The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-19
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American ward Of our M.nster~wc drove
TO the Plaza Bolivar. This is a lovely
park. like Chicagos parks, set in the
.antre of the town and open 10 every
bo,lv. As YOU look upward from this park
Won see the hills dressed in two cclors.
The pale green is The sugar cane and
the dark green Us the coffee, like the
sun grecn of the apple orchards at home
and ;he waving gray OF the grain. Here
they don't raise grain. If they want n
and can't buy 81 they grind up peanuts
Peanut biscuits arr very nice-iasune.
That nicht At dinner some one remind
od MS that wo We're ON Che longitude OF
Boston: that the city OF Culture lay two
thousand miles north OF us In straight
limo.
There you have the baked-hean girl.
here Won have the banana girl,' said
am Enslshuan. PECULIARLY.
Then they pointed ont banana GIRL
sitting upon the verauda chatting with
party Of young women. other banana
girls. Thov are big women. with dreamy
owes. biz. deem arN r''1eri0r with
skins soft white touching upon brown.
and hands too big for them. They are
said 10 he very volupfuous in appearance.
hut 7 Thought them confding and inn0-
cent? But mine eyes arc those OF a wo-
man.
Their topics Of discussion were the
simplest ones. Tor Venezuelan girls DO
not talk about national events as our
young women are trained 10 DO. They
take what comes and leave what goes.
and are happy as long as a Spaniard
smiles upon them
Rut there was q tonic being discussed
m the streets tonight r. was the re-
crultng OF soldiers. Venezuelan soldiers
are recruited On strange ways. The law
requires every man 90 serve In the war.
but 90 IS loosely enforced. ana out of
couple Of million Venezuela1s not more
than .0no are soldiers But every man be-
longs 20 the army. according 70 law.
MAKING SOLDIERS OF THEM
when they want recruits they 20 20
some place Of anu 'ement and seize all
the boys IN the gallery. the gallery gods.
AID arch them or 100 headlul~-erA
Visited one Of these recruiting stations
next day where the soldiers arr broken
IN.
I'VE don't like 20 fight" said one Of
them. a bis brawny Nenezu Ian to me,
"but there are things We've got 10 have.
There's 10000 OF us. and We. every moth
er's son o. us. want fight. We're tired
Of seeing foreigners come here and get
the best there Is.
We've got a way OF our own Of pre-
venting II. too We've got our oWl bands
armed With our own arms. and were an
rel IS 90 speak the word Fire" We are
born Ga the mountains. most Of us and we
know what IL is TO eat rocks. We will
make fighters that you cant starvt out.
III there's country reader for blood
than We are, let MS know H. Your coun-
try. the United states. was ready 10 help
ms at one time. but now you've begun 10
show the white feather. Arbitration. you
call Il. We call 1t taking away every
thing We own,
You give the Venezuelans a chance
and youll see them massacre. as the
American Indians nassacred twenty years
ago We feel Indien-iike for our rights.
You can tell your folks so,
And there's another thing I want 10
say II the British Minister hangs on
here too long be viii have nothing 10
hang on to-not even his scalp"
Nenozuelans are recruited by seizure
but from the hills come recruits OF their
own accord.
was in Venezuela only three DAYS.
1t isn't a restful place. There are too