The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1911-09-01


tain mamsOleum of everduE7ng
ice, and snow, and dire hail
Even to this day, the gorge of
Hogugcu is dreaded by hunter
and by shepherd, and the ice
monger eschews it with fear, nor
will the lover of the intoxicat-
ing bowl, hOwevre much inebriat--
ed, or insensate taste the drau-
ght, if cooled with ice gathered
from that fatal chasm. The raw
en- vrooks, ravously and ominous-
ly as he wings flight across it !;
and owls and bats imstinctively
shun it.
1t is the Gehenna of all the
mountains
Olatha had followed LiOma in
his pursuit of Hoguguc, while
| Dongotha remained with OlIta on
the rock. Olatha overlook Lao
| ma at the brink of the frightful
gorge into which the craven old
| chief had plunged and just In
| time for both of them to hear
his echoimg cry, us he was falling
Spare me, Lioma. Olita is pure
Olita is thine.
As Olatha came up to aoma,
the latter said: 20, the bastard
Hogugcu, to escape a merifed
punishment he has, III attempt
ing to leap the chasm, plunged.
headlong into this deep abyss
iof SNOW and ice, and, whether
through true repentance came
too late, or to propatiate the de-
mons into whose freeing mebrac-
es he was falling, he went down
bowling, declaring, too. the pur-
ity of Olita, the echoing Of which
are stilllingering, and will lin
ger as long as these external ex-
isting mountains endure.
To this day, when the truant-
red man or white man heaves,
up the Discus boulder, and sends
it frantically leaping and bonud-
ing into that awful abyss, a
thousand echoes start to life, and
reverberate, lolita is thine
Olatha replied to Lioma: The
Great Spirit often reserves to
himself the privilege of fur
nishing misdeeds i'm an examp-
larry way; so that the living may
have warnings to eschew like
conduct.
] But / would have preferred
for the bastard to have been
chastised by my own hands, an
swered- Lioma.
/ should not murmur, replied
Lioma, ssince his punishment
is far more terrible than / could
have inflicted, and, as it comes
from higher power, it must be
They then returned to the
rock where Dongotha had re-
manned with Olita On their way
thither, Lioma gave the follow
ing history of the savage chief.
Hogugcu was the chief of the
Liccarilla tribe of the Apaches.
OF all the Apache race, no tribe
is deemed more cruel and bar
barOus than this. Sufficiently
savage and fiendish by nature,
their appearance and dress rem
Der them tenfold NOR TERRIBLE
Their faces besmard with rough
paints, their coarse hair, eoarser
than the turkey cocks beard.
matted IN amass, with their cos
tunes of undressed buffalo skins
covered over with claws of the
beasts, strings of human skulls
and teeth, interspeased with rat
ties and buttons from the rattle
snakes tail; all together make
them indeed frightfully hideous.
Them chief was the son of a ia
nous hare-lipped bag that lived
LII dark narrow cave in a moun
tain. He protested the art of for
tune-telling, and Notwithstanding
ner unprepossessing appearance.
her cell was thronged by the I'M
quisitive and curious. or rather
superstitiOs of every tribe Aztec
as well rs Apache. When Olita
was ten years old, some of her
female companions, made a visit
to the cell and carried her with
them-z HOgugcu saw her and be-
came enamorsed; for, even then
young and nndevelpoed as Olita
was, she was most beautiful and
lovely; nay, I have known her
from her tenderest childhood
and she has ever been without .
peer, paragon of all perfections
From the time that Hogugcn first
saw Oiita, the time she visited
his mothers cell, he changed the
costume of his tribe, and adopt-
ed that of the Aztecs, also af-
fecting theIman ners and Gus
toms, and in various capacities.
was employed in the village of
Sante Fe. About two years aoo
his mother, the old ha1. died.
hut ON her death bed she con
vened all the membm Of her
tribe, and enjoined upon them to
make her son their chief. Such
was theawe and dread n which
they held hen, that they were
afraid to disobey her iniunctiom
even after her death. -Hoeuecu
was accordingly installed their
chief, and he attempted not
great while thereafter. 70 Omen
negotiations with Olita's father