Cottage Grove leader., July 28, 1914, Image 4

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and hla men passed house a fter house
where the owners were bemoaning the
loss o f their valuables, and In some In
stances, where there had been resist
auce, there were smoking ruins. Now
and again they stopped for a few mo­
ments to make Inquiries.
W hat robbery might hare failed to
effect pulque achieved. On nearing a
hamlet the pursuers asked a man on
the road the whereabouts o f the ban
(llta and were told that tbey were
driuklng the national beverage In a
saloon not half a mile beyond, one o f
seven houses that made up the town.
Peualez. who was naturally cooler than
Rodrigues, asked bow many bandits
By JOHN Y. LARNED
there were and was told that there
were six.
Rodriguez gave this In­
Mnnuel Rodriguez, a hacendado o f forms tlon to hla friend, to whom he Tha Drag la Recommended For Roads
the province o f Nuevo de Leon, Mex­ looked for leadership.
That Have Been Partially Improved,
Up to this moment Rodriguez had
ico, one morning kissed bis w ife and
Jhat Hava Been Crowned or Drained,
been so Oiled with fury that he bud
children, mounted bis borse and was
but Have No Hard Surface.
considered uothlug but an uttack on
about to ride aw ay when bis w ife said the destroyers o f his house without
to him:
According to the United States de­
taking Into account their numbers or
" I am afraid to have you go. The surroundings. A complete change now partment o f agriculture the road drug,
reliela are advancing from the north, came over him. Turning a bend In the properly used, gives the needed crown
to the road, smoothes out ruts and
and I four you may encounter some of road, be saw ahead the pulque bouse
which he had been told contained hla other irregularities, spreads out pud­
them.
”
dles o f wuter aud thereby accelerates
Signor Rodriguez snt In his saddle, enemies. A desire seized him to make the drying o f the road und makes the
the
bouse
a
Ore
for
roasting
them
alive.
thinking nof o f the danger to himself,
surface more or less Impervious to
but tq his w ife and children. There To do this he must corral them, and to water by smearing over the so called
corral
them
needed
coolness
to
meet
were lawless persons In the rebel army,
pores In the earthy material.
The
some who had been brigands, and, as their efforts to escape. H e reined In cost depends, o f course, upon local con­
bis
horse
and
gave
his
orders.
for looting conquered territory, their
The point o f attack was about an ditions and the thoroughness with
oltlcers often permitted It. Me did not
eighth
o f a mile from any o f the other which the work Is done. It is safe to
wish to leave Ills family under such
houses
In the ham let Rodriguez di sny, however, that It is less expensive
circumstances, but It wus necessary
rected
1'eualez
to take half the men. than any other efficient system o f up­
that he should go.
keep.
“ Never fear fo r me. I am well arm­ break to the right through covering
In Its simplest form the rond drag
trees and, approaching the saloon, de­
ed and can tight Goodby, sweetheart
consists o f an ordinary log split In half
ploy
and
surround
It
on
the
west,
I ’ll surely be with you again before
while Rodriguez with the remaining
nightfall.”
force executed the same maneuver on
H e bent down nnd kissed her again,
then, urging his t> ■ -e forward, rode the east The bouse was on the road
at the lowest point between tw o gently
sloping declivities, with scattered trees
200 or 800 yurds from Its front and
rear.
When the tw o wings of Rodriguez’s
little army got Into their res|>ectlve po­
sitions, each forming n semicircle about
the pulque house, the bandits were still
drinking within. The tlrst knowledge
they had o f their danger was the col­
lapse o f one o f their number, who was
standing near a window raising a cup
o f pulque to his mouth. Ills fall was
accompanied almost simultaneously by
the crack o f a rifle. Every man started
to his feet.
The shot had been tired by Rodriguez,
and during the ensuing tight whenever
a bandit exposed himself to one o f the
attacking party the latter would call
Rodriguez’s attention to the fact nnd
Rodriguez would pick him off.
But
I’nlomo, telling his men to keep from
USING A ROAD DBAO.
cxitoslng themselves, through a crack
reconnoltercd the field and, though be and the tw o halves connected like the
could see no one, surmised that he was uprights of a ladder by menus o f cross
surrounded.
But o f the strength of sticks or rungs. The log should be
those attacking him he was Ignorant about soveu or eight Inches In diame­
for Rodriguez and his men were con­ ter und from six to eight feet In
cealed behind trees or In bushes.
length.
Rodrigues sent a man to one o f the
It Is better to hnve It o f well sea­
houses o f the hnmlet for kerosene and soned, hni-d, tough wood.
The two
as much cotton bedclothing and other semlcylindrlcal halves o f the log form
similar fabrics as he could collect. the runners o f the drag and nre usual­
While his enemies were w aiting for ly spaced from thirty to thirty-six
this man’s return Pnlemo ordered bis inches apart The front runner Is al­
men to shoot In different directions, ways placed with the split surface of
hoping to draw a Are which would en- the wood facing forward, but the rear
nble him to locate the positions o f Ills runner sometimes has Its rounded face
F U 1 K O STAOaMItKD, BUT K E PT ON.
enemies and to form some estimate of lu fro n t This Is done In order to In­
Rut Rodriguez gave crease the smearing action o f the drag
nway, turning, after having gone a their numbers.
short distance, to see hts w ife looking orders that not a shot was to be re­ as It passes over the surface o f the
at him with n wistfulness that haunt­ turned. Then Palemo sent four men road.
ed him during the whole o f bis ab- out by several different egresses, but
The tw o runners nre not placed di­
tbey had scarcely exposed themselves
senoe.
rectly behind each other, but nre “ off­
stopping now nnd again to make in­ when one fell dead nnd tw o were s e t ” ns It Is called, from about tw elve
quiries, he learned that a body o f reb­ wounded. The fourth man succeeded to sixteen luebes. This Is done be­
els under General Villa were marching In regaining cover.
cause tho drag Is drawn over the road
The messenger Who had been sent for at an angle sufficient to make the
toward Victoria.
They were to the
eastward o f him nnd If they kept to Inflammables returning. Rodriguez di­ runners free themselves o f the sur­
the railroad, which they probably vided the stock between bis own nnd face which they scrape. The amount
would, they would pasa within a few I'eualez's division o f hts force. Gath­ o f this angle or skew depends, o f
mllaa o f bis hacienda, n e hurried on ering oranges, which abounded, the course, upon the condition of the rond.
that be might perform his Journey men tied a bundle o f cotton fnbrlc sat­ By offsetting the runners It Is possible
urated with kerosene to the fruit, In­
nnd return ns soon ns possible.
to make their ends follow approxi­
Rodrigues, being sadly In need o f serted the end o f u stick Into the or- mately the same line on the road,
cash, was going to collect a deb t nnge and, lighting the kerosene, swung which they would not do if they were
Reaching his destination be found his the stick In a circle till the orange flew set directly behind each other and the
off and carried the burning mass
debtor in possession o f funds. Ho se­
against the thatched roof o f the pulque drag drawn at nil angle with the rond.
cured his money, nnd without waiting
In order to provide standing room for
bouse. It was not long liefore suffi-
even to refresh himself started home­
clent contact had been effected between the man It Is usual to nail two boards
ward.
down upon the rungs parallel to the
the flames and the roof to set It aflre.
About the middle o f the afternoon,
The besieged now saw that tbey runners. Standing upon these, n skill­
on coming to the crest o f a hill where must either be burned alive or sally ful driver will bear his weight In such
be could look down on bis hacienda forth to meet an unknowu force. There a way ns to materially aid in the suc­
several miles nway, he was horror was no way o f reaching the roof front cessful operation o f the drag.
stricken to see n cloud o f smoke aris­ within to put out the Are, and to at­
The drag Is drawn by a chain which
ing from among the high palm trees tempt to do so from without would should be about eight feet long. This
that inclosed his house. W ith a cry exiiose them to death from bullets. enn be fastened by eye bolts to each
he spurred his horse down the decliv­ Palemo told his men that they would end o f the front runner, or one end of
ity and had covered hnlf the distance better die from lead than flames. But the chain can be passed through the
when he met a fam ily o f Indian peons tbey were not o f the kind to meet hole at the discharge end o f the front
coming from the opposite direction. death heroically and preferred to wait runner ami the other end looped over
Reining In his horse, he asked them for the flame« rather than face the the rung at the cutting end o f the
tor news of his family.
bullets. The bandit lender stepped runner. It Is Important that the hitch­
"They have all been murdered, se-
forth alone and wntkcd slow ly for­ ing link should be so dasiimed that
" o r* saw the man. “ The bandit Pa-
Its position can tie changed readily.
ward. Rodriguez saw him aud. direct­
>emn, with some o f his men, looted
It Is also desirable to provide n metal
you» house and burned It down with ing the others not to (Ire. sent a bullet cutting edge for the front runner. This
crashing Into his shoulder.
Palemo
^ e v r » » »ns ln
can be made from a strip o f Iron or
■ W ~-*3kw moments Rodrigues sat staggered, but kept on. Rodrigues sent steel, and old wagon tires have fre­
another
bullet
Into
the
other
shoulder.
paralyzed; then he dashed forward
quently proved satisfactory
Still the bandit advanced. Then Rodri
more rapidly than before
The cost o f such n drag varies from
gues
pierced
his
enemy's
brain,
and
Nearing another group o f persona he
$2 to perhaps $10 or $12. This prac­
he
fell
dead.
reined In again to ask If Palemo and
tically Insignificant outlay will secure
From that moment the hacendado
his men were still at the hacienda and
an Implement that w ill be o f groat
was told that they had gone, taking a seemed to lose desire for further re­ service to the community for at least
road leading In the direction of Vic­ venge. Consenting that Pennies should throe or four years. The fact cannot
toria. Rodriguez, renllxtng that If he spare the others If he chose, be mount­ be overlooked, however, that skill In
wished his revenge he must strike be­ ed his horse and rode to the ruins of the use o f the drug Is Indispensable.
fore the bandits rejoined the srmy. In­ bis hacienda.
The angle that the runners make
stead o f going to the ruins o f his
Drawing rein among those who stood with the center line o f the road—the
home, struck Into s path that would about the smoking ruins o f his boms, • kew angle It might tie called—la an
put him on the road the outlaws had one o f hts friends approached him and Important factor. For example. If the
taken. He was tnrnlng Into It when said:
dragging Is done to Increase the crown
he met a friend, Jose Pennies, who.
“ Ah. Rodrigues. 1 am sorry fo r your o f the road the drag should he suffi­
having heard o f the handlts' depreda­ loss! But you came near having a
ciently skewed to discharge all mate­
tion«. had hastily collected half a doo- much greater ons.
Tour w ife and rial as rapidly as It la collected on the
en o f hts neighbors snd wss going to children are at my house. They fled
runners On the other hand, the con­
the protection o f the Rodrigues hacien­ on the approach'*—
ditions may be such that It Is desira­
da. They were all mounted and arm­
“ Mv wife and children I A live r
ble to carry along this material In or­
ed. and en being told o f the news
“ Yea. Come and satisfy them that der to deposit It where there are de­
g lv * » by the peons Joined the be­ you are safe Ton hare been gone so
pressions In the road's surface.
reaved man. and the party, eight men long that they fear you have fallen at
As to the time fo r dragging, a safe
In all, dashed on for vengeance.
the hands o f the rebels.”
rule to follow Is to drag the road when
Had the bandits ridden on wlthont
With mattered thanks to hearen. the material composing the surface
stopping for more plunder they would Rodrlguea dashed away, and In a few
contains sufficient moisture to com­
doubtless hare Joined Villa's army be­ mtnutea be and hla fam ily ware lock­
pact readily, but Is not sufficiently wet
fore being overtaken
but Rodrlguea ed In one am brace.
tor traffic to prqdner aud.
A Hacendado’s j
Revenge
A Story of the Mexi­
can Civil War
THE ROAD ORAG;
HOW TO MAKE IT
Department of Agriculture
Gives Advice.
INEXPENSIVE FOR UPKEEP.
%
CAPITOL PUNISHMENT.
A n Instrument
of Providence
By W ILLARD BLAKEMAN
1 was wulklng ou the beach, watch­
ing the waves come rolling lu before
a gale and tbrowlug up driftwood,
when u bottle was tossed at my fe e t
I extracted a paper from It on which
wus written:
We are going to pieces. Whoever gets
this go to Norman D. Carlisle and tell him
he will ttnd my will in my desk in secret
drawer.
This was all— no date, no signature,
no addreas aa to where Norinau D.
Carlisle would be found.
That night 1 went to bed thinking
about the message
Suppose it was
genuine. Somebody was enjoying prop­
erty that belonged to another. But It
seemed to me that If It were genuine
the writer would have given at least
the city lu which the person for whom
It was intended lived. If the perpe­
trator was doing the thing for sport or
to pass the time or becuuse he hadn't
uny more sense he would have given It.
And yet perhaps that's Just what
ho wouldu't do. H e might uot like to
particularize. Ou the other hand, a
man who is about to be dumped Into
a roaring ocean might leave something
out that he should have put in.
I was impelled to find Norman D.
Curllsle. I didn't wish to engage In
looking for a needle In u haystack, but
1 couldn't resist- the feeling that It
was my boumlen duty to do so. There
were then some 80.000.000 people in
the United States alone. The name
— Evans in Baltimore American.
was Anglo-Saxon, and the person
might l>e somewhere In the great Brit­
swimmer, by drawing tils arms up to
ish countries.
Nevertheless when I
his side nnd pushing down with widely
found that 1 couldn’t let the matter
extended hands, while stair climbing
alone 1 went into It methodically. I
or treading water with his feet, may
put a personal advertisement In one
bold himself above water several mln-
newspaper In every city in the United
ntes, often when a single minute means
States whose inhabitants numbered
a life, or, throwing out the arms dog
500,000 or over for the said Norman D.
fashion, forward, over hand nnd pull­
Carlisle.
I received several replies
ing in. as If reaching for something.
signed Norman D. Carlisle, the middle
Thnt may bring him In reach o f help. ^
name usually differing. I wrote each
What star in the heave-'s is called
o f them, nsklug If ho had lost a rela­ the wandering star?
—
If on« in Indorsing a check or note
tive ot sen. hut they all nnswered In
That designation Is sometimes ap­ should write “ without recourse,” does
the negative—that Is. so far ns they plied to Ar. turns, a bright red star this exempt him from payment if the
knew.
of the first magnitude in the constel­ note or check is not good?
A fter six months I put In another lation Bootes (pronounced in three syl
These words added to the indorse­
tables Bo-oh -teem. the herdsman. Dur­ ment o f a note protect the Indorser
advertisement for Mr. Carlisle nnd re
celved a reply from n Norman D. Car­ ing May aud June this constellation is from liability to the Indorsee nnd sub­
lisle living In a town o f about 50.000 near the zenith and An turns is a lit
sequent holders.
people. H e hnd seen the ad. while In tie south o f directly overhead. It is
the city where It hnd been Inserted. I known as the wandering star because
Please tell something about the nat*
asked him If he hnd lost n relative at for some reason unknown to ustrou
sen. nnd ho replied “ No.” I dropped oiiiers. It Is slowly drifting and chang­ ural wealth o f Mexico.
In natural wealth Mexico Is one of
the matter so far ns he was conoero- ing its i>osUioii with respect to other
ed. but Inter he wrote me that he wns stars. Its change o f position Is not vis­ the most favored o f all the lands of
a law yer nnd hnd hnd n ellent who ible to the naked eye or from year to the earth. Its resources are little short
of marvelous. In gold, silver and the
had sailed from Rio de Janeiro In a year, hut it has been noted by nstron
vessel that was catalogued among oioers from the beginning o f the Chris­ vnrlous precious stones Its possibili­
tian ern Anturtls Is the brightest slur ties are tremendous. It Is rich In pe­
missing ships.
troleum.
Its forests nre Immensely
A fter some correspondence he sent in the northern hemisphere.
rich. Its agricultural possibilities are
me n cheek for expenses, nnd I went
scarcely to be estimated, so greut they
to see him
He made an engagement
Who was author of the phrase, “ Hold
are. In all the elements o f natural
for me to meet a Indy In his office, the fort for I am coming?”
wealth the country lends all others.
General Sherman. During the civil
nnd I wns Introduced to Miss Edith
As regards climate, Mexico In Its high­
Parks, twenty-one years old nnd come­ war. In ISti-l. when General Corse was
er regions Is a paradise, and after
ly. She nppenred to be a Indy, but holding a position at Allatoonn, Ga..
what has been achieved nt Panama It
wns shabbily dressed. I wns Informed against greatly superior numbers. Slier
is safe to say thnt even the coast re­
man
signaled
him.
"H
old
the
fort,
for
1
that her uncle had been lost on the
gions may be made perfectly whole­
missing vessel from Rio
I brought am entiling." and Sherman's forces got
some and safe.
Tile phrase became popular
out the paper I hnd found, which I there.
hnd carefully kept, and as soon as und Ira D. Satikey o f Moody und San-
she saw It she said she believed that key made it the text o f an inspiring
It had been written by her uncle. Some hymn.
W ill you please state what makes a
port city, and how many port cities has
o f his letters were produced, and nil
What are good rules for avoiding ac­ the United States?
doubt wns removed
The message,
Your questions nre n little vague. A
though scrawled hastily In n trembling cidents in boating or for action in cate
of accident?
?>ort city, according to law. Is a place,
hand, wns found to correspond with
Don’t go out In a pleasure boat with­ whether on the const or Inland, desig­
the uncle's writing.
I was then told that Miss Parks hnd out lielng assured thnt there nre cush­ nated as a point nt which persons or
been brought np by this uncle, who ions or other movable article's aboard merchandise may enter or pass out of
sufficient to float every person In case n country under the 8U(>ervIslon o f the
wns wealthy, he being unmarried nnd
o f an upset. A canoe Is far more dan customs and other pro|»er authorities.
without children. A fte r he hnd been
genius than a skiff All |>ersons should Strictly shaking, the port cities in
declared legally dead the courts hnd
be seated before leaving shore, and the United States nre those possessing
set about administering his estate and
no one should attempt to exchange harbors o f sufficient depth to (»ermlt
hnd already found forty persons who
seats In midstream or to put a foot foreign and coastwise vessels to enter
were heirs at Inw.
on the edge or gunwale o f the bout to nnd carry on a commerce with anoth­
Since Mr. Wentherby. the man who
exchange seats. Where the waters be er port or nation, such ns Boston. New
had been shipwrecked, hnd given Miss
come rough from a sudden squall or York. Philadelphia. Washington. Bal­
Parks to understand that she was to be
(Hissing steamers, never rise In the timore. Charleston. New Orleans, Port­
his heir It was likely thnt the will men­
boilt. but settle down ns close to the land. Snn Francisco, Los Angeles, Se­
tioned In the message gnve Ills proper­
bottom iis ixisslble and keep cool until
attle and Portland.
ty to her. But the desk—where wns
the rocking danger Is passed. I f over­
It?
Mr. Wentherhy's furniture hnd
turned a woman's skirts. If held out by
been sold u year before. Who had
her extended arms, while she uses her
bought the desk? No one could tell.
feet ns If climbing stairs, will often
Since I had gone so fa r in the matter
bold her up while a boat may pull out
I dkl not propose to be beaten now.
from the shore and save her. A non
Advertising having availed. 1 adver­
tised for the person who had I »ought
n desk at a sale o f the effects o f Cyrus
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Wentherby. In due time 1 received a
reply from the purchaser. I wrote him Practices in a ll Courts
W oodw ard B atidle
thnt a niece o f the deceased wished to
redeem It nnd asked him to fix a price.
. 1 . C . J O lf jV S O J V
He said he would sell It for $100. Miss
Parks hnd no money to pay for It, so
A TTO R N E Y A T LAW
I mailed the man a check for the
N O T A R Y P l ’ BLIC
amount The desk wns sent to me.
Pho
N o. 4.1
Cottage G rove, Ort
and. taking It into a cellar, I chop|)ed
It Into kludling wood. Among the rub­
bish lay the papers In a secret draw­
er, and. taking this np, I found one I
marked ’’Last W ill and Testament o f
Cyrus Blake Wentherby.”
I rend It !
and found that he left all his property j
?
HI IT C A S K S
‘
to his beloved niece Edith Parks.
Correct Method of
That same evening I called on Miss
Horseshoeing
Parks with the will thnt changed her j
A \ I ) I (A C S
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condition from poverty to wealth. She i
snt like a statue staring at the paper i The House Furnishers £
ns though she were looking through It j
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rather than at It
I asked her what \ i
And
she was thinking about, but she did j » ’ . » • . » ♦ . » • . » • . » • . » . • . « • . r . r . r . ir . » * .
not hear me. I repented the question. !
and. apparently awakening from a |
dream, she said:
“ It doesn't seem possible thnt uncle,
South of First National Bank
about to die on a boundless ocean, too
Sixth Street
wrought upon to give my address,
could hare reached me among (he mil­
lion« o f people o f the earth."
I dM not tell her so. but she soon
came to recognize me as the Instrn
ment rboeen by Providence to And her
A fter awhile she rewarded me by
The Leader leads, but never
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givin g me herself.
follows.
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