The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-11-02
THE FESTIVE CowBoY
Tss Smart rricks of a Maverick HauIs,
at . Theatre


Strangers visiting this city, after
viewing the many wonasrfulIthings to
be seen, Invariably express themselves
As surprised at our large and costly
bu''dings, the enlerprlse OF our m az
chauts aSn the magnitude Snd wealth
OF our mines. rnArs ia one thing.
however, thss peoal1 seem TO over
look while eSorse>'ug themselves
spons Bat,e. that y, tina "Rat,e
| City Cowboy HvNre ara more,
"oowb0ys" TO Ia faund in this eitt
thar in sny sacti0a GA the face of
GODS earth. This COWBOY o. any other
place In he world can only be ssan 10
the country, but or "cowboY" likes
u take up his residence in the city.
he Is at home everywhere, aud ne
never seems 30 be- out OF place
wherever you find him, although wa
DO not remember ever to have found
hini IN church. The reason so many
cowboys are seen in Butte is
that there are 20 mMny nj
them in this part of tho conn
try that the larger portion ofthem ear
always fluid it convenient to visit the
city, Ehue She "workn which they ara
suopos' d 10 do, csD be done by the
| i+w, The Butte cowboy can generally
be found in avsriaty theatre, hid uu-
der large hat and always making
love 10 The waiter girls, hOoting AT tn
performers md drinking straight
whiskey. Very Often he can
be found on the street corner, abus-
ing every body he doesn't happen to
see, from tho mayor tn the special no
liceman, With q profuss and robust
profanity that gives The air sulphur
| Gus odnr Tor hlf cks around. The reason
the cowboy wears 80 large hat is be.
cause no larger ones arc made. The
Buue cowb,y seems to be on n chrome
Fourth OF July celebration.
II the cowboy were 20 cease cele.
bratins so much, his bresth would be-
much weaker than 1t is. ltis 80 strong
thaL II he could only tie u slip-knot to
the end OF II, he could rope and hold II
steer with IL. There ia considerable
humor In fuanv Of the COWBOYS of
suite, and little incident occurred III
one or the variety theatres of
this city last night that caused
considerable amusement for the
crowd Ia attendance. Two of tho per
forNNrs, a lady and gentleman, have
bsen In tue h+oit during the wask, OF
passing tin can tied to n string
among the audience, aud ssk'ug some
ore to place IL to their Gar, when the
lady would take up cornet and pre-
TEND 10 play some notes in tha mouth
Of a can tied a. tho end Tho man
on the stage expl8ina THAT
Tho effect to the person hnli
| ing the can TO his ear would be very
pleasing. When everything is read y,
the lady commences to laugh, and
When asked the rsssou, she points 10
the dupe IN tina aUdlOnce and saws, ~
am laughing at the sucker o. the other
end OF tho string" The entire audience
then show their appreciation b. loud
| applause. When tho can was
passed sround the hall last
| night i5 waa grabbed Nv
| . cowboy, who had evidently seen tho
thing "werked" before. When the
lady said, IL am Laughing AT ITO
sucker at tho other end If this strinp,u
the crowd as usual laughed, but not a
the cowboy, for thai festive individual
| was perchso on table, and tho can 40
| arranged TO his person that he ap-
pared In the light of anything but q
sucker" lndee0, the joke vas on.
Iiroy on the lady. The effect was
highly amusing 10 any one in the
theatre except the actress.-lButte
| City (Moutana) Miner.