Show once king of billy lives emerson a life 7 r of f N now dependence 7 minstrels pen dence in cincinnati W ne 1 0 hie man who sung just watch 1 I ti easy lansy step or the old familiar lines of cf I 1 ns as aa happy as a big buril lower has come to the mea weariness tind and burden cf old age and falling failing fortune dilly la Is now living in cincinnati hi b andy gilligan and a few other old time acquaintances but mentally broken and financially a ampt r though his voice and ability to imp r senate remain remarkably lemar kably strong and lie sings much as he used to sing bing when lie he was a fa favorite of fortune ills his dane ing days ale aie ended because its his legs are ills his last public was in cincinnati four years ago lie he then appealed at the peoples Ili theater enter Is ith weber and 1 lelda ills ilia ilary s vas mas then a week but were many years in which lie he never rc elved less than a week twenty bettis ago and liter billy imerson vias nas the star of till all leading minstrel lie he was it a natural bom boin singer a pei fet dancer a capital imitator of the col oi ed man witty giace fal eie to appeared on the stage where he b pleased engagements were always at hla his command lie he journeyed from the atlantic to the pacific and from the gulf to manitoba and never lacked for reward such as has come to few min aft el men ile he deposited in a san Pran francisco cisco bank made from hla his stage performances ile he married happily as it seemed to his friends and his future seemed certain to be cloudless robson crane eble allen alien the one time exploiter of sitting bull billy florence Coul dock gilbert and mrs john drew were numbered among his acquaintances and friends it ever there was vias a man of brilliant abilities good fellowship and real ansho ho appeared to be near the summit of earthly happi happiness nem it inas ft as I 1 neison in an evil hour he bo began to speculate peculate fc in stocks the stocks got the best beat ot of him then he played took the last ot of his fortune and then came the boist of all the drink habit |