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

OF whom men have dark savings
chiefly, l take it. because he does bold
tncomprehenSible things. That bust
ness paid him well, for when the rent
OF the ship was met. and the few men
on 1t paid-Slayes they were chiefly
he pocketed ten thousand pounds.
While BAIT 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
straightest men 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 III go while I've enough. It's the
men that don't go in time that get left
in the end'-thats 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. Sun another group
went and brought away ten thousand
pounds, and lost it in fighting with
spanish buccaneers So Biatt was
right, and Went away content, while
stayed here-becauSe muSt-nnd
bought the land and house where
. have my great sugar plantation Ii is
an enterprise of volume. bur it is not
beyond my capacity, and all would Toe
well If ! We're normal in mind and
body; but | am not. | have past
that stinks to heaven. as Shakespeare
says
Men do not treat me badly here.
for | have property and money, and
this is 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
a lawyer, as this one is not. and has
other means Of earning income which,
though not disloyal are lowering 70
the status of chief justice? And
not the chief justice alone. | have
seen French officers entertained az Coy
eminent house who were guilty of
inhumanities and crueltics The GOV
ernor, Lord Mallow. is much TO blame.
On him lies the responsibility; TO him
must 90 the diScredit. For myself
feel his enmity on every hand
suffer from his suggestive opposition
l am the victim of his dark moods.
If ! want concession from n To-
cal council, his hand is at work against
me; if / see him in the street, get
courtesy tossed. as you would toss
bone 10 dog If / appear at the
kings bail, which is open to all on
the island who are respectable, / am
treated with such disdain by the vice.
roy Of The king that all 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
wealth | got in the treasure ship. to
prevent which he tried to prohibit my
leaving the island, through the with
holding Of a leaye-ticket to me. His
argument TO the local authorities was
that / had no rights, that | am a muir
derer and a mutincer, ond confined to
the island, though not on parole He
almost succeeded; but the man to
whom | went, the big rich man.. In
tervened successfuIly--how know
uot--and / was let go with my per-
mit-ticket.
"What big things hang on small IS
sues If my Lord Mallow 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 rs
you perhaps know, is equal to five
pence in British money, such Us YOU
and I used TO spend when YOU were
queen Of Ireland and was your slave.
Then / worshipcd you a. few WON
On have been worshlped IN an the days
Of the world-oh, cursed spite Of life
aud time that should have been
jailed for killing your bad father Aye,
he was a bad man and he j., better