Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-06-03
CIRCULATION.
From Phoenix to Colorado Springs.
The Trials and Troubles of a
Fashionable
Resort.
OoLomA SPRINGS, May rs. 1897

, | Ol6ud HHSEo hu6 5uCuIeHB BtnS6D
!. tempt the small boy tie dig his hnge
= | nails of, and the saesafras bush fills th
earth with fragrance
Unlike Sam Bass who vent 20 Texas g
son-of-a gun TO be- went TO Arizon
where 1 would not see my old sweet
heart showing sbs5yoa lsnguidly slonl
containing a tender heir with the odiou
name OF Smith.
After roasting out two ardent 50 N
|, mers in Salt r YER Valley and eating
carload of red beans on the Hassayampa
I returned to Colorado, and this is the
first thing that happened to me:
[ took room on the thiFd floor in The
Alamo, In that celebrated ether" anG
nither, metropolis Colorado Springs.
lit one of those aconite cigars for which
that city is justly famous, and leaned
luxuFiousIy back amid those plush sur
roundinge, and my mind rsn back to my
old Humbug wiokiup, where with g
time honored cob pipe under my nose, !
had sank back into az Arbuckle coffee
box, upholstered with gunny sack and
| thought 1 was happy. But here the
| midst OF higher oiviliz ation I was prs>
pared for certainties
Well, disrobed myseIt-for ] had
now lesrded TO pull off my boots before
retiring, said my prayers and rolled in
| between real sheets, yes, and the sheets
were about oil there was to that bed ex
| Dept 81 army OF Linetare swapping
turtles that was mobilizing on the head
board as I turned out the lights. l had
! been there about fifteen minutes and
Old Morpheus had begun to monkey
with ny eye lids when q iungeF 10 room
1879 On my left let out cough End
whoop as fFightful as if 10 had come
from the grave of Nero, and before the
echo had died away the occupant of,
2O4 across the hall blew fragment of
lung through the trsnsom and followed
up with series OF pulmonary cschinna-
tions that would awake the dead and
anihilRte the living. From room 800 in
the rear, 427 above me and 80 below
came the same supalehreI chorus and
all night long 6his ghostly, CHASTITY
melancholy concert was kept up. Only
ia No. 1877 90 my rig at did peace and
quiet prevail end during the rare inter
walls that occurred, thought I detected
and the patter Of pink hoes upon the
carpet OF the soft musical snore of
divine womsnhood.
l had tossed and tumbled and rolled |
and got up and paced around and |
crswled back and wished myself g |
Arizona sand wash, and the god of day |
was jast beginning to gold |
plate the summit of Pixies Peak |
with the suddenness of lighting, when
shrek came out of that quiet room that
cracked the plasterinG in three places
and sent the miniature swapping turtles
skurrying in thousand directions for
shelter.
knew that some red-eyed fend was
numbering that defenselsss angel with
features never dreamed of In the annals
OF the inqnisition. 1 must save her. l
jumped out of bed and tore the knob off
my door getting out into the hall. l
rushed TO her door II vas locked
Yee, the monster had boted it securely.
What could I do?
just then came another shrek that
cut three buttons off my night-gown.
[ resolved in q fash to save that inno-
cent cresture or leave my lifeless body
as her feet. 1 backed across the
nall. [ summoned ell the strength
that the carload OF red beans bad i'm
parted to me. clenohed my hands
and ses my teeth and invoking the as
slstencs OF the Almighty l eprsng
az einst that door.
Through 1 went, carrying the door
with me, rolling up all the furniture in
the room, smashing q 5000 mirror, rip
ping up the carpe5 for eleven feet and
bringing up in a sitting position up TO
ny neck in shattered china brick-a
orsck. The woman was the only thing
n the house didn't hit.
AS [ opened my eyes she sat on the
'ide of the bed, all unmindful OF the
wreck about her, her beautiful eyes
yisrinR with terror, her right foot ex
DS AaA @fOiA ACE LII LII |
As she could prof ,ob it, and her ieweled
niger poin ting with agonizing terror in
the direction OF her big toe.
She had mouse ia her stocking.
The stocking would easily have ao-
,ommodated burglar.
But 1T as just common mouse.
cFswled back To my room. L pulled
IN ny ps-clothes, 1 grabbed my grip {
nd slid softly down the fire escape and
disappeared into she cold, cold world.
would sign my real nsme TO Shis hon
st tale of Voc, but - the proprietor OF
be- Alamo caught 90 he would charge
hah fnrpiture to me, and [ would not
= Ihle to ges back 80 Arizona, where
g zee of mind ard ipcorruptible pork
lssism endure torsver aud ever.
Yas, gentle woman, thou art Il lovely
cb.-ise, int ,goud sr if there ere tnloe
u H4HveG KIT
Wnau buious CO cosslve eat Cas-
at. candy CATH ,Arts'c, cure guarah teed
0 cs,, 25 cts.
Cost OF Metals, 8
New YORK, Mcy 2s.-Silver SOS; {
lead 3121S Copper Eassings, 1o1s. II