Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 33, Number 332, 4 October 1908 — Page 14

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A TENTH INFANTRY ' COMES' WEDNESDAY Uncle Sam's Soldiers to Take Up Camp in Glen Miller Park. STRONG FESTIVAL FEATURE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WILL ACCORD MARCHING SOLDIERS A WELCOME UNSURPASSED SINCE DAYS OF OLD CAMP WAVNE. Not since the days of Camp Wayne back in the stirring Civil war times will there have heen bo many soldiers in old "Wayne county as on Thurs day, October 8, the last day of the fall festival Eight hundred fighting men of the Tenth United States Infantry, will be in the city on that date and their presence will be one of the strongest drawing cards of the fall festival. Peo ple from air parts of Eastern Indiana and Western Ohio will be attracted in to the city on that day and Glen Miller park, where the regiment will camp, will be their mecca. Many of the big crowds of people which will gather in the city on Military day will see for the first time a regiment of the regular army. Uncle Sam wants the American people to get better acquainted with the country's defenders and he is only too glad of the opportunity of . presenting the gallant Tenth to the people living in this section. It is expected that the Tenth will arrive in Richmond some time during the afternoon of Wednesday, October 7. Hundreds of people on foot, in vehicles and in automobiles will probably go to points of vantage along the National road west of the city to witness the novelty of Beeing a regular army infantry regiment oa "the hike." Back of the fighting column will come wagon after wagon, loaded with camp equipment, food and ammunition and hauled by the famous "government mules." Surely it will be a sight to stir tho patriotism of every man, woman and child. On the following day the troops will parade through the city and Main street will be thronged from the court house to Glen Miller park. . "Men are so queer." remarked -the blond typhlne. "What's Dew?" inquired the brunette stenog. "When my employer has a long letter he makes me use two sheets of paper Instead of writing crisscross."Bt Louis Republic

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All ready to start the biggest and best season of goods-selling this store has ever enjoyed. We were never before so fitly prepared to fill your every wants for the Fall and Winter season, in Dress Goods, Silks, Ginghams, Percales, White Goods, Fleeced Goods, Outings, Blankets, Comforts, Domestics, Fancy Notions, Staple Notions, Hosiery, Underwear, Etc., Etc. GREAT FALL FESTIVITIES enacted in every nook and corner of our store. Scarcely a counter, a case, a shelf, that isn't on the parade of new things.

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DAYS OF OLD TIME COWBOY NO MORE Grizzled Veterans Do Not Sym pathize With New Cont, ditions. v MUST BE FARM HANDS. REQUIRED TO BE AS HANDY WITH PlTCrjfFORK AS THEY ARE WITH THE LARIAT PICTURE ON OLD TWO BAR. San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 3. It Is pretty hard to find an old-time cow puncher in the business nowadays, There are plenty of hardy young cow boys, who can ride like Centarus, han dle the rope with skill and cut out and brand cattle to the taste of the crank iest round-up foreman, but the grizzl ed old boys who followed the long trails in the days when the cowman was an undisputed sovereign are standing aside and criticizing the work of their successors. The fact that the modern cowboy is part farmhand is what brings a snort of contempt out of the old timer. The big cattle ranches of today are. without exception, putting up hay and alfalfa for winter feeding. It is cheaper than facing a winter like that of 18S9, that killed 80 per cent of the cattle In northwestern Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. Nobody thought of winter feeding cattle in those days and when cattle couldn't paw away the snow to get at the bunch grass they simply starved to death, while Mr. Cowman figured up his losses. Today, says a writer in the Chronicle, with broad acres under irrigation, the cattle owner puts up enough hay to tide him over a hard winter, and after the spring roundups are over the cowboys turn in and exercise with the pitchfork until the "all round-ups begin. Pitchfork was Too Complicated. "You couldn't get an old-time cowboy to do any farm work," said Charley Russell. Montana's celebrated "cowboy artist," to the writer. "Maybe there was a little wild hay put up for a pet saddle horse, but generally speaking all the "critters' had to rustle their own living. They tell about an Old cowboy when things began to change. The new ranch owner showed him a pitchfork and told him to get busy. The cowboy stood off and surveyed the pitchfork from every angle, and finally he walked away shaking his head. 'That's plum past me. mister he said. 1 never could run a complicated piece of machinery like that You'll have to hire a farmhand to do it. My business is punchin" cows. And that's what makes a false Inote In The Virginian.' In my estima

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It is harvest time, with its abundance, its fullness, its completeness, surely never such a bountiful harvest of Ladies' Fashionable Garments as are found in this section. Newest models in Ladies' and Misses' Coats, Suits, Skirts and Waists, Infants' and Children's Coats. WE EXTEND OUR HEARTY INVITATION TO YOU to attend the beautiful style show in our Ready-to-Wear section and assure you of Suits and Coats that will more than surpass your anticipations. We'll Show You, If You'll Come to the Show. Merchandise the Standard of Style, Quality and Low Prices. Make our store your headquarters during the Festival. .

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tion. The book is supposed to be a picture of old-time cowboy life, yet there are hens on Judge Henry's ranch. An old-time cowboy didn't know any more about hens than he did about pitchforks." But despite the fact that some fea tures of the cowboy's life have changed, there is enough of the old element remaining to make the life an attraction for the growing generation in the cattle strongholds of the West. There are plenty of hard-riding young chaps who are willing to take less pay than they could get for sheep herding, and do much harder work than the sheep man ever does, for the sake of sitting within that charmed circle of the round-up cook's fire. The creak of the saddle leather is still an alluring music in the ears of man and the call of the cowboy's life is not to be resisted any more than it was a generation ago. What if a sheep herder does get from $60 to $75 a month and "chuck" and all the comforts of life in a wag on that is as snug as a house, while the cowboy only gets from $30 to $40 for rough work outdoors in all kinds of weather? One business spells ro mance and the other doesn't and these warm-blooded youngsters in the West are no mere money-grubbers. The Old Cattle Trail. . Another feature of the cowboy life that has changed- somewhat is the cattle drive. There are no more of those tremendous drives such as An dy Adams describes in his "The Log of a Cowboy." Before the advent of the railroads cattle were trailed sometimes thousands of miles to market. The trail life was one of the most picturesque features of the old cow pun cher's existence, but, of course it is all gone today, for it 'is seldon that cattle have to be driven over 100 miles to a shipping point. In northwestern Colorado, where railroads have never penetrated, one finds the cattlemen in all their majesty. Few settlers have moved into this remote land and the range is innocent of fence. There are no wars between sheep and cattle interests. The line between the two states is a dead line and the sheep are run In Wyoming, while the cattlemen do not range north of Colorado. On this wonderful plateau land, which exercises a strange fascination over him who gazes on it, thousands of cattle roam the year round. One big outfit alone runs upward of 40,000 head in the Little Snake and Bear river valleys. It takes plenty of cowboys to look after 40,000 head of cattle, mixed in with countless other brands on a range that is not fenced. Consequently one will find all kinds of conditions of cow punchers roaming over the hills. And when the big "association round-up" is on one will get a glimpse of thirty or forty of the "top hands" of the Colorado-Wyoming country doing all kinds of fancy work in riding and roping, and performing heroic stunts at the branding fire. ' This big semi-annual round-up is a community affair, supported by most of the cattlemen in the vicinity. Each cattleman sees that his share of the round-up work is performed, and that he contributes his share of horses to the "saddle carry," and Incidentally that his own interacts on the rang are well looked

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after. It is a sort of semi-annual range inventory and few cattle get through the round-up dragnet. Still a Demand for. Cowboys. Without men to ride and rope and brand and perform the other tasks that fall to the lot of the cow puncher the cattle interests would be helpless. Consequently there is a demand for good cowboys today and will be for years to come not unskilled tendered who want to spend the summer vacation at nice easy work in the saddle, but wiry seasoned men who have the "savvy." A few days on the spring roundup would soon take all the nonsensical ideas out of a tender foot, and would convince them that the cowboy's lot is not an easy one, even in this day when the labor of all men is sv-iosed to be lightened by science. Take a dripping June day. such as the writer spent with the bunch of the Two Bar boys at the old L-7 cow ranch house, on the Little Snake river. . A mess wagon', backed up to a wall tent

and a few pyramid, or herder tents ! in.f range dictators. ed to "hang for sleeping purposes constituted the!"' here' Frm here many an exPe" camp. Everything was dripping, and dItion wa" sen ut againet the rust' hn r!oo c o,t- ,o-'lers wno levied heavily upon Routt

cold and backward. The cowboys were grouped about the trees in front of the mess tent waiting for the evening meal. Johnny, the round up cook, was sick, and his place had been taken by Slim, a tall cowboy, whose good nature was unfailing. Most me in Slim's case would have had a eood old "mmn grouch." which is the worst grouch in the world. It is bad enough to be i called upon to cook for an outfit when you have signed to ride, but what made it worse In Slim's case was the fact that he had that morning been walked n by a horse. A big groy broncho that he had roped out of the cavvy" for a mount badrushed at him like a prize fighter with Its front feet. Slim had slipped in trying to get away, and the horse had planted one foot on Slim's hip. "Then that dashed bronk stood up on that one foot and turned around on it Jest to rub it In." said Slim, concluding the story of his mishap. "I'm Jest a little dissatisfied tonight, because I didn't sign either to cook or a hoss fighter." In proof of the fact that it was no trifling Injury he sustained. Slim could not straighten up, but walked with his body bent at an acute angle. Yet he hustled about the fire with the activity of a cat, mixed up a lot of bis cuits, got them baking i the Dutch oven, and saw that the Are was kept going under the stew and the beans and the other articles hanging from pot hooks over the flames. There was no complaint out of him in spite of the pain he must have suffered, and no thought of any stiffness that might ensue on the morrow. And the fact that Slim's mind cure was efficacious was borne out at breakfast next morning, when he was spry as a prairie dog and chipper as a sparrow, though his back was still bent at an ominous angle. Johnny, the cook, has cot Slim's equanimity of temper, or else he has been sick so long that good nature has ceased to be a virtue. Wrapped In a heavy coat. Johnny sits with his un-

urn shaven face in his hands and stares moodily at the fire the while he curses the weather. Grip, he calls it, and, whatever it be, the sickness has left the cowboy colorless and with little strength. Tomorrow he is going to ride to Craig to see a doctor a mere matter of sixty miles or so in the sad dle, over roads slippery with rain. Tonight he tries to eat a little of the fare Slim presses upon him, but finally he has to put down the food untasted. He smiles a little at the skylarking of the boys after supper, but soon the sick cowboy crawls away in his tent and to slumber in damp bedding on the damp ground. The rest of the boys repair to the old ranch house for a game of cards. This old stone cabin, nestled snug against a bank, is a place with a history. It was built years ago, in the days of the cattle barons. Tom Horn, who was hanged for too active work in assassinating small ranchers who moved into the territory of ' Wyomcounty herds. Here the round-ups tarte1 n the ,d df '8' and here the flower of cowboy chivalry gathered to make merry at Christmas time, with perhaps a ' shooting to add to the ex citement of the occasion. The low celled, stone-walled rooms, with their corner fireplaces and their bunks for sleePy cow punchers, seem to exude the spirit of romance. If one could get but a part of the stories the old cabin could tell, he would have not but a dozen classics of Western literature. But the boys who gather for their game of cards tonight are not of the PasL They, speak, as a rule, correctly, aioeiVwlia inal surPlus or profanity that. seems to be a part of range life. Aside from their high-heeled boots and other noticeable points of cowboy accoutrement, they might be taken for young artisans in a city. They drop occasional bits of up-to-date slang, and one of them tells an incident that befell him recently in a variety theater in Denver. They are all sophisticated and some of them are pretty extensively traveled, so far as the West is concerned. The butt of the outfit for what cow outfit coul exist without some one to iPlay jokes spon? is the lad who Is doing the horse wranglers work. He is addressed as "Rang," and anybody who can play a practical joke on him is welcome to do so. Rang is like the freshman at college. He takes the hazing good-naturedly, and no doubt makes a mental resolve to "pass it on" when some other freshy becomes the wrangler. Cards over, the boys straggle back to the camp and "hit the hay," and soon quiet reigns except for the splashing of clay banks eaten away by the booming river and the endless drip of the rain. In the morning the yellow slickers of the outfit gleam through the dawn. Slim Is as good-natured as ever, but the rest are somewhat quiet until breakfast Is over. As for Johnny he does not show up, preferring to remain in bed until it Is time for him to start on his long search for a doctor.

toon MODERN FIGHTING VESSELS " HEEDED Those Flying Above, Sailing Beneath, and on Sea Are Needed. MONEY IS MUCH NEEDED. CONGRE8S WILL BE ASKED TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION WHEN IT CONVENES IN NEXT SESSION IT SEEMS ASSURED. Washington, Oct. S. When con gress convenes next winter It will be asked to appropriate money for the building of three kinds of naval craft vessels that float on the surface of the sea, vessels that voyage beneath the sea and vessels that sail through the air above the sea. Here, . say scientists, is the limit of navagatlon possibilities, for when a man travels under land and sea, on land and sea, and over land and sea there isn't any nlace else for him to travel. Neither. surface and aerial navigation will be ' improved, of course7, but there remain no elements to conquer. The navy wants air craft of the heavier-than-air type which can be launched from the deck of a battleship to spy upon an enemy and, incidentally, drop bombs of gun-cotton or other pleasantly explosive substances upon the decks of the enemy's ships. Two or tliree such will be bought out of the navy's contingent fund without waiting for action by congress, and experts already are at work preparing the specifications upon which bids will b3 invited. From being the laggard among great powers in the matter of aerial navigation, the United States at one bound has taken first place. No other nation has yet gotten to the point of equipping iU battleships with aeroplanes, or. as Prof. Alexander Graham Bell says we should call them aerdromes. The experts ,who are preparing the specifications are using the Invention of the Wright brothers as a base, and if the purchase is made it probably will be of Wright machines, as no one has yet appeared who gives promise even of fulfilling the requirements. Tests to Continue. . The lamentable accident at Fort Myer has temporarily stopped activity with heavier-than-air machines but when Wilbur Wright returns to America, as It is expected he will do soon, there win be a resumption of testa and a renewal of Interest. Unofficial advices from the navy department are to the effect that the specifications win call for machines to fly for four hours at 40 miles an hour without i"Hnga to carry 350 pounds and to be capable of alighting oa or

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arising from the water, with a cruis ing radius of 200 miles. The Wright ' machine. It is believed, would be equal to all these requirements except that' of arising from the water ..and if this should be Insisted upon it is not likely the navy will get an airship soon.' MAtlY NOTABLES TO BE AT LAKE MOHOIIK "wenty-sixth Conference Will Be Held Beginning October 21. INSULAR AFFAIRS, TOPIC. MAJOR GENERAL BELL, AN ARMY OFFICER, WILL DISCUSS PHILIPPINE CONDITIONS MEN WHO' WILL ATTEND. s Mohonk Lake, N. Y, Oct- 3. Major General Bell, chief of staff of theUnited States army will be one of the principle speakers on Philippine affairs at Lake Mohonk conference of friends of Indians and other depen dent people. This will be the twenty-sixth seeslon and it will be opened here Oct 21 and continue until Oct 23. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Unite States commissioner of education will preside. On the first day Indian affairs will be discussed by Francis E- Leu pp. commissioner of Indian affairs; James S. Sherman, republican candidate for vice-president: the Rev. George L. Splnlng of California; Superintendent Firedman of the Carlisle Indian school and about twenty officials of the Indian service. The second day will be devoted to Philippine affairs. In addition to Maj Gen. Bell, addresses will be made by W. Cameron Forbes, mcmb?r of Philippine commission; Henry S. Ide of Vermont, ex-governor of the Philippines; Senot Pablo Ocampo. Filipino congress; John T. McDonoagh. formerly of the Philippine supreme court; Mason S. Stone, formerly superintendent of Manila schools; E. J. Hill, member of congress from Connecticut; Charles Hopkins Clark, editor of "Tli. Wartfnrrt fonrant"- Pantafn J. E. Bloom, U. S. A. and others. Hawaii and Porto Rico will be diecussed on the last day, the speakers including Edwin G. Dexter, Porto RK can commissioner or eaucaaon; ueo. Cabot Ward, auditor of Porto Rico; Senor Martin Travelso, Jr.. and Senor Rodlriguez Serra. of San Juan; Charles Hartxell. formerly secretary of Porto Rico: ex-Governor George B. Carter of Hawaii and W. A. Bryan of Honolulu.