THE PHILIPPINES.
REVOLUTION IN SPAIN'S MOST
IMPORTANT COLONY.
How the ftpantsh Possessions Have
Dwindled Away The Until mid
Intrepid Malays A Ulituce
at Manilla.
mnat traverse tho sea. In the arohl
pelago there are (100 islands in a chain
which stretohes nearly 1100 miles from
north to Booth, and at the widest
point is almost 700 miles in width.
The Spanish soldier must journey from
island to island and conquer eooh one
in turn, a tedious undertaking, whioh
would cost Spain hundreds of thou
sands of soldiery and the flower of
her young manhood has already died
fipaln and her colonies. It ii of great
importance to Spain, which has held
it since 1521, when Magellan discov
ered the islands. Only once, in 1702,
did it pass ont of her possession. Theu
England held it, bnl surrendered it
shortly afterward.
Hpnin has often trembled lest she
might lose tho Philippines. Japan has
recently regarded them with covetous
eyes. The islands are at least as large
TOE qUEER.LOOKIlfU rASGOLlX.
Heart Like a Rat, Tall Like a Dear
and Claws Like a Lonster.
Dame Nature has devised many
curious forms of mammalian life, but
she surpassed herself when aha de
signed the strange creature which has
lately fonnd a home in the London
Zoological Gardens. It is unlike any
other animal to be fonnd at the Zoo,
yet it has parts which remind one of
several. Its general shape is that of a
cross between an armadillo and a ser
pent. It has a head like a rut, claws
like a bear, a tail not unlike that of a
lobster and a general resemblance to a
gigantio woodlnnse.
The name of this new arrival is the
pangolin, and it belongs to the family
of dasypodidae, whioh includes, also,
those other remarkable animals, the
armadillo and the platypus. This is thn
first speoimen whioh has been brought
to the Zoological Gardens, and its
treatment is therefore at present in the
experimental stage. It is oovered'witU
bony plates, each having a keen edge,
and this ooat of mail serves not onlv
for purposes of defense, but for of
fense as well. For the animal can
bring np its tail with a ferooions jerk,
and as this part of its anatomy is
studded, like the rest of its body, with
razor edged plates, it constitutes a
weapon by no means to be despised.
The pangolin's elaws are large and
powerful, and are designed to tear
down the great nests of the termites,
or white ants, for let it be known that
the popular name of this freak of na
ture is the Scaly Ant Eater. Sir. Em
ersun Tennant found the animal in
Ceylon, where it represents the only
example of edentates, or toothless
mammal, in the island. But ii it laoks
teeth it has a long, glutinous tongue,
with whioh it can slay its thousands.
The oreature is seldom still, but ooou-
les its time in moving forward and
ackward that is. literally tail fore
most and its scales are so horny that
they rustle and oraokle againBt eaoh
other with noise that can be heard
many yards away from the cage.
fcir Emerson Tennant says that the
word pangolin is indicative of the
faculty which the oreature has "for
rolling itself up into a oompaot ball,
by bending its head toward its stom
ach, arohing its back into a circle, and
TUB PANGOLIN,
seonring all by a powerful hold of its
mail covered tail. When at liberty
they borrow in the dry ground to a
depth of sevon or eight feet, where
they reside in pairs, and produce an
nually two or three young. "Of two
specimens wnich I kept alive at differ
ent times," be oontinues, "one from
the vicinity of Candy, abont two feet
in length, was a gentle and affectionate
creature, which, after wandering over
the bouse in search of ants, would at
traot attention to its wants by climb
ing upon my knee and laying hold of
my leg by its prehensile tail. The
other, more than double that length,
was caught in the junglo near Chilaw,
and brought to me in Colombo. I had
always understood that the pangolin
was unable to olimb trees, but the last
one mentioned ascended a tree in my
garden in senroh of ants, and this it
eU'eoted by means of its hooked feet,
aidod by an oblique grasp of the tail.
The ants it seized by extending its
round and glutinous tongue along
thoir traoks. Generally speaking they
wore quiet during the day, and grew
restless as evening and night ap
proached. AnlI-1'jTlne as a Poison.
The British Medical Journal does
great servioe in oalling attention to
the dangers whioh attend the adminis
tration of anti-pyrine by amateurs.
It describes a oase in whioh a dose ol
ten grains produced very alarming
effects. Anti-pyrine is undoubtedly
dangerous drug, whioh has very
severe effeot upon the heart's aotiou,
and the careless way in whioh the or
dinary amateur prescribes it for him
self and his frionds without the slight
est compunotions, is an ever increasing
sonrce of danger, Anti-pyrine shonla,
in the light of reoent discoveries, be
sobeduled as a poison, for to soma
people it is nothing short of a poison,
and we are inclined to think with thu
writer of the article in question that
it should only be dispensed after thn
order of a duly qualiticd medical olli
cer has been obtained.
Facts About .Camels.
A camel has twice the oarryios
power of an ox. With an ordinary
load of four hundred pounds ho can
travel twelve or fourteen days without
water, going forty miles a day. Cam
els are fit to work at Ave years old,
but their strength begins to decline at
twenty-five, although they usually
live to forty. The Tartars have herds
of these animals, often 1000 belonging
to one family. They were numerous
in antiquity, for the patriaroh Job had
8000.
FASHION FANCIES.
FRnltNINR OAmtrcNTS FOTt IN
DOOH AND OUTDOOR WEAR.
Donble-Tlrea-.tert Cape of Scotch
'l'weed Handsome Waist of
Oreen Herejre Misses'
Combing Sac-quo.
THE serviceable and protective
double-breasted cape de
picted in the first large en
(, graving is made in heavy
Pootoh tweed and trimmed with wide
Hercules braid. The cape, of becom
ing length, is oironlar in shape with
centre back seam rendering the ad
justment smooth fitting across the
ahonlders with the lower edge falling
in soft, graceful folds. Wide lapels
torn back from the fronts at the top,
and the dosing is effected in double
breasted fashion with coat hooks and
eyes, handsome buttons supplying the
decoration. The neok is completed
with a storm collar that may be rolled
back in noat style, and finished with
regular tailor stitching. The mode is
particularly adapted for general or
every-day wear, the over-lapping
front providing additional warmth.
When lined throughout or made in
the regulation heavy cloaking, the
cape may bo safely worn in midwinter.
The coat collar should have an inter
lining of light weight canvas in its
natural color, "tan," and the cape an
interlining of light weight crinoline
when made in the lighter oloths. To
make this cape for a lady having a
thirty-six inoh bust measure, one and
one-quarter yards of material fifty
four inches wide is required. New
York Modes.
ladies' waist of artEEX BEuEaa.
Foliage green berego sprinkled with
autnmn-leaf-red velvet dots is the ma
terial illustrated in the handsome
waist which is made to mutch the
kirt,and prettily deooratod with barbs
of lace passementerie and edging to
match. The crush oollar and belt with
band and undergoing of red velvet,
rosettes of net and foliage green, vel
vet flowers. The full fronts and back
of waist are arranged ovor glove-fitted
linings that olose in centre-front, the
full right front lapping over the clos
ing and being seoured invisibly nnder
the laoe passementerie on the left lin
ing. The fashionable sleeves are grace
fully disposed over smooth fixed lin
ings, the full tops being shirred in
centre and caught np with barbs of
passementerie from the shoulder. The
wrists are bell shape and faoed inside
with leaf-red velvet, bows being plaoed
just above the flare. This is a stylish
model for separate waists of silk or the
fine smooth woolen fabrics introduced
for autumn that bid fair to outshine
the silk waists of last season. Any pre
ferred style of trimming can be used,
splendid garniture forming promi
nent feature of the waists this season.
To make the waist for a lady in the
mediant size will require two and one-
quarter yards of forty-foar inoh wide
material.
missus' cohhino gAnqttt.
This praotloal garment is made of
Freooh flannel in turquoise blue with
trimmings of eoru lace and insertion.
Gathers at the neok dispose the ful
ness at either side while the closing is
in centre with buttons and button
holes. The seamless baok, smooth fit
ting across the shoulders, has the ful
ness drawn well to the centre at the
waist line by three rows of shirring.
Ribbon ties fastened at either end are
carried forward to terminate in the
centre front by pretty bows and ends,
thus holding the fulness of the fronts
in position. The sleeves, of moderate
fulness, are gathered top and bottom,
finishing at the wrists with narrow
bands of insertion edged with laoe.
The handsome sailor oollar falls deeply
in baok and front, flaring a little in
the oentre, and is trimmed with in
sertion and lace edging. Charming
negliges can be fashioned after this
design in light tones of any pretty bnt
in less expensive flannellettes whioh
are used for more serviceable wear in
COMDINO RACQUE FOR MISSES.
deep red, pink or bine, A simple
finish may be given in feather stitch
ing. To make this combing sanqne
for a miss fourteen years of age it will
require three yards of forty-fonr inoh
wide material
A COMIXO) MODS IK SKIRTS.
It is predicted that before very long
skirts will be left open in front or at
the sides to show an underskirt of a
different oolor and material. It may
be colored with flat applications, pas
sementerie or plaiting! of monseUue
de soie, bnt in any case will contrast
with the outside skirt. Valouoiennsa
insertion is largely used on skirts as
well as bodioes, being arranged regu
larly in lengthwise bands.
TO MACS TITB 8LKF.VES STAND OCT.
You oan puff out the thin sleeves of
fanoy ootton aud shirt waists by using
a separate sleeve of stiff paper oambrio
or oriuoline, white, made very full,
hotf way to the elbow und gathered to
a narrow baud at the top. This, if
basted inside of the thin dress sleeve,
will answer every purpose. One yard
of material will make a pair ol extend
er. Ladies' Home Journal.
SrAIN, which, when the United
States were born, was mistress
of the seas, owner of one-hnlf
the world, which poured gold
en tribnto in her lap, now lies hum
bled and decrepit, torn by internal dis
sensions and engaged in a hopeless ef
fort to retain as her snbjects the few
remaining colonies of Lor once enor
mous possessions.
Cuba has almost gained its inde
pendence, there is an outbreak in the
Philippines which threatens to be
qnally as snocessful, and the smolder
ing fires of patriotism in I'uerto Rico
which have Hashed np now and again
threaten to burn the ties that loosely
bind her to Spain.
One hundred years ago, says the
Chicago Times-Herald, ten million
cqnnre miles of American territory
yielded to Spain's dominion and toiled
nd suffered that she might squander
wealth on wanton luxuries. Half of
North America, nearly all of South
America and the West Indies were a
part of the rioh colonies whioh paid
tribute to Spain. To-day Cuba and
Puerto Rico alone remain, two small
islands with only 45,203 square miles
of territory, and one of these islands
has nearly won its freedom, while in a
month or two Puerto Rico will attempt
to obtain the right ot.'self-government.
There were then also possessions in
Asia and Africa, with innumerable isl
ands that in every sea acknowledged
allegiance to the Spanish throne. To
gether the area of tho Empire was 17,
000,000 square miles, twice as groat a
territory as is ruled by the (Czar of
Russia, and six times as great as Rome
ruled, while Great Britain's flag flies
to-day over less than two-thirds as
much ground.
From the magnificent Spanish Em
pire of a century ago more than one
hundred different 'commonwealths
have been carved. Moro are now be
' ing made.
The first of the colonies to emulate
Cuba's example is the Philippine Isl
ands, the largest and most important
1 -ft Taafe?
TOIIT OP MANILLA, CHIEF CITlf OP TITE rntLHTlNE ISLANDS.
in Cnba. Each island is a mountain
fortress, which can be easily held
against attack. There are few
plains which furnish open ground for
the employment of modern military
tactics.
The population consists chiefly of
natives, mostly Malays, bold and inter
pid, the race which supplied the buc
caneer of old with the Malay sailors
and fighters who are familiar to all
readers of fiction.
White retaining their fighting abili
ties, these descendants of pirates are
NATIVE WEAPONS.
I7CGA0 INDIAN.
of Spain's remaining possessions.
Hearly three times as large as Cuba,
7,000,000 of her 10,000,000 oolonial
population live in the islands. The
ilrst news of the outbreak came on
August 21, when a "conspiracy" to
obtain complete independence from
the Spanish crown was discovered.
The news was cabled to Spain that
4000 insurgents had already armed
themselves f"r the conflict. A warship,
the Isla de Cuba, was ordered to the
Asiatio islands and 2000 troops were
detailed. This was followed a week
later by an insurreotion in Manilla,
the most civilized men in the extreme
east. They still, however, affect the
savaire dress, eiccut in the most pod-
I ulous districts, little clothing being
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and a short skirt by the women. They
live in huts of pine branohes and till
tho land. Very few of the ancient race
survive, and they alone are unamen
able to civilization. There, who num
ber less than 20,000, are called ne
gritoes, or little negroes.
But the other 0,000,000 natives who
furnished the pirate captains with
their crews were the most powerful
savages in the world. They are phys
ically brave and fear no consequences,
when in battle fighting like the all
conquering Arabs who fought under
tbo standard of Mahomet. They need
only pood officers, in the opinion of
military exports, to make them excel
lent troops. Their proweBs was proved
i n the Tonquin war, when a contingent
of Philippine troops rendered valuablo
service to the Frenoh. The neoessary
officers will be supplied by the Cau
casians, who live in Mnnilla. These
are of Spanish, German and Mexican
descent, with a sprinkling of English
and Spaniards.
Manilla has 200,000 population, of
which one-third aro Europeans. Very
few of these are Spaniards or bouud
by any tie to the mother country.
That they are ready to lead the na
tives haa been shown by the faot that
one of the first town to rebol was Ma
nilla. This city is a strongly fortified
town on the Island of Luzon, inolosed
by a line o; ramparts, and because of
its strategetical importance was for
merly regarded as the bulwark of
Spanish power in the Eastern seas.
The Governor-General, who is the
ruler of the island, lives there, and
receives reports from the forty-three
governors and aloaldes who rule the
other provinces. The town is divided
by a river into two parts, on one side
of which live the officials and on the
other the merchants, between whom
there is little friendship.
r-UEBLO OP CIVILIZED NATIVES IN THE PHILTPriNES.
the ohief city of the islands. A state
of siege was proclaimed and another
outbreak in the fortified town of
Oavita, in the Island of Luzon,
was averted. The insurgents, who
.have constantly inoreased in numbers,
also besieged the garrison of San Idro,
In the province of Nueva Euja, but
Vera driven back. Meanwhile the
colonists, nnder a General named Oau
tollano, have made other suooessfnl
forties. Thousands of natives are
looking to his standard, and signs of
Insurreotion are apparent in Balacan,
JPampange and Batangas. More troops
have been requested from Spain.
Twenty thousand have embarked and
there are to follow.
The condition in that oountry are
siven more favorable for guerrilla war
fare than in Cuba, and the natives are
a brave and make excellent soldiers.
While in Cube the Spaniard must tra
verse marshes, In the Philippine they
Philippine merohants suffer many
hardships at the hands of their Span
ish rulers, and, like other colonists,
are overtaxed. Heavy import and ex
port duties averaging 100 per cent of
tne ooat are levied, and, in spite of
the complaints of the traders, no relief
has been granted. They believe that
if the Spanish restrictions on trade
were removed Manilla wonld beeome
one of the greatest ports in the world.
As a center of trade the city ha
every natural advantage, inoluding a
harbor large enough to accommodate
all the navies of the world. The rhilio
pines lie off southeastern Asia, and to
its other advantages i added the faot
that Manilla is in a commanding post
tion ou the mam rout hi. of eastern navi
gation. Traveler assert that the capi
tal ooonpie the finest commercial posi
tion of any city in the world, and un
til 1811 it served as the ohief inter
mediate station for the trade between
as Japan, and under her rule would be
as prosperous. They are within con
venient reach, and had not Russia
oheoked the Mikado' progress as an
Asiatio power they might have fallen
into his hands.
Should the revolution in the Philip
pines prove successful, similar at
tempt wonld be made in Spain' other
Asiatio island possessions. - Cuban
agents are said to have persnaded the
Philippines to revolt, and it is said
they are already at work in the Salu
Islands, Palvas, the Csrolines and the
Marianne Islands, These are sm slier
in extent, with an segregate of 1930
square miles and 120,000 population.
By themselves they are powerless, but
they would join the Philippine Repub
lic. They are under the same admin
istration, suffer the same hardships,
sre inhabited by similar raoea and
amenable to the same influences.
A POLICEWOMAN.
The Only One In the World Lives In
St. Paul.
The first woman to be made a mem
ber of a police force, and the only one
in the world authorized to wear a
police star, lives at St. Paul, Minn.
Her name is Mrs. Edwin T. Root, and
she ha just been oreateda full-fledged
officer of the law by the Mayor of St.
Paul. Mrs. Root may not walk a beat,
but no representative of the law in the
oity has any more authority to arrest
people than she. Hers is not a
"special" appointment, but the same
as that of the man who wears blue and
brass and swings a club. The cause of
Mrs. Root's ambition is not a dosire
for notoriety, but to enable her to
better aid young girls who have fallen
into evil ways. She has long been en
gaged in this work, but found herself
MBS. x. T. ROOT.
(A regular member of the police foroe
of St. Paul.)
seriously handicapped by lack of
authority lo investigate. So ahe
applied to the Mayor for tho appoint
ment she has reoeived.
Mrs. Root is President of the Ham
line Woman' Christian Tomperanoe
Union, whioh nnder her management
haa doubled its membership sinoe
1891 and beoame the largest organiza
tion of it kind in the country. She
made persistent war on a saloon where
yonng girls were in the habit of
assembling, mil nftpr a great deal of
trouble seoured the proprietor's con
viotion. It was in connection with
her rescue work that she needod tbo
polioe star. She is a slight, delicate
looking woman, of medium height
and graceful demeanor. Dark brown
eyes look out beneath dolioately
penciled eyebrows. She wears glasses
bnt they add to rather than detraot
from her appearanoe. Her hair is a
golden brown and her age is forty-six.
By the death ol Mrs. Mary Amos a
woman who moved in hnmble cironm
stances a remarkable English mis
sionary oolleotor has passed away. In
sums not often exceeding half a crown
she raised over 10,000 for the Wes
leyan Missionary Society. . -
A LIVELY POLITICAL B1SCCSSI0X.
Gold.
Silrer,
Copper,
DOCBLE-BREA8TED CAl'E.
LADIES' WAIST OP OKEEX BE It EOS.