New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1914, Page 4

D B KL AS DEAN OF FARRS J Receatly Near Pitisburg Aged 90 Years. (New York World.) Old Bill” Killip, the dean of street rs, died near Pittsburg a few ks 2go, aged about 90. He had n living by his wits from the time | jwas a boy of 16 in New England oring broken down horses and ing them as sound. was Killip who introduced the ered Dancing Turkeys From Per- and Jater “Uncle Abe's Halir ightener,” warranted to staight- jhe kinks out of the kinkiest wool ever sprouted on the head of a préd brother. For 40 years he was peripatetic tooth extractor, draw- teeth with his thumb and forefin- is ‘“‘office”’ was a buggy, and he veled all over the country attract- erowds by playing a banjo, sing- a song in deep bass, and rattling r filled with a thousand evidences his dexterity. No charge was made extracting an aching molar, but I managed to sell many bottles of “Sovereign Toothache Remedy” iween pull To relieve the monot- he occasionally sold the “Magic in Eradicator,” a small cake of ip guaranteed to ‘‘remove stains im the clothing, stains from the n and stains from the character.” draw attention he covered his se with a scarlet robe and his own ‘e head with a thick lather until had piled up a cone-schaped, hy helmet. A dollar bill was apped around one of the cakes of p and covered with an outer pping of tin foil. It was then own into a box with a hundred er cakes, similarly covered, and audience was invited to pay 10 for a grab and try to pick out B prize. New Yorkers who can go ¢k 30 yvears will recall the soap man ling his “‘eradicator” in Nassau and n streets and lower Broadway. Had Dancing Turkeys. “Old Bill's” main achievement, ‘ever, was one of the cleverest and pst amusing catchpenny tricks ever rpetrated although it couldn’t be nted in New York today without jick action by the “S. P. C. A.” In- d, it didn’t last more than two ys in this city in 1865, just after e surrender at Appomattox. The ben old street fakir made it a rule avoid large cities; he gathered in dollars from rural communities. e temptation to get some of the sol- er money at the close of the war, bwever, was too great, and Bill rted his show up near the Hay- rket. He carried a tent on a sort buckboard, and on top of the flat- ed-out canvas was a rectangular bx covered with a black cloth. From thin, at intervals, could be heard e “gobble-ubble-ubble” of a turkey k. An observant old philanthro- st discovered the trick on the second y in New York, and his threat to 11 the police drove Bill and his out- across the river to Jersey. He aveled without interference from ersey City to Trenton, thence to lamden and from there west and puth. o ? The erection of the tent and the ng of the feathered performers ok less than an hour, with the as- ance of a couple of country boys. e box carried on the buckboard really abarred cage, six feet long, r feet wide and five feet deep. The of and ends were of pine, and~the or was of thin sheet iron. Iron bars small diameter gas pipe formed he front and back sides and gave ' full view of two gaunt turkeys, hose necks were bare of feathers used by thrusting their heads be- jween the bars in vain efforts to es- pe from their dance house prison. " Outside the tent was a banner ERUPTION ON WRIST SPREAD TO ELBOW Cliild’sArms Itched. Could Not Sleep. Grew Worse. Cuticura Soap and Ofntment Completely Healed. R. F. D. No. 2, West Burke; Vt.—"My little daughter's trouble began on her wrists find T thought ¥ was chapped by playing | "out of doors. It spread on her arms half ‘way to the elbow and her little arms itched she would rub them until they would [ bleed. Her arms were red and rough and ‘as they grew worse I used to have to get | up with her nights for they itched so she could not sieep. I had to keep her arms | “pandaged for sbout two months. They ' would look as if they were raw at times and | ‘akio would rub them nights until they would bleed. “§ used some ointment but it would not b her 50 1 sent for & sample of Cuticura and Ointment. I washed her arms _the Cuticura Soap then put the Cuti- curd Ointment on and bendaged them. 6 second time I used them I could see | change so we bought a box of Cuticurs Ofntment and some Cuticura Soap. We ‘had only used about half of them when sho ris completely bealed.” (Signed) Mrs. Lilia e, Jan. 31, 1014, ‘Free by Mail e A NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1914. Uneeda Biscuit Tempt the appetite, please the taste and nourish the body. Crisp,cleanand fresh— § cents in the moisture- proof package. Round, thin, tender— with a delightful flavor —appropriate for luncheon, tea and dinner. 10 cents. Prince of appetizers. Makes daily trips from Ginger-Snap Land to waiting mouths every- where. Say Zu Zu to the grocer man, § cents. , Buy biscuit baked by NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY Always look for that name bearing the following announcement | in red and black lettering: “Sacred Dancing Turkeys Persia. “Trained to Perform Weird and Won- derful Dances. “Direct From the Private Palace Teheran. “First Time in America. “Come One, Come All. “Admission 15 Cents. “N. B.—No0 Confederate Money Ac- cepted.” Killip was his own announcer, tic- ket seller and orchestra. Mounted on a stool in front of the entrance to the tent he announced: “You see before you, ladies and gentlemen, the owner of the famous educated turkeys from the harem of the king of Petsia, who = presented them to your humble servant as a re- ward for rescuing the most beautiful / of his 200 wives from an awful, terri- ble death. This lady fell under the hoofs of an Arabian stallion, mad- dened by the sting of a blue bpttle on the rump. Yours truly seized the bridle of:the infuriated beast, throw- ing him to his haunches, at the same time killing the fly. These birds were educated at a tremendous ex- pense to dance the sacred dances of Persia, and you now have the great privilege of seeing them perform for the small sum of 15 cents. Step inside, ladies and gentlemen, as the wild, welrd, wonderful dance is about to begin.” As soon as he had coaxed 50 per- sons tp pay the entrance fee Bill entered the tent and closed and but- toned the flap behind him. The au- dience was ranged in front of the cage, which was in a railed-off in- closure and rested on trestles. The space beneath was concealed by a black curtain. Bill seated himself on a low chair and picked up a flddle and bow, Fac- ing his audience he began drawing the bow across the strings, keeping time with his right foot. The turkeys paid no attention at first, but in a few minutes, as the music grew loud- er and liveller, they began to jump. The fiddler played faster and pound- ed harder with his foot. Higher and higher leaped the turkeys. At the ex- piration of ten minutes they were flapping their wings, knocking their heads against the roof of the cage or pushing their skinny, featherless necks through the spaces between the bars. All this time Killip was stamping with his right foot. After the grotesque performance (which always evoked roars of laugh- ter) had been kept up for fifteen or twenty minutes the bow was drawn more slowly over the fiddle strings and the keeping of time was stopped. Simultaneously the antics of the un- gainly birds became less energetic and finally ceased altogether. It was all a “trick” of course. In- stead' of “keeping time” with the sunding of his right foot Old Bill :.u working one handle of a bellows whose nozzle fanned a fire in a ehar- of As From in the music grew louder and quicker the sheet iron became hotter and the turkeys' feet began to scorch The pain caused them to jump and their efforts to escape the torture was the climax of the exhibition. “Feet got kinder callous after a | while,” said Old Bill to the writer some years before his death and long after he had retired from Dbusiness, | nd they wore all the feathers off their necks until they looked scan- | dalous. I used to raffle 'em off, a dollar for the two, and buy a new | pair about every three weeks. Tur- keys "ain't like four-legged animal: they ain't got no sense and burni their feet don't hurt ‘em.” * The “sacred dancing turkey. were exhibited in seventeen states west of the Allegheny river and Killip had the audacity to give his show before an audience of ninety Indians in Indian territory. He not only got away with the trick but he scooped in about $100 and a number of valuable presents from the chiefs, who were greatly mystified by the performances. His last exhibition was in 1876 dur- ing the centennial in Philadclphia and he managed to hang on there for three weeks as one of the great col- ony of side shows. Bill had hired a young negro who, after being rigged out in a suit of yellow and covered with cheap gilt lace, was billed as the “gpecial attendant leaned by the king of Persia to wait on the sacred tur- keys."” The prin al business of the new hand, however, was to keep be- tween the spectators and the black muslin curtain that concealed the charcoal stove under the metal floor of the cage. Sold Hair Straightener. The negro was a bright chap about 19 years old, and he was possessed of an ambition to have straight hair “like white folks” instead of the kinky wool that covered his head. His frequent reference to the subject set old Bill thinking, and he remem- bered a concoction that he used many years before to make the coat of curly-haired horses smcoth and glossy. The basis of the preparation was carbonate of soda, Which was no secret, but there were other ingredi- ents, the character of which Bill nev- er disclosed. He bought them a Philadelphia drug store and made a quart of the preparation that was intended for horses. Jim Tinney, the colored boy, was more than willing to submit himself for experiment. To his great aston- ishment and delight, and to the sur- prise of Bill, the liquid actually did cause the tightly rolled kinks to soft- en and straighten out and lie flat to the head. Jim was as proud as a dog with two tails. It took less than an hour to convert his woolly covering into straight hair. The experiment was made about 10 o'clock at might. When Jim awoke next morning his | wool was as tightly kinked as ever—tighter, in fact, In tears he went to the hoss. “Need several treatments, I reckon,” said Bill. “I'll put some more of the stuff on. Can’t expect to change in one night.” A second application had the same | effect as the first. Killip watched and | found that the strong alkaline liquid | kept the kinks straight for about five | hours. The unkinking and the rekinking went on for a week and Jim Tinney ! became reconciled to the situation, es- | pecially after Old Bill had outlined a | scheme which promised big monetary returns and which master and man were to divide equally.. After the plan had been crystallized the sacred turkeys were sold for a couple of dol- | lars, the cage was smashed and the | old tent leit as a legacy for any- body who wanted it. For the first time in his life Old Bill Killip made a blunder in judg- ment. He paid railroad fare to At- lanta for himself and his assistant gnd there prepared about ten gallons of his nostrum. He bought ten gross of eight-ounce bottles and filled them. Then he had labels printed in red and vellow ink, and this is what they promised: Uncle Abe’s Hair Straightener. Most Wonderful Preparation in the Wide, Wide World. $5,000 reward if it does not make the hair on any colored person’s head as straight as a white man’s. . Every free colored man with straight hait is entitled to a bounty from the government. Price one dollar. With Atlanta as his base of supply, Killip visited plantations within a radius of 300 miles. Jim, the ani- mated object lesson, accompanied him with his hirsute covering in its natural condition. It was easy enough to at- tract a crowd of fleld negroes after the day’s work was over with a banjo and a song. A spirited talk on the generosity of the government fol- lowed, and the promise was made that every negro with straight hair would receive, after proving himself kink- less, a bounty of $100 in cash and a POISGNED BY THE GRIP The grij iunomrseterot rsons, No ‘:n? tation of lile is exem]l;: from it. The grip is not & fatal disease but it leaves its victim in such a debilitated condition that one of our foremost medi- cal writers has been led to say. ‘It is astonishing the number of people who have been crippled in health for years aiter an attack.’”’ It is & common thing to hear le date various ailments from an attack ofinfluenza. The condition of those who have had the grip is one that calls for & tonic for the blood. Dr: Williams’ Pink Pills are especially adapted to meet this need as they purify and enrich the blood, tone up the nerves and give vigor, strength and health to the debilitated systent. ““The griP left me without any vitality whatever,’’ says onse who has found re- lief, *‘and I lost all appetite and ambition. I was reduced in weight and was fre- quently confined to for two days or more. My friends thought I was going into consumption. I owe mi recovery to Dr. Williame’ Pink Pills and cheerfully recommend them.”” The details of thig | case and a chapter on the proper treat- ment of the grip and its after-effects will be found in the booklet ‘‘Building Up the Blosd’’ w' ‘ch will be sent frés on re- ’mb]thol) Newest Picture of Mme. Caillaux, on Trial In Paris for Murder of Editor Calmette \ resvess PSS . WWE CAILLAUX This is the newest picture of Mme. Henriette Caillaux, on trial in Paris for the killing of Gaston Calmette, editor of Figaro. Here are extracts fro her story on' the stand: “M.: Caillaux was premier, and in marry- ing him I found complete happiness. ! 1 thought all would be happy, beft,| alas, my life began to be poisoned by calumnies!” ‘The attacks of the Figaro were implacable. They had’ nothing to do with politics. They were personal. I suffered, and I lost; my head.”” ‘“‘But one lamp was burn- ing on M. Calmette’s desk. In the ) mule. Jim Tinney was then brought forward and everybody was invited to cxamine his head. After being con- vinced that it was the real thing in curled hair, the ignorant field hands were directed to give strict attention to the demonstration. Jim’'s head was soused with the liouid and his scalp massaged with Bill's fingers. One hour was a good while to wait, but as the wool began to extend at the end of forty-five min- utes the patience of the onlookers was rot overtaxed. When the living proof of the lecturer’s assertions was ex- hibited the excitement of the negroes knew no bounds. They were ready to sacrifice anything they had for a bot- tle of the precious stuff. But dollar bills were as scarce as hen's teeth there, and as Killip didn’t want old clothes or kitchen utensils, he moved on. The experience in one plantation was practically the experience in all. Occosionally he picked up a dollar or two, but it was rare. Nine times in ten he was driven away before he could ‘“‘demonstrate.” Always hoping for better luck, he Digestive Disorders Yield When the right help is sought at the right time, Indigestion is a torment. Biliousness canses suffering. Either is likely to lead to worse and weak- ening sickness. The right help, the best corrective for disordered conditions of the stomach, liver, kidneys or bowels is now known to be Beechams Pills and the right time to take this fa- mous family remedy is at the first sign of coming trouble. Beecham’s Pills have so immediate an effect for good, by cleansing the system and pfirifying the blood, that you will know after a few doses they Are the Remedial Resort Sule of Any Medicine in the World. everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 28¢. semi-obscurity I saw before me my enemy, he who had done so much to injure me and my husband. You probably know the object of my visit, I said. ‘I do not. Please sit down, he answered. I had spoken without knowing what 1 said. I could not take my eyes from him. I lost my head. I Killed him. After pulling my revolver from my muff I continued to press the trigger. I continued to shoot, though 1 had no desire to kill or even to wound when 1 entered the office.”” "I shot Gaston Calmette because he was about to publish_love letters sent by me to my hushand before he was divorced from his first wife. For three months 1 had mounted Calvary. one can imagine what 1 went through. + I feared for myself, because if part | of those letters were published my deepest, innermost secret would be displayed before the world, my wom- | an honor stand stripped and naked. My poor father, who last have set foot in my house had he known of my laisen with M. Caillaux, Finally, 1 did not wish to blush be- fore my daughter.” and his boy Jim traveled through Alabama, North Carolina, South Car- clina, Virginia and part of Maryland without success. At the expiration of rine wee] the expenses exceeded the receipts by more than $1.000. Jim Tinney was dissatisfied and threatened exposure. Killip kept him in line by a weekly payment, for the veteran had a snug bank account and could Graw his check any day for $10,000. Made $5,000. Killip was not easily discouraged. He was resolved not to return to the sacred dancing turkeys, or the selling of soap or the pulling of teeth with thumb and forefinger, because he was convinced there was a market for “Uncle Abe's Hair Straightened,” and there was. He found it by a house-to- house canvass among negroes of the hetter class. It was much easier and safer to call upon a colored man in fairly comfortable -circumstances and convince him that curly wool could be straightened. He ap- pealed to vanity only. New labels were printed with the promise of a bounty left out. The recognized colored leader was first called upon, und he would be induced to bring in half a dozen of his neighbors for the ocular demonstration. Sales of from five to twenty bottles were certain, and five hours must elapse before the fraud was discovered. Bill had that much time to work from the starting point. Boston and' Philadelphia were the most profitable flelds. New England yielded the greatest revenue. The victims rarely if ever made complaint. They either accepted the deception as a joke or were ashamed to confess their gullibility. Killip estimated that he made up- ward of $5,000 on “Uncle Abe’'s Hair Straightened” in 1876. But it is &oubt- tul whether he left any estate. He was an inveterate gambler all his life, | and all of his profits were swallowed ur at the roulette wheel or the faro bank. He was a fakir of illimitable sources. was “Old Bill" Killip. re- CALL ON FIELDER. Women Assured By Governor Voto Upon Suffrage Will Be Advertised. Trenton, N. J., July 22.—A delega- tion of New Jersey women suffragists called upon Governor Fielder yester- day to make sure that there would not be any hitch in the legal proceed- ings for the advertising of the reso- lution providing for a vote upon the suffrage amendment, which was passed by the last legislature, The governor extended the assur- ance that there would be no trouble in the matter, and that the failure Lo advertise would not occur as it did last year. s and the driving snow. ing waterproofer. and leaks. all your buildings. | grounds | tive | iIf necessary. No | yvear lr)ld' me that a wife who had a lover was | a woman without honor, never would | HARBOR MEASURE 10 ' BE SETRACKED e, Branfeges Says Bil Wil Fa of Passage at Th's Session. (%pecial Herald.) Washington, July enator Brand said last night that the friends of the river and harbor bill, now pending in the senate, had good fear that the bill would fail of passage at this session of cel gress. He sald thdt Senators Burton, Ken- yon and Norris, with a small but an- following of middle west sena- torg, had simply made up their minds that this particular measure shall not to the ec | Pass at this session of congress and they are prepared to talk it to death “‘No man in the sen- ate,” sald Mr. Brandegee, “has so in- timate a knowledge of the rivers and harbors of the United states as has Senutor Burton. He has the facts and figures of every appropriation for every stream large or small at his tongue's end, and it Is no trouble at all for him to talk five or six hours on the improvement project on & stream down in Mississippi or a har- bor improvement in Connecticut. He has given up his European trip and has given himself up lo the defeat of this bill.” win At the present time, in the opinion of Senator Brandegee, the river and harbor bill is being used to delay con- sideration on the anti-trust bills, and when that fact is brought to the knowledge of the president he will call upon the administration members of the senate to sidetrack the river and harbors measure for the re- mainder of the session. Report to Housc. The secretary of war yesterday transmitted to the house the report of the chief of engineers of the army on the survey of the Stamford har- bor, made with a view of increasing the depth and removing obstructions to navigation. To meet the demand for increased depth the local engineer recommends that a channel twelve feet in depth and from eighty-five 1o 125 feet wide be dug in the east branch at an esti- mated cost of $116,000; a channel and basin nine feet deep and 150 feet wide in the west branch at an esti- mated cost of $52,000, and an en- trance channel twelve feet deep and 200 feet wide at an estimated cost of $19,000, making a total of $187,000, The board of review for rivers and harbors recommended the reduction ‘of the width of the entrance channel to 150 feet, thug reducing the total cost to $183,000. Chief of Engineers Concurs. The chief of engineers concurs In the recommendations of the board and recommends the appropriation of Sidetarck Measure. $183,000 and $5,000 annually for maintenance, Your roof must have_power to resist the blazing sun, the forceful wind, the pouring rain, Real life and resisting power come from natural asphalt, and ‘Genasco is made of natural asphalt from Trinidad Lake—Nature’s everlast- The natural oils of this asphalt stay in Genasco and make it proof against rot, cracks, Be on the safe side—come get Genasco for New Britain Lumber & Coal Co. NEW BRITAIN, CONN,