The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-26

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UNITING BRONCHo SAM TO MILE. TABLE
QUAT-NE-PAH-LU-TAH
and requiring a 200 foot stage. I do not
know why, of course. but the more diff
ficult and dangerous the play the more
greedily 1t is gathered in by the anna
teur.
/ once knew an amateur company to
undertake the Passion Play" using
the home baseball nine for apostles rs
far as it would 60. Local gags were in
troduced also, and Judas went out on
strikes. a novelty was also introduced
during the trial scene, a change of
venue being asked for on the ground
that PLATE was prejudiced.
Regarding my own personal expert
ence with the drama, l 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
l can vouch for the truth of the state
ments made, which is the great and
daring difference between most Of my
tements and the average box Office
ttement:
''My first experience with the stage
Wyoming was in the capacity Of jus
&c of the peace. ] was justice of the
eace there for six long and bloody
ears. They were troublous times while
1 sat on the woolsack, and scarcely had
/ put on nay official robes and swept ont
the Office before business began to open
up. Hardly had ! glanced hurriedly at
the statutes-a thing always regretted
afterward, for if you tried to understand
Wyoming statutes YOU We're lost-when
was called upon TO unite in the holy
bonds of wedlock Mr.. Broncho Sam of
Mandel's Ranch TO Mile. Tah-le-quah-
ne-pah- lu-tah = the Flush of Dawn
That Wakens- the PeeWee' s-SOng.
Hardly had taken brief bath after
this and washed away the bridal salute
with a slug of Hugo Rohn's Scotch Ter
rier liquor when | was required by the
laws to deal with the drama. -Four en-
thusiasts, it seems, had been for s0me
time seeking to elevate the Black Hills
stage, having held it up eight times in
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 a hasty view of the
fragrant morning half a dozen Of Mr..
Winchester justly celebrated opinion
molders looked them IN the eve. It was
my duty TO give these men a preliminary
examination. In the language of a riS-
ing young 'itterateur' of that time, 1
done so. 1t is needless TO say that these
men are now In a ratproof Enclosure
where cark and care do not enter and can
never annoy them. Since then the eleva-
ton Of the Wyoming stage has tagged.
Soon after this occurrence l became
attached TO n paper, the paper itself be-
ing attached in turn 10 the sheriff. In
the paper l expressed my opinions free
", and then if any one attacked me re-
garding those opinions SO expressed [
fined him heavily. The more vigorous
my policy editOrialiy the more fines 1
was able 10 turn IN toward the payment
of the printers.
$50 l had to he more scathing some
times than / really wanted TO be.
in this paper I advertised everything
that the police would allow me to men
ton. We did not wish 10 be venal. bat
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. 1
would gladly forget it now If L could,
hut I cannot. The CHASTITY remembrance
comes back to me now even IN my hap
pie- moments. and my prosperity Is I'm
FILTERED by the recollection that once /
advertised a Sho,. N the Rocky noun
tains which was even more rocky than
the dear old dignifed hills IN which I
dwelt
"Oh. but it was a tenacious show! It's
toughness, tenacity and acidity were
noticeable even as i got of the train,
for Little Eva had written in her face
the story Of rrecocious cussedness, and
the blOOdh0unGs were droOpy, egg suck
ing. low. vulgar. plebeian dogs from
the Denver pound.
In those DAYS we painted for tie
drama We pad $I.25 TO $50 Der seat
for shows that now we see for 10. Is
and % cents On the Bowery. But this
show was bad. Oh but, gentle reader.
II was real badi II had not been deolor-
lied. II had also escaped the searohIEE
gaze OF tle FOOL klIIer ana stare en-
tomoloSist.
Mr. LeE-ee was n coarse man who
laid his pie 81 tine Th0rmburEh H0use IN
the palm II his hand al table and fed
il II among his wliskCrs ~ one wollo
feed an ichrhyosaUrus On, how low be
was, Re brearnsd hard while ne ate,
and what cus-a-d he could NOS eaI Ae
carried away IN his beard
u have often though, thar the D7c-
performance given by this company lau
much u DO with the small house which
AT. BoQIh had the following autumn