The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-02-14
BY HUGH PENnExTER.

By HUGH PENuENTER.
never had the good fortune 10
meet Tiberius Smith, the veteran
Snowman, but I have known that 9th
er remarkable man, Billy Campbell,
and from his lips heard many chron.
lcles Of his patrons hardy and unusual
doings. AS he told me these yarns,
ais eyes often grew moist, and he
would murmur in parentheses. "Ah,
but be was a man. Heaven knows
why his folks dubbed him Tiberius;
maybe to get away from the Smith.
But when It came to writing down the
real answer he was the only Roman
on the asphalt"
FIRST met Campbell at the Away
from Home club" and as | came to
know him. learned to love him, and
through him, his old master. And
thus, as the winter nights drove US to
our pipes and the coy companionship
Of the blazing hearth, he detailed that
which has until now escaped the pub
lIc ken, except as garbled press re-
ports have at times hinted at mex
plicable situations without furnishing
the solution. can see now that
Smith, Ia his worldwide wanderings
IN search OF circus and menagerle fur
nishlngs. or in plotting some theatri-
cal venture, was the blind factor in
many q half-published equation.
II / remember correctly, had been
commenting on the frequency OF revo.
lutions in auarrelsome Central Amer
lea when Campbell first opened his
heart, filed his pipe and began the
narrative which was 70 charm me for
many an evening.
IT is true" he began. that Cen.
tral America has been bargain coun-
ter In petty warfares for years, and
has peddled out more genuine lem
Ons 10 would-be Caesars than any
other spot OF It's size on the map,
Some Of the disturbances have been
exceedingly eccentric, others, Just
plain, vulgar killings; but doubt II
ew4 there was a more picturesque
inBurrection than that IN which IT.
berius Smith, Of Vermont, filed the
presidents cory corner for one week,
and with his reserve battery Of comic
opera singers and his eyerreasauring
'HaI hal" defed All corners. The
passing Of Tiberius and his admins
traton is not mentioned in history,
nor did the consular agent hear Of Il
In time to stir up the Washington
newspaper men with sanguinary
wires And probably the slob elomeni
down there. known as the common
people. have long since forgotten
H.
But the story of that glorious
week should make brave reading
nevertheless, aud the battle put "
BY the Green Mountain man and bis
corps Of gayly-clad sopranos and 1
light brigade OF giggling danseuses
REINFORCED by sad-volced contraltos
an Alpine shepherd. a regulation pl
rate. and much greenroom truck, Incl
densally demonstrates that art ant
science need not always stagger L
the ropes because Of ranting brute
force
"Tib-you know we called him I'll
Tor short-had a way OF making every
one and everything loyal to him
when his round, brown eyes concen
srated in two beady twinkles, you ha'
10 believe in him and do his bidding
He believed IN himself, and simpll
bubbIed over with assurance whel
making the hardest shots imaginable
And he had the blamedest schemes
Yet. most OF them pulled through Il
one way or another II he didn't lam
what he was cunning for, he'd ne
something else almost as good s
when he decided to take a comic oper
troupe 10 Guatemala City, Maize At
Rms slde-ssepped thirty per week !
order to lead the ballet, and va
hypnotized TO go az first tenor Their
we're 2s Of US All told, four men an
two dozen women. Tiberius said h
could surround enough Aztec gold
Guatemala to make bondholders Of U
ali for life. He believed Il. and han