The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-09-25
HIS GUARDIAN ANGEL
A STRANGE SECRET A TRAVELLER
KEPT FROM HIS WIFE

How an Apparition Kept Him From TAX
ing n Train and Saved His Iife-A Com
Meeting Stage Held Up and the Passen-
gers Murdered.
"There arg some things man never tells
his wife," said John as he gave the tip of
his half smoked cigar q flip with his little
finger.
THE ayes have It," replied his friend,
with sarcasm.
81 don't mean 1t in the sense you do. I
mean things Of innocent nature" 4
why didn't you say SO them"
After a pause John began ia tell his
story. 1t was true, he said, and the sober
ness with which he told it and the stern
look on his face forbade further levity:
II went in 1880 to Prescott, A. 4. know
now went to make jackass Of myself,
but l thought then Twas coming back with
slathers of money. There were three kinds
Of business done there then, ranching, min
ing and gambling, and wasn't good for
any of these, so concluded to come home
There was fellow named Berry from
Cleveland who had been in the territory
4 long enough to get about $4,000 sailed
down, and he said he would come to the
| States WIN INC. 1ueTe was NO TdilIUttu
then, so we took the stage by way Of Phu-
nix to Maricopa, riding for two days and
one night.
I'VE got to Maricopa about $50 in the
afternoon. There We're two ways of getting
east from here. One was to go through to
San Francisco, and then take the Central
and Union Pacific The other way was to
4 leave Marieopa by train, go to Deming
then take stage there and ride about 40
j miles, striking a railroad there, saving
probably $50 in money and four days in
time. OF course Berry and l chose the
4 quicker route. We bought our tickets and
/, got our trunks checked by way Of Deming.
! The telegraph operator told me there was
/, trouble sometimes on the stage route after
leaving Delning, passengers getting held
S up but there had never been any one hurt.
Il THE train lay there at Maricopa half an
hour for supper. Berry and were walk
= on the platform smoking. Our trunks had
, been put aboard, and so Berry said, Let's
!, get aboard, Jack l threw away my CT
/ gar. 1t was just twilight, and the lights
II were lighted on the train. Berry told me
Il to go aboard, that he was going to get a
+ glass of beer. So he went out of sight. 1t
o lacked 10 minutes of starting time.
went toward the car, and Just before ! got
a.
n step my little girl! Ny Godl / can re
member how felt nowi l thought-iusi
Ie as a man will before reason stops him
Il that she had come out west to get me, and
!" that her mother was in the car waiting fol
Q me to come in. But when / got rid of thai
y thought, realizing that they We're at homt
Sin Rhode Island, l shivered from head tt
ID feet and grew icy cold.
jiI "There on that step stood little En-. Sh,
III hadn't any hat on. The lights from thu
Il station lamps shone across her yellow curl
le and lighted up her face. She was DEATH.
white and, OIL looked so strangely sad
a, Her arm was thrown out barring the wa.
40 into the car. The sleeve of her little dres
,e had slipped up her arm and left it bare.
or looked ut her and smiled sadly, but sh
o, never smiled back. She raised her it'll
49, arm and pointed down the track, whcl
curved II little just ahead Of the station
and slowly shook her head from side t
-, side, her face growing awful in its solem
u nifty.
"a Just then man went toward the steps
10 mounted them, went through the plac
IL where my child stood, and when he disaI
Ii peared inside the car she was not there
Oh Berry came out of the dining room an
"a said: 'Hellol Thought you was aboard
1. and in concern
CT "I'm sick, Berry said. i can't go o
m tonight He took me into the dining roon
in and got me u seat and drink Of brandy
In and then, like first rate fellow, just as Ii
he was, had our trunks taken of, and by +,
" quest our tickets were taken back an
y, ~ money returned. We staid all night at I'll
NJ hotel, as they called it. 1t would be
shanty in the east.
les Before we went to bed telegraphed [
Vi. New York, asking il my wife and chill
IRE were well, saying, Wire me at once to Ii
l, Angeles.
't 1.-THE next day we left Maricopa at
lie o'clock and got into Los Angeles the fo
Ike lowing day in the late afternoon. l got
he telegram there saying they were all well
IT, home.
D, The newsboy was crying his papers.
eii heard his shrill little voice saying, 'Awf
w massacre | bought paper, and when
saw the big headline was so sick and fail
had to sit down aud wait a moment.
g, THAT train which / didn't take at MAJ
en,I copa had carried its eastern passengers
"' an awful doom. The stage had bee
stopped when it was Is miles out fro
Demng, and every soul was murdere
The bodies were all mutiated; some we
Ia, bound to the stage wheels with wire al
burned. There were two women and
n, baby among the passengers. The baby Il
col dead with its pitiful little wide open ey
staring up at the Implying, bright bl
M sky, and in the mothers hand was clinch
" piece of its white dress, Didn't that Il
a story?
'est 'Ihe.driyer of the stage was shot t
A. four horses killed, and the sight was one
horrify those who found the eight mangl
,as- and charred bodies.
trh, indians, did you sayi No, people did
think So Indians are dirty, indecent, fol
al ly immoral, but its takes Mexican to &
and in the nicetics of atrocity.
T. when got back, my wife said, 'Jol
sell what did you send that telegram fro
s Maricopa fOrf' / said: What do you 81
'nts poser just wanted 10 know if sou vi
both we'll that s all
put ~ never told her a word of what I've t,
mp you, and if Berry is living now and S
~ this he will know for the first time wi
made me so suddenly sick at Marieopa,
70. New York Recorder.
NTH -------
can Combination In Whist.
'rai. William Pole, in his PHILOSOPHY
,nL Whist snVg, NTha tptal i,uTn l,pr pf ,