Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-09-28
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Foolharay Feat in Il Menagerie

An announcement made by the crier
on Wednesday evening that man name d
William SatnuelE, a local iLpkeeper and
the cham piOn boxer of Wales, would enter
alone q den of lions at Nessr7. Womb
wells menagerie, noE at Swansea, caused
considerable excitement in the town and
drew great crowd to the show. At 8
O'CLOCK the band played For He's a oily
Good Fellow" and then Samuels, accom-
panied by Mr.. ROstock, the manager of
the show, walked mp to q den containing
a lion and aboVt u dozen nonessep.
great crowd at cuce assembled round
the cage. Mr.. Bostock mounted
platform and informed The public
that his old friend Samuels had
volunteered to perform deed of daring
such as never had Teen done ii the men
Rgerie since it's establishment in 1905.
Mr.. Wiltshire had, he said, recently at
Cardiff entered the cage in company with
Nine. Saliva, the lion tanner, and had, by
his action, CAUSED a great sensation in
South Wales. But SsmueIs was going
to surpass this feat, fer, although urged
10 let Mime. Sal5& accompany him, he
declined to enter the den at all unless al
lowed TO do so clone. Tins he COW was
about to do. The announcement was re-
ceiyed with great cheering, though it was
evident that, on the part OF many present,
there was a feeling 0f considerable anx-
iety and alarm. Ssmuels. however,
seemed to share mono of these feel
iugU of uueasiuess. Attired 40 priz. fight
er, and with blue TO cite on his breast, he
appeared ct the entrance TO the cage, and
cud6el in hand, boldly entered i. The
lOuS appeared IN no way - relish this
Intrusion, and it looked rs though Samu-
els would have q warmer welcome than he
bargaiued for. Possessed apparently
with nerves of steel, the man walked un-
dauuted up to the end of the cage where
the animals were huddled together wait
ing only the slightest encoGraQ ement to
spring on the intruder, and held his
cudgel threateuing!y before the nose OF
the terce5t Growls OF rage greeted this
act, but Samuels in no way discompnsed,
walked among the animals and made tn, M
fly right and left before him. This he did
several times, and on Cae occasion acted
so rashly that fears were entertained for
his safety by those in charge of the ex-
hl6ition. These-who, as q precaution,
were armed with red hot irous-were
ready 20 act promptly when Samuels
again obtained the mastery over his say
ness of them by firing loaded pistol at
their faces. Then, his courage maintain
ed &c the last, he went 70 the gait of the
den and waited in dangerous position
while Mr.. Bostock presented him, amid
the cheers of those present, with uni
que chain compos. of spaid and crown,
and with q certificate recording the fact
that he had accomplished his purpose.
m atglv O I'd tho ~
See the Conquoring Hero Comes" and
Samuels was borne in triumph out of the
mauaSerie and through the streets.
There is Little to Encourage Writer'S.
girl who has written a good many
magazine stories, confidcd to me writes
Arlo Bates ia the Book buyer) thai she
had been told that ths readers for the
magazines had a system of secret marks
which they put on rejected manuscript,
so that, although 20 an ordinary eye a
manuscript appeared perfectly clean, the
initiated c0u.d at once tell whether it hal
been offered to an editor before. Il CODY
my whole manuscript every time / have
TO send it out" she concluded. at is an
awful bother, hut anyway l get ahead of
their tricks" | have been guilty many
a luckless day of furnishing al i | starred
manuscript with clean first page, where
on did not appear half-erased number,
and penciled memorandum OF the value
of the stamps inclCsed, but to rewrite q
whole story would be too much for NE.
Telling of reflections, oae y, the editor of
a magazine, was muca annoyed by writ
ers who insisted upon personal inter
views. His own literary career had been
pretty hard one, and he hit upon the
plan of utilizing the records of his mis-
haps for his relief in the present. He
had preserved the rejection notices that
had escorted his manuscripts back frou
numerous offices; aud sill these he neatly
arranged in chronological order, so far as
they bore any dates, in a large scrap
book. When an I'M Fortune scribber
forced his way into the ssEc:um, was
accustomed to say, with the most DEUS
i've courtesy: "WIll you be kind enough
TO excuse me one minute Cntil l finish
this letter?f The scrap book lay open
on the desk. The unS1spscting visitor
would glance at the book, and there his
eye first met in large letters the words,
My Reflections" aud by the time the
editor was ready 70 talk he generally
found meeker and q sadder man than
the one who had insisted upon seeing