Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27

ReveRae of a Hand Organ.
Here's a gold pen, gentlemen, MADE OF
three n4etais-copper, nicbsf anu p1atlnNm.
Only five cents. 1t beats any other gold
pen ever made or ever VIII De mace. FH
show vou. Here, one Of you gentlemen select
a pen-aay one on this big dtshful OF theIn.
Now. see me write wi1h1s-"
Scratch. scratch on a.shest OF white paper.
lyon see this pen makes broad strokes as
veil as ff1fe ones-it Is the boss pen. Talk
about fountain peps-44aily, this one beats ali
Of them hollow. Il is the finest pen ever
made only fi-i-ve cents XOa gojusp q State
street store and youth nave to pay from
dollar and a half to three dollars for pen
that ism Z half as gDod as this one. No, sir
Won try it THAT'S all | want And now
watch me! You- Sue, I sttckytilis pen into the
wood with ali my strength" And he dld
STICK it into his little table, 50 that the pen
and holder qlfivei'ed-and trezlIbed. Then be
pulled it cut And now III try it again.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, this
pen won't stand in Che way OF abuse You
see l stamp GA il with my No II shoe. just
as good as ever Notice that hair stroke!
Did YOU ever see anything to beat itf You
pen, gentlemen, only five centst"
And then the fakir showed his silver" pen
cils-only annexed He made further expert
ments with his gold" pen, which seemed to
really stand any amount of abuse. But the
crowd around him wasn't much on the literary
line None Of them bought pen. It was a
crowd made up Of wicked young darkies, of
frowsy women and begri,ned children, and
probably few Of them knew how TO write at
all.
WONDERFUL ELECTRIC EMERY"
This particular fairr stood at the interSec-
ton OF Fourth avenue and Van Buren, street,
and there were six or seven competitors of
his TO the right and To the leftaof him. Some
OF them were. however, doing rushing trade
The weather vras fine and hundreds of people
passed 30 and fro. Therowas the razor man,
for Instance lie had ol1y one razor In his
stock. It was an extraordinary razor Any
other razor would have given up the ghost
and split If Subjected to half the hard usage
this one was The fakir had iattie case rest
ing on a sortof adjustable tripod, and in that
case he kept his wares They consisted Of
tiny boxes dlied with electric emery"
he had sfso sheets of tin anda big block
of wood He chopped away at the block and
he sliced OF long shavIngs of tin with that re-
markabta razor OF his just as if be were cut
ting soft butter, without any effort What
this razor was made of goodness only knows.
! 1t couldn't be made of steel for in that case
it would have broken into fragments. What
ever it was made OF, il was a very phenix
among razors. The fakir was very glib of
| tongue, and looked as il he would just as soon
! cut somebody's throat with his razor for a
living as to try and sell his electric emery.
lie pulled out little box of it. pub a speck of
| the greasy brown stuff on his razor, and then
he whetted his knife on a common BARRIERS
strop After that he seized boys arm and
| shaved of the hair on it, He chopped off
! chunk after chunk from his block of wood.
| He Jagged the tin sheet in the most desperate
! manner, and then he seized that boys arm
| once more and cut eff more hair. The razor
was Just as sound and sharp as ever. Won
/ ya,rfGl razor!
Instead of going to the BARRIERS to get q
! hone, he screamed, you buy a box of cleo
! trio emeFy-the wonder OF the age, my own
invention, for which | was offered $50, 900
1 cash down, copyright secured, and refused
I and then you are fixed for life time 1t:
] only ten cents q box or three for a quarter
! Cheap as dirt, and it can't be beat. Why
| gentlemen. I've had offers from the sultan OF
! Turkey But despotism is mine, not mind
| It's true only earn about $50 day, but
prefer poverty and freedom to riches and
! slavery"
| Give me a box Of it, said a seedy looking
elderly man, who carried small sachel and
a steel watch chain at will sharpen razor
as sures you're born. ! used to go to the
! Il. l., IL, 49, @,,G
] wish you'd tell me how 10 make it,
"ThatQl cost you 500 and a written guar
antee that you won't divulge the secret t.
, anybody else"
Cant you make it a bit cheaper2 II
| give you $50 c&sh down
Couldn't think OF it. Hundred dollars Oh
nothing"
so theelderly man with the sachel paid hi
10 cents for a small box and meandered off
He didn't go far, though. He stopped at tn,
/ nearest corner, and from that coigne of van
! tage he eyed thecrowd, and as he two min
Utes later spied another man that looked lik
| a sucker he wandered past the stand one
! more and bought another box, SAYING h
couldn't get along without it, and would b
glad to pay FIVE times the price if he couldn'
get the stuff any cheaper.
a biind mendicant, young and we'll dressed
a dark mulatto, sat ON the opposite corner
He had before him an organ. 1t was an au
/ tomato one, and on top of it was slot and
bell A tin sign read: Il am blind and nee,
! your help, kind stranger " Another sign read
Drop nickel III the slot and see it regis
tered" Somebody did drop nickel in th
slot Immediately the organ played tun
and the register marked 1t showed tina
within one hour and thirty-five minutes tn
young darky had taken IL 81. IS
At this juncture man with thing h
called ''cammery obscurE7 came on. II
promised to show she sun, the moon the plan
cts, the stars and the whole solar and stella
systomn to the peophybe for five cents. II
was the same man who, last year, showed b,
means of "a telescope twenty feet long tn
same heavenly sights. Ee said the telescop
hadn't paid lie had hired it bv the da,
only. and when he found q 'csmmery oh
scuryn would answer the same purpose, wit
much smaller expense, be hsd gone in 10
that See the whole thiugs Why, yes, Ger
tSlnly, If your eyes are strong enough" h
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