The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1906-04-06

hoWled pitlful. and 'hc lion raised w /
Ills head and looked lt them through I
ne bars as though he was saying. in
srarline way. What you grave rob I
lcrs bowling ahoutl Can't you kee1 I
sum and let the car of all the animals \
enjoy his after dinner nape
lust then the hycnas Kicked wha' /
vas left OF the hornets nest under me
bars into his side uf the cage and he
put his foot on il and growled. and |
about a hundred hornets gave him MS
he gave an Abyssin,an cough iha'
woke all the animals and then me
lorhets scattered and before | knew
il the zebras were .ianclng snake
dance and all OF them were bowling
is though they were IN the ark. hun
cry. and the ark had landed on Mount
Alarat.
Just then one OF the assistant mana
GERS beckoned TO me 10 lead in M
Process ion and we lighted the can
a.es in our Chinese lanterns. didn't
stop 20 see how the animals got along
with the hornets. hus | couldn't help
thinking that ii one hornets nest
c0uli raise such a row, what would ?
runared or DO when we got TO going
ia The other tent?
on. II had only 0ied when I was
vculs. never would have witnessed
that sight The band played, "Thers'l
ne a Hot Time in the Old Town To
~ Whffa trash
rarched around the big outside rlne
shouting. Bryan, Bryan What's The
matter with Bryan" and the audience
cot up on its hind legs and yelled
/ hat is the white folks didand Their
Ne marched around .ae other way. ano
Yelled Teddy is the stun. Teddy is
lie stuff" and the negroes in the au-
4 dience yelled. Thea my crowd mel
pas crowd right by the middle ring
where the elephants mad formed tbs
pyramid that closes their act, and tbs
Japanese jugglers were in the right
nard ring and q parry of female tum-
t.ers with low-neckel stockings were
standing al attention in the left -hanc
Sing
There was no intention Of having 6
riot. but when Ia yelled. What's thf
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, loadec
with a warm hornets nest as big az
4 football. which hal taken fire from
Tie 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 the.i
Chinese lanterns. OF course. my fel.
lows couldn't stand still and 10
mauled. and the candles had warmeC
our hornets nests so the hornets were
crawling out TO see what was tn trou
bic. Then every negro whacked E
white man with a Ecrnets nest anC
the audience fairly went wild with ex
element
The hornets got pusy and went To-
The elephants and the Japanese jug
eiers. and they stampeded like they
never met a hornet before.
The female tumblsfs found horn I
!, on their stockings. aud everywh re
enc they gave a female war whoop ant
rushed for the dresung room. Thu
elephants got stung and they CAM
down on their pyramid and went Gu
to the menagerie tent trumpeting, AM
switching their trunks The negroe
and the white politicians were gettini
INTO a race war. 50 The circus hand
! rushed in and separated them. and m,
! negroes found that the fetty ! hal
: them rub on themselves did rot kee,
: the hornets from singing them. s.
they stampeded.
Then the hornets began 10 go for tn
audience and the women yelled muir
del and pulled down their dresses 4
cover their shoes. and the men 60
stung and the whole audience STAN
reded into the open air.
Then met pa. and ne was a sigh
and never got stung once. The man
agers tried to get the band TO pla
some tune that would soothe and hol
the audience till an explanation coul
he made. but somebody had thrown
hornets nest under the band seats an
TIC horn players got stung on the liz
50 they couldn't play and the band a
III cut for a beer garden. Before
realized II the show was over. and
detective that detects fDr the show ba
~ collarcd and brought me up Def u
a meeting Of the managers. Pa va
;he prosecuting attorney. and to
them that didn't rua my politics fai
cause had brought IN a lot { { rini
ers The managers asked me how II
hornets nests cam, 10 be in the Oh
nese lanterns. told ken they woul
have 70 ask the ncgfoes for how Wa
TO know what weapons they h7d col
c,aled about their prisons. any moi
than pa was responsible II his poll.
cans carried reyolyers-
They said that booked reasonabl
N but they believed ! si4ew more abcl
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