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one-man republic remains to be seen.

/ How many military stations have we
| in the Philippines and what have been our
losses the past year?
The Insurgents. some months ago.
| abandoned their army organization and
entered upon a guerilla warfare This
led to a wide distribution Of American
| troops. so that now there are 4l3 stations
garrisoned, instead of %, which were held
November l, 1895. From November l, 1899
| to September /, 1900. 26S Americans were
killed, 80 wounded and 80 captured. The
Filipino losses during the same period
were COOS.
Can you tell me anything about the ca
nails of France?
France has a very complete system OF
canals The Rhone is connected by canal
with the Rhine in Germany. also with the
Loire and the Seine. Another canal joins
the Garoue with the Mediterranean sea,
thus saving the voyage of 2.e2@ miles
around the Spanish peninsula and IN the
northern part Of the republic is net
work OF canals that connect the main
industrial cent5rs and afford direct COM
munication with the canals and rivers of
Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
What is the origin of the use of the
word mugwump?
During the campaign Of 1854 many Re
publicans, especially in tEle East, seeded
from the regular organization and went
over to the Democracy or stood aIoot
from their own party At TINS time tnas;
A. Dana, of the New York Sun, applied
to them a word in Eliot's Indian Bible
.aNug,vump. one who feels that he is
better than his tribe; too good to associate
with his own people"-and the word has
stuck Thus the word nugwump' was
dug up from his sleep OF geo years
and made to do duty in politics.
I would like to know, il a general way.
what work is covered by the Govern
ment's Department OF Agriculture at
Washington?
Possibly the best idea can be briefly OBJ
tanned by a glance at the several bureaus,
divisions and offices regularly carried on
by the department. These include The
Weather Bureau, Bureau. of Animal IN
dustry, which has to do with meat In
specton, diseases Of animals and remedies;
Dairy Division, division OF chemistry
which has to do with TODD aQuter1tioa
and the study of soils; Division OF E.nto-
no!ogy. which has made possible the pro
duction of the Smyrna fig, and also the
destruction of swarms of locusts in the
West; division of Botany, which tests
seeds. investigates poisonous stock plants
and inquiries into tropical plants IN our
nsw possessions; Division of Vegetable
Physiology and Pathology, which has 70
do with the diseases OF grains, pant
breeding, orange hybrids, cotton hybrlds to-
bacco plant research, etc; Division OF Po-
noloev an. Fruits; Division of ASrostoi-
ocv which deals with the study OF grass
IS: Division of Soils; Division OF Forestry
Division of Statistics; Division OF PUBL
cations: Experimental Gardens and
. IL Z rN3 I.1.,N s.
once Of Experimental Stations; Section
If Foreign Markets, ETC., etc.
What is the significance OF the ap-
proaching election in Austria?
The elections ordered in Austria repre-
sent the last despairius attempt of the En-
peror to get a reichsrath which will legis-
late For years all legislation has been
blocked by bitter fsuds between the
Czechs and the Germans, who have made
every sitting of the reichsrath a scene of
wild disorder During these four years. it
is said, but a single Dill has been
passed. The Czechs are a branch OF the
SIayonic race, and control affairs IN Bo-
hemia and other provinces OF northern
Austria.
Austria has been well described as
Jungle Of polygiot peoples. owning SIN
gle sceptre, but without cohesion or COM
mon interests Ok q totti!iO4l S4iG@t az 49,
The. dream of the Czechs is to crowd the
Germans out of Bohemia and re-establish
the ancinet kingdom OF Bohemia. Moravia
and Silesia, with a central diet at Prague
and a recognition of the equality or the
German and Czech languages They do
not want to be severed from the empire,
but to be q semi-indepeadent part OF it.
as Hungary Is.
The Importance of the. approaching cleo
ton lies in the fact that the Emperor mas
declared this TO be his last attempt TO Sc
cure a working Parliament. II the ne"
reichsrath proves as unmaHaSeao!e ds
the old he may suspend the Constitution
The maintenance of Parliamentary insti-
tutions is thus involved in the issue. ana
with it possibly the peace OF the empire