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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-12

From Saturdays Daily. @
Miss Winifred Grooms Of Bidwell, is
calling on friends in South Ottumwa
this week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-12

Miss Anna Willard of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, has arrived for a visit at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Pickett,
who reside on North Weller street.
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Charles Tharp and family, Gil South
Davis street, have gone to Unionville,
to make that place their future
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from. Mondays Daily.

From, Mondays Daily.
Miss Artie Holster of Pella has ar
rived for visit at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Wormhoudt. PIP South
Willard street.
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1900 OverCoats
aa5 GENUINE Fur GALLOWAY ovERcoATs, nY>
sold for less S.UU
Mems listers which M
y Fine and $40 Y 90
Strictly novelty overcoats IN ~
WORTH $3.50 and $780, U.VV
$500 and
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Mrs. John Brown, 1903 South Ran
som street, returned home today from
Des Moines, where she was called by
the death of a relative.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02
Theatrical Notes.

Eddie Foy has been engaged for the
pTineGpa role fhe s q o Man. IN the
James K. Hackett and his wife, Mary
/ MannerinE, may play summer season
August.
/ David Montgomery of Montgomery. and
Stone will marry Miss Anna tltzhugh OF
THE Wizard of o." company the first OF
next month.
William west has already tired of
vaudeville and signed for the remainder
] "A Pair of Pinks.
Hamlin and Mitchell, who control The
| Wizard of o. and BABES in Toylandt
viii star Lew Fields of Weber and Fields
next season in a musical comedy.
Nat Goodwin lost his 500 ruby pin In
New Orleans and he charged his valet
! with stealing it. Later on the pin was
found in a piano and the valet was ex-
onerated.
| George NIusgrave the Australian mana
ger who is to produce The Prince of Pill
SEN in London, insists that every mem
Der of the cast shall be from the United
States.
After going through two weeks, rehea!r-
concluded he didn't like his part and re-
signed. John Hyams- was Immediately
| engaged in his place.
1 of ''FIorodora" and ''Amorelle," died re-
Gently in London. His death was said TO
universally deplored in London.
Benjamin Greet has met with so much
success with Edith WSrnne Mathewson IN
/ Shakespearean plays in Boston that he
has been offered financial backing to re-
main in that city all of next season.
| George Hobart and Ludwig Englander
have completed a musical comedy entitled
| THE Morning Glory, which Nixon and
1 zimmerman will start off in Philadelphia
! early next fall.
notwithstanding the reports that New
York will have nothing but musical COM
edy Wilton Lackaye. Henrietta CrOsman
and Richard Mansfield are playing big
enga gements in that city-just now.
Frank Cook. a 7-year-Dld member of
Andrew Mack's company died in New
York last Wednesday,. The cause of his
death is said to be rheumatism of the
/ heart The boy had been playing with
Mr.. Mack the last thrce years
| 1.-THE Winsome Winnie company. head
ed by Paula Edwardes- closed its season
in Lexington. KY. last week and a ma
jority of the performers returned to New
ed THE Runaways" at St. Louis.
Mrs Cecil Raleigh has been engaged
as leading woman for Sir Henry irving
during the autumn tour in England be-
fore he comes to this country. Mrs RAJ
leigh has been spoken of as the one wo-
man who call fill acceptably the shoes of
Miss Ellen Terry.
/ Next Saturday night William Gillette
viii close his season in New York and
then take a long rest Hereafter Mr.. Gil
lette, who is wealthy man. will play
only 20 weeks in each season. appearing
in only the principal cities
Margaret Robinson, 2 member Of the
| James K. Hackett company, has COM
pleted a romantic comedy entitled The
White Knight Several managers have
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and in one scene a young woman walk
ed a thin WIRE suspended in the air to
light the lighthouse lamp. There was
bark laundering out at sea, and the
villain had got in his dirty work by
putting the light out and then breaking
the steps that led to it.
Business was bad at the thea-ter this
particular week, and the manager of
the show began to do a little thinking.
His first move was to invite the mem
bers of the press to be present on one
particular night To make sure of
their presence, he mentioned a banquet
as a side issue, and then he arranged
his scheme His plan was to have the
curtain descend showing the heroic
young lady in the act of walking to
the light house on the wire. Then as
an encore to the expected outburst of
applause, the curtain was to @rise
showing, not the young lady but a
dummy rugged up to resemble her. At
a given signal the man in the roof was
to cut the wire holding the dummy,
letting it dash to the ground just as
the curtain descended. A young wo-
man, placed for the purpose in the
front of the house, was to cry out, MY
God, she's fallingi" and then the man
ager was to come before the curtain
and explain that the young lady had
severely hurt herself and would not
be able to go on during the rest of the
performance.
The house was weII-flled on this
particular occasion, and the reporters
were there, dreaming Of the banquet,
and utterly ignorant of the surprise
planned for their benefit. At last the
great scene came on, and the audience
held its breath as the daring young
woman went to the rescue and dashed
across on the wire. All of a sudden
she was seen to totter. Then fearful
/ cry came from a hysterical woman in
the back of the house. The reporters
! leaned forward with Dated breath, as
they watched her seeming efforts to
regain her balance. Good heavens,
she's goingl" groaned one, as, with a
last jerk, the woman started toward
the stage rocks below. She started
but failed to reach them. Her skirt
| caught in the wire, and there she hung
suspended between heaven and earth
| Save her" yelled a reporter, as ne
dashed from his box, but he was too
/ late, for, seel the young woman's arm
has fallen and hit the piano player in
the face. The piano player deserted
his instrument with q heart-rending
groan, and with one look at the grew
some object, fed, dashing the imagin-
airy blood from his eyes. Heavens
another arm falls and this time the
young woman's head comes with it. A
limb stuffed with straw comes whirl-
ing down upon the reporters, and then
the stage manager dropped the curtain
in time to ward off the mob.-Wash-
Iington Post.
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A BIG MUSICALE.
Four SOlOists in Recital at the
Auditorium.
Ralph Wylie, Violin VirtuOsO,
on tho Programme.
MISS HELEN BUCKLEY.
Well Known Soprano to Be
Heard Here Again.
Aelf KIlngenbcrg and Karl
Kirk, Pianist and CeIlOist.
MISS HELEN BUCKLEY

The attraction for the coming week is
the recital to be given Tuesday evening
at the Auditorium by Ralph Wyie the
violin virtuoso, Aelf Klingenberg, the
Norwegian pianist. Karl Kirk, cenotst,
and Miss Helen Buckley, soprano.
Helen Buckley of Chicago is not I'M
known TO Topeka music lovers. She has
been heard here several times in the
past few years in Oratorio work and
concert. Her popularity has suffered
none. and she was always well received
Ralph Wylie, the violinist, has had
but one public appearance in Topeka
and on that occasion, the evening Of the
annual concert by the Topeka Choral
society the first part of the month OF
March, he took the audience by storm.
He was the recipient Of the greatest
applause, and while he refused at nrst
to give an encore the audience would
not allow the programme to be con-
tinued until after it had been satisfied
with another violin number. Mr.. Wylie
appeared last week on the programme
at the studio tea of Washburn college.
Mr.. Wylies work on the violin is of
the first order and he plays with pre-
cision and dehcacy rarely acquired.
Mr.. Klingenberg has rarely been
heard in public in Topeka and when he
has appeared in public it has been only
at informal gatherings where but rev
heard him. He is considered great by
style particularly his own, brilliant and
pathetic.
Karl Kirk, the young Kansas City
ce1loist, has often been heard of in mu-
steal circles in Topeka and at last an
opportunity is afforded the local patrons
OF music to hear him.
At the age Of 16 Karl Kirk was re
puted to be the youngest celloist in the
United States and at that time he was
highly commended for his faultless in
strumentation and attainments
OF recent years he has become quite
generally known throughout the whole
United States and has been in great de-
mand for concert work. 1t was with
considerable difficulty that date was
arranged which would permit of his
coming to Topeka.
The recital Tuesday evening will real
" be a combination of four recitals.
Miss Buckley viii give her numbers
and in addition the programme viii con-
tain piano, violin and cello solos and
trios.
The music loving public is promised
an exceptionally pleasing programme
for this date.
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Inspected the piece and it IS more than
likely that Mr. Hacxett will produce IT
next season
,,1 1.otta Faust has new song In "T'he
wizard Of o.. in which she la1nents the
fact that she has lost Sammy but IS
willing TO, take johnny 1t Is sung TO a
man man 1T the box and its title IS IF 7
ian I Have Ny sammy, Then, johnny,
III Take You.
Lee Arthur win probably have trouble
before he launches William Norris as a
star IN his play, "a business Man" Sulli-
yam Il alnls salSlEl Woods, the theatrical
I II claim that The piece was written for
them and VIII 'endeayor to prevent Its
production under any other mana cement.
Mrs Alice C. d Eti1ey of Chicago. who
wishes to deprive Glen McDonough Of roy
aItles on Babes in Toyland.s claiming
prior right to the piece. had the case in
court in the windy city and the defend
ants proved that the claimant had also
depended on story books for her piece,
decision.
Justin Huntiey Mccarthy has reached
London and announces that he has COM
pleted the play that he has been working
on for the past six months and in which
Virginia Harmed viii be seen in the prin-
clpal role in this country next season. Mr..
Mccarthy has furnished Mr.. Sothern, Miss
Harned's husband. with IF Were King
and THE Proud Prince
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TIE NEW POPULAR SONG.
s'Cordelia Malone" Sounds Like the
Old Favorite, /" Belle Malone"

The success of ''Bedelia'' as a popu-
lar song was certain to be followed by
q series of limitations Never a happy
hit in songIand without a flock of
thunder-stealers. The first successor Of
"Bedelia" is being sung in the New
York production of "Ghttering Gloria"
and is called "CordeHa Malone" Two
verses and the chorus run as follows:
Sure me brains in a whfrl through a
Sweet CordeIia Malone is her name:
And young suitors galore nightly flock
Since eii her 81 sister ter Bedelia won fame.
But her smiles don't you see they are
So they might as well leave her alone.
For she seems to rejoice at the sound of
when ie ' / sing through the Bell telephone.
Hello, hello, sweet Cordelia,
Put on your Sunday regalia,
Come out. the weather is fine for lark,
And I'll automobile ye all over the park
Bring your sister Bedelia,
III dine ye and wine We and ale ye;
Forget every trouble, come out, love, and
Cordeiia, Cordelia ADMINISTRATIONS.
As the car speeds along, I keep singing a
OF the charms of my beautiful queen.
The machine 1t was blue, but. between
Just to please her I painted it green.
When have to depart, boys, it punctures
To 90 back to the stable alone:
But there will be a day when I won t
have to say,
When I ring up Cordelia Malone:
Chorus
Hello, hello, sweet Cordelia.
Put on your Sunday regalia,
Come out, the weather is fine for a lark,
And I'll automobile we all over the park.
Bring your sister Bedelia,
I'll dine We and wine ye and ale We;
Forget. every trouble, come out, love, and
bubble,
Cordelia, Cordelia Malone-Hel-lone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02
ETHEREAL BOWsER.
He Goes Back on a Boiled Dinner and
Hears Spirit Voices.

hope you are real hungry this ev-
ening," said Mrs Bowser. as Mr.. Bow
ser came UP from the Office at his
usual hour the other evening.
"Why?" he naturally queried.
Because I have got what you like
best-a boiled dinner. I went over and
picked out the corned beef myself"
That was kind of you, but no boiled
dinner for me tonight. All I want is
a cup of tea and a piece Of toast"
Anything the matter with you?"
mot at aIl.'
Thought you'd like this better
than any dinner I could get" continued
Mrs. Bowser. after they were seated
at the table
The dinner is all right, my dear
woman he answered, with a wave Ct
his hand, but I am going to make a
little change in my diet. Do you
know, Mrs. Rowser, that we have been
living almost like two hogs? That is.
we have been stuffing and gorging aad
paying no attention to the ethereal
part. We have become too grossly
fat to appreciate a glorious sunset, a
beautiful sky, the songs of birds, the
spirit of music
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ineton. The day he landed IN the city
he purchased 20. 600 copies of an evening
paper, rushed them to printer, ana
had him print Extra In great flaming
letters across the top of the page Then
beneath it in letters Of the same size
came the name of the attraction. He
then collected his newsboys and gave
them each 100 copies. The result was
that the citizens of Washington paid 5
cents a copy to read that such and such
a plav would be in town next week The
press agent was arrested, but there was
no way that the law could touch him,
and so, much against their viii. the au-
thorities were compelled to let him go.
Another peculiar notion, and one that
did not pan out according to the pro-
eramIne,' came off not long ago. The
attraction in question was a melodrama,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02

more to say about it and 1 shall be glad
to hear that your experiments are a sue
cess"
She went up to her room and sat
down and read for half an hour. Then
she tiptoed downstairs to find the sit
ting room vacant She continued her
journey down to the dining room, and
peeped in to find Mr. Bowser at the
table He had brought out that boiled
dinner-everything going to make it,
and, although it was cold, ne was de-
vouring it with a grand appetite and
saying to himself between times:
'Durn my hide, but what an ass
was to let this thing slide to look for
spiritst"-( Copyright, 1904, by G. r.
IeWie)
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ser. as he got up to walk to and fro.
Il was a fool to. think I could sum
mon any other kind OF spirit into
room where sits woman who mas
eaten five pounds of boiled dinnerl
BY John, but L might as well have
been in a butcher shop surrounded by
the carcasses. of freshly killed hogsH'
IF you'll try again I'll leave the
room entirely If you really want
spirits to talk with you I don't want
to do anything to hinder. That boiled
dinner was awfully good, but if spirits
don't like corned beef and cabbage I m
not going to push them forward Now
take your time and see what there Is
in It,"
Mrs Bowser went into the parlor
but not to sit down and wait for
''creeps't to come On the contrary
she found peephole between thepor-
there's and watched Mr. BoWser, and
the cat sought safely under the
lounge. It was ten minutes before the
ethereal spirit raiser could get the
f1ovor of that corned beef out of his
nostrels and settle down to business
again. and he had to hang to that
heavenly look long quarter OF an
hour before the spirit would show I'D
again. There We're two this time. At
first judging from the beautiful smile
on his face, Mrs. BOwser took them for
the spirit of innocent twin babies VINO
had died at an early age Of the
The basement bell gave tongue, and
as the cook opened the door a hoarse.
harsh voice came floating up the base
/ ment stairs:
Say. now. gal. can't ye hand a poor
man out sunthin' decent to eat2"
| And a second hoarse. harsh voice
added:
4 It's an old william you work for, and
I'd like to Smash his head for him.
Mr.. Bowser sprang up and went
| Gathering down the basement. stairs
| and bareheaded as he was ne CHASED
the pair half a block When he re-
! turned to the house it was to ind
| Mrs. Bowser reading book and the
1 cat purring away with. her eyes
with spirits haven't been very 'uc-
wei your attempts to commune
cessful tonight" finally observed Mrs
And why haven't they?'' he indig-
nantly demanded. They haven't be
cause spirits and barrels of pork don't
4 go together. If you had kept out Of
But I did"
IF that Internal old cat"
But the cat couldn't have had any
thing to do with it. I have always
heard that spirits were attracted to
cats Give it up, Mr. Bowser, give 1t
NEVER! Never in this world" he re-
piled as he banged his fist down on the
mantel.
you had better. You are too fat and
( stout and broad across the back to call
up spirits, unless it is the spirit Of some
Il old pirate"
| sfVVhatt What! You not only spoil
my experiments for the evening, but
make fun of and insult me: Woman, L
warn you that you are pursuing a dan
gerous policy. Don't drive me to the
dead line. have set out to get rid OF
this grossness of body and spirit-tp
/ render myself more fit to appreciate the
beautiful and the spirituelle, and I'll see
it to the end or perish, no matter what
you say"
well, III go upstairs now" she
soothingly replied, and you can come
when you get ready. have nothing
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The melody is graceful and of great
simplicity, while the continued success
sions of sixths give to the whole the
voluptuous character that the situation
demands, and it seizes the audience so
much the more because the entire be-
ginning of the act is treated in a SOM
bre and violent scale.
Wagner separates the female chorus
into four groups. of three voices each,
dividing the song responses between the
various voices of each group. and only
occasionally does one voice. in each
group sing the same part in unison with
a. voice in another group. Despite the
extreme complexity and the confusion
of voices. the tone OF this chorus from
beginning to end, is a delight to the ear
The execution. to be sure. exacts not
only singers whose voices are absolutely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02
SMOKE

are silly people, both men and women,
who expect to be admired for a useless
expenditure OF their nervous and phys
zeal energies on all sorts OF absolutely
foolish objects into which no particle
busy, always occupied, always doing
something, passing restlessly from one
piece Of work to another, to have their
hands full. never to be idle. as they
say. seems TO be their ideal OF life
These precious muddlers, who plume
themselves in never being idle, pass
their time doing useless things under
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02
PRESS AGENTS. WORK.
Some of the Schemes They Play tC
Exploit Plays.


Exploit Plays.
Two shots were fired one night last
week at the actors on the stage of the
American theater in New York during
a performance, from a box occupied by
g. party Of men, and a panic was mar
rowly averted. The men made their
escape, but one Of them was arrested
and arraigned in court The mans
name was Barry, and the examination
developed that the shooting had been
prearranged purposely to create a SEN
sation. Barry had applied for the posi-
ton Of press agent of the concern pro-
ducing the play, and had been told that
If he could devise some scheme not pre-
Viously attempted by a press agent in
order to attract public attention to the
production, he would be employed He
concluded that the firing of a revolver
at the actors from a box during the
play would just about meet the re-
quirements. OF course, the pistol con-
tanned blank cartridges, but neither the
actors nor the audience were in the Sc
cret, and the effect was the same as if
the deed had been performed in good
earnest. Nobody was hurt in the end.
except the press agent, who is now out
on bail, and the man who for SO fred
the revolver, who is a fugitive from JUS
tice. 1t was a scurvy trick but a con-
spicUous exemplification of the knavish
methods in vogue to advertise attrac-
lions of much pretense and little merit
1t was about two months ago that a
press agent arrived in this city ahead
OF a melodramatic attraction. and hit
upon scheme, new at least to Wash
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02
FLOWER mAIDENs' CHORUS.
One of the Features of the Damrosch
Production of Parsifal"

One of the most important numbers
of the approaching performance of the
Parsifa1 music by Mr.. Walter Damrosch
and his company. is the seductive
Flower AIaidens' Chorus in Act II. whicr
is laid in the magic garden of Knngsor.
Parsifal has entered the the garden and
is Immediately surrounded by the Flow
er Maidens.
It opens with chorus somewhat like
a lullaby or a waltz to be sung, voluptu-
Gus and caressing in nature, by which
you are envelo9ed by all the softness
all the Intoxicating charm of woman.
The piece is developed upon a mod
crate rhythm in three-quarter time.
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Cured
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Disease and
Myself of Nervous
Dyspepsia With
DIR. Miles Heart Cure
and Nervine.

IT had but known what medicine and
what physicians were reliable 1 would be
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wife had been troubled with fiuttering and
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WENT GATHERING DOWN THE EASEMENT STEPS

the pretext of being busy and they
assume credit for a pIrposeless activ-
ity- The biggest people, those who
have really thought out their plan OF
life, do not make the mistake Of doing
what need not be done They have
time for everything because they do
not imagine they are econOmizing time
by occupying every few spare minutes
fin being unnecessarily busy.-Lcndcn
SATURDAY.. RayieTE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-02

Mrs. B. ". Evans, Clearwater. Kan.
writes: Ny husband lay sick for three
months. The doctors said he had quick
consumption We procured a. bottle OF
Billiards. Horehound Syrup. and II cured
him. That was years ago and since
then we have always kept a bottle IN the
house We can not do without Il For
coughs and colds It has no equal" 3 50c
and 800 Sold by RoWley & Snow and
w. s. Miller.