CATTLE VERSUS SREEP.
THE CAUSE OF A BITTER FEUD
IN THE WEST.
War of (he Herders—Persecution of tlie
hlieepmnn Joined by the Government
—A Flock of Sheep About as Devas
tating as a Prairie Fire.
Captain .Tames 11. McCllntock writes
as follows in Alnslee's Magazine:
"The perennial fight between West
ern cattlemen and sheepmen is a study
for both the psychologist and the econ
omist. At first glance, the Interests of
these great divisions of the live stock
industry would appear to be in com
mon. llut, in truth, this can never be.
Cattle and sheep can no more occupy
a rang in common than oil and water
can lloat coherently. The cowpuncher
hates the shepherd with a hatred that
is deep and ofttimes picturesque, and
the herder beglrts himself with artil
lery and sullenly stands on the defen
sive.
"The trouble between the cattle and
sheep industries mainly proceeds from
the natural differences between the
two classes of live stock. Cattle are
home-seeking In their habits. They
ar<? as hard to lose as a house cat, un
less, perchance, the cheerful and un
rcckoning rustler happens along. A
range cow naturally will make her
'run' where she was born. Her owner
and his cowboys expect to find her
within easily defined limits, usually
along some cc-taiu cattle trail that
starts at a watering place and lends
back to higher ground. In ordinary
weather, if water be easy of access,
about all the cattle will be found some
time during the day along the creeks,
in the shade or luxuriantly hock deep
In the mud. The night is spent back
on the feeding ground. Drive tin
cow away, even a hundred miles, and
back she will drift, though her return
be to a feeding ground by far the
worse. Back home she will come,
though it be to starve and die.
"Sheep, on the contrary, are neces
sarily nomadic. They are gregarious,
'bunching' by instinct. One man with
ills dog can care for even 4000, though
only half that number is usually al
lotted. A flock of sheep Is about as
devastating as a prairie fire. Where
it has passed the grass is gone, even
to the roots, the sage brush is defo
liated, and the track so reeks with the
sheep's peculiar odor that cattle nnd
horses avoid the ground for weeks af
terward. And the herds in their
ceaseless journeying never follow one
another. To use a pat military ex
pression, they come 'on echelon,' in a
path parallel to and abutting one edge
of the strip devastated by the preced
ing wool.v army. Thus, if one flock
cat out a half mile strip, ten flocks
will leave a barren area five miles
wide. The better the feed the slower
the rate of travel. The flock moves 011
when the grass is consumed. No dia
gram is needed to show the effect of
such a raid on a cattle range. The
rage of the cattlemen is not hard to
imagine.
"A quarter of a century ago, when
tlio Wild West was virgin laud and
pasture, there was plenty of room for
both cattle and sheep. But as the
country has filled up and as the area
of untenanted or unclaimed land has
shrunk, the two branches of live
stock have been driven in upou each
other more and more, until they are
now In contention for possession of
the same field. Little by little the
herders uud punchers have been forced
from the plain's up into the mount
ains. Western Kansas, Nebraska and
the Dakotas, the western portion of
Oregon and Washington, and all of
California, which were once free
ranges, have become less and less
available. Even Colorado and Utah
and a portion of Wyoming, because of
the advance of farmers and miners,
afford a constantly shrinking pastur
age. Both sheepmen and cattlemen
have been obliged to seek the high
and untenable lands In the mountains,
where the forests and the watersheds
are the only sections that afford suf
ficient feed.
"The struggle between them, there
fore, is waged chiefly In what is
known as the plateau region of the
continent. From lower New Mexico
and Arizona and Western Texas
northward to the American boundary,
and from the Eastern Montana line
westward to the summit of the Cas
cade Mountains, the sheepmen and the
cattlemen are fighting for the control
•of the remaining ranges. The sheep
go into the verdant meadows of the
forests, and the cattlemen seek to ex
pel them. The cattlemen occupy some
section where the grasses are succu
lent and the water plentiful, only to
find the sheep working into the same
district, cropping the grass to its
roots, and tainting the air with the
smell which the cattle cannot endure.
The closer settlement crowds in upon
the formerly unsettled lands the more
bitter becomes the antagonism. Fre
quently it breaks out into brief shoot
ing matches, in which the cattlemen
generally prove themselves the more
•expert. More often it culminates in
strained sentiments and press reports
of 'trouble threatened between cow
boys ana sheep herders.' 'Again it
breeds feuds which are fully as swift
and decisive as those of Kentucky.
"The question Is often asked: What
will be the outcome of this seemingly
ceaseless strife between the cattlemen
and the sheepmen? The Eastern man
believes sheep rearing will eventually
be given over to the farmers, leaving
the cattle to roam the unlocated pub
lic uomain. That idea does not prevail
in the plateau regions of the West.
Where there are sheep the cattle must
depart. Sheep may exist in propon
quity witn cattle, but the reverse is
not possib.e. As before told, cattle are
stationary, while sheep are necessarily
•nomadic. When feed is short the
sheepman moves his flocks to grass. !
The cattle owner, with his wild and
scattered property, may not do this. !
He thrives or he 'goes broke' in a sin- ]
gle locality. The cattleman is handl* j
capped at every point of the struggle. |
His crop matures more slowly. To
secure the best results he mnst wait
three or four years till his product is
ripened by age. In not over one year !
out of four will cattle accumulate any
respectable amount of fat on the West- j
era ranges. The price of the product j
depends much on the condition of the
corn market, for range beef rarely if
ever goes to the block direct. A sin- !
gle dry season means no fat or growth |
for cattle, at. t means also 110 increase
for the succeeding year. The tales of j
cattle barons and of enormous profits j
in the cattle business belong to the I
early days, when the plains were cov- I
ered with lcnee-deep grass, with water !
in every gully. At present there Is '
more' money in the fattening of steers |
than there is in the rearing of them on
the range. Under favorable condi- !
tions there is money in the cattle busl- j
ness, but favorable conditions are
rarely present. The plateau region is !
now in its fourth successive year of
drought. Thus it comes that the cat
tleman is no longer so determined to
defend the heath he very reasonably
holds his own.
"The sheep owner, to begin with, Is
at considerable expense, for he has to
maintain a man with every 2000 head
of Ills woollrs. Hut he shears once
or twice a year, and at the present
prices for wool, an average half-bred
Merino will bring him annually from
that source alone .$1.20. The increase
of Ills flocks is fully forty per cent, per
annum. He need not wait several
years, like his enemy, the cattleman,
for entrance to market. His wethers
at the present rates bring him $3.50
lean, and $5 when in good condition,
but spring lambs, four months old,
are rated in the Eastern markets at
even a greater price per head than is
paid for matured muttons. It Is a
business of quick returns and ample
prolits. Were the value of the wool
almost to be destroyed, the sheepman
would still be on an equality with the
cattle baron. The tendency is emphat
ically toward the rearing of cattle in
compounds, such as are found on the
great Maxwell grant of Northern New
Mexico, while the Southwestern ranges
are being given over to the sheep. A
few thousand head are annually fat
tened for exceptionally choice mutton
on the alfalfa pastures of Arizona and
Southern Central California, but the
owners prefer the lush spring grasses
of the plains. The result is the same
and the cost is far less.
"It cannot be denied that the life of
the sheep owner is far from a happy
one. He Is persecuted on every side,
and even the United States Govern
ment takes a hand in the persecution.
The main trouble is with the Forestry
Division of the Interior Department.
It is generally conceded that sheep
have an injurious effect on the West
ern water supply. Of course rain falls
upon the sheep as upon the just and
unjust—but tlie forestry expert gener
ally insists, (a) That sheep eat out all
underbrush and even young trees, de
stroying the natural checks to too
rapid evaporation, the conservators
of the snowfall, and even threatening
the future of the forests, deprived of
their young growtn; (b) that sheep
pack the soil and clear away the
grasses, thereby creating conditions
that deprive the soil of porosity and
render the run-off too rapid for the
public weal; (c) that sheep herders,
with their camp fires, are a perpetual
menace to the forests and are a prolific
cause of destructive fires. Sheep own
ers deny these allegations specifically
and entirely, yet the ideas nre adhered
to by the men who lead scientific
thought in this direction. Even now a
commission of eminent scientific ex
perts Is poking around in the mount
ains of Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona. The sheepmen's associa
tions are welcoming them with effu
sion, and have contributed liberally
toward their proper entertainment
and education."
A Ilemtu-lciiblo lforsc.
William W. Evans, of Deal's Islnnd,
Delaware, has a horse which has
proved a remarkable investment and
has overriden the ideas and records of
the average useful life of horses.
Twenty-seven years ago Mr. Evans
purchased the horse from Scott Cov
ington, who guaranteed at that time
that the animal was six years old.
Mr. Evans proved to be a good master,
and the horse returned the kind treat
ment by retaining its full activity and
energy, and now, at thirty-three years,
tlie horse works nearly every day, see
and hears well, and has an excellent
appetite.
Preliminary lewons For Heroes.
Somebody ought to give instructions
to the hero material in Chicago con
cerning the thing needful to do in
stopping a runaway automobile.
Which lever do you press? Where
are the brakes? Plenty of men nre
willing and able fo vault to the driver's
seat, only, if they do not know what
to do when they get there, what is the
use ?—Chicago News.
The Wliole Art of l>roft?.
Comtesse de Montalgn makes n novel
suggestion In the Lady's Realm: "In
our colleges we have chairs of philos
ophy, psychology, painting and music;
why not one also dedicated to correct
costuming, where young women may,
along with other accomplishments, ac
quire the art of dressing well"*"
Edible Seaweed,
Dulse Is an eatable seaweed. It has
flat, palm-shaped leaves.
Ten years ago New South Wales and
Victoria were about equal in popula
tion hut the former is uow consider
ably ahead of its sister colony.
CIVILIZING ALASKA.
Wliat Otir linrean of Kduratlon Is Do*
l?i|f For flio Natives.
| Dr. W. T. Harris writes as follows
I In Ainslee's Magazine: "In Alaska tlio
I entire work of education is under the
| direction of the United States Bureau
! of Education.
| "Alaska is n big rock, covering 400.-
i 000 square miles, that is covered with
I moss in the most barren places, ft is
I the kind of inoss that the reindeer eat.
The human being can live on moss,
also, but it is l>ettor to have the rein
deer oat the moss and provide mail
with meat and milk.
"In the work of education in Alaska
the object has been to prepare the na
tives to take up the industries and
modes of life of the States, and to in
duce them to discontinue their ancient
tribal customs. It had been obvious
from the beginning of the Govern
ment subsidies in ISBS-80 that there
should be not only education in the
elementary English branches, but
also a training in the employments of
civilized life. From the first at all
the missions established by different
religious denominations there was in
struction in cooking, housekeeping and
clothes-making. Then followed more
careful education in the trades of car
pentering, blacksmlthlng and shoe
making. under the direction of the Bu
reau of Education, which subsidized
for this purpose the Presbyterian In
dustrial School at Sitka. It was be
lieved that if the natives of Alaska
could be taught to use the English
language, be brought under Christian
influence by the missionaries and be
trained in suitable forms of industry,
the increasing white population of
Alaska, composed of Immigrants from
the States, would be able to employ
them in mining, transportation and
the production of food. It was found,
however, that in order to reach the
thousands of primitive Inhabitants of
Alaska, something entirely out of the
ordinary in educational methods must
serve as a beginning. The idea of in
troducing herds of reindeer and of
persuading the natives to care for
them was first considered in 1801.
This plan was suggested by Dr. Shel
don .Tackson and Captain Healy, of
the United States revenue cutter Bear.
Forty thousand natives engaged in
reindeer herding and transportation
would not only be brought n step fur
ther toward civilization, but would
furnish the contingent needed to make
possible the mining industry. After
four years of experiments it became
certain that this project would prove
a success."
llow no Waken Up the Trumps,
The policeman who makes the round
of Madison Square Park early in the
morning has a duty ho rather enjoys.
It is to wake up the tramps and loiter
ers who sleep on the benches "between
rounds." lie has employed several
methods-of arousing the sleepers. One
of the favorite ways was to walk close
to the l>enches and trod on their toes.
Another was to rap on their hats with
his club. The latest and most ap
proved plan, affording more amuse
ment to the sturdy cop than to the
unhappy tramp, is to hold a small bot
tle of ammonia under their noses as he
passes by in the early dawn. This
wakes them up quickly, and most ef
fectively, and the bewildered expres
sion on the face of the suddenly
aroused sleeper is a real ray of sun
shine to lighten the way of the police
man through a day of hard work s such
as conversing with nursemaids, eating
apples and peanuts from the Italians'
push carts and telling small boys to
g'wan."—New York Mail and Express.
A Skillful ltonri ftlullder.
"There lives near my home," salil
a resident of Rockland, Me., "a man
named Edwin Mclntyre, who leads a
hermit life and has a queer holrtiy. One
of the prettiest and best kept pieces of
road In Maine passes in front of liis
lonely retreat It has hcon built by
Mr. Mclntyre, who for the last twenty
live years has, when not otherwise en
gascil, employed his tllno picking up
rocks and stones near his home and
pounding them into pebbles, which
lie has put in the highway. In twenty
five years' time he estimates that lie
has pounded 950,000 stones and made
them ready fop road use. The town
authorities, recognizing the value of
the work, have for several years com
pensated the man by giving him his
road tax. lie claims that he has al
ready placed on the road twenty cords
of these manufactured stones. Other
towns in Maine envy Rockland such
a faithful and skilful road builder."—
Washington Star.
A Cat Woitli Having.
J. G. Packard possesses a large mon
grel eat that has an excellent prospect
of becoming famous. The eat is de
veloping into an excellent watchdog, if
the expression may be permitted. Sev
eral times recently strangers bnva
been prevented from going to the
house by Tommy's hostile demonstra
tions. The eat has a particularly bit
ter dislike for peddlers, -Lid when auy
one of the description appears there
is an Immediate attack. The cat
doesn't stop for prel!mlnnrles,but spits
nuil snarls and growls and defies tho
world to come on. Prom n command
ing position on tho highest top of the
porch he is master of the situation,and
the unwelcome visitor is glad to re
treat Just what the cat would ilo
under contrary circumstances is un
known; no one has been brave enough
to find out—Santa Barbara Press.
Mighty Tip,.
When a waiter in a San Francisco
hotel was offered S4O a month, with
bonrd and lodgings to go Into house
hold service in Honolulu, his answer
was that he could not afford the
change, because his tips far exceeded
tho proiKised wages.—Chicago Tiuies-
Ueiald.
LOV.E'S PLATFORM.
What's the party? Call it Fate;
Cupid is the candidate;
Hymen is his runninp mate;
Love the balance of the slate.
This our platform—we deplore
Any useless lover's war;
Annexationists are we,
Hearts united, our decree.
As for syndicates we must
Pay monopolies are just.
For each lover will declare
That exclusive love is fair.
Vet in summer—sea-shore plan—
Sixteen maids to every man,
But we change the ratio,
At the falling of the snow.
Open door and open gate,
Friendly Pa, we advocate;
Monroe Doctrine? Yes, we mean,
Parents should not intervene.
Cast your votes without delay,
Polls are open every day,
Open early, open lan.
Come elert our candidate.
—Carl F. \V. Ilegert, in the Book World.
PITH AND POINT.
Mrs. Muggins—"My husbojul is get
ting closer every day." Mrs. Buggins
—"Yea; I've noticed you never let him
get out of your sight."
She—"llo stole a kiss." lie—"Did
he? I suppose you wern't looking?"
She—"Oh, yes I was, and I made him
put It back right away."
Father (sternly)—"l hear you wero
kept in after school." Son—"lt was a
mistake." "It was, eh?" "Yes; I made
a mistake in my lessons."
"I suppose," said the poet's friend,
"you seek the plaudits of posterity?"
"No," replied the practical poet; "I'm
simply after coutcmporarj* cash."
Judge—"llow old are you?" Fair
Witness—"Well-er, I'm-er— I'm—"
I Judge—"Better hurry, madam. Every
minute's delay makes it worse."
"Did you knock when you came to-night?"
asked she,
With a blush, the sly little thing.
"I did; but why do you ask?" said lie,
"Oh, I thought you came with a ring."
—Pick Me Up.
Teacher (of English history)—"So
King John had the young princes eon
fined in tho tower? What became of
them?" Willie—"Why, or—l guess
they're dead by tills time."
A man and his bride by the parson wero
tied,
And when the performance was done
He examined his fee then "Alas!" ex
claimed he,
"I add one to one and make one!"
—Philadelphia Press.
*lt begins to look as though Jones
were on the verge of financial em
barrassment." "Why, lie and his wife
appear more and more prosperous
every day." "Exactly; that's always
the first sign."
"Say," remarked the pug, "that bull
dog's awful savage, ain't he?" "You
bet," replied the comical l'ox terrier;
"why he chased a tramp yesterday,and
he got so mad because lie couldn't
eatcli him that he bit a piece out of his
own pants."
Hoax—"lie believes In an eye for an
eye." Joax—"l didn't think lie was so
rindictivc." Hoax—"He isn't. It's
ctferely a matter of vanity. He lost
one of those he was born with, so he
bought a glass one."
Fatlier—"l think you'd bettor send
that young man about his business.
He doesu't seem to me to be very
steady." Daughter—"Why, father, he
calls every night but Saturday. lie
couldn't, be much steadier than that."
On the Edge of an Aliynn.
In the second concluding chapter of
his notes on the Harrfman expedition
—A Summer Holiday in Bering Sea"
—John Burroughs describes in the
Century a more or less thrilling experi
ence on the island of St. Matthew.
The highest point of the island was
enveloped most of the time lu fog and
cloud. While groping his way upon
one of these level summits, probably
fifteen hundred feet above the sea
which flowed nt its base, I came sud
denly upon a deep cleft, or chasm,
which opened in the moss and flow
ers at my feet and led down between
crumbling rocky walls at a fearful
Incline to the beach. It gave one a
sense of peril that made him pause
quickly. The wraiths of fog aud mist
whirling through aud over it en
hanced Its dreadful mystery and
depth. Yet I hovered about it, re
treating and returning, quite fasci
nated by the contrast between tho
smooth, flowery carpet upon which I
stood and the terrible yawning chasm.
When the fog lifted a little and the
sun gleamed out, I looked down this
groove into the ocean, and Tennyson's
line in "The Eagle" came to mind as
accurately descriptive of the scene:
The wrinkled sen beneath him crawls.
Another curious effect was the bottom
of the sea visible a long way out from
shore. The water seemed suddenly
to become shallow; or else to take on
a strange transparency; the color and
conformation of the rocky floor wero
surprisingly distinct.
Tlmclceray and tlio Sugar Maples.
Apropos of the lapses of writers
there is one by Thackeray, to which
I have never seen any allusion. In
the fifty-second chapter of the "Vir
ginians," George Warrington, tn tell
ing of his escape from Fort Xmquesue,
says: "Now, the leaves were Legi li
ning to be tinted with the magnificent
hues of our autumn. ♦ * At this
time of year the hunters who live in
tlio mountains get their sugar from
the maples. We came upon more than
one such family camping near their
trees by the mountain streams." I
was born in Vermont, and when, in
my early youth, I struck tho passage,
my head reeled for a good long time.
—Boston Transcript
The Most Magnificent Tomb.
The most magnificent tomb in me
world is deemed to be the rniaee-
Temple of Karnak, occupying nn area
of nine acres, or twice that of St
Peter's at Rome. The temple space is
a poet's dream of gigantic columns,
beautiful courts, and wondrous ave
nues of sphinxes.
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1684, which legalized slavery in the
North American colonies. This does
not mean that slavery was unknown in
what is now the United States before
that time, because, as early as 1620, a
Dutch man-of-war landed and sold 20
African negroes at Jamestown, Va. In
1626 the West India Company imported
slaves from the West Indies to New
York city—then New Amsterdam. The
city itself owned shares in a slave ship,
advanced money for its fitting out and
shared in the profits of its voyages.
This recognition and encouragement
may account for the astounding fact
that in 1750 slaves formed one-sixth of
the entire population of New York.
The general prevalence of slavery is
shown by the fact that, at this time,
there were 67 slaves in New York's
small suburb of Brooklyn, and that in
London itself there were resident 20.000
slaves. Slaves were- at that time pub
licly dealt in on the London Exchange.
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was a recognized commerce, and that,
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not praise your medicine too highly
for I know it will do all, and even
more, than it is recommended to do
I tell every suffering woman about
your Vegetable Compound, and urge
them to try it and see for themselves
what it will do." MRS. MARY A.
HIPLE, NO. Manchester, Ind.
Where to Loeate?
WHY. IN THE TERRITORY
TRAVERSED BY THE
Louisville
4 d Nashville
Railroad,
-THE-
Grcat Central Southern Trunk Line,
—IN—
KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA,
MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA.
WHERE
Farmers, Fruit Growers,
Stock Raisers, Manufacturers,
Investors. Speculators
anil Money Lenders
will find the trreatost chances in the United
States to make "big money" by reason of tli
abundance and clicapuuss of
Land and Farms,
Timber and Stone,
iron and Ccal,
Ltbor—Everything.
Free sites, financial assistance, and free
dom from taxation for the manufacturer.
Land and farms at §I.OO Tier acre and up.
wards, and 600,Ct0 acres in West Florida that
can be taken grails under the U. fcj. Home
stead laws.
Ftock raising In the Gulf Coast District
X'ill make oaormous profits.
Half farr> excurhlons the first and tl.lrd
Tuesdays ft' each month.
Let us know what you want, and we will
tell you v here and liow to got it—but don't
lolay, as iho country is filling up rapidly.
Prlnte*/ matter, maps and all Information
fre. Address
R. J WEMYSS,
Qenerti Immigration and Industrial Agonl
Lou svlllo. Kv.
Aged Itellrleger.
Mr. W. Allen of Trowbridge, Eng
land, has just attained his 80th birth-
Jay, and Is probably, if not the oldest,
one of the oldest, bellrlngers <n thai
country. This veteran was baptised
by the poet Crabbe, who was then rec
tor of Trowbridge, and began his bell
ringing career when quite young. He
rang at the Queen's coronation, arid al
all great events since, including the Ju
bilee periods, and, after ringing at the
Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Her
; Majesty accepted his photograph. He
; has been crnnrcted with the ringers it
| Trowbridge belfry for 68 years.