Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-09

river, SO we had cabins, and good
Columbian food. The boat had left
3arranquilla with one.hundred ten
school boys. newly freed from year
or boarding school with all its re-
strictions-one hundred ten boys.
travelling without parents or teach
ers-image it. They had all left the
boat at ports along the way before
we boarded it. all. that is except two.
But the descriptions that the remain
ing passengers gave OF the frolics.
the shouting, the singing, the mis-
chief, the scrambling at meal-time-
these descriptions were none too vi
vid for our imagination which leaped
ahead of them and saw the confusion
caused by that one hundred freed
young prisoners. full OF bottled life,
that had been in the process of
being bottled for ten months and was
allowed TO flow over at will now in
the absence OF every bit of restraint.
An Unusual Sight
Two days brought US to Puerto
Berrio, where there is n beautiful
hotel built with cement pillars, and
wide, ,ocl corridors. The hotel sits
on the top of a hill. surrounded by
royal palms, and is considered the
finest in Columbia. Here; sitting on
the corridor, watching the sun go
down. We saw an unusual thing hap
pen. Unusual to us, but realty re-
peated every night AS tlieesnn sank
from sight, and the quick darkness
fell, great black clouds seemed to
hover over the EoteI, fall lower and
lower, until we heard a whirring, and
the clouds, like a flash. broke up into
thousands and thousands OF tiny birds,
that settled in the palms close around
the hotel. Birds chung everywhere
but they settled all at once, III one
instant. and each chung to whatever
he first touched. The trees were lit
orally alive with the tiny creatures,
but stiffness settled down upon the
trees almost instantly, and In three
minutes one who had not seen the
wonderful sight would not believe
that there was a bird anywhere
around, yet there were hundreds of
thousands of them, seeking refuge
close to home of man, in an effort
to escape the night birds that prey
upon them. That their efforts were
not entirely successful was proved
during the night. when we were awak-
ened several times by a fluttering
and tumuIt among them, and we
knew that some night-hawk had been
feeding upon the tiny songsters. At
the break of dawn, the sudden whir
sounded for an instant, and the black
clouds again lowered for a second
over the hotel The birds had gone
for the day.
The beautiful hotel was the very
hottest, least ventilated, that we ever
slept in. The huts made of cane and
thatch, where we had slept while on
the trail, had the advantage OF the
hotel when it came to ventilation. The
dining-room of the MOTEL was like that
of some big modern city, stained win
Gows, neat little tables, well cooked
food in several courses, and the
walters were bare-rooted! However,
be it far from me to criticize the
one beautiful Ito the passer-by) hotel
in Colombia.
Place of Noise
Since, because of the men who talk
ed all night in the room adjoining
ours, and the locomotives that shrill-
ed and snorted in front of the ho-
tel, and the bells that clangei AMI
tangled in the church behind the ho-
tel, we had not slept anyway, it was
n; hardship TO get up at fod pruwl
around through half a dozen CORR
doris to hunt the bath, and get our
selves down to breakfast at five a.
m. The train for Medeiin, a hundred
miles in the interior, left at five thir-
ty. We were damned in with the rest
Of the passengers when it started
And we stayed damned In all the
long, suffocating forenoon, until we
had climbed as high as any self-re-
specting engine. land ours was a
mt 0CiAh6n DC
pected to go. Then we got off, stumbl-
ed and painted up a steep incline
made ROCKY and tumbly by a recen.
landslide, and reached a station,
where all sorts of vehicles and con-
veyances stood in waiting. Automo-
biles, auto-buses, coaches, two-wheel.
ed carts with the whgels as big
as four ordinary ones rolled into one),
each cart drawn by two mules, tan.
dem, saddle mules, saddled horses
everything on wheels or feet that any
passenger could desire-stood wait
ing our approach. Soon all these con-
veyances started off, and commenced
wing with each other for a place In
the road. Up and up we went, every
thing chasing everything else, in q
most interesting and exciting scram-
bic to reach the inn, an hour away.
The carretera, or cart-road, is we'll
built. wide and solid, on a steady in