Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-09-01

SluA1uS 10 invest uiySGlI Will 0uIuuSl-
asms and more wine, likewise, veeva,
as said before. May the shamrock
of old mean the banana-vine or the
| pie-plant, or whatever the imperial en-
| blem may be of your down-trodden
country, wave forever
"a thousand thank-yous,' says the
| round man, for your emission of annie
of the very most is mans who will the
work do, to lift it along. Oh, for one
thousands strong, good mans to aid
the General De Vega that he shall to
| his country bring those success and
| gloryi It is hard-oh, so hard to find
| good mans to help in the work.
Monseer,' says I, leanin' over the
table and graspin' his hand, Il don't
know where your country is, but me
heart bIeeds for it. The heart of a
Clancy was never deaf to the sight OF
an oppressed people. The family is
| filibusterers by birth, and foreigners
by trade If you can use James
! Clancy's arm and his blood in denudin'
your shores of the tyrant's yoke
they're yours TO command
General De Vega was overcome
with joy to confiscate my coincidence
| of his conspiracies and predicaments.
| He tried to embrace me across the
| table, but his fairness, and the wine
| that was not in the bottles, prevented.
| Thus was I welcomed into the ranks
of filibustery. Then the general man
told me his country had the name of
| Guatemala, and was the greatest ma
| ton laved by any ocean whatever, any
| where. He looked at me with tears
| in his eyes, and from time to time he
! would emit the remark, All! big,
| strong, brave mans! 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 I did, maxim a fine flour
ish and curlycue with the tail of the
| ".
"'Your passage-money,' says the
general, businesslike, shall from your
/ pay be deduct
"f'Twill not says I, naughty. TIL
| pay my own passage A hundred and
| eighty dollars I he'd in my inside peck
| ct, and twas no common filibuster /
was goin' to be, flibusterin' for me
board and clothes.
"Well, then, in three days we sailed
alongside that Guatemala. Twas
blue country, and not yellow, as it's
mis-colored on the map. We landed at
town on the coast where train of
cars was waitin' for dinky little rail-
road. The boxes on the steamer were
brought ashore and loaded on the cars.
The gang of Dagoes got aboard, too,
| the general and me in the front car.
Yes, me and General De Vega headed
| the revolution, as it pulled out of the
seaport town. That train travelled
about as fast as policeman goin' to
| a riot 1t penetrated the most con-
! spicuous lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen
outside geography. We run some
| forty miles in seven hours, and the
| train stopped.
| "They unloaded the boxes from the
train and begun to knock the tops off.
| From the first one that was opened l
saw General De Vega take the Win
chester rifles and pass them around
| to a squad of morbid. sore-toed sol
| diery. The other boxes was opened
next, and, believe me or not, diyil 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
| tropics-the proud Clancy and the dis
honored Dagoes, each one Of them, had
| to shoulder a pick or a spade, and
march away to work on that dirty lit
| tie railroad. Yes; twas that the Da-
goes shipped for, and twas that the
| flibusterin' Clancy signed for, though
| unbeknownst to himself at the time.
| In after days I found out about it.
| It seems twas hard to get hands to
work on that road. The intelligent ma
| tives of the country was too lazy to
work. Indeed, the saints know twas
| unnecessary BY 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' a seven-o'clo whistle or the
| footsteps of the rent man upon the
stairs. So. regular, the steamers trav-
eled to the United States to seduce
labor Usually the imported spade
singer died in two or three months
from eatin' the over-ripe water and
breathin' the violent tropical scenery.
| Wherefore, they made them sign con
| tracts for a year when they hired
them, and put an armed guard over
| the poor devils to keep them from run
MIN away.
"'Twas thus was double-crossed
by the tropics through family failin'
of goin' out of the way to hunt dis
tvrbances.
"They gave me a pick, and took 1t,
meditatin' an Instruction on the spot;
but there was the guards handlin' the
| WinchoSterS careless and 7 come TO