possesses it has to perform impossibili
ties, He must sustain his reputation
by keeping up the laughter, or go into
some obscure corner and cry his life
away. He never gets rich by his fanny
efforts. It takes all the money be can
earn to keep himself supplied with fuel
and food for fun. There is a -constant
f" ' lh? nurt,,al n8
9 not Pon? eTel7 fT- ottn f""
?".?'" digging coal, and went to
'
. . - - .ft- -
DUl gradaauy dwindled again into com
parative obscurity. He came down to
singing comio songs in public houses,
and made two or three shillings a week.
It must have been very difficult after
making a twenty-five years' laughter to
be snflieieutly funny on three tahiUings
a week. Tha thing can't be done. It
is expecting too much of human nature.
There is no fun in feeling the want of
bread. Jonn Haeiam became too weak
toeing, to say nothing of the comio
expected of him. lie
and said to a neigh-
is something to eat
no pain on me." He
died two days after at Salford, England,
and the verdict of the coroner's jury
was "Death from natural causes, ac
celerated by want of medical attendance
and the proper necessaries of life."
That is a stroke of English humor. Se
riously, it means "starved to death."
One of the jurymen was of the opinion
that "some one was to blame." Very
likely. There are many very fnrray
people who know better than anybody
else how serious life is, snd how diffi
cult it is to langh themselves. The
laughter of others becomes an intoxica
tion, and the poor humorists is often
laughed to death.
