The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-14

and white, is the Florence Nightingale of the insurrectos They hail her as Angela and are never as enthusiastic as at the mere sight of her. You see some dark saturnine Msurrecto as silent as an Indian under his big Chihuahua hat | Clad in toughest raiment. weather stained and weather-beaten draped with cartridge belts. hand gripping his Mau- ser as though 1t were his final hope, he seems the climax of the dangerous, in- | imical guerrilla. All at once his dark | face lights up, as with sudden splash of sunshine Angela is coming. | The American belief is that Madero's government will prove victorious. After | walking about among the insurrectos who 1 crowded the Juarez plaza and thronged | the Juarez streets. studying faces and | exchanging inquiries for answers, I ar rived at the same conviction. During my | two hours stay among them I got up | quite a feeling of respect for the insur- | rectos. No men would carry themselves better than do these victorious rebels. Everywhere is order sobrlety, and tho streets, while crowded from wall to wall, were as quiet as a church.
 | Women and children came and went among these rough-looking gentry-all armed to the teeth and in numbers Of thousands-safe from look or word or in suit There was a right purpose. too.
  felt like a patriot and conducted himself as one. There are no footing. no rob- berv no violence; every door is qua rd- ed and only the owner goes in and out. By Monday the military government of Juarez will be complete and 200 picked and sober insurrectos told of their per- manent police duty.
 | Where the insurrectos most shine Is Tn their hospital service. Nothing could have been worse than the hospital condi- tions of the federals. Apparently the sick and wounded among them receive little or no attention. As for burials, only to- day we'll was found choked up by dead bodies, where they had been tossed by federals too idle, too callous to dig a | grave.
 Rebels Are Very Human
 The insurrecto Is another man from the federal, and for all his lack of fine uniform and fine feathers, to say noth- ing of his cloudy and forbiddng look he is full of humanity. He not only doesn't rob- steal, idly murder, as did the federals but looks after a sick or n wounded enemy as faithfully as of his own
 | It is President Madero who teaches them this. He has heart and brains and strong sense of right As much as any, LOO, IS ne pdtTlot dtiN ioNos tHc Ieu, white and green-the Mexican colors. Moreover, he has an eye on the world at large and knows the value of the worlds opinion. He wants the moral support of mankind and he will have if. for his lib- erality, his tolerance his forbearance, his moderation The insurrecto cause has been strengthened threefold since the vic- tory of Juarez. not by the victory itself so much as the intelligent temperancs evidenced by Madero in dealing with the l fruits of victory. s,
 | Minister of Finance Madero. accom- panied by staff of assistants and ac- countants, took possession of the cus- toms house. I was permitted to be pres ent. There was nothing of pomp or cir cumstance. The doors were unlocked and from that moment the provisional govern ment was held to be in formal pisses- sion.
 l The collection of customs will begin Monday, and the insurrecto cause looks forward to a harvest. For example, Min ister of Finance Madero will charge $25o l for every steer that crosses the bridge
 There were hundreds of rifles and pis- tols captured from the federals by the insurrectos. Some one among the Diaz war department must have been pru- found grafter. The insurrecto arms of latest Mauser or Winchester, garlands of full cartridge belts, were and are much better armed than the federals. ] Most of all. they have cause and g