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Hungary is stated to bo tbo country
where railway traveling is the cheapest.
It is said to bo possible to journey from
Buda Pesth to Kronstadt, a distance of
500 miles, for $1.66, being at the rate
of six miles for two cents. Low as this
price is it is liable to a reduction of one
half in the case, of laborers journeying
in parties of not fewer than ten.
T. C. Crawford, tho well known cor
respondent who had confidential relation;
with the late James G. Blaine, says that
he heard the latter say in Paris fours ag(
that his personal fortune was aboui
$750,000. From other sources of infor
matron Mr. Crawford infers that Mr.
Blaine's “Twenty Years in Congress’
netted him about $200,000. Properties
in Western Peunslyvania aud West Vir
ginia have been the source of the bulk ol
Mr. Blaine's fortuue.
A new State, to be called Ibea, is to
be formed in East Africa under British
control. It will consist of about n
million square miles iu extent, and
though at present sparsely peopled, is
likely to become vastly populous in the
future. Tho province embraces a largo
number of native States with outlandish
names. Tho one selected for it is formed
by usings the imtials of the. words lm- (
perial British JUlst Africa. The name
sounds strange, remarks the Bo-iton Cul
tivator; bccausomew. but iWa will uu
dc/Aiedly familiar enough in
tho course of a years.
The State of Mississippi has cause tc
bo gloriously hippy, writes John Hab
bertou in Once A Week,for arrangements
have been made, through a railway
company, to bring over 50,000 Germans
to tho valley of tho Yazoo—a great tract
of the richest soil iu the world, though
sadly in need of systematic dyking and
drainage. Perhaps other Southern
States will take the hint and hire trans¬
portation companies to do what the
States themselves seem unable to do—
attract great bodies of agriculturists
from E trope. The result would be the
cultivation of laud at present waste and
idle. All classes of emigrants have
quite as large families as the native col¬
ored population; besides they attract
their own kind in great numbers.
Says the Now York Sun: Mexi¬
can Government has discreotly given i/p
its attempts to subdue tho Yaqui Indians
of Sonora, who have withstood all ef¬
forts to subdue them, or impose taxes
upon them, evor since the Spaniards in¬
vaded Mexico in tho Sixteenth Century.
The Yaquis ire a peucoful and indus¬
trious, yet bravo people, who have lived
for ages along the range of tho Sierra
Madre, in the cauons of which they have
always confronted their adversaries.
They number about 20,000, and occupy
eight villages on tho Yaqui River; they
are ruled by their own laws, follow
their ancient customs, till the soil, raise
^ horses, sheep and cattle, weave cotton
and agave, make pottery, and wear gar.
meats that are suitable to tho climate.
Thoy have always refused to pay taxes to
any Government that existed outside of
their own domain; but President Diaz,
though aware of this fact, came to the
conclusion a short time ago that he
could persuade them to assist his treas
ury. He ordered his tax collectors to
enter tho Yaqui country under tho escort
of a heavy body of troops. The Yaqui
warriors, learning of the approach
of these hostile troops, assembled
in a canon of tho mountains, fell
upon them and drove them back into
Ohihuahnu, thus putting an ond to the
lutest attack upon Yaqui freedom. Tho
Mexican treasury has been impoverished,
not enriched, by this Yaqui campaign.
There is not on the American continent
a more interesting tribe of Indians than
the Yauuis of the Sierra Madre.”
LOVE LIGHTENS LABOR.
A good wife rose from her bed one morn
‘ And thought, with a nervous dread.
Of tbe piles of clothes to ba washed, and
[> more
t Than a dossn mouths to be fed;
Ihe meals to get for the men in the field,
•' The children to fix away
To school, and the milk to bo skimmed and
* churned—
.
And all to mo done this day.
It had rainod in the night, and ail the wood
Was ae wet as it could be;
There were puddings and pies to babe, be
, sides
A loaf of oake for tea,
And tbe day was hot, and her aching head
Throbbed wearily as she said,
“If maidens but knew what good wives
know
They would be in no haste to wed." i
“Jenny, what think you I told Ben Brown?”
Called the farmer from the well;
And a flush crept up to his bronzed brow,
And his eyes half bashfully foil;
“It was this,” he said, and coming near,
He smiled, and stooping down
Kissed her cheek—•* ’Twas this, that you
were the best
And the dearest woman in townV"
The farmer went back to tho field, and the
wife,
In a smiling and absent way,
Bang snatches of tender little song*
She’d not snug for many a day;
And the pain in her head was forgot, and
the clothes
Were white as the foam of the sea;
Her bread was light, and her butter was
sweet
And as golden as it could bo.
“.Tust think !•’ the children alt called in a
breath,
“Tom Wood has ruu oft to seai
He wouldn’t, we know, if lie only had
■ As happy a home as we.
The night came down and tho good wife
smiled
To herself as she softly said,
“ ’Tis so sweet to labor for those we love,
It’s not strange that maids will wed I"
—St. Louis Republic.
"LIKE CURES LIKE.”
HE old story—“tbe
coffee cold, the fire
m nearly out, and the
room full of stifling
smoke.”
Mr. Grumble drew
his chair up to the
breakfast table as
l he spoke, with the
» \x J'i lace of a martyr.
Av 7' “The coffee is
only just made,”
said Mrs. Grumble, a pretty, timid look¬
ing woman, with soft bluo eyes and
brown braids; “and I don’t really think
the room is very cold. As for the smoke,
I am sorry, but the man promised me to
have the chimney seen to yesterday.”
“Of course hedid—nobody ever kcops
promises to us,” groaned Mr. Grumble.
“If it> had-boon Smith' aow, the chim¬
ney would have been seen to long ago.
Do give mo a piece of steak that is at
least warmed through, we’re not canni
Vis, that I know of, to eat our meat
raw. But that’s always tho way—we
never had a cook that understood how
to broil a steak?”
“But, my dear,” said Mrs. Grumble.
“Don’t tell me,” interrupted Mr.
Grumble. ,“I know jutt hov. things
ought to bo done. The paper hasn’t,
come yet, I suppose. No, of course not.
I really wish somebody would enlighten
me as to why my paper is always half an
hour later than anybody else’s. If that
baby doesn’t leave off crying I shall cer¬
tainly go crazy.”
“Its teeth trouble it,” sighed Mrs.
Grumble, leaving tho breakfast table to
walk up aud down tho room with her
fretting little charge.
“Oh, nonsense 1” said Mr. Grumble,
sharply, charging at a slice of toast with
his fork. ‘You coddle it too much, that’s
all.”
Mrs. Grumble thought of the general
commotion into which the house had
been thrown about a month previous
when Mr. Grumble had had tho tooth¬
ache. But she only nestled the baby’s
velvet head ugainst her shoulder aud
said nothing—woman’s way of disposing
of a great many little martyrdoms.
".Nov^, then, where’s ray hat?” de
rnandco' Mr. Grumble, rising and look¬
ing around, “Very singular that that
hat is never in fij place.”
“It is just where you -flungit yourself,
papa, in tho hall,” said little7larry from
behind his spelling book.
“Children shouldn’t talk no much,”
said Mr. Grumble, tartly. * ‘My dear,
that rent in the lining of my overcoat
isn’t mended yet—why did you not see
to it?"
“I intended to do so,” said his wife
apologetically, “but you know wo had
company last night, and the baby slept
so badly that I rose rather later than
usual this morning, but—’’
“Always some excuse,” interrupted
lier liege lord. “I really don’t under¬
stand the reason that nothing is ever
done in time in this house.”
He gave the front door rather an em¬
phatic slam as ho went out, and little
Mrs. Grumble, instead of rebelling
against her husband’s iron rule, just sat
down to cry.
Mr. Grumble wasn’t by any means a
bad husband. lie really loved his wife
and believed himself to bo a pattern of
conjugal amiability, only ho had, some¬
how or other, fallen into the unconscious
habit of fault finding, and, like many
another individual, whenever he couldn't
think of anything else, to dc, he grum¬
bled.
“Crying ngnin, Bessie 1” exclaimed
her brother, coming in an hour or two
later. “Now, that’s too bnd. I sup¬
pose Henry has been treating you to an¬
other domestic growl? I’ve a great mind
to tell him how uncomfortable you are
msdo by bis little eccentricities. Shall
I, Boss?”
“No, no—I wouldn’t bavo you breathe
o syllable to him for the world 1” eagerly
exclaimed Mrs. Grumble, hurriedly dry-
ing her tears. “Her ry doesn’t meUfifto
aunoy me. He has the kindest heart in
the world, and I know he loves me!”
“I dare say he does," said young Mr.
Carlton; “but why is he fretttn rAa d
after fault-finding day? Upon hour mv(word, aft^ hour, Bessie, andMiay I
thick it’s an oversight in our laws, that
there is not one to punish married men
who scold I”
“Don’t talk so, 'lorn,” said Mrs.
Grumble, blame; earnestly. only “(Yeary trouble,Sw&f, isn’t at all
to baby is •' -y
and I had an indifferent night’s rest,
and—”
“Oh, ah! I understand,” said Tom,
significantly, smiling. “My dear little
forgiving of.” Bess, you ought to bo made n
martyr lie sat a igowootor two iu
deep thought; then, suddenly
ap, exclaimed: “I must be gone, or I
shall be too late at the station to meet
Uncle Tompkins. Did I mention to you,
by tho way, that Uncle Tompkins was
coming to vhit you!”
“Uncle Tompkins? I didn’t know we
had an Uucle Tompkins, Torn/”
“Didn’t you, dear? Well, pleaso to
prepare your best bedroom for comply
—the old gentleraau is rather particular
—grumbles a gopd deal, id fact; but,
then, you are used to that sort of
thing.”
“But, Tom, I don’t quito under¬
stand-”
“Don’t detain mo now, Bo3sio. I
will come myself with the old gentle¬
man, and introduce him. Good-by!”
The moment the door had closed be
hind Tom, Bessie put her baby, into tho
cradle and clasped her banks-.to her
aching head. What was Tom wiitji .thinking
of? How should she exist anotEet
growler domiciled for nobody knew how
long at her hearthstone? But, perhaps
they might neutralize one another like
two powerful poisons.
There was a spice of comfort in t|iat
reflection at least, aud Bessih. smiled. GiPiith^Jifr
wiped her eyes aud almost
What was Mr. Grumble’s surprise, ou
coming home that evening, fully pinned
for a domestic tirade on tbo subject<jS-u
button which had drifted down Imp es[i;eial his
shirt front that day, to find his
easy chair and corner of the lire occupied
by an asthmatic old mau, whose lead
aud face were enveloped iu a silk iifiiij,
kerchief! He stopped short in amaze¬
ment and horror. n
“This is Uncle Tompkins, IleuTy, >• t
said Mrs. Grumble, who was busy
warming a basin of gruel over tho tire;
and the old gentleman extended wie
finger without turning his head, saying
in n cracked voice:
“I wish, nephew, you would shut
tlrnt door. Nobody ever thinks of
shutting a door in this house! I’m siff
fering noise upstairs? from a terrible I bag, cold. noice, WhaU<-ikf& tha 1
you
baby won’t cry tho whole time that X
am here. Is tea ready? If so, I will
take a cup hero by the fire!”
‘•What, does this mean, my dear?,”
ejaculated Mr. Grumble, v.aos^^rm in ^hurried
whisper, and the wife, he
had caught ou the way to
after bon
plied in the sai~l--.ilor '
“Oh! you musn’t mind my undo,
dear; he doesn’t mean anything, only
he is old and whimsical!”
“But a man has no business to mako
everybody else uncomfortable in this
sort, of way,” muttered Mr. Grumble. ,
He silently devoured his meal, secrou
ly wondering how long Uncle
meant to stay. No sooner was the table
cleared than the irascible old gentleman
began again.
“Grumble," said he, “I wish you’d
stop that creaking of your chair; my
nerves are so weak, and if you could
keep your children upstairs their racket
wouldn’t disturb mo so much.. I really
don’t know how I’m going to stand that
baby's noise.” -
“I do not think it is a very noisy
baby,” said Mr. Grumble, meekly. “It’s
teeth are very painful just at present.”
Mrs. Grumble, who was poking the
lire in accordance with her uncle’s petu¬
lant request, said nothing but smiled
quietly to hear her husband trying to
nuatc the baby’s sins.
a ( Well,” remarked Mr. Tompkins,“all
babies aro nojay. And by the way,
Grumble, I wish you would oil thfc
of that squeaking door; .and I
don’t like the smell of that geranium in
the window. Ilalleo! you haven’t any
top button in your shirt front 1 I hope
niece isn’t u careless wife!”
“Not at all,” said Mr. Grumble,
nervously; “but the care of her child
and housekeeping duties absorb a great
deal of her time. The instant she finds
leisure she will look to my clothes.”
“I don’t see how a woran can spend
her whole time keeping house and look¬
after a pack of children,” observed
Tompkins, incredulously.
About ten o'clock tho. old gentleman
was ushered to, the spnro room, accom¬
panied by a procession of medicino
phials, n tub of hot water, woollen
dressing robe9 and heated blankets for
his feet, and bis absence occasioned vcify
relief.
“ What an insufferable old duffer that
is!” exclaimed Mr. Grumble, throwing
himself with a sigh of satisfaction into
his favorite seat onco more. “My dear
how could you endure this in¬
fault finding?"
“I am accustomed to that, Henry. It
tile lesson ir ny married woman UrumfcK are
to learn,” replied Mrs.
a sigh. ■
Her husband pricked up his ears i
uneasily, “Accustomed to it?”
did she mean? It was not po i
could not bo possible—that 1 o
like that odions old Undo Tomi l.
kins. And yet he wished Bessie had maife nft
in that way. Somehow it
feel excessively uncomfortable.
days paBsedaway, Uncle Tompkins tfyo
more and snore intolerable
whole time, while Mr. Grumble im¬
proved the looking-glitsi occasion by making a sort of
of that worthy old
'
“Upon—my—word,” said he to him¬
“I must have been a perfect nuia
nnce all these years/ Why didn’t souje
body tell me of it VI
I
At length Uncle Tompkins went away,
flannel robes, medicine bottles and all,
and on the evening of the same day Tom
Carlton arrived from a temporary ab¬
sence, nobody knew where.
“So uncle has been visiting you?” he
said, gayly, to Mr. Grumble.
“Yes," said the latter with a slight
grimace. “Wbat
sort of a looking man is he?”
Mr. Grumble was silent for a moment.
“Do you know,” he exclaimed, burst¬
ing into a perplexed laugh, “I couldn’t
describe a single feature of his face. He
was always enveloped, like an Egyptian
mummy, in a silk handkerchief, some¬
thing like that one you have in your
baud. However, I’m heartily glad he’s
fi onu - With my permission, ho shall
^ver “No, set 1, foot in this house again.”
said Tom, archly.
“The most intolerable fault-finder I
ever met with,” said Mr. Grumble; “ab¬
solutely the most disagreeable man who
ever encumbered the earth! I don’t see
how it is possible to grow’ ■'‘•everything,
as hs did.”
“That’s not an uncommon failing, I
believe,” observed Tom, demuroly, smil¬
ing.
“Vury likely,” said tho brother-in
law, emphatically, “but his visit has
been productive of at least one good ef
^ebt—it has completely cured me of any
tendency I might have had that way. I,
for one, mean to leave off grumbling.”
ble," “I’m happy to hear it, Nephew Grum¬
exclaimed a cracked voice.
The victimized man started up in dif
may, scarcely believing the testimony of
his senses, ns Tom twisted the silk hand¬
kerchief skillfully around his head, and
bent himself nearly double, with an
asthmatic sound between a groan and a
grunt.
“Why, you don’t mean to say that
you aro Uncle Tompkins?” exclaimed
Mr. Grumble.
“Pardon me, Henry,” said Tom, smil¬
ing, “but I saw that you had uncon¬
sciously become a habitual grumbler,
and I judged that the best antidote was
a faithful representation of your own
iailings. Was I right?”
His brother-in-law was half inclined
to be angry, but thought bettor of it.
“Shake hands,Tom,” said he. “You’re
an irreverent young scamp, but I forgive
you. At all events, tho cure is com¬
plete,” And Bessie found it.—True Flag,
so
Thwarting Counterfeiters.
“Just how carefully the Government
tries to prevent counterfeiting is Ulus
trated iu no way more forcible than in
the destruction of the dies,” said an at
tache of tho Sub-Treasury the other day.
’
“This is done at all tho United States
once a yoar, and in accordant
with tho custom a few days ago the
stamps from which all the coins and
bank notos are made aro melted with
other metal.”
Before placing them in the fire pro
ptt rato»y to their destruction each buch
o f di es was carefully examined by the
representing the dlfferct ootajnired depart
UflKogistry .m.i tht— nuibUkis >vit’u
book. Tho dies aro made
of the best cast steel, tho average weight
being about a pound. The silver coin
stamps, beginning with dollars, wero
first destroyed; then followed the half
dollars, current series, quarter dollars
and dimes. These included all stamps
which the halves, quarters and
of new design were coined, Tho
gold coin stamps were next destroyed,
then followed those for tho nickel and
the copper or bronze pieces.
The last to be operated upon wore the
stamps which gave tho Columbian half
dollars their value. Tho most interest¬
ing stump of the 900 odd was the one
from which the first Columbian half dol¬
lar was coined. Next in value were
those which stamped the Columbian hall
dollars numbering 400, 1492 and 1892.
The number of coins and their value
stamped by the dies destroyed alone in
Philadelphia 1,558,192, this yenr are as $11,840,- follows:
Gold pieces, value,
202.50; siiver pieces, current series, 23,-
280,980, value, $5,251,303.25; $584,982,10; nickel
pieces, 11,699,(542, value,
copper pieces, 37,649,832 v valuc, $376,-
498.32; Columbian half dollars, 950,
000, value, $425,000.—New York Tele¬
gram.
Arctic Mysteries Solved by Botany.
Arctic research is paiticularly active
at this time, and efforts are made to get
some sort of a view of tho condition of
things before the vast ice sheet spread
over so much of tho northern portion of
the hemisphere. Arctic fossil plants
especially are studied in the hope that
they will add some light to the little
already known on tho subject. It has
been the belief of leading American bot¬
anists that as the ice sheet progressed
southwardly the arctic plants went in
advance, tho cooler temperature giving
them a chance to extend themselves where
greater warmth loving plants had been
before. When the glaciers receded these
plants followed back Again, on the same
principle. The thought has been that
after so many ages of new environment!
the species would change somewhat, and
some of those tho glacier found in tem¬
perate climates would, or should unde:
tho environment principles, ,learn to en¬
dure arctic cold, and follow the glacici
to its polar home. Hence the remains of
tbo ancient flora under tho ice is always
a matter ot special interest when found.
Tbe latest contribution to the subject is
by Element Reid before the British Asso¬
ciation for the Advancement of Science.
Depressions, below the regular levels, as
if there bad been subsidence, are occa¬
sionally found under old glacial lines.
These were filled with silt as the ice
streams flowed over them. In one near
Edinburgh the fossil remains of thirty
species had been found, and, though so
many agos have passed since identical they were with
living things, they are
species still living within tbe arctic
circle, though Scotland. some are Among not now them found
in arctic are
the self same arctic alders, birches and
willows that form the sole arctic bushes
of the present time.—New York Inde¬
pendent,
HELPING THE STAMMERER.
LATEST MODES OE TREATMENT
EXPLAINED BT EXPERTS.
She Difference Between Stammering
and Stuttering—How Children
May Be Cured of the Infirmity,
"T'T has been*estimated that out of the
I entire population of the United
States there are about 300,000 men,
women and children who stammer
in their speech. Formerly, it was be¬
lieved that this infirmity could not be
cured, demonstrated but specialists in nervous diseases
have that cures can be ef¬
fected in a reasonable time by proper
treatment and training.
“I was a stammerer myself,” said Dr.
Graeme M. Hammand to a New York
News reporter, and so was my father,
Dr. William A. Hammond, before me.
I could not recite a lesson in school, I
stammered so badly. When I was told
to deliver a message I would contort,
grimace and make all sorts of frantic
movements and never utter a sound. I
did not get over stammering f;om the
time I could talk until I was twenty-one;
even now, at times, in momonts of ex¬
citement, certain words are difficult to
say. I also notice that when my father
talks excitedly he will stammer a little.
“There is a difference between stam¬
mering and stuttering,” Dr. Hammond
continued. “Stammering is caused by
spastic spasms, or rigid spasms of the
muscles of respiration. Iu this condi¬
tion, the individual, though he make
strenuous efforts, cannot articulate at
all. Stuttering is caused by a mobile
spasm of the lips aud tongue, and in
this condition the individual repeats syl¬
lables rapidly a number of times before
the word can be spoken. Now, in or¬
der to cure stammering, the child must
overcome all timidity and bashfuluess.
As long as a child is confused by people
laughing at it and feels hurt at being ri¬
diculed, just so long will stammering
continue, and even become worse. When
a child can laugh at its own efforts and
failures to talk properly and ceases to
feel any embarrassment in speaking be¬
fore others he has accomplished half of
the cure. The next clement is perfect
articulation, The child should be
taught to speak slowly and to articulate
every syllable distinctly, to practice elo¬
cution privately and to persist in finish¬
ing a sentence when he once begins it
even if it takes him some time to do it.
Even by following out this plan of
treatment progress is necessarily slow
and it takes years of constant effort be¬
fore the individual can consider himself
cured.”
Dr. Hammond added that the physi¬
ology of stammering was not thoroughly
understood. It was a nervous treble, it^y
of course, but the exact nature of us
not known. A stammerer could talk ito
himself alone by the hour and sing, lif
ho had any talent in that direction. j
Dr. Hammond finds no difficulty publicl now¬
adays dr in lecturing, speaking in howl
at dinners. that* It would Wheifcdltbry appear, ii
^ver, stammering the doctor's daugbtti
many cases, as month!
stammered for a period of three /
before sho was broken of it.
For the past thiitoen years Mr. F. A.
Bryant, of New York, lias made a
specialty of curing cases of stammering. constant
“There is likely to be a in¬
crease in the number of stammerers in
tbe United States,” he said, “op account
of- the prevalence of nervous diseases aud
the precocity of children. Not so many
stammorers, however, are seen nowadays
in aduit life as formerly, because they
uro taken in hand and cured by the
schools for stammerers. There is no
secrecy about their methods, which are
based on scientific principles, and there
are more pupils in these schools now
than ever before. A permanent cure lor
stammering requires several weeks or
months training, not only of tho physical
organization concerned in the act of
speech, but also in adult cases of the
mental functions. In adult cases the
lost confidence must be restored and the
pupil given lacked.” the assurance he has
previously
Mr. Bryant declared that it was best
for parents who had stammering children
to be kind and gentle and yet firm with
them until they reached an age when
they began to see that they did not
speak as other children did and mani¬
fested a desire so to do. Then if the
parent thought the child realized the
importance of a teasouabie amount of
application it and perseverauce it was time
to put under special training for the
defect. Until, however, a child realized
that it must fully co-operate with the
teacher it was worse than useless, or
rather it was detrimental, to attempt to
correct the difficulty. This was so be¬
cause, like any other syBtcm of training,
the methods employed were sometimes
arduous, and children, as well as grown
folks, were apt to grow tired and not
accomplish much where they were not
interested.
In describing his treatment of stam¬
merers, Mr. Bryant referred to the fact
that the production of speech was effect¬
ed by the joint agency of the brain and
nervous system, the respiratory, vocal
and articulating organs. That the mus¬
cles of the abdomen, diaphragm, thorax,
etc., had special functions to perform,
and if they did not act in harmony there
could bo no correct production of articu¬
late language.
The first exercise is in simple calis¬
thenics, an outward, forward and down¬
ward movement of tho arms, which
serves to develop the muscles of the
fhest and uppqr part of the body. It is
af more importance, however, in giving
the will of tho pupil a stronger com¬
mand over his muscles.
Then the pupil inhales a deep breath
after several repetitions of this, goes
through tbe movement once and exhales,
employing as much evenness of force as
possible. Other exercises are used to
give flexibility to the respiratory mas¬
ses, to strengthen and aid in the con¬
trol of the diaphragm, and to render the
muscles of the throat and neck more
Sexiblc. In obstinate cases, health lifts
and rope and weight chest expanders
\#rc also employed.
There are also respiratory exercises by
which the pupil is taught the necessity
of breathing slowly, strongly and evenly
from the diaphragm, and these are
joined with the vocalizing exercises.
The most complex of all are the articula¬
tory exorcises, which are performed
slowly, each vowel sound being pro¬
longed far beyond its customary length
and breath is taken between the words
at first.
WISE WORDS..
Repose is the mother of activity.
The man who does little is little.
All strength has its foundation in weak¬
ness.
All lios are fleet, but none are sure¬
footed.
More people would be geuerous if
more were honest.
■ Eart hworms have done more to benefit
man than elephants.
Wherever there is a sin it is sure to be
followed by a sorrow.
The best answer you can make to sclf
couceit is to keep still.
There aro too many men who love to
preach but hate to practice.
To be a cheerful giver means some¬
thing more than being free with money.
If you want to keep out of darkness,
never let tho sun go down on your wrath.
Light shines, but the brightest paint
has nothing to say for itself in the dark.
The only opinions that weigh muen
aro those we have the courage to express.
The thing we grumble about is often
tho one that is doing the most lor our
good.
The woman who marries a man to re¬
form him is a noble example of wasted
effort.
No dollar can buy so much as the one
that has been squarely aud honestly
earned.
Conscience is not a safe guide iu any
matter upon which it has not been en¬
lightened.
More pecfple would be happy to-day if
they would stop worrying about tho trou¬
bles of to-morrow.
There are people who want to do good
until they sit down and count the cost.
Then they back out.
There are more than a thousand ways
in which some people can tell the other
people that they aro proud.
Before you kill yourself trying to ac¬
cumulate wealth, go and ask a million¬
aire how much money it takes to make n
man rich.—Ram’s Horn. «
To Run Canal BoaSf \ Electricity.
Electricians are curiously iuterested in
the proposition to operate the canals iu
New York State by a trolley system.
Govoraor Flower is reported to be much
in favor of tbe scheme. He believes
these inland waterways can be equipped
with the single trolley overhqfd system
Jo£ 8LOOQ.OOO. He^avi^bi^vshas
look a into m.iilW i i
that, together with expjHUgW AUHe.stigations
md those of nn electrical
0tl *<*spr with whom he is
the fuliy’^jj^inCeu] bcIiimL of tln^^^^^Kbility of
tem The could Stat>he rush maintaflil^Dy through from this Buf¬ sys¬
e-, a ts
falo to Albany at si/ty cent s a day each.
In his estimate of $l,ouo,U/M of the trolley Gov¬
ernor figures the cost piles, and
wires and power houses at Albany
Buffalo and twelve intermediate plants.
It costs the canalmen $3 a day now for
the foeding aud care of their horses.
The trolley system would be a greats
saving to the boatmen, aud would in¬
sure quicker transportation. The elec¬
tric system would entail an outlay of
from $150 to $200 for the uecessary
machinery for each canal boat, whtcu
would have to be borne by the boat
owners. The State would save by this
system because fewer repairs would be
required. The Governor believes that
it is sure to come in the near future.—
Washington Star.
Mako Hour Shoe Polish.
Here is a recipe for making shoe polish
which, it is said, will give an excellent
lustre to ladies’ shoes, can be very
cheaply prepared, and will not injure
the leather, os do most of the polishes
that are sold in the stores. Mix two
pints of the best vmegar and one of soft
water into wnich is stirred a quarter of
a pound of glue, broken up, a half
pound of logwood chips, a and quarter of an
ounce of the best soft soap a quarter
of an ounce of isinglass. Piaue boil the mix¬
ture on the fire and let it for ten
minutes or more. Then strain the
liquid, bottle and cork it. It is fit lor
use when cold. Apply with a clean
sponge.—New Orleans Picayune.
Give Your Pen a Rest.
Joseph Gillott, a member of the well
known firm of makers of steel pens, is
now 7 in this couutry and has been giving
a tip about tbe use of pens. He says a
steel pen will last four months with care¬
ful use, but the important thing is this:
“If your pen gets scratchy and doesn’t
write well don’t cast it aside for a new
one. That is tolly. The pen is not worn
out, but simply tired. Give it a rest for
a day or two; then hold it iu a gaslight
for perhaps fifteen seconds, not longer,
and resume your writing. If you are not
pleasantly surprised at the results I’il set
myself down as a poor prophet.”—Detroit 1
Free Press.
No Danger if Sea Room is Plenty.
A stauncti vessel on the open sea 500
miles from land in tbe worst of gales is
in no imminent danger. The danger to
a ahip is the shore. Tbe danger is less
when lying to w.th a disabled shaft and
the comfort of the passengers is greater
than when running. Fifty years ago a
sailor sailing s 300-tou bark in a gale at
sea, if he was far enough away from
laud, would simply take in bis sails and
spars, lash his helm, batten his hatches,
go below and sleep until the storm was
over.—Washington Post.