El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21

was warm. 1t was strong enough any
how to lead him to cooperate In
schemes for sanitation and municipal
| improvement which must have struok
his Filipino nation as being tie purest
tommyrot.
But there were still q few recalci.
| trant gentlemen outside the city clue
tered around the skirts of big vol
cano who disspproved of the Amer
lean occupancy: mostly mem bers of the
Brigands' Union in good standing but
tenn porarily out of job. Brigands
are picturesque in operas but they are
unpleasant elsew here, SO the captain
tried to get permission to take troops
and capture the volcano. Taking q
volcano somehow impresses me as q
massive idea; it's like the Mexican
story of q man who had q mortgage
on POpocatepetl and foreclosed. But
Otis didn't approve for some reason
nor for that matter did the brigand
gentlemen. Wherefore the latter
played q trick on the captain, "a re-
gular Yankee trick" he Gays.
There was very vicious white-eyed
stallion in the native camp, q sulky,
tricky brute which wanted man, raw
man, for breakfast and dinner and sup
per and a midnight lunch. It was
dui1o iobdl Cay use. IL nAu kllieo
several men in it's day. And it hap
pened one day that the captain want
ed horse, whereupon an iusurrecto
turned amigo long enough to bring
the aforesaid stallion into town. The
captain took him on sight. 1t may be
mentioned explanatorily that while the
captain likes gentle horses, naturally
enough, yet the sight of a wicked one
is apt to make his sense of duty remind
\. hnt t.
Whereupon he promptly elects himself.
l believe I said he organized q com
pauy of rough riders at one time.
The captain and his new pony got
along famously for awhile after q few
preliminary discussions, Finally one
day they went cut to enjoy the plea
sures of the chase. Reports had come
of the mysterious disappearance Cof
large bodies of F Ilipinos in certain
piece of brush and the captain wanted
to Investigate. He took his adjutan
along for the sake of company, but had
no escort.
And now comes the inglorious end
suddenly out of am bush and shouted at
the pony which bucked and swerved |
thereat as In duty bound. The cap
tain, trying to control the stallion and |
get his revolver at the same time. was |
thrown and Landed on his hip, knock |
Ing him out for the time being. The |
attendant msraged to catch the ami
NAL and the captain clam bered aboard |
again, after recovering himself little. |
Then they started back to camp. Half
way there, the spirit seized the pony
again and he executed another Fill
pino buck. (Luzon horses do not do q
regular buck jump but instead give
themselves curious sidewise witch
on the same order aud
quite as convincing The captain,
still stiff from his first fall was thrown
again and landed on the same hip,
ore aking 1t this time. But as he went
DIFF he held on to the bride and Mr..
Pony turned a somersauit and
anded on his back. Then they both
ay and stared at each other. 1hs
captain ayers that the stallion looked
1t him with triumphsn ibid it,
lidn's l, "look which was trying.
The story ends here. The captain
: back in Washington recovering and
Waiting in fear and trem bling the YER
lict of board of surgeons on the pos
'ibility OF his ever returning to duty.
But isn't it freakish of Fate
% let man go scratch
ess through four years of civil
var and lot of miscellaneous brush
Graphing with Indians aud Filipinos
md then finally land him by a balky
,ony?