"CLOWN AND FAIRY. This little tale opens in the year 1839, in the month of December, It was a tempestuous month, the snow falling fast and thick, and the howl- ing wind laid it up in all kinds of fan- tastic heaps in the thoroughfares of old New York, for it was old even then, nearly fifty years ago, at a time when Forty-third street was mn the country, when stages started from Cortland street for Philudelphia aud Barclay street for Boston, the latter taking their route along the old Bos ton road, which coursed its way aloog where Harlem is now, a thrifty inhab ited district. In this month of December, 1839, the talk of the town was the Christ- mas pantomime at Niblo’s Garden. Vauxhall Garden, then at the corner of Third street and the Bowery, had no attractions ; its music hall and lit. tle summer alcoves were bathed in snow. Castle Garden, with its con- certs, opera and fireworks, was cover. ed with the white robe, and the Zoso- logical Garden in the Bowery offered little inducement pleasure seekers. for the holiday Niblo's with its pantomime was the rage, and sensa~ | tion of the hour. Even “Jim Crow Rice,” that in the height of his fame, sank into insignificance at the ap- i proach of the “Christmas pantomime” | years. : { mance on the opening night. | submitted, lying there on that little l inodels in his bumble home in Thea- { bed, thinking of the spavgled fancy voice call out “Father!” It was walked in the direction of a small, clean, Lut scanty bed in a corner of {the dim room: On it reposed a fair young childish girl of about niuve A pretty child, with dark- | | {brown hair and beep blue eyes; but | | her pale fac: slightly tinted with hec- [tic flushed cheeks, and the short, dry, { hollow cough that came from the [some fatal illness had fixed it grip up- on her, “Do you feel better, Rose?” asked the clown as be bent over the bed and affectionately kissed his oply child— his daughter. “I've had you excused from any more rehearsals, for the management koow you are perfect in your lines, | theatre when the night comes, in a carriage, and keep you nicely wrap- ped up from the cold in the streets, and the draugtsin the stage.” The child pleaded bard to go down to more rehcarsels. She really liked what she had-—great talents for the stage, and she knew-—young as she was that it was the season of the year | when her trebled salary, for evacting “The Speaking Fairy,” so greatly ad- ded to her father's income, but the | clown stoutly protested against her | going to the theatre until the perfor- So she dress she would wear, hw nice she t graceful throat, denoted plainly that I'll take you down to the | For days before its production the | The scene painter, the stage carpen- ter, property man, prompter, snd even manager acted upon his saggestions, sought his device aud obeyed his or- The outside world kuow little of the clown’s labors—the constant rehearsing over and over ders, again of what at the nights performance cause “roar of laughter,” which on this wide cold, gaping stage in the day-time is | gone through y in a formal, mechagical far from leap through and flats, are {chanted cars, manner, being “funny; windows, hanging tricks tried many times; en are made to rise easily through trap doors to ascend into the regions be- As Halliday was naturally clever in his low the stage: we before said, | business. For this particular panto- { mime he had invented a new kind of revolving star, which inthe last scene —lighted up with closed—fires would revolve, then open in its centre, show- ing the fairy, who, with wavering wand, would speak “the tag” or clos- ing lives that brings down the final curtain. Halliday the whole year working almost secretly | upon his revolving star, | on those days, the first of its kind ; It had been cost him many soxious thoughts day (and night and withjnis limited income { he made and studied from little rough |tre Alley. No inventor of the most | complicated piece of mechanism could clouds, flying palaces | It was there | | recovered, | | hears the plaudiw, but a thrill of then he arose from his papers and | clown worked hard in the theatre | agony passes through him, a cry of | despair escapes his ligs as he sees his | chid totter in the narrow suspended space—sces her convulsively clutch one of the invisible wires attached to the piece of painted cloud work. Luckily it was the end of the scene. In the excitement and buzz of noise the audience did not notize what the the father aud those ou the stage did, | aud as another scene was ron n, shut- | | ting out the moving cloud, th 'y ap plauded the yreity sight. With tears and convu'sive sobs the child fell into her father's arms, and was borne to her dressing room. “My God! look to her well until | | get through,” said the clown, as he | kissed the cold, pale face, und in a | few moments more the comic scenes | were over. With a nerve and power { ful effort the clown dashed on the | stage almid tumultnons applavse. | The Merry Andrew had come at last, Men, women snd children—the old and young—roared with laughtter ai his antics. The pantomime went ou w—laughter reigned supreme. The barlquinade was a panorama of fun, and the clown was irresistably comic. | Joy was in hundreds of hearts before { the footlights, anguish and wretched: | ness in that of the performer, who was | the principal in creating the laughtr {and joy. To him it | murdering effort to be funoy. | | | | | was a terrible of stoves, ranges. heaters, ete. as general hardware, in Centre In the meantime little Rose partly | She was alarmed at what | wee N OVT1CR- id heraby given that application will be made to the ( or of Pennsylvania, 1OVern- December 31 st, 18K5 by Chs, F. 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Those who have dealt with us is, and always hs been “as low as the lowest" class of RO le, of its endles mass of large and lest in the | “The Fairy's Realm of Everlasting little past; but now, in this cold December | Bliss.” She thought of all ropes, month, they united with the young to welcome the clown, with his gibes, | his gambols, his songs and his flashes of merriment that would “set many s | table on a roar.” Theatre Alley was situated in the ! year 1839, as it is now, in the rear of Park Row. To-day it’s a hive of in. dustry; but half a century ago it was | a nest of tenants—an ill-paved, ill- lighted abode of misery. In a room at the summit of one of these houses, a room somewhat bare of furniture, | | | | | } but a neatoess in it that Be ae dppearance of genteel poverty, Jack Halliday, the clown, a demure f, of about forty Bal grave looking man On the table before him were He and years. spread sundry sheets of paper, was intently scanning them over, at times crossed out certain lines words, or inserted others with hi 3v the aid of the light from the dim candle one could read on these papers First Comic Scene aker's and Un- dertaker’s Shops; Old woman w ir baby to come ou left; man to chang into skeleton, to come out of upderta- ker's; boy with trick bread to come on right ; butcher with basket and leg of mutton in it; fop with a split 1.6% Wal coat; man with dummy head, look out for Harlequins leap through uadertaker’s window ; pull down flap; gone to kingdom come ; look out for Pantaloon’s leap; pull down flap when he's through the window ; “old enough to know better,” stand up for clown’s leap ; when he's through pull down flap. “Too funny for a corpse” ~—crash—noise—a rally—mob-—fight —send everybody over—plenty of fish, carrots, turnips, etc., when stage cleared, whistle on scene second. N author ruminated more over his man. uscript than did Jack Halliday over those papers; he altered them again and again with as much care asa Cabinet Minister would in drawing up the draft of gome State papers that might decide the fate of Ministry ~—~what Halliday, the clown, was ar ranging would in a great measure, decide the fate of the great Christmas To read tences he wrote, to look at the festival the funny earnest expresgion of the writer's to cast a glimpse around the room in the dim light, spare of furniture as it was, with its plastic walls decorated with cheap pictures of bygone har lequine, pantaloons, columbines, sprites and clowns, pres nted a weird and grotesque picture. Halliday, the jester, was preparing and arranging in methodical stage business “the comic rcenes” of the pantomine, which in the old genuine pantomine days was eorely under the inventive genius and management of the clowns. Bo absorbed was Halli day in his task that it was some i before he heard a low, clear, musical this as | pieces of painted canvas, | the manager or {then called she watched the clow.s’s anxious face as he once more sat down cogi- | | tate upon funny characters with fun- | uy dressings for the comic scenes. J R. Halliday, except during the | | reign of pantomive, was in the theatre almost a nouentity; he was only, un- | til that time, “captain of the | supers,” or a small “utility actor,” or a “copiest,” at the beck and call of promptor. People him Jack. The knew him not, and the leading slar man, the heavy man, the juvenile man, the Old bY ir- Christmas comedian, nick-named him ick.” round and the pautomine was But when Came being wepared Halliday became a wan preg 3 { Of importance. He was then Mr. Jobo Halliday. His salary was large, he was “the clown are turned central figure, the brig star. The barlequin may dau in his varigated dros fuily irip ad umbine i ting wa { pantal , his paints vears ago—with his Codlings” and “T Hal 1839, came to th land. From} a pant ymimist, is Jack laday, a few vea s country fi iis very boyhood | His wife dyis after his arrival in New York, he fizht of life that which is necessary for the merry An. ne chil ] -R ye LW the no accomplishment but left with his { as best he could battle with drew, he invented many “tricks,” many new stage devices, songs characters, leaps and mechanieal changing scenes, and the daughter Rose developed into a | child Kean precocious but clever With | the elder Booth, Cook, and Forrest she was (requently ‘the I'tile “The a page,” one of the children in pri Richard ITI" and other infant imper- She Stranger,” or one of th in sonations. WAS a favorite with the public—her beauteous face clear delivery, winsome ways and this she \ . graceful form made her so. In pantomime al Ni) Carden had a very importani role the g od fairy” «=in the opening, and at its close she had pretty and important verses lo speak, The bills announc~ “Mile. the beautiful young prodigy, and so the reader will understand that “the clown and the fairy” were of some im- ed her as Rosa Hallendiui, poriance during the merry season, { The poor child was very ill, more so (than the anxious parent imagined, for the fairy concealed much from | him, showing as she did how intently { bis mind was fixed upon his clownish | duties, aud how roy wiong about her | would confuse and upset him, In his line he was famous, for | blocks, wires everything is in ite {place in working order. Crowds ‘stand in the snowy-cold, windy-icy | weather to read the bills, with their synopsis of the piece, the name of the the amusement of his | pranks, his capers and his songs, that altracts the Hirst attention, and then lin prominent letters they read of ‘‘the beautiful, bewitching Mlle. Rosa Hal. { lideni, the charming yousg prodigy, clown and engag »d, regardless of expense, for the Fairy Queen.” the dazzling revolving star of haunt of wis, sh Ps, Mention is made of ed eaverns magic places, abodes nymphs, the regions of s and well-known streets)” with “The Fairy Realm | Blea.” The pantomime is on alm eading Everlasting wit ber sa wilh i uttered 1 sue aw rd an air of gaye Ihe father's child oreign to ber feeling | ' WAS pleas d, bette cart for the looked eyes sparkled and there was ¢ or in her cheeks ; but all this apparent nly caused by hi when beneficial change was the excitement of ur. It was 3 k 4 coaut d ; about seven J'llo up { house in the alley drove to the t of Halliday's With his up, child carefully wrapped be, in com- pany with a woman neighbor, carried her to the vehiele, and soon it reached the stage entrance of the theatre, The father goes to his dressing room to put on his paint and fantastic dress ; the daoghter is led to hers to assume her thin, white, spangled, fan flesh-colored tights. the and father cy dress Could that struggle going on in his young child; of the efforts to that have known remember her lines and maintain quiet composure and smileing manner so necessary for her large, sudience, full of joyous anticipations, part, the jovial, merry that packed the building would have seen no “mirth provoking clown” that night ; but he was ignorant of it, for 1 the brave young « hild knew if her. /a. | ther had been aware of her sickness if would unoerve him, aod that 4 s0éne would follow. The Tinos, verture ceases and the curtain The sudience are charmed with the beautiful scenery, the dresses and {the dazzling lights, and they applaud liberally ; but there comes long and { loud cheering as the golden clouds are slowly lowered from the “flies,” for on {it stands Rosa Hallindeni, looking [the pictare of fair loveliness, The | anxious father stanning in the wings, { ready “made up” and waiting for the FV O00 sCoues,” 1eully Waluues her ; | bis heart throbs with joy when he W forward to se the climax of success it self. She was still weak and feeble {anc able to appear and her | ¥ioes lo the star at the | proce, | speak close of | . . | the last scene bot one goes oo; Wis a | dwrk one; the fon is over; busy hands | are setting the last grand scene ready bebind. | the huge silver star that occupies the Rose is carfully placed cestre of the stage—and closed in il - the dark front scene. hae received his magic wand, With Fone thé Clown had stolen from him. dark are a wave of his waad the vanishes, Colored fires fairies are glididg about io silver grot. 1 are un 4 i He ue opens. The win SIET re- s deafep- | 5 | Ay 1 i ee Lhe Fairy Wueen 100K lilnl, 8 veiv, in amine § of diff anging ures of qi Ti Harlequin, Columbine She assured ber father she was better, the | Leaving his child to the aid | of kind friends behind the sceme, the! | edown’s heart is once more full of hope; | a— : | Read the Sworn Testimony and Satls- in | Harlequin | which | burning, gi See the Champion Lamp, | World. — — Fall an winter woolens just receiy ed. Leave your order mow and money. Mosroonsxy & Co. — Subscribe for the Desocnar. A PLAIN ROAD TO HEALTH. fy Yourseif. |THE HOWARD GALVANIC SHIELD. +, HOWARD VAnNIe SHIZ taloon and Clown form a group; | vain to hear he still The leader of the knows that something is wrong ~ er but they wait in i f th words of Fairy, RB motionless. { his mugicians strike up a load jovial | tune, as the Clown with a cry of de | spair falls on the stage. | The curtain falls, the vast ) ‘ ] { leaves the building, their sides aching with laughter; they remember him for | days, and children dreamed of him { and the lovely little fairy “The Fairy { Realms of Everlasting Bliss.” { That same Christmas { Halliday sat Theatre | Alley beside of | pretty child a heart broken man. night Jack in his room in the dead body his In the old church yard that once | stood near Second and Houston street was a small slab rising from a small ‘mound of earth and on it was the in | seriptoin “Rose Halliday,” and there | for years a man bearing upon his fea- tures the stamp of care and He was clown who lost his little fairy in the "might at times be seen. “Realms of Everlasting Bliss, ——— WT A PAUSE LL ERRAIRT WITH A Deacon in a Weastern town 1e | cently died. His pastor soon paid | a visit of condolence to the bereaved |. Rhea pand the minister if he would like to see the rauorsl wreath, | He assented, She led him to | much prized momento, and pointed {out its peculiarities. In a broken voice she said : “The red flowers were { made of his red flannels; the white ones of his white flannels, The stamens were made of the coffin shavings, and the pistils of his beard. The berries | and buds were made of the pills that { were left over when he died, and the | featliery part was made of the feathers | widow. of the Inet chicken dear James killed i this sle vas bkon ill, Al al 1 withoat a pause for breath, i LER band throng i by misery | the | the the | « | { 11€8 | an a. 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