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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
TEACHING BY PHoNoGRAPH.
A Curious and Clever Scheme of a New
York Professor of Languages.

A Curious and Clever Scheme of q New
York Professor of Languages.
Many novel projects have been de-
used in the way of language teaching.
but never until just lately has the
photograph been made part of the out
fit of the linguistic professors. It is
difficult at first to see how this instru-
ment can help along teaching of any
kind, but thereon hangs the tale. The
man who has adapted the monograph
to this profession is r. d. Cortina, and
he has been so successful that already
lie has sent out over 500 machines, all
loaded with his instruction and primed
with his voice.
Until the photograph was applied to
languages it was necessary for anyone
wishing to study a foreign tongue to
sit literally at the feet of the master
and learn the pronunciation and the ac-
cent from his very lips. Books might
be pored over and a language partially
learned in that way, but the voice of
the teacher had to be heard. The idea
came several years ago to Mr.. Cortina
that through the ~phonograph he could
practically duplicate himself in every
corner of the civilized world.
His method is simple. With each
monograph there is sent his textbook.
90 loaded cylinders and 20 blank Ones.
Each lesson in the book is arranged in
the form of questions and
The pupil, ready to begin. puts the cyl
inder of the first lesson in the machine,
the tubes in his ears and starts the
monograph.
Keeping his eye on the book he hears
:he words and phrases repeated, with
their proper accent, just as if the pro-
fessor stood at his side. There is an adj
ditional advantage that the lesson can
be repeated 20 or 100 times if neccs-
sary, until every sound is familiar to
the pupil.
Then, having thoroughly learned
these sentences, he puts one of the IN
used cylinders in the machine and re-
peats the lesson. In a little paper box
the cylinder goes back to New York.
and ut his earliest opportunity Mr.. Cor
tina pops it into his own machine.
At his side is the stenographer. As
re listens to the lesson repeated back.
now stopping the photograph, nov
starting it going again, he dictates his
criticism. where the pronunciation is
wrong, what is right, what the mis-
takes are and where they have been
made.
The letter and the cylinder so back to
the pupil, who reads and listens to his
own voice reproduced. Then, taking
up the original cylinder once more. he
is able to tell just where the difference
Ees.-N. Y. Herald.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
ROCKY MOUNTAIN GIRL.
Mildred B~eyinGton's Account of a Long
Shot at an Antelope.

Mildred B~eyingtOn's Account of a Long
Shot at IN Antelope.
Mildred ~Bevington, a Rocky mountain
girl living in Wyoming on the border of
Jackson's Hole, has recently been sue
cessful at hunting game which men
usually find hard to get. She has killed
half a dozen blaek-tailed deer. and wears
boomers while hunting. The bullets
she uses are soft-noscd, so hat when
they hit they mushroom and spread out
TIL they are half an inch across. Not
one of the deer hat she hit has run
more than 200 yards, and usually they
have died before they have gone ten
rods. She finds antelope hunting the
best sport of all, and she writes to a New
York friend:
II want to tell you about an antelope
l shot a week ago. 1 took my pony and
went away up above the ranch, tethered
il out. and then went along a little bluff
to where 1 could look across the country
for a long way, 1 took out my glass and
looked and looked, but 1 couldn't see a
single thing. Then 1 went on a ways and
COACu dSulh. L q DEOa &OOhIiS lOi.
perhaps, an hour and a half when l hap
pened to see Il glimmer of something
over a little hummock not more than 100
yards away. It was just a little speck of
brown that 1 had seen, and / wasn't sure
I had seen anything. but | cooked my
rife and waited. If it was anything, 1
knew it would come in sight 200 or $50
yards away and her l might accidental
" hit it if l tried hard enough. 1t
seemed so long waiting there that l
guessed 1 hadn't seen anything; then
upwent something's the rising ground.
Another jump and an antelope was in
sight. followed by four others. l tried
to catch sight at one, but they were so
small in the sights-looked little bits
of rabbits. Pretty Don l pulled the
trigger; the next moment they were
gone. l felt like crying. You know If
I'd only seen them on the first rise in
time I'd have got a lot better chance.
But l put in another shell so that my
rifle would be fully loaded, and waited
for them to come up on the rise beyond
that. 400 or 500 yards away. Pretty 300
they came up and 1 shot again-it was
like shooting at a mouse. 1 shot again;
then I noticed that only four were in
sight, and the other one must have
either turned off to one side or-or-and
then 1 ran over the first rise and up 10
the top of the one on which I'd shot az
the antelope first. and there he lay, as
dead as even an animal was, and it was a
beauty, too. The bullet had gone into
the back of its head and tor a fear
full hole; two inches higher and 1 would
have missed. sure."-N. Y. Sun.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
HUMOROUS

Mabel has q lot of sense" SHow
does she show it??' '.She never permits
herself to appear more intelligent than
the man who is talking to her."-Chica-
60 Record.
-Vague.-Mack "What do you
think of Scribbler's new book?" Rob
bins-"I haven't formed an opinion"
"You must have been reading the criti-
cisms."-Life.
-Crawford-"How is it that the jani-
tor of the fat is such an autocrat?"
Grimshaw-"I suppose it's because
wherever he goes he generally gets in
on the ground floor."-udge.
Point of View.-"Bilker, you ought
10 be ashamed to wear such good clothes
when you owe me 90 much money"
"No; you ought to be proud to lend
money to a man who wears such good
clothes."-Chicago Record.
Can you support my daughter in
the style to which she is accustomed?"
asked her father. Pretty nearly" re
piled the suitor. "Of course I can't keep
up the engagement luxuries I have
given her forever."-Harper's Bazaar.
Yes" remarked Satan, firmly, Il
would rather yield something to liberal
theology than resign myself into the
clutches of any coal trust" According
ly he gave orders to have gasoline stoves
substituted for the ranges hitherto
employed.-Detroit Tribune.
Happened to see your wife on n
wheel yesterday. If I remember, 1
heard you declare you would never al
low her to ride" "Yes. 1 know. But
she had a chance to trade off her pug
dog for a wheel and I thought 1 would
choose the least cvil."-Indianapolis
journal.
did you attend the big meeting at
Old City Hall last night?" asked one
P~ittsburgher of another. NO" "Why
not?" well, my name was not on the
list of vice presidents, and 1 knew that
il all those men were there 1 would not
he able to get in the hall."-Pittsburgb
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Flowers Made of Bread.

One of the latest and certainly most
effective methods of making artificial
lowers is the use of fresh bread. All
that is required is a loaf of fresh bread,
come wire and a little coloring mat
ter. According to a well-known maker
of artificial flowers in the West End of
London, this novel method is likely to
supersede all others. Not only do these
-'bread" flowers look exactly like the
real article when freshly made, but, as
the bread grows stale, the flowers as
sumo a slightly withered appearance,
which is almost identical with that OF
a flower beginning to fade. As a rule,
ordinary artificial flowers can at once
be detected by the unnatural bright
and fresh appearance they present after
being in the heated atmosphere of L
ballroom or elsewhere for several
hours; but the fading power of bread
flowers practically insures them
against detection, even from the eyes
of an expert.-London Answers.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

A skeleton has been found in one OF
the assures of the Ademello glacier.
in the southern Tyrol, which is thought
to be that of an American tourist OF
the name of Ruth, who disappeared in
1890. These assures cleave glaciers at
all angles, and it is easy to slip into
one of them. When once in il is hard
ly possible to escape without help from
above, and the warmth of the body
melts the ice around, so that the victim
slowly descends by his own weight into
the depths of the glacier, and generally
starves to death. On looking into these
assures the most beautiful play Of light
In blue and green and rainbow colors
is seen. But these are best enjoyed from
the safe vantage ground of the upper,
outside world, rather than down in the
depths and close at hand. In some
instances, it is said, bodies have been
preserved in these assures in the ice
for years--Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

old clock down in the kitchen was
striking 10 when Sam nudged me
with his elbow and whispered:
"That fellow is robbing the housed"
"How do you know?"
Because I can hear him moving
about. There-don't you hear that?
We've got to go downstairs and stop
him from taking that watch and
shawl"
"We dasn'ti"
Eyes, we dast! I'll go first, but you
come along! Robbers always run il
they hear anybody, a~nd.maybe he'll get
scarf OFF before he gets the things"
We slipped out Of bed and drew on
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Dresses for Dinner.

Dressing for dinner is a custom to be
commended from every point of view,
including the economic and hygienic.
1t is economic to wear a sentencing
gown at dinner, for the street gown,
which costs twice as much as the house
sown, lasts twice as long with judicious
changes. 1t is hygienic, because there
II actually bodily r~efreshment in soap.
water, fresh linen and a fresh gown
after the toll and turmoil of the day,
and there is also the less easily defined
but equally potent influence of pretty
clothes upon the mind, and hence upon
the health Of the wearer.-St. Louis 10
public
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
had been taken away from the stables

had been taken away from the stables
and we had returned to the house,
'boys, I thank We q thousand times over
for this watch, which is something I've
sorter wanted for years, but let me
Jest tell We that We both orter be taken
out and licked fer not tellin' me about
that robber till re had him safely locked
up. Don't ye never do SIGH a thing as
that ag'in as long as ye live on the face
of this airth."
"And, boys" added mother with tears
in her eyes, as she Rugged the shawl
and US, too, 81 not only thank ye as
much as father does, but I say We did
Jest right in not wakin' US up; I'd have
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
REALIZED HIS DANGER.
a Pair Of Broken Glasses Cause q Liyel
Family 0uarrel

-
a Pair of Broken Glasses Cause . Livel,
Family Quarrel
They almost ran into each others
arms as the stout man came out of a
confectionery shop which the other was
passing.
Hello" said the tall man, glancing
suspiciously at the package the stout
man was trying to conceal, still paying
election bets?"
Nope" replied the stout man.
Looks like rain, doesn't it?"
"Yes; or snow. Guess you and your
wife have had a quarrel, haven't you?''
Mono" stammered the stout man.
FLOWS business?"
"Pretty good" answered the tall man.
"You needn't mention the fact in my
wife's hearing, though" he added has
tily.
"Humph, I've been married II years
myself; you seem TO have forgotten
that. Say, 1 wish people wouldn't keep
looking at a nan just because he hap
Pcns to be carrying a package"
Its the kind of a package" said the
N"AA 10 VIII Il GIN SdN. IldI Olu
you and your wife quarrel about?"
I'VE haven't quarreied yet. The fact
is, L broke my glasses this morning
before l had been at the office an hour
and had to take 'em to be mended. I
can't see very well without 'em, you
know"
Wouldn't be much use in wearing
'em if you could"
That's so. As 1 was turning the
corner on my way back to the Office,
wondering how l was to get along
without EN- all day, 1 saw my wife
just ahead of me, and hurried to catch
up with her"
"And did you?"
"Yes, more's the pity. l caught her
by the arm and said: Nell, dear, where
are you going?' Then 1 almost tainted"
Il don't see why"
at wasn't my wife at all; it was Mrs.
Fleshey!"
"Pshaw, she is a sensible woman; it
was easy for you to explain that you
couldn't see without your glasses"
''Of course it was; she seemed rath-
'er pleased than otherwise TO be mis-
taken for my wife. But the worst of
it was that she was on her way to our
house then"
"WeIi?"
MY wife always says that if she
weighed as much as Mrs. Fleshey she'd
commit suicide. Say, suppose you
come home to dinner with me-"
THANK you," said the tall man. firm
ly, but if it's all the same to you, I'd
rather wait until one day next week"
Chicago Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

save and buy father a silver watch n
mother a new shawl for Christmas.
Sam was Is and 1 two years younger,
and we were the IONS OF n farmer
who couldn't afford Injuries. We
couldn't hope TO do it all by ourselves,
though we did get enough together for
the shawl. Our uncles and aunts and
cousins Clipped in, and the jeweler
threw off 81 on the price of the watch,
and on the day before Christmas old
Santa Claus had the watch and shawl
and father and mother hadn'tthe slight
est suspicion Of what was in store for
them. Sam and 1 had sold apples, en-
bezzled eggs, disposed Of old plow-
points, hoed corn for the neighbors.
gathered and sold hickory nuts and
worked various other schemes to get
that S12 shawl and we had a right to
feel elated and proud. We had the arti-
cles hidden in the hay NOW at the barn,
and about once an hour we had to go
ont there and take q look at them.
It was growing dark on Christmas
eve when a stranger on foot turned in
tO Jul SdtS anu dShCu " lONSllSo. liz
was a well-dressed, keen-looking man,
and the fact of his being on foot and
the village tavern only two miles away,
ought to have set father to thinking.
Mother eyed him suspiciously, butwhen
the man said he had rheumatism, and
that he expected to pay for his enter
tainment, father invited him in and ap-
peared to think that it was all right.
Not so with Sam and I, however. We
didn't like the looks of the man, and
when We discovered that he used pro-
fame language and chewed plug tobacco
we put him down as a bad man. After
supper the man told father that he lived
In Cincinnati and had come to look at
a farm on the Six-Mile road. He made
an effort to be entertaining and agree
able. and though he succeeded with the
cid folks Sam and I couldn't give him
any credit.
There was a bedroom off the parlor,
and it was arranged that he should
sleep in there. Also that Santa Claus
should leave the gifts for father and
mother on the parlor table after he had
gone to bed. Sam and I would hang
our stockings in the kitchen. The man
excused himself about nine o'clock and
went to bed, and ten minutes later the
watch and shawl were on the table, and
mother had promised not even to look
in. We hustled off to bed. and by half
past nine father and mother came up.
do you s'pose that Teller heard
about the watch and shawl?" queried
Sam, as we got into bed.
"How could he?"
81 dunno. but I believe he just came
here to steal 'em. If he was goin' to
look at a farm on the Six-Mile road why
didn't he get off the train at Grafton?
Tu bet you he robs the house and clears
oct befsre morning."
HIets tell father!"
"He wouldn't believe II, and It would
only scare ma"
We talked The matter over for a few
minutes AID then fell asleep> and tho
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Last OF the Season.

$50 away" he said, irritably.
She had found him in the ~woodshed
with his coat off and his bicycle in front
of him.
But, John, perhaps l."
$50 away he repeated. There il
nothing that you can do here"
But you act as if you were desperate,
John, and / am afraid"
81 am desperate" he interrupted u
have reason to be. Some one ha.
looscned the cap to my bicycle tire and
1 don't want you in earshot while l am
pumping it UP again. You'd better put
in the next half hour or so calling On q
neighbor."
Being a discreet woman, she left him
alone for a full hour and Q half-CAt
sago Eiost
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
a NEW BABY FOOD.
Horrible Discovery Made by h Youni
Mother.


Horrible Discovery Made by the Young
Mother.
Two young parents were bending over
the cradle, discussing a new baby food.
only follow the directions implicitly
and it'll be all right" said the male
parent.
The female parent read the directions
carefully, with a frowning brow. Then
she burst into tears.
What on earth is the matter?" in.
.quired the male parent.
"Why, it says-it says"
Sobs choked her speech.
"If the baby can't take the milk when
when"
Her voice trembled. she shuddered.
Cant take the milk when raw"
The wretched woman could scarcely
proceed.
have it boiled!"
As she uttered the last words the
wretched woman's voice rose to 4
shrek. She clasped her child fran
ticaliy to her breast.
"Never-never will I follow such
brutal. such fiendish directions! Moth
ing shall make me! Have my lear liz
tie precious tootsey wootsey boiled
boiIed-to accommodate some retched
Fatent-food manufacturer? NeEer!"
Horror-stricken, the male parent
picked up the box, and read the fatal
words:
"In using this food for your baby, il
II can't take the milk when raw, have it
boiled"
1t was sadly true!-N. Y. Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
A Christmas Blessing.

As h Christmas bells are ringing their
chimes of peace n love,
the voices of the angels come floating
from above.
Oh. Thou who art In Heaven" for our dt-
tie ones we pray
Thy tenderest, sweetest blessing on This
their Christmas day.
And to US. whose hearts are glowing with
gratitude to Thee,
That Thou hast spared our darlings. with
their sunshine and their glee,
WIZ Thou send Thy daily presence. give
us patience with our love.
Give thai wisdom. Heavenly Father, that
can come but from above.
And the power to do our duty by these
precious ones. we pray.
Be the longed-for Christmas blessing which
Thou sendest US to-day.
Good Housekeeping.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Not That Kind of Boy.

visitor-Johnny, + you making
great PREPARATIONS at your Sunday school
for Christmas?
Johnny-I'm not going to Sunday
school now, ma'am.
visitor-Not going to Sunday school?
Johnny-Nome. 1 quit last Sunday,
I don't want folks to think I'm one of
these boys that's only good durin' the
holidays. I'll start again after Christ
mas il overeChicago Trihnna
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
The distinctive Qualities.

Tommie Tompkins-Pa, was Senate,
Ducksworth who died the other day a
politician or q statesman?
Tompkins-Nobody knows yet, my
son; his estate hasn't been appraised.
IN. Y. Truth.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26
Mere vague Assumption.

"She is a Daughter of the Revolu.
tion?"
Sister, ] believe" Indiauspalb
Journal
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-12-26

Susie (angrily)-Sir, what right had
you to kiss me?
Toni was laboring under a delu-
sion.
Susie-Explain yourself, sir. What
delusion?
Tom-The same n you were under,
the Enthusiastically Life.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-10
re,,.e. ST per year. in advance
'en"S Six Months 80 cents.

iail | was compelled, owing to limited
capacity, to cOnfine prisoners indis-
and with almost unlimited
intercourse. Our Jail was arranged for
twenty four inmates only, and we we're
forced to pen in as high as eighty
eight prisoners at time. What tor
lures the prisoners suffered they only
know, but of the constant worry, fear
and agony which the sheriff endured l
am painfully aware. Of the number
of young and comparatively uninitiated
into crime who were forced into con-
tact with, and under the influence of,
advanced and hardened criminals, and
thus tutored into subsequent vicious
life, heaven only knows. When we
moved into our new Jail, l was enabled
to, and by the advice of Secretary Hart
did, adopt the Separate System AS
might have been expected with such
radical change, we at first experienced
some difficulty; but by exercising pa
tience and adhering strictly to our
rules we soon became absolute masters
of the situation. AS you are we'll
aware, the Separate System consists
of confining one prisoner. and one
only, in a cell; only one prisoner at
time in the corridor for exercise; only
one prisoner at time to clean out
night soil etc-the idea being to isolate
the prisoners as much as possible, to
admit of no conversation or the in
terchange of notes between inmates of
different cells"
agree heartily with the view that
suspects ought to be treated with hu-
manity and with as little hardship as
their safe and proper keeping will per-
nit; but we certainly have no right so
to treat them as to inevitably turn them
out of jail worse than they went in.
1t is much better that they should
suffer some temporary hardship than
that they should suffer permanent in
jury.
So far as am informed, the separate
system for keeping county Jail prls'
oners is advocated by every prominent
student of the prison question in the
United States. II. I'll. Hart
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-12-10
OUR COUNTY JAILS
AND THE SEPARATE CONFINE
MENT OF PRISONERS.
Secretary Hart of the State Board OF
Corrections and Charities Re-
plies to Jasper.
EDITOR MIRROR:

EDITOR MIRROR:
have read with much interest the
article in The PRISON MIRROR, of No.
yember 26th on "Our County Jails," in
which exception is taken to the present
provision Of law, requiring each county
jail prisoner to be kept in his own cell
when the construction of the jail is
such as to admit of such separation.
The writer says:
"The system is rapidly becoming
popular, and is a retrograde step
towards barbarism: * where
have the authorities derived their
power to punish suspects in the same
manner that incorrigible criminals are
punished in our penal institutions?
y The theory that county
iails are nurseries of crime wherein
one of depraved nature will corrupt
the others may just as we'll be applied
to any town or city in the state. *
x When this law becomes general
throughout the state we may look for
an increase of insanity: crime will be
of more vicious nature, and COM
mitted with greater recklessness and
less fear of consequences"
lam very glad to see this important
subject discussed in THE PRISON
MIRROR and hope that others of your
contributors will discuss it. [ have
visited more than 100 county jails, in
most of which the prisoners were al
lowed to associate freely in idleness
| have talked with great many jai
officers and prisoners and have found
it to be their general testimony that
this kind of association is extremely
demoralizing. My attention was very
early called to this subject by lif'
prisoner in the Minnesota state prison
who said, 81 hope that you will con
tinue your efforts to reform the count.
iails. The prisoners have nothing t.
do but play cards and corrupt on
another. The older prisoners fill tn
younger ones with stories of how som
fellow held man up and got rich an
lives in a brown stone front; we kno0
those things are not So"
There always has to be first tim
for prisoner to be sent to Jail. Tn
boy or young man, having perhap
committed some petty offence agains
the law, is arrested and committed
Jail. He is shocked. He realizes ths
he has come to a crisis in his life. II
says: "Oh; if I can get out of th
trouble you will never find me in sue