The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 13

DEC:17. 99, ~ G - o TSTAMAS T Caltfornta before the came was a season when E All 8 fed over the oat cov- r nings and mowed ir stomachs Y stood be- ne was as fat r 5 wat thelr direotion and commenced Sancing by stepping very high with one foot, twice on the other and alternating in & WAy to express great gles as at the suo- cessful termination of an episode. When the Indlans wers through with thetr play the pa 8 came slowly from the Mission, the Indians formed in line after them and Be shown in pictures on the where devils In hades tossed lost nto brimstone lake: vening sheowed Y SN S the allegory of the how the Indians had thought emly ef 1 war, how they had sought for thelr eme- mies and pursued them, and how at lns§ they had come into the church. - One of the old Indians left by the fire ur came up to us and, holding out his hand, said, “Tabac?" I gave him a generous pinch frem my hich he stowed In some invisible mediately held out his hand & this for a hint that he had h I gave him another hand- he caused to disappear as be- thus whetted his cupidity endless giving, I wanted to e me something in return, at there were strange In- no tabac. Questa los Indice ™ n sabe? Tabac?’ no tabac till you tell me where there. Two hill hinich come te- Heap Indlan. ight. Tabac? e all In my pouch, which he took without thanks and held out his hand who had not bee erted en- - r and still ke v wild abo- N 1 dances. n for some time trying to get c Indians to come and join them, a dance which they we hs was in- tended as an opposition to Christmas N frdo INOIANS ay A CHRUSTMAS £ VE dArCE INTER Summes 745 EVE Danv b -§ /s or; JosE: Ramon: PICO testival rn b WATH FS FAmMIy - and was to be such a big danes PROTo TAKEMN . (BG4 n would come to see it by all good Indians. as the deity of all Cali- ns and to them as great as > the anclents. s were a couple of sharp ~Judge of the Court of the Primera In- stancla—and being so much in public life Tia bad no lack of company. g i t1fu] ala- All came on horseback, as thers wers Our course led through the beautiful a! , and the fact % meda, where the moonlight streamed he feels, and !r. that way can talk to his neither cafriages nor roa v marked the mouth of a steep of all traveling that way added to the " through the branches that laced overhead arke : pleasure and ng"me of the occasion, for and continued in perspective to the van- canyon, through which o large women never look better than when 1shing point. . stream flowed under alder and sycamore We rode races all the way to its and th imbed slowly on to & a which overlooked It me to the edge of the can- 1 « ight from a cave rth in front of t procession I mounted on a favorite pony that knows We had much muslc—gultars of the Coming to the Mission Banta Clara, how to show off both itself and them, and Mexican and Spanish type, made with there was a ruddy light as of a burning men never mppear more active, brave- welve strings of wire, and mandolins. buflding, thet turned out to be the Indian looking or well at ease than as cavallers, After supper there was dancing in the encampment, holding one of thetr ceremo- Our house, like most of the larger, was Ppatlo, coffee and cigaritos on the veran- nlous danges which always precedes bus!- in the form of a hollow square, with the das, and singing everywhere. Some one ness, pleasure or war. We always saw to rooms mainly opening on inner verandas. Said It would be a beautiful night for & {t that the Indians had plenty to eat, for away as hls face was pointed and silent as the grave. In t Vi they radiat to every degree of the compass and g out for some distance d the ¢ them to use In making chalrs a and alo for use f ‘the bu bou | ew nutes a s fastened wi Each room had Its own adobe fireplace, horseback ride over the valley to the there was no easier way to keep them in ‘l‘:";,f-e‘;‘.;u"cj’q’ oo f R i Crund gl v ywy skeletons - and the Inay usually buflt in the corner, and many of Mission Santa Clara. ¥ subjection than by making presents of p“";d Snd - staod. motionl " that séemed » beckon some- y ald not & them had all housekeeping conveniences, The horses in the corral were soon sad- food, and at Christmas time we had the The chigf then called thing from t r of ‘the cav- . which were then simple, as stoves were @led. There were twenty-five or thirty of better reason of wishing to show them the for a report as to whether b ern and, bec essly, they roun tever was not in use, all cooking belng done over US young men and women. Our horses substantial benefits of Christianity. 205" andmtle. - THe" mian. @ddres an- bega e the starv- » o e ot garied It contracted the open fireplece. Bo many of our vis- Were the best of tho big herds that wers At all of the fires were Indians cooking ewered in the negative, the one next him his grief and . drawing surfaces togetlier &3 jiors made themselves at home in the Attached to every rancho, and as an in- and eating. After they had eaten for & jmmediately followed and so ar nvoking Chin- o fullest sense of the term, bringing their #tance of the number we kept I remem- tyme they began to steal away and hide in fgching ) anlard and res- k Jvould rawhide last?! Benor, own servants and merely drawing provi- ber that In the year 153 we had to kill 700 the darpaess. except a few of the oldest Then began the dance cue t % grounds. Such , 7 or any Sunday at the gions from the ample supplies in the horses at a place near San Jose which We men and women, who stayed to replenish’ drummed with sticks on dry hat we were glad n Dolores of Ban Francisco the old gtorerooms. In that way our guests, celled Las Lagunitas, on account of the {ne-fire. Suddenly loud yells split the air, the circle commenced to move them to their misery, ¢ Je thongs fastening the roof tim- {hough numerous, caused little incon. dry season and the shortness of grass. and from behind trees on the flat and goftly arownd, lifting their feet very | t and sound I had i s Tamtiies fpr e that have been In place for ons hun- venience or disturbance of our way of The saddles, bridies and spurs were heav- Tocks on the hill Indians came running in and bending their heads as though as eve. 1 e R T e m.? twenty-six )Nf!!'tmd are now Jife and we had plenty of time to amuse ily covered with sliver bullion ornaments, a4 though to murder and scalp those ing and listening. Then, from a member faster than . r haciendn, & fow i o SHIONE. They Bave stretched, ' ourssives. as In those times we put our sliver on our about the fire. Then from the other side of the silent circle came a yell as ‘hough nges leaned o end & weok of Christ, _Joush, and the roof bends down as if One Christmas eve, 1 remember best, horses instead of on our dining tables; came the war cry, and other Indians the trail of an inferior enemy had been over the dark fourtair Then inte Tiles dls pend & U7 LIS 1o shelter the bells. They, too, were tled there was a full moon. Over all the for Spaniards, you know, live on horsi rushed to defend the elders. After that seen. The drumming started loud and the patio, where frog coffea from Nough there was 1o thowr (inces With rawhide thongs, and ground thers was a glittering frost, just back, and they eat but to live, Instead of there wes & ort ot - tham battle, all fast, the Indlans began to run rapidly, Mexico, tortillas and tamales de las gale r) made presents, though th though the bells are so cracked that they engugh to whiten everything, yet mnot lving to eat. laughing, wrestling and rolling on the waving thelr handkerchlefs and finally linas were served steaming hot from the PE¥ . Claus then ring no more the rawhide holds them enough to even nip the orange trees, Riding out of the patio gate it was like & o - ground till tired and ready to eat again. their blankets.” More wood was/piled on big fireplace in the kitel B L Lo coyen 3» - My Shane. Tpich at this season of the year hang full & scene from the time of the Moors in ~Then El Capitan stood up by the firs, the fire and at the end the Tndlane were danced until morning meat and also red blankets On La Noche Buena at our haclends of fruit and blossom both. Though crisp Spain. As our horses snorted in the cold the squaws, Mahalas and papooses seated running round at full speed yelling and sleepy eyve in th o padre at the there were always many families besides and cold outside the patio it was warm air they spun the rollers in their bits, ! - €5 ax the coun- our own. My uncle, Pio Pico, was twice within by reason of the shelter and of the making music that only the Spanish Y When daylight themselves close about, the men arranged striking at the ones in front of them and came we went to our rooms or took sies- : themselves In a large circle all facing di- driving them into fury while El Ca; itan tas In the hammocks under the verandas alsed-carne seca, peppers, sweet po- the Governor of California, and my father fires in the rooms opening on it and of the horseman knows, for the eager horse, rectly away from the center. EIl Capitan In the center urged them to more Zu: .x;,d were ready for almuerso when the % and sacks of beans to supply thelr was one of the Justices who correspond numerous lanterns which bung el apout ready for a dash, tells by his brisk sald something In the Indian language tlon. bell rang. biches, and big bundies of éry bides fof to our Chief Justice of the Suorema Court the verandas -~ pirited and each of the men walked stralght All came to & sudden stop, reversed . Bo for & week our Christmas lasted ¥ ' -gattling of the cog In his bit ho