New-York tribune., 1909-03-31
A MODERN INFLUENCE.

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You must be careful 10 obtain
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To be a hero in the strife
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A press agent
Or if you'd shine on histry page
AS a lawgiver and a sage,
DO not be backward. but engage
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In court or camp, in field or mart
In mimic scene or salon smart
You should secure. before you start.
y press agent.
A strange creation of our time.
Unique, grand. sombre and sublime,
There is not cen a word to rhyme
-Washington Star.
DR.. J. Paul Goode head of the department Of
political economy Of the University of Chicago,
in recent lecture held out reassurances as to
the nations fate when its supply OF coal gives out
Power may be obtained from the in America
desert area each year sufficient to generate 1900,
o0o000 horsepower, according to DR.. Goode This is
equivalent to three hundred times the power ut
present secured from coal In less than three hun
dred years, according to present estimates. our
supply of coal will have been SPENT said DR..
Coode But there will be plenty of substitutes
Air motors will reach for power from the wind
securing eight or times much is available
at present Then there are the waves. tides rivers
and waterfalls. BY means Of solar engines placed
in the one million OF desert area TO be found
be obtained
CAPTAIN (of baseball nfne)-You think StUmpy Is
getting sort weak in his mind? Why?
Manager-Ie renewed his contract for this sea
son without making a kick for a higher salary
Chicago Tribune
A letter from Paris to the Berlin "Morgen- Post
saws: "On Friday it was fifty years since Gounod's
Faust. was performed for the first time in Paris
at the Theatre Lyrique, which situated at that
time in the Boulevard du Temple No one who wit
messed the first performance would have prophe-
sled that within fifty years the work would have
been produced in Paris l2S5 times, for there was
more adverse than favorable criticism, and muCn
Of the opera as performed on March -. 1883. was
cancelled. Many changes made before IT be
came what know Il now 10 be. Among those
who witnessed the anniversary production were
two men who were in the audience Of fifty years
ago They were students at that time. both mu-
sicslIv inclined At a wine shop after the curtain
had fallen on the initial performance they discussed
Gounod's work and took opposite sides as 70 its
merits This discussion referred to in larger
circle last Friday, when said TO the other, You
we're right Faust viii survive Thank YOU,
said the other. and, turning to his friends, said
Behold the consistent man. He changed his mind.
and after fifty years Of deliberaton has had the
courage 10 confess it
Henpecke- Every man has something to be thank
Tyigveag- What have YOU 10 be thankful ror7
Henpecke-That I'm not Mormon Philadelphia
Record.
The report that The woman who was executed at
Auburn went to her death calmly recalled 10 d
man who saw her a short time before she was
taken to the execution chamber the other mfortu-
nate woman who died in the electric chair al Sing
Sing Mrs Place" he said, occupied room
on the second floor OF the prison hospital and
there saw her knitting industriousv and appar-
emily calm when the guard bade enter Her
greeting. Good evening, doctor was accompanied
bv smile. and IN the course Of the short inter-
view which followed she seemed 70 think Of only
thing. and that was whether she would be able
hnish the piece Of handNork which she was
doing for the warden's wife"
"Preservin de trees would be easy said Uncle
Ehen, IF cv'ybody had de same hesitatin feelir
towards wocdnile dat I always speTiences. 49,
Washington s,aT.