Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-04

1lent, anu pas cfOW1 or WHITE trash
marched around the big outside ring
shouting, Bryan! Bryan! What's the
matter with Bryant" and the audience
got up on its hind legs and yelled,
that is the white folk. did-and then
We marched around *le other way, and
yelled, Teddy is the stuff! Teddy is
the stunt" and the negroes in the au-
dlence yelled. Then my crowd mr3
pas crowd right by the middle ring,
where the elephants mad formed the
pyramid that closes their act, and the
Japanese jugglers were in the right
hand ring, and a party of female tum-
Tiers, with low-neckel stockings were
standing at attention in the left-hand
ring.
There was no intention of having a
riot, but when pa yelled, "What's the
matter with Bryan?' a negro in my
crowd yelled, "That's what's the mat
ter with Bryan" and he hit pa over the
head with his Chinese lantern, loaded
with a warm hornets nest as big as
4 football, which had taken fire from
the candle. Pa. dropped his lantern
and began to fight. hornets, and then
all the white trash IN pas bunch
rushed up and began to whack my
poor down-trodden negroes with their
Chinese lanterns. OF course, my fell
lows couldn't stand still and be
mauled, and the candles had warmed
our hornets nests so the hornets were
crawling out to see what was the trou-
bic. Then every negro whacked q
white man with hornets nest and
the audience fairly went wild with ex-
element.
The hornets got busy and went for
the elephants and the Japanese Jug
g]ers, and they stampeded like they
never met a hornet before.
The female tumblers found hornets
on their stockings, and everywhere,
and they gave female war whoop and
rushed for the dressing room. The
elephants got stung and they came
down off their pyramid and went out
to the menagerie tent trumpeting, and
switching their trunks. The negroes
and the white politicians were getting
INTO race war, so the circus hands
rushed in and separated them, and my
negroes found that the fetty I had
them rub on themselves did rot keep
the hornets from singing them, so
they stampeded.
Then the hornets began to go for the
audience, and the women yelled MUIR
der and pulled down their dresses to
cover their shoes, and the men got
stung and the whole audience stam-
reded into the open air.
Then I met pa, and he was a sight,
and never got stung once. The man
ayers tried to get tho band to play
some tune that would soothe and hold
the audience till an explanation could
be made, but somebody had thrown a
hornets nest under the band seats and
the horn players got stung on the lips
SO they couldn't play, and the band all
lit out for beer garden. Before
realized it the show was over, and a
detective that detects fer the show had
me collared and brought me up before
a meeting of the managers. Pa was
The prosecuting attorney, and told
them that didn't run my politics fair,
cause had brought IN lot of ring
ers. The managers asked me how the
hornets nests came TO be in the Chi
nese lanterns. told them they would
have to ask: the negroes for how was
to know what weapons they had con-
cealed about their persons, any more
than pa was responsible if: his politi-
clans carried revolvers.
They said that looked reasonable.
bu.. they believed I knew more abou.
it than anybody, but as We had to
pack up the, show and make the next
town they wouldn't lynch me till the
next day. Pa got me 10 put cod cream
OH his stings, and then he said, "Hen-
merry, you are the limit