Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-01
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Modern TranSIationS af the Bard of Avon'S Historic
 Masterpieces,
VllI.--CTHELL0.
BY STRICKLAND w. GILLIAl

living in Venice among the white trash and other nobility his name was Booker T. Othello, are he was the only man of his comb,oXion who had ever put his brogana under the Venetian white houses nepery. Whenever he came Gp frUm Tuske- gee he was consulted a5out affairs of | state and made perfect loOl of. He 1 was a wise one in the matter of war, | and as Venice usually had one On hand and two on the waiting list, she | kept this African immigrant busy plan | sing kow to clean somebody.
 One of the sugar Senators of Venice | at that time was BrabartIO, who was as enthusiastic as the otheIs with re- | gard 10 the CA.Pullman porter. He ! thought Othelio would be T good man 1 to manage the affairs Of Cyprus, a 1 territory with an alkalin2 reaction, which had nn: yet been admitted as a state. So he concur d in the ap- pointment of his dingy nibs to that l job.
 | As soon as the new appOintee took | his place he fired an uuleT secretary to the governorship, named Iago, and appointed a friend of his named Gas ! sio. He gave Iago some sort of dinky job that wasn't under the civil service rules, and that made the late secretary sore. The latter job paid nearly as much salary, but the chances for graft were very seldom. So Iago began to plan to get even, and from the latest accounts he sure did.
 Now, while that man Brabantio thought Othello was a right and prop CT person to intrust with the manage ment of Cyprus, he never thought of the coon in the light of d son-in-law. 1 "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" but, preserving the figure of speech. a negro by the name of son-in-law would smell worse, thought Brab. He had had Othello at his house to spend the evening many time, and the man had told yarns of his African campaigns and fights with the cannibals and other nOnYegetarianS, while Senator Brab'S daughter Desdemona sat around with her mouth looking like the entrance to the Hoosac tunnel. 'Thell had noticed this, and was keen enough to know that the girl was pretty groggy | on him. So next time he would make up and hand out worse thriller and Dessie would goggle more intensely than before. And when he thought the case was ripe, 'Thell asked her how she'd like to tighten the color scheme of his household. Dessie was a whole lot willinger than she cared to admit, but she let him know it was go.
 Now, this fired secretary. IagO, had said to Rodrigo, a friend of his, who was crazy about Des:
 Rod. I'm sore about getting the guillOtine when the smoked savage l turned the rascals out, and 1 think can make trouble enough to help us both some. A tin-badge detective employed tells Ine that Senator Bra bantiO'S girl is about 10 skip with this patent-leather finish governor of ours. All we have to do is to put Brab next, stir him up a good and plenty about it, and let nature take it's course. Pm going to come up good and strong as 'Thells confidential only-one-to-be-trusted friend, and play both ends against the middle. You
 can do man lots more dirt as his friend than you can as his enemy" So they got a lantern and went around to Brabs dump, and hollered him out. IagO asked him if his daughter was at home, and Brab's
 answer was all that it should have
 been. Then Iago and Rodrigo got
 busy limiting to Brab that Dessie was out with the ebony. Again Brab
 arose to the linguistic emergency, and
 Rod and Iago squatted till the words
 TUit hitting the ground beyond them.
 Then iago said:
 Of course you've always been sore on Rod for fooling around your girl, and, of course, I'm well-known liar But if you'll search your Dessie's
 boo-dwor at this present moment you'll
 find her missing. Otherwise, you can come out and go around the corner
 with us and say what you'll take" So down to Dessie's stall toddled papa, but no Dessie. Then there was more trouble than you could shake a | stick at. He said he wished he'd married her to Rodrigo or anybody
 that was white. He joined the two lmuck-rakers and got a lot of innocent
 bystanders to fall in, and away they went to Othello's shack, the old man
 swearing at every jump that the girl had been hypnotized.
 When they found the pair, Iago had Itrotted on ahead and innocently warn ed them that he believed some one was coming, and that they had better hit the grit. He knew mighty well how that woul affect 'Thell. No sprinting for the coon. He would stay and see what was what. But about the time the mob got it's tar warm
 and the feathers dumped in. some body threw scare into Venice by an- lnouncing that the Turks were com ing with about a million big ships to
 make the Venetians hard to catch, and 'Thell was needed right away with
 his razzer So he and his wife went
 with Senator Brabantio to court, and
 after the matter had been presented to the authorities the man that cor responded to the President said:
 If your daughter wants to go on
 with this mess alliance. and is really in love with his black sheepship, let her take him. It's about the only thing to do. Speak up, Dessie. Is
 he your only only?"
 Right along," said Dessie, T take