The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-17

town of Bliss, Okla. which the famous
161 Ranch surrounds, know three de-
erees of revelry. Every possible |
event belongs in one or another OF
these classes.
The first is time
A time" comes when a little bunch |
of good fellows from the range meet
by chance and abandon themselves
for night to forget the rough cares
of the day. There's not a bit of cere-
mony about it; and by daylight the
merry.makers are in their saddles and
gone again to their lonely labors
among the roaming cattle, sheep or
horses.
The second degree is termed a
"whzzer" and a capital definition it
is.
The "whizzer" is likely to come
when score of. or two score. 'puncr-
RS" strike the town together. after
weary days Of riding or roundup, far
afield in the vast reaches of the 10l
Rancn Forthwith the town is theirs,
There is no formal delivery of gift
key by the mayor; the doors are
merely propped wide open, not to
swing shut again Until the 'whizzer"
has spent it's breath after a gorgeous
week.
The final and supreme degree is a
''gee-whi2zer'', and that's what this
city is going to experience when the
101 Ranch Wild West Show reaches
hero on October 81, Your magma
ton will have to help along the def
milton, its a "whizzer" magnified and
multiplied about a hundred times,
planned carefully long beforehand,
with every little detail thought out
and provided for.
Nothing left to chance.
eli isn't a casual neighborhood gath
ering but an assembling Of the clans
from all the country roundabout. The
ranch houses for a distance of a hun
dred miles or more IN every direct
ion are deserted. while the people,
every mothers son and daughter of
them, chit the trail" for the seat of
festivities,
If you're in Bliss on business on
such a time, forget it, No one will
talk with you on prosac affairs. No
man with life in him will think, talk
or act toward anything but the gee
whizzer.'
Not the gods in the highest heather
heaven know a greater abandon Of
sheer lusty delight than the IPaiss
folks make for themselves and their
guests when the time for 'gee-whiz-
ger rolls around.
Wen, this city will have a real gee
whjzzer" Just like Bliss where the
spirit Of the plains finds embodiment
right before your eyes, so that you
may see it. feel it, realize its mighty
romance and mystery. There's
nothing Just like it in all the rest of
the worlds calendar.
Perhaps you have seen socalled
"wild-west shows and all manner OF
circus events, with a lot of poor, tired
wild ponies, dashed into a feeble
think that that is reality. It's nc
more like the real thing than the race
Of painted go,carts is like the fury anC
fire of the old chariot contests in The
Roman Coliseum.
The l0l Ranch, most famous in al
the world, will transplant itself for /;
day at your doors, and its army 0
picturesque men and women, boys AM
girls, the most daring and skiilful o
the country, will try conclusions in ;
big outdoor arena. Yonll see reality
reality in full measure, pressed dow
AID running over.
When it comes a real 'gee-whizzer
nothing is left ort that will help II
any way to show what plains life is
anil what it YVES in the half-forgotter
remote days of pioaeer times. Pictul
esGueness runs rampant in ever
nook and corner of the encampmen
But the cimaxes and thrills com
in the arena, where gather Indian
from many tribes; grizzled old pit
neer craftsmen with their lumberin
prairie ScnOOneTS ana Sldse Codches
sun burned cowboys in fringed chaps
and gay Announcements; pretty Gov
girls; punches Of unbroken horse
from the range; herds of wild, lon
horned steers; superb survivors of tn
buffalos who once roamed the prairie
in millions and are now nearly e
tinct; champions of gun and laria
and all the other figures and feature
of the time before barbed wire bloc
ed the trails and when the shrek
the railroad whistle was unknown.