The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-10-31
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CLEVELAND, Sent. %, 1860.

| CLEVELAND, Sept. %, 1860.
MISTER EDETER: seez mi quill too
too inform the publik thru the medium
of your kolnms of the grand addishHn l
have gest maid too migrate metropoliti
clan sho biznes, and DARN S!ak rope and
GIN nastic Surkus. Last mite | had an
intervu with Stevun A. Duglas, the re-
Mound polittikal ambidixter and proprie
tor and Cheef koun in the crate popu-
Ter sho. Mister Duglas is generally kald
the little giant from his haven performed
tho CRATE feet Of wakin the whole length
Of Mason and Dixon close line with the
dred skot dicisshun in one hand, and his
whole popular suverenty sho in the uther:
and also pulIjn up the mammuth tire
kaid the lnissoorie kompromize, which
was first planted in 1857 by Tomas
Jefferson and uther8, and set out agiu
in 1920. Mister Douglas puld up this
tire and the constitution with it and
past them under his feat.
But waz n going Oh to sa that he has
bin traveln thru the estern and suthern
states performfh his triks and speakin his
PEGS. The va he takes um in with lis
popler suverentlv game is not slo. He
holds out big bill to the peplo and soz,
there's ropler suycrentv there's the CRATE
prinsipul At first they think they sea
il; but when tia look little sharper il
vanishes like du on the orientle korn
stalk when the noonda son riz2s in the
east on thunderin bot da in the middel
of JUL; it kant be found no where. The
folks sometimes oct mad and korner him
in tite phase, but he is tarnal smaui and
can kraul thru a mighty little hole. But
they sa lie did one CRATE trik-at wGn
phase he ate OK and 10000 klams.
As soon as herd of his arrive in toun
went to pa i'm a visit. | found him
in his sho room speakin his PEGS; | thawt
| wouldn't be very formal: and SCI !,
haven't ye got that pees lant yet? SEE
he, Wis but Tiers sum of the doktrin
that the peple don't bleov, and haze too
alter it occasionally to suite to phase. SEE
|, how doc you Ike the sho bznes? SEE
he, it Don't pa. SEE |, mi sho is doom
stayln biznes. lie groned and q tore
started in liz i; and sez he, | thowt /
shood make good deal out of my pop
Ter suverenty; but SCI lie, it has split the
hui sho; the perle begin TO sea thru IT..
and tha sa it is a humbug. SEE ], what
are YOU going to do with it? So he,
as soon as | have yused up mi posters
and advertisements shall throw it over
board.
SEE |, Douglas ~hattIe ye take for
yer poplor suyerenty? SEE ho lilo sci 1t
chcep. l told him diddent no how too
manage his triks, but L would go into
partnership with him in the sho business.
SEE he, its bargain. | then aXt him
whot he thowt of taking along sum dar-
kies to sing songs and dams the horn
pipe. SEE he, wunt hay emmy thing to
doc with the nigger Lisnes agin-it don't
pa. He said he went into the niger biz
mes in 1854 and had bin going down bill
ever sins; he sed it had nurly rooind him.
The little giant then purformed on the
slak rope, and kind up greest pole and
spoke his PEGS on the top. One Of Abe
Liucoln's rales was next browt in and
Douglas was set on and rode cut thru the
back dore. Douglas is about 5 feet hi
and thunderin CRATE man for wun OF
his size. l maid chronological exarnina-
ton of him. Hce is man OF tremendous
pour. Hiz kavs are huge. His bump
of humbugging is as big as COOS eg.--
| Conseenshusness is kaved in. Heed
make a first rate crier in the sho biznes;
biz bump of teIlin yarns amt small.
Duglas and have kompleted our pro-
gram for our nu sho. We call it the Du
yunion show, and grecst pole surkus, to-
cether with luther alarmin and DARN
feets.
DugIas will perform the grand, bubble
and single handed game ofpopler suver-
enty. This game can be seen best with
| the ize shet. But | must klose. we
are goin westward no in few dazo.
Yurs in hast,
ARTEMUS WARD, JR.
pes es Duglas SEE give popler suyerent!y
z a good bio in the paper.