The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-03-13

hold up that skull.
| 1.-THE crowd would come on the GAL
Top. After couple or three women
had tainted in the crush of people
who We're afraid they'd miss free
| pike at something, he would begin:
Upon the inside, ladies and gen.
tel-men, is the mar-vel-us geological
spess-i-man brought here this week for
your approval by your own govern
ment--the United States Of Arnecsccc..'
Then he'd wave the head.
while searching for orang-
utangs in the Himalayan jungles of
Hanky-Poo, where the most mammoth
species of the beasts abound, party
led by Prof. Jules LIE Pax, the noted
French scientist, of whom you all have
heard, came upon a huge, hairy being.
the largest orang-utang the scientists
ever had seen.
Like the enraged monster it was
it leaped from a tree with murder in
it's heart. After n bloody battle in
which two men were struck dead with
trees which the brute uprooted and
hurled at the members of the party,
Prof. lie Pax, with one swoop of
his machete--the only weapon ever
used with success In battling with
orang- utangs- the beasts
head from It's body.
Never have the chains been re-
moved. 1t is feared that once re-
leased 1t might rush among the people,
killing hundreds in its blind flight.
Prof. lie Pax presented 1t to
the French government, which turned
| it over to the French Society for
Scientific Research.
".rhe Headless Hottentot is Sc
curely Gagged; loaded with chains SO
there is no danger, and any little child
may view with safety this marvellous
educational exhibit in the amphithea-
ter behind me. It's government ex-
hibit, ladies and gentlemen, and just
to cover the travelling expenses the
government authorizes us to charge
only dime--ten cents--for every ad-
mission ticket which you can purchase
from the lady at my left Here's his
head. Go in and see the living, breath
ing body
"And the way they would fight to
get up to pay dime to see me was
enough honor to last me all my life.
Tom would come inside and give an
other lecture. I'd try to batter down
the bars, tear round the cage just as
Iff / could strange bull with one
hand
Eat night Tom would unlock the pad
lock that held the chains on me, I'M
hook me, and we'd go to our hotel and
count our money We saved nearly
thousand dollars In three weeks. We
landed here three days ago, and have
been playing to all the Rubes in the
world, Ii looked like to me.
about four hours ago, after the
show was closed. Tom came round.
But he didn't unlock the cage. He
stood in front and laughed.
What's the joker says !.
ats on YOU he answers sort OF
pert. Pm going to leave town with
the capital stock
.And, laughing fit to kill, he turned
out the gasoline lights and walked
out of the tent.
81 thought he was fooling, but he
wasn't. / waited about an hour for
him to come back. There ! was chain
ed in the cage in that dark tent
and nobody round. yelled and tore
and fought the chains and shook the
wagon---it wasn't any put on. was
raving brute for sure. woke up all
the people in the neighborhood, but no.
body would come within a block Of
me until the town marshal arrived. He
stuck his head In the tent.
What you want?' he says, speakin'
timid like.
Il want out answers, and tears
out couple of bars.
'sHe ran off and got the whole police
force. The police force wanted to
shoot me for fear might get loose
and kill everybody in town; but the
marshal shook his head, bless him,
and said if they did the French gov
eminent might get after 'em- So they
all went home and locked their front
doors and went to bed.
FINALLY pulled the chains loose
from where they were fastened to the
cage and got away. couldn't get out
of the skin, and was in fine fix.
The only valuable property / could find
round the show was the skull. ano
thought might want to start the show
again and brought it along.
"Tve been sneaking through alleys
in this rain all night. carrying my
head in my one hand or hung on that
horn.
every time I'd start toward a fell
low 20 ask him to UNLOCK me he'd
yell. and be 16 blocks away before
II could say good evening.
FINALLY I saw your light and decid-
ed to climb up the waterspout, get
YOU in a corner where you couldn't
run. and make you unlock ME, even
/ f l got killed first"
".But how were you supposed to be
fed?" O'Grady asked.
The Headless Hottentot's face was
blank.
"Darned if know. Nobody ever
thought of that before. That's the
only thing that Tom overlooked"
otter beaver and musquash the over
hair, being sparse and far from beau
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