Show I TRIP or Of Sf Y TWO 1 ORP I UM PERfORMERS Ic r t ir i ij j t 1 a j. j v d fr I 4 I t I j I S e j I 3 i chr I JOHN WORLD AND KINGSTON t BY JOHN JOlIN WORLD I tho heart of every true I there Is an unsatisfied tl longing for fields elds to explore new to con con- If The beaten paths from city to grow and cc ay Ly y of diversion is if welco welcomed cd as a c. c fever was vas stron strong upon Miss Ii 5 js ston on and m myself cl anti and when w we roW rol ro ro- W l an offer from Mr Hyman of ht i Africa to tour that country we c acid ac- ac id iii with ith a willingness that that I leman ruan wonder vonder if 11 he ho wim not un- un furnishing us liS with wilh n a passage e Of course we wc had bail some ome little 1 as to whether our our act d would tri r not th the most mORt optimistic of ol the theRion Rion on must fc feel 1 some seine anxiety on point despite their enthusiastic e as- as IOns to the time managers that h they have greatest show on earth humor is pretty hard bard stuff fLu tn n Englishman to grasp tr unless he hI and reflects on it awhile Ii Ibave to hand it out ont to him in in wt j and let Jet him in on the to a 3 gag gaj before you give c him real nl point of or the joke f. f Sad iad often cn b-cn told that the British British- jad nd nd no use us for the Yankee Yanke but hut pe c Ie le t ha has taught me this is is not bot true I down in their hearts they have a at at t rC respect for our exponents of or and anything of au an lly U funn funny nat nature r is jf nearl nearly ah a always 5 to our in invention CD hOIl s for tor Theaters d left New York for Capetown a on the tho I ith of Mav Ma- 11 1004 going oin Ia cay of the Madeira ilan inlands l We the of the islands ety tty Uy tit ty picturesque and interest interest- I I 0 o a degree we e would have id d there much Jon longer er were wr wo we not notI r I contract to tu open up iu in i on the of or Tun Id Dla may be bo our lon long stay in the United S 5 had hail ns us with v.-ith au an esthetic 1 r T J have t no desire to wield theer tho the thoner ner er on tho the house e of vaudeville in The least east sai sal said time Hie bet bet- put ut if I hail had an any desire esir to shine in lino hue I assure you it would but a t tack tark hammer I Id I'd ii lut s' s much I will say lIW nay however I Ivi 1 vp d min mining n camps camps- in the tho Far Wet West cr houses were rc palaces alongside tou itle tin tin- lin in the tho land nn of Kruger Ir From Tn wo we crossed t the h to oa Lay bay then to tn Madagascar r then I anz har British last Hast 1 Africa iea wo wc met Mason Mitchell Mitchell- Rough nou h I and a tor who is iJ tho thio Consul I ifor for Ifor the tho United States Slates i ish sh h tin till spa m nie meby I by 11 T II GnA GRAM r would allow m me t go into I 1 r regarding nt this trip across the time theof t of rilL Arin 1 I hn have often fared wonder at It the time antics of the fhe monn mono mon in n the Zoo at Central but hut to tn toe tome me e real thin thing in its own n native ti e cleworth cle- cle i is worth a visit to Africa alone c d With Cocoanuts Cocoanut s J in Kingston and amid elf m took n a Ion long lie Dime nc morning into Juto heart beart of a it ae e on tic the outskirts of tf Zam har Ch ire ere cst by 1 four native nath guides x s our intention to make malte a day of or or three hours w wo we heat beat our wa way way gli h h a mass of tangled undergrowth ting tin of a species of J plant ant kag 9 ong JIl fern Im I'm grasses Tho Time monkeys r red d from tho branches on our omit way n ug g at us from their lea leaf perches ag as if amazed w at nt our Intrusion on now now and then thou a t cocoanut would trIed at U us narrowly missing u our with hide moe than an orti adventurous spirit swung by his nm tim the bough above thoc u us Uti an and with a roul sweep 8 to pilfer mp nion R hat of or one of its mo t niost t sivo ostrich f feathers Ono One of tho time Braised s raised his hil gun Jun to shoot lit hilL Miss liss would not a allow it it staying the time lion hon b by that familiar American re- re I t h he be look lOh too cute for or any any- landed Tn 1 JJ ji an m onen glade but hut time r proximity Of oC several o eral prompted UK ua to ask all our lur guides s iture nrc of If f th tta that were 1 icK meng ic- ic nl K ng Ou On hein being told tol thud that they won vere 45 T. T II w Vj tim wa way wa Would be Le the desire nearest o our oar r t hearts I love hove wild nature but I want its denizens behind tIme tIle bars Lars when I am looking over o the show v. I Leaving t ju time home of the time tusk industry indus indus- tr try we vc headed toward Aden en Arabia AraLia mm and visited the great groat rainwater tanks I puid suil to tu hit havn been een built buill in the time tune of I King ing in Solomon W Wo V. Cd played tl tile l' l forts and barracks h this country in in conjunction with Sandow the strong man Here we were more than well i received receive erl It is seldom performers in invade in in vade 11 this spar sparsely o el settled country o an anti and antiI I so Sf active are arc the bandits ls there that one I takes lakes a chance on his ids life o Wo got tot the tho money howe however r. r Any Am price is js is tho salary salary sal sal- I ary nT paid iu in this region and the white settlers ettlI pro ro crazy over o anything in JU in tho the shape of a show Before the tho Mahara Maharajah h. h From Irom Arabia we struck off into India and landed in Bombay and Calcutta during lurin the height of If Iho season on We Vc played before the time Rajah and Ind i ih and t they he expressed their a approval of our work ork ii in a succession of appreciative grunts From the capital we traveled tra to Rangoon Burmah where he lie visited the timber yards and saw the elephants elephant hauling lumber We pla played cri to good houses hut but WP wo were wre very gl Iad d when we shook the dust of this thit- country off oT our heels This i U is time the hO home of the mosquito and amid anda amida a San Sm Franci Francisco co O flea a is tame In iu compari comparison son lion when it conies to t the r size size iz of a hit bite The lime natives build boil fires firt's under the to keep them off while you vou eat and I Ill I'll 11 assure you OU partaking of or a square meal there is an effort ort that even en an actor who is i always Will willing to cat balks halks at occa occasionally si ona I iy From Front India wo we I took tooh steamer to Siam and French Cochin China thence to JIon where herc Miss Kin Kingston had harl the honor of singing for Gen Stoessel cl I The Tho hero Iero of Port Arthur v a was wt then safely safe safe- I II ly lv ensconced on the French liner Australia Austra Austra- lia la on his way back to Europe From JIon kon we went to Canton the anton the dirtiest dirt dirt- iC iest t city I J think in hi the world While in Canton I witnessed f d the execution exe cution of four Chinese Chines pirates pirate The Celestials Celestials Ce Ce- conduct an execution in a most novel no way Th The four men were or ordered to in a line lino with a space of nh about ut four feet between them One of If the executioners executioner's I R assistants holds their li pig pigtails tails pulling thorn taut at nt a si signal nal from the headsman who wields n a lon long keen scimitar turn then a man rides by with a spear and prods the victim in jim tome some tender ten ten- tier der spot sometimes the side sile sometimes the time ha head This is dour done at a moment when the condemned 5 is ii least expecting it causing him to stiffen out his Ills n neck k with a it jerk This his is jg th time the opportune moment mo immo- ment for the executioner the scimitar falls and I the lie lien head is if emit it from roam the time hod body in iu one swift ss-ift f The Tile official headsman n is paid H 4 4 in Mexican lan l'an money for or each 11 of th time the victims and should ho lie ho- ho bun bungle lo hi his job he loses I I the 4 t From Prom India on nn we vo played the time route loute alone alone- part of time the time hut but ut picking up with a clever dever magician matician and antI a n singer linel we nu augmented the tIme troupe more for fOl appearances appearance's appear a ances ance's nc g f sal 11 I hau anything 11 1 hi n else From Front China we wc sailed bv by wa way o of Japan au and Honolulu to San W We wore were out ten month ami amil tra l 1 OOt miles We iVe enjoyed every er II of it To fl all performers cr who is-ho contemplate making making ma mn king this t trip ri p I 1 would ra say You Yon You arc arcas arcas as I safe there as al' at home harrin barring acci acci- dents |