Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-07

she said, addressing the horsecar full of pee-
pie through her lady companion.
What? Give up that lovely fiat? Why, L
thought you loved New York! Not gong
away?"
"N-no, not exactly You see, we're tired
OF housekeeping and we are going to board
ing. we shall store our furniture. Joe
thinks its the only way ont. Well try 1t
agnin after while, you know"
"H hats the matter? I'm sure you were as
snug and happy as tive people coulo wen
be when was up. You haven't been trying
''oh, no; we have the very best kind Of
servant. Dear, dear! I'm afraid we snant
be able to get her when we go DacR TO
housekeeping again. 1t is SO hard 70 get
g3od servants, and she is such q treasure
We were SO happy!'
> well. what on earth child
The faet Is, Joe's cousin came on here
some time ago and won't go away, plague on
MN! He just stays, and stays, and stays!
and he's brought his child for me TO take
care OF! And he's spent all his money ana
thinks he'll stay here and may be look for a
JOB. But he'll never work-not If he can
help 1t. He is such polite and refined sort
OF man, too neither Of US can tell him 60
60 We don't believe he'd go If we'd tell
him, see! So Joe and have agreed that the
pest way is to throw up the nat. When the
fellow goes away or falls in the river, or
that real cunning?"
The Success of the Age.
THE smoking room of the Eden Musee is
just above the stage and on the same level
with the balcony of the auditorium. 1t is
iuxuriously appointed, something like an
exaggeration of a Pullman Car. Seek its
warm shades about o'clock and you will
ind dozen or so men about town leunging
more or less ungracefully among the red
cushions, slipping beer, champagne or other
stun, smoking cigars or cigarettes, and talk
ing in subdued way of agriculture or some
thing. Some wear fun dress and bear evil
dences of having recently dined; some wear
sporting air-al1 a weil-sustafned appear
ance OF boredom, such as one sees In the
this time performance is going on below,
and its excellence is occasionally evidenced
through a clapping of many hands.
suddenly strain of music 1oats through
the place. Up Jumps the whole crowd as
one man. The glasses clink, are emptied,
the unfinished weeds and burning rice paper
go into the cuspidors, and general stam-
pede for the inner doors ensues.
No, the theater is not ON fire.
The ballet is on.
How Forepaugh Managed q Drunk.
1.-THE circus is subject to a system of black
mail, plunder and robbery en- route that is
unheard of in any other business" said an
old-tilne circus man. "It requires the most
diplomatic management and, after all, the
company must submit to all sorts of extor-
tion to escape attachments. These are levied
upon the ticket wagon just before the even
ing performance; or upon pole wagon as
the tents are being pulled down. As the de-
lay of trial, or even n hearing. would cost
thousands of dollars there is no other way
than to submit. This sort of robbery occurs
in almost every town where a circus goes.
The company may think il is getting OFF all
right, when suddenly some accident, some
chance injury to property or something of
that kind, affords an excuse for q levy. When
i was with Forepaugh soon found that at
tachment racket was dreaded and cursed
more by the veteran Snowman than any
other evI-not oven an expense account.
We used to resort to anything almost to cir
cHmvent those robbers.
"One time we were showing at Syracuse,
and there was an incident occurred in which
Tip, the wicked elephant, now in the Gen.
trail Park, figured A drunken countryman
had been wandering around and fooling
with the animals, notably with the ele
peatedly, but he would soon come back. He
finally approached Tip as the elephants
were lined up to leave, pulled flask Of
whisky from his pocket and gave it to
Tip trying to pour 1t In his trunk. Whether
Tip objected to the small quantity or mean
quality of the whisky, or merely resented
having ii poured up his nose-at any rate, he
seriously resented this invitation to drink,
and in about five seconds was wfping up the
ground with his tormentor. But for Dan
Taylor and others the man would have been
killed.
"Old man Forepaugh took It all in He
knew that tho show would be detained and
probably miss the next date If we didn't get
OF, so he told Dan to throw the man in a
wagon and bring him along with the show.
We didn't know whether he was dead or
alive until our doctor declared It only case
of drunk. But next morning, when the man
had sobered up, he had no more idea where
he was or how he came there than the man
in the moon Forepaugh sent for him and
told him in his choice vocabulary of adjec-
tives that he was a nice man to hire out to
the show and then get drunk and fight with
me an, VIZ Y hrs. @ dg1nS Sp are re us us,
man thundered, and the fellow sneaked
away, utterly collapsed"
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY,