The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 11, 1916, Page 7, Image 7
VILLA IN HIS GLORY. i
i
Picture of the Bandit When Things t
Were His Way. I
% We were awakened in Torreon by t
shouts of "Viva Villa!" and the music i
of a military band blaring snatches '
-of syncopation a la Irving Berlin, in- t
terspersed with Spanish Fandango. i
The general's car was opposite ours s
on the next track. Charlie Chaplin
couldn't have drawn a bigger crowd, i
T on cr Urioo novolrv H'OTP nflfiSlTIP '
HUCC VI vu ? t*?i j ? V. w 0
our windows. The men were mount- 1
ed on horses that looked as if their ]
1 ancestors were veterans of the cross- 1
town car service. In their packs the
men carried everything from kindling j
? wood to babies. i
Pancho Villa received us amid the j
click of typewriters in his office, an (
observation car. He wore a gray (
sweater that looked as if it might be '
^ th? survivor of a hard football sea- <
ison. No tailor's iron had ever played
tag with the creases in his trous- t
fa \ *ers* , 1
He spoke no English. His eyes i
were the eyes of a splendid animal, t
the pupils dilating and contracting i
constantly as do the pupils in the $
eyes of a panther. When he was in- <
troduced he said nothing for at least j
!v, a minute. He looked through the
i back of your eyes, the leaping flames <
in hie own blazing black eyes seem- ]
ing to test the metal of your mind. i
He told us he never drank liquor? j
"j it was the sleeping sickness of a ?
man's soul. He wanted to liberate }
"the poor peon, he said, to drag him i
from between the millstones where \
he was being ground in abject slav- (
ory by the hands of wealth and pow- <
er. He had no education. He could j
* write his own name, but if you stop- j
2 ped him in the middle of it he had \
to begin all over again. Would we
like to see his bathroom? <
Now this bathroom was the par- ]
ticular pride and pet of the man who j
I I might have conquered Mexico. It (
II was one of the half dozen bathrooms ;
II in captivity in the entire country, if ]
I I observation and persistent search j
count for anything. We said we'd ]
have to be shown.
, So we were led through several i
cars comprising the general's suite, <
^ . to a box car in the rear of the train, j
One-half of this car was partitioned ]
off into a sort of ante-room to the
bath.
The piece de resistance of this ]
x lounge was a brass bed such as finds <
favor in the more ornate of the Har- i
lem flats. Over it was spread a ]
Tripe? of frineed yello.w and silver ]
' satin brocade, a peon in loveliness.
Scattered over the brocade were a
number of hand embroidered slumber
t > - pillows with edgings and insertions of
real lace. Nothing like the old banx
dit days in the mountains with a gun
^ * for a pillow, this. "For my siesta,"
. explained * Gen. Villa, indicating the
brocade.
'x It seems that right after the big
boss had his bath, which was in the
middle of the day, it was his wont to
\ stretch himself out for a snack of
sleep. It really is a most worthy custom,
the siesta, one we leave too long
fij&yr overlooked.
I ^ The other half of the car boasted a
white porcelain tub, a shower and
^ hot and cold water. Gen. Villa turned
on the faucets himself and made
us feel the water to prove he wasn't
Yc.'.r - * % .
romancing. Arross the end of the
car was a pianola. The pianola is not
considered a bathroom requisite, even
in f'
in the most modern metropolitan j
apartment, but the general had his <
own ideas about fixtures. j
* "I borrowed three of them," he ex- <
-* 1 uu ~ -3 V, ft
piamea, waving UIS iiauu luvvaiu LUC
mahogany masterpiece. "I kept the \
best one and gave the two others <
away."
t . Here allow me to explain the sig- <
nificance of the word "borrow" as 1
here used. When there is a battle in ]
Mexico the victors go into the town
and grab anything they want. Of ;
course the general gets the pick of .
the plunder, the men taking what is ]
? -left in order of their rank. This is <
called "borrowing." <
From Torreon to Monterey we s
traveled mostly on the floor of the <
cars to avoid collision with any Car- i
ranza bullets that might wander
Paredon three o,f the men of the par- ]
through the car windows. From s
ty went to Saltillo to a governor's i
. banquet. They spent an entire day, paging
neckties for themselves, final- <
ly ferreting out three of the ready
made kind that had been left over i
/
from a Christmas lot in Chicago. 1
<
The governor had borrowed a
swell palace for himself, but the ]
three found they -were all out of or- ]
der. They had the only neckties at i
the table. The governor had been ]
a fireman on the railroad a few ]
months before and did not go in for 1
the fine sartorial effects. It was cold '
and every one ate with his overcoat i
and hat on. The governor complain- 1
ed because the food was a little slow ]
in coming. He sent for the chef. For <
Violf or? Virvnf Vin onnHaroH at him
UJL1 1AWU1 HQ OpUVlV* VU UV *UUi.
"De gov'ner sez if youse'll keep on
L your shirts youse'll have a bear of a
r feed," explained the cheF at last. He
was a Brooklyn hick.
The women at the banquet all sat
<
L-,> ' f Jy '
ilong /one side of the room and
matched the men making merry at
;he table. When the orchestra
Mayed a dance the men chose their
partners, went to them, stuck out
;heir arms, paraded once around the
oom and danced around once more,
rhen they led the women back to
;heir chairs and checked them. The
vomen never said a word. I hope
some of the suffragists will see this.
Gen. Raoul Madero entertained us
it the governor's palace in Monterey,
rhey were selling water in the city
ly the carat. The day we left Gen.
Madero went to the front at 'the
lead of 10,000 Villa troops.
On the way back we went through
;he Villa outposts. The official Mrs.
Villa, called Luz. gave a luncheon
tor us at her house in Chihuahua
lity. It was a large, square, hign
jeilinged house with an inner court,
rhe general "borrowed" it from
some exiled enemy.
We strolled up the front walk be;ween
gun racks holding two dozen
rifles ready for action and manned
jy as many of the general's personil
bodyguard. The first thing that
greeted us inside the door was a life
size picture of the lord and master
)f the domicile. It was Mrs. Villa's
favorite picture of her war lord.
The official Mrs. Villa greeted us
rordially. She is a plain, mild manlered
woman with black hair and
Dlue eyes. A crowd of beggars
swarmed in front of the house. She
sent a soldier out to them to distribite
alms. A poor wretched, hobsling
{hulk of a man in a soldier's
iniform with a Villa button on his
joat she had escorted to the cool
shade of the veranda, where he could
rest while the servants brought him
food and drink. Her charities in
:he city were endless:
We waited in a pale mlue and gold
Irawing room that might have been
frnm o UVon/iVi nJiotaon ovrtant
li t^u ii viii a i- i ^iivii cnai/^?u, gAv^f/i
tor the artificial flowers scattered
everywhere. Outside the garden was
i wilderness of roses carpeted with
pure violets, but they were spurned
n favor of pink paper daisies and
pale blue orchids.
"I met my general when I was a
poung girl in the mountains," said
Dur hostess with a smile. "He is a
?reat warrior. He is the savior of
his country."
From a member of the household
we heard that the general had met
her in the little mountain village of
San Andreas when he was a bandit,
;hat he had taken her to a dance and
he afterward carried her away behind
him on his horse. Be that as it
may, she is one of the most ardent
md loyal supporters. She wore
black and many jewels of all colors
in heavy gold settings. These too
were undoubtedly "borrowed;" a
platinum and diamond wrist watch
jlasped around her wrist looked as
if it had just left Tiffany's. Somebody
had made an unwilling loan.
The conspicuous person at ^the
luncheon was little Elias, a tike of a
30v given to the general and his wife
ilong with an automobile, some
lorses, a lot of bric-a-brac and other
plunder. Elias was the czar of the
Villa household. He reached about
:o your knee and his eyes looked like
:wo black beads set in a fine case of
mmmer tan. He wore a uniform
:hat was an exact reproduction of
the Villa dress uniform and when
pou met him he clicked his tiny boots
together and saluted exactly like a
toy automaton soldier. At table he
ite interminable bananas, pounding
en the table in high rage when the
attendant was slow in executing his
orders.
At a table adjoining sat four of
the sixteen boys Gen. Villa was educating
in a military, school near Los
Amgeles. They were home for a vacation
and Mrs. Villa was mothering
them. They were devoted to her and
Elias, anticipating their every wish.
Later we went in a "borrowed"
automobile, a stunning big PierceArrow
of the latest design, to the
new villa the general was building
on the first piece of land he ever
owned in Mexico. It was in the outskirts
of one of the poorest sections
of Chihuahua, surrounded by the
adobe huts of peons. He called it
Villa Luz after his wife. It was
made up of fifty odd rooms, with
stables for his favorite horses, ga-j
rages, school rooms and secret stairways.
On the roof 500 soldiers
could be accommodated. ]
Nothing was left to the imagination
in the way of decoration. If
there was a pansy painted on the
wall it was the size of a dinner
plate. I have heard that the enemy
Has "borrowed" , vma l,uz ana is
using it to stable horses. Its chatelaine
and little Elias are exiles in
Havana, where the general sent them
with his brother for safe keeping.
Before she occupied Villa Luz, the
reverses of the bandit leader had
begun. Never have I received more
lavish hospitality than in the home
of Pancho Villa.
Leaving Chihuahua we passed a
trooo of machine gun men. The guns
were mounted on mules. Sammy almost
wept at si?ht of them and
would have deserted but we feared
the worst and locked him in a state
SLANG IN SHAKESPEARE.
Several Modern Phrases Had IMstinguished
Origin.
"Good night," a terse ejaculation
that has taken ranking position
among the slang of the day, had its
sources in no less authority than Will
Shakespeare. It took a Hamilton
college student to discover that the
magic words were frequently used in
Shakespeare's plays and with as
much variety of meaning as we have '
been giving to them.
"TV?ck {Hog that TJ-nnrlni j?ht' has
the mark of modernity," declares
this student, "is a sad mistake. In
act 1, scene 3, of the first part of
'King Henry IV.,' Worcester says he
will disclose a matter of Hotspur
which is as full of peril 'as to o'er
walk a current roaring loud on the '
unsteadfast footing of a spear.' To
which Hotspur replies: 'If he fall
in, good night!' "
Many other bits of modern vernacular
are from Shakespeare, the stu- <
dent says; among them "Go to it!"
i "You cheese!" "I am for you,"
"dead drunk," and plenty of others.
And regarding that very favorite
phrase, "Beat it,'* the student says
this: "Every one from an ex-president
to a newsboy has made use of
these two words. Yet in act 2, scene
1, of the 'Comedy of Errors,' 'Luciana
exclaims, 'Fie! Beat it hence!" 1
"After these quotations," he continues,
"we are sure that Shakespeare
was an old fogy or we are to
think by stumbling on the Shakeonao
roan ovftlomotinn <-Pnllv' t Vl Q f it
i gj^^ax ^aix v/aviuuuuwxvu. u.i*^ vm%*v ?v
was the immortal Teddy and not
Bacon who wrote the plays."?Hart[
ford Courant.
??
The Multiplying Medics.
One little doctor
t Looks you through and through,
Can't diagnose your case.
Then there are two.
Two little doctors,
Failing to agree,
Call a consultation.
Then there are three.
Three little doctors,
Poke you o'er and o'er,
Send for a specialist.
Then there are four.
Four little doctors,
Wonder you're alive,
Another brings a stomach pump.
Then there are five.
Five little doctors,
.. Trying fancy tricks,
Order in an alienist.
Then there are six.
Six little doctors,
Preparing you for Heaven,
In comes a D. D.
Thon thoro aro spvpti
Seven little doctors
Decide to operate,
Call in a surgeon.
Then there are eight.
Eight little doctors i
Think it's in your spine,
Ask for a neurologist.
Then there are nine.
/
Nine little doctors,
All of them are men,
Send for Mary Walker.
Then there are ten.
Ten little doctors,Standing
by your bed,
Come to a decision.
Find that you are dead.
?Kenneth MacGowan, in Collier's
Weekly.
A Baker's Horse.
Some time ago, when Sir Aan Hamilton
was reviewing a certain corps,
a laughable incident occurred. One
of the officers was mounted on a
horse that had previously belonged
to a baker. A wit in the crowd, who
was aware of this fact, shouted out
"Baker!" and immediately the horse
stopped dead and nothing the officer
could do would make it budge.
Things were beginning to look serious
when suddenly the rider was
struck with a brilliant idea.
"Not today, thank you!" he shouted,
and at once the noble animal
moved on, to the intense relief of
every one concerned.?Tit-Bits.
Not Bacon After All.
Chicago, May 2.?Judge Richard
S. Tuthill in the circuit court today
set aside his recent decision in the
Selig-Fabyan suit that Francis Bacon
wrote the works generally attributed
l ~ ~ _
tu onaKesjJtcu e.
room until we were out of the danger
zone. Without his Spanish we
might have been backed up against
some convenient adobe wall and shot
at sunrise. In fact if we called on
the bandit chief today the chances
would all be in favor of the adobe
wall. His is a case of a powerful
personality, a great dynamic force
gone wrong.?Jane Dixon, in New
York Sun.
FRANCIS F. CARROLL
Attorney-at-Law
Office Over Bamberg Banking Co.
GENERAL PRACTICE.
BAMBERG, S. C.
R. P. BELLINGER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office Over Bamberg Banking Co.
General Practice
I. F. Carter B. I). Carter
CARTER & CARTER
Attorneys-at-Law
GENERAL PRACTICE
RAMRERG. S. C.
\
E. H. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
RAMRERG, S. C.
General Practice. Loans Negotiated.
LIFE, FIRE, LIVESTOCK
HEALTH and ACCIDENT
INSURANCE
Agent for Superior Monument Co
Can Save you Money on Tombstones.
W.MAX WALKER
EHRHARDT. H. C.
J. A. Klein Mrs. A. Klein
Teachers of Pianoand Organ
Studio Over Herndon's Store
Duos and Quartets for Two Pianos
, and the Proper Training of
Beginners a Specialty
A. B. UTSEY I
LIFE INSURANCE
Old Line Companies
Represented
Bamberg, South Carolina
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
rhill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 certs.
C. W. RENTZ, JR.
Life, Health,
Accident and
Fire Insurance
1 "
Ail Reliable Companies
* --|
DR. J.' M. LOVE |
V VETERINARY SURGEON. V
Headquarters at Jones Bros'. Stables
BAMBERG, S. C.
O Will be at Dannelly's Stables,
2 Ehrhardt, every 2nd and 4th 2
jr Monday, and at Riser's Sta
bles, Olar, every 2nd and 4th
^ Thursday ^
Stock Treated for all m
A Diseases. A P
Prices Reasonable. A ^
A Ring Bones, Spavins, A I _
J Floating Teeth, Club X
V Feet, Weak Eyes and V H
^ Heavey Horses a Spec- A J
4. , | j
BHHHBBHWHBMHHa
RUB OUT PAIN
with good oil liniment. That's
the surest way to stop them.
^The best rubbing liniment is J
MUSTANG1
LINIMENT
1 Good for the Ailments of 1
Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc.
Good for your own A ches9
Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains,
Cuts, Burns, Etc*
25c. 50c. $!. At all Dealers.
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of E. W. GROVE. 25c.
es l a 0j.iv.ti c m i
% - a wnwu
Will cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia, Headaches, Cramps,
Colic, Sprains, Bruises, Cuts and
Burns, Old Sores, Stings of Insec s
Etc. Antiseptic Anodyne, used internally
and externally. Price 25c.
Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, ^
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out ^
Malaria,enriches the blood.and builds up the system.
A true tonic. For adults and children. 50c. B
I a . 4 .-1.
0 Heliabiliti
I^^VUR absolute faith in tl
I 1 well car is due to two
^ First, we have kno
I the Maxwell Company uses
in the entire car but the v
that money can buy. V
H known that the steel is sciei
I heat treated, that the car
under the supervision of al
neers, that every car is rigid!
I many times before it lea
factory.
Second, we have known
big and well established c
(behind the car is building
future, that they value a
owner above everything else
: Now that the Maxwell ha
1 World's Motor Non-Stop
I Record, by travelling cont
: for 44 days and nights?a
1 500 miles per day?you wil
stand the benefits you p<
may derive from the Maxwe!
Q Did you ever hear of any c
I I 22,000 miles without once !
the engine, without any re
readjustments, with only or
of gasoline to every 22 miles
There is no reason w
shouldn't have a reliable,
h able and economical Maxv
I The first cost is low, the o
cost is low and our pay-asplan
makes the purchase <
H everyone.
I Let us see you about tl
before our all-f . ic exha
" Touring Car, $bos. Roadste
| Prices F. O. B. Detr-**
O. D. RYA
| BAMBERG, S. C.
i distributors for
I JHoxh&C
Drive It Into th
AS we told you, a Low Clover
manure a double beating. 11
manure eight feet wide or bet
wonderful thing is that it does th
only 45 inches wide. The spr
so narrow that it can be driven into ai
and loaded from the gutters. Only
the manure for the quickest, best j<
you ever did. How does that sound
If you have even begun to think
spreader, see this Low Cloverleaf. "5
never saw a better manure spreader,
long to look it over. Your dealer ha
you to see.
International Harvester Company
(Incorporated)
Low Cloverleaf spreaders are soli
5MOAK &i
SO
>
\
EnawBrn
H \ l
' " '
tie Max- I
reasons: i
wn that . h
nothing 0
ery best I
Je have |
itifically t
is built | ,.%
jle engi- I
[y tested
ives the ; ^
!
"
1U1 u? It]
satisfied |
I
H
' 'A
Mileage |
inuously 1
veraging 0
1 under- ?
irsonally I
U policy. H
ar going a
stopping 3
:pairs or H
le gallon I
o W - ' ^
1
hy you | . 'I
service- i|
veil car. 0
perating Q
you-ride |
easy for I
J
lis now, j <
usted. I
1
r, $835 3 i|
1
I ' "
I
1 . .iM
1
m f i %
' I'
1
I . \m
I 11
I i d? 11T1
' <>
???????
. : .
* S. vlTOI
555Eo>
/' &
ife > /
y.\ >
fl t
m
Wi. - e
Barn
* - -v^.di
* ' cT'i
Ipaf m'vPQ thft
gl ? VW *?* v
: also spreads
:ter. But the
is from a box
eader itself is
tiy modern barn
one handling of
)b of spreadir.j
to you?
about buying a
{ou will say you
It won't take
s one set up for
I i j
of America
;
d by
\ /i nv n
[VIW I ??
UTH CAROLINA.
'. *) x ; * ' * , "I . V<
' ... w" .