Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-10-01

"How I induced one Of the big men
Of Jamaica to be banker and skipper
for US need not be told: but he is one
Ut whom men have dark sayings
chiefly, l take it. because he does bold
incollprehenSible things That bust
ness paid him well, for when the rent
of the ship was met. aud the few men
on it paid-slayes they were chiefly
lac pocketed ten thousand pounds,
while Biatt and | each pouched forty
thousand and Michael two thousand
Aye, to be sure, Michael was in it. He
Is In all do and is as good as men Of
ten times his girth and history. Mi
chael will be rich man one day. In
/ two years his two thousand have
grown to four, and he misses no
chance.
I'm bound TO say this-one Of the
straighrest men l ever met. liar with
al, was CassandrO Biatt. lie took his
jewels and vanished up the seas in "a
flourish. lie would not even have an
other try at the gold in the bowels Of
the ship.
I've got plenty to fiji my paunch,
and I'll 20 while I've enough. It's the
men that don't go in time that get left
in the end-that's what he said.
And he was right; for other mer
Went after the gold and got some OF
it, and were caught by French and
South American pirates and lost all
they had gained Still another group
went and brought away ten thousand
pounds and lost 1t in fighting with
Spanish buccaneers. So Biatt was
right, and went away content, while /
stayed here-hecause husband
bought the land and house where |
! have my great sugar plantation Ii is
an enterprise of volume, but it is not
/ beyond my capacity, and all would be
well II ! We're normal in mind and
/ body; but | am not. ! have past
that stinls to heaven, as Shakespeare
says,
Men do not treat me badly here,
for | have property and money, and
this is a land where these two things
mean more than anywhere else, even
more than in republic like that where
YOU live But what can you expect
OF chief justice who need not be
lawyer, as this one is not. and has
other means Of earning income which,
though not dsloyal, are lowering To
the status of chief Justice? And
not the chief justice alone / have
seen French officers entertained at Gov
eminent house who were guilty of
inhumanities and cruelties The gov
ernor, Lord Malow. is much to blame.
On him lies the responsibility; to him
must 20 the diScredit For myself. /
feel his enmity on every hand
suffer from his suggestive opposition;
am the victim of his dark moods
III ! want a concession from a To-
cal council, his hand is at work against
me; If see him in the street, get
courtesy tossed, as you would toss
bone 70 a dog If | appear at the
kings bail. which is open TO an on
the island who are respectable, ! am
treated with such dsdan by the vice.
roy Of the king that an the island is
agog
He does not spare me IN his re-
citals to his friends, who carry his
speech abroad His rancor against me
Is the greater. | know, because OF the
! Ia, ftt,,..4t,s., .I.f ~.
prevent which he tried to prohibit my
leaving the island. through the with
holding Of a leave-tcket TO me. IIis
argument to the local authorities was
that had no rights, that | am a muir
derer and a mutlneer, and confined to
the island though not on parole He
almost succeeded; but the man to
whom / went the big rich man., In
tervened successfully--how ! know
not-and / was Ter 60 with my per
mit-tieket
"What big things hang on small Is
sues II my Lord Malow had pre-
vented me leaving the island, ]
shouldn't now own a great plantation
and three hundred negroes. / shouldn't
be able to pay my creditors in good
gold Portuguese half johannes and
Spanish silver and give no heed to-
the existence of the bit. which as
YOU perhaps know, is equal to FIVE
pence in British money, such as YOU
and I used 20 spend when you We're
queen Of ireland and / was your slave.