The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-09-18
The Western Saddle,

Be it known that he who has ridden
only on an English pigskin will find
that there are things he has no knowl-
edge of when first he throws a leg over
the stock saddle of the west, and when
he has seen a broncho buster ride a
bucking mustang on its native heath he
must admit that, although the owboy
may be neither neat nor we'll hammered,
he could yet give points ON rough rid
ing to these who follow the foxhounds.
AS the cowboys mode of riding is
distinctive, so is his horse furniture,
and it is admirably adapted to his par
ticular needs. The stock saddle, for in
stance, is as different from the English
hunting or park saddle as a park drag
is from a trotting sulky. Yet each is
perfectly suited to the purposes for
which it was designed. The stock sad.
die is of Spanish-American birth and
must be heavily built, sometimes 40
pounds in weight, in order to have the
requisite strength, for the high horn or
pommel is necessary to the cowboy in
all the uses of the ~lariat, or "rope,'' as
it is now almost universally called, and
thus it is required to stand the most
sudden and severe strains. The rope is
a very essential article of the COW
puncher's equipment. 1t is ordinarily
about 40 feet long and can be thrown
with accuracy perhaps 80 feet by the
average puncher, although some use it
effectively at a distance of 10 or 10 feet
farther if its length is proportionately
greater. In catching stock or in hauling
anything, be it a mired wagon. a bogged
steer OF wood for the campfire, the rope
is given u double turn around the horn,
and the saddle must be strong indeed t.
endure such work. Moreover, it must
be tightly girthed over the heavy sad
die blankets, and this calls for the cum
bersome cinoh rigging, which in most
parts of the west is double. Allan
Hendricks in Lippincott's.
Tie Growth of the t,ody,
Up to a certain period of life the
body grows. The process continues
generally up to the twentieth year,
and ever beyond. When growth
ceases, it is not that new material
ceases to be added to the body, for
this is increasingly being effected to
supply the place of those constitu.
ents of the frame which are contin-
ually being used up, but the balance
between the food taken and assimi-
lated and the waste of the body is
equalized, md after growth has
ceased this balance-with the eX-
ception Of fatty deposits-is during
health maintained with but little va
siation during the years of life's
prime. When old age comes on
that is, after the sixtieth year
the balance inclines the other
way; the waste now exceeds the
reparative nutriment which it is
in the power of the system to re-
ceive and elaborate, and the tissues
all diminish in bulk, the stature
even becoming less. Growth or in
crease of size of the body as a whole,
or of any part of it, is dependent as
a healthy process, first, on a proper
amount of nervous excitation, and,
secondly, on due supply of healthy
blood Young people require nutri-
ment not only to sustain the vast
Ing processes of respiration and of
the motor change OF movement, but
they require also sufficient to sup
ply the growing tissues of their en-
tire body with the various elements
which go to perfect their compost
ton. If these elements are not sup
Piled, development is either arrest,
ed, or, the tendency to growth con-
tinuing, the bones and tissues gem
orally lengthen without acquiring
their healthy substanc New York
Ledger.