Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-21

for me. and | am perfectly willing 10
nav YOU for the trouble. Anything be-
low $500 you can get her for is yours.
| I will wait right here on the corner I'M
til you come back
That was enough for the Yankee.
He started back to the stable with 500
clutch-d in his fist. Yes" the stable
mar said, I'VE have a new horse, and
the. call her Lady Something, l don't
KIN much about her. l have just got
me- INT she looks speedy. l Will take
he1 and try her as soon as | get a
cha, "Oh. yes" in answer to the
farmers question, she is for sale. is
worth $40 easy" The old farmer was
good deal of a David Harum on a
horse trade. finally secured the record
breaker for S115 in cold cash, halter
thrown in. When he started out of the
stable. towing that anatomy and sing
ing Whoa baby" he was as pleased
as a boy would be With a new toy
That $25 he was going - receive as MS
share of the transaction was like find
ing il in the road, but alas when he
reached the corner, where he was to
meet his honest friend with S1lo, the
friend of the $115 did not show up. He
waited some time lOath to believe that
he had drawn the BOBBY prize. but he
was lit" all right. In telling his tale
of woe to 2 sympathiZ.ng friend, he
said bis hired man had told him when
he started from home to be sure and
not take any wooden money or square
nickclS while he was gone. but he
guessed by the looks Of things he had
got both, on rough guess. | should
saw that the next man who tries to sell
this farmer a 800 horsn for $l25 might
find il little uphill work.
The theatres are. offering some very
good attractions. The fact is they are
as good as will be on for the season.
The first on the list comes Ada Rehan.
supported by Mr.. Charles Richmond
in The Tanning of the ShrcW' and
THE School for Scandal" Both ac-
trcss and actor has many friends in
Boston that are packing the Majestic
| to the door. At the Hollis, William
Gillette and company in Barre's play,
| THE Admirable Crichton,' is scnr-
ing big success. To those who re-
| member Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes
and Secret Service" he needs no intro
duction. In fact there is but one
Gillette on the American stage. He is
polished TO a piano finish. and any
thing h undertakes is always well
done. He has many imitators but few
equals At the Colonial, Mr.. Richard
Mansfield and company in a repertoire
| of Shakvspcarian plays are holding the
| boards. Mansfield is coming to Maine
after his big success at the Colonial
At the Park. James X. Hackett
presents W. II. Thompson in The
Secret of Polichinelle," a comedy where
| tears ana laughter are happily blend
ed Augusta thcatregoers will have
the pleasure of seeing this dramatic
gem on Thanksgiving night at the
| Orera house. At the Globe, 'ThC
| Fortune Teller" is on the boards. The
| tuncful comic opera with 50 people in
| the cast I am not dead in love with
opera, but this one is very good.
! Henrietta Crosman is the big head
4, liner unL r David Belasco manage
mcnt, in his new play sweet Kitty
| Rcllairs.' ut the fremont. Miss Cros-
man is but adding to her former tri-
umph, and keeping the box office busy
Honest Old Dcnman Thompson
member reject from swansea, and his
| pumpkin show. are pOrtraying New
| England life as one sees it on the farm
| Thomson and his clean, wholesome
| New England play will never grow old,
and the great big Boston theatre is
hardly liz enough TO hold his admir-
crg. The play is like good wine, it
! i'm raves with age.
the Castle square, the attraction
l. no
r, q heavy play but well handled
by stock company. The Castle
| Squa.- is to my mind one of the
cosicst. most homelike playhouses in
town. one is always sure of good
seat and plenty of good people. Both
| Music Hall and Keith's are trying to
rival each other by long strings of
names Of artists well up in vaudeville
and there are others good. bad and in
different Every theatre or about every
playhouse in Boston offers an array Of
talent that is fairly dazzling to the
eyes to read the names that positively
will appear on this stage. in Sunday
concert program. Now have no
conscientious scruplcs about attending
n Sunday concert. but the man, woman
or child. who gets me into sacred
concert So-Callcd. will hc obliged to use
chtoroform ana the town cricr who is
looking for a lost hoy. need not waste
his time hunting for me within the
four walls of Il Sunday concert, for
sha'n't be there. AS | previously re-
! marked / have no feeling about at
tending, but like the hoy who smoked
q shocking bad cigar and sWor" off OF
| smoking, | have not only SWorc off but
| sworn ut ali sunday concerts. The
last two I had the misfortune to go to
! felt that the man in the box Office
ought to he indicted for taking money
under false prCtcnCes, for the barn
stormcrs who made night hideous ap-
plrrntIv never had seen a stage before
not even the Windsor stage. and as for
acting that was the farthcst thing from
their thoughts. Having eradiCated
this Sunday business from my system
| feel better.
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