The Forrest City times., 1894-09-21
TWO PIECES OF SILVER.
How They Saved the Life of a
 Mine Manager.
"Muerte a los gringosw

Black Rosa's small. angular form shook with rage. Her black face grew blacker than it's natural hue, if that were possible. Trembling ill every nerve, she glared viciously and shook long, bony finger in the faces of the group of miners who with jests and jeers had met her applications for charity.
 ''Get out of this. you black devil!" one shouted. We have had enough of you"
 She's got plenty of money cried another.
 'Wears diamonds in the city" sneered third.
 ''Get out. No beggars allowed" they all shouted.
 ''Muerte a los gringos." repeated the woman, with shriek which would have chilled the blood of men unused to her vicious ways.
 Manager France. of the Bull Domin- go, heard the disturbance between the miners and the miserable old woman as he came up the gulch
 ..Here, my good wo man. said he, there are two silver dollars. You had better not stay around here" he added. kindly, as she took the money and called the blessings of the saints upon his generous soul '"rhe men are not used to giving aims, and they will only treat you unkindly."
 He'd better be savin' them two dol lars to help out the payroll of the Bull Domingo who has been keeping slate for nearly three months for the ac- commodation of workmen on that property"
 Its woman as always breaks . suckers heart" urged miner. And then the crowd fell to discussing the material affairs of the camp. and for time forgot the Mexican woman who occasionally came up from Durango on a begging expedition.
 Sonora Rosalina Ortiz once enjoyed a happy home in the City of Mexico, her birthplace She had all the opportu- mites of education, both in Spanish and English, and in her early married life had travelled much. But mis- sfor- tune came to her in the death of her husband and two of their three chil- dren, after the loss of all the property they possessed. They had for several wears made their home in the United States. where Senor Ortiz had died, leaving his widow penniless. Poverty and sin were her undoing, and when the Colorado mining fever filled the mountains with fortune seekers of high and low degree Senora Ortiz drifted to Durango. She had sunk so low in vice and crime that she was &C., counted we'll fitted for anything from begging to petty thieving, even to the cutting of a throat
 She was living as his mistress with 3 hardened character known as "Robber Dan," an American, whose life both in and out of the penitentiary was series of misdeeds. He had earned his title as she had earned hers. They were we'll matched in their criminal ca- reers, although the woman had thus far known no more of prison life than is afforded by county jails. Her only child, boy of twelve years, had. like his mother, became professional beg gar and thief
 The i'll treatment she had received ct the hands and tongues of the miners at Rico had burned into her soul like hot iron, though the wound was largely healed by the soft words and the silver so kindly bestowed by John France. But, since she was not likely ever to be able to carry out her threat of death to all save her own race and equally incapacitated to in sure the blessings of the saints which she had invoked, neither her curses nor her prayers were needed. How ever. none who knew her had any faith in Black Rosa's possession of