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The New England Conservatory.
It was 2:40 p. m. when Miss Isabel
Smith found herself in the Union station
In Boston. She had come to Boston
to study at the New England
Conservatory.' of Mnsic. Abont balfput
three she stood In the doorway of
the Conservatory. Saoh a big build/
, ing! Would she ever be able to find
her way around in it? There was not
mneh time to think, for a little boy
oame along to take her up stairs to see
Miss Congdon, the room registrar. The
fall term had already begun, so It did
uot take long to seleot a room. The
next thing to be done was to be exam*
tned and to register. At half-past five,
the dreaded examination over, wbioh
she decided was nothing to be dreaded
after all; the registration finished, Miss
Smith was told that she had a letter in
the r>n?t office, and then aha wee iknen
whore to look for the P. O. box.
t the New England Conservatory all
instruments are taught and played*
Our new arrival was startled by a sadden
loud noise, looked up and saw a
m in pounding on a gong, then the
y girls coming down in the elevator and
. erowding the dining room doors. There
~ oonld be only one reason for that per
forraanee ?supper.
The new comer was seated ar. a tahl*
with nine other girls, a Dumber of
whom were "old girls." Then the questions
began. "When did you comeT"
"What State do yon live Id?" "Oh|
that Is my State." "Do yon know the
BrowDH at Xvlllet" "What are you
going to study and who are your teachers?"
"Yon ought to study voice and take
of Mr. Whitney." A little girl who had
come all the way from Montana to Boston
to study the violin began to tell ol
her teaehers. "I s'udy violin with Mr.
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IGruenberg, and Oh,|he is so particular
about every little thins i The way I
used to take lessons before I came here!
I wonld play my lesson to my teacher.
He seldom corrected me, and would say
'take such and snch a thing for yoor
next lesson.' To take the same lesson
over?why, I thought that something
disgraoeful. Here, I find that no one
expects to leave a piece after playing it
only once to the teacher; that he plays
it at lots of lessons before the piece is
put aside- I have decided that It takes
a pretty good teacher to hear the same
piece played at several lessons and always
to send the pupil away feeling as
though he had learned something from
that lesson and feeling that there was
still lots more in fbat piece than he had
&* yet been able to bring out."
"Yon ought to have heard me play
when I eame here a year ego!" remarked
a young lady from the West.
4 I went to Mr. Btaxney. He asked me
to play something for him. I began on
the 'Moonl'ght Soi ate. I didn't finish
it, however I was interrupted by Mr.
Btasney, who asked me to play the B
fiat major scale. I began with the
wrong finger in the left hand. My
teacher watched my fingers a minute,
and then said: "The fourth finger of
the left band on K flat." The more I
Dlaved the oftenerlie ?alH 'F^nrrh fln.
> ger on E flat, fourth linger on E flat."
Bat tomf times my third, sometimes my
second, and sometimes even my thnmb,
would get on that E flat.?any linger
, bat the fourth. I was a little consoled
when Mr. Stagey said that he always
knew whether a pupil knew the fingering
of the scales after he had heard
them play the scale of B fla* ins jo-;
I that almost every new pupil who c irue
to him fingered that scale wrong. Then
> I tried the scale of 0 major. 1 did not
do inueh better with that. There I was,
playing the 'Moonlight Sonata,' 'Liszt i
Rhapsodies,'aud so forth, and I couldn't J
even play the scale of C major to be'
sure o' the QngeriDg every time. Now,
I shall be glad i' I can attempt those (
pleoes in fonr year* from now." r
So the different girls told of their ex- f
perienc s and of their teachers until (
Miss Smith began to wcdtr if she t
would be pat back to the beginning In j
everything?to wonder If sll the hard j
work she bod done under teachers eon- {
sldered good would count for nothing.
ShA began to feel blue and discouraged. .
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wur-u uuc ui IIIO uiu Kir in hpune up
and Mid:
"Now, don't you think that when
yoa come here you must begin at the
first of everything. Ton are pat just
exactly where you belong. If you are
playing such pieces as Paderewski
spends lota and lots of time on before
he feels as though be eould offer them
to the pubMe,, and you don't know i
even the settles and can't play in sharp I
keys, then you may be quite sure those
pieces will be snatched away from you, j
and you will be given a big dose of
scales and sueh pieces as yon can understand.
You are not put baok to go
over what you have aheady learned.
You are put back to go over what you
have never learned. It is a kind of an
evening np process that yon are put
through to catch up with yourself, as
it were. Of course there are lots of pupils
who come here who are weil prepared
in every way to enter the advanced
grades and to go right on with
the rame grade of work they had at I ^
home. I
' Who are your teacher*? Mr. Mahr |
and Madame Hopkins, you say? I
know you wi 1 like Mr. Mahr for your
lolin teacher. He is one of the most ,
thorough teachers in the whole Conservatory.
You will be*r some one
singing Mr. Mabr's praists on every
corner. He has lots of flue pupils, who
have been with him a longtime. Yon
know most pupils, after they have
studied with a fine teacher in America
for a year or two, then they are crazy
to go to Europe. They think they
Cft'i:'* be cuo to
Europe at once. You never bear Mr.
Mahr's puj ils talk that way. They
will all tell you that, they hope to go to
Europe some time, but that they want
to stay with Mr. Mahr a few years
looger before they go.
"About. Madam Hopekuk? She is a
teacher this year. She is a well-known
concert player and teacher. She teaches
the Lecbetitzky methcd. You know
was the same man PaderewsKy aud
Fannie BloomQeld Zaigler studied with.
She is said to be fine. There are from
fifty to sixty te cbers here this fall.
One can't know anything about all of
them."
Af'er supper Miss Smith was taken
to chapel. The chapel exercises were
conducted by one of tbe Boston ministers.
After the half hour at chapel a
visit was made to the library la the
Conservatory. At 8 o'clock Mr. Black,
professor of literature at Harvard, also
at the New England Conservatory,
gave a lecture on "Books and Reading."
He expressed it as his opinion
that the kind of novels one liked were
the kind one should read. In his opinion
a small library is, all that is necessary
for one ,to have; some of the beet
poets, some novels of the kind one
likes, and a good encyclopedia.
Before Miss Smith separated from her
new made acquaintances, plans had
been made to go to Cambridge, go over
the Harvard balldings, to go to Bunker
Hill, the Public Library, Art Museum,
and to many other places of interest
in Boston. She had been told so
many times abont the Symphony coo- t
certs, the Knelsel Quartet concerts, the
opera, orations, lectures and play
houses, that she cou'dn't remember
anything abont any of them, only tbat
every one seemed to think that there
(was no place like Boston in which to
hear good muslo, and nothing to oomnava
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the Kneirel Quartet In any other otty.
Another week I will tell you of the |
trip to Harvard, and, later, abont the |
concerts. I am afraid there will not
be apace for anything more th<B week.
J. D. B.
Boaton, Mara.
Comptrol'er General Norton beat
Johnron for Oongreaa over in the Sixth
diatrict. Hia majority waa abmt BOO
voter, enough to take the election oat
' of any doabt and dispute. Mr. Norton
{ will no doubt r^algn the office of Comptrol
er at an early day. He will have
to be in Washington the ttrst day of
December.
Shooting Negro Postmasters Wrong
and Sometimes Inconvenient.
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 19.?The shooting
>f the negro postmaster at Hogansvllle
hreatens to entail no end of tronble
or the people of that to*n. poet>flice
lospeotor has finished a three
lays' Investigation of the shooting, and
t is stated tonight that as a result oi
118 work two or tbe most prominent
easiness men in the town will be ar e8tod
this week on tbe charge of attempting
to assassinate the postmaster.
The people of the town are called
lpon to face a most uncomfortable
itate of affairs. They have never yet
patronized the negro pontmaster directly?the
old postmaster, Hardaway
maintaining his old postoffice and sendng
for and obtaining in bulk the mail
-natter for all his white patrons. Their
etters were mailed on the train. The
>x-postmaster will be prosecuted for
this and the letters can no longer be
nailed on the trains.
When this action was announced,
two days ago, the oltizens conceived
tbe plan of having their mall sent to
the next nearest postoffice and sending
i carrier for It. They are now told
that this would be in violation of the
rw whioh permits only the governxient
to maintain a poet route. Tbla
brings them to the bitter alternative of
patronizing the negro postmaster or
having no 'nail at all. Feeling Is high
itnong both whites and blacks, and
farther trouble is feared, although it
Is not imminent.
E. R. Parrls.
Mr. E. U. Parris. the subject of thif
sketch, is the inventor of an Improved
road packer. Mr
a Parris wes horn at
Cherokee Hprings
' . n S. C., February 28
JfiJ1875 He was rear
|rv| on a farm an<
'5, '*1* W given the advan
j tages of a cooinioi
j. school education
\ -^u earlw ?tud$z c
workin a am
\ ueages of maciiin
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so Improve a n <
construct a mncbine to be used as i
road packer. The mafe?*ial perfectioi
of the same, places on the market i
v&! uable Improvement that shouli
meet with all satisfactory results. Mr
Parrls lias been awarded a Wedderburi
si!ver medil upon the invention sbowi
iu this device.
L. D. Childs, president of the S'at<
Fair Association b&s sent out a circulai
in vltiDg all to attend the fair til.* year,
Bet-ides the exhibits there will be hors?
racing, a fireman's tournnment, bicycU
racing and uiauy other attractions.
A SEA OP FLAHE.
On the evening: of November, 28th, iStS,
m fire broke out in the British ship Melanie,
loaded with 500 barrels of petroleum. An
awful mass of flames shot up from the main
batch and the vessel quivered from stem to
stern with explosion of the barrels. Her
seams opened and the blazing- petroleum
poured out into the river, spreading a belt
of fire around her The master and seamen
jumped overboard. Captain Sharo, whose
vessel was lying close-by, propelled a small
boat through the blazing river and after a
severe scorching and imminent peril, saved
the seamen from a horrible death.
All over civilization there are thousands
of men in more imminent danger than were
those seamen. They are threatened with
consumption or are already in the clutch of
that deadly disease. If they only knew it,
help is at hand. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery cures 98 per cent, of all cases
of consumption. It also cures bronchitis,
asthma, throat and nasal troubles and all
diseases of the air passages. It is the great
blood-maker, flesh-builder, and nerve-tonic.
It makes the appetite hearty, the digestion
perfect and the liver active. The "Golden
Medical Discovery " is the product of that
eminent specialist, Dr. R. V. Pierce, who,
during the thirty years that he has been
chief consulting physician to the great
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at
Buffalo, has treated more cases than fifty
ordinary physicians treat in a lifetime.
Thousands given up by doctors, have testified
to complete recovery under this marvelous
medicine.
Constipation causes and aggravates many
serious diseases It is speedily cured by
Dr. Pierce's Plea>ant iillcts.
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List of Letters.
?O. D. Anderson, Wm. Allen, Sidney
Arthur (8).
B?Mrs. Snllie Bart, Buck Bros.,
Preston Baldwin, Mrs. Maggie Brown,
i Miss Tezannia Brown.
C?Mrs. 8. A. D. Caldwell.
D?Sammle Daw kins, Furman Davis.
(J?Miss Helen (iordon, Miss Eetel'a
I Ol.nn
H?Ml88 Mary Holmes.
J?Miss Francis A. Jones, J. W. Junnlngs.
L?Mrs. Susan Linder, Mrs. W. ?.
Law son.
i M?Mrs. Bulah McCullougli, S. ?
[ McGee, W. D. McGaiuen, Arthur L.
Manns. Miss Minnie Major.
\ N?Miss Marnio K. Norris.
P?8. A. L. Patterson, Noah Partee
. (2), Tom Penson, Miss Louise B. B.
Prince (2), Mrs. Winnie Pickenpack.
1 P?Miss Belle J. Poole.
It?R. P. Hodge.s, W. M. Itichson,
0 Raner Ricliardscn, Van Rector.
t. 8?Mrs. Carrie Slieltoa, Robert Sulli1
T?Darky Thompson, Miss Hattie
i Tinev, Thomas Thomason.
5 W?J. M. Waden, Miss M. M. Wal1
lace. Miss Leannah Woodruff, J. L.
t Ward.
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1 Sept. 22, 1807.
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5 THE CUBANS' PlKST VICTORY.
Havana, Sept. 13.?Further details
of the capture of Viotoria de la Tunas,
province of Santiago de Cuba, say that
the insurgent*, after capturing the
town, killed with the maohete, forty
guerillas, for having made a stubborn
resistance. It la explained that the
Spanish red cross flag over the hospital
of Victoria de la Tunas was mistaken
by the insurgents for a parliamentary
flag, and an officer sent in that direction.
The Spaniards elaim that the insurgent
leader. General Calixto Garcia,
did not respect the flsg or the hospital,
and bombarded the building, killing or
wounding fifty sick men.
The latest advice* from the Spanish
sources sav that the Insnrireanta lr?ef
over 200 in the lighting about Victoria
de la Tunas, and that among them was
(General Menocal.
The reports from all States east of
the Missippi show that cotton lias lost
10 to 25 per cent, since the flrst day of
September. Notwithstanding that the
price tended downward lagf, week. Instead
rfa ten and a half million bale
crop, it now looks as if it would be a
tight squeeze to make nine millions.
The Woodroff High school began
Monday, the 12th Instant, with a fair
number of pupi's and most encourage
ing prospects. frof. A. B. Btallworth,
the principal, is arsi-ted^n the literary
department by Mies Hallie Stallworth,
while MiHH Annie B. White, of Virginia*
i? the tencher of mu?le.
Bprnial attention ia nailed to the ad
vertisiinent "Wanted?Amenta" in another
column. "The Conlede'ate Soldier
in the Civil War" will be a luoet
valoaoie publication. A lively agent
ongnt to do veil in b< Uing this book.