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The morning call., 1895-02-24

Sailors collar IN cream 8dk canUas, out
lined tc5th feather stitching IN turquoise
blue silk to correspond nth the double neck
and acaist botcs. The edging Of the lace
Rounce as folded IN front, so as to form t,Oo
triangular facjngs, achich apparently spread
as q fat-pointed front.
The morning call., 1895-02-24

Of rose-cosored crepon gaufre. Flaring
skirt, acith ruching Of iuory satin around the
bottom. Corsage of brocade rose and silUcr
~ath puts at sleeves of ivory satin. Trim
naings Of roses NTH their foliage. Belt of
ruby vetret, Nth long Touring ends Square
cut neck.
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A QUESTION OF COLOR.
Just Alike In Height, but There Was
n Difference of Compile iOn.

just Alike In Height, but There Was
n Difference of Complexion.
From the Chicago Evening Post.
The young man considers himself a man
Of resources, although he is not sure
about it now as he was a few days ago.
He has been very attentive to a certain
young lady, and he was calling on her at
the time that he partially lost confidence
in his resourceful mind. 1t is unneces-
sary to narrate what passed between them
upon the occasion in question. but at the
time that the young lady's sister entered
the room he was in the act of folding the
young lady to his manly bosom. OF course
he desisted at once, as young men generally
do under such circumstances, but he was
not embarrassed-not bit.
The young lady's sister said: Excuse
me- and started to leave the room, when
his resourceful mind began to work. He
felt that he ought to say something, and
say it right away.
Don't CO." he said, we've just been
measuring to see which Is the taller
She paused in the doorway and looked
at them both intently.
You're both about the same height"
she said, quietly, but sister is much the
redder'
Then she went out and he was embar-
rassed--just little
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streets. The chief annoyance to residents
living near schools was the periodic screech-
ing through which the little ones were
driven like SO many young steam whistles
operated on the theory that there was just
so much steam pressure behind each mouth
and that. therefore, there must be just so
much result in the way of sound. Results,
1t is asserted, were then COMPOUNDED with
volume, instead of quality.
Several years ago Mr.. Powell, as he ex-
planned, saw that there was something
wrong in the old methods of teaching
music. He could not put his finger on the
evil element, but he knew it was there He
heard schools of children singing very
loudly, to be sure but not sweetly or ratu-
rally, and when they strained after notes
that We're beyond their little limits the
cords in their necks stood out hard and
rigid and the vocal organs We're strained to
their utmost. So he cast about for means
of reforming the work and of obtaining
different results. He had watched with in
terest for about four years the work of
Miss Annie E. Scammell, a graduate of The
High and Normal Schools of this city, who,
like MIR. Powell, had realized in the work
she had done in her classes after becoming
teacher that there was a new way to the
training of the little voices of the children
without injuring them. So it was that Miss
Scammell was chosen to be the principal
teacher of music in the schools, a position
which she holds today, with four assist
ants under her direction-Miss A. E. Bent
ley, Miss Banks, Miss Amy Law and Mr.
Tracy.
What the Children Are Taught.
Mr.. Powell is very enthusiastic over the
results of the new work. Said he the other
morning:
TOO much credit cannot be given to
Miss Scammen for her work She has
labored long and hard, and has dore every
thlnS possible to perfect the system. She
has gone to Boston to study under Holt and
other teachers, and has persuaded other
teachers to do the same. She has practi-
caily instructed not only the children
themselves. but has been obliged. in very
many instances, to instruct the teachers
themselves how to teach properly. The chill
Gren today know how to sing not only in
tune, but in good time. They have been
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TEACHING SINGING
The Method Has Been Entirely
Changed in the Public Schools.
THE STORY OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
Children Are Taught to Read Music
at Sight.
EFFECT ON THE VOICES

N NO OF H E r
branch of education,
it is claimed, have the
public schools of the
District of Columbia
progressed so far in
the past five years as
in the department of
vocal instruction. The
methods, the theo-
ries and results have
been practically revo-
lutionized. and all has
been done so very
quietly that no word
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has been spoken to the public through the
press in explanation of the transformation
AS Superintendent Powell said to a Star
reporter the other morning: 'It has been
thought wiser to wait until we were sure
ourselves that the result was good one
before We began to show what we had ac-
Compished.''
But the time has now come, and Mr.. Pow
ell has something to say of the work in
this direction, and he says it with pride
that is based he states, upon the enco-
miums of the best educators in the land
who have declared that the Washington
children are now taught music better, more
beneciEIy and more thoroughly than
anywhere else in the country This has
been done at the. expense of great efforts,
for in the process an old system has been
Utterly destroyed and new system estab-
ished, and even yet the new has not en-
tirely supplanted the old, for in the higher
grades of the schools there are traces today
of the old-fashioned plan of getting as it
is said, the most possible volume out of the
throat of each child, and of making the
music lesson a burden on the vocal organs
instead of an aid to them.
Quality, Not Volume.
visit to one of the lower grades of
schools during the music lesson--which
lasts twenty minutes each day-will afford
an excellent basis for comparing the old
and the new methods In former DAYS a
class of children singing could be heard
not only through the building, but upon the
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A CATSKILL HOTEL MAN.

DRUNKENNESS OR THE LIQUOR HABIT POSI-
lively cured by administering DR.. Haines Golden
Specific 1t can be given in cup of coffee
tea, in food, without the knowledge of the
patient 1t is absolutely harmless, and will effect
permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient
is moderate drinker alcoholic wreck.
1t has been given in thousands of cases. and in
every instance a perfect cure has followed. 1t
never fails. The system once tmpregnated with
the Specific, 1t becomes an utter inlpossibility
for the liquor appetite to exist. GOLDEN SPE-
CIFIC Co. Props, Cincinnati Ohio. Particulars
free. To be had of F. S. WILLIAMS & Co,
9th and SITS. NV: s. f. WARE under Eb-
bitt House, Washington. n20-tu, th&s6ms
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Rheumatic govt, any equity rheumatic affec-
ton whatever, has its surest remedy in the Carls
bad Sprudel Salt. There's nothing successful
In clearing out the excess of uric acid in the
blood. That has been proved in hundreds of years
and in thousands of cases at Carlsbad.
SO with any of the ailments brought on by
sedentary habits-dyspepsa. indigestion, perverted
nutrition, constpati On-Carlsbad cures them, and
them permanently.
But the best way is to prevent them. A little
Carlsbad Sprude Salt, taken when you suspect
any trouble, will keep your stomach and liver and
bowels and kidneys in perfect order.
Take only the genuine imported Carlsbad Salt
sodilied and bottled at the Sprudel Spring., with
signature of .EISNER & HENDERSON CO., Sole
Agents. New York. every bottle.
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Guineyere.

From the London World.
The King and all his knights have passed away!
Sir Lancelot will never break a trust,
And eaten is Excalibur with rust;
Niyien and Elaine turned to clay,
White witch of Winter and white bride of May,
Their bones are driven of the wind as dust;
Gunevere alone endures, and must
While men learn faith and women to betray!
Her rose-leaf lips are ever fresh and sweet,
Her ivory body is more white than milk,
Her hair more golden than the sun above;
She leads sweetly with thread of silk,
We love to feel our necks beneath her feet,
For only she has found the Grail of Love.
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sight heuulHS.
Then it occurred to me that the only
way to teach sight reading to the little
ones was to have them read new music at
each lesson, instead of doing the same song
over and over again.
1.-THE same Is true of reading language.
No child can learn to read who is kept
on the same page all the time. The music
of course. had to be carefully graded. so
that child should never be given music
ahead of its ability to sing. We hunted
high and low through the music of the
world for songs of varying simplicity, and
these were photographed and distributed
among the schools, to be sung in connec-
ton with their other work. I tried to get
songs with good sense and good sentiments
in them, which was not always easy.
But meanwhile we had not deprived the
children of the pure pleasure Of singing
songs, and had adopted the plan of giving
them a few rote songs that would make
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Then call upon or correspond with
CHAS. B. kennedy,
q, MADISON.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
LOTS
o.NeILL ARBITRATION BILL

It Passes the Wtsconsin Assembly With
nut Argument.
MADISON, Wis, April 6.-The O'Neill
arbitration bill passed tho assembly
without . word of argument and with
only IA dissenting votes. The bill pro-
vides for the appointment of q state
board Of arbitration, consisting Of three
arbitrators, two Of whom shall be ap-
pointed by the governor, one. repre-
senting the employers and the other
the employees. These two are to select
. third. The arbitrators are to receive
. per day for every day they serve.
There is to be no appeal from the
boards decision to the courts and ap-
peal to the board is to be purley volun-
tary.
In the senate the bill for the relief of
ex-Treasurers Baetz and Kuehn was on
the calendar for engrossment and third
reading. An effort was made to refer
it to the committee ON claims, but this
was refused and it was ordered to q
third reading by q vote of % to 4.
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Utah has just held a constitutional
convention which has framed a funda-
mental law for that new commonwealth
to be, and which will be voted upon ext
fall. II adopted, Utah will come into the
union as the forty-fiftb state, and a
strong state at that in wealth, popula-
ton, territory and The new
constitution prohibits forever the prac.
tice Of p~olygamy and Is exceeding liberal
in its educational and other provisions.
The university gets 10000 acres and
two townships; the asylums for the in
sane. the blind and the deaf and dumb
each get 100000 acres, as do the school
OF mines, the reform school and the nor
NAL, while the agricultural college comes
out with $1,000 acres. Public buildings
Of the capital have $4,000 acres set apart
for their location and construction.
Among the potable grants are those for
irrigation purposes and for q state
miners hospital, ~ getting 100000
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DISHONESTY CHARGED.


wenter's Managers Want to Know wha
Became of $780, 600.
CHICAGO. April 6.-The Post prints a
sensational story regarding the disap-
pearance of $500, 600 Of the Democratic
fund. The Post states that
the managers Of the recent city cam
paign, IN which Wenter, the Demo-
cratic nominee, was defeated, charge
his defeat to a lack of necessary funds,
and also charge that an enormous sum
has been appropriated by five or six
high in the Democratic political
circles OF the city. The fund. The Post
was raised by assessment of
City Hall Employees
and others, and amounted to about
$500, 600. The Wenter managers claim
to have positive proof that the fund
listed prior to the last election, but say
they were unable to get any Of it for
campaign expenses.
The reputable men Of the Democratic
party are said to have become so thor
aroused over the affair that they
will endeavor to secure an investiga.
ton and promise startling develop
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Pierre Capital. J. w. Ednunls, h.
H. Schwartz, Jr., E. H. Hyde and David
B. Mcleod Of Sioux Falls, E. j. Forman
Of Milbank, August Frieberg OF Beres-
ford, G. G. Berry Of Clark, Mr.. Boyles Of
Yankton and Mr.. Perry Of Pierre are to-
day taking examination tefore Judges
Corson, Kellam and Fuller, this being
the first day OF the April term Of the su-
prems court. Clerk Goodner is greatly
impressed with the class and said that as
an all-round number they are the best
that have come up for examination since
the Office Of the supreme court has been
located here. All the class passed the
examination and they are 20 full
fedged lawyers.
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NEWS BRIEFLY REPORTED,

Claus Spreckels' son Gus has sued his
father for $500. 900, alleging Islander.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury shows available cash balance.
$lsG,52O, $40; gold reserve, go, 5O4, 1897.
The sum of $27O, 900 in gold was de-
posted in the ~subtreasury at New York
Thursday for the account of the bond
syndicate.
The famous Wood-H Heirs litigation
has been settled and the plaintiffs have
come into possession of mining prop
erty in Aspen, Colo. valued at $40, OOO,-
600.
The United States steamship Charles
ton has sailed from Che Foo for New
Chwang, China, where the Petrol has
beer laid mp in winter quarters in .
mud dock.
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CARSON MINT ROBBERY.
Detectives Are Closely Watching Several
Suspected Persons.

Detectives Arr Closely Watching Several
Suspected Persons.
CARSON, New, April 8.-Superintend.
ent Mason. of the government assay
Office in New York, has been il full
charge of the mint scandal investi9a-
ton here for two weeks. He has al.
10 ldy discovered shortages that approx.
mate $1,000, and all the suspected melts
have not yet been examined The
town is full of secret service detectives
under the control OF Agent Grant Of
Chicago, and they are sladowing sus-
pected officials and learning the history
Of their recent extravaganza habits.
None of those suspected a Escape.
Greatest Steal Yet.
The greatest steal yet discovered in
one melt, was unearthed by Superin-
tendent Mason q few days ago. He
found that one run or melt, which pur-
ported to contain 1890 ounces, half
gold, half silver, had but 40 ounces of
gold. The shortage on this fraudulent
melt therefore were about t22, 900. The
principal man under suspicion is y
melter and refiner, John Jones, who
ha' been in Office under Hirsch Harris,
and who came to him as q hold over
from the Harrison administration. The
detectives are at work on Jones' record
and claim to have discovered that
he has been spending $500 to t6OO on an
income Of $l25. He was first suspected
by Hirsch Harris. Harris relied largely
on Jones, the practical man in the de-
partment. but grew very suspicious
when bars that ought to have come out
with a large percentage of gold were
Returned Ne~rly Pure Silver.
He reported this shortage to ex-Gover-
o Bowel Adams, superintendent of
the mint. The shortage was immedi-
ately reported to r. f. Preston, super
intendent of the mint at Washington.
and Expert Assayer Mason was forth
with dispatched here to investigate.
The crimes were committed by the sub
stitution of bars, and it is known to ex.
tend over a period Of Ave OF six years.
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Aberdeen News: The postoffice de-
psrtmeut has adopted a d~espicable
scheme to avoid and nullify a statute OF
the United States. Some time ago the
authorities, for reason best known TO
themselves, promulgated an order that
postal clerks must reside on the lines of
road upon which. their duties are per-
formed. This pronunciamento worked
such hardship upon many Of the clerks
who had established. homes that con.
gress took the matter in hand and passed
a law making the order applicable 70
new employees only tc persons who
should thereafter enter the service. The
department tried it's utmost t. defeat
the bill during it's tendency, but it was
manifestly just that 1t passed both
houses and received the sanction of the
president. Ordinarily an executive de-
artment Of the government would be
content to acquiesce in the expressed
wishes Of congress-, but Mr.. Bissell and
his subordinates are evidently construct
cd on a different plan. knowing that
employees living off the lines on which
they work cannot afford TO pay passage
back and forth, the department has re-
Gently issued to the clerks photograph
commissions good only on the lines over
which they run, thus compelling them
to move their places OF es.dence or pay
out considerable sums for railroad fares.
Not for many years has an executive de.
partment Of this great government
stopped to * scurvy a trick.
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The Mennonite colony, l6 miles south
east Of Parkston had a close call from
poisoning last Sunday. Some of the
men had caught a mess of fish and had
prepared them for their Sunday dinner,
and the cook took several pieces and put
poison in them for rats, laying them
aside. As is the custom Of the colony
they changed cooks on Sunday, and the
new cook, seeing the meat, gathered it
up and put it with the rest Of the fish for
dinner. But fortunately the other cook
noticed the poisoned meat was gone and
made inquiries. A piece Of the cooked
fish was gwen to a dog and in five min
utes it was dead.
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The April Arena contains a great vari-
ETY. OF good reading matter, and shows
the usual keen sense Of the shifting cur
rent Of popular interest in its editorial
conduct. The opening paper is a sound
and scholarly paper or the Higher Crit
icsm as Viewed by a Liberal Scholar
j. H.. Long, A. NJ, LII. b. DR.. Heinrich
Hensoldt, the O%rientalist, whose papers
on the adopts Of Thibet have created so
much discussion, replies to his critics in
a lively paper called "A Plea for Pan
theism." Lydia Avery Coonley contri-
butes a fine thoughtful poem on "Hered-
ity." John Ransom Bridge writes a
budget OF "reminiscences Of that strange
figure in modern history, Madame Bla-
vatsky. MIR. Bridge knew the high
priestess of T%heosophy intimately, and
he gives several pen pictures OF her that
cannot fail t. have great fascicatlon for
the lovers strange and bizarre PERSONAL
tiles. A fine portrait of II. Z. B., from
n Of her latest sittlngs, accompanies
the article. B. o. Flowers series on
1.-THE Italy Of the Century Of Sir Thomas
More" developes in strength and interest,
and the parallels shown between those
days and our OWL are mos: startling to
students Of our social history in the
making. Mrs. Margaret B. Peeke writes
on "The Mission Of Practical Occultism."
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acres and the second a tenth % much.
The minimum price at which state lands
can be sold is Is per acre, or half what
prevails in most OF the western states.
The national government will assist Utah
in the maintenance Of her public
schools by putting into a fund, the inter.
est on which shall be used for the
schools, ten per cent OF all receipts from
the sale Of government lands after the
admission OF the territory.
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AVOIDED INVESTIGATION.
An Iowa Harvester Agent Puts an End to

An Iowa Harvester Agent Puts An End to
Life.
Mason CITY, Ia, April Con the
Iowa Central train that arrived here at
l:l5 p. m, just before it reached Hamp-
ton, w. NJ. Landon. an agent for the
Deering Harvester company, shot him
self in the head, dying instantly. G. B.
Walt was with Landon on the train.
He is understood to be connected with
some fidelity company Of some kind
that guarantees bonds He was going
to Hampton to look up some business
matters with Landon, and it would
seem as II it was to avoid this that
Landon committed suicide. Landon is
said to have lived at Sioux City, bnt
had done business at Hampton.
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Sioux Falls Press. 5: 1t has been de.
cided by the board OF agriculture to
hold the next state fair in Sioux Falls
from September 30 to October 4 inclu-
sive. The parties in this city who are
looking after the interests Of the coming
exposition at this end feel confident that
the enterprise will prove a big success
this year. Every effort will be put
forth to accomplish this desired result.
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Moving q Town.

HILLS, Mimi. April 6.-There is q
movement on foot here to move the
business portion Of the town six blocks
east to a ridge overlooking a 2O.mile
stretch of lower ground on all sides.
This is q great move and it is estimated
that it will cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The owner Of the property
donates a lot to every business man.
Several contractors are on the ground
and work will probably begin next
week.
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Arthur A. Hill Married.

NEW YORK, April 6.-Arthur A.
Hill, managing editor of the American
Press association, was married at noon
in Oyster Bay. L. l., to Miss Agnes B.
Nichols. The ceremony occurred at
the home Of the brides mother. Mr..
Hill was formerly the editor and pub
Usher of the Baltimore News.
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A CRITIC

Lor,. Randolph Churchill's Crushing Inter.
view With . Hypercriti ca Dandy.
Lord Randolph Churchill took a very
keen artistic delight in his wife's mu-
eical accomplishments, but he was un
willing that any one else should speak
disparagingly Of them. At an entertain
ment once, where she had consented to
execute a brilliant dash on the piano, a
tall youth with bangs and a monocle
was observed paying q languid and rath-
er ~insolent attention to the music, stand
ing close enough to the performer to
have his comments easily overheard by
her. Lord Randy was close at hand,
too. and presently heard the vapid youth
remark:
"Deuced fine music, you know. bat it
lacks veal soul-it lacks veal SOUL"
To the critics establishment a mus
cular young man, with q big mustache,
whom he had not noticed before, whis-
pered in his ear:
"For a shilling I'd wailop the life out
Of you!"
He FASTENED to withdraw, but with
ont discovering the identity Of the au-
thor Of the menace The next<iay, to
his delight, he received an invitation to
the Churchills' home OF course he ac-
cepted with avidity. On entering he
vas met by his threatening neighbor of
the night before, who, he at once dis
cerned, must be Lord Randolph. He
proceeded no farther than the entrance
hall, for Churchill beckoned in the di.
rection OF tho drawing room, and out
0oated Lady Churchill.
This fellow has come to apologize
to you for his remark Of last night, y
Kissed Lord Randolph. Now" to the
stranger. down on your knees!"
Down went the dandy, lisping 'ou,
the most abject plea for forgiveness.
Then he was turned over to q footman
to be put ignominiously out, Of the door,
while the host followed his ~retreatine
figure With q roar of deris!ve laughter
Kate Fields Washington.
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National Farmers Congress-.

DENVER, April 6.-B. F. Clayton.
pres. d mt of the National Farmers con-
gress, who is in the city, says the con-
vention next year WI! probably be held
here. This years convention will be
held at Atlanta. Ga, and Baltimore
has already been practically agreed
upon as the meeting place in 1897.