Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Cowboys of the Asphalt. [ARTICLE]

Cowboys of the Asphalt.

The cowboy and other dbshing plains riders lean far over in their saddlesand pick up, as they go dashing past, articlea that they have dropped upon the ground. So does the dashing bicycle rider of the city. Not on the boulevard* perhaps, where the crowds would scarcely permit, but on some quiet, aspbalt-paved block. There you may see a skillful and daring rider cast his cap upon the ground, and then you may see him as he sweeps past it on his wheel bend over and pick it up without pausing in his flight. This before a small but appreciative audience of friends and neighbors sitting on the doorsteps and such passers-by as may happen that way.—N. Y. Sun.