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HERDS OF WILI Hundreds of Them !R Hi] There is a more or less general im- J pression, encouraged to a considerable es'.ent by magazine and newspaper articles, that the wild horse of the plains, so woll known in the early days of the West, and about .which so many stories of adventure have been written and so many romances woven, is practically extinct. Don't bolicve ic. I cau take you to a range high up iu the mountains of Nevada, within thirty miles of the station of Battle Mountaiu, on the much traveled over land route of the Southern Pacific Company, and show you band after band of as genuinely wild horses as were ever "creased" or lassoed by the heroes of the early plains tales, exist ing under exactly the same conditions as then and just as diifioult to cap ture. And what is true of this parti cular spot is undoubtedly true of oth er regions. ti> In the oase of the wild horses of to day in the particular section of Neva da concerning which this artiole is written, the history of the escaped war horses of the early Spaniards has to a considerable degree repeated it self. They owe their origin to a band of domestic horses which were turned loose on the hills and plains baok of Sheep Creek Mountains, to the north of Battle Mountain, Nevada, some thing over thirty years ago by the late J. A. Blossom, a prominent land owt er and mining man of that section. There they have since remained, breeding and running at will, and un til the last two years or so no attempt har been made to capture them, ex cept in rare individual cases. For more than a quarter of a cen tury they have worked out their own salvation, without let or hindrance, in a country as wild as when the conti nent was discovered, full of deep can ons and maze-like runways and scarce ly ever touched by civilization. The conditions are the same as found by their earlier prototypes and like con ditions have brought about like re sults. The country over whioh these horses roam is ideal fov their freedom, isola tion and concealment. The Sheep Greek Mountains are a comparatively short range, rising from the valley of the Humboldt River less than a half dozen miles north from Battle Moun tain station so abruptly that the 2,000 to 2,500 feet to their summit is made in traveling a distanee of scarcely a mile and a half from their base. In the region noted it is estimated that there are now in the vicinity of 2,000 wild horses, bui. their method existence and travel in small bands, numbering from half a dozen to twen ty head. Each band haste stallion as, i its leader and there is praotioally nev- ! er more than one stallion to a band, j As soon SB a male colt acquires growth and strength he is either driven out of the old band or voluntarily leaves to form a band of his own. j The leader is in every sense and re spect the master of - the band. The members of his family are suoh by his will and' acquisitions are made on ly with his consent. The stock on the range is frequently added to by strays from distant ranches or from some vaquero oamp. This has been parti cularly true in tho past two years, when effort has been made to capture the wild bands and a cowboy camp has been maintained in the hills for orach of the time. I have seen iron-shod saddle mares, jacks and even mules as members of the wild banda, all "apparently as wild as the stallion leader, but I have never seen a gelding in such a band and am told that they are never permitted to join. The few that escape to the plains and hills may occasionally be seen in bands by themselves and are certainly wild enough after a few months' running to be classed with any on the range, but they are out casts so far as the majority are con cerned, j When a single stray, either from another baad or from a ranch or camp, approaches a wild band there . is a sarefnl inspection on the part of the \ eader before permission is given to oin. Hidden among the sage brash [ have watched a leader leave His land, stop an approaching mare and J ?old an apparent confab of ten or fif een minutes before giving a decision, le touobos noses with tho would-be lember of his family, walks all about er and examines her from every side s elosely and carefully as the inspeo ; or of cavalry corps aqd finally either oth join the waiting band or the out . idor is forced to, start off in a diff?r ?t direction. The region ,whero these wild horses cist, both on the "flat" and on the :' ountain sides, is gridironed with ails made by the banda going forwa r. The horses never remain near ;. jo water courses after satisfying their ) HORSES STILL ange the J3ig ISTevada Lis. thirst, preferring the open country. Catching these wild horses ij, as may well be imagined, esciting and difficult work. Amoug the men en gaged in it the work is called "run ning" wild horses and that is -what it amounts to. The va*]ucros run them down by superior skill rather than by speed and endurance and force them into sonic corrai or some baiid of gen tle horses, where they can Lc handled for market. Some two years ago R. C. Blossom, son of J. A. Blossom, and the present owner, started to round up this wild stock and turn them to some profit. Tko work had been difficult in the extreme, owing to the character of the country, the resources of the horses themselves and their great en durance. The p/incipal thing neces sary is to keep tae horses on the run, giving them no chance to rest, and finally rounding them up when in an exhausted state. The sight of a man on horseback is frequently enough to start a wild band going for the entire day. I Working upon the knowledge of this fact Mr. Blossom last year tried I the device of mounting a lot of dum mies upon captured horses and turn ing them loose, counting upon fright ening and exhausting the wild horses that caught eight of them and then running them down with fresh ani mals. The scheme was only part ly successful, owing to the fact, Mr. Blossom believes, of his not being able to get enough dummies in the field. ^ The difficulties of '.he chase are en hanced by the fact that the quarry has learned to post sentinels on the lookout for danger. The country is nearly all rolling and the first sight of a band is usually of one or two look outs posted on the crest of a knoll, plainly on the alert, although miles away. On attempting to move nearer the entire band appears and after a moment's gaze at the intruders starts off in its "dirty trot," the stallion in the rear. This trot is as deceptive as the lazy lope of a coyote. It looks easy to overcome, but the pursuer soon finds that it eats up the miles with surprising rapidity and that it oan be kept up all day and all night if ?-'-ecssary. When the band is met unexpected ly the most exciting work occurs. At olose quarters the mustangs break in to a run and the race is to the swift. Here, when there is no doubt that eaoh member of the band will strain every nerve, the stallion takes the lead and makes every effort to pilot his family out of danger. But let the rider eucooed in getting among the escaping horses, swing his riata and attempt to "lass" or "cut out" one of the mares, and the stallion will turn instantly aud'with mouth.open, teeth gleaming and mane flying, rush at the disturber of his family unity with a fury that is both fearless and terrible. There may be no real danger of at tack or injury in such a case, but in a rush of the sort that I saw a magnifi cent bay stallion make at Bob Blos som a few weeks ago, when Bob tried to cast his riata around the neek of the queen of the harem, looked like the real thing and was sufficiently confusing to secure tho band a fresh start. A wild stallion is a jealous guardian of his host and will frequently turn threateningly even when the pursuer is a oouple of hundred yards away. The captured wild horse is far from being easy to handle and hic rueful ness as a saddle-horse is problematical. Under intelligent training at the hands of a skilled rider they may be made tractable and their strength and endu rance make them valuable animals, but one that has a strain of vioious ness is a tough proposition and will, warrant olose watching. A number of those horses were pur chased some time ago for the German army. It is a safe wager that a few of Willie Bohenzollem's officers have ere this had a touch of the real thing io the booking line that would rival an exhibit in a wild West show.?San Francisco Chronicle. { _--, m ?,- ... The Gator Called a Halt. Aa Brother Williams was preparing to baptize a convert in the mill pond, the convert said: "Bre Y Williams, ain't that a alliga tor on that log?" "Hit sho' is," exclaimed Bre'r Wil liams, "en a ton-foot one at dat." "What we gwine do 'bout it?" "Well," repTied'Bre'r Williams, 'de water mighty col- ter-day, en doy's lots er pneumony gwine 'ronn'; en, 'sides dat, you ain't fittia' 1er be bap* tized, nohow. v Go 'long home en pray over yo* eins." \;y$jS What a Horse Would Say if he Could. Please to take off these closc-?ttiug blinds and give me a chance to use my eyes like otaer folks. And thee, here's this cbeek-rein. It pulls my head away up in the air. It hurts my mouth. It sometimes gives me a throat disease. I can't see the road so well and am likely to stumble. I can't draw near so much as I oould with my head down, and I can't draw near so easy. * tight check rein puts me in<. constant pain. Please to kind'- take off this check rein or lengthen it out so that X can put my head down where 1 want to when I am going u?^ hill. Aud then, there's this mattet' of overloading. If I generally draw kindly, but sonic day give out aud stop, aud toll you as plainly an I can that you have put on too much load, it isn't right to go to beating and swearing at mc. It is much kinder and better to talk kindly and throw off part of the load or get another horse, or if the wheel is in a hole ask the people near to take hold and push. We horses can't tell our feelings as you can. Sometimes we are dizzy? sometimes sick. Sometimes the hostler drives us half tho night, and then turnt- us out for a day's work next morning. Sometimes he don't get up in time to givo us our breakfast?sometimes he forgets to water us. And then we got, old and feeble just as men do, and the older we grow, if we have worked faithfully, the more kindly we ought to bo treated, and it isn't right when we have given you a lifetime of faithful service to sell us off in our old age for a small sum into the hands of hard masters. Two men or boys of the same size can't do the same work, neither can two horses. We ought to have shade in summer, warm stables and blankets in winter. Our stomachs are small and we ought to be fed and watered often. We are glad to get a slice of bread, a pieco of applo, and a dipper of wa ter. Always feed us from the palm of your hand so that wo may not bite your fingers. When you put us in strange stables never trust the hostler to give us the oats, but go out and Bee that he does it, and stay by us till we eat them, and see that he don't forget to water us. Never put the bits into our mouths on a oold day until you have first warmed them, so that they won't take the skin off our tongues and make it painful to eat. You wouldn't like to have frosty iron bits put in your mouth on a oold day. Always warm our bits in oold weath er, and when from old age we oan't chewf please take ub to a horse doctor and have our teeth filled so that we can. When you find our blankets blown off in oold weather, plea&o put them on again and tuck them under the har ness. Don't keep twitching the reins when you drive us. You wouldn't like any body twitching the reins all the time if the bit were in your mouth. Don't over-drive us, and then on the other hand don't let us stand in the stable all day without exercise. Horses and dogs need exorcise every day, and can't be well without it. You wouldn't like to be tied up in a stall all day and not be permitted to go out. Please to make it a rule that you will never ride in a carriage drawn by a horse with mutilated tail, or a poor looking horse, when you ean possibly help it, and always look at the check rein. Always select the oarriage that has the best looking horse and tell the drivers why you do it. Then when we get run down, we should like to be sent oil in tho coun try to take a little vacation and piek up. If all the boys and girls, every time they see a poor, miserable looking horse, would simply say so the driver oould hear them, four words, "I pity that horse," it would be a great bene fit to us. But above all things, kindly remem ber that yon oan do us a world of good by simply talking to ua kindly, telling ub w? are good fellows snd all of that. All we horses and dogs snd.birds and all dumb animals know the tone of your voices, and we like to be talked to kindly just as well as you do. You oan make ua very happy by on !ly talking to ub kindly. And when it becomes necessary that we should die, don't let anybody try to kill us that don't know how, but send ub to our sooiety for the preven tation of cruelty to animals, that employs skillful men to kill all horses sod dogs and cats humanely, and let them send a man to kill us mercifully, without fore-knowledge and without pain. Geo. T. Angell. Stops Cough and Works off. the Said. Laxative Bromo-Qninine Tablets cure S oold in one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price 25 cents. ? The more ways a man thinks over to got a girl to let him kiss her the surer he is to find that the best way is just to go snd do it. Travel Underground. Paris, London, Boston and New York have underground systems of railways, known as rapid transit sub ways, which have cost these cities, respectively, many millions of dollars. Wh .n Surface and overhead travel becomes heavy, then these rapid tran sit companies dig tunneis underneath and for a while the outside congestion of travel is relieved by the under ground routes. It is estimated that London's 300 miles of subway system transports more tban three hundred millions of passengers every year. Per a long time London's subways were ruu by steam alone, and great complaint was heard of dingy entrances, dark tuu neL<, siuoko and fumes from the en gine. Some years ago tho principal railway adopted electric traction, when many of these difficulties were obviated, aud nearly all have begun its use. As early as 1S70 Paris begun to study underground railways, aud tho success of the Parisian undertaking has been superb, but New Vork is forging ahead uuttl it will soon excel all its rival cities A countryman visiting New Vork would be almost dazed to discover that be could ride in a well lighted rapid train, under a great river, with perfect ease and safe ty. Engineering victories aro many and great. T'he skill of these experts is almost fathomless. When we know that New York city haB a perfect net vyork of water pipes, gas pipes, Bani tary conduits and all sorts of things under the streets of that city, it would seom impossible to build an under ground railway in the midst of these conduits, but they not only have done it, but are continually doing it with out disturbing the trade and travel of the great metropolis above. To tunnel under a river covered with boats and steamships is not considered anything of a difficult job nowadays. A : tunnel under the Chicago river makes as nice a roadway for street cars as could be wished for with its white walls, double traok and electric lights. These motor oars barely slack en speed as they go down a gentle in cline and dart along and out to the other side of the river. It is the per fection of rapid transit for passengers and no sound from above indicates that a navigable stream is flowing along above their heads. When the scheme for riding in the air is perfected along with rapid tran sit under ground, it may be that the surface will be beautified by trees, flowenj, plants and fountains for the pleasure of its inhabitants. Fifty years from now this aerial transit will beoome as common and praotical as motor oars are at present and underground travel will he as se cure and comfortable as our present facilities for travel on the surface. I ean recollect when railroads in Georgia were largely carried on trestles be tween Maoon and Savannah, and the first railroad in the South between Aiken and Charleston was entirely built on trestles before I was born.? Mrs. W. H. Felton, in Atlanta Jour nal. AnlUnfinjshed Life. I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest whioh has been more than once cut down. Tho new shoots aro stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, towards tho sky. The sunshine is on my head. Tho earth gives me its generous sap, but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds. * * * You say the soul is nothing hut tho resul tant of bodily powers. Why, then, is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fall? Winter is on my head, and eternal spring in my heart. Then I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses as at twenty years. The nearer I approach tho end, the plainer I hear around mo the immortal symphonies of the worlds wbich invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. It is a fairy tale and it is history. For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verse, history, philosophy, drama, ro mance, tradition, satire, ode, song?I have tried all. But I feel that I have not said the thousandth part that is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others, "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley. It is a thoroughfare. It clos es in the twilight to open with the dawn. I improve every hour beoause I lovo this world as my. fatherland. My work is only beginning. My monu ment is hardly above its foundation. I would be glad to see it mounting for ever. The thirst for the infinite proves infinity.?Viotor Hugo. ? Some women ai-o so modest it makes them blush to get into a bath tub after a man. ? A girl never feels her engagement is ideal unless she is sure she is not good enough for him. : . ? No woman who has a child of her own can be entirely just to some other woman's ehild. YorkvlUe's Dispensary. ?orkville, S. C, August IS.?The outlook is that Yorkvillc is going to make a practical etfort to ascertain the present sentiment of the people rela tive to whether or not the majority still desire a State rum mill. A pe tition has been prepared, and has al ready received a number of signatures, askiog the town council to order an eleotion for the purpose of giving the voters an opportunity of expressing themselves. Of course everybody knows that the infamous law makes no J provision of legally removing a rum mill after it has once been fastened on a oommunity, bat there is a hope in the bosoms of the people who oppose tho institution that if a majority de sire to have it removed a way will be devised to comply with their wishes. While there has boon no practical test of the sentiment of the people on tho subjee*.. the opiuiou prevails with many that a number of people who originally favored the establishment are now opposed to it, aud if there is a voter in the town who originally op posed it and now favors it he has said nothing to indicate his change of view. ?News and Courier. Is The Child Now Alive.' Windsor, Ont., August 10.?Dr. James Brien, a practicing physician of Essex, Ont., abr-ut twenty miles from Detroit, has just made public the re- j suit of an experiment conducted by uiuibuii and an assistant last Thurs day, which may lead to a remarkable scientific outburst. By the uso of tho Faradic and galvanic currents, alter nately applied, Dr. Brien says that he induced life in a child born dead. Though a considerable time had elapsed from birth until the electricity could be brouguc into play, the infant began to show indications of heart ac tion after fifteen minutes' steady ap plication of the currents. "We increased the current persist ently," says Dr. Brien, "and in ten minutes more were rewarded by seeing tho child breathing naturally and the heart beating normally." While physicians hero are loath to believe the experiment a practical one, several admit, among them Dr. Car stens, the well known surgeon, that it is not beyond the bound of possibility. Dr. Brien says that he will prove all his statements. He is well known in Essex County, and has been a member of Parliament for some years.?New York Tribune. Jeb Stuart Models. Tho Stuart Monument Association, through the ohairman of the execu tive ooromittee, Capt. Marion Dim mook, is receiving a number of models that are being submitted in the com petition called for by the Association. Theoretically, at least, not even the oommitteemen who are to piok the winner are supposed to know whoso model is whose, and so thero is not much information to be gleaned con cerning the contest beyond tho faot that designs havo been received from Mr. Gudebrod, Mr. Morahan and Mr. Sicvert, and more are expected every day. Capt. Dimmock is having them set up in a large room over Brown's Cafe, near Leo Camp Hill, and when all of them are in the executive committee will be called to select the best design. The specifications called for designs, under three feet in height, of an eques trian statue, of hcroio proportions, of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, to bo delivered for $20,000. It will bo set up on tho knoll in front of the Capitol portico on a pedestal to bo designed and built by tho committee.?Richmond Dis patch. __ Use Tracks For Telephone. The New York, New Haven and Hartford recently made some exper iments in the use of tracks in placo of wires for telephone service It was found that communication was very successful for a distance of a little over two miles on a singlo rail. This rail was insulated in two different places, owing to block signals which are worked on that division. Tho uso of the track did not interfere in any way with signals and little trouble was occasioned from tho proximity of elec tric railways. At tho time the test was made the rail was not free from snow and ice, as it had snowed only a few days previous. The experiments was made for tho purpose of demon strating tho practicability of the traok systom as a supplemental agency in comveying messages, which would be useful in case the overhead wires were demoralized by storm or from any other cause.?Philadelphia Record. Locked In Each Other's Arms. Beaufort, Aug. 20.?During an olcc trio storm on St. Helena Island a few nights ago two little negro children, while asleep, were struck by lightning and killed. Their mother was awak ened by tho smell of brimstone and was horrified to discover her ohildrcn dead. The bolt had entered an open window. The little ones were looked in each other's arms. They were bu ried in the same coffin, having been greatly attached to each other during ! life. INVESTMENT Increase from 1 to 420,000 in Six Months ! By actual weighing we have proven that one pound of our. r?TTTHSTT^ SEED Will increase in the above proportion?that is, one pound of Seed will ruako 420,000 pounds of feed for your stock or 420,000 pounds of eatables for your table. Will have a fresh lot of the above Reed shortly. Get iu on the "ground iloor" by investing in a small amount of Seed now. It will beat the "East Dcwey Gold Mine Stock." EYANS PHARMACY. Ml I E ?THi W A |Cure3 Cholera-Inf anluro, Diarrhoca.Dyscntcry, and the Bowel Troubles of Children of Any Age. Aidi Digestion, Regulates I the Bowels, Strengthens the Child and Makes TEETHING EASY." Or raall 25 cents to C. ?I. MOFFETT. M. D? ST. LOUIS, MO. Opfici? or D. IT. Ua?idt, Secretary of State, Austw, Tex., Not. 21.1300. X havo found Or. MofTctt'a TEETIIINA u aplendtd remedy and nil for mr teothlnjr children. When ray oldest boy waaa> teething clilld, o?cry aucceodlnc day warned us that wo would inevitably loso him. I haj-penod npoa TLETHINA.nnd besan utonco adminliterinjr ittohtci, and hi* 1 .18 Uk> Bl W tiwJl.V.I EJOf I Costs Only 25 cents at Druggists, raprovoraent was marked la 21 hours, and from l h av.? constantly kept it and used inloco with my children, and hnro taken firoat I fauud It iuTJlaablo oven after U;o toetaiofc mm. u. il. iiAiu>y. that day on ho remunerated pleainroln soun Ii-JK ha praUca to ail mother! ol y'uuuK childj-sc period waj passed. Special attention is invited to a new shipment of? STOVES AND T? A "WriTFS! P Which we have just received, aud which includes tho very latest patterns,., both coal or wood, adapted to the re.piirenienta of this market. If you require anything in the Stove or Knuge line we solicit an oppor tunity to explain tho merits of THE ACORN ? We also carry a complete and up-to date line of TINWARE, WOQBv EN WARE and HOUSE FURNISHINGS. t&- Guttering, Plumbing and Electric Wiring executed on short notice. Yours truly, _ARCHER & NORRIE WANTED! JVtixLes and Horses, I would like to tiade a few Buggies and Wagons for some nice Buggy Horses and Draft Mules. I have the largest stock of Vehicles and Harness in the country to selectlfrom, and can certainly please you. J. S. FOWLER. Wheat TAKE NOTICE. Do not Fail to try our Spec ially Prepared 8 1-2 2-2 Petrified Bone Fertilizers for Gram. We Lave all grades of Ammoniated Fertil izers and Acid Phosphates, also Kainit, Ni trate of Soda and Muriate of Potash; all put up in new bags; thoroughly pulverized, and no better can be found in the market. We shall be pleased to have your order. IBDtRSOH PIOSPHiTE MD OIL CO.