| Show A ACTA TA RICAN COUP politic wl was solved I 1 au easily Efre ted change Cli anc di asu jimenez may have lave been a learned maz if lie hib was no not a wise one he its had lad been made president of of costa atlea llica by the a army rm Y end apac ill a oon won as 01 ho be got supreme power in the lc lie hs gave that important body the cold shoulder it was we a mists mistake ire he ile should have I 1 lorne it to tho the front giving it prom efi wearing it so to speak like a rose h in a hu top buttonhole on dress oom ions 1 on the contrary he treated it contemptuously I 1 e leered sneered at it its pettiness and flummery and degraded ded ita its cols what can a sin single CIO doctor of ine medicine dicino do against one entire regiment of infantry and a two gun battery if 9 of flying artill artillery eryl nothing absolutely nothing ills brass brae mortar and pellets are I 1 but nt trillis against a bo howitzer and bullets bat bt tie the army was alo la in an awkward fix dortho for the army at I 1 said had made dr june jime by a coup A second coup following fol follon loning ing eo to soon won on the steps of the former would never ansar ans ator the army would lose its prost prestige fp still amt anut bordone bo for the most popular officer officers and their friends in civil life were belne being banished in crowd from the republic the ile difficulty was solved by col thomas thom aluardia Oa ClU ardla ardia ills brother was in command of I 1 treone regiment of infantry it was only nece aary arY therefore to get possession odthe of the artillery 80 one morning the great gate of the 06 barracks were open 4 and two wagon loads of freshly cut grass passed in as usual Is and nd the gates were closed vi hereupon whereupon there suddenly denly the two loads of gr grass and fourteen men led bydon by don thomas guardia pointed fourteen n revolvers veis at the few half i f aiwase soldiers sold tere in the patio and the job was fidone idone killing only one officer who attempted I 1 resistance to the revolution of the tho people A lieutenant with a few men waited on dr jimenez and told him that he be could re amo abo tico of medicine as the public would not requite his services any more at the 1 1 palace I 1 I 1 nothing could havo have been more satisfactory to D dr r jimenez he really dibut want power 1 r and only accepted li it because bemuse ho he we ee alswor war out of I 1 t ata at 9 he mounted t his big n faddle saddle mule with his lis al farjas and went around among his lis patients quietly said wd to his fri friends ends that he was informed that thomas G guardia u was in possession of the supreme go government and wid that he would bo be able to give his lis business busi nees better attention than he bad had adoring during the post past few mont lis before he returned 1 to bis his house for breakfast he cal called id at f 1 the palace smiled and nodded toward the guard and sent his lis card new pal dent you will naturally suppose that don v r m thomaa thomas on bea bearing of this sudden appearance it sy ot of the dethroned ruler in the place where be had bad reigned but yesterday summoned bis its guard buckled on bh lis sword capped several I 1 I 1 revolvers ordered a squad of detectives to usher him in fit and watch bis lis e every ery motion lie ile I 1 nothing of 0 the kind for two reasons there never lived one man of whom thomas I 1 guardia pir in was afraid and of all men in fit the tile world 0 dr jesus jimenez was the laa man a ara for anybody body to be lo afraid of Tho therefore when tey met le the inquiring somewhat serious look of don thomas before the cordial pleased unile of dr jimenez t they hey F a braced with the fervor of old frienda friend 1 alfred F sear la in overland monthly |
