The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-03
GREAT WILD WEST SHOW
 SEEN IN KANSAS CITY

of the combined worlds best. And now they must hurry, for Pawnee Bill is inn patiently waiting on his caparsoned charger for the daily street parade. Som- brerors are adjusted. Winter caps cover ed with muslin are Cossack headgear. Colored chalk, lamp black backing, and even house paint, that long stays on make the hideous Indian, the fierce Arab, and the sinuous Jap Hemp rope hair, died in ink, blue, black and red and green makes deceptive lil<enesses of these long haired rough riders; mothers or sister, lowered kmona makes the indolent, pie turesque Arab. A grocer's horse mys- teriously loses a handful of hair from his mane or tail and Alkah Ike's and Mustang Charley's blooded broomstick sports a real flowing mane, or Pawnee Bill wears an omnous black moustache and goatee.
 And now the grand pageant starts. Pawnee Bill and the van is frothng at the mouth and furnishing various other little demonstrations of a horse nature that are physically impossible for the broomstick to execute. Thus the pageant parades about the block, with an admir- ing, noisy rabble In it's wake At the grounds this rabble Is stopped at the opening of wire fence and fierce, paint besmeared greaser, with an omnous looking scowl, holds 1t up for ten pins apiece, and no crooked pins go. The cruel guardian of the exchequer cannot be bribed by those old stalls of You know me, Willie" and I'm going to get up show, Will and then I'll do you right" Oh, no. Pawnee Bills agents are not to be scrupled with, and besides the show needs the money.
 After the performance is held several minutes while some of the audience go home and raid the pin cushion, the show begins Every act Is a tragedy, in which there is real red ink blood drawn. Steers are roped and bare skins cruelty burned by the ruthless irons. Indians are wound ed to death and come to life again and are run into the forest of weeds. The flowing locks of the Asiatic warrior fall an easy prey to the scalp-hunting red skin.
 "Then thousand red devils!' cries Paw nee Bill he fires his wooden gun point blank into the face of a Pawnee. Come on men, we'll fight until the last man diesl'' he yells. Never shall it be said that Pawnee Bill ran from Pawnee slSunk!' And though he Is shot and stab bed and scalped of his whislers and hair, he still wages battle and deals death to a myriad foes. At last, when the Indians get tired of killing such a monster of man, they scatter helter- skelter before his onslaught. And thus does Pawnee Bill prove his prowess five or six times day
 Then comes buffalo hunts, deer stalk ing, bronco busting contests, and Pawnee Bill is ever victorious.
 The grand finale is a battle royal be- tween the soldiers of the world. in which each soldier represents a regiment and leader combined. The fight Is indiscrim-
 nate sometimes favoring a western des- perado band But the end is inevitable and forordained for when Mexico has succumbed to a bloody nose Russia to black eye and Japan is nursing a bruised shin, and the field is deserted the din of battle suppressed, one figure stands alone. supreme, unconquered, brave and undaunted.
 It is Pawnee Bill.