The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1907-11-03


February, 1887. | met him again III
the same city. Says he, "Old boy,
you are justine fellow | was look
ing for, are you doing anything" /
replied, No. "Well come and go with
me to the town of H, about Is
miles from here where | have an
Indian doctor and a few tents
Can't you find some fello wthat plays
the banjo? | said, yes. We found
the banjo man and that afternoon the
Camp. | found the Indian to be
mixture OF ce4t French Canadian
and Indian, very ignorant, but read
lily saw that he was card
We rented a house, established .
ourselves therein and commenced
hralding the curative powers of Doc I
tor La Belle, the Aztec Indian.
Success started at once. My I
friend DR. S sent to II, Tex .
and had his family come to join us I
The show up to this time had been
given by the banjo artistand myself
with guitar. | took the two oldest
boys of the doctor, BACKED them up,
and made end men of them with
bones and tamberine.
These two boys evidenced an apti-
tude for the Minstrel business, memo
rized the .'gago' quickly and had
good voices for lend work" AS
there were two doctors connected
with the outfit, the title professor"
was bestowed upon me, and every
member of the clan addressed me
as such At intervals during the null
titlpdious duties that were imposed,
I found trne TO read from my library
which consisted of a trunk full OF
patent medici1e alamancs From
these I derived my lectures" Upon
a beautiful Saturday in the latter part
of February the aggregation made its
appearance upon the gallery of the
house in which we resided. Doctors
LaBelle and S occupied seats at
the ENDS of a table upon which the
medicine was "stacked'' for the occa-
son. Mrs. S was properly at
tired as an Indian Squaw and the
children were seated in front of my
self and the banjo artist. After
First part, lasting thirty minutes,
it became my duty to deliver the lee
ture. My audience consisted of fully
800 colored citizens, ard having never
before attempted such task, | must
admit that it was with some tirnidity
that I commenced the task. After
an introduction Of the two doctors
plunged into the subject matter, flung
rhetoric, elocution and Oratory to
one side and explained anatomy to
my hearers from the arimagouzeaim
to the philiamag inuis. My hearers
drank in every word of the maj
den lecture and at times in the flu
ture drank" $I,Ioo worth OF our rem
idies. After the performance | was
{ highly congratulated by my compa-
5 triots and was given a name high in
| the roll as a "grafter out of sight.
, This contamination is to be devotitly
: NiSHCu iot ny HidHy d. ilit pi CoSiit
day We remained at this point for
six weeks and then took our depart
! ure for other fields that con-
tanned the green and where the sucker
: crop never failed Against my Judge
{ men we moved to the aristocratic
parish of W and its county seat
the town of Nj. We had an 100
:. foot round top tent and a miniature
: Indian village
{ Alasi imam proposes, etc Her,
: we met Our Waterloo The addition
LOT dentist had been made, and wher
}. we pitched camp at the foot OF Z
beautiful parallelogram, our com
!. pany number 20 people. Excitement
J. ran high in the village, and our ten
was crowded nightly. The show wa:
i good. and as lecturer, was becom
ing more proficient every day, am
. gestcuiated as strenuously as di,
, President Roosevelt in his Vicks
: burg speech.
Elated by our success, we over
Istepped the line of our ethics an,
> gave a white citizen DIR Gunnis' cele
:. brated hydfopathie treatment, know
Z as the s'Wet Sheet Pack. Serenadn,
! and hilarity that night caused the en-
: tire faculty to neglect business til
next morn, and the patient foun
himself covered with blisters n
!, one appearing. he called in a regula
= practitioner and then all was off wit
:. us The outfit was disintegrated. i,
dictmetits made and special BALI
placed in charge. All of the go
= 1ege" had taken balloons and disar
: peared but myself. | was left to hol
!, the bag. The special bailff. love
of music. fell an easy prey to the Sc
! dactive intonations of my voice, a
s ! we'll as the alcohol ard chlorofori
that | had on tap.
!. Resait-Perfeetiy oblivious of a
:, surroundings. An outfit shipped /;
- night 10 my friend DR. S. full