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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1899-1-26, Page 7E K11161 RE DIMOND. 97 GEORGE - (Ostessieet. MK by the Author.] Day by day, stuns by stuue, lb* par- tied locreased, and every one of the e filendid collection of gems repro. ted not only so Emmy pounds sterling herd cash when ouoe suctoessfully slated from the Kimberley rem- und asd sorting booms to the outside orld, but also many moments of deeper - yet skillfully hidden auxiety, during blob the fickle needle of fate had ayed to and fro bet weeu two poles of taus and ruin. Some men to Frank Ridley's position be was or. of the most trusted ten in camp—would have taken the ones out oue by outs or employed Mrs th take them from him after y had been atsarobed, and parte Went to one cif the illicit dealers out - but that was not big way. He bad other ooutidaut than his own °on. fence, not always Szl approving one, t at any rate one that would not give away. To have taken the stoma out one by e would only have multiplied the sk of discovery and rain by the nam• bar of them, for the posseesion of a gle illicit diamond would have meant disgrace and peual servitude just certainly as would the discovery on • persica of the whole C20,000 or C80. - worth of gems—the very pick of the mberley mine output for nearly six Oa. past. Bo one afternoon he made up hie Ind that be had tempted the fates far °ugh, and at 6 that evening be walk - off to his 'Aging. with hie heart in ▪ mouth and • fortune in the lining him wimewbat shabby felt widaawake. That night, albeit with moms little and trembliug, he permitted blur. If the luxury of a few minutes' exam - tion of his plunder Is bulk and an rnate of its value, nott 10 hint, but the more fortunate man who should In getting the parcel through y to London or Amsterdam. lf be only do that himself, he would need to do another dey's work in world, but be was an employee, a and therefore a marked man, the secret ramifications of the wan- e' irystem which 'Dolma, him and like hint as in • net WINI May and de. No, that risk witioowiefeet, ocesider- that be could now make 44.000 or 000 in an hour ors°, and at tbe same transfer all hie risk and liability some one else, and go back to MI with a light heart aud, Ds a w- in sense, • clear conicienoe. Yet there was one magnifloent roes ond, whioh moot have weighed where between 40 and 50 carats, blob he would dearly have loved to nicety cut and polished and glitter - g on the Deck Or SD the heir of a COM• 111 well loved some one far away in Clarliale, but he knew well enough there was not another of its dm solar in the world. Tbe nearest to Wag hi the De Beers collection, and mide powearion of it byany one bat monarch or a millionaire would mean what his own possession of 11 1. so there was no use thinking II that. With something very like a sigh for unattainable poseibilities of his so saemadul theft, he tied op the gaols a bit of dirty rag arid attired this to the toe of a rather dilapidated *Illogical boot. Than he had a wash 4 a change and went for a walk down ern. On his way along Seochdale street b. cad to meet • well dressed, dappet n g little roam who nodded to him we might do to • casual acquaint - and said in • quiok, chirpy sort tone: "Howdo, Ridley? Going strong, eh?" "Pretty well, Mr. Moretti," he re- ad, with a quick look up and down street. "Returns are looking up 10. had sonie very pretty a the last day or twn " "Oh, glad to bear it, eves front a who wastes his opportunities as otioally as you dol Anything par. larly choicer' "Well, ye.. Are you doing anything secondhand boots just now, Mr. urattir It may here be couveniesitly explain - that the gentleman with whom Ridley had thus fallen into oar - farm Yao wallama another of Os Mee and odor 4. 10. world. don was in those dsys known Ls p as Mickey Moroni. The wider blows him now as Michael Mn tti, Rim.. M. L. A., director or many pollee* Anew:dal undertakings, bet taws days be was Plat an extremely 1111151. • Jew of reputed Florentine , IOW more remmt and anthestk esti eatraotion, who had wade bit t in IUmberiey as • dealer in cheap try and skit made outlits--after eta/ Wandered about plating up • Peg by the display of his jugeling lithe, —and who am now looked npoe one at tbe seniztailend most sactoms- "olieratore" on the diamood *Adds. laspanam Lloisaid and mono al hip hreetv4 subordination oharithed a asepielons ne 10 las soOps 01 irie oaS, hit 110 fee his dealings had blameless, et least to fat MI 1110/1- riv16elles ems enneerned, Waal to !oh lpo hood recently married a very and etesedingly dower wife, Mean math on the fields in Aft.Tatetti did not man in the IOUS by the apparent remora le forusetroarparedvaiy humble metal drellhosed. 0. 810 motrairy. he look. up sPith • pat& glithee likl/ey WM WW1 • Illidie Of /IOWANS§ as- " Well, 1 haven't dooe anything in good fortune. Ifere's tha gontyaba. tan old gee ewe- for lame than maw. oAglisalles it in your waistcoat pookeL but yoa know, I'm always oe for g Now, button your coat. That'll dol" "Well, gautlentem good evening. trade. What's the figure?" "Ten thousand." What can I do for you this evening, it "111 see yon -1 mean I'd like to see 15 isn't inerniug already?" the goods first before I say anything to "You can baud over that parcel of tear. foe a big prom for a pair of see. diamonds you got frotn Frauk flidlejt onelhaud bouts, you kuow, Mr. 'Ridley. tonight 61r. Muratti, and Qom you eau Still, I'm glad to me pat you're begin- 001110 with wh" Raidied letPecter Li- ning to ries to a proper Emig py your pinsitj politely, but still • trifle stiffly. opportunities. When oan I see the "I've a search warrant here, but you'll beide?" save nus lot of troobleand yourself aud "1 was thinking of taking them down household a lot of inoouvenienoe by to Tooley's tomorrow about this time passing over the stales al once. We to bays them soled aud heeled." know they're ha the house." "So you're on to that lay, are you& "Then you know • mteirty lot more Well, you're not snob • blighted idiot about wy bout* thaukdeenivielf, Mr. as I thought you were, Ridley, so j Lipinski," mapped the little luau route - apologise. I shell be sending to Tooley's what viciously. "There are no die - myself. But, look here, if we mean monde heret.but what are my own law - bongoes', what's tire good of wasting ful propertV. aud they're all out stones, time like that? Go and get your hyoid so I'm afraid I cau't give you what now aud take t hem to Touley's. Ile isn't You've come for. But of oourse if you've abut and he's got I pair of mine to Set • warrant you can act ou it, though uniud. I'll be there in half an hour, it's pleoe of most unwarrantable tyr- and if I take your parcel away with me alloy. And this a British colony tool 'outset:rot my own—epeo, wheys gbar-Vlb, don'ttheyegll it penal settlement to anybody but you or me?" aud bate done with it? Shall 1 ask my It wasn't altogether a new device, wife to get up and own° dowu?" but it worked. and in the result Mr. "I hope there'll be no neceasity for Moratti's valuation of tbe boots was so that," replied the fuel:meter, with a far mtisfacnory that about two hours Plealiant smile. "But now, gentlemen, later Frank Ridley went ho•we mud get to work, please. Itme with • ieut check for £11,500 and an I 0 11 for • Pleasant for any of us. I loose. Das it's like amotiut in his pooket and a pair our duty, and it most be doue." . of auothet man'. boots under his arm, The formality remitted exaotly as the neatly wrapped up in • copy of The Dia- astute Mickey bad predicted it would. mond Field. Indepeudent. The check The diamond', a paroel of stones worth was on Lloyds' bank, London, and was about 4:200 at first coot, were promptly peyote's not to Frank Ridley, but to found iu Joseey's pocket, and be playml Miss Alice RdUNIOnle. The I 0 U was the tyro in 1. D. B. with • perfection personal, but both went to England by that wait by no meaus all art. the next mail. Mickey of course did the virtuously There moors here the unpleasant no- indignaut relative and disappmnted comity of addiug that the check was hecafacter without • daw, hot only at stopped by cable long before Misr Ran. the moment of discovery, but at the some had any chance of presenting 5. police court tbe next morning. So well Tbe fate of the I 0 LI was to be deter- indeed did both play their parts that to mined later on. Meanwhile Mr. Frank Inspector Lipinski's intense disgust the Ridley's thoughts turned homeward magistrate refused to send the o'bief and mingled with loving IDOMOriel and criminal to the opecial wart jor trial, fond anticipations. and so after providing generously for That aame night between 11 and 19 the defense of his erring relative he Mr. Sfuratti had • visit from a mau of left the courthouse a triumphantly his own people. • youth of thine 91 whitewlehed man. summers, whose life bad so far been At the 'text sifting of ikle 'Daciah mostly winter. Not manyat the seed court Joitey got gee years, aud the of Abraham ran to waste, st may rate same train Which look KM to Cope to they ltharretat sense, bat—gnstrinr110-' 14"."/ haPPeeed *Iwo to bele Mee, Isti- known for abort in camp a. cbael Murata, who, for reasons of J▪ ossey Mo, had somehow managed to health, had been advise(' to take a trip do so. to Europe to &told the worst of the hot He was distantly related to Mickey season iu Kimberley. Inspector Lipin- StArstMosteeitozeist thee rising ...okLatid..Pedaelasipisions.toutatan snclArbad. with the traditional gen- they did not go lo far as to pot a value of aboot £80.000 on the high and hol- low heels of the lady's dainty Freud: made boute. • • • • • • a Nearly five years later idiobiel Afto ntti, Esq., was milting at the writiug table in the library of his town resi- deuce in Lancaster Gate. He was read Ing a letter and swearing softly under, his breath at every line of it. When he bad read it throogh for -the second time, he crushed it upwin hie baud, stuffed ft into bis trouser" pocket, went and raced on the hearth rug with his abort, 'tardy legs wide apart, and mid to a life sized portrait of hinittelf which hang in the middle of the oppoeite wall: 'No, bun me if I dot I've been gen- erous to both of them, aud 1 cau't stick it any longer. I'll give 'em Jost another CI.000 apiece for old times' sake, and that's the lot. Half • million apiece, eroffity of bilpeople to their kindred, metaphorically taken him out of the gutter and set him ou his feet on the pavement. The subject of their iuter- view that part limier night was closely akin to thin species of rescue work. No one else was pressed, and Mr. Moretti spoke plainly and 10 551. point. "It just comes 10 101., Jemmy," he 11110, toward the old ot the discussion, see. he Inv good to yoortalf or any credit to yoor relations se loos es you go sloshing aroutid iu this good for n othing sort of way a yours. Now bere's a good solid chance for you. Do as I tell you, man. Own up and play the greeny. You won't get more than five yearti as a first offender, and if you behave yourself you'll get out with three. I know the topes down yonder, don't you fear, and I'll pall 'eni hard fee you. Then when you come out there's $6,000 for you in solid cash and whew 5 Why dou't they ask for the whole caboodle at .once? I'll see them $1,000 a year for five years after that. _ Now, Jamey, what do you say to that?" fiellingiried fish firet." " What do you want mete ha-etwpyredf. • ,Tgli .VIO61g=1M'auluigoodtte.annatatIon at all for?" the tempted Joshua ob- may be briefly given aa follows: Thanite to exemplary behavior and s certain amount of judiciously applied influence, Mr. MorattOs scapegoat bad gut off with • little over three years. The day he came out he received the welcome but not unexpected intelligence that through the death of a relative iu Lon- dou he had come into about £5,000 ready oath and property and securitiem yielding about another CI,000 s year. The same evening he renewed the ac- quaintance of Frank Ridley, who.,fiad been discharged without any *mooed reason in a few weeks after the great coup which had proved so worthless to him. The bank had been advised by cable that • leaf had been stolen out of Mr. Muratti's Loudon checkbook and cautioned not to oath any cheeks witio out further notice. Hence the first £2,- 800 bad not been paid. The I 0 U Mr. Merstli had langhed at The noires bad oost him quite enough"already or would do an before be bad done with Jossey, and he didn't propose to pay any more. It waa a woo of dog eating dog, hot Ridley could do nothing without dis- eloping the whole trausaction, and that would menu not lees thou ten years on the breakwater for him, so he grinned and bore it and waited till Joss.", came 001. Meanwhile Mr. Muratti grew and flourished exceedingly. Everything be witemel turned enlist' to gold or Ma - monde, though he never touched any- thing illicit after the last big deal. He was quite a great man now; but, those clone" down to Cape Town and to the steamer as I wonld. as every one knows hitn, there is no OD "Now 0,611 how my plan works out. need to repeat that, and there was not a °fond on bis financial Of modal horizon They know I've got stouee from Ridley, bnt they doo't know what Mongol. see? save bis connection with Janney and the They 0001. here with their warrant, ;:iweaa°1 imPowdbillir of getting intro - arrest us both and search os, find tide dui -ed to the Prince of Wales. other little 16)1 on yon and jump to the He had given Ridley a ample ot tbonsaud in cash ott Josaey's strong rep - conclusion that they're the right ones reseutatinu and fondly thought that and WO I've just given 'ena to you, but there's no proof of that, and they can't would mita. ble Improvable claim for get one, for you'll play the took, own good. bat that was jnst whets he bad u p and swear you bought 'au from g made the Waged miseake of his life Jemmy came ont of penal aervitnde a Kaffir, wl.flo 1 do Theludignatft vie, t eeter layvery differeut pernon from the shiftless oe'er well that he Was when he en- " You needn't be afraid of Ridley. They dou't want him yet. They'll Wait tered 51. it bed done bit° • lot of good. forhim and nab him wino conveulant. 11 had put backbone into him, anti be - Iva avv, vbey „mat Dly Dam imam aides he bad learned many tiOnmi that gives good hit loot UMW to plant me b° w°ftwl 1101 of bef°2b• After mon then three years of penal on the breakwater fora few year. While they put tido amalgamadani bustriona toll and discipline, imbittered by depri- satinet of all creature comforts, it was through. That's where my game conies This paroel should peacoat at Age..- hyin ib° °°°*°° blitor" who, he 000 at very (mud. sag 1,4 regained Ida freedom and found himself What 1 It to fight these amalgams. l°7711:14fplatagonsTt!l„11,gi.gpt on ou own ground. mete himself for his •loariose sufferings "II 1 Atof nabbed, tha whol• galas on sr somewhat liberal ,cls. would tic np. het if toe go faa ma, It was in this humor that Ridley J"'""f• 1.1i mak, my fr"‘"2_2°41 had found him. 11. 51.4 made • little room, goo) toy PIPPIL Man" wul go money, more or less honsetly ohms his Bring 111) lig high, and it wool be • diecharne, sod so there was no suggest - matter of thoitsande theft, loamy rim of „omen,, bus y„ra, eery sore be milli�s. my boy, millions. and You Willi about tho check and the 80 Cr, and aball lam Your Wan whim 700 0011M. in Jamey he thought he maw the moans oa8, savor fear. of getting squat* with the millirmaire Yeta knew. 11 705 We?5 isff wbo had doe* him math an ansorepo- yourealt Jamey, you'd never mak* km, the 61,000 In • aaniarY of hl" amine, 1" To this mid beworked both skillfully alone 110,000 tti three years nr so. sod erammonny on the „ nThrior,e 0011m, now, wind do You niYf Yon'll feelings nntil be awns to look upon bays e0 100k abet", for the,' Mei be blown as a martyr and Michael Murat. bin la Wthwbo`-'011. /set 1 tb°°11b1 It aa. monster of Inuratitada What wi Tb�.. the affkdal koNlir• blnw, were a few paltry thousands to the mil - don't set the wedicoanand 1/. la, the Woe of pm that were litlettlif ?Wilma In—eb° jected rather sulkily. "If you've got the goui••ba, why don't you plaut 'ern somewhere safe and run 'em down when you get a durum, like the others do?" "Becaume I don't do busineas like tbe others," replied Mickey with an air of conscious pride, "and becalm I'm play- ing a deeper game and for a bigger utak°. It's thi• way, you see: Ridley and to. were shadowed while we were taildog in titookdale street. He didn't see it. but I did, and that's what made me think of this lay. We were shadow rd again al Tooley'., aud I was follow- ed home bent by ono of the 'mooches. "Now, Lipineki's DO fool, and neither is Fox, nor Lowe, nor any of therm What do I want talking to Ridley for just after he's oome out of the sortiug toom? What do I want, to meet him again the same night at a boot store and bring a pair of his boots home by mite laim tot? "I'll tell you, Jamey, those chaps know as well an I do that I took • par - .& ed stones from Ridley tonight, and before long Lipineki will be here with a search warrant to look for them. Now, If be doesn't find any he'll reckon thst I've planted 'em, and I'm going to run 'em as you say. Thal means that we shall be watched and that ever; ons who goes cat of camp, especially any 006 belonging to ma, will be Mop- ped and searched, and so the missile!' have about as meth chance of getting millions whit* Would flatter have been his if he, Joshua, bad net borne the penalty of his crime? He bad the plain- est right to a good substantial snare of them, and so, too, for the matter of that, had dictum' from wboni had AO dishoneetly obtained the on whiob his new fortunes Lad been toweled. AS tune went on there argument@ were very strongly enforced by the fact that the aforemid "paltry thouratads" did not go very far when Mr. Joshua MOMS. stein had once learued the joys of spend- ing Motley With the oheerful freedom 5101 1. born of • sure aud certain bops that, whets 11 is doue, there will be plenty more forthcomitig. The logical result was that the two worthies, uow fast trite.," and allies in a common ob- ject, had :node demand after demand oo tbe apparently bottomless puree of Ib. multimillionaire, until at last a (renal') fact had come to their knowl- edge wh,..11, after due deliberation to - gather, bad inspired them to write the joint letter_that bad eo disturbed Mr. Marittl'aegoaelinity. They traveled home by the RAMO mall - boat which carried their -letter, mod on the morning following its delivery they paid • vita to the millionaire at his weet end mansion. The iutioview was not exactly a friendly one. Mr. Moretti blustered, and his visitors quietly, but Artnly, doubled their already exorbitant demands. Tbe MEM of millions threatened to have them put into the street, and broadly hinted at the advittability of giving them into cumtody as blackmail ere. That brought matters to • head in • somewhat dramatic fashiou. The ex - larks toolc out his pocketbook sod pro- duced from it a half sheet of note pa- per. on which was pasted a short news- paper cutting. He banded it to the mil- lionaire and . "That's from The Cope Time!, Mr. Mnratti. Do youlhink you could tbroW any light on the 'object? I have an ideo that you could, especially with our as-- sistance. De Beers would give a good deal to know bow Ant stone got away. I believe they -would even isolopt me as queen's evidence to get the mystery cleared up. What do you think?" , With slowly widening eyes and alike Ing heart, the num 011 many without; umbitions-reed the cietttillr- It rau shoo: "The king of the Belgians has just indulged in his well known taste for gems by the addition to his already priapiemoodeosion-of eMagiiifleene rose colored diemond, weighing uearly 30 carats iu its cut state. His majesty is rumored to have paid the enormous price of £1,000 a carat to the Amster - dem merchant of whom he bought it. In color and water 11 is the exact coun- terpart of the lemons rose diaioeud in the De Beers collection, but it is much larger. "Lt. origin fh involved in some little Mystery. The merchants from whom biiinIJMty putchased 11 arm that'the dealer frcou whom they bought it de• °hired that it was an ancient eatitern' gem recut in Amsterdam, but experts who have nen it state with equal post - 'teepees that 11 1. a Kimberley atone. A rumor reaches ne from Diamoud- as nes interview tea. not exactly a frtendle o(Ie. opolls' that • certain Kaffir, who has since disappeared, loaded one night in his cops, join after be had been dis- charged from the Kimberley compoond, thet he had found tbe biggest{ rool-klippe ;red stone) that ever was Mond on tbe fields. If this ts true, the stone never reached the diamond room at DI) Beers'. It is jut poesible that some of the I. D. B. fraternity could throw some light on the otheequent wander- ings of the 'moot rooi-klippe' of which the vanished Kaffir boasted." Frank Ridley and Joshua Movenstein watched the millionaire's changing face narrowly as be read. When he saw that he had finished, Ridley Raid quietly: "I oan find that Kaffir if neceeeary, Mr. Moretti. Of course the diamond law claw not hold good in this Country, but tbe laws as to conspiracy and deal- ing in stolen goods do. If De Beers prof/rented, they would filet my evi- di,cc., (nth buying. Joasey here has douellie time and could make a clean breast -of it withon$ fear, and so this only one who amid be touched would be"— "Oh, that'll dor exclaimed the mil Bonaire in a bed burst of despairiug anger. "What do you want?" "I want a half million down and an- other half in approved securities, prefer- ably De Beers," replied Ridley, "and as a matter of principle I mnet bate that check in favor of Mies Ransome duly honored. A millionaire's wife srhoold be above suspieion." "And I want a million, ton," ablated In Mr. Mosenstein. • 'lame way as Prank wants hie. And, what's more, Mickey Moretti," he went on, shaking his finger in his facie, "as you disgrgoed me by sending me to the breakwater for your crime, you west raptors my credit in the'Syee of the moiety that I shall go into now by making your wife let me marry thee pretty little slater Rebating of hers that I have loved all my life. files wan always fond of me and will have me when lain a million aim. I dare say you oan ewe her • decent marriage portion." They were big terms bat Mr. Mo- retti did not yet despair of being intro - decal tn the Priem of Wales, and so in the end lot yit hied. A few weeks later two new ueide South African • rine Pnglish and nne Hebrew, blossomed forth, each in hie oriageolal sphere of London society. A little later an there were two splesdid weddings, mid until them lines appear in print the mystery of the king's roes diemsood will rends ewielwed. • /O1E OFTll STA6E What the Fair Sex Has Done In Three Hundred Years. mi.rm MILLARD AS LADY URSULA E uropean Singer. bade. or Starres4 isp.aa Americas' To•r — Marcella Illeaulsrlels mad How abe bream* Great—Dramatle *mall Talk. 11 meina hard to realise that only :-- year. ago the first woman stepped upon the dramatic stage; but much is • fact, for to pre Shakespearean times beardless youths were put in petticoats arid made to take all feminine parts Her advent may or may not bate been 1 tolafortune, ITELYN MILLARD AS I.A URSULA BAN- I82hoff's!. but certainly during those three centuries the emancipated woman actor has more then made up for lost time. Today we flnd her not only taking all female parts, but oecanionally putting on male attire and Ilona/silently filling the 170111351 role. The young lady—and a very-than:ring young ladfshe is, too—who hat set all London agog by her masquerading as a man in Anthony Bope's "The Adventure of Lady Ursula" is Mies Evelyn Millard. The masquerading Is done with such faie cleating prettiness that London society is flocking to tbe Duke of York's theater to get a glimpse of tbis audaciously beauti• ful Lady Ursula. Miss Millard, by the way, is the talented daughter of the tal- ented professor of elocution at the Royal academy and the Royal College of Music. So when she made her first appearance In 1891 she had already learned what most actresses require ten years' provincial novitiate to acquire. Her most suoceseful part prior to the advent of "Lady Ursula" was that of the young wife in Esmond's "The Divided Way." It is • pleoe of the- atrical goesip that Anthony Hopeactually wrote his play for Miss billiard. Even though this be untrue the fact remains that the leading role fits her as nicely as do the cream !ilk knickerborikers in which ahe is marching on to theatrical success. The A inerlean audience t• not usually looked upon as the suprouie authority In musical questions, but many a European singer has bean either made or marred by an A tuerloan tour. Tbe latest figure in the operatic world to have the question of her mulcted sovereignty clinched and made fast for all time by an American .ap- pearance and New York approbation is Mme. Marcella eleinbrich. Mine. Sem- brich is singing for the preaent season at the Metropolitan, and of all the vooal lu- minaries that Managertirau has clustered about him Mine SetnbrIch has proved herself the most brilliant. In fact, hers la tbe one mucous of the year. She Is the daughter of Casimir Kok- hausky, a (Janet/in itollnlst, who taught her piano playing when she was bat 4 years Old. At the etre of 6 .ba was studyingthe violin, and at 12 she was e arning her own living Later she studied in Leopold and Vienna and In 1875 went to Milan for two years' hard work at voles culture. When she appeared In the Royal Opera at Dresden, she adopted her mother's maiden name of Sembrich. In 1880 she made a flve year engagement with Erneat aye, tben manager of Covent Garden the MAT Mma Sembrich 4 an shicitite tnaster of polished legato Angina. whlle her In terpretetion of coloratura arias, such ea "Romper Litotes" in "Traviata." im mar- velous in Ita Incisive hrillianey and depth of musical tone. With a rich contralto velar', she sings with perfect understand- ing, absolute beauty of tone and perfect sympathy. She Is, In fact, in every way • great artist and quite &serval the flood of proles that is being poured upon The di TUG Pauli Is nething 51 not"blogo gy." Of late ohs has been eleetrifying tie gay PATIR141011 with her luguhrious per- formance of • quail clerked drama owned "Marisa " "itedee''. Is a gory, grewsoute, g risly creation of Camille Mendes, and la 55 blugginese Mme. Bernhardt TIPWrik. To begin at the beginning. Medea and her brver, Joann, decide to run away liogrtiow Ts retard ber father's pursuit am og sandedly mnreers bar little hrote, r and laniete littoral portion* of his body along Sim road In her flight. Jason soaves to Wel out Medoe's alight indelloary of feeling. Owls deserts her to WIWI another. Motee thereupon prossnis the bride with 5 (alt irmed .,it, and there la another denth. wlIh eontoortitms. Then Medea alsonght. ber two ehildren shnpt7 bootalse thought Jason ween't enjoying life enough, and as she Is etinnt to be wily, the god from the machine eters la end AR 'WM her so swaps in allying nharioll. 1 1. 55104of thing Ina, suit Barnhardt end 1 la, but I am afraid "Madam" woedd on, 400 samplaary for our raw teens. Whim the sown boy was ottestionad by –ee'vere–te•""--- — hia Sunday school teacher as So what greet idn Cain had committed, he saki he truces • it must have been putting "The Chide - thin" oft the image. Hut now the re- doubtable Mr. Caine has left um America Is beginning to realize Hutt this ultra mod- est Imir eaten us two plays, one of which was an epee tar farce, a sort et ninon tools performance for which 00 5851' were *old. 'Ibe climax of that perform anO5 was r. farewell, interview, lo which be expatinted on the A/111410/W drama Thiritigis hie rue tinted platl' Jude. penedated the. menu of recent pe ounbtry Allee.AA,A. A meth:fie tlitaters ar,. beautifully it Imaged! ',Linden audience.. Dever immilittal sinorrtly mid so warmly ' Anterican acters are unthaltel! Wit hien posaibilities of drama whirl, whets tiveel oped wilt obviate the in:ix-rue ion oder Eoglith dramatic utiodoparies to our therm! All of this, of coarse, is gush, uttered In • net ungrecteux hut quite ungracefel spIrtt of gratitude for lasers received. Alt those eeretti • e he 81,inve1at,, the exact cee dition of the tle•eter in America and old I/o the Ihmitioelee seen, that is hangire over the careless feast of the !enflame. will realize the utter mu ortieialit of Mr. -Callikee Is today passing through It, critical pe- riod. But thonnt all these influences that are tending to degrade and cheapen mei •ulgarive it then. is • microscopic glitn- nier of better 'blew, in the success of 812,11 plays of pure ilterary and artistic value as "Cyrano 4,, Liergerte" rind "t'ather- ine." But, as for Mr. Caine, that vies a benutiftilly pregnant sediment of Bobbie Cletus' that Orhltill for thu gift of self In- apecUon with eyes not one's own. There hone moreenterprislat personage than the theatrical press agent. Ills dreams of conqueet are Napoleonic. 11 51. cannot capture a newspaper Witco hy lila artillery of leul Hears, he builds him a secend horse of l'roy in the forte of sone pathetic little tale of his liadine lady or she like and lets the unsuspecting besieged an.. open their gates to it. 'rhe lateet example of bow the wily press man has proved that in the bright lexicon of titer booming there is no such word as "fail" Is found In the rapture of the more sedate New York papers by the agent of a certelti actress who has won a great deal of noeoriety by a disrobing IAA on the stage. Naturelly enough, them papers pointed out that lingerie dimplaes were not tho highest art and dun -noel to insert prom notices of the lady in gees - lion. Now they are publishing her elec- trotyped autoomph and her portraits dou• ble cob (661111 Wide, The business rink 0 watt the ettliverftble epee, for the portratt, in month, is aceempanied hy • signed Im dormernent of a simple and hared, mil cough medicine .and is paid for at the usual advertising rates. In view of the indy'e ir thentrical performance Illthillrelinthell92511?awynner5easuatres5? trr•Iter recommenieng eertitin i tire for ell .6,5,1,, and roughe that result trom exposure. Now that Sir Henry Irving hes beind- ed his company and the word An. r roe forth that the veteran actor will walk the, boards of the old Lyceum eo mute there are a nunaborof oritles of actiteltheit stincte who are beginning tote% of_!. 1 r. ving's collapse." Bet atm Mr. Deerbohnt Tree and Mr. Forbes Robeiteme have stepped_ into the dotterel° bre.** and made a number ofhltir the 51 (116 actor relegated 10. -third place, and 1 is eali If Irving was ever a great oder.- -Tie king is dead; long live the king! But one day shall not see the transit of Irving. He has done too much for the English stage and too much for dramatic art to be swept airily aside by a London critic or two. No man has added more to this dignity of the theatrical profession. No man also has tteated his fellow ,,'tori with greater kIndllneem. Since the day he first occupleti the London tlienict that he has made fa- mous the Lyeet. 001112,07 has been kept intact To 1r y of the old members sl - arise have beco pal ,! year in and year out. whether they VICilltd041114i or not. NI bother the house was dark or cope bed the ghovt continued to walk. When IrvIng'e knee, for instance, was injured .1 10. beginnfrig USItcr.1..LS RFN (MICR. of the performanore of "Itichard III," the Outer was kept open nt an netted ham to its teenager of mere (2(0 £1,000 a week. HIS generosity and to old actore to him fellow players and to them alum he knew in his early and less illustrloffs years have been the one remarkable trait of his chemist. Whatever eine rimy be laid at his door, it can never be maid that illtVAAA and knighthood turned hie head or crowed him to forget for one moment those newly Ideals he worked ont for him- self when he was • struggling yoting actor 1. liellnbeirgh. ARTHCR J. STAINGIIL fere Way. of a Ilassearrea. Skeptical Patient Ito faith doctor) -- How do you propose to oore this pain in my cheat, doctor? Faith Doctor—I thrill pug me herel• your chest a (..e tinow tiitti 1.11 Foe the pain ie gone. and it will 13. gone - v..' WIll yen dim With mi., doetor? itu Oen pCril)rin LIP mire afterward. Doctor—With pioneer& Patient—Well, take this loaf of bread and rub lt on your waistcoat few times and say yon have bad your dinner, aml you will have had it lf She ex,periment is a mamma, we will go oat with the chest enre.—London Tale- . Nadir ellaseged. Daidierly—A good beginning makes. bad ending. Downtrod—That's poi I didn't wont. hie 6 bit during my marriage ceremony. —New York Jonrrial. • CbIlly ttaderliedlittrefg. E the 1w815. pale le Alinevered— Hai It wen', be, so we're told -- No one will dare to mime it where The 'Wade 55me cola. A. W. Bulattn. 144 444144411111(411KO<r4 411 4441 DON'T CHIDE1., THE ; t CHILDREN. Peel scold the little ones if itabethbee ndiuirsniwnet 1 It ilk the child's fault. Weak kidneys need strengthening— that's all. You can't afford to risk delay. Neglect may entail a lifetene °reoffering. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS Strengthen the Kidneys eed bladder, then all trouble teases. Mr. John Carson, employed at M. S. Bradt & Co.'• store, Ham - i ilton, Ont., sa VS : "MY MOS I., rears of age bee beesideuele4 with en kidney; -edatetertleand eielFweethell Water. We apert hundreds of OM - leis doctoring nut tr,ed many tilt- !(*rent remmlieS, but they were of no avail. One boo el Doan's Kidney Pills completely cured him." w 111444141441141*(414114144441441414141 MSKIIIIANICte CI0DKRI011 MOCtioroice• INSTITUT• NS LIBRARY AND REALitN0 150055, sea a meet street aud lamer e (adenine). Open tram 1 to 0 emt., aud from 7 10 5) JoBOUT 2000 VOL'S LN LIBRARY. L eading Daily, Weekly aud Unseated PePerth Magazines, kr OIL File M EM n Telt wir 51.05 Granting free use of Library sad Reading emu. Application for membership nee -dyed by Goderich. March 12 ISM E. EAMII•TON, Uttrariaa, 25 AT THE BOX OFFICE. A Littler Dlisletree We Hams •11 Gotta. beard. Ther e wee an involuntary exclamation of admiration as she burtt through the door.; of the theater lobby In • mantles decidedly ugressloie, followed by a gt•n- Unman of dIstinguithed appearanee. She WAR younn, pnety and fashionahly attired. TIIAI LIDO at the box ofllost lambutively paused as she took her place In front without any apology or hemitancy as to 'whether she was entitled to preewienot over those patiently waiting their turn. Hu almost meekly followed, and in • well -1seatimmiceessatesaterseed • &so doom- *ram. . the teats not sold for the night. Ile (examining the sheet)—How would you like the fourth row, dear? She—Fourth row! No, indeed. That's too close. Haven't you simething about the eighth row? Ticket Agera—Eighth row? Yea, ma& mu, two seats to the eighth row. He --A.11 right. Let's bare those. please. Sho-,Now, don't be in such • hump. You say eighth rowf Let's see where. 'Ticket Agent—On the left ado She—Left--stdat No, Indeed: 1 never dit on the left side. Show Hie something 1111 the right elde Siete-Dow niurh ire they? Ticket Agent—A dollar and • half gosh. She—Are they on the elide/ Ticket Agent—Abbe Bents are 'old. She—Sold I I detest inside settle. I pm game you are holding the aisle meta fog tome friends? The agent assured her he did not bold seats, and mutterings were beard along the line. A resigned look erupt into the tam of the gentleman as he quietly sue- g eated that they were detaining others. She (with • pout) — Oh, well, take thous I know I will not enjoy the pew forme nee. The money WAR tendered, change given, * relil I, fro!. the Ilfla 11111 they ber gan tuo‘e away, when sbe suddenly stopped with an "oh, when are they fort' Ticket Agent—l'onight, madam. The gentleman said tonight. She—Well, I neverTonight! I have an engagement with Mra. Houma tonnes& , Didn't you know .bat (turning to the gentleman)? He—You did not mention it, but we eon change the tickets for tomorrow. May We (to ticket agent)? Ticket A gen te-Certainly. After • repetition of the foregoing and O peevish aocoptanos of what was offered they moved away. The ticket agent look- ed sad, and as tbe doors clued after them the cynic, who had been watching from the other side, observed, "Some morning she will awake and wonder why he left her." OAKEY HALL FOUND HIMSELF. weir• thij illeatba After Lerfarlag Neer Torts fiell.o•don Lodgings. °obey Hall was once connected with an American paper in leindon. Hit aim wee soblevea high name at the English har. Fie wu the eon of an Englishman, tin told me once, and therefore he was in 1 ie lisb law an Englishman whenever he nhose to declare himself. He made no set ems be- cause he lived wholly in tbe pest toot hie mental inclinations were 'solely reminis- cent From the Jay of his myttertiela Mamie- pearance from New York 134, lost the pow- er to utilise his innin in any way that could earn him a Het ng. When he return- ed from Europe after that dimppenranos he and I were closeted for months tegethor in the °Moe of Mr. Hurlbert's ?sew York World. Tben it WA/ thee he teld th• truth about his dlsappearanee, ni.t with- out knowing whether or not it heri teen published In America I will repeat 11 briefly He said that onemorning be woke up in a hall bedroom In Mayfair, in the heart of London, and as be lay in bed looking with wonder at his surroundings a woman k nuked and entered the room. Elbe asked him if he would have his usual tweak feet li• inquired what him urinet breakfut was, and she, Netonished in her turn, told ht.. that be always had • pennyworth of tea, a penny roll, • penny poll of butter and as egg 'Minh cud • penny Ile asked her 50 .11 down, and then, by eries .•tefeining her, he found that be hod tett is whole anamon in that Aortae tin- der A 114411111 he never knee, that he (eared io be "a oity man" (Englieh for • man in Mutinous), that be went out every mumble. came back every evening went very fnetuently to the theater, and was the quietut. moat irreproachable, al all her lodgers. "In a word.- he mad. "I had lived the life of another man for month* unconscious of my own identity, miming - aimed by sny one, and fulfill's; the well rounded half of afloat existence. "—Julia. Ralph in Providence Journal. Orchids are l'ound•in &Imola all parte ell tim world, exempt In extremely dry ell - moose and on the herders of the (roses regions Over 5,000 stories are sow listoo• en bottsnisks Art, elYideiesiAMIWIrWiiii•Vdeii, ow Stre/i7th Ffil TifF 0111, *Or 1' 11111. Dr. Ward's Blond and Nerve AND-, , WASPOPAPPAnoiteotsfivehtwo.yet.