The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-27

his position. He seemed 20 me q man
who would not willingly be cruel or
despotic, but who apparently would do
what was expected OF him by the gov
eminent when It came TO questions OF
discipline or authority-perhaps rather
because 1t was expected OF him than
because he rellshed the performance,
Now and then the cool weather Of the
northeast monsoon would stimulate the
members OF the club to get up smoking
concert, In which the audience was
mostly composed OF the performers
awaiting their turn or to give dance
in return for hospitalTtles received at
the hands OF the few European host
eases in the colony. on the latter occa-
slons everybody was invited, the
grounds on the river bank were lighted
by scores OF soft fairy-lamps suspended
from the ilang-ilanE trees, whose per-
fumed oil sells for $50 a pound, and the
Verandas. almost overhRnging the wa
ter, were filed with small supper tables.
To step In on the scene ia the midst
OF the dance, with native orchestrns
playing wnitzes as seductiVely as those
at home, with beautifully dressed wo-
men In the latest Paris fashions flghtlng
for salads or Ices. as " they had gone
without dinners for week In antlci-
patton OF the event, and with lean
Spaninrds trying to stow AWAY enough
meat and drink for days to come-with
all this and more, too, il was hard to
believe that you were 1000 miles from
Gotham and 5000 from Paris.
Then there was the tennis club, on
whose lawns the few English lodles OF
The colony would make tea while tho
men tried "a reduce their hcsh In that
violent exercise and driving home and
cooling or afterwards The tennis club.
which did not even bnast Of a bath,
though Il had q bnr, was responsible for
more attacks of fever among It's mem
bers than ;7as any other place or cause.
In February and May came the pony
rncps AT the three quarter-milo course
I'm the suburbs ~ Santa Mesa, and those
who wanted 70 play the "totalljntcr."
With its tickets at 81. had TO carry their
Mexican dollars with them or hire a
conlie 10 be their moving bank. Bunk
notes in the Philippines were Ms scarce
az snow and I have often seen winners
OF lucky Tickets 50 trudging homo
across the drled-up rice fields with their
hats and handkerchiefs full OF heaVy
"IeGicans"
10 1--we IN Monila for year Is to
want 10 get away. 10 HtAg thcI' wv
ynRrs IL TO have exhausted every re-
sourcn Of novelty. To remain three is tH
resign ones self 10 the inevitable, and
put up with ave is IA lud that lie In
the weBtern world Is almost distaSteful.
Five years In the Philippines. and you
only have 10 visit New York or London
TO wish you were back again and prob
ably to go back aEaIu-so they tell me.
The young EnRil2hmaa goes TO Manila
on nve-ycnr contract with the option
OF staying two more, He always goes
home after the first spell ~ over, hut
somehow In always Eind to RETURN ana
Erowa up with the littlc colony In Ma.
nlla. satisfied with It's limitations ana
content With newspapers flvc weeks old
The little foreign colony OF Anglo
Snxons was SO smnll. with lis three
ncoro and ten English and four Ameri-
cans. that tho arrival OF n new menu
Der or the departure Of an old one
formed Distinct era. and succeeding
events we're classified AZ hnylnE oc-
Cured 'Just before Smith left' or on
"the day before Jones' arrival All
minds were always ready 70 charter a
steam launch and 80 iato the bay to