The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-05

performance gave very general salts
| faction. Miss Corrine in the second
act favored the audience with a superb
nTandoline solo and upon her being re-
called rendered the IntermeZzo of Cav
elfera Rusticana in an artistic and ex-
quisite manner. Her casten6t dance
was also well received. Mrs. KIM
ball, the mother of Corrine, who is the
| manager of the company, and ri is said
one Of the best business women in the
United States, was well pleased with the
| Wichita engagement, and promised to
| book Wichita for future seasons.
FAST MAIL.
The attraction al the Crawford Grand
Monday evening Will be Lincoln j. Car
| ter's great scenic meiodram, The Fast
Mail" 1t has been one Of the great
| est successes known TO the stage FOR
years. 1t has a story of thrilling inter
est, and the scenic and other mechanic
al effects are said to be marvellous
There is a representation Of an engine
room on a Mississippi steamboat, with
the furnaces under the boiler in active
opera ton. A very realistic train or
cars shoot across the stage. and the
Niagara Falls scene is one of the most
elaborate and daring things ever I'M
dertaken in the drama It is described
presentation Of that stupendous marvel
of nature.
The Fails are shown by moonlight,
with the roaming and plunging waters,
and the mist that rises from the seeth-
ing current. One of the most prOmtn-
ent of the plays features is the COM
plete freight train of fourteen cars,
with an illuminated caboOse, drawn by
a practical locomotive. The play itself
has thrilling situations in abundance,
plenty Of hugnor to tighten its tone and
give it an agreeable flavor throughout
Seats are now on sale.
- CRAWFORD, JANUARY g..
The Wichita Lyceum will have the
pleasure of introducing TO a Wichita
audience at the Crawford Grand on
Thursday, January 9, the celebrated
orator of the south, John Temple
Graves. He comes with the endorse
ment of such men as given below. and
his lecture should be heard by all Read
what statesmen and authors have 10
say of him, and then ask yourself if you
can afford TO miss such an intellectual
treat:
Thomas Nelson Page-"His speech is
a mosaic of eloquence.'
Henry Watterson-"He is the most
eloquent Southerner today"
Grover Cleveland-"Be is the most
brilliant and statesmanlike orator heard
in New York in years"
Governor VIM. Neutrality-suspicious. Of
the most brilliant and beautiful speakers
/ ever listened to-
Henry w. Grady-"Jotn Temple
Graves has the most phenomenal elo-
quence I ever heard
Public Opinion John Temple I
Graves may be called the successor of /
Henry w. Grady"
Abram s. Hewitt-"Most finished ora /
tor I've heard in yeaps. He should have |
been chosen to speak for the South at .
the Washington Centennial"
David B. Hnl-"In John Temple F..
Graves, I heard Henry Grady surpass- |
ed"
Whites Encyclopedia Of American |
Biography-"PJIblic opinion has unant /
mousIy called him to take Henry /
Grady's place as the voice of the New /
South
General Fitz John Porter-''He has in
spired eloquence, and can do mighty /
good
President ]. p. n. John. of DePaw
Ind-"His lectures are eX-
pressions of marvellous eIoquence and |
are brim full of fundamental truth. All
young men should hear him"
Henry NJ. Turner, Bishop African NJ.
z. Church-"I regard John Temple
Graves as one of the ablest and nOblest
IF Americans. and one Of the best of the
Ewing friends of the negro race.
Bishop John W. Beckwith-'I never
heard a more remarkable Grafton than
The Reign of the Demagogue' by John
Temple Graves"
Cassius Merrill-"Graves' Grady
Memorial is the finest short speech in
the English language. 1t is simply
miracle or OratOTy.'
Governor Northen. of Georgia-"His
elOquence is beyond all praise"
General John 3. GOrdOn-"GraveS
Grady Memorial Grafton is the finest
piece of eloquence written or spoken
within my knowledge"
John H Vincent-'I thank you for the
service you have rendered
Charles F. Crisp. Speaker House of
L. S.-"JOhn Hemple
raves is an orator whom you will not
hear surpassed"
Hon. Benpamin II. Hill, United States
has the finest gift of ora
tory L ever heard
MRS. MARY LEASE.
The Chicago Record says of Mrs.
Mary f. Lease: she has eclipsed all
-he other speakers as a magnet. her
biting wit and ready sarcasm are ap-
nrsciated by her victims as by her adj
lerents, "a fash-light of any of her au-
llttictS Npull Dt 'NDIlL pitScI l4iS. 1uc |
arge opera house where she speaks are
yet the stricteSt decorum pre-
rails. AT a recent meeting where Mrs.
Lease spoke two hours, the Record cor
dependent counted thirteen babies and
rot one of them even whimpered. There
5 a subtitle power in her voice that
holds her audience still as death. In
Ter lecture last evening at Plymouth
church. Mrs. Lease fully sustained her
speaker
In her lecture next Wednesday even
ng at the auditorium on Christ or
caesar" Mrs. Lease will hold up to full
.iew the contradictions between our
professions and our practice. The
ScTibeS and PhariseeS are not expected
o attend. The proceeds of the lecture
viii go for benevolent purposes. Tick
stc on sale at MOSbacher's.
THE CHURCHES.
(~h,rr,0l, Of Christ Scientist in, |