LeMars Semi-Weekly Post (Newspaper) - April 28, 1899, Lemars, Iowa Published Every Tuesday and VOLUME EQUAL TO ALL AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO LE 28, 1899. NUMBER 38. BEN-HUR STAGED General Wallace Consents to Have His Novel IS TO BE IS HEW Element Will De but No Attempt at a Piny Will Be Race and Palm Procession io Be Great After persistently refusing for 18 years to allow bis fumous novel to be General Law Wallace nt InBt has signed an agreement with Messrs. & Erlanger of New York whereby that is to a stage version of the It will be produced next season in New York as a magnificent In view of this fact tlie following given by General Wallace at his home in to a cor- j respondent of the New York Herald will be of have at last consented to the dramatization of at have yon refused permission for so ninny n great part because of the subject of the It is religions in its tendency and goes to the extent of making Christ n I presume every Christian reader felt the reverence and at times the awe which I myself was conscious of during the It has seemed to me that the was not adapted to the stage unless its production would be regardful of the feelings and sentiments of its the next place there were certain points in the of the climaxes necessarily impossible of rendition theatrically except with an outlay in money which few managers would dare Such are the (I never could see how it was to bo produced with 'the chariot 'the In my limited knowledge of stage effects I could not comprehend how these could possibly be I have also had a fear that whoever should undertake the production dramatically would fail to treat it in the proper spirit of A number of persons well known in the histrionic world have applied to mo for dramatic Barrett was very I met him and in no instance did he fail to insist upon it. The last time I ever saw him was at the Fifth Avenue in New He had invited me to dine with after which he took mo up to his room and spent the evening trying to convince me that there was in the book a theme for a great play without trenching upon any of the parts made sacred by the appearance of the Still I The younger Salvini was also persistent in He had the idea that he would make an excellent and I was of the same A number of other persons who sought the privilege of producing the book are still liv as their requests were publication of their names in connection with his might be I may Without refer to the who u prodigious the main point of which was the chariot They proposed leasing 80 acres of ground on Staten of which two acres was to be reserved or fitted up for the The privilege has also been by playwrights in England and also in I have acceded finally to the request of Messrs. Klaw & Er Their representation of their design of production was altogether and attracted me at Too dig of the as I conceive it to was carefully and due regard i was shown for tho religious opinion of all who might be attend the The announcement that Messrs. Klaw Erlanger have secured the for will interest theatrical and hero and Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger first tried to secure the dramatic rights to years but Last 4. December they again renewed the through the agency of Mr. Joseph after interviews with Harper & tho era of tho visited to see General Wallace his persuasions have finally boon crowned the above announcement is sufficient are considering the choice of the dramatist most said Mr. properly cannot fail of as General Wallace himself said to us in a recent it ought to us our Telling the ful story it breathing the marvelous truths of imbued with the romantic spirit of the period and laid amid the picturesque scenery of it will make a most The dramatist to whom we will intrust the work must be a man who Hot only knows bis stagecraft and can ways and means of giving and form and being on tho stage to scenes the but * can also task with literary taBte and reverence that is an absolute to make bis work a success of theater course the religious must be one of the features the jn the wise wen the STORIES OF MME. The Prima liy a 1x1, Audience. who was recently hissed by 11 in the House in isa of Nevada and 11 thorough Her first appearance on the which was at Grass was most In aid of n lecal charity she sang the Spangled standing ou a table and wrapped in an American She was then three years In 1878 Nevada made a tour of the principal cities of and was so warmly received that she counts that the most brilliant of her Mme. Nevada in speaking of her career relates the following experience she hnd several years ago in the Boyal Opera House of She I was rather surprised at tho success I met with ill the melodies and pathetic story of that opera being often voted old fashioned in other But the who attended a bullfight in the wonld go to the opera in the evening to huar and would listen to the recital of woes with tears down their One evening the celebrated came behind the scenes during a representation and offered to mo the compliment of 11 special to be gotten up in my But I declined with I always too fond of animals to think for a moment of accepting an invitation to witness such crnel On one occasion I received n singular anonymous letter while at me not to go to where an for mo was then as the opera house there was to be blown up with dynamite on the of one of my I laughed nt the throw it and took no heed of especially as tho negotiations with the at Spezia came to naught and I accepted a Barcelona engagement But a of provided with dynamite were discovered nnd arrested in the Spezia opera house a few weeks and confessed their intention had been to blow up the building while a performance was going Tho warning letter that 1 had received was published afterward in facsimile in of tho Italian Tran AMERICANS ALL STAGE Ben Stern is to manage Blancho Walsh next John E. will be leading man next Sam Bernard rejoin tho Weber and forces next Ella Russell has lately sung in Minnie Palmer will star next season in her first groat Theodore Babcock is slated to star in Frank Man That Women Love is to bo with Dixey and Amelia Summerville in their original Paderewski plays his first recital in London in He has announced the Beethoven E. H. Sothern has arranged for an adaptation of Sunken for production next has finally appeared in French adaptation of first for production 20 years ago at the It is said that Telephone has traveled 27,000 miles since last Sup It must havo bud a dazzling rray of one night The New York Herald has estimated that 15 cities will before the season closes paid for rical amusements 1. A New York theatrical agent took a comic opera to Porto Rico and nearly walked Ho reports that the natives haven't coin enough to get into n freo Tho play in which Viola Allen will be seen in New York in tho fall of 1800 is on a popular new story now being widely military which many strong situations that will give her opportunities to display her Commander For Trouble With In 1411 interview at Commander Booth Tucker of tho Salva tion Army of America said it is not true that Americans are becoming But there is one great COMMANDER BOOTH The structure is no stronger than the and in our foundation wo have 8,000,000 men who are heads of families and who have been forced into the cities nn like other business they have had but little credit extended to them There is nothing left for these men but one of three In tho ci ty of Now York thoro aro children attending the schools fainted in tho rooms forwent of and teachers have divided their lunches with these starving children My remedy is to send these farmers back to the help them by securing loans for them and in other ways until they are on their financial tench the children of such men more knowl edge of useful arts and occupations whereby they can earn bread and less book learning - feed their stomachs more and their brains to this government managing the I can say that my once in British India loads me to believe that a so full of expedients as tho Americans will little trouble In bringing the natives up to un excellent state of So soon as the re bollion in the Philippines is suppressed you will see n quick and I bo lieve this government will show itself thoroughly capable of taking care of the islands and their Head a Hello In the forecastle of the Raleigh are many relics of the battle of Manila One of these is the head of a Spanish shot clean from the Be tween the teeth is a small stiletto clinch ed in the grip of The head and knife wore found floating iu the and ono of the Raleigh's sailors dived over tho side for it. The ghastly rem nant of the battle was hermetically seal od Jn a big glass jar of York Canada needn't worry over the fact that she hasn't any Uncle Sam uel will land her if any alien foe tries to invade her territory without her Louis of an Missouri - Here's tq the Hor gallant It makes W fell sin to nnd Irreligious Fishes aro supposed to have no Probably aro greatly maligned in that ns well ns in other St. as you used to preach to them and make their eyes glitter and their beat by his A Jewish story is lay my hands on tho passage just a fish which leaves the sea on Saturday and does not return until so as to be able to keep the Other unlike their puritanical do not observe tho sacred Tho Koron gives a story of some very naughty fishes in the Israelites were forbidden to catch fish on the the wicked creatures came out of tho Red sea in unusual numbers and kept in sight of tho people all through tho day in order to tempt On the of night they returned to the sea In a fatal moment some of the Israelites yielded to tho piscine caught several of them and had them for Whereupon David cursed tho Sabbath and to show his changed into apes and For three days they remained in this unpleasant when a violent storm arose and swept them into tho Tho which brought tho tribute money to our Lord is supposed to been 11 which had into tho lako of aro several legends which tell of miraculous finds in ITEMS OF 10,000 cello in a square foot of The population of tbo world increases 10 per cent every ton Austria is the only in the world which has nover hud colonics or even transmarine A Denver dog ran into u pool of water 011 tho street in which the broken ends of an electric wiro lay and was Berlin booksellers aro strictly forbidden to sell to school children books stitched with as soveral cases of blood poisoning have been traced to scratches from rusty At tho poet's is a desk said to have been by Shakespeare The desk looks It shows marks whero generations of schoolboys whittled it. At is tho largest cemetery in the It covers 3,000 Only a plot of 200 acres has been used thuB in which 100,-000 persons of all nationalities havo been and aro now permanently installed ou tho campus at Yalo They aro of Maxim guns from tho auxiliary cruiser und wero given to the university by act of congress as a war Torpedo boats may bo mado according to an who bus applied for u putent on his by attaching a mirror to tho bow of the boat so as to the rays of a search light and show only tho surface of tho Tho principle is but its application is brund once an important French harbor on tho Mediterranean and from which St. sailed in hiB of 1348 and 1270, is now miles from the on account of tho silt brought down by tho and tho government will sell at auction tho picturesque ruins of tho walls of tho port. THE GLASS OF In Tho people of different countries havo different ways of hunting tho spring guns ond nets aro culled into The are said to employ tho mirror to load tho animal into a Tho tiger's curiosity is excited when ho sees his imago in the and lio immediately to investigate tho Tho Persian manner of conducting tho as this is described in is more A strongly woven bamboo with intervals of n few inches be tween the is erected in some spot near the haunts of tho This cago is firmly und securely picketed to tho u man provided with several sharp und powerful or with a keen and pointed takes his post at with n dog or a gout as his ho wraps in his blanket and goes to In duo timo tho tiger makes his tho man is by his four footed nnd after vainly snuffing and prowling round tho cago to find nn entrance tho tiger rears against tho Tho man instantly takes advantage of tho brute's unprotected und with n stroke of tho spear or tho sword puts him to PIGEONS IN A NOVEL ROLE How a Nebraska Physician Makes Use of THEY AS HIS Brown is ono of tbo fashionable colors for tailor The new artificial flowers are mado of velvet and Black taffeta blouse waists are worn with whito cloth A in belts is of black or whito embroidered with steel jet or imitation Boleros of laco aro a feature in dress and aro very ovor the soft Veilings cropes de Floral bons aro one of tho novelties for summer aro made of rose leaves and leaves of gathered Something novel iu combination Is a white pique chemisette vest in a foulard which is trimmed on the bodice with a fine batiste Mismated stockings aro now announced as a fad of the A blue stocking with bronze clocks is worn with a bronze one with blue a black stocking with red dots accompanies a red with black and so Pompadour combined with Cloth is ono of the eccentricities of Tho pique forms a circular around the lower und is ripped off and laundered The rounded basque and revere are also of the Fashion seems to bo making an effort to relievo the neck of the ruinous Stiff high have a very bad effect in causing tho to shrink In sack a way as to produce wrinkles as well as a throat are to bo this summer lace ties liner Why He Tho Michigan Tradesman in the of nn tho reason why n certain old fashioned tradesman camo to When ono of his creditors reached tho after this ho found tho merchant working hard to figure it all but I don't see why I should fail ho kept on I didn't collect sharp enough a hoop of goods round suid tho looking about moro or did you take tho last ' Take everything down V make out a dust off tho shelves nnd mop the floor clean the windows nnd paint tbo front of tho never wont into I wus going to ono duy about 15 years but thoy bud a wrestling match in and I forgot tho Mercy on but I can't understand why I should fail Stale All wholesale nnd seek to their several bakings through tho day only so much us may bo required to supply tho wants of their hut in making sure to provide enough there is likely to bo soino left ovor to got Thero is some demand for stalo bread for household making toast und for cooking purposes tho demand is Such stale bread as may remain unsold in this manner is never it is sold to fanners and market who drive into the city with produce to sell and who buy moro or less supplies here to carry back to feed When finally disposed of it is sold by the at so much a tbo price being very but depending somewhat on tho surplus stock on hand on the duy of York The The olfactory is nutritive affair is Tho Mongolian kiss is with the The European kiss iB with the The Mongolian kiss indicates that tho party sniffed would be an agreeable The European variety Indicates that the party embraced would make a They are but tho different forme of tbo same instinct of give und take of wild Mutual - Professor tho Professor what day of the month Is it t To I can't Professor 1*the. 90th. that reminds alio I What month is Boston to sense of Dr. Frank H. ot Them of Great Service In With In Default of tho Arc A new field of usefulness has been discovered for During tho last few years these intelligent birds won much fume through their celerity in bringing messages to land from ocean steamers and through other novel which wero undreamed of n quarter of a century and now a young Nebraska physician tells us ho finds pigeons almost ns indispensable in tho practice of his profession ns his medicino chest or his surgical This physician is Dr. Frank S. Morris und ha resides at Ho is a graduate of tho Medical Collego of und is a member of the American Medical and tho International Association of Ho baa boon practicing as n physician at McCool for tho Inst 13 and is well known throughout that Some timo ogo tho thought struck him that pigeons might bo mado very useful to him in communicating with his and ho at onco determined to experiment in this fact ho havo been placed at some disadvantage during past years for tho reason that I was to hear from my patients as often as I but I knew of no way that I could overcome tho difficulty until it occurred to me that I might nso homing pigeons ns I put tbo idea into practice a few months and I it worked Howell I havo over sineo carried a pigeon with mo whenever I went on long ThiB pigeon I leave at a patient's with instructions that it be turned loose tho next or at any timo when the patient is not progressing as satisfactorily ns might bo of flies straight homo with the and in this way 1 learn hnw the patient is If I gin not ut my wife receives tho and in cuso of necessity notifies me with the least is not tho only way in which I find pigeons For when I mil a considerable distance away from home and find thut I need anything in tho way of instruments or medicine from the or drug storo I turn a pigeon loose with the and as soon us it reaches homo my discovers what I want and sends it to 1110 by my office According to Dr. who to uso pigeons for this kind of work should breed them At tho same timo ho that pigeons bred from another loft way become first carriers if they aro confined for two or months in tho loft which is to bo their permanent began work with a single ho after I found that tho plan wna entirely practicable I bogan to uso several I am now using about a dozen as and I others that I am using as Tho training of young birds should commence at about tho ago of 3 or 8 months or as soon as they aro strong enough to My a considerable they should bo required to fly only a block or two to their tho trainer carrying them and permitting them to fly back and tho distance should bo increased day by day until their training in other until they will homo from a of I leavo a bird at a patient's honso ufter a long I instructions tbat it is not to any but I tako euro that it is supplied with if I havo to it will bo absent from tho home loft moro than 12 I am about tho I find that those birds do tho best work which aro only fed in their own In order to separato tho birds nnd prevent them from breeding too closely I use a band mado of aluminium or somo other with a number upon it. This bund is slipped upon tho foot of the young bird and remains thero a corresponding number kept in a with tho record and of the bird opposite the Tho doctor's is of groat assistance to him in this und ho relies wholly upon her to eoe that the instructions in the messages which ho sends by pigeons when absent from homo aro faithfully curried Mrs. gives much personal attention to tho feeding and caro of the and there is not a bird in tho flock with whose and capacity for traveling long distances sho is not thoroughly Moving a The Japanese officials in Formosa recently showed rare executive The city of was in un insanitary Virulent epidemics frequently Tho situation prevented a good sewerage Tho officials selected a spot in the neighborhood thut could be well Streets und public places wero laid out upon it. Buildings wero and tho entire inhabitants oft tho city of numbering 40,000, wore removed to tho new buildings wero slight wooden the scheme with movement to Saturday at Frank P. 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