El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-09

q creature as man. When he was q.
horseback she was afraid and ran be-
fore him; when he wassfoot she sought
him out and trampled him to death.
Once her enemy came to brand her,
put ropes upon her, threw her youth
scared her flesh with hot iron. Later
in life he had come to her again, when
she WAS in full pride of motherhood,
taken her offspring from her side, and
scared its flesh as hers had been scared
before. These we're terrible expert
enoes, and she cherished deep hatred
of her tormentor, which needed no en-
couragement in her offspring.
The Texas COW who first poked her
down the long slope of the Missouri
drainage was akin to the wild animals
of the plains. She held her head high,
her horns were long, her eyes soft and
mild like those OF deer, and she was
as quick upon her feet as q cat. Her
quarters were light aud tapering, her
limbs clean cut. She ran like horse,
and quite as fleet also, at the slightest
alarm.
bers, and seemed quite content that the
Texas COW should move before him.
He prided himself upon his skill in the
drive, and the Texas cow was light
hearted, for she Rugged the delusion
that she was still free, and in her daily
travel was keeping out of the reach
of man, her enemy. There was some
consolation, too, for she found she al
ways travelled towards cool watering
devices it was where the grass was
higher and more succulent than where
she started from.
In the early days of her life the head
of the herd was always q rough, gruff
old fellow, who could run nearly IS fast
as she could, whose hide was thick, his
TANKS worn bare, and his head and
neck shaggy like those of a buffalo.
Then came a change. One by one
these old fellows disappeared. The
hard winters laid them low, or men
came on horseback and drove them
away, new er to return. In their places
came great, heavy, curly-haired
creatures, who had no speed, but were
fiue-haired, aristocratic, and diguified.
They had gentle manners and besuti-
full white faces, and they all looked
alike. They seemed friendly with the
men who drove them. and the men
tinually remarking. "These Here
fords are heavy where the higher
priced cuts are found"
ALI this was Greek to the Texas
COW, but che grew to hate the man
less, and her manners we're improved.
Then came all the little pale-faced
calves. which looked like the older
white-faced strangers. The calves
grew apace. In q year they were
nearly as big as their mothers. Their
hind quarters were as high as their
shoulders, and the weight came there.
They were square. but they could not
run. The Texas cow took as good care
of the whttefsoe calf as she had of the
brindle: for the Texas COW was the
best mother the world has ever seen.
The calves grew up and had white
faced children of their own. The Tex
as COW grew older aud older. Rings
came upon her horns until you could
not count them. By-and-by she had
no more children, and she was lonely.
She could still run, but there was no
one to run with, 80 one day she wan
dered up into a little coulee and lay
down to die of q broker heart. She
thought she was without friends. Her
own kind we're like the Indians-the
pslefaces had driven them all away
and she died imagining she was for
gotten.
The Texas COW was mistaken, for
she founded great race-she gave IL
mother-love, strength and vitality.
She conquered a wilderness and pre-
pared it for the coming of the white
face, who still needs her blood TO fight
the seasons on the range, and some day
the men horseback who drove in the
whiteface will build a monument to
the Texas. It will need to be imposing
as we'll, for they owe to this long
horned, gentle-eyed founder of q great
race the wealth of the western plains,
villages and cities.-J. D. Whelpley in
Quanah Tribune-Chief.