The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-15

even as he sometimes lets those the very
 hairs of whose heafls he numbers die.
 There was nothing left for them to do
 but to wander and wander until their
 poor inferior senses failed and their strength gave out. Then they fell
 down. Then with intervals of dim consciousness and feebler and feebler
 struggling they came to the end and gave up whatever ghost the maker of all things puts in cattle. Their bones now shine white and clean in the burn
 ing sun. If there is a good place for faithful dogs and other useful animals hereafter here's hoping that the cattle who have died the awful death of the Arizona desert will be especially in it.. If in their case the law of compensa- tion also holds good they ought to wake up in place like the San Bernadino valley.
 THE RED PEOPLE.
 But to return to the proper study of mankind. Nothing is of greater inter- est to the traveller by the Sante Fe route than the Indians who live in In- dianville and who come to the trains to sell clay babies and other articles 9f use and ornament When they speak of buttes out West they don't mean Indians But the Indians are certainly 'Sbeauts," as we say in the East. Just glance at one who came down to the train to pick up a few cents and incl dentally to mash travellers who had never seen Indians. He did both. He had a form of manly beauty and face whose beauty has never been and nev- CT will be classified. But it was not his form or his face that did the busi- ness. It was his costume. Even syndicate fashion writer could not do that justice. To begin on the ground floor, he had some cowhide shoes which were made to wear and not to fit. His legs were enclosed in pair of things which any clothing dealer would be amply justified in advertising as pants" They were of green calico slashed at the bottom like the pantalets of a Spanish hidalgo. Ills manly bust was covered by a waist of still greener calico, with V In front cut quite as low as the extreme of fashion in the East prescribes His raven and undecided tresses were kept in place by red ban danna handkerchief which had proba- bly, once belonged to a Father of the American Revolutionj and those same tresses were very artistically banged. His face was painted as noticeably as the face of any white belle, and as sash he wore horse blanket that had evidently been donated to him by horse which had no further use for it.
 He was indeed a noble red man.
 So much for the noble red man. No noble red woman made her appearance. The noble red women were probably at home reading fashion papers, the maga- zines, and profound works on the of Woman. Among the who visited the trains there were none who brought to mind Pocha- hontas Bright Alfaretta, or the laugh ng Minnehaha. What they did bring to mind Is not mentionable in the col imns of a polite family journal But hey did their level best They had 1appooses to show for five cents look, md if anybody wants to see an In- Han pappoose after seeing it's mother, le ought to be made to pay at least | i've cents for such perversion. One if the ignoble red women made an in- l eresting exhibition of herself when the | ;pecial artist of the company succeeded n snapping his kodak on her when she | yasn't looking. When she saw that | he had been taken in she let out a | tream of mingled Indian, Mexican and | United States profanity and asfa'led | he fleeing photographer with Q shower | f bad languages and gravel. They | aid she was superstitious and thought l hat anybody who photographed her ook away part of her. This explana- ion looked improbable. She ought 10 e truly thankful to any photographer r other person who would be kind nough to her to take away any part f her. Probably the truth is that she tas not superstitiohs, but avaricious. i've cents would probably have oothed her lacerated feelings.
 A RATNMAKER.
 There are other human beings in the Vest only less interesting than the In- ians. Among them are the rainmakers. he of them was on the train. If wind Till blow up rain this chap must be a mining success. He can certainly low.
 owBoYs AND DEcEITI UL APPEARANCES. Then there are cowboys. Although 1e cowboy is not what he once was, nd although the best of him is now ow-punching with Buffalo Bill Nate ( alisbury and other great ranchmen nd range riders, there are a few of le old-timers left One of them got l the train at La Junta, that cowboy { aradise He had punched cows all { yer the land where cows were punch { l and knew every foot of the ground l om Topeka to san Berdoo," as he Il shortened the full Span Is h of San Bernadino. At present he I
 engaged in the tame occupation of ] tipping cattle for firm of Denver 1 ltchers, but he lives in the past, when ( was roaming over the plains, punch ' g, roping, branding, rounding-up, cor ling, etc., etc. And right happily ,es he live in those glorious and rom- ltic days before there were railroad aims over the ranges and a Big Four l at can make it's baleful influence felt ' | even the most wondrous cowboys. :, 1is old timer was riding many miles ter cattle on railroad train, even