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Clyde Howard visited with his
brother at Alexandria. La. last
Sunday. _
Rev. J. R. Rushing visited the
first of the week with his brother
at El Dorado.
Miss Flora Cargill is visiting with
relatives at Wiimer, Texas. She
expects to spend a month there.
Mrs. J. W. Griffin left Sundav
morning for San Antonio. Texas, to
spend the summer with her parents.
W. M. Poole has returned tc
Huttig and accepted a position
with T. F. Ashcroft at his livery
stable. _
Mrs. Geo. Waller, who is now
living at Heffington, was here thh
week visiting with ner husband anc
friends.
M s. T. F. Ashcroft returned
Sunday from a visit at Calhoun.
La., accompanied by her brothei.
J. H. Woodall.
Geo S. Prastridge, vice-presi
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A. G. Coutant, one of the Frost
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Dr. R. A. Hilton, of El Dorado,
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The Huttig basebafi team de
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place last Wednesday afternoon by
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Mrs. J. D Loyd left Wednesdav
morning for Shreveport. La., to
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that city.
J. H McGough, fora number of
years employed at Camp No. 1
but who is now working at Mans
field. La , was here the first of the
week visiting friends.
Floyd Wells, an old time Hultig
boy, was here Saturday and Sun
day the guest of friends. He hai
been attending school at Meridian
Miss., and was enroute to Kirk
land to yisit his father.
A number of the members of
Rowland Lodge No 594 P & A
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He was a member of the fraternity
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rites over h;s body.
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Howard Finley is here from
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Mrs. E. N. Gollett returned
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Mr. and Mrs. N E. Mulkey ar
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following story. After a caller had
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turned to one of his associates and
said:
“I worked with that man in a cross
roads store in New York state. A cus
tomer came 1n, I reme'inber, and want
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to confess that I don’t know now; but
1 bud the answer for that customer
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HUTTIG - ARKANSAS
The Land of Broken Promises
A Stirring Story of the
Mexican Revolution
=By DANE COOLIDGE=
Author of
“TIIF FIGHTING FOOL,? “HIDDEN WATERS,"
“THE TEXICAN,” Etc.
Illustrations by DON J. LAVIN
‘onvrieht. 1914. bv Frank A. Munsev '
A Btory of border Mexico, vivid.
Intense, such as has never before
been written, is this one of Ameri
can adventurers into the land of
manana. Texan, mining engineer,
Spanish senor and sencrita, peon,
Indian, crowd its chapters with
clear-cut word pictures of busi
ness, adventure and love, against
a somber background of wretched
armies marching and counter
marching across a land racked by
revolution and without a savior.
CHAPTER IV.
From the times of David and Jona
than down to the present day the
world has been full of young men
sworn to friendship and seeking ad
venture in pairs. "Pardners," they call
them in the west, and though the word
has not crept into the dictionary yet,
it is as different from "partner" as a
friend is from a business associate.
They travel together, these pardners
of the West, and whether they be cow
boys cr "Cousin Jacks,” the boss who
firee one of them fires both of them,
and they go share and share in every
thing.
Bud Hooker and Thilip De Lancey
had met by chani e in El Paso when
the revolution was just beginning to
boil a^d the city was swarming with
adventurers. The agents of the rebels
were everywhere, urging Americans to
join their cause. Military preferment,
cash payments, and grants of land
were the baits they used, but liooker
stood out from the first and took De
Lancey with him. A Mexican promise
did not pees current where he was
born and they went to the mines in
stead.
Then the war broke out and, while
fugitives streamed out of stricken
Chihuahua, they finally struck out
against the tide, fighting their way to
a certain mine far back in the Sierra
Madres, where they could dig the gold
on shares.
Behind them the battle waged;
Casas GrandeB was taken and retaken;
Juarez, Agua Negra and Chihuahua
fell; Don Porfirio, the Old Man of Mex
ico, went out and Madero took his
place; and still they worked for their
stake.
Then new arms and ammunition
flowed in from across the border;
Orozco atuJ'"hie rebel chiefs went out,
and the breath of war fanned higher
against the hills. At last the first
broken band of rebels came straggling
j by, and, reading hate and envy
in their lawless eyes, the Americans
| dug up their gold at sundown and rode
all the night for their lives.
And now, welded together by all that
toll and danger, they were pardners,
cherishing no delusions as to each
other's strength or weaknesses, but
joined together for better or worse.
It was the last thing that either of
j them expected, but three days after
I they fled out of Mexico, and with all
I their money unspent, the hand of fate
! seized upon them and sent them back
I to another adventure.
It was early morning again, with
i crowds along the street, and as they
Marie Maps and Answered Questions
Until Every Detail Was Settled.
ambled slowly along toward the line
the men on the corners stared at them.
The bunch of cowboys gazed at Pud.
who sported a new pair of lurh heeled
boots, and knew him by (he way ho
rode; and the. mining men looked
searehingly at I)e I.ancev, as if to
glioes the secret of his quest.
A squad of mounted troopers, riding
out on border patrol, gazed after them
! qiiesMonfngly, hilt Pnd and Phil rode
on soberly, leading their park, and
headed for Agua Negru across the line.
It was a grim pla< e to look, at, this
border town of Agua Negra, for the
war had swept tt twice. A broad waste
of le^vel land lay between It and the
prosperous American city, ana acrosa
this swath, where the Mausers and
machine suns had twice mowed, lay
the huddle of low houses which
marked the domain of Mexico.
Pussy little customs officials, lurk
ing like spiders in thi .r cooped-up
guardhouses, rushed out as they
crossed the deep trench and demanded
their permit to boar arms. The mo
ment they crossed the line the air
seemed to be pervaded with Latin ex
citability and Indian jealousy, but De
Lancey replied in florid Spanish and
before hie oolite assurances and ful
some compliments it was dissipated in
a moment.
"Good! Pass cn. amigos,” cried the
beady-eyed little jefe, pasting a label
on their pack. "Adios, senor,” he
added, returning Phil's salute with a
military flourish, and with a scornful
glance at Pud he observed that the
gentleman was muy caballero.
'‘Huh!” remarked Bud, as they rode
on through the town, "we’re in Mexico
all right, all right. Talk with both
hands and get busy with your eye
brows—and holy Joe, look at them
pelones!”
The pelones referred to were a
squad of Mexican federal soldiers, so
called from their heads being shaved,
and they were marching doggedly to
and fro through the thorny mesquit.
bushes in response to shouted orders
from an officer. Being from Zacatecas,
where tlie breed is short, they stood
about.as high as their guns; and their
crumpled linen suits and flapping san
da!« detracted sadly from the soldierly
effect.
Big and hulking, and swelling with,
the pride of his kind, Hooker lookeil,
them over slowly, and spoke his hid
den thought.
"I wonder," he said, turning to Phil,
I “how many of them I could lick with
S one hand?”
“Well, they’re nothing but a lot of
petty convicts, anyway,” answered De
I ancey, ‘ but here's some boys ahead
that I'll bet could hold you, man for
man, husky as you are, old fellow.”
They were riding past a. store, now
I serving as an improvised barracks,
and romping about in the streets w^re
a pair of tall Yaqui Indians, each deco
rated with a cartridge-belt about his
hips in token of his military service.
Laughing and grabbing for holds, they
. frolicked like a couple of boys until
1 finally they closed in a grapple that re
vealed a sudden and pantherlike
strength.
And a group of others, sunning
themselves against the wall, looked up
at the Americans with eyes as fearless
as mountain eagles.
"Yes, that’s right," admitted Bud,
returning their friendly greeting, “hut
we'll never have no trouble with
them.”
“Well, these Nacionales are not so
bad.," defended Phil, as they passed
the state soldiers of Sonora on the
street, "but they’re just as friendly as
the Yaquis."
"Sure,” jeered Bud, “when they’re
sober! But you get a hunch of ’em
drunk and ask ’em what they think of
| the gringos! No, you got to show me
) —I’ve seen too much of ’em.”
“You haven’t seen as inu< h of ’em
as I have, yet,” retorted De Lancey'
quickly. “I’ve been all over the repub
lic. except right here in Sonora, and I
swear these Sonorans here look good
to me. There’s no use holding a
grouch against them. Bud — they
haven’t done us any dirt.”
“No. they never had no chance,”
grumbled Bud, gazing grimly to the
south. “But wait till the hot weather
comes and the revoltosos come out of
i their holes: trait till them Chihuahua
1 greasers thaw out up in the Sierras
and come down to get some fresh
mounts. Well, I'll tell ’em one thing."
he ended, reaching down to pat his
horse, "they’ll never get old Copper
! Bottom here—not unless they s’eal
him at night. It’s all right to he cheer
ful about this. Phil, and you keep right
on being glad, lint 1 got a low down
hunch that we’re going to get in bad.”
“Weil, I've got just as good a hunch,”
came hack l)e I.ancey, "that we’re go
ing to make a killing.”
"Yes, and speaking about killings,”
said Red, "you don’t want to overlook
that.."
He pointed at a group of disman
tled adobe buildings standing out on
the edge of the town and flanked by a
segment of whitewashed wall all spat
tered and breached with bullet-lioles.
“There’s where these prize Mexicans
of yourn pulled off the biggest Mlling
In Sonora. 1 was over here yesterday
with that old prospector and t»e told
me that that wall is the. hull-ring.
Aflor the first big fight they gchereil
up three hundred ami fifty men more
or less, and tlirowed ’em in a trenoh
along by the wall—then they M>wed it
over on 'em with a few sticks of dyna
mite and let ’em pass for burled. Nr
crosses or nothing. Kxcuse nm. if they
ever break loose like that- we might
get planted with the rest?"
"By Jove, old top." exclaimed V'o
Lareey, laughing toHsingly, "ypo've
certainly got the blues today. Hero,
take something out of this bottle and
see if it won’t help.”
«. lie brought out a quart bottle from
Mn saddlebags and Pud drank, and
shuddered at the bite of it.
“All right.’’ ho said, as he passed it 1
back, “and while we're talking, what’s
the matter with cutting it out on booze
for this trip?”
“\<'hat are you going to drink,
then?” cried Do 1 aueey in feigned
alarm, “water?”
"Well, something l ire that,” admit
ted Bud. "Come on—what do you
say? We might get lit up and tell
something.”
‘‘Now lookee here, Bud.” clamored
Phil, who had had a few drinks al
ready, “you don’t mean to insinuate,
do you? Next thing 1 know you'll be
asking me to cut it out on the hay—
might talk in my sleep, you know, and
give the whole snap away!”
“No. you're a good boy when you’re
asleep, Phil," responded Bud, "but
when you get about half shot it’s dif
ferent. Come on, now—I'll quit if you
will. Thai's fair, ain’t it?”
“What? No little toots around !
town? No serenading the senoritas and
;;iving the rurales the hotfoot? Well,
what's the use of living. Bud, if you
ean’t have a little fun? Drinking don't
t-iake any difference, as long as we
ot'eii together. What’s the use of !
swearing off—gob g on record in ad
vance? We may hid some fellow that j
we can’t work any other way—we may
have to go on a drunk with hint in or
der to get his goat! But will you
slick? That's the point!”
Bud glanced at him and grunt“d. and
for a long time lie rode on in silence.
Before them lav a rolling plain, dip
ping by broad gulches and dwindling
ridges to the lower levels of Old Me*- |
loo and on the skyline, thin and hlisa,
stood the knifelike edges of the For- j
tunas miles sway.
With desert-trained eyes he noted
the landmarks. San Juan mountain to
the right, (ltd Niggerhend to the left. j
and the feather-edge of mountains far !
below; ami as be looked he Htored it i
awr.v in his mind in case be should |
come back on the run some night.
Tt was not a foreboding, hut the J
training of his kind, to note the lay of
the ground, and he planned just where j
be would ride to keep under cover if
he ever ma^rie a dash for the line. But
ail the tinie his pardner was talking of
friendship and of the necessity of their
sticking together.
ill toll you, 1 ud, hp said at last,
his voice trembling with sentiment,
"whether we win or lose, I won't have
a single regret as long as I know we've
been true lo one another. You may
know' Texas and Arizona. Bud. but 1
know Old Mexico, the land of manana
and broken promises. I know the coun- I
try. Bud—and the climate—and tho
women! i
‘‘They play the devil with the best
of us, Bud, these dark eved senoritas!
That’s what makes all the trouble
down here between man and man, it's j
these women and their ways. They're 1
not satisfied to win a man’s heart— j
they want him to kill somebody to
bhowr that he really loves them. By )
Jove, they’re a fickle lot, and nothing :
pleases ’em more than setting man |
against man, one pardner against an
other.”
‘‘We never had any trouble yet," ob- ;
‘ rerved Bud sententiously.
“No, but we’re likely to,” protested
j De Lancey. “These Indian women up j
in the Sierras wouldn’t turn anybody's
’lead, but we’re going down intjo the ,
hot country now, where the girls are
retty, ta-ra, ta-ra, and we talk through
! the w indows at midnight.”
“Well, if you’ll cut out the booze." !
t.aid Hooker shortly, "you can have
’em all, for all of me.”
“Sure, that’s what you say, but wait
ti'I you see them! Oh, la, la. 1 he
kissed his fingers ecstatically—"I'll be
glad to see ’em myself! But listen.
Bud, here s the projiosition, let's take
an oath right now, while we’re start
ing out, ttiat whatever comes up we il
always be true to each other. If one
of us is wounded, the other stays with
him; if he's In prison, he gets him out;
if he’s killed, he avenges his
“Say,” broke In Bud. 'jostling h'm
rudely as he reached into the saddle*
hags, "let me carry that bottle for a
while.”
He took a big drink out of if lo pre
vent De l ancey from getting it all and
sieved it inside his overalls.
“All right, pardner,” lie continued,
wttb a mocking smile, “anything you
i ly. I never use oaths myself much,
1>U anything to oblige.”
* No, but I mean it. Bud!” cried Pe
l.^nc-ey. "Here’s (he proposition now.
Whatever happens, we stay with each
other till this deal is finished; on all
scratch cirses we match money to see
who’s it; and if we tangle over some
; girl the best man wins and the other
j one stays away. VVe leave it to tbs
girl which one wins. Will you shake
bands on that?”
"Don’t need to." responded Bud;
“1 11 do it anyway."
«”\Ve)l, shake on it, then!" insteled
J>« Lancey, holding out his hand.
‘S)Ii, Sally!” hurst out Bud, hanging
his. head in embarrassment, “what a
I ha* use of getting mushy?"
But a moment later he leaned over
In l is saddle and locked hands with a
1 vbJilike gripv __ .
t
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"My ci"d man told me not to make
o tiich promises,'’ he muttered, “but
il do it, beings it’s you.”
CXArTEn V.
The journey to Fcrtma is a scant
fifty miles by measure, but within
these eight kilometers there is a lapse
of centuries in standards. As Bud and
De Lancey rode out of battle-scarred
Agua Nogra they travel'd a good road,
well worn by the Mexican wood-wag
ons that hauled in mesquit from the
hills. Then, as they*left the town and
the wood roads scattered, the highway
changed by degrees to a broad trail,
dug deep by the feet of pack-animals
; nd marked but lightly w ith wheats. It
followed along the railroad, cutting
over hil's and down through gulches,
ai d by evening they were in the heart
of Old Mexico.
Here were men in sand Is and wom
en barefoot; chickens tied up by the
legs outside of brush jacales; long
nosed hogs, grunting fiercely as they
skirmished for food; and half naked
children, staring like startled rabbits
at the strangers.
The smell of garlic and freeh-roast
ing coffee was in the air as they drew
into town for the night, and their
room /'■'V an adobe chamber with tile
floor a'.d iron bars across the win
dows. Ridi’c fceuth the nexi day they
met vaqueros, mounted on wiry mus
tangs, who sainted them gravely. I; k
ing no shame for their primitive w ood
en saddle-trees and pommels as. broad
as soup plater
As they left the broad plain and
clambered lip over (he back of a moun
tain they passed Indian houses, brush
built and thatched with long, coarse
grasses, and by tbe fires (be women
ground corn on stone mutates as their
ancestors had done before the fail.
For in Mexico there are two peoples,
the Spaniards pr 1 the natives, end the
Indians still remember the rlur- when
they wefe free.
m whs mrougn Hiicii n i. iin mai inn
and Hooker rodf on their gallant
; ponies, leading a park-animal well
loaded with supplies from the north,
: and as the people gazed from their
miserable hovels and saw llieir out tit
I they wondered at their wealth.
I Hut if they were moved to envy, (tie
1 bulk of a heavy pistol, showing through
the swell of each coat, discouraged
j them from going further; and the cold,
searching look of the tall cowboy as
he ambled past stayed in their niem
ory long after the pleasant "Adios!"
of Pe Lancey had been forgotten.
Americans were scarce in (hose
' days, and what few came hv were rid
ing to the north. How bold, then must
this hig man, be who rode in front
arid certainly he had some great re
ward before him to risk such a horse
among the revoltosos! So reasoned
the simple-minded natives of the moun
tains, gazing in admiration at Copper
Bottom, and for that look in their eyes
Bud returned his forbidding stare.
There is something about a good
horse that fascinates the average Mex
ican—perhaps because they breed the
finest themselves and are in a position
to judge—but Hooker had developed a
romantic attachment for his trim littW
chestnut mount and lie resented their
wide-eyed gapings as a lover resents
glances at his lady. This, and a frontier
education, rendered him short spoken
and gruff with the paisanos and it was
left to the cavalier Pe Lancey to do
tlie courtesies of the road.
As the second day wore on they
dipped dusvn into a rocky canyon, with
huge cliffs of red and yellow sandstone
glowing in (lie slanting sun, and soon
they broke out into a narrow valtty,
well wooded with sycamores and mes
quite and giant hackberry trees.
The shrill toots of a dummy engine
came suddenly from down below and
a mantle of black smoke ro;e> majes
tically against the sky then, at a turn
of the trail, they topped the last hill
and Fortuna lay before them.
In that one moment they were set
back again fifty miles clear back
across the line—for Fortuna was
American, from the j>ow er house on
tlie creek bank to the mammoth con
centrator on tile hill.
All Hie building* were of stone,
square and uniform. First a central
plaza, flanked with ofin'-s and ware
houses; then behind them barracks
and lodging houses and trim cottages
In orderly rows; and over across Ui»
canyon loomed the huge bulk of the it,Ml
and the concentrator with its aci d
tramway and end'ewi row of ghdiug
buckets.
Only on Hie lower hills, where Uis»
rough country rock cropped up a; <1
nature was at Its worst, only there did
the real Mexico creep In and assert it
self in a crude huddle of liulf-Nidi:n
huts; the dwellings of the care-free na
tive.;,
CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE.
It Dees.
Once more, lest you forget; the
“city beautiful” movement offers a
broad field of public service to every
good citizen.—Jdirwiugbain Ledger