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The great interest which attaches to the whole show is that it enables the audience to take sides on the question of which people ride the best and have the best saddles. The whole thing is put in such tangible shape as to be a regular challenge to debate to lookers on. I, for one, formed my opinion, and have sacrificed two or three friends on the altar of my convictions. There is also a man in a pink coat who rides a hunting seat in competition with a yellow savage on a clear horse, and if our Englishman, is not wedded to his ideals, he must receive a very bad shock in beholding he is a cowboy.

Next year the whole outfit is coming over to the World's Fair with the rest of Europe, and they are going to bring specimens of all continental cavalry. The Sioux will talk German, the cowboys already have an English accent, and the "guachos" will be dressed in good English form.

The Wild West show is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator and, with its aggregate of wonders from the out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the Derby hat and the starched linen--those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and mortal cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity--where the great crime is to be individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion. FREDERIC REMINGTON.

MILITARY REPRESENTATIVES.

The Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, in collecting various groups for their Congress of Rough Riders of the World, have arranged for recognized representative soldiers of the various nations of Europe, and to this end have to-day assembled in the arena a detachment of the Fifth Imperial Garde-Cuirassiers of His Majesty William II., German Emperor. England's army will be represented by a group of Fifth Lancers (Royal Irish), and France presents a detachment of the First Garde-Dragoons. They will present the various evolutions and exercises of their armies, and in due course will introduce on horseback tentpegging, lemon-cutting, Turk's-head and sabre and lance exercises.

The interest in this friendly meeting of representative cavalrymen will be added to by the presence of a detachment of our own National Soldiers (from the celebrated Seventh United States Cavalry, from Fort Riley, Custer's famous "Old Guard"), who will act in consonance with the Director's idea to present an amicable study of the various military schools. These veterans of the plains will enable our public to more fitly comprehend the training and ability of the little American Army--that is the nucleus of the cohorts that would assemble in time of danger to the Republic--practically an army in which three-fourths of the privates would be able to do honor to shoulder-straps in an emergency. The Arabs are the genuine Bedouin Soldiers of the Desert, that song, story and history have for ages celebrated, and their skill the writer will leave to the judgment of the auditor, as space prevents justice to this feature of our exhibition.

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CAVALRY OF ALL NATIONS, WITH "BUFFALO BILL" LEADING THEM.

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The great interest which attaches to the whole show is that it enables the audience to take sides on the question of which people ride the best and have the best saddles. The whole thing is put in such tangible shape as to be a regular challenge to debate to lookers on. I, for one, formed my opinion, and have sacrificed two or three friends on the altar of my convictions. There is also a man in a pink coat who rides a hunting seat in competition with a yellow savage on a clear horse, and if our Englishman, is not wedded to his ideals, he must receive a very bad shock in beholding he is a cowboy.

Next year the whole outfit is coming over to the World's Fair with the rest of Europe, and they are going to bring specimens of all continental cavalry. The Sioux will talk German, the cowboys already have an English accent, and the "guachos" will be dressed in good English form.

The Wild West show is an evolution of a great idea. It is a great educator and, with its aggregate of wonders from the out-of-the-way places, it will represent a poetical and harmless protest against the Derby hat and the starched linen--those horrible badges of the slavery of our modern social system, when men are physical lay figures, and mental and mortal cog-wheels and wastes of uniformity--where the great crime is to be individual, and the unpardonable sin is to be out of the fashion. FREDERIC REMINGTON.

MILITARY REPRESENTATIVES.

The Messrs. Cody and Salsbury, in collecting various groups for their Congress of Rough Riders of the World, have arranged for recognized representative soldiers of the various nations of Europe, and to this end have to-day assembled in the arena a detachment of the Fifth Imperial Garde-Cuirassiers of His Majesty William II., German Emperor. England's army will be represented by a group of Fifth Lancers (Royal Irish), and France presents a detachment of the First Garde-Dragoons. They will present the various evolutions and exercises of their armies, and in due course will introduce on horseback tentpegging, lemon-cutting, Turk's-head and sabre and lance exercises.

The interest in this friendly meeting of representative cavalrymen will be added to by the presence of a detachment of our own National Soldiers (from the celebrated Seventh United States Cavalry, from Fort Riley, Custer's famous "Old Guard"), who will act in consonance with the Director's idea to present an amicable study of the various military schools. These veterans of the plains will enable our public to more fitly comprehend the training and ability of the little American Army--that is the nucleus of the cohorts that would assemble in time of danger to the Republic--practically an army in which three-fourths of the privates would be able to do honor to shoulder-straps in an emergency. The Arabs are the genuine Bedouin Soldiers of the Desert, that song, story and history have for ages celebrated, and their skill the writer will leave to the judgment of the auditor, as space prevents justice to this feature of our exhibition.

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CAVALRY OF ALL NATIONS, WITH "BUFFALO BILL" LEADING THEM.