The Iola register., 1901-03-01

cause the multitude to roar like {
thunder cloud-well at this particula
time you are deceiving yourself fo
the chances are that he is now yer,
pathetic and docile. but wait-wai
until he leans over the balcony, low
ers his tone, checks his cadence: wal
until he drops off from the two hun
dred and twenty words to the minute
to about forty; wait until the breath
ing of the multitude becomes stilled in
the effort of the thousands of listen
ers to hear the man before them: wal
until all is still then-the hands of the
speaker darts into the air straight
above his head and he says "Viva
la -" something, | don't know what,
but it is apparently just what the
crowd loves, and here is where the
storm is unclaimed and for a few
moments one is apt to wonder why il
was that he did not carry life insur.
ance. This speaking concludes with
the noon hour and each family return
to their respective homes where they
feast elaborately.
ON these occasions public dinner
or lunch as our metropolitan popu
lace call it, is served for municipaI
and military officers. This feast is
invariably gotten up to please the
American guests who may be present,
and it is as nearly as possible cooked
and served according to the American
custom. The ranking army officer
present is the principal guest of honor
and occupies seat with the President
at the outside curve of the large
horseshoe shaped table at which the
guests are seated. Soup, made by
Papias, and fish is served, followed
by many other styles of cooked fish.
Then chicken and roast "vacan or
beef of native cattle appears and goes
by you in single file until you have
probably counted twenty different
styles, many of them gotten up in
manner that not only gladdens and
surprises the heart and stomach of
hungry hiker," but would throw our
American connoseurs into ecstacies.
There is bread made Of
rice flour, sweetened with nc,iyc
sugar, egg plant and other vegetables
before your table de hote." Pickles
and salad of MANI, sbodae ond ,.,,,;,
ties; many glasses and cups are before
each guest, and many walters carry
ing large bottles of native wines and
keeper try to keep-them all full.
Coffee, cigars and cigarettes are
served simultaneously, and as glasses
are tossed off, as the blue fumes from
good tobacco go ceilingward toasts are
made in many languages, glasses
ouch edges and there is a general
ceiling OF being at ease and satisfied.
These dinners are never attended by
he native women-women here are not
public characters. have never at
ended one of these dinners or heard
If one attended by an American officer
Vt which there was not a toast pro-
POSED and drank to "Our Mothers"
Cheering from without takes us from
he table and we bring up on the
balcony from which we sec as large.
I not a larger, crowd than was there
n the morning. These people have
lad speeches, they have had their din
Ter and now they are in the middle of
good time of another sort. Native
with native for mastery as
n olden times gladiators struggled
With beasts in the arena. Now, how.
'ver, there is no bloodshed. would
'all 1t game of wrestling match, yet
t differs from our style, in that the
do not throw each other
'ut strive to keep the opponent from
the ground for given
ength of time. Blindfolded boys,
many of them in bamboo pen, whips
n hand, are waiting for the termina-
ion of the contest in progress. 1t is
and all eyes are turned to the
'lind boys, They move about the
nclosure whipping before them, to all
ides of them, afterwards whipping
Zach other, but not severely. From
heir actions one infers that there are
makes in the enclosuse as the boys
freak away from every slight sound
md bound in an opposite direction
7hen touched by companion. AT
Irst one fails to see the "Thusness of
his" but that is to be revealed in a
econd more when large, well lanked
lative hog, poor as job and as mad
IS a hornet, darts into the pen and
or moment has things all his own
way. He does a world of blufiing but
Ioesn't seem anxious to fall to and
evour any of the available prey be-
ore him. The facts are he is not
mad, but scared, and his naughty
pirit gives way to that of martyr as
h.,t 1.