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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15
He Expected 1t.

II see that the price of diamonds is
going up" said the young man who
likes to give information. "Of course
answered Mr.: Blykins, in tone Of
mingled grief and defiance. at was to
'betexpected. It's one combination after
another these days. You didn't sup
pose, these coal barons were going to
leave any carbon around loose where
people might buy 1t and use it as a
substitute. did you?" ~ Washington
StaF. i
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15

search after the inscrutable factor.
which, when found, would. II properly
applied, make clear to us whence we
came and whittier We go-that '.open
sesame" before whose magic sound the
womb Of unfathomed time would give
UP its secrets. and the mystery of the
grave be made clear to the wondering
eyes of all mankind.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15

LpreSSlOu C06C MISS OS0elly wa IN u.
derly housekeepeH At dinner, howev-
er, he recovered his equilibrium and
began to chatter away about all sorts
Of things. with sort Of low cleverness
which was rather amusing, though I
confess that being old-fashioned, I
could not keep pace with it. Fanny,
however, entered into his talk in q
manner which astonished me. had
no idea that her mind was so versatile.
or that she knew anything about bill
lizards and horse-racing, or even French
novels.
At ten o'clock told Mr.. Joseph he
had better begin his cure by going to
bed, and this he did reluctantly enough.
When ne had gone, asked Fanny what
she thought of him!
Think of him." she answered, look
ing up, for she was plunged in one of
her reveries. ooh! l think that he is
mixture between fox and fool,
and the ugliest little man ever saw"
laughed at this complimentary
summary, and we set to work.
After the first evening neither saw
nor heard much of Mr.. Joseph, except
at meals. Fanny looked after him, and
when she was at work he amused him
self by sitting in an armchair and
reading French novels in a translation.
for preference. Once he asked permis-
sion to come in and see us work, and
after about half an hour of it he went,
saying it was awfully clever, but "all
rot, you know" and that he had much
better devote our talents to making
books on the Derby.
Idiot" remarked Fanny, in a tone
of whitening contempt, when the door
had closed on him; and that was the
only opinion l heard her express with
reference to him till the catastrophe
came.
+ One morning, when Joseph had been
with us about a fortnight, having been
Lat work very late on the previous night,
Eand feeling tired and not too we'll,
Edid not come down to breakfast till ten
tp'clock: Usually, we breakfasted at
lhalf-pastn eight. To my surprise,
found that the tea was not made, and
THAT Fanny had apparently not yet had
Iher breakfast. This was most unu-
Usual occurrence, and while was still
wondering what it could mean, she
came into the room with her bonnet
and cloak on.
"Why, my dear Fanny" 1 said,
where on earth have you been?"
| ITO church." she answered, coolly,
with dark little smile.
4 What have you been doing there?"
| i asked again.
I Getting married." was the reply.
Y 1 gasped for breath, and the room
4 seemed to swim round me.
| Surely. you are Joking" I said,
family. 80 80 fe. ..'- -5;!;.s-
"Oh! not at all. Here is my we'd
ding ring" and she held up her hand;
t"I am Mrs. Hide-Thompson!" -.. g.,
What" I almost shrieked. do you
mean to tell me that you have married
that little wretch? Why, he has only
been in the house ten days" l..4. 81
Sixteen days." she corrected, land
1 have been engaged to him for ten,
\ and weary work it has been, I can tell
] you, Godfrey
Then suppose you are going
away?" jerked out. and how about
our work, and-John?" .4. q 49,.
1 saw a spasm of pain pass over her
face at the mention of the boys name;
for believe that she loved the poor
cripple child, if she ever did really love
anything. ,.,ng..4 -.,., .-,.,..,.
| ..tr:E 49,. (To BE CoSTINUED)
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15
Almost . Hint.

Snaggs-A SO bill cannot by. any
possibility be called a compliment, can
it, .Sptfins. Spifins-I don't know that
1 follow YOU. snaggs. snaggs-Well, I
heard that you paid Miss Northside q
compliment yesterday, and I was in
hopes you might regard in the same
light the SO lent you three months
ago,-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15
CHAPTER v

ETWEEN two or
three months after
we had started on
this new course, I
received a letter
from a lady, a dis.
tant cousin of my
own, whom / had
known sill 6 b thy
many years before,
asking me to do
her a service. Not
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-15

MADE puDiic,
his liberty. Sir George took advan-
tage of the opportunity, and has just
arrived in London, overjoyed at his
good fortune at getting away so cas-
lily.
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orsanlst taken for an English sp,

Org1nlSt TAKEN Tor an English Spy.
Sir George Martin is nominally the
dignified and gray-haired organist of
st. Paul's cathedral in London. Sew
eral weeks ago he went out to South
Africa to conduct some musical exam
nations In Cape Town. His work
over, he determined to run up into the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-10

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1900 articles. averaging | Ia pages each,
1922 articles written and signed by specialists
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$50 full-page engraved plates, containing
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Oh maps and plans. including 237 colored
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lO.643 illustrations, exclusive of maps and
plans And the New American Supple
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10000 biographies not to be found in the ORIG
Edinburgh edition nor in any other
Encyclopedia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26

many performances. do you think
my memory will last forever" was
| Walkers famous answer
The Provoked Husband was a
slayer for those days, too; it was play
ed at Drury for a month, with Wilks
and Mrs Oldfeld as Lord and Lady
| Wronghead. Long runs were not the
thing in those days, or for years after.
however 1t took fifty years for the
run of the 'Beggar's Opera" to be
beaten; it was not until IT'S that Rich
ard Sheridan'S ''Duenna" was produced,
when it ran for seventy-fve nights.
At Christmas time the play was taken
off for few nights, and it was never
acted on Friday evenings, because
Leoni, who played the part of Don Car
los, was a Jew and could not sing on
F'ridaysI
After the "Duenna,'' Sheridan's
'SchooI for Scandal was played for an
unnamed number of nights, its first
performance being on May 8, 1777.
Thereafter there was a dearth of long
runs; in fact, it wasn't until Knowles
-Virginius" that a good play turned up
in England. That was produced in
1920 So perhaps it isn't strange that
first play to have long run was Bull
wer's Money" which ran from Decem-
Der 8, 1910, to March 13. 1871.
Thereafter the runs became longer
and longer. A hundred nights was not
a notable run for any play in London,
Shakespeare excepted. for many years.
Some of the domestic pieces" that
Webster and Blackstone played at the
London Haymarket ran for many
nights; they were short plays, how
ever
1t was not until Edwin Booth played
Hamlet" at the Winter Garden in this
city for 100 performances that Shakes,
In fact, the modern long runs seem to
date from Booths Hamlet of 1896
After that there were long runs in Eng
Julius Caesar and Calvert's Henry W
The great British runs followed the great
th then! have done !.fT Hamlet sh Ia Aio
Romeo and Juliet" las You Like It.
and other Shakespearean plays for more
times at a stretch than We have over
here.
The longest American runs have been
for anything but Shakespearean plays:
237 times; .'ErTninie," ''Adonis'' and 'sHa-
eel Kirke' hold the American record for
for 4O4 nights in London. but has never
reached anything like that number here;
on the other hand, 'AdoniS'' didn't tickle
But all runs sink into insignificance be-
SIDE the run OF Henry J. Byron's Our
Boys That was produced at the little
James (whoSe real name was Belasco) and
Thomas Thorne on Saturday. January 16,
1919. and was not taken off until Friday.
April Is, 1873 having been played for four
years and three monthsi With it were
two short plays, "A Fearful Fog and
one whose name is writ in water; any
way, they lasted as long as Byron's play.
though no share in the run is TO be cred
tied TO them: As a matter of course. the
duced, called Our Girls" was a failure
The run of "Cyrano de Bergerac' is
have long runs there; but the Visitors in
London carry the plays in that city
better than the visitors to Paris; and it
is the visitors who support the theaters,
as general thing
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acteristic Of him; he imagined himself
into it; he fell into it from an easy
chair.
THE sunset is really fine. through
our west window" said Mr.. Lane, one
day. following the rapt eyes of the lit
erary lion.
there" replied Eusebius Smith dream
lily.
''Yes?" said Mr. Lane at certainly
is a bright corner of the afternoon
Who does your book designing, Mr..
Lane?" asked the author. abruptly. and
with so loud a voice that Mr.. Lane
started Was there not a little nervous
motion of the patch of gold also? Fuse
bius Smith sat looking straight west
ward 1t was a strange way to press
a question.
1T is done by a very clever young
woman in our employ, replied the pub
Usher, after a moments hesitation
We'll, Mr.. Lane" cried the literary
lion, in startling loud and roaring
voice, I must say that 1 think it is
desperately
He stopped short, and with eager,
fixed gazed awaited the inevitable re-
suit The patch of gold swayed, vacil
lated, and then turned f1ashingly, for
an instant in the sun.
"Finei" finished the author, with a
quality of tone and intensity of feeling
that astonished and delighted Mr.. Lane.
am going to give you my latest
manuscript" added EuSebius Smith,
''on condition that your clever book
designer makes it the chef-d'-oeuvre of
her life. Understand"
Perfectly" cried Mr. Lane, rising
and rubbing his hand delightedly.
ARCHER. will you ask Miss Torrey to
step here: please?"
Now said Mr.. Eusebius Smith Git
being six months later) what design
have you conceived for the volume of
hfe-our life-my little golden-hair?"
They were standing in the sunlight of
the west window, and once more the
lover saw only the snowy neck and the
bowed coronaI of gold.
"A fireplace and two easy chairs"
came presently, the shy answer.
Admirable" cried he.
And there ended bachelordom and
Bohemia for them both.
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One Who Knows.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26

were unable to obviate or alleviate. They
had home. So Miss Morris and some
women friends, in conjunction with the
Women's Branch of the Pennsylvania s.
p C. A. the latter consenting to pay the
salary of an agent If the others would
Work, founded what is known as the Nor
rfs Refuge association From this small
beginning originated the first, and at the
present time the only institution in the
world for receiving any and every spe-
cieS of animal needing shelter.
As the society and its work became
known it Won many friends, and in 1897,
through the munificence of Mrs. George
Mcclellan. a new and enlarged home was
purchased, built on a lot A feet wide with
a depth of $40 feet. It has a stable with
three rooms, one containing stalls Tor two
every respect suitable for dogs.
The yard is hoored with concrete on
slight slope, and one portion of it is d.
vtded into four Enclosures to separate the
different sized dogs. In each of the in
closures a small shed has been erected to
shelter the animals from the heat. and
under these stand the comfortable ken
nels filled with clean straw. At the far
end of the yard are two more Enclosures.
one OF which is grass-grown, in which the
dogs are taken to exercise twice or three
times a day. In the course of the last
year 1SS dogs were taken to the temporary
home, for forty-two of which permanent
homes were found. Many of them were
boarders. and there are now nineteen in
the home.
There are at all times under the care of
the association a number OF dogs for
which it is desired to obtain homes. and
anyone wishing to secure a dog should
sang last week at a concert to raise
money for the home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
LONG THEATRICAL RUNS.
TFrom the New York SUM-

From the New York SUM-
This is said to have been a remarka-
bly, good theatrical season in this city.
There have been many good and profit
able plays on our stage, and many 9TH
erS that were profita BILE without being
good. There have also been some plays
that were good without being profta-
BILE. -Four plays at least have passed
the century mark" and others have
approached mighty near to it, and two
famous plays have been reproduced the
past week, "Erminie" and "AdOnis."
Nowadays it really is a shOrt-lived play
that does not run so or a 100 nights in
this city. The managers are busy most
of the time in evolving souvenirs" of
the fiftieth or the one hundredth per
Torrance, some CHASTITY bargain coun-
ter catchpenny to attract the women;
for the ladies are the great patrons OF
souvenir occasions SO common are
these occasions that it might seem that
we have had them always; but, as
matter of fact, long runs are compare
lively a modern improvement in theat-
rical matters, and date from only about
the time of the civil war.
There is no record of the length of the
runs of Master w. ShakeSpeare'S plays
time on any stage" We do not know
how long Master Richard Burbage
played Hamlet or "OthellO," or if
Master w. Shakespeare himself played
-'Old Adam more than once or twice
running. We do know, however. that
Burbage made such hit in Richard
III that the host at Bosworth, in de-
scribing the battle:
When he would have said King Rich
ard died.
And cried A horsei a horsei'" he
'Burbage" cried.
That is pretty good evidence that
Burbage played the part quite num-
Der of times.
About the first run on record, in the
modern sense of the word. was that of
Cato" by Mr. Joseph Addison, in 1713.
1t ran at Drury Lane for thirty-fve
nights, aDplauded by the Tories be-
cause of its lines in favor of popular
liberty, and the Wings to down the
Tories. Then, at Lincoln's Inn Fields
theater, in 1927, occurred the run of
John Gays once famous "Beggar's OPP
era 1t ran for sixty-twO nights. max
ing the fortune of Gay and making the
season the most profitable known to
that theater. 1t was near the end of
this tremendous run that Walker, as
Macheath, slipped up in his lines one
night and was taken to task by a
friend for forgetting them after SO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
FICTION FAVORITES.
CFrom the Louisville Tfmes.)

(F'rom the Louisville TfmeS.)
It is astonishing what a human interest
the reading public takes in author 5
heroes and heroines. Mr.. Snowden Ward
declares when Dickens was writing The
with letters from the most distinguished
men and women begging him not to kill
Little Nell They declared it would be
too cruel. and waited his verdict as
an anxious family on that of the physi-
clan.
Dickens did not care to do away with
her himself, but it was necessary that he
should do 50. Little Nell was a character
with too little of the earth-earthy about
her to aSsiInilate with those around her
no matter how well meaning they might
have been Her finer feelings would have
made her unhappy. and the little country
churchy1- ID was the best place for her.
And Chackeray. How he was implored
not to XIII Colonel EeTcombe- How he
was rated for reducing SO noble a man
to poverty in his old age. while the
meaner mortals around him lived and
throve. Kipling had to give a second
version of his The Light That Failed in
order to please the public. and who knows
but Shakespeare was chided for the I'M
happy taking of of Lear and Cordelia?
But the public, though saft-hearted in the
concrete. is flint in the abstract 1t
soaks its handkerchief with tears over the
consumptive cough of that shady Paris
ian. Camille, and turns a nice homemade
understudy out on the cold world to eat
snowballs or cold potatoes.
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IN THE BEST OFHUMOR.

of cheating.-Chicago News.
Say. wouldn't be as superstitious as
WHO'S superstitious?
Wy. you Carryin' horseshoe to de
"AW, 90 on. OATS to soak de empire
wit'-"-Indianapohs Journal
Mrs. May Fair-I hear that your son is a
over the midnight oil.
rageSot " Wo 5dn of truth in IT IT, pI We ave
helectric light hall over the 'ouse, and
Haired as ole chanticleer in is room!
Punch
waiting room come in her own coach or a
Doctor-Thanks. couldn't tell from her
dress whether to prescribe three months
Judge.
bring you all the way to Hamstead to see
Doctor (from Mayfair)-Pray don't mem
ton it, my dear madam have another
patient in this neighborhood, SO I'm kill
ing two birds with one stone!-Punch.
F'uddy-Remarkable cure. that case of
Duddy-Haven't heard about it. What
Fuddy-She has recovered her voice. You
know she hasn't been able to speak for
three years. They Induced her to play a
fore she knew it.-Boston Transcript
Mr.. .Spinks-Why. under heavens. did
you give Ellington that cotton umbrella?
He'll never bring il back
Mrs. Spinks-The other one in the rack
was silk
You should have given him that
Hump! If he wouldn't return the cot
ton one. why should he return the silk
one2 Tell me that. Mr. Spinks.
Mr. Spinks-The cotton one was his
New York Weekly
Conduetor-We have missed the connec-
ton: and you will have to wait at this
station six hours
Old Lady 6who is little nervous on the
anyway.-New York Weekly.
Real Estate. Agent-AA fine place. and q
splendid one for golf course, sir. Does
your family play golf2
Prospective Buyer-Does my family play
golr- Ny two sons al school have won all
the intercollegiate champions hips my
daughter wins all the woman's handicapS,
my wife is out on the links every morn
ing before breakfast. my wife's mother
has broken all the clubs records, and the
very first word my baby learned to say
was fore" Does my family play golfl
II you can show me a piece of property
with no possible habards. no bunkerS,
nothing but rocks woods and water, I'm
your mani-Life
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Philadelphia's Animal Paradise.

(From the Philadelphia Times0
In the year 1S74.at the suggestion of Miss
Elizabeth Morris, the idea was originated
in Philadelphia to found a refuge for
homeless and suffering animals of all
sorts. The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals could prevent, but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-26
Educational
Meeting.
National
Association

For the meeting of the National Ed
ucational Association at Los Angeles
Cal, July lila. 1899 the Union Pacific
will make the greatly reduced rate on
one fare. plus $500, for the round trip.
The excellent service given by the
Union Pacific was commented on by all
who had the pleasure of using it to the
convention at Washington in 1898. This
year our educational friends meet in
Los Angeles, and members of the As
Pacific.
The service of the Union Pacific via
Omaha or Kansas City is unexceIIed
and consists of Palace Sleeping Cars
Buffet Smoking and Library Cars, Din
ing Cars, meals a-la-carte, Free Re-
clfning Chair Cars and Ordinary Sleep
ing Cars
summer travel
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COLUMBUS, OHIO,

And Return, $4,000, Via the Santa Fe
Tickets on sale June 1, Pa; limited
June 16 on account National Medical
association See T. L King, agent, for
particulars.