The Kanzas news., 1859-01-22
Artemus ward Among the Spirits.

Artemus Ward, the Snowman, is case.
We gave letter from him to the PtGtndeut-
er, giving his account of visit TO Berlin
Heights, and his opinion of 'sfree love.
and now we find, in the same paper, anoths
er unique production of his. pen. describing
an interview with the Spirits. We make
an extract or two:
E ssI viii hear obsarve that Mrs. Ward Is a
Iiuvalerable womuh-the Partner'of nay goysH
& the sbairef ofsmy soFrers. In my absuns.
she watchis my interest & things with Ea-
gle Eve, & when return she welcums me
in afectionate stile. TFooly Il is with US as
it was with Mr. &Mfs. Ingonaar in the Play,
to whit f aea -T7Sal
haa 2 soles with but single thaws - !
harts which beet as /.
/ NV naburs indorsed me to attend Sper-
retooul Sircle at Squire Smiths. When i
arrove found the west room full includin
all the old mades in the yillige & the long
=hared fellers a4sed. When went in was
saleoted with ''hear Gums the benited man"
-"hear Gums the unbeleever - shear Gums
the horey heded skoffer at truth etsettery.
etsettery. SEE my friends its troo imei
hear and now Bringson your Sperrets. The
cumpany then drew round the table and the
Sircle kommenst to go it. They axed me
if thare was anybody in the Sperret land
which wood like TO talk with & i sed If
Bill Thompkins who was onet my partner
in the show bizniz was sober shood like
to convarse with him few periods. is
the Sperret of William Thompkins PRESENT."
sed of the long hared chaps d thare was
three knox on the table. See William how
goze it? He sed things was rather rough.
Sez ar yu in the show biznis William, &
he sed he was. a
He sed he 4 John Bunyun was travelin
with side show in conneckshun with
Shakespeer Jonson & Co.'S consollerdated
menagery & circus. He sed old Bun (mean-
ing Afr. Bunyun stird up the anermals d
ground the origin while he tended the dore.
Occashunly Mr.. Bunyun sung comic song
The circus was doin middlin well. Bill
Shakespeer had made great hit with ''Old
Bob Ridly and Ben Jonson was delitin the
peple By his trooly CRATE acks of hossman-
ship without saddul or bridul. Sez VIII
liam kan yu pay me that 18 dollars yu owe
me, & he sed no with of the most tremen
dous knox l ever experiunsed. then cald
fur my grandfather & turned that he was
meatiu with fare success in the peenut biz
mis- d liked it very well, altho the elimit was
rather warm.
When the Sircle stopt thay asked me
what !hawt of it. Sez my friends i've
been into the show biznis now goin on %
years. Yudowtlis believe this Sperret doc
trin while think it is little mkt. Just
so soon as a man became reglar out & out
Sperret rapper he leeves orf workin, lets his
hare grow all over his face d kommensis
spungin his livin out of other peple. He
eats all the dickshunaries he can find and
goze round chock full of big words, scarein
the wimmin folks & little children & de-
stroyin the piece of mind Of every famerlee
he enters. He don't DO nobody no good &
is a cuss to society and pirit on onist Pc
PIES corn beef barrils.- Admiin all yu
say abowt the doclrin to be troo, / must
say the reglar Professional Sperret rappers-.
them as make a biznis on it-air- abowt>the
most orHery. set of scusses ever encoun-
tered in my life. So sayin iput on my sur
toot g. went home. Respectfully Youres,
F. - So ARTEMUs WARD.