Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 January 1906 — Page 6

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by HON. GEORGE W. PECK A.r .' ! Pscs BJ tM AoraJ." Etc

Fa Take the Flacs of the Fat Woman with Disastrous Result A Kentucky Colone Causes a Row Pa T: ;'s to Roar Like a Lion and the Rhinoceros Cbjects Pa Plays the Slot -Machine and Gets the W.nst of It.

This h:i.-i l n in : itful wwk with .h VY have had h"t prostrations a Kentucky, r.early the whole BOW pot drtUsll ou N -year-old whisky, tad if i! hadn"t been for the animals keeping sober this show would have öen palM far diaordtrty conduct. Noaody knows ho the row srarted. but pa a.v every man in Kentucky eariies a Mue gun and a bottle of rl licker. and they wtar white hats, so fhe red. white and Llue business is all right, only it is a eorat'ination that is dea?h on a nrcus 1 think one of the hers, at the afrm n performance, told an old colonel that he must more ,

fat woman on tfct platform with tfct

freaks as the far oinan mas ororrunic with the haal ju.l had to stay ti the car The way they fHt J pa up to rraeni Me the fat womau was scandal They have some rBbtrtf things in the aaidfbi tent that you can blow u, and make a Ml BT and a l'l(t Ltf and a big atumnuck. so aaybodj eotttdSl tat the difTerBc. and they fixed pa up with Id wed up riathtt Oi Baal oolorad raaaar, and but for his chin arkiakarf you COBsAal tall 1'im from the fa? woman He atd aa wouldn't cut off Ms whisker for any body't drew ao tlta iaad a rati t1 tort pari Of BH face and put the fat i nai - araaa aa aa, and put aim ap Inside the skeleton, the midget and the iteat, Pa MÜd be ildaM wnt to do It. cause it seemed to much likt fraud, but their told him i he fate of the show dapeade I i,n our all aftaf willing to take any part assigned to us. and so pa sat down and ' eRan to fan himself, and tried to bok flirty like a woman. The other freaks never noticed but what It was the fat woman until the thaw was half ove-. It waa too much for me. and I Jus; iafftd at pa. I got up behind him an! to'.d him in a whisper that 1 wanted a dollar to play the I machine, and he told me to go to thunder, and get oot of ther I couldn't stand it to ba insulted by my own father, so I took a hat pin out of the hat of the 1 aided lady and punched it into pa'a blowed up rubber shirt, and pa began to sis. like a soda fountain, and the ,nd struck the liv-

I Punctured Pa's Tires

along quicker, when the colonel began to talk back, and say. Who in you talkln' too. eah? ' And the ush-r stood It as long as he could, when he took the colonel by the fMllar and sat him down so quick he didn't xme to for a couple of minutes, and when thr colonel got his senses, and found that the usher bad ushered him into a seat between two gaily decorated colored women Um trouble brgan The rolonel never forgot that he was a gentleman, for he rose up. took off his hat to th? colored women, and said: "You mutt xcuae me ladies, but I shall have to go and kill the scoundrel who sat me lown with niggers." and he Rot down off the pa's and str ick the usher with tils cane and the uglier yelled: "Hey Rube!" and all the circus people made rush for the colonel. The colonel said. "Men of Kentucky to the rescue," and before I could crawl under the neats the air was full of liatrcajrr. eats tent pins and white hats, guns mere fired, and blood flowed and th'

ing skeleton and blow him over like a cyrione. and by that time pa was blowing off wind in a dozen places that I had punctured, and he was seared for f ar there wi.ul ln t be anything left of him. and th Riant iaw the fat woman slowly fading away, .md the coward bad heart failure sml lay down on the platform Somebody shouted that the fat woman was all melting away, and a fellow who was watering a camel out of a bucket came io the rescue and threw the bucket of dirty water all over pa. and then I thought I better po away in tother tent and s-e the fight, but pa was tak'-n to the dressing room and rescued from the shrinking rubber balloons that were busted, and he said he would hunt the man that punctured his tire to his dying day. Lut he didn't know it was me. Gee. it looks to me as though pa has been engaged to act as the easy mark in this show. Say, they got pa to practice on roaring like a lion, so he could stand behind the rage when the

1 It was rambling snd we on nc4 to do it b it he a wanted to kus . we managet! "in, and w h.-n wi told about it pa aatd u was no siu ti beat a slot i . him OtW U was an inanimate tlirig. Just a mat bine, and ayeadf ha aaald seal a tcka la ins slot machine at his own game w.u equal to a Ib-ckcMl. r to after everybody had got eactted about our nickels I told them how to I eat the machine. I told them I didn't gal ex. I td and go rie!iing in where angels fear to tread and feed the slot mat hine on good hard earned nickels t i my own. but waited until tlio (MMutrynea and teaderfaaf had fed u on nickels until it was too full for utteraaee Whea the machine sere! led out like it was bK eil up. and It kind of erhee ed, tike it whs ready to ooucti up. and was only waiting for an eaae, I put a cough loenger alHut the size of a nickel in :!ie siot and turned the diaphram. The machine shuddered a minute and then had a regular h morrague. and coughed Hp u tin cup Fal of nickels into my hand, and the mac hine seemed to rest easy, and take nourishment again from the silly fellows who thought ihey could beat it Well. sir. the whole crowd was so excited they could hardly wait to find a slot machine, and Hnally they bought nearly all my cough lozengers, and went out into the night, and pa and 1 went along 'cause pa said he understood all the slot machines were owned i y Rockefeller, and he made more money on them than he did on Standard oil. and the money that he gare away to schools and chur.hes was from his rake-off on his slot machines. Pa said it would be a good thing if someone could break up tht reprehensible practice by beating the blasted maehlues to a finish. So pa he got a bag to bring back tht nickels in, and a bun;h of us went to a store where one Vhole side of the place was filled with slot machines, and tho way the people were playing the game was scanda!ous. Pa watt bed a machine until the players had fed it so It seemed rs though it would die unless It got air. and ne stepped up and put In a lozenger and tamed the wheel, and held the bag under the spout for the coin, but it didn't come. Soma more fellows put in nickel?, and the machine gave little narking enogha and coughed up three or four nickels, but nothing that seemed at all In the nature of a financial hemmorague. when pa took another lozenger and

put it in. and by ginger the machine began to heave up nickels like it was In the trough of he sea. Pa was so excited he forgot to hold the bac. and ni kels went all over the floor, and everybody made a grab for them, and pa wae r:hoved asi le, and h swore he would have .he place pulled, and just then a law officer took pa in charge because he had put a cough lozenger in the slot machine, and he searched pa and found a lot more bronchial tracheae, and ra was in for It on a charge of malpractice, for giving cough medicine for the stomach trouble of the slot mat nine, instead of pepsin tablets. They took pa in a back room and searched him som more, and found his roll, and then a man who said he was a lawyer offered to help pa, and keep hini OVt of the penitentiary Kf told pa the law of Kntucky made th? crime of trifling with a slot ma hine the same as breach of promise, or arson, and tha? he would be lucky if h got off with ten years in the pen, with "0 days' solitary confinement In a Turkish bath cell, with niggers for companion Pa turned blue anil asked the lawer if there was no way out af It, and the lawyer told him that for $120 In spot cash he would let him go, and fipht the case after the r.how had got ouj of the state. A hujdred and twentyfive dollars was the .mount they found n pa. anil tobt them that inasmuch

as they already had it. they better :eep the money and let him go. and he would be always a living example of the terrors of gambling. So they let pa go fnd all the way to the train he told us no hoped this experience would be a leSBOa to us not to covet the money of the rich, and aa far as he was OMICMfBed. John D Rockefeller could go plum to th n. ler v Ith his money af'er this. Then we got to the car. and found about a dozen Of ÜM circus men who bad been out to beat tne slot machines, broke flat, and I bad to divide my shot bag of nickels with thm. that I had won before I let th- tn into the name, before they would 1 t me go to ted. Dad says this ctrcBI life is making

me pretty tough.

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police pulled everybody and the eve olng performance was given up. One of the proprietors of the show got a wen on his head as big as a football from being struck by a handle of A revolver, and the colonel who started he row was knocked silly by a tray of red lemonade wuih the butcher smashed him with, and the colonel cried because the lemonade was all water and he was afraid it would oak into him and cause htm to warp When the lemonade butcher apologized, and the usher told him It was all a mistake bis being seated with the nigger, th" colonel wept on their nerks and invited the whole crowd to go to his distillery and help them elvee. When we got to the next town every man in the ahow had a rroui h and a Katzenjmmer. and their hair was to lore it was murder and suicide combined to com!) it. The way pa egi-aped iniary was

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1 lion has a sore throat und roar, and st are folks, and pa has bate going around behind the cai-s. every evening, when the menagerie is closed, and the crowd In the main tent, making noises that havo made the animals look at each other as much as to say. i "Well, what, do you think of that?" The rhinoceros wa3 so disgusted at Padueah that he reached out his noee and took pa on his horn ami held hirn up to the scorn of the Other anlmala until pa's pants gave way and he was t a sight, and he wa-. so scared that he got out Of the tent and made a run for cir train, chased by the police, who thought he was a burglar that had

been eat by a houea dog. The worst thing we have had on pa was at tMiisville, where we stayed over Suttday. Another fellow and I got a system on slot machines, nnd one day we beat the machines out of a shotbag full of nickels and whe i we showed up at the tent all the fellows wanted to know how we did It, and pa

BEGINNING TO DOUBT. Former Legislator Who Feels That He Sold His Vote Too Cheap.

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