Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-08-26

Regarding my own personal expert
ence with the drama, | cannot do better
perhaps than give you few notes pre-
pared some years ago for an obscure
journal which was not able 10 pay FOR
same, and hence IL is introduced here.
| can vouch for the truth OF the state
ments made, which is the great and
elaring difference between most OF my
statements and the average box ONCE
statement:
my first experience with the stage
in Wyoming was In the capacity OF JUS
tice Of the peace. / was justice OF
the peace there for six long and bloody
wears. They were trouolous times while
/ sat on the woolsack, and scarcely had
put out nv official robes and swept
out the Office before business began 10
open up. Hardly had l glanced bur
riedly at the statutes-a thing l always
regretted Afterwards, for II you tried 70
understand Wyoming statutes you were
lost-when / was called upon 10 unite
in the holy bonds OF wedlock Mr.. Bron-
cho Sam OF Mandel's Ranch 10 Mile.
Tah-le-Quah ne pah-lu-tah - the Flush
Of Dawn That Wakens.the- Peewee's-
Song.
"Hardly had l taken q brief bath az
ter thle and washed away the bridal
salute with slug Of Hugo Rohn's
Scoth Terrier liquor when | was re-
ouired by the laws TO deal with the
drama. Four enthusiasts, IL seems,h
been for some time seeking To elevate
the Black Hills stage, having held 1t up
EIGHT times In seven weeks. la the
early dawn Sheriff Boswell and posse
had surrounded this camp not far from
Laramie City, aud when they awoke
and arose in their blankets TO take a
hasty view OF the fragrant morning
half a dozen OF Mr.. Winchester's justly
celebrated opinion molders looked them
in the eye. 1t was my duty to give these
men preliminary examination. lie
the language OF rising young litter
ateur' OF that time, i done so.' IL is
needless TO say that these men are now
In ratproof Enclosure where cark and
care do not enter and can never annoy
them. Since then the elevation OF the
Wyoming stage'has tagged.
soon after this occurrence l became
attached to a paper, the paper Itself
being attached In turn 10 the sheriff.
In the paper l expressed my opinions
freely, and then II any one at
tackled me regarding those opinions
so expressed finded him heavily. The
more vigorous my policy editorialiy the
more fines / was able to turn in toward
the payment of the printers.
$50 had to be more scathing some
times than | really wanted to he.
"In this paper advertised everything
that the police would allow me to men
ton. We did not wish to be yenai, but
we were between the Office boy and the
deep sea, and so We advertised things
which were unworthy at times.
Among them / ran the ad.. OF an
Uncle Toms Cabin company. l would
gladly forget it now II could, but
cannot. The CHASTITY remembrance
comes back TO me now even Ia my hap
pier moments, and my prosperity Is i'm
Uttered by the recollection that once /
advertised q show ia the Rocky noun
tains which was even more rocky than
the dear old dignifed hills 10 which /
dwelL
"Oh, but 1t was a tenacious show!
Its toughness, tenacfty and acidity were
noticeable even as IL got of the train,
for Little Eva had written In her face
the story OF precocious cussedness, and
the oodhounds were droopy.egg suck
ing, low, vuI gar, plebeIan dogs from the
Denver pound.
''In those days We painted for the
drama. We paid SIPS to $3.50 per seat
for shows that now we see ior 10. Is
and % cents on the Bowery. But this
show was bad. On, but, gentle reader,
| IL was real bad! 1t had not been deodor-
lied. Is had also escaped ;he searching
gaze of the fool Killer and state entomo-
logist.
"Mr. Legree was coarse man who
laid his pie at the Thormburgh House
in the palm Of his hand at table and fed
il in among his whlskers as one would
feed an ichthyosaurus. Oh, how low
be was. He brearhed hard while he ate,
and what cusIard be could not eat be
carried away 10 his beard.
II have often thought that the poor
performance given by this company had
much TO do with the small house which
Mr.. Booth had the following autumn.
Finally the evening came for the show.
had scared and SCARED my soul by
giving the company the moral support
OF the paper, and so az last the time
came and quite good audience. Peo-
ME had faith in me, for they knew /
would find them severely IL they did not