The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-24
WHERE THE CIRCUS
IS MOST ENJOYED.
Negro VIII Sell Cabin and Get
LoudeSt Enjoyment
THE INDIAN ENHANCED
Mormons Travel Hundreds of Miles
and Every Child Gets Lemonade.
A Wild Time on the
Frontier.
THE INDIAN ENHANCED

you city folks don't get the real thing
about the circus. Even the sawdust
doesn't smell the same. And sitting In u
chair to see a show like ours takes all the
salt out Of the thing and makes 1t fiat"
The speaker was good natured canvass
man who had travelled with several
shows, says the st. Louis Republic.
DO you know that the red skinned
wild and untutored Indian beats the city
circus goer all to pieces for loyalty and
enthusiasm? He will put up with all kinds
. Of hardships to get the price and travel
or walk for days to reach the place. L
think he likes the circus better than the
negro, although, of course. he doesn't
make any fuss over 1t.
EVERY circus man knows that the ne
gro would sell the roof over his head to
get money to see the elephant and feed
him with peanuts, but the Indian will bar
ter his papoose, his squaw or even his
most cherished possession-his horse-to
get ticket.
After the negro comes the Chinaman.
The snowy things about the circus hit
the yellow skinned laundryman right
relatives, line them up in a single file and
then march them out to the show lots as
happy as a kid on Christmas morning. The
Mexican, too, is a warm baby when he
hears the toot of the calliope. The LATEST
greaser on the Texas border who never
paid bet In his life, will show up circus
day with so cents in his hand. though no.
body knows where he got it.. But the
Indian is the greatest fiend of them all.
I'm some places, like Missoula, Mont.
5 fully one-half of the circus audience is
made up of Indians. They come from as
far as 200 miles ON horseback, and even
on foot, starting on their long journey
days before the circus date and arriving
promptly on the morning of the day of
exhibition.
.7lndians Sell Trinkets.
ION circus day 1t is a case of every man
for himself with the Indians. The lord of
the tepee brings enough trinkets, in the
shape of moccasins and bows and arrows
to peddle around town. and in this way
! he gets enough money for his own adInis-
sion ticket The squaw brings little bas-
kets and has to hustle FOR her own ticket.
They generally come in couples, astride a
: pony, and IL the market is overcrowded
with Indian relics they will sell the nag.
after the show is over the chie2s pro-
mans fire water. and the squaws, with
the papooses, wait on the lumber piles
!. sand heaps until the gray streaks begin
2 ITO spread over the hills, and then the I'M
steady stream winds out of town over the
trail homeward The Indians buy the best
. seats, too. You will find most of them
on the reserved side and they even buy
these extra price places for the young
Z sters. The sauaws run to the most glar
fpo n1o in hni,- and ofrf hi
faces in a dozen different colors. They
like cheap jewelry and loud shawls. and
when crowd of them get together the
picture they make Is worth going miles
to see
.'When the Indian likes thing in the
circus he simply grunts. He sits with his
: face In his hands and his elbows on his
knees, but his eyes rove around the tent
and take in everything.
"Along the Pacific coast the Cinnamon
make the circus coming an event. They
turn out of their holes, deeked in their
best bibs and fuckers, and quit business
as it had no interest for them. In San