Show MERIT ONLY SECONDARY the august number of good form contains another of articles on buffalo bill the be wild west show proprietor etor which have had such ready acceptance from american and foreign periodicals and papers and which by their maudlin fulsomeness has disgusted every real western man beyond expression the writer ot of the five page advertisement we can call it nothing else which appears in good form a magazine which by this proceeding belies its title varies the usual monotony of such screens screeds by telling us somewhat of buffalo bills youth but does not omit the murderous incident from which the scout took his name dame the killi killing og of sixty nine buffaloes in one day he accompanied general albert sydney on his utah expedit expeditious iou says the fond chronicler guided trains overland hunted bunted for a living was chosen by the kansas pacific railroad to supply meat to the laborers while building the one season killing billing buffaloes besides deer and antelope and was chief of scouts sc in the department that protected the union pacific 1 I and now might well have breen been added he gets gete a glorious living jiving out of his I 1 past and cannot tell a yarn too tough for tenderfoot to swallow asa As a matter of fact cody deserves far less notoriety as ae a scout than as a showman no one would rob him of I 1 be glory if such be deems it of killing seventy great lumber lumbering iLg iddo innocent buffaloes buffalo esin in aday a day arof or of picking off indians with his rifle just for the fun of the thing but when it cornea comes to the real business of the western frontiersman he be has many mady living superiors and scores that aie dead we wish his chronicler had bad said more about that utah expedition of general genera johnstons and whether bill was the guide who led that unfortunate colican to its distress it need scar scarcely eely be said that on that occasion he was out scouted at every turn and less lees modest men than he are fully able to cite date and circumstance of his being out ridden outgeneraled out out dared and out shot the substance of the whole matter Is that with his hi glib tongue his long hair his skill wit with h the rifle and pony and his really extensive experience on the plains col cody has baa under undertaken to make a living out of the gullibility and of the rest of the civilized worlo and be is successful not so much because of his bis own proved prowess or the esthetic cism of his bis show but because he is shrewd enough to represent the characters of which effete easterners have imagined and dreamed and concerning berning which they are most to be dis enchanted |