The National tribune., 1903-11-05

knowledge. This is most easily done at
dance or feast or social gathering. II the
toloache tea In strong enough. and it gen
orally is, the sffect is swift and terrible.
The mans bnin becomes affected within
an hour to such an extent that he becomes
quite Irresponsible and develops a strong
tendency to do violence upon himself: his
FIRST impulse seems to be to Isolate HIM
SELF
"You see, tine girl has no redress by the
| law: il she has no father or brother, who
might take her pnrt, and either cause the
faithless lover to marry or support her
and their offspring, she takes her revenge
in her own hands: but generally not be-
fore the man begins to neglect her and
takes up with another girl. This seems
to be the case with Conchita now. and
that skalawag,Man had better look out
for himself.
TQLoACHE FOR FAITHLEss MANUEL.
The following day was Saturday. In
the afternoon several of the farm hands
came to the house and obtained from Mrs
TAFT mescal, wine and cigarets. stating
that they were going to have dance that
night in the stOrehouse or at the lower end
of the farm.
On the following day we al were sitting
at breakfast in the open hallway of the
house, when there appeared at the froat
no longer the clean dandy with the laugh
ing eyes and mirthful voice. II appear
ance was shocking; his clothes were torn.
he was besmirched with mud and he
| seemed to stare into vacancy with eyebai!s
double their usual size protrudirg from
their sockets. He stopped but moment.
waved his hand toward us and with
hoarse, hasty "Ado:s. tcdosr' (good-by,
alb he was off as fast as he con'd run.
1'Talnncha h,- ~ To;t
hurry, boys. after him. His son and
myself sprang from our seats. Mr.. TAFT.
jr.. seiZing lariat from n peg in the
wall, and followed the fugitive. who took
the direction of the river. He ran in
| straight line towards a cliff 0verhlnging
deep place where rapid current exist
ed. He stopped for nothing: he jumped
over the numerous nopal cactus like
deer, trampng down the smaller creosote
bushes and leaping over d;tcheS. He left
MS far behind. After about 10 m nutes we
heard II cry tha. penetrated sh!ilv the
stiffness of the beautiful Sabbath morn
ing.
In the afternoon some laborers discov.
cred and brought to the hut of Manuel
his body, which they had fished ont CT tha
water nearly a mile be,ow the elf.
Mr. TAFT gave the body decent bur al.
Three months later | received letter in
Tucson from Mr.. TAFT. ir. stat ng that
! they had laid the remairs of COnchita be-
side Manuel's, she having died after Civ
ing birth to male ch Id. whom they (the
Taits) had legally adopted.
SONORA SCHOOLS ORG >yIzED.
In the Fall of 1884 the new Palace of
the Governor was finished and thrown
open for occupancy at Hermosillo. Pre-
| viously i had net one Mr. BoniIas. the
then Mayor of the town of Magdaiena.
This gentleman had been. 13 years be-
fore, my best pupil, by far. in the public
school at Tucson. BY him / was intro
duced to Governor Ramon Corral of the
State of Sonora, who asked me if | would
lie willing to establish the public schools
of Sonora in accordance with the school
system of Switzerland. which l agreed to
do. and front Jan. !. till the end of
May i was occupied in that task. The
two principal objections urged in Mexico
against the American school system were
cocducatiOn of the sexes and the long
vacations occurring between two school
terms. Cocducation could not be thought
of. for reasons previously dwelt upon, and
the latter Ovsfeame by making the whole
year a school year with four weeks yaca-
ton during the hight of Summer three
weeks during the Fall and two weeks dur
ing the holidays embracing Christmas and
New Year, the teachers to receive their
salaries during the entire year unabridged
by reason of vacations.
In May, 1885, Il returned to Arizona.
E CThe end)