New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-22
AbERNAT Thy BOYS
men IN COURAGE
Teach Self Reliance From Ora
die, Says Captain Jack.
CORRAL BEST KINDERGARTEN

OOllllnI OLOl NiiyOkIIOaI LII
But Youthful Horsemen Will Have
Harvard Educations, as Did Roose-
welt, Their "Catch EN- Alive" Father
Promises-Trp to Mexico PreImi-
nary canter For Cross Country Ride.
'sTeach boy self reliance from the
moment he tumbles out of the cradle
make him keep his traces taut and
work well forward in his collar and
ninety-nine times out of hundred his
independence will assert itself before
he is two years old. Then guide him
with firm but tender hand instill
into him the principles Of right and
wrong, and the rest is easy. If there
is no faint in his blood and he doesn't
possess yellow streak he will develop
into fine man. That's my rule, and
If you don't think Eve taken the right
tack talk to my boys for five minutes
and they'll convince you that they are
men in principles even if they are ba-
bies in years, God bless 'em."
This is the theory Of John R. Aber-
nathy, marshal Of Oklahoma and
father Of Louis and Temple Aber-
nathy, the two "kiddies," aged respec:
lively ten and six years, who made a
triumphal entrance into New York
astride the COW ponies they rode across
hot fo% Sc, RI
greet Roosevelt. There are five little
Abernathys at home-all girls. And
according to their daddy each and
every one of them is just as wonder
full" just as self reliant and just as
grown up as Louis and Temple.
Is Man of Strength.
Marshal Alternately might best be de
scribed as a "great big little man."
He is about five feet six, well set up
and shows every inch of his height.
He is broad Of shoulder and tapers
down to the perfect " He shows
power, great strength and determine
ton in his every gesture and move.
Aside from the wide brimmed, tan col
ored felt hat there is nothing about
him to suggest the man who sscatches
wolves with his bare hands and stran-
giles them to DEATH
sWhen Mrs. Alternately died." said
Captain Jack, 81 called the children
around me and had a heart to heart
talk with them. They knew of my
frequent and protracted absences from
the ranch, so mapped out the work
and gave each his or her task. Each
was made to feel that unless they
lived up to their part of the work the
ranch would 60 to the devil. Wild
horses couldn't have held them back
them
Corral Their kindergarten.
''Perhaps your boys would have had
better educational advantages had
they lived in the city," was suggested
mo, they wouldn't" the captain
quickly answered. '"They have lived
close to nature and they have studied
| it. Their book learning hasn't suffered
either, for they are just as well adj
vanced in their studies, l find, as the
| average city child Of their age.
"Their kindergarten course was OBJ
tanned in the ranch corral. Horses
dogs, wolf and bear cubs were their
| playmates from infancy, and their
I knowledge Of the traits and habits Of
each of these animals is as intimate as
my own, and / have been studying
them forty-fve years.
| each shall have college education
Harvard will be their alma mater un
less they suffer a change Of heart. Yol
know, they fairly worship Colone
Roosevelt, and he is a Harvard man
Anything the colonel does or has done
is perfectly all right in their eyes, fol
next to their daddy he is the creates
man in the world
Harder Trip Last Year.
Whereas the country at large j
amazed at the feat of the boys in rid
ing to New York, Captain Aftermath.
does not think it as hazardous an IN
dertaking by one-half as the trip t
Mexico the boys took last year.
"You see, nothing was written abou
that trip, and the boys were just a
anxious to keep their present move
ments as secret as they did when e
ing to and from Mexico. Those littl
chaps bunked in with Indians, bris
ands and outlaws all down throug
z the alkai country, and not hair 6
their little heads was harmed. The
weren't afraid for. a moment. The
returned with more money than the
started out with, and they made it a