The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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Hennessey Clipper I
HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA I
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C. II. MILLEI
"The Central Market."
The project to establish an annua! i
corn festival In Chicago, if carried
through, will be another move toward
clinching the city's right to the title
of "the central market." The estab-
lishing of some such annual function,
asserts the Tribune, is the logical re-
sult of Chicago's position as the pur-
chasing point for the merchants of the
middle west. At present, with no es-
pecial attetnpts made to bring mer-
chants here in crowds, the hotels are
often comfortably tilled during the fall
purchasing season. An annual festi-
val in this season will bring many
more buyers Chicagoward. But it is
rot merely the fact that business will
be greatly benefited by a corn festival
that makes the project commendable.
Other fall restivals might bring crowds
and money to the city. But for Chi-
cago it should never be anything but
a "corn festival." Chicago is great
enough and generous enough to
give credit wiiore credit belongs,
and to the corn is the credit
due for the prosperity that makes pos-
sible the assembling of great crowds
of buyers in the city, and for the gen-
eral welfare and happiness of the mid-
dle west as it now exists. The far west
has its gold, later the other minerals
and cattle, the north has its timber,
•'he south cotton; but the states of
this region have their corn. Better
than the wealth of mines, or timber,
or an> other gift that nature may be-
stow on a land, it has yielded to the
ft'ates where it grows best riches al-
most beyond belief, and except where
the a. ariciousness of man has over-
reached his good sense it has taken
but little from the land where it has
frown. Since the beginning it has
been the foundation upon which the
empire of the middle west has been
built. It will continue to be the foun-
<lati <!i indefinitely. It is this region's
source of prosperity. The natural cen-
ter of all the great corn states is Chi-
cago. Chicago owes much to corn.
From its field it has drawn wealth and
prosperity. Corn and Chicago are in-
dissolubly linked. The naming of the
city's annual commercial festival after
It is a fitting tribute. It testifies well
to the Chicago merchants' sense of the
"fitness of things" as well as to thei.
business perspicuity.
lA
PECK'S BAD
BOY WITH
THE CIRCUS
By HON. GEORGE V/. PECB
Author of "Peck's B*J Boy Abroad." f tc.
ill b) J. IS. iiow JC .)
Pa said to me: "This race Is
going to be on the square,
and you watch my smoke. Do
you think I would let that red-head-
ed dish washer beat me? Not on your
life."
The play is to have a little boy kiss the
male driver good-by. and a little girl
kiss the female driver good-by, as
though they were taking their lives in
their hands. I had climbed up to pa
and put my arms around his neck, and
kissed him. and a girl kissed the female,
when tho gong sounded, and both four-
horse teams made a jump, before I could
get out of the chariot, so I got right in
front of pa and peeked over the dash-
board of the chariot, and. gee, but
didn't we fairly whizz by the poles, and
The Bad Boy and His Pa Driven Ro-
man Chariot—They Win the Race, I th<1 audience looked like a panorama.
I'a got the pole and kept it, and we
I went around three times, and found the
female chariot ahead of us, cause pa had
gone around twice to her once. She
turned out a little right by the band-
stand. and pa run his team right inside
her chariot and caught her wheel, and
when he yelled to his team, her cart,
team, and all were thrown right intoth •
band, which scattered over the backs
of the seats. The horses were all
But Meet with Difficulties—The
Bearded Lady to the Rescue—A
Farmer's Cart Breaks Up the Cir-
cus Procession.
Ohio was a hoodoo /or the circus
business, and Kentucky got the whole
bunch ready for a long stay at Dwigtit,
III., but the agent routed us into Penn-
sylvania, and pa has had nothing bu«
a series of disasters since striking the I mixed up with the instruments, and the
slale' | female driver was thrown into the air
Pa gave notice that when we got to and came down in a sitting position
his old home, at Seranton. where he right into the bass drum. She went
lived when he was a boy, he wanted to right through the sheepskin, so her
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Her Cart, Team and All Were Thrown Right Against the Band.
Clean Leadership Needed.
Speaking to what it calls the out-
rageous handling of large monetary in-
terests, as shown by the recent dis-
closures. the Century editorially says:
••Our people need to take account of
the whole situation and go on with the
tfork of purifying and upbuilding the
state in the spirit of wisdom. It would
be well if the sincere devotees of re-
form causes would say, when impure
hands seize the bSnner of a good
causs: 'Hands off! We will f llow
the lias only in clean hands and toward
no selfish ends!' But too often the
character of the leader, and the mo-
tives and quality of the leadership are
forgotten to the detriment and degra-
dation of the causes involved and of
public murals in general. In the civic
battles to come, the need Is great not
merely of disinterested leadership, but
of le:cii iship in thorough sympathy
with the ways of thinking a:.* with
the needs and legitimate aspirations
of the masses of our people. Our poli-
tics must be concerned more and more
with the practical matters of civic al-
minis:ration; there must be 'welfare'
government, not according to an im-
practicable and demagogic programme,
but in the spirit of conservative rad-
Icali'in; radical, because thorough and
jus:, and conservative, because what-
ever i • good in eximing conditions
must Le conserved, and because au-
vanee must be mado through calm in-
vestigation and reasonable experiment,
by evolution not 'spelled with an
sort of run things, so his old neighbors
would see that he had got up in tha
world since he left the old town. So the
manager gave pa about 400 free tickets
to distribute among his friends, and ar-
ranged for pa to show off as the leading
citizen in the show. He was offered a
fhance to take the place of the clown,
the ring master or anybody whose duty
he thought he could perform. Pa se-
lected the place of driver of the Roman
chariot with four horses abreast, in
place of the Irish Roman who was ac-
customed to drive the chariot in the
race with the female charioteer, a mus-
cular girl who used to clerk in a livery
stable at Chicago.
The chariot race is a fake, because it
i« arranged for the girl to win, so the
audience will go wild and cheer her,
so she has to come bowing all around
the ring. The way the job is put up is
for the two chariots to start, and go
around twice. On the first turn the man
driver is ahead, and takes the pole,
head and hands and feet were all of
her that remained outside the drum.
She yelled for help, and the circus
hands rolled the drum, with her in it.
into the dl'essing-room. w here they had
to cut the sides of the drum with an ax.
to get her out. while others caught her*
horses, and pulled the chariot out of the
band, and the music stopped; but pa
went on forever.
He went around six times, yelling like
an Indian at a green corn dance, and
when he thought it was time to let up.
because he had missed the other char-
iot. he pulled so hard he broke the lines
on the two inside horses, and then it was
a runaway for sure, and the audience
stood up on the seats and yelled, anu
women fainted.
Finally the circus hands grab!« d some
hurdles, and threw them across the
track, near the main entrance, and when
we came around the last time, two of
the horses jumped the hurdles all right,
but two fumbled an;! fell down, ar
It is surprising how many people
there are in this world who want to
Increase the discomforts of life. There
is always bobbing up some professor
or propagandist who informs us that
everything we have ever done is wrong
and that the only road to physical sal-
vation is to follow his own schedule.
And now comes a man from Chi< ago
where they know more things whi h
aren't so than in any city in the world
—and tells us that we must not eat
soup, pie, pancakes, puddings and cold
meats, except ham, and apparently
make our principal diet spinach, aspar-
agus, lettuce and onions. Probably
most persons eat more than is good
for them and it is certain that, gen-
erally speaking, food Is not w< I
cooked. But to lay down a law for the
human race is absurd.
beet
m
H. A. Kramer, of Chlrn- >. has
paying a visit to his parents ia Fidclliy,
111,, liore a family reunion v ,i - held
(entty. Mr. Kramer has Ave i -ins a-,;.|
two brothers, the combine J k : lit ol
the eight children bcinR 2,04.: pom...
After the total avoirdupois had lx en lit-
ured up the other day the Chkn-' man
enid: "Father, If every couple raised n
tou of children like you and mother
have there Is no foreign enemy on earth
who would not avoid America In a
scrap." No race suicide In this fain
•Jjr.
Pa Struck on His Head Against a Wagon Wheel.
was a crash, and I didn't know any-
thing until 1 felt cold water on my face
that tasied sour, and colored my shirt
red. and I found the lemonade butcher
and <111 the si cond t ti rn t lie girl's a lit ad.
and she takes the pole, and on the third
turn the man is ahead, and they begin
to whip tile horses, who seem crazy.and
on the last stretch the man holds his
team back a little, and the girl passes
l.im and conns out a tritte ahead, and , When my eyes opened, 1 saw a sight
(he crowd goes wild. | that 1 shall never forget. It seems that
Well, the master <>r ciremonle* i when the horiw fell down, the chariot
r.>ached pa about the business, and told j and the other two horses and pa and I
had landed aii in a heap right on top
of the lemonade and peanut concession,
a can of lolnters. When they
got the helmet opened, so pa could
come out, he looked just like a
boiled lobster, and w hen the chief owner
of the circus ome up on a run. and asked
if pa was dead, pa said: "Not much,
Mary Ann; did I win?" and the man-
ager said it was a pity they ever opened
that helmet and let pa out. The man
told pa he won in a walk, but ii- hi f
of police of Seranton was going to arrest
pa for exceeding the speed limit.
They took ra to the dressing-room,
on a piece of board, and when the wom-
an driver saw him, she got an ax, and
wanted to cleave him from head to foot,
but the bearded woman stepped in front
of her and said: "Not on your life,"
and she shield* d pa from deat h with her
manly form, which pa says he shall
never forget. Pa's old friends in Seran-
ton gave him a banquet that night, but
pa couldn't eat anything, cause the rim
of the brass helmet cut a gash in his
Adam's apple.
Alter the chariot race the managers
concluded they wouldn't let pa have any
position of importance again very soon,
and I made up my mind you wouldn't
ever catch me in any game that pa w as
in; but in the circus business you can
never tell what is going to happen from
one day to another.
On the train on the way to Wilkes-
Barre there was a hot box on one of the
sleepers, and the car was side tracked
all night.
When we arrived at the town about
40 wagon drivers that were in the car
did not show up. and they had to press
everybody that could drive a team into
the service to haul the sniff to the lot,
and pa drove four horses so well with a
load of tent poles that the manager
complimented pa, and that gave pa the
big head. When the parade was all
ready to start through town, and the
drivers had not arrived, the manager
asked pa if he thought he could drive
the ten gray horses on the band wagon,
to lead the procession, and pa said driv
ing ten horses was his best hold
and he got up on the driver's seat
and called me to get up with him
and I hate a boy that will-disobey
parent, so I climbed up and began
to jolly the band about the chariot
race, and I told them pa wouldn't do
a thing to them this time.
I be manager of tlie show always ride3
ahead of tho parade, with the chief of
l-'-'liee of the town, and the band horses
follow him. so it is easy enough to drive
ten horses, cause all you have to do is
to hold on to the 20 lines, and look sav-
age at the crowd on tlie sidewalks
and the horses go right along, and the
people think the driver i« a wonder. So
when the manager started in his buggy
pa pulled up on all the lines he could
hold oji to. which filled bis lap, and
made him look like a harness maker,
and be yelled: "Ve-up. ' and the pro-
cessiun moved, and the ten teams pa
was driving went along all right, and pa
looked as though he owned the show and
the town.
. We got downtown, to a wide street,
and there was a fire alarm ahead, or
something, and the procession stopped,
and the manager and chief of police dis
appeared, and there was a wagon load
of green cornstalks right beside the
lead team, which a farmer was taking
to a silo, but lie had stopped his team
to see the parade. The three teams of
pa's leaders, six horses, began to eat
the corn stalks, and the camels, that
were behind us. worked along up by the
band wagon and began to cat. and the
farmer got scared to see his corn stalks
disappearing, so he drove off on a side
street, and smarted for the silo, and by
ginger, pa's ti am turned onto the side
strr ■ t and followed the wagon of corn
stalks, and pa couldn't bold them, and
the band played. "In the Good Old Sum-
mer Time. There Will lie a Hot Tim*
in the Old Town."
The camels kept up with the far
er's wagon, too, and the whole parade
followed tile baud. The farmer
started his horses into a run.
! and the team of ten horses that
I was driving pa started to gal-
j loping, and I looked back, and the
elephants were beginning to gallop, and
all the cages were coming whooping,
and it was^a picnic. The band stopped
playing, and the players were scared,
and as we were crossing a little bridge
over a small stream, on the edge of
town, I turned ar; Mid to the band
and told them to jump for their lives,
and they all made a jump for the stream,
anil the air was full of uniforms and in-
struments. and they landed In tha
stream ail right.
We went on up a hill, and were in the
country, and the fanner turned into a
farmyard, and the band wagon followed,
and the farmer Jumped off the corn-
stalk wagon and rushed for the house,
and pa's ten-burse team surrounded tlio
wagon, and every burst was eatingeorn-
stalks, and the team was all mixed up.
The camels and elephants crowded in
for the nice green lurch, and the farm-
er's wife came out with her apron wav-
ing. and said "Shoo. ' 1 in none of the
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him what to do. They knew he could
drive four horses, because he said he
was an old stage driver, and when ho
j_'.)t In tho chariot with the Koman suit
nn gloaming with gold, and the brass
helmet, and tho cloth of gold gaunt-
lots, and stood up like a senator, gee. I
was proud of him. and when ho and the
female drove out of the dressing room
and halted by t he do, r for the announcer
to announce the great Bei Htir chariot
race. I got into the chariot behind pa.
and told him he niust win tho rate, or
tho people of Seranton would mob hltn.
For they know those races wore usually
was bringing mo to by pouring a tray j animals shooed worth a cent, and pa
of lemonade over nie. j pulled on tho lines, and yelled, while
; the rest of the parade came into the
i farm and lined up. The drivers yelled
I at pa to know whore in thunder he was
going, and pa said: "Datnfino."
Just then tho manager and chit f of po-
lice came up. and tho way they talked
to pa was awful. Pa couldn't explain
how it was that ho took the parade out
into tho country, and you never saw
such a time.
By this time the regular drivers had
arrived on a special, from where we loft
them with a hot box. and tin v took po-
session of the teams, and we got hack to
the circus lot in time for tho afttrnoon
performance. I don't know what they
are doing to pa. but they had
him in the mara r's t *i t all the after-
anil carried it up onto a row of seats
near the main entrance from the
menagerie. The elephants that were
to come on next were in the door
waiting for their signal, and they
wore scared at the crash, and
they came in bellowing, tho keep-
ers having lost all control of them
The audience was stampeding, and tho
circus men were trying to straighten
things out.
Pa struck on his head against a wagon
wheel and his brass helmet was driven
noon with some doctors. who
fixed beforehand, but since he v.^s to down over his face, no when ho yelled ! seem to bo examining him for Insanity,
drive one of the teams all his friend.; to be pulled out of tho helmet his voice 1 Kverybody abou^the show thinks pa
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