The record-union., 1896-09-06

It was well worth seeing as everybody
will affirm who attended, and by the
way, isn't 1t wonderful how many of
our townspeople turn out on an occa-
sion like this? Everybody with his
sisters, cousins and aunts was there,
and in spite of his precautions against
getting his LEG pulled, bought ticket
and paid sixty cents for it, while the
doorkeeper on the left hand side was
selling them for fifty cents. He was
out for good time, and I think he
found it without any trouble if one
could judge from the amount of red
lemonade, chewing peppermints, pea
nuts, ETC., bought for and consumed by
his nibs and the aforementioned train
of admiring relatives. He was quite
voluble in his expressions of commen-
dation of everything he saw, and de-
clared it to be the best circus he had
ever seen, and said he had attended a
good many, as he made it a point al
ways to take in that particular form
of entertainment whenever possible
quite agreed with him, although l am
hardly a connoisseur, as I attend this
sort of show once in about five years.
The small boy said it was "out of
T.
particular, and too much cannot be
said for it. Everything was exactly
As advertised, and was far beyond all
expectation so far as the performance
was concerned. 1t is almost incredible
isn't it, that a seal could be trained to
WELD drum majors baton and blow
horn? Yet you saw it yourself prob
ably, and know whether it is among the
;c- H.
lieving, is it not? The large tent was
filed to overfiowing, and before the
real performance began early comers,
particularly those who had paid a dol
lar to sit upon a carpeted board, We're
hugely entertained by Gus Williams
sort of character, who went about in
Dutch costume with camera, taking
photos. He was logged" for further
orders, and strutted about before the
reserved seat faction with a perfectly
killing air of solicitous concern, espe
ciaIly exhibited toward the bashful
boy with his best girl on his arm, as
he passed along searching for seat, or
Farmer Hayseed, who had driven ten
miles in a spring wagon through the
hot sun to "see the sights" He way
laid them with his smooth air of busi-
ness-like interest, persuaded them to
stop a moment and have their pictures
taken. This proved to be a source of
intense interest and amusement to the
four hundred on the carpeted boards,
who were not long in discovering the
fact that the camera was dummy
and as a corraled individual who was in
every case anxious for a good result
and a perfect negative, would pose
himself for the shot, and the operator
disappeared beneath the professional
looking green cloth, where he remained
an unconscionably long time focusing
the victim the crowd would burst into
irrepressible peals of laughter, the small
boy giving vent to his delight in the
shrillest and most exasperating of
whistles, true to his gallery propensi-
ties. Suddenly the subject rises to a
painfuI realization that he is sold"
for the benefit of the reserved seatites
and Is being worked for their espe-
cial benefit, and thereupon makes a
rapid exit from the scene, leaving the
.sphotographer' to gaze into the empty
space lately occupied by his luckless
self. with a blush on his mortified coun-
tenance that grows momentarily more
ruddy as 1t spreads downward to his
neck and is lost beneath his three
inch choker. If only that best girl had
not been witness to the sell. But. alas
moralizing makes the case no better
and repeating beneath his breath some
varses he had learned in Sunday school,
he hies him away from the painful
scene in search of some convenient hole
which he may fall into and hide away
from the eyes of the unfeeling audience
wondering all the time whether among
th 400 people present there was any
ona who knew and saw him. To COM
nlate the Illusion the very Dutch-look-
ING photographer finding his victim had
nad e,esticulates wildly at the audi
ence who are by this time in spasms Of
rnirth signifying by signs that they
are running his business, folds up his
camera. and struts off with an air of
sntansa disgust to another spot which
looks favorable for business" and un-
folding his camera awaits with keen
relish for his trade, the next sucker"
There were a thousand and one funny
incidents that occurred, but space is
too limited to admit of a relation of
them ALL I laughed until would have
civen something to be able to stop, and
enioved everything / saw with the zest
~ q nine-year- The trappings We're
Gorgeous. the horseback riding, as the
bovs express 1t, way up in G. But
tba circus with it's soul-stirring cali
one its fourteen elephants and its al
1otted norton of hair-breadth escapes,
z.~;ng Y,arforrnerS. etc., with the in