Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-05
SHAKESPEARE DOWN TO DATE
Modern Translation of the Bard Of Avon's
Historic Masterpieces.
OTHELLO

So she went, chaperoned by Mrs.
Iago, who stayed with the suffers
wagon few miles IN the rear.
Then came the storm. What would
/ Shakespeare plays have been with
out storms? He used great deal OF
sheettron in his pieces, and plenty OF
horsefddle windstorms. This storm,
that hit Cyprus at the right moment
was corker. It, nearly broke the
thunder machine, and two new
ratchets had to be put in the wind
maker next day. The Turkish fleet
was as completely submerged as If it
had been Russian f1otilla and met a
Japanese torpedo pleasure expedition.
Othello had no more fighting to do
than rabbit. His razzer stayed right
in its case.
In the intervening period Iago had
been busy with that Rodrigo guy. He
had contracted to make Othello jeal-
Gus of his new assistant, Cassie, and
he proceeded Systematically and with
a cunning that would make old Nick
look like an amateur to get in his
work. He got Cassie drunk and man
aged to let Othello catch him that
way. Othello fired Cassie that min
1 ute. Iago went and told Bessie what
'Thell had done, and asked her to
speak word for Cash with the boss.
She was awfully sorry for the fired
lieutenant who was filled with next
morning regrets and promises.
4 Iago coaxed his wife to get from
i Bessie bandana handkerchief Of
peculiar pattern that 'Thell had given
her for an engement present. He
; didn't tell his wife what it was for,
but he just ooaxed and coaxed, till
} one day, when Othello had been driven
into splitting headache by lagos
kidding him about Dessie's being un-
} true, Bessie was tinkering with the
: Moor's think-tank and dropped the
I aforesaid bandana. Mrs. Mephisto
} picked it up and took it to hubby.
About that time Mrs Iago began to
| smell mice. She asked her husband
, with that rag, but he wouldn't tell. He
just snatched it and went and dropped
, it in Cassioss room SO somebody
l sio> would have hard time explaining
: it to his own lady friend
Iago also had Othello hide and hear
Cassie talk about this aforesaid mis-
guided lady friend who wanted to
marry him, Othello thinking all the
time it was his Bessie that Cash was
laughing about and roasting.
Like the intelligent beast he was, he
believed everything Iago told him
about his wife and Cassie, and when
Des, who was as innocent as a last
years birds nest, kept her promise
. and tried to get him to give Cassie
back his mead clerkship, that looked
9 still worse to the enameled one. He
3 called her all sorts of names, except
a lady, and had her going south at q
S great rate. She thought he was off his
/ nanny, and treated him accordingly
+ Mrs. Iago was all in the dark and
! couldn't help out particle, but she
Il put in good deal Of time condemnine
r the practice of inter-race marriages.
l. Still, there was no peace for this
|, busy Iago. Rodrigo came along an6
!. said:
s See here, Mister Smarty, when are
+" you going to have that woman so sore
Z at the liberian that she'll come to me-
d That contract of yours is about ex
s PRED, and haven't had any results
/ that can notice. I'm from Missouri.
j. well" explained Iago, making it VI
t. as he went along, the woman has fall
h en- in love with Cassie now, and If h,
d were out of the way all would be right
+ The way Cassie talks about that WON
n an is just, awful, as l showed 'Thel
himself the other day. You kill Cas-
"a sio-easy enough job only take a min
! ute or two and I'll see that the good
: - are delivered"
=. cav, I don't wanta," grinned Rodr!
i, go, bashfully, digging in the groun
~ with his big toe.
- "Then you don't want Bessie the wa
. I thought you did, and I'm awfully dis
:, appointed in you"
- ooh, all right, if you feel that wa
- . about it," said Rodrigo, blushing like
- school girl and pulling out his sward
- So, after a little fine lying to Cassie
J.. the main plotter got him and Rodrig
n to meet and stab one another Tha
v disposed of the two persons who ha
y been annoying him on the side, and h
=, was ready to go on with his devilmen
- in-chief.
II The black governor in the meal
n. while had been having another sessio
"a with his wife, and as often as she d,
~ MED being what she was accused o
II she said, innocently, the very thin
n that would make her man believe thu
~ she was all kinds of garner. 1t WASH
- nice of Mr.. Shakespeare to have hi
-, ~ say those things, for it made matter
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