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Show The Circus. Logan and the surrounding country turned out enmasse yesterday to attend at-tend the great Forcpaugh and Sells Hrothers circus. From early morning until noon thousands watched the monstrous shows, with their complement comple-ment of eight hundred men, live a circus day. When tho first section of tho four trains which carry tho! show pulled Into Logan, young A inert-1 1 ca was on hand. The boys drank In 1 1 with wonder the groin sight of a gigantlo show preparing to please j thousands. In the forenoon more than a iij.Io ' of decorated wagons, equestrians,! clowns, bauds, and tine stock paraded j through tho streets of Logan. This was Just enough to whet the appetite tor more. After tho doo: to tho big! show was open tho streets of the busl-1 ncss section resembled thoso of a deserted city. Everybody was at the big show. Tho menagerie presented by tho big circus Is second to none. A fourteen foot giraffe shares honors with tho largest tiger In captivity, andthodcoo 1 of lions are In a world all their own Three massive herds of elephants tell well their mute story of Jungle homes from which they wero brought 10 en-tcrta'n en-tcrta'n all-America. Tlfese elephants are trained performers; tho tricks thev go through In the I Ig tent aro nothing short of marvelous. The circus performance Itself Is beyond be-yond reproach. Frcm the time the buglers sound the grand entreo until tho finish of the show the air Is full of trapeze performers, horizontal bar flyers, acrobats, and scores of other things that tend lo.make up a circus. With the Forepaugh Show, however, things are a little dllfercnt from tho usual shows Since the show Invaded western territory--for tho llrst tlmti In a decade It has won tho plaudits In an enviable way, viz: It has presented pre-sented on Its advertising sheets notli-Ing notli-Ing it docs not present within tho big tent. Time, money and conclentious effort have not been spared to make the great circus the greatest Tho result Is Forepaugh and Sells Hrothers ptcscnt a circus which comes as near perfection as anything In Its line can be. It Is not an old style stereotyped circus, but one new and original In Its thousands of details. Among the thousands who saw the show jcstoi-day jcstoi-day there ere none who turned awav with other than a word of praise for the massive performance with Its giant city of canvas tops. The circus H left lit ml'inlght for Pocatcllo, thoro to add to the laurqls other western cities have Justly showed upon the Forepaugh ami Sells Hros. shows. H |