellectual gifts. He car
ried on extensive mathematical studies;
he even sent to the Academy OF Sci
ences the solution of several difficult
equations. Absorbed in these and
kindred subjects, he rarely found time
to write me. His letters were clear,
friendly, we'll composed; nothing
could be found in them to attract the
attention of the most suspicious neu-
rologist. Soon, however, our CORE
spondence came to an end, and for ten
years did not get word from him.
I was greatly surprised last yea
when my servant handed me Alexan-
dire Mansels card, saying that the
gentleman was waiting for me in the
antechamber. T was in my Office dis
cussing q professional question of
some importance with colleague.
Excusing myself for moment, has
tened to greet my old school-fellow.
1 found him much aged, bald, haggard,
fearfully emaciated. I took him by
the arm and led him into the drawing
room.
81 am delighted to see you once
more" he said, "and have a great
deal to tell you. am victim of un-
heard of prosecutions. But l am
brave, 1 shall fight to the end, 1 shall
triumph over my enemies!"
These words alarmed me, as they
would have alarmed any neurologist.
In them I traced a symptom of the af-
lection by which my friend was threat
ened according to every law of hered
ity and which had appeared dormant
till now.
'Ny dear fellow" I said to him,
"you shall tell me all this later. Stay
here moment. I am settling little
matter in my Office. Take book to
kill time till I join you.
have great many books in my
drawing room-there must be 5000
volumes in the three bookcases. Why
was it that my unlucky friend picked
up the'very one that could harm him
and opened it at the fatal page? I
talked for about 90 minutes longer
with my colleague; having ushered
him out returned to the drawing
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third the list of our casualties was
five times as great as in the second.
The losses suffered by Spaniards and
natives on these three occasions land
the Filipinos must strictly be regard
ed Is subjects of Spain until Spain
has ratified the treaty of peace) will
never be quite accurately stated; they
were probably about eleven or twelve
times as severe as ours,
Firing began ut quarter before
nine o'clock on Saturday evening,
February 4. Two native soldiers re-
fused to obey tho order of q sentry
who challenged them, as they ad-
vanced toward the outpost of the First
Nebraska Regiment, stationed be-
tween Manila and Santa Mesa. The
necessity of maintaining the integrity
of our lines, especially at night, has
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.....-,sea,es dc Retz Of France, the orig
inal "Blue Beard, was executed on
Christmas Day, 1440, in atonement for
q multitude OF sins, which included
the killing of six wives, from which
the popular nursery story is derived.
There is a plant in Jamaica called
the life plant, because it is almost i'm
possible to kill it, OF any portion of 1T.
When leaf is cut off and hung up by
a string, it sends out white, thread
like roots, gathers moisture from the
air, and begins to grow new leaves.
The seven principal bibles in the
world are the Koran of the Moham-
medans, the Eddas of the Scandina-
vians. the Tripifikes of the Buddhists,
the Five Kings OF the Chinese, the
Three Vedas of the Hindoos, the Zenda-
vesta, and the Scriptures ofjhe Chris
tians.
A peculiar style of advertising re-
sorted to in China is effective and in
expensive. When Chinaman has a
daughter. closely approaching mar
riageable age an inverted jar on the
roof of his house announces that fact.
When sha has attained the proper age
the jar is laid on Its side, with the top
toward the street.
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ue Was Not Afraid,

Nervousness is thing with which
the Prince of Wales is but little afflict-
ed. Once at scientific carnival, while
DR.. Playfair was showing the prince
and his party round, they came to a
vat of chemicals, which were Kissing
and fzzing away in very forbidding
fashion. The prince seemed much
interested in this. DR.. Playfair asked
the prince to dip his fingers in the
liquid. There was litter and some
dismay among those who heard, but
the prince, having looked the doctor
straight in the face, put his hand into
the kissing caldron, and found the
liquid as cold as ice. The explanation
was that some chemicals when they
boil give ont cold instead of heat,
Boston Transcript.
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FIGHTING TIE FILIPlN0S.
The Good Work Done by The american Volunteers iii the
Third Battssof Manila.

First Wyoming and First Washing
ton, tinder General King; east and
southeast; hear the Pasig River; the
Fourth Cavalry, Fourteenth Infantry,
First North Dakota Infantry and
Sixth Artillery Division; commanded
by General Anderson; near the south
shore of the city.
Like an echo Of the scntry's shot a
gun was. fired from Block-house No. Z;
and the signal for attacking our troops
s;been given: The Nebraska regi-
meht was made the first target; pres;
entity, however, the firing spread on
10th sides along the confronting lines.
sOn the north the Filipinos were con-
scentrating at Caloocan and at Gaga-
slangin, where they had mounted two
.siege-guns; on the east, at Santa
Mesa, the attack was hot; southwark,
near Paco, there was evidence of an
intention to advance against Ander-
sons command. A lull in the firing
fr5m midnight until about four o'clock
in the morning was succeeded by q
new outburst all along the Filipino
line.
sAnd so matters stood while the
darkness lasted, the American rifles
and light artillery replying to Mau-
sers, and it was oil inconclusive. But
when day broke the Charleston, the
Concord and the captured gunboat
Callao opened fire on the enemy's
troops north of the city, the monitor
Monddnock shelling those Oh the
south; and little later the captured
| |light-draught gunboat Layuna de Bay
went up the Pasig, and piled her Cat
ling guns with terrible accuracy at
Santa Ana. And our land forces, adj
vancing over rice fields and through
dense underground and bamboo thick
cts, in which the enemy had con-
structed intrenchments, pressed the
natives back and captured the villages
Of San Juan del Monte, Santa Ana,
San Pedro Macatl and Santa Mesa.
General Kings brigade charged q
force of Filipinos, far superior in
numbers, and drove them in confusion
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HUMOROUS.

''They exhumed the wrong body.
"What a grave mistake. "
.:Is shereally so jealous about him?"
"Man, she won't even allow him to
sing Annie Laurie. ,
Frierd-Why on earth do you wear
those high collars? The Confirmed
Dude-Because there are no taller
ones made.
sIsn't Bellies husband old enough
to be her father?" tHer fatheri Why,
my dear, he's old enough to be cap
tain in the United States navy!
.Did you ever meet woman whose
very voice filled you with unspeakable
emotion?" eyes, that's the way my
- ~, IN the morn
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been impressed upon all blythe con.

been impressed upon all blythe con-
duct of certain Filipinos who had
slipped through q week earlier and
attempted to assassinate American
:oldiers. The Nebraska sentry again
called upon the two natives to halt,
and, as they. paid no attention to has
order, levelled his rifle and fired upon
them. The sequel shows that they
had been sent for precisely this pur-
pose, to draw the sentry's fire, as
part of preconcerted plan to place
the responsibility for beginning the
action upon our troops, and to make
America appear the aggressor.
Twenty thousand Filipinos in their
trenches, block. houses. and little VII
lagos dotting the plain evidently
thought themselves ready to drive the
American lines in upon the city.
They possessed several quick-fring
and Krupp feld-guns; many OF them
were armed with Mausers of the latest
pattern, and q number OF Spanish SOL
diers had joined their ranks.
About thirteen thousand of our
troops were holding the positions
formerly occupied by the Spanlardss'
midway between Manila and the bands
of Filipinos north, east and south OF
the city. A semicircular fighting
line, seventeen miles in length, was
formed of the following regiments, be-
ginning with those stationed on Ma
nila Bay north of the capital: the
Twentieth Kansas, First Montana
Tenth Pennsylvania and Third Artll-
lery, under Brigndier-General Harrl-
son G.. Otis; the First South Dakota
First Colorado and First Nebraska,
commanded by General Hale, sup
ported by Batteries A and B OF the
Utah Light Artillery, under General
Macarthur, northeast to east OF the
ILL.,, tl,o JN;r,I Colifornin First iGGnO,
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s,rnr nrplantations at IloiIc.

The country about Iloilo, Philip.
pine Islands, is given up to sugar
plantations, the annual crop being
estimated at 1,000,0 900 piculs. To
bacco and rice are also cultivated, but
Aocxs of locusts frequently injure
these crops. The Island OF Negros
ships sugar to Iloilo for export. The
distance OF IloiIo from Manila is s5(
miles.