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A Batch of Proverbs. 
 
 ^ CO]VIEDIETTA. 
 
 IN ONE ACT 
 
 — BY — 
 
 Billy M. Morris. 
 
 TO WHICH IS ADDED 
 
 A DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUMRS— CAST OF THE CHAR AC 
 
 TERS— ENTRANCES AND EXITS -RELATIVE POSITIONS 
 
 OF THE PIORFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE 
 
 WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS. 
 
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A BATCH OF PEO VERBS. 
 CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
 
 Mr. Jones . . 
 Mes. Jones. 
 
 %^?>^ 
 
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 TIME OF PLAYING -15 minutes 
 
 U88ARY of OONGKtSS 
 Two CoDies rtecctvco 
 
 JUL 10 1905 
 
 (\ Oouyngni tniry J^- 
 
 CppT B 
 
 COSTUMES— Modern, 
 
 STAGE DIRECTIONS. 
 
 R., means Right; l, Left; R. H., Right Hand; L. H., Left 
 Hand; c, Centre; s. e., (2d e.) Second Entrance; u. e. 
 Upper Entrance; m. d., Middle Door; f., the Flat; d. 
 r., Door ip, Flat; R. c, Right of Centre; £.. c, Left of 
 Ontre. 
 
 R. R. C. C. L. C. L. 
 
 *^*Reader is supposed to be upon the stage facing audience. 
 

 j^ Batch, of I^ro verbs. 
 
 SCENE.— Pa7'lon 
 . Enfer Mr. and Mas. Jones, c. e, at rise of curiain, ^ 
 
 Mrs. J, Don't tell me, Mr Jones; I'll not endure it 
 from morning till night. You are forisver torturing me 
 with those sei seless quotations, and every question I ask 
 you, you answer with a motto or a proverb. We are all 
 at variance and sepernted. '■ 
 
 . Mr. J. Tl]at should not be. "A house divided cannot 
 stand," as the p overb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. i will not hear another word. 
 
 Mr. J. "None so deaf as th'os^ who won't hear." 
 
 Mrs. J. You are most provoking. You know I have 
 a party to dinner and my cousin and aunt are coming to 
 help me. 
 
 Mr. J. "Eelations are best apart," and "Too many 
 cooks spoil the broth," as the proverb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. As the proverb says! You'd aggravate a saint! 
 You monster you — you — you! {enrage'i 
 
 Mr. J. Goon my dear, scold away. Hard words, or to 
 quote an old saying, "Sticks and stones may break my 
 bones, but names will never hurt me." 
 
 Mi's. J. Indeed, some of your convivial friends if tliey 
 don't hurt you in name will very likely break yuu in pocket. 
 I can scarcely get a penny for myself. 
 
 Mr. J. My love "Take <3are of the pennies, and the 
 pounds will take care of themselves," another proverb, 
 "A penny saved is a penny earned" and another "Willful 
 waste causes woeful want." 
 
 Mrs. J. I'll neither waste words nor do I want any 
 more of your twaddle about these stupid old proverbs. 
 
 Mr. J. Call the sayings of the wisest men stupid, but 
 
4 A BATCH OF PROVERBS. 
 
 then you know no better, "You can't make a silken purse 
 of a sows ear," and "Wliere ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to 
 be wise." 
 
 Mrs. J. If this is the result of wisdom, I think it wise 
 to be ignorant. I wouldn't learn if I could, and I won't 
 try — at least not now. 
 
 Mr. J. As the proverb says, "There is no time like the 
 present," and "None so stupid as those who won't learn." 
 
 Mrs. J. I think your pr(j verbs all moonshine, so yov 
 must wait till I am in a humor. 
 
 Mr. J. "While the grass is growing the steed is starv- 
 ing." 
 
 Mrs. J. Well, let him starve if he don't die until 1 
 become a hay -maker, he'll live to see the sun stand stiil. 
 
 Mr. J. Indeed, "You shou'd make hay while the sun 
 shines" — 'tis an old motto to "Take time by the fore-lock," 
 and "Don't ride a willing horse o death." 
 
 Mrs. J. {(iiigry) I'll have you understand that I'll 
 lose no time in packing up and getting out of this house 
 be 'ore you cause my death. 
 
 Mr. J. You thought of the old proverb, "Opportunity 
 lost can never be regained," and "A bird in the hand is 
 worth two in the bush," and a third, "Strike while the iron 
 is hot." 
 
 Mrs. J. I wish I was free, the iron should cool enough 
 before I'd strike — but I'll have a divorce! 
 
 Mr. J. That will be "Jumping out of the frying pan 
 into the fire," as the proverb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. Hang the proverbs and those that quote them. 
 
 Mr. J. "Those that are born to hang will never be 
 drown d." 
 
 Mrs. J. Will you hold your stupid tongue! 
 
 (stamps her foot 
 
 Mr. J. "A still tongue makes a wise head." 
 
 Mrs. J. Oh, this is intolerable! If you don't cease, I'll 
 jump out of the window. 
 
 Mr. J. ' Look before you leap," as the proverb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. Mr. Jones, I am a mild tempered woman, but 
 if you keep this up, we shall quarrel and have words. 
 
 Mr. J. "A thousand words won't fill a bushel." 
 
 Mrs. J. The easels a hopehss one. Jones, I go hence, 
 far from what 1 thought would be my home — I'll go 
 thousands of miles away. 
 
A BATCH OF PROVERBS. 5 
 
 Mr. J. Remember the old proverb, "A rolling stone 
 gathers no moss." 
 
 Mrs. J. And this is the man I thought all perfection. 
 I thought so by his appearance. 
 
 Ml'. J. Never judge people by appearance. "'Tis not 
 all gold that glitters." 
 
 Mrfi. J. You used to praise my beauty. 
 
 Mr. J. "Beauty is but skin deep." 
 
 Mrs. J. True, but "Ugliness goes to the bone;" you 
 were there when that was served out. 
 
 Mr. J. "Every eye creates it's own beauty." 
 
 Mrs. J. It will take a powerful magnifying glass to 
 discover yours. I can't see it. 
 
 Mr. J. "None so blind as those who won't see," as the 
 proverb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. Will you never cease those old saws? It is a 
 perfect mania. 
 
 Mr. J. "What's bred in the bone will come out in the 
 flesh," as the proverb says. 
 
 Mrs. J. Flesh and blood can't stand this. I'll go and 
 attend to the house duties and darn your socks. 
 
 Mr. J. Eight, "A stitch in time saves n ne." 
 
 Mrs. J. i wish you had a stitch in your side and kept 
 it till you left off the use of those senseless sayings. I 
 suppose you will some day? 
 
 Mr. J. "Better late than never," and "Never too late 
 to mend.'* 
 
 Mrs. J. I'm determined! I'll go to my parents — cer- 
 tain sure. 
 
 Mr. J. "There's many a slip betwixt cup and lip." 
 
 Mrs. J. I'll go to-morrow. 
 
 Mr. J. "Never put off till to-morrow what can be done 
 to-day." "Procrastination is the thief of time." 
 
 Mrs. J. As we can't be happy together, we had better 
 be apart. 
 
 Mr. J. Seperate! Remember the proverb, "Unity is 
 strength" and "Don't throw away dirty water till you get 
 clean," "United we stand, divided we fall." 
 
 Mrs. J. Good-bye, I'm going away. 
 
 {starts toward c. E. 
 
 Mr. J. "When the cat's away the mice will play." 
 
 Mrs. J. [comes hack, angry) Oh! I'm a cat, am I? 
 Mind you don't ft el my claws, you— you — Oh! I could 
 
6 A BATCH OF PEOVE BBS. 
 
 choke with rage, a fellow that I married out of charity. 
 
 Mr. J. "Charity begins at home" and "Truth will out." 
 
 Mrs. J, I speak the truth honest. >. 
 
 Mr. J. "Honesty is the best policy" and "Truth lies^ai 
 the bottom of a well," as the proverb says. (^^ )^| f 
 
 Mrs. J. Truth does not lie anywhere. Well — )'' 
 
 Mr. J. "Let well alone." 
 
 Mrs. J. I'm trying to make well better. 
 
 Mr. J. Mind you don't make bad worse. "'Tis a long 
 lane that has no turning" and as I think I have teased you 
 long enough, 1 will confess I have only been doing this to 
 see "What metal you were made of." 
 
 Mrs. J. {pleasantly) Why "Belle metal" of course. 
 You should have found that out when you rung me. 
 
 Mr. J. True genuine bell metal — and toueful, except 
 when I touched the chord of discord, by discoursing my 
 mnsty proverbs, but "Enough is as good as a feast" and 
 "TV)o much suga • palls on the taste." 
 
 Mrs. J. (s (rppiiig his 7nouth with hand) Taste— don'fe 
 give us anotlier taste of proverbs. ■• 
 
 ^ Mr, J. You are quite right to check me. 
 
 "So we'll leave off quoting proverbs; 
 I'll tease you love no more; 
 We'll try our best to please you all, 
 As oft we've done before. 
 And make each other happy; 
 At least we hard will try, 
 And to each do 
 As we'd wish to be done by; 
 And try the fleeting hours 
 To make happy, merry, gay, 
 
 Tor if we (mly have the will, •: 
 
 We're sure to find the way'." '^ 
 
 Song may he introduced to dose irifh and tag omitted^ m^ 
 
 ''■ hh-t TIC' ^^9 <^^^^ song bolh iised^ as desired, .'f ii Ta4 
 
 CURTAIN, 
 
 THE END, 
 
A NEW PLAY BY LIZZIE MAY ELWYN, AUTHOR OF DOT.' 
 THE MINER'S DAUGHTER. ENTITLED 
 
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 i Rachel, the Fire Waif I 
 
 A Drama in 4 ac's, for 7 male and 4 female charaoters. 
 Time of performance, 2 hours. 
 
 SYJSrOPSIS OF EVENTS. 
 
 ACT T. — Natlian Ellsworth's home— Ray asleep— Alarm of fire- 
 Ray and Drusilla — ". am a Fire W.uf'— The two papers— Report of 
 Eugene Barleisih's death"^Aniit Sophy and Barney get into a row 
 ^Tabitha packs lier valise — Elmer and" Ray — Natlian and Barney 
 arrive with Harvey Jackson, who has assumed the naiiie of Eugene 
 Burleigh, who has been rescued from the fire — Drusilla recoirnizes 
 him— The threat of murder— Barney sings ''Swate Little Buther 
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 ACT IT.— Storm- Sophy gives Nathan a piece of her mind— Parson 
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 ACT IV. — Ray as the wife of Jackson — The abuse— Jackson and 
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 Sophy and Elmer in search of Ray — The lost letter turns up, 
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 reveals to Ray that Drusilla is her sister — The explosion, i.n which 
 Ja<;kson is killed — The house enveloped in flames— Firemeio rescu© 
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Mr. Butte 
 from Montana. 
 
 A comedy in 3 actsy hy W, Gnult and Alice Wilson 
 
 BrowiiCj for 6 male and 4 female characters. Plays 
 
 1 hour and 50 minutes. Costumes modern. 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS. 
 
 ACT I. — Home of Mrs. Boulder — Drill and Polly — "You neveropen 
 yourmoiith butyou tell a lie" — Mrs. Boulder, who has a fondness for 
 pets — Shaft is interviewed— Mrs. Boulder receives a letter from her 
 grandson, Butte Boulder — Miss Broolis hears theg:ood news — Arrival 
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 ACT 11. — Mrs. Boulder and Butte — A very quiet flat — "A rolling 
 stone gathers no moss" — Butte spoils his grandmother's matchmak- 
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 too hot" — Flume receives another crusher — Prof. Placer and Miss 
 Quartz, both in love with science — A confidential conversation — 
 Hallie trying to explain — "Oh! lookee, Melican man got black eyes" 
 — Butte squares himself — Two love letters — Mrs. Boulder m;i.kes her 
 will — Placer looking for a rich wife — Butte plays joke on Flume — 
 "Goldie, can 1 believe my eyes" — Butte Boulder — Picture. 
 
 ACT 111. — Butte confides in the Prof, and receives some advice | 
 Miss Quartz breaks her engagement with Butte and trys to capture 
 the Professor — Flume proposes and is accepted — "Me no likee dis 
 country, too hot, me go back to Montana" — "I started out in life 
 young, as a devil iti a printing office" — Flume falls heir to a fortune 
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 Jes' Like ^WMte Folks. 
 
 A negro farce in 2 acts, by C. I. Emms, for 4 male and 3 female 
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 As many specialties may be introduced as desired, to lengthen time 
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In a Spider s W eb. 
 
 A Musical Farce Comedy in 4 acts, by Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Kinna- 
 man, for 8 male and 5 female characters. Time of per- 
 formance, 1 hour and 40 minutes. 
 
 ^"^YNOrtilS OF E VENTS. 
 
 ACT r.— Lawn at "Drop Inn"— Pet and Kid— "Gee whiz, you 
 don't like me no how"— Tanner, the proprietor of "Drop Inn"— 
 "Say, Guardy, did youeat any blind robins?" — Fly— Henry is stage 
 struck — William Shakespere, "You know Willie, don't you?" — Pet 
 and Kid torment Fly— Dem skeeters mighty bad around here"— Fly 
 plays a trick on them and gets even— Tanner and Zoe— "What! my 
 daughter marry a hotel clerk?"— Fritz— "Well I nevah, he takes 
 me for Satan— Mrs. Spider— An easy catch— "By George, dead mashed 
 on me, deuced clevah girl"— Pet and Kid paint a monkey face on 
 Tanner's bald head — Charles proposes for Zoe's hand, but is rejected 
 by her father— Fritz tries to flirt with Pet— "Porter, erase the country 
 soil from my clotiies" — Fly, the tonsorial artist— "What you want, 
 bobtail, four-in-hand or pompadour?" — Fritz and Mrs. Spider— The 
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 Fly have trouble with her luggage — Michel O'Ratferty McGinnis, 
 M. P., from the 13th ward — Pet and Kid quarrel^"Young lady, I'll 
 send you to a convent" — "I won't go, so I won't" — "Ue downfall of 
 Africa" — Charles and Zoe plan an elopement and offer Fly $5.00 to 
 help them — "O! Charles, the shock has killed hiift" — McGinnis 
 hunting a place for a poliLical convention. 
 
 ACT II. — Office in Hotel— Pet — "i wish Henry was here, I am so 
 lonesome" — She tells Tanner that she is engaged to Kid — "Wl)en 
 will you be fffleen years old" — "As soon as I can" — "Ain't you 
 proud of me?" — You lILtld wretcli, I'll twist your neck" — Another 
 guest — Mrs. Spider discovers that the latest arrival is her husband. 
 Sport Spider — "So this is the way he goes on a hunting trip" — "Fire! 
 Fire! — A put up job by Charles — He and Zoe are married during 
 excitement — Miss Jones faints in McGinnis' arms — "The longest 
 faint I ever seen" — Dey look like two fairies." 
 
 ACTIli. — Picnic ground near lake— Mrs. Spider on the lookout 
 for her husband — Fritznoodle arrives on his wheel— Flirtation con- 
 tinued — Hans, the tramp — "Uunder und blitzen, dot baioon vas 
 coming back here" — Miss Jones, v\ ho had been left at home, arrives, 
 looking for McGinnis — "Ah I he is such a nice man, what a nice 
 couple we would make" — "McGinnis, your a blackguard, if you 
 spoil the delusion" — Miss Jones tries to encourage McGinnis to pro- 
 pose — "Oh! my poor fluttering heart" — Kid comes to the picnic 
 disguised as a Jew — McGinnis proposes — SportSpuler discovers Mrs. 
 Spider and Fritz— Looking for trouble — "You are caught in your 
 own web" — "Forgive me'-' — You'se a nice lot of people, you is" — 
 M (SS Jones jealous — "Oh! that huzzy Daisy Hell" — "Heaven defi'nd 
 r.s from her anger" — McGinnis ;" '. ! Miss Jones make up — "See that 
 Dulchtnan, kick him" — "Hrick uats at forty paces"— Downfall of 
 irelaiui — Dutchy, there's a nagger up the tree — Sung -Curtain. 
 
 Price, 15c tg. 
 
MISS TOPSY TURVY 
 
 -OR- 
 
 The Courtship of the Deacon. 
 
 A Conte^jin 3 acts, by B. G. McFall, for 4 male and 4 female 
 oliaractera. Costnmes modern. Time of perfor- 
 mance 2 houra. 
 
 -^ — • ^ 
 
 CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
 
 ToPST TuRVT, Nellie Clarendon. 
 
 May Golden, Topsi/s coudii. 
 
 Mks CiMUENDON, Topsy'8 mother. 
 
 M iss Spkiggs Toj)sifs (jovemess. 
 
 Lord Cla hence A rich Englishman. 
 
 Fkank Goi-DEN, jVay's brother. 
 
 Deacon Jones, PHiar of the church. 
 
 ^^D Sei-vant. 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF EVSmS. 
 
 ACT I.— Mrs. Clarndon's parlor— The Deacon almost proposes to Mi«s Spriprffs 
 — Topsy Tiirvy interrupts the scene and shows up a little of the Uenk's cliui-ac- 
 ter— The second rascal appears— "That's the boinhardtnent of Sanlhiiio" -Poor 
 Miss Sprig^g:s vesijins her position— "Oh Heaven, whnt now '. It's Topsy Turvy" 
 —The thnnder storm arouses uncanny feelingrs in tlie D.-:i<-on's mind— Tlie 
 jrhost— Ned arrives— "Dis yere's a b-b-bug house, sah"— Tlie ghost and the 
 Deacon— The two rascals appear— "Golly, where dat skal-e-wag ob a gal ebber 
 is, ebber t'ing just don get topsy turvy, suah's yo' born." 
 
 AC II.— Arrival of Lord Clarence— Miss Syn-iggs has troubles of her own— 
 The two rascals hold a council of war— Ned hears his sentence— "Iz a gone coon 
 sxiah's yonh born"— One proposal interrupts auotiier— -'Do you mean to say 
 that yon didn't say what you just said you didu't say, say?"— Miss Spriggs 
 consents to fill poor Jennie's place— Another trick on the poor nigger— Topsy 
 Tiarvy makes friends with Lord Clarence— Deacon and Miss Spriggs are mar- 
 ried and the poor nigger excites the angry passions of the bridegroom. 
 
 ACT III.— Ned makes a contract with Lord Clarence— May's jealousy gets the 
 better of her good sense— Ne<l in trying to till his contract, falls inio the hands 
 of his tormentors — "You chullins don't play fair, no how" — A trick on the nig- 
 ger-Mrs. Jones begins to think mai-riage is a failure— Topsy nixes her a lesson 
 on how to manage a hnsb-Mnd- Mrs. Jones demonstrates the lesson— Frank and 
 Topsy witnesses the Deacon's surrender— Ned explains the situation to Lord 
 Clarence— May talks unguardedly— Mr. and Mrs. Jon.:"s visit rudely terminated 
 by one of the "rascals May goes to meet her fate, Imt fate comes to meet her— 
 "Golly, where dat skal-e-w»g ob a gal ebber is, ebber t'iug just don get topsy 
 turvy, suah's yo' born." Price IScentS' 
 
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 MY INVALID AUNT. 
 
 Farce in 1 act, by A. Z. Chipman, for 2 male and 1 female character. 
 Mr. Brown, \\ho is in love with a rich widow, pretends he has an 
 invalid aunt. His cousin Ruben Rube comes to visit him and Mr. 
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 Ruben is a typical Yankee from down East. A first-class farce- 
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 S-S"^ 
 
 TheFbiem^ 
 
 Mill SiMf. 
 
 A Comedy Drama in 3 acts. 7 male and 1 female charac-' 
 
 ier. Time of ])erjormance 1 hour and 20 minutes. 
 
 Costumes to suit characters. 
 
 ' :•:: smopsjs of events. ^^— . 
 
 ACT I. Scene /.—Russell Freeman's home— The day's events reviewed — The 
 reporter in luck — A brave rescue — "Juicy watermillions" — The Aristocratic 
 pent arrives--That awiul disease love, afflicts Sambo— Cnleb overhears a little 
 private conversation — A strike ininiinent — Sharp begfins his sclieuiing^— <^aleb 
 up to snuflp— I'm an aristocrat, one of the 4(X)!" Sc ne 7/.— Caleb soliioquijtes— 
 "I am Paradise Lost I" — A heated interview between Gt)lden and Sharp— The 
 demand refused — Tar and feathers — Tlie aristocrat on deck — The verdict — "No 
 cau*<e of action!" — Caleb introduces his celebrated court plaster. 
 
 ACT II.— Caleb writes a letter— The Reporter discusses the .strike and "SouimI 
 Money" — "Knocks conntert'eit silly" — Caleb's views of tlie strike — A dark dis- 
 cussion, in which Dinah is badly misused — The false friend — "My day will come, 
 sir!" — Caleb Cork — "Oli ! I'm onto you" — Sambo secures his 'tachment papers — 
 The false friend in a new sole— Golden discharged from the mill — Sharp 
 triumphant, and Caleb sells more court plaster. 
 
 ACT III. .Sce^ie /.— Wood scene— Ouy prepares to leave, visions of the past— 
 The Aristocrat again on hand — ''Turn back, my lad" — Dinah gains a point, and 
 Sambo nearly looses his ear — The striker's face starvation— Sliarp in the toils 
 — The trap sprung. Scerie //.- Freeman's home — Colored courtsliip— Caleb Cork 
 as a peace maker— Goldeu'a. story — Warren Sharp in the hands of the strikers 
 — David tell a story, Caleb follows suit — The day of reckoning— Warren Sharp 
 leaves in disgrace — The Reporter puzzled — Guy is reinstated at the mill — Caleb 
 presents the reporter of the Daily Grit with one of his double jointed, double 
 action, stick tight court plasters. 
 
 PRICE 15 CENTS EACH- 
 
 -Ames' Series of Medleys No. 2. 
 
 Suitable for schools and home entertainments, by B. F. Eberhan. 
 This No. contains a number of short dialogues and recita- 
 tions, suitable for young people from 8 to 16 years. 
 No stage scenery necessary, and is not 
 difficult to render. 
 
 Contains the fo]lo\vin<i' pieces: A Welcome Dialogue; A Ten, 
 Cent Fool: Baby's Toolb: (Jeorge AVashington: Playing "GroWn-up;'f 
 Baby Elephant: Pantomimes, Wanted an Office Boy and a New 
 Kind of Partition. Price 15ct^, 
 
-^The Little Wife.4 
 
 A Comedy Drama in 4 acts, by A. Z. Chipman, for 6 malo and 3 
 female characters. Costnmes modern. Time of play- 
 ing, 1 hour and 40 minutes. 
 
 CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
 
 Bob Quick A. U. S. 8. 8. D. 
 
 JoK Clayton, A fanner lad. 
 
 COUNCEI-LOR GOUMAN, A tvLckstei'. 
 
 Injun John The doctor. 
 
 CoL. M ATTEUSON, Vula's father. 
 
 BuBBiiES, Colored servant. 
 
 EsTELLE Adair, Under a cloud. 
 
 YiDK A child martyr. 
 
 Madeline Adaik, Adventuress. 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS. 
 
 ACT X. — Sunset Park — Waiting for the mail — Gorman starts his 
 little scheme — Joe takes a hand — Vida surprised — The song and the 
 echo — A mother's grave — Bob Quick with a bundle so thick — Vida 
 and Joe talk business — A'contemptable plot — The two daughters — 
 Vida's eyes are opened — "I may be small, but I am still on earth!', 
 — Crushed roses — "I must be first choice in your heart or none!" 
 
 ACT II. — Two weeks supposed to have elapsed — Colonel Matter- 
 son's Library, St. George Hotel — Another scandal— Bob tries to 
 fascinate Vida— A busted scheme— Gorman returns— Writing a let- 
 ter at the wrong time— Two eyes watching— Vida's little trick — The 
 wedding gift torn to pieces — "A father who is robbing his own 
 child!" 
 
 ACT III. — Mountainside farm, Joe's home — Vida turns cook — 
 Coffee for three — Pepper and spaulding's glue — The visitors — "I've 
 loved, only to be knocked out" — "I don't care if a grist-mill busts!" 
 — Knife and fork serenade — Gorman and his umbrella — *'There is 
 the check and there is the door!" 
 
 ACT IV. — Madeline Adair's private parlor, St. George hotel — Five 
 hours supposed to have elapsed — Madeline is resolved — Quick tries 
 to reason — Shut off by the size of his foot — Estelle does not succeed 
 in her good intentions — Arrival of Injun John — Vida and John to 
 the rescue — Arrest of Gorman — A united family. 
 
 PKICE 15 CENTS, 
 
The Fortune Teller of 
 Dismal Swamp. 
 
 m — I - I ^ 
 
 A M'lo-drama in 4 acts, hy Howard Ameshnry, for 7 
 
 male and 4 female characters. Time of plaining 
 
 1 hour and 45 minutes. 
 
 CAST OF CHARACTERS. 
 
 A HriTTTC Gt^f.tcnfield, Inclined to be n (^df.etwt. 
 
 SiDNKY GuKY, His cousin. 
 
 Coi.ONKL GiiiiY, His uncle and guardian. 
 
 FuED JuDsoN, A hank clerk. 
 
 Ralph Mouton, An ex-convict. 
 
 WiM.iK BiGGEK, A messenger. 
 
 Officer Holuon, Of Woodlawn Grovs. 
 
 Sue Morton, Ralph's sister, 
 
 Mii-DKED GuKY, T?ie ColoneVs dauqhter. 
 
 Katie Hanson, A maid. 
 
 MOTHEK GooDARD, A fortune teller. 
 
 SYNOPSIS OF EVENTS. 
 
 ACT I. — Home of Colonel Grey— Sidney — *'The sooner h© Is out 
 of the way the better" — Willie and Katie — The telegram — "If he 
 dares to turn on me I'll send him back to prison" — Colonel Grey gives 
 Archie some good advice — "Ralph Morton, the devil!" — Sidney and 
 Ralph — ••! was innocent of that crime and you know it" — Threats — 
 "We'll go back together, I as a forger and you as a murderer" — 
 Archie receives a caller — "StopI I'll not allow my sister to be intro- 
 duced to such as her" — Fred arrives — Archie accused of theft. 
 
 ACT II. — Home of Colonel Grey — Fred tries to propose, but is in- 
 terrupted — "That's riglit, call me an idiot, and be dune with it" — 
 Ralph Beaching for the forged check — "Remember you are making 
 this sacrifice for your sister— Sue interviews the Colonel — "You are 
 wrong, my brother is in Dismal Swamp" — Archie uses a little strategy 
 — The escape of Sue — "You are a little too late." 
 
 ACT III. — Home of Mother Goodard in Dismal Swamp— Storm in 
 which Willie and Katie show their courage — "Mother Goodard, I 
 have done my last piece of dirty work" — Story of Ralpli's life — More 
 plotting — The murder — "Your beautiful sister cau join you later, 
 Mother Goodard is dead" — The rescue. 
 
 ACT IV. — Exchange Bank — Sidney plotting more mischief — 
 Drugged — Archie lays trap for Sidney — Attempted murder— "Caught 
 in my own act" — Sidney arrested on the charge of murder — Death 
 of Sidney and Ralph — "I am ready to die, knowing that my sister's 
 wrongs have been avenged"— The end. Trice 15cts« 
 
:!^Unele Zaehary 
 
 of Vermont4^ 
 
 A Comedy-drama in 2 acts, by Bert C. Rawley, author of "Uncle 
 
 Jed's Fidelity, The Freeman Mill Strike, Trixie. Our Summer 
 
 ■ Boarders, Stupid Cupid, Andy Freckles, Badly Mixed, 
 
 etc.." for 5 male and 2 female characters. Costumes 
 
 modern. Time of plaving 1 hour and 40 minutes 
 
 f^mOPSIS OF EVENTS. 
 
 ACT T. — Phillip Buckley's law office — Jasper imparts a secret and 
 Freemont receives a note — A social discussion in the legal sanctum 
 — Folsom discovered — -'Forgery, eh!" — Phillip surprised — Jasper in 
 hard luck — Uncle ^acliary arrives, likewise aunt Amanda, band 
 boxes, etc. — "I'm completely flustered" — Folsom puzzles Zachary — 
 ,'I don't 'zactly like his looks!"— An interrupted tete-a-tete — Folsom 
 accuses and Winifred resents an insult — A business transaction — A 
 dastardly plot— Jasper earns a "dollah" — The missing wallet — Free- 
 mont accused — Zachery proves a true friend — "Go! go quick afore I 
 blubber right out!" 
 
 ACT II. — Phillip Buckley's home — Aunt Amanda gossips a little 
 — Zachary reviews the "Exhibition" — "Thay wuz electricity too" — 
 Zachary has more suspicions and imparts them to Phillip — "Taint 
 no crime to win a woman's lieart, Phil" — Amanda writes a letter 
 home^Jasper in holiday attire — Father and daughter— A confession 
 — Francis and Winifred — "Mr. Freemont is a gentleman and you- 
 you are the opposite" — Freemont returns — "I intend to give myself 
 up!" — Winifred warns Freemont — "I mean that I love you Winifred'* 
 — Francis in a new role — Jasper implicates Francis and frees Free- 
 mont from guilt— "Dat's de trufe" — A bit of forgery — Francis dis- 
 graced—Lawrence vindicated. Price 25cts. 
 
 I^ete Beetroot; ii^ 
 
 -OR- 
 
 Jigs^ Jags and Jingles. 
 
 A farce in 1 act, by L. E. Chenoweth, C. M. A., for 2 male and 
 2 female characters. Time of playing, 30 minutes. A side-splitting- 
 negro eccentricity in which Pete Beetroot, working for thirty cents 
 and two dollars change, who plays several parts; Hamlet Footlights, 
 a half-crazy actor, and January and February March, two military 
 maids, contrive to get so mixed up as to produce a whirlwind of the 
 heartiest fun. A sure winner for amateurs as well as professionals. 
 Everything ne^\ and sparkling. Not a dry line in the sketch. -"' 
 
 Price ISctsl 'f- 
 
FUN I FUN 1 1 FUNili 
 
 THE FUXNIEST COMEDY YET -JUST PUBLISIIEU, 
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 -^ CAPTURED; i^ 
 
 OR, 
 
 ThG Old Maid's Triumph 
 
 Four Acts— Four Male, Five Female Characters. 
 
 Scenery Easily Managed. Costumes Modern. Characters all 
 
 Good Telling Situations. Susan Tabitka (the old Maid) 
 
 takes the Audience by Storm, as she tries to marry 
 
 every man she meets; if he don't propose she 
 
 does; final success of Susan. If you -want 
 
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 sure to please you, order a 
 
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 PRICE 15 CENTS. 
 
 Act r. — IToiriP! of the Wiiulchester's — Frank WestfieM — Arrival 
 of the '-Old Maid" ; "'I'm tiolvled een-a-most to deatli to see you I'* 
 ''Mother Goose's Melodies" — Susan's experienc" in the staire coach. 
 ^•Oniy twenty-four, brother."— Christopher Columbus! wliere am I 
 
 ^oino;?" — "I see you, Franlde." — Susan's opinion of Jane. — Polly 
 
 Amusing love scene between Susan and Frank Westtield — his aston- 
 ishment arid terror, as she faints in his arms. — Tableau. 
 
 Act II. — Susan's explanation. — ''Slang Debollshers Union"— 
 ''You'd better begin at home !" — A widower — "Good land! if I 
 could not get something better than a widower, I wouldn't feel fit to 
 soar to the land of milk and honey I" — Sam Slv, Polly's lover, who 
 is a widower. — "If he does not propose, I will!" — Susan and' Sam 
 Sly. — Love scene between Polly and Sly, which Susan discovers. 
 Her anger, and fall. — Susan and Sly loose their wigs. 
 
 Act 111. — Joshua Pratt. — Susan's fear of men. — "Help! help!'' 
 Discovers Joshua — Ridiculous love scene between Susa:i and Joshua. 
 "There's nothing half so sueetin life, as love's j^oiing dream. "-Rais* 
 "Help! thieves!" — "It might run up mv leg!" — The rescue- 
 Susan announces her engagement and determination to go home and 
 get married. — The departure. 
 
 Act IV. — Home of Susan Tabitha — Sallie— Discovery of Joshua'^; 
 poverty— Susan's ang-^r and disappointment— "Can we get up'?"-Susari 
 cutis Joshua's ears — Dinner — "Can we eat dinner y'—Sus.an relates 
 her experience to Sallie — Teleo'ram — Arrival and cool recei)tion of 
 Charles VVestlield and wife— Joshua sleeps — Susan knocks over his 
 chair, pulls his hair—A bank check— Siisaii's promitse,— Happy 
 ending - _ - 
 
tiie toast of Maine. 
 
 A Bomantie Mele-drama in 3 acts, by F. P. Minnelli, for 6 male 
 
 and 2 female characters. Time of performance 1 hour 
 
 aud 35 minutes. 
 
 STNOI^SIS OF EVENTS, 
 
 ACT I. — Home of Squire Gray— Squire and Madge— Paul a smug^- 
 pier— Bess — "Here 1 ain, dad" — "Sluire I never did like brass but- 
 tons anyway" — Major Smart on important business — "Prevent him 
 if possible from following a course tiiat will lead to ruin" — Bess and 
 •pgi-i-y — "Ye'll not be able to resist tlie toe of his boot" — Carew — 
 "What a niuht for the wreckers" — The plot to ruin Paul — "Con- 
 vince the villagers and a rope wi'l ;io the rest" — Rodrick proposes 
 to Madge and is rejected— Threats— Coward— The Polly sighted — 
 Paul returned and accused of being a wrecker — "Take it back I say, 
 or I will choke that lie down your cowardly throat" — The proof— 
 "I will never darken your door again until you retract those cruel 
 words" — Major Smart refuses to do his duty — Paul leaves home. 
 
 ACT II.— Home of Squire Gray — "Yes, daughter, I am convinced 
 that Rodrick is at the bottom of all our troubles" — Bess — "Why, I 
 was scaring old speckle on the nest so that she would lay an egg for 
 your supper" — Terry makes love to Bess — "Rip me trousers, dash 
 me main boom, as a sailor I am a bloomin' success" — Carew, the 
 wrecker — "Luck for the wrecker boys and death to the sailors" — 
 — More treachery — Bess overhears Rodrick and Carew plotting to 
 blow up the old mill — Paul returns in time to prevent a wreck and 
 confronts Rodrick — Tlie quarrel — A proposition — Paul, the winner 
 — Now shoot— "All is lost, the Revenue Officers are here" — "A word 
 to the wise is sufficient" — The explosion — "Stay right where you 
 are." 
 
 ACT III. — Home of Squire Gray — "No lass, until Paul proves his 
 innocence, he cannot return" — The mortgage— "We have met the 
 enemy and they are ours" — Good news of Paul — Squire tells a story 
 — Rodrick threatens foreclosure on mortgage, unless Madge becomes 
 his wife — A little misunderstanding — "i wonder if he means the 
 whale in her head" — Remorse— ^Madge and Paul — "Not another 
 step, or I'll tear you limb from limb"— Terry holds the best hand — 
 Rodrick confronted by Carew— "The game is up" — "'Twas he who 
 lighted the false beacon"— "Curse you" — Paul proven innocent— 
 "Aye, lad, take her and may God in all his goodness watch over 
 and protect you"— The end. Price, 15ct9. 
 
 J^ Happy Pair. 
 
 A Comedietta in 1 act, by S. Theyer Smith, for I male and 1 
 female character — both light comedy. Scene, a nicely furnished 
 room. Coslumes modern. A brisk little play, fulT of action and 
 giving numerous opportunities for clever work. While entirely free 
 from all "low comedy" business, it contains enough humor to be 
 highly diverting. Time of playing, 30 minutes. Price, 15ot8. 
 
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 Day in a Doctors Office 5 1 
 
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 Double Election 9 1 
 
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 Dr. Baxter's Servants 4 
 
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 Hans Brummel'a Cafe... 5 
 
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 Jacob Shlaflf's Mistake 3 2 
 
 Jimmie Jones 3 2 
 
 John Smith 5 3 
 
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 Judge by Proxy 5 2 
 
 Kiss in the Dark 2 3 
 
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 Mother's Fool 6 1 
 
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 My Turn Next 4 3 
 
 Mv Wife's Relations 4 6 
 
 My Neighbor's Wife, 3 3 
 
 Matchmaking Father 2 2 
 
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 Mvstic Charm, The 4 
 
 Mv Mother-in-Law 2 4 
 
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 Chops 
 
 Crimps Trip 
 
 Gittin' 'Sperience in a Doc- 
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 Haunted House 
 
 Handy Andy 
 
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 Intelligence Office, The 
 
 In For It 
 
 Jake and Snow 
 
 Mischievous Nigger 
 
 Midnight Colic 
 
 Musical Darkey 
 
 Not as Deaf as He Seems... 
 
 Nobody's Son 
 
 Old Clothes 
 
 Old Dad's Cabin 
 
 Othello 
 
 Pomp Green's Snakes 
 
 Pomp's Pranks 
 
 Prof Bones' Latest Inven- 
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 School 
 
 Seeing Bosting 
 
 Sham Doctor 
 
 Sports on a Lark 
 
 Stage Struck Darke. 
 Strawberry Shorten 
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 Ticket Taker. 
 
 Vice V'^ersa. 
 
 Villkens and Dinah 
 
 Virginia Mummy 
 
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 Onto Victory, (^?*!ntata. i'c. 5 
 Festival of Da,v-. . 
 Cousin John's A. im > 
 
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 Happy Franks Sougsitr. 
 Ames' Select Recitation.-^ 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 Mother Earth and her Veg- 
 
 atable Daughters 
 
 Ames' Series of Medleys, 
 Recitations and Tableaux- 
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 Ames' Series of Medleys, 
 Recitations anJ Patito 
 
 mimes No. 2 
 
 Joan of Arc Drill 
 
 Victim of Womati's Rights. 1 
 
 Family Discipline 
 
 My Day i\nd Now- a- Days... 
 
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