Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-12-02
THE BIG CIRCUS.
IT'S COMING TO TOWN IS NOT TO BE
REGRETTED.
Thousands Were on Hand to Renew Ac,
quaintance With the Elephant
A Quiet Day.

me" said an Austin county ag-
riculturist at the performance
Friday as he munched a peanut
and called on the lemonade dis
penser to "fotch him over anoth-
er glass of that are coolin' red" "
This was before the performance
began. After it had proceeded a
short while the old mans inter-
est became so absorbing that he
quit absorbing the scarlet delu-
sion called by courtesy "circus
lemonade" and the remainder of
his goober lunch was left IN
noticed. Evidently they didn't
all look alike to him after he saw
this one. The pioneer champi-
ons of arenic triumph, Adam
Forepaugh and Sells Bros, have
by pooling their issues succeeded
in forming a consolidation of in
structiye features which to the
great bulk of humanity barred
from travel by poverty or other
causes takes the place that is
provided by geological gardens
and athletic associations in
the large cities of the country.
There are Objectionable things
about some travelling circuses
that demand prohibitory Ii
cense. Not so with such a
of instruction as is to be
found under the mammoth tents
of this stupendous aggregation,
and it does seem that the occu-
patton tax levied by the last leg
islature on such exhibitions is to
some extent an imposition.
The great amusement spectac-
ular reached Brennan on sched-
ule time, and so did the inhabi-
tants from all the regions round
about. They came on trains,
horseback, footbaek, in wagons,
and in droves. By the
lime the street parade started
he walks on the principal thor
and around the square
we're moving, wriggling mass of
humanity, and the stores, shops
ind offices upstairs as well as
below were packed and jammed
With a laughing, joking crowd of
lustling, hurrying tumultuous
humanity. The procession was
/ long and gaudy one and when
t moved out to the show
grounds it was followed by a.
motley procession of humanity
onger than the original parade.
IF course the negro and small
10Y were decidedly to the front,
md he is cynic and misan-
hrope who fails to get a good
hare of the pleasure they enjoy.
70 them there is no paint, no
lid, no brass; all is genuine,
rom the clown to the calliope.
here are no mental reservations,
10 secret evasions of mind;
verifying goes. Nor dol
of the morrow disturb
he pleasures of today. Boys
nd negroes-the average negro
practically and literally let the
morrow take care of itself; and,
Inless we have read history to
title or no purpose, they are
'etter philosophers than those
7ho are thought wiser in the
Kings of this world.
But the aforesaid individuals
Tere not the only pebbles on the
each. Oh, no. They were all
here. The man who came to |
ring the children was conspicu-
usly in evidence. The fellow
nd his best girl were there,
weet hearts, evidently, and total
Y oblivious to all save the fact of |
ach others presence. Let them
lone for the world would not be
yorth living in were if not for
lst such cases, in high and low
egrees. But it is the same
mong all classes. The tender
assion produces the same bliss
al pictures to princes and peas
mt, rich and poor. learned and |