The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-06
4 LARGE Audience Listened on One Of
the Finest Numbers Of the Y.
M. C. A. Lecture Course
at the Grand.
HEARD HERBERT COPE
is an Entertainer Of Rare Ability and
III Had His Audience With Him
" From the Start to
Hi Finish.

Herbele Leon Cope, the man from
Michigan and the man who can make
one cry and then burst into laughter
within the moment, was stal enter
tainer at the Grand last evening and
was listened to by full house down
stairs and up and a number in the
gallery. and for such cold night the
attendance was fine and certainly. well
deserved as Cope is an entertainer
that one could listen to all evening and
not feel sleepy.
When he started 1T nine clock and
finished at almost eleven o'clock the
large audience could have listened to
tits Mark Twain for several more
hours and Their called for more. His
e; gagement for this place was filed
last evening after having been post
poned last week
cannot be surpassed and during the
canlnot be surpassed and during the
evening number OF pieces We're CIV
EN- much to the delight of all present
End his mimicry was fine and can be
appreciated only by those who heard
him on last evening in his Smile That
Won't Come OFF, This was not a
lecture as some had expected to hear
when first going to the theater, and
all were well aware of the fact after
he had made his first few introduce
tory remarks after brief Introduction
OF the speaker by DR.. Z. B. Newcomb
who announced the next numLer of the
entertainment course
Among many other things he said:
Ladies and gentlemen: 1t gives me
the greatest pleasure to be with you
tnis evening" and then-''You meet
some long faced person on the finest
day the Lord ever made and you say
Isn't this fine day. and receive their
sarcastic answer, Yes, but it may rain
before night Your good time here
tonight is just the way you look at the
world, that's all Some people think
that 1t is sign of dignity to so about
with long faces. 1t is. But the mus
cles that might have been used in
laughter are used in frowning.
Don't be quick tempered. 1t hurts
you and 1t wounds the heart of some
one else to see you in bad mood
Don't get a Pittsburg hrainst rm."
Stories that might excite laughter
and others that would tend to bring
out the tear We're told by the speaker
and he carried his large audience from
pathos to tears by his Imaginable and
nathetic stories which necessarily
flowed from his mouth.
God would not pick out just a few in
this world to have all the full there
IS in 1t. Everybody lives to have a
good time and to laugh and be jovial
and look at the bright side of life in
stead OF being in frowns and tears all
the time. A good illustration of the
frequent family quarrels between hus-
pand and wife and brother and sister
We're finely impersonated by the
numorlst much to the delight of all
anu number of times during the en-
tertalnment there We're nearly bursts
OF applause mingled with the laughter
mat prevailed with his many funny
stories and approximations from the
moment he took the stage.
Laughter and ridicule were ex-
piained as being two different things,
ohe paints the face with smiles while
ne other paints the face with sheer.
= IS not right to have good time
soiiie on else's expense If it hurts
,iiem. There is no difference today
Tween the twentieth century people
ana the ancients. They had their
''ais ahd troubles, hates and dislikes
nd their loves.
ihere Is no need of getting the
oiues and continually thinking of
i's sen Make some one else happy
s'fa you VIII never experience an I'M
peppy moment. Things that might be
said today and tonight are left unsaid
~ ! Is too late and the loved ones
taken from us. Then Wen it is
~ iase we repent for the loving
nhss That we left unsaid and wonder
~ 'hlngs we should have said could
'oe nave been told when We had the
OPPORTUNITY ~ ~
no a,'is' make companions of your
.ners. they are the sweetest COM
phs girl could wish for if you
oau only confide in them. Anything
Ia ,as you do and would not want your
pa 70 know is bad-very bad.
- - make companions of your faith
ne best times ever had in nv
ne was when was hunting or fishing