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Show .'.'THE LOST LEGIOII" NEW FIGHTING FORCE IN THE WORLD'S ARMIES. At Home In Any Part of The Eaith, Their Services in Warfare Will De of High Value to Countries Coun-tries Employing Them. The first lire of n new army has been lighted; tho worl' has a now fighting force, tho llg'htinp; force ol "tho lost legion." Tho legion ol frontiersmen, says tho IDndon Sketch, have made their first blvdutc, not. Indeed, In-deed, ns thoy would have wished it, under a sky reddened by tho glaro ol battle, but that thoy might notify In time of pcaco that they will bo ready In tlmo of strife. Thoy nro becoming an arm of lmporlal dcfcii3o and they aim nt being tho Intelligence branch of tho service when tho god of wai calls for sacrifice. Thoy represent the truo frontiersmen, men who have worked, hunted or four'it In wild countries or nt bur, the brotherhood of the campi. Guerrilla tactics are second nature to them, nnd lo It It that thoy will act ns guides, scouts, pioneers and mobilu forces for raiding. Wherever their numbers aro sudlclcnt thoy will havo n command. Typical of nil are their foundor nnd honorary secretary. Frontiersman Roger I'ocock, and the London commandant, com-mandant, Mr.l)e Horn, lioth nro born adventurors we uso tho word In Its oldor sennas, deprecating tho fashion that has distorted tho term Into moaning moan-ing somo form of skiing. Frontiers-man Frontiers-man I'ocock has been ..uiny things. Ho was cleric in tho cnblo service, a laborer on a fruit farm and a general farm In Ontario, Insurnnco clerk, survey sur-vey hand, "boots" In a hotel or nav vlos, milkman's bookkeeper, log haul or, railroad navvy, book agent, peddler of photographs, dairyman nnd trooper In tho northwest police all In two years. While trooper ho took part In tho forced march of 42 miles n day for seven days frfom Ileglna to Prince Albert. In n aln endoaor Jo pruvent tho nortbwcpt rebellion, but It was not bis fortune to finish, savo under tho Rod Crops. Half v.-ay ho was frozen nnd to was Invalided with a pension. Next ho was civil servant, trader, war corrcsp indent, missionary, sea man with Yonohama pirates, robbing the warehouses of seal rookeries; frea lance Journalist to British Columbia, special correspondent nt Kootnay mining min-ing camp, then a now creation, photographer, pho-tographer, keeper of a cigar stand, painter of photogiaphs nnd newspaper , a?cnt In the Rltie. mountains. Then home called and ho started as a novelist, nov-elist, but It was not long before he wns back In tho wilds as a cowboy In Alberta, gold miner nnd captain of n pack train A little later he placed to his credit what ls probably tho longest lone rido en record from Fort McLood, Canada, to tho City of Mexico Mex-ico 3,000 miles of rough counutry, covered In 200 days. In the South Af-' rtcan war ho was In turn In a loot-big loot-big corps (unpaid), whoso business It was to capturo Hoer food supplios, and ' In tho national scouU. Ills most recent re-cent expedition wns up the west coafct of Greenland , Mr. Do Mora, the well-known mining ongmcor, who wns born on n stock ranch In California and brought up as a bowboy, has a unique record In that at tho early, ago of 23 ho stolo a bat . tlshtp. Ho had been before tho mast. I pearling In the south seas, and, scent Ing further ndvonturc, ho threw In his lot with a revolutionary loader and, , nlded by a boat's crow speedily gathered gath-ered together, contrived to steal the war vessel Huascar from Peru. i In her bo committed piracy on tho high seas by stopping a British tramp steamer, with tho result that he had to fight II. M. S. Shnh. Ho was badly boaton, but escnpod. only to find It uecossary to surrender to tho ruling government His next expedition, made In partnership with "tho former revolutionary leader, ended In tho dls-covory dls-covory of tho famous Maghollan treasure treas-ure $2,000,000 In n sunken Spanish galleon of tho seventeenth century spoil promptly confiscated by a schooner sent by tho Argentlno gov-ernuiont, gov-ernuiont, whoso enpttnl Mr. Do llora ontorod a little later at tho head of 300 cowboys from tho IUo Negro. It was ho also who lod Col. North's ex-, plorlng expedition from Ilrazll to Ecuador. Thus adventuro followed adventure ad-venture until tho South African war broko out. At that tlmo ho was acting as mining englncor In Johannesburg nnd, seolng tho state tho city was llkoly to get Into, ho rnlsod a corps of COO noutrals to act as armed police, Tboso did their work until tho nrrlval of Lord Roberts, when their organizer formally handed over tbo placo to tho caro of Capt. Walter Klrton, also, by tho way, of tho Ixindon command. Surely n dltllcult record to eclipse. |
