The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-08-13
ALL BEANS.
Diet OF Boston Frenchman While Con-
fined in a Prison in Cuba.

| Diet OF Boston Frenchman While Con-
fined In Prison in Cuba.
Sixty-two days. Three meals day.
| Beans for every meal
That was the record of Pierre Rich
elieu's Imprisonment by the Spanish au-
| thorities at Santiago de Cuba
Ii Pierre was a native Bostonese he
would porbably have liked nothing bet
ter, but he was born in France, and is
man of the sea withal, and thai pro-
tracted period of subsistence upon
beans has left rancor in his heart and
utter Generalization in his interior
economy.
| Pierre had taken out naturalization
papers in Boston previous to risking his
life, liberty and digestive machinery in
Spanish territory. He hoped fondly,
but vainly, that this ceremony would
render him bean-proof. In his travels
| about the world he had heard of the
vast use the Spaniards made of beans.
| He is now standing off and on" about
| the corridors of the United States dis
trict court in Boston, waiting for the
authorities to look up his ''citizen pa
| pers," and with them as a basis to file
a $4,000 claim against the government
of the dons for the destruction of his
intestinal equipment.
Pierre's complete name is Pierre Gus
tave Laymet Richelieu. In February of
! 1895 he found himself in Port au Prince,
| Hayti. One day he started out in a
little boat called the Yankee Doodle,
land, with a companion named August
Bolton, went fishing along the coast
| for turtles.
a storm drove them out of their reck-
oning, and on dark night they went
ashore upon the coast of Cuba. No
sooner had they set foot on the soil
than a lot of vigilant senors thrust them
into prison as insurgent sympathizers.
There they remained CO days.
| Now, Spain feeds her army and navy
principally upon beans, and the Span
ish captors reasoned that what was
| good enough for the warriors of CASTLE
was certainly good enough for rebel sus-
poets. So beans they got, and nothing
more. The weary weeks of confinement
and bean diet were punctuated with
cheering announcements from time to
time, that they might expect to be shot
within a day or two. WELL" says Rich
ellen, they didn't do that. but it's about
the only thing they didn't do. We had
nothing to eat but beans"
Whether it was really the beans or the
fear of death that did 1t, within few
days both the men were so i'll they could
scarcely stand. They managed at last
to gain the notice of the American con-
sui and were released. There was no
| evidence against them. They came back
to New York, victims of beans and An
dalusian perversity, and demanded that
| the United States government obtain re-
dress for them.
Bottoms status as a citizen was all
! right, and the American minister at
Madrid has been ordered to present his
claim for bean damage. But poor Pierre
was in no such luck. His papers-the
first set taken at Portland, Ore, in 1872,
and the second at Boston, in 1S78-were
! all made out i'll the name of Gustav
Laymet. His statements about them
have all been verified Hi. tale is IN
questionably true, but he says the pa
pers, which he had with him when he
was seized in Cuba, were taken from
him and kept by the Spaniards.
Not having them in his possession,
and the fact that he took them out in
false name, have sadly blocked his
claim to damages for the bean treat
ment. But he lives in Indigestion, and
hope that the whole middle about the
papers will be Strengthened out very
soon, and that then he will get money
enough from Spain to live on plum
duff for the remainder of his days.
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