Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1911 — Market and Apron Sale Today. [ARTICLE]

Market and Apron Sale Today.

The ladies of the Christian church will hold a market next Saturday , opening at 9 o’clock, in the Odd Fellows Building. Good things to eat, also apron? and fancy articles will be fc sale.

Thanksgiving Play. “In the Fool’s Bauble,” is a drama of three acts by John D. McCarthy, and will be presented by the leading dramatic members of the C. L. S'., in the College Auditorium on . Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 29, at 8:00 p. m. The well-developed theme ol the play is ambitious jealously; the scene is laid in France, and the time is during the reign ol King Louis, shortly after the War of the Roses had devastated fair England. Costumes and stage setting will bring out these features. Count Armand D’Angoulord, Prime Minister to Rene. King of Provence, and Count Tartarin de Moripont, the 'leaders of the king’s army, are the principal actors, with the short but important part of Le Feignant, Jester to Rene, interwoven. Angoulord and Moripont, who are cousins, have always been rivals at the king’s court, a. the former invariably enjo\ the superior favor because his more excellent talents a usefulness. Moripont strives all vile tricks conceivable to t lodge the prime minister, a swing himself, for traitoroi ends, into that coveted position but even in the face of the unjust charge of cowardice he cannot bring Angoulord to accept the challenge of an outrageous duel. This last incident transpires in the presence of the king and for his fool part in the episode Le Feignant is banished from the royal presence and the realm.

'Moripont next invents a plea for the charge of treason against his rival, and uses the banished fool in title carrying out of his devilish plot. Angoulord tired of the strife of battle, repairs to the monastary of Belleriviere and there he lays upon the altar with his sword 'the written resolution that he will henceforth in hi* old age serve his God only. Moripiont who knows of his rival’s devotion at the woodland shrine disguises the fool as the king of France, seeks the solitude of the shrine in the presence of Angoulord, and later with his henchmen swears that they saw the prime minister plot treason against the King of Anjou with the enemy, the King of France.. But the fool ' saves Angoulord. In the tussel at the shrine, the fool obtains possession of Angou lord’s devout resignation, and the records of Moripont’s treasonous dealings with the French Kirig. At the trial, after Angoulord has been condemned to banishment for life, the fool appears with these significant papers hidden in his bauble, and the innocent go free and reward ed. and the vile traitor Moripont receives his due meed of punishment. Cast of characters:

Louis XI. King of France. .Leo Gnau Rene of Anjou, King of Provence. . Thomas Harrington. Count Armand D’Angoulord, Prime Minister to Rome C. Burkart Count Tartarin de Morlpont, leader of Rene’s forces... Richard Kuntz Le Feignant, Jester to Rene. .Urban Koehl Stephen. Abbot of Bellerlviere. v Aug-

ust Halter Count Henri de Soury, Friend of Morlpont. . . .Edward Shields Florimond de Bellefontaine, a Fop Thomas Lenehan Vincent de Perivaux, Friend of D’ Angoulord. .. . Michael Petzold Maurice Lavergne, a French knight William Butler Gaspar, ah Innkeeper Thomas Williams Frances, a waiter. .. .John Tokarz Antonine, a peasant William Rachor Perrinet, a peasant. Edmund Eisenhart Randolph, a soldier. .Frank Benke Montoir, a tool of de Moripont. . . John, Pincask Captain of the Guard... .Anthony Nadolny Courtiers, Soldiers, Monks, Pages. An event that created much pleasure and interest among the factultv and students of the college was the announcement of an offer of twenty-five dollars in gold for the best essay on "The Slavic Element in the United States,” made by Rev. Felix T. Serocznski, ’99, of Hammond, Ind., and now the president of the St. Joseph’s College Alumni Association.. The subject is one of interest and importance especially because of the large number of Slavs who are making the United States their future home.

The essay will require consider able research work in the various sources relating to the su* ject, and will be well worth any student’s best efforts. Father Serocznski himself is the author of a splendid atticle on the ‘"Poles in the United States” in the Catholic Encyclopedia, and of simi•ar articles on kindred subjects in the Catholic Standard and Times. The essays of not less than five thousand words must he submitted before the first of May, 1912. The following were visitors during the past week: Gilbert LaMair, Paterson, N. J.; Miss Catharine Massoth, Mrs. Jos. Henger, Kokomo ; Mrs. Josephine Butler, Geneva, 111.