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Introibo. In his own way, Cardinal O'Connell, senior U.S. dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church† planned his Christmas, back home in Boston. Christmas eve he will say farewell to his inseparable companion, the black French poodle Moro, to pay a visit to orphan asylums. Christmas day he visits the hospitals. But at midnight, when the first bells peal their glad tidings, he enters the chancel of his Cathedral of the Holy Cross, vested in stately robes, to pontificate at the midnight mass, oldest of Christmas rites...
...Manila, P. I., is the only electric chair in the Orient. One morning last week it had four occupants in quick succession. All were stalwart brownamoors, members of the traditionally courageous Moro tribe, Mahometans by faith. While robbing a fellow Moro's house 'they had found it necessary to kill the fellow. Accustomed to sharp-edged violence, all four awaited death with proud fortitude, accepting last rites of their faith from Datu Tahil, a Moro Chieftain staying at their prison for inciting a rebellion on Jolo Island. When they saw the chair, three of the condemned men quailed...
...giving it to all and sundry who desire it, but an appreciation of the issues involved cannot be gained so casually. No doubt many Filipinos are quite ready for independence and sincerely believe they could make good use of it, but such problems as would be created by the Moro minority and the difficulties of preserving the independence of territory of such economic and strategic value to other nations would test the ability of a people well trained in diplomacy, to say nothing of one new to the responsibilities of self-government. Development of natural resources would likewise be more...
Among the paintings on exhibition are several interiors by Pieter de Hooch; a portrait and an interior by Terborch; a banquet scene by Dirk Hals; landscapes by Hobbema and Ruisdael, and a portrait by Antonio Moro...
...time over 80,000 men in the Philippines. While the Insurrection was going on the campaign in China was fought by regulars from the Philippines and marines and sailors from the fleet. The action was continuous from April 21, 1898, up to July 4, 1902, and in the Moro country for years afterwards. . . . Generals Bell, Pershing and Funston were all made Generals while fighting in the Philippine Insurrection, but as all of this came out of the Spanish War and the same men did it all, and all of it is called the "Spanish War" by most everyone, there...