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Tutors of a Stampede.

The Cow Boys.

Among the many features of "the wild West." not the least attractive will be the advent in the East of band of veritable "cow-boys," a class without whose aid the great grazing Pampas of the West would be values and the Eastern necessities of the table, the ten yard, and the factory would be meager. These will be the genuine cattle herders of a reputable trade, and not the later misnomers of "the road," who, in assuming an honored title, have tarnished it in the East, while being in fact the cow-boys' greatest for, the thieving criminal "rustler." To Wilkes' Spirit, of March, the editor is indebted for a just tribute and description of the American ranchman.

THE COW-BOY.

"The cow-boy! How often spoken of how falsely imagined, how greatly despised (where not known) how little understood! I've been there considerable. How sneeringly referred to, and how little appreciated, although his title has been gained by the possession of many of the noblest qualities that form the romantic hero of the poet, novelist, and historian: the plainsman and the scout. What a school it has been for the latter? As "tall oaks from little acorns grow" the cow-boy serves a purpose, and often develops into the most celebrated Frenchman, guide cattle king, Indian fighter, and dashing ranger. How old Sam Houston loved them how the Mexican hated them, how Davy Crockett admired them, how the Comanches feared them, and how much you "beef eaters" of the rest of the country owe to them, is a large-sized conundrum. Composed of many "to the manner born," but recruited largely from Eastern young men, they were taught at school to admire the deceased little Georgie in exploring adventures and though not equaling him in the "cherry-tree goodness," were more disposed to kick against the bulldozing of teachers, parents, and guardians.