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Buffalo Bill and his combination played to a packed house Friday evening. The play was entitled "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge." It is of the blood and thunder sensational character and is not worthy of any favorable mention. Why people hunger for this class of amusement is difficult to explain. The hundreds of young boys who were present had better been at home in bed than to be allowed to witness such trash filling their minds with dreams of frontier life. Seeing such plays and reading the sensational ten cent novels is what has made many a boy leave his home on a tramp, very often turning up as a criminal Young Orr and Mann, the boys executed here about sixteen months ago, attributed their crime to this class of sensational education. The only good feature of the night's show was "Jerry," the trick dunkey, but as he would fail to appreciate a good notice we forbear.

Buffalo Bill and his combination played to a packed house Friday evening. The play was entitled "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge." It is of the blood and thunder sensational character and is not worthy of any favorable mention. Why people hunger for this class of amusement is difficult to explain. The hundreds of young boys who were present had better been at home in bed than to be allowed to witness such trash filling their minds with dreams of frontier life. Seeing such plays and reading the sensational ten cent novels is what has made many a boy leave his home on a tramp, very often turning up as a criminal Young Orr and Mann, the boys executed here about sixteen months ago, attributed their crime to this class of sensational education. The only good feature of the night's show was "Jerry," the trick dunkey, but as he would fail to appreciate a good notice we forbear.