picture. Writing to my husband and sending her photograph. I have a right to see what she says, and I'll do it (reading the letter). So Flossie misses him, does she? And this Gerald, this model friend, is helping it on. Oh, my heart is broken; I shall die (burying her face in her handkerchief). Oh, my, why did I ever marry this base deceiver? I'll pack my trunk and go right home to-day. Oh, oh, I'll-(enter Mr. Simmons; sees Bessie with her hands to her face).

Mr. Simmons.-What is the trouble Bessie? Have you bad news?

Bessie.-Go

Oh, how could

away; don't you ever speak to me again. you deceive me so?

-

Mr. Simmons. Deceive you; what are you talking about? What have I done?

Bessie (sobbing).-Oh, yes, you are very innocent. What does this mean? (handing him the picture).

Mr. Simmons (angrily).—Have you been reading my letter?

Bessie (rising).-Yes, I have, and I am going straight home to pa, and have him go to the lawyers and get me a divorce.

Mr. Simmons. On what grounds? Jealousy?

Bessie. No, it shall be incompatibility (sobbing). You abuse me, and then you—you make fun of me.

Mr. Simmons.-No, Bessie, I am not making fun of you; this is a serious matter, and if you do not check this jealous disposition you will render us both miserable. That is a picture of my sister Ida, of whom I have often told you; her middle name is Florence, and her friends call her Flossie.

Bessie.-Oh Charles, I was jealous of your sister. How foolish I am. I will never-no, never be jealous again.

Mr. Simmons.-I hope you will keep that good reso lution, Bessie, and if you do we shall never have any cause to quarrel, but will be the model couple of the nineteenth century.

[CURTAIN.]

ELLA H. CLEMENT.

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CONTENTS OF No. 8.

Adoon the Lane.
American Flag, The.
Baby's First Tooth, The.
Bardell and Pickwick.
Baron's Last Banquet, The.
Battle of Beal' an Duine.
Blindness.

Burning Ship, The.
Charlie Machree.

Christmas Hymn.

Claudius and Cynthia.
Closing Year, The.
Cynic, The.

Despair is Never Quite De-
spair.

Dutchman's Serenade, The.
Eagle's Rock, The.

Evils of Ignorance, The.
Famine, The.
Female Gossip.

Florentine Letter, A.
From Exile.

Gladiator, The.

Haunted House, The.
Hypochondriac, The.
If I Should Die To-Night.
Indian Chief to the White
Settler, The.
Inquiry, The.
Jack and Gill.
Kit Carson's Ride.
Kitchen Clock, The.
Laughin' in Meetin.'
Licensed to Sell; or, Little
Blossom.

Lides to Bary Jade.
Little Goldenhair.
Lost and Found.
Maud Muller.

Monster Cannon, The.
National Monument to
Washington.
Negro Prayer.

Ode on the Passions.

Old Forsaken School-house,
The.

Goodness and Greatness of Painter of Seville, The.

God.

Good-Night, Papa.

Parrhasius and the Cap-
tive.

Parting Hymn.

Passing Away.
Poor Little Jim.

Power of Habit, The.
Promise, The.

Pulpit Oratory.

Reaching the Early Train.

Reply to Mr. Corry.

Reverie in Church.

Rock of Ages.

Senator's Dilemma, The.

Seven Ages of Man.

Signs and Omens.

Song of Moses.

Song of the Sea.

Tell on his Native Hills.
Three Fishers, The.

Tom Sawyer's Love Affair.
Trust in God.

Two Glasses, The.
Vagabonds, The.

Waiting for the Children.
Wax-Work.

Welcome to Summer, A.
Woman.

A Man's a Man, for a' That. Deacon Munroe's Story.

Negro Prayer, A.

Dead Church, The.

No God.

ence.

Ode to Independence Ha

An.

Age.
Angels of Buena Vista, The. Declaration of Independ-Ode to the Deity.
Annuity, The.

Appeal to the Sextant for Dora.

Bridal Wine Cup, The (Di- How a Married Man Sews

alogue).

Burring Prairie, The.

Cause of Temperance, The.
Centennial Oration.
Christmas Sheaf, The.
Clarence's Dream.

Columbia's Centennial Par-
ty (Dialogue).

Columbia.

Ontentment.

Burfew Must Not Ring To-
Night.

on a Button.

Judge Pitman on Various

Kinds of Weather.

Kentucky Belle.

Leap-Year Wooing, A.

Yourself.

Our Own.

Paul Revere's Ride.
Quarrel of Squire Bull and
his Son Jonathan, The.
Rationalistic Chicken, The,
Raven, The.

Remember Now thy Om
ator.

Rest.

Revelation XXII.

Rienzi's Address.

Rival Speakers, The (Dialogue).

Love Your Neighbor as Spirit of "76 (Tableau).

Tommy Taft.

From the Transcript, Portland, Maine.

These selections evince correct taste and furnish the amaters ader and the professional elocutionist with the widest range ●f subjects for occasions on which matters of that kind may be needed."

Ager, The.

CONTENTS OF No. 5.
Good Reading.

I that Glitters is not Gold Hans and Fritz.
(Dialogue).

Over the Hills and g
Away.

Prisoner of Chillon, The.

He Giveth His Beloved Parthenia (Dialogue).

Sleep.

Heroes of the Land of Prince Henry and Falsta

Archie Dean.

Bannock-Burz

Betty Lee.

Penn.

(Dialogue).

Puritans, The.

ish Duel.

Brothers (Diax

Schoolmaster's Guests, The.

Comin' Thro' the Rye (Ta- Magdalena, or, The Span- Song of Birds.

bleau).

Competing Railroads, The Maiden Martyr, The.

(Dialogue).

Corinthians, I, XV.

Course of Love too Smooth,
Tne.

Dedication of Gettysburg
Cemetery.

Elder Mr. Weller's Senti

Man Wants but Little Here
Below.

Man's Ingratitude.

Swell's Soliloquy, The
Southland.

Summer Friends.

Swallowing a Fly.
To a Skull.

Membranous Croup and the Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.
McWilliamses.

Moral Effects of Intemper

ance.

True Contentment.
Uncle Daniel's Introdu
tion to & Mississi
Steamer.

Vaudois Missionary, The.
Where is Papa To-Night.
Why Biddie and Pat Mas.
ried.

Extract from "The Last Nae Luck Aboot the House.

A.
Valley Forge.

Washington (Tablesu).
Zekle.