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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1884-10-29
PENNILEss PLAY PEOPLE.
Shadows In tho Life Of Actors and
Actresses.


A case before one of the lower courts the
vtAaor ouy, wherein WIS ellclLeu ny C1e
examination that young actress had been
paying her board during the summer by
giving notes to be paid during the winter
from her salary, afforded an insight into the
vicissitudes and struggles of professionals
of this class. II has been often said that
those who see an actress all smiles and
gayety on the stage while playing part,
little dream of the weight of grief that may
be in her heart at the time. :! Outsiders"
by which comprehensive term is meant the
public-the great public-have as little idea
Of the struggles of professionals of the stage
as of their life behind scenes, except such
as is now and then afforded in the courts or
in the case alluded to- 1t is related that a
leading man at one of our popular theatres
was recently reduced TO such straits in con-
sequence of long season of idleness pre-
faced by On unromantic experience in sew
eral 81 nide companies, that in default of
settlement of distressingly aggregated
series of bills he could only get clean linen
for his rentree by taking his washerwoman
to the theatre the first night II is nothing
uncommon for an actress or actor to play in
borrowed plumes-clothes borrowed for the
occasion-modern attire not being furnish
ed by the wardrobe, only square cuts or
historical ostumes--furnished by the man.
ager, excepting, indeed, by special contract,
as in the case OF the leading lady at fash.
ionable theatre, where magnificent toilets
advertised as made by WORTH are furnish.
ed by the manager. 1t is seldom that pro-
fessionals ever wear their clothes off the
stage, An actor will go seedy in the street
in order to appear in good clothes on the
stage. The strong illumination of the foot
lights instantaneously shows up the
shine" in diagonal that oply the sun
would reveal on the street. The most in,
genious posing or atttudinizing will not
conceal the bagginess in trousers on the
stage. Only a shiny new hat will serve OF
The stage. Professionals, il they have any
wardrobe at all, always have something that
is worth something, and consequently as
long as they have their trunks, which is the
comprehensive term for wardrobe, they
need not fear their landlady. But as
the wardrobe is sine quo non, it is only in
the direst extremity that the trunk is placed
in the safe keeping of the landlords. 1t is
often done, but generally at the close of the
season, in bankrupt condition on the
roads in order to e.. back to friends. 1t is
said that there is not hotel in tho country
on what are known as the theatrical routes
that has not n choice variety Of professional
trunks in safe Keeping ..--
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LYNcEEp ON oENeRAL palnclpLEs.

In certain section in the Far West a
year or so ago, horse stealing had become
30 prevalent that Committee on the i'm
provement of Public Morals was organized.
and coil of half-inch. rope was ordered
from Denver. In the course of week a
victim fell into the hands of the committee.
and that body Immediately proceeded TO en-.
force its bylaws. Everything was ready for
the ceremony, when young lawyer from
the East who had just hung out his shingle,
asked permission to speak In defence of the
prisoner.
:" What yer got to say ?" asked the leader.
" don't s'pose the prisoner addressed any
remarks to the owner NV the boss before he
stole hit, but we air willin' to give him
show anyhow. loot yer bugie for o spell
ct yer wants ter, but don't hang on too
long, -l5..,
I" Thanks" said the young man, climb
ing up to the side..of the prisoner. "what
| have to say, gentlemen, is this :-Youand
and this man are all living under the same
Constitution, the same laws and the same
Tag We are given an equal chance before
the law,and have equal rights, but are you al
lowing this poor fellow the privileges granted
by the Constitution You have caught him,
and, without witnesses, judge or jury, pro-
pose to take away from him that which
the great Creator has given him. What do
you know of him? What proof have you
that he has violated the law2 He is
stranger to you all. He may have o home
and friends, loving wife and. happy chill
dren He may be man above reproach,
an honor to his community and credit to
his name and family. Gentlemen YOU
should hesitate before putting forth your
hands to destroy human life Abraham en-
sertained angels unawares and this man
may be an .5+ls.,
"Stop right thar, Mister Lawyer; stop
right thar, and stop to stay" interrupted
the leader. Hits all right fur yer ter stan,
up for the duffer, an yer shan't be teched fur
hit, but hole on with yer talkin at the pres.
emit time. Ef he's nm angel, as yer about
ter make him out ter be, he's too id
good ter live in this county, any way an
of he hain't a angel, hits my opinion that
he's hoss thief, an ort to be yanlSed up on
general principles, an yanked up high.
Hitch on to that rope, boys, and kick the
bari out frum in under him." z.F
Ten minutes afterward the Committee ON
he improvement of Public Morals was
liquoring at the Forty-R Saloon, and
there were ten feet less of rope in the coil.
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GIANTS THIRTY FEET HIGH.

We at the present day are mere Tom
Thumbs when compared with the huge
individuality of antiquity.
The giant Galbra, brought from Arabia
20 Rome under 0laudius Caesar, was nearly
ten feet high.
Funnaman, who lived in the time OF
Eugene H., measured eleven foet and half.
The Chevalier Sporg, In his voyage to the
Peak of Teneriffe, found in one of the
caverns of that mountain the skull of O
giant, which had eighty teeth, and 1t was
a-rrasaa 4h~A HE i>-ay --------sS sssp saaSn
fifteen feet long.
The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando,
nephew to Charlemagne, was eighteen feet
high
In TIA, near st. German, was found the
tomb of the giant Isoro., who was twenty
feet high
In 1890, near Rouen, they found skele
ton whose skull held bushel of corn, and
whose body must have been eighteen fee
long. tEf &a
Platerus saw at Lucerne the human bonei
IF a subject nineteen feet long
The giant Buart was twenty-five and O
half feet high; his bones were found in
179S, near the banks of the river Moderi.
In 1913, near a castle in Dauphine, q
tomb was found thirty feet long, twelve feet
wide AID eight feet high, on which were
cut the words, " Keutolochus Rex" The
skeleton was found entire twenty-five feet
and a half long. ten feet across tho shoulders
ard five feet deep from the breast bono to
the back a llae3s u0i asiIa fmi.
Near Mazarine, Sicily, In 1917, was found
the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high
His head was the size of hogshead, and
each Of his teeth weighed five ounces.
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POETRY.


Inc brfdat VEIL
We're married, they say, and you think you have
won me,
Well, take this white veil from my head and look
OnEe; a.- lr.-
Here's matter to vex you and matter to grieye
you
Here's doubt to distrust you and faith to believe
YOU ~,
am all as You see, common earth, common
dew
Be wary and mould me to roses, not rue!
All shake out the filmy thing, fold after fold,
And see II you have me 10 keep and TO hold
Look close on my heart-see the worst OF its sin.
ming
1t is not yours to-day for the yesterdays win
IA ming A M
z&e past is not mine-I am too proud 20 bor-
as row
You must grow to new heights i'll love you to-
morrow.
We're married I'm plighted to hold up yorr
praises,
AS the turf at your feet does its handful OF dai.
sizes;
That way lies my honorary pathway OF pride.
But, mark you, II greener grass grow either side
shall know it, and keeping in body with you,
Shall walk In my spirit with feet on the dew
We're married, o, pray that our love do moi
fall
{ have wings fiattened down and hid under my
veil,
They are subtle as light-you can never undo
them,
And swift IN their hlght-you can never pursue
them,
And spite OF all clasping, spite OF all bands,
| can slip like shadow, a dream, from YOU
hands
Nay, call me not cruel and fear not to take me,
l am yours for my lifetime to be what you make
me-
To wear my white veil for sign or a cover,
AS you shall be proven my lord or my lover;
cover for peace that is dead, or a token
OF bliss that can never be written or spoken.
Alice CQ,1b
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STRANGE pLAYFELLows.

The following account of the remarkable
friendship between the elephant Queen "
and little Don Melville is taken from an arti-
Gle by Joen r. Coryell in st. Nicholas !.
When he could just toddle, Don would run
up to Queen witha chuckle Of delight, and
putting his white, plump little arms around
hergreat brown, hairy trunk, would tug away
with oil his little strength, as if he believed
he could pull that living mountain over.
And, strange to say, he actually accom-
plished his object, for Queen humored the
little fellows fancy. Swaying and rumb-
ling with delight, she would gradually al
low herself to come to her knees, and final
touching to see how all the time she kept
her eyes lovingly on the beautiful baby,
taking care that no movement of hers
should even disturb him -
When abe was at last PROSTATE, Don
would look around as il to say, See what
can dop Then he would initiate what he
had seen the trainer perform. He would
Chamber and climb until he was on Queens
head, and there he would sit, with the all
of conqueror. He was quite likely to
thrust his little fist into the elephants eye
or to swing his foot into her mouth, but
not motion would the patient creature
make while he sat there, for she seemed to
know that he was not very secure in his
high perch.
Sometimes Don would carry his picture
blocks to Queen, and together they would
build houses. Don would put on one block,
and then Queen would take one up in her
trunk and put it in its place as carefully
if she had been used to the game. all hei
life; and when Don would kick the hous
down, as he usually did when it was about
half built, his merry laugh and her thunder
like rumble were something worth going
miles to hear.
1T never seemed to occur TO Don that
there was anything odd in his companion
ship with the gigantic creature and had it
entered his little head to do 80, there is no
doubt that he would have proposed walk
in the fields with her, with as much limo
cence as IL she had been small dog"
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INTERESTING STORY.
HONESTY OF WOMEN CASHIERS.

Do women embezzle ?''
No, they don't. never knew woman
who handled other peoples moneysto steal
one cent. 1 have employed women as cash.
iers for years. They are quicker at making
change than men they will detect counter
felt money quicker they keep their cash
accounts clearer, and don't want to run the
whole store as men do" SO said one OF
Buffalo's heaviest dry goods merchants to a
Buffalo Express reporter. g Yes, they are
invariably happy. have heard of young
women as clerks who hive pilfered small
articles-collars, hankerchiefs etc., but the
cases are rare. Most saleswomen and cash.
iers in Buffalo live at home, and keep off
the streets at night. Many belong to good
families and to churches. They are in every
sense respectable.
Newspapers nowadays are full of wick
ed embellishments. Bank presidents run
away with fortunes, wreck homes families
lives, regulations and public institutions.
Cashiers gamble, steal abscond, speculate
and use money entrusted to them by poor
working people. They lie, dissemble, de-
ceive and finally rob the directors of the
corporations employing them, but women
do not steal. Look at the suicides, caused
gars these sleek-tongued villains have
made in two cities during the past week
but women do not embezzle.
have cashier now who is the shrewd-
est woman / ever knew. She sits up there
where the cash-balls roll in, evidently kept
busy making change. But that young wo-
man knows all that is going ON at every
counter of this large store. She catches
shoplifters, reports Irregularities among
clerks, and detects every little device invent
ed by the statesmen to beat us or our custo-
mers. She is not spy, nor tattle tale
The crookedness she reports among clerks
would affect her if allowed to pass. She
often calls me up and points out some mis-
take in the cash check. saying, for instance,
that has occurred five times this week. Mr.
- is very careless So you see she
does not accuse him of willful mistakes in
making out his checks, but I understand
her and apply the proper remedy.
CASHIER place Is hard one. She
sits up there alone, generally; she must be
quick to make change, and the knowledge
that every cent lost comes out of her So to
$40 per week naturally tends to mike her
nervous. She must watch for mutilated,
punched and plugged coins; and for coun-
terfeit pieces and bad bills. The checks ac-
companying the cash and invariably written
In haste, are often illegible, and If she does
not read the figures correctly is liable to
send back too much change.
=" But you asked me if women embezzle.
Meyer have known a single case; never
have heard of one. l cannot say that of
men. have employed four young men at
different times. One left me, one was not
quick enough, the other two robbed me-"
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The p.falcasion Was Small.

Mr.. Boody defaulted to the extent Of
81 ,485, oil Of the funds Of the corporation
then in his hands. AS this, however, was
undoubtedly too modest rehypothecation
TO insure the respectful lenisncy of the
judge of the period, Mr.. B. decided upon
suicide as the most fitting thing to be done
under tho circumstances. He accordingly
jumped off the Alameda wharf last Thurs
day evening, after first hitching a bag Of
quail shot to his left ankle, Unfortunately
for the romance Of tn situation, he Owed
off at the shallowest part of the creek, and
the next morning was discovered by the
passengers on the early boat sitting solemn
on his bag OF shot, waiting for the tide to
rise. He was accordingly hauled ashore,
much to his disgust, and handed over to the
first policeman who could be awakened, te
await his trial.--San Francisco Post.
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until at last the hack drew up in front of a
wretched little house of widowed red brick,
with shoe store occupying its first floor,
and the sign " G. Delatour, Pilot" ON the
second floor doorway.
Ma, this can't be the place." gasped
poor Ida. "Tell the driver to get down
ana ASK. Dut STAY see cousin Delauour 9
face at the window. II must be the place !"
The driver came back Mr.. Delatoul
lives on the second floor" said he. " He is
river pilot, and Mrs Delatour lets out
secondhand dresses to balls and parties.
That's what the hired gal says. But the
folks aren't 10 homc.n
But they are !'' demonstrated Ilda. 81
Jaw her face just now"
Not to home" insisted the hackman
That's what the gal says, anyhow"
81 will get out and see," said Mrs.
Briggs. But Ilsa laid OBTAINING hand on
her arm.
Ma, DON'T" said she, with crimson
cheeks. :" If our cousins-who have some
what misrepresented matters to us-do not
want to see us, why should we force our
society upon them ? Hickman, drive us
back to the depot"
Mrs. Briggs burst into tears az don't
know but that you're right child" said che.
Fifth avenue, indeed Inspector of the
Port yanderbilt's balls, and Mrs A. T.
Stewards Thursday evenings It amt the
missing of our city visit, Ilda-it's the be.
ing deceived SO abominably /"
They went back to Thorncliff by the next
train. Mrs. Deletour wrote long letter Of
apology-she was so distressed, she said, q.
not being at home when her dear cousins
called-but the Briggs family took no notice
of it--and that was the last they ever heard
from their aristocratic relatives in New
York.
Mr.. Briggs chuckled. I" It's the old story
over again." said he. can Is not gold that
glitters ~
And when Mr.. Dale asked Ilda to be his
wife, she answered, with great upspring-
ing of thankfulness in her heart, Yesn
But must tell you," she added, frank.
y, g that there was time when was con-
ceited and silly enough to think that !
aspired to higher walk in life than that OF
a schoolmaster's wife,"
And now ?" said he, smiling.
Now I am 80 glad-so grateful--that
you think me worthy to hold your happiness
in my keeping" whispered Ida"
Be composed, dearest" he said. 81
have read your transparent virtues as if il
were an open book-and love you none
The less for it. We all have to learn our
lessons from the grim old teacher Expert
ence, sooner or later. Yours is learned"
So ended the episode of the Briggs fami-
ly's City Cousins. Shirley Bropne.
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The first thing to be done is to catch him.
Many good husband is spoiled in the cook
ing. Some women keep them in hot water,
while others freeze them with conjugal
GOODNESS some smother them with conten-
ton, and still others keep them in pickle
all their lives. These women serve them
with tongue sauce. Now, it is not to be
supposed that husbands will be tender and
go0u Il treszteu III rnls WY; Dut tney are,
on the contrary, very delicious when man
aged as follows Get large jar, called
jar of carefulness, which all good house
wives have ON hand place your husband
In II and place him near the fire of conjugai
love I; let the fire be pretty hot, especially
let 1t be clear above all, let the heat be
constant cover him over with the spice of
pleasantly, and if you add kisses and
other CONNECTIONS, let them be accompanied
with sufficient portion Of secrecy, mixed
with prudence and moderation.
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The Ogden correspondent Of the Salt Lake
Tribune thus mildly demonstrates The
custom OF firing pistols whenever an alarm Of
fire is sounded should be prohibited. Itlhas
become the custom in this city, whensvez
the fre-bell. rings, for every man or boy
who has pistol to commence firing at ran
dom. Happily no one has been shot as yet,
but unless the practice is stopped, there is
no telling how soon some one will be killed
or seriously wounded by some careless fool.
It is easy enough to hear the fre-bell, and
every one knows what it means; while the
firing Of pistols is perfectly useless, besides
being very dangerous and wholly meaning
1aoo ~ t,H.4.. 4s,ssaf e5-..s. F.l.a. ~
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The Rewards Of Literature,

When I knew Mark Twain about fifteen
years ago he had no money or next to none,
wrote newspaper letters at 1915 apiece, and
had been refused permission by anewspaper
to collect the letters he wrote for them. A
subscription book-house took hold of him,
put him on his feet. gave him both rest and
revenue, and by the time he was married he
was himself fairly independent in fortune.
Some Of the distinguished men, like 5effer-
son Davis, who have written their memoirs
for the regular publishing houses, have
been discouraged In The sales. The big
publishing house, with its many enterprises,
is somewhat restricted in the power to bring
all its capacity to bear upon single book.
The small book publisher who has mastered
the details Of the subscription business can
take book like Blaine's and put behind it
ten thousand canvassers OF one, and push i
onward with that rapidity which is the gen
ius Of the business.
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A Massachusetts man went to call on
some school children, and began to tell
them funny stories and pleasant tales which
made them laugh. Suddenly noticing their
faces becoming sober he turned and saw
the teacher threatening them with gestures
and fierce expression of face. On asking
her what the matter was, she said in O harsh
and solemn voice, They are never allowed
to smile in my room" Then think
your room ought to be more agreeable than
your company" he answered, and 1t is to
be hoped that he took measures by dismiss
ing her to make it 30.
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Gigantic Earth Worms.


Some few years ago, says the Pail Mall
Gazette, an account of q gigantic creature
supposed to be an earthworm appeared in
the columns of Nature. The natives of Bra
I'll called it the Minhocao its size and
strength were so great that it was able to
uproot trees in its passage through the
ground What ever may be the truth about
the Minhocao it is perfectly certain that
genuine earthworms do exist in many parts
of the world which are giants of their kind
An example of one of these has Just been
received at the Geological Gardens from the
Cape of Good Hope. It measures between
four and five feet in length and about half
an inch across the body, and it has been
stated that this particular species sometimes
attains to q length Of six feet.
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p,dp,t Talk AaaIu,t Her N.,a,,bors.

No." said an old lady, :" I'm not one to
salk agin my neighbors, or say anything be.
hind their backs: Now, there is Mrs. Brown,
she who lives over in the corner house.
may not like her very we'll, still there's no
reason why I should run her down. But
do feel miserably sorry for poor Mr. Brown
and the children. "-Troy Times.
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Composition is tho most exacti ng work in
the world. 1t requires GOODNESS, nerve, ac-
curacy. sustained effort, quiclness, exact
knowledge, o good eye, and an education
above the average-not conglomeration of
French, Latin, and the .'higher branches, I"
but thorough training in spelling, gram
mar and punctuation, which few, even we'll
educated persona possess. The better edu-
Gated the printer, the better printer he is--
or she. Printers, like stenographers, are
born for their professions. Persons Of san
guine temperament make the best printers,
and there is an old saying that red. haired
printers are the fastest
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ess' Are YOU the Rev. DR.. 7" q young man
inquired Of citizen on the street. ssNo,
sir. but I am frequently taken for him. We
resemble each other closely. I amin lAw.
yer, and make q speciality Of divorce cases.
Has your object in finding the Rev. DrueB.
any connection with matrimonyi" assWell,
yes" the young man blushingly acknowl-
edged. HIN, I thought so. just put
that card where you won't lose it."--Sun.