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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

You are charged" said the judge,
with passing counterfeit bills?"
YES. yer honor, but be merciful. fer
I've never had any show; if I'd only
been in congress I'd lever passed any
bills at allr--Atlanta Constitution.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
The Wastes of Siberia

Are not more barren OF comfort than the
waists of those who suffer from dyspepsia.
fromlivercomplaintOr from kidney trouble.
But in HOstetter's Stomach Bitterst heT can
find relief. SO can the malarious. the rheu-
matte. the neuralgia. the feeble and the old.
Use with persistence this remedy with Il
career of over a third of n century. \ VINE
glassfulthrce times q day.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

Little Sister, haven't seen papa
snokin' a cigar since New Years.
Little Brother-I guess he's tryin' to
save up enough money 1, pay fOr that
smokin' jacket mamma gave him.-Good
News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

Lcna-Are you going over to try to
console the young widow?
Bellc-No, it's no use. Her husband
fixed his property SO she would lose it
If she married again.-Town Topics.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
Surprised. I;ut Seif-P,
! Eow-Wow QUESTION.

Suppose" Sid little Mabel. the
other day, that ~ pug dog should
try to follow his nose, would he run
down his threat or would he just turn d
back soTnersault?--Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
That's Where They Differ

Alice-If we stay on this rock much
longer the tide will wash US off. Time
and tide, you know, wait for no man.
Marie (mournfully)- That's where
they differ from us - Rogersville
(Tenn.) Review.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

"loU say YOU made money in business
Certainly" replied the New York police
man. WHAT WIS Your stock in trade
1t wasn't a stock i'll trade. Il was 4 trade
in stock. Washington star.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

And. papa. what did grandfather do
for his rDuntry?"
Nothing whatever. my son. lie was
q members; cOngressr-A:lanta Consti-
tutiop
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

DESPERATE from Colorado Your
monev or your life" TraveIer-"Here.
take this purse of gold" Desperate with
feelingJ-"hccp it, stranger. I'm 4 thief.
but amt no EoldoEg Harlem Lie.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

4 PLEAsAXTEY.-He-'I never smoke i
cigarette without thinking what n fool
am Slle-"I didn't know before that there
was any virtue il cigarettes, at all."-De-
troit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

She carried her new dress away,
But. ali. my heart il grieveS
To tell she had 20 hire q dray
To carry home the sleeves.
Albany Herald
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
He Reminded Her.

me OF some one.
Mrs. Neighbors-He reminds me of
his mother every time the cooking
doesn't suit him.-Philadelphia Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

Observation-Disclosures show any aptitude
rs a Washington correspondent Miss
oh. my. yes, When he heard that baby
Esther had the collie, he tried to interview
the secretary of interior about it."-Life.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

HALE's Honey of Horehound and Ter re-
licvcs whooping cough.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in Il minute.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

PERTLr-'There is one thing l have TO say
in favor OF the wind when it whistles"
Dullhead Whats tlIat:" Pertly - 1T
never whistles popular airs."-Harper's
BaZlr.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

ToMMY-.Paw. what is an intellectual
s~oiree:' Mr.. Fight is generally one
where the refreshments do not cost much
more than a dime a ead."-IndianapoliS
Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

1sHALL expect you" said the justice to
the colored culprit, Ito tell the whole truth
DE whole truth. sah!'' Yes" ',Jedge,
jes' gimme six months."-ALanta Consttu
ton.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

IF one would make good timehe must not
go too fast.-GalvestOn News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

Two PAIRS of lips once CHANGED TO meet
Behind q friendly door,
And both exclaimed: at seems to me
That we have met before"
N. y. Herald
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16

IT is almost as easy 10 believe one when he
speaks in ~derogation of others as when he
speaks in praise of oUrselves.-Boston Tran
script.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-02-16
JUsIIFIiBLE REMoNsTRANCE.

Father want you 20 understand
that FIVE thousand dollars is all my
daughter will eve get.
~Suitor-But, my dear sir, before you
make this decision final please seruti-
nize your daughters face more closely.
-FIiegendc Blaettcr.
Surprised. Eut seif-Possessed.
20. Georgc!"
Laura. dearest! I'm So"
stop where you are, George! I'm
ever so glad TO see you, of course. but ]
will not have my sleeves rumpled!7-
Chicago Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-29

He has been player for nearly forty
TOUR years, and although Ga years of
age, doesn't look go
He does not consider himself an old
timer and rarely talks in a reminiscent
vein. He prefers to converse on today.
But when he does speak of the long
ago it is to applaud the old resident
stock company regime. In those days
the elder Booth, Forrest, Fechter, the
elder Wallack, George Vanderhoff and
a host of other celebrities, toured the
country without taking with them a.
large company, costumes and scenery.
They walked into a theatre knowing
that the manager had everything ready
for them, well-drilled company.
schooled assistants to handle the cos
tunes and scenery and every needed
convenience at immediate command.
To tell of the others or of the women
Of the stage Of a generation or two
ago would take too much space. There
are scores of them, celebrities in their
day, and now almost forgotten. and
many of them fighting with the feeble
desperation of old age, that terrible
monster-poverty.
GRANTLAND-GRIEVE.
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Until a few days ago the big gam
blers of the country who flock to Goth
am in the summer time for the purpose
of making things lively in the betting
rings of the race tracks talked of moth
ing but the seasons dullness-the alb
sence of huge bets and the scarcity of
plungers.
All this has been changed and the
season is closing amid a sunburst of
glory. The cause of it all is a COM
monplace young man. who dresses
rather shabbily and looks for all the
world like the rest of mediocre human
lily. He has a tilted nose and that is
about his only claim to facial dis
tinction
This young man is Riley Grammar
the premier plunger of the day. Wal
ton, Dwyer, Pittsburg Phil, Abingdon
Bard, Ike Thompson, all the plungers
living and dead of the past century.
nave been outdone and pushed into the
shade by this ordinary-looking young
man.
There have been many men who have
been styled the Napoleon of the het-
ing ring, but Grennan is more worthy
OF the title than any of them. How to
accumulate a fortune is a question
which 80 per cent of humanity spend
their lives trying to answer. Those
Who have solved the riddle, in the af-
termath of their opulence frequently
lay down golden rules for their strug-
Cling brethren to follow. The advice
usually is. to get the first Thousand
dollars and the rest is easy. Some adj
wise real estate, others savings banks
railroad stocks and kindred invest,
ments
The career of a man like Riley Gran
nan IS an electric shock to all these
traditions of wealth-getting. Here is
an example of his money-making now
ers: When the racing season at sara
toga began, the latter part of JuIy.
Grammar had just $50 in the world
When the season closed at the Conev
Island Jockey club track, on September
IA, Grammar had $195, 900. Thus with a
capital of $50 he made in less than
two months time a ful-fedged for
tune. This is a record that has never
been beaten, and it will probably
stand for many years to come
A Meteoric Career.
Grannan's turf career has been mete-
ORIG. He is 27 years old and looks 81
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FAVORED THE POOR.
Misguided PhiIanthropist Distrib-
uted Pennies For Mill


At the beginning of summer cbarit-
able organization secured permission from
the common council of New York to
erect dairy building in the City Hall
park for the sale of milk at a penny a
glass The enterprise has been a. great
success SO far as patronage is concerned
There is hardly a moment in the daV
when the place is not crowded with Gus
toners, and most of the milk-shake men
have been driven out of business by the
low price. The idea was TO favor the
poor, but all classes have taken advan-
tage of the enterprise, the milk being
strictly pure and ice cold. 1t has been
the habit of certain patrons when thew
receive pennies in change 20 Distribute
them to the men sitting on the benches
! got nine pennies back out of my dime
the other day, and [ passed along the
bench and handed them out to as many
men. Then / walked off bit and halted
10 see the nine go up to the dairy. They
didn't march. they collected in a group.
and began to "head or tall and present.
ly advanced and asked what sort of a
trick they were up to.
ITO see which three of US shall get the
was the reply.
But / gave this crowd nine cents to
buy nine glasses Of milk | said
Milk be hanged! There's just enough
for three of US 10 get glass of three
cent beer apiece, and the other six must
wait till the next good hearted chap comes
along. Milk, Why. only children drink
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gently by the last few mile stones of
life, away from the flashing of the
footlights.
At the Players club the other day
two fine-looking, White-haired old men
met. They greeted each other with
dignified courtliness and then sat down
II large armchairs and began talking.
Their eyes tWinkled with keen interest
and joy; they made little gestures
which, TO the on-lookers, were as plain
as words; they laughed melodiously
now and then; they nudged each other
playfully, and one smoked long VIII
demonstrating stogieS while the other
slipped Scotch whisky and water.
What did they talk Of? 1t is not diff
fcult to answer this question when you
know who these old men were. What
could they talk Of but old times-the
days Of the great Macready, of Booth
the elder and the younger, Of Edmund
Kean, of al the wonderful players of
the last sixty years.
One of the old men was Henry Howe,
eighty-thrse years Of age and player
for nearly six decades. More than that,
he is still playing, being a member of
Sir Henry Irving'S company. The other
old man was Charles W. Couldock,
eighty years old. He made his debut
flfty-nine years ago. Both of these
old men are English born, but Mr..
COuldOck has spent much Of his life
in tAis country and intends ending his
Gays here. Mr.. Howe was protege Of
both Keene and Macrea6y, and Mr..
Couldock regarded Macready as his
patron saint.
What bonds of unity tied these men
together! And meeting in the Players
club, hallowed by the declining years
and death Of Edwin Booth, the grand
est of all Ha nlets, what emotions
must have thrilled the frames Of these
Did menl With fine pride one os these
octogenarians piloted the other octo-
genarian through the beautiful home Of
the players.
Where They Talked.
When they came to the suit Of rooms
which were the home of Booth they
spoke softly. In Booths sitting room,
with everything arranged exactly as it
was on the day the owner died, they
sat down n the armchairs on either
side of the small table and spent the
rest of the day there. They had no
wish 10 90 anywhere else. 1t would
have been almost a sacrilege for &C
tors Of the young genera ton to sit
there and talk and handle the books
loved so well, but If the owner had
been living how he would have well
Il coined these old fellows to his homeI
Mr.. Couldock told Mr.. Howe it was
pity that another fine old fellow, Joe
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Jefferson, was not in town, because Mr..
Jefferson is to the Players club now
what Mr.. Booth used to be. But JEFF
ferson was schoolboy when the other
two were actors with established repu-
tations. Jefferson has not reached the
seventy milestone OF life yet. So he is
regarded as quite a boy by the other
two.
CouIdock's Debut.
It would require volumes to ade-
quately give the history of these two
men. Mr.. Couldock tells of his first
stage appearance in this way:
I was born on April 26, 1915. at Long
Acre, London. My father died when
was four years old, leaving me an or
phan, and my grandmother undertook
my rearing. Now, as to my going on
the stage, that is quite a story. 1 had
an uncle, the possessor of an agreeable
speaking voice, who used to contribute
his part to Christmas and Twelfth
Night entertainments by reciting.
Twice a year, generally during the
holidays, my uncle took me to see per-
formances at the Surrey theatre until I
was about eleven years old. l saw
Macready at different times play Hot
spur, Cassius, King John, Jaques. Car
dlnal Wolsey, Hamlet, Macbeth, Richie
lieu, Othello, Claude Melnotte, Evelyn
in Money, Brutus and other charac-
ters. He was fine in everything he did.
have no doubt that Edmund Kean
could play certain parts better than
Macready-say Richard III, OtheIlo, Sir
Giles Overreach and Shylock, but he
could not have approached him as Cas-
sius and Hotspur.
His First Audiences.
When 1 was eighteen I had quite a
reputation among warehouse men for
recitations, and Joined the Aldersgate
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AT EyENTIDE.

leave the city behind me.
Shaking its dust from my feet:
Leaving its thunder and roar and trade,
haste to the covert sweet,
Where from dusk Of the elm-boughs
archinG,
AS in long cathedrals dim.
Through the hush of the lingering twi-
light
The fhreshers sing hymn.
In the town where hurry and hustle
And squalor and sin were there,
And the trail of the worship of nammon.
And the wearisome burden of care.
In the fields are silence and perfume,
And one might kneel and pray
In the calm and clustering forest
At the tender fall of the day
The birds go flying homeward
To the nest in the tree-top dim,
And the vespers Se into stiffness;
The thrush has finished his hymn.
OH beautiful lanes, love you
AS you skirt the babbling brooks,
As you seek to the root of the noun
tain,
AS you find the hidden hooks,
Where the ferns in great green masses
The edge of the swamp-land rim,
Where. I linger till stars awake above,
And the thrushes sing their hymn.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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the real name of FPittsburg Phil" is
the counterpart of Grammar physically
and they would almost pass for twin
brothers.
Smith has cultivated a horse mem
DRY to a remarkable degree. He knows
the winning distance of ali the. horses
down to a small fraction of a furlong;
the exact weight they can safely
Shoulder; the Jockeys who ride them
best; the kind of company they can
win in; whether they run true in large
or small fields; if the track must be
dusty, dead, heavy or muddy, and
above all, the construction of the
track. This latter is consideration
which few bettors take into account.
Some tracks are so built that even af-
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5 feet inches in height and weighs
about 140 pounds. In a crowd of men
he would probably be the last to be
picked out as plunger He looks and
dresses like $10-a-week clerk. There
Is nothing typical of the sport about
him; he does not drink, dissipate in
any form or wear diamonds. No one
ever heard him swear, but he says so
little that his limited vocabulary has
no space for profanity.
Silence is Golden.
He never talks horse. Money in
great big chunks does all his talking
for him He works, thinks and bets.
He goes to the races every day,
watches the horses and times them in
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Institute for the sake of becoming
member of its elocution class, and
there, as was the custom, used to re-
cite before my fellow-students two and
three times a month. [ was successful
in class and one day happened to say
10 my grandmother that l should like
to become an actor
Il found that very remark distressed
her exceedingly. l said no more about
it. On my twenty-first birthday my
dear grandmother died, and as 1 had
no one else to consider, 1 determined
to try myself in one part at the thea
tres.
Il got letter of introduction to Mr..
Burton, who was second old man at
Saddler's Wells theatre, and by taking
Flo worth of tickets I secured permis-
sion TO perpetrate Othelio at his bene-
fit. OF course, it was at the dull sea-
son of the year. and the majority of
the audience came in With my tickets.
Almost all the warehouse men of the
city were there, ana they applauded
everything 1 did,
After many years of hard work he
joined the Edinburgh theatre in 1874,
the same season that Lester Wanack
and William Davidge became members
of the company. In the late forties he
played in Liverpool and Birmingham
with Macready. Vanderhoff, Charles
Kean, Nine Vestris and Charlotte
Cushman.
Macready's Oddly.
OF Macready Mr.. Couldock says:
He used to do a most remarkable
thing in Macbeth He would fight
with a different sort of sword in the
duel scene than that which he carried
during the play. He insisted upon
swords with no guards, which left the
wrists absolutely unprotected. He
used to handle his sword like a fiend.
He gave me a number of scratches.
One night hit him on the wrist. I saw
no blood, so / thought I must have
struck him with the side OF the sword.
and the woL nd was of no account. AS
was leav: -g the theatre, 1 saw that
there was light in his dressing room.
One of the attaches said that he had
sent in hurry for hot water. went
to him at once. The wound was bleed
ing copiously. I expressed nv sincere
regrets. Mr.. Couldock, he said. grand
iloquently. if you ever get a cut, al
ways battle the wounded portion in
hot water. 1t is exceedingly effica-
cious.' Afterwards he was more than
ever in favor of Macbeth and MacdIIfP
fighting with swords without guards .
Macready wanted him to go to Hon.
don and act with him at the Prin-
cesses'. but Charlotte Cushman 1ade
MIN an offer to accompany h& to
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America, which he accepted. This was
in 1S49, and for more than forty years
he was figure in American theatre
Gals. Now he seldom goes to the thea
ire. He lives with his children and
grandchildren and every fair after
noon goes to the Players club to smoke
stogies and talk over old times with
any congenial spirit.
A Narrow Escape.
Thomas Howe was born March 81,
1912, a half-hour before midnight. He
says that if he had delayed his first
appearance for half an hour he
would have been an April fool
all of his life He also says that
if it were not for the Scotch
whisky and water he would not be
here today. AS it is, he looks as if he
would live a score of years more. He
is as pleasant to him as to the youth
of twenty.
He was a Quaker by birth and rails
ing and his father and mother strenu-
ously opposed his desire to become an
actor. But he had seen Edmund Kane
play Richard III, and his mind was
made up. The Quakers disowned him,
but that did not phase him. He man
aged to obtain an interview with Kane
and the latter tried to discourage him.
Later he played in an amateur pro-
duction and, doing fairly well, was
engaged at the Victoria theatre. In his
flfty-siX years of stage life he has been
under only seven managers. He was
in the original cast of the Lady of
Lyons" and in 'Richelieu," when they
were brought out in England.
A Third OId-Timer.
Another old-timer is w. j. LIE Moyne,
who is still trodding the boards as
theoretically as he did forty years ago.
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ter a heavy downpour of rain they
are fast, although spotted with pud-
dies of water. When the average bet
tor sees this, he Immediately figures
that il will be day for the mud-larks
But often the mud is only thin coat
ing with hard going underneath. The
result is that the mud-lark is badly
beaten by the horse accustomed to
fair going. The public set up a yell
and howl about the reversal in form of
the mudhorse. "Pittsburg Phil" has
won pots of money by giving attention
TO these details. In one season, that
with winning 100000, of which $50. 900
was won in a single race on his own
horse, King Cadmus.
Some Big Bets.
'Pittsburg PhiI' has been before the
public as plunger for six years. Riley
Grammar has known only three years
of fame. The summer of '92 he cleo
trified the sports Of the western tracks
by winning $4,000 in a short time. In
the summer of '93 he sought new
worlds to conquer and came east. The
eastern gamblers laughed at the boy
at first, but before the Sheepshead Bay
meeting closed he had 100000 of their
money TO MS credit. Later on he lost
most of it, and in the early part of "a
began winning again. In one day at
Saratoga last year he won 100000, and
he closed the eastern season in a hurst
of glory. Then he put $40 900 in a, sa-
loon at his Kentucky home, but the
early part of this season found him
almost bankrupt The saloon was
mortgaged for all he could get. the
bills for liquor accumulated, as he had
used all the receipts trying TO recoup.
Like true gambler, he bet down to
his last sou, and today is worth close
to $4,000 -'0
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-LCorrespon-
dence Of The Reraldl-In these days of
new stars dazzling in the theatrical
armament it becomes matter of in
terest to take a backward glance at
the star Of long ago. Some of them
are still shining with faded brilliancy.
one or two are booming along amid
splendor, but most of them are passing
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GREAT STARS
OF LONG AGO.
Two Clipper Octogenarians Meet
at the Players Club.
HOWE AND COULDoCK.
COULDoCK TELLS 4 STORY OF
MACRGADY.

Nearly Sixty Years of Stage Life,
and Howe is Still at It-Another
Old Timer is w. j. LIE Moyne, Who
Has Been a Player For Forty
Four Years.-Many Old Timers in
Absolute Poverty.
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LAWYERS.

LAWYERS.
PENCE & ALLEN,
BOOTH. LEE & GRAY,
62-65 Commercial Block. Tel. 507.
ANDERSON q ANDERSON,
Eagle Building. Rooms 2-S.
23l-232 Atlas Block.
JENNINGS VIM. c.,
y. S. Commissioner. IA Eagle Block.
POWERS. STRAUP & LIPPMAN,
SONNEDECKER N. ",
SOS Mccormick Building
SHEPARD RICHARD B..
37-40 Commercial Block.
STAYNER CHAS W.-512 Mccormick
Block. Chancery cases. Coll. in E1rope.
FLAvORING EXTRACTS.
AMERICAN MFG. CO.,
27s South West Temple.
PIANOS, ORGANS AND MUSIC.
CALDER'S MUSIC PALACE,
Al West First South.
DAYNES & COULTER,
coALTER & sNELGRovE CO.,
IS South Main.
STOVES AND RANGES.
SCHOPPE, f, E. &c CO.,
2E South Main.
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Manufacturers have prepared many
dressy short coats, so evidently capes
are not to- have their own way with
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LEADING BUSINESS FIRMS OF SALT LAKE CITY
BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPENCER & LYNCH CO..
ia Main street
15S West First South.
81 East Second South.
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CAREER OF THE
PREMIER PLUNGER
Grammar Is the Coolest Man on
Earth.
SUNBURST OF GLORY.
EXAMPLE OF MONEY MAKING
POWERS.
GLORY.

Grammar Has No System, Does Not
Drink or Carouse, Never Owned
Diamond, and Can Win 100000
on n Race without Cracking IL
Smile.