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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22

could do no more work in court, and
his resignation again rendered, was
reluctantly and sorrowfully accepted
by the Judge. They had been to-
gether during over 23O terms of court,
and the official tie was hard to break.
Charles Orion was a conscientious
and correct reporter. 1t is the height
of commentator to say that no at
torney ever found fault with tran
script of testimony which he made.
In his official as we'll as his private
life he was uniformly courteous md
obliging. He was respected and liked
by all of the attorneys, and those OF
them who knew him best had for him
sincere affection.
The writer, who teels that he knew
Charles Orion well, believes the fore
going to be as truthful a portrayal OF
him as may be given within the
limits of an obituary notice. What
has been said has been said simply,
without exaggeration, and with no
straining for effect. The known
sentiments OF the deceased required
this, for Charles orion liked plain,
honest statements and despised affecta-
ton.
The funeral which was largely at
tended was on Sunday at noon, Rev.
Myron q. Argus Of the Episcopal
church officiating. There was prayer
at the home, but the funeral service
was at the church. The floral offer
ings of the friends of the deceased
were many and beautiful. The
honorary pail bearers, who were all
members of the bar, were: Judge
Clementson and Congressman Murphy
of this county; Judge jerks, Honor
able Calvert Spensley and j. P.
Smoker, Esq, of Iowa; and F. W.
Burnham, Esq, Of Richland. The
bearers were Walter Brennan, Edward
M. Lowry. A. ]. Howell, Henry
Searles, Henry Henkel and George
BROKER, all of this city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
GOVERNMENT LAND OPENING
TRTPP COITNTV Sn

The Government opening of Trip
Co. lands will probably occur about
October LIST, when a million acres will
be thrown open to settlement, includ-
ing some of the finest agricultural
lands in the West. The Rosebud ex-
tension of the Chicago & North West
ern Ry. is the only railroad line to
these lands. See that your tickets
read to Dallas, the terminus of the
North Western, half-mile from the
reservation border. United States
Land Office will probably be located
here. Send for free description pamph-
lets giving all details about the land
and how to secure q quarter section
Of it; free on application to any G. &
N. W. ticket agent. 55-w-3.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
CASSVILLE.

Special Correspondence to the Herald.
The gospel tent meetings that have
been held in the park south of our
village for the last three weeks, held
their farewell meeting last Sunday
evening; while hele they have done
much good to the church work and
setting the people to think of their
souls. Salvation last Sunday after
noon Eve were baptized by immersion
in the river near the grove before a
large crowd of witnesses; they pulled
up stakes last Monday and left for
Bloomington to hold meetings there.
Success to their undertakings is the
wish Of many of the people of Glass;
Vile.
Since the annual school meeting
held in the school house, the 9Th,
where the people voted to build new
high school building, the people all
seem to be talking about building a
school house. A special school meet
ing will be held at concert hall on
the 28th day of July, 1908, at Z 80 p.
IN. for the purpose Of voting the fol-
lowing proposition. Wis: 1st to auth
orize the school board to make ap-
plication for a loan Of $15, 600 from
the state trust funds for the purpose
of erecting high school building
End to raise by tax sum sufficient to
pay the principal and interest Of such
loan as it becomes due. The ladies of
the district are especially invited to
attend this meeting as they have a
right to vote on these questions.
The new creamery building is
finished and the machinery is being
put in and porbably before another
week is past will be in running order
and as this building is only few
rods from the brewery the people can
get water, butter, milk or beer to
drink. Take your choice.
Braun Bros. have taken q contract
to get out rock for government use
and have opened quarry one mile
this side of Glen Haven.
There will be preaching in the
Baptist church both morning and
evening next Sunday by pastor from
Iowa; it will be decided at these
meetings whether regular preaching
will be established or not.
Dogs are getting very numerous In
our village and there is hardly an hour
OF the day that you don't see from six
to eight dogs In our streets; one night
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
THE RIVER OF REST.
In Memory of Mrs. Fanny Wright.

In Memory of Mrs. Fanny Wright.
Fanny Hudson was born in old Bee
town, August Is. 1841. She was ninth
in line of the eleven children born to
Hiram and Dorcas Hudson, youngest
and first to die of the four sisters,
Mrs. Emilne Sewart of Guttenburg,
Iowa, Mrs. Lydia Wagner of Lancas-
ter, and Mrs. Ritner Stephens Mary
of Huron, s. D. The youngest broth
er, Henry of Flora, also survives.
Fanny was married Dec. 4, 1866,
when little past fourteen years of
age to Phineas Wright. the marriage
taking place in the old Lancaster
hotel where the Wright House now
stands. She entered into rest on the
early morning of July 8, 1908, at her
late residence on Blake's Prairie
north of Beetown. She had lived in
that vicinity since infancy. AImon,
a prosperous farmer, Poly at home,
Dottie (Mrs. Ed Welsh) and Matte
MRS. JAS Franklin) all of Beetown
survive to mourn with their father
the loss of good mother, a noble
wife.
Henry and William both reaching
manhood's years, Nora, sweet girl
of eleven, and two infants preceded
the mother to the better land. Grand
children and great grand children
also survive. The Hudsons and the
Dodges were the earliest settlers of the
Blake's Prairie south of Bloomington.
So Mrs. Wright was widely known,
and she had the esteem of large ac-
quaintance. Of a retiring DISPOSE
tion, yet she was without variance,
pleasant, friendly, social, with the
broad warm hospitality for which the
Hudson family is noted. Tender, low
ing, indugent and self sacrificing in
her home-life, the kind of mother
whose surprisingly to her many
friends, she, herself. knew that her
days were numbered. A few weeks
previous to demise she had walked
over to the cemetery near her home,
and chosen a burial place. She spoke
quietly and submissive of her depart
ure, and was prepared for the final
change She was member of the
Nj. e. church, and Rev. Wooley of
Bloomington, conducted the burial
services, July 10th at the Dodge
church. The excellent music of
Bloomington s gifted singers was part
of the solemn services. The very large
attendance attested the worth of the
deceased neighbor and friend, and the
sympathy felt for the bereft family.
To them the sorrow of missing day by
day ''her dear face from its ac'
customed place. To her the sweet,
sweet rest. and to all the beautiful
blessed promise of reunion with the
loved and lost on the other side Of
that River of Rest. - B. D, S.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
At PIatteville Chautauqua.

Governor johnson, of Minnesota,
speaks at the Platteville Chautauqua
Saturday afternoon, July 25th.
Senator LaFollette speaks on Thurs
day afternoon, July S0th. This is
also Sunday school day, making it 3
double header. A number OF Sunday
schools will be present to take in the
especially arranged program. Mr..
Will Carleton, the poet, will also APP
pear in the afternoon Of the 80th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
THREE-CORNERED RACE.

Kopp, Peterson and Mahoney Will Con-
test for Congressional Honors.
A Madison dispatch to the Free
Press under date of July 10, says
The second futile conference of
Third district Republican leaders was
held here tonight with the purpose of
uniting upon one congressional candi-
date and getting the other two to
withdraw. but no one would quit.
1t was given out that it was decided
that three candidates, Alley Peterson,
Soldiers Grove; D. o. Mahoney, Viro-
qua, and A. W. Kopp, Plattevlle will
remain in the field and contest for the
Candidates Mahoney and Peterson
were present at the conference.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22

Atom shoutd never be absent from
any household 4 hAG . very good
sRSe4 u aprsted to bleeding wounds,
90 Il checks EAe loss q blood Boiled
IN milk b smAn quantities il is soOd
for ,teothAshA Il must be hsad Ia che
zaevkh. not swallowed For Bleeding
OF the AOwth o. tongue . wash in cold
water b which alum has been dis
solved . ven elective
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22

last week one got in the gospel tents
and stole some meat that was laid
over for the next days meal would
it not be a wise plan to levy tax on
these ours and let it go for school
purposes and so get rid of some of
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-07-22
French Wives IN Business.

A Word from Jesh Wise.
"Yrten'shap among mems governed
By tn time they have ter spare feS
It.
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ond night OF the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81 On 'ne
third night Nine Melba. who sang by the courtesy
of Mr. Ellis, appeared in Romeo ct Jullette.
There were first appearances OF several arusts
whose names became fixed in the prospectuses ior
some years to come: Nine. Ernestine Schumahh-
Heink as ortrud in 'Lohengrin" on JANUARY "
1892 Ernest Van Dy ck Tannhauser on the OPEN
ing night; Albert Saleza Romeo on Decemoer
2, 1898; Suzanne Adams as Juliet on January T.
$780, Anton Van Rooy Wotan in Die WaiKure
on December IA, 1898. Mr.. Franz Schalk. the con-
ductor engaged for the German operas in place Oh
Mr.. Sedi. who had taken part with Mr.. Grau In
the summer season at Covent Garden and Deen en-
gagged for the New York season that was to foliow'
introduced himself to New York on the same oc-
casion.
OF acquaintance, or less old. there were
In the company besides Nine. sennbr!ch Nine Leh-
MANN Mine. Nordica, Nine. Mantelli, Miss Meiss-
nnger, Miss Pevny, Frances Savile, Mr. Bispham'
Mr. Dppei (who had been member Of the last
German company in 1S90-sD, Pol Plancon and
Adolph Muhlmann. Newcomers besides those men,
toned were Matde Brugere. Herman Devries (son
of Nine Rosa Devries, dramatic singer or re-
nown half century before), Henri Albers barry
tone and Lempriere Prngle an English singer.
who had worked himself up in the ranks OF the
Carl Rosa Opera Company. The two brothers, Jean
and Edouard de Reszke, whom New York had come
to look upon indispensable to perfect enjoyment
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fervor have the poets SUNG 1t over ana over asan
Byron could smile at his Quixotic 1eat ID 'no
lines which he wrote six days after Its accomplish
ment but In 1.-The Bride OF Abydos' ne aid no1
attempt to conceal the affection which ne IeIe io
the tale or his pride in the fact that Helie Duoy
ant wave had borne his limbs as well as LeahoeI 81
and who can without emotion call UP keats's pict-
ure OF
Young Leander toiling to his DEATH
pursuing his weary lips for Hero's cheek ana siiii
ing against her smiles until he sinks. ana
''Up bubbles all his amorous breath
Right nobIy too, did Schiller hymn the lovers
and two centuries of opera writers-Itaian FRENCH
German English and Polish-have sought 10 weave
their pitifuI story into lyric dramas
Boito as have said wrote the book or FRO Q
Ieandro" for himself. but eventually gave II Ic
others I can only speculate as to the cause OF
ofto's abandonment of his intellectual child PROD
ab1v he concluded that 1t lacked the dramatic eie-
nents which the composers Of the last few decades
avine tribute willingly or unwillingiy, 10 "as-
nar,a Genius have felt to be necessary 10 the sue
cess Of a lyric drama But dramatic action need
NOT always be summed up in movement Wagner
greatest tragedy has scarcely more external Incl
san, than .'Ero Leandro" and. indeed, is like
hs onara In that the interest in each OF It's three
acts centres in a meeting of the lovers and their
publication of the play enacting on the stage OF
their hearts But it takes music Ike wagner s.
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Chapters of Opera
RecolIections and Records of a Quarter Century.
-PuccNrs ~soHEME" AND mANcNELLrs
CHAPTER XII.

certs ar the Hotel Astoria. and his friends were
developing plans for a new endowed orchestra
when he died, after illness Of only few hours
DURATION supposed to have been caused by ptonlahe
poisoning. This was on the night OF March Is. 1898
His body was cremated after imposing puolc
funeral at the Metropolitan Opera House on March
g. participated in by the Musical Mutual Protective
Union, Mannergesangverain Arton, the Philnar-
nonic Society, German Liederkranz. the Rev
Merle St Croix Wright who delivered the memorial
address, and Mr.. H. E. Krehbiel, chairman OF the
committee of arrangements. who read dispatch
received from Robert G. Ingersoll, who was absent
from the city a lecture trip. The palloearers
were a. Schueler (who had been classmate OF
the dead man at the Iiepsic Conservatory; Oscar
B. Weber, E Francis Hyde president OF the Phll-
harmonic Society; Henry Schmitt, Albert Stett-
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SIGNOR LUIGI MANClNELLI.
Copyright by Aime Dupont)

were also members of the company There were
two cyclical performances of THE Ring of the
Nibelung' to keep good Wagnerites In countenance
but Mr. Grau made his popular hit by a repetition
of the device which had been successful before
with ''Faust"-he gave LES Huguenots' with a
Ideal cast" The device simple. but it served.
Meyerbeers opera had been given three times, when
on February 20 announced 1t with Nine. Sem
brich in the cast, and all round advance on
prices the basis of ST. instead of S. for orchestra
chairs.
Only one novelty produced in the season.
This was Sgnor Mancinelli's Fro Leandro."
which had its first American performance on
March 10, 1899, with the composer In the conduc-
tors chair The principal singers were Nine
Games QIero). Saleza Oeander) and Plancon (Ari-
ofarno). Nine Schumann- Heink set down to
sing prologue. but illness prevented at the first
representation, and the music was sung by Nine
Mantelli The opera had pretty success and
back OF 1t interesting history. Boito wrote
the ibretto for himself. but put it aside when the
subject of "Mehstofele' took possession of his
mind. Two of the numbers which he had already
composed found their way into the score of the
later opera one OF them being the beautiful duet
"Iontano lontano, Iontano," in the Classical
Scene Boito turned the book over to Bottesin
who composed it, but failed TO make success or
It, Signor Mancnelli then took the hbretto in
hand and having a commission from the Nor
witch Hcngland) festival of 1896 for choral work
he composed it and handed it in to be sung as
cantata. 1t was sung at the festival the next
year it received its first stage performance at
Madrid. and by way of Turin and Venice reached
Covent Garden. London, where IT was produced on
July 15 1898
What simple tale 1t is that has so twined ltselt
around the hearts of mankind that II has lived In
classic story for ages and gotten into the folk
tales of more than European people! Hero Is
a priestess OF Aphrodite, who lives at Sestos, on
the Thracian coast: Leander youth, whose home
is at Abydos on the Asiatic shore, beyond the Hell
lespont. The pair meet at a festival OF Venus ana
Adonis and fall In love with each other at sight
The maiden's parents unwilling that she shall
cease her sacred functions to become a wife. and
Ieander swms the strait every night while Hero
holds a torch at the window TO direct him to her
side one night there arises tempest and Lean
der is drowned. and his body cast up at the foot or
the tower Then Hero throws herself upon the
Jagged rocks beside him, and the lovers are united
In death.
That tale is old. but love anew
MAY nerve young Learts TO prove as true.
sang Byron after he had put dlscrediting doubts 10
shame by swimming the Hellespont himself and
catching an ague for his pains. simple tale, yet
/ have included than IS ordinarily found In
the recital In show how Boito utilized and
added to them simple tale but with what lovely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

of italian composers to do before the advent of
Wagner set young Italy in ferment Music plays
very different role In it than it does in the operas
Of Donizetti. Bellini and the earlier Verdi. 1t
does content itself with occasionally proclaim
ing the mood of a situation the feelings of a
conventional stage person 1t attempts to supply
life blood for the entire drama; to flow through It's
veins without ceasng TO bear along on its surface
all the whims emotions. foes and incidents of the
story as fast as they appear; to body them forth
as wildly words and pantomime can; TO color
them, vitalize them, arouse echoes and reflections
of them in the hearts of the hearers. But this 1t
do only in association with other elements or
the drama, and when these are presented only in
part and crudey and clumsily. it must fail of
it's purpose. And IT happens that Puccinfs mu-
sic discoses little of that brightness. vvacity and
piuuancy which we naturally led to expect from
it by knowledge of Mdrger's story. on which the
opera is based, and acquaintance with the compos-
er's earlier opera, "Manon Lescaut." One element
the two works have in common absence of the
light touch of humor demanded by the early scenes
in both dramas. However, this is characteristic
not of Puccini alone but all the composers in the
Young italian School. They know way TO kill
gnat dancing in the sunlight except to blow it up
with a broadside of trombones. Puccini's music in
La Bohene' also seems lacking in the element
OF characterization. element which is much
essential In comedy music than in tragic Whether
they are celebrating the careless pleasures of Bo-
hemian carouse proclaiming the agonies Of
consuming passion, 1t is all to his singers. So
soon as they drop the ntervallic palaver which
points the way of the style toward bald meIo-
drama they soar off in shriekng cantalena, buoyed
up by the unison strings and irnpered by strideut
brass until there is no relief except exhaustion
Happy careless music, such Mozart Rossni
might have written for the comedy scenes in La
Boheme," there is next to in Puccini's score
and seldom. indeed, does he let his measures play
that palliative part which, we know from Wag-
ner's Tristan and Verds "Traviata to cite ex-
tremes-it is the function of music TO perform when
enlisted in the service of the drama of vice and
phthsis.
On October 10. 1898. another band of strolling
singers, which endured for a week at the Casino
also performed La Boheme,'' and the Castle Square
Opera Company of Henry w. Savage gave 1t i'll
English at the American Theatre November IS
of the year. 1t did not reach the Metropol-
itan Opera House until the season 10000.
Stockholders and subscribers of the Metropolitan
Opera House having endured their year of priva-
ton. which, have SEEN not without its
moments of refreshment Mr. Grau opened the
regular subscription 1888 80 November
p. It's incidents of special interest not many
One was the return of Nine. Sembrich, who made
what Mr.. Sutherland Edwards called Rnsina s
double entry in Rossni's Barber on the Sec
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

good in the opening scene where the book invited
him to consult the wants OK the Norwich festival
and to write in the cantata style In the first act
however. there Is little to praise outside OF the
settings OF the two Anacreonic odes and the sons.
to the shell. There Is much striving. but paueity
OF plastic ideas. What might have been an IN
constrained lyrical outpouring. the prologue mere
laundering in the index. because OF the composers
mistaken impression that it ought TO be tragic and
in the ''Ercles VEIN When the rites begin and a
swelling pean IS expected. there IS much making OF
musical faces, but real beginning. Matters i'm
prove in the second act. where the part Of Arfo-
farno becomes dramatically puissant. Here thsrs
are noble passages and the duet has moments OF
passionate intensity: but all these things pale their
intellectual fires before the 10 pean." which in
as thrilling and well applied anything that can
recall in the operas OF the decade which preceded
'Ero Leandro." H z. K
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BRIARCLIFF LODGE.

BriarcIin Manor. n. Y. Sept. 1a-Tn the bright
sunny days OF the last week the patrons OF tia
lodge have found much amusement IN outdoor
sports and the golf grounds and tennis courts
have been well occupied Riding and driving have
also been favorite pastimes- The regular hop was
given on Saturday evening on the persoIa at the
end OF the lodge. ard was much enjoyed by the
young people from the lodge and the cottags
colony.
Among those who have come TO the lodge for
the autumn Mrs g. B. Satterlee and Miss
Marion SatterIee. Mr.. and Mrs Adolph Obrig Mr.
and Mrs. Henry A. Budd and Miss Natalie and
Master Hudson Budd. Mr.. and Mrs Philip Rhine
lander and family and Mr. and Mrs. z. J. Dough-
erty and Miss H. j. Dougherty. OF New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

A British officer. IN his expense list on govern
ment service. put down:
Porter. twopence-" -. rxya-
The officer requested to report 20 IhS
Once and received the following explana ut.. ara
White executing public duty refreshments -
not chargeable 20 the nation" e. -
The item does not represent refresIlInsi's'
piled the officer, 'hut a fee to a carrier. .us,
You should have said porterages was nv
explained 10 him. ..o,,,
When the officer had occasion TO take nansI as-
remembering instructions. he wrote N hAs
counts.
Cabbage. two shillings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

sam and 5etsam-gave in wallack's Theatre the
first representation OF Puccinfs La bohehe'
which New Workers. heard in their own city The
company was first announced the Baggetto
Grand Italian Opera Company, which was propa-
bly, its official style IN Mexico. In New YORK q
hoary device OF juggling with the name OF ltaiys
chief opera house resorted to- and 1t was calleo
the Milan Royal Opera Company, Of La Scala
Under either title the company proved itself capa-
Bile Of deal OF stressfu and distressful singing
though a good impression was made by Giuseppe
Agostini. youthful tenor, and Luigi Francescon
a barytone. La Boheme' performed on the
opening night of the company's brief season Ut
made shpwreck according to rule within four or
five daysl with the following distribution of parts:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

Needless to say that scant Justice was done to the
play and score Of La Boheme' by the vagrant
singers and that the good opinion which the opera
won later shared by few among critics, lay
and professional After ten years Of familiar &C
Quaintance with the work, like It better than
did at first, but it has not yet taken deep and
abiding place in my affections. in It. however,
an earnest and ingenious effort to knit music text
and action closer together than it was the wont
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

An interesting concert. attended by large audi.
ence was given last Thursday at the Metropolitan
Temple for the Choir Guild. under the direction ot
Cboirmaster Charles j. Evans. Miss Sadie J.
Gregg. soprano soloist Of that church, sang with
such success she had to repeat some OF her num-
bers Miss Gregg is a pupil OF the well known
vocal teacher. Julian Norman. to whom she gives
all the credit for her training Mr.. Norman will
soon remove to his studio, where he intends
TO give several musicals this season. at which many
of his pupils will sing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-20

Igna Hoehsbro gave pupils recital last Friday
afternoon at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. George
Turnure, at Lenox, Mass