Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-08-07

period, Wher another circus was tented il
neighborng Staunton, and he went there
with the throng to see, the influence of the
old habit proved stronger in his nature
than the newer ambition and the boy be-
ing naturally of sawdust to the sawdust
returned. not, however, without some
| thing gained for the refinement of his
whole future life, in Il sentiment Of ardent
gratitude to his bpnefactors, and an ardor
to excel in his nataral lot for the honor of
that beneficent emotion. Only a circus-ri-
uer was he again, to be sure, but the some
thing of IL better sphere of life with which
he went back to horses and clowns was a
something potential to make him rise
above the creatures of meaner experience
BY skill IT'S u performer Sobriety of pri-
vate character, and Il shrewtlness not the
less effectual for its honesty. his progress
through the rem lining years of his minori-
ty was continual ascent, and in his
twenty-frst year he had attained the dig
mites of manager and proprietor. Many
times in these prosperous days he brought
his thriving circus to Stanton, and al
ways improved the opportunity to present
himself at the hospitable door where SIM
| pie glass Of water had been the lens
through which his friendless boyhood had
caught its first view Of the world s clearer
face The same welcome was there still !;
the same disposition in his own heart to
whimper: and Good bless you - sounded
in al NIa dog, LOT; nf
ed the tent of the Snowman with that of
the soldier III the once happy valley at last,
and Sheridan rode tn slaughter where erst
the peaceful vaulter through hoops had
urged spangled steed in the merry round
Of the ring.
While the circus still gathered golden
gain in distant uninvaded States, fire and
sword ragged in tempests around the home
of the Britinghams, until smoke-blackcn-
ed chimneys r>ed the place where that
home had been, and the churchyard closed
upon the aged eyes most mournful for the
desolation. Not until the spring of 1870
could the circus man, now well advanced
in years himself, hear aught of the sur
vlving family that, upon the destruction
of their homestead and the death of their
chief, had wandered away from the old
plantation. At the time mentioned, when
the now mammoth equestrian enterprise
W;lS giving entertainments in Kansas, a
poorly dressed hollow checked man ap-
piled for some unskiled employment
about the tents.
no ria cboy
lis BIRTH CHAM ?"
There could be but one answer, reluct-
antly given:
eyes"
With IL strange look the rich proprietor
grasped both hands of the other in his
own.
''Then," said he, "you are the son of the
best man that ever lived, and | thank God
that you have come to share in all that
your father has a mortgage upon for eter-
nifty. Take my tent, my people, my horses,
my handbook, and then you'll have just
the interest of the one unpaid debt of my
life"
Here was good feeling and no mistake;
the kind of feeling that needs some sort Of
uneXpectedness of origin to make it per-
fectly sublime, and just enough of the
COMMENCES of common natures about it
to excuse natures common way of betray-
ing its simplest effect. The two men cried
over each other without the slightest re-
gard to SEX and then the Southerner beg
ged Off us well us he could by finally con-
senting to accept a loan-only that-of
S. 900 for the purchase Of the farm.
The yankee would not ''l6t up on him, :"
to use his own words, a cent cheaper, and
added a season ticket to the show for the
whole family. Two years later the afore-
said out-and-out, double-tWisted, dyed-in-
the-wool Down Easter was at Washington
with his city of TENTS" chromatic pos
ters, uurivalled array OF talent, and other
eplzootlc symptoms. One night after the
performance he was sitting in the room of
his hotel, making merry with certain
friends, when a card was handed to him
/ by IL waiter, followed by it's Immediately
| invited owner. Mr.. Birmingham, Of Kan
sas, now in d high state of agricultural
atfiuence, had called to pay back that loan,
on his way down to Virginia to see what
could be done for the restoration of the
old place.
"He wants to pay me back, gentlemen
pay me back !" calculated the Snowman,
by way Of general introduction to the COM
pany "Why, heaven bless you, my boy
if 1t was twenty-five thousand I'd dodge
you as many years to make you keep it
and Il hundred Thousand more. YOU'RE
are the son of the best man that ever lived;
u man that made a man Of me; and I'd
like to see myself paid back. '-Neu York
Graphic.
LADIES IN THE CASE.-1t would be
rather unpleasant to the Italian govern
ment if it had got into Il small diplomatic
scrape, both with England and America ;
and all this on account OF the roughness
displayed by Italian soldiers. Mrs MINI
mo. cousin to Mr.. Gladstone, and her two
daughters, together with three American
| ladies, Mrs, and Miss Murland, and. Miss
Woodward were, according to the report
of the American Register OF Paris, stand
ing on the place st. Peter, IN RI me, to
witness the ceremonies, held in thanksgiv-
inc for the prolongation of The life of Plus
TX. The Italian police officers appear to
have grown indignant at the strength and
frequency Of the cries pro ffered of Viuu IL
Pavc lie, So they ordered the soldiers to
disperss the throng. The order was exc
| c,lttd Inv fine Bers;,iuljplis charpinr havO-
net in hand, and the ladies were roughly
treated by police officers, who seized them
| one bY the whist. anoth rby the shoulders,