Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1890, Page 8

THE EVEN SULLIVAN ON BOXING. The Champion Reveals Some of the Secrets of His Art. ——_—— VIEWS OF AN AUTHORITY. Radiments Stupid Peop! Strong Points. cannes ‘Written for Tar Evrxtne Star (Copyrighted. VERY broad-minded, lib- eral physician will tell you that there is no better ex- ercise for a young man than boxing. By this I don’t mean slugging or knocking your opponent out. But a good, ac- tive, friendly bout two or three times a week Is better than al! the medicine in the world. It gives a young man confidence, strength, ac- tivity, manliness, grace, a clear skin and a good digestion. The woods are full of so-called “professors” of the manly art of self-defense who make the innocent youth believe it won- derfully difficult to become a good boxer. when the fact is really it is very simple. There is also a large number of pretentious books pub- lished here and in England on boxing that generally tire or confuse the ambitious reader so thoroughly at the start that he soon becomes discouraged and gives up the sport in utter disgust. It may be a little bold to say. but I will guarantee to teach any well-put-up young fellow of ordinary intelligence the rudi- ments of boxing in half an hour, so that he will be able to continue on without further instruc- tions and become a clever boxer if he devotes the proper time and attention to the art. I don't mean by this to make him a professional or ring general in that half hour. But simply give him sufficient knowledge to start out t as I lid thirteen years agoand work his way up to the top of the art. Ofcourse I expect the young fellow to learn the remainder by close observation and hard practice. No “professor” or master of sparring can ever claim me asa pupil of his, What I know about boxing I picked up from time to time by hard experience and intelligent ob- APPEARANCE OUT OF TRAINING. servation. I belong to no school of boxers, and have copied no special master’s style, and I al- ways fight according tomy own judgment. I msidered it very necessary that in order to become an accom- should have brains as well as I never knew a thick-headed fellow skiliful in the manly art. A t be clear and cool-headed, . with a keen perception, always size up his man at all s of the ad know exactly what he’s doing, even '# punched into a dazed condition, HOW HE BOXES. I generally box with my body, from the waist Bp. extended somewhat forward. Perhaps at times my body is straight up. I seldom lean back. Of course a good deal depends upon whow I am fi and under what rules, So with holding your hands, with some men you an adopt a high guard and with others you will Fequire a lower one. If a young man finds he can do effective work by extending his left like Jack Dempsey, let him do so. If, on the Other hand. ‘my style suits him, all right— whichever is the most easy and natural. Learn how to stop a blow before you attempt to deliver one. Two novices of equal size, Weight and knowledge will generaliy find it mm ficult toavoida punch than two give one, ‘The first thing a “professor” will teach a pupil is to stand in position. He will show him how to turn his toes out, spread his fect so many inches apart, and convince the Young man th nd position is really the only correct one in the worid. Now, I con- sider this is all sunj My advice a» to din whatever is best suited to your se—whichever way you can hit your oppo- bent the straightest aud hardest blow and avoid @ young ma plished boxer, mascle. yet to becom quick to dec able to game, when he at many ath- letes jump. and 1 don’t remember of ever see- i amping inthe same So with boxing. the p ion that suits you best is cer- tainly the proper one for you to assume. SOME P your opponent leads with his right at your ad throw it off with your left. If he leads with his Ie same with your right. If he sends his righ ly ward it off with our left. Do likewise with your right if he These are ads with the left for the body. aple points in Feally the four principal an et the ts. Don't take that teaches whatever in ® system re with one hand than with Try always to bea good two- ied boxer. Learn to strike straight and clean; swinging blows ly always leave an Opeuing for vour opponent. Itis always well to jo your leading with the left. reserv- ing “your right for a good op ing. “ Wherever you hit your man With one baud, let the other fist “land in the STOPPING THE LEFT LEAD. same spot if possible. It will be very much more effective. Alw atch your opponent direct iu the eyes. You will soon learn to tell by this when and where he intends to smash ‘on. Just assoonas you see him about to ad off shoot your leit into his face and the foree of his coming toward you will increase your blows considerably. If yon have not time to do this throw off your — 's blow, as explained above. Novices should be care- ful about ducking: it is a very dangerous game even fora skillful boxer to indulge in. In duekirg you lose sight of your opponent for # few seconds and, if the latter happens to catch you with a stiff upper-cut, it may be “all day” with you. There is considerable folly and nonsense about keeping yourself in condition. Most young fellows who go into athletics imagine they are obliged .to follow a certain diet. go through a severe course of training, their muscle as hard as flint and live, indeed, a very unnatural existence. My experience has taught me this is all wrong. Live regular, take just enough of exercise to keep your liver and circulation active and don’t get your biceps too tough, for you will very soon find that very hard muscles will slacken your speed, and I would not give a rap for a boxer without speed, A good thing for a young fellow to do who nts to become a boxer is to join some worthy athletic club of amateurs who hold sparring contests every once in a while. In a short while he will learn enough to put on the gloves with some of his fellow members. After @ few bouts he will find out whether nature intended him for a champion or not. For all men are not born champions, and young boxers will discover this fact sooner or later. When I say that every healthy young fellow with a good physique and a clear head can be- come aclever boxer by close attention, hard practice and the use of good judgment I don't mean by this that he can become a fighter. There are many skillful and fancy sparrers who wiil not stand three rounds before a man with less ability and more heart, When it comes to fighting the heart plays a most im- portant part indeed. However, it is not nec- essary for us all to be fighters, BOXING AND QUARRELS. It has been argued by some narrow-minded cranks as an objection to the study of boxing that it leads men to be puguacious, to seek en- counters in order to show their superiority with their fists. This is not true. I know per- sonallv of many instances where professional pu- gilists have been positiveiy insuite weaker men, and yet the boxer, having such pérfect self-possession of his powers and not wishing to take advantage of his helpless opponent, has retired. In the first piace, the profession knows that public opinion is against him cause he’s a member of the prize ring, and, in the second place, he does not consider it any honor to whip a man away out of his class. r AVOIDING LEFT AND CONTE”. course there area few professional pugilists who go about taking advantage of their fight- ing ability, but I alwnys put them down as cowards. Inever knew of a good man in a twenty-four-foot ring who was quarrelsome outside of it except they were under the intlu- ence of some intoxicating beverages. If every man under forty-five practiced box- ing in this great big America we would have less narrow-chested dudes, less quack medi- cines, less shooting and stabbing, less nurrow- minded cranks, more manly and courageous men, healthier and better formed children and a far greater nation in every respect. Jous L. Sunurvas. ee FUNNY OLD SWORD GUARDS. How They Illustrate the Tit-Willow Song and an English Nursery Poem. The casual observer viewing the little col- lection of Japanese sword guards in a glass case at the National Museum would see noth- ing in them buta few nearly round disks of bress, bronze and iron with some little design upon each, slightly raised from the surface of the metal. A student of curios, however. will be inter- ested to discover on one of the disks a design— & very ancient one it is—representing a melan- choly-looking bird seated on a willow tree branch and apparently gazing down with sad reflectiveness at a stream that flows below. Upon seeing it you cannot mistake the pal- pable fact that the author of the “Mikado,” Mr. Gilbert—in his search for ideas Japanese to use in the opera—took from this source the suggestion for the song: “On a tree by the river a little tom-tit Sang, willow—tit-willow —tit-willow; And I said, ‘Little dicky-bird, why do y Singing, willow—tit-willow —tit-willow And so forth. The final suicide of the diseon- solate bird by drowning in the river below will be remembered with pain. Doubtless there is SOME JAPANESE LEGEND connected with this very old and not infre- quent design, though what it is Tuz Stan re- porter was not able to find out. The story illustrated by an equally curious design on one of the other sword guards was learned, how- ever. This latter represents a gentleman in a long, flowing robe, gazing interestedly up frog that isin the act of leaping. ‘Ihe story, of great antiquity, is that philosopher, while walking along a stream one observed frog that was trying to get upon the bank. Un- fortunately the frog was very little and the bank was high and steep, so that tho luckless batrachian seemed unable to accom- t. Leap after leap was tried until it did appear a proven im- possibilit; But froggy was not discouraged, and, persisting in its efforts, at last gave one surprising hop and landed triumphantiy on the bank, The philosopher was so impressed by the incident that he went home and immedi- ately wrote a poem, regarded to this day in Japan as a classic, which begins: “If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again.” The English poem to that effect, you see, is only a plagiarism. On a third sword guard is the figure of a magician, who has just shaken a full-grown horse out of a double gourd—a fa- vorite instrument of prestidigitation in Japan. ‘The design on a fourth sword guard represents & wine carrier who became such a sot that he finally turned into a beast. You behold him in the act of being transformed in th's unpleas- ant way. * 60 Written for Tae Evextxo Stam, Kismet. Two children romping in flowery fleld, dathering roses and berries red, Thoughticss, happy, the angel shield Of Lunocenve over each guileless he: Midway the sun in a cloudless sky, Fragrant the blossoms on bush and tree; Farmers sowing their wheat and rye To the song of the bird and the hum of the bee. Out spake Malcolm to her at his side, “When I'm a man a farm I shall buy, With a wee white cot and a pony to ride, And then I must marry before I die.” Marian blushed at the gleesome thought, Maicolm, aud who will your good wife ber” “When my farm and my cot aud my pony are bought, “Why then,” quoth Malcolm, “we both shall see.” ‘The young days came and the old days went, ‘The snow fell and melted again and again, And ripe grew the blossoms on boughs well bent, And warm shone the sun after winter and rain. And Malcolm he owned the farm and the cot While Marian dwelt in bs home on the hill, But it seemed as if Malcolm the wife had forgot, ‘Though the maiden remembered the lad’s words sul. Ahorse Jockey reared a colt for the fair, ‘The nag was both trim and tidy of make, And Malcolm he tried him with skill and care, And paid for him just what the jockey would take. “And now I have bought a farm and a cot, A pony and ali that ask in life; But one thing is Wanting yet, [ wot— ‘The maiden I love I must nave for my wife.” When the autumn fields were mellow with grain And the air was crisp both early and late, ‘The old church bell rang a merry refrain, For the bride Malcolm chose was bis pretty play- mate. “DAVID GRAHAM ADEE. THE CORNER OF ASIA. The Relations of Singapore and the Empire. VISITING A CITY OF BABEL. eae Some of the Problems of Mataysia—A Visitor’s First Impressions — Among the People—How the City is Gov- ernea. —_ From Tae Stan's Traveling Commissioner. Srvoapone, February 27, 1890. T is a curious fact that no sooner do you begin to look up the literature of ® new place to which your travels have brought you than you find that plenty of previous writers have di seribed th» spot where you happen to be as the most beautiful and wonderful place in the world. So it was with Japan, with Hong Kong, with Manilla, and so it is with Singa- pore. If you are traveling, as Iam, with the wun, the picturesque east begins at Singapore, and your eye soon falls from the exquisite green hills all around you to the marvelous multi-colored wharf of Babel awaiting the touch of the great steamer, where Malay jostles Chinaman, and Kling rubs shoulders with Javanese, and Arab elbows seedy boy, and Dyak stares at Bugis, all their dirty bodies swathed either in nothing at all, or else in scarlet and yellow and blue and gold, and among whom a dainty English lady, come to meet husband or lover, her eyes full of laughter or tears, and her cheeks flushed with anticipation, looks so white and fair and fragile that, although one does not know her from Eve, one feels proud of her and grateful at the thought that such as she are the mothers of the men who impose the restraints and the incitements of empire upon the millions of these black races of the earth. AN INTERESTING CITY. Singapore is interesting for its beautiful sit- uation; for its history, full of vicissitudes and bloodshed tll it came under the administra- tion of Bengal and gradually grew to be the center of the Straits Settlement; for its geo- graphical situation as the extreme southern limit of continental Asia and the “corner” be- tween the far east and the rest of the world, for the fuct that it was the first free-trade port of modern times; and very interesting to Eng- lishmen, of course, as one of the keystones of imperial defense. But in itseif, merely as a community of British subjects’ residing and trading on a point of Asia, It is uninteresting compared with several other places, notably with Hong Kong. ‘ihe figures of its com- merce are much smaller; there are no tradi- tions of the great “hongs” and their merchant princes to perpetuate ahigh standard of ma- terial social lite; of corporate life there is little or nothing. LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY. The best local thmgs about Singapore, by the way, are its newspapers. ‘The life of the European community strikes the visitor—not that it is a whit less hospitable or less kind or Jess agreeable—as on rather a smaller scale than that of many other exiled European com- munities, Perhaps the topography of the place is chietly reaponsible for this impression. The business town is two or three miles away from most of the private residences; these are not in groups, but in units, each solitary in its own charming grounds; you canuot make @ eall under a half hour's’ drive; the club is practically closed before diuner, or if you make arrangements to dine there, your single lighted table only emphasizes the ‘surrounding dark- ness which no flow of soul or bow! dispels, As the mail steams out of the harbor your follow travelers speuk gratefully of the kindness and entertainment they have received, bu: you do not hear regrete at being unable to linger. Yet Singapore nights are as refreshing as the hills after July days and nights in Hong Kong, and if there is a more charming spot to hve in the far east than Tangiim Barracks, whore the ever pop fitty-eighth are stationed and wheie L had the privilege of enjoying some of the:r famous and unfailing hospitality for a while, I have not found it, GOVERNING THE PEOPLE. This evergreen island, however, almost upon the equator, where neither Christmas nor mid- summer brings any change to the thermometer, and in whose tropical jung! stray tiger may still be tound, is vitally connected with some very ticklish problems of government, and if one could see it for a moment through the gov- ernor’s eyes I fancy one would be astonished at the variety of the questions requiring de- cisionjand action, Lo begin with, the city it- self must be hard enough to govern, witii its two thousand Europeans, its four thousand Javanese, its ten thousand Klings, its twenty thousand Malays, its eighty-six thousand Chinese( these are the quite inadequate figures of a sus ten years oid), and aliits mixed horde of Bengalis and Bugis and Boyanese and Bur- mese und Arabs and Dyaks and Manilamen, These people are quiet enough when left alone, but asingle new and unpopular regulation is enough to bring them rioting into the streets, The city of Singapore was in the bands of mob for two days some time ago simply because it was decided to make the causeways clear for foot passengers, THE CHINESE SECRET SocrETizs, too, the worst enemies of government and jus- tice that have ever existed, have their strong- hold in the Straits, and furnish an almost in- serutable ment of danger. There is only one way to deal with the way adopted by the Siamese and b: " ie but public opinion im England, whic sick over the photographing of a’ military exe eution, would hardly stand t! so in the se socicties have been “suppressed,” ly, time will show. le, it is as easy to “suppress” a mosquito nout killing him as a disorderly Chinaman, Bat besides mere restraint, the common problems of sanitation and the like astly dificult in Sit and even the tain that I be- lieve the authorities cousider it hardly worth the expense, DEFENSE OF SINGAPORE. The great question of the defense of Singa- pore, which was an open sore for so loug be cause of the failure of the imperial government to provide the promised urmament for the torts built by the colony, and which bas been y closed at last by the placing in po- nof the 92-inch guns and the announce- ment that the 10-inch guns are ‘now finished,” renderiug Singapore ssfe so far us artillery defense 18 concerned. has just been reopened vigorously by the demand of the imperil gov- ernment for an #unual defense contribution of £100,000, instead of the customary £50,145, Moreover, the colony has agreed to pay a lamp sum of £23,976. torecoup the military tr for loss ou past exchange, and it is also to crect new barracks at a cost of And to complete the picta membered that the colony’ has just paid £31,000 for its forts, that these were left empty of guns for a shameiul time, and that the actual STRENGTH OF THE IMPER{AL FORCES of the colony has varied during eleven years from 3}¢ per cent to 22 per cent short of the strength promised by the military authorities, Now, when on the top of ail this‘comes a very Guvwly eustrustel wt tm parts extremely fallacious dispatch from Lord Kuutsford calmly informing the colony that its military contribution is to be doubled, and that tle i will be reopened in four year: joubt with a view to a further increase, no wonder Singapore kicks, And it is kicking, as I said, vigorously, in the legislative council and at public meetings, It is all very fine, too, for the home authorities to hint—indeed, almost to say—that, after all, they do not particularly care about Singapore, that its retention im war time would be merely a matter of presti &e., but time was and not so long ago when they felt and exhibited sentiments of an ex- tremely different nature. I cannot write fur- ther about this without indiscretion, but I may go so far as to ask Lord Knutsford if he has quite forgotten the speech he made at one of those confidential meetings of the colonial con- ference in 1887, in which he so justly eulogized dingapore for its patriotic spirit in this very matter, and held it up as a noble example to the shirking Australian colonies. The facts of this particular case can hardly be in serious dispute: Singapore is a base and coaling station of enormous imperial vaine; as a colony it has done well and patriotically ander dishearten- ing and discreditable circumstances; it is pared even to do better. An imperial ‘minioter must think in his heart si gig omnes! DEVELOPMENT OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. The other great interest attaching to Singe- pore is one of which almost nothing is gener- ally kuown at home—I mean the interest of fom eens a8 the official and administrative be enter of the it group of questions concerning the politieal and ——— of the Malay peninsula The Straiw Settlements are an insii it fraction of no ‘this; beyond these lie the allied State of Jobore and the Protected Native States, Beyond these lie the Independent States, with their Deouliar relation to Siam, and beyond these, still further, the dependent Siamese States. knowledge and diplomacy, not only to prodace good but to prevent evil. | Fortunately, in the person of the governor, His Excellency Sir Cecil Smith, the empire has a man who com- bines an astonishing amount of specific in- formation with great natural sagacity and tact. NOT QUITE FAST ENOUGH. The only criticism I have ever heard passed upon his attitude with regard to this group of questions—and for a colonial to criticise his governor is as natural as to eat his dinner—is that sometimes he does not go quite fast enough. Possibly he himse)f would regard this as a compliment, or perhaps there is some restraining influence again behind him. It must be remembered that it is in his power at any time, whatever be his instructions from home, to'allow the hand of the imperial gov- ernment to be forced in the direction of exten- sion and annexation, simply by himself refrain- ing from action—by merely setting his blind eye, Nelson-like, to the telescope. With one matter, and, perhaps, the most important of all, that of the development of the: whole peninsula by judicious railway construction, his name will be alw: and most gratefu connected. But this set of questions is so varied, so big and so unknown, that I shall return to it, like American voter to the ballot box, “early and often. Henry Noamay. . ee lie ee PAY CONGRESSMEN DRAW, Some Who Leave Cash Balances and Others Who Can’t Afford It. SPEAKER REED, EX-SPEAKER CARLISLE AND OTHERS: CREDITED WITH OVERDRAFTS OF WAGES—NO MORE SUCH TO BE PERMITTED—HOW IT IS DONE ON THE SENATE SIDE, A check bearing the signature of a Congress- mun of national reputation, drawn on the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the House of Repre- sentatives, was dishonored by that functionary one day last week. The reason for this was, so a Star reporter was informed, that the check, if cashed, would have overdrawn the states- balance by 72 cents, That will give a notion of the strictness of business methods nowadays in this disbursing agency, which, under the system hitherto in operation, was a sort of money-lending and note-shaving con- cero. Fresh information, obtained from tne office of the sergeant-at-arms, shows that at the time of Silcott’s recent elopement with congressional funds nine Representatives had overdrawn their pay. At the head of the list is no less a personae than Thomas B, Reed. the present speaker of the House. It must be said. how- ever, that the $1,934 put down against him as an overdraft is only apparently such. You se: reas an ordinary member receives ou! 25,000 salary, the speaker gets $8,000, and w Mr. Reed was elected to the chair, December 2 last, he became on that day entitled to the extra 3,000 rate from the preceding March 4, when the previous Speaker's term ended and his own term began, although nobody in this world knew it. Thus, on December 2, Mr. Reed found himself suddenly entitled to about 2,200 back pay. of which he promptly drew, for Christmas money, $1,934, and this amount was put down for some technical reason as an overdraft, At the time of the defalcation ex-Speaker J. G, Carlisle and W. 8S. Forman of Lllinois had each obtained a month’s pay in advance. L. C. Honk of Tennessee had got &: in ad- nee, aud H. P. Cheatham of North Carolina $200, Likewise G. E. Adams of Illinois was 70 in arrears. O. 8. Gifford of South Dakota owed $5, while W. H. F. Lee of Virginia and J. 8, Corthran of South Carolina were each #1 in debt. There is uo objection to mentioning these facts, for the sake of illustration, because they are published in a public document just issued, UNDER THE OLD SYSTEM. The last three overdrafts in this list were evidently accidental; the others were secured by notes of hand. But the money-lending busi- ness prover of the sergeant-ut-arms under the old system was something apart from this and was carried on upon an extensive scale, If a Representative wanted money he went to the disbursing official and said yo. The sergeant-at- arms would go toa bank and borrow the sum required at a low rate of interest, lending it subsequently to the Congressman at the mod- erate charge of 6 or 7 percent interest for the two or three mouths the cash was wanted for, Turned over in this way money might be made to yield anywhere from 15 to por conta you It was no unusual thing for the sergeant. arms to lend a responsible Representative 310,000 in a lump, or the equivalent of two years’ salary in advance, at anual rate of 10 per cent. The debt was secured in each such case by a life-insurance policy for twice the sum borrowed. It the member lived, the money was repaid; if he died, the lende: doubled his investment and was partially con- soled for the bereavement. Loss could only occur when a member resigned. This happened twice during the administration of the late sergeant-at-aris; once he lost $900and the other time 3500. An unpaid note of his own for 21,100 is now lying in the big safe of his former office hopefully awaiting redemption. ONLY BY THE MONTH Now. But no longor is it possible for a newly elected member to come to Washington and, by adicket with the sergeant-at-arms, obtain his entire pay for one Congress in advance. He ean only draw it now at the unsatistacte rate of 8416 a month. Notacent can he over- draw or get in advance, and if he wants to bor- row he has to try what his personal credit is worth at an ordinary bank. (his mus: aarily be often embarrassing, in: nine-tenths of the Representatives rare! ad and always keep their pa The remaining few hav balances ranuing usually, against which they check as with any other bank account; the of- of the sergeant-at-arms isa bunk and is dup just like one, Each year $1,650,000 passes through it, SOME WHO KEEP BALANCES. Among those who always have considerable money balances in the hands of the serges at-arms are Candier of Massachusetts, Blow of Georgia, Walker of Massachusetts, Geissen- bainer of New Jersey, Darlington of Pennsy vania and Clunie of California. As a rule. however, the biggest cash deposit of all is kept by Hitt of linois, When Silcott ran away Hitt hada balance in his hands of 25.033. At the same time and through same defalea- tion R. Q. Mills of Texas lost 9 that was on deposit. Catchings of Mississippi was out #2041, Smith of Arizona, £4,652; . Taylor of Illinois, $3,334; Boutelle cf Maine, $1.0 Clark of Wisconsin, = gon, $2,400; Carey of ot Mi 34; Herman of Or Yoming, 21.911; Rowell mois, 31,529; Buckalew of Pennsyl) a $1.6 Belden of New York, $1,556, Con Nebraska, $1.334; Oates of Alabama, and Laws of Nebraska, $1,05: largest balances, and of course the amoants have been refunded by the passage of the bill making good the sum stolen by the cashier. There was a good deal of talk fora while by gentlemen who had opposed the bill to the effect that they would decline such “unjust” reimbursement; but, somehow, they are pretty nearly all straggling into the sergeant-at-arms’ office to get their littlo shares, and it does not seem likely that more than three or four at the most will abstain altogether from the cash. ‘The really poor men in Congress are to be found mostly on the democratic side. South- ern members are, a8 a rule, anything but well off. Atthe close of the war hardly one of them had a cent, and in that section there has not been time for the building of fortunes since then. The leaders of their party—Carlisie, Breckinridge of Kentucky, and Wilson of West Virginia—are not in a position financially to keep balances of any size with the sergeant-at- arms. However, the same may be said of Bur- rows of Michigan and Henderson of Iowa, leaders on the republican side of the House. ON THE SENATE SIDE. As for the Senate, its financial affairs are managed not by the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate at all, but by the Senate's secretary, Gen. MeCook, who disburses salaries and pays all expenses, including bills for castor oil, car tickets, hair tonic, nges, powder puffs, lemons by the box, Apollinaris by the gross of botties and sugar by the hundredweight for senatorial consumption. Senator Stanford of mia .draws his salary in @ more eccentric way than doe: any other Congressman. He makes resent of it entire to his clerk, and the tter receives the Senator's $416 monthly from Gen. McCook. There are eleven other millionaires in the Senate who $1,204, These were the IN TROPICAL CLIMES. Life in a South American Sea- port. THE CITY OF GUAYAQUIL. Hotels and Servants—Beautiful Women and How They Dress—Descendants of the Incas—The Two Seasons—Fine Scenery . —__ From Trz Sran’s Traveling Commissioner. Gvaraguit, Ecvapor, April 10, 1890, % N THIS CITY! the public grindstone and the public letter writer are both established institutions, The latter sits in his door or out on the sidewalk beside a little table ‘with pens, ink and paper, all ready to in- dite legal documents or love letters, as the case may require, at a moment's notice. The useful- ness of this individual can hardly be appre- ciated in the United States; but here, where the vast majority can neither read nor write, he is invaluable. To look ata photograph of Guayaquil’s cathe- ral one woald imagine it to be a more im- posing structure than Notre Dame or 8t. Peter's, but the truth is that, though cer- tainly elegant in architectural design, it is merely a shell of frail bamboo, plastered over with mud, stuccoed and painted. A Latin in- scription across the facade assures that its door is the El Puerto del Cielo, “The gate to heaven.” One would never mistrust it, how- ever, from a glimpse of its gloomy and pewless interior. which is extremely bare and shabby, garnished by a few caricatures in the way of pictures and images. its uneven floor of brick and cement, like a cellar bottom at home, worn into hollows in front of favorite saints by the knees of worshippers. There is ® very good hotel in Guayaquil, as inns average in this country, though some of its arrangements seem very funny to the newly arrived traveler from North America, It you are wise you will order a table out on the ve- randa, where the air is fresher and the flies not 8o numerous, where you may escape the abom- ination of revolving fans, so common in restau- rants the world over, where you can see Chim- borazo in all his glory, and ‘enjoy the perfect biue of the sky, the gorgeousness of tropic col- oring, and the summer heat tempered by ocean breezes, However dilatory the servants may be, your meal will never be acold one, but made red hot by tlery peppers, and with ‘decidedly more jard and onion about it than the average north- ern stomach can well tolerate. Should you de- sire boiled eggs, in the hope that they, at least, may be free from grease and garlic, it will be of use to order them ‘hard” or inedium,” for there is neither watch nor clock anywhere about the premises, nor other method of measuring old Tempus, The people depend entirely upon the cathedral ells and the great clock in the city hali tower by which to teil the passing hours, but minutes do not enter into their calculations, If you want the eggs “medium,” tell the waiter to keep them boiling while he says three Ave Ma- rias, or, if “hard,” while he tells all the beads on his rosary. Such an order he will under- stand and obey to the letter, Whatever their short comings may be. it can never be said that Guayaquilians lack the vir- tue of hospitality. The graceful politeness and spontaneous generosity of the better classes is but an unconscious expression of their sincere good will toward all mankind; and even the poorest, the lower floors of whose bamboo casas are occupied by pigs, donkeys and other domestic animal: will bid you wel- come with hearty kindness, though they can- not speak your language or you understand a word of theirs, and share with you all they possess. : BEAUTIFUD WOMEN. The females of Ecuador are proverbial for beauty, those among the aristocracy being said to have the fairest complexions of any in South America, While all possess large, soft and ex- pressive dark eyes, the blackest and most abundant hair, the whitest teeth, well-rounded figures and small hands and feet, Like all women in the tropics, they mature early and fade quickly; but perhaps their aver- ze span of forty years includes more heart- happiness than comes to women of colder climes in three score years and ten, for these are harrassed by no ‘‘carking cares” or high ambitions, Indolence, religious superstition, and faithfulness unto death are their most prominent characteristics; their passionate na- tures are completely satisfied in the love of home, husbend and children. and for them the whole universe lies within the limits of vision. What higher praise could be bestowed upon the women of any country? Tobe sure, they are notoriously untidy in dress and habits, but the manta or paneulon, hike the mantle of charity, covers a multitude ofsins, As the poncho, for men, is the uni- 1 and most useful garment for the middle lower classes, answering for a coat by day, a coverlid by night, an umbrella when it rains and a basket when there is anything to carry, the temale mania is worn by all classes and ‘is equaliy indispensable, since it hides unkempt hair and all detects of toilet. In all Ecuador there is not such a thing as a bonnet or female hat, the most aristocratic ladies going about the streets with their glossy hair uncovered or shaded only by a parasol, a lace mantilla or the universal manta, the latter being a very large square of black nun’s veiling or other woolen cloth of light texture, draped so as to cover the head, shoulders and most of the drese. ‘THE INDIANS. The Indians, lineal descendants of the long since conquered Incas, wear no color but black, asa perpetual and pathetic sign of mourning for Atahualpa, the last of their kings, who was treacherously strangled by Pizarro. They cou- stitute the laboring population of Ecuador and are the saddest looking people on the face of theearth. Laughter, singing or story telling is never heard among them; they have no sports, no songs, no tales, no jokes, but are silent. sulleu and morosely submissive to any injustice that may be put upon them. App: enily the proud spirit of their brave and power- ful ancestors mpletely crushed out of them by more than three hundred and fifty years of oppression at the hands of their cruel conquerors and hard masters, the Spaniards, Now they are mere beasts of burden for any- body who desires to command their services, receiving withou: protest as much or as little pay for their services as may be tendered. they do not seem to have much strength m their arms, but will carry enormous loads on their backs. A broad strap 1s passed around the forehead to heip sustain the burden and another across the shouiders. One hundred pounds is considered a moderat» load, and with this on their backs they will start off on a slow buteven jog trot and kept it up for hours without tirmng. The Indians, and in fact nearly all the lower classes, seldom indulge in the luxury of legal matrimony, simply because they cannot afford it, the fee arged by the priests for perform- ing that ceremony being very exorbitant. Even among the aristocracy it is not uncommon for young people to go about among their friends soiiciting money to pay the marriage fee. You can seldom go through the streets and markets without meeting a man with a little basket, who importunes you: “For the love of the Virgin, most illustrious senor, give me a medio toward the payment of my mar- riage fee.” THE DEAD are generally buried in the middle of the night—why, Heaven only knows, except that it is the custumbre,and customs here rule with an iron hand from century to century, being more unalterable than the celebrated laws of the Medes and Persians, for the latter did change after awhile. Women — even the wives, mothers and nearest relatives—are not permitted to attend their dear py sey to the grave; and unutterably solemn it looks to see a Teepe of chanting priests or monks, fol- jowed by men carrying torches and winding slowly through the darkness to the dismal Campo Santo or ‘*Field of Sainte,” asthe cemetery is called, Among those who af- ford it the fashion eight weeks, and ‘that time not one the family is cupestea Ae be seen at ad cluareh of elsewnere. At the end of = ‘seri however. mourning is sup; ‘te have nm carried quite far enough. The family emerge at ouce from their retirement and generally make up lost time by an extra amount of gayety, their return to mag oj hw celebra bra eo ball given by a selves and a round of outside entertainments. TROOPS OF SERVANTS. If you were living in Ecuador and wished to hire a servant you could hardly get one by himself or herself, but would be compelled to take up with a drove of them. With a cook, for example, you must receive her busband aud the rest of her family into your house, to bed and aud they will bring along their nu- merous collection of domestic pets, pigs. dogs. rabbits, chickens and other “live stock” and portable Property. | ‘The husband may have some trade which he follows during the day, but when night comes and at meal times he returns to the bosom of his family and yours. The children of the pair may be utilized for light services, such as running errands, weed- ing the garden and watching the baby; but they are apt to be “light fingered” and are always lousy and dirty beyond degree. There ino help for it, however, and for every ser- vant you bire, you mustexpect at least a dozen extra mouths to feed. THE TWO SEASONS. In Ecuador there are but two seasons—the invierno or wet and the verano or dry, The invierno or winter (though astronomically it is summer time) begins in December and ends in May. The heavy rains come on about Christ- mas. March is the wettest month cf the vear, July the coldest and in May fevers most abound. During the dry season the climate of Guayaquil is nearly perfect, its continuity being broken only bya few days’ rain after the autumnal uinox. it is during the rainy season only that Guaya- quil bas earned its reputation for unhealthi- ness, Theu the air is as hot and oppressive as that ofa Turkish bath; rank vegetation lies festering in the sun; the country roads and even some of the city streets are perfectly im- passable, and fever and dysenteries do the work of death, while the living keep up per- petual war on pestiferous mosquitoes, cock- roaches, large as the palm of your hand (al- most), centipedes, scorpions and deadly ser- pents, FROM THE BALCONIES. The very finest thing about Guayaquil and of which one never tires is the incomparable vie to be obtained from the balconies, especially in clear days, when a magnificent stretch of the Andes may be seen. The stranger in these parts will forget many of the incidents of his journeying in after years, but the impression produced by his tirst glimpse of those glorious mountains is unfading. Until lately Chimborazo has been supposed to be the highest voleano on the hemisphere and totally inaccessible to the foot of man. It 4s 22,422 feet high—no slouch of a mountain, to be sure, but modern surveys show that it has superiors, In the Andean chain are five others that overtop it, and these are surpassed in the old world by several in the Himalayas. Among the countless millions who have lived and died since the world was made but one man has ever climbed to the summit of Chimborazo— Mr. Edward Whymper, an Englishman, who twice succeeded in accomplishing the feat (in 1879 and again in 1880), having previously made himself famous and prepared for the task by ascending the Matterhorn and other peaks of the Alps. SURROUNDED BY VOLCANOES. The capital of Ecuador, which lies directly over the equator and whose origin is lost in the mist of centuries, is one of the highest cities in the world and is surrounded by no less than twenty volcanoes. Three of these are active, five dormant and twelve extinct. Eighteen of them are covered with eternal snow and the summits of eleven have never been reached by any living creature,unless it may be the condor —that bird whose skyward flight surpasses any other, Cotopaxi is the lofti these active volcanoes, but in destructive energy has long been rivaled by severa’ others. For many yeurs it has given no indication of activity ex- tept in the cloud of smoke by day and the pillar of fire by night which constantly rise from its crater, and frequent rumblings that may be heard for six hundred miles, Those who have seen Vesuvius can form some idea of Cotopaxi’s grandeur by imagining a volcano 15,000 feet higher shooting fire from a crest covered by 3,000 feet of snow! On the south side of Cotopaxi isa gigantic rock 2,000 feet high which knownas “the Inca’s head.” Tradition has it that this rock once topped the summit of the volcano and that it fell on the day Atahualpa (the beloved) was murdered by the Syaniards, Fannre B. Warp, Ovex Aut Nicur For the accommodation of our customers and the eep our store open all night in charge rinacists. LIAMS & CO, BS ,, DRUGGISTS,, TEMPLE. ‘We use only the purest Teliable manufac. Lvite ® C@TefUl inspection of clans, turers, We cheertully this departiuent by phy Allcock’s Porous Plasters.... Porous Plas Ay Bay Kum, 1 Bovini G n1801:'s Capcine Plastei Willams’ Kuetmatic Flasters Cuticura Soa; Cuticura Resolyen Cashinere Boug : Carter's Littie Liver Pi OF Willi ams’ Little Liver Pile, the best. re ‘8 Soluble Food, med. oluble Food, ian Fellow's Sirup Hypop Willtatus’ C vulmamn. .” 's Golden Med. Discovery. 's Favorite Prescription... 's Purwative Peliet per bott] Warver’s Kidney and Liver Cure. 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