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military-commercial twin cities combined to render our visit to the South of England profitable and enjoyable. Brighton with its beauty in repose and its terror in a cyclone will long be remembered as our last stop before going to Glasgow (Scotland), where the winter was spent in a specially arranged building. Here we were made acquainted with th many sturdy virtues of the Scot, and here 6,000 orphan children, impromptu, sang, "Yankee Doodle" on appearance of the starry flag. Glasgow will ever be remembered for the many piblic and social courtesies extended.

A return to the scene of our London triumphs brought a renewal of all that was pleasant and agreeable in our former experience, and brought our visit to the Old World to a close with the bright compliment under the circumstances (the Court in morning for Prince Albert Victor) of a Royal request to exhibit before her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England and Empress of India, at Windsor Castle; who was thust the first and only potentate on earth to view, as yet, the Wild West in conjunction with the Rough Riders of the World.

Leaving England with genuine expressions of regret from thousnads who witnessed our departure, we boarded at Tillbury Docks in London the good American liner, Mohawk, traversing the North Sea, the English Channel and the broad Atlantic. Landing at Jersey City, the usual scenes attendant occurred, with nothing to mar the occasion, if I may except one instance in our little circle, which to a certain extent had its tragic side. It was only a white horse, but a well-known horse; a horse whose picture the public will remember in conjunction with Colonel Cody's, placarded on all walls and exhibited in all windows; a horse who possibly, with his rider, appeared in more cities and before more people of distinction, rank, wealth and character, then ever did steed before. The fact that he was the companion of Colonel Cody's last war horse, "Charley," who died and was buried at sea upon our first return voyage, and that, singular to relate, without any premonitory symptoms of sickness and never looking better in his life, "Billy" walked off the gang-plank, neighed as his hoofs struck his native shore, and dropped dead—is food for thought that each one may assimilate. However small it may seem, this pathetic incident will always be remembered by the returning voyagers, as "Billy" and "Charley" were favorite members of the "Old Guard."

The writer followed the sun on its westward course with his Red Brother, and it would take a chapter to describe the scenes at the grand reception at the foothills of the Rockies upon the return to the Ogallallas of the various bands—among them many of the Ghost Dance prisoners, now changed by experience—where the camp fires and dances of their friends showed the savage nature to possess the same warm sentiment towards loved ones as that which animates more civilized men.

THE powerful, practical, patriotic incluence of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World as a mighty and masterly National Object Teacher was strikingly manifested in the suggestion, formation, and even the popular naming of the most fearless and famous single military organization in all martial annals—Teddy Roosevelt's Regiment of Rough Riders.

"LITTLE EMMA,"
INDIAN GIRL, DAUGHTER OF THE OGALLALLA CHIEF, "LONE WOLF."

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military-commercial twin cities combined to render our visit to the South of England profitable and enjoyable. Brighton with its beauty in repose and its terror in a cyclone will long be remembered as our last stop before going to Glasgow (Scotland), where the winter was spent in a specially arranged building. Here we were made acquainted with th many sturdy virtues of the Scot, and here 6,000 orphan children, impromptu, sang, "Yankee Doodle" on appearance of the starry flag. Glasgow will ever be remembered for the many piblic and social courtesies extended.

A return to the scene of our London triumphs brought a renewal of all that was pleasant and agreeable in our former experience, and brought our visit to the Old World to a close with the bright compliment under the circumstances (the Court in morning for Prince Albert Victor) of a Royal request to exhibit before her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen of England and Empress of India, at Windsor Castle; who was thust the first and only potentate on earth to view, as yet, the Wild West in conjunction with the Rough Riders of the World.

Leaving England with genuine expressions of regret from thousnads who witnessed our departure, we boarded at Tillbury Docks in London the good American liner, Mohawk, traversing the North Sea, the English Channel and the broad Atlantic. Landing at Jersey City, the usual scenes attendant occurred, with nothing to mar the occasion, if I may except one instance in our little circle, which to a certain extent had its tragic side. It was only a white horse, but a well-known horse; a horse whose picture the public will remember in conjunction with Colonel Cody's, placarded on all walls and exhibited in all windows; a horse who possibly, with his rider, appeared in more cities and before more people of distinction, rank, wealth and character, then ever did steed before. The fact that he was the companion of Colonel Cody's last war horse, "Charley," who died and was buried at sea upon our first return voyage, and that, singular to relate, without any premonitory symptoms of sickness and never looking better in his life, "Billy" walked off the gang-plank, neighed as his hoofs struck his native shore, and dropped dead—is food for thought that each one may assimilate. However small it may seem, this pathetic incident will always be remembered by the returning voyagers, as "Billy" and "Charley" were favorite members of the "Old Guard."

The writer followed the sun on its westward course with his Red Brother, and it would take a chapter to describe the scenes at the grand reception at the foothills of the Rockies upon the return to the Ogallallas of the various bands—among them many of the Ghost Dance prisoners, now changed by experience—where the camp fires and dances of their friends showed the savage nature to possess the same warm sentiment towards loved ones as that which animates more civilized men.

THE powerful, practical, patriotic incluence of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World as a mighty and masterly National Object Teacher was strikingly manifested in the suggestion, formation, and even the popular naming of the most fearless and famous single military organization in all martial annals—Teddy Roosevelt's Regiment of Rough Riders.

"LITTLE EMMA,"
INDIAN GIRL, DAUGHTER OF THE OGALLALLA CHIEF, "LONE WOLF."