The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-30
CAUGHT A COWBOY.

dangerous confidence in the fishy stories that penny-a- liners have taken to writing about how dudes and other thin- -muscled youths are frightening, and occasionally maltreating, cowboys, and other helpless people of that char acter nowadays.
 Only few weeks ago A story was started on the rounds about how a New York swell in a bar-r room took off his single barreled eye-glass long enough to "do up" an unfortunate vacquero who had wandered into the metropolis and the sample room sug- gested. A Chicago paper lately told, also, of how gallant bar keeper ran 8 heavily armed and blood seeking human cyclone out of his establish ment by squirting at him with the deadly syphon of the seltzer- bottle.
 Encouraged by reading such things, the greatest value of which lies, doubt less, in "so much column" to the writers thereof, young man in the sou thern part of the city of Chicago concluded, few days ago, that he would scare a man whom he met, just because the intended victim wore a cowboy hat and carried lariat.
 To begin with he picked up a chunk of coal and threw it at the stranger, who was really much smaller man than the Chicago youth was. Of course this astonished the westerner. Proceedings of that kind are liable to astonish any law-abiding citizen, SO the stranger meekly asked the city youth to explain whether or not his intentions were honorable. The youth for answer heaved another piece of coal at the cowboy and remarked that he was a more dangerous man than the earth has produced since the days of Capt. Kidd, and the westerner said he was sorry to hear this, and if the state ment was true the young man should be placed under some restraint. He then made start for the youth, who also made start in an opposite direc- ton, and he was departing with such sudden alacrity that the pursuer found strategy necessary, and so sent out his lariat, whizzing through the air, and it came down encircling and squeezing the young man with hug winch was more effective than gentle, and which gave him to understand at once that the arm of his best girl was not around him thrown.
 This turn in affairs was as much as- tonishing to the young man as his coal heaving had formerly been to the lit- tie cowboy. He thought that his time had come, and that his csptor would proceed at once to carve him like a darkey would 'possum, and with a pleasure more or less akin. This inn pression was deepened when the cow boy led his game to post and spliced it and the post together with his rope. After pinioning the youth so that about the only movement he conld make was with his tongue, the cow boy sat down and enjoyed himself making faces at the enterprising young cadet who had started out to gather fame by licking cowboy. Having enjoyed himself thus for a time, the cowboy remarked, inquir- ingly:
 "You say you are b-a-a-d mani"
 "Yes, l said so, but I was only jok- ing"
 "You shouldn't joke like that. It is rather of the English style of joke, and is depressing in its character, and will eventually injure your liver" "Yes, I feel considerably bound up already"
 "Another break like that, and you die.n
 "Pm very sorry that offended you."
 "No Ofense, so far as Pm concerned, but hate to sec promising young man like you going to the bad in that way. You'll be a regular Eli Perkins if you don't stop it. Think what 6