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MIrs1c AT CHRIST CHURCH.

Music for the nineteenth Sunday, De- tober 8. at Christ church will be as fol- lows:
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John F. Bass, the Philippine cor
respondent of Harper's Weekly. vas
the first American, since the war broke.
out, to visit Iloilo, and his obserTa-
tions there are of especial interest,
since they have been SO completely
verified by what has happened within
the last few weeks. Iloilo is the sec
ond important seaport in the Philip.
pines. The island was surrendered
by General RIOS. to the insurgents,
who took possession of the city on the
26th of December. General Otis had
sent Colonel Potter on fast yessslsto to
communicate with the Spanish Cen
eral, and to notify him of the COM
pletion of the treaty, and of the TACT
that his Government had ceded 8the
island to the United States. When
Colonel Potter reached noilo he found
Aguinaldo's flag flying. This sact
naturally complicates the situatio q an IN
the Philippines, and makes the inslr-
gents all the more insistent upon the
independence of the archipelago. end
the recognition of the indepen'dsnce
of their Government. There Is some
suspicion, given expression to By Gen
eral Merritt, of bad faith on the part
of General Rios; and it may be that
he might have held on until United
States troops reached Panay, the island
of which lloilo is the Fort, to relieve
him and his force. The news OF The
surrender of noilo reached; this ccl1n.
try on the same day on which the
news came of the resignation OF
Aguinaldo's milder cabinet, to be re-
placed by cabinet very much more
hostile to the United States, and to
control of the islands by the United
States, than the old cabinet was.
In his last letter to Harper's " eskly
Mr.. Bass describes his trip from Manila
to Iloilo He says:
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Not Married Yet.

I rode up to country store, where
q young girl stood on the porch swing
ing a sunbonnet and talking to noun
taineer. I had left her in that posi-
tion q year before and her father had
told me then his daughter and the
mountaineer would soon be married.
Talking to her father o few minutes
later, 1 asked:
els your daughter married yet?"
'tNaw, an I don't reckon she will
BIZ"
"What is the trouble? I saw her
talking to her lover just now"
"Yaas she don't do much else.
Thet Teller ain no count. He's been
courtin' fer three var, an axed Sal
ter marry i'm a var ago. I tol' him
ter clean out an s'posed he'd 'lope
with her. I tol' Sal she could hev my
bes' boss ter run away with, but he
never did make no propersition. L
ain goin' ter the expense O. no we'd
din fxin's, an it looks like he want
goin' ter run of with her, so it ies'
STAINS thar. I ain goin' ter hev no
home weddin'; KANT afford no sich
nonsense; an I've he'd six gals run off
an git married, and that feller don't
seem to hev no appreciation of the sit
tywation. A."
AS I left the girl was still talking to
her lover, while the old man watched
them from behind tree.-Washing-
ton Star.
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The ancient Egyptians and As
syrians used paint to make their eye
brows seem wider.
The tomb of Mohammed is covered
with diamonds, sapphires and rubies,
valued at $12, 500, 900.
The largest Bible in the world is a
manuscript Hebrew Bible in the att
can, weighing 800 pounds.
New Zealand has law in force
compelling every intoxicated man to
have his photograph taken. His pic
ture is then distributed among bar
keepers and innkeepers, and they
must refuse to sell him liquor.
Edible snails flourish in Wurtem-
berg. One town, Gutenberg, re-
ceived the other day an order from
Paris for ], 1000, 600 of them. The price
paid was 81 per thousand.
The salt mines of Wiellezka, near
Cracow, Poland, were mentioned in
1914, and have been worked since
1910. The first map of the Lines was
made in 1888 by Martin German, a
Swedish mine surveyor.
A Burmese doctor, when called to
prescribe for patient, just asks him
to name the day and hour of his birth.
If he was born in the morning on a
Tuesday, he, of course, requires diff
ferent treatment than would be given
to man who came into the world on
Saturday evening,
Lanterns of scraped horn were in
vented in England, it is said, by AL
fred the Great; and it is supposed that
horn was used for window lights also,
as glass was not generally known at
that early period. London was lig hted
by suspended lanterns with glass sides,
about 1415.
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SUttn " v.


Oil and pepper are the two things
that especially characterize the Castil-
lian cui inc. One of the favorite dishes
in Cuba is ''tasajo," which is simply
dried meat, cooked with tomatoes,
red peppers and onions. "Tripa a Ia
Andaluza" is another preparation fire.
1uently seen. AS the name indicates,
the basis is boiled trlpe, which is
cooked with beans and potatoes, and
served with the small red Spanish
sausage known rs "butafarra Cata-
lina." A similar sausage, only black,
is known as "butafarra Astoriana."
"Chile con carne, (which everybody
eats, is nothing more than thick
stew of beef (carne) and beans sea-
soned with chiles. Spanish ''tor-
tillas' are corn cakes favored with
red peppers, and differ from the Mexi-
can tortilla in that the latter, when
properly made, are rolled in chopped
vegetables.
A salad a Ia Espanola is prepared
of lettuce and celery, with few sliced
tomatoes and peppers. Served with
French dressing it is very good.
The Spanish soups are, as a rule, a
little too heavy for the American taste,
which runs more toward consomme.
They are thick decoctions, full of
vegetables, and look frightfully
greasy. Soup, however, does not
have the important role among the
Spaniards that it plays in French do
mestic economy, and is an article of
secondary Importance. New Orleans
Times s-Democrat.
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WEBS OF MEMORY.
Woven in the Pickering Light of tine
Domestic Fireside.

'sMildredp'
1t was the young wife's name which
was called, and the husband was
sitting in the cozy front parlor of their
happy little home, reading by the soft
light of the Pickering gas burner, and
resting his slippered feet upon the
FURNISHED brass fender in front of o
glowing fire of rosy embcrs.
''Mildredp' he called again, as when
lover he breathed her name, the
sweetest in all the world to him.
But there was no answer.
"Ah!" he murmured, ''the dear girl
does not hear her husbands voice., F"
aud he lay back in HIS aeasy chair and
watched the blue flames dance in and
out among the sparkling Goals. At
such time memory weaves cunning
webs of softened colors and sweet
designs, and the young husbands
thoughts few backward and forward
in the loom of the past.
Three years ago he had been a
mothers petted darling, with no wish
ungratifed, no comfort neglected, no
luxury forgotten. Yet he felt within
his heart a tender longing, an empty
void. which SO far in his .ppy life
had remained untitled. Mildred Ray
came, and the mothers heart knew
that the wife was greater than the
mother.
A year passed and Mildred was his
wife. Gentle. Il ring, beautiful, he took
her to their new home, and for two years
she had filled his mothers place, aud
made his home beautiful ideal, a
four-walled paradise upon earth, yet
far above it. He was serenely happy
and peacefully comfortable. Mildred
had given him her thought, her energy,
her time, her endeavor-and he was
ut rest. He awoke from his reYerie
with start.
"Mildred!"
No answer.
He became alarmed. Was it, then,
all dream? And was he to be rudely
awakened?
Alas, for the mutability of human
affairs.
"Mildredl" he called for the fourth
time.
"Yes, Henry" came the sweet
voiced answer from so a in the cor
ner.
"Oh!" he said, in tone of relief.
care you there, darling?"
''Yes, hubble mine.
"Well, love, the fire is going out;
won't you go and get some more coal?"
'Nct much, peisey! I've beon
doing the loving-wife slave business
long enough, and if you want any
more coal you'll have to get it your
SELF"
Mildred's memory had been weav-
ing few webs itself while that fire
was slowly getting cold.-Cincinnati
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SssriJ 40 ,oSSiloii'o oSSli'.s-,, - NrSess.'
"You don't call me brut
more,," he said tauntingly nit
had refused to buy her ney ~
"No," she replied. "1he brutes i;:'e
been maligned too much already
'You ought, like us, to have het,-
days in honor of your great line.
said the Russian beauty. "But in the
American year" said the major, "there
are only three hundred and sizty-hYe
days"
s'Why, grandpa. when I was very
little YOU used to tell me that you
killed six Indians with one shot; then
you cut it down to FIVE; now you say
it was four" "Well, we'll, my child.
I suppose that's because my memory's
failin' little every year" f"
Neighbor-What beautiful hens you
have, Mrs. Stuckup? Mrs. Stuckup
Yes, they are all imported fowls.
Neighbor You don't tell me, so l
suppose they lay eggs every day?
Mrs. Stuckup (proudly)-They could
do so if they saw proper, but our cir
cumstances are such that my hens are
not required to lay eggs every day.
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A SNOW poMe.

Th' other fellows at school liked snow when
it came,
An uster look through the window, as n
They couldn't wait to get out.
But thought 1t only made mud, ike rain,
An never liked 1t bit
An didn't see nothin to max fuss
about.
Then wasn't long afterwards when it came
thick
That chores got more crowdin, as II
A felier didn't want no time hisself,,
An everything had to be fed so ALFRED quick
Else you wouldn't get time to sit
Long 'nough to dry your boots on the
oven shelf.
Face washin' I just hate, or any them
games, n
But Sis she liked 'um, and talked as if
They was mighty more'n what they
look.
She says: ''Oh beautiful snow" same's
She says bout "spring" or "Hebron's Cliff
What she'd read out Rose Harts poetry
book.
Rains bad 'nough in summer, when you get
wet,
But, then it's warm and makes you feel as
II
You don't have to wash or anything;
But SHOWS too cold and slushy, and, worst
yet,
Can't go nowheres but what, biff!
A SNOWFALL whacker makes your old ears
ring.
Frederick Lincoln, in The Criterion.
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GERMANY and the Carolinss.

Any one seeking an insight into the
ideas and aims of The German colonial
party encounters at every turn the idea
that Germany must expand over the
sea since expansion in Europe is i'm
possible. It is this determination that
justiGes the frequent predictions by
Herr Peters and others that Germany
yet will secure the exclusive control
of Samoa and the Carolines, even if
the cost be war. The Kaiser himself
recently has given forcible expression
the general colonial scheme, and the
advocates of the acquisition of the
Carolines say that the possession OF
these islands will assist Germany
materially, not only to dominate the
Pacific, but to secure supremacy in
the commerce of the world.
The islands, which recent dispatches
say are to be sold to Germany as soon
as the Cortes meets, embrace two
chains, forming, as itwere, o T-square
the Lairones or Marianas and the
Carolines, including under the latter
the Pelews.--Chicago Record.
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Disrespect to the French Flag.

According to correspondent of the
Gaulois the garrison at Toulon has
lust been treated to a remarkable
spectacle. A soldier of the Eighth
regiment of marines, under the inhu-
ence of drink or discomfort, OF both,
insulted the national flag. He was
duly reported, and the matter was
finally brought to the notice OF tue
general, who saw the opportunity for
grand patriotic display, All the
troops of the garrison were formed in
hollow square on the parade ground,
with the flag in the middle; Then the
general called upon the luckless piou-
piou by name. He fell out of the
ranks, marched to the flag, saluted it,
and uttered faltering apology. "It
is WELL" exclaimed General Corop-
nat, "but if this man had not shown
his repentance, one of the picked es-
cort of the colors was ready, sword in
hand, to give him a lesson. London
Chronicle
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Doing His uty.

sThere's one OF the best men in our
employ" stated railroad official as
he pointed out man who looked like
q hard-working farmer, relates the
Detroit Free Press. "He has been
promoted from time to time and we
have the utmost confidence in him.
He came to us when he was as yerdant
as his rural surroundings. We built
a little way station Oh our line, up IN
the northern part of the state, and put
him in charge, because some OF the
most substantial citizens told us he
was a good man for the place. hap
pened to be the one to give him his
instructions, telling him, among other
things, that it was flag station, that
the train would only stop when there
were persons to get off or on and that
he must display the red flag when he
wanted the engineer to pull up there.
ssThe first day he was on the through
passenger train was behind time and
going for all it was worth. But there
was the flag and there was nothing to
do but to stop, the heavy train reach
ing the platform with all breaks set
and wheels sliding.
.s'All aboardr yelled tile conductor
as he sprung off to hurry the expected
passengers. But our new agent was
the only person in sight.
Where are those people that want
to get on?' roared the conductor.
"'They amt none.
"sWhat in thunder did you stop
this train for, then?
"T guessed maybe somebody would
like fur to git off. ::
"We looked into it, but he only
meant to do his duty and has been
doing it ever since.
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Getsinr Rid of Friction.

A novel invention has been exhibit
ed before q large number of persons
by J. M. Alves, Russian civil en-
gineer in st. Petersburg. With this
invention he proposes to revolutionize
wheel locomotion. BY attaching it to
the wheels of any vehicle friction is
reduced to the lowest possible limit.
To the amazement of the spectators
an ordinary horse easily drew wagon
loaded with two and half tons Of
goods. The mechanism of this de-
vice was kept secret, the wheels
being covered with wooden frame
work. This precaution on the part
of the inventor, it was explained, was
because he had just applied for a pa
tent and did not wish his invention
made public until it had been pro-
tected by the patent.
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ELSIE'S APTITUDE.
How Bevy Of College Girls Taught SelfHelp to
"Chum in Distress"
BY ISABELLA M. ANDREWS.

"Glorious!'' sJust the thingp'
''Bravo!' from everybody at once.
''How lucky You room alone, Elsie"
added Kitty. "Yoh can mess all you
like with nobody to smell, taste, touch,
see or hear"
Elsie still looked doubtful. 'Do
You think I could make anything at
it?" she said, hesitatingly. '.I know
I can do all those things. It's my one
gift; but there doesn't seem to be the
usual 'long-felt want. F."
"Oh, yes, there is, said Mary, posi-
lively. "Pm chairman of the re-
freshment committee for the freshman
spread, and every single girl on that
committee has privately groaned to
me that she didn't see how she could
find a minute to give it. I'll call that
committee together tomorrow morning,
and I'm sure it will be the greatest
relief in the world to put the whole
thing into your hands if you will take
it.
cit happens just right, too," Mary
hurried on, 'for we can make this
your debut, Elsie dear, and I prophesy
that orders will pour in upon you.
Frances Cox has little at home the
week after for those friends of hers
that came this year, and you know
she has loads of money and hates to
work. And then there's the senior
reception to the sophomores and by and
by; the freshman reception to the
classes that have entertained them and
any number of little ones coming along
ali the time. And think of commence
ment! Oh, yes, my dear!' Your for
tune is made. The path of glory
leads'-no, that isn't what I mean-"
8 Victory calls you; on, be ready!"
quoted Mabel.
Elsie lay awake nights planning the
freshman spread. 1t was great nc
cess, though quite as. simple as the
college spreads usually were, but it
was full of novelties and surprises, for
----:--- Now, lro1
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as the latter was always pleased Co;
see all strangers who arrived in uolio.
The request, although oouched in
most courteous form, was evidently
an order. We were about to follow
the captain, when the manager of the
Hong Kong Bank interviewed, and, by
judicious wire.pulling, gained us the
time to eat bite and wash up before
we visited General Rios. The Gen
eral we found o charming man, most
profuse in his friendly professions
and promises to expedite our further
journey through the islands. These
promises he never fulfilled; nor could
we blame him much, for we were the
first Americans who had come to
Hello since the beginning OF the war,
and, considering our position, we were
treated most courteously, although re-
garded with suspicion.
Iloilo, although the centre OF the
sugar business in the Philippines,
does not possess hotel, and we were
obliged, nolens volens, to accept the
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Pretty Kitty Kenyon, with a bag of
books in one hand and box Of candy
in the other, ran through the halls of
one of the 'soverAow" dormitories of
Finlay college, gave peculiar knock
at several carefully selected DOORS
tossed among the peaceful occupants
bombshell in the startling announce
ment, "Council of War in Sparrow's
Nest, Two O'clock Sharp" and van
ished amid shower of questions, ex-
clamations, ,reproaches and appeals for
candy.
It was half-past one then, and two
o'clock saw dozen girls, respectfully
curious over Elsie Sparrow's redeemed
eyes, assembled for the council, Kitty
presiding with great dignity.
"You have been called together,
ladies" she began impressively, ''for
purposes of consultation and aid i'll a
most trying case. o girls" she went
on, and this was as long as kitty's
dignity usually lasted, "'Elsie's father
has lost all his money, and she thinks
she will have to leave college! Now
the question is, Aren'tany of us bright
enough to think of any way she can
earn some money and stay?"
There were cries of sympathy and
distress all around the room, and Ell
sic, with tears flowing again, aud
Mary and Mabel and Edith and Alice
and Kitty and Gertrude all besieging
her with questions and commiseration.
began to feel some consolation for her
troubles in the importance they
brought her.
'It isn't as if 1 could do anything
great and glorious to help things out
at home," she said at length. 'If 1
could, I wouldn't mind leaving college
SO much; but Grace js at home, and
mamma is going to- send our old Ellen
away-and she's been with us ever
since can remember-and mamma
and Grace are going to get on alone.
So I'm not really needed. Mamma
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Howard's advice. I am to set sail for
myself as caterer and decorator! Mrs.
Howard has always lived in the city
and has a great many friends there,
and she says she knows there IS an
opening all ready for me.
"Of course can come out here, too!
and I shall hope to, keep my patrons
here. So there's my long-dreamed-o OF
career cut and dried! Now wish me
luck before I'VE say good by. and be
sure to remember me when you are
preparing for your weddings and
wakes!"
Success came none too quickly nor
too easily, but it came. And perhaps
the best success lay not in the career
itself, but in the lesson it taught her
that if she couldn't doa thing in one
way she could in another; that spe-
cial talent is tooprecious sign of the
niche we are meant to fill to be lightly
disregarded; and that, in good old
Herbert's words:
Who sweeps room as for Thy laws
Makes that and tn action fine.
Youths Companion.
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HUMOROUS.

sTs he O practising physician?
eyes; practising economy"
"Talk about horse My wheel
saved my life last week." "How?"
'T sold it and bought winter fan
nels."
"Telephone girls ought to make
good wives" "Why?" ''They get
in the habit of not speaking unless
they are spoken to-"
"Ah, Bosser may be bad shot, but
that only proves he's good fellow"
CLOVIS that?" ''Why, he's the boy
to keep the game alive"
Mother" asked little johnny,
peering in between two uncut leaves
of the magazine, show did they ever
get the printing in there"
"Dr. Jigsaw is the only man Oh our
street who doesn't clear the snow from
his sidewalk?" "He knows the conf
mercial value Of wet feet.
"Ah If our youthful ideals could
but be realized !'' eff they could, we
would be circus actors, truck drivers
or pirates, the most of u.s."
Nesr-Sighted Lady = There goes
Mrs. De Style in her new tailor-made
dress. Friend You are mistaken, my
dear. That is hef husband.
Jack Bass would raise garden sass,
His wife she would raise chickens.
Bs.,Sixt the two, ere they got through
They simply raised the dickens.
Tourist-You say he is one OF your
most prominent citizens. What has
hA ever dona2 Ipacac Bill Eiftean
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hospitality of the British colony-com-
posed, by the way, with one e1oep-
tion, of Scotchmen. It seems that
Scotchmen only are capable of doing
business in Spanish colony and re-
naming sane. The drear monotony
of Iloilo life is somewhat seasoned by
this little body of Scotchmen. They
have formed a delightful little club,
with library (the only oEe in town,
am inclined to think) billiard-room
and card-room. There is also tennis
club and several summer houses at
Guimaras. I was much impressed
with the manner in which these
Scotchmen kept themselves up to the
requirements of civilized life. There
was not one of them That did not pine
to be home; and yet they have not
degenerated into the slovenly ways OF
the natives, and are always smart, and
try to keep up certain amount OF
style and "side. !"
They are all unanimous in their
desire to have "Unole Sam" take all
ofthe islands, and on this topic alone
they lose their native conservatism
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and leave the rest of the islands to
Spain, we shall find ourselves obliged
either to help Spain suppress ther revo-
luton OF allow foreign interference.
We shall come into conflict with the
revolutionists in Luzon, who will un-
doubtedly send out expeditions to help
the insurrection in other islands. We
shall be in constant trouble with in
competent and dishonest Spanish Off
cials. 1t will be the Cuban affair over
again. Only this time we shall be far
from our base of supplies, and foreign
Intervention is likely to be much more
vigorous. It would be much better
not to take any of the islands than to
take Luzon alone.
We wanted to visit other places in
the islands, but the "manana" policy
of the General prevented our doing so,
and we found ourselves obliged to re-
turn to Manila. We could not even
leave Iloilo without permission from
the General. he granted the permis-
sion eagerly, only too glad to get rid
of the trnnhlesoma Amnricanns.