The Clifton clarion., 1888-05-23
Bnl-Nye Talks About Cowboys.

4ue cdDIe news IrOm LODuOn would seem to indicate that the coming year will witness hegira of armed goslins from England who intead to prosecute the COW gentleman and Deadwood stage robbing business on the frontier. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that Buffalo Bill, the graceful and courteous hirsuit wonder from Nebraska, is largely responsible for this. Wherever he has gone with his eccentric, dark red, self made Indians and his speckled broncos he has sown the seeds of discontent in the grammar schools and bred open rebellion and mutt ny in the primary department.
 Look along the red-hot trail of B. William and you find the Amer ican and foreign youth alike turn ing with undisguised loathing from his educational pursuits to immerse his legs in a pair of shap- erajos, to wield the brief butst ling quirt, to whoop up the red eyed, naughty and high-tailed Texas maverick, or to shoot large irregular holes into the otherwise poorly ventilated savage.
 Gentle reader, we stand upon the crumbling brink of great cowboy eruption from England, Ireland, and Scotland the conti- nant of the great orient itself. I did not think that Buffalo Bill had any idea when he started in to rehearse his great society drama and horse play, that it would so soon disturb international rela- tions and throng our cactus forest and grease-wood vineyards with juvenile cowboys from Green lands icy mountains and Indis's corral stands. If he had he would have hesitstedi about it. Now, alas! it is too late. He is billed for the Coliseum. and already people from Lyrsilla and the cit- ron groves of Lawrence county are coming into town, bringing their dinners and hitching their teams to the fence behind the Coliseum.
 Hard, blue preserved seats I am told are being erected around the amphiteatre, and the Roman schools are closed. Everything points towards a great festal day, if that would be the right kind of day to use in this place. Is it to be wondered at that we will soon see Roman cowboys, who ought to be in school, landing here on our coast and inquiring at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street where they can find an Indian outbreak to quell. May we not look for the Arabian and Chinese contingent by next spring, armed to the teeth and asking at an in- telligence office when the Dead wood stage is expected. so that they can attack it and rob it 8 few times.
 l saw one of these kindergarten cowboys get of train oncs and go up through the town. After wards I saw him come back. He looked different somehow. When he got of at the station noticed that he had long hair which was tied back with a pale blue watered silk ribbon. He had long legs which seemed to extend from his Adams apple to the ground. A narrow. four-in-hand necktie de- noted where his legs terminated and the head began. He looked real sweet When he took the re- turn train there was nothing to identify him except 8 strawberry mark, which he carried carefully concealed up in a shawl strap.
 Boys who sigh to dash madly across the plains to follow the COW path to fame do not know the danger and desolation such a life involves. There are two classes of cowboys iD the west, viz, the working cowboy and the lsy-fgure cowboy. The latter remains in | town and rolls cigarettes while he smokes fiercely through his nose. He talks learnedly of cattle brands, corrals, round-ups ''cavvayards," ranges, bands, punches and herds, but really don't know 8 range COW from a Texas steer.
 The genuine cowboy is not al- ways beautiful, but he is conver- sant with his business, knows every brand in his district at least and who owns it; is brave where bravery is most needed, that is, in the discharge of his duty. To stand