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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 lightening 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, but that is his limit of sufferance.
To still another the very sight of a saddle is a signal of war. This one will start off hump-
ing his back like a mad cat, 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 back-
wards with such reckless fury as to sometimes beat out his brains. A fourth will kick, strike
or bite, or all this and more too, with a savage viciousness rendering him more dangerous to a
tyro than would be a hungry lion. And these are but sample illustrations among innumer-
able 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 tohers, 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 REPRODUCTION OF THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF SAN JUAN.
The decisive importance and far-reaching resultant effects of battles are not to be
determined by the numbers engaged. That of Lexington blew the smoldering brands of
rebellion into a flaming beacon of Freedom, whose light has illumined the darkness of the
world. That of San Juan Hill, by completing the cordon of steel drawn grimly around
doomed Santiago, gave the deathblow to Spanish dominion born of the discoveries of Colum-
bus. 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-eminently
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 controlling the requisite material. It was justly assumed that | 3832
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 lightening 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, but that is his limit of sufferance.
To still another the very sight of a saddle is a signal of war. This one will start off hump-
ing his back like a mad cat, 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 back-
wards with such reckless fury as to sometimes beat out his brains. A fourth will kick, strike
or bite, or all this and more too, with a savage viciousness rendering him more dangerous to a
tyro than would be a hungry lion. And these are but sample illustrations among innumer-
able 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 tohers, 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 REPRODUCTION OF THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF SAN JUAN.
The decisive importance and far-reaching resultant effects of battles are not to be
determined by the numbers engaged. That of Lexington blew the smoldering brands of
rebellion into a flaming beacon of Freedom, whose light has illumined the darkness of the
world. That of San Juan Hill, by completing the cordon of steel drawn grimly around
doomed Santiago, gave the deathblow to Spanish dominion born of the discoveries of Colum-
bus. 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-eminently
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 controlling the requisite material. It was justly assumed that |
