Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-06-10

they nad removed rails and by burn
ing had twisted them. We laid new
ones on new ties and proceeded. WheI
we reached Rodriguez. So miles from
Laredo, it was seven o'clock. There
we found an engine which had beer
derailed and overturned the day be
fore. 1t had righted itself, and II
hooked onto our train and took it bach
north, our engine and tank car con
tinuing south.
climbed on the narrow platform in
the rear of the tank car and we went
on.
we reached Lampasos at nine.
was Immediately surrounded by arm
ed rebels in bewildering variety of
raiment and escorted before Gen. Juan
Nj. Garcia, gOvernor-elect of Neuvo
Leon and commandant of the army of
the North.
Ny letter from Borquez produced the
proper effect and l was told might
go south on the military train at
dawn.
There were no hotels nor restau-
rants, and / was famished The town
Is nve miles from the station. | saw
lighted doorway several hundred
yards away. l went over, found some
women, and asked for food and shell
ter.
"Its American-and Young"
The women held lantern up to my
face and, exclaiming in Spanish, "It's
an American, and young" they said
they would do their best.
BY the light of smoky lantern they
prepared and gave me the starboard
thigh of young goat boiled in grease,
onions, and chill hotter than the hinges
of the inferno. gobbled it down witt,
the appetite of starved coyote al
ate several fiat cakes of corn pE4Y
RQd drank glass of goats milk. 80
meanwhile a wrinkled, withered -
relic of nine matrimonial engageme8
and willing to go further-had pA
pared the war correspondents coucE
This consisted of one blanket spread
on narrow sidewalk Outside the
house. I looked it over and scratched
my head, in which the ''young visitors"
already had found breeding place.
His Bed Chamber Furnished.
asked for a pillow and they gave
me- small sack of corn in a pillow
slip.
l asked for a sheet and they gave
me a tablecloth. | gave up-tOok off
he Bill Hart puttees and shoes and
ay down.
Just as | was about to doze off l
was startled by a wild fusillade at
he station. The women screamed and |
noaned. I rolled into~a nearby gut
er. 1t turned out to be only rebels |
IL their third bottle of mezcal. I dOzed |
If, only to be reawakened by "cabal- |
ito de gas"-a little horse of gasoline |
las the MeXicans call railroad We
ocipede.
"El consul Americanow screamed |
everal rebels.
| dressed and rushed over to meet !
Robertson, the liveliest wire
n the American consular service in
Iexico. He has taken dozens of Amer
cans and British out since the last
rouble began. He has smoothed over
dozen causes of war" in the last
wo years. His station at Neuvo
.aredo has more friends than any in
fexico.
He was bringing in two Americans.
hey ate fried goat and went on north,
nd returned to bed and to sleep AT
velve, with the stars close down over
~ bed.
Breakfast Is Served.
One of the native women wakened
le at five with cupful of coffee
laced on the sidewalk by my pillow.
turned to get a cigarette and turned
ack to find the family parrot perched
4 the rim of the cup drinking my cof-
e and swearing at me fluently in
ampasos Spanish.
AT noon the military train with Gen
al Garcia started for Monterey. He
ndly consented to let me ride. l
'awled In the caboose and went to
lllaldama, where the first passenger
ON the North in ten days overlook
and we switched, arriving here at
,e with Robertson, who Is on his
tn trip guarding American interests
ID who Is taking this message North.
On both sides of the road for hun
ed miles to here are evidences of
n years revolutions distinctions.
ouses have been burned, fields are in
eeds, there are no cattle, no land is
ltlvated, people are apathetic, dumb,
zed, and hopeless.
But all have hope in this new crowd,
wing. "If they cannot straighten II
{, who is left?" The answer is, no