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THE MAD MEX.
!When watching the bathers on the
:beach at Santa Barbara I got to talk-
ing with a 'bronzed rancher from the
Imperial ,Valley. I was surprised and
much pleased to learn that d had met
shin before When 3 was in the Coco-
pah country in 115917. I knew him - at
that time as a cheerful, determined
Tonus cowboy who had come into
-3/lexica from California to build up
his health after a bad attack of influ-
enza, Ile 'was camping alone and
made a living trapping in the thickets
and swatmps of 'the Colorado River
delta. Es' told me the fo'llowing story
about an 'adventure 'with a Mexican
'bandit:
II ran out of ammunition once when
d was carped dawn below Punta
Pinta ,on anise IITardy )Slough, I 'had ridges, and that this would put me
scat in for some cartridges by an In- in an embarrassing iposition. 1So I de -
:Hart about a month before and hadn't cidetl to make a quick walk for my
seen hide u10 hair Of Elam since, I fin- mount and say good -.by. from the
ally decided that !1 would go out and saddle lust the moment i8 horse was
gather my traps and then head for! out of the mud. B'ut the big Mexican
the Yuma hardware store.'Mind you,' was too quick 'Por mc. IB'efore T fully
I'didn't have one cartridge left, realized what was happening he had
11 headed for my trap line brighti slipped out his binife and /had step-
and early the next morning, !I was ped tip close to 'hie,
along .across a big mesquite 'c1 Want your antnitunition," hd said
,'riding' a g �,,
flet out in She Cocopah Boittonis .when i i Spanish.
1eiard a' lot ofcursing and splashing "C'ertain1y,' said T p'u11tely, 1 was
on,ahead where the trail crossed an
arra of the warn, I rode up and
"Do you want the gun' too?" I
asked.
j0'Yes, 11 want your gun too," he
said, "Don't .'rove your hand toward
it.' Then he added, "I am Pedro Cas-
tro, from Sonora." And he showed his
teeth like a dog. That }vas intended to
throw a scare into me. And it did:
'Pedro Castro had a record that would
scare any one. Then, holding Itis knife
lhis
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at my ;chest,he reached
other hand and took my revolver.
Ilnstan't1y I whirled and rant like a
whitehead, I figured that .he would
try to sllioot the, and that when' •hc
found the revolver was not loaded he
'would go after me with the knife.
That is exactly what happened. I
don't know how long we duck ed and
dodged round in the mesquite thicket.
I was lighter on my feet than the big.
Mexicali, 'and that was all that saved
the. IT was as scared as a cottontail
being run down by a coyote. I knew
that I was pulling wwarse than he was,
and that it would be 'only 'a ,matter of
time, .until he would stick that knife
into me..
lSo, all" of a sudden, when iI 'had a
mesquite tree between shim and rte,
I ,turned' and scooted for my mount,
II heard those big feet pounding the
pound behind me, and I surely did
do my best,
i1.y horse was standing with the
reins wrapped ,round the horn. I'Ie
saw Inc corning .ancl was rearing to
go as T vaulted into the saddle.
The 'big Mexican, who was close
behind, made a flying Ileap and grab-
bed at the. T was already loosening
my reins from the saddle Thorn, and
now, as my mount bounded 'forward,
•I kicked at 'Senor Castro, landing
hard on his outstretched arm, 'Was
there a mad !Gila monster on the Co•
copah B'ot'toms ? Just 'jtarsi ng ' from
the way his 'face looked, I should- say
there was.
tT took a .quick look over my should-
er just before my mustang entered the
thicket and saw the bandit making, a
dive for his mou'n. And the horse.
evidently deathly 'afraid of hitt, let
out a snort and shied away. •I remem-
bered then with great satisfaction that
the Mexican had been in such a hurry
to collect my antnninitioo before 3
could say good -by to him that he had
neglected to make his horse fast.
There was a twenty -font 'horsehair
rope trailing from the animal, but
even at that I judged it would be a
hard job 'to catch him,
Smut IT (lidn't slow dosvn anydon't
think it. I knew that the bandit might
be lucky enough to get his horse
cornered up in some place where a
pocket of land ran into the swamp.
f
knew only ton well that the Mexi-
can's black could run circles round
my blocky buckskin.
My mount was a cla s,A brush
horse, and it kept me busy staying
on him as he dodged in and out
through the drooping branches of
mesquite trees. I was just beginning
to think T had made my escape when
I heard the brushbreaking behind
rte, at gave me a kind of sick feeling
because Ii knew that big brute of a
Mexican was coming on his fast black
horse.
To tell the truth, 'I was scared half
out of my 'boots at the thought of a
fight with Castro, i1 should have been
afraid of hon even without his knife.
There was something about that ratan
that would scare anyone. 'Then again,
1 was running away, and that .takes
anyone feel like a rabbit. Fruit the
way the brush was breaking behind
1 knew that the bandit was riding rip
on nme as though I were standing still.
I was trying to screw up courage
enough to stop and fight it out with
Castro in the first opening that if
came to when I suddenly found my-
self riding into a trap that I couldn't
Possibly get ont of. There are Pot's of
those swamp pockets in the Cocopah
'Bottoms where a strip of land runs
out into the tu'les. There is generally
a feed trail running down the middle
of them where 'hoofed animals have
goite back and forth ,to graze on the
green stuff along the edges. ,So now,
when I saw the cat -tails banking tip
on both sides of sue and caught the
smell of the swamp thud, I knew
what iI was running into. Those
swamips 'wou'ld bog a saddle blanket;
so, as there was nothing else for
it, 3 set my mount up in three hops
and whirled hent round,
'T saw Pedro Castro coming on
down the winding feed trail like a
whirl wind, ide was swinging down,
now on this side, now on that, dodg-
ing overhanging boughs. 1-l:is power-
ful 'black horse was staking the silt
and llittle limbs 'fig in ,every direction,.
When the big Mexican saw that I
had pulled, tip he laughed and Whip-
ped out his ,knife, 3 could see tlmrtt he
was in the sante crazy, 'brutish rage as
when I had found him mauling his
'helpless horse.,
a 'Have never been so scared in my
life as t 'was at tlmat mo'men't—nor so
'fearless as I Was ithe next. The
change carne like a lightning flash,
Then all that rabbit lfeeliag'' dropped
'behind me. la seemed aS though I
con3cl see, hear and think 'twice as
well l as at any tini'e before. 11 fully es -
seared ,stiff, and T guess T showed it .pected that 1tlae'bandit wotilcl cut Inc
T arcade a feint to 'unbuckle my bell:. to ribbons, but even that 1J of ght
found a big, tough -looking Mexican
cruelly abusing his horse. The poor
brute was. stuck in the mud, and the
Mexican was crazy mead 'because it
could not struggle out. 'The horse
was a splendid black, as pretty as
animal as I have ever seen.
I1 said that thi5 fellow seas tough -
looking, but that doesn't describe hint,
Iris glinty slits of eyes made me think
of a rattlesnake, and his jaw, and the
muscle bulging up all over him, made
me think of a Gila mom'ster, 3 suspect-
ed 'from the amount of silver on his
saddle and hat, that he was a bandit.
iSu d didn't want to have a thing to
clo with hint, particularly as 1 was
carrying sant empty gun. However,
the Cocopah country always had:
more than its share of those bad
hombres, and so far I had never had
any trouble with any of them, al-
though 'I treated them all like honest
sen. 'So, nat having the heart to go
off and leave that splendid black
horse to be drowned in the mud, or
to' be mauled to death by that ruffian,
I 'decided to take achance.
'L\\'zit a minute," 1 said. 'Let
that horse rest awhile, and I'll get
him out for you."
I got off my horse and cut several
big arum -loads o'f tules. The Mexican
helped •rte, using a long, double-edged
knife that cut like a razor, Then I
tramped' the rules in round and under-
neath the animal, so that he would
have some footing. By the tine we
had gat this cions the (horse was rest-
ed enough to struggle to good ad-
vantage, and presently out he came.
'While working 'svith the horse 1
had noticed that the Mexican didn't
have a single cartridge in his belt, and
that he was . casting envious 'glanced
at my belt, which was well stocked
with ammunition --that is. it looked
that way, ,being filled with empty car-
tridges. If had picked up a lot of
empty shells and placed them in my
belt so as not to advertise the fact
that T Was roan -ling round' that
country with an: empty guns 3 fig-
ured now tliat the Mexican would
w-a.nt to buy or borroux a few cart
,didn't have the power to break my
spell of fearlessness. •
IZ instantly realized', that I had a
good sturdy block of a ,horse under
rte, and that he was stilt going
strong. So I 'jumped: my ,horse
straight baok down the trail toward
di'edro 'Castro. You see ,I had n'o in-
tention of giving him the advantage
that a 'm'an hes when he rides down
i.
ort a matt who is standing still.
iThe Moment tI made that move
the lbandit knew what I was going
to do -that is; he thought he knew,
He thought I was still running away.
He could see that I was cornered in
the sivamp ,pocket and doubtless !fig-
ured that I was going to try to dodge
past hint on the narrow feed trail on
which fI had entered. "Thai was the
only way out, as the brush on both
sides was too thick to ride through.
So he now instantly pulled his 'horse
in, bringing him up standing out
of a full run in a few terrific jolting
hops.
The Mexican was rids' less than a
red feet 'ahead I Tead of one,es horse
was cavorting, and Castro, pretending
that his mount could not be ,control-
led, let him sidle well off the trail. S
saw' that he was purposely leaving
the trail open so that I could go by,
3 'knew" howeasilyhe could whirl his
horse round the moureint I had pass-
ed and, in a few bounds, be close be-
side me. IAiid then the knife.
IT kept my buckskin on a dead run
until we came nearly abreast of the
Mexican, Then, all of a sudden, I
jerked his head clear over to the -right
toward the cavorting black horse,
,The next second' bang we went into
the big Mexican, and down 'we went
all in a heap.
II flopped ,clear over and out of the
tangle, lending on open ground.
Looking round, 3 saw" 'Castro's horse
lying flat on his side. 31v motutt was
sprawling all over the black's hind-
quarters. The Mexican was out from
under the pile except for one leg.
,My horse picked himself up almost
before I could scramble to my feet.
I sada' instantly that Castro was emp-
ty-handed; trying to save himself in
the fall, he had lost his hold an the
knife. 1 saw- it and my revolver 'both
lying on the ground, I ,went after
them like a .chicken picking up corn.
!When 3 whirled on the 'bandit he
was rising painfully to a sitting posi-
tion. He sat there for a moment .glar-
ing at Inc like a trapped wolf. Then,
without my saying a word, he said,
I give up, 11 am 'killed."
Without taking any chances on
Castro's suddenly grabbing me, 'I tied
his hands behind hint. He \vas unhurt
except that one knee was so bully
jammed that he could 'hardly move it.
'l'he bandit offered me his horse,
saddle, bridle and spurs and tss-o 'hun-
dred dollars in gold if 'I Would take
hint to the dndian rancheria and turn
him loose, But .I tied hint securely to
a mesquite tree and rode tel the near-
est camp of rnrales. Two of then
started off on my back trail to get the
bandit—and I headed for Yuma. 1
didn't stop to eat or sleep until I
reached the Yuma 'hardware store and
had loaded up with ammunition.
"THE LONGEST WAY ROUND.."
"Albert 'Bangs has found out some -
thin' about that young man he had
workin' for hint last stunner," Dea-
con Hyne remarked to Caleb Peas -
lee, "and it goes some way to'rds
,beam' what he done 'with a com-
plete suit of overalls and juniper that
,Bangs got for him; they went away
one night ---o the feller said—and
they couldn't 'find 'eat 'high nor low,
'B:angs made up his mind a tramp
tools sent, but now he cal'latcs the
hired .tan was responsible for their
do appearin',"
'What makes hint cal -late that?"
Caleb Peaslce asked.
"'He was rakin' the weeds out of
that watcrin' hole clown in 'his past-
ure," the deacon replied, "and what
should he fetch up but a pair of over-
alls and a jumper tied round a rock
as big as your head."
\Vltat'd he want to git rid of 'em
foe ?" Mr. Peasiee demanded.
"'He didn't like to wear 'em," the
deacon replied simply. "He said it
made hint feel 'sif he was in uniform
again, and he cliiht't like the feelin',
'B'ut Albert was sot on it, so he wore
'em a spell—till they went away, 's
yon might say:"
"T -Te aright have known they'd turn
sup sometime," Caleb remarked; "the
water ain't nt'ore'n two font deep in
that pond, and it goes dry- some-
times,"
I s'ipose the cleacan speculated,
'that he figgered if ever they turned
up he'd be away and not sarin' what
Bangs thought about !t."
"Like 'nough,° ,Caleb agreed, "but
'that ain't always `a safe w=ay to 'figger,
T guess, T learnt one time that it
wa'n't anyway. 'This time Isom think -
in' of was when they used to, grow
more Wheat in this section than they
do n.oe-ad'ays. IN my young clays we
used to grow all the wheat we needed
and have it ground near by.
"Raisin' wheat that way, an acre
at a. time nt'ebbc, seed wheat used to
he sleeted careful' --the biggest and
fullest heads, you 'mossy, to pit a big
yield. 'Well, one year my father'•d
saved nteb'be two bushels of extra
good seed wheat, and he made ready
a piece of ground for a seed bed, It;
laid over on the fur aietige of the farm,
and to git there we had to either cross
a slough ]vole ar else go rotund the
end, and that made it a quarter of a
mile- further. So, !Dein' a boy, I used
to take the short cut over a log that
we'd laid. across to serve as a bridge
sort of.
""Well, this day father'd made LIP
his mind that wheat ought to ,he in
the ground, but he'd cut his foot and
coftldn't travel; s"o he started me off
with it, kttowiit' 3 could sows it as well
as he could if fI give any mind to it.
'Boy like, I had things 'hough 3
wanted to do that day, but sowiti
wheat wa'n't one. of 'eat; so I made
up my mind I'd make what haste 3
could, and when .I got done me'hl,e
I'd slip down to the broolc attd see if
I could find a trout or two. And to.
.tale the more haste I made up my
mind to go by the log bridge,
'I had the wheat in a two -bushel
bag with the neck gathered up in my
hand II was in too shush of a hurry
to tie it The log was extra slippery
that clay, but ,T kep' on. till 3 was most
midway of it --and then my foot slip-
ped.
"When a boy shoots off'a a log
sideways, satne's i3 did, saviti what
he's got in his arms is the last thing
'he thinks of, So I let go all halts on
the bag; and when 3 'come to gather
it up again 11'd lost'near's I could cal' -
late in the neighborhood of half a
bushel of it—and where'd been scant
'nough of it for the ground in the
fust place.
'However, I scooped up what I
could git of the wheat and by aid-
chin' my sowin' and scatteriii it thin-
ner I made out to cover the groaut,
and then lI stilled my conscience by
thin kin that tellin' illy father it
wouldn't seed the ground any thicker.
So 1 kep' still about it.
"'Whether it wa• .a sort of guilty
,fectin" that kep' me away from that
slough hole or not '1 don't know, but
one day father came back from the
lower field,. ami S noticed hint stop
and look at me a minute kind of
funny; and then he said: "I'd like
for you to conte with me a minute or
tw•n. 'Kellup.
'Hc led along to'rds the slough
hole, and when he got there he stop-
ped. 'Look in there!' he says, You
can imagine how- I felt when I saw
wheat two foot high and grosviii
like weed;—a goad deal better stand
than there w'as fn t! e field f snu'ed 1
"\1"a1,'' said 'Caleb, "there wa'n't
anything for use to say, so I said jest
that—till he questioned rte, and then
I told hint every word. And when 1
got through he said:
'3 ain't goin' to read your any lesson
over this. Kelltrp, inore'u to say I
hope you'll see it the better way to
tell things when you .know you ought
to and to say that I'll expect you to
harvest this wheat by hand and re-
place the seed you lost. It'll he a
slow job, hut all expect you to do
it, mind 1"
"Anes I done it too—by hand," Cal-
eb concluded. "31ebbc that's why I
r'nteniber the w,h,ole thing so well 1"
MULTIPLE BIRTHS
The birth, and even more extra-
ordinary, the survival of the Dionne
tot lets of Corbell Ont, is suf-
tl p
ficent to fix 1934 as a year of marvels
in medical history, but humanity,
never satisificd, seems bent on dis-
covering evengreatter. near -miracles.
\iultiple births have seized on the
public imagination all over the world
since the widely publicized arrival of
the live 1Dionne sisters, and almost
daily new:, sometimes all too Mac -
urate, comes of more birth tvonclers.
For instance, twins were born to a
woman in an, obscure Rumanian vil-
lage the other day, and., through
some error, word got around that she
had borne sextuplets. It caused a
one -day furore in medical circles. for
while science has authentic :records of
the birth of thirty-three sets of quin-
tuplets since the year 11694, only twice
have there been unquestionable births
of sextuplets,
!Then there is the tragic and true
story of a uttala who while reading
about the Dionnes, teas infotinted that
Itis wife had given birth to quadrup-
lets. 1 -le dropped dead,
!Leaving aside a number •of quaint
medieval legends about multiple
births, there is no record of more
than. six children being born at one
time, and science therefore is inclin-
ed to sot that figure as the limit.
Mlle first authentic case of sex-
tuplets occurred in Italy in ASS'S.
These w•ercborn prematurely= and.
died within a few- minutes. The sec-
ond took place on April 119, 11903, at
Agora, on the Gold Coast of Africa,
the another being a native av0ntan 'who
ist-nt t,y had given. 'birds to quadrup-
lets and two sets df tdiplets. The tiny
sextuplets all died within four clays.
'The chances of sextuplets, surviv-'
in•g, therefore, seem practically,. .til:
But medical history shows that the
chances of the Dionne quintuplets
were aI,ncest equally slim. Neverthe-
less these youngsters ,have gone right
on establishing a world record every
hotu' of their lives, The longest any
member of a set of quintuplets ever
lived before was fifteen days. Yet
not one, but all Of the little Dionnes
are still growing and thriving as the
second month following their birth
nears its end.
IExaminatiote of medical literature
on tau tiple ,births reveals same fas-
cinating .facts.Not one of the thirty-
three authenticated cases of quintup-
lets have they been born to a woman
previously without children. All the
mothers lead borate alt least one child,
and the average was -a;3 Statistics
showthat quintuplets are most likely
to be born to adieu 'between the age
of 30 and 33. Pc number Of them
brought twins, triplets and even qua-
druplet: into the would after produc-
ing the quintuplets, Although all five
of the Dionnes are girls, boys are
,greatly predominant in quintuplet
birth.. :1'fie ratio is about 1155 males
for each 1100 females,
The last previous birth of quintup-
lets in America scan the famous Lyon
boys of Kentucky, born' April 2i9, 11894.
Their parents had seven children pre-
viously, one at a blirth !The quintup-
lets were born within the ,short space
of twelve minutes, and seemed per-
fectly
er
fectly normal and healthy. They'
weighed together, 3L ,pounds, as
cmnpared with the 113 pounds 6
ounces total weight of the Dionnes,.
Yet one of 'the boys died four days
after birth, and all had succumbed'
by the fourteenth day.
'The worldwide attention focused 0u
the Dionnes brought a claim to the
honors of an event greater miracle
from members ,oif the Bushnell fancily,
but lacking lincoitrovertible scientific
data, medical science was 'unable to
grant the claim. It was, in brief, that
sextuplets were bora to a Mrs. Bush-
nell in Chicago in 111569, and that font
of them still live. The other two were
carried off by typhoid after livingmonths,severamonths,D'io
Until the little ones began
Banging up their records, the mortal:-
ty of quintuplets and sextuplets was
101) per cent within a fortnight of
birth. Quintuplets, however lived
longer than sextuplets az a rule.
Quadruplets arc ,far less rare, and sev-
eral' sets of then have lived to matur-
ity. One such set recently appeared in
a Broadway musical comedy.'But tit!
chances of survival for quadruplets
are less than for •.triplets, and triplets
have a slimmer chance, comparatively.
than twins,
tRut all tl-e cold, sckeittiftc facts
about multiple births fade when com-
pared with medieval legends. One
the most fatuous deals with
haughty Margaret, Countess ofHol-
land, who flourished, in, the early part
of the fourteenth century. The tale,.
like so many of its kind, carries a
fine moral. As related it iiauriceau's
"The Diseases of 1\\•ort an WithChil•1
and in ChildsBed," is as follows;
"But I esteem it .either a \[iraa4,.
or a Fable, what is related in ` the
History of the Lady Margaret, Cann-
es of ITolland, who in the year 1o113
was brought to bed of 365 children
at one and the same tine; which ha:, -
petted to her, as they say. by a per,:•
\Voanan's Imprecation, who asking an
alias, related to her of the great mis-
ery ,slue was in by reason of those
children she had with Iter; to w hist
the Lady answered, site might be con-
tent with the inconvenience, since sit:
had the pleasure of getting them."
HOLIDAYS.
The automobile, which has brought
color and variety into the lives of
many people, has on the .other hand
put an enol to some worthy holiday
pursuits. It has t•ansportd families t)
ponds and lakes and sea beaches, en-
abled tltent to picnic in attractive
places that without the automobile
they would never have been likely to
see. But it itas made walking and bi-
cycling along any ,but the most se-.
cludecl country roads disagreeable if
not actually hazardous, and for all the
opportunity that it has given people
to get out into the country it is a
question .whether on holidays it is not
used principally as a means for rapid
and rather aimless transportation
through the country. The pleasure of
passing swiftly through an attractive
countryside or along city boulevards
is, not especially' profitable; it exer-
cises neither the muscles nor the
mind. People are teniperamentably
restless; it is unfortunate that so
many of then shnuid .devote their
'holidays to a recreation that is really
nothing mare than idling id high
speed.
'Persian Balm creates and ,preserves
lovely and youthful contiplexions.,
Clones and stimulates the skin, Frag-
rant as a flower. 'Cool as mottling
clew: S'si,ittlg ab'sorbed by the tissues,
.raking the skin wonderfully sof soft-
ttextuned 'Uttri,vallcd as an aid to fenm
inine eleganlce. !Delightful to use. Im-
parts additional dhadm to the daintiest
of women. -••'Persian Blalnt is the one
toilet requisite For the exacting w•oati-
an. Peerless as a beautifier,
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