1 NEW YORK'S GRANDEST CHURCH ORGAN. iiiiiili II Mit'"- - - v 1 7 ni z?? -i jgTOyfr.: - ' Ou Easter morning the Fifth Avenue Collegiate Church the oldo at hurch organization in New York City heard (or the first time one of the most wonderful church organs that have ever been initialled in any place of worship. In fact, the instrument combines practically Ave organs in one, and these five organs may be operated with no greater expenditure of energy on the rart of the orgauist than is required in playing a piano. The new organ is operated on what is known as represents n perfect balance between operation. As may be imaginod, a fluired to procure the full tones of eighteen and even thirty-two feet in electric, motor. The various instruments are the solo, the swell, the great and the there is au echo organ, placed in the main instrument and operated by means the keyboards of the latter. Home idea or the elaborate nature of the ruecn allium involved may bo gained from the fact that more than two mites of tub ing is used in forming the connections peaking stops. 4tv x i i n . r - ireijcnes lorcuqrrom,: jj One of tht Chief Otoriet of the Filipino 4 Army Obstructive Fighting. Although the insurgent soldiors in the Philippine Islands have a poor reputation as marksmen, they deserve considerable credit for the extensive and elaborate trenches made by them. The bobby of a rebel general scorns to be to have his men devote a large pro portion of their time to designing and building trenches, from which they are ultimately driven by the Ameri cans. It appears to be the plan of the insurgent army to erect magnifi cent barricades and plan the most beautiful systems of trenches, only to bare them captured by the Americans ' at the first charge. If the native sol diers oonld fight one-quarter as wel! as they can devise and build trenohos, this Filipino war would be more sori--ous. As it is, the American troops utterly disregard the trendies of the rebels, and think nothing of charging up to and over them, scattering the natives like bees. The writer never saw an insnrgent forco stand its ground in its trenches more than a few minutes after an American charge, except at the battle -of Balangtang, near Iloilo, when sev eral companies of the rebels managed to hold their position for about thirty minutes before they broke. The in surgents had ooonpied these trenohes for nearly a year, during which time they had been constantly at work on them, putting them into the best of condition for defence. The rebel of ficers had all along asserted that the United mates forces would be snni . bilated if they attacked this position. One morning the American column moved on the trenches at daybreak, And after fight of thirty minutes the .rebels were obliged to leave the ireucuen auu run lor vue mountains. The fault was noc with the trenohes, but with the soldiers in them. The V v...? TYPES OF FILIPINO IKTRBNOHXEXTS. trenches were built as if a thoroughly killed engineer had direoted the work. The indications at every trench cystom are that the builders of the ' trenches always had the possibility of flight in mind. In fact, bow to run is the chief consideration -of the rebel soldiers, and the officers cannot get the natives to take to trenches or barricades of any sort unless oomplete preparations are made for flight. At Balangtang, and at almost every cvstein of trenohes used by the in surgents, there will be found series of - retreating trendies, constructed on the plan shown iu Figure 1. The , Jtrenohes are out into the oartu aigzag sometimes, and sometimes other ways, but thl oustomary method is that pre sented! in the out. This mode of tunc! g not only girts .the rebel ) Mil" the "tubular pneumatio prooess." It the antomatio and manual systems of considerable amount or power is re dozeus of pipes, some of them sixteen, size. This power is provided by an which mako np the complete organ choir orgaus. In addition to these opposite end of the church from the of electrical connection from one of within the organ, and it has fifty-two chance tn retreat gradually, but offers a good chance for him to stop and fire his rifle frequently from protected places in the oross trenches. He can pass from the main trenoh to A when bis safety is in doubt, and work back to 13, O, aud so on for miles; tor often times these connecting retreating FEAST DAY IN trenches extend for mile after mile along a road or trail, and frequently oonneot one town with another. On some ocoasions the Americans have run into trenoh systems of the type snown in figure 2, in which a series of halt moon shaped trenches are dug and connected as shown. The first trench (A) will contain the fight ing foroes at the beginning, but as soon as the Amerioan fire gets too se vere for comfort in Trench A the sol diers fall back to Trenoh B. Then, if necessary, they fall back to Trench C, and they oan continue to fall back in to similar trenches, making a sboit stand at each trench and perhaps damaging the opposing foroes a little. Often these half circle trenches com pletely cover the approaches to cities and towns previously held by the rebels. The natives worked indus triously for years in making them, for they used trenches against the Span ish soldiery, and have been fighting almost all the time sinoe the begin ning cf Spanish rule on the islauds. Then labor is inexpensive, and the rebels employed some labor aud used prisoners to work as well, so that the insurgent forces always had a large number of men engaged in erecting trenohes everywhere. When the rebels abandon seotion of trenches they have a habit of either The Maw Eldorado. L004ZI0V or CATS M0KS HOLD FIX M. A '"Ufc-j..... kSESL - mwmipiu H A COrON"OUEEM'l3"8HE. I ' n , , , N. oTer with licnl stuff w....... ....... ' J ooverirg them er wfth light stuff for the American to 'fall through, or id tips of sharpened they sotuppois. bamboo as at V Figure 8, hoping that some of the Americans may turn iila lu ou these wicked points in the dark. A great number of trenohes thus fitted have been located in the enemy's country, and, of course, are set lire to at oncu, so as to destroy the wood points end the poison. The writer has never beard of an Amer ican soldier fulling on these poisoned tips, but has neon some natives stark in death upon them. Another triok tho natives havnf is shown in Figure 3, in which the itrotnh is lightly cov ered with bamboo i ticks aud some stones or earth thrown over s I 1 W I conceal the spot). The natives supposo that Americans ill not riotico) the new earth, etc.. and will stop ort the frnil top aud fall throngh upon tile points below. The bamboo cover is marked E and the points ft. Sometime they ruu water into these places and put poiKouous rnptites inside. They work out all sorts of extremely ingeuions schemes of this description, and to tho wonder of the natives the American soldiers refuse to be caught. Tnblo Matte of Vlothneplns, A table made of clothespins joined together by rigid wire is the creation of Miss Sophie Alolutyre, of Consho bocken, l'enn. I The clothespins are gilded, and bows made of golden rope help to give the whole of it an artistic finish. Wills Written on ItattlefleliU. Many queer and patheti' wills have been found upon the boi!.. of dead THE PHILIPPINES. British soldiers oft South African battlefields, and in every case the wishes of the testator have been re speoted. The body of one soldier was found on the battlefield of Elandslaagte who, before death, bad scrawled with the end of a lead bullet on the inside of bis helmet the words, "All to my wife." When an English army invaded Afghanistan one soldier was caught while doing scout duty and shot down wtieu none of his comrades were in sight. Weeks afterward bis body was found lying before a tall rook, on wbioh he bad written in letteis of blood, "I want mother to have all." In both oases the War Offloe held the wills to be valid, and saw that the proper distribution of the property was made. 1 Captive btllooni are now being nsed in building operations; they are em ployed to raise and support soaffald poles and ladders nntil these Utter are seemed in position, I to 'f.n through. o ;,,. glTOlMiC? A 0 YJmmMMl Three years ago Mrs. Leila Scton Wilder, of Decatur, Ala., took hold of an extensive estate that had been sadly neglected and determined to make it a model cotton plantation. Hue suc ceeded, and to-dny, snys Loslie'a Weekly, the planters of her State are studying her methods. She visited New York in September and secured an order for alt the cotton her planta tion can produce during the coming year. She owns over 0000 acres along the Touuosnee River. Of this, 700 acres aro under cultivation, the balance is timber of tine bard wood, princi- Polly "kite oak. She cultivates 100 i - I If. l.l I. .,.! .. the tenant system. She has twenty negro families ou the place, most of MRS. LEMA HKTOX W1LDKR. tbera hired by the year. Each family has a cabin, garden and pasture reut free, and firewood. "I think my suc cess with the plantation," says Mrs. Wilder in a letter, "lies in my faculty of getting along with the negro. Life is very ditforent down here than with the tenautry of the North or West. There are more intimate relations be tween the miBtrers and the servants. They come to you with their joys aud troubles, and always expeot a sympa thetio listener." We have bad a num ber of cotton kings, and now, in the person of Mrs. Wilder, we have a cot on queon. HOW BEES MARK A TREE. If It Does Nat SJnlt Theun The Leave a Sign. "Bros have a language of theit own," said a Western bee expert the other day. "They carry dilrerent meanings by their buzzings, and they understand each other liko a top; but I found out one thing about them that I don't think anybody else did beos have got a written language and they send communications to eaou other. "I found this out after years of close observation. When the bees get too awfully u timorous in a tree fill up the hollow so that it's too crowded for comfort certain wise beos are sent out to prospect. "When a pioneer of this kind finds a big, likely-looking tree with alios pitablo-looking wiud-crack in it, he takos plonty of time and goos all over it carefully. "Sometimes ho finds that, whilo the place looks nice and commodious on the outside, the knothole leads into tWT. DEB MARKS OX A TREK. IT HEADS "THIS TREE IS PUNK, AND N. O.' a shallow receptacle, or the oraok is not deop enough to aonommodate even a bachelor bee, innch loss a whole brood. "In such a case, he gets out and writes a message to all and sundry bees that may come along that way 'This tree is no good. That knothole is a fake and the vindcraok is a fiost pass it np!' ' "He writes this with bis tail string. ing honoy along as we string iuk. If the tree is all right he puts up a sign to that effect. The next bee soeuts the boner, 'lights and reads the first words of the message, and if the re port is unfavorable, flies off, saying 'Uin-m-m-hr aud U3esn t worry him soil any lurtuer about it. "Oh, yes, bees are oute, and it you've got the idea that they're slow. it's beoause yon are slow yourself. " JJonver t'ost. Discoveries In llakylon. Dr. Eoldewey, direotor of the ex cavationa at the anoleut city of Babv Ion, has informed the Orieutal Society of the discovery of a canal built by Aramean orioles, wnlon is believed be the long-sought East Canal. temple oalled Eruaoh of the goddess Ninniaoh was laid bare, and stones found insoribed from tho time of Ne buohadnezzar. A man oan orien improve bis man ners by dropping some of tbm. ' THH EtS)IT& New York Citt (Spools!). Are we to wear panniered dresses? ranniered dresses have been irought from I'aris. The shops show them; they have been worn at the A DRESS WITH PANNIERS. operas, at restaurants and at evening parties by a few extremists or experi mentalists. Will they be accented by women in general? No one expeots it. The panniered dress Is freak, a whim, and is likely so to remain. Yet fashions are as unoertain as the stook markets. Panniers are worth watch ing. Tbe quaintest and most piquant of the Watteau dresses yet finished show flowered underskirts, with overskirts of different materials, opening in front and draped on the hips. They UAUt DnESSINO assimilate themsolves to the prevail ing mode by a lavish use of tucks and plaitiugs. A model dress of this order is made of Venetian cloth, of a mauve so pale as to be only a shade or two removed from white. The front of the skirt has a panel of figured panne of a deeper mauve tone; tbe sides and baok are of oloth laid in flat plaits, stitched down. Smull panniers ore laid in fine folds about the hips, seem- ina to be held by largo silver clasps at tbe waist in front and behind. The bodice of this dress has a vest of panne; Venetian cloth ia draped fichnwise ubout tbe shoulders and carried in tine tucks down to the waist line. Panniers will show more vagaries of decoration thau distinct novelties of dresj. The dominant note will be au insistence on the perpendicular line. Dresses are tucked from top to bot tom, aud the variety of tucks is limit less. Hair Dreeelus; Htvlee. One of the most absurd idoas we women are possessed of is that we must adopt a new style of coiffure, no matter how unbecoming, beoause it is the latest thing out, Harriet Hubbard Ayer recently remarked. Sinoe the pompadour made its ap pearance I believe more women have boeu sacrificed to the Juggernaut of ftirhiou than ever before. Now, the pompadour is becoming to women with rather low foreheads and round faoes. It is, in its unmod ified form, wretchedly unbecoming to hollow cheeked women with high fore heads. Before settling on the style of hair dressing she is to adopt a woman should take an aooount of her head, faoe aud figure after this fashion: A short, fat woman ahonld dress her hair ao that it will sirs n ap pearauce of additional height to her figure. When the head is ronnd the hair dressing should always be high. A very round bead with the hair gathered in a pug at the nape of the neok gives a woman au utterly inane, goose-like look. The height of the forehead, tbe lie of theuoie, the shape of the head, op FA&HiON the general type expressed must bo carefully considered. A woman with a Madonna-like face is almost a sacrilege in puffs aud frizzes. Blio is quite out of ptaoe ex cept with ber hair in bandeaux. On the contrary, a girl with pug nose, short upper lip and generally ilnuant make up, masquorading In Cleo de Merode coiffure, deceives no) one. She is only an imitation of the type she aims at, and a very palpable one at that. It is woll to reoolleot that the hair "dressed forward," as the coiffure ex presses it, makes the features appear to recede. If the features really pro ject, the forward style of hair-dress ing modifies this defect and is be coming. In the large engraving six styles of dressing the hair are shown. They may be described as follows: No. 1. Elaborate hair-dressing be coming only to women of regular fea tures. No. 2. Modification of the Ma donna style. No. D. For short women with high foreheads. No. 4. Becoming to one with long, narrow face. No. 6. Becoming to an oval-faced woman. No. 0. Becoming to women with round faces and low foreheads. With a lleml-Trsln. A cool gown for summer wear is of old-blue crepe de chine. The skirt has "demi-train" and falls in long grsoefnl lines. The only decoration is the groups of fine tucks whioh are ounningly managed to make the best display of tho natural lines of the figure, and to give additional height. The waist is a modified bolero shape in front, edged with creamy lace, which aooentuates the ontline of the two jacket fronts. The laoe seems to rnn upward under tht araihole from the deep points in front. ( A rest of white chiffon over cream satin shows its narrow line iu front. A high girdle of old-blue panne velvet rises beneath the jacket fronts. ' The plain THAT BECOMES. sleeves are edged at the flaring call with lace, . Soft, Hllky, gallon. Manila braid lines the brim of the new sailor bat, which is sewed of silky straw, aud has a softness unknown to the brusquo old-fashioned sailor. These soft little developments of the sailor shape are in request just now for young girls, and will appear with the first wearing of wash frocks. A BuliatllQta For tlie rle Front." Enter tho gilet! No cause for alarm however, as gilet is bnt Frenoh for waistcoat. It is a decent substitute for the "false front," au nboininatiou attached to a stock and forever escaping its moorings. The gilet doos away with all this. The one worn with the black mohair dress piotured is of white taffeta and lasteus plainly down the middle of TIIB FASHIONABLE OILET. the back. The shaped stock and the trimming covering the front are of white mousseline with eorn laoe appli ques, tbe design pioked out with nar row blaok velvet ribbons. This stunning blaok mohair dress. as you aee. has its novel and modish little jacket bodice fairly oovered with atitohed tutleta strapping, wh mousseline yoke showiug Huffy an A orusbed taneta bow Cnuhe baok of the mohair skirt at ttv' A wide blaok taffeta ulaitiu shaped mouair skirt. r r
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