Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-20
RoSITA,S REVENGE.
Romance and Tragedy in an Oasf,
 of the Now Mexico Lava He'd.

RoSfTAsS REVENGE.
 Romance and Tragedy in an Oasis
 of the Now Mexico Lava He'd.
 From the St. Louis Republicl
 SAN MATED, N. NJ, Sept. 20.-Stretch- ing away to the north and east of this plaza is what is known as the great lava bed. An area eighty-fve miles long and forty miles wide, vast desert, and with out sign of vegetation or water except in one spot. Animal life is absent, and not even the hum of an insect is ever heard in this vast solitude. The condition obtains over the entire waste with the exception of one spot near the center of the desert
 Here is a small oasis, and in it a never failing spring. This oasis is directly on the road across the desert, and several years ago an enterprising American named Walter Dean took up the entire oasis as 8 homestead. He diverted the road by fences and built house for the accommo- dation of travellers. Here he arranged a large tank and troughs, and sold water to the wayfarers at the rate of twenty-five cents bucket. He reaped rich harvest, but the life was lonely one, and some times for days he would not see a soul. Dean tried to get white woman to marry him, but the place was not tempting, and he could get no one to consent to live in a desert. He came to this place, and for 8 small sum bought the daughter of Carlos Pinto, a worthless Mexican, and took her back to tighten up the desert. The girl was only fifteen years old and had shown 8 great desire to flirt. She was well de- veloped and had dark beauty which was very attractive. Rnsita soon longed for other society, and when travellers would pass along she would train her battery of eyes upon them, and the result was that Dean soon had his hands full watching his purchase. He was driven to the verge of insanity by her actions, and many were the storms which passed over the domestic paradise. Rosita, as she was generally called, was proving a curse instead of 6 blessing.
 Sometimes several days would pass without passer to mar their life. Then Rosita would lavish her endearments upon Dean, and he would think himself in the seventh heaven of delight. Then trav- eler would come along and Rosita would transfer her affections to the newest man. This went on until two months ago, when Deans rage overstepped all bounds, and he took down a heavy whip and cruelty lashed the girl across the face and shoul- ders.
 With the stroke all the nature of the girl was changed and she sprang at him with the fury of a wildcat. A battle roy al was fought, but no damage was done except to the feelings. For several days Rosits sulked as she went about the place and not word was spoken; then she ap- peared to get over her anger and became I. al-. tered himself that he had found a way to check the wild inclinations of the girl He was so pleased with the result that he told several freighters the whole story in the presence of Rosita, who sat with downeast eyes during the recital.
 Last week a party stopped at Deans ranch for water, but the place was desert ed- The tanks were dry and the house was closed. The door was not locked and the party entered the main room. Moth ing wrong was seen there, but in the back room most horrible sight was presented to their gaze. Lying on the foor, with his hand grasping the whip, lay the dead body of Dean. He had been stabbed to the heart, and then, as if in uncomfortable fury, his slayer had literally hacked the body to pieces. The head was completely severed, and the body and arms were stripped of flesh From general appear ance it was surmised that Dean had again attempted to whip the girl, and the en- ragged slave had thrown herself upon the man, and with one stroke had driven the dagger to his heart. No trace of the girl has been found, either at the ranch or at her fathers house in this place.
 Bokhara Rugs and Their weavers.
 Ts. G. W. Benjamin in Hsrper's Bazar.l
 The Toorkomans who weave the famous rugs attributed by us to Bokhara are 6 horde of precious ruffisns, half shepherd, half robber, who at one time swept over the plains of Persia almost to the capital, slavery, exactly as the corsairs of Algiers once harried the coasts of Italy and Spain. never shall forget meeting a troop of Toorkomans on the border of the desert of Khorassan. Perhaps the circumstances added to the grotesque picturesqueness of their appearance. We had been travelling all night, and now, as the sun was rising, looked anxiously towards the little walled town of Aivankef clinging to the slope of treeless hill, where We looked for shelter from a heat that already at that early houl WaS one hIlu seven ucREctb III I1t shade.
 Out from the gates rode train of twen ty or thirty Toorkomans. They were mounted on bony but sinewy and power ful steeds, and, like all Orientals, were perched on lofty saddles that made then look gigantic. They were armed to the teeth; their huge beak-like noses and keen dark eyes gave them the aspect of raven ing eagles: their massive mustsches swept their bosoms. But what gave them an es pecisl appearance that never shall forget emphasized as it was by the long shadow. they cast on the ground, was the immens, 1 turban each one wore, reaching out like sombrero. but of course far more massive They looked like huge animated mush rooms. However grotesque their appear ance, the lowering scOwl each one be slowed on me as he passed caused me in voluntarily to see f my revolver was il place, handy for immediate use if needed
 Now it is to this very people, thes rowing tribes of slave-catching shepherds once subject to Persia, but now to Russia | that we owe some of the very finest rug ! and textile fabrics made in the east. Eve 1 " one has heard of the Bokhara rugs, bu in Persia they are called ToorkimAn O
 Toorkoman. Probably they are attributes
 to Bokhara because the first rugs of tn l sort to reach the European market ma
 have been taken there by travelling mer
 chants trading between Russia and Bokhs
 ra, which is one of the chief marts of th
 trsnscsspian region.
 The Toorkoman or Bokhara rugs ar
 made by the shepherd women for exclusiv
 use in their tents, to spread over thei
 beds, or to serve as portieres to the ten
 doors A certain conventional polygons
 pattern is peculiar to these rugs, com
 posed of an agreeable arrangement of va
 rious tints of a brownish maroon, red
 blue and creamy white, the last tint beinI
 obtained by using unbleached wool Bu
 this design has endless variations. M
 two rugs are precisely alike. While of
 close and durable texture. the Toorkoma
 rugs are generally quite flexible, and th
 close short surface of the pile is delight
 fully soft. Nothing can exceed the tends
 bloom which the colors of Toorkoms
 rug of prime quality assume when me
 lowed by time. But on the other hanC
 one must be on his guard in purchasir
 Toorkoman rugs of recent make, a. the . are liable to be injured both in tone ar ! s,, SI,a l-r oe ha H. .t