The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-15

cline, same happy possibilities for them
then as for US now.
This Spaniard was daring, dashing man
when he first came; cavalier in its fullest
sense. Aud yet in less than 4 century he
settled down, down, down, till the Mexican
rubbed elbows with the Digger. Well now,
are we becoming MeXicanzed?
Come, let us mount our horses again.
Let US get ont from behind the counter or
from the desk, down out Of the cars and
carriages, ard be men once more.
We furnish the world with horses. we
grow the grain to ieed them, and yet here
comes a "oue-lunged boy from Yale College
and carries of the prize" for adrot horse
manship before all the fair ladies of beauii-
ful Santa Barbaral l tell you frankly cur
Young men are becoming MeXiraniZed.
Another 10 wears, few more ions OF cigar
cites, and gOUd-by to California manhood.
II simply makes ME weary to see the strings
of creaking vehicles Of all sorts tha' carry
young men up my hills on SundayS-fre-
Quently as many in one conveyance as can
crowd in-and nearly always the mouth
glued to the lnseparaDle cigarette. l nave
heard u many times In England, and give
IL to YOU for what II is worth, that II was
the cigarette and laziGess, not the sword or
the wreck of the Armada, that reduced
Spain from the first power IN the world 20
away down below par.
Not long ago l NET Lord ROsebeTy at the
gate OF central I aIhs New OIks ne W Is
on foot and alone he had walked up four
miles from his hotel and was about to walk
back. The millionaire n0bleman. Cabinet
Minister, too, informed me that he took this
walk every morning before breakfast.
Many and many a sturdy Englisbman,
rich enough TO buy and sell the most of US.
has walked up 10 my little home here n
the past five years. but never Californian
il be can hire a cart to drag him up.
Get out, pleased If you don't know how to
mount horse like man, why walk; walk
ike an English gentleman, an English
nObleman Meantime let NE inform you
that New York. nearly all America IN fact,
except our part OF Il, Is now learning IL
ride. Fifteen years ago you would scarcely
see a man in the saddle either IN Washing
ton or New York, but now any gentleman
feels that II is far more manly and impOr-
iant to know now to Tide than dance. The
ladies led off in this important reform, we
are told. IL looks rs II this IS going 10 be
the case here.
We read that Napoleon would not trust q
general with any responsible task who was
not well trained TO the saddle; saying, "a
man who does net know how to handle
horse knows not we'll how to handle men,"
One of the very best h0Tsemen we ever
had in California was Fremont. j never
heard this remarked upon, but il is a fact.
Tie truth is, to my mind at least, whatever
others may say, Fremont was a much
bigger man IN all sorts of ways than we
thought him long ago. He had lots of good
luck and lots of bad luck too, but be
rode the pillows Of fortune or mis-
fortune with equal compOsure. Whether
in the saddle on the desert or in
the Senate by the side of Father Ben
ton, he, It seems to me, was always man
a gentleman And when first saw him on
horseback up in the mountains Of Mari
posa, when a boy, he was, to my young and
vivid fancy, another Napoleon crossing the
Alps.
I clip the following bit about his horse
and Workmanship from his recently pub