Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-06
INYE'S BOYH00D DAYS.
a READING PREPARED PROM SOME OF HIS
"POSTHUNOUS WORKS"
Az Extract From His Msmo-s-Hs Was a Poor
Boy Once and Dressed Plainly-HH
Path Upward 70 Fame and
Fortune.
BH Ny,in BuH.in.

D pupt-sAtu MVAh'i VI hAANA 4 lEhc q lulk
number. A lady who came to me the
other day to express her gratitude. end
also TO ask me 10 subscribe to something,
said, as she threw her strong right arm
around my waist, and lcokei down into
my eyes. that she did not know how to
sufficiently thank me for what had done
but she desired especially to say Heaven
bless you for yOlr unpublished works and
also your pos hunoul works
So that, in fact, this is q chapter from
some memoirs which are teiug prepared
/ for me by an amauusnis, who has a liter
airy turn Of miod, and who is thinking
some Of my best thoughts for me at 80
much per think, and taking his meals a.
the house. He has permitted me to use
une OF these memoirs here.
| II is brief collection of a day at the
circus when l was a boy IN the county
Far was once q poor boy and dressed
plainly. did not always show the intel
I iec.ual polish that / 90 now did not
even know then that evolution is a
change from indefinite incohsrent homo
gently to definite coherent hetergeniiy
through continuous Authorizations and
integrations. did not have any ides
that such was the case
/ remember how / earned my frs.
money, nnd it shows how no poor hoy
need be discouraged in this country if he
is willing to try. had whitfield the desk
one day while thinking about the tariff,
and We had a rule Of school that ior dis
| figuring the desk the offender was con-
pelled to psy a tioe Of five dollars or take a
lerrb,e whipping. / did not have the
money with ms at the time, ard 50 asked
.or an extension Of time until l could call
a mes.ing of my parents, for l was their
idol. l pictured TO them the horrors Of
bsi0g whipped by large, irforiated man,
and how he might possibly main me fer
life, till finally my parents gave me thu
five dollars and went back j0yously 10
school the next day. But on the way l
thought that Eve dollars was a good deal
of money to pay into the schOOl district
when there wal 80 much suffering every
where; so when got to the school hous-
resolved 10 take the whipping and keep the
money. That was the hnt money | ever
earned. With part of it bought some
arnica, and with the rest went to the
circus.
do no. believe that tho3e who have
lived in Pittsburg all thsir life, can real zs
the grandeur of a circus in the country, or
how the old saw dust ring lie hallowed and
venerated for years after the parade, over
one mile 10 length, is gone, aud Meningitis
in full psnoply, and other people without
any panOply have passed away. Long
after the large yellow posters, showing
mighty amphibans with red gums, have
peeled OFF the barns and you have forgot
ten the announcement that the 100 gold
bedizened cages will be preceded by
gorgeous band wagon, hecked all over with
living gold, costing $500 per Aeck, n. B.
We will not he outfecked. the cd
circus ring stands there to remind you Of
the gaudy past.
cannot very well forget the time my
self, or how I looked. l dressed plainly
then, as said for my clothes were made
At home. / was about fifteen years OF ags
and trihe taller than am BOW, but not
so pOrtly. Twas ola shrinking disposition,
| too. 50 were my clothes.
can sill cal 20 mind the circus, and
! how fi0yed it, do not think we have
such circuses now. There has been a fall
| ing off in cirou'es sincs ther-especially
among bareback riders. l not only OBJ
served the parade, but l formed part Of
it. I helped to carry the bass drum, snd
afterwards carried three or four bar
rels cf water to the elephant. l do
not know Whist be did with
l IL but, after I had pOlred il all in
him, il didn't even start the pre- piration
on his brow. The pores OF his skin were
Just "a dry ard pa7ched as they we're when
| | bfgaD. Then l went INFO the circus and
sat ON bari, blue reserved sat- wbese |
gave myself up to pleasure. Ever and
anon the quick music Of the band ond the
tropical fragrsr c. Of the menagirle come
back to me yet. / allowed my feet to
hang over and yielded myself mp to enjoy
ment. / wore a Congress shoe on one
foot and stone bTuise on The other. Ny
coat was cnt, gored and made to wear with
hustle, but we had no hustle in the
house. We were very naughty, but poor,
and sometimes ne could not dress as we
would have liked TO do.
Still, | enjoyed The circus more than l
ever have since / went 70 see a large cir
Gus and congress of beasts last year, where
the trick elephsnt stepped on the clown
and killed him in the first act, and every
thing was done 70 make people epj0y hem
selves. and yet did not experience the
same plea3ure that did at fret.
O1e little incident has fixed itself in my
mind in connection with this frst circus
There was a lottery connected with il, and
II coat a dollar TO draw. The highesi prize
was SIS in money and silver cup A
g1eat maoy hoys rid tried to draw this
prizs. but had not succeeded. At last
business dropped off, ami nobody tried to
draw any more. At that time very
handsome man, with nice black, curly
hair and good clothes, spoke to me. He
wore a velvet coat ard "a diamond pin that
seemed to reach my very soul. l Twas told
aftsrgard that he was the owner of the
lottery, OF capper, OF something Ike
that. and that his great game was, when
business Jagged, 10 get some eOsllng or
other 20 20 aud draw for him. He would
thus get a big prize, and the countryman
would have the name Of it, then he could
put the money back into his business. But
did uot know that at the time. He
called me to him, and of course / felt
proud to have ine looking man speak to
me. He handed me dollar, and told me
to 20 and draw for him. asked him why
be didn't go and draw for himself bat
he said the lottery woul1n't let
him come in because he had drawn sew
era big prizss before. said l would do
it. was to bring him the prize, and he
was u remain in sight. | went over to the
place. and a crowd followed TO see me lose.
/ drew the highest prize, though, aud
there was q great amount Of applause.
They offered me $40 for the silver cup, and
took il. Then l discovered that / hSd
made mistake had dollar Of my
OWE III the same pocket, and, by mistake,
I had used that in buying my lottery
chance
I was deeply mortified, aud all I could
DO was to take the handsome Strangers
dollar and draw for him. l was shocked