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HIS LITTLE MASCOT By BELLE MANIATES Copyright , 190 U, by Belle Maniates Bradley paused at the door of Miss Kane’s studio, listened a moment to the sound of smoothly struck chords and thei gave an apologetic knock. The music ceased and the door was opened by Miss Kane, teacher of vocal music. “You know better,” she said for biddingly. “Yes,” he said with penitent air, “but I am not'a visitor. I came on profes sional business, really,” and walked on into the room.” “Do you want your voice tried?” she asked sarcastically. “No, I don’t want you to score an other point against me, but I called to see you in regard to your pupil, the little girl Tatti. I understand she is to make her debut at the charity con cert tomorrow night. I want to write her up.” “Oh!” she exclaimed, interested, but still skeptical. “And since when did the city editor himself take to writing ‘ln a Minor Strain’ column?” “Miss Fleming is ill,” he replied, “and we are all helping her out. I volunteered to take this part of her work. I thought, Miss Kane,” he said earnestly, “that it would be to your advantage and to that of the child to get satisfactory press notices, and I will write whatever you wish.” “Thank you very much, Mr. Brad ley,” she replied, her little air of re serve melting for the once. “I shall be very glad if you will do so.” “Now, what kind of a voice has she?” “High soprano. Her voice is perfect ly placed. When I discovered her pure tones—l heard her first in a school—l had her come to the studio. I sounded low C on the piano and asked her to sing the note. She did, with perfect attack and pitch. Then she kept on with the successive tones and half tones until we came to B flat. I be gan to tremble, for there begins the middle register, the stumbling block of nearly all singers, but the right quality came into her voice—that imperceptible shading of the chest tones as they emerge into the smooth waters of the soprano’s realm. The tones kept com ing clearly, sweetly and with a silvery ring until I didn’t dare take her any farther.” “I suppose it’s all right,” said Brad ley, with a perplexed sigh, “but it’s all Greek to me. If her voice was perfect by nature why are you giving her les sons?” “I have made her voice stronger and more flexible; have taught her phras ing and enunciation.” “I think you had better write a little sketch of her personality and voice and I will publish it.” There came a light rap at the door, and a slender little wisp of a girl with big brown eyes and golden hair came into the studio. “This, Mr. Bradley, is my little song bird, Louise Harvey.” Bradley was very fond of children. He shook hands with the little song stress and, turning to Miss Kane, said: “Is it possible that this microscopic child can sing so gloriously as I have heard it intimated?” The little girl drew herself up with a suspicion of hauteur. “I am in my teens!” she protested. “That does give one an old feeling,” he said, with a laugh. “I haven’t for gotten the first day I could say so proudly, ‘I am in my teens.’ ” “Have you been out of them long?” Miss Kane could not forbear asking. The bright eyes of Louise sparkled with appreciative mirth. “Miss Louise, you mustn’t make fun of me. I have the power to make or mar public personages. I am going to put your picture in the paper to night, and the day after tomorrow I shall tell how well you can sing.” “Thank you,” said the little girl sim ply. “But I must go now. I came to return this music, Miss Kane.” “I will go with you,” said Bradley. “We will stop at the florist’s and or der some flowers for you to carry at the concert.” Louise flushed with pleasure as she lift the room in company with Brad ley. “I like Miss Kane. She is lovely to me,” she confided when they were out on the street. “I wish she would be lovely to me,” he said ruefully. “Is she mad at you?” asked Louise ingenuously. “Yes, music mad. But unfortunately I can only appreciate music from a rag time standpoint, so I can’t creep into the circle of devotees Miss Kane draws around herself.” “Why don’t you jump in?” asked Louise. He stopped abruptly and looked re flectively at her. “That’s a very good idea, Miss Lou ise. Thank you.” When they reached the florist’s and Louise had selected the roses he was to send to her on the morrow, Bradley said: “Now I will make my first jump and send Miss Kane some roses too.” “Send her violets,” replied the little girl earnestly. “They are her favorite flower.” “Thank you again, Miss Louise. You are certainly my mascot.” He ordered a huge bunch of violets to be sent to Miss Kane on the even ing following and left his card to ac company them. When Beryl Kane was dressing for the concert a box !rom the florist’s was brought to her. A little thrill of pleasure went through her as she lifted the cover and saw the violets; another when she read the card. “I thought,” she mused, “that he held me in disdain as ‘one of that musical crowd’ who are so uninteresting to him. He addresses such curt, cynical remarks to me when we meet. I al ways begin to get a retort ready as soon as I see him approach. I wonder how he came to send me these! I sup pose because he was giving Lou some.” She sighed as she finished her toilet. Her carriage stopped at the home of her little pupil, and Louise, radiant with excitement and pleasure, came out, carrying her roses. “You got the violets Mr. Bradley sent you, didn’t you?” asked the young girl as she took her seat beside Miss Kane. “I must tell you what he said about you. He said you were music mad and you didn’t care for him because he wasn’t musical and he could never get into your circle, and I told him to jump in.” Beryl listened to this voluble confi dence with the feeling that she ought to check or reprove the little tale bear er, but she didn’t. She felt still an other little thrill and thought what a lovely night it was. If only Louise would do her best! Louise did. She came out upon the stage clad in the white robes of a chorister, her fair childish face brilliant with excitement and expectancy. Her eager, searching eyes caught sight of Bradley in one of the boxes. She flush ed happily while the dimples came and went. The prelude to her number end ed, Bradley, the crowd, every one, van ished from her thoughts. She forgot herself in the grand music of the “Ave Maria,” and she surpassed in its de livery the highest hopes of her teacher. Then followed a wild ecstasy of ap plause from an enthusiastic audience, and she reappeared, this time attired in & pretty white frock. She sang “Home, Sweet Home,” into the hearts of her hearers. Applause, calls, recalls and flowers followed. When the excitement had subsided and the next number was on Bradley found his way behind the scenes. “Miss Louise,” he said, bowing low to the happy little girl, “when you are a great prima donna don’t forget that I gave you your first flowers.” “May I thank you for my violets?” said a soft voice behind him. He turned, and his face glowed with pleasure when he saw Ari 's< Kane was carrying his flowers. He noted how happy she looked, but attributed the fact to the success her pupil had scored. “Even I know that Miss Louise made a hit. Every one is wild over her sing ing, and they say she is the perfect ex ponent of your teaching.” “Then mj T ambition is satisfied mu sically,” she replied. “I wanted to be recognised as a successful teacher.” “And have you any ambitions other than music?” “Why, of course,” she laughed. “Mu sic is only a part of my life.” “Every one has an aim,” said Louise precociously. “Mine is to be a prima donna, Miss Kane’s to be a teacher. What is yours, Mr. Bradley?” “To make a scoop,” replied Beryl. “That is only a ‘part of my life,’ ” he quoted. “I have another, a great aim and hope.” “What is it?” asked Louise artlessly. “I am going to tell Miss Kano some time if she will let me. Then I will tell you.” Someone called Louise away just then. “May I come and see you soon—to morrow night—Miss Kane?” he asked in vibrant voice. “Yes,” she replied softly, screening her face with the violets. “I always thought you were bored by people who were not musical,” he said. “And I always thought,” she retort ed, “that you were bored by people who were musical.’ “You were mistaken.” “So were you.” Louise ran to them. “Our carriage is here, Miss Kane. Are we going home now?” “Certainly not,” replied Bradley quickly. “Prima donnas always have a supper after they sing. I am going to take you to one now, and Miss Kane will chaperon us.” “Oh, oh!” cried Lou ecstatically. “This is my loveliest night!” “And mine,” declared Bradley em phatically. “And mine,” echoed Beryl softly. Sins While at Work. “They say the man w hose soul wakes not to music is dead indeed,” said the man on the lookout for odd things, “and the average working negro in this great southland of ours seems to be a pretty fair example of those who have ‘waked,’ if his fondness for vent ing his feelings in music is to be taken as a criterion. Did you ever see a gang of street laborers at work that some one or more of them were not calling out to an original theme a story anent the things good to a darky’s eyes? They seem to fit the very measure of motion, whether it be the swing of a hammer or pick or the heaving of some weighty object. I saw a gang at their labor the other day, and the ditty they enunciated held me intereA ed until I had learned the very rhythm, if not the dialect, myself. These two fellows told their trouble and desire along this line: “ ‘Say, old man, augh!’ (with a swing of the pick). “ ‘Have yer got a good dog?’ “‘Can he catch any coons?’ “ ‘Just take him and try him.’ “Repeating the grunt with every stroke. To the white man this might look like wasted energy, but somehow the negro seems to do more and do it better with a musical incentive.”— New Orleans Times-Democrat. THE TURKEY INDUSTRY. An Active Market Demand and Pos sibilities of Good Profits. Washington.—ln view of an increas ing popular interest in the production of turkeys for market a paper has been prepared by Mr. T. E. McGrew, an ex perienced judge and breeder, and pub lished as farmers’ bulletin No. 200. As to the present condition of the indus try, it is told that the growing of tur keys seems to have improved within the last few years. Throughout the country the attention of turkey growers has been called to the successful production of market THE NARRAGANSETT TURKEY (MALE). turkeys in the state of Rhode Island. Unquestionably some of the best mar ket turkeys produced in the world have been sent out of Rhode Island. The market statistics show that there has been an active demand for turkeys for many years past. The records of the winter of 1903 04 perhaps show the highest prices that have ever been paid for the turkey crop, which seems to have been considerably less in propor tion to the demand than for several years past. The wholesale prices paid in the western states ranged from 10 to 15 cents a pound dressed, with the head, feet and entrails. The average wholesale price as recorded in New York for the past ten years has ranged from 8 to 20 cents a pound. Boston shows a valuation higher than this in a few instances only, and the Chicago market has recorded from 0 to IS cents. Rhode Island turkeys sold at retail in the markets of New York city and Boston during the Thanksgiving and holiday weeks of last winter for as high as 38 and 40 cents a pound, while other turkeys could be bought at 20 to 25 cents. There is no other kind of live stock, according to Mr. McGrew, that will return so large a profit to the success ful producer as will poultry, and no kind of poultry is more profitable than turkeys when properly handled. The fact that turkeys will, from the time they are six weeks old until winter sets in, gain the greater part of their entire living from bugs, grasshoppers and waste grain that they pick up in their wanderings over the range assures their existence througli this period with little cost to the owner. Turkeys are now used not only for roasting, but to an increasing extent for cold cuts and salads, and large numbers of late hatched poults are used for broilers in the large cities. The bronze turkey holds the post of honor in varieties. The Narragansetts ■■ -- 1 ' BUFE TURKEY HENS are next. None is more desirable fo. all purposes. Some growers claim that the Narragansetts will reach market size and condition in less time than the bronze. The buff turkey is not generally grown in this country, but in some lo calities it is highly valued for quick growth and attractive appearance when dressed. Some of the Rhode Island growers are paying attention to this va riety of late experimentally. Early Sown Turnips. Early sown turnips, especially Swedes, are very apt to grow tough and stringy. The usual cause is a de ficiency of phosphoric acid. Chemical fertilizer containing this element in an available form sprinkled along the rows and worked in will do much to correct their deficiency. The cheapest form in which to purchase this element is acid phosphate or dissolved phos phate rock. A dressing of 400 pounds per acre will be sufficient. Poultry on the Farm. The farmer who does not keep poul try not only loses an opportunity to; add measurably to his income, but he i fails to avail himself of one of the j most important privileges that natu- i rally belong to the tiller of the soil, I the opportunity to provide for his table! at nearly all seasons of the year the luxuries of fresh new laid eggs, well fed chickens and well fattened fowl. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Countv Officers. : "• - -’a m: wkSS MuaiciDAl Second Municipal Court, Sheriff .... r t, E^^y e Clerk N-M lr ?£" 0n T> 'a ' ‘ A ‘ H ’ Wiiktnsoi? rSSfKf nf D ' • Nels M y hre D tit AH UitCourt - * F - A Bell jjisti let Attorney - -AW MrLnnri r^S: te “ de " tofSchools - Miss JSrnith S?“?” - - W. If Austria n veyor - - - Hugo Nelsjn City Officers. Mayor “ - W. H. Irish Treasurer - . . R e i s Lee ° lerk - - - - R. A. Hering AB^ SOr L. H. Lien Chief of Police - - -J O. Wescott School Boards, Olauson president; R. A, Hering •Secretary; E. E. 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