The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-23

were stricken down. There wasn't doctor
within fifty miles of the place, a ID we got
along with the unique but effective RENE
dies of the old women until one of the Cali
fornia miners got very bad Off, and then it
became necessary to have physician BY
that time was played out and longing for
a change anyhow and | determined to ride
over to the little garr,soned town, fifty
miles away, and send its doctor over.
promised myself vacation of two weeks
anyhow, so ] got letter to our agent at
Santiago, and, with Money, my bay, started
out.
'Tgot the doctor-he charged S40O for the
trip, an amount which / regarded as highly
diScourteous in him to ask for, but he was
unfortunately a necessity, and we had to
have hlm-started him Off, and then pro
ceeded to enjoy the delights of the town y
Santiago" said the Colonel, thanking
Sylvester with a look, and draining the
glass, lis nice place-for the natives. At
this particular period of which speak that
portion of San Domingo in which Santiago
is situated was having a JOYOUS time
wrestling with itself i'll one of those pleas
ant. sociable revolutions which occasionally
| occur in this country. l have forgotten the
| cause of the Troublesome gentleman
having pulled the tail of some other gentle
mans burro, perhaps, or maybe somebody
had objected to somebody else having taken
bath in his rum, or something OF the kind
had happened-but Santiago was I'M
der strict military, rule, and
spies and other trouble-creating per-
sons were treated, when caught, with sum
mary courtesy. / had had some trouble in
entering the town, but my letters and our
| agent carried me through, and arrived at
the hotel with all my possessions except
my big revolver, usually carried in my
belt, which an at entive but covetous senti-
mel had appropriated as an article of war.
| was then informed that was not allowed
to carry any weapons during my stay in
Santiago, and that a failure on my part to
regard this warning might result in some
awful catastrophe. | had, however, another
revolver in my pocket, and having had
some slight experience with the gentle ma
tiveS, or, at leaet, with one of them, who.
o one remarkable occasion, upon discover
ing that | was unarmed, expressed fierce
desire to possess my heart, and who came
near carrying out his cannibalistic design
promised myself that it should stay there
1t would have saved me much trouble had
| surrendered that unluclxy revolver right
there
'On the second night of my stay in San
tiago," continued the Colonel, apparently
growing interesting in his story, 81 went to
call on a friend, and staid very late. 1t was
perhaps 9 o'clock in the morning when
started for my hotel-I say my hotel be-
cause its the proper thing, not becau'e |
owned it-and | felt contented with myself
and all the world besides. passed one or
two of the 'serenos'-you know, don't you,
that Santiago is patrolled at night by lot
of watchmen, serenos, who carry around a
staff and lantern and call out the hour
and the prevailing state of the weather
from midnight till sunrise. It's disgust
ing custom, and one which has walked me
4 ID
calmly damn its existence"
There is only one thing which can calm
my able military friend when he gets to an
indignant pitch, and having successfully
employed that valuable sedative he CON
tinued: "These fellows were particularly
virulent that night, and once or twice | was
stopped by them and Intercepted closely
as to my business and so forth. | was per-
mitted to go o ,, but in the face of each OF
my pleasant friends observed look which
indicated a lurking belief that | was a fat
spy in the employ of the enemy. But q
little thing like that hadn't the power TO
d sturb me, and / went incoming on, hum
ming lightly the air that had just delighted
my soul, and feeling comfortable generally.
81 had gotten pretty nearly to the end OF
| my walk, and was just turning the corner
| into my street, when there jumped out al
| me from somewhere most villainous mon
grel cur. He made a vicious jab at my leg
and barked with all his might and main.
was so totally unprepared for any such
attack and the thing was so sudden that |
| lost my head, and, drawing my forbidden
revolver, | fired wildly at the wretched dog
fired three or four times. OF course
didn't hit the brute, and he ran yelping off.
but the reports of that pistol sounded
through the still night ike the reverbera-
tions of a cannon. In about minute there
were about 7,000,0 900, more or less-I didn't
have time or inclination to make an actual
count-of those awful serenos hutterine
about me, asking monstrous questions, and
each one most DESTROYS of etfecting the cap
ture of fat spy
"That's what they thought was. They
found me standing pistol in hand, RESPONSE
BILE for most astounding exhibition, no
body in sight AID, they thought that my
o MY possible reason in firing the shots was
to proclaim my treacherous calling and sign
my own death warrant | didn't have much
the appearance of man who was tired of
life, but that didn't enter into their reason
ing / was bundled up and hustled up to
the fort at lively rate. | was taken into
the presence of the person in charge, my
heinous crime was reclted to him; he was
sleepy and not in the best of humor and
had the satisfaction of hearing him
order that / be shot at z o'clock. / was
paralyZed. SIot! i hadn't done anything
to be shot for. The fellow must be crazy
| told him so, but that only made him
the angrier. / expostulated, | stamped
on the floor, l tried to pull his beard, |
shouted | beloved No earthly use.
wa suddenly seized by lot of miserable
creatures, who threw me down, tied my
hands and tried to tie my feet, but kicked
man emphatic4lly in thu stomach, and
that was the only one Of my remonstrances
to which they paid any heed.
"They carried me into a little bit of a
stuffy room and set me down in chair,
taking the precaution to tie me TO it. Then
my captors all left NEAL but one, a
vicous-looking brute, who grinned at me
with his eyes and chewed tobacco with hi
teeth. ] was so possessed with rage for q
time that | couldn't do anything but abus @
in disemboweled Spanish my malicious
looking jailer But after awhile began 10
think that it would be an excellant thing to
try to get out of my scrape. / hadn't the
faintest desire to face twenty-1Our rifles at Z
o'clock, even il they were od-fashioned
weapons and not fit for a white man to use
l knew that If | could get word to our agent
he could arrange the difficulty without
trouble The wretches thought / was a
spy, and if that were disproved, only the
crime of firing Off a revolver would remain
at my door, and ! don't think that they'd
have the hardihood to shoot me for that, so
| adopted a soothing tone and preached the
subject to my 10 acco-chewing frie d.
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