The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-05-04
The Fiesta Season
In Castro'S Country.
.,-e ARE LIVELY IN VENEZUELA.

+.fe season Ol tle ycdl lIcSudS DIT
..5srot the hour in Venezuela, anC
n4tAl is decked with flags anC
,. f5r various celebrations. botf
mans and patriotic. Crowds of wei
ssa altering people line the
.,,. hands of music, booming can.
and l.amoring bells keep up in
..ota.n. while fireworks. the safety
. a. south Americans when sur.
-.. with emotion, are let off in
.n5rtr.. At night all the houses
1aHnated, even the poorest huts
.-Uarug their quota to the general
-a.7 uy hanging out small tin
.. and ayerybody is either giving a
.s.rding one.
..-tay MAS ushered in by a grand
ID 'ery, and the tricolor of
...H> waved from every house
.r.ou midday the whole popu-
.-... Il.l march toward a subur-
noa known as the Estavo
,.s ere was to be held a "ban-
.. It5r' OF course we followed
-.... ur rather went with it early
..-.|.. .At , p. m, the President
.... - coach drawn by four white
.- - odtriders and positions,
. 1 utantry and preceded by
.-, Isl ing wreaths of flowers,
rers of the people and
- tlve IA paz"
-. were lighted under the
r. previously been suspend
d barbecue, and soon the
lt..- asada roast beef filled
-wVulace seated themselves
IT'S jte ground, and when the
-. .+-lr- TO hunger and patriotism
-.Wr inks of it was cut off and
-l w he eaten, Ia main, ''by
a say in Venezuela. Then
-... Fsrr made, which for spread
+. -UI.oquence eclipsed any
,~ '1ly oratory ever held in
.a-a and in the purple twilight
. ..l ;he tired but happy con-
Aded by the leading members
-T-Fnment, wendell its way
L t.~l II triumphant procession.
U, 1T hours for resting and
49,. aad the city was again brilliant
a- aei while everybody hasten.
j Die Para Bolivar, where bands
I'd 3l works shot skyward until
u, Wen the great ball began.
0 lire inside of the plaza runs a
e with trees, and wire
.~.-,,' -u from branch to branch
,a-- lads of Chinese lanterns
.-G0, .u Yards of the omnipres-
-.o.--red, blue and yellow
.r '- sering heights of the en-
.il- as, looking black in the
med magnificent back
,r. E Tie pyrotechnic display,
.4.. IuNyar, which occupies the
It Caracas, fronted on one
, -iloW House" as the resi-
resident is called, and 10y
Of the federal palaces, is
rden of trees and flowers,
-.- .--u an iron fence. 1t con-
--.. -raceful bronze candelabra
e handsomest statue of
--atues-that erected by
lto IN honor of Bolivar.
~Aington, who filled one
". benefit and all worlds
1T Is colossal eques-
q horse III the usual i'm
lie of the sculptor'S i'm
-' --Alously supported by his
rps the ground, while his
-- t g air. The images are
.-. pedestal of beautiful
e. highly polished. An
ne front of the base in
WY .- Id that Simon Bolivar
~ -'-at0r' of Venezuela, New
'-''F "l. Peru, and the founder of
15a 4l mother side is stated that
',.'ots patriot was born in Ca
Wy |at ~ 1888; that he died at
a. Malta. colombia, December II,
..a. .- 'emaiDs were brought to
Nativity and re-entomb-
.- 4's'.injer II, 1912; and that in
"- NstCous American, Guzman
president of the republic,
~ honument to be erected.
''''- f Hoi.yer, please to remem-
' IDS uame is pronounced See
.-- AT, and that, though now
''- '' saint, he was driven into
NY + ngrateful countrymen, and
.''.-'1. poYerty died of a broken
- ,' I'D '-ghboring country. Ten
I aL'+i '~ Heath Dictator Paez-
!. ''-' ".9 uyerthrew the LiberatOr
!. -'''r m into exile-concluded
\. ''''d hf popular thing to bring
'"ues. SO it was done, with
''n' and ceremony, and the
"t.t uferred in the cathedral,
Is one side of the plaza bear
49, ''d4e al but his heart, which
"' .Fom his body and yet re-
/. 'L un in the cathedral at
ai0mbia. Later on, when
1Hro turned dilapidated
..l.a q Splpndid poaucoIo,,po