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TWELVE
The Land of Broken Promises
■ " = ==By DANE COOLIDGE-
A Stirring Story of the “THE FIGHTING POOL,” “HIDDEN WATERS,"
# “THE TEXICAN,” Etc.
Mexican Revolution illustrations by don j. lavin
A story of border Mexico, vivid,
Intenee, such as has never before
been written, is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Bpanish senor and senorita, peon,
Indian, crowd Its chapters with
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness, adventure and love, against
• somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
(Continued from Yesterday.)
~ "Aha!" exclaimed Bud with convic
tion; “they’ve started somethin*; down
below. This la that bunch of federal*
that we saw drilling up at Agua Ne
gra."
“Yep,” admitted De Lancey regret
l«ny; ”1 guess you're right for once—
the open season for rebels has begun.”
They drew out of tho road and let
them pass—a long, double line of
ahabby Infantrymen, still wearing their
last year’s straw hats and summer uni
forms and trudging along In flapping
sandal*.
In front were two men bearing lan
terns, to search out the way by night;
slatternly women, the Inevitable camp
followers, trotted along at tho sldca
with their bundles aud babies; and as
the little brown men from Zacatecas,
each burdened with his boavy gun and
a Job lot of belts and packs, shuffled
patiently past the Americans, they
flashed the white* of their eyes and
rumbled a chorus of "Adlos!”
“Adlot, Americanos!” they called,
gaslng enviously at their fine horses,
and Phil In his turn touched his hat
and wished them all Godspeed.
“Poor devils!” he murmured, as the
taat tottering eanip-followere, laden
with their burdens, brought up the
rea r and a whlte-sktnned Spanish offi
cer saluted from his horse; “what do
those little polones know about lib
erty and Justice, or the game that is
being played? Wearing the same uni
forms that they had when they fought
for Dias, and now they are lighting for
Modem. Next year they may be work
ing for Orosco or Ifuerta or Salasar.”
"Bure,” muttered Hud; "but that
ain’t the question. If thoy’s rebels In
the bills, where do we got oftr
CHAPTER XI.
Tl»a plain at Kortnna, ordinarily no
peaceful and sleepy, was alive with
hurrying men when Bud aud 11x11
reached town. Over at the elation a
Special engine was wheeling and blow*
lng after Its heavy run and, from the
Irwin of com man dee red ore care b»
tlind. a swarm of soldiers were leaping
to the ground. On the porch of the
betel Don Juan do Dio* Hrachainonte
was malting violent signals with hie
baatfa and as they rode up he hurried
out to meet them.
“My gracious, boys," he cried, “It’s a
»ood thing you came Into town! Ber
nardo Bravo has come over the moun
tains and he’s marching to take Moo
teaumal*
"Why, that doesn't make any differ
ence to nsl" answered Phil "Mode
soma Is eighty miles from here- -and
look at all the soldiers. How many
man has Bernardo got?"
"Well, that I do not know,” respond
ed Don Juan; “some any more and
some less, but ts yon boy* hadn't come
tn I would have sent a man to fetch
you. Just as soon aa a revolution be-
Cine the back country becomes unsafe
for Americana. Borne of these low
obaxmetura are likely to murder yon If
they think you have any money."
"WvH. we haven’t,* put In Bud; “but
veNs got a mine—and we're going to
hasp It, ton*
“Aw, Bernardo Bravo hasn't got any
aatmr scoffed Phti; *1 bet this Is a
false alarm. He got whipped out of
hie boots over tn Chihuahua last fall,
and bWS been ap In the Sierra Madras
ever since Probably come down to
•teal a little beef.
"Why. Don Juan, Bud and I lived
right naxt to a trail all last year and
ts we'd listened to one-tenth of the
Twvoltoeo stories we heard we wouldn’t
have taken out an ounce of gold. I'm
going to get my denouncement papers
tomorrow, and I'll bet you we work
that mine all summer and never know
the difference. These rebels won't
hurt you any. anyhow I “
"No! Only beg a Uttle grub!” added
Bud scornfully. “Come on. Phil; let's
go over and look at the soldiers—it's
that bunch of Yaqnls we saw up at
Agua Negra.”
They tied their horses to the rack
and, leaving the solicitous Don Juau to
spatter, hurried over to the yard. Prom
the heavy metal ore care, each a roll
ing fortress In Itself, the last of the
active Yaqut* were helping out thetr
women sod pet doga, while the reat,
talking and laughing tn high spirits,
war strung out along the track In a
perfunctory line
If the few officers in command had
ever attempted to teach them military
discipline, the result was not appar
ent ln tha line thej; forgjed, but any
man who looked at their swarthy
faces, the hawklike profiles, and deep
set, steady eyes, would know that they
were fighters.
After all, a straight line on parade
has very little to do with actual war*
fare and these men had proved their
worth under fire.
To be sure, It was the Are of Mexi
can guns, and perhaps that was why
the officers were so quiet and unassert
ive; for every one of these big, up
standing Indians had been captured tn
the Yaqul wars and deported to the
henequen fields of Yucatan to die In
| the miasma and heat
But they had come from a hardy
breed and the whirligig of fortune was
flying fast—Madero defeated Porflrio
Diaz; fresh revolutions broko out
agalnHt the victor and, looking about
In desperation sot- soldiers to fill blB
ranks, Madero fell upon the Yaquls.
Trained warriors for generations, of
a race so fierce that the ancient Az
tecs had been turned aside by them In
their empire-founding migration, they
wore the very men to whip back the
rebels. If he could but win them to his
side.
So Madero had approached Chief
Buie, whom Diaz had taken under a
flag of truce, and soon the agreement
was made. In return for faithful serv
ice, Mexico would give back to the
Indians the one thing they had been
fighting a hunrded and sixty years to
attain, their land along the Hio Yaqul;
and there they should be permitted to
live in peace as their ancestors had
done before them.
And so, with a thousand or more of
his men. the crafty old war chief had
taken service In the federal army,
though his mind, poisoned perhaps by
the treachery he had suffered, was not
entirely free from guile.
"It Is the desire of the Yaquie,” he
had said, when rebuked for serving
under the haled flag of Mexico, "to kill
Mexicans. And,” he added grimly, "the
federala at this time seem best able
to give us guns for that purpose.”
But It had been a year now since
llule had passed bis word and, though
they had battled valiantly, their land
had not been given back to them. The
wild Yaquls, the irreconcilable* who
never came down from the hills, had
gone on the warpath again, but Buie
and his men still served.
Only in two things did they disobey
their officer* —they would not stack
their arms, and they would not retreat
while there wore still more Mexicans
to bo killed. Otherwise they were
very good soldiers.
But now, after the long campaign In
Chihuahua and a winter of Idleness at
Agua Negra, they were marching
south toward tlielr native land and, In
spite of the stern glances of their lead
ers, they burst forth In weird Yaqul
songs which. If their word* had been
known, might easily have caused their
Mexican officers somo slight u nonet
ness.
It was. In fact, only a question of
days, months, or years until the entire
Yaqut contingent would desert, taking
their arms and ammunition with them.
"Oee, what a bunoh of men!" ex
claimed Bud, as he stood off aud ad
mired their stark forma.
“There's some genuine fighter* for
you.” he obeerved to Phil; and a giant
Yaqul, standing near, returned his
praise with a smile.
“W’y, hello there. Amigo I “ hailed
Bud, jerking his head In a friendly sa
lute. “That's a feller 1 was making
signs to up In Agua Negra.” he ex
plained. "Dogged If 1 ain’t stuck on
these Yaquls—they're all men. believe
me!"
"Oood workers, all right,” conceded
De Lancey, "but I'd hate to have 'em
get after me with those guns. They
say they’vi killed a lot of Americana,
one time and another.”
"Well, If they did It was for being
caught In bad company,” said Hooker.
"I'd take a chance with 'em any time
—but If you go Into their country
with a Mexican escort they’ll kill you
on general principles. Bay,” he cried
Impulsively, "I'm going over to talk
with Amigo I"
With a broad grin on his honest fao*
he advanced toward the giant Yaqul
and shook hands ceremoniously.
"Where you go?” he Inquired In
Spanish, at the same time rolling a
cigarette and asking by a sign for a
match.
"Moctexuma,” answered the Indian
gravely. Then, as liud offered him the
makings, he, too, rolled a cigarette
and they smoked tor a minute In
etlence.
"You live here?” Inquired the Yaqul
at laet.
*Vome here,” corrected Bud. "I
have mine—ten mlloe—over there."
He pointed with the flat of his hand.
Indian fushlon, and Amigo nodded un
der* tandingly.
He was a fine figure of a man. stand
ing six feet or better In hie well-cut
sandals and handling his heavy Mau
ser as a child would swing a stick.
Across his broad chest he wore a full
cartridge belt, and around his waist
he had two morn, filled to the last
hole with cartridges and loaded clips.
At his feet lay his blauket, bouud Into
a tight roll, and a canteen and ooffee
cug. completed his outfit, which, so far
•Copyright. 1914. bv Frank A. Munsey.)
as lmi>e(flmenta were concerned, was
simplicity Itself.
But Instead of the cheap linen uni
form of th<l federals he was dressed
In good American clothes—a striped
shirt, overalls, and a sombrero banded
with a bright ribbon —and In place of
the beaten, hunted look of those poor
conscripts he had the steady gaze of
a free man.
They stood and smoked for a few
moments, talking briefly, and then, as
the Yaquls closed up their ranks and
marched off to make camp for the
night. Bud presented his strange
friend with the sack of tobacco and
went back to Join his pardner.
That evening the plaza was filled
with the wildest rumors, and another
train nrrlved during the night, but
through it all Bud and Phil remained
unimpressed. In the morning the sol
diers went marching off down the trail,
leaving a great silence where all had
boen bugle-calls and excitement, and
then the first fugitive came In from
down below.
He was an old Mexican, with trem
bling beard and staring eyes, and he
told a tale of outrage that made their
blood run cold. The red flaggers had
come to his house at night; they had
killed his wife and bou, left him upon
the ground for dead, and curried off
his daughter, a prisoner.
But later, when the comlsarlo ques
tioned him sharply, it developed that
he lived not far away, had no daugh
ter to lose, and was, in fact, only a
crazed old man who told for truth that
which he feared would happen.
Notwithstanding the denouement,
his story stirred the Mexican popula
tion to the depths, and when Bud and
Phil tried to hire men to push the
work on the mine, they realized that
their troubdes had begun. Not only
was It Impossible to engage laborers
at any price, but on the following day
Cruz Mendez, with his wife and chil
dren and all hls earthly possessions
on hls burros, oame hurrying in from
the camp and told them he could serve
them no more.
"It Is my womanl” he explained;
“my Marla! Ah, if those revoltosos
should see Maria they would steal her
before my eyes!"
Bo he was given hie pay and the
fifty dollars he had earned and, after
“You Live Here?" Inquired the Yaqul.
the customary “Murtme gmetae," and
with the faithful Marla by hi* side, he
went hurrying off to the store.
And now In crowded vehicles, with
armed men riding In front and behind,
the refugee* from Moctexuma and the
hot oountry began to pour Into town,
adding by thetr very haate to the panic
of all who saw them.
They aero the rich property owner*
who, having been subjected to forced
contribution before, were now fleeing
at the flr*t rumor of danger, bringing
their families with them to escape any
being held for ransom.
In half a day the big hotel presided
over by Don Juan de Dio* ilracbo
monte was swarming with staring
eyed country mothers and sternly sub
dued families of children; and final
ly, to odd eclat to the occasion and
compensate for the general confusion,
Don Clpriano Aragon y Tree Palacios
came driving up to the door with bis
wife and the smiling Gracia.
If she had been In any fear of cap
ture by bold maraudeea, Clean la Ara
gon did not show tt now, os she sprang
lightly from the carriage and waited
upon her lady mother. Perhaps, after
a year or more of rumors and alarms,
ehe bed come to loch upon Impending
revolutionary conflicts os convenient
excuses for a trip to town, a long stop
at the hotel, and even a dash to gay
Gadsden In oa*e the rebels pressed
oloee*
However that may N\ while Don
Juan exerted himself to procure them
a good room she endured the gas* of
the American guest* with becoming
placidity and, as that took some time,
the even ventured to look the Ameri
cans over and make aome comment*
to her mothes.
And than—or so tt seemed tp Bud—
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
the mother glanced up quickly and
fixed her eyes upon him. After that
he was in less of a hurry to return to
the mine, and Phil said they would
stay inside for a week. But as for
Don Clpriano, when he came across
them In the crowded lobby he glared
past them with malignant insolence
and abruptly turned hls back.
At La Fortuna he was the lord and
master, with power to forbid them the
place; but now once more the fortunes
of war had turned against him, and he
was forced to tolerate their presence.
The band played in the plaza that
evening, it being Thursday of the
week, and as the cornet led with "La
Paloma,” and the bass viol and guitars
beat the measure, all feet seemed to
turn In that direction, and the fear of
the raiders was stilled.
Around and around the band stand
and In and out beneath the trees the
pleasure loving maidens from down
below walked decorously with their
mothers; and the little band of For
tuna Americans, to whom life for some
months had been a trifle burdensome,
awoke suddenly to the beauty of the
evening.
And among the rest of the maidens,
but far more ravishing and high-bred,
walked Gracia Aragon, at whom Bud
in particular stole many secret glances
from beneath the broad brim of hls
hat, hoping that by Borne luck the ln
surrectos would come upon the town,
and he could defend her—he alone.
For he felt that he could do It against
any hundred Mexicans that ever
breathed.
(To Be Cjutinued Tomorrow.)
SECRET OF POPULARITY.
Mistress—l don't want you to have
so much company. You have more
callers In a day than I have in a
week.
Domestic—Well, mum, perhaps if
you’d try to be a little more agree
able you'd have as many friends as I
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A Bunch of Games Won in Early Part of
the Season Seems to Handicap Team's
Chance For the Pennant.—Fact
New York. —A baseball game won in
April <tc May counts just as much as one
that's garnered in September or October,
hut a bunch of games won in the early
part of the season seem to handicap a
team’s chances for the pennant.
It has been the almost Invariable rule
in baseball that the teams th-Jt got a
big lead at the outset hit the chutes
later on and skidded off into some re
nt te position in the standing of the
clubs.
The Pirates and Tigers got away to a
fine start during the first month this
season and then they crumpled. The
pace-making had been too hard. Later
on they may do a come-back but the
law of baseball’s past seems to forbltd
It.
The Cincinnati Tledn "blew” them
selves to a n ee leafUn the first month
of 1911—and then nßy cracked. The
Brooklyn Dodgers ripped along at a mer
ry clip through the first four weeks in
1912, and just when the Brooklynites
were dreaming World Series dreams the
upset came, and the Dodgers finished in
second division.
Back in 1905 the Naps led by over 100
points until June time. And then the
reversal came and they ended the sea
son at the tail-end of the first division.
The Tigers lost only two of the f rst
2 played in 1911 and looked pow
erful enough to keep it up. Then the
boomerang connected on its homeward
journey and the Tigers were never again
in the fight. The Giants harpooned a
16-game lead in 19T2 and then the game
winning machinery went out of order.
The Cubs came thundering along and
carved down most of the lead and look
ed good to jump into first place when
they too began to skid. This gave the
Giants a chance to get their sea legs
again and they slipped under the Octo
ber wire ahead of the field. But even
withthat 10-game lead it was a close
squeak.
Is this earlp spurt
There’s much ado about the won pitch
ing device that was invented by a
Princeton personage. There’s nothing
new in that as we view the situation.
Haven’t we had “won men’’ pitchers for
the post 10 years? Nor can we see
anything new in the fact that this Prin
ceton “pitcher” has no head. There are
a lot of pitchers in the big league to
day who are similarly equipped—or,
rather, non-equipped.
The reason that there is less interest
in the Federal Leageu race than in the
American or National, according to some
folks, is this—
“ What are the Feds going to do with
the pennant when it’s won? ”
Which is a pretty good reason at that.
The interest in the American and Na
tional Leagues always is eeen because
of the World Series that follows the end
of the regular season. In the case of
the Feds they can't have a World Series
—not this year, at least.
One of the sport writers who is ex
tremely friendly toward Organized Base
ball and who has been predicting a hor
rible end for the Feds, is just now bor*
rowing more troub'e for the Gilmore
crowd. Quite recently he discovered
that if the Feds sign up Walter Johnson,
the “speed king," at sl-00,000 for a three
year per’od, “they wll be takeng des
perate chances.”
WHEN THE STAR COMES BACK
He figures that Johnson’s arm might
go on the fritz before those three years
are over and what good would he be?
It’s a cinch, however, that If there was
n’t a Federal League and if some or
ganized club owner bought Johnson, pay
ing even $150,000, for him this very
same writer would be loudest in his
praise of the magnet’s shrewd business
judgment and it’s also a cinch that he.
wouldn’t be so worried about Johnson’s
arm failing.
The Feds are said to be retaliating for
the action of Organized Basebal 1 in
sending nose counters into their parks.
Thep have hired nose counters of thetr
own and these mathematicians are en
gaged in adding up the total of persons
who enter the Organized parks and turn
ing their additions over to the Federal'
League officials for comparison with the
attendance figures given out by the Or
ganized People. Tt is said that the re
ports show big discrepancies in the at
tendance report of the nose counters and
those given out by the clubs as esti
mates. Rut w r ho cares?
Members of the Giants. Athletics and a
few other teams that still nourish pen
nant winnig hopes are wondering if the
general apathy toward baseball this year
on the part of the fans will extend to
the World Series. Tt would be a cruel
blow r for the World Series players if it
did for they usually count on about
*3.500 for their if they win and
$2,000 nr so. if they lose.
If the World Series attendance shows
a decrease to correspond with the gen
ereal decrease all over both circuits this
year the boys may have to struggle along
during the winter with just about half
of what they have been hoping to get.
German Emperor Opens
Extensive Sport Field
Berlin.—The growing interest In
athletic sports in Germany finds a
fresh illustration in the opening by
the Emperor on May 26th of an ex
tensive field for sports, to be used
soleiy by the 14,000 students of Ber
lin University, the Charlottenburg
Technical university, and the other
educational institutions of Berlin.
The Emperor and the Empress at
tended the dedication, and the Prus
sian Minister of Education and the
Public Worship delivered the princi
pal address. He described the rapid
growth of interest In athletics among
German students, which he attribut
ed to the impulse given by the Empe
ror himself. A great change, he said,
had come over the students; sports
and games, walking and rowing had
become universal. The grounds, he
added, had been given by the Prus
sian State, which also bore the ex
pense of clearing them and erecting
the necessary houses. The grounds
are in the Grunewald. the large for
est lying half an hour’s ride to the
west of Berlin.
FWDAT, mm T9L
Insult is Most Popular
Crime in the Fatherland
Bei " lin ’ Insult, or Beleidigung, as
it is termed in Germany, is easily the
P°P. ula . r crime in the Father
„This is strikingly shown bv
statistics of such cases for 1913 Just
Q l h he / 61 ° rt is that of the so
called Scheidsrichter, official peace
makers before whom such cases must
be brought In an effort to compromise
before recourse to the courts is had.
e r ®P. ort shows a total of more
than 224.000 cases for the year.
Thousands of these cases were un
doubtedly due to most trivial causes.
Newspaper reports of insult proceed
ln§? Bh ow cases like the following:
Man fined because, when a police
man in citizen’s clothing declared
himself to be an officer, the culprit
replied: "You look like it.”
woman, wife of a striker, impris
oned because, as a group of strike*
croakers was passing, she “spat con
temptuously.”
Striker, fined for saying “Pew,” as
strikebreakers were passing
Police lieutenant, fined for saying
a y° un K Man in the station house:
Keep still green youth.”
Socialist, fined for sending Social
ist campaign literature to a Prussian
policeman.
Landrat (a local officer of great
power in Prussia), fined for insulting
a young magistrate by declaring that
he would not give his testimonv “to
such a youth.”
Socialist editor, fined for insulting
the public authority by referring to a
many time convicted pander and pet
ty thief as “the common witness,” in
allusion to the fact that a brother edi
tor had been convicted in another
case upon this man's testimony.
. ONE CONSOLATION.
(Louisville Courier-Journal)
The rich young men are getting
tired of automobiles.”
“Yes, they seem to be.”
“They want airships now.”
“Well, thank goodness, when they
are seized with the speed mania up
in the boundless blue they won’t run
over anything more important than
a buzzard or a crow.”
SUCH IS LIFE.
When you have coin we’ll shake your
hand
In any sort of weather;
But when you’re broke, understand.
We’ll shake you altogether.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
*
DRUGpED.
Physician—this man’s condition is
not due to drink. He’s been drugged.
Policeman (turning pale and speak
ing timidly)—l’m afraid ye're right,
sir. I drugged him all the way—a
matter of a hundred yards or more.
—Pearson’s Weekly.
OVERWORKED.
Indignant Politician—Why didn’t vou
print all of my speech?
Country Editor—Well, to tell the truth,
bos*, we -ran clean out of capital I’s.