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Romantic History of Eigh
teenth Century.
BLOOD, MONEY AND LOVE
Figure in Lives of Two Maids
of Coionies.
Xew York, Feb. 21. The New York
Herald says:
Anions the chain of small coral islets
round the entrance to Kingston Harbor,
In Jamaica, the most famous is Baekham
Cay. It is a tiny, insignificant, barren
place "the last, least lump of coral"
but it is famous in Jamaican history, and
is associated with some of the most ex
traordinary achievements ever performed
by women.
Captain Rackham, who gave his name
to the cay, by reason of the fact that lie
was hanged on the gallows there was a
bold, bad man, whose story is enshrined
in the annals of the buccaneers. After
winning much fame and loot as a pica
r&on, he was captured by a British man-of-war
and taken into Port Iioyal on
November 26, 1720. It was thought that
he and his crew would be better off for
a little hanging, so hanged they were.
Their fate does not concern us. There
were two members of the pirate band
who were convicted with the others, but
were not executed, and it is with them
we have to do.
The Admiralty Court had found the
Tcrdict of guilty, asked the sullen pris
oners at the bar if they had anything
to say why sentence of death should not
be passed upon them.
One by one the pirates scowled savagely
and shook their heads. But presently a
young, fresh faced, chubby person said:
"ily Lord, I am a woman."
The Judge gasped and wondered if he
had heard aright, or if he had taken too
iriuch rum sangaree the night before a
thing AVest Indian magnates were prone
to do in those good old days. With an
effort he pulled himself together, only
to be dumfounded by a hj'aterical giggle
from the next prisoner, who chimed in:
"And so am I, too, my Lord! I am
!Anne Bonney, and this is Mary Read."
Inquiry was made into these astound
ing statements, and both were found to
bo perfectly true. The clemency of the
King was extended to thom, and they
were pardoned. Wary Read fell ill and
died in her cell while under reprieve; but
Anne Bonney. through the kindness of
some Jamaican painters, was restored to
her family in Carolina. j
According to the story which she told
the Judge, she was the daughter of an i
Irish attorney, who eloped from Cork j
with a servant girl, settled in Carolina
and made a fortune. She whs wooed
by many young men of good family, but,
to her father's intense disgust. She re
jected them all and eloped with a young
skipper, who had nothing but luck to
depend upon. The iarental frown prov
ing persistant, fhe young copule removed i
to New Providence, then the favorite !
resort of all the buccaners and despera
does of the day. Anne set up house
keeping there, and her skipper went a-pir-nting
for a living.
Out of sight .out of mind. While her
husband was away. Captain Rachman
came along to New Providence, saw
Anne, fell in love with her very pretty
face, and persuaded her to elope with
him on his ship. She dressed in boys'
clothes and shipped as one of the crow, )
unknown by anybody except Rackham. j
Now comes the most amazing part of j
this extraordinary affair. On beard uie
ship there was a vry handsome sailor,
who acted as carpenter. Ever flighty in
her affections. Anne soon tired of Rack- J
ham, and fell pasrioiKtte-ly in love with j
this handsome carpenter, who first at- ,
traded h?r attention by bis d.j-porate
courage in battle. Slv was not a woman .
to boggle at conventionalities. -o sli" fell
at hla f . tt one ni-cii. in a ita-?ion of
scaldlmc t ars, and soWxmI out her love, ;
revealing her identity. Dumfowulid. he 1
exel ini"d. "I ain a woman, too!"
Of courso. Ann- wa bitterly di:rr-poii't'-ii.
but soon the tw women thus
strand lv thrown t"u''.luT on the piiate
hhl. ! ' ;nie very (!.- friends, and could 1
ham - bear to be n-.-.t f the other's com- 1
pan1. n for an hour.
Obt-vv nig their i-uimaey. Rackham j
grew i it'-r!y Jealous and threat-"i"d to
throw Ai'tie to the birks in puni.O.ment
for her Mippo;?ed afT-o:ion for o-je of his
crew. To save h--rslf she was obliged ,
to tell him that h:s rival was a woman,
whose name was M.trv Read. ,
iar. s life h;:d Wen a stranger and ;
more enturou one even than Anne's, j
She ii ol been re.-md from her oirliest
childT. I as a boy. !n order to secure an J
allow. i: from an oul tnaadmother who :
hated ' ::ils. ftei th- grandmother died, ,
without hiving dl'--co rn d the soevt. the
dlsgui-'-i girl obt ileil errcrlo merit in
the st ! e of a Kr noh lady a.- a foot-
boy. an.) w that cimat tv traveled all over
the cvnti -tix. W.irnii'tr for further ad- !
ventur s she dise .ml.-d th menial's liv-;
ery ami w.r.t to sea as a cabin ho--. Tir- I
ing of that hard 1 f . . -he enlisted n a
regiment of British infantry ami fou ;ht
valiantly in ti e Flemish wars untie r Marl- :
borouirh. 1
Here she met her fate. One of her '
comrades wrs a -.ery handsome oung '
Fleming, who unec"--. i-isly won hr love. '
She did not reveal --r s x directly to j
him. but nv.o day 1v f. un;l her we p n? ,
hysterieallv in her t -it. and ur ' r--tno.? !
the truth. He fell h a 1 overtaeeh- in love !
with her. ard next d iv thev were mar- '
ried. the eeremorv bfing ptihllo'y per- 1
formed before the h le reslm-'"t All i
England rnne with th romance the;
happy lvrs were n:?. hi reed from rr -11 i-
tory service and set up in life In a cosev '
little country house, bouqht with the
money showered upon them by their
many sympathizers
At first the hoste'rv paid vc-v well,
crowds of people Jlo. king to see the- wo
man whose remarkable history fc.i; b-en
bruited abroad. But soon afterwaM the
husband died. Tired of the unalva
turous life of the country. Mary donned
men's clothes again, once more enMsted
in the army an. foucht with great b:av
ery at Ram ii Iks. Oudenardc and Milpla
quet. Presently the treaty f I'treeht
put an end to the wars which hi ! Ilv?
going on so long, and Mary, in coratnon
with many another poor soM!-t, found
herself cast adrift.
Never at a loss, she shipped before
the mast on a West Imllaman. "When
out In the Carribean See. the vessel was
captured by Hackham. and Mary Read
SK her disguise, was allowed to Join the i
pirate crew as an alternative to walking
the plank. This was where her path in
life crossed that of Anne Bonney.
Unknown to any of the picaroons as
women, save only to Rackham, Mary
and Anne lived on the pirate ship for a
long time and went through enough
thrilling adventures to serve for a library
of "penny dreadfuls." They were both
utterly fearless and bore themselves very
bravely as the bravest men amidst the
crash of cannon and the carnage of
battle.
Mary Read achieved great honor and
distinction among the pirates. One chron
icler says. "To courage and daring she
had united such skill as a swordsman
that she was foremost in all desperate
adventures.
Like Anne, Mary had her own romance
aboard the pirate ship. A young car
penter was taken prisoner on one of the
prizes captured by Rackham, and was
enlisted among the freebooting crew. He
was a good looking young fellow, and
Mary fell secretly in love with him, just
as she had done with her Fleming in
Marlborough's wars. A romantic inci
dent hastened the declaration of her love.
Aboard pirate ships tempers were short
and quarrels easy. One day the carpen
ter got in a dispute with one of the
sailors, and ended with si challenge to
fight a duel. Mary was present, and.
fearing for the safety for the man she
loved, she threw a glass of rum and
water in the face of his enemy and de
manded that he should wipe out that
insult by fighting her before he tackled
the other fellow. By the pirate code of
honor he was obliged to do so.
Her life as a soldier had made Mary
an expert in swordsmanship. After a few
passes she ran the man through the heart
with her rapier and laid him dead at her
feet- Afterward she told the carpenter
wlxo she was, won his love, and .they
were secretly married at the next port
at which the vessel touched.
Such are the romances which Rack
ham Cay commemorates. Both of these
remarkable women showed in every ac
tion of their lives a greater intrepidity
than one ordinarily expects Irom even
the, bravest man. An old chronicler says
that Rackham was permitted to see Anne
Bonney just before he was led out to
the execution. She did not condole with
him, but, knowing what desperate cour
age would do even in the worst straits,
she roughly remarked: 'If you had fought
like a man before you had been taken
you would not be led away now to be
hanged like a dog."
Which must have been cold comfort
for poor Rackham, coming as it did from
his best beloved.
For two years the skeleton of the pirate
chief hung in chains on the island that
bears his name, and then the great hur
ricane of 1722 swept away the gibbet and
bore it down to the shore. Curiously
enough this instrument of deatn was the
raft of life to one poor fellow. A negro
laborer, who had boon left on the cav
in in enmn nnnnorlnr Teorlr obmrr tn it 1
and was washed safely to shore during
tiie hurricane.
i m
II 111 llS I Ml Isl I "Bad busin
IL UuiliEhLlU Thereta
"Camilles" and "The Two Orphans,"
however, show signs of weakness.
'We closed away out on the Coast,"
said another-actor. "1 hat's a riddle for
you to make, the jump from .'Frisco to .
when you're broke. Money i
answer I know. '
business or what? '
any what. It's always bad '
business. - One manager was sauare.
though. He didn t skip with the last 1
I night's receipts, as they generally do.
Over 100 Theatre Companies ;i:trvS
Stranded This Season,
ACTORS TELL THEIR WOES
Their Strategy With the Land
lord and Others.
something, either an engagement or the i
price of the fare east. There was not 1
enough money enough to pay the fare3 j
from Sacremento up, but our manager
was a hustler, if he did have hard luck.
"He found a steam scow that was go
ing up with a load of phosphates for ;
fertilizers. The captain agreed to carry
us up. I was never so insulted in mv i
life as -I was on that trip.'
j This awakened interest. The listeners
drew closer.
i
'Half way up the bay we met another !
. scow coming down. The captain hailed
I us: ;
New York, Feb. 21. The New York j " 'Hello. Cap!' he yelled, 'What yer j
Herald says: i loaded with? j
It's cot so important to know just how ' "Our captain yelled back, 'Fertilizer j
many actors have "gone out" this sea- an.d actors!"' j
son as it is to discover how many have j "Bi" heavens, sir, he might at least j
come back. j have said, 'Actors and fertilizer.' "
The difference is interesting, and this "Probably didn't know any better," '
interesting difference Is strewn all the broke in another of the army of the dis-j
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It's only the fittest who survive to revel
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code of ethics there is no odium attached
to being "at liberty" in tCew York. To
be left in an uncouth and modest coun-
engageu. inese country yaps say in- i
suiting things without realizing it. They
know nothing about the finer sensibilities.
A hotel keeper in Lacrosse Insulted me
this season wihout knowing it. He was
so ignorant, I let it pass.
"It happened this way. I was out with
'The Devil's Joy.' Donald de Lane, who
played heavie3, roomed with me. When
we closed we both owed a week's bill at
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A JAPANESE DEADLOCK.
defect in the law has given rise to a
curious incident in Aichl-kcn about an ir
rigation guild. The Edashita irrigation
canal excavated between Nishikamo and
Hekknl dlstrct has been constructed first
is the private work of one Shinzo Nishi-
zawa, and then as the undertaking of Mr.
Tnkasane Kawamure. The canal being of
great importanct for irrigating the rice
fields of the two districts, the villages
concerned decided to get transfer of the
work from its proprietor, and an agree
ment was arived at between the two par
titas at the price of 150,00!) yen.
The arrangement made was that the
price would be paid down in cash, and
that if payment was not made, interest at
the rate of 12 per cent a year should be j
paid., The idea of those villages was to
organize an irrigation guild as communal
property, the fund to be raised by a loan
from the local industrial bank.
When the matter was submitted for the
sanction of the home office the sum to be
paid to the proprietor of the work was re
duced to l.tJ.OOO yen. The communal irri
gation guild, which has been duly organ
ized, then convoked a meeting to pass the
resolution about this change in the price.
But this resolution has never been arrived
at, owing to the fact thnt though a meet
ing was convoked more than ten times, a
quorum was wanting on each occasion.
1 his has subjected the seller of the work
transfer of his propertyobratthatlrawtnT
to considerable inconvenience, as was
quite natural, inasmuch as the transfer
of his property to the guild had been made Fortieth street corner. "I've been out
on condition of receiving 150.000 yen for it. j -t Lvnne' every season for four-
He applied to the Kencho to have the J teen years and got fine notices. Corn
matter settled, but the Koncho's power I)any always did a big business. Always
is reriously crippled owing to the absence sent a money order back home regularly
In the existing irrigation guild regulations J every Monday. You know I'm very par
of a provision compelling the said guild j ticulnr about those little things."
to pars a resolution. As the law stands, j -wasn't it good this year?"
the K'-ncho has to remain passive, waitim? J .Qootl! my ,iear boy. they just
for the time when the guild is disposed j w1,uldn t have .us. Good company, too.
to pass a resolution, and all that while j j was never ,n botter form Simpiy
the proprietor is deprived of the right of j wouW t have us. Think of it, sir. All
getting oven one sen from the work he J these cnule shows drawing big business
had c,nstiucted at an enormous expense. here in New York. not much bsUer than
This is. Indeed, an extraordinary thing. .- fihftw s!p antl lhev ivnnMn t
is the bitter pill.
To the profession it seems pleasanter to
half starve in the glare of the electric
signs in Broardway than to enjoy a crude
plenty with the deadly dullness of a "one
night" town.
The ladles and gentlemen who have
achieved Broadway are unusually numer
ous this year. Between eHrald square
and Forty-second street the sidewalk
teems with them.
They bring a sheaf of tales ,and they
are all tales of dire disaster. You can
hear enough hard luck stories in one af
ternoon nowadays to make Job's experi
ences seem like a golden dream of joy.
Naturally the raconteurs are in the
humbler walks of the profession. The
big companies don't strand. When busi
ness gets too bad they "close" in a dig
nified and conciliatory manner and the
members of the company come back to
New York on wheels with their bag
gage. Not sb the victims of "the shoe string
manager." They are the ones who count
the ties and prove the assertion in the
song that "it's forty miles from Schnec
tory to Troy."
It is no wonder there is now a plethora
of disengaged actors, for It is a fact that
more than one hundred companies had to
close this season. At an average of ten
people to a company, that means the un
expected throwing out of employment of
a thousand actors, one-tenth of the en
tiro number in the country. '
All agree that the business in the "one '
night stands" has been unusually bad.
Why nobody can convincingly explain.
The country is prosperous; money is plen-.
ty in the rural districts, especially In
the west: there is no political exclte-
n ent and no great national calamity to and 'Lulu' songs and gone in for hymns
distract attention.
Pi'obnbly the business is overdone
worry about your bill but that other i
deadbeat, that other false alarm, has
got to get out today."
"My sister Mae," said a listening sou
brette, "had a hotel engagement that I
wasn't as pleasant as that. She was a j
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when they stranded at Fort Worth. Well, j
If you'll believe me, she had to turn in
and be a chambermaid for two months
before she could get the wealth to bring !
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here in New York now."
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Ohio just before an election was com
ing off. But it was great luck, for we j
caught a political boss and jollied him
until he hired us. Millie and I and the
tenor and bass sang political songs at
the rallies and got ?5 a night each for it.
It queered my voice, though, for we had
to sing at four or five different places
every -night and generally outdoors."
"Henry Rawlins, who went out in a
'legit repertoire did something like that,"
contributed the heavy man. "He closed
in Ohio, too, during the campaign and
got a job to make speeches. It paid
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and nobody cared a rusty cent about
the minstrels. So we just told the local
manager to be as good and shut up his
box office, that we might quit ragtime
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wrecks of "East Lynnes," "Camilles"
and "Two Orphans."
Musical organizations have fared bet-
We volunteered as a revival choir and
made a hit. It would surprise you the
way wp flirted with Moody and Sankey.
I got enough religion that week to last
me the rest of my life. But it paid.
They staked us well and we came home
with our trunks. Never expected to pull
a railroad ticket out of a contribution
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For a!T that, the minstrel was not in
ter for the great Increase in the number high spirits; for on getting back to New
of dramatic stock companies, to the ex
clusion of mrsicnl and vaudeville enter
tainments has given the operatic and
n usic-il comedy shows a wider field to
draw from.
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faced actor, as he got under the lee of the
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York he found there was no call for
black face comedians. Minstrelsy seems
to be going the way of "Fast Lynne."
Among the returned is a juvenile actor,
who, like all the rest, has a tale of woe.
His Is peculiar.
"We closed partly on account of my
dress suit," said he. "Last summer I
was pretty flush, thanks to a good sea- !
son the year before and somo luck at the J
races. So when I got this engagement to j
play leads in a society comedy I dressed
the" part out of sight. Had a dress suit
made by a swell tailor that cost me 5125.
"I wore it in the first act. In the sec
ond there was a rough house comedy
leaps up, stabs me In the back
fall. Then curtain.
'This time I came on as usual. The vil
lain turned. 1 put my hand, back to
draw the pistol but it wasn't thejre. We
both stood stock still.
' 'Great Scott. I havon't got a pistol.'
I whispered.
" 'The property man's on a drunk,' he
whispered.
" 'What shall I do?'
" 'I don't know. Stab me.'
"I haven't got a knife."
" 'Well, choke me.' aald he after we
had stared at each other for a full min
ute. "I couldn't think of anything elso. as we
sprang at each other's throats and began
choking. Talk about Weber and Field's
choking scene, it wasn't a patch on what
wc did. -We choked each other all around
that stago until v.-e were blue in the face
trying to find some way of making a
climax and bringing the curtain down,
but we couldn't. Finally wo struggled
out of the entrance, whero the stage man
ager was hopping up and down and in
venting new and picturesque profanity
to fit the occasion. It waa hopeless. We
couldnt' do anything to save the scene,
and the curtain was wrung down on un
empty stage. The audience thought we
were drunk and hissed us.
"That episode killed the business for
the rest of the engagement, and so we
closed."
Returned managers are not as numer
ous by a very far per cent as returned
actors in New York. Still they are not
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cu.A,w in n irambling room, where the
n-r-ib hold of the tails of my i scarce. They do not get the sympathy
fif- font ami tears them off. For this !
It was successful. j rain ntorm for the disastrous ending of
When the next town was rooched tho . his saoa.
company found itself augmented by the j "I had only sntsJI tswnn fr the firnt
presence of two lan-Jlords. There was no ' week," said he, "a4 dWn't ex poet mueh.
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have 'East Lynne,' that's stood the test.
Remember, sir, 'East Lynne.' Is no flash,
mushroom. Broadway production, but
real dramatic art. sir."
- 'So you closed?"
"Yes. ami we hard closed." When we
engaged we all felt sure of at least forty
weeks. Wo couldn't realize the bad bus
iness. It appalled us. But we held on
river front at Stewart's Landlnc.
a sr.i iM n'.aee just above the City, has
the PTt t of having been recently visited ; vutil there was nothing to hold on to
by a tt'TTific snowstorm. The ground is
white but upon cl examination it Is
fenirul that the whiteness Is not snow,
merely tVathers. and did not fall from the
skle. hut were scattered there bv the
scene I bought an old second hand coat,
cut the tails off and then had them
lightly seweel on, so they would tear off
easily. That was the property man's
business. Ho had to sew them on every
night.
..t-ii htiaini was so bad we decided
to close on a Saturday night. Friday j only.
-, t m nivMit about it that I for- used
ilit?llk a - "
got to change from my good dress coet to
tho fake. When the cue came I rushed
on. the comedian after me. grabbing at
mv coat talis to pull me bsck. They
The company showed great nobility and should have came right off and I have
business tenacity. They sac rifled every- kept right on going, apparently troeon
thing. The watches nd jewelry of the scions that an attempt hnd been made
ir.emlitlrs is now scattered in various to stop" me.
"But they did'nt come oC. The come
dian tugged and yaokpd and I stopped
short.
'Hurry up'. Confound your I said
over vay shoulder. --
"'The comedian tugsed far all he was
worth.
now sadly In need of them in this dlsa- What blank blank huo: eeweu mem
greeable weather.' j The audience began u snicKr.
turn In the tide. Jut enough profit was
left to move and maJte a small payment
on the debts. i
The same tactics were kept trp. The
landlord bogan to take fAld ta tite mat- I
ter and wouldn't give up under any cir- j
cumstanee.
towns in the west. sir. It will be very
hanl of man. The vtory concerning this difficult to collect it. I fear. Various
distribution of down is quite interest- ' articles of wearing apparel are also out
ing. there, such as overcoats and cloaks and
William Karis. a young man who resides ' superfluous gowns and suits of clothes,
a sh-rt distance b:i. k from th river and ! It is not abusir : any one's sensitiveness
is rather well-to-do. was suddenly at- I to say that their rightful owners are
taek(d yesterday by a fit of insanity. '
went to th. -ouse il l labon.visrv bore ! 'Any trouble getting back? ' ' Th situation wa getting desperate.
I ... . - . i I i-.l - J lri run f H ? L' r IT
seen lied ticks down to th river s edse. I A good eteai. sir. iou mos; uaurr- . on . ne firoicu --
Carcfully pl'ttng otn the r ks. on by J stand it's a new experience to me. for , - -Rip 'em ou
niw hr ,-.ttori ih,- r ,-v tii , 1 hiv RlwavR traveled comfortably. Fre- ' "He did.
surface f the water and the surround- quently I have taken sleepers when mak- j "Zipr went the doth. The taUs didn't j
ing 1 itvs. j ing an all night jump. I have found that
Th- .".T Mr att-scteel not a little at ten- j this habit of sitting up all night in the
tlon ! ; feathers are seen ftoatir.s: down J smoking car or evenu dozing on two seats
th iv -r for miles. The health authri- j In the day coach is iaducive of rheums- .
ties .i-e ih'Virg rf ordering all persons tlsm
lobster!" said I.
the actors do. and usually they don t de
serve it.
The theatrical bustr.c? in of a neces
sity a cash business. It is so much of a
gamble that nobody cares to give a man
ager financial credit. The printer de
mands cash. All In advance to be sure,
tut he will send the paper C. O. D.
It must be paid before It can be
The railroads demand cash in ad
vance fr trar.sportatl'Tn. Cash in sIjcj
demanded by tb scene painters, the ctw-
.i.. lords Jo do what they pleased with 1L
does not demand cah in advance. He
waits a week before he expects It. ami
Bat I got enaush V move Um company
Then I w tooofied for r abCNt In n Jfood
city, where I expected to pa off several
kuadred to tbe wood. The pruning waa
ordered sent out a wek ahead. C. O. D,
There was It worth, the !oea4 manager
wotftSa't takA it out and jMie it
Finally, when tbe manager found Mm-! "I get there the Right before thi rhw.
self with four laadtor& oa Mm hit win he
gave up. The situation was too ludtcroes
for him to preserve hi dignity. Ho ottlt
ly pocketed the Ktatbfs reeetv&ft ad as
cuietly took tbe midnight train for Kw
York. He left th coaspany for the laod-
even then he only gets it If the manager
has It to give.
The moneyless manager's life is net a
happy one. He has tales of woe as well
as the actor. Among the hard lock stor
ies now current on the Rialto is one t
a manager who made a cc41ctJoa of land
lords. He bad a run of poor btMiaesa. At the
end of the week there wajr)ut about
money enough to pay the ear fares, but
not the hotel bUts.
"Tou settle op or I send for tbe sheriff
and your trunk stay.' Mkl the landlord.
"Bat exptatned tbe maaager. 'there
is nothing in the truaJca you can real
Ire on and I've no property, so it would
to fUUr w,.;er. as they rot d.njn the
indulgence in cocktails beneclal to the
community Wheeling Intelligencer.
hen cackles and
Why Is it that
r'-ln pines"
Tho new Ocrroan steamship Kilsrr Wil
liam 11 be over TOO feet long and
seventy-two feet broad. The leviathan Is
to have imrTial"' sts of rooms on the
upror im-.n-.cr.adc deck, for whi h JCOOO a
trip will bt- chirxL Thr- vessel is ex
pected tn rn.il' :.ii:i a v.r.:r--irra sp-ed of
tv 'nt. -1 ' kr-'t ar h-uir
The richest copper reclon is that of
Lake Superior, the corrr being all In
the native state. In a Minnesota mine
one mass taken out was forty -five feet in
length, twenty-two feet at the greatest
width, and the thickest par: was more
than eight feet. It weighed about 429
tons and was over ?S per cent copper.
Hew did you get back, then?"
'When we closed thre was nothing left
for railroad fares. The landlord kept the
trunks and "props " I got as far east
as Chicago on freights. There some
friends came to my assistance.
"But." he continued, "there Is no use
trying: to explain it. About every 'East
Lynne company that was out this sea
son has closed. Wh -n 'bey wun'i bare
East Lynne" thcr Is no iel'lag what
will hior-en.
That certainly Is a state of affairs. Only
12 "Bast Lynne" companies have gone to
tbe wall. The bulwark of tbe drama
knocked Into bit? by a capricious pwbtfc:
Old age ' unvenerated and the traditions
of the stago ignored.
What will go next?
Numerous "Uncle Tow's Cabins" are
still out and 'Ten Nights la a Bar
room" Is runnlns a good second. Tin
.-.... nrTm. aiT. bat tUO WBOKS cost
seemed somehow to go to pieces. Part of be useleas to sue me Now if you let as
the back and one steer came away and go on I win be a We to pay you I bear
tbe rest bung In tatters. got a gnod U ta the iwrt
"Of course, tho scoaowas mined aod town, and y. u wJU set your tswoey Toea-
oxpeoarro coat 2 oay. onry rwo w -- '
wt tinf it tit ail. and tM wouid
I was so wad that l won ton t i a
Then j "Sure taing. saw ia
w tbe argument- But J 11 t go Hons;
the next fw and armg
Sae v'-n tbe trouble
when I got off 1 found ray
is to.
: "Mad
! go on and aateh the por:tcaHc. Tnea j
ib man?er a!d I bad tocofce my con- i
I tM .twI that it wa all ar fault and j with
you to
.iaj ?H ccAdoa. e were t toe mooey orck.
going to dose the next ntgbt anyway, j of aewag H. You rats uot bare yoar
but we closed that afatht lastoad. The j eberkbook bandy "
manager still Insists tbat it was all my The manager tamored tbe wSuk asm te
fault tbat tbe shaw burst up.
"1 have no dress suit now." concluded
the Juvenile, and be tried to ssnfle
" "That waxes me think of a bit of bard
rack tbe property wan put up to m on
tbe week w dosed." saM another nctor.
"I was out in a gun play, red are mlo
dra ma. My fcci scene was when I dis
covered the villain robbing the desk of
the jewels. My bustaes was to pull a
rtjvolvei; from my pogket and, iboat aim.
He falls issarectlr dead. As I tars, be
Ko paper up. Local masMgsr badn t
takes it out. Afraid I might not bow up
wttb tbe earapaay. and would:' t rlk h a
Mo, I saJd a fw thtag. an! tbea hun
ttwd. Oct tbat paper out K took my
last dollar) aad oo tbe boards before noun
Half a Uey adortflag mfxbt get gome
They trfd to run th- show, and what, fcted 9t boo?. Th-a it bga to rain.
might bare beea expected happened, j rfe paper wa xB washed off aod ruined
Another manager who took out a cheep I tooWe of aa hour,
priced opera company thinks there Is a "Tbe coaspwoy aamc We played. A
hoodoo" on him. few people wlred bt. My bar erf
"Business bad bom awfuL" ho sued, tbo rceetpti was Thai was the
"Kvery town bad been overplayed. Fh- . cod "
s!!y when I was on ay teat legs aod i Another asaaogar e2gcd leading lady
couldn't bold out another week to nave J priodpolty bcauwr b doycrS a ri"e
ir.y soul. " struck a tows tbax hadn't j r-aOwettoe of iHoiii msV Ifo argue) that
bad aa attraction for a month. ?bn , a time mfcfbl skm wton Ihry would b a
we reached there I found a raUHag btg eosvcfltaK aot. Tbat leadtox lady
advance sale, though tbe woatbor was j ovary -nairo was esiered to. Tbe mass
very bad relay and eofcl r eouMa't fee afar oaougb to her T-n
'WefJ, str. vb-n It eases ttane for the j srwouou tlOH eajjMs aod the dla
Ierformae. ry stagJe oo of tbe wo- resatalooed--t they were
men who bad prtaetpoi paru wa dowa cab riiarm yr Tho auee tbmng that
Kh the grip and unable to at?. Sorwal ! ' to and dfci for that lead
ct tbe rnaa. tootie tenor and lie ooae- ' T are now a very bUter memory
dlaa aaaong otborx. It wa a ragular epi- "rh 3ia-
"But tbat didn't fMe me- The houK j A Kf NDJhiEArT.
wae issefeod. !ore tnaa a thou4 do- The Time wttned xn Iscidsi ye
ters was ta tie box oSr. I put ebercu ty human in Us hara,r a f,
girt, in tbe ftsatfhu; porta and faked e Artirrc Ms hwly eomootoiiot. A well
Aoeae sort of ooorMa- for tbe men. r Mn winaeeoas irsnsr. rugged and
It was clos oa to eight o clock hn w ' rsl. tf, up te rrret ; fc mioe9
v ere ready to go oa aod s ti opera aoarty oppe.lt t Tun' jje Uz
fer a fanbxen. when we fuod tbe nwk x fr Afi-r lyta feU
tetvtur bod not arrloed. He played tie jc fe t-ca to .-cb for a blanket,
jaaoo. tbe ooty acoomaameit we uL ( t.t bad erlratr Jft II &hsl He look
1 fut arousal to the hot. Hi door f t hU brM: a moau aa If is pity tfeat
waa loCfced. Tbey cUmbtd orer the u j--,-, ttazni uoeovervd in th t.t
Mdxed him.
' transom aod onnd hfea on tie b4--dead.
Hear: dloeaoe.
Thus ! gave op. Too ex l book s?
xambHK anytblaig Mho tbat. We rare
bade tho money to tbe amCteM. and
tie eaeoo. JaatMns: to do.
sarcasm arxi agrevo
It turned out tAat the report of a big
rale in tbe swrt town w exaggerasoa.
The tendfert couMa t Bad aoy loo
money at tbe box offlne to sncssfy has
rlalm? Buslne keeg sseootonoa'iy bad-
ant be bad taken a fifty wOo Journey to ; paoonhty I m fnn oo tie torn of a ran
collect tbe bill and be sruc&L 'of good Jock- Msgbt he msde rsaA
Tbe maaagar Ti, btaod aad eoootfc i ft U badsf t ber for thai weak
and eoarlacing te bss talk. At the ad ! jntrL IH newer engage arsotiv-r rnerf
f nrM! H ad ta asme Bne ! oal dreSor wfco twokea Jcareiu- i
of xrsr-rsc-t -ilh lmdiard suwixs rro. j Stfil isather wassjr tilaass a kUA its Uxal so.
bnsaaae mmwiUm
pnnM at m tar eVrovt. xrjr?4
te ooiw bte iUtbul anxcMt. and wet
tes(mtodofcU trUttc Tbat man bat
a fctad boort to bJm. and ti bon- whto
xoed Ms apprecftttjoo t.Vf- Nccii
rWlt) Tim:,
By puttasg aSd their Mt soe the
wabos! &Udrea Cf Atlanta, G, bare
arJ enough to urckaj aa miT-isr.t fur