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    XHE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1914.
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dress will be chanced as ofttn as requested.
Quite a difference between Easter In Omaha
this year and last year.
The Bee is for Bale every day In tho year at
tho regular price per copy.
Dr. Wiley shows by his aversion for plo
that he Is no good democrat.
Giving us grand opera and the opening of
the base ball season In one week Is piling It on
pretty thick.
Tho thooBophlat'who says tho "dead are very
much alive," must have some inside knowledgo
of American politics.
Why should tho city's Illuminated arch of
welcome be used to advertise private enter
prises at public expense?
Dr. Mary Walker takes an undue advantage
cf tho dead In telling at this lato date that
former President Chester A. Arthur proposed to
her twice.
An ezchango observes that tho "Aurora
boroalls Is a mystery still misunderstood," And
yet Jlmhamlewlu seems like a vory frank, open
minded chap.
'I have a new guillotine and it works fine,'"
tays the bloody-handed murderer commanding
tho Moxlcon rebels. Nothing doing only
"watchful waiting!"
Tho best sign of real headway to republican
reunion is the actlvo interest of oiir democratic
friends In everything happening on tho repub
lican stdo of tho fence.
The election of Ambassador Pago to bo vlcj
president of tho London Sphinx club completely
destroys the old Illusion that the Englishman,
haii no sense of humor.
A gentleman playing the rolo of defendant
In a breach of promlso oult doclares that "those
kisses wore simply Illusions." No doubt of It
They are all dreams, exquisite dreams.
It should bo understood that tho dry order
in tho navy affects only tho officers. Tho com
mon sailors have all along had to wait for shora
leave for a chance to wet their whistles.
A litUo present of $25,000,000 from Uncle
Sam would doubtless come In mighty handy to
our Colombian neighbors right now when tho
bJJla for spring millinery and wearing apparel
are arriving. , ,
Much ado is made about a contested will
case now finally adjudicated attor fifteen years
In tho courts with the result that the lawyers
take the whole estate. What's unusual about
that except the length of tlmo consumod In doing
the job?
Tha Illinois Christian Endeavor society haa
invited Secretary Josephus Daniels to tako up
his residence in that state, promising him hla
choice of either the governorship or tho mayor
alty of Chicago if he will. Just how tho rest of
tho voters feel about it, wo know not.
If a man suing a saloonkeeper cannot count
on a square deal in the Omaha courts, how can
tho saloonkeeper expect a square deal when ho
U ttod in a distant dry county? But then, per
haps the theory of our law is that the saloon
keeper Is not entitled to a square deal.
rouintMo moM ace rt.ej
Thla Easter Sunday found fitting celebration in
tha churches. At 8t Phllomena'a Bishop O'Connor
celebrated high mass with the amUtance of Fathvr
Madden aa deacon. Father Connor subdeaeon and
Father Kelly in waiting. A special musical service
.under direction of O. F. Wayer was supplemented
by Hoftraan'siorchestra. At Trinity. Dean MllUpaugh
officiated with a musical program arranged by Prof.
Duller
The B. It M. has put in a new time card effective
today by which the fast mall train will be run through
to th Missouri rtver. Up to this time it has run tn
Ottawa only.
II. a BipUh & Co. have begun publication or a farm
paper known as -Rural Nebraska," especially de
signed for farmers, stock breeders, dairymen and
nurserymen.
Th Easter concert of tha Saratoga Union Sunday
school was postponed a week owing to the tncleraeney
of tha weather and the Impassable roads.
J. Vf. Carpenter, one pf the founders of the Her
ald, received a ttlegrani from Colorado Springs an(
nounclr.g the sudden death of his aon, William P.
Carpenter, who had grown up hare.
For the Emmet Monument association ball the
arrangements committee consists of Michael Lee, p,
I Hughes. P J. TIghe, P J. Barrett, Bernard Mc
Caffrey and Edward qulnn.
The Toll Question Ramifying.
The Wilson administration seems to have
gone tho limit In pacifying Colombia in the new
treaty which provides for freo pnssago of, tho
Colombian war craft through the Panama canal,
In addition to an Indemnity of 125,000,000. By
this concession, however, it raises a new ques
tion of our right under the Hay-Pauncefoto
treaty to make any discrimination In view of
the literal construction placed on that instru
ment by the president when urging ropoal of
the toll exemption clause of the Panama act. 1
Tho roference recalls European reports that
several of the governments across tho wator
aro preparing to give subsidies to cover the tolls
paid by their ships passing through the Panama
canal. This is what many of them have donu
nil along for tho Suez canal, which, as Tho Be
has previously pointed out, operates under pre
cisely tho same toll clause as govorns the Pan
ama. If theso .subsidies are received by tho
forolgn vessols, then American ships will be
about the only ones paying tolls without reim
bursement for uso of this canal, built, owned
and operated by tho United States government.
President Wilson, bo It remembered, basod
bis original appeal for a back-up on toll ex
emption on tho wish to court the favor and
good will of other nations, so that, after all, tho
wholo question scorns to be, oven with him,
moro a matter of expediency than of principle.
Raiding the 3onng Herdi.
Ono of the an6mal!oe of our present eco
nomic Inequalities Is that with veal retailing at
40 cents a pound, tho consumer continues to
ask why meat prices aro so high, Thero Is
little hopo of relief In this direction so long as
the Insistent demand for veal keeps up. It will
boar frequent repeating that it Is Impossible to
raid tho herds of young stock to meet the
market demand and Increase the supply of fin
ished product at tho samo time. We cannot eat
our cake and havo It at once. The consumer,
who invariably demands his veal is one of tho
chief factors responsible for the presont situa
tion, and only the unthinking will attempt to
evade such responsibility by charging it up en
tirely to tho butcher or even the packer. While
thore may bo so mo room for complaint against
tho latter, the bulk of It belongs with thoso
who make it Incumbent on tho marketer to
supply his patrons with the growing, unfinished
cattle.
When wo consider this In connection with
tho brcaklng-up of the great ranges over tho
west Into homesteads of 1C0, 320 or 640 acre
tracts in tho last docado or so and certain other
restrictions placed upon the livestock business,
we can more readily locate the responsibility
for prevailing meat prices. It was natural that
In tho courso of events these great cattlo ranges
would bo cut up, for tho populating of tho
country had to go on and eventually tho re
adjustment will come. Individual farmers and
ranchers will do moro cattlo-ralsing, but suffi
cient time for this has not yet elapsed.
Lind's Much-Needed Rest.
John Lind, the president says, comes home
for a "much-needed rest." Evidently the bur
den of "watchful watting" on tho doorstep of
tho Mexican government haa exhausted him.
His nerves aro distracted, his spirit distraught,
his voleq husky from the' tedium of silence and
inactivity. Secretary Bryan, undoubtedly, was
first to appreciate Mr. Lind's need of relief.
Doubtless he roachod his conclusion by Imagin
ing hlmsolf in Mr. Lind's place. Lot anyone
who can imagine William Jennings Bryan sit
ting on a lid as John Lind did for months with
nothing to do but keep his lips sealed. While,
of course, it Is not as grave In the caso of
Mr, Lind as it would bo In that of Mr.
Bryan, It is serious enough to suggest tho
need and deslro of a change. Not oven Mr.
Bryan's most rabid political opponent, wo take
It, could bo so ruthless in hla vengeance as to
wish such a species of torture for Mr. Bryan.
It Is a question if a great many others aro
not beginning to feel the rub and chafe of thla
yoke of "watchful waiting," that has galled
Lind Into withdrawing from bis anomalous
watch tower Job at Vera Crus. He must havo
wondered a good while ago, In hla stem, prac
tlcal way, Just why ho continued to hold the
fort.
Going Back on tho Initiative.
. When Nebraska engrafted the Initiative and
referendum on its constitution many people
wore led to belteve the goal of popular govern
ment had at last been completely gained; that
with the initiative and roferondum the peoplo
Mere in position to got any law they wanted or
to block any legislation they did not want; and
moro than that, to change the constitution,
Itself, at will; that along with the lnltlatlva
came the key to all other reforms by a process
speedy, etfoctive and Inexpensive.
But now wo havo a campaign, Inaugurated
by tho Popular Government Jeague, made up of
sponsors of the direct legislation idea, to per
suade or compel the next Nebraska legislature
to call a constitutional convention, The initia
tive method of amending the constitution is pro
nounced Inadequate, expensive and cumbersome,
and promiscuous amending unsatisfactory as
calculated to make the constitution lack coher
ence. Nothing but a wholly new state constitu
tion made by an old-fashioned convention with
delegated powers, we are told, will fill the bill.
Our own opinion Is that a constitutional con
vention is, aa a matter of fact, the slower, moro
cumbersome and more expensive way to amend
ttie constitution, and its success moro hazardous.
A constitutional convention necessitates not less
than threo elections, one to pass upon the ques
tion whether It shall be raited, a second to
choose the members of the convention, and a
third to ratify or reject Its work, whereas
amendment by initiative calls for only a petition
and one election. It took two attempts to se
cure tho present constitution or Nebraska, the
first draft having been voted down, and oasum
iug general agreement upon what would bring
it up to date, it would naturally be more diffi
cult to securo acceptance of a complete constitu
tion than of specific changes that would not
concentrate the opposition to each upon all,
Possibly a constitutional convention is what
Nebraska most needs, but a full discussion of
' both sides is desirable before wo conclude, with
out even trying it, that the open door of the In
itiative Is a delusion and a disappointment.
A St. Louis union depot usher has Just re
tired on money saved from tips in ten years.
And the public pays the freight, while the em
ployer, who should meet his own wage bills,
soaks the public a little more tn the bargain.
fio Degree In Ilrnren,
OMAHA, April U.-To the Editor of
The Bee; Why don't some people econo
mise? They say everything Is so high
they do not aeo how they can keep help
or pay their expenses.
I realize things are high; rents aro
high, and so Is everything else. A per
son could hardly realise what It costs to
run a boarding house. I know one board.
In house that let some of their board
ers get behind with their board, and
what I would call a "star" boarder may
use a phone to the limit of thlrty-flve
or forty minutes, yet they say they
don't sen how they can get along, and
that they must economize to save a lit
tle Alt well and good, but if they would
economize on buying dresses and hata
at the rate of 10 to $25, they might be
able to save a little. It we working
ptopln tried to keep up with the fash
lens, we never would have anything.
Will tho cost of living be any cheaper
If our next president Is a republican? If
the United States continues to havo goods
shipped In from tho old countries, whero
they manufacture them and put them
up at a price that a common laboring man
cannot reach, I do not see what will be
come of the poorer classes. A poor man
should share In the world's goods as welt
as the rich man. In heaven there will
be no degrees, and, we are all working
for the same place. O. D.
Jamil Ins on Normal Hoard.
OMAHA, April 12,-To the Editor of
The Bee: If I may have a little space I
desire to .express my views In regard to
the State Normal board. It Is scheduled
to meet In Lincoln this week, and If tha
one member of the "quartet" Is not too
much occupied in defending himself be
fore tha governor on charges of graft
some entirely new stunts may be pulled
off. The 'public Is not much surprised
any more at anything this board does.
Most of the board's unexpected moves
are said to originate with Majors, but
they are advanced by A. U Cavlncss,
who is Majors' understudy. Cavlncss
poses as a school man and la said to
havo an itching to become president of
one of the schools. He rarely consults
tho presidents of the schools or their
faculties, yet he seldom permits a meet
ing to pass without springing some new
scheme affecting tho organization and
work of the normals. If he does not suc
ceed In destroying the efficiency of tho
schools and thereby make It seem neces
sary to have a great school man 'like
himself at the head of one of them, it
Wilt be because the rest of the board
wake up from their slumber and see
what ha Is doing.
The general tendency of the board to
play horse all the tlmo keeps the facul
ties In a turmoil. Tho teaching force of
the normals would not be surprised any
day to read of a secret session in which
a president or two and several teachers
had been fired. Of course under such
conditions It is Impossible for teachers
to do their best work.
The four normal schools cost the tax
payers of the state nearly $500,000 a year,
and their work should not be handi
capped by a bunch of cheap politicians
who hold secret sessions and Inaugurate
moves, not for the good of tho schools,
as they say, but to gratify some grudgo.
or to pay soma, political dtbt, or to ad
vance their own selfish. Interests,
If tha governor cannot break Up the
game of this "quartet" then the legisla
ture should let Its first act bo to abolish
the normal board. While there have been
but a few meetings of the board during
tha last year tha expense accounts of
nearly all the members are high. Nu
merous items for hotel bills and travel
ing expenses are listed at times when
thero was no meeting of the board. Tho
statutes clearly provide that rpember
shall haVe their actual expenses at board
meetings only. There ta not a member
of the board except the state treaaurer
who haa not drawn expense money to
which he was not entitled by law.
Any way we look at the matter, the
normal board Is a useless and expensive
luxury- D. B. JOHNSON.
The ranania Toll Qnestlon.
OMAHA. April 10. To tho Editor of
Tha Bee: In reading the arguments fa
voring the repeal of freo tolls through
the Panama canal to American coastwise,
shippers I am surprised at the ignorance
Of American history displayed by Its ad
vocate. Is R not a hlstorlo truth that
Immediately after the Spanish-American
war the United States decided to con
etruct a, canal across Nicaragua, aa a
government undertaking? Did not con
grass proceed with the necessary legis
lation and our president obtain the con
cessions In Nicaragua? Was It not then
that the Hay-Paunoafota treaty waa en
tered into? But later congress decided
to abandon the Nicaragua route, bought
out th old French Panama company and
secured rights from the new Republic of
Panama, and constructed the present
canal, at our own expense, on our own
territory, and without waiting for tho
aid or consent of England or any other
nation on earth? Therefore, this canal
is subject exclusively to the sovereignty
of the United States, and the American
congress haa voluntarily provided that
It shall be open to tha commerce of the
world upon fair and reasonable terms.
Snd haa exempted from tolls American
coaatwisa trade. If our coastwise ship
ping wpuld constitute a monopoly so
strong that remission of the tolls would
result in no benelit to shippers or the
people, the remedy would bo not In re
peal, but tn the destruction of the mo
nopoly. And If free tolls is a subsidy
to coastwisa shippers, then fre tolls
through St. Mary's Falls li a subsidy to
lake shipping.
Think what audacity Oreat Britain has
in its effort to have this law repealed,
which Involves solely a regulation of do
mestic; commerce, and basing its daman:!
upon the Hay-Pauncefoto treaty, not
withstanding that treaty was made on
the understanding that the canal should
b built tn territory alien to the United
States, and since which time tha United
States haa acquired by purchase the right
and sovereignty over the territory through
which the canal has been constructed.
In short, why all this quibbling about
toll rates, free or otherwise, throurh the
canal? This is not an International ax
fair, It is purely a domestic matter,
passed on by two of our presidents and
approved by our house and senate and
ratified by tha votes of lO.CCD.OOO Ameri
can citizens. If the advocates of repeal
are, under the Impression that the loyal
American citizens who voted to sustain
our representatives in the passage of
thla law, the repeal of which would mean
tha national humiliation of this republic,
I would ask them If they heard tha recent
news from New Jersey, then would hava
them alt up aad take notice.
ED F. MOKBAHTY.
Cultural Effect of Music
By Rev. Adolph Hult, Pastor of
Swedish Lutheran Immanucl Church
The spirit of musical culture Is coming westward!
Pioneering days will not laat forever.
IJfe'a flnost and richest goods, the arts among
them, will find these western plains a fit storehouse.
The tilling of the soli may be our chief commercial
asset It cannot remain Ufa's supreme task. Tho heart,
tho wonderful human heart, haa IU crying needs. It
asks for tho amenities of an ennobled home life. It
calls to the world unseen and eternal, and waits for
the wireless messages from that homeland of the
aoul. When Its human aspirations and Ideals waken,
kindling the Imagination, It must have art In our era
of history, especially the musical art
Despair of tho cultural and musical situation in this
glorious breeze-swept west? Not a bit of ill Westward
moves the empire of Intellect and music. Twenty and
more yearn ago I sat In a Massachusetts town hall
on the speaker's platform. It was Decoration day.
The orator of the occasion was a fancy-free son of
Erin, a young attorney. This enthusiast for Moore'a
poetry sang of the historical fame and the Intel
lectual prowess of the Bay state Raising his voice
In shrill cock-a-doodle-doo pitch ho cried out:
The west furnishes us pork and grain,
and then with an oratorical plunga down to chest
tones,
And Massachusetts (train!
Poor me, lone western, perhaps, In that entire
audience of a near-Boston town! Walt, it rumbled
within me, wait till the turf Is turned and the barns
aro built Then our "western "brain" will come
eastward. And not a little d.Id I rejoice to think, of
some "seedy" western brains even then conquering
tho east with Its world-weary breeding and refine
ment, clever with tho caustic wit of much-traveled
Jacques. There waa that little red-headed philosopher
at Harvard, Joslah Royce, whom I had lately heard
In tho lecture room, testing and straining the staid
Cambridge Intellects to the limits of eastern capacity,
the subtltltlea of his rather pantheistic) thought de
manding all that his hearers could possibly furnish.
Today, what hosts of western minds dominate eastern
culture centers! Do not our western universities
prophesy? Theso fresh western Intellects of boys and
girls, whose faculties are freo from the premature
senility of over-culture and supcr-conventtonallsm,
what may we not expect from them aome day, once
tha pioneering tolls are over. ,
Musical culture represents a late stage of art In
history. Only these last SCO years, forgetting excep
tions like Palestrlna and others, has music come to
be a conscious world-art. Music requires a libera
tion of the emotional and Imaginative Ufo such as
history haa experienced, particularly since the cata
clysm of the French revolution and tho Romantic
school of thought and art The ono universal lan
guage of the world today Is music AU the beautiful
Ideals of tho human 'heart In ita rhythmic surglngs
find no such adequate human expression as they
do in music. What art liberates tho fettered and
suffocated Ideals of the human soul as the musical?
A great and simple song from the virginal soul of
Jenny t4nd, or big-hearted Bchumann-Helnk, emanci
pates tho finest and most soulful qualities of mind
and life. A great score toned forth by the Chicago
orchestra makes the tremendous symphony of total
existence a palpitating apprehension of our being.
"Apprehension," oh, I wish our English, with its
giant dictionaries had that rich word "anlng" of
tha Scandinavian languages, same aa tho German
"ahnung," uniting, as It docs, into one concrete Idea
such words as yearning, apprehension, presentiment
and tha intuitive sense of the unseen, of which the
heart fervidly wishes to be assured without the cold
logical processes. Fbr logical reasoning grows
paralyzed before the majestlo richness of life. So far
wo heartily agroo with Borgson of Paris. "Ahnung"
or. "anlng" reminds of-one of the loveliest statements
as to tha mystery of music. It Is by Prof. Watdetnar
RUdln of Uppsala university, tho now' nged' theo
logian and' pulpit orator. "Music," says this man or
rara mentality, "haa an essential portion of Its
power precisely In this, that the .tone (the Indefinite
fullness) touches tho Infinite world of 'anlng' (eter
nity's super-stratum) In man." Does It mean some
thing to a community culturally, that tho art with a
mission as suggested by Rudln'S statement becomes
an Integral factor of a community a lite? Ta the hap
piness of a community enriched by an art that. Ilka
true music, enlarges Infinitely the eternal side of the
Imagination? That makes th,e Inner life sensitive to
tha expansive vistas of soul, and even puts on the
the harp of the heart the mutlo of the spheres and
a. mystlo "Ahnung" of the unfathomable depth of
Clod's own being? I do not add this last thought for
"devotional purposes," but because mustc has tho
divine mission of opening the Imagination In soma
degree to apprehend tho infinite God whom only
true faith makes kin with and happy In that kinship.
Qniaha If I may say It without needless obtru
sion has ' lagged In the musical art, and woefully
Compare German Milwaukee and Scandinavian Minne
apolis. Tha late musical article anent this In "The
Musical Courier," gavo our nobly .favored city' a sin
ister national advertisement. Yet, fellow citizens, I
rtp-at what I have often said to my distinguished
musical friend, Mr. Thomas J. Kelly, Omaha's Ideal
ist par excellence: It may not ever be thus) Omaha
has tenough "pork and grain." Money Is abundant
Comparo the limited slum sections of our city with
those of other cities, and note our prosperity. The
unusual penchant for saving which distinguishes our
city elves assurance of a comfortable old age. My
wordl we need not develop mora that aids of our
ctvio Ufa. Already the Ideal world begins to make
Itself felt. Coteries of musical people here recognize,
and since long, tho cultural worth and the cultural
bliss of music Wo possess one organization, known
In all the land by name at least, the Mendelssohn
chorus. With thosa blnd-llkn sopranos and that rare
poetlo esprit of conception and execution, if this chorus
were suddenly placed on the platform of Orchestra
Hall. Chicago, the " I will" city of IWnola would
marvel at the musical awakening of the west. It
seems to me that this chorus furnishes Omaha for
the present with lta one tangible rallying center for a
musical renaissance. Oh, that our commercial lead
era could be possessed of the Ideal of establishing on
a ' permanent basla this institution by giving us a
beautifully located and worthy music hall plus a
fund of maintenance for the chorus!
Here and there In the churches thero have from
tlma to time been organists and vocalists, who ven
erated the best. It Is always pleasant to meet that
dependable church musician, with noble regard for
the fine English ecclesiastical traditions expanded
Into preaenUday magnificence of tonal conception, I
mean, Mr. Slmms. With indefatigable faithfulness he
haa contributed substantially to the musical educa
tion of our city. Touch on supreme church musio
ideals, and his rye begins to glitter and grow suf
fused with that aomehtlng which betrays the musi
cian without guile. Ah. it's useless to try to name
them, the many flno musicians who pubUcly and
privately have purposed to enrich Omaha with tha
culture of the musical art! Unless mention should be
made of that daring and doughty promoter of high
class concerts, a young woman who Is doing Omaha
a cultural service, which tho ruture will see In its
true propective clearer than the presents. Miss Evelyn
Hopper, a name to b writ large in the musical his
tory of our city. What I sold of the Mendelssohn
conductor, consumed aa he Is by musical Ideals, needs
no elaboration. He Is our pride.
Omaha tha musical center of the middle west, the
middle from Chicago to the mountains, between the
Twin Cities and Kansas City, that Is our day-dream!
"Omaha, my Omaha," will one day musically
"Rise aloft
Starry with Imaginings."
People and Events
Aa an attraction for womankind the
home beats the workshop eighty ways.
Only 0 per cent of the females of the
country 16 years of age and over are en
gaged in gainful occupations.
Orestes Zamor, the new president of
Haytl chosen by congress, Is a man of
affairs, and has had considerable ex
perience in public life. Formerly he waa
governor of the northern department of
tho island and in 1911 held the office of
secretary of war.
Dr. B. F. Pearson, who built the elec
tric light plant which supplies the City of
Mexico with light and power. Is an Ameri
can, a native of Massachusetts. Ho has
made his own way In the world from
the ago of 14. when he became a railroad
station agent
After having worked for one farmer for
twenty-five years without being paid any
thing and without asking for it, George
F. Brown haa entered a suit !n Canton.
O., for JJ.OOO hack pay. In his peUtlon he
stated that he had not had a pay day for
twonty-flve years and that he feared his
employer waa trying to cheat him.
T. J. Philbrick. who carries mall front
the East Alton poetoftlco to tho trains,
was working for J12.E0 a month, which
he thought waa not enough. Accordingly
ho resigned his position, and when new
bids were called for offered ono calling
for S18. No one else entered a bid and
he got tho work at his own price.
Walter & Hawley has won tho distinc
tion of having tha best hearing in western
Massachusetts. While at his home In
East Brookfield, he heard the fire alarm
In Springfield, thirty-seven mllea away,
and was able to count tho number, which
waa 671. When In Springfield tho next
day he inquired and found that his ears
had not deceived him.
How big a fool tho law is In spots Is
illustrated by the case of a Mrs. Gallo,
who is In Jail In Now Tork. Mrs. Gallo
failed to appear in court when ordered
because sho waa engaged In bringing the
sixth little Gallo into tho world, and waa
commltod for contempt and actually taken
to Jail. The Judge, knowing the circum
stances, says he lacks power to cancel
tho contempt order without tho consent
of the creditor's lawyer and tho latter
won't budge without hla bit.
THESE GIRLS OF OURS.
Mother You know what a party Is,
don't you, dear?
Doris (aged 4) Yes, mamma! a party
is where you go and stay a little whll
and pass your saucer hack for some more
and stay another llttlo while and go
horn. Boston Transcript.
"Does your husband ever say anything
about his mother's cooking?"
"No; but ha says things about my
cooking that his father used to say about
hui mother's cooking." Boston Tran
script. "Did you tell her when you proposed
to lei that you were unworthy of her?
That always -.maws a i.lt with them."
"I was going to. but she told It to me
first" Philadelphia Bulletin.
"Oh, Luella! Thore' s a man Just fallen
off that next pier, and I think It's your
husband!"
"Well, dear, don't get excited: we'll
soon know. If he doesn't come up, it's
probably Jim he can't swim, you know."
Life.
tlln SunhrMow I should lust like to
see tho man that I'd promise to lovo,
honor and obey!
Miss Pertly I'm sure you would, dear.
Chicago News.
"While our maid was 111 I coaxed my
husband to wipe the dishes."
"Wasn't It a lot of trouble?"
"Yes, at first After a while he seemed
to like it."
"Yes?"
"And now ha Insists upon wiping them
for tha maid." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
LITTLE MISS APRIL.
Dixon Merritt, In Judge.
Litttle Miss April, you coquettish thtngl ,
Flirting around In the green of the
spring
My! You're a wonder!
Bright In the morning, you dimple and
sing:
Peeved at the nooning, a flurry and
fling.
Snowflakes from under
A smile-clouding thing!
Sad In the gloaming a wild burst of
tears;
Fright In the darkness a creature ot
fears.
Cuddling close;
xiiuuui hi uio unwmut, a fiiury 01 Beam.
Cold In the sunrise all taunting and'
Jeers; i
Noon and the rose j
Of the Youth of the Tears! '
Little Miss April, my full heart I bring
Pulsing with passion for you. It I fling
Down at your feet.
Flout me at dawn; at the noon you may
Jeer,
Deep in the twilight you'll smile on ma
here.
Gentle and sweet
You femlnlna thing!
MONDAY at
BRANDEIS
A Gigantic Sale of
Fine Wash Goods
At the Best Savings in Our History
3Cc 311k Stripe Ratine, 27 Inches wide 15c
36c 811k Strlpo Novelty Weaves, yard 15c
Silk Mixed Wash Goods, Worth to 50o ' 18o
25c Part Silk Crepes and Printed Crepes, yard 15c
Regular 10c Ginghams and Percales, yard 5c
Regular 12 c Batiste special at. yard 7c
Genuine Serpentlno Crepes, special 8c
Regular 12c Fancy Crepes at, yard 5c
Bleached Sheets, worth to ,85c each, at .45c
Pillow Cases worth up to 25c, each at 10c
25c Voiles and Crepes, special, yard IBe
12-yard bolts 30-lnch IongcIoth for , .91 AS
12-yard bolts fine Nainsook, only 91.45
COo Striped Dress Linen, special, yard 45c
Don't Miss This Wonderful Sale
Wonderful Mill Purchase
and Sale of Fine
RUGS
Regular $50 Hartford-Sax- $qq
ony Rugs on sale Monday for
I Axminster Rugs -t r 98
. $27.50 values ID
Wilton Rugs
$60 values
Women's Stylish Spring Suits
Regularly worth up to $30, $ q
on sale Monday for LU
All of the cheering
refreshment that tea
ever brought
to womankind
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