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Show LEFT EVIL LEGACY MISFORTUNE DANS TREE PLANTED PLANT-ED DY DAD MAN. Superstitious Mexicans Believe Implicitly Im-plicitly In Story of Misspent Life and Its Punishment Tragic Deaths Have Deen Many. Tlio tmi of Tula nml the tree of Sad NlKht are known throughout th world but thi'ie In a tree In Mexico which has arrpilrcd a local tvputatlon homo-wind homo-wind Hlinily. Kl Arlml Mnldlto la Bald to have been pliintiMl by n gentlenian who had th! mliifortunb Io ho Hwnllowml up by Mother Karth on account of IiIh ciIhioh. Ho was known thraiiRhont tho country an unhomhro inuj malo. lie never went lo mans, never confessed Ida kIiim, nor did he have the ImaKo of n KHlnt In hlii holme, wear n io.iry ni mind his neck or inako the altsn of tlio ciosm a a lcBpoctiihlu man should. llo never Kavo a beggnr even a reiita-vlto, reiita-vlto, and whuu ho met a padreclto on tin Hired he did not dclmi to leniovo IiIh hat. Now It was rumored, nays Modem Mexico, thnt IIiIk Kentleiiiiiu was 10- Hponslhlp for ninny niurdefs and utro- i c'Ioiih rrlniPH of ever i!c3crliticui, hut he was never routined in Jail liccausu it wiih known that he hud a compact with tho devil, o that whenoor liu Invoked IiIh Majesty ho was rendered lnvlxlhli! to the human eye, or at least ko small that ho could eaally escape. lie was (dimmed li all, anil ho had neither frlemls nor relatives. Hut a peculiar IIiIiik about this man was that ho loved tho tiees, the birds nml all the anlmnl.s. lie planted a itri'iit nian tiees and red a Hock of birds cvnrj mornlUK. It was many jelirs iico that tho event of his departure took place, but Is still remembered by tho undent Inhabitants In-habitants of tliij ut-lKhlmrhooil. Kvery-body Kvery-body on the llaclondlta ranch had attended at-tended the millions services of tho iniirnlnK, and they were retnriiltis homo when a torrlllc nolso was heard. They rushed to the street when- It came from, and there they saw how tho enrth had opened up under the feet of that hoinbro inuy malo. lie was fuvelo oil by thick Haines and Hinoko nml imlckly disappeared beneath be-neath the Mirfncu of the earth. This was consldereil a Jugt piiiils:-nient piiiils:-nient In view of tho situation, and every one was exeeedluly pleased. Whllo the faithful had been attiuidiiiK tho sorvlces of the church the cursed ono had nothhiK olso to do but place a liurnlui; clKuruttu between the lips of un linaee on a big crucinx, carried by nn altar on the street. It whs then that tho convenient cavltv opened up and ho was engulfed by tho earth. That very day all tho trees which he had planted, ocopt Kl Avhnl Mat-dlto, Mat-dlto, dried up mid died and so did tho birds which ho had fed from ills own hand. An attempt was made to cut down tho tree that did not dry up, but tlio foolish man who made tho attempt dropped dead on stopping un-dor un-dor tho shadow oi tho foliage. As.no ono had the temerity to approach and remove It the man's body had to bo left thnro to bo eaton by the crows. Since that day tunny have met a traxlc death under tho tree. A pedes-train pedes-train who wont under It for shade on a summer day was hltten bj n snake nml died In tow hours Three men on different occasloni, soukIiI shelter from rain under Its branches and were struck by lUbtnliiK. A woman haiiKliiK some clothes to dry from tho truuk of the tre was attacked at-tacked by a coat that emue from nobody no-body knows whero and whr never soon BKiiln. Three years mko a little boy, rldtim a burro, led his nnlnml to tho tree. Ho was thrown off and kicked to death. Tho last victim of this fatal tree was a man by tho name of Melqulades Arovalo. who ran under It for shelter shel-ter durluR a rainstorm a year ago, nml, like his predecessors, ho whs struck by lightning. Tho antipathy that the peons have for this treo Is such that they refuse lo work In tho fields for hulf a mile around It. Somo tlmo iiko I'rosporo darcla, proprietor of tho ranch whero Kl Arbol Mnldlto prows, lesolved to have It blown up with d)numlto, but no doubt ho has boon uiiablo to And n ban brave euouith to vouturo near a troo which nhows such sniitonis of a haunted life. |