The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-25
A Cuban Rhansodr.


The Great Warrior sat and smoked a
cigar, says the Chicago News. He was
full of anger. madness and table d'hote
and things
All" he cried and shook as If with pal
sy. Il am undoner' He called for His
Grand Responsiveness for the Pacihcos.
All" he repeated, when this one ap-
peared, Il am undone.
And His Grand Responsibilities, etc,
gasped and started. But came back again,
however, and stood with lowered brow.
An" he muttered, two feet six inches
below his breath, land l had that Klon-
dixie bunko agent transported yesterday
There must have been two of them"
Then aloud:
Vast list, your most Exaltable ExaIt-
edness?" he said, what makes you think
your cervical vertebrae will flavor the
forthcoming Julienne?'
This" shrieked the Great Warrior
waving square of yellow paper with one
hand and covering his eyes sadly with the
other, Know, fool, that, by this dispatch,
a royal commission is due tomorrow to
inquire into the whichness Of things here
abouts."
Then did His Grand Responsiveness
cry out with fear
"Bribe en-" he faltered. But the Great
Warrior shook his head.
They wouldn't accept our money as a
bride" he said; they intend to take it,
anyway"
Let's put them outside the walls, where
the Cubans viii get them"
NO" answered the Great Warrior after
a smile of hope had fared up in his face
and fiickered out 1.-THE great detective
Inspectorlabus Jonshay might hear of it
and
'Ah, says no more" replied His Grand
Responsiveness, shuddering with fear
And for two seconds they remained plung-
ed in gloomy reflections and deep thought.
They came out Of this, however, and His
Grand Responsiveness exhibited an idea
which he had fished up.
"Eurekar' he cried. And communicated
this to the Great Warrior, who smiled and
shrieked with joy.
And the next day when the royal COM
mission arrived they were taken out into
the grand public square of the city, while
before them were paraded 500 Pacificos
bedraggled and out at elbows.
See said the Great Warrior, pointing
to the 800 downcast Pacificos. soon we
shall have the whole Of them and then the
war will be ended'
And the commissioners were delighted
This is great" they said, and rubbed
their hands in glee. This was bad habit
they had, however. and they took them
so these are Pacifcos," they said, and
went among them and rubbered with great
pleasure.
And the Pacificos answered. yes" they
said, your Royal Imitativenesses, we are
Pacificos."
Where were you captured?" asked the
commissioners.
All" sadly said the 500, as they hung
down their heads, I'VE were looking for
supper; the voice OF hunger called us into
a clump of trees and we ran into an am
bush of ten Spanish soldiers"
Ten" gasped the commissioners.
Yes, but think, yer honoFs,' answered
the 800 loudly; the Great Warrior was
there and we were surprised and"
Enough" cried the royal commission
ers. They turned to the Great Warrior.
Most superlative of men," they said,
with tears of joy in their eyes, "you are
1909 1876 times greater than the ominscient
ineffability Emperor Willie conceives for
himself"
And they went away after loading the
Great Warrior with decorations and them
selves with all the Klondike real stuff in
sight. And after their departure the
Great Warrior and his Grand Responsible
ness for the Pacifioos fell into each other S
arms and shrieked for joy.
Saved they cried.
incidentally, the next day, 800 Spanish
soldiers received enough of their seven
teen months overdue back pay to pur-
chase a quarter section of a square meal,
and for an additional reward they were
permitted to shoot the only genuine Paci-
fco in camp