The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-07

AT TIE CIRCUS
ed up by friend, who has kindly sent ii
to me, shows how the plain people are
suffering.
It is written to q friend who is ex-
pected to go to the state dispensary and
get the goods, SO that when he comes
out on Sunday intense unhappiness and
mental fog may get setback:
CROSS KEYS S. c. sept5
DEAR SRI Will Write to You to Night to
let You know that I am well & truly hoping
When this reach you it Will find in Joying your
Self
/ will write this letter to You to Tell You to
Be Shoe & to have that Bottle Of Whiskey fxt
up By Sunday g. Bring it with You to Mcbeth
chapper Because / have got Some one to Say
that thay Will Deliver it to that old fellow s.
he viii Do what he Say that he will do You
must come with out Fail to Mcbeth chapper
And Bring that Bottle of Whiskey With You
and Above all Don't You far get to Bring that
with You Far me that there You Said You
Was going 60 have far me By Sunday You
must not Fail to have it Ready far me By Sun
day g. Bring it With You to Mcbeth Chapper Be
cause me And Lille Will go to Mcbeth Chap
per Sunday You come and Bring that far Me
And that Bottle Of Whiskey come Without fail
] am Yours
The letter in its spelling and COM
posure favors the negro style Of writing,
and some fear is expressed here that the
colored brother may get to using liquor
to excess. In that case the white people
may also get to drinking.
The race question is creating great
deal of excitement, too, in South Caro-
lima, and the privileges of the white
man are being daily curtailed. 1t will
hereafter be felony for white man to
marry colored person. This is result
Of the colored vote, which greatly out
numbers the white vote in South Caro-
lima.
Some think that the white vote has
been tempered with for several years in
the state. 1t is said also that the new
movement to make intelligence test of
the voters right of suffrage will dis
franchise the white agricultural vote
Many say they will not submit.
A white man who fought for South
Carolina, but who still makes the sign
of the cross instead of writing his name,
told me on Saturday at the circus that
In :" 81 it was rich mans war and
poor mans fight; but, by the great big
jumpin Jehosephats, when they jerk
my vote away becuz I don't live in
Charleston and read Homer at sight, I
will bresh up my military education,
and the blue blood of the self constituted
aristocracy will run down the same gully
with the red blood of the sand walloper.
1t has been thought in past years that
Charleston giveth and Charleston taketh
away. but that don't apply to my vote,
and think am voicing the sentiments
of the ignorant classes, by the great
horn spoons, which can outvote the
other fellers to L."
He seemed quite excited, and when I
left him he was trying to read the word
hippopotamus by looking hard at the
large blue letters and then down the
large red threats of two of these moral
beasts as they appeared on billboard.
Finally in a burst of ungovernable
passion he hurled an epithet and warm
quid Of long green tobacco at the livid
larynx Of the papa bippopotamus, and
with q muttered curse buried his fea-
lures in a watermelon for quite awhile.
The circus is indeed great educator.
Shortsighted people say that it takes
thousands of dollars out of the country.
They say the same about my course Of
scientific lectures, entitled Farming
Exposed" but what Of that?
The circus, to those who lore its glad
thrill and mirth and music and sawGust
and animal magnetism, is good thing.
1t gives hope for months before it comes
10 those who had no hope. and il gives
joyful "reminiscences for years afterward
To the poor. who perhaps unwisely
sold their meager clothes and went IN
their shirt sleeves, il was yet worth all
it cost. To the poor farmer and his wife
it was a trip 70 the Holy Land and a
bracing romp up 70 the very threshold of
the foolkiller's home on Mont Blanc
pronounced Mong Bloug).
Nine thousand people went 70 sse
this circ1s, and went to see them Some
OF them had been ON the road three days
IA .
travelling week and sleeping out Of
doors ev cry night the whole seven days,
with no money but the silver necessary
TO let in Two grown people and II chill
oren, all under 10 years. possibly the
youngest having joined the party On the
way. ali eager and happy and sxpectans
and all ,hesrily living On acorns and
sassafras tea:
What would ycu sly 10 such a case a.
that, / repeat, and all 10 see a circuss
l do not know Of any such case, bat II
/ did. Whist, ask. would you say 10 IL:
There We're mothers there. however,
who stood six hours in one spot, holding
a newborn child st such al angle that
he co1id get good view Of the sun, and
ylea tho clown oarne . Iona driving :