The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-03

and other dangerous weapons suit
able ior tearing up things, wended
their way down to the dock near TO
the rear o. FaEeuu Hall, where the
whole town had turned out 70 hear
the latest version Of the recital Of
their wrongs. etc, and it was an i'm
mense meeting, ana had been called
for the purpose Of keeping people off
the streets, and from sauntering
along the water front. and the S. r.
o. sign was in evidence at the front
door. when this band OF conspirators
stole quietly thru some back lanes
to where this tea laden ship lay
moored safely to her dock. and the
band up al the HALL had been order
ed TO march around the building
for the double purpose of gathering
in stragglers and drowning any pos
sible noise Of resistance on the ship
After placing sentinels they fell to
and bounced on that ship like a ton
of brick
One of the office men. noted for
his smoothness of speech and sauve
manners, in a disguised voice just
like his own, that sounded like the
flow of honey, told the captain that
they meant no harm to any one, but
that they had a sad duty to per-
form, and perform it they would,
though the heavens fall. and some
make touchdown, and with a strong
ebbing tide running seward, each
chest and caddy of tea as it hit the
water made a noise like this: kerr
splosh, and as the moon shown on
the waters making it look like one
vast sheet of silyery sheen, each
chest and caddy. as it struck the wa
ter, was borne swiftly away and out
to sea, and it is recorded that the
procession Of tea chests reached
from India wharf clear out to Min
tos ledge light.
Everything went we'll until the
final stage of the game when the
last boxes were being passed up out
OF the hold, when one of the senti-
nels ,hollered cheese it," that was
the pass word, and according to pre-
arranged plans, when that was hol-
Tered in a tone of voice that indicat-
ed danger, all hands were to cut and
run.
The cause for alarm was as fol
lows: The chief of police had been
fixed and was in sympathy with the
movement, the sheriff of the county
was a tory and wore wig with pow
der in it, and some of those tories
at the meeting smelled a mouse al
the amount of enthusiasm that was
being injected into the meeting.
think one of them went outside tC
cool off and mop the perspiratior
from off his forehead, and wander
ing a little outside the range o
noise made by the band, and hear
ing a suspicious noise, he went to in
vestigate. Anyhow, he tumbled Il
the fact that there was something
doing and he sneaked up to where
he could get a good view of the sit
uation. History does not RECORD
what he said, but one thing is sure
and certain-he dug out, and wheI
he arrived at the high sheriff's of
flee, he was so out of breath that i
took him half an hour to catch hi
breath and tell the story, and l cal
tell you, there was some commotion
right then there was something do
ing, and it was the arrival of TIL
sheriff's posse that caused the cry
Cheese it," to ring out clear on tn,
midnight air.
Their work was practically finish
ed, so, as one man, they each ant
every one of them skurried for safe
ty, and feeling that it was matte
OF life and death, they did not spar
themselves-they went, and in al
directions they ran, and they ran S
hard and put so much effort in tn