rizal drabbles life in dapitan

8/11/2019 Rizal Drabbles Life in Dapitan

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A boat came ashore on Sunday, the 17th of July, at 7 oclock in the evening. There

Captain Delgras handing Rizal over to Captain Carcinero, a Spanish commandant of

Dapitan. Before the Delgras and his accompany set sail again he was given choices to

whether to live in the mission house of the Jesuits or in a mission house provided that

he would submit himself to spiritual exercises while throwing away his religious andpolitical ideas. He chose neither instead he asked to live at Captain Carcineros house.

While staying living with captain Carcinero they have friendly conversations about his

beliefs toward Philippine independency from the friars

Don Carcinero: What exactly do you want for the Philippines, you even sacrifice your

freedom from travelling many different countries


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Rizal: Don Ricardo you among many people see how some Spaniards especially the

friars treat the native people in the Philippines with their obsession about religion and

the power they were given they see the people as mere animal primates that can be

step on, the people have suffered many years from their abuse that so many live in fear.Thats why I think it is time for a change, with the government taking the role to tutor the

people of our country for a better change by improving the administration on all

branches and to create more school and trades in the country.

Don Carcinero: That is impossible! The friars has many influences both in Madrid and in

Manila

Rizal: I do not think so. I assure to you that with the government a little advanced the

friars would disappear. In Madrid they know perfectly well all the friars do here in the

Philippines with informations I do not know. In the Philippines, the friars are disliked andjust make things worst everyday by them meddling with everything. The banishment of

my family is due to the accusation of a friar

Rizal Challenges a Frenchman to a Duel

Mr. Juan Lardet, a businessman, purchases many logs from Rizal unfortunately some

were of poor quality. Due to that he sent a letter to Antonio Miranda expressing his

disgust with the business deal and Rizal not being a truthful man.

Miranda forwarded the letter to Rizal making him mad in the process and challenged

Lardet to a duel. But Carcinero told the Frenchman, in letter, to apologize and decline

for that he has no chance in defeating Rizal in a fight. For Rizal is an expert in martial

arts especially in fencing and pistol shooting


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Following Carcineros advise, Lardet wrote a letter of apology to Rizal for the insulting

comment.. which Rizal greatly accepted and good relations were restored.

Wins in Manila Lottery

On September 21, 1892 the mail boat Butuan was approaching the town of Dapitan

carrying a Lottery ticket No. 9736 jointly owned by Captain Carnicero, Dr. Rizal and

Francisco Equilior (Spanish resident of Dipolog, a neighboring town of Dapitan) won the

second prize of P20,000 in the government-owned Manila Lottery. Rizal's share of the

winning lottery ticket was P6,200, He gave P2,000 to his father and P200 to his friend

Basa in Hong Kong and the rest he invested well by purchasing agricultural lands along

the coast of Talisay about one kilometer away from Dapitan.


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About the middle of October, 1893, his mother and his sisterTrinidad joined him in

Dapitan. Rizal was very much contented and,desiring to celebrate Christmas, asked

from Manila for a bale of Japanese paper to make lanterns with which to decorate his

gardenlike those he saw as a child in Calamba, He now lived in new house henear the

seashore and at the foot of a mountain, covered with eternalverdure.

Rizal's Encounter with the Friar's Spy At November 3, 1893

during the night a man visited Rizals house and introduced himself as Pablo Mercado,

who says that he is one of the relatives of his family, as evidence he showed Rizal a

photo of Rizal and a pair of buttons with the initials of PM.


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During the conversion the man offered his services to deliver letters and writings for the

patriots in Manila, which later made Rizal suspicious of the man and almost wanted to

throw him out of the house. But being mindful of his duty as a host and considering it is

already dark outside with heavy rainfall, he let the unwanted man stay at his house

during the night and the next day he let him leave.

Later he learned that the man is still in Dapitan and telling people that he is a relative of

Rizal, which later enraged him and reported it to Captain Juan Sitges, who succeeded

Captain Carnacio. Sitges ordered the arrest of Pablo Mercado and with thorough

insvestigation of Anastacio Adriaco they found out that the real name of Pablo

Mercado is Florencio Namanan who was a native of Cagayan de Misamis and was

hired by the Recollect friars on a mission to collect any letters and writings of Rizal to

accuse Rizal of being part in the revolutionary movement.


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The investigation was later discontinued and they released the spy, Sitges then

forwarded the investigation and the official report to Governor General Blanco. When

Rizal requested for a copy of the investigation Sitges denied his request.

Community Projects for Dapitan

When Rizal arrived in Dapitan, he decided to improve it, to the best of his God-given

talents, and to awaken the civic consciousness of its people. He wrote to Fr. Pastells: " I

want to do all I can do for this town."


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Aside from constructing the towns first water system, he spent many months in draining

the marshes in order to get rid of malaria that infested Dapitan.

The P500 which an English patient paid him was used by him to equip the town with its

lighting system which consist of coconut oil lamps placed in dark streets of Dapitan.

Electric lighting was unknown then in the Philippines not until 1894 when Manila saw

the first electric lights.


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He operated on his mother's right eye. The operation was successful but Dona Teodora

ignored her son's instruc tions by removing the bandages from her eyes, hereby

causing the wound to be infected.

Thus Rizal told Hidalgo his brother-in-law; "Now I understand very well why a physician

should not treat the members of his family. Fortunately, the infection was arrested and

Dona Teodora's sight was restored. Rizals fame as a physician particularly as an eye

specialist pave way to patients from different parts of the Philippines from Luzon, Bohol,

Cebu, Panay, Negros, and Mindanao and even from Hong Kong. Because of his

ophthalmic skill he was paid P3000 by Don Ignacio Tuma- rongin for the restoration of

his sight, P500 from an Englishman and a cargo of sugar given as payment by a rich

hacendero in Aklan, Don Florencio Azacarraga who was cured of eye ailment.


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Rizal became interested in local medicine and the use of medicinal plants. He studied

their curative values for the poor patients who could not afford to buy imported

medicine, he prescribed the local medicinal plants.

Idyllic Life in Dapitan Since August 1893, members of his family took turns in visitinghim in order to assuage his loneliness in the isolated outpost of the Spanish power in

the Moroland. Among them were his mother, Sisters Trinidad, Maria, Narcisa; and

nephews Teodosio, Estanislao, Mauricio, and Prudencio. He built his house by the

seashore of Talisay, surrounded by fruit trees and another house for his school boys

and a hospital for his patients.


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In February of that year he became acquainted with Josephine Bracken, and his soul,

immersed in solitude, awakened eagerly to the allurements of love. She was a girl of

about nineteen, born in Hong kong of an Irish mother and an English father.

When she was left an orphan, she became a dancer in one of the cafs in Hongkong.

Mr. Taufer, who was quite rich, knew her there and took her not so much protect her as

to have someone to take care of him, for he had became blind. When Mr. Taufer went

to Dapitan top lace himself under the professional care of Doctor Rizal, she

accompanied him and passed for his daughter.


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The youth and exotic charm of Josephine could not but impress Rizal, but as he

suspected at first that she was spy sent ot find out his movements, she was very much

reserved towards her. Later, however, they became very good friends and Rizal

declared sentiments to her.

Mr. taufer, upon learning of the affair, suffered an attact of desperation to tried to

commit suicide with a razor, which was avoided by Rizals opportune intervention.

Mr.Taufer then return to Hong kong and remained with Rizals mother in Manila. Thence

she returned alone to Dapitan to live with Rizal.


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Rizal had great pity for the enamoured Josephine, abandoned and alone as she was.

But his life with her was the subject of protests from the Church, and Rizal, in order to

avoid public scandal, decided to marry her. But the Church would not sanction his

marriage unless here tract out of respect for the costumes of the people.

Near the end of June 1896, the katipunan, which had replacedthe league, thought of

sending one of its members of Dapitan to conferwith Rizal and find out whether he was

disposed to place himself at thehead of a revolutionary mov

The Death Sentenced and the Last Farewell

Rizal exerted his last effort to record his innocence in an indubitable manner: when

asked whether he had anything to say, he the contents of the document which he

himself had prepared and in which he said:


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Fifth.Someone had said that I was the chief. What kind of chief is hewho is not

consulted as to the projects and who is only advised to escape/ What chief is that who

when he laws, the aims of which were to promote commerce, industry, the arts, et

cetera, by means of union; this has been confirmed by witnesses who were not

favorable, but rather opposed to me.

Seventh. The League did not live nor was it established, for after the first reunion it

was not taken up again; it died because I was deported few days later.

Eight. If it was recognized the other persons nine months later, as they say now, I did

not know it.

Ninth. The League was not an association with subversive ends, and that is proven by

the fact that they had to abandon it, organizing the Katipunan, which perhaps better

suited their purposes. If the League could have left it but would have only modified it; for

if, as some pretend, I am the chief, out of consideration for me and for the prestige ofmy name they would have preserved the denomination of League. The fact that they

laid it aside, name and all, and created the Katipunan, clearly proves that they neither

counted on me nor did the League serve their purposes, as otherwise they would not

have another association when there was one already instituted.

Tenth.With respect to my letters, if there be any bitter censures therein, I request the

Court to consider the time in which I wrote them(1890); at that time we had been

disposed of hours, camarins, lands, et cetera, and on top of that all my brothers-in-law

and my brother were deported, as a consequence of a suit arising from an inquiry of the

Department of Finance, a suit in which, according to our lawyer, Mr. Linares Rivas, wehad the right on our side.

Eleventh. That I have suffered my deportation with resignation, not for the reason

alleged, which is inaccurate, but for what I might have written. Asked the politico-military

commanders of the district about my conduct during these four years of my deportation;

asked the people, even the missionary priests themselves, in spite of my personal

differences with one of them.

Twelfth. All these facts and consideration destroy the ill-founded accusations of those

who have testified against me, with whom I have asked the judge to be confronted. Is it

possible that in one single night was able to line up all of the filibusterism, at a gathering

which discussed commerce, etcetera, and which did not go beyond that, for itdied

subsequently? If the few who were present have taken my words seriously, they would

not have let the league die. Is it that those who have formed part of the league that night

founded the Katipunan? I believe not. Who went to Dapitan to talk to me? They were

persons entirely unknown to me. Why not an acquaintance was sent in home I would

have had more confidence? Because those acquainted with me, knew very well that I

have forsaken politics, they must have refused to take a vain and futile step.


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Rizal wrote a heartfelt farewell to his country.

Farewell thee well, motherland I adore, region the suns hold dear,

Pearl of the sea oriental, our paradise came to grief;

I go with gladness to give thee my life all withered and drear;

Though it will more brilliant, more fresh with flowery cheer,

Even then for thee would I give it, would give it for thy relief.

On many a field of battle, struggling mud of delirium,

Others give thee their lives, without a doubt or lament;

The place does not matters at all; cypress, laurel or lily may come,

The open arena of scaffold, a fight of cruel martyrdom,

Tis the same if to that by ones home, and his motherland he is sent

.I am dying now I behold how color is straining the sky,

Announcing the day at last beyond this dismal night;

If thou requires scarlet with which thine aurora to dye,

Behold then, here is my blood, pour out as thine hour is nigh-

I give to thee for reflecting the gleam of thy natal light.

My dreams, while yet merely a child, or where nearing maturity,

My dreams, when a youth full of vigor at length I became,

Were to see thee were happier day, O jewel of the Orient sea,

Thine ebon eyes dried of their tears, thine uplifted brow clear and free

From the frowns and the furrows, the stains and the stigma of the shame.

O dream that inspired my life, my ardent, enduring desire,

God bless thee!, this fervent soul cries, that soon in departing from thee

.God bless thee! How lovely it is to fall and to lift the higher;

To die and to give thee my life, here under thy sky expire,

And in thine enchanted terrain to sleep for eternity.


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Of over my tomb thou beholds, one day beginning to grow,

A slender and diffident flower peeping out through the crowding grass,

Draw it close to thy lips, and thy kiss, to my very soul shall go,

And I shall fell on my forehead, in the chilly tom below,

The tenderness of thy breathing, the warmth of its vapor pass.

Let the moon look down upon me with her soft and tranquil ray;

Let the dawn sent forth her splendor on a swiftly fleeting wings;

Let the moaning wind above me murmur solemnly away;

And if a bird descending, on my cross alight, on day,

Let the bird his canticle of peace above me sing.

Let the sun turn the trains in the vapor with his ardent rays,

And carry them pure to heaven, my death knell neath them passed.

Let some friendly person weep, for the premature end of my days,

And in the serene afternoons, while anyone for me prays,

O motherland, pray for me too, that I close to God my rest.

Pray for all of the others who haplessly died;

For those who were tormented with inimitable pain;

For our unhappy mothers who in bitter sorrow cried;

For orphans and widows and captives, by horrid torture tried;

And pray for thyself that thou Mayes, thy final redemption gain.

And when in the night the darkness enwraps the graveyard round,

And only, only the dead remain there to watch with me,

Do not disturb their repose, their mystery profound;

If haply thou hearest a zither, or a psaltery resound,

Tis I, mymotherland dear, I, who am singing to there.

And when in the end my tomb, forgotten by all men,

Has neither a cross nor a stone to keep its plane revealed,

Let any man plow it and spread it with his spade, and then


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My ashes, before they resolve into dust upon thy flowery field.

Consign me to oblivion then, it matters naught,

This air, thy space, thy valleys I shall permeate,

My vibrant limpid notes shall to thin ear be brought,

Aroma, lights, and colors, songs with moaning fraught,

The essence of my faith shall constantly relate.

My idolized motherland, whichsgrieving, makes me grieve,

Dearest Filipinas, hear my last farewell again!

I now leave all to thee, my parents, my loved ones I leave

I go where there are no slaves, a brutes lash to receive;

Where faith does not kill, and where it is God who doth reign.

Farewell, my parents and brothers, parts of the soul of me,

Friends of my early childhood in the home now dispossessed,

Give thanks when I am at rest from this day of misery,

Sweet foreigner, my friends, my joy, farewell to thee,

Farewell, my loved ones all. To die is but to rest.

There was not a single recrimination or a hint of hate for anybody; he was thankful that

he was going to rest from the day ofweariness. For death was not the endbut a mere

resting. After he had finished writing these verses, he felt happy and rested. He had

already given all he could to his country: his talent, his security, his felicity, his future.

He could give no more. Let death come soon!


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Jose Rizal

InDapitan

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