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When at last it came true, October 22, 1903, there was but a month & 9days to spare. We are to do these theatricals this evening with a couple of neighbors for audience, and then pass the hat. The alarm-clock in theback hall had stopped at about the hour the guests retired. It was too great a temptation to resist at once,and they took it under advisement.