Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-08-08

The play of Julius Cesar has .
glowing future ahead of it. 1t was
written by Gentlemen Shakespeare,
Bacon and Donnelly, who collaborated
together on it. Shakespeare did the
lines and plot, Bacon furnished the
cipher and Donnelly called attention to
it through the papers.
The scene of Julius Caesar is laid in
Rome just before the railroad was COM
pleted to that place. In order to I'M
derstand the play itself we must glance
briefly at the leading characters which
are introduced and upon whom its sue
cess largely depends.
julius Caesar first attracted attention
through the Roman papers by calling
the attention of the medical faculty to
the now justly celebrated C@sarian
operation. Taking advantage of the adj
vertisement thus attained he soon rose
to prominence and flourished considera-
bly, from 100 to "A B. C. when a committee
of representative citizens and property
owners of Rome called upon him and on
behalf of the people begged leave to as
sassinate him as mark of esteem. He
was stabbed twenty three times be-
tween Pompey's Pillar and eleven
o clock, many of which were mortal
This account of the assassination is taken
from local paper and is graphic, sue
cinct and lacks the sensational elements
so common and so lamentable in our
own time. Caesar was the implacabIe
foe of the aristocracy and refused to
wear plug hat up to the day of his
death SuIla once said, before Caesar
had made much of a showing, that some
day this young man would be the ruin
of the aristoCracy, and twenty years
afterwards when Caesar sacked, assassi-
mated and holocusted a whole theologi-
cal seminary for saying 'eyether" and
''nyether," the old settlers recalled what
Sulla had said.
Caesar continued to eat pie with
knife and in many other ways to endear
himself to the masses until IS, B. c.,
when he ran for Qu@stOr After
ward he was Eddie, during the term Of
which office he sought to introduce
number of new games and to extend tne
limit on some of the older ones. From
this to the Senate was but a step. In
the Senate he was known as a good
speaker, but ambitious, and liable TO
turn up during a close vote when his
enemies thought he was at home doing
his chores. This made him at times
Ddious to those who opposed him, and
when he defended Catalina and offered
to go on his bond, Cesar came near
being condemned to death himself.
In 81, b. c., he went to Spain as Pro-
pr@tor, intending to write book about
the Spanish people and their customs as
soon as he got back, but he was so busy
on his return that he did not have time
to do so.
Caesar was a powerful man with the
people, and While in the Senate worked
hard for his constituents while other
Senators were having their photogra phS
taken He went into the army when
the war broke out, and after killing a
great many people against whom he
certainly could not have had anything
personal he returned, headed by the
Rome Silver Cornet Band and leading a
procession over two miles in length. 1t
was at this time he was rendered a crown
just as he was passing the City Hall, but
thrice he refused it. After each refusal
the people applauded and encored him
till he refused it again. 1t is at about
this time the play opens. Caesar has
just dITINcu On SpeChiSu COulSeI anu
dismounted outside the town. He comes
in at the head of the procession with
the understanding that the crown is to
be offered him just as he crosses over to
the Court House.
Here Cassius and Brutus meet, and
Cassius tries to make a Mugwump of
Brutus. so that they can organize new
movement. Mr.. Edwin Booth takes
the charactar of Rrutus and Mr. Law
renee Barrett takes that of CaSsius.
would not want to take the character
of Cassius myself, even if | had ruiz
short of character and needed some very
much indeed. but Mr.. Barrett takes it
first rate. Mr.. Booth also plays Brntus
so that old settlers here say 1t seems al
most like having Rutus here among US
again, .s.-s~ev>-