ny ULYSSES WARD.

D. c., MONDAY. FEBRUARY %. 1916.
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piece is now open; and the poor actor,
prepared or not prepared, must appear, and
expose himself to the contempt or appro-
baton of disgusted or admiring auditory
If he should be so fortunate as to make
successful hit, as it is termed, the manager
takes him by the hand at the moment he
exits. But if, on the other hand, he should
be so unfortunate as to make an unsuccess-
ful hit, the enraged manager scowls upon
him, and threatens 70 reduce to the lowest
standard, his pay. And to this treatment
the unfortunate responds only in sighs truly
lamentable !. hastens 10 cof1ee-house, and,
in the lethe Of wine bottle, browns the
remembrance Of it.


Thus the poor, wretched, dsluded, and
heart-broken actor goes on, until his head
becomes whtened by the frost Of seventy
winters, and then, having reached the end
Of his earthly career, he expires. But
where, O where, does his immortal soul
find resting place ? Does it find one in
the bower of immortal bloom, where the
zepllyrs of Paradise, impregnatsd with the
resu scitating balm of the tree Of life, re-
fresh the Faithful We are inclined to be-
lieve that it does not for the circumstances
by which it was encompassed in life were
such as to render a transportation thither
impr acticable. 4s


az+ Thomas F. Marshall, the eloquent
Keneuckian, whosereformatio from intern
pera nee by the Washingtonians, while a
member Of the 9th Congress, rang through
the whole nation, and whose eloquent tenn
per2lnce speeches in the Eastern cities thrill
led the heart of every friend 10, the cause
fell from his high estate andsbroke his sol
emn pledge a. Lexington, week before last
Pee uniary embarrassment, (for his library
had been sold for debt, we understand
combined with disappointed ambition, wa'
doubtless the cause. Before drinking, how


ever, to excess, reason returnedlo its throne
and conscience. resumed her balance. HI


went TO the Executive Committee of tn,


society, acknowledged his fault, asked for


giveness, and renewed his pledge. The


next evening he made two powerful spec
ches at a temperance meeting first
acknowledged his direliction, and the second
an eloquent appeal to young men, a large
number of whom joined. Had he taken a
few steps more'on the downward road, com.


menced by him, he would have been los


irretrievably.-Hd. Register