The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-06-28
By F. F. Bingham.

err, Richard a. Bingham
! guessed to be seventy, and her weight
! sixty.
My hat was in my hand.
/ Her lips trembled. Her voice was
sweet, and cultivated:
You are an Americana she ques-
| toned.
! / bowed my head in assent
I am an American" she said, from
| New York,-Syracuse- l am without
/ any means of support. 7 beg your
! assistance. I have had nothing except
! a cup of chocolate early in the morn
ing"
| reached in my pocket immediately
and handed her a twenty-five cent
| Mexican piece. She snatChed H. muir
INJURED her thanks. and fairly fled.
Then, TOO LATE, my conscience
smote me.
on simpering Pharisee that 7 am.
A dollar TO dampen for a moment the
gullet of that vile pirate, Colonel J.
BascOm Jones Cand my OWN; a quar-
ter for starving American lady.
But one is habitualIy kind to ones
| self and, says I, Fate, what dirty
trick is this you've played-hringing
that sweet soul to beggery on the
streets Of a foreign city"
| have promised to tell of my compan-
ion, with whom I was strolline: He
| is from Arkansas. He is a steuOgra-
is q soft, wondering kind OF a body
He would not needlessly harm a flea
I like to swear a little now and then,
in his presence, just to see him jump.
He has been working for English
concern in the interior and is now on
the way TO take a similar position at
Rincon@de Antonio over on the 18TH
mus OF Tehauntepec.
Having worked for Englishmen, and
possessing but a shallow soul, he has
become an Anglo Maniac
He wears a white duck suit, made
for a much larger man, with collar
| buttored up tightly to his chin, and
tuTned-up trousers. Also he wears one
Of those ungainIy cork hats, and he
carries a cane His talk bubbles over
with Englishisms.
I remember when the young fellows
of our town used to ape the English
as a matter Of fact, did a bit of it
myself; So I Contented myself NY Civ
ing my companion this wholesome ad-
vice: "Get rid Of those things before
you return to Arkansas"
He has been in Mexico for some two
or three years but for all that, he is
Il regular babe in the woods" Tie is
dreading the voyage over to Coataza-
COalCos Twelve hours at sea, with any
| kind Of luCk) to the point where he is
| almost ready to throw up the job. l
have sworn to look out for him, and
drown with him. IF NECESSARY. It's
nice to be looked up to as a protec-
tor
see lots Of stretcher- bearers with
yellow fever patients. The stretChers
are covered with a blue and white
canopy, and 1 am not alone in step
ping aside and giving the bearers all
the room desired.
This morning a young Spaniard that
arrived eight days ago, died of the
| "vomito negro" as yellow fever is call
ed.
The Mexican govern ment is carrying
on active campaign against the
EaQut Indians, and the green troops
are being assembled here in consider
able numbers. The fever is particular
ly severe on them as they are recruit |
ed in the mountains where the water
and air Is very different from what it
is here on the coast.
Colonel ]. Bascom Jones tells me |
that one morning a few weeks ago he |
went to the Cable Office with a newly
in Hamburg Of his safe arrival: In
the evening Of the same day Colonel
Jones went back to the Gable Office
and cabled the young mans folks tha'
the young man was dead. Yellow -
err That Is pretty brief
1t IS now 1890 and the wee
possible, looks worse,
Nianana- Too much wind
Vera Cruz, Mexico.
October 10, 1903.
Noon.
At last everything looks favorable
for our departure. The captain Is a
naughty Don and declines to be In
terrOgated by US common passengers,
but the chief engineer is a most ap-
proachable SCOtchman, and he says we
will sail between 8 and / this after
noon. I will not be sorry.
Am feeling better than since my ar
rival here, but my friend from Ar
kansas Is very nearly in a state OF
nervous collapse. may have to carry
him aboard, but aboard he shall go.
I have an idea THAI the voyage will
| benefit him, in more ways than one.
Let me tot down ian international
| incident that I heard Of some days
ago, and that, at the time, 7 could not
believe:
! 1t appears that every American worn
an at Vera Cruz Is under police sur
veilIanceJ