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exercises designed for the purpose and he must
at the same time, by means of similar exercises,
pc also taught to read music rapidly and aecu-
rately; When this has been accomplished he
should render himself thoroughly familiar
WIN the works of the masters, not by learn
ing them from his instructors but by Carefully
Studying them himself; by seeking diligently
anu patlentiy for the composers meaning, play
ing eacn doubtful passage over and over again in
every variety of Interpretation, and striving
most earnestly to satisfy himself as to which IS
lne most IN harmony with the composers spirit
When, at last, he has arrived at what seems a
satisfactory conclusion he should listen to vari-
Gus renditions of the same work by skilled ar
lists, comparing his Interpretation of it with
theirs and comparing the arguments in favor Of
each. The chief aim of every teacher Of the pr
ano should be to impart to his pupil a correct
technique, and to enable him to play any compo-
sltlon at sight; but how much, or, rather. how
little, OF this kind of teaching is there in this
country, Why, | give you my word that of all
the pupils who come to me from other teachers
70 De finished there is not one in twenty who
hye-fnger exercise
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the forward thrust and peculiar forked appear
ance of this organ has given rise to the false idea
that with it the singing is done 1t is generally
thought that there are a great many poison
but three species-the rattlesnake, the cop
perhead or moccasin, and the coral There are
about thirty varieties of these species altogether.
The copperhead is probably the most dangerous,
kind before striking. The rattlesnake, though
more poisonous than either of the others, will
rattle at the approach of anything, and try to
get away unless brought to bay. The coral is
much smaller, and is a native of the Southern
States. The bite is not necessarily fatal If the
proper remedies are used in time, as, on account
of its size, the quantity of poison is small. When
a reptile strikes he throws his whole body for
ward, and the fangs penetrate the object against
which they come. He does not jump; the hinder
part of the body remains in position, and none
of our snakes are in the habit of reaching more
than half their length.
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FASHION FANCIES.

Broad bands Of velvet are worn again around
the neck.
Linen collars are still high. and tight around
the neck.
Silver braid in. rows or rings will be the stylish
trimming for black cashmere dresses, and there
are jetted braids to be used on silk and satins.
Pink and white have been the reigning colors
at Newport this season. red and blue at Long
Branch, cream and black at Saratoga.
Light green is used with red and biege, par
ticularly for hat trimmings; a toilet in these
colors was of beige lace over a light green
lining.
A new device of the Partisan d~ress-makers is
the insertion of tiny sachetso Of delicate perfume
about the costume, causing it toexhale faint and
exquisite fragrance.
"A revival emanating from the highest quarters
is that of the locket or pendant worn at the
throat with open dresses-one of the few orna-
ments suitable and becoming to all ages.
Elegant and costly simplicity is the chief
characteristic of most of the bridal costumes
this season. Two materials are generally used,
one for the bodice and train, one for the petit
coat.
A black straw capote has a narrow putting of
velvet around the edge, while outside red null is
tucked across, then lain in fine plaits and put in
soft, scarf,Ike fashion, SO that the plated tucks
look like some new and pretty trimming.
The wooden dresses imported for street suits
for the early autumn are distinguished by
severe plainness in design and in trimmings,
depending for their beauty on the fine fit of the
corsage, and the graceful flowing lines of the
skirt and its drapery.
Transparent French null is much used for
handkerchief decorated with tied work, and
simply edged with a slightly gathered rufae of
Oriental lace. In one corner is a finely en-
broidered wreath of tiny white silk roses, and
in the center of the wreath are the initials, in
very small lettering, large initials being quite
obsolete.
Sleeves retain their graceful close shape, with
out any ~fullness at the top, although still slightly
curved above the armhole by being sewed in
with the sleeve held on top; a cord is again used
to strengthen the armhole. There are very deep
and stifdy lined cuffs seen on many new dresses,
while others have merely rows of braid or a bias
band around the waist.
Guimpes. chemisettes, plastrons, and vests are
as fashionable as ever, and will so continue
made of silk, velvet, satin, or of airier textiles.
Lisse and tulle ruches and frills of lace adorn
the necks and wrists of most dresses, but for
travelling, walking, and utility dresses of any
sort, like the tailor-made costume and others of
that class, the linen collar and cuff are more ele-
gantly and tidily worn, being much more suited
to the severe simplicity of the costume.
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KNIcKERBoCKERs COMING IN.
Gradual Adoption of Knee-Breeches as =
Utility Dress.

Utility Dress.
Isles of Shoals Letter.
AS for the men, those who have good calves
are all wearing knickerbockers. Even the spin
dle-shanked fellows will have to come to it, or
people will think their limbs are worse than
they are. Nine out of every ten men I've met
here have appeared in Oscar Wilde's costume,
lacking the velvet and long hair, but | think
more, to the bicycle than to the disciple
of the utter. The same custom prevails all
along the beach, and in the mountains
it Is even more prevalent. 1t strikes one oddly
at first to see a man of fifty dressed in the same
pattern that is common for boys of ten, and you
mentally conclude you wouldn't do it if you
were in his place, but the convenience of the
dress is at once acknowledged, and after a little
when you become accustomed to the novelty,
you say to yourself:
"Well, if eyerybody's going to do it, I'll get q
pair of those myself
In boating, fishing, tramping and other pur-
suits which the man at the seaside is naturally
expected to follow, the knickcrbockers are a
great Improvement over the ordinary pantar
looms, and to a man who has a good pair of legs
there is a certain amount. of qualification in be-
ing able to show them without transgressing the
bounds of modesty
There's everything in favor, then, and nothing
against the acceptance of the suggestion Mr..
Wilde offered, and while the knee-breeches may
not be introduced on the stock exchange, on the
board Of trade or in the counting houses at pres
ent, you may expect to see them pretty gener-
ally insthe country next year, and perhaps the
cities during the society season as a part of eve
ming dress. The ladies' have gone back to their
grandmothers for styles, and why shouldn't the
menl The test Of a modiste's art is making a
sleeve fit at the shoulder, the test Of a tailor's
art is in cutting a pair Of pantaloons so they
won't bag at the knees and flop around the shoe
tops, but if you will observe the next one hun
bred men and women you meet you discover that
both are at a very imperfect stage of evolution.
The new custom will improve the appearance of
our UNDERMINING if it does nothing more.
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THE PASSION FLOWER.
h Beautiful Legend of the south American
Jesuits.

The Beautiful Legend of the South American
Jesuits.
Central Advocate.
The name of the passion flower was given it
by the Jesuits of South America, who saw in it
an emblem of Christs crucifxion, the column
representing the pillar to which He was bound,
the fringes of the flower the crown of thorns,
the tendrils the cord with which He was bound,
the styles, with their capital stigmas, were the
nails which held Him to the cross, and the sta
mems were the hammers to drive them.
At the expulsion from Eden, the mourning
angels followed the exiles afar off, and wherever
they went the tears sprang mp and blossomed
into flowers. This one fell in a desolate place
among thorns, and grew up, unloved by man,
with no companions of its kind, and no conf
dante except a solitary night-wind, and this tried
to comfort the desolate flower by saying a time
should come when it should bloom in beauty be-
yond the beauty of all other flowers, and be
blessed above all that grow in earthly gardens.
Growing in solitude and thinking Of this, the
flower grew in form into q strong and mystic
similitude, a shape typical of its prophetic des-
tiny.
One night when all the flowers save this we're
dreaming of their loves, upon its solitary bosom
the loneliness pressed like a pain. Bowed down
to the earth it cried: Have / not waited 1000
years. and still l am left alone. All other flowers
have sympathies among themselves; men love
these thorns; the skirts of night, as she passes
through the forest, lie upon my bosom. I, amid
all things that grow and be, am without mean
ing and significance to man.
Then came an answer. Behold, another day,
and thy significance shall be unfolded. Forever,
hereafter, thou shalt remind men of that divine
passion, which heretofore the mystery of thy
beauty has unconsciously pre6gured, and which
they have failed to understand
And lol early in the morning some soldiers
came and plucked the thorns. and with them,
unwittingly, the flower, and woye them together
into a crown, and placed it upon the head
of our meek Lord. The sharp thorns
pierced His temples, and the flower was
bathed in purple blood which flowed from the
wounds, but suddenly, in sympathy, the flower
sent forth a wonderful fragrance which filed all
the place, SO that the sufferer tainted not. And
SO this fragrant flower, one sympathizing frag-
ment Of the ruined creation for which he died,
bloomed through all the darkness and terror of
that day in the bloody garland which bound the
dear head lifted on the cross.
And thus it was that the passion flower was
blessed among all earthly flowers; thus do men
see in it the symbol Of the bloody reed and
and thorny crown, and thus do many love it for
our Savior's sake.
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WHY PEACHES ARE POOR.
A Southern Dealer Ascribes the Cause to
the Big Crop.

a oVuOAACHA AbCElDc6 Gu0 cause TO
the Big Crop.
Charleston Is. CO News.
YES said a leading commission merchant
and produce dealer to a reporter yesterday,
Peaches this year have been a failure and as
he prodded into a box of the fruit very small and
spoiled and half green, he added: Just look at
these; what are they good for2 1t makes me
sick to think of people sending such fruit to
market. The crops has been large enough, in
fact it was too large, and that is what's the mat
ter. Whenever we raise a large crop of fruit in
this State the fruit itself is WORTHLESS. If
there is only a third or a half crop of peaches
you may expect to get some good fruit; but when
there is a full crop the fruit is no good. We have
been cursed this year with an abundant crop.
and there has not been a dozen boxes of re-
spectacle peaches in this market It is a bad
business all around. We can't do any business.
| can't handle the fruit that is sent to me.
l have a man to whom l pay a salary.
of $40 a month, a team that cost me 5000, and a
man at 81 a week to drive it. Iload up the team
with peaches and send them out in the morning.
He returns at 3 o'clock, and returns about So for
his sales. AT 10 per cent. commission. you see.
this don't pay me. The peaches that have been
sent here this year, in fact, have scarcely paid
the express charges on them, and as thew are
sent down collect / have to whistle for NV
commission. You see / have only a few boxes
in the store. Icould have hundreds of boxes of
the same kind of fruit as this there he prodded
viciOusly into the box, which he had been tenderly
handling during the first part Of his discoursel, but
what's the usel. 4 can't do anything with them.
So just went to the express Office and told Mr..
dalg TO receive no more peaches. consigned to me
unless the express charges were prepaid at the
point of shipment That stoppedi il, and that's
why you see so few peaches in town, although
there was such a big crop. The Lord preserve
us from large peach drops in the future.h
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y y n y n = ~
[The h~orizontals all read from left to right;
the perpendiculars down. The frame of the
clock is formed of eight different words. Begin
at the top and follow in order around to the
right.
!, Is the chief council among the Jews.
2, Is eternal futurity.
8, Is one yard and a quarter.
4, Is to sharpen.
5, Is armament.
6, Is a warrant
Is a fairy.
8, Is trade.
The dial plate is a word composed Of twelve
letters, meaning understanding The long
hand signifies a doctor among the Jews, and the
short one, violent anger. DELL.
North SALEM, Ind.
NO. 1238-cRoSs-woRD ENIGMA.
In man, but not in boy;
In play, but not in toy;
In sheep, but not in lamb;
In tune, but not in psalm;
In oats but not in wheat;
In deal, but not in cheat;
In moon, but not in star;
In engine, but not in car.
My whole, although now dead,
Was once a large quadruped. A. 7.
CARPENTERsvILLE, Ind.
NO. l239-HIDDEN ANIMALS.
l. Why did you place that pan there, Dul
cineal
2. Jack, all the kangaroos have escaped.
8. The emu leads the procession.
4 The monk eyes the nun.
5. A dead ogre lay in his tent
6. He laid the shovel and spade by the pome-
granate.
q Some philosophers think that our guardian
angel knows our fate.
8 The silver mines of Nevada are largely
worked.
8. Adoniram and Lois came last of all.
10. 9TH offer returns to Charlemagne to-
morrow, y was the Baron's reply.
INDIANAPOLIS. Flo AND FLORA.
10. 1240-DoUBLE AoRosTIc ?
lsix letter words.
l. Dry weather.
g. A blue coloring matter.
g. Belonging to a choir.
4 A cot for dogs.
s. Al riddle.
6. Opinions; sentiments.
q. One of the twists or parts of a rope.
Primals and finals name two novelists.
RANDOLPH, Ill. BURTON.
NO. 124l-sQUARE.
/. Ar outcast tobsl. 2. An outbreak. 8. Al
serious address. 4. The most elevated part Of
the shell, in which the hinge is placed. 5. A
town of Drome, France. 6. Not abundant or
snowy. FLYING D~UTcHMAN.
MARSHALL; Ill.
NO. 1242-NuMERIoAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of II letters, and am a false
account. My /, IS, 8, 5, z, 8 are wretches. My
4, 8. &, 10, II, IA, IL, II, IL is a repenter. My
l6, z is q diphthong. JOHN d. F.
JEFFERsoNvILLE, Ind.
NO. l243-sQUARE.
L Sweet wine. 2. Continued pain. 8. "A
small piece of meat. 4 To have retained.
ANSWERS in three weeks.
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AN OCEAN
Animalcule which the Multitudinous Seas
Incarnadine.
New York Sun, Thursday.

lncornaOlnes
New York Sun, Thursday.
The crew of one of the New York pilot boats
report having observed a remarkable phenome-
non at sea, off Sandy Hook. on Saturday night,
the circumstances of which are to be investi-
N. Sherman, of the United States navy, in
charge of the photographic Bureau at the Mari.
time Exchange. 1t is said that, for a consider
able distance all around the vessel, the sea was
red, and upon investigation it was found to be
caused by myriads of worms, two inches in
length and a quarter of an inch in diameter.
Similar instances have been observed in the
ocean before, but they are of infrequent occur
renee. A case was reported to the Navy De-
partment in 1867, the facts of which are briefly
as follows: The United States steamer Iroquois
had been ordered to the Asiatie SQUAD
ron. One night in September when
the vessel was under sail in the
Straits of Malacca, the sea as smooth as glass,
and the vessel making barely steerage way, the
officer of the deck observed that the water was
milky white. Commander Earl English, now
commodore and chief of the Bureau Of Naviga-
ton and Detail, was in command, and the re-
markable sight induced the officer of the deck to
call the captain from his sleep. When he came
on deck he realized that the condition of the sea
was caused by animalcul@, an instance of which
he had witnessed in about the same locality sew
eral years before, when he was a midshipman.
He Immediately had every officer and mar called
on deck to witness tho strange scene, and they
looked over the rail for two hours until after the
vessel passed through it.
Another instance of the kind was observed by
Lieut. Sherman, in the summer of 1882, on the
coast of Peru, between Payta and Chimbote.
tigation it was found to be caused by animalcu-
A
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MUSIC TEACHING.
why So Many Pupils FaiI-UnwiIIing to Be
gin at the Foot.


why So Many Pupils FaiI-UnwiIIing to Be
gin at the Foot.
Talk with Philadelphia Teacher.
1.-THE great extent to which pianos now pre-
vail among people of all classes has, of course,
created an equally large demand for teachers of
the instrument, and that demand has been vari-
ously supplied. The knowledge of music pos
sessed by many Of the so-called professors of
the piano is of the most limited character.
Young girls who have learned to strum a little,
being obliged to do something for their own sup
port, turn their attention to music-teaching as
the easiest and most genteel means of gaining a
livelihood, without any reference whatever to
their ability or qualifications. They can tell
where the notes come on the keyboard, and
also on the staff, and they can play The
Lum Tum Mazourka,' The Dude March, and
The Dandy Lion Schottischej This comprises
their musical knowledge, yet many people who
ought to know better say they can teach Begin
ers Just as well as anyone and hence the mu-
steal education Of many young people is confined
to their tender mercies at a time When Of all
others they most need the best instructors, for
first impressions are always the most lasting
and bad habits and mannerisms Of playing ac-
CURED at the outset can never be overcome.
Many a promising young musician is com
pletely ruined in this way by having for his first
instructor a wholly Incompetent person.
sThese teachers begin at the wrong end.
Their one idea seems to be to teach their pupils
to play tunes or pieces. They teach them the
notes on the keyboard and the staff and then
Immediately set about drumming into them
some utterly valueless piece. There is but one
proper way to teach the piano or any other in
trument The pupil must first be taught the
rudiments Of music. When those have been
mastered he must be taughtthe technique Of his
instrument, and if it is the piano or violin the
muscles and joints of his hands and fingers must
be made strong and supple by playing scales and
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Mr.. Vanderbilt and Maud 8.

New York Sun.
Mr.. Vanderbilt wrote this letter to Mr.. Bonner
when he sold Maud S.:
UNITED STATES HOTEL, Aug. 20, 1884.
Robert Bonner, Esq:
Dear Sir: Inclosed please find receipt for
Maud s..
4 must congratulate you upon being the
owner Of the fastest and finest horse in the
lection itself in every particular. She is always
ready to do anything you want to have her, al
ways expecting kind treatment, and the fullest
confidence that she is not to be hurt She seems
to know as much as a man, and is Of the most
affectionate disposition. These are great requi-
sites. No one can but admire them, and we must
all love the animal possessing them.
THAT Maud S. will please you, please herself,
and everyone connected with her, is the earnest
wish Of yours, very truly,
WIN. H. y~ANDERBMr.D
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The Wav Il Hannana

For the same reason that a horse when over
worked, or a man, either, moves more and more
slowly, soalso do the liver and other greatorgans
when overtaxed, grow slower in action and work
abnormally. Liver disease inevitably leads to
constipation, and constipation is the beginning Of
the decay Of the physical system. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets" are peculiarly
adapted to the treatment. of this ailment AL
though gentle and easy in their effects, their
powerful Alternative properties give tone and
energy to the whole digestive system, and in
curing the constipation habit, insure perfect
co mfort and convenience.
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NEW IND.
The "Mecca for Biologists and Naturalists'
Professor Collects "reminiscences
indiana Geological Renort. 1894

The ssMecca for cao,oo,st. ard Nat,r.l,s+s,
Zproeas.on CeI,a.,a D.-.-~~-
AnaIana 1eoioelcal report, 1885
Willam nlacIure, VINO purchased one-halt OF
ehe goWn OF new harmony from Robert owen,
IN 1919 LOT Jne purpose OF promoting a love Tor
natural history, was, himself one OF the earliest
Worhers ~ geoiogys ana, lndeeu, mlgnt properly
De ciassed as one OF Jnefounders OF the science.
ecrosseo the Auegnany mountains many times
on 1901, 70 study tnelr rocky structure, ana lived
long enough 70 see nus conclusions, Wnlch were
puDnsneo IN DOCK form, verlneo Dy the research
Of modern students; Associated with him at
NY !Iar r Wa inomas say, styled the great
A -! naSuraIsG; y "a: Leseuer, the great
arelse anu icntnyologlst OF tne expeditIon OF La
Teruse, 1Veeo OUT unaer Jne auspices Of Napoleon
! y eHpiore AusoralIa, =. LroosI, tne emlneng
geologisI ana mlneraloglst. VINO a!terWard moved
70 lSasnvllle, WneIe ne GIed, leaVing a caolneb OF
gr9at scienIlnc yalue. !ngse eminent men were
Loin9we9 y 5ne laCe Da1iu Dale gwen, N y, ana
ms protner, TroIessor machard owen, VINO came
70 New harmony IN lS5z, fresh from schools OF
europe. ~. owen commenced at once 70
arrange = cnemlcai laooraOory ana museum OF
nasur1l nlsSo.y ~ g scare snat, N snose Gays,
nau no SUPERIOR IN Unls country. WlIlam mac
lur9 eur1eu oyer = mn ms yas1 coliectlon OF
rochs anu numerals Ilat ne nad maze n ltaly,
Spain, Eortugali MeSc lnules, mexico and france,
y . greae eoss % vase was .nls vaIuaole COZ
.ecson .na' many ooAes Renamed unopeneu up
70 ene uIne OF 1heir removal 70 gne ogabe unlVers-
Ivy az Dlo94lingson; IN loot L: y. oven was
appoinGeu Onlte9 oVaOes UeologlsJ; Win mead
quarters at New He was instructed
70 make q reconnaissance OF What was then the
great NortnWest-now minnesota, Wisconsin,
IOWA. ana Ihe nortnern part OF lllnois-ln oruer
10 polnt our, TOT preserVaslon oy tne government,
the salt springs, ieao ana otner mlnerai,pearlng
T0cks previous TO onering tne lanas Tor SAFE.
Ans herculsan task was aecomphsneu IN bwo
monGhs, aho the report ialo neIore congress az
Inc opening Oh the next session. Several nun
urea men were employed IN making Jne
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FOR THE SABBATH.
Raat.

Weep not when / am dead, dear friend,
Sweetheart, grieye not when I he low;
While DER my clay your soft eyes bend
Remember it was good to go.
When low you press the violet sod,
Whose purple tears enstar my breast,
Beloved, think / sleep in God,
Remember such alone are blest.
The perfect silence will be dear,
How dear the chance Of painless rest
And on, beyond all pain or fear,
The perfect waking viii be best.
How dim this distant day viii seem,
How far the grief we suffer herel
This life the mirage of a dream,
Merged to morning calm and clear.
MARY Clemmer.
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Original Puzzles.
NO. 1236-NUMERIcAL ENIGMA.

NO. I-10U-NUMERICAL ENIEMA.
1 am composed of SO letters. my whole being a
quotation from "Childe Haroldls Pilgrimage.
My 30, 40, 40, "a, 2, IS, 49, Sc, 16, 81, 81, 10, n
Ny Il, IS, 8, 50, 50, is, II, So, 70, 80, 10. rs
means definitely.
MY 65. 50, 70, 46, 20, 6, IA, 76, SO, 80, Is is the
fruit of a shrubby plant of Guiana.
Ny SO, "a, 26, 9, 81, 2, 4, 81, 29, 81 Ills a sub
ordinate overseer.
Ny S. 2, ii, 63, rs, &c, SO, 27, 10, 40, 81 is a
bird of the size of a canary.
Ny "a, Sc, 5, SO, 50, 81, %, 70, 4s, 4 &C means
rustic.
MY 50, 8, 70, Al, 45. "a. j, 50, IL is a Turkish
judge.
Ny 60, 81, 81, 60, 81, "a, "A, 70 is coldly.
My Sc, 10, AZ, 80, SO, IA is a shrub
HAYWOOD, Ill. SEE U. u.