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HOW VOICES ARE RUINED.
Loud Singing aud Slueing While Suffer
ing From a Cold Detrimental.
A musician tells a reporter of the
Utica Press "How Voicet Are Ruined."
It should be read and remembered by
all young singers. Among other things
he said. "The three principal sources
of damage to the voice are, first, forc
ing the voice; second, forcing the
voice; third, forcing the voice. Con
stant loud singing has certainly ruined
ninety per cent, of all the voices in the
world. The way to buiM up a voice is
not to use the full forca; of the tone;
nothing more than mediom at the out
side. ty this the powers are grad
ually developed and brought under
control. It is just as natural to ex
pect to build an armory in a month, as
it is to build a voice under three years'
constant application. . Sir Morrell
MacKenzie gives it a his delib
erate opinion, after a vast ex
perience, that a voice cannot be
built up in less than seven years,
but the musician said that, after
fifty years' experience, he had found
that three years' practice on the
lines indicated above will build
up a voice almost to its utmost artistic
capabilities. Singing when the pupil
has a cold of any hind affecting the
throat or chest is highly injurious.
Practice at such times can hardly do
good, and may do serious harm. The
speaker quoted many instances where
total loss of voice has resulted from
singing when the vocal organs have
been affected by cold, and he advised
students not to sing at all until all in
flammation had passed. He strongly
deprecated singing in chorus, an ex
cellent practice, but one attended
with serious dangers to the solo vocal
ist. If you can really restrain your
ardor and zeal, and only sing in the
most exciting passages with a moder
ate amount of vocal power, you may
do no harm, but the misfortune is that
in a chorus the members are carried
away with overzeal aud emulation of
their neighbors, and in very many in
stances do more harm to their voices
as solo singers in five minutes than
any teacher in the world can amend in
five years. He also called attention
to the danger of ruining the voice by
straining it while singing in the pub
lic schools. Hoys should not sing
while their voices are changing. Ilis
own voice had been a very good one
while young; but was ruined by
straining while he was singing in an
English cathedral.
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And One Business Man Wants to Know
What (llrla Will Do Next.
"Weill welll What will the girls do
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A business man asked this question
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vator in a building on West Fourteenth
street. The door of the car was shut
with a bang by a vigorous, rosy
cheeked and muscular-looking young
woman of about twenty years a business-like
young woman she was, too.
"What floor, sir? Architect? Right
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the car stopped at the third floor.
It quickly shot higher as the ele
vator girl gave the cable a steady pull.
Everyone wondered at her dexterity.
And she was the pink of propriety, po
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tenants of the building. To say that she
was an improvement on a great many
surly elevator kings in down-town
office buildings would be putting it
mildly. A gentleman who had to call
at the office of a tenant in the building
asked the elevator girl the number of
his room, and here is what she said:
"Oh! yes, sir; Mr. is on the fourth
floor. No. , right near the stair
way. He went out an hour ago. His
assistant is out, too, but I am sure they
will be back soon. What time did you
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in ten minutes. Just out for lunch,
you know. A very pleasant man, isn't
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whether the rosy-cheeked elevator girl
was a fixture or not, as she refused
pointblank to answer any questions
about herself.
"Just call me Mary Jane," said she,
when asked her name. "I am here to
work, not to talk about myself."
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says she can run an elevator car better
than any man in town. It looked that
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INDIANS ON THE TRAIL.
Wonderful Work Done by Utes, Apaches
and lther Uedskin Tribes.
While Indians are better trailers than
whites, it does not follow that all In
dians are equally expert.The best tribes
in this respect are the Deiawares, Co
manehes and Apaches. The best trailer
I ever saw, says a writer in the St.
Louis (rlobe-Deinocrat, was an Apache
who was in the employ of the govern
ment during the Crook campaign in
the southwest. During that campaign
a report came in that a band of Indian
raiders had made its way down the
valley, almost under the very noses of
the troops, and had robbed several
ranches, killing the settlers. In order
to successfully move against the In
dians in that country it was necessary
to march at night, on account of the
warning sent ahead by the signal fires.
A troop of cavalry and a company of
infantry were sent out after the raid
ers as soon as night came. AH that
day the Indian scouts had been scat
tered over the valley searching for
trails, and when the command was
ready to start the scouts were ready to
follow a trail that was believed to be
the one that led to the"rancheria"or vil
lage of the Indians. The trail was care
fully followed over the stony ground
and through the underbrush, the
scouts actually feeling their way with
their hands. They seemed to experi
ence no difficulty in tracing the trail
with their fingers in the dark, but sud
denly there was a halt. Word was
sent back that another trail crossed
the original, and it was a fresher track.
A light was procured, and it was dis
covered that the cross trail was that of
a bear, which had passed along after
the Indians. The original trail was
taken up again and followed steadily
through the night, and the raneheria
found and captured early in tho morn
ing. The most remarkable bit of individ
ual trailing that ever came to my
knowledge was the finding of a lost
child in the Gunnison valley. The lit
tle girl, four years old, wandered away
from a cabin on Tumiche creek, and
was not missed for several hours. Hun
dreds of men in the valley turned out
and searched all that day without
finding a single sign of the girl. At last
it was proposed to send for some Ute
trailers at a camp about twenty miles
away. The Indians did not get on the
ground until twenty-four hours after
the child was missing, and then the
whole country had been so searched
over that all hope of a trail was seem
ingly gone. Three Indians went to
work, stimulated by the promise of a
big reward, and before dark they
found the child, unhurt, but almost
dead from fright and exposure. They
diil their work in a most systematic
manner, and covered the ground so
thoroughly that they soon found the
direction taken, and then began an
ideal bit of trailing. Foot by foot they
went over the ground, noting a broken
twig here, a turned stone there, or a
small impression in the damp earth.
Sometimes they would go for a mile
without finding a single thing to indi
cate that tbov wrn nn the right trail,
and then they would find a perfect im
pression of a little bare foot in a mud
spot. The child was found eight miles
from its home, and hid so close when
the Indians approached her that they
were almost at fault when they were
at the end of the trail, and were com
pelled to double back several times be
fore they espied her crouched down un
der a fallen tree.
The Indian is taught from earliest
childhood to examine and note every
mark upon the ground, lie is given
instructions regarding the placing of
his feet while on the march, and under
all circumstances, whether in peace or
war, he hides his trail. It becomes a
second nature to him, and the watch
ing of the trail that he crosses is as in
stinctive as hiding his own. The In
dian on a raid pays little attention to
his front. He knows that his weakness
is in his trail, and he always carefully
guards the rear of the inarch. His
knowledge of his own ability to find
the trail of an enemy makes him afraid
of the discovery of that left by himself.
MICROBES CARRIED BY BULLETS
Taken from Infected Klannel Through
Whlrh the I'rojectlle Was Fired.
Some interesting experiments were
lately made by Dr. Mcsmer, says tho
London News, by way of solving the
question whether or not rille bullets
are liable to carry infection with them
in their course of entry into the body,
lie made his trial with bullets which
had been infected with germs of a
particular kind, and the infected bul
lets were shot into tin boxes from dis
tances varying from two hundred and
twenty-five to two hundred and fifty
meters -a meter being nearly three
feet three aud three-quarter inches.
Inside the boxes was placed gelatine
peptone in a sterilized or germless con
dition, so that whatever germ develop
ments were found in the peptone
(which is a great growing medium fur
microbes) would be presumed to have
come from the bullets. The tracks of
the bullets through the gelatine were
duly scrutinized, with the result that
in each case germ growth took place
corresponding to the particular mi
crobes with which the bullets had been
respectively infected. In another se
ries of investigations the bullets were
made to pass through infected flannel
before penetrating the gelatine, the
bullets being of the ordinary kind.
Here, again, microbic growths ap
peared in the gelatine, showing that
the flannel had yielded up its microbes
to the bullets as they traversed it. If
noninfectcd and ordinary bullets were
used the gelatine developed only the
ordinary germ life, such as the air con
tains. The bullet is, therefore, a germ
carrier of a very decided kind, and it is
also clear that if clothing is penetrated
by a bullet prior to its entrance into the
tissues the missile will be liable to
carry into the wound it makes the bac
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A RICE ELEVATOR.
Hew Orleans Claims the First Oae Ever
Erected in the World.
What the New Orleans papers call
"the first rice elevator in the world"
has Just been erected in that city, Bays
the Seattle Telegraph. The "plant"
consists of an elevator tower, into
which the grain is directed through a
movable chute from the loaded rail
road cars and from which it is trans
ferred by machinery to the bins and
barrels of the warehouse, the latter be
ing connected with the elevator tower
by a covered bridge. The rice, on reach
ing the summit of the tower, is spilled
out on a rubber belt some sixty feet in
length, running at a high rate of speed
between rollers inclined at an angle of
sixty degrees. These rollers are lo
cated at intervals of eight feet and
serve to keep the rubber belt curved in
such a manner that the . rice is not
spilled while in transit. This belt
terminates just within the wall of the
warehouse, where the grain is received
in a hopper. At the bottom of this
hopper is an aperture opened by a trap
door, through which the rice is spilled
on to a screw conveyor traversing the
length of the second story of the ware
house and passing over a series of bins
designed to receive the grain. By a
delicate arrangement of scales and
weights the rice is weighed while in
the hopper. At regular intervals rub
ber belts similar to the one running
from the elevator tower receive the
rice from the screw and carry it across
the bins. An ingenious contrivance
causes it to be dropped into the recep
tacle when that receptacle is reached.
A single man can operate this apparatus
and thus control the movement of each
class of rice, till it is finally deposited
in its appropriate bin. Its travels are
by no means terminated at this point.
Six screw conveyors traverse the ceiling
of a lower Btory. Opening the trap
doors in the bottom of the bins on the
story above, the rice enters the spirals
of these machines and is borne across
the building and received upon another
rubber belt. This leads directly to the
milling department, where the husks
are stripped off and the grain pre
pared for the market. The capacity of
the elevator is estimated at about
eight hundred barrels per hour, which
is equivalent to twenty four hundred
bushels, or four loaded cars. The
warehouse can accommodate ninety
thousand bushels of grain.
WITH THE ELECTRICIANS.
.Tint contract for the electrical dis
play at the California midwinter fair
has been awarded to the Western Elec
tric company.
Theme is said to be absolutely no
foundation for the rumor that the
General Electric and the Westing
house companies were about to con
solidate. The entire system of tracks in the
Pennsylvania Railroad company's new
station on Broad street, Philadelphia,
is to be operated by an electric system
of switching and signaling.
The development of gas and gaso
line engines in this country has been
so great and so practical that many
believe it is only a question of time
when they will supersede steam en
gines for the generation of the electric
current.
An electric locomotive which gen
erates its own electricity from a steam
boiler is the latest French novelty in
electric traction. The test of this lo
comotive on its first trial is said to
have been satisfactory, but no infor
mation is given as to the cost of operat
ing it.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
Walter Besant has hurried off to
Vermont to join Rudyard Kipling, and
they will do the world's fair together.
Joseph Nicola, a Penobscot Indian,
has written a one hundred and seventy-five
page book telling of the doings
of his tribe from way back up to tho
present year.
Gkn. Lew Wallace's novel, "The
Prince of I ndia," is nearly ready for pub
lication. The catastrophe of the book
is the assault and sack of Constantino
ple in Mftii, and the entry o( Mohammed
11. into Sancta Sophia.
Mus. Stannard, the writer, who is
best known by the name of John
Strange Winter, sayB she knows of one
happy marriage that was the result of
a proposal made on the fourth day
after the couple met. It is her own.
Mrs. Geohoe William Ccrtis lias
used the money received from the edi
tion of "Prue and I," published by tho
Harper Brothers last Christmas, as a
fund for a free scholarship in the
Staten Island academy, in memory of
her husband.
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THE STING OF THE NETTLE.
Some of the Poisonous Vegetable Mon
sters of Other luda.
The leaf and stem of a nettle are
literally clothed with erect hoUow
hairs. If one of these hairs is viewed
under a microscope it will be seen that
its free end, after tapering to a very
fine degree of slimness, finishes as a
little knob, while in the other direc
tion, after gradually becoming more
robust, it suddenly expands into a large
bulb corresponding with the poison
gland of the adder.
The point of the hair, says Good
Words, is very brittle, and contact
with our skin causes the end to snap
off, leaving a hollow needle point
which readily pierces our cuticle, aud,
pressing upon the bulb at the other
end, the poison is forced though the
central channel and inflames our
blood. The tenderhanded who stroke
the nettle are stung for their pains,
because their gentleness has only
served to break the brittle points and
render them fit for piercing, but the
rough-handed break the hairs at their
thickest parts, whore they are too
stout to prick.
Our common nettles, though they are
capable of inflicting considerable an
noyance upon many persons, are too
insignificant, nevertheless, to be in
cluded among vegetable monsters, and
we have only referred to them for the
sake of making clear the enormities of
some big cousins giants of the nettle
family. These are, first, the Urtica
stimulans aud Urtica crenulata of the
East Indies, species whose attack upon
one's hand is sufficient to cause the arm
to swell with a most frightful pain,
which lasts for weeks. Hut even these
are milk-and-water nettles by compar
ison with the Urtica urentissiina, which
grows in Timor, where it bears the sig
nificant title of Daoun setan, or devil's
leaf. The effects of its sting last for a
year and have often produced death.
Frksii pears sliced and sprinkled
lightly with powdered sugar are a de
licious breakfast dish served with
whipped cream. , This is exclusively
for millionaires now; inter in the sea-
THE WKSTERN I'KDAu'OGUE.
We are in receipt of the May number
of our state school paper. It exceed
any of the former numbers ii value.
Tbe paper this month contains many
new and valuuble features. The illus
trated series on tbe schools nf thn otnr.o
is introduced by a paper on the Friends
x-uiyieconic instnuie at Mslem. Oregon.
These miners nnnnnt fntl tr hu 1
value both fo the soliools so 1 to tho
puuiio.
There are also severnl fine articles
bv onrhent wrirurn u,4 tl, . ......... i
"Current Eveuls,""HKturdny Thoughts,"
iLuuuHiionai .news' "The Oracle
Answers, Correspondents," etc., eaoh
oontain much valuable reading for
teachers or parents. The magazine
has about 50 pages of matter, well
printed and arrnntred. We pronounoe
the Western Peduuoo-iin tho n.i
r. -"v uubii cuuiiW
tionnl monthly on tbe ooust.
everyone or our renders Bbould have
the psper if they are at all interested
in eduontion. No tenohnr school direc
tor or Htniliint nun utm. iili,, -.ui.
out it. VVb will receive Biibsoript.ons
nt this olliee. Price only $1.00 a year.
wueu uesireu we win send the Western
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sample copies. Teachers, direotors and
pmcuin, now in me nme in subscribe, tf
0. A. It. NOTICE.
We take this opportunity of informing
our subscribers that the new commis
sioner of pensions has been apoointed
lie isan old soldier, and we believe
that soldiers and their heirs will re
oeive justioe at his lianda. We do not
anticipate that there will be any radical
chaugeB iu the administration of pension
aff airs under the new regime.
We would advise, however, that U. 8,
soldiers, Bailors and their heirs, take
steps to make application at onoe, if
they have not already done bo, in order
to secure the benefit of the early filing
of their claims in case there should be
any future pension legislation. Huoh
legislation iB Beldom retroaotive. There
fore it is of ureat importance that ap
plications be filed in the department at
tbe earliest possible date.
If the U. H soldiers, sailors, or their
widows, ohildren or parents desire in
formation in regard to pension matters,
they should write to tbe Press Claims
Company, at Washington, 1). 0., and
they will prepare and send the necessary
application, if they find them entitled
nnder the numerous laws enacted for
their benefit. Address
PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
John Weddkrhurn, Managing Attor
ney, Washington, U. C, P. 0. Box 385
tf.
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