. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. brief married life, Madame Rizaljoined the insurgents at Imus, where she was greeted as a modern Joan ofArc. Accepting the command of a company of the rebels, she showed herbravery and prowess with arms, by leading them to several victories overthe hated enemy. During the succeeding year a desultory warfare was kept up, so favour-able in its general results that the Spanish, on the 14th of December, 1897,gladly signed a treaty of peace, known as the Pac
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. brief married life, Madame Rizaljoined the insurgents at Imus, where she was greeted as a modern Joan ofArc. Accepting the command of a company of the rebels, she showed herbravery and prowess with arms, by leading them to several victories overthe hated enemy. During the succeeding year a desultory warfare was kept up, so favour-able in its general results that the Spanish, on the 14th of December, 1897,gladly signed a treaty of peace, known as the Pact of Biaonabato, from the THE PHILIPPINES. 287 town where the instrument was drawn. By the terms of this pactAguinaldo, as the commander-in-chief, was to receive in trust four hundredthousand pesetas, to be placed in the Bank of Hong Kong as a fund, theaccumulation of which was to be devoted toward giving native youthan English education. Such reforms as the disorganisation of religiousorders, native representation in the Cortes, equal justice in court with theSpanish, ixnity of foreign and domestic laws, the Philippino to share in the. -^^^^ AGUINALDO S FAMILY AND RELATIVES. offices, the matter of taxation to be equalised and lightened, the individ-ual rights of natives to be allowed, the liberty of the press and generalamnesty, were conceded. On the part of the insurgents, Aguinaldo and the most prominent lead-ers with him agreed to leave the Archipelago for three years, and that theywould make no trouble for the colony during that time. Their followerslaid down their arms, forts were surrendered, ammunition given up, and 288 THE FAIf EAST. all advantages so far gained abandoned by the rebels. The first stageof the rebellion ended here. General Emilio Aguinaldo y Fainy is the son of a planter in humble cii-cumstances. He was educated at the College of St. Jean de Lateran andthe University of St. Thomas in Manila. He proved a dull scholar, andupon the death of his father, b
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