Category: History - Other
A recent traveller designates the Philippines as the birthplace of typhoons, the home of earthquakes,--epithets undoubtedly strong yet well deserved; and typhoons at certain seasons of the year, with earthquakes at uncertain periods, when taken together with the torrid heat, t...
A recent traveller designates the Philippines as the birthplace of typhoons, the home of earthquakes,--epithets undoubtedly strong yet well deserved; and typhoons at certain sea...
2. CHAPTER II.In 1896 we heard of a rising in the remoter parts of the Philippines. It was represented by the Spanish authorities, who at the time controlled the news, as of no moment,--an in...
3. CHAPTER III.Secret societies, and, above all, that great guild known as Freemasonry, are certainly foremost, if not controlling, factors in the warfare made upon throne and altar during the...
4. CHAPTER IV.We cannot view without grave misgivings the unexpected turn that affairs have taken since the war, and the second war which has broken out between the rebels and the Americans....
5. CHAPTER V.We cannot too strongly emphasize the great interest that the change of government in the Philippines should have for the English-speaking Catholic public, seeing that a Catholic...