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THE SHOWMAN A MORALIST IN DIS GUISE CF THE ASOP TYPE.

the Guise of The Lesson He Meant to Teach by Shooting

Hiis Fables Presented Under Freaks or in Hair Raising Acis-—

the Woman ut of a Cannon.

Tn this age of B00n forgets its is need a a class of devouter spirits who, like Walter Secatt’s Old Mortality, shall g0 about through the graveyards, with re-

Too actors, and ever there

scramble the public

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touching mallet and chisel, seeking to keep green the memory of departed wor- thies.

Like too many of his forerunners, the

late lamented P. T. Barnum, the aborig-

inal creator of the ‘‘zreatest show on arth,”? was in his d and gen f ia 3 an misunderstood—a man who, as Wordsworth puts it, ‘‘wandered lonely as a cloud’ even amid the throngs gathered by the more superficial attractions of his ircus. Dealins on so vast a scale in wild T asts and human monstrosities, few but a ae group o° bosom friends knew him for what he really was, a moralist in dis- guise of the 2 ptype—a man who, while he talked beasts ant men.

In the earlier stages of his career posi- tive reprobation was heaped on his head by 1! yusands V to use their cwhb coarse

language, felt they had been jeremy did-

died in paying a quarter each to revel in the vision of the beautiful ‘‘ Fiji mer- maid’’ sitting om a rock and combing her golden locks, only to find inside the tent the stuffed skin of ashe baboon glued cn the tail of a codfish. ‘* Your reprobation is misdirected,’’ retorted Barnum. ‘True,

I have got the quarters, but then in return you have got the experience. Mern aids are wsthetic, anatomical and psychologic

impossibilities. The one thing needfyl was to work in you a drastic, realistic

cure. My show is strictly moral, and now it remains with you, as you chew the cud of sweet and bitter reflections, to extract the moral.’’? Thus from the start was manifest the serious, didactic cast of the great man’s mind.

That in so obtuse a world as this a mor- alist of the type of arnum was at the out- set misunderstood is only natural. When, for example, he first loomed up before the American public #¢ the one man on the planet of the hardihood to shoot a full grown live woman out of acannon and catch her on the fly in a wavy net as big as a porgy seine, who for a moment dreamed that underlying «all the pageantry of se sensational a spectacle lurked a pregnan moral lesson? Yet to Barnum the moral was the one sericus consideration. To use his favorite natural history figure of speech —for the turn of his mind was highly metaphorical—the moral stood out slain asa jackass’ ears. In his eyes the rest of the exhibition, the whole external show, was mere embellishment, mere rhetorical emphasis to excite the sluggish minds of the thoughtless and stimulate them to re- flection.

‘*Here’’—he would break out in his more expansive hcurs of perhaps venial

self ee = re is my grand para- ble, my dramatic moral masterpiece. The

supreme moral fore s of the individual and of ee are momentum and control. Mo mentum by itself is headlong and de- structive Control ly itself is tame and even suppy. In harmony they become sublime egethe centripetal and centrifugal forces of the solar system. Preachers in the pulpit essay indeed to expound the same dcctrine. Preachers, however, ba no such magnificent apparatus of ilustra- tion at command as lias the proprietor of a circus, and so all remains in the realfn of vagueness and abstraction. Their hear- ers fall asleep, but when bang pe es my big cannon and, lo, 150 pounds of glo rious womanhood-—rose red, lily white, shining- ly en seen hurtling through the airthe dullest bead clears up. Mo- me nium in all its titanic, all its frightfyl- ly perilous bearings is grasped in a trice. ‘the emotions pour in a mighty flood. The fate of a woman, of! a hangs in

lomentum hurls her

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with annihilating fury, and, unless some

jual counter force leap to the rescue, a second more and she must die before the aon ndous throng of spectators a brain- less, bleeding corpse. Now first reveals it-

et if ‘the latent signif symbolism, of my interposing net. Action and reaction are equal, and so the net must embody a power of arrest at least as mighty as that of the gunpowder that d charged the the cannon’s mouth. But, a power, must it be yieldi though firm; pliant, though irre absorbent as a poultice, thoug] a steel spring. The now beholds how it with her, n 50 tangents, yet ever holds her safe in ishing velocity till at Jast she lies in its embrace,

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Calm asa cradled child ia dreamiess slumber bound.

“It is at this crisis in the exh ibition,” would proceed the great mo ralist, ‘that I aiways scan with that smileof sympathetic benevolence for which I am noted the vast muphitheater to see how many fond par- ents have caught the inner meaning of the dramatic spectacle and are expound- ing to their little boys an nd girls the real

gnificance of the parable—making it piain as day what the «ke tum of their own iras« cucy Will inevitably brit ng them to if they do not learn how to enmesh nd absorb it in the firm yet yielding net of pati and sweetness.”’

Is it any wonder, then, that in hours of uch effusion the wor!d famous impre- sario should proudly have conferred the title of ‘“‘greatest moral show on earth’’ upon what ordinary mortals called nothing but ‘‘ Barnum’ Boston Herald.

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