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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22

stock laws have been passed by the Legisla-
lures and under whose control the stock
mems herds have been annually gathered in.
Given 100000 unfenced square miles of
the earth's surface, on which range at will
100000 head of cattle, the property of
thousands of men, and how may each owner
garner his own harvest of beef? This is
the grazier's problem on the Northern
Range. The roundup begins about the
middle Of June, often with mud, wet grass
and freezing nights, to add to the other
ulseries Of the tenderfoot then breaking in
81 cowboy life.
Equipment OF a Roundup Party
The many roundup parties are numbered,
anl each has its own territory to look after
IN one roundup party NAV be $50 men: in
another not more than 80. Each party has
g foreman, with two or three assistants, in
charge Of general work, a ranch foreman
having control onlv when working in
his own herd with his own men. In party
Of 4 100 men perhaps so will be in the en-
plOv of y to 20 of the nearest ranch owners.
The rest Of the party, coming in ones and
tw1s Irom more distant ranches, are on hand
20 look out for cattle far from home, it being
hn ordinary thing TO find strays 200 miles or
even more from where they were turned
loose the year before. To every 10 to IL men
in party are mess wagon and cook. A
cowboy on the roundup has string of six
10 nine ponies, the men of each mess usual
~ holding their animals together and tax
ing turns at night herding.
The days routine of a roundup party at
work on the range is, first, gathering cattle;
second, separating them according to own
e-shlp; third, branding calves.
As early as 3 A. NJ. the call "Roll OUT"
IS passed through the camp. The night
herders have already driven the ponies in
close at hand The cowboys hastily rolling
up their bedding and throwing it on the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
THE MAMM0THs OF SIBERIA.

Mr.. Howorth Has a Theory to tho
Manner of Their Preservation.
st. Louis Republic.l
Mr.. Howorth advances q new theory " ith
regard to the remains of mammoths and
other large animals in the soil of Siberia
All over this great plain, wherever the
ground is frozen hard, are found mammoths
and other animals preserved very fresh, SO
that the wolves and bears can feed upon
their remains. These mammoths have been
found from the eastern border clear to the
Obi River. They have been fonnd under
conditions which make it certain that they
could not have lived, unless the rround-
ings and climate had, at the time they ex-
listed, been entirely different from the
present conditions. The remains of the
plants on which they fed are also found, and
southern contemporary shells are discovered
with the remains, pointing to climatic con-
ditions which no longer exist
Mr.. Howorth believes that this vast
plateau Is one of the most recent features in
the physical geography of the world, and
that its rapid elevation caused the tre-
mendous change of climate which has
enabled the bodies Of these great beasts to
be preserved intact as we find them. He
says that unless these animals had been
frozen Immediately after they died, and re-
mained frozen to this day, they would
certainly have decayed and disappeared. A
single Siberian summer sun would have de-
stroyed them. completely. 1t is known
that further east the bones of great animals
have been found Ii, 900 feet above the sea
under conditions which Falconer declared
to be absolutely incompatible with their
mode of life.
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TWO ANIMALS AT A SHOT,
Ono Was a Panther and the Other . Dee
Which He Had Attacked

Ono Was a Panther and the Other Deer
Which He Had Attacked
A friend of mine who lives in one of the
widest portions of Northern California
came into town last week to purchase food
supplies says q writer in Forest and Stream
When down he always has something inter-
esting to say about his life in the wilds He
killed IL bears and 10 panthers last winter,
and it was not much of season tor wild
animals either. Once on his rounds (for he
is on the range looking after his sheep every
day with rifle and dogs), he saw a deer act
ing in queer manner Being where he
could see and not be seen, my friend quietly
awaited developments. The deer was look
ing in a certain direction, evidently very
much frightened.
On looking around my friend saw a pam
ther coming from an entirely different direc-
tion. but seeming to throw Its voice so as to
deceive the frightened deer. All the time
it kept getting nearer and nearer At last
being near enough it gave leap, landing on
the deer and gave it its death blow. Then
the time came for my friend to interfere
and he did SO by drawing bead and hitting
his mark "dead-center, thus getting two
animals for one shot. I must not forget to
state that they were both so poor that it did
not pay to save their pelts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
FIGURES ARE FUNNY THINGS
Strange Tricks That Can Be Played with
Some Numerals.

Strange Tricks That Can Be Played With
Some Numerals.
Pearson's weekly.l
Figures are funny things. They may be
manipulated in most mysterious ana mar
velous manner, so as to entirely deceive the
uninitiated: but when we get at the naked
truth we find them very simple. OF course,
we do not refer to ladies figures, but to COM
mon or garden numerals. Strange tricks
may be played with fgures-again we
refer to numerals-as amusing and perplex-
ing as with those time-honored and indis-
pensable conjuror's confederates-packs of
playing cards. In most of these the figure
nine is the most important. factor. There
are some peculiarities about this little
bullet-headed gentleman which are really
startling. He has a phenix-like power of
raising himself from mis- ashes.
Smother him up as you like, multiply
him by any group of his fellow figures, un-
til his identity is completely lost, and he
will bob up again, if not in shape, at least
in spirit-nay, substance-as the sum of
the result obtained by the process of multi
plication. Thus-twice are IS; add the
and the together and you get g. So for
example, II mines are 153, which added to-
gether, make 9, or 1873 mines makes 1,242,
and thus he pops up again in different form,
but the same self-assertive little chap. The
only exception is when applied to IL or
multiples of II, when the little joker come
in pairs, as witness the following-33 mines
giving 297, etc.
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Tho Discovery Of Dean Spence.


In this supremely live country the sensa-
tion caused in the quiet Cathedral town of
Gloucester England, by Dean Spence's dis
covery that the body of Osric, King of
Northrmhria, the royal founder of the
abbey which has since grown into Cathe-
dral, really rested beneath the shrine built
in his honor BY pious Abbot Malvern, is
hardly comprehensive. The shrine has
been thought till now to have been polite
monument erected in honor of the legend
ary patron of the great church in Glouces-
ter by the last abbot who presided there
before Henry Wills heavy hand came
down on the Church and carved out the
diocese of Gloucester from the bigger one
of Worcester.
But now Dean Spence, whose zeal and
affection for the grand old church of which
he is custodian are proverbial, has discoV-
cred that beyond all doubt the bones OF
Osric of Northumbria lie beneath the stone
shrine to the right Of the high altar, just as
recorded by Leland, the historian, $50 years
ago. At this discovery the demure Cathe-
dral city is overcome with elation, and the
county papers are Just briming over with
learned articles about Osric, and 1t is
claimed for Gloucester that she can show the
nearest to whole Saxon monarch known In
England. Pieces of, other Saxon kings,
some of the ashes of Kynegils, King of the
West Saxons, for instance, at Winchester,
the skull of King Oswald at Durham, are
to be found in various parts of England, but
Gloucester has the proud distinction of own
ing the only complete skeleton in this cate
CORY. But if the American traveller wants
to know why he should 60 to Gloucester,
this summer maybe, he need be told moth
ing of Saxon monarch silent beneath the
marble, but will find enough to reward him
in the, quaint old town within hailing dis
tance of the sea and yet enmeshed in flow
cry meadows, and in the thoroughly English
beauty of the cathedral,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
Ko-AI CALLING FOB HER SHOE
A Curious Chinese Legend out tho Cast
ing of Big Bell.

ing of Big Bell.
Pearson's Weekly.l
When the bell tower of Pekin was built
the Emperor Yung-lo, of the Ming dynasty,
ordered great mandarin, named Kuan-yu,
to cast bell big enough for such noble
edifice. Time after time Kuan-yu and the
expert workmen in the country tried to cast
a bell and failed; the casting was always
honeycombed, and the Emperor said that if
there was one more failure Kuan-yu's head
should pay the forfeit for It. Now, Kuan-yu
had daughter, a beautiful girl of 16, named
Ko-ai; she went to certain astrologer and
asked the cause of her fathers failure
Some demon, she was informed, required
the blood of a maiden to be mixed with the
metal, and unless this was done the next
casting would fail, like the previous ones
Ko-ai got permission from her father to
be present at the casting; and amid the
dead silence which prevailed when the taps
were drawn, and the molten stream poured
down into the mould, shrek was heard,
and, crying out, "For my father!" Ko-ai
threw herself into the seething metal One
of the workmen tried to seize her, but sue
ceeded in getting hold only of shoe. The
father was taken home ravlng madman,
bet the bell was perfect in make and tone,
and, when struck, its sonorous boom is to
this day followed by low, wailing sound,
like the cry of g woman in agony, and when
people hear it, they say: "There's Ko-ai
calling for her shoep'
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Good Words for the Moneoose.

A curious warning against a too great
confidence in the mongoose as remedy for
gophers and other pests in California comes
from the remote island of Hawaii. In the
sugar plantations of Hawaii the mongoose
has been used to good effect; and the little
animal has proved to be an excellent police
force against the rats which used to commit
fearful ravages upon the sugar cane before
the mongoose was introduced. In 1880, for
in stance, on a large plantation in the Hilo
district, owned by Captain Obed Spencer
it was found impossible to bring crop of
cane to maturity, the rats simply moving
over the property like an army and clear
ing off the cane. Since the introduction of
the mongoose the plague of rats has abated,
and thousands of tons of sugar are obtained
from lands that yielded hundreds few
years ago.
This showing has set the Californians
longing for the mongoose' also, that they
may rid themselves of gophers and other
rodents. And it is the announcement of
the prospective importation of the mon
goose into California that has evoked the
warning from Hawaii that the animal de-
stroys poultry as willingly as it does rats
or mice, and for that reason is unpopular to
a certain extent. The mongoose, or lchncu-
mon, can stand all such insinuations, for in
two countries at least it is, and has been for
thousands of years, esteemed almost divine.
In Egypt the mongoose's pleasant habit of
hunting up crocodiles' eggs and devouring
them made it an object of veneration to
Cleopatra's countrymen, as thereby a dan
gerous increase of crocodiles was prevented.
For like reasons the mongoose is beloved
by India, where 1t not only devours snakes
eggs and youthful serpents, but attacks the
al Il nvd aAcf 1T
fear, and also commonly without hurt to
ITSELF
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cowboy then winds the hand end of the rope
about the pommel of his saddle, the pony
braces itself, the rope is stretched straight,
and the calf falls. A second cowboy hurries
up, nooses the calf at the head if it has been
caught by a foot, or vice versa, quickly
stretches his rope taut, and the animal,
with head and one foot stretched as TAR
apart as possible, is unable to rise.
Checking Calf With the Rope.
A calf six months old is no toy to play
with. Wnen caught it viciously humps
and kicks. and then scurries away, raising
a dust like small whirlwind. The saga
cious pony to which it is attached gallops
after for some distance, but at slightly
slower speed. When the rope, gradually
Strengthening, is nearly straight, the pony
suddenly veers sidewise, leans of, plants
his hoofs firmly and receives the shock.
At the cruel check the calf leaps upward,
hops over, riddle in heels. mead and tail,
perhaps turning a somerSault while in the
air, and drops as If shot.
While it is held down bv The two long
ropes of the lariaters, cowboy afoot ap-
proaches the calf and, twisting his helpless
front feet under its stretched neck, sits on
Its head. Another man then squats on its
hind legs. Next the brander runs up from
the fire armed with long rod, on the red
hot end of which are welded the letters or
signs forming the trade mark of the owner.
The brand, applied on the lett haunch of
the calf: and sometimes over the ribs as
well, sends up cloud of vapor from fried
fat, while there is an odor of scorched hair
and burnt mutton chop. The calf's ears
are also slit or clipped in form common to
its herd. 1t is then released.
The Music of the Meadows.
The believing of calf while in the
brander's clutches furnishes the COWBOYS
fancy with wealth of descriptive compari-
sons When the calf is tender little fell
low, only few weeks in this cruel world, it
seems plaintively to petition its tormentors
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BRANDING A STEER.

wagons. 90 in among the restles ponies and
select their first mounts. The sleepy cooks
b-srl- themselves preparing breakfast.
Camp fires are in a Iew minutes flashing red
lights in the misty gray of the early dawn;
cowboys are here and there wrestling with
slving and bucking bronchos; some men, try
ing % bride up, are flying about at the end
al a lariat like the tail boy in crack-the-
whip; others, in the saddle, are tossing up
and down in the air with the motions of
bounding football
The Routine of n Days Work.
Camp has awakened noisily, and the
racket goes on until the riders set of. The
sk rmish and scramble of saddling up over,
the men shout and clatter during their
hastv snack, and then off the troop of riders
60 Camp is in a moment as still as grave
ward. no one left but the cooks. They are
gathering scattered tin cups and plates, and
uurtering imprecations at the careless cow
bows, it being the cooks province to growL
The foreman, leading the troop, makes
direct for point 10 or Is miles from camp,
telling of men right and left by the way,
SO aIsp0sing Of them, up ravlnes and over
platcaus as TO cover the grazing ground to
be worked over during the day. Each man,
thus given his duty, goes of as far as some
natural dividing line between ranges-a
high divide, a mountain, a marsh, a sand
waste or stream. Returning from these
outpusts, the riders conformity scour por-
tion ot country into which outside cattle are
not likely soon to wander. The rendezvous
is usually at a spot about midway between
camp and tie furthest point reached by the
most advanced post of the party. The
cowboys drivc-in is at times rich in ad-
venture. The cattle, meekly obeying
droyers' calls, such as "Whoop-eer" ''Git
along" "Hay-ho"' head the way they are
driven. But antelope, gopher, deer, and
occssi onally catamount, bear and buffalo
may tempt the cowboy to turn sportsman
for the passing hour.
About noon all the cattle on the days
grounds are gathered. They are held by
mounted cowboys in herds numbering 200
or 300 each. Meantime the pony herds
have been driven up. The tired little fel-
lows that have been ridden on the long
mornings hunt are unsaddled and new
mounts are taken by the men.
The Process of Cutting Out.
The separation of n general herd of cattle
into herds by ownership is called cutting
out With grown-up and branded animals
the task Of rendering his property to each
stockman interested is easy enough, but in
the case Of young calves ownership is often
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to have mercy because of its helplessness
1t is SO young, SO weak, so tiny, so innocent
why give it pain? 1t can but weep and
pipe a tremulous, treble. lamb-like
'B-a-a-a-ah!' Not so the toughened year
ling. He is a courageous, domineering
buck, rising warrior among the grazing
herd. When the hated rope that curtails
MS liberty tightens about his head or leg,
he vents defiant below that echoes over
the rolling plains and off among the foot
hills.
His freedom, that never felt halter, is
being assailed. He is now apt to lower
horns and rush madly toward his csptor,
whose pony is only too willing to obey spur
and scurry aside from the young monarch
OF the meadow When, however, the bud
ding bull IS roughly checked in his mad
careening by the lariat of the second cow
bov thrown from behind, he roars in impo-
tent rage and modification. Recklessly
hurling himself about, seeking yainly to
escape, he is now vehemently blatant.
Thrown down, he bawls his defeat to the
very heavens. Under the ignominy of hav-
ing Its head sat upon by his ungenerous
enemy, MS sonorous lamentations, uttered
IN prolonged swells and cadences, proclaim
the fallen hero.
An Expression of the wane of Dignity.
His powerful baritone, at first masterfully
clear, changes in timbre until it is hoarse,
and then cultural, and at length wheezy,
1t sinks on in depth to tragedian's whis-
per, and finally to gladiator's diving groan.
Lying PROSTATE, burned, cut, bleeding, his
eyes a fire, he convulsively and family
breathes desperation, but vengeance, too.
However, released and all over, the great
calf rises, blinks, shakes himself, with un-
steady steps walks away, and haltinc a
quarter OF mile off, stands wilted, silently
viewing the distant blue hilItops and chew
ing the cud of steer philosophy, his woes
already half forgotten.
The work on one grazing ground is SINH
lar to that on all others When two round
up parties meet mutual transfer is made of
estray cattle belonging to ranches further
ahead on the route of each. The main pur-
poses of the general spring roundup are
the branding of calves and the restoration
of estrays to their owners With this
work accomplished, every cattle raiser of
the range is in possession of his hoof prop
erty, branding signIfying possession, and
his animals are do:ting the plains as near
his ranch as the open range system of graz
ing permits.
When on the general roundup the cowboy
fingers but briefly about the evening camp
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
New Light on Captain Cook.

It is now more than a 100 years since
Captain Cook discovered Hawaii, where he
met a violent death, and singular to relate
some interesting facts have just come to
light about the great explorers connection
with the island. A Mr.. Davies has for
warded to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii
extracts from the journal of Captain Charles
Clarke, who succeeded to the command of
the ship Resolution after Cooks death, and
from the pocket diary of one of the Junior
officers aboard that vessel. These historical
documents, which are now published for the
first time, make these points clear, it is
claimed, namely: That Captain Cook was
not killed treacherously by the Hawaiians
but accidentally in scuffle between the
natives and some misbehaving sailors on
the. beach, that the Hawaiians were not
guilty at that time of cannibalism and that
Captain Cook never pretended to the na-
tives to be god. W. G. KAUFMAN.
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a nice matter to decide When a herd is

a nice matter to decide. When q herd is
undisturbed calf usually runs at the side
OF its mother, and as she is driven out OF the
bunch the little one follows her. But If an
unbranded calf is found estray the question
of whose it is cannot be answered positively.
In such cases il is customary to award the
calf-the maverick" +" so called from ranch
owner in Texas vino abandoned all his cattle
on the range-to the owner of the largest
female herd in the locality.
In cutting out, experienced cowboys ride
slowly into a general herd, and, selecting
an animal of a certain brand, gently drive
boys, where it is taken in charge by an
awaiting horseman and driven to spot q
few hundreds yards away. There, as the
beginning of a herd of its brand, it is held
bv another cowboy. The men riding IN
among the general herds proceed quietly,
having care to avoid stampede. When,
however, a young steer has been urged to
the edge of a bunch of cattle he is often
sufficiently excited to start out on the
prairie on q gallop for liberty, and before
heading him of the cowboy in charge OF
him NAV have wild dash for mile or more
in pursuit So the work proceeds, the gen.
eraI herds dissclving, the individual herds
gradually enlarging, until the former disap-
pear
Branding Not Much of a Snap.
Cutting out finished, the roundup party
disperses for the day. The branded cattle
on their home range, excepting cows with
calves, are turned adrift. Estrays are held
in separate bunch from day to day, and
when something of herd belonging in one
locality is collected they are started Oft in
charge OF some men to where they belong.
The bunch of cows with calves of each sep
arate ownership are taken in charge by the
COWBOYS of the firm interested, and are
driven toward camp, which the cooks
have moved up near the rendezvous 1t is
now well along in the afternoon, and all
hands are glad to fortify themselves with
dinner
Branding is rough and tedious work. If
done in the open it is especially difficult,
ropes then being necessary in handling the
calves In such a case a man rides up
toward the calf to be branded, and looping
up his long pony tether, skillfully throws
one end of it as a moose either over the head
or about hind foot of the lively little ami
NAL as it trots or gallops away. On feeling
the rope the calf increases its speed The
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE NEWS.

THE union meets next Sunday at St
Johns, Thirty-second street.
THERE are several societies that might join
the union before the Scottdale convention
REV. PRES LANDING has had mission al
his church at Scottdale. Many total alb.
stainer recruits were gained.
AS this is tho last monthly meeting of the
union for the fiscal year delegates should
come prepared with their final reports.
THE new edition Of the pledge cards are
now ready, and as the school year is draw.
ing to a close orders should be sent in
promptly.
A RAILROAD rate of cents a mile to Scott
dale, June II, from all stations, has been Sc
cured. Members must obtain an order from
Secretary Joyce, II Crystal Row, Southside
THE May bulletin asks societies to report
how many pledge cards they will take if q
form is devised after the style of the school
chtldren's pledge. These reports will be re-
cetved next Sunday.
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man Islands saws that no amount of kind
treatment will make reliable friends of the
pigmies; probably, the recollection Of CEN
turies of inhuman treatment by more civil
lied races keeps alive their hostility to all
visitors. So they preserve as perfect state
of savagery as the world knows Some OF
their customs are humorously horrible. A
widow, for instance, is forced to wear as
long as she lives the skull Of the late Ia
mented hanging from cord about her neck.
They have never intermarried with neigh
boring races, and the Andaman Islander is
exactly the same dwarf, with q black skin
but nothing else in common with the negro,
that he was hundreds of years ago.