The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-05
From the Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Etinerant Snowman among
tho Spirits.
BALD1NsvILLR, Ind Dec. 8, 1885.


GENTz-I make bold to say that the
parst season has bin tue TUT st on reck-
I'D fur the show biznes. | retired in dis
gust sum mun,hs ago & have bin en-
joying the sweats OF domestic Bills ever
sins. Sirs the parmy dase of the show
+ z lis has gone, do believe. Lecturs &
sich like mons nso is all the go, d WAX
works and Twin wild beasts is on the de-
Gins. shant resoom the show biznis
till times gets more easier & shall while
ava my spair hours in eontribbertin to
the columz of the Plain Dealer. / be-
gam my literary kareer in the Plain
Dealer, q shall continner to write fur it.
Old Bonner oftho Logger has made over
turns to me to write fur his paper along
with sylvanus Cob, Edward evcritt, rich
ard Holman, Miss Fern, etsettery, but |
turned deaf ear to him.
NY Majors is ,nsrn half crazy on the
new tangled idear about sperrits. Sper-
retooul Sircles is held nitely & 4 or 5
long haired feliers have settled here dsgone
into the sperrit biznis exclusively. &
atelnt was made to get Mrs. A. Ward to
embark in the sperrit biznis, but the Mt
TENT failed. l of tho long haired fellers
told her she was atnereal creetur d wood
make sweet mejium, warcupon she at
tact him with mop handel and drove
him out of the house. / will here obsarve
that Mrs. Ward is on nvulerable woman
the partner of my joys and the shairer
of my sorrers. In my absunse Sue watch
es my interests and things with eagle
Eye, & when return she welcomes me
in afectionate stile. Trooly it is with US
as it was with Mr.. & Mrs. Ingomar in the
play, to whit:
2 soles with but single thawt
2 harts which beet as /.
NV naburs indooced me to attend
Sperretooul Sircle at Squire Smith
When arroove | found the west room
full, includin all the Old nades in the
village & the long harcd Teller a4sed.--
When went in was salootid with ''Hear
comes the benited man hear Gums the
unbeleevor-hear Gums the hory heded
scofFer of TRUTH" etsottery' etsettery.-
SEE i my friends its true ime hear and
now Bring on your Sperrits. ! of the
long haired chaps arose & said he wood
make a few remarks. lie sed man was
crittcr of intelleek and vas moving to
Cole. Some m n had better intellecks
than other men had and they wood git to
the Cole sooncrest. Sum men was bes-
ties and they wood never git to the Cole
at all. He scd that the Firth was mate
rial, but man was imnateral, and hens
man was different from Firth. The Firth
continued the speaker, resolves around on
its own axletree onct in o4 hours, but as
q man baint got no ayletree he cant re-
solve. He sed tie ethereal essunce of the
koordinate branches Of super human IA
ture becomes mettymorfused as man pro-
crest in harlnonial cocXistunce d even
toouly humanized themselves IL turned
into regular sperretuellers. This was
versiferously sppauded by the company
and as / mako it p pint to get along rs
pleasantly as possible, l sung out bully
for ya old boy."l
The cumpany then drew round the ia
bic and the Sircle konmenst to go it.
They axcd me if Their was anybody in tho
Sperrit land which wood Ike to talk
with, d sed if billy Thompkins who was
onct my partner in the show biznis was
sober shood like to converse With him
few periods. Is the Sperrit of William
Tompkins present." sed / to tho long
haired chaps and there was 8 knox on
the table. Says William bow goes it?
He sed things were rough. See air you
in the show biznis Bill, d no sed lie woz.
He sed he and John Busyan was travelin
with a side show in conneckshun with
Shakespeer. johnson, d Cos consollerda-
ted managery d circus. He sed old Bun
(meaning Mr.. Bunyan) stirred up the an
ermils & ground the organ while he ten
ded door. Occashunlv DIR. Bunyan sung
comic song. The circus was doin mid
din we'll. Bill Shakespeer had made 2
CRATE hit with "Old Bob Ridley" d Ben
johnson was delitin the people BY his
trooly crate acts of hossmanship without
saddul or bridul. SEE / William kan WI
pa me that IS dollars yu owe roe q he
sed no with one of the most tremendous
knox / ever exp4riunsed. / then called
for nj grandfather 4 lurnad thar he was
m.atin with fare success in the peanut
b'zais & liked very well, altho the einit
was rather warm.