The San Francisco call., 1898-07-24
DE WOLF HOPPER. FRANCIS WILSON.
 STUART ROBSON.

varied enertoire as every company had to do at tha tine of which Macbeth, with all of Locke orlglnaE music was prominent feature, but the public provedI unappreciatye and times were hard Soon Old Sol andy company were low water mark, and at lengtnN found themselves stranded in little kentucKy town, from which finty hearted landlord re1usea to pslIs them their baggage until they had hquldated his claim against them for board
 felt that he equal to the emergency, hay ing been there often before, and he cast about in his mind for means of delverance. At length he nit on plan He engaged countrylnan 10 ollhg neakS IVY wagon, drawn by team of sturdy horses under the window of his at the back of the tavern at cer- tain hour on certain night. The members of the com pany let into the secret and 1t was arranged that the night in question they should throw the landlord off his guard by assembling in the parlor and practicing one of the witches choruses com by Night in which those words repeated over and again. Meanwhile Old Sol and his most trusty henchman to lower the trunks from the window to the countryman, who was waiting below to receive them
 company were singing We Fly by Night" for dear life in the parlor, while Smith and his man Friday letting down the trunks with much celerty and quetness possible but alas not as they fondy thought into the hands of the countryman who was convey them place of safety but into those of the landlord, who had somehow got wind of the scheme.
 At length the work was completed Old Sol and his companions, with great load lifted from their minds joined the in the parlor and united with them in singing "yVe Fly by Night"
 But just they had sung those words for the third time the door opened the landlord entered and their horror was beyond expression when he said, Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, bu you will not fly by this night, for have possession of your trunks.
 From that time to the present all queer dramatic and musical companies have been known fly by nights"
 When Minnie Palmers compa--y playing at the old Arch Street Opera -ouse in Philadelphia, In the 1 season of 1o7a-80, the comedi-
 FRANCIS WILSON. of the company stop
 ping at the Continental Hotel, where Dean Stanley the famous English churchman dead who then making his first and only visit to this country also stopping Now the dean and the who played the first old with the Palmer company about the same and bore most striking and remarkable resemblance to each other especially in point of size and the general outline of their figure. It chanced day that Dean Stanley going upstairs the comedian of the Palmer pany coming up behind him, and mistaking his old friend and associate the first old of the Palmer company, he playfully gave the dean sharp thrust with his thumb in very sensitive portion of his anatomy. which happened at that moment be especially prominent.
 Poor Dean Stanley, believing with rage and anger, hastily around to who had taken the liberty and beheld the comedian, who overwhelmed with modification and regret to find that he had been familiar with of the heads of the English church
 O. sir" he exclaimed, T beg your pardon. really