Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-30

quoted. By continuing this process,
the broncho will in time become thor
oughly tame, after which he may be
buried, or used for fertllizing purposes
with absolute safety.
The broncho should v be an
preached, when in even a s~emi-conscious
state, with aslice of bread or loaf sugar.
lie is especially averse to loaf sugar, and
seldom receives 1t from the hands Of his
owner, unless he gets it by mistake,
along with a hand or finger, which he
has picked from some arm outstretched
to pet him. In this case, the broncho
will almost invariably spit out the sugar
and eat the finger, smiling broadly the
entire time. Several quite intimate
friends of mine, who went out west for
the express purpose of tanning bronchos
with kindness and loaf sugar, have as
handsome monuments as you will find
in the Graceland cemetery.
The broncho is ridden with great diff
Guilty and a saddle slightly larger than he
IS. After the saddle has been securely
scr wed down, a bit, which resembles
one of the rotary s%now.plows now in use
along the line of the Northern Pacific. is
inserted between his upper and lower
testh, and he IS mounted, Ordinarily
the broncho maintains a standing nos.
ture tor u moment, after which there
occurs a spasmodic twitching of his un-
combed tail, and then the real perform
ance begins. Sometimes it is quite brief.
and at the close of the first round the
rider is picked up by loving hands, his
apparel is carefully arranged, and he is
either buried in the broad bosom of some
neighboring hill top, or sent home TO his
relatives. Other times, the broncho will
liberate himself from his rider, dash off
across the CRASHES mountain side. pre-
cipitate himself down some hollow chasm.
dying upon the rocks below with a deep.
dull thud. Many bronchos are success
fully broken in this way, and the per
cent of mortality in all cases is quite
large.
L never broke any bronchos myself,
having been always quite content to
bangle my long, slender, lower limbs
over the limb of some conveniently re.
mote cottonwood tree and keep score. I
do not thirst for blood, and there is al.
ways zoo much violent exertion about
n of these Observation-Disclosures to rec
ommend itself to me as a profitable rec
reatlon. But it takes science to break a
broncho, and break him successfully.
People who imagine they are broken
With a common, seeding pillow and a hand
ful OF kind words, are deficient in their
knowledge of this class of animals. And
even after he is once broken. the broncho
is not as safe to ride upon as a Pullman
pass. He is likely to erupt at almost
any time, and upon several occasions T
have occupied u reserved seat upon some
grassy plateau and walked home after
ward at the instigation of some one of
these animals who was thoroughly bro
ken and perfectly tame. The broncho.
after you are thoroughly acquainted
with him, is one of the most mysterious
and unexplainable of the creations of ma
ture, and if he does not have a proper
place at the horse shows which are now
in full bloom throughout the country.
there is something radically wrong.
People are all too apt to rush into
print, or into the large arena Of talk, with
hasty and lily considered criticisms and
COMBINATIONS of some popular sport,
out OF nothing but a reprehensible spirit
OF hyper-criticism. Already, the Yale
Harvard football game is being roupdly
denounced, and the report has in some
way obtained foothold, that one or two
players were fatally injured. This is al,
a mistake, and in behalf of the two
teams, and of the whole football frazier.
nifty, desire to take the stand in this
matter myself. The official returns of
the game prove conclusively that this
hasiy report of the fatality is incorrect.
The incidents of the game, as revised bv
me from the official surgeons list is as
follows:
Number of players knocked out and
dragged from the field. 3
Disfigured for life, but not disabled. -
Spllntered shin-bones, cracked crani-
ums, broken jaws, dislocated teeth.
dismembered features, disintegrated
scalps, fractured limbs and other
minor incidents; grand total. Y8s
Twisted spinal columns. 4
Eyes gouged 4
Noses partially wrenched off, but which
can oe repaired without extraordi-
nary distortion Of the facial appear
The above list includes all Of tba
points which were scored by the two
teams, and can be verified by a consulta-
ton OF the hospital records. But. lest
this table should fail to convince the
more skeptical Of my readers of the emi-
nent harmlessnass and the manifold
beauties of the game Of football. let me
quote again from the report of the Off
clal surgeon to tha canta;no ~ AZ -