Th9 Ksw York Uusic Frauds
New York frauds and fakes are al
most numberless. Perhaps . the most
pathetic victims among them all are
those-of the "voice culture'' teachers.
These men accumulate f ortunes " f rom
the poor gifis "who flock to New York
for the purpose of cultivating their
voices and becoming public singers.
These fake teachers charge seven ant'
eight dollars an hour ior their . ies
sons and in about two years succeed
in ruining about every voice that they
:have had anything to do with. These
foreign teachers, Italian,-French, or
whatever they may be, are not sing
ers themselves they cannot show a
' pupil how a phrase should oe reu-
. dered or a tone produced they can
only describe it. They are generally
excellent pianists. When the pupil
undertakes to sing, these sharpers will
throw in an accompaniment so Deau
tifully rendered that it wouid make
one think that he was on the plains
of Faradtee and could inhale the per
fumes of the celestial flowers. The
young lady thinks it is she who is
making the entrancing,; musical ef
fects! So she pays her eight dollars
twice a week and practices by hersell
unremittingly and without instruc
tion,' until that fatal tremulo or other
'defect' in her voice becomes so dis
tinct that she . recognizes it herself."
Then despair seizes upon her heait
and she returns to her friends who
, have denied ' themselves every com
fort for many long months, tuat she
might -have the. money to. cultivate
her voice, wretched, ruined, despon
dent. The editor of The Independent
saw and heard so much of thai in the
city of New York, that he came home
with almost a broken heart himself
from thinking about these fair wrecks
cast on the roadside to die in wretch
edness and despair. Their are liter
ally hundreds of such cases in New
York. The editor saw so much and
heard so much concerning these mu
ncal fakirs that he fels it his duty
to give a warning to parents and the
ambitious young girls of the west.
Many young ladies with good voices
have gone to New York; and spent
hundreds, and even thousands of dol
lars to have them ruined. '
Many of these young women prac
ticed -for months most faithfully,
ridiculous contortions of 'the body in
the hope of producing a greater
breathing power, and during all the
time never had one hour of real in
struction. It is pitiful pitiful.
TW Jndjepen4ent wishes .to say .to
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL.
few People Know How Useful it is in Pre
serving Health and Beauty, i
Nearly everybody knows that char
coal is the safest and most efficient
disinfectant and purifier in nature, but
few realize its value when taken into
the human system for the same cleans
ing purpose. ' ' ;
Charcoal is a remedy that the more
you take of it the better; it is not' a
drug, at all, but simply absorbs the
gases and impurities always present
in the stomach and intestines and car
ries them out of" the system.
Charcoal sweetens the breath after
smoking, drinking or after eating
onions and other odorous vegetables
Charcoal effectually clears and im
proves the complexion, it- whitens the
teeth and further acts as a natuial
and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs thf injurious gases wnich
collect in the stomach and bowels; it
disinfects the mouth and throat from
the poison of catarrh.
All druggists sell charcoal in one
form or another, but probably the best
charcoal and tbe most for the money
Is in Stuart's Absorbent Lozenges;
they are composed of the finest pow
dered Willow charcoal, and othei
harmless antiseptics in tablet forK or
rather in the form of large, pleasant
taiting lozcitfes, the chareoj. being
mixed with honey.
Tbe dally ue of these lozenges will
uooa tell lu a much Improved condi
tion of the Rent nil health. Utter com
plexion, sweeter breath aud puu-r
blood, and the Iwauty of U Is. that
no possible barm can result from their
eoullnued ufo, but on the contrary,
great benefit.
A Buffalo physldan In peakln ol
,tba benefit of charcoal. Bay: "l ad.
Im3 Htuart's Absorbent I.oit itRea to
all patleuu suffering from ga In the
ti'inrwh and bowels, ami to tlcir the
complexion and purify (he breath,
liiuuth and throat; I &Im brjie th
Iher la prfat.y lwuflti by thr cully
ut of tlinu; they tost but Cu rents
Uh at drug utore. and although In
aou atne a pati est preparation, ye
twIUvi? I get tmre and better chano!
In Htuart'a Absorbent Loienfce ttua
In any i( lh ordinary eUrvcal
Ublrta,"
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parents of aspiring young ladies that
between the "vocalist" and "singer"
a great gulf spreads out over which
but very few indeed have ever passed.
The throat is an organ pipe, assisted
in producing musical sounds by a
mechanism so intricate that no man
or woman has ever yet become famil
iar with all its parts. -All the knowl
edge that mankind has ever obtained
concerning this musical apparatus
may be acquired Including breath
control and the development of ev
ery muscle and delicate nerve con
nedted with it and the apparatus it
self may be well nigh perfect. Then
when the singer has reached, that
point she has only begun. That in
the very-nature of things requires
years'. But she has only begun. She
is at the point where the would-be
pianist sits down before the best in-.
strument for' the first time. These
musical fakirs that lead the bright
young women of the west to come to
New York, and pay 8 an hour for in
struction under the delusion that in
a few months they will become "sing
ers" and the most disreputable vil
lains that ever robbed confiding inno
cence.
When all this preliminary work has
been done, then the singer mu&t learn
how to inspire the emotions and bring
the souls of his hearers into that land
of pure delight where harmony and
thought alone are known. Alter all
this, though i her musical execution
may be faultless, she will be a failure
unless she at the same time also ap
peals to the thought of her audience
She must use not only pure tones, but
reach the heart at the same time with
a clear and perfect rendition of the
words of. the song. The tone is but
hali of her power, the , thought Is 'the
other half, and the singer that uses
only one-half of her power will al
ways fail. . ,
The time was in our earlier develop
ment when a singer by screaming a
high C could command a hearing aud
a salary. But that time has passed
forever. The singer of today must be
able to stand before a large audience
and reveal the inner ideals of the hu
man heart. It cannot be done by eio
cutidn alone or tone production alone,
nowever pertect eitner may be. They
must be combined. Think of the long
practice it takes to perfect a single
phrase, every note pure, clear and of
the exact quality and commingling
with them with just as great clearness
the vowel and consonant sounds going
to torm the words that conveys the
thought. .Only a few, and they the
greatest singei3 that the world has
ever known, have ever been able to
accomplish such a feat.
Just below that sort of perfection is
a very wide field in which some thou
sands may be found, a few among
them almost reaching tne top. They
ar those who have to begin with a
natural endowment and who by some
years of honest, hard work, under
good teachers, have applied them
selves serlojsly. to their task.
Any man who has only a superficial
knowMpe of the subject knows that
in the pure air and natural aavround
Ink of the west, the bet voices are
to be found. That being the cae,
many ef them have gone to New York
to be ruined by the musical fakirs on
the east and west Bide of ttma-lway
from 20th fctre.t up to Suth street.
Tbere are food, honest tfuchrra Jr.
New York, teacher! who he'p thf ir
punll by giving them vahr.bl In
ititittton, but (or th moat part thoj
are not found among thone loreicn
puni-fa who t hnrge s an bom for Ju
t tructiou
3, W. Provolt, Mrotnl, (ik!a.. ;.,a
thf ipuli:4 roniBiHffl of i.nuo'n
totinty nut nt Chandler, OUIa., the
13th. He irmU in for enrollment th
fntir r.m:nlfte of 25 member.
Among these I note thf count) tri)
tm-r, tlrk and rfgbir of dd. two
rvouny commtfrvuutrr, u h-Ucr.
trrr an I Mr. I'rovolt himi i I v,hts
jm!( of Stroud, Kvldcntijr j.j'Im
lounty Is pntty atrongly "lalnUd'
ltb iopulim!
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$25 To The Pacific Coast
Dally March ist to April 3oth 1904, Lincoln to
Portland, Tacotna,Seattle, San Francisco.Los Angeles and San Diego (25.00
Spokane, Ellinsburg and Wanatcheo 122.50. '
Salt Lake, Butte arid Helena 120.00.' Billings $15.00. ' '
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Life Insurance For Renters
This article is addressed to renters
who have an ambition to own a home.
Home!" How' the word thrills us!
vith what pleasure we even antici
pate some day possessing a home of
our very own. It may seem far in the
future, but with ordinary prudvace
and foresight, is quite within the reach
of all. Read this article and act upon
it, and you can make provision where
by, even though you should die with
in the next ten days, your wife will
receive money sufficient to buy her a
home. If you live a stated number of
years, we will pay you a sum which
will guarantee you'a home. We will
suppose that you are thfrty-turee
years of age and the farm you live
upon is' worth $50 per acre. If the
landlord from whom you rent should
propose to permit you to take off
forty acres of the land and execute a
bond for the deed specifying, if you
pay $1.63 per acre every yar for 20
years, over and above the rent you
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death, even though it be within the
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earnings from the land if you live 20
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I; ioii live twenty yearn and make
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