'•$&& THEATRICAL EPISODE. returned to the stage. When the witches and almost religious. They are not fiends, 'That scene is not a success," I remarked a almost devise beauty, in his smftev AMJCmr BAKKB. but spirits." vanished, a resigned, tolerant expression, when the curtain fell. "I is too much even His figure was shadowy, too, but the heavy half amused, half interested, came over his Your witches! The phrase was curious. for Irving." place1 concealing cloak was gone, and in its face. watched the next scene leaning Could the man, after all, be a foreigner I Dare I say XXixer ofDo*gh Strike* the LonisUim State W must rather blame the playwrignt I dimly saw the outlines of an Elizabethan back in his seat quietly and keenly observant might account perhaps for his pedantic English. No spirit ever brake the band there, not the player," replied the stranger Lottery for tli* First Capital Pria*. dress. While I stood motionless and awestruck of every detail, but evidently regarding Tha stays him from the native land, audaciously. "It is a bad scene. I contains the tones of his voice fell on my ear it as a business scene which must be got With a check on the New Orleans N a a gWhere first he walk'd when claspt in clay? "True," I answered, returning to his good passages, but it is carelessly put with something of the deep solemnity of a through with patience. Now and then a Bank for ?15,00O. Eugene Chretien, ,Tr.,^ •Tennyson. tra ot thought with something of an together. I is well enough in the reading, far-off passing bell. slightly satirical expression mingled with effort "but what seemed weird about the walked out of the office of the Loueiana Stated but it acts badly." paused, then added I the lives of many of us there come "You longed to-night to see the William the look of pleasure, but a flash of sympathetic witches in Shakspear's time strides us now Lottery Company last "Wednesday, as a to himself with a deep sigh of longing: "If ••occasional periods of soul-deadening mo Shakespeare you have loved so well, and I interest crossed his face at the burst as grotesque, and for us the comic element and contented as a mortal can be. onlyXcould rewrite it!" ,„ aiotony, when oppressed and wearied, we came in answer ten your call. I is the first of clapping which greeted Mr. Irvings appearance tenas to destroy their supernatural and Chretien was a journeyman baker, employed lose faith in our own better nature and apa time that the cry of a human heart, with as Macbeth. Interest, however, poetic force." in his father's bakery, No 287 Bour-bon to ourselves incapable of deep or sincere its earnest faith, has been allowed to reach soon gave way to astonishment, and then to "In Shakspeare's day," returned my companion Street. He a son-in-law of Chas. Fetter feeling for any one or anything. A such me for nigh 300 years. I thank you, critical consideration. This quiet, thouerhtful musingly, "so much more as left the barber, No S13 Royal Street, and in friend!" times, however, we are not so callous bnt Macbeth, with his restrained speech and to the imagination. It needed no greater company with his father-in-law hf presented »that we are further tormented by an aching My brain grew suddenly clouded and my guarded, almost indifferent, manner, was effort to fancy that a player arrayea in ticket No. 42,758 at the office of longing for some excitement, if even a painful eyes dim a faint deep sigh sounded in my evidently a new idea to him, and not altoether every-day Elizabethan costume represented the lottery company and was promptly paid ears a touch, gentle as the memory of a one, which shall prove to lis that our a pleasant one. Once or twice, ineed, a witch than to fancy that he represented the amount it called for ($15,000) it having beart and brains are only dormant, and not "vanished handV" rested on mine an instant, he frowned and shook his head impatiently Macbeth. W gained in poetic freedom and then 1 was left alone in the darkness. drawn one-twentieth of the first capital prize obviously he was more surprised something of what we lost by the lack of dead. With those who, like myself, are of $300,000. than pleased. properties. Some imaginings are too intangible •condemned by necessity to distasteful taskwork, Chretien purchased the ticket for $1 last A the opening of the fifth scene, however, to bear the realization with which you while endeavoring in their spare Monday morning, and the next day, to use when Lady Macbeth is discovered reading mod3rns seek to endow them, and these moments to master some art which shall Concerning Watermelons. the language expressed by him to a Picayune her husband's letter, his pleasure was such witches are a case in point, I find it hard to deliver them from, the daily drudgery, these reporter, found himself in a very fine condition Good sound a ©racked, as a man's face shows but once or twice in conceive them better presented, but they periods of deDression are only too frequent. financially. He acceptB his stroke of a life-time. It was scarcely pleasui'e rather are a failure notwithstanding. Their dramatic in a a place, will I am a young man, cursed or blessed, I good luck complacently, and says be is going it was that grateful joy which comes of effect is enfeebled by overrealization." •liardly know which, with I believe some re or four weeks. a a a well-nigh hopeless dream unexpectedly to put it to good tisb by investing in some slight literary faculty, and burdened cer-taioly kind of business. He hardly believes he will fulfilled, For an instant, and an instant In Shakspear's day You moderns! This a a to all winter, with too much ambition. I am attached only, the sensitive face flushed and quivered, ever mix dongh again, not at he considers man seemed to have a strange power of to the staff of a London paper, and he fruit re a not the eyes filled with tears, and the head himself too well-bred, but he feels at he casting his thoughts backward. Hi point .a alone and almost friendless in a strange was dropped to hide them. Then the swift can afford to give way to anyone else who as a a success of Som of view, his speech even, had a flavor of St, city. JViy work supplies me, indeed, with the emotion was mastered, and the stranger, may wish to take the cak°—from the oven.—• 300 years ago. Fo an instant I wondered -wherewithal to live, but leaves me little proposed to do it by varnishing- he once more leaning eagerly forward, watched whether he might be some enthusiastic New Orleans (La.) Picayune, July 20. time or energy for indeDendent and more with passionate interest every slightest Shakespeare scholar with a mind unhinged outside, so as to he air. artistic creations. movement of the actress. Lady Macbeth's by too much learning. Bu his thoughtful Some months ago, after a long spell of Blank is a artistically barbaric dress, with its mixture eyes and quiet manner obliged me to repel A Contemporary Set Right. Biard work at the office, I had at last an eveHung of many-colored, jewel-bespangled draperies the conjecture at once as an unworthy suspicion. HE SAXK BACK COVERING HIS FACE. dealer in a at 27, off. I had tired myself out by added glittering and changing like a chameleon This was really going too far! unreasoning From the For Worth (Texas) Gazette. jhard work for my own ends at homa work N River says at he best way to in the firelight, gave him great enjoyment. reverence for this man was great, "Bu what do you think of the mounting accomplished by a delicious though exhausting watched her graceful movements aud but my reasonable reverence for Shakspeare a melon all winter is to it in H^ of the play, so far*" I asked, more he a go O an re it excitement which I fear does not often listened to her voice with the undisguised, was greater. to make him speak again than because he re it will not freeze. attend my journalistic efforts. The inevita reverent admiration of a child. at the he so to be or to "I would be sacrilege!" I exclaimed. I doubted what the answer could be. recreation from all this, capped by retpeated fatal invocation beginning, "Come, you N a as a to "Do you expect, sir, to succeed where a a a in of a in I as "It is perfect!" he sad, with a depth of disappointments in the failure of my spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex Shakspeare failed?" feeling which surprised me. "Three hundred a all he a as a more artistic wares to find an appreciative me here," the admiration faded and an inscrutable a of a he A faintly quizzical smile gleamed in his years ago Shakspeare had dim, halfrealized expression took its place. Repulsion publisher, had plunged me into one of my a speculation except at a eyes a moment. Then he answered composedly a a re at a visions of some such setting to his blackest fits of nervous depression. A and tender pity, pleasure and pain, plays, but he longed in vain for the power few a occasionally been in cold were strangely mingled in his glance. It to an to -such times one is apt to be possessed by did not fail he was careless. Did I to fulfill them. Imagine his sensations if wa3 an expression 1 could not tathom he morbid fancies, and what I am about to relate storage and once in a while a garden say if 1 could rewrite it? I meant Shakspeare, a a is a A a he could be here to-night!" seemed body and soul given over to the play, may appear fantastic, yet it is an un-embellisbed of course." "Yes, indeed! I was just thinking that raises a few in a for the lishe in a to at a re to be and to see behind and beyond the action record of facts. More than All through the play I was struck with before the play began, and idly wishing it something to which the rest of us were this, it was to me an experience which at benefit of those do not like anyin he of it a re a a his incessant and almost childish delight in were possible." blind. When Macbeth again entered, approval he moment lifted me out of my miserable every detail of the scenery and of the stage "Ho do you know the wish was idle?" at is got in he a way. be careful a in was for the first time mixed with self-absorption, and will remain with me machinery generally. was delighted said my companion gravely scanning my the interest with which he watched him, .always as a blessed and happy memory. A on dealers he belief is he re a as a by Colone with the admirable management ot the face as he spoke with one of those strange and in the great scene of the wife's ascendancy In my fits of melancholy I generally re-sort witches' cauldron and the apparitions, but widespread at he fruit is good for a a a a a glances which set mv nerves tingling and over irresolute husband both actors to the restful sanity of Shakspeare by after a moment of surprise he was my heart beating. There was no laughter evidently completely satisfied him. Whe id troubles he effect upon he he a in an ad a re •way of a mental tonic, but to-night 1 was amused than impressed by the chorus of in his eyes, and I could not even smile at the curtain fell, and they appeared in answer aihcapable even of that. My books and my witches and spirits, who sang "Over Woods, he a it of in he his rejoinder. I -felt embarrassed and perplexed, kidneys is almost as quickly percepti to the applause which broke out at the bright fire and comfortable arm-chair had High Rocks and Mountains," to Sir Arthu and it was a relief when he looked end of the act, this strange being made no in a a a in a in ble as at of a a a while to the mo attractions for me. I was restless and Sullivan's music. away and spoke again in his usual friendly, attempt to ]oin in it. He merely leaued Tinhappy, unwilling to stay at home, longin Colone a as a fevered to he taste is as delicious conversational tone. "That is pretty but it is not suitable," he back contentedly, and, dropping his head, for the companionship of friends far covered his eyes for a moment with his said, in the tolerant tone which was apparently "Your Henry Irving is a great player," fellow, ad as at of an a I is of the uta -out of my reach, but with no desire to seek frequent with him. hand, as if tired with excitement he said, with an air of purposely changing those near at hand, and altogether out of he a it of in it at melons should be "No, it is too like a transformation scene the subject, "but he does not give us Shakspeare's lramov and out of tune. Finally I wanderout at a pantomime." When the music began again he lifted a himself, a he a he re a cenception of Macbeth until the last free from cracks soon of doors, determined to go to some face that looked wearied with too much A pantomime?" he repeated wonderingly. scene of the first act. A the beginning concert and soothe my troubled nerves with a a me re a after a melon is cracked it begins to happiness, and his eyes met mine once "Wha is that?" he is to caim and thoughtfuL Before the music A times, however, fate, or whatever more. Instantly that unwonted nervous in is he of ^^ar^WMv crime Macbeth is something of a swashbuckler, I hesitated, unable to conceal my surprise. get sour. it may be, is too strong for the obstia tremor and unreasonins desire to go to him taking no care to hide his feelings. Was it possible he did not know his a a re me felhe will. Once out, an irresistable impulse re a re various a of telling a seized me again, and I half rose in my seat is physically brave, but a moral coward, eyes were fixed inquiringly upon mine, and, overmastered me, forcing me to give of is me in in obedience to a blind instinct. Annoyance with strong passions aud no great intellect. evidently puzzled, he waitad for my answer. good watermelon Som people ^up the concert and go and see Macbeth. I at my own weakness, however, and The clever man yon player makes a a in he Colone a in 3»ad a vague feeling that if 1 resisted the can, by pressing the sides together, shame at the completeness of my self surrender, him would never have allowed Banquo A pantomime?" I said at last, rather at impulse I should bo haunted with life-long off ad W S a a re he gave me strength to resist the impulse. to divine how greatly the witches moved a loss for a definition. Why, a pantomime a in a good, sound, ripe melon, regret, and I yielded to it, not without some With an effort of self-controlt so him." is a—a children's play—all scenery and spectacle is to a to a a a peculiar sound of crispness like at anental protest, for I had seen the play seva desperate that it left me faint and trembling, fi and dancing. Generally they are spoke with a certain authority, as if a on Colone a a times already. The interesting questions I sat down again and turned my eyes founded on fairy tales." of celery. a gives these there could be no appeal against his criticism. raised by the novel rendering of it at away from him. Bu my strange sense of "Ah, possibly a kind of masque?" he said, in he a id a In any one else this would have annoyed directions a he on on its he Lyceum had led me to go often, that I physical attraction toward him increased appearing to understand at length. Then me, but this man seemed to know a he to to might judge for myself between the old in spite of myself, and turning again to he added casually: "You must remember back, belly up Yo can tell he belly, how to dogmatize without offending, and I yield to it, I found him suddenly standing and the new heroes. that I am not acquainted with your modern in a it in he assented without mental reservation to his a it is white or of color With the undeserved good fortune of a beside me. terms. I have not seen a play for nearly dictum. a of a he as Sate arrival, I found a seat in the front row 280 years. Things are greatly changed an he rest of he melon Scratc I said, "he is rather too self-con- •of the dress circle, rather to one side A it in he to is a since my day." tained." he skin of he belly with finger *he theater-tj often find half my amusement I recoiled from him instinctively, hardly in a we a Chica "Self-contained!" he repeated in a low an. watching the effect of the play on my nail. If he skin is and he able to hide the uncontrollable feeling of repugnance voice, as if considering the meaning of the neighbors, and during the overture I took go a to re ad it A which insanity inspires. The melon is firm to he re re of he word. "Yes, it is a good phrase. I never any usual glance round for interesting faces. next moment a wave of regretful tenderness as a re a first-class a thought of it myself." O this particular night, unfortunately, finger, so at you can with difficulty swept over me. For the first time I realized The last words were an almost inaudible will an it to he it Colone re were very few to be seen. Disappointed the full beauty of the soul struggling tragically pierce it with nail, it is probably murmur, and he sank into a fit of abstraction in my search I turned mv attention a on a a a me en to retain its ascendency over the darkness and apparently forgot all about me. a good to the stalls, and amused myself in watchin which now and then seemed to close Bu by this time I was too much under the a in a fight, a died it is a commonplace, but well to do and over the mind. In one short evening I haj3. re is a re at of a of spell of his fascination to bear to be ignored, cheerful, family party arrange themselves he as in of learned to love this man as a friend 0? niany so I spoke again to rouse him. melons. A a rule, he melons an a stage-box below me. When I looked years, and I could have wept with sorrow a killer himself, a or "And what of Miss Terry's Lady Macbeth?" a a in at my immediate neighbors a previously for him, and passionate self-pity that I had a he a prices. vacant seat near the middle of the re re a iv a ad of he given my love in vain. In the selfishness "She is beautiful! I have never before a re not necessarily he best, it front row was filled, and its occuDant he a of my grief I began to wish that I had never seen even a bad actress, and this lady is instantly riveted my whole attention. Even is principally size at counts, seen him. I was silent so long that he charming. Think how the lads who played the few faces I had thought striking before turned ^o look at me, and as he gazed his her part were wont to rant and mouth it in in equal. I often a became insignificant beside this man's. An eyes grew wistful and serious. I was conscious 300 years ago!" unaccountable intensity of interest took therefore at he smallest melons go again of the eerie feeling that he Ho strangely his thoughts harped always JTever Gets Left. possession of me as I gazed. The pale, oval knew my thoughts, and as soon as" he spoke for very low prices, while he a a on the one string! Struggling with a i£ace was curiously familiar to me, but in I had no longer anv doubt that by some N a a re a at revived suspicion, I made no answer, and vai I struggled with memory, in vain I a be as good as he highest-price mysterious affinity between his brain and he continued with quiet earnestness: "I tried to think where I had seen it before. TOUR PARDON, SIR." as to he of he mine he could read them. He laid his hand melon I is chiefly these small melons never hoped to see Lady Macbeth so nearly I seemed to know exactly the manner of "Your pardon, sir!" he said, courteously, on my arm and said gently and reproachfully, city a to a a realized. Mistress Terry is now and anon growth of the thin auburn hair far back at into he licensed venders* moving as he spoke into the vacant seat "You are losing your faith in me and not terrible enough, but it is a good fault, a it I is a at over the forehead—that peculiar broad, vet beside me. "It would seem that you are your desire for my presence. If you do a and a re peddle in he tenedistricts. for she makes Lady Macbeth a woman such conical forehead, towering above the arched here alone, as I »m. If I have not presumptuously at a fifteen on that vou will drive me away. I implore as the playwright had in his mind—a loving, eyebrows and the deep-lidded, musing eyes. misinterpreted your glance, re is little a you to bear with me a little while longer. lovable woman, ruined by one evil impulse. a a a in a he color of the latter I could not see,'but you invited me thither from over yonder." a even very poor people in bad After to-night we shall never meet again, a deliberate effort of will she itheir expression, changeful as it was—now His voice was refined and his pronunciation a to New an it on shuts out all considerations save the one and if vou force me to go now you will be melons, chiefly because re is an un isad,now humorous, then calm and steady pure, and the courtly bow which accompanied inflicting greater pain and disappointment glittering object of her ambition. She has be a in to at it a go with the patience that comes from wide exiperience—L his words suited well with his failing olfactory detective at is a to invoke the spirit of evil to give her than you can conceive on one who wishes is a in no a a knew as well as I know the slightly old-fashioned phraseology. Again strength to be cruel, commits a deed you nothing but good." re effective to an he most faces I love best, also, and yet I could think that distressing nervous tremor. I felt myself against her nature, and afterward dies at he a a of There was something in his touch which -of no name and no locality to connect with shivering with excitement, and I could vigilant a in to N slowly of unavailing remorse. The pity of laid my selfishness to rest and recalled my he is of A a will be celea it The straight nose, rather broad at the with difficulty control myself enough to it! The pity of it! O how I have suffered better feelings. As if he knew its power, he Sun. nostrils, the short, pointed beard, the mustache, murmur an acquiescence. He seated himself in a go in 1 8 9 2 a for for her and with her i" let his hand rest for some time where lie scarcely veiling the wise, tolerant without hesitation, and took a little had placed it, and looked into my eyes with a a see a bills. I time to draw the folds of the heavy cloak "You think, then, that Lady Macbeth's onouth, with its full, firmly closed lips— An Ingenious Device. a half commanding, half-appealing expression. was a higher nature than her husband's?" -where could I have seen it all so often before? closer around him, regardless ot the heat, fact, if N a a W am Able is a farmer a With a joy in submission which I which was considerable. looked surprised at my question, and and having seen it, how could I have a iv it in re a in for celea had never known betore, 1 felt my own will then answered with courteous tolerance: Collins station, Pa. and for some me forgotten the locality? I ga?ed and gazed, I watched him and his curious action 1 yielding to his stronger one. I had exorcised "Assuredly! Macbeth was a weak man rendered a go will it in 1 8 9 1 and thought and thought, till my anxiety with tongue-tied interest. I was confused, one of he water pipes on he place ferociously cruel by the same moral my sadness and regret, and left me a strange feelinc of affection for this awe-struck, embarrassed in the close a be re a re to at Colus conscious only of a growing love for him. cowardice which at first restrained him as clogged. did not feel like cutin known yet unknown face tormented me proximity of this man. Still, I was glad to is re A a in 1 4 9 1 from crime. His better parts where physical knew his victory, and smiled a little almost to the verge of going to the stranger have him beside me, as one is plo ised at an he pipe, so he a an eel, put courage and a leaning toward respectability. when at last he withdrew his hand "You unexpected meeting with a friend among a to ask his name. in ad of 1 4 9 2 as re re had no conscience, no moral have done more for me to-night than you it in he pipe and the in crowd of strangers He, meanwhile, occupied as I had been a a to N hatred of crime, but only dread of its social know," he said gently "you will not be moments before, in glancing over the "You are interested in the performance?" was gratified to find the eel in he consequences. Remember that the first sorry afterward." -crowd of faces around him, was quite un I asked, when he looked at me aga n. at he of he pipe and tho cautious suggestion of Duncan's murder He glanced around the audience. "Tell •conscious of my gaze. He was a man rather "Indeed, yes," ho replied, withsfriendly Two mpmorial brasses of the Washington came irom him in his letter to his wife. me, now," he said, with a rapid change of •over middle age, and his figure was convcealed content Then after a pause he added, a in freely. family have been stolen from the parish She understood his unexpressed desire, and, subject, "who are all these people?" "Who is thp playwright"' in a long, curiously folded cloak, though she hated the deed, she choked her "Just an average audience," I replied church of Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England. showed only half an inch or'so of a I was silent with sheer surprise. Surely glad that he had asked no question requiring moral sense to favor her ambition and his An Unjust Law. turned-down white collar above it. One I had not heard right. And, when all is said, she but 'scotched' a mental effort, the answer, for I felt "I beg your pardon," I said as casually as a— band, holding the heavy, negligent folds to her conscience she could not kill it. Her suddenly exhausted with nervous excitement he new law recently a by the gethe over his chest, was hidden the I could. All who use Dobbins' Electric Soap praise husband possessed much less, and his first re chamber a in he childre "Who is the author of the play?" he repeated other, an artist's hand, white and wellshaped, yielding to crime slew that little utterly. A nineteenth certury audience!" he it as the best, cheapest and most economical mildly. rested on his knee and grasped a of re born in foreign family soap made but if you will try it once He fell through weakness, she through murmured thoughtfully, glancing keenly "The author? Why, Shakspeare wide brimmed hat. His face, lined and misdirected strength." round as he spoke. "And do they all read it will tell a btill stronger tale of its merits itself. countries to be re subjects, is outrageousl "Shakespeare' Who is Shakspeare?" marre with life's bitterest struggles, and Shakespeare?" Please tr it. Your grocer will supply "And you think that Macbeth's unwillingness For an instant I thought I had lost my yet serene and sympathetic, like that of one unjust. Its further provis you. "All the educated and intelligent among to murder Duncan was due solely reason. Then I looked at the stranger, who has triumphed over suffering, attractme them do. Some of them come because it is ion at these a me children a re liable to cowardice, not to his more powerful and tried to detect the shadow of a smile so powerfully that it was some time fashionable to do so, and a few are illiterate imagination, which enabled him to foresee lurking behind the melancholy of the eyes to military service in a only em Dispatches stated that a number of lives before I noticed the peculiarity in his dress, and have not read his plays. Bu to consequences to which his wife was blind?" and round the serious lips. met my and when I aid it gave me no clue to his were lost in a wreck nenr Scranton, Pa., but many of them his works are, as has been phasizes he wrongfulnes of he "Yes! Macbeth imagined vividly only scrutiny with grave, expectant composure. identity. later advices that only one or two passengers ., well said, a lay Bible." because he feared greatly. The crime once "Are you an Englishman, sir?" I said at whole thing A child born of re were slightly hurt. leaned back in his seat, gazing all A flush that looked like grateful pleasure committed, he suffered less from the tortures last, "and have not heard of our greatest •round him with unobtrusive but incessant passed over his face but he made no answer, a re in he Unite State is an of imagination than from the fear of poet? Even foreigners, I thought, admit Interest. I noticed a palpable look of won.der and after a few moments the rising detection. His wife suffered in both ways, A Little Adrice. A a as a will a a in him to be the greatest dramatist of the mingled with the acuteness of his glance. of the curtain for the next act stopped fuiv and her conscience killed her. With her, modern world." The stomachs of children become disordered a found myself speculating what so allcomprehending ther conversation. did not speak much should she a to force a such imagination was rooted in her moral sense, "M companion's face flushed apparently by over-indulgence in summer and Cramps, a face coule find to wonder more through the rest of the play. One which was strong, though unhappily not so A an citizen found within with pleasure. Then, with the first trace Colic and Cholera Morbus make them miserable. at in such an ordinary scene. Presently his brief comment on the sleep-walking scene strong as her one passion, while Macbeth's of embarrassment he has shown, he said First stop the supply of irregular and glance traveled toward me and our eves limits to a a ms in a a was all he uttered. "She is very sweet and round its root only in selfish personal considerations." apologetically: "I see you care for him. I bnwholesame food, next have on hand Perry met. I was too interested even to wish to pretty," he said, "but it needs more thinking of this in passed by E an na but wished to discover how far we were in Davis' Pain Killer for there is no other look away, and I could not if I had tried. A out. The dreamy intonation is good, sympathy in this matter." Still the same tone, admitting of no appeal tions would affect he it State remedy so efficient. tremor of nervous excitement seized hold of but the words and actions should have I felt justifiably annoyed and was silent. Evidently he expected no further rejoinder e. I felt fascinated, forced to meet the more energy." re an a country Shoul I crave your pardon, sir," he said from me, and we were both silent Jteen far-sighted gaze that seemed searching In the last act he watched Macbeth Inspired by the pearl discoveriesin Wisconsin, gently. "It was no wanton freak. My till the curtain rose for the second act. he a of a be followed by any very thoughts. His eyes summoned me driven to bay and fighting against despair many people have examined the claims question had its purpose." He looked at It would take too long to describe in detail toward him with a strange physical attraction, foreign states a a re with a return or something like the excitement which abound in the Kishwaukee river in Illinois me penitently and I was surprised at the the intensity of his enjoyment throughout and in another moment I should have he had displayed the murder with great success. ease with which I forgave him. the play. His interest never flagged for an a follow. he a a risen to obey his selent call, had not the cessation scene. A the close of the play, when we iustant. Now and then, indeed, it rose to a "Who was the player that represents of the music at last distracted his attention. rose together to go he lingered a moment will be confined to one side.-* terrifying excitement, aud, watching him, A pocket match-safe free to smokers of Macbeth?" was his next startling question. The .moment his glance was with•drawn to watch Mr. Irving and Miss Terry Chicag I shuddered for its possible consequences "Tansill's Puneh" 5c Cigar. I hesitated, suspicious of another hoax, the tremor of excitement that I had come before the curtain, and said with a both to him and and to me, so great was the "1" but he added with undoubted sincerity. felt ceased, and I lost the desire to go to sigh as they disappeared, "I would it were sympathy some mysterious power had "In truth, this time I seek information in John O'Connor and T. J. Condon, members possible to thank them for the pleasure liim. still I could not take my eyes established between his brain and mine. A Gastronomic Wager. all seriousness." Then with a touch of of parliament for Tipperary, were released from his face, and I began to think there they have given me to-night The have He watched the murder scene in a haggard melancholy in his voice he continued, I almost reached the playwright's meaning A bet was a by re gou.. be some mesmeric power the man from piison. They will at once resume agony, as if he were a helpless spectator of am a stranger here I have but strayed Alas, that it may not be!" to move me on. As long as he sat there I their seats in the house. an actual fact^ the mimic actions of the mets, one of asserted at he hither by accident." that nothing else would matter to me. How significantly the words, nearly the actors reflected and even intensified in his is Henry Irving, our greatest actor," could detect he a of a ,, Henceforth he was in my eyes the one in!#.„ last he spoke, have wrung in my ears face. When it was over he sank back covering Out of Sorts 1 answered, trying to conceal my surprise. fi re of the evening, and I should only care since- At the moment I did not fully understand his face with his hands, and though dish before he in "And the Lady Macbeth is Miss Ellen y, -'for the play itself for the sake of its. effect their accent of gratitude and longing. he made no sound I saw that he was overmastered Terry. They have acted together constantly, at re at odds at he would be able if-i-uj, «pon him. with emotion. I would have given and by their devotion to the art and to Is a feeling peculiar to persons of dyspeptic tendency, sfo*. Apparently absorbed in expectation, the We descended the stairs together in much to weep too, but I could only sit and to tell he a a re it his cook Shakspeare have done much to help us fe~, 'stranger' attention was now fixed upon silence. I was dreading the parting that or it may be caused by change of climate, watch him in frozen misery, not able, as he understand him." would re a re a a is for he stage. His face was paler, and his rig- was before me, and, hoping that it mish apparently was, entirely to forget the crowd season or life The stomach is out of ordjr. the "And does he then so greatly need interpretation?" Id, straightened attitude expressive of intense not prove a final farewell, and yet "restrained of strangers around us. Happily they weue he bet was a he head aches or does not feel right, appetite ia capricions, asked the stranger with a although %restrained excitement from giving utterance to my wish all absorbed in the play, and no one noticed the nerves seem overworked, the mind queer smile. confident in is quick senses of a by an unwonted awe and a despairing conviction W4,4"^ Hi eyes followed the smooth, mechanical either him or me. When he looked up again is confused and irritable Tnts condition finds "Do you always understand him yourself, ffVCf rising of the curtain with an almost painful his face was wet with tears. that any words of mine would be and smell, he confident of he an excellent corrective in Hood's Sarsaparilla, sir?" I replied, feeling that if the rejoinder powerless to control events. In the crowd !&•», interest, but when it disclosed the dim, was uncourteous he had willfully provoked skill of his cook. he cook— a re After the curtain fell he made no apology which, by its regulating and toning powers. Boon,, near the door we became separated, and I i* wierd landscape and stormy sky which is it. gfe for his strange behavior. A for me. by restores harmony to the system, and gives that fancied that he passed out in front of me. &4*JJ il he background to the first scene, his face a of course—exerte all is talents Still the queer smile. fPp Jpi this time nothing that he said or did took strength of mind, nerves, and body, which makes ^fS brightened and flushed with delighted surprise There was a thick fog outside, .nothing and surpassed all praise he dish as "In faith, I was won't always "to think me much by surprise. Throughout the intervals one feel perfectly well. Z, was to be seen but a small semicircle of «Utterly oblivious of every one so!" was the quick reply, given with more between the acts he never spoke. placed before he in epicure iSIj around him, with a sudden, rapid movement lurid, misty gaslight, and torches passing "I have used Hood's Sarsaparilla In Wfamfly amusement than the occasion seemed to sat motionless, with his eyes covered to and fro out of the surrounding darkness. Jj&| he placed both arms on the front of 4 ho cir for three years, and have taken it personally with tastes a his lips, a a a in justify. "Yet I confess," he added, more with his hand, either prostrated by exhaustion I passed out into the street and looked 4*1 «le, and sat leaning forward in an attitude great success. It has always built up my system, seriously, "there have been things to-night, or deep in thought, and I had no wish round, expecting to find my unknown friend smells it—taste again Alas I is of rapt attention. The realistic whistling by giving me a good appetite, has cleared my that have surprised me. Th witches, for to disturb him. awaiting me. was not there. I waited §0of the wind, and the artistically managed redolen of all odors such sauces, skin, and has made me sleep. I have suffered example-d they appear such as you have watched the third act with a milder interest, a moment in vain, and then with a feeling §f§| appearance of the witches amid thunder from nervous prostration, and have been cured always esteemed witches?" so marvelousl blended such a very unlike the frenzied excitement of forlorn disappointment and utter desolation, a lightning, evidently pleased him greatly, "Personally I find it difficult to believe by nothing but Hood's Sarsaparilla and occasionally which had possessed him during the murder I moved mechanically out of the gaslit but their acting puzzled him. After the such solids—so soft, so tender W at in witches," I replied, tolerantly beginning a few of Hood's Pills." G. F. JU.VKERMANN. It scene. was charmed with the beautiful circle into the darkness beyond with first few moments his satiffied expression vaguely to doubt whether my intellectuallooking some dim notion of seeking him? A longing can it be A re a re Sapt. of Music of Public Schools, Cincinnati, setting and grouping of the banquet scene, gave place to. an unmistakable look of bewiklorment, friend might not after all be' but a he laughed at the murderers and shook to see him again and hear his voice Ohio. and for one rapid instant he tripe N a ad in a new fool with a divine countenance. overwhelmed me, but I stopped bewildered, his head over the ghost would have Hood's Sarsaparilla- glanced away from the stage to the faces of 1 a N no no a a "So did Shakspeare," replied -my com- not knowing which way to turn. been better left to the imagination," he jsome of the audience, as if trying to gather panion promptly, "but his'hearers in great whispered when Banquo appearel prosaically from them a clew to what he ought to Suddenly, irradiated by a faint ethereal O re iv it -'It is old Sold by all druggists. $1 six for $5 Prepare part had no such difficulty. The name* of 1 through the floor. On the whole, his light, there gleamed before me the mysterious think Bu they were all impassive a mild only by C. I. HOOD & CO Lowell, Mass it kid gloves! is he cool a a -witch bore to them a terrible and hideous attention throughout the act was that of interest was the utmost feeling they displayed, face of the stranger. The features IOO Doses One Dolllfi significance. your witches are solemn critical vexation rather than pleasure. were shadowy and indistinct but there was tion, he is re as lost- and, more puzzled stilly .his glance