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an establishment of her own; for the
rules of the Paris apportement are
enough to dfspel the Illusion OF the
Partisan milieu.
In the Rue Ribera Is the Berthelot in
stitute, the principal of which Is Ma
dame Leon BertheIot. formerly Lily
Beers of New York, a brilliant graduate
of vassar. She has lived in Paris more
than half of her. life and is the widow
of French gentleman. Her two sons
were born in Paris, yet she under
stands the American girl. In her beau
of guests as pupils in winter, giving
mosphere with a splendid corps of
for travellers abroad at 25 francs a day,
conversation included Think OF It..
And there one meets the very best peo-
pie, French and American. and you are
surrounded with an atmosphere con-
ducive to a perfect mastery OF the
elusive French verb and idiom, while
talents are developing and the indoor
life running smoothly. Ones time goes
happily in the gay French metropolis
One Of the great delights OF student
life In Berlin was the Sunday morning
probe" of the Philharmonic concerts
under Nikisch. The doors were opened
at II o'clock, one hour before the con-
cert began. and all seats were the same
'price-two marks; first come. arst
served. There was always great
rush for the front seats as soon as the
doors were open and in the interim
students ehattsd. read or studied or
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to the back Of the beautiful old church
instead. And away up on the Rue de
Rivoli, where, after you leave the fash
ionable part, there are lots OF AttIe
shops and whether you buy q game OF
"diabolo," face veil or powder or
cream, you stop for q cup of tea;
everything is good and cheap. You get
tea and biscuits (you never say crack
ers abroad) for go centimes," "thrip-
pence" six cents. Did you ever wander
that far, or only stop at the Louvre? If
you haven't yet. next time go on. And
the afternoon cup OF tea means so
much to our students. enjoyed 1t with
bunch" of them last fall in the gar
den OF the American Students club in
the Rue Chevreuse In the Latin quar-
ter. This club was organized by our
own Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Good board
and a comfortable room can be had for
take a room near by and go in occa-
sionally to meals. Alas! the o'clock
cup Of tea, with its liberal accompani-
ment of thin buttered bread and biscuit,
is often the heartiest meal for many an
American girl who comes but too poor
ly equipped as to funds. This club was
the outcome OF an appeal In which this
sad fact was plainly stated.
There Is today another home for
Americans, or, to be exact. three charf-
ties founded by one woman, Mrs. John
Jacob Hoff, who before marriage, as
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watched the audience satner- 1T was
always "sehr gemutlich" in the old
Philharmonic saal and the students
loved to gather within those walls.
They had the same programs and SOLO
lists that they had for the regular con-
cert on the following Monday evening.
Practiced Too Much
Some of the trials of the music stu
dents life are the selection OF PEN
sion on locating oneself for the win
ter. Some OF the big apartment houses
viii not take music students at all.
and indeed one cannot blame them. A
friend told OF a '.court wohnung' where
he lived for time with a German
family. The walls were thin and so
were the floors and ceilings. He had a
concert grand piano which rested on
the bare floor. One day he was prac-
ticing the beautiful, poetic Schumann
concerto when suddenly there was a
terrible crash and clatter above. as
though all the kitchen utensils had
been dropped on the floor at once.
Imagine the effect OF the sublime mu-
sic poem with such an accompaniment
This was only beginning. They ham
mered on the walls. shouted. pounded
on the floors until. in desperation, he
had to move.
There was more than one instance of
where a young man commencing to
practice was signal for all the peo-
pie in the surrounding wohnungs to
gather In the court below and by All
the diabolical noises they could invent.
and with shouting and yelling. try TO
stop him.
The problem of living for music stu
dents in Germany Is a serious one. as
many have very limited means. and
prices have had strong tendency to
rise over there for some years. I have
heard Of students living, board aud
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well as their homes. and often the air
becOmes so sitting that you lose your
enjoyment OF the concert and go into
the open "a with a headache.
But for all that. life there Is most
attractive.
Among the great masters OF modern
times to whom the devotee OF vocal
music makes the foreign pilgrimage il
Reinhold L. -erman. who rarely visits
America. To his charming retreat at
Rapallo on the eastern Italian Riviera.
favorite locality with Mrs. Humphry
Ward. who introduces this beautiful
spot IN her books, 1 journeyed IN July
OF last year TO refresh my repertoire
The only representa- OF San Fran
cisco. was not the only American who
clirabed the hill to the beautiful villa
overlooking the enhancing Mediter-
rane an TO study with this great man
is one OF the privileges OF life. and
YOU kno~s~that after the journeys end
TO the top OF the beautiful hill the
recompense will be great indeed. It is
truly art for arts sake" The pecuni-
airy side is almost out of the reckon
ing. You are given liberal amount OF
time. How different from many Euro
pean teachers with their prohibittve
prices and often questionable results
Passing along the beautiful Riviera you
come to Santa Margarita. Porto Fino.
Chiarirari. Scobra Levante. and in less
than seven hours you are in Rome
A pension good and cheap here is the
Pirri. 5 francs ($1.60) per day
choice one Is Girois. No. Vicolo (littls
street,. San Nicolo di Lolentonf. 10
francs per day. In both Florence and
Rome while many Americans. few Cali
foruia music students just now. though
full OF our own people travelling
favorite pension ror students in Flor
ence Is in the Laurent. third piaro deor
via del Prestoro No. H. about the same
prices as the one quoted in Rome OF
swell and expensive there are many
but our students are not looking for
them. The English tearooms in Rome
and Florence. dances at the dne hotels
Rome and Excelsior in Rome and Sig
merina COnstantine's pension Eden In
Florence are from time TO time graced
by students from here. and in goo&
weather the pretty boats and craft on
the Arno give TO our girls from Cali
fornia many an hour OF pleasure And
so IL goes. There is much to write
about. and have only begun. These
are our own people, some Of whom
saw. OF others I heard I regret that Il
has not been possible to give to all and
every absentee a kind nots and word
OF praise in this paper.
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Tea Shops of Paris

One is sure Of meeting California
friends any afternoon in the numerous
tea shops of Paris. Today not only
England but the whole of Europe rests
for a while and INDUCES in the cup
that cheers but does not inebriate., ),
When abroad / was struck with the
fact that in England every one, from
the coster to the king, stopped for the
afternoon cup of tea. Now the custom
is general, and how delightful the tea
shops of Paris, Meals. OF pioneer
fame, is enlarged and has now
two entrances. one on the Rue
Cambon and one on the Rue de
Rivoli. And then there is the Marl-
CHAM, Rose and Crown
indeed, the Rue cambon is full Of them.
Then who doesn't love Rumpelmayer's
when you want to do 1t UP brown"
and the swell one on Avenue de Top
era near Rue des Pyramides, and the old
and interesting one on dear old Rue du
Bac opposite the Bon Marche. And the
one zen face" OF the Madeleine, where
you always get turned around and go
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Misses Helen Bremuer and sophit
Dink, lspiel. both of san Francisco. the
former a voice the latter piano stu
dent. are making good progress.
Among the men abroad Albert Hoop
er of San Francisco is in Rome, where
he has an apartment and is devoting
his time to musical composition.
william J. Stack. formerly of Stan
ford. late teacher in the Lowell high
school, is home on a visit. accompanied
by Mrs. Stack. lie viii soon return to
Paris TO make his professional debut.
Putnam Grswold is having great
success at the Berlin Royal opera, sing
ing with Maude Fay in the dramas of
the Wagner ring. His voice is a splen-
did basso cantate. He is engaged for
next season at Coyent Garden opera
house, London
Claude Linscott is in Berlin prepar-
ing for an operatic debut.
Alexander T. Stewart has returned
from a seven months tour of Europe.
Much of the time was spent in Eng
land. In London Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart
were entertained at luncheon in the
home of his former teacher Sigmund
Beel. once of San Francisco. Through
the cathedral towns of England, in
Italy, France and Germany, he made a
study of church music Mr.. Stewart is
a violinist of ability and a master of
the literature of music. His wife ac-
companied him on his tour
All Californians are interested in the
debut of Mignon Palmer, the daughter
OF Emma Nevada, on the 18th of last
month at Rome in the Theater Con-
stanzia, in the part of Rosina in ~
Barbiere" Less than 20 years ago her
mother sang in the same opera at this
theater. Her daughters success was
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foonf for so sn~-Ks a month. about SIS.
but they could not get very nourishtng
food nor enough OF IL for that price A
very miserable room. poorly furnished
and badly lighted. commands so marks
a month. The cost or lessons Is quite
feature OF a students expense. as
most of the big teachers charge from
Is to 90 marks lesson. that Is. "a or
IS.
Then. there are numerous other de-
mands on the purse. not the least OF
which is the opera and concerts Dur
ing the season there are sometimes
i've and six concerts every night. many
nights two eor three by celebrated ar
lists, so that it is a question which
you want TO hear the most
The atmosphere in a concert room In
Berlin is delightful. for people listen
seriously and earnestly and II any one
makes the slightest disturbance silence
Is demanded at once by kissing.
The Germans are very negiectful of
ventilation in their concert halls as
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-01

tack the vital organs, causing Catarrh OF
the bladder, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Bladder troubles almost always result
from arrangement of the kidneys and
cure is obtained quickest by a proper
treatment of the kidneys. IF you are feel
ing badly you can make no mistake by
taking DIR. Kil1ner's SWamp-Root, the
great kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
1t corrects inability to hold urine and
scalding pain in passing it, and over
comes that unpleasant necessity of being
compelled to go often through the day,
and to get up many times during the
night. The mild and the extraordinary
effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized.
It stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distressing cases.
Swamp Root is pleasant to take and is
sold by all druggists in hfty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles. You may have a
sample bottle of this wonderful new dis
covery and book that tells all about it,
both sent free by mail. Address, DR.. Kill
ner & Co., Binghanton, N. Y. When
writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper. Don't make any
mistake, but remember the name, Swamp
Root, DIR. Kilmer' Swamp Root, and the
address, Binghamton, N. Y, on every
bottle.
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q Most Valuable Agent.

The glycerfne employed in DIR. Pierce's
medicines greatly enhances the medicinal
properties which it extracts from native
medicinal roots and holds in solution
much better than alcohol would. 1t also
possesses medicinal properties of its own,
being a valuable demulcent, nutritive,
antiseptic and antiferment. It adds
greatly to the efficacy of the Black Cherry
bark, Bloodroot, Golden Seal root, Stone
root and Queens root, contained in
"Golden Medical Discovery " in subduing
chronic, or lingering coughs, bronchial,
throat and lung affections, for all Of which
these agents are recommended by stand
ard medical authorities.
In all cases where there is a wasting
away of flesh, loss of appetite, with weak
stomach, as in the early stages of con-
SUMPTION, there can be no,doubt that gly-
cerine jactS as a valuable nutritiVe and
aids the Golden Seal root. Stone root,
Queeh,s robt and Black Cherrybark in
promoting digestion and building up the
flesh an61strength, controlling the cough
and bringing about healthy condition
of the whSle system OF course. it must
not be expected to work miracles. 1t win
not cure consumption except in its earlier
stages. It will cure very severe. QhStj-
nate. hang-oY. chronic COUGHS. brQnchiaI
and ITTYngeaI troubles. and chronic sore
1t IS not SO ELECTIVE. tits in the lingering
hang-on coughs, or those of long standing,
even when accompanied by bleeding from
lungs, that it has performed its most
marvellous cures Fs.
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, N. D., of Ben
nett Med. College, Chicago, says of gly-
eerine:
SIN dyspepsia it serves an excellentpurpose.
Holding a fixed Quantity of the peroxide of
hydrogen in solution, it, is one of the best
manufactured products OF the present time in
its action upon enfeebled. disordered stOm-
achs, especially if there is liberation or ca
tarrhal gaStritis catarrhal Inflammation of
n q zaf3 3Cfov
Glycerine viii relieve many cases of pyrosis
(heartburn) and excessive gastric tstomachl
ecidity."
"Golden Medical Discovery" enrfches and
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eruptionS scrofulous SwellingS and old sores.
or ulcers.
Send to Dr. R. v. Pierce. of Buffalo. N Y.
Tor free booklet telling all about the native
medicinal roots composing THIS EwondOEe1
medicine There Is no alcohol in 1t
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NEBRASKA NOT CONFIDENT.
Running Through Practice for Car.
Isle in Ragged Fashion.

Lincoln, Neb:, r. Dec. 1.-The pros
poets of the Nebraska Cornhuskers
for a victory i'm Wednesdays gridiron
clash with the Carlisle. Reds, based
upon the practice of the Nebraska
squad are far from f1attering, Coach
Cole drove his men at a stiff prac-
tice clip until dark and then in
troduced the ghost ball, but the work
of the Cornhuskers was too ragged to
lend serious hope that Carlisle may
be beaten.
The freshmen eleven, bucking the
varsity in scrimmage practice, used
the Carlisle formations with telling
results. Quarterback Frank after
catching a punt, raced seventy yards
for a touchdown. The same old
Nebraska weakness in tackIing per-
mitted Franks run Cole then gave
the regulars the ball and three
touchdowns were all the varsity could
achieve in a half hour of fierce
scrimmage. Captain Harvey, Right
Tackle Chaloupka and Right Half
Birkner are nursing injuries and were
kept on the side lines. Unless there
is decided improvement in the Corn
huskers the best in sight for
Nebraska is to hold the Reds to a low
score.
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HAVE A LIVELY SCRAP.
j. Mack Love and Bank Examiner
Marshall Come to Blows.

MARSHALL SOI1c 10 IoAOWS.
Arkansas City, Dec. 1.-The Traveller
says:
Last evening there was bit of ex-
citement for a few moments in the
lobby of the Fifth Avenue hotel. 1t
was brought about by a one round con-
test -you-please between J. Mack
Love and Bank Examiner Marshall,
who has charge of the Citizens and
Farmers State bank. The trouble came
I'D over check, which is said to have
been issued for $3.50 and payable to the
Wells Produce company.
1t is claimed that as attorney of the
Wells company, Mr.. Love wanted the
cash on the check. The bank, on the
instruction of Mr.. Marshall, refused to
cash the check until that official could
ascertain what the rights of the bank
were A tilt over the phone followed.
Last evening Mr.. Marshall was sitting
in the hotel lobby reading, when Mr.
Love entered. Mr.. Marshall spoke to
Mr. Love- but the latter did not return
the salute. On the other hand, he op-
ened upon Marshall, calling him some
bad names and finally assaulted him.
Marshall then attempted to defend him
self and began striking Love over the
head with his cane. The last rap was
a fairly hard one and the cane broke
and the war ended. Mr.. Love repaired
to the wash room and Mr.. Marshall to
Sollitt & Swarts' drug store to buy an
other cane. Mr.. Marshall broke a leg
last July and has never recovered fully
from the injury and is compelled to use
a cane.
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FIGHTS FOR DECEMBER.
Number of Important Battles to Be
Decided the Present Month.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-The last month
of the present year will see number
of important battles decided, the fore
most of which will be, of course. the
heavyweight championship combat of
Tommy Burns and Jack johnson.
Tony Caponf, the Chicago italian who
held Papke to two draws, will meet
Jack Blackburn for ten rounds at
Wheeling on Tuesday, December 1.
Jim Driscoll, the British feather
weight champion, is billed to fight
Grover Hayes six rounds at Phila-
delphia on December 5, and Matty
Baldwin twelve rounds at Boston
three days later. AL Neil and Frank
Mayfield box fifty sessions at Sac
ramento December 4. Jimmy Britt
and Johnny Summers go it for a large
purse in England on the night of
December IA, and the Harry Lewis
Willie Lewis scrap at New Haven is
scheduled for the same date.
Billy Papke and Hugo Kelly mix
matters for twenty-five rounds at
Jeffries' club at Los Angeles on
December Is. The last important
scrap of the year will be that at Los
Angeles in which Jimmy Barry and
AL Kaufman will consume as much of
forty-five rounds as will be necessary
to reach a Knockout. Kaufman has
met no reverses since Jack O'Brien
copped him in his green days
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FOUND LYING UNCONSCIOUS.
Wichita Man Dies i'm Hospital From
Street Fight Result.

Wichita, Kan, Dec. 1.-Geo. w.
Bennett, jr., 21 years of age, died at a
local hospital Monday, the result OF
an assault of a mixed crowd of ne
groes and white men Sunday night.
The affair is shrouded with mystery.
When the officers arrived Bennett was
found lying alone on the sidewalk, un-
conscious, he was removed to the hos
pitaI but did not regain conscious
ness. The police have arrested two
negroes, one of them confessed he
struck Bennett with pair of brass
"knucks" A bruised spot on the back
of Benefits neck is the only mark of
the assault. Physicians say death re-
suited from conclusion of the brain.
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TO SUE CITY OF CHANUTE.
The Parker Amusement Company Will
Ask Damages.

Chanute, Kan, Dec. 1.-The city of
Chanute is soon to be made defendant
in a damage suit. The title of the case
will be c. w. Parker against the city of
Chanute. Mr.. Parker, the plaintiff in
the suit, is the millionaire amusement
manufacturer and Snowman of Abilene.
He is owner of the show property which
appeared in Chanute for two weeks un-
der the name of the Parker Amusement
company.
Mr.. Parker will set out in his petit
ton that his property was damaged
by a, mob between November 1 and 5,
1908, in the corporate limits of the city
of Chanute. oo
It is now claimed that about $500
worth of the Parker property was stolen
and that other property was greatly
damaged, including the burning of one
or two wagons, but no trace had ever
be been found of the property. The fact
that any wagons were burned is dis
credited locally.
locally it is not known whether the
damage was done by mob or a single
nerson. The statute seems to recognize
three or more persons as mob 1t IS
believed that the city did everything
within it's power to avoid any damage
to the property of Mr.. Parker.
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WICHITA Is AFTER 1T.
Expects to Secure the Million Dollar
Woodmen's Sanitarium.

Woodmen's Sanftarium.
Wichita, Kan, Dec. Wichita has
a prospect of landing a big million
dollar home and sanitarium for the
Woodmen of the World.
This big organization has concluded
to locate its national home for de-
pendent Woodmen families in Kansas.
No bonuses will be asked. The only
question considered will be healthful-
ness of site, purity of water supply
and convenience of location. All these
points are declared by prominent
members of the order, who have visit
ed Wichita to be fully met by condi-
tions in this city.
Mr.. J. w. Kaiser, state manager for
Kansas, was in Wichita recently. Dis
cussing the matter of the new home
and sanitarium, he said: This matter
will be finally determined next March
g. at a meeting of the general officers
of the order. There is nothing asked
of any community and no bonus offer
ing would influence. the selection OF a
ready offered $4,000 for the home,
but the national home will go wher-
ever the officers believe the location to
be the most favorable. 1t viii come
to Kansas. Wichita has an excellent
chance for it, ....
Mr.. Kaiser also explained that a
great rally of Woodmen of the World
is to be held in Wichita on December
4. At that time very large class Will
be initiated, and the sovereign com
here to preside over the work. He
will bring with him the famous Sey-
mour guard, the crack Woodmen team,
to do the floor work. This team took
the $4,000 prize for floor work at the
national meeting this year. Mr.: Root,
founder of the Woodmen work in
Tnerica
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LUCKY LEAVENWoRTH WOMAN.
Is Heiress to &. Big Estate, According
to a Visiting Attorney.

10 q visiting Attorney.
Leavenworth, Kan, Dec. 1.-The Post
says:
This morning a young man of shrewd
appearance and carrying small grip
and who represented himself to be an
attorney from the east, visited all the
local barber shops trying to find in
formation concerning one Bovee who
was believed to have worked in local
barber shops at one time. Failing to
get the desired information he produc-
asked one barber if he knew her, stat
ing that she wass sister of the man
he was seeking. The woman was rec
ogniZed as a well known woman living
on Cherokee street near Third, and the
man was directed there.
Later he returned to Tom Judges
shop and told the BARRIERS that the wo-
man was one of the heirs and would
receive a large sum of money. He told
them that the estate which he repre-
sented amounted to probably million
and a half dollars and that this woman
is one of 80 heirs but that her share
might be over $400, 600.
The woman, when interrogated over
the phone, said that it was all news
to her and denied having had any in
terview with lawyer The attorney
was to leave the city this afternoon. A
reporter tried for an hour to locate him
but failed. His grip bearing the name
tsKennedy'' was at Judges shop all af-
ternoon.
Those who talked with the lawyer
saw they believe he really represents
an estate and that the women has
some reason for not wanting to have
the fact of her good fortune known.