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INTERESTING INCIDENTS RELATED
1Y ALFRED R. CALHOUN.
A New Vera I on or tha Old Story or tha
Ohrt tl tha Pecoa A tarend That
Has m llee.i Prevalent In Now
Meilco.
lOopyrlgbt, 18!, bv American Press Assocla
tlon.l Home jrbAra before the railroad camo to
Mow Mexico I was nt n dinner In SnnU Fc
given by the territorial officers ton num
ber of engineers who had been making it
frollnilnnry survey down the IttoOroiidu.
t was a stair txirtv. and after cliiara wore
llghteil Mr. Chavcx, tlio gentleman who
presided, announced to tlio guests that he
expected each otio to make a speech, sing a
song or tell a story. Colonel McC ,
then on the stnIT of General Gutty, who
commanded tlio Department of Now Mex
ico, chose to tell a story, and tliu graphic
recital and the startling and uiioxHctcd
termination struck me so forcibly that I
wrote It out tho next morning Hero It Is:
"Gentlemen, I do not wish to reflect on
any of the storlet that have been or that
may be told, but what I am about to nar
rate has the very decided merit of being
true.
"At the breaking out of tho lato war a
large number of Germans who were living
In Texas, but who were strongly opposed
to secession, decided to put all their port
able effects Into wagons and como north to
Now Mexico, hero to remain till tho war
was over.
"They wore Induced to como to this tor
rltory by an old hunter named Combs,
who 'knew tho country as well as If ho had
made it,' nnd who readily consented to
le a guida for patriotic exiles.
"The women and children, with a good
supply of provisions, were placed In ten
wagons. Iu addition to the drivers there
were twelve well mounted and well armed
men with the guide, and tlicso drovo along
a lot of cows' and lieef cattlo, which It was
expected would be found useful in tho new
home, which it was decided should bo Id
the northern valley of tho Pecos river.
"After a march of more than 800 mtloo,
during which the exiles suffered ninny pri
vations, they reached their destination,
and they were delighted with tho uppor
Pecos, which every good New Mexican re
gards as an Kden. Soon after their arrival
Combs, the guide, was killed by tho Co
munches, at least he nover came Iwick to
deny It, nnd at the samo tlmo the startling
news reached them that General Sibley,
with a brigade of Texans, hud come into
the territory and proposed to hold it for tho
Confederacy.
"The Germans consulted together. They
hod not bettered their condition by leaving
Texas, for the enemy had followed them.
After a prayerful consideration of the case
and a careful examination of u map of Old
and New Mexico they made up their minds
to reload their wagons and go to tho latter
country. Ah this was early In 1803 they
knew nothing of tho designs of the French
emperor ou the halls of Montesuma.
A M0N8TK0U8 BrKCTltAL FIGURE.
"They hod no guide, nor was this thought
necessary, for the maps showed that the
Pecos ran nearly due south till It entered
the Itlo Grande, about 000 miles away, and
across from Its mouth was their promised
laud.
"The Pecos, where they had found a tem
porary resting place, was a beautiful trout
lllled river. The banks were lined with
stately cottonwoods, the sky was clear, the
soil fertile and the pasturage tho best.
They reasoned from their experience with
all other streams that these- conditions
would continue, nnd that as the river
ueared its mouth the volume of its water
would Increase. They did uot notice that
for WiO miles it received no tributaries, nnd
so they could not foresee the effect of per
colation and evaporation on the current.
"Full of hope, they started off for Mex
ico, and it was not till they had been trav
eling for a week that they noticed the cot
tonwoods had glveu place to sagebrush
and cactus, and that the rich pastures of
the upper river were replaced by powdery
bunch grass. The water became some.
t what sail ne; the sun poured down blister
ing not rrom a cloudless, coppery sky. In
shimmering waves the radiating heat dis
torted the landscape, and, in the early
morning and after sunset, the mirugo ap
peared with its delusive cities, its pellucid
lakes and its purple mountains of the
blessed.
"At length there came a day when the
current ceased and they found the water
only In tepid, brackish pools. Still on and
down thoy pressed, hoping nnd praying for
a sight of the Itlo Grande and tho Slerrau
of Old Mexico.
"Then the pools vanished, swallowed up
in the parched earth, and they had to dig
for water in the arid and dusty bed of the
river, at first a foot, then two feet, then
one-half their time was spent in digging
for water and they were forced to travel at
ulght, for the cows had died or wandered
off and tho horses and mules looked like
parched skeletons,
"Then there came a day when tho last of
the exhausted animals died. The wagons
fell to pieces In the furnace heat, and gaunt,
wild eyed women staggered down the bed
of the river with their little ones dying on
their nillkless and shriveled breasts. The
women and children and then the old men
died one after the other on the blistering
banks of the waterless river.
"After this the younger men died, till
at length only one, the most powerful of
the party, was left. Without hope, yet
urged to madness by the thirst that
cracked his lips and blackened his swollen
tongtiu and made thirsty every pore of Ids
gaunt form, the poor fellow staggered ou.
The red sun rose into the coppery sky,
mounted to the zenith, then sloped west
from the verdureless Pecos, hut he saw no
slitn of relief.
"One night the last of the exiles, his
strength all gone and the coiuIiik of death
the oue thing wished for, threw himself on
the blistering river bed and raised his rod,
mil blinded eyes for a last earthly look at
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must attribute to the condition of bin
mind, but as he looked a monstrous apce
tral figure rose from tho sand a of the
PecoM. The eyes hhuced like furtmcea, aad
tho mouth waa like the crater of an aetlrt
volcano.
" 'My friend,1 aatd thla figure, 'do jtm
know who I atnf'
" 'No, no! Waterl water,' cried tha poor
man.
" 'I,' said the specter, 'am the Ghoat of
tho Pecos! Don't you think that In this
land It's rather a long time between
drinks?'"
Tho colonel sat down after this story, but
It was some seconds lefore tho horrified
company n-ullr.cd the cruel sell and hua tied
him out of tho room.
Worse Than Heath,
Until a recent date It was the law In
Austria that u woman convicted of n capi
tal offense and condemned to death could
be saved, even If on the scaffold, if u single
man would come forward and then and
there maku her his wife.
The women of Vienna aro Justly colo
brutcd for their beauty, nnd more than one
of the fairest women In tho Austrian capi
tal has Htiffrcd tho death penalty for
crimes, usually Incited by jealousy, that
would shock a band of thugs.
Marie llartman was employed as govern
ess In the family of a colonel of Hussars.
She was wonderfully bright, and In addi
tion she had the rare beauty that comes
from a crossing of the Magyar and Teu
tonic races. Colonel Von Graff was about
thirty years of ago, rich, handsomo and
gallant his adventures In tho latter lino
being excused by his associates, owing to
the fact that his wlfo had been an invalid
since the birth of her only child, now a lit
tle girl of six.
Forgetting their social dlfforcnco as well
as the marital barrier that separated thorn,
Marie llartman fell violently in lovo with
the colonel, and although he denied ever
having encouraged her passion there wore
not wanting those who bolluvcd that the
girl had some reason for bclluvltig that
her employer preferred her to his Invalid
wife. But be that as It may, it Is very
certain that Marie got the idea into her
pretty but very wicked little head, that If
Mine. Von Graff were out of the way sho
would lie Installed very soon thereafter as
the mistress of the colonel's heart and
home.
Too Impatient to wait for tho natural
agencies that produce dissolution, Mario
determined to -Income an active ally of
Death. She was a great favorite with the
invalid lady, and this gave her the oppor
tunity to carry out her plans, which she
did with a calmness and a lienrtlcssncas to
which the annals of crlmo present but fow
parallels.
From the tlmo she began administering
poison to her mistress till the day that un
fortunate lady died was exactly seven
weeks, and during that time tho change in
Madam Vou Graff's case puzzled tho fore
most doctors in Vienna, including the
physician of his majesty the Emperor
Francis Joseph,
With the colonel's free consent an au
topsy was held, and then the truth came
out. The unfortunate lady had been killed
by arsenic, administered with surprising
skill.
It was some time before suspicion point
ed to Marie llartman, and then it ointed
unmistakably. The girl was arrested, but
displayed a moral obliquity that amazed
men whose lives had been dovoted to the
investigation and punishment of crime.
Even when the evidence was overwhelm
ingly against her she protested her inno
cence with a nonchalance and effrontery
thnt astonished the court, nnd when con
victed and sentenced sho broke out with a
torrent of profanity and told the Judge
that she expected to make faces at him
when they met in a place warmer than
Vienna.
The girl's recklessness and beauty at
tracted the interest of one of tlio prison
doctors, a middle aged, well to do man,
who was noted for his plain features and
professional skill. This Interest gradually
intensified into love, but Dr. Trott did not
dare to announco his feelings to Ills friends
or to the beautiful criminal.
At length tho day set for tho execution
of Marie llartman arrived. In the interim
between her sentence and execution sho re
fused to see any clergyman, declaring with
n laugh, when talked to on the subject,
that sho had no hopo of heaven or fear of
hell.
Dr. Trott was at the place of execu
tion, and when he saw the lovely fiend
about to mount the scaffold all his dread
of what society would say vanished, and
urged thereto by his overpowering love, he
rushed up to Marie and cried out, with
his arms about her neck, "Marie, I love
you, and I will save you by making you
my wife!"
With n laugh, she looked Into tho plain,
honest face, and asked:
"Must I marry you in order to live?"
"Yes," replied the doctor. "Say you
will marry me and you will live. The
clergyman, who is here to point out the
butter way, will unite us."
Ma:ie llartman looked from tho earnest,
plai f(ced man to the scaffold; tlieu.
slirug;oi;g her shoulders, sho said:
"Qiy can purchase life at too high a
priw, i think that if marrying you Is the
only alternative, I prefer to die."
And with a mocking laugh she mounted
the scaffold and died without the least
ign of agitatiou or u pang of penitence
"Two Uuttrts and a Tint."
There Is today an English actor In the
United States, who is winning both for
tune and fame, who owes his start in life
to his enrly ignorance and innate honesty.
When n lad he was what is known as a
"pot boy" in a public house near Covent
Garden theater, in Ixindon.
A gentleman camu In lato one evening,
nnd while taking refreshments ho ordered
the Ixiy to call a hack for him. On reach
ing home the man missed his pockctbook,
containing a Inrge sum of money and a lot
of valuable papers, and ho believed thnt he
had dropped It iu tho hack, tho number of
which he had forgotten, lie hastened to
the public house early tho next morning,
and after telling of Ids loss he asked the
boy If he could remember the number of
the hack.
The poor youth could neither rend nor
write and knew nothing about numerals,
but he knew the signs by which his em
pj oyer scored the quarts and pints of porter
that were drank at his house, so he called
out ou Hie instant-
"It was two quarts and
pint, slrl"
'
This was unintelligible to the gentleman
till the landlord explained that the boy
meant TT1.
The hack was soon found, and tho driver
was forced, somewhat reluctantly, to ac
knowledge that lie had picked up tho
pockctbook when he went to the stable.
The acuteuess of the boy so pleased tlio
gentleman that lie sent him to school,
where he learned rapidly and soon showed
that he had histrionic talents of n high
order. Al.l'IIKK it. CALHOUN.
A PHILOSOPHICAL COCKROACH.
A cockroach sat on an editor' desk,
With a cynical mnlln nn Ids facet
And watched the editor inako Kroteaque
Illack marks nn a clean, white place.
"Dear inel" asld tho cockroach, "I can't sco
Why ho should labor mi constantly,
Tor he doesn't accomplish a slnida thing
With all Ida writing and aclsoorlng.
Paste and eclnaora,
Hclasnr and imate-
Think of tho onuricy itolng to wastel"
Tlio editor lUtened, but didn't reply,
For ho had too much to do;
Hut ho said to himself, "One can't deny
There's much hi tho point of vlow.
One cntinnt mensuro Id neliihbnr'a worth
Dy tho Knah ho mnkra In tlio face of tho earth;
And I Mmniily stiqcct that he may tie
Perfectly rltiht In Ids Judgment of me,
I'antonnd scissors,
Hclasors and paste
Think of tho rncruy koIiik to waatel"
Then tho editor smashed tho cockroach flat
With his sclsitors nnd burled him deep
la tho sit of pimto nnd remarked, "Now that
I consider Is Kctthiit olT cheap,
Tho critical faculty, as wo know,
la a dntiKvrous thlnit to have, and so
I've fiirwurdod )ou to a better land,
For tho sake of society, understand."
Then tho editor took up his pen nnd aatd,
As ho looked ill tho cockroach lying dead,
"Pnstonnd scissor,
Hclfmors nnd paste
Thluk of tho energy going to wastol'
Chicago Journal.
Might l to linen Wnraa,
"S ' C " ' -Ui f
ftSur-
She I am very aorry, but our engage
ment must cense. I can never mnrry.
He My gracious! What has happened f
She My brother has disgraced us.
He Oh, Is that all? That doesn't mat
ter. I feared maybe your father had failed.
Now York Weekly.
Too llnaty.
Dr. Hninton, In nn address lately re
ported In tho London Lancet, was caution
ing his hearers tho members of a medical
society against hastily expressed opinions
as to the nature of patients' diseases, and
emphasized his warning by two professional
anecdotes. He was once present at a clinic,
the subject of which was a man evidently
suffering from somu disease of the heart.
An unnatural murmuring sound could
be heard from thnt organ, and the pupil of
ono of his eyes was very much dilated. The
peculiar appearance of the eye seemed to
have some connection with tho cardiac
affection, but various opinions wero ex
pressed by thodiffcrcut students as to what
tho precise nature of tills relation could lie.
The discussion was Just liecomlng Inter
esting when tho patient remarked that his
strnngo looking eye was mudo of glass.
At another clinic the professor in chargs
was discussing learnedly about tho Im
portance of attending to minor symptoms.
"Now, gentlemen," ho said, "In the case
of this woman here, certain things could
bo confidently nfllrmed from tho condition
of her teeth."
He was proceeding to particularize, but
just then the patient broke In 11(1011 him.
"Please, sir," she said, as sho took out
her teeth, "I will hand them around; the
young gentlemen might like to look at
them closer." Youth's Companion.
Why II Didn't Like Knglnntl.
Rlgby What are you going to do this
summer going across tho pond?
Dlgby Y-a-s, I think I'll knock around
the Continent a bit, you know.
Rlgby And you won't stop in England?
Dlgby Naw, I think not.
Rlgby Why not?
Dlgby Weally, deah lwy, I was ovah
there lawst year, don't yer knew, and me
Amewlcan accent was so noticeable thut
there was weally no pleasure In life. De
troit Tribune.
On III Mother' Hide.
"Do you think I aw shall have a good
beard?" asked an unpromising candidate
for such honors.
"I'm afraid not, sir," answered the bur
lier, after a close Inspection.
"Aw, weally. My fawther has aw werry
fine beard, you know."
"Maybe you take after your mamma,
air!" National Burlier.
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business and profit vs. sentiment and peace. The cost Is about the same, and you ought to have your choice. Do you
ask where to put jour "oats", or the "crust of bread"? You can easily tell by looking about a bit.
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