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The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16
The Reporter as a Soldier,

An item in Kansas City paper tells
Of the death of a reporter in Wichita
through injuries contracted. in the per-
Torrance of his reportorial duties, The
reporter was sent out at a late hour
OF the night to cover" a suicide and
fell over = pile of bricks in a dark al
ley, injuring himself internally and
dying from the effects Of the fall a
few days later. This man died at his
post of duty as truly as the fireman or
policeman who loses his life in any
great catastrophe that brings his
duties into play. And the death Of this
young man ought to impress upon the
newspaper-reading world the sacrifice
and often the heroism that the news
;gatherers on the daily papers are
:capable of. !. The reporter lis q soldier
who never disobeys~a call to duty, even
though it be to face death in a battle
or enter a buEning building or, asnight
run on a locomotive ors:to enter a den
ct thieves In order to give his paper
and Its readers the news Denver
News; e.: -. = I..,:- ,.., 81
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ing in the schoolroom. It did not
state that object drawing in itself
was to be undervalued. If the draw w.
ing Of solids, dry as it is, could be
placed in the schoolroom and taught
by competently trained teacher it
might be q beneficial adjunct to the
inventive symbol drawing for: the
artistically inclined, but 1t would be
OF little use to. the many who could
never be taught to see with the
draughtsman's eye. 1T is the especial
advantage Of, symbol drawing that
something can. be drawn without this
draughtsman' s eye :s:i5 800 .s.Ss'~: s.
The same inquirer asked about the
use Of mechanical appliances. In the
drawing of these, mechanical forms.
There Is no need. of ruler, compass
or other aid i in; the draNanx OF the
.stnaisht lines or the rounds: There
is no need orsvirtue n the. lines be-
ing straight; or. the rou4ds being alb
solutes circles. Aside from the con
straint of expression til is not desir.
able that they should be a nechan-
ical performance. The constant rec
ommendation OF the intelligent use Of
the accented line has been against the
expressionless line that would result
from the use.-Df ruler or compass.
The drawing should be- done with ab-.
Isolute freedom no matter bow far tina
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16

ings are made. up of but few planes;
later, as the drawings are more COM
plicated, more tones may be used: It
should be understood that shading
for the laborious end of covering q
drawing with marks is utterly value
less. AS more damage can be done by
its. use than by it's omission, shading
need not be urged upon the: class.
From time to time the subjects Illus
trated will be treated with tone color
methods Of simple shading. No par
sticular handling Of the shading :, is
recommended. The lines may be yerti-
cal, diagonal or otherwise II they are
but clean and gain the tone desired
by simple means. The child will often
btt. inclined to make up for defcien-
scies insthe drawing by elaborate shad-
ing. It fssWasting its time that way.
Insist on the outline drawing being
e sst acceptable. mr. w: 10
III re the teacher Will but refer to the
article OH the proportion Of forms he
may apply the same suggestions to the
proportions Of tone color. The Illus
trations then given of the two trees
md the river. will be an aid In judg-
ing Of excess Of color in shading.
An accompanying drawing IS done IN
shaded tones for the same purpose.
1t is not Intended to be given the child
N that way at present.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16

kCopyright BIZ J. B. BowleAl
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16
HERSEY'S LAST HOLDING.
Founder of Many Kansas Towns Who
Never Had One Named
for Him.

Tim Hersey. founder of towns. is
dead. But before he died that which
for years had been denied him was
his; the plot of ground in the first OF
his cities in which three of his chill
dren are buried was given to him by
the municipality of Abilene, Kansas.
Tim was the first settler of Abilene,
says writer in the New York Sun,
and his wife named the town, taking
the name from the Bible, as she did L.
that for their next home, Solomon.
They went to the banks of Mud
Creek in 1867, when buffaloes by the
thousand grazed between. them and
civilization. Their little log cabin was
stopping-place for overland travel
ers. Bayard Taylor, Horace Greeley,
General Grant and General Sherman
stayed there at different times. Tim
Hersey's" was known all along the
frontier. But other settlers came, and
Tim decided that it was too thick
for him. He sold out and went up
river.
Three Of the Hersey children died
and were buried at Abilene. Their
elders went on and founded Solomon,
Cawker, Beloit, Downs, and score
OF other places, moving from each as
the population became too numerous.
At last, in the onward march of CIV
ilization, they arrived in the great
state of Washington.
Meanwhile Tim had never forgot
ten the three graves in Abilene. He
went back to Illinois on a visit once.
and there bought and had marked ap-
propriately three tombstones, to be
set over them. With these ne went
to Abilene. But the windblown GENE
terry on the barren hillside had be-
come tree-shaded, well-laid-out bury
ing, ground in a thriving city, and in
it Tim could find no trace of the
tiny knobs. He went patiently over
the ground foot by foot without re-
suit, and at last abandoned the three
stones and went on to his new home.
Years afterward a pathetic letter
was sent by him to the Abilene author
tiles, asking that the three stones be
forwarded to him in Washington, that
he might set them up there. Abilene
had forgotten them, but the town was
searched. At last two of the stones
were found-one serving as a door,
step. The third had disappeared.
But something better than the
stones was found. An old settler
remembered, when the thing was
agitated, that years before a sexton
had pointed out certain hollow in
the graveyard to him, and had told
him that that was where some chill
dren were buried, off by themselves.
He hunted for the spot, and at last
found solitary stone marker, with
the letters IS. H." cut in it. They
stood for Sarah Herssy, the oldest
girl.
The town, moved by pity for it's
aged founder, made out a deed to the
lot in his name and sent him word
of the finding of the graves; but al
most at once news of his death came
back.
1t is said that more. than thirty
towns were founded by Jersey, but
not one is named for him.
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A Hero of Dundee.

To-day Sandy Mitchell is a cripple
and totally blind, but he is loved and
cared for, as every brave and help
less hero should be, says Youths
Companion One evening few years
ago, as two men were approaching
the town of Dundee on foot, the sud-
denly noticed a small cottage stand.
ing back from the wayside,' evidently
on fire. Smoke was issuing from the
windows and open door. but no one
was in sight. -, - '.''
The two men hurried forward. By
the time they reached the cottage
door the roof was alight. Rushing
through, they stumbled across the
PROSTATE form of a woman with q
child In her arms. One man lifted
the unconscious woman and child and
bore them out; the other CROPPED his
way into the living room, where he
was, quickly joined by. his companion.
The room was empty and they
made their way to the floor, above.
whence, they reasoned, the woman
and child had come; and there. In
the low cottage chamber. stood q man
supporting upon his shoulders . burn
ing beam that glowed and famed, as
he struggled to keep it from falling
upon the bodies Of two little children
lying In cot beneath.
The BARNS" gasped the man. when
he perceived their presence.
1Ysl.., <x,hrad %hD 1i%%l.o ~ -,
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through his stunt so often thought
could initiate him, and of course
there was no talking to do, but just
to grunt once in awhile, the way Den
mis- did, and have an animal look.
Well, sir, the keeper who trained the
ourang outang took me in hand, and
in an hour I was perfect. had rub
Der feet and wore black gloves, and
had tail fastened on with a safety
pin. that would deceive the Oldest
Snowman in the business. When the
crowd was the biggest, in the middle
ring, the keeper led me out of the
dressing room with a chain. The an
nouncement was made by the barker
that Dennis, the educated ourang
outang, that had performed before
crowned heads in Europe and sap
heads in Newport, the only man-mon-
key in the known world, would now
entertain the most select audience that
had ever been under the tent. Then
was dragged into the ring and put
on the platform.
They didn't put on my dress clothes
at first, but had little screen ON the
platform for me to go behind to dress,
and appeared first in the natural
state Of the ourang outang, with a suit
OF buffalo robe stuff that looked exact
ly like big monkey. I bowed and
the audience cheered, and stood on
my hands and scratched at an imagi-
nary f1oa and Da who was leaning
against the platform, whispered to me
that L was making the hit Of the sea-
son..
Then the attendants set the table
and the keeper took me behind the
screen and dressed me, and the old
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forms may be from round or the lines
from straight. - s: :, :


forms may be from round or the lines
from straight. : r. e.: .
Some New Subjects. -
These subjects are given to follow
the last subject Of farmhouse, trees
and road: Che park with the pond,
bridge and trees, the marsh with the
haystacks and lake and the boat race.
Present them on the blackboard as
usual, drawing the figures as much
as possible before the child that it
may see how a form as complicated
as the sail boat is really made up of
very simple forms. Continually vary
the shapes, of the combinations given
as examples of the possibilities Of
using the forms.
Discourage among the brighter chill
dren any attempt to copy these exam
pies while giving the less clever some
latitude in that direction, for it is
way of learning to- present ideas
where the inventive faculty is not pres
ent. In the boat race the interest
gained by overlapping forms may be
noted as we'll as the placement Of the
boats.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16
Copyright, By Joseph B. Bowlss.a
By FREDERICK RICHARDSON
Instructor in Composition
Institute. Ch1agoJ

Among the questions which have
come up by this time is that Of shad-
ing the drawings. So far the draw
1ngs for the child have been in out
line purely, and might remain so
throughout the series. There is no
gain by the mere smudging of draw
ing that would have been better in
pure outline, and there is often much
strength and simplicity to be gained
by the separation of one plane from
another by the use of tone 1t stands
with the accented line in it's partial
usage: When children can use it to
good and proper effect they might be
permitted to shade with clean, fiat
tones. At first not over two or three
tones should be used, for the draw
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16
The Show Strikes Virginia and the
Educated ourang outang Has the
Whooping Cough-The Bad Boy
Plays tho Part of Monkey, But
They Forget to Pin on Tail.

Well, I have broke the show all to
pieces. just by not being able to stand
grief. Everything. is all balled up,
the managers are sore at me, and
afraid of being sent to Jail, and pa
thinks ought to be mauled.
1t was this way: when we left
Washington we cut loose from every
home tie, and plunged into Virginia,
and the trouble began at once. We met
lawyer on the train, on the way to
Richmond, and fed him In our dining
car, and got him acquainted with all
the performers and freaks, and he told
rs that we would have to be careful
in Virginia, cause all the white people
were first families and aristocratic.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1906-03-16
Bears in Wyoming.

Bears are SO common out in our
country" said Mai. Frank Foote, OF
Evanston, Wyo., that even the hunt
ers pay but little attention, to them,
and they roam the mountain sides I'm.
molested. ! One reason of their. i'm.
m!nIn1ity Is that the state pays. no
bounty on their skins and thsra Is no
inducement to XII. them. Inzthe past
year I suppose I've encountered so
big silver tips in unfrequented local..
ties, not one Of which seemed at all
embarrassed. by the meeting, but trot.
ted Oh with dignifed deliberation."
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BY this time the child may be more
generally permitted to indulge in the
accented tint and to supply the pure
ly geometric form with freer and more
natural treatment. TheresNill be some
whose limitations by lack Of the
drawing instinct will not find this an
advantage. They should continue to
draw by the purely geometric forms.
The natural temptation of the child
to overdo the accent must be guarded
against.
81 About Object Drawing.
A query has been received asking
if object drawing has no place in this
method of teaching. The opening arti-
Gle stated the disadvantages and i'm
practicability of teaching object draw
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Dyer-Has Mack had a liberal educa-
stion? Ss.s 5 <... 60 $500. s5 53.
Fyer-No he has never been mar
ried. Judge. s:. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02

while the probabilities favor some sor' of compromise the outcome is still uncer- tain. MT. Mitchell seemed anxious to avoid an open rupture; yet 1t was difficult to see how he could do so without a backdown-s which, as a mat ter of prestige, he could scarcely afford to do.
 "A strike at this time Is especially un- fortunate because of It's effect upon an over-sensltive and somewhat hysterieal state of public opinion. The latter IS considerably incensed at the abuses or both organized capital and organized Ia bor. and it realizes that any concessions to the latter must result in an increased price for a commodity which is already selling at abnormally high figures. It IS quite evident that a prolonged rupture between capital and labor at this time would accentuate the public demand Tor government interference-a policy from which, in the end, organized labor would suffer just as much as organized capital With such momentous problems at issue 1t is not surprising that stock market operations are held in abeyance until the atmosphere in this respect becomes more clear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
YOUNG AT ElGHTY-ElNE.

From the Louisville Herald.
 Senator Pettus of Alabama says he is young at S5 He need not say it. We know it. The light in his eye, the smile on his lip, the ring in his voice, the spring in his step, the magic of his hand grip all tell it. His present senatorial term expires in 1909 Theodore Roosevelt will then be retiring from the Presi- dency, but Senator Pettus proposes to be- gin a third senatorial term March {, 1909. There are other Alabamians who want to succeed Mir Pettus, but to relieve their distress and alleviate possible jealousies the venerable young statesman proposes to succeed himself. He denies that years are the standard of youth or age. It is feeling. conscience. right purpose. good will to all mankind, that make for youth, their absence for age.
 The senior member of the Senate is junior senator from Alabama, his col league, MT. Morgan, having served in that body for much longer term. Senator Pettus has passed through every sort of peril and priyation. He fought against Mexico, rode on horseback to California in 1s49. led brigade of daring. fearless Texans in the Confederate army.
 He never worries about his health, and never suffers from pain or ache. He chews tobacco, drinks liquor moderately, enjoys poker game, and in the intervals reads his Bible and does justice to all. Anything missing? Let Senator Pettus add the Herald to his repertoire and he may see the century mark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
MAN SOUTH WOULD SELECT.

From the Mobile Register.
 If the south becomes persuaded that 1t must put a candidate in the field for the presidency, 1t Is probable that Sem ator Tillman will be the man selected The senator Is not the ideal of the con- servative south, but he has grown 8 great deal in recent years, and he is no longer looked upon as a dangerous man. At the same time, he has lost nothing of ment of the south, that element that has been influenced by populpst ideas. Talk Ing him altogether, he would come nearer commanding the approval of the whole of the southern people than any other southern man now in public life. His very aggressiveness makes friends for him. He is not always wise. and often shocks our sense of the properties and his views upon public questions are more radical than we are accustomed to, but they have the merit of being unequivo- cal, and his patriotism cannot be ques- ton.
 We would not put such "a man Into the presidential chair if the decision were left to us; at least, not the MT. Tillman of the present time: but, if the south should pronounce in his favor we should be forced to recognize that he is represen- tatlve of what the south now stands for. We would trust to the soberng infiu- erces of the position to refine his con- duct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02

This will keep off a coal famine in all districts, from Pittsburg to Colo rado, and it will probably lead to q settlement of all troubles during two years in all the soft coal districts. And about three tons of soft coal is mined when one ton of hard coal is brought to the surface
 In the comparatively limited hard coal district, the whole of which could be put in thirty miles square. resort can not be had to the 1903 scale, be- cause the hard coal miners are work. ing on the basis of the Roosevelt set clement of 1903.The entire hard coal problem will come up for considera- tion and possible solution tomorrow, and speculation today would there fore be premature.
 If the hard coal miners and opera tors get together, it is not too much to say that the entire coal mining situation is to become self-adiusting and peaceful. This would remove from the world of trade and industry the chief cloud that hangs over 1t. The soft coal settlements by separate ac- tion at each mine practically unites the knot, and lets the two warning sldes come together.
 The operators and mine workers are each to be congratulated upon the inn proved situation. The Presidential threat to open and conduct the mines by direct federal action is eliminated, and the dove of peace is actually hoy ering over our far-fung mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
Improvements in cadsden.

"The final ending of the waterworks litigation in Gadsen. which makes the money from the s15oO00 bond issue avail able at once, means that the proposed Improvements will be commenced imme- diately" said a citizen of that city yes- terday.
 Not only does the city intend to own its waterworks system. but 1t will let contracts for Improvements in the way Of street paving, and tine extension of the sewerage system. Gadsden has made rapid strides and extensive improvements will be made by the city. A number of new industries have been located recent ly. and the place seems to be enjoying not a boom but a substantial and rapid growth.
 "One of the most striking evidences of the increase in the city's population Is the increased attendance at the public schools. Since the beginning of the pres ent session 1t has been found necessary to add several additional classes to the grammar schools, and nearly one hun dred more pupils have been enrolled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
"HUCKLEBERRY FINN"
 AND A FEW BLOCKHEADS

book of humor, is probably the greatest
 book ever written by an American author.
 No less an authority than the late Sir
 Walter Besant thought it the best novel
 ever written in English. It paints the
 men and manners of an epoch 1t is a
 triumph as a work of art, and 1t lives
 and is real Thousands and thousands of
 Americans of all ages. from years to 96.
 have read and reread 1t. It grows in
 popularity year by year. it was classic
 before the first edition was exhausted.
 One scene in it-that wherein Huck
 wrestles with the idea that 1t is a crime
 to help free the nigger Jim-is worth. all
 the best-selling novels and all tho so- called boys books written in fifty years.s The idea that Mark Twain is merely an irreverent old clown is so absurd that it answers itself. In even the least of his writings there is displayed skill at hand Cervantes. He Is the first of American philosophers as well as the first of liv- ing humorists, and if, at times, he has seemed irreverent. 1t Is only because he has sought to show the sham and hypoc- risy beneath the surface of things com l monly held sacred.
 The American boy who reads "Huckle- berry Finn" will not be corrupted. He ] will lose none of his belief in the right eousness of the Ten Commandments. Rather, he will grow up with at least one guide post pointing his way to clean manhood and honest, unfearing Chris ] tianity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
THE MASTERS TOUCH.

By Horatius Bonar. In the still air the music lies iunheard: In the rough marble beauty hides un-
 seen: To make the music and the beauty. needs The masters touch. the sculptor's chisel
 keen. Great Master touch us with thy skillful
 hand; Let not the music that is in us die. Great Sculptor, hew and polish us; nor
 let, Hidden and lost, thy form within US lie. Spare not the strokel do with us as thou
 wilt, Let there be naught unfinished broken.
 marred Complete thy purpose. that we may be- Thy perfect image. thou our Cod and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-02
From the Baltimore Herald.

From the Baltimore Herald
 @ HE persons in charge of the k0 Brooklyn public libraries have
 fallen afoul of Mark Twain. His ''Huckleberry Finn.' they say, is unfit for young readers It Is "likely to con vince young minds of the futility of the Ten Commandments" And so they have put 1t on their blacklist. Hereafter, the youngsters of Brooklyn will be forbidden to read 1t.
 Every now and then some brash and loud-voiced American library committee performs a monkeyshine of this sort The last time, the object of attack was one Jack" London, a second-rate sensational novelist. who has been suffering, of late, from a bad case of acute socialism. Be- fore that the victim was George Bernard Shaw. the wild Irishman. Further in the past Tolstoi, Ibsen, and other more or less bewhiskered foreign gentlemen, were the marks. In each case the result was extensive advertisement for the author attacked, and brief and cheap notoriety for the well-meaning blockheads attack ing him.
 In the present instance, 1t is charitable to assume that the critics of the immor- tai Mark are seeking. not passing promi- hence. but what they believe to be the good of the youth of Brooklyn. If that Is true. they are simply foolish, and SO scarcely worth serious mauling.
 "Hucklebery Finn" despite the 1act that many readers mistake 1t for mere