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THE CITIZEN, SATUI

you know, and will not down. This is a poor consolation enough, but it is consolation.

BUFFALO BILL'S EQUINE EXHIBIT.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Exhibition, adjoining the World's Fair grounds, is the paradise of those who wish to behold the poetry of rough riding. There is also some smooth riding, but the rougher kind sways the mighty multitudes that muster in the huge arena ruled by the picturesque frontiersman, who has succeeded in preserving for the eyes of the rising generation stirring realisms that cannot exist within the natural years of strong men now living. Colonel Cody is entitled to credit--even gratitude--for this, because, although his exhibition is a thing of profit, no man, woman or child who visits it can deny that the heart-moving spectacle is worth ten times the amount paid for the privilege of beholding it.

The scene, on ordinary days, at the Wild West Coliseum is inspiring enough, but, on extraordinary days, when there is a national holiday, when the sun shines fair, and the breezes blow healthfully, the vast array of humanity that awaits the opening of the exercises, carries the mind back to the days of pagan Rome, when the soil of the arena drank plentifully of the blood of man and brute, "in one red burial blent."

Fortunately there is no vital stream to redden the earth of Buffalo Bill's stamping ground because only friendly rivalry dominates his territory, and "the neighing steed, and flashing blade, and bugle's stirring blast" mean only the semblance of glorious war, although they carry with them all its splendid associations without its gory horrors.

THE CITIZEN, SATUI

you know, and will not down. This is a poor consolation enough, but it is consolation.

BUFFALO BILL'S EQUINE EXHIBIT.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Exhibition, adjoining the World's Fair grounds, is the paradise of those who wish to behold the poetry of rough riding. There is also some smooth riding, but the rougher kind sways the mighty multitudes that muster in the huge arena ruled by the picturesque frontiersman, who has succeeded in preserving for the eyes of the rising generation stirring realisms that cannot exist within the natural years of strong men now living. Colonel Cody is entitled to credit--even gratitude--for this, because, although his exhibition is a thing of profit, no man, woman or child who visits it can deny that the heart-moving spectacle is worth ten times the amount paid for the privilege of beholding it.