The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-09-08

II EAhh4Ab w thNtDA fybHA WIN NANhhDl
asms and more wine, likewise, Veeva.
as ] said before. May the shamrock
OF old--I mean the banana-vlne or the
pie,piant, or whatever the imperial EN-.
blem may be of your down-trodden
coantry, wave forever!
"A thousand thank.yous, says the
round man, for your emission OF annie.
/ able utterances. What our cause needs
Of the very most Is mans who will the
work do, TO lift II along. oh. for one
thousands strong, good mans to aid
the General De yega that he shall to
his country bring those success and
gloryl II is hard-oh, so hard TO find
good mans 10 help in the work
'Monseer,' says !, leanin' over the
| table and graspin' hts hand, 4 don't
know where your country is, but me
heart bleeds for It. The heart of
Clancy was never deaf to the sight OF
an oppressed people, The family is
fillbusterers by birth, and foreigners
by trade, II you can use James
Clancy's arm and his blood in denudin'
your shores Of the tyrant's yoke
they're yours 10 command
General De Vega was overcome
with Joy to confiscate my coincidence
Of his conspiracles and predicaments.
| He tried to embrace mo across the
1 table, but his fairness, and the wine
/ that was not In the bottles prevented.
| Thus was | welcomed into the ranks
OF fillbustery. Then the general man
told me his country had the name of
II aata "a
tion laved by any ocean whatever. any
where, He looked at me with tears
In bis eyes, and from time to time he
would emit the remark, Ali big,
strong, brave mansl That Is what my
country need
General De Vega, as was the name
by which he denounced himself,
brought out a document for me to
sign, which l did, maxim q fine -four.
ish and curlyeue with the tail of the
".
"'Your passage,money.' says the
general. businesslike, shall from your
ray be deduct
twill not says |, naughty. III
pay my own passage A hundred and
eighty dollars he'd in my inside peck.
ct, and twas no common filibuster
was goin' to be, fllibusterin' for me
board and clothes,
"Well, then, In three days we sailed
alongside that Guatemala. Twas a
blue country, and not yellow. as It's
mls.colored on the map. We landed at
a town on the coast where a train OF
cars was waitin' for a dinky little rail.
road. The boxes on the steamer were
brought ashore and loaded on the cars.
fhe gang of Dagoes got aboard, too,
the general and me In the front car.
Yes, me and General De Vega headed
the revolution, as II pulled out of the
seaport town. That train Travelled
about as fast as q policeman goin' to
riot. II penetrated the most con.
spicuous lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen
outside q geography. We run some
forty miles In seven hours. and tho
train stopped.
THEY unioaded the boxes from tho
train and begun to knock tho tops Off.
From the first one that was opened |
saw General Do Vega take the Win.
chester rifles and pass them around
to squad of morbid, sore-toed sol.
diery. The other boxes was opened
next, and, believe me or not. divil an
other gun was to be seen. Every other
box in the lot was full of-pickaxes
, and spades.
"And then--sorrow be upon them
troplcs--the proud Clancy and the dis,
honored Dagoes, each one Of them, had
to shoulder a pick or spade, and
march away to work on that dirty lit
tie railroad, Yes; twas that the Da.
goes shipped for, and twas that tie
flibusterin' Clancy signed for, though
rnbeknownst to himself at the time.
In after days found out about It.
Il seems twas hard to get hands to
work ON that road. The intelligent ma.
tiyes OF the country was too lazy to
work. Indeed, the saints know twas
unnecessary. ny stretchin' out one
hand. they could seize the most deli.
cate and costly fruits Of the earth,
and, by stretchin' out the other, they
could sleep for days at time without
hearin' seyen.o'clock whistle or the
J footsteps of the rent man upon the
stairs. So. regular. the steamers trav,
elsd to the United States to seduce
labor. Usually the imported spade,
singer died In two or three months
from eatin' the oNer.ripe water and
breathin' the violent tropical scenery.
Wherefore. they made them sign con,
tracts for year when they hired
them, and put an armed guard over
the poor devils 20 keep them from run,
min away,
TWAS thrs / was double.crossed
} by the tropics through a family failln'
, Of goin' out Of the way to hunt dis.
trrbances.
They gave me pick. and I took 1t,
meditatin' an insurrection ON the spot
, but there was the guards handlin' the
Wholesalers careless, and come to
the conclusion that discretion was the
, best part OF tilibusterin'. There was
about q hundred OF US in the gang
! ! StarfftNt inf n work and tho xvnrA