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The Clew of the Liquor Bottles
Edited by William J. Bacon
A True Story of the Secret Service, as Told by Capt. Dickson
JO.MIO years ago, before I bo-
SBiuniu connected wmi me
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gaged liy a member of the
western express com-
DiiiiIch to do hoiqo speelnl
work for them," began
Cat, Dickson. "My head
quarters wore In Denver
and my work, on the whole,
I was dcrldcdly ItitoruHtliiK
Onc adventure In particu
lar made me proud of my service for
our company, although It wan lurgoly
a matter or luck that brought nhnut
my success In that Instance. I am a
firm believer In luck, for It playH an
Important part in every man'H life, and
It has figured to a large extent In my
own affairs, I am free to confess.
"A daring express rohbeiy had been
committed In I he western pari of the
state, near tho Utah line, by three
men. The messenger had been mur
dered and the passengers throughout
tho train lobbed of all (heir money.
The holdup men seemed something
more than $15,000 from tho express
compnny's safe and fully Ifi.OOl) rrom
tho passengers. They took nothing
but money, however, leaving valuable
Jowelry, diamonds and watches with
their owneis, and Ignoring the parcels
In the express car. This clrcumstanco
showed that the gang was composed
of experienced thieves, for money Is
tho 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 with all dispatch and made my
arrangement by wlre.lt was i oon of
the thlid day before I alighted at the
nearest station. Here I had arranged
for two horses and a prospector's out
fit, deeming It best to follow the ban
dits In the disguise of a miner, as the
robbery had been made at a point
near the mining region of southwest
ern Colorado, and 1 expected to II ml
tho criminals at some of the numer
ous mining camps.
"I have never been a believer In
disguises except ub to clothing. All
efforts to change the face with grease
paints and wigs and tho llko only tend
to attract attention and dtiect suspl
slon to tho man thus togged out. The
casual observer might not notice the
deception, but tho criminal, and espe
cially the hunted criminal, Is no cas
ual observer. Ho has formed the
habit of noticing ovorythlng, and ho
will detect tho least false point In, a
man's appearance and shun him as If
ho were aflllcted with the plague.
"A chango of dress will work won
ders In a man's appearance. If a
man can wear other clothes than those
ho Is accustomed to. and wear them
cuslly and naturally, ho can moie ef
fectually disguise himself by this
means than he can with all the wigs
and paints and whiskers in exist
ence. "Coming across the continental di
vide, I had suffered a slight attack of
Indigestion. I sent the potter after a
flask of whisky, asking for a ceitaln
brand. Ho returned In u few minutes
with one of tho diminutive little bot
tles customarily sold on sleeping cars
at a quarter a bottle. It was not the
kind I had ordered, but tho potter ex
plained -that, this .was tho only brand
of liquor tho company sold, and I had
to be content with It. The label of
tho bottle stated that It was put up
expressly for tho company.
"On reaching my destination, I Im
mediately assumed I'.ie character of a
minor and sot about my Inquiry. There
was little Information to bo gathered
beyond what was contained In tho
express company's report of the rob
bery, of which I had a carboncopy.
Satisfied that time spent hero would
bo wasted, I set out for the sceno of
tho robbery, riding a wiry little pony
and leading another on which was
packed my outfit of grub and cooking
Implements and miner's tools,
"The place was a desolate spot. The
road ran through a broad alkali val
Joy which had not, at that time, been
brought under cultivation by Irriga
tion. It was easy to pick up tho trail
of bandits and follow It acioss tho val
ley In a southwesterly direction to the
foot-hills of tho Rockies, whom the
trail disappeared, tho rocky ground
loavlng no trace of hoof-prlnts.
"Prom this point on It wus to be a
matter of luck and guesswork. 1 be
lieved my men had made for Tellurldo,
Ouray, Sllverton or some other mining
camp, but I was not rash enough to
venture a guess ns to which It might
bo at that stage of the game. Theso
camps, with their rough, shifting pop
ulation, offered capital ict rents for
criminals, and from past oxporieuces
I know thut my three rogues would,
In all probability, remain In ono of
these camps until tho excitement from
the robbory had subsided, and then
make for civilization to spend their
money.
"For three days I drifted at random
through tho mountains, following trails
tmd paths, for them woro no roads,
endeavoring to pick up somo clew or
find tho place whom my party had
spent tho first night after tho robbery.
Tho hold-up had occurred about noon,
and, by hard riding, tho three high
waymen could ponotrato somo ton or
twenty miles into tho fnstnosB of the
mounatlns beforo It bocamo too dark
to travel further. It was out of tho
question for any ono to ndvanco
through that region after dark. I
hoped to find the place of their camp,
and folt sura 1 would do so by poose-veilng.
"I. ute the third afternoon I stum
bled on the ashes of a campflre, and
close beside It, among tho (Irs and
cedars. I found wheie hoises had
been lied. This was what I had
sea i ched for, and I felt sine that I
would bore llnd something of value.
I camped a short distance from tho
place so I would not disturb It, leaving
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
campllie. I lead ngaln the report of
the iobbcr as given by tho train
linndB. Near the last of It was tho
account or the sleeping car porter who
related, with evident grief, that he
had been lelleved of $0.15 In silver,
and that the bandits had rilled the
liquor cabinet of the buffet, taking
with them all of the whisky and a few
bottles of the rarer and .stronger
wines
"Km I y next morning I examined tho
deserted camp of the highwaymen.
Theie was nothing but a burned-out
pile of ashes and charred sticks and a
few empty bottles. Tho bottloB gave
tho clew for which I searched. The
highwaymen had ceitaluly made their
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camp hero. Each bottle bore tho
Inbol of the sleeping car company, and
somo of them wero tho dlmlnutlvo
llasks of which I had drunk ono on
tho trip from Denver. Theio was not
a scrap of papor anywhere else to
bo found.
"Elated with my success, I made a
survey of tho country and discovered
a half-obsciiro trail loading farther
Into tho mountains. 1 took up this
trail and followed It bb best I could
until nightfall. Often I lost It, and
sometlmos I spent an hour or mom
casting about to pick It up again, as I
havo soon hounds baffled on the trail
of a fox. About three o'clock that
afternoon I found something that mndo
my eyes sparklo. Shattered Into a
thousaml pieces was tho romulns of
ono of the small whisky bottles on a
largo flat rock beside the trail whom
It had doubtless been cast In a playful
mood Induced by Its contents. Among
tho fragments I found tho label of the
car company.
"It was the dry season, and this
was In my favor, for no rains camo
to obliterate the tiall. For five days
I followed the bundlts across tho hills
and through tho valleys, verifying my
routo from time to time by fragments
of broken whisky bottles along tho
way, and nt tho places whero they had
camped for a night. Tho buffot-car
must havo been well stocked, for I
found ninny bottles In this Journey.
"Tho trail oventunlly camo to a
woll beaten road, which, from my map,
I learned wns the stage and mall routo
from Montroso, the nearest railroad
point to Ouray, then a rather Insig
nificant mining settlement. I lost no
time In getting to Ouray, for It was
Impossible to trnll my men along this
road and I was sure thoy had headed
for tho mining camp.
"Two days wero spent at Ouray
without finding a trace of tho three
men. Thoy had not stopped thorc cor
tnlnly, so I took the trail to Telluridc,
a mining camp faither on In tho moun
tains. Tellurldo was then a camp of
800 or 1,000 souls, and there was a
bit of a mining boom on which dally
brought new piospcctors to swell Its
citizenship, fatuous souls brought
thoio by (he gieed of gold a lure
that never falls to nttmct vie s in
swarms. For thiec days I seat ched lu
vain thiough the saloons and danco
halls and other places wheio thorough
miners congicguted without finding a
trace of my three logucs. That Inful
liblo sixth sense of mine was doing
Its best to keep me longer In Tellu
rldo, althouugh my judgment told mo
to move on to Sllveilon; but In tho
end my Intuition won the light and I
lemalued.
"One evening I was drinking with
a raw-boned miner. The whisky was
abominable. The distillery where It
was made would never have recog
nized Its product In Its present form,
1 complained of the poor quality of
whisky and asked my acquaintance If
there weie not some better stuff to be
found In the camp. He said (hero
was not, at any of the bars, but that
he had been given an amazingly good
dilnk by a miner, whoso name he men
tioned, lie said It had been In a little
bottle which held Just enough to tease
one, but It was tho best liquor he had
drunk since he left Kentucky many
years before, lie licked his lips In
plensnnt memory of the drink,
"I almost gave myself away, so
keen was my pleasuie at this chance
remark. I Inquired about tho gen-
OtfJE Of
m?ElV mD0O MD OfiW
emus owner of the good liquor, with a
show of lndlfferenco I wns far from
feeling. Ho was a late arrival, It
seemed, ninkjlved In a shanty far up
on the mountnln-slde with two com
panions. Tho three were making a
lather poor attempt to work a claim
thoy had preempted.
"Getting away from my loquacious
miner-friend, I climbed tho steep trail
to the cabin nnd set about an Investi
gation of It with great caution. Tho
men were nt homo, nnd from the
sounds Issuing from Its closed doors
I guessed they were having a rare old
tlmo that evening. I approached to the
very door and listened with my ear to
the planks to sounds of rovolry within.
Tho men wore gambling and drinking,
and I could hear the clink of coins
and tho rnttlo of bottles and tho ribald
jests with which they made their bets
and glonted over their winnings and
cursed their luck when they lost. I
heard sttfllcient to make mo suro that
my much-sought bandlto wero lu tho
cabin, although tboro was no direct
mention of tho express robbery.
Pittsburg Man
Perfect Fiend to Quote Statistics, Ac-
cording to Writer In
Harper's,
Tho Plttsburgor can carry more fig
ures of largo denomination on his per
son without your suspecting their ex
istence thnn any other citizen of tho
United Stages. Ho is n roservoir of
decimals and statistics. Ho muBt
have amplo Justillcntlon, however, be
foro ho turns tho spigot, but whon ho
doos thero is n torrent no man can
stem.
If provoked and Inclined to extend
hlmsoir, In n (lvo-mlnuto talk he can
fill you so full of miscellaneous indus
"It would have been the rankest
folly (o havo attempted their arrest
without assistance although I did
tackle such a Job once In my salad
days, as (his scar will testify," and ho
pointed to an ugly wound ut tho back
of his neck, partially covered by his
(lowing gray locks. "Rut that Is an
other story. 1 decided to call on the
United States deputy marshal, a man
of tigerish bravery, for assistance.
Theie was no chink or crack In the
door thiough which I could gain a
peek at tho Interior of the cabin, so
I dropped down on my hands and
knees mid crawled around to the back
of tho cabin where I thought tfiero
might be n window. There was n win
dow, but it was closed with a heavy
shutter, und 1 could not llnd any point
to peep through; but I did llnd some
thing on the way around. My hand
touched something round nnd smooth,
and I clutched It Involuntarily. It was
ono of the little whisky dusks, After
I hud left the cabin I struck a match
and examined It. The Inbel of tho
car company was still on It.
"Tho deputy marshal was found at
one of the dance halls und ho soon
summoned u rellablo posse. We sur
rounded tho cabin, from which still Is
sued tho sounds of revelry. The men
were stationed at every point about
It. Then tho marshal and I rapped on
the door In responso to our summons
one of tho miners staggered across
tho lloor and threw the door wldo
open. Wo tripped him up and rushod
over him Into tho cabin. Tho men
wero too drunk to mnke any roBlBt
unce. und wo captured thoni without
7W YAtfPS
a shot being fired. They wore hav
ing a big Btud-poker game, played with
gold pieces nnd currency Instead of
chips. There was some $8,000 or f 10,
000 upon the table. Strewn about the
floor wero many whisky aud wlno bot
tles. In n box beneath ono of tho
bunks was a solitary pint bottlo of
whisky, tho last remnant of the con
tents of the buffet car's liquor store.
It was, ns I said, a clean cbbo of
luck."
(Copyright, 1003, by W. Q. Chapman.)
(Copyright tn Groat Britain.)
Played on Ancient Instruments.
At a concert which took place In
the large hall of tho Royal museum at
Stuttgart, recently, nt which tho king
and queen of Wurtemberg wore
present, no Instruments wero used
save spinets, clnvlcembolas and pianos
of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turies. Tho moat Interesting of these
were the one which wns once owned
by Johnnn Sebastian Bach, and an
other on which Queen Louise of Prus
sia learned to play.
Is "Loaded99
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tries natural gas, steel rails, tin
plate, petroleum, steel pipes and sheet
metal, fire bricks, tumblers, table
ware, coke, pickles, and all that sort of
thing thut you will begin to fool like
a combination delicatessen und hard
ware store.
I have not begun to enumerate tho
different dnta I havo collected on this
subject, as I havo no dosire to mako
tho reader feel small or to loso confi
dence In himself. As I havo pointed
out beforo, the Plttsburgor, or the man
who Is under tho Influonco of Pitts
burg, must bo provoked before he un
burdous. C. H. White, lu Harper's.
BELIEVING
AND DOING
Saudi; School Lciimi for Mty 30, 1009
Specially Arr&ngod for Thl Papor
IitiSfiON T1JXT JnincB !! M-'.'fi Memory
Verse, 26.
OOIiUKN TK.T-"Pnlth without works
Is dt-nd."-Jnini-H 2 20.
TIMR It Is not known when this
oplstle wiih written, but probably "be
tween A. I). 40 and CO not later than A,
I). CJ."-Hustings' llible Dictionary
I'LAOIJ.-It wiih written at Jumps'
homo, JcriiHiilom.
Suggestion and Practical Thought.
Three disciples named James aro
found lu tho New Testament. 1.
James tho son of Zcbedee, sometimes
en! led tho Great. Ho was tho brother
of John, was very close to Jesus nt
tho crises of his life, and wns the first
of the twelve to suffer martyrdom
(Acts 12: 2).
2, James the sou of Alphaeus, ono of
tho twelve apostles, probably a broth
er of Matthew, who also is called a son
of Alphaeus. Ho lu usually indentlflcd
with Jnmes tho Little (or the Less),
nnd nothing is known of his lite.
3. James the brother of our Lord,
the author or tho Epistle.
Luther, mistakenly thinking that,
especially In tho passage we aro to
study, It opposed Paul's great doc
trin.o of Justification by faith, onco
called It "a letter of straw;" but after
ward he saw his orror. "The tone of
the whole Epistle Is practical, earnest
nnd stern In parts." Canon Maclear,
D. D. Dr. Deems called It "the Gospel
of common sense." and (with the
Sermon on the Mount) "tho most valu
able textbook on morals In possession
of the world." Roswcll D. Hitchcock,
LL. D., "once said that the application
of the Epistle of James lu tho region
of economy Is that which alone can
save our civilization, and It is re
ported of tho third earl of Ralcarras
that he was accustomed to express
himself ns delighted with tho Epistle
of JumoB as "tho production of n gen
tlemnn.' " Deem4fcfc"The structure of
tho Epistle Is altogether Informal and
unsystematic." Plumptre. It Is one
of tho seven Catholic Epistles, so
called becnuso written to tho whole
church, to correct common faults and
glvo tho comfort nnd Inspiration
needed by all In those times of trial.
James has boon speaking of those
thnt take credit to themselves for
hearing thojnw nnd observing tho out
ward forms of religion, while at the
samo tlmo they bow down beforo thn
rich nnd scorn the poor. In this pan
sago he goes on to insist that all suoh
lellglon Is empty, a mere profession of
faith without tho deeds that prove It.
Faith, us Paul deflnies It, "workcth
by lovo" (Gal. 5: G). Faith, ns Luther
said, "Is a lively, biiBy, active thing,
so that It Is Impossible for It not to be
ceaselessly working good; It does not
ask If good works aro to bo done, but
before it nsks it has done them, and
Is over doing." Such faith does savo
a man.
Hut "throughout James's discussion
the name 'faith' Is taken In a broad
and general sense, covorlng any de
gree of acceptance of Christian truth."
Prof. Johnstone. Jnmes was writ
ing to tho Jews of the "dispersion"
(Jas. 1: 1). "Men dwelling as those
Jows dwelt. In tho midst of a heathen
population, wero temptod to triiBt for
their salvation to their descent from
Abraham (compare Matt. 3: 9) and to
their maintaining tho unity of tho
Godhead as against the polytheism
and Idolatry of tho nations. They re
peated their croed (known, from Its
flrat Hebrew word, as the Shoma),
'Hoar, O Israel, the Lord our God Is
ono Lord (Dout. C: 4). It entered Into
the morning and evening services of
tho synagoguo. It was uttered by the
dying as a passport to tho gates of
paradise. It was to this that they re
ferred tho words of Habakkuk that
the just should live by faith (Hab.
2: 4)." Cambridge Bible.
Such faith, which was merely out
ward and formal religion, did some
good. It proserved Its subject from
the defllemontB of heathenism; but In
tholr place It established a pride and
excluslveness that were almoBt as bad.
Paul distrusted It as much as James,
and would havo joined In the question,
"What doth It profit?"
V. 26. James closes the discussion
with a forcible similo: "As the body
without (literally, "apart from") the
spirit Is dead, so faith without ("apart
from") works is doad also." "Of our
own human wisdom wo hnd boon
rather inclined to say that works wore
Ilkest to tho body, and faith to the
breath or animation thorcof." GUI
cott. "But tho npostlo'B view seems
rather to be this: Faith Is the body,
the sun and substanco of tho Chris
tian life; works (obedience), the mov
ing and quickening of that body, Just
aB tho spirit is tho moving and quick
onlng principle of tho natural body."
Dean Alford. James does not enter
Into tho question which must como
first, faith or works. It Is porfectly
plain that ho consldors both to be
necessary (see also v. 21). So does
Paul. There Is no contradiction be
tween tho two, only a difference of
emphasis.
Robertson's Illustration Is tho light
ning and tho thunder. Effective light
ning (not harmless heat lightning) Is
always accompanied by thunders, as
faith Is alwnys accompanlod by works.
It is the lightning nnd not tho thunder
that strikes the troo, but nover the
thunderloss lightning, So It Is faith
that Justifies, but never the worklesa
faith.
Archbishop Whatoly's famous illus
tration of a boat pulled by two oars,
"faith" and "works," nnd going In a
circle when ono nlono Is used, Is de
fective because It implies that faith
or works can exist alone
AFTER
SUFFERING
ONEJEAR
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
liam'sVegetable Compound
Milwaukee Wis. "Lydia E. Pink,
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and I would llko to
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in addition to my
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otabio compounu lias uono ior
"Mns. EjimaImse, 833FirstSt.,
Milwaukee Wis.
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Mass.,which pro vo beyond a doubt that
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hopo of recovery.
Mrs. Plnklinin, of Lynn, Mass.,
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advice Is free.
RECRIMINATIONS.
She You have now moro than a
dozen shirts, nnd when we woro mar
ried you had only ono solltnry one!
He Yes, but thut ono didn't need
mending!
Fighting Tuberculosis.
Threo largo fraternal orders are at
present conducting sanatoria for their
tuberculous members. Tho Royal
League, tho first ordor to'tako up this
form of work in tho United States,
has a sanatorium at Dlack Mountain,
North Carolina. Tho Modern Wood
men have recently opened a sanator
ium at Colorado Springs, and tho
Knights of Pythias, ono at tho Kast
Las Vegas, Now Mexico. Tho Royal
Arcanum and tho Brotherhood of
American Yeomen will consider prop
ositions at their coming grand coun
cils for tho ercotlon of similar instl
tutlons. The Cause of War.
The fair young debutante was sur
rounded by an admiring crowd of of
ficers at the colonel's hall. Mamma
was standing near by, smiling compla
cently at her daughter's social suc
cess. The discussion was over tho
quarrel of the day beforo between two
brothor officers.
"What was the casus belli?" asked
tho fair debutante.
"Maud!" exclaimed mamma in a
shocked voice. "How often have I
told you to suy stomach?" Success
Magazine. t
THINK HARD
It Pays to Think About Food.
Tho unthinking life some people lead
often causes troublo nnd sickness, 11.
lustrated In tho experience of a lady
in Fond Du Lac, Wis.
"About four years ago I suffored
dreadfully from indigestion, always
having eatcu whatcvor I liked, not
thinking of tho digestible qualities.
This Indigestion caused palpitation of
tho heart so badly I could not wnlk up
a flight of stairs without sitting down
onco or twice to regain breath and
strength.
"I becamo alarmed nnd tried dieting,
woro my clothes very looso, nnd many
othor remedies, but found no relief.
"Hcarlne of tho virtues of Grape
Nuts and Postum, I commenced using
them in placo of my usual hreakrast of
coffco, cakes, or hot biscuit, and In
ono week's tlmo I was rollovcd of sour
stomach and other 111b attending Indi
gestion, in a month's tlmo my heart
was performing Us functions naturally
and I could climb stairs and hills and
walk long distances.
"I gained ten pounds in this short
time, and my skin became clenr and I
completely regained my health and
strength. I contlnuo to uso Grnpo
Nuts and Postum for I feel thnt I owo
my good health entirely to their u3o.
"Thero's a Reason."
"I like tho delicious flavour of drape
Nuts and by making Postum accord
ing to directions, It tastes similar to
mild high grado coffeo."
Read "Tho Road to Wellvlllo," in pkgs.
I!ver reuil the nbnvr letter? A nm
one iipnrnrn from time to time. Tlier
lire Krniilne, true, nud full of human
intercut
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