f AMOUS FUNNIES BUSTER I ^j-fii *C-V\ '^■isrim^^^^^tm^ c'mciti Offitc: ?5 "CommVliijT sl^^. "PO. "fci "^Ifijo" VjlirKi'Tr' io."c^a^ u!s. Treiliuef. Prinicd by The Eislem Col. I Piintrntj Co.. Wiicibuir JO, Conn. Coven Coip Mmden. Conn. PRINTED IN U.S.A. The incidcnril ch^rulers rn this m^ejzinc m Actiiious. If ihe aame of lof living pcnc ^ HEY, JAMESON f COME ON UP HERE AND MEET A COUPLE OF FRIENDS OF MINE — aUSTER . CRABBE AND WHISKERS WILOE. .HUH? e- BLISTER CRABBE,.? r COME ON OVER TO THE HOUSE.' I'LL TELL THE HOUSE KEEPER TO PREPARE THE GUEST ROOM — AND SET TWO EXTRA PLATES FOR DINNER.' WELL. YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO CHECK YOURSELVES Ol/T/ YOU'RE J/>' QUESTS AS LONO AS YOU'RE IN TOWN? YOU MIGHT AS WELL ACCEPT SRACEFULLY, BUSTER FOR we'll keep YOU JHEREBY/Kflaf . IF NECESSARY/ After dinner... I rtr-MCF \ r awn tVf unr ME FOR A LITTLE WHILE. ) f TO CLOSE THE I^VE SOT TO GET DOWN J-\ PIT FOR THE TO THE LAB AND MILK ]«;;>' J^,^ NIGHT. ^MY LITTLE PETS. r X DIOP^T. X WAS BEHAVIOR. X TOOK CHANCED MY NAME, BOUGHT INTO JONES m. 60NE STRAIGHT, PAROLED FOR OOOD WHAT MONET X HADl CAME HERE AND ^ BUSINESS XVE J^ BUSTER. ««H^ J H W n r^Sh m 1 ^^ S.V AlJT..^ 3p ^H piPiH iiiM| 1 I^VE LEARNED MY LESSON. NO MATTER HOW SMART A CROOK IS, THERE^ ALWAYS A MAN LIKE yOi/ TO OUT- SMART HIM...X'M THROUQH WITH CRIME ~ PICKINO UP A SNAKE LIKE \^ THAT, AND NOT TAKINfl ANY 1 CHANCES f -StflDilHHH...lini THAT ffl^^ HG^S \r DEAD. m ^^ w^ ^ra ifia: m i^p there's SOMETHtNS WRONG HERE. A MAN DOESN'T DIE INSTANTLY FROM A SNAKE BITE. HE WOULD HAVE HAD TIME TOGO FOR HELP. A little Ioter,..r TURN IN EARLY MADE ME FEEL X'M GC»N8 TO ..ALL THIS HAS SICK... JONES 1 9 JAMESON Lm aUILTV ^%^ PROMISE DON^ WORRY, .W^LUQET THE PARTY. X YOU THArf l^SvUiT^! fell m^ r-'l ^1 ,fe A ■'k. 'M YOU DROPPED EXHIBITS A AND B IN THE JONES MURDER CASE< A.. .TWO HYPODERMIC SYRINGES r/£0 T06£TH£R SO THE NEEDLES WOULD INJECT LIKE A SNAK^ FAN$6f B... THE BILLY THAT MADE POSSIBLE THE INJECTIONf ^ COME SACK HERE, DOC^ ^ IF YOU RUN OUT, Z'LL HAVE A TOUGH TIME P/iOViNS '( THAT YOU'RE NOT GUILTY '. ) C HUH?? YOU '" ) MEAN YOU 8£U£V£ X>* INNOCEAIT? . ^ "^©J-i '''il .■■'■ t ijfjg^ 'J F ^BMk ' .^- ^^^ £ JP^ X ONLY FEEL SORRY, FOR JENNIE.. -BUT X DON'T THINK SHEb. MOURN i^MJR DEATH WHEN THEY SPRING THAT TRAP UNDER VOUf WHXYUHCONSARNED, GOLDURNED, BLANKETY- BLANK, NO- ACCOUNT, DAD- . RATTtD POLECAT. IF YUH, WUZN'T FEEBLE-MINDED^ AN' INFIRM,I'D TEAR "^ YUH LIMB FROM UMB.' NOW BOBO WUZ A REALLY RPMRKABLEJ WHUT VARMINT. HE SAVED MY LIFE WHEN X^D>D HE EVER WUZ LOST IN TH' DESERT. ^*^W ^WANTTODO* ■s.^^^^ M STUPID THINS /fap^m^gi,^ f^fl^Vk''"'^ THATPER? . ^ . F^ ^^fMf H M^ / j^^-^'l \m ^H ^|p A'Ji w/^pi. Thtn I waz. Inlh* middle of Deoth Vol le>^ an' dyinT I hadn't had a drop of wat«r inamon!h,an' couldn't hold out much longer. . . I'VE HEARD OF TALKIN' \/ WELL, I'M i PARROTS AN' EVEN CROWS./ SPECIAL CASE, BUTXNEVER HEARD OFA A SO TO SPEAK TALKIN' BUZZARD^ ^/yO\\t PROSPECTOR FOUND ME WHEN Z WAS A BASY AND KEPT ME FOR A PET. THAT'S HOW Z LEARNED TO THEN HE STRUCK IT RICH AND MARRIED A SOCIETY LAOY. SHE REFUSED TO HAVE A BUZZARD IN THE ' H0USE,SOI WAS KICKED OUT. WASN'T ANYTHING FOR ME TO DO BUT 60 JOIN A FLOCK OF "J ^ BUZZARDS. WHISKERS, TOU LAZY BUM, DON'T YOUGOOUTAND GETAJOBSO-WEiCAN AFFORD TO EAT PROPERLY/ AW«SHT,SO MAYBE IT WUZN'T YORE FAULT.' BUT IF YUH THINK YORE GOIN' TO STAY HEfiE AN' EAT ME OUTTEN HOUSE AN' HOME, YORE LOCO.' VAMOOSE < THE STORY OF JONATHAN CHAPMAN IF WE had to name the one greatest, most cour- ageous and heroic figure of our pioneer days, We would have to select Jonatbaa Chapman -above all others. Ie's diSicuIt to believe that this strange man and his life was factual and not fiction. You've probably never heard of him by his real name, but this man has a million memorials all across our nation — not memorials of cold, grim stone, but memorials of living, fruitful things. He was bom in Boston, Massachusetts, in 177}. Almost nothing is known of his early yean, or of his family, for Giapman was always reticent to talk about himself. Actually, the first well-authenticated facts in the history of Jonathan Chapman do not occur until 1801 when he was observed in the Territory of Ohio with a horse-load of apple seeds, which he planted in various places along the bor- I ders of Licking Creek. During the next five years, although he was un- doubtedly engaged in the same strange occupation, we have no authcnic records of his movements. In the spring of 1806, a pioneer settler in Jefferson County, Ohio, noticed a peculiar- looking craft, an even more peculiar -looking occupant and a curious cargo, slowly drifting with the current cff the Ohio River. It was "Johnny Appleseed," by which name Jonathan Chapman was afterward known in every !og cabin from the Ohio River to the Northern lakes, and westward to the prairies of what is now the State of Indiana. With two canoes tied together he carried a cargo of apple seeds to the Western frontier, to create orchards on the farthest outskirts of white settle- ments. With his canoes he passed down the Ohio to Marietta, where he entered the Muskingum, going upstream until he reached the Walhonding, and still onward, up the Mohican, into the Black Fork, to the region now known as Ashland and Richland counties. It was a long, hard journej-, as a glance at the map will show, and must have occupied a great deal of time, for the lone traveler stopped at every likely-looking spot to plant his seeds. He obtained the seeds from the cider-presses of Western Pennsylvania. The canoe voyage of 1806 seems to have been the only occasion upon which he used boats for transportation. All his subse- quent journeys were made on foot. Having planted his stock of seeds, he would return to Pennsylvania for a new supply. Securely packed in leather bags, the seeds were then conveyed, sometimes on the back of a horse but more often on his own shoul- ders, back over the old Indian trails into the wilderness. Johnny Appleseed was a small, wiry man with long dark hair, a scanty beard that was never trimmed, and sharp black eyes sparkling with a peculiar brightness. He often went bare-footed even in the coldest weather. Sometimes, for particularly long hard journeys, he would fashion for himself a crude pair of sandals, or wear any cast-off foot-gear he chanced to find— often a boot on one foot, an old moccasin on the other. On one occasion a settler noticed Johnny travel- ing barefooted through mud and snow, and forced him to accept a pair of shoes. A few days later the settler again saw Johnny plodding contentedly along, his feet bare and half-frozen. Demanding to know why he wasn't wearing the shoes that had been given him, the settler was told that Johnny had chanced upon a poor family that seemed to be in greater need of shoes than himself; so he had given the shoes to them. Dress was of small importance to Johrwy Apple- seed. He wore the cast-off clothing of the pioneers, which he accepted as payment for his apple-trees, tn his later years, even this patched and tagged second-hand raiment seemed too luxurious for him, and his principal garment was made from a coffee sack, with holes cut for his head and arms H> pass through, and which was, as he stated firmly, "a very serviceable cloak, and as good clothing as taj man need wear." In the matter of head-gear his taste Was equally unique. The pot in which he cooked his meaget meals also served him for a hat. Thus clad, he was forever wandering through forests and swamps with his heavy sacks of apple seeds, and suddenly popping up in white settle- ments and Indian villages. There must have been some rare quality of gefttle goodness in tis character, for despite his ridiculous attire, he was always treated with the utmost re- spect by the rudest frgntiersman, The Indians, too, treatfd Johnny with the greatest kindness. The savages regarded him as a "great medicine man" because of his strange ap- pearance, eccentric behavior, and especially because of the^fortitude with which he could endure pain. In proof of this, he'd often thrust pins and needles into his flesh. He probably was much less sensitive to pain than ordinary people, for his method of treating the cuts ancl sores he suffered as a result of his barefooted wanderings through briers and thorns was to sear the wounds with a red-hot iron. During the war of IS12, when the frontier set- tlers were attacked and slaughtered by the Indian allies of Great Britain, Johnny Appleseed con- tinued his wanderings and was never harmed by the roving bands of hostile redskins. Because of the impunity with which he ranged the country, he was able to give the settlers warn- ing of approaching danger. Especially after Hull's surrender, when large bands of Indians and British soldiers were destroying everything before them and even murdering defenceless women and chil- dren, Johnny travelled day and night alerting the countryside. He refused al! offers of food; he denied himself a moment's rest; he kept on the move until he had warned every settler in the region of the impending peril. Johnny was a vegeterian, and believed it to be a sin. to kill any creature for food. He considered ill living things as sacred, and whenever he saw an animal abused, or heard of it, he would pur- chase the animal and give it to some more humane settler on condition that it jx treated kindly and properly cared for. Johnny never ceased to feel remorse over the fact that once "in a moment of ungodly anger" he had killed a rattlesnake that had bitten him. On one occasion, a cool autumn night, when Johnny, who always camped out in preference to sleeping in a house, had built a liire for warmth, he noticed that the blaze attracted large numbers of mosquitoes, some of which flew too near the flames and were burned. He immediately brought ' i^iMr and quenched the fire. In 1838, thirty-seven years after his appearance on Licking Creek, Johnny observed that civilization, wealth and population were pressing into the wil- derness of Ohio. Before this he had easily kept just in advance of the wave of settlement. 'But now towns and churches had come into b^ing, and the stage-driver's horn broke the silence of the forests, and Johnny felt that his work was done in the region in which he had labored so long. He visited every house, and said a solemn farewell to all the families. Once again he went westward into the wilder* ness. During the next nine years he pursued his eccen- tric but worthy avocation on the western border of Ohio and in the far reaches of Indiana. In the summer of 1847, (when his labors had literally borne fruit over a hundred thousand square miles of territory) at the close of a warm day, after,, having traveled some twenty miles, he entered the cabin of a settler in Allen County, Indiana, and was, as always, warmly welcomed. He accepted some bread and milk, but declined to eat with the family. And. as usual, refused more comfortable accommodations, and slept on the bare floor. In the morning, the family could not rouse him. He was so near death that although he managed to open his eyes to look at his friends and man- aged, too, a wan smile, he could not speak. A doctor was summoned, The physician con- firmed that Johnny Appleseed was dying, and added that he had never in all his life seen a man in so placid a state at the approach of death. At seventy-two years of age, forty-six of which had been devoted to his self-imposed mission, he ripened into death as naturally and beautifully as the' seeds of his own planting had grown into fibre and bud and blossom and at last the matured fruit. . . . Thus died one of the most memorable men of pioneer times, who never inflicted pain on any other than himself, and never knew an enemy — a man of strange habits, in wliom there dwelt so profound a love that it reached downward to the lowest forms of life and upward to the very throne of God. A laboring, self-sacrificing benefactor of his people and his country, homeless, solitary and ragged, he trod the thorny earth with bare and bleeding feet, intent only upon making the wilder- ness fruitful, . , . m§^ SUN FLOWER TAKE YOU TO MOUNTAtN, BUT INDIAN SPEAK TRUTH.^ NO WATER, AND MOUNTAIN^ HAUNTED BY EVIL SPIRIT. HE TRIED TO FOLLOW HIS TRACKS BACK TO WHERE HE LEFT THE INDIAN GIRL, BUT MIST SWAM BEFORE HIS VISION, BLINDED HIMi NUMBED HIM UNTIL ALL HE KNEW WAS THAT HE HAD TO CRAWL ONWARD, AND THAT M\ TO REST MEANT DEATH Fof the next five doys they seorched-Hixcmssefl his own t rocks severol timw but none led to the 9"^- I ""^^Z PSERT AiB THiw awn CLEAR . CAN SEE HUNDRED, MILES. NO MOUNTAIN. FOR THREE MORE DAVS UNTIL WATER RAN OUT. THE PARTY SEARCHED W VAiN FOR THE GIRL. AND THAT'S ABOUT THE WHOLE STORr. A SHERIFF INVESTIGATED. HE THOUGHT THAT EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MOUNTAIN HAD BEEN DONE BY THE GIRL'S JEALOUS SUITOR, BUT COULDN'T PROVE IT. And John Hix? He went bock lo riding herd. He never totlced much or mixed with others,but kept to himself.quiet and peaceable — except when someone mentioned prospecting to him-- which no one ever did twice f "Norwood teamed up with young Thomas Nearin, fresh out of St. Louis, Missouri — because the youngster had money for a grub stake. They weren't out more than six weeks be fore -Norw o od found whot he'd been seeking foryeofs — goldf* ( ^r [^ " " ^ SHOOTIN'8 TOO SOOD FOB THAT SKUNKf ( rouf YOU'RE )/ / NOJ-AIN'T DEAD, \ NEARIN...BUT/'(7^}Pf j ^ ooin' to m f T—^ ^j HBKnla ISSillM "Yes,he was somewhere — and Norwood found himf It took over four yeors of searching . . ." I TOLD rou i'o catch you, nearin/ don't be a F00L,NEARINf A WE FOUND SOLD BEFOREf J WE'VE FOUND IT, ASAINf 1 THE STATE GAVE ME LI FE FOR \ KILLING Y0U,BUT YOU'RE NOT f dead/ WE CAN SUE FOR A UILUON/ ' DON'T YOU S££? THE STATE HAS TO COMPENSATE ME FOR THE MISTAKE IT MADEf I'LL SPLIT THE DOUGH WITH 'And that's ttie sfory.,.The lost heard of George J, Norwood, he wos boctcin the mountains pros* pecting forgold„ o/o/7ff this time- Some soy he got owoy with mur- der-but he didn't —he just poid foritinoAwflCff.'' HERETOO< U'% ALL JUNK f ^0-X COPPER.ZINC OR EVEN PIS-IRONf I 6IVE UPf ®»Sf^an6^ YOU SHOULD BE A MEMBER OF THE BUSTER CRABBE JVESTERN CLUB «« .-» ♦*» »„p.» and mail with 25c In ■^ n/M xv/i/i • • I ^ I *°'" °"^ ''°" *'" ***' "SsiL WUj, O^fidaL iBadqSL celveai