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

trus. me. So they came even from IS
far away as Red Buttes, Tie Siding,
Owl Creek and Independence Noun
tain.
"Mr. Marks was evidently suffering
from alcoholism. and his bald head was
made for the following morning; there
fore it did not fit him az night. al
WAYS hate the stage hald head anyhow.
Possibly it is envy on my part, but the
average bald head OF the one night
stand won't do. 1t is little worse
than the stage whisker. The thrifty
whi.ker not only grows on the chin,
but fades away along the throat and
clings lovingly to Adams apple, ont
the stage whisker does not do that. IL
leaves the under jaw exposed TO the
night air, and the bleak windpipe looks
like a poor boy az froiic. A stage
beard looming up over the bare waste
OF wind pipe and the tremulous Adam $
apple of young convas covered ham
let fatigues me great deal and drives
me into the open air.
1T is so with the stage badness,
which is apt to wrinkle across the front
breadths or drift around 10 leeward. l
do not know what part of the cow Is
used in making the foundation oil the
stage bald head, but | judge that Is
the first stomach.
IN this instance Mr.. Marks was
quite full, partly, | suppose, to oenumo
the pain which ne must have naturally
felt ut being compelled 10 witness his
own acting night after night SO his
ka1A
gave him the appearance OF a man who
has taken brief siesta under pile
driver. 1t gave him the low. retreatlng
forehead OF the muskellunEe, and as he
stood there in full glare OF the footlishts,
a miserable ham enveloped In tripe.
said TO him soto voce, You ought 10 be
ashamed OF yourself
Scarcely had the words escaped my
lips when frozen cucumber disarrang-
ed his front teeth, which were artificial.
Removing them in maudlin way, he
wiped off the cucumber seeds with his
pocket handkerchief and resumed them;
also his lines. He bad the GOODNESS and
poise Of trapped clam and the jag OF a
petit juryman.
Little Eva, who was supposed to
have just entered upon LIES yonng
morn, really had with her q long waist
ed son with whiskers, who took care OF
the blood hounds daytimes and on the
stage took other light parts. He got his
board and associated mostly with the
bloodhounds, rather holding himself
aloof from the rest Of the company.
"He was tall. meaty boy, who wore
his mothers name, as his father had
forgotten 10 register before he went
away.
Little Eva, therefore, had TO make
up good deal. and her voice needed
pairing down. She was slight thing
and wore her hair down her back, but
her 'deathbed had been so ID drafty
at Denver so she said, that IL had stif-
ened her knees SOS that she was dead
sore on the town.
"She told me this the next day Ia
order 10 excuse her rather SIN death
the evening before. Little Eva uafor-
tunately had 20 die rather late 10 the
play and did not receive the indorse-
ment which she might have received
had she done IL sooner by the time
that her second lung was gone, and
Uncle TON had almost rippened for the
tomb also, the people Of Laramie had
about decided that u Little Eva could
only Ole OF some contagious disease
which, would also wipe out the entire
company II would be good thing for
the people OF the coast
"SOciable Titus. one OF our leading
draymeu, mouse mowers and hrst night
ers, ia going out between the acts had
acquired other groceries aside from ear
damon seeds. SO bad Billy Bowen and
Tom Dayton; also Billy Wilson and
Otto Gramm. So when Little Eva be-
gan 10 expire q rather raw double yolker
from the Plvmoth Rock ranch OF Tnr-
tie Dove Abbott, on the Little Laramie
river, smote Uncle Tom in the eye and
trickled down on the pillow.
HE wiped OF the handiwork OF the
hen ana went on.
"Mr. Sinclair watched the death OF
his daughter. holding his broad hat up
before his face 10 keep of the groceries.
"He experienced religion at.the death
bed of his child, but people who stood
close 10 him and heard him swear feared
that II was not sincere. Uncle Tom
Wlpeu OH Tue eRH anu WIN IL suho vi
the burned cork, so that during the
rest OF the play be looked like black
broncho with one calico eye.
"At last Lutte Eva, having seen some
angels who appeared TO be about north
west Of where sat, In the gallery,
passed away. Mr. Sinclair sobbed In
the bedding quite awhile, and Uncle
Tom wiped his watch eye cOpously. IL
was tough scene. All at once a dead
rat took Uncle Tom under the butt Of
the ear and fell with a nauseatiDg thud
IN the breast OF the corDse