Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1893 — PASSING OF THE COWBOY. [ARTICLE]

PASSING OF THE COWBOY.

"' John G. Carlisle, who is concedbe the ablest man in Cleveland’s Cabinet, is not a college graduate, while all the remaining Secretaries have received diplomas from some collegiate institution. A St. Louis man overstepped the bounds of propriety to a remarkable extent, recently. He became so hilarious over the prospect of getting married, and indulged in liquid refreshments to such an extent, that he forgot all about the wedding. - The Emperor of Morrocoo has 6.000 wives and could give Solomon points on domestic trouble. The King of Siam has 000, and is supposed to sympathize with Brigham Young. Other Eastern potentates manage to worry along with a smaller number of helpmates ranging from 400 down to 250, To President Harrison personally belongs the credit of the car-coupling act which passed Congress and is mow a_ law. The railroads are_ given time enough to make the needed changes, and will suffer no hardship and but little additional expense, while many valuable lives will annually be saved. There is literally no end to the prepai’ations for the entertainment of World's Fair visitors, and the Inter-Ocean is authority for the statement that the competition will be so brisk, and the espionage of the press so strict in behalf of the public, that people can live in Chicago as cheaply and comfortably as at home, while seeing the sights. - TnE House of Commons has a wine cellar capable of holding some £40,000 worth of wine, and it is stated that in the average Parlia mentary session 7,830 luncheons and 10.650 dinners are served to members and 1,120 luncheons and. 1,190 in the stranger’s room. Legislators the world over seem prone to conviviality, and we should, not critizisc our own law makers too harshly when we read of their shortcomings in this respect.

A good man writes: “I have been a member of the M. F<. church for forty years, and have suffered with dyspepsia and insomnia. I took Blunkety Blank’s Balsam and am cured.” This implied reflection on that great denomination is rather sad, but all will rejoice that he has been cured of his piety and dyspepsia, and will hope that his slumbers may not in future be disturbed by visions raised by Calvin’s creed or champing colic’s crucial pains. The impression is said to prevail in England that America is given over to exhibitions of ill-manners and mob rule to a greater extent than any other civilized country in the world. Still we can hardly match the hoodlum exhibitions that have lately taken place in London. On a recent Sunday a mob followed Mr. Gladstone’s carriage from church and hissed and hooted at the Premier. Americans may be a little rough in some cases, but we seldom descend to such a despicable method of getting even with a political opponent.

The English aristocracy are said to be hard up, and many of the most ancient families are this season renting their town houses and elegant country seats to wealthy Americans, aijd are living in retirement instead of lavish magnificence as has been their life-long custom. Whether their irapecuniosity is real or assumed can not be ascertained, but they are at least p; ofiting by the free-handed American way of spending money and at the same time are experiencing a change from the monotony of an unending round of amusements which have been almost their sole occupation in the past.

Tiie Sault Ste. Marie canal carried a larger tonnage than the Suez canal last year and the bulk of the business originated in the United States. The tonnage was also largely in excess of the Mississippi river, and was almost as large as the entire ocean tonage of the ports of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It can easily be seen that in case of war with England what vast interests would be at the mrrjy of British batteries. England is the sovereign power on Canadian soil, and one bank of the Sault canal is in Canadian territory. In time of peace we should prepare for war, and the only proper protection in this case is the annexation of Canada. ~~ *" J Tri* Governor's palace at Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been historically famous for three-hundred years, and fe older than the settlement of

Jamestown or the landing at Plymouth Rock. Gov. Prince, in a recent report, has strongly urged the United States government to take some effective steps for its preservation. This should by all means be done, oven if New Mexico is to be admitted as a all indications are that this measure of justice Is likely toYTetaycd indefinitely. So valuable a relic of the! early history of this continent should not be allowed to tumble into mins for the lack of a comparatively small expenditure for its restoration, IyY::

He Exists Still in Wyoming and Tc.x- ---■ as but Hts-CHory Has Departed. Boston Transcript. Texas produced the herder and cowboy. Texas produces him yet in his fullness, Last winter when the cattle “kings” of Wyoming were trying to kill off or drive off the actual settlers who were making homes on Government lands and breaking Up the vast ranges that had been used for years without permission, the settlers were found to be too strong for the “‘kings.” It became necessary to have help in- the work of depopulating the country, and Texas was called upon to furnish the men. They were of the herder or coWboy type; and no other State could produce their equals for that particular work. Before they “cut loose,” however, it was decided that the settlers had better be left in possession of the lands they had homesteaded for themselves. Utah has the best herders in the United States. They are as a rule, Mormons, and do not partake of the Texas characteristics of the same 1 class, in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado the. herder is no longer a “holy terror.” Twenty years ago he was all that phrase implies save the “holy.” I saw the cowboy element just as it was, never totally depraved, but always wild and often dangerous. There were Pawnee Indian women about the camps and equally barbaric white women in the village. The herders all drank and gambled. They would run accounts between pay-days, and a fair percentage of the debts were paid. At times a herd of herders would take possession of the village; that is, they would fire up on forty-rod whisky, mount their ponies, and with pistols cracking and lariats flying they would ride and run over the town like wild yelling Coinanches. Then it was dangerous to be out and about. Then doors were locked and such windows as had shutters were closed. Now and then a man would be hurt, but the law was afraid and nothing was done. When the whisky worked off, the boys would tell yarns on each other and laugh over their frolics. If they had been a murderous lot, I would not now be writing