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The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13
The correct way to practice singing.

CThe correct way to practice singing
facing your accompanist and also your
audience, if you have one.
There is a great deal of nonsense
talked of the French, the German or
the Italian method. The right method
is that which best serves to bring out
and develop all your greatest posi-
bilities for beautiful and charming
voice.
The perfect method is the one that
is especially selected to suit your in
dividual capacity as well as your ply.
steal strength; the method that will
broaden, enrichen and make of the
untutored elements a noble harmon.
ious whole.
Now as to your part. If you are
thinking of a public career you must,
to succeed, make up your mind to de-
vote yourself entirely to your art The
singer who is TO become famous must
serve her goddess with patience and
humility, and with her whole soul.
You cannot have love affairs or go into
society or any of the hundred and one
things that girls so naturally enjoy
If you are to be the fayorite of our
sweet mistress who stands high up
among the rosy clouds of fame with
outstretched arms waiting to receive
you and crown you with your hard
earned laurels. You will never look
into her beautiful eyes until you have
earned the right to do so. But before
the visions of success can possibly
come true, my dear children you must
have served years and years among
the humblest votaries in the sacred
temple Of divine melody,
One thing ! would urge upon the
American girl who has a singing voice.
Select your teacher with utmost care.
Then make up your mind that no
heights are too great for you to reach.
If your voice is small say to yourself:
my little voice, thou must grow; thou
and ! will work together ! will so
cherish am nourish and protect thee
till al! the harmony that is in my soul
shall not be too great for thy utter
ance."
Small voices cannot be made power
full in a day or a year Patience, ma
file. patience, and still patience
Young voices must be coaXed, not
driven or prosecuted or whipped.
Rough voices must be softened. Your
uneven voices must be made harmon
ious. You must obey your instructor
implicitly After you have made your
choice of a professor keep away from
those people who are always lowering
about the young, ambitious singer APP.
parently for the sole purpose of up
setting her by ill-adyised criticism Of
"the method
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13
SARCASTIC SNIP.
How a Washington Post Man Refers
to Two Dramatic Stars,

Two beauteous young ongsomble
loides of The Belle of New YORK
merry-merry got into an automobile
the other afternoon Git is simply as
tonishing, by the way, how for ohS'
somble loides can make their Sl2 per
week go) and went over to the bureau
of engraving and printing to see how
the useful green papers are made.
They we're shown around by one OF
the pretty young women who act as
guides
Dear me-" eXctatiCally exclaimed
one with the $3.50 paddock coat-and
addressing the young woman guide
aren't you ever tempted to grab an
armful of those $4,000 bills and just
run?'
"Wen. yes. confess | am replied
the guidess, with a straight face. But
there is one thing that restraints me-
What is that?' inquired the two
ongsomble loides together.
Cline" replied the guidess,
"Time?" they inquired in a breath.
How do YOU
Il wouldn't care TO do it, you know, W
explained the you"g woman guide.
do what?" asked the ongsomble
loides.
Time said the guidess.
ON" exclaimed the merry-merry
girls, gently falling to the fact that
they were being strung
and then, again" vent on the guild
ess. with composed features. 81 I'M
derstand that they don't permit Ia
dies in federal prisons 10 have curling
irons"
ooh" exclaimed the ongsomble
loides.
81 really believe that snip meant to
be sarcastic" they said TO each other
when they returned to their automo-
bile.-Wachington Post
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13
KIPLINo SAW SNAKES.
He Forgot He was In London and Not
India,

lllhles
Here is a Kipling snake story that
is true-which is more than can be
said of most snake or Kipling stories
that are floating about on the journal
istic seas. Odd figures sometimes give
a better idea of the extent Of the Brit
ish Empire than even Il map Of the
world would. SO here, before really
beginning the Kipling snake story,
he il told that last year more than
25.OOO of fellow subjects in India lost
their lives by being killed by wild an
imals. Snake bites account for a large
proportion of that $4,000. AS con
sequence of the frequency with which
yenomous snakes are met with, An
glo-Indians spend the whole of their
lives watching out for the snakes.
When Mr.. Kipling reached London
from India in his search for fame and
fortune he lodged in some small
rooms on Villiers Street, Strand, up
two flights of stairs. One morning
a friend called, and when he found
himself in Rudyard Kipling's sitting
room he was surprised to see hand
some mirror, which stood over the
fireplace, smashed to smithereens.
Snakes" said Kipling, noticing the
look of establishment on his friends
face.
Il was doing in my chair yester-
day evening and my foot slipped out
of my shoe, which fer comfort | had
unlaced. Halfwaking, ! felt with my
foot for the shoe and began slipping
il in when my toes touched the leath.
err tongue. Snake! flashed across my
sleepy brain; | gave one desperate
kick. and when the shoe struck the
mirror | realized that | WAS in Lon.
don. and not in lndia.-S Saturday Even.
ing Post.
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HOW 10 LEARN 70 SING.
Style, Method and the Choice
of Teachers,
THE CORRECT PRACTICE.
One Way to Ruin the Voice-For
Those Of Small Voiees-obey Your
Instructor Implicitly and PerseVere
In the Right Kind OF Practice,

Instructor Implicitly and PerseVere
In the Right Kind Of Practice,
You cannot produce your tones cor.
rectly seated at the instrument, bend
ing your head forward to read the
notes and trying to do two things at
once, which no one but a prestidigit-
ateur can accomplish successfully.
Quite the contrary this is the way
to ruin your voice, | assure you. No
human being can produce good tones
in this attitude, with the chest con-
tracted the head thrust forward and
the mind intent on decipherng the
notes.
But you say you have no one to
play your accomplishments. But you
need only to strike a chord now and
then to give you the proper note for
your exercise, or tuning fork wiz
give you the note correctly.
Better stand and sing near the piano
and occasionally, still standing stoop
over and strike the necessary chord or
use the fork; either Will save the
harmful attitude of the piano student.
You will not need to play accom-
paniments until you begin TO sing
songs, and by that time you must I'M
derstand the piano well enough to ac'
company yourself when you wish to,
but for your practise you should
stand.
II you can do so you will make bet
ter progress by getting a friend to ac'
company you. Almost every girl has a
young sister or near relative or friend
who will play her Accomplishments at
least three or four times a week, but
for everyday practise you must avoid
the bad habit of sitting in heap with
the head thrown forward If you want
really to practise to advantage and
without injuring those precious vocal.
chords.
The best way to practise as well
MS to sing for your friends is to stand
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General Manager Gen. Passenger Agent
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The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13
Spider Plaque in Japan.

Spiders are serious plague in Jap,
an. They spin their webs on the tele-
graph wires, and are 50 numerous al
10 cause serious less of insulation
Sweeping the wires does little good n ,
the spiders begin all over aga'u,
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13

Heurich's beer has not only local
but a national reputation as the pur'
est obtainable both for the healthy
and for invalids. The extra pale
lager bottled by the Arlington Bot
thing Co., at 9th and X streets, N.
W., is the Favorite family beverage.
The hatchet. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??, 1900-05-13

Wigs were in vogue in Rome toward
the end Of the Republic, and so well
made that ovid says: Nobody could
tell Il auy one olse's hair was real or
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
CURES QUICKLY.


The pyramid Pile Cure, a new prepar-
alton nut up In supposltory form, cures
the most aggravated cases OF piles IN
a surprlsingly short time.
Mr. w. n. Dunn No. 61l9 SHE as
Ave. Chicago. Ill, writes: Il am IN.
sebted n thousand times 10 the Pyramid
pile cure for the speedy relief and per.
manent cure OF a most severe case OF
niles | was troubled for months and
Vet was completely cured with one oO
cent box OF the Pyramid and more man
that / still have three OF the Pyranid
supposltofles left OF that one box mat
/ dId not need TO use. think IL Is the
grandest thing Of the age and shall Ger.
family recommend II to all sufferers ana
Won are at perfectly liberty 10 refer any
persons to me and will gladly answer
any correspondence
Thousands have resorted 10 expensive
ana dangerous surgical operations for
cure Of piles who could have been cured
safely and painlessly by the Pyramid;
I'm a number Of instances, persons VINO
had spent months In a hospital under
treatment OF pile specialists without
permanent relief. finally found the cure
where they least expected II, IN the
pyramid Pile Cure. which is applied at
night. relieves the congested parts re-
duces the tumors gradually and natur.
ally. removes the lntocrabe itching and
leaves no bad after effects, as 1t con-
talns no cocaine nor oplates.
II Is remedy no one need fear 70 ap-
ply to the most aggravated case.
Druggists sell the Pyramid Pile cure
AT 50 cents for full sized treatment,
The Pyramid Co Of Marshall Mlchp
win be pleased to mail free TO any ad-.
dress a little book on Cause and Cure OF
piles.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
"THREE.FINGERED JACK"
One of the Arizona Railway Robbers
Found In Dying Condition.

one Of the train robbers who held up
the n. NJ. & A. T. train at Fairbank,
Ariz.. Thursday night was found yester-
day in a dying condition at Sycamore
Springs. nine miles from Tombstone,
Ariz. The robbers name Is John Dun
lap. alias "Three Fingered Jack" He
was brought from Colorado a few
months ago on a requisition 70 answer
10 a charge OF highway robbery. but the
district attorney dismissed the case,
Dunlap's three accomplices are being
pursued by a sheriff's posse, The trail
leads in the direction Of the Cochlse
stronghold in the Dragon mountains
The wounded robber received the full
charge OF a shotgun fired by the Wells
Fargo messenger in the abdomen. An
ambulance left this place TO bring the
wounded man 10 town.
kilograms have been sent to different
points warning officers TO be on the
lookout for the remaining three robbers
and Il Is confidently expected that they
viii be apprehended or killed within
twepty-f6ur hours,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
sampson oTcred a Civil job.

Boston. Mass, Feb. 17,-Rear Admiral
Sampson has been offered and has de.
clined the presidency OF the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology. The
offer was surprise, as Il was thought
that the question OF successor to Presi-
dent James II. Craft, who retired in
June, had been laid aside to await the
action % the trustees.
Admiral Sampson said yes. II Is
true that ! have been offered the presl-
dency ,of the institute and have de-
clined. An acceptance would mean
my leaving the service with which !
have been so long identified and enter
ing upon a new life for which / am
probably less fitted than for the one
which | now hold While | appreciate
the honor conferred on me and while
as matter Of fact such a change
would mean an increase In salary. at
my time Of life the change Is not to
be thought Of.
Reports have connected with the
presidency of the institute the names Of
many persons prominent In public life,
among whom are Secretary OF the Ma
Wy John d. Long, former Governor VOL.
colt, President Seth Low. Of Columbia
University, and several others.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
Port Angeles Eastern.

The promoters OF the Port Angeles
Eastern railway are preparing to begin
active construction work on the line
which President Gushing says viii be
completed and in operation by next
November. orders for steel rails and
rolling stock have been placed and they
viii be delivered when required.
The definite line Of the right OF way
Is announced by the officials OF the road
for the first time. From Port Angeles
wash. II viii take southeasterly di.
rectlon to olympia. The total length OF
The line by this route win be 1875 miles
Instead OF 10, as originally figured
upon.
At the two terminals, Port Angeles
and Olvmpla. the company will erect
handsome stations. The former viii,
in ali probability. contain the general
offices OF the road.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
RUSSIAN RAILWAY PROGRESS.
sleeping Cars Operated ON Seven
Thousand.nIile Run.

Among the passengers on the steamer
Coptlc, arrived at San Francisco, are
r. A. Neglemaekers, acting general
manager Of the international Sleeping
Car Company, which operates cars on
the Trans-Siberlan and other Russian
roads, and X. ROditi, engineer OF the
same company. They state that through
sleeping cars are operated from 81.
Petersburg 10 lrkutsk. a distance OF
about 1908 miles. They also announce
that the Trans Siberian road will be
completed and In operation as far east
as Stretenk bly, April, when II VIII be
possible to go from St Petersburg TO
Paris across the continents Of Europe
and Asia TO VladivOstock without rely
ing upon any of the primitive methods
OF crossing the Siberian wastes which
now have to be operated a considerable
distance. With the line in operation TO
Strenesk the regular schedule to be
between st. Petersburg aud Nladlvos-
took will be twenty days. This does
not mean that the Trans-Sberian rail-
way is completed. BY using the big
passenger steamers on the AMOR river
however. the trip across two continents
can be made in comfort
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Two Men are Killed and Three
Frightfully Injured.

Two men were instantly killed and
three frightfully injured By the explo'
sion Of locomotive boiler In the san
ia Fe round-house at Topeka yester-
day afternoon
Dead: John Heustis, boilermakeri
Nels Linden, fireman,
Injured: j. l.. Beardsley, VIII prob
ably die. Artle shields bruised and
badly shaken up; Bert Shields, face cut
and one eye injured.
The explosion was caused by com
pressed air which was TO be used as the
motive power Of the midget" locomo-
tive. a small switch engine, Boards
ley was letting the air into the boiler
when the explosion occurred. He had
lust turned on the pressure and II was
thought that not over 100 pounds was
IN the boiler,
The force OF the explosion blew the
front end OF the boiler against the
stone wall tearing away the window
casing and wall, making a hole twelve
feet wide and about thirty feet high,
The boiler was blown from the track
and fell twenty feet away,
The dead men were horribly mangled
their heads being blown from their
bodies,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
RAILROAD NOTES.

Messrs. Bancroft. Calvin, Dunn and
Eccles returned from Idaho today.
General Passenger Agent w II, Firth
Of the Rock Island at Denver left foI
home today.
For The second week In February
Rio Grande Western gross earnings
were $4,000, an increase Of $4,000. For
the two weeks Of the month, $4,000
an increase OF $60,3Oo.
The proposed electric railway connec.
ton between Salt Lake and Bingham
VIII reduce the travel between the two
points 10 one hour and enable Bingham
people 10 spend the day or evening In
Salt Lake, and return home at con-
yenient times
The announcement was made IN Los
Angeles yesterday that the santa Re
railway branch 60 the Rim Of the Grand
Canyon Of the Colorado will be complet-
ed on April 9. The road runs slxty-two
miles from Williams on the main line.
Thirty-seven miles are now in opera
ton
Round-trlp tickets are no longer sold
by the Union Pacific 10 the following
named Utah stations: Wyuta Emory
Tank. Henefer Echo and Park City
Junction. Croydon, strawberry. Devils
Gate, Rlverdale, Freight Yard Junction,
Utah Central Crossing, Standplpe At
knson, Wanship, Wanship Tank.
Each employe OF the Union Pacific,
present or prospective. will son be ex-
amined by the chief surgeon az Omaha
and record will be kept for use 10 de-
termlnlng the employees physical condi-
tlon for retention In service, or for pro-
motion. The examination and regis
tration free for the health certificate IL
fixed at 81.
The oregon Short Line, which Is
owned by the Union Pacific. says the
San Francisco Examiner, is building an
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
Trouble ON New Idaho Line.

A special dispatch TO the San Francis
co Chronicle from Boise says: An up
heaval I'm Idaho railroad circles oc-
CURED today that will result in suits az
gregating a million and In sensational
developments. In these suits Louis A.
Han the Michigan lumbermun. and
John l.. Rockefeller will be made de-
PENDANTS. The plaintiff will be the Mer-
ritts. father and son, who not long ago
secured Judgment IN Michigan against
Rockefeller for over SsoOVV. The trou-
bic had arisen by the dismissal from the
Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad, Of
which Hall Is president Of all the Mer-
ritts and their friends, the ak having
been welded by 2. r. Shelby, the gen.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
DOGS NOSES AS EVIDENCE.
Justice of the Peace Says They Can.
not Prove Guilt of Burglars.

Chicago, Feb. ia special TO the
Tribune, from Joliet, Ills, says;
The fact that a pack Of bloodhounds,
after long chase, finally brought up
before a house wherein are four men
known with a bad reputation. was de-
clared by VIII county justice OF the
peace to be no satisfactory proof that
the men were implicated in a burglary,
although the dogs were given the scent
at the place where the burglary was
committed. Corroboratiye evidence was
wanting, and the justice declined to
hold the men on the simple evidence OF
the dogs noses.
II was the last Of q series Of expert
ments by the authorities OF Joliet and
VIII county. 10 test the value Of blood
hounds as burglar and footpad catchers.
The idea was hit upon after the several
burglaries and holdups in Joliet, In
which the police were unable to get any
clew as TO the guilty parties. The
burglaries were supposed to be the
work Of a gang who operated through
Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. and
whose stealings were estimated to have
reached $4,000 last fall,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
NEWSPA PER MEN
DON'T Get THEM
Valentine From Men Who Think
"Flne Words Butter No Parsnlps."
A COLD HUNDRED THOUSAND
Check for That Amount Sent 20 Man
ager yreeland of the uetro-
politan Railway,

The New York Herald says; III. II.
vreeland, president OF the Metropolitan
street railway, has received a 100000
valentine in the shape Of a check The
check was given by wealthy capitalists
who practically control the Metropoli-
tan street railway. and they drew on
their individual bank accounts for the
purpose OF showing their appreciation
Of the work Of Mr. Vreeand as presi-
dent OF the street railway
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-17
GRAND LARCENY CHARGE.
George Hunt Held to Answer for At
tempting TO Commit That Crime.

George Hunt, youthful but bad 'un,
had a preliminary hearing before JUS
tice Timmony at fS0 yesterday after
noon on the charge Of attempted grand
larceny. was presumed guilty and held
TO the district court. Several nights ago
Hunt discovered drunken man asleep
IN a wine room OF Second South Joint,
and was INDUCING In the pleasantly
pas,lme OF going through the sleeper ;
pockets. when Officer Chase sauntered
in and hauled Hunt of 20 jail. The man
who slept so peacefully was Pass Con-
tales. He and Officer Chase testified to
the above, and Hunt now langulshes In
the county fail In default Of $500 bail.