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ODAY U Uaatcr Sunday! The
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churchaa will ba full of people
who will be on hand with Joy
and (landnese to celebrate the
glory of the ofccaalon. Whether
one iroei to church or not, there
la the Easter Spirit In the air.
It la the Spirit of Victory. Victory over
over the power of darkness and Ignorance.
Every Eaater one feela the itruggle a little
lighter, and the hope a little firmer, and
the way a little brighter, because to every
heart there la an Easter. It does seem at
times, perhaps, as though one's life was
largely a Good Friday, as though the
sombre redness of Lent were of unusual
continuance; but yet, there . comes th."
Easter at last, and the Ienten days are
over.
Kaatertlde! Victory! One thought which
might be obtained from this Raster spirit
as seen everywhere Is this, that we must
expect struggle! And that only through
etwMrgle can we even live. We have often
hJbrd that we must struggle In order to
succeed.
Yes, but we must do more, and we might
as well recognise It and live up to It. We
must struggle If we would live: And we
must struggle against the powers of dark
ness and of Ignorance.
W must struggle against the very force!
which we would ordinarily think would
be most favorable to us. Man. you know,
3 the most savage of all animals for he
the only one who lives on his kind.
That bitter clan, the human" as Fiona
scleod expresxea It. Is tmplucablr. He
will for example erect to the god Mammon
high buildings beyond all sense or reason,
with Inadequate fire protection. There lie
will compel for a small sum, his own
"kind" to work In Imminent danger of
the most cruel death, and then when the
comes, ana nunareas 01 numan Deuigs
are' burned to death, who follows the
matter upT Who takes the part of the
people, the sons and daughters of man
kind? Who made possible the whole
thing? Just as though Olga Nethersole
had not played the "Writing on the Wail!"
Oh It was overdrawn and all tst' Vg !
was perhaps, but was It not an absolute
prophecy? And as not the prophecy ful
filled a fortnight ago.
Yes there are fortes which one must
struggle agalnut. There are fire escapes
painted Instead of being renewed, and in
spectors smiling or winking In the shady
corner, not having the heart of a decent
Judas to come back and throw down ihu
money, and go and hang themselves.
It Is a struggle. And the sooner one
realises it the better. We have to struggle
against the conditions in whih we are
situated, end atrangu to my, conditions
are everywhere! If you were to llhren to
I'laremr KUdy talk about New York, you
would think thut he was talking about
Omaha, it Is the same everywhere. The
problems are a little different that Is all.
The struggle is the same. It n atters not
so much where wo etniKle. the point i
Tiiv rtrucale? Or did we just nUa in
d lie down?
Not only do we have to struggle against
the bitter human i Ian, but we have to
struggle sometimes asalnst furies snd peo
ple who consider themselves our friends.
and who cannot understand our attitude.
(rid you ev
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ver know a man or woman to
uestlon to himself or herself;
I How t au 1 einUIn mv attitude nn o-h .
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l-mect. One cannot understand another s
4 ide. Onu can always understand his
Hut i.suahy he really doesn't. Heme
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have still snother fores to struggle
.. BalnM Viul a mighty force it Is It be-
..eiy uuh of ground in the battle.
H M i-t,illorn. The struggl. with self.
With th sub-stU, (hat Is the strut-;
Uch nster seems to end. which
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the furthest away from Easter, from Vic
tory. A
We have the struggle against the bitter
human clan, which sometimes la fierce In
deed. And we have the struggle against
conditions. And we have the struggle
against ourselves. But there will be Vic
tory. Easter Is sure to dawn, If we keep
up the struggle. .
It Is everywhere in nature a struggle.
Today your garden Is full of beauty strug
gllng to greet the sun: It Is struggling with
a mighty struggle, and it is emerging
radiant and hopeful, and full of glowing
possibility. It haa developed from Its ma
terial self, it has emerged from Its cloth
Ing of clay, It has struggled out of dark
ness Into light. And Ite etruggls has ended
in Victory.
Another thing. We do not have to strug
gle yesterday's struggles over again. They
re gone and done with. Home of them
have left their Hears, perhaps, but all have
contributed to the general strength. A
car is often a sign of honor.
And, further, we have nothing to do
With tomorrow's struggles. Oh, the mis
try, the heartaches, the sorrow of looking
forward to the struggles of tomorrow! It
we could only write In letters of flame on
our hearts and minds these words: "Suf
ficient unto the day Is the evil thereof!"
None of yesterdty'a evils should be even
thought of today. None of tomorrow's
vlla should be dreamed of for a moment,
today. None but today's.
One at a time. One day at a time. One
problem at a time. One struggle at a
lime. One lesson at a time. "Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof." Think,
gentle reader, this minute, the trouble that
Is bothering you the most Is something
that has happened, or else that Is going
to happen, (you think): It is not one that
Is happening right now.
Fur many years the writer suffered from
this habit of not recognising the truth of
that saying. "Sufficient unto the day is
the evil thereof."
It was said by that One, whose victory
Is being celebrated today. It was one of
the secrets of his life. And when we
think of a life made everlasting by strug
gle we think of that life.
And today when we wonder sometimes
If there Is any use. when we feel Inclined
to lie down and to quit the struggle, when
vvc wonder, after all, If there Is an im
mortality, if Here la a future, if there
hus been a past for us, we hear those
wotrti cunlng to us from acroes the cen
turies: It it were not so, I would have
told you!" Kverytlilng He lias told us has
been proven true and is being today piovrn
true. And now. (lieu, can this he false?
"If It were not to, 1 would have told you."
And the struggle Is on attain. And we
look up, tor In the distance we can see
Victory".
We do not want to get rid of (lie strug
gle. No, Men and Women do not feel like
that. W e want the struKK'e. But the hope
of Victory, that Is what keeps us up.
And Easter means Victory.
:i hanks be to Ood
THOMAS J. KY.
Maslral Notes,
In connection with the approaching must-
Jal festival by the Omaha taengeilest
ssodallon and the ft. Paul Symphony
orchestia at the Omaha Auditor! un April
.ti and -7, the following Interesting items
aUn.t Mr. Heese, the conductor of the
Omaha Ssengertest k relation, will not be
amiss In this place, and at this time. ,
Mr. Th Rud. Keese (Dronoum sd l.av-ze.
I Reecel was born In Magdeburg. Ger- V
i u:an . He Him. led music as the. fctt.n con-
I servstory. Berlin, and hecanie conductor;
( cpeia houses In different cities in north- j
; ?rn tlnany. ' sang operatic roles. J
mrr on, nimrvfr. wriuuiii niincii noi m i
singing, but to leadership entirely. In lxl '
he was engaged to come to New York City 1
,orch!",.r, f0"J,1,,or n1 " h :
1 flu. tor of the German Opera company I
t.nder GuMsv Ambers snd in this capacity j
has vbslted nearly all of the principal cltlea I
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WILL, SIXQ WITH THE 8T. PAUL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AT THE AUDITORIUM ON APRIL 26 AND 27 The Photo
talned the leading German singers of the
perloa.
After severing his connection with this
company, he organised an orchestra of his
own and played in Philadelphia, Pittsburg-,
Cincinnati and Cleveland. Then he lonated
In Davenport, la., at that time one of the
most musical German centers in the ;oun
try, where he conducted orchestras and
several male and mixed choruses. He was
elected conductor of the Saengerbund of
the Northwest In the year 1C96 and con
ducted the mass chorus In Davenport In
18StS. In Burlington In 1900 and in Peoria in
1902. In 190U when the Omaha Saengerfest
association was organised to arrange the
Saengerfest for Omaha in 1910, Mr. Reese
was Invited to take the leadership of the
t'nlted German choruses here, which offer
he accented. In this capacity he directed
the local chorus In the first concert of the
Saengerfest last year, and the festival or
chestra of fifty-six pieces during all of the
five concerts.
Mr. Reeee has also won a reputation-as a
composer. He has written numerous
choruses whlc'h are being sung here and
abroad, and he has also composed a three
act comic opera. "The NiRht-Watch," in
German. "Sylvester," which he hopes to
produce here next winter. One of his
choruses will be sung In the first concert
of the coming; festival. It Is entitled
"Rhine legends," or In Oerman, "Rheln-
sage.''
Mr. Reese hss a very Interesting and at
tractive personality and Is full of enthusl
asm and youth in spite of his silvering
'hair..
The coming concei c by the Omaha May
Music Festival association, to be given at
the Brandeis theater on 'Wednesday even
ing. May a. presenting the Oratorio society
and soloists, promises to be unique and
.ntertstirg. especially as all the singers
and musicians taking part are to be of the
local fraternity.
The chorus Is composed of seventy-five
voices and has been under the direct con
trol of Mr. Simnis for the last two years.
An oratorio. "The Crusaders," by Oade.
Which Is beautiful as well as popular, will
be given the second time in Omaha under
the direction of Mr. Slmms.
Mies Mary Munchhotf, soprano: Fr"d
eric C. Freemantel, tenor, and 8. J. Hor
ton, baritone, will he the soloists in mis
oratorio. Miss Munchhoff and Mr. Free
mantel are already well known to Omaha
audiences, but Mr. Morton is a new singer
and resident here. Mr. Horton has studied
in Dublin and London, and In 1M6 won the
KOld medal Fein Ceoil, the Iclxh National
Musical festival In ls-iblin. lie has sun;
In nrstorto both in imerlcs end Iip "
end has been a resident of Omaha only for
a tew inanUis
Miss Munchhoff returns from Ohlcs;o.
where she fang with Madame Schumann
Helnk on isst Sunday for the German
hospltsl fund, with new laurels. MH'
Munchhoff gave a group of songs an4
sang a duet', "The Merry Wives of Wind
sor, ' by Otto Nicolsl. with the celebrated
contralto. Her success wa so marked
snd the sympathy between the two singers
so great that Madame Schumann-Helnk
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has invited Miss Munchhoff to tour Amer
ica with her next season for solo and duet
work. As Miss Munchhoff secured several
other engagements while In Chicago she
has abandoned the Idea or returning to
Europe at least for the present.
The first Dart of the program will be
devoted to solo numbers by Miss Munch
hoff, Mrs. Welpton and Mr. Freemantel, as
well as the above duet, which will be sung
by Miss Munchhoff and Mrs. Welpton.
The soloists will be accompanied by
Madame Borglum, and the chorus by Mrs.
J. M. Evans, piano, and Mrs. Txnilne Shad-duck-Zabriskle,
organ. Olaf Pederson will
play the flute obllgato for Miss Munch
hoff s solo.
On Thursday evening of this week Miss
Minna Meyer, an Omaha girl who has
been working faithfully and earnestly for
several years on her voice, will give a
recital at the Temple Israel, preparatory.
It Is said, to a period of study abroad
which Miss Mever has been looking for
ward to for some time. Mr. SiRmund
I andshere will be henrd seen munlm"
work, as he will assist Miss Meyer. The
program:
PART ONE.
1 (a) May Morning Densa
(bl Host Sons; Ware
2 (a) "lch Uebe Dlch" Grieg
(b) "Feldeinsamkelt" Brahms
to) "Ruhe. Buss' Llebchen" Hrahms
3 Arle drr Kllsabeth ' Drch Teure Kalle"
aus 'Tanrihauser" Wagner
4 Grand Duo for Violoncello and Piano
Goltermann
Messrs. Ueon Weltman and tilgmund
Landnbers".
Alles?ro ma non troppo.
Konianxe.
PART TWO.
1 fa) "Helmllche Aufforderung"..R'8traUFS
(b) "Traum durch die Dammerung"..
R. Strauss
c( "Zuelgnung".. R. Strauss
2 (a) "Ouvto tee yeux bleus" Massenet
(I)) L'heur exquJa-.-L. lleynuldo Hahn
$ (a) Aria (rum "Madame Butterfly"
Puccin
(b) Ave Marie Bach-Gounod
Cello obllgato, Mr. Weltman.
4 (a) The Cry of Rachel
Mary Turner Salter
' (b) Years at the Spring. Mrs. H. H. Beach
Miss Bella Robinson will present five
advanced pupils in this program Monday
evening at huyden 1 ros.' planj room:
1. Duct uvei tu. e to . illlaui Tell
Hi) s nl Gottschalk
MnesP.s I I,l well and i ao .Shui, non.
2. for all Pathetique (first movement)
Beethoven
Miss Martha Murphy.
8. Noc.urne Leschetlxky
Masurka I.eschetuky
Miss Shannon.
4. (a) To Spring
(b) Csardaa
Mr. Teddy Retls,
6. (a) Nocturne
b) Walts ..
MlasMurphy.
7. (a) Fantasle Impromptu
Grieg
,. .McDowell
. Karvanoff
Moszkowskl
Chopin
Nebraska Wesleyan Glee Club
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(b) A la bien-almee Scheutt
Miss Bessie IdUey.
7. Scherso Chopin
Miss loweii.
8. St. Francis Walking- On the Waters..
Liszt
Miss Shannon.
The program to he glveh by the Omaha
Apollo club on May ! st the First Congre
gational church is as follows: ')
PART I.
1. Part Songs-Ring Out Wild Bells.... "
Chopin-Vogrich
Mr. Ijjlrd and Apollo club.
2. Dio Posento (Faust) Gounod
Mr. Will I.. Prentiss.
I. Quartet (a) Oh Heart of Mine
Clotifrh-Lelehter
(hi Absent Metcalt
The Apollo quartet. Messrs. I.aird.
Wallace. Dlsbrow snd Williams.
4. Magnetic Walts Ardltl
Miss Inel Florence Ijitey.
6. Part Songw a) O Salutarls (Orphoen-
istes mat's) Gounod
(b) The Bells of Shandon Nevln
(c) There's One That I love Denrlv
Kucken
Apnllo club.
PART II.
1. Part Sonits-(a) Creol Love Song. .Smith
(b) A Hong Kong Ri.mance.He irv Ha ley
2. invlctus Bruno Hunn
Mr. Mould.
3. Part Songs Dry Yo Eye
SiRmund T.nndsberR
(b) Annie Laurie. ..Arr. by Dudley Buck
4. (a) The Wind Spioas
(b) A Little Gray Dove Saar
(c) An Open Secret Woodman
Miss Latey.
6. Part Song The Lost 'hord Sullivan
Mr. Harry Dlsbrow, The Arollo Club.
The. club will be assisted by Miss Inex
Florence Latey, soprano; Mr. Will'am
Lewis Prentiss, baritone, and Mr. Addison
J. Mould, ba-s. Ml -is Nancy Cunningham
and Miss Besslo Latey will be at tue piano.
In the Flonzaley quartet, whlrh comes
to the city on April 25, local music lovers
will find oq'e of the greatest chamber-music
organizations thai has ever visited Amer
ica. In Boslon, New York and Chicago
the Klonzaleys have been termed onu of
the most excellent attractions that Europe
has had to offer for a number of years.
In view of the npproachlng visit of Mary
Garden. In concert, to the Hrandcls thfuter,
the following defence of her famous
character. .Salome.'' will perhaps prove
Interestlnn to readers from a Biblical point
of view as well as In the light of u Ht.idy
in lnte rpretp tlon.
"I do not th'nk Vi!d meant n portray
perversity. I .ertalnly do not plsv tli part
that way. As Salome. I am a pure young
g,rl feroc'niisl v emotional. If you will, but
pure. I do not think that Wilde's con
ception Was even sensual, for the words
he put Into Salome's mouth are the purest
poetry. If a sensual element creeping into
the drama, it is entirely due to the music
of Strauss, for this Is at times brutal and
cruel.
"Salome may not be Biblical, jet I have
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had scholars tell me that they believed
Wilde's version and conception was In
reality the Bible story. She is a beautiful
princess, the daughter of a vicious mother
and vicious age. Vice Is her heritage, her
inevitable heritage; her soul Is saturated
with it.
"She Is inexperienced and so very young.
Her youth Is In Its dewy rosy, dawn. She
Is just a splendid little savage who knows
no law but her own passions. She sees
John the Baptist and declared him with a
hunger like one starving. It Is more than
a desire, in reality the demand of a soul.
She must have him and will have him, even
though death give him to her.
"Her 'ptsslon Is not the kind of love
which the sheltered girl of today gives to
the little fellow in spats, and eye-glass,
who carries his stick Just so. It Is not a
pink-tea emotion, not a Sunday school
passion. But what of that? Remember
Salome was a savage, a compound of
honey and Tiger's blood. To Judge her we
must shake the dust of the twentieth cen
tury civilization from our feet and adopt
the viewpoint of the prlmnl world.
"This for me Is not horror: It is the
sublimation of love that conquers all
things, that sets the triumphant font upon
death Itself and sings Its paean of final
victory In Salome's last words: 'I have
kissed thy mouth .lokanaon.' That kiss
was to her worth dying for.''
Omaha Saengerfest
Association's Festival
Flans for the Concerts to Be Given
at the Auditorium by the
Organization.
Omaha's srrlng festival, to he g'ven on
April 26 and 21. under the auspices of
the Saengerfest association, is attracting
unusual interest among the members of
the German ringing societies of Nebraska
and western Iowa, and a number of large
delegations expect to attend and partici
pate The choral work will be supplemented by
miis'c furnlshrd by the Ft Paul Symphony
orchcs'ra, one of the strongfit organiza
tions of lis kind In the cout.try. There
will b two choral concerts, one each even-in-,
and on the afternoon of the last day
there will be a symphonv matinee h.' the
St. Paul music ana. At this time the as
hoc lat on Is devoting Its time to disposing
of season ticket-, and enough of them
have alrealy been sold to Insure the suc
cess of the affair.
Val J. Peter, secretary of the associa
tion, has received assurances that there
will be delegations here from all parts of
the state. Council Bluffi-, Carroll and
Manning, la., will send singers to assist
the Oinahans. From South Omaha will
cotne two societies, and s like number
from Lincoln, Bennington, Stanton. West
Point. Hasting ar.d Grand Islund will
also be represented.
The hundred of mule and female voices
will be directed bv Theodore Rudolph
He-se who hss hre-i r-tal ed permanently
to ke p up h'tcies. among Omaha's Teu
ton roncslcrs and to handle the annual
event" lie In r";.:i riled s one of the most
able dlrectcr In the Cn!td States. As
slstlni: in th- com nj festival will be a
nuinhcr o. the lead'ng vocalists of the
country.
The coming event will be the second an
nual fet-ttval under the auspices of the
Or:, aha t-nrngerfest s.-soclatlon. the first
having been given un the opening day of
the National Saerserfest held here last
year. The citlrens of Omaha are practi
cally a unit In declaring the national
suensrrfest last year the most successful
musiial event ever refolded In this city.
It put i ima)a on the map musically. In
Its splendid art stlc effect It was a reve
lation not only to omahs but to the people
of the tnt :e slate, olvlng the first and
strorgri-t Impefs toward making Omaha
tiie :nii! ico! . enter of the west
1 pun siilc t.itl'in of many leading citi
zens the im:!:K i-nen-rfest SS'in-tstlon.
which k m itintze'l to mans the na
tlonul raeiigerfrst did not dissolve sfter
the giaml en nt of lust year, hut remained
it In. t to footer the good work of the fu
l:ic. Ti i:r l it- o'lllgatlon the a -so-hillon
is ai;aln cr.Ka.ed at the present 'me pre
la lnr; a grand a'tislh- treat for he muslc
buinn people of omahu. Nehacka snd
lov u
The co:ning fra'.lvsl will be held in the
Auditorium, a'.il there Is every Indication
trst both c-iiii-rrts and the matinee will he
well paltom.eri. There will be gatlierei
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here from all parts of the country singers
of note, who will attract many prominent
people to the festival. Besides being a
high clans musical event, It will be one
of fashion and society.
The officers of the association are work.
Ing hard to make the event a success, and
to them much credit Is due. The officer!
are:
R. C. Strehlow, president; Ir. R. 8.
Lucke, vice president; Peter Melchlors,
second vice president; Val. J. Peter, secre
tary;,!. J. Hess, treasurer.
Directors W. H. Buchols. Frits Freltsg.
Io Hoffmann, Peter Laux, Harry Fischer, v
Pr. E. H. Bruening. Emll Brandeis, Dr. F.
A. Bedlacek, Rev. B. Slnne, Theodore Sin
hold, August J. Eggerss, Ferdinand th
mann, W. F. Stoecker.
AT THE OMAHA THEATERS
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prise this company. In the olio are such
well known acts an the Seyons In an en
tirely new line of talk and stories; Dixon
and Hearn, presenting tholr new vehicle;
Collins and Hswley, the well known dan
cers; the European novelty acrobats. Sher
man and Luken; the Gladstone sisters,
with new pretty wardrobes, and Hasel
Sanger. Stanley Karp, welterweight cham
pion, will meet all local wrestlers In hla ,
class and throw them In fifteen minutes or
forfeit Jl!5, He will take on a different man
every "night starting Monday night.
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Melody, mirth and beauty are the Ingredi
ents of "The Queen of Bohemia" which Is
registered to make Its headquarters at the
Gayety during the week commencing this
afternoon. The costumes are dazzling and
apt to create the admiration of the lady
viewers. The scenic display Is suparb and
elaborate In every detail. The large array
of beautiful women In their fascinating
fjowns snd bewitching sweetness, lends the
touch and charm of fUlrylund brilliancy to
the production, and furnishes a bewildering
background to the glittering two-act mus
IcaV comedy. Excellent vaudeville specialties
are Interwoven In "The Queen of Bohemia."
Those respont-lble for the principal comedy
parts are Miss Jean Salisbury, late
with the Shuhcrt attractions; Charles Ma
son of "Rudolph and Adolph" fame. C. 8.
Gettlngs, Miss Sue Stlllman. George Leon
ard and others. "The Queen of Bohemia"
may be. tailed a sister to the "College
Girls" as It In under the same manage
ment. Ladles' dime matinee dally, starting
tomorrow. Kuter Monday.
The amateurs will hold the boards at
the Gayety next Saturday night, as usual,
in a remarkably funny contest for oaah
prises offered by the management. A
gteat tints Is assured as the list of regis
trations Is lengthy. The audience will
(-I've as Judive and Jury.
PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS.
Willie, aged 6. having been told that ft
hahy sister had Just arrived from heaven,
marched Into the room and said: "Now,
young lady, tell us all about heaven before,
you forget It."
"How do you account for the fact that
George Washington never told a Her"
asked the teacher.
"I guess he never went flshin'," piped
the small hoy at the foot of the class.
"Will you stop crying if I give you
penny?' asked the good woman of the
small boy.
"N no," sobbed the urchin, "b but If
you'll m-tnuke It a nickel I'll s-stop it It
b-btists the p-pipes."
The teacher hail offered a prir-e for the
best essay, the subject to be "The Reward
of Lssiness.''
When the i ninposltions were handed In.
it was found (l.jt mo- bo had submitted
a sheet of blank puper. He won the prlxe.
Little Klmer Hav,
base hall umpire?
Papa-No. Elmer.
Into n:r he.id?
Little Elmer - Well.
pa, was Solomon
What put that Idea
there s something in
I mv Sunday lesson about the Judgnieut ee
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