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Show oo AGUINALDO MEANS CHRISTMAS GIFT. The Twentieth Kansas Voluntoer infantry in-fantry spent Christmas In tho city of Manila In its Philippine campaign. Tho regiment arrived on JLho islands tho first part of, December and tho war Jiroko out In February. So it happened that Manila wns their Christmas camp. Early In the morning of Christmas day tho little brown chlldron bbggars of tho town gathered around the Kan. ens camp, as they did around thc camps of the various other regiments there. Thc youngsters tagged tho officers i and men of the regiment arounU and shouted after them continually: '.'Agulnaldo! Agulualdo!" Of course the TwenUeth boys know that "Aggie" was" tho president or king of the Insurrectionists, butthey couldn't understand why tho youngsters young-sters yelped the name at thorn so insistently. in-sistently. So they sought an ''Interpreter. ''Inter-preter. "Tell us,' they asked, "whether thoso kids aro trying to make" us think that Agulnaldo is going $&vblp us. "y "Not much," said tho interpreter. "They want Christmas presents, "How is that?" "Well," said the interpreter, ."the word 'Aguinaldo' means 'Christmas gift.'" Kansas City Journal.. ' |