The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-11-23


shop il. the Rue l,iyol brit could not sell pencils
enough to pay av rent; w:icrc!:., by ASSUMING;
In ..is.$C--it is n: mig cls3l have succceded
insa;tracting general attciiioi ard il selling lite
rally millions o. NY ileGc;.s and assure you
there IS al this m0inant scarcely al artist III
Trance or III Grcat Britain who ;oIt know that
byfar the best black lead pencils ever
scnn.
Ard :nis assertion was inlcc;, ,vuc His pencils
were cvcryThare Acknowledged ~ 10 superior to
While lie vas thus addressing his audience, he
would take blank card, md 'rth one of his pen
cis would pretend 10 b: drawing thc portrait Of
some man standing. near him; ;hcn SLOWING his
nc;uro TO thc crowd, it provcd 70 be the hea of
donkey, which, og co;irs:. produced shouts OF
lauShtes; J., vo;; see What wonderful rencils
these are? Did you ever behold more striking
4 hearty laugh wouli be sure to follow, and
t,on he world Gxclaim: ''Now who will have TIC
frsi i' 'pencil-only five sous?7 One would buy, and
then another; third ana 1onr.m %ou,a i1iloW: @
flo m string of wtticisnls which kept his patrons
IN in cortal rootl-humor; and frequently he would
soII from Two hundred to five hundred pencils i'll
Immediate succession Then ne would crop ao%n .1,a
r,orsn;raton from his face while his servant play
oppnthor overture on tho organ. This gave his
,urrhosers vu chance to withdraw, and Afforded
ppoot1 onnortl,nity for fresh audience to cOnsre-
gate Then would follow fepettinIn M OF Ms Pre-.
tn,,rs To those disposed to have somre'ltr of
,hc rreat humbue he would sell six pencils, me-
dsl and photograph OF himself for franc (twen-
tv centsl. After taking rest lie would commence
new speech.
He sad 70 Mr.. Barnrm:
.:Aha, You never saw better pencils. You
know could never maintain my reputation il
soI,i poor pencils. But, S0cJe bteu, my miserable
wond-be in,itatOrs do not know o,ir grand secret
First. attract the public by din and tiusel, by bril-
liant sky-rockcts and Bcngola lights, then give
them aa much as possible for their money"
Most of our young readers will remember
GRIZZLY ADAMS AND HIS BEARS,
who exhibited i'll New York some years ago:
and will be Interested i'll Mr.. Darnum's account of
tl,c man, part Of which We extract:
When Adams and his other wild beasts (fur he
was nearly as wild as any OF thcm) arrived Ill
New York, he called Immediately at tho Museum.
He was dressed i'll his hunters suit of buckskln,
trimmed with the skins and bordered with the
his cap consisting Of the skin of wolf head and
shoulders, from which depended several tails as
natural as life, and under which appeared his
stiff hushy gray hair and his long white grizzly
heard. In fact, Old Adams was quite as much en- OF OF
Horn on tho slipper ship Golden Fleece. and
seq VOYAGE of three and half months had prob
ally not a,l,lcl much to the bcanty or n"at ",'
pc::rance Of the old bear-hri,tcr. .c
I,ur;n;c o- conversation, GflZHy tuanla took on
his ear, and siowe-i na the top OF his head. His
.iu.i VAS literally broken in. II had ON various
occasions been struck by the fearful paws oi his
grill str,ioi4t- alld the last blow from the bear
ssaiicd Gcncral Fremont had laid open his Lraii,
so that its workings were plainly visible. re-
marked that l thought that Was a dangerous
wound. and might probably prove fatal.
.:Ycs." replied Adams, 'that will fix me ont. Il
had nearly healed: lut old Fremont opened it for
f. IL. l~..re. tafk Nn1,
fori,ia, and he did his business 90 thoroughly I'm
a uscd-up man. However, l reckon may live slX
months Or u year yet.
This was spoken as coolly as If he had been talk
ing about the life Of dog.
upon me was this I had purchased onc-haf in
terost in his California menagcrie from man WHO
had conc by way Of the Isthmus from California,
and WHO claimed to own An equal interest with
Adams in the show. Adams declared that the man
had only advanced him some money, and did not
possess the right to sell half Of the concern How
yor. tho man held bill of sae for one-haf OF the
"Calforria Menageric," and Old Adams finally
consented to accept me as an equal partner in the
speculation. saying that he guessed conh no 'hc
nai,acing part, and .,e woiild show up III. AMI
mall | nD;nnc,; 4 CANVAS teG;. and erecting II
Oh .;.c i,rcsr.. site q Wsiiacks Theatre. Adams
there 0peEcd his move! Edl''u:lii. ;irnage.i" O.i
the norni"e nj or>2' ~ "a - ',;:'' r-s;e"'';
,,nct--'c ~ a,!t;i!a, cases, !o1l! ErU&iiway and
III, the H.,.,o.j: O!d tanis, dressed ii his hurting
.,os;nne. heating liz line, s:th n platform! Wagon
~, ,y:,ich were placed three immense c-iiZl' bears.
two OF which he held by chaiiis while he was
mounted On the back of the largest grizzly, whici:
stood in the centre, and WAS not secured i'll any
manner whatever. This WAS the bear KNOWN as
General Fremont" and 81 docile had he become
that Adams sad he had used linn as pacl; bear
70 carry his cooking and hunting aplaratuss
t.rourl, the mountains Tor six months. ana hId
ridden him lundTeds Of imas. Bat apparently
dccii, ~ wcrc may ii these animals, there was
not one among them that would not occasonally
rive c;en Adams sly blow Or Il sly bite when
Snaa chance Gfierc,i; hence: Old Adams was but
wreck Of his former solF
His wife caino from Massachusetts to New York
and nursei him. D. Johns dressed his wounds
cyory dav. and not nilY told ADAMS lic could never
recover, hut asslrcd,,s friends that prnhahiF
very few weeks wouldiay him in his grave.
Bnt Adams WAS Al firm rs atlaniant and rs
rcsolute as y lion. Among tho thousands who
saw him dressed in is grutcs4uc hunters suit,
and witnessed the APPARENT vigor with whic! he
'.pcrformcd" the savsgc monsters, beating and
whipping them into apparently tho most perfect
docility, probably no ono suspected that this
rough, fiercc-ooking, sowerfill demi-sayage as lie
appeared to bo, was altering intense pain from
nothing kept him from stretching himself on his
iioati,-bei but that met indomitable and extraor
dinary will Of his.
After the exhibition had been open six wccks,
the doctor insisted ths Adams should sell out his
share in tho animals md settle up nll his worldly
affairs. for he assurai him that he WAS growing
weaker every day, ard ais earthly existence must
soon terminate.
~ shall live gooildc,l longer than you doctors
think for" replied idims, doggedly; and thon,
seeming after all to rmlizc the truth of the doc
unl