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Thoughts We Carry Determine What We Are' Says Reno Preacher
Bravado Behind Most Badness,
Brewster Adams Proves With
Story of Taming Wild Bronco
By BREWSTER ADAMS
Fop 25 Years Reno's Baptist Preacher
OL-RAM-IT!" thundered
I Old Neil, boss of the T. H.
Ranch
"Excuse me, Reverend, but that
dern Texas toad make me mad.
He- rides on the only brains he's
got."
"What's wrong?" 1 offered. "He
certainly made a pretty ride."
"Sure and didn't he ruin a per
fectly bad horse?" was the
astounding answer.
You see Neil has a line string
of "buckers" he uses in the ro-
Brewster Adams
dcos. They're so bad, they're
good; mean as a losing candidate.
But he has to keep working on
them to keep them bad.
He imported a new rider from
Texas whose job it was to work
them over. He was a sweet bucka
roo, could stick like your wife's
relations. We had watched a gen
tle cyclone come out of the chute.
With Tex on his back, he sun
fished, turned ends like a good
politician, went up and down like
the stock market. But Tex rode
'lm.
It was a pretty exhibition.
Hoover couldn't have given a bet
ter one on the New Deal. When
the going was roughest Neil
waved for the "pick-up" man to
ride up and for Tex to swing
over on his mount.
This has to be done just when
the horse is "busting wide open"
- -like fast summer's shirt. He
gets it into his heed that he has
bucked off his rider. He thinks
he is bad.
But this day, Tex was mad. He
would show who was master. He
dug in the spurs like a sales tax,
rode the horse down the lane and
brought him back a perfectly
docile animal.
Now the price of "an outlaw"
is around $500; a well-behaved
animal brings much less. Same
principle a public enemy is
worth $5000, dead or alive; a good
preacher you can get for $1000.
So you can understand why old
Neil, with a few appropriate and
adequate words, stormed at him.
"Tex! You fool! Y'er
fired! You've made him fergit
that he was bad. He'll never buck
no more."
I NEARLY fell off my horse.
Here was a rough philosophy
which would unseat most theories.
I couldn't buck it off.
Neil felt I was entitled to an
explanation:
"Sure! A horse is like a lot of
folks just smarter. They's bad
becuz they thinks they's. bad, er
somebody makes 'em mean."
His philosophy came back to
me later when the sheriff locked
me in the cell with "a bad man."
I'll admit I wondered which one
of us he would let out. The sheriff
wouldn't take a chance on letting
him out, even into the little room
where we talked with prisoners.
This chap was sullen though he
had sent for me. He asked if I
would write to his sister; she be
lieved in him; nobody else did:
would I write ?
"Certainly, my good fellow,"
the words came without any
thought on my part. Perhaps I
was thinking of his thinking of
the sister "who still believed."
"Good fellow, hell! Don't you
know I'm bad ?" And then he
broke.
"God!" He fairly breathed the
word. "If only just some folks had
believed I was any good, it would
have made a lot of difference."
RAVADO sheer bravado, is
D behind rndst badness an af
fectation of recklessness. For fear
you may think my opinion just
sentimental theory, I have to back
it with 14 years' work in juvenile
courts ho re nnd in the old Essex
Market pre "met in New York.
With those thousands of boys, the
only lad beyond help was the boy
who thought he was bad.
The New York papers. Tribune,
Herald and Examiner, useu to
provide a steamer and barge to
take the children of the East Side
up the river for an excursion dur
ing the sweltering days of the
summer.
Plenty of times a single re
porter and I would "handle" a
mob of hundreds off Cherry and
Water Streets without any assis
tance. A sweating patrol of police
would usually herd them aboard
and wish us, with much fervor,
"a pleasant day."
Our system was really simple
but effective. After a few min
utes' observation as to who was
making most of the trouble, start
ing most of the fights and shov
ing most of the kids around, we
picked these for our leaders.
"You guys have got to keep
order. It's up to you to run the
boat. No fighting. No hanging
over the rails. No rough stuff.
It's a tough job and it's yours","
we told these little towghs, who,,
for their toughness, we put in
charge.
"Awh! It's a pipe! Watch our
smoke."
The day the New York Herald
sent up sandwiches and milk for
1400, the gang nearly mobbed the
delivery wagons. It looked as
though we would have to call out
the National Guard only we felt
sorry for the soldiers.
BUT when "Gyp the B'lood" and
"Curley the Carver," our trus-
ties that day, yelled, "Hey! Youse
kids! Beat it!" it was as quiet as
MYSTERY SHIPS
City of Boston
Lost in Calm Seas
107 Passengers
NO STORM of any magnitude
stirred the Atlantic in the
lirst months of 1870. No reports
came In of ships in serious dis
tress, except the City of Boston
... a mystery ship that van
ished. A sturdy vessel of the Inman
line, she was a mail steamer and
passenger ship of the first order.
An iron ship, with up-to-date
safety devices water-tight bulk
heads, 332 feet In length. She was
ship-rigged, with a big spread of
sail to aid her propeller.
Experts regarded her as a
had put In at the West Indies.
Responsible authorities avery
whero insisted that she was too
fine a ship to meet with serious
accident. The ship was not over
masted; her cargo was food, not
likely to be poor ballast.
The ice theory was mentioned
In newspapers, since Ice floes had
been noted In the Atlantic. But
Captain Halcrow was Br. experi
enced officer, a cautious man
with many lives depending upon
his Judgment. His record was un
blemished. It was unthinkable
that by lack of prudence he
splendid specimen of maritime
architecture, fihe took the high
est premiums at Lloyds, a mark
of distinction. Her construction
throughout was considered above
standard for those days, with the
possible exception of the two
flange propeller, which only se
vere storms could endanger.
Putting out of Halifax for Bos
ton on January 28, she was com
manded by Captain J. J. Halcrow.
carried a crew of 84 men. and 10i
passengers. February came and
passed-the City of Boston was
overdue.
Rumors began to circulate, as
relatives and friends demanded
information of the Inman offices.
One story was that the vessel
was sighted with broken engines,
making for South America. An
other said that the City of Boston
should have struck an Iceberg.
As to weather no other ship,
and no later weather statistics
reported dense fog or high seas
when the City oj Bonton made
her last voyage.
One of the passenger, was a
lad named William, son of a
woman who always refused to
acknowledge that he would not
return. She continually until the
day she died believed that a
Boston newspaper would an
nounce the arrival of the City nf
Boitnn. Every morning she said
to her friends. William Is certain
to get home today." The dinner
table was Invariably set for him,
but he never came t ome.
Fated to join a long list of
missing ships, thi City of Botton
never arrived.
a government workshop. The riot
was ended.
But the great thing done, Gyp
and Curley never knew. We
had kept them sweet. They just
couldn't be mean. They even
tipped their hats when they left
us.
"So long! We're pretty good,
ain't we?"
THOSE nicknames, "The Blood"
and "The Carver," are char
acteristic of the gangs. They re
mind me of Dan who was always
squaring olT with his fists, feint
ing, lamming the little fellows. I
asked the boys how we could
break this meanness.
"Awh! He just tinks he's a
bad actor. Lamp us pull his
feathers."
So they dubbed him "Dan, de
lookln'-glu.ss scrapper." He never
strutted again.
Which taught me that whether
In the slums or among "de silk
socks," we should have a care
with our children; never make
them mean. 1 know of no worse
way among the worst things we
do, than to tell Willie he is a bad
boy. He probably will be just
that; your thinking he is, makes
him think he Is, and what we
think, is usually what we are.
Any lad who overhears (and
it might be framed) his mother
say, "William is a good boy," is
apt to swell up to the idea.
As an experiment, you might
try it on father. If it fails, you
haven't lost much.
Movie Trainer Teaches Dog to Sing
Here is another of the Interest
ing and Instructive articles tell
ing how Carl Spitz, famous train
er of movie dogs, teaches them to
perform before the cameras.
Other articles will follow. Edi
tor. MOST any dog, trained or
otherwise, will howl when
v.histles are blowing or when an
unusual noise is going on.
But to throw up the head ami
actually sing, accompanied by a
violin, starting the song when the
violin starts and stopping the
tune when the accompaniment
stops, is no mean feat.
In the picture shown herewith,
the St. Bernard is seen singing
to a violin accompaniment played
by the famed violinist, Rubinoff.
For the stunt Rubinoff played
very siniplv and very slowly,
"My Old Kentucky Home."
He started with the opening
line, "The sun shines bright "
"Up, Buck, up," commanded
Trainer Carl Spitz. Up went the
beautiful head of the dog.
"Hold it."
NOW the real job was to get
Buck to start "singing" the
minute the violinist struck the
notes for the word, "The." .
The trainer used his hand for a
signal. When Rubinoff pulled his
bow across the opening note, the
trainer, who was standing where
Here's Buck singing to
Buck could keep an eye on him,
raised his hand high. Buck, with
his head still up, made a noise
in his throat.
Soon the violinist and the dog
were in unison.
The same routine was worked
Rubinoff's accompaniment.
when they taught Buck to stop
on the word "bright."
Within an hour Buck, the St.
Bernard, was singing two com
plete lines of the old, old song
and having the time of his life
while doing it.
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