The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-12-23
DOWN BY THE SEA.


The Dramatic club have the play to
be rendered on New Years eve for
the benefit OF the Ely City band In
tip top shape and will be prepared to
furnish the people Of Ely an evening
Of amusement and recreation. The
people taking part are all local lights
who compose the club and the drama
which will be produced is only fore
ruuner OF better to follow-of course
depending upon how their first effort
il To be appreciated BY our liberal
citizens.
The piay 10 a neat two-act dram
atical effort entitled down by the
Sea" from the pen OF the well known
write, Geo. Baker, whose works are
especially adapted TO amateur theat-
real companies. The characters are
al OF the modern types and every
part has an equal amount Of work
not one star or two stars, but. all
ssars-and plays its part near the sea
where John Gale, wife and pretty
daughter reside with two boys which
were found upon the sands after ship
wrecks and who bear the rather novel
names Of March and September Gale.
Abner Raymond, q rich city merchant
with his gifted and beautiful daughter
cone from the city to spend the sum-
mer months by the sea and chose
john Gales cabin as their home dur
ips their stay. Raymond in some
manner becomes acquainted with the
history of the finding of the two boys
ON the sands and after an investiga-
tion traces resemblance TO his lost
wife who left France with her infant
in ship that never reached port. So
firmly does this impression take a
held on him that he seizes upon the
idea that September Gale is his son,
September being the infant found
after the wreck of the steamer upon
which his wife was reported to have
sailed. During the stay however, the
friendship which had existed between
September Gale and Miss Kate Ray
nond had ripened into love and the
assumption that they are brother and
sister falls with crushing force upon
both. Capt Dandelion, from the
city, follows Raymond and Miss Kate
TO their outing place and persists in
his attentions to the young lady, who,
however, snubs him on all possible
occasions Mr.. Raymond later sees a
leophole of escape from the perpleX-
ing condition of affairs through the
love of his daughter for September
and after a proposal by the captain
for his daughters hand he decides
that Miss K ate shall marry the
captain, which that young lady
promptly and decisiyely refuses TO do.
March Gale is dead in love" with
pretty Miss Kitty Gale and strange to
say, Miss Kitty is slightly impartial
TO March who in his blindness does
not see but imagines be has a hated
rival in the person of one Bige Parker
with whom he becomes entangled in
an alteration over the loved one and
tinues to taunt March with the
mention of Bige Parker and further
arouses his jealousy by flirting with
the dudish Capt. Dandelion and whom
March discovers making violent love
and trying to persuade Miss Kitty to
run away to the city with him. The
plans are knocked akimbo however by
The appearance of March who in a
rage pulls his coat and sails in to do
up the muchly scared Captain but is
prevented by the appearance Of an
old French peddler On the battle
ground. Mother Gale who has abb
selutely no use for peddlers, (which is
more than We can say for many Ely
people at the opportune time pops in
and brooms Frenchy out OF the house.
The captain who returns soon after
TO further acquaint Miss Kitty Of his
Sappy devotion, upon seeing the coat
and hat left by the Frenchman, pro-
ceeds to attire himself in the gar
ments upon the advice of the
miSchieyouS Kitty VINO Inen COM
mands him to get on his knees and
make love to her. Mother Gale again
appears and brooms out the captain
whom she mistakes for the peddler
much to the amusementof Miss Kitty.
March breaks in on a little talk be-
tween Kitty and the Frenchman and
learns that Kitty loves him and
straightway proceeds TO extract a