The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-02

On Thursday ev'g the doors of the
town hall was throwed open for the
show at E 80, and the crowd which had
been waitin outside for nearly a hour
rushed in to get the best front seats.
Most everybuddy in Bingville and the
surrounding country attended the show.
Business in town was at standtsll, as
you might say, being as Eph Higgins
closed up the P. o. early in the after
noon, and Hen Weathersby locked up
his store at supper time and didn't open
it again until the follerin mornin.
There was long wait between $50
and when the show started at o'clock,
but the audience didn't seem to mind
that much. Some brought a luncheon
with EN- and partook of same while
they waited
"Uncle Toms Cabin" is not a new
play exactly, being as we saw it some
memory serves US correctly. There was
dog at the show which was said to be
full blooded bloodhound, but Yves
Woodruff, our expert hunter and trap
per, said it looked like a coon dog to
him. In one part of the play this dog
was supposed to chase Eliza and little
|
course there wasn't any ice on the stage,
becuz if there had of been Eliza would
| probably of fell down and broke her
blame neck. Well, instead of chasing
| Eliza across the ice like he was sup
posed to do, the bloodhound when he
come to the river bank, stopped and
set down in full view of the audience
and begin to scratch his left ear with
his hind foot Yves Woodruff, who hap
pened to be sittin near ourself, whis-
pered to us that it was his opinion that
the dog had fleas, which was why he
stopped to scratch and thus permitted
Eliza and Little Eva to excape with
their lives.
Everybody present felt offul sorry
for poor old Uncle Tom, and when ST.
mon Legree, his cruel master, gives him
turrible thrashin with whip, indigna-
shion was freely expressed all over the
hall. When Simon was laying it on the
thickest, Seth Dewberry, Our lion heart
ed town constable, who had no doubt
that he was voicing the sentiments of
everybody present, jumped up and
started down the aisle toward the stage
and hollered out, Look here, Mr.. Lee
gree, If you don't stop thrashin that
poor Teller I'll have to arrest you and
put you in the town lockupP
lest then a Teller connected with the
show come up behind Seth, grabbed
him by the coat collar and set him
down so hard on the seat he vacated
that it almost busted the seat, and he
says to Seth, "You keep quiet, sport,
or I'll throw you through the winder +
| This kind of seemed to take the fight
outen Seth, so he set quiet and didn't
say nothin more during the entire per-
| Torrance.
In one part of the play Little Eva
was turrible sick and everybuddy pres
ent saw that she would never recover
unless something was did right off to
help her, so Doc Livermore, our human
specialist and veterinary, left his seat
and walked down front and cleared his
throat and said that he happened to
have a few pills in his pocket which he
thort il they was took in time by Little
| Eva they might help her to recover.
| The same Teller that took Seth down
spoke to Doc also and told him if he
didn't stop disturbing the show he would
put him out Doc then took his seat
and said that if the little girl passed
away he didn't want nobuddy to tell
him that he hadn't offered his services
free gratis for nothing and would have
saved her life if he had been permit
ted to.
After the show everybuddy present
with one excepshion went home salts
fed that they had received the worth
of their money. This one excepshion
was Lem Whitaker, who asked for his
money back. Lem told the manager of
the show that he had been deceived and
disappointed, being as he thort there
was going to be a lot of pretty girls
in the show who would sing and dance
Lem didn't get his money, however.