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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-04-21
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DAVENPORT @emeinoe-g urnballe
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: Observation-Disclosures

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ldeine muroen geitern er1pirft:
geo. 2412 McGIeanl1 Bonlebaro.
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Mann=9lftc GrDsef besonncr,.

Sic gerban0lung oes Mannsafte
Gro5e1les gegell @alter @orrett boz,
Mltscatine muroe geltern Morgen in
gltnoesbe5irfsridter Martin S.
Maoe's aalnlner bes jebt bier togen-
Den glnoes6e5irfseeridts begonnen.
Garrett ltebt u1ter ser Mnflage,
Sri. Sop Rltdles Don Rod ssslanb
nod M'nscatine> 51ueds Groltitllir,,nq
gebraudt 5lt 6a6en. Mad Sem @ort=
laltt Der alogeidrift peritisB @arrett
Dor llber elnem Sabre auf Die eben.
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lese. Der Iaa mag lbon 6ellte Ser
5llrp ilbergcbcn rperoen.
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urlnuLM.

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01e @eldnpore11en Oes Mar5termins
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1llellten Der Gedtsampalte, melhe sic
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8egen Der idledtet @itterrtg mo-
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Mattgeu 6. Mimcs sbcriffsfanoioai
altf llnabbangiacm Sifet.

Mattbcp g.. @ilmcs, go. 1924
Dit Mlper StraBe, lieB geltern leine
&anoioatltr fir Sen 5berifispoite1
altt Dem llnobba1loigeil Gitfct in oen1
gllreo1 oes GonntD=N uoitors Collins
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1tser zines W9ebl= uno 6llttcrgeidaits
IN Dit Iapellport lt1o lit cine befann=
tc Gapenporter Garlonlidfeit.
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@eitere 8latternfaQe.

Gem @Seiunobeitsamt m1lroen ge-
itern mieoerum 8latternfdGe ;Qemel-
bet. Die in Brage fomnleIoen Saiu-
Ter apl1roen iofort inter Aa,arnntdne
|geitelt: S. 30. gIege, lis Ia Sit
I3.StraBe; @oparo goncantton, 1925.
@elt a. StraBe; George 86ube, 1913
|Golff StraBe; uno sSral1 8. q. Mo-
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lieB gcltern IN County sluoitor Sol
Inns 9urealt feline a~anoioatur fir
Den sberiffspolten fir Scott GolntD
aitf Dem rep1blifaniid}en Sifet bl1-
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Gertrude Scdt miro in Glintoi, BON
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finf Sabrcn 3nd)tbans
%ncrmrtfeilf.
Dcrmrt6etH.

Se5irfsrid)ter @iaiam gbeopbilus
tebrte geltern Morgen BON Clinton
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BORT inn Clinton gountb 8e5irfsge=
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lid ipegen zines Mann- afte- Safes gu
perantporten.
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&icr Standardization.

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Scott County 9e5irfsgerid)ts er=
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NADER, Davenport.
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y,@ladba,ufs" gciuinnrn brci &cscl-
tarticn.

Die gIoefbopfs" geluan,en am
WittnodJ Ibenb bon Sen ,Orttngs"
Dintereinanoer orei Spiele III Der
Ylafhamf &~egelbabn. Naditebeio
| S;ot q! oy,.I4o4 eiAS Itt&
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a19ncn Gigar Company anbcrt ilrcn
Namcn.

Sic 9lidJolos alabnen Cigar gom=
panD l1eB ourd) Die 4nipalte gollin=
ger Ii. glod ibren Namel1. in smitb-
Gelraers Gonpa11p umanoern l,no sic
1le11e Nlrtno inforporiren. 5. Mor-
gal1 ytein1ers tit Ser Eralioert ulro
8llbert 9; Smith Ser sefrctar Ser
reller @eIealGaft.
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Building. Mna1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
The Heroines of Israel.

Judith. the widow of Manasseh, VINO
delivered her native city OF BeihuNs
from the Assyrian Holofernes, lullins
him TO sleep with her charms and then
striking off his drunken head with
falchion, though an Apocryphal person
age, is the most popular OF lsraelltish
heroines. The record shows the operas
Judith und Holofernes" by Leopold
Kotzeluch (1799), "Giuditta" by sam.
Levi (184D, Achille Peri (lS6O), Riga'
(is7D and Sarri (ls75). Naumann
wrote a Judith" in 1858, Doppler an
other in 1870 and Alexander Serof
Russian opera under the same title IN
1868. Martin Roder. who used to 1--we
in Boston, composed a Judith" but u
was never performed, while George W..
Chadwick's Judith" half eantata, hsi
opera, which might easily be fitted Tor
the stage. has had to rest content VITA
a concert performance at Worcester
(Mass.) festival.
The memory of Esther. the queen Of
Ahasuerus, who saved her people from
massacre. is preserved and her deed
celebrated by the Jews in their graz
cious festival of Purim. A gorgeous
figure for the stage, she has been reis-
gated to the oratorio platform since
the end Of the eighteenth century. Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
Miracle in Melodrama.

Herr Bulthaupt did not permit chron-
ology to stand in the way OF his action,
but it can at least be said for him
that he did not profane the Book as
Herr Ewers, Mr.. d'Albert's latest col
laborator, did when he turned story
of Christ's miraculous healing of a
blind woman into a sensational melo-
drama. In the precious opera, Tote
Augen" ("Dead Eyes"), brought out in
March. 1916, in Dresden, Myrocle, the
blind woman, is the wife OF Arcesius,
a Roman ambassador in Jerusalem.
Never having seen him, Myrocle be-
lieves her husband to be paragon Of
beauty, but he is, in fact, hideous Of
features, k-backed and lame; de-
formed in mind and heart, too, for
he has concealed the truth from her.
Christ is entering Jerusalem, and
Mary of Magdala leads Myrocle to him,
having heard Of the miracles which
he performs, and he opens the woman's
eyes at the moment that the multitude
is shouting its hosannahs. The first
man who fills the vision of Myrocle Is
Galba, handsome, noble. chivalrous,
who had renowned the love he bore
her because she was the wife of his
friend. In Galba the woman believes
she sees the husband whom in her
fond imagination she had fitted out
with the charms of mind and person
which his friend possesses She.throws
herself into his arms, and he does not
repel her mistaken embraces; but the
misshapen villain throws himself upon
the pair and strangles his friend 10
death. A slave eniightens the mystitied
woman; the murderer, not the dead
hero at his feet, is her husband. Sing
ularly enough, she does not turn from
him with hatred and loathing, but looks
upon him with a great pity. Then she
turns her eyes upon the sun. which
Christ had said should not set until
she had cursed him, and gazes into its
soaring glow until her sight is again
dead. Moral: it is sinful TO love the
loneliness Of outward things; from the
soul must come salvation. AS if she
had never earned the truth, she re-
turns TO her wifely love for Arcesius.
The story is as false to nature as it is
sacrilegious; its trumpery theatrical
ism is as great a hindrance TO a posi-
Bile return of Biblical opera as the dis
gushing celebration Of metropolitan Of
Richard Strauss "Salome."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel.

have had an early and an enduring
fascination for dramatic poets and
composers. Metastasio's LA Morte
d'Abele," set by both Caldara and Leo
in 1882, remained stalking horse for
composers down to Morlacchi in 1920.
One OF the latest of Biblical operas is
the "Kain" of Heinrich Bulthaupt and
Eugen d'Albert. This opera and a
later lyric drama by the same compos-
er, "Tote Augen" (under which title q
casual reader would never suspect that
a Biblical subject was lurking), call for
a little attention because of their indi-
cation of a possible drift which future
dramatists may follow in treating sa-
cred story.
Wicked envy and jealousy were not
sufficient motives in the eyes of Bull
thaupt and d'Albert for the first fratri-
eide; there must be an infusion of psy-
chology and modern philosophy. Abel
is an optimst, an idealist, a contented
uitdiheIt JOg ing III INC 4VNtiIHSoS VI AiAc
and nature; Cain pessimist, morose
brooder, for whom life contains no
beautiful illusions. He gets up from
his couch in the night TO question the
right of God TO create man for suffer
ing He is answered by Lucifer, who
proclaims himself the benefactor of the
family in having rescued them from the
slothful existence of Eden and given
them a Redeemer. The devil discourses
on the delightful ministrations of that
Redeemer, whose name is Death. In
the morning Abel arises and as he
offers his sacrifice he hymns the sacred
mystery of life and turns a deaf ear 10
the new-found gospel of his brother. An
inspiring thought comes TO Cain: by
killing Abel and destroying himself he
will save future generations from the
sufferings TO which they are doomed.
With this benevolent purpose in mind
he commits the murder The blow has
scarcely been struck before multi
tude of spirit-voices calls his name and
God thunders the question: where is
Abel, thy brother?" Adam comes from
bis cave and looks upon the scene with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06
The Patriarchs and the Flood.

In our historical excursion we are
still among the patriarchs, and the
whole earth is of one language and of
one speech. Noah, the ark and the
deluge seem now too prodigious to be
essayed by opera makers, but, appar-
entity, they did not awe the English
imam Edward Eccleston Cor Eggles-
tom, who is said to have produced an
opera, "Noah's Flood, or the Destruc-
ton of the World" in London in 1879,
or Seyfried, whose "Libera me" was
sung at Beethoven's funeral, and who,
besides Biblical operas entitled Saul"
abraham" "The Maccabees" and
"The Israelites in the Desert" brought
out a "Noah" in Vienna in 1918. Ha-
levy left an unfinished opera, Noe"
which Bizet, who was his son-in-law,
completed. OF oratorios dealing with
the food do not wish 10 speak further
than to express my admiration for the
manner in which Saint-Saens opened
the musical foodgates in "Le Deluge."
On the plain in the Land of Shinar the
families of the sons of Noah builded
them city and a tower whose top
they arrogantly hoped might reach
unto heaven. But the tower fell, the
tongues of the people were COMPOUNDED
and the people were scattered abroad
on the face of the earth. Rubenstein
attempted to give dramatic represen-
tation to the tremendous incident, and
TO his effort and vain dream | shall
revert presently. Now I must on with
the history of the patriarchs. The
, story of Abraham and his attempted
offering Of Isaac has been much used
as oratorio material, and Joseph Els
ner, Chopin's teacher, brought out a
Polish opera. "Ofara Abrama," at
Warsaw in 1927.
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Neither torrid nights nor unexpected
downpours have thus far checked the
enthusiasm of the thousands who have
attended the first eight concerts OF the
Civic Orchestral Society, at Madison
Square Garden. This great musical
experiment, which is being watched
with keen interest by other cities and
musical organizations, is being crowned
with success even greater than was
anticipated, say officials OF the organ
ization. Starting with an audience OF
about $500 at the first concert, early
in July, the eighty-six-piece orchestra
now faces on Tuesday and Friday
evenings an audience of from four to
five thousand persons.
A cool, clear evening, well chosen
Wagnerian programme, and principally
Nine. Johanna Gadski, brought an audi
ence even larger than usual last Tues
day night. The Garden was filled, and
when the last seat was sold there were
still hundreds of persons in line out
side. ticketless and disappointed.
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Biblical Characters in Opera.

In the course of this study | have
mentioned nearly all OF the Biblical
characters who have been turned into
operate heroes. Nebuchadnezzar APP
peared on the stage at Hamburg in an
opera of Keiser's in 1904; Ariosti put
him through his bovine strides in vi
emma in 1906. He was put into a ballet
by Portuguese composer and made
the butt Of French opera bouffe writ
er, ]. ]. Debillement, in 1871. He re-
ours to my mind now in connection
with witty fling at "Nabucco" made
by French rhymester when Verdis
opera was produced at Paris in 1S45.
The noisy brass in the orchestration
offended the ears of a critic, and ne
wrote:
Vraiment raffiehe est dams son tort:
En- faux, ou devrait la poursuivre
Pourauoi nous annocer Nabuchodonos-or
Quand c'est Nsbuchodonos- culyre?
Judas Maccab3us is one Of the few
heroes of ancient Israel who have sur
vived in opera, Rubinstein's "Makka-
baer" still having a hold, though not
a strong one, on the German stage
The libretto is an adaptation by Mosen-
thai author also of Goldmark's Queen
of Sheba") Of drama by Otto Ludwig.
II the drama as well as some Of its
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horror. Now Cain realizes that his
work is less than half done: he is him
self still alive and so is his son Enoch.
He rushes forward to kill his child, but
the mother throws herself between, and
Gain discovers that he is not strong
willed enough to carry out his design.
Gods curse condemns him to eternal
unrest and while the elements rage
around him Cain goes forth into the
mountain wilderness.
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Joseph in Egypt Mehul's
Opera.

A significant milestone in the his
tory of the Hebrews as well as Biblical
operas has now been reached. The So
journ Of the Jews in Egypt and their
final departure under the guidance of
Moses have already occupied consider
able attention in this study. They pro-
vided material for the two operas
which seem 70 me the noblest of their
kind-Mehul's Joseph" and Rossini's
"Mose in Egitto. MehuPs ballet, more
than a decade older than Rossini's, still
holds a place on the stages of France
and Germany. and this despite the fact
that it foregoes two factors which are
popularity supposed to be essential to
operate success-a love episode and
woman's presence and participation in
the action. The ballet, which is in three
acts, was brought forward at the The
stre Feydeau in Paris on February II,
1907. II owed its origin to a Biblical
tragedy entitled "omasis.' By Baour