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...Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are open wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing to be confined indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache...
...Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are open wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing to be confined indoors, it overflows the little room, swells out through the casements, and drifts down the sunny street. Men turn from their tasks and listen, as to a Pied Piper; old fingers and young ache...
Miss Dockery's livestock used to stray over upon the "Glenburney" plantation. Once Miss Merrill was supposed to have shot into a herd of her goats. A strange "red, white & blue" pig also figured in the dispute. The feud between these reclusive neighbors several times overflowed into the local courts. The Dana-Dockery indictments were based principally on fingerprints found in "Glenburney." After being held in jail ten days, Dana and Miss Dockery were released and police continued to arrest every suspicious person in the neighborhood...
...There are between ten and twelve million unemployed. . . . Men and women search the garbage cans, especially in the more prosperous neighborhoods, for food that has been left?men competing with rats and stray cats of the street. . . . That's how the celebrated law of supply & demand works under Capitalism! . . . The situation is worse rather than better in State after State, especially in those hells on earth, the bituminous coal mining camps. Next winter offers no hope except a complete breakdown, made more terrible by riots and actual starvation...
Died- Leonore Cawker, 58, Milwaukee's famed dogcatcher, vice president of American Humane Society; in Milwaukee. A rich spinster, she spent her life and fortune in succoring stray animals, was appointed official dog-catcher in 1915 at $500 annual salary, next year obtained a raise to $1.200. Her best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington...