Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-12-25

lottcd task, she will bring health vigor, energy,
and spirits, and these will give her both the
power and the endurance, without which her
lille must be, in some respects at least, failure.
The EtIuernnt showmnn Among she "spi-
From the Cleveland Plaindealer.l
BALDISsyLIE, Ind, Dec. 0, 1883
GENTz-I make bold to say that the parst sea-
son has bin the tuffist on recknd fur the show
biznis. retired in disgust sum Q munths ago
& hav bin enioyin the sweats ofdomestic bis
ever sins. Sirs the parmy dase Of the show biz.
mis- has gone do believe. Lecturs & SIGH like
nonsense is all the go & wax works and Twin
wild beests is on the decline. shant resoom
the show biZnis till times git moro easier s shall
while ava my spair hours in contribberifn to
the column Of the Plain Dealer. lcommenst
my literary kareer in the Plain Dealer & shall
continner to write fur it. Old Bonnir of the
Logger has made overturns to me to rite only
fur his paper along with Sylvanus Cob, Edward
Everitt, Richard Hoffman, Miss Fern, Gtsettery,
but turned a deaf ear to him.
My naburs is morn half crazy on the new fam
gled idear about Sperrets Sperretooul Sircles,
is held nitely & 4or long hared felers have
settled here & gone into the sperrit biznes ex
clOosively. a atemt was made to git Mrs A.
Ward to embark into the Sperrit biznes but the
attempt failed. of the long haired fellers told
her she was ETHEREAL creetur s wood make a
sweet meJlum, whareupon she atact him with
mop handle & drove him out of the house.
will here obsarye that Mrs. Ward is inyulner.
able wonun7zthes partner of my joys & the
shairer of my sOrrers In my nbSunse she
watchis mY,intercsts d things With Eagle Eye
& when return she welcomes me in Affection
ate stie. Trooly it is with US as it was with
Mr.. q Mrs lngomar in the play, to whit:
9sols . with I. but : single thaw.
Ny naburs indoosed inc to- n attend Sperre..
toonl Sircle at Squire Smith. When arrove
found the west room full includin all the old
inndes in the village & the long haired fellers
a4sed. When went in i was salootid with
'hear Gums the benitcd man'-"hear Gums the
unbleever -"henr Gums the horey hedcd
skotter of truth" etsettery, ctsettery. See
my friends its troo ime hear aud now Bring on
your Sperrets. of the long haired chaps arose
d Sed he wood make n few remarks. He sed
man was critter of intelleck and was moyin to
a Cole. Sum men had bigger intelleks than
other men had and they wood git to the Cole
the soonerest. Sum men was beests & wood
never git into the Cole at all. He sed the Firth
was material but man was imnaterial and
hens man was different from Firth. The Firth
contlnnered tho speaker, resolves round on its
own axeltree Onct in 81 hours, But us n man
halnt got no axeltrec he cant resolve. He sed
the ethereal esSunce of the koordnate brnnchis
OF super human nature becom mettymorftlsed
as man Progrest in harmoniaI cOexistence &
eventooully anty humanized themselves &
turned into reglar sperretueers. This was
versitferusly applauded by the cumpany and as
make 1t pint to get a'ong as pleasantly as
possible sung out s'bully for va old bov!''1-
The cumpany then drew round the table and the
Sircle kommenstt to goit. They axed me if there
was anybody in the Sperret land which i wood
like to talk NTH, & sed if Billy Tompkins who
Urn my ft1oC CHI
Der l shood like to converse with him few ne.
RODS as the Sperrit of William Tompkins
presentfN sed l to the long haredi chaps and
there was three knox on the table SEE i Viii.
liau how goes il? He sed things was rather
rough. SEE air you in the show biznis Will
liam, & he sed he was. He sed he & John Bun
yum was travelln with a side show in conneck.
Shun with Shakespcer, johnson, & Co.'S consol-
lerdated menagery s. circus. he scd old Bur
(meaHing Mr.. Bunyun) stirred up the nnermils
ground the organ while he tended door. Oc-
cashunly Mr.. Bunyun sung a comic song The
cireut was doin middin well. Bill Shakespeer
had made crate hit with cold Bob Ridlv',I
Ben johnson was delitin the people by his
trooly CRATE acts of hossmanship without sa1dnI
or 6ridul. Sell William kan yu pm me that 8
dollars yu owe me, & he sed no with one of the
most tremendous knox ever experiunsed. III
then called for my grandfather & turned that he
was meatin with fare success in the peanut biz.
MS d liked very well, altho the CLINT was rath-
or warm.
When the sircle stopt they asked me what I
thowt of it. See imy friends i've been into the
show biznis now goin on % years There's an
artkil in the Constitooshun Of the United States
which seq in effeck that every body may think
just as he darn pleazes, & them is my senti-
ments to hare Youdowtlis believe this Sper.
ret doctrin while think it little mkt just
SO soon rs man becums reglar out & out
SPerret rapper he leeyes OFF workin, lets his
hare grow all over his face & commensis spun
gin his liyin out of other people. He eats all
the dickshunaries he can find & goze round
chock full of big words, scaren the wimmin
folks d little children & destroyin the piece of
mind OF every faTmerlee he enters. He don't
do nobody no good & is cuss 10 society and 4 |
pirit to honest peoples corn beef barrils. Adj
lnittin all Yu say abowt the doctrin to be troo.
must say the reglar Professional sperret raI,.
pers-thein US makes biznis onsit3aiF abovvt |
the most oFnery set Of cusSes ever enkoun-
tered In my life. So ravin put on my sur
toot s vent home Respectfully, yours
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