San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-25

Trinidad Jose took refuge in one Of
the corner pavilions above the great fish
pond, where he buried himself under the
fruit. Some of The ribald soldiers i'm
mediately came rushing up the garden
alleys. Walter rebuked them sternly,
and Don Angel, youth of hot spirit
whose ears the disturbance had also
reached, arrived with band of employees
hastily mustered. The intruders upon
this retired, but muttered impudently
something about coming again. One
said to another:
every pretty picldngs such place as
this would make. My idea is that all
these top swells ought to be L" under
handsome contributions.
The times We're growing trOublous in
deed. and it were well if the general
were home again. He returned, in fact,
within two or three days, and his man
ner disclosed no small uneasiness He
was man rather slow to action and far
better adapted for the peaceful arts of
civilized life than for the turmoil Of a
revolutionary period. Hi-Isclf upright
and honorable, no very ardent admirer
of the present administration, and yet,
on the other hand, by no means ready to
cOuntenance the pretensiOns Of the so
called liberatOr, he had perhaps perse-
vered in a policy Of inaCtiOI much too
long. He COnided t. his wife that he
had been met only by an offensive re-
buff by the ruling powers ut Mexico, no
employment had been offered him, and
he has come back alarmed even as to his
own saf"ty. He hal al pted a roSOlu-
tioH on the way ho.ne. 10 Amy h. said:
Il Will not con"'2i fro;A You that this
is no ordinary crisis. Nor is the trouble
likely to be soon oyer. l should not be
| doing my duty either to you or your
| family ii l allowed you to be subject to
any danger. l propose to take my fam
| lily to Jalapa to remain quietly away
| from the center Of the disturbances.
| Then will return to defend the hacienda.
| Angel, who is a brave boy, will take care
of it meantime We must set out at
once"
"Whatevcr You think is best, general.
an quite willing to go to Jalapa."
ooh, no; | was coming to the point.
The disturbances may break out there,
too. | have been obliged to make an
other plan for you. The American min
lister is to sail from Vera Cruz immedi-
ately with number of families who are
| fleeing from the country, and have ar
ranged to place you under his charge
| We will meet him at the railway juno
| ton of ApizacO. There is no immediate
cause for alarm, you know" he said,
| sOOthingly, but we shall do we'll to
make all possible speed while things are
still quiet"
But to tn family he spoke much more
frankly. He told how the dread insur-
| gent chief SOCOrrO Reyes had broken out
again in the state of Michoacan, and NJ
nez, in the canton of Topic. The British
man-Of-war Amethyst had landed troops
| to save COlima from a forced loan i'm
| posed upon it by brigands The mayor
domO of a large hacienda on the plains
Of Apam had pronounced with about a
hundred men and been cut to pieces by
| the government troops. On the other
hand, a government force of twice the
same number had been massacred by the
Indian population of Guerrero.
There Is growing conviction" he
said, that most Of this is in the interest
Of a noted revolutionist about to return
from his exile at New Orleans Some
even think he is in the country already"
His words at first caused establishment
| and dismay in the household, but this
soon came to an end. In countries
where armed strife is frequent, women
and children are often quiet and self
contained even under fire. The hacienda
was also put iii its best state of defense.
"Jalapa is a charming plaCe-such a
fresh green landscape" said the Madre,
cheerfully, trying hard to be recOnciled,
and the women are so pretty. Las
Jalapenas son halaguenas, repeating a
prOverb meaning that the maids and
DANES of Jalapa are an unusually capt.
waiting race
Yes, we have some cousins there, and
it will be very nice" added Luz.
Nothing can ever be so charming to
me as Las Delicias," said Amy, with a
sigh.
The news of their preparations was
brought to the Jefe Politico, and he
gathered a band to stop their departure.
| AS often happens in revolutionary coun-
tries, he seized upon the political troubles
as an opportunity to crafty his private
malice. Events had moved rapidly in