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i Their army was dispersed without
Spanish loss. In 1744 the natives again
rebeiIed for the same reasons. Under
the leadership of Dagohoy, whose
brother, with others, the priests had
killed, several Of the clergy were killed.
The Spanish withdrew, but IS years
later, on the agreement to exclude the
Jesuits, the natives acknowledged
Spanish sovereignty.
In 1860 in Pampagna and other prov
inces the natives rebe1led against cut
ting timber without pay. King Maiong
gathered 10000 men and killed a few
Spanish settlers and priests. A Span
ish army of 200 regulars and 500 In
dians defeated and dispersed the re-
volters without loss to themselves.
Other revolts occurred in 1923, at
Cavite, headed by an Indian captain;
in Cebuin 1927; in Negros in 1874, where
the Spanish governor was killed; in
| 1927 the extortions of the priests caused
some of the native soldiers to rise and
they seized the arsenal. All of these
| Instructions were crushed with the
| loss of not more than a score of the
!. Spanish soldiers. The last rebellion
against the Spanish was by the Tagals
around Manila, in 1896, led by Aguinal-
do. The losses inflicted upon the Span
| ish amounted to about 300, and the
rebellion was practically ended by
bribing Aguinaldo and other leaders to
leave the country, and quiet reixned
until Dewey sailed into Manila bay and
destroyed the Spanish fleet and Agui-
naldo was permitted to return to the
islands. When this rebellion broke out
there were but 500 Spanish soldiers
throughout the archipelago, In garri-
sons of 90 to so men. About zoo were
in Manila and Cayite. The remainder
of the army of about 10000 was made
up Of natives.
The expenditures OF Spain for the
Philippine army and navy in 1000 was
S4t 800. The army consisted of 400 men
and officers. In 1923 the military es-
tablishment was 1,762 Spanish and 14o
Indians, at q cost of ,606; and the
! naval and dock yard cost was s2s3,1s4.
III 1907 LIE CoSb Vi IlE EdHu anu sea
forces was S312, 2,s64. In 1916 the sery-
ice was increased to include many new
branches and the military force was
about 10000 men. Not over 100 were
Europeans, the army being composed
of natives. There were nine regiments
of infantry, four squadrons of cavalry,
1900 of artillery, 700 engineers, $50 po-
llicemen and force Of 1000 to prevent
smuggling. In 1867 the army expenses
were S2,260,295 and the navy expenses
were 81, ,535, ,4T9. In 1858 the army con-
sisted of 9,470 men, mostly natives, and
other forces made a total of 14.341 men.
The cost Of maintaining them and the
navy was s3,o1s.7s0.
DANIEL cLEVERToN.
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selves of these wrongs which led to the
slaughter of thousands of their NUM-
Ders, the Filipinos were easily con-
trolled. For the first century the Span
ish army never exceeded 500 men, and
for two centuries, Foreman says, mil
itary organization hardly existed
The first revolt against Spanish
authority was in May, 1854. Some of
the principal natives of Manila asd adj
joining territory had become dissatis-
fed, but they were easily put down and
the leaders of the insurrection were
killed. In 1889 the garrison to COM
mand the islands was fixed at 400 SOL
diers with the necessary officers, and
the following year saw the beginning
of the construction of the still exist
ing walls around the old town, and the
old cathedral. A small party OF sol
diers explored the interior OF Luzon
without mishap. In 1896 force OF 2l4
men and some monks were sent TO
Mindanao to establish Spanish author
ity throughout that island. The coast
tribes were friendly, but one in the in
terror fortified their town and drove
the Spaniards back to the coast, after
killing the chief of the expedition and
a few soldiers. This tribe afterWard
met defeat in trying to drive the Span
ish from the island and then acknoWl-
edged the supremacy OF the Spanish,
and the latter were safe in travelling
throughout the island. The following
year the Jolo islanders killed thirty
soldiers, and in 1899, with the Wariike
Mindanao tribe, who had become en-
bo1dened by the withdrawal of the sol
diers, fitted out feet and attacked
the Spanish on the island of Negros.
The natives of Oton and Panay Joined
and the total force was so vessels with
5000 men and some artillery and ire
arms. The few Spanish at the capital
Of Negros were captured and the town
burned. Towns on other islands were
burned and sacked and many murders
were committed, and compact was
entered, into to renew the war the fol-
lowing gear. The island of Oton was
the first objective point of the second
excursion. Seventy soldiers were IN
the fort and they repulsed 1,500 rebels
and drove them to their boats. The
Spanish captain pursued SO closely on
horse that the reyolutionists cut the
animals legs and the captain, falling
to the ground, was killed. These dar-
ing tribes continued their expeditions,
even threatening to attack Manila, un-
at - 1ffo TY, E,,., =, c ~, J.cIIn tho srr,y-
ernor. made extraordinary efforts TO
punish them. He sent 200 men against
Jolo, who defeated the natives and then
built fort on unhealthy ground, and
they were compelled BY sickness 10 re-
tire to ,danila, leaving the enemy .iIoi-
liant. The next year they plundered
within 70 miles OF Manila, burned
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2
Campaign for society. Mrs.
Edwin Gould, daughter of the cele-
brated DIR. George F. Shrady, is wo1n-
an of rather domestic tastes.
But the coming on of the rising gen.
GRAFTON has forced the Goulds, as have
predicted, to take steps, They have
entered upon an active and intelligent
canvass. The first step was the visit
of Miss Mary sackyille last spring,
This highly connected young woman
may or may not marry young Frank
Gould; lie any case, her friendship will
be of assistance. The Howard Goulds
have just entertained the emperor OF
Germany on their yacht. The George
Goulds have had the prince Of Wales
at tea-he, at least. having no preju-
dices against actresses or ex-actresses.
What the prince wants more than any
thing else in this world is to be amused,
and women of the stage have made this
a study.
The Gould family bitterly realize
that in permitting Anna Gould to waste
her SIS 100000 doWry upon the bogus
Count de Cassellane, weakling and
spendthrift, they made colossal mis-
take. But they are doing their best TO
climb into the sunshine of social favor.
And the Gould fortune, though already
almost dwarfed by newer growths OF
wealth, is sufficient TO pay for very
lively campaign. OWEN LANGDoN.
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.51HHE Philippine islanders have econ-.
sistently shown one trait of
- character ever since they have
come to the notice of the civilized peo-
pie of the world, and that is to run
away from battle when confronted
even by the merest handful of men.
Although always ready to rebel, and
treacherously murder, they seldom
fought. They probably never won a
battle from the Spanish, and the mill
tary losses of the latter in the $50
years of sovereignty were probably not
over $500 men. Modern weapons and
education of a few leaders have en-
abled the Filipinos to infict more
damage to the American army in the
past year than they inflicted on the
Spanish army in decades or even in
centuries.
The islands were conquered without
loss to the Spanish. The natives gen
orally were friendly and quiet, and had
the Spanish concerned themselves with
administering justice they would have
had little trouble. Instead, they
turned over the affairs to the priests,
who seized all they could and adopted
forcible measures to compel the natives
to accept their religion. The persecu-
ton by the clergy was the cause of
nearly every uprising. Evidence ex-
lists to prove that many rebellions were
fomented by the monks and friars for
fhe onI,orflIDity to rid the country by
death or banishment of persons who
would not readily yield to them. The
priesthood was supreme in everything,
the governors being merely their pup
pets; and there was a reign of religious
persecution and injustice such as black
ened the history of the dark ages. But
even with the desire to avenge them
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Temperasnre of the BODY,

Psychologists have often discussed
the question of the relative rise of tenn
perature in the human body produced
by mental and physical exertion. Drs.
Pembery and Nicol have sEawn that
mental work has little or no effect on
the deep-seated temperature Of the
body. Mental work involves muscular
rest and this in turn causes fall in
temperature more than enough to mask
any rise due to activity of the higher
porto nof the nervous system. The au-
thors further show that the common
test of temperature of the mouth is not
an exact measure of the Temperatures
of the body. It is always unreliable
after exercise or in cold weather, sws
ing to the cooling Of the mouth.
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Such is the detail of the casualties since
the landing of the first troops at Cayite,
June 30, 1895.
Although the volunteers fought with
desperation and determination and
everywhere drove the enemy before
them and generally had the points of
severest contact, the volunteer loss in
killed and mortally wounded was 237
against 14S Of the regulars. Of the for
mer 1sO died OF sickness and of the lat
ter 95.
The Fourteenth regulars were the
heaviest losers in the battles, 90 being
killed. Then follow the Nebraskas
with 26, Kansas with 25; South Dakota
25; Washingtonand the Third artillery,
10 each; Oregon, IA; Pennsylvania, 13;
Eighteenth infantry, 13; Montana, IL,
and the Twenty-second Infantry 9.
The wounded were: Nebraska, 1872;
Montana, 1872, Kansas. 124; Washing
ton, 100; Third artillery, 93; South Da~
kota, 81; Minnesota, 80; Oregon, 76;
Pennsylvania. So; Twenty-second in
fantry, 81, and California, Sc.
The losses are singularly small, either
from bullets or sickness, when reduced
to percentage basis, and the contrast
is remarkable when compared with the
losses in the civil war. The Philippine
regiments are about 1900 strong, while
regimental strength during the re-
bellion was from $50 to 1000 men, ex-
cept when diminished by losses and not
recruited.
The record of the late.war between
the north and the south shows the most
terrific fighting that ever occurred
and proves to the world that the Ameri-
can is the worst or most successful
fighter the world has ever seen. In
single engagements, or, in fact, in
spaces of from five minutes to an hour,
whole bodies of soldiers We're killed
without murmur from the mems
companions or the country.
Single battle records show that in
proportion to the number engaged the
greatest loss of any regiment that
Of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg.
The union lines had been broken and
Gen. Hancock ordered the regiment to
take the advancing rebels eolors. They
succeeded and saved the day. Five min
utes' time was needed for reinforce
ments and the regiment, Numbering
only 262, charged, filled the gap and
the time at cost of SO killed and 1T4
wounded, or total OF 224 casualties,
leaving 38 fighting men. OF the wound
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

Rev. Dwight L. Moody. blage, except when
a little wave of emotion sweeps over the
place at some more than usually tell
ing phrase, The speaker has the deep,
heavy, puffy bags under his eyes that
denote the gift of speech. Beecher had
them; Blaine had them in marked de-
velopment.
His name is Moody, and he is the
most famous of living evangelists. The
words he is speaking may be translated
into many languages, will certainly
be read by many people In his own
tongue.
Moody has come down from the quiet
of his rural home in Northampton,
Mass, to the sitting city, to take part
in the most picturesque soul-saying en-
terprise ever undertaken in New York.
All summer tent meetings have been in
progress on vacant lot in the heart OF
the city within sound of the wheels OF
Broadway, though until Moody came
but little was heard about them.
think the tent is one of the largest ever
used for religious purpose. 1t holds
several thousands, but whatever the
weather, it is always filed to the flies
when Moody speaks. No one would say
that Everybody is out of town..
The personality of the evangelist is
of the deepest interest. He seems like
an older man than many expected to
see. The nervous strain of advocacy
has told upon him. He has the heavy
frame Of man who might die sudden
", a body like Ingersoll's, though
there is little else in common between
the two men, except their power of
eloquent speech.
ar. Moody has peeuliarities that en-
gear him. Newspaper men - keen
judges of human nature--like him. 1t
is his unvarying rule never to make
statement or submit to an interview
that is to appear in Sunday paper,
But there is a way to get around that
without expressly breaking faith.
When a Sunday newspaper wishes to
quote Moody, it sends reporter of the
daily afternoon edition. The young
man gets his talk, has it revised and
prints it in the afternoon paper, prob
ably not conspicuously placed in the
last edition. Next day the Sunday pa
per contains the same utterance, more
prominently displayed, and thus
marked at the end: From Yesterdays S
Evening -"
The printed words of this man con-
yey no adequate idea of their power
when spoken. Their carrying weight is
partly in the magnetism OF the speaker,
a power which uses up the strength of
any public man who has it and literally
uses it.
It has been peculiarly happy coin
cidence that has brought to Mr..
Moody's assistance through part of his
New York campaign against sin his
old partner in the work Sankey OF the
silver voice.
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THE NUt1BER OF BRAVE r1EN WHO HAVE FALLEN
BY REBEL BULLETS OR DISEASE.

ed 25 died later, making percentage
percentage of killed unequaled in mill
tary statistics.
The next largest regimental loss in
a single action was sustained by the
Fifteenth New Jersey at Spottsylya-
mia, where it lost 116 killed and mortal.
.ly wounded out of 444 men, loss OF
26 per cent. This, however, was in
three days fighting. Next in the list
of single engagement loss is the Twen-
ty-fifth Massachusetts at Cold Harbor,
where during a charge on battery So
were killed, l39 wounded and 25 miss
ing out Of 80 men. 1t was the slaugh-
ter of Is minutes. The rebels were five
deep behind the werks and passed
their rifles to the forward lines, who
fired as rapidly as they could press the
triggers, and the artillery poured shot
and shell into the doomed regiment.
The loss was "a per cent.
The One Hundred and Forty -fiqst
Pennsylvania lost at Gettysburg 25
killed, 103 wounded and q missing, a
total of 149 OUT of 1913 that went into
action. At Charlottesville it had just
lost 235 killed, wounded and missing
out of at engaged there. Its Gettys-
burg loss was "a per cent.
There were fully 275 regiments that
lost upwards of 10 per cent. in a single
engagement.
in the charge at Mary's heights, one
OF the severest of the war, Gen. Han
cock led 4,s34 men. of whom SCI were
killed or died or wounds later and 22a
were missing, making a loss OF 11.6 per
cent.
At the head of the list of the regi-
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THEY ALWAYS GET THERE.

ssThe New York and Chicago cab
drivers ought to take few lessons
from the French, and particularly the
Parisians,' observed the Cincinnati
woman who had just returned frorn Eu-
rope. 81 had been shopping and took
a facre to return to the hotel. We had
scarcely gotten under way when we
knocked down pedestrian and pulled
the strap and said to the driver:
.s'Did you not see that YOU ran over
man p
.s.Very plainly, madame, he replied,
but he should not have been In MY
way
Five minutes later hind wheel
came off, and pulled the strap and
asked:
"'INhy don't you stop? Cant yon see
that you have lost wheel?'
$ I see, madame he replied, but We
have three wheels left.'
1--WE went scraping along for a few
minutes, said the lady, .'and then the
other wheel came off. thought the
man would stop then, but as he didn't
IpnlIed the strap and said:
9 We have lost both hind wheels
".Ahl yes, madame he answered,
with smile: but we have not lost
four!'
And he whipped up his horses and
dragged along for quarter OF mile
and brought me up to the hotel with
great flourish. When got out ! asked
him what he would have done If the
other two wheels had parted company.
and he waved his hand towards them
and shrugged his shoulders and re-
piled:
/" tt is impossible, madame. never
lost but two wheels in carrying beau-
tiful ladyi'"
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the world, but there are also thousands
of market gardens, seven of which are
kept by Cinnamon and raise only queer
Chinese vegetables; ten miles of ocean
beach, 40 square miles of salt marsh
that is totally uninhabited and will be
SO for the next century; hills $50 feet
high, and great plains like that which
tae early settlers named Flatlands.
No other city except London and
Tokyo, Japan, has anything like the
extent of that part of New York which
is actually built upon. Only London
surpasses it in the number of inhab-
itants. No other city nearly approaches
it in this respect.
There are many queer things about
the city. The death rate is greatest in
the rural wards of the Bronx and Rich
mond (Staten Island). 1t is lowest in
Brooklyn and next lowest in Queens,
which includes Long Island City, and in
old New York.
Three million and half people are
too many to comprehend, lust dry
so" Come at the idea of them by COM
parisons. Within my memory the death
rate of New York was over Is per thou
sand; take the present average death
rate of all the wards at something like
10. The difference, 10000 per year,
means 81 300 fewer lives lost in G sim
gle year than under old sanitary con-
ditions. Sixty less people die every
day; 400 fewer-a small yillageful-
in a week. Yet in spite of all that sci
enee can do to solve life, about 200 die
each day.
The people of New York weigh about
100000 tons; start them in procession
around the world, each laying hands
upon the shoulders of the one in front,
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Astor, famous for
years in the an
mails of American
society, has re-
ceiFed a blow; the
name of Gould is
heard spoken with
a different accent.
I predicted in
these letters at the
time that the ac-
ton of William
Waldorf Astor in
claiming descent
from a Spanish no.
l1o~,o,, ;nc4oo1 af
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

the new figures of
the board of
health; wE.ie not
supposed Il, be ac-
curate, they are
the best that can
be done between
censuses.
This number Of
people find their
homes distributed
over 3o7 square
miles of La n d;
parts of this terri
tory are the most
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

There are reasons
for this: None of
the young men
has much social
gift or savoir
faire. Mrs. George
Gould has been
subjected to some
personal hu1nilia-
ton because she
was formerly an
actress; FL e | e II
Gould cares little
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

appointing Z a p t.
William +. Meeks,
late of the Seventy
first New York reg
iInent, to a cap
taincy in the Twen-
1ty-sixth U nit e d
s volunteers,
recruiting in Platts-
burg. Commissions
in the new regi-
ments are eagerly
sought, and Capt
Meeks' appoi j n t.
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and care, IS speak
ing in quiet tones
in a vast tent. 1t
is filled to its ut
most. SO that at
first you wonder
whether anyone
can possibly hear.
Then you notice
that there is the
deepest silence in
the great assem-
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The GouIds-The Astors.

Time sees changes in the gay world
as in all human affairs. The name OF
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

The Plans OF the GouIds.
The sons Of Jay Gould, with ali their
wealth, have never been in society.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09

The federal government has set its
seal of approval upon a. brave man by
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1899-09-09
II QUJAD'S
VEIN OF HU.rOP
s<..c<.cs..c<..eg' cs..cE~es.,
COPYRIGHT sos
1T WAS A PICNIC.

First came a farmers wagon with
one man driving and two others lying
on the straw at full length. Then there
vas a man on foot with his right arm
in a sling, second pedestrian Imping
badly, and another wagon with three
men on the straw. These had passed
when bare-headed woman hove ia
sight. She was walking rapidly and
looking neither to the right nor to the
left, and was followed at little dis-
tance by man with double-barreled
shotgun over his shoulder. He had one
hand tied up in handkerchief, and the
blood stains showed that he had been
hurt. The colonel descended the steps
of the hotel ,.veranda and held up his
hand to the man and said:
My friend, there seems to have been
trouble somewhere down the road"
Yes, little scrimmage over at Cor
don's Grove" answered the man.
..You seem to have been hurt ?"
ssYes, got shot in the hand, though ID
didn't amount to much. Here you,
Mariar."
Marian was the woman ahead OF
him, evidently his wife, but she con-
tinued her pace without looking back.
"What was it at Gordon's Grove ~
asked the colonel.
'Oh, jest a Sunday school picnic. We
have one there every year, you know"
And there was scrimmage, as you
call it?''
.There was. Had to be one, sab.
Never had no Sunday school picnic yet
without q scrimmage. Yes, sab, had .
right smart scrimmage."
And there was shooting 2"
eur suah. Can't have no scrimmage
without shootin'. Yes, sab, there was
shootin'-heaps of it."
Lord! Lordi You had Sunday
school picnic and shot at each other"
gasped the colonel. Some one must
have been killed.
..Of co'se.''
''And I have seen four or five wound
ed men pass here
Reckon yon have, sab. Joe Bailey
and Jim White and Henry Davis and
Tom Pool all left befo' did. \
"And how many were Hiled?''
Didn't count 'em, sab. When got
bullet in my hand Mariar reckened
it as time to go home, and SO we start
ed
.But / cant understand it, mani
can't understand it." continued the
colonel, as he threw up his hands. You
assemble for a Sunday school picnic.
You begin to shoot, You-you''
Its jest as easy. as rubbin' coon'A
fat on q sore heel" interrupted the
man, as a smile lighted his face. ''We
assemble for a Sunday school picnic.
Old man Aaron SykestWas there; young
Pete Hendricks was there. They glared
at each other and called names. Then
they began shootin'. Then Aaron's
friends mixed in, and Pete's friends
mixed in, and everybody had high old
tie Some got killed, some got hurt.
and some got away, and there you are.
Cant be no trouble to understand
that
.But it was Sunday school pienic!"
shouted the colonel
s'Of co'se Don't reckon can do all
our shootin' at church and camp-meet-
ms, do you? Yes, it was a Sunday
school picnic, and some got killed. some
got hurt, and some got away; and now
T reckon Id better be movin' along
arter Mariar, and get this nole in my
paw plugged up.