El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-19
The Spectator.


A Malay chief with rings in his nose
and red ochre on his face, rugged out
in the grandeur of long sea grass
belt and steel bands around mis- wrists
and ankles and armed with board
hide shield and six foot lance, passed
through Ell Paso few days ago on his
way TO New York. His name is Chi
vatka Mink, and he halls from
the mountains of Mindanoa
Island of the PHILIPPINE group. He
has a five months engagement in an
native OF the Ladrones, typical haw-
allan family, Cuban patriot, Porto
Rico negro chief, he will form group
known as ''our new citizens" Chivst-
ka Mink came to San Fran
cisco, says the Express, and
from thence he is travelling In
Pullman. He does not speak
word of English, but with bis ticket,
shield, lance and ferocious look he
manages to get along pretty we'll. He
goes to bed in his berth with his sea
grass belt and his six foot lance. He
places his shield under his pillow and
in the course of his nights sleep he
smears the red ochre of his face
sticks on the immaculate sheets
and pillow slips of his Pullman
berth. The next morning he springs
from his couch, spear and shield In
hand, arranges his sea grass belt and
hunts up the gentlemen's lavatOry.
The mirror in this department OF the
coach is to Chivatka Mink the most
adorable luxury on the whole train.
Between it and the smoking apartment
he spends most of his time. 1t took
much persuasion and gesticulatiOn to
get him to do his smoking in the pro-
per apartment, but one glimpse of
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mirror won his heart complete
ly. Before it he stands fifteen minutes
at a time, applying his grease and red
ochre He attempted to PRIV it off with
his lance one night in order to take it
to bed with him. When the train
stopped at the depot Chiwatka Mink
stepped on the platform armed and
painted fit to go to war. He strobe In
differently up and down the platform
fruit and candy. With grunt
of satisfaction he reached
for a banana. peeled it and made two
bites out of the whole luscious morsel.
The Mexican's curiosity grew into
swelling smaZement as banana after
banana disappeared. When the
limited stock was gone and
the ground about was strewn
with peelings, the Malay chief
and strobe off in quest of another ba-
mana man. Chwatka Mink does not
stand so high in the estimation of his
travelling companions as he did in the
beginning of the journey from San
Francisco. and the conductor with
thresteniug mien and vicious
grimaces has conveyed to him the in
formation that his bland simplicity and
| grotesque foibles will no longer give
1 n ri hlanna frQ Ia
wane of.the Malay chiefs popularity
dates back to brief unfor-
tunate stop at the station of Maria,
! when someone presented him with d
| flask of mescal. He tasted of it, and
the testimonial that was written on his
face said that it was good. So good
was it in fact that he took 1t to bed
with him. and by and by he executed d
war dance on his Pullman couch
His head hit the bottom side
of the upper berth and his
lance became entangled in the
sheets and curtains. He sprang into
the aisle with lurid Malay curse, aud
but for the arrival of the conductor
would have wrecked his couch
He was lured into an apart
ment of the day coach aud there
locked up. Eight hours latter he woke
up, and his grunts were docile ano
plUeOus. w Hcu Nc WIS T6l68S6Q N
made dash for the mirror, repaiutet
his face and sullenly planted himself il
his seat to cogitate in choise Malayese
on the Oriental proposition that it i
better to suffer for the want of stool
of wine than because of it. His grun
of delight at the acquaintance with tn
Mexican banana man was his frs
cheerful moment since he smacked hi
lips on the platform during the brie
stop at Maria.
Another Merrimac hero has returne,
home. He steered Hobson's ship int
the jaws of death at Santiago harbo