Then the show begins. Paterno, Macabulos, Montenegro, some envoy from Cebu, for example, who come to sound him, as the slang saying goes, arrive.

Mr.

Taft has the same respectful smile for all, the same courtesy, and addresses them all in the same terms, which his athletic Secretary,

Mr.

Fergusson, repeats in Spanish with the gravity of a Sphinx and the fidelity of a phonograph. When the matter warrants it,