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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
SCHOOL GARDEN RULES
pes@~ . Massaohusetts Institution ss
 Managed by Wamsn.

A school garden In Watertown Mass, has adopted the following rules, says the los Angeles Times. Be regular and punctual in attendance Keep garden orderly. Keep record book correctly Leave tools cleaned and put away before going home. Be courteous to all, and If absent or lata furnish excuse from parent or teacher.
 If any one repeatedly breaks these rules his relation with the school vii. xruinate. The classes meet twice a week ek-Wednesday after school ant Saturday morning one hour each pel!
 d. They will work ln the gardens
 through the summer vacation. If a pupil Is absent, substitute Is sent Badges or pins of green and white are worn, telling garden, number and time of class. Notebooks are kept, record ing the temperature attendance, date time of planting, plan of garden and any other notes they care to record
 When insects are found or birds board, questions are asked and notice taken of their habits, etc. During the summer children will be taken in smal. groups on short walks to hear the voices of nature. Tho children alread, give advice to parents. telling them the bsst methods for planting cucumbers and beans and setting out tomato plants. The parents and friends rxke e nuch interest. visiting the garden willie the children work. helping to keep their notes correctly and the gar asn in good order. Tho Woman's clut pays the expenses and has the busI, ness management of the garden They have taken up the work in . mos, satisfactory and helpful way.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
CIcveIanTs Greediness For Wort.


 President Cleveland was often at his desk in the White House until 5 o'clock in the morning and up again at 9. l fell into the way of working until about 1 o'clock in the morning, and because of the oppressive heat l kept the door of my room wide open. or ten during the hours around midnight 1 wond step into the hall In hope or getting Il stray breath of air. Once 1t so happened that aS l looked across the hall to the half open door turned toward mine l saw upon It's polished surface the reflection of the hand of a nan writing with a patience and an industry that amazed me. l knew that the president was at his desk. 1 used to ask the watchman when 1 went to my task in the morning at what hour the president had knocked off work the preceding night. 1 found that 1t was generally about 3 o'clock in the morning, although sometimes when he had finished some severe task that he had set himself he would stop at 7 o'clock. I usually stopped work at o'clock, but l did once or twice hang on until ? In the hope that l might II onlH for once show an endurance equal to that of the man next door, whose crcelineSs for work had become bal.-Geor.e F. Parker In Me-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
School Gardens Create 1as.s.

The educational value of the schoo: nrden cannot be overestimated. Whai ve want to do Is to teach the chlldre,. easte-get taste into the child. get taste hto the household and then finally taste Into the community-andw when we hay. done thls we need not fear the result says the Los Angeles Times. The lac', of taste in the community generally > an unfortunate fact, notwithstanding attributed in large degree to the failure to appreciate its necessity by our educators. It Is particularly pleas mg to those most deeply interested {, note how universal Is becoming t,. demand for school gardens. Reform r. many branches of public Improvements would be far easier of accomplishme:a, now had tho children of tho previous generation been trained In tho fund.- mental principles of taste. the pows' sf percelving, appreciat1ng and dlscos sring beauty and excellence. The mor' we consider the curriculum of our pull Nc schools, the more we perceive no" 1t could be improved to meet the chang inR conditions of our American lifc Our children need far more than tn, three R's to fit them for citizenship a 1t is drawing upon us. Tho atmospher' aAd appurtsnances of the schoolroon should tend to lmpart culture ant taste, which in turn are transferred {. the home and thus minister to the gen sral upbullding One of tho surest anf best ways to accomplish this greates rood to both school and home is tt cary at times the schoolroom (agura lively, at least) out into the pure an, elevating atmosphere and influence O Ehe school garden
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
New Works Lobster Palaees.

Nobody of distinction of appetite goes to a lobster palace to eat. One goes there i'll gaudy mood or when every other place Is filled or closed or with the kind of man who thinks gay ety means Over,lresSed women, bedla- moncu men, walters rushing with rhaupaone as if they had the lire buckets and caterwauling orchestra. At midnight the din and the excite ment incline q sedate man to ask him. self whether he Is not in riot. If YOU have a lobster digestion, you don't hear the din or feel the maelstrom of omnibuses, walters, head walters and patrons swir!iaH about you, A man who is eating lobster has to concen- trate all his faculties. mental. physical
 moral and intellectual. on the ordeal. You have heard no doubt of tue young lady who was asked over her first lob- ster how she liked it. T think" she declared. its perfectly delicious if there weren't so many large bones in 1t. They look like celuloid don't they? ?"-Richard Duffy in Putnam's.
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THE CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY.
em China New Year's = tho l,tt
 Ones Great Festival.

Except at the Chinese New Year which comes in February, 1t Is S"i', n&rd to catch glimpse of chllaren | China. Little beggars will run beside you for miles to earn 1 cash Il copper coin with d square hole in tat middle of 1t. worth the twentieth of f sent, but children who have parents to care for them seem to be kept ilt doors all the time or only allowed r. play in walled yards and gardens. We 1sed to say to each other: Why. where are the children? Haven't they goi any" But at New Years we fonuG asut that they had. This IS the great Holiday of all the year in China, when everybody hangs out flags and colored lanterns and sets of firecrackers. (We borrowed our custom of nrecrackers Ger the Fourth of July from China : New Year'sD All the people put on fheir best clothes and the children the sbest of all, jackets and trousers ot Upright blue or green or yellow or pHr vls, the boys and the girls 80 much alike that you can only tell them apart by their hair Tho boys of course ls 1raided in pigtail, and the girls is done up on her head with silver pins CT. If she's a very grand little girl. with 9old or jade. Thus decked out, the children go walking with their proud papas and mammas and often go tc she theater, which Is rara treat fUr efhem.
 Perhaps Chinese children have romp gng plays together, but they always look as If they were born grown up 0t. Nicholas.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
The Mennonites.

The Mennonites grew o1t of four sects of Dutch, Flemish and German Baptists. They derive their name from Memo Simons, Catholic priest who became leader of the anabaptists in about 1537 Simons was born in 1492 and died in 153T. His True Christian Belief" was published three years be- fore his death. Following the death of the leading spirit the sect under went divisions and changes of creed.- Pittsburg Dispatch.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Don't Threw cudssls at Your Town.

Don't Throw Cudosls at Your Town. Whatever faillngs you may havs-an6 heaven knows all have some That they should struggle day and nigh to try to overcome Ho'er stand within tho market place and as you oolaly hown. With ell the strength that you possess throw oudgels at your town. Do not unceasingly complain about he' streets and sQuaros Tho failures her officials have. the par sons ta!kS and prayers. And do not In an endless psa1nt yous small opinion give o4 how much better things were 6ons where you have chanosd to 1.-Two 0 things ars not what they should be and ought to bs improved. 0su up your sleeves and go to worh anc have what's wrong removed, But let me ray. whatever uns of Accis. you purSue, D. not destroy whAt you AoW aAvs ~ YOu 0aa hu11A e0oW.
 -,Nooeon 0as1A
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Nvhsrs Now Years Aasts . Month

Ihe celebration of New Years is carried on more extensively in Japan chan in any other country. H The reason, Cor this can only be accounted Tor by the fact that tho custom has been handed down to succeeding genera 11ons for centuries. Tho time the oc casion involves Is quite lengthy, last ang from the 18th of December tKote Na1ims-v!s. beginning sf things, tS the 18th of January (Hokonin no ysbu ari), which is apprentices' holiday Or seth of the occasions . sort of stew e eaten, composed of red beans. rice aliced nsh and konnyaka root
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Evsr, Little Di. Hs,p..

~"Yeu say you encouraged our 'rierc e make another New Years resolu @Aonr'
 "T did," answered the man whose hAart is all right.
 <But don't you know bell break II AA tho end of six weeks af tie Eeast aealculation?"
 "I hope not And even if ne does Ee'l' be six weeks ahead of the game ''
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Washington's Rehuks.

Washington" said senator, twas not. a cynic, yet he sometimes said things so wretchedly true that they had cynical note. Thus. rebuking 6 certain type of churchgoer, he once wrote:
 "The chUrch's feasts and lasts are maryelously well kept up. The rich keep the feasts and the poor the faSts'"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17

French Peasant Women Hard Workers The French peasant woman. Ere, tonne or otherwise. works hard as any man. It makes one sad to see the women working in the fields, digging and delying, carrying heavy burdens. driving the cattle. sometimes attend ing to the machinery employed on the farms. One wonders whether hus bands and fathers appreciate il all, especially wheu you hear some of the ballads, for ballads are supposed tt reveal the soul of people. heard one the other day of which the refrain is as follows:
 Dear is my good wife Jeanne.
 Her death l should deplore.
 But dearer are my beaveS.
 Their loss would grieve me more! From Plougastel France) Letter tc New Orleans Times Democrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Reciprocity.

Do you expect your constituents to believe all you tell them?'
 "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "and in return they must not expect me to tell them all believe. e."-Wash- ington Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
4 Pereuader.

"Did you make any New Years reso tationi" asked Miss Miami Brown
 "No," answered Mir. Erastus Pink Aay, Out done persuaded Mistah Coli Aower to make ono. Aftsr rot thoo e8ith him at de las parlor social he was willin' to promise dat h6'd stop <Ryin' to pick 'sturbancss fohsvsr m dVSf."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
He Was a Poor Guesser.

He was !, new conductor and anx. iOus to expedite matters When he saw q woman holding q two dollar bill !n her hand he dispensed with the customary exhortation to pay her fare and began to count out change. There had been drain on his pockets throughout the trip. and he was obliged to interview half the passen, gers in the car before he finally se- cured the desired small coin. Finally the transaction was completed, and the conductor returned to the woman.
 Fare" he said.
 The woman fished nickel from her pocketbook Then she looked at the two dollar bill.
 "Dear me- she said. How careless I am! forgot 1 had that money In my hand Somebody might have stolen it.
 "Chump" growled the conductor
 The woman thought he meant her. but he didn't. He was cursing his own stupidity York Globe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
A Candid Critic.

Author-Have you red my new book?
 Frieud-Yes.
 What do you think of itr' Well to be candh with you, think the covers are too far apart. ."-Chicago News
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Rsyissd Versisn,
IF. I remember

II ppmsmhsr. I remember. '' She house whore was bora xeGI aiso the Janftor. bsilboy. butcher boy baker boy. bootblsek. elevator man grocers boy "a. z. lts.s5 essAal nswybty cASistaA1 nsrp-
 ~DtVv X0k ovA
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17

If a man emptfes his purse Into hia head no o0s eaa take Il fro0 him
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17

Mercy turns her back to the unmerci. fGl--Quarles.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-17
Is Your Private List of RESPONSIBILITIES" TOOLARGE?
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Perhaps things have been placed upon your Per. sonal Catalogue of Impossibiites which have place there
 Go brase work to dscredit your listto prove that lot of your "mpossible' things possible and feasible and will find whole scheme of life readiusted You will find, also that personal individual business cess. WITH THE MEANS AND RESOURCES AT HAND is really atainable-if your available forces USED.
 Rational judicious of publicity will enable you to revise your list of Responsibilities" radically that it will longer errify yOu-no longer act your ialer-no Code of Reasons for your lack of pros. perity
 Publicityo the sort you "a1ord"-will search out the in the city who Is really to buy the thing want to sells thus eraslng what be Impos sbily" Mo- from your list It will dispose of what may be Hmpossibility" No. your list by enabling you to doube the number of customers of your sorechangns hgging business to 8 busy one-wlthout exhaustng yoar This calls for "nerve" yoar part for some faith, sefassarance. But it be done is being done all of the tne-aa1 is worth doing.
 All thruogh list ef Responsibilities" will be found hlngs that persistent of advertising will remedy will ~e1 cat" of your list Business obstacles. office dlssrgsnizaton household annoyances-these do not be- long your lst for publicity remedies them. InterwoyeD with all of your affairs, adyersng will como to play part in lie yal h"Ipfal that will forget thst yoa ever hs1 list of Representatives."
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
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Historic Battle Celebrated.

The battle OF Point Pleasant
which was fought October "a, l774,
between the Colonists and the In
dams, was fittingly celebrated and
an appropriate monument unveiled
at Point Pleasant last week. The
Grand Lodge of Masons of West
Virginia had charge Of the ceremon-
les and many thousands of people
were present, among whom were the
U. s. Senators Of the State, and the
governor and his staff. Judge Geo.
w. Atkinson, OF the Court of Claims
and former governor of this State,
delivered the grafton.
Addresses appropriate to the oc-
casion were delivered by Senator
Scott, Governor Glasscock, Congress
man Hughes, Ex-Governor MacCor-
kle, VIM. E. Chiffon, Secretary of
tate Reed, Auditor Darst and Mrs.
Livia Simpson offenbarger
The monument to commemorate
the battle of Point Pleasant is To-
Gated in the center of Tu-Endie-wei
park, two and half acres of ground
at the mouth of the Great Kanawha
river. 1t is built of Balform gran
tie, the statue thereon being a he
roic figure of westerly granite. The
shaft is an obelisk with base "a
feet square and 80 feet in height
The statue is that of a colonial sol
der Of the primitive Virginia style
dressed in hunting shirt, coon Skin
cap, leather breeches and long rifle
The tablet in bronze and placed OF
the face of the four sides of the
shaft provides for the present ant
future generations a history in Ia
bloid of the great struggle between
the forces of savagery and barbar
ism against civilization.
The tablet on the east side o.
the shaft contains in raised letters
a brief story of the battle so terse.
ly written and so comprehensively
set forth to amaze the reader with
its brevity; the west side of the
shaft holds tablets presenting q
typical battle scene between Indians
and the frontiersmen, and bronze
coats of arms of the United States
and West Virginia. On the NORTH
and south sides of the shaft the
tablets present the names Of all the
known participants in the battle OF
the part of the Virginia troops.
The monument has been erected
at a total cost of $4,000, and IL
probably the largest of its kline
west of the Alleghanies.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
Which Shall Rule?

The real issue in our politics to-
day is whether the dollar or the
man shall rule this country. The
battle is raging in the democratic
and the republican party--yes, right
in our midst, the long arm and tai
on fingers Of the plutocracy are
seen and felt Its sublime cunning
surrounds us. Its tools. with the
word Of God in its mouth and the
devil in its heart. and breathing
platitudinous devotion to the cause
OF humanity while 1t seeks to tear
down our leaders and divide our
councils.
Right must win or the public dies.
There should be harmony with all
true, earnest men, but not that kind
Of harmony which involves the sac
rifice of principles We want peace,
but not the peace OF the corpse.
quiet decay, silence. absence of mo-
ton, and bad smell Honesty Is
a great force II you give IT so long
that the distinctions between right
and wrong, between truth and false
hood, between heaven and hell, have
almost disappeared.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29

DR.. T. w, Moore, of Huntington,
had quite an honor given him at
the annual meeting held by the
West Virginia State Medical Society
at Elkins last Friday, when he was
elected president, DR.. ]. E. RAIDER,
OF Huntington, was elected council
lor for the Fifth congressional.
There was a banquet rendered them
at the Hotel Randolph and Parkers,
burg was chosen for the next place
of meeting. Dr. Moore is well
known here, coming to this city
once or twice a year for a. few
days to practice his profession and
is to be seen at that time at Dr.
Nunemakers office Williamson
Enterprise. ...-.. H..
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
Keep Up Courage.

Don't be discouraged II OCCASION
ly you slip down by the way, and
others tread on you little. In
other words, don't let failure dis
hearten you; accidents will happen,
miscalculation will sometimes be
made. things will turn differently TO
our expectations. and we may be
sufferers. 1t is worth while to re-
member that fortune is like the
skies In the month OF April, some
times clear and favorable. and the
man who never failed may be count
ed myth, In fact such man new
er lived and is never likely to. All
success is a series OF efforts, In
which. when closely viewed, are
seen more or less failures. The
mountain Is apt to overthrow the
hill. but a hill Is asreality neverthe'
less. II you fail now and then don't
be discouraged. Bear in mind II
Ii only the part and experience o.
every successful man, and the mos
successful men often have the mos
failures.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29

and completion of the Virginian
railway and the new feeder, tap
ping one of the richest undeveloped
portions OF the State, will feed the
new trunk line with West Virginia
coal.
Railroad construction in Raleigh
county surpass at present construct
ton in any other division of the
State and the construction of this
new lateral line will mean much to
Raleigh county, for prosperous
towns and communities will follow
in the wake of the new line and
where today there is barely nothing
but barren mountains there will
soon be hustling and thriving COM
munities
The mountainous section Of Raj
eigh county lying west of Paint
creek, and covering the headwaters
of Coal river, include the largest
coal vein development known
/ throughout the Appalachian range
but the amount of development
which follows the construction of a
transportation line into hitherto
undeveloped section can hardly be
forecasted.
| Pennsylvania capitalists are be
hind this new road which, wher
completed, will tap an exceedingl!
i rich section Of Raleigh county's Goa
: deposits. -Mingo Republican.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29

staggerbnsh. branch ivy. black
nightshade and bittersweet are 9TH
err poisonous plants mentioned by
authorities
The jlmson weeds are rank, III
smelling plants with large funnel
shaped flowers and prickly four
Waived seed pods. They are mostly
weeds which have been introduced
into the United States from Europe
AID tropical America. The present
species is a stout, smooth, bushy
annual two to five feet high, with
a coarse green stem, large leaves
and white, heayy-scented flowers
two to four inches long. The flowers
appear from May to September, and
the fruit appears from August to
November, according to ATTITUDES.
The seeds are numerous and about
the size Of a grain of buckwheat.
When fresh they are ill-scented and
nauseating, but later they are not
so disagreeable. The nectar is
sweet, but a little nauseating.
Gases of poison by jimson weed
arise in adults from excessive use
as stimulant or as a medicine.
Children are sometimes tempted to
eat the fruit If they are permitted
to play where the weed is to be
found. Several cases of that kind
were reported to the United States
Department of Agriculture during
the fall of 1897 At Alpena, Mich.
five children we're badly poisoned
in August by eating the seeds o.
the purple-flowered species, which
we're cultivated in garden as
curiosity under the fanciful trad'
name OF "night-blooming cactus.
/ Children are also poisoned by suck
: ing the flower or playing with !
in the mouth. The fresh leaves ant
also the root have occasionally bee
{ cooked by mistake for other will
Y edible plants. One or two instance
1 are reported in which cattle hay
e been poisoned by eating the leave
n of young plants which were presen
a in grass hay.-Philadelphia RECORD
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29

Because the evidence introduced
before Pardon Attorney Waugh
showed that John Bailey, colored
man 46 years of age, was polite, in
dustrious and willing to work, and
that he was in dire necessity when
he walked into the home of B. j.
Smith at Ceredo some months ago
and took a pair of shoes, the pardon
attorney recommended to Cove nor
Glasscock that the sentence OF three
years imprisonment imposed by the
Circuit Court of Wayne county be
committed to ninety days in the
Wayne county Jail. Governor Glass,
cock approved of the recommends
tion.-Charleston Mail = .....
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
Pocahontas Connecting Railway.

Recently there was Incorporated
under the general laws Of West
Virginia The Pocahontas Connecting
Railway, another railroad which will
open and develop one of the richest
tracts of coal land to be found jim
southern West Virginia,
This new feeder will be construct
ed from Cirtsville, Raleigh county,
back into that mountainous section
Of Raleigh where millions of tons
of coal, high in thermal units, and
low in ash. awaits development and
transportation by rail.
The new connecting line will EN-
phasize the advantages accruing to
West Virginia from the construction
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
A Word For J. W. Hipkle.
Paintsvllle, KY, Oct. "a, 1909.

Paintsville, KY, Oct. "a, 1909.
l want to say word or two CON
corning one race in Lawrence coun-
ty. | have known ]. w. Hinkle all
my life, and wish to endorse the
many good reports of him have
seen in the NEWS since the cam
paign began.
l remember when Jim was a boy.
working in the mines or clerking in
the store, or whatever he was do
ing, he always stood for the right
and condemned the wrong. | hope
the voters of Lawrence will elect
Jim Hinkle County Attorney, and
when they do they can truly say,
I'VE have the right man in the
right place" A Citizen.