IWe Carnegie
5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends will
and Influence People."
P. T. BARNUM
There Was One Born Every Minute —
Including Himself
Who was the biggest faker In
American history? The laurels
undoubtedly belong to old P. T.
Barnum, the Connecticut Yankee
who made himself the most fam
ous showman on earth.
Barnum was proud to call him
self "The Prince of Humbugs."
He even wrote a book entitled,
Humbugs of the World, and was
flattered when people denounced
him as a fraud, a scoundrel, a
mountebank, and a charlatan.
He loved to fool the public. He
once advertised a strange horse,
whose head was where its tail
ought to be, and whose tail was
where its head ought to be. The
public flocked to behold this as
tonishing freak of nature; and,
after paying twenty-five cents
admissfon, they saw a horse back
ed into the stall, with his tail
tied to the feed-trough.
Barnum's name is
now a synonym for the circus,
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the fact is that he never organ
ized what we now call a circus
until he was sixty years of age;
and he didn't form the Barnum
& Bailey circus until he was sev
enty.
Barnum was right. He said
there was a sucker born every
minute, and he ought to have
known, for although he made
four million dollars out of ex
hibting freaks and wild animals,
he occasionally proved to be a
sucker himself.
For example, when he was a
young man, he invested two thou
sand, five hundred dollars —which
was all the money he had—in a
concern manufacturing bears'
grease. This magic preparation
was supposed to grow hair on
bald heads. Barnum's partner
spent all the money, fled to Eu
rope, and left Barnum with
nothing but a recipe for making
bears' grease.
After losing every cent he had,
he wrote a lecture entitled: "How
to Make Money." He delivered
that lecture even in the hushed
and holy precincts of Oxford and
Cambridge universities, and made
as much as a thousand dollars a
night out of it.
Barnum wrote the story of his
own life in 1855 and kept revis
ing and republishing it for thirty
five years. He bought a million
copies of his autobiography, paid
nine cents a copy for the book
and sold it for a dollar.
Bamum had no sons to carry
on the name of which he was so
proud; so he offered to give his
grandson, C. H. Seeley, an addi
tional $25,000 provided he would
call himself Barnum Seeley."
When Barnum was near death,
the Evening Sun, of New York,
asked the great showman's pub
licity agent if Barnum would ob
ject to having his obituary pub
lished before he died. The pub-
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licity man said, "No. go ahead.
The old man would be delighted."
So the next day Barnum read
four columns about his own
death, and he loved it.
When he died, the newspapers
of America gave more space to
the story of his career than had
ever been given to any man ex
cept a president of the United i
States. How that would have
pleased the venerable showman,
if he had only known it!
The last words he ever utter
ed were a request to know how
much money the Barnum and
Bailey Circus had taken In that
day at Madison Square Garden, j
Hands Off
Robert was sorely puzzled by
the following question asked in an
arithmetic examination: "If one
horse can run one mile In a min
ute and a half, and another horse
can do the same distance in two
minutes, how far would the first
horse be ahead if they ran a race
of two miles at their respective
speeds?"
He thought for a moment, and
then he saw a way out.
"I regret to say, sir," he wrote,
"that it Is against my principles
to have anything to do with
horse racing in any form."
He passed.
Real Co-Operation
After several years of hard
work. Bud Jones converted some
wornout land into a fertile and
profitable farm. The local preach
er was visiting Bud and after
having been shown over the farm
remarked: "Well, Brother Jones,
you and the Lord working to
gether have certainly made this
into a beautiful place."
"Yes," replied Bud, "I think
we done a pretty fair job, every
thing considered, and you sure
would agree with me if you could
of seen this farm before the Lord
got me to teaming up with Him."
Order Too Small
The guest had become impa
tient and irritated waiting for his
meal. Finally he called to the
waiter.
"Look here! How long am I
going to wait for the half-por
tion of duck I ordered?"
The waiter smiled politely and
answered: "Till somebody orders
the other half. We can't go out
and kill half a duck."
On December 15, 1925, 122,729
hogs were received in the Chi
cago stockyards. In 1923 10,460,-
134 hogs were received. So far
these figures stand as the daily
and yearly record.
Santa C
Really Has a
Post Office
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This is the doorway to Santa Claus
land, a real village resting in the
Indiana hills which has become
world-famous because of its Christ
masy name and also because Abra
ham Lincoln lived there from his
seventh to twenty-first years. Santa
Claus is an unincorporated village
but its post office does a land-offlce
business each December because
thousands of people send their let
ters there to be cancelled with the '
famous Santa Claus postal stamp. i'
For 28 years James F. Martin was '
postmaster at Santa Claus, taking it i
easy each summer and working like :
a fiend during the Christmas rush. !
Finally the pressure grew so great
that his office was rated as a third- |
class post office, a ranking .usually i
enjoyed only by much larger com
munities. Above is the Santa Claus
post office and general store.
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Succeeding James Martin when he
died was the present postmaster,
Oscar Phillips, forty-one. To him
has fallen the duty of making thou
sands of children happy. Each day
he receives hundreds of letters con
taining enclosures which are to be
cancelled carefully with the Santa
Claus stamp and sent on to all parts
of the world.
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As he should be, the real Santa
Claus is the patron saint of this lit
tie Indiana community. This 25-foot
statue of St. Nicholas stands all i
year in a little park, attracting vis
itors from all parts of the country, i
Fes, Santa Claus does have a post j
office!
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