The Washington herald., 1920-05-30

to become The great work II
shall carry on Yes. Our forces
shall in the capitak city strike
of the soonist. "carrambosr''
'Carrambos Is the word" says
J., beginning to invest myself
with enthusiasm and more wine.
likewise veeva, as 1 said before.
May the shamrock of old mean
the banana-vine or the pie-plant.
or whatever the imperial emblem
may be of your downtrodden
country, wave forever
"a thousand thank-yous,' SAYS
the round man, for your ennis
sion of amicable utterances. What
our cause needs of the very most
is mans who will the work do, to
life it along. oh, for one thou
sands strong, good mans to aid
the General De Vega that he
shall to his country bring those
success and gloryi 1t is hard
oh. so hard to find good mans to
help in the work
Monseer.' says ]. leanin' over
the table and Eraspin' his hand,
don't know where your coun-
try is, but me heart bleeds for
it. The heart of a Clancy was
never deaf to the sight of an
oppressed people. The family is
hlibusterers by birth. and for
eigners by trade. II you can
use James Clancy's arms and his
blood in denudin' your shores
of the tyrant's yoke they're yours
to command
General De Vega was over
come with Joy to conhscate my
coincidence of his conspiracies
and predicaments. He tried to
embrace me across the table, but
his fatness, and the wine that
had been in the bottles, prevent
ed. Thus was 1 welcomed into
the ranks of filibustery. Then
the general man told me his
country had the name of Guate-
mala, and was the greatest ma
tion laved by the ocean what
ever anywhere. 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 docu-
:nrnt for me to sign, which I
did. maxim e fine flourish and
curlycue with the tail of the "
Your passage-money. says
the general. business-like. shall
from your pay be deduct
Twill not says l. naughty.
TIL pay my own passage A
hundred and eighty dollars l
had IN my inside pocket. and
twas no common fiIibuster l was
Goin' to be. filibusterin' for me
board and clothes.
The steamer was to sail in
two hours. and l went ashore
to get some things together I'd
need. When 1 came aboard l
showed the general with pride
the outflt. Twas a fine Chin
chilla ovcrcoat. Artic overshoes,
fur cap and earmuffs. with ele-
CANT fieece-lined gloves and
woolen muffler.
'Carrambos" says the little
general. What clothes are these
that shall go to the tropic?' And
then the little spalpeen laughs,
and he calls the captain, and the
captain calls the purser. and they
pipe up the chief engineer, and
the whole gang leans against
the cabin and laughs at Clancy's
wardrobe for Guatemala.
reflects a bit, serious, and
asks the general again to de-
nominate the terms by which his
country is called. He tells me,
and 1 seen then that twas the
tother one. Kamchatka, l had in
mind. Since then I've had diff
Guilty in separatin' the two ma
tions in name. climate and geo.
graphic disposition.
Il paid my passage-twenty-
four dollars. first cabin-and ate
at table with the officer crowd.
Down on the lower deck was a
gang of second-class passengers.
about forty of them, seemin' to
be Dagoes and the like. l won
dered what so many of them
were goin' along for.
Well, then, in three days We
sailed alongside that Guatemala
Twas. a blue country. and not
yellow as tits miscolored on the
map. We landed at a town on
the coast. where a train of cars
was Uaitin' for US on a dinky
railroad 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 il pull
ed out of the seaport town. That
train Travelled about as fast as
policeman goin' to a riot. 1t
penetrated the most conspicuous
lot of fuzzy scenery ever seen
outside a geography. We run
some forty miles in seven hours,
and the train stopped. There
was no more railroad. Twas a
sort of camp in a damp gorge
full of wildness and meIanchoIies,
They were gradin' and choppin.
out the forests ahead to continue
the road. Here says I to my
SELF, is the romantic haunt Of
the revolutionists. Here will
Clancy. by the virtue that is in
a superior race and the incul-
cation of Fenian tactics, strike
a tremendous blow for liberty
They unloaded the boxes from
the train and begun to knock
the tops off. From the first one
that was open 1 saw General De
Vega take the Winchester rifles
and pass them around to a squad
of morbid soldiery. The other
boxes was opened next, and. be-
lieve me or not, divil another gun
was to be seen. Every other box
in the load was full of pickaxes