Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-03

Miss Brewster sings the solo, Love is
Elusive and the duet with Sylvan
Langlois, Never Borrow Trouble
of the grandest portrayals of character
that has ever been drawn before an
Ottumwa audience. The speaker
showed his complete mastery of
Shakespearean subjects by the manner
in which he drew the parts Of the
great play, the dramatic effects which
he injected into the lecture carried
the audience with the lecturer who
swayed them from the hunaorous to
the pathetic with ease.
The manner in which pictured the
envious, lean and hungry looking one,
whose sole thought was for himself
and as against Caesar, brought out
the histrionic powers Of the lecturer
and caused mirth by his treatment of
the value Of laugh.
Laughing" said the speaker, "is
one of Gods most beautiful gifts
Some men make much Of the gift,
while others do not use what they
have"
"Bonny laughter" said the speaker.
"is better than lecture. 1t is opera
tive cheerfulness-a sanitary gift of
God. Better to have Caughed) and
lost, than never to have Qaughed) at
all. If you are an intellectual dys-
peptic then laugh Qoff). If, however,
you are an able bodied man then
laugh Qaff). If you are a lady, well,
you know what to do and | won't
offer advice.
"Cassius was not without brains, on
the contrary he was brainy. Some
where in book, believe it was the
physiology, learned that brain Is
composed of gray matter and white
matter-brains Of that kind is plenti-
full Real brains are red, blood red,
(not on the outside of course). but
pump blood, real blood, from the
heart continually. 1t is not brains but
goodness Of heart that counts.
"Cassius was 'waser,'" continued
good in anything done by others than
himself, nothing good in Caesars
time and with him all had been well
once. but he was uns.ble to predict
anything good in his future. His
brain was accurate as gravity but vile
as the pit of he'll.
BrutuS ana MARC Antony
"Brutus was ingenious and liked by
men of his time but was weak of will
and easily led. Brutus was fond of
his wife and true to her, which. while
not unusual now, was very unusual
at that time. He was a large man,
genial, he thawed you out when you
met him ON the street. Some people
seal you up hermetically He did not
He bubbled over with geniality like
the sap in the trees in springtime He
was not strong of will and did not set
his course toward the north star. He
WINS of a warm heart but permitted
the cold hard heart of Cassius to
persuade him TO murder Caesar by q
thrust of the danger
The scene between Cassius and
f3rLtus was one of the grandest dra-
matte effects that could be presented
to an audience and showed the brain,
the envy, the cold hearted perf1dy and
the power of Cassius over the weak
willed Brutus when he forces the
sword into Brutus hands who latter
thrusts 1t into the heart Of Caesar.
The painting Of the character of
Marc Antony, by the speaker was no
THE soldier greatness of Antony"
said the speaker, was magnificent
and wonderful" repeating the lines
Of the play wherein Antony Is asked
how he stands with the conspirators
against Caesar The speaker did not
lose an item of the dramatic grandeur
of the scene in his picture Of the
great soldier friend of Caesar "His
appeal to the Roman populace when
they were calling for his blood and
that of Caesar" he said, was truly
the sob of a soldier and one of the
greatest orations ever delivered"
Julius Caesar is universal great.
ness" said the speaker, land he still
survives the grandeur of the Rome OF
his time, The glory of the coliseum
the viadncts and aqueducts. the
bridling of the Tiber and other great
achievements of Caesar are testimon
ials to this chiefest man of Rome"