Show DAN RICE Lincolns Telegram of Commendation Sent to tie Far 1Js Circus Man BY EBEX HEISLET Sitting here in the S nIght of my cottage cot-tage by the sea where only in memor s halls do I aver hear the once familial ir i of Hey Rub I cant help out niu I when I think of the time I licked Jerry t 1 Rusk said old Dan Rice who for 6 t years i was celebrated ns 3 circus proprietor and I clown A man of the same name and tat > i I psarance subsequently became seeretirv < of the department of iRrvnilturp and I the old mirthmalcers ers twinkled mis I I chievouslr I was always out in Nevada in th < days i when I was young and genIi is th jockey says but strong and well abi u > I I iaI II 1 up 0 ninl t 1 u loiU ti > bist onN h n mj shop Short I af i f1 v Ianl I I 1 < iiighf irt f stii I Ildi Ir the Rid v i f Itils f r i i i I lll airt tnen it Itrr llnk I tlirae I r i 1 i r nw > OAXs Ai l vi > lTl DEN IS Of cut r r ti I th showman I i s t iint w hit i 1 1 i A i ih > i 1 I jald I I df iv I a Ill I h d 4 1 I l is I l > N l Ii J I I 1 ll IA1 r I i v hI r t i id s IIl i i t n I l i I t v i l > t > nit T tl ia a e c L f IrE I v 4j 1 1 Ad7 t I AWL l j = cL I I l Ii s 3 > I ca J V g 3 < SHORTLY APTEB DAWN WE CAME TOGETHER take my part that in the course of human i events it became necessar for me to I thrash Jerry Rusk who ws then drivipj j a stage from Reno to earson Cit t wont venture to say that I was ntirety blameless in the matter hut first lt me i tell my story and then judge for yaur selfOne One of my tents was badly l cut one night in one of the wildcat towns with which that section of countr ahounl d ° Land 1 L-and I wasloud in my denunciation c the j I perpetrators of the deed So excited were I borne of niy men over the affair that I Ivmen greatly fsared there would be a collision with the spectators which might tnuu a i i lot of trouble and expense e upon me At once I began to think up an easy wIk4out I of the difficulty and finally stPl lorI ward and offered to sttle the mattr sm glehandiHL to save a general row ty Illit ting myself at fisticuffs rouihan 1 tumble against the strongest and quickU i i man in tha camp I rhe plan took immensely with the plap mountainsers Who thought that tIl v i os I sesscd a Qoiiath resumed olnl RI i with great pusto and it vas not le I ss t I isfactory to the circus mer vhl ki Iw I I what their David had done I Name your time and place said one j i of a committSe who hal l taken upon itself l the arrangement of thi mill t Make 1t here as soon a d t > da nand n-and let me now see th man I on meet IriTor those cirrtir < rr s I i saw Jerrv Rusk and took hi m urI ur-I He looked like a lusij rugged ulK > uiU Sabscnuently T WJv pr entti IIJ the resident 0 the boy who rode tu < ha nl So idatorv were T ihf magistrates remarks that 1 ha a > us neinJed that day as one oi th most laorable of my life Abranam h ntoln was another man vhom I gtiti t i lied as > < Mffint is Wet as tjood Ii i ere ot hois iltsb Yiars bei < r u wa umusht of as a potibe eandu > I > < r prisideni he ana l wre fellow jU ss > f a noie lace itar nntflielrl III I ml from rh2 lIpflI to the nd o U is iit > fttj r I r titm fvun and f was hi Intat a iniitr hn a i > culiar cu is in ihe U1 i > MSI J > JSI i luring the oivl w ir t 01 I 1 I > l i tie c < vtumnt mv kIU14 st 1 y ii ts uifjtKl oei It l ii 1 ht WIT I m i is tl P Njurn i 1 r i It f5 jut liki Y1 T a I i lr nv caMe > 11 I d i 1sr I a tn union J 1 hectnie wti IJl i win tlo > I cou1tl Jam i r1du II 11 vI fHr yir 1 > 1ii 1 I n t th resnUi ii r ndwl I 111 I Ii I I a Ul WI IP I ni 1 1 n I rleil during 11 l 11 ldY I h I I 1 wag ac 1ti l i I I pvis I i arrt he J I Lao I I iijIiI But h i f < fact Davn was at I I i l iff a h it annircr i tti t r l and i I IIIL tii1I I t tl Pii il i t j I I n I i t I t i hu > c 3 Q i W 4 |