The Worthington advance., 1886-01-28

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commenced weeks engagement at
Masonic hall last Monday night, the
opening bill beng my Partner, y
which was rendered in the style usual
to the travelling troupes that playsin
small towns. Seine of the actors were
good. some ranters and some sticks.
though the general effect produced
was good. Tuesday night, however,
the play of "Forget Ne Not" was pre-
sented in an admirable manner. The
germ Of the the theme is found in Ar.
ticle 148 of the Code of Napoleon,
which provides that q son under %
cannot legally contract marriage with
out consent Of his parents, while it al
SO provides that the parents must for
mally impugn the marriage within q
year Of its coming to their knowledge,
otherwise it il valid tor all time. In
the play a marriage under such condi-
tions has taken place between q pure
and good girl and the son of q pair of
gamblers and adventurers of the worst
SORT. The son dies and the wicked
mother forces her way into the family
of her daughter-in-law and threatens
to illegitimize her own grandson un-
less she is received and given the sane
tion of their introduction into society,
Sir Horace Welby, an Englishman,
who has known and bean intimate
with her in the days when he was sow.
ing his wild oats, is now in love with
the sister Of her sons widow. He uu-
dertakes to drive her from the house
by thteatenlng to expose her past life
to the public, but she meets him with
puzzling question as to why he is
morally better than she, and why a
man may be allowed to lead two lives
while a woman is restricted to one.
He is bafaed aud beaten at every point
until he chances to have put into his
hands the story of a young Corsican
convict ruined by the adventures and
her husband, who has already murder
ed the husband and is seeking the same
revenge upon her. So abject physical
fear is finally made the means of her
discontinue. The costumes were ele-
CANT, the crazy patchwork dress of the
adventures being especially admired.
The bill last night was ''The Planters
Wife," They have drawn good houses
so far, and the engagement promises
to be a successful one. The company
play the remainder Of the week, with
Saturday matinee. The cornet playing
was good feature of the entertain
ments. The bill for to- night is "That
Boy of Dan's," Marie Haines taking
the part of "Reddy" the aforesaid boy.
In an interview with a Pioneer Press
reporter a politician from this congres.
sional district says:
Wakefield is a candidate for renomi-
nation as a member of congress-. He
may get back, as while he has not do, 9
anything startling in congress, he has
not made any bad mistakes. He will
not ! ave a walk-away, however. for
the nomination. ard will have to fglt
hard to obtain majority of the votes
III the convention. His competitors
are Gen. Baker. Ira Shissler and NJ. D.
l.: Collister, of Maukato, John Lovel
of New U!m, the receiver of the
Tracy land office, and Senator Crosby
of Adrian.
Dixon Of the associated press has
fallen victim to the wiIes of progress
i've euc!re. First he smoked stoga ci-
gars, then played billiards indust rious-
ly but badly-and all the time his
friends never believed that anything
serious would result. But now lie is u
member of five progressive enc',re
clubs and attends them with clock like
regularity. lie is 4 devotee Of the
game in all that the term implies, and
it is reported that he even goes so far
rs t" stamp his telegraph pages with
gold and blue stars.-St. Paul Dis
patch.
This is supposed to he the same Dix
on who used to preach in the NJ. f.
church at this place. How are the
mighty fallen.