New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-19
THE CHTLDRE.N'.S HERITAGE.
is IT TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM
THEM?
RARNUM SAID THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP HIS
CIRCUS. AND NOW ENGLAND WANTS
TO KEEP IT.

TO KEEP 1T.
The question 10 whether the children OF America
arr TO have their birthright taken from them with
out word Of protest or an attempt al An act OF
reprsal Many years ago the children OF America
were happy They could not help being happy. II
they tried for the great and good T. T. Rarnum
was running a great moral show circus. men
agerie and a museun-a show that grew In time
10 be the greatest show on earth. The children %
the rich went 10 the show. and sat haughtly on the
blue boards and peanuts and gazed at the
clown and the ringmaster and the beautiful young
ladies' who jumped through the paper hoops. and
al Colonel Goshen the giant who would even talk
10 them and shake hands with them. realizing that
that was what ne was paid for and never thought
Of grinding their bones 10 make him bread or 81
doing anything else more unpleasant than should
belong to q circus. and the children Of tho poor
stood on the ourbstone and saw the procession 20
by or walked along with II and kept w with the
band wagon. or Nven crawled unUcr me canvas
into the tont and saw some OF The wonders within
and nobody 4. Barnum turn any boy
out who had crawled under tho canvas whatever
some of1cious policeman may nave done.
So the children OF America were Careless Aho
happy as children ought 10 be. and had no thought
OF harm. Bat the great and good T. j. haih"l
saw & danger before them that they did not sec
They did not see e.. because children 20 not INN"
Of such things. hut men 10 think OF such things
and 50 Mr. Barnum realized that some time ne
should ole. and ne asked himself. Mhal Will ue
children OF America 90 without me-
I, was a risht thought, and one 70 be expected
from 30 good a man. Mr. Barnum pondeTed over
the problem and settled It. thought that he dld
And SO once when the happy spriugtime brought
back the green grass and the clear skies ana me
birds and the violets and the circus. the cHaren
OF America read along with the advert sernentS an
assurance which not IN the following "o'us'
but was 20 the following effect. Let the chhdieh
Of America fear nothing. II IS true that l. p T.
frne Il
But my heart is rot troubled. and let not me
hearts Of the children Of Amerioa he uouoie"
They will lose me- mt they shall nor lose the cir
Gus ! have made an arrangement WHEREBY no
matter when ! die my circus will g on ana WI
always be growing erander for The children Of
America, forever
Then the children % America we're oornforted
before they had felt any discomfort Their little
minds could not pat their thought into words. but
the thought in ther little hearts was: How truly
good and great Is NJ barnun' He sees our dan
ger and guards against it. before We ourselves
see il at all
Then there was more happiness than ever for the
children Of America. for they felt that their pres
ent happiness was 20 he lasting. And AFTER re"
years the great and good ?. r. Harnum went to
his rest Tie children Of America We're sorry that
they had Jos. him. but the sorrovs Of childhood
are short and they were glad mat they still had
the circus James a Bailey managed the circus
now and u seemed II ne world could not have
produced q better man 30 take TIE place OF he
great snd eoca + Earnum than ne Nobody
ever raw James A Bailey turn any boy out VINO
had crawled under the canvas. More than that.
wherever the circus went, Mr. Bailey sent and
bade all tho orphans in all the asylums TO come 10
the circus without money. In New-Nork there
were so many of them hat they filed The Madison
Square Garden. so that 81 whole pcrfoTnanc" haa
to be given up to them. When Mr.. Bailey a.
CURED an interest ir The Buffalo bi!l show the
orphans Were ali NliIfN 10 come no lIdI Nil'Ht