The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-30
BARNLJM AND BAILEY CIRCUS
 PUTS NOAH WEBSTER TO SHAME.

"Circus--In modern times, an en- closure used for feats of norseman- ship"
 So saith Noah Webster. Webster may have been modern during the years that he lived. but Noah lived those times has several times been amended.
 If Noah Webster had been in Mont. gomery yesterday and last night, anl with thousands of Montgomerfans. had witnessed the Barnum and Bailey cir GUS, he would have readily admitted that he himself was anticipated, and his definition about as appropriate as a Congressional Record in the library of the A. D. T. Boys Club.
 Noah Webster never heard of an au- tomobile. And if Noah Webster had been in Montgomery yesterday, and seen Miss Isabelle Butler "mak, chuckl4ng and expectant death meet disappointment and chagrin," by dash :. ing down a circular plane. through a gap of space to a second plane and de scending unhurt in an automobile, he would have walked to the preachers, ! signed a paper, and nave forever for , saken the places withmirrors for back l grounds.
 The old world has moved since Noah breathed his last and the truism. I tneTe $ SOIletHIuS HSW cNSiy uoS' | could not be better eAemplified tha 1 by attending the Barnum and Bailey's ! show and then taking a peep into | Noah Webster's dictionary. | If Webster Is as far behind on mod l ern spelling, as he Is on the moder: | circus, then Carnegie and Roosevelt | have just cause for their spelling re- form.
 What One Sees at Show. When man begins to tell abOus a circus, he doesn't He may have care fully watched the hundreds of acts of the afternoon. He may have mentally resolved to say something about edc1 one Of them. He may nave deiuded himself into believing he could de- scribe the scene, the people and the | performance, before he cached the big tent.
 After he has passed, elephants, cam : els, lions, tigers. Esbras, yaks, tapirs' | rhinoceroses, hippopotami, bears, biily goats, deer, giraffes, bulls, birds, mon |. keys, giants, midgets, bands, parades equestrians, acrobats. clowns, dancers | bicyclsts. aerial performers. strong men, Dips of Death, bearded ladies, coochee-coochee girls, red lemonade stale peanuts. policemen mad press agents and has safely passed bacM into the material world outside of tha big canvass, he can breathe easy and' like the old Irish woman, describe his feeI,nps hy remarking, "Whin Oi came to, Oi was still unconscious
 Barnum and Bailey undoubtedly have big show. Barnum ana bdliey have a new show. The wise acres. who make "all circuses are the same an excuse for making an extra tight clutch on their bank rolls, will have to admit that a new excuse mas 10 ke found, when it is recorded that Barnum and Bailey posses clown that is hauled around the arena in buggy, pulled by geese. True, It IS that the motive power vas furnished hv a man. concealed beneath the bug pv but the wise acres have never seen even that.
 The geese are but an example. There were dozens of other new features, more remarkable and more entertain ing than the geese. There are 1eW old things on earth besides the mn strel show joke and the town inhabi' tant most frequently quoted Tn newspaper.
 Large Crowds Attend.
 About 10000 Montgomerians attend ed the performance yesterday aIter noon and about the same numper went to the Capitol Heights show grounds last night. A varied program was pre- sented for their approval
 
 unlike all other circuses. In fact in many places it is remarkably like all of them Like all circuses. there IS a lack of sawduSt in the rings. All circuses are supposed to have as much saw dust as can be turned out of i've busy mills every afternoon. None or them have, and the Barnum show in this is conventional.
 But Barnum in quick succession hurls at you military spectacle ana peace tableau, with doves and sol liers, and Teddy Roosevelt all work ing at once, as an opening. This starts you going, and you don't stop until Miss Isabelle Butler has com pleted her "dip of death" Then you hurry out if the gentlemanly agents have not persuaded you 70 buy concert tickets.
 Here are some of the good things you see in the big show. Austin Brothers present a remarkable gin gery bareback riding performance. Three herds of elephants show intel ligence and training. Jap wire walk CTS and the Carmen troupe both have finished acts. the Carmen troupe being especially effective. SIX people work ing on a single wire. The Norlops in an acrobatic dancing specially are graceful and have something new and In the equestrian act, Miss Josie De- mont performs with rare grace and daring. A high school horse display