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Vicissitudes of Life on the Road Pictured From Real Life.
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Circa day in any Western town at
the present time, aseording tothe New |
York Herald, is very much like the
cirens day of old, except that there is
vastly more of it. It ix mired: m
holiday as Christa anid
of Jaly thrown inte one
benight=d little New York
goig to Madison Bqnare Garden and
thinks he bas seen it all would have
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some of the conceit taken ont of hig
could he be transported to some one |
«day stand on the Western prairies on
the day when the cirens x balled
appear.
Thee first gray streaks
the town airesdy astir,
raid station ac the coud
Tu the old days it nes
the Fai
prterest
tr Lo inrppake,
i
bint the time when the cirens traveled |
from town fo Lown ia DAraRVaus 18 50
waore. Nowadays 11 is &
hese show indeed that doesnt
Ha awn rolling #loek
“The mmall boy
dominates, He has secured the
jest pereh within the range of hus
veutite genins. Suddenly, from
Airry height of the tallest telegraph
pode be shouts, “Hers she comes”
The ery is taken np below, Half a
of parse,
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mile away, aronnd a curve, a colimn
of smoke is ean, trailing away toward
the horizon amd & few minsgtes later
the powerfal locomotive, snorting and
puffing like a spirited horse, comes
into view, Behind it is a long line of
yellow ears, and far off, at the rear
“end, glimmer the lights of the caboose,
which have not yet been extinguished,
Then comes the unloading of the
1 0 © prosaic psraphornsiinthe hoge
ten: poles, the acres of canvas, and all
the other homely objects which are
quite essential in the rapid transforma:
tion so soon to follow, Gangs of men
scurry hither and thither, apparently
Yahiges,
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all getting into each other's way, but
really working like the one grest
machine of which each man is really
part,
Wagon after wagon comes off the
{rain with military precision. Two,
four, and even ten horse teams sre
coming from the direction of the stock
cars, sll ready to start for the show
oh Re Ap
; § which even tow
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HE MEXS DRESKING nods
. grounds, The townspeople ate agape,
" When Obadiah Jones's new threshing
saachine had arrive a few days before
it had taken almost an entire day to
unload it from the train, if they had
undertaken to unload that pole wagon hb
it would have taken them a week.
Meantime, away out on. the prairie,
toward the east, a faint cloud of dust
has arisen. Toward the south a simi
Jar elond is seen, and toward the west
are others. The thrifty farmers, com
from far distant points, many of
them having been en route all night,
begin to come in and look for suitable
camping places for their families and
their teams,
heavier and heavier as each moment
, anti! by the time the warning
whistle of the locomotive drawing the
second train is heard gray streaks line |
IN THE LADIES
cland b
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The dust eloud grows
3 the morning Fir ongre sweat
| savory jo the hungry
ing the vacant spaces aroand the tants
| The camp couks k already lighted
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their fires and
al
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aad
aldrona are
This
preparation for the midday seesd,
6 Arratged
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Lhe great
THORNS
BAL
shortly after ren i PRIA
That frees plimpse of the enchants i
hind the
given at shout 10 o'vioel Who that
has ever seen 1% clear, Weslern
o
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gwelling
of muses, the caw
he open ¢
anny basd of clos:
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mt
yng this aalerval’? tein
i have been cosine 1a fron y
{within Elty wales of the sage
i Every train has erry idhod
very sieps wit #ipestant peo
: Their tickets their bal
bande, where they will resis
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the condaelor Gauands 1a
own
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for who has Lire to
when Shere
Ti
I have cote in
i country, Their teams,
the uid: iirests
Vacant lots ure filled with
the sllews dod lanes
itapassable, :
doors are sapnipat
aud an hour beloye
up at the show gros
{ hoe of hamanaty fron
{town to the other
By noon exery face 3
’ grounds, The
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sme
the SIPW
propery we NE
and freaks
toward thi ticket
expinined,
DRESSING ROOM,
out toward the horizon in every direc
tion.
Two trains have been unloaded and
the eyes of the multitudinous small
boy are fairly bulging from their sock-
ete. Where will at ail end? A third
train comes puffing in, and on this is
the menagerie, The small boy is now
in a state bordering on nervous
frenzy. It 1s doubtful if he knows his |
; | each of its component parts has resched
‘The money 1s snatched from
the uplifted fingers and tickets placed
{An its stead, so quickly, yet so socur-
own uname,
Off toward the show ground goes the
morning crowd. Surely they will be
in time to see all the teuts put up, for
| pandemonium, in which each individ.
inal in the vast throng imagines
i must get his ticket first or he lorever
debarred. A stragzling, surging mass
; of humanity, with hands aw
high in air, ciatehing tightly to the
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money which is to be invested in the
magical pastebosrds that will ads |
them to the wonders of the big show,
The crowd carries itself slong mati
the goal,
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ras snd
sre the
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har tirgels,
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rf the day.
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FATS Ag) WhO ran Yexsl
of 1 all?
And the strange sights
Lucky the man or boy in that
Loevny who ragsicey 15 the aaguaniance
duciy eormected with the show,
5 of the year, Countless
tires of what
the drew IBY row rk
The evesing performance 1 hal a
F allernous,
gravely, WHO
Oatside a Bi
itself. A few
fp RU
avriad hirhis blazing
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oy & oon
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tarentl ourner.
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together
stuallor tenia, Lave
| yet silently
ftaken to the cars. In A
of an hour the *
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tell €3%-
bag top”
its aunt poles resching
| the darkness of the sky
| road yards eversthing is
i activity
The nrrht show 12 out;
jis Smashed, and the last
| formers skurries toward
which has been left upc the
space where the dressing tent
stood a quick change of costume, a
| banging tr 1d, and the isst men
{ ber of the company takes bis way Wo
the train. By midnight the show is
its way to the next town,
Open
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posed excinsivel
a family 18 the enti
Bronsh whose veins oon
blood than
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so
An expert declares that Ee knows of
at least connterferts of the obd
wasters which are now hanging wu pre
vate galleries in the United States, all
purchased at high prices.
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of rariromde remarked
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a joud report like thunder
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been able so prove by this apparatus
that the length of the spark is acear
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