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ormij? hobbbs I (|y silver "squill in "Our Dumb . northem boundary of *""? .ml Oid Mexico. ? region wsrJ"***the ,tatfof. yuh' If Svtito, New Mexico, Arixona *h0, L of California, there are M hTbo thttn a mi11*0"?*0"16 Rl million?wild horee., free ? V " arsert winds, as unbranded i^Vtelope, ?nd as untamed as the 1^ ' Over these empires of IS rtey ">am ?" th*y "Q| *8 I ,,i? lit" twin ""lir110"'" Md ?,v$*;iothed wlth<thunder. I^nie conception of thle vest reI f the Hlue Still, *nd Its unKL condition, may be had when it I ltd that, if one were to make, Boise city, Idaho, a starting *?'. ;jm. could ride straight north Irihe headwaters of the Yukon and MZ cross a fence. Or one could go wELiM south through , Southern ISio Nevada, Arizona and Old MexI to the Pacific Ocean and never |J L turn aside for wire or rail. EL one could go East for a thous* lind miles with the same,open spaces I Wore hint w^js give some idea of the reI _ over which these untamed crea S, roam, a kingdom of the Wild Ly times the size of Europe. Thcpe Itemcnts will seem like exaggeraBlions to those who have never visited 'these vast domains, yet, on a grand Ki^le of approximation they are ab (olutely true. ' I The wild horse shares his territory vith the elk, deer, 'bear, cougar, and 1,11 the other creatures of the wilderI ifss. He hears the- singing of birds which keep far from town, the crashI ;ng 0f antlers in deadly combat, and the yapping of the coyote, that little skulking gray brother of the wolf, that greets the twilight and the Wking of the day with his mourn| ful cosmic cry. r Wild horses distribute themselves with a nice eye to several things. Always there must be plenty of grass, ind several different places to drink. Then, the country must not be too twd' A horse is too heavy for mountain running. He selects his home according to numbers. If there I is a smajl "band," smaller grazing ground will do. If there is a large "band," he must have more. I It is quite well known to those of aswho grew up with wild horses that I they observe a clearly defined social system and order of family life which positively prevents inter-breeding. They are organized on the Patriarch il plan. The females are collected into groups of from ten to fifty, and Ate always presided over by some lordly male, that is sure to be a re lentless tyrant. These groups, which Bare usually called "bands," locate in tome regioi: which strikes their fan <y. and if not molested will remain there indefinitely. | If in a snowy country each "band"' fill have a "summer rafige" and a K*rinter range." These are occupied according t.. the seasons. B7 Having collected a nucleus for a' following, the male builds it up by liny methods well known to polite human society. For instance, he will lake long. Military journeys to some lettlement. and endeavor to lure away domestic stuck, and in this he is Wully su ' ssfu 1. "With wide-open louth ai,.; flattened ears he will drive th. -tolen females to his "hand," a- once they have become member- wilderness fraternity then- rur... from the ranches im jKdsauhy mo as wild as the othI &rf]et.n onc knight stormed the cast:. another, taking every ^'n? A ' . these chieftains of the Unfenoec :: go boldly amTlake by force th.- tire group of another **ie. j: no patriarch ever sur fade re ; following without first jw* ui . battle with the invader. |lofse ,ts are ferocious and ^ead.y .r extreme, in which the &<i.a:r.r. ,j <-ach other with their J*tr' ar- angle one another with If one goes down the r ? ( ! upon him trying to 5?h r. rt th sheer weight. i./ A whipped, outclassed, the will wander about until ^ r'as <1 another following and a' range. B T'?\ r'' -o a process of weeding ' ^ x a male deletes his own 'Pur.t.' m his "band." These " out join other societies > . so that there is a :.rtg of members going | between the different ' ' "v.s way wild horse blood f ep; ' ' y pure. As the young' UH ^eir "bands" new L ' - pre-emted, and so the | ' ''' ' " - species is extended. L '" "> lone rider approaches L_ ' ' groups the patriarch, al^ 4f " '^okout for danger, gives *nort of warning, The mothers eir (""its awake and the 4<band" r t"g"'her and dashes away in ?Ppo?iu, direction. Usually the neep51 h<ftween the intruder and Ud n ?Wlnc* driving in the. laggards, Peking the entire group at full, speed. The territory of one "bend" is never invaded by another "band." These range rights are strictly rospeeted, so that each male reigns in absolute splendor alono. In the summer time wild horses go j to drink around ten o'clock each morning. When within half a mile of the spring, or. water-hole, they fall | into single file, with a selected leader, and go down one of their trails in a long string, but always very cautious-1 ly, for a wild horse has inherited from his pre-historic ancestors the fear of what may lurk for him at his drinking places. While drinking, some are always on gpard. They never all drink at the same time. k To proteot themselves from flies they often roll in the mud and let it dry on their bodies, Ibut this is not generally practiced among them. When quenching his thirst the wild horse will take a few swallows of water, then fling up his head and look about him to see if anything is trying to creep up and spring on him, When done drinking, l\e usually whirls, as if under great nervous tension, and dashes away like a thunderbolt. Wild horses do not always go to the same spring to drink. This is sort of an innate precaution 'observed by many wild animals. Having drunk their fill they usually stand, or lie, near the water-hole till about four in the afternoon when they, move away to their feeding-grounds, and do not drink again till noon of the next day. It is a very interesting fact that wild horses do not feed twice in the J same direction from their springs. I Today they move away to the west. I Tomorrow they feed to the east, so on. In this way they keep their J range fresh all the time. The trails I which come down to each watering-1 place always fade out a little way I back on the slopes. These paths are made when the horses come in to drink, not when they leave the spring. Wild horses always keep their feet in perfect condition. One never sees long, over-grown hoofs on the range, like those which develop in stalls. Just as a deer polishes his horns on the hushes to keep them sharp, a horse will travel just enough to keep his feet in good order. There is a beauty, and grace about a wild horse, and a pride of movement, with a bounding, unfettered spirit and redness of nostril and flashing of eye, which pass like a shadow when they are captured an "broken." And though they may go wild -again, after returning to their unfenced home, this beauty and spell nfever return to them. Once the withering touch of . Man has reached I them it never departs. Wild horses have facial expressions,! just like humans. 'Some are coarse, ugly, with sinister, inky eyes. Others are pretty, dainty, with the most lovely eyes and expression imaginable. They are also moved by the same feelings of attraction or repulsion which actuate us. Often, one sees cases of 'falling in love" among them, in which some handsome young male and some dainty, graceful female become deeply attached to each other, so that wherever seen they are together, and if separated in any measure they become frantic till they are reunited.. These exhibitions of sentiment are very interesting as well as very beautiful. Wild horse mothers are very devoted. When it is warm the colts lie at full length on the ground and sleep very soundly. Upon the appearance of danger the mothers seek to awaken them by touching them with their muzzles, or by quick, short little snorts. If this does not bring them up she will paw them with her foot. These colts are long-legged, and when very young will run with the "band" for hours at full speed. Also, wild horses get homesick. If driven to a corral and finally maa" tered by rope and harness, they will seem to surrender to the inevitable and to be content with their lot, but one should not be deceived by this seeming docility, for deep within him the wild horse retains a clear recollection of the old range where he was born, and a changeless Jpve for it, too, and some day he will go back. Numberless cases are known where such horses have been taken hundreds of miles away only to come back at last. If the owner happens to be keen of eye, and to have a good understanding of wild horse nature | he may detect a pair bf these exile , some day standing very close togeth-1 er, their heads in opposite directions. He will see them touch noses often, indulging in some mysterious communication. Also they will be themselves, very watchful, and seem ingly not in the least hungry. These are the symptoms of migration, /in sometime that night they will vanish. For, among many other thing* Hi the heart of a wild horse is homesickness, and you may be sure he knows the way back. ^ Raymond Poincare, World War president of France, on Sunday celebrated hi?*7dd birthday anniversary at Sampigny, France, on Sunday. T "Z Air Route Leads To Great Capture Fort Worth, Texaa Aug, 15.?A storm, sufficient jn intensity to force an American Airways pilot from his course, brought about the capture of JIarvoy Bailey and the discovery of the "prison" where Charles F. Urpchel, oil millionaire, was held while his abductors negotiated for ransom. Urschel reported to department of justice agents an airplane regularly passed over the house at 9:16 a. m., and 5:45 p. m., daily, except one Sunday morning, lie noted the date he failed to hear the plane. Agents checked all airplanes whose pilots Hew regularly through t^e south west. The check narrowed to the American Airways. Pilots' logs and weather charts during the period of Urschel's nine-day captivity?July 23 to July 31?were closely scanned. They discovered that.one pilot, on a Sunday morning, had swerved his course to miss a storm. The pilot was asked to plot the course he took away from his usual route. The agents took the arc he made and completed a circle, then took to the air to search that area. They spotted the hide-out, aided by descriptions of the place as given by the oil operator. The capture followed. No Time To1 Boast. Dallas, Texas, Aug. 15.?The federal government's challenge to the crime world's master minds held a new meaning today with jail bars framing the faces of Harvey Bailey, one of the nation's most desperate gunmen, and nine other persons arrested in three states. "They'll never take me aliVe," Bailey once boasted. But when he was aroused from sleep to look up into a machine gun, he changed his mind, and remarked: "Well, it looks like it's just too bad, doesn't it?" A # The machine gun slyaing of four officers and their prisoner at Kansas City June 17 an^l the ransom kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel at Oklahoma City July 22 are only a few of the crimes charged up to Bailey by authorities. Hansom for Urschel has been reported a* high as $200,000. Four of five persons arrested with Bailey were held. They were Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Shannon, a son, Armond, and his wife, Mrs. Oleta Shannon. The fifth person, Earl Brown, was released. At Washington, William -Stanley, assistant to the attorney general, putting before the nation the facts of the government's decisive, smashing cleanup of the Urschel kidnaping and the Kansas City massacre, pointed out the Urschel case was the first in which the victim's family had notified the federal government. He said three confessions to the Urschel abduction had come from among thoSe under arrest. "Thus," he said, within the course of only a few weeks after the perpetration of two of the most startling and dastardly crimes in the annals of American history, the law enforcement arm of the department of justice has reached out and captured the parties responsible for these- out rages." Invoking, then, the might of the government, he appealed to the people to come to it for aid. "This division," he said, "has aided so unerringly in the apprehension of the recent kidnapers that we are asking you to consider carefully the record of the.division and to cooperate fully with it should occasion arise." "It is ridiculous to think that the gangster and rackoter, a negligible proportion compared with the _ great body of American people, is superior to the mind, ingenuity and resources of the nation. The department of Justice will neither temporize nor equiyocate in attacking this problem." Attorney General Cummings expressed belief that Bailey, an escaped Kansas penitentiary convict, was the leader of one of the country's most dangerous criminal gangs. Cummings said Bailey had been identified as an operator of a machine gun in the slayings at Kansas City. The slaughter resulted when gangsters attempted to free Frank Nash, fugitive convict, while he was being returned to prison, only to kill him accidentally in the hail of bullets that mowed down four officers, including an agent of the department of justice. Bailey, taken at a lonely farm cabin near Paradise, in north Texas, and the four others arrested there, were being held here for probable early return to Oklahoma City. Bailey was captured Saturday, but news of his arrest was withheld until j Monday I* "the hope other members of his gaf?g might return to the rendezvous. Federal operatives, aided by local officers, surprised him. They said they found marked money that had been paid to effect the safe return of the oil operator. Urachal went with the federal agents to the lonely cabin and there I identified it thoroughly, even to finger-prints. no time for hysteria On the wave of every patriotic movement, there ride a few overzealous citizens who, swayej} by intolerant notions, are prone to criticize their ' fellowman without due triaL All cases are not parallel it must be remembered. The hat that fits Tom Jones does not fit John Smith. A little time and hell find a hat to fit him without being forced to wear a misfit. There's no use to get all hot and bothered about this N!RA, We a/e all patriotic and want to do what's right without inflicting undue hardship. Some cases are moro complicated than others and cannot be adjusted overnight. True, the bugle has sounded "to war," but the man who goes to the front without his gun is better off at home. Preparedness is half the battle, and it is suicide to go off halfcocked. Every business man knows this. -So sit steady in the boat and we'll see what wo can see. Keep a stiff upper lip; attend to your own knitting and rest assured that the other man is doing the same. If he . isn't attending it properly, Uncle Sam will teach him a few tricks. But don't condemn him until he has had an opportunity to put his house in order ?in a business way, not haphazard, guess-work plan?that will only bring about trouble and worry. This is a novel experience Uncle Sam is undertaking. It's one that requires cool, deliberate, cooperative thinking and working together. It's a plan embracing something that this nation has forgotten in its mad scramble to make money, the appli cation of the Gordon Rtile in business principles. It is a departure from the cynic's creed of "every man for himself" and instead, a helping hand to those in need of help. Everyone wants to do what is right. Few there will bo who deliberately take advantage of an opportunity to capitalize on his fellowman's restrictions. But if such proves to be the ca?e, there will be t I - 1 .. ,=9 j a way to force him into line. Just don't get excited. Don't commence yelling "unfair, unfair" until the one fo whom your remarks are intended has had an opportunity to get hjs house in order. Thing's aro going to work out /ill right and everyone will shoulder his part of tho burden.?Cobb County Times. A tombstone weighing.400 pounds is reported to have 1)660 stolen from a cemetery at Fort .Worth, Texas. To Farmers 1 1 Our Ginnery is now in first I , class shape and we are prepared to . render the same satisfactory service i I that we have in the pa?t. j Rhame Brothers % ' We also call your attention to. our line of OLIVER FARM EQUIPMENT. We have in stock a complete line of Mowers and- Rakes o ; : ' ' . V. ' The New GOODYEAR PATHFINDER e ^9Ktti _. Wl DO OUH PANT I ?AND your dollar buys MORE right now than it may ever buy again. 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