Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-11-24
CIRCUMSTANCES.


He had sent legion of Circumstances
against a certain man who had, before
that, been certain of success, and the man,
after desperate struggle, had capitulated
to the legion by dying abjectly.
So the king of Circumstances smiled
and said to one of his Circumstances:
THE king desires to be amused. Let
there be gamesl"
BY tho time the royal procession reached
tho Coliseum everything was in readiness.
The crowd was enormous, for the fame
Of the kings exceeding cheerfulness had
spread quickly, and his subjects knew that
there would be some particularly fascinat-
ing games that day.
Now, then," began the king, little
impatiently, as soon as he had settled him
self on the divan in the royal box, what
comes frst?'
1t was the custom in the Coliseum to
announce the programme by the mouth
of Circumstance whom they called the
chairman. The chairman had an accent
that belonged to tho English music hall,
but that also is merely n circumstance.
eli ave to announce, lydi and gen
tlemen, that Hive been harsked by the
well known Champion Circumstance to
Tissue challenge to hany man wot
wishes to meet i'm in s foot ring. Ro-
man rules to prevail Thumbs down,
hand the whipped man parsses hout.
Thumbs up, hand he goes free. Walk up,
walk up! Does hany one wish to meet the
championS"
First of all from far door, issued a
most beautiful girl, slim, tall and CARRIED
most delightfully."-. There were huge puffs
in her sleeves that made her hands look
all the smaller. Her gown widened a little
where it came close to her feet, and thus
it was that the slenderness of her waist
seemed more symmetrical than symmetry
ITSELF her curls were flying into the breeze
little under her large, behowcred hat;
her shoes were brown, and her step was as
buoyant as the spring She was singing
something SO softly that the crowd only
caught the faintest echo Of it,
And while she was advancing thus,
singing, another door opened, and Cupid
came forth. No sooner had he seen her
than he took aim and sent an arrow
straight at hor hoart. As the shaft
wounded her. the girl turned her eyes soft
ly toward the boy and moaned. She put
her hands to her heart. But the strange
thing was that she held the arrow fast and
made no effort to pull 1t forth. So, when
Cupid saw that he had wounded her and
that she was glad, he began to run toward
her to kiss her, and she, with one hand
still clasping the arrow SO that it went
deeper and deeper into her heart, waited
for him with parted lips and an invitation
in her eyes
The boy was within few yards Of her
when q third door opened and there ap-
peared Circumstance. Immediately a
most strange change came over the girl.
Her eyes turned toward the Circumstance,
and steely look came into them. She
drew herself up a little, and stern pur-
pose Strengthened her mouth.
Cupid, wondering and panied, stopped
short. She turned away from him, and
walked toward the Circumstance, who
merely stood quite still, smiling hideous.
ly. AS she went, she tore the arrow Of
Cupid from her heart and threw it before
her into the sawdust, SO that as she strodo
forward she stepped upon it and broke it
into fragments. And while Cupid threw
himself upon his pretty face, shaking with
sobs, his CULVER flung beside him, the girl
kissed the Circumstance.
But the Circumstance only smiled quite
coldly, even while it folded her in its
arms.
For it happened to be a Bank Account.
The king had begun to be quite pleased
with this number when it happened that
he felt an irresistible desire to yawn. 1t
was really due to late hours in the past,
but he decided at once that it must be due
A. c. l>of 1ott t1n 1ntv
man again.
Ibid you see me yawn9" he said severe
ly. Ibid you? When the games are SO
stupid that the king has to yawn, h'm"-
He did not nnish, but the chairman felt
uneasy because Of tho things that the
king had omitted to say. He fastened on
to the next announcement.
1.-The title Of hour next number Is n
'Tableau of Today" he cried, "hand
which explains itself"
When everything had been arranged by
q multitude of slaves Of Circumstance,
the scene showed a large Office, with roll
er top desks and typewriter stand In
the foreground was clerk who had served
his company Is years. He looked it.
At the desk sat the Company. 1t was
thinking, through the pangs of headache,
of the night before and the day before
that. On the day before it had run up
against most unlucky lot of Circum-
stances. 1t had made hugo speculation
in stocks Of the p p. G. railway, and the
speculation had gone very wrong indeed
Then, in order to recoup itself, the Com
pany had tried its luck at cards that even
ing. And every trial turned out moro dis
/, astrously than the last. So this morning
the Company saw that it had got to do
something to lessen expenses.
10 resign at the club was out Of the
question. To give up the box at the opera
would be absurd. When you have accus
toned yourself to an expensive brand Of
cigars and wines, it Is really quite impos-
sible to drink or smoke anything inferior.
There was only one thing to be done,
and the Company was going to do it.
1t called the lovely damsel who was in
the next room. It said to her, "Take
letter, please''
And while the company was debating
the letter the clerk, who had served the
company for Is years, was thinking over
the queer fate that had ruled him into this
rut where he only just earned enough to
keep himself and his family from hunger
And then again he concluded by congrat-
ulating himself on having such good,
steady employment. 1t was moro Vhan
many men had.
He looked up, some one having touched
him ON the shoulder. It was the lovely