San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-26

established his reputation, and he
forged ahead, soon becoming q
broker, and next merchant, and
now nothing less than million dol
lar contracts and the buying OF
steamers satisfies his ambition
He is up to dateand unspoiled, for
he has taken life by the seamy
side, and can pity man down on
his luck. Here, then, is the pro.
verbal rolling stone, but a moss
gatherer, indeed.
KNOWS A DUKE.
Every day at lunch in the state
ly dining room OF the aristocratic
Jockey Club, the swaggerest in
stitution here, one sees, when he
is in town, a tall American, who
drawls like an Englishman, who
has roamed the ocean, engineered
in the civil way on the isthmus OF
Panama, lived in the solitary
forests east of the Andes, in Peru,
where the sands of the rivers are
-of gold, and nourishes his soul in
the great silences of that loneliest
Of lands. He tried to awaken in
terest in trans-Andean mining
among the rich men in Frisco,
but they were incredulous and
said to him nay, but nowadays all
that he told them has come true
in official reports, and gold ex-
element is decidedly son" down
there.
This tall, drawing mining ex-
pert, for that is what he is, has the
confidence of the princes Of the
copper and gold world, and he
travels like a lord, and looks at
mines all over Mexico. He was
friend of the late Duke Marl-
borough, has dined at Blenheim,
and has been served by gorgeous
fiunkeys in scarlet and gold livery
and powdered hair, but he can
chew pigs ears out in the interior
when on an expedition. He has
been a rolling stone for nigh on to
thirty years, and has handsome
bank balance now. How expert
ence does somehow shatter the
copy book maxims!
THE CREW MUTINIED.
A still comparatively young
man, now here, entered the British
navy as midshipman, and served
in every quarter OF the globe, but,
breaking down with fever on the
Gold coast station, he retired and
engaged in business in Italy,
thence going to Vienna and to
Paris, in which cities he lived sew
eral years. Having acquired Span
ish, he thought it might be made
useful in ranching among the
blooming Moors, and so, marrying,
he went to Morocco with his young
wife. They made many horseback
expeditions into the interior, which
Mortified the orthodox Moors, un
accustomed to seeing the hated
Nazarenes riding about like
princes.
Things not going well in the land
of Islamite and turbaned fellows,
the ex-midshipman bethought him
of the pleasant land Of southern
California, where he went, and
tried fruit farming with i'll finan.
cial success, and, when war was
threatened between Mexico and
Guatemala, he offered his services
to this government and was ac-
cepted but the war did not materl-
alize. One of his by-sdventures
was enlisting under Balmaceda
on a brand new ship, built in
England, and no sooner getting
out to sea when the crew OF
Chileans mutinied, and had to be
shot down day after day, almost
within sight Of the English coast
Finally, hearing that all was over
with Balmaceda, the ship was tax
en- to Lisbon, where most Of the
Englishmen, not caring to be hung
as pirates, for such was the pleas
ing announcement Of the triumph
ant Congressionalists in Chile
left the vessel which, later on
was surrendered in Brazil.
This gentleman, still a younG
man, has certainly seen the world
and he has enjoyed hugely hi
cosmopolitan experiences. He il
by no means financially done up
and is looking out for war in TIN
} east. His wife says that he dreams
by night Of powder and slaughter
and scans the papers for hopeful
rumors of hostilities somewhere
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