The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-03-15

i ID; = piaJed an important role, which is
The same men, however, who were pa
tr na1s IN their struggle against Spanish OPP
preston. become misguided leaders of their.
people IN their contest against the United
StaIes Inc same men who were eulogized
IN me first two chapters are sridiculed and
condemned COZ IN the succeeding chapters.
%. a very interesting description Of the
Katippnan organization IS given which is is
described as degenerate form Of Ma
s sohry,, The author says that early in the
the Spanish authorities, for reasons best
known to themselves, introduced Masonry
at at Manila Ia and initiated a number of lead
wards there sprang up ali over the islands
q degenerate form of Masonry" which
finally became known as .s'The Katipunan.':
OF havaaStaasen akagaangalang Katipu
This Is particularly interesting, and per.
maps the first admission BY an American
that the katipunan organization traces, it's
one OF the most interesting chapters in
the book is one which takes up the leading
Flllpinos, and describes them individuality.
Agulnaldo, is described as the greatest mil
itary leader in the revolt against the United
States 3 i He had visited the leading milf
tary nations Of Europe and had made a
crosse study ct their plans of attack and de-
Tense. and that he was ambitious to have
one one pitched ts1 battle with the American army
ana stake all on the outcome To this
their estrangement, which finally culmin-
ated in IN his assassination. = :
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IT, American Political History to the Death
OF Lincoln. By Viola A. Ccnklin;. 435 IN.
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Instead Of the dry facts usual to most
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q story entertainingy told. It is the story
not simply of bloody wars but a review of
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7 The town meeting is the keynote of the
sFfem q sd tae oP basa s Mard
called townships in New England have
proved themselves the 5wisest invention
ever devised by the wit of man for the
It's DreSeryatiOn.'', ~ re-. T t.E@s = :
The New England colonists divided the
land into towns and adapted the principles
Oh oad the oid English town government to the
dltlons. The people of each town directly
govern themselves AS the population in
er eas there re are necessarily many changes
made IN cities the primary is but q town
meeting III miniature. The feeling Of ma
tionallty was Of slow growth. Previous to
the REVOLUTION it did not exist, and it was
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The population of both Virginia and
Mass , vas purely English but
ditions. The Virginian so far as nossib1e
patterned his mode Of life after that of
the e. landed gentry of England. He ruled
and refinement: These conditions i pro-
duced men OF tine executive ability, such
as Washington, Jefferson, Marshall, but
indentured servants and transported con
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creased the poor white sank in the social
III yyHS
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In Virginia the independent planters were
against English aggression; in New Eng
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III the district, school and the town meet,
resisting oppression. This Inference in the
social conditions is of great Importance in
determining the outcome Of the great strug-
eliminated in the Civil War, for in the very
nature OF things the South was foredoomed
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lltlcal history. The author hopes ."that it
may prove of value to the man who votes
and the woman who often influences the
voter a.| -. Nv ..&z @T -.
ms FAIL, THE ISLE OF DESTINY.
Ireland, Historic and Picturesque. By
Charles Johnston. Beautifully illustrat ted
and sumptuously bound. So. Philadelphia:
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- Ihls is not an ordiary superficial volume
descriptive of Ireland. Mr.. Johnston tens
the story Of it's history from the era Of the
spiritual and imaginative by the, Celtic
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Mr.. Johnston writes in the genuine Irish
of "the land of Fire, very old, vet full Of
perpetual youth; thousand times darken-
cd &c 6y sor TOY yet with heart Of living
H.. .WRiIinU in
able tlife.'' @ys -s : ~ 5, 80 -.
Prom the very gray of her morning the
c en- Ct ireland, were preoccupied with
driven from this world, we took refuge in
that; it was not the Kingdom Of heaven up
a refuge. in heaven. So the note rings and
echoes through all our history; we i've on
the Invisible nI word # rightly under
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OF that Invisible; that world Of our i'm
na'.rE;ny as Ct old our race went forth
Ga rFf the Gallsan Eyangs We shall
ty, can the soul Of man be satisfied;
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,nerf., IN I'll the Unseen the hidden the i'm
visible beauties OF the world. If this he
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I as F mySte 4ho land deserve her name:
especially interesting, showing that these
m!ysteElous circles Of monoliths must have
which eliminated 81 600 or T. 900 Years aso
He He sketches !taH deity and charmingly the
enief p pf ct Irish hstoFX
men, the triumph OF feudalism, and the 1sI BIT
ter wrongs Of the land question that still
:llnger in modified FORM - "
It has been ana is now q land Of sin9nIar
beauty, and the book contains twenty-six
cnolce photo-gravures Of Irish scenery.
castles and ruins The descriptions are Of
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