Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1910, Page 10

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WALKER, Notary Fuplic. eeden 1,2 Returned copies Coppeesay Net touwal..... Daily average.. GEOVRUE B, Ihers leuving the clty teme Jvorarily whould bave The HBee malled to them, Addresses will be chauged ns otten us requested, | 1 dik! Nubwe love my Ions, but, oh, you dik Wiite slavery g0, too. There is no color line when it comes to that must oliloquy In Hamlet's not (o be a candidate. Ghost talk. Wonder if Mayor “Jim" will put his anti-sky-scraper ideas into his plat- form? castle —Boston “To be or Transeript Was all this agitation over the germatic kiss started jusi to, spoil that Berlin greeting? A play has been found that was too | amended The Railroad Bill. railroad bill crossed over of its rocky road when passed the house and Is now on downward course to ultimate The mmit the au; it the success |In the senate the friends of the bill| claim to have forty-five votes assured | in the compact formed under the re |cent “call to arms” te rally round the administration program. This does | not include several strong possibilities yet in the republican ranks and others {on the democratic side In the house the bill was passed by vote of 200 to 126, a much larger majority than might have been ex pected in view of the continuous ful minations against it from certain members. In this number were many insurgents and ten democrats. This inspires the belief that when the final |vote comes in the senate insurgents and democrats will break ranks there also. The assured nucleus of forty- five senators still leaves forty-seven outgide the compact, but the balance of hope in such a count must emphat- ! ically be on the side of the bill, for there can be no question of the power to bresk into the outstanding forty eeven, who are not organized and many of whom staid out of the forty- five compact only because they pre ferred not to commit themselves in advance and not because they were inimical to the bill. Implacable foes of the administra- tion still fnsist that it has been de feated in this bill because of amend ments, but so long as President Taft | is satisfied with the status of the measure, this criticism will have to be discounted. The president himself as highly gratified on hearing |that the bill passed the house. Ife believes in its virtue and efficiency to meet certain needs and is not discon- certed by the fact that it has been in minor ways since its in exprossed troduction The Queen’s Message. Queen Alexandra’s message to the people of Great Britain acknowledging | their expressions of sympathy and sor |row on the occasion of thé king's spirit of democracy which made Ed- ward VIT a most popular monarch and |a power for world peace and progress. ,;I! is suggestive of a homely solicitude | for the commoners’ welfare which not {even the spontaniety of g0 eventful an occasion could have provoked and source of deepest conviction. It Is im- | pressive in its simple sincerity, betray- |ing unmistakably the fact that the in- ]l(‘r@!(fl of the Britons have Jain heav- | ily upon the heafts and at the hearth- stone of their sovereigns. There is nothing formal or fulsome 'about - the queen’s note. It is most matter-of-fact in its composition as well as spirit, subjective only of a wife's supreme sorrow and genuine tough for New York. Wbnder . what it could have been? The nation must feel an interest in knowing what the supreme court will do to Mr. Justice Hughes' whiskers The base ball team by the name of Love them all, games, with a catcher ought to catch especially in the spring The king of Siam will pass right through Utah with those forty wives, too. In the shades of Brigham Young! Mr. Hearst is really not provoking any uproarious applayse with his lat- est fulminations. He has cried “Wolf"" too often. It was an irony of fate that Nord|King Edward, cannot fail to reflect |of reciprocity, for it Alexis of Hayti should die in a bed after all bis experiences on blood- stained battlefields What is another nal To tell alone?’ the republican Mark Hanna party needs Wall Street badly Jour us to “let well enough In casting about for a man to nomi- nate the mayor of New York for the presidency the will not have to waste time considering W. R. Hearst. democrats Editor Hitchcock fs already to shy his castor into the senatorial ring, but doesn't propose to make the toss until he gets final and definite word from Fairview Omaha's ball team opened the season with perfect eclat. Visitors will please take notice that the Rourke family is now playing on ite own green grass John L. Sullivan is going to report the Jeffries-Johnson fight for a syndi- cate of papers, but it is safe to say the Big 'Un" will not ~write as Joe Choynski trains Jeff along the esthotic line. Labor troubles on the new house having been adjusted, it s in arder now for the contractors and workmen alike to show the pubye what can be done in the way of rapid construction. The federal court has again upheld the United States pure food law, It simply means that makers of food products must live up to the require- ments of the statules or defend them- lves ju court. Detective Willlam Burns and Pros. ecutor Francis J. Heney, who became famous fighting the Evil One in San ¥reneisco, have landed big berths in York. And Mayor McCarthy of the coast city says the lid is off and geing to stay off, ‘unprcrlnunn of the fact that that sor- | row, too sacred for trespass, is yet | shared by millions of her own people. |Somehow it is wholesome, this inter- | course between an.adored queea and " |her countrymen, even though it must !proceed from the recess of a broken heart thiough the medium of national {grief.. Death is the common leveler |of life, a democracy of sorrow and such incidents must serve teach that there is, afier, all between the stations of the ruler and |the ruled, a lesson which, if properly |learned, should conduce to a healthy | national life and character. to Financial Diplomacy. The solidarity of the world's money | market after weeks ~of disturbin | events, culminating in the death |much credit upon the American finan- |ciers who negotiated the shipment of | more than $30,000,000 in gold to Eu- rope, ichiefly to ,England, within the {last few weeks This action, criti cised at the time as ill-advised, now appears as a master stroke in financial diplomacy, a real episode in interna tional money matters. Its large share in preparing the market to withstand the stress of circumstances that were to come is not to be ignored When these enormous began from New York to London the question arose, would not our own market fail to find compensation for its loss of gold, no marter what bene- fits accrued to the British market? Now, before we have had time to an- swer this question, comes the news that American railroads have success- fully placed $1,600,000,000 of new se- curities in Xurope.. Undoubtedly this is one of the fruits of this gold ship- ment and nothing has transpired at home to offset the advantage. Nor have such potential factors as the pas sage of the budget by the British Par- |liament, the rubber speculations and |the king's death produced any reac tionary influence. Grave fears were |entertained as to the effect of the | budget with its tax-levying provisions. Arrears in taxes had been deferred | pending action on the budget and Lon- | don financiers realized that much of |the money necessary to meet the in- |come tax demands was on deposit in | London banks and would have to withdrawn. When transferred to be the | Bank of England these credits would'! reappear as public deposits, increasing | | the bank’s liabilities and requiring in | creased reserves. | When these' gold shipments vegan !the Bank of England showed a reserve of £6,200,000 below the same date a year before, the lowest reserve ported since 1898. Since then the re ceipt of American eagles have brought | England’s gold holdings up fully $28. 1000.000 and the danger apprebended A8 a result of the budget confusion has entirely disappeared, London's re- little distance | ! financial status has settled down on a | solid basis and the financ confi it largely, if not en- world's with ability have been si engthened dence based on actual and | has all come about, tirely result United of 8 as a the this gold ship tes ment by There's the Rub. Discussing the pending income tax amendment along usual lines, a con | tributor to the Journal of Accountancy indulges in this reflection In a few we shall states ars there states to amend the tically wipe the votes of a siugle one of the thirteen original states. It the boast In the house and in the senate last vear south and would carry this amend- ment through, and in a few vears, as | say, In a few y will be enough constitution and prace was west there will be fifty-two states, and the thir- teen original states will no longer count Evidently, there's the rub. The thirteen original states have had the {idea up to this time that they should have some superior qualities and abro- gations over and against the other states that have been let into the sis terhood from time to time after the republic was founded. It is apparently exasperating to the original states to contemplate the possibility of the country growing so large that they may some day lose the controlling in- fluence which they have thus far main- tained Whether the pending constitutional amendment is adopted or whether other amendments are submitted and ratified, the equality of the states, tak- ing into conslderation their relative | population as represented in the lower | house of congress, is a condition and !uol a theory Certainly, the newer | states of the west will never concede | that the original thirteen states have a monopoly on the wisdom and patri- otism of the country. l The mecting of Kaicer Wilhelm and | former President Roosevelt contains | more of genuine interest than any re- | ception the distinguished American | has had abroad, cordial ome as all have been | place, the two men In the first have been close death 1s permeated by that dominant | friends by correspondence for years,| | mutual admirers and students and ad- [vocates of much in common. All | Americans and German-Americans in | the United States, as well as Germans | at home, must share the deep spirit of !Yhib Beriin event. Emperor William | showed a most discriminating sense of | battle, engaging 12,000 men, edification of his guest for the The South Omaha insurance man who slipped into the Omaha field is going to have a chance to make good one way -or another. He will either deliver the policies contracted for or | forfeit his certified cheek. A few such lranrh-ucas as this will have a bene- | ficial affect on all bidders for ity | work. 1 While the city council is extending | its authority to destroy dilapidated | buildings within the present fire limits, {it should not overlook the necessity for extension. Now is the time to !\iden the area from which frame buildings and flimsy construction of any sort should be excluded ety a | | Farmer Burns, whom Jeffries says [he simply must have to continue his | training for the big fight and whom | Goteh nsists on having for his train- {ing to wrestle Zbyszko, Is, you must | bear in mind, a citizen of Omaha . If Governor Shallenberger really was Texas that Nebraska Omaha's Take that, Texas. —— Somehow John Temple Graves seemed a much larger man as the editor of an Atlanta paper and citizen |in his own right of that city than he does as Hearst's man Friday. | gave | mayor Our Birthday Book May 12, 1910 Rev. Richard Scannell bishop of Omaha 12, 1845, in County C ordained to the priesthood to the United States and Concordia, Kan., in 1857, to Omaha in 1591 William Alden Smith, United States seu- ator from Michigar He is a of Michigan and represented the Grand Rapids district in the elevation to the senate. Frank Crane 1 tormerly Methodist chureh in Omaha May 12, 1861 Urbana, 1l Dr. Crane was back in ¢ last year to help cele- brate the clearing of the church from debt George Woodbury, author, is 6. He was at Beverly, Mass. He held the professorship in English literature in the University of Nebraska, going from there to university, f which retired in 1904 Henry Cabot Lodge. Uniied ator from Massachuseiis sixtieth birthday anniversary born in Boston and holds literary degrees from Hary other universitles awarded a historian and author. He fre- referred (0 as “the scholar in politics.” Senator Lodge presided over the last republican convention Gurdon W. Watiles, pr naha Counell Bluffs Str Rallway compar born May 12, 1855, at R Wattles has had a varied begluning with law, banking issippl. exposition. mal Corn show and numerous ion. direct sales- Kirkend: 6. shipments | toman was born May Ireland. He was in 1871, coming made bishop of being transterred Right Catholle rk, is 51 native lower house before | nis Rev now the ot the was born on pastor lecture cire but F at born Columbla m he States sen lebrating his He all kinds d and several for his work as i que the « & Co M career teaching practicng preside Fransmi Na o of ibe prosis dent of the enterprises R. W. Muore man for F. ¥ manufacture i company ten | thoes for W. V “ Benneil company and " s with [. company mer hoy &« burn shos 1 picsen sold th n Lug low and been M and viousl and have fifty-two | it out without consulting, with- | that the | and whole- | present | OMAHA ! Around New York on the Ourrent in from Ripples as Seen Metropolls Since the Board of Health of New York issued its order prohibiting the operation | of smoking automobiles after July 1, 1910, prople whose nostrils have been shocked by oline stench havé expressed their joy and appreclation by letters to the board. One of the jovous episties brought A suggestion which the board approves and is dispostd to press its adoption on manufacturers of motor cars. “Compel ail owners and makers of automobil ' wrote the wise guy ‘to arrange the exhaust pipe o that any smoke ejected therefrom will come over the front of the car and give the occupants the first crack at their own product. It is just as prac- ticable for the exhaust pipe to be made 1o lead forward &s behind. Lictnses should be withheld from all cars untii suci change has been made. By this method | those riding in the car will get benefit of the stench they may cause and will take good care to stop it imme. diately Five youngsters are now in the Children's soolety wondering why Justiee Hoyt, in the |ehildren's court, broke up their expedi- tion to go west to fight Indlans. The boys, all close to 12 yoars old, formed a club to exterminate the redmen. They [had learned about Indfans in dime noveie. | They planned to make thelr start Tues- fday afternoon, and were seen tryving to |board a westbound frefght train of the New | York Central just before it drew out of the vards In West Fifty-seventh street. A policeman questioned them, and they could [not explain their purpose to satisfy him, so |he took them to the West Forty-seventh {street police station. When the boys were |searched their pockets yielded a roll ot | gauze bandages. two boxes of pllls, a large package of courtplaster. two bologna rings |and three loaves of bread. A lad named |Davis was the spokesman when Justics Hoyt called them to the bar. “We wanted to kil off a few Indians,” ha explained, “and we saved our money in a club for a few weeks. There were a lot of things we necded, such as guns and am- munition, but we had only enough money to buy the real necessities. If the Ir* dians should attack us before we had our guns we certainly would noed bandage |and courtplaster, so we bought those things |and enough feed to last us for a few days, funtil we struck the redmen's haunts! Justice Hoyt questioned the parents, and that the boys have always been regarded as model youngsters. No oun knew of their purpose to wipe out the red- skins. | | \ ‘ | learnea It is expected between 25,000 and 20,000 men will march in the parade welcoming | Colonel Roosevelt on June 18 The secre tary of the reception commiitee has re- ceived aprideations form eivil, milltary and political organizations, expressing thelr expectation of marshaling nearly 40,000, Los | which could have come only from the | good taste when he arranged a sham |Angcles will send a party of from twenty- five to fifty representatives citizens. The Spanish war veterans have asked permis- sion to erect an arch of “Welcome" over | Fitth avenue, near Twenty-third street. "'fll"‘l'fl Cosby secretary of the ton committce, saye every effort will made to keep the affair from belng stitf and formal. Colonel Roosevelt wiil make but one address—in response to Mayor Gaynor's welcome. At the requost |of Colonel Roosevelt no dinmer has been planned. The ex-president will probably g0 to Oyster Bay on thc cvening of his arrival. be tor Mateo Debomoto who has & bootblack stand in Fifty-third strect, will have to shine 1,000 pairs of shoes at five coats a {palr without profit to himself. This is | not on account of a freak bet, bt the re- suit of the inexorable law as inter | preted by the Supreme Fourt. Debomoto | vsed to own a stand on the opposite cor- |ner. He sold that place to Antonfo Pet- | teducdti for $426 «nd signed an agreement | that he 'would not re-establish in business | within six blocks of the old stand. When | Bebomoto started shining shoes right across the street, Petteducatl obtained an injunction. Debomoto had never seen an | injunction before and kept on shining, | whereupon the court fined him $30. | A Harlem young man who had arduous court to & charming Young wo- | man of athletic tendencies was lately en- countered by a friend at one of the 1g | wants to move to Texas, perhaps Ne-|faghionable restaurants. of | braska might spare him on the ground | Instead of the usual intended he had en- an | with him his sister, whom he was | tertaining with all the devotion that the full | recep- | paid | 12, 1910, ardent sultor might bestow upon his den) Where riend Parted for For keeps. In o ing hitherto of her lite! 1t you will gan the friend “1 will.”” Interrupted the youth with hearti- nese. I will tall you all. One day this week 1 say her run alongside a fast mov fng surface n the sireet and on like & man. It is all off. . & Sour sweetheart?' asked the late Romeo. 1 ot show the time «aid the der to torget neglected pardon my ouriosity”—be A saloon keeper informed a friend the other day that he was debating aproposi- tion he had made to himself, to sell out his fire waters, and go in for soft drinks But not the modern milk-and-water and sasparilla or lemonade varieth 1 would starve to death in a month th nothing more sensational and attractive as an advertisement. “When 1 was over in London T ran across a lot of queer ones I may be the providéntial chosen for their introduction ca. “For instance, there was Cydio, form of cider, that sparkies In the glass, and tickles all the way down the throat Then there was Ovaltine, a soothing, yet tasteful combination of oggs, malt, milk and cocoa. Another was ilyglana, a cocoa and ale that gripped the spot like the real thing, but did not go to the head." “Suppose you tIng a few of them |on your bar, suggested his hearer “And have the placa mobbed customera? was the n the fall Perhaps instrument into Ameri- a mila in by my response. ' WHAT'S IN A KING'S NUMBER? e Canst “Fifth Plain Dealer Someone is sure to come along and re- mark that the English kings who have been desigiated as “Fifth” have not en- Joyed long lives happy relgns. There have been only (hrec of these: Henry V ruled from WMI3 to 1422, Edward V was King in 1488 and now comes Georve V. Henry V was a just king and an able general. He practically completed the eon- quest of France, but died suddenly at the |early agé of 35 after a reign of only nine years. His work was undone by Joan of Arc shortly after his aeath Edward V was only nominally king of England. He was 13 years old at the death of his father, Edward IV, and was mur- dered within a year by his uncle and guardian, who became king under the title Richard 111 It 1s, of course, extremely foolish to argue from the reigns of Henry V and Edward V that the relgn of George V will not be long and peaceful and prosperous But such analogies never escape the tention of the delvers after the curlous facts of history. 1t has often been noted that was & lucky designation for an Bnglish Kking. With the exception of that of Vie- torla the longest reigns have been those of Henry III, Edward 111 and George I1I, who occupled the throne fifty-six, fifty and sixty years, respectively. Unfortunately for the analogy, however, Edward III, relgned less than three years. The Middleman Execluded. | Chlcago Record-Herald | The cost of living is not advancing in | England, because the consumers are getting their food from the producers without per- | mitting the middlemen to dip in with both | hands. There is a possibility that the American consumers will some day wake up, but their alarm clock seems to have| been set for a very late hour. | Superstitio a Shadow on Cleveland “Third" | | | Did the Governor Duckt Sioux City Tribune. The four republican mémbers of the Ne- braska State Board of Assessments, after walting geveral days for Governor Shallen- | berger Who is a member of the board | and who was out over the state attending | democratio banquets, ralsed railroad sessments in Nebraska $1,539,028. Ditficalties of Disarmament. Philadelphia Record. Before delivering his disarmament in Chratiania a sepcialist of that city rec- | ommended to the ex-president that he| should give his voice a rest. This was ap- | parently vseless advice. It Is as hard for | him to disarm as it is for the military na- eech Jump Fifty Years the Standard Dr.PRICE'S CREAM BAKING POWDER. PERSONAL NOTES. umerous tourists who met Dr South America will be surprised that he was never there Chicago promises to become presently one of the country’s most important pro- ducing centers for graft indietments. Francis Heney, who 18 particularly bad medicine for grafters, is going to live in New York, which naturally strikes him as a fine field The statue of Mr. Roosevelt which is to be’erected in Medora, N. D., has been dis approved by him on the ground that there should be statues of nobody except persons a long time dead—a class to which Mr Roosevelt does not belong. However, he has consented to pose for this particular statue because the Medora people are de- termined to have it. Whitney and Paul J. Reiney, mil- lionaire sportsmen, hunters and explorers, have completed their plans for a hunt- ing expedition around Labrador and the Arctje this summer. On board the large whdler, Boothic, under command of Cap- tain Bartlett, commander of Peary's ship Roosevelt, they will leave Sydney, Cape Breton Island, some time next month. Ninety-six years old and conducting a pedestrian search for two daughters, Frank Schraum, a yeteran of the Mexican and civil wars, tramped Into Pittsburg from Cleveland more like a husky lad than a battle-scarred centenarian. The old man made the trip, he says, in three days, and if he does not find any trace of his daughters will continue on east- ward afoot. There has just Cook in to learn Harry at Florence the countess Tahon. was the last of the Vespucel family. Amerigo Vespucci it 1s well known, gave his Christian name to the continent of Ameries, and traced her descent from the celebrated navigator. Half a century as the countess was a personage of note. She played her part in the Garibaldian mWent and she was an intimate friend Mazzini. died She she move- of MUNICIPAL WASTE, ax Hurdens Withont Ades quate Returns. M. T. Herrick in Review of Reviews. Increased tions to whom he recommends | Wireless Train Dispatching. New York World | Wireless telegraphy is to be used for train despatching the Union Pacifle. | Such a system should prove invaluable in| | correcting mistakes In train orders before | the colliston oceurs on | burdensome each ye The bonded indebtedness of Amerlcan cities as & whole Is increasing much more rapidly than municipal assets, and the taxes for operating expenses are bécoming more r. In 1902 the percent- age of the revenue of all the citics in the country to their debt was 37.3. By 1909 this percentage was decreased to 2.0. The net public debt of forty-nine cities, includirg Talks for people who sell things ‘ The buying public—the workers | and spenders—the reai “backbone’ of | the country, are demanding quality I goods. Hysterical advertising | priced goods and exagge: | have gone out. The opportunities for honest and in telligent retail merchandising through honest and intelligent advertising have never been so great as now. The readers of newspapers are educated and intelligent people, they know | qualities, they want quality, they will Ihave quality, if not from one mer- chant, then from another. The retail merchant is broad enough to realize the possibilities of meeting the time and condition with quality rather than quantity and profit, who can realize the possibilities of adver- tising absolutely dependable goods and backing it up with his reputation will make friends of his customers. They will have a reason for preferring his store to any other. To such a merchant here is what we ofter in the way of quality and service 12,000 home subscribers; over 150, 000 interested, intelligent and edu- cated readers who want quality goods and have the money to pay for them You can reach these 150,000 read- ers in a four-inch space in our adver tising columns three times a week for $611.62, or about $50 per month We have added to our Advertising Department an Advertiging fervice of quelity which will help to make youi space more productive. Phone Douglas 238 and a sentative will call It 1z an unfortunate moment man's life when it has ceased possible for hjm to add to his store of i(-qnuczlox.a, or o modlfy some of under- values of ted repre in to a be those which he already holds. It| marks the point where he has ceased | to be intellectually alive and has be come an intellectual relic.—Dr. C. H. | Parkhursi | Newspapers for Candy Stores. When Loft, the candy man, started | to advertise, only a few years ago, the | largest space he thought he could af-| ford was a two-inch advertisement He had a small store, very little money, but he had a lot of pluck, en-| ergy and ability i He kept that two-inch advertisement | running as steadily as the ticking of a | clock. And, above all, he had the good sensge to reiterate one thing only-—viz., good, pure candy at a reasonable price per pound The business grew rapidly. His ad vertising space increased slowly but| steadily He never splurged or used ! sensational advertising | It was constant, everlasting reitera- tion of quality and price. People who read his advertising announcements believed them, and, belleving, bought The point about this story is that| there are at least 200 merchants in| New York (and scores in every city) | who can commence advertigsing as Loft did and make a success. of It if they will also do as Loft did—back it up with the goods Any shrewd advertising agent can conduct & successful advertising cam- | paign for a begiuner by running two- | inch advertisements several times a week in a few papers that give a lot of attention to small adveriisemenis. W Freeman, in the New York Mail Mrs. Crawiord I can't eat breakfast do? Mrs. Crabshaw your h hand any s he Devours The Bee New York, Increased 4i.71 per cent from | 1599 to 1209, while during the same period the increase in the assessed valuation of all taxable property in these cities advanced but 12.66 per cent. In cities above 30,000 in population the municipal expenditures in- creased 20 per cent per capita from 1902 to 1907. If this increase continues the pressure of taxation will soon become Intolerable and | eredit exhausted In Chicago Professor Charles B at the head of a ing committee, reports that nearly half of the water pumped by the city Is wasted, while a very large percentage of the water rates are not collected. He asserts that his investigations will show an annual leak- age in all departments of at least $7,000,000 or about one-third of the amount now re- quired to run the city; and in this state ment he is supported by a former chalrman of the finange committee, who declares that he could save one-third of the annua budget if he could work without political interference, The evidence Is conclusive nicipalities, counties, states tional government itself there is u vast and growing amount of extravagance in the administration of public business SUNNY GEMS. That man_told me he settle down, “Didn't he Well, ne down, ' He since. ' —Puck that in mus and the na- would marry and marrted been but up in he didn't the air set Boing 1o plant a garden this it I found garden fean half one the st plant i worr immer me and ex 1 thic Baltimore pense the Amer Have essay No, faiher e 1've e words ton star you completed your graduation replied Mildred. I he understood to rewrite it four syllables read it very sen and_put in Washing 1o got of ake long not « Phiysician—1 have told walks in the open air, and you ing | onfirmed Dyspeptic—] ki but you told me I was to tak empty stomach, and 1 never stomach. ' —\Washington it, doctor €m on an an empty & of t resp trade of They Chicago said th overwelgh Wilh these spector unde know off give nste Y and A of 1 i have . | Jded £ all all t 1 giocer young these welg ine that Tri are tne only babies correctly hat he wash finds Nimse!( principality of | about lette; s the #tors the Tudge G that Monie Carlo of credit went into Ard it didn’t come next man who money In the Little seup sa without Merriam, | pecial council investigat- Monaco mustn't _expect laundry story will be avestioning confidence It would be like a clear Ive in the detergent Dealer that accepted A secont with une case ~Cleveland too much Plain “Why can’t they hase an opera upon an Ameriean theme? “We have no peasantry chorus. “Make it a base ball opera and duce @ chorus of enthusiastic Louisville Courier-Journal. words wouldn'y 1l stuffed ug ng and. can'y to bring in as a intro fans.’ “Why has Mendelssohn's no words?' ‘I_guexs he figured that he needed. 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