The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-14

liz bee branch of the service when the god
of var calls for sacrifice. They repre-
sent the true frontiersmen, men who have
worked, hunted or fought In wild coun-
tries or at sea, the brotherhood of the
camps. Guerrilla tactics are second nature
to them; and so 1t is that they Will act
as guides scouts, pioneers and mobile
forces for raiding. Wherever their num-
bers are sufficient they will have "a conf
mand
Typical of all are their founder and
honorary secretary, Mr.. Roger Pocoek
and the London commandant, Mr.. de
Hora Both are born adventurers-we
use the word in its older sense, deprecat-
ing the fashion that has distorted the
term into meaning some form of skunk.
Mr. Poeoek has been many things. He
was clerk in the cable service. a laborer
en- a fruit farm and a general farm In
Ontario, insurance clerk survey hand
boots in a hotel for navvies, milkman's
beekkeeper, log hauler, railroad navy,
book agent peddler of photographs dairy
man and trooper in the northwest police
all in two years. While trooper he took
part in the forced march of forty-two
miles a day for seven days from Regina
TO Prince Albert in vain endeavor to
prevent the northwest rebellion; but 1t
was not his fortune to finish, save under
the Red Cross. Half way he was frozen
and so was inyalided with a pension.
Next, he was civil servant, trader war
correspondent, missionary seaman with
Yokohama pirates, robbing the ware
houses of seal rookeries; free lance jour
nalist in British Columbia, special corre-
spondent at Kootenay mining camp, then
a new creation; photographer, keeper Of
a oioar Inf ~ nh nh "a
newspaper agent in the Blue mountains
Then home called and he started as a nov
elist; but 1t was not long before he was
back in the wlds as cowboy in Alberta
gold miner and captain of a pack train.
A little later he placed to his credit what
is probably the longest lone ride on rec
ord-from Fort Mcleod Canada, to the
City Of Mexico, 5000 miles of rough coun-
try, covered in 200 days In the South
African war he was In turn In looting
corps tunpaid), whose business 1t was to
capture Boer food supplies, and in the
national scouts. His most recent expedl-
ton was up the vast coast of Greenland.
Mr. de Hora. the well-known mining
engineer. who was born on a stock ranch
in California, and brought up as a cow
boy. has a unique record. In that, at the
early age of three and-twenty, he stole a
battle ship. He had been before the mast
pearling In the South seas, and, scenting
further adventure, he threw in his lot
with a revolutionary leader, and aided by
a boats crew speedily gathered together,
contrived to steal the war vessel Huas-
car from Peru. In her he committed
piracy on the high seas by stopping a
British tramp steamer, with the result
that he had to fight III. NJ. s. Shah. He
was badly beaten, but escaped, only to
find it necessary to surrender to the
ruling government. His next expedition.
made in partnership with the ey-revolu-
tionary leader ended in the discovery of
the famous Maghellan treasure-2 mill
lions in a sunken Spanish gaeon OF the
Seventeenth century, spoil promptly con-
fiscated by a schooner sent by the Ar
gentine government. whose capital MIR.
de Hora entered a little later at the
head of 300 cowboys from the Rio Ne
gro. 1t was he also, who led Colonel
Norths exploring expedition from Brazil
to Ecuador Thus adventure followed
adventure until the South African war
broke out. At that time he was acting
as mining engineer in johannesburg. and
seeing the state the city was likely to
get into he raised a corps of % neu-
trails to act as armed police. These did
their work until the arrival of Lord
Roberts, when their organizer formally
handed over the place to the care of
Captain Walter Kirton-also. by the way
of the London command. Surely diff
cult record to eclipse