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ESflCANS THtE OF^ FIGHTING lytean Newspaper Man Picks yp interesting Information in Mexico. _ '"i .'???.? i ? ? 1 i** LkGE TOWARD AMERICANS B ft Flrtt American to ?^J(<g#volutlon ? Slashed Repub I He After Fall of Carranxn? I People Want Peace. I MAKO' ? M Sutherland Lpi to the Chlcagu Tribune from EJJarey, Me* , what he calls a dls Eoted tale of, a Journalistic pilgrim In Ct a data in Mexico. It treats of RTentry of the first American Into Ej resolution-slashed republic since K! roada were cut. ? With pa saport In hand, 1 approached Ltllooalian, the guardian. for Uncle Eitthe Laredo international bridge Cut la, the R16 Orande ? there's no Ejjge, Somebody burned the six-apan E*i structure ten days ago. They Ere built a pontoon nearly across the E^ard-wlde stream. Just now you're ?JJoied across in skiffs. | Mooahan looked at my passport and L, and told me to forget the Mexican Etui's viae, as there are as many ?ciciuls in Laredo as there *re factions hVexlco, and to proceed and to pray Kod to give mercy to my Immortal Col. I I stepped from civilisation to Ave (centuries ago, to old shacks, narrow, pithy, streets, to crawling, fly-dotted Ktfltra, to rqen In tatters, women in Etf* and children In lees than fig Karri There Is one tram of one* ?mule power, dozens of 111 smelling, hake-shift dirty saloons, and hanging like n pall over all the people and mslnessea, the "wish-to-flod this thing boold stop and we could get back to lirork" feeling. Every human express ?a more confidence in this regime than In any srlnce old Porflrlo Dlaac departed. Jind there is n new spirit toward ?Americans. Somebody ? and sone ven* |ture? to credit General Obregon with, [tbe Idea? passed the order everywhere ftto defer to things American and/ cut put the nonsense. Obregou visited Ksereral American camps during the ?War and the Great Lakes to see the ?United States when we meant business land had stifled the pacifists. Every [body on both sides of the river told [menoonp could go South. So I jump led Into a coach and was driven to the Barracks where Col. J. F. Borqnes ?commands the border, between- Eagle ?Pats and Brownsville and south to uonlere.v. T told him who I was land wlmt I wanted. After officially ?Informing me of Monterey's fall, he ?promised to comply with nil my fe pietti. ? Obtains Safe Conduct. Telling lue to return at 10 a. m. Fri Ljr, lie dictated a safe conduct pass. Is the most complete document I saw and has worked wonders only hope I don't present it to the rsiiig faction and get shot during confusion. " . , Borquez. voicing what nil the other Brebel generals have, told tne since, said |a?lemi)l; and earnestly : "We're tired of fighting. Ten y<?ars E strife have sapped us uuttl the last exicaft virtues ? patience and for tranoe? have been exhausted. Car nta would have had us In trouble ?ltb America, and we can't stand for Jtiit. We want peace and a chance 0 work. That Is all. To get It we iU8t be at peace at home and abroad. JjThe rebel chieftains all rally to us be use Carranza meant trouble, and our bbn means the simplest program of all f-peace and work. What Carranza Stood For. "Carranna represented pro-this and pr*that, political autocracy, pergonal frigidity, private revenge and pure ?graft. You will notice the revolution most of the republic without ^ l^mdrcd shots being fired. That show# ?t once that. Carranca wai not w&at I they wanted and what our plan Is. I Please be good enough to send only *>e message to your people ? -have a Uttla patience and we will make the 1 was at the station at ten Friday. | Ttore was a water tank car, a flat ?fr ?ad a cshoose made of a converted tox car. llorquerB and the director Weral of railways in the North? J. D. tongues? were deaf to all aufrgea '?M to buy a ticket. i Bit dirt we start at ton? We did We left at three in the afternoon, had just one engine at Nenvo *4redo, the most important northern of Mexico, and that one engine tot work. They filled It With and oil and surrounded it with profanity and finally with twenty san Wed native workers secured by a r*|and an Improvised draft act v4 "?Ped awny. ] use the word lirtlp?l . M'lsedly. There Is not a wheel In j J*11*? Mexico that has not bean dl? *l>idate<l by Old Father Time and Kid Solution. ftvrntf BridQe Map# Him. After ten miles of horrible jolting fearful I. ^nt we atopped, Abridge burned. Incidentally the Oh r*oni*ta? who burned ten between Rl"i Monterey were trying ta nrtl ^RrrR"zlsta reinforcements to J**?* lis and did not want to de ?"?7 mori. than necessary. Thla waa hv the fn'ct that they wreck culverts and not large 7*1* ' volntionlsts think they !? in Belgian) Wa alight 'futeM ?.f taring la and rewor lnj; the ? harn t) tle& unci twUu>| rails ;md building u new culv< rt 'he OUtfll K;?| ?|(?WU JO t Jltllk . They l4|,L?,t ?n(i T|,e> ,av rtr? uh 0 ( ) hip and suw>kixl com 9)iu?*k CigurettCM, "K'u and luy -on tlif orhiT ht|K thinking rapidly nil [[w wWUs | took u picture tuou, mentioning thai I thought they might lU> something. 'V f,,ouK'?t that .? snappy Idea and immediately flxed the bridge and went on| only loHiug ho hour. Another Bridge Burned. . KlfU'en miles further we atoimed OKttlu. This time It wan a burned bridge, and ? temporary track way la d beside It over the shallow creek hcd. ?f thw ul*ht ,H,fo,v ! softened the creek bottom, so thai the track sagged like Palmers May da\ K?d aprltriog. The )W?- K01 PIVEK, and shovels <?nd ran some hh ! timbers lengthwiae under the ties, I I took ft plc'ture, mucked a cigarette, and thought: "What a long way to Ueglcc t'ity and real news." They gave |h< slfual l to start- the Mexicans k?? 'a*01"110 president, favorlt? ull fighter, patron saints, and favorlt* brand of beer. I ?(<M?,| a hundred feci to one side, watching the train through the camera and waiting for it to turn over it did not, and my watchful walling produced nothing. Finally we advanced. That Is,' we advanced 13 miles to a place where they had removed, rails and by burn lug had twisted them. We laid new ones on pew ties and proceeded. When we reached Rodriguez 36 miles from Laredo, It was seven o'clock. There w? found an engine which had been derailed apd overturned the day be fore. It had righted Itself, and It hooked onto our train and took it back north, ?vr engine tnd tank car con tinuing south. I climbed on the narrow platform In the rear of the tank car and we went I on. We reached Lampaaos at nine. l| was immediately surrounded by arm ed rebels in a bewildering variety of ralme.pt and escorted before (Jen. Juan M. Garcia, governor-elect of Neuvo Leon and commandant ofhtlie army of the N'orth. ?>Vl letter frfcm Borquex produced tho itropcr effect and I was told I might go south on the military train at dawn. > There were no hotels nor restau rants, and I was famished. The tow^ Is flve> miles from the station; 1 saw a lighted doorway several hundred yards away. I went over, found some | women, and asked for food and shel ter. "It's American ? and Young." The women held a lantern up to my face and, exclaiming In Spanish, "It's an American, and young," they said they woi^ld do their best. ? By' the light of a smoky lantern they prepared and gave me the starboard] thigh of a young goat boiled In grease,1 d onion*. and cldll hotter than the hinges of the Inferno. I gobbled it down with the appetite of a starved coyote and ate several flftt cakes of corn pone and drank a glass of goat's milk. Meanwhile a wrinkled, withered old relic of nine matrimonial engagement* ? amf willing to go further ? had pre pared the war correspondent's conch. This consisted of one blanket spread on ? narrow rfdewalk outside the house. I looked It over and scratched my head, in which the "young visitors" already had found breeding place. I His Bad Chamber Furnished. I asked for a pillow ana they gave me a small sack of corn in a pillow slip. ' I asked for a sheet and they gave me a tablecloth. I gave up ? took off the Bill Hart puttees and shoes and lay down. * * ? ? * V ' Just as I was about to doze off I was startled by a wild fusillade at the station. The women screamed, and moaned. I rolled into a near-by gut ter. It turned out to be Only rebels at their third bottle of mezcal. I dozed off, only to be reawakened by a "cabal llto de gas" ? a little horse of gasoline ?as the Mexicans call a railroad ve locipede. "JCt consul Americano!" screamert several rebels. T dressed and rushed over to meet Randolph Robertson, the liveliest wire in the American cons^ar service in Mexico. He baa taken dozens of Amer icans and Britlah Out since the last trouble began. He has smoothed over a doxen "causes of war" in the last two yeara. His station .at Neuvo Laredo has more f Heads than any in Martcp. ^ \ ; Ha waa bringing in two Americana. They ate fried goat and went on north, and I returned to bed and to sleep at twelve, with the stars close down' over1 my bed. ?raakfaat la Served. One of the native woipen wakened me at five wRh a cupful of coffee placed on the sldewatk by my pillow. T turned to get a cigarette and turned back to find the family parrot parched on the rim of the oup drinking my cof fee and swearing at my fluently in Lampasos Spanish. . At noon the military train with Gen eral Garcia started for Monterey. He kindly consented .to let roe ride. I crawled In the cabooafe an ? went 'to Vlllaldama, where the drat passenger from the North In t?m daya overtook ua and we awlt?hed, arriving here at ftve with Robertson, Who is on /bis flfUi trip guarding American lnteresta And who !a taking this message North. On both sides of the road fof a hun dred miles to here are evidences of ten years' revolutions' destructions. Houses have been burned, fields are fn weeds, there are no cattle, no land ta cultivated, people are apathetic, dumb daxed, and hopeless. B?t all bare hope In tbla new crowd, aajk^L "it they cannot straighten II mtt who la leftT" The answer la, ?? body of Mexican blood. THE GO-BETWEEN Bjr ALVAH J, GARTH , (Copyright. |?3*. W?at?rn N?wap?p?r Union- 1 j "You art* surely uiy friend, Tresh j am."> projected Yffllie Burton. "No! mo much as 1 was." seriously j replied liugh Tresham. ' "I don't like : tlur bright. tlippant way in which yotl' j treat what you call your 'tiff with a I youitK lady for whom 1 liave the high est admiration ami respect." "Surely you areu't hit yourself lu that direction!" raited Burton deri sively. "We won't discuss that," replied Tresham with dignity. "You aud t have kuowu out* another for a good many yearn aud I am * passably loyal fellow, hut the autocratic and indiffer ent way iu which you treat the wound ing of a trustful. sensitive heart hurta tue." "Oh ! fix It up for me. ambassador royal!" spoke Burton airily. "Of course. I broke til engagement to take Vera to an entertainment and did some flirting with others under the provoking hufliuess of the little scold er, but that Is uo reason why she won't make a move towards a reconciliation. Honest, I'm sorry, and I think a lot of her. Tell her so, smooth it over. She's got a cool $50,000 In her own right, Is pretty as a picture and I'll marry her tomorrow If she's agree* ble." Hugh Tresham was something more than annoyed. He did not at all like the mission upon which he was being sent. ? "You are straining my sense of pro. priety and Justice, Burton," he ob served. "You a np asking an extraor dinary duty of me, but I will hope that If I break the Ice and open the way for you to effect ft reconciliation, you will prize the treasure among womankind as she deserves to be." "Yes. I'll turn over a new leaf,' de clared Burton. "Of course, I'm not going to report JUL Uciv lu tears or any of that rot, but If Vera will let by gones be bygones with nothing more said. I .am* wllllpg to be reasonably meek and humble. ' There was the trace of sneering ao dacltv and egotism In tones of the un worthy lover and Tresham went his way with compressed Hps and ? pained and thoughtful- face. Burton, the son of one of the most Influential residents of Bnyville, had been known to Tresham, just establishing a op erate law practice, for a long rime. The latter owed many favors to I. ni ton and until the past year bad bold him I" regard, lie had been pained and disappointed at a giv'it change in bin), however, but was ?<>o lovAl to tell other* HO. It was a hard task he had assumed. There was a basis to the Insinuation on the part of Burton that Tresham thought more than ordinary of the belle of Rayvllle society. ? V torn the first time that Tresham met \ era Drlscoll he had realized that be had come across the only woman he could ever love. , : Tresham reached the Driscoll home to find Vera seated In a garden ham mock. She greeted him graciously, but her brow furrowed,' those chaimlng lips lost their smile aAd there was i J0 j encouragement in h?r eyes as _ ? am clearly and at once dlvidged the motive of his call. He ^ ha promised Burton to say. The da expressive eyes flashed with something like scorn. , V- , .. "Do vou not think that the P?u^e?* | tlal appeal of Mr. Burton should have 'come C> his own lip. dlrbetr .he "Sr\aTe fulfilled a mission to ? friend," responds Tresham simply. ??May I hoar ? B "I will think over what Mr. Burton has said," was^Vera's reply. Then the fair face cleared and sb* became the entertaining hostess com pete with a man she respected alld esteemed. Tresham sighed he left her presence. Its chara en hanced In his estimation the gulf of , wealth between them, while emphasis Ing his convictions of the ness of Willis Burton more decisively rrrwont by. B"rton.f"r?f1JS2 then sulked when he found that Ml* Drl.coll was ?ot at all "fV.40 him back lato her good *??<*? 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