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


| .f DuG SICK anu IaluG ne grew, when nrst v
He saw a foot ball game.
A man kin kinder scrape an pinch an work
along some way,
Without the very fines grub fer three meals ev'ry
day.
A man kin be ez happy when he's eatin' pork
an beans,
Ez tho he fei on oyster stew, an had
means.
A corn-cob pipe an lager to a man thet's built
that way,
Tastes just ez sweet ez fine cigars, an champagne
an Tokay.
In fact a man don't need tn fret, to worry or to
frowu,
Eff he's only got a turkey when Thanksgivin'
comes q. onn'.
A man kin be- or happy burnin' chips and kero.
sene,
Ez tho he he'd electric lights, an cooked with
gasoline.
A man kin sleep ez soundly on a bed o. stats an
Ez tho he he'd q feather-tick, an clean sheets
ev'ry day.
A man kin winter jest ez we'll, eff his shack is
banked up high,
Ez tho he lad Il stealn-h t house, an all high
toned an fly.
Because he amt got silverware won't keep his
eperrits down,
Eff he's only got a turkey when Thanksgivin'
comes aroun'.
O. cour 80 it, comm purity smooth fer some men
all tn while,
Fer some hev lots O. money, an kin live in way
up style.
But a man kin cat ez square a meal when wearin'
boughten dads.
Ez tho hs wore good i.tin' clothes like all these
nobby bloods.
There amt no use a kickin' cause we amt all
got TIL dope,
An can't all use silk wipers, an wash with smell
in soap.
Cause g man kin sorter stan it, when he happens
to be down,
Eff he's only got a turkey when Thanksgivin'
comes aroun'.
For the past few weeks, the newspap-
ers of the larger towns in the east have
devoted considerable space to descrip-
tions of the horse shows which have
been in progress at various places. A
day or so ago, one of the exhibitions be-
gan in Chicago, and is even now attract
ing a great deal of attention. So far, I
have not noticed any extended account
OF the class of horses, which are ordinar-
lily known as bronchos, and 80 I am
forced to believe that the bronchos have
been overlooked by the stage managers
of these equine exhibitions.
This is not as it should be-. If these
horse shows are intended to set the
people to thinking, then one of the most
prolific sources of thought to be found
in the whole horse race. is absent.
People who imagine themselves judges
of the kinds of horses which should be
on exhibition at these places, and who
think the broncho can be dispensed with,
are guilty of a large and conspicuous
error. For without the broncho, a horse
show of any description, must, necessar-
lily, be a signal failure.
The broncho, descriptively, conforms
slightly to the description of horses in a
general way, which is to be found in any
of our natural histories. He has the same
general outline as the Clydesdale or the
Percheron, possessing IN equal quantity
of legs, numerically, and the same facial
apparatus, similarly placed about his an
atomy. He is not so large, however, as
these brands of horses, being somewhat
smaller than the Jersey COW, and COM
bining the mild dooility Of the zebra
with the eminent trustworthiness and
safety of the American Indian, who has
not yet succumbed to the clvilizing in
fuences of an agricultural life and
agency beef. There are W classes of
bronchos, in all the great numbers Of
them which inhabit the temperate zone
live bronchos and dead ones. For the
ordinary, everyday purposes for which
these horses are employed, the live
broncho is the more useful, although the
dead me is far safer, and more easily
trained, and, on the whole, I prefer him
to the live one.
1t is not the so much the appearance,
or the external beauty of the broncho,
which makes him an object of interest to
the people who associate with him in
everyday life. Rather is it his great
mental attachments and exceptional
force of character. For, in all the years
IN which he has been known to science,
and the heavy, street-car saddle with
which he is ridden, he has not been
known to succumb to any of the demon
alizing influences of civilization. Where
the American Indian has ~disintegrated,
and has fallen to the use of the govern
ment blanket and coffee sack, the broncho
still roams at will about the mountain
Businesses of his native land, eking out
each day a happy, careless existence
from his bill-ot-fare of cottonwood bark
and sage. brush. By thus voluntarily
turning his back upon the wiles of civ
ilization, the broncho still retains within
him all the patriotic fires of his fore
fathers, combining with this trait, the
fascinating, explosive liability Of the
dynamite can.
The process of tanning the broncho is
peculiar. He is approached quietly
from behind, the tanner studiously avoid
ing his hind feet by from seven to ten
| yards, according to the reputation of the