BOY WINS LIFE
i BY POe GAME
Stephen Scanlan Relates Hair
Raising Experience While
in Mexico.
USE CORN FOR MONEY
Falls Into Hands of Martin Lopez,
Moot Bloodthirsty of Villa's Fol
lowers—Happy to Be Back
in United States.
EH Paso, Texas.—Stephen Scanlan, .
IS years old, is the youngest soldier
of fortune.
Steve has just tasted all the hair
breadth escape and “bite-the-dust” ad
venture you hoped to experience when
you were his age and were thrilling to
the dare-devil feats of Diamond Dick,
Handsome Harry and Wild Bill.
Steve lives to tell how he played
poker with Martin Depez, most blood
thirsty of Villa's followers:
How ho fcjjrrowlj escaped execution
agalns»t a ’dobe wall—
How he scouted for the Mexican
federal troops, and—
How he was held by bandits.
AJ1 this below the Rio Grande
whither he had wandered in search of
adventure when he ran away from his
home town, the tame city of Provi
dence, R. I.
Mexico Appeals to Adventurer.
Young Scanlan had read much about
Mexico, and decided that was the
country for him. Making his way to
El Paso, he evaded the soldier and im
migration authorities on both sides of
the line, riding across the Rio Grande
in a box car.
From Juarez he went south on a
Carrauzista troop train, and at Meoqui
he got his first thrill.
Villistas threatened to attack the
train. When the bandits retreated
Sicanlan volunteered to sneak after
them and do a bit of scouting for the
federals. By way of appreciation, the
federals boarded the train, leaving him
to the mercies of the military police
of the little town. He was being taken
to jail as a Villista suspect when an
interpreter happened along and se
cured the boy’s release.
Rejoining the troops, Scanlan event
ually arrived at Parral.
With an American boy’s proper
pride, Steve refused to act as a ser
vant to a captain, and the officer in a
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Steve Won His Release.
rage threw the youngster against a
’dobe wall and had drawn his gun to
shoot him when soldier friends inter
ceiled.
Then came the battle of May 4, in
which the Villistas drove the Carranza .
garrison from Parral.
Steve was captured by Martin Lo
pez, the Villista tiger man.
Was he afraid? He was not. When
the battle was over, the boy calmly
proposed a game of poker with the
bandit chief. It struck Lopez as amus
ing. He admired the lad’s cool cour
r age.
“Sit down,” he laughed uproariously,
•lapping his thigh and commanding his
soldier;- to gather round. “Here’s a
gringo boy who would play the great
game with Lopez.”
Used Corn for Money.
Kernels of corn were used instead
of money. Lopez lost several pecks of
corn—and his admiration for the
American boy grew.
In this way Steve won his release
from the bandits.
He concluded he had enough thrills
to last him for a time, and started hik
ing the long trail back to the border.
An American mining man gave him
som# money. He worked a little, here
and there. A few days ago he reached
El Paso—sunburned, in rags, penniless
but happy.
Just a plain American kid who had
the nerve to go out and get the ad
venture which you, gentlemen, got sec
*\ ond hand from the thumb-marked pages
of “Wild Bill.”
Now he’s on his way back to that
tame, respectable Providence to tell the
other kids about It.
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