RAAIGE AND RANCH CATTLE. public domain, the cattle business of ment of large herds is much less thai A SILVER SUNRISE. ped, the hammer struck something, Texas has become largely a ranch for small ones. One stock: company one barrel was discharged, and his The Magnitudeeofn the^Bnsi&esgTot' business. In other words, cattle are, in Wyoming advertises the .ownership The Splendid and Peculiar Pageant of Horning Keeping Cattl Land KotEni-. The New York Herald will pay $17f- right hand with more or less of the to a considerable extent, confined to In Southwestern Georgia, gg of ninety' different brands, each oi 000 a year rent for a new up-town o,- arm attached went into the river for the lands of the different owners or .braced in Farms. which formerly represented a distinct fice. Poets have sung of rosy dawns, of fish-bait. associated owners. **$*&- --If-. herd. Improvement in the quality ol orange sunsets waning low, and of The writer once knew a young man About a dozen English sparrows As recently as twenty-five years ago animals is going on much faster in the that later hour when large Hesper who was not only an excellent shot have taken up their abode in Pickens, Texas cattle were slaughtered in immense northern territories than in Texas and History of Its Introduction on the Great glitters through the rosy spaces, while S. C. and ardent sportsman, but a fine numbers for their hides and New Mexico. The "native" and PlainsProspects ot Future Expansion. mid silent spheres rises the deepening violinist as well. He could fiddle in There is a baby in Los Angeles, CaL, tallow, as they now are in various Texas cows are being crossed bv night. Bnt the poet is yet to be who J- \~& Range and Ranch. A a way that would start one off in a jig 2 months old, which weighs but five parts of South America. The average males of the best breeds for beef. Garloads In compliance With a resolution will tell in numbers worthy of the step before he was aware of ita merry, pounds. price of 3-year-old steers was from of short-horns, Hereford, and passed by the national house of repsentatives, theme the story of that magical drama reckless fellowa general favorite. $3.50 to 4.50 per head. Since means Twenty ounces of gold dust were polled Angus bulls have been purchased the bureau of statistics of of nature, the silver sunrise in the Returning one evening from a fairly of transportation have been established the result of a month's work for one by northern stockmen for improving south, or in that part of it known as the treasury department has prepared successful afternoon's sport shooting cattle of the same age have sold man in the Hassavampa placers, near their herds. Many breeders the cotton belt of southwestern Georgia. an exhaustive report in regard to the prairie chickens, he swung his gun at from $15 to $20 per head. A large Prescott, Arizona. of fine stock find their customers There the isotherm is semi-tropical. range and ranch cattle business of the around across both shoulders, his proportion of them are driven north, among the ranchmen of the distant The lovo of notoriety is illustrated The almost flat, slightly undulating United States. The report occupies a right hand grasping the stock, and his where they are fattened for market, northwest. It is admitted that it costs in a Gilmer county, Georgian, man landscape is, or was twenty volume of two hundred pages, and is lelt the barrel. It was a bracing position, but a still larger number are transported more to raise calves in the northern who claims to have haudled rails that years ago, under the high cultivation accompanied with four large colored which threw his shoulders back in cars to eastern cities. It is territories than in Texas and New Abraham Lincoln split. of the slave system, a sheet of verdure maps. It contains a large amount of and made him stand erect estimated that Texas has furnished the Mexico, but it is claimed that theiz breathing incense in the months of useful information in relation to the The Leesburg (Va.) Washingtonian The gun was loaded, and he had country with about 3,000,0C0 cattle superior value more than makes up March, April, and May. The tall raising of cattle on land not embraced has been published seventy-nine years, carelessly left the hammers at full during the past twenty vears. During for the additional cost. Mr. Nimmo, cypress, the thick-leaved ambrosial in farms. Attention is first directed and its present editor has been on duty cock. After awhile, he thoughtlessly last year about 300,000 head were the compiler of the report, thinks the live-oak, the heavy-scented magnolia in the report to the extent of country as such for thirty-five years. extended his left hand and placed the driven north from Texas and 625,000 industry of cattle-raising on ranges grandiflora, form the upper foliage, that is devoted or which can be devoted first and second fingers in the muzzle, were sent north and east over railroads. In the course of a recent Montana and ranches is in its infancy in development belting the clear dark ponds that dot to this industry, and which is apparently and soon afterwards commenced to It is claimed that cows in cattle case a cowboy testified that "a as well as in age. He admits the low, flat, level tracts. Around adapted to no other useful monkey w'th the triggers with his Texas are more prolific breeders than marverick is somebody else's calf that the best locations have been appropriated, their sedgy borders the cranes and purpose. It states this territory embraces right hand. His thoughts were far in any other part ot the world. Owing that yon get your brand on first. but he thinks many places curlews call, on their dark bosoms about 1,365,000 square miles away as he atterwards stated, to the to the mildness of the climate and not now occupied will be made to sup* swim the broods of mallard and teal An effort willbe made to secure astat .and constitutes approximately 44 per best of his recollection and belief, he the abundance of grass, calves dropped port vast herds of cattle. He believes ae of ex President Pierce, to be placed ducks. All the beauty and picturesque cent, of the entire area ot the United was at the time thinking of a dance at any month in the year generally do that the natural streams of water will in the capitol park at Concord, N. H., charm of nature do not belong States exclusive of Alaska. It is as he was to attend that evening and was well. They breed early and continue be utilized to better advantage, and as a companion to that of Daniel Webster. to the mountain lands alone. To the large as all that portion of the country playing (in his mind) the "Monnie to rear calves till late in life. A hundred that artesian wells will supply water iover of nature in all her phases and situated east of the Mississippi Musk'"on his Cremona. He was fingering cows can be relied on to raise to many places where no animals arc moods this pond land is as full of river, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Its A farmer in Marion county, Florida, one of the most difficult staccato ninety calves a year. Probably the now keptChicago Times. beauty as of bloom. It is lively at all has 165 acres planted in watermelons, area is equal to that of Great Britain, passages when a loud report occurred, free life led by the cattle for many seasons of the year,, all hours of the which he expects will yield 448,800 Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, and the gun kicked out of his generations has exerted a powerful influence day, but especially when seen under a melons, at the rate of three melons to Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, grasp and stuck muzzle down in the Great Generals inCitizens'Clothes. in causing them to be prolific. silver sunrise. a vine. Etaty, Spam, and Portugal, and oneQfth rich soil of Winnebago county. We Great military geniuses are remembered Whatever faults they may have as Not every morning of the whole ot European Russia. A large both knew it was useless to search for California has produced 750 000,- by pictures that have been seen, milkers or as producers of fine beef, year round is this wonder witnessed, portion ol this va&t territory has a the missing finger-ends, and the manager 000 in gold out of a total of 1,267,- bhowmg them in gorgeous uniform, they are certainly active, healthy, and it takes peculiar conditions of the atmosphere very deficient rainiall, while comparatively of the dance was put out because 000,000 worth of gold deposited in the vigorous. so that it is not strange that when to produce the phenomenon. little water is. afforded" to he had to hustle around and secure mints for coining since their organization seen in plain citizens' dress they dc The raising of cattle on what are To the savant belongs the task springs and streams, still no portion in 1793. another fiddler. His hand healed in not inspire the beholder with awe. familiarly known as the "great of telling what the conditions are that time for the fall duck shooting, but of it is entitled to be called a desert, George Washington is impressed upon Fish are dying in large numbers in plains," which extend from Texas to produce a silver sunset. The effect I as it was by the early travelers. he never put his fingers in the muzzle the hearts ot his countrymen as a Sutter lake, near Sacramento, CaL, Montana, is of very recent date. The will try to describe. In April or May, The expression "range and ranch of a gun againat least, not the particular great, big man, with a continental and their death is atributed to an over discovery of the "capabilities of this when the early spring rains that have cattle" in the report applies to cattle fingers mentioned.Peck's Sun. supply of food furnished in the shape uniform on, a cocked hat, powdered area for grazing purposes is said to soaked the porous soil and filled the which, from the time they are dropped of grasshoppers. hair, mounted on a dapple gray stallion. have been accidental. The history of ponds, and given the flush and lusty until they arc shipped to market, The Bedouin Style of Warfare. If he could be met in the road, this important discovery is thus stated Secret-society skeletons, that will green hues to the earth,have ceased to seek their own food, water, and shelter, This great heathen and full-blown between Mount Vernon and Alexandria, stand the racket of the goat's attacks by Mr. Theodoie J. McMinn, of St. fall, when the atmosphere is rarified as did the bufUlo, the deer, and prophet was once a poor boy, without in homespun Virginia clothes, as well as any, cost about 30 each. Louis: "Early in December, 1864, a by a heat that makes the young cotton the elk before them, and which are a dollar in his pocket. Years ago, mounted on a mule, as he was often They are nearly all imported from government trader, with a wagontrain plants grow visibly under your subject only to the restraints of herding. when little Mehdi used to snare suckers seen the later years of his life, if he foreign catacombs. of supplies drawn by oxen, was eje in the darkness of a morning that The distinction between the along the White Nile, no one could be observed that way by men of on his way west to Camp Douglas, in is only slightly cooler than the night "range" and the "ranch" cattle business The Californians are a patrotic people. thought that to-day he would be the the present day, the first thing thev the territory ot Utah but on being in which you have watched the motions herein observed, is that the former Four hundred dollars has already champion heavy-weight prophet of would think of would be that it was overtaken on the Laramie plains by an of the constellations in the cloudless designation applies to the raising been subscribed at the little the known world. It shows what can Barney Mc-Auley, in the character of unusually severe snow-storm, he was heavens, you may rise, as I have and fattening ot cattle upon public town of Donnieville toward the Fourth be done by a brave, courageous little compelled at once to go into winter "The Messenger from Jai vis Section." risen, morning after morning, to catch of July celebration. lands, or upon unfenced lands generally, boy, even in a foreign land. quarters. He turned his cattle adrift, If Bismarck could be set down in the that fleeting first scene in the first act where the herds of dirierent proprietors An express train recently made the In appearance he is a brunette of expecting, as a matter of course, they door of a Cincinnati saloon in his of the spectacular drama of a sunny freely range and intermingle run from Yuma to Tucson, Arizona, about the style of the successful would soon perish from exposure and shirt-sleeve3, with a white apron on, day in the sunny south. whereas the "ranch" cattle business is 248 miles,in six hours and twentyfive meerschaum pipe. He does not dress starvation. But they remained about the average citizen would pass him Do not wait to hear the clock strike, carried on within inclosures belonging minutes, beating all previous records as we do, but wears a white turban the camp, and, as the snow was blown without a thought, or go in the saloon or look at your watch, but when dawn to cattlemen, on which onlv their own over that line. that looks some like an Etruscan hen's off the highlands, the dry grass afforded and say, "Come, Dutehy, give us a is near, the swift-passing dawn of that sattle graze. The very fact that the The Union Leauge club of New York nest. On chilly days he adds other them abundance of forage. When glass of lager," and Bismarck would latitude, which you will know by the range-cattle business is" most profitably citv has contributed $2,000 to the articles of apparel to this turban, the spring opened they were found to be so mad he would pull a Krupp gun low murmur ot insect and bird life carried on in a large way, and that Bartholdi statute pedestal fund, and though during the summer months be in even better condition than when out of his pistol pocket and bombard around you, rise and hasten forth. its successtul prosecution involves orjanization promises to double the amount. The that is sufficient for evening dress. In turned out to die four months previously. the works of the visitor to the saloon. You can see the white sands under and co-operative work, appears grand total is now over $60,000. the morning he puts on his turban, This discovery led to the purchase If the prince of Wales should sit in a your feet, but barely note the long, to have suggested at an early buckles a six-shooter around his of stock cattle in Texas to be matured Complaint of the pollution of the smoking car, smoking a short pipe, gray mosses that hang like stalactites day the conduct ot the business under waist, and he is dressed. It doesn't and fattened on the northern ranges, national capital's water is still being from the branches of the trees above dressed like the ordinary traveling .corporate ownership and management. take Mehdi long to make his toilet. and the trade has steadily grown to its made. The Washington Star avers your head, only faintly in the gloom Englishman, nobody would think of Accordingly this has been one of the Years ago he decided that he would present enormous proportions, accelerated that the water drawn from any spigot made visible by starlight and the marked features ot the enterprise almost speaking to him unless they wanted i retire to a lonely island in the Nile and greatly during the past fifteen or hydrant in that city has an offensive swift-moving dawn. In that latitude from the beginning:. Incorporated to borrow a match. If the King of put himself in training for a prophet, years by the" building of the various smell. twilight and dawn are matters of only companies, chartered under the Italy should take the place of a peanut so he crawled into a cave and soon railroads in the north and west. Soon a few minutes. The stars blaze out, as laws of this country as well as under roaster on the corner* and wear the Snapping-turtles are contrary creatures. the people began to hear of El Mehdi, after this discovery of the possibilities it were, in the beams of the rising sun. the laws of foreign "countries are now same clothes the roaster does, and When in captivity they are so and he had all the prophesjing he of the great dry area of the north In the negro parlance of the old times: sxteusively engaged in the cattle business speak in broken Italian, the buyer of delicate that they are liable to die at could do, and had to hire an amaneunsis for pasturage, the range and ranch "it is broad day before you know what from southern Texas to the northam peanuts would not pay any attention at any time. But if their heads are or assistant prophet to help him cattle trade of Texas debouched upon you are about." The sedgy rims of border line of the United States. to the king. If the Czar of Russia cut off they will live for an incredibly out. During the holidays, when trade a territory three times as large as its the ponds, the tall cypresses and oaks, The raising ot cattle in Texas had long time. should be out in a skiff shooting ducks was brisk, the mehdi had to sit up and original habitat. The growth of the the heavy trailing creepers of the its origin long before the admission of on a Wisconsin marsh, the ordinary "Suppose," said an examiner to a prophesy till 10 or 11 o'clock at night. business has been one of the marvels vines, the light swaying banners of that state into the union. The original sportsman who passed near him would student in engineering, "you had built of of this marvelous age and country. His real name is Mohammed Achmed are*3 the moss, every tiny blade of grass or native cattle of Texas only pass the time of day and say, an engine yourself, performed every The well-known fact that for ages the and he was the son of a petty and leaf plant and weed, every flower Spanish and Mexican origin. Their "what luck, old man?" The emperor part of the work without assistance, buffalo has thriven during the winter sheik, whose name I have forgotten. petal and wheel of field cobweb is most distinctive physical characteistics of China, in a Chinese wash house in a and knew that it was in complete in Montana, Dakota, Idaho, and Wyoming This man was a very inferior person gemmed with beads ot dew, but it are long horns, large and vigorous basement in Milwaukee, squirting order, but, when put on the road, the on natural grasses also inspired and a very ordinary sheik, I am told does not drip. It looks almost or lungs, small intestinal organization, water from his mouth onto shirtbosoms, pump would not draw water, what confidence that cattle grazing on the just such a sheik as you could go in quite like hoar-frost spread over the and small bones. These characteristics would attract no more notice would you do?" "I should look into more northerly ranges would be successful. and find on the 10-cent counters of the ocean-like expanse of land and water, appear to be the result of the conditions than Wah Lung, unless the crowd on the tank and ascertain if there was The number of range and Soudan anywhere. like a white veil blending acd making which for three hundred years the sidewalk should be told who he any water to draw," replied the student. ranch cattle north of Texas and east of By and by Mohammed Achmed got more beautiful the darker verdure of have constituted their environment. was. These people want to be seen the Rocky mountains is estimated at a call to rise up William Reilly, and the foliage around the pools, and the Texas cattle exhibit some of the marked where they belong in order to be appreciated. 7,500,000. The number in Wyoming Two of the bidders for the government gather the clans of the Soudan together. glowing emerald and color shades of self-reliant traits of the wild animal, This idea was illustrated is placed at 2,000,000. envelope contract, on their way He went to them and told them the cotton and corn fields. being strong in the instinct of a few nights since in New York. There from Holyoke to Washington, were in confidence that he was tho only seeking food and water, and of self The capacity of the range and ranch A thousand mocking birds are all of was to be a reception at the Five talking over the situation with much genuine, all-wool prophet on the Nile, protection against the inclemencv of lauds of the United States for grazing a sudden cleaving the blue vault Points to a member of the legislature assumed g^adoj. Ij was readily agreed and if they wanted some fun to get the weather. In the language of" the cattle differs widely in the several above you with such strains of unpremeditated who had done something to endear that, as the olds had been registered, their double-barrel shotguns and join herdsman, they are good "rustlers," states, territories, and sections as the art as skylark never himself to his constituents by defeating there could be no risk in comparing the gang. They did so. None of them tvhich means that they know how and result of differences in the quantity dreamed of. In fact, if one of the a high license law. General notes so each promised to mark his ever did anything at home to obtain a tvhere to find food and water, and and quality of nutritious grasses produced, southern mocking birds ever hears the McClellan and General Hancock, who bid on paper and pass it over. Both livelihood, so they could be on the have the alertness and spirit to seek the water supply, and the extent song of one of those English skylarks had been dining in the city, concluded scratched away, the papers were exchanged, war-path all summer, and their business them upon the vast plains and in valleys to which natural shelter is available which the late Isaac W. England they would like to see the gang, and both were blank! Each wouldn't suffer at all. and mountain tastnesses where for cattle during storms. In found a home for in the meadows of so they wandered down to tfie weasel counted on the somnolent condition they roam, and even beneath the They then proceeded to murder the Texas from five to thirty acres of land New Jersey, he will beat him so badly Points and secured a position in a convenient of the other. mows, which in the winter, at times, king's English, who had come there to per head are required, and on the in his own"song that the British warbler doorway. Hancock weighs the more northerly regions, cover conquer and acquire their sand pile. northern ranges almost the same difference will hide his head under his wing, A socialistic society called the Harmonists, over three hundred pounds, and Little their feeding-grounds. Tho Arabian style of warfare is peculiar. are observable in different localities. poor thing, and die of grief and at Economy, Pa., near Pittsburgh, Mac is smaller than the average man, It consists largely in drinking Thirty years ago almost the entire shame. which once numbered thirteen a little red-headed chap. They were alkali water on their part and in re area of Texas was one vast feedingground hundred members, has dwindled to The ultimate limit of the capacity Afar off from thicket and leafy covert in citizen's clothes, and. only wanted quiring their enemies to do the same for cattle, horses and sheep. thirty. The survivors are all ages, and of the entire range and ranch-cattle comes the cooing of a thousand to be let alone. The crowd of toughs for ninety days. So it becomes simply Almost all the cattle of the state were, none ot them will probably be alive area of the United States for grazing doves, the soft whistle of as many rapidly filled the streets, and it was a a question of who has the firmest and according to the popular phrase, "on ten years hence. The property of the and the magnitude of its possible annual quails, the shrill cries of the redbirds, sight to see, and the two generals most durpble Bessemer steel bowels. the range." The'cattle belonging to society is estimated at fully $1,000,000 product can only be ascertained the shriller calls of the catbirds, and were enjoying it very much. Suddenly different persons were then as 'now No one but a Bedouin would have for each member, and what will be tho from the results of experience. It is notes of many another feathered songster, a tough who had seen McClellan before known by brands upon their sides, thought of such a style of warfare. It final disposition of it is known only to evident trom the best available information, whose names you must learn from recognized the little man and large enough to be distinguished by a is not, therefore, a question of courage a small circle. It is said that many ot that the number of cattle on Mr. Audubon. The thrushes, too, pointed him out to the girl on his arm, horseman at some distance. This or everlasting justice, it is a question the members have not handled a penny ranches and ranges in Texas might be hardly less musical than the mocking and said, "That is the great General method of designating different ownerships of who can drink concentrated lye all in their lives, and would not know a greatly increased. Mr. George B. birds, sing from the leafy boughs and McClellan." The girl looked at him. still prevails throughout the entire summer and take his stomach home piece of money if they saw it." Loving, of Fort Worth, Tex., expresses shrubbery near by. Her ideas of the great commander of range and range cattle area of the with him in the fall. the opinion that by providing reservoirs, While bathed, as it were, in this outburst Of one of the navy chaplains The the Army of the Potomac had been United States. A general supervision In battle, the Arab charge is peculiar sinking artesian wells, and destroying of liquid melody, this first Christian Advocate relates that he has formed from a grand picture behind of cattle within certain extensive districts in the extreme. The Arab does not the prairie dogs, which, in diapason of the opera of the day, suddenly, been on leave now for something more a bar in the Bowery. She looked at is had by horsemen, commonly stand up in line of battle for an hour certain parts of the state, consume a without warning, with no rosy than two years. For the past six the little man, who did not look greater known as "cowboys." Twice a year while the commanding officer gallops larger quantity of the nutritious grasses glow to herald his coming, up from months he has regularly supplied a to her than the young fellow who the cattle of the different owners "and up and down the line on a "heavy" than is consumed by cattle, the the white misty horizon bursts the sun, pulpit in a certain church, and has recently sold suspenders on the street, and she associated owners are "rounded up" horse, and the enemy pours a galling number of range and ranch cattle pastured a blaze of silver light bigger than the accepted a call from that church said to her feller, loud enough to be fire into his ranks. He sails up toward i. e., gathered together in close herds in that state might perhaps be biggest cart-wheel that ever was made, for one year. He makes no secret of heard by both generals, "Wateryer the enemy, waves his Oriental night when the calves are branded and cattle doubled. It is impossible at the present dazzling, as if composed of ten thousand his distaste for work in the navy, and givin' us? That sawed-of chump General shirt in the Egyptian night air, shoots for slaughter selected out, the rest time even approximately to estimate burnished silver mirrors flashing has often said that he only wishes to McClellan That little red haired some one, and goes away. When the being allowed to wander off again the proportion of the available electric light through panes of crystal, keep along for eight or nine years shrimp the great McClellan? O, you battle-ground is examined on the following apon the range. During the last range lands in the northern part of flooding the landscape with silver lace more, when he hopes to be retired, make me tired." And the fellow evidently day, it is discovered that eight twenty years a great change has taken the great dry area which are as yet dotted with diamonds and powdered and to be able, in the meantime, to thought he might be mistaken, hundred brave and handsome English place in the cattle business of Texas. unoccupied, or the extent to which the with sparkling silver dust. The sense draw his pay without the liability to for the couple walked off, leaving Hancock soldiers are killed and one old motheaten About half the area of the state, including supply of grasses within the nominally of the exquisite coloring of the scene be called on duty. According to his laughing at Little Mac, and calling Arab has stepped on his Gothic the eastern portion, not embraced occupied portions exceeds the supply is lost in the wondrous radiance shed own account he has not been at sea him a "sawed-off chump." Mac shirt tail and sprained his ankle. in the range and range cattle necessary for the sustenance and fattening over the landscape that stretches miles for four years, and has been on leave was not very well pleased, but he area, has been taken up, and is now of cattle now grazing thereupon. El Mehdi is not a bad looking man away, until the dazzling view is lost most of the time. He is a robust man, laughed, as a fellow will when he has being cultivated as farms. In this There appears to be a tendency at all, and the report that he has lost in the silvery haze of the horizon. It in the enjoyment of excellent health. too. Pretty soon another fellow with part of the state cattle are raised as on the part of those who have already his teeth, so that when he gives his looks as if all fairy land had met to He draws $1,900 a year, and does a girl saw Hancock, and knew him, domestic animals, being generally occupied the ground to promulgate orders he has to gum Arabic, is not battle on a field of jeweled silver, nothing for it, while he 13 paid $500 and told his girl, "That big man is provided with food and shelter in the the idea that the ranges are fully true.Bill Nye, in Burlington Hawkeye. panoplied in silver mail, and every or $600 for preaching. winter. The range and range portion stocked, and that there is, therefore, General Hancock," and they stopped shield and every spear decked and tipped is also to a considerable extent settled no room for additional herds. But intelligent right in front of the general. Hancock The province of New Brunswick has with gems. Not one moment "is Not So Remarkable. up by farmers, especially the eastern observers who have prospected looked a little pleased at first, a new law, directed against the practices there rest in this wondrous scene, and southern portions of the state. the different parts of the great cattle of campers, to whose thoughtless, but when the girl took a good look at One day a solemn man entered a which lasts but a few minutes, for the it,* Upon her admission into the union, area north of Texas asserts that unconcern many destructive conflagrations him, as he stood two steps above Washington saloon, and asked: first breeze of morning waving the Texas retained the ownership of her two, three, or even four times the have been due. It is her, and almost filled the doorway, "Is this the saloon where Booth got sparkling banners of long moss, and public lands. These lands have been number of cattle now upon the ranges ordered that every person who, between and said, "Say, Jumbo, why don't you a drink of brandy before killing the the first warm kiss of the sun beams purveyed and divided into townships, can be fed upon them. Experience May 1 and Dec. 1, may start a get back to your dime museum?" he president?" sweep the glittering pageant all away. H^, sections, and quarter-sections in a proves that cattle can not advantageously fire in or near a forest, for the purpose almost fainted. General McClellan "Yes, sir." New York Sun. fk ""^manner quite similar to that in which graze more than six or eight of cooking or obtaining warmth, laughed, and after looking at the "Have you anv of the same brandy i Vthe public lands ot the United States miles from water. The result is that shall select a place in which there is crowd for a moment Mac said, left?" They Found it was Loaded. r^^have been laid out. Texas has, how- vast areas now well grazed are of little the smallest quantity of vegetable "Come, let's go back to your museum," "Yes sir." regard to the disposition of Since breech-loading guns have a fx,'4^sver, value on account of their remoteness matter, dead wood, branches, brushwood, jff a less conservative and they went off, Hancock frequently "Give me some of the same brandy come into general use, accidents to from water. The rendering of such dry leaves, or resinous trees alluding to "sawed-off chumps," and out of she same decanter." sportsmen are much less frequent than %her public lands than has the United lands available for the cattle business shall clear the place by removing all "shrimps," while Little Mac was solicitous It is given to him and he puts down formerly, although there are probably *States and the result is that the of course turns largely upon the practicability combustibles from the soil within a as to whether it paid to be a freak the 50 cents and the liquor. ten men now who hunt to one who |*f*? |ownership of vast areas has been free^lily of procuring thereupon adequate radius of five feet from the fire, and "Is that the same brandy that Booth in a museum. The two generals stopped used to hunt in muzzle-loading times. acquired for ranch purposes by in- supplies of water by means of shall exercise every reasonable precaution drank that night?!,' i -_ at the Astor House, and over a Occasionally, however, we read of a ffUdividuals and corporations. In a few artesian wells or by reservoirs for collecting to prevent the fire from "Yes, sir." bottle of wine they laughed for some *JL\ death or horrible accident caused by instances single individuals have acquired ram-water. spreading, and carefully extinguish "And then ho went out and shot the time over their experiences at the carelessness in handling even the safe the ownershio of upward of the same before quitting the place. president?" *?fi *'%$*&*&%&' Five Points. In battle, in uniform, on During the past few years there has breech-loader. A young man out 250,000 acres. The "result of this is fe*5&afesSs* Any person who throws down a burning horseback, these two men were aweinspiring. "Yes sir *%&*-** been a disposition to consolidate the West named Shannon recently had that with the exception of the extreme substance or discharges a firearm In a doorway in the Five "I don't wonder. One drink of that business of stock-raising on the public his right arm blown off by resting it western and extreme northern portions within any forest shall be subject to Points, in plain sack coats, they were brandy would make'a man go out and ft1" of the state, where herds range on the lands. It has been found that the across the muzzle of his gun while punishment if he omits to extinguish not. Such is life.Peck's Sun. kill his grandmother."New York average cost per head for the manage- standing on a bridge. .The gun slip- the embers before leaving the spot. W-3 Mail and Express.