A cowboys Cowboy ya pledge bret harte s ami and joaquin millers poi fraits ot of tt alic e rui shiret d mining desperado and tho gentlemanly oum unifier uni bur bier haugh M luay make a mural capre sion ni in our ca C moods we may smile incredulously at itt the gamester abu wins wills ull all a mans wealth one day lay and generou ialy returns it tc to him on the next we may even our pity from out to the tile Vill villain Hill who sweeps over the ruin I 1 his 18 have froug wrought 1 it yet if in in our more charitable in iuds tile coll contemplation tell illation of tha thae e portraits makes in ili hospitable towards the worst sit sinners iners then they put us in sympathy with him who told the pa pathetic atory odthe of the cal cial n any touch I 1 hat makes a us kin with him who came to seek and tave the lost is not to be shrunk from though it may ome come from a desperadoes desperados despe artt rados si or gamblers hand the cowboy of the plains has during the past few years behaved bo outrageously that t vrn vell tile tender sympathize with judge lynch yet the story told 0 of an fn a cowboy who fell under the eye of the eastern gentleman while traveling raveling in montana shows that even he lie bad as he lie is is capable of reformation says the gentleman 1 I was sitting in the bar room of a small hotel at miles city waiting for the stage As usual with this sort of a place half hotel half saloon the bar occupied the entire end odthe of alie room crowds of men were co coming ug in in an and d going out there ml was a bewildering jargon of noises the air was heavy with tobacco smoke and blasphemous with profanity everybody drank again and again in the midst of this bedlam I 1 noticed a muscular fellow with two rev revolvers olvera in his belt and a bowie knife in liis his boot who was trying to persuade a young ayoung man to drink the young man refused refuted saying lz ravely but coolly 1 I never drink sir V what not drink exclaimed the colbo cowboy y in a tone that stopped the talking and swearing I 1 watered the young man to see how he would carry himself he behaved admirably not a muscle quivered as he all answered noi dont drink and ant I 1 think you would be a better roan man if you well vell I 1 like that sneered the cowboy pulling out and cocking his revolver will avill you dri drink n no 0 he with an ull oath no un answered the oung oung man milli firmly thin rising from 1 roin hia bis ireat teat ho said gerrye Geu rye dont you know 0 me tho tile cowboy trembled his hand f fell e 11 relas at h is bitle and he lie almost staggered gp us he lie stammered stain out 1 youre not coutin tsin 1 I lam am but bull I 1 never exi expected acted to see you here in this way vay then there waa was a scene such as ils I 1 have often read about bui but never saw the cowboy grasped hia hii cousins hand warmly and there followed a low long explanation between the relatives 1 they the y had been playmates and schoolmates tom hud a it manly christian cha character but george had laid sought g a life e of adae tull iuie all and I 1 the two had not met until t i this alino ot t batill Illee till j if wat clied elied them as they talked er and und the rude t s j with which george pleaded d im his cousins ta forgiveness touched mv my heart right character awes the twe vicious wea baud cowardly it wa wai 84 a now afdera while georga started up and in a loud tone shouted 11 ive drank my illy last drop of liquor and heres my pledge for it Val walking king to the door edoor lie emptied the contents of both revolvers into the tile dign saloon which hu hung ug up ul over abe entrance the lettera letters were riddled with the largo large balls therel if anyone asks what those marks nan tell em its a sign george lundys kundys a given up brinkl 1 I waa was so interested in this ibis romantic incident that a few months afterward I 1 inquired if georg e lundy had kept his p pledge ledge I 1 learned to my illy great pleasure plea tsuru that alnut he lie not only had but that he lie was in business s with ith his comin and living the life of a respectable citizen he lie had bad learned tho the lesson hat there is neither cleasure pleasure nor profit in a bad life an and the influence of meeting a brave true christian man mail had transformed him youths companion