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Buffalo Bill on the Cow boy.
I should greatly like to say a few words respecting a topic which I much regret to find is understood in the inverse propor-tion to which it is discussed. I refer to that unique specimen of humanit, the cowboy of today, In order to be brief I will, like a cowboy, take the bull by the horns, end lay down the axiom, once for all, and most emphatically, that a cowboy is not a blackguard; nay, more, he is in nine cases out of ten better than his fel-lows, more especially as in nine cases out of ten his fellows are the offspring of an effete civilization. He has certain attri-butes that commend him to creation. He is manly, generous and brave. He is not merely a creature of impulse, but uses the gifts given him by his Maker with a discretion which might well be copied by more of us. In putting in these words for a class of men who have only to be understood to be admired, I speak after years of study resulting in a conviction which nothing can shake.--London Globe Interview.