Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1894, Page 16

CIVIL AC ABOLITION OF THE SPOILS SYSTEM The By civil service reform we mean the aboll- tion introduction in its place of the merit system. other the and ments to public office on the ground of per- sona this givi mer of s possess the requisite qualifications, the toery Deca est new officy emp same grade as employment in other me Byst deal very an appointment; under the new, a poor man witl his ame chance that command all kinds of personal and political influence or not. NO N intel the spol way tere people, poli 5 conventions, to which our legislators suct poli seek public office merely as the easiest and best kno: offle zens, Influence due thelr thelr they slst aften 2are bod; lic duties, or who have a low fdeal and do not abject to rascality, ihe great opinion zen but pur ihls support is disint the ger hoa the 85¢ for Wool Top Mattress:s worth Woven Wire 8prings, worth $3.00. $11.45 for $8.75 for 100-Piece Dinner Sets, Chamber Suite worth $20.00. worth $15.00. e e $8.35 fora Mantel Folding Bed, worth $15,00. e e e $3.00 for a Decorated Toilet fet, worth $11.25 fora Upright Folding Bed worth $20 00. 12¢c for China Matting worth $1.25 for CRADLES Ladies’ Desks worth worth $2.50. for 26164 fmyra Rugs (tringed) we pth $1.00 for Antiqus Oa’ Rockers worth $3.50. $1.10 for Washstand with Drawer worth 2.50. 14e Stair C; worth rpet Plush Recaption Ohairs worth $5.00. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: [Y.\'I).\Y: MARCH 11, l‘?‘)l"*lWF.N'[‘Y PAGE $3. 45¢c 28c for for for PRESENTS FOR ALL With every purchase of $5. and over AN IMPORTED SOUVENIR, With every pnrchase of ¢lo.00 and over A WORLD'S FAIR PORTFULIO. Hanlsome Ranges | Gasoline Stoves Brussels Carpet, worth $7.50. worth worth $13.00. 90c. $19.45 for a Parlor Suit $1.40 $3.75 for Oak Center Tables worth $4.00. $4.50 ADS, worth $35.00. vorth $3.50. Contuins 116 l\hutum‘n]\hs of everything that was inter- esting in tho Whito City. It is well bound and is with- out question the finest, most complete portfolio of the World’s Fair yet issued. With every purchase of $25.00 or over A HANDSOMELY FRAMED PISTURE. With every purchase of $50.00 and over A NICE RUG. With every purchase of ¢75.00 and over A PREITY ROCKER. With every purchase of ¢100 and over A BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF LACE CURTAINS, Easy Terms for All, 1.00 o month. 36.00 a month, bt 85¢c 18¢c for a TEA SET for e Piano Lamp Kitchen Chair Kitchen well worth $7.50. (complote) worth $10.00. worth 50c. $8.30 for an $6.45 for Hassock & Ottomans worth $1.00. Yard Remnants In- grain Carpets worth Autiquo Wardrobe, | HALL worth $12.50. $24.50 $3.15 for a solid Brass A, & W, Bed, worth $50.00. $18.50 for Cheval Ohamber fuits worth $30.00. LOUNGE week or $ §10 worth of goods, $1.00 per week or 25 worth of goods, $1.50 per £50 worth of goods, $2.00 per weeck or $8.00 a month. $75 worth of goods, $2.50 per week or $10.00 a month. 8100 worth of goods, £3.00 per week or $12.00 a month. $200 worth of goods, $1.00 per week or $15.00 a month. well worth $8.50. PEOPLE'S MAMMOTII INSTALLMENT lIOUS!E.” Extension for Ingrain Carpet worth 60c. for an ble, worth $7.50. for Tabl worth $1.50. sirst Grand Special Sa We opcn the Season with HUNDREDS OF BARGAINS. $1.4 3.85 for a pair of tor a palr of Lace Curtains, Chenille Forteres, worth worth for Window Shades, worth $8.00. .50 for an for a ixtension Teble, Child’s Rocker, worth worth 15.00. $4.00 for a BOOK (¢ for Solid Onk Tapestry Rockers, worth worth $7.50. 60¢ 65¢ for a RACK, worth $15. $2.50 for a Resvolving Office Ohair, Anti worth SERVICE REF OR‘\I year and administration by administration great progress is made, and we never lose what we have fairly grasped. THE OPPOSITION AS IT APPEARS. 1 have now been five ye have, lear and Comprehensive Review of the | Situation, speec e against the law. r a single argument advanced against the rthy of serious refutation. exception every really able man who speaks t it does not do so bec in the arguments he advances, but because the political exigencies of the moment, acting on a rhetorical temperament, and not being overcome by any sense of fidelity to duty and incite him to the action. agair Experience of Hon. Theodore Roose- velt In Giving Practical Effect to the Law—Whnat Ias Been Accomplished. in of the spoils system in politics and the words, we mean the abolition of | the essentially unamerican, undemocratic, unrepublican method of giving appoint- | ity civil al and political favoritism., Instead of thoroughly vicious plan we advocate ng these appointments upon the basis of it only and throwing open the chance erving the government to all people who Under old system there was a nuine ari acy of office holders, who were appoint ause they were able to sccurc the inter- of powerful political bo: Under the we abolish this office ing, office holding caste in the public service able law system e mon ployment seeking, and put | py on the depart- of Amerlcan life. Under the old em no man who does not possess a great of influence, and often influence of a icious Kind, has any chance of getting IS ne man coul that any omy, hout backing, but standing squarely on own merits and rights, has exactly the ny one else hus, no mat whether his competitors are able SOUND ARGUME NEW SYSTE 0 argument which is at once honest and lligent has ever been adduced against merit system or In favor of the old Is methods, The new system makes its slowly, because it has to face the in- sted opposition of the immense mass of who, under spolls methods, run our tical machines and control the nominat- ay make The THE | sc by pas who not W sincere tics a homage. These men bread-and-butter business. way of earning their livin, ent w perfectly well they could not the strength of their own Wpetition with other American citi- ey have to rely upon favor and and upon being given un- and improper advantages because of political ~ work, often because of political dirty work. In consequence are interested and violent opponents the elvil service law] and b their per- ent elamor and misrepresentation they mislecad honest but slow-minded or eless private citizens. Of course the la y of men who are indifferent to their pub-* They hold e on merits o men with are natural opponents of On our side Is ranged the mass of honest and Intelligont public We have the support of the citi s who do not wish ofice for themselve who do wish to see our politics made er and the government administered on a business basis. y fact that it difenlt Interests of office-mon- makes the wvertholoss Year by new methods. tion rally effectively office-seeking, ofice-holding, ing classes. This It Is that dway of tha reform slow. » reform gains ground stesdily. right, opponent. sentation demagogic ance speech against the argument of a_ very brilllant the lower recent debate over the income an effort to appeal to a portion of the audi- ence which did not seem to be in sympathy Mr. Cockran took a shot at the which 1 nothing more to do than He announced him, service W, his_discourse h: with the law of himself as opps tended to give an advantage to the rich as inasmuch as the rich man could get the education that would en- examinations. of the arguments against the civil Iy stupid to be amusing, irly delicious in its is th inst the poor man, him are too d but this was The plain who enter the government service as cle copyists and letter carriers under the civil similar to s or their friends who enter similar positions in private bi firms and companies. no more apt to become a letter carrl he is to become a porter banking which high technic: must of course be filled by people with the ary were o he would have to advance the theory as anything about astrons man who becaus learn about surs vice thren, man who know nor anything about surveying, to be educated in order veying and astronomy, and only a man with little Moreover, at tions under people graduate and It 1s these public sc hool graduates of excuse in this couns o every There is absolutely n try of free public schools for any man not having all the knowledge requisite to pass the civil service have it, is thus unfit system equivalent to an a schools aristocracy are able to read and write., FOR GOOD AMERICA As a matter of the positions in the governme elsewhere, who but with their hands. erniment carriers which politic makes the class of » homes and own home life, hands for but who are able to afford thne for their private amusements and for and who can se ad bread, noney | thelr publio the comforts of their wives and sho American is these than g00d more system is 1 The appre of Labor, read and listened by senators and I hav, takes refuge of the facts, declamation. A of the average the law in house, Hon. with gravitation. sed to pass th tact of course law are prec their cous! The spe 1 knowled, house. attainments 1t to apply his should not employ as surveyor any to means can get least 4 the civil service who pass of our the great majority creates an create an which includes fact the held, and not only are work arvice, and the the like, strength and with duties also, children; in cltizens. It others to their any that 1s, by the rs in Wa to members of yet to see or use he believes sheer or else a fairly congressional was furnished by Bourke Cockran, to this law A millionai; in a Wall street o is demanded the fdea the per cent of the posis law examinations public examinations. he simply shows that he has not availed himself of the opportunity given him by the nation and the state. ho Is unfit to hold any position under the government, and it is his own fault that he The argument that our pres. “aristocracy” is ument that all common aristocrac all N CITIZENS. great ut service, as must with Printers in railway malil clerks belong of n who have who work whom ly of vital moment tho men who are crowded out of public of- fice by the politicians and the heelers of the politicians wherever spoils methods prevail iation of this fact has been very plainly shown by one division of the Knights lotter carriers for themselves and for their friends. The best way to drive these men out of public life Is to secure the rigid enforcement of the civil service laws and their extension to every office which they possibly can cover. At least 99 per cent of the work done for the public is work which Is not properly political at all. The rallway mail clerk, the letter carrier, the copyist, the book: keeper, the laborer on the public works, the laborer in the navy vard, the gauger, the internal revenue collector, each and overy | A one of these officers, and many other officers of similar character, have in reality nothing in Lis duties that should properly entitle them to be called in any way political. Each offico of this kind should be filled wholly without regard to politics by a man fit to fill it, and that man should be kept In as long as he does his work well and faith- fully, precisely as he would be kept in any business firm or by any private employer. The only way to secure decent people their proper Muence in public life is to drive out the herd of mercenary self-seckers who fat~ ten on the foulness in public places, and who owe their very existence primarily and es- sentially to the spoils system The civil service law and the methods of civil service reformation are entitled to the hearty support of every honest and in. telligent ;American who 'understands the conditions of American public life, and who is sincerly attached to the well being of his country. The letter carriers have shown by thelr re- peated action in convention that they are | thoroughly awake to the fact that the civil service law offers the greatest, and we may say almost the only, protection'to the honest workingman who wishes to serve the gov- ernment as letter carrier, and be appointed on the ground of fitness and be retained as long as his services warrant it. They recog- nized cordially the fact that but for the civil service law each and every one of them would be at the mercy of any fifth-rate politician who desired his place for a friend or relative. They also, I am glad to say, realize that the only trouble with the elvil service law is that it does not go far enough. The commission should have much more power than it has now, so as to prevent dismissals for partisan reasons, and to allow every public servant a chance to see any charges made against him and to be heard in his own defense before he s dismissed. TH: RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. No better object lesson in civil service re- form could be wished than that furnished by the railway mall service. Under the old system this service, which required peculiar skill, has changed pretty nearly from top to bottom with every change of administra- tion. Hard working, falthful men who had devoted years to the service of the people, irrespective of party, were suddenly turned out to make room for people with more political influence, and the latter in turn, just about the time that they became able to render good service, were themselv thrust forth to make room for new ap- pointees, With every change of admini tration these sweeping changes were made, resulting in the utmost misery and suffer- ing to the wives and families of many of the people thus turned adrift, and in a very serious loss to the public through the in- efficiency of the new men while learning their duties. Four years ago, however, the rallway mall service was put under prote tion of the civil service law. In Gonsequenc: when the administration changed last the people in the railway mail protected. — They staid ‘in, and the they would stay in, as long as they cent work. There was no suffering their wives and families, there was no healthy and pernicious ' excitement outsiders to get places to which they wer not entitled, and instead of there being, as always up to that time after a change of ad ministration, a great falling off (in the efliciency of the railway mail service, th efliciency went on steadily increasing ex- actly as it had increased for the three years previously ADVANTAGE LOVE MARING IN MEXICO ashington. very many the How it is Done, with a Few Hints from One Who Has Had Experience, Without VERITABLE LAND OF ROMANCE Strict Rules of Etiquette Make it DiMcult for the Lover, Yet the Southern Heart Beats Passionately and Wicked Our average Black Eyes Are Plentiful. misrepre- mere typical MONTEREY, Mex., March 6.—(Correspond- ence of The Bee.)—Love in the nineteenth century laughs at etiquette as it did of yore, and at locks and locksmiths. Yet here Ma: ter Cupid must laugh at both, for the charm- ing senoritas are surrounded by iron bars in rl»ull‘y_ nd by those of etiquette. The lovers are never trusted out of the sight of the elderly chaperone, and even when the senorita wishes to take a promenade on the plaza she must be accompanied by some near relative or propriety would be most dread- hllly shocked. Every American coming to this vnumrv expects to find beautiful women, and natur- ally is disappointed when he does not find them. He does not stop to glance at the small women but gauges the beauty of the ladies here by the magnifi t figures of the American women, and of course their Mex- ican sisters suffer by this comparison. The American girl is the acknowledged queen of the world. The cosmopolitan blending of the bluest blood flows in her veins and justly makes her the pride of her country, The ! Mexlcan girl is really beautiful, but of course e B I ihocial schaols, | not from an Amerlcan standard. — She s age in the city May 1, 1893, truly smaller, but the outlines of her figure T e poetic as those of the Venus of Milo retired from the Pope Mexican woman s a sculptor's very in Harvard on aceount It is a shame that we are so puri achieved fame in two in our form of dress, but the time e of the gre: st when a beautiful figure will be al- country has produced, and as the author ot | lowed to show itself for art's sak 1s art the popular college song, ‘“The Lone Fish | more beautiful than nature? Surely not Ball." He perpetrnted the ditty at a meet. | yet we will study Zhe nude of the old masters ing of the Harvard faculty as a joke on one | and think we have reached rtain height of his colleagues. In some way the song got | of culture. How can it be very excellent out, and at once beeame the rage. when the masters had but indifferent opp The boquest of $140,000 by J. C. Wilmer. | tunities to know They would paint the ding to the California state university for a | hand of one woman, the foot of another and manual training sohool is thought by the | perhaps give it an imaginavy head. university re too small properly The really beautiful women, the ideal to maintain The proposition is | and there are many of them both in Amer- now being made to-unite this bequest with | ica and here—owe a duty to art, and if they the Lick legacy of $60,000, and thus have a | do not pose for it rob society of a cholce in well endowed insitution It is seventen | spiration, rs since JamesiLick died, yet the funds We will not find this artistic education for the mechanic smet schol, which he de. ve tedious. It will take the form of in signed, have only just become available. spiration with men; perhaps with the women President Eliot oftHarvard says that there | who do not possess these artistic lines it will is scarcely a single subject taught nowadays | be difficult work. A beautiful woman, like a in the same way itiwas taught thirty years | beautiful horse, appeals to every man's ago, and that ewem law, the most con. | heart servative of studies, is now treated in an entirely different amethod from that which prevailed in former years. That method, he adds, 18 being adopted all over the country. and 18 making its way into the English uni versities. Then, too, the teaching of the scl ences and languages has been atly changed. Bvidently the college graduate ot twenty-five years standing must soon re. gard himself as a back number. e i to the diet of the poorer classes of Saxony, it is noteworthy that ac cording to offic publicati now at hand 217 horses were slaughtered in Saxony last orator of in tax. In the. rest of because it THEODORE ROOSEVELT. —— EDUCATIONAL. Most servico surdity, the men ks, A New York woman has given $100,000 to the building fund of the Methodist univer- sity in Washington. Dean Wayland of the Yale law school says there is no truth in the report that Mr. Eds ward J. Phelps intends to resign his pro. fessorship of equity and international law. The report of the school board of Boston shows the number of schools the city to be 590 regular and twenty-th special; nuiber of teachers in regular schools, 1,411} in special 109; average atten e their positions in did de- con| nong loglcaly, ot school! astronomer arc The dream, tanical will come. Lane, who has just professorship of Latin of old age, has directions, namely, Latin scholars this Knowa one has education, are fillea such schools TO APPLICANTS. Under the civil service reform system each man tries for his place and, if successful, obtains it in open and above board contest on his merlts with his fellow citizens, un- hampered and unhelped by favoritism. All he has to do is to take his examination and then go about his daily business until he either gets or fails to get an appointment. Under the spoils system, on the contrary, every applicant for office has to give up his business and kick his heels in the ante-room of some big politician, or else strive to win a place by doing the political work of the local political bosses. There are many competi- tors for each place, and instead of having to rest his case on his merits each man has to try to undermine his rivals by obtaining more soclal or political influence than they have. In consequence he has to indulge in a struggle demoralizing in the extreme and ut- terly destructive of the office-secker's man- hood Under the merit syetem we got on the whole a better set of public servants, and the public work s done better, But this is not the chief good conf by the abolition of the old spolls system. More important than the betterment of the public service iy the infinite betterment of public life which the adoption of the new system sccures. On the whole, the spoils system is the most de- grading of the various influences that work for evil In American public life. We wish to | 4 get rid of the spoils seeker, of the patronage | year. That is 352 more than in 1891. Of the educ monger and ghe political office-holder, ex- | dogs, according to official statements, there t, who are | actly as we wish to get rid of the bribe giver | Were 422 butchered; thereby, however, is ap men | and the bribe taker, for it is almost as de- | parently meant only the number of dogs the merlt | moralizing to be bribed with an office as it is | actually killed in slaughter houses, for the They are | to be bribed with money. We want to drive | number of dogs actually slaughtered must the mere Hesslans out of our political life. | be considerably larger, when there i such We want to remove from the arena of poli- | a comparatively large consumption of dog tics the trained mercenaries whose interest is | flesh by the poorer classes of the people not to secure decent government and some- | Even cat flesh s not disdained by many times not even party success, but who aim to | persons, and badgers, foxes, sparrows and as can the places, 1t he does In short W (3 people an who THE MEXICAN GIRL is not handsome, She is beautiful. Her lustrous eyes, regular features and pretty form, combined with her suave manner, make her the equal of any of her foreign sisters lie 18 bright and vivacious, and polite to h an extent that she makes poor Amerl s uncomfortable, while her manner in conversation makes one feel as though he had known her all his life. ~ With the excep tlon of an occasional wicked glance she quite nbles an angel. It is really remarkable innocent a Mexican girl can look. In the Innoxiousness of her countenance appeals to one and we ipvariably think that but for the want of a halo and some gor geously trimmed costumes in gold braid she would make an excellent saint. Now the best part of it is she s not as much of a int as she looks, whether it 1s of her nat ural inglination or because gold braid | high, but T do know that she | s ready for & flirtation, just our Omaha Eirls A little romance It I8 In the atmosphere. bulk of e held, by their heads the gov- ltter the class our hody thelr own hard dally and cusy to With regard res how chure [ like dear e of life It pervade Here all the in the is the sp &ain at the expense of the public a livelihood | crows are eatem classes and exists in everything houses with th dows, in the m very costumes Juliets, too, To carry on a Mexican, bu for the chance: of Spanish, to ask for a di it comes to proj he simply isn't in it. actually e do greater numbe final before w THE INTERESTIN Flirtations, country, ar participants gaze without utteri matters have adjusted themselves p they become if all parties five or the lovers are another alone, it on the sly. glve zest to ladders and On the plaza itscharming most likely m women_promen: way while the a policeman is behaves himsel was he fell in Oh! she was have since n old idea that a not apply in not only love several at a tin times a day ai However, this without some i place I was con ners and custc saw the objec promenade and wreat d love, ¢ enough. wa little Engli where Brown-J patiently for h by the way, of my intentic started across seated. Before ever, I was sel; as white as you do it, my her relatives w CARRYINI ich a warn of any lover, s on a flirtation i first find out w must follow he is also are following h your instrumen baleony. You perhaps for w will drop you petit. It is a Romeo did in one of the do look out for nading unless big game, as dreadfully’ unp! course, 1o tron serenade little is though I followed the streets, to whe entered the ho secreted myself the impression her balcony la a few minutes dressed entirel me. This prov as he had hi could not ident h, and w 1 could n lover gentleman coul lish, so0 th that The sprang up b ards, and sha friends. Then Top Centre everywhere. or six years. midnight e on the plaza that the writ sh, so 1 adyisab) is a very for an Oak or for a mboo Easel, SCREEN, worth worth $1.50. for a Poli for a fine ather worth $2.00. worth $5.00. upon the bea cussed plans to her w mostly eir balconies and barred win- in their yes and usic and in the people one sees Romeos, mpra a flirtation is hard even for t doubly so for an American, s are he cannot speak a word at best may only be able sh of ham and eggs, so when pounding the gentle sentiment Yet many Americans arry on flirtations, but the v of them are brought to a ords become necessary. PERIOD. like everything else in slow. For six months the into one another's eyes ng a word. After this, if operly, engaged, and perhaps, even a willing, they marry for During the betrothal permitted to see one of course, they do these precautions only | love, encouraging rope | £pooning. vening the band plays mu and here the lovers | yy cet for the first time. The | a1 this effort ade around the square in one | Putting on m men go in the opposite, and | cooling. 1 sug there to see that every man | 41d po’ homo. It and keeps his place. It | parodto give TSt | search of son but I cony, but one of the up one over t plan. We crc | to the balcon: above the pa they a and the ¢ So we went in this | top, and I w to the hous himself agal had removed siderable tapped swer effo gently never came; unle: But their curtain climbed o gr over (4] fon Dieu, wite a confession, [ a handsome creature, t dozens equally so. ‘The man can love but once does Mexico. Here a man can more than once, but love He can fall in love three i still have a good appetite. particular episode is not | nterest. At the time it took | npletely ignorant of, the man ms of Mexican etiquette. 1 t of my admiration on the | she smiled graciously. This cal for her to do, as she was ucif But that smile was s told that could speak resolved to ask her | ones lived, and after waiting or to drop something, which, never did, told a friend 15 to speak to her, and so the plaza to where she was > reaching the place, hov zed by my friend, who' looked ghost, and said: “Don't boy; they will st you, or ill" shoot you G ON A FLIRTATION ing is apt to cool the s y my friend proposed to ca n the proper way. One must here she lives; to do this you r home from the plaza. It | lo to let her see that you cr. At midnight return with its and serenade under her must continue this cou ecks, and then perhaps sh her ‘handkerchief or a_ billet | very good plan to do as | sliciting the assistance of mestics, and also to always ‘breakers.”” Never go sere your weapons are loaded for possibly they may make it leasant for you. Yet, of | ble is likely to happen, as a [ That dazed n common thing here, and h o a1 t ot it. To be conventional e falr » senorita down long, dark | o M5 the fh re she lived. After she had i With use I crossed the street and Al in a dark passage way, under | in't that 1 might her on | i1l ter. 1 had been there only | L8t laughts ¥rom lips br when a low creeping figure TOIR. SRR HE y in black, came in beside | Lost laughter ed to be another lover, and | Of boyhaod's 1 lood pulled “over his face I | That rounded, ify him. He accosted me To serenading hilo I was explaining to him | Ayhen Starbe t speak that language another | | e iied to the doorway. The second wed ove 1 speak & few words of Eng 1 compared notes, and found | ach following the gir), | OF coolest t friondship immediately [ FRPERET Wi 1 us, each h ¥ | Lift your king hands agreed to be | Gut of the we entered Into & long culogy The lips of The followl | window again, | musicians, w | soften her [ tisten to | taugh when t man's Midwa scarcely at a lower i 1 stood and sehor an: but an Ameri | dows are heav | ceal the inter ord, Amerlc white hand a and- the iron impressed o } gently slipped Befor Now, my last night until I have se have only m are as interes love as mysel speuk of 1ts do not know, done, | ous, but the o life 1 to live it LAND ¢ Beyond the Beyond the ra And only in re lies a In golden seas Along thefr dr $1.50. $8.00. Pillow, 1dow. should get a ladde Me: sked me to foundation we the corner. T weight ‘of the second I could just re had made a mi proud h finished window saying or They tell James Whitcomb wraptured gaze chanted in that mystic peering land of love And shining fleld 1" with wild forget alr 00 for an Infant's Folding Orib worth $6.00. a Sceretary Book Case, worth $15.00. $4.45 for an IRON BED, worth l 00¢ Full-8izad Comfort, worth $2.00. uty of our lady love, and dis- whereby we might bring her These were many, but 1 sug ted that we and climb up to her bal- ladder was to be found, Then xicans proposed that we climb le other, and we adopted this ed the’ street and looked up it was probably twenty feet ement. As 1 was the tallest stand first, but I declined, s objected to become the olved to shake dice for it. \to*a neat little cantina around he first man out was to be on s the lucky man. We returned and the first Mexican braced nst the wall, supported thfT™g Mexfcan, and aftor X my shoes I climbed up on top. ach the balcony, and with co ri pulled myselt up to it. ¥ on the window, but 1o an- again and again, louder and ctical. the | louder, but no ‘mk eyes pierced through the With a iling and last put effort T my eye the me. close to the glass. it is a storage room ake, and had gone to for nothing, I dropped down. y shoes, and feeling my ardor gested we should take a drink But the others were not pres up so easily, so they went in ne musicians for a serenade, while T returned to my hotel. 1% evening found me under the this time accompanied by two hose beautiful mu might art and_impulse her to pleadings. My friends will hey hear I sang Henry Nor- v Plaisance to her. 1 had when 1 heard a soft voice not two feet from whe 1s an Englishman?" swered: “Not an Englishman an. ""Now, these lower wine ily barred, and portieres con= for. As I pronounced the last an, with becoming pride, a soft ppeared between the curtaing bars, 1 seized it and tenderly iss upon it, and as I did o it away, and all was sllence-an ar reader, this happened only I cannot continue my story en more of the fair senorita, X itioned it because I fancy you ted in W Wi making f wwriters about Mexico wanners of love-making. They and they do not care how it Is you everything I8 barbars way o Know real Mexican MILES, nly it A. EDWARD - )E THE USED-TO-BE. iy, trees laries the nge of eyes like the reach of the of Memory, fand long lost (6 me— £ Used-to-be! such a8 Swung when sirens clung ipping brinks, and sung wrge men with its melody, ul, with such a sea hores eternally, Usied-to-} music ever girds belts of singlng bird unds with such swee he low of herds ye weet Lo me, r ripples limpldly fmimed over with the glee Used-to-be. and the whistled tunes nouth of crescent runes, through long afternoonsy plenilines. chit fell so mistily, up from bended knee was bridal drapery t Used-to-be. und dreamy thoughts, 10 shady spots { grassy plots, mo-not that longingly i to me n Hons. thes words loom ast 1 ki the Use