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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12

One of the strongest and most noted OPP
ponents of the equal temperament was
Earl Stanhope of England. His position a. !,
scientist gave great weight to his arguments
His system of tuning by perfect fifths hai
much to recommend it scientific grounds
but it didn't work out well in practice. And
for this peculiar reason: Music written in GER
tain keys sounded better piano tuned ac-
cording to the Stanhope temperament than
on a piano tuned according to the equal tenn
permanent And conversely, music written in
certain other keys. while agreeable on an
equally tempered piano could not be endured
on piano with Stanhope temperament
This same objection lies to a greater or less de-
gree against all other methods of tempera-
ment. The equal temperament is the best
compromise to meet all the complications of our
harmonic system.
Inventors have tried MANY devices to make
possible the tifty-three-tone octave: but with
out practical results. The new Jancko kew
board was promoted extensively throughout
Germany within the last few years but it is
not likely to gain much hold on public favor.
Most students of music find more than enough
trouble with the ninety notes of the present
keyboard ANY attempt to increase their num-
Der will fall afoul of the insuperable objection
to creating a new piano technc. The inventor
who hopes to create piano that will give per
feet information to all the tones throughout the
twelve scale keys may expect nothing but Oh
hvion unless he achieve his purpose without
tampering with the existing dimensions and
arrangement of the keyboard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
By John Warren

HOW many persons who own By John
Il pianos and play them can
explain why a piano cannot be
said to be in tune unless it is actually out of
tune?
The reason for this seeming contradiction
lies in the fact that the keyboard of a piano
represents compromise between scientific ac-
curacy and human convenience. As Il result
of this compromise, all the notes throughout
the scale, with the exception of the fundamen-
tai note and its octaves, are off pitch to Il
greater or less degree.
So when the tuner comes around to put Your
piano in tune, he really does nothing of the
sort. He actually tempers the tone of the in
strument by raising or lowering the tension of
the wires, making some keys strike above and
others below their true pitch. until he achieves
a certain definite balance of tone throughout
the instrument. This is practically putting the
piano out of tune. by doing it in way to mini
mize the discords by distributing them through
out the scale.
This system of tuning is called the equal
temperament" After three centuries of argu-
ment and scientific experiment, it has come
into general use. and will probably remain the
standard system until inventive genius achieves
some practical development in the keyboard
to meet the complexities of the harmonic scale
To venture an explanation of the scientific
basis of a piano scale would take over long and
involve an excursion into acoustics and higher
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
HAT. HOSE. AND SHOE NUMBERS

MOST people go into a shop and demand
4vx number nine shoe, Il number seven
hat with an air that gives the clerk to under
stand that they know what they want and ar.
determined to have it; but as Il matter al
fact, not one in a hundred has any idea what
the number nine or seven or whatever it may
happen to he really means. When it comes t.
stockings, the buyer is less assured and
what haltinglv declares that he such and
such Il number shoe. and trusts to the better
information of the clerk.
Although it seems mysterious. It IS really
quite simple. In the shoemaker's measure
No. l (Sna size) is four and one-third inches
long inside, and every succeeding number IN
creases onc-third OF an inch up to b. No ]
Garge size) is eight and eleven-twentv -fourth>
inches inside measure. and every succeeding
number increases one third of an inch up to ID
The number on hose stockings IS less
plicated the numbers. 6. Z, 81, ETC. indicating
the exact length in inches of the foot of the
hose.
Hat sizes are, like shoe sizes given in cipher
The measure round the head in inches, l,l>t
where the hat is accustomed to rest, Indicate
the number of the hat, as follows:
Size 81, 1915 inches round the head: No Il
1855 inches: g., "a inches: 81. 10. 63 incht->
Ca 2O.O3 inches: 81, 2O.42 inches o. POSI-
inches: 81, 212o inches: 81, 21.60 niche
Z 2199 inches; ~ 22.3S inches; Il. 2271
inches: q, %. IL inches; q, %. SO inches: &
1886 inches; q. "a "a inches: Il, "a. a niche,
s. %. Is inches; s. 1852 inches; and S !, 2o-H
inches.
II your head is more than 2591 inches round
YOU should do something to reduce the swelling,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12


they didn't suffer in silence.
As far back as 1J11 u German tuner named
Schlick discovered what all tuners even to this
day know as 1.-THE wolf" This is merely d
technical expression for certain inevitable dis
sonances, which sound like the bowling of 4
wolf. The whole object of tuning in pianos
and organs is to make the howlings OF thi,
wolf as inaudiblc possible.
John Sebastian Bach, acknowledged the
greatest of musical geniuses, was one OF the
first advocates OF the principle of compromise.
Unfortunately he has made no written contribu-
ton to the controversy over temperament: but
he stated his principles in his way by writing
his set of forty-eigh preludes and forty-cight
fugues, which run through all the different seal,
keys, and issuing them under the title Of THE
Well Tempered Clavichord." The adherent>
Of the school of equal Temperament" claim
that this set of preludcs and fugucs is the
greatest argument ever advanced for their
system. Since Bach's day the system OF " equal
temperament has advanced steadily, in spite
of weighty scientific arguments against it
To go into the details of piano tuning would
prove tedious; but the appended table will
show the notes OF the c major scale from mid
die { to its octave above, how far they are of
pitch, and the relation between the true num-
Der of vibrations for each tone and its modified
vibration according to equal temperament
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
IN TUNE WHEN OUT OF TUNE

clination to make the blacks suffer
for the whites: but in this instance
they didn't suffer in silence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12

HOW many persons who own
IL pianos and play them can
explain WHY a piano cannot be
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
"keeuan's Pal"

"Keegan's Pal" a new play by Paul Wit-stach was presented June : at the Chicago opera house, Chicago, by Joseph NJ. Gaites, with Emmett Corrigan as the star, and the next day it was apparent that play and star and achieved a smashing hit James O'DOnnell Bennett of the Recor- Herald calls Mir. Corrigan the best actor in America Ashton Stevens in the Examiner says, "Keegan's Pall' is a drama of pulse snc brains :. it strikes life with a hard and living punch" In the Tribune, Mir. Hub bard recorded a popular success Keegan's Pal acts well and contains story which held the audience keenly interested and made the on- lockers feel and be moved The Post declared that "all lovers of de- tective stories would find 'Keegan's Pal quite the thing" Charles w.. Collins in the Inter- Ocean said: 'Em- melt Corrigan is an actor of power and in Keegan's Pal his performance is worthy of his brilliant reputation.
 The play is full of emotional scenes of strong acting value. "The Ameri- can said Keegan's Pal is a power  full drama of intensely virile atmos phere and tenacious grip upon the human sympathies. Mir. Wilstach has made his play a new thing of inter est presenting a story which moves and makes the auditor feel almost with more intensity Of emotion than the players. It gets over the foot lights and around and through the crowd and grasps the audience and brings it to be part of the story and to i've and feel its emotions Amy Leslie found "Keegan's Pal" to be both stirring and American, and it is original, splendidly written and all most sensational in it's dramatic hard ihood. It made one of the most sub stantial, plainsailing hits of the year" And this after all the successes of the year had been seen.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

Crete and would use his influence to obtain the withdrawal of the inter national soldiery from the island, and that the other would give him. in payment. a right -of-way for his rail road across Turkey in Asia And so they arranged it between them, the bilious. sallowf faced, silent little man with his eternal cigarette, and the stoutish, aggressive. domineering leu ton who puffed intermittently at a black cigar. The sultan had. indeed, bartered q kingdom for the kaiser's friendship. To the German concessionnaires was given the eXclu- sive right to cultivate the land within this railway zone-1S.60O square miles in all, and every foot of it. to all in tents and purposes, German soil-to work the mines and the forests with in this radius; to grow wheat, tobac- co. and cotton; to colonize, and to navigate the streams. not to mention various subsidiary rights. The con cession admits, moreover. of the con cessionnaires' utilizing all waters along the route for electric purposes; and such power will eventually be used. it is planned, for lighting their towns and running their factories F. Alexander Powell in the July Everybody's.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
Foxy German Emperor,

The kaiser. finding himself isolated as the result of French and British diplomacy, debarred on every hand from territorial expansion in Europe. had dreamed of a commercial empire in Asia. But Wilhelm is the kind of a man who prefers to see things with his own eyes, and that is why. in the spring Of 1897, he e-t out on his spectacular tour of tle Near East
 He rode through Palestine in a the atrical uniform made for the occa- sion, with a great cavalcade behind him. At Jerusalem he laid the cor nerstOne of a German church: at Haifa he addressed a great assem- blaze of German colonists: from Da- mascus he carried away with him the priceless furnishings of the pal ace which he occupied. loaned for the occasion by the neighboring pashas; at Ba'albek a peculiarly hideous tab let was placed in the Temple of Venus to mark his visit, and SD he came to Stamboul. where Abdul Hamid, his friend and brother, awaited him..
 Imagine if you can, a more queerly assorted pair. The sultan. crafty, cautious. timid, patient; the kaiser. bombastic, blatant, hot headed. domi- neering This meeting of the mon archs was as curious as any in mod ern history-the one q ruler in spite of his physical cowardice, and the shrewdest diplomat in Europe; the other a sort of footlight king. Hum ble. patient, and furtive, the master of Turkey listened. while the war lord thundered. Always he dilated on his great idea, the Drang mach Osten-that onsweep to the east of German imperialism. This strangely mated pair, these masters of east and west, made a compact that the one would abstain from intervening in
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
"The Story of My Life.y

When I was a child it was my great est ambition to become a lion tanner. But my mama wouldn't let me And then it was my ambition to become a detective My papa's best friend was the chief of police and through his in fluence I obtained a position as detec- tive. The first day the captain told me that q gentlemanly criminal had escaped-he showed me his picture and he wanted me to catch him. I caught him. on the way to the station we passed a restaurant and the gentle manly criminal said that he was very hungry. and because he was one of the most lovely criminals I ever heard of. I said to him: Very well; go inside and I will wait for you out here"
 l must have waited half an hour and he did not come out So l went inside and said to the proprietor: Did you see a gentlemanly criminal?"
 Why. yes.' said he; he has just gone out the back way"
 50 1 had to catch him again the next day. And on the way to the sta ton we passed that restaurant again. and again he said that he was very hungry. "Very we'll" I said. go in side and I will wait for you" But this time I was clever and L ran around the back way I must have waited half an hour-oh! longer. And I finally went inside and asked the proprietor. The gentlemanly criminal had gone out the front way. So had to catch him the next day; and on the way to the station We passed that res taurant again. He said he was very hungry. And because he was such gentlemanly criminal I said: "Oh. very well'' Out to myself This time he's not going to fool me.O SorI said to him: 'I will go inside and get you something to eat and you can wait out
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

"Lo." the musical comedy in prepara- ton by Franklin P Adams and O.. Henry. as to libretto and A. Balwin Sloane as to music. His being a col lege-bred Indian recalls the first and only previous attempt to use the type for comic purposes by a native play wright-a light opera called Big Pony. the Gentlemanly Savage" pro duced in 1887 in New York City by N. C. Goodwin. Among that actors ad- vertising devices are frames of photo graphs showing him in various roles of the past. and one pictures Goodwin as Big Pony, attired in faultless even ing clothes-and moccasinsi The work was far ahead of its time as to its satirical aspect. and failed, though Goodwin has never been funnier than in his role of the "reclaimed' redskin. A C. Wheeler was the librettist He was at the time the most widely read of our drama critics. not excepting even William Winter. He wrote of the stage under the name of "Nym Grin kle." and, years after he had supposed ly retired to private life. he re-emerged as a writer on nature topics under the name of "Mobray"
 W. s. Gilbert had preceded Wheeler in the use of the low+comedy Indian in light opera: but Gilbert's Indians there were three of them-were undi- luted savages. The work was "Prin- cess Toto" now well-nigh forgotten. It was written some time previously to Gilbert's union with Sullivan. and had q very pretty score by Fred Clay. Gill bert and Clay quarreled when the piece was at the height of it's popular ity; and the former. in a character istic outbreak of temper. took legal means to prohibit the further perform ance of the work in Great Britain, and, to make assurance surer, sought to de- strOy every copy of the work then eX tant. Some copies had. however, found their way to this country, where there was not at the time federal protection to foreign authors, so that Princess Toto" was from time to time the sub ject of revival Two of the three In dians were respectively named Pish- Tush and Pooh -Bah-names that Gill bert afterward employed for two of the Titipu noblemen in ''The Mikado," in the belief that his previous use of them had been forgotten.
 As a serious or sentimental comic opera figure the Indian has been more literally employed The Bostonians when at the height of the great vogue that was their lot through the popu- larity of Robin Hood" produced not fewer than three ambitious operas in which our aborigines figured con spicuously. One was Priscilla" which made employment of the legend of John Alden and his vicarious wooing of the puritan maid; another was known as both Tn Mexico" and "A WarTim Wedding; and the third was called The Ogallallas" None of the three was successful
 Indeed. American play goers have shown very little sentimental interest in the Indian as a stage figure, and "Strongheart'' stands out from a long list of plays as the only one to succeed with an Indian hero. A notable failure among attempts to stage the Indian was The Redskin." in which all the characters were abOrigines. As sub sidiary or incidental figures, the In dian has often served well, both pie torially and dramatically. as in "The Octoroon," The Squaw Man" and
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
SPECIAL EDITION
 OF TUCSON STAR
An Encyclopedia of Information and . Vigorous Demand For Statehood.

A special edition of the Arizona Daily Star has reached Phoenix and is a publication designed to prove of in terest and value to many people. It is arranged in magazine form and has about S5 pages of reading matter and pictures.
 The contents of the book are histor- icaI and encyclOpaedic, designed to give briefly the history of the various counties and larger communities of the territory, and the story of the re sources and products of the respective counties In many instances there is tabulated data of use for reference and the text matter tells the story of the towns and their institutions and the stories of the agricultural. mineral and grazing development of the country Some space is given to biography di- rect while most of the number is more or less biographical, telling of the men who have figured in the develop ment of the country and in the admin istration of its government. from time to time Much space is devoted to the territorial gocernment from its earliest days 10 the present time and there are many contributions from well known Arizonians in the edition
 Primarily the number is more rec ord of the past ten years which is gone into quite thoroughly, more so than the previous history. The pur- pose of the book is to set forth the greatness of Arizona in every way, em phasizing the demand for statehood which demand is the text of the pub fishers in their first page introduction in the following languages:
 "Refuting the statements often made in congress that Arizona was not ready for statehood, single and alone, and as an evidence of our resources, rapid
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

growth and development, these pages are published"
 The most space is given to Pima county which the edition features es- pecially but all the counties are fiber ally treated and hundreds of pictures liven up the text. Maricopa county and the city of Phoenix are given much prominence and there are many pictures of MaricOpa county scenes in the paper
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

The Girl I Left Behind Me" Paul Armstrongs The Renegade" was q recent Chicago attempt to give the red man sentimental value in the drama. A much better play than either The Renegade" or 'Strongheart,' of cog nate theme. called Northern Lights" failed a decade before "Strongheart" was tried.-Frederick Donaghey in the Chicago Evening Post.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
A Brief Effort.

The poet warbles of the strand,
 The sandy dune; There are not many rhymes at hand For June. He can't produce a wordy lay Or lenghty rune; There are not many rhymes today For June And so the poet curbs betimes
 His little tune; Alas, there not many rhymes
 For June.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

1000 LBS. BIG RIPE CHERRIES, 1oc PER LB. 1000 BOXES CALL FORNIA BLACKBERRlES, FOR 25c.-McKEE'S CASH STORE.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
WELL DRILLING BIDS.

Bids are hereby called for the boring and casing of a we'll at the Territorial Fair Grounds 100 feet deep and six inch casing. Bids to be addressed to the undersigned and delivered before June 23rd at noon. The right to reject any. bid is reserved.
 SHIRLEY CHRISTY,
 Secretary Fair Commission. Room 2, Nicholson Bldg.
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23

here" And then I became an artist Fly. Mayer. in Success Magazine"
Arizona republican., 1909-06-23
As to "Loy in Low Comedy

An American Indian. employed in scenes and situations of comic grotes- querit, is an important character in
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-11
LAuRlUM BREvITIEs.

Mrs. Sam Sharp Of Florida location
gave birth To daughter yesterday.
John Sweeney ana VIII McKalvie OF
Calumet, left today for weeks hunt
ing trip TO the Central Mine location
The roller skating season at the
Palestra is very popular one, and
the attendance is showing gradual
increase. The season will continue
until the ice skating season.
Mrs. David Armit, wife of Judge Ar
init who has been seriously i'll, is re-
ported ms much improved today.
Thomas McGann and Jacob Rehim.
VIII appear before Judge David Armit
today on the charge of creating a
noise and disturbance on Saturday
evening.
Rev. ID. ID. Stalker OF Calumet leaves
this week for Cadillac where he will
attend the meeting of the Michigan
Presbyterian Synod. This will be the
seventy fifth anniversary of the organ
zation of the Synod.
The funeral of the infant son of Ms.
and Mrs. Mike Seppala of Laurium,
who died last Friday was held yester-
lay afternoon.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-11
POND WATER SYSTEM WILL
BE COMPLETED THIS MONTH

Word was received in Laurium to-
day to the effect that the pipe which IL
10 be used for the pond water system is
In Hancock, and that il will be receiv-
ed in Calumet this afternoon. This
shipment will be the last and will pro-
vide the village with a sufficient guam
tlty OF pipe to complete the work.
II is estimated that about ten days
OF good weather will enable the force
of mon at work upon the pond water
system To have il In readiness About
two thirds 81 the pipe has already been
laid and covered In, and the remainder
VIII be installed at once. The trenches
have been prepared for the pipe which
Is needed To complete the system and
The work which remains will not re-
luire very much time. Were IL not
for the frequent delays owing to the
of the pipe, the system
would now he readq.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-10-11

of the gathering. The baseball park
known as Forbes field, with a seating
capacity of $4,000, has been engaged
for the open air exercises of that day.
Members OF congress-, distinguished
jurists and other men of national
prominence viii be among the speak
ers.
The daily sessions Of the convention
are to be devoted to the discussion of
homo and foreign missions. Bible
schools education. evangelism, Chris
tan endeavor, church extension, and
other subjects in which the church is
Interested. Five great auditoriums
have been engaged for the parallel
sessions of the celebration and the
convention.
The founding Of the denomination,
in celebration Of which the present
great gathering OF it's COMMITMENTS
Is held, is considered to have taken
place with the issuance of "a Dccla-
ration and Address" which was pub
lished by Thomas Campbell on Sept.
Z, 1909, on behalf of THE Christian
Association of Washington Pa. an
organization composed of members of
different churches who proclaimed II
to be their aim to practice that sim
pie original form of Christianity, ex-
prossly exhibited upon the sacred
page, without attempting TO incucate
anything of human authority, of pri-
vate opinion. or inventions of men as
having any place in the constitution,
faith or worship of the Christian
church; or anything as matter of
Christian faith or duty of which there
can not be expressly produced IA thus
saith the Lord either in expressed
terms or by approved precedent"
In the 100 years of its history the
denomination has made steady prog
ress. At present II numbers about
1900 churches. with 100000 mem
bers. The membership is found
chiefly in the western states, princi-
pally i'm Indiana, Kentucky. Oklahoma
and Missouri. The church maintains
thirty-fivc colleges and universities
and claims to have more young men
studying for the ministry than any
other denomination.