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MAKING A SU
ALVAREZ. THE GREAT TENOR OF
FERS SOME SUGGESTIONS.
His Idea of What la Necessary to Be-
come a Great Vocalist—Peraever-
ance and Indomitable Will.
• Since my arrival In America I have
received a great many letters from
young singers asking advice in regard
to their future careers” said Signor
Alvarez one of the principal tenors of
the Grau forces. "A prof<«sional sing-
er han little time for the pleasures of
correspondence but I am glad to offer
a f«w xuggesliaw through this medium
to the unknown friends who have thus
s honored me with their confidence.
•’First kt regaid to the voice. lam
inclined to believe that any person pos-
sessed of health a deep chest a good
larynx and with no confirmed bad hab-
its in tone production and who has In
addition an inexhaustible supply of
perseverance and patience can s.ng.
•‘Concentration of purpose is the true
■ ret of success in singing as in ev-
ery other art and occupaticu under the
sun. Granting then that you have
a good if not a great voice what are
the next essentials for an operatic ca-
reer?
"Youth—cela va sans dire. You wHI
need all the years of your life to per-
fect your art and the sooner you be-
gin after completing your physical de-
velopment the better. It is a great
mistake however to begin using the
voice before obtaining the growth. The
vocal organs previous to this time are
immature and a very little strain will
weaken and often ruin them beyond
repair.
"Properly equipped at the start iwith
voice youth and health a singer has
much in his favor but more is yet re-
quired. In operatic and in fact in all
stage iwork a pleasing personality
particularly for women is desirable—
I might also say indispensable. A
singer of unlovely or disagreeable ap-
pearance starts in his work or her work
terribly handicapped. The talent must
be phenomenal to overcome the first
adverse impression given to the audi-
ence.
"But more is yet required for a sin-
cere artist. A thorough knowledge of
music in all its branches is vital.
Nearly every one of our artists is a
skilled musician. The better the mu-
sician the quicker are the results in
the cultivation of the voice.
"Temperament is the cne great re-
quirement for an singer with-
out which all other qualities are in-
euffleien-. The temperament which
enables one to feM the thought io the
music as well as in the words and to
give expression to that thought by
I voice and action is the soul of all true
operatic work ar.d from it is born dra-
matic ability.
"So then my friends If after due
coneideruticn and competent advice
you think you are suited to operatic 1
work by all means devote yourself to
it. Do all in your power to fit your-
self for your work. If you cannot al
once study abroad then do your best
at home. Study the languages. Per-
fect yourself mentally physically and
vocally for your chosen career. Re-
member that a great deal almost ev-
erything. depends ufion yourself. Your
instructor can only guide you. Do
not rely upon him to accomplish re- "
suits. If your voice is early of mod-
erate compass and volume do not think
of going Into operatio work. On the I
other hand good lungs do not make a •
prima denna.
"Should you finally become a grand ’
opera singer always remember that '
whatever your position in the prcduc- ■
tion—-whether you be star or chorus
singer—you are always only a part of
the ensemble not the whole opera.
Your first object should be to interpret
to the best c< your ability the thought
of the composer and to this end not
only you but the other members of the
company the chorus and the orchestra
are all equally necessary. Sink your '
personality as far as possible in the
character which you assume. Forget
that you are Mme. This or M. That —
be Leonora Alfredo the village p as- ’
ant or whatever part Is given to you.”
—>New York Telegraph.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
“Awful anxiety twas felt for the wid-
ow of brave General Burnham of Ma-
chias. Me. when the doctors said she
would die from pneumonia before
morning” writes Mrs. S. H. Lincoln
who attended her that fearful night
but she begged tor Dr. King’s New
Discovery which had more than once
saved her life and cured her of con-
sumption. After taking she slept oil
night. Further use entirely cured
her. This marvelous medicine is guar-
anteed to cure all throat chest and
lung diseases. Only 50c and fl-00.
Trial bottles free at H. L. Wagner &
Co's and F. Kalteyer & Son's drug
stores.
WHO CAN PRODUCE THE MORAL.
What I Saw in a Vision.
I sat in a car propelled by lightning
flying along an avenue called See.
School was out. On the front seat
facing me sat a youth dark In com-
plexion slate and books beside him.
In his hand he held an old tomato
can. He raised the top which had
been cut around and lifted out a craw-
fish. Watching him were three school-
girls white all pretty. One of them
sat on the same seat not far from him
books in lap. Holding up the queer-
looking thing he with ease pulled a
stick from its claw and placed it on
the seat next the little girl. It be-
gan to crawl backwards toward her.
She did not jump up end scream but
smiled beautifully and enjoyed the
sport.
WHAT I KNOW IN FACT.
Not many yeans ago I was In town
with my two/small daughters in a
buggy drawn by an old black horse. I
left them sitting in the buggy against
the sidewalk on a street named after
a warrior statesman. I went to the
butcher shop to get meat. While
waiting there in rushed my eldest
girl excited but self-possessed. She
rapidly told me what had transpired.
A fire engine had dashed by with a
clang of bells and a whir of noise. The
old horse thinking he was “In it”
had whirled into line and was making
for the fire with the helpless girl. A
young colored man seeing what had
occurreu seized the bridle rein and
led the old horse back to his position.
I found him there holding the rein. I
don’t know that I even thanked him
but he is enshrined in memory.
I pause for a reply.
WILLIAM OWEN.
A FRIGHTFUL BLUNDER
Will often cause a horrible burn
scald cut or bruise. Bucklin’s Ar-
nica Salve will kill the pain and
promptly heal it. Cures fever sores
ulcere boils corns all skin eruptions.
Best pile cure on earth. Only 25c a
box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by H.
L. Wagner & Co. and F. Kalteyer &
I Son druggists.
WASTED GENIUS.
My Uncle Jim's a wonder.
He would know just iwhat to d«
In a military crisis—
Say another Waterloo.
He could figure in a minute
How hie aide might win the day
And get out with ban ne ns (lyin'—
But none ever came his way.
In political transactions
He list: foresight rare and keen.
He would know what strings to
pull at
As he stood behind the scene.
In a “co-dy-tah” I tell you.
Genius! That's what he’d display
Chagin' all the face of h'lstry—
But nene ever came his way.
An’ as for financierin'
That is where his talent shines;
He knows how folks shduld handle
Railroad pools an’ banks an’
mln.s
Puttin’ through big undertaking
Seems to him a pastime gay
He could fix ’em in a Jiffy—
But none ever came his way.
Uncle Jim Is livin' quiet
In his house behind the hill.
An' the world goes on without him
Missin' all his brains and skill.
War diplomacy finances
Would have felt his master sway
Had occasslon only offered—
But none ever came his way.
—Washington Star.
After doctors failed to cure me of
pneumonia I used One Minute Cough
Cure and three bottles of it cured me.
It is also the best remedy on earth
for whooping cough. It cured my
grandchildren of ' the worst class."
writes John Berry Loganton. Pa. It
is the only harmless remedy that gives
immediate results. Cures coughs
colds croup and throat and lung trou-
bles. It prevents consumption. Chil-
dren always like It. Mother's endorse
it. Wm. C. Kalteyer J. C Burke C.
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THOSE THROAT SPLITTING SONGS
I have the greatest possible admira-
tion for Wagner's genius an admira-
tion. however which does not prevent
niv enjoying the tunesome melodies of
composers of a less advanced scnool.
My appreciation of the “ring” Is none
ihe less genuine. I revel in the beauties
of "Il Earbiere di Civlgila.” or bask in
the charms of “Ln Figlia del Reggi-
mento.” Wagner persistently ignor-
ed the exceedingly delicacy of the vc-
aol chorda and treated them as
though they were so much catgut. The
finest and strongest voices soon re-
sent such treatment and speedily
lose their charm flexibility and
above all their sympathetic quali-
ties. to become tremulous and stri-
dent. It is however a somewhat
singular fact that whereas the singers
of the modern or German school can
only interpret Wagner and the works
of his followers the singers of the old-
er method have often proved them-
selves the best interpreters of the great
composer of Baireuth—as for instance
the brothers De Reszke Theresa Tit-
iens who was the finest of Ortruds
and Christine Nilsson the most en-
chanting of Elsas.
But long before Wagner’s music had
obtained its present recognition Verdi
was popularly known in the Italian
musical world as l’ammazza voce "the
killer of voices.” I remember when
I was still in my teens overhearing a
dis ussion at the Villa Novello Gen-
•a. in which Countess Gigluccl
(Clara Novello) and her sisters the
late Mrs. Cowden Clark and Miss Sa-
billa Novello took part. The Coun-
tess who had just sung as well as she
ever did in her life “With Verdure
Clad” turned around from the piano
end said “One may handle Haydn’s
music easily enough and accompani-
ments are always so subdued. I de-
fy any voice however robust to re-
sist for long the strain of “Il Trova-
tore.” Fancy having to shout night
after night at the top of one’s voice
over a clashing orchestra that dread-
ful duet in which Leonora at the full
vent of her lungs defies II Conte de
Luna:
Calestar quol questo cuor
Ma salvatar du del II Trovatnr.
The duet alluded to by Mme. Novel-
lo Is undoubtedly very trying but Its
effect upon the larynx is trifling as
compared with that which the vocal
cords of the representative of Brun-
hllde are called upon to undergo In the
second opera of the Ring Ccle. One
of the most distinguished orWagner-
ian prime donne recently assured me
that her throat was so sore and fatig-
ued after a performane of the arduous
Pole of Brunhilde that for a couple of
days she could not sing a note and
moreover that she found it a physical
impossibility to undertake the pan
more than twice in one week. —From
the Nineteenth Century.
NOTICE STOCKHOLDERS.
Take notice that the annual meeting
of the -stockholders of the San Antonio
and Gulf Shore Railway company will
be held at the general offices of the
Company at 904 North Olive street In
the city of San Antonio Bexar county
Texas March 16th 1900 at 10 o’clock
a. m. This meeting is called for the
purpose of electing the Board of Direc-
tors and such other business as may
be presented.
C. W. SEAMONDS
Secretary San Antonio and Gulf Shore
Ry. Co. 2 14-80 L
AN ORDINANCE.
Be it ordained by the City Council of
the city of San Antonio that Section
6 of chapter 45 Title "Signs” Revis-
ed City Ordinances page 321 be the
same is hereby amended so as to
hereafter read as follows:
Section 6. That it shall be unlawful
for any person to paint or write with
any substance whatever any sign on
any walk or walk of this city.
And it shall be unlawful for any p
son to carry or transport or cause
be carried or transported through any
public street avenue plaza or square
of the city in a vehicle or any manner
whatsoever any advertising sign un-
til said sign shall first have been sub-
mitted to the City Marshall and a per-
mit given for said carrying or trans-
porting PROVIDED that this provision
shall not apply to a sign on a vehicle
in use principally for a purpose other
than advertising.
MARSHALL HICKS
Attest Mayor.
W. W. JOHNSON
City Clerk . 2-9-1 *
NOTICE TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
Blds for a steel girder bridge across
the San Pedro creek 32-foot roadway
and 100 feet in length will be received
at the mayor’s office until April 2
noon. Bidders will submit their own
design with their blds. A certified
check for $lOO must accompany each
bid.
For profile of opening and further
particular® address: city engineer. The
city reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. MARSHALL HICKS.
Mayor.
Attest: W. W. JOHNSON.
2-15-10 t City Clerk.
HANDS OF HUMANS LIKE.
ANIMAL’B PAWS—SOME INBTAN-
CEB WHEREIN THE
Similarity la Striking— Different Meth-
ods of Animal’s Paws and Claws
Made on the Same General Plan ae
Handa and Naile. •
New York Telephone.
Though the paws and claws of all
animals are made on the same plan as
our hands and nails changed to suit
their owners’ wants no animal has a
thumb that can be compared with ours;
so we number the thumb and fingers
together and say that he has five fin-
gens counting the thumb as No. 1
the forefinger as 2 and so on. No an-
imal has more than five on each limb
and many hate lost some- of the five
using them.
In the forepaw of a cat all five fin-
gers are found but the first which an-
swers to the thumb has not been used
by creatures of this tribe so much as
the others. They tread on their fore-
fingers letting the thumb hang In the
air and it ha bsecotne of little use.
On the soles of her forefeet she has
six pads but her hind paw have only
four tom and five pads. Her claws
are useful In climbing.
The dog hunts his prey by smell and
obtains it by speed instead of depend-
ing on patience watchfulness and won-
derful sight as the cat tribe does. The
claws ct the dog and wolf are made
strong and coarse to bear the weight
end rubbing against the ground which
they must bear during a long pursuit.
The Hon and tiger never chase their
prey far but if they miss it in their
first spring turn away after a few
botnris and lye in wait till they get
another chancing of bouncing.
When an ape or monkey must run
along the ground he finds himself in
a difficulty. His forepawe or hands
are not well fitted for running nor or
his hindpaws or feet able to lye flat
cn the earth. Perhaps he will stagger
unsteadily along on the sides of hia
feet for a few yards his body nearly
upright but soon he falls down again
to grovel along on the knuckles of his
bent fingers. But watch him up a
tree! There he is at home and his
four claspers or hands which answer
to our hands end feet give him a firm
hold of the boughs.
Rabbits and mice both have feet
armed with claws which are fit for
running or Blight digging. The rab-
bit’s sole is well padded with hair and
that of the mouse Is protected by leath-
ery pads. The latter has a short nail
instead of a claw on bls thumb. In
neither of their paws is the thumb
mueh used.
The forepaws of a mefle remind one
of a miner’s spade with Its pointed tip
and curved sides. His nails are strong
and well fitted either for digging when
the sides of his fingere«are firmly press-
ed together so as to form one sharp
blade or when he holds the claws a
little apart to turn his hand into a
five fingered fork.
The frog has a webbed hand but no
claws as he never digs.
Though the forepaw or hahd of a seal
looks something like the fin of a fish
it has the same number of fingers as
your own as we'll as a thumb but they
are wrapped up in a glove of skin of
the same kind as that which covers the
body; they form flippers or pad-
dles.
Creatures who need neither Jo grasp
their prey nor to climb trees nor to dig
burrows but who feed by browsing
and seek safety in flight have feet
strengthened for running or standing
without fatigue. It is easy to fee
that a foot with two strong long toes
would be better fitted to bear a weight
and the shock felt in running over the
hard ground than a foot with five more
•lender digits the bones of which
would be far more likely to break or
be Injured. The ancestors of all hoof-
ed animals have five toes on each foot
but the plan which has been carried
out In perfecting their descendants for
different modes of life has been by de-
grees to lengthen and strengthen one
or more of the five and more or teas
to do away with the rest. Elephants
have kept five toes. Deer antelopes
goats sheep and cattle tread on two
digits answering to our third and
fourth; and the horse who surpasses
them ail in fleetness and endurance us-
es one toe only the third answering
to our middle digit.
Ae a thumb is useless to an animal
who never grasps this is the first dig-
it to disappear as fossil remains teach
us. 'Next the second and fifth digits
become smaller and weaker. In a
pig's foot traces of the second and
fifth digits may be plainly seen but
from the camel’s foot they have entire-
ly vanished. He has t’wo toes below
Is solid cannon bone and the soles of
his feet are like broad cushions. With
these he can tread firmly on the loose
sand of the desert and travel with ease
and comfort where no other hoofed
animal could walk far. The rhinoceros
is an Instance of an animal which has
three toes. The foot of the reindeer
who must pass swiftly over soft snow
has a pair of short broad rounded
hoofs which spread out sideways as he
steps. Above these ore two side toes
which form an extra pair of hoofls tak-
ing a good grip of the shifting enow
and preventing the reindeer from sink-
ing into the drifts. The little.cham-
ois who dwells articng rocks has tiny
hard hoofs which can find a footing
on the narrowest ridge.
You can help anyone wnom find
suffering from inflamed throat; laryn-
geal trouble bronchitis coughs colds
etc. by advising the use of BAL-
LARD’S HOREHOUND SYRUP; the
great remedy for coughs and colds.
Price 25 and 50 cents. City Drug
Store 106 East Commerce street. C.
Schasse. 323 West Commerce street;
Wm. Appmann Sunset Pharmacy.
AN ODD JAIL BIRD.
Scranton. Renn. Spe. Phila
For the first time since June 19 1894
James Gannon today enjoyed a few
hours of the liberty which he volun-
tarily has deprived himself during six
years. He went out from the county
Jail in charge of a keeper to atatend
his sister’s funeral.
Gannon who Is over 70 years of age
is imprisoned for contempt of court.
He was defeated by his cousin In an
ejectment suit and directed by Judge
Edwards to sign a deed giving the suc-
cessful litigant a title to the property.
He refused to sign and was sent to
jail. His only way out 1s to sign the
deed and this he avows he will never
do. Whether or not he signs the deed
makes no material difference as the
possession of the property is in the
successful litigant.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
E. G. Riggers patent lawyer. Wash-
ington D. C. wliose ad. appears In our
columns publishes a valuable copy-
righted look entitled "How to Obtain
Patent. Cavea. Trade-mark and Copy-
-ight Protection With Decisions in
"Leading Patent Cases” A copy will
Ise sent free to any address.
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Delivery to any part of the elty
FRITZ WESP’S SALOON
Comer Soledad and Romana Sts.
All kinds of WINES WHISKIES
ete. by the quart or more delivered
free anywhere in the city. Those whe
buy come again. Tel 1109. 1-I*-tf.
SALOON.
Visit the Art Gallery
Best of Liquors Wines and Cigars
Polite Attention.
Cor. W. Commerce and N. Flores Sts.
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Refrigerated Meat always on Hand.
Home Rendered Lard.
Tel. 691. Cor. Houston and Soledad
Streets.
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