Show SOME OF OUR FAULTS faulis contributed conte it bated am annn mg I 1 be cattle owners and those owning ow a arlos nurA 09 of horses horse the there I 1 h a gro wi tendency to turn them out on the me meadow and n public do man mains at this season of the year and let them hem take care of tb thenia ems elven elvell as best they may and the owner but alef pay any attention bothem to them until 1 I reminded minded time grid and time again I 1 he result reaul tu is that hat the animals ammala will a ader de back towards the fields field from where they have been driven and are a great nuisance to chef mes and those thoe who are trying to break up new land hold specially if the led has not nit a substantial fence around it this is the case in a ji great many in atances and the owners seem to care can not at all until the animal are driven to the astray pound or for adames sake compelled to take some a kint kind of care of them this has been a common practice at this time of the year as it is 13 too ray carly to take the animal onto the mountain range and in consequence coe sequence the he farmers around the outside of the public fields are re mado mad to arifi a great deal of trouble and tire tim wasted to drive the horses awa awai from his bis lands then are a no number b e r of instances now tm where here this tiling ng is going anand on and th ow owners tiers have been notified repeatedly it about and asked to t take care I 1 the he animals but from a spirit of ob finacy persist in paying not the sligh slightest tet heed to the request there is another class clan of men in this country who can be recognize is a he hundred dead miles milea from home if on om but watches them ride up to a gate for the are too lazy or obstinate we dont know ich tu to get off the I 1 horte and open a gate one instant in 10 particular the writer watched a man ride 0 up P to agate a gate and for efte minutes he spurred and whipped hi horse in order to make it ic get up close enough to the gate so he could cou open it without having to get of to tn horse to do so and was almost P long trying to tn shut it after ridin abro through U gh the more afraid the hors is t the be harder some mine fellows will tr to m make ke it git up so he wl nt not h have ave to dismount nine tim than out at of ten te when he finis it too diali cult cull a mater to fasten the gate he tri tries es it at all is to ride off wit a out t fastening it and by the time th auxt next man c comes 0 mes along it is open and the second man sail saia well it w open when I 1 came and d d if ir fu going to bother to shut it but let et us remember that gat de are me made to be opened only at sue ime times timea a the traveling public desir to 2 go through and as a matt matter 0 common courtesy it is IB up to u us I 1 take the time to close them after w have bae pass passed ad through an and d while w are on the we are not laying laving all the b lame blame a 0 the man who travels horseback by wagon the automobile drive it in a general way are as bad if n worse than some of the other fe lows for he thinks it entirely it much but bother he r to shut a gate after n has ha boie go through h I 1 ough and conse consequent qs bent leaves it wide de open what is th w result I 1 some cases cams it is a man favorite cow gets in the field an gets bloated or some horses get and trade cramp P down the farmers real and do ot other her damage that on th ill surface looks it small but to the man so who he has toiled and labored to plan his big crop it looks mighty big boys bay should be taught the necessity of sh shutting ut ting gates and the rea re son not net long since three through th youngsters were edine field going to hunt rabbits th and flung it t w wi came to agate a gate open and drove on an old riall mai was near and when the boys earn cam opposite oppose to him it he addressed then kindly and said aid jsn boys can you no there are 8 shut hat bat gate again as 29 animals down the ro roid td lot of bunse lo 10 1 I it thor sill get a in 11 drun him you no go to he answered f you want that gate ge shut you shut shot where did they learn t yourself this alf if not from their fathers as the had seen him ride up to toa a gate and he be wi wa I 1 r fit it went shut age again after through hh all tigh I 1 but if not no fur ther attention was paid to the real m bior |