Show THE OLD TEXAN RANGERS A current magazine has an Interesting Interest-ing i article on the Texan Rangers Those rangers were the first roughriders rough-riders of this country They grew up as guards against the Mexicans the savage and the white bandits that Infested In-fested the border and preyed upon all comers friend and foe alike Some of the most famous of them helped lay I the foundations of the Golden State As a rule they were quiet softvoiced I men but men with eyes that saw everything behind them as well as In front and one who watched them I closely discovered two or three unmistakable unmis-takable characteristics One was 0 walk like that of a man who has just dismounted from a hard days ride on horseback h an Indescribable I walk ai I little hitch as though the left knee was a little sprained C disposition to drop the shoulders a trifle as giving away to a stiffness or some sharp pains abput the hips or a something acquired in the past when because of the surroundings surround-ings a walk was more than half a stealthy creep Another thing noticeable notice-able was their capacity to reduce all the necessities for 0 days or a weeks I Journey to the smallest space and the i I least possible weight I a new make of pistol or rifle was ever displayed It was interesting to see the sullen light in their eyes brighten and to mark the I deftness of their hands in manipulating It If a horse or a dozen horsos passed II j I he or they was or were taken in at a I glance They made a photograph in L their minds which showed Just how much each horso was worth for a spurt or for n wolflope of a day ant a night They were shy of the rush around them tho great work going on the swift building of houses or I mills or flumes or bridges and their I look showed that they were thinking Why all this bother They would I I eat a fine dinner In a restaurant In nie nee but any one watching them I could seo that their thought was that nn antelope or a buffalo steak cooked I on crooked slick over a camp fire was worth n dozen such spreads In I town they lacked the fatigue which gives 0 relish lo food On horseback I I they were transformed they became apart 1 a-part of the animal his anlna motions were theirs and following an Instinct their eyes were alert and nothing around them missed being seen Once In awhile a-while one of them would get in his cups but that was not the rule When he did he had lo have u horse and If he found one of the kind that had L latitudinal I lati-tudinal longitudinal and vertical motion mo-tion at the same time ho was suited Ho wanted spurs that Jingled and occasionally n I oc-casionally he would emit a cry that he II I had picked up from the Comaches or Kiowas Once In n while one of I I them became Involved in trouble and that meant business He at once became be-came a bunch of animated steel springs there was never a false n motion mo-tion and when It was over somebody 1 was hurt That race has passed away There I may still he Raugera In Texas b ttlje I t old opportunity for graduating In r LIiii polytechnics of ahoslllo frontier was I I I not permitted them They arc atbest I I only modern experts and lack the j graces of the old classic desperate days I They may be all right according to the I gentler school but compared to their fathers they are what quail on toast Is I to a roasted buffalo hump |