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up no end of a row down the street. It was
not yet 9 o'clock, but a large number of
visitors were already out. A Columbian
guard who ls stationed in front of the Moorish
palace heard a series of screams and
shouts coming from the other side of the
Ferris wheel and saw the people frantically
running in all directions.

Collision With a Guard.

He started for the seat of trouble, but
had not proceeded far when Miss Hamilton,
under full sail, came suddenly upon him.
The guard held out his hands much after the
fashion of men who seek to stop runaway
horses, but Miss Hamilton, swerving neither
to the right or the left, smashed into the
blue coat and Colonel Rice's man bit the dust.
An Algerian named Sahad Rassin leaped
into the street and caught Miss Hamilton
about the neck, which insult was promptly
avenged by a swift kick which laid out the
dusky son of the desest. At the entrance
of the German village the enraged Miss
Hamilton suddenly turned and swept
through the passage. Frank P. Johnson, of
Brockport, N. Y., and Whitney J. Hill of
Peabody, Kan., had just purchased tickets
and had stepped into the entrance when the
angry bride rashed it. Miss Hamilton did
not stop, but rushed full tilt against the
two visitors. Mr. Johnson, by great good
luck, avoided a vicious blow from the big
bird's foot, but Mr. Hill received
a wallop he will remenber to his
dying day. It was a great sight
to see the waiters and waitresses leaping
over chairs and tables to escape the big
white biped. Around the village she went,
and, not discovering the object of her search,
tore out the gate and started westward.
Her rush down the street was fully as disastrous
as her previous trip. Three men
were knocked down, one of them being an
inoffensive German who plays in Conductor
Ziehrer's band. By this time Colonel Cody's
men were in the street, and just as Miss
Hamilton reached the entrance of "Old
Vienna" the horsemen dashed upon her.
There was a hissing noise in the air and a
streak of lightning that shot from the elbow
of Frank Hammet, and Miss Hamilton
found a noose about her right leg. She managed
to struggle far enough into the interior
to knock over a jewelry case before
she succumbed to captivity. It required the
combined strength of both of Colonel Cody's
men to get her back home.

Chase After Mr. Blaine.

The hunt was then taken up for Mr.
Blaine. Inquiry developed the fact that he
had been seen running toward Washington
Park an hour before. The two cowboys
galloped over to the big playground, and
after a half hour's search discovered the
truant Mr. Blaine lying contentedly beneath
a flowering bush. The bird discovered
his pursuers as quickly as he himself
was discovered. He arose to his feet,
took a long look at the horsemen and then
shot across the open prairie like the wind.
Esquival and Hammet entered into the
sport with quite as much zest as did Mr.
Blaine. They circled about the field again
and again, each time drawing nearer and
nearer to the runaway. It was t00 late when
Mr. Blaine realized the meaning of the queer
riding of his would-be captors. He was
forced to make a straight run for it and the
two horsemen bore down upon him from opposite
directions and were within thirty
feet of him when their lariats went whizzing
through the sunshine. Esquival's
noose caught the left leg of the bird and
Hammet's cut over its head and encircled
its neck. Then Mr. Blaine was returned to
his home in disgrace. The chase was witnessed
by hundreds of highly excited people.
What explanations Mr. Blaine made to his
newly wedded spouse will never be known,
but at dark last night the bride was pouting,
and the inference is that the "old man" had
not "squared" matters.