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GREAT ARE THE GAUCHOS The Wild AVest show is coming this way, led by that fainous scout, frontiersman, and hero of tlie plaius aud f prairies, Búfalo Bill, Col. W. F. Cody is universally known. The Wild West exhibition has been presented with honor and success and with trernendous patronage all over Kurope, in 1893 at the World's Fair in Chicago, and last year iu New York City for a season of six months. It has brought together to compete for equestrian prowess most of the races and types of the world's most celebrated aud remarkable horsemen. Col. Cody and his indefatigable partner, Nate Salsbury, have not been content with reproducing the stirring scènes and incidents of frontier life, and in assembling in friendly rivalry Cowboys, Indiana, Vaqueros, and Cossacks, but they have gone farther afleid in their search for living exeinplifications of modern methods of equitation. Among the latest additions are Gauchos from the distant pampas of South America, which has contributed a band of wild riders froin the llanos of the Argentine Rebublic. The Gaucho differs in many respects from the other rough riders of the only partially dvilized sections of the earth. He is the production of a peculiar scheme of existence and of savage conditions of life that obtaiuin no part of the world save on the boundless prairies of the North and the limitness llanos of South America. From the Gaucho's earliest infaney the half-wild horses of his native plains have been inseparably associated with his daily doings. At an age when the English or American child is learning to stand on his feet without the assistance of his nurse, the infant Gaucho is being taught by ts fond mother to balance himself on the backs of colts of the berd. At four years of age he has learned to ride the wildest colt that roams the pampas, and henceforth he is to all intents and purposes an integral portion of the animal he bestrides, no more to be dismounted against his will than if he and the horses were really parts of one creature. No wónder, therefore that the Gaucho is a horseman of remarkable dexterity iu the management of his four-legged friend and servant. The Gauchos are reputed to be the most expert lassoers in the world. Their skill in the use of the bolas is almost beyond belief. This instrument consists oí a number of rawliide tbongs fastened to a central thong, md with an iron ball at each end. The Gancho can huil this at a flying horse or ostrich from a distance of sixty feet, and cause itto beinextricably entangled about the legs and bring'the victini helplessly to ground. This rather than the lasso is the favorite weapou in capturing wild animáis or fighting in war. It will be understood, therefore, from this brief description of their peculiarities, that they are a novel aequisition to the many other novelties of the Wild West exhibition. Together with the other rough riders of the show they form a contrast to the trained, but none the less skillful, horseman furnished by several of the world's great military nations, including the big cavalrymen ofFrance, Germany, Russia, England, and the United States, all of whom will be represented in the vast arena of he Wild West show, which is to apear ou Monday, Aug. 3d. Women who are weak and nervous, who have no appetite and cannot sleep, find strength and vigor in Hood's Sarsaparilla. Dr. Priccs Cream Baking Powder A Pure Orpe Cream of Tartar Powder.