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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
JOE coYSE ON MUSICAL COMEDY
what n Clever Man Has to Say of the
Work He II Doing.

What Clever Man Has to Say of the
Work He IL Doing.
Joseph Coyne, who mas achieved a great
success In MY Lady's Maid" at the Casino
in New York. has the following to say of
the why and wherefore of this style of en-
tertainment:
There is an old saw to the effect that
there is no accounting for tastes, which,
like most all old saws, does noe ''cut much
ice." You really can account for tastes II
you will only try. The favor in which
musical comedy 10 now held is not far to
seek. nor does 1t require a telescope to dis
cover 1t. Primarily musical comedy is pop
ular because It IL new. and lasting because
It Is pleasing. Like other fads, foibles or
fancies, It grew out of something else-is
an Improvement. an advancement a re-
finement OF something older. grown stale
and OF something OF which the pub
lie taste has wearied and grown tired
The chrysalis OF musical comedy was
comic opera, the withered ancient,
which, like old age, is now in cor
ners thrown. II served very well in its
youth, but in its maturity 1t fails to please
and satisfy us.
Through comic opera we became ac-
quainted with all sorts of serious regal
persons. odd and whimsical potentates and
all manner OF extraordinary and impossible
personages. Through familiarity doubtless
we came to look upon these once divertlng
individuals with contempt. or this sort OF
thing we had plenty; indeed. a cloying and
satiated sufficiency.
And then. after a period OF lethargy
and longing. came musical comedy. 1t was
hailed with 10Y for the reason that 1t
abandoned the grotesque and extravagant
and introduced US to the real and the ac-
tual.
1t 10 not in story alone the new species
OF musical play excels. Musically. the new
form is vastly more pleasurable than the
older favorites The scores OF the old
operas were grand" or nearly so. while
the music OF the modern music play is
mostly jingling and tinkling. This sort of
thing may not be as good for US or eleva-
ting as the old form, but It 10 eminently
more pleasing and satisfying to the aver
age intelligence. Is 1t any wonder. then,
that musical comedy is popular?
But comic opera. with Its grand persons
and queer personages, did not give up with
out protest and a struggle 1t was but
natural that the devotees OF such solid, yet
charming old works as Millocker's "Beggar
Student" Strauss Merry War" Genes
'Nanon." Suppes "Bocaccio." Audran's
''Mascotte" and cellars ''ryrolean,"
should set up a wall and howl over the sue
cess OF "Florodora." THE Earl and the
Girl" THE Runaways" Lady Teazle."
The Social whirl" and MY Lady's Maid"
which would doubtless be described as be-
ing diaphanous.
That which Il amusing Is often called
frivolous by the serious and earnest" yet
a. hearty laugh II one Of the chief de-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
Elected n Cure.

Does your husband smoke as much as
formerly2" asked the friend Of the family.
"oh, no." replied the hostess. "He
doesn't smoke at all now"
That's queer" rejoined the man. II
sent him box of cigars only last week"
YES" she replied. That's what broke
him OF the habit"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
wanting of the Honeymoon.

waning OF the honeymoon
Darling" cooed the bride of six
months, will 90 love 90 ducky when her
is old?"
y"Oh, l suppose So" answered the brute;
that is IL her lives to be old enough to
have sense"
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really did not understand. I told him
it was no wonder, because his brain
was not constructed to stand SO much
strain in one day and that after all L
thought the joke was on him. he
said it certainly seemed to be. men
I got tired ard hung up the receiver,
for Bert's fun goes about so far and
then he gets kind of stupid
There certainly wasn't very much
point to it," said the girl with n
angelic eyes.
Il =
The girl with the cabbage rose re-
garded her mournfully. Il haven't
told you the point yet she said in a
stiaed voice. you see it really was
the minister who called me up the
second time. At last when I got
Bert on the phone to-day to tell him
again what I thought of him, he
vowed and protested that he had
called me up only once yesterday
and if the other man said he was
Mr.. Fairman he was Mr.. Fairman, for
all he knew to the contrary. And the
wretched part of it is that 1 don't
know whether or not to believe him!
He may be still joking, you know
"And then again he may mott"
said the girl with the angelic eyes.
81 think I'd run whenever I saw the
minister coming, if I were you'll
Chicago News.
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4 PREACHER and A WRITER OF READ.
Able SERMONS APPEARS.

The Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson,
whose convincing and readable
weekly sermons are now receiving so
wide a circulation by being published
In hundreds of newspapers through
out the United States in the same
way that the late DR.. T.; De Witt Tai
IMAGES memorable discourses were
reproduced, was born in the city of
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the I'd of March,
1878, the son of Thomas ]. and
Grace w. Henderson, lifelong and
widely known residents of that city.
He was educated in the common
schools Of his native city and at the
age of eighteen entered Hamilton
College, Clinton, N. Y. While in COL
lege MI. Henderson was a prominent
athlete, being one of the fastest
sprinters in the college. He was also
interested in oratorical affairs and in
his sophomore year was a prize
speaker and in his senior year a
prize debater. After graduation from
college Mr.. Henderson entered Union
Seminary, from which he graduated
three years later. Mr.. Henderson's
first call was to the passionate of the
West Avenue Presbyterian Church,
Of Buffalo, N. Y. Here he served,
with success. The strain OF close
work telling on him, Mr.. Henderson,
after two years Of labor in Buffalo,
resigned. Last May he was called to
the pastorate of the Irving Square
Presbyterian Church Of Brooklyn. N.
2. Here his work Is so successful as
20 focus him in the public eye. One
Of the finest features Of the work
done in his parish is a boys brigade,
the best in the city of Brooklyn, with
q membership of 1877 young men and
boys.
Mr.. Henderson is a member of the
Chi Psi fraternity and a Mason.
Three years ago Mr.. Henderson
was married to Miss Julia Carman
Gildersleeve, a descendant of one OF
the oldest Long Island families. They
have one child, a son.
Mr.. Henderson is a preacher be-
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New Idea in Cans.

In emptying a can OF corn, or like
vegetable, or a jar of jelly or pre-
serves, some of the contents natural
ly adhere to the sides. 1t then be-
comes necessary to scrape off as much
as possible with a knife or spoon.
Even the economical housewife still
sees some on the bottom Of the can
that she cannot remove To prevent
waste of this character a Kentucky
man has devised a rather unique
idea. He uses the ordinary type OF
Theoretically sealed can, which is
opened by means of a key. Within
the can is a disk, which is of slightly
less diameter than that of the can.
This disk lies on the bottom of the
can. Projecting upward from the
centre of the disk is a rod having at
the upper end an eye or loop which
forms a fnger-piece. The rod Is ap-
proximateiy as long as the depth OF
the can, so that the i~nger-piece is d.
rectly beneath the cover. 1t will be
obvious that after the cover Is re-
moved the contents of the can can
be readily removed by pulling on the
rod. As the edges Of the disk lie
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$4,000 MURDERS IN FIVE YEARS.
Judge Calls This the Most Criminal
: Country in the World.

Chicago. = During the last FIVE
years $4,000 persons were murdered
in the United States. More persons
were murdered last year.than died OF
typhoid fever. This awful total has
been due to the way in which the
law was administered. And the law
itself is bad and inefficient. It Is
burdened with restrictions and tech
nicalities, and in almost every case
the criminal has nine chances OF es-
Gaping to one of being found guilty"
So declared Judge Marcus Kayan-
agh in an address before the alum
nae of st. Ignatius' College on EN-
forcement of the Law in Large Cit
ies." He declared that the United
States was the most criminal country
in the world and the jury system the
most loose and antfquated.
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The Craze For Speculation in Mines.

The For speculation In mines.
1t is now coming to be realized
that the real estate boom in certain
tention is now being turned to the
subtle attractions of mining secur-
tiles, for unquestionably the get-rich-
quick disease has overtaken high and
low. These attractions have been
blazoned from Alaska to Maine, from
Canada to Mexico. More than justice
has been done to the Importance of
recent discoveries of precious metals;
tales true and tales preposterously
false, yet calculated to hypnotic the
ignorant, have been scattered broad
cast from end to end of the hemis-
phere; thieving promoters" have
been sold space by the page in news
papers with p%retensions to respecta-
bility, and have by this can cheat
ed millions Of women and men; and,
lastly, certain brokers are not eXer-
cising the influence they admit would
be proper to discourage this per-
nicious species of gambling.
AS for the New York Stock Ex-
change, it is in a way a~ggrayating the
unsavory aspect of the boom by stol-
idly refusing to do anything itself to
regulate it, yet absolutely prohibiting
the respectable element on the curb
(Which is by no means inconsidera-
ble) from organizing to elevate the
tone of the market and to endeavor
to put a ban upon fraudulent stocks.
journal of Commerce.
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THE OLD CLOCK AGAINST THE
WALL.

Oh! the old, old clock of the household
stock,
Wa the brightest thing and neatest;,
It's hands, though old, had a touch of gold,
And its chime rang still the sweetest.
Twas a monitor, too, though its words
were few,
Yet they lived through nations altered,
AND its voice, still strong, warned Old ana
young,
When the voice of friendship faltexed.
TrTick! tick" it said-"quick, quick TO bed,
For 10 I've given warning;
Up up! and go, or else you know. -
You'll never rise soon in the morning"
"a friendly voice was that old, old clock,
As it stood in the corner smiling.
And it blessed the time with a merry
chime,
The wintry hours beguiling;,
But a cross old voice was that tlresome
clock,
AS it called at daybreak boldly. -.
When the dawn looked gray DER the misty
way,
Stick! tick!" it said, quick out of bed,
For 5 I've given warning;
You'll never have health, you'll never have
wealth.
Unless you're up soon in the morning"
Still hourly the sound goes round and
round,
With a tone that never ceases;
While tears are shed for bright days fled,
And the old friends lost forever;
Its heart beats o~n-though hearts are gone,
Yet love still lives the stronger;
It's hands still move-though hands we love
Are clasped on earth no longer! ,
Stick. tick" it ~said-"to the churchyard
bed,
The grave hath given warning;
Up! up! and rise, and look at the skies;
And prepare for a heavenly morning"
New England Grocer.
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AT BAY, LAUGHS AT DEATH.
AsheyiIle Posse Kills Negro After .
Ten Mile Battle.

Asheville, N. C.-Brought to bay
by bloodhounds, which had tracked
him from the George W. Vanderbilt.
estate at Biltmore, James Harvey, OF
Forest City, Va, otherwise VIII
Harris a negro, who killed two POI
licefnen and three negroes in this city
was killed at Fletcher next day bySaj
posse.
He refused to surrender, led his
pursuers a ten mile chase, in which
hundreds of shots were exchanged
and wounded two mor men before
his death. When his cartridges were
exhausted he faced the mob, folded
his arms and laughed as the death
volley was poured into his body.
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Care of Stocks and Collars.

Half the battle in always wearing
neat, fresh-looking neckwear is to
have a place where it may be kept in
good order. No matter how beauti-
fully Numbered stocks and collars
may be they will soon become rum
pied and untidy looking unless they
are carefully put away.
A box twelve or fourteen inches
long and wide enough to hold the
ordinary stock will be found most
useful for turnover collars and cuffs
az well as stocks. It should have a
hinged cover that may be easily
lifted and that will fall back into
place, for only the very careful wo-
man stops to put covers on boxes
when she is in a hurry. .
For linen collars, which are being
worm again this season, the leather
collar Boxes that may be obtained at,
any mems farnfBhinag store are most
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e. lful Of salt; one
fourth teaspoonful Of pepper and two
eggs, we'll beaten. When cold form
into squares one inch thick and two
inches across. Roll in egg and
cream crumbs and fry in hot fat or
bake in the ven until brown.
Cream Cakes-Put two-thirds of
butter in a coffee cup and level it
with lard, then put the same amount
of water to boil, then when boiling
turn in your cup Of butter and lard.
When boiling turn in same amount of
-four with a pinch of soda. Mix
quickly and we'll with a spoon or
whip. Put to cool, then break in
five eggs one a a time, working each
one well with your hand. Drop into
a pan at intervals, bake in lower oven
with a fair fire.
Creustade of Lobster-Cut off the
top from a loaf Of stale bread, scoop
out all of the interior, leaving a half
wall, spread q coating of butter on
the inside and bake until crisp; place
a layer of cooked lobster meat over
the bottom, then a layer of boiled
thinly sliced tomatoes, adding a
white sauce, highly between
each layer; put fine bread crumbs on
top, dot with butter and bake fifteen
minutes in a hot oven; garnish with
halved stuffed olives, lobster, clans
and parsley.
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Feminine News Notes.

La Franchise is a new Paris daily,
devoted to women's rights.
Some of the railway lines in Rus
STA have smoking cars for ladies.
Mrs. Aurel Batonyi won several
pies with her pets at the Toy Span
lei Clubs show, in New York City.
Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice, the author
of Mrs. Wigs" and "LoYey Mary"
will contribute a serial story to the
new, volume of st. Nicholas.
In Crell's "Chemische Annalen" of
the year 1884, reference is made to,
women students attending lectures on,
chemistry In Berlin
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PRISON FOR BANK WRECKERs.
Conviction of Twining and Cornell
&. Upheld by Court. Z.

Trenton, N. 1.-THE Court of Err
Tors and Appeals, by a vote Of Z to
q. sustained the conviction of Robert
C. Twining and David G. Cornell, Of
6cers of and connected with the
iwrecking of the First National Bank
Of Asbury Park and the Monmouth
Trust Company.
The technical charge was exhibit
ing false papers to the Bank Exam
liner In the case Of the Monmouth
Trust Company. The men were each
sentenced to six ears'imprisonment,
and were out on bail pending the de-
cision. . III.
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Serious Loss to the Tramp.

Lady Frances Cecil is giving up
Stockton Hall, her beautiful resi-
dence on the great North road about
midway between Stamford and Grant.
ham. This will be a serious loss II
tramps, for every one who called q
the hall received a small loaf {
bread, a thick slice Of cheese and
pint of beer. AS many as fifty a da
have been known to call.-Londo
Chronicle,
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Stub Ends of News.

The Beef Trust was said to be
forming a Soap Trust.
A severe coal famine is already
threatened at Toledo, Ohio.
The small steamer service in Ven
Ice, Italy, has been municipalized.
At Mukden, Manchuria, an Amer
lean Consulate General has been
opened.
M. BRAND, Minister of Public Wor-
shin in the French Chamber of Depu-
ties, defined the intentions of the
Government in regard to the separa-
ton law,
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The New Socialist Colony.

Upton Sinclair's colony, "Helicon
Hail." ought to make a nice vacation
place for people tired of the world
and it's diversions and ENDORSEMENTS.
But even with Editor Lewis, of the
yale Lit" to run the furnaces
nightly, and a Smith College grad
uate for laundress and a Vassar girl
for chief cook, the program won't
last long.-Holyoke Transcript.
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Household
Matters
Keep House Plants in Pots.

I do not advise turning plants out
of their pots and putting them in the
ground in summer. My reason IS
this: Plants treated in that manner
will make a great growth of roots,
most of which must be sacrificed
when the time comes to lift and pot
the plant in fall. This leaves the
plants in a weak, crippled condition
at the very time when they ought to
be at their best, in order to stand the
trying change of conditions which
they have to meet when they are tax
en- indoors. Plants kept in pots es-
caps this ordeal.-Outing Magazine.
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10000 JAPs FOR HAWAII.
Immigration Companies Prepare to
Send Many Laborers to Islands.

+ Honolulu, Hawaii.-Captain Mfz-
ume, commandingthe Japanese steam
er Chiusa, says the immigration COM
panies of Japan are prepared to send
70 the Hawaiian Islands by next June
10000 laborers, which the regular
transportation companies are no"
unable to handle.
Six thousand young men are now
in Yokohama ready to embark for
the islands. The Chiusa brought
oyer 900 immigrants to this port
from the Ryuku Islands.
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How to Make a Photo Frame.

Did you ever see a frame made Of
peanuts, or monkey nuts" as per-
haps you call them? Well, try max
ing one for yourself, and I am sure
you will want to make others for
presents for your friends.
. Get a plain little wooden frame,
the right size for the photograph, a
bag Of peanuts and a pot of glue.
Brush some glue on the frame, and
then lay the nuts-in their shells, Of
course-on 1t, taking pains, to fit
them in snugly together. Drop a
little glue between the nuts as you
place them, so as to hold them firmly.
When the frame is quite covered
with the peanuts let 1t lie on the ta-
BILE till the glue is firm and hard, and
then go over it carefully with a brush
dipped in varnish, says Home Notes.
If you like you may use acorn cups
and little fir cones as well as peanuts,
but you would have to wait for the
autumn to collect these wouldn't
you? 81
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FIVE DIE IN BURNING HOTEL.
Several Others Probably Fatally In-
iured-Loss, 100000.

Several others FFoDaDly taIally lns
jured-Loss, 100000.
Regina, Mantle Hotel Windsor:
was destroyed by fire and five per-
sons were burned to death. There
were ~sixty-hve guests in the hotel at
the time of the fire.
The dead are: W. Muster, mana.
ger of Regina Milling Company; L.,
Muster, assistant manager OF the
Regina Milling Company; Donald
Walker, day porter; Robert Johnson,
laborer; Harry Jones, a hotel en-
ploye.
Several others were severely
burned, some Of whom are expected
to die. The cold weather .hindered
the work Of the rescuers. Loss,
100000. o., I
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Keeping Milk Fresh.

A simple device for keeping milk
sweet when ice is not to be had is to
scald it. Scalded milk is not so nice
for a good many purposes as if it had
not been scalded, but it does just as
well for cocoa and coffee, and proved
a great convenience in a summer cot
tage where meals were taken at a
farmhouse across the way, and there
were no'facilities for keeping perish
able foods in the house. The milk
left from the evening cocoa was ac-
cordingly scalded for the morning
coffee, which was served before any
one was ready to run across the
street and get fresh Mike. NJ, in
the New York Tribune. =
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DIR. Crapsey Found Guilty.

The Protestant Episcopal Court OF
Review sustained the verdict Of the
ecclesiastical trial court that the
Rev. DR.. Algernon s. Crapsey, rector
of st. Andrews Church in Rochester,
N. Y, was guilty Of heresy, and he
will be suspended from the ministry.
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SUBSTITUTES FOR AIR TIRES.
Efforts to Replace the Pneumatic
Tube.

ors may CO." says the Motor World,
"but the penumatic tire goes on for
ever, seem to represent In a nutshell
the astatus of the present universally
used type of tire and Of the horde of
inventors who are vainly trying to
displace it with something that shall
possess all of it's advantages, but lack
it's defects. While the history Of
great inventions clearly shows that
it is never safe to deride a device or
it's inventor regardless of how bizarre
or far-fetched his idea may appear at
first sight, there would seem to be
little of permanent value in the mass
of spring devices that are now ap-
pearing so constantly as to run a
close second to the non-refllable bot
tie and the rotary engine in the pat
ent records.
people, great and small, learned
and otherwise, ridiculed the tele-
graph and the telephone to a far
greater extent than is the lot of the
airship of to-day, and not alone the
average tire user, but the tire maker
without exception, regards with
amused contempt the thousand and
one attempts to utilize wierd and
freakish combinations of springs and
rubber to. obtain the degree Of re-
siliency that experience thus far has
demonstrated is only possible with
rubber and ca~nvas-confned air.
There are two fundamental principles
upon which rest the value of the
pneumatic tire-the extreme elastic
ity of compressed air, in which re-
spect it is equalled by no other
known substance, and the fact that
this indispensable quality is applied
directly at the place where 1t Is most
required-the point of shock.
MANY of the devices that have
come and gone in the past year or
two have had incorporated in their
makeup one or the other of these
principles. Many have placed the
springs about the rim in the attempt
to concentrate the desired effect
where most wanted; others have en-
ployed rubber confined air about the
hub and yet others have virtually
placed a pneumatic tube beneath a
solid rubber tire, only altering the
construction Of the wheel itself to
the extent necessitated by the
changed form of rim. With the <
ception of the last, which it really a
form Of pneumatic tire, neither of
the most numerous classes have en-
bodied both of these sine qua non,
without which the results now af-
forded by the pneumatic tire are i'm
possible.
whether a device that will do so
effectively will ever materialize, or
whether one of the army OF geniuses
that is laboring to this end will sue
coed in discovering some totally new
method of achieving this much de-
sired result is a subject upon which it
is not easy to predict. One thing is
certain, and that is that no great
amount of progress has been forth.
coming as yet, and that little or none
is to be expected from further adj
herence to the ideas that have bees
proven to be fallicies time and again.
1t would doubtless be better for those
most interested if the slate could be
wiped clean and a new start made"