Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-29
ICopyright. 1894. by Edgar w. Nye..

UNITING BRONCHO SAM TO MILE. TABLE
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 and requiring 200 foot stage. do not know why, of course. but the more diff ficult and dangerous the play the more greedily it is gathered in by the anna tcur.
 once knew an amateur company to undertake the Passion Play," using the home baseball nine for apostles as far as it would go. Local gags were in- troduced also, and Judas went out on strikes. A novelty was also introduced during the trial scene. . change of venue being asked for on the ground that Pilate was prejudiced-
 Regarding my own personal expert ence with the drama, cannot do better perhaps than to give you few notes prepared some years ago for an obscure journal which was not able to pay for same, and hence it is introduced here. can vouch for the truth of the state mcnts made, which is the great and glaring difference between most of my statements and the average box office statement:
 My first experience with the stage ill Wyoming was ill the capacity of jus tice of the peace. was a justice of the peace there for six long and bloody years. They were troublous times while I sat on the woolsack, and scarcely had put on my official robes and swept out the office before business began to open up. Hardly had I glanced hurriedly at the Statutes-a thing I always regretted afterward, for if you tried to understand Wyoming statutes you were lost-when l was called upon to unite ill the holy bonds of wedlock MT. BrOncho Sam of Mandel's Ranch to Mile. Tah- le-quah- ne-pah-lu-tah -t the Flush of Dawn That Wakens-the Peewee' s-Song.
 Hardly had taken n brief bath after this and washed away the bridal salute with slug of Hugo Rohn' 's Scotch Ter rier liquor when I Was required by the laws to deal with the drama. Four en- thusiastS, it seems, had been for some time seeking to elevate the Black Hills stage, having held it up eight times ill seven weeks. In the early dawn Sheriff Boswell and posse had surrounded this camp not far from Laramie City, and when they awoke and arose in their blankets to take nasty view of the fragrant morning half dozen of MT. Winchcster's justly celebrated opinion molders looked them in the eye. It was my duty to give these men preliminary examination. In the language of ris- l ing young 'litterateur' of that time, T done SO It is needless to say that these men are now i'll a ratproof inclosure | where cark and care do not enter and can never annoy them. Since then the eleva- ton of the Wyoming stage has Jagged | ''Snon after this occurrence became attached to paper, the paper itself be- | ing attached in turn to the sheriff. In the paper I expressed my opinions free | ly, and then if any one attacked me re- gardling those opinions so expressed fin,'l him heavily. The more vigorous my policy etiitorially the more fines I was able tO turn in toward the payment of the printers.
 ''So had to bc more scathing some times than I really wanted to be.
 Tn this paper advertised everything that the police would allow me to men ton We did not wish to be venal, hut We were between the office boy and the deep sea, and so we advertised things which were unworthy at times.
 Among them 1 ran the ad of an Uncle Toms Cabin company. would gladly forget i: now if could, but 1 cannot. The ghsstly remembrance comes back tO nIc now even i'll my hap pier moments, and my prosperity is i'm hittcrcd by the recollection that once I advertised a show in the Rocky moun- tains which was even moro rocky than the dear old dignified hills in which dwelt.
 'Oh, but 1t was tenacious showi Its toughncss, tenacity and acidity were noticeable even as 1t got off the train. for Little Eva had written in her face the story of prccocious cussedness, and the bloOdhounds were droopy. egg suck. ing. low. vulgar. plebeian dogs from the Denver pound
 Tn those days We panted for the drama We paid S1. 25 to S1. 90 per seat for shows that now we see for 10, Is and 25 cents on the Bowery. But this show was bad Oh. but, gentle reader, it was real bad! It had not been deodor. izcd It had also escaped the searching gaze of the fool killer and state en. tOmOlOgist.
 MT. Lcyree was coarse man who laid his pie at the Thormburgh House iu the palm of his hand at table and fed it in among his whiskers as one would feed an ichthyosaurus- Oh, how low ht was! He breathed hard while he ate, and what custard he could not eat ht carried away in his beard
 , II ha often thought that the poo performance given by this company haG much to do with the small house whicl MT. Booth had the following autumn Finally the evening came for the show had scared and scared my soul b, giving the company the moral suppor of the paper, and SO tt last the tim, came and quite a good audience. Peo pie had faith in me, for they knew . would fine them severely if they did no trust me So they came even from as fa away as Red Buttes. Tie Siding, Ow Creek and Independence Mountain.
 ''Mr. Marks was evidently sufferinl from alcoholism. and his bald head wa made for the following morning; there fore 1t did not fit him at night. I al F ways hate the stage bald head anyhow Possibly it is envy on my part, but tn average bald head of the one nigh stand won't do It is little worse thal the stage whisker. The thrifty whiske not only grows on the chin, but fade l away alon@ the throat and clings lov