South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-12
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helped this graft tial- u b. WASH
p square game. would y.as
why NOS. says D. .Iv. always
etood right in with Iryals ao .elss
and p couldn't consciously stg
sword against %. Republican admin
istratiou nuw gut 70 Harris was "a
Greek cn what system .i interua-
uonal protocols dad HaT interfere
1T aIn't exactly Fet forth ia the
papers says Calisui1. ~ suppose
fta matter Of sentiment. You
know hs wrote this poem. Little
HreeChss'. and theu Greeks wear
little or none. But anyhow John
Hay sends the Brooklyn ana the
Olympia over. and they cover Africa
with 30-.uch gums. And then Hay
cables after the health OF the per-
soma grata. And how are they this
morning. he wires. rs Burdick
Harris alive yet. or Mr.. RaIsuli
dead? And the King of Morocco
sends up the seventy thousand dol
lars, and they turn BurdieE Harris
loose And there's not half the hard
, feelings among the nations about
this little kidnapping matter as there
vas about the peace congress, And
Eurdick Harris says TO the reporters.
in the Greek language. that he s
often heard about the United States,
and he admircs Roosevelt next 20
Kaisuli. who Is one the whitest and
most gentlemanly kidnappers that
ne ever worked alongside CT. So
YOU see, Pick" winds up Caliguia,
we've got the law OF nations on our
side. Wen cut this colonel man out
cf the herd. and corral him in them
little mountains. and stick up his
q D. H.rrll
dollars"
well. you seldom little red-nead
cd territorial terror" / answers
You can't bluff your uncle Tecuu-
eeh Pickens I'll be your company
in this graft But / misdoubt II
you've absorbed the inwandness o;
this Burdick Harris case. Calig; and
81 on any morning we get a telegram
from the Secretary of State asking
about the health Of the scheme,
propose to acquire tho most propin-
quitCus and CeleTitOus mule in this
section and Eauop diplomatically
over itno the neighboring and peace
ful nation OF Alabama"
Me and Calgule spent the mex
three days investigating the bunch oil
mountains into which we proposef
10 kdnap Colonel Jackson u. Rock
right slice OF topography covered
with bushes ard trees that YOU
C. .uld only reach by secret patti
that we cut cat up the side OF IL
And tho only way TO reach tn
mountain was % follow Up the benz
OF "a branch hat wound among tn
elevations.
Then I took in hand an importan
subdivision Of the proceedings.
went up 90 Atlanta on the train an,
laid in "a two-hundred-a and -flfty-dOl
lar supply OF the most gratifying
and effective lines of grub tina
money could buy. L always was al
admirer OF viands IN their more pal
Iiative and revised stages. Hog an'
hOminy aue not only inartistiC TO m,
stomach. but they give indigestion t.
my moral sentiments. And / though
OF Colonel jackson r. Rockingham
president OF the Sunrise q Edenviil,
Tap railroad. and how he would
miss the luxury OF his home fare "a
is SO famous among wealthy South
crucrs So 1 sunk half of mine anC
Caltgula's capital in an elegant lay
out OF fresh and canned provision
as Burdick Harris or any other pro
fessional kidnapper ever saw in
camp.
put I'm another hundred in
Counle OF cases of Bordeaux. tW
quarts Of CoEnaC. two hundred Ha
vana rcgalias with gold bands. an
"a camp stove and stools and foldin
cots. / wanted Colonel Rocking
ham to be comfortable and I hope
after ne gave up the ten thousan
dollars he would give me and Cali
gula as good a name for genueme
and entertainers Hs the Greek ma
did the friend OF his that made tn
United States his bin collecto
against Africa.
When the goods came down fror
Atlanta. we hired a wagon, move
them UP on the little mountain. an
established camp. And then we lai
FOR the colonel
We caught him one morning abou
two miles out from Mountain NaUey
on his way TO look after some Of hi
burnt her farm land. He was q
elegant old gentleman. az thin an
tau as "a trout rod. with frazZle
shirt-cuns and specs on blac
string We explained to- him. brie
and easy. what we wanted, and Cal
iguIa showed him. careless. tn
handle OF his forty-dve under mi
coat
WHAT" SAYS Colonel Rocline
ham Bandits in Perry Couuu
Georgia, I shall see that the boar
Of immigration and public improve
uerts hears OF this"
"Bc so unfOolhardy as 20 elm
into that buggy" SAYS Cahrula. "h
order OF thc board OF perforatio
and public depravity. This is bus
ness meeting. and we're anxious 6
adjourn sine qua nom
drove Colonel TtnrIetrr~r Ia
over the mountain and mp che sid
OF it MS far as the buggy could "a
Then we tied the horse. and took 0u
prisoner on foot up 90 the camp
''Now. colonel" 7 says TO hin
we're after the ransom. nae and m
partner. and ro harm VIII come 9
you II the King Of Nor-u you