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The significant part of the whole thing was, when he looked her 

 in the face as she was thrusting that stick through between the 

 bars, she said- " Oh, you coward." Think of it, to say that he 

 was a coward ! He had shown his courage in taming the wild 

 beasts of the forests, but he couldn't tame her, no matter what 

 he might do. Hagenbach's animal performance was, of course, 

 only one of many interesting and instructive sights to be found 

 on the Pike. 



Among other things was a depiction of the destruction of 

 Galveston. Another was the Fire Fighters, which attracted a 

 great deal of attention. Another was called " The Hereafter." 

 There you were shown what the future is. As you passed in 

 you were shown a panorama, and was told what the fnture is 

 of a good man and the future of a bad man. 



There were many other interesting and exceedingly instruct- 

 ive places of amusement upon the Pike, but, of course, I cannot 

 enter upon a detailed description of all of those things here. 

 Suffice to say that after having seen it all it would seem to me 

 that taking the fair as a whole that it must make a marked 

 impression upon this country, and in fact upon the world. 

 There, side by side, among that vast concourse of people, were 

 representatives of every grade of humanity and every stage of 

 civilization ; there, side by side, was the lowest exhibition of 

 manhood and the highest ; specimens concerning which one 

 could exclaim, '* How like a brute ! " and beside them illustra- 

 tions of manhood so exalted that one could exclaim with 

 Shakespeare, '' How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty ! " 

 And when these all came together, learning each other's ways, 

 singing each other's songs, getting acquainted with each other's 

 religion, with each other's happiness, with each other's social 

 customs and ways, educational systems and industries, it seemed 

 to me that it must make for peace. It seemed to me that this 

 more than any other one thing would turn the faces of men 

 towards those tribunals where great questions are now being 

 settled and decided according to the law of justice and of rea- 

 son, and influence them to no longer look or dwell upon the 

 horrors of war as a means for the settlement of their differ- 

 ences. It was a scene for the philosopher and the statesman, 

 for it would seem as though, gathered side by side, as they 

 were, representatives from every nation upon the globe, as they 

 looked into each other's faces and saw that they were brothers,. 



