The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-25

They never do. It's hard to wake
young mansup. Some Of EN- never wakes
up Putin Rip Van Wrinkle out Of busl-
ness has got to be quite fad It was
started In Nebraska, an It's grown
. to be popular5in ether parts of the United
States now! Just the same the way /
people in livin amt right, an it can't
come to no good. used to think the
frog eaters was crazy, but they don't
happen alongside of the people of the
United States when 1t gets down TO
artistic Mysteries. OF course, a French
MANS main amusement Is in revolu-
Stionism. He'd start revolution every
five days. The Americans main amusc-
ment is in evolutionsm, and he wants
. to evolutionlze every five minutes. An
the more he evolutes the better he likes
IT. He ain't never satisfied with nothin'.
He's huntin' ~ shocks all the time. lie
like General. Runlykeheloyitch. Change
all the ft!me.F That's$the cry An ne
gets It. There's other folks that's after
change. TOO, sh}ut 1: there amt no good
talkiil' aboht them. RI. i5
."rhe. Whole trouble is that the peo-
ple has simply gone, crazy after ex-
element The old times is gone An
there air,'t no more chance of gcttin'
'em back than there is Of gettin' a diVi-
dend out of Missouri Kansas and Texas.
It's Just one of those things you can
dream about, an fancy there's chance
of when you're hittin' the pipe. But IN
your sane moments you face the facts J;
trot out your note books an enter n. G..
No chance. Excitement is what the peo-
ple,s lookin.. for along all lines, an II
they can't get it one way they get 1t
another. Some likes to- see thrillin
horse race; others likes to get 1t into
the saddle. One wants to see circus
performer dip the dip; another wants
to go to Coney an loop the loop. DICK
likes 10 catch the coin an Tom likes to
rush the can. It's all q matter OF taste,
but all tastes, you'll notice. runs to ex-.
citement an sensation. Every man
cinhers 10 have chill run down his
snina once in a while OF course. If n
nan amt, got no spine it's different
Everybody amt playin' Hyde an see,
an, notody's sayin' a word about Alex
anier the Great
"I,ook at tile old-tirne circuses. Where
are thew now? They're all gone. II a
CIV wants to make hit with circus
these days he't got to put up five rings,
eighteen clowns, seven sensations. ana
let every performer run ten chances 70
one Of breakin his neck. II ne don,t
he's rot to get some high class outside
n
tight rope. The old days when you
could get your bag of peanuts sit under,
tho canvas. get trimmed out modest
roll while you watched the bareback rider
dom, the can-can on the horses back
has gone. They amt satisfied to Trim
Won our of a five or ten spot these days.
That's stamp money. me peoP!e uoli
appreciate trapeze performance Withoul
the hoop-la baby breaks his neck. Bpt
Z if you get d fellow that's Win 10 oroi
n hundred feet into a spiked barrel every
night an run a chance, you'll get q
crowd Old man Nero don't stand one,
two three with the twentieth century
circus for proyidin' thrills an sensations,
An it's ali done an necessary to calch
jthe dough. or course, It's Jay game.
Where's the sense In seem q fellow make
five lions jump through hoop? 1t amt
half as clever as maxim seven men dance
the two-step, an they 90 .that down N
Wall Street every day. Morgan KNOWS,
lions don't know what they're hoppin'
for. an neither do the men, but they
ought to. sun the people flocks to the
Mace where there's O. chance OF some-
body gettin' smashed into jelly or ca
IN ,rhered be twenty thousand people
cheerln' themselves hoarse IL Russeil
sage was to drop off sky scraper. 70
eat five cents worth OF cough utops ~
get my voice In shape an keep up with
tho crowd myself But there amt no
good in antcipatin joys that amt likely
to como off.
Another thing is the peopIe Is changln IN
ali The lime. a man hein' eat by me
lion only cheers the soul for the tlme
hein' There is a shout for change, ~ y
sage was 10 drop through mole N tne
ice, they'd want Hetty Green TO 20 Ply
to death by a centerpede,, summer an,
could pass out artistic like IN autumn ana
spring, the craze for element wouta
let up a bit. But there's no such sooa
lu You can say what you like, but II the g
they ever was You hear howls about
the Spnniards that gets tossed up Dy
the bills but they have SHOW 20 ess
the best OF il. Where does the guy GENE com e
Street t' be ears Ask John ~ Gates ~ IL III
knows. Why they don't even YET nm get
Into the fight. HE'S gone before ne Starts,
he t frayn ff fhe eS natona life An the
Equtabls' loo, for ina. mater, i There's
an some little excitement IN drink; KIN