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The morning news., 1894-09-30

place burned down and l lost everything
/ had, aud again | put on my Gowns
makeup and entered the arena. played
several seasons in Australia, returning
last year TO Chicago, where | filled
twenty-five weeks engagement as an
Arab in Cairo street at the worlds fair.
After that l went TO San Francisco for
the midwinter fair, filling a successful en-
gagement.
EXPERIENCES "oN THE ROAD"
at would take big volume to tell all
my experiences On the road Travel
with a wagon show is very different from
being transported from city to city in
palace trains, and life with one of the old
fashioned shows was full of vlcisitudes
and Incidents of humorous and pathetic
nature. The saddest, | think, was the
murder of little boy by his step-father.
The little fellow was the son Of Millie
TOurnour, the trapeze performer. Miss
Tournour'S husband was Onofri, gym
mast. He was training the boy for high
pedestal and posturing act. Something
the little fellow did offended Onfori, and
in a rage he hurled the poor child to the
ground from a hight of about thirty
feet. He meant to cripple Che boy,
and as the crime was willful-
though probably he did not intend
TO commit murder-he got a long
term Of Imprisonment. AS for
funny incidents, 1 think the innocence of
a farmer in a New Jersey village amused
me more than anything ever heard. He
came to see the Yam Amberg show prin-
cipally TO learn if he could find any trace
of his nephew, Wilbur Browning, who
had run away with the show ten or fif-
teen years back. He had 'hearn as how
Willie had been rolled up into the tent
and abducted; that the shOwmen had cut
out his backbone and filed the place with
timber grease and made a contortionist Of
him Furthermore, he had 'hearn that
Wilbur had married a wild gal with
bushy hair from Circasshy, and had
quite gone to the bad.
"Circus people are not the rough, un-
educated class that they are popularity
supposed to be. The canvasmen, stable
men, candy butchers and 'roustabouts'
are a tough set, but the performers are
generally a quiet, genteel and even edu-
Gated class. They cannot be excessive
drinkers, as that would ruin their useful
ness as performers; they do not gamble
and they are up to the average in morals.
The tough element is tough indeed.
This class has a language Of its own,
which the ordinary user of slang would
find il difficult to follow. With them a
young lady is known as a Tart, or
Tommy; a man is a gee guy, giezer',
or mark trousers are jeans an over
coat is heater underwear is knows as
skins shoes are skates a hat is a top
piece; gloves are ribbons, and an
umbrella is a 'mush. l once heard two
'grafters'-as confidence men and such
hangers-on Of shows are known-talking
about prospective victim. One said:
Let's film the Riezer, then cop the rattler
TO the tall timber He meant, Let's
swindle this man and then take the train
and get away 10 the next town. Film
ga.
or short change; touch is 10 rob slough
is 20 close; blow is 10 90 away. The cir
Gus tent is known as a top stakes are
'stobs' and the property wagon is known
as the 'crumb box The Landlord OF
hotel Is the main guy Of the peek Joint.
The morning news., 1894-09-30

the earlier dramatic entertainments
lechino' was the term given him-was
satirist and practical Jester of similar
type to the modern clown. In English
pantomimeS, as YOU know, the clown is
the prime mover in all the comic bust
ness; there are often two employed, the
talking clown and the 'tumbling' clown,
who acts chiefly as an acrobat.
ROMANS ORIGINATORs OF THE CIRCUS.
THE Romans were the originators of
the circus, and in those primitive days,
as now, the clown was the never-failing
adjunct of circus entertainments. To make
a good clown, either for circus or pan
tomime, required training from infancy
and decided genius for the work. There
are scores OF so-called clowns who are not
one whit funnier nor more entertaining
than quaker meeting. They think it
only necessary that they make up their
faces white and put few rouge spots on
to become full-hedged clowns Such is
not the case the art is quite as subtle,
if not as great IN dignity, as that of
the tragedian. In this art lasting
regulations have been made, and l doubt
not that the names of Grimaldi, the great
Frenchman; Carlin and Americas 5 George
L. Fox will be remembered as long as
those of Booth, Barrett and Irving. To
be a successful circus clown requires
quite as much talent as does the art Of
the pantOmimic clown. The facial eX-
preston representing the varied human
passions and emotions must be made per-
fectly familiar to the performer and he
should, moreover, be a tirst-class acrobat
and gymnast. To acquire all these ac-
compllshments one must have years of
patient training, besides aptitude and
talent for the peculiar line Of work which
he is called upon to do.
g. Glowing came natural to me,
fancy. My father was the original SignOr
Bhtz, in his time one Of the most famous
of maqicians. IL was his intention to
train me for the same line of business,
but my inclinations were not that way.
| was fond of acrObatic work, and being
small and 1.-THE l soon acqaired consider
able perfection in it, But ] took up
Glowing in 1876, while with the old Van
Amberg show, and have stuck to IL ever
since. | am as fond Of my work to-day
as when / first began il, nearly twenty
Years ago, and it is my greatest delight
10 invent new and taking trick, or bit
of business The most successful
thing ever originated was the
idea of flying japanese kite
around the hippodrome ring while with
Barnum's show, running at full speed TO
Keen the kite in the air, until, apparently
bv accident, ! would fall headlong into
Paul Bovton's tank. Jim Bailey Of the
Barnum-Baley show was candy
butcher with Van Amberg when | began
NV career. He has made more money
than have, but I'll bet he hasn't had the
fun I've had in 1879 ] made tour Of
south America with PueDlene's circus,
Going from Caracas, Vene uela, TO Cuba,
where ]oined Orrin Bros. circus, play
ING there aud in Mexico with the show.
In lss2tS3 / visited Chicago with
Baruum. Cora Beckwith, the swimmer
now at Frank Halls casino, beng fea-
ture of the show at that time. was
with Forepaugh in lo4 and FRANK a.
I3obbips i'm issJ-.6. ! had saved up a bit
of money and went into business for my
self in 1857 at San Antonio, Tex, but my
The morning news., 1894-09-30
Talk About Leaders, y iaFPtS 81
y Our ire
Carpet Department. \,f%as$s %s$s
This is a COrker-
Just received 1000 Spring Bottom Rockers red blue and
olive plush sold the world $3.50; price week.
S2se

when he was minister Of foreign affairs,
and also when he was president of the
chamber of deputies He is a man that
has accredited himself. He is fit TO rival
with the cook of the Due de Doudeanville,
who has never served in a less family
than baron's, or with Bouzon. who is
now with the Duchess Of Alba, after win
ming his renown under the empire with
Prince Orlof. Thus another barrier is
removed between the Faubourg Saint
German and the Elysee.
The Russians themselves could appeal
to the splendid example Of their cars
kamerfourier. He is very much OF a
chef for he is at the head of all the inn
perial kitchens, and he has the right to
wear a sword. 1t Is not the first time, as
he fought on the French side all through
the war Of 1870. When Germany finally
took possession Of his native Alsace he
went 10 seek his fortune in Russia rather
than dwell at home with the conqueror
M. Krantz soon became famous, and his
dishes may have helped on the Franco
Russian alliance Alexander Ill has ex-
empted him from the law which requires
that the imperial cooks shall at least be
naturalized Russians, and he has even OK
tended this privilege TO the numerous
French under-cooks whom the chef has
in his employ
M. Krantz, whose French citizenship is
bluo DlhIlaiAy IttbEulLtu hiOuk WIN MS
cookery, is a great man at court. He has
under his orders four furnishing officers
with 100 lackeys and apprentice boys, be-
sides his own special corps Of two assist
ant chefs, with forty-two professional
aids, twenty apprentices thirty-two
walters, and two bakers and two con-
fectioners in chief, with their special as
sistants 10 the number of twenty. He has
five secretaries for correspondence, bills,
menus and the rest ON the days Of high
ceremony as many as 200 persons are
under his command. The grandees Of the
court remark tlat this French cook has
clear revenue of S35, 900 a year.
The chief cook and the head pastryman
of Queen Victoria are French. and 80 is
the chef Of the Prince Of Wales An
other who served his apprenticeship un-
der Jules COuffe Of the Paris Jockey CluD,
has been successfully COOK TO the kings of
| Sweden and Roumania, TO the banker
Rothschild, and latterly 10 that German
Prince Of Battenberg, who married a
granddaughter of Queen Victoria IL is
even whispered in Berlin that the con
queror has Capitulated and Kaiser vii
( helm eats according 10 the dictatiOn of a
| French chef The $4,000 cook OF the
American railway king Vanderbilt is not
forgotten in Paris. He has opened a
restaurant across the way from the
Opera Comique, which they are now re-
building at the old site where the fire
took place in 1887.
The morning news., 1894-09-30

IN pipe, but tolerable to the taste when
inclosed in rice paper. 1t appears how
ever, that the complaint did not make its
advent here until the state assented to
the sale of cigarettes made by hand. The
persons who are now suffering from this
painful form Of cramp are the workgirls
who get their living by rolling cigarettes.
In this connection it may be noted that
the Society for the Prevention of the
Abuse Of Tobacco has, parodying the
familiar cherchez le femme, now adopted
for its war cry, "Cherchez lie tobacco -
basing its attack upon the allegation that
Caserio and all other assassins were
victims TO the cigarette, which they
smoked on the eve Of committing great
crimes n
The morning news., 1894-09-30
TEE HINpoo,s RELTaToN.
Inhtcts Tortures on Himself for Pen
anee, but Mover Kills a Mosquito.

anee, but Never Kills Mosquito.
From the Spectator.
ASIA exaggerates all things, and the
virtue of penance among the rest but
the virtue is still believed in. even in
western Europe The writer has seen
gentleman Of Bengal, remarkable at
once for wealth ana fatness, crawling
stretched at full length along a road
before the image Of JuRgernaut, suffer-
ing, IN fact, torture such as no one would
inhict upon convict. And he has
known one Of his own clerks, a man OF
singular ability and bonhomie who, be-
ing suddenly struck, through the death
OF an only son, with the conviction of
sin committed in a past existence, de-
parted a once for Benares to live there
on aims, seated as a naked Sunyasee
| covered with dust, by the holy rivers
side There are thousands Of men in
India AZ this moment who, under this
impulse, are enduring tortures or making
painful pilgrimages, or living the lives OF
hermits IN the forest
The second aid is ceremonial purity,
the living by a rigid rule Of life, so rigid
that II is almost intolerable, which pre-
serves what Catholic bishop would call
his 'sanctity," ," and which the Hindoo be-
lieves may be preserved To every member
Of his creed VINO will walk according 70
his law With the majority the search
for that aid deRenerates. as IL did among
the Hebrews, into a reverence for mean
ingless ceremonial, chiefly, restrictive,
which 20 men who are free Of burden
seems positively silly; but with minor
ity. small minority, it produces lives of
singular refinement, and characters with
something Of divine grace and beauty.
One such Hindoo it was the writer's
privilege 10 know intimately, and he is
assured, though his friend never killed a
mosquito but always blew IL of, that
few Christians have rivaled him In the
perfectness Of his daily life. And the
third aid, which has for the Hindoo un-
bounded value, is external, and consists
in what we must call accruing grace
coming from the divine potentially re-
siding IN certain places say Beuares, as
the one best known here, or in rivers
such as the Gauges; or even in persons
such as the few living saints whose touch
confers some degree Of vitalizing merit
There are temples and even trees living
under which renders IL, In HindoO
opinion, easier 10 be pure that Is, 70
live the life through which alone man
can attain 10 better life, and ultimately
10 absorption.
The morning news., 1894-09-30
From the Chicago Herald.

ana Joys OF TnOSe w no OOu JuS NhOI-
ley and Follow the Tented Shows.
From the Chicago Herald.
THE art of the clown is as ancient as
is the drama ITSELF" said Edward Bel
mont, the Australian jester, day or two
since while making tour of inspection
at the new Royal English Winter Circus
and German Water Carnival, where he is
TO be one of the seasons stars. Pan
tomime dates back among the Romans
nearly 400 years before the Christian era
began. 'Pantomimes did not denote
spectacular performances as they do now,
but persons. 'Paptomimes' were class
Of actors who as the name implies, acted
wholly by mimicry-gesture, movements
and posturing-while the histriones' were
dancers. From the latter is derived the
term histrion,' applied to legitimate
actors of the present day. Often, in the
days of Emperor Augustus, the actors
We're both 'histriones' and 'pantomimes.'
Augustus was great patron of this
Iorm of amusement, and is supposed by
some historical writers to have been him
self the inventor of the art of dumb act
llag but this was probably not the case.
me most celebrated 'pantomimes' OF the
Augustan reign were Bathyllus, who was
d freed slave of M8cenas, Hylas and
Pylades.
This class Of performers soon spread
al over Italy and the provinces and be-
came so popular with the Roman noDlllJy
who had the players make their homes
with them-that Tiberius found it neces-
sary to issue a decree forbidding such as
soclaCon and against the nobility walk
tug with pantomimes' in the street But
eHaer Emperor Caligula the players again
iouhd favor, and Nero, who carried every
unworthy weakness or vice to extremes,
nmselt acted as a 'pantomime.' These
daCtors wore masks over their faces.
Hence facial mimicry was impossible
ana everything depended on the move
IueAls OF the body. The hands and mn
gers spoke, and to such perfection was
.ae art carried that, 1t is said, some OF
1Ae artists could give finer and more
precise expression TO passion than the
POels themselves.
he clown and the pantaloon were dis
met types of portrayal, and their proto-
Epes may be traced back to the Roman
A.ellanR, kind Of popular drama hrst
Introduced from Atella, town in cam
Iahla, near Naples After the Greek
CItina had been brought TO Rome by LiV-
lts Andronicus, the old tabula AttellanH
We're still retained as interludes and az
..tfpleces. The 'Macchus' and Bucco' OF
~. AtellanH fables were undoubtedly the
virgin OF the Italian harlequin, who was
expected 30 excite laughter by MS
speeches and gestures. The harlequin OF
The morning news., 1894-09-30
A COWS TRIAL.
Tied in Freight Car She Developed a
Wonderful Burst of Speed.
From the Albany Herald.

IIOu inc +Albduy herald
Yesterday morning little son Of John
Bethue was leading a cow to pasture,
and when he reached the woolen mills he
tied the COW to a coupling pin of freight
car, while he went inside to speak 10 his
father. Unfortunately for the COW. the
Lebanon engine backed upon the switch
while the boy was inside and, not seeing
the COW, coupled on 10 the car and started
up the track. The bovine was not noted
as sprinter, but she was forced up the
track at a 2:l715 gait.
farmer who was passing saw the pre-
dicament and managed to signal the en-
gineer to stop, otherwise there must have
been squirt Of speed on the part of the
COW unheard of before by any bovine. or
a broken neck, for the boy had tied her
securely with a stout rope. AS it is, she
is alive and well, and holds the record Of
the town for that sort Of race.
The morning news., 1894-09-30
AGED FOUR, BUT A BURGLAR.
Two Remarkable Prisoners Taken Be-
fore Police Justice Simms.
From the New York Times.

HlbuA LAb Now ADTh LlIuess
The smallest burglar ever arraigned in
the Essex Market police court was taken
before Justice Simms yesterday morning.
He was Abraham Lippman, years old
and % inches in hight of20 Hester street
In conjunction with his brother Joseph.
aged 5, Abraham was charged with break
ing into the cellar OF Hyman Sklan berg's
grocery store at IA Norfolk street and
stealing figs and dates 10 the value Of s2
When the boys were arraigned Joseph
acted as spokesman "Dere was anuder
feller wild US, " said he, land him an me
little brudder went inside didn't swipe
nawthin' Mr. Judge"
Policeman Hogan, who arrested the
boys, informed the justice that Abraham
tapped a till in Norfolk street on Friday
and stole $40, but the owner Of the place
refused 20 make a complaint.
The children were committed 10 the
care Of Agent Frederick Schmitt. Of the
Gerry society. which Will investigate
their previous records.
The morning news., 1894-09-30
Anarchism the Result Of Cigarettes
From The London DAilY Newa

Writer'S cramp Is sufficiently we'll
known, but IL is only in countries IN which
the use Of the cigarette displaces al other
forms OF enjoying the "woed" that
smokers cramp is heard Of This anoc-
standing that the Spaniard is 80 expert
that be can roll a cigarette with a single
movement Of the hand. 10 is now finding
It's way into France where the govern
ment tobacco, "Caporal, Is hot and arid
The morning news., 1894-09-30

Everything in fact has its own slang name
and the ordinary human being could no
more understand it than he could Choc-
The morning news., 1894-09-30

The eyes OF the sultor alled with tears
sir he.prOtested. Il would give my very
life for your daughter"
Tier father started violently. Young man q"
be Numbered, 10 j look As II l was easy
picking IN a trade PUCK
The morning news., 1894-09-30
GLOWING AS AN ART.
Old Romans Liked Clowns as Well as
Young Americans Do.

as Profession it Is Most Necessary
Adjunct to the Circus-Vicissitudes
and Joys of Those Who Don the Mot
ley and Follow the Tented Shows.
The morning news., 1894-09-30

Exciting incidents often happen in
circus travel ! have many a night been
awakened by the cry of Hey, Rubep
which is the circus mems cry of distress
and which always means a serious fight.
Twice in one town-Seaford, Dell heard
the cry raised and each time there was
battle between the circus men and roughs
OF the town. Once four negroes were
killed and number Of circus men badly
hurt But, all in all, the life of circus
performer is a very pleasant onen
The morning news., 1894-09-30
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-02

THAT old house has history said
Uncle Bob.
AS they came around a bend in the
road that had before shut out of their
sight the house in question, Uncle BOD
stopped and gaZed musnely at the
gloomy and seemingly deserted strue-
lit looks haunted" ventured Nephew
III is" answered Uncle Bob.
Real ghosts" demanded Z Nephew
Uncle Bob finished his long look. and
NO: it is haunted by the memory of
the meanest boy who ever lived"
He must have been terror, them
exclaimed Dick.
He was. 49,
What did he do that was mean"
questioned Tom.
he never aid anything that wasn't
mean" replied Uncle Bob.
lie seated himself ON the grass and the
two boys followed his eN..mple. They
knew that a story was coming. and
Uncle Bob always told stories that were
worth hearing.
THAT chap was so mean." resumed
Uncle Bob, that be couldn't possibly
do an act that asn't mean. More than
that. eacn act had TO be meaner than
the one that went befCre IL.
"N no was he?'
His PANE was James Hogg. He and
| were schOolmates In this "cry town.
We weren't playmates, though-thank
Heaven. | am afraid / haven't always
been as careful Of my conn anions as
might have been, but / never had any
thing to DO with Hogg simply because
couldn't bear the sight OF the fellow. If
you've ever had a live snake in your
hand, you can imagine what it felt like
20 feel the touch OF Hcgg.
His folks were as POOR as could be.
They were always behindhand In their
rent, and all they had In the house
wasn't worth a so bill.
When the Hogg boy was nine years
old his father died. There was only on
thing Mrs. Eogg could do, and she did
it-took in washing.
1T was a hard way TO make living,
but like a good woman she kept at il
and endeavored to make both ends
meet, for she believed she had one of
the finest sons in the world. and she was
Determined TO keep him in school A
number OF years. II she wore herself
into the grave accomplishing It,
James Hogg wasn't bright boy In
the usual serse Of the word. There was
only one study in school that he took to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-02

a sweetbrter bush behind the house. Even n
then she did not feel safe. She watehea
@, cry one who brushed asains. 80.
light green waving branches WIN MI
ror Sha avoided Hannah; She "ou'r
NOT 90 TO see her, and one day she ran
away when she saw her comins; ., nor
At last she confessed the whole 70 NJ.
mother. Her tender little soul was ar
most wild with this 9nafcuS, manner Of
receiving the confession was never 10,
gotten by Dorothy. She truly resaiussu
the theft as an awful tnlnS' anu t,er
made the child feel that sne u'e sb. told
her she must dig up the pltche[ TO- o.
take il back, and confess her SIN 10 TO- n
tor Burney and the whole FANNY GOOD
there IN sws was Of any S %ss pOctOr Burney He
had a brllsuue stern manner, dhI 80
had never dared do more tnan ,rs and
timidly up at him and say Is sir "''-
No Wbs sIr' she ' entered mt his study, the blue
pitcher clutched in her littIe , c11p i ne
he looked at her in alarm ndIy n his
matter. child?' said he kindly " N''
voice w b45u rGTsa this back" said Dorothy
NTH white Iips tits Hannah s,l-stols
!, w" 1. Ter'' she broke down, and sopoed
right R6c, out R HSTI opened the door and
oa noGtV ~ his is' wife and Hannah: then ne
eat down and took poor niue ~ 49,
s S2' ON his knee, and tried to duie Nut he To-
Dorothy held the blue pitcn1er Jo IL"
Uannah when she entered s'o'S ~
she cried. 80 Hannah! :, or,aze-
Hannah stood staring at her IN hSr
ment for a minute; then she thre" "''
am" Never mind. said She 81 don't 155v have SaFe
n bit ] don't want II. ., iou ''''-'
Il. Don't cry, Dorothy. ,,o,.s soft
III p,, 4, took more than Hannan So
littIe words and caresses to calm 1870 ~,
Who was almost hysterical WIN ie"' ,"ife
SORROW Doctor Burney ana ms Doro-
coaxed and comforted. and hnaly ~, Tor FOR
ms own mother had TO be sem r,a t0s
When she melted down from ~ No. my
eternness and said There these, n ~
chiid we will think no more aS eo.ar,,,a-
You are sorry. and have askeu i a'.sin
ness and YOU will never 90 so aso aita.,d
Dorothy chung to her, ht'ie p'''''eo
at last. ~, ,,-doaI. hut perhaps
I. evolved little tried goid rom cid
lnhndiSh nature. She lived TO be an ,S ora
wnman. and no sin Of them al 5eI ife
ssrtber from her. through her Whoie re, 70
nm taking anything tnat dll NO m
iortD IN her Instead OF the GEM " IN on
TN III tales. ali forbidden lands ana pfVpl
erty were guarded for her by '''''
S,vs nitcher. Congregationalist.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-02
4 Boy ! Know.

/ know a little brght-eyed boy
Who lives not far away.
And though he Is his mothers JOY,
He plaques her. too, they say,
For when his task he's bid 10 do.
He sits him down and cries. "Boohoo;
4 can't / can't | can't. can't can't
Yes, whether he's ID practice well.
Or DO his horrid sums.
Or "Hppopotamus" TO spell.
Or clean to wash his thumbs,
It matters not for with a frown
The corners Of his mouth go down
| can't. can't! can't! l can't can't
Oh! what a joyful day twill be
For mother and for son,
When smiling looks they both shall see
Beneath the smiling sun.
For in his heart he knows tits stun,
And knows that II he tries enough
He can, lie can! He can. He can! lie can.
Laura IL. Richards.