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Steve" and his ultimate execution. The
visitor may view the bullets of the bat
tie imbedded in the logs Of the cabin.
The road he travels passed over the
that day killed. Every river that is
forded by such party suggests to its
members the stream from which the Viz
ginian rescued Molly and thus furnishes
the inspiration for many romance.
This trail likewise leads over Hoback
pass and down into Jackson Hole. that
community Of them all in the United
States that is today most isolated from
railroad connection. In Jackson Hole is
to be found the west of old, still I'M
touched by outside civilization. Here, pri-
MARTY, is the home Of the greatest rem
nant of American elk i'm existence today.
All the woods roundabout are filled with
elk.
In the summer they retreat into the
higher mountains and into the park it
self. But in the winter the deeper SHOWS
of the greater elevations crowd them into
Jackson Hole, where, before the coming
of man. they We're accustomed to get
their winter proVender Here they still
come, often in numbers ranging as hlgn
as 50.Uo1 When the SHOWS are so deep
as to make it difficult for them to gel 70
the grass below they often overrun the
farms and are with difficulty kept from
devouring all the hay in the settlement.
Often. also. does famine take terrible
toll and the carcasseS of tens of tnou
sands are sometimes revealed when the
snow melts in the spring.
In all the haunts of this part of the
world is 10 be found still in greater num-
bers than elsewhere in the United States
the big game that once made the Rocky
mountains famous. There are to be found
moose, elk. antelope, deer, mountain
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drag him to the branding fire. The sec
ond cowboy ropes the yearling by the
hind feet, their horses pull in opposite
directions, the animal falls and is held
taut between them while the brand is be-
ing scared into its side Such is the work
of the real life Of the west.
Should the outsider select some retreat
in the Big Horn mountains, for instance,
he may find many a trip that is filled
with the interest OF the big events of the
early west An excursion may lead to
the Crow Indian reservation, where. each
fall, the annual festival is held at the
agency and the old traditions Of the tribe
are againt called into being. Nearby is
the battlefield where Custer made mis- last
stand and was cut to pieces. The terri BILE
tale OF the Fetterman massacre IS recall
ed by a visit to the very place of its en-
actment. Again is the story of the wagon
box fight related on the spot where
wagon boxes kept at bay thousands of
savages and took terrible toll OF their
numbers through the marksman ship that
the plains develop.
All this is but preparatory, however for
dude wrangling is the refinement of
the ranchman's art and comes as the
senior course in the visitors education.
He who wrangles dudes looks after their
well being on extensive overland trips
The best type of the western town that
today exists is Cody, Wyo. Here is a
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iariat-that fentacle Of the mounted
n1an-ereatGre Under the old regime, in
the work Of the open range. the horse
wransler was an important functionary,
for ne it. was who looked after the
well being of the herd of mounts. TAX
ing this man as precedent the in
diyiduaI who looks after the well being
of the errant tenderfoot who finds him
self temporarily in the wilds is known
as dude wrangIer" SO has the new
industry II dude ranching' and the
new calling Of dude wrangler" come
INTO being
All the west is going into the bust
ness Of dude ranching. All that region
between Glacier Park. where the Rockies
break over into Canada in a final ex-
travagance of grandeur. to Brownsville.
vnere the Rio Grande eInpties into the
gulf and the chapparal overruns the
plains. IS becoming the home of the
dude ranch, From historic San Antonio
and the plains OF san Angelo. where
Tom ochiltree was at home, TO the top
Of the earth at Flagstaff. Ariz. and
lack again 10 Sheridan. Wyo.. are scat
tered schools in frontier life. They find
their protection. however. on the out
skirts of the Yellowstone National Park
where the Rockies OF Wyoming still
boast regions of greatest isolation from
tae disturbing toot of the locomotive
THAT greatest of national Fairgrounds
s lost in half a western state full of
scenery good. and furnishes a breed
L1g reserve for more of the wild things
If the woods than are TO be found else
where.
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themselves built the Little Trianon where
they could play at being nlilhmaids a la
Rousseau
1t was quite different with THE Social
Contract and Emile" Rousseau did
not shelter himself behind an anonymous
book He signed everything he wrote so
that the authorities knew just where TO
place the blame for his revolutionary
sentiments.
The hooks were burned by the execu-
TONER and Rousseau fed for his life
The only man in France VINO believed in
God was prosecuted by the defenders Of
Christianity" he wrote.
The wanderings of the man past mid
die age were very different from those OF
the boy who had run away from the shut
gates of Geneva. He sat in peaceful val
Ieys and gathered mothers around him
that he might talk to them of their chill
dren's rearing Since he could not bear TO
he idle he learned 70 make lace, and his
bobbns would NY over the cushions as he
talked Of the new order Of things. From
all sides people came to see him.
At last it was made possible for him 70
return to France. and he lived for some
years at Tyre. near G:sors. He was very
poor. He refused all offers of aid, and
his suspicious OF everybody had alienated
many friends, although he could often
show a charming hospitality.
\ man of wealth went to call on him
once for no ether reason than to pay his
respects, but Rousseau met him with a
glare of fury. You want" he cried, Ito
see how wrctchedly / live. Go over there
and look in that pot, If you will There
is a half pound of meat In IL, three car
rots and two onions. That is all. Go and
tell the world about ii II YOU choose.
More and more ailing. more and more
unable to work. although no more in
clned to take help than he had been be-
fore. he came at last to accept an invita-
ton to live in a house belonging to a
friend at Ermenonville. Therese was with
him, and her passion for brandy was
worse than ever. He copied music when
he could, and as always, he walked in the
park with his intense enjoyment OF ma
ture.
1t was on coming from one of these
walks. July >, IT'S. that he complained or
a great faintness. He ba5e Therese open
the window that he might lookout AT the
trees, and even as she did 1t he fell back
in his chair dead.
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park from the south. Rock Springs gives
another opening into the park from the
south and into Jackson Hole that Isolated
nook into which drift 10000 of Uncle
Sans elk each winter in flight from
the greater cold of the mountain tops.
In the vicinity of all these towns there
have been great cattle ranches since
white man first took up his home in the
west These ranches are still great in
their production OF cattle and sheep. But
the barbed wire fence is crowding in
upon them, the avocation of the men who
rode the range is being In a degree
usurped and another use is being made OF
these sons of the west
AS the railroads came to reach more
nearly all points in the west and those
who travel were thus brought more easily
IN touch with the romance that hovers
about it's free life, there grew up a de-
mand for men TO show those charms to
the uninitiate Gradually accessible
ranches became resorts to which occa-
sional travellers came to soiourn for va
cation purposes. These told of the Won
ders they saw and vacation seekers be-
gan to knock at the doors of all the
ranchmen of the west. These, number
ing In their ancestry many a frugal Yam
kee, yielded to this chance of profit.
First a few ranches arranged to exhibit
the west unadorned to few travellers
Others followed suit Soon 1t came to
pass that no cattle ranch was complete
without a we'll developed tourist depart
ment course in the wild and woolly be-
fore the opportunity is finally gone for
ever.
These ranches are still ranches. The
COWBOYS who live upon them are the real
thing Every season they round up, rope
and brand thousands of head OF cattle.
The dude is given the privilege OF seeing
this done He may even participate in
thl work of the branding pen. The wild
horses of the plains are brought to corraa.
there caught, tanned, ridden. These men
of the west go into the woods and bring
back bear. elk. antelope and deer as
prizes of the hunter. The guest may do
likewise If his aim is true and he falls not
a victim of buck ague. Pack trains
such as followed Lewis and Clarke when
they first pushed into this unknown are
made up and excursions lasting weeks are
made into the big mountains The Won
ders of Yellowstone Park. of the Tetons,
Of the Big Horns. are revealed. The dude
sleeps on his blankets in the depth of
great forests, beside splashing waterfalls
and hears the scream of the preying
mountain lion.
The man of the east arrives at his Sc
lected resort after days on the train
crossing the great prairie states. after
night in a borderland hotel OF a small cat
tie town, and after three hours ride in
rocking stage coach. He has seen the
painted face of an Indian or two from
car window and suspects that this is war
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The Difference.

A SENATOR, during the squabble about
convention seats, told reporter that
there was a startling difference in the
way the committee treated one side and
the other.
1T is as startling, az ludicrously start
ling" he said. "as the difference between
farmer and an agriculturist.
A farmer. you know. 'chews plug TO-
baceo and whites stick. while an agri-
cuturist-"
He paused, then said impressively:
An agriculturist smokes Egyptian
cigarettes and plays the pianA"
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the announcement of this competition
fell into Rousseau's hands.
He was walking along country road
AT the time. For years he had been
absorbing ideas His mind was full OF
disconnected thoughts. his heart full of
unexpressed emotions. Suddenly the
thoughts and emotions came together
and made marvellous whole.
"A violent palpitation oppressed me-
unable to walk for diffculty of breath
ing I sank under one of the trees OF
the avenue and passed half an hour
there IN such Q condition Of excitement
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that when | arose | saw that the front
OF my waistcoat was all wet with my
tears, although ] was wholly unconscious
of shedding them All. IL I could ever
and felt under that tree, with what
cleverness should | have brought out
all the contradictions of our social sys-
tenn; with what simplicity / should have
demonstrated that man is good naturally
and that by institutions only is he made
bad"
Rousseau's essay maintaining that the
restoration OF sciences had not contrib.
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his life Therese kept limiting at dark
plots that his enemies were weaving
about him. and he took A morbid and in
creasing pleasure in believing this. she
became to him. says NJ. Faguet, "a sort
of opium habit
Half of Rousseau's life had been spent
in wandering in failure. in one equlvocai
action after another Then, in 1749 came
the great turning point The Academy
Of DIXON offered prize for an essapy on
this subject. Has the Restoration of
Science Contributed to Purify or Corrupt
Manners7" and . Newspaper containing
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So II IS In Wyoming that dude ranch
me has seen its highest degree of de-
velopment. At Sheridan. skirted by the
Big Horn mountains, which witnessed the
massacre of Custer, sheltered armies Of
row and Sioux Indians. and boosted the
Iole-in-the- Wall-that last stand OF the
Gesperadoes of the northwest-do dude
ranchers outfit for trips through these
regions of romance. At Cody. town that
took its name from Buffalo Bill and which
sests in the shadow OF a hog back
mountain. which IS to be the tomb Of
iris frontiersman W len he dies are fitted
ont other parties that outfit for Journeys
up the Shosone river and into National
Park by Sylvan pass-a trip of unsurpa ssed
beauty. From Lander, where may be
seen summing himself the original Tramp
rs. the gambler. who took issue with the
Ntrgtnian. the plunge may be made into
The wiids of the national forest and the
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AN was born free.
and everywhere he
is In chains"
This week France
is celebrating in
festivals all over
the country I h g
nundredth anniver-
sary of the birth
Of the man who
wrote these words
at tho beginning OF
IT ne Social Con-
: fs0EtaI q fro
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uted to purify manners. and that man
had been better off in primitive times
than he was in the seventeenth century
France. not only took the prize the
academy offered, but set all reading
France talking about the new philoso-
pher.
Not long after this he wrote his dis
cnssion of the Origin of Inequality
Among Men, and in it he blows the
first blast of the revolution The up
turning of French society began on the
day he wrote:
The first man who. having Enclosed a
piece of ground, could think of say
ing, This is mine and found people sim
pie enough to believe him, was the real
founder of civil society. How many
crimes. wars, murders, miseres and hor-
rors would have been spared to the hu-
man race by who. pluckng up the
stakes or filing in the trench, should
have called out to his fellows: Beware
of listening 20 this fellow. You are nm
done If YOU forget that the earth belongs
to no one and that its fruits are for all :
People went on patching and repairing,
he said, and instead of that II was in
dispensable to begin it over again by
throwing aside all the old materials. The
revolutionists did no more than ne told
them when they wiped out the old calen-
dar and marked the first year Of the new
era as the year /.
Fame had to come to Rosseal. and
wealth could have come but he who had
been guilty of so many crimes against
nature and decency was willing TO sacrl-
flee everything for his idea. He would
accept no position. but preferred 10 earn
his living by copying music that he might
be free to do and to think without the
dictation of any man.
He even gave UP such luxury as he mad
been able to buy himself. When his linen
shirts were worn out he bought hmsel1
the coarsest stuff and wore II cheerfuliy.
None the less. he could not escape the
friendship of many wealthy and distin-
guished persons He cared for some OF
them personally, but in the main they
bored him. and he was glad 10 accept the
invitation Of the d'Epinays TO go and i've
on their estate at Montmorency.
1t was characteristic of him that ne
loved men most when he saw them least
He avoided meeting any human soul
when he lived in the hermitage put ms
soul was full of his compassion tor the
oppressed He could indulge at Mont
morency the love of nature when ne mao
in such abundance. and he passed mo
ments of almost delirious happiness alone
in the woods II human being crossed
his path his joy would vanish.
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GREAT new in
dustrial institu
tion known as the
dude ranch Is
overrunning I h 2
" ; 3 [. n u Il 6
ranching Is prov
ing a calling that
is vieing with that
Of branding the
r o / I c q o m e
m av eri ck that
seeks to elude the
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he sent her something from his own
meager supply. and when he found her
years later. old. ugly and deserted. 1t was
not for lack of affectionate urging that she
did not go to make her home with him.
Indeed, 1t Nine. de Warren who
ola much TO educate his singular mind,
Tor IT was singular in more ways than
one. lie could not be trained for an
artisan, and when they thought so poor
an intelligence was meant for the place
or country curate somewhere. he could
not even learn enough to satisfy the very
1nexacting requirements for that position.
lie was musical genius, as his COM
positions show. but he could never learn
10 read music readily. He was, in fact.
rated as all but lacking" But Mime. de
warren knew better. and he and she
rean books and talked together on many
MY ideas" he saws in the Comics
sions, arranged themselves in my head
with incredible difficulty" and he goes
on TO say that he passed some years in
never thinking exactly except after other
people without rejecting, so to speak, and
almost without reason He thinks how
ever, that this was a good training for
him. He learned to absorb the point of
view OF another long before he learned
TO criticise II. and he adds: I'm spite of
beginning late 10 exercise my judicial
faculty, l never found that it had lost its
Vigor. and when came to publish my
own ideas l was hardly accused of being
a servile disciple
When he left Nine. de Warren he had
his usual number of failures at several
occupations. Drifting To Paris. he formed
that extraordinary relationship with
Therese lie Vasseur which lasted to the
end of his days. Why person so dull
that she could not be taught to read and
write, who was coarse in her way of liy-
ing, as In her way Of thinking. who "a
time went on drank more brandy than
was good for her, and flirted with stable
boys. should have retained for forty years
SO strong an ascendancy over him. is a
mystery that has cost his biogra pliers
many pages OF explanation.
First of all il must be remembered that
he really cared little for women either as
companions or as objects of alteration
Having a natural preference for life
that was extremely simple and having
been trained through his various vicissi
tudes to put up with everything that was
coarse and unwholesome Thereses utter
lack of refinement did not CRATE on him
as 1t did on his more punctilious friends.
Again he had always a kindly feeling for
the unfortunate, and the mere fact that
she and her utterly worthless family had
no support except the poverty they shared
with him would have kept him from
breaking from her.
Further, Dmil Faguet suggests two
other reasons. that Therese was an un
commonly good cook. and that Rousseau
loved to eat well: secondly. that she in
dulged him In one Of the most unfortu-
nate habits Of his mind. his mania for
thinking himself prosecuted. All through
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Some of these Dude ranches make q
specially of boys from the age OF fifteen
to twenty. The idea lis to get these
youngsters when they are at the age
when the out-of-d doors appeals most
strongly and to give them a vacation that
will open up for them all the world or
nature and will at the same time. develop
manly traits and hardihood. Some OF
these ranchmen make large parties or
such boys which are accompanied by In
structors and physicians and which make
these extended excursions a thousand
miles long through the wild country.
Down in Arizona there is school estab-
lshed on such basis and maintained the
wear around This school Is at present
attended by Archibald Roosevelt. son or
the ex-President. and his cousin, Mich
olas Roosevelt
At pra cticallv all OF these ranches both
men and women are admitted into the
mysteries of the west. Woman learns to
ride no less readily than does man. and
in these extended trips a fact has been
developed that has surprised all con-
cerned. Woman has here shown herself
to have greater power OF endurance
than has man. The women from the
homes of the city are able to go thus into
the wilds, to Immediately take up the life
there offered and to meet the stress OF II
more promptly than does her brother.
Copyright. 1912, by ". A. Du puy.l
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tract, and, in writing them llShted llre
N TWO continents For Jean Jacques
Rousseau may be said 10 have inspired
the American revolution almost as he did
me French revolution.
The noble outhurst Of sympathy for the
patriotic cause in this country arose in
france from nothing other than his in
s4ence, so that the United States has a
very direct interest in the bi-centenary
nat France is now celebrating
Thomas Carlyle took the author of The
Social Contract as a type OF the hero
solted at the frank immortality of Rous-
seau. il was not possible for him 10 put
smsel3 in thorough sympathy with
man whose moral sense along certain
Ines did not appear. even in an embry-
onic condition. until he was forty years
ar more, but he felt that this revolution
lst deserved place In his gallery of
great men.
With all his drawbacks" Carlyle
wrote, land they are many. he has the
GrSt and chief characteristic Of a hero.
lie Is heartily in earnest. as earnest as
ever man was, rs none Of these French
philosophers were. His ideas possessed
MIN like demons; hurried him about:
drove him over steep places. He could
lie CoOped in a garnet. laughed at as a
maniac left To starve like a wild beast
IL his cage. but ne could not he hindered
from setting the world on fire.
Jean JACQUES Rousseau VAS born in
Geneva June IS TIP II Is no doubt
Gue to his extraordinary upbringins that
critics must look FOR the explanation OF
many of the acts which were, to say the
least Of il, regrettable.
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In the years that followed he wrote
"The New Heloise," The Social Con
tract, and Emile, or Education Accord
inc 10 Nature The first Of these show
cd a somewhat altered attitude toward
nronertv He did not Indignantly de-
,ou,cs all nriyate. property, but aroused
nity and Indignation for the poor by
drawing a perfect picture of content
ment. France went wild over the book.
and Il did not seem dangerous to the
authorities, The queen and her ladies'
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He had. however, one virtue which IN
today. He seems not to have been physi-
calIy brave by nature-at least We know
that to avoid punishment he would lie
and put the blame on anv one. but he
could fame with absolutely genuine in
dgnation against cruelty and tyranny.
Long before he could formulate the
thought he was possessed of the idea that
man was born free. and that no human
authority should have the power to put
chains upon him.
When l read of the cruelties of some
ferocious tyrant or the subtle atrocities
OF some villain, | would fain start on the
instant to poniard such wretches, though
] would have persisted hundred times
for the deed.
II his years OF apprenticeship in Geneva
did not help him 10 overcome the moral
defects that so conspicuously marked him,
his years OF wandering did not improve
matters. Dreading to be beaten one day
when he had returned to Geneva too late
and found that the city gates were shut
against him. he escaped punishment by
the expedient of running away.
II was during this year of wandering
that he became converted. If one can use
such a term. 10 Catholicism. He gives
ar farclal account of il. He was hungry;
the priest fed him WELL and he was in no
humor 10 deny his host anything He
found himself committed to entering into
the bosom of the church. and with his
usual desire to escape the consequences
of his failure TO let them teach and cate
chise him and send him out into the world
again no more religious, perhaps. but a
little Older and good deal better fed
than he had been when he left Geneva