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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-18
EXPENSIVE SINGING LESSONS.
Jean de Reszke's Paris Pupils Paw
Him $40 an Hour.

Jean de Reszke's Paris Pupils PAY
Him $40 an Hour.
If the report received from Paris be
true then il is not to be wondered at
that Jean de Reszke has decided to
take up vocal instruction as a profess
sion. According to the statement he
will have no less than $40 an hour for
his lessons This may not be anything
compared to what he received from MI
Grau when the American public was
honoring him as no tenor before MIN
had ever been honOred, but it will suf-
nee to bring in a tidy little income to
the Polish millionaire singer Just the
same. The thrifty Jean will not demand
$40 an hour from each pupil however.
The lessons are to be given in class
and each class will consist of four
pupils. Each pupil will pay SO and in
rotation he will receive a lesson. In
other words a pupil win have an hour
every fourth class day-the other three
days he will listen while one of his fell
lows is instructed. 1t is reported that
NJ. de Reszke already has as many pu-
pills at this rate as he cares to instruct
so 1t is clear that the usual supply of
gullible music students is not exhaust
ed. 1t is probable that a majority of
these pupils are Americans for the
prey of the European teachers inor-
dinate greed, and they seem ever ready
to stand and deliver any sum that may
be demanded.
That NJ de Reszke, nor no other
teacher in Europe or in any other coun-
try, can give a. one hour vocal lesson
which is worth $40 to any regular stu
dents can but be clear to every person
who knows anything about the develop
ing and training of the human voice.
A lesson in Interpretation might, under
certain unusual conditions, be said to
be worth such an outrageous sum, but
no directions given a person who was
DESTROYS Of learning how to sing could
be worth anything like such a price
nor even a. quarter OF 1t.
NJ. de Reszke will doubtless find all
the pupils he desires, however, for his
name is great and youth is easily i'm
pressed by a great name. But it is
nevertheless subject for wonder that
students, and especially wideawake
American students, should let them
selves be dazzled into inability to see
the total lack of all proportion that ex-
lists between the price charged and the
value received from most of the music
teachers of Europe. NJ. de Reszke and
his brother EdouaTd We're great singers
in their day, and the appreciation
shown them was entirely in place, but
they were excellent business men as
well. And it is evident that, though
their art may have known diminution
their business acumen is still abundant
and keen.
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nized Molly Wood. Steve. the bishop,
and a few more who seemed sorter
natural-like; bat the Virginian-our
Virginian-must been sick, or
drunk. and couldn't come.
What a pity tbs that Wister ever
consented to this fearsome metamor-
phosis and atrocious emascuIation Of
his really delightful story-typifying
as it did so well the hero OF the west
who never tried to pose before the
camera of public opinion, and who
is well-nigh lost to US now save as
We hold him in hallowed memory
What a loss to Iterature-and what
shocking bad taste to work into the
so-caIled play a papier mache eIk's
head with Populist whiskers and i'm
possible hornsi
Vale the Virginian-gone to join
that mighty throng of book-lore
heroes whose proud position on Ii
brary shelves has been sacrificed to
the demands of the stage!
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ABOUT DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS
Author Was Born in Indiana and Is
Graduate from Princeton.

a Graduate from Princeton.
David Graham Phillips, the author
Of The Cost" belongs to the state state
now coming to be known as the
mother of nOvelists." He was born in
Madison, Ind, some thirty-hve years
ago. After graduating from Prince
ton in the class of 1887, he drifted
into Journalistic work He served on
a Cincinnati paper, and later went to
New York, where he became re-
porter first on the Sun and then on
the World. The World sent him
abroad as London correspondent.
While there he t'scooped" the Eng
lish newspapers on the famous colli-
sion in the Mediterranean Of the Cam
perdown and the Victoria, two British
battleships- The Victoria sank with
five hundred men on board the Off
GERS and crew exhibiting the greatest
bravery as they went down.
Vague rumOrs were a1Oat concern
ing the accident, but London papers
gave them no credence. The foreign
Office had heard nothing of it. Clear
" it was a mistake. Days passed and
still no definite news was received.
Mr.. Phillips, in the midst of this un-
certainty. had London operator
ca Bile a message to an operator in a
little town on the coast of Asia, near
the place where the accident was re-
ported to have occurred.
The dispatch fell. by lucky accident
into the hands of an American doctor,
who had Witnessed the collision, and
as the World was his fayorite home
paper, he set about sending A full re-
mort Immediately he was informed
that he would have to pay $500 in ad-
vance. This he did not have, but a
merchant prince, whose friendship he
had won, came to his rescue. The
dispatch was sent and as soon as it
reached Phillips in London was for
warded to New York
It was cabled back from that city
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after it had appeared in the World.
The London papers printed it and
said it was a fake. How could New
York receive the news before London ?
How could an American paper get it
before the foreign Office? Mr.. Phil
lips was soon political editor of the
World with a salary of $500 a year.
But, according to Mr.. Phillips, the
excitement of newspaper life is not to
be compared with the pleasure and
profit of writing novels. THE Cost
is said to have been the most popular
serial that has yet appeared in the
Saturday Evening Post
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BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention

It can be imagined that so busy a man
as MI Joseph Chamberlain has little
time to spend on fiction but he is maxi
ing time to read Henry Harland's my
Friend Prospero," and has written to
the English publisher of that book sa v
ing that he has chosen it for his holiday
reading.
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This leaves thirty-one deaths yet to
be accounted for. No doubt these re-
cliffs Gin pale moonlight by the I'M
der villain who had not received his
legal share of the "swag," and the
mere thought of such descents has
made the actor too giddy to record
them.
AS a cheerful set off against this
awful total of fatality Herr Barnay
gives it out that he has been married
LII times which leaves him as many
as ffty-one wives who are not
widoWsi
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the most popular among the Germans of
our English authors. A German pub
of DR.. Doyle's Hound of the Basker-
yllles,. which ought to put the author s
reputation still an arch higher among
the Germans.
a valuable reference book upon art ard
artists has just been issued by Messrs
Herbert S. Stone & Co, under the fitI@
Painters Since Leonard . The book is
WTllteh by James William Pattison, who
has been for many years class lecturer
at the Art institute of Chicago. and art
critic Of the Chicago Evening Journal.
The Macmillan company has issued a
list OF books for summer reading. 1t in
cludes Winton Churchilrs The Cross
ing Maurice HewIett's THE Queens
GUAR" Mrs Florence Morse Kingsley's
uel Merwin's The Merry Anne" Mar
garet Horton Potters "The Flame
and The Woman Grant
It is said that members of the Penn
sylvania Dutch sects who felt that they
We're to be somewhat satirized in Mrs.
Martins 'Tillie: Mennonite Maid, -
or to put it forth in a way that would
be more comforting to their amour
propre. Certainly ''Tillie'' will not be
apt to make converts for these odd re-
ligionists, but those who know say that
Mrs. Martin has painted a very true pic
ture.
The Magma Charta Of Japan a hap
July Century by Baron Kentaro Kaneko
one of the four authors of the Japanese
constitution. Baron kaneko is a Har-
member of Japan's House of Peers and
was formerly minister of state for agri-
culture and commerce He is in America
now as the envoy of the Japanese en-
perOr.
The latest volume in Frank c. Car
penter's series of Geographical Readers is
Australia. Our Colonies and other Is
dc Of ha Ca0f It'll
American Book Co. 1t describes Austria
liza and the chief islands of the world,
have become colonies or dependencies Of
the United States. The illustrations are
taken by the author. Fifteen coIored
maps show plainly all the countries visit
ed.
The July Delineator is a magazine of
mer fashions is complete, the - fiction
bright and entertaining, the special arti-
cles clever and Informative, and the num-
Der is rounded out by a series of prac-
teal papers on domestic topics. In flc-
ton, interest centers in Mrs Hugh Fra
Giver of Honor" although The Rebel
lion of William Henry by Herminie
both its keen humor and its genuine sym
pathy with boy nature. The story of
Knight in the Pioneer Women series,
is a recital of interest, and presents a
vivid picture of the hardShips and diff
culties that beset the conquerors of the
west. Egypt, Arabia and the Holy Land
are seen through the camera in the
course of the unique trip Around the
World in Eighty Pictures and in The
Fountain OF Youth DR.. Grace Peckham
Murray supplies instructions for tho
treatment of the hair that win be ap-
preciated by any one who cares for beau
ty- sympathetic paper on Generosity,
by Lille Hamilton French, and one on
Childhood by Mrs. Theodore W. Birney
contain food for thought, and there are
4safa hTTi1
in a Modern Southern Home. illustrated
and described. For young people, there
are entertaining stories and pastimeS and
for needleworkers and householders pa ges
of useful information.
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Championship IN viIIainv.

In Germany there is no more IA
nous actor of villains than Herr LJ-
dovic Barnay, who has recently pub
nshed his memoirs. And in this con-
nection it is proved that Herr Barnay
is the holder of a unique record. That
vice might fail in the end and virtue
triumph, and the final curtain descend
on the fair music of a gallery's hearty
congratulations and best wishes. the
German Abindgon is "alive to tell the
tale" that he has performed no less
than 1920 death scenes! According
to his recently published memoirs, the
classification table of his wholesale
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Sued hr His Doctor.

"a doctor here has sued me for sl2 80.
which I claimed was excessive for case
Of cholera morbus, says r White OF
Coachella, Cal. AT the trial he praised
his medical skill land medicine. I asked
him If it was not Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy he used
as had good reason to believe it was.
and he would not say under oath that ii
was not" No doctor could use a better
remedy than this in case Of cholera
morbus; it never fails. Sold by all drug
gists.
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1t has been noted that Conan Doyle is
the most popular. among the Germans OF
our our E4IlgIsh authors A German pub
OF DR.. Doyle's Hound of the Basker-
Yllles, which ought to put the authors
the Germans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-18

a valuable reference book upon art ard
artists has just been issued by Messrs
Painters Since Leonard The book is
written by James William Pattison who
has been for many years class lecturer
at the Art institute Of Chicago, and art
critic of the Chicago Evening Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-18

Living at an out of the way place. re-
mote from civilization, a family is often
driven to desperation in case Of accident
resulting in burns. cuts, wounds, ulcers
etc Lay in a supply of Bucklen's Arnfca
Salve. It is the best on earth 25c at Arm
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and influence ces draw upon that vitality.
The greater the amount of vitality
made, and the lie IS uselessly expended,
the more will there remain to be eX-
pended in the ch ,osen work of the lndl-
vidual.
The whole matt er may be reduced to
q very simole ed ucation. Let us sup
pose the amount vitality generated
by the body 10 be one hundred per cent.
III moving about, in digestion, respira-
ton, etc, one uses up, we Will say,
eighty per cent. Of this vitality, when
is, SO to speak. his nervous capital.
This lea YES twenty per cent. which he
can devote to his chosen work. Such
condi lion of thirgs means physio,
logical oalance-that is, health. But
what if he devofes to work more than
twenty per cent. Of the vitality made
by the body-in other words, if he
overwcrks? In the case of man who
eXpends in his daily work vitality
equal to thirty per cent of that made
there is left for the bodily functions
only seventy instead of the eighty pei
cent. which they need. The vitality
making orgali Is deprived of ten per cent
of the motiv power needed for theil
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Can DO Good Work on BUILDINGS ?

think so. l will name u few of the best
buildings have worked on or built, and II
you are judge of such work, will ask you to
60 look at these buildings and com pare them
with some of the buildings l did not build.
worked on the United States Court House
and Post Office building, Raleigh, n. c.. cost
S5O0.000. Also residence of DR.. Hawkings
Raleigh, cost s35, 900. superintended the res.
licences OF Mr.. A. W Jones, DR.. s. g. Thorn.
sons Mr.. c. d. Browns, Messrs A. Nj. Hill q
Sons stables, and was foreman on the Eureks
Hotel until it reached the top Of the top o.
the first story. l had nothing to do with this
building after that.
1 worked last year on the finishing up OF the
hotel at Mt. Airy, Ga, which cost about 500,
700. 1 built Agricultural Hall and granC
stand at Athens. Also put In glass from
clothing store at Athens, have also worke eC
on some OF the best build ings at Columbi,
and Anderson, etc.
B. X. Beacham, Builder.
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Nervous Capital Used Up.

Vitality is the available working en-
ergy of the body; it is to the body what
steam is to locomotive. Between the
human body and the locomotive there
is, in many respects, perfect analogy.
The locomotive is merely mechanism
by means of which the energy latent,
or stored up, in coal and air and water
may he converted into energy exhibited
as heat and work. Now, the human
body like a locomotive. is mechanism
for the conversion of energy. Food
and air and water contain stored-up
energy. This energy, latent in the
food, air and water, is converted by the
human body into energy manifested
as heat and work. Exactly as the
power of the steam. engine depends
upon the amount of energy it can pro-
duce from its fuel, so the power of the
man depends upon the amount OF
energy he can produce from his food
That is to say, vitality" as applied tC
a man corresponds exactly to " horse
power" as applied to a steam-engine.
The body, then, acting upon food and
air and water, produces. Certain acts
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Award of Sewerage Contract.

The Sewerage Comissioners on Saturday
the 18th inst. awarded the contractor the
construction OF the system Of sewerage to Mr.
Frederick Minshall Of this city.
Bids for the construction of the work were
advertised for to be opeaed on the 10th, and
after canvassing the bids 1t was found tha
the appropriation for the work would mo-
meet the work laid out, and all bids were re
jected on that date. and on the 18th the Board
gave the work to Mr.. Mlnshall after making
some changes In the plans
Mr. Minshell is now engaged In getting
ready to start the work, and by the first OF the
coming week will have the construction un
der way, it being his intention to make
start about Wednesday or Thursday of this
week. All material for the work has been
ordered and much of it is on the way now
Mr.. Minshals Superintendent and Chief
Engineer, Mr.. Ed. Hawes, Is now on the
ground and within day or 80 verything WILL
be In full blast, and 1t is the expectation OF
Mr. Minshall to have the work completed
within three months, so that the opportunity
will be afforded all to make their connection
to the system OF sewers before the. Fall Wea'
ther begins.
The work, as outlined, will cover the entire
city and we think that the city is fortunate IN
getting such large amount Of work done for
the money appropriated, when 1t is consider
ed that Anderson's u miles cost her about
$4,000, Newberry's six miles cost about s2SOOO
while the eight miles here will cost only
about $4,000, and Mr.. Minshall also built
eleven miles Of sewers and built two sewage
disposal plants at Greenwood for $4,000.
These facts indicate that the city is FORUM
ate In securing the services OF Mr.. Minshall In
the preparation Of the plans and specifca-
tions and in the work OF construction Of the
work complete as we'll. He has performed
considerable work in this State. all OF which
has been most satisfactory, and he has also
been engaged in almost every state east ofthe
Mississippi River, in municipal works of va
rious kinds, and for these reasons the success
ofthe enterprise Is assured.
A great many of the people here are anx-
ious that the work be completed as early as
possible, in order that they might make the
connections to the sewers and have the
plumbing completed In their residences be-
fore the winter sets in, and from the activity
displayed thus far, 1t would seem that the
work will be completed al an early date.
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The Peoples Savings Bank.

The Peoples Saving Bank is now open and
ready for business. The Office is on the cor
ner where Mr.. Jones F. M iller did business
for many years. A wonderful change has
been wrought In the building, and IT has
been 30 arranged and beautified that 1t Is ad-
mirably fitted for the purpose OF bank.
The officers, with ready csssh, are ready to
serve the public to whatever may be needed
In the line of greenbacks.
The capital stock is to be SIS, 600, q large part
Of which has already been paid in. DR.. s. g.
Thomson is President. Mr.. r. E. Cox is
Cashier.
And 30 1t Is. that Abbeville has one more
enterprise to be numbered among those al
ready established. The banks are not fight
ing each other, but each one for itself is seek.
ing public favor, and the business Of the
community will prove the necessity for hav-
ing three banks.
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Culture of Begonias.

Most varieties of begonia like sol
made up largely of leaf-mold and sand,
but thrive we'll in ordinary garden soil
if fairly light. Good drainages must
be provided, for nothing damages 8
beronia sooner than a soil too retentive
of moisture, causing the foliage to drop.
Add at least one-quarter sharp, coarse
sand to the leat-mold used for these
plants. In such a compost they Will
flourish luxuriantly, if kept out OF
strong, hot sunshine. They require
plenty of light, but not the direct rays
of the sun.
In window culture water may be
freely applied to the foliage OF the
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work, produce less then the one hun
dred per cent. needed by the body as a
whole--ay ninty per cent. Ofthis min,
ty per cent, thirty is being consumed
by the daily work, leaving for the
motive power of the organs only
sixty per cent. instead of the
eighty required. That is to say,
the organs which produce vitality need
vitality for their motive power. If
this motive power be deficient, they
will make less and less vitality until
the zero-mark is reached. This zero
mark means insanity, nervous prostra-
ton, or, at the very least, such low
ering of the vital resistance that the
body falls a prey to some wasting dis
ease. Occasionally, the enforced rest
enioined by the disorder affords the
vitality-making organs a change to
"catch up" Usually, however, the
illness is fatal, owing to lack Of consti'
tutional strength. Few people, save
those who have suffered from it, have
any idea of the horrors of nervous
prostraton. Few people realize that
the causation of nervous prostration
may be expressed by simple formula,
as explained abOve.-Success.
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The Verb and the Proposition.

English is said to be one of the most
difficult languages in the world for a
foreigner to learn. The verb and prepo-
sitions are particularly puzzling. A
professor in Columbia School of Mines
tells of the trouble of Frenchmap
with the verb "to break.n
II begin to understand your lang
uage BETTER" said my French friend,
M. De Beauvoir, to me, "but your
verbs trouble me still. You mix them
up 80 with prepositions.n
II saw your friend, Mrs. Berky,
just now," he continues. "She says
she intends to break down her school
earlier than usual. Am right there?''
Break up her school, she must have
said"
,"Oh, yes; remember; break up hel
school,"
why does she do that?" I asked.
because her health is broken into.'
Broken down."
Broken down? Oh, yes. And, in
deed, since fever has broken up in bel
town"
"Broken out.n
"She thinks she will leave it for 8
few weeks"
will she leave her house alone?"
"No; she is afraid it will be broker
-broken-how do I say that?"-
Broken into"
"Certainly; it is what I meant te
say"
"Is her son to be married soon?"
No; that engagement is broken
broken"
"Broken off,"
"Yes broken off,"
"Ah, I had not heard that"
"She is very sorry about it. Hel
son only broke the news down to hel
last week. Am fright? lam anXiou.
to speak English WELL"
He merely broke the news; NJ
proposition this time"
ut is hard to understand. Tha
young man, her son,s is a fine younl
fellow-a breaker, think?
A broker and fine fellow. Good
dayw
So much for the verb "break. %
Philadelphia Ledger.
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The Literary Club had pleasant meeting
last Friday evening at the home Of Mr.. A. B
Morse.