Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-06

HIS REQUEST.
A cireus Man who Yves Not Anxious For
write Up.

A cireus Man who Yves Not Anxious For a
Write Up.
"Ah, good morningl" said brisk,
natty little fellow, walking into the Of
fee Of the Crosby County Clarion and
Farmers Yindicator and tripping light
ly over a cuspidor. II represent the Lit.
tle Gem circus"
1--WE have thrown of on circuses, "
snapped the editor. They're grand
concatenations"--
1--WE have not got a single concatena-
ton We don't carry them any more
They are altogether too common. IL
fact, we are drawing our circus very
mild this season"
"why, haven't you got 10, 900 feet
Of venomous serpentsP'
mot foot, not even dead garter
in bottle of alcohol Boa constructor
and pythons are out of style.
Don't you advertise three miles Of
golden chariots, headed by 10 silver
plated bands, steam calliope, galaxy
Of Circassian beauties, 10 educated stall
Lions, bass drum with two heads, &
iointed acrobats on bicycles?"
mo, oh, nop' answered the advance
agent, with a sickly smile lowering In
the corners of his mouth. 1--WE drive
in town with an old lumber wagon and
trotting sulky. Our elephant died last
season Of hay fever, and our So beauty
eloped with one of the canvas men, We
have got pretty middling good snare
drummer and a Bohemian with hare
lip, who blows the fife That is oul
banh.''
"Of course you have the wonderful
gigantic Bovolapus, which sweats blood
ard disembowels camelopar9s?"
"Well, no. You see, our Bovolapus
was i'll last fall and was laid mp in the
hospital for six weeks. He finally escap
ed by chewing up the hospital steward,
three guards and the physician OIL
night watch. But he was never the
Same Bovolapus afterward He dropped,
pinod away, and one morning we found
him dead in the horse tent"
"You don't seem to have many at
fractions, that's fact. OF course you
"Clownsl Oh, no, sir; only ont
clown--a regular bowling idiot. Some
Of his jokes are covered with cobwebs,
and besides that he is blind in one eye,
knee sprung in the left leg and dying
with consumption hardly expect he
will live to get here with the show.
But IL will be q small loss
"Of course you have three rings?'
"On the contrary, we have only half
q ring We send the old plug of a pad
horse half way around a circle, and
there ia a turntable at the end, like q
single track Car line. We then head
him the other way. build a fire under
him. and he jogs back ON a slow trot. Z"
II don't gee what you want with the
assistance Of an influential newspaper
like ours, said the editor. "You do
not seem to want to advertise anything,
or rather you do not appear to have
anything TO advertise. "
Advertised Death ON cream horsel
Mol What came In for is to see how
much you fellows will take to stay
away from the show and say nothing
about It Name your figures, and II
they are anywhere between a sour tod.
dy and $50 I'll cash right in. Can we
trader
The editor was thus easily corrdpted,
but It was noticed by the managing ed
itor that when he returned from a trip
round the corner in company with the
advance agent he was full Of inspjra-
tion, and it required the whole force TO
restrain him from giving the Little
Gem circus a preliminary write up
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