Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-26

must be either Valentine Blood or Ba
sill Underwood; none of your Smith!
or Joneses or Perkinses. Conceive o
a romantic hero named Horace Per
| kins!
Now, in many ways Tracy Richard
son comes up to scratch very we'll. Hi:
| name is not half so bad to begin with
1t has a good swing to it, and look!
we'll when prefiXed by title. Also, III
is slender, good looking and genuine
American. But Tracy Richardson him
self is responsible or the ideal-shat'
tering assertion that being a soldier o
fortune is not all that it is Richard
Harding Davised to be.
met him here in Vera Cruz the
other day, a courteous, educated, mild
hammered individual, with calm, blue
eyes and a slight mustache and a hab'
it of talking earnestly about his moth
er and sister, back in Lamar, Mo. He
had arrived not long before from Mex.
leo City after a lot of campaigning
with Orozoco.
I've been written up about a dozen
times by newspaper men," he said
edging away, "and every time they
ask how many times I have been shot
and then send the papers to my home
town and scare my folks. I'm becom-
ing 'leary.'"
q
have you been shot?"
About six," he grinned None OF
'em ever amounted to anything, and
wish you'd make that clear-because
of Lamar, Mo-, you know"
How did you get into the game?'
"Oh, l liked adventure. l couldn't
reconcile myself to the idea Of becom-
ing a lawyer or a doctor or clergy
man or Of selling ribbon behind
counter. l happened to hear Of the
prospect of trouble down in Honduras
The thing was fizzle and 1 was pret-
ty disgusted and started home. l hap
pened into Nicaragua and had my
things in the custom house all ready
to sail Then somebody stole the stuff
from the custom house and that was
the last I saw of my clothes and be-
longings. That's how I got into it
somebody stole my clothes.
However, there was a revolution ir
prospect in Nicaragua and l Joined the
rebels. I've been at it ever since. That
was in 1910. l saw thirteen months OF
scrapping in Nicaragua and managed
to stop bullet twice.
Then another row started in Hon
duras and my outfit having won in Nj
Caragua, | slid over into Honduras
and joined the rebels there. / was a
colonel. Served under Bonilla, the
rebel leader, and when we won he be-
came president. l suppose I could
have had job as long as his lasted
but the fever had got into my blood
then and l couldn't stop.
Il heard that there was trouble
brewing in Venezuela and that the
place for me to connect with it was in
New Orleans. l went to New Orleans
and entered myself for the Venezuelan
Derby, but the truth is | never left
New Orleans in that affair, although
drew full pay from the prospective
revOlutionists all the time the thing
was in the wind.
After that | came to Mexico. I was
with OroZoco in the campaign against
| MaderO and later l fought with HUI
erta's crowd against the Carranza
people-although not under Huerta
himself My job was shooting the big
guns. l was called colonel.
Next you find me here. waiting a
chance to fight with my own country
men for the first time. If the army
advances l hope to go ahead scouting
because | am pretty familiar with the
country. Vera Cruz Cor. Chicago
News.