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PECK'S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS By HON. GEORGE W. FECI Author of "Peek's Bad Boy Abroad." Etc. (Copyright hr J. B. Bowlavl The Show Strikes Virginia and the Educated Ourang Outang Has the Whooping Cough—The Bad Boy Plays the Part of a Monkey, But They Forget to Pin on a Tail. Well, I have broke the show all to pieces, just by not being able to stand srief. Everything is all balled up, the managers are sore* at me, and afraid of being sent to jail, and pa thinks I ought to be mauled. It was this way: \vhen we left Washington we cut loose from every home tie, and plunged into Virginia, and the trouble began at once. We met a lawyer on the train, on the way to Richmond, and fed him in our dining r-ar, and got him acquainted with all the performers and treaks, and he told us that we would have to be careful in Virginia, cause all the white people were first families and aristocratic, and if any man about our show should fail to be polite to the white people they would be shot or lynched, but if we wanted to shoot niggers the game laws were not very strict about it, cause the open season on niggers run the year around, but you couldn't slioot white people only two montus in the year. He said another thing that scared "pa and the managers. He'said if a traveling show did not perform all it advertised the owners were liable to go to state prison for 20 years, and that each town had men on the look out to see that shows dian't advertise what they didn't carry out. Pa and the managers held a consul tation, and couldn't find that we ad vertised anything that we didn't have, except the ourang outang that we took on at New York, wfiich eats and dresses like a man, cause that animal got whooping coifgh in Delaware and had to be sent to a hospital, but we heard he was well again and would join the show in a week. Pa asked the Richmond lawyer how it would be if one of the animals that was advertised was sick and couldn't perform, and he tcld pa the people would mob the show if anything was left out. When we got to Richmond the whole population, principally niggers, was at the lot when we put up the tents, and everybody wanted to catch a' sight of Dennis, the ourang oi^ang, and the posters all over town that pictured Dennis smoking cigarettes with a dress suit on, and eating with a knife and fork and a napkin tucked under his chin, were surrounded by crowds. It was plain that all the people. cared for was to see the monk! The managers held a council of war and dec^efr the show would be ruined If we didn't,m«ke a bluff at having an, ourang,q^taBg 8b it was decided that I was %$®l^^sed^. up in,Defli}.i&' clothes, antW on a monkey mask,r and go through his stunt at the' after noon performance. (lee, but I hated to do it, but pa said the fate of the show depended on it and if I didn't take the part he wofcld have to do it himself, and I knew 'pa wasn't the build of man to play the monkey, and so I said I would do it, but I will never do it again for any show. The Wardrobe woman fixed me up like Dennis, and I had seen him eo The Keeper Who Trained the Ourangoutang Took Me in Hand. through his stunt so' often I thought I could imitate him, and of course there 'was no talking to do,.'but just to grunt once in awhile, the way Den nis did, and have an animal look. Well, sir, the keeper who trained the ourang outang took me in hand, and in an hour I was perfect. I. had rub ber feet and wore black gloves, and had a tail fastened on with a safety pin, that would deceive the oldest showman in the business. When the crowd was the biggest, in the ,middle ring, the keeper led me out of the dressing room with a chain. The an nouncement was made by the barker that Dennis, the educated ourang outang, that had performed before crowned heads in Europe and sap heads in Newport, the only man-mon key in the known world, would now entertain the most select audience that had ever been under the tent. Then I was dragged into the ring and put on the platform. They didn't put on my dress clothes at first, but had a little screen on the platform for me to go behind to dress, and I appeared first in the natural state of the ourang outang, with a suit of buffalo robe gtuff that looked exact ly like a big monkey. I bowed and the audience cheered, and I stood on my hands and scratched at an imagi nary flea, and pa, who was leaning against the platform, whfspered to me that I was making the hit of the sea son. Then the attendants set the table and the keeper took me behind the screen and dressed me, and the old fool forgot to put on my tail. He led me out and I sat up to the table, hitched up my cuffs, put a napkin un* der my chin, took a knife and fork and began to eat, just like a human being. The audience cheered, and the circus people crowded around and said I was just as good as Dennis him self. I went through the whole of Den nis' performance and never skipped a note, until a smart white man yelled: "Where is the tail of your ourang outang?" and the crowd began to be suspicious, and more than a thousand yelled: "There is no tail on your monkey." That rattled the trainer and he re membered that he had forgotten to.pin the tail on mei so while I was using the finger bowl he went to the screen and got the. tail and came out and was pinning it on to my dress pants, when the audience began to yell: "Fraud! Fraud! Kill the monk!" and a lot of stuff. Then pa got on a barrel the elephants had been performing on and got the attention of the audience and told them not to be unreasonable. He said A He Hit Ma Bight in the Eye. the management had found by experi ence that after the ourang outang had been trained to eat like a man and wear men's clothes, that his tail was in the wayj so at a great expense the management had caused Dennis'- tail to be amputated at a New York hos pital, and while/ we always carry the tail along, it was. only used when a critical audience demanded it, but if this refined audience so desired the tail wduld be attached to the intelli gent animal. The jrowd yelled: "Pin oh the tail the tail goes with the hide," and' the .trainer began td pin iton. Say could have killed that trainer. He run that safety pin- about an inch into' my r8?1®?' Jumped into the ator.ibout four fSet, and was going to usW ai cuss word that I learned in Philadelphia, but I had presence of mind enough to grunt just as Definis used to, and chat ter like a monkey, and the day was saved. The tail was on and I turned my back to show that it was on straight, like a woman's hat, when pa said to hurry the performance to a conclusion, because he* could see that there was a spirit of unrest in the au dience. ana he would not be surprised any moment to set Virginia. seceda^ and go out of the union. 7 There was nothing more for me to do except to drink my cup of after dinner coffee, and smoke my cigarette, and quit, and I was patting myself on the back at my success and squirming around in the chair, cause the pin in my tail hurt my back, but I never said a word. The attendant brought in the coffee and I took a couple of swal lows, when I realized that somebody had put cayenne pepper into it, and I was hot under the collar, but though I was burning up inside, I never peeped, but just choked and took a swallow of water and vowed to kill the person that made the coffee. I kept my temper till the trainer handed me the cigarette and a match, and the first puff I realized that they had filled the cigarette with snuff and after blowing out the smoke I be gan to sneeze, an€ 'he audience fairly went wild. I snta*ed about eight times, and at every sneeze the pin in my spine hurt like thunder, but I never lost my temper, {ill about the seventh sneeze, when my monkey mask flew off, and then a boy about my size, right in front ft me, yelled: "It ain't a mon key at all, it is a little nigger," and he threw a ripe persimmon and hit me right in the eye. I said right oat iti plain English: "You're a liar aiul I can knock the stuffing out of you.'J I pulled off my dress coat and started for him, but pa grabbed me on one side and the monkey trainer on the other, and they tried to get me to return to the monkey character, and chatter, and pa put my monkey mask on me, but I struck right there, and pulled it off, and told-Jiim and the managers that I would not play mon« key any more with a tail pinned to my spine, my stomach full of cay&ine pepper and my nostrils full of Scotch snuff, and my face, all puckered up with persimmons. The crowd yelled: "Fraud! Fraud! Kill the bald-headed old man who is the father of the monkey," and they were making a rush to clean out the show when the dressing-room door opened to let the hippodrome chariot racers out, and the way the chariots scattered the crowd was a caution. That saved us from serious trouble, for the chariots run over a lot of ne groes, which pleased the audience, and they let us off without killing us. They got me back to the dressing-room and had to take a pair of pinchers to get that safety-pin out of my spine,' and on the way to the dressing-room some one walked on my monkey tail and pulled it off, and that was a dead loss. Pa sat by me and fanned me, 'cause I was faint, and then he said: "My boy, you played your part well, until the persimmon hit you, and then you forgot that you were an actor, and became yourself, and I don't blame you for wanting to punch that boy who called you a little nig ger, and said I was your pa. After this chariot^ race is over we' will go "around in front of the seats, antf find the boy, and you can do him up. Your monkey business was the fea ture of the show to-day." We went out and found a boy that looked like the one that sassed me, but he must have been his big broth er, 'cause when I went up to him and swatted him in the nose, he gave me a black eye, and I am a sight. That evening, at the performance, we cut out the educated ourang ou tang, and the lawyer we met on the cars came to the show, and said we would all be arrested for not perform ing all we advertised, but he could settle it for a hundred doliars, and pa paid him the money, and he went out and got a jag and came in the show and was going to make trouble, when pa took him to the cage where the 40-foot boaconstrictor was uncoil ing itself, and the Virginian got one look at the snake*and went through the side of the tent yelling: "I've got 'em again. Catch me, somebody." We got out of town before morning, and nobody was arrested, except the negroes that got run over in the chariot race. The Reporter' as a Soldier. An item, in Kansas City paper tells of the death of a reporter in Wichita through injuries contracted-in the per formance of his reportorial duties. The reporter was sent out at a late hour of the night to "cover" a suicide and fell over a pile of bricks in a dark al ley, injuring himself internally' and dying from the effects of the fall a few days later. This man died at his post of duty as truly as the fireman or policeman who loses his life in any great catastrophe that brings his duties into play. And the death of this young man ought to impress upon the newspaper-reading world the sacrifice and often the heroism that "the news gatherers on the daily papers are ca^tlble of. The reporter -is a soldier who never disobeys a call to.duty, even though it be to face death in a battle or enter a burning building or a night nin on a-locomotive or to enter a den of thieves in order to givethis paper ttiid its readers the "news."—Denver News. Bears in Wyoming. "Bears are so common out in our country," said Maj. Frank Foote, of Evanston, Wyo., "that even the hunt era pay but little attention to them, anil, they roam, the mountain sides un* molested. Onel reason of. tlieifc'' im munity, is that»the statejjayaf* no bounty on their s|c{n^ and thWis no iindu^nimt to kfli them.' In-thepast year I' suppose I've'encountered' 50 big silver tips in unfrequented locali ties, not one of which seemed at all embarrassed by the meeting, but trot ted oft with dignified deliberation." Not Educated.' 1 Dyer—Has Mack had a liberal educ tion? 4 Ryer—No he has never been ried.—Judge. bin HAYiTACK*. LESSONS DRAWING By FREDERICK RICHARDSON (Instructor in Composition and in Charge of Illustration Glasses in the Art Institute, Chicago.) (Copyright, by Joiaph B. BOWIM.) Among the questions which have come up by this time is that of shad ing the drawings. So far the draw ings for the child have been in out line purely, and might remain so throughout the series. There is no gain by the mere smudging of a draw ing that would have been better in pure outline, and there is often much strength and simplicity to be gained by the separation of one plane from another by. the use of tone. It stands with the accented line in its partial usag$. When children can use it to good and proper effect they might be permitted to shade with clean, flat tones. At first not over two or three tones should be used, for the dra.^if- TREE.S HAYSTACKS. STREAM AND LAKE-SYMBOLS AND COMBINATIONS. ings are made up of but few planes later, as the drawings are more com plicated, more tones may be used:: It should be understood- that shading for the laborious end of covering a drawing with tn^rtfs is utterly value less. .As more .daipage can be done by i&.use than by its omission, shading need not be-urged upon the class. From time to time the subjects illus trated will be treated with tone color methods- of simple shading. No1 par ticular handling of the shading is recomiuended. The .lines may verti cal, diagonal or otherwise if they are but clean and gain the tone desired by Klmple means. The child will often be. inclined to make up for deficien cies in-the drawing by elaborate Shad ing. It is\s£^ing its time that^way. Insist on nth# outline drawing being acceptable.' if thiex teafcher will but refer to the article oi the proportion of forms he m?v apply the same suggestions to the proportions of tone color. The iilus trations then given of the two trees *nd the'river will be an aid in judg ing of excess of color in shading. An accompanying drawing is done in shaded, tones for the same purpose. It is not intended to be given the child in that way at presfnt. By this time the child may be more generally permitted to indulge inr the accented tint and to supply the pure ly geometric form with freer and more natural treatment There«Will be some whose limitations by lack of the drawing instinct will not find this an advantage. They should continue to draw by the purely geometric forms. The natural temptation of the child to overdo the accent must be guarded against. About Object Drawing. A query .has been received asking if object drawing has no place in this method of teaching. The opening arti cle stated the disadvantages and im practicability of teaching object' draw- THE POND IN THE PARK-SYMBOLS AND COMBINATIONS. BRIDGE. POND SA1LBOAT.5 LAKE. THE BOAT RACE—SYMBO LS AND COMBINATIONS, ing in the schoolroom- It did not state that object drawing in itself was to be undervalued. If the draw ing of solids, dry as it is, could be placed in the schoolroom and taught by a competently trained teacher it might be a beneficial adjunct to the inventive symbol drawing for the artistically inclined, but it would be of little use to the many who 'could never be taught to see with the draughtsnian's eye. It is the especial advantage of symbol drawing that tibmething ban he drawn without this draughtsman's eye. The same inquirer asked about the use of mechanical appliances-in the drawing of these ^mechanical forms. There is no need .of riOer, .compass •or- other aid. in the,drawing of the j&igffeht lines ,or the.joundf. There is no need or virtue fn the lines be ingstraight or the rotn^ds being ab solute circles. Aside from the, con straint of expression itf is not desir able that they" should be a mechan ical performance. The'constaht rec ommendation of the intelligent use of the accented line has'been against the expressionless line that would result from the usckjof ruler or compass. The drawing should done with ab solute freedom no matter how far'the fofms roay be from round or the lines from straight. Some New Subjects. These subjects are given to follow the last subject" of farmhouse, trees and road: The park with the pond, bridge and .trees, the marsh with the haystacks and lake and the boat race. Present them on the blackboard as usual, drawing the' figures as much as possible before the child that it may see how a form as complicated as the sail boat is really made up of very simple forms. Continually vary the shapes of the combinations .given as examples of the possibilities of using the forms. Discourage among the brighter chil dren any attempt to copy these exam-, pies while giving the less clever some latitude in that direction, for it is a way of learning to: present ideas where the inventive faculty is not pres ent. In the boat race the interest gained by overlapping forms may ,be noted as well as the placement of the boats. HERSEY'S LAST HOLDING. Founder of Many Kansas Towns Who Never Had One Named for Him. Tim Hersey, founder of towns, is dead. But before he died that which, for years had been denied him was his the plot of ground in the first of his cities in which three of his chil dren are buried was given to him by the municipality of Abilene,' Kansas. Tim was the first settler of Abilene, says a writer in the New York Sun, and his wife named the town, taking the name from the Bible, as she did that for their next home, Solomon. They went to the banks of Mud Creek in 1867, when buffaloes by the thousand grazed between them and civilization. Their little log cabin was a stopping-place for overland travel ers. Bayard Taylor, Horace Greeley, General Grant and General Sherman stayed there at different times. "Tim Hersey's" was known all along the frontier. But other settlers came, and Tim decided that it was "too thick for him." He sold out and went up river. Three of the Hersey chfldren died and were buried at Abilene. Theii* elders went on and founded Solomon, Cawker, Beloit, Downs, and a score of other places, moving from each as the population became too numerous. At last, in the onward march of civ ilization, they arrived in the great state of Washington. Meanwhile Tim had never forgotr ten the three graves in Abilene. He went back to Illinois on a visit once, and there bought and had marked ap propriately three tombstones, to be set over them. With* these he went to Abilene. But the windblown ceme tery on the barren hillside had be come a tree-shaded, well-laid-out bury ing ground in a thriving city, and in. it Tim could find no trace of the tiny knolls. He went patiently over the ground foot by foot without re sult, and at last abandoned the three stones and went on to his new home. Years afterward a pathetic letter was sent by him to the Abilene author ities, asking that the three stones be forwarded to him in Washington, that he might set them up there. Abilene had forgotten them, but the town was searched. At last two of the stones w(ere found—one serving as a door step. The third had disappeared. But something better than the stones was found. An old settler remembered, when the thing" was agitated, that years before a sexton had pointed out a certain hollow in the graveyard to him, and had told hkn that that was where some chil dren were buried, off by themselves. He hunted for the spot, and at last found a solitary stone marker, with the letters "S. H." cut in" it. They stood for Sarah Hers«y, the oldest girl. The town, moved by pity for its aged founder, made out a deed to the lot in his name and sent him word of the finding of the graves but al most at once news of his death came back. It is said that more than thirty towns were founded by Hersey, but not one is named for him. A Hero of Dundee. To-day Sandy Mitchell is a cripple and totally blind, but he is lqyed and cared for, as every brave and help less hero should be, says Youth's Companions One evening a few years ago, as two men were approaching the town of Dundee on foot, the sud denly noticed a small cottage stand-k ing back from the wayside, evidently on fire. Smoke was issuing from the windows and open door, but no on& was in sight. The two men hurried .forward. By the time they reached the cottage door the roof was alight. Rushing through, they stumbled across the prostrate form of a woman with a child in her arms.One man lifted the unconscious'woman and child and bore them out the other groped his way into the living room, where he was' quickly joined by his companion. The room was empty, and they made their way to the floor above, whence, they reasoned, the woman and child .had come and there, in -the low cottage chamber, stood a. man supporting upon his- shoulders a blam ing beam that glowed and flamed^ aa he_ struggled to keep it from .falling upon the bodies of two little children lying in a cot beneath. "The bairns!" gasped the man, when he perceived their presence. The men snatched the little ones from their perilous position, and to gether they led the poor.great hw* to the onen air.