The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-21
HEAP INJUN AT CIRCUS.

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 Ring Negroes and Chinese Next.
 DO you know that the red skinned, wild and untutored Indian beats the city circus goer all to pieces for loyalty and enthusiasn1?" says veteran can vasman in the St, Louis Republic He will put up with all kinds of hardships to get the price, and travel or walk for days to reach the place.
 Every circus man knows that the negro would sell the roof over his head to get money to see the elephant, but the Indian will barter his papoose, his squaw, or even his most cherished pos session-his horse-to get a ticket.
 After the negro comes the China man. The showy things about the cir GUS hit the yellow skinned laundryman right where he lives. He will look up all his relatives, line them up in a single file and then march out to the show lots as happy as a kid on Christ mas morning,
 "The Mexican, too is warm baby when he hears the toot of the calllope. The laziest Greaser on the Texas bord- CT who never paid bet in his life will show up on circus day with 50 cents in his hand, though nobody knows where he got it. But the In dian is the greatest fiend of them all.
 Tn some places, like Missoula, Mon, 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.
 "On circus days 1t is a case of every man for himself with the Indians. The lord of the tepee brings enough trink- cts to peddle around town, and in this way he gets enough money for his own admission ticket
 "The squaw brings little baskets and has to hustle for her own ticket They generally come in couples astride a pony and if the market is overcrowded with Indian relics, they will sell the nag.
 After the show is over the chiefs proceed to fill their skins with the white mans fire water, and the squaw with the opposes wait on the lumber piles or sand heaps until the gray streaks begin to spread over the hills, and then the unsteady stream winds out of town over the trail homeward. The Indians buy the best seats, too, You will find most of them on the re- served side, and they buy these extra priced places even for the youngsters,
 "Along the Pacific Coast the China men make the circus coming an event. They turn out of their holes, decked in their best bib and tucker and quite as if it had no interest for them. In San Francisco fully 250O0 Chinamen saw one circus last season, I'll wager that half as many passed the door of the big top in Portland, Ore.
 They are not mean, but buy pop corn or lemonade as well as the best seats. Some of them came in coaches drawn by handsome horses Chinese merchants gave matinee parties, the men wearing richly embroidered gowns, the women clad in costly silks, At one given in a California town there were 600O Chinamen and 1000 tapes.
 When circus tours the Southern States the cotton fields are deserted. Every negro within a radius of 100 miles has to see the performance if he sells his shirt to do it. White folks usually go at night time and the ne- groes in the daytime.
 Tn some towns in Louisiana, Missis- sippi and Alabama the big tent looks as though it were in morning. Here and there a white face looms up.
 'TThe clowns are their favorite.