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IF^Viuv1"1" i^i'.»«,'»i«-.i muifniwu^i "Casilda," to Be Given To- Night, Friday and Saturday at Country Club, is One Everybody Will Like. FOR BENEFIT OF THE CLUB This evening and Friday even- ing and on Saturday afternoon the light opera, "Casilda," will be pre- sented at the Country club for the benefit of the building fund of the Kvanston Woman's club. Kvanston people will undoubtedly be delighted with this opera, for it will be different from the musical comedies that have been produced in this city. The book and the lyrics come from the pen of Mr. Abraham Mendenhall, who has long been asso- ciated with amateur theatricals and has successfully appeared In plays given in this city. The music comes from the best selections in operas writ- ten by Gilbert and Sullivan. In some cases the original lyrics for these songs have been used, but many new lyrics have been set to the music. The cast will be a very strong one, and with the exception of Miss Mar- guerite Wells and Mr. Mendenhall, will be composed entirely of profes- sional singers. Such well-known Ev- asion singers as Miss Edna Palmer, Mr. Charles Champlin, Mr. M. G. Brines, Mr. Arthur Ranous and Mr. .Maurice Leigh will take prominent parts, and from Chicago, Mrs. Annie Roumeiss Thacker, Mrs. Mildred Frazier Elsea and Mr. Norman Cramp- ton, all singers of wide reputation, will be in leading roles. The prin- cipals will be supported by a very able chorus which has been carefully selected and thoroughly rehearsed. Had Nightly Rehearsals. This week, except Thursday night, the company has had a nightly re- hearsal. The dress rehearsal will be given next Tuesday night at the Coun- try club, and then the members will be given a rest until the first perform- ance Mrs. John G. Houston, who has assisted in the musical end of nearly every amateur show which has come out in Evanston during the past four or five years, has been at the piano during rehearsals, and up until last week had charge of all the chorus work. The Woman's club could not have selected a more able musician or a more enthusiastic worker than is Mrs. Houston. During the past week Mr. Harry Auraker, whose orchestra will play for the opera, has been drill- ing the chorus in dancing and singing in conjunction with Mrs. Houston. The synopsis of the plot, In brief, ia as follows: Capt. Henry Hull, a retired sea cap- iais, has been engaged in his youth to a young Mexican girl, who deserted him on the eve of their intended wed- ding He subsequently married an American, and at her death gave up the sea and planned to settle for life on a small island off the northwest coast of Mexico, of which he was part owner. Reports of the discovery of gold on the island induced him to plan a cruise there to protect his Interests and also to learn, if possible, what had become of his Mexican sweet- heart of twenty years ago. A California Scene. The captain sails from lower Cali- fornia on a yacht, ostensibly upon a pleasure cruise, accompanied by his daughter and a number of young friends. The opera deals with his ad- ventures encountered upon the voy- age. REYNOLDS WARNS OF MONEY TRUST There Is no money trust now, but the American people are doing their best to create one in the opinion of George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago, the largest bank in the United States outside of New York. Mr. Reynolds' views are expressed in an article written by him for a Washington newspaper. "The huge piling up of cash in the great banks of the financial centers gives rise to the popular belief of the existence of a money trust," says Mr. Reynolds. "Many good Americans be- lieve that a few banks with this great store of cash in their vaults have se- cretly joined together to monopolize the credit of the country, to say who and who may not have credit and what they shall pay for it. "No such money trust exists, but I want to say most emphatically that the American people are doing all they can, through antiquated banking laws, to promote such a monopoly. We have no central bank in the United States, but we have a greater centralization of banking power than have European countries, where the central bank sys- tem is highly developed. "Our many-reserve system has broken down under every great strain. With a great single reserve, where loans "based on industry could always be rediscounted by the banks, the panic of 1907 would never have oc- curred. "We have enough gold in the banks amply to uphold the structure of credit. The reason for the structure collapses periodically in the United States is that the cash reserves, divided into 25,000 small reserves, fail to do the work of supporting the structure that they would do if combined into a cen- tral reserve. Ours is the only great banking country without a central re- serve; and it is likewise the only great banking country that suffers from money panics. "The only way we have checked I great panics has been by temporarily combining reserves through the clear- ing house. "Our many-reserve system forces New York to assume the position of the keeping of the basic banking re- serves, and New York must continue to be the banking ruler so long as the system continues. "The country has the choice of al- lowing New York to continue as the keeper of the final reserves or of es- tablishing a co-operative central re- serve at Washington, in which all the banks of the country will have a voice, and which no section of the country will dominate." WHO TOOK THE BIKE? When James L. Ratcliffe went into a Davis street store Saturday he left his bicycle outside of the building. When he called for it a minute later it was gone. A number of the mer- chants saw somebody ride off on a wheel that looked like the Ratcliffe machine. The police were notified. When Ratcliffe came back from the police station he found his wheel where he left it. He is still won- dering. Reportorial Errors. An amusing error was perpetrated by the reporter who made Lord Car- narvon say that "In these days clergy- men are expected to have the wis- dom and learning of a journeyman tailor" What he had said was of course a "Jeremy Taylor." Another reporter referred to John Bright as "the gamecock," instead of "the Gama- liel of Birmingham." And yet an- other transcribed his notes of Mr. Chamberlains remark They bring up their puny popguns and shatter me with abuse ' as "They bring out their penny popguns and spatter me with peas " "The people of Edinburgh were once highly indignant that Professor Blackie should have referred to the "greasy" atmosphere of their town when he had really commended its "breezv atmosphere." FOUR SIZES ^j^^-w;?.*"^:,,r^^^'^^\^l^^jr^': TOB LAKB 8H01»1^CTHOT8PAV. gBPBMim* 8,1M1 'w****^^ IBJBjW Saintly Individual Claiming to Be Biblical Student Secures Valuable Furs By His Story, DID NOT SUSPECT HIM The day before Thanksgiving a man walked into the fur store of M. Kra- mer in Evanston, and exclaim- ing that he was a student in Gar- rett Biblical institute, asked to see some furs. After looking over the stock he said he liked a certain muff and wrap that were marked at $45. "I will be back later," he said to the proprietor. Two hours later he again returned and re-examined the furs. "I think those are just what my wife would like," he said to Mr. Kramer. "How- ever, I will see her fiTst and talk it over with her. Hold them for me, I will return later this afternoon and let you know whether or not I will take them." That was satisfactory to the fur dealer and he placed the goods on a shelf for the supposed minister. Shortly before 4 o'clock he returned and said he would take the furs. Mr. Kramer wrapped them up and the man wrote out a check on an Ann Ar- bor bank for the full amount. Believ- ing the man to be a Biblical student and thinking his check was good Kra- mer accepted it. But after he had gone he began to wonder whether or not the man might bo a crook. He remembered he was dressed very precise. Besides he had a very distinct Biblical aspect. After thinking it over Kramer thought the man was so precise in both action and dress that he might not be a preacher at all. 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