El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-30

There might De DeGtef LOOKING s"oAis
along Fifth avenoo:
There might be tougher blokes along the
bend;
But when Samwells in a atew,
And he don't know what to do,
It's the old Rough Rider Cowbo that
they send.
He amt got no college learning.
And he never pulled an oar
If he done 1t once. he'd never do 1t right,
But he's always got a yearning.
And his thoughts is always turning
To q canteen full of whiskey, and a fight.
When he starts in for to boiler.
He amt got no ''Sis-boom-ah.'
It's cross between a warhoop and a cuss.
He amt played no football game,
But he'd like it all the same
Just so he could take mix-up in he muss
He amt never been a Splinter,
He just leaves that to his horse;
He amt never beard q crowd yell "Rah.
Well done"
He cart vault none with pole,
And he caw'nt say "Blawst my soul"
When he puts the shot he does 1t with 9 un.
The Rough Rider.
There was considerable humor con-
nected with the Indian scares Of fifteen
and twenty years ago." said an old
plainsman and cattleman who has been
more than twenty years In the country.
"Of course l don't mean that there
wasn't tragedy, and bloodshed, and
M murder, and horrors of all kinds, but
what 1 DO mean Is that there was lots
of comedy mixed up in the whole his
tory of Indian raids, that vas appreciate
ed by the people even at the time they
happened.
"Many times breathless stories were
brought into the fort, or trading post,
or 'front.' town, that turned out to be
farces. However the excitement they
caused at the time was nonethe less
real than If they had been the truth.
1 remember many instances Of this
sort.
"One OF the funniest things 1 ever
saw was in a coach coming from Las
Vegas to Mesilla, back In the last of
the seventies. There was well
known Santa Fe jeweler, the driver,
myself, and young Jew named Moses
Hsldensteir. Just out from Las Ve
gas the coach was taken In by high
waymen. didn't have a great deal
to lose, 90 1 WAS inclined to regard the
whole proceeding as good joke, and
especially the actions of the young
81 ebrew.
"Moses had bsen frightened when he
clim bed in the coach at Las Vegas and
We of course, seeing that he bad been
listening to the stories of Indian out
rage and murder, whiled away the
lime by telling him oil sorts Of stories.
We taxed our inventive minds for
blood curdling tales OF all descriptions,
and even went so far rs to venture the
assertion that 1T was extremely proba-
Die that We would have some trouble In
going through.
1.-The joke was as much on US as on
Moses, when along in the afternoon We
we're held up by four zen wearing
masks and throwing six shooters
around pretty freely. We we're or
Tered to get out into the road as quick
Is we could, and we did 1t. You can't
argue with a gun poked in your face.
Then we were told to hold up our hands,
8uQ we Olu budt dleO- Ne4G we W6Te
hidden to hand out whatever We
had that might be of value, including
what coin of the realm we possessed.
The jeweler had quite q considerable
amount OF jewelry which he was carry
ing to his branch in Santa Fe and he
hated to part with 1t, but he didn't
hate to give it up half SO badly as
Noses did to separate himself from his
wealth.
Nov Moses had q heavy black over
% at in the coach, and thinking that it
was always going to be too hot in that
cou ntry for him to wear it much, he
the idea that it would be q
good scheme to give that to the high
waymen aud say nothing about his
and thereby save bis cash.
he said to the gen.
tleman with the elk shooter
W no stood over him, that he had no
but that he did have . mighty
good coat, and that he would gladly let
them have it. Well, those highway
men cursed when he offered the coat.
It was 60 hot you could have cooked a