The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-03
Boys and Fathers Stand in
Open M0uthed Wonder.
THE GRACEFUL INDIAN
Attracts More Attention
Than All Others.
William F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, Ap-
pears in Each PeTfOrmance-Tenrs
are Visited by Large Crowds.

With congress OF rough riders
which consists of more than fifteen
different nationalities, Col William
r. Cody, Buffalo Bill arrived early
this morning There was little delay
and almost as soon az the cars had
been shifted to their proper positions
on the tracks the work Of unloading
was begun AS soon as the second
train arrived there was motley
gathering which would have proved
OF interest in any country. Cossacks
with their peculiar headgear and
velvet walk stepped down from the
l3l:epng cars. MeXicans with their
Ibroad-brimed hats and stubby black
/ hair, dressed in their leather suits
walked briskly to the grounds. Next
came the German soldiers, then the
English lancers, and finally the be-
lings that created trus open-mouth for
the small boy (and very probably
to the small boys father IL the truth
were known. II was the Indian as he
was in byegone days the Indian with
his paints, beads and feathers, the
Indian with his graceful walk and
grunting jabbar the Indian whose
brother or father mad probably been
responsible for the death of many
white man, the Indian who first
owned this country,
Yes, there stood the red man, proud
and 50 straight that a plumb line
could hive basn found true If put
from one of the Indians nose to his
toes. Boys or crowds did not seem
30 bother him and tha puzzle
seemed to he what was the man of
yesterday thinking about as he stood
Ith.re on the railroad tracks. 1t IS
true that he waited for his brothers
and probably for a squaw or papoose
He did not carry any OF the children
that was left TO the mother. What
was the red man thinking about?
, Simple a question as wls ever
asked He was thinking about MS
breakfast rs that Is the most i'm.
,p)rtant thing for the red men tC
think about early in the morning. In
fact, when II comes down TO doing
justice TO a meal aud probably three
or four beeGste3aks the red man car
do It better than the canvasman.
SO the red man went 70 get hi
food and the white man continued e
work in getting the rest OF the wag
ons off the TRAINS. He, the multi
colored Indian, stradled horse witt
a hundred more of his kind doinl
the same thing and gracefully wen
on their way to tne show grounds
the trail Of the white mans amusc
ment or happy hunting place,
There are 800 persons with thu
Wild West this year and about 60,
horses. Arart from these figure
thare is a herd of buffalo that vii
tend to help the imaglnatlons OF Ger
tain folk.
Probably the most interesting rea
ture newly introduced is that or IN,
horseback football game In whicl
the red men are pited against th'
cowboys, The Battle OF Sunni
opIlHSS - lEploLc Win lullSS peE
tanning to the life OF the Indian. TIL,
bucking bronchos are just as in
teresting as they ware before, as ar,
all those things which have endeareJ
the Wild West TO hundreds of thou,
ands But the man OF men, tn,
leader OF leaders, the scout Of scouts
and true type of the wild west, II
Col Cody He sat on his horse thi
Afternoon with the same gracefu
carriage as Of old. In fact the onl!
way to tell that he was ageing was
not through his facial expression ol
through the litheness or elasticity o
his limbs, but through the fact tina
his air as become snow white.