This illustration accompanies an article about Charlie Andress' first adventure as a traveling magician at the mature age of twelve.  The illustration depicts Andress performing under the protection of a "big-hearted, heavy-fisted" tavern-keeper who had learned that the boy's act had been ill-received by the rowdy lumberjacks and mill-hands of Otisville, Michigan.  The man drove Andress back to Otisville in his buggy, "told its citizens the vileness of their manners, and made that audience reassemble—and pay double, to boot.  And he stood beside the child while he went tremblingly through his 'business.'"  Such was Andress' launch into the profession.  Would that we all had such a champion!

From a 1903 issue of Saturday Evening Post.