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the contrary, one of the greatest aids to
good singing that lNl1now of. Take it in
this way--sing An" on c, and as the
note sounds describe as wide a circle
as possible with the hand and arm,
bringing them back to the starting
point in time for the second note Cd.
Npw start around the circle again while
singing D, bringing the hand back in
time to begin another circle for the note
L. which comes next. After this D
again, with its attendant circle, and
lastly c, which brings us back where
we started. In order to keep the proper
rhythm (the exercise is to be sung in
four-four time) the final c is held four
times as long as the other notes, as
explained before. This enables the pu-
pills voice to traverse the imaginary
circle four times in succession on this
note, helped by four evolutions of his
hand and arm. It Will, indeed be a
help, for holding this note four beats is
the pupils first attempt at a sustained
tone. If the breath (and therefore tone)
gives out before the end of the fourth
beat il need not worry him at all. 1t
will merely denote lack of strength
in his muscles, and it is much better
that way than to have him force the
tone out by wrongly exerted strength.
As his strength increases his power to
/ hold q tone will increase in proportion.
and it is quality we are looking for
/ just now. not quantity.
In practicing this exercise should be
repeated once as l have given it. After
this it should he sung in the next key
! lower. taking b fiat for the starting
note and finishing out the exercise as
before. II should be repeated on each
key and then moved. one key lower
after the exercise is completed. This
mode Of practice should be carried as
far down the scale as can be done
without change of tone on the pupil;
voice. | mean by this, without change
| in the quality of sound. As I said il
the last lesson, we must be careful K
go neither too low nor too high in these
first exercises, particularly with &
child's voice.
There is another suggestion will givt
for keeping a good tone when once IL !,
acquired. Take. for instance, our exer
else of to-day's lesson. When startin,
on c tell the pupil to think of the not
d. This will elevate the tone and keel
IL where il should be-in the top O
the head. Then, as in the course of tn
exercise the boy sings f, let him thinl
of C. This will help to equalize tn
tones. 1t is an excellent rule; and on
that the pupil can apply repeatedly ii
practicing either exercises or songs.
is only the old principle of gettinI
ready beforehand in one more form
The higher the note the longer ahea'
one should prepare for it. and by s
doing raise the tone of all the notes in
! teryening.
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II is excellent training TO practice
away from the piano occasionally, for
II teaches the student TO listen for the
Intervals" and TO become independ-
ent of the help Of the piano. Let him,
for instance. sing an exercise through
from beginning 10 end and then. strik-
ing the final note on the piano after he
has finished, he will see whether or
no he has been able to stay on the key
through the whole exercise. If not.
let him begin the exercise once more.
sing il half through and then. stop
ping. strike the note he has just sung.
on the piano. He will probably be
able to determine by this method
whether his voice began to fall (that
Is, whether he began to sing fat) in
the first half or the second half of the
exercise. This determined, let him
continue to hunt down the offending
note by dividing the exercise once
more.
The principle is the same here as
in piano playing. II mistake is made
do not go over and over the whole
thing. There is no advantage in that
Find out just exactly where the trou-
bic lies first and then rectify it, re-
training from taking the exercise as
! whole until the little points that
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her of survivors. who are placed at
about 900 600. This "unknPwn army
is applying for pensions at the rale
Of about $4,000 year. Mr.. ware
estimates that if the pension laws
main unchanged this army IN Nv
years more will be reduced TO ABOUT
$4,000 and i'm ten years viii cease 10
be a factor. The Union soldier VINO
has the distinction of being the hrst
to have a claim allowed at the Pension
Office appears to have been one Leo
poId Charter, a member of Company
G. of the Twelfth Regiment, New YORK
Militia Infantry, whose claim was al
lowed August II, 1851. Mr.. Charrler'
it appears from the record, was dis
charged from the service August o,
1851, because Of a gunshot wound
through both arms, received while at
drill by accidental discharge of mus
ket. The woman who obtained certin-
cate No. / as the widow of Union
soldier was Mrs. Caroline OIL or
Washington, d. c., whose husband was
killed in a skirmish at Great Falls
Nd, in June, 1851.
Five pensioners are on the roll on
account of the Revolution, Ills on ac-
count of the war of 1912, 4734 on ac-
count of the Indian wars and 1897
on account of the Mexican War
Leslie's Weekly.
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TALK OF THE TOWN
AND B9Rte& OF RHt
TIMEG ~
The Father.

Pietro wanted of all things IN lfe-d
goat. Every morning when he went
down the hill to his work in the smell
ing kitchen of LombardO's restaurant
he would stop off at the home of old
Gregorio, there in the little green patch
on the edge of the quarry. and he would
look longingly at the little brown and
white notified kid which skipped about
on the hill crest with its queer Httie
stiff legged hops, so near and yet SO
far out of reach. For old Gregorlo had
said that he would sell il for 81 II
Pietro could raise the money before the
end Of the month; otherwise the gay
little animal went to the butcher
So it was that every evening when
Pietro had climbed up the cleateu
streets of the hill and found hirlseh
again in his cubbyhole of a room ne
would go to the mattress on the moor
and pull out from under it the shiny
cylinder bank for dimes which ne hao
received from the good priest on
Christmas Day by day the increas-
ing pile of dimes within registered
nearer and nearer to the 81 mark, ana
Pietro had already made arrangements
with Beronio to allow his kid the run
of the little back yard up near Whele
the old castle used to stand.
One gray night when Pietro hau
climbed back to the dingy shanty ne
called home he heard the tamlhar
sound of woman's wailing and hoarse
curses within. The father was drunk
again. Pietro sneaked in by the oacK
way and was stealing to his room on
the top floor, when he sickened ana
paused at the sound of the tanllly
racket coming from his own room- ne
peeped through the open door
There was the father bending over
something held UP to the dim light at
the window, cursing as he worked at
| il with a knife. The mother was rock
! ing from side to side on the bed' IeeDlE
| beseeching the father to cease.
Hardly had Pietro had time to gasp
when there was a sharp click, thickly
! muttered "ah-h'' from the father, ana
/ from the little bank which he held IN
1 his great red hand there flowed silver
stream. tinkling into his pocket
And the morrow was the last day oi
the month.
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INSTRUCTIVE CTUDIEnS
By INOIEDAAgEElNlA AND
u%AX6)FfEN
need recufying are all as they should

need rectifying are all as they should
be.
Before we leave the subject of the
chest I wish to suggest one more aid
to the pupil who is trying to learn to
breathe and eventually to sing prop
erlv. II is the Imaginary string"
again. / have brought it forward fire.
ouentIy in connection with finger
practice. and it will be found of just
as much help in regard to the chest.
Let the pupil try to imagine that
string fastened to the wall (across the
room from where he is standing) is
attached to the center of his chest,
pulling it outward and upward, ac-
cording TO the illustration. He must
try to feel that this string is pulling
his lungs toward the opposite wall in
cessantly and is therefore causing
them to expand to their fullest extent.
If you try this yourself you will see
the material aid to be gained there
/ from.
] Now we will take up another singing
/ exercise. Standing as in the singing
/ exercise given in the last lesson let the
/ pupil first assure himself that throat
and chest muscles are all in a free,
relaxed, receptive condition. A little
/ tightening of even one muscle is enough
to spoil the whole tone. There should
be no feeling of confinement or re-
! straint anywhere. l cannot dwell too
| emphatically on that.
Now let the boy take a deep breath,
and opening his mouth as wide as he
can (while still keeping the muscles
relaxed). let him sing "ah," beginning
on the note c (third space). The notes
/ to be sung in this exercise are c, d,
f, d, c, and the phrase must be taken
very slowly, holding the last note as
long as all the others together, that is
four times as long as any one of the
other notes. One breath must do the
| whole thing. and after the last note
has been sung the voice should die
away gradually, always as long as
there is breath 10 sustain it.
In practicing the exercise just giver
each note. while helping 10 make uI
the entire exercise, must be a perfect
whole in itself In sounding it the pupi
must think of the imaginary circle lex
planned in the last lesson), and must
try to make that circle cover as large
a space as possible, as the tone follow:
it. To aid him in this he may oc
casionally describe the circle with hi:
hand and arm, while singing the note
This will help to keep the voice free
and will promote roundness Of tone a
the same time.
The exercise may seem absurd to you
but, believe me, it is not so. 1t is, oI
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the producers and dealers The retail grocerymen stand
the consumer between him and the producer and
manufacturer When they show this excellent deter
inaton purity of the articles IN which they
DEAL and enforce it by refusing handle goods that are
impure, long and important step will be taken admon-
tory the producer and manufacturer. Perhaps the
negative sophstication is the most power
full When the retailers combine to sell only an article
that pure, the class of goods mpeached Tor I'M
purity will be cut off from the OF reaching the
consumer, and find market their producers must
conform to the sanitary standard
One objection heretofore urged to the pure food
movement has been the supposed necessity of blacklist
ing and exposing noxous and unfit goods This is OBJ
waited by whtelisting pure and fit products. In that
way the producers and manufacturers who strictly OBJ
the principles of commercial honor get their re-
ward and the aduterators get their lesson
The general public will show proper spirit OF en-
couragement of that intimately concerns
welfare These retailers stand for the cradle and
against the grave for chance for children to grow IN
strength imprisoned by the food they eat and tor the
health OF and women. and for that vigor which
equips them for the duties of life
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explained in the previous lessOn), and
there should be no restriction either
Of tight clothing or weak chest walls
il they are to do their work well.S
Let the pupil practice inhaling long
breaths slowly and as slowly eXhaling
them This may be done irrespective
Of his vocal practice, and the best time
TO do il would be on rising in the
morning and just before retiring at
night.
Let him try five breaths. one after
the other, as slowly as possible. While
doing this he should count ten (men-
tally. not aloud as evenly as the
stroke OF metronOme, or better still,
let him use his meronome (alluded TO
in a former Iesson) for the purpose.
beginning to take his long breaths at
the count "One," starting to eXhale il
at the count OF six and finishing
with the count ten" This he should
do not more than five times on a
stretch at first AS soon as he finds
that he can increase the length Of the
exercise without fatigue. however, he
must do so, gradually, until he is able
10 take ten breaths in this way without
any fatigue.
This exercise, taken daily. morning
and night. occupies very littk time
and the benefit to be gained hom IL
is very great, both from a singers
point Of view and as an aid to general
health.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

An Oakland creature misnan1ed because of the
poverty the language, sentenced to six months
Imprisonment the other day for brutally beating his
mother What pity it is that justice in like this
IS crcumscribed by civilized punishments. An animal
that heats its mother should be branded all v-
ing things beware.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

Perhaps the affair that most deeply Oakland
as municipality at the present time is united effort
of her citizens to beauy their town No worther pur-
pose can inspire the people We give much util-
ity too little to the IDEAL too much to commerciasn1
too little to that ultimate purpose for the success of
which commercalism should be only means to an
end.
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Training Child's Voice.
RY ANIcE TFRHTNE.
By NNIIk 7 EftT1 = y D
(song Writer Formerly Direetor or MUSIC IN
che college of ST John the Baptist,
New York;

Copyright. Ie0s, by Joseph p BoTles)
When learning to sing one must ac-
ouire the habit Of holding out the chest
at ell times. for nothing is more detri-
mental 10 a naturally good voice than
q. cramped, fnelastic chest. The breath
needs all the room possible if good
tones are TO be produced, and the
lungs should be free 10 expand to their
fullest extent. They are nothing more
nor less than the bellows which blows
the air upward TO meet the tone tas
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young of this city, who was draughtsman by
day, countereite by night and professedly Christian
Sunday has met the fate of everybody who tries to
be Jack-ofall-trades and master of none To have
been successful in any of the three professions he
essayed would have consumed all of his time and intel
igent activity.
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14nS7vers to Queries.

HAFF-Subscriber. City. Philip
Schaff, who was president of the Amer
lean Bible Revision Commission, held
that cffice from 1888 until 1898, the year
of his death.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

Dr. Amador has been chosen the first President of
the new republic of Panama Let hope that he may
prove himself the great ruler of small people and that
his introduction into the family of nations will never be
cause of regret for his sponsor and protector
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

ALASKA-Several Readers, Kins-
lev. Cal. Alaska. containing $4,000
square miles of territory. was pur-
chased from Russia by the United
States in 1867, under the provisions or
the treaty of March 80 of the same
year, for S7.2OOOOO.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

JACKPOT. j., City. When Jack
pots" is introduced in the game Of
draw poker each player In turn, COM
mencing with The one at the left of
the dealer, declares whether he can or
will open the pot; if he declines to
open he says, Il pass; if he has the
requisite hand and elects to open he
says, Il open" According to this rule
a player having the requisite hand to
open the pot may do so or not.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

Having very thoroughly occupied Korea, Japan it is an
nounced is in haste to advance the operations of her
land campaign Everything indicates at ST Petersburg
however that the progress made by the brown men has
been rapid enough to suit the most captious critic
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

LOCOMOTIVES r. l., Fort Ba-
ker. Cal. The cost Of the modern To-
comotive is from $4,000 to $4,000,
according to style and capacity. The
mogul, ten-wheelers, for passenger
trains. cost s12,50O, and the monsters
such as are now in use on the Santa
Fe cost $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

United States lieutenant and six prvaes contrib
ed with their lives recently to splendid scheme of
imperialism and expansion The unfortunates were
murdered by the natives of Samar, who in the
process of civilization Few of know the
Of the victims. Fewer still who they were.
AS our mass expands its individual components become
of less and less Importance.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

NEW ORLEANS-Old Subscriber.
City. No battle was fought in the city
of New Orleans during the Civil War.
1t surrendered to the Union forces
April 2S. 1852, after Farragut de-
stroyed Forts Jackson and Fisher on
the Mississippi. The Union fleet ap-
peared before New Orleans April 25
and three days later it surrendered.
after due notice that if it did not it
would be bombarded.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

With something of a spectacular flourish and touch
of sentiment that carries than a suggestion of
sham Japan has made known the world that the
court jewels to be pledged increase the
funds In our matter of fact days. however
racy of gun fire, maudlin senmentaty, counts in
the game of war A plethoric chest is the most
vital element in wars
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-24

NEW POSSESSIONS - Subscriber.
Oakland. Cal The aggregate area Of
the new possessions Of the United
States, which includes the Philippine
Islands. Hawaiian Islands. Porto Rico.
Isle of Pines West Indies), Guam ISL
and and TutuiIa group. is 154,470 square
miles, or 9s,S6O.sOO acres.
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Special information supplied daily 10
business houses and public men by the
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), go Cali
fornia street. Telephone Main 104
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Townsends California glace fruits and
candies. soc a pound. in artistic fire.
etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern
friends. 7l5 Market ST.. above Call bldg
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WANTED THEIR MONEY BACK
Women In Pittsburg Theater Cause
SmaII-Sized Panic.

Pittsburg, March IA small-sized
panic at the Alvin theater yesterday
resulted from the announcement that
Virginia Harmed refused to appear in
her advertised part. Fully 1000 peo-
pie, mostly women. had been seated
for the performance at the usual
bargain matinee" so cents for any
seat IN the house, aid when the an
nouncement was made that Miss
Harmed refused to appear before such
a cheap house, a rush was made for
the box Office to get money back. The
theater authorities were powerless to
check the rush arr many women were
hurt but none seriously.
The Alvin people claim Miss Harm
ed had agreed to abide by the custom
of the house and she was advertised
accordingly.
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Amuscncnts

A story entirely different from any
that has yet been told by melodra-
matte romancers is Vance and Sui
livan's new play, ''Why Girls Leave
Home'' The scenes of the play are
laid in lively little metropolitan city
adjacent to New York. Unusual as
it may appear, there are no slum
scenes, no uncalled for profanity, no
gun plays or impossible climaxes in
"Why Girls Leave Home" but on
the contrary a wholesome narrative
of the happenings in the household
of small and respectable family and
involving especially the events in the
life of the innocent young girl who
thinks the companionship of wine,
glitter and glare not at all unneces-
sary to the enjoyment of life. The
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THE BLACK HILLS.
The Richest Hundred Square Miles in
the World.

The Black Hills, in the southwest
part of the state of South Dakota,
produces one-third of the gold found
in the United States, and is said to
be the richest one hundred square
miles in the world. A new booklet
on the Black Hills has been issued
by the North Western line, with a
fine detailed map of this wonderful
region. Send four cents in stamps
for copy of the booklet. w. B.
mar26
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WABASH Tor governor and for second
choice are divided between Taylor
and Hanly. Major Steele is now max
ing the most vigorous campaign of his
career. 1t is said that he is lodging
in and out among the various counties
in his district at such a rapid pace
that he has his opponents guessing
every day where he is landing. 1t is
said that the fight for this nomination
10 becoming SO bitter that the feeling
between the followers of the two can
didates Is manifested in social circles
and in all public meetings.
Joseph T. Tanning OF this city grand
exalted ruler of Elks will leave the
latter part of the week on an extend
cd western tour of visitation to the
Elk lodges. He will spend consider
able time on the Pacific coast and
will visit all of the principal cities
between here and San Francisco.
Tanning has been a devoted member
of the order for many years and 1t
is said that the growth during the
year that he will be at the mead OF IL
will be the greatest in it's history. TIE
annual grand lodge meeting will be
held at Cincinnati this year and II is
very probable that 1000 or 5000 mem
bers of the order in Indiana will at
tend.
Governor Durbin and wife have left
on q pleasure trip South. They will
spend considerable time at New Or
leans and points in that locality. The
governor hopes to benefit his health
by the trip. He has been so closely
confined to his Office during the last
year that his strength has been sorely
taxed and while he is not in poor
health his friends have been urging
him for sometime to take rest.
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COMPANY Wants Its Paw.

Harrodsburg, KY, March 1.-THE
water supply of this city has been
cut off by the Harrodsburg Water
company shutting down it's plant. The
company claims that the city is in
arrears for water for four years,
amounting to about $4,000 and has
made no provision to pay. The water
will be cut off until the claim is paid.
Meanwhile Harrodsburg, a city of g.
500 population, is without fire pro-
lection.
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Hemenway Renominated.

Mt Vernon, Ind, March 1,:.-For
the sixth time Congressman James
A Hemenway, of Boonville, was nom
mated yesterday by the Republicans
of the First district. The two dele
gates to the national convention were
instructed TO vote for the renomina-
ton of President Roosevelt
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Low Fares to Indianapolis via Penn.
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March 31st and April LIST, excur-
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RICHMOND LAWNS

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