Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1909, Page 6

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X Enermln;fi(;iolje “‘gimlet” bur- glaries augurs well for the peace of St. Louis householders. When the farmer travels by airship it will be of no use for the Thanks- giving turkey to roost high. —— As a mild substitute for foot ball the college rush seems to have met its Waterloo in the lowa fatalfty. i — With the uitra-dairymen taking to brushIng thett eoWs" teeth, it will next bé ‘I “ofdér ‘for them to sterllize the hay. \ v o e Tennessee’s contribution of marble for Nebraska's. Lincoln monument seems to have got the marble heart from Seulptor French. With the rallroads facing demands for higher wages by trainmen, they know how the shippers feel about de- mands for increased freight rates. Mr. Rockefeller's remark In class mefting .that he had been struggling for sixty years must have made his hearers struggle to hide their smiles. ——— The hold of the past upon the pres- ent is in exemplified in the selec- tion by the New theater of the same old Serpent of the Nile for its opening. 1y - Discovery by the laundry exposition that the governor of Utah has not a white shirt to his back puts him in the hallrof fame with Sockless Jerry Simp- son, If the forestry service discover a " eure for the parasite that is killing off the chestnut trees, it might go a step further and eradicate the worm that burrows into every nut. The man who was run over by three autos before he could scramble out of the dust is entitled to demonstrate to in English the exact meaning of the phrase, “in quick succession.” . That newly popular word, “‘solidar- ity,” has established his credentials as L ® delegate to the labor convention, in #pite of the fact that of late he has "baen working over the elght-hour \ Hmit, Findipg France and Spaln unsympa- thetlc for their famous wines, the Carthusian monks are going to make one more effort in Hungary, which sounds more like a place for viands than for vines. Sclentific report that appendicitis is killing off the turkey .rop shows how far the bird has advanced in the patri- clan set since the days when common place wet feet were blamed for the annual shortage. " —_— As was to have been expected, the most radical “‘progressives” are not “‘progressive’” enough to suit the amia. ble democratic World-Herald. If any- one wants applause from the World- Herald he must enlist under the demo- cratic banner. President Taft is almost back in the White House after his long tour of the country. We will bet a big, red apple that at no stopplug place in the whole list did the president have more real fun than he did during his two hours’ entertalnment by King Ak-Sar-Be royal opery troupe at the Den. Good Advice. It Is too bad that every ambitious man and woman in Omaha could not have heard the address delivered at the Auditorium by Booker T. Washington. While Mr. Washington directed his re- marks chiefly to his own race, most of what he said is just ae applicable to all our -people as it Is to the negro ele- ments in the community. Particularly is this true with referencé to his in- sistence that before the race problem can be solved each member of the race must work out hie own Individual problem. Mr. Washington declared that no negro could help contribute to the amelioration of the race unless he first put himself and his family upon a substantial foundation of self-support and decent living. He urged overy negro to make it his initial object of 1ife to acquire & home of his own and make it so presentable that it will be a credit to himself and his people. He urged that the possession of a trade by which an honest Ifvelihood could be earned is the best Inheritance that could be passed on to the children. He emphasized the solidarity of the race by showing that the worst pulled down the best and that as a measure of self-protection .the bettar educated and more prosperous help pull the poorest up from the bot- tom. As we have sald at the outset, this common-sense advice is just as applica- ble to whites as it is to blacks. We all know people who are busy solving na- tional and international problems who have their* own individual problems unsolved at their own front doors. We know that the idle whites are just much a class of undesirables as idle blacks and we know that the posses- sion of a home hae the same steadying and sobering effect on a white man that it does on a black man. We know that there s no degradation in labor borestly performed, no matter by whom performed. We know that the average of intelligence, 'morals and business prosperity is the mean struck between the top and theibottom and that the only sure way to raise the average is by the elevation of the lower class as well as the upper cla Ina nutshell—good advice for the negro is good advice for everyone. Mr. Taft comes back 'to_his desk at Washington with an atcumulated reall- zation of national conditions that can not fall to serve him well in his con- sideration of the immediate problems that éonfront him. “His visit among the people will doubtless be found to have donme all concerned much good, for while the presidential presence and policies have been brought into more intimate touch with the public, the ex- ecutive has gathered at first hand the general sense of the west and south a8 to subjects of possible legislation. 8o that In a way the president, coming found them, and to present to congress his conclusions, may be likened to the hufbandman of a vast estate' who has been looking over his flelds and vine- yards with a view to advising his stew- ards as to their further care. Politicians will immediately besiege the presidential office with candidacies for vacancies to be filled, and with arguments on matters of congressional legislation, and it will be found to be not amiss for the president to have fortified his own opinions by personal contact with the people, as-an addi- tional basis for White House confer- ences during the busy wgeks to come. Giving the Hi Show. Of late years the horse has been-only a secondary part of the show which bears his name, and in the announce- ment, from the great Néw York exhibi- tion that this year the horses are at- tracting more attention than the gowns the equine may be considéred as re- turning to his own. Fashlone of the season must indeed be unobtrusive if they have suffered themselves to take play of new styles among the smart set and their imitators. For the falr sex to permib that an- imal whose doom has been announced by the strident voice of the automobile, to obscure the fall display of gowns, would seem to indicate a return of the reins to reigning favor. Now that New York has set the pace we may look for a winter which gives precedence to the pony coat, the pony cart, the pony bal- let, and the pony of liquid refresh- ment. The kingdom offered in Shake- gpedre's day appears for the moment to have been restored-to thé horse. Taking Chances With Life. Just as an unfamiliar band likes to tinker with a plece of clockwork, so man continues to toy with that fasci- nating plece of mechanism he knows as the human body: <And; having in a measure come to understand physical part of man’'s nature he ex- periments with the mental. We all know the story of the man who put the watch together again and had a few wheels left over, and this is just the sort of thing that has been hap- pening of late to some ef the amateur and professional hypnotists and others who exploit the occult. It recently took one of the cleverest of physicians half a day to restore to consciousness a college student mesmerized by his experimental chum, and now the vic- tim of one of the peripatetic “‘profes- gors’” of black art has died on his hands. Since the day when & celebrated New York clubman was csrried out of a tashionable parlor in New York and dissected, while his mother still pro- tested that he was merely in a cata- leptic state, these ignorant experiments negroes must | back to review conditlons as he has| a back seat at the show which so long | has been regarded as.the official dis- | the | with hypnosis have gone on unchal- lenged. The fact that they so fre- quently result disastrously or leave the mentality of the subject permanently weakened, ought in time to demon- strate with some degree of conviction the folly of indiseriminate submiskion to such adventurers in a world of un- known chaneces. Contrasts Court Methods. To those in this country who have }(nllowed the court procedure in the case of Mme. Steinheil, the treatment of the prisoner must have seemed merciless. In an American court, no woman could possibly be subjected to such an Inquisition; nor could even a man be so hectored and insulted by either lawyer or judge as has this woman, who is fighting so tremend- ously for her life. An American court |presumes the accused to be innocent |until proven guilty, and the prisoner {must in all cases be given the benefit |of reaspnable doubt. In France the presumption s reversed, and the in- nocence must be established. Here the |right of trfal by jury is guaranteed; |there, the court determines the guilt. |Here, there are strict rules of evi- dence; there, the court listens to any- thing that promises to serve to throw |light on the ca But if there is a contrast in pro- cedure, 8o also, there is a contrast in results. In justice to the French courts, let it be sald that behind all the apparent cruelty in the grilling of the prisoner, the baiting of witnesses, and the public insults to which even the voice of the judge contributes, is usually an earnest effort to get at the absolute truth. It is the French rule to consider every shred of fact or opin- fon that may help to determine the verities. The effectiveness of the sys- tem {s shown in the result that in France more than 80 per cent of the murderers are punished, while in the United States all but 4 per cent es- cape. In America, we observe that it is better ten gullty men escape than that one innocent man suffer. In France, the innocent sometimes must suffer to make sure no guilty man es- capes. Who would trade American for French criminal justice? One of our gensational contempo- raries has conjured up a terrible ca- lamity hovering over the Omaha Grain exchange because some of the business men who have been serving on the di- rectory have been asked to be relleved and called upon the grain men to take more responsibility in the manage- ment. The Bee has no speelal interest in one ticket or another that is up for the directory, but the suggestion that the big grain men who have invested their money in expensive terminal ele- vators here want to destroy the Omaha Grain exchange is too self-evidently ridiculous. The Omaha grain market is a success, and the men who make a business of buying and selling have everything at stake in keeping it a success, and in building up the market. They are not going to kill the hen that lays the golden egg, and the appeal /to business men who are members of the Grain exchange to protect the ex- change againgt the grain men sounds like a far cry. Recelpts under Nebraska's new cor- poration tax aggregate over $55,000, of which, in spite of the questioned constitutionality, one-third was pald without protest. The validity of the law imposing this tax is being tested in the courts, and it the law is an- nulled those who have paid under pro- test will ask the return of their money. It goes without saying that if this money proves to have been illegally collected it should be returned, protest or no protest. On the other hand, it the law holds good the state will be able to count on an annual revenue of upward of $60,000 from this source. ————— Discussing the fatalities among Al- pine climbers, medical authorities agree that most of them are caused by |the folly of persons of sedentary habits in attempting to scale the peaks with. out first consulting a physiclan as to their bodily fitness. The theory that heart trouble is really to blame in most cases attributed to misplaced footing may serve to awaken tourists a serlous undertaking, involving as ‘Ihnugh(ful preparation as any other |form of viclent athleties. Governor Shallenberger has come around to the position of The Bee with reference to the erection of a historical soclety building. The Bee has urged from the first that the historical library and the legislativa reference library be consolidated with the state library for purposes of housing and ad- ministation, and be lnstalled with the supreme court in one wing of a suitable building that will eventually be a new state house. It is not too late to get back to this common-sense plan, By actual count 267 half-pint bottles of whisky and 65-pint bottles of the same succulent beverage were dug up in a drug emporium at Fifteenth and O streets shortly after 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon coln Star. Lest we forget! This is supposed to have happened in Lincoln, where everything is dry and everybody pre- sumed to be past the stage of tempta- tion. The very fact that Senator Aldrich is taking the trouble to visit the middle-west ‘to discuss the currency problem with our business men re- flects a growing appreciation of the fmportance of the business interests of this section. What eastern financier would have thought it worth while ten years ago to ¢ome to Omaha, Kan- to the fact that mountair climbing is | along | In & raid on the place by the police.—Lin- | sas City and Des Moines for sugges- tions in formulating a currency pro- gram? And it is true that the scions of the Bryan family of the second generation are to be placed in school in Germany. None of the democracy of the public schools of this free country of vurs for thém. Democracy 18 all right to | preach, but for other people to prac- tice. In the case of that English mayor who urges the painless killing of all feeble-minded persons, the suspicion naturally arises that, like the charac- ter in ““The Mikado,” he's “‘got a little 1ist.”" Outclansed. Washington Post Americans have voted graveyards in their elections, but it remained for the English ta put spooks on the spellbinder platform. — Conservation of Resources. Indianapolis News. Here and there the disbanding of a foot ball team for the season indicates that some progress is being made in the oon- servation of our national resources in the way of young men. Revealing a Cold Truth, ‘Washington Herala. “We don't mjnd Informing the Wash- ington Herald we would not give a chap- arral and jack-rabbit county in Texas for the states of Kansas and Nebraska com- bined and everything In them,” avers the Houston Post.” Whether you would er not, O sweetest, gentlest, and most demure of all esteemed contemporaries, doubtless you never will, and for the compellingly suf- ficlent reason that It takes at least two to make a trade, The Foot Ball Orisis. Washington Herald. The fate of the game of foot ball as an intercolleglate sport Is probably tremb- ling in the balance, unless the rules of the game can be 0 modified as to prevent the violent collision of the players’ in mass formation or as Individuals. When Lorin F. Deland at Harvard about twenty years ago devised the flying wedge, there was a great outery agafnst this particular forma- tion, and since then from time to time various intercolleglate committees have persistently tussled with the problems of how many men should be allowed back of the line, how. far apart the opposing elevens should stand when the ball is put in play, what shall be considered fair and what is to be reckoned unfair tackling—and all the other questions Incident to the characteris- tic feature of the game—the element of violent personal contact, which Is what draws great crowds to see the game played. FREE ALCOHOL'S HANDICAP. Ome of the Obatacles to Greater De- velopments, Boston Transcript. In the fullness of time the people of this country will probably become adjusted to the manufacture and profitable use of free denatured alcohol, though thus far their progress toward that desired industrial goal has been regrettably slow. The Minne- apolls Farm, Stock and, Home, an agri- cultural paper, challenges a statement golng the rounds’ of the press that farmer: show no disposition to buy stills and that the law is a fallure. It declares that farmers in that sectlon have been not only willing but edgér to buy stills and for three years have been Importuning manu- facturers to #ipply their needs either for farm or co-operative- nelghborhood pur- poses. But one reason why cheap stills have not been made has been a §20 tax, under an old revenue law, on every still or worm sold. This does not amount to much on the large and high priced stills, but Interferes with the profitable manufac- ture of those under $10. Prof. Snyder of the Minnesota School of Agriculture has found that beets as an ordinary crop, grown at a cost of $5 or $6 and yleld- ing at a conservative estimate fifteen tons to the acre, would make 300 gallons of al- cohol, which at 10 cents a gallon would be & good return on the land. Soft corn, damaged wheat, windfall apples and other waste products of the farm would also possess a value that is now lacking. “In in this one, and In no other country should it be 50 extensively used,” says the journal from which we have quoted. MINDING OWN BUSINESS, Government Refuses ¢ Dabble in the Polar Squabble, Washington Post. The state department, through Assist- ant Secretary Wilson, has done a very nice plece of work In refusing to become embrolled in the nolsome mnorth pole squabble. A few sclentists, wishing to constitute themselvos umpires of the Cook- Peary dispute, are understood to have ap- proached the department in an attempt to enlist its support in inducimyg the Univer- Ity of Copenhagen to surrender its right to examine the Cook records, at least to permit the officious American sclentists to be present at the examination. |sclentific log rollers were courteously in- |tormed that the department did not care |to be used as a convenlence In thelr opera- | ttona, A The government has mo possible interest in the squabble between alleged pole finders and their partisans. It might with propriety direct the attestion of a few overszealous sclentists on hs pay roll to thelr afficlal |duties, as beig paramount wo their self- | appointed task of umpiring the Cook-Peary | quarrel. Possibly the duties of these func- tionaries Include the task of serving upon pompous polar commissions, whose deci- sions upon pemmican, open leads, blubber, and blurred observaulons must be accepted as final and binding upon the groveling and besotted proletariat. Possibly should the entire government ged n? If it is the duty of | setentists now on the goverament pay |to mettle this controversy, wny don’t they go abead and settle It? Anc if it is not in the line of their duty, wry are they wasting the government's time in fooling [with 1t? As for the second request sent by buresu offictals, to the University of Co- penhagen, they would be properly an- swered it th: Copenhagen authorities should invite dhem to retire t0 = place warmer {than the pole. They were courteously snubbed once, What more do they want? Must they Ingist upon belng xicked down- stalds? However, or be these roll these | the whole matter is trifiing so long as responsible officers perceive the propriety of making the governmen mind its own business. NOVEMBER 10, root | no country can it be made cheaper than | The | but | 1909 Around New York Ripples on the OCurrent of Life as Seen in the Great Amerioan Motropolis from Day to Day. While the wind was gently moving off- shore at the Battery last Friday, a soore of reporters quartered at the ship news office got occasional whiffs of an odor strong enough to warrant a post-mortem. A short distance off were two trunks just in from the emigrant station. The more the reporters sniffed the odor, the more their eyes centered on the trunks. The trafl of the odor was unmistakable. It led directly to the trunks. What did they con- tain? The odor Indicated some decaying substance. Policemen joined the reporters, and loungers swelled the crowd, all re- maining at a respectful distance. Tests by various acute nostrils developed a beliet there was a trunk mystery worth investl- gation. Possibly a crime was commiitted and concealed In the trunks. The polica decided to act, and shipped the trunks to the station. The reporters hooked onto the telephone ear of thelr respective city cditors, Presently the station was erowded with gumshoe word painters, pussie solvers and camera men. When the stage setting was all ready for the main act, a police- man knocked the 114 off the first trunk. All windows were thrown up and one of he party volunteered to take from the top | tray & round bundie. He held the bundle aloft and remarked: ‘“That looks like a head."” The cop who peered into the bundle after making an opening through & solled under- shirt sald it was & head—of chees The ship news men looked foolish and the sleuth reporters made what they would call In the language of the sleuths, a quick getaway. The cops put the lid back on the trunk after removing four other large heads of cheese of various shapes and, sending a larger assortment of odors than even the veterans of the trunk mystery squad ever thought could be put into or come out of & small trunk. It begins to look .as though the moving plattorm for street pedestrians would soon reach the experimental stage In New York. A corporation called the Continuous Tran- sit company has applied for officlal per- mission to lay under Broadway, from Tenth street to Forty-second street, such platform and to operate the same. The plan contemplates a serfes of four moving plattorms on each side of the street. The first is to move at the rate of three miles an hour, the second at six, the third at nine and the fourth at twelve. On this latter would be seats for those who | cared to sit down. A fare of five cents for a round trip Is to be charged. The proposition is now under consideration by the city authorities. A doubting Thomas in trousers visited the recent woman suffrage convention, held in Carnegle Hall. He went to revile; he came away to ‘praise. Here are some of his tributes: “A notable gathering. “A well-organized and well-conducted convention. “The delegates thoughttul. “The speakers were exceptionally able. “The proceedings were businessilke in the highest degree. “There was a sense of the greatness and importance of the movement. *No organization of men:could have mani- fested more serfousness of purpose or a more zealous devotion to & worthy cause.’ Asked 1f his wife ‘was there, he sal “Well T guess not. She doesn't believe in woman suffrage at all.” were intelligent and Mayor McClellan, in appointing three women to membership on the Board of Education, showed a dispomtion to distri- bute the honors evenly. Miss Ollvia Leventritt is a Jewess. Mrs. Helen Carroll Robbins {s a Roman Catholic. | Mre. Alice L. Post 1s an Episcopalian. The mayor has learned a lot about women in educational affairs since he came into |office. He has held many public hearings uring the long fight of the women school | teachers of New York for pay equal to that |of the men teachers, and has vetoed one |law compelling the city to make the ad- vances asked for. It is only falr to add |that his chief objeetion to the law was | that he believed it was an Invasion on the {part of the legislatire of the right of New York City to take care of its own affairs. His respect for women as students of public affairs, Has apparently been vastly increased, and he has made it apparent in a conspicuous menner and m an enduring form. New York has just celebrated the ter- centenary of Henry Hudson's salling up {the North river and the belated centenary of Robert Fulton's steaminy up the same |noble stream, writes Brander Matthews in |the Forum. And although the city did not |acknowledge the fact formally, it was also | |celebrating the centenary of the first work of imagination written by a native Amer- |lcan and still surviving In the memory of |the average reader. It was In 1309 that |Irving publishea Knickerbocker's History of New York; and ten years later he put forth the first numbers of the Sketch-Book, with its tales of Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman, which bestowed on the shores of the Hudson, on the Catskills and on Sleepy Hollow a little of the legend- |ary romance which had long colored the | banks of the Rhine. But in Knickerbocker's |History, Irving had bullded better than he |knew. He had done a great service to his | |native town—and also, it may be, some- |thing of a disservice, in that he poked fun lat the stalwart Dutch burghers who | |founded New Amsterdam, thus Interfered | | with the devclopment of a proper pride in the historic origins of the city. The service ‘ha performed is indisputable; he created the {tigure of Dietrich Knickerbocker and he dower:d the city of his birth with a tute- lary embodiment, & eivic personification of a %ind possessed by no other town the wide world over and standing forward boldly beside the figures which typify the | great nations. Father Knickerbocker Is as |real and as useful as Uncle Sam or John | | Bull. London lacks a typical ngure of this | vitality, and so does Parls, nor was a | similar type possessed by Rome or by | Athens even In the days of thelr pride | Responsive to the Right Pall, | Pittsburg Dispateh, | The victory of the anti-machine parts in eclecting the board of estimate in New | York advanctd the quotation of New \"\N:J City stock. The victory of the organiza- | [tion In Philadelphia advanced the quota- tion on Transit stock. The stock market |though not Infallible, seems to know what finanelal interests are beneriied by l“”" results. elec- it Is excellent for cooking and We have sold coal In Omaha twenty and Steam Coal. best coal mined. CARBON COAL, $652 PER TON rings, Hanna, Cherokes, Wainut Block, Coke, Woo OUR HARD COAL Is the D. L. & W. SCRANTON. Also sell Arkansas Anthr. |COUTANT & SQUIRES, ating - ol quick and lasting. ive yoars, and we know this to be rice. We also sell Ohio, Kindling the ite and Semi-Anthracite. ELECTION AFTERMATH. Grand Island Independent: The elec- tion, barring the single exception of Doug- las county, seems to spell the defeat of Mayor Dahlman more clearly and plainly than it has been spelled before. Blue Springs Sentinel: Jim Dahiman says that Governor Shallenberger 1s & “wolf In sheep's clothing.” It is quite generally conceded over the state that it will be unnecessary for the governor to express a counter opinfon. Plattsmouth Journal: ‘Douglas elected the entire republican ticket. Some people are so cruel as to Intimate that this was caused from Governor Shallen- berger attaching his signature to the elght- hour closing law. This probably did have something to do with the result. Hastings Tribune: Chatrman Hayward deserves no small degree of credit for the splendid manner in which he conducted the republican state campalgn. His work was of the kind that counts, and In no way Qid he or his workers do aught to advane the candidates’ interests in an un- derhand way. Beatrice Express: The World-Herald professes to find encouragement for the democratic party In the returns of the late election. While republican majorities for supreme judges are small, they show more of an endorsement of the republican party than was given a year ago when a demo- cratic governor and democratic legislature were elected. Syracuse Journal: It seems that of all the places throughout the state where those fraudulent ‘progressive republican’ circulars were mailed Byracuse was the only one where the responsible parties have been identified. We understand that the matter has been placed before the government Postoffice department, and B. . Littlefield and H. E. Baker, presi- dent and secretary, respectively, of the Otoe county democratic committee, may have to face a criminal action under the chargé of having used the malls for the purpose of circulating fraudulent docu- ments, This the Journal would personally regret; but we presume that the managers of the republican state campaign feel that it is their duty to make an example of somebody, or this sort of campatgning will €0 on from year to year as it has in the vast. county PERSONAL NOTES, ' Le Beau, 8. D., is so proud of the fact that it has no cemetery that when a stranger happened along in an automobile and ran over himself, his dying within the town limits was resented. The Connecticut courts have decided that it is no evidence that a woman Iis insane If at the age of 79 she is married to @ man of 2. The groom's eanity was not before the judges for adjudication. Claiming the distinction of being the Kking of tramps, Frank Clark of New York 47 years old, arrived In Boston on the Cestrain, from Liverpool, completing his seventh trip around the world without paying a cent for transportation or food. When the Austrian consul called upon Mayor Speer of Denver and asked his ald in finding the body of Count Louis von Vetsera, who died last Saturday, the con- sul guve officlal verification of the story that the-count was the slayer of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and Countess Marle Vetsera. Capfain Charles E. Shillaber, who 1s bullding a canal from Tampico to Tuxpam for the Mexican government, Is 70 years old. He was a sallor twenty-three years, and his great grandfather, Willlam Shillaber, was on the Bon Homme Richard with Paul Jones when he captured the Serapls iIn the English channel after a desperate fight. . BREEZY TRIFLES, Politiclan (sarcastically). I suppose you know how the country ought to be run Citizens (humbly). No; it T knew only how it's being run now. Life. “I fear,” sald young Mr. Softy, tvely, “‘that 1 wiil lose my mind." “Don't be so careless,” advised the crue fair one. “If you do, no one s likely find it few people would notice you know.”—Baltimore American. it Stubb—Yes, that is ol the man who tells so many Penn—And does he string many fish? Stubb—No, he passes most of his stringing his listeners.—Chicage News. lonel Walton, fish storles lhe duke and his flancee don't speak ‘Just a lovers’ spat, no doubt.” “No; this is more_serious have quarreled.”—Kansas City Journal Rockyboy—Do you of any practical benefit in life? Critic—Well, judging from the tographs of 'eminent musicians, it keep the hair from falling out.—St Times. pho observed the eplgrammatic is & puzzle without an answer snorted old Grumpley. “1_never saw a woman without one yet."—Bosto Transeript. GETTIN' DOWN TO FACTS. 1. You may prate of your beautitul spring timo days, When maple buds are swelling; When woods resound with warbling birds When the “sap in the oak-is welling" You may gush of days when glad sunshi Makes an excellent themé for a motto, But I sing a lay of a raw dismal day, The day when “she’ first met Otto. 1. ; You may warble of days, of beaming bright days, With skies of tender blue; You may sing of days whose sunny hours bring peace and rest to you; But 1 sing of a day of drénching rain, A day of joy to a man Who had to walk extra close to hold His umbrella o'er sweet Mary Annc ur. You may harp on those days" Of autumn—you've harped before— But I'm tred of mist and of hills sun- kissed— 1 don't like that tune any more. You may sing of such days, I cannot prevent, THo' T don't éxactly, desire 'ep 4 For T'm' sigihg &’ rMiyme' of the' Bleak, winter time, When “she” faced a blizzard. with Hiram, “olden, golden - v, Yoy may sing of meadows bright and fair, Where you wade knee-deep in clover: That song is about A% old as the rest— I've heard it over and over. But 1 sing a song of glush and sieet, When March scarce had made its entr Of the time when “she" waded ankle-decp, In the rich black mud with Henry —BAYOLL NE TRELE MINERAL WATER PRICE LIST. 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