The U eneral Mr. John Goodnow publication 8th October. from their expensive the progress of the drw Theatre is renovated. rejuvenated, offers now these attractions to which everyone announces him or herself te be customed., The Amateur Dramatic Club: have spent—and are spending; ge SUMS of money on the Theatre, doing it judiciously and with praiseworthy; Phe lange numbers: who, this latest AL D.C. po Rleptomania," will be the first to sit in the Lyceum in its new yui si They will have to put up with certain discomforts as regard the entrance-ways, for contractors are but human, and the ished. But once inside Roughly speaking, the interior is decorated in white and gold, though other colours enter into the scherm notably in the domed ro design runs up in tints to cleetrie-light centre pi All the in fact, is by electricity, the shades used "being delicately uted, tremely pleasmt to the eye. the general appearance of the house. and looking out upon t 1 effect is of a greater doubtless has uch also the m ment of seats, The a cle are now filled with After eonsidercondition of Tam prepared to state that the ation is appalling. In the immediate district surrounding "iw been between fifty and fifty: people who for other parts to bey. Besides thi sind grown people This figuring places two children for one given by the ent places to the deputies sent by the Governor to inves-mediately north of wg, and extending from the rive rik 50 miles (English) inland, no tongue or pen can describe the situation, Tucking from Kuling across this stretch of county ud bons ave the tops of the few feet wide, and during the height of the flood only a few inches out of the water. Janks have lived he compass of this, some dis one-half hi inde in eof Thus the passage
tly improved, t ch fitted with chairs upholstered and their fitted with spun well. gor and fish, helped in been And some dowbiless I hand. ifn itis simp before them come, conditions Veen y the little rice they sive from the flood. alittle money on soon written he now, in the re-arn de done away with, the care with which th been carried out te both up and down stair with red plush to the might longer th It is significant that the pillars, perhaps to ki p oar wien people what I rece a and But it can't There are reports of trouble arising because of the dilatoriness of the officials in i. bat. Idon't think much placed in these rumor stall sep trances provided with the way to each of them.
But it is the entrance—when fi which will chi tract no The! front of the Theatre has been completel changed. Entering now, one is homely box-office, while to right lead broad flights of handsome stairs, con-face arge grants are given from the throne, Scrofula, Scurvy, Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and we know what has been given from that quarter will not give piece to these multitude:
We all know that were it not for th faithfulness of the officials along the river here to the terms of the Yangtze Compact, the troubles of last yea would cost, the Nations a " bonnie penny, as the Scotch According to every law of equity they can look to us now, and expect very reasonably that we should aid them in a distress they find themselves utterly unable to manage alone.
Long weary months are still before us. An approaching winter and crops, houses, cattle and everything gone! The low will furnish the rest ing a trip over my district north to-morrow, and will be gone probably ten days or two weeks, If Tecan any closer to the facts by this trip, I will be glad to write you again, With kindest reguids, Very truly yours,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.