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BIXBY'S RETRERT,
I have lately spent a great deal of my valuable time in mus
ing and 1 am free to confess that it is a very unprofitable job.
When my musing machine is at its best, I suddenly wake up
to find myself paying my last dime over the counter of some
sloppy chop house in order to continue this dreary existence.
Such is the fate of genius. We must live. There is no legit
imate way of escaping it. But when the last shuffle, that my
friend, Bill Shakespeare, mentions, does come, and I am
planted 'neath the weeping willows, etc., I hope the managing
editor of the Hesperian will have consideration enough to
swipe a two by four from some lumber yard, drive it in at the
foot of my grave and inscribe thereon with an indelible pencil:
"Here lies Bix, last of his name;
His life was simple, uriknown to fame. '
He labored hard at others' call,
He lived, ate, drank some and died: that's all."
If any light-brained freak attempts to write poetry on my
death for the daily papers, I'll send. my ghost around to do
business with him. Or if any gogglo eyed fool with his hair
combed in the middle, attempts to write verses on my tomb
stone, let him beware.
I have lately mused a groat deal on what a genuine educa
tion is. I wonder if my philosophic friend Blackledge isn't
Wo have the Now
Spring Styles
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about right when he says that most of it is a d d humbug?
I wonder if my friend Lincoln, who is studying for the priest
hood, absorbed much genuine education as ho pressed his
short haired bull-dog to his "fraf broast and sucked his
Harvard pipe? I wonder if the girl in short skirts is getting
her education as she parades up and down in the library to
make the boys in the alcoves "rubber neck?" I confess that
education is a very complex affair. 1 have seen follows come
here who worked day and night and yet never get educated.
I have seen fellows as popular with the girls as Pugh; as
great orators and politicians asOhauncy Warner ;as sentimental
as Piper; as wise aB Doc Landis; as babyish as Ed Henry, and
I have wondered whether any or all wore educated. It's a
tough problem. Yours, until next time,
Bix.
Y. M. C. A. Opening.
WEBSTER & ROGERS, 1043 O St.
The new parlors of the Young Men's Christian Association
were formally opened last Saturday evening. The rooms have
been thoroughly overhauled, and now present a very noat and
cozy appearance. About two hundred young men dropped in
during the course of the evening and all seemed to rejoice in
the attractiveness of the new rooms. A short program was
given, consisting of music by tho Darling Mandolin club, and
short speeches by Messrs. Tobey, Boose, Dr. Ward, Chancellor
Maclean, and Dr. Paine. In the Y. W. C. A. room refresh
ments wore served by Misses Forrand, Neidhart, Elenry,
Lowrie, Hutchison and Payne. After the refreshments and
program, a present of $25 was given the Association by those
present, to be applied on now furniture. When this is added
the Association will have one of tho most attractive quarters
of any similar organization in the west.
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