The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-08-10
HANURL MENENDEZ.

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The truth is only to be learned from the
few inlabitants Of Seville who knew him
personally, a. he left Seville, on the death
Of his parents, at fourteen years OF age,
making only brief return, ten years after,
before quitting the city forever. But even
In these few months the city rang with his
name. Even then he made no steady
stay, departing, returning, disappearing:
without limiting wherefore or whittier: and
NOT infrequently the first hint OF his I'M
hoped for-re-appearance came in the shape
Of some new story Of quarrel and duel, OF
sword thrusts given or taken outside lie
Cordova Gate. Not few OF those VINO
knew him thought him trif1e mad, the
consequence. they maintained, OF an awk-
ward knock on the head from the horns OF
young and savage bull (noriLIo) in the
Sunday games of the arena. The mishap
vas real enough, and he carried the marks
still, but his brain was as sOI ID as ever.
His wonderful and exuberant vitality over
flowed in motion, love-making, poetry,
team, blo0d-shed, but found quietus in
none. To his warm heart he added the
pride of Lucifer, set of bV storms OF rage,
10 which he would often dash his bare
hand against the wall in sheer fury. With
almost appalling firmness and determine
ton be combined madman's courage, and
womanis jesting word gave his character
Il stroke: of there are any inhabitants
in the comets, can't help fancying they
must be just like Manuel Menendez. His
words were MT uttered-they exploded;
and his vitality ran to waste in the very
vibntious of his voice. When in the
arena Of Seville bull-fghter, losing cour-
age, planted q treacherous thrust in his
brute adversary, or tOrmented him when
he should have killed him. the most terri
bic shout of ''Coward!" which echoed
through the Enclosure was always from his
lips; and at the theatre San Fernando,
when the silence of the parteTe was sud-
denly broken by one of those heartfelt,
through the veins of every one present, no
Menendez. His friends were wont to
peak of his colossal talent-a mere bit OF
Apdalunon b0mbast. His lyrics were but
one prolonged period, a food of high
sounding phrases and glitteriDg imagary,
winding NJ with some abrupt turn, the
bos5s Of the whole poetic superstructure,
meant to be striking and effective, but too
oeten unintelfigible.
OF c0urse all Seville knew him well.
The upper classes. little given to gossip,
still REGARDED him with disfavor born of
distrust and timidity; the lower revered
him for having saved an old porter from
The waves of The Guadalquivir. Probably
there was not woman in the town, from
the Governors wife to the poorest work.
Sirl in the cigar factory. who had not at
some time or other, under pretext of sha-
ding her face. shot through the sticks of
her screening fan glance of inquiry or of
Invitation al this lncorrieible scape- grace.
For Menendez's fine Arab features were
81 an INV mass of raven hair. and his
iireee. tasteful In Its eccentricity, set off
me : maiIlot the powerful but sristocratic
Iinea of his youthful figure,
Noch WA Manuel Menendez-as far as
noeeihle from the savage the popular ballad
vonId make him ont. Such. at least. we
ind him after seven months stay in Sc
vine. when occurred that sudden change
In him which his friend Don Hermogenes
remembers. and for which he is our au-
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