, 1905-04-22
NEW SHOES
FOR
INSPIRING AND ExHilARATiNc
SPORT ONCE WITNESSED BY
LATE BILL NYE.
Went to Brown & Poole's Blacksmith
Shop On A Street When He Be-
came Low Spirited mi Had the
Blues and Livened Himself UP
Greatly.

leaL OIL SnOelDS a DrOncHO.
Whenever | get low spirited and feel
that a critical public don't appreciate
my wonderful genius as a spring
poet. l go around to Brown &
Poole blacksmith shop on A street,
and watch them shoe a vicious bron-
cho. | always go back to the office
cheered n soothed, and better pre-
pared to fight the battle of life.
They have a new rig now for this
purpose. 1t consists of two broad
sinches, which together cover the
thorax and abdomen of the broncho,
to the ends of which-the cinches, I
mean are attached ropes, four in
number, which each pass over a pulley
above the animal, and then are wrap
ped about a windlass. The broncho is
led to the proper position, like a young
man who is going to have a photograph
taken, the sinches slipped under his
body and attached to the ropes.
Then a man at the wheel makes two
or three turns i'll rapid succession.
The broncho is seen to hump him
self, like a boss camel of the grand ag-
gregation of living wonders. He
grunts a good deal and switches his
tail. while the ropes continue to work
in the pulleys and the man at the caps
tan spits on his hands and rolls up on
| L. ,lNz1 eto. - .rI;t. H. -,,a
hangs from the ceiling like a ~discourag-
ed dish-rag, and after trying for two
or three hundred times unsuccessfully
to kick a hole in the starry armament,
he yields and hangs at half mast while
the blacksmith shoes him.
Yesterday | felt as though | must
see something cheerful, and so l went
over to watch a broncho getting his
shoes on for the roundup. l was for
%tunate. They led up a quiet, gentle
manly appearing plug with all the
weary, respondent air of a ~disappoint-
ed broncho who has had aspirations
for being a circus horse, and has got
ltlts tiNt biI Nv III
around him he sighed as though his
heart would break, and his great, soul
full eyes were wet with tears. One
man said it was a shame to put a gen.
tie pony into a sling like that in order
to shoe him, and the general feeling
seemed to be that a great wrong was
hoip1 oorpatrotad
Gradually the ropes frightened on MIN
and his abdomen began to disappear.
He rose till he looked like a dead dog
that had been fished out Of the river
with a graphing iron. Then he gave a
grunt that shook the walls of the firm
ament, and he reached out about five
yards till his hind feet 1elt of a Greas-
er's eye. and with an athletic move
ment he jumped through the sling and
lit on the blacksmith's forge with his
head about three feet up the chimney.
He proceeded then to do some extra
ground and lofty tumbling and kick
ing. A large anvil was held up for him
to kick till he tired himself out, and
then the blacksmith put a fire n
burglar proof safe over his head and
shod him.
The broncho is full of spirit. and, al
though docile under ordinary circum-
stances, he will at times get enthusiast
tic and do things which he afterwards,
in his sober moments, regrets.
Some bronchos have formed the hab-
it of bucking. They do not all buck.
Only those Thai are alive do so. When
they are dead they are more subduea
and gentle.
A broncho often becomes so attach
ed to his master that. he will lay down
his life II necessary. His masters life,
| mean.
When a broncho comes up to me and
lays his head over my shoulder, and
asks me to scratch his chilblain for
him, l always excuse myself On the
ground that l nave a family dependent
on me, and Furthermore, that l am a
United States commissioner, and to a
certain extent the government hinges
On me.
Think what a CHASTITY hole there
would be in the official staff of the re-
public if | were launched into eternity
now. when good men are SO scarce.
SOM days l worry a good deal ov-
er this question. Suppose hat some