The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-08

/ ""ii"e tHe iaipy season, becumes
torrent. runs through the ~
town and divides the two 49,,
old town has narrow streets M
reasonably filthy, as well prov,a.S
rieties OF odors as Coleridre 49,
of Cologne, teeming with IA,
every age. color and previous 49,
dirtineSs, whose principal occ,,ss,s
to be keeping out of the ~,
cigarettes and chewing betel n,
they should smoke under ! NJ
with steamy heat rising from ss..s
loot OF f1he ground on which IT,,
a mystery, but, probably, on IL y
they are already as hot as a.,
come. they puff necessarily on IL
cites and take life as easily a. =.
Will permit. In the interyals -
they load and unload the yesssjs }
the native population finding & J
ment about the shipping, whilA n
thus engaged have all the occur.,I
want at their homes, in the m,rs,.]
the coarse goods known as mani.
or sacking and in the making n
which many millions are annually
to China and India.
or course they have amusem,,s
under every sky must have som,
the Malays are no exception 10
The principal amusement from a.
the other of the Philippine NJ
gambling. Everybody CANDLES N
body devotes to gambling neart
time that he can spare from bis 4
smoking. A game closely akin d
everywhere in progress. Wherevs
three Malays are gathered torn
dice are produced. and expreso
liar to the well-worn come I'm
1even. floating cut from The
mosphere from behind the hut
concealment of alleys, give poub
passing stranger that the East L,
game is in progress. In the puu
favorite amusement the East Ina
solutely insensible to fatigue.
that in one native resort in Mani
an Everlasting dub" where u
craps have been going on for Jpn
years without cessation day or nd
a player becomes 50 fatigued ash
PEELED to withdraw, another takn
and thus the ivory shooting guH
termittingly. Men may come aliI
go, but the dice throwing and
slang go on forever. Two or q
every month, however, the aq)
is momentarily forgotten in the
OF a cock fight. Cooking miim
mon in Manila and the Other i
every great feast day of the n
part of its attraction in the ND
to the fact that, ascer the relIkse
OF the day are over, the cock
gins, and is kept up as long y
any cocks to continue the figbt
thusiasm over the cock fightlN
more boist srous character thai
played at crap shooting, and
at Manila on a church feast 4
difficulty in locating the buildq
a cock fight is going on by thsii
yells of the audience, who are a
their favorite bird A Malay u
last copper on cock fight ari
have been known of men who pm
item of personal property Ia I'D
sion and lost 1t when betting
that they felt sure would win
The vices of the seaport have
the interior and ensoralized ii.
the inland towns. so that "
whether he lives on the coast q
terror, is essentially the same
The villages consist of collecdx
made of wattles and reeds, thi1
grass. Exceedingly primitive %
they are suited to the climah
good enough for the people |
them, for why should a. MAN
time from crap shooting and
ing to build a house. when 4 dcs
OF reeds will make the walls ~
grass the roof? So he lives u
nut, through which the breefx
and when he is obliged to veg
during the rainy season. keeps
by enveloping his body in W.
ering, made of the same mater
compose his roof, and places o's
m umbrella shaped hat, also
which perfectly sheds the ran
his cigarette from being extl4
The falling drops.
or what use. he says. are hous
Kick, or even of wood. for tns
nd typhoon are incidents OF we
ence in lis life. His grass nH
he heaviest earthquake shoeI
remors which bring down s!s
{ ruins do not affect his slenae
When an earthquake occurs o
ONE portions of the ISLANDS w
ines a week, he is amused 70
opeans jump up and run en- o.
I their houses for fear the va.
ron them, sits under his sl's
njoys the sensation. fer even
ccs fall he crawls OFT fron
'ad of hay, and with the assy
life and neighbors sets up "
commences housekeeping as
lg had happened.
The government of the inu'
paniards is simple, but arp'ur
alive provinces are divided ius
-icts, each with petty mas'
aide, TO whom the Indians 8
Of all trifling matsa,ss
Gus affairs are referred 70
iagistrate, who settles them
ON his decision there Is no.
Ialays, however, always resn'.
,rm OF control, have learn.s
eedom enjoyed by people o. y
nd. taxed beyond endurance
i've forty days labor eacn ,s
'nment without compensatory
, better things. The spirit
stended even TO the counu 81,
lie Philippines. and the reps
lie Spanish government arc =,
as to defy the N
0aniards to suppress them \, II,
elton was put down, nat y
Ut by biibing the leader
lands. but the natives us nt,
nd to judge from the acc,u 'srs
'ached the press. the app.An, III,
lie fleet OFF the harbor o. 4,
ire the population from IL
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