The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-27

customers, and so all the sWeet-stuh shops
In London were Literally represented, but
by degrees even the people with orders
fought shy of the show, and then Mr..
Cults. senior, came and sat down in the
stalls, all alone, and banged away with his
umbrella TIL the feru,e came off.
AT the end of a month Mr.. Cults, junior,
felt exhausted He was tired of mis- part
and wanted to play another, but he
thought for the benefit OF his health he
had better take a holiday first.
So the last nights were announced, and
the first theatrical speculation of the new
low comedian, Mr.. Timothy Cults. Junior,
came to an end.
There was only one thing the family re-
GREETED.
His royal highness. the Prince of Wales
had in some unaccountable manner failed
to honor the performance with his disrn-
guished patronage.
The vacation gave the Cuts family time
to consider the future calmly. Mr.. Cults,
senior, found that his first speculation on
his sons behalf had cost him nearly IS COO
Ii was just a Hide experience, and be-
ing, after all, a sound business man, when
he locked at the figures he thought per-
/ haps il would be well to go to work
next time on more economical principles.
So it was decided that for the present.
at any rate, Timothy should try and act
without having 10 pay the rest of the
company and rent the theateT.
Cuts, junior, himself had a still more
sensible proposition to make. Look here,
/ guv'nor," he said. 81 think I'll play with
some amateurs for Bit and get my name
up that way first. You see I'd never
played in London at all before"
Mr. Cuts gladly consented 20 this prop
osition. His son was much less expense
as an anna teur than as professional The
only draw back was that anna tours are not
invited to dine at Marlborough House
One day Timothy came to his father
radiant. He had an offer from some anna
teurs to go down with them TO an institu.
ton and play. Some of the Princesses
were going TO be present.
Where is it?" said his father IT will
come, too, and 50 will your mother"
ITS at a private lunatic asylum, gov
erhor. We're going TO play to the luna
ties"
Him. said his father; you must get
US seats as far from the patients as pos
sible"
The performance at - Hall Asylum
was great success. One of the Prin-
eesses and her husband were present. and
The lunaties shrieked a the antics of Tim
othy Cults
That is all of the lunatics did except one
who sat Immediately behind Mr.. Cults,
senior.
He conceived an intense antipathy for
Timothy. He expressed an opinion that
Timothy was insulting him, and he an
nounced his intention of having Tirno-
thy's life in such loud tones that Mr.. Cuts
burst into a cold perspra ton. and the
| medical officer kindly had the obiectiona-
bic patient removed from the auditorium
But as he went he looked at his pro-
gramme. Timothy Cults" he exclaimed;
that's your name is it? All right limo
thy Cults. I'll settle with you one day.
my boy"
After the performance was over the doc
| tor explained that the poor gentleman.
who was an eminent man of letters, was
only temporarily insane. He had periodi-
cal fits of homicidal mania,' said the doc
tor but he gets all right and is sent
home to his friends
Mr.. Cuts the low comedian, groaned.
| He hoped that the homicidal maniac
would speedily forget the name he was
trying to make famous
When Timotay took to the stage again
| it was as a member of a farcical comedy
! company on tour. He had begun to see
that acting, like everything else, requires
an apprenticeship. He played small parts
| in the provinces, and this disguised his
parent who felt that he had flung e. 600
into the gutter Sweets were considerably
more profitable. He began to calculate
| how many hundredweights of cough can
dy and cocoa nut cream had gone in that
unfortunate theatrical speculation.
But Timothy himself was not downcast.
He was still determined to be low come
dian, and give Toole and Penley fits.
| After a year in the provinces he came
back to London and obtained an engage
ment Cor a small low comedy part at a
| West End house.
When the company was rehearsing for
the last time one of the actors called Tim
othy on one side.
Il say, old chap" he said. did you ever
know man named Illson?"
Timothy started
do you mean the novelist?"
Eyes. met him hanging about the
| stage door this morning. He says an actor
named Cults insulted him.
| Good graciousp' groaned Timothy, sis
| he out? He's got homicidal mania.
played at the lunatic asylum he was at"
That's the man. He's been out some
| weeks, but ! don't think he's safe He
seems very queer. He seems to be very
| bitter against you"
Timothy went on with the rehearsal, but
| he forgot his lines, the manager swore at
him, and that made him worse.
The first night, right in the middle of the
| play, he broke down. He suddenly caught
| sight of the homicida maniac glaring at
| him from a private box.
Timothy's head reeled, and his knees
trembled. The place swan around with
him. He expected that every minute Mr..
lllson would pun pistol from his breast
! and shoot him.
He spoit the play. 1t was a failure.
| After the curtain was down the manager S
| language was terrible. The author called
him a COMPOUNDED amateur, and demanded
his instant dismissal. The manager gave
! it him on the spot, and Tim went home
bro<enhearted.
He told his father and mother. They
fell on his neck and wept, and besought
him not to risk his life again.
That man will kill you, Tim" groaned
his father. II remember what he said at
the asylum.
"Oh, Tim" moaned the mother don t
risk your precious life. How can you dine
with the Prince of Wales if you're in your
grave?"
Tim said he'd think about it, and he did.
Visions of that homicidal maniac pursu-
ing him from theater to theater to take
his life haunted him all night He felt
| that he should never be safe. that he
| should always be looking for the maniac
instead of thinking of his part. How