Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-10

was anxious TO begin work at once, so
the second day after he came he was
told 10 go out and roundup the lambs
aud get them In the corral for the
evening. The young man started en-
Enthusiastically out. Dinner time passed
and no had not returned. The hour for
supper arrived. and he was still absent.
little later he dragged himself into
the house. dead tired. He was asked
why he had stayed so long, and replied
that he had had lot of trouble with
the lambs, but that he had finally sue
ceeded in getting all but two INTO the
corral. but that those two ran SO fnst
that he could not catch them. The
other cowboys considered this strange,
as the lambs are not hard TO drive so
they took lantern and went out to the
corral AS they opened the door about
score of jack rabbits dashed past
them. The young nobleman had mis-
taken jackrabbts for lambs, and had
finally managed to get them inside the
Enclosure. | will not vouch for the
truth of this story
PUPIL FARMERS.
This young man was a pupil farmer.
Scores Of such have been sent out from
England to the United States and Can
ada to learn farming. There are men
who make a regular business Of drum
ming up such students They go to the
rich families In different parts of Great
Britain and persuade them that there
IL great money In ranching and UNDER
take to teach their sons the business
for a consideration The boys are
charged all the way from thousand
dollars upward a year for their in
struCtion, and IN some cases they are
made 10 do the dirty work, to clean up
the stables, wash the dishes and labor
early and late. As soon as they find
out the deception they run off, but the
money has been paid IN advance, and
the agent always comes out ahead
heard of one young pupil farmer who
was met the other day by man who
knew him when he first arrived in Cal
gary. He asked the boy how he liked
the work ana If he was stlll studying.
The reply came quick.
II am not. ] Chucked that job six
months ago, and | now have two pupil
farmers myself"
This same game was played in Iowa
and Minnesota by several Engiishmcn
some years ago. one of them brought
over large numbers of boys mt good
prices. He had games and amusemeuts
to get money out of their pockets,
teaching them to play polo ana selling
ponies to them for the purpose. He
made q small fortune before his frauds
were discovered.
PETER NAISMITHS FAMOUS RACE
Speaking Of the young Englishmau's
jack rabbits reminds me Of a story that
Peter Naismith, the manager OF the
Alberta Railway and Irrigation COM
pauy Of Lothbridge. tells of his eX-
periences at Frankata. where one OF
the Rocky mountains tipped over,
burying a town and killing n large
number Of people This mountain was
50 delicately poised that an excavation
at its foot caused 1t to crack. and some
millions OF tons of earth slid of, cover
ing the railroad track and changing
the whole face Of the country. The
earth continued to rumble for days.
and people from all parts Of the coun-
try came TO see the great CONFUSION of
nature. II was Just after the disaster
that Peter Naismith went up To take
a look at the ruins. As he stood in the
midst OF them II great grooming came