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to avoid detection, the papoose was found.
He held at the time a little knife four
inches long in his hand, as if to avenge the
death of his parents. He was taken to
headquarters and the genial Major Burke
in the largeness of his heart took the little
fellow under his wing and has to this day
been his protector, his parent and his
friend.

Space will not allow a detailed account
of the most successful and popular American
show ever produced. It is always,
rain or shine, as Major Burke says, worth
all the money charged at the entrance gates.
New attractions have recently been added
to the entertainment, notably the Cossack
riders, headed by Prince Ivan Makharadze.
These people stand in the same relative position
to Europe and Russia that the western
cowboys and cattle men bear to the more

(IMAGE)
PRINCE IVAN MARKHA

settled portions of America. The feats
agility, riding, etc., of the two types of
classes are most realistically contested
here.