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Show WHERE THE BUFFALO STILL SURVIVES. SUR-VIVES. What young man of our race would not gledlv give a year of ha life to roll backward the scroll of time for five decades and live that year In the romantic bygone days of the wild west, to see the great Sllssourl while the buffalo pastured on its banks, while big ga.me teemed In 6ight and the red man roamed and hunted. un che-ckcj by fence or hint of white man's rule; or, when that rule was represented only by scattered tradlDg l06ts, hundreds of miles aparL and at best the traders could exchange the news by horse or cane, and months of lonely travel?'' I. for one, would have rejoiced In tenfold payment for the privilege of this backward look In our age, nnd had reached middle life before I realized real-ized that, at much less heavy cost, tho miracle was possible today. For the uncivilized Indiau still roams the far reaches of absolutely unchanged, unbrokeu forest and prairie prai-rie leagues, and has knowledge of white men only in bartering furs at the scattered trading posts wbe.e locomotive lo-comotive and telegraph are unknown; still the wild butfalo elude the hunters, hunt-ers, fight the wolves, wallow, 'wander 'wan-der aud breed; and still there Is hoofed hoof-ed game by the million to be found wherj tho Saxcn Is as seldom seen as on the Missouri In the times of Lewis and Clarke. Only we must seek It all not In tho west." but In the far northwest; and for "Missouri and Mississippi" Mis-sissippi" road "Peace and Mackenzie livers," lhos-3 noble streams that northward roll their mile wide turbid floods a thousand leagues to the silent si-lent Arctic sea. |