Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1892, Page 15

L A ¢ ¢ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, JULY ~SINTEEN PAGES TAULYARNS OF WESTERN LIFE £ome of the Stuff with Which Eastern Ten- derfeet are Regaled, 2 THE MAN WHO RCDE A CYCLONE Jumping from a Locomotive—Sad Ending rado with an Appetite tor Red-Haired Men—The Man Who Fit Bars, of u Desp You talk about velones in the cast the old man as he laid down his pa- “Why, they are nuthin’ but sum- - zephyrs compared ‘o real cyclones eg’lar huilt, stand up cyclones like we hev outin Montana! “They knock down a few trees, blow the roofs off a few houses and kill a baby or two, and then your daily papers make a great whoopin' over the awful destruction! It's 'nuff to make a man laugh to see bow hard they try to make sumthin’ big out of a little bit o’ wind. “You've seen cyclones in Montana, I take 1t virruped the religious editor of the New York Herald. 1 of ‘em, " 1oplied the old man. “Nine of about ten times as destructiv s one which occurred in Iilinois the other day, but we only calied 'em two-centers. The other was the genuine thing and was really worth wlkin® about.” *1I'm sure we'd like to hear about it.” “ Well, I'm no great hand at story tellin’, but I’ll do my best. It wasinthe Cedar valley to the nortn of Diamond City. That valley is made by a range of mountaing to the eist and the Gallitin river to the west. It was one afternoon in July,and I was on muleback and goin’ north. It was as purty a day as you ever saw. I was feelin’ powerful good th.nu v, and I remember I was singin’ a religus song when that cyclons come along. She started inabout'thirty miles north of mo and come along down howlin® for g Couldn’t you get sheiter anywhere. I was in the middle of a prairie twenty miles wide without even a bush to shelter me. And thar’ wouldn’t hey bin time anyhow. She was right at hand hefore I suspected what it was. With a sc ), and & rour and a whoon she enfolded me, 1 had just time to utter a prayer before I was picked up.” “Wall, T was exactly sixteen miles above Diamond City when [ met the cloud. 1 had looked at 1 watch, and it was fourtcen minutes after 1 When I cameto I loo at my watch agin and it was twenty minutes after 12 Iwas then in Diamond City. [ had been carried sixteed miles in six min- utes and deposited right in front of the best saloon in town, *“Hurt any?” “Notamite. I got up and walked into the saloon and called for three fingers of whisky just as calmly as if nuthin’ had happened “Didn’t the eyclone stri ke the town “Certainly, und this was the only building not destroved. Kil 107 people and destroyed 87 buildings in the city, It must hev bin the h nd of Prov- tdence, fur 1.was very thirsty and the galoon man owed me a drink on our last deal. ‘Lhat cyclone killed 251 people, including Injuns and destroyed 140 buildings along the valle *Did you ever find your mul was asked, after a long and painful silence. “That was also a queer thing,” replied the old man. *“He was carried along with me, dropped the same time, and after 1 got my drink I found him standing at the hitching post in good orde That must have been the band of Providence also, as he was my only mule, and his loss would have been ad affair to me. Did you go outand mount him?" a “1 did. “And then ride away 1did.” “And tell everybody you met just had happensd I dia,” And they appear “Well, no. 1 four fellers who o of me. They believed the main part of the story all right, but when it came down to the saloon ana the drink they kicked on m “But why? “I told you I walked in and called fur three fingers of whisky. N am. “That's what they kicked on. Under the circumstances they thought any human critter would naturally ask fur five or six, and buy a quart extra to re- 2d to hel untered d a feve it? three or suspicious sume his journey on “I suppose you have never been asked for proots?" queried cur spokesman aflter another silenc “Yes, twice of ‘e ap in thut sume their Istones cost §1¢m wera newcomers and I buried ‘em tenderly. Does any- body int waut avy afidavits or sich? No one did. He pulled out & buck- horn handled knif2 and sharpened it but it was 4 useless d the his bootle None of us 1 his veracity. Bl you mov 1test doubt of & sligh ok Off Faces. ever jump from | “Did ur cab while the train was going full specd?” 1 asked u locomotive engineer the other day , three or four times,” he an- swored *What's the sensation?’ “That’s according to how you land One night three years ngo the trai dispatcher got twoof us headed for enc! other on a single track at a gait of for milcs an hour. The first thing T saw was the headlight of the other locomo- tive rounding a curve thirty rods awuy. 1 shut ’er off, threw over the lever and set the air brakes—then make a jump. I'd no time to pick for a spot, and as 1 jumped I realized that 1'd’ have a bad time of it, as I knew every foot of the ground It was on vel covered with & thistle patch. There was a R strip of them forty rods long growing up like corn stalks. Iexpect they broke my fall somewhut, but I don't know that 1o it vhe und until I fetched up for good. Tt seemed to me that 1 just swept through that patch ubout kuee high from the ground, and when there were no more thistles to knock down 1 !anded ‘kerchug!’ agaiust an old stump and uprooted it. .The doctor es- timated that the number of thistle points sticking into my body at one bil- tion. My wife and 1 bave been picking ’em out’ ever since und I feel Jom stick ing every once in a while yet. *Landing in a mud puddle would be a soft thing,” 1 sucgested #I've buon there,” he replied, with & fleeting smile. “While 1 was running froight they builta sidetrack 1o a gravel pit at & certan point. In excavsting at the wain line they dug a hole about twonty feet long by ten wide and four doep. As & rule this hole wus always full of water and, us it was on my side of the engine and always came undes my eye, 1 got to thinking what a suap 1 | House 1'd have if [ had to make a jump r there.” “But you never had to.” “Didn’t 1¥ There was a little station just a mile above this hole and it was a sharp up grade. One day while we were humping along to make the sta- tion a dozen cars broke loose from a freight sidetrack at that station, and down they came like so many roaring lions after their prey. By the time I had whistled for b: »s and reversed my engine it was time to jump, and bless my soul! if 1 wasn't just where I nted to be—right at the pond. I ted to pass the mile post and then shut my eyes and took a header, feeling sorry at the same instant for my fire- man, whod got to jump among the stumps. Well, 1 struck.’ ‘In the wate I asked, as he paused and worked a finger into his ear. “Oh, no. There had been a long spell of hot, dry weather and every piat of water had evaporated ont of that pond. The mud was left behind though. There was three feet of it waiting to catch some sucker, and it caught one. [ went head first to the bottom. Then I rolled over and floundered around for five minutes and could never have pulted myself out unassisted. T didn’t bread any boues, but—ugh!” SWhat?’, “*Mud! I took twent soven baths be- fore I got down s0 I could see my hide, mud quit and mud and it seemed a month bafore working out of my ¢ os, mouth. I hated mud. 1 felt craw up and down my b picked mud out of my pockets scraped it out of my hait. The thot of it suffocates me yet when I thi it. still on the road, but I'm not looking for any more mud holes to land in. On the contrary, if things turn out as I have figured them, my next jump will be into a pateh of blackberry bushes with an old dead tree in the center, and 1 confidently expect to mow down every- thing in Popplng Ked We heard a shot fired across the street, followed by a rush of men along board walks, and went over to finda man lying on the floor of a saloon with a bullet hole in his side. The bartender stood behind the bar with a smoking pistol in his hand and he was the cool- est one in the whole crowd. *Jim, how did this happen?”’ demand- d the town marshal- who was on hand with two deputies, just the usual Tom, and reply. ‘“You known me for two years and you know I » advantage uf.mHmJ nose ng 'h:uk s0. You've alw I wonder who h~ is? “Dunno. He was in he for the first time The hal went over to the mas propped his head up on an overturn chair and examined the wound. The s eyes were open and full of intelligence, and as he looked around e crowd a faint smile passed ove He was a typical border ma v of visag hal. , Smith.” from?” “How about this shooting?® The man chuckled and smiled as he glanced over at the bartender. Thea he quietly said: **Look at his ha’r—the color of it! I've been huntin’ that color fur the last two ¥ He'd 1 made my tentk artender’s hair was red. about him a hundred miles away,” resumed the strang “and I cum here to wipe him out. Haint nuthin’ agin him except his ha’ "hen you meant to kill him?” asked rshal. artin. I'm down on that sort o’ I wantea to give him a show, though, and so 1 whooped as I started to draw. Gun got tangled and he got the drop on me. He plugged me plumb cen- ter and I'm a gonc **Does he talk straight asked the officer of the man behiud the bar. 2 1 didn’t know that he objected to the color of my hair, but when he whooped I gr abbed my gun and dropped him. “*Do you know that you are asked the marshal as hie turned dying to the stranger again. “Sure, but I've told you all you'll ever kuow. Just plant me outside and make no fuss. ” ““What’s this? moved the man’s body s0 as to his right hand, which grasped shoote “1 bartender, somebody man in the crowd 7 answere looked around. “If thar' was 1'd—1"d try a pop at him! Just my luck: take the gun! I wanted to make the number ten, but I've run up agin a barbed wire fence!’ At that moment a doctor who had been sent for me bustling in. He was a redheaded mun. He knelt to examine the wounded man, but the latter waved him off, sat up and hoarsely shouted: “This crowd has played me low down! away and then runz man on me, Whoop! d the officer as he uncover his tume fur the low fur aded In't git it oat in and so 1 was layin’ Is thar a else, re 0, the marshal, as he d You took a Whoo— He fe! was dead. my gun a sort of shiver and back, gave as he leaned for- cowboy on the fit Injuns *1 suppose,”’ ha said ward and touched t shoulder, I suppose you've out west?”’ Yeg. sir; lots of them,” was the *And you've fit grizzly blars?” I have.” 2ven men ¥ e killed six or \nd you **My last victim was No. 13, was the modest reply “Wall! Walll What a curus thing this ‘ere world is, anyhow! While you've fit Injuns and b'ars and killed men and bin trav’lin’ around, I've just stayed right at home and lost the end of my finger in a cider mill’ R Covghed Up s Federnl Bullet, W. D. Walton, & well known citizen of Peters! g, Va., a bullet which he ha since the war. He & member of company 1, Twelfth Virginia regiment, and ut the battle of Spottsylvania Court he was struck a ball, which lodged in his body and has been in him ever since. For years past Mr. Walton has been in ver ad health. Som montns ago an ahseess began to form on his breast near where he was wounded and Le was co d to close busin and take to his bed. A few days ago the abscess broke, and in o coughing spell Mr. Walton coughed up half of the ball. He now looks like an entir new man. Before he seurcely had an apbetite; now he suys his appetite cannot be satisfiod. Aprild, 1801 Dr. J. B Dear Sir: Have bsen troubled with catarrn in my bead snd face for three years—at Limes 4 s unuble Lo bear rec ca ntly coughed up ied in his body apell ¢ had & coustant ringing in_my oars aud for 1wo years wis almost doaf. _ Have tried ev- erai so-called remedios and been treated vy regular pbysicians and noted specialists, but failed to get auy reilef. 1 tried oue bottle of Moore's Tree of Life Catarrh Cure. It gave immediate relief aud effocted a permavent cure. I bheartily recommend it to all suffer ers of this diseuse and will cheerfully give aoy further information on being addressed st my home, No. 223 Sweeney ave., Burling- oun, Ia. For sale by all druggists. K-Kotluuly, L. Reo. For sale by all druggis GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT Benefits of the Recently Expired “Relief for Desertors' Act. PHIL KEARNY'S FAMOUS JERSEY BRIGADE m Fighting Qualities aghed Up & Resume of fts Splen Displayed in the Bullet—The Washingto —A War Tragedy. War— At noon on Friday. July 1, the “Reliefl for Daserters™ act expired by limitation. This act was passed by congress March 2,188), The purpose of the act and its effect were to enable many deserving war veterans to remove the stigma ‘‘de- serter” from their record and thus se- cure a pension which, under the law, would be otherwise denied to them. It was not intended to apply, and it did oot apply, of course, to those soldiers who deserted through cowardice, disloyalty or disaffection. There many ways by which a brave soldier unwittingly became a “‘de- wero serter,” and the law was drawn to clear | the record of those who, within a rea- | sonable time after the charge of deser- tion was made, voluntarily returned to their commands and served faithfully to end of the term or until honorably : those who absented them- ym_their command or the hos- pital white ill or wounded nd either voluntarily returned tu their command, or weo permanently prevented from returning because of their wounds, and those who enlisted as minors, without the consent of their parents or guar- dinus. und were released from service by order of court or on habeas corpus. The act was mada to apply also to the Mexican war, and the secretary of war was authorized to remove the charge of de; ion from the record of any regular or volunteer soldier upon proper appli- cation therefor and satisfactory proof that he came within the provisions of the act. Under the act many thousand soldiers were restored to all their rights and se- cured pensions from the government. The time in which applications could be made to the socretary of war was liraited to three years from July 1, 1889, and all applications not made in that time were declared 1o be *‘forev Now there carbe no more applications. Phil Kearny's Jersey Brigade, Year by year the roll of heroes who fought the civil war grows shorter and shor yet the muster at Grand Army posts shows little dm nution. The na- al reason for t is t as the vete- us fall out the ranks close upas 1n of w and the laggers behind be- gin to feel an exciting >st in mat- ters at the fron At indeed, Grand Army meetings been more wttended than they are today, natural consequence of these d war e genuine revi No story can be told within hearing of Jersevmen that does not bring Kearny and the First J brigade to their minds, says the New York Kearny, to be sure. neither r the Jersey boys nor led them where the bullets flew, but they were Jerseys” nevertheless, and he was their in the fond illusion ame thirty idea was *Ope-Armed Phil” of the tim. yearsafter, whether the pret uth or (m\ look upon Kearny as - military father; they family manor and keep his memory greon in countless ways as become brave soldiers for a fallen hero. While the gallant Taylor fell at their head and Torbe-t led them to many victories. and _half a dozen other brigadiers as well, Kearny has been idol vst, last and al- .7 Surely he was a \d figure ¢ body of men to tie to as marshal on the tented field, and the Jerseys were vali nt company for any man on horseback to fall in with while going to the wars. Being so well met, though their contact was brief, let their wraiths travel down fame's golden pathway to- gether, he First Jersey brigade was made up of certain 0dd volunteer companies left over from the three months quota in Avril, 1861, and other companies that ook time by the forelock, got them- selves up in military shape and were hoping the rebellion would not collapse without permitting New Jersey to get in alick, when Lincoln's second call to arms—Muy 3, 1861—made it seem to them a vleasure just to live. The First, Second and Third regiments hurried to the front and served in the reserves av Bull Run. iment First Fourth r 15t the batte nd AW N Light artillery—joined their and Philip Kearny, a hero of Jlds, already wearing an empty was co ioned brigadier to d them. Theold fighter was a stern, unbending martinet, and for seven montks he put the Jerseys through a of hammering that turned out 4,000 801 4,000 budding novi- cos had 5 upshot was a crac brigade, ahead of all its fellows 1n de- portment and drill. Kearny had a it, and the whole army, us well as half the country, admired the performance. S0 Kearny and his Jerseys were in fine feather before the fighting commenced. In April, 1862, when the army startod for the Peninsula, Kearny was pro- moted to the command of a division and separated from Jerseymoen for good. drified into the Sixth corps and ained there to the end. The first affair of blood was at Waest Point, on York river, May 7, where Hexamer repulsed a charge with canis- . ys made & counter- The division comrades of the Jerseys quickly concluded that Kearny hadn in farming out his soldier Iy reputation among such ready fight- It was at Gaines Mill, though, that Jersey bovs learned that the repell- ion w; a bubble to apse at the first pricking. Th Slocum’s division of re ter’s Fifth corps in a strugzie where the odds were two to ons. Colonel Torbert got up from his berth, sick with a feve: to follow his regiment. In the Second there were only four companies for dut but their leader, Colonel 1. M. ors. | the col Tucker, put them in the front line to relieve a full regiment that had been cut to pieces. Colonel Tucker was mortally wounded, and when some of his wen started to carcy him to the rear he called out, “Don’t mind me, but go ahead!” The major, H. O. Ryerson, then ran to the colors, waved his sword to rally the meo and was quickly shot down Iu this little battalion alone fifteen were killed and forty-eight wounded iuside of an hour. The Fourth regiment, under Colonel J. H. Simpson, refused 10 retreat when cut off from all support and defended its ground until fifty-two were killed and 103 . wounded, and gave up only when completely surrounded The Third lost fifty-eight killed and 136 wounded. The TiF8t lost killed and cighty waupded. Reserves always hm{ the hottest place v fin®"dny, and Kearny forty-four in a fight if the Inln-w((uc-u'\.l feel prend of the ranks that stood up until*#sarly 600 bit the dust out of less than 2000 en d. Every man doubts Bi& own courage and that of his fellows until the baptism of fire is passed, and thé' soldier who Jeft Gaines Mill field without deserving the hated brand of “cowsed™ had no longer envy in his hearti-far the heroes of Buena Vista and Chapultepoe. He was in the swim with the ‘‘battle scarred.” But the heads of fW Jerseys were not swollen with conceitover their exploit at Gaines Mill. ThéFe was a corner left for some of that plebeian enthusiasm they had shown in ths training camp, and one of their proudest boasts today is not their huge battle losses, but a com- pliment from ““One-Armed Phil” Kea It was at Glendale, in the “‘Seven after Gaines Mill, when ion neaded support in a hot fight with Longstreet's column. Then he sent a courier to another part of the field Lo summon his old brigade, and they responded by making a double- quick march, enlivened by lusty cheers for the hero who had won new laurels at Williamsburg and at Fair Oa ince parting with their company The enemy didn’t stand to meet the on- slaught of fresh reserves and Kearny took the will for the dead, as it was given, galinatly, in a way the boys never forgot. If Kearoy or some man with & romantic legend clinging to him had led the Jjersoys in their next fight tho pages of history would glow with an ex- ploit that one must search for with a calcium light as things are. body huzzahs over Stone- Juckson’s flank march around in August, 1862, and his of the union army stores at second Bull Manassas, the prologue to Run. The Jersey brigade happened to be the advance of Franklin’s Sixth corps, sent out in a_panic from Wash- inglon to find out what had become of Pope, as the telegraph and railroad had been cut between him and the capitol. The four regiments mustered only 1,100 men. General G. W. Taylor was in command. The instructions were “‘to find Pope or the enemy, "and the brigade proceeded alone by rail without opposi- tion, until it ed Bull Run bridge, where it was fired upon by a battery in position. Gene! ylor put his men in line and charged. The troops held their fire, velying upon the bayonet. When within 300 yards of the guns two other confederate batteries and four brigades of Jackson’s infantry, under A. P. Hill, opened from masked positions upon the ant column. = As a matter of course disaster fallowed. Taylordrew the men back in good order 1o the face of Hill’s pursuing regiments, and 1n making a stand at the bridge he was mortally wounded. Stonewall | «vkmm witnessed the fight, and 1n his ofii praised the Je men for th antry. The affair the hn"d]c about 350, about half the and wounded, but it taught the ar department that Washington was in danger, and led to the speedy relief of Pope. a number The next fight of the Jerseys like- wise unknown to fame. It was the storming of Crompton’s Pass, South The and when cha; all Mountain, Md., September 14,1 brigade formed the third line, the enemy was most defiant rail fences and &tone wal time under a peppery fire mountain side, and’ at last s rocky slopes over 200 feet high, whore the men had- to go onuil fours The Fourth regiment, just out of Liboy prison, eaptured two stands of eolors and enough muskets to rearm the whole command. The work was done at a spurt, but the loss was 174 killed and wounded. At Frederic , three months the Maryland campuign, the bri took the’ field re-enforced by th teenth New Jersey and the Twenty- third nine months’ regiment. The Fourth regiment, led by Colonel W. B, Hatch, and numbering 300 muskets, charged, under a fire of grape and ister, upon an enemy posted in a vay cut, carried the point. losing eighty n in the attempt, among vhem Colo- Hatch, mortall wounded. Just over the crestof Marye's Heights, in front of which this dash v made, the whole command c! ed, on May 1563, in the Chancello: ville fight. The Jerseys W reserve to the column that stormed Marye’s Heights, and, following up the successful assault, they ran into a heavy force of the enemy that stood at bay be- tween a breastwork of logs and brush at Salem church, three miles back of Marye’s Crest. The brigade, with the ption of the Fourth regiment, was enguaged for two hours and a half in a wrestie with superior numbers. The commanaer, Colonel H. W. Brown, was wounded; Colonel M. W. Collet of the irat was killed, Colonel Buck of the econd wounded, and the total loss was over 500. It was a hopeless fight. but a plucky one, and the new Fifteenth re, ment ga notice that New hr»q s fighting timber hadn’t been exhausted by the draft of Kearny's original 4,000, It lost 150 killed and wo d. Gettysburg, following Chancellors- ville, the Jerseys missed so far fight- ing was concerned, but they made the famous forced march of thirty-five miles which put the Sixth corps on'to the field in nick o’ time. After Gettysburg came the long wait until the Wildero 1564. Meanwhile the Twenty-thirc iment was discharged, and the Tenth took its place. Colonel Torbert had won spurs 100 big for plodding infantry to bright, and was given a cavalry on under Sheridan, so for the third time the brigade lost a dashing ecom- Colonel Brown of the Third nt succeeded him. Two years of stead¥fighting had re- duced the original ‘¥eur regiments to mere battalio Eachthad its colonel killed in battle. 'With' only a month 2t 10 serve they entered the bloodiest ampaign of the war, and every step y took toward Righmwond was marked v boys' of the b d of at the Wilder- Ryerson of the th as a sort of ini- the regiment hands. The May and and Shu t with dead Jer. 1861, In the first ness Colonel H. O. enth was shot to de; tintion sacrifice to place on a footing with the old hardest fighting of the Wilderness, 6 and 7, was shared by these tn, men, at Spottsyl the Sth 10th 12th, the different r to get into eve with the heroic rep9, now with the fiery Upton, and again with the superh, In nine days—May b to 14—the First regiment lost 224, of waich 40 were kill the Second, 93, 14 of them killed; the Third, 158, of which 47 wera killed the Fourth, 185, of which 58 were killed; the Tenth, 146, 23 of them killed, and the Flfteenth, thatenterea the shambles with 15 officers and 420 men, emerged with only 6 officers and 136 wmen. Its killed alone in five days of the unequal slaughter reached the enormous \um\ of 116, or over 26 per .cent., dead on the field. This regiment came out with the highest roil of honor in the state. Its killed numbered 240, and 190 of them belonged to the original 957 that joined the old brigade in 1862 The original four regiments of Phil Kearny's day were discharged at Cold Harbor in June, Their death rolls were Hancock, as follows: First, 2 Second, O 157, Fourth, 161. Hexawmer's made a wonderful record for exe but it was fortunate enough to placa the big death roll on the enwmy’s side, & way thoss so diers have who substitute ence for dash in fighting. hird, battery tion, The Washingion Parade, Commander-in-Chief Palmer an- nounces that it has boen decided not to admit into the parade at Washington who are not members of a regular Grand Army post. wssigns r son that there will be 80,000 regular Grand Army men in line and it will take ten hours to pass a given point, and to admit all visiting voterans would makea procession that would be almost end he argues It is stated that the veterans wili be taken over the same grounds that were traversed in the grand review of 1864 - ADVERTISING A BIG SHOW. How the Ringling Ilrul, C ning of Their Groat The readers of THE BEE, during the past week socn the way in which the Ringling are advertising the coming *World's Greatest Shows’ to Monday, August1, have been impressed by the seemingly reck less expenditure of money in that direc- tion, and something about the methods employed in advertising this big show will be intaresting. The Ringling Brothers spend more in prelimipary arrangements and inadver- tising their great amusement enterprise than any other circus management now before the people. Their s and billposters alone comprise an army of employes more pumerous than the en- tire number of people employed b, many shows of considerable pretensior Their contract with one printing house alone this season for one kind of litho- graph paper was for the enormous sum of $125,000. There is no printing house in America that could handle al their advertising matter and get it out with the rapidity with which they re- quire it There are a multitude of details which must be arranged before the big show can exhibit in a city, and each series of details is looked after by agents especially engaged for that purpose. The first intimation that the circus con- templates a visit is when the general agent and his assistants _ arrive After they have satisfactorily arranged the license with the authori- ties, they must secure a lot on which to give the exhibition. At first sight this seems a very mple matter, but it is not. The Ri Bros.” show is so vast that no ordinary lot will suffice, and considerable difficulty is often ex- perienced in getting a plot of ground large enough to admit of the erection of the enormous hippodrome and men rie pavilions, us well as the v city of other tents required to who have lavish Brothers of the Omaha, undoubtedly ng is the 350 head of stock and other acc sories of the w, to say nothing of the cook tents, the blacksmith shop and the contracts for for the | as the and sideshow. Then there are supplies of all kinds to be made hundreds of employes as wi stock and wild animals must be fed the suppl must n rily be fu thé people in the cities where the is ex Now comes a very ess the preliminary work he "h. ed,” as (ht- circ al feature of Tho show must s men suy, and for the posting of xh« bright-hued citeus 1t would never do to wait until llposters came along before secur- ing places to advantageously disp! the announcements of the big shows coming. This would wasle too much time, and, besides, after all the 1ls and fences and billboard: in the city have been secured the re not half ecough to satisfy the paste-bucket brigade, and whole acres of temporary billboards must be contracted for and erected befcre the billposting begins. That means a lot of mone the ear sum left with the owne where the lots are rented for the erec- tion of billboards. About this time, al the general press agent and his a ciatos are arranging with the newspapers in the city as well us the rural press within a radius of sixty miles or more, to announce the coming of this great show. The newspupers are never slighted, for they ognized as the most powerful of all agents in securing the attention of the public. and thou- sands upon thousands of dollars are ex- pended in this direction e ar. Following close upon the preliminary arrangements comes the first of the four advertising cars used by the Ring- ling Brothers. It is designated as No. 1. Nonovice would imagine that this \gnificent railway coach was used for advertising purposes. Itis the largest and finest advertising car ever con- structed. From the outside it has the structural appearance of a Puliman pal- ace car, except that it is painted pure white, with illuminated gold lettering and trimmings. This car occupied a prominent position on the tracks of the Elkhorn road in Council Bluffs on Mon- day and Tuesday of the past we snd at ed a great deal of attention. The interior is finished in hardwood. There is an office for Mr. A. G. Ringli who directs the first brigade, and slceping accommodations for thirty billposters, of which there is a full complement, In one corner there isa complete printing office and large press, and in another o great boiler, used in making the paste used in pusting the bills, Twelve bar- is of paste are used by car No. 1 every in the morning, if the ved during the night, or as soon as possible after ite arrival if it reaches town by daylight, the bill- posters are divided into squads and put to work. Some of the squads, with the aid of the regular iicensed city billpos- day car has ar ter, cover all the bourds in town, while the others take teams, which the contracting nts have previ- ously. arrangad for, =nd driviog. oub into the country cover every barn and fence and outbuilding for which permis- sion can be secured with the beautiful pictorini paper used by the show. Within twelve hours these bustiing fel- lows, with their paste buck paper, can literally cover thirty miles territory in every direction. they aré through there is no lon doubt but that the biggest of big s is coming to town. When advertisiug ¢ few days later the same oper: peated, and much wonde cts of When as the second br paper put up by posters on th repeat this seemingly extravagant tuus insure the br ness of the “‘stands. The fourth car is devoted principally to excursion work and distributing the small bills and fold- ers of the show All this pr under the dir procedure, und tness and cleanli- iminary work 1s conducted ot supervision of the five Ringling brothers, who comprise the le owners and proprietors of the show, and the system they have inaugurated is the admiration of all intelligent show- men. L A coutract involving the expenditure of 2,000,000 has beed closed in St Louls. It is stated that nearly all the surface-car lines iu the city will be consolidated, a0d counect- ed tuto & sungle electric tem s If you do not use & whole bottle of Cook's Extra Dry Champague st once, & rubber cork will keep it for dsys. Iam aTrav'ling mant 1l tell you of my plan, In spite of all temptation 1 pursue my old vocation, I'm stilla Trav'ling man! A jolly Fairbank man} CHORUS : For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is a Trav'ling man! That he is a Fairbank m, SANTA CLAUS SOAP Sold by Traveling men and Grocers Everywhere. Manufactured only & N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., Chicago, Il ”mossmmomso “‘““““““ HE RIPANS TABULES regulate the stomach, liver and bowels, purify the blood, are pleasant to take, safe and always effectual. A reliable remedy for Biliousness, Blotches on the Face, Bright's Disease, Catarrh, Colic, Constipation, Chronic Diarrheea, Chronic Liver Trouble, Diabetes, Disordered Stomach, Dizziness, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, E atule Female Complaints, Foul Breath, Headache, Heartburn, Hiv Jaundice, Kidney Complaints, Liver Troubles, Loss of Appetite, Mental Depression, Nausca, Nettle Rash, Painful Digestion, Pim- ples, Rush of Blood to the Head, Sallow Com- plexion, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Scrofula, Sick Headache, Skin Diseases, Sour Stome ach, Tired Feeling, Torpid Liver, Ulcers, Water Brash and every other symptom or dis- ease that results from impure blood or a failure in the proper performance of their functions by the stomach, liver and intestines. Persons given to over-eating are benefited by taking one tabule after each meal. A continued use of the Ripans Tabules is the surest cure for obstinate constipation. They contain nothing that can be injurious to the most delicate. 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