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S C R A N T O N, PENN
GROVE'S MUSIC SIMPLIFIER EIGHTH LESSON
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HE chords of the key of F flat are given on these charta.with the relative; the Vey of D minor. Plate one of thechartl at right
; angles" with the keyboard, so that the -small black letter D, with a dash above it, on the chart is directly over Djn.th keyboard,
the white Spaces on the chart will be over the white keys- and black spaces over the black1 keys. . The top, middle and lower
: ttiib sections on the loweV chart represent the three chords, a mastery of which .will enable you to: accompany on the piano any song
or melody in th key of F,and&enupperchart r key of D sharp minor.2LThe black- letters are to, be played .
'with the' left bind, the red -letters with therighYjian7
Now, having placed JthechartiTthe piano the left hand, and then the three red letters
in unison with the righthandexTplavthe middle section Uie saiiie m
tion." The small black letter D with a dash, which gives the" chart position, must noibe played. '- " y", ' . -:V ': y -V ;:,r li..iJL
T : The knowledge of the keys and facility in striking the proper .chords form me- basu ot alLmusicalfclmowl
the piano until you are thoroughly familiar -with-the chords in the keys given in this .week's lessons, and when memorized you are quit
:as well equipped for the playing of accompaniments as one who has studied music for yeary r:'..lV, u ; '
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'AVE you bears - ftnrwbar
boot thM parts T'-
H had pot himself down
on tb Holland hotel red.
Urr a "A. dmm, Florida." Hla Query
was put to CoL Jim Furlons, th'a land
.lord, and the colonel said:
-Heap of 'era up In the Bl( Thicket.
Heaps of 'm-.Old man -Simmons has
- run down and hun up ten, I bear, since
ThnkiYin;." ; - .
Mr. Dunn pondered , for a while Aha
. . three - pound quince that Dominie Horn
brought la from his fruit garden i4
; placed on exhibition' on the hotel desk
' .and then.sald: J - - - : , - a-.m-
"Alligators? Any alHritorst apeak
fr, . . y. , r ;.
"Swada of 'em," replied the colonel.
. . "Any time during good sill gator weather
when they corns to the surface to sing
r and smile, you - could trip, across the
. bayous on 'em without getting your feet
' ' " wet.r '.; r " r . ' L.
Mr tamm g&va passing and unln-
, terested glance at the bag of 21 wood
cock and It Jacksnlpe . that Park firay
had lust come In with, and said:
"Then, of course, jrou have alligator
bears.- - ., .'..!.' ,,
" "No., responded' -Colonel Jim,'! "our
i bears are just the ordinary, everyday
run of hide and hair ' bears wlth bob-1 open
laiis ana an meir Dony pans JUSide oi
' themselves.' - -' .
A. Damm ef Florida Inspected for a
moment the 10-foot stalk of augar cane
that came - from the Ounatream farm
Just beyond town. Then he aald: - -."To
be sure. But what I meant was
' bears that hunt, .alligators. Bears that
. hunt nothing lse but, alllgitors. . Beara
- that get their living y hunting alliga
tors. This ought to be a fine field for
alligator bears., We. have 'em'over In
yinrMa." . ii i i
"TeaTT said Colonel Jim. . -
' The eggplant that won't go Into a two'
sjuart-pot-and which grew-tn artruckT
patch up Lroonvllle way Interefted Mr.
IJtnm briflyr and. he. returned to -the
sublent. t ' .- -: '
. "Where I came from, yea,' said he.
'Florid.- We have alligators, and quite
a few alligator bears. It seems strange
to me that there has never been any
mare aald about the alligator bears than
there has,' for he Is very Interesting
creature. He Is a fair to mlddllng-alsed
"bear, very powerful, and he never gets
rat. I tntnaTnTs is aecanss ne has to
' work so hard for. his living. He didn't
stem to rare for anything but alligator
tongues, and he can't gather alligator
tongues like he might go out, and pick
ranges. Before he gets his alligator
tongue he has got to get his alligator.
And alligators ain't tha kind of bird
that squats down and lets you put aalt
on Ita tall and gather It In without a
murmur." ; - ' ...
"tear aald the celone). . . j
"I never aaw one of these beara out
t fter tongue but once. I was on the
lookout for a 'gutor myself, and when I
. keard one bellowing ever toward the
bayou I hurried through the canes to
get a ahot at him. When I came in sight
of him j saw that he waa tremendously
worked up over something, which some
thing I discovered was one of these al
ligator" bears.' . .! - ...
"There wasn't muoh of a fight. Just a
rush of lllgatar,and a retreat of bear,
and a retreat of alligator and rush of
bear repeated several times. But at last,
to my surprise, for I did not know then
what the tactics -of -the- alligator bear
were In a tonguing contest, ths alligator,
wrought up to ths highest pitch of fury,
made one grand rush upon the bear, his
Jawe thrown open to their full extent,
and the bear braced himself and stood
his ground.
"Then I noticed for the first time that
the bear had stout stlok, a foot and a
half or two feet long, in one of his
paws. When the alligator waa actually
upon him, and J shivered ltf expectation
Of bearing the bear's bones crunch be
tween the awful Jaws of the big saurian.
Bruin stepped deftly to one side, shoved
the paw that held the stick righr Into
the alligator's Jaws, and left the stick
upright there, one end braced against
the inside' of the lower Jaw and the
other end against the root of the alli
gator' a mouth,' , . '
"And . there the alligator ' was. He
couldn't shut his mouth, and lie couldn't
Mer so that - the -stlrfc
would -fell - out,.- and- consequently hia
dangerous Jsws were harmless.' And
while the .astonished reptile was pawing
at his head, In efforts to reach and dis
lodge ths stick, ths bear grabbed him by
hia bony tall, awung blm clear of tht
ground and amaabed hia head against
the trunk of a rypres tree.
'That ended the fight. Stretching the
dead alligator on the ground,-the bear
snipped oft the reptlle'a tongue with his
sharp claws, sat down on ths'carras.
3and calmly but with gusto ate the dinner
ne XUUi wrnw, ' vn wu wuiimmwr . ur m
really a very in teresUn' creature, and 1 1 had heated
am rather surprisea to near . mat you
don't have any of them over here."
"But they don't get fat.", said Colonel
Furlong. ; . ",
- "No, . they' don't get fat.? .replied A.
Da mm of Florida.
. "Ever been in the Texas Panhandle?"
asked the "colonel. .. .
Mr. lmnim' hefted the seven pound
yam from Farmer Hanford'S cow bayou
plantation, yawned as if he were bored.
and saio: :, , , , , , - 4-
No." . ' .
"They have a bear up there," "aald
Colonel Jim, meekly, and aa If In depre
cation of., the creature cam pared with,
the alligator bear, "but there lan't much
you might say about him, except that he
Insists on taking fat aboard. Fat?
Why,' it doesn't seem to me ss If the
prtsest kind of a pruw pig could do any.
thing else but look skinny slongslds at
one of them Texas Panhsndls beara!
t "One -Mm up there I got hungry for
near meat and went put to bag a pan
handler. .My two dogs were not long In
starting one. - The day waa a trifle
warm, but that bear gave ths dogs the
deuce and all of a run. ' It was " two
hours. I guess, before he came tearing
by where I was so I eouM get a shot
at him, and -whanged away. My bul
let found him, and tha big fellow stopped
in his track so sudden that it mads me
disxy. .... ' .
."But he didn't fall. He was quits a
long ahot away. I was pulling up to
give him another slug when I stopped,
with my gun half raised and my mouth
and my sys wide open. There that bear
stood, right where he had stopped when
my bullet hit him, and ha was shrinking
away almost like a toy balloon with a
hole punched in it. . v.
. "The dogs hadn't come up yet, but' I
could hear "them a short -distance away,
and they soon cams on the scene In full
cry. By the time they got there, though,
that bear had shrunk so that hs looked
like a pelt hanging on a fence, and stood
there staring at the sight. ' Ths dogs
kept right on toward the bear, and .when
they got to within a couple of yarda -of
It I aaw them com to a Stop and act
the queerest kind.
"T don't blams 'em," said That
bear is enough to scare a panther Into
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. 'The dogs kept on barking, though,
and the next instant, I almost "dropped
in my tracks to sea that shrunk-up bear,
whlcft-ha been, bigger . around than a
barrel , five minutes before, he was . so
fat, go alouchlng away, and he got out
of sight before I could recover sense
enough to. shoot. J guess it was a min
ute before I got myself together enough
to go over to the dogs, which, to my
further smssement, hadn't started on
the trail after the bear took It tip' again.
I wasn't so much surprised at It when
I got to them, for X soon .figured ths
situation out.. 1 ' ' '
That bear had been simply rolled
round and loaded up with rat when, we
etarted him that day, and the long run
it, up aa that the--fat had
dona the only thing it could do Just
melted And when my bullet plowed
a hole In the bear's side It waa like
knocking ths spigot out of a barrel of
elder.. Out of the bear ths melted fat
began to spout. . .-
'The bear stopped and let it spout, he
waa so glad of the relief. .The fat ran
out. and. the bear shrunk snd shrunk.
When the dogs came along they struck
a stream of bear fat. -That fat hard
ened about -'em. as. bear fat. will., and
when I got over there thoee dogs were
stuck In It solid up lo their knees. And
the bear got away.
"Tea, .sir," said CoJonel Furlong, "t
wish you'd bring along a pair of those
alligator bears with you when you come
over again, Brother Damm. Jost as
like as not wa can start a race of 'em
here that will help ua out considerable."
ooaTTzorn srr urnziwa.
' From ths New York Herald.
I Robert Williamson, a veteran of the
civil war, chid in a Ions;' army ivernoat,
appeared before Judge Anderson la la-
dlanapolls ths other afternoon to anawerl
to ths charge of sending objectionable
letters through the mallsv - r
Ons of ths ballrffs of the oourt, Wil
liam Morse, was captain of company' A,
Eighty-ninth Indiana, whils Williamson
was sergeant of the company, and the
other bailiff. Charles La Salle, while jus
tics of the peace Jn Wabash. Jnd.. six
years ago, had sent Williamson to an in
sane hospital. ' Jssss La FollettS, assist
ant United States district attorney, who
prosecuted the case, was a member of an
Indiana regiment during tha civil war.
. Ths principal witnesses against ths
defendant were himself, J. at. Craln,
postmaster at Wabash, and tha letters
that were Introduced in evidence. The
postmaster testified that, complaint had
been mads to him by leading cltlsena of
Wabash who received these letters In
October.!' One of the complainants sug
gested that Williamson was the writer.
The postmaster, noticing Williamson
walking toward ths postofftoe several
days later, retraced bis steps and arrived
there first, so aa to receive several let
ters into his hand as Williamson thrust
them through ths mail slot. Hs markedH
thess letters, had them - delivered and
discovered that they were of a nature
similar lo-;thosST'that bad-bew xom-
plained of, ,
Williamson, ths ' only - witness in his
own behalf, denied' that he had been In
Wabash sines September, but mads an
excellent witness against himself under
the cross-examination of La Follette.
"How do yoa 1 spell -Chris?" hs asked
ths defendant. ,-. . . -
- C-r-l-a," said the defendant. v, --'v
. "How do you spell Lewi" ; '
. "L-u," spsUed tha old soldier, without
a halt. , J'i .- .'. j, .
"Now spelt Jim," . continued the Inter
locutor. .-- :' -- - ,
"a-i-m," came back triumphantly. '"
" La Folletta then submitted several let
ters and showed that the names had
neeti spelled In the earns peculiar man
ner as In the answsrs of, his spe luna
cies. The government then restsd. HUT
ths Jury In shout is minutes brought In
a eerdtot -of. guilty,
Judare Anderson told 'the prisoner that
ha had no doubt aa to his guilt, but that
ho would -suspend sentence and give himJ
another chance, ir ever again he heard
a single questionable letter coming from
ths pen of Williamson .nothing could
aave that person from a long term In the
penitentiary.. -".-.
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.. OTrruotrs postax asavuTiOf..
..' - Fromj-ths Chicago Journal."
- There exists a curious postal regula-'
tlon. In France whereby letters addressed
to the president of the republic, to the
presidents--of ths senate and chamber
and to the prefect of police do -not re
qulrs. to be stamped. - The Matin has
taken advantage of thla to organise a
new system tf petitioning In' favor of
penny postage. With every-paper sold a
post card Is Jnclosed addreaaed to- the
president of th chamber -of deputies.
Ths readers are aaked to sign It snd
drop It in the nearest postbox. . Tha
postal authorities' are .the only people
wtro may not fully appreciate the beau
ties of a scheme Involving ths collection
and distribution of perhaps, 190,004
cards. , ,'..'
Filled :. Collection Plate: at PistoFs Point
From ths Kansas jClty Times. '
c t -ft jar x riraa appointment oy a
-w rm. wm , -. . . . .
-wvnaiuwraw coQinnm
was In tha lair of tha bad
man of ths west." re
marked ths Rev. W. B. Wheeler, '- for
merly pas toe. of ths Methodist Episcopal
church ( south),' at Gallatin. Mo.
. . "'I guess they thought because X was
big and brawny I could learn to shoot
and - fight when - necessary- to snforce
peace at meeting. Los Cerrillos. N. M.,
in 1881 and lS8t was a town of about
100 strenuous inhabltanta, moat of whom
didn't know what a preacher looked like
until l came. There were two saloons,
which . ran 14 hours' a day, 4nciuding
Sunday. . I chartered a school house for
services and began to get acquainted.
Among my first friends were ths pro
prietors of ths two saloons. Tha cow
boys would Tide In on payday and "shoot
up' the town. On ons of those occasions
L wa walking down 1 Main street and
received a bullet hols through my. bat.
I took it off, sxamlned It and went on.
A. Justice suggested thst I might swear
out a. warrant, but I told him it was
an old hat and I didn't care about going
to law ever trifles. Somehow the bad
man began to evince a sort of desultory
Interest in ths services. , .They ' would
always bring their guns along, but
would never shoot 'em during meeting.
I never succeeded In getting mors than
four1 members, : but - the congregations
were fair. :- ..- . .,.- - -
."I remember one day during services
there waa a little commotion in ths back
end. A tall, fellow. Stewart by name,
who had a splendid record ss a dead
shot, arose and said:
-'Just stop, a moment, parson, if you
please.' . ' . '.'' . - " '."-'.- v
Then -he snd snothermsn led a
fellow bul. " Presently" they returned. .
- '"All right .brother said.. Bts wart:
Tom'a just drunk a little, but he won't
bother you any more."
- ''They had Uken him -aoroee to ths
tavern snd locked htm up In ls room.
"W. E. Willis, ons of ths most desper
ate men In the camp, earns to me- arte
day and said he wanted to be steward.
, "Steward!" I exclaimed. 'What would
a steward dor.- "-
" "Why,' he said, sit In ths amen cor
r.er an' - take - up the collection.' Give
me the' Job, parson, an' you'll find a
heaMhy ant in -tha- plats every - gun
day.' 7 . -
"80 I made Mm steward. Hs waa aa
proud of hia Job as hs would hsva been
over a brand new Winchester. The col
lections were made In his piratical look
ing sombreroi and, hs always got re
sults, t could' hear his hosrss whisper
as he went from pew to pew. .' -
"'Damn you. shell out!' he'd say If a
worshipper didn't show a disposition to
eontrlbuts promptly.
"Sometimes a msn would .throw In a
dim or a quarter, snd If my steward
didn't think hs hsd put up ss the Lord
tisd prospered him. he'd reach signifi
cantly toward his hip pocket and whls-
per something that resulted In a ma
terial addition to ths church's revenue.
Collections fey-the steward's persuasive
system were always- good.! tnuch better
than I'vs ever had them sines I re
turned to Missouri, snd hs uncontesttbly
demonstrated his fitness for ths office.
- Ons -day ths presiding elder notified
ms hs was coming to. Los Csrrlllos. - I
knsw hs had navsr been up against . the
sort of moral atmosphere thst blew over
our valley,' and I bustled aroand to get
things in shape for-a serious -minded
shepherd who might not appreciate the
broad, spirit of ths - cltlsena I ' went
first to 'Bill' and Ike,' who ran the two
saloons and poker rooms, and said:
" 'Boys,-the- boss 'is icomlng-over to
preach Sunday, and I'd sorter, feel good
if you fellows would close up during
services and come out with your fam
ilies.-, . v
Ths two men syed each, other cur
iouely a minute, and -BUI -said as he
hit his big fist down hard on the ta
ble: . - - . .
"Damned If I don't do it, parson! What
say you, iker -.
t " I'm in,' replle Iks, you csn't get
the bulge, on . me when , It comes to
llgion". - --
'They were both there, clean shaved
and primped - up like dandles. Every
seat was oocupled and the steward made
a collection -that, did hire proud. After
me meeting was over tne eider told me
ho had never addressed a better behaved
Land more attentive crowd. . Hs added the
opinion that the reports of. lawlessness
out our way were greatly overrated. A
committee of the .beat cltlsens, salifon
keepers, bartenders, yoker dealers and
others, accompanied him to ths depot
the next dsy snd gave htm a send-off
that wouldJiave been an . hondrto a
grand duke. I could see that It tickled
htrou Immensely Within ten - minutes
after the train had gone-tha card -taMea
and bars were In full blast again. -
''Next -year-! -was removed to-Wat-rous,
10O miles away, and only visited
Los Cerrillos ones a month to presch.
Ons -rough- night when a melting snow
waa . coming- down- in great sheets . I
was waiting;, for the Santa Fa train to
take me home, The . train was lata..
There was no. operator in ths little sta
tion, and no placo tq go except the
saloons to ' get warm, Ths train waa
somewhere -down- the llite, enly r IHe
winds and ths shelterless coyotes know,
log its location. So I walked up and
down the streets shivering. Once when
I 'passed Bill's saloon ha spied ms. -'
" Coms In and get warm, parsq,n,' hs
said.' - ' ' . ' ' .... .
'I can't. Bill; you know why,'
- " Tea I know, but they shan't bother
you: yon corns tn snd I'll fix it all
right,' and hs grabbed my arm and led
ma Into a big room where some 10 or 40
Cowboys snd ' miners T were -drinking,
playing cards and telling yarns.- UIU
rapped loudly en the coknter. .
: "'Fellers,' ha said, 'the person's laid
out by his train what ain't come, an
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he'a no place' to go 'cept In this heatv
gin palace an poker parlor. Hell sit
'round an" smoke with us an' awap tals
tbe-Jlht sort you understand, but
thar'U be nq drink sold over this ban an
no cards played till his kers come hiking
long. He's our guest. Parson Wheeler,
gentlemen.!... .. . ';, , . ,
Thfrs wasnt a'protest from a man.
t waa acquainted with -most of them,
and soon had made- friends' with - ths
others. We talked of lode, psy dirt,
methods of drilling,-bear way to "break"
bronchpeJInlment for heeling gunshot
wounds, -qualities of the different makes "
of ;f Irearme, compared the veracity of 1
ths Indian, and ths X ex I can, and -finally '
It wound up by ons of the cow punchers
from acrosa -tba.mountalns asking me to
make a little talk on the subject of my
professlon... I wouldn't have suggested
that, becauas aa their guest I felt thst
the laws of hospitality demanded that :
14 follow thetnead. but I was more than
glad of the . opportunity tha cowman v- .
presented. I mounted one of tha card
tables, and ' In . their own picturesque -language,
as I had learned It from them, ' 1 ',
told-of the Martyr of Calvary-and .ths -,
Corapasslonste Father. Aa' I 'went ra-i: -':
they threw away their cigars and aeveral .
removed their .hata Not a- sound ' es- ., '
caped them. ' They were on their honor
snd I believe they, would hsva roughly.
handled any man showing the slight-. "
est discourtesy."-'----- -7--," .. ;, -;:.-r-
"I don't believe I ever 'spent a mora . .
profltabla hour In my llfei or one where y -'
ths mutual enjoyment wss greater. My .
congregation was lustily singing 'Jesus,
Lover of My Soul,' when the whistle of -'
the belated train was heard, 'and the
meeting broke up. rv r. "-."',;''. '. ;.:, '?
Vltlitn a week a member of 'my aa- " ' ''
TWinTiuaifnrr-ihnrTintr irmeortTirM men, " "'
but It was tn a flghl he had not sought" '"'..'
On OaT
B-bAoa) oorrat.
1. From' the Philadelphia Bulletin, -
The cup of black coffee had On Its '
surface a little oil. This oil 'shimmered.
It gave forth delicate, changing, colors,
like nil on water. Ths man who was
about to- drink "the coffee gased It
with delight -v -- -7.
The oil." ho said, "tells ms all I
want to know about tha coffee,' Now.
without tasting - lt,L am euro- it Is-superb;..:-..-.-.
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' The whole ';ret of coffee making..,,
ha went on, Ilea In extracting and re-
talnmg this ell. This oil it Is which
gives, eofee Its aromatic and ' delicious
taste. This Oil It Is alsq which stimu
lates you, which makes you feel, , after T
you have drunk It, strong and gay.
' "Good coffee t'he kind with nil afloat
on lt-ean only be made by excellent ,
cooks. . In millionaires' houses, or In
hotels where Uiey employ French chefs.
you are imeiy 10 get 11. nut tne aver- '
age American housewife doea not know
how to make this oily kind Ot sofeea -at
slL" '--. . . ...