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Al Pueblo de lo Condado de
sobrante de sus beneficios el era
iM'llecimieuto do sus residencias, de
tal suerte, que las fachadas
de las tiendas alienadas á lo
Jargo do la calle parecían iuvítarlo
á uno como hubieran podido hacerlo
dos hileras do sonrientes vendedoras.
Hasta el domingo, cuando-aquellos
atractivos encantos estaban ocultos
y la calle parecía relativamente de
sierta, ofrecía marcado contraste con
las inmediaciones, bastante sucias,
contraste parecido al de un fuego
brillante en. medio de un ljosque
sombrío ; no cabo duda do que
aquellas persianas recién pintadas,
aquellos bronces relucientes, yaqu
ella nota de limpieza y de alegría
sorprendían y agradaban á los
transeúntes.
A dos casas de distancia de la
esquina do la calle, á mano izquierda
3'endo hacia el Este, la linea se
hallaba cortada por la eutrada do
un callejón sin salida, en el que se
levantaba un edificio de aspecto
triste, cuyos aleros se extendían sobre
la calle. Tenia dos pisos, ninguna
ventana, solo una puerta en la planta
baja, y el muro deteriorado que se
elevaba hasta el extremo superior;
en todo demostraba aquella con
struccióu largo tiempo de abandono
y descuido. J-ia puerta, en la cual
no habia ni campanilla ni picaporte,
estaba deteriorada y sucia. Los
vagos acostumbraban sentarse en el
escalón de ella, y la utilizaban para
encender fósforos; los muchachos
de las escuelas habían probado sus
cuchillas eu las molduras; y durante
muchísimo tiempo nadie se habia
preocupado de rechazar á oquellos
visitantes, ó de reparar sus daños.
continuado.
Has auyone seen an ast ray "motto?"
That colonization scheme has not
j-et materialized to any great extent.
An export trade is the life of any
place; without it, the town is simply
bled to death.
As a "politician, I'm cute;" and
on second thought believe I can
give Jery Bagstock several pointers.
Tue cost of last term of district
court at St. Johns amounted in the
aggregate to $1,258.97. Former
terms ran up to sums ranging from
$5,000 to J8,00- A reasonably fair
argument in favor of "county divis
ion." Those infernally bad street cross
ings, in the western part of town,
should be repaired at once. Parties
ruining street crossings by allowing
water to wash them out, creating
dangerous mud-holes, should be
compelled to repair them.
Because certain of our citizens
latter day saints refuse to perpetually-bow
the knee to the Poo Bah of
Apache county, must they be dub
bed damphoolsT We think they
have the right to vote for the pop.
or any other ticket free from Poo
Bah dictation.
The populists of Apache county,
with Mr. . Alex Schreeve at their
head, expect to make quite a re
ntable showing at the next gen-
"r"wi-lruow. whereof we J
fulfy' quaiut4, - -
tic cause than our friend AlexMuef
Schreeve and those of his associates.
St. Jolius-Gallup Koacl.
A good wagon-road between St.
Johns and the city of Gallup is a
prime necessity; without good roads
leading to all points available as a
market for your products the town
will die a natural death.
St. Johns has suffered with the
"dry rot" lo, these many years, and
its people should endeavor to awaken
out of their Rip Van Winkle sleep
and do something; meet the enter
prising people of Gallup half way;
do something we say, if only to turn
over and go off to sleep again. The
citizens of Gallup are alive to the
best interests of their town, and
when necessary go down into their
jeens to help push matters. Now
let the people of St. Johns "get a
nioVe on", themselves, chip in and
construct a road between St. Johns
and Gallup.
SCIENCE AND INBJJSTRY.
The fruit growing industry in Ore
gon is growing very rapkllv. The state
secretary of horticulture estimates that
this full there are 505,000 acres of pours,
peaches, apples and such kinds of fruit
in the state; 35,000 acres of prunes and
1,500 acres of berries.
. Experiments made by the Italians
at Massowah in raising European crops
on the Abyssinian plateau have proved
very successful. Grain yielded espe
cially good results this year. Plans
are made for a greater extension of ag
riculture in the colony next year.
Silk has been made of the threads
of the Madagascar hal'ab'e spider which
has very nearly the same resistance
as that made from silk worm cocoons.
Experiments made with ordinary
spider 'sXcb have. proved failures ow
ing to the weakness of the threads,
but the chrysalis of the common moth
has yielded silk strong enough for a
lady's neckerchief.
The temperature of the earth's
crust increases at the average rate of
one degree Fahrenheit for each fifty
five feet in descent. At such a uniform
rate of increase we find that we must
only descend to a depth of something
like thirty miles into the bowels of the
earth to find heat sufficient to melt any
known substance, and that a few miles
deeper all rocks and metals must be in
a state of white-hot fusion.
There is a variety of the caterpillar
of the European Saturnia carpini, with
pink tubercles. The moth bred ' from
this larva, by Dr. Dixey, produced cat
erpillars Ox which ten per cent, had
pink tubercles.- In this connection
Prof. Poulton remarked, states tature,
that he had found caterpillars of
Smcrinthus occllatus. with red spots,
and that this peculiarity had been
transmitted to their descendants.
"The accuracy of finder prints as a
test of personal identity is well shown
by some recent photographs of Mr.
Francis Gal ton," says the Photographic
Times. "In a case of twins, their pho
tographs and measurements were
closely alike, but the lniuutiio of their
finger prints were quite different. An
enlarged photograph of the print of the
hand of a child eighty-six days old
shows the development of the dis
tinctive little ridges on the skin even
at that early age."
What we call light is a wave mo
tion in the ether, and is a transverse
movement, too. Molecules have noth
ing to do with it except to produce it.
The waves of ether which affect the
eye range from about four hundred
millions of millions per second to eight
hundred millionsof millions per second,
the longest wave being what we call red
waves, while the shortest is called vio
let, though it is well known that waves
much shorter than those in the com
mon spectrum can be seen by some
eyes.
M. Raoul Pictet, the French chem
ist, who has long been experimenting
with intense cold, finds that phosphor
escence ceases at very low tempera
tures; Glass tubes filled with sulphides
of calcinm, strontium and barium were
exposed to the sun and then taken into
a dark room where the intensity and
duration of the phosphorescence was
noted. After being again exposed to
the sun the tubes were put into a mix
ture where by rapidly lowering the
pressure their temperature was re
duced to minus one hundred and forty
degrees; they then showed no sign of
phosphorescence, but after a time the
upper parts of the tubes which had
been least cooled began to glow, and
as the temperature rose the light ex
tended, becoming at last as bright as
in the first experiment.
TORTURE IN PUNISHMENT.
Barbarous Treatment of Malefactor In
tho Coloalnl Period.
The constitution of the United States
and thoscof thovarions states in prohib
iting cruel and unusual punishments
were not fighting an absurdity. The use
of torture in legal processes was not,
when these instruments wero framed,
so remote as it is now.
When Sir Thomas Dole cams '
marshal to Virginia
spiracyby- If "
, ltf-ft Jijs 1 23 eust, Gila aud Salt Kiver meridiun, and ruu-
u . . uitig south uloug section line between sec----tO
a tree UUtU I tious u and 12 to corner. Thence at right
rdvvfrp broken' on the '. iniglcs-eust mile, thence uorth to M corner
:.! -!, between sections 1 aud 12, thence w est along
-It IS quaintly Stated .that hir section Hue between sections 1 and 12 to pluce
Thomas was "a man of good conscience ! of beginning, containing ItiO acres more or
and knowledge in divinity." j tUe Litt!e Gem Plucer Mineral ground,
Dole's date was 1011. The next nota- beuriug umethyst. jusicr, chalcedony, topuz.
1,1 indnnmi nf tbA nf torture wns ' onyx, curueiiuu and ugute, being the uorth-
ble instance oi tne use oí torture was , eust , . of v towu l6 Ilol thi runeo -j
in 1092, in the Salem witchcraft cx- ' eust, uila and Salt Kiver meridian, and de
crement, when Giles Cory was pressed seriued us commencing at the northwest cur
, , , , ... , J . J f . uer of section 12. town 16 north, runge 23 eust,
to death the "peine c'.urc Ct forte , a nd suit Kiver meridiun, aud running
the most horrible of deaths. A far ! south uluug range line between 23 and 24, uiso
. v . . Í betweeu sections 7 and 12 to '4 corner, thence
worse instance was the burning of tho j ut riffut ullsp Hest 14 mile, thence north to
nctrroes at the stake in New York, 1741, i ! corner between sections 1 and 12, thence
D .... - - ! ni.-- ul..,.cr li..a 1 .....1 ! ... . .1 ...... C
as alreadv described in these columns.
Throughout the early colonial period
the use of the stocks, "cage" and pillo
ry was common, but these were torture
onlv to the sensitive spirit. A similar
device is the cangue.or plank necklace,
four feet square, which Chinese prison
ers still carry.
Executions were in public through
out the cast until comparatively recent
times. When Quelch. the pirate, and
six others were hanged in lloston Sew
all wrote in his diary; "When the scaf
fold was let to siuk there was such a
screech of the women that my wife
heard it, sitting in our entry nest to the
orchard," though the gallows was a
mile away and the wind unfavorable.
The use of torture to wring the truth
from witnesses is said to have been
recognizcwTas legal in Austria until
well within the present century. N. Y.
Recorder, . . '
Industrial Thrift.
Geo. Q. Cannon, the talented
editor and publisher of numerous
periodicals at Salt Lake City, Utah,
in the October issue of the In
structor, gives an interesting and il
lustrative lesson upon Industry and
economy. The following is from
personal observations by Mr. Cannon:
"A most striking example of the
results of industry and thrift is pre
sented in the case of Malta, that
now verdant island in the Mediter
ranean which was originally a barren
rock. The stones, which were soft,
were pulverized and mixed with soil
that wa3 brought from various parts
of the world. All kinds of refuse
such as chaff, egg shells, the sweep
ings of ship decks, kitchen waste,
etc., are all carefully gathered by
tho peasant and these are hoarded
as carefully as a miser would his
gold. When a little piece of terra
firma is secured, the surface of the
rock is broken to a depth of perhaps
two feet, and the powdered stone is
mixed with the now well rotted
refuse, making a very rich composi
tion. This little spot is then care
fully walled to protect it from floods,
wind and weather.
"Xo drop of water on the island
which it is possible to save is allowed
to go to waste. Water-tight cisterns
are prepared in the solid rock to
which lead spouts from springs,
walls and roofs to gather the prec
ious element. Then by means of
pipes or troughs, the water is con
veyed by the husbandman to any
part of his little domain.
"These arrangements which cost
so much labor and time enable the
farmer to raise two and sometimes
three crops a year, and though the
rays of the sun beating down upon
the rocky island make the heat in
tense, the terraced gardens present
a charming picture of luxuriance.
"Wood is so scarce on the island
as- to make articles made of it ex
pensive; ior wnicn reason stone is
most used for the manufacture of
household furniture."
Mining Application No. 318.
United States Land Office, (
Preseott, Ariz., lec. 10, lSUS.
Notice is hereby given that The Armstrong
Abrasive Computo, whose postoüice address
is Denver, Colorado, have this day tiled their
application for a patent for one hundred and
sixty acre of the Colorado Placer Mineral
ground, beuriug ninethyst.jasper.chalcedony,
topaz, onyx, carneliau aud agate, situated
in the County of Apache, Territory of Ari
zona, and designated as the northwest í of
section 2, township 16 north, range 23 eust,
Gila andSult Kiver nieridiun, and described
as commencing at the northwest corner of
section 2, town US north, range 23 east, Gila
and Salt Kiver meridian and running eust
along 4th standard north mile. Thence
south S mile, thence ut right angles west '3
mile, thence north along section line be
tween sections 2 and 3 s mile to pluce of be
ginning, contuiniiig Itiu ucres. more or less.
Aud the Big Denver Plucer mineral ground,
bearing amethyst, jusjier, chulcedony. topaz,
ouyx, carueliau and agate, being the north
east t of section 2, town Id north, range 23
eust, Gila aud Suit River meridiun. aud de
scribed as commencing at the northeast cor
ner of section 2, and runuiug south mile
to corner between sections 1 aud 2; thence
ut right angles west 2 mile, thence north
mile, thence at right angles eust i mile to
place of beginning, containing one iiundred
uud sixty ucres.
And the Arapahoe Placer Mineral ground,
beuriug amethyst, jnsjier, chulcedony, topaz,
onyx, carneliau and agate, being the north
' of tho southeast ft and the uorth ,S of the
southwest ?. of section 2, township lb north,
range 23 east, Gila and Salt Kiver meridian,
and described as commencing at the j cor
ner between sections 2 ami 3 and running
south along section liue l.etween sections 2
uud 3 eighty rods, thence at right angles eust
1 mile, thence uorth eighty rods uetweeu
sections 1 aud 2, thence at right angles west
1 mile to pluce of beginning, containing ItiU
acres more or less.
-"-tlie Emley Placer Mineral ground,
l'g amethyst, jasper, chulcedony, topuz,
curueiiuu aud ugate, being the north
of section 12. town 16 uorth, runge 23
ilu uud Salt Kiver meridian, and de-
4 as commencing at the northwest
Ixoruer of section 12, town IS uorth. range
ginning, containing 160 acres, more or less.
All Lvuii unil beiug situuted in the County
of Apuehe, territory of Arizona, ' Muguetic
variation Coutuiuiiig 602.10 acres.
Hie locations of these mines are recorded
in ltecorder's OHice of St. Johns, in HooU No.
2 of Mining Claims. The adjoiniitimr claim
ants are Any aud alljiersous
cluiuiiug adversely any portion of said Colo
rado, hig Denver, Arapahoe, niley. Little
Gem Plucer Mining Claims are required to
tile their udverse cluims with the Kegister of
the (Juitcd States Lund Onice ut Preseott; in
the Territory of Arizouu, during the sixty
duys iieriod of publication hereof, or they
will lie burred by virtue of the provisions of
the stutute.
ltlU H. D. KOSS, Register.
Mining Application No. 319.
United States Land Office, (
' Preseott. Ariz., Dec. 10. ltutj. i
Notice is hereby given that The Armstrong
Abrasive Company, whose postoifice address
is Denver, Colorado, have this duy tiled their
applicutiou for a putcnt for one hundred and
sixty acres of the Equitable Placer Mineral
ground, bearing ainethyst, jaier, chalcedo
ny, topaz, ouyx, curueliun and agate, beiug
the northwest ?i of section 22, town 17 north,
runge 24 eust, Gilu and Suit Kiver meridian,
unil descrilied as commencing at the north
west corner of section 2. towu 17 north,
runge 24 eust, Gilu uud Suit Kiver meriduMi.
und running south ?w mile, thence ut riht
angles east !2 iniie. thence uorth s mile,
thence at right angles west '--j mile to place
of beginning, contuiniiig ItiO ucres, more or
less.
And the St. Louis Placer Mineral ground,
bearing amethyst, jumper, chukedouy. topaz,
ouyXj carueliun and ugate. leing the south
west ?4.of section 22. town 17 north, range 24
eust, Gilu anil Salt River meridiun, and rlui
liiug north '-s mile to l-4 corner post letweeii
sections 21 and 22, thence at right angles east
mile, thence south 'i mile, thence at right
angles west mile to pluce of Iteginuing.
contuiniiig one hundred und sixty acres more
or less.
All lying and being situated -within the
County of Apuehe. Territory of Arizouu.
Muguetic vuriutiou . Containing - 320
acres.
The locations of these mines are recorded
ill Recorder's olfice of St. Johns, in Hook No.
2 of Milling Claims. The udjoiuiug claim
ants are . Auy and all per-
soiw cluiraing adversely any portion of said
Equitable and St. Louis Plucer mining claims
lire required to tile their adverse cluiins with
the Kegister of the United States Law! Office
at Presoott, in the Territory of Arizona, dur
ing the sixty duys eriod of publicution
hereof, or they will be burred by virtue of
the provisions of the stutute.
ItiO H. D. KOSS, Register.
Mining Application No. 330.
United States Land Offick.
Preseott, Ariz., Dec. 10, lfcSG.
Notice is hereby giveu tliut The Armstrong
Abrasive Company, whose postothce address
is Deuver, Colorado, have this day Kled their
application for a patent for oue hundred and
sixty acres of the liartwell No. 2 Plucer
Mineral ground, bearing amethyst, jasier.
chulcedony, topuz, onyx, carneliau and agate,
being the eust of the northeust and the
north ?2 of the southeust of section 8,
towu 17 north, ranire 21 east- Gila and Salt
-River meridian, and described as commenc
ing at the northeast corner of section Hand
running south along section line between
sections 8 and 9 of a mile, thence at right
angles west l mile, thence north M mile,
theuce at right angles east mile, theuce
north l-3 mile to section liue between sections
5 and 8, theuce at right angles along section
line between 5 and 8 Y mite to pluce of begin
ning, containing one hundred and sixty acres
more of less. Lying and being situuted with
iu the Cunty of Apuehe, Territory of Ari
zouu. Muguetic variutiou . Contuiniug
1Ó0 acres.
The location of this mine is recorded in
Recorder's Office of St. Johns, in Book No. 2
of Mining Claims. The adjoining cluiraauts
are : . Any and all iersons
claiming adversely any iiortion of said Hart
well No. 2 Placer Mining claim are required
to hie their adverse claims with the Register
of the United States Laud Office at Preseott,
In the Territory of Arizona, during the sixty
days period of publication hereof, or they
will le burred by virtue of the 'provisions of
the stutute.
ltlü H, D. ROSS, Register.
Articles of Incorporation of the Wood
ruff Irrigation Company, of Wood
ruff, Navajo County, Arizona.
Phramble. Be it known to all men that,
at a regularly appointed stockholder's meet
ing, held September 2, "1895, we, J. C. Oweus,
Jr I. H. Hatch, Bela Gardner, Charles Lilly
white, P. J. Christon'ersou. J. Y. Lee and L.
M. Savage were chjsen us a lioard of direct
ors and incorporators for the above named
company: and it is our intention to comply
witb all tne requirements its made ana pro
vided in the statutes of Arizona for uclt
corporate bodies.
Article 1. This corporation shall be known
as the Woodrutf Irrigation Company : which
shall .continue in existence twenty-five (25)
years from the date of recording of these
articles iu the county records; anil the prin--cipal
place of business shall be ut Woodruff,
Navajo Co., Arizouu.
Art. 2. The object of this corporation is
the owning and controlling of the waters of
the Little Colorado river and Silver creek at
and below Woodruff, and their destributiou
to the several owners thereof; for which pur
tose they muy construct and maintain dums.
reservoirs, ennuis, ditcher, head-gates, sluice
ways and all other necessary appliances to
carry on a successful irrigation business.
Art. 3. The capital stock of this company
shall lie twenty-five thousand (?2ñ.UU0) dotltirs,
divided into one thousand (1U00) shares of
twenty-live dollars each, seventy-five (75) per
cent of which is to be paid when subscribed
for; aud the highest amount of indebted
ness to be contracted by the company it two
thirds - of the stock actually taken.
Art. 4. This company1 can sue and be sued
by the above title: but no privute profierty
of any of its members shad in anywise be
held for the company's debts.
Art. 5. The affairs of this company shall
be conducted by a board of seven (7) direct
ors, out of w-hich number there shall be
elected by said directors, a president, u vice.
president ana a secretary, raio oonru ui
directors shall lie elected by the stockhold
ers on the second (2nd) Monday of Decemlier.
l.sy and annually thereafter. A code of by
laws shull be furnished, by the directoriWor
the regulation of the company's affairs,
wMnti craln must be ratified at a stockhold
er's meeting, called for that punióse, where
two-thirds (?) of the stonk actually taken
must be represented, but a majority of votes
cast at such meeting can ratify.
Art. 6. The president of this company
shall procure, as soon us practicable, a miita-
iiie seal, snail cause to im men im uiv .v--retary
of Arizona Territory a copy of these
nrtidra of iiicoriMiration. and attend to all
the duties required of him by law or the by
laws of this company.
Art. 7. Stuck in this eomoany shall lie
transferable by paying such fees, and other
wise complying witu sucn regiuuiioiis us mu
lie prescribed by the. by-laws of this cora.-
pnny. ' " '' - - .
Witness our signatures this second duy of
September, A. 1). 1K". '.
t err Vf CIVI ni?
1 . 1 . , x - I . o. ' ' - - .
LORENZO H. HATCH,
J. C. OWENS. Jr..
P. J. PHKISTOFFERSON. .
1
TERRITORY
County of N
peace ill aud for said County oirSavaju, ou
this day jiersonally appeared Levi M. Savage,
Lorenzo H. Hutch, J. C. Owens, Jr P. 4.
Christoffersou. J. Y. Lee, Churlcs Liilywhite
nnd Bela Gurdner, kuown to me to be the
persons whose numes are subscrHied to the
foregoing instrument uud acknowledged to
me that they executed the same for the pur
pose aud consideration therein setfolth.
Given under my hand this 21st day of Sept.,
A. D. 1805.
L. R. GARDNER,
lt5 " Justice of the Peace.
HOTEL.
Entertainment for
Man and Beast.
Hay and frraiii alwayn on IiaiuL. The tatl
furnished with the last to Ite luid in the
market. Commercial and other traveler
en route to and from Hoi brook to St. John
and Spriusrorville, v i 11 nnd it desirable to
give me a cull.
BEMGXO LOPEZ, Proprietor .
i, POM'. -' \n\n EL ARGOS
Les Será entregado al -precio bajo de .50
.al año, 91.50 por seis meses y 71.00 por tres
meses. Se requiere una suscripción liberal
para hacer un buen iteriotlico. Si tenéis
algo que comprar ó vender r.i-isc al publico
por conducto del Abgos.
EL ARGOS
Con el apollo Arlente de los haídlautc
lile hablan el castellano. ser herhqMBj'V
cnelur. Hiini no ale est apollo.
Anunciar vnntrut negocios é el mudo de
hacer negocio.
Tomo I.
H0LBR00K, ARIZOXA, JUEVAS, DECIEMBRE. 12, 1895.
Numepj 1.
Apache y Navujo.
El Argos os un periódico que bo
publicara tcx?aa las semanas, en aui-
Ixjs idiomas Ingles y EspafioL
Hace algún tiempo que se ha conocí
do la necesidad que bar para una
publicación en el idioma que hablan
la mitad do los ciudadanos de los con
dados de Aache y Navajo, y por la
primera ve se presenta para su pro
tección, un periódico publicado en
Español.
Ningún Periódico esta publicado
sin ínteres de que sea protegido por
aquel pueblo del cual espera ser el
aBipoon. de sus derechos y que en
tiende el idioma eu el cual es publi
cado, y asi espero del pueblo Meji
cano la protección necesario para
pagar los gastos de redacción, con lo
cual í stare mas que satisfecho.
Hay varias razones por las cuales
ps el deber de todo ciudadado Meji
cano suscribirse a esta Periódico,
en primer lugar porque me propongo
en publicar todos las novedades do
mesticas y estrangeras que sean de
- interés á dichos ciudadanos, habiendo
muchos que no entienden otro idio
ma, y sera mi esfuerzo especial el
defender en estas columnas todas
aquellas -causas en las cuales tienen
la razón y la justicia. Aquellos Me
jicanos que entienden el Ingles y el
Español deben protegerlo por las
siguientes razones; tienen muchos
amigos y parientes que no entienden
otro idioma que el Español, no por
falta de ellos mismos, pero por razo
nos, que ellos no podían evitar, que
daron bajo la bandera Americana la
cual protege á todos igualmente sea
de la-nacionalidad que fueren sin di
Jencia alguna, y para que se infor
jnetx de las novedades del día, de las
leyes que se pasen por la Legislatu
ra del Teritorio ó que durante su
sesión se atenten pasar, muchas de
Jas cuales afectarán gravemente sus
intereses, y estas columnas siempre
estarán listas para que espresen sus
sentimientos sea do aprobación 6
desaprobación; y para que se infor
men de lo que para en la arena poli
tico. Asi espero que su soiorte sea libe
ral, para que este Periódico no f Ja
case, porque sera un suceso deplora
ble que no lo vendrán á conocer
hasta que sea tarde, y por buen
tiempo yt al Tez jamas vol veré otra per
nona emprender la publicación de
un periódico en Español en este Con
dado, temen de ante si el ejemplo de
Caiber visto el primer atentado fraca
sar, pero lo contrario si recibo el
soporte debido Ustedes mismos co
nocerán la grande ayuda que les sera
tanto en sus negocios públicos como
privados.
Entero que su soporte sea liberal,
el mió sera de siempre defender sus
derechos privados y públicos.
Albebto F.'Baxta.
EL A1CGOS.
Mitología nos surte muchas
cuentas ó fábulas extraños: ninguno
mas curioso quizas que el cuento de
Abóos. Según una fábula, el era
una criatura de antigua mitología,
' f dicho de poser cien ojos, 6 como
; otras dicen, ojos por todo su cuerpo
de los cuales no mas dos dormían a
na vaca Dlam-nj iumo ouMiuuuuirT
por Mercurio, quien toco lisonjas
tonas en el tubo de una vasija, y luego
lo mato con su espada torcida.
Según otro cuento el tenia
ojos por todo su cuerpo; poseído de
jpjrodigiosa fuerza. Arcadia siendo
testado, ó molestado por un toro
es-tra el lo ataco y lo mato, y des-
s nsn aii ínprn TT1 tnmKían mots
S un Sátiro que se llevo el panado
de los Arcadianas. Pundiendolo
cojer dormido, Jupiter, con un fuerte
golpe lo mato.
De los dos cuentas aprendemos
que Abóos tenía grande poder de
vista, y al mismo tiempo una fuerza
enormas. Que estaba siempre muy
listo, siempre con especial cuidado
los nitereses confiados en el. Que le
gustava siempre usar su gran
fuerza en contenden ó pelear contra
el enemigo del publico.
En estilo moderno, nosotros inten
tamos ser "ABOOS-Ojos," velar cui
ftygGientey claramente los in
del publico, y sin miedo dar
el grito de cuidado cuando peligro se
aproxima.
Nuestra fuerza esta en la pureza de
uiioMnis motivos, y en el alsoluta im
parcialidad con la cual deseamos
decir la verdad. Seamos ó no como
Abóos antiguo, solamente una fuerza
mayor nos podra matar, ó una espada
torcida, deendereinos en el ajKillo
y la ayuda que xxlcmas recívir de
los mejores elementos do la s
ciadad. Nosotros nos emita reamas
en nuestra nueva empresa con
alisoluta confianza, que somas su
ficiente que favorecemas la justicia
y el derecho, y para aymlaJ a Anuos
ustedes por muchas años que a de
ejercitar el obligados a la verdad,
entre ustedes por muchas años.
Nuestro? amigos do San Juan, y
de los condados do Navajo y Apache
no deben olvidar sus verdaderos
amigos. .tigeiise también en
aquellos que procuran hacerlos todo
el mal jxKiible.
UN CASO EXTRAÑO.
El Sr. Gutterson, el abogado, era
un hombre de rostro duro en el cual
no brillaba jamás una sonrisa; frío,
lrsonicoy confuso en su modo de
hablar; poco expansivo; flaco, alto,
de porte descuidado, triste, y sin em
Largo, capaz no 6é por qué, de ins
pirar afecto. En las reuniones de
amigos, y cuando el vino era de su
gusto, habia en todo su ser algo emi
nentemente humano que chispeaba
en sus ojos; pero ese no sé qué, nunca
se traducía en palabras; sólo lo ma
nifestaba por medís de esos síntomas
mudos que aparecen en el rost ro des
pués do la comida, v de un modo
más ostensible, por los actos de su
vida. Era rígido y severo para con
sigo mismo; bebía ginebra cuando se
hallaba solo, para mortificarse por
su afición al vino; y, aunque lo agra
daba el teatro, hacia veinte anos que
no había penetrado por la puerta de
ninguno. Pero tenia para con los
demás una tolerancia particular; á
veces se sorprendía, no sin una espe
cie de envidia, de las desgracias ocu
rridas á hombres inteligentes, com
plicados ó envueltos en sus propias
maldades, y siempre procuraba más
bien ayudar que censurar. "Me in
clino, tenía, por costumbre decir, no
sin cierta agudeza hacía la herejía
de Caín; dejo que mi hermano siga
su camino en busca del diablo." Con
ese carácter, resultaba á menudo, que
era el último conocido honrado
y a última influencia buena para
aquellos cuya vida iba á mal fin; y
aún á esos, durante todo el tiempo
que andaban su alrededor, jamás
llegaba á demostrar ni siquiera la
sombra de un cambio en su manera
do ser.
Sin duda era fácil esa actitud para
Gutterson, pues era absolutamente
impasible, y hasta sus amistades
parecían fundadas en sentimientos
similares de natural bondad. Es
característico eu un hombre modesto
el aceptar de manos de la casualidad
las amistades, y eso es lo que habia
hecho el abogado. Sus amigos eran
sus parientes ó aquellos á quienes
habia conocido desde hacía mucho
tiempo; sus afecciones, como la
hiedra, crecían con el tiempo, pero
no procedían de nintf" ilinación
I leja
jmvTmv.v;?ywcnentába mucho la
sociedad. Para algunos habia en
ello un enigma; que podrían hallar
uno en otro, y qué podía haber de
común entre ambos t Los que los
encontraban en sus paseos del domin
go, referían que no se hablaban, que
parecían sombríos, y que la aparición
ó la llegada de algún amigo era
acogida por ellos con evidentes
signos de satisfacción y hasta de
consuelo.
A pesar de todo, ambos daban gran
importancia á aquellos paseos, que
eran como' el principal plocer para
ellos, y no sólo rechazaban todas las
demás distracciones, sino que pres
cindían en absoluto de los negocios,
para disfrutar con mayor libertad-de
sus paseos.
La casualidad hizo que en una do
aquellas excursiones, cruzaseu una
callejuela situada en un barrio com
ercial de Londres. Era sumamente
tranquila, pero en los días de trabajo
habia en ella un comercio activo.
Sus habitantes hacían todos buenos
negix-ios, esjícraban hacerlos mejores
en el porvenir, y dedicaban el