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The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

that was so old he will never sell at
forced sale for enough to pay for the
beef tea the sheriff will have to feed
him. ., g..
When creditors in town get. too
mad and threaten to attach things,
we invite them to go along with us for
a few days, and get their money when
we strike a paying stand, and w
agree to furnish them Pullman car
and, all they can eat. That is rather
tempting to country people, so we had
a full car load of creditors with. us
for week, and we gave them plenty
to drink, SO they had the time Of their.
lives, but they didn't get their money.
After going with us all through
Georgia, they held an Indignation
meeting, in the car, and between high.
balls and cheese sandwiches they got.
sleepy, and we side tracked their car
in the woods at a station in Mississippi:
where there was q post Office, saw mill
and a cotton gin, I guess they are:
there yet unless Mr.. Pul1man's lost
car. experts have found the car and.
driven them out with fire extinguisht;.
ers- s:,. j .vssi e sz94 49,
"a came pretty. near being lett in
that car with: the creditors in Mtssis-5
sippi. He was helping to entertain;
the guests, and jollying them up 10
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

ssciously The influence Of good art in
the schoolroom is most helpful. The
selection of pictures and casts for the
establishment of the school walls has
a great influence upon the child's point
Of view and approach IN his own picture;
efforts. As to how much inYentiveness
and imagination may be cultivated, the
teachers experience will serve him.
d ,Children's Efforts Presented.
f. From the subject given a number of
drawings done by children have been
selected and are presented with the
criticism that might follow. twill be
noted that the comment is upon the
same lines as that on the other sets. of
children's drawings reproduced, the
introduction Of the human figure not
changing the qualities for which the
child is working. 1t would Iot be Just
to criticise the drawing Of the figure,
as 1t iasonly a aasymbol, as the tree or
rock, and anat tomical accuracy cannot
Sc considered. =ssS As.s*.s.
5 IL Is left to the teacher to suggest such
;sbetterment.of action as he may be able
70 % q Illustration with the stick flx--
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

train got to Memphis. The hands res.
cued pa, but he got away from the
creditors all right.
Gee, but~w made killing in Mem.
phis, and don't you forget it. We had
handbills on all the wagons in the pa
rade, telling the people that the pro-
ceeds of the afternoon and evening
performance would be given to deserv-
ing persons, in charity, and the inten-
ton was to use the money to pay off
the hands. My, but how the people
turned out. The tents were all full,
and We had more money than we have
had in a month before, and after the
performance at night the mayor, and
some prominent citizens waited on the
management and asked when and
where we were going to distribute the
money to the deserving persons.
The managers appointed pa to stand
off the committee. Pa said he had no.
ticed, in walking about. the city, q
beautiful park In the center of the
town, and he told the committee that
his idea was to have the deserving
people gather at the park the next
morning, which was Sunday, and wait
there until the managers of the show
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

when you strike the southern country
where the white men have not sold
their cotton and the negroes have not
been paid for picking it, the audience
looks like political caucus in an off
year, when there is nobody with
money enough to stimulate the voters.
When the audiences are small, and
half the people in attendance get in
on bill-sticker's passes, and you can't
pay the help regularly, but have to
stand them off with promises, you are
liable to have strike any minute.
The people you owe for hotel bills, and
horse feed. and supplies follow you
from one town to another, threatening
to attach the ticket wagon and levy
on the animals. 1t takes diplomacy
and unadulterated gall to run show.
We are playing now to get back
into the northern states, but we have
to leave an animal of some kind in
the hands of a sheriff every day,
which has been all right so far, cause
we have steered the sheriffs on to ele-
plants that have 'corns so they are no
good except to eat, one zebra that was
made up by painter, who painted
stripes on white mule, and one lion
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

could count the money, and prepare
to distribute it., honestly and impair.
tally, with the, advice of the, local
committee. That seemed all right II and
the committee notified the citizens to
meet in the park at nine O'clock the
next morning, and receive the money
the citizens had so kindly contributed
TO such a noble cause, and they went
away, ..-.r, y: :~'.s y : 5ss. " -
= Our show has got out of a sRo.,d
many. tight places, but we nevers~got
out of a town so quietly and unosten.
tatiously as we got out Of Memphis
during that early Sunday morning.
There was not noise enough made get
ting our stuff to the train to wake up
a policeman, and before daylight the
different sections 1 of the train had.
crossed the big bridge into Arkansas.
and were on the way to the: Indian
Territory. Pa and the other man
ayers were on the platform of the last
car of the last section, aszit pulled out
across the river, at daylight, and seven:
that early 1t seemed as though, the.
whole colored population Of Memphis
was On the way to the park, to secure
good positions, SO they could receive
their share Of the money. AS the train
got to the middle Of the river, and
safe into Arkansas. the whole man
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

believe they would get their money
when we got to Memphis the next day,
when he noticed the car had been side
tracked, and: he knew that was the
way we were going to dispose of; the.
creditors. He thought some one would
tell him when to get off, but he was
sitting up with a landlady from some
place in Georgia that we owed lot Of
money for, feeding the freaks, and she
was threatening that If She didn't get
her money she would have the hearts
blood of some one. So pa was afraid
to leave for fear she. would stab him.
But when the car stopped on the sid
ing, pa took off his coat and hat and
yawned, and said he guessed he would
turn in, and she let him go to his
berth, and he got out on the platform,
and just then the second section of our
train came along, and stopped for
water, and pa craw1ed into an animal
car and laid down in the straw with
the sacred COW. She beloved all night
cause the sacred bull, her husband, had
been attached for debt at Vicksburg.
but when pa got in the car in his shirt
sleeves and bumped his shoulders up
on account of the cold, the cow thought
may be she had been unnecessarily
alarmed, and may be pa was her hus-
band. ~ ,,a*
So she quit believing, and laid down
and chewed her cud till daylight.
Then when she saw that pa was an
other person she got mad and chased
him up into the rafters 2of the car;
and he had to ride there until the
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

With a class of children from which
accuracy Of drawing cannot be expected
1nimore than eight out of fifty-and the
teacher does not aim at perfecting the
remaining AZ in this respect-the object
OF the: class must be- kept we'll in view.
The criticism must tend to the develop
ment of inventive Imagination and the
power to make flexible medium of the
material employed. While practice in
the constant working over of forms al
ready given is the means to be relied
upon, the teacher must, in talking to
the child of it's work, stimulate the
qualities which develop: the purpose of
the picture. He will find that by dwell
ing upon certain excellencies in the pic
e.and not expatiating on certain de-
fects, the child will assume more hope
full attitude and work toward the goal,
dropping it's faults more or less uncon-
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13
CURE OF THE COBRA BITE
Permsnganate of Potassium Is Said
to BE an 1nfallible
Remedy.

The Indian cobra has been since
time immemorial the terror of India.
because it's bite has been universally
attended with fatal results, says the
Indian Medical Gazette. Tradition :
has it that: natives commit suicide
rather than endure the agony of the
inevitable. death and that the only
man who ever survived an encounter
with the hooded reptile thrust his
whole arm in blazing fire. Science
comes now with a remedy for even
this snakebite, simple permanganate
of potassium, discovered by DR.. Leon
ard Rogers and reported by Consul
Masterson of Alden. The paper ''re-
ports II cases of snakebite in which
this new remedy was put into prac-
tice. In two cases it failed, but these
were the cases in which the longest
interval had elapsed before the rem
.edy was applied. The persons were
bitten during the night and were not
treated till the following day, the in
terval III one case amounting to II
hours: and in the. other to nine hours.
In seven of. the successful. cases the
snake was killed and identified; in
five cases 1t was, cobra and in the
other two it was viper.
::..:"Ofs the .two fatal cases one was bit
ten by a cobra, the other by q snake
that was not identified Two Of the
successful cases were: treated by Euro
peans without any medical training.
EIn~three of the successfu Jul cases
treatment was begun at once, in the
remaining seven the interval varied
from half an hour to- four Il hours.
These results show that even when all
|sthe doubtful. elements have been: ex-
cluded or allowed for this method
promises to be most. ef6cacious. and a
very satisfactory feature is that it is
so. simple anybody, can apply. it and
So cheap that It is within the reach
of the poorest. g.. i :.
when a person has been bitten by
snake, the first thing to do is to ap-
ply. a lfgatures above the wound. to pre-.
went the@rapid absorption of the ven
fom.s Them an incision is to be made
over the snakebite with any sharp cut
ting instrument that is perfectly clean
and a few grains of the permanganate
are to be: well rubbed on Perman-
ganate Of potassium is a cheap drug.
obtatnableI from any druggist. It
keeps indefinitely and q pound would
sufice at the. rate Of ten grains for.
each case for between 700 and SEQ
l. 49,; r y
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ure, but the limitations of the particl1-
lar child must be kept in mind Apart
from this the human figure should be
considered no more than any other
symbol, and the picture purpose Of the
whole be the worked-for object.
The faults will be recognized as the
same that existed when the children's
drawings of the apples and mug were
reproduced. That some of the timidity
has disappeared is the result of keeping
the example of big simple work con-
stantly before them, but the relation Of
the strong to the weak work is nearly
the same with only a slight gain in
favor of the weak. What has been said
before on the reasonable expectations
of the individual child should be kept
in mind.
The subject may be announced as
Camping Out" or under any such title
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

Gee, but this show has been up
against it the last week. We haven't
made paying stand anywhere. The
show business is all right when you
have to turn people away, or let them
in on standing room. Then you can
snap your fingers at fate, and drink
foolish water out of four-dollar bot
Ties of fizz that has the cork trained so
it will pop out clear to the top of the
tent, and make noise that makes
You think you own the earth, but
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13
Copyright by J. B. Bowles.)

The Show Does Poor Business in the
south-Pa Side Tracks 4 Circus
Car Filled with Creditors-A Per-
formance Given s'for the Poor"
Fills the Treasury-A Wild West
Man Buncoes the Show.
The Virginia enterprise., 1906-04-13

Few Perfect Eyes.
Only one pair of eyes In every Is is 1
perfect sayssa we'll known oculist.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
NOTICE OF SPEAKING.

The candidates for the various
county Offices will address, the vot-
ers of independence county at the
places and dates below mentioned
Barren township, Hickory Val
ley, Friday, March Q.
Gainsboro township, Ham 5
school house, Saturday, March 10.
White River township, Sulphur
Rock, Monday, March II.
Black River township, Black
River Academy, Tuesday, March
13.
Big Bottom township, Newark
Wednesday, March II.
Magness township, Magness,
Thursday, March 10.
Oil Trough, ASdelotte's Chapel,
Friday, March Is.
Christian township, White
Church, Saturday, March II.
Salado township, Salado, Mon
day, March 10.
Fairview township, Pleasant
Plains, Tuesday, March 20.
Liberty township, Floral,
Wednesday, March 81.
Greenbrier township, James.
town, Thursday, March q.
Washington township, Bethesda,
Friday, March %.
Cushmau township, Cushman,
Saturday, March "a.
Ashley township, Brewster,
school house. Monday, March 26.
RuddelI township, Batesville,
Tuesday, March q.
The speaking at the various
places will begin promptly at Il
o'clock a. m., and special invi
tation is extended to all to come
out and hear the speaking.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
SCHOOL FURNITURE.

School directors are reminded
that Craig & Henderson of New
ark still handle school furniture
and apparatus of all kinds, and are
prepared to sell first class goods at
low prices. If YOU expect to buy
anything in their line zee or write
to them and YOU will have prompt
attention.
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
ARKANSAS NEWS NOTES
Items ofGeneral Interest Gathered
Fresh From the Columns of
the Daily Papers.

A bank has been organized at
Higginson.
Maurice Wade, Pocohontas
boy had his leg broken few day )
ago while playing ball.
All the Boone county candidates
have refused to sign the pledge
required by the state committee.
Machinery has deem received at
Horatio by Louis Perry for u
broom factory which he will oper-
ate.
Jesse Mitchell, an aged farmer,
was struck by an Iron Mountain
train near Shelby Il few days ago
and seriously injured.
An unknown man, about Is
years old, was killed by an Iron
Mountain train near Malvern
Thursday of last week.
A marriage license was issued
at Murfreesboro recently to David
| White, 20 years of age, and Miss
Savannah York, Is years old, both
of Langley.
At a meeting Of the Farmers
Union of Randolph county II reso-
luton was adopted urging the
members to not increase the cot
ton acreage for this year.
G. W. Ford, of Bald Knob, a
conductor on the Memphis branch
of the Iron Mountain railroad
was killed at Argenta by train
backing over him.
A petition has been prepared at
Russellville asking the city coun-
Gil to lay off the city into an inn
provement district for the purpose
of putting in system of water
works and electric lights.
The internal revenue collections
for Arkansas reported by Collector
+. w. Tucker for the month oil
February were IS, III %, as com
pared with 81, ST. 81 for the cor
responding month last year. The
increase is said to be due largely
to an increased issuance of stamps
for liquor dealers.
Johnney Earhart, Is years old,
was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed near Stuttgart last
week. His dead body lay in a
field nearly all day before his fate
was known. 1t is supposed tnat
after storm was threatened he
started home across the field where
he was at work, and that the fatal
flash struck him as he was hurry
ing on.
naNtffya E--E-. D.~~-~
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
Doctors are Puzzled.

The remarkable recovery of Ken
Meth McIver of Vanceboro, Me is
the SUBJECT of much interest to
the medical fraternity and "A wide
circle of trends He says of his
case, Owing to severe infamma-
ton of the throat and congestion
of the lungs three doctors gave me
up to die, when, as a last resort, /
WAS induced to try DR.. Kings New
Discovery and | am happy to say
it saved my life Cures the worst
coughs and colds, bronchitis, ton
silitis, weak lungs, hoarseness aud
lagrippe. Guaranteed as Sturdi-
vaults drug store soc and 81
Trial bottle free,
The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
WEALTH IN POULTRY
Poultry and Eggs Consumed III the
l.. ;. Annually Amounts TO
Nearly $1,000, 900.


more the poultry industry extends
and the more chickens and eggs
multiply, the higher the prices go
and the harder it is to supply the
demand. Everybody remembers
when eggs, in the country, were
a drug on the market. You could
buy all you wanted for nickel a
dozen and the farmers children
were glad to get that much.
In the winter, when they were
scarce, the prices went up, of
course, but in the spring the abun-
dance made them negligible guam
tity so far as selling was concerned.
Now, eggs never get cheap at any
season, prices keeping up through
out the spring and summer as well
as winter. One would have sup
posed that the multiplication of
the incubators, which hatch chick
ems by the hundreds of thousands,
would have cheapened the prices
for fries" and "broilers" by in
creasing the supply over the old
methods. But this has not hap
pened and all during the early
season for these luxuries, the
prices place them out of sight
of the ordinary city resident. In
this one department, at least, 1t
seems that demand is nearly al
ways ahead of supply and the
the world cannot get enough chick
ems and eggs
According to the census status
ties $50, 100000 chickens, to say
nothing of other kinds of poultry,
are consumed each year. For one
year recently, egg and poultry
earnings amounted to $3.50, 900,
900. The significance of these
figures may b. estimated when it
is remembered THAI the total value
of the gold, silver, wool and sheep
produced in America during the
year in question was 1922, 434, 3l3,
The hens contribution to our
wealth is still more strlkIngly
brought out when we place beside
it the value of some of our more
important crops. Counting only
the part consumed at home, our
wheat was worth 1929, 600, 600;
our hogs, $3.50, 529, o35; oats, SIS
9S7, 800; potatoes, almost the same;
tobacco, estimated at $50, 90
925, while cotton, once king of slap
les, could show only 1859, 100, $40
TO compare with the magnificent
earnings of its feathered rival.
The hens eggs produced in the
United States annually would I'll
43, t27 900 crates, each of these
holding 800 eggs; also a train o
refrigerator cars to carry thes'
eggs would be nearly 900 mile
long.
One of our agricultural ex
changes says that the ideal hel
should lay about two hundre'
eggs a year; it also says that re
cent exhaustive experiments b.
well equipped Investigators prov
that the egg deserves its reputa
ton as an easily asSimilated an
highly nutritious food, if eaten ray
or lightly cooked. Such exper
ments slso show that eggs at l
cents dozen are cheap SQUIRE
OF nutrients: at Is cents somewha
expensive, and at % cents an
+ over highly extravaganza.
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The Newark journal. (Newark, Ark.) 1901-1959, 1906-03-09
A Scientific Wonder.

The cures that stand to its cred
It make Bucklen's Arrica Salyc a
scientific wonder 1t cured +. h.
Milford. lecturer for the Patrons
of Husbandry. WayneSboro, Pa,
of distressing case Of piles. 1t
heals the worst burns. sores, bolls
ulcers, cuts, wounds. chiIhlains and
salt rheum. Only % cents at j. |.
Sturdivant's drug store.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24
M [ m M e@ 9 al +

Though flowers have no feeling, they are
nearer akin to animals than the ignorant
imagine. If it is not instinct, what is it that
makes the roots that shoot from one end of
the seed of plant seek to bury themselves
ment, while the sprout or stem struggles up
to the free air to seek the light and heat
necessary for its Development? If the seed
has been sown upside down, the sprout and
root pass each other, one making for light,
the other for darkness.
Do not the tendrils of a climbing plant seem
to know which way to twist and turn to reach
the support they need?
There are carnverous or meat-eating plants
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24
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either wild or cultivated, that ] do not know
how to describe them to you. Some Of them
were so large and handsome and gorgeous in
colorng, that they might be taken for natives
Of the tropics, rather than this Northern
cline. Others were such delicate and perfect
little stars, such fine and beautiful sprays Of
fairy bells, that one would not think they
could exist outside of green house, where
the wind and the rain could have full
sweep at them.
Besides these beauties which are new to
me, almost all the flowers which / have seen
under careful cultivation in the East here
spring up Of their own sweet WILL shift for
themselves and increase and multiply. There
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

are wild calla-lilies, and lies-ofthe-valley,
wild pinks, sweet peas, geraniums, roses and
aapen O oa qodeS o Sd
form of their tame sisters, but always recog-
nizabe.
In the pretty town, where I am writ
ing, there is an nclosure of twelve acres Of
pine land which has been wisely reserved
by the City Fathers for a park The pine
trees there grow very tall and straight and
close together, making dense, cool shade, and
filling the air with their fragrance. The
ground is covered with ferns and moses, and
should not like to undertake to enumerate
the different kinds of wild flowers which
have the privilege of visiting this spot, when
ever | felt like it, in wild flower time, than
to have the run of the Presidents green house
in Washington, for here nothing is forced or
coaxed, or arranged in orderly rows, and there
is no cross old gardener to grdugingly cut
you stiff bouquet. wagon load Of bios
SONS would not be missed from the spon-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

''He was as different from the ordinary boy
as noon is from midnight The busy bee
which gathers honey from every opening
flower was no more diligent than he was IN
acquiring knowledge. From the time he could
talk well enough to ask questions to the day
of his death, no human being who knew any
thing parted with him without having given
him of his knowledge.
''When he was on the Supreme Bench OF
PENNSYLVANIA friend took him to see the
Philadelphia markets. Next day the friends
butcher said:
% Excuse me, sir; but was not that gentle
man with you yesterday butcher
No: he is Chief Justice of Pennsylvania
Z" 4 was sure he was butcher; he knew SO
much about the business
In 1851 Judge Black was nominated for
Judge of the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania,
and was elected by larger majority than
any other man running on the ticket.
-Four other judges were elected at the same
time. They drew lots for length of terms,
with the understanding that the justice draw
ing the fewest years was to be chief of the
bench during the term. Judge Black wrote
home thus
"My Own Mary: We drew yesterday, and
the result is as follows; Black, years; Lewis,
years; Gibson, 8 years; Lowrie, II years;
Coulter, 10 years. So you see your husband is
to be chief Justice. l don't like it. This
whole business has been like our old womans
soap; somehow l have mo luck with it,
He was the most modest OF great men, and
SO remained until his death.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

and to that family belongs the ptcher-plant
which abounds in Minnesota swamps Each
leaf is perfect upright pitcher, in green,
half-full of water, in which flies and other in
sects are drowned, and disappear as food for
the plant The petals are a rich cardinal col
or on the outside, and delicate lght-green
on the inside.
1 have had many delightful and wearisome
tramps in search of these wonderful and beau
tiful pitcher-plants, in company with two
little girls of my Acquaintance. | entered into
a compact with them early this spring. They
were to keep my cottage gay with fresh flow
ers, and in return l agreed to tell them what
| knew about botany which | had confessed
to them would not take me long-and some
times accompany them on their flower excur-
sions.
The bargain has been faithfully kept, as
great many freckles, some pleasant memories,
and a little additional wisdom will testify.
My flower girls have brought me such a pro
fusion of blossoms which never saw before,