The Broncho Acts on Principle. 
A broncho is a horse. He has four legs 
like a sawhorse, but is decidedly more skit 
tish. The broncho is of gentle deportment 
and modest mein, but there isn’t really a 
safe place about him. There is nothing mean 
about the broncho, though; he is perfectly 
reasonable and acts on principle. All he 
asks is to be let alone, but he does ask this, 
and even insists on it. He is lirm in this 
matter, and no kind of argument can shake 
his determination. There is a broncho 
that lives out some miles from this city. 
We know him quite well. One day a man 
rop *d him and tried to put a saddle on him. 
The broncho looked sadly at him, shook 
his oead and begged the fellow as plain 
as could be to go away and not try to in¬ 
terfere with a broncho who was simply 
engaged in the pursuit of his own hap¬ 
piness; but the man came on with the sad¬ 
dle and continued to aggress. Then the 
broncho reached out with bis right hind foot 
and expostulated with him so that he died. 
When thoroughly aroused the broncho is 
quite fatal, and if you can get close enough 
to him to examine his cranial structure 
you will find a cavity just above the eye 
where the bump of remorse should be. 
The broncho is what the cowboys call “high 
strung.” If you want to know just how 
high he is strung, climb up on his apex. 
We rode a broncho once.—-Santo Fe Dem¬ 
ocrat. 
A Free-Born American Citizen. 
Some twelve or fourteen years ago, says 
the Detroit Free Prsss, a queerly dressed, 
eccentric acting individual appeared at Lan¬ 
sing during the session of the ligislature 
and asked various members to introduce a 
bill to enable him to build a dam on Wolf 
river, somewhere in the northern counties. 
The matter was allowed to go by default, 
and at the next session the old man showed 
up again. This time a bill was introduced, 
but before it came up he got tired and went 
home. When a third session opened he 
was on hand, but only to be tired out again 
by delays. Last fall, a Detroiter who was a 
member of the house and remembered the 
case, met the old man up the lake shore and 
said to him: “I shall go to the legislature 
again this year, and you come to me with 
your bill and I’ll push it for you.” “Thank 
ye, but it’s no me,” replied the old man. 
“Don’t you want the dam?” “Fact is, I 
built the dam before I asked permission of 
the law.” “Well, you’d better have things 
in legal shape.” “No use. During the first 
session the dam went with a freshet. Dur¬ 
ing the second the mill went on a mortgage. 
During the third Wolf river dried up until 
it wouldn’t turn a pin-wheel, aud I want 
the legislature of Michigan to understand 
that I’m a free-born American citizen and 
ask no favors anybody.” 
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