Arizona republican., 1904-09-27


 the hardy grease wood, sage, and burrJ weed were dying.
 From the depths of a Hell that seems as unrelenting as that of Dives, we every day lif5ed our eyes, and con sciously or 6reamily cried olt, "Oh | God of Abraham, send us rain to as suaSe Cor an ho,r the torment oe man and beaSt
 Early each morning heard the wild horses, cattle and burros start from the water holes to go as far as, they dared to prospect mesquite trees for the beans dropped during the night. The strongest brute arriving first at mesquite, would forget his or her ethics Of harse, buTro or bovine. to become DlutOcratic hog, and it was pitiab 10 see the weaker strain 10 reach 2 morsel os relief from fnces- sant tormenting hunger. Last, came the weakest to find nothing: and then the human expression of despair in i eyes and plea cast at me, was simply heart-hreaking. Each day two emaci- ated cows, each with calf whose hungry bawl was seldom silent, came to my camp and regarding me with hu- man intelligence in their eyes, would seem to pray thus: "Oh, thou in the Image of our common Creator and 10 whom dominion is given over us beasts or The range. to care for, guard. and feed ask Of Supreme Providence food Tor us, or give he death in your guns" 1 Often saw cowmen going out early ana returning late, with digging tools at times an ak their last resources lay Tn developing water from failing springs, or cutting down willows wei green at top. At night these COW men lay down to awake often to hear the humanized prayers of their cattle pas sing, or dying near by. The cruelty or the COW man branding his calves CT rushing his crazy brOncho, and erazleH Wild catle, is only apparent he is as solicitous for the means of providing shelter, raiment, and food Tor the dariings of his home as any man and his compassion for his suf- ferlng brutes as strong as that of the nIder hammered sheep man. II is love for the home, and tender concern Tor his brutes, which moves him to so iiercely defend his range against i'm Vasion of sheep herds that consume CT destroy everything edible He laughs only when his cattle roar With fatness
 On M1rable Dictu! When | the va quero' and Jose guarding the sheen lay Gown that night of July 2Oeb we 1elt that for the last time. our so1Is would fall al the feet of Providence to cry Oh thou who nearest the cries of hungry cubs in the desert, hear also lhe cfles of our starving herds" When during the awful days precedina. nrav- CT mad Weiied up from the heart of man ana beast ana the lie that was f,, green things in the wind and rool-- had cried out in pain and -Ies z,-b,- when aH human resources were -cy- haisted, should not tne Ohm .potart hear and grant relief to his creafio7s9 And so early that night. man. beast and all life sank into confident repose. We. were not surprised, when at midnig6t Ee awoke 10 see flaming clouds forming ana to recognize in the thunder tLe lolee-of Cod saying. Thy faith hath It's reward. come; I come!v Ro,-- eNer II was starving old horse th7r awakened ITO. He seemed fo Eno,,, mat , h. d gathered- rom under an en- closed mesquite a Eatful of beans. he came to my out-d door cot and nut his Ihuzzle to my face. But the beans nnaddened his hunger, and I gave him pound of crackers had reserved for part of the breakfast of myself an,I dos.' Adios, old hOss'' said I. putting soieinn emphasis on the frs. word. and laying down again. The poor old OIu,e Wnlm0erEd his thanks, and de- srted to cal mi IT. no more.
 Ere long. the storm falling an ma with draining baptism. conn .i,l my sleep; l scrambled under cover ana lay the balance of the nigat iis- tening 10 the delightful batter of Ina ram or the roof. And what yyai..I-rs came with the rain. For the sam. -n- seIle inspiration which fell on BaIarnn,s ass, envelOped the nearby rapea beasts. Their fever. cooled. bv tbe rair, 5 .-IeiI concentrations changed to hosan- mans. They arose and rassed ou. on 10 the range, lowing and Drawing iov- ousiy' conhdent of finding fresh brows.. and newer grass soringing to tbai,. teeth; to devour all the beans sbsI-a-, oH by the gale. No more ,la c,st stones and anathemas at intrusiva DuFFes' nor do catle come in. save my elo1uent cows, now 1at and fa~retftiI or thelr former misery and of me.
 Graclos a Dios;" exclaimed os cary the next morning a pretty quick mocking bird began to sing unrial, Inc gripping leaves of a mesquite ,ra.. Mahy month has come and gone sine. had seen any of these inconpar flo soilssIers- FJrst, he sang his spanish 'Si' el0f', Quick, quick, pretty. ;rettv qulck and then to coax from bir, ali Of his repertoire of Spanisb ,-oT,,sI,. anc liquids, I tossed uI to him Ina c.,~- ess'as phrase of the black-eyed girls oA sonora; Ah, Querida; anna 1ici ., | mia; Bien ventdo! Bien venido," in stantiy he responsed, the little s.ul naming into melody excelling and T ever heard from his sort years aro tIrouetting wicl Outstretched wings ana with dizzy eyes. he burst into | JunilSte Dec, and then more softly | sang his paraphrase of the Benediotrs which I translate th-s:
 Blessed be the Lord God of the -, Ouiitains; for he hath visited ami i .e1lDt teueeiled the desert and the ranga: annd hath raised up a mighty saI[,, ton for us to renew all life He es,-- eeh To the dumb life of the desert henceforth you suffer no more tbe misery Of hunger nor of want of woe l nara 10 endure And seemed to hear all the life of the desert join in tha. feIra'n Gloria in ExceIsis,"