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Sv-iv? JV "&r r "1- ( ""iV T-3- t " y - - The Clew of the Liquor Bottles '' Edited by William J. Bacon ATrue Story of the Secret Service, asTold by Capt. Dickson )ME 'years ago, before I be- Scame conneciea wnn me United States secret serv Iaa in 1ia i4cf T vrae an. gaged by a member of the western express com panies to do some special work for them." began Capt Dickson. "My head quarters were in Denver and my work, on the whole, was decidedly interesting. One adventure in particu lar made me proud of my service for our company, although it was largely a matter of luck that brought about my success in that instance. I am a firm believer in luck, for it plays an important part in every man's life, and it has figured to a large extent in my own affairs, 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 mur dered and the passengers throughout the train robbed of all their money. The hold-up men secured something more than $15,000 from the express company's safe and fully $5,000 from the passengers. They took nothing but money, however, leaving valuable jewelry, diamonds and watches with their owners, and ignoring the parcels in the express car. This circumstance showed that the gang was composed 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 with all dispatch and made my arrangement 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 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 I expected to find the criminals at some of the numer ous mining camps. "I have never been a believer in disguises except as to clothing. All efforts to change the face with grease paints and wigs and the like only tend to attract attention and direct suspi sion to the man thus togged out The casual observer might not notice the deception, but the criminal, and espe cially the hunted criminal, is no cas ual observer. He has formed the habit of noticing everything, and he will detect the least false point in a man's appearance and shun him as if he were afflicted with the plague. "A change of dress will work won ders in a man's appearance. If a man can wear other clothes than those he is accustomed to, and wear them easily and naturally, he can more 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. 1 sent the porter after a flask of whisk, asking for a certain brand. He returned in a few minutes with one of the diminutive little bot tles customarily sold on sleeping cars at a quarter a bottle. It was not the kind I had ordered, but the porter ex plained that this was the only brand of liquor the company sold, and I had to be content with it The label of the bottle stated that it was put up expressly for the company. "On reaching my destination, I im mediately assumed the character of a miner and set about my inquiry. There was little information to be gathered beyond what was contained in the express company's report of the rob bery, of which I had a carbon-copy. Satisfied that time spent here would be wasted, I set out for the scene of the robber', 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 ley which had not at that time, been brought under cultivation by irriga tion. It was easy to pick up the trail of bandits and follow it across the val ley in a southwesterly direction to the foot-hills of the Rockies, where the trail disappeared, the rocky ground leaving no trace of hoof-prints. "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 pop ulation, offered capital retreats for criminals, and from past experiences I knew that my three rogues would, in all probability, remain in one of these camps until the excitement from the robbery had subsided, and then make for civilization to spend their money. "For three days I drifted at random through the mountains, following trails and paths, for there were no roads, endeavoring .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 high waymen could penetrate some ten or twenty mile3 into the fastness of the mounatins before it became too dark to travel further. 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 persevering. SAYS BRAIN DOES NOT FEEL French Professor Declares Stomach Is Emotional Center. The solar plexus is the emotional b'.ain, says Prof. Francois Guyot An amotion that attacks us is felt there first Thus, if we feel anxiety it may give us, if severe, a positive stomach ache. It may even be productive of nausea. "While the brain does the thinking. "Late the third afternoon I stum bled on the ashes of a campfire, 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, 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 campfire. I read again the report of the robbery as given by the train hands. Near the last of it was the account of the sleeping car porter who related, with evident grief, that he had been relieved of $6.15 in silver, and that the bandits' had "rifled "the liquor cabinet of the buffet, taking with them all of the whisky and a few bottles of the rarer and stronger wines. "Early next morning I examined the deserted camp of the highwaymen. There Was nothing but a 'burned-out pile of ashes and charred sticks and a few empty bottles. The bottles gave the clew for which I searched. The highwaymen had certainly made their IflrfJvuffj3UmrL KScSHSSBBBPk m, ArfuiVflik iyjbs&issss4we LvSSIBpSpS sssssubssmbsWsI Ki "w-' .flr BBTh'VBIV ssrsssssssssssw mjWjIKw "" " I Pv I I jrAZBSIVBSSSSSSSaSEBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSa ,M ff mrm c rnc.. 's ' SV" camp 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 Denver. There was not a scrap of paper anywhere else to be found. "Elated with my success, I made a 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 nightfall. Often I 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 three o'clock that afternoon I found something that made my eyes sparkle. Shattered Into a thousand pieces was the remains of one of the small whisky bottles on a large flat rock beside the trail where it had doubtless been cast in a playful mood Induced by its contents. Among tho 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 obliterate the trail. For five days I followed the bandits across the hills 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 bottles 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 insig nificant mining settlement I lost no time in getting to Ouray, for it was impossible to trail my men along this road and I was sure they had headed for the mining camp. "Two days were spent at Ouray without finding a trace of the three Prof. Guyot opines that it does not feeL The cerebrum, the major part of the brain, is the intellectual, but not the emotional center. The brain represents the intelligence. The spinal cord and the cerebellum, the latter the little brain, not yet well understood, and attached to the brain proper, govern equilibrium and the muscles of the body. But the emotions are lo cated in the sympathetic nervous sys men. They had not stopped there cer tainly, so I took the trail to Telluride, a mining camp farther on in' the moun tains. Telluride waB then a camp of 800 or 1,000 souls, and there was a 6it of a mining boom on which daily brought new prospectors to swell its citizenship, fatuous souls brought there by the greed of gold a lure that neyer fails to attract victims in swarms. For three days I searched in vain through the saloons and dance halls and other places where the rough miners congregated without finding a trace of my three rogues. That Infal lible, sixth sense of mine was doing its best to keep me longer in Tellu ride, althonugh my judgment told me to move on to Silverton; but in the end my Intuition won the fight and I remained: "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. I complained of the poor quality of whisky and asked my acquaintance if there were not some better 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 men tioned. 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. I inquired about the gen- OX TffPEP mA0O MM OfifV erous owner of the good liquor, with a show of indifference I was far from feeling. He was a late arrival, it seemed, and lived in a shanty far up on the mountain-side with two com panions. The three were making a rather poor attempt to work a claim they had preempted. "Getting away from my loquacious miner-friend, I climbed the steep trail to the cabin and set about an investi gation of it with great caution. The men were at home, and from the sounds issuing from its closed doors I tguessed they were having a rare old time that evening. I approached to the very door and listened with my ear to the planks to sounds of revelry within. The men were gambling 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 mention of the express robbery. Pittsburg Man Perfect Fiend' to Quote Statistics, Ac cording to Writer in Harper's. The Pittsburger can carry more fig ures of large denomination on his per son without your suspecting their ex istence than any other citizen of the United States. He is a reservoir of decimals and statistics. He must have ample justification, however, be fore he turns the spigot, but when he does there is a torrent no man .can stem. If provoked and inclined to extend himself, in a five-minute talk he can fill you so full of miscellaneous indus tem ramifying through the body. Their chief center is the great plexus of nerves which lies against the back bone and embraces the stomach. This does not think, but It feels. What it does sot feel Is not felt at all, apart from pure intellectual cog nition, and its purely passive and sub jective sensations may often be re garded as warning of danger or pos sible mischief. Trap for the Piano Tuner. 'No, cow don't you take that piece "It would have been the rankest folly to have .attempted their arrest without assistance although I did tackle such a job oncein my salad day3, 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 an other 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 coujd gain a peek at the interior of the cabin,1 so I dropped down, on my hands and knees and crawled around to the back of the cabin -where I thought there might be a window There was a win dow, but it was closed with a heavy shutter, and I could not find any point to peep through; but I did find some thing 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 sur rounded the cabin, from which-stlll is sued 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 resist ance, and we captured them without F TV WPS a shot being fired. They were hav ing a big stud-poker game, played with gold pieces and currency instead of chips. There was some $8,000 or $10, 000 upon the table. Strewn about the floor were many whisky and wine bot tles. In a box beneath one of the bunks was a solitary pint bottle of whisky, the last remnant of the con tents of the buffet car's liquor store. It was, as I said, a clean case of luck." (Copyright 1903. by W. O. Chapman.) (Copyright In Great Britain.) Played on Ancient Instruments. At a concert which took place In the large hall of the Royal museum at Stuttgart recently, at which the king and queen of Wurtemberg were present, no instruments were used save spinets, clavicembolas and pianos of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen turies. The most interesting of these were the one which was once owned by Johann Sebastian Bach, and an other on which Queen Louise of Prus-. sia learned, to play. Is "Loaded - 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 that you will begin to feel like a combination delicatessen and hard ware store. I have not begun to enumerate the different data I have collected on this subject as I have no desire to make the reader feel small or to lose confi dence in himself. As I have pointed out before, the Pittsburger, or the man who is under the influence of Pitts burg, must be provoked before he un burdens. C. H. WJiite, in Harper's. of chamois," said the man at the desk, as the hand of the woman wan dered in its direction. "I know it's a nice looking piece, but I bought it specially for a purpose. I telephoned the man to come to-morrow and tune my piano. In the morning before "I come down here I'm going to lay this piece of chamois across the keys. Then when I get home I'll know whether ho has tune'd it or not If It's gone, he has; if it's still on the keys, he hasn't" NOTES. ) ninAAl MH7r Alfalfa is growing in favor as a notation crop. Poor food and bad teeth are fruit ful sources of cholic in horses. The sponge for washing buggy or vagon can be made to last a long "ime by sewing it up in a piece of bag ting. If the cows find a little feed in the oxes in their stalls when they come n at night they will not delay in com :ng in. Try it Clean feeding pails, clean quarters, plenty of sunlight, fresh air and pas '.urage as soon as the calves are old jnough will insure gratifying suc cess. We all like fruit, but too little of it s found on the farm, many times. Put in more fruit trees and bushes. The health of the family will be bet ter If there is a generous fruit diet Better to spray once than not at all. 3ut the only right method Is to be systematic and spray at the pre scribed intervals. It is well to fol ow the spray calendars which are furnished by experiment, stations. Plant more trees. In a few more years they become a big-paying in vestment Utilize every available spade on the farm for this purpose. Plan to never let a year go by but :hat you have put in a few trees. It Is too late to set any out now but sake up your mind that you will put some in in the fall and next spring. The department of agriculture is experimenting with a view to secur jig a single germ beet seed. Last rear's investigations were successful m increasing the percentage of the single germ seed to 50 per cent, as compared to 26 per cent for the year previous. By methods of selection !rom single-seed plants this percent age may be still further increased. Fhe ultimate establishment of a sin gle germ beet will revolutionize sugar Deet growing, since the several sprouts sent up by the ordinary seed, ill but one of which must be carefully removed by hand, constitutes the most difficult problem in beet raising. A large pocket knife with a sharp blade should be carried when going :hrough the orchard. With it one can cut out small branches and do a vast amount of good pruning that will save much work later. With the big blade of a lar&e, sharp pocket knife a branch nearly an inch in diameter may be easily and quickly ;ut off. To perform this operation, pull the branch to the tree with one hand and cut with the other. The bending of the branch makes the cut ting easy. Let the cut be clean, leav ing no stub, or only a very short one. Branches of pear trees that have been killed with blight should be cut out and burned. When they are promptly removed the remainder of the tree not infected will assume vig orous growth and produce a heavy crop of good fruit. A pear tree with more than half of the large branches killed by the blight may be saved in this manner and become a perfect, healthy tree. It will be well for the fruit grower who does not believe in the efficacy of spraying to study the following tables which set forth the results of experi ments in two fruit-growing counties of New York state Orleans and Niag ara, made by the state experiment station. The orchards in these two counties have been placed in two groups. The first group includes all orchards, whether well cared for or not; the second group includes only the orchards which have received good treatment Both the yields and income per acre of the orchards in the two groups is shown: All Orchards, Good, Indifferent, Poor. Niagara Orleans County. County. Bu. In. Bu. In. Unsprayed 261 $45 245 192 Sprayed once 364 93 307 115 Sprayed twice 509 101 343 127 Sprayed hree times 577 171 322 139 Sprayed four times 390 183 569 211 Only Well Cared For Orchards. Niagara Orleans County. County. Bu. In. Bu. In. Unsprayed 266 $95 328 $103 Sprayed once 353 146 346 139 Sprayed twice 422 147 374 143 Sprayed three times 440 201 414 1S4 Sprayed four times 285 226 569 211 In the first group it is noted that the unsprayed orchards in every case yield very much less merchantable fruit than those sprayed even only once, and that as the number of sprayings Increases the yield of mer--chantable fruit also increases. In the icase of the well cared for orchards Ulw UWViUUkD yoiuAya ten auiuu,, '.yet not the less convincing. t Made Provision for Speaker. The office of speaker, important as it has become, is mentioned but once in the constitution. Article I., section 2: "The house of representatives shall chuse their speaker and other of ficers." No legislation has affected that provision in any degree whether of limitation or of explication. In that instrument it was not considered ne essary to make any definition of the word speaker or delimitation of his powers, for the office was already in existence by inheritance from the set bbTeU ' BsaBssmssssssssssTAsssW.'s.P li UHHf sstBbsBbsssssssssssVJssssssssssssijK Jr Lucky is the farmer now who has wheat to sell. Owls are vermin destroyers. En courage their presence on the farm, An unprofitable farm hand Is the fellow who is brutal with the stock. The people who are looking for trouble are seldom disappointed ever notice that? An occasional day off does dad and the boys lots of good, even If It's only a fishing trip to the creek. .Yon would find a portable forge on the farm will save 'you many a trip into town for small repairs. Charcoal Is good for the pigs and the chickens. Be sure that there is a supply always accessible for them. It is poor economy to pasture the grass too close. Don't try to keep more stock than you can successfully pasture. A Jersey man has discovered that box kites flying over his chicken runs protect them from the attacks of hawks. Worth trying. Look after the horses teeth care fully. If defects have developed it is easier to fix at once than to let them develop Into serious conditions. Cheer up says the robin. There Is always a bright side to even a cold, backward season, and many a back ward season has a good ending, re member that. What would the merchant be who did not plan ahead and have the stock he is going to need ordered ahead. So with the farmer if he is going to be successful - he must plan far in ad vance. The condition of the horse's neck at this stage of the farm work is pretty good evidence as to whether the collar was made 'to fit when the hard work was begun in the spring, and whether it has been kept adjusted as the shoulders have settled to the hard work. Handle the colt just as you would the growing boy in your home. Who would think of leaving the boy until he was 21 before teaching him what it meant to obey and perform certain duties? So with the colt He should not be allowed to get his growth he fore being what is called broken. It is much easier to begin from the first to accustom the colt to being handled and to lead and drive. Try it Many a farm can be made to yield a larger profit by laying out the fields differently and planning a rotation of various crops. The .government will be glad to send pamphlets to farmers suggesting how this may' be done, and will furnish special information for individual cases where desired. Farmers ought to avail themselves more fully of the splendid services of the government agricultural experts than they do. To throw a horse easily try this method. Take a three-quarter-inch rope about 40 feet long, double it at the center and at this point tie a loop about two feet long. This forms" a sort of collar which is slipped over the horse's head. The free ends of the rope are then brought down and be tween the front legs and each passed under the fetlock joint of a hind leg (preferably from within out), passed once around itself and the end then run forward through the collar. As sistants now pull backward on the ropes while the horse is backed. This draws his legs well forward and up on his sides. As soon as the horse Is down the feet can be tied in this posi tion with the rope. The large cities are becoming more and more strict as to the conditions of the dairies from which their milk supplies are obtained, and this fact is an indication of the raising of stand ards of production which dairymen must recognize if they are going to continue in the business. Pittsburg is one of the latest cities to adopt stringent rules and she has her in spectors out looking after the dairies which ship milk into the city. The conditions which the city imposes upon dairies are as follows: Tight stable floors must be provided, prefer ably of cement construction, provid ed with a-gutter t immediately behind the cows; proper ventilation of stables, provision of at least 400 cubic feet of air space for each cow, not less than one square foot of win dow area per cow. Windows may be very cheaply constructed of , muslin instead of glass; that walls, ceilings and floors be kept clean and that the stable be whitewashed throughout at least twice a year; that stables be cleaned twice daily and that the manure be removed at least 30 feet from the stable; that the cows be kept clean, no accumulations of manure upon their flanks, sides, ud ders or tails; that the milking be done with clean, dry hands; that the milk palls be clean and sterilized by boil ing water or other sterilization pre vious to milking. A narrow top milk pail is highly recommended; 'that the milk be removed at once from the stable and properly cooled; a temper ature of 50 degrees or below is pre ferred; that 'the milk be placed in clean vessels and kept cool until de livered; that no person having an in fectious disease, be allowed to milk the cows or in any way handle the milk. 0000l0l000i English system of popular and repre sentative government The historic speakership having always been filled by selection from the membership of the body over which he was called to preside, it was not necessary to make such stipulation in the constitution. Not Likely. "You called me a crook." "I did." "Then I'm going to kill you!' "Do you imagine that that would make me change my opinion?" BURDENS LIFTED From Bent Backs. A bad back is a heavy handicap to , those of us who have to work every day. Nine times out of ten, backache tells of kidney weak ness. The only way to find relief is to cure the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills have given sossd strong backs to thousands of as aad women. Mrs. Wesley Clemens. 311 Marios St, Manchester, la., says: "Constant work at s sewiag machine seemed to bring on kidney trouble. The kidney action was irregular and the pais in my back and loins so severe I could hardly endure It Doss's Kid ney Pills made me feel better In a short time, and I took them until em tirely free from my trouble." Sold by all dealers. 60 cents s box. Foster-Milbura Co.. Buffalo, N. T. THE HINT GENTEEL. Mr. Saphead By Jove, it's nearly 12 o'clock. Perhaps I had better be goin. Miss SmartWell, they say "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do tc-day.' Sfieer white goods? in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done in a manner to enhance their textile beaa ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. A Significant Test. "So you don't think the commoa people have the nerve to defy those who seek a system of financial op pression?" "I am sure they haven't" answered Mr. Sirius Barker. "Look at me. I'm Just as sensitive to injustice as any body. And yet I never hesitate about handing a head waiter a comfortable tip for doing nothing except look haughty." . . To Check Spread of Trachoma. It has been reported that the dls-" ease known as trachoma, or granular eyelids, has been spreading rapidly among the Indians. To check this trouble congress appropriated $12,000, placing it in the hands of the commis sioner of Indian affairs, for the imme diate investigation and treatment of the disease and to check its spread. With a smooth iron and Defiance Starch, you can launder your shirt waist just as well at home as the steam laundry can; it will have the proper stiffness and finish, there will be less wear and tear' of the goods, and it will be a positive pleasure to use a Starch that does not stick to the iron. His Professional Habit. "How did that sculptor leave sis affairs?" "In s strictly professional coadft ticn." "What do you mean? "In statu quo." Lewis' Single Binder gives the smoker what he wants, a rich, mellow-tasting cigar. Occasionally a dressmaker gives husband fits. Food 1 Products MmvmrVmrylm QumNiyor Tmmim because the utmost care is. taken by fft kym Okmfm to select only the choicest mater ials, and put these up in the same careful manner every time. 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