The Cecil Whig., 1869-11-13
Struggles and Triumphs.

uds octu ihuuCeu W give tHc pupliC III
"experiences" during forty active years
in large volume of 800 pages, adorned
with over thirty excellent engravings. His
public career of over " forty busy years
has been most eventful, and is recited to II.
herein in spirited narrative, beguiling the
reader irresistably on to the end as surely a!
he opens the book. The work is not only
exceedingly instructive in that interesting
study, "human nature" but abounds will
humorous anecdotes well told. Whoever
likes fun mingled with good sense, or woule
learn "men and things" thoroughly, and
chow to get along in the world" ant
"make money" will be delighted will
Barnum's "4Strugglcs and TrtumpAs.'
The book contains his celebrated lecture
on "The Art of Money Getting" which
excited SO much interest and comment in
England and this country, a few years ago,
and which is worth in itself many times
the cost of the book AS traveller, Bar.
mum exhibits as much genius as in any
other charater, and it is highly amusing tc
follow him on his journeys. The typogra-
ply of the book is excellent, of clear, bold
type, easily read, and does credit to the
publishers.
"Struggles and Triumphs" is peculiar
book in every way, and is one of those works
fortunately adapted for domestic reading, to
be taken up, if one likes, "every now and
then" and, opened at any page, furnishing
cheerful reading for the passing hour
However, whoever takes it up will be apt
to be lured on to the end before he stops, SO
full of interest is it.
We give our readers an extract from the
book -
The managers of railroads running
west from Chicago pretty rigidly enforce a
rule excluding from certain reserved cars
all gentlemen travelling without ladies. AS
I do not smoke, I avoided the smoking cars;
and as the ladies' car was sometimes more
select and always more comfortable than
the other cars, l tried various expedients
to smugglc myself in. If l saw lady
about to enter the car alone, l followed
closely, hoping thus to elude the vigilance
of the brakeman, who generally acted as
door-keeper. But the car Cerberus is pretty
we'll up to all such lodges, and l did not
always succeed. On one occasion, seeing a
young couple, evidently just married, and
starting on a bridal tour, about to enter the
car, I followed closely, but was stopped by
the door-keeper, who called out:
How many gentlemen are with this
lady?'
/ have always noticed that young newly
married people are very fond of saying 'my
husband and my wife : they are new
terms which sound pleasantly to the ears of
those who utter them so in answer to the
peremptory inquiry of the door-keeper, the
bridegroom promptly responded:
Il am this lady's husband
'And guess you can see by the resem-
blance between the lady and myself, said
I to Cerberus, that / am her father
The astonished husband and the blushing
bride were too much ''taken back to de-
ny their newly-discovercd parent, but the
brakeman said, as he permitted the young
couple to pass into the car:
'We can't pass all creation with one
lady
Il hope you will not deprive me of the
company of my child during the little
time we can remain together I said with a
demure countenance. The brakeman evil
IDENTIFY sympathized with the fond "pari-
cnt whose feelings were sufficiently lacer-
ated at losing his daughter through her
finding husband. and l was permitted to
pass. l Immediately apologized to the
young bride and her husband, and told
them who was and my reasons for the
assumed paternity, and they enjoyed the
joke so heartily tina t they called me IA
ther' during our entire journey together.
Indeed, the husband privately and slyly
limited to me that the first boy should be
christened p. T. My friend the Rev. DIR.
Chaplin, by the by All inverterate punster,
is never tired of ringing the changes on the
names in my family; he says that my wife
and l are the most sympathetic couple he
ever saw, since she is 'Charity and l am
Pity (P. t. On one occasion at my
house in New York, he called my attention
to the monogram, F. T. B., on the door
and said, l did it.. did what, | asked:
why that, replied the doctor, p. T. B.,
Pull The Bell, of course thus literally
ringing new change on my initials.
At another time during my western lee
turing trip, was following closely in the
wake of a lady who was entering the favor
ite car, when the brakeman exclaimed:
You can't go in there, sir!'
'Irather guess can go in with a lady, )
said l, pointing to the one who had lust
entered.
Not with that lady, old fellow; for l
happen to know her, and that is more than
you do; we are up to all these travellers
tricks out here; it's no go
! saw indeed that it was no 90 and
that l must try something else; Look
here, my dear fellow, said |, i am travel
ing every day on the railroads. on lectur-
ing tour throughout the West, and I
really hope you will permit me to take 4
scat in the ladies' car. am Barnum. the
Museum man from New York
Looking sharply at me for an instant, the
altogether too wide-awake brakeman ex-
claimed: Not by d-n sight you amt!
know Barnum =
could not help laughing; and pulling
several old letters from my pocket, and
showing him the directions on the envel-
opcs, / replied:
well, you may know him, but the sold
fellow has changed in his appearance. per-
haps. You see by these letters that I am
the 'crittur.'
The brakeman looked astonishcd, but
finally said: We'll, that is fact sure
enough. l know you when come to look
again, but really did not believe you at
first. You see we have all sorts of tricks
played on us, and we learn to doubt every
body. You are very welcome togo in, Mr.
Barnum, and am glad to see you, and as