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Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
SHELF

apples, etc, and seeing them as a
group of fruit on a shelf for picture
material. Note the bird's-eye view it
has taken, which is childlike and due
as much to the idea of enumeration
as to ignorance Of perspective. Don't
talk of perspective to No. 6, but ask
it IT the pictures Of Nos. Z, g and 9
do not look more natural. Perhaps
next time it will put them on the
shelf in the same plane as the mug.
Freedom for Artistic Child.
The qualities of Nos. Z, and 9
are worthy of praise. not for the
praise of the child, but that the quali-
ties praised may be emulated bv the
rest,
It were better to enlarge on the good
points in these drawings than to find
fault with No. 6. No. cannot help
it that it cannot see as No. 8. It was
suggested that. the child should not
be bothered by considerations of per-
spective, but if No. 8 should ask if
one could not see in the top of the
mug, say: Yes, can you? And If it
should ask if it should not be drawn
SO that one can see in it, say yes, if
you know how and wish to. This is
advisable that no constraint Of any
kind be placed upon the child's ex-
preston. !. It. is as unjust to hamper
it when it can draw and see as to ex-
Dsct It to draw and see when it can
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
He wanted me to try my snuf cure on
the nerfnrmers and freaks. ,cansa thau

He wanted me to try my snuh cure on
the performers and freaks, cause they
were getting to be dead ones. =
Well. before the day was over at Will
mington, Del, pa was scared worse
than he ever was in all his life before.
The state of Delaware is the only state
that Furnishes criminals by tying them
up and whipping them on the bare back
with cat-'o-nine-tails, and all our
men had been warned to be good while
they We're in Delaware, cause if they
committed any crime there was no pow
er on earth that could save them from
being publicly horsewhipped. Pa him.
self impressed it on the men to look out
that they didn't get into any trouble.
Gee, but the fear of public whipping
makes men good.
Twenty years ago some hold-up men
from New York robbed bank in Della
ware, and were caught, and given 50
lashes apiece on the bare back, by big
negro, and there has never been bur-
glary in Delaware since. We thou ght
we would play joke on pa, so the man
ager told pa that constables were look
ing for him to arrest him for cruelty to
animals for kicking camel in the
stomach, and hitting the camel with an
iron bar, and that il pa didn't want to
be publicly horsewhipped on the bare
back he better skip out for Washington,
D. c., where we would show in a couple
of days, and wait for us.
Pa was SO frightened he couldn't get
supper, and everybody talked about
cats Of nine tails, and how prisoners
were cut to pieces, and every time pa
saw a jay with slouch hat he thought it
was constable after him. After dark
he put on an old suit of clothes and said
he was going to Washington. They told
him if he went to take a train he would
surely be arrested at the. depot, so pa
put a saddle on one of the mules, and
rode out of town and rode all night, and
all the next day he bought oats of farm
ers to be delivered at Wilmington for
the circus Finally he got out of Della
ware, and the next day the farmers came
in with the oats, but the show was gone,
and they won't do thing to pa if he
ever shows up in Delaware again.
Pa met us at the depot in Washington,
but he was ever so changed from his
long ride and anxiety over the possi-
bility of being arrested and pilloried
and lambasted by negro in Delaware.
He said to me, with trembling voice:
"Hennery, this ere show business is too
much for your pa. I would rather be a
Mormon, in. Utah, with 40 wives, and
several hundred children, and long
whiskers. l am changed man, Hen
merry, and afraid of my shadow
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
NEW THING IN GOLF BALLS.
Remade by Catfish with Jonah Fiji
ish They Are Vastly I'm
proved

Fishermen in the lower waters of tha
Blue and along the Missouri in the VII
cinity of the Blues mouth, complain
OF an ailment of the catfish. which
seems to be general. 1t was first sus-
pected, says the Kansas City Journal,
that yellow fever is mixing things
with: the cat water tribe, but on inves-
tigation it is found that the trouble is
all due to oyerdoses of golf balls On
tracing the matter. up the supply OF
halls is found to come from the Elm
Ridge links, where the players have
phenomenal luck in losing balls in the
creek
At first t/the fishermen were indignant
and their wrath was developed by an
enterprising snitch, who urged an in
junction against, the Elm Ridge club
in general and the bum players in par
t;cular. This promised good lawsuit,
when, unfortunately, fisherman dis
covered that a catfish full of golf balls
is worth more than straight cat.
This changed materially the financial
flavor of the case. Then it was dis
covered that a golf ball remade by a
catfish, thus imparting a Jonah finish,
as we'll as flavor, adds to the value of
the ball by improving its. going quail
ties.a This starts 9 new ball on thu
market and upsets the snitch In his
calculati 5 s.;1 '. 4. s5s5 s%
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GROUP ;.

small apples. Tell it to draw it's pic
ture within a given space (as ex-
planned in last weeks article), but do
not talk to the child Of proportion,
placement Or perspective.
Comparison and Criticism.
When it has made its drawings land
1t should draw several, varying the
arrangement and shape of it's pic
tures) take all the pictures and place
them side by side for the child's COM
parison. Let it see where the express
sion of another child is better than it's
own. Then the teacher may criticise
the work. Let him say of one that
the apples and mug fill the picture
we'll: of another that they seem to
crowd it; of another that it shows a
fresh idea of arrangement, and so on.
Let the criticism be simple and let no
explanation Of it follow if the criti-
cism cannot be explained. BY that is
meant do not try to tell the child why
his picture is out of proportion when
you know proportion is only the ex-
preston of a sense and Is not a meas
urable quality. Depend upon the evi-
dent, superiority of one picture over
another to point out the faults of the
inferior. It is better that the child
should spend its time trying to do
better than in finding out why it has
failed, except where tho reason is
plainly evident and easy OF explana-
tion. .s.. -5..s. s.,@ n. a. :. RS
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
CAUGHT WOLF WITH HANDS
The President Tells How a Hunt
Accomplished the Diff
y cult Feat.

In a couple of miles I was close
enough to see what was going on. But
one greyhound was left with Aber-
rethy. The coyote was obviously tired,
and Abernethy, with the aid of his
perfectly trained horse, was helping
the greyhound catch it, says Mr..
Roosevelt, in Scribner's Magazine.
Twice he headed it, and this en-
abled me to gain rapidly They
reached small unwooded creek by
the time l was within so yards; the,
little wolf tried to break back to the
left; Abernethy headed it and rode als
most over it; and it gave wicked
snap at his foot, cutting the boot:
Then he wheeled and came toward it;
again it galloped back, and Just as it
crossed the creek the greyhound made
rush, pinned it by the hind leg, and
threw it,
There was scuffle, then yell from
the greyhound as the wolf bit it. At
the bite the hound let go and jumped
back few feet, and at the same mo-
ment Abernethy, who had ridden his
horse right on them as they struggled.
leaped off and sprang on top of the
wolf. He held the reins of the horse
with one hand, and thrust the other
with a rapidity. and precision even
greater than the rapidity of the VOLTS
snap, into the VOLTS mouth, jammins
his hand down cr0sswise between the
jaws, seizing the lower jaw and bend
ing it down so that the wolf could not
bite him. !
He had stout glove on his hand,
but this would have been of no avail
whatever had he not seized the animal
just as he did, that is, behind the
canines,: while his hand pressed the
lips against the teeth; with his knees
he kept the wolf from using it's fore.
paws to break the hold, until it gave
up struggling, When he thus leaped
en- and captured this coyote it was en-
tirely free, the dog having let go of
it and he was obliged to hold the reins
ct his horse with one hand. was
not 20 yards distant at the time, and as
I leaped off the horse he was sitting
placidly on the live wolf. his hand be-
tween its jaws, the greyhound stand
ing beside him and his horse standing
ty as placidly as he, was. In couple
of minutes Fortescue and Lambert
came up. It was as remarkable feat
OF the kind as have ever seen.
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looking beast on earth when he tries to
be good natured, but when he is sick and
mad, and full of snuff he is t1end.. One
such camel is enough for man to
handle, but when IL camels are all
sneezing at once, and trying to locate the
person that is responsible for their
trouble, it is the safest to keep away and
when pa went in amongst them, with
no shirt on, and the Arab keepers had
run away in fright, it was dangerous
thing to do. >i
But pa is brave even to rashness. He
went up to Mahomet, the double
bumped leader of the herd, who was the
leader of the sneezers. and kicked him
in the Stats and told him to hush up his
noise. He dubbed him on *he humps
with tent stake. Then there was a
rebellion in Egypt, and Mahomet' bit pa.
and wouldn't let go, and the other
camels sneezed all over pa, and had him
down, walking on him with their padded
feet. The circus hands had to pull pa
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21

take in money enough to buy meat for
the animals. He said the animals had
all taken cold, and lay around dormant,
and didn't take any interest in the busi-
ness. and the manager told pa he must
think OF something to wake the animals
up. Pa said he would leave it to me to
wake em up, and get some ginger into
them. I told pa if had five dollars to
spend could make every animal jump
like a. box car. Pa gave me the money.
and went and bought five pounds OF
Scotch snuff, and divided it up into ounce
packages. and started during the after
noon performance at Wilmington, Del,
to wake up the animals.
There is something peculiar about
animals. if you try to give them any
thing that they think you want them to
take, you can't drive it down them with
pile driver, but if you try to hide somc-
thing where they can reach it, they
watch you out of one eye, and when you
60 away they look at you as much as to
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
The Bad Boy Feeds the Menagerie
Scotch Snuff-Pa Gets Mauled by
the Sneezing Animals-Pa Take:
a Midnight Ride on a Mule to L.
cape Punishment.

Well. spose have done it, now, and
It would not surprise me to be killed and
fed to wild animals. The manager of
the show was talking to pa and me, be-
fore we left New York, about the condi-
ton OF the show. It's finances were all
balled up on account of settling with
people who pretended to be injured
when the tent blew down at Poughkeep-
sic, and the hands and performers are
kicking because We are month behind
on salaries, and they get drunk When
ever any jay will buy for them. Every
body gives passes to everybody that
wants to get in the show, so the box
Office man has sinecure, and people
chase us from town to town for money
for board, and hay, and everything.
All through New Jersey we showed to
claim agents and creditors, and didn't
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Il =" THE
9y
FRANCIS LYNDE
CHAPTER XXIX.-COSTINCED.

CHAPTER xxx.
Because l shouldn't be able to
realize a single one OF your ideals. ]
know what they are-What you will
expect in wife, l could make you a
rich man, a successful man, as the
world measures success, and perhaps
l could even give you love: after the
first flush of youth is past, the heaven
ly-affinity sentiment loses it's hold
and a woman comes to know that it
she cares to try hard enough she can
love any man who will be thoughtful
and gentle, and whose habits of life are
not hopelessly at war with her own.
But that kind Of love doesn't breed
love. Your vanity would pique itself
for little while, and then you would
now the curse of unsought love and
murder me in your heart thousand
times day. No, David, I have read
you to little purpose il these are the
things you will ask of the woman who
takes your name and becomes the
mother of your ch ildren." She had
risen and was standing beside his
chair, with her hand lightly touching
lis shoulder. "Will you go now?
I'here are others coming, and"
I He made his adieuX grayely and
went away half dazed and a prey to
many emotions, but strangely light
hearted Withal: and as once before, he
walked when he might have ridden.
But the mixed emotion mood was not
immortal. At the Clarendon he found
a committee of Civic leaguers waiting
TO ask him ii he would stand as a
good government candidate in the
special election to fill the house va
cancy in the capital district; and in
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not. This does not mean that the
child can depart from the given theme
or by unnecessary accents of charac-
ter attempt to improve it's work, but
that the child that can draw might
easily find the purely geometrical
forms too mechanical for the freedom
and power of it's knowledge of draw
ing. Here the teacher must use his
discretion.
Learn by Imitation.
1t will be found that the good draw
ings Of the class teach it far better
than the teacher. A few bright pupils
will raise the standard Of excellence
of the whole class where the best Of
teaching would make. slow progress.
Where such excellence does not hap
pen it depends upon the teacher to set
the best possible standard of excel
lence for the pupils to strive for.
1t has been found a good plan to
give the subject with its symbols and
examples of application on the black
board at one lesson, then give the
child until the next lesson to think
out it's story and draw it at it's leisure.
Some children are slow at inventive
thought and others are shy, and the
work done in the schoolroom is never
as good as the work done at home or
under less pressure.
Use Lead or Slate Pencils.
Now, word as to mediums. It is
not so much what medium is used as
how it is used. Water colors and col
ored chalks have been introduced in
the schoolroom with questionable sue
cess for the majority of children. The
manipulation is too difficult in the
case of water colors. Not much more
than an obvious and meaningless col
orlng has been accomplished with the
colored chalks or crayons. Pen and
ink is too difficult for all but a few
who have a prediction for drawing
with it. Crayon and charcoal work
have no advantage over pencil in
school work. The pencil is so much
easier handled and so capable of all
the expression of line that is neces-
| sary that it is here suggested as the
oSoC 14AOOAuu1, Will q SOOu oCCO1u LII
the despised slate. Knowing that this
preference is open to much dispute, it
is added that outside all the fuss and
bother of paints, water, ink, ETC., there
is the objection that all these medi-
ums, except lead pencil and slate pen
Gil, require a constant consideration
Of the handling Of the medium, and it
is not part of this method to train
the child in technique, but to give it
freedom of expression in drawing. AS
| to papers, any paper that one can
| draw on that will not smudge is ali
right
| AS to Size.
Let the drawings be Of fair size, not
under two inches in any dimension.
About four by six inches should be
the average size, the point being to
avoid littleness or the uselessness Of
too large a space for the medium.
The last illustration (group No. -
gives the carrots and stewpan as a
subject to follow the apples and mug
The forms are but slight variation
from these, and offer a chance to ap
ply the suggestions made Oh the fi:s,
effort.
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cages and put snuff IN all Of them, / came
up to the lions cage. The lion had
stopped sneezing and was roaring and
jumping up and down. with his mouth
open,s trying to catch his breath. like 4
man who has taken too big dose Of
fresh horse-radish. - sss*. -:
Pa said: What you been doing to
Shadrack?' -:',> H." :
I told pa had woke Shadracl1 up. and
that in about a minute he would find that
the whole animal kingdom had got a
bellyful, and would join in the chorus.
Pa tried to soothe the lion by going uD
to the cage and stroking his name, but
the lion looked cross-eyed and stopped
prancing and gave sneeze right at pa,
which blew pa clear across the tent to
where the sacred cow had just got hers.
When the stuff began to work on that
cow it was simply scandalous. cause
she beloved and cried and sneezed all
at once, and paved pa. He got up and
told me was overriding this waking up
act on the animals
BY that time the cage of hyenas began
to sneeze quartette, and fight each
other, and the atmosphere about their
cage was full of hair and language that
would be much like cussing if. it could
be translated into English. Pa tried to
quiet the crowd and silence the hyenas
by taking an iron bar and mauling them,
but the hyenas just backed UP against
the rear of the cage and howled and
sneezed at pa, and dared him to come on.
One of them caught him by the shirt
sleeve and tore pas shirt off and eat it
Pa was sight, with no shirt on, and he
ought to have gone to the dressing room
and slicked, but just then the camels
and the giraffes, who had inhaled their
snuff, began to sneeze and beg to be
killed, and pa had to go over there and
quiet them. A camel is the solemnest
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
SKINNING A BUFFALO.
Task Which to the Uninitiated Proves
Difficult of Accom-
plishment.

The man who has handled only small
game finds he has something to learn
when he attempts to skin a buffalo.
theoretically, he may perfectly under,
stand his task, but there are Difficult.
ties in it's practical accomplishment.
When Mr.. Campion went out on the
prairie alone, he had a little expe.
in "On the Frontier" 1t was in the
days when the buffalo still roamed
the plain in thousands, and the hunter
soon found a herd leisurely feeding in
the warm, bright sunshine.
"A fine black bull soon caught my
eye, and careful stalk brought me-
near to him. / crawled into a hollow
and lay down as fiat as possible. After
waiting some little time, I cautiously
raised my head. The creature was
almost on me. The huge head was
lowered; the beard reached the
ground; the keen, wicked eyes glared
at me; the short, sharp horns stuck
viciously toward me. He was begin
ming to paw the ground and below,
and he looked as big as all the uni
verse.
Il held my breath. At the least
movement the brute would havl
charged, and my life would not have
been worth pin, for there was neither
time nor space for the use of my rifle.
I imperceptibly lowered my head, and
Ia CT f,1llv
Then I ventured another glance, and
drew a long breath of relief, for the
buffalo was walking slowly away. I
gave a shrill whistle which caused
him to turn, and shot him at the dis
tance of 27O yards.
Il know quite well how to skin
small animals, and went to work with
confidence. But I soon found / had
an elephant on my hands. l could not
lay buffalo on its back as I could
a specimen dormouse. It would be
easy, thought I, to skin one side, and
then turn the beast over and skin the
other. Half of the plan worked ad.
mirably, but when tried the turning
I found I might as well try to lift
myself from the ground by my moe.
casin strings.
Il pushed and pulled, tried one leg
and then the other, perspired and
strained, anu felt very small indeed.
If 1 only had horse and lariat, 1
thought, but no steed or rope were
within miles.
''As / desperately tugged, the body
would give few preliminary sways,
then the leverage of the hump would
cause it to settle back.
Finally took the bull by the horn.,
literally, and twisted his head around
in the way wanted it to go, stuck
the horn in the ground to hold the
head, caught hold of hind leg and
pulled the whole over. Then I fin
ished the skinning without difficulty"
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
Kit CarsOn's Last Trim,

Rebelling at the tameness of ranch
ing and horse trading and wagon traf-
ficing, longing once more for the free
dom of the trapping trail, Kit Carson
sent word among his old friends, the
free traders of the Rockies, and made
up party of IS old-time, long-haired
men. They sailed forth with rifle and
ak and pack and jingling trap chains.
in the fashion of the past, making once
more deep into the heart of the Rock
les. They visited the Arkansas, the
Green, the Grand, the White; the Lara
mie-all the loved and lovable parks
of the mountains. They came back
through the Ration mountains with
abundant fur. They said it was their
last trail; that they had visited the
streams which they loved in order that
they might "shake hands with. them
and say good-by." The expedition was
made for sheer love of the old life
which they knew had now gone for
ever-Outing. :,
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say: 20, you think you are smart,
don't your" Then they will go and dig
it up, and play with it, and eat it if they
want to.
took my first package of snuff to the
lions cage, and he was the sickest and
most disgusted looking lion you ever
saw, acting like man who has taken a
severe cold, and wants to kill anybody
that looks at him. The lion lay on the
straw, stretched out full length, paying
no attention to the crowd that passed
his cage, and acting as though he wanted
a hot whisky and his feet soaked in
mustard water. When he was not look
ing I hid the package of SNUFF under the
straw, and ratified the straw little, and
he opened his eyes and looked at me as
much as to say: "You can't fool old
Shadracl1, for I am on to you" Iwalked
away behind the hyena cage, and Mr..
Lion got up and stretched himself, and
walked to the place where I put the pa
per of snuff, put his foot on it and broke
TIE paper, and then he put his nose
down and shifted sniff that drew the
whole Of the SNUFF up into his nose and
lungs, and insides generally.
Gee, but you never saw such change
In lion. The crowd of visitors were
right near his cage, when he shifted, and
when he got the snuff into him, he began
to heave his sides like man who is pre-
pairing to sneeze, caught his breath A
few times, and let out a sneeze that
sounded like the explosion of an auto
mobile tire. It threw cut feed all over
the audience, and everybody ran away.
yelling that the lion had busted. =.
:. He kept on sneezing, and looking so
astounded. as though he couldn' t make
out what had got into him. Pa heard
the .commotion and came running up to
the cage to find out what allied the lion.
After had gone around to- the other
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) J

The instruction of the child will be
taken up step by step, leaving such
questions and problems as arise to be
dealt with from time to time.
The first subjects-those for the
younger child-should be chosen for
the simplicity of the forms by which
they may be represented, and the
obvious treatment Of their arrange
ment; for example, such simple
rounds as fruits or veg% tables in con-
junction with contrasting form Of
different dimension. The oranges and
bowl already shown would be such
Willmar tribune., 1906-02-21

subject, or apples and mug pota-
toes and pot, carrots and a stew pan
any of these is easily dealt with.
Child's First Lesson.
Take, for instance, the apples and
mug on shelf. Announce it as the
subject. Draw for the child the sim
plified forms on the blackboard without
arrangement, as shown in the upper
portion Of Group l. Announce the
sounds as apples, the upright figure as
a. mug, and the last figure as a shelf.