The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-03-26

veniences, and I'll see you later" said
the brown-stone boy.
THAT amt no cottage!' cried an
irrepressible-looking gamin of ten,
running out; that's the morgue.
Don't we be playin' round it every
day? And them windys is the room
where the doctors grinds up the dead
bodies to make medicine Of"
The porter made good-natured
pass at the gamin, which the latter
eyaded by ducking his head.
.'It's fine here went on the garru-
lous. urchin; "this is the boss place,
you bet. I've got job clearin' off the
tables. We have fun stealth puddin
and everything. Give feller dime,
will yer? Aw, ye might"
The circumstance was slight, but
the place, the faces, and the occasion
were fixed in the minds of the par~
ticipants, and all had their bearing
further on.
Actor, was he? I've been an actor
myself" said the brown-stone boy, as
we moved eff. "Wonder if that had
anything to do with breakin' me up9
| went away with a theatre company
when l left home, the time | was
tellin' you of, and stayed with EN-
most year. 1t amt what it's cracked
up to be; it's hard lines and poor pay.
l was just gettin' ready to come out in
leadin' parts, though, when the COM
pany failed / got the old lady to put
up for me- I'd been away from home
so long that she was ready to, then,
and she thought some occupation was
better than none. | handed over the
funds to the manager, and he was goin'
to back me and see me through, and
give me salary of twenty-five dollars
a week. | was going to be juvenile.
What is juvenile?' Why, for in
stance. if you was to play Richard. I'd
play Richmond; or if you was Ham
let, I'd be Laertes, see?-that's juve-
nile.
"But the company busted, and did
not get my actin nor my money back
either. and | was stranded in small
Iowa town First we tried little va
riety-show business; then l got re-
. duced to bein' a waiter in the hotel.
| couldn't stand that but few days,
though. got a job next in canvassing
, for advertisements for the local paper
\ then | travelled with lightning-rod
man. That is what made me so handy
with the sewing-machines and Bibles
down in the Islands After while
raised money enough to get away to &
city, and started kind Of paper of my
: own. 1t was to contain theatre pro.
grammes, and be full of profitable ad
vertising around the margins-only il
wasn't. l fell in with young law.
yer. and we got up Collection Agen
U cy for the Northwest, but we seemed
to have to keep all we could collect
for expenses, and the clients wasn'
satisfied. We had a Mining ant
Il Town-Site Company afterwards il
Idaho; but the bottom dropped out O
that, too.
D. Il never used to let it cost me mucl
for travelin' and hotel expenses, IL
it these times. You see railroads ant
landlords are fattening on the hare
earnings of the people, any way, and
generally looked on what | could bea
u 'em out Of as SO much clear gain. Blu
that's all over now. s'pose I'd beel
). away from home about three year
before | finally turned up in New
York again. I'd come to understand
what the comfort of good home was
by that time, you'd better believe.
,e swore off drinking and smoking, Gu
:. the old gang dead, turned over an en-
" tirely new leaf, and was ready t,
tackle some regular business"
"And was your mother pleased t.
see you?"
PLEASED is no name for it. Sh
was most tickled to DEATH" he assert
ed, with complacent air. THE mex
thing to do was to consider my future
n The old lady was ambitious, and want
: ed me to do big things. My father
T. he had been kind Of celebrity; b.
was lawyer, and may be you've hear,
of some of his writin's, too? Sh
would like to have me follow in hi
r footsteps. I thought few minutes
= and then l says, L II go ON the lectur
platform
"'Oh, my DEAR she says, I'm afrai'
you can't
). "'I'll show you whether l can O
not, | says. 'Lecturin' is differen
from writin'. You get your little lee
q. ture done, and go all over the countr,
= deliverin' it, and rakin' in the money
Il, in but when you've written one thing
ii you've got to go to work and writ
al another. That is where my actin an,
travelin' experienced come in. Yol
: let me go ahead, and I'll be bigge
man than old Grant
$50 pitches in. | knew though
wasn't my best hold, and I'd have t,
'' piece it out with delivery" he sawed
IN the air in an explanatory way. :"
d. knew Id have to take some suhjec
. where could use the Eucyclopaedi;
s. S. pretty free; and | did use it, and don ;
you forget it, | called the thing TIL,
Perils of the Sea. When got i
y done, | took 1T to New Jersey town
where the population was mostl,
elam-diggers, | guess. l got the ole
lady to put up for me to hire hall
y and delivered it. They went wild
over it. They'd never had any show
of any kind in the place before,
guess, and they wanted me to stay
there all the time. I paid the loca
correspondent to telegraph up a few
J. lines of slush about it to the Herald
When got back, [ takes the notices
down to Cooper's Institute, and shows
/! 'em to the lecture-bureau man.
$. Here says, this is the kind OF
hairpin | am. Now put me in page
of advertiser in that journal of yours
and hustle along a stack Of engage.
ments!"
The brown-stone boy always repre-
sented himself as talking in this off.
hand way, upon the most serious SUBJ
jects and to the gravest of persons