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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01
HAM M locks.

What porch is complete without one?
Cool and comfortable and is also an attractive
ornament 10 the porch. If you want a good,
strong hammock cheap, Monday and Tuesday
we will sell them for $50. % PER CENT OFF.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01

MONDAY AND TUESDAY we make a
special offer Dress Goods, including Cream
Dress Goods, Serges, Panamas, Batistes Hen
riettss, Albatross Alpacas. Briantines Etc,
Etc. For two days ...... % PER CENT OFF.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-01

WASH GOODS TABLE-This Table
is loaded with an assortment of Wash
Fabrics to be sold at ONE-HALF THE
REGULAR PRICE. Pick out what you
want. and save SOC on the dollar.
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superhuman energy. Get him through the
door, OF course we could, but who would
come to see a fat boy hat walked through
a door, That amt the kind Of attraction
that brings people from Metuchen or Sandy
Hook, is il?
1t ia not easy to get freaks now. They
die Oh year after year, and there don't
seem to be enough new ones to take their
places. Just at present Europe is making
a great demand on the freak market and
pays them big salaries for their appearance
in vaudeville and shows Of one kind and
another. so there are very few In this
country.
Among the freaks that l have played
from time to time are Lucia Suratte, who
was only seventeen inches high, the smallest
woman ever exhibited; Hop O. My Thumb, a
Nova IScotian product twenty-five inches
high, who could stand in a silk hat and
only weighed twenty-eight pounds; the
Wild Men from Borneo, two eccentric
brothers Of enormous strength, who were
as mild-well, as Wallace Chang, the Chinese
giant, one Of the first and tallest that we
ever played. The public has an extraor-
binary idea in regard to giants, speaking Of
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don't see any eyes at all. When they come
to the surface, they are still twinkling.
Just between ourselves the public loves
TO be humbugged. Now, just the other
night l was sitting in the restaurant here
and | was talking to a man who made re-
mark that had quite an impression on me,
from the standpoint Of a museum man
ager. He said that there amt but a few
years after all when the public is what you
might call intelligent.
He meant it this way. You take
child. lie don't now anything at all
when he's 10; from that time until he's 20
he has just faint glimmerings. After he
gets past 20 he begins to acquire knowledge,
and by the time he reaches 40 you may say
that he Is really wide awake. From 10
to 90 this continues. n then he begins to
go down again, until by the time he's 30
he doesn't nov any more than he did when
he was 10. When you accept this theory,
it's easy to understand the large number
OF people that a museum proprietor has
to deal with.
There was a time when they owed the
sea serpents and the mermaids, both OF
them made at some little shop on the Bow
cry. The farmers would come in and look
at them and go back home and talk about
them for years. and when the children
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couldn't do U. Let 'em have all the enjoy
ment out OF it that they can. They're
happier-so much happier.
take the lions. We always have a cage
Of lions in the entrance hall, Just before
you go into the auditorium. You per-
haps nave heard OF Wallacef Yes, OF
course. He has always been advertised
as wild, untamed and terrible So he
was when he did his best, for l tell you
honestly that I have never seen a better
actor han Wallace. There are lots Of
Wallaces in the world to-day, playing under
different names.
Wallace was probably about the mildest
animal you ever saw, a kitten could have
given him points in being ugly. But when
the time came for his stunt Wallace would
roar so that a number OF people in the
vicinity OF the Museum felt called upon
to complain to the Board Of Health that they
couldn't sleep and the crowd along Four
teenth street would clutch hold OF the
nearest arm and whisper that Wallace was
eatin' another a He would make a
fierce lunge at the man in the cage with
the red hot iron, and when he didn't sue
coed in biting of his head, the crowd would
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and when the new iSea was exhibited In
his childhood. Ther IS nothing new except
IN The SUN.
There was a time when there wasn't any
opery in New York. and during those years
l could get prima donnas cheap enough
to sing for me-. l couldn't do it now, for
Opery's having another vogue, but that
will die out in time again, and in a few years
l will be able TO get Calve and Caruso and
TIE rest Of 'em II l want to at my own prices,
Isuppose.
The same principle holds good with
other things. You wouldn't think that
there would be any excitement over Ten
Nights in a Barroom, but you're mistaken.
1 put 10 on recently and the old show went
all right, drew a big house. although there
were many years when w couldn't play
it at all. .
There is a new generation coming along
now that has to get their education just the
same as their fathers did, and they come
to see IL just as the old folks did It's the
same with Or. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde and
with 'Slew-Foot Pete'-put EN- way on
the lack shelf and then bring EN- out again
when the times ripe--put 'em back, bring
'em out-that's the secret"
'Of course" ventures the interviewer,
you have never had any real fakes at the
museum
Mr.. Huber's face crinkles up like q bunch
Of tissue paper, and for a long time you
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said to attract as much by its simplicity as
by its native worth.
1T was painted, " says Mr.. Huber in ex-
rlanation, "by one OF the scene painters at
the museum. | am not an authority in
these matters, but il suits me.
'Of course ] could easily have found a
man who was more on to his work from a
scientific standpoint, but a man like that's
pretty apt to get 50 enamored OF his SUBJ
hct that he sacrifices its likeness to the
pleasure Of making a stunning picture.
It will he pretty but it won't he true.
Now this man loved the pony better
than he did lis brush. and the result is, as
you see, perfectly true to nature, and a fine
work Of art
Mr.. Huber tn m settles himself in an easy
chair and prepares for the interview,
although as an attraction it is easy to see
that he feels himself handicapped by conn.,
p%srtson with the Oregon pony with the hir-
suite attachments.
When l first commenced as museu m
manager" he says, I'VE used TO divide our
profits every Saturday night by taking out
a jackknife and separating the pile OF
nickels with a cautious eye TO see that
neither one Of us got more'n belonged to
him. In those days Mr.. Worth and myself
were partners. Soon there were a dozen
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a little and then presently l felt something
tugging at the umbrella on the OF side and
Mrs. L~ogblinker says, with a touch OF i'm
patience now:
MY You've got the umbrella caught in
my hat!'
And so I had. But I ~disengaged it
quickly, and then tried to hold IL and keep
it balanced 50 that IL would just clear the
big hat all around and yet come low enough
down to afford the best protection.
Il oan honestly say that I paid no atten-
ton whatever to my own Clothes I hon
estly didn't oare about them; all I wanted
was to do the best I could for the lady by
my side; and though II did strain every
muscle in my hand and arm and body I
thought l was now making q pretty good
job of It, but in a minute:
Ny hat will be ruined I heard the
voice saying; and then I looked at the lady
again, and raised the umbrella and lowered
Il and tilted 1t this way and that In a des-
perate effort to make Il serve its purpose,
an impossible thing 70 do, I Am now per-
suaded, for nothing less than an umbrella
fourteen feet wide at least would really
shelter a lady In a picture hat In a heavy
rain like this.
.But / tried hard, / did the best l could,
onlv to hear about ten seconds later:
Don't you know how to hold an UNI
brellap' IN tones actually peevish.
Mrs. Logblinker peevish, actually peey-
ish, and to mel Then she actually drew
away from me, out from under the UNI
brella. into the pouring ralni
-Humbly. but quickly, I fastened to her
side again. to protect her, and the other W
blocks We had to go TO get the car we moved
in silence, with me doing the best I could;
and when We got inside the car and got
settled down Q little. where IL was dry. she
did smile on me again.
But ! can tell you one thing: Idont shy
at difficult jobs, and we are pretty poor;
but the next time Mrs. Logblinker and I
20 abroad on q rainy night We takes q
barouohe n 10 busts us.'
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MUSEUM MANS PHILOSOPHY.
NOIEETJ: THERE ISN'T ANY,
SAYS GEORGE HUBER.

70 Points 10 the Museum He Has Been
Keeping for TWenIy-fiVe Years TO Prove
1.-THE Public Faithful 10 ITS Old
Friend, Freaks Hard 10 Find Nowadays
Inan uptown restaurant is an oil painting
that covers an entire wall and laps over on
Inc edges. IL belongs to George Huber, CT
museum fame, who gained prestige and
money 50 hs says, by never changing his
mind. He exhibits the picture proudly.
II represents ore Of the first attractions
aver exhibited at his house. In the fore
ground stands a pony of chestnut tints and
white forelegs, with a champagne colored
name and tail, the former twenty yards long
and the latter nineteen, both ripping in
marcel waves all over the canvas. The
nony has the same pose Of satisfaction that
a reroNiie blonde exhibits after a lifetime
Of brunette shadings.
In the background some hills match the
undulations Of name and tail. but with re-
rarkable self-restraint the artist has for
borne from s~ubtracting from the general
effect bv the insertion OF other ~extraneors
matter. In consequence the work may be
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give a deep sigh, perhaps It was Of relief,
but it sounded oftentimes mighty like
disappointment.
Then we had IN elephant that was found
one morning upstairs in a building on
Fifty-ninth street. 1t was taken for granted
that an elephant that could escape from
his keepers and walk upstairs could GER
tainly walk down, and the people who
owned the building and the others inter-
ested in his recapture tried to make him.
Not at all. He was a museum elephant
and he Knew his role better than that.
Finally the side OF the house had to be torn
out. Yes. it was good advertising. 1 SUPP
pose thousands Of people came to see him
after that exploit.
Then the fat boy. We hoisted him up
to a window and pulled him through with
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museums scattered from l25th street down
to Fourteenth, and though l commenced as
a failure competition made business brisk
and we were taking in so much money that
hihad had a partner still we couldn't have
used the old jackknife.
It's just the same with the museum BUSH
ness as 1t is with every other, the more it's
talked about, the better for il. Two grand
opera seasons help both directors and every
Theatre that goes up makes people talk
more about the theatre and, in consequences,
p~aironize it more. Competitions IN life
Of the amusement trade.
Most Of the museums have passed sway.
They have become vaudeville houses,
gardens or something else than their orig
mai plan. l alone have stuck IL out in the
od way, andit requires a good deal OF nerve
70 DO that, for the cry OF the people about
you II that you must change with the times
you will get left. Not at all! just stick
~your place and the times will come around
again all right il you're patient.
People get used to seeing YOU sign.
Hose who have been married fifteen years
or 50 like to come back and see the two
headed calf that they were 80 surprised
u when they visited the place in their
honeymoon; parents like TO bring the chill
1ren TO see the attractions they hav told
tnem about, and the children when they
EroW up come back to see il they can get
The same old thrill.
I've got the identical curios that I've
mad all through, adding to them now and
asaln, when I can't help II. Ihave a framed
copy OF The SUN published in 1891, forty
seven copies Of the Lords Prayer, zach in
different language; coins 1000 years old.
portraits Of the Sphinx and the Cathedral
u Milan. People get attached to those
'Mngs, and even the dust seems homelike
alter a while.
Once in a while you read Of a man that's
tprang a novelty on the public, and II you're
- Ihe museum business you just sit back
ahd laugh. It's all right until a hundred
,eAf-older up in the country goes upgarret,
uss down among the almanac archives
NO extracts a periodical showing whers
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23
ON A RAINY NIGHT.
One Job That Mr. LOgbllnker Thinks More
Dimcult Than Bashing for the Pole.

One Job That Mr. LOgbIlnker Thinks More
Dimcult Tha Dashlng for the Pole.
This dash for the Pole business may
be pretty hard work, said Mr.. Logblinker.
~No doubt il does call for quite some pa
thence, skill and endurance. But IL you
want to undertake something that Is really
difficult, Just try TO hold an umbrella as
il ought { o be held over the head OF a lady
in a rainstorm. I tried that last night
with Mrs. Logblinker, and I thought before
we got where we were going that I'd rather
have been in the Far North with Peary.
-Rainl It was just sluicing, with the
rain coming down like a food falling
through a coarse meshed sieve, and Mrs.
Logblinker had on all her fnery. including
hsr tall, wide picture hat, with the high.
dropping feathers.
when we opened the front door I
opened the umbrella and held It over her
while she gathered up some Of her gar
ments under her waterproof, and while
she glanced around herself to see that
she had got everything secure, and then
we started; and when we had gone bou
fourteen steps in hat pouring rain and 1
looked around at Mrs. Logblinker to make
sure that l was protecting her all right
I was surprised to see that her towering
hat, that had surmounted her head so
jauntily when we started, was now creeping
slowly down over her forehead.
Cant you see, Luoius,' said Mrs. Log
blinker, that you are holding the umbrella
right against my hatr
And / could sac It then, though I GER
tainly had not seen it before, and 80 I raised
the umbrella to clear the back OF the bat.
l had been holding Il low down, OF course.
you understand, the better to protect her.
So now l raised IL, but I must nave raised
1t too high. for in a minute I heard q voice
plaintively saying:
'Lncius. the rain Is Just pouring IN tho
side OF my hat
$50 now I brought thu umbrella down
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them as being eight, ten, twelve feet high.
As a matter Of fact, the average height is
a few inches over seven feet.
Il was especially fond of Bass, the ossifed
man, who was my first attraction, in the
early sos. He was all bone except his
tongue and the tips of his fingers. He
always had TO be carried about from place
to place and lifted up and down. He was
finally dropped by a careless attendant and
wat all broken up.
Some Of these freaks come to get en-
gagements themselves, others are obtained
through their agents. No matter how
lacking they may seem to be in the higher
branc hes OF education, they are always
good business men and women, and all Of
them are wealthy. They begin to make
money at an early age and keep il UP until
they de-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-23

grew up send them along to see the woman
that lived under the ocean and the serpent
that was caught 400 miles or so OF shore.
Il love farmers exclaims Mr.. Hube
in a burst Of enthusiasm. just think
what a beautiful life he leads.
Gets up in the early morning when the
sky's beginning to turn the color Of a fat
Iady's skin, eats his simple breakfast Of
ham and eggs, griddle cakes, bacon, maple
syrup, six cups of coffee and pie, and goes
out to work in the fields while his wife
stays home and does her share taking care
OF the house and children. At night they
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60 to bed so early they don't have 70 light
the lamps. And noe a year they come to
town and make straight for the museum.
Now they don't know anything about
the principle Of the hand being quicker
than the eye, they don't know anything
about the trick Of the black cloth and the
mirrors, they amt up on electric wires
and such, and when the girl floats in the air
they simply look on her as q supernatural
being and they 90 back and settle down
In that belief.
Now amt the man that destroys that
Illusion doing O pretty mean thtngi !
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1906-08-28
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tung feines 2eberts sufiberte, als fd'
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plattfcrm Der Gar FsfenO. nitsus
MAIDEN.
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Agricultural and Mechanical College
of TnYaS.

Der tedbnDlO9iihe 8peia Der Gnfalt.
M%gritultnr, Sortitultur, Bieb5utbt, Sea.
ihinenban, Bermeffnng, glettrisitdt. Eers
til uno N6erbau Sng%enieurfunt.
nnterribt fret. Wirflicbe Musaaben,
ausgenDmmen &fei6er unb BaHer, ems
Notwithstanding Dollar per Sci.
fiDn.
Gualif5ierte NpplitanteH int NIter BON
IL Sahren un6 6nritber treten pbne Gris
fung auf ibr 8eugnis bin elm.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09
Styles:

Single and double breasted Pad
docks. single and double breasted
Rytons. single breasted Narsities,
Chesterfelds and Box styles. All OF
the famous H.. S. & NJ make. all rich
ly lined with silk or serge. Not coat
offered worth less than $50, and from
that I'D to $4,000.
Styles:
Single and double breasted Pad
docks. single and IoublA> breasted
Rytons. single breasted VaFsities;
also Chesterfield and Box styles.
The garments are serge or silk lined. ;
all hand tailored. and are guaranteed
to be worth not less than $500 i'll any
case. and from that up to $3.50.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09

r Great Lots, as f0it0lUs:
Styles:

IL this lot we show an endless va
riety OF Paddocks, Rytons, i'll both
single and double-breasted Varsities
in single-breasteel also Box and Ches-
terhe1d styles. Some Of these coats.
are serge-lined some are venetian lin
ed, while others are full silk-lined. Not
coat in the lot worth less than $500,
and from that up to $3.50.
Styles:
Here we show Overcoats in Ryton,
Varsity, Chesterfield and Box styles,
cut A.. 46, 4S and so inches long. They
are all richly lined with finest serge,
and are strictly hand tailored, and we
guarantee them to be worth $500 and
$16.50 They are all H., S. & NJ. Over
coats. and in this connection let us say
that the lowest priced coat nnanufac
tured by f., s. & M. is $11OO at whole
sale. Draw your own conclusions.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09

From an
Educational
Standpoint

1t is the duty OF every man.
woman or child who is within
&. reasonable distance of this store
to come and witness this great
sale. It's a wife man who farnil-
iarizcs himself with the methods
and business tactics used by 9th
srs outside of his particular rut
of life; hence we say from an edu-
cstional viewpoint it is worth
anycne'7 while to attend this sale.
Armstrong Clothing Co.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09
TYou
Haze q
Friend


If you have friend whom you
think may not learn of this sale
you could do him no better turn
than to advise him by phone or
telegraph, or a good way would
be. % mail him a copy of this ad-
vertisement, saying to him that
he may order direct and if not
pleased with the selection we
make for him his money will be
refunded.
Armstrong Clothing G6.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09
OVerCOatS
On Sale at Half Price

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than dh want to ford o give Mnf have ham
II HN&& turn
of them