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ably, being rested and feted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands, and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cow-boy when once again careering o'er the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts back to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of teh Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace-Lorraine.

In Alsace-Lorraine ! whose anomalous position menaces the peace, not only of the two countries interested, but of the civilized world; whose situation makes it intensely - even sadly - interesting, as the theatre of that future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind mechanisms of destruction. The lurid-garbed Angel of Devastation hovers, careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieing exultingly at the white-robed Angel of Peace, as the latter gloomify wanders - payerful, tearful - hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly-created gods : Equity, Justice, Reason!

What a field for the vaunted champions of humanity, the leaders of civilization ! What a neighborhood wherein to sow the seeds of "peace on earth and good will to all men." What a crucible for the universal panacea - Arbitration ! What a test of the efficacy of prayer in damming up the conflicting torrents of Ambition, Cupidity, Passion, and Revenge, which threaten and luxury be eclipsed by eternal notoriety as the Valley of Death !

Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director partner, Mr. NATE SASBURY (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future), COL. CODY, the Indians, and your humble servant departed to America, arriving safely ; and after refuting satisfactorily, by the Indians themselves, the base salndors that emanted in the imagination of notoriety-seeking busybodies, proceeded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota. The splendid action of the traveled Indians, and teh record of The Wild West's representatives on the spot, in the mutual interests of an excusably excited people, and of the Governmental authority, as well as of the peaceful solution of a serious situation - has been a matter of journalistic comment so recently as to need no reference here.

After a short, bloody, and mixed campaign, peace was restored, the Government authority was secured, and a selected band of Indians - composed equally of the "active friendly," headed by Chiefs "Long Wolf," No Neck," "Yankton," "Charley," "Black Heart," and the "band of hostages" held by the military under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, at Fort Sheridan, and headed by the redoubtable "Short Bull," "Kicking Bear," "Lone Bull," "Scatter," and "Revenge" - were given special permission to come with "BUFFALO BILL" for a short European tour, and left Philadelphia in teh chartered Red Star Steamer, Switzerland. The significance of this fact should still forever the forked tongue of the human serpents, who without rhyme, truth, or reason, have tried to stain a fair record - which has been justly earned, and by its very prominence, perhaps, difficult to maintain.

Coming direct from the snow-caped hills and blood-stained valleys of teh Mawaise Terre of last winter's central point of interest, it cannot be denied that an added cahpter to Indian history, and the Wild West's peculiar province of truthfully exhibiting the same, is rendered more valuable to the student of primitive man, and to the ethnologists' acquaintance with the strange people whose grand and once happy empire (plethoric in all its inhabitants needed) has been (rightfully or wrongfully) brought thoroughly and efficiently under the control of our civilization, or (possibly more candidly confessed) under the Anglo-Saxon's commercial necessities. It occurs to the writer that our boasted civilization has a wonderful adaptability to the good soils, the productive portions and the rich mineral lands of the earth, while making snail-like pace and intermittent efforts among the frigid haunts of teh Esquimaux, the tangled swamps of Africa, and the bleak and dreary rocks of Patagonia.

A sentimental view is thus inspired, when long personal association has brought the better qualities of the Indian to one's notice, assisting somewhat to dispel the prejudices engendered by years of savage brutal wars (conducted with a ferocious vindictiveness foreign to our methods). The savageness of Indian warfare, born in the victim, and probably instensified by the instinctive knowledge of a despairing weakness, renders desperate the fiery spirit of expiring resistance, which latter (in another cause) might be held up for courage and tenacity as bright as that recorded in the pages dedicated to the heros of Thermopylae.

ably, being rested and feted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands, and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cow-boy when once again careering o'er the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts back to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of teh Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace-Lorraine.

In Alsace-Lorraine ! whose anomalous position menaces the peace, not only of the two countries interested, but of the civilized world; whose situation makes it intensely - even sadly - interesting, as the theatre of that future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind mechanisms of destruction. The lurid-garbed Angel of Devastation hovers, careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieing exultingly at the white-robed Angel of Peace, as the latter gloomify wanders - payerful, tearful - hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly-created gods : Equity, Justice, Reason!

What a field for the vaunted champions of humanity, the leaders of civilization ! What a neighborhood wherein to sow the seeds of "peace on earth and good will to all men." What a crucible for the universal panacea - Arbitration ! What a test of the efficacy of prayer in damming up the conflicting torrents of Ambition, Cupidity, Passion, and Revenge, which threaten and luxury be eclipsed by eternal notoriety as the Valley of Death !

Leaving the temporary colony under the charge of his director partner, Mr. NATE SASBURY (whose energy found occupation in attending to the details of the future), COL. CODY, the Indians, and your humble servant departed to America, arriving safely ; and after refuting satisfactorily, by the Indians themselves, the base salndors that emanted in the imagination of notoriety-seeking busybodies, proceeded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota. The splendid action of the traveled Indians, and teh record of The Wild West's representatives on the spot, in the mutual interests of an excusably excited people, and of the Governmental authority, as well as of the peaceful solution of a serious situation - has been a matter of journalistic comment so recently as to need no reference here.

After a short, bloody, and mixed campaign, peace was restored, the Government authority was secured, and a selected band of Indians - composed equally of the "active friendly," headed by Chiefs "Long Wolf," No Neck," "Yankton," "Charley," "Black Heart," and the "band of hostages" held by the military under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, at Fort Sheridan, and headed by the redoubtable "Short Bull," "Kicking Bear," "Lone Bull," "Scatter," and "Revenge" - were given special permission to come with "BUFFALO BILL" for a short European tour, and left Philadelphia in teh chartered Red Star Steamer, Switzerland. The significance of this fact should still forever the forked tongue of the human serpents, who without rhyme, truth, or reason, have tried to stain a fair record - which has been justly earned, and by its very prominence, perhaps, difficult to maintain.

Coming direct from the snow-caped hills and blood-stained valleys of teh Mawaise Terre of last winter's central point of interest, it cannot be denied that an added cahpter to Indian history, and the Wild West's peculiar province of truthfully exhibiting the same, is rendered more valuable to the student of primitive man, and to the ethnologists' acquaintance with the strange people whose grand and once happy empire (plethoric in all its inhabitants needed) has been (rightfully or wrongfully) brought thoroughly and efficiently under the control of our civilization, or (possibly more candidly confessed) under the Anglo-Saxon's commercial necessities. It occurs to the writer that our boasted civilization has a wonderful adaptability to the good soils, the productive portions and the rich mineral lands of the earth, while making snail-like pace and intermittent efforts among the frigid haunts of teh Esquimaux, the tangled swamps of Africa, and the bleak and dreary rocks of Patagonia.

A sentimental view is thus inspired, when long personal association has brought the better qualities of the Indian to one's notice, assisting somewhat to dispel the prejudices engendered by years of savage brutal wars (conducted with a ferocious vindictiveness foreign to our methods). The savageness of Indian warfare, born in the victim, and probably instensified by the instinctive knowledge of a despairing weakness, renders desperate the fiery spirit of expiring resistance, which latter (in another cause) might be held up for courage and tenacity as bright as that recorded in the pages dedicated to the heros of Thermopylae.