The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-02-18

crawls across the balanced triangle may
have the money. About one boy in
twenty succeeds in winning the prize,
the others being thrown to the ground
with more or less violence, to the un-
bounded delight of the populace. There
is also pole, planted firmly in the
ground, straight, smooth and sixty
feet long. This is smeared with grease
to the very top, where fat-looking
purse is suspended, said to contain a
large sum of money, to be given to
whoever gets it by climbing. There is
not boy in Chilli but thinks it worth
trying for, to the ruin of number
less clean suits of linen. Some
body in the crowd tells of man who
climbed hundreds of creased poles in
the course of long and useful life, by
merely rolling himself first in sand:
and finally at the top of one he found a
purse containing ten thousand dollars
and thereupOn retired from business.
Immediately every boy rushes off, and
returns covered with sand and dirt.
The crowd increases to thousands, and
the grease rapidly disappears from the
bottom of the pole. Finally, after
several hundred dollars worth of Sun
day garments have been spoiled, rag
ged urchin with legs and arms tied up
in sandpaper, shins up the pole like a
squirrel and comes down with the COW
eted package-which is found to con-
tain exactly one Gillian paper dollar
worth about twenty cents in United
States money. The celebration of
Little Eighteen" being safely over
except for those who find themselves
with broken bones, or in durance vile
because of over-much boisterouSneSs
melted by chicha-the Gillian world
turns its undivided attention to the real
DieZ y Ocho, the greatest festival in
the country's calendar. Distinctions
of caste are nowhere more clearly de-
fined than in Chill, and though the
NholO pOPuldtlOl dUdIl1lOIS lCSSll W d
general jollification and rich and poor
jostle in one universal spree-yet the
gulf between Rico and Roto, aristo-
Gratis and plebeian, remains impossible
as ever When the sun peers above
the mountains on the morning of the
Eighteenth his first beams fall upon
choir of hundreds of little boys and
girls in the main plaza, singing the
national anthem at the tops of their
voices. Then there will be High Mass
in the cathedral, the great building
decorated outside with flags and inside
with ribbons and garlands of flowers
wound around the pillars, and thou
sands of burning candles upon the al
tars. This special display of Rico pa
triotism is not for the lower classes, and
at every door soldiers stand to prevent
the entrance of any Roto By ten CLOCK
the Santiago cathedral will be crowd
ed with ladies, the elite of the proud
capital, dressed in supurb silks. with
black lace mantilas upon their heads.
diamonds in their ears and white gloves
on their hands-and kneeling upon
prayer-rugs spread on the stone floor
At eleven a. m. the President and his
Ministers should arrive, with the Off
GERS of the Army and Navy the foreign
Ministers and consuls, many of them in
magnificent uniforms, escorted by
battalion of soldiers and band of mu-
sic. Treading their way through the
kneellng throng, to chairs that have
been set for them in front of the great
High Altar, two soldiers with fixed
bayonets take position on either side of
the President and for time the moldy
old walls ring with the blare of trum-
pets and the music of a thousand
voices in choral service. Later, cross
and oscillation is repeated by each of
the officials in turn, while all are being
fumigated with incense and deafened
by a triumphant crash of music and
the clatter of presenting arms. The
NAASH
about three hours, will be personally
conducted by the archbishop in all
the glory of canonical robes, assisted by
train of bishops, priests and other
clergy in their choicest vestments.
The attendance of military and naval
officers at these obServances is enforced
by the loss of a months salary at every
failure to be present. The next day
grand military review takes place
all the soldiers of the republic march
ing and countermarching, with music
and streaming banners, and glittering
bayonets; and after this feu de joie of
troops, the usual races come off in the
prese1ce of all the fashionable world.
This is followed by dress parade, in
carriages, of Everybody as is anybody"
in society, as well as by many who are
nobody at all. On the twentieth, the
city still wearing its holiday aspect,
there will be another grand military
parade and sham battle, followed by
more racing and dazzling pageant of
elegantly dressed ladies, CHILEAN Off
GERS in splendid uniforms and foreign