The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1899, Page 22

HIGHER <LAFZ- their inhabit ) - comparativ % 4 4 opportunity 8 habits or amusements S SN/ P Dy ! T Any, Y E FEIE: —one the - 4| SREAT fixed. The 7 red, un- - .7 el spoiled > ha [ There- - A 2 WATER d the proud ‘p s work and spend their hours : 3 ly apart as if a ma isurmountable burrier was $ $ EBVEFALD ion is its mascot, the little four- eserves its I favorite pion strong and little ticularly important pe that fact. The only th his ride up from the fer e Call building, th outhful soul with aw nts of his native dialect all the , Abano Sucartre, a typical h 10w a note of anila_band der, who <, to have their plctures taken and the artist. em to be specimens of a docile and aracteristics are an inordinate love of nt conceit which is as engaging as T s oddly att: ertainme: ze water buffalos, or carabao, as they are called in the Philipp! ¢ e than rival them in the es n of the American pub i ding horns and slow a ements, are the chief dependence tive Filipinos of the p. Living, they bear all the burdens and do all the work of the community which holds them prisoners, and dead, their coarse-grained but nourishing flesh forms a staple article of food for 'those = 4 whose chief support they have been in life. rHE o SLOAN The efforts of these three strange and uncannily flerce-looking creatures to r { break away from their keepers when they wers first landed on the water front, ot ‘7L—ANI>‘> crowd which gathered to gaze at them. It is reassuring to know that in spite of gt / thelr forbldding appearance, they are as gentle and as lazy as over-fed kittens L) in order to enjoy a bath in the salt water, nearly ereated a stampede of the —«&/ az}{l].thu even ““Cupld” can ride upon their backs and gulde them &8 he ———— w