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all price, 15c. a 59c. 33c. this at 6 A THE NEW ERA-LANCASTER, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1900.

Charley Hoyt began his career with a farce comedy, He leaped to fame on Bunch of Keys." A tragedy has hurled him into obscurity. Two years ago looked upon his wife in her coffin with her dead Infant on her breast. When the curtain was rung down upon beautiful Caroline Miskel Hoyt it caught the playwright in its folds. To-day it has obscured him utterly. The funmaker came into the Hartford Probate Court recently to plead for his liberty.

He came to make a against friends who, in their protest regard for him, would immure him in a retreat for the insane. have had a great deal of trouble, Judge," he said. "I have lost my wife and brain that for twenty years had provided fun for thousands seemed to waver, the voice that had so often been raised to create a new witticism broke. The funmaker's head fell upon his breast. "Trouble--trouble," he repeated vaguely, tottering where he stood.

Jokes Obliterated by Grief. POOR CHARLEY HOYT! TRAGIC PATE OF A POPULAR FUNMAKER. Is Mind Gave Way When He Saw His Dead Wife and Child Lowered Into the Grave. Pathos of a Funmaker's Mute Appeal Beyond the Grave. Charley Hoyt's insanity is not happy.

He has still the realization that his idol, the woman who made life precious to him, is dead. He knows that little cemetery at Charlestown, N. his wife and infant son are sleeping. Because of them he has forgotten his jokes. His business till then was to make people laugh.

He did it well and easily. A Hoyt play meant an evening of fun. A Hoyt play was synonymous with a good time. But that was before Charley Hoyt had been driven insane by sorrow. That was before the maker of jokes had dipped his pen in tears.

Caroline Miskel's Beauty. Caroline Miskel Hoyt was oDe of the most beautiful women of her day. To most playgoers it is scarcely necessary to recall her. She was a beauty and an actress. She was as the poet would have her, tall and divinely fair.

She was a bewitching beauty, with amiability in her smile and graciousness in her manner. Her hair was golden, her cheeks were pink, her skin was white. Those who may not have had the pleasure of seeing her off the stage may have fancied that powder and dye and rouge might so endow her. But Caroline Miskel Hoyt was a beauty who might have stepped from behind the footlights into a glare of nature's own making and have held her OWn beneath it. The charm of her coloring was an accessory to the charm of her features.

Her chin captivatel, her eyes delighted, her lips allured. In the memory of men Caroline Miskel Hoyt would have lived as a beauty even if she had never learned to act. But she was a beauty with ambition, a beauty with ability, a beauty destined to be a brief inspiration to the man whose idol she was. For his wife Charley Hoyt, the playwright, wrote the most classical comedy of his career, "A Contented Woman." Through it Caroline Miskel Hoyt claimed rank as an actress. Hoyt's First Glimpses of Her.

When Miskel first came upon the genial Charley Hoyt Caroline, she was still a novice. He saw her in Robert Mantell's company, which was then appearing in a play called "The Face in the Moonlight," a young slip of a girl, with an charm of face and fascination of manner. That night she enchained Charley Hoyt in her list of slaves. When Fate loosened those shackles it was to consign him to a madhouse. On the night that Caroline Miskel first a appeared to him the playwright had in his mind a new play.

It was still in the chaotic state that precedes writing. As he sat in an orchestra chair watching "The Face in the Moonlight" a little golden-haired novice inspired the character of Ruth, the simple young girl in "A Temperance Town." Before he slept that night Charley Hoyt had met and engaged Caroline Miskel for his unwritten play. His other engagement with her came later. It came after her appearance in "A Temperance Town," in the midst of an 1 overwhelming triumph. Before the season was over the new beauty had become Mrs.

Charley Hoyt. Her charms Charley Hoyt basked in. From them he received the most serious inspiration of his life. His wife's ambition to become an actress inspired him to weave the cleverest satire he ever wrote, "A Contented Woman," in which she appeared as the delicately tinted femininity opposed to strong-minded woman. Broken-Hearted Man.

This was the woman who was Charley Hoyt's idol. For three years she was his life, his light, his happiness. 8. At the end of them he bowed his head over the coffin where she lay, with her dead baby on her breast. When he raised it Charley Hoyt, the funmaker, had fled.

In his place was a broken-hearted man, destined to weep and weep alone. Before six months had passed the author of "A Parlor Match," "A Trip to Chinatown," "A Stranger in New York" and a dozen other pleasantries had broken down. He had tried to do what hundreds of other grief-stricken men have done before him. In work and dissipation he sought surcease of sorrow. He burned the candle at both ends, dreading the dark.

In the dark he saw always his young wife in her coffin, with the dead baby on her breast. Rather than be alone he walked the streets or sat in the corriHors of hotels. From sheer exhaustion he was often found sleeping in some public room. He lived restlessly, actIvely, incessantly. He grieved mor- bidly, deeply, unremittingly.

"A Dog in the Manger." For years he had been accustomed to make annual productions. He anpounced that the year following his vite's death should make no exception. 1 will write a farce," he cried with a break in his voice. In the hours when others slept he wrote; in the hours when they were awake he was their companion. He rested neither by night nor by day.

In scenes for his new farce Charley Hoyt sought to obliterate the picture of dead wife in her coffin. To Washington he went a year after her death to attend the final rehearsals for "A Dog in the Manger." There Charley Hoyt encountered his first taillost his power to world laugh. ure. husband had broken, The farce was in a minor key. It sang a dirge that only ceased when the curtain tell.

"Immediately after the play," said Mr. Frank McKee, Charley Hoyt's partner and closest friend, "I went to the telegraph office and canceled all dates for the piece." Charley Hoyt's Inst attempt at playwriting was followed by a trip to Florida. The entreaties of his friends forced him away. They knew then that the shadow on his heart had affected his brain. The curtain is down now.

The lights are out. Charley Hoyt, the man who made millions laugh with his innocent fun, has dismissed his last audience in tears. His Last Song. It is an added pathos to recall his last song, his lines to the memory of Sadie McDonald, the actress who died while with one of Hoyt's companies on an Australian tour. They are: When the scene is lighted brightly and we watch the players nightly.

The peasant, the prince and the page. Lo, there comes an apparition, 'tis a little fair -haired vision, In the middle of the crowded stage. And across the footlights stealing. to the list'ning heart appealing. Floats the echo of the song that we want you, ma honey, yes, I want you, want you, want you; I want you, ma honey, yes I Theh she passes.

Yonder, lonely, she has one true comrade only, Who comes to her with whisperings of hope, Speeding fast across the ocean with unfaltering devotion. 'Tis the wind from her own Pacific Slope, And it presses toward her pillow, printing footsteps on the billow, Lightly, like one who comes to woo. murmurs low above her, with the soft sigh of a want you, ma honey, yes I do!" Ah, the worktime and the playtime! Ah, the hot and garish daytime! She rests undisturbed through it all; While the sultry hours are creeping, in her darkened room she's sleeping. And she heeds the loudest call. But when the lights are glis ning and the silent stars are list ning From their places in the steadfast blue, It we come, our sad hearts bringing, we may hear her softly singing, "I want you.

ma honey, yes I And when the years have vanished and more stately songs are banished. This simple strain that time cannot kill Will recall the figure slender and the accents clear and tender And the tresses that are golden still, You will listen, little lady, and perhaps you'll hear us, Sadie, Singing--across the years--to you The song you taught so sweetly, ere you passed from us completely, "I want you, ma honey, yes I Real Estate and Insurance GENERAL INSURANCE. Standard, Loss Companies, paying record American recog- and our nized merit. Mercantile and Manufacturing demands handled in approved manner. Full protection offered in Fire, Life and Accident Branches.

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Photo Supplies Kodaks AND Cameras, Latest Models, at REDUCED PRICES. Complete Outfits to make 4x5 Photos, including Camera and all necessary material, $4.90. The pleasures of your Vacation would be doubled with a Camera. Cameras. Chemicals and Supplies.

23 EAST ORANGE STREET. Do You Know WE KEEP PURE, READY-MIXED Paints? The "MARYLAND" Brand, Manufactured the Popplein Paint and Color Works, famous throughout the South by, and West for the past seventy-two years. If you have had POOR RESULTS from other MIXED PAINTS, give us a trial. Varnishes, Turpentines, Stains, White Lead, Oils and Brushes. Sprecher Ganss, 31 East King Street.

Two Doors West of Court House. Absolutely PURE MILK! Get Lancaster Dairy Co. Kind, 38 West Chestnut Street. E. L.

GARBER, Proprietor. Willis G. Harry, Mgr. Independent 'Phone, 1586. Dry Soods The Boston Store, Summer Clearing Sale.

Read and Reflect. 54-inch Linen Damask, grey, with colored border: worth price, 21c. 25c. Sale S4-inch Turkey Red Damask. colworth Sale price.

16e. 20c. 60-Inch Fancy Colored Damasks; worth Sale price, 25c. a yard. 374c.

60-Inch Turkey Red Damask: worth 50c. Sale price, 374c. 36-inch Heavy Unbleached Damask; worth 33c. a yard. Sale price, 60-Inch Heavy Unbleached Damask; worth 45c.

Sale price, 29c. a yard. 56-Inch Heavy German Dice Linen; worth Sale price, 28c. a yard. Best German Linen; worth 50c.

56-inch Sale price, 374c. a yard. All our $1.00 Quality Finest Bleached Damasks, during this sale. 79c. a yard.

Quality Bleached Damasks. Sale Bleached Toilet Crash; worth yard. Bleached Checked Crasn, 19 inches worth Sale price, yard. wide: Bleached Cotton Toweling, inches wide: worth Te. Sale price, 5c.

a vard. All Linen Crashes will be 11c. yard. All 10c. Linen Crashes marked to 9c.

yard. Umbrellas. 100 26-Inch. Fast Black Umbrellas, with fancy Dresden handles and steel rods; worth 69c. Sale price.

45c, each. Men's and Ladies All-Silk Gloria Umbrellas, fancy and natural handles; worth of $1.25. Sale price, each. 63 Fine, Colored Sun Umbrellas, in plain, checks and stripes; the regular $1.00 qualDuring sale, $1.98. ity.

A Ladies Regular $2.00 All-Silk Gloria Umbrella, steel paragon frame, silk cover, natural and fancy handles. Sale price, $1.39. Men's All-Silk $1.50 Umbrellas, during this sale, at 96c. Sheets and Pillow Cases. 40x36-inch Bleached Pillow Cases; worth Sc.

each. Sale price, 42x36-Inch Bleached Pillow Cases; worth 9c. Sale price, 7c. each. 42x36-inch Bleached Pillow Cases; worth 12160.

Sale price. 10c. 45x36-inch Bleached Pillow Cases; worth 14c. Sale price, 11c. each.

42x36-inch Unbleached Pillow Cases; worth 11c. Sale price, 9c. each. 45x36-inch Unbleached Pillow Cases; worth 14c. Sale price, 11c.

each. Hemstitched Bleached Pillow Cases; worth 15c. Sale price, each. 45 x36-inch Hemstitched Bleached Pillow Cases; worth 17c. Sale price.

14c. each. 42x36-inch Twilled Muslth Pillow Cases; worth 14c. Sale price. each.

45x36-inch Twilled Muslin Pillow Cases; worth Sale price, 14c. each. Sheets. 82x90-inch Bleached Sheets; worth 55c. Sale price, 49c.

each. 82x90-inch Bleached Sheets; worth 63c. Sale 55c. each. 82x90-inch Unbleached- Sheets; worth 49c.

Sale price. 35c. each. 82x90-inch Unbleached Sheets; worth 59c. Sale price, 49c.

each. 82x90-inch Bleached Hemstitched Sheets; worth 59e. Sale price, each. 82x90-inch Bleached Hemstitched Sheets; worth 19c. Sale price, 69c.

each. 82x90-inch Bleached Hemstitched Sheets; worth 89c. Sale price, 15c. each. 42x72-inch Bleached Bolsters; worth 25c.

Sale price, 21c. each. 42x72-inch Bleached Hemstitched Bolsters; worth 33c. Sale price. 27c.

each. 42x72-inch Bleached Hemstitched Bolsters; worth 45c. Sale price, 33c. each, Leinbachili House Furnishings We Bought TOO MANY Blue Flame Oil Stoves. We want to Close them Out, and with that in view have had them Reduced in Price.

BRENE MAN 152 North Queen Street, LANCASTER PA Meat Markets. Stalls 57 and 58 Central Market, 7 and 8 Avenue Western Market, and 32 and 34 Avenue Northern Market Ganss' Meats Are The Best. Why? Because they are all Strictly HIGHGRADE. ALWAYS TENDER. RIPENED and REFRIGERATED with a Cold Storage REFRIGERATING MACHINE.

Popular Prices. Give us a trial. Leading Meat Market in the City, Ganss' Model Meat Market, The Leading Meat Market in the City. 528 West King Street. Telephones-Bell, 4573; Independent, 1356.

Clothing. J. C. DINAN, Tailor, 33 East Orange St. Geo.

A. Cox. Richard C. Rose. The Cost Is Small But the Comfort is great of Our Crash and Serge Clothing for Hot Weather.

The Crash for everyday general wear. The Serge for evenings and dress 00- casions. We have both kinds, in Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits: CHILDREN'S WASH to $1.75, BOYS' CRASH SUITS. $1.50. MEN'S CRASH $2.00.

MEN'S CRASH MEN'S CRASH CHILDREN SERGE BOYS' SERGE SUITS MEN'S SERGE SUITS. MEN'S SERGE SUIT MEN'S SERGE SUITS. MEN'S SUMMER COATS to $3.25. CHILDREN'S WASH to 50c. EVERY FRIDAY STORE CLOSES AT NOON UNTIL SEPTEMBER.

Cox Rose, 4 West King Street, LANCASTER. PA. Merchant Tailoring, Pressing and Repairing. BiO. The Leaders Of Low Prices.

Clothing Bargains. Boys' Suits, ages 4 to 13 years, former price, now 75c. Boys' Cassimere and Worsted Suits, ages 9 to 15 years; former price, now $1.65. Men's Bicycle Suits, worth $3.50, at $1.50. Men's Worsted Suits, worth $7.00, $8.00 and now $3.75.

Men's Trousers, worth $3.00 and now $1.75. Suits to measure at $12.00 and $15.00. Southwest Corner of North Queen and Orange Sts. LANCASTER, PA Independent Telephone, 1793. Evolution In the Clothing Trade.

YES, INDEED, WE DON'T DO THINGS IN THE SAME OLD WAY AS THEY WERE DONE YEARS AGO. WE DON'T INTEND TO CARRY OVER ANY LIGHT-WEIGHT CLOTHING. THAT'S THE REASON WE'VE CUT AWAY ALL PROFIT AND SOME OF THE COST ON THESE ATTRACTIVE SUITS. GET ONE IF YOU CAN--IF YOUR SIZE IS HERE--AND YOU'LL GET A BARGAIN. DON'T WAIT, AND THEN LAMENT THAT YOU DID NOT COME SOONER VALUES At $7, $10 and $12.

Ayes Ration. THE CLOTHIERS, 12 East King Lancaster, SUMMER WANTS At Your Own Prices. OILED PANTS AND COATS, RUBBER LEGGINS, much used for tobacco cutting, 60c. to $1.00. SPECIAL EVERYDAY TROUSERS, now 77c.

SOFT BOSOM DRESS SHIRTS, 79c. WORKING SHIRTS, ALL SIZES, 45c. OVERALLS and JACKETS, all sizes and colors, 45c. EXTRA KNEE TROUSERS, 68c. SPECIALS IN NECKWEAR, 45c.

ARROW BRAND COLLARS AND CUFFS, 2 for 25c. MEN'S DRESS PANTS, $1.35, $1.58, $1.80 to $4.00. FIRST COME, BEST CHOICE. AIRSH CLOTHIERS, FURNISHERS, TAILORS, Centre Square and North Queen Street. THE STAR Department Store.

Save $5. $5 Saved on Each $10 Suit. Unparalleled Bargains in Clothing. Come and Be Convinced. Prices run like this: A $15.00 Suit for $14.00 Suit for $12.00 Suit for $6.00: $10.00 Suit for $8.00 Suit for $4.00: $7.00 Suit for $6.00 Suit for $5.00 Suit for $2.50.

Come and see how they are made and trimmed. Only a few Ladies' Shirt Waists left. Come and see them. The prices will positively interest you. Women's Made Suits positively at half price.

They are extra fine and of the latest styles. They go at $4.25, $4.15, $5.00 and up. Women's Wash and Mohair Skirts at half price. Muslin Underskirts, with deep ruffle and embroidered, at 42c. All other goods in Women's Department Very EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS 21e.

IN MEN'S Silk SHIRTS- Finish A 15c. Underwear, Shirt at in 39c. fancy at per garment. colors, at 39c. per garment.

IN ORDER CLOTHING -We have plenty of Fancy Woollens on hand to select from. $20.00 Sult for style and fit guaranteed. 43 WEST KING STREET, Lancaster, Pa. You'll Be Buying THE FURNITURE STORE YOU Some WANT TO PATRONIZE IS THE STORE THAT GIVES YOU THE Furniture STYLE, DURABILITY COMFORT, FOR THE ELEGANCE MONEY. BEFORE AND IF YOU'LL "SHOP AROUND" YOU BUY YOU'LL FIND THAT THIS Before Long.

IS FOR. THE STORE YOU'RE LOOKING Hoffmeier 40 East King Street. J. B. Martin Co.

Open Stock Dinner Ware. Fifteen Different Patterns in stock of DINNER WARE that you can purchase by the Single Piece or entire Set, and get the matchings for at least fifteen years to come. The benefit of this is that you do not have to purchase a DINNER SET that contains a lot of pieces you do not want. If you break a Cup or any piece in the Set, you can get the matchings at the store, thereby keeping your Set in perfect order. J.

B. Martin 52 and 54 West King Street, Men's Underwear Reduced. We Include in this Reduction Sale all our Light-Weight Colored Underwear. Beautiful, rich garments they are, too--so rich in appearance and fabric that we been asked frequently, "Are they silk?" shades to select from--LIGHT BLUE, LAVENDER and PINK. These the sizes: In Light Blue.

SHIRTS--Size 40-42. 30-34. In Lavender. DRAWERS -Size 40-42. 30-36-38.

And in Pink. DRAWERS -Size Size 36-38. 38-40-42. See them in our north window. You'll think 50c.

a very little price, but--because we don't have all sizesChoose From Those We Have At 38c. Tru Trunks, 82.25 to 837.50. and as fine a lot to pick from as you will soon see. Whatever your Trunk wants -you'll find them easily supplied here. LARGE TRUNKS AND SMALL TRUNKS, HEAVILY IRONED, STRONG TRUNKS, and LIGHT WEIGHT TRUNKS.

FOR OVER-THE-SEA. Trunks made especially for women. with compartments for skirts, shirt waists, hats, etc. Trunks made especially for men, with hat boxes, shirt boxes. collar and cuff cases and plenty of room beside for the several suits you will be sure to need for the journey.

Traveling Bags, Suit Cases and Telescopes Colors-Russet, Olive and Chocolate. STAUFFER Hats, Trunks, Bags and Furnishing, 31 and 33 North Queen Street, LANCASTER, PA. and Lumber! You Always Get Clean Goods! Eckman's North Prince and Frederick-50 N. Bell and Independent 'Phones. C.

J. Swarr Co. COAL. 19 East Orange Street. Coal GIVES PERFECT SATISFACTION.

R. S. HOUSER Co. Office-14 East Chestnut Street. Yard -Prince and New Streets.

Both Telephones. B.B.Martin Dealers In LUMBER Lumber and Coal. Office and Yard. 424 N. Water Telephone, 783.

Lancaster, Pa. The Lumber Dealers in All Kinds of Lumber Sole Agents for the Celebrated P. and B. Ruberoid Rooting and Sheeting. Offices: 122 East King Street Yards: Corner Prince and Clay Streets Telephone Connection.

09 lyd Deter Coal Was Never Mined, is the Proper Kind. Coal Co. 129 North Queen. 564 North Prince. Telephone.

With a Thud! Buying Coal of us means that you are sure to get Full Weight, Clean, WellScreened, Grade Coal; Promptly delivered, and at the Lowest Market Prices. These facts strike people, sometimes, with so thud--and that's good for the people and our business. G. Sener Sons, COAL and LUMBER, N. E.

corner of Prince and Walnut Sta. SE LANCASTER. PA. For Sala FOR SALE OR RENTDwellings, with hot water, bath tube, water closets, wash stands, bot water neat and cement pavements. Only $2,200.

Also, Butcher Shop, with fixtures. GEORGE W. ANNE, No. 837 East Orange Street. Professional HUGH R.

FULTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, NO. 40 NORTH DUKE STREET, Lancaster, Pa. By arrangement with Wm. T. Fulton, of the Chester County Bar, can attend to business in the Chester County Courts.

17 ADAM J. EBERLY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. No. 49 EAST GRANT STREET, mr21 Lancaster, Pa. Dr.

D. Sherman Smith, DENTIST, Has removed from No. 3 EAST KING STREET to 156 East King Strect, n14 lyd LANCASTER, Glasses Fitted. DR. W.

L. KAUFFMAN, 41 West Orange Street, LANCASTER, PA. 0000000000 Plumbers. ARE YOU THINKING Of changing your Plumbing from the old to the new? If so, let me give you an estimate. Frank J.

Sharp, PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING, 39 SOUTH QUEEN Lancaster. Pa. Gas Fitting Is right in our line. If there's any trouble. just send for us.

We aro prompt and our work is thorough. FISHER POWL, 237 North Queen Street BELL TELEPHONE. Hotels. American House. Thoroughly Renovated and Re-Fitted, Is now prepared to take a limited number of Table Boarders.

Special rates for the Summer season. Sunday Dinners a Specialty. je20 3md.