The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-26
ADJUSTMENTS.
eat the Mercy Of Tiberius."

augusta Evans wilson famous
story of New York and Virginia. At
the Mercy of Tiherius' made over
for stage purposes, will be presented
at the opera house on December ,.
In dram atizing this widely read
story none Of the dramatic essence
of the absorbing interesting novel
has been omitted. The story is about
a widow. who incurred the enmity of
her father by marrying an Italian ar
fist, and is forced through poverty
to send her daughter to the mothers
old home in Virginia. with an appeal
for assistance. The girls mission is
successful, but in leaving her grand
fathers place she is arrested on the
charge of having murdered him.
Subsequently it Gevelopes that the
old gentleman was slain by bolt of
lightning while engaged in life-for
life struggle with a brother Of the
girl, the boy having gone to the
grandfathers house for the purpose
OF committing robbery. When the
time arrives for the trial of the girl
the district attorney finds himself in
the trying position OF having to con-
vict, if possible, the fair defendant
with whom he is IN love. But in the
end, as in all good novels and sensi-
BILE plays, everything turns out all
right, and virtue proves its own re-
ward, while vice gets all that is COM
ing to it and then some. Eleanor
Montell, who, by the way, is Eugene
Blair's beautiful daughter, plays
| cleverly the part Of the heroine and
receives excellent support from
large and well-balanced company
Mrs. Fiske.
"The production of Chanticleer in
Paris and its coming production in
! America make for a great sadness in
stead Of the Joy that should come
from a contemplation of the work of
| the greatest poet now associated
4! with dramatic literature,' says Mrs
Fiske.
Just think she continues. how
many hundreds of Gods daintiest
and most beautiful creatures. the
birds, were sacrificed to provide the
dresses for the play.
Can any song that a poet ever
! sang replace the songs through Chan
| ticleer have been stillel? What a
great pity it is that Monsieur b.
for his play that would have left no
stain OF blood. The laws upon the
| statute books DO not hold man to an
| accountability for the destruction of
animal life, but the laws that are
! above those OF the books DO so and al
| some time, not far distant. | trust. it
is the hope OF all humanitarians that
| mans little brothers will be lega lly
! safegUarded against wanton destruc-
! ton.
! The great movement of human
/ sympathy and consideration for the
/ lower creation is daily gathering
! fresh impetus all over the world and
! it is deplora Bile that it should have
! received such blows as those admin
! Istered by N. Rostand and Theodore
| Roosevelt, who through his exploits
! in the African jungle. stands before
| the bar OF humane opinion red-hand-
! Ell and guilty Of the grossest and
| most ineXcuSable ruthleSSnesS in his
| tory
BY what right did he deprive
! those poor. and in many cases abso-
! lutely inOffensive, animals of the
] lives God had given them? In the in.
| terests of science? BY no means,
! but solely through the zest of the
! hunter
The worst feature in the instances
OF both VI. Rostand and Colonel
/ Roosevelt is the false halo that
| hangs over them. The poetry of the
one and the popularity of the other
| blind a great many to their violations
Of principles that are held as of para
mount importance by many OF the
leading minds Of the world.
! Mans superior gifts Of mentality
! should make his government over
| his Goi-given dominions one of pro
| found compassion and protection, not
| one OF callousnesS and destruction
! such as marked Ccione- Rooze velt )
| year in Africa