The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-11-17

killed me that time | took hrhheIs
10 see the animals. and the tent blew
down. aud We sol separated and inc
sacred COW chased me up the chuFcA
steps. and Hennery and MONKEY
were brought home by a policeman
about daylight the next morning. tha1
time YOU were OF fishing, and never
told you about soins 10 the cir'Vs
when YOU were away. SO we are c.f'
Gus proprietors are we2 Wei, II
Amt 50 bad" and ma went upstairs to
cry az our success and pa and went
out 10 walk OF the effects OF the break
iug the news 10 ma
had a long talk with pa about our
changed circumstances, and asked MIN
what I would be expected 10 90
in the show and he says
will III In anywhere. lie says thh
a boy who knows as much aaou'
everything as think know. but
don't know a blamed thing about. vi"
be invaluable about show, anu thai
going into 4 new business is ike go
ing 70 colleEe as a freshman, a. al
the ola circus men will haze Us. and
We must not expect an easy lie, ou'
one fun of excitement, sleepless nights.
ginger. the glare u the torchAgnts.
. the races, the flying trapeze, the smell
OF the sawdust and tanbark, the howl
ing OF the Wild beasts. and the plaudiIs
OF the multitude of jays and layeSses.
and il will be like one grand circus
DAY spread all over the summer snd
fall. He says be wants me TO learn
the circus business from the ground
up, from the currying Of the hyenas
with q currycomb and brush, to going
up into the roof OF the tent on the
trapeze and falling into the net, while
the audience faints with excitement
April INA and pa have had
several discussions about what kind
Of a position it is going 10 leave her
Z in, among the neighbOrs. for pa and
Z 10 so OF with a circus, and ma want
I ed 10 withdraw from the church, and
board up the windows OF the house,
and make folks think we had gone
TO the seashOre, but pa convinced her
that We would have preaching IN the
main tent every Sunday, and he SAYS
there is no more pious lot Of people
on earth than those who travel with
a circus, and then ma wanted tc go
along. She said she could do the
menGing of the long socks that the
women wear when they ride bare
backed but we had to shut down on
mas going with the show, cause we
never could have any fun with wom-
an TO look after Pa says now adays
the men and women who ride on bare
back horses in the ring dress in iegu-
lar evening costume, the women wiki
low-neck dresses. and long trains, and
the men with swall0w-tail coats and
patent leather shoes. and they are as
polite as dancing masters.
We have compro missed with ma, and
she IS 10 meet the show at Kalamazoo
and 20 with us to Kankakee and Ke0-
kuk Until she is Overcome by nervous
prostration, when we shall have her
20 home Pa thinks ma would last
about two days with the show, but
l guess il she took a course OF treat
ment with peanuts and red lemonade
one afternoon and evening, she would
want TO throw up her job and &C
/ back home il charge Of stomach spe-
; cialist.
Well. pa showed up at the house IL
: his circus clothes. this afternoon and
he certainly is a peach. Pa has been
) letting his chin whiskers growfOr about
six weeks. and to-day be had them
! colored- black. and he looks as though
] he had swallowed the blacking brush
: and left the bunch CT bristles outside
I. on his chin He looks fierce. Then
: he has got a new brand Of silk hat
] with a wide. curling brim, and he ha.
4 had a vest made OF black and blue
e check goods. the checks as big as tbs
checks on a checker board, and a pail
Of pants that look like a diamond
back rattlesnake. and he has got al
imitation diamond stud in his whit,
shirt that looks like paper weight
Ma wanted to know If there wa
any law 10 compel pa to dress Xix,
that, cause he looked as though b,
was a gambler or a train robber. T.;
says that a circus proprietor has go
In order TO inspire fear and respect Oh
the part OF the hands around til
show. as we'll as the audiences tina
flock 20 the arena. and he asked nj
If she didn't remember old Dan Rice
and old John Robinson. Ma didn't re
member them, but she remembers
Barnum, because Barnum lecturCd o.
temperance. and she said she hope
pa would emulate Barnum's example
and pa said he would. and then b
took watch chain with links az bi
as a trace chain and spread IL acros
his checkered vest. from one pocket {
the other, with a llfe-size gold ell
hanging down the middle, and ma a
most had a convulsion.
Gee. but If pa wears that rig In th
menagerie tent, the animals will pa
and below. like n drove OF cattle thu
smell blood. Pa is going to wear
7 aanlr coet with his outff an a. ~ ioo