Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30

go more or less sinitten. 1ohn u,ltrr
l,ven'snas volcanic oature suffered an sr,,-.
scns , ~, tns lava Of his love did not eyrn
| irra a., ~ suscepubilisies OF the business
, ros, ianuiady. She said she expected ali ~
sv9ners to remain, because thcy v-re fa ana
~ ner, Like some signing strunhen ba
wrote himself an urserit telegram, "a 80 ~
ior the other side OF town. 's''
| f,hiss nost Romantic episode occurred In
s 1870 nearly decade ago. While 80.
,ss,n'ns IN salt Lake City. over fifteen
Ma,do,. ana writing Up the Mountain
JsauoM Massacre. like that vnrsatile Gre
vlsn general. Alcehladrs, whtn exiled. he
,Haue himself at home In that land OF Latter
Dty SAINTS and plural wives. The result
"an W wrote Mormon play and thon he
k'n me HAD Of all his troubles. He had
!, put ~ the stage in Denver, and Brick
ag9,neIpy' VINO Is now In Gotham training
Mn ,ne retoFmers, was IN the audience.
iMo ,ong,hnired elocutonsts "queered'
me play becarse when they rot on The
stage they insisted on remaining The
author got so red hot mad that, the story
cues the hair OF, top OF his head Was
SCREENED 20 crisp. Anyway, from that
ume 70 this he has had no hiir on the
Mluwsy Plaisance Of his Uranium. and
"brlck' Pomeroy, who was there. Is now
considered freproof. The Bohemian drama.
tlst permitted the manuscript Of his play
% hoat around. and to his sstonlshmeni
ne heard that Miss Ruth Levere,t was pro-
uuoins MS polygamous drama to one-night
Etand audiences in the East He tele-
graphed 20 lawyers and had her enJoned
from producing his play A year after that
tne vlcissitudes Of fortune found him In
1nieago working en- space on soma daily.
He learned that Ruth Leyt.ett was there
and naturally he desired to meet the his
tricne VINO had tackled his drama. Under
an assumed name he called, expecting to
reveal his Identity later, but he discovered
that she occupied her leisure moments
breathing dire Vengeance upon the head OF
one scanland the playwright He told her
he was reporter and wished to know
the story OF the wrong scanland had done
her. They became fast friends. and day
after day he called at her boarding house
TO hear himself abused aud to make love
to the fair Ruth. His volcanic, warm ma
ture fairly reyeled In the situation and
like another Fedora she became fond Of
the man abe thought she hated. When
the supreme moment came. his declaration
OF love. for he had become attached to
her. was met With this theatric declaration:
when you have met this fend Of
playwright. soanland, aud have soundly
thrashed him for enioinlng me. then VIII
be yours, and not until then"
Tho wandering Bohemian went forth
without announcing his Identity, and Ruth.
the enjoined. and he Will never be Joined.
Five summers ago, when In New York.
In fatal and weak moment, he conceived
tho idea OF taking a woman el0cutionist
aud a boy rcciter on the road to appear in
small towns. a friend advised him not to
10, but like a well-regulated Bohemian,
he needed not the advice.
81 will return with a few hundred dol
lars clear and go to Havana and spend the
winter" he said.
II was in the hot month OF July when he
started out as a manager Two weeks later
his friend saw a small man, collarless.
wearing a faded linen duster and With a
battered straw hat. reclining In random,
reckless way on his head, mournfully
stroling along East Sixteenth street. near
Irving place. The Bohemian managers
looks told the tale.
"The red-headed piano FOUNDER 'queered'
me and hypnotized the. star" sadly said
the manager, relating the disaster. y
had only three IN my troupe, the star.
Emma L.. the boy prodigy and that cuss
o, an ivory hitter to play funeral music
when Emma did fearful work. ! saw that
the FOUNDER was playing TO win the star
and she was fascinated with his SOFT peaal,
Then you'll remember me- style OF playing
If the star falls In love with any one
nalh 20 her, 1t must be with the manager.
Nothing could cool the ardor OF that red
headed pedal pusher. and dissensons came
At Port Iervis We had S2.T5 In the house,
and all OF Emmas Jewels and trunks were
in the hotel and also a Dig depit 10 olr
account. But had the carh, and Just after
sho boy prodigy won't on the stage ] asked
me star TO choose between me and the
rarrot-healed piano FOUNDER, He was then
out An The orchestra pounding out rat
Ting, rollickng pasqulnade, but as soon az
spoke he changed IL to a low, SOFT usmui9
air and she decided against ms hsa
Just enough to &c. here, but tney are sun
at that hotel in hock.'
AMI IN this day Bohemian scanlani does
mot know whether the plano FOUNDER ana
| mn star arc held at tho hotel as hoslAses
| sn- their hoard. II was q more trivial IN
| cldent In his yarlegated career. Al.
In a few weeks after the Port Jeryls uls-
| aster he recouped financially and went 70
New 2rleans, II was Wni,e l.'e' , Ill ~
| nerforned a feat which. In the Annals o.
| dinion1acy, viii rank as monument 70 hls
SAVING Qualities and imperturbahle sang
War aallylng awhile with Creole delights
he longed to sniff the soft ar OF me rse,hc ~
Ocean. His means were exhausted anu w
only home Of getting free transportation was
a. ~ ahrscs,, n bir director OF the road TO San
Ersncisco. Occaslonally he had written
io.sors Tor Golden Gaze City paper ana !.
ne ss its correspondent that he presented
himself 10 the director. who by inc py, -
| outsnaheu aud emphatic W MS oAtls+ iae
,isrse,or Who had not heard at hrst ,ae
mann az the paper asked that Il 20 re-
nSstch When he heard It he uncorhed MS
vocabulary in this wise;
az is a -, blank, blank, DISSEMINATING
sbeai and II should be suppressed
Tao nspsr. edltorlally, had been attack
,,g Inc director and trying TO put lamp
hisrlt On his fair name. The ontbrrst o. the
,n5lgnant director did not fsaze john scan
i.nd in the least. and stroking Imaginary
nhin wslsl,ers he replied to the enect mat
~ Nd nothlug 10 do With the editorial
.s,,c,, ~ In p:per. and. In fact. had often
condemned II. Again, ~ nAsnihssp N ou 20
Of vltuperation, the direclor piua n,s ~,
sneets 10 the paper. And again ine elrIe-
snondent rallied. saying he haa written q
the editor protesting against his denuhei--
III, 81 the director The director. to'ps-
what moliihed, said, "The road Is not niak.
Inc much suppose you CHIP IN and hslp u
rhs correspondent said he had no money
ana therefore, could not chip IN. So;es fihs
ia an insnIratlon came to the baasuisn
IA be nolltely asked the director when ne
Vas ro,nr 10 build 4 short branch line as ne
,,ishsd Ia write somc;hlng about ~ =,
"Tsst rosd has been built sig months.
r.niied the director. "You remind me, he
continued. with that reportorial tNintie y
,he eves which Invariably denotes nv Ply
sse, IA 4 GOOD story, ''of the man COMING 70
me country on a ship. On board come one
,a,a MIN that the Jews crcihed Christ. az
,.n .s re- landed he met Jew, ara
hu9H ~ 49,. rsh 1, Tarariltp wished 10