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THE NJRTH"GEORGIA CITIZEN, DALTON, GA.
TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS
FOR OUR CAPE DEPARTMENT
We will offer six of our best $5*°°
Misses’ Jackets for $3.75 each. SIX
ONLY. First come, first served
Immense new line of
Hisses’ Jackets
Children’s Reefers.
Just received. Our cut price sale of
Capes advertised in last week’s Citizen
will continue for another week. No
reasonable offer on Capes will be re
fused. This is for one week only.
Our Hillinery
Department
is yet much crowded, but with in
creased force we can wait on trade
promptly. Our big line of
Drummer’s Samples
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are now all opened up. Come in while
they are yet fresh.
H. J. HERRON,
St NO. 2, OPERA HOUSE.
THE MILLINER.
WITH THE CIRCUS PEOPLE.
The Romance and Novelty of the No
madic Life.
A Citizen man caught Colonel
Frost, the business manager of
Pawnee Bill, just after breakfast
circus day, and got our auger into
him for some gaff about his busi
ness. He was asked was he ever
an advance agent for e. show.
“Was I ever the advance agent
of a circus ? Well, I should smoke
a ham. I was the advance agent
of the largest circus on the face
of the earth for its size. It was
run by a man named Sam Macduff,
and was called the Anglo-Egyptian
Circus. Hippodrome and Menag
eries. Where Macduff got the
name I never could find out, hut
Macduff was a man that could go
out and dig up something from
the unfathomable depths of the
intangible. There were twenty-
one performers in our circus, nine
of which were Macduff, and four
of which were his wife. Macduff
was three clowns—the singing
clown, the acrobatic clown and
the clown with the trained dogs
and ponies. He was also the Jap
anese juggler, the heavy-weight
lifter, one of the O’Neil broth
ers, horizontal-bar performers, the
slack-wire walker, the Egyptian
contortionist, and the man with
the iron jaw. His wife was the
snake-charmer, the queen of the
flying trapeze, the graceful and
fascinating witch of the swinging
hoops, and Mdle. de Lofti Oofty
Gooft, the marvelous bareback
rider. In this turn she rode a
draught horse with a back as broad
as the top of a freight car. In
addition to his other duties, Mac
duff acted as ringmaster and took
tickets at the door, while his wife
was mistress of the wardrobe and
took care of her two babies. Every
body hustled with that circus—es
pecially on salary day. All the
canvassmen were knights in the
parade, and the performers outside
of Mac used to double in brass.
In the great street parade, which
consisted of a band wagon, a
spavined elephant, a rheumatic
camel—which two animals formed
our menagerie nine battered
cages that looked like pie wagons,
and a calliope that saw its best
days playing the wedding march
when John Smith married Poca-
hontus. Mac’s wife was the god
dess of liberty, and Mac rode
ahead in a buggy with the mayor
of the town, generally, announcing
as follows :
“ ‘ Follow the parade to the
show grounds, good people, and
see the grand, free exhibesheeun.
Mine. Mahhattan Beach, the most
renowned ayeereonawt the world
ever saw, will, at the risk of her
life, make a grand, free balloon
acsension, going to the hite of
4,000 feet up in the air, after
which she will cut loose and come
down again, holding on the handle
of an umbrella. If she don’t land
within ten feet of the place where
she goes up we will forfeit to the
charitable institutions of this fair
city the sum of $10,000. Besides
this marvelous and blood-curdling
feat, there are others. Remember,
good people, that we give two
performances every day we are in
your city, the afternoon perform
ance commencing at 2 p. m., and
the evening performance com
mencing at 7 p. m. The admis
sion is 10 cents, reserved seats 25
cents, and every seat is a reserved
seat. Come early and stay till
the show is out. All youse people
with horses hitched along the
street get out and hold ’em, be
cause we are closely followed by
Gumbo, a brother to the famous
Jumbo, the largest elephant in
captivity.’
“ The whole town used to fol
low the parade to the show
grounds, and Mac used to get up
and announce that the balloon as
cension was off because the town
didn’t have the right kind of gas
to fill the balloon with. And so
it went day after day.
We travelled up branches by
rail on one little train and played
at towns that are not on hte map.
I forgot to mention a feature of
the circus that was considered by
Macduff the best we had. It was
a quartette consisting of Slim
Gaffney, Mike the Chaw, Kelley
the Rat, and the German gladia
tor, expert second-story workers,
porch-climbers, lifters, strong-arm
men, body snatchers and gold-brick
salesmen. They used to work the
unoccupied houses during the pa
rade, ‘ spiel the nuts ’ on the show
ground, or lot, as we used to call
it, rob dwellings and stores at
night when the town was at the
show, hold up people on the high
way, and endeavor to sandbag the
town official we had paid our li
cense money to and take it away
from him. In this endeavor they
were often successful, and I know
of one time down in Kansas when
we paid the same license money
in five different places. The
quartette worked on commission,
and gave a per cent, of what they
stole to Macduff. In return for
this he protected them in case they
got arrested, and furnished them
with transportation with the show.
Don’t you think with this aggre
gation that a man in his right
mind ought to have a snorting
time ?
“ I joined the show as a candy
butcher, selling ‘carmine lemon
ade ’ on the high seats. I joined
also under false pretenses, because
I assured Mac that I was a circus
man, whereas I was honest. I’ll
never forget the experience I had
the first day with the show. The
boss of the candy butchers was a
fellow we called Saltzmann, which
was not his name. This day he
had made a mash on a nice, red
cheeked country girl, and it being
a principle in the circus business
never to overlook a bet, he started
in early to make himself good.
To do this he went out with the
girl in the morning, leaving me to
make the lemonade and fix up the
stand. I had never made any cir
cus lemonade, but I had drank
some, and I knew that it wanted
to be about as thin as a buffet
sandwich. I found in the stock
fourteen lemons, two pounds of
sugar, half a barrel of citric acid,
and a bucket of anniline. After
considerable figuring around for
some time I made a barrel of lem-
onad, using therein thirty-six gal
lons of water, nine lemons, about
fourteen ounces of sugar, a hatful
of citric acid, and enough anniline
to make the decoction as red as
the awning in front of a country
drug store. I stirred it up well,
and took my life in my hands to
the extent of tasting it. It tasted
like a mixture of asafoetida,
Belcher water, clam juice, New
Orleans molasses and extract of
green persimmons. It wasn’t near
as bad, however, as some circus
lemonade I had poisoned myself
with, and I flattered myself that,
after I put ateut a quarter’s worth
of ice in it, I would have about
the best and least expensive mass
of lemonade ever shown under
canvass. Just as I was getting a
curve in my arm from patting my
self on the back, Saltzmann made
his appearance in rare good humor.
He waltzed up to the barrel, whis
tling a gay tune, and took a taste
of the lemonade. Then he looked
at me for a full minute before he
did a thing, after which he slapped
me on the side of the head, left
side and right side, alternately,
until I thought I was one of Ihe
component parts of a fanning-mill.
When I recovered consciousness
Saltzmann had purchased two more
barrels, into each of which he
poured about one-third of the lem
onade I had made. Then he filled
all three barrels up with water
and added a few more quarts of
anniline and a few more pounds
of citric acid. Scornfully gazing
at me, he remarked:
“ ‘Well, well, well. If you ain’t
duh coarest stuff dat ever come
over duh plate. Say, d’yu want
ter bust this show? Dey’s enuff
material used in dat mess you put
up to make a home-made limmon-
ade bat’ fur duh feet of Milly
Mills.’
“ ‘After that I watched Saltz
mann make lemonade just once,
and I then discovered that one real
good circus lemonade-maker can
make enough red lemonade to
float a ship with the expenditure
of about 10 cents in time and
money.
“The day I started out to sell
goobernuts and ‘lemmo’ on the
high seats Saltzmann gave me a
piece of advice, which was never
to have any mercy on anybody
that was sucker enough to give a
candy butch a big piece of money.
I bore his advise in mind for about
two weeks, but I never had a
chance to put it into effect until
one afternoon a man with long
gray whiskers and a confiding look
bought some lemonade for him
self and dear old wife. I felt
sorry for him until he handed me
a $20-bill, and then I thought of
the advise of Saltzmann. I was a
little nervous and I guess I
showed it, but I played my hand
out to perfection. I placed my
tray containing about twelve glas
ses of lemonade carefully on his
lap and unceremoniously dropped
down through the seats, alighting
on the small of my back, about
fifteen feet below. Then I skated
out under the tent, and in five
minutes was about five miles
away and running strong, with
the long green clasped carefully
in my right hand. I met the
show at the next stand, and Mac,
after collecting $10 from me as
his share of my touch, compli
mented me on my ready wit, as
sured me I would make a circus
man if I stuck to the business, and
promoted me to the position of
door-keeper.
“The first day I was on the
door I felt prouder than a man
with a new set of false teeth. I
had my head up in the air until I
looked like a horse with a short
overcheck on. A little after the
grand march a big, husky man,
wearing a breath like the odor of
a conflagration in a barrel house,
slouched up to the door and asked
me if I reckunnized th’ ‘perfesh.’
I informed him that the only ‘per
fesh’ we recognized was the ‘per
fesh’ that purchased their tickets
at the big wagon. He said he
was a boss eanvasman, and I told
him that it spelled nothing with
me if he was the boss of the cook
tent; he couldn’t get into the
show without letting go of his
money the same any other sucker.
As I said this he reached out and
soaked me a punch in the side of
the head that made me see all the
stars at the Lick observatory. I
came back at him, however, and
tried to hit him with my fists. All
that saved me from assassination
was the fact that I had sense
enough to call ‘Hey, Rube!’ and
some of the employes of the show
came out and beat the boss can-
vasman half to death. After the
row, as I was anointing my eye
with the raw hindquarters of a
beef and wishing I was dead, Mac
came up to me and said:
“ ‘My boy,’ said be, ‘I don’t see
much chance of making a circus
man out of you even if I did say
so a little while ago. Any ass
that has teen with the show as
long as you have and refuses ad
mission to a boss eanvasman ought
to go out and try to get somebody
to stake him to enough money to
take a course in an agricultural
college. And any prize ass that
has been in the circus business as
long as you have and tries to
fight with his fists ought to be
scalped with a knife. What do
you suppose them tent stakes is
fur that is kept standing up along
side the ticket box? Do you
think they are there for ornament?
Do you think they serve the pur
pose of brie a-brac. Not on your
last year's salary. Them stakes
is there to protect the man on the
door. The first raw play is made
it is your play to pick up one of
them and fracture somebody’s
skull. If you can’t do it the first
time, try it again. I’ll overlook
it this time, because you’re a little
damp behind your ears yet in the
show busiuess, but if it ever oc
curs again I’ll cut your suspen
ders if we’re a thousand miles
away from winter quarters. Now,
chase around and count up, and if
there’s any shortage in the box
I’ll charge it to your salary.
“Well, they kept me on the
door for awhile and I got to know
the business pretty well, when the
man that was selling tickets in the
big red wagon got wealthy and
concluded he’d go off and join a
bigger show. Mac put me in the
ticket office. Before installing
me he told me one day in confi
dence:
“This job does not pay a sal
ary. It pays a percentage, and
the percentage is just what you
make it. See?
“I was constrained to confess
that I did not see.
“ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I’li make it
plainer. ‘You see, there’s a
whole lot of people come up to
that ticket wagon that ain’t got
no right to have money at all.
They don’t know how to take care
of it and they don’t know how to
spend it. They put big money in
the window, expecting to get their
right change back. See?
“I told him I was beginning to
find that something was beginning
to seep into my comprehension.
“ ‘I’m glad you’re on,’ says Mac.
‘Now some people might call it
stealing, but they ain’t in the cir
cus business. We don't call it
stealing, because we know it ain’t
stealing. We know that by get
ting hold of as much as we can of
other people’s money as the world
goes round, we save them a good
deal of trouble and sorrow, because
if we didn’t take part of it some
wise guy is liable to jump in some
time and steal it all. We are ver-
tually bankers for people that do
not know how to take care of their
own money, only we don’t pay any
interest. We don’t pay any prin
cipal either uidess the depositor
makes a good strong holler and we
get afraid he’ll put the fly hobs on.
That’s the circus doctrine that has
been in vogue since the days of
Dan Rice. In that box office you
are a banker and a philanthropist.
Everything that comes in is yours,
unless a holler comes up and they
force you to give it back again.
And if you make any false plays
that will cast discredit on the pro
fession I’ll have you in a place
where you’ll be pinched on sus
picion of being hungry and will
have to plead guilty to the charge.
All you have in the wagon after
we check up and you pay for the
tickets that come in at the door is
yours—for a minute. At the ex
piration of that time you are to
count up your pile, in which oper
ation I will assist, and then split
it into two piles, one containing
forty and the other sixty per cent.
The sixty per cent, pile goes to
me and the forty per cent, pile
goes to you. In the circus busi
ness your share is known as the
grafter’s bit. I hope I have made
myself sufficiently plain, and I am
of the opinion that after I get in
(Continued on 3d page).
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this is done the foul matter is a |J
sorbed and poisons the system I
Use Herbine to bring about reoj
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Lowry Drug Co., Dalton, Ga.
Nov.
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the system use Herbine. YoJ
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Price 50cts. Lowry Drug Co
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DALTON, GA.
Established 1869. Losses paid darij
that time over $250,000.
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Physician and Surgeon
Surgeon Southern Railway.
Office 11 King St.
Telephone 4. Residence Telephone 31
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