Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — He’d Forgotten. [ARTICLE]

He’d Forgotten.

The school dramatic society was glv Ing its first performance of the season and the play they had chosen for the momentous occasion was “Julius Caesar.” All went smoothly till Caesar’s dead body was brought in. and Marc Antony had to deliver his famous speech. He put his heart into the part and the audience felt acutely for the poor citizens, who wers all, presumably hor-ror-stricken and overcome with grief, when Antony gently but firmly grasped, as he thought, the face-cloth and slowly, very slowly, began to draw it back. Just then an excited whisper came from the other end of the corpse:- . "This end, you idiot!” But Antony was too much wrapped in grief to hear. He then suddenly disclosed to the intently gazing audience Caesar’s boots !-