Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-07-20

dead, and painting of her in tn
house reveals the fact that she wa
, his lost wife.
Miss Stanton, the daughter of tn
Music Master, is about to be married
to Beverley Cruger. Mr.. Stanton
learns the identity of the Musi,
Master and commands his daughter
to dismiss her teacher. This event
brings Stanton and the Music Mast.
er together in scene of tremendous
dramatic power. The fine chivalrous
character of Won Barwig stands out
strongly against the mean and evil
disposition of Stanton. The Music
Master drops out Of Miss Stanton's
life, until the day of her wedding to
Beverley Cruger, when, in company
of the musicians provided for the oc-
casion, he slips unlimited into the
fashionable church. AS she leaves
the altar the bride sees her old Mu-
sic Master sitting in a back pew and
she drops a rose as she passes him.
Going back to her fathers house she
asks her father, Mr.. Stanton, why
he had told her that her Music Mas
ter was dead. The truth comes out
in scene of great dramatic power.
The bride and her groom proceed to
Won Barwig's apartments. Won
Barwig is all packed up and has a
steerage ticket to Leipsic. Mr..
Rachel made the final scene inef-
faceable from the memory of all
who saw and heard. His daughter
and her husband take him with them
to Leipsic, and so the human-inter-
est play ends.
Victor Murdoch of Kansas, the
Prince Rupert of insurgents, the liv-
ing patron saint of all who pine for
reform, delivered the lecture in the
big tent last night to capacity aud
fence. His subject of course was Re-
form, for he could not talk about
anything else. Victor Murdoch
comes from Kansas, the origin
ator of reform ideas, the state
of long haired men and short haired
women, and he is the very best sort
of a Kansas cyclone. He talks with
his face, on which broad expansive
smiles come and go, Illuminating
the speakers serious purpose. With
out the aid of any other gesture Vic
tor MurdoCk's face is dramatic. His
smiles and his frowns are contagi-
Gus, and his expansive laugh shows
a double row of teeth of which "the
interests" had better beware. From
the first Victor Murdoch captured
his audience bag and baggage. Wit
and humor, more of the latter than
of the former, play upon serious sub
jects while Mr.. Murdoch speaks He
does not aim to entertain, but few
platform men entertain as much as
he does the while he gets his serious
message into the heart of his aud
ience
Mr. Murdock won loud applause
when he said that it was the bust
ness of every man and woman to see
to it that this country keeps out of
the European war. He talked about
the new enemies of liberty, and
found them to be privilege and av-I
arice. In speaking of "the inter-
ests" he said that the new genera
tion Of American wealthy families
was different from the founders of
our Big Houses. The wealth of these
houses was not dissipating, it was
accommodating at dangerous rates
along hard, narrow and bitter lines.
The speaker took tremendous fall
out of the archaic customs of the
senate, and he told graphically his
experience in saving five million dol
lars annually from the postal freight
bill. It was this work that brought
fame to Congressman Murdoch, and
he had an abundance of inside infor-
nation to impart. Indeed, his ad-
dress almost seemed like the perusal
of a secret document Of a European
court. He paid strong compliment
to President Roosevelt, who won for
Murdoch his fight on postal freight
weights when Congress had defeat
ed his measure. In conclusion, Mr.
Murdoch said that we ought to cor
rect certain bad habits, foremost
among which was the habit of the
partisan mind, and the other habit
of taking things for granted. He
finished a very fine and attractive
address on the note Of human broth
erhood.
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