Manila, 119, 267, 421 battle of, 401, 463, 579, 580 Manila-Hongkong cable, British, 626 success at, reasons for, 403 Mankind, advance of, 106 Manliness, value of true, 134 Manœuvres, camp sites for, 689 Marine, merchant, condition of, 553 Market for American industries, 297 Markets, strengthening of, 651 wider, 553 Marksmanship, attention to, 630 in the Navy, 404 Marriage, avoidance of, 509 laws of Indians, 595 Marroquin, J. M., President, 722 Marshall, John, Chief Justice, 57 quoted, 764 Maryland, 504, 507 Germans in, 507-508 Massachusetts, 223 corporation laws of, 116, 544 Material prosperity, 50-51 Mathematics at West Point, 589 McClellan, George B., General, 489 McCook, Colonel, 353, 354 McCormick, Robert S., Ambassador, 457 McIlhenny, John, 517 McKinley, William, President, 39, 78, 119, 211, 213, 215, 231-242, 311, 397, 410, 515, 688 American, a typical, 398 and Lincoln, 398 anxiety of, for right, 531 appointees of, 515 assassin of, 532 assassination of, 529-533, 597 birthday of, 231 candidate for Presidency, 235 champion of workers, 531 choice of the people, 531 Civil War, in the, 233 Congress, in, 234 death of, 531, 605-606 desire of, for peace, 236 devotion of, to ideals, 234 elections of, 213, 214 Governor of Ohio, 234 grandeur of, 531 greatness of, 240-242 heroism of, 531 leadership of, 233 martyrdom of, 17, 240 memorial, 39 memory of, 400 message of (1898), 670 monument to, 397-400 national debt to, 409 nobility of, 530 Pan-American Congress and, 605 people, friend of the, 531 policy of, vindicated, 239 power of leadership of, 234 President of United States, 234 principles of, 212 quoted, 216, 311, 670 soldier, as a, 397-398, 530, 531 standard-bearer, popular, 531 triumph of, 240 wide love for, 530 McMaster, John Bach, 501 Medora, North Dakota, 320 Meade, George G., General, 489 Mediation in labor troubles, 308 Mediterranean, commerce on the, 391 Memorial Day, 56 Memphis, Egypt, 151 Tennessee, 202 Merchant Marine, building up, 651 condition of, 553 development of, 656 importance of, 553 Merchant princes, Phœnician, 201 Merit, individual, standard of, 620 sole rule in the Army, 586 Merit system, appointments under, 591, 644 benefits of the, 592 examinations and, 592 in Philippines, 593 in Porto Rico, 593 success of the, 687 Mesopotamia, 151, 374 Mesopotamian Valley, 113 Methodism in America, 242-248 Methodist Church, growth of the, 243 work of the, 243-246 Methodists, work of, 39 Mexican War, 10, 72, 222, 454, 746