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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 have. —New York Weekly. 7 "SO - L-oTe-LVI ] T A LIT Tee note \ l U'U PLM nothing- 1 FROM mY FRIEND J \ OUT A U.r>DINC- V l £ei-AsCfc> / # J\V PART R6.RCQFT&EcJ (IgN TV (VJHO of* v 1—Z —. ■ - _— —— < /<_ . _ --- _ \ (I WAUS OFFERED "BltV \ , I Then I SftYs To \ honey in Thc. “movtts ) i FROHMan - ) 1 "BuT op course x J ( WELL MY MAN " t-OOH. \ /" ~~ ~ \ rob. <*y NAMt »n execTßtc. ; I)Ttn / oacrias-e \ V U<*HT S OH BROADWAY ,> f \ AWAITS WITHOUT,- / / vr ~Trr r ~ ' I 1 M*. V 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.