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Show eSZSr. T.H E.. , HE E ii E R 11 .. ,.w C drives will take place this fall. which werc the .: The old cattle-trail- s icunk rpijwaysof early days are grassing over. .. Once they werebeaten Iiard and bare by tens of thousands of hoofs.. s. paths they Long chocolate-colorewere, "stretching5 out over Thill and through vale, crossing rivers and climbs ing steep bluffs, bordered here and there by the bleaching bcnes'of fcome :i.But we mut have .water. Homer, orwenvill (Jie'here before they find us, - ' f f hid Vigil- Twill he ever so careful,- and hang on tight. And at last Homer reluctantly consented. the roof., told them - The little hole-ithat the second night in their strange prison was setting in, as the two boys knelt at the head of the little stairway and'offeiledlup theonly prayer they knew the prayer5 which le taught His disciples oii the Mount. T '1' Then grasping with one hand the precious tin can, while with the othec M- 1 - d n weary member of liter heard wlio hatf found the trip too much for his strength. 1 From interior Texas to.central Kansas they led, first reaching to AbelfneftlferF he clung to life rutle railing which ran after the building of the Atchison ToFe Railroad, to Dodger along in the inside of the stairway, peka and Santa City, where for years were performedVirgil began His1x perilous 'descent. the orgies to which the cowboy were to give way at the efkl voi- the proiie .. ir'iOr vn' drive.'- Los E DECLINE OF THE CO IF dvq rj ej; boy; The first cattle trail was .located by Kl Mr. Joseph G. McCoy, now of Wichita, i; With the clearing off the Cherokee Kas.., ancf recently Superintendent- 'of l ie was a pioneer stock-ma- n the' Census; of lands the Oklohoma and fencing strip and was the first to realize the pos-- ' there has been ended the usefullnes of which were a few ible,profits in driving the Texas cattle the Texas tattle trails ' ' mark the years ago great highway from the partofThe pay to ' eta nd:shippingMr. M cCoveopfeeding grounds of the Lone Star State sthc m' the remainder. . : 'g i lV Tip: shipping poirfts jn : Kansas ceived the idea of opening up anj , i( .out-js ' n L ' I V t y irw let for Texas cattle. - Being impressed ;?ith a; knpwlagp of driven over the long journey, and now themumberof cattledn Texas,:' and .the i.11: i ; the last onedtas reached its destination difficulties of getting them to; .market and the cowboyof the West Isr a thing by routesmnd means, then J:;rr of the' past. He wilP' flourish' "on' the -HE continued i't it) burlesque stagfe atid' nvlllilgurb in the C3a i flash literature of .the newsstand, but in Hello ! Have you read the Heral. real life he will be known no more. No 1 - I- . - . - . f -- k -- - 1 -- F "1. J " 7" - - - 1 " " 1 4 4 V s 1 ' " ' L , f? , - j in-use- ..-.t- o CD -- I i . ; -- t ' |