The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-11

| mittance mon take In their parents are
l. teresting. They arc sent out here with
| the idea that they may make their for
| tunes, and they frequently bring large
| sums to invest. AS soon as they arrive
they so into crazy speculations and wild
extravasances. sending back to theil
parents for more money from time t
| time One character of this kind wa:
| Dickie Bright, the gandson of the mar
for whom the disease of the kidneys
was named.' Dlolkie's father was rich
and he had supplied Dickie with money
and sent him out here to grow up with
tho country. Dickie invested In ranch
and asked for largo ren1ittances from
time to time on the plea OF increasing
his live stock.
At the same time he sent homs norld
stories Of the money he was making and
how he was fast becoming cattle king.
Shortly after one OF his most enthusiasts
tic letters he received a dispatch from
New York saying that his father had
just arrived there and that he was COM
Ing out to see him. The boy was in de-
srair He had spent his remittances in
riotous living and he had no cattle to
speak Of. Adjoining him, however, was
one Of the largest cattle owners Of the
west. He confded in him and persuad-
ed him to lend him a thousand head
of his best stock for one night. When
he made this request his neighbor asked
what he wanted to do with the cattle.
He replied:
~ shall put them In my corral, and
when the old man comes I will show
them as my herd Dad can't stay but
day, anu I will see that they are
driven back safe to you the next MORN
ing"
The rancher was something OF a sport
himself and he finally consented to help
the boy out of his trouble. The cattle
were sent over. Old Doctor Bright duly
arrived and he was driven out and
shown the herd which Dickie said was
only sample of his stock, which he
had brought in to show to his father
The boy added, however, that 1t was not
good to keep the cattle penned up, and
that they must go back upon the range
right away. The old doctor was de-
lighted and gave Dickie check for
$1,000 to increase the business before
he left. When he returned to England
he boosted about the clubs how his hoy
had built up one OF the biggest stock
ranches in the west, and was making
n fortune on the Canadian plains. In
the meantime Dlckie was luxuriating on
his ten thousand dollars. It soon dis
appeared. and little later he wrote to
his father for more. saying that cod
and disease had ruined his herd. AS
q result he was called back to England
Money in Ground Squirrels.
Another remittance boy added to his
income by pretending to have gopher
farm. His father had no idea that the
word gopher" meant much the same
az ground squirrel, and when his boy
wrote an enthusiastic letter saying that
he had now stock of 700 blooded goph-
ers on his range he thought he was
doing we'll. When he added that the
animals were In good condition, but that
1t would take thousand dollars more
to keep them in shape for the market
next spring. he sent on the money, evil
IDENTIFY thinking that the gopher was
some new breed OF sheep or cattle
Another young Engishman came here
wI,n an intense desire to learn ranching,
and he had no sooner arrived than he
got place as cowboy. He was anx-
ious to begin work at once, so the
second day after no came he was told
to go out and roundup the lambs and
get them in the corral for the evening.
The young man started enthusiastically
out. Dinner time passed and he had
not returned. The hour for supper mr.
rived, and he was still absent littlo