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i Editor Not. On Gorernmwlt Orders"
t a series of smrles that are Incidents In
the life of a formerly !l-kiwn but now
retired se-ret-stTvlre o(tl.-er. of lone ana
faithful service Now that he l off duty,
he haa ben Induced lo tell aoma of the
more dramatic of hi many fascinating ex
periences. In some there Is the love ele
ment. In others there Is a mystery, and
all lireathe a spirit of adventure. A com
plete narrative Is told In each Issue.)
"S
OME years ago. before I became
connected with the Lnited stales
secret service in the Bust. I was
engaged by a member of the Western
Express Companies to do some special
work for them." began Captain Dickson.
My headquarters were In Denver, and
the work, on the whole, was decidedly In
teresting. One adventure In particular
made me proud of my service for our
company, although it was largely a mat
ter of luck that brought about my suc
cess In that Instance. I am a firm be
liever in luck, for it plays an important
part in every man's life, and it has fig
ured to a large, extent in my own af
fairs, I am free to confess.
"A daring express robbery had been
committed In the western part of the
state, near the Utah line, by three men.
The messenger had been murdered and
the passengars throughout the train
robbed of all their money. The holdup
men secured something more than fifteen
thousand dollars from the express com
pany's safe and fully five thousand dol
lars from the passengers. They took
nothing but money, however, leaving val
uable Jewelry, diamonds and watches
with their owners, and Ignoring the par
cels In the express car. This circum
stance showed that the gang was com
posed of experienced thieves.- for money
Is the hardest thing In the world to trace.
-I was notified of the robbery on the
afternoon of the second day after It oc
curred, and although I hastened to the
spot whh all dispatch and made my ar
rangement by wire, It was noon of the
third day before I alighted at the nearest
station. Here I had arranged for two
horses and a prospector's outfit, deeming
it best to follow the bandits in the dis
guise of a miner, as the robbery had
been made at a point near the mining
region of Southwestern Colorado, and I
expected to find the criminals at some
of the numerous mining camps.
-I have never been a believer in dis
guises except as to clothing. All efforts
to change the face with grease paints
and wigs and the like only tend to at
tract attention and direct suspicion to the
man thus togged out. The casual ob
server might not notice the deception, but
the criminal, and especially the hunted
criminal. Is no casual observer. He has
formed the habit of noticing everything,
and lie will detect the least false point
In a man's appearance and shun htra as
if he were afflicted with the plague.
"A change of dress will work wonders
in a mans appearance. If a man can
wear other clothes than those life Is ac
customed to. and wear them easily and
naturally, he can more effectually dis
guise himself by this means thifn he can
with all the wigs and paints and whiskers
In existence.
"Coming across the continental divide
I had suffered a slight attack of indl
he Dorter after a flask
e .hiLkv aikinc for a certain brand.
whisky, asking for a certain prang.
FAVORITE
ELEANOR GATES, the author of the
charming romance. "Cupid, the Cow
runcher," and other realistic maga
zine stories of Western ranch Ufe, Is
making an interesting venture In horse
breeding on her husband's plaoe In Santa
Clara County. California. El Rancho de
la. Rosas, which Is some 40 miles from
San Francisco, writes John Gilmer Speed.
In the New York Herald. Her husband.
Richard Walton Tully. author of the Be
laseo play. "The Rose of the Rancho."
is deeply Interested in this venture and
is giving his wife his earnest co-operation
and support.
The stud at EI Rancho de las Rosas
has been carefully selected and In its be
ginning consists entirely of purely-bred
Arabs, those marvelous horses from the
desert which are the base, the foundation
of all safely reproducing horse types in
ih. Ruronean and American world
fore making her selections Eleanor Gates
consulted the best authorities, and lhave
no hesitation in saying that she is about
as well informed a to the merits of the
various Arabian families and strains as
It Is possible for any one to be who has
not had actual personal experience in
Deserts Arabia.
As we have these fixed types, these
improved types, why revert to the ArabsT
Because there is no fixed type In exist
ence that did not originate and become
tixed through the admixture of Arab
blood. To put into each of these types
more of this basic blood from time to
time keeps virile and fresh this .com
manding prepotency. It Is not suggested
that the union of a thoroughbred and an
Arab would produce a colt faster than
the usual racehorse, or that either of
the other types mentioned would have its
peculiar and special excellence enhanced
bv such unions. That is not the way in
which Arabs are useful. It is the way.
however, that Arabs have come into dis
repute In the minds of those who gener
alize from scant facts and come to quick
conclusions from small knowledge.
The French, the Germans, the Russians
all use the Arabs In the way that they
should be used, and that is by breeding
from them collateral strains of their lixed
types and then mixing them for the
purpose of securing the fresh infusion of
the basic blood. These people do this
officially through their several govern
ments. And that was what A. Keene
Richards, of Kentucky, meant to do some
SO years ago. when he took Arabs from
the desert to his breeding farms In Ken
tucky and I-ouisiana. He crossed his
Arab stallions with thoroughbred mares,
and the resulting colts had such sub
stance and symmetry of conformation
that as yearlings at the Kentucky fairs
they won blue ribbons from all comers.
It was not Mr. Richards' intention to
race these colts, but he was persuaded by
his friends against his own better Judg
ment to do so. They were not fast
enough to win against the horses that
He returned in a few minutes with one
of the diminutive little bottles custom
arily sold on sleeping cars at a quarter
a bottle. It was not the kind I had or
dered, but the porter explained that this
was the only brand of liquor the com
pany sold, -and I had to be content with
it. The label of the bottle stated that
it was put up expressly for the com
pany. "On reaching my destination I imme
diately assumed the character of a
miner and set about my Inquiry. There
was little information to be gathered
beyond what was contained In the ex
press company's report of the robbery,
of which I had a carbon copy. Satisfied
that time spent here would be wasted,
I set out for the scene of the robbery.,
riding a wiry little pony and leading an
other on which was packed my outfit
of grub and cooking implements and
miner's tools. 1
"The place was a desolate spot. The
road ran through a broad alkali valley
which had not. at that time, been
brought under cultivation by Irrigation.
It was easy to pick up the" trail of ban
dits and follow It across the valley In a
southwesterly direction to the foothills
of the Rockies, where the trail disap
peared, the rocky ground leaving no
trace of hoofprlms.
"From this point on it was to be a
matter of luck and guesswork. I be
lieved my men had made for Telluride.
Ouray, Silverton or . some other mining
camp, but I was not rash enough to
venture a guess as to which It might be
at that stage of the game. These camps,
with their rough, shifting population,
offered capital retreats for criminals, and
from past experiences I knew that my
three rogue.s would. In all probability,
remain In one of these camps until the
excitement from the robbery had subsid
ed, and then make for civilixation to
spend their money.
"For three daya I drifted at random
through the mountains, following trails
and paths, for there were no roads, en
deavoring to pick up some clew or find
the place where my party had spent the
first night after the robbery. The hold
up had occurred about noon, and, by
hard riding, the three highwaymen could
penetrate some ten or twenty miles Into
the fastnosses of the mountains before
it became too dark to travel farther. It
was out of the question for any one to
advance through that region after dark.
I hoped to find the place of their camp,
and felt sure I would do so by persever
ing. "Late the third afternoon I stumbled on
the ashes of a canipflre, and close beside
It. among the firs and cedars. I found
where horses had been tied. This was
what I had searched for. and I felt sure
that I would here find something of
value. I camped a short distance from
the place so I would not disturb it, leav
ing my examination until the next morn
ing, when I would have a good light, it
then being too dark to attempt such a
thing.
"That night, by the light of my camp
fire. I read again the report of the rob
bery as given by the train hands. Near
n.e .. ,t ... T la O I-' O
FAD OF ELEANOR GATES IS HER BEAUTIFUL ARABIAN HORSES
the last of it was the account of the
had been bred for speed alone and were
therefore regarded by most people in
Kentucky as failures. Before the original
Intention could be carried out the Civil
War intervened and the Richards' experi
ments came to an end. The older men
In Kentucky la discussing the merits of
Arab blood point to this Richards ven
ture as conclusive proof that the desert
blood has no merit. Mr. Richards never
concluded his experiments or even tested
any intentional results, so that the epi
sode has proved nothing whatever except
that neither the Arab nor the half Arab
Is faster than the English thoroughbred,
a something that everybody ought to have
known before.
It is by using collateral strains of the
various types that the Arab can be Im
mensely useful to the horse breeders.
For 3500 years the Arab horses have been
In the same environment, and during an
that time have been Inured to hard usage
and scanty feeding, so that as they exist
now they represent a singular example
of that hard rule of nature, the survival
of the fittest. During all their long his
tory they have been half starved during
eight months of each year and not abun
dantly fed or watered the other four.
This in great measure accounts for the
fact that they have not increased In
height or weight, but, notwithstanding
their lack of slse, they are very great
weight carriers and can go Journeys day
In and day out to which no other horses
are equal. As individual horses under
the saddle, and even in the hunting field,
they are most excellent. Evidence of
this does not come from the desert alone,
but haa been proved in India, in Eng-
msS&m 'As
sleeping-car porter, who related, with
evident grief, that he had been relieved
of W.1S In silver and that the bandits
had rifled the liquor cabinet of the buf
fet, taking with them all of the whisky
and a few bottles of the rarer and
stronger wines.
OBEYHAW "
'ELEANOR GATES
lend and to a smaller extent In America.
Lord Roberts rode the same Arab for 22
years In all his campaigns, covering an
estimated distance of 60.000 miles, report
ing himself that his charger never had
a sick day or took a lame Btep in all
his life.
The exhibition of these Arab horses at
the World's Fair was Interrupted by
Are, and the gray stallion Obeyran. be
sides several others, was bought by Mr.
Peter B. BTadley. of Hingnam. Mass.
Later he became the property of Mr. Ho
mer Davenport, of Morris Plains, N. J.,
from -whom he was bought by Eleanor
Gates. It would ordinarily seem a reck
less disregard of conservatism to buy so
old a horse as this for so long a Journey.
And If he were an ordinary horse It
would have been a hazardous purchase.
But Obeyran has. enhanced his value im
mensely by reason of the fact that he
has carried youthful vitality into extreme
old age. He haa been tested by the years
and has proved himself abundantly
worthy. He la extraordinary from what
ever point of view. t
.Another stallion that the mistress of
EI Rancho de las Rosas secured from the
Homer Davenport collection is the chest
nut horse Mahruss, of the Seglawi Jedran
family and Ibn ed Derri strain. This is
a very remarkable horse In appearance
and conformation, and is the show horse
par excellence. Mrs. Tully did not select
him. however, for his beauty, which Is
remarkable, but for his breeding, which
w t&? ' lK Hsv?
THREW TNEjOOOP. M0E OPET .
"Early next morning I examined the
deserted camp of" the highwaymen. There
was nothing but a bumcd-out pile of
ashes and charred sticks and a few
empty bottles. The bottles gave the
clew for which I searched. The high
waymen had certainly made their camp
,$lANOR. GATES-MRS KJCHAip W TUltY
is remarkable also. He was sired by Lady
Anne Blunt's Imported Mahruss, a Kehi
lan Jellb, purchased from Abbass Pacha,
his dam being Bushra, a Seclawi Jedran
of the Ibn el Derri strain. It will be ob
served that the younger Mahruss takes
his lineage from his dam rather than the
sire. This is the Bedouin custom, the
mares being counted in breeding of more
Importance than the horses. Though this
is entirely proper, I think the Arab exag
geration of the importance of the mares
over the horses is a defect In their system
of breeding, as it too frequently results
in the using of inferior individuals as
sires, merely because their blood la of
approved families and strains.
The young stallion taken to the Cali
fornia ranch is a gray S-year-oId by Obey
ran. dam Zitra, a Hamdani Simiri. which
makes this youngster. Obey by name, a
Hamdani Simiri instead of a Seglawi
Obeyran, as his sire is I happened to
be present when this youngster was first
saddled. He marched off soberly like an
old horse, cutting not a single prank, and
ten days later he was completely bridle
wise and guided so easily by the neck that
he could be ridden with a halter, which,
by the way, is the almost universal Be
douin custom. This docility and intelli
gence are of great value, as they do not
In the least detract 'from the animal's
high spirit and promptness to respond to
whatever demand a rider may make.
Among the mares taken by Mrs. Tully
were Sheba, a Managhl Slagi, and her
'.EZ2223D JEST TAZkT.
Qf'TtfE' MME&6
here. Each bottle bore the label of the
sleeping-car company and some of them
were the diminutive flasks of which I
had drunk one on the. trip from Den
ver. There was not a scrap of paper
anywhere else to be found.
"Elated with my success. I made a
EtEANOT? CATEb IM SADDLE
foal by Muson, the "listening horse":
Galphia, a Hamdani Simiri; Yimeta, a
Kehilan AJuz; Markesa, a chestnut Seg
lawi Jedran, and a baby filly of the same
strain as Kehilan. These mares will be
kept on the home ranch, a place of sev
eral hundred acres, and their produce
THE BAD EFFECTS OF HIGH SPEED
British Medical Journal.
Ttr SERIES of striking physical tests
r has recently been completed in Eng
land in connection with the automobile
races. When S. F. Edge drove a car
continuously for 24 hours at high
speed he was thj subject of very care
ful observation by Dr. L. P. Gibson.
Mr. Edge was examined before and
Immediately after the race and his sen
sations when driving were carefully
noted. Observations were made of his
temperature, pulse and general nervous
and physical condition. Specimens of
his blood were also examined before
and after the race.
Before the race Mr. Edge for some
time took all opportunities of long
motor drives about the country and
then one week's absolute rest from
business and from any lengthy drives
just before the race, to avoid stsleness.
He took no kind of special training
diet, only living very simple, taking
plenty of fruit, cocoa, fish, vegetables,
a moderate amount of meat and no tea.
During the race he had fruit toranges.
cZ&S&CW
survey of the country and discovered a
half-obscure trail leading farther into
the mountains. I took up this trail and
followed It as best I could until night
fall. Often ' lost it, and sometimes I
spent an hour or more casting about to
pick it up again, as I have seen hounds
baffled on the trail of a fox. About
3 o'clock that afternoon I found some
thing that made my eyes sparkle. Shat
tered Into a thousand pieces was the
remains of one of the small whisky bot
tles on a large flat rock beside the trail
where It had doubtless been cast in a
playful mood induced by its contents.
Among the fragments I found the label
of the car company.
"It was the dry season and this was
in my favor, for no rains came to ob
literate the trail. For five days I fol
lowed the bandits across the hiils and
through the valleys, verifying my route
from time to time" by fragments of
broken whisky bottles along the way
and at the places .where they had
camped for a night. The buffet car
must have been well stocked, for I found
many botties in this journey.
"The trail eventually came to a well
beaten road, which, from my map, I
learned was the stage and mail route
from Montrose, the nearest railroad
point to Ouray, then a rather insignifi
cant mining settlement. I lost no time
in getting to Ouray, for it was impossi
ble to trail my men along this road, and
I was sure they had headed for the
mining camp.
"Two days were spent at Ouray with
out finding a trace of the three men.
They had not stopped there certainly,
so I took the trail to Telluride, a mining
camp further on in the mountains. Tel
luride was then a camp of 900 or 1000
souls and there was a bit of a mining
boom on which daily brought new pros
pectors to swell its citizenship, fatuous
souls brought there by the greed of gold
-a lure that never fails to attract vic
tims in swarms. For three days I
searched In vain through the saloons
and dance halls and oilier plaoes where
the rough miners congregated without
finding a trace of my three rogues. That
infallible sixth sense ef mine was doing
its best to keep me longer In Telluride.
although my judgment told me to move
on to Silverton; but in the end my In
tuition won the fight and I remained.
One evening I was drinking with a
raw-boned miner. The whisky was abom
inable. The distillery wiiere it was made
would never have recognised its product
"in its present form. I complained of the
poor quality of whisky and asked my
acquaintance if there were not some Dei
ter stuff to be found in the camp. He
said there was not, at any of the bars,
but that he had been given an amazingly
good drink by a miner, whose name he
mentioned. He said It had been in a little
bottle which held just enough to tease
one, but it was the best liquor he had
drunk since he left Kentucky many years
before. He licked his lips in pleasant
memory of the drink. .
"I almost gave myself away, so keen
was my pleasure at this chance remark.
"THE CHESTrJUT STA.LL.10r
"MAHRUSS"
will form the pure Arab stud, which will
be enlarged by natural, accretions, the
colts being used only to cross with other
strains of horses. Few breeders of Arab
horses have made a braver or more prom
ising beginning.
A few miles away from EI Rancho de
las Rosas and in the same county of
Santa Clara, Mr. and Mrs. Tully have
leased the Guadaloupe ranch of 3300
acres. Here it is their purpose to estab-
grapes. strawberries and bananas),
with occasional drinks of cocoa and
beef tea (very little), some chocolate
and beef lozenges; he also took one
grain extract cocoa, made up with
chewing gum. every hour. He ate no
so-called solid food at all.
During the short stops in the race
the chief cause of discomfort and ex
haustion was bruising and backache
from a light, not very comfortable
seat fitted to a chassis from which a
heavy touring body had been removed,
the springs being too curved for com
fort at high speed over a track worn
in some places.
After the race a few peas and .bread
and a drink of water were takon, and
he was in bed and asleep within three
hours of the finish, slept well all night
and was eating a good breakfast at 9
o'clock the next morning. The pulse,
temperature and respiration were nor
mal and he was none the -worse for the
extraordinary and exhausting strain
he had been through.
His temperature before starting was
98. 4 degrees, pulse 74 of which figure
I Is a sphygmographic tracing. At the
Bieszzurr SOS w.g c&w&xr
I inquired about the generous owner of
the good liquor, with a show of indiffer
ence I was far from feeling. He was a
late arrival, it seemed, and lived in a
shanty far up on the mountain-sido with
two companions. The three were making
a rather poor attempt to work a claim
they had pre-empted.
"Getting away from my loquacious
miner-friend, I climbed the steep trail to
the cabin and set about an investigation
of it with great caution. The men were
at home, and from the sounds issuing
from Its closed doors I guessed they
were having a rare old time that evening.
I approached to the very door and lis
tened with my ear to the planks to sounds
of revelry within. The men were gam
bling and drinking, and I could hear the
clink of coins and the rattle of bottles
and the ribald Jests with which they made
their bets and gloated over their winnings
and cursed their luck when they lost. I
heard sufficient to make me sure that
my much-sought bandits were In the
cabin, although there was no direct men
tion of the express robbery.
"It would have been the rankest folly
to have attempted their arrest without as
sistance although I did tackle such a Job
once In my salad days, as this scar will
testify." and he pointed to an ugly wound
at the back of his neck, partially covered
by his flowing gray locks. "But that Is
another story. I decided to call on the
United States deputy marshal, a man of
tigerish bravery, for assistance. There
was no chink or crack in the door through
which I cdlild gain a peek at the interior
of the cabin, so I dropped down on my
hands and itnees and crawled around to
the back of the cabin where I thought
there might be a window. There was a
window, but it was closed with a heavy
shutter, and I could not, find any point
to peep through; but I did find something
on the way around. My hand touched
something round and smooth, and I
clutched it involuntarily. It was one of
the little whisky flasks. After I had left
the cabin I struck a match and examined
It. The label of the car company was
still on It.
"The deputy marshal was found at one
of the dance halls and he soon summoned
a reliable posse. We surrounded the
cabin, from which still issued the sounds
of revelry. The men were stationed at
.every point about it Then the marshal
and I rapped on the door. In response to
our summons one of the miners staggered
across the floor and threw the door wide
open. We tripped him up and rushed over
him into the cabin. The men were too
drunk to make any resistance, and we
captured them without a shot being Iirea.
They were having a big stud-poker game,
played with gold pieces and currency in
stead of chips. There was some JSO00 or
$10,000 upon the table. Strewn about the
floor were many whisky and wine bottles.
In a box beneath one of the bunks was a
solitary pint bottle of whisky, the last
remnant of the contents of the buffet
car's liquor store. It was, as 1 said, a
clean case -of luck."
(Next week Captain Dickson will relate
the story of "The Mysterious House Next
Door.")
lien a plant for breeding cavauy it
mounts, using their Arab stallions for
sires and selected range bred mares from
Oregon as dams. To this plant will be
added a famous stallion, Nejdram, im
ported by Captain Gainsford, of the Eng
lish army, to use as a polo mount. It
was this horse, by the way, that Mr.
Davenport proposed last year to use in
a trial of endurance in a ride from the
Pacific to the Atlantic, under the direc
tion of the War Department. This con
test came to nothing, as no one else
seemed to care to participate. There wa
much talk and bluster, but they were ail
seemingly afraid to start.
Bryan and Maryland.
Baltimore American.
Bill Brvan'a step is on thy shore.
Maryland, my Marylan!
He's knocking loudly at thy door.
Maryland, my Marylan I
He's tried to capture B,alt'mo,r" .
With areuments none gained of ora,
"Whose repetition only bore
Maryland, my Marylan!
Thou art no easy captured stats,
Maryland, my Marylan! , . ,
To tain thee one must have some welgnv
Marvland, my Marylan!
No demagogic tales to date
Will in her ardor keen create
And lead her off from prosperous fate,
Maryland, my Marylan.
One cannot win her with mere craft.
Maryland, my Marylan!
At such endeavor she has laughed,
Maryland, my Marylan!
Though she has had of pleas a raft
To vote for Bryan, she's not daft;
Her sober thought is all for Tatt,
Maryland, my Marylan!
Let Bryan then do what he can.
Maryland, my Maryland!
Do what he may all else to ban,
Maryland, nty Maryland!
In states where Taft far leading ran.
Where voters welched It. man to man.
Thou wilt be found to lead the van,
Maryland, my Maryland!
end of the race his temperature was
100 degrees and his pulse, of which
figure 2 is a sphygmographic tracing.
70. I take it that the slowing was due
to exhaustion, that the blood pressure
was low. due to vagus control, and that
the residual blood In the left ventricle
was increased in amount. This con
dition of weak pulse may be accentu
ated by the fact of the blood being
"soaked up. as It were, by the lungs,"
owing to the long continued rapid
movement through the air.
Before the ride a specimen of blood
was taken and examined for the tuber-culo-opsonic
index (Index of resistive
power to tubercular infection), which
was found to be 0.85. Another specimen
taken directly after the race gave 1.17.
That the power of resistance to the
tubercle bacillus should be raised after
the long Journey Is very noteworthy,
and helps to strengthen the opinion
held by many of us that motoring is an
effective treatment in some cases of
tuberculosis, and that the gloomy
prophecies of some anent the bad
effects of great speed on the system
were incorrect.
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