KOKKItT JOOJ Editor and Trop
VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
Why doesnt that St Joseph man
with eleven wives organize a comic
opera troupe
And now in Loudon they are fighting
the long hat pin The editors dont
eem to be stuck on it
And now scientists have discovered
microbes in ink They should be sen
tenced to the pen at once
Gen Weylers faithful trusty
peedy indefatigable ceaseless eternal
typewriter is still hammering out vic
tories
If as the British scientists say India
is the cradle of the human race Greece
recently demonstrated who could run
with the baby
King Humbert of Italy is described
as a great hunter but he isnt going to
Abyssinia again to indulge his hobby
If he knows himself
Public officials will do well to remem
fcer when the interviewer is around that
an ounce of keep-your-mouth-shut is
worth a pound of never-said-it
A great deal of wheat it is true is
raised on the Chicago Board of Trade
but that isnt a good place to raise it
unless you know how to do it And
who does
A New York young man writes to a
Gotham paper to inquire how he may
avoid the worry of being hopelessly
In love Marriage is said to be a good
cure for that sort of thing
Great Britain would rejoice more in
the fact that we are the two great
English speaking nations if we did
not occasionally insist on making our
English so much plainer than hers
The author of Robert Elsmere
makes great use of the phonograph iu
composing her stories One would sup
pose after reading the average modern
novel that the phonograph made great
use of the authors
The custom of that St Louis hus
band of putting his wife in the ice box
when they quarreled has not the dra
matic qualities of the Chicago plau of
putting wives through a sausage mill
but it is less trying on the wife
The Indian rebellion might be a pop
ular topic of conversation were it not
for the unpronounceable names of per
sons and places that make themselves
unpleasantly conspicuous in the ac
counts of the doings of the rebels
Senator Morgan says he confidently
expects war between this country and
Spain and that very soon Of course
If the Senator has his heart set on Avar
the only thing for this country to do is
to go over and swat Spain a clip across
the face
An exchange says What do you
think of an artist who painted cob
webs on the ceiling so truthfully that
the hired girl wore herself into an at
tack of nervous prostration trying to
sweep them down There might
have been such an artist but never
such a hired girl
The widow of Ferris the inventor of
the great Ferris wheel is reported to
navemiarried a healer Mr Ferris is
not able to turn over in his wheel but
it is possible that hed kick the end
out of his coffin if he knew that his
widows broken heart had been so
speedily healed by a traveling faker
President Faure of France goes
about with a guard of soldiers to pro
tect him from bomb throwers This
may not be comfortable for the Presi
dent but it certainly must now and
then afford the bomb throwers a sense
of amusement which in people who are
not bomb throwers would cause a
smile
There would seem to be some sense
In the application of the X rays to the
discovery of gold in the Klondike re
gion There will no doubt be many
people there who will stand in need of
an X now and then and if they cant
get that a raise for even a smaller
sum will be acceptable
The following sign on a farmhouse
not far from a certain Massachusetts
town is possibly responsible for the
racant rooms and the complaints of
the owner Boarders taken in
George Washington in his best estate
could not have been more truthful
than the author of the sign
The Queens letter of thanks to hei
people for their manifestations of loy
alty upon the occasion of the jubilee
celebration plainly intimates that she
has no intention of abdicating I shall
-ever pray God she says to bless
them her people and to enable me still
to discharge niy duties for their wel
fare as long as life lasts
The New York Times says An Ala
bama poet has written over a thou
sand poems and has never published
one of them Give him a monument
Why The fellow who doesnt print
his poems may be tolerated much more
easily than the one who does The
poet who persists in printing is the
one who should be put under a stone
The bald fact that a large horse of
jnnpreposessinj appearance succeeded
In pulling a pair of pneumatic tires
over a mile of track in less time by one
and a quarter seconds than any other
pneumatic tires were ever pulled over
a similar distance may not at first
blush appear so very important The
majority of people even of those who
are fairly busy could spare the odd
second and a quarter in each mile trav
eled without being sensible of a very
great difference at the end of the day
Even if the old record involved a total
loss of full thirteen seconds per day in
the goings and comings of the average
man still he would have the satisfac
tion of knowing that his tardier loco
motion was comparatively safer This
however is a superficial view and the
fact is that the lowering of the pacing
record is an important matter
No one can have too many friends
One can easily have too many ac
quaintances Avho are glad to call him
friend for the sake of his influences
but these fair weather friends are
not friends at all and probably would
not know you if fortune should put
them where they could gain nothing
in a material way from you The hard
and fast through thick and thin
friends who are friends in need and
friends in deed are the kind of which
no man ever yet had too many They
cannot be bought or hoodwinked
They are tried and true and place the
proper value upon what in life is most
worth while
The farmer that grows wheat and
sells it is safe but the farmer who at
tempts to increase his good fortune by
gambling in wheat will soon or late
curse the day that excited his desire
The manipulation of the wheat mar
ket is managed by some of the shrewd
est gamblers on the face of the earth
They know just what kind of bait will
draw country people into their nets
and they know that thousands of far-
niers elated by their good fortune iu
selling their own crops will be eager
to put their money into the wonderful
multiplying agency that has so enrich
ed certain speculators iu grain Let
all such beware
An English critic says of the Book
of Beauty of the Victorian Era puV
lished not long ago that the most agree
able types are the American ladies
who by dint of dollars have made
their way into the peerage while the
English beauty of the present day
looks discontented almost disgusted
and bored to death because she has
a wearisome sense of the uselessness
of shining before noblemen whose
dreams are all of dollars But what
is to prevent these ennuied English
girls from catching rich American hus
bands Nothing apparently if the
American girls will agree to a fair di
vision
In the State of Illinois one branch of
human endeavor is bound to remain
dry and unnourished howsoever much
other industries may be soaked in the
wave of prosperity This is the crea
tion of corporations The law passed
two years ago has in effect made an
invidious distinction between the poor
and the rich so that nowadays a man
must have at least 50 before he can
get himself created into a corporation
with a capital of 1000000000 or 1
000000000 times that if he chooses
Formerly any tramp with 7 could in
a few hours become a duly constituted
corporation with a capital seven times
larger tnau the Bank of England Now
he must pay a fee of 1 for every
1000 in his corporate capitalization
This of course bears very hard on the
poor Three young men we will say
having accumulated the price of a
months desk room in a small office
desire to be made into a Klondike min
ing company and to put themselves
on a par as to capitalization with the
First National Bank They find that
the fee ruthlessly demanded by the
State would absorb their entire assets
and leace a deficit at least 1000 times
greater than the whole sum of money
they have to invest in their enterprise
Amid the universal satisfaction which
must inevitably follow the announce
ment from San Francisco that the Da
vis will case has been decided it may
be well to supplement the brief press
dispatch with a word of explanation
concerning this peculiar and popular
Western institution Some forty years
ago a bright young man named Davis
went West and laid tba foundations of
the Davis will case which has been
one of the most flourishing and import
ant industries of the trans Missouri re
gion At first like all who depart from
the beaten track young Davis was
laughed at by the thoughtless and
shortsighted But he was possessed of
indomitable courage and of uncommon
energy and year after year despite the
scoffs of the lightminded toiling often
iu hunger and cold he worked on and
on preparing the ground and sowing
the corner stones of the Davis will case
In the fullness of time he died Then
it was seen that he had buiided better
than his neighbors knew Here and
there a sorrowing widow here and
there a batch of sous and daughters and
first cousins and uncles appeared and
season by season even as the wheat
blossoms out iu full head a brand new
regiment of lawyers came into the
scene The courts ground and ground
Decision followed decision until from
Butte Mont to the coast you could not
go anywhere in the dark without run
ning into a large ripe sheaf of judg
ments in the Davis wil case Tjo mag
nitude of the growth may be gauged
from the simple fact that th j annual
report of the Northern Pacifiy road for
1S93 shows that 14G7 of the entire
freight revenue and 4392 o the entire
passenger revenue were derived from
transporting law books and affidavits
and decisions and lawyers and witness
es and plaintiffs and defendants con
nected with the Davis will case
FRAYNES FATAL SHOT
American Parallel to the Recent
Shootiutr on the German Stajje
The conviction of a Gorman expert
marksman in a Berlin court of the
crime of pandering to the public lust
for excitement was the result of an
accident almost identical in every de
tail with a tragedy that occurred some
years ago in this country About six
weeks ago in a Berlin music hall a
marksman attempted to shoot an apple
from the head of a young girl He had
frequently accomplished the feat be
fore with success But through some
inaccuracy in aim the bullet instead of
passing through the apple struck the
woman in the head and killed her in
stantly He was sentenced for this to
six months imprisonment There was
no charge of negligence or criminal in
tent So the charge that he had at
tempted to pander to the public lust
for excitement was invented to fit his
case
The victim of the American tragedy
was Annie Von Behren and the man
who shot her was Frank I Frayne
who when he retired from the stage
had made a fortune through his expert
ness as a marksman For many years
he had traveled through the United
States acting in a play called Si Slo
cuin It was a rough-and-ready piece
devised chiefly to exhibit his skill in
shooting and in the management of
wild animals He carried a whole men
agerie about with him and this method
of exhibiting his talents had been
adopted after an unsuccessful career
as an actor His wife Clara Butler
who used to sing in his plays and act
the part of Mrs Slocum was for a long
time the woman on whom his feats of
shooting were tried One of the best
known of these was tnat in which
standing with his back to her he shot
an apple from her head and as in the
story of William Tell this incident was
a crucial one in the play When his
wife died a young Brooklyn girl
named Annie Von Behren took her
place in the company The apple-shooting
feat was successfully continued for
three years It was done every night
and frequently twice at the many mati
nees given in the cheap theaters at
which Frayne appeared
Toward the end of November 1SS2
the company reached a theater in Cin
cinnati known as the Coliseum It had
been opened only two weeks when Si
Slocum was acted there On Thanks
giving Day there were more than 2000
persons in the theater at the extra mat
inee The play progressed to the scene
in which the apple was to be shot from
Mrs Slocums head The apple was
placed on the girls head and Frayne
took aim and fired As they heard the
crack of the rifle the spectators saw
Miss Von Behren fall to the stage with
irspot of blood on her forehead The
actor turned and seeing what had oc
curred ran to the spot where the girl
lay and fell fainting by her side The
curtain dropped immediately and the
manager appeared before the curtain
to announce that the play would be
brought to an end immediately Some
of the audience had supposed that the
scene was a part of the play But it
was soon whispered about that the girl
had been killed The holiday crowd in
the streets heard the report and before
long several thousand people had gath
ered in front of the building although
nobody knew certainly of the tragedy
nside
The girl died within a few minutes
after the bullet struck her over the left
eye Frayne who was frantic with ex
citement was locked up The apple
was four inches above her head on a
hat and the accidental use of a defect
ive cartridge was the cause of her
death Frayne protested that there
was no danger in the backward shot as
it had repeatedly been done without
serious results The coroners jury re
leased him and he declared that he
would never shoot again But after a
brief retirement he returned to the
stage and acted in his drama for nine
years longer although he never re
peated the backward shot with a wom
an and indeed abandoned the play in
which the accident occurred
It is said of the German that he was
about to marry the girl he killed and
the same story was told of Frayne and
Miss Von Behren ne died about six
years ago and the shock lie received
when he killed the girl is said to have
impaired his health seriously
The shot that killed Miss Von Behren
seems to have had a fatal effect on
plays of this class Twenty years ago
they were highly popular and they
continued so down to a very recent
date But they have almost wholly dis
appeared from the stage now New
York Sun
The Fraternal Orders
The recently published statistics of
the fraternal and benevolent associa
tions of the United States present some
facts that may surprising to per
sons who have never looked into the
subject The total membership of these
orders is 7350000 of which number
about 1000000 are Free Masons more
than 800000 Odd Fellows and about
500000 Knights of Pythias The rest
are scattered throughout many organ
izations the best known of which are
the Ancient Order of Foresters and the
Ancient Order of United Workmen
The size of this fraternity army can be
better appreciated when it is consid
ered that at the last presidential elec
tion the total vote cast in the United
States was about 14000000 scarcely
double the size of the fraternity mem
bership
The development of these fraternal
and benevolent organizations has been
largest in recent years because of the
extension of what is known as the sys
tem of sick benefits Members have
been guaranteed a certain means of
support in case of sickness and a pro
portionate return in the way of life in
surance for the money paid in when
they die and these features have serv
ed to popularize the various oraers to
an extraordinary degree In this re
spect also the organizations have been
ox marked benefit
The aid which is given to members is
in no sense a charity and does not de
preciate the recipients self respect
while at the same time the public is re
lieved of many ourclens which would
otherwise be imposed on it These or
ders in caring for their sick and provid
ing for the families of their dead are
really doing much of the work that
formerly was done by the church only
they have enlarged this work to an im
mense extent They are wholesome
factors in every community and be
sides the direct financial benefits they
distribute they exert a moral influence
which cannot be overestimated
DANES IN AMERICA
Tliey Are Induatiious Economical
and Make Good Citizens
The State of Iowa has one Danish
settlement of 5000 people says a writ
er Most of these Danes have been In
the country less than twenty years
Many of them came without a cent and
hired themselves out to American farm
ers
It has been an interesting study to
watch the steady rise of these young
men some of them in time buying their
employers farms In Jackson Town
ship Shelby County within a radius
of about two miles can be found five
farms of 200 or more acres each be
longing to Danes who twenty years
ago were considered very poor In the
settlement are a number of Danish
farms of over 500 acres each When we
consider that these men came here un
able to speak our tongue unfamiliar
with American customs and laws un
used to the products of Yankee inven
tive genius and withal lacking the al
mighty dollar and the Danish krone
their success must be declared phe
nomenal
The secret of their advancement
seems to lie in their unceasing industry
and rigid economy Every nook and
corner of their land is carefully
vated Unproductive points and
ridges upon which so many farmers
shower nothing but curses are treated
to load after load of fertilizing ele
ments Nothing is wasted Sometimes
however this spirit of thrift reaches a
degree not sanctioned by asthetic
ticulture On a certain road leading1
through the settlement lives a man
whose home life seems to be no less a
glad sweet song from the fact that
his front yard is planted to onions
No less rapid lias been the reward of
Danish talent engaged in pursuits oth
er than agriculture Every town of
any size in the district in question has
flourishing stores managed by Danish
merchants Nearly all trades have
some Danish followers Many of our
teachers are Danes or Danish-Americans
the county superintendent of
Shelby for example a graduate of
the Iowa State Normal School being
a Dane
As regards good citizenship no fault
can be found with the Danish people
They are a thinking class as a rule
and know something of current events
and the issues of the times The aver
age Dane votes as intelligently for a
member of Congress as he votes for a
member of the Danish Rigsdag As to
party allegiance the Danish voters are
almost evenly divided between the
Democratic and Republican parties
There are also a few Populists among
them
Naval Mishaps
We have a good navy and we do not
appreciate it As a matter of fact cas
ualties to our new armorclads and
cruisers have not been particularly fre
quent when their size and their number
are considered In this country everv
trivial mischance is caught up and ex
ploited by the sensational newspapers
but nothing is said of smilar accidents
in foreign navies Barring the destruc
tion of Admiral Kimberlys fleet by the
Samoan hurricane in 1889 which no
skill or foresight could have prevented
our naval service fr many 3 ears has
been remarkably fixe from really seri
ous disasters
There is nothing in OMt 1 words to
compare with the capsizing of ihe Brit
ish frigate Captain with half a thou
sand men in 1870 or the fatal collision
of the British ironclads Vanguard and
Iron Duke in 1875 or tint of the Ger
man ironciael Kaiser y ilhelm and
Grosser Kurfurst tho year followug
when 300 men perished or the loss ot
the British training ships Euryelice and
Atlanta in 1878 arid 1SS with C00 01H
cers sailors and apivviiiici boys or the
sinking of the British flagship Victoria
with Admiral Tyron twenty two offi
cers and 30 sailors by collision with
the Camperdown on June 22 1803 in
the Mediterranean or the wreck of tha
Spanish cruiser Reina Regente on
March 10 1S95 with 420 officers and
seamen
The list of minor acoidents to foreign
naval vessels in the past few years
would be too long to enumerate But
the standing of the Llritish ironclads
Howe and Anson the flagship Am
phion and the cruiser Sultan were far
more grave affairs than any such acci
dents which have occurred to any of
our own heavy vess is within this pe
riod Wo have had our fair share of
troubles perhaps Liu no more than
that
Circumstances Alter Cases
Doctor Are you wealthy enougn
madam to spend the summer in the
upper lake regions
Madam We have a very small in
come sir
Doctor On closer examination 1
find that yours is not a case of hay
fever but only a bad cold in the head
Detroit Free Press
Beatitude
How do you like your wings
The angel with the baby stare beam
ed radiantly Very much she re
plied They rustle almost exactly like
a silk petticoat Truth
IN A COATING OF ICE
V Flock of Fowls Entirely Encased
in the Crystals
The Last Three Soldiers W H
Sheltons story in St Nicholas contains
many unusual situations that develop
from the unique plot Three Union sol
diers who are on a mountain top in the
South cut off from all communication
with the rest of the world lead a regu
lar Crusoe existence
On the evening of the fourth day the
thaw was followed by a light rain
which froze as it fell and developed
into a regular ice storm during the
night When the three soldiers looked
out on the morning of the nineteenth
they found their house coated with ice
and the mountain top a scene of glitter
ing enchantment Every tree and
bush was coated with a transparent
armor of glassv The lithe limbs of the
birches and young chestnuts were bent
downward in graceful curves by the
weight of the ice which under the
rays of the rising sun glittered and
scintillated with all the colors of the
rainbow Every roclc and stone had its
separate casing and every weed and
blade of grass was stiffened with a
tiny shining overcoat The stalks on
the plantation stood up like a glittering
field of pikes
Despite the difficulty of walking
over the uneven ground and the slip
pery rocks they made their way not
without occasional falls to the western
side of the plateau to observe the effect
in the Cove Philip was in raptures
over the prismatic variety of colors
picking out and naming the tints with
a childish glee and with a subtle ap
preciation of color that far outran the
limited vision of his comrades and
made them think that Sherman Terri
tory had possibly defrauded the world
below of a first rate artist
As they turned back toward the
house Bromley remarked that it was
strange they had not been awakened
as usual by the crowing of the cocks
Indeed the stillness of the hour was
remarkable It was strange that while
they had lain in their bunks after day
break they had not heard the cocks an
swering one another from one end of
the plateau to the other
Usually they heard first the clear
ringing note of some knowing old bird
burst loud and shrill from under the
very window and then the pert reply
of some upstart youngster who had not
yet learned to manage his crow drift
ing faintly back from the rocks to the
west then straightway all the crowers
of all ages and of every condition of
shrillness and hoarseness tried for five
mortal minutes to crow one another
down and when one weak far away
chicken seemed to have had the last
word another would break the still
ness and the strident contest would
begin again
In leaving the house they had been
so enchanted by the hues of the ice
storm that they now remembered that
they had not so much as turned their
eyes in the direction of the mill When
they came upon the brow of the hill
which overlooked the mill which was
a silver mill now the limbs of the
trees which stretched along the bank
beyond were crowded with the fowls
at least four hundred of them sitting
still on their perches Philip who fell
down in his eagerness and rolled over
on the ice remarked as he got upon his
feet that it was too knowing a flock of
birds to leave the sure hold it had on
the limbs to come down on to the
alippery ground
As the soldiers came nearer how
trver they noticed that their fowls in
the sunlight were quite the most brill
iant objects they had seen for their
red combs and parti colored feathers
made a rich showing through a trans
parent coating of ice which enveloped
them like shells and held them fast to
the limbs where they sat Whether
they had been frozen stiff or smoth
ered by the icy envelope they were
unable to determine but they could see
that all the fowls had met with a very
beautiful death except Ave or six of
the toughest old roosters who had
managed to crack the icy winding
sheet about their bills One of these
who had more life in him than the oth
ers made a dismal attempt to crow
when he caught sight of the soldiers
coming to the rescue
Queer Justice
It is not to be expected that perfect
justice will be done under laws that
are made and administered by imper
fect men
In Arizona says the Philadelphia
Inquirer a man was sentenced to pay
a fine of ten dollars or go to jail for
ten days He had only three dollars
and the court accepted that sum in lieu
of three days imprisonment
By some carelessness on the part of
the jailer however the man was kept
in jail for the full ten days Naturally
t made objection and demanded re
press to which demand the court re
plied that it was no doubt just but
there seemed to be only one way in
tvhich it could be granted If he would
commit a second offense he should be
sentenced for ten days as before ariu
then be allowed a three days discount
or rebate
The Grand Banks
Gustav Kobbe writes an article enti
tled On the Grand Banks and Else
where for St Nicholas Mr Kobbe
says
The Grand Banks of Newfoundland
are the great fishing ground on this
side of the Atlantic Other fishing
grounds near these are Western Bank
and Quiro but all the year round you
will see vessels on the Grand Banks
If you have ever crossed the ocean on
a swift liner you will have noticed
that when about two da a out you ran
into a chilly fog You were off Cape
Race Newfoundland crossing the
Banks It is usually cold and foggy
there and in winter f reouent gales and
snowstorms add to the dreariness and
danger
Western Bank is near Sble Island
a long sandbar off the coast of Nova
Scotia and an ocean graveyard liter
ally strewn with wrecks The English
Government placed a flock of sheep
there because there had been instances
of sailors wrecked on the island stavi
ing to death but the sheep died The
island was too barren even for them
A herd of ponies was tried and these
hardy creaures flourished but became
in time so wild as to be unapproach
able and a shipwrecked sailor hardlj
has the strength to scamper after 9
wild pony Now however there are
several lighthouses and life saving sta
tions on the island and in the spring
innumerable gulls nest in the sand and
lay their eggs In May it is not un
usual for dories belonging to the West
ern Bank fleet to get lost at least for
a while for the gulls eggs are good
eating during that month I once asked
an old fisherman if he had ever been
on Sable Island He told me he had3
landed there once when hed been lost
in a dory
How did you got lost I asked
On purpose I guess he an
swered
Needless to say it had been in May
CZzzL
The title of Mrs Cragies new novelV
is The School for Saints
The American Monthly Review of Jft
views is the new title of the pcriodTVl
edited by Albert Shaw In course of
time it will doubtless come to be knowm
more briefly as the American Monthly
John Kendrick Bangs is now viceH
president of the Yonkers Board of Ed-
ucation and to the duties of this o oj
he devotes a large part of the time leftj
from his writing and from golf ini
which he is an enthusiast
The most northern paper in tho world
is printed at Godthaab in Greenland
and is called Laesestof It is a mission-
ary sheet made for the Eskimos andf
lias been the means of teaching many
of them to read the Danish language
The third and last volume of the new
London edition of Burns works has
now been completed by W E Henley
and his collaborator Mr HendersonJ
Included in it will be an essay on thej
genius of the poet by Mr Henley
A new element has been introduced
into the problem of the origin of our
cats by the discovery in Brazil of
tortoiseshell wildcat of which the later
Prof Cope had the only known musen
um specimen This animal will be de
scribed from Prof Copes specimen ini
Appletons Popular Science Monthly
by William H Ballou
Four OClock has a new fund of light
short stories after the graceful model
of those of its editor Charles Fletcher1
Scott The art work from the poster1
on the cover to the last pasted in tailJ
piece is remarkably good Gibson
never made a more graceful and effec
tive picture than the one by
eon entitled And Then Broke Down
The magazine shows many signs o
prosperity and if its founders do not
make the foolish mistake of changing
its character in imitation of something
else they have every chance of holding
permanently the wide patronage due to
the novelty of their enterprise
Jim the Penman
A few months ago a Chicago man
who has written a play called upon a
New York manager at a Chicago hotel
and sent up his card The theatrical
man received him very graciously and
the Chicagoan said he had a play
Avhich he would like to have the Gotli
amite consider
Sit right down and read it to me
now said the manager This was done
and at the conclusion of the hearing
the New Yorker said that he could not
see enough in the play to warrant him
in producing it
The Chicago man expressed his
thanks for the courtesy of a hearing
and added that he was somewhat sur
prised to find a New York manager se
easily accessible
Well said the Gothamite I make
it a point always to dip into every nlay
which comes along sufficiently to leai
its possibilities at least I had an ex
perience once which taught me a les
son I was in London one summer on
business and as I was about ready to
return a theatrical broker handed me
the manuscript of a play and asked rat
to place it for him if possible in Amer
ica He said I might have the Ameri
can rights for 500 and he would give
me 10 per cent commission for placing
it
I threw the manuscript into a trunk
and when I reached New York handed
it to a well known manager and asked
him to look into it He soon reported
that the piece was absolutely worth
less Of course I gave the matter no
further thought I tool the manuscript
back across the water next suninier
and surrendered it
But a year or two later the author oC
that play produced it in London and
made a hit The very New York man
ager who had indorsed it as absolutely
worthless secured the American right
by cable and for many years paid thou
sands of dollars for the right to present
Mini the Penman in this country a
play which was offered to me outright
for 500 and which I never even read
Since then Ive been reading- plays
Chicago Times Herald
In the Trolley Car
T e Fat Lady sweetly Beg
don I Did I sit on you sir
par-
The Lean Man crankily Ypu did
madam
The Fat Lady bridling Oh well B
dare say you needed it Puck
When a man gets a job after loafing
a long time about the first thing he-
does is to monkey around and see iC
hfe cant lose It