The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-05
COWBOYS LOVE.
RY ARNER JOHNsON.

Copyrighted. 1907. by Mary McKean
 Jim Traskon, cowboy, was riding slowly round a herd of a thousand steers on a grazing ground in Montana. As he rode he was occupied with pleasant thougnta than of steers. Now he had got on to a new line and his head was confused and there was a new feeling in his heart. His atti- tude had been observed from afar off by Tom Matthews a fellow-cowboy. As the new arrival came within speaking distance, he checked his pinto and exclaimed:
 "Durn my hide, Jim Traskon, If you ain't
 You're way off" was the reply.
 Then you are thinking of suicide"
 You can't be-no dog-gone me--you
 Jim made no reply. but the hopelessness of his look increased The other dismount- cd came nearer. reached up and laid the palm of his hand on the suffering man left side about where the heart Is supposed to be. He held it there for twenty seconds.
 ';Jim, she's a-palpltating as sure's your bornl It's case of love: and dont you try to fool yonr Uncle Tom Just pour out your confidence and I'll advise to the best of my ability. I've been right there three or four times and know something about it.
 Not give"
 Nor make fun of ne?"
 Not on your life. Whn~ mans In love and got 1t bad Tom Matthews is not a Jim2' ~ vo,,, over on the Horseshoe Ranehe 2"
 You don't say! That Miss Walters who is visiting Katty Williams? Say, Jim. you are flying highi That girls father is worth three or four million dollars and she wouldn't stoop to such as you and me n can't mean that you are struck on her?'
 Jim nodded and sighed and looked far away over the grazing herd: cw tho ouest,on is is she struck on you?'
 T can't say she is. but Tom. I'm loving Why I haven't eaten enough for the last week to keep a jackrabbit alive. ana tnere are times when 1t seems as 1T wheeis was going around in my head"
 "Umi Took me the very same way the first time and had chills and fever besides A cheeky thing, Jim-mlghty cheeky. I'm afraid you'll have to take 1t out in palplta- ton of the heart and loss of appetite. If she was some alf-breed. now. or even the schoolma'am over on Dog river. there might be show, but braclnS up to mill ionaire's daughter is flying high Jim
 "But I'm a desuerate man. Tom" repli- ed Jim This ere thing they call love has got a rope around both my legs It's either matrimony or death with me. What want of is to tell me how to work M, You've made two trips to n Chicago Chicago, with
 50 I do--so I do. You have just seen her at a distance and fell in love with her. Maybe it's the % same way "Itn Tfs nef sefer 't to argue that she's also seen you at instance and don't know YOU from one Of your hera You can't go over to the ranch ana Saii on her because you haven't got a boiled , shirt to put on. You cant get an introduction in the regular way: because ai,se you the cold glare Her mother is down on you because one of her cats gos hoiu of some of your wolf poison JiH O'u Hi"i' you are up against 1t. ,,,
 Then i'll hang myself within a week.
 "Um! Just the way l felt the first tlnle. Let me see There ought to be a way there surely ought. It musnt De any any common way. It's got to be halrraiser or it won't go. If you don't impress milIionaire's daughter like house falling on her VOL can't hold her thoughts for five minutes Jim Traskon, arc you ready Tor @Yov GSo1 Set I am. if it's anything con nected with that girl. Yes, sir. I'll fight dozen grizzlies one after another Tor heF "Then when you come in tonight wen have talk I've got a plan, and I'm quite | sure she's bound to work say nothing It was true that Miss Nettie Walters was visiting Miss Kitty Williams; aauSnsSf l of Major Williams. of the Horseshoe ranch. | It was also true that she was the daughtsr | of n wealthy resident of New fork, Both girls rode out on thelr po9'es sact sIS tbev bsd | several times passed within a few rods oi l the cowboy-this particular cowboy. They | had given him no more nouce' however | than they had given his hero. - ,.,., l There was talk. that evening between Jim | Traskon and Tom Matthews ,,a ano wnen as lo a, Io,gaT honeIess In fact he had been brought around to realize that lie Was | worth the living. He even executed snut- file and indulged in suppressed Whoops oi | exultation. -, ,,. .-t+t 1 A broad smile. At ten o'clock in the lore | noon he caught sight of the New IorH | girl riding alone. Not quite alone. either as she had three dogs with her. and tnS animals were doing their best to scare uT a rabbit to be run down when shs Was 1 half a mile away big jack broke cover cover | and away went girl and pony and doss | If took Jim Traskon just two minutes tS | adorn himself in the Indian trappings Whlcf he had brought , along ottbe%s Iof sns o' Then he and his war-whooDs had the true ring o ol l course he depended on Miss Williams nav | ing told her girl friend that some or tns 1 Sioux Indians had left their reservation | and were committing outrages along th' l thl7 lnformation has been imparted' ou | it hadn't deterred the New, Yorker iron m ] and looked back to the redskin comm 1 sfter her Then she gave her pony tn 1 switch. In her go orr sne t tSae tSa end of l three-mile chase her pony was wlnueu Sn' she was being overhauled. .. q.
 Then Was the psychological moment 10 | Tim Traskon to strip off his disguise ah' a | begin to whoop and shoot and convey UT
 idea to the girl that ne ss 9au snS "onas save he ! from being carried into captlVltS. S sa | cording to Tom Matthews. she must ,ie tee ! grateful, she must Silllie ''' h ! She must extend the glad hand. and if sh
 didn't faint in his arms. she must aS iStra %
 i,,-ite bir1 10 call on her at the ranch an
 sooner or later fall in love with and marr
 him. ..,,or ,iaca a
 easy as two and two make four, but, aiai
 it didn't. In the first place, carried ava
 hv hls hopes and fears. the coWooS @ gO
 to eiose Also he forgot to throw ava
 his disguise Then the girl puihd her tire
 horse iu wheeled him around ana Suuuehl
 came riding back with a six shooter m ne
 hand. She had never shot at man netof,