THE OTHER ONE WAS BOOTH.
Now, ly the rood, na Hamlet soft, t
(rruv uip mr lo aajr
The KlnifH In not n nnoi; It tvn wlirn I
wiii tvotit to piny. i
'Tla trno Unit trrlnrc, lnr old ohnp, ntl'.l
KlY"1" n ili'ci'iit ulioiv, j
Ami Nliiimilvlil niul thuiir Wlllard roa 11 nrt '
the bHt thiy know: )
'Tin trim Huso and llornlinrdt, for tvo
mustn't Ik too linrd.
Are vrr.r fiilr, for woim-n. though of course
liny oiiKht to Kimnl i
AgnliiHt Nome bad nrt-tendoncles; uiul n
for nil tho rent,
Ther'a linrilly oiik, I inny Hoy nonp, who
tnniln thi nrtlMt'n trst.
Truo nrtlxta nro a rnrr, rnre breed; there
Mere lint two, forwiolh,
In nil my time, the xt Hire's prime; nod the
other one "its Iluotli. ;
Why, Mn I inenn Mncremly lint we nl-
wiiyn rnlleil Mill Sine;
And old Ned Forrest nseil to any, or no
they oner told .luck;
Or, thnt Is. Jin k Mft'nlloiiKh, well, this In
whnt they snld:
There were but two who renlly knew how
Mhnkesiieiiro should be rend.
They didn't menu the younger Kenn or
Juek; niul so It wns perhnps i
It enused n little Jenlousy iiiiionif the lesser
rhnps. j
They snld thnt t.nwrenee llnrrett wns en
titled to respeet. I
And ns for Tom Kulvlnl, well, his iIiiko ,
dlnleet !
Would never do for Rhnkespearc; so, to tell
the simple truth, ,
There were only two men lu It; nnd tho :
other one wns Booth.
Don't think conceit Is In me tongue: 'TIs
soiiiethlnir I detest; I
But I may sny thnt In me dny I've figured
with the best. !
Why, Kalamazoo, nnd Oshkosh, too, nnd i
Knnknkee its well,
Went fnlrly wild, nor mnn nor child stirred .
when the enrtntn fell.
The N. It. o. wns Imtiir ench night; our
show wus such n iiiro
They took the ushers otT the floor nnd ush
ered from the stage!
From Klsslmen to Snu Loueo, from Nnwr
lenns to Duluth,
Just two stnrs hit n little bit; uud tho
other one wus booth.
I liked Ed Booth, for be was such n royal
hearted fellow.
We never had a Jealousy. When he put on
Othello
His Ingo was much like mine, likewise his
singe direction;
But whnt enred Kd what critics snld, since
I innile no objection?
Ah, me! That dny Is past; the piny has
lost Its honored station;
Who rends aright rage, sorrow, fright or
trnglo desolntlon?
Aye, who can reach to Hnmlet's speech.
To be or not to bo?
Or shrieking SIncbeth "Never shake thy
gory locks nt me!"
Or Lunr s appeal; "o, let me not bo mad,
sweet Imavens, not mad!"
Or Hliylock'a rage: "Mi have ma bond?"
Ah, me; It makes me sad
To think It nil. nnd then recull the drama
of mo youth,
When there were two who rend lines trues
and the other one was llooth.
J. Edmund V. Oooke.
CHASED BY DYNAMITE.
The uiiKlnwr loamil back contented
ly In Ills cab nnd lit his pipe. Tho -x-lrcss
was thirty minutes lute, and that
meant a very acceptable rest for the
crew of the local freight, which took
the siding at this point to penult the
pusseiiKcr train to pass.
"The nlr-brakes on freight cars are
great tilings, Bill," ho ejaculated, n
he watched the ilrenmn rake down the
ashes; "bents all what a help they nre
In holdiu' n heavy train on a down
grade. I saw a time once when I'd
have given a pile of money if there
had beeu such a thing then, and 'twas
right ou this division, too."
"Let's hear about it, Pete," said the
fireman, putting the poker away nnd
chipping off some hard tobacco for his
corncob.
"It's a good while ago now," the en
gineer answered meditatively. "I svas
ruunln' a pusher between Conemaugh
and Cresson, helplu' freight and coal
trains up the hill. It was Just after
the strike iu '77 when the boys raised
Cain, and the causo of thnt strike, if
you'll remember, was partly on ac
count of the company cuttlu' down the
crews and doublln' the runs. Now-
ndays, with box and coal cars fitted
with air, n brakemnu more or less
don't make much difference, but then
very man counted, and when they
dropped a chap off ou these mountain
runs it made the rest feel shaky, for
there wasn't enough men left to tend
the brakes.
"One night it wns our turn to assist
what was known ns the I'nn Handle
freight up the mountain. We started
out from Coimmaugh about 11:'M push
In' the train, which svas made up of
about ten cars of hogs, two box cars
nnd fifteen or twenty four-wheel coal
cars 'Jimmies,' we called 'em. The
lxx cars were at the rear; that is, right
lu front of us. We made pretty fair
time up to South Fork, where the flood
broke afterwards, you know. Then
the engine in front began to steam
bad, and svhat with us pushin' hard
nnd it pullln' by flu, 'twasn't long lie
fore the cars svere bumplu' nnd Jerkin
pretty rough. Then 1 saw the conduc
tor eomlu' back hard ns he could.
When ho got within henrin' he yelled,
'For God's snks stop that butnpli)'. We
have two cars of dynamite in tho
train.'
"Did I stop it? You better believe I
did, and mighty (pilck, too. I blowed
for brakes and the engineer iu front
answered, and ns the grade there Is
about eighty feet to the mile we soon
stopped. I sent my fireman forward
to tell the other engineer to try and
get his steam gauge ti), and that I
- isn't goln to bump myself Into eter
nity if 1 knew it. After he was gone
I discovered my water svas low and
concluded to run back to n stand plpo
about half a mile down the track to
till the tauk. So, cut tin' the coupllu'
myself, I dropiH'd down. I found
afterwards the crew didn't know I
had gone nnd had failed to put the
brakes ou the last cars, thlukln' my
engine would hold 'em.
"I hadn't more than got alongside
the pipe than 1 caught a glimpse of the
tail lamps of the train coinin' lickety
split towards me. I knew nt once
what had happened. Tho train had
broke In two and part of It was ruu
nln' wild down the hill. That ofteu
happens, you know, nnd there ain't
much danger lu stoppin' the wild cars;
all that's necessary belli' for the engi
neer of the pusher to run backward
slowly, bo as to make the bump when
it comes easier than If the engine wan
stopped.
"But you can bet I wasn't hankerln'
lo stop two cars of dynamite that svny,
and when I saw 'em conilu' I didn't
Ktop nt the pipe, but kept on goln'. My
old ptusher Jumped, uud then lit out
down the hill. Jlmlny crickets, how
i-!n was a huuimln' iu less than a min
ute, while the runaways svas chasln'
us hell beut. Scared? Well, meblm
1 wasn't, though It wasn't long before
v.-. i begun to gain on the cars nnd
I;;ive llieui further behind. IOi'd! how
the little drlvln svheels of that old
p islier did hum,
"All this time I svas thlukln' and
thlukln' lmrd ns well ns fast. I know
that beln' on the enst-bound track 1
night loi u slap bung Into a train coin
In' up nnd what svonld be left after
that wreck svonld be blowed to King
(loin t'ome when the dynamite arrived,
lit a case of that kind u man's got fi.
think and act mighty prompt, mid It
didn't take ine long to form a plan.
I hail a good half mile lead then nil. I
steadily galnin', uud if I had wanted
to could have had time to stop, crawl
behind a lock up ou the hillside nnd
see the biggest display of fireworks
ever known when the dynamite knock
cd the engine Into sinllhereeim.
"But 1 conjured up a lietter scheme
than thai In less time than it takes to
tell. About three miles furl her down
was nn abandoned coal mine, with a
siding connecting with the up track.
If 1 could reach it In time to throw the
switch the runaways could be turned
off and do little damage beyond de
stroying themselves. (tn the other
hand, if the night express should be
near, nnd I knew she was about due,
I he coin v'luonces would be horrible 11'
J failed. Had predicament, wasn't If
But, as I said, iu s'.iili cases n man's
got to decide quick, and 1 made up my
mind to risk it.
"I pulled the throttle wide open nnd
fastened tin- whistle rope so as to keep
up a steady blowm'. Oreiit Moses,
how we spun down that grade! All
the time the lamps on the runaways
were twInUlIn' In plain sight, nnd 1
knew the cars must be coinin' n-svhls-zln'.
Wo passed a train goln' down
on the other track, and, although it
was makln' pretty fair speed itself,
the engineer told me afterwards that
I slid past him like ns If the devil svas
ehasin' me, and svhen, n minute or so
later, the cars came along like a comet
he thought 1 svas a goner sure.
"Well. I reached the sldin". nnd by
usin' sand and reversin' got my engine
stopped. Then I Jumped for the
switch. It svas rusty nnd beut, but
fortunately not locked. I gave It n
terrific Jerk, got it turued nnd then
run ns hard ns my legs would carry
me. I was too busy gettin' out of the
svny to svatch for the cars, but 1 heard
'em coinin', and 1 remember thinkiu'
that If they jumped the switch and
kept on down the main track it would
n't be my fault.
"Then there was n crash nnd a shock
svhlch seemed to come out of the sky.
I svas knocked head over heels by the
concussion of the nir, nnd svhen 1
crawled up on my feet It was ralnln'
pig. Fact. The sky svas full of ready
made sausage meat. A car of hogs
had broke loose svtth the dynamite,
and, of course, svent up svhen It ex
ploded. Spare ribs nnd pork chops
fell nil over Cambria County Unit
night, nnd a farmer llvln' near the
railroad got three whole hogs out of
the tops of pine trees next day. I svas
so sseuk I could hardly roach my en
gine, but I managed to get her side
tracked and out of the way Just as
the express came along."
"How did the company reward you,
Pete?" asked Billy, as the engineer
knocked the ashes out of his pipe.
"I.inid me off n month for leaviu' the
train without notifyln' the conductor."
New York World.
A Momentous Time.
When Mrs. Spudklns called on her
friend Mrs. Dlnsmore the other evening
she could see at once that something
unusual svas about to transpire. The
latter svas dressed In her very best
gowu, nnd she bravely tried to repress
the tears thnt came Involuntarily as
she smiled upon her little daughter,
and tried to make the tot happy in u
hundred ways that only a mother
knows.
"I want her to remember mo ns she
sees me now," said Mrs. Dlnsmore. "I
want her always to think of bet
inn mum as handsome and ssveet. For
this reason 1 have arrayed myself lu
my very best before I change my
clothes and go away from her."
Here the mother wept, but svlped
a way the tears ere the child saw theiu.
"Mercy!" cried Mrs. Spudklns, as
the nuise carried the child away,
"what is going to happen? Are you
going to India as a missionary, leas'
lug your family here?"
"Oh, no!"
"Are you going to the hospital to die
of an Incurable disease?"
"No."
"You haveu't got a divorce svlth the
child given to the father?"
"Oh, no!"
"Then why these tears, nnd this
solemnity of farewell?"
"I am going to take my first lessons
on the bicycle."
A llcgiiltitor.
The Chicago Tribune says: A watch
man, who lives on Clark street, has
Invented a patent compeno-retarding
accelerating clock for use In families
where they keep unmarried daughters
In stock. If the young man is of nn
eligible sort the retarding attachment
Is turned on and the clock combounds
svith old time nt eighty minutes to the
hour, so that at 1 A. M. the next morn
ing it only Indicates about 11:05 P. M.,
the night before, and the young wo
nian Is perfectly justified in saying:
"Oh, don't; it Is early yet," when tho
young man reaches for his lint. Ou
the other hand, If he should not be de
sirable, they Just shove up the indi
cator to boiling point, nnd by U:!U) It
is nearly J o'clock. The patentee, cast
ing himself upon the generosity of a
discerning public, Invites patrons to
increase the etilcleuey of Ids Invention
by Judicious yawns or remarks, as
"Dear me! how the time does fly!" and
In extreme cases an admirable effect
may 1m.' produced by the father com
ing in with a bedroom candlestick nnd
saying; "Good-night, Amanda. Before
you go t bed see that svhen the girl
gets up lu tho morning she leaves out
tho milk pitcher." No family should
be svlthout one.
Ancient Records Translated.
In lKiKl, when Humboldt was In the
City of Mexico, he collected a number
of the ancient Mexican hieroglyphic
svrltlugs called "Maguey paintings"
svhlch were bequeathed by lilm to tho
Berlin Boyal library, and recently in
terpreted by Dr. Seler, curator of the
American department of tie Ethnolog
ical Museum, Berliu. They comprise
accounts, lists of temple tributes, frag
ments of court trials, particulars of the
royal domain, articles of faith, the Teu
Comma ml incuts, and so ou. The rec
ords cover n period from before the
Spanish conquest to the year 1571. The
results are published lu a hook of 137
pages octavo. Loudon Globe.
Cupid dehumanized is ap angel
THE WAY TO A MAN'S HEART.
One SVomnn ltenelips It Through Her
Husband's Stomtttlt.
"I suppose," said a clever little wo- 1
man the other night at the play, "that ,
I get to go to the theatre more than
.my woman of my ncuualntanee, mean
being equal. You see, It's this way.
One night John wanted tno to go to
.he play, nnd, of course, I accepted,
Tor 1 dearly love tile play. After the
theatre svas over John svns steering
mo straight for the restaurant. 'No.
John,' said 1 firmly, 'we can't nfford
It. The play svas treat enough. Let's
be sensible; we had a good dinner, and
we tire not starving.'
" 'OU, hang the expense,' said Mr.
John. 'We might as well round off
svlth a bit of supper.' But 1 wouldn't;
as John says, '1 stood pat.' We svent
on home, nnd my man wasn't lu the
tiest of humors, for svhen n man Is
hungry he doesn't think much of the
virtue of economy. In fact, he said,
ly my plgheudedness I'd spoiled nil Hie
evening, and he'd 'be ding sipilxzled'
(whatever that may menu) If he'd take
me out again In a hurry. 1 kept my
temper, us 1 was grateful for having
seen so beaut 1 fid a play as 'Old Home
stead,' nnd said nothing," says a writer
lu the New Orleans Picayune.
"Well, when we got home John threw
the bedroom door open svlth n bang,
and there In the middle of the floor
was my sewing table svlth ns dainty n
lunch as one could wish. We had bud
a leg of mutton for dinner, nnd I had
shredded down some of It, chopied tip
a collide of shallots fine and added two
cold potatoes cut Into dice and covered
the svhole svith mnyonalse made after
'Catharine Cole's' prize recipe. Then
there were a few olives nnd some
dainty slices of bread and butter and
bottled beer. All on a svhlto cloth with
chairs drawn up, nnd ns cosy ns could
be. John was simply delighted. Since
then he often asks me to go to the the
atre, for he says he can stick me for n
supper thnt tastes better llian nny hot
bird nnd cold bottle that he could or
der down town."
"What else do you have for those
suppers?" Inquired a curious wife, who
had never had the happy thought of
playing hostess for only her husband.
"Well, one night I made before start
ing nnd I never let John know svhnt
we are to have a nice dish of oyster
soup. 1 sent for fifteen cents' svorth of
oysters and five cents' worth of inllk.
I took the juice of the oysters, scnlded
it, added the hot milk and finally
plumped the oysters In. I had season
ed It svith plenty of butter, popper and
sauce. Then I poured It all Into a
yellow bosvl and set It away. That
night svhen we got home I doused it
all Into i saucepan nnd heated it up
over our grate fire, put some broken
crackers In the bowl ond poured It
over them. It made ft tip top supper
for poor people, svho In going to the
theatre want to eat their enko and
have it, too.
"And do you know, while I think It
must be very well to go to the Pick
svlck, or elsewhere, for the hot birds
and cold bottles, 1 think John and I
nre Just ns well off svlth our mayon
naise de uiouton, or our pig's feet uud
our oyster soup uud beer at home."
An Astounding Echo.
At Mme. Arabelle's the conversation
turned upon echoes, and a lady In the
company declared that she knew of
one that repented a sound nine or teu
times.
"Pooh! that Is nothing," said the Mar
quis; "1 have an echo that can beat
yours Into fits."
"Impossible!" said everybody lu
chorus.
"You can put It to the test If you
like."
"Very well, sve svlll step across to
morrow to hoar for ourselves."
"Yes, come svlthout fail," and so
saying the Marquis took his departure,
meditating a little scheme of his own.
Ou reaching his mansion he sent for
his lackey, Saucho by name.
"You are up to all sorts of tricks, old
chap. Do you think you could manage
to play the part of an echo?"
"Certainly, my lord; you have only
to shout 'Ho! ho!' and I repeat the
same."
"Very svell; to-morrow afternoon you
shall go nnd stand In that clump of
trees behind the lako nnd repent thirty
times any call that you may hear,
gradually losverlug your voice; but
mind mum's tho word!".
Next day his lordship's friends came
trooping into the park. Sancho svas
at his post, pricking up his ears. "Now,
ladies and gentlemen, your doubts svlll
soon lie dissipated," said tho Marquis;
"will you be the first to try the experi
ment, niadanie?"
"No, thanks, Marquis; your voice Is
louder and more effective for the pur
pose than mine."
Whereupon the Marquis inflated his
lungs and culled out ut tho top of his
voice:
"Are you there?"
To svhlch the echo made nnsss'cr;
"Yes, my lord, I've been here a couple
of hours!" La Fanielle.
SVlicre n SVImle l li 1'InIi.
A conflict between the methods of
the Seattle Custom House nnd the
truths of natural history arose recently
over the question of the amount of
duty to be imposed upon an article Im
ported from China.
The goods in question are iu voiced
under a name no one but a Chinaman
can understand, but are nothing else
than the flesh of the whale put up lu
cans. George S. Bush, the broker svho
entered the goods, wanted them classi
fied as canned meat, but Deputy Col
lector McDonald insisted upon classi
fying them os canned fish. There Is
no dispute about the goods being
canned whale, but an attempt to con
vince Deputy Collector McDonald that
a whale svus not a fish met svlth the
response:
"Uegardless of natural history, for
Custom House purposes a svliale Is a
fish."
Tho duty on canned fish Is 5 per
cent, greater than on canned meat,
and an appeal will be taken from tho
classification. Seattle Post Intelli
gencer. lloth Looked lllile.
"Have you seen Mrs. Fraukstown
lately?"
"Yes; saw her yesterday or the day
before, nil decked out lu u new suit of
blue stuff of some kind or other. Look
ed stunning!"
"Have you seen her husband lately "
"Yes; saw hlui too."
"How did he look?"
"Oh, ho was blue, too." .
That Ming Sough
if allowed to run, will destroy the lining to
Throat and Lungs, weaken tnc system and
invite the Consumption Germ.
Scott's Emulsion
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and soda, builds up the system, overcomes
Chronic Coughs and Colds, and strengthens
the Lungs. Physicians, the world over, endorse
it.
SCOTT'S EMULSION It the moit nourishing: food known to
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Butter per lb ,2b
Lggs per dozen 18
Lard per lb
Ham per pound
! Pork, whole, per pound 07
Beef, quarter, per pound, , . . 06
i Wheat per bushel
Oats "
Rye " "
. Wheat flour per bbl
i Hay per ton
Potatoes per bushel
, Turnips "
Onions " "
Sweet potatoes per peck 25
Cranberries per qt, ,
Tallow per lb
Shoulder " " '. .
Side meat " "
, Vinegar, per qt
, Dried apples per lb
.12I
.iaj
to .oif
to .08
.70
.40
65
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Dried themes, pitted
Raspberries
Cow Hides per lb
Steer " "
Calf Skin 40
Sheep pelts
Shelled corn per bus,
Corn meal, cwt
Bran, "
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Middlings "
Chickens per lb
Turkeys " "
Geese " "
Ducks " .
Coal.
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" 4 and s " 3 50
" 6 at yard 2.25
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