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Show .HEY! JIM, THE LIS ! 10 TIGERS ARE ! HI 1 A few days more and Young Amerl-. Amerl-. ca will come into his own. Al. G I Barnes, in his new private car, a I veritable palace on wheels, and his i two double-length trains of circus, will ' arrive some time Tuesday, May 9, so do not be alarmed, Mr. Grown-up, if you miss the young lad from the breakfast table You know he is at i the circus grounds, watching the men . and elephants put up the tented city, i preparatory to exhibit Just put on your bib and tucker and hurry down , town to see the mile-long parade of best educated animals in the world, and tho beautiful cages and wagons, all glittering with gold and silver leaf ornamentation, containing tho rest-1 rest-1 less, ferocious lions, tigers, bears, pu-; pu-; mas and leopards. Listen to the joyous joy-ous music given by six bands, two steam calliopes and the new 513,000 pneumatic pipe organ. Patrons to the Barnes Circus may expect to be entertained. It is a show that is clean, original and wholesome, where you have the opportunity to secure a line of natural history unobtainable unob-tainable in any other manner The dominion of man over the animal is clearly portrayed throughout the en- ! tire program of sixty-five acts. In one act Ilerr Louie Roth is seen In , one of the big steel-barred arenas, , with thirty snarling, snapping lions, i who obey his commands as he stacks . them in a great pyramid, lying upon J the topmost one, putting his head in the gaping red jaws of another FIvp ; hundred and fifty horses, among them tho famous" $40,000 quartette of Arabian Arab-ian stallions. Nature's beautifully-marked zebras are seen for the first time rolling a barrel, standing on their hind feet, stiting at a table, and many other surprising sur-prising feats. Never before have the llamas and camels been seen performing. perform-ing. This is another feature of Barnes' Circus that makes it decidedly different Every one of the 1000 animals ani-mals are proficient actors and ench specie does a special act. Comical clowns with their comedy pigs and goats do a see-saw, walk a tight rope and ride a running horse. Kangaroos that "Willard" might learn a "pass" from Wrestling bears that would give "Gotch" a stiff "tussle." The show's entire program is given by trained animals that give you every thrill you have ever felt and possibly a new one. One minute you are holding hold-ing your breath In horror and fear, as the wild animals, securely confined in steel arenas, do their brute acts. Next you are holding your sides to keep them from splitting with laughter laugh-ter over the funny monkey and elephant ele-phant and other comedians. Then you are carried away to dreamland by Miss Vera Earle, who, mounted on a beautiful white horse, makes a circle of the tent, singing, "while love-birds come fluttering from various parts of the tent and light upon her. She ends her act In -front of the grand stand, she and her horse making a sweeping bow, while the pigeons settle set-tle on both pf them. Altogether a day at the circus Is an event long to be remembered. The doors are open at 1 and 7, allowing an hour to 'get acquainted with the animals before the performances, " which begin at 2 and S p. m. An advance sale of reberved seat tickets for the circus will open at 9 o'clock a. m May 9, at the E. F. Mlsch Drug Store, Washington at Twenty-fifth street. Mail orders held up to noon of show day. Advertisement. |