The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-27

Texas, it looked like New England.
There was an old Brattleboro well with
real water in it, ana there were more
trees on the one acre than can be found
in hundred square miles in Texas.
After Betty HenShawea had listened for
awhile to the wooing of Benny Balm.
Tom Allalone gathered $ the crowd
around him and told his story. He
had the. usual locket tied around his
neck, and it contained the picture of his
father. OF course, his father was Cas-
tro, alias Capt. Wildfire, demon despe-
RADIO. The Texans were so shocked to
learn this that they fled into their
dressing rooms. 4
Tom Allalone in Danger.
Scarface Charley turned up in the
neighborhood a little later and drove
Obadiah, colored servant, away from
the farm yard, but when the bandit
sfepped~behind the scenes for a moment
the darkey returned and crawled into
the weil. Tom Allalone rushed from
the house in time to run into the arms
or Scarface moment later, and the
child throat was all but slashed when
Olive drew bead on Scarface and
turned his nose toward the sand hills.
Castro had time to get into a new
disguise; and he came on as a big In
dian. He walked UP to the door and
knocked. His purpose was to kidnap
Tom Allalone, for he knew the boy
knew all about him.
open door," he grunted. "Open door,
Me Indian chief. Heap hungry. Open
door"
The door opened and Olive stepped
out. Over her shoulder, lay the long
barrel Of a Winchester, and down its
sights gazed the eye of smiling old
Zachary. Big Injun walked away.
The Band of cutthroats.
When the spurious redskin again re-
turned he. came with Scarfaee and
large band Of cutthroats. This time he
was going to abduct Olive and hurry
with her to Europe. He had the mon
ey, for the night before six men had
died in stage coach before they could
raise their Weapons.C /
There was no sign Of life about the
cabin and it was booking bad for the
household. All was still within and the
audience thought that Zachary and the
judge had become frightened and crept
under the bed. Then came. the distant
clatter of hoofs from the wings, and
every one knew that Buck was riding
home. A moment later he leaped from
his foaming steed, and the guns in his
hands were coughing furiously before
he hit the ground. He routed the ban
them on the run the ranch hands and
the people who are named on the pro-
gramme walked out calmly with an as
sortment of artillery and began shoot
Ing into the wings in the general d.
rection taken by the bad men. They
even kept shooting after the curtain
went down
The audience was son it's feet. When
the curtain arose again for a moment
boy in the gallery who thought the
heroic Texans were. ruthlessly expos
ing themselves, yelled, "Get down be-
hind the WALL, youse wild de cannon,
derei" 7
. A minute later the smoke had cleared
away and the crowd swooped out to
the soda fountain at the side of the
lobby.
Buck Won Again.
In the next act Castro, dressed again
as dandy, came to WOO Olive, and
when she told him she would not have
him he grabbed a bowie knife and made
ready to commit murder. Just as the
first groan of "Ohs!" arose from the
audience Buck threw open the door
and rammed his trusty six-shooter be-
tween Castros shoulder blades. Castro
tried to draw his gun in time to kill
Buck, but the scout ordered Hands
up!" and up they went.
- Buck ordered Castro out, and when
the william refused to go the scout lit
orally kicked him out into the Texas
air. This chagrined Castro consider
ably and made Olive hate him worse
than ever, for she saw that Castro was
not a brave man, and men must be
brave in Texas.
& Watson, deputy and a scout,
brought in Growing Bear, a big red
skin. On Growing Bears finger was
Castro'ss ring. This didn't play a very
important part in the story but it
seemed to startle' the good people in
the play. The Indian said Castro had
given 1t to him, and it later came out
why he had done so.; 1t seems that
Olive had recognized the ring on his
finger the day heslwent to the ranch
disguised as an Indian, and he gave the
warrior the ring to bolster UP a lie
he had manufactured. to make Olive
believe Growing Bearf was the person
she confronted at the doorway.
There seemed to be no way Of getting
rid of the Indian, so Buck gave him an
alarm clock. The Indian held it to his
ear and jumped half way across the
stage. mo good" he said. Heap big
noise. Him crazy. Say tick, tick.
What him mean pc
Sad Death of Little Tom.
Buck said it was ali right, and just
then the alarm went off. When the bell
began jingling the Indian did war
dance, and with a whoop made 4
streak for the reservation Just as
the door closed behind him a shot rang
out and little Tom Allalone, who had
come into the room, sank dead at
Bucks feet. A lot of people cried when
this happened, and the friends of he
roes yelled down from the gallery and
told Buck to run around the house and
Kill the man who had fired the shot
The curtain got down before Buck
could get outside, and the rush to the
soda fountain was on again.
The audience knew that Castro's
time was at hand when the curtain
again lifted. He was dressed as a
Spapiard. PlayWrights generally put
the villain in Dcn's garments When
they want to snuff out his life. It
generally means, in a Texas melo-
drama, that the villain has got to the
end of his rope and that his hope is
Pickering.
So Wildire came On as Pietro Ca
banno. This time he was going to steal
old man Benton and hold him for
ransom of $3,000,000 Castro made love
to Cordelfa, an old maid of the Boston
variety. and she fell heels over head in
love with him. The old Judge had been
unWise enough to make love to her be-
fore, and was now trying to get rid of
her. He said he loved his toddy better
than he did the old toady from Boston,
and she was so sn5itten with the Span
lard that she called the judge an old
Then the story switched so suddenly