The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

when he hears the toot of the calliope' T,he laziest greaser on the Texas bordeT, who never paid bet In his lite' VIII show up circus day with fifty cents III his hands, though nobody knows wheIe he got 1t. But the Indian Is the great est fiend of them all.
 iIn some places. like Missoula. Mont.' z. fully one-half of the circus auoience Is made m of Indians. They como rom as far as 200 miles on horseback. ana even on foot, starting on their long Journey days before tho circus datc and arriving promptly on the morning
 of the day of exhibition.
 ..On circus days 1t Is a case of every
 man for himself with the Indians. Ihe lord of the tepee brings enough tin
 kets in the shape of moccasins apu bows and arrows to peddle around town and in this way he gets enough money
 Cor his own admission ticket. The souaw brings little baskets and mas to hustle for her own ticket. They gen
 eralIy come In couples astride pony and if the market is overstockeo "lth Indian relics they will sell the nag,
 After the show is over the chieIs nroceed to ffI their skins with the white mans fire-waters and the squaWs, with the papooses, walt on the luhDe
 niles or sand heaps until the gray
 
 and often the unsteady stream winos out of town over the trail homeward.
 ",rha Indians buy the best seats, too You will find the most ot them on Fhe reserved side, and they even buy these extra-priced places for the youngsters. The squaws run to the most slarlns coIors in their dress and paint theil faces in a dozen different coiors' lhSS like cheap jewelry and loud shaWis' and when a crowd of them get togeth- CT the picture they make is worth go- ing miles to see.
 5AIong the, Pacific coast the China men make the circus coming an even. ,,
 They turn out of their holes. deckeo | ir their best bib and tucker. and quit business as If. 1t had no interest TOT them. In San Francisco fully 2S,ooO Chinamen saw one circus last season PI wager that half as many passed th. door of the big top in Portland Ore They are not mean and buy pop corn or lemonade as well as the pest seats. Some of them came In hand some coaches drawn by handsome hors- es. and they sat in boxes. hich Chl- nese merchants gave matinee parties. inc men wearing richly embroidereo gowns. the women clad in costly sIihS' cut not in the form of dresses put as man wears his broadcloth. At one matinee gwen III SHAAAN%N- there were 5000 Chinamen and 2,OOO fans When the Indian likes thing 1 in the circus he simply grunts. lie sits with his face in his hands and his ! eIbows on his knees. but hts eyes rove ! around the tent and take In everything "The oddest mixture of people l ever
 saw was at a town in Arizona. In-
 dIans. Mexican greasers. Japs. negroes Chinamen and cowboys crowded the
 tent and squatted comfortably on Ine
 racing track. The Indians and Chi
 namen were quiet, as usual. but ths l cow -uunchers, greasers and negroes wade the air ring. The cowboys yelp- | cd like A pack of coyotes when the
 Rendini girls jumped from the ground on the backs of their galloping thor ouehbreds. The Mexicans liked the
 evnanastie acts. and opened their Volees until they were worn and hoarse. Th'
 clowns caught the negroes ana they laughed until the ground shook. Thai
 ntSbt the cowboys and the greaseri turned the town into shooting gallery enptying their revolvers at the star' and expressing their sorrow at th' | going away of the circus by hckine
 up all the refreshments in the town.
 'vyhen the circus tours the South
 ern states the cotton fields are de' serted Every negro within radlus ol 100 miles has to see the peIiofina . ho' if he sells his shirt to do It. White folks usually go at nighttime and tn' negroes in the daytime. In some town' l in Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama inc big tent looks as if it were 1T
 mourning Here and there whit
 face looms up. During show th'
 noise and laughter Of those good tured blacks are almost deafening. Tn
 clowns are their favorites. Strange t' say. too. in view of the bad name tn negro has for forgetting the ownership