Weekly journal-miner., 1915-10-20

kindliness. Hospitality there is genu- i inc; partly it comes from civic pride,
 mostly it comes from cordiality pure
 and simple. For instance, on arriv-
 ing, l found the hotels full Within
 ten minutes our Billy Glenn,' as Pres
 colt calls him, had hunted up a guest
 room in private house had comman-
 deered an automobile and had me
 whirling to this impromptu lodging. 1 My hosts, MT. and Mrs. Roy Smith Mir. Smith was postmaster until Ari- zona put her trust in democrats-ap- peared to like me none the less for
 being thus billeted upon them; their
 automobile was always at my ser
 vice; they made me one of their own celebration party; when I left town
 on the midnight train, they brought me to the station with their son as
 special chauffeur. And this kind of
 courtesy abounded. Mir. Wood. a 'processor' for the county, made him
 self my guide and question-answerer
 (sic); Dr. Yount stole a part of his holiday to take me to the sightliest points on the rim of the picturesquely fashioned basin in which Prescott lies.
 Miss Sparkes, who seemed to be ev- erybody's executive secretary, picked my box seats at the fair grounds Judge Smith took me to call on Gov
 crnor Hunt, who had brought party to the celebration. In short the whole town welcomed me, stranger Sand a tenderfoot, not only to its transient merry-making, but to all its perman- cnt charms from Hassayampa cross ing to the Kissing Kids. No wonder Sir Gilbert Parker liked Prescott, ev- en though he missed the Frontier Days celebration.
 "In the East there is a general i'm pression that the cowboys costume is studied aggregation of things fan tastic. Nothing is farther from the truth. The costume may have been worked out in advance, or more prob ably, it may be the product of slow evolution; but the broad brimmed hat of gray felt, the big 'chaps-so the cowboys shorten chapajeros, the Spanish name for the heavy skins or feathers that they wear on their legs -the top boots,. the high heels, the long shanked spurs, even the feathers that hung from the stirrups, these all, item by item, have their sufficient reason.
 "The hats I thought ill-suited to summer wear, until I found that in New Mexico and Arizona the sun burns through an ordinary Panama as if it were made of mosquito net ting; and, anyway, no rider could wear a straw hat in 'brush-work.' One tramp across a range convinced me that high boots were better than OK lords; too many of the plants that the cattle leave arc set with thorns or prickles or burrs. Those high heels have their reason in the cowboy mode of riding; they come well against the stirrups. The hard cuff saves the wrist in roping and in checking the runout of the rope at the saddle horn. The chaps are not only. protection against wind and weather; they are a downright necessity in riding wooded country; for in this region the cattle range for a good part of the year in forest reservations. The catsclaw, greasewood and juniper that grow on the deserts are as scraggy and scratchy as ishbones.
 I confess that from Dodge City westward I took some pains to get acquainted with cowboys. In essen tials l found them as you would ex- pect, much like other toughened men between twenty years and thirty, only a little more downright, little more on the qui-vive, a little likelier to act first and reflect afterward. But in their outward walk and conversation they are of their own class. To tell the truth, a cowboy, if he can help it, does not walk at all. When he wants something a quarter of mile to the south, he will walk half a mile north 1 to get his pony. When he does walk he rolls like a sailor The spurs and chaps that serve him well when in the saddle are now but noise and weight. | His legs are often saddle-sprung. He is used to flashing through space on sudden spur; more than any other man he reaches a given point by wishing himself there. No wonder that when he is afoot he moves like z sea lion out of water.
 If the cowboys costume IS plain case of means to end, so is his Ian guage. It seems to mirror the eXi- gencies of his calling. His turns of speech are as quick and crisp as the turns Of the pony he rides. Mere grammar does not count for much v,hen if oetc across the Dath of his