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careering about, chased by the hunter and the scout, is a transference from the Wild West which, as we now learn, should be even more interesting to the naturalist than it is to either the artistic or the historical student. We leave out of view for the moment the ordinary spectator who goes only to be amused or entertained, independently of any instruction that may be afforded. These scenes, moreover, are all the more interesting to the ethnological student because of the association with them of the red men who have been indigenous to the prairies and their surroundings. The occupation of Uncas, like Othello's, is gone; palatial buildings and busy streets have succeeded to the wingwam and the happy hunting grounds, and the successor of Fenimore Cooper may find his representative Indians, not where the hunting knife and tomahawk are needed, but in the arena of mimic battle and adventure. The Indian is going out with the buffalo; mayhap we shall ere long see the last of his descendants, with the contemplative gaze of Macaulay's New Zealander, sitting before the group in the Smithsonian Museum, looking upon the last representatives of the extinct buffalo, fixed in its prairie-like surroundings. The considerations of facts which force themselves upon the imagination, distinctly enhance the interest of those "pictures" from the Wild West, presented with such force and realism by the ruling genius, who, anent the purport of these reflections, is so appropriately named "BUFFALO BILL." In the course of a very short time these pictures will permanently named English soil, as they are to be produced in America soon, and it may be expected that those in arrears in information respecting them, and who appreciate as they deserve to be appreciated, their instructive features, will give them a concentrated attention ere it is too late.

EXPLICIT DENIAL OF THE VARIOUS CHARGES MADE AGAINST "BUFFALO BILL.,"

[By the Commerical Cable to the Herald.]

HERALD BUREAU, NO. 49, AVENUE DE L'OPERA, PARIS, JULY 24, 1890

The Herald's European edition publishes to-day the following:

BERLIN, July 24, 1890.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:---The statements and general inference in the Herald about starvation and cruelty in the Wild West camp are ridiculously untruthful, and unjust to CODY and SLASBURY. I appeal to your sense of justice to fully deny the same.

The Wild West is under the public eye daily, and in all the countries and cities visited, under rigid police and health inspection. Our cuisine is the same as in New York, Paris and London, and has challenged the admiration and astonishment of the citizens of every place visited for its quality and quantity. Our contrasts and beef bills will bear witness as well as the United States Counsels and local officials, and thousands of others who have daily visited our camp.

Our pride as well as our interest, lies in the good food and good health of our people. As regards the steerage passage, the steamships don't want to give cabin passage to Indians. Many a good white man has gone across the ocean in the steerage. Would that every white man in the world was as well fed, clothed and looked after as our red tourists of "BUFFALO BILL'S" Wild West.

(signed) JOHN M. BURKE.

NEW YORK HERALD BERLIN, July 24.

We take great pleasure in stating that we visited the "BUFFALO BILL" Wild West Show in Berlin, and have seen the Indians both in their tents and during the performance.

They are certainly the best looking and apparently the best fed Indians we have ever seen.
(Signed) W. H. Edwards, Consul General.
(Signed) CHAS. H. JOHNSON, U.S. Consul at Hamburg.
(Signed) C. COLEMAN, Sct. of Leg., Berlin.

VALUE OF AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL DEMONSTRATED.

Telegram to Paris Edition from N. Y. Herald, July 25.

The friends of "BUFFALO BILL" are delighted with the authoritative denial of the charge of cruelty to his Indians, cabled to the Herald this morning. It shows the value of an international paper that stores wilder than the Wild West itself can be so promptly sat upon and refuted.

His accusers have not yet produced that statement bearing out his charges, and it looks now as if their good nature and charity had been buncoed by the wily White Horse.

CONSHOHOCKEN, PA., July 30, 1888. MESSRS. CODY & SALSBURY,---DEAR SIRS: Having had every opportunity for five consecutive days and nights to inspect the discipline, and to study the effect of the general influence of your exhibition upon the Indians with you, I wish, by this note, to express my gratification with all. I have seen the Indians learning promptness, regularity,