11-12 dicembre 1917, IL PRESIDENTE AVOGLI.

Shall we see you to-morrow at Madame la Presidente's?

L Some Women Are Very Cunning You may derive as much amusement out of it as you wish, Marquis, but I shall continue to tell you that you are not fascinated by Madame la Presidente.

Madame la Presidente is, without contradiction, the most beautiful woman of our time; she is newly married; she refused the homage of the most amiable man of our acquaintance.

You thought it was fascinated by Madame la Presidente, you will recognize your mistake; you thought she had ceased to have an inclination

At least, Marquis, remember that if Madame la Presidente does not wear one of them incessantly, you can no longer remain attached to her with decency.

Whatever I may say of it, you are the master of Madame la Presidente; a beloved rival has been sacrificed for you and you triumph.

You say that Madame la Presidente is not very shrewd, and consequently incapable of such a ruse.

Thus the defunct of la Presidente was a counsellor of state, without doubt as dull and as stiff as his wig.

I saw her at her best when El Presidente Sarmiento, an Argentine training-ship, came to port with a hundred cadets.

The vest had come in a parcel of goods from the London Committee of the French Red Cross, and I only wished that the angel of goodness and tenderness, who is the Presidente of the Croix Rouge, Mme. de la Panouse, and that Mr. D. H. Illingworth, Mr. Philip Wilkins, and all her able lieutenants, could have seen the pleasure on the face of this swarthy defender of France.

The local presidente with his patrols arrested six of them.

The tax collector killed, and a countryman servant of the local presidente wounded.

They burnt two houses of the local presidente, a stable, and a warehouse for sugar-cane."

That from this date no one will be allowed to absent himself from his pueblo without previously informing its head who will give him an authorization on which will be noted the approval of the presidente of the pueblo....

The provincial council, composed of these four officials, with the presidente of the capital of the province, were to see to the execution in that province of the decrees of the central government and to advise and suggest.

In the town of Lipa, Batangas Province, with a population of forty thousand seven hundred forty-three, at the election held July 3, 1898, a presidente was chosen for whom twenty-five votes were cast.

On November 23, 1898, an election was held at Vigan, Ilocos Sur, for a presidente to succeed one who had been elected representative in congress.

On October 5, 1898, at Echague, Isabela Province, a presidente was elected for whom fifty-four votes were cast.

The presidente chosen was a well-known member of the Katipúnan, and before the election was held announced his intention of killing any one who was chosen for the position for which he was a candidate.

Meanwhile, a wealthy Chinese mestizo named Don Circilio Jaucian, on whom Ola, during his brief career as an Insurgent officer, had laid a heavy hand, had become presidente of the town.

We first asked the local authorities to have her sent to Manila, but the presidente and the police declined to act.

"Even to-day the presidente of a pueblo is as absolute boss of his town as Charles F. Murphy is in Tammany Hall.

In October certain of Aguinaldo's adherents in Tondo wrote to him and protested against the acts of the local presidente, who, they held, had not been duly elected in accordance with the provisions of the "royal order" of June 18, 1898.

On September 1, 1898, the local presidente of the town of Mangatarem, writing to the head of the province, said that he had not furnished the estimates required because the elections provided for in "article 7 of the royal decree of the superior government, dated June 18 last," had not been approved.