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Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
New Method of Teaching Music Beginners

systematically trained; a great deal of
systematic instruction about music itself is
given, the elements of harmony are taught,
even TO the youngest. and the whole course
to the higher ranks of performers is made
as smooth as possible. About twenty weeks
is the course prescribed for the beginners
before they are called on to do any practice
at the instrument, though at the end of that
time they play all the major and minor
scales, chords and cadences, play simple
exercises and transpose into any key.
Even though they can not play Mozart
sonata, they nave a better start in music
than the average grown-up. and can under
stand and appreciate music, as they could
not in years of study at the instrument.
A school for teaching this method has
been opened at the Chambers academy
and is attracting much attention among
teachers and students.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
officers of the Railway Mail Association

eleven divisions and this. the Sixth divi-
sion, is composed OF the states OF Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and the Black
Hills district of South Dakota. In this d.
vision there are LOO clerks. travelling over
5000 miles OF railroad, which extends from
Chicago on the east to Ogden on the west
and from Kansas City on the south to Bill
lings, Mont, on the north. The Railway
Mail association, like the railway mail
service. has eleven division organizations
which, taken together, form the national
association. The Sixth Division association
has over 1850 members, who pay into the
national organization annually, Through
Treasurer Long, the sum OF 81, $50. This
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

such an answer would not be the answer
apparently expected to the question To
say it was a property of matter would
be not much more Ineligible than to say
the same of gravitation. At best it would
add another property to the list of prop
critics we already credit 1t with. as elias
ITCHY. attraction and so on. In any case
the nature of electricity remains to be
discovered and stated in terms common to
other forms Of phenomena, and 1t is to be
hoped that long before this new century
shall have been completed mankind will be
able to form as adequate an idea OF cleo
tricity as it now has of heat" Prof. Dol
bear intimates in his article the belief that
the field of investigation and research re-
mains as large and fruitful as it has ever
been.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

large payment is required because the as
ISOLATION furnishes its members with ac-
cident insurance, indemnifying both for ac-
cidental injury and accidental death
Mr.. Morley is also a member Of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the national body and
went recently to Cincinnati to attend the
fourteenth annual convention. He was
accompanied by the following named dele
gates. who represented the Sixth division
in the convention: Messrs. w. II. Riddell,
Dekalb, Ill.; r. E. Erwin, Omaha; G. IL.
Perry, Cedar Rapids, Ia; ]. G. Piper, Bur-
lington, Ia; II. L. Senseman, Chicago, and
D. X. Walker, Kankakee, Ill.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

The first railroad In Corea was built by
Americans. 1t runs from the port of Che
mulpo on the west coast twenty-six miles
inland to Seoul the capital. The conces-
sion for this was secured in the latter part
OF the nineties by James r. Morse, and the
road was built by Cochran and Bostwicx
American materials and American rolling
stock were used. As soon as the road was
completed II was sold to the Japanese, and
1t is now a part OF the Seoul Fusan system
1 understand that a road will be built from
Seoul TO Gensan. on the opposite side of the
peninsula, but whether this will be done by
the seoul-Fusan company / do not know
have Travelled considerably in Corea
and know something OF it's old means Of
transportation. When l first visited the
country, sixteen years ago. there was no
way of getting from Fusan to Seoul ex-
cept by ponies or by porters. and it would
have taken two or three weeks TO have
made the trip. 1t can now be made in less
than q day. I then landed at Fusan and
sailed around to Chemulpo. 1t took whole
day to go from Chemulpo TO Seoul, dis
lance of twenty-six miles, and It is my re-
membrance tina the cost was S25. I had
my wife with me and we were carried over
the mountains in chairs with eight men to
each chair, or sixteen in all. The trip can
now be made at low cost, in a little more
than an hour, and that in comfortable cars.
My next trip to Chemulpo was just be-
fore the Chinese-Japanese war. when the
peninsula was torn by rebellion. then
went to Seoul up the Han river in little
Japanese steam launch, and was carried
from the river to the city in chair. Leav-
ing Seoul 1 made my way over the noun
tains OF Corea to the port OF Gensan. on
the east coast, along about the same route
that railroad will have to take in cross
ing the peninsula. The distance is 175
miles. and it cost me between one and two
hundred thousand cash, or, in American
money. about 800. l had to equip a pack
train and carry a guide, a cook and food
and bedding 1t took about a week to go
from one place to the other. With the new
railroad the trip will be made in less than
a day.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

Corea will probably be under the manage
ment of the Japanese. Indeed, j believe il
is practically so now. During the war the
telegraph system has been rapidly pushed
and there are now more than 1000 miles of
line. There are cables from Fusan to Japan
and all the open ports and mines are in
Geographic communication with Seoul. The
different Corean lines connect with the diff
ferent Chinese telegraph systems so that
one can send messages to Corea from any
part of the world. kilograms are received
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

We own the Gold Mines.
The best of the gold mines of Corea are
owned by Americans. The concession for
them was gotten by Mr. James r. Morse
some years ago and transferred by him to
Mr.. Leigh Hunt, formerly OF Seattle, who
organized a company for their develop
ment This company is now known as the
Oriental Consolidated Mining company and
II has been one Of the profitable gold prop
critics of the world. It's concession ems
braces a district Just about half as large
as the state Of Rhode Island in the noun
tains Of northwestern Corea. Gold is scat
tered throughout this district and there Is
now more than 100000 worth of ore in
sight The company is taking about 81 $780,
900 annually out OF it's mines. producing
this from something like 10000 tons of ore.
1t has the busiest institution in Corea, and
that which is most up-to-date in all its
workings II uses the best of modern ma
chlnery and is now operating five mills,
with 200 stamps 1t employs altogether
about seventy white men and several thou
sand Asiaics The Corean miners are
said to be entirely satisfactory. They work
for 20 or 30 cents day and are easily man
aged.
In this vicinity the British and Germans
have mining concessions and the natives
have been mining there for many years.
In 1894 I saw specimens OF gold that came
from northern Corea. They were carried
about in quilts and used as money in MAX
ing purchases with the merchants. The
king then had a monopoly of the gold
mines, and he had a great deal of gold I'm
nuggets and dust in his palace. He paid
some Of his bills for foreign purchases in
this way, the gold being sent to the Japa-
nese minis for assay and valuation and
the proper amount then credited on the
bills
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

is now evaded by course which gives the
pupil a thorough preliminary training with
out the drudgery at the keyboard and sends
him to the instrument fitted to enjoy and
appreciate it's beauties almost at once. 1t
is not claimed that the new system, fits the
pupil to perform any of the greater COM
positions at first; that must be learned, as
always, by long practice, but the new plan
does make it easier for himNto learn.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Japanese Shipping.

The Japanese expeG; to improve the ship
ping facilities. The shores of the peninsula
are dangerous. there being many sunken
rocks. 1t is planned to build a string of
lighthouses about the coast, and this work
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

auctions as conditions or their franchises
The New York Telephone Company now
holds monopoly of the business and col
lects top-notch tolls. The companies wish
ing to compete are the Atlantic Telephone,
the Star Telephone, the Commonwealth
Telephone and the Manhattan and Bronx
Telephone and Teleautograph. The At
iantfc is the most feared by the monopoly,
as it is affiliated with the syndicate headed
by w. d. Powers of Louisville, which has
been building independent telephone lines in
many of the best paying territories of the
country.
The Commonwealth company also has
been building many new lines in New Jer-
sey, Delaware. Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania.
It is believed that there is a link he
tween these independent companies and
their applications are a part Of a concerted
fight on the Bell company in Greater New
York. the best paying telephone territory
in the world All the independent COM
panies promise a 5-cents-a-call rate in the
confines OF any borough, as against the
Decent rate Of the New York Telephone
Company They also promise a Decent call
rate between boroughs, whereas the present
rates range from 10 to % cents,
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Electricity I'm the Household.

Everybody knows more or less about cleo
tricity as applied to the big public utili-
ties but acquaintance with the many uses
of the fluid to make domestic living
more comfortable is still confined largely
to the individual users. How many persons
know, for example, that a man may go on
a journey with stove in his trunk? Such
is the fact, however, and the stove, to-
gether with cup that will hold three and
a half plnts of water, may be packed away
in something less than the space needed
for pair of shoes. The little stove looks
like a plain iron disk, but inside of it are
the wires that generate heat whenever it
is connected with an electric light fixture.
And this heat is without fame, and, there
fore, much safer than an alcohol burner.
1t provides him with hot water for shaving.
bathing or drinking-if he happens to be
one of the good-sized army of men who
find that good digestion waits on a regu-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

things in the hermit kingdom Americans
have done more for il than the people OF
any other nation. 1t was our naval vcs-
sells which first unlocked its doors TO the
world, and our missionaries govc Il tho
first taste Of western civilization and OF the
Christian religion. our traders were among
the first importers. and our capitalists built
the first railroad Americans now own
most Of the valuable gold mines and are
developing them. The electric railway OF
Seoul belongs to Americans. and It's electric
light company is an American institution.
1t Is the Same with the Seoul water works
and also with the national bank, the char
ter Of which was given TO an American.
There are now 2i0 Americans In Corea,
OF these leo live in Seoul, siNty-tive are
working i'm the gold mines at Unsan, thirty
four live I'm Pingyang and ten are associ-
ated with the railroads Five Americans
are in the service Of the Corean govern
ment and the confidential foreign adviser
OF the king on the part OF the Japanese IL
also an American. The man who has done
more than any other for western civiliza-
ton i'm Corea, more TO render the life OF
foreigners safe there and more to advance
the interests OF the United states is DIR.
Horace N Allen, our former minister to
Seoul. who has. j regret to say, recently
given up his work there and returned to
the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

to the presidency and c. r. Long of Coun-
Gil Bluffs was chosen ecretary-treasurer
Mr.. Worley is clerk in the railway mail
service and runs in the Omaha and Ogden
railway postofhce over the Union Pacific
between Omaha and Cheyenne. Mr.. Long
is clerk in the same service and runs in
the Chicago and Council Bluffs railway
postofice over the Burlington route be-
tween Chicago and Council Bluffs.
The railway mail service is divided into
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

The piano is approached by easy
gradations. Before the students go to the
piano to practice they are taught to read
all over the grand stan and the added lines,
and are able to calculate note values.
nigh as the 1-12Sth notes. The hands are
shaped, the wrists made loose. and the
proper action is given to the fingers. The
memory and the ear are thoroughly and
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

I THE fifteenth annual convention
OF the Sixth Division Railway
Mail association held recently in
Lincoln an Omaha man. G. H.
Worley. was honored by eleetion
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Composition in Telephones.

DUR separate and well-finaHced
telephone companies are knocking
for admission on the door of
Greater New York and are prom
Using sweeping reforms and re-
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Now Money Srnten.

Now MOHey SyhIems
One OF the first things the Japanese will
do will be to reorganize the money and
banking system of Corea. The financial
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

In Chinese Japanese or Corean. They are
sent by the Morse code. There are now
telephones from Seoul to Chemulpo and a
telephone system will probably be extended
to all the large cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22


The railroad from Fusan to the Yalu will
be the great trunk line of Corea. 1t will
tap the largest cities and will open up the
whole of the western and southern parts Of
the island. l understand that the Japa-
nese have bought large tracts OF land here
and there along It, and that they will es-
tablish colonies. There are already thou
sands OF Japanese in Fusan and Seoul and
from now on the ships will be full Of immi-
grants.
This railroad will altogether be about
800 miles long. The Seoul-Fusan end is
Of the standard American gauge. It is
largely equipped with American rails and
the bridge work is American. II has Amer
lean locomotives and other American roll
ing stock.
The line from Seoul to the Yalu was
started as a private enterprise. but the
japanese government took charge of 1t
during the war and completed 1t in SLOW
emily military way. The result is that the
rails are too light for a trunk line and
the bridges are wooden. The track will
have to be reaid and it will take some
time to put it in commercial working
order.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
How Corea Will Be Modeized by Its New Japanese Masters

system OF Japan will be adopted gov
eminent bank viii probably be established
ct Seoul, and the currency placed on a gold
basis.
At present the Corean money Is Of all
kinds. There are silver dollars nickels,
copper coins and copper cash. Many Of the
nicliels were made by the Corean govern
ment. but others have been manufactured
by private parties, under permits from the
government; so that one cannot tell where
the coins come from. Counterfeiting is COM
mon. and there are altogether about TWEEN
ty-six different varieties OF nickels I'm cir
cnlation. each supposed to be worth 2k
cents. and most Of them bad. As result
the people are afraid OF these coins and the
time has been when it would take 10
nickels TO equal the value Of an American
dollar The silver coins are the japanese
ven the half-dollars, or half-yen, and the
10 and 90-sen pieces.
Copper cash is still in use in out Of the
way places. II takes 1000 or 1900 of these
20 equal n dollar OF our money, the values
rising and falling. During my stay in the
country all accounts for small things had to
be paid I'm these CASH When | went ont
shopping took a servant with me to carry
my money and on my trips through the in
terror we had porter who was loaded
down with such stuff. Indeed, $50 worth
OF cash is a good-sized burden for a mule.
Each cash has a hole in it, in order that 1t
may be strung with its fellows upon strings
for ease in counting and carrying.
-
Paper Money and banking.
There is now considerable Japanese paper
money In circulation in Cerea The notes
OF the chief japanese banks are worth par
and about 100000 paper yen are scattered
over the country. They are generally used
by the foreigners and are the chief cur
rency for large transactions.
Banking in Corea is practically confined to
the japanese. The Ichi-Ginko or First
Bank of Japan has an establishment in
Seoul and branches at all the treaty ports
and so has the Nippon Kinko or the Bank
of Japan. The First bank has had its
branches on the peninsula for more than
ten years. remember there was one at
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Nature oil EIectricItr.

Dealing with the science problems OF the
twentieth century in the Popular Science
Monthly Prof A., E. Dolbear says concern
ing the all+embracins mystery of electri-
city:
fury we are confronted with the question,
What is electricity and the answer i'm
piled by the question seems to demand a
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
Japan win GobbIe the Trade.


japan has already the bulk of the Corean
trade. and under the new regime It will
have more than ever Coreas foreign COM
merce amounts to about S1SOOO.OOO a year,
1t is steadily increasing and will probably
double and triple within a decade or so.
Much Of the goods that we send to Corea
goes through Japanese hands and is classed
as Japanese. We send a great deal OF
cotton goods and We supply most of the coal
OIL The Standard Oil company has storage
warehouses at Chemulpo and Fusan. and il
ship two or three million gallons OF oil to
them every year. Our chief competitors in
this line are the Russians, but their oil
congeals in the winter, and, although they
undersell u.s. we do the most business. Our
cottons are popular in Corea. They are
stronger and heavier than the goods made
by the Japanese or British; and, although
more costly. are in general demand. Every
man, woman and child of Corea wears
cotton. The men have long gowns, and the
amount of clothes per capita is greater per-
haps than that OF any other country.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

@1Ow best to impart the rudimentary
instruction in music has puzzled
those who follow the study for
Ift4&I many years. The old-fashioned
methods were laborious and tedi-
Gus and lacked in the essential element,
that they did not early impress the child
ish mind with the importance of the funda-
mentals. One natural effect of this was
that the drudgery destroyed the interest.
and much was lost TO the cause of music
because the beginner was turned away
from its beauties by the difficulty of the
approach. 1t has been the effort Of the best
thinkers to devise some means whereby
this could be avoided and a solid founda-
ton Tor a musical understanding be laid
without the tiresome routine that so often
gave the child an aversion rather than a
love for the beautiful art As relates to
the piano much If not all OF this difficulty
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

New TeIeGraphs and Telephones.
The postal and telegraph systems Of
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

will probably he begun at once. AS Il is
now, the Japanese do most OF the carrying
trade. The Shosen Kaisha has frequent
steamers between Corea and Japan, and
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has a regular
service between China, japan and Corea.
There is an American in. Corea who owns a
fine little vessel which suils from Kobe aud
Osaka in Japan to the various ports Of
Corea. His ship flies the American fiag 1t
is called the Ohio, and is noted for its eX-
cellent passenger accommodations. The
American Gold Mining company has also
some small ships at Chenampo which sail
under the American flag. The Hamburg
American line runs German steamers be-
tween Chemulpo and Shanghai.
Now that the war is over Japanese iunks
may be put on the Hnlu river. This stream
is about 800 miles long and it can be navi-
gated by native craft as far as Shinkuihuo,
although steamers now stop at Antung.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

Gensan when reached there after my trip
across the mountains from Seoul in 1894
was out of money and asked them to cash
a draft on my letter of credit They re-
fused The result was that 1 had to wait
until ] reached Vladivostok, Siberia, the
japanese Steamship company kindly trust
ing me for my passage from Gensan to that
port.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22
0cOpyrIeht lao5. by Frank @. carpehter.l

Copyright. 1905. by Frank @. Carpehter)
E7AsHINGToN, D. c.. oct. is.-Cspe-
wv cial Correspondence Of The Bee)
The second article Of the Rus
k3f1H sian-Japanese treaty practically
49, gives Corea to Japan. Il stipu-
lates that Russia must keep its hands OF
ana that the mikado viii do as he pleases
without let or hindrance The king of
Corea is already under the thumb OF the
japanese emperor. and this treaty means
the JaPanization Of the hermit Kingdom.
Japanization means dissemination or as
we call II, civilization.
The modern movement has already he
gun. The japanese have been building
railroads. during the war. They have
completed the line from Fusan, the port at
the lower end Of the peninsula just across
the strait from Japan. to Seoul. and have
extended this line on north to the Yalu
river at Wuji. Within a short time ii bridge
will be put across the Yalu, and the line
extended on TO Mukden to connect with the
new japanese railroads which have been
transferred to them by the Russians. When
the Mukden-Yalu line is built there will be
a continuous railroad track from ST.
Petersburg to Fusan, and one can go by
land from Paris to Fusan and, with only
few hours steamship voyage, on to
Japan.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

the electric oven has become extremely pop
ular. The advantage Of the electric oven is
that 1t heats up quickly and maintains
perfectly uniform heat Or in this same
partly electrified household one may find
that an electric lighter, with small port
able battery, is being used TO light the gas
or that small electrical searchlight is TAX
ing the place of any other form Of illumina-
ton when the mistress of the house wishes
to find something way back in the pantry
or linen closet. Clocks also are now made
to keep time by electricity and the smallest
member of the family may likewise thank
Benjamine Franklin for discovering a SUBJ
stance that warns the milk bottle almost
quicker than one can get thirsty, to say
nothing OF providing a remarkably neat
and comfortable substitute for the old
fashioned hot water bag.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-22

Americans I'm COrea.
We ought to have monopoly of most
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Protected by
Block Signals

The first railway in America TO adopt the absolute
System in the operation of all trains was the
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Give a tree to Cemetery AS
ISOLATION. Its a good cause,
your assistance.

Judge w. w. Gatewood was repor-
ted to be some better today. but he
is still confined to his bed.
One-third off on Ladies' Waist Sets
and Hat Pins. Monday, March Is, at
L. B. Boellner, the jeweler. 1t
]. T. Fuller came in last night from
Fort Worth fer an extended visit He
may decide t o locate in Roswell.
C. H. Mcknight left this morning
for his home in Wichita after a visit
with business friends in this city.
A chance to get a Waist Set or Hat
Pin cheap, one-third off Monday. Mar
Is, at L. B. B~oellner, the jeweler.
One-third off on Ladies' Hat Pins
and Shirt Waist Sets Monday. March
13, at L. B. B~oellner. the jeweler.
C. O.. Riggs. of weatherby. Mo-,
went to Aretsia asst night after q
short prospecting visit in Roswell.
l.. E. Binkley, of Tunewell. Ill.
left last night for Artesia. He had
been here a few days sightseeing.
]. c. Idlor, of Artesia, spent yester-
day in the big town Of the Pecos Val
ley, returning to his home last night
H. B.. Terry, of Fort Scott, Kansas
came in yesterday to o owe the
situation, and may locate in Roswell
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Richards. Of
Springeld, Mass, who arrived il
town Wednesday nave gone to L
Mora ranch for a two weeks visit will
their friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. d
Reyes.
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First M. e Church.

Services every Sunday in the Odd
Fellows Hall the first stairway south
Of the Grand Central.
Sunday school, GAS a. m.
Sermon, HOO a. m.
Epworth League, $50 D. M.
Sermon, 7:30 D. n.
Our usual cordial invitation extend
VIM. REACE, Pastor.