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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30

and dominates the song. and this Is
true in some of the finest poems in the
book. "The Seven Songs of Penitence,"
a lyric which suggests Heine at his
tenderest, is an illustration, as is the
beautiful little bit of religious mag
nation "While Mary Dreamed" One
of the finest of the occasional semi
sonnet forms is 1.-THE Living Sea-
wherein a simple but most effective
metaphor is developed:
How like the city is unto the sea-
The mighty wave of commerce breaks and
beats
In restless surges through the noisy streets,
Swayed by the master tide of energy.
How many derelicts. long morn to morn,
Drift at the mercy of the wind and
The fotsam and the jetsam of the pave
Deserted, rudderless and tempest torn.
Here move great argoses with gold and
bales,
staunch ships that dare the cunning cur
rents might.
And through their long procession dart
the light,
Swift pleasure craft with n-emblazoned
sails.
Yet am minded only of one thing
How much-how much these smiling wa
tiers drown?
Dear God, what wrecks this very day went
down,
INHALED unslgnaled and unsignaling!
The last four lines are the key to
the dominant mood in much of Miss
Garrison's writing, a melancholy that
is as enforced as it is persistent.
One of the finest of the poems is
1.-THE Green Inn,'' in it's delicate play
of fancy and striking contrasts. Miss
Garrison is seldom mature poet" so
called. 1t is the city which reminds
her of the sea, as it is the revel of
red-blooded life which sorrowfully sug-
gests the cool calm of the green fields.
Defiance" and "The Wife" are fine
examples of the poet at her best.
In "Stains," one of the most original
of the poems in this volume. the gently
sorroWful note rises to a real cri du
occur. The first poem in the book,
from which it's title derives, is a model
of it's kind for melody and haunting
sweetness, as two random stanzas will
indicate:
Oh, the joy O. life goes singing through the
oh, the joy o life goes swinging through
the green!
And the form of her is slight as a crescent
moon at night
And her face is some strange flower none
hath seen.
She beckoned me- and what could but fol-
low?
ooh, I lave seen the glamor of her eyesD
Through the winding o. the ways, through
the hundred nights and days,
Must I follow where she lures woman
wise.
My frlend-I left him fasting at my thresh-
old
My sweetheart is another mans to wife,
For it's fare-ye- well, my own, and its laugh
and turn alone
When a man has heard the voice of Joy
o. Life.
The Joy O. Life and Other Poems.
By Theodosia Garrison. Mitchell Ken
nerley, Publisher, New York.
w H b.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
A Book for Smokers

Tobacconesdue literature has dainty
addition in 1.-The Smokers Year Book, 1"
a collection of twelve sprightly verses
by oliver Herford, treating of the de-
lights of the weed in every season and
atmospheric mood. The pert audacity
and bland, smiling cynicism which en-
liven but never Cypress Mr.. Herfords
airy fancies are much in evidence
Sewell Collins has illustrated the twelve
poems in appreciative and delicately
imaginative vein. Perhaps the melod-
ious stanZa for August is most suit
able for quotation:
browsing DER my sainted briar,
Dreaming dreams of hearts desire
Dreaming meath the August sun.
Thus my meditations run.
What If that great ember bright
Were a monster pipe alght,
Or the glowing from afar
OF some fre-god's cigar?
If the smokers peace abide
In that sun fire, multiplied
BY its Vastness, | will be
Henceforth devout Parsee.
The Smokers Year Book. BY oliver
Herford and Sewell Collins. Moffat
Yard & Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30

readers may detect a curious partial
resemblance in the plot to a story OF
Mr.. Robert Hichens', 1.-The Garden OF
Allah" wherein it is the man-and a
husband-who is called upon for sim
liar tremendous sacrifice.
Californians do not need to be told
that Mrs. Gertrude Atherton Yields a
vigorous and trenchant pen, but few
crusades of this essentially polemic
writer have aroused more controversy
than her recent article in Life declar-
ing America simply paralyzed," in
tellectually and artistically. The mea-
ger support which grand opera meets
in many of the larger eastern cities is
the ground for the assertion. This
Millionaire among the nations" says
Mrs. Atherton, eaters less to the
higher wants of man than any one of
the many subdivisions of Germany"
She appeals for more culture and less
dissatisfaction with merely material
prosperity.
Among the more important spring
novels of Lippincott's is THE Winning
Chance" by Elizabeth Deieans, resi-
dent of Southern California.
The rationalizing pen of Professor
Guglielmo Ferrero sweeps aside the
cobwebs of romance most ruthlessly in
his characters and Events of Roman
History" CPutnam), more or less ac-
curate authorizations of which have
been heard from time to time in the
reports of iconoclastic addresses by the
author during his recent visit to this
country. Caesar, Nero, Cleopatra, An
tony and Tiberius, all are treated I'M
sparingly, and the result, it must be
confessed, is depressing from the view
point of all except those who pin their
faith to the methods of the higher
criticism" and regard history as in no
wise indebted to myth and legend.
Even science cannot safely ignore the
value of tradition. 1t was Mr.. Gilbert
K. Chesterton who said that the leg
ends of any city are preserved by
countless simple folk who are sane,
and its history written by one melan-
choly man who is probably mad The
mysticism of Chesterton is recon-
mended as good antidote to the ra-
tionalism of the italian historian.
Just twenty years after the Dublin
Review rejected Francis Thompson's
essay on Shelley, a later editorial gen.
Grafton on that journal honored the
poets memory last month by publish
ing it. And for the first time in it's
career of seventy-two years that Sc
date and stately periodical enjoyed the
luxury of a second edition.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
Airship Fact and Fancy


Ronald Legge, a young novelist of
ability, has just completed story of
aerial war, entitled 1.-THE Hawk"
which is said to bring before his read
ers more wildly than any of its pre-
decessors the fact that attack by air.
ship is no longer a future contingency,
but an actual possibility
To demonstrate the truth of this
theory and to show how easily a hos
tile force, equipped with fleet of air
ships, might effect their purpose, an
aeronaut recently circled over a large
American city in his dirigible balloon,
and from the darkness dropped harm
less bombs on the roofs of the city
hall, the court house and other public
buildings. Neither the aeronaut nor
his craft could be seen from the street.
the only indication of his whereabouts
coming from the bombs, which took
fire as they fell.
Legge's novel, 1.-THE Hawk" tells of
the actual accomplishment of such an
attack Moving quickly from incident
to incident, it's exciting tale of war in
the air and of the awful power of this
wonder of the age makes present real
ity of possible future fact. In the midst
of all the breathless activity of q
splendid tale of adventurous doings
the reader is beguiled by the romance
of famous actress, which is a strong
feature of the plot-and by the humor
of the inventor. whose timely aid clears
the air in the end.
The Hawk. BY Ronald Legge. John
Mcbride company.
A Rube's Adventures
1.-THE Ups and Downs of Clodhop-
per, and His Famous Trip to the Land
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30

of Gold and Sagebrush," by Thomas
S. Kinder, is a bundle of rollicking,
good-natured, side-spliting fun. It's
capital letters and simplified spelling,
but consists in the mirth- provoking
nature of the incidents related. Every
page from start to finish is good for a
laugh. The Rube's remarkable adven-
lures are told by himself. Beginning
with his boyhood life on the farm.
where he struggled with the calf for
mastery f the situation, his ups and
downs as a travelling agent for the
Wildcat Medicine company, his ex-
perience as a patent churn agent and
his thrilling doings as railroad agent
and storekeeper combined, down to the
time of his famous trip to the beauti-
full Puget Sound country and Seattle.
the City of Hills, and his return home
with a stopover ticket for Salt Lake
City, RUDE was constantly observant,
and if there was anything funny that
escaped his attention the reader will
be puzzled to know what it was. He
never passed a skyscraper without
seeing it's top and never ran up against
a confidence game but what he was in
it. Besides the fun and good humor
of his remarkable adventures there is
also much solid information to be had
by reading the book.
The book is appropriately illustrated
cidents.
Ups and Downs of a Clodhopper.
By Thomas S. Kinder: Laird & Lee.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
Literary Personalities

j. M. Barrie is expected to visit
America next year to help supervise
the American production of What Ev-
cry Woman Knows"
Mrs. Humphry Wards next more
will be laid in Canada.
Samuel Pepys has found a defender
in Miss E. Hallam Moorhouse, whose
Samuel Pepys, Administrator, OBJ
server, Gossip" (Dutton) portrays its
hero as solid man of affairs with a
taste for observation which would
have made him invaluable to a mod
ern society journal.
James Huneker continues a-slashing
at the demigods. His latest audacity
"Egoists: A Book of Supermen'
(Scribner's) interprets more or less
caustically such diverse individualists
as Stendhal. Anatole France, Max
Stirner, Baudelaire. Flaubert and
Blake.
The editor of Golfers, with rather
amusing precipitancy, makes haste tc
disavow any acceptance of this dogma
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
A Book for Verse Lovers


1t is a dearly won joy which Theo-
dosia Garrison sings in her latest vol
ume of poems and which gives its
name to the collection. In scarcely one
of the fourscore selections made from
the authors recent magazine verse is
the note wholly happy, despite the
promise of the title. There is a per-
sistent, retrospective pain, a regret
that even happiness is constituted so
often of petty disappointments turned
to contentment by the philosophy of
compensations. There are many stur-
dy poems of the road and its wander
lust but even arrant youth is always
looking backward, as he fees, with a
lingering regret at leaving other scenes
less adventurous but no less dear to
memory.
This quality of motive is one of the
chief charms of the poets work. 1t 1t
tempers the poignancy of the lyric note
it also makes it more real and more
swiftly appealing to readers of like
temperamental quality. At times, in
deed, the sob rises from a minor chord
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-30
A Rube's Adventures

1.-THE Ups and Downs of a Clodhop-
per, and His Famous Trip to the Land
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
Heart Trouble
Causes Death
Coroner's Jury Says Mrs. Sarah Ed.
wards Was Very III When She
Left Denver.

The c%oroner's jury. eallcG by Coroner
Heafey 10 determine the cause of the death
OF Mrs. Sarah Edwards, the young wife OF
r. G. Edward OF Denver, brought in a
verdict Saturday morning that death was
caused by heart failure. Mrs. Edwards
died Friday morning about 6 O'Clock near
Fremont while riding from Denver to
Omaha to visit Mr.. Edwards mother at
4S1s Ersklne street.
An effort was mad on the part OF Mr..
Edwards TO establish the fact that death
might have been caused by an overdose
Of morphine. given by a physician before
Mrs. Edwards left Denver. but the cor
onor's physician testified that Mrs. Edwards
was a very sick woman and probably would
have died anyway.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
RARE ENGRAVING AT FAIR
Copy of Lincoln aud His Cabinet
Attraction 81 EIks' Affair at
Auditorium.

Ritchie's steel engraving Of Llncoln's
cabinet. from the painting Of F. 3. Car
penter, made in 1854. and now hanging in
the White House at Washington, will be
one OF the choicest and rarest bits of art
work displayed and disposed OF at the
Elks' fair in April. This engraving is not
only a masterpiece. but copies are exceed
ingly rare. because after a few impressions
were made the steel plate was by accident
destroyed. The engraving, which has long
been in possession Of the local Elks, will be
placed in a costly frame, and is sure TO at
tract art connoiseurs.
The array OF donations now catalogued
include nearly leo, articles many Of great
value. and including variety enough to
make the Auditorium during fair time A
museum of everything OF utility.
The corps of ballOOnists for advertising
purposes has been arranged for and there
IS promise Of a lively scramble when the
articles OF award which will be carried by
each are sought for.
Buffalo Bill, who is a member Of the
local lodge. is taking deep interest in tho
fair and has indicated that he will do
something handsome in It's support.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
Musical Notes.

A Polish newspaper published in South
Omaha, by name 'Gwiazda u Zachodu,"
has reached this department, and on the
front page is a picture of the eminent com
poser, Frederic Chopin. There Is an inter-
esting article about the great genius whom
Polish people and all lovers of music every
where cherish most fondly. Last Monday
March /, was the Tooth anniversary Of his
birth.
Mr.. Jean p. Duffield's new song. which
has just come TO this office, IS entitled
The Springs Blue Eyes II has a fresh
and refined accompaniment and a spontane-
Gus s~pring-like melody.
A very interesting song cycle written for
four solo voices, The Garden OF Kama"
will be given by the quartet Of st. Mary's
Congre gational church, under the direction
Of Mr.. Frank j. Resler. Thursday. March
II, at Sl5 p. m. in the church auditorium.
The words are selected from midas Love
Lyrics, by Laurence Hope, and are given
a most beautiful and dramatic musical set
ting by Henry b.. Vincent. The program
will be given in two parts. Part one VIII
consist OF numbers by each member of tina
quartet and q group of organ numbers by
Miss Resler. Part two will be devoted to
the song cycle. The following is the per-
sonnet OF the quartet: Mr.. Frank Resler.
tenor and director; Mrs. Harry Jcnnisoa.
soprano; Miss Minnah Weber. contralto;
Mr.. William w. Grigor, bassO; Mrs. Frank
j. Resler, accompanist.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07

how much this second part of the scheme
is likely to cost the state.
The insured will effect their payments
by placing stamps on an annual card
which each will receive. thereby avoiding
the necessity of having the employer
deduct the payment from the employees
wages. The commission particularly
wished to avoid giving this insurance
scheme the appearance of lessening wages,
but It has felt itself obliged to insert an
article TO the effect that IL at the end of
the year the worker is behind in his month
ly payment the employer must, on demand
from the state authorities, retain from his
wages the amount due,
The senate will take up the considera-
ton of the commissioner proposal about
the middle of March.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
OLD AGE PAY in FRANCE
Double scheme Proposed In which
Employer, EmpIOye and state
VIII Help.

PARIS, Feb, MA committee of the
French senate under the presidency of Nj.
Cuvinot has formulated a scheme for old
age and workmen's pensions with which
II is understood the government is in al
most complete agreement. The scheme is
a very complex one and will give rise TO
long debates in the senate and later in
the chamber, but Its main lines are clear.
II creates two benefits for wage earners
One is an absolute gift to which they will
contribute nothing. while the other is a
form of insurance to which they will sub
scribe.
The first benefit is an annual grant Of
s4 which is TO be made to all wage earners
when they reach the age Of 60. The funds
rom which this is to be paid are TO be
raised by a tax levied on the employers
and a Complementary contribution by the
state.
Employers are to pay for each of their
| employees over Is a sum OF $50 a year
and 20 cents for each under is. Only one
tenth of these sums will be payable ire
first year the law goes into effect, two
tenths the second year. three-tenths the
third year and so on, so that Il will only
be after ten years that the employer will
be paying the full amount. and after ,hat
year his payments will remain fixed.
II is calculated that for the first year
this scheme is AT work there viii be 10000
grants, needing $4,000. The payments by
employers are estimated 90 reach about
100000, so that the state viii be called
upon 20 pay $4,000.
A web known statistieian. Edouard
Fuster. reckons that by the twenty-fifth
year France will have 10000 of these
pensioners whose grants will be paid, 500
10000 by the employers and 81, So,OoO by
the state.
The second part of the senatorial COM
missions scheme IL an old age pension
established by payments made by those
interested and by grants from the state.
The payments made are to be obligatory,
with the option of paying more and so
securing a high pension. The amount
hof pension will depend on the payment
made and the age at which the pensioner
claims II.
The obligatory payment Is 50 cents a
year between IS and Is and $l20 a year
from IS until the pension Is claimed, which
can be done az the age of S.
The state undertakes to increase the
pension thus assured b. a third, that is 10
say that a workman who makes the obli-
gatory payments until he is s. will have
a right 10 a pension OF Ns. to which the
state will add IS. making SEA a year. So
that a workinRmAn will be able to enjoy
at the g OF IS. 81 a year from the en-
ployer plus state funds, and S4 from the
workinman plus state funds.
This form Of insurance. IL Is calculated,
will apply 20 about 100000 persons
The obligatory payments will bring In
about 100000 a year. but no estimate
] has been given by the commission as 10
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07

obliging and courteous secretary, Mr.. r. =.
Reed, It was ascertsincd that this choir has
frequent special rehcarsals. Sometimes
three rehearsals a week will be called. Ard
at the end OF every season the entire Mem
delssohn Choir dishands. The reason FOR
this viii appear to every one vino has ever
had much experience with choirs. The ma
terial is always Of the best kind because
the laws OF selection and elimination >
are observed. Choral singing Is rapidly
coming into its own, and soon an orchestra
will be said to play like a choir sings in
stead of the other way about. For the
choir lie capable of effects which no or
chestra can attain to and the choir of the
future will be a surprise and revelation as
a manifestation of art.
And in that day the name of DR.. Vogt
will be sounding loud.
THOMAS j. KELLY.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
MONEY FOR THE NEW LINE
Englishmen Will Build 0maha-Lin.
coin Interurban, Says Chessman.
NO STOCK FOR SALE, NO PLAYING
This Ia Outline of Plan Given by Dem
YER Promoter, Who Says Line
VIII he Running I'm
One Year.

The money is all in the bank for build
ing the new interurban line from Omaha to
Lincoln and on to the south Platte country,
surveyors are now at work, the right-of-
way viii soon be acquired, work will be-
gin in a short time and we hope to have
the line built a. far as Lincoln by the first
OF the year." said e. +. Chessman of
Denver. who represents a syndicate of
London capitalists, who are investing their
money in the United States and who have
decided that an interurban line in eastern
Nebraska is one Of the investments they
want.
"As soon as the result OF the presidential
election was made known last fall thesy
London capitalists decided to invest lsrg,
sums of money In America. They have
bought coal mines and gold mines and nov
want 10 own an interurban line in Ne
braska. The money for the enterprise Is
all subscribed and no stock Is for sale.
although 1 suppose some stock might be
had locally.
There " no doubt about the project go
ing through. That is all decided. All
that remains in the working out OF the de-
tails such as the best route, etc. II u
practically decided. however. 10 run from
South Omaha to Papillion and thence to
Louisville and from Louisville direct 10
Lincoln. making as short a line as posi-
BILE. An effort will be made to build a
fine line so that the cars can move along
at a fast rate OF speed and make better
time between Omaha and Lincoln than the
railroad trains make"
Freight trains WIZ Run.
can entrance into Omaha will be secured
ana express trains will be put on as also
will milk trains 10 bring cream and milk
TO Omaha. The line has secured, articles
Of incorporation under the title OF the
Omaha-Lineoln Interurban Railway Con-
struction company. Robert Druessdow will
represent the line In Omaha and Roy
fowl. who is now surveying for the line
Is chief engineer.
The company has not decided upon way
OF entering Omaha, but several plans are
being considered. One Is to enter over the
lines OF the Omaha & Council Bluffs street
Railway company under a traffic }agree-
mant. Another plan is for the company 10
buy the new interuTban line 20 Ralston
ana work on south from that point. The
Raiston line already has an arrangement
with the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
railway company for entering Omaha over
that companys lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07
About Music, Musicians and Musical Events

critic is present. Said critic rests on his
~prerogative, and the Inter Ocean must
stand by its Gums So there you are.
The newspaper has its report OF the con-
cert, and the eminent Steindel is missing
from the goodly fellowship of the violon-
c~ellists.
Orchestra Hall, the handsome home of
the orchestra, on Michigan avenue (Which
stately street is being considerably
widened), is a commodious and well-ap-
pointed auditorium (marred by fore-short-
ening perhaps. with a spacious ground
floor on the parquet plan; a second floor
entirely given up to boxes; a huge bal
cony going back steep and high, and d
generous gallery.
When the concert is just about 10 be-
gin, a bell rings. and, by the way, it rings
too close to the beginning-it is prac-
tically a signal for the conductor TO be-
gin, rather than for the audience to be
seated; ordinarily the ushers keep late
arrivals outside the hall proper until
after a number, but some people were
seated during one OF the choral numbers.
Then the house is semi-darkened, the
ceiling light and proscenium borders
alone being the Illuminating factors.
-
The Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto, about
80 in number, made a beautiful picture,
the plain white gowning Of the women and
the orthodox black and white appsrelling
Of the men behind. relieved by the color
touch of pink carnations, one of which
was worn by each member The carnation
scheme extended also to the orchestra.
When DIR. Vogt emerged from the back
amidst w~oodwinds and strings and APP
pea red on the conductors platform Chicago
gave him a glad and Joyous welcome.
Then az one man Tor woman the cho!r
stood, without the slightest noise or fuss
en- a quiet signal from the conductor, and
the first tones OF the sanity old Cruel
fixus'' Of Antonio Lott began to steai
through the echo chambers OF the building,
as though they were the spirit voices which
five half centuries ago first gave utter
snce to this part of the "Credo.' Here
were true soft tones, low BASES singing
with deIicacy: pitch absolutely accurate;
first basses adding their voices softly but
surely, tenors followed by higher tenors,
altos by higher altos and so on until the
eight part chorus, beautiful in It's com
plexity. was ringing out in glorious volume.
many colored as the stained glass in an old
rose window.
Every eye Is on DR.. Vogt throughout each
number. Like a Napoleon he stands, and
compels results. but the results are obtained
quietly at concert. because the plans have
been carefully laid out before rehearsal and
worked out diligently. uncompromisingly,
completely. Many of the singers are en-
tirely independent Of their music sheets OF
books and give their undivided attention tc
the conductor. This was especially true OF
one bearded ''mssteT-singer' in the center
OF the front row Of tenors, who sang every
thing, apparently, entirely from memory!
Now what applause! The entire assem-.
blage land the house was sold OUT bursi
into tumultuous physical manifestation o.
tha rhrnr To- A felf man hearing chnra
Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-07

cigarette nor cigarette paper could be found
in Topeka
Local dealers we're unprepared. for they
had understood that the law would not go
into effect until May. One dealer had just
unpacked a $500 order. Stocks are being re-
packed for shipment to the factory.