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% hmmHHI * itttrT € PfllLIM’INE AMAZONS ; utterly Without fear SESSEO OF THE FRENZY 0 DARING. Romantic Htruseln to Free Them»elTe« From Spanluh Op|>re»»l<>«»—On Their Hinooth, Round Ann* They Bear the lll•urcellt•’ V Brand. The women of the Philippine Isl ands, like those of Cuba, are taking an active part in the revolution against the Spaniards. Indeed, it in largely on account of the women that the revolution exists, the indignities offered them by the Spanish being the Iasi drop which filled the cup of in dignation to overflow. It is the old story of cruelty and oppression which has been repeated in each and every one of the Spanish colonies since the days of Christopher Columbus. The population of the Philippines is a mixed one. First, there are sev eral native tribes, chief among which are the Negritos, or African people, as the Spanish call them. Those, downtrodden for centuries, have re treated to the wilderness, and play small part in the revolt, except by their readiness to give aid and odkn* fort to the insurgents. There are many Chinese, a number of Japanese, and between 10,000 and 20,000 ~ peans—Dutch chiefly, English 10,000 and 20,000 Enro i chiefly, English next, with a sprinkling of all other nation alities. The principal element in the popnlation is, however, the Malay, a a race of peculiar interest to the eth nologist. Brave to recklessness, vin dictive and revengeful, the Malay is not unlike our own American Indian at his best. He is hard to attach, bnt when once won he is faithful unto death. Passionately fond of his wife ihlrow h 0 idolizes the woman Hie Kegiment.” «er mother died during her infancy,Tfcd the little girl was adopted by Mr!\nd Mrs. Tauff- Rei", of Manila, who reaped and edu cated her. She becainb engaged to Dr. Rizai, the Philippine hero, and married him only a few days before be was shot. The Spaniards forced her to witness his execution, and she vowed vengeance—a vow she has well kept. Mme. Rizai declares that her hnsband took no active part in the in- snrrection, that his only offense was sympathy /rith his people, and de clares also that his execution was an unprovoked and cofo-blooded murder. The insurgents retaliate to the ut- i most extent of their power for the bar- , baritien practised upon them by the j Spanish soldiery. Each execution of rebels by the Spanish has been fol lowed by one of captives in insurgent strongholds, a policy to which, prob ably, is due the recent change on the , part of the Spanish troops toward the captive insurgents. Meanwhile the insurgents, women as well as men, are bound by a solemn oath to “fight to the death for the treedom of the Philippines; to show no mercy to Spanish man or woman, to count neither life nor property, nor family ties, in the battle for national liberty and the expulsion of the Span iards.” The smooth, round thesd women arc marked NO COMPASS NEEDED. Many XV ay* in Which the CarAlhfcl Point* May Bo Fixed. The many different methods to de terminate the cardinal points while tin* mount .in- i- ^ - — — — — - —» jh/vMUl*il WDllC OlV the mountains, in both heavy timber and small brush or upon the feature less expanse of a great marsh, are exceedingly numerous and reliable enough for all practical pnrposes dur ing an every-day life in the bush, un less a very long journey is to be made, which would make it necessary to hold on a very fine point while making a long distance. VVe will first take notes *— - ferous on the coni- ous trees—pines, firs, spruce, ced- , hemlocks, etc. The bark of these is always lighter in color, harder dryer on *''■* “ the south side of the tree, while it is in color much darker, it is also damnar *>-' J and also damper and often mold ami moss The and gnm that on and children, . whom he loves. Travelers describe handsome, vigorous with large black the women as and intelligent, eyes, clear olive complexions, perfect teeth and satiny black hair, of which they take excel lent care. Daintily neat persons, the daily bath tion. They revel in ueiicate per- fnmes, extracted from the flowers of the islands, and tjieir sense of smell is as acute as that of a slenthhound. They allow the thnmbnail to grow very long, which assists in playing on the guitar, an accomplishment in which in their is an institn- delicate arms of _ v HklKL iVVJXl by the V brand of the halo—the mark of the in surgents—and to the full, as forceful the men, they are determined to die rather than be slaves to the Span- ish - 1 ~ A isn oppressors, under whose yoke they and their foremothers have bowed so long. Education has brought forth the new woman in the Philippines as elsewhere, and once more “Old Glory” heralds freedom to the slave. covered with the north side, oozes oat from the wounds, knotholes, etc., is usually hard and often of beautiful amber color on the south side, while on the I northern side it remains sticky longer) I and gets covered with insects nn< dirt, seldom drying ont to more tb a dirty gray in color. On large trees that have rongi bark, especially during the fall an winter months, the net and webs o; insects spiders, etc., will always b found in the crevice on the soul side. A preponderance of the lar will also be found the River ot “Assouan is Nile. We came to it they excel. When the Spanish 4 * i rt H discovered the islands they found them in the pos session of Malays who had conquered the Negritos, driving them back into the wilderness, where they still live. Many Chinese dwelt - there Kirypt. the southern frontier of Egypt, the teminus of the lower ' T ■ , And it looks like a terminus. ou a lazy afternoon,” writes G. W. Stevens, the well-known African explorer, “too late for coffee, too early for tea. The Nile, which had been lazy, too, began to signs of a current. We tied u} bank of yellow sand; in front of us, to the left, was a long line of palms with white houses peeping from behind them—Assouan. Beyond it a lofty rise of rock—at least, it looks lofty in Egypt—met the elevation of a rocky, tree-grown island—Elephantine. Be tween the two came down the still fretting from the show up by a branches ue round on tl warmest or southern side of the treei Also, the needles of all the abovi' | mentioned trees are shorter, dryer a ' of a yellowish green on the southi side, while they will be found long' more slender and pliable, damper the touch and darker green in co on the north side. The hemlocks, as if trying to ontdo others, always bend their tops of new growth toward • sov eru sky. The hardwood trees are eqnall communicative, and have all the cl acteristics, as far as regards t trunks, of the coniferous trees, ex' the absence of gums, but thi: more than made up by the growth of mold and mosses very noticeable on the north these trees. | The edges of rocks, which ma t I part of stupendous mountains, | merely onnnaiv.— 1 “hands np.” Instead 11 grabbed my rifle and hot at the crowd. One of iers dropped, and I rushed door daring the excitement into the street. The soldiers ■a*, shooting all the i me. np the long street toward je which leads across the to the country. The soldiers me, shooting as they ran. nllets flew wild and did not e, bat one poor old woman led by a shot which was in fer me. The soldiers who had ttempted to capture me were by reinforcements until there t least 200 after me. When I the bridge I turned and sent -a of shots at the crowd, and tarted across the bridge, which g and narrow. Several times I d around and fired at the sol < who had attempted to follow mu s the bridge, and I rather think ed a few of them, for I saw some I finally got np into the hills, e I hid behind rocks and took a more shots at the Spaniards, n they gave up the chase, and I t back to my men. I got my rettes all right, but I am sorry t the poor, innocent old woman killed.” mong the official Spanish reports Madrid this adventure of the man o wanted something to smoke is ronicled as a great event of the rly part of the war. According to e Spanish historians, a large body . insurgents entered the town of uantanamo and, after a fierce fight ith 200 soldiers, were driven back to the hills.—New York Sun. THE^REALM OF FASHION. •HPl Striking Outing Costume. French plaid in tohes of blue, yel low and creme and blaet cashmere is here handsomely.‘combined by May Manton, a soft quilling of mixed taffeta •THE POWDER FOR WARSHIPS. MISSES’ BLOUSE WAISi'. was China and dwelt among them, and a steady trade between the Philippines in sugar, tobacco and hemp. The Spanish took possession, as was their way, and for 300 years have oppressed and mal treated the unlucky mestizos, as they called them. But the oenturies have brought with them a large admixtare of European blood, principally Span- - - iBPf ^ ish, into the Malay strain, increasing diWpjttp their pride and revengeJalness, More- | ove% thewitwestizos l> , — river, Cataract. It narrowed between the two elbows of rock, and turned a corner, so that it looked as if Assouan were not only the end of Egypt, bnt the end of the Nile. <‘Iu a quarter of an hour I was in * I V _ away dahabeah. s v* t»*i uuur x was iii a- boat, amid my packages, pulling up stream for my friend’s Lucky are the friends of my friend, and Uis welcome always gives yon to bel-eva he came to this particular cor- B i£ to meet you. Now I was f nights aboard his |i '^Sfleen the sort of ** ^jends you up the for the luxury d to be*-’--" * ■ ... - . . - — true their conyiotioui jn whatever de- Jb»e found, one of m it ye m to Europe**” in, and still they havi years patiently endurini; heavy yoke. The oppression in Cuba has been as nothing to that in the Philippines. Everything is taxed to the almost, and the slightest excuse has sufficed for confiscating the entire property of any man not under the protection of a foreign government. The native subject of Spain has abso lutely no rights under the law, and no matter what outrages he may suf fer no mestizo can sue a Spaniard or obtain legal redress. In Manila the • poorer natives are employed as serv ants, and to punish them for slight offenses they are often tortured, some times to death. Worst of all, if a worthless Spaniard looks with covet- * ous eyes ou the daughter of a mes- d tizo the woman is at his mercy, and ‘ the father is powerless to protect her and prevent a distasteful marriage. It was this last outrage which pro voked the revolt, and the women are ■aid to have incited the men to this step. Many of them are in the rebel ranks fighting side by side with their husbands and fathers, and it is said that in a recent attack Innis, the stronghold of the rebels, where two Spanish colonels were among the killed, one of them fell by the hand of a woman—not by a rifle shot, but in a hand-to-hand conflict, in which the Amazon used the native weapon, the polo. These women have been described as utterly without fear—possessed, indeed, of the frenzy of daring told of by travelers, as shown in the Ma lay custom of “running amok.” Reports all agree that the Amazon leaders in the Philippine army are rarely killed, their very recklessness serving to protect them by striking terror into the hearts of the Spaniards, who regard them as possessed by some uncanny sprite. On the other hand, their daring inspires the insurgents with confidence and they fight like demons. 1 Mme. Rizai, who is prominent among the rebel leaders, is believed by the insnrgeuts to bear a charmed life. 8he herself, according to all accounts, appears to be utterly devoid of fear, not only risking her life readily in battle, but when arrested and in peril of speedy execution defying the Span ish authorities to do their worst. This last piece of daring is probably due to the fact that she claims to be a Brit- ish subject, and as snob dares the Spaniards to touch her. Few women have had so eventful and romantic a career as this young widow, who is still under thirty years of age. Mme. Rizai was the daughter of Dish parents. Her father was James n, a sergeant in the British She was born in the Victoria ks at Hong Kong, and chris- aocordingly “the Daughter of deleterious purely vegetabli do uot weaken It but by giving ton^FA bowels greatly in^ at ~ t 7 rowloeks, oars took leather-skinned, ihe bows, suddenly I knew it at once g; but to my horror the whole cr^ joined in full-throated. For half a dozen strokes they howled, and then set lip one strident staccato ‘a-a-ah!’ which\is the cry they use in this country to remind shirking camels and donkeys of tyieir duty. Then for another six strokes they howled; then a-a-ah-d again to keep themselves np to their work. ”—London Mail. occasional cropping out and there in the woods, or, per some great bowlder alone by ih silent witness of the glacial p all alike testify to the effect o: light and shade. The sanny sid unusually be bare, or, at most, of a h ii growth of harsh, dry of mosses and that will grow having the light, while the no: side will be found damp and and often covered with a lnx« growth of soft, damp mosses tha the shade, while ev bear aloft beautifuj F and gn waving ferns. The forest floor of hills, ridges, cln big rocks, etc., is, the footfall than o: laces. the sunnylide ps of trees, Iwies more noisy «der the northeiyi^* 5 SmokelrM Fowtler Proven to Be the Bet ter In Recent Conflict—How It I* Made. The powder which propels the pro jectiles is of two kinds—the smoke less and the ordinary old-fashioued powder. This country is just begin ning to make the smokeless powder. Most of the powder which it had on hand when the war with Spain began was of the old style, and Admirals Dewey and Sampson have been using it up gradnally in their work. At the bombardment of San Juan in Porto Rico and Santiago in Cuba the re ports made distinct mention of the fact that soon after the firing began the ships were enveloped in clouds of smoke which interfered materially with the accnracy of aim and the rapid ity of fire. The cruiser New Orleans, however, had smokeless powder for her projectiles, and special mention was made in* all the reports of the bombardment of Santiago that on this account she was enabled to do work that was almost as destructive as that of a battleship. Of course the old-time powder is made of the usual ingredients, salt petre, sulphur and charcoal, the char coal being made of the choicest part of willows. The product is mixed and ground np and packed in the usual way, and there is no secret as to its preparation. The manufacture of iW(ler ti which is ff 0 .VS | l n harmonizing shades finishing the idges of the revers, collar, neck and vrista. An exceptionally pretty waist ian be made from plain and plaid gingham, with embroidery or lace ’rills for decoration, and if a loose or sooler effect is desired the fitted lining ;an be omitted. The blonse is ar ranged over a lining fitted with single- anst darts, the other necessary seams dosing in center-front. The vest has leep tack# across the front, the top being cut square and finished with i band of plaid edged at the top with ihe ribbon quilling. The sailor color of plaid finishes the ■ \ O VV ’ i/i/ < * • called forth thanks from Presid Lincoln. Now that she is no Ion able to practice her profession, it i deemed proper to insure her rea» able support for the remainder of 1 life. A Sty pah Fancy WaUt. A new fancy waist is of pearl taffe Bands of velvet ribbon in deep ru cross the front diagonally from shoulc to waist line in oae direction. Fn the other side of the waist correspoi ing bands, which are of gold-embro . ered galloon, cross the front. Tht ruby and gold straps form diamom The effect is somewhat startling, fc . the result is an exceedingly handsoi j garment. The sleeve puffs are trimm with diamonds of the same garnitui A Useful Cape. While short capes are popular f dressy wear, a great many long on are worn—those that extend down tl skirt to a point abont where the fing tips would reach if the arms f< straight at the sides. These, howere are more useful capes. They a much liked by ladies who go out dressy waists and wish to avoid tl conspicnonsness that attends the wea ing of fanciful costumes on the etree Authority on Cat I.ore, Mrs. Lelami Morton is president i the Chicago Cat Club. She is a w< man of culture and is aa authority c cat lore, and her cat parties are tb marvel of the metropolis of the Wes A woman of wealth, Mrs. Morton owd prize cats valned as high as $2000. A Brave Woman’* Reward. Miss Ada Stark, a milkmaid of Next m. Flenty to Do. “I thought you told me, Wilaon, that you intended to do business just the same after you had moved into the snburbs. I know you have plenty, hut I always thought you one of those men who insist upon dying in the harness.” - * i “You were right about it, my old friend. I believed that it would be impossible for me to avoid spending ®t least two or three tours a day on change, but my time is completely taken up and I haven’t looked at a market report for a month. ” “Wouldn’t believe it if any one else told me. HoW; do you exist?” “I am having young Dees set ont, getting a garden ready, saperintend- of a barn, watching treet and having a with the assessors, that my property is r it.” all that off yonr ing the bnildinV them pave the ooutinued kick l who seem to this worth all I paid L “You’ll soon hi hands. I was left us permaneul “Oh, I’ve only! a Jersey cow, ape two Berkshire pig sides " “Never mind, and the kodak arel tell the boys that trade with you il have three fads tl busier than a coonk Detroit Free Pressl The Earth'* Lai A curious and sll the tautawa, a nine-1 home is in New Ze« imitation saurian hi of being tbe created. He ing to rocks or logs! si rivers and laken known to remain in <1 leotly motionlesa foil How the creature man s myoiery. Avernge Ill-tS The average amount Wmani lile lazieJ is nsi id you might have immenced. I have |ter pup, a tandem, nd a kodak, be- , cow, the pnp lough. I’ll jnst all off so far as inoernod. You will keep yon bee Dee.”— 1 Creature. •h creature is lizard, whose The little reputation reatnre ever found cling- the shores has been isition per- »y months. , to exist is Jwr. 18 nine di sickness in lut of the re tU*n i^laces e to the light of thd snn. In an open comttry nearly timber, clamps of VnsB bashes I ing summer will furdish all the' ditions found to ex^st among] leaves of the trees, being sensitive to light and shade the monarchs of the wtpds. The 1 scape, green with moving grasses,! beautiful to the eye, which feast< < the countless number of wild ftowir representing every form and knoWn in the flowery kingdom,! furnishes a reliable guide for 1c the cardinal points, as most wild ers, especially the long-stemj* eties, hide their faces from and, like the sunflower, tarn southern sky. FOUGHT 200 MEN FOR CIGARETf Cuban Officer Went to a Town Filled SpatiUh Soldier* to Oeta New bu| During the early part of the Cuian rebellion an officer in the patriot Mfy, who is now in New York, want4 * few packages of cigarettes, and tain them wont openly into held by the Spanish soldiers, chased what he desired and safe treated, holding at bay, single-ha 200 Spanish soldier* who at to capture him. This officer is Major Hen Brooks, who recently came t York from Jamaica, where he recover from wounds recei’ battle. / Major Brooks, whowas boi»n in tie Province of Santiago de CubaUf Enp lish parents, was among the first b engage in the insurrection again* Spain. When in command m tin Caban forces around Guantanamo which is abont fifty miles east d Santiago de Cuba, be ran out <j cigarettes, so he left his command it charge of the next officer in rank ano started for Guantanamo to get them. He crossed the long bridge leading into the city and proceeded to a cigar store, which he knew. He had with him his repeating rifle, his revolver and the always present machete. There were several hundred Spanish soldiers quartered in the town, and they had often attempted to capture Brooks, but had always failed. In telling of his adventure in Gnanta- narno Major Brooks, when seen at the offices of the Cuban delegation, said: “Yes, I did have a little fun there. You see I wanted some cigarettes and decided to go after them. I got into the town all right and entered the cigar store. I placed my rifle on the counter where it was handy and bought what I wanted. Just after I had placed the cigarettes in my pocket I happened to look toward the door, , there I saw a party of Spanish sol J drawn up in line. They had t I guns pointed at me, and their officer 1 said m Spanish the words which in done secretly, altVouglT Ts' is known generally how this kind of ex plosive is made. Probably the best known of the smokeless powders is cordite. It is composed of nitro glycerine, 58 per cent.; guncotton, 37 per cent.; vaseline, 5 per cent. The nitro-glycerine is poni ed over the gun cotton, and the two are kneaded into a stiff paste; the vaseline is then added to this compound and mixed with it. The resultant is then pressed and dried and cut into lengths,after which it is called vordite. It is known as a slow-burning powder, which means that the full power of the charge of powder is used upon the projectile be fore it escapes from the gun. More over, it is very economical as to space. A full charge of ordinary pow der in a 12-inch gun is about 300 pounds, while a cordite charge for the same efficiency is about 170 pounds. WAIST WITH BOLERO FRONTS. Boll Fiflhtera Next to Royalty. A nation, therefore, whose great aport is ball fighting must be said to linger still in remote and cruel times. And ^pain is such a nation. Notwith standing the great drain of the Caban war, her people find plenty of means to support this amusement. Nobody in the nation commands such an in come from his daily effort as a popular bull slayer. Mazzantini, one of the ost famous of these, earned 396,000 pesetas last year, it is said, or over $78,000. He participated in sixty-six fights and killed 163 bulls. Another popular torfcero, Beverte, took part in seventy-one fights during the year, killed 100 bulls and earned 276,000 pesetas, or $55,200. These men stand next to royalty itself in the popular mind. No‘great singer, actor or ora tor approaches th*m. They amuse the pe vple with spectacles of blood. That the sensibilities of such a peo ple should be dulled to human as well as brnte suffering can hardly be ques tioned. The bull fight, like the gladi atorial fight, cultivate* the brutal in stincts, del r* hde* the value of human life and m/. ; ;es men comparatively crnel and i .Hnsible to misery in others. We may thus turn to con template the aDocions policy of exter mination by slow starvation adopted by the Spanish government in Cuba under the guise of a war measure with little wonder. It has been made tol erable to the nation through the long subjection of ball fighting. Such a civilization belongs far in the past and must crumble away—Springfield [(Mass.) Republican. Potatoes on the Cob. R. L. Hudson of Delaware, Ohio, discovered a curiosity on his farm in .he shape of a potato vine which had grown np through the centre of an vld corncob. The vine had blossomed at the upper *nd,—Cincinnati En quirer. neck and rolls back from the fronts in prettily shaped lapels. The waist can be finished with high neck and stand ing collar, the pattern providing for low square neck by perforated outline. The two-seamed sleeves are of the latest cut and size, the wrists being banded with the plaid, and a halt of the plaid is worn around the waist. SDiking combinations of material and color can be developed by this mode, which is as suitable for wash fabrics as fur wool or silk. To make this waist for a girl of four teen years one aud three-quarters yards of material forty-four inches wide will be required. A Style That I* Generally Becoming. Few styles are more generally be coming, writes May Manton, than the bolero fronts with fitted back. The model shown in the large illnsDation combines the two with a shirred front and shallow yoke back, and can safely be commended as to style and general usefulness, in addition to which it lends itself to economical catting and remaking, as do all patterns which al low of two or more materials. Innum erable combinations of wool with silk, and silk With chiffon or moasseline, might be devised, bnt the illustration ihown is of flowered chaltie, with fall portion of liberty silk and ruching of ribbon. The foundation is a fitted lining bat closes at the centre-front. On it \re arranged the yoke and full front, u which shirring are allowed,and over hem the seamless back and jacket :ronts. The shirred front is held in place by the three bands, and closes invisibly at the left shoulder and un- ler-arm seam. At the neck is a high itauding collar, also shirred. The ileeves are two-seamed and snug-fit- j ting to the shoulders, where there is j * slight fulness which serves to sup- i port the epaulets. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size five yards of material twenty-two inches wide will be re quired. Dr. M:iry Walker’s Pension. A bill has been passed by the House sf Representatives ’ to increase Dr, Mary Walker’s pension Dorn $12 to $20 per month. This was done in con- uderation of her advanced age and the valuable service she rendered during the last war, when she was not only a lurae, but a skilled surgeon. She went upon the battlefields and into the hospitals, where her efficient work port, England, recently received a re ward of $15 for capturing a conviol who was escaping from prison. One of the Latest Skirt*. The round waist with Dimmed front and fancy sleeves makes a favorite model for summer gowns. The cos tume shown in the illustration combines it with one of the latest skirts and ia at once novel and chic. While the style is in every way suited to challie and light weight silks, as well as to wash able staffs, it is here shown in figured organdy made over a colored slip. The foundation for the waist is • fitted lining. On it are arranged the seamless back, tbe fall fronts and the shirred vest, the closing being effected invisibly at the cenDe front beneath a strip of laoe insertion. Bands of in sertion trim both the front and back and narrow frills finish all free edges. The sleeves are two-seamed and are shirred along the line of perforations shown in the pattern then mounted upon fitted linings. At the shoulders are laced edged frills forming opsulettea. The skirt is cat in five gores and fits smoothly across the front and over the hips with fulness at the back laid in deep plaits. The flounce is circular in shape and graduated in depth aud is in cluded in the two front seams, so leav ing the front plain. At the edge of the skirt are two narrow ruffles. Bands of LADIES SKIBT. insertion finish the upper edge of the flounce and run perpendicularly up the front breadth. To cut the skirt six yards of ma terial thirty inches wide will be re- quired. : y": A