Show I II I o Y I 1 to v 1 L s l- l lr r r- r rN N w wc wr wr c r foe k 4 r piP 4 NA p A I lams 0 d f ty By ELMO SCOTT WATSON a G so 60 good for tor or the thee e e inside of ot a 0 nv min n hs the eN N IN outside of ot a so horse horse so say j eth the doctor So run runs runa an nn old B author u unknown n no n and op ap r latently there are arc a great grent 1 tawny who ho be belese beI I I lese c eve ce e It It Of or cour course e there aren t as man mall many of us who ho answer to the call of ot boots and addles a as as ll tl re tre Wert eft eftIn In the old days davs when hen westward the cour course e of ell takes Its way nr this Is tic ll tI motor agi and nud today lolay sou oU hear more often the drone of ot n engine or the pop of ot automobile et CC exhaust than you ou do the creak crea of ot saddle Ci If leather and the clop clop of ot horse s J loots Cut But fir f r Jr r all nil of ot that this f rill rm of trl trawl travel el still retains I a wide Ide or nr arity Ity and there are e even esen en tito those thoe e winI will who I 1 pint to a n decide J Increase In horse horseback horseback bal back riding for pleasure asure If It not for business within recent Ie years Irl for despite the fact tint modern America In the main goes about Its business now on r tires there s iJ still enough h ridin ridin to keep beep the saddle caddie manufacturers In bus j jIce loess Ice for se several eral years ears yet eL on One of a wide pread lute test t In equestrianism is the amount of f ne newspaper spice that hi been given gl within recent months ti t J certain long Ill tiding feats which have lune been way 1 recent ne news nes s plc pic picture picture ture Which Illch was ass widely published was that of Frank crank Heath of Silver Springs Md bid stan with lis 1 is horse at nt filet post Mile post 00 One In Washington the I i for Cor the measurement of dl s from the capital 0 over oser er oil all the I nys of the United States Slates Mr Ir Heath sIm 1111 Is a war etel IU had been ridin rid ridIn ridin ridin In to 10 I eco er his hb health au an I In the C course ur e of ot a n journey of ot some sume t two too 0 years enre and a n holt halt on his eleven lle year eor old hor horst he be had hod covered cohered 11 Si i miles and vi lied l CI Y state In the Union La Last t year ear r tress dl e es carnet the ne news neI I that Lert Lent J McCloud of lort 1 ort Morgan Coloa Colo was wa a about to set HI setout out on a n G mile mike mil trip on Ills his tight light year 3 ear old Arabian horse CLIf Sitting I 1 ull He lIe was as t to attempt ti II t feat fedt of riding from Dem Denver Denser er to ew New r York an J r then criss cross the United State State- anI am Canada reveral times lie He too ex peeled to l every lery ery state stale In lit Union and at the start of ot ills trip III ht estimated tl 11 at Ie 1 c e would cosec 0 el the lie G 1 OO miles In 1 1200 OO do days s So fo far as is h no known n I 1 e is still ridin ridin for tor u ut the end of or hi- hi trip trill Is u a r of ot S 2 WO If It he lie makes it successfully an J complies compile with all nil the requirements on out help helu that he lie roust must tall call c en n all gs g at ot the state capitals and alst 1111 ulf upon the resident 1 l at ut 11 1 Cloud win who is fifty ears rid old surd tind I former co bo cowboy and I ange id a G WO mile trip at nt I 1 two Uto year ears ago During th tile trip lie he crossed a n strip of ot desert In the great Southwest Sou l t In III which sealed lu recorded n a heat of ot ISO tle de Ie tees and It Kok leoh him 72 is I our to 72 is miles mlle Up horn flom the South another hl hirse- hirse J f Ridin I There la Is 1 some Borne lh thit t tt likes like the th city Ora 3 that a curried and nd green creen and ont collar collan wagons run by gasoline gasoline- colln But ut for tor me m its It a I hawse haw e and saddle Every Ivery day without n II change chance And a desert sun un n a blazin On a hundred miles mile of at range ranee 1 Jut Just n a ridin a ridin Desert Dellert De ert rippin In the th sun Bun blue blu along alone the th sky skyline line line- liner I r don t envy anyone anyon When I m ridin hen Ss hen my feet teet Is la In the th stirrups I And my hawse haw Is la on the th bust With his hoofs hoota hoof n a Prom From a cloud of ot golden duet duat And the th of ot the th cattle catti Is a comma comin down the wind Ind Then a n finer life lite than ridin w be b mIghty hard to find And Just a n ridin ridin tong long cracks crack through the th aIr up a n baby cyclone up the prickly pear pearA As A I m ridin I 1 don t need no art exhibits hen w hen the th sunset does docs her best beet glory elory eloryOn On the th mount mountains t IP to the west And your every opery looks look foolish hen W hen the th night ht bird start tart hie hi tune And tl e a desert s silver diver mounted Dy By the touches of ot the th moon Just a ridin a ridin V w ho kin envy kings king and czars hen czars when hen the th coyotes coyote do down don n the th tai al alIe Ie ley leyAre Are IAre Ar A It to the stars I If It ho he h II a ridin T f hen when m my earthly trail trait le Is I ended And my final bacon curled And the last great roundup II a tin fin shed At the Home Ranch of ot the world r i don t want no harps harts nor haloes robes Jobe nor otter oti or er dressed up things Let Iet L t me m ride the starry tarry range On a pinto hawse hawie with wings Just a ridin a ridin I 1 d like half halt po o well wellAR An As AR a up the sinners That have haTe wandered out of or Hell HellAnd HellAnd HellAnd And a ridin CLARK CLAnK non nan r lan Is 19 ridin ridin n lie He Is 11 1 A Fells 1 nn an rs schoolmaster s 11 alto ho started from t I AIres Alres tWI tw and a n hilt hll years ago ao and nl alto ho recent recently recently ly Iy ed In Mexico o CIt City on his wad wn waito to sew New York city Ilia 1111 Hl journey we- we wa wo begun to demonstrate the endurance of tI tie tic e nath native nathe e hor horses es of the iia p and he lie Is din d lug In It on t two to o of them them one on onse on se n tears ears f I IJ J and lid the theother I other nl When lien hen he lao hao lia com coca his hh journey te le will iII Inie hl some miles of or ridin ridin back OJ ni niI I Im and a 1 I ost of or perl e to t tell about to 10 his Ills friends Put not all of these thle lon long distance ire arc men DK hc Idle latest t one In tilt lit litfield field Is Miss Ibs 1 t 11 ii lug Ins i g t O liar old ell lb Il well ell 1 M 1 girl wit withas hJ has C out to win In 11 n wager of 01 said Mid to han l has been blen mad made will the marquis of Donegal at a n dinner party In 10 London that she could ride from v ew sew lork to Ios I os Angeles In days Mayor Jimmy Walker of ot New NeV York NeT lork lor bid her god godspeed peed about the middle of ot October last year and within two weeks she and her horse hors Broad Broadw VlY y clattered up I enns h anla a aye avenue ve venue nue to the capitol And at the pres present pre eat ent writing she a s ridin ridin some some- somewhere somewhere somewhere where In the greet grent Interior of the e United States Ridin I ridin does docs that have hav R a famIlIar sound If It It does doe It If s a because It its s a sort of ot refrain In a poem by Badger Clark Chul which has become a classic out In the windswept wind wept swept est ahem herl men know what ridin n Is ll and know whether hether a man mon knows what he bee e talking whether about whether It s In verse or when prose prose when he lies s talking about ridin Evidently they believe b lIeve that Cadger adger Clark knows for tor his Is probably the best known und and most then quoted single poem In the whole whole est La Last t year ear when the 1 people eople ot of Gansas staged sto-ed a big ble pageant In cele eels celebrating brating the famous Medicine Lodge Indian treaty and other event In the growth of ot their country the printed pr programs for tor the pageant Include J I eral eral verses from rilin lu In tho ho Introduction to the ep episode otle the day of the CO cowboy boy And that 0 only one of ot Innumerable Instances ot of Its popularity You 11 come across It repeatedly In ne newspapers you ou 11 hear hearIt hearit hearIt It recited at nt gatherings of ot all kinds klada In Inthe inthe Inthe the 11 est est and und when an old timer sets him down to write his reminiscences the are that somewhere In Inthe the Ule book Look he bell it 11 quote or some bome other Badger Clark Clor poems Itself It elt lf has had an on Interest InterestIng InterestIng lug Ing history as ns have some of the ILl other of oC Clars Clark Clar s poems After a varied career Including an nn as ns a 0 ac c manager In Cuba Luba where tropical fe fever feser er all nil but wrecked hl his health Clarent Clark Clar went ent down In the cow country of ot Arizona to recuperate In Ina Ina Ina a letter leller to his mother he found prose too weak to express cypress s his content with the wondel rul desert country In 10 which he found himself and he tried to ex express express press It In sere ere ver e The result was wait W t Ridin Ills His mother with natural pride sent the verse sense to a magazine the old I 1 Monthly and It was Immediately accepted and ond published Titus Thus Badger Dalger Clark started us as the hoer loet oel of ot the West and und gave to the et Its best loved verses I ash alt erner who ho discovered fed tho Hie est est last summer for the Hie first time when hen I rest resl dent Coolidge s decision lon to establish the summer W bite House In the tho Black Dlack lulls of or South Dal ota brought to that thaI Sl section clion a n lordt I 01 dt of ot tourists also dl COH I ed this poet lariat and ac 1 him hini But ut for tor all nil of ot of him the only e word I 1 that uttered by an old coo CO cooman cowman mao man wl wi tn to II he said after reading rending n a book of or Clark Clarl Claries S verses senses Including lou sou can break brn me If It theres theresa there g sa n a dead poem In the book Look I 1 read the hull of It It W lu h hJ J In to I h-I li l Is tills this kid lark I don t I 1 now v how he but Lut he tr h OR h O K 0 S |