The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1899, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1899. KING OF COUNTEREFEITERS FORGED BOXDS AND B. ANK-=- MONG all human paradofes and puzzles—men of Beckefs ilk— there is one who died list week who the distinctidn of be- ing without a peer. #e was a man clever, cultured and widely Xnown. He was a philanthrapist to the bounds of ex ance, pstriotic be- yond the measure of the orfinary man. His name was Ritter vow Boor. He came from a poor but nobe family and had a lineage coeval with'that of Em- perior Franz Josef himself. As an opulent landlord the chevalier witho an equal i@ Austria. He the founder of the Vienna Building k and the prime Jromoter of the Donau Steamship Com3any. Like Mae- cenas he was a most indulgent patron of the fine arts and delles lettres. He established ylums for orphans and the indigent aged and was considered the foster father of all the sick and the destitut At t me time'this saintly man, in- ventor and geniug, was the most suc- ssful forger aad counterfeiter that operated in a civilized country. He was born in Austrian Flanders in ce ev 1820. At a very early age he became an orphan and feli into the hands of some of his near relatives. They sent him to a collége, where he began to manifest a decided leaning toward 4 To culti- vate, this pénchant for sketching he with@rew t¢ a school at Orwald in Flanders, and later to the Academy of n Paris. is small income being cut off by the death of his uncle, the chevalier re to the little Austrian village Kla furt. Her: he dropped the aristoc appendage to his name and su himself merely Maximilian Boo: a few months’ struggle to obtain em- ployment suitable to his talent and meeting with sorry success, he chanced upon £ charming voung milliner, whom he wedded after a brief courtship. To raise funds for their sustenance the young husband turned h artistic bent to good use in painting portraits, . his pretty wife still continued to nery trade. Altogether a precarious living, even at its st, and there can be little doubt that s at this period that Boor, goaded tisfled appetites, began to seek s fortunes by il- methods. fter enduring more than the usual share of adversity Boor suddenly met with an affliction that frightened him. He beg: e his sight to a degree Wwhere the discernm: f colors became impossible to him means of liveli- hood came to sudden end. But con- tra - usual run of mankind the artist not despair Shortly after this affliction it began to be noticed by the curious neighbors that times were bettering for the Boors. He who had been but a mediocre paint- er soon developed into a business man of the highest order. The little millin- ery shop seemed to be a veritable gold Of course in a town of limited mine. size this sudden acquisition of wealth caused a ripple of curiosity. However, no one suspected that the gold which the artist so generously handled had an illegal origi Five later Boor, whohad set foot in the town a penniless knight, rose to the rank of its most opulent citizen. He purchased several mansions which he furnished most sumptuously. He began also to take a hand in large business transactions and acquired no little fame as a financier of the first order. The domestics in the mansion, how- began to consider their master erratic, If not demented. They told in whispers how he would seclude himself for days at a time in a dark- ened chamber, doing no one knew what. But to the wiser and more important citizens of Klagenfurt no shadow of a suspicion of any evildoing ever came. At this perfod Von Boor began to feel the restrictions a residence in the coun- try imposed and he sighed for a larger field of action. Finally he departed with his wife for Vienna. There he launched out in the schemes that made his name a part of the industrial and commercial history of Austria. He began a life of unexampled splen- dor by purchasing the magnificent do- mains of Auf der Mauer and Koenigs- foerde, near Erlau, for six million gul- den. He associated with the elite of the capital and his home soon became a rendezvous for the devotees of art and the sciences. Among those whom Boor especially favored were engrav- ers. This fact, little noticed at the time, came to bear a wonderful signi- ficance in later times. The genius for business whi¢h was g0 remarkable a trait in the chevalier's character soon made him engage in gi- gantic enterprises, which necessitated immense sums of mone; His coffers, however, knew no depletion. The only noticeabie feature of his life in the cap- ital was the frequency of his trips to one of his country residences. These Journeys were not regulated by the sea- sons, as was the case with his fellow aristocrats, Lut occurred regularly throughout each year. In the height of his success the death of Madame Boor took place. Whatever sorrow this event may have caused it COUNTER- FEITERS was soon smothered by the fever of speculation and business and by the gayety of social life. At the town palace, for which Boor paid the handsome sum of two hundred and fifty thousand gulden, affairs be- gan to be carried on on a more luxur- fous scale. The plate was of graven gold, the furnishings were most sumpt- uous, the rare dinners that became an established bi-weekly custom earned for the knight the sobriquet of the Aus- trian Lucullus. Chance putting it in his way, the domain of Kaltenbrunn, near Voeslau, was added to his estates by the power of his secretly manufac- tured currency. As was before mentioned the chev- alier had foreborne to use his aristo- cratic title of Ritter or Knight and had even clipped the noble “von” from his name owing, of course, to the obscurity into which he was cast by his few years of poverty. Ignorant of this fact, how- ever, his many friends imparted ‘to Boor their opinions as to the prob: bility of the Emperor conferring a pa tent of nobility on him. Thinking the time opportune for a resumption of his titles Ritter procured his papers from PO O0PPDP00D00000000.0000000000000000 WALTER BESANTS OPIN ON OF DOOMSDAY PROPHETo HERE lies before me a document of the most surprising kind. He is a surviving specimen—one hopes the manifesto of a prophet. the last—of a whole class which were numerous thirty years ago. It is At that time they were engaged upon the Great Horn and the Little Horn —the second advent and the end of the world. D He was going to overrun all Europe in the year 1870, leon was the beast. Poor man, he was overrun himself in that year. The Emperor Napo- The second advent would follow, with the end of the present order and the millennium. I have a book published about the year 1866, events are set forth with great precision. the prophet of Crown Court, the Rev. in which these coming And some people still remember Dr. Cumming, who kept his flock in a continual state of feverish expectation of what was going to happen and never did. And there were many others. My present prophet is a successor of those eminent seers and foretellers. What he tells us is that the end of the present order cannot possibly be 80, in effect. Very simply. The number perf that is, in evil any number ca Re d more than a few months; and he proves it up to the hilt. How does he prove it? 48X What this means I cannot tell you; n have to do with the round world and all that therein is. goes on to illustrate this property of the number “six” by recalling the act that the creation of the world took six days. slation, the creation of the world was the supreme evil! At least, number; nor what ' is, he says, the “perfect” So that, contrary to Again, how can the duration of creation by days have any effect upon the future his- tory of mankind six good. Why? number of the day, reckoning from the first, have any effect upon the future history of mankind? But see how the numbers come in! ? Are we governed by charms and talismans? en, which is the *“‘perfect” number, or the number of “perfect” Because the day of rest was the seventh? Then, after ‘Why should the My friend does not explain. In two or three days, by the old chronologers, 6000 years will have passed away since the creation—the sev- enth thousand will begin. Therefore the old order will change, and the millennium, or period of sabbatical rest, will begin. But why after 6000 more than after 600, or 60, or 60,0007 that chronology which assi know that before that tion and order of its own in Egypt and another in Babylonia. igns 4004 B. riod there was a flourishing kingdom with civiliza- The prophet does not explain, and, as to C. as the date of creation, we now But this, of course, is below the notice of a prophet. In a word, we have here a piece days of Venner and his fifth monarchy men. We think we have siasms, all the perversions remain. lo! they are with us again. of fanatical nonsense worthy of the All the follies, all the enthu- outlived them, and V000000000000 0000P 0000000000060 0006000¢ One Way Out of Trouble. “Gimme six pounds of sugar,” de- manded a small boy rushing into a gro- cery store in breathless haste. “Four cents a pound; that'll be 24 cents,” said the man behind the coun- ter, as he tied up his package. “Hold on! I want ten pounds of rice —what's that a pound?” “Six cents,” answered the man; *“60 cents. What else did your mother send for?"” “I want eight quarts of beans. What'll they be?” “‘Beans are 15 cents—a dollar twenty.” “Now let me have seven pounds of codfish, two and a half pounds of tea, two quarts of vinegar, six dozen | clothespins and three pecks of pota- | toes,” called out the boy, reading from |a memorandum in his hand; “and give | me a bill of.it all, please.” | When the packages were all done up |and the bill was ready, the grocer | handed it over, with “Did your mother send the money or does she want them charged, sonny?” “My mother didn't send for nothing,” was the boy's answer,as he made swift- ly for the door. “That’s my arithmetic lesson, and I had to have the answer or get licked.”—New York Catholic News. his old Flemish home and thereafter his station among the nobility became defined and undisputed. Simultaneously he won the hand of a daughter of the Prince von Rosenberg-Orsini. :All doors, even those of the imperial Hofburg, swung wide to admit the noble Croesus. Shortly subsequent’to this important event Boor's father-in-law died, leaving in the hands of the fortunate Chevalier the castles of Rossegg, Teutendorf and Rosenbach and the palatial villa ov Rosenburg at Klagenfurt. Filled with an inordinate pride for beautiful estates the knight consumed one-half million of gulden in embellishing these newly acquired possessions. The man whom fortune so greatly petted had now reached the zenith of success. At about this date he published his opinions as to the value of savinzs banks and he drew up the plans for the first institution of its kind that Austria had ever seen. He himself was appointed curator. Thus while he safe-guarded the money of his fellow men he manufactured im- NEEAT T il ! § RoseED IN “THE (‘OHVICT. GARD . 000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000006000669 RS. MARY BAKER G. EDDY, the founder of Christian Sci- ence, has been- reading some of the many recent attacks on that school, anent the death of Harold Frederic, and has come out in a letter in its defense. Mrs. Eddy refers at the beginning of her letter to an article that appeared in the New York Times. Harold Frederic was, it will be remembered, the London corre- spondent of the Times, and that paper has been foremost in the recent attack upon the Christian Scientists. The edi- torial to which Mrs. Eddy specifically replies, contains such passages as, “Why is it not possible to suppress these murderous fanatics in this coun- try?” and, “Why are they not ar- rested?"” The words which call out Mrs. Eddy’s reply oceurred in the following paragraph: “Why not enforce the law against these homicidal charlatans who prac- tise their hocus-pocus on patients sick with typhoid fever, heart disease and consumption? They kill, and, so far, kill unpunished. Not one of them could pass the regents’ examination. It would catch them all, and they would be delivered over to the law if they practiced and took fees without a license. The experience of Massachu- setts shows that it may be difficult to draft a statute that will net these pests. Common sense shows that new legisla- tion is not needed. EXisting law will protect the ignorant from their deadly impostures if it be enforced.” Here, in part, is Mrs. Eddy’s reply: “In a New York paper an article was published November 25, 1898, in which Christian Scientists were called ‘pests.’ That epithet points a moral. Jewish pagans thought the learned St. Paul, the Mars Hill orator, the canonized saint, was a ‘pestilent fellow,” but to- day all sorts of institutions flourish under the name of this ‘pestilent fel- low.” Of old Pharisees and hypocrites sald of the great master of meta- e ) Tre ARREST of Von Boor¥ano ? HIS wifE By FELSENTHAL : fl mense quantities at his country cha- teau so that the amount in circulation might not be diminished. The Emperor himself did not disdain to be found as a guest at Castle Kalten- brunn,: nor was_his -Majésty sparing in his encomiums on'the wealth of his host, the beauty of his wife and other kindred subjects. Little, however, did the Emperor suspect the secret of Von Boor’s good luck. In the year of 1879 the chevalier's star began its descent. The old oph- thalmic disease returned. An oculist of much renown, Professor Ro: per- formed an operation on his eyes and succeeded in saving one from blindness. But this remaining eyve was so weak that the unfortunate counterfeiter was forced to forego labor of every kind that necessitated the use of sight. Lacking his master hand Von Boor's business interests began to suffer ma- terially. Owing to the lack of funds which he could no more manufacture loss upon loss followed. At first public attention was not attracted, so slow *?i.‘\\ ‘ PAYING WITH & NOTE OF THE SPURIL- _-ous Kinp physics, ‘He is a stirrer up of seditions,” and because they could find no fault in him they vented their hatred of him in opprobrious epithe but what would be thought to-day of a man that should call St. Paul ‘pestilent,’ and what will be thought to-morrow of him who shall call Christi Scientists ‘pests’? Again, what, indeed, shall be said of him who saith the Savior of men, the healer of men, the Chri; the truth, ‘is a stirrer-up of sedition ‘““What most concerns the world in all ages is, that men suspend judgment and sentence on the pioneers of Chris- tianity until they know of what and of whom they speak. A person’'s ignor- ance of Christian Science is a sufficient reason for his silence on the subject; but what can atone for the vulgar de- nunciation of what a'man knows ab- solutely nothing about? “I challenge the world to disprove what I hereby declare. After my dis- covery of Christian Science I healed consumption in its last stages that the M.Ds.,, by verdict of the stethoscope and the schools, declared incurable, the lungs being mostly consumed. I healed malignant tubercular diphtheria and carious bones that could be dented by the finger, saving them when the sur- geon's Instruments were lying on the table ready for their amputation. I have healed at one visit a cancer that had so eaten the flesh of the neck as to expose the jugular vein so that it stood out like a cord. “In what sense is the Christian Sei- entist a ‘pest’? Is it because he minds his own business more than the aver- age man, is not a brawler, an alcohol- drinker; a tobacco-user, a profane swearer, an adulterer, a fornicator, nor a dishonest politician or business man? Or is it because he is the very antipode of all these? In what sense is the Chris- tian Scientist a charlatan? Is it be- cause he heals the sick without drugs? ‘Well, our best examplar, the Nazarene prophet, healed through mind, and commanded his followers to do likewise, The -prophets and apostles and Chris. tians in the first centuries healed the sick as a token of their Christianity. Has Christianity improved wupon its earlier records, or has it retrograded? Compare the lives of its present profes- sorg with those of its followers at the beginning of the Christian era and you have the correct answer- XX A AR 2 A A A R X 2 R R R R R R R R R R RT R AR R RN R T PPPPPPLOPOPOOOPOO Meteoric Career in Crime of an Austrian Nobleman—Has Just Died After Being Released From Prison by the Emperor’s Clemency. R R R R R R R R R R 9900000000000 00000000000090000000000000000000000000000060060 @ were the graduations of his ruin, but finally as the unhappy man began to sacrifice his beautiful estates in an ef- fort to avold financial collapse much wonderment ensued. g Five years later an assignment was made. Nothing remained of that co- Jossal fortune but a palace on the Jae- gerzeile, in Vienna, and a few scat- tered estates. The news of this event went worldwide. Much sympathy was accorded the chevalier, and it must h caused a curious smile to rise on his care-worn face when his secretaries read to him from the daily journals the columns touching on his financial dis- tress, where, above all, his sterling hon- esty was roundly praised. Many of the following years were spent in poverty, all the more dire be- cause a certain nobility of action had to be maintained. The last florin of his wife’s fortune was about consumed when, owing to the treatment that had been recommended to him, his remain- ing eye recovered to such a degree as to permit him to try counterfeiting again. 3 In a very brief time the chevalier re- turned to Vienna. The high life of former days was resumed, much to the amazement of all who knew him. It was supposed at the time that Emperor Franz Josef, out of commiseration for him, for his misfortunes had ac- corded him some practical assistance. No one suspected the truth, but the denouement was not far distant. In 1880 the officials of the Vienna First Savings Bank be- came cognizant of the fact that counterfeit bank notes in the sums T 74 THE GAYETY of SociaL - IFE POPOPPPPVPPOPVPPPLOPPPOOPPPOPOPPOPPPRPOOVOPIVOPPOOOOOPOOOOPOPG : MRS. EDDY’S DEFENSE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE : OF FILIPINOS AS CITIZENS ®| ® o @ n of this jon, I will “As a pertinent illustrati general subject under disc cite a modern phase of medical practice, namely, the homeopathic system, to which the old school has become recon- ciled. Here I speak from experienc In homeopathy the highest atten tions of medicine have not an iota of | the drug left in them, and the lower attenuations have so little that a vial full of the pellets are swallowed with- out harm and without appreciable ef- fect, whereas the homeopathist ad- ministers half a dozen or less of these same globules, and tells you, and you will believe him, that th with he heals the sick. This, however, does not disprove the effic of the system. It enhances it, for it identifies it with mind, not matter, in the grooves of God, in the hands of Omnipotence. And say, O petty scorner of the Infinite! canst thou mock His miracles or scat- ter His shade who ‘abideth under the shadow of the Almighty'? “The homeopathist handles in his practice, and is supposed to heal, the most violent stages of organic inflam- matory disease, to stop decomposition, to remove enteritis, gastritis, gastral- gia, hyperemia, pneumonia, diphtheria and ossification—the effects of calcare- ous salts formed by carbonate and sul- phate of lime; and the homeopathic physician succeeds in healing his cases without drugs equally with the allo- path, who depends unon drugs. Then, is mind or matter the intelligent factor in pathology? If matter, I challenge matter to act apart from mind; and if mind, I have proved beyond cavil that | the action of mind is curative and po- tent in proportion as it acts untram- meled by matter. Hence our Master's saying, ‘The flesh prafiteth nothing.’ The difference between metaphysics in homeopathy and metaphysics in Chris- tian Science consists in this forcible fact: The former enlists faith in the pharmacy of the human mind, and the latter couples faith with understanding, and is based on the Divine mind, know- ing that this mind is omnipotent, is in- finite, is all—hence it is the sovereign appeal, and there is nothing therein to attenuate. The more of this mind the better for both physician and patient. “Ignorance, slang and malice touch not the hem of the garment of Chris- tian Sclentists, for once touching it they would be destroyed.” of 10 and 100 gulden were being floated by some unknown but masterly hand. They secretly notified Chief of Detec- tives Felsenthal. The case presented many difficulties, which were of a novel character to the Vienna detective, but with the instinct of his kind he set him- self to work and did not relinquish his efforts until he had his prisoner behind the prison walls. A theory which at first seemed very plausible to Felsenthal was that the spurious currency had its origin outside of the Austrian empire. This theory soon proved untenable. The next step was to order a close watch on all the first-class engravers in Vienna. The utility of this was shown by the fact that the work on the greenbacks could have been executed only by a man who was an adent of the highest order. De- gpite the keenest vigilance, the nefar- ious work still went on. Informations were then sent to the business men of the, city as to the method of detecting the true from the counterfeit bills.. There was but one mar which the half-blind knight had overlooked in his handiwork. To the expert eye an irregularity in the water- marks was plainly perceptible. Being apprised of this fact, the shopkeepers were also instructed to bring to police headquarters any one, no matter what his station or degree in life, who passed one of the counterfeits. One day after this step an elderly gentleman of very dignified aspect was caught paying for a watchchain with a note of the spurious kind. Upon exami- naton he very readily explained how he came into the possession of it and was NO LITTLE FAME AS A FINANCIER liberated without being requested to leave his name. This man was Von Boor. Many other shoppers were brought in to the police, but their hon- esty was easily proven. Among the many Madame von Boor was detected paying a bill with the worthless paper. Her replies were, however, very satis- factory. These several arrests of the Von Boors prompted Felsenthal to take a trip of investigation to their villa at Meidling. The detective’s clever prob- ing elicited some suspicions and facts which were the foundation of Boor’s ar- rest. Felsenthal returned to Vienna with the firm conviction that the chevalier was at least one of the distributors of the notes. The report which the detective hand- ed in to the authorities met with de- rision. A few days later, however, the new cook at the villa informed the po- lice that her employer showed all the indications of insanity. He would se- clude himself in a certain barred room for days at a time, neither eating nor sleeping, and had followed this custom for many months. Upon receipt of this report the Min- RAMON LALA'S Special to the Sunday Call. HE Government and all the con- ditions of life of 7,000,000 men, women and children, inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, have been profoundly affected by the decision of the Paris peace com- | mission. It is a little singular that, | while the disposition of the islands has | been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of the Americans, the English, the Germans and the Japan- se, the Filipino has hardly been con- ulted as to his desires and inclinations regarding the future. Ramon Reyes Lala, a native of the Philippine Isel- ands, educated in England and now temporarily a resident of the United States, who is thoroughly familiar with the conditions in the Philippines, ap- pears as the champion of his people, and in the following article he makes some exceedingly valuable suggestions for the future government of the Phil- ippines, showing vividly the needs and hops of his countrymen: There has been not a little curiosity shown by the American public as to the future of the Filipino, and not a | few wiseacres have croaked most dole- | fully about his worth as a citizen. I | therefore wish to show that my coun- trymen are not as black as they have been painted and that there is enough stamina in the race to warrant cultiva- tion and a high citizenship. True, we have no world genius to show you, we have no grand literature, | no distinet national art—but there are, | I think, enough evidences of our capac- | ity for these things to cause Americans to give us a genuine Yankee welcome. For opportunity to prove ourselves, | our manhood, our talents and our hopes |1s all that we feel entitled to. Let the American people help us to a realiza- tion of this long-desired opportunity, iand they will win our eternal gratitude. | We have, I repeat, already given evi- dence of a capacity for civic functions. Though living amid the most discour- aging conditions and under the most oppressive government in the civilized world, my countrymen have ever | proved tractable and law-abiding, where the law was based upon equity and right. Nay, they have done more than this. ° But it is not upon this capacity to re- ister of Justice, Count Sedlnitzky, or- dered the villa to be searched. En- graver's tools, magnifying glasses, inks and brushes were discovered in abund- ance. The aged knight and his wife were arrested forthwith. A few days after their imprisonment a confession was wrung from the man while his wife acknowledged her com- plicity. On March 10, 1894, judgment was passed. The culpr were con- demned to loss of nobility and to life imprisonment. The clemency of Em- peror Franz Josef prevented the lat- ter part of the sentence by commuting it to eight years' imprisonment for Boor and two years for his wife. As the jailer was taking his prisoner to his future home Von Boor heard a shrill ery of agony. He turned and he saw his wife pass him robed in the con- vict garb. That heart-broken cry was the last sound the nobleman ever heard of the outside world. On December 2 of this year death commuted his term. It is surmised that this genius coun- terfeited notes to the amount of nine or ten millions of gulden, although he confessed to a much smaller amount. Only his last issues were discovered, for his first work was so perfect as to be undistinguishable from the genuine, For the criminologist this talented nobleman is a subject almost without a peer. Charitable he was and honest in everything but the one that caused his downfall. ERIBLF@F A GYPSY EMPERGR The Assize Court of Coepenich. a suburb of Berlin, has just had before it a somewhat original case In which two bands of gypsies were concerned. Some time ago these two bands were encamped at Neu-Weisensee. At the head of one was a chief named Trutt- mann. The other owed obedience to a leader named Wotasch, who assumed the title of “Emperor of the Gypsies.” As a sign of his rank he always wore a silver sword. His daughter, Margaret Wotasch. a celebrated Romany beauty, fell in love with the son of Truttmann. The fath- ers of the happy pair were not averse to the match. Wotasch, however. was not blind to the weaknesses of his fu- ture son-in-law, and entered into a contract with the latter's father. in which it was laid down that if Trutt- mann Jr. should swindle or rob him, he would be entitled to take his daughter back and receive an indemnity for the costs of the marriage. In this the Gypsy Emperor proved his wisdom. Three weeks after the mar- riage his ungrateful son-in-law relieved him of six horses, which he sold at the nearest horse fair, and followed up this crime by further indelicacies of a like nature. Wotasch called together a gypsy court, which met in the forest near Weissensee, and debated the af- fair. After much discussion the err- ing son-in-law was ordered to restora his wife to his indignant father-in-law and to pay the expenses of the mar- riage. As these amounted to 3600 marks, it is clear the Gypsy Emperor did things in fine style. The festivities, it was stated, had lasted a full week. and were conducted on a scale of lavish hospitality. In how far the decision of the gypsy tribunal was given impartially is the question that has occupied the more regular tribunals of the German Em- peror. The husband pretends that the silver saber of his father-in-law, aided by the sturdy fists of his followers. had had an unfortunate effect on the sense of justice of the gypsy judges. One thing is certain, and that is that the followers of both chiefs since the judg- ment was given have been on a war footing. The “Emperor” Wotasch and his War Minister appeared before the court in gorgeous costume, with golden spurs .and an abundance of lace em- broidery on their garments. Wotasch was put upon oath, and raised his right hand to swear when by some accident, as he averred, it came in .violent con- tact with the head of his enemv. who promptly measured his length on the floor of the court. Fortunately for him this last exploit was the only one that could be proved against him, and he and his “Minister of War"” escaped with a small flne.— Lokal Anzeiger. 900900000000 00000000006000000000660 DEA frain from bloodshed in times of great provocation that I would base the right of my countrymen to citizenship. I claim that we have shown for genera- tions—ever since the Spanish occupa- tion, and even long before—the capa- city. to govern ourselves, for the most of the gobernadocillos or governors of townships, and n.any of the provincial governors, have been native Filipinos. As the township, under an American regime, would also be the unit of gov- ernment, it follows ‘that the same ad- ministrative talents that have made the Filipino communities models of domes- tic peace hitherto will keep them the same. Aguinaldo, though voung for such a position, has surely shown remarkable ability, and would, I believe, always handle himself with discretion. Agon- cillo is another man who has shown an uncommon talent. for affairs—while Cayetano S. Arellano, the eminent Ma- nila jurist, is in my mind as capable as any American whom it has yet been my fortune to meet. This man is a pro- found lawyer. and is of untarnished reputation. He is widely traveled and conversant with the history of other countries as well as with every detail of the life of his own. He should be put at the head of the Supreme Court of the islands, if the United States de- cide to assume the task of governing them. for no other man so well knows the intricate Spanish laws, the customs and the character of the people. I have merely made mention of these names to prove that a few of us at least are ready for even the duties of American citizenship—high as these are —and I do not underrate them when I say this. Indeed, we can show not a few others who would rank on the same intellectual plane with the gentlemen mentioned above—and there is no rea- son why, in the course of a genera- tion, there should not be thousands where now there are scores. Tt will cause some surprise when I state that no subject possesses greater interest to the Filipino mind than civies and law. There are to-day already more than 1000 Filipinos who are full-fledged law- yers—graduates of the University of Manila, and some of them of the best schools in Europe. The average native also is much interested in the affairs of his village, and there is usually as much desire among them to hold pub- Continued on Page Thirty-Two.