The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-14

be one IN n double sense, tOr Lenbs Cfcus ls
about to take its departure. Tragedy is writh-
ing in its last spasms. The present week is the
final one for some time to come of Mr.. Booths
melodramatic sock and Shakespearian busxin.
The brandy cocktail of a sterner season is giving
way to the gentler Jamaica sour. Country
board advertisements are being stuck in the
newspapers and No-moving-in-May placards in
the windows. Rents are coming down; busi-
ness is going up; spring fever is upon the lazy;
spring medicines being swallowed by the
languid, and the May magazines will be out in
day or two. All this is but saying that by to-
morrow we shall have half-completed the second
month of spring.
The Rev. Horace Cooke.
You will of course know by this time that the
Rev. Horace Cooke has been allowed to with
draw from the ministerial Office with the stigma
of criminal unftness attached to his name. But
the manner in which he was disposed of was far
from being satisfactory to all the members of
the New York Methodist East Conference.
Many of them were afraid to touch the case at
all. They dreaded the scandal" of it, they
shrank from the responsibility of kicking up a
dreadful breeze. Some of them were for caking
him with thick layers of moral Email de
Paris" Brother Pease was in favor of his
being allowed to go scot free, without any
by which he justified this proposition
was, that Horace would thereby be per-
mitted to re-enter the Methodist or any other
Church without confession or contrition. And
who, pray, is the Reverend Horace, or any other
minister that he should not confess and be con-
trite, the more publicly the better? Brother
Mallory was dreadfully exercised lest "tremen-
dous breeze" shall be kicked up, but Brother
Mallory ought to be discerning enough to know
that such wind, however hard it might blow,
or however i'll it might seem, would blow some
one good, probably one of the weak-minded
brethren who are already trembling upon the
verge that proved fatal to Cooke. Mr.. Lanahan
was about the only clergyman present who had
the common sense and the moral courage to
speak the truth and shame the devil with respect
to the clerical girl-abductor The entire pro-
ceedings were conducted with a moral ginger
liness which reflected very unfatteringly upon
the common-sense and spirituality of the con-
ference.
Another Managerial "Reminiscences.
Not very long ago popular New York mana
ger, whose name is synonymous with the per-
fection of elegant comedy, started on a starring
tour, which was prolonged among the Eastern
States. During portion of the tour he and his
company remained for o few days at neat
little country town which travelling stars rarely
VISIT and which is almost never blessed with any
dramatic performances whatsoever. Now itso
happened that in the same street with the hall
at which the itinerant comedian was appearing
lesser hall was situated, at which o band of
! genuine nigger mnstrels had announced itself.
! AS ill-luck would have it, they had with them
| some performers on brass instruments, and as
| evening approached these performers were sta
! toned in front of the niger minstrel hall and
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did, and the public piled in in manner wonder
| full to contemplate. The native pumpkins of
| that little town came streaming along in unbro-
| ken procession, as though not an inhabitant was
to be left outside of the building, at least upon
| that particular evening. The managers of the
star comedian were at their wits ends. This
| would never 90. By present indications there
would not be one dollar in the house, the nigger
| minstrels were carrying all before them. At
length when the evil seemed irretrievable, a
brilliant idea seized the managers of the star
| comedian. The company which supported him
| had with them a fine military band which gave
| effect to several of the acts of certain cele-
brated military drama. In a trice this band was
ushered out, stationed before the hall in which
the star comedian was to appear, and perempto-
rily commanded by his managers to play their
loudest, without ceasing until orders came from
! tne managers 1Or Lneln 10 stop. AT LnaL moment
| the star comedian, unconscious of this strategy,
was in his dressing-room making up for his
part and combing that moustache which is
notorious wherever the English language is
spoken. OF sudden the music of the band
| struck his ears.
"Hullo devilish fine band that for little
country townE" he exclaimed. upon my word
remarkably good Whose band is that?"
There was no avoiding that question, and in a
moment more the star comedian had discovered
that the band was his own, his very own, to
whose music he had been wont to adjust one OF
his most effective denouments.
Thunder and lightning!" he exclaimed, ''am
I travelling with monkey show? Call -,
call - call -" he shouted, naming at
random every manager and agent upon whom
his memory could fasten. ''Tell them won
play tell them I'll cancel my engagement tell
them l won't tread another step! tell them -
Here words failed him, and sinking down upon
the nearest chair he gave groan that would
have made tragedian of him could he have go
it off upon the boards. But it was all in vair
he sent messengers and protestaTions. The banG
had been expressly commanded to play by the
star comedians managers and would not cease
for any one else. These managers themselves
were out of sight and judiciously kept so unit
the hero of the performance had arrived. By
that time, it unnecessary to say that the min
strels had been crushed completely the bigges
house of the season had been played in to gree
the star comedian, and Elegant Comedy routet
Niggerism with great slaughter.