Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1910, Page 18

THE OMAHA SU NDAY BEE FEBRUARY 27, 1 the jall except by the prisoners’ elevator floor will be similarly divided and will be ASHINGTON'S Birthday was misstoners—Fred Bruning, O. J mvk--“’ et S s G MASTER DOWLING OF NEBRASKA MASONS SET THE CORNER-STONE 77"l i, | nerstene of Douglas _eounty's HEN RAND S prevent on the plattorm. Very Rev. Geored Aceording to contract with the HOU E A. Beecher, chaplain of the day, read te beautiful atructure should be 0 00N following which a quartet sang “The M ready tor” cccupanes ‘v My v 11 2 N BR ¥ GUBBRAY, PEBR 229 LOD O v e o0 o v e, ot arion g o e v W GepEBe AT THE GEABMONY 0N THE AFTES®eN OF &) . . Ercn aner Ve e it ok i building of the new official home of the the huge stone was slowly lowered (pts | “ounty's executive and administrative statf. X place. the trowel being handled by Grand i Actual work on the cofistruction hegar Master Dowling. After the quartet sang ] September 1, 1908, excavafion having “The Flag Without a Statn,” Mr, Dowiing g been started in Mareh of the wr ave the formal explanation of the MRPIE ¢ When compieted. Douglas ¢ will ments of Masonry. Then followed the Spet- i hay 6 of the most impo and most ing of the stone, the announcement it modern county bulléings n the country had been well 1ald and the singing of ? Buiit “'. teel and white my th’ the struc “America” by the audlence. i publie. The . fthelt, on thu Sita'of 1ng of the stone there was a scramble to i SHE B4 AN Reivs.. 5n hout: HGMmabll &et records deposited In the new stone. All Aftougs. tuen R Piigeri e b the articles that had been taken from the i UL T Bebmit. Ui consteticeon - Biek old cornerstone were transferred to the ( the main entrance to the building on Far new receptacle and in additivh weié pia nam street will be from a grand starway coples of the Omaha puye SLruty 3 of stone, reaching 1o the top of the terraee coples ot most 6f Omaha's ddiy and wéek.y Thus the beautiful effect of the hill site n kil g A LA B L) WL Fenshiig county offices, the rosici ol othuc A5 T ARAN aftorts -5t B She i the lawe of Free Masonry and the tolls o will g0 to make up the beauty of the strue P g Bl oL o LS e i B, L fure, - OF ABRSINGA GONSTRIAISH, in thi per box placed within the stone Is twice tirst place, the same principle of grand $P% W50 of tha teneptacle Th the oig dor sur 14 15' 06 Gatvied: out in the intebios atone, meusuring 16x16x10 {nches ke lia There will be spacious court rooms, offices predecessor, 1t was made by Milton Roger s dors and waiting rooms. Livery room & Sons, » building will be well lighted by the In transferring the contents of the old sur r ample provision ha been mad, cornerstone to the new there nters a L't for windows. Interlor decorations will bs of sentiment. After an undistuibed (eet (' simple, vet appropriate for a public bullding twenty-seven years the old stone wus pried John Latenser is the architect for the from the wall and conveyed to the rovins new beilding. The structure ftself mens of the Board of County Commlissionor 64x150 feet, 1In the center of the there to be opencd. The box had hee & extending from the main floor to hermetically wealed and cold chisels auil the roof s the rotunda, fifty-six fest file were necessary to break the cover square. The halls are spacious, the main T bl Contents of the box were just as fresn ones being twenty-flve feet wide, and the i i R s Uy and crisp as they wero when buried in maln corridors, extending east and wes T T T 182, Coples of The Omaha Bee, the Herald, 3 being 128 feet long. Although there |Is the Post and Telegraph and Republlean and simplicity In the decorative scheme, (he the Nobraska Watchman were Just as pew marble work alone in the interlor will cost as though they had just been run off the \ $110,000. This 1s for the floors, the stair- press. Tho full typewritten address de h cases,the panels above the floor and the livered by Andrew J. Poppleton the day of i rand steps. the degication was also in the box. It wa: i Five elevators will serve the bullding \u\lllin;\‘l and smooth and the fmprint jus Thves -of thase will De for hens " One of the reatures of the construc- st With the judwes’ y as good as though It had Just boen sub- ) " _‘f,m"' P ',(’_”:"" r“'m",: T.:a.:w tion. 16 the areAngement of VAUILS. M; i :"::l;”“,l:r:‘g” ‘mm’"“"‘;‘:d "‘I’;'r”"““"‘fm{‘_“’: moth structure must be pleced together. half hour while the ceremony was in and included Judge Les Estelie, Fred B. miifea by the stenographer. There were a \ e s 5 Pod large, well lighted and specially built . b 4 7 o or over twenty-seven years—since (¢- progress. Lowe, Goodley Brucker, Joseph Redman number of Japanese, Chinese and other | ,’m‘ ’:L",::;”n.(: ,.'.:',n..:":,',',',‘.;,\ 1:,“5\ ';::: ;_’,‘;; vault for the lranlurvry lnfid )rflr!:llwr T’/“r 'l'()y “x‘[; m.\.::.,. ”‘r mr"" flooe @re re- tober 25, 1M2—the old court house has Flags floated from the dome of the old and John Drexel. colns that had been donated by Julius ) be on the fifth floor. Prisoners will be 4eeds 1 sixty feet long, nineteen feet wide .m:‘“,,r,:,:: ik 23 ,;fh':r::“l’:‘:n”ln:xx\l:;‘: aevid he :eu,,l. ;»r |m“w county. !'n“\; Soust x‘\:nm ]'.\tn,.,”zuz:.h:‘:o “"V‘":‘(”"‘:'S: At 2:46 o'clock in the afternoon the pro- Meyers. An lnteresting featuro was the | creorted to the bullding from the Seven. ANd extends through two stories. EVErY two court rooms on the east and on the Sreerr oha Population conaty generally were held. © From the innasle of ihe Cession formed at the Masonic temple and old “shin-plaster” paper money in small { teenth street side. The patrol wagon may F0OM In the bullding Wil be well lighted. west side Is a double court room to be weueied (oo cor st e o TenGly Snd Namy derri thas Bad e big stona sus. MOVed thence to the mortheast corner of denominations running from 3 cents (0 # bo driven into the building at the base- Double windows are providled and all uged for criminal cases. The sheriff's of- the ;,‘z[n‘"(,, theold ,,Q,',‘,,,.d shove. “,: resting, place the Stays the site. Hughes' band, playing a lively cents. ‘ ment entrance. A space sixty feet square Dartltions are to be double. The rotunda fice is located to the north The rock upon which the new county and Stripes swung In the cold wind, On March. headed the procession, followed by In the bottom of the box was a thin brass | {1 frovided, In order that the venicles may 414 WalWAYs are (rimmed with marble The entrance to the bullding 1 through building will rest ws placed fn osition. (he platform fires had been Kindled by the ® delegation from the ploneers and the tablet or shoet on which had been engraved | turn around. Above the fourth floor is a WAINACOUNK seven feet above the floor. (nres twelve foot entrances, thence to & according to the beautiful ritual of ma. workmen in the sheet iron stoves In order 10dRes of the Anclent Frea and Accepted thie history of the court house and the meszanine story, seven feet high, devoted The two main stairways will be of mar- sy50 vestibule, thence Into the center of sorry Although Washingtons' birthday to make the work for the masons more MASOns. The masons were headed by names of state and county officlals at that ‘ entirely to piping for the jail quar. e With & wainscoting four and a half the rotunds with the two marble stalr- was one of the coldest Aays of the winter pleasant, Alpha Morgan a8 miatahial of the grand tims, It stated that $16.000 had been ap- ters. The hot water, cold water, feet high. WAYS flanking right and left the three ele- the ritual was carried out In its entirety, At noon on the appointed day the Dou. !048¢ &nd by Ernest H. James as marshal propriated for the building of the county . electrie light, sewerage and heat- The third floor will be divided into four vators, located just south of the central although there were no addresses. All day glas County Assoclation of Nebraska Pl- Of Nebraska lodge, No. 1. Officers of the bullding. Tax payers have since learned ing apparatus are all confined to this duarters. These will be divided into suits front entrance. long the mercury hevered about the zero oneers gathered for its annual midwinter rand lodge had complete charge of the that it cost them one-fourth more than that | meszanine floor, thus leaving no exposed &nd occupied by the four principal offices, with moderate weather and unhampered mark and to add to the fiigid weather 8 pionic, planning to view the cornerstone Titual of cornerstone laying. Grand Master amount. On a4 e Dol b Rnnghs | { viping In the jall. There is no communi- the treasurer, the clerk, the register of by the delays over which the contractors Wind from the north swept over the city, services, Owing to the severity of the Michael Dowling, clad like the others in the engraving, “Made by C. F. Berger, with cation between the court house proper and deeds and the comptroller. The second have no control, the bullders hope to have cold and plereing. It was one of those days weather the ploncers gave up the plan the full regalia of the order, presided, Milton Rogers & Sons, Omaha, Neb., Octos ber 18, 1882." the bullding ready for delfvery early in the when the wagon wheels crunch and of marching to the court house in a body, Owing to the severity of the weather and the kitchen elevator. occupled by the district clerk, the county gpring of 1911. A large force of men s now squeak as they roll over the snowy pave- remaining {n session In thelr warm rooms there were no speeches. First there was Daniel Shane, who was superintendent of I Below the main basement there (s a sub- commissioners, the county judge and the mt work placing the stesl and stone and ments. The elements prevented a large during the service. A delezation was read the Invitation from the Board of the construction on the old building and ] bagement, to be used exclusvely for pip- juvenile court. The third and fourth floors as fast as bullding materials can be hrought public demonstration, but, nevertholess, a elected to be present on the platform with County Commissioners to the Masons, ask- who also has charge of the bullding of ing, electric wire connections and sewage pipes. are the court rooms. The third floor has two court rooms to the west and two to to the site the big bullding will assume its true character. Stone by stone the mam- goodly crowd gathered about the northeast corner of the block and tarried for a brief the masons during the ser tachment was headed by W. I Kierstead the ritual of Masonry. The county com- fce. The de- ing that the stone be placed according to the new structure, was present when fho box was opened the length of Long Pond and directly into its the military reservation of West Point. ment for visiting Benny Havens was Jef- ferson Davis. At one time, according to a wag not effective, and great became fame as the feeding place, | s Th tive work and plaster, There 18 no unfin: Brandeis eater |ishea or neglectea corner. Special atten- : BENNY HAVEN'S REAL HOUSE b >, story, Davis fell over a high cliff while | | tion has been devoted to the sanitation of | i G L R JpEdts RN i making a hasty escape from Benny's upon | (Contipued from Pags' Thres.) |the section and even the lowliest chorus i Hes West Point Worshiped at the| The only sketch of the Benny Havems | A third reason MR St el the approach of an officer, and was almost | the space above, helghtened by the slender | girl in the back row is assured of & clean, ; W Shri house the writer could discover fs one | PelPelY -Of Benny himselt and killed. On another occasion he and five | jines of an Ingenious system of electrio wir- | comfortable dressing room well lighted and A b AN for the SAGEVS OATID, DIGIINALIAD | (hvern's fams e yySTess sourve of the) companions were caught there and four |ing and controlling cordage operating the | ventilated. WHAT ABOUT THIS DISCOVERY? Evidence that the Famo Instead of Havin Down, 1s Still Tave Been Burned Standing Among the Hi WEST POINT, N. Y., Feb. 28.—Down by the shore of the Hudson river under the cliffs which terminate just south of Butter- milk Falls there stood formerly a little weatherbeaten . heuse long known in the neighborhood as the famous Benny Ha- vens tavern, which for over half a century wis the rendezvous of cadets from the nearby Military academy. When a little over two years ago it was destroyed by fire it was generally thought that the last had been seen of the famous tavern. Very recently efforts were made to obtain photogiaphs of this old house in order to perpetuate its memory in some permanent form. The search for photo- graphs led to an investigation regarding e authenticlty of the structure, Ther resulted the interesting discovery of evi- dence, first, that this was not the Havens house at all; second, that the orlginal | ouse was pulled down about thirty years go, and, third, that the original house still existed. Story of the Tavern. Tt was found that over the site occupled | by the tavern now pass the ralls of the West Shore raliroad, whose construction in the early 'S0s brought about the demo- | lition of the Havens homse, Old residents, | however, have recalled that the bullding | was not destroyed at the time; but l‘:l!‘ carefully taken apart and carted up the | Lill. What happened next was recently told by two sons of the man who bought | the Havens house and took It away. They | alded In the work and are still living in | the vicinity of the Havens site. | Thelr father owned a farm five miles ! back in the mountains southwest of the| military reservation, and there the house | was set up again and still stands, nearly a hundred years old, in surroundings very different from its original situation. How within three or four years of the death of Bénny himseft it should have gone on| its travels without attracting any l;!‘l'“!l; attentlon is no less curious than the trans-| fer of public attention to an entirely allen | structure. The writer recently visited the new !HO‘ and Yound the house to be according to the statements of men who knew Havens | and have been entertained beneath his | essentlally the same structure what | stood on the river bank. The original brass knobs are in the doors, the iron hooks | from which hung lamps are in place In the cellings and even the dortier window | near the roof, according to the testimony | of the present owner, is out of plumb just as it was in the first place. The bar is gone, needless go say, and the roof, of 1907 by a graduate of the military acad- emy who is now a brigadier general, re- tired. It was drawn partly from memory and the influence of the little house re- cently burned is seen In the location of the house in the sketch at a point on the bank approximately the same as that oc- cupled by the house long supposed to be the real one. It happened that the artist was aware that that house was not the Benny Havens tavern, but for some rea- #on he does not seem to have communicated his knowledge to his brother officers to any great extent. Actually, according to the new witnesses, the Havens house stood a little south of the more modern structure and on the extreme edge, of the bank, so that It almost overhung the water, its front and plazza in fact rising directly from a pler whose pilings, finding a precarious foot- hold In the steep slope of rock at the river | bottom, were anchored in places by stones and further held in position by re-enforcing crossbeams, The land drops off so sharply that large vessels could safely pull up to Haven's dock. To the north of the house a little stream tumbled down the bank and beyond a precipitous mass of rock rose well above the treetops. The steep hill back of the house was and is still covered with thick woods, Such was Benny Havens' nest. In the old days when the woods overhung the river It must have been an ideally beautiful spot and even the coming of the raliroad has not entirely driven away its charm. Some years before the railroad fn- truded Havens' son, who had gone to New York, entered a bank and apparently prospered, developed a fondness for the old place and spent money on it renovating the house, bullding the present road whioh leads to the river, and, not long before Benny Havens died, constructing the flight | of stone steps seen In one of the lllustra- tions which lead down the hill along the side of the cliffs, Benuy an Institation, Fully to understand who Benny Havens was and why his name s so closely asso- clated with West Point it would be nece: sary to visit a class reunjon similar #athering and hear the ringing of Benny Havens, oh!" Havens was ,a veteran of the war of 1812, being first lMeutenant of a company organized and cap- tained by a resident of Highland Falls Shortly after the war he established a place on the military reservation where he sold liquid refreshments of various kinds and sundry eatables. It soon became the thing among the members of the cadet corps to visit Benny's, and these visita were not necessarily confined to the limited daytime hours of respite from academic duties. Lust taps frequently meant, not bed, but or Benny's. He is sald to have dispensed §00d cheer in comparative secrecy for a long time iIn his little retreat, being vir- tually a squatter on the national domain, tavern's fame. He was a host of the old- | fashioned kind and was looked on as a friend and crony. As may be guessed, the | hero of a song whose verses are legion | and are sung today all over the globe, was | & good deal of a character. Old redidents of Highland Falls who | knew him as & nelghbor, with that short- ness of vision common when a prophet arises, describe him as a plain, ordinary sort of man, but he was unquestionably a host of unusual parts and is said to have been an accomplished raconteur. It is re- | lated that Poe, when a student at West | Point, was infatuated with him and would | steal away from the academy and spend hours conversing with him. In later years | Havens told many a story in turn about | Poe, then famous. | The fame of Benny Havens is recorded, of course, primarily in the endless army “Benny Havens, oh!" Sgldom, It 1s it found In published form intact There Is the officlal version and then there 1s what may be termed the unexpurgated version. To the former It has long been the custom to add a verse a year; to the | latter there is no limit. | Dr. O'Brien, originally an assistant sur- geon in the army, is credited with heing the composer of the initial verses. With the ald of others these grew to five in| number, and the number has never ceased | to grow. | First Verse of Famous Song. | 8lided a mile and a Lalt down the frozen |the charm which made the riverside re O'Brien had just been commissioned a lleuténant tn the Eighth infantry, and be- | fore joining his regiment he stopped at | West Point to visit a friend, Major Ripley | Arnold, then a first class man. They made many excursions to Benny's, and then arose the song, which was set to the tune of “The Wearln' o' the Green, and of which the opening verse is Come, flll your glasses, fellows, and stand | up In a row, | To singing sentimentally we're going for o gi; In the army there's sobricty, promotion's very slow, 8o we'll sing our reminlscences of Benny Havens, oh! 3 on, Binny Havens, oh! Oh, Benny Havens, | oh! We'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens oh! A reminiscence relating to the death of the author and of Benny's manner of re- | ceiving the news Is one of the many stories whieli cluster about the old house now standing In exile back in the mountains. The description of the conditions under which the cadets had gathered at the tav- ern throws also an interesting lght on treat popular. The time was midwinter and the hourg one before midnight. Three or four of the ¢adets had come down to the place by | land, and as the snowcrust would not sup- | port their weight had followed the road at | risk of detection, Instead of the course through the woods, sometimes taken. Two or three others had made thelr way from | barracks to Gee's Point, where the light- | house stands, and there put on skates and Hudeon to Havens' dock. | | marching in the ranks instead of leading | | Y HAVENS. “ | | | tenance that always appeared to have made a of peace with all mankind in general and all reckless cadets in partic- ular into a preponderance of vertical di- mension, drawn downward by a sincerely heavy heart.”” Who was the relator of this story In the West Point scrap book is not gonerally known, but It might have been any army officer later become famous, for | scarcely a man who studled at West Point | during Benny's days failed to cultivate his acquaintance. | One Henny Havens Story. | The large majority of Benny Havens' storles have never fou their way Into print. One of those has to do with a certain cadet who later became a general. Ho was captain of his company when a member of the first class, which in iteelf | 1€ evidence of high standing. A few days | before ho was to be graduated he pald a| visit to Benny Havens and got caught He was not dismissed, but reduced to the ranks, | The final dress parade, when the mem- bers of the first class march out on the| plain for the !ast time as a body, was| carried out with the disgraced cadet | | them. It was very successful, and im- pressive, and one of the board of Visl- tors remarked that it could scarcely have been finer, adding that he doubted, how-|mo Thomas, Meade and Sheridan (these | that ever, whether the members of the corps| could do so well unaided by the officers, The superintendent of the academy took up the lssue, asserting that the parade) would have been quite as well carried | out had anyope of the young men the visitor saw before him taken charge. “In order that you may have proof of | To the ladies of the Empire state, of them were expelled In consequence, Davis may possibly have escaped because of the logic of the defence he la sald to have offered, to the effect that “it {s better @ hundred guilty should escape than one righteous person be condemned Although It will appear quite evident that Benny was, officially, persona non grata at West Point, even the powers do honor to him today. It s to be suspected that not all of them, privately, frowned upon him in the days of his reign. In the fly- leat of one of the later descriptive books | on West Point, written by & former mem- ber of the instructing staff, is the sentl- ment: “To the memory of ‘Benny Havens, | O’ this little volume is fondly inscribed.” In the Army and Navy club hangs his| painting, done by Jullan Scott. And even the library at Weyt Point is to shelter a | memento of the well loved tavern keeper. 1s It any wonder, then, that the old tavern itself should have become somewhat of & shrine? Tribute to Benny, Havens died on May 29, 1877, in his 90th | year. It was not long before this toast was added to the song: But now the soften'd summer winds come Whispering to us low That_he of Whom we oft have sung Death’'s hand lies on his brow! flies. A wobden floor of wide, roomy ex- panse covers the stage surface, and, by the way, this s the only bit of wooden flooring in the house., The walls which en- close the three sides of the Stage contain only lron, conhcrete and brick. In front hangs a stout asbestos curtain of exoep- tional weight. The stage is covered only by the roof above, a stretch of skylight in prismatic wire re-enforced glass. In this covering are two broad movable seo- tions which can be ralsed by @ simple mechanism. Thus the stage reprosents a | space enclosed with walls like those of & furnace, with an opening at the top. In the event of fire, the only Inflammable ma- terial would be enclosed there by the fall of the asbestos curtaln. The sections in the roof would open and the scenery could £0 up In smoke with the audlence sitting before it in as much safety as at the grate fire in the sitting room. The switchboard which operates the elec- trical appliances and {llumination of both the stage and the auditorfum is the most complete yet devised. Row after row of shining copper switches and controller handles give it a most business-llke ap- pearance. The equipment of ‘‘dimmers,” devices for the graduated dimunition of the Iighting current has been multiplied in the Brandeis switchboard to three times that of the ordinary board. The arrangement These granite hills surrounding us, by sun | all set aglow, To them, our guardian ange and to Benny Havens, oh! At his death a member of the class of | 1887 wrote the following, which refiects | much of the affection in which Benny | Havens was held by those who knew him: | O'Brien's harp was sweetly strung And gave us joy, long, long ago. | While we with union voices sung The worth of “Iienny Havens, oh!" That harp now hangs on willow branch And he of whom it sang lies low. | No more our steps will seek his ran To grasp the hand of “Havens, oh For ninety years his eye shone out, | And friendly smiles met friend and foe But now the spark of life's gone out, | No more we'll grest our “Havens, on!" | We lay his whitened locks beneath The harden'd earth—no pomp, no show— But granite rocks give burial wreaths, And soft May winds chant “Havens, oh He ran his course—we all do that God crowns the vietor, high or low! | | wonderful system of connections permitting permits the eclectriclan to graduate the light from the palest glow of the incan- descent bulbs to the full dazzling glare at the utmost iimit of thelr power, The lights of the theater are wired in a the ready and Instantaneous control of any individual group. ‘The workmanship of the electrical fittings embodies the most efficent that engneers huve devised. The work of the theater stage requires a peculiarly effective system of insulation and positive contacts. 1If a single series of lights should fail the pleture before the audlence would be spoiled. There must be | no mistakes, no failures, Those suspended banks of lights, known | in the vernacular of the stage man as ‘borders,” which hang above the scenes To him we pray—Requiescat In pace—"Benny Havens, Some of the So Here are a very few of verses of the famous song: oh the countless whose hearts, and albums too, sad remembrance of the wrongs w stripling soldiers do. We bid a fond adieu, my boy with sorrow flow; Qur loves and rhyming Bear our hearts d thelr source | at Benny Havens, oh | | To the army's brave commanders, let now our glasses flow, We'll drink to Grant and Sherman and to the subs als come In a propos’ Who _hesitates to drink to them at Benny Havens, oh! our comrades who have fallen, one cup Dbefore we go, To They poured their life blood freely out pro bono publico; | No marble points the stranger to where | they rest below, | They_ lie neglicted far away from Benny | row of lights, thus affording efght possible and from their concealed position cast the | fllumination on the actors below, have been Installed in doubled allowance In the | Drandels stage. Four border light banks carrylng on each enough gloves to permit the use of two colors on each of the double | | varlations in color alone, have been made a part of the fittings, With the dimmers thrown on these circuits an endless number of effects are within the grasp of the man who handles the little ebonite levers on the switchboard. The blg walls above the stage are marked | by the zlgzag lines of the fron stalrways| lead to the fiy galleries and to the fire escapes which connect with every aperture, even fto the| topmost. The platform from which the flles are handled 1 a broad iron flooring | some twenty-five feet from the stage floor. This runway is protected by sturdy fron ralings, The counter-balanced hangings above will PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS. Papa~Mamma says you were a good boy teday, so here's a penny. Little Fred—Make it two, papa, an I'l be gooder tomorro “Nellle,”" sald the teacher, “you may tell me how to make & maltese dross.’’ “Step on its tall,” answered N promptly. - fiw Old Gentleman (as funeral procession is pussing)—My good boy, can you tell me who Is dead? Good Boy—Yes, sir. The person inside the hearse, sir. Teacher—You don't know what this —~What is your coat made of? Pupll—Father's old pants. ““Well, my little man,” querled the min- ister who was maling a call, “do you al- ways do &s your mamma tells you?" “You bet I do,” answered the precoclous 6-year-old, “and so does papa.” Mother (sternly)~Tommy, who drank the milk {n the pitcher? Tell the truth, now! Tommy~—1 drank it, mamma. I wanted to see if It was sour. Mother—Well, suppose it bad been sour; what then? Tommy~—Why, then I wouldn't have drunk it, see? , Why are we admonished to cast ouf bread upon the water?'' queried the teacher of the juvenile Sunday school class, “'Cause the fishes have to be fed,” re- plied & small pupll. “Aunty,” eald lttle Constance, you want some of my candy?" “Thank you, dear,” was the reply. “Sugared almonds are favorites of mine.!’ “Fhe pink or the white ones?’ agkt the little tot. “The white ones, please.” There way silence until the last plece had disappeared They were all pink at first, aunty' remarked Constance “Well, Harry,” swd the minister, who was making a call, “do you think you will be a better boy this year than you were last?" “I hope 80, replied the little fellow. “I was sick more than half the time last year.” Little Bessle~Mamma, how'll I know when I'm naughty?” Mother—Your consclence will tell you, dear, Little Bessie—I don't care about what it tells me—will it tell you? Joe was a delicate little feilow who had never had eny associates of his own age Inside the house they sat around a log Havens, oh! basement where the drinks were mostly | but the authoritics of the military academy this,” he sald, "I beg you to pass down {permit of the suspension of elghty-five |Then, too, he was very modest. Missing scrved, and which was originally a long | Were finally unable to overlook him longer | fire “that crackled its merricst Christmas | ¢, ying of cadets with me and pICk from | When you and T and Benny, and all the | pleces, 1t the settings of any scene #hould | him one day his mother went out into open room has been divided into several (and he was expelled. Then it was that he | €arol on Benny's hearth,” while “the flow | ypo ranks any one of them you may be| others too. r 5 | make this unusual demand. Mere as In|the back yard and this is what she saw: roocks. What was trmaely the Ritehen | fook /D his Hsidende at the viver beak |0t O 0 holidey. wine, the stll mare 60 hoisgeed to sslect, 0 If yaii ase not fop|Are Shilsd bafore thy tfinal board” our|omer ‘appomtments the squipment 13| The turkey gohbler was srutting srousd wing of the house has been transferred location & mile or more further gouth. | P'ous flow of Bonny's paternal soul and the |y 0% S GH ™) uve” tho "parade all| aray CUT"S,OF If6 (0 View, | T int, but |Dlunned With a Iaree fastor of satey. THere | with ‘very festher sirsched 10 s Tl from the morth ta, the south end of the| There were three things In particular | 2U4IDIe somereaults of the buckwheats, | o o acuin under this cadet's command.” stralght be told to go 4 | is plenty ana to spare. |and listle Joo was trotting behind, Aigp- house. With these two exceptions thers | that drew the cadets to Benny's tavern. it | PUNCUAl to the hour, preparing in the next| “myy y(gitor, though somewhat taken|And fanetne army of the Blest at Benny | “ryique 1n stage construction 1s & bix|ping him gently once In & while and say- 1s no important change evident, The p'azza, | is not to be denled that the charactes of | “PArtment. bade avaunt to the hobgoblin |y, .\ could not very well refuse. When v ' || elevator from which an automoblle or & |ing softly, “Put down your el Put with its railings and two flights of sieps, |the libations offered there was not (he |°f 4!s¢ipline he came to the disgraced cadet, who was|'Tis sald by commentators, when to other |team of horses, even a locomotive, it the |down your clothes!” 15 said to be the identical one which once | least of them. Neither, perhaps, was it | Reath of 0'Beien, | holding his musket very rigldly, he was . WOIlds we g0 =~ e did in | Situation demanded it, can ba driven from — fronted the Hudson. |the greatest. Almost equaily famous with | Soon the singing began, and finally came | attracted by his military bearing and said: | s Telow the street into the theater and lowered to| Thére 1s a lad of 10 iiving in & Pepnsyl- Now It fronts the green fidor of a quiet |the flp were the pancakes and the other | (N8 verse, dedicated to the originator of | “Supposo we let this young man take com-| it this be true philosophy—the sexton he |the stage. This elevator is & big platform, | vania town where the schooimasters still mountain cove. Hehind the house rises|edibies offered by his board. The cadets| W Benny Havens song, who had just died | mand?" What Gava of song and dance we'll have | About the size of the floor of & box car,|employ the rod in order that the ehild Long Pond mountain. Across the valley | Were some times glad 10 get a squars meal, | fOF his country in Florida The cadets were almost convulsed at this at Benny Havens, oh | yet its operation is silent and certain, may not be spoljed who found himself and a lake lies Listening Hill, a part of |OF at least one that was appetizing, for "'"""fl. O Beanice from Flgrida, from | unexpected turn of affairs. In response to | The dressing rooms are to the north of | lable to that form of chastisement at (i the four or five hundred acre mountain | mMess in (he old days was the opposite of | 1 {5 ths wail of gallant inén, O'Brien ls no | 0 OFder the cadet chosen stepped forward A Bachelora Reflections. the stage, connecting by an ample stair-|hands of his teacher, farm, mostly under forest, to which the|that of today with its high class kitchen more; . 3 | and assumed command. He put the cadets| yo.0n suffers and man groans | way. Tho dressing rooms are brightly | As the youngster approached the prinei’ dwelling now belongs. Southwestwardly the | Arrangements. Mess was described during In the land of sun and flowers his head through every movement and evolution, and ‘lA°|n‘ into politics is climbing w greased | jighted and cheerful. There ha been | pal the fierce mapect of the latter's coun valley. winds genily among the hills for | the Havens' regime as being “aimost x| No more’ (0" sing “Petite Coquille” at|UCYEF Deore. 1t Is euid, was such w parade | BYEL L 00 wanty to back fis Suds- | thousht taken for the comfort and con-|tenance, fogethar with the sight of the & few miles to Forest of Dean, where the | clusively of beef, boiled, roasted or baked Benny Havens, Oh! seen at West Point, to the unbounded ad-| ., ni’ tha hardest is when It's wrong venience of the actor folk there. The star | upraised cane quite undid him and he be old Iron mines are, close to the northern|for diuner; cold, sliced or smoked for| As all uncovered the host, “with that|Wirstion of the board of visitors and ,M. (hohere are fow ihings more exiiusting |dressing room is quite a little palace of [gan to biubber. projection of the tract recently offered |breakfast and supper; soup twice a week, |same pipa whose stem was proportion-| OWN partial restoration to favor. And it|than having to g itself. Each of these numerous dressing| Then, innoceiitly, and doubtlews with by Mrs. Harriman as & state park. and bread pudding with molasses on soup | ately as short as himseif and one of the| W8 @ll due, indirectly, to Benny Havens. The fascinating thing about an argument |rooms has its proper appolntments and |some vagus recollection of & visit to the In the opposite direction one looks from |days.™ And %o, although the orders were | invariable emblems of his ldentity, con Jetf Davia' Experience. { 1n grour hope Lhat when the other fallow 18 | fittings. The bold concrete walls havel dentlst, he stammered 3 h ® bend i the road near the house down | forbidden (o go to Benney's the prohibition | tracted that horizoutally. expansive coun-| One of the earliest men to sutfer punish R rons - Hew Tork Pross | thelr strength cloaked with bits of decora- | “Please, sir; may—may I tak gas?