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Tim 15KK: OMAHA, SA1TKDAY, MAKCH 25. 101H. 13 BiiiEF CITY NEWS TcniBd'i lor Sporttsr Oaoa." tljbtlnr natures Bursess-Grand'sn. XHexcona EaffSgsmeat Blare, F.tlholm. Have Boot Mai It Now Beacon Ft a. Garden Tools Ja. Morton Son Co. B,i city ami fann mortRo fcr sale. J. II. Uumont. Kccllne Hlds- Mirror Mde and Be-Bllvsred Omaha Glass Con. Co.. 113 Can, Av. D. 17a. B'Wal Ami Sanoa The B'Nai Ami club will Rive ta last dance of the season at Chambers' academy Punday evening. Today's Movie Prorram" fleaMO) Section today. It apteart In The EXCLUSIVELY Find out what tha va rious moving picture ttieetsrs offer. To Address Barristers' Club Charles Battelle will address tha Barristers' club at Its weekly meeting at the Commercial club Saturday noon on "Law of Real Property In Nebraska." Prof. Oslrlcn Speaks Sunday after noon Prof. Henry Oclrlchs will address the Omaha Philosophical society at Hs rooms in the Lyric building, Nineteenth nd Harney streets at 3 p. in. Hawaiiaa Prince to OiTe Concert Print- Lei Lanl (E. K. Kose), fanous Hawaiian singer of the Victor company, will be heard In concert st the Nebraska Tycle company Saturday afternoon and ivenlng. Petition for Bankruptcy Herman Ttabln, whose business Is Riven as "res taurant and optician," 31 South Fif teenth street, filed a petition In bank ruptcy. Liabilities, J1.267; assets, 1450. Goodrich Garden Hose Morton ft Son. Decision for Beklna John Beklns, head of the Omaha Van and Storage company, has the exclusive right to the use of the firm name, and any other firm conducting similar business under a title commencing "Omaha Van" Is Infringing, according to a decision of Judge Leslie In settling the case of Beklns against the Maggard Van and (storage company. i eitr ATTRACTIONS II OMAHA. Brandelsi "A little Girl la a Bl City." Empress t Vaudeville ana photoplays. Oayetyi "The SmUlng Beauties. Htpp: Photoplays. Jtrujr: "On Parole." Orp ileum Vaudeville, trend! Photoplays. "A Little Girl la si Bl City" at the Braadels. "A Uttla Girl In a Big City." now being enacted at the Brandels theater, tells the story of how a little girl from the country f wandered Into New York, searching for her mother. Of course, she fell into bad hinds, but by good1 luck she escaped from tha dangers that beset her, and after a number of strange adventures, she found her mother, and all ends as It does in story books. Tha play is crudoly put together, with many improbable situations, and lacks plausi bility in every way. Tha company is in keeping. A small audience watched the opening performance last night. Promises of the Press A greats. " Roshanara, the ' mytte ' Interpreter of the old Burmese and Indian dances has only four more performances at the Orpheum, matinee and night today and again Saturday. Lydia Barry,' the singing comedienne, and the other popular num bers on the bill havo kept enthusiasm at a high pitch all week. Patrons are reminded that the curtain will rise early, 8:10 o'clock sharp, on Saturday night. William Rock and his new dancing part ner, Frances 'White, come next week in their new act called 'Danaante Charac teristic." Helena Lackaye, youngest sis ter of Wilton, will present "Overtones." The pretty Watson Sisters will be another feature on the program for next week. Everything In the matter of props, draperies, mattings and other things, in cluding the household utensils, that are carried by "The Bird of Paradise," which opens a four nights' engagement at the Brandels theater, commencing next Bun day evening, March 2C are brought di rect from thl Hawaiian Islands. Even the gourd that Luana breaks in the sec ond act, when she defies the priest and the "taboo," is brought thousands of miles. No actor can be really great In a part that does not fit his personality. Booth was a great Hamlet, but a failure as Othello. Salvlnl was wonderful as Othello, but lamentable as Hamlet. Apropos, Otis Skinner haa a role that fits his personality precisely in "Cock o' the Walk," the comedy he brings to the Brandels theater on Friday and Sat urday, March 11 and April 1, and the critics say his performance In it Is one of the most remarkaole he has given his masterpiece. The part Is that of a bibulous Bohemian, a Thespian of the "old school," who loves his art and is always spouting Shakespeare. Among many vaudeville stunts that are In the performance at the "Smiling Beau ties' at the popular Oayety this week. Is the Bijou trio, whose ringing is one of the many delightful phases of the en tertainment; Saturday night during the performance of the 'Social Maids, ' re ports of the w illard-Moran fight will oe announced rrom me stag, the returns coming direct from Maulaon Square Gar den, New York. "On Parole," at the Krug theater to night, offers a timely suggestion to the friends of Miss Annie Henderson and Ruth Kackley, to seo their splendid In terpretution of "Anita Robinson" and "Polly Plnkney." Next week, the "piie rackase of dramatic stock," William 11. Crane s, "David Harum." "Jerry." the comedy made famous, by P.llly Burke, Is to le the opening play of Miss Unir's at the Boyd theater next Saturday evening. Alan Dale America's foremost critic, says: "Pink pajamas may not be high art, but there is some thing rather flattering und soothing about them. Miss 1-aiiK. in t.ink pajamas will make a charming 'Jerry.' " William Farnum Is cen at the Strand today and Saturday in a thrilling story of the mountain country, called "Fighting Blood." The Strand is now open front 11 to 11 o'clock, with pipe organ music at every performance. Dealing with international Intrigue. In which the winsome foreign spy discovers Ht the last moment, she loves the man she has betrayed. Is but one of the many interesting situations in the "Code of Honor." a drama dealing- with Interna tional Intrigue at the Empress theater, March 30. Maine Republicans To Go Uninstructed PORTLAND, Me.. March 24,-Malne re publicans in state and district conventions today selected unlnstrjcted delegates to , i. i 1 - iibiiuiibi vunvrmiDn. Presidential elector candidates were nominated and a platform for the stats campaign next fsll was adopted. The platform arraigned !ho Washington ad ministration for Its Mexican policy, urged the need of national repa redness, and advocated the establishment of a per manent tariff cumni'rLion. . SI- fl SB A kBBW M S- BRYAN AND YOUNG ORATORS SPEAK Commoner Tells Creighton Men Intimate Details of Start in Public Life. ANNUAL LAW SCHOOL BANQUET W. J. Bryan vir-d Thursday with six younger orators of the Crelghton College of Law, and himself admitted that they did better than he had done at their age. It' was the annual good-fellowship banquet of the college, attended by members of the faculty, alumni and students, by judges, prominent law- yers. editors, a goodly company that . filled the Henshaw hotel .11 nln. ' room. It was a good-fellowship banquet In more than nam, allege parodies on popular songs were sung between courses. pennants and college colors were flying. The menu and program rejected the col lege spirit, being printed In the form and wording of a legal brief and bill of par ticulars. Each courso on the menu was garnished with a quotation from some legal tome and each speaker s name was adorned with a legend from legal lore. Bryan Joins la Soasj. Mr. Bryan Joined In singing the college parodies. He applauded the addresses of the six young orators who preceded him. nodding his head vigorously and whispering his appreciation to Dr. Allison and J. A. C. Kennedy, who sat near him. He paid a glowing tribute to Count Crelghton and, finally, in the latter part of his speech he became a pedagogue and told the students the secrets of successful public speaking. Harry E. Ganti was toastmaster and told some stories which Mr. Bryan con fessed were new even to him and which he would "add to his list." For the first time at a Crelghton good- fellowship banquet a woman was among the speakers. She was Miss Gladys Shamp. and her address on "Woman's Place In the Law" was witty. The toastmaster declared that "better than the biggest fees of the lawyer Is the fee-male of our species," and Miss Shamp reparteed by declaring that she hoped to have more substantial fees than these. Toasts of Evening;. Eugene M. Clennon spoke on "The Law yer as a Prosecutor;" Robert MtcOuiggan on "The Lawyer In Court;" Preston T. McAvoy on "The Lawyer as a Legisla tor," and Morgan J. Doyle on "The Law yer In the Community." Mr. Doyle's speech was more In the nature of a valedictory for the senior class, which, he loyally Insisted, Is not only the biggest, but by all odds the most capable that has ever graduated from Crelghton College of Law. And so say ing, Mr. Doyle looked fearlessly Into the faces of doiens of alumni, not one of whom disputed him. , . Mr. Bryan expressed amazement that six such good orators oould be found In one college. "Why," ha said, "I was M year old before I dared venture to tell a story in a speech, for fear I would lose the thread of my argument, especially If they laughed and even more If they didn't." He referred to his friendship with Count Crelghton. "which dated back to twenty years ago, when I first began running for the presidency." Bis Best Introduction. Speaking of introductions he said the test he bad ever had was at a place called Buckhorn Schoolhouse. III., when he waa a young lawyer. An Irishman, named Flynn. was to introduce him and, though Bryan had dictated an Introduc tion which would advertise his law of fice In the neighboring town, Flynn forgot It and 'merely announced "Mtsther O' Bryan will now speak " Tha old story of his Lincoln Introduc tion he told again. "I arrived In Lincoln la October, 1877," he said. "There was no political cam paign that year, so I had to get along as well as possible without making any speeches. But the next year I waa at it before the frost was out of the ground. I made fifty speeches and in each one I told the. people why the republican can didate should not be elected governor. I thought I made It so plain that they couldn't go wrong, but they went ahead and elected him anyway by 28,00) majority. A short time afterward I waa to, speak at a meeting where he presided. I hoped there would be no embarrassment for, I reasoned, he must feel some resentment against a man who had spoken so pro fusely against him. Just before my turn came he approached me on the platform and said, 'Mr. Bryan, do you speak or slngT lie hadn't even heard of me." In his remarks on public speaking, he declared clearness of statement, conden sation, belief In your cause, apt illustra tion, dramatic question and the character of the orator are six most Important points. Thomas Jefferson's supposedly logical and concise Declaration of Independence isn't flawless, for Mr. Brayn pointed out that "all truths are self-evident, not only 'certain truths' as Jefferson said." "The co-operative function of govern ment will Increase by big strides from now on and the coercive will diminish," he declared and he cited the great in crease In municipal ownership and government-owned institutions as indications of this. Nation's Opportaalty. He referred in closing to the European war and said that this nation has the greatest opportunity ever possessed by a nation to do gooj. "As the wise men of the east went to Bethlehem bearing precious gifts," he said, "so the wise men of the west can now go to the warring nations and offer them a part of the money that they want us to spend on preparing new en gines of destruction and use this money to promote peace, fellowship, friendship, lasting brotherhood. The committees in charge of the affair were as follows: Banquet Committee F4 ward Dough erty. .Morgan J. Doyle. W. M. Stlllman. K.ntt rta'nment Committee Edward Svo. boda. W. W. Short. W. Patton. H J Bealo. G. H. MeOrath. Invitation Committee F. E. Sheehan F. A. rllver, J. J. Fraser. E. L. Murphy! A. U Swysard. If. A. Carver, B, Young J, 1'. McDermotL What Their Panae Knew. little Nelly told Anita what she termed a "little fib." Anita A fib la the same as a story, and a story la the same as a lie, Nelly No. It's not. Anita Yea, it ir. because my father said o, and my father is a protestor at tde university. Nelly I don't rare If he Is. My father is a real estate man and he knows more al.ont lying than our father. Kaiuas 'y Star Thc,Sseor Mary Page By Frederick Lewis, Author of "What Happened to Mary" Copyright. 1915. by McCture Publications. SYNOPSIS. Mary Pas", sctrww. Is accused of IM murder of Iavkt Pollock anil Is uVhtuIi'J by her lover. Phl lp l.nnmlon. PollocR as lntoxlctd. At Mary s trial she ad mits she had tiie revolver. Her maid testifies that Mary threatened Pollock With It irevloualv. and Mtry's leadln man implicates 1-angdon. How Maty dis appeared from the scene of the crime is a mystery. Brandon tells of a strange hand print he saw on Mary's shoulder. Kurthrr evidence shows that honor of drink pro duces temporary insanity in Mary. The rieicnse Is "repressed psychosis.' Wit nesses described Mary's flight from her Intoxicated father and her father sui cide. Nurse Walton describes the kidnap ing of Mary by Pollock, and Amy narion MkT? .hSr'anS . f .tinthn. nr. i r r. i&-hn the S 1 TIP 1 1 of imuor amve marv inasno. mrm dence that Daniels. Mary'a manager, threatened Tollock. Mary faints on the stand and again goes Insane when a policeman otters her whisky. CHAPTER X. (Continued From Testerday.) "Well. I-I sent for Mr. Langdon." said Daniels nervously, "and he came, in the meantime we had ' given the regular watchman knockout drops and left him in a corner of the balcony, and Shale took his place. When Mr. Iiongdon was leav ing I called this supposed watchman and, acting on Dave's Instructions, told him to show Mr. Langdon out 'ay the stage door. But I tell you" his voice rose sud denly to a liU-h, shrill note of hysterical emphasis "I tell you I knew nothing of that open trap door In the stage. I thought ho waa going to taire him right ! out of the theater. And when I heard Mr. Langdon's cry I-I was too horrified to move for a minute. Then I rushed down and turned on the stago lights." "Will you tell us what you saw?" "I saw Mr. Iangdon hanging to the edgo of an open trap that led down some thirty feet to the cement cellar below, land Shale standing to one side, with a blackjack In his hand. I thought he was going to hit Langdon, and I snatched It away from him and dragged Langdon back upon the stage. The very first words he said made me realise he didn't know the real reason of that open trap, so I hid the blackjack behind me and took Mr. Langdon to the door myself and saw him safely away." "Did you see Mr. Pollock again that night?" "Yes. When I got back to the stage I found him there denouncing Shale for having failed to do his part, and when I asked him If he had meant murder, he said, 'Yes! I meant to have him killed through an apparent accident. What la more, I tell you here and now, that I'll kill Mary Page and I II kill myself, be fore Langdon shall win her!' That's what Dave Pollock said, and that's what I thought he had done that night. I swear I didn't go Into that room! But I heard them quarrel, and I heard tha scream and the shot. And I thought he'd done it and I ran away, in sheer horror that's all! My God! You must believe me. It's true that I quarreled with Dave Pollock, not once, but many times. It's true that he didn't play fair with me, but can't you sea that- I had everything to lose and nothing to gain by hie death I It's meant ruin to me and ruin to my wife and little girl." His voice broke pitifully over tha last words. Leaning forward, he burled his face in his shaking hands, waiting- for the next question. But it didn't come. That tragio outburst had carried- con viction, not merely to Langdon but to everyone m the room, and whatever shadows of suspicion had hung over Mr. Daniels faded before the pitiful but In dubitable veracity of his story. The mystery, if mystery it was, of David Pollock's death was still as Impenetrable, and the cords of the law that for a time seemed to be loosening from about Mary Page, had tightened again. ' But to Mary and Langdon that testi mony of the manager had brought some thing that for the time at least seemed greater than the law an understanding of Mary's heart, vision of what might yet be if freedom could be won for her. , It was a strange moment for a great love to find expression, and a strange story which had wakened it; and, while Langdon felt deep in hlsheart that no words were needed after that-glance of Mary's he could not forbear following her to her cell when court had adjourned. She glanced up at him with sudden shy ness when he came In, and her hands ent out waverlngly, but whether to hold him off or to cling she could not herself lave told. Langdon had no doubts, how ever, and caught them close In his warm grasp and drew her to him In a silence Eat It! Enjoy It! 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