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-tre of refinement and comfort and is presided over in his absence by his wife and two interesting daughters. Mr. Cody devotes about nine months in the year to the road with his company and the remainder to his home and farm.

For his recent unexampled success in the dramatic line, Mr. Cody is largely indebted to Col. Prentiss Ingraham his dramatist and business manager. Col. Ingraham belongs to a family famous as writers of realistic fiction. His father, the late Rev. J. H. Ingraham, of Mississippi, the friend and contemporary of Cooper, Irving and Willis, was the author of some of the best known and most widely read works of the time. As the author of the biblical story, "The Prince of the House of David," Mr. Ingraham is probably best known. He also wrote "The Pillar of Fire," Lafitte," "Captain Kidd" and many stories of sea and land. Col. Prentiss Ingraham, the son, is scarcely less widely known as a writer, his name having so often appeared in the New York Ledger, and other popular weeklies, that it is familiar to nearly every child. His more popular works are "Merle," "Without Heart," "The Flying Yankee," "Fettered with Fate," and recent novelettes in the "Star Journal."

His life is filled with adventure, for although less than forty, he has been a participant in the late civil war between the States, the Cretan war with the Turks, and, in 1870, he commanded the steamer Hornet in an expedition to aid the pratriot cause of Cuba. Two years ago Col. Ingraham, bu invitation of the Grand Army of the Republic, read an original ode at the memorial decoration at Gettysburg. This is a distinction not often conferred upon one who served in the Confederacy, and was a flattering tribute to his talents.

Having spent of his time on the plains and in the mountains Colonel Ingraham is well qualified as a dramatist of the order adapted to the talents of the great scout and hunter. He is the author of Buffalo Bill's present successful drama "Knight of the Plains," and has just completed another new play for Mr. Cody entitled "Buffalo Bill at Bay, or The Pearl of the Prairie." The new drama in some of its scenes resembles the one the company is now playing, but is much stronger and presents the hero in new characters. The scenes are all from actual occurences.

In the new drama, Cody is represented as attempting to drive out the road agents and renegades which infest the borders imperiling the lives and property of settlers and travelers. His attitude toward these lawless men engenders the bitterest hatred against him, and plots are laid to convict him of collusion with the hostile tribes and to implicate him in crimes committed by them. His enemies are greatly aided by one Captain Hart Moline, who is in love with Cody's sister, Nellie Cody, "the pearl of the prarie." Buffalo Bill suspects Moline's villiany and opposes his union with the "Pearl." In the development of the plot and to give zest and variety to the piece, a negro servant of Buffalo Bill's, and an old quack doctor and pretended naturalist, are introduced. The Indians are also introduced with their war dances, besides other specialties of the company. Among the characters, are officers of the fort, scouts and guides, the daughter of the Post Trader, the real live Indians and the intelligent donkey Jerry.

Buffalo Bill is outlawed through the connivance of Captain Hart Moline, and in circumventing the designs of his enemies and vindicating himself he assumes various disguises, among them that of an old trapper, a captain of cavalry, an agent of the secret service, &c. He finally unravels the difficulties surrounding the situation and the drama ends in his triumphant vindication and the confusion of his accusers. The post trader's daughter is a strong character; exhibiting the result of a woman's ambition, hatred and love. The new drama will be put on the stage first in New York in about two weeks, and will be given for the rest of the season in what is known as the Eastern circuit. The characters are all written with special reference to the talents of the several members of Buffalo Bill's combination, which is one of the best on the road.

-tre of refinement and comfort and is presided over in his absence by his wife and two interesting daughters. Mr. Cody devotes about nine months in the year to the road with his company and the remainder to his home and farm.

For his recent unexampled success in the dramatic line, Mr. Cody is largely indebted to Col. Prentiss Ingraham his dramatist and business manager. Col. Ingraham belongs to a family famous as writers of realistic fiction. His father, the late Rev. J. H. Ingraham, of Mississippi, the friend and contemporary of Cooper, Irving and Willis, was the author of some of the best known and most widely read works of the time. As the author of the biblical story, "The Prince of the House of David," Mr. Ingraham is probably best known. He also wrote "The Pillar of Fire," Lafitte," "Captain Kidd" and many stories of sea and land. Col. Prentiss Ingraham, the son, is scarcely less widely known as a writer, his name having so often appeared in the New York Ledger, and other popular weeklies, that it is familiar to nearly every child. His more popular works are "Merle," "Without Heart," "The Flying Yankee," "Fettered with Fate," and recent novelettes in the "Star Journal."

His life is filled with adventure, for although less than forty, he has been a participant in the late civil war between the States, the Cretan war with the Turks, and, in 1870, he commanded the steamer Hornet in an expedition to aid the pratriot cause of Cuba. Two years ago Col. Ingraham, bu invitation of the Grand Army of the Republic, read an original ode at the memorial decoration at Gettysburg. This is a distinction not often conferred upon one who served in the Confederacy, and was a flattering tribute to his talents.

Having spent of his time on the plains and in the mountains Colonel Ingraham is well qualified as a dramatist of the order adapted to the talents of the great scout and hunter. He is the author of Buffalo Bill's present successful drama "Knight of the Plains," and has just completed another new play for Mr. Cody entitled "Buffalo Bill at Bay, or The Pearl of the Prairie." The new drama in some of its scenes resembles the one the company is now playing, but is much stronger and presents the hero in new characters. The scenes are all from actual occurences.

In the new drama, Cody is represented as attempting to drive out the road agents and renegades which infest the borders imperiling the lives and property of settlers and travelers. His attitude toward these lawless men engenders the bitterest hatred against him, and plots are laid to convict him of collusion with the hostile tribes and to implicate him in crimes committed by them. His enemies are greatly aided by one Captain Hart Moline, who is in love with Cody's sister, Nellie Cody, "the pearl of the prarie." Buffalo Bill suspects Moline's villiany and opposes his union with the "Pearl." In the development of the plot and to give zest and variety to the piece, a negro servant of Buffalo Bill's, and an old quack doctor and pretended naturalist, are introduced. The Indians are also introduced with their war dances, besides other specialties of the company. Among the characters, are officers of the fort, scouts and guides, the daughter of the Post Trader, the real live Indians and the intelligent donkey Jerry.

Buffalo Bill is outlawed through the connivance of Captain Hart Moline, and in circumventing the designs of his enemies and vindicating himself he assumes various disguises, among them that of an old trapper, a captain of cavalry, an agent of the secret service, &c. He finally unravels the difficulties surrounding the situation and the drama ends in his triumphant vindication and the confusion of his accusers. The post trader's daughter is a strong character; exhibiting the result of a woman's ambition, hatred and love. The new drama will be put on the stage first in New York in about two weeks, and will be given for the rest of the season in what is known as the Eastern circuit. The characters are all written with special reference to the talents of the several members of Buffalo Bill's combination, which is one of the best on the road.