Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-01-08
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f. Gzsrz-i make beld to osayI thak the parat .,
season has been the tufRst on on recknd fur
the show biznis. I retired 81 aisguSt som -
3 nunths ago & hav bin injcyiA t6sFsNeetsofI
domestick blis ever sins. olSifa.khe naEuY q
das< Of the show sbiznis has gone : d, ,beleay4 q
Lecturs sich like nonsicle bisnis Is, a the
goe & wax works and liyin beests is On tie :
declin. shant resoom the shSsF bisnts I'll
Tins git NOR Eeasyer & shal wEiler swN my is
spar hours In eontribatin to The ,colnmx Of ).
the Plain Dealer. comment my italrsY !,
kareer in it. Old BONNER of the tegxef has
mad over turns to me to rite onely sfdrfhiSTs
erett RiCherd Holman, Miss Fern, etsettery, no.
but j, turned deef ear, TO him., = -, =.
Ny naburs is morn half crazy on the new 50
tangled idear about Sperrets Sperretooui Sir ai
cles is held nite4y & For long haired fsllers Il
have settled here & gore INTO the sperrit biz q,
nes exclusively. A atemt was made to- git
Mrs. A. Ward to embark into the Sperrit biz
mis- but the atemt failed. of the long hared "a
feilers told her she was a ethereal creetur &Ir
wood make q sweet mejium, whereupon she 1
atact him with mop handle & drove him out
Of the house. will here obsurve that Mrs.
Ward is invulerable woman-the partner Of
joys shairer Of my sorrers. 1t my absuns
she watches my interests things with::a Egle
Eye & when return she welcomes me in. af.
fecktionate stile. Trooly it is with us, as it
was with Mr.. & Mrs. Ingomar in the play, to
whit ~ --i5,-' s.''.. 49,. F.. ,.if.lGii ass-C
2 soles with but single thwart . .-:ta-
81. - 2 harts which beet as1. -.r .,,--.
My naburs indoosed me to aten Sperre-
tooul Sircle at Squire Smith. When I arrovc
found the west room full includin all the old
mades in the vilhge; & the long haired fellers
a4sed. When I went in was salootid with
hear Gums the benited an'''-hear Gums
the unbeleever' Gums the horey he'd
ed skofter of TRUTH" etsettery. Sez my "
trends its troo ime hear and now Bring on
your Spereets. i of the long hzred chaps p
arose & sed he would make q few remarks.
Hesed a Cole. Sum men had bigger intel
leck than men had and they would git to the
Cole the soonerest Sum men was beests &
wood never git into the Cole at all. 81 He ised ]
the Firth was material but man was inmate Z
rial and hens man was different from Erth.
The Firth, continnered the speaker, resolves
round on Its own axletrea ono in "a hours,
but as man haint gut no axeltree he can't re- p
solve. He sed the ethereal essunce of the
koordinate branchis Of super human nature !,
becum mettymOrfused as man progrest in
hormoncial coexistunce & turned into reglar
sperretuellers (This was .versiferusly ap- 1
plauded by the company and as make q
pint to get along as pleasantly as possible,
sung out "bully for yu old boy" The com.
pany then drew around the table and the Sir
Gle konmerst to 60 it. They srex me If d
there was anybody in the Sperret land which !
wood like to talk with, & sed if Billy Tomp-
kins who was once my partner in the show .
biznis was sober shood like to converse with
him few periods. "Is the Sperret Of Will
lum Tompkins present ?" sed to the long
hared snaps there was 3 knox on the table.
Sez Willum how goes it He sed things was
rather. rough. Sez are you In the show biz
mis- Willum, he said he was. n He sed he e.
I.L- Day -s-,~s. ~ ~ --r.s;sS show
in conneckshun with Shakespeer, johnson, &
Co.'S consolidated managerey & cirrus. He
sed old Bun (meaning Mr.. Bunyun) stirred
up the anernils & ground orgen while he ten
ded door. Occashunly Mr.. Bunyun sung
comic song. The circus was doin middlin
well. Bill Shakespeer had made great hit
with "Old Bob Ridley" & Ben Johnson was Il
delitin the people by his trooly CRATE acts Of
horsmanship without saddoll or bridul See II
William kan yu pa me 13 dollars you owfy
me, he sed no with one of the most tremen- 4
dous knox ever experiunsed. then called =
for my grandfather & lurn that he was meat
ing with fare success in the pea nut biEnis &
liked very well, altho the clinit was ruther
warm. ,.....-. ....r r,-.... .... ,. ,.n.. ..-. Il
When the sircus stopt they asked me what
l thot oft Sis my trends i've been into the
show biznis now going on % yers. There's
an artikil in the Konstitooshun of the United
States which sez in efeck that every body
may think just as he darn pleazes. Il them is.
my sentiments to a hare. You dowtlis be-
levee this Sperret doctrin while i think it
little mkt. just SO soon as man becomes
reglar out & out Sperret rapper he leave of
workin, let's his hare grow all over his face &
commensis spungin his living out of other peo-
pie. He eats all the dickshunaries he can
find & goze round chock full of big words,
scare wimmin folks & little childron & destry-
in the piece of mind ov evry farmerlee he en-
ters. He don't do nobody no good & is a cuss
to society and pirit to honest peoples corn
beef barrils. Admittin all yu say showt the
doctrin to be troo. must say the reglar
Professional sperret rapers-them as makes
biznis on it-air abowt the most ownery set
of cusscs ever encountered in my life So
ravin put on my surtoot & went home.
r:n Respectfully, yours, 5 a.l. ..r
,.. ... a-a A. WARD.