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animal does not always win the spurs. In the performances of the bucking broncos and their cowboy riders it will be noticed that, among all the quadrupedal concentrations of chain lightning no two resort to the same tactics of defense. One will permit himself to be saddled and mounted before letting out the pent-up deviltry with which his hide is stuffed. Another will quietly submit to being saddled, bur that is his limit of sufferance. to still another the very sight of a saddle is a signal fo war. This one will start off humping his back like a madcat, and landing stiffly on all fours with the force of a pile-driver. That one will lie down and stubbornly refuse to budge. Still another will rear and fall backwards with such reckless fury as to sometimes beat on to his brains. A fourth will kick, strike or bite, or all this and more too, with a sasvage viciousness rendering him more dangerous to a tyro than would be a hungry lion. And these are but sample illustrations among innumberable insane efforts to escape the ignominy of bearing burdens. In some instances it will be noted that the bucker seems intent upon injuring his rider only; in others, that he aims to disable himself as well, and, again, that he is frantically bent upon committing suicide. He is a great natural actor in an equine and equestrian specialty, so full of fiery and furious vim that it is well worth seeing a score of times, and never loses intense interest.

RESPLENDENT REALISM OF GLORIOUS WAR.
STUPENDOUS SPECTACULAR REPRODCUTION OF THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF SAN JUAN

The decisive importance and far-reaching effects of battles not to be determined into a flaming beacon of Freedom, whose light has illumined the darkness of the world. That of San Juan Hill, by completing cordon of steel drawn grimly around doomed Santiago, gave the deathblow to Spanish dominion born of the discoveries of Columbus. In the latter engagement the regiment whose popular and famous title was borrowed from Colonel Cody's use and application of the term "Rough Riders," which was mainly composed of the physical qualities represented so splendidly in Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and which, moreover, included many volunteers from Colonel Cody's camp, so pre-eminetly distinguished itself as to naturally suggest the idea of representing the terrific contest with the Spanish forces in the only arena spacious enough for such a production, and under the management of the only men controling the requisite material. It was justly assumed that