Fort Griffin Echo (Fort Griffin, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 31, 1881 Page: 1 of 4
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TH£ FORT GRIFFIN ECHO.
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FORT GRIFFIN, SHA< KELFORD COUNTY. TEXAS, SATURDAY. DEC: 31, 1881.
NO. -59
PROFESSIONAL.
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A STORY OP THt MORMONS.
The Kind of a Man Gen. Harney
WM,
"I was with Harney atthe
time of the Montitain M:adow
massacre," says an old scout,
"and I went to Salt Lake City
with biiu when he went down
there to interview Brig ham
Yoang. Now there was ah in-
cident connected with that trip
that I do not think was then
reported, or has ever been
written lip., It shows the kiua
of a man Harney was."
"Tell me about it,"
"When be3*heard about the
massacre, he sent out scouts to
find out who the murderers
were, and when they reported
that they were Mormons, oft he
went with his entire command
for Salt Lake City, swearing
every rod of the way that he
would hang the murderers if he
had to hang every Mormon in
Utah. He intended to give
Brigham Young twenty-four
hour to surrender up the mur-
derers, and unless, this .was
done, Latter Day Saints would
he mighty acarce around there.
Before we; reached .Salt Lake
City a messenger overtook us
with orders frt>m the War.De-
partment for Harney to return'
to catpp; that the xsiVil authori-
ties would attend to the massa
ore'business. Then you ought
to have heard , the old man
•wear. He scolded the govern-
ment enough to sink it. 1 nev-
er met a man who could swear
more violently than Harney.
. "He thought the matter over
for a little while, and then de-
clared that he had started for
Salt lake City, and he would
too there if he was cdurt mar-
tialed and shot for it. And he
went,-too; and if the War De-
partment ever heard of it no
action was taken. We camped
a short distance outside : the
city at'd etayed a few days to
give the animals a rest, and
they needed it sadly, for we
had traveled fast. The morn-
ing that we*' started back to
Yuma a yenng girl, aboht sev-
enteen or eighteen years old,
came, out to camp and applied
to Brady, the. train master, to
help, her escape. Her parents
Were English, who had joined
the Mormons not lofig before,
and one of the elders wanted to
marry her. Her parents were
trying to force her to this po-
lygamous marriage, and she
tiad ah uncle and aunt in San-
Francisco, and to them sbe
Wanted to go.
"Brady wasn't the man to
say 'no' under such circum-
stances, and h« stowed her
away in the 'flour wagon by
piling the barrels around her in
such a way that she couldn't
be seen from either end. We
hadn't'gone far before a dozen
Mormons overtook us, the girl's
father being along with them,
d they went through the
swearing worse than before,
away he and all the troops
went for the Mormons. They
had a long start of him. howev-
er, and reacehd the city first
Do you suppose that Harney
stopped when he reached the
«:ity? Not a bit of it. Right
up the main street he went at a
gallop, and when he jumped
from his horse and cried 'halt!'
it was right in front of Biig-
hatn's office. There was a
guard on duty there with a
musket and fixed bayonet, but
as he brought his weapon to a
charge Harney gave it a kick
that turned the guard half
round, and the next instant he
was disarmed. Harney strode
Into the office with halt a dozen
soldiers at his heels, and two
minutes later Brigham was
astraddle of a horse and gal
loping down the street in the
center of a troop of cavalry .
It was fun to see -the Mor
mons stare as they saw the old
man in such company, but be-
fore they could have time to
act we were ; out of the city;
Abont five miles out Harney
ordered a halt, and it wasn't
long before a lot of Mormons
came riding up as faot as their
horses could carry them- When
they got up within sound of his
voice, Harney ' ordered them to
halt or ihe wotjid fire on them,
and they .halted. Then 'he or-
dered .Brigham to tell them to
go bbek to the city and bring
Brady aud the girl, back witu
them, and said he to Rrigbam :
"It they are not here within
two hours -I'll (ill your carcas
full .of government lead!"
"'You don't dare to,' says
Brigham- :.v" -
"'Why, confound you,' says
Harney, TJJ^ftipt yon myself 1';
"Long before the two hours
were up, Brady and the girl
were there, and when we got to
Yuma,. Harney sent a guard
with her to San Bernardiuo, on
her way to Sau Francisco.
That's the kind of a t man Har
uey was." v /
in the saine place. If you will
come to-morrow we will go to
gether." The friend coveting
the larger suiu. replaced the
s alter. In the meantime the
miser went and found it; and
having secured his money, he
determined never again to con
tide in a friend.
One of the kings of Persia
sent a skillful physician to the
prophet Mohammad. After re
tnuiniiig some years in Arabia
without any one muking a trial
of his skill as a physician, he
went to Mohammed and com-
plained, saying: '■They sent
uie to dispense medicine to yonr
companions ; but to this day
no one has taken notice of
uie, that I might have an oppor-
tunity of performing a service
to which I had been appointed."
Mohammad replied: "It is a
rule with these people never to
eat until they are hard pressed
with Jiunger, and to leave off
while they have a good appe-
tite." The physician said : "Ay,
indeed, this is the way to en-
joy health." He then made his
obeisance and departed.
We all know what a degrad-
ing thing avarice is—how it be-
numbs a matrS finer instincts,
and lowers and degrades his
better nature;" More especially
is this the case, if this undue
love of money has developed
within a man a want of scrupu-
lous honor as to liow he cothes
by hia money, ao that he but
gets* it. An eastern parable
illustrates this. A. Russian
priest knew that a tuoujik. oi
peasant, had come upon butied
treasure; in the shape of
a pot ot money ; and the priest,
excessively avaricious,
determined that he should get
possession of this money. 'So
he killed one of his Own goats,
and took off its skin—horns,
beaid, and all conlplete ; and
having pulled the skin oyer
himself, he told his wife to
bring a need 1 e and thread, and
fasten it up all round, so that it
not slip off.
In this guise he went to the
moujik's cottage at dead of
night, and began knocking and
Scratching, when the peasant
jumped up and cried : "Who's
there ?" "The evil one !" repli-
ed the piiest; and demanded
that the moujik should at out'e
give Inin back the pot of money
lie had ion id. The peasant
looked out Of the window, arid
skin r •h iiiied clinging tight to
the priest oil the same. God
evidently did it to punish him
for Itis great greedines^- Cham
bers' Journal.
A FELINE FEELING.
Art Incident of a Down Town
Boardlrts House ExBerlenoe.
When Tom Banks appeared
on the streets two or three days
since with an innumerable num-
ber of scratches on his face, his
admires were thrown into a
state of excitement.
Numerous were the questions
showered upon liitn as to the
nature, of the difficulty out of
which, he, evidently, escaped so
Tiarrdwly.
Somes thought he must have
caught a buzz saw on the fly ;
others that he must have fallen
head first into a hogshead ot
broken bottles, others that lie
had tried to tame the Mexican
tigress and had fallen within
reach of her claws. In short, so
much sympathy and conjecture
were elicited by Tom's badly
scratched condition, that the t
porter detdrmiirtjd to fathom the
mystery.
After a Careful search if was
ascertained that while Tom
was leisurely sauntering up
Royal street one day last week,
lie saw a pretty damsel stand-
ing at a court' yard gate. He
gazed upon her with his stiver-
est gaze. He smiled, and twirl-
ed his cane and softly stroked
his leonine moustache. She
giggled and he bowed low, and
thev Were soon conversing to-
gether as though acquaintances
for years. Before parting Tom
agreedjip call for her thut even-
ing and treat her to cakes.
Now it happened that, in this
same house au old yellow cat
lived, although voted a nuisance
by every boarder. Early and
late on moonlight nighty, this
feliue was sure to 1)e heard aud
seen climbing over the.house-
tops in the neighborhood and
calling upon' his lazy brothers
and sisters to join in the sere-
nade. ■
It has been said that the
moon light has been frequently
obscured by theshower of sticks
and stones, boots, shoes, si p-
pers, bottles', jars, inkstands
afid curses which have been
hulled at the ugly brute.
At last, on the night when
Toiu visited the servant, girl, a
sued, but, as though auimated
by a sense of the. necessity of
t he coming catastrophe, he
ceased his yelling and reached
Milt for join's head, which he
soon seized, when the cord was
tightened, and there ensued
such a scratching and yelling
'and spitting as was never
equaled. ,
At last Tom was enabled to
escape, but ' he was bleeding
from a hundred scratches. It
is needless to say that he retir-
ed precipitately and has not
been seen in the vicinity since,
while the boarders wink at
each other, but say nothing
when they see the servant girl
in the gateway and dark red -
red spots on the sidewalk.—
N. 6. States.
Some Kastern Parables
That there are more ways
than oue of seeing everything,
is'shown in the parable of the
tiger aud the man, who were
both looking at a picture, iu
which the ; man was drawn ae
victorious and the beastsut>du
ed. The man said to the tiger:
"Dost though see the bravery
of the man, how. he has over-
come the tiger I" The tiger..
gave answer.: "The painter was
a mail. If a tiger had been the
painter, then the drawing would
not have been in this liianiier." gold, carried_. it outside and espied the despised cat snugly
Rochefoucauld sava: "How tiling-it on the ground. "I've ensconsed on the pillow of his
can you expect a friund to keep! lived before now without uioti • bed.
your secret, when, by telling it j ey," said lie, "and now I'll go j A chase about the. room be-
to him. you prove that you are on living without it." The gan instantly and the cat.was
incapable of keeping it' your- priest seized the money atid finally .captured. Now what to
Qod's.Knowledge.
God knows me better than I
know myself. He knows my
gifts and Powers, my failings
and Weakness, what I can do
and cannot do; so I desire to
be led, . to follow him. And i
aiu quite sure that he baa thus
enabled me to do a great deal
more in ways that seem to me
almost a waste, in life in ad-
vancing thunT could have done
in any other wayi ;I am sure of
that. Intellectually, lam Weak;
in scholarship, nothing; in a
thousand things a baby, lie
knows this, and so lie led me,
and greatly .blessed me, who
am nobody, to be some use to
my church and fellow men.
How kind, how good, how com-
passionate art thou Oh, God l
Oh, my Father, keep me bum-
ble. Help me to have respect
to my fellow men, to recoguize
these several gifts as from thee;
Deliver uie from the sins of
malice, or jealousy, and give
me n lieartv joy in my brother's
good, iii his gifts and talents;
uud may I' be truly glad in his
superiority to myselt if God be
gloiilied. Root out all weak
vanity, all devilish pride, all
that is abhorrant to the mind of
Christ. God hear my prayer.
Giant me the wondrous joy of
humanity, which is, heeing thee
as all ill all
thirias that Should be TauKht,
Teach children that a true
lady may be found in calico
quite as frequent as iu velvet.
Tench them that a common
school education, with common
sense, is better than a college
education without it.
Teach them that one good
! honest trade well mastered is
hind
Trail
After they got her out, site turn*
boarder returned to his lodging
seeing the goaU's horns and,j at a late hour, saw and envied
beard, lie was certain his visit 1 him, but peacefully climbed to
or was none otlier tlian lie iVp-! his room, entered and closed
resented himsHf to be ; and in! the door; when he lit the gusjbeggaTy *piofes"
great ternji he seize line ;pot of 'and''looked around the room, h«Jil-.lil
810IIS* ' ■ . ■ ^
Teach them that as they expect
to be men some day, they can-
not too soon learn to protect
the weak and helpless.
Teach ..''.them ; that to wear
patched clothe^ in not it dis-
K' ttce, but to Wear a"black eye"
f.tiled ...
self?" To beware of how you! hastened home. "Cotu^v" said do with hitn was tlm prebieui.
. ■
MEALS
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confide iy your friends is given f he to his wife, "the money is in The juale boarders were ^
iii the tale of a. miser,' who'said j our '.'hands now. Here, put it in and a consultation foll"wed, i
to his friend s "I have now a ■ well cut of sight, and take a , whetv soiiie one metdinned the '
aWi until they found (lie girl, j thousand' rupees which I wtU' sharp kiiil'e. cut the tin-Had. and fact of Tom being at the"gaie
bury out of the city ; and I will 'pull the goat skin Off nit- bejoie' witli the servant girl, and it was j
dv and bade hini good I*"1 le" this secret to any one any one sei-s it." jagtviMl dial if tiiey could scare!
le same time fliauking'besides yoiiiseIf."_ Tllt-j' tlieh Sbe took the knife and «all ium away and kill the cat a j
~ " " y * 1 1 the thread at double liiiimph would be theirs, i
when forth flowedj .V Mont -coiil was proeuied1
the priest began to mid an>.l live of1 the eoii^viiators '
for kidnapping the girl, and alone to the t.ee to s^e if the l,r vl;- MUtr/ ii . hurt, _ it. f.ni ^ siipi^d ou^ upon tin- ibi.,1 Story ,
away they all went toward' tlievniottey was -safe, found it bad don t < ni. don t «n,; •
disajipeared. ' gm. ripping the sem.i opn. in
I here was' At once he suspected hii ;! anoUier place. I.ut with Ju-t lie-
dared lift' ques >i allie r«-Ail.lt. lie! y^'-y idviii
he w.i.s sure lie had united with t.is i\..<ly all
bee what was the .muter. As j«oi.ld...evW cnlWs it, So lie ruticd. nil all that th-y
TW1RTY FIVF ('TS iMoon as Harney was informed | had recourse to ,l„s sl.atageni.
TH1KI Y r I\Jj l ()f W|IUI |1U(l occurred, lie order <;•"■>* !l
■uppU«*t with th.' !w«t «'•«• (ef| ,|ie to halt and stay Ideal of money
lie got bark, and,' «nv hands, which J want to put was
CHARLEY'S
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- IBast Side Main Street.
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him forjttying to help her. That,. went out of the city and btjned, beginning to cut
| of course gave him dead away,' the money under a tree. Some the Sea in.
and the Mormons urrested'hiin ! nfter, the miser going blood and
if the h'.'Wl; "Oil, it lou t)
it had don't-cut, don't' en: !'
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city.
, "Harney saw thiyi m<-ir « k
something wrong with the train.!
and back came a messenge to j i'1'" """< as
but h*
laflbnld.
CHAUIKV IIA It IU I J.I'.
;there until
t-ied." ad
• said : ".V ureat that tin-v <
has come into the money
no
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lid, eveii to takiiiL!
I a«'k to tlie old man.
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Tertch them that God is no
inspector of se.v. and that when
he gave the seventh command-
ment he meant it for their own
good as vytdl as their sisters.
Teach tlieni that God helps
those who help themselves.
I)<. all this and you will have
bionglit theni up "in the way
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