! ..The Filibusters of Venezuela..
$ Or the Trials of a Spanish Girl +
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Copyrighted 19~0 by Robert Bonner'a Son~
CHAPTER I.--(Continued. I huskily. "I know they left New York
Arthur Medworth smiled and an- on that ship'"
ewered; ! "Then where are they now?" asked
"General, as I am the one most in- Salvarez.
terested, it is proper that I should un-
dertake to explain the case as well as
I am able. I will tell you the whole
story as it lies nearest to my heart,
and you ,will be able to take from it
what most concerns you. To begin,
then, General: Some time ago I was
fortunate enough to rescue a beautifvl
girl from being dashed to the ground
and killed by a runaway team of horses
In New York. That glrl was Lola Crar-
za, the daughter of Don Juan Garza,
a proud old Spaniard who has lived in
Venezuela and latterly in New York,
where he married a wealthy lady, now
dead. Don Juan is one of the proud-
est of Castilians, and though I am by
no means poor, I was not wealthy
enough,-or el noble birth, to s~tisfy
his ambitions for his daughter. Lola
Garza, who has then seventeen years
of age, and is now eighteen, inherited
more of her mother's American nature
than her father's Spanish one. She
eared nothing for royalty" and old-
world courts, and being wealthy in
her own right was independent, I grew
'to love her, and she returned my love,
but Don Juam forbade all communica-
tion between us. Still, we met clandes-
tinely as often as possible,
"Well, Dos. Juan, about slx months
ago, began to receive strange men at
his house, and it was evident that
some kind of conspiracy was on foot.
Still, he guarded his secret closely, and
we learned ~only the name of one of
these---Ferdinand Gomez. There was
another, whose name we could not at
first learn, w:ho always wore a gor-
geous uniform, concealed, when on the
etreet, under ~ long Spanish cloak.
"On the evening of the fourth of this
month, these men and several others
were at Garza's house, and Loi~t was
called to me~t them. Don Juan put her
hand in that of the uniformed strang-
er, and said:
"'Phtllp of Aragon, this is my
daughter, Lots. I made my bargain,
and who shall say you will not be the
gainer by i4.?'
"There. w0~s a great deal more said,
and the poor girl, though much fright-
ened, gathered enough from the con-
stant talk to know that these men
were engaged in a desperate
plot to seat Philip of Ar~,gon
on the throne of some coun-
try now a republic, and that her
father had f~rmlshed the arms and am-
munition and ready money for the en-
terprise, stipulating, in turn. that his
daughter, Lola, should be made queen.
When, after a long time, du}'Ing which
she trembled wlth fear, she was al-
lowed to leave the room. Ferd!n~nd
Oomez, who was near the door. bent
over and whispered In her ear: 'Heed
him hot--the madman. Whether he be
king or not. you shall never be his
bride. I haw, ~oved you long, and love
you now, to~ well to give you up to
him. Rather than have him marry you
I would kill him. And rather than
give you to another, I would~ kill you.
Remember, p~ece or war, success or
failure, you are mine.'
"As you may suppose. General, the
poor glrl was doubly frightened at this,
and made haste to tell me all on the
following day. Before I could act, how-
ever, on the morning of the 6th. Don
Juan Garza. his daughter, Gomez
and PhiILp of Aragon were mlsslng. 1
was much alarmed, and with my tried
and true friend here, Jack Tempest,
visited the Ve:aezuelan consul, among
others in NeW York. At the consul's
office we lear:ned, that the stean~hlp
Agostura had sailed from New York
that morning with the conspirators
and a cargo of arms for Bolivar. There-
fore, it is certain that Venezuela is the
country to be turned into a monarchy
with Philip of Aragon on the throne,
Now where are the conspirators?"
Salvarez laughed, and said:
'~ou need not fear. Your Lola is
now probably ~afe in the hands of the
Republic, and will not be harmed if
your story is true. The Agostura is so
long overdue ~hat I do not expect to
see her at Bolivar."
Notwithstanding this opinion of
~eneral ~alvarez, the smoke of a
•teamer was seen approaching on the
~d. Actlvlty began at once, and SaN
varez prepared to receive into captivity
the e~emles of his country.
When the eleanor drew nearer, they
were surprised to see that ~he carried
the Custom House flag, thus showing
that she ha~i been examined and
t~a~sed at La Guayra.
Then it could not be the Agostura.
But it was the Agosturs.
Slowly she swung into the dock; the
bustle of landing occupied some lit-
tle time, and the captain presented his
papers.
Not a passenger was on board; no
C~omez, no Garza. no Lois, no Philip
of Aragon.
The invoice was examined. The seal
of the custom house was genuine.
The work of unloading began.
Case after case was brought ashore.
and by the command of Salvarez brok-
en open.
The con~nts of one wa~ a plow, of
another a harrow,
So on, until the dock was strewn
with agricultural- implements.
Not a gun, not a cartridge, was on
board.
General Salvarez. his chief o~cers.
Medworth and Tempest, stood on the
dock at Bolivar, and looked at each
©thor in chagrin.
~ome one had blundered terrlblY.
"It is a trick."" exclaimed Medworth,
He was soon to learn.
CHAPTER II.
A Shrewd Move.
It will be necessary, in order that the
reader, who is interested, may under-
stand the mystifying event which upset
all the calculations of General Sal-
varez, and filled Arthur Medworth with
dismay, to turn our attention to the
men who were conspiring against the
peace and liberty of Venezuela, and fol-
low them in one of the shrewdest
moves the brain of plotter ever de-
vised.
It had seemed to Salvarez, who re-
called the words in the message of
President Crespo, that the consul at
New York had been too hasty in jump-
ing to a conclusion.
But the sailing of the Agostura laden
with arms for the royalist cause was
a fact. The consul av New York, in
cabling his information to President
Crespo at Caracas, had stated nothing
but the truth. Where. then, the mys-
tery? Shrewd as Medworth ned been,
shrewd as the consul had been, they
were but children compared to the
shrewdness of Ferdinand Gomes.
The first thing was to discover a king.
It may be wondered at that Gomez
did not aim to the crown himself. But
the astute Spaniard was experienced
enough to know that if he, as father of
the scheme, admitted that he wished
to be king, re would drive from his
side his strongest supporters, for It
would stand bare as the selfish, grasp-
ing plot of an adventurer. He disckwer-
ed the man he wanted, and supported
by the glory of the house of Aragon,
they began operations.
They found plenty of sympathizers
in Spain, but mostly among men who
were ready to Join the expedition with
visions of old-time Spanish conquest~
before them. But there were two great
difficulties that confronted Gomez. The
' Monroe Doctrine, so positively en-
forced and maltalned by the United
States government, made It Impossible
for the royalist movement to emanate
from Spain. The impulse must come in
the way of a revolution in Venezuela,
and for this there was no money avail-
able. But Gomez was not the man to
sit down and acknowledge himself de-
feated.
He went to Venezuela, He felt the
political pulse. He appointed agents to
all the states and provinces. Tl~en he
went to New York.
The reports of his agents were favor-
able. Men were ready to take up arms
for the royalist cause. But the arms
were lacking.
Now Gomez showed himself a mas-
ter. He carefully studied all sources
from which assistance might safely be
derived.
One after another he cast aside as
undesirable or impossible.
In a splendid house in New York
lived a proud old Spaniard, Don Juan
Garza, Don Juan had, in his own way
and time, been something of an ad-
venturer. Born in Castile, of a very
proud, very aristocratic and very poor
family, he inherited all the love of
pomp and royalty and nobility without
the means to gratify it. For a time
he served in the army, but at the age
of twenty-two he left Spain and went
to Venezuela. That country had, after
a thirty years' war, enjoyed ten years
of liberty from Spanish rule. Ths coun-
try was unsettled and dangerous,
and Don Juan had his fill of exciting
adventure, but did little to fill his de-
pleted coffers. He remained In Vene-
zuela long enough to bring down upon
his head the anger of ~the government
for intrigue and political treachery,
and was forced to leave. From there he
went to New York city, where he met
and won the beautiful daughter of a
wealthy merchant. His married llfe
proved happy enough to keep him out
of political mlsclef, but his mind often
turned longingly ~o the pomp and glory
of courts.
The merchant died, leaving his for-
tune so arranged that. at the death of
Don Juan's wife, it should descend to
the daughter, then a pretty little thing
of six.
When Lola was fifteen years of age
her mother died. and the old Spaniard's
mind turned with greater longing to
political fields.
Thus it was, when Ferdinand Gomez
was looking for some one to assist in
his great enterprise, Don Juan Garza
was looking for an enterprise to as-
aish
They met, these t'.:o, and conferred.
Don Juan was sixty years old, and was
shrewd. He desired to know the exact
position of the new movement in Vene-
zuela. Gomez, therefore, sent for his
agents, and for Philip of Aragon. While
waiting for them to arrive, Gomez fell
violently in love with Lola Garza, who
was herself in love with Arthur Mad-
worth, against whom the father had is-
sued his decree,
Philip and the agents arrived. A
meeting was held at Don Juan's house,
and it was made apparent to the old
man that one hundred thousand peo-
ple in Venezuela stood sworn to sup-
port Philip of Aragon. The pride and
ambition of Don Juan was touched.
He agreed to furnish the arms and am-
munition for the enterprise, if Philip
would agree to a contract in writing
whereby he bound himself to marry
L~la Garza as soon as the crown of
Venezuela was on his head, To this
Philip assented, and Gomes found
hlm~f confronted by a coallt~c~a ~.-. 4~44~4~~
tween Philip and Don Juan that bad~ ~ ,
fair to defeat his own secret pur~=~. ~Current lop cs
So, when the contract was slgae~.
Don Juan went to a certain w~lthy ~ .~
man in New York who frequently be. ~~4~4~~~,~
came the backer of shady enterprises, C/)ica~o',r ~Police Scandal
invariably exacting a great return iv: Astounding revelations of the mis-
his money; and this pers~)n, upon the conduct of the police force of Chicago
promise of DOn Juan to furnish a
contract, signed by Philip of Aragon,
to give him, Solima, the backer of the
state, the full control of all trade be-
tween Venezuela and the United States,
agreed to furnish twenty thousand
rifles, millions of cartridges, and a mil-
lion dollars to promote the success ot
the royal cause.
The plans worked smoothly without
a break. The Agostura was chosen as
the vessel to carry the arms out oil
New York; and this was where Gomez
proved himself to be the master-hand
in the whole conspiracy.
Up to this time the success had all
depended upon him, with the one ex-
ceptional instance of Garza's aid finan-
cially. But then, Gomez had chosen
Garza.
He had selected his agents shrewd-
ly, managed their movements, and
guided their hands. He had been all
over the ground to prepare the way
for his emissaries. He had met Pedro
Francisco, and had trusted him. He
alone, Gomez, controlled the situation.
At the same time the Agostura was
being laden with arms in the East
River, the Turtle, a ship in the carry-
ing trade between Boston and the pen-
insula, lay at her dock in Boston re-
ceiving a cargo of bona-fide agricul-
tural implements, ostensibly for Nic-
aragua.
The invoices of the Turtle and the
Agostura, one false, the other true,
were identically the same. The invoice
of the Agostura tallied correctly with
the invoice of the Turtle.
The morning of the 6th was a mem-
orable one to Lola Garza.
She had been awakened before day-
light by her father and ordered te
dress.
"Come,'~~ he said, "we go to place you
on a throne."
She had rebelled. A struggle had act-
ually taken place. Lola had been
dragged forth against her will, thrust
into a carriage with her father,
Gomez and Philip of Aragon, and tak-
en to Port Morris.
They boarded the Agostura. The
ship sailed at five o'clock.
Gomez was radiant. His plans had,
so far, been signally successful. His as-
sociates wondered at his hopefulness.
They knew nothing about the purchase
of the Turtle.
But Gomez had a surprise in store
for them.
When the Agostura had reached s
point about five degrees east of Wash-
ington and thlrty-five degrees north
latitude, she hung about as if waiting
for something.
That something was the Turtle.
"We are lost!" Don Juan had ex-
claimed when he saw the strange
steamer coming toward them.
"We govern," Gomez replied. "Vene-
zuela is ours from to-day."
The two steamers were lashed to-
gether.
Each had been furnished with don-
key-engines and hoisting apparatus.
The cargo of the Agostura was trans-
ferred to the Turtle.
The Agostura unloaded at Bolivar,
as we have seen. General Salvarez had
started for home in disgust. There
was no way for Medworth and Tempest
to leave before El Callao sailed, which
vould be in five days. Castle Salvare~
was only twenty miles away. They ac-
cepted the offer of hospitality Salvares
held out to them, and accompanied
him up the Coroni valley.
In the meantime, the Turtle. free
from all hindrance, had followed the
Agostura, and at the very hour the
Agostura was unloading at Bolivar,
the Turtle, loaded with twenty thous-
and rifles, came to anchor in the Or-
inoco at a shorter distance below the
mouth of the Coronl River than Boli-
var was above it. Gomez had outwitted
them all.
(To be continued.)
l]ow to Beoome Wealthy.
In a New Hampsihre city there
dwells an octogenarian physician who,
n addition to his wide medical skill, is
known far and wide as a dispenser of
blunt philosophy. The other day a
~oung man of his acquaintance called
at his office. "I have not come for pills
this time, dec.tot," said the visitor,
"but for advice. You have lived many
years in this world of toil and trouble
md have had much experience. I am
young and I want you to tell me how to
get rich." The aged practitioner gazed
through his glasses at the young man
md in a deliberate tone, said: "Yes, I
cantell you, You are young and can
accomplish your object if you will.
Your plan is this: First, be industri-
ous and economical. Save as much as
possible and spend as little. Pile up the
dollars and put them at interest. If you
follow out these instructions by the
time you reach my age you'll be as rich
as Croesus and as mean as h--l."~
Buffalo Commercial.
Sailor Poets Wanted.
An English literary writer says that
"the time is fully ripe for the advent
of a sailor poet and the marine en-
gineer poet. "Whether they write in
terms of rhyme or no I care not. A
virgin field awaits them, a noble in-
heritance, maturing for ages, They
can, if they come, utterly refute the
false and foolish prattle of the arm-
chair philosophers and prove trium-
phantly that so far from the romance
and poetry of the aea being dead, It
has hardly yet b--en given any ado.i
quate expression whatever."
Lawndale, Ken., a town of twoI
thousand inhabitants, boasts of a pc-
continue to amaze the' public. It was
generally suspected that the .depart-
ment, through some of its commanding
officers, is a patron of the criminal
classes, shielding them from prosecu-
tion in return for money or political
assistance. This was a dignified and
honorable business compared with the
position in which the most recent
charges haw placed the ~lepartment,
It figures now not as the protector, but
as the tool of criminals. The accusa-
tion is made by one of the societies for
the prevention of crime that when a
raid of poolroom owners communi-
cated with police captains and ser-
geants over the police telephone, which
had been kindly placed at the disposal
of the runners, and the captains and
sergeants forthwith sent out men from
the stations to warn the criminals.
This is in some respects the worst
charge that has been made against
the department. Not only does it con-
nive at crime, but it devotes its ener-
gies to a systematic defeat of the pro-
cesses of the court. It is apparent
from the manner of the men under
suspicion that they are in no terror
of punishment, and will be in none
until the sustaining political power
behind them, which would compel
them to protect vice and crime even
FRANCIS O'NEILIs.
Chicago's New Chief of Police Who is
Cleaning Out the Department.
if they were not too willing to do it,
is smashed by the people.
~Di~Jorcez in Indiana.
The state statistican of Indiana has
done an important service of sociology
by compiling the statistics of mar-
riages and divorces throughout the
entire state. If the same work could
be done, and done as thoroughly, in
every other state a more exhaustive
study of the divorce question would be
possible, and the needs of uniform
legislation would be more apparent.
The reports of the statistician show
that during the year ending June 30,
1901, the total number of marriages
in the state was 24,007, and the total
number of divorces granted was 3,009,
or about 13 per cent. Undoubtedly
some of these divorces have been
granted, but it is extremely doubtful
whether such a large percentage of
marriages as this should have been
annulled. Other statistics are also of
interest. The divorces granted to
wives were 1,967, to husbands 659. and
this is about the proportions in other
states. It does not follow from this
that women are more prone to rush
into the divorce courts than men. The
causes explain the numerical differ-
ence. Of the total (1,967) divorces
granted to wives 792 were for abando-
ment by husbands and 901 for cruel
treatment by them, These are suffi-
cient causes and explain the appar-
ently large proportion of wives seek-
ing divorce.
Famo~.r ~eari j~ec~lace.
A Jewelry firm eL London are now
the fortunate possessors of the mag-
nificent six-row pearl necklace, sold
{or £20,000 ($100,000) recently at
Christie, the property of a French
lady of rank, and sold for the pur-
pose of family division, the sale of
which created such extraordinary
sensation among the connoisseurs of
Europe and America, attracting to
the salerooms the leading merchants
of London and the continent.
The necklace was sold at the auction
~o a syndicate of three leading whole-
lice department that has not made a, sale pearl merchants of London, who
single arrest in the last eight years. ~ have now resold it to the above named
Jewelers.
of Macomb, Ill., is a gentleman much
noticed by the state press at this time.
The reason for it is that he recently
wrote the following letter:
"McDonough County Fair Associa-
tion, Macomb, Ill. : I herewith return
N
REV. J. H. BATTEN.
your complimentary ticket for three
reasons:
5. If ~ care to attend I am able to
pay my way.
2, I ask no favors and propose to
grant none to an organization that de-
liberately and defiantly violates the
laws of both God and man.
3. 'I propose that at least one mln-
tater in the city of Macomb shall not
be used as an advertisement for an as-
sociation of professional gamblers
who conduct their criminal business
under the name of an agricultural fair.
---James Hoffman Batten."
A~tomati¢ 1~lail ~eli~ery,
An ingenious mail service system
has been devised by a Massachusetts
inventor. The arrangement is quite
complicated, but the manner in which
the mechanism works is described as
beautifully simple.
Letters, instead of being placed in
the ordinary boxes, are dropped into
receptacles, which are conveyed by
electrical motors to the central station.
Swiftly and noiselessly these mail
boxes move through the air, stopping
at regular intervals for more mall,
their arrival at and depart~e from
each point being timed as exactly as
under the present system, In a word,
they are designed to do the ~reater
part of the work that postmen do at
present.
Of course, by this method, though
letters can be transmitted to and
from any point in a city, or perhaps a
greater distance, they cannot be de-
livered at individual houses. On the
THE MAIL DISTRIBUTORS.
other hand, it is claimed that, so far
as time is concerned, these electrically
propelled mail boxes are far superior
to any system now in use.
"'~anl(e¢'" ~roduct~ in En~llzb
Life.
In the domestic life we have got to
this: The average man rises in ~he
morning from his New England folding
bed, shaves with &merican soap and a
Yankee safety razor, pulls on his Bos-
ton boots over his socks from North
Carolina, fastens his Connecticut
braces, slips his Waltham or Water-
bury watch in his pocket and sits
down to breakfast. There he con-
gratulates his wife on the way. her
Illinois straight front corset sets off
her Massachusetts blouse, and he tack-
lea his breakfast where he eats bread
made from prairie flour, tinned oysters
from the Pacific coast, and a slice of
Kansas City ~bacon, while his wife
plays with a slice of Chicago ox
tongue. The children are given Ameri-
can oats. At the same time he reads
his morning paper printed by Ameri-
can machines and possibly on Ameri*
can paper.
He rushes out. catches the electric
tram (New York) to .Shepherd's Bush,
where he gets lu a Yankee elevator to
take him on to the American-fitted
electric railway to the city. At lunch
time he hastily swallows some cold
roast beef that comes from a cow in
Iowa, and flavors it with the latest
New England pickles," and then soothe~
hls mind with a couple of Virginia
clrgarettes.
To follow hls course all day would
be wearisome. But when evening
comes he seeks relaxation at the latest
American musical comedy and finishes
up with a couple of "little liver pills"
"made in America."~London Mail.
Mayor Tom Johnson of Cleveland
started to earn his living by selling
newspapers wbeu he was 11 years old.
That was at the time of Les's surren-
der and news was plenty and in great
demand. Johnson made $80 the first
five weeks he was In the business by
cornering his small town's newspaper
market,
~etvare ~f #~e ..Vteno~rapJ~er.
A decision as to what constitutes a
libelous "publication" in contempla-
tion of law has recently been handed
down by the Maryland court of ap-
peals, which should lead persons em-
ploying private amanuenses and sten-
ographers to use great care as to the
subject matter of a dictated letter, says
the Baltimore American. According
to this decision, the first Judicial de-
liverance of a state court of last re-
sort deciding the precise point, the
publication of a letter dictated and
typewritten containing libelous matter
is legally complete, although its con-
tents have not been made known to
any person other than the stenog-
rapher. The court ruled:
"Neither the prevalence of any busi-
ness customs or methods nor the pres-
sure of business which compels resort
to stenographic assistance can make
that legal which is illegal, nor make
that innocent which would otherwise
be actionable. Nor can the fact that
the stenographer is under contractual
or moral obligation to regard all his
employer's communications as confi-
dential alter the reason of the mat-
ter."
Under the ruling publicity within the
meaning and intent of the libel law
of Maryland is sufficiently accom-
plished when the objectionable matter
is dictated to the stenographer. The
libel is "published" under such cir-
cumstances as fully for the legal pur-
poses as though it were printed in a
newspaper and published broadcast.
No case presenting the same facts ap-
pears to have been before the courts
of any other state for adjudication. In
view of the universal use of stenog-
raphers as confidential secretaries, It
is important that the decision should
be widely published.--Pittsburg Dis-
patch.
~hi~r I~ Open ~ar.
The people of many prosperous
manu~aeturing towns in Pennsylvania
and Ohio are dismayed, with good rea-
son, by the announcement of a new
policy adopted by the United States
Steel Corporation in fighting strikes.
The corporation has determined,
wherever it is possible, to dismantle
or abandon mills where the workmen
have gone out. This is wasting the
enemy's country with a vengeance and
savors of real warfare. The mills are
the very heart of many fine cltles and
towns. Thousands of persons and
their small concerns depend on the
activity of these establishments. The
blow as usual falls heaviest on the
non-combatants, the unoffending pub-
lic. The operatives can move to other
industrial centers and gain employ-
ment. The case is different with the
merchant or banker, who has a heavier
stake in the community and who has
risked everything on the stability of
the local conditions. He is not apt
to think very highly of a victory
which is won at the cost of complete
ruin to himself and his family, who
have had no interest in the dispute.
But the pnllcy may have a large use-
fulness if it makes people ask whether
a struggle between a combination of
great wealth and i~s employee, which
may practically destroy whole com-
munities and bring ruin on multitudes
of innocent people, is really a "private
matter" in which each of the contend-
ing parties can do what it will with
its own.
Th# ~. Loutz E~rpozitlon.
The Director of Works for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition at St.
Louis announces that ground is to be
broken in a few days and that before
the end of N0vember the contracts will
have been let for nearly $6,000,000
worth of work. It is expected that the
entire cost of the exposition will ex-
ceed JJ0,000,000, in which case it will
surpass all previous enterprises of this
nature. The Forest Park tract of
1,100 acres, set apart for the fair, is
picturesque and beautiful to a rare de-
gree, and no less than 640 acres are
to be occupied by buildings and other
attractions. The plan~ are already
sufficiently matured to make it evi-
dent that the St. Louis people are de-
termined to eclipse even the World's
Columbian exposition.
The World's Fair in Chicago cost
for construction $18,300,000, of which
$5,000,000 was appropriated hy the City
of Chicago, $5,604,000 was secured by
the sale of stock, and $2,488,000 came
from the sale of the souvenir coins
contributed by the national govern-
me~tt. While Chicago had $13,000,000
raised before the gates opened, St.
Louis already has $16,000,000 in sight.
That city is fortunate in having an
appropriation of $5,000,000 from con-
gress. Chicago got only the souvenir
coins. The City of St. Louis hoe ap-
propriated $5,006,000, the same amount
Chicago gave, but the State of Mis-
souri has voted $1,000,000. Illinois
gave no such sum to the Chicago Fatr,
Finally, the subsciptions to date are
said ~) exceed $5,000,000.
~wetiez 0/" Language.
Here are two or three nicatle~ of
language to which perhaps some who
read ~bis may not have had ~heir at-
tention called, says Harper's Bazar. A
man Just married is prefevably not a
"groom," but a bridegroom." The
former is not exactly incorrect, hut the
latter is much the better word. "Dres-
sy" as an adjective can be dtsl~nsed
with, "dress gowns, .... a dress a~air,"
covering the ground decidedly better.
"Full dress" in the same application is
also unnecessary as well as inelegant.
Tell your brothers, too, not to talk
about their "dress suits'; rather speak
Of "evening dress."
