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Show The Windy I.Im. It la the time of gieal norma now In the Philippines "Huge seas come tumbling tum-bling ashore on the bench and the veaacla In the great eipotnl bay havo all they can do to bang to their anchors, an-chors, aa the turf sometime dashes aa high aa their lower forryarda," write the auibur of Yeaterdtya In the Pblllpplnea" One bit of description may well apply to the ealher now experienced ex-perienced by our eoldlers tinder Oen Merrill: "The other momlng began the first real atorm ot the rainy teaaon, and we come very near having a bad typhoon, but eomn one turned tha rwltrli and It awlrled up the back coatt on the Parlfle side and noised through a notch In the mountains eoni distance north nf Msnlls giving the city only four days of monstrous winds and floods ot rain The streets wnro two feet rep with aler In Ihe bual-nets bual-nets aectlnnt, and down at our liouie by the teaa th nlnd blew ao bard that It carrlrd the tin from our roof oft to rtilt the next auburb. Then It was that tbmo sturdy windows ot smalt letsbells sst Into hardnood lattice seemed far mote secure than glass, and I doubt If anything lea well committed committ-ed would hava stood Ihe blaat that surged In from the broad bay" In another atorm thousand homea were blown down In Manila and four Spanish Span-ish brig In tho bay totally wrecked. Soalon Herald. |