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Show RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Ta ft telegraphs that contracts for the purchase .f the friars' lands were duly signed recently Provision Pro-vision for payment is that the government shall use due diligence in the necessary surveys, examination examina-tion of titles andsale. of bonds and consummate the . purchase in a period of not exceeding six months from the date of the contract. Unless the new survey shall materially differ from the Villejas survey, the exact amount of the purchase money is $7,239,784. "There are about 381,000 acres. There was a conference by i he president, Secretary Sec-retary Boot and Secretary Shaw in regard to plans for the sale of bonds of the Philippine government, govern-ment, and a recommendation to Governor Taft will be made by Secretary Root in regard to the matter. mat-ter. It js proposed to issue 4 per cent bonds under an act "of the last congress. 'In the past seven months a total of $6,000,000 4 per cent Philippine bonds has been sold, and the majority' of them arc row on deposit with the secretary of the treasury to secure deposits of public money in national banks. It is hoped that the proposed new issue v ill meet with similar success. The pope received all the Cardinals and high prelates Christinas eve and they exchanged the season's greetings. The function was unusually interesting, as it was the 'first, "of the. kind under the present pontiff. His holiness, in spotless while robes, was. seated on the throne, while 'the cardinals Hinged themselves in front of him, according to precedence. Behind them were the other church dignitaries in their order. "The dean of the sacred college, Cardinal Orge-lia, Orge-lia, read a short, happily-worded speech, to which the pope replied with his usual affability and mod- 1 e.sty. The assemblage then advanced and kissed the pontiff's hand and broke up into small groups, Pope Pius speaking personally to each one of them. The United States was represented at the reception re-ception by Mgr. Seton (titular archbishop of Heli-opolis) Heli-opolis) of Xewark, X. J., and Mgr. Kennedy, rector rec-tor of the American college. According to the will of Rt. Rev. Bishop Bron-dcl Bron-dcl of the diocese of, Montana,- his entire estate amounts to about .$52."!. of which $2.1 is cash and the balance property inIIclcna. The will is as follows: fol-lows: . "T, John Baptist Brondel, a Catholic bishop of Helena, Mont., do make, publish and declare this to be my- last will and testament, and do hereby re--voke all former wills made by me. "I give -and bequeath to my brother, Rev. Charles Brondel of Dottigincs, West Flanders, the v. a teh and watches that I may have at the time of my death, and all family portraits excepting portrait por-trait of myself. "I give, devise and bequeath to the Roman Catholic bishop of Helena, Mont., a sole corporation corpora-tion duly organized under the laws of Montana, all the rest, residue and remainder of my property, meaning and intending hereby all property, real :iid personal, that I shall be seized and possessed of and all property real and persoual in which I f-hall havc any interest, legal or equitable, at the time of my death." ' A |