AN INTERNATIONAL TRIUMPH 



met or wanted to meet the English judge who had 

 crossed the seas to apportion championship rosettes. 

 Guests from the Orient and the Argentine concealed 

 not their surprise and keen delight at the superb 

 character and overwhelming extent of the exhibits. 



Presidents of universities, directors of agricultural 

 experiment stations, landlords and tenants, feeders, 

 farmers, students, packers, commission merchants, 

 buyers and salesmen of high and low degree, men, 

 and women too, from widely separated sections of 

 our country, followed with an interest unrestrained 

 the hard-fought battles of the ring. Rival college 

 delegations shouted loud defiance back and forth 

 across the field until all were hoarse. The thrill of 

 combat was in the blood. The enthusiasm was elec- 

 tric. The very air was charged. But at length the 

 strenuous day was done. 



Massively magnificent and splendidly impressive 

 incarnations of animate power in heavy harness thun- 

 dered out of the great arena to the crash of brass 

 and drums and the plaudits of the multitude. The 

 assembled thousands rose en masse, and cheer upon 

 cheer resounded throughout the amphitheatre. The 

 last act of a stirring, realistic drama had been suc- 

 cessfully staged. The throngs were quickly swallowed 

 up in the crowded city street, and presently the 



