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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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