New Britain herald., 1914-07-07

hot air performance to humbug the great American people, the same per formance he has been giving the people for twenty years, when he started out from Lincoln, Neb. on tho populist ticket with hayseed in his hair. to "con" the people and make the money come his way, and he has done 1t every since. All for the dear people," ? ?-Excuse me, once more I digress or transgress, 1 don't know which.
 About that time a special messen- ger came> up from Ault on La Es- meralda," saying things looked bad and we best come down and go out with them as they were ready to go any minute. We had had many notices of this kind that we concluded it was just another scare, and as we were grinding we concluded to stay, So wrote Ault thanking him for his trouble but we were going to stay. Next day We got letter from Hill oi "Estancia" that matters looked a little better, but that we best come on down as 1t might be necessary to move quickly, but we again concluded to stay.
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 That night we got another special messenger from Ault saying they would leave on the morning train, and we had best come then or as soon after as possible for things looked bad, but still we concluded to stick it out. We had arranged with Consul Canada and other friends in Vera Cruz to wire us in case matters %o, H in case conditions were so bad, why they did not wire. At ten o'clock the 22nd another special messenger pulled in with telegram from Canada say ing to come at once, without a min utes delay, and dated the morning of the 21st. When we asked the Mozo where he had been he simply said he had lost his way, and been two days on the road. This last letter rather put a hunch into the situation, and after a council of war We concluded it was our move, and a quick move at that, so we called Don Mancho, put matters into his hands as we'll as was possible in so short d time, packed our books and trunks, and at D. m. were on our way down the river. We arrived at Plaza Vicente about nightfall, where we crly stopped few minutes, but could not help but notice a decided coolness in our re- ception there. We arrived at Perez at 2:30 a. m. and after waking up one of the Spaniards to let us into the hotel, learned that passenger service had been suspended on the railroad, and that Americans were not looked upon with much favor. Next morn ing upon going down to the station we noted a good deal of excitement. and very soon number began tc collect at the station and endeavored to pick a quarrel with us, but I told them we had not time>for arguments and were not looking for quarrel with anyone. At the station we saw the most wild-eyed reports. The Amer jeans had landed at Vcr;. Cruz and after hard fight had been repulsed. and driven back to their ships, leaving 4,OOO dead Americans behind and 2,OOO Mexicans and Spaniards had been killed in the battle. On account of the bad markmanship of the Americans they had sunk the Spanish man of war, Carlos V, and all other nations were so mad about it that all warships had turned against the Amerlcans and terrible naval buttle was on. Zapata had joined Huerta, and at that moment was in Vera Cruz killing Americans. Villa had also forgotten his troubles With Huerta, and had taken Brownsville, Texas, ann was we'll on his way to annex Texas again to Mexico. All this was official business, mind you, and was supposed, and I guess did come from the Mex ican government. So you can imagine perhaps the feeling that it was st,r- ring up. Things warmed up so tl:sa, we were advised to go to the hotel and stay, as there was likely to be demonstration. We had hardly got ten there when the owner showed up, and virtually ordered us out ot the house, as our presence was hur.- ing his business. This we refused to do until we had some means of go- ing, and when he saw We were firm on that point he concluded the best way to get rid of us, was to give US a little help on the quiet. Fortunate: we had held our canoe and for the small sum of $110 we were able U get two men to go to Tlacotalpam with us. Under ordinary conditions $25 would have been good pay, SD you see these yellow whelps are no, slow in improving strained condl- tion.
 Trip in Canoe.
 We had the report circulated that we could not get out and were go- ing back to the plantation and in this way were able to get our baggage out of the station in the afternoon, load it in the canoe and started up the river about night fall. We were supposed to go by horse next morn- ing. The canoe went up, passed the first bend in the river where it stayed until after dark. At eight o'clock it dropped down river; we got aboard in the dark and started on our long trip down the river.
 It is useless to tire you With the account of our trip down the river