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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

what does It mean? West Of
the Missouri river in the grazing
country it is estimated that there
are 12,500,000 cattle, valued at 5000, 000,-
600. These millions of cattle are rounded
up, calves branded and losses or gains
estimated. The roundup usually be-
gins late in the spring in Texas, and in
early summer in Colorado, Wyoming
and Montana. 1t is early or late,
depending on the favorable open
Ing is . OF rond the spring months 41E.
unacQuainted with the West can hardly
realize the magnitude and the great
work of rounding up all the cattle on
the ranges between Old Mexico on the
south and the British possessions on the
north. But it is done in a most system
attic and business-like manner, all of
this vast region being laid off into
roundup districts, with as well-defined
boundary lines almost as the ward
OF A GREAT CITY.
Heavy shipments of cattle are now be-
ing made to the Northern ranges. Dur
ing the past ten days $4,000 head of cat
tie have been shipped through Denver
from the South en- route North. Mon
tana especially has been heavy buyer.
Over $4,000 head are now On the south
ern boundary line of Colorado going
through the necessary quarantine
regulations and awaiting shipment.
The fact that herds are often
Guaranteed must not be considered in
the light that they are diseased. but so
many millions of dollars are invested in
this industry that cattlemen are eau
tious. An infectious disease would
make millionaire penniless. Herds of
cattle, sometimes numbering many
thousands, are as carefully scrutinized
as ship quarantined at New York city.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
GIVE WAY To NANCY.

CIV Il WA 10 NANCY.
glistens in the old american
Desert and the old cattle trails are be-
ing turned into farms. The East can
hardly realize the wonderful changes
that are taking place. Within twenty
five years the buffalo. which used to
roam these plains by the tens of thou
sands, are almost extinct. The great
herds of cattle kings took the place of
the bison, but now the
CATTLE RANGES
are being turned into farms.
What will be the result? The gem
eral impression is that there will be
more cattle. but with owners. The public
domain will soon all be taken. which
will necesSitate the dividing and SUBJ
dividing of the great herds. The
result will come about in nat
ural way and without loss, but
rather with profit. AS the gazing area
becomes more circumscribed. the greater
the necessity for winter feeding and the
production OF some kind of feed that
will more readily prepare stock for
the market. Such feeds consists of
alfalfa, sorghum hay, johnson and
other varieties of farm grasses, Oil cake
roots, etc, while in parts of Western
and Southern Texas prickly pear Ga
species of cactD Is being largely used
with cotton seed meal or oil cake. with
which it is claimed cattle may be easily
fattened. The beef from animals thus
fed is said to be of most excellent quail
ity and flavor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

subjects, my slx-year-oId daughter
came in, and, throwing her
chubby arms around my neck,
declared that 1 was her pretty papa"
Nye looked at the child very sadly as
he heaved sigh. and in a deep, sepul-
chral voice drawled out: "YOu ought
to do something to break your little
girl of that tendency. 1t is apparent to
me that she is in danger of becoming
humorist."
Getting better of his affection after
some months, Nye found that other
stockholders in the Boomerang had
taken advantage of his illness and alb
sence to assume possession and control
of the paper, which was nothing if not
Nye. But they chiseled him out of his
interest, and afterward turned it
against him to abuse him. He
then went to Hudson, Wis,
where he had been brought up,
bought beautiful cottage and
furnished 1t handsomely ION credit,
backed by his brothers, and taking pos
session in October, he had paid for the
entire outfit in the following March by
the energetic use OF his pen in writing
the richest humor for the New York
Mercury and Puck, Detroit Free Press,
Louisville Courier-Journal and other
VI
standing. He had tussel with
HIS ENEMY,
Observation-Disclosures but finally
conquered it sufficiently to make two
highly successful tours with James
Whitcomb Riley, the brilliant "Hoos-
ier poet.'i in the lecture bust
ness. But this exhausted him,
and: he was forced to spend
winter in the South in comparative
idleness. He now has home on Staten
island, though he has room in the
Worlp building, where he does the most
OF his work. and continually grinds out
stuff that is calculated to warm the
heart and promote a healthy action Of
the liver.
Like all true humorists, Nye is full of
purest pathoS. Occasionally one will
see humorist so full of other things
that it is matter of wonder how they
can hold anything else. Nye, however,
is not one OF that class, being particu-
larly abstemious. He is man of many
strong prejudices, and his special bette
nolr is English humOr. He thinks that
class of humor is exceedingly melan-
choly. In writing of it he has said:
The average English joke has its pc
culiarities. A sort of mellow distance,
a kind of chastened reluctance, a coy
and timid yet trusting, though evanes-
cent intangibility which softly fingers
in the troubled air and lulls the tired
senses to dreamy rest, like the sub
dued murmur of a hoarSe burrO about
nine miles up the gulch. In fact, Eng
fish humor is like sore toe. 1t makes
you glad when you get over it. 1t is like
having the smallpox. because if you
live through it you are not likely to have
it again.
Nye is a thorough hater of shams.
and, indeed, the finicky conventional
ties of society generally, especially of
parvenuism, and in his work directs the
most of his ''slingS and arrows at such
things. Thus, while he most success
fully amuSes bis readers, he does an eX-
ceedingly commendable work in other
ways. WILL VISSCHER.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
BILL NYE'S RECORD.
Called Bill by Everybody but
His Wife, Though Chris
tened Willis.
A Tarred Roof Is Handsome
Compared to His
Visage.
Thin, Long-Legged, Bald, and
Wears Glasses to Conceal
His Humop.
He Is Now the Parent of a
Belligerent and Pugna-
cious Son.

Yes, that's his real name, Bill Nye.
He was christened Edgar Willis Nye,
and has been called Bill ever since by
everybody except his wife. Mrs. Nye
was a music teacher, Miss Fannie
Smith, the sister of Union Pacific di-
vision superintendent, whom Nye met
in Laramie City, Wyo., fell i'll love with
and well-to-do, but was independent and
preferred to 60 out in the world and
earn her own bread rather
Than live duly sluggardized at home;
Wear out her youth in sha peless idleness.
In a sense she has been the making
of Bill Nye. financially. She has been
his business mentor, and has taught
him that there are 100 cents in dollar,
a very difficult lesson for the humorist,
but he has learned-it so we'll that to-day
he is quoted in the neighborhood of
100000, while about five years ago the
only quotations he had were from the
funny things he wrote in the Laramie
Boomerang and elsewhere.
Nye is about thirty-eight years old,
and was born in the state of Maine, in
the same neighborhood that produced
Josh Billings. He must have been
beautiful baby, if it is true that pretty
babies always turn out to be hOmely
grown folks. Nye is
HOMELY ENOUGH
to stop clock. A tarred roof is hand
some compared to him. He is thin-vis-
aged long-legged. bald and wears glass
es. He has way of looking out of one
eve as though he were looking west
when ne is really looking east, and his
shape is very much like the ground plan
of worm fence, being bent forward at
the neck. What little hair he has is
sort of blonde, almost approaching
white, which makes his head, from
rear view, look as if it had worn out
seven bodies. He has happy face, how
ever, and is funnier in his conversation
and private letters, if possible. than in
the matter he ''thinks up' for print.
In letter to friend not long ago he
said:
1t may be of interest to you to know that 1
am now the parent of a large, belligeTent
and pugnacious son. He is a scholarly cuss
great command of language He regards me
with the greatest contempt when he is hun
cry and can see that he feels above me. He
is thoroughly accomplished genial and ur-
banemI quote from the Tie Siding Cross Gun
and Tin Horn Gamblers Vindicator
This boy, who is named Edgar, is the
''subsequent one" as Nye would put it,
of four, the others be NJ Bessie, Winnie
and Max.
Nye's father emigrated from Maine to
Wisconsin when Bill was about two
years old. In 1875 or re, Nye having
read little law, went to Laramie City
to practice and grow up with the coun-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
60 and Old Mexico. large herds

leo and Old Mexico, large herds
OF cattle will continue there to
be grazed until such lands become
dered adaptable for other uses. The
present condition of the cattle interests
is quite promising. Climatic conditions
during the past year, and more espe-
clally during the past winter and pres
ent spring, have been exceptionally fa-
vorable," continued Mr.. Head, ''and the
results have been of the most satisfac-
tory character. While it is true that
prices on the beef markets, as
a rule, have prevailed low for
unree years, many reasonable
causes exist for it, and not the
least of these has been the rapid ac-
qulrement by settlers of the former
range country, thus causing hundreds
or thousands of cattle to seek markets
OF slaughter in an immature and wholly
unit condition. Then there have been
excessive drOuths through the grain
growing states, eau sing shortage in
the grain crops. Consequently high
price for the cereal was also the cause
OF forcing upon the markets from among
the farmers of the other grain-growing
states, large numbers of cattle, which
also had all influence on market values.
1.-The future of this country" con-
tinued Mr.. Head, sis bright with prom
Use OF increase in the, population of the
human family beyond the ratio Of in
crease of beef-producing animals, to-
gether with the opening of new demands
IN foreign countries for preserved Amer
lean meats, it all tending to confirm
shortage in the supply, as compared
with the demand at an early period"
What is the number and value of the
cattle'in the range country?' l asked.
The probable NUMBER" said Mr..
Head, 'of cattle upon the grazing terri
missouri at the present time is 12.500,
600. compared with 100000 a few
years ago, and their present value is
about S200,000,000."
Thus the range country has had a
short but wodderful history. Immigra-
ton is coming with a reSiStlesS tide.
Ex-Governor Routt, one of the great
cattle owners of the West, when speak
ing of how the ranges were being so
rapidly settled recently said: ''The COW
must give way to Nancy and the baby"
The first indication of the coming of
this great tide of immigration was
manifested by cattlemen putting up
wire fences and inclosing vast areas of
land. This sutficed for time. but i'm
migration still continued, and then, after
much litigation, the courts said: "Take
down your wire fences" AS the cattle
men occupied these great ranges a
quarter of century before it was ever
thought possible for them to have any
value for agricultural purposes, it
is not strange that they should
have made the determined fig hit
they have. The plowshare now
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
GIRLS BATHING.
A Chap Who Viewed the Scene
Said 1t Was a Grand Sight.

S3lU III w as q GRAND Sight.
Albany Telegram.
Bob, did you ever see lot of girls
in swimming?"
''No, never-did you?"
eyes, and such look I never expect
to see again. They beat mermaids out
of sight"
81 expect so, but where did you OBJ
tain your knoWledge?'
you know Miss Dusenbury. of
Strawberry Hill? Yes, of course YOU
do. Well the other day she had com
pany. fourteen samples of dimity that
would have infused enthusiasm into
the head of an anchorite. Among the
number were Sally Jones and Becky
Jocelyn. Well, after tea Sally-beauti-
full creature. proposed to 90 bathing.
You may want to know how l heard
that. | listened through the keyhole.
The girls jumped at the idea. and as
sooon as the tea things were wiped Oh
went bOnnetS and ribbons, and away
went the whole in pursuit of Cloverdale
lake, where the immersion was to take
place. The right was taken by Sally
Jones. l think L have mentioned her
name before. Beautiful creature. lips
like cherries and breast that would do
honor to an October PARTRIDGE"
'Well, what has all that got to do with
the story? That fourteen good-looking
girls went a swimming can understand
nothing is more reasonable. But how
came you to see them? That's the Ques-
tion?"
Bob, having said this, sucked his cigar
and looked as if he had got a certain
gentleman in a QuaDdary.
Don't be impatient, my friend, and /
will divulge all. The moment the girls
left the house | got an old frock and a
caSt-Off bonnet. | dressed myself in
these. disguised my looks with a little
false hair, stole Il market basket half
full of apples and started down the road.
looking for all the world like BiGdy Nc
Shane, the peddler, who resides in the
neighborhood of the hill"
"Well, go on.''
keep cool and l will. Having
equipped myself to my liking, left the
road and struck out for the lake through
short cut that brought me to its
| margin just as the girls had taken their
first plunge. Great Venus, what a
sight. Don't ask me to apostrophize.
No language can adequately express
my feelings. In the center of the maids
was Sally Jones. glowing ruby in
basin of liquetied moonlight"
Were they all in?'
AL III put TWO, ana tney were about
to undress, but they were fearful some
men would come along and brighten
| them. | assured them that there was
no danger. that all the men were busy
in may and harvesting while all the
boys were off at school at the neighbor-
ing village.'
"Did this induce them to take the
plunge?"
ION one condition"
'And what was that?"
THAT would hold their things and
help to pin up when they came out of
the lake"
''And YOU consented?"
s'No, sir. My modesty wouldn't per-
nit. l took the nearest way home.'
The scene closed with prolonged
whistle from Bob. Whether this indi-
Gated doubt or satisfaction we have
| never been able to ascertain.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
A CATTLE CAMP.


But what of the origin and growth of
this wonderful industry, with its hun
dredS of millions of invested capital: an
industry that feeds the standing armies
of the old world, and whose shipments
are made to great continents and islands
of the seas?
The origin of the range cattle-grow-
Ing industry in the United States dates
back to about the fifteenth century.
when horned cattle were intro
duced from Spain by way of Mexico
among the Pueblo Indians re-
siding along the east bank of the Rio
Grande. Later on the early colonists to
the republic of Texas took with them
herds of horned cate, and in this way
Texas became the mother of the range
cattle industry in the United States.
Here it was almost wholly confined
until after the Rebellion. Prior to
the late war nearly the whole of
Texas was given UP to cattle grow
ing. After the war, the disband-
ing of the great armies iessened
the demand, and Texas swarmed with
great herds in excess of the market de-
mand and local consumption. Cattle
were of little value, and yet these herds
were rapidly increasing. What was to
be done? The more enterprising ranch
men of Texas began to look for new
ranges and markets that would con-
sumo the enormous surplus. California
then had but few cattle. The states of
Kansas and Nebraska and the terrific
ries west of the Missouri river were
Sparsely populated. The vast region of
magnificent grazing area to be found
there, and upon which the buffalo
roamed, readily offered the temptation
for field of experiment.
If the wild bison could subsist on
these plains and in the valleys and
parks of the Rocky Mountain country,
why could not cattle. Winter and sum-
mcr the buffalo found sufficient grass,
and hence the more enterpriSing Texas
cattlemcn came to the conclusion that
domestic cattle. bred and raised upon
their own eXertiOns for a Subsist-
ence, would be adapted to the
fine grasses of the plains of the West
and Northwest states and terrific
ries. and where at that time only the
buffalo grazed. Thus the study of the
life and habits Of tile buffalo led to the
idea which has made this the greatest
range and cattle growing country in the
world. Not few Texas men came, and
some from Californian all drove their
herds into this newer country. Their
success caused others to follow. and
Eastern spectators were attracted by
the fine opportunities for investment.
Thus sprung up this wonderful indus
try. for soon the un0ccupied territory of
the plains country of the West was filled
with great herds of graSS-raiSed cattle
cattle that knew not home OF master.
and to which grain would have been al
most a ScarecroW. And with all these
there came a cowboy, sui generis, about
whom there clusters so much OF ro-
nance,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

CUWEOITs SPORT. with E. @. Head, eX-
president Of the International Range
association. and one of the best in
formed men on this subject in the
west, he said: ''There is a changed
condition brought about bv the
constant tide of me-seekers in the
now West. The cattle will be divided
ana subdivided into comparatively
small herds for few years, yet many
large herds will continue to be met
with upon the open range country.
Then again where ownership is not eX-
ercised over large grazing land hold
ings, as is the case in Texas, New Mex
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
Robbed by Tramps.

Special to the Globe
DULUTH, MIMI, Aug. 4.-Three
tramps seized Mrs. John Almeter, of
this city, bound and gagged her and tied
her to the bed, while they ransacked
the house, but she says they did not
outrage her. She was there two hours
before help came.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
A Bitter Disappointment.

New York Sun.
Miss Ethel Oh, Clara, had such an
experience to-day. fell into the lake
at Central part, and but for a brave
rescuer would have been drowned.
Miss Clafa-HOw romantic! Who was
your rescurer, Ethel?
Miss Ethel-A park policeman. Clara
was too disappointed for any thing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

puc.l cSooOh MA
the roundup.
From Texas
to Montana
cattlemen and
cowboys are
in the saddle.
The grea t
plains, mesas,
plateaus and
every noun
tain nook are
carefully eX-
plore d by
thousands of
fearless and
tirelesS riders.
Thn rn11nd-I1n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

But all this is
changing. The great
cattle kings will soon
be a thing of the past.
The business former
ly known as Cattle
ranching OH the West
ern plains of Amer
lea" will only be
known in history, OF
at least the day of
large herds upon free
ranges is soon to be a
thing of the past. Re-
Gently. while talking
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05
The CATTLE KINGS.
Cowboys on the Roundup
From Mexico to British
America.
Origin OF the Cattle Industry
in the United States Gen.
turtles Ago.
The Great Cattle Ranches
Soon to Be Things Of
the Past.
The Cow Must Give Way to
Nancy and the
Baby.

OIOUG DGIHUCTdl.
DENVER, Col, July 25, 1883.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

sers. Read it and think
how strong it is. No
custom tailor could say
or do more:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

because it is the innate love that every
woman has for a horse, or indeed for
any cause movable or not. the smart
American of to-day is determined to look
her best at the races. Those
of Sheepshead Bay do not
afford as good an opportunity to
display fine gowns as do those at Mon
mouth. The long ride in the cars from
New York means destruction to the
picture gowns, and so the clever New
York girl has kept hers in their big
French boxes until the first day when
she is at Long Branch, the 4th of July
meeting at Monmouth Park.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

I'a-N LhJ NOI', o UIJ E-V' iOOO'
.mznzza.l I'll is is the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-05

About your race gown, remember
this: Do not let fan be part of your
get up. 1t will stamp it as bad form. A
fan belongs to the ball room, not to the
balcony of club house. Then. no
matter how deliberately your hair NAV
be arranged, do not let an end of it fly.
Call all your lace hair pins into requisi-
ton, so that you may be as natty in
your get-up as thoroughbred is high
stepping and jaunty. Bah.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-28

Canada in Great Britain, and to the came pur-
port. But Sir Charles did not walk into the
trap with the cheerful a%lacrity of Lord Sack
vile. On the contrary, like a wise and wary
fish, he smelled the bait and declined to bite.
He politely informed Mr.. Murchison that his
official position estopped him from Offering
any advice as to how he should vote, adding
that "the hope is uppermost in everybody's
mind that the matters in dispute between the
two countries may soon be disposed Of in a
manner satisfactory to both, and your knowl-
edge of public opinion in Canada will show
you that Canadians are most DESTROYS that
their relations with the United States should
be of the most cordial and friendly character"
II my Lord Sackville had disposed of Mr..
Murchison in the same worldly-wise fashion,
he and his charming daughters would now be
looking forward to the Inauguration ball at
Washington, instead of crossing the briny on
their way to England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-28

THE Atlanta Constitution, which has had
the reputation of being the most liberal and
broad minded journal in the South, might
learn a lesson in common sense from the
Charleston News and Courier, a paper that
has been most bitterly partisan. The Consti-
tution's disappointment over defeat was so
great as to lead it into some very foolish
lamentations and prOphesies of disaster. The
News is shrewd enough to see that such talk
is not only injurious in it's effects, but that
the industrial interests of the South are not
likely to suffer under Republican administra-
tion. With great good Judgment it announces
this opinion promptly, and paves the way for
q favorable reception of the coming Presi-
dents policy. and the consequent tranquility
and prosperity of the region in which it is
most deeply interested. The attitude of
this influential paper promises well for the
advancement of South Carolina, both in q
business and political way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-28

THE Philadelphia Record, which was sure
the country was doomed to destruction If
Cleveland and free trade were not successful,
is constrained to admit that in the South
very considerable numbers Of high-tarif men
are to be found in the Democratic party. 1t
would greatly aid in destroying the sectional
and color line and contribute to the healthy
political development of the country, the
Record thinks, if General Harrison would
recognize these Democrats by making his ap-
pointments from among them in preference to
Ignorant aud incapable Republicans, white
or black" Maybe so; but wouldn't it
answer the same purpose to select as his ap-
p~ointees capable and intelligent Republicans
There must be some of this class among the
thousands who succeeded in getting their
votes counted Down there, to say nothing of
those who were counted out. The Presidents
choice will hardly be limited to i~lliterate Re-
publicans; and as between we'll qualified
members of that party who have kept the
faith through all discouraeements and 'pro-
lection Democrats afraid to vote in ac-
cordance with their principles, honors should
be given to the former.