HIS DIVINITY. Y alt within the cushioned pew, But must confess my thoughts pursue A rather worldly course, in lieu ¢ Of penitential fire, * Yet none within the edifice % In worshiping are less remiss ‘My thoughts are tinged with heavenly bliss, For Nellie's in the choir, A witching figure, straight and trim, She stands and carols forth the hymn, She blushes ‘neath her broad hat brim, To see how 1 admire. 1 wateh her lovely, pulsing throat, Her dimples and her curls 1 note Celestial music to float, For Nellie's in the choir, seems n through the chancel window slips A rosy sunbeam, and it sips The sweetness of her Inughing lips, And never seems to tire, And while the pastor does expound And lull to slumber sc "is love that makes my world g For Nellie's in the choir, — Detroit Free Press. THE ART OF ACTING. antet Alone irs soir 810F7. ht, as he “Hullo, Monty! . exclaimed Frank Kort strolled into the sabout 6:30 one alteruoon, swweryvbody 7° “I can't tell you,” repli “They weren't in ithe know. The house was ha the mining market 1 don't believe I've wade month.” “I never knew half a rough on the dr fo write tCGhantes, give me soe grilled salmon, and lamb cutlets t then; I'll imperial pint of 114 can, please.” Betterton as tl dozen theaters amatie of dram about the or Ofiiine Will these Very well, JOG Con ake long? have some “Going anywhere?” “Ys: bear? of to fi he New Kent road, on care ctalls 7’ amuse you, if you've er bel ing an old-fashioned mu ‘Madrina, Marionot Daughter,’ tive acts an leaux’ “Does it nati dressed 7° ® “Dear, no. Nol “only dressed becan officially.” “Then 1 Is my coffee In half ham fo Come, inquired the sort of a theat ore the in § shall be an hou and Frank Kor “It's the devi Monty af “If ing.” sai a good deal furtl road. 1 shall never sion that a « ertain compan never. It was at at on me theater, Krasno marvelous acti abont Irving i “S¥hat, the South “No. tragedian no; I'm speaking Why, thei the St conld And that as beautiful as ful as Ellen Terry, nality and repose of with the force of Barely 19 years of ag sonally--a most | low comedian of wipe age SW oel Wwe al humor loss Noblet politician in the he took him off vate twice And by the time | finished his company of friend had Castle. They hour iate., Madrina, ti maker's daughter, about to be married to Hans, her fal er's young foreman the villain had entered, accompanied by a shabby attorney, and had informed the assembled peasantry that her father had just been foully murdered. And on this assurance the police were re- Halr tried] to essen his 1 4341 A nel 20 rank Kortright | on desert comedian reached tl wore onls was in | But groom-elect on the capital charge, as, although be had not near the house of the deceased, the knife which did the deed had been found in Hans’ room. An old haif-witted villager called Beppo was exercising confidence in Hans and grave doubts of the villain's been from the andience. And if should ask why this was going on, the answer is, because it was a melodrama. “Who's the chap playing Beppo?’ asked Eraham, presently, “That? Oh, that's poor old Fitz-Gib. boni—Arthur Fitz-Gibbon-—-one of the real old school. He used to be on the Ewestern cireult, as they call it. He's Played all the round of legitimate parts =Hamlet, Othello, Claud, Belphegor. everything, in fact, Isn't it almost in- eredible to think that our fathers and grandfathers actually admired that str) of acting? Listen to his ranting and declaiming.” sald Frank. "You ean hear every word he says, th ough, can’t you?’ suggested his mat- fer-of-fact friend. “Hear It? Yes, I dare gay! In the next street, 1 expect! But that's not the way people talk in every-day Hf, surely. And his gestures! Why, In goodness’ name, is he throwing his bands above his head?” : “I guppose it is because he is appeal ng to beaven,” sald Monty, “Yes, but surely you van appeal to heaven without that! Yf only actors understood the value of repose—of re- pression!” sighed the eritie, making a black mark on his i poor Fitz-Gibbon, “Now, what i that get pald 7 asked Monty, presently “Fitz-Gibbon? Oh, 1 don't know. 1 should think he'd consider himself in { a seventh heaven if to | offer him £4 a week." “But he'd get more than that in the west end, wouldn't he?” “My dear Braham, stand that style of acting in the west We've changed all that, thank I goodness, We've oxterminated the and godfathered a new And vet there are some people program against anyone were we shouldn't end! harastormer | sd hool, who say, ‘What's the good of critics? “An | audience « week, 1 “Oh, at k he has actor who can please a west end an make his £20 or L300 a suppose?’ HAST, more, eal his own.” a theater of “U'pon my soul that sounds very I've a deueced good mind to take in theater myself.” “My dear fellow, fine! a first-rate vided you have ths What Mr I do fur sacre! Kortright meant not know, but that is {wo months later London was »trinmphs of Montague It was lnpos I'he Ont without booking at Yes nm I were senius advance i ai There witit the tion to the anager-noct band of n was called, He had come, he had conquered 1 hen modern ar called tion” It was a strong, was “Dunstan's vith a touch of the supernatural in is needless to give tl is Frank Kort: performance, voung lady who Carrmase natomy knows it fo HIARKR Wis roy all » president of the tion from hed Batter fe gave Joert Plas goers’ { inh called: “How Much Told and he laid the foundation of a new op Newton (Isle of Wight) Photographers and interviewers would Philothespians ham Rovers re to the Should Be in house at camp on his doorstep in order to get a | glimapse of him as he left the house { His photographs filled every shop win- | dow and decorated every boudoir. They | appeared also on soap advertisements, { orders. When there was room in the i daily papers one might occasionally i F acientific advances, But i his habits and ideas. One learned | that he liked best to study his parts “in i the still of the night, when this great | London of onrs is fast asleep: that fashion, with a slice of lemon plain soda water” sketch and play the piano and that sort for such things, That he “still loved to seamper over the hayfields after the hoiinds,” that he was “passionately fond of animals,” and that he first dis- covered his wonderful talent when playing with a favorite wolfhound. “Poor old Conrad! That paper knife was made out of one of hiz pads. | was playing with him one afternoon and happened for a joke to pretend to be dead. Conrad set up such a dismal howl that I knew I was an sector!” Monty was also elected eagerly fo many clubs: but he frequented chiefly his old friend the Betterton, and it was while he was dining one afternoon that an acquaintance suddenly exclaimed | to him: “Iiy the way, Braham, did you know this old chap, Fitz-Gibbon 7” “I'he old actor?” replied Monty, look- { Ing leisurely up from the salad he was | mixing. “Oh, hl | What's happened to him?” “Well. he's dead; that's all,” sald the | other, “There's a short him in this evening's paper. Respectable { representative of a bygone school. A yes: 1 remember notice of favorite with our more easily pleased torbears, and all that sort of thing. He seems to have died very suddenly this morning.” “Charles.” sald Monty to the walter, me my biil and a Bradshaw A few weeks later Frank Kortright received the following explanation of the sudden closing of the Elite Theater which had so surprised theater goers “Grand Hotel, Ay My Dear Frank: It to you might be amused to hear from me why left remember the got Buenos res oceurred me theater and town so You may went to the I closed my suddenly night and we Elephant where wa old Fitz in Well, I went home that nud went thy Cnstle, saw poor Gibbon old-fashioned melo sOe drama, night ough a lot of calculations, conclusion that the and I came to the regular daily hours’ work of Iy too much for any twenty-four a modern successful actor w one man to unde; Ike, 8 i Old Nie nnd hich did £10 a well paid for t Hg eting Ad SRIATY Week myself very Views and soon, 1 h up fora te pilot affected a in sibbon next mannerism’ of dress and wide a great plified the ‘de Hp ression ible” at { MIDE arrangeinent Yh + I r allowed any one to come in dressing room he period daring the » only til NOTHING NEED BE WASTED. Which Broken Glass and Old Bones May Be Put, ork ah hermen a New mas ave for 4ufling | ars York Tinks Empress Josephinds Apprarance, Khe had thin brown hair, a complex: { jon neither fresh por haded, expressive | eyes, a small retrouss nose, a pretty and all | listeners, Nhe was mber undersized, { but her figure was 84 perfivtly pro {| portioned as to give the impression of | height and suppleness ts charms vere scarcely concealed by the clothe {ing made asiit was in the stggestive fashion of tin day, with no | support to the form buth belt, and as | seanty about her shonidrs as it was i about her shapely feet. It seems to have been her eleganee id her man | ners ax well ns her send ality which Bonaparte. for deo { eribed her os having “te calm and dignified demeanor which belongs to the old regime.” £ Long Words. The longest word in the detionn ry is palatopbaringeolaryogenl. "The next longest in transubstantiatifa list, | mouth, a voloe that charmed gli Wore, HT | overpowers Biobbs— "Has Scribbler'snew play much local coloring asd atBosphere 7 SKlobbs “Lots of it; but fading from the opening night, the colorky Is very blue and the stmosphere Hecldedly frosty.” —#hiiadelphia Recory A man who has owned a pido a good many years is amused at the han who is Interested in buying one. | If we were a woman, we mend not consent to wear bloomers uUBless we were xed for it below tite wal SKATES IN ITS FEET. The Peculiar “ormation of a Philae delph'a Duck. : duck luke which will probably prove the only one of dis I'ross re | 1 remarkable in the er hin is class that oy the KNOW Leen Philadelphia ih il Inxuriant that it cover It is a plumage is fill n when spread out, covey feet seven Inches by half, The ing jointed very close to the enables it to MILYN Invge, white whos Mi wot hd roail-glzed pilin wings nn are fot tlire nd WILLE Are very | to bend them in sued rible vy native land it When the «} FTE the fis form in tent In te Storms is finnedn in very nl nud fHNes 118i f the wind His through and cantious duck er above his shivering sleep in pence, Kine snow tind sleet harmless AN ented SOON BURSTING OF A GLAZIER A Frightful Digaster in Switzerland. \ spel og {1 At das Hi i i whi event cattle, place on Septemnb overwhelms, three have esonpusd The loss ership of which was pa stock. the titioned nm the live in families mostly soor, belonging to the village of Leuk, is estimated at SCHOUN, The pastor itself, which for years will now be use so strewn as it is with debris is vaca at R000 bodies of the two officials and two of but condition, about thirty quite The the cowherds in a It them been recovered, hiont ribly mutilated that the sioening in their Luts whose bodies lmive pot yet lave |eCINS disaster overtook while The otha two 1 been we 3 foumd, are supposed to won 3 early for the adi of cows. The rocks cover a spoe o to a depth of many vans the whole sevne being one of indescribable des: lation, Besides the trees in the tmck of the avalanche great numbers have been uprooted by the wind which it produced. Many of the enttle, too, le about in such positions that they mast have been hurled great fhe and miiking bioeks of fallen hoe & f two sq mbes which were foree, make some sort of footpath over the the ordinary ond being, conrse. completely obliterat wl. From old records in Leuk it appesrs that a similar oatastrophe ocenrred at the before the date fixed for the retarn of the cattle to the valleys” i {able temperature. A small fire for fous {or five days heats better nnd with just ns little expense blize commit as i roaring kindled Tureh thie Maturday, ( find fault with on a cold bmilding on often henting Hts day, when the Hiner 1 time it fanit. Then building are Of the fives too, an gradual ntlows than fle £5 i of sudden build ventilation the day before the up od Will Not Borrow Again. Memphis and Rize Ih other's sand roud the Tl mud he The Banana Tree Frade nm Health The furri tirade is not a health one, for ths ire fill thie lives ol the « farriers betten out skins iangs amd thus shorten the Hy workmen This i= not however, with merican ARe fo machinery and improved gsed in this country and better ventila the work shops comparatively free from the in In making many skins are sewed together and th workman not only mast se skill necessary to concesl the nt bw nbie to perfectly thi «Kins extn lish tion serve to Keen the air of inrions dust fur have t ROIS, match 1st several Chicago lax fars wWoines where and Foy pov 2 an a0 Hens ptde, mel the men of the most expert French amd Eng g Ligh furriers, Superstitious Cure for Hyrophobia. —— When a person in the Soudan is bit ten by on dog supposed to he suffering from the rabies the animal ix Instantly eanght, killed and cut open; the live ix taken out and slightly browned by whole of the organ is eaten by the pa . tient, Odds and Ends. | Miscellaneous Heme Union 2°. CL | Black velvet, with white satin lin | ing and white ¢hifon, Is extremely sty. i Hah. | In preparing coroa for use the seeds roasted lke coffer, then ground or : : He JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Seeking information~-Her Periods of Rest--Why He Etopped-~ Dead Easy~--Etec., Ete. BEEK ISG INFORMATION “Mamma, what sou cull that big furkev 7 “A gobbler “Then, is a baby tur) ey # goblet 7 (40 my child » in times, Miss don’t write sn the matler nz with cached and be vii have le vou lay there did ve what a coward he'd be if n when he was down Jao No But 1 had time enough to think what a blame fool 1 was to sirike a man when be was up A BALANCE DIE “Your bicvele is “Yes ; my employer is man.” «1 don’t see what that has to do with its weight” “He has a lien upon it.” very heavy, Allen” a very heavy WHY, INDEED. Young lady (reading aloud from a novel —* Donald gazed at her w th hun gry eyes” Grandmother (interrupting —Law uz! Why didn’t she get the poor fellow some THE LAWS A POEM. Mrs. McSwat (at the front ww sdow)e How beantiful our lawu looks tis even. ing in ite mantle of snow! It's a poem! Mr. MeSwat —1t is. mv anzel, and i swear it makes my heart feel light as alr to see that little lawn armaved tonight in a robe of spotless white, and to think how mower that Mre, MeSwat— | think you're as mean HOW 0 sUCOCRED. «f am rich, very rich, although when 1 “That may be. but those who did busi ness with vou when you commenced had something.” MORE SUITRD 0 THERM, Wagleigh—Men are more inclined to pursue the narrow path than they used t Tagleigh—How do you scconnt for it? Wagleigh—By the bicycle craze. =
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