Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-12-01

and Cared FOr-ThrlIhng Expert
ences in the Saddle While Break
inc Horses and Rounding Up
Sheep.
Monterey county, Cal, boasts Of
young woman who can ill the place Of
vaquero as well as any man who ever
rode in a saddle. Sac is but twenty
three years old, and has fortune in
the cattle and horse business.
Her name is Margaret Rogers, and
she IS as popular, artistic and talented
as she IS buginess-like and enterprising.
She rounds up the cattle on her fatherd
and her own ranches, personally sees
70 branding, marks the calves, separates
the mavericks, corTals the colts and
sheep, and Is able 10 plough, SOW and
run g harvesting machine, yet she re
joices that sac is not an Amozon. in
the parlOr. at her fathers great old
fashioned ranch house, she is a delight
full hostess. She plays the piano well,
is neat at fancy work. and has well
selected library Of several hundred
books. A medal that she won in a
ladies' seminary at Oakland for profic-
iency IN Latin and English literature
hangs upon the library wall
Miss Rogers makes all the ploughs
for the ranch work on her own and her
fathers properties; she has the market
for grain. beef and pork at her fingers
ends and makes all the sales and con-
tracts on the place. Last season she
went to Portland, Ore, to buy several
combination harvesters for ranch use
at an expense Of 81, 500, because she did
not find the machines she wanted In
California.
The Rogers home is near King City,
Monterey county, about 100 miles south
of San Francisco and 800 miles north
Of Los Angeles. Robert l Rogers, the
father of Miss Margaret, came to Mon
terey county from England for his
health in 1876. He was then nearly
dead with consumption. but has enjoy
ed comparative health for twelve years.
Mr.. Rogers embarked in stock raising
ct once: there was no railroad near, and
the country was one of magnificent
distances" for horseback or wagon
travel. Fences were unknown, and the
nearest towns were Slinas and Castro
vile.
Mr. ROGERS had an aversion to riding.
brt HE second daughter took to horses
H. d,cl, n u-o+er and in the course
Sc 49, ~. fo,,,. vears she was intrusted
In - -oo,.,,, oil tha berding the little
f %,,, nosdod
i''i ~ ~ I,+tIo o;rl nro4asted AGAINST the
10 cod5Io fror1 he fret and for thir-
.oe,, ,,eors naef has rarely used one.
Di.-i1Sd s1yiI,fe vera 1,nheard of but
~. o,,,, de1,ices evolved a garment of
''0- ~, wv 18th Che reas N This dav
~ L.. La o,o # ie hI,t On ordln-
- el,irt sosr0oIv os long as
,...li-,,,s Ienqlb .io-1t 0.ri1e I'm tho front
-,.-et.be Int ros-as,frg innumerahie
.-,.stsl,t 7orss s- fhe back Tne mater
FL ~, COMO soft e-uT that easily
1rsol. sole and an unusual quantity
ie aonrove1 10 secure the requisite full
,,.. i7 .b- hack Perfect e1aiqhlness
in tbe incls IS necessary. and when hts
f. attained tba result is surprising.
,frYntod a5.rf6e 0n "a heavy vaqroros
e.f5l. Miss Ringers invention Grapes
itsoif ne smoothiv as pair of riding
trousars and falls even lower than
,rben ebe is On hor feet
when +bo s. Louis Glohe-Dcmocrat
in+ervie,va- was brought face TO face
with Miss Margaret she was engaged
win her sister Evelyn In marking a
oo~ral fuU If lanns that had escaped
the butcher Two under-bits iu the
-i,t+ en-, of the sheen and ca.tle w3s tho
5.....,o+ino mark Of The sisters. Who
lr, ,,rtneTs in q qoo9Iv number #
-, Gle ami horses irCr1o.deu II
tboi,. fathers herds. They were entire
w. rnaided In the worl,. which was per-
formed so cleverly and gently, and was
oocornanied with 50 much soothing
rot n seemed almost TO be desirable d
ba lamb on the Rogers ranch Miss
T7vaIvn Rogers s+r0rg arms bare f9
Tho elbow. seemed little taxed as she
oa,-gbt tho woollv little animals. dei
4,,ro,,, +bem IN one side. and restrained
tboj, STRUGGLES while Miss Margaret S
49, 49, 1-o,fo cIinned ont the bit or each
loha recnisite TO make the selected
iJor+iqcation mark
A few kindly pats on the head and
soothing word or two were usually
sufficient recompense for the pam lot
the lambkins toddled back to the old
ewes with scarcely a bleat.
"Of course" she said, when she was
af leisure to talk, there are not many