Stories of Paraná - Promise fulfilled

Stories of Paraná - Promise fulfilled

Promise fulfilled
Tulio Vargas

My paternal grandfather, Jorge de (Miveira Vargas, born in Lapa, PR, lilho a drover, at that time,
fulfilled the itinerary Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, the Fair ile Sorocaba, São Paulo.
Not inherited the father's nomadic vocation.
Since small expressed artistic taste and literary skills.
Became more larde, president of Instructional and Benevolent Association of Artists and Workers that city.
Enthralled by the agitation of the verb torrential democratic Senator gaucho Silveira Martins, leaned politically by Party
Liberal. And lived contradicted by episodes marked the beginning of the Republic, when he saw the state government dislodged Generoso Marques ilos Santos, undisputed boss of his new party, the Republican Union.
When they arrived at the first news of Paraná skirmishes led by Gumercindo Saraiva, on the banks of the stream Salsinho, Uncle Rio Grande do Sul, Paraná excited the feds up, foreshadowing the moment of revenge. 1893/94. It would be the reckoning of maragatos.
In Lapa, the old liberals conspired.
With the approach of the forces Gumercindo and the imminence of the Siege, city officials determined the arrest of political opponents, subject to execution.
Warned in time, my grandfather fled riding at dawn toward Castro.
Was initially fugitive on the farm Boa Vista, Dona Mariana Marques Madureira.
With the short field of unruly enjoyed some freedom, but when fortune changed the course of the Revolution, he was forced to take refuge in the "Farm", Pirai, protected family Gonçalves Martins.
Feel the flesh the consequences of the fratricidal conflict that bloodied the forums pacifist state.
Their hideout, a well off the back of extensive rural property, well away from the legalistic harassment patrols sweeping the backcountry.
Seemed safe haven, although unhealthy and lonely.
Joaquim, one of the little black servants, brought him food every day, breaking the surveillance of the police station that sought in vain to find it.
He promised my grandfather that if one day he saw that free persecution and survived the vengeance of the victors, would give sustenance for life.
Feared sticking, if it were caught.
The dust settled revolutionary and decreed amnesty, he was gradually rejoining society.
Recovered the power of influence and was elected chamberlain in 1908, having served in place, the mayor of Pirai. On the cultural, tradition says was one of the founders of the first theater of the city, the Teatro Sideria.
Tuned to the memory of events that left him scarred, old promise fulfilled.
For many years, while he lived, was seen Joaquim bellied, as everyone called her, as an adult, to stock up royally at Casa Vargas, under the grateful look of the old merchant, who was honored pact until my grandfather's death in 1914 .

Tulio Vargas, former congressman, a member of the Academy of Arts of Paraná.


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.