Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — Ready to Investigate. [ARTICLE]

Ready to Investigate.

“My part called, in tbe first act,” said Irving of bis early days to the Clover Club of Phala, “for a 1 dark Stage. In this darkness I fought with an old earl, threw him heavily and, when he did not rise after the loud thud of his fall, I cried out: “ ‘Great heavens! What have Idone?’ Usually this scene impressed and moved my audience tremendously, but ( remember one night In Birmingham, when a coster, with one little witticism, turned my outcry and the darkness, and the old earl’s tragic fall into ridicule and laughter. I have never seen that coster, but I remember his voice well. It was a slow, dry voice like Mark Twain's, and it manifested Itself Just after the fall of my aged and noble antagonist. As I cried, 'What have I done?’ the coster spoke up, ‘Strike a light, young fellow, and we'll have a look.’ ”