The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-12-17

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New York World.
"It was while was down in Mexico
before Maximilian's death, va
partner in Reynolds one horse circus
We played under a wall canvas ten
and almost exclusively to darkies. 70
it was 60 Internally hot that the whit
people wouldn't come ont. I had
frst-rate tight-rope walke-. and in I
six-weeks' trip cleared nearly 81. 600
Finally in our journeyings We reaches
Houston, Texas. While I Was stand
ing outside the canvas one day . younl
man came up and accosted me viii
Are you the man that's got the tight
rope walker! If 50, you ought to hav'
a Jumper
well, what then ?"
"Can you jump"
II can beat Sam Patch all to pieces
They call me Sam patch. JE."
"What's your business ?"
ooh. I'm a reporter. but want h
get into the show business"
Il looked him over, he was q littl,
bit of fellow didn't weigh Q hun
dred pounds, and so thin you coult
almost read a newspaper through him
Why said l, you won't do you an
too light; half q gust Of wind woult
blow you away"
"Oh, said he. don't you make any
mistake about me; 1 am q reporter,
and whatever We undertake, we do
1 tell you can jump; DOW try me-"
81 liked the fellows pluck. and 60
took him to freight building neal
by, and he jumped from a window
seventy-feet from the ground to the
water and landed all right. as sound u
a dollar.
"Well," thought l, may be there
is money in him after ALL So ! tool
him down to Galveston and put him
up at the Washington hotel in style.
Then / went to Kukn's wharf, which
was nicely fenced in and where q large
vessel was lying. ! easily got permis.
sion for him to jump from the royal
yard, which was just l04 feet above
the water. Then We started 70 work
up the town, and in q couple of days
we had it up to fever heat. 1t was full
of broken down actors, gamblers,
bushwhackers, common cut-throata
and all sorts of outlaws, and this Was
just the thing to please them. !
charged no admission, but announced
that We would take up collection on
the wharf.
"The day broke beautifully and
everything looked favorable for US.
Early in the morning crowds went
down to the wharf. Long before the
hour for the Jump the streets were
literally jammed. and I thought COM
placently of the jolly pile we should
have to divide in the evening. The
first thing that rather staggered me
was when 1 went to pay the bar bill
at the hotel and the barkeeper told
me that my young man had had that
morning SIS worth of whiskey, which,
at % cents . nip, makes just sixty
drinks. / thought this q pretty liberal
amount Of Dutch courage, but - he
did not show it, l simply said to my
self. There is no knowing how much
whiskey actors and reporters can
drink, and We walked down to the
ship together. but he was q miserable
looking specimen, and l was pretty
we'll ashamed of him. Well, / got
him on the vessel ut last. got him
rugged out in q sort of q halfway cir
Gus costume, with trunks and . pair
Of stout boots to save his feet when
he struck the water, and left him to
show himself on the deck and in the
rigging, and finally to be hoisted up
ia a boatswain's chair to the royal
yard, which, as l said before, was 104
feet above the water, while l went on
The deck to take up the collection.
And there is where l made the mis-
AXE for the captain, q Rood-natured
I'D soul. seeing how seedy my man
ooked, thought to brace him up. and
% gave him a tremendous horn of
Scotch whiskey, and that, on top of
Ill the Bourbon he had been drink
ng. settled him of course, but / knew
nothing about it.
Il was hard at work and had COL
'cted about s85. when / heard one |
,reat cry of horror, and looking up
aw my man flying through space.
t seems they hoisted HIM up all right
nd stood him on the yard-arm, but
'e did not take q good hold of the
tay, and before he was ready q gust
{ wind came along and blew him of.
lie made two or three revolutions in
he air anG finally struck the water
quarely on his back, knockin him
enseless.
Instantly the crowded streets were
] q perfect ferment of excitement,
Women cried, men cursed and swore.
o add to the confusion q team of
orses ran away, and in . few mo
tents 1 heard cries, Lynch him
'nch him :" You bet l made tracks
r the Washington hotel and got
nder cover as soon Is possible. III
i'd been FIVE minutes later / would
ot be here now telling this story and
aiting anxiously for Fulton to say
der" |,
"Well, after a while they brought {
i'm to the hotel. and when the crowd /,
I'd been turned out I went to eco him. &
e was cold, motionless, and with
It pulse. ! made up my mind be
as dead, and that the only thing for Z
e to do was to make arrangements to Q
we him decently buried, keep quiet
r a day or two, and then get out Of q
wn. The afternoon pa2er were Z
II Of it. and the town was in q per- {