Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22

quickly through the store into the rear
room. l sauntered along, but soon re.
iuInsd as an investigator, and stilked
ooidiy through the door where the kes
disappeared. The back apartment was
suail, served as sort Of workshop.
A long table, on which the cloth for
inning coihns was cut, crossed one side,
ana behind IL some finished caskets
stood on end. A group of unprepos.
sesslng young fellows and girls were at
the iront 81 this table, just rs though IL
was bar; there were glasses on 1t AMI
Andy Kelly vas filling another from =
eofhn. had to look twice before be-.
leHing IL. But there was no mistake.
n small faucet protruded from the
closed lid, and unquestionable beer Was
moving out. No disturbance was
caused by my Intrusion. / bought a
oIink, tut II did seem to me that the
btSer"ge had a peculiar flavor Though
tie Others relished II all the b tier BY
rea' ON Of its odd receptacle.
The Interior OF the CoiHn
had zen turned into an ice box, with a
conc aled addition at the back, so that
the Reg could lie right for tapping with
out destroying the visible symmetry of
the funeral chest. How long the Police
viii overlook Andy's Innovation in the
Undertaking business remains to be
seen.
When it comes to BOwery mimicry
OF real life the sentiment must DO of an
outright kind. This I saw illustrated
on Monday evening. John A. Stevens
had announced a play new to New York,
called Passions Slave" and the al.
Tertisement promised, with pictures and
big letters, that the Henry V. Kls,n
would he q feature. Ellie Wilton, a
pretty actress, who came from San
Francisco half dozen years ago, and
has since been employed most OF the
time IN our fashionable theatres, WAS to
receive the kiss, "by the kind permis-
sion of Lester Wallack." The Windsor
Theatre, where this was TO occur, is an
enormous place in the lower BOwery,
with n seating capacity of 1900 to 1000,
and IL was crowded. In one box sat Mr..
Stevens divorced wife, Lolita Church,
who is Italian aud reputedly Jealous. In
another box was Miss WiItOn's
Affisnced u>band.
by my side was man whom took,
from his conversation with his COM
panlon, to be an attachc OF the theatre.
Expectation had been raised to a great
height-to the level of the fourth tier of
hegallery, in fact. for when the boys
up there saw Stevens, as the sentimental
hero, embrace Miss Wilton, they yelled
their recognition of the situation AS
they had seen IL in the pictures.
Stevens went behind the actress, threw
his arms around her. drew her up close,
and, by placing Que hand under her
chin, turned her face into kissing dis
lance. We had all read low an actress
had quilted the company in the West
because she though this kiss was an i'm.
proper piece of stage realism. Miss
Wilton's actual sweetheart, in the box,
withdrew partially behind the drapery,
possible TO hide his emotion, and leveled
his opera glass. The divorced Mrs.
Stevens leaned slightly forward and
opened her eyes wide. AS for ME, l
took out my watch, resolved to time
the kiss accurately aud cody. But all
of US were doomed TO disappointment.
Just as the lips of the actor were setting
down upon those of the actress she
suddenly turned her mouth aside, aud
the kiss struck her cheek with quite
Oh pas sionate effect. The theatre at
tache close by me muttered some deep
cursing; and then he said: "She
sgrerd to do it, but you can't depend
upon woman