The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-15

water in the absinthe fraDpe?'
THERE'S one sound that makes the
place seem almost like home. When
heard 1t wondered if il was the same
cat that uced to sit on the billboard JUS
east of Madison avenue, near Sixty-first
street The Lieutenant in whose quarter:
I sat. assumed a listening attitude. Hi.
eyes cleaned with the light of battle
noislessly took a spear out of the rack
and stealing 20 the window, poised hi:
weapon and let fly. There was a despair.
ing shrek in the darkness, as with a thu6
the spear stuck into the fence. The Lieu.
tenant went out and then came back into
the light of the window. He held up &
spear on which a dead cat was impaled.
That's the fifth cat I've killed in two
weeks said the Lieutenant. "Jolo ain't
such bad sort of a place"
The cats are the best of Jolo You fall
over them when walking along the street
at night, and they give concerts immedi-
ately in the rear of every house. 1t has
always been considered legitimate to horl
| anything at a cat that was close at hand
This is what makes life hazardous atnight
in Jolo. The things nearest at hand are
spears and barongs, and one who doesn't
wish to go to the hospital through poor
Workmanship on the part of the man
who thought it was the cat" must walk
wide of feline concerts. 1t is distressing
! to walk along a Jolo street at night and
have spear whizz past ones head and
culver in nearby tree. while voice from
window says: 81 wonder if that was a
cat after ALL
| Whenever the 1900 Chinease, who form
| the bulk of the resident population of Jo-
I 10, have the least possible excuse they set
off fireworks that would make ont think
the Moros were not only attacking the
town but blowing it Up piecemeal with
dynamite. The provost guard had to go
down and hold the Chinease citizens at
the point of the bayonet the day the Sui
tan came into town, to prevent an ex-
plosion that might lead his Excellency
to believe the mericans suddenly had
opened on him with eight-inch guns at
200 yards range. The next day, when
General Bates was to leave, however, the
Cinnamon sent a committee to say to Ma
jor Goodale that they wished to join in
the ceremony attending the Generals
departure. Permission was given. and
when the battalion escorting General
Bates and his aides marched down the
Street of the Queen to the wharf, the
Cinnamon turned loose an explosion of
fireworks that was like the letting go of
powder mill. Bunches of Chinese fire
crackers, with 1000 crackers in each
bunch and with a giant cracker at the
end of the string, hung thick from the
branches of every tree along the way.
When the parade started the punches
were touched off, and the hilarious pop
ping and booming that followed drowned
even the triumphant strains of the band
and made a Fourth Of July celebration in
as family picnic on the Wooded Island.
The beautiful $500 pearl that the Sui
tan of Sulu rendered to General Bates as
a present during their conference in the
Sultan's palace at Maybun, and which
General Bates had to decline, was not the
only gift that the General was offered
during his recent diplomatic tour. The
Sultan also offered the General a horse,
saddled and bridled, and Dato Joakanain
sent him two beautiful caribu bulls as a
slight testimonial CT his high regard
The General was gratified with his pres
ent, but had about as much use for the
two bulls as Dato Joakanain would have
for a fur-lined ulster. He could not sell
the animals, and it would have given of
Tense to Joakanain If he had given them
to any of the native residents at Jolo.
Just then the Charleston came into Jo-
10 harbor, and the General had a bril-
liant thought He sent his compliments
to Captain Pignam of the Charleston and
asked him to accept a slight present.
Captain Pignam gratefully accepted and
sent some of his sailors in a launch af-
ter the present. When the sailors saw
the two buffalo bulls. the prospect of car
rying the animals out in the launch over
whelmed them and they fed in dismay.
Captain Pignam heard their report, but
was equal to the emergency. He sent
the ships butcher ashore and the bulls
came to the ship in the shape of fresh
meat, which the sailor men Of the Char
leston duly appreciated.
But 1t was at Tawi Tawi that General
Bates received his most unique uresent.
The datos had been on board the Charles
ton and mite the General late IN the af-
ternoon, and the conference being finish
ed, the cruiser was 70 leave the next
morning at daybreak. Just as the gray
light of the tropical morning began to
mae things visible, the watch on the
Charleston deserted a native boat making
for the ship filled with armed Moros, and
with something tied in a sail cloth lying
in the bottom Of the boat giving terrible
means. The boat drew I'D to the gang
way and the Moros lifted the myster-
ious object and carried it up the side of
the ship and left it as a present for Gen
eral Bates.
The sailors undid the package and
found that It contained a big wild-look-
ing, long whiskered goat of terrifying as
pect an naughty mein. Captain Pignam
insisted that the General should keep the
goat in his state room. General Bates
declined, and then had recourse to his
previous strategy. He wrote a letter
formerally presenting the goat TO the
crew Of the Charleston. The crew re-
ceived the goat to its bosom with the
widest hilarity, and at once named fl
"Dato." Then with hose and SOAP and
water they scrubbed the goat for two
hours. This 'Dato" did not appreciate.
II took three sailors to hold him while
the ceremony was taking place. but when
it was all over he was a goat that fob
Wilderness and true beauty would have
made Mary's historical lamb blush with
shame. His long hair was white and
nicely combed. His whiskers had been
trimmed to fine Vandyke point and tied
with blue ribbons. His horns shone back
the morning sun.
'Dato" celebrated his reclamation from
barbarism By walking into all the fresh