The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-05-02
THE mixApo.
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G@0 MtMAUOs Saturday Review.l l We gladly turn to commend the b. gently of the Idea upon whstA the plus is hase0-the vaislng ot Ko- Ko. erim- inai cond6mned so death fus iiEtinK, tu the rank ot lord high execusiones, co tAas no decapltasion can take piaca h ftssspa til ko-Ko has dacapRaseA AimselG Pooh Bah. lord hlgA everything else. who traces his ancestry back b psosoplasmal primordial atomic glohaie, and whosa family pride is consequently someehinR inconceivabae, b also q figure in Mir. Gilhert's own peculiar vein. So much has been written about the opeFA that readers can hardly fail to he acquainted with the plot. which shows, to put it very hyiehy, how Nanki- Poo, the Mikados son, has hed from the questionable charms of katisha and fallen ia love with Yum.Yum, who Is hesrotAed to her guardian, Ko. Ko; how he is so be dc prived of hts post of lord high execu- tioncF because executions seem Co the Mikado to have ceased in ntipu. and how Nanki-poo on the verge of suicide offers himself as . subject for the heads. man if he may spend the last month of his life as the husband of Yam.rum :; finally, how. though he is not heheaded, a certificate oi his death Is shown to the Mikado, who finds that 1t Is his son who has been executed. thus laying those con- cerned open to the most awful penalties for composing the death ot the heir ap. parent. The character oi the th hosoushly benevolent monarch is one of the best ideas In tho work, and the scene In which the false certificate, pointing to the de- capitation, Is iirst read by the Mikado, is so good that we are tempted to quote t.: MIX Looking at paper) Dear. dear. dear th,s is very tiresome (To Ko-ko ] My poor fellow. in your anxiety to carry heir to the throne of Japan. Ko. But 1 assure we had no idea
 r.,A. POOH But indeed, we ''s''"s'' didn't know PITTi We really hadn't the least notion MIX Of course you hadn't. How could youp Come, come, my good fel- low, don't distress yourself; It was no faslt of yours. lf man of exalted rank chooses to disguise himself as a second trombone he must take the consequence, It really distTesses me to see you take on so. I've no doubt he thoroughly de served all he got.
 (rhey rise
 "Ko, We are infinitely obliged to your majesty
 MIX obliged2 Not a bit. Don't mention 1t. How could you ,ellp
 pooH. No, of course we couldn't know that he was the heir apparent.
 Pirri. IL wasn't written on his fore head, you know.
 Ko It might have been on his pocket handkerchief, but Japanese don't use pocket.handkerchiefsi Hal ha hal
 MIX Ha! ha hal (To kAT). for get the punishment for composing the death Of the heir apparent
 TooH. Punishment (rhey drop
 PITII. down on their knees)
 MIX. Yes. Something lingering, with boiling oil in It, fancy. Something Of that sort. think boiling oil occurs in it, but I'm not sure. know it's something humorous, but lingering, with either boil. ing oil or melted lead Come, come, don't fret; I'm not bi, angry.
 Ko (ln abject tsrror) It your majesty will accept our assurance, we had no idea
 MIX or course you hadn't That's the pathetic part of Il. Unfortunately the fool of an act says, Composing the death of the hs!r apparent" There's no' a word about mistake, or not knowing, or having no notion. There should be, of course, but there isn't. That's the slovenly way In which these acts are drawn. However, chesr up, it'fi be all right. I'll have It altered next session. Ko What's the good Of thatY MIX. Now, let's see--will after lunch. con suit yoM2 Can you wait till then z Ko,, PITTi, and PooH. Oh, yes-ws can wait till then
 MIX. Then we'll make 1t afer luncheon. I'm really very sorry for you all but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical perform ances.
 The giee which follows is one which it would have occurred to no one but MT Gilbert to write:
 See how the fates their gifts sliot, For h happy, is not Yet E Is worthy, dare say, ofmore prosperity than A,
 And the condition of "happy, unde- serving A Is contras,ed with tha, of wretched, meritorious B." ------S-s-9---- 4 Beautiful Memory. tExehange.l had just run out from rose pavilion, erected in the center of a great bazaar, to get peep at Abraham Lincoln, who was slowly making his way through . vast concourse of people My hands were