The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-12-21
MIaSTRELS HOLD CARNIVAL
UNCORK THEIR JOY AT OPERA
HOUSE MONDAY NIGHT.
Big Crowd Out TO See and Hear
Latest Things I'm BIinstreIsy
by Local Talent.

It was a large audience that waited
with eagerness for the curtain 70 rise
at the Walker opera house Monday
evening. After the orchestra had
struck up the melody, Way Down on
the Swaunee River" voices were
heard as II in the distance. And as
the curtain assembled the house cheer
60 the song and the spectacle Of the
Jolly Burtn COrls," presenting as
they did, rather gorgeous display Of
colOrs- It was a real minstrel play
and all the players in the grand jOlIifi-
scatiOn bump elbows with US every day.
The first row Of performers across
the stage was white, on either side Of
which was stationed a bunch OF
dzrkles- In the row TO the rear Of
these. sat a string Of right black col
Ored folk and in the third and last
elevated seats sat six charming pick
ansnnies. All OF the black aristOcrats
were dressed in the regulation min
strel eOloTs while the poor white trash
Of the front seats wore black coats
and white pantaiOOns--
Joseph Jackson, the interlOcutOr,
called forth and introduced the jolly
end men, who appeared from the sides
q the stage They waltZed in the best
they could, saluted the audience and
sat down in niger style. The dialogue
between the tnterlOcutOT and the end
men then began, commencing with
Rufus Rastus.
This coon, Rufus Rastus, was a seri-
Gus minded fellow. The thing that
stuck in his Uranium was the impOssi-
biiueS that surrounded everybody in
GOOdland- The interlOuctOr could not
understand that such a condition
could arise in our twentieth century
civilization when man has almost put
the impossible out Of his vocabulary
but Rufus Rastus stuck to his point
n to ca-rM
Grated a few Of them, one that il was
impossible to make hair grow on Jim
Cullen's head another, impossible to
keep Jupe and Due1 on friendly
terms; impossible to rent a house in
GOOdland at SO a month; and like
wise impossible to get into a Good
land saloon on Sunday, or to get the
right telephone number in thirty min
utes. On these he knocked Joseph
JacksOn's eye out every time.
Bill. Bailey had an idea or two Of
his own He stumped the interlOcutOr
by asking il he knew the difference
between Christian science and a lean
woman; he did not Of course, but Bill
Bailey did, and said that one was q
humbug and the other was bum hug.
Rambling Nose was the next to pop
into prominence, remarking that he
had noticed that although Dr. Car
michael had a single-seated autOmO-
bile, he had been seen to have three
ladies with him riding down the
street That is impossible" interject-
ed the interlOCutOr- ct amt either"
was the response, for that fellow car
ries q strong 'sparker.' These jokes
we're played back and forth to the
amusement Of the audience And af-
terward came a round Of solos, in
which Mr.. Mood made a hit with a
song entitled, Starlight Ernest /
Bower give him a hard rub, however, /
Melancholy Nose next opened his face
in comic song and Walter Smith treat
Cd the audience to the rare song,
when Adam Sinned.'' These gems
Of vocal gymnastics were followed by |
a quartet by Bower, Shaw, Hum berger
and Mitchell, and the first part Of the
performance was wound up y b solo |
by Prof Mitchell, entitled, That
Sweet Refrain" A sort Of a finale |
E7as the closing part by the end men |
Specialties were introduced at this
point and the second part opened with |
q chorus with its appropriate scene, |
Down Where the Cotton Blossoms
Grow" A little special scenery was
here introduced and all the niggers