Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-05-26
muttered something more profane
than polite.


principal hotel, and | may add tn
only hotel. called the Franklin House
and washing the dust and cinders froI
f our faces and hands, went into break
fast. / observed that my strande,
:. fellow-traveler did not breakfast, am
| and after that meal, while sitting be
1 fore the fire in the bar-room, asker
: him if he had breakfasted at the sta
ton back, where we had heard
gong. He responded "Devil q bit,
: and on prOpounding the reasonably
: inquiry why he did not indulge in tn
5 breakfast so necessary to humanity,
J learned that he had expended all hi
immediate funds in procuring a ticke
to st. Louis, where he had an engage
; ment with a circus company abOu
, starting out on its summer tour.
, Now" continued my acrobat,
friend, ''they could not have turned
me out at any other point between
New York and st. Louis but thi,
: where l would not have found friends
and felt at home.n
Poor shipwrecked brother, L wa;
shipwrecked, he was shipwrecked, al
through the beastly ignorance of s
ticket agent. We made common
cause and shared our rations. I found
him very intelligent and entertaining
l asked him many questions touching
his business that early associations
had clad in a certain romance. On
my renlarking that according to sta
tistical information, the average dura-
ton of life in the circus was very
short, he said:
az don't believe it. L suppose it
comes of the fact that at forty, or there
abouts, a performer gets too stiff and
clumsy for the work, and if he has not
made enough to retire on, he breaks
his neck.n r-FT
T'Don't you think drink has some
/ thing to do with it?u
mo; man can't drink in our bus
iness. He has to be in good health
and in possession of all his faculties to
! get through. Circus riders, lawyers,
doctors and hoTse-breakers dom drink
When they take to drink. they stop
being circus-riders, lawyers, doctors
and horse-breakers."
''I see that women are coming into
the ring.rs
There's a lively risk" he said;
women amt meant for that work
They haven't the pluck and muscle.
It's distressing to see 'em try. Six are
killed in the training 10 one that sue
ceeds.n
THAT feature would not be so pOpu-
lar if these facts were known"
"All the more. A crowd has taste
for danger. The more dangerous the
feat the better they like it. When
Sammy broke his neck in his famous
act, old Gudgeon said he was so sorry
he could hot have put it in his bills,
it would have drawn such a bully
house,
So much for human nature as seen
from the sawdust.
AT CHURCH.
The good people of Kent are not
disposed to hide their religion under
bushel. The four churches are set
on hill overlooking the town. Beau
tifully situated. they are. But, ahl
why can they not surround them with
Gods fringe-work of trees? We en-
tered the first we came to. 1t proved
to be Congregational assembly, un-
der the charge of Rev. Mr.. Concklin,
formerly of Cincinnati. 1t is hand
some little affair. I was startled to
find an opening in the floor of my pew
that looked into the basement, and on
further investigation / found a like
opening in every other pew. Had /
been an ordinary tourist, given to
reckless generalization, would have
jumped to the conclusion that these
openings were for the benefit of the
male tobacco worms, and made note
to the effect that the people of Kent
were so given to the use of tobacco
that holes were made in the floors of
their churches for the benefit of those
who eXpectOrate as Christians. a mild
and ancient joke there But waited,
and learned that those openings were
for ventilation and heating, as all the
stoves were in the basement. The
members might say, with Hoods old
lady, when commenting upon the
beauties of the cbdmfrette. at is so
capital" ". she wrote, ''for it warns
your feet, airs your linen. and smokes
your hams, all at the same time"
The Rev. Mr.. Concklin gave US a |
beautiful discourse, and came to re-
gard the stopping over at Kent a
blessing after all.
THE VENERABLE JESSE.
My letter treating of the appoint
nent of a post-mistress at RaYenna, .
1nly five miles from Kent, had Just I
been republished in the neighborhOod, I
md found considerable amusement /
by the public in and about I
he Franklin House. One old gentle /
nan took me to task. (
1.-THE old lady is no widow, and Mr.. /
Grant didn't know her when young.
He knew her husband, who was an
I'D friend,-and the lady he made
lost-mistress is the widow of a soldier,
md is very poor, but competent
Il have it all wrong then, it seems"
cried. II am very sorry"
why, the fact is, You have two stO-
les mixed. The old gentleman has
N ancient love, who Tilted him,-and
he is down on Rosecrans. But Gener-
L Garfield denies, in toto, the conver-
alton said to have occurred between
Ieneral Grant and himself.
well, General Garfield is a gentle
ran, and truthful, anything he says
I'll indorse. But had the story from
5ood authority, thought. Ali I can
ay about it is, that this back-door in
erference in appointments is shame
ul. Had Andy johnson done any
me of these acts, that Grant openly
dmits, the impeachment would have
'een success. That is ALL"
JOHN BROWNS HOUSE.
Kent has a notable feature in the for
ner residence of the famous Ossawat-
omie Brown. When the English
'arty originally in control of the At
antic and Great Western Railroad
'assed through Kent, they neglected
he workshops and depot building TO
lurry to John Browns old home and,
With as much enthusiasm as Bull is
apable OF, they carried away memen-
Oes in the shape of sticks and stones. /
The house is plain and unpretending
and gathers interest only from
he heroic life and death of the one
man connected with the late
var. When your Grants, Shermans
nd Sheridans have faded into naught,
his heroic old man will be sung in
Ong and treasured in story over the
vide world as the one true soul of
roubled period.
A COMPLIMENT.
1 had a quiet, pleasant time in the .
franklin House-barring a young
who would practice ON the
ornet-a-plston, and no less young
ldy who would worry the rank-a-
ank, commonly called a piano. The
franklin House is cleanly and well
erved, its table is good, but its land
ord is the best of all. When 1 came ]
0 demand my bill he said, with alook