Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-21


/ inhects. birds and flora near tle enmn
[ Indeed would not Matagas permit him TO
| unpack his painters thar his host nlj,rbt
enjoy view of his splendid snecimens
-, there, at oncef These and countless other
| questions iell ,garrulously from tie pro-
Many were deity PARTED; some wore
answered unhesitatingly; others were
silently tolerated. until with n kindly
shrug of his shoulders. as though the ol,I
don's childish simplicity and endless con.
temptation of his single life aim had mt
MN quite outside the metes and bounds
OF otner men measurement, he babe
the absorbed scientist kindly "Bueno
little hut
There in the freight moment later,
to Tomasa and Juanita; tapping his shag.
and derisive gestures toward Juanita's
plru cages ms stout sides shaking with
laughter; while old Tomasa's face slowly
changed from merriment to somatbin,
AKIN to passive reelection: and the face
/ of the girl beside her. at first rs mir II.
I ful as her mothers, settled gradually
into a grave. glowing look Of indefnable
hunger and desire that had never before
touched 1t in her whole life.
ANS professor 5 e4t.ya,Vd bunk lnid
wen III aAANfA " AlAAe dllA NNWnN lpuEun
| de vacn grass, was whore he had am
inost unODsttUcted view, through mn
| aperture in the palmetto Side of the
cabin, Of the cnrboneros' pcturrsma
camp. If he reelected upon nught be-
sides the wonderful promise his siua-
ton gave of increasing his scientific
store, the strange scene before him, what
the outlaw had with perfect kindness
disclosed, and what he must himself
have Known could not but give a mar
vicious interest TO his surroundings.
Here were hundreds of families living
in the forest in true communistic man.
ner. Their common outlawry. in the
eyes of hated and merciless Spanish law,
had brought them al together. The
endless heart-sob Of Cuba for freedom.
ever strangled by Spanish tyranny, end
ing again and again In uprisings, rev0-
luton. buichery aud despair, was their
one tie of brotherhood Carboneros
and lahradors, charcoal-burners and wood
choppers, they were now, here and there
in the countless and almost inaccessible
Cuban forests. mountain forests surely
inaccessible 10 the coward Spanish sol
dicry with now and then daring fellow
like Matag0s at their head who terrorizcd
only Spanish hirelings. aE1 those most
through the frenzy Of their own guilty
fear; but all living lives of Arcadian
lfFACE Nuu NlAlNINlANs Wulu anew NuUNlu
be raised that glorious standard of white
and blue and red. gcmned with a single
star. which has wavered with terror TO
Spaniarls over the blood-swept fields of
Camaguay.
an this is what the professor could
have known, or knew.
As it was still early evening, what we
heard was the tuneful thrum Of tn
guitar the tremulous notes Of the ban.
r.f L.
lin and the sharp click of castanets, in
soft accompaniment to Cuban songs Of
love, Of daring and of war. Now and
then rose to startling choruses among the
huts and far ont beyond. where the night
watches were busy at the smoldering
pyres
AT last the spell of the melody brought
them all together before Matagas hut.
There those half-wild, happy-hearted men
and women, big-eyed and hnli-nakec
muchaehos and ninas, lOutish guard
abosqueros and coquettish maidens,
danced upon the grlmy. smooth-worn
earth such hilarious 2epateoi, such ont
landish Hubaneras and such grOtesque
fandangoes as Wonld have caused even
plaster Spanish saint TO wink, and 50
dazed the old don's eyes that he turned
them with a sigh toward the glowing
stars pulsing In their tropic fires ahoyH!
anu lDtu 4NAA 0NAAAg ~ AAn NtA+f+Af' -
wherein he was haunted by swarthy
forms, huge machetes and one deep-torcst
heauly's face. starred rnunl"'
marvellous specimens and unknown birds
Throughout, lhe lyelong suh-i-
Don Eduardo slept late into the morn.
ing. When he awOke and had partaken
of the fruit and food placed beside him,
he found the rarhonern~ cam dr mug
along peacefully in its every day aspect
His precious papniers were safe. No
harm had heftl ipn hp VpN wriri eX-
periences of the previous night seemed
like mlf-caught memories Of some tantas-
tic dream
pyres Tethered not far distant stood
his faithful donkey. Faint and distant
thuddings, like the proud boonihEs OF
the proud prairie fowl IN northern frosty
spring time mornings. told Of the wood
choppers steady toll. Women and child
rem were carrying tree limbs and stacking
them up In pyramidal piles. Ninas and
maidens were going and coming between
cabins and mountain side fountains. W Use
old IOmasa stood beside hef nut d9of
sfrinuire some cncaa l7nv and root 3
with which delicious chicharones or pork
scraps were to serve for tile coming meal
and out there at the camp edge was
Matagas, still bareheadel and bare,
footed. moving with fine strong tread
toward an alpsst completed pyre, with
an OK tcau load OF tinibers upon his
splendil>shoulders and head.
~" strange bandits stronghold,
.tSSught the don. where on, every hand
are serious labor and sturdy love" -,
All, the witchery Of that last word
Why Iiti fhis w aoe sci 1T III IN
slant it escaped his lips, as with some
swift and subtle sympathy Of relevancy,
let his ewes eagerly sweep the campsl1e
for Iuanita and her birdss AND Where
Is the pen TO trace that suhtier lnstllcl
of human sympathy and human EN- lll,
ton which, long before the don nag
arisen. had prompted this Wild thing o.
and birds and set out feetly, with lame
In her cheeks and a trill on her tongue
to the llanos and the sunless woods
II was q lonely dag for the Oh ION
He fretfnlly bothered with ieM noun
tain insects; passed IN impaliehee lle
wonirous mountain ferns; pctulaniy eA
amined the rare and almost unknown
even scientifically interested IN huse
main. the most hideous and harmless %
I Cuban reptiles. which joss, 2 mesti19s
wood chopper Of stealtly indian pi9ol.
! had VIGOROUSLY brought % camp; ssnul ~
/ its women shrieking q ineiF NUS io'
their amulets and thelr beads
i.ven lie l0ng mludAg ~gHta ts,'vi
| soothr him As the shadow pess s ~ ~
lengthen among the open rus oi tls
foro.r X. r,iia1 V,ofnA.xa MIN pants ~