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i FEMALE HAMLETS TTIE TIMES SUNDAY, OCT. 22. 1803. 19 JONES, UK UJ1UWAY. ACTRESSES 1H HAMLET WOMEN WHO HAVE ESSAYED TO PLAY THE CHARACTER SHOULD be used wherever yeast has Romeo at the Cbathm 8tnet Theatre, New York.

Her rofuiptioti wu not in accord with that of any of the great tor in the part 8he rested in abort skirt and low-necked lenque sn alt nipt to conciliate both the prude and the purisU, but an attempt IhatectxM plbihed neither end. Mia Denuin madeeeverai starring lours Romeo to the Juliet of ber itu-r Kate, who also In later year played Komeo. Another actress who enjoyed much repute In bur day waa Mm. Mdltida Jonea. the first wife of the eccentric Count Johannes.

She wa leading lady In soooort of Forrest IX JJ -A served heretofore. Yeast acts by fermentation and the destruction of part of the trluten of the flour to pro Cardinal Wolsey was pre-eminent In her owa repertory sn! unrivah-d in lht of any other Woman. It waa a magnificent niece acting, which never tultxl to move ber auditors lo pmtouudet enthnUitm. It whs lelt by mmy that at thesuprrtne point of th impersonation no actor or a'tres on the stage In brr day could equal hr. One writer said of bar; "Hhe realised to oar memory the palmy day the drama and mad old play-goer recall the times of Conkn, Kesn and Maeready." She had lea liking tor it than for other role, and that, pernapa.

the reason why she played it hm frequently. According to M's tel. bin. he eon rd that ah found It I thru It to keep up to and a' nve the oilier male pnrta in the play, so that Wolsey should doml nUi them all. The strength of her assumption is shown by ber success on this point.

tWond only to Cushman lu ber day, and by not a 'ew competent Judge considered to lie even greater, Charlotte Crnmpton i now dimly remembered a an actress of exceptional power, and remarkably effective in male role. She came "out of the West." a native of Ohio, It is aaid, and of a family that was without the theatrical "train In lu blood. Sue waa a woman of eccentric ha hits, and had a career that, to ay the least, wn unconventional. Sne had six or eight husband during her lifetime, and nnder the name of one of them she wts sometime known to the stage aa Mrs. Wilkinson.

An unfortunate hahltof drinking militated against ber permanent success, but at th same time this was said to be the secret of many of ber triumph. Ia playing male Absolutely Pure. duce the leavening gas. Royal Baking Powder, through the action ran co oi accounts of It wa In the fart that the lady filled bir John clothes without padding. "And Mr.

Bat term by was foolish enough to personHte M.icbtth lor her benefit" ay Inland, the veracious chronicler, and lew will tie found todispute hii conclusions. Mr. Batlerahy waa an a-tres of ability, who had achieved considerable su retina in England. She raiiii out at the Park Thcatrv, New York, hs Jullanna, In "The Honeymoon," February SH. on which ocramuu she wa dccuptivvly advcrtiMKl as making her "first appt-arnnce on any stage." In lVjfi she became Mrs.

Httt km-y. and under that name played in the Psrk Theatre Company tor several years. She should not he con-ounded with Mr. J. Stick ney of the same period, who plyed at the Bowery and New Chatham Theatre.

Her appearance Machutb. at the Park Theatre. June 25. Wi'S, was, of coarse, an unqualified failure. Contemporaneous with Mra, Bsttersby wa Charlotte Baldwin, who, with her husband, Joseph Baldwin, nd bersiiterand brother-in-law.

Mr. and Mr. John Birue. came from England and made ber det-ut at the old Piirk Theatre, New York, in April. 1816.

Mr. Baldwin was an admirable comedian. He died in 1B20, and is hurled In Trinity churchyard. The widow married Mr. Westervelt the on of a wealthy dry good merchant He waa devoted to the drama, and under the name of Westervelt Walstein made his debut at the City Theatre In comedy in 123.

Mrs. Baldwin assumed the management of that theatre and, upon her benefit July 13. ahe appeared aa Mnrc Anthony in "Julius laar." and also as Roialaua in the farce, ''The Sultan." an amusing contrast and it was difficult to tell which impersonation was the most larcit al. Mrs. Baldwin was a native of London, and a Mis Simpson hud played in the Envlish province and at the Hay-market and Drury Lane Theatre.

She wa a remarkably strong delineator of elderly female. Her nurse in Romeo and Juliet and ber Duchess of York in Richard III." were greatly admired. Her marriage with Westervelt wa not happy, anil tho couple soon separated. Mr. Baldwin grew very corpulent and was obliged to retire from the stage in 1837.

She died in 1856 at tho age of 78. Mr. Clarke, danghterofTheophilusCibber, played a round of male parti at the Haymar- of its ingredients upon each other in the loaf while baking, itself produces the necessary gas and leaves the wholesome properties of the flour unimpaired. It is not possible with any other leavening agent to make such wholesome and delicious bread, biscuit, rolls, cake, pastry, griddle-cakes, doughnuts, etc. ROYAL BAKING.

POWDER 10fi WALL NEW-YORK He MaU at Pile of Frofll Omt mi Wlv That Had Tre4 narrow Baiby's Magasln. remember a- little brosn I had with wotvea in Northern Wtavonstn before the said man of the name of Jonea. "The wolve there were of the large Umber variety, nd, it being a bard winter, they were eouatautly hungry. Tnv were fierce and dttna-fTuu, and would attack man even when tbre were no more than two or thro of tbm togetber. One day la January I waa going from OJIbway City to Pwmme de Torre Htveron foot accompanied only by my dog.

Hone wuennladog that would ever go about the country asking folks in bl poor, dumb way where he could find a large pack of wotvea. When about fifteen mtie from Fomnil de Terr I noticed that Bones waa becoming un y. Five minute tuter 1 ooaerved that be waa wearing tbe balr on bis buck Pompadour. I suspected wolves, and I waa right Tbe soon came up, not rt ft yards behind. There was at leat one hundred of them Ixrge, gaunt hungry, savage wolvea.

Tuelr llerce howls reverberuted throne tbe start led forrnta like the diabolical shriek of frenxted demon lu torment I saw that a hand-to-hand conieat with them was out of the question. Fllfrht waa my onlv hope. Plcklna up Hones by the napoo! the neck, 1 tucked blm under nty artn and started. "For forty mlnutea, gentlemen I ran Hkea cat In a uog abow. I kiinpose I covered ten miles, nntwlLhatandltig that the anow wa deep In some plaoea and In other tbe underbrush Interfered, Tbe wolvea kept clow behind.

Ween 1 turned my bead I could feel their hot, venomoiia breatb on mv cheek. They lewped upand nipped at tbe tall of poor Hone, which waa waving and tossing behind on tbe trnrto wmd which mv 11. tit engendered like a plume of a knight of old going Into battle. Their howl, weird and bideousHs the linking wall of 1U.UU0 lostaouls, snook the ptne needlea from tbe tree and tore the nerves of the unfortunate Hone In way which whi pnln fui to see. "At tbe end of ten miles I beran to tire.

A large snruce tree aiood lu my path and 1 climbed Ik Perching myself on a lower limb some rlity feel from tbe eround and tvlng Hones In place on anotherwitb a bit of trine, I looked down on the angry, surging sea of wolves below. 1 felt safe and lit my pipe and gave my dog a ham bone which I had In my picket Hut soon, to my surprise, the wolves betmn most extraordinary tactics-nothing lea, gentlemen, limn gnawing down the tree. One hundred seta of ravenous fangs tore and bit the trunk. 1 saw that the tree could not stand half an hour. 1 knocked the UNtiea out of my pipe and began to look at the situation Nerioualv.

1 noticed on the branches about me chunks ot raw spruce gum about tbe nine of mv fist Taking my Knife I pried one off and dropped It to a wolf below. He snapped bid upon It with famhthed greed, lie never opened them again, tbe re 1 no us mass holding them firm hh a vise. "At tbe end of twenty minutes I had the Jaws of every wolf welded together past all hope of opening. 1 then descended with Hones, who now barked savagely and attacked the wolvea with great spirit With his anal 8 unce I drove ine baft led, helpless creiitures to Pom me de Terre like flock of aheen. There waa at that time $10 bounty on wolves.

We rounded t' em up in he Court House yard, nnd I drew SI, 0UQ from thet'ountv Treasurer, after which 1 repaired to the Le Grand Monarque Hotel ana ordered supper, not forgetting to bespeak tbe largest soup bone In town for my dog. I returned toOtb-wuy City the next day, but sow no wolves." A SOUND SLEEPER. Man Whom Not Even an Extraordinary Sound Could Awaken. From the Toccoa News, Among her other celebrities Toccoa can boast or a young man who Is a sleeper from tbe word "go." Evidently he Is a descendant of one or more of the seven sleepers of Ephe-sus. He sleeps In a store, and one morning two or three weeks ago wben his eyelids became unglued, be was surprised to find a plank that bad been stand In In front of the fireplace lying splintered on the Moor, while a hrlckhat whb close beside his bed.

He supposed that the wind blew a brick off the chimney, which tumbled down Inside while he slept. The ot her day he ascended to the roof of the store and discovered that the top of thechlm ney whs badly damaged. It bad been struck by lightning, evidently tbe night on which toe oricK naa ten into ni room. During the tremendous thunder-clap that must have accompuuled tbe lightning and tne subsequent nole made by the brick when split the plank In bis room and rolled near bis bed. this young man slumbered sweet! v.

It the slate of anyone's conscience has anv-thlng to do with one's sleep, as is commonly believed, what a wonderfully clear conscience in is ciera musi-uave i THE TI1IK OK NIGHT. The Honorable Gentleman Wa Well llhtn the Limit. From the Detroit Free Press. Whether the Washington policeman knew tbe member of Congress or not when he met htm on the street at 2 A. M.

slightly "under the Influence" does not appear, for a Wash ington policeman doesn always know every- thing; but, be that as It may, when be saw the man at that hour In that condition be ap proached blm. Czar. Grand Dake Nicholas. Cearlna. Marquis Vlchapolstcy.

RESIDENCE A DEJEUNER IN THE PINE WOODS. "Say, officer, what time Is ItT" Inquired the C. steadying himself by a hitching post, "Time for decent peonle to he in bed," responded the officer gruffly. "Don't be insolent, sir," commanded tbe Htlcking bis chest ont like turkey gobbler's. "Im a member of Congress." "Oh," laughed the officer Incredulously, "then It Isn't time for you to be in bed.

Good morning," and be went across the street to wutt until the statesman wa ready for his services. enator Perkins Watch. From tbe Capital. Rosy Jimmy Reynolds tells ns that Senator Perkins ascribes bis popularity to a very unique method be has. He says that it Is a very simple trick.

He has a habit of asking every second or third man be meets for the time of day and Immediately setting bis own watch according to the Information he secures. He says that the compliment thus paid to the timepieces of hts eonst'tuente la amply repaid by their votes at tbe polls. From tb. Chicago Tribune. Haegard Rlmneer.

My principal difficulty, doctor. I. that 1 am finable to Bleep." Famoo. Phytiiflftn. MOoand bear the Rev.

Seventhly preach." Hrftreard strttnrer. "Alam, doctor, I am the Bey. lr. Seventhly." Tht iw Plemlrklnv. Tbe eat, copied from the Attt Moll Budget, ebowa tbe Caarand the Czarina ptcknlcklns thewooda.

It will be noticed bow much elder the Csar baa grown. THE LIST IS NOT A SMALL OXE Charlotte Cixlnun, Anna Dlfklimoo and Charlotte OuDiptoB TbfM Have toi Instance of Frnala Romroi Also Mini Cnshmun'i Extraordinary Snccftta, Generally, setti1 who hsve been In apirtHl by duo I re to impersonate male cbnr outers have luund the widest and ruoat satis factory tic Id for the exerchw of their tulcntt en the variety ttiire, or in burlesque. Fur too most part their performances hare won attention merely because they ha to re to red to that particular public which dt-lighu in ecelng women dressed a men upon the stage. The honest endeavor to play a mule role aa a nan would play it, without an appeal to the incongruity of sex in the situation, ia quite another matter. liut the nx baa by no meant been re strained exclusively within those limits.

Now and again male roles in the legitimate drama have been played by women, although seldom with such a degree of success aa to make the event notable. We may be allowed to paMover as outside the a ope of thia article the male operatic roles that are always siren to women, aa Hiebel in Faust," Cherubim In "The Marriage of Fiifaro." Urbuin fn Les Huguenots," Audrcluno in "Mirella," Arsaees in "Semirnmide," Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurldiro and others that readily will bo recalled. There have also been aov- eral famona female operntic Komeos, chief among them being (iuhlitta Griai. Pasta, IS hi sis, Sessi, Malibran. Vestvali, Tedeseoand Schroeder-Dvrient, while Malfhran sang Otello in Kosini's opera.

But in purely dramatic performances there have been inter-eating experiments of this kind, principally in the lighter roles. Peg Woffington. Mrs. Centlivre, Miss Macklin, daughter of Charles Macklin; Mrs. Abingdon, I Ha be 1 Dickinson, Bora Jordan.

Fanny Wallack and others played Sir narry Wildair, Don Cresar de Bazan, Norval. Henry Bertram. Hurry Hotspur, Claude Melnotte and Sir Charles Coldstream, aud thia list could be considerably extended, both as respects actresses and roles. Strangely enough, however, it is Shakespeare who has been the most alluring to the women who hare aimed to unscx themselves in the dramatic art. The list of the actresses and of the male roles that they have assu med la more important, if not larger, from the Shakesperean stage than from all others combined.

And it is not the lighter comedy characters that they have sought. The leading heavy roles of the tragedies they have chosen, as though they would annihilate at one bound thedistinction between themselves and their male rivals. Such roles as the Princes in King John and in Richard and some other minor roles have always beon played by women, hut passing to the more imnortatit characters one finds that Hamlet and Komeo are the Shakcspearenn male roles that have been most treqiieiit.lv essayed by women, lago, Shylock. Macbeth, Richard Wol-Bey, Falstaif, Othello and Marc Antony have also had their female impersonators. More than a sore of famous actresses have invaded this peculiar and unpromising field of dramatic effort.

Among the female Hamlet1 have been Mrs. Siddons. Mrs. Shaw. Mrs.

Glover. Miss Marriott. Mrs. Coleman Pope and others on the English stage, and Char- lotte Cushman. Charlotte Onmptnn.

Mrs. Waller. Mrs. Shaw, Anna Dickinson. Adele Betgnrdc.

Charlotte Barnes, Julia Seamen and Miss Marriott in the United States. The principal Romeos have been Mrs. Shaw. Mrs. rope, Charlotte Cushman.

Mrs. John Drew, Fanny Wallack. Mrs Molinda Junes, Clara Ellis, Susan Di-nnin and Charlotte Cramp-ton, all of the American stage. Charlotte Cushmnn easily stands pre-eminent in her sex in this particular line, alike from the number of roles that she assumed and from the success that crowned her efforts. She is quite alone in having made a Shakespearean male character Romeo one of the most popular in her repertory during her long career.

She was well fitted naturally for work of this sort, her figure, her voice and the features of her face being of a cast that favored the assumption of masculinity. While she was walking lady at the New York Park Theatre 1837-40 she played many male characters with success and she was credited with a great liking for them. Before that even she was known as a very good Count Bilino in the opera "The Devil's Bridge," which is a reminder that she heran her career as an opera singer, and abandoned that profession only when she lost her sing- ing voice. And she bad also played Romeo Id those early days. It was during her second London engagement that she appeared as Romeo forthe first time in that city at the Haymarket Theatre, December 30.

1845. Her sister. Susan Cushman was the Juliet the production. Miss Cush man's impersonation made a great hit. London went wild over her, and there was scarcely a dissentient voice in the chorus of praise that came from press and public.

The conservative London Tmpsaid of her Romeo "The Romeo of Miss Cushman is lar superior to any Romeo we have ever had. It is a creation, a living, breathing, animated, ardent human being." Another newspaper said: "It is such a Romeo as we had never ventured to hope lor. The character is txbibited by her in a powerful light, which at once displays the propor-tionsand the beauty of the poet's conception." James Sheridan Knowles. the dramatist, said of Romeo's scene with the Friar: "It was a sceueof toDmost passion not simulated passion no such thing; real, palpably real; the genuine heart-storm was on on in the wildest fiti'ulnessof fury Throughout it was a triumph equal to the proudest of those which I used to witness venrsfuro There is no trick in Miss Cushman's perform- ance; no thought, no interest, no feeling. seems to actuate her, rxrept what mhrht be looked for in Romeo himself were Romeo reality." Romeo became a favorite role with Miss Cushman, and she never wholly dropped it; from her repertory.

For two seafons in Eng- I land it was one of her most popular im person- ations. She played it hundreds of times in this country, and the remembrance of her performances is still fresh in the memory of many who are not yet gray-headed. Miss Cash man's Romeo was not an ethereal personage. He was substantial and solidly built, and moved rather heavily on the stage. He was costumed in conventional tights and male attire.

Miss Cushman adhered to the original text of the part, and she read her Hoes with a profound intellectual comprehension. Her acting carried her audiences to the highest pitch of enthusiasm by its power and passion. She often played Romeo to the Juliet of Mias Mary Devlin, who was afterward the wife of Edwin Booth, and the appearance of the two artists was always hailed with delight in those days. That was thirty or thirty-five years ago. Scarcely second to her Borneo was Miss Cushman's Hamlet.

She regarded it as a superior performance, bat critics did not generally agree with her, although the impersonation was often cordially praised. Her commanding figure stood her in good stead, and she dressed and looked the part well. But the subtlety of the character escaped her. as it has escaped many another who has sought to fathom it. Mis Emma Stebbins, her biographer, says: "The performance of Hamlet gave ber great pleasn re.

She alludes to it in some of her letters as the very highest effort she bad ever made, and the most exhausting; of all her parts this one at-vmed to fill outmost completely the entire ransre of her powers." But for complete abnegation of sex, her Maeready and other tar and a member of the sum rompMnie of the llowsnl Athe-naMim, Boston and other theatres. 8 be played Borneo aud Claude Melnotte to the Juliet and Pauline of A una Com MowhIU Jean Davenport and Laura Addison, a clever English actresa. who was in the United States in Iftfuj, She also appeared as Komeo, ith her daughter A mum. afterward the wile of Gustavu Brooke, the Juliet. Mrs.

June wa a Urge, powerfully-built woman, and her Impersonation of Romeo waa marked more by vigor than by refinement or by deep intellectual appreciation of the character. Mrs, John Drew, otherwise known at different periods of her life aa Miss Louia Lsne, Mrs. Moasup and Mr. Uenry Hunt, plaved Komeo on many occasion. Uer impersonation waa considered to be of good quality, but never made any deep or abiding impression.

Nor need we overlook the ITamlet and the Romeo of Eliza Shaw, more than half a century ago. Mrs. Shaw played several male role- Norval, Jack Bheppard and Ion. principally and waa a conspicuous figure In CUSHMAN AS ROMEO AND JULIET. New York at the old Bowery and the Park Theatres.

She created something of a social sensation by marrying Thomas Hamblin, the actor and manager, indecorously soon after the death of his first wife. Mrs. Shaw's Romeo wa not impressive, but her Hamlet had some excellent qualities, although it has been well said that she was better out of it than in it." And Mrs. Coleman Pope, known in England and in the United States, also had reputation both as Hamlet and Romeo. Miss Marriott another emigre from Ixmdon, is pleasantly remembered in New York as having made Hamlet a comic creation.

At the Greenwich, or Old Richmond Hill Theatre. New York, on April 2. 1848. Miss Clara Ellis played Romeo to the Juliet of Mrs. W.

H. Crisp, and made a fiasco. Miss Ellis was an English actress, tall, plain-looking and uucraceful almost to awkwardness. She had only ordinary ability, aud her "shy at Romeo must have been born of desperation. Other female Romeos of this generation were Lydia Kelly, best known as a comedienne; Kate Reynolds, Fanny Morant, Mrs.

Herdson Kirby. Harriet Kimberly, Mrs. L. B. Perrin.

Alice Placide Mann, Clara Fisher Macder, Fannie Marie Gee, Annie Clarke and Mrs. F. B. Conway whose sister, Mrs. D.

P. Bowers, was the Juliet nearly all of whom have been wholly forgotten. Aunie Clarke, tor so many years the leading lady at the Boston Museum, played Romeo in 1868 very acceptably, and repeated it many times during the following ten years. In May, 1893, she appeared again in the part, renewing her former success. In recent times Louise Pomeroy has starred as Romeo and Hamlet, achieving considerable success in the backwoods.

When it is added that in Miss Pomeroy's company Thomas Q. Sea-brooke, of "The Isle of Champagne" comic opera fame, played the second male roles, aud Elvia Crox, now also a comic opera artiste, took the leading female roles, the humor of those tragedy performances must be apparent On the English stage the Hamlet of Mrs. Scott Siddons must have been an interesting performance, but probably waa nothing more. According to Board en, she brought out the part at Manchester in 1782, or thereat touts, while on a tour of the provinces and be 'ore she had won a metropolitan standing. Her success in the part was not sufficient to warrant her in continuing it in her repertoire.

Nor did the famous Mrs. Glover do any better in it In contemporaneous times the one conspicuous Hamlet has been Miss Anna Dickinson, whose meteor-like flight across the theatrical heavens a few years ago has not neen lorgotten. Miss Dickinson started out with the intention of being altogether a man on the stige, and ber repertoire consisted of Hamlet Macbeth. Claude Melnotte and Au-relian in ber own play of that name. She appeared as Hamlet lor the first time in Rochester, and subsequently played the part in New York and other cities.

Her melancholy Dane was not conventional. In costume, reading aud acting she ignored tradition, cutting out some of the most important passages in the nsual acting versions of the play and generally maltreating others. Lack of stagecraft faulty elocution, hard, dry and matter-of-fact acting, feeble gestures and un-grace ul stage presence and movement were the characteristics of the impersonation. That the attempt at Hamlet was a sad mistake, and that Miss Dickinson was without talent for a stage career, was the verdict of the public at that time. The lady bowed her acquiescence in this opinion by soon abandoning her histrionic assault upod the stage and Shakespeare.

There have been other occasional female Hamlets, who are now rarely called to mind. Charlotte Barnes (Mrs. E. S. Cannon) played the part frequently and with tolerable effect.

Her lithe figure and a certain, haunted, faraway look in her eyes seemed to fit her forthe part and she made an impressionable stge figure, even if it was not quite Hamlet Then we had, also, Adele Belgrade ten years or more ago. whose performance of Hamlet would have been depressing bad it not een excruciatingly funny. And for one night only, a decade or more ago. Julia Seamen convulsed the town with another conception of Hamlet To come to the consideration of those Shakespearean male roles that have less fre-qently received the attention of women, there have been performances that were unique. In 1788 Mra.

Webb played Falstaff at the Covent Garden Theatre. The cnief merit this performance, according to eon tempo- MEXICAN JOE'S WIFE SHE FOUND THE TERRIBLE COURAGE TO KILL HER HUSBAND. IT WAS TO SAYE HIM FROMTHE ROPE Joe Wm Convicted of Murder and Iieath by the Hangman's Noose Confronted Him. In Obedienre to Ilia Command Ninita fcliot and Killed Him. Mexican Joe waa the most notorious cattle tculcr in the whole valley and tho wonder waa that his handsome brown neek had escaped the halter, lint times had chanced in Texas since the days when justice was administered summarily and to the point usually a rope's point.

80 ahout the little cabin across tbe creek, where Joe and Ninita kept house, there were always hanging strinKs of meat for the sun to dry. But Joe had always ready a way of explaining his possession of the meat string and the hides and tallow which kept him in whisky and tobacco, and the droves that ho depleted by his careful depredations were so far away that there were no means of tracing his roguery. But, of course, a day of reckoning did come for Joe, rs it comes for us all sooner or later. though it was not his cattle-stualing that urougnc itanout. One day durins tbe summer a man 19,1 been found murdered on the other side of lai top, and tne most earnest cflort resulted in the discovery of no clue to the guilty party.

The District Attorney was a new man. a tall young fellow, who set his wide-brimmed hat a little jauntily a-top of his over-long locks, but tho evil-doers knew him for a "hustler," nevertheless. NolKvly was surprised therefore when, the followinc winter, the murdered man's watch and knife were found in pawn at the second-hand store on the corner, and Mexican Joe waa arrested. The trial created great stir in quiet little Lampasas, and the court houso was crowded with spectators. There was some difficulty in empaneling a jury, and the case began to draw itself out, but the interest did not waver.

The only listless flgnre in the whole crowd was Ninita. Never onco, as the case dragged and witness after witness rose for testimony, did she turn her big, beautiful eyes toward the prisoner's box. With the shawl still pinned np about her prettv. brown-skinned face, she sat not moving, save now ami then to dispense the little shuck-rolls irom her basket to the hungry people about her. slipping the nickels carefully into her liosnm.

When adjournment came she would swing her basket over hor arm. and moving with the crowd, call out "llot tamales!" with sweet-voiced indifference. But finally the last day came. The District Attorney made a strong case, telling off a string of Joe's evil deeds which were, aa ho said, too numerous to mention." The attorney for tho defense, a you tip fellow whom the Court had appointed, did the best he could with the material in hand. At the end ot hia flowery speech he made an appeal in behilf of Ninita, pointing to her with a mighty flourish of his long arm, and calling her a poor heart-broken wife." Bnt she, the "poor heart-broken wife," snt dry-eyed and stolid through it all, and the soli'tnn-laokinfc jury filed out to return almost inimediatuly with a verdict of guilty.

Then, and not till then. Ninita looked at Joe. and a glance that puzzled those who saw it, flashed back at ber from hia great dark eyes. It might have been a challenge it mieht have been a question was it a command, or was it a farewell? She got up when all was over, slipping out through the crowd, but lingered in thesqnare without till the Sheriff came leading the prisoner to the little stone jail across the way, whence ho was to be taken next day to Austin. In a little while Joe's face was seen behind the bars in one of the npper windows, but Ninita seemed scarce to notice hiro.

Without speaking ahe pulled her shawl cloe around her and Dassed quickly down the street and across the bridge. That night a type-setter going home late from the office saw a flit by him in the moon I i eh t. and crouch down in the shadows of the prison's wall. He, too, crossed over and waited, hidden by the darkness. By and by the crouching tieure arose, a pebble rattled against the win low overhead, ami Joe's lace appeared behind the bars, all lit up in the Is it you, Ninita he said.

It is my Jose," she answered softly, in her sweet-voiued Spanish, Is there no other way?" i No other way," he said quietly. "I am ready." Holy mother of God intercede for r.hi and me," she prayed, kneeling and crossing herself. "Amen," cane Joe's deep-voiced response. "Pull yourself up by the bars, my Jose, that I may nottoa' your btauti ul face, and close your lids, that I may not look into your dear eyes." He did aa she had bidden him. holding on to tbe stout bars.

"I am ready," he said, "Adios, my Jose." "Adios, my Ninita." She put her hand to her bosom, there was a little gleam of steel in the moonlight, a pistol shot rang out clear and sharp on the niirht air. and tbe woman turned and fled into th darkness. The released hands loosed hold of the hnm above, there was a heavy fall upon the floor wiioin, ana aiuxican Joe wits irt-e, Lavinia H. Eoaw. Vlniiratti Her Name.

From tbe New York Press. "In making choice of a wife," nald Mr. Bnumte Pompua, addressing Mla Keene, wtn making rbotce of a wife I am afraid 1 shall bv rather exacting as to (rood looks." "Indeed." fuLld MInh Keeno. but wnn't ft Interfere with vour clans If tbe ladv whom you elect should be of tne same mindT" labor-Saving Devices. From the Washington ftar.

Prlacitla. It would save a lot of trouble If every one waa provided with a blank marriage cert Id cute alt ready for an emerxencr." rroneiia. its, ana wiift a blank divuroa FKKl'IOL'S BASKET. he Treaiurrd It Too Marh lo Let It Go Oal of llrr It each. From the Buffalo Kxpretta, A fat woman stopped a down-bound Cold Rprtng car hint nlgnt and climbed aboard a best ahe could.

She was handicapped by her flesh and by a big market banket which she was carry In if. The ear was crowded and she had great difficulty In getting luto the vestibule. Madam," said the conductor, "I oan find a place for that basket over here," What' a thittT" she aaked hit ply. I nay that I can find a place for tiiat basket over here." "Young man, I couldn't think of letting that baaket no out of my hands." Hut you're blocking up the doorway with It there." I can't help that. I paid my fare and my basket goes with me.

1 would set It down only I don't dare let It go out of my bands. Its contents are valuable." But yon must get It ont of the way." The im womun sputtered and scolded and woundup by say Ine that she would not put the banket down, Mho would not get off tbe car, that she didn't care If she did block uu the doorway and tbe conductor was no gentleman, anyhow, or he wouldn't ppeuk to a lady ubouta little thing like a murket basket. Madam," aaid the conductor after the fat woman had quieted down, "it will be perfectly safe over here In tbe corner." I don't iielleve IU iain afraid to trust It there. The contents of this basket are likely to get hurt down there under those meu'a feet." And she stood there all tbe way from Bryant street to is wan and every person who got on or off rubbed against ibat basket. The men swore and the women Raid "Dear me!" and looked unutterable thliiKS.

And the tut woman burnt onto her butkeL When tbe car stopped ut swan street an un dersized man who was crowded into one corner of the vestibule said Excuse me, madam, but If you won't consider It Impertinence, 1 would like to know what you have In that basket that you are guarding so closely?" The fat woman looked pleased. "Well," she said, "I dtm't mind tellln' you, seeln' vmi Inquired. They's a lot of old magazines that mv daughter let me take to read." And the conductor swore Hevn times under his breath and hen went out and said sarcastic things to the mo tor man. HE HADN'T ASKED UER. Jones Was Gashing, Bnt Tie Drew the Ltue at Business.

From the Capital. A young lady who Is really popular In Washington society tells me the following on herself: Thesnmmer shespent at a mountain resort In Virginia, where nhe was the recipient, of course, of a number of attentions from the men, both young and old. Among the most persistent was a young man whom I shall conceal by calling Jones. He whs very devoted. He took the girl walking and driving.

He spent money on her, sending candy and flowers, which cost high at certain seasons. One evening; there was a bopat the hotel. Between the dances Mr. Jones proposed a promenade. The ultrht was beautiful and the air balmy.

The young lady consented. (Notice that the plot thickens and thickens.) Jones told her he thought she was the most charming person he had ever met; that she wus everything that a man could desire for a wife. He even waid he loved ber. The young woman, not a little frightened said "But you know, Mr. Joues, I could never marry you." He stopped short In his rhapsody, and replied: MI buve'nt asked you yet." Bury thr Ntgarr.

From tbe Hawklnsvlile Dispatch. We have Just received a letter from a man asking what to do with a negro who shot and I Ilea blB grandfather. Heaays: 4 The Governor Is opposed to lynching, tbe Judge and Jury of my county are opposed to banging and the legislature is opposed to putting him in the chaingang for fear he won't be treated Our rnend being a law-abiding citizen of this world's population, we can't do other than to candidly advise blm to bide hi time and lot the law take Its course. Butlu tbe meantime bury the nigger." Men Were Deceivers Ever. From Truth.

"John," said Maud, "didn't yon promise me that on the day 1 became your wile you'd give np smoking?" "Yes, dear." "And now I find yon puffing on a cigar." "Why not, dear? I kept my promlsa I didn't smoke a bit the day you became my wile." Khe Wm booked. From the New Yorlt Press. Husband. Where are those darned Btock-lntsr Wife. "Here are the darned stockings." Hlrd Girl (member ol tbe Y.

W. "Gracious. I can't stuv here If those doodIs swear like thatl" Bern There for Pome Weeks. From the Allen town City Item. The eyes of tbe country are on Senator Voorhees.

BEDSTEADS Of Brass and Iron. Faultless Bedding, assortment In Philadelphia. For a Limited Period a SCFT HAIR MATTRESS, $12.50 Full Weight 140 lbs.) Best Upholstering, Beauty, Cleanliness mad Iuraiti ity. H. D.

DOUGHERTY Co 1 1 I Itb Ft. i.kwre Market) CkttlefiK. npoB ket Theatre in the season of 1733-34. Thia was at the time when Cihher. who had been manager at the Drury Lane, had Jieaded a revolt of the company at that theatre and gone over to the rival Hay market.

Among other roles, Mrs. Clarke assumed that of Roderigo In Othello," but with indifferent success. Mrs. Henry Lewi, wife of Henry Lewis, a famous pantomimitt In the thirties, played Norval, Macbeth. Richard III.

and Othello. Her Richard III. wus her great part, and some old New Yorkers will even now declare that in the role she was equal to any of the tragedians, an opinion that one will be iusti fied in accepting only with liberal grains of suit lago has enlisted the efforts of several actresses. In this country the most conspicuous female exponents of the role have been Mrs. Emma Wallerand MissCharlotteCramp-ton in the past and Miss Marie Present in the present Mrs.

Waller, who is still living, was a contemporary ami rival of Cushman. She was great as Lady Macbeth, Queen Margaret Queen Katharine and Meg Merilles, and by many was considered to be even superior to the more renowned tragedienne in those roles. She played many male roles, all of them very satisfactorily, but none of them in a manner at all comparable with her impersonations of female characters. Her Macbeth, her Hamlet and her lago were her most interesting efforts in this class. In lago she exhibited a fine comprehension of the character.

Her reading of the tines was intelligent and strong in elocution, while her facial expression and stage movements were good. It waa never quite possible, however, to forget the sex of the impersonator, and this feminine lago was not a valuable addition to the stage. Miss Crampton came nearer to making ns oblivious to herself in her delineation of lago. The same qualities of subtle analysis and masculinity that distinguished her Shylock and bor Macbeth made her lago noteworthy. Miss Preicott's lago is of to-day.

It was brought out at the Windsor Theatre, New York, in February. 1800, and was played several times afterward. Without being wholly devoid of merit, the impersonation never rose to the point of being entitled to very serious consideration. Miss Prescott played the part intelligently and with care, and there was strength and fine shading in her delivery of the lines. In her case, as fn others, however, it was the femininity of the role that was most conspicuous and held the impersonation dowu to the commonplace.

But the climax of absurdity was capped when a Mrs. Maeready attempted Shylock at the Academy of Music, New York, in September, 1872. Mrs. Maeready was one of that large army of misguided, stflge-strnck females whose powers are not commensurate with their ambitions. She was not a person of importance before her theatrical experience, and Comte Katnnow.

Prince of Saxe-Altenburg. THE CZAR AND CZARINA AT THEIR POLISH SUMMER was less so afterward. It is said that she was a teacher or a governess, and having received a few lessons in dramatic art, Etarted in to eclipse the great actresses of her flay. She hired her own company, and made her debut as Shylock. Of course she was a lugubrious failure.

Her Shylock was stnpid and tedious, and the actress displayed neither intellectual apprehension, stagecraft or elocutionary skill. Alter Shylock she tried the title role in Bui-wer's "Richelieu." but with no higher degree of success. Then she started on a tour through tbe country, and never was heard from afterward. She went out of sight as suddenly and as mysteriously as she had appeared. On the whole, tbe success of women in interpreting the male characters of the Shakespearean dramas has not been so pronounced as to hold out mncb inducement to others of the sex to follow in the footsteps of those who have been the pioneers.

There is no immediate danger that men will be supplanted in the privilege of depicting their sex on the stage, and it ia far from likely that the stage will ever have any female Keans, Kem-bles. Booths or Forres ts. Lyman Hoevjk Weeks. Copyright, 189L i i Mf Hapve LMke Bad. From the New York Press.

"What's tbe matter with four dogf He was tn aflgbt fast Week and doesn't seem to recover from tbej-bawlng ap be got be looks bad, doesn't uBadl yon wftnld think somebody had been trying a new fpmie opera on blm. A It M. M. Dr. In MISS CUSHMAN AND MISS SUSAN parts she would partake freely of whisky behind the scenes and under this stimulus be came so oblivious of her sex that the fullest requirements of the role were met.

But it is related of ber that by reason of this same habit it was sometimes found necessary to abruptly close her season the day after she ban opened an engagement in the most brill iant manner. Dissipation often brought her to dire extremes and one period of ber lite the chanty of friends was needed to save ber from hunger. Then she reformed and for a time engaged in teaching and in delivering temperance lectures, nut alter awhile she went back to her old habits and her former profession. In the latter part of the decade prereding the civil wht Miss Crampton was the delight of the stage. In the season of 1855-56 she was leading lady at the National Theatre in Bos ton, and in 1858 was a member of the Boston Theatre stock company, then managed by horn as Barry.

At other times she starred through the West and the South, and during one season played at the Boston Musenm with Kate Reigtiolds, now Mrs. Erving Winslow. When the civil war broke out she went to the front with her son. Charles Wilkinson, and followed the Union army as a vivandiere. Alter the war she went to San Francisco, aud for a time was the theatrical idol of that city.

In subRt-queut year" she again starred through the South and West At this time she had again reformed her habits of life, and joined the Roman Catholic Church. In 1875 she was a member of the stock company at McCiuley's Theatre in Louisville, and there died. Her last performance was as the yueen to the Hamlet of John McCuUough, and, ruriously enough, the last words that she ever spoke on the stage were The drink, the drink oh, my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink; lam poisoned." Miss Crampton was the first woman to play the part of Muzeppa, appearing in that role ahout 1853 at the old National Theatre, in Chatham street. New York, where she created a sensation. She taught Ada Isaacs Menken the business of the part and the pupil soon distanced the teacher in popularity, and made the role peculiarly her own.

Miss Crampton did not have an imposing figure, and her success in male roles was therefore the more remarkable. She was only five feet high, and was often called "The Little Siddons." But she had a fine form, a handsome, expr- ssive face and a wonderfully graceful carriage. She was a good swordsman, and few men cared to face her in combat on the stage. Maeready used to say that she was the best Lady Macbeth that he ever knew, and she was a fine Medea. The male roles that she favored were Ion, Jack Shephard, Col 'in.

in Nature and Philosophy Carwin the Advocate, in "The Orphau of Geneva." one of Fanest's great parts, and Don Csesar de Bazan. From Shakespeare she played Richard Shylock, Macbeth, Hamlet Igo and Romeo, and she was considered a remark- ably strong Richard. There were those who used to declare that her Shylock, in the scene with Tybalt was one of the greatest pieces of acting that was seen in ber generation. Another stage favorite In the last generation was Fannie Wallack, one of the famous Wallack family. She was the daughter of Henry and niece of J.

W. Wallack, father of Lester Wallack. She made her debut in this country at the New Chatham Theatre, afterward Purcy's National Theatre, on Chatham street, between Roosevelt and James streets. New York, at a benefit to James Wallack. With her sister Julia she appeared in "The Hunchback, Julia aa Julia and Fanny as Helen, December 23, 1839.

Afterward she played in light parts at the National Theatre, and in 1S47 was leading lady at the Broadway Theatre. Her last appearance on the New York stage ws at Purdy's National Theatre, June 19, 1852. She became. Mrs. Charles Moore house, and going to Edinburgh died there in 1856.

She was an actress of agreeable presence and moch talent graceful and spirited in stage movement and possessed of fine intellectual qualities. Upon the occasion of her farewell benefit, previous to her departure for Europe, at Burton's Theatre, Angus IS, 1849. she appeared as Romeo to the Juliet of Miss Mason. The impersonation was merely a success d'estime. Miss Wallack dressed the part well and made a handsome stare picture.

Her reading of the lines displayed intelligence, bnt on the whole ber im personation, although to look upon, was conventional, and did not rise above com moo place. In July, 184a, Bueaa Dennin assayed -A'.