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CHARLOTTETOWN P: E. ISLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 4898.

NO 55

° - saseae—_—aneseiestcheesem ee -_ = a ‘ CAN RENTT | turning it to accdunt? He Was sharp h A \ BEN ] j 0), enough to know that he did > - it so

inthe early nineties there arose in the |

town of Tularosaa prophet who had honor

gnong his own people. He was only Be- |

pito Moralos at first, but hecame to be San Benito, and this was the manner of it: Benito was the only son of one Senora Morales. She had wandered into Tularosa qe day with her baby in her arms. wander in Tularosa afoot is no small achievement. The surrounding country js greasewood plain, barren knolls and al- kali patches as far as tho eye can reach. At Three Rivers, seven miles to the west, there is a creek which runs almost dry in gaumer, but north, east and south for many, many leagues there is neither water por shelter. That the mother, with her child in her arms, had lived through the desert journey was a marvel which was pot explained at the time, but which was jn after years attributed to divine guid- ance. Senora Morales was very young,

To

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she said, was a white man. He was her

But he never came. The priest found her return she swept the church and renewed the paper roses in the white and gilt vases upon the altar. She lived mostly on char- ity. Benito grew to manhood and early

truth in saying that his father had been Americano by the extraordinary activity of hisanind. But that he was also balf Mexican was evinced in &is quite ordinary indolence of body. The priest saw in him a promising padre, and undertook his edu- catian. The progress of young Morales was astonishing. His reputation spread. Advice was asked of him as frequently as of the priest, and those who followed it did well, for his inspiration was keen com- mop sense and an eye to the main chance. It dawned slowly upon the padre that his pupil was ceming to be of unduly great repute, that his own prestige was men- aced, and when Benito was in his twen- “sag year the good father thus addressed

m:

“My som, you are now a man, and you should play a man’s part. You should go out into the world and work for the mother who bas se long supported you.”’

The word *‘work’’ was a terrible stab to the heartof Benito. ‘‘But am I not to be 4 priest?” he asked.

“No,” said the father piously. ‘‘ You have not the spirit of the priest. You love the things of this world.”’

Benito’s fine black eyes grew rapt, and be opened his lips to protest. But the fa- ther bad some knowledge of mankind

himself, and he interrupted. ‘‘And then,”’ |

he suggested, ‘‘the padre must be always poor, but a brain like yourscan make iach money in the world,’”’

I}. dine black eyes sparkled with greed.

TLe white strain was strongest in his love « gain, insomuch indeed that it over- came <be laziness of his Mexican blood, and t! « thought of adventure which should be rewarded with gold fired Benito’s soul.

“Where shall I go?’’ he asked.

“lo the railroad, to Socorro, to Santa

geles,”’ the priest answered vagucly. ‘‘ You can grow rich—ah, very rich—in Socorro or Santa Fe. You necd not go farther, for some day you might wish to come back to your mother, and you could not do it maybe if you were eo far away as Tucson."

“But 1 must have money to go with,” Suggested Denito.

The priest looked at him reproachfully. “Your motker did not need money when she came from the north end curried you inher armnms.’’ Benito was silent. ‘But perhaps we can get $1, or even 32. 1 will £09 today and try to gather it for you. diave you no money of your own?’

“No,"’ lied Benito glibly.

“And yet,’’ said the good father, per- you have given advice.”’

I gave the money ta my mother. Did she not deserve that I should?’’ asked Mo- Tales righteously

The padre doubted, but he held his peace. He gathered $2.20 from his grateful flock, end Benito Morales, taking that and the $10 he had been all his life in saving,

farted forth to seek his fortune. His Mother wept placidly for days as she Shoked her cigarettes on the shady side of me te house or knelt in church and prayed 4 Bud said her beads while the swallows flew

TS back and forth and twitted among the waiters. In time she ceased to weep, but the tulked incessantly of her only son. Two years passed before Benito came back. to hisown. He had gone in the sum- Mer, and in the summer be returned. <A ght was upon the land. In those two ars there had been norain. The priest red and the people supplicated and the ure of St. Joseph was varried in proces- om. It had brought water from the skies fore this. Yet now its influence was of avail, and the crops—even the crop of Fijoles—seemed doomed to fall. ‘Then Mito Morales returned. The people, re- eMibering that his advice had proved lof yore, asked him: now what they ulddo. Benite did net commit bim- but be said that be would pray, and

t perchance the anger of heaven migh’ Withdrawn. If so, he would expect to epaid. The people promised. Then nito went into the church and bowed

* picturesque head and prayed for rain. ere wes some faith in his heart and Uch skepticism. On the following day Fained. Benito was well paid, and his

putation far outshone that of the padre. ow Benito in his travels had wandered

6 the farthermost limits of the continent, en unto San Francisco and Los Angeles. had learned much that the padre would

ot and much that the padre could not ;, Mave taught him. Among the latter was ye he trick of hypnotizing. A hypnotist had glecked Morales up from the streets one vening and had promised him 50 cents if phe Mexican would help him with his ow. Morales did not know what it was, ‘at he needed half a dollar, and he went ith the man, and he went again night ter night. He observed and he watched, ad at last he determined that he could do e ‘‘treeck’’ as well as the ‘‘gringo.’’? He perimented and practiced and became in urse of time fairly proficient, for Mo- was a man of brains and will. The treeck” served to amuse him and his “thm frlands. one ve gevap tuOuebt of

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In course of time he grew weary of work- ing to live. He did not grow rich, anc he had to labor hard for the rare dollars that he turned. It was dvetter in Tularosa, where people would give him frijoles and cigarettes and where bis mother would do the little that was needed to keep hunger from the door. Slowly and leisurely he earned his way back to Socorro, an@® thence he rode on a burro that he found on the banks of the Rio Grande to Tularosa. Thus it was that Benito Morales returned to his own people, little dreaming of the honors that were in store for him.

One day as he satin his own doorway watching the mocking bird that hopped back and forth in its cage and pecked at} the red chili stuck between the bars he wondered how he should get his nex package of brown rice paper for cigarettes! He had no money, his mother had none and he had exhausted the generosity of his friends. Then it flashed upon him that the ‘‘treeck’’ would be of use. He could get endless packages of papers by that method. He went to where a number of his friends lounged around the door of the one store of the town. The least genercus man of them all had a new package. In seeming playfulness Morales pressed him upon the brow and gazed into his eyes. The man grew rigid.

“Give me your cigarette papers and some tobacco, if you please,’’ suggested Benito.

His subject did as he was bid. Benito released him and sat duwn to smoke.

Tho onlookers were seized with a terri- ble awe. Benito hada power from the

| devil or from heaven, they were not cer-

tain which, and it Jay with Morales to de- cide that for them. He put his power to good uses fora time. He cured those of the sick who seemed likely to recover. He made men perform feats of prodigicas strength. The people rose up and blessed him, and ere long they called him San Benito, timidly at first, then with growing conviction.

When his reputation. was established, Morales began to work for his own ends. Manuel Guitterez awoke from a trance one day to find that he had in the presence of witnesses signed away his house to Mo- rales. When he protested, he was set upon and beaten and driven off with hoots. Jose Ortega in the same fashion gave away his bit of a ranch at Three Rivers. Morales was pow a landed proprietor. He married, and one person contributed, all unwittingly, a chair, another a bed, an- other a table, another a statue of a saint, to furnish the bridegroom’s house. The people feared and almost worshiped him. His mother and his wife and his children received much honor. Put Morales had too much rope, and in due time he banged himself.

A teamster who was camping upon the bank of the creek a couple of miles from Morales’ rancho had two inules which the Mexiean coveted. Benito spent the even- ing hanging around the teainster’s cam))- fire and talking to him. He was a ‘‘grin- go,”’ but the ‘‘treeck’’ had been done to ‘*gringos’’ before. Why, reasoned Morales, should not be attempt it? He did and with entire success. When the man was under his influence, Morales said, ‘*'To- night at 12 o’clock you will come one mile down the river to where the ford road is, and you will give me these two mules.” Morales touched the ones he wanted, Then he awoke the teamster and went away. At midnight he waited by the ford and re- ceived the ules. Heo sent the man back to his camp and took the animals toa ciump of heavy willows, where he tied them. He did not want the man to find them in his corral if it should occur to him to make trouble.

The next day as Morales dug aimless- ly in his strawberry patch he saw the sher- iff and the teamster approaching. The sheriff was an Irishman who kept the one store of the town, and he did not like Be- nito. The Mexican was badly scared.

**This man,” said the Irishman, ‘says you were loafing around his camp all the evening yesterday and were watching the

two mules that are missing now. He thinks you stole them.’’ ‘“‘[ did not. Ihave not got them,” said

San Benito.

“You come and help us look for them just the same. You're a queer lot, and you've got lots of things you didn’t work to earn.”’

The mules were found, of course, tied under the willows on San Benito’s own ground with a piece of San Benito’s own rope, which he had bought of the Irishman only two days before.

Morales was tried as a horse thief at the next meeting of the court at the county seat, and he was convicted. When the news reached Tularosa that he had been sent to jail, the people of the towr turned against their saint after the manner of mankind, which asks nothing better than to burn what it has adored. Guitterez seized back his house, Ortega reclaimed his ranch, San Benito's wife and children were turned out and found refuge where they might until the padre gave them a home.

Afterward, when San Benito came back to his town, he was met with stones and curses and driven out upon the prairie. And his mother went with him across the burning plain toward the vagne north, from which they had come. He might be Morales, the horse thief, to his ungrateful people, but to her he was Benito still— even San Benito.-—Gwendolen Overton in Argonaut.

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He—How so?

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