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A PHILIPPINE ROMANCE.
Aguinaldo Alleged to Have Gone to War Be
cause of Love.
Aguinaldo, the Philippine dicta
tor and president of the revo
lutionary government of the islands,
is not having things entirely his own
way. Of late enemies among his own
people have been developed and have
been causing him considerable trouble
and embarrassment.
Thus far there has been no open non-
formidable attack made upon him other
than the stories and reports wnich those
Fiilipinos who seek to become his rivals
in leadership have been circulating re
garding him.
Among a number of the better class of
the Philippine people there has now de- ■
veloped considerable opposition to Agni-
naldo. They charge that he is scarcely
able to read or write; that his calling in
life is nothing more than that of a bar
ber, which trade he learned when he
was quite young.
Lake all Tagalos, to which tribe he be
longed, what little education he received
was in the parochial schools of the
monks and friars, and, therefore, it is
alleged, he is influenced by the teachings
and instructions ot the religions orders
whom the Filipinos fear he will not
oust when Spanish sovereignty is re
linquished, should he become actual
president of the islands.
His enemies then go back into his life
and declare that his hatred of the Span
ish and his determination to create a
revolution arose as a result of a love ex
perience, rather than from the injustice
which Spain had practiced upon his peo
ple, and that, farther, in attacking the
government of Spain he saw an opening
to promote his own interests and as
pirations.
In this connection the story is told
that about ten years ago Aguinaldo was
about to marry a Mestize girl of Cavite,
who was then studying m a convent
there. Aguinaldo managed to induce
the girl to escape and flee with him,
against the will of the monks. Together
they fled to Mindanao, where the two
were captured by the officers of the
government, at the request of the monks,
and Aguinaldo was brought to Manila
in chains and the girl returned to Cavite
and placed in the convent.
Agnmaldowas charged with abduc
tion and was sentenced to serve one
year in prison. Daring his imprison
ment Aguinaldo planned to secure re
venge against the Spanish authorities
for depriving him of his wife,, whose
father was a Filipino of considerable
wealth and owned an estate some dis
tance from Cavite.
He studied how he could attack those
whom he believed to have wronged him,
and decided upon a master stroke by
which he hoped 'to wrench the govern
ment from the hands of the Spaniars
and set himself up as an independent
ruler of the island.
He did not know hew he was going to
set about doing snch a thing, bnt he de
termined to do so. He had no money
and was not widely known throughout
the islands. Upon being liberated he
undertook an investigation of the meth
ods of the Spanish officials and learned
something of their corruption. These
facts he spread broadcast among the
people and made himself known through
them.
Aguinaldo next joined a small partv of
conspirators in Manila for the over
throw of the Spanish government, and
soon became their leader. He was ac
tive in support of the movement, and
readily drew a large number of support
ers to the cause of the independence of
the Philippines.
The Spaniards soon saw that bis influ
ence was growing,and that he was liable
to make trouble. They accordingly gave
him a sum of money to desist from his
attack upon the Spanish authorities and
to abandon the cause of revolution. He
accepted the amount, retired to Hong
Kong and made an agreement not to re
turn to the islmds. This fact his ene
mies among the Filipinos have not for
gotten.
Aguinaldo remained in Hong Kong for
several years, and. believing that there
was another opportunity to make a strike,
and having expended nearly all of his
money, he returned to the islands at the
time Admiral Dewey sailed for Manila,
and was soon again established as the
leader of the revolutionary government.
Just at the time the Philippinr peoale
needed a leader, and he took advantage
of the circumstances to establish himself
as dictator. It is not probable that
these attacks made upon Aguinaldo by
his enemies will amount to mnch, bnt
they are nevertheless make by leading
Filipinos, who Aguinaldo’s friends and
supporters charge in return are bnt the
hirelings of Spain, and open enemies to
the independence of the islands.
A FABLE
LAST SLAVE AUCTION.
Pierce Butler’s
Hands Sold
vannah.
OH in Sa-
Whlch Will be of Interest to Children and Col
lege Bovs.
Once upon a time long ago, before
the world was of any importance to
children, and while yon college boys
were rolling hoops or playing dolls,
there lived under the shade of a friendly
holly tree, a very green young grass
hopper so green in fact that was where
she got her name, grasshopper.
This young grasshopper lived very
happily for a while bat she soon tired of
such a quiet life and longed to get out in
the bright sunshine, so one quiet day
“out she skipped” and soon found that
though the sun was bright it was a
“hot number.” She soon grew used to it
however, (the hot number firman,) as all
grasshoppers will in time.
She was very lonesome though, except
for a “little cricket” which however is
of absolutelv no importance to this story
and should have been kept behind the
scenes, being always in the way, as lit
tle crickets always are to young grass
hoppers.
Finally after hopping aronnd she
came upon a very shallow little pool,
which was filled with small tad-poles
trying to be frogs. She sat on the bank
day by day trying to attract the notice
of these young things, bnt all in vain,
until one day the dazzling verdancy of
her attire attracted the younger ones,
tad-poles and green things being ever
congenial.
Now as these tad-poles would get
near enough she would open her enpid
month and swallow them, thereby “tak
ing them in” until she grew to be a ter
ror to the neighborhood and finally even
the tad-poles avoided her, which plainly
shows three morals—one for the friend
ly tree not to shelter snch ungrateful
insects. The other for the grasshopper,
if she chooses to look for it, and the
third for tad-poles to avoid grasshoppers,
especially green ones.
E. M. BARNES.
The last great slave auction held in
this country occurred just a year and a
half before the war—viz., in October,
1859, at the race track in Savannah.
The slaves were the property of Pierce
Butler, a picturesque and prominent fig
ure at that day in Philadelphia society,
who is today remembered as having
been the hnsband of Fanny Kemble, the
actress, reader and author. His family
name was Mease, but he inherited a for
tune in lands and slaves from his
grandfather, Major Pierce Butler,
of South Carolina, on condition
that he should take the lat
ter’s name. Butler’s inveterate passion
for gambling got him into financial dif
ficulties It is said that he lost $26,000
in a single hand—four deuces, against
four kings held by his opponent.
Finally, to meet his losses, Butler was
forced to sell his slaves. There were
988 of these in all. The sale took two
days, and netted $304,850. Butler had
chosen a good time to sell. A year later
his negroes would not have been worth
a dollar a head. Bnt the sale wonld
have been more profitable had it not
been announced as one of the conditions
that no division of families would he
permitted. Hence, in order to secure a
good slaves, buyers often had to take
with him infirm or aged relatives. Ont
of this limitation grew a memorable
tragedy. Tom Pate, a well known
Vicksburg trader, bought at the sale a
man, his two sisters, and his wife, with
the guarantee that they should not be
separated.
Disregarding this, Pate sold the sis
ters, one to Pat Somers, a brother
trader, and the other to a resident of St.
Louis. What legal rights the negro had
in the south were well protected. Somers
was told of the guarantee, and he sent
the girl back to Pate and demanded his
money. A quarrel was the result and
Somers was shot dead. Two days later
his nephew killed Pate, and died from
the wounds received. The fend was
kept up until every male hearing the
name of Pate was wiped out, and then
the war liberated the sisters, who were
alive in St. Lonis in 1887.—Exchange.
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