The age-herald., 1901-10-13
TEACHINGS IN
 THE ART IF WAR One Way to Show What We Have in Fighting Line SCHOOL OF HORSEMANSHlP Company of Roers One of the New Features os Colonel cody's Ex-
 hbition--Llfe Saving
 Service.
SCHOOL OF HORSEMANSHlP

Little did the people think when Col. Cody's Wild West first appeared years ago that its teachings in the art of war would be soon appreciated as of more than passing value a reflection of only what has been.
 The stirring events of the past three years have shown that virility of martial manhood in its highest state of trained perfection is necessity to the safety of the State, and that it plays winning hand in the crisis of sudden and unex- pected emergency. The importance of this great object lesson has been demon strated in the Spanish-Cuban war, and Is being daily exemplifed in the South Afri- can contest between mighty empire and mobile aggregation of native horsemen-
 In the Philippines also, America feels proud of the superiority of her regular and volunteer cavalrymen. The necessity of the horse and his expert rider has grown in importance in modern warfare The strategy of the Indian and Western frontiersman, the scout and trapper, enter largely into the generaiship that opposes modern arms in difficult typographical locality. Familiarity of the American with the horse can be traced back to the necessity of the frontier people ever since their migration from the coast to our great interior.
 School of Horsemanshlp.
 Col Cody's. exhibition of horsemanship has been a great school. as one of its most noted features has been the "Ameri- can Cowboy who, from the necessity of breaking wild horses, has won the laurel wreath of acknowledged supremacy as rider. Many of the untraveled citizens have doubted the genuineness of the bucking broncho, many ignorantiy think ing that he is a trained exhibition animal. Such, however, is not the case. as Is testi- fled by the fact that in the last season sixteen expert riders have been sent to the hospital This year Colonel Cody has forty new range horses, especially captured during the winter and spring for the purpose of exhibition.
 When Columbus discovered America there were no horses on the North and South American continents. These horses are the descendants of the Spanish horses brought by Cortes to Mexico, escaping and running wild for nearly four hundred years They acquired such habits of self defense that had any one of them been the Wild Horse of Tartary' that Ma zeppa was tied to, the American hors- would have finished the story right there by the death of Mazeppa.
 A Company of Boers.
 Illustrations of current history being one of the dominant purposes of the Wild West, the South African war naturally affords some of the most striking feat ures of this years exhibition. At large expense. and with not little difficulty. detachment of unqueetionable genuine Boer soldiers invalided men who ali have honorable records of service in the field, have been brought from South Africa es- pecially for this exhibition. Commandant Won der Loo, their leader served with General Cronje, '"The Lion of the Trans vaal," from the commencement of the war up to Cronje's capture only making his escape through the British lines the night before that evnt to carry dispatches to Gen. Botha, with whom he thereafter served until incapacitated by wounda
 In the camp the Boers have met Pla- toons of those gallant Canadian soldiers the Strathcona Horse and Canadian Mounted Rinemen, and also a little band of the heroic defenders of Mafeking. Col Baden Powelrs men. and l. is gratifying to record that their meeting and associA- ton have been amicable, frank. hearty and even genial, as becomes men appre- ciative of each others soidieriy qualities. They talk over events of the war, find they have been opposed in memorable fights. and laugh over their perils and mishaps with as much thorough com raderie as if they all had been under one flag. The Canadians are excellent types not at all different from the men of the same rugged, adventurous class raised on our side of the border. in the west and northwest.
 Life Saving Service. An exceedingly interesting and very re- markable new feature introduced this sea- son for the first time and never before made part of a public entertainment anywhere is the exhibit of the United States Life Saving Service. A crew of picked men who have been in the service for years on the storm-swept Atlantic beaches at Absecom, Atlantic, City Mon- mouth, Sandy Hook, and other sections, have been engaged and provided with com plete modern life-saving outfit, the use of which they will illustrate by prac- tical work at each performance in the Wild est Arena.
 The Battle of Tien-Tsin' is the mili- tary spectacle. replacing this season the Battle of San Juan" which has been such an effective feature during the last two seasons. The exhibition will be here