®
pe —————s >” —
THE GOING AND COMING,
He marched away with the regiment—
he sailed o'er the stormy sea;
But how did they send my lover home
—home to the heart of me?
muffled drum, and sword
sheath—Ah, me! for God
grace!
And the flag that he had died for over
his still, white face,
in
his
With
He marched away with the regiment,
All me; for the men who fight:
they shed, but the cheeks of wo-
men are white:
Are wan and white for the cruel fight
where the swords are keen to
kill;
And the red flags droop forever over
the faces still.
He marched away with the
What does the fighting mean?
Widowed women and breaking hearts
-n shrine where the graves grow
green.
for a maiden’s lover:
her, dear God, thy grace
welcome her lover home
with the flag o'er his still,
face!
Alas, and
ngain,
To
THE DUEL ON
FLOATING LOGS.
By Major Hamilton.
hated me and wished to have it out at
once,
“What does he propose?” said 1.
“A duel, with knives!”
I shuddered, The man meant to kill
me, as 1 had feared.
“Hut this Nicholson is twice my size.
He could seize me and cut my throat
while I struggled helplessly,” I re-
turned. “It would not be a fair fight.”
“Zack has thought of that, and pro-
poses to fight like this: Each man
shall choose a log. and set it
behind the raft.
jump into the river and swim to the
80 fight.”
I Inughed.
“But If we fought with knives the |
we could not do each other
there lies a little hamlet: upon the
western shore of the Mississippi River,
known as Rufftown.
The method of spelling the name is
malice aforethought: for when the set
tlement was first christened, the rafts
wen und steamboat hands meant
“rough.”
The town consisted of a long wood
dock, where
came for fuel a
tels,” where all the *
to be had were sold by the quart
a jug, two stores, a re of shrunken
tiouses, and away back. almost
bluff. a log school-house,
I was the teacher in 1.at log school
house, at a of seven dollars a
month and bos latter, in New
England style, “boarding “round.”
I think 1 earned my wages. That
may be as it may. Certain it was that
when spring came and the term closed
the trustee could have ter
pleased to pay and discharge an
I was at being discharged. Had he
forgotten to pay me, I should have dis
charged myself. 1 was disgusted with
Rufftown, and had determined to voy
age to New Orleans, the
of my engagement me
better than its conti
School “finished,” ag the boys had
it. on Saturday. On Monday I had
found a place as raftsman upon a
great raft, bound for the end of the
river. From teaching the young idea
how to shoot I had changed to teach-
ing logs how to float—from a lands
wan 1 had become a sailor,
steamers
half-dozen slab
accommodate
*ho-
yn
from
BN
to the
salary
ir: the
been no bw
¢
t
me th
Consequently
pleased
nuance.
close
The crew were one and all strangers
to me, tough and brawny lumbermen
from the up-country. 1 was probably
the only green hand aboard.
For a few days all went well. 1
could push an oar and boll potatoes,
80 that 1 was able to fill the duties of
steersman but 1 was young
and foolish enough to think that my
book-knowledge, slight though it was,
placed me above the other men upon
the raft, and 1 probably showed it.
This engendered strife.
At first, the scorn which grew in my
companions’ breasts showed itself in
looks and sneering words; but, as the
days and nights passed, and 1 smoked
my pipe apart from the others, and did
net join them in their songs and
dances after the sun went down, a
more open and hostile spirit betrayed
itself, and suddenly 1 was aroused
or cook:
return of a blow for some scornful
word which I had east at one of the
raftsmen. I defended myself as best |
might, and rather flatter myself now,
hard knocks as [ recetved;
blood was out,
wretched.
For a time I held my own with my
opponents, but when the
my persecitors grew, as it shortly did,
captain down, 1 felt that prudence was
sought to avoid intercourse or trouble
of any kind,
“Tue teacher's kinder techy, eh 7” sald
Zack Nicholson to his companion,
“The logs to be fastened
by thirty feet of chain.”
It was a plan to murder me; but I
would die game,
“Agreed!” said I, hoarsely.
shall the duel take place?’
“Now,” sald Nickolson's friend.
ns good a time as any.”
I bowed my head in silent consent,
“Who's your second?”
him, and we'll fix
“It's
taings up
I choked a little, and a sense of my
desolation amid this crew of
savage men afloat upon a mighty river
swept over then the spirit of my
arose again,
and will fix things
for myself, Get your chair, and come
to the rear of the raft. We will plek
out the logs and fasten them together,
and then you can call Nicholson,”
I turned away.
* gut you'll have some one to act for
you-to see fair play!”
“No | sharply—"no one! If
my knife eannot win for me fair play
I'll not look for it this gang.
your chain”
The man looked at me an instant as
if dazed, then, he loft me, to rejoin me
a moment later, near the stern of the
raft.
staples in his hands,
“Select your log.” said I.
He and I selected a some
what smaller
A few
logs from
the
uniting our strength,
me;
“I have no friend,
eried,
among
(ret
did =o,
one,
released bota
which bound
about them, and,
we dragged them
and launched them at
the stern, Then with the staples we
fastened the chain end and end
to the logs, binding each near the mid-
dle,
When pushed
they floated
blows of an axe
the withes
them to ot}
TEATS,
HCTOss
the raf
It
iron
raft,
feet
from the
twenty-five
free
some
apart, each following its own motion in
current and eddies, occasionally
as almost to touch,
aud again separating until restrained
by the chain,
“They'll do,” sald my
“I'l go for Nicholson™
I felt that I had ben hunted down.
and a flerce desire to kill inflamed me.
Had 1 prayed, it would have been for
not for
the
swinging so close
companion.
in the coming combat,
simple safety,
A sound at my side caused me to
turn. The man had returned, and my
antagonist was with hima. A thrill of
joy ran through me as 1 noted the pal
lor of Nichoson's face.
“He Is afraid! 1 shall kill him!”
whispered to myself.
“Now strip to your shirts
breeches, take your knives in
teeth, and, when 1 give the
jump and swim for the logs. Either
man to either log.” said the third party
to this «frange encounter.
Silently obeyed, disrobing
selves, and standing, a moment later,
glide by side upon the edge of the raft,
“Are you ready?
and
your
word,
we
Go!”
two dark heads above the muddy foam
of the river, and.
men astride of two floating logs faced
each other, each with murder in his
eyes!
I had secured the smaller log, per
haps by change, perhaps because my
antagonist had sought the other one,
tack or retreat with less exertion.
Each held his knife in hand and set.
tied himself on his log: then Nicholson
began with his unarmed hand to pad.
die slowly toward me,
Perhaps this motion of our logs af-
but whatever the cause,
kinder techy an’ high-toned. Won't
speak to no one nov, What he wants
is another good trashing.”
“Yes,” continued Nicholson,
needs wore lickin’
hiz place. He's like a dog the more
you lick ‘em the more"
“he
me,
felled him to the floor of the raft,
companion assisted him to rise and
walk away: but that night I slept with
my hand within my bosom upon my
knife. The climax had come; Nichol
son would kill me now, If I was not
careful,
At noon, the next day, the friend of
my enemy spoke to me after dinner,
and called me one side. 1 followed
him,
“You knocked Zack down yester-
day,” he said.
“1 know it,” 1 replied.
“He wants satisfaction.”
“Then let him get it,” said I, turning
away, enraged.
“No, no!” said the man, “don't be n
fool. He's iad clear through. Ef ye
won't fight him, he'll strike ye in the
dark. Ye must fight!”
i
|
t
i
§
i
i
i
¥
|
to look to our individual safety, and 1
noticed, to my astonishment. that in-
stead of following in the wake of the
great raft, we had drifted to one side,
and were now abreast of it, moving
with much greater speed than the raft
itself, and evidently bound upon an
independent journey to the gulf:
The sight startled me, and 1 eried
out:
“We are belng swept away!”
Nicholson half-tubned, then, care
and our logs now ranging side by side,
leaned toward me, his knife-hand half.
outstretched. 1 bent backward to
avold him, when a sudden plunge of
the tog upon which I rode threw me
almost Into my antagonist’s arms, and
his gleaming blade shot downward.
1 could not ward the blow, for 1 had
almost lost my balance: but one thing
remained to do, and I did it. Slipping
from my log and diving, the knife
missed me, but Nicholson, overberne
by the force of his stroke, followed me
headlong into the muddy stream,
Neither of us feared the plunge, but
as I eame to the surface, a sudden hor.
ror shot through me-~I1 sad dropped
my Jenife!
Wid Was doubtless uve, Nicholson
upon me, and raised his Band to strike. |
I was lost!
But even as I closed my eves in the
horror of despair, a sudden rush
sounded In my ears, a dark something
passed close by me, the knife that had
sought my throat sank glittering
through the water, and with a groan,
and a quivering outstretching of his
hands, Nicholson, a lifeless body, fol-
lowed it,
The log upon which he had ridden
had been thrown by the current end
on against his head, crushing it like an
I was saved!
CONCERNING BABY CARRIAGES,
. Brakes Now on Nearly All ~Rise of the Go-
Cart—The Baby Carriage Season.
The predecessor of the present pre-
carriage thirty
years ago, was built like a
it had but two wheels, and the
body, which had a folding carriage top,
or forty
wooden frame, This carriage was
menns of a tongue in front
side of the
ue in front, near the body of the
carriage, was an iron foot or rest upon
which the carriage was supported
The
old style
baby
two at the
the perimba.
successor of the
hack and one at the front,
In the course of time baby carriage
brakes appeared, to prevent accidents
tached to the running part of the car
fitted a spoke, thus locking the wheel
a number of styles of
brakes, and they are in common use,
being applied to lowpriced carriages as
well as to the more expensive ones,
The modern baby carriage is made
in a great variety of styles, cheap and
of them being sold at
prices remarkably low. It is a ve
hicle admirably adapted to the uses to
and it seemed, except
ag to details, though, in its
present shape it had reached the final
stage of Its evolution: but now the go-
cart, a baby carriage of a very different
model, is pushing it bard. It is est]
mated that of the total stock of ve
hicles used for baby carriages this &eq-
son go-carts will occupy a third, or per
haps more. The go-car t is
this year in a greater variety of styles
than in any previous season; and the
of them costs considerably
less than the cheapest baby carriage.
‘he go-cart has been in use but four
or five years, but the demand bas in.
creased from the start and is still io-
creasing.
The go-cart is prop
like the babs
it is a vehicle of much
wore like a chair on wheels, Original
ly it was used only for the older chil
dren, that is for children old enough
to sit up, but it is now with a
moveable back that can be tipped at
any angle and left held in place by set
screws and made a reclini
well as a sit-ap vehicle. One charac
teristic that is supposed to commend
the go-cart , especially for city use is
its smaller size, It can be more easily
stored than the foar-wheeled vehicle,
The great season for the retail baby
carriage trade is spring. The babies
have been more or less cooped up in
the house through the winter, and
every mother wants them to have the
henefit of the air. As many baby car
riages are sold here in the spring sea-
some
as
fled from behind
carriage, but
bulk and
ordinary
fous
made
Ray
together. New York Sun.
from Cuba to Washington declares
try whose language she cannot under-
stand, It was before hostilities had
The
Anxie-
ty sat on her brow, and sorrow dwelt
in her eyes. She gesticulated and she
talked. The nurse knew not a word
but the pantomime
The Cuban's
hands seemed fo speak of an attack on
the hospital—of wounded men butcher.
visit of her Cuban laundress,
She must koow
In the hospital was an officer very
Khe knew he
understood Spanish. Only in a matter
was obviously a matter of
life or death. She led the Cuban wo-
and there the
Cuban ceased. The sick man
“She says,” he whispered feebly,
“she says the stripes in your pink shirt
waist have run, and she doesn’t know
what to do with it." Washington Star.
Merely a Feeler.
“No, 1 thank you. I prefer to stand.”
The stout woman who was standing
up in the crowded car looked straight
ahead of her as she made this re-
mark.
“1 didn’t hear anybody offering me a
seat.” she said, still looking straight at
the front end of the car, “but I took it
for granted somebody had done it.”
fix men slowly rose up.
“No, 1 thank you,” she sald, withont
looking at any of them, “I've been
standing for fifteen minutes. It won't
hurt me to keep it up a MNttle longer,
I get off at the next
Then six men sat down again, much
NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX.
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON ON NUMEROUS FEMI.
NINE TOPICS.
Light Summer Fabrics-The New Purses
How to wash Your Face-Aunt Eupbemin
Advice to Mothers, Etc.
Light Summer Fabrics.
Very thin summer taxtiles will again
be made up without lining, giving the
wearer an opporfunity to make any
number of effective chinnges in the low-
cut under-waist and skirt, or princesse
slip or silk, lawn, or light-weight sa-
teens. Batiste, grass linen, India mus
lin, French organdie, grenadine, sheer
silky nun's velling, and bishop jaws
with crossing bars of lace
and tucked and frilled bands of mus-
lin will all be made up in this
fashion, and the embroidered dresses
will worn with sashes and
trimmings to mateh.
be
The New Purse.
!
don’t be troubled ubout his being hun-
gry, Put down the howling to natural
or inherited or acquired habit, and get
through the night as best you can”
Philadelphia Thines,
Homemade Corsets.
A pair of high class corsets ax a per-
manent investment will pay sure divi
dends in the shape of coples “just as
good,” or even prettier. It is not nec
essary to rip them apart. Lay one-
from the lacing, upon a
“by the
slightly larger than each section.
The new is five
the top and
deep. It is made of silver wire mesh
and has two compartments, one for
small change, the other for the hand.
kerchief. The purses are finished with
a metal fringe and fastened to a fine
chain with a ring to be worn on the
finger. Some chains are made to hang
on the arm. Gate purses have disap
peared. ‘1hey are too bulky to slip in
dress fronts, that the blouse
being displaced by the tight Gut
COTSuge.
handkerchief!
inches
purse
HUross Hix
now is
ing
How to Wash Your Face.
Telling girls “How to Pretty
Though Plain.” Mrs. Humphrey, in the
Ladies’ Home Journal, guarantees any
girl a god complexion who will wash
her face every night and morning, and
twice a day according to her
directions: must not be
cold and soap should
be nsed but fingers
or
bie
besides
“The
in winter,
water
(quite
a day. hie
are better than any sponge «
should be
pressiug
the
two or thr
¢ face
should be
3 1%
dust is
once
giove
flannel, and nse
the mnsse
firmiy
passing
they nx
them
and
oe TIINeR over
More particu
dovots } IO the Cor
se uses hers,
but gently into skin
them
every inch of th
Inar pains
ners, alw
where avs liabl
lodge. around the eyes.
ifaw
of the
ishicloth is used
and plent
be
of water
and finest,
should be applied af
wash It all away
id be erga ily
a hurried rt
to all sorts of roughnesses
Not one
to
wif test
ter the
The
thor
OTH fi
SO0D So
drs
Oi gh ai
fis to
5 50 fir (MEN =
1 effectual, :
"WAN
and chapp
Kno
ing 1h
girl in twen
ber face
ett Why fas ge
eh
ty wash and
It thoroughly ANSeS,
Aun: Ewuphemia.
the
Vernon is Aunt Eaphe
w
One of
at Mount
an old colored re
an ancient
the
tar
Bene
most interesting
tx hoside
% lee] of
pit
any
fier #
tainer
Fa spinning 9
inst cen YY. an urnishes a
fi
¢ that | Wien as
about » 8 a strik
fg character, a wiraight
and ebony face
atures, and when
oom with a
i spare
fig ure, with expressive
ashe sits at the
white turban, a checked
gingham apron, one would think that
had slipped back a century
Aunt 'Phemy has been a spinner and
a weaver all her life, and kpows
her age
speed and skill
the
$
Her
business, begin
She
although
ning to afMect her
devotes hor to weaving
rag carpets, and several of
at Mount Vernon are carpeted with her
handiwork. The loom she is a
large clumsy machine, standing in one
of the little outbuildings. the same
that in Washington's time was used
for spinning and
and about two years ago was restored
is
most of time
the rooms
ses
dren of St. Paul.
The loom itself is believed to have
occupied in Washington's time the
very place where it now stands, but
when Augustine Washington died the
spinning wheel and other appurten-
afices were sold to the late Ben. Perley
and mark it. This line must be cut,
#0 as to leave a perfect pattern.
Allow for senm half an
hatiste,
each
% to lap and turn in,
those of a coat,
Btrap the
making
time upon each part as a
together,
Two side steels, two front ones and
narrow ones for the back, must
bought, wlire measure
th before buying, Three yards of
whalebone, at twenty-five cents a
on a plece of bone casing, 8 quarter
of a yard of heavy muslin for the pock-
the steels, two of
beading, three
ribbon, a pair of silk laces and
narrow embroidery of edging
will be required for a very dainty pair
The eyelets can put in
while you walt, at any corset maker's,
for about fifteen cents,
Wash silk. or striped
gingham is cool and delightful for the
coming warm days. Brocaae and taf-
feta, of which a yard epough, if
not too narrow, makes handsome, ser
viceable
A bride-to-be has concoctea ©
for
left over pleces,
from bits of
be je iO
yards
yards
els covering
narrow lace
baby
ROne
be
of stavs,
pongee silk
NC
COrsets,
dream . w"”
girl friends out of
A white pair, made
the wedding gown, and
embroidered with marguerites; a pon-
goe pi trimmed with ecru lace,
wear with a petticoat of the same, and
an Empire made of inch wide
satin ribbon, worn under a
gown. driving a limited number
the envy of her
pir to
Corset,
tao be tea
are in
go and do like
A palr of «
the front and
wise,
ole
ven inches long
twelve in
Oraets,
slides f
silk,
trim
back, made of inexpensive
possibly a remnant, with pretty
CORts
k Her
CHPRROT OR,
New Yor
vy fry ov
fags
and good ad
“Black Devil”
unknown of “The Mar
tyrdom of an Emg tells many io
feresting dotes of Elizabeth's won
ug
of which we
The Austrian Empress and
The Guthor
ITORs ’
anes
derful power over horses,
following:
$inck Devil, was a +i
stallion which
mitrol. For six month
been afraid of him and had fed
from buckets fastened to long
This the Austrian Em
tered box and bdued
quote the
coal.
able
Clous,
black HO one Was
10 s his grooms
had
him
how
poles is
press eon his &®U
him
“Wit and
disregarding the exclamations of hor
from the onlookers, Elizabeth
liberately to the box, and
uliar manner to its
bolt and
beid
breath, moment
to see the dauntless woman trampled
upon and »o such
thing. At first
the startled and laid
back its ears, but soon the great fiery
eves softened and grew tender, and
the Empress was suffered to pat the
dilated nostrils and arched neck.
‘Come here!’ called out to me;
* hie is as gentle as a lamb, poor oll
boy. but he is bad need of a brushing
up.’
“Where she had gone self-respect
forbade me to refuse to follow, so 1
promptly obeyed her command. Be
wut a moment's hesitation,
ing in a pe
, she drew back the
Those
entered
coolly
their
present
expecting every
fn
torn Pieces,
however, happened
beast snorted
she
left him
fond gratitude,
80 astonished was the Count,
whinnying
historic home at Indian HL Mass,
where he had a large collection of fol
onial relics, After his death the col
fection was returned to Mount Vernon,
~{hicago Record.
Advice | to » Mothers.
A great doctor once remarked that
bad ventilation deforms more children
and destroys more health than accel
dents or plague. Baby should pever
be put to sleep in bed or perambulator
with the head under the bed clothing.
to inhale the air already breathed and
further contaminated by exhalations
from the skin. “You are smothering
the life out of your child's lunge” an
anxious mother was told not long ago.
“How would you like to drink the
water you wash in? Well, when you
cover your baby's head up yon force
him to use air that is just as bad and
just as impure,” Never frighten your
little ones into obedience with foolish
threats, Many a timid, shrinking and
cowardly man has to thank the experi:
ence of his nursery days for this de
fect in his constitution. It j8 wicked
and cruel to tell a child that if he is
naughty the black man will take Him
away, or something equally terrifying,
as foolish nurses and careless mothers
have learned to thelr cost. Small won.
der if the child, whose susceptible
mind has been tainted with stories of
cownrdly specimen of humanity, nnfit
to fight the battle of Ife. “When a
baby screams at night,” says an av
ty to her Majesty, The gift was ac-
be
mastery over him that he used to fol
and grounds of Godollo.”
Fads and Fancies.
Black taffeta blouse waists are worn
with white cloth skirts in Paris,
Masses of tulle in one, two, or three
colors are piled on countless new hat.
shapes. .
Applique trimmings are to be seen to
a great extent, and in both lace and
embroideries,
Royal, Roman, iris, mourning-glory.,
silver, marine, army. corn-flower, and
lobella are among the varied shades
in blue that are popular this season,
All sorts of fanciful open-fronted
jackets aad basque-bodices are to pre-
vail this summér, and the dainty,
sleeveless blouse vests tucked and
lace-edged pinafores, and shirtwaists
provided to wear with them cannot be
counted,
Vory pretty petticoats are made of
plain satins cut with a circular flounce
which is nearly covered with rows of
black velvet ribbon an inch or move
wide, alternating with three rows of
black and white velvet 1ibbon of the
narrowest width, :
A very old fashion is revived in mak-
bodice of one material, and tae under
dress and additional parts of the walst
and sleeves of another. This gives the
dressmaker an opportunity to make
some novel and preity color-combina-
tions, The style Is an economical one
as short lengths can be effectively
utilized,
The shapely little mutton-leg sleeve,
so easily fashioned amd so graceful
in ls present modified style, still con
or slashed on the
strap-finished, and
with many other fanciful arrange.
ments. Novel and varied styles in
these pretty sleeves appear upon al-
open
shoulder, tucked,
Holland's Mes of “Butter and Egge”
When Philip the Second debated the
with fire and
sword the Dutchman who did not like
they themselves did not vote, the Duke
Alva counselled violent measures,
for in his eyes the rebels were only
“men of butter.” Nevertheless
found that these men so fond of cows
and hens could hold his veterans at
Lie
and after leave
Spain “a broken-backed tiger.”
indeed, in time of war country Yolk
with baskets of and butter ex
cited po suspicion even to alert sentl
Taking advantsge of this fact,
Prancis Vere detergpined to recap
ture from the Spaniachs the Zutphen
sconces, or forts, by a strategem. In
1561 he picked ont fusty and
handsome young soldiers and dressed
of them tike the Gelderland egg
and the rest as boers. With
of vegetables, baskets of eggs
eighty years poor
CREs
nels,
sir
some
fost
women,
bundles
and butler, but also with daggers and
tt ey were
ferried across the river by twos and
threes, They sat near the gate of the
fort. being already at the break of
day. chatting and gesticulating. as if
in some tremendous argument about
the rise or fall of market prices. Then,
according to arrangement, Vere sent
some cavalry forward, if approach-
jug. and the pretended country
ran in feigned terror the fort
The gates were
foe ive
fis
people
toward
at once
They
threw off their disguises,
irown open to
streamed in.
a few
forts
ant Nir
life
shrewd
3a-
them. all
and in
in posse sxion of the
gall:
lost his
minutes were
of the town,
Philip § Ridney
yy being more
veteran
where the
afterwards
and jous
Harper's
rash
than the Vere
Zar.
Feminine Military Knowledge.
Tee tall girl was plainly the
philosopher and friend of . the
girl, who asked many
about matters military. The place
Madison Square Garden and the
was a recent afternoon, matinee 1
at the big military
“You're just great.
short girl enthusiastically. “How ever
do you tell the cavalry and the dra
goons apart? I'm sure I mever could
learn.”
“Oh, Phil i= In the
you know.” said the tall
with a superior air.
Just then there was a roll of drums,
and in marched the cadets of the Ham-
ilton and Berkeley some of
them little fellows of than
ten years old.
“Oh. ain't they just "cute!
the short girl, clapping
“Who are they, Maggie?
canny little chaps?”
Maggie glanced knowingly at ler
programune and coldly replied. to the
profitable enlighteninent ox her inguisi-
tive little neighbor: “They —oh. they
must be the Thirtes pth Infantry!” —
guide,
short
0 questions
was
fine
ine
show.
Maggie.”
said the
National Guard,
girl coldly and
schools,
not more
* exclaimed
her hands,
Whe are the
Cromwellian Heirlooms.
In family heirlooms there is no one
Banks-S8tacey, who traces her ancestry
the great
Mrs, Stacey's Cromwell
Cromwell, whose
in descent from
Henrietta Maria
father was fourth
The most valved of Mrs Stacey's
This,
stone is set in a ring of antique design,
and is being kept by Mrs. Stacey for
her son, Cromwell Stacey, a young
A curious thing which has come
band of which ix made entirely of the
hair of four generations of Cromwells,
including some from the head of the
great Protector. This hair is marvel
ously woven in patterns so fine and
intricate that one wonders how it was
accomplished, The bracelet is fast.
ened by a heavy gold clasp of quaint
workmanship.—New York Press.
Preserving Order in the Philippines.
There would be no need of a large
army to order in the Philip
pine Islands, In 1851 the Spaniards
only had seven battalions of infantry.