The Washington times., 1903-02-01
Il 4 H. senior. he was a man Of sci
- ence. a student Drofundo, a
genius rriumfante,-'
genius triumfante.

genius tTiumfante.
But. Conrado." 1 asked. what did
he. accomplish? What great truth did
he discover and leave as a legacy to SUI
fering humanity
My New Mexican guide regards ne
with surprise and disapprovaI; then an
expression of pity flashes between his
half-cIosed eyes. and ! read his thought
Santa Maria" he is thinking. Is it
not sad that a man who can read and
write has learned nothing of the sreat
Prof. Araplburoe"
I beesech him 20 enligheen me. and he
undertakes this portion of my education
with gravity beftung The difficulty Of
the task.
PROF. Aramburo was man of extra
ordinary mental gifts" he begins. He
was doctor who healed the sick for love
Of healing, and whose wealth made mon
etary recompense a matter of Indifference
to him. He was a man in middle life
when he came to New. Mexico from Paris
and settled here upon the Rio Grande.
He was born here. but he had been edu-
Gated in France, and had made his name
famous in that country. His repute as a
physician was well known when lie re
turned to live ii Espanola and we were
proud to claim him as our countrymau.
He was a grave man, with piercing
dark eyes that looked from under over
hanging brows. He seemed to read your
soul before You had time to scan his fur
rowed face. He was one Of those people
whom men admire. but who are rarely
beloved by women, He had few batteries
upon his rather silent lips. He had
passed so much time studying the bac-
teriaI explanation of disease that he had
given little thought to social matters and
little heed to women. Yet he had been
with US but half q yea- when he married
the fairest daughter Of EspanoIa.
Her name was Marta. Dios granles.
What a perfect type of womanhood she
was. Every tenderfoot who touched
upon our soil was enamored OF her
beauty. and when ne tried to win her
he was likely to be shot like rat Tor
his presumption. TO be struck down by
the keen blade of some MexiSan puaaI
or to disappear, only the good Cod
knows whittier. Marta's lovers would
never suffer a tenderfoot to begufle her
from hsr native town of Espanola. Il
has been said that every year when the
services of expiration we're held IN our
mother church of Santa Cruz the men
who loved Marta sand who had com
mitted crimes through Jealousy of her
we're always in the procession of the
penitentes.
You do not know the services of ex-
piation? When you have traversed an
other mile of the burning sand you viii
see the old adobe church Of Santa Cruz
de Ia Canarda. It is the Oldest church
in America, and it has witnessed more
scourging Of the flesh. more bIoodshod,
more cruel penance. than any other in
the kingdom Of God.
once a year. at Holy Week, the IN
age Of the Blessed Virgin is placed in
the campo santo before the church md
the ground for many yards around it
is strewn knee-deep with cactus. over
the poisonous spines Of this cruel plant
the penitentes march with naked feet
or crawl upon their bare knees toward
the Mother of God. They pray for for
given ass while they scourge their
breasts with thongs or slash their DO
dies with punalz. until the steps OF the
church and the ground about it are
splashed with blood. which has not line
to dry. even in this arid atmosphere
before the sanguiuary shower has fallen
score Of times. This is where he
love Of Marta led the men OF EspanoIa
Yet she married man who had
scarcely eOurted her. who had devoted
more time to the study Of cholera germs
than TO all the daughters OF Eve Per-
hays the devil OF ambition was in her
blood. and she imagined that she would
like TO enslave the wisesJ ana most re-
nowned man she had ever known. Per
haDs It pleased her fancy to prove to
Senior Aramburo's young nephew that
she did not care a centavo for him. Al
all events. she married the professor.
the great doctor, the famous pathoIogfst
and he took her 10 his home upon the
Rio Grande.
Il wish could describe to you how
she looked when he brought her home.
was the butler IN her husbands house.
and I stood in the doorway when they
arrived. She came up the path which
parted the gorgeous scarlet ,cacu and the
milk white yuccas. Towering upon every
side. and her walk seemed the trium-