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Gen. Villa's sadness was the fact that T shout, and "after that last terrific on-
his pride was hurt, for only a few days.
before his victory, Gen. Carranza, the
first chief of the constitutionalists,
had ordered Gen. Natera to command
the central division of the constitu
tionalist army, with instructions to
attack Zacatecas.
Gen. Natera with 6,000 troops at
tacked the city, and although he is a
great general and his men-devoted to
him, he was not equal to the occasion,
for the federals with 11,000 men not
only put up a good defensive fight,
but when they learned of Netra's
strength came out in the open and in
a few hours drove Natera's army back
to Presnilla, with heavy losses.
It was then that Gen. Carranza
called on Gen. Villa and ordered him
to rush to Naterate aid. Gen- Villa
flatly refused to fight under Natera.
Gen. Carranza, seeing his blunder,
ordered Villa to attack Zacatecas as
ranking general of the central divi
sion, which Villa did, and in less than
two days took the town, lulling 5,000
federals and taking 4,000 prisoners,,
and capturing most of the federal'
guns and ammunition.
Dead and dying were everywhere,
blood ran in the streets, cries of the
wounded came from all sides. It was
a sight I shall never forget. Men beg
ging to be shot to end their suffer
ings; here and there a mother clasp
ing to her breast, her child, both of
whom had been lolled when the fiend
ish federals, without thought'of inno
cent lives, blew up building after
building in their mad flight.
Their only chance to save their
cowardly skins lay in retreating over
the roadway to Guadalupe, familiarly
known as the "Guadalupe Road." But
He was everywhere at once, it
seemed,, directing his machine gun
men, infantry, artillery. Once, grab
bing a rifle from a wounded man I
saw him shoot down the federal that
wounded his soldier.
His commands were sharp and in-
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slaught Guadalupe Road was new
history, for in the 5 miles it covers,
there were 3,000 dead federals. Many
places it was almost impossible to
walk a dozen rods without stepping
on a dead body.
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HOW TO TELL A GOOD CIGAR
A well-known cigar expert has
been dispelling some popular miscon
ceptions about the fragrant weed. He
alluded- to the belief that the whiter
the ash and the longer it holds on,
the better the cigar. That is quite
wrong, he pointed out. The length of
the ash depends on the size of the
pieces Used in the filler, and a clear
steel-gray ash denotes the best
Havana.
Then, again, nearly every man will
reject a spo'tted cigar, but the spots
mean absolutely nothing as regards
quality.
Most men think they can tell a
cigar by squeezing it or smelling.
Neither test is the slightest good. And
every smoker believes that color de
notes strength that a dark wrapper
denotes a strong cigar, a light one a
mild cigar. The color has nothing
whatever to do with the strength.
As a matter of fact, for the average
smoker there are practically no out
ward indications of the quality of a
cigar. The only test for the non-expert
is in smoking it
EASILY RECOGNIZED
The dandy sauntered into the vil
lage shop and asked, with an offen
sive air:
"Do you sell puppy biscuits in this
queer httle shop?
Yes. sir. certainly." said the shon-
Gen. Vulaf was to be reckoned with. I man suavely. "Shall I put them m a
bag for you to take home, or will you
eat them here? Top-Notch.
To clean a pan in which syrup or
candy has been cooked, put cold
water in it, place cover tightly over
and set on stove to boil. The steam
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