The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-16
MAGAZINE SECTION.

This amt a bad world. take it by
an'-largei The worlds all right: it's
the folks in it what makes all the
catouse!'
Sessions slumped down still further in
has cane-seat chair by the stove and en-
braced the teakettle with both stocking
ed feet, sure sign of approaching men
dacity.
: "Lemme make one exception. though
that's Curacao Thar the country an
the folks Is both pizen-mean. 1 warn't
thar morn a couple o. weeks, but by
Jeems Rice! the best piece o. an'scape
] seen was the tip o the coquina head
land fadin' down behind the horizon as
] sailed away! Take m oath, God made
that island jes as ugiy's he could. an
then cussed it with the dumdest c'llec-
ton o varmints they is on this NOR
tial footstool-the little ones they calls
tarantoolas, fer de lance an center
peeds, while the large ones is greasers,
niggers, an mestizos.
Them was the 'arly days O. the old
Caribbean Gable COmpany-yOu remem-
Der that was jes' after the war-an' l
was bossin' a job O. line wO~k cross the
island all alone, 'cep'in fer one fore
man, in charge of a gang of them
aforesaid varmints. 'MOngst a little
million other diff culties, / didn't sabby
;,
which l Earned fust of all, an reckon
I must a rubbed them fellers tn wrong
way o the fur most o the time 'thOut
KNOWN it-anyway, l want the mos
popular man i'm Curacao by the time
the je 1 was done Course, it rifles a
hidals anyway to be bossed byAa sim
pie American hawg, an when it's done
profane. then look out for nor easter.
We'll, anyway. l rustled 'em along
lively, never pawn no 'tention to their
hereditary pride, an RELY managed Ia
run the line inta Los Cerdos, south side
the island. fore anything happened.
though trouble was a-pipin' the shell
purity nigh all the way.
when we struck Cerdos thar lay the
c. G. Co. tender Agnes in the bay, an
my porta BILE steel relay station was all
sot up on the beach a-waitin' fer us.
By cripes, but | was glad ia bunk I'M
der cover agin, what with bein fever
bitten, played-out an tired Ia death O.
them blue bloOded, half-breed greasers,
P'r'aps I didn't luggsuriate some in my
ten-by-fifteen CAMP My foreman,
Ling, had orders ia go back on the ten
der ia Domingo jes' soon as the job
was done. while l was L wait thar at
Cerdos till the cable ship come long ia
lay the section connectin' with Brazil.
after I'd paid off the gang an told
'em scat! l SaShayed up inta Cerdos ia
have a look around. One look was
enough fer me. AS relic, Cerdos was
Al, but as a Twin town il want much
mOre'n a petrified echo. Remains ola
piazZy with a lamp post an stun
fountain in the middle, leetle stores on
three sides an a whitewashed town hall
on tn other, which they called the Pal
acio de lah JOOsticia-that was bout all
they was to it-that an dirt. When
sstruck town they want no lamp on the
kamp post ner no water in the foun-
tain, ner no jestice in the Palace (ha,
the PalaceD ner no business nowhar,
'cep'n lottery. cock-fights an the per-
petual consumption o brown paper CT
garoots and raw aguardiente that tast-
ed like il had been distilled in an old
kerosene can an was strong enough to
raise the hair Off'n full-grown ele-
plant. Ye see. the trouble was that