The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-23
HIS UNLUCKY REVOLVER.
The Colonel Tells Tale Of Adven
ture.
From the Ne,o York 7Yu,es.

MONTE CHRISTI, SAN DOMINGO, Feb 90
For more years than he cares to think about
the Colonel has been more or less peace
able and law abiding citizen of this glorious
republic. He came here with the laudable
| intention of making his fortune. of growing
| up and developing with the unknown island,
| of becoming some time its President, and OF
| having a fiji st-rate time generally. During
| the Wharf.-The American civil war
the Colonels ideal soldier was Gen.
| Grant, and when, years after he had laid
| down the horrid implements of war and
| had embraced with wholesome enthusiasm
the occupation of growing fat, he learned
| of President Grants SANTANA annexation
| scheme, he was animated with the desire of
seeing the place from which his hero ex-
pected so much. So he packed his trunk
and went down there. The life revealed to
him was such lazy one, such an easy
| going, sunny, constituencies sort of an
existence, thateit capt ured him at once. He
| took up his residence among the banana
selling natives and prospered.
Since that time he has lived in every sec
ton of the island. He has fought cocks
with the high officials in San Domingo City
he has dug gold in the Cibao mountains: he
has INDUCED in outrageous flirtations with
the girls III Puerto Plata; he has taken snap
shots at revolutionary insurgents at Las
Matas; he has danced with the Governors
wife at Guayubin; he has been coy with
tarantulas and scorpions along the Mao; he
has-well, he has done lots of other things
that he ought not to have done in the civil
lied and uncivilized portions of the republic.
He has beeu a sort of rolling stone that
has gathered little moss everywhere, until
he has finally settled down here in Monte
Christi with upward OF $50 pounds of mo IS
attached to his supporting bones. Even
now am firmly convinced that, notwith-
standing the fact that his isn't the figure
which ordinarily gives pleasure to a long
travelling horse, were it not for his wife and
the precious infant he would start out !
his favorite steed some morning and begin
again the life in which he found so many
attractions in the years that are gone.
The other night, shortly after he had
told me the story of his experience at
Magua fandaDgo, the Colonel and l were
| iudulgentlY consuming some of ManuePs
cigars and little of Toribios compound,
and he reverted to some of his earlier ex-
periences in the wildS of the mountains
| We were stretched out laZily in hammocks
strung up on the veranda, the air was de-
liciously cool, the night was stu and bright,
and the Colonel was in JOYOUS condition.
"Magua was a curious place when / first
went there" he said, pleasantly accommo-
! hdbiib q VI Va bhp NCihpchhu5 "blNh
expressed a desire to share in
the occupancy Of his hammock.
1.-The work-the preliminary work-in
the great Bulla gold mine had only shortly
before been commenced, and the officers Of
the company had pitched upon this little
level spot Just at the junction of the Magua
and the Mao rivers for a headquarters. IL
was Just a hollow in the mountains, and
when it rained the water poured down
from all sides, and you were liable at such
times to consider the art Of swimming as
infinitely more valuable than any other ac-
conplishment. 1t was the most gorgeous
climate in the world. II was never too hot,
there wasn't any sickness there, except once
we had smallpox, and IL is in connection
with that epidemic that / am going TO talk
TO you.
II had been in the place for about six
months, aud was beginning TO seriously con-
template a change Of habitation, when
that Internal disease broke out. 1t had
been raging all over the island for months,
and we had congratulated ourselves over
our apparent escape, when one morning a
fellow crawled down from the ditch line
desperately III, and before we knew what
was the matter with him he died. He had
the smallpox, and pretty soon the whole
town had IT, had toyed with the disease
years before and had come out of the alter
cation with deep appreciation Of its power
as a social factor. but with the happy knowl-
edge that nothing would ever induce the
maladv to tackle me again. Therefore