Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES. [ARTICLE]

WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES.

Indian Territory Editor Writes of the Joy the. News Brings. Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, with many crowding emotions qf joy, “The circus is coming?” “The circus Is coming!” What memories the old phrase rouses—of summer morning long ago when you watched the show "train unload from your secure position on top of the pile of- ties, of the street parade with the Aountry people lining up the sidewalks, the blare of many bands and the stately solemn tread of the elephants. And with what excitement you ate your dinner. Your father probably has denounced the’ circus as a tent-covered aggregation of sin, but in his vest pocket are tickets and small coins jingle in his right trousers pocket for the delectation of his boys and girls. He does not really care for the circus—that is, not until the familiar odor of tramped grass has struck hiS nostrils and called to life things long buried or he feels the soft, inquisitive snout of the benevolent elephant feeling its cool way" up bis sleeves and sees the physically marvelous and beautiful in the show ring, and yields at last to a strange tumult of sensations which tells him that, after all, human nature clings close to some of its most primitive pleasures. Then there comes over him vividly the memories of circus days long ago andof the- father, now long dead and happy in the state reserved for all good men, who took him, and he thinks to himself that if there be one thing that 1 could make him desert the celestial harp concert it would be a circus day on earth with a lot of boys and girls to drink in its gaudy glories—South McAlester Capital.