The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-06-11

ing had twisted them. We laid new
ones on new ties and proceeded When
we reached Rodriguez, So miles from
Laredo It was seven o'clock. There
we found an engine which had been
deralled and overturned the day be-
lores 1t had righted itself and If
| hooked onto our train and took ii back
| horth, 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. l
was Immediately surrounded by arm
eu rebels In bewildering variety of
ralihent ana escorted before Gen. Juan
w. Uarcla, governor-elect of Neuvo
Leon and commandant of the army of
the North.
NY letter from BOrquez produced the
proper effect and 1 was told I might
90 south on the military train at
dawn
Ihere were no hotels nor restau-
rants, and l was famished. The town
is nve miles from the station. I saw
lighted doorway several hundred
yards away. l went over. found some
women, and asked for food and shell
ter.
It's American-and YOUNG"
Inc women held lantern up to nv
race and. exclaiming in Spanish, cts
an American and young" they said
they would do their best.
BY the light of smoky lantern thew
prepared and gave me the starboard
thigh of young goat boiled in grease.
onions, and chilli hotter than the hinges
OF the inferno. / gobbled it down with
1he appetite of starved coyote and
ate several fiat cakes of corn none
ana drank a glass of goats milk.
Meanwhile wrinkled, withered old
relic of nine matrimonial engagements
and willing to go further-had pre-
pared the war correspondents couch.
| Ihls consisted of one blanket spread
on a narrow sidewalk outside the
! house. L looked 1t over and scratched
, my head, in which the young visitors"
already had found breeding place.
His Bed Chamber Furnished.
L asked for a pillow and they gave
me small sack Of corn in a pillow
| slip.
asked for a sheet and they gave
me a tablecloth. l gave up-took off
the Bill Hart puttees and shoes and
| lay down.
Just as l was about to doze off I
was startled by a wild fusillade at
the station. The women screamed and
! moaned. l rolled into a nearby GUT
| ter. 1t turned out to be only rebels
at their third bottle of mezcal. l dozed
| off,eonly TO be reawakened by "cabal-
Ito de gas"-a little horse of gasoline
AS the MeXicans call Il railroad We
| locipede.
Gel consul Americanow screamed
several rebels.
/ | dressed and rushed over to meet
Randolph Robertson the liveliest wire
in the American consular service in
| Mexico. He has taken dozens of Amer
leans and British out since the last
!
dozen causes of war" in the last
two years. His station at Neuvo
Laredo has more friends than any in
Mexico.
4 He was bringing in two Americans.
They ate fried goat and went on north:
4 and l returned to bed and to sleep at
( twelve, with the stars close down over
my bed.
Breakfast Is Served.
/ One of the native women Weakened
I me at five with a cupful of coffee
placed on the sidewalk by my pillow.
l turned to get cigarette and turned
! back to find the family parrot perched
on the rim of the cup drinking my cof-
| fee and swearing at me fluently in
Lampasos Spanish.
| At noon the military train with Cen
eral Garcia started for Monterey. He
kindly consented to let me ride.
| crawled in the cabooSe and went TO
Villaldama. where the first passenger
from the North in ten days overlook
| us and we switched, arriving here at
five with Robertson, who is on his
| fifth trip guarding American interests
and who is taking this message North.
On both sides of the road for a hun
dred miles to here are evidences of
! ten years revolutions distinctions.
Houses have been burned, fields are in
weeds, there are no CATTLE no land is
cultivated, people are apathetic, dumb,
daZed, and hopeless.
But all have hope In this new crowd.
saying, IF they cannot straighten it
out, who is left?" The answer is, no
body of Mexican blood.
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