Scribner's magazine . heyd find his little hoard of treasure, Parcelled off his small belongings all. Fresh-oiled his engine, saw to every glint of brass work. Shook down the ashes in his furnace grate,— Did all as tho this day were not his last. . Then, leaned this ladder here against the boiler,Swung this rope from the steam-pipe above .And took his reasoned plunge into the deep unknown !. Still, once off, it seems he faltered, somewhere,His reason all at fault in that Great Presence there,Struggled to recover what seemed so slight at parting .Got one foot back upon the ladders rung again .T
Scribner's magazine . heyd find his little hoard of treasure, Parcelled off his small belongings all. Fresh-oiled his engine, saw to every glint of brass work. Shook down the ashes in his furnace grate,— Did all as tho this day were not his last. . Then, leaned this ladder here against the boiler,Swung this rope from the steam-pipe above .And took his reasoned plunge into the deep unknown !. Still, once off, it seems he faltered, somewhere,His reason all at fault in that Great Presence there,Struggled to recover what seemed so slight at parting .Got one foot back upon the ladders rung again .There died—thus, as they found him—Reaching back to life with that look there in his eyes! . . AVliat was it that he found there in the earths great shadow swung awayBeyond all plummets depth beneath him ? . .Was it-searing light or weight of heavy darknessStruck those unseeing eyes with that despair ? TARAHUMARI LIFE AND CUSTOMS By Carl Lumbolt^ The Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Tarahumari Comb from a Pme Cone. THE Taraliuinaris, the inhabitants ofthe Sierra Madre, whose home wasdescribed in a fonner article, came,according to their own traditions, fromthe north and the east (the same coun-tries as the Apaches, as they say), andwere placed in these mountains, themiddle of the world, by their descended originally from heaven,with com and potatoes in their god was with them at the begin-ning, but the devil molested him, andto such purpose that he had to , when their god was intoxicated,the devil robbed him of his wife. Icannot remain here any longer, saidhe, because the devil took my wife ;but I will leave two crosses in theworld. He placed one cross wherethe sun sets and one where it cross in the east tlieir god useswhen he comes down to visit the Tara-humaris ; that in the west is for theTarahumari when he dies and goes toheaven. Between these two crosseslives the Tarahumari tribe. Tlie Ind-ians
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