Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-25

was 1lOO 4udhA1AO OAuO
Stuyvesant, who had Stunned the
sisteTnood for days, now sought the
very women he had scorned and
begged fer Maings of the girl he
loved?
CHATTER XII.
October had cau:e and the rainy
season was going, but still the heat
of the midday sun dfC~e everybody
within doors except the irref~essible
Yankee roldiery, released ''or pass
from routine duty at inner barrrcks
or outer picket line, and wandering
aoout this strange, old-world metrop-
oils of the Philippines, reckless of
time or temperature in their deter
,nination to see everything there was
t. be seen about the whilom strong
bold of 'the Dons" in Asiatic waters.
Along the narrow sidewalks of the
Rscolta, already bordered by Amsr-
Jean signs-and saloons-and rem
dered even more than usually precar-
tous by American drinks, the blue
shirted boys wandered, open-eyed,
o1arveling much to find 'twixt twelve
and two the shutters up in all the
shops not conducted, as were the
BARS, on the American plan, while
from some, still more oriental, the
sun and the shopper both were ex-
eluded four full hours, beginning at
II.
South of the walls and outworks of
Old Manila and east of the Luneta
lay broad, open level, bounded on
the south by the suburb of Ermita,
and in the midst of the long row of
Spanish-built houses extending from
the battery of huge Krupps at the
bay side, almost over to the diagonal
avenue of the Nozaleda, stood the
very cozy, finely furnished bouse
which had been hired as quarters for
oartment staff.
It's lower story of cut stone was
pierced by the arched driveway
through which carriages entered to
the patio or inner court, and, a: in
the tenets of Ma6xid the queen of
Spain is possessed of no personal
means of locomotion, so possibly to
no Spanish dame Of high degree ray
he attributed the desire. even though
she have the power, to walk.
No other portal, therefore, ei+b err
Tor entrance or exit, could be found
at the front. Massive doors Of dark,
heavy wood from the Luzon forests,
strapped with iron, swung on huge
hinges that, unless we'll oiled, defied
the efforts of unnfuscular mankind.
Il narrow panel opening in one of
!; these doors, two feet above the
ground and on little hinges of it's
own, gave means Of passage to house
hold servants and, when pressed for
time, to such of their superiors as
would coadescend to step SixA aod
stooP low.
To the right and left Of the main
entrance were store rooms, servants
rooms, and carriage-room, and oppo-
site the latter, towards the rear, the
broad stairway that, turning upon
itself, led to the living-rooms on the
upper foor-the broad salon at TIE
head of the stairs being utilized as q
dining-room on state occasions, and
it's northward end as the parlor.
Opening from the sides of the salon,
front and rear, were four large.
roomy, high-ceilinged chambers.
Overlooking and partially over
hanging the street and extending the
length of the house was wide in
closed veranda, well supplied with
tables, lounging chairs and couchcs
of bamboo and wicker, it's floor COW
cred here and there with Indian rugs,
it's surrounding waist-high railing
fitted with parallel grooves in which
slid easily the frames of the windows
of translucent Shells set in little
four-inch squares, Or the dark-green
blinds that excluded the light aud
glare of midday.
With both Thrown back there
spread an unobstructed view of the
parade ground even to the edge of
the distant glacis, and here it was the
household sat to watch the military
ceremonies, to reo+ive their guests.
and to read OR dogs> throughout tn.
brewster hours of Che day. "Campo
de Bagumgayan" wa. what the natives
called that martial dat in the strange
barbaric tongue that delights in Gigs"
and Tags" in "ings' and "angs," even
to repetition and depletion. ;.
And here one s,ft, sensuous o.
tober afternoon, With light breeze
from the bay tempering the heat Of
the slanting sunshine, reclining in a
broad bamboo eas:S-chair, sat Maidie
Ray, now quite co,valescent, yet not
yet restored to he'' o;d-time vigorous
health.