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planning machines into which the cedar
Stats are fed automatically. and from
which they come in a steady stream all
nicely surfaced with six little grooves
on one side. From these machines the
Stats are taken to the long benches or
tables, where quick-fingered girls insert
the leads and glue the Stats together. In
the middle of these long benches runs a
belt covered with glue, which one
set of Stats receive the glue. With lit
tie stack of unglued Stats before her
and bunch of pencil ''leads'- in her
right hand, one girl. with a quick mo-
ton, fills the six grooves in a slat and
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verset The fashionable little statuettes
are very often cast in bronze.
Which brings US back to the statuettes.
Five years ago the craze was for medal
portraits. Plain French and American
citizens felt almost royal thrill in CON.
templating their profile on coin-remem-
beriag the King of the Belgians and the
farmers wife who did not recognize him.
What does that long-nosed English
man want with buttermik?" she grum
bled in her patois.
1.-The long-nosed Englishman presents
you with his portrait" said the king, and
handed her a gold piece.
Medal portraits have run their course
No one would make change for them.
Now it is all statuettes. They have the
same advantage of being in the reach of
moderate tourist purses.
The style Is Tanagra." said the Amer
lean girl-sculptor of Paris, solemnly. 1T
lends itself to graceful, pretty poses In
women"
And fat business men?" / asked.
81 pose them playing golf" she said
STERLING HEILIG.
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on a rack-like bench, side by side. in a
row about three feet long. This rack is
as. wide as a pencil Is long and slightly
raised on each side to prevent the PEN
ellis from sliding off when being rubbed.
A narrow belt runs under each end of
the row of pencils and keeps them con
stantly turning The workman. with his
bottles of rubbing oils and varnishes in
front of him, picks up cloth pad. which
he dips in oil and rubs rapidly over the
row of pencils till they shine like satin.
When rubbed sufficiently the pencils are
put away on racks to dry. Other grades
of pencils are FURNISHED by machines.
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sandpapering machines and pass rapidly
through and into a big box, when they
are ready for the varnish. Placed in
another hopper they are fed into ma
chine that puts on a coat of varnish of
the desired color and then dries it. This
process is repeated from six to ten times
before the pencil has been sufficiently
covered with varnish and fine, glossy
coat is obtained.
For the more expensive pencils there is
a hand finishing process which gives them
a higher polish. After going through
the regular vanishing process the pen
ellis selected for the hand finish are placed
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which remove the rough spots and pre-
pare them for final coat Of varnish.
No one seems to know just when the
lead pencil first came into use. The
ancient Greeks and Romans used "sty-
lus'-a hard wood or metal point-with
which they wrote on wax tablets When
lead uhe metaD was discovered strips OF
this were used. but ii was too hard for
practical purposes. The first mine OF
graphite was discovered in England about
the time of Queen Elizabeth. The product
was SO pure that 1t could be cut into
convenient chunks and used for writing
purposes Then some one hit upon the
idea Of cutting it into strips and encas-
ing them in wood. But the supply OF
pure graphite soon became exhausted
and then the beginning Of the present
processes were developed. Credit is given
to NJ Cont of France for discovering the
method of hardening the graphite by the
admixture of clay.
The name most closely associated with
pencil making is that Of Faber. Ger
man, and it is not unusual to hear lead
pencils spoken Of as ''fabers." To Eber-
hard Faber. now deceased, one OF the
family Of German Fabers, belongs the
distinction of Introducing the manufac-
ture Of lead pencils In America. about
1859.
In the years that have since elapsed
the of the lead pencil has been great
ly developed and the product improved
until today the pencil has displaced the
pen and ink for many purposes In the
schools the lead pencil has almost COM
pletely displaced the old slate pencil and
the invention of the .'indelible" pencil has
supplanted the pen; it being considered
of legal use in signing receipts. Where
the writing is exposed to the action Of
the sun and rain 'waterproof' and
''weatherproof'' pencils give better results
than pen and ink. For manifolding and
copying purposes the copying ink pen
ell is far superior to pen and ink and Is
being generally adopted by railroad COM
panes and large mercantile houses In
whose business many copies of bills and
orders are required.
Artists require pencils of varying de-
grees of hardness and the lead pencil
maker supplies them in many grades
There are big, clumsy. fiat pencils for
carpenters and dainty delicate little PEN
ellis with silk cords and tassels for dance
programs: there ere pencils with colored
leads of every hue for school purposes.
and pencils that will mark on glass. por-
celain or any highly polished metal sur
face. An election pencil is made witt
purple copying lead. nickel tip and ring.
with long cord and screw eye to fasten IL
to the voting booth. SO that it cannot be
carried away. Probably the most curious
of all uses to which the lead pencil is put
Is that of marking on human flesh. Doc.
tors use these pencils to mark the course
of disease and to direct them In perform
Ing surgical operations or in dissecting.
In styles and variations there is almost
no limit and the coloring and grading OF
the lead has been reduced to an almost
exact science. Instead of the ordinary
lead pencil present improvements promise
to produce an every.ready writing ink
stick" which will ultimately relieve us OF
the annoyance Of dipping" and blot.
ting"
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when these writing sticks came to be
called lead" pencils is not on the rec
ord; at least there is no lead in them.
The prcipal ingredient is a mineral called
graphite, said to be formation similar
TO anthracite coal, containing a large per
cent of carbon in which Is mixed a little
iron and sand. Graphite found in Ceylon
Is almost pure carbon (9S.55 per cent?, and
As considered to be the very best obtain
able for lead pencils. Good graphite is
also found in Germany and in various
parts of the United States. but the cost
or refining the home product is so great
that pencil makers prefer to use the i'm
ported material instead.
Taken alone graphite is too soft to be
worked into pencil leads TO bring it to
the right degree of hardness a peculiar
quality of clay, found only In Austria, Is
used. For soft pencils equal quantities
of graphite and clay are used, and to OBJ
tain the harder grades more clay is added
TO the graphite. Before these substances
can be used they must be refined. They
are separately ground into fine power
and all the impurities extracted, after
which they are mixed together in the
richtsproportions in big revolving drums.
with sufficient water to make thick
paste. This paste is put In powerful hy-
drau,.a presses which squeeze out the
water. leaving the lead" in about the
tion the mixture is ready to be shaped
into pencil 'leads."
This process is performed by forcing
1.-The mass of graphite and clay through a
die which is just the diameter of the
required lead" A very hard substance
called sapphire is used in making the
die" which is set in the bottom of a
strong steel cylinder about eighteen
inches long and six or eight inches in
diameter with walls more than an inch
thick The material is first packed into
rthe cylinder by hand and then put under
a hydraulic press. a plunger pressing the
.putty-like mass through the die at the
&bottom: from which ii coils in long,
pIia BILE rod in box under the press
= When the contents of the cylinder have
been pressed through the die the box full
of nicely coiled pencil lead is passed to
"a girl, who gradually uncoiis it as she
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white and beautiful. but fragile. He calls
in the So-per-day workman.
He tells him to take block of marble
and "cut out this statue of mine from it.
When II is nearly completed / will put on
the finishing touches"
This mechanical pointing up'' was
learned and practiced by our heroine
Rodin says you must be able to do it:
otherwise you are not a sculptor, only a
modeler.
4
'It is a mechanical process of minute
measurements transferred from the plas-
ter model to the block OF stone. Each
marks point" which must be Clipped
off with mallet and chisel. 1t is a three
pronged compasslike machine. You take
a measure, point it, chip it off. You take
another measure. point It, chip it off.
And SO on, interminably. In America it
is done almost entirely by chipping-off
machine-and In France not little. 1t is
tread-wheel attachment to a chisel
working from a flexible tube-not so diff
ferent from the mechanical hammer OF
the dentist"
would Rodln use it," asked
Certainly, But he has also workmen
pointing by hand"
.'Al to save timer"
only to save time. Why. Rodin. TO
amuse himself. works at times as did
Michelangelo-directly on the marble.
without any clay model. That is difficult
-chiseling it out from the first, instead of
modeling!'
Did you ever try?"
Eyes. some heads. 1t is fatigung and
purposeless. You can easily spoil it. 1t
has no intrinsic merit: it is only tour
de force"
'.rhe Greeks did it, said
THE Greeks also modelled in clay she
insisted. Witness their terra-cotta
TanagraS.
She leaned against the plaster cast of
DIR. Van Dykes bust. Behind her. on the
wall, was Robins photograph beside a
bird cage. Between was the unfinished
clay bust of little American girl, its
bottom draped with wet cloths
Beyond stood a similar unfinished por
trait of the Sculptor Bourdelle's young
son.
"Dr. Van Dyke is already cast in
bronze. That bust will live when scarcely
a painting remains upon the earth. The
two children are to be in marble. They
may lie 1000 years in the bottom of the
sea. then be fished up and polished per-
feet"
You know about DIR. Van Dyke? Be-
tween American colleges and French uni
versities goes an annual exchange of lee
turing professors. due much to the in
itia;ive of Mr.. James Hazen Hyde. While
Abel Lefranc of the College de France is
at Harvard. the Rev. Van Dyke of Prince
ton is at the Sorbonne.
Returning to Princeton he will take
back this bronze of himself Bronze is
considered more unpretentious than mar
BILE. 1t is also much cheaper. The origi-
nal bust once modelled in clay. the plaster
cast from it perfected. there remains
nothing but to hand it over 10 the
founder.
Are there good founders in America ?"
/ asked.
YES" she said. 'In Paris go to Con-
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r YOU have not
your portrait in a
statuette YOU are
net in the move
me'nt.
1t shows you in
everyday clothes,
walking or seated,
an unpretentious
little Tanagra fig
urine in terra Gotta,
bronze or marble.
Statuette por-
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y LUMP Of graphite

LUMP Of graphite
from Ceylon. a
handful of clay
froms Austria, a
few sticks of soft
red cedar from
Florida, properly
worked together by
special machinery
and skilled labor,
produce the lead
pencil Of common
use. Just why or
cana IN hp
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= ~CCULPTURE Good Art
- for a Girl-"As Handy as
Carpenter and Strong as
a Blacksmith" Greene
(Wright) in the Paris Salon
Made Clay Dolls as a Child
and Now Delights Rodin and
Bourdelle-Tanagra Figurine
Portraits All the Rage-The
Bust of DR.. Van Dyke of
Princeton.
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Genius and Marriage.

From the LONDON Sphere.
Only commonplace people lead quite
placid married lives. Genius must make
a breeze in the house and out of it, but
1t can love all the same.
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breaks 1t into lengths of about two feet
on wooden tray. Another girl takes
this tray when it is filled and cuts the
lead into pencil lengths. which are next
packed on end in crucibles of fire clay
and baked in ovens at a very high tenn
perature. This completes the lead
making process. for when the little sticks
of graphite have been sufficiently baked
they are ready to be placed in the wood.
The soft red cedar of the south has
been found to be the very best wood in
the world for making lead pencils. Much
of this .comes from Florida, where the
saw mills cut the cedar logs into uniform
Stats a little longer than a pencil. as
wide as six and just a trif1e more than
half as thick as one The slight margin
provides for the waste in making. Upon
reaching the pencil factory the bundles
of Stats are broken open and very care
fully sorted for imperfections. Those
that are split or contain knots. or that
show other faults which would prevent
them from making good pencils, are dis
carded from the pencil stock and are
quire frequent sharpening.
The good pencil stock is next taken to
big drying kilns where it remains till all
the moisture and the oil, which abounds
in red cedar, is extracted The process
of manufacture now begins with planning
and growing the Stats ON one side for
the reception of the leads. In a big pen
ell factory there are a number Of these
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
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fashionable little statuettes?" I suggested.
The artist in her shifted
lone must learn to do big before one
can do little,' she said. I'm the end it
comes to drawing outlines But what il
you don't know what to put under
them?"
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PARIS, May 10. 1909.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01

Convict Tired Of DodsfnR.

Ashley McDuffie, a white man ap-
peared before Gov. Sanders and de-
clared himself an escaped convict
from the State Of Georgia, and sign
fed hts intention and desire to be
returned to that State. McDuffie
stated that in 1904 he shot and kill
ed man at Pine View. After hav-
ing served four years and two
months he was paroled and returned
to his home. On Aug. % of this year
he and his brother and a companion
became involved in a difficulty with
a negro and the two other men beat
the negro severely. The matter was
reported and he was recalled to the
penitentiary, but made his escape be-
fore he could be returned to that in
stitution. He went to various points
in the South and was working for the
Standard Oil COMPANY at Baton
Rouge when he resolved to surrender
and cease lodging.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
City Wants Unused Gift Returned.

The ninety-seven acres OF land do
mated the Louisiana State University
by the city of Baton Rouge many
years ago for site for an experiment
station on the condition that If not
used as such the land should revert
to the city was never used as a site
for the experiment station. This was
placed on the land acquired from the
national government when the uni
versity was allowed the garrison
grounds above the city by act of
Congress. The necessity of grounds
for park purposes and for fair
grounds called attention to the fact
that the grounds, altogether useless
to the university but held by it since
the provisional donation, were avail
able for such purposes as the city
might designate, and suit mas been
brought to recover to the city of Bat
on Rouge the grounds, to be disposed
of as the City Council shall see fit
after their recovery.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Use MORE BACCINC and Ties
Farmers Rob Themselves
When They Fail to 90 So.
STORM DAMAGE is CONSIDERABLE
Legislature Asked to Establish Hog
Cholera Serum Station. Car
buncle Proves Fatal Vici-
Gus Hog Attacks Boy.

We would urge our cotton grow
ers to put on bagging and ties to
the full per cent limit this season.
If you put on less than per cent, it
Is simply a matter of giving buyer
good cotton worth IL .1-2 cents a
pound, when he is paying you only
for bagging and the ties averaging
about 1-2 cents a pound. This is
a matter our farmers have been en-
tirely too slow to understand.
For years there has been COM
plant of insufficient covering on cot
ton. To remedy this defect, ex-
porters have adopted the plan of ad-
ding second hand bagging to the
amount of 8 or 10 pounds and pock-
citing the extra profit.
The farmer has put in that much
weight in line cotton worth ~ 1-2
cents a pound. The exporter adds
extra bagging and ties worth 1-2
cents a pound, and makes 81 a
bale.
When a grocer sells 25-cents cof-
fee, he does not mix in some of his
40 cents grade; nor when he is buy
ing a barrel Of flour from The manu-
facturer does he expect to get the
weight Of the barrel in a finer grade
of flour. Yet that is what numbers
of southern farmers are doing every
season.
Let the gross weight of cotton
bales include the maximum of bag
ging and ties and not the minimum
amount that will hold it together.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
JUDGES DESK ROBBED.
Bonds Missing in Chicago's Jury
Tampering Scandal.

Chicago.-Indictments charging
conspiracy were returned by the
grand jury against John ]. Holland,
secretary Of the jury commissioners;
Willis J. Rayburn. real estate deal
er, and Nicholas Martin, secretary to
Alderman "Hinky Dink" Kenna.
The indictments contain fourteen
counts, ten charging conspiracy to de-
feat public justice and corrupt jury
lists and four charging the falsifi-
cation of public records.
Bonds eggregating $4,000 under
which the accused men have been at
liberty, have disappeared.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
PINCHOT L., PACIFIED.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-As a result
OF several long conferences with Chief
Forester Clifford Pinchot here, Presi-
dent Taft caused to be issued a state
ment in which it is declared that
never at any time during the Ballin-
ger-Pinchot controversy has the pres
ident intended to reflect upon Mr..
Pinchot and in which Mr.. Taft takes
q more forward stand than ever in
favor of the Roosevelt policies for
conservation of natural resources.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
No Paupers at Poor Farm.

Several years ago De Soto parish
decided a more economic and salts
factory way to care for her INDECENT
would be through a pension system.
This was put into effect and the par
ish poor farm was abandoned. Since
then the number of paupers increas-
ed so rapidly that a change was ne
cessary and the farm was reopered
in April. The pension list had grown
to be large one, but when II be-
came necessary to move to the parish
poor farm to receive public support
the number decreased at once and
has continued to decrease all the
while, until Superintendent ]. X.
Sorsby and his wife are left en-
tireiy e.one.N
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Want Hog Cholera Serum Station.

A resolution was adopted at Far
merville unanimously memorializing
the legislature of Louisiana to pro-
vide a cholera serum station for in
oculating hogs, 1t being made clear
that this is a better place for hogs
than any OF the northern states, and
that their only serious enemy, chol-
era, can be prevented by serum inoc-
ulation as practiced in all tll, hog
growing states.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Miss Sanders Accepts Honor.

Miss Sallie Sanders. the sister of
Gov. Sanders, has been selected by
the committee in charge of the local
end Of the programme for the cere-
monies attending the unveiling of
the Massachusetts, monument in the
National Cemetery on Nov. 15 as the
South's representative and with
Miss Remington of Massachus-
etts. will officiate at the unveiling of
the shaft. The Governor of Massa-
chusetts and the people of that State
in charge OF the unveiling requested
that the young bady to officiate with
Miss Remington should be the daugh-
ter of a Confederate veteran,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Great Preparations For Fair.

The Monroe Fair Association is
making great preparations for the
fair to be held in this city Oct. 5, 6,
z, s, and 8. and it bids fair to be
one of the most successful held in this
state. Reports from the surround
ing country are to the effect that the
farmers are taking deep interest in
the enterprise and are preparing their
exhibits. The premiums and prizes
offered have aroused keen interest
and competition.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Storm Damage Estimates.

The damage to the Capitol is es-
timated from $500 to $4,000, &C
cording to what repairs are to be
made at the time the work is un-
dertaken.
The Executive Mansion is damaged
to the extent of between $4,000 and
$4,000. The damage to the State
University is estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000. The damage
at the State school for the deaf is
placed at from $4,000 to $4,000;
The State school for the blind is
only nominally affected and a small
er sum expended there and at the
Penitentiary walls will set things
right there.
To make the necessary repairs to
the State institutions in the terri
tory affected by the storm, some
thing like $1,000 may be needed
before the work is completed. That
amount is due the State froIo the
national government for the pur-
chase by the government of the
State quarantine station at the
mouth of the river, and II this
amount, which is now due, would be
received, 1t would help out greatly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Picnic At Denham Springs.

A basket picnic was held at Den
ham Springs, Sept. 80, when Mr.. Lew
is spoke against the Game Commits
sion and Congressman Nickliffe talk
ed the Amite river Improvement plan,
A large crowd came from Baton
Rouge and the surrounding country.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Storm Water in Bayou.

For the first time since 1866 the
Mississippi River flowed freely into
Bayou Plaquemine. This is due to
the recent storm, which caused the
water in the bayou to rise about three
feet. and being on a level with the
for the experiment tsation. This was
river the lock gates were thrown wide
open. This did not last long, for the
water in the bayou fell shortly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Mrs. James Boyce Commits Suicide.

Mrs. James Boyce. the wife Of a
prominent rice farmer, in the vicin-
ity Of Vinton committed suicide. The
weapon used was rifle, Mrs. Boyce
waited until her husband and little
son had gone into the rice fields to
work and then took her life. Her
body was not found until they return
ed late in the evening. The loss of a
child some months ago is thought to
have caused Mrs. Boyce's mind to
become unbalanced.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Bank Resources Increase.

Examiner Youngs quarterly compil
alton at Shreveport will show that
there was an increase in resources
on Sept. 1 OF more than s1,0O0,O00
over the preceding quarter, the in
crease being principally in the indi-
vidual saving deposits, mostly in New
Orleans. The total. just prepared is
$1OO.593.75S.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Four Houses Destroyed by Fire.

Fire appeared in the residence
part of Hornbeck and burned three
houses of F. z. Drake and one of
F. B. Jones. Most of the furniture
was saved. The loss on buildings is
about $4,000.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
Rice Culture Proves Success.

The rice crop of E. G. Rhodes of
Cansuello, is a success His average
yield will amount to a little over six
teen sacks to the acre, and next year
a number of plantations in this vi
cinity will plant rice instead Of cot
ton.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-10-01
NEW SERIES VOL. XVII,
1Re Torture Of Clothes.
a Courageous Reforn1er Who Has Discarded
Underwear in Summer
Ernest Flapg
y Ernest Flagg.


OF
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indeed enjoy hot days quite
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the double layer that the SUFFERING makes
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will almost not quite much discomfort as the
afforded
with species
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difference Almost all
little
evaporate fast them cool
which
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have of course notion that any great number
that
rise IN