Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1909, Page 45

THE OMAHA St DAY OUR FIRST REMOUNT DEPOT School for the A:y Horses at Fort Reno. NOVEL DEPARTURE SUCCEEDING Morses for All Branches of Service Are Reing T Army cd—Ex- pect ana to Save Money Get Better Rek FORT RENO, Okl, April 2.—~The experl ment of establishing at Fort Reno a re- mount depot for the purchase and training of horses for the different branches of army service is now under way. This s the only remount depot in the United States and If It is successful others will be es- tablished in different parts of the country. The experiment is due to General J. Aleshire, quartermaster general, who be- lleved in it and talked for it during the many years he was in regular service as A cavalry officer. European countries have long had such départments for their armies the extent of breeding horses ‘The purpose of the remount depot Is to et the best and longest service from army lioraes at the least cost. The average length of service of a ecavalry horse, for instance, is from seven to eight years, and most horses are about 7 years old though 4 years fs the age at which preferably they should begin serv fce, This difference is due to the fact that after a horse is broken at the age of about 4 years the farmer wants to keep him dur 1ng the three or four years of his greatest sirength and usefulness, and not untfl the Horse 8 years old is he placed on the market At that \ horse’s service even to cavalry when purchased, the remount estimated is added to the length of if is bought when 3 or 4 years old, and that an unbroken horse at this age may bought for money than a broken horse 7 or § years old Capaeity of the Depot. remount depot at Fort Reno capacity for 1,20 horses, which increased Indefinitely. It is situ ated on a tract of beautiful land containing nearly 10000 acres and adapted In every way for maneuvering of horses The old barracks bulldings have been changed into stables and in addition two N have been bullt. The depot was in April, 198, and the first horses ived In the following July. Becauss of his knowledge of equitation Captain T. Hardeman of the cavalry serv- fce was sent from the quartermaster gen- spartment and put in charge of pot, assisted by Lieutenant W, P. Fnnis of the First Field artillery The spectacular. feat of the ister @ western ranches and in Wild West shows no place In the work that Is being at the remount depot. 1€ possible horse is ever permitted to know that there is such a thing as bucking or pltching, the idea being to train him, not break him, Gentleness is employed at all times. he average cowboy begins usually by roping his horse, fixing a cruel bit in his mouth cinching his heavy saddle securely, and then springing astride the frightened animal with a ki-yi, & dig of two sharp spurs and a stinging cut of a quirt. The horee Is ridden until exhausted or his spirit broken, and this mothod is continued until hia becomes amenable to saddle, bridle and rider. depot it is 50 per cent he much loss The present may b has a bles opencd ree eral's broneco have done Western Horses Preferred The bellef is common that the western horse is natdrally wild and vicious, but it is not accepted by aptain Hardeman, who points to Montana range horses at the remount depot that have been made as gentle as the driving horse of an old farmer. The violent throwing of a saddie on the back of a young horse frightens him, and bis instinct s to rid himself of the strange object, and his natural way of doing it is by bucking. At I Reno a young horse Is haltered and an effort made gently lead him He is petted and caressed to gain his con- fidence, He soon grows accustomed to the halt and finally the bridie His legs stroked and time his trainer is able to handle the horse's feet. Then a blanket s placed gently on his back, and this gives way to the saddle, and the horse is taken to his stall, where he stands snddied for hours at a time. Next comes the mounting of the rid coustomed to welght in the stirrup or a man on his back, the horse is inclined to shy 'he trainer puts his fopt into the stirrup many times before mounting. Once in the saddle the horse is no longer fearful of danger, the rider then teaches obedience to the bridle and the three gaits required are in of every army horse, walking, trotting and galloping. Theor b And praétice cannot Always made the same, even at an Army remour |depot, as a naturally viclous horse I good many ar at th found occasionally 3 received just before they are Riders rasge country horse s wpoiled depot are thrown, and occasionally by hard are in the an Intractabie riding subdued Teaining for Artillery. horses intended for kind of merry-go-round used, Heavy timbers fastened gether In fhe of the letter A, apex of which is attached to a heavy stake sunk firmly in the ground, and on the ends of the side timbers are wheels taken frem a gun carriage. The fractious horse 1s tied to one of the side timbers, the bar of the latter serving as the inner The shaft swings bolt, with one and s used to push the horse against the other shaft, after which the free end is bolted into place The tugs are then hooked into rings and a strong kicking strap the back. If he refuses forward ule is hitched to the round sway they go. The a circle, with a driver in a the ar For tillery vicious sorvice a " are to shape the cross- shaft on a outer end free, heavy drawn to a horse's a and move merry-ge hctse runs in seat behind him. The requirement that army horses shall be bought by contract has been lifted for the remount depot and Captain Hardeman buy in the open market Ne horse less than 3 years old is bought and a 3-year-qld must not be less than fifteon hands high and weigh not less than %0 pounds. Four is the minimum | age at which a horse can be put into active authorized to years army service. A total of 90 heorses have been bought of which 600 are now at the depot, the others having been shipped to the different garrisons The hcrtes came from Mon- tna, Kentucky Colora Texas and Oklahoma | The Oklahoma horse | ble bechuse of his small size {ing the old-time range pon sourl horse Is looked upon that comes t¢ the depot. He has more solidity and strength than the Kentucky Liorss, which has a breedy appearance, but lacks endurance. There is no decry- ing the Kentucky horse, however. The Bluegrass thoroughbred and his close kin are discernible at a glance among the | hundreds of horses in the corrals. There are a number of strikingly beautiful Ken- tdeky horses at Fort Reno and a number are being prepared for service at West Point. Missour seldom desira due to breed- The Mis the best as a Hospital for the Horse. The depot has a hospital where ail in- Jured sick horses are treated by @ veterinarian. Distemper is a common disease and 1s resisted by the injection of the Pasteur lymph for this allment. Im- mediately upon his arrival this lymph 1s injected into each horse. It seems to have less merit as a preventive than as a cura- tive, and for the latter seems to be almost a specfic. Civillars are employed riders at $30 a month, together with board and medical service, There are men here from North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, Montana, Colorado, Kansas and California, and several days ago two from Vermont {pulled off thelr hats in Captaln Harde- man's office and asked for employment. Each man after proving his knowledge of handling horses is put in charge of ten horses. The men ride at will over the prairies, often in groups, and seem to find much pleasure in thelr work. There Is chance for promotion to stable boss, with better pay. There is no fancy riding of the circus kind. Each troop captain usually has his own ideas of what a cavalry horse should know and do from a drill standpoint, and this feature of a horse's education is left to the troop captains and thelr drill- masters. Should the experiment at Fort Reno prove a success other remount depots are to be established in different states, as a matter of economy in freight expenses, the cost of shipping horses from Fort Reno to the Atlantie for instance, being great as coast, i Clearing Things Up. “To which is & man most closely related, said the genealogist, “his first divorced wife's second husband or his present wife's first divorced husband?" | “So far as 1 can close as the other friend “So I should say.” said the genealogist, “but Jimmy Judson must have figured ouf a difference. Anyhow, when his first wife's second husband died Jimmy went tp a ball game, but when his present wife's first husband dled he went into mourning. I can’'t understand that.” T can,” sald the thoughtful friend. “Jimmy's present wife was on the point of divorcing him_so she could remarry her first husband. Now that he is dead she has decided to stick to Jimmy." “Ah;" seid the genealogist 1 stand now ew York Times. is a one said about as thoughtful under- Cloth, _like' lum- berimustfbe sea- soned. Green 'wood warps and destroys: the shape of the work. Green cloth stretches and pulls all the lines of the gar. ment awry. are made of szasomed fabrics —all the warp is shrunk out of them. After the mill has stamped them ‘“fully shrunk,” they are London shrunk " at , our tailories, until there's a loss of 15%, in every yard. But it's worth while for us to take the loss and ; make - the customer. Kuh. Dathen & Fischer Co. The *‘Sincerity’’ style book sent free for an ‘‘ask’ on a postal card. Filled with young men's fash- ions~and othermen's. This is just one of twenly smart cabinet Sincerity overcoals for young [fellows TOMREED'S WAY AS TEACHER ‘Turmng Point in the Life of the ¥ Future Speaker. HAD TO FIGHT PUPILS TO GET PAY s Service in the Dist | Westbrook, Me., Recalled by the Death of Governor Mor- rill of Kansds. TOPBKA, April 2 death of former Governor K. Morrill at his home at Hiawatha recalls some in- teresting Incidents in his life. Ome of them is that when a member of a district hool board in Maine he confirmed the employment of the late Spaeker Thomas B. Reed as teacher, and later stood by him and saved him when other directors and patrons of the school sought to dis- place him. It was fifty years ago when Regd, then about 17, appeared at the lttle village of Westbrook, ten miles west of Portland, Me., and appllied for the job of teaching the district school. Westbrook, now a town of 8,000 people, was then a hamlet. B. N. Morriell, who later came to Kansas and served this state as congressman and governor, lived on a farm near the West- brook district school. He had been elected a member of the school board, and among the other duties devolving upon that body was that of employing a teacher for the eight weeks school term during midwinter. Reed was a student at Bowdoin college and was doing chores mornings and even- ings to pay his way. He had eight weeks vacation during winter and decided to put In the time teaching a country school at 325 month. He selected Westbrook be- cause of its nearness to Portland Story of Tom Reed. Dr. H. C. Linn, a Kansan who had spent many years in Washington and was a per- sonal friend of Speaker Reed and Governor Morrill, in a reminiscent talk about the early friendship between these men in the little village of Westbrook said: “I wish I could tell the story as I heard Tom Reed tel it in Washingtoh when he and Governor Morrill were in congress, body on earth could put it in black and white as it was told In his inimitable drawl, with the twinkle in his kindly eyes, the Jjolly laugh or slowly coming smile that changed so marvellously the whole expression of his face. “From Reed's description of this, his first first business venture In the world, the district was no happy valley by any means. There was a nelghborhood broil always on the coals at Westbrook and one was stewing away when he put in his ap- plication for the district school. Tt was there that his path crossed that of Gover- nor Morrill who, though only five years his senior, was chairman of the district school board. Thomas B. Reed passed the examination and was engaged to teach the school for eight weeks, Governor Morrill signing the certificate. “Reed didn’t get along very well, at the first, because, as he sald, undertook to Introduce city methods into a country school. He was very strict. He insisted that lessons should be learned and proper decorum observed . during school hours, “When pupils made poor recitations he #ent them back to their seats and kept them after school hours, laboring with them long and earnestly. Misdemeanors were visited with severe condemnation also. I remember of hearing Governor Morrill ask Reed if he wasn’'t something of a czar when a boy ‘‘Oh, bang It.’ Reed replied, ‘what's the use of doing a thing unless you do it prop- erly? T was there to teach school. T was pald for it. and I Intended to earn my money if T had to fight every day.' One Sample Fight. “In describing one particular encounter which led to Reed's arralgnment before the school board, he sald his attire was sadly rent and disordered and he looked to have been the under dog in a fight. “‘But,’ the former speaker a twinkle in his ‘the didn’t look very pretty either.' *The neighborhood that was going on finally involved the district school, and charges of cazarism against the teacher or something akin to it were preferred against him, and he was accordingly arraigned be- fore the school board. The battle waged all one day, Chairman Morrill of the school board standing by the sturdy youth to the very end. “Night came on and Tom Reed walked out of the board meeting a congueror With Morriil's help he had been able to count a majority in his favor. He taught the school to the end of the term and so well did he succeed that he was engaged for a second and a third winter, and he might have gone on indefinitely had he not graduated with honors and gone beyond the narrow horizon that environed West- brook.’ More than Reed and Mr. gether, and re-estabiished ambition first The Kan even he added with eyes, other fellow row twenty-five years later Tom Morrill were in congress to- the boyhood friendship was Naturally, when Mr. Reed's to become speaker of the Pifty- congress became known, of his most ardent supporters was Governor Mor- rill of Kansas, together with the balance of the state’s delegation. Morrill on Reed, During his lifetime Governor quently talked of the which existed between This was proved when speaker Morrill one Morrill fre- intimate friendship him and Mr. Reed Reed was chosen for his kindness struggling school teacher in the early days at West- brook. He made his boyhood friend chair man of the Morrill law which millions of dollars among former soldiers, their widows and their orphans, sult to a pension Governor referred to Morrill frequently the employment of Mr. Reed as the teacher of the Westbrook district school, and in his reminiscenses and speeches in eulo gizing the man from Maine expressed bellef that he himselt in a measure responsible for the career of the It Morrill had failed to hold that board to its contract Reed's opportunity would have been lost and his prospects in- jured. Governor Merrill Reed's turning point in hinged on success Westbrook school and triendst a the n was speaker. school believed that manhood in bhandling the that his stanch p and loyalty to the young teacher young his in a eritical hour was the inspiration which shaped his useful life After Major Morrill was elected governor In 184 a great home town had settled neighboring 1838 and who twelve was national republican committeeman that year chairman of the Rep committee. Joseph L. Bristow. States senator, was secretary mittee of Kansas held in his Leland, who county In ratification was Hiawatha n for Cyrus years was blican Stat now United of the com. Only Twe Jobs Pledged. They both to Hiawatha jollification e twp with m of the processio around That might Leland a Bris guests at Morrill's home After dinner they talked over the matters that would come before the new governor. went and th the head for the Morrill rehed at town oW were recent | No- | | pillow | took off | his He had it in his power to reward | How many do 1 have to the way of pledges to give Morrill Only Yes return for f jobs in asked people two," answered Bristow That's nic Morrill easy, and it's vod of And he fulfilled pledges leland has another story Morrill and his campaign for governor in 1804 Everybody knew of Morrill's friendship for Tom Reed. McKinley was then governor of Ohlo, and McKinley and Reed were the two most prominent candidates for the republican presidential nomination in 1506, Morrill was having a stiff campalgn, and Governor McKinley was brought to Kan- s to make some speeches in his behalf At Newton, where of the speeches was made, Morrill introduced McKinley as “the next president of the United States."” Reed heard about It and did not come to Kansas, as he had been expected to do. “Why, Morrill,” said some of his friends, “did you Introduce McKinley as the next president? You Ree very good friends and everybody knows you are for Reoed for president. Why did you do that?’ “Oh," Morrill responded, “I would have introduced Tom it he had come to Kansas THRILLING QUAKE INCIDENTS the said That's very very you the about one the same way A Battle with Looting Convicts, Conrage of Woman and Some Narrow Escapes. The following incident was recounted in a secret report sent by Captain Cagni, of the Itallan navy, now in command of the battleship Napoli, the firs: war vessel to reach Reggio after the earthquake, to the minister of marine. As s0on as Captain Cagni reached Reggio he landed in a boat, accompanied by a party of officers and men, a score In all, in order to arrange for the organization of vellef parties. No sooner did they set foot on shore than about 100 escaped convicts armed with rifles which they had stolen from the barracks opened fire on the party Cagni and his m returned to their battleship to armed with 1 were unarmed, so they boat and signaled to the dispatch at once 200 sailors rifles and two quick-firing guns. Within ten minutes the sallors were landed. Cagni assumed command, lined them on the beach and gave the order to march. The convicts opened fire on behind the ruined housés. The sallors fired A& volley in the air, and then, as the con- victs continued to fire, Cagni ordered his men to fire on the convicts, which they did. The firing continued for five mihutes until most of the convicts were killed and the remainder surrendered. Captain Cagn! in his report state how man were killed that his first step was to secure all the escaped convicts he could find, convey them on board In irons and sail to a port In Sicily, where he handed t lce, and he did this before rendering amy help to the victims, as he consldered it of the utmost importance o free the city from this band .of looters. A reference to the incident by wire was stopped by the press censor, as loot- Ing was officially denled Many of the earthquake survivors owe their lives to strange circumstances, Some fell, bed and all, from top stories to cel- lars and were not hurt. A sacred plcture sorved as a shield from the crumbling walls to others, while some were shot from their beds in the street without sustain- ing any Injury One famlily owe their lives to a dog, a mastiff, who, scenting the approach of the earthquake ahead of them, barked and bayed for twelve hours before the catas- trophe, alarming-his master so much that neither he nor his family could sleep ail night. The dog’s barking grew fiercer and louder as morning came until at the first shock he leaped toward the door, begging with his eyes for his master and the fam- ily to follow him. He guided them down & street over a mass of ruins to the cathe- dral, barking all the time and looking back to see If they were still following hin The master and his family sought shel- ter under a fiight of steps. but the dog refused to stop, and no sooner had they followed him than the stairs collapsed owing to a fresh shock. The dog was only #atisfied when they reached the Marina, where they found a boat which conveyed them to a man-o'-war. them from does not but he says m to the po ser There are many cases of wives saving | their husbands, which show women under stress of circumstances play a better part than the One courageous woman dug out her husband and five children Another young girl, with two small brothers, was taken out after eight days, lving in a corner of a cellar upon which nearly all the rest of the house had fallen. She dug for three days with her hands until she had opened a small hole for air and by reaching out her hand and signaling she caught the attention passing squad of soldiers, who the trio just as the two about to dle. A party of soldiers of a umbling wall at Messina which blocked a room in which a husband and wife were discovered in bed. Their heads appeared first side by side on The husband was dead was alive. A soldler his coat and covered face to hide it from the wife. “Never mind,” she said, “I know dead and his arms are around me." When the bodies found that the that ItaHan men herself, of u rescued removed a portion e samo while the seeing this the man's woman he is were removed poor man had wife when he died. and had to amputate the arms dead from the living body not cry.—New it was embraced the doctors to detach the The wife did York Sun. |DEATH ENDS CHILDREN'S PLAY committes on pensions, and the | has distributed | 1s the re- | | their | excitement 1 | | | Plays Denth of Brother, “Had M Younger While their father busy th the housework at well avenue, urch and mother their home, 1032 F Robert Duel, 2 years old old brother, Wallace. “You climb up on tend you're a bad around and catch little brother The child en Wallac sneaking hidiug place behind the corner nd surprised his brother the little bur o the i and Chicago, and his 3-year. played burglar the porch an and I' Wallace pre come told his man did as his brother told him tron of the In the fell from ground. The caught him by prost on the ™ his came out ouse lar the high brother the arm ground. “I've got he grew frigh e swer The mother at that time on the ground “What's the asked Wallace Nothing the brother The She swer ralling toddled as he ate did Robert not an happened out in the yard saw her littie son lying matter with Robert he's playing burglar,” replied mother talked to him His neck had fall from the porch The childre sons Arthur Duel ago oaks from little .picked up little but did no been broken | He was dead M Inter Ocean Robert are and Mrs. Sturdy adver acorns grow in The Bee will do wonders for | your business. children were | Men's Garments. was made for you. line. vised by an expert in that part. There’s just the same advantage in Kling The Kling suit looks as if it It has the stylish individual merchant tailored effect known to no other Kling Men's Garments are hand- tailored. Each and every part of the making of a Kling suit, from the cutting to the finishing, is super- It takes from ten days to two weeks to com- plete one of these suits at the Kling Tailor Shops with all their modern equipment, because they are made with so much care. This Line of Suits is Exclusive These suits are made right—they are made for men with a discriminating eye for style, pattern and material. Kling Men's Garments " o are not manufactured by the multi- million dollars’ worth, as many cus- tom lines are. If you were going to a tailor for a suit, you would rather select one who produces a few high-class euits ex- clusively, than one who rushes his work through in quantity with small attention to details. KLING BROS. & C0.CHICAGO. Every Kling garment is cut separately by shears instead of by machines which cut a quantity at a time. All cloth is London shrunk. This, known as the ‘‘cold water” process, takes longer than the quick ‘‘steam’ process, more generally used, but it secures the maximum shrinkage. Then eaeh suit is subjected to rigid inspection— it has to be perfect in every respect before it can leave the shops. The suits shown above represent two of the exclusive Kling novelties that are highly popular. They only indicate the line, however. See Kling garments before buying. At the Best Clothes Shops Everywhere Dr.Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses, beautifies and preserves the teeth and purifies the breath Used by people of refinement for almost ¢ Half a Century COW AND CREAM EARN BIG MONEY (Continued from Page Four.) of the state experiment station and others interested to have such records kept. The figures given for cow production per year is predicated the admitted fact that Nebraska dairy herds today of & greatly improved character compared to even five years ago, on are Figures from Bassett. | Secretary Bassett of the State Dairy- | men’s assoclation is authority for the fol | lowing figures concerning the cream and | butter industry in eastern Nebraska, com- | pri & that portion of the state east | of the western borders of = Hitchcock, Frontier, Dawson, Custer, Blaine and Brown counties. This takes in a terri- tory comprising about 54 per cent of the area of the state Area, square miles. Number of farms . Average number of acres in farms. | Datry cow poputation, 190 Dairy cow population, 1907 Av. No ry cows to sq. mile, | Average number cows to farm, | Average number acres in farms one dairy cow : | Average number farms in township.. ! Av. number dairy cows in township.. Per cent increase in dairy cow popu- lation, 1900-1907 ...... . . . Average number square miles re- | “quired to furnish 80 dairy cows @5 these figures Mr. Bassett has de that up to this time not as profitable a with an aver; mile, 41,630 109,864 460,720 87,531 1907 W7 to m From the conclusion eastern Nebraska fs field for dairying as lowa of to the Wisconsin, 8 In spite of what the figures show, however, the increase of dairying, and of cream and butter produc- tion in the state the marvel of the business to all intelligent beholders. duced 2.7 cows or, as square with 2 has been Position. United Btates written by Ed special agents, used touching Nebraska's Pres In & bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture | 1. Webster and C. E. ¢ the following language Kansas in the a history in Nebraska and Not formerly these list of dairy states, dairying both nteresting. The first lessons in paid for by the farmers about $1% cach in stock in which persuasive and per- two had unique and the industry were of creamery at the in | co-operative companies, had been organized by ent § wh were few and a co omoters. experie business nelination to hecome dairymer company creamery the ereamery busi Nebraska and the K and is on the gathe nsas tarmer n systems. ng in bis home the few parator s ekl lons a skim- stations settled 1 10 more N emain, but their days | ming are numbered Ne hand ators according Lureau of stati much under, in were number o on AT census taken by braska farms 11, 198 | the state was 31,986, This Is very than ties, number over, the actual Deue McPherson cc ones reporting no separators. rath use and nties v ety Toe Much, e maid-of-all-work in the tsville family, the members whereof on the most amicable of terms, tendered her resignation, much distress of the lady of the house loath to part with se s P are rocently to the who was a sesvant the & | Mary like " on ¥is. it as Weekly , 1 asked matter treated you to_leave What's always a 8 sadly w famil id Mary I'm goln {stres Haven't the a —Harper to! excellent | i i The Grand Spring Sale Still Going On But only a few days left of the Thirty Days’ Special Sale now nearing a close. The best bargain days of this sale in the Sewing Ma- chine Department will be Monday and Tuesday, April 5th and 6th. We will sell a Five Drawer Drop Head Golden Oak Ma- chine with all Attachments, complete, for only $12.00, guaranteed for ten years, which is cheaper than other deal- ers can buy them for at wholesale. Now Is Your Chance to Get a Good Machine for Less Than Half the Regular Price. First come, first served. rush and get first choice. Why do without a Machine when you can bu, the Kasy Payment Plan? We sell Parts for all Machines, Needles and Oil, Repair all Makes of Machines. Hayden Bros. Phone Douglas 2600. Come early and avoid the one on Also Sewing Machine Dept. PRAY Gives a Hat to Every 10th Hat Customer Just Our Way of Advertising— That's all PRAY—-For Men 508-510 S. 16th Street IF EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS, THEN WHY NOT ASK FOR B EEre AND DO YOUR SHARE IN MAKING A GREATER OMAHA