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heroic use. Mules are to be employed, since they stand harship better than horses, and,
what is of still greater importance, they are more sure-footed. One mule carries the gun, a
second the carriage and trail piece, and a third ammunition. The manner of transport-
ing and manipulating these guns will be illustrated just as in action.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME "ROUGH RIDERS."

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt says: "Wood and I were speedily commissioned as
Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry. This was the
official title of the regiment, but for some reason or other the public promptly christened us
the 'Rough Riders.' At first we fought against the use of the term, but to no purpose; and
when, finally, the Generals of Division and Brigade began to write in formal communications
about our regiment as the 'Rough Riders,' we adopted the term ourselves."

The "some reason or other" for calling his regiment "Rough Riders," regarding
which Colonel Roosevelt seems to be in doubt, is so readily found and explained that his
failure to discover it is really surprising. The name is one with which the public has become
familiar, and in a way fascinated, through its adoption some years ago by Col. W. F. Cody--
"Buffalo Bill"-- to designate precisely the class of frontiersman associated with his Wild
West Exhibition, which, as Colonel Roosevelt himself remarks, "made up the bulk of the
regiment and gave it its peculiar character." The term was gradually widened to include
the Cossack, Arabian, Mexican, South American, trooper and other free, fearless equestrians,
now marshaled under the leadership of the greatest horseman of them all. Millions of
people had grown to understand, fully appreciate, and unboundedly admire that title and
what it stands for, and its transference to the First U. S. V. Cavalry was not only a deserved
compliment, but an honorable designation, whose admirable fitness was at once and univer-
sally recognized. Colonel Cody first introduced the name "Rough Riders"d to the American
public. The manner in which Colonel Roosevelt subsequently introduced it to the Spaniards
has made it historically immortal.

GENERAL CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MR. NATE SALSBURY. ROME, 3D MARCH, 1890.

RESPECTED SIR:

The Roman papers report that COLONEL CODY was engaged with Don Onorio Caetani,
Herzog of Sermonets, Prince of Teano, etc., etc., that he will to-morrow ride in the Exhibi-
tion of this town some of his untamed stallions.

I send you, therefore, some of his gentleman's reference lists, also information as to
his family and his horses, which may be of interest at this time.

The great lordly family of the Cajetans is the oldest amongst the noble families of
Rome. The Cajetans were once the lords over the entire Roman districts of Velletri
(twenty-five miles south of Rome), near Fondi (on the Terracine side).

They gave two Pontiffs to the Throne of St. Peter, Gelasius II. (III8), and Boniface
VII. (1294), and were the close allies of the Colonnas and the Orsinis in their long contests
with the Papacy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Their large estates were confiscated by Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503), but were
afterwards restored under another Pontiff.

The present chief representative of the family is Don Onorio Caetani, Herzog of Ser-
moneta, Prince of Teano, etc., etc. He is the sone of the late Prince Michael Angelo Caetani,
renowned for his studies and commentaries on the works of the poet Dante, and his manifold
services in the interests of Italian culture and art in general.

The family residence in Rome is the Cajetan Palace, where the family pedigree and
archives are kept.

These genealogies and documents are the most complete of all the great historic
Roman families. Some of the branches of the pedigree are dated back into Cajetans of the
ninth and tenth centuries.

The small village of Cisterna, where the untamed stallions are kept, lies about thirty-
one miles south of Rome: it is situated on the same line as the old Appian Way. The