| Show A financier stock actors in theaters when allowed a benefit make the most of it the actor whose regular salary may be from 10 to per week has on this occasion one half of the entire receipts of the house he is supposed ahr ugh the influence of his friend friends sto to increase those receipts to double what they usually are to do this they must unless they have a number resort to expedients not usually recognized as legitimate an actor in the west being C given a benefit issued a cou couple coupie le of thousand tickets entitling therold the holder to free admission to the boxes on djs benefit night these tickets were assiduously dropped at every crossroad cross road tavern and grocery for some few miles in the vicinity oil on the night previous to the benefit the bait took and fellows and their gals might have been seen advancing on the good old town ere evening ing shadows fell the doors of the theatre were regularly besieged by pleasure seeking rusti rustles cs when the doors were opened and a stout policeman or two had bad been prudently picketed at the entrance a rush was made in order to get the the best seats in the house as is is always the case with your constitutional deadhead to portray the mingled phases of astonishment anger and honest indignation of the MY liberal patrons of or the rustic drama when they were severally informed by the urbane and ald gentlemanly doorkeeper door keeper that all those red tickets were fraum frauds ang ana and inde indeed edas as the reader knows his information inform atio atlo ii was true is beyond the power of my feeble quill As most of the young fellows were accompanied compau compa nied led by their sweethearts for the supply of gratuitous pasteboard had been biffl diffused used on a most liberal scale it would seem shabby to back out without seeing the show so with many a rueful expression while fumbling for evasive quarters and many whispered whisper bd soli sou citations for temporary accommodations dat ions they filed in pair after pair and filled the little theatre to its utmost capacity to cap the climax of theatrical audacity the beneficiary himself between the pieces stepped in front of the scenes with a pack of the rejected tickets in his hand and in a most eloquent speech denounced the contemptible scoundrels who had attempted to injure him by such outrageous impositions on the public in the whole course of his professional experience whether in england australia california or america he had never been so grossly insulted and continued he warming to his work if the cowardly blackguard b la c k guard or orb blackguards black I 1 ack guards are in front of this house tonight to night I 1 dare them to meet me at the door of the theatre and I 1 will give each and all any satisfaction for the language I 1 have used aye he be concluded shaking his fist defiantly antly at a harmless medallion of shakespeare PEARE that decorated the front of the second tier and at ady any time and in any way they may select this plucky demonstration w won n all hearts and prolonged applause greeted the injured stranger as he proudly defiantly and slowly bowed himself off that young man has been a financial success andis and is still a prosperous gentleman ex 0 c there is a district of lepers hanew in rew new brunswick and sixty years of effort on the part of the local authorities ties have failed to accomplish more than limiting the disease to its original locality the matter has been brought to the notice of the dominion parliament |
