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The Forrest City times., 1911-07-28

ORCE. picturesqueness and abil- ity in congress knows no sec tions. Northerners, southern CTS, customers and westerners have their strengths and their weaknesses, their likes and their dislikes. their physical manner isms and their mental idiosyn- crasies just like all other human beings.
 There have been men in con vraes who year in nnd year out
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-28

Tn Use For Over 90 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Casto,;,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
Life as We Live 1t.

It's waking and sleeping, and heav
ing a sigh, and watching and weeping
and saying goodbye. It's long hours
of labor and short hours of rest, it's
helping our neighbor, and doing our
best; it's fasting and dining, and
striving in vain, and joy and repining,
and sunshine and rain. It's laughing
and crying, it's darkness and light,
and wishing the dying loving good
night. It's dancing and wailing, and
battling with men, succeeding and
failing, and trying again. It's wooing
and mating, it's foolish and wise, it's
loving and hating, and dealing in lies.
Man says it is dreary, as graveyard
he goes; he says he is weary and
longs for repose; he says it is hollow
deluding and vain; and others who
follow repeat the refrain. But | shall
not hurry this old world to leave;
what though it may worry and gall us
to grieve? 1t gives us good measure
of joy as We go, there's always a
pleasure to pay for woe. I'm fond of
the mixture of laughter and tears I'd
fain be a fixture for ten thousand
years.-Walt Mason.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
A. & NJ. SUMMER SCHOOL
Members of College Faculty Will
Teach Practical Farm Methods.

In order to accommodate the teach
ers of the state who want to comply
with the new law as to certificates,
A. e M. college is making eXtraordi-
nary plans for the summer normal
school to be held at the college during
June and July.
Several years ago the legislature
passed a law requiring elementary
agriculture to be taught in the public
schols, but no requirement has been
on the teacher heretofore to be exam
ined in agriculture when certificates
are issued. The legislature which re-
Gently adjourned amended the law re-
garding teachers certificates and
omitted the requirement for eXamina
ton on school law and in its stead
made a requirement for examination
in agriculture. State Superintendent
Bradley has authorized summer nor
NAL school for teachers certificates
to be held at A. & M. college, and one
of the special features will be the
course in agriculture. The agricultural
faculty of the normal will be a strong
one, the subjects divided as follows:
John G. Burns, professor of animal
husbandry, will teach farm crops and
types and breeds of farm animals.
E. ]. Kyle, professor of horticulture
and secretary of the Texas Horticul-
tural Society, will teach agriculture in
the public schools and elements of
horticulture.
Dr. ]. C. Blake, professor of chemis- !
try, will teach agricultural chemistry. |
Theory alone will not constitute the |
course, because there will be practical |
work for all these courses. !
A. & NJ. college is making extra eff
forts to accommodate the teachers |
who want to comply with the new law.
This is the only college in the state
that has the large laboratory equip
ment, the farms and animals where
the practical work can be taught, and
the college feels that as state insti-
tuition much depends upon its efforts
to accomplish that which Is required
under the new certificate law. Those
who are to teach the agricultural sub
iects are among the most successful
teachers in that branch of instruction
in Texas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

the elevator, and a few fancy Buttons
to take him up to the door Of his fiat
Here's the dining room. All done in
French oak, paneled, and an open fire.
place. Not the kind we have in Har.
lem flats, but a real one that burns
logs
This is the billiard room. Done in
Louis XIV style, all white and carved.
And beyond the billiard room is the
living room. And the living room Is
Louis XIV, too, and so is the music
room, behind those sielnt mirrored
folding doors over there.
Right there in the center of all,
with all the other gorgeous rooms
opening on it, is the conservatory.
Carven stone again, with aquaria on
the floors, and mirrors on the walls,
and misty glass chandeliers falling
like cloudy waterfalls at each end.
With the mirrored doors all open
there Is 5000 square feet of floor space
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
What's a Dollar?

What is dollar, anyhow" The
question is an easy one to answer. 1t
is the price of a days work for some
men and single nights drink for
others. 1t is what the wife frequently
needs but seldom has. 1t is the power
that makes or unmakes men. 1t is the
hardest thing to get and the easiest
thing to get rid of known to mankind.
1t is a blessing in small measure
and curse in many instances. 1t is
mighty and scarce No man ever had
more than he wanted and no man ever
will A dollar is a snare and delu-
sion, and every one of us are chasing
the delusiOn.-Bellville Times.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
IN A $4,000 FLAT.
Elihu Roots New Place Is One OF
Many Wonders.

Senator Elihu Root, who, it recently
was announced, has sold his old home
and leased New York fiat, is not go
ing to be cramped in his new quar-
tiers.
OF course, it's not quite like the
average fiat. It's little larger-it has
% rooms-and it's bit more expen-
sive, for Mr., Root is going to pay
$4,000 a year for it. But that's only
$4,000 a month, $500 a week, 81 a
day, 50 an hour and cents a second.
Suppose you had to hold out your
hand and drop nickel every second?
To begin, you have to pay part Of
your $4,000 a year for Buttons" in
the, lobby, In Senator Roots fiat there
will be a good many-two to open the
door when he sends away the motor
at the curbstone, one to escort him to
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
Endorsed.

She advanced to the paying teller's
window and, handing in a check for
$50, stated that it was birthday pres
ent from her husband and asked for
payment The teller informed her
that she must first endorse it.
81 don't know what you mean," she
said, hesitatingly.
why, you see," he explained, you
must write your name on the back,
so that when we return the check to
your husband, he will know we have
paid you the money"
"Oh, is that all?" she said, relieved
|. One minute elapses.
Thus the endorsement: MANY
thanks, dear; I've got the money
Your loving wife, Evelyn"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
for entertaining

for entertaining.
The hall of the fiat is also worth,
of notice. Along its mosaic floor ar,
set at intervals tall brass standard
with Tiffany glass globes at the tSf
The standards are covered with rec
velvet. In inches on the wall stand
bronzes costing $500 to $500 each.
The ceiling of the hall is covered
with real gold leaf; and the walls are
OF Caen stone from France. Boston
Herald
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

He that bridleth his tongue is
greater than him who taketh walled
CITY," or words to that effect. But
when old brindle swishes at a. fly,
drags her tail through the milk
bucket, and wraps it gracefully seven
teen times around your neck, all rules
are suspended for thirty minutes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
INVITATIONS ISSUED.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. l.. Hensarling, OF
Wellborn, have issued invitations to,
the marriage of their daughter, Johnnie
Vera, to Mr. Anhos Goree Neeley on
Wednesday evening, April 10, at 8
o'clock, Methodist church, Wellborp,
Texas
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

The recent heavy rains will make
millions of mosquitoes. Don't neglect
to hunt out all the old cans, jugs and
bottles about the yard and empty the
water out of them. One tomato can
half full of water will produce, accord
ing to scientific calculation, 1885,
221 ,942 mosquitoes.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1911.

A correspondent of the Ell PasC
Herald says: Uncle Henry Moon
aged 80, dropped dead t'day after split
tin six cords O. wood. His body wuz
found by his four sons who were re-
turnin' from a billiard tournament.
Tilford Moots talks some O. sellin his
farm an movin' t town where he can
find some place to loaf"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05
"Turn the Old Mud Mill Loose. >

To the gang: Senator Bailey is too
busy with his public duties at Wash
ington to visit Texas for some time.
So it's perfectly safe to go ahead with
your "cussings" a few days longer.
Pull the throttle and turn your old
mud mill loose.-Gainesville Register.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

Seventeen American girls who mar
ried titled "Henglishmen" will have
places of honor at the coronation of
King George. Their dads paid high
for these reserved seats, but no doubt
they are worth the price if anyone
likes that kind of doings, "dontcher-
know"
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

There is now some small talk about
Tom Campbell running for United
States senator. Two years from now
three men out of every five you meet
will not be able to tell you whether
he is dead or living.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

1t is two weeks until Easter Shall
the Easter hat be a helmet or a
shield? Or shall it be just an African
turban ?-Temple Telegram.
Most of them look more like waste
baskets than anything else we know
of.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

If the haremscarum is worse than
the hobble, then please excuse the
gentlemen while they hide their faces
behind their fans.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

Diamonds, saphires, rubies and
other precious stones are not in it
compared to the land along the Bryan
College interurban.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

Instead of using regular land meas
urement for the property along the in
terurban, they are selling it by Troy
weight.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

Blessed are the weed cutters, for
they shall escape the bite of the
stegomia faciata.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

And since we come to think about
it, Cone Johnson hasn't been making
much fuss since the primaries, either.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

Lost-On college campus, open-faced
gold-filled watch with Virginia seal
fob. Reward if returned. H. E. Hay
den, Jr.
street,
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-05

The Singer sewing machine is sold
for cash or small monthly payments.
See T. A. Satterwhite, salesman.
Phone 467.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

Georges Petit Gallery. The artists Of
this small group have all made their
regulations, and their salon, or, rather
salonette, with only III numbers in
the catalogue, is unusually interesting.
NJ. Rodin exhibits a fragment in bronze,
O. mans head, full of character and con-
centrated nervous force. There are some
exquisite bronze statuettes by NJ Paul
Troubetzkoi, among them portraits OF
Princesse Scipion Borghese, Nine. Ma
rishkine and NJ. Unzue. The same
sculptor's equestrian statuette of Toll
stoy riding on his shaggy little Siberian
pony is replete with movement and
vigor.
Among the pictures there is a delight
full full-length portrait Of young lady
by NJ. Jacques Blanche, in sombre grays
and blacks. brushed in masterful man
ner and conveying an expression of deli
cate yet melancholy passion that may
justify it's title of "Salome.' The bright
interiors with chintz curtains and up
holstery and the views of music rooms,
dining rooms and English interiors, done
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
JOHN LA FARCE.

II is the first time that the work Of an
4: American artist has been thus put before
the public so fully and on such serious
grounds. 1t is the first time that the
charm Of the drawing has been so au-
thoritatively asserted. Ard La Fargo is,
possibly, The only artist in our history
whose genius could justify itself in pre-
cisely this way. He had passion for
drawing, and through it hs wonderfully
revealed his unique personality. When
he was student in Paris, half a Gen.
| tury ago, he disconnected his comrades
in the atelier Of Couture. and rather sur
prisod that artist himself. by refusing to
Frov according TO the set practice Of the
Mace. lie had to draw in his own way,
and that was way looking to the nota-
ton OF living form, TO the expression or
movement. Line was for him an organic
thing. and il was also, as | have already
| indicated, a thing endued in some
strange, clairvoyant fashion with the in
| dividualty of the artist. Hence, in
studying the old masters he preferred
on the whole, to copy their drawings
[ rather than their paintings. To many
students this might seem a doubtful pro-
ceedng, but La Fargo had a valid reason
for Il. He wanted to get at the spirit Of
a given old master, at his dominating
| idea, and for that purpose he pursued
his search where the closest contacts
were possible. Between the cOpyist or
a painting and the work he analyzes
there hangs. necessarily, a certain veil
lIa a drawing the construction of the
J artists scheme can be observed In all its
Articulation. Especially, too, does the
drawing reveal, very often. the finest
subtleties of expression, the finest be-
cause most spontaneous. La Fargo was
always making drawings. early and late
in his long career, and they take us very
near TO the sources Of his power.
They take us. in the first place, to his
knowledge Of form, TO his patient acqui-
sition Of all the little mysteries of struct-
IRE. This is a very different thing from
saving that La Fargo invariably made
figure. say. the very last word of perfect
anatomical truth. That was not what
he WAS driving at, in every case. He
knew construction profoundly and he
could get il into his work when he chose.
but his special aim was the expression Of
ideas. the expression, as l have said
before, Of truth of movement, of char
acter How swiftly he could achieve
this the reader may judge from certain
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS.
Current Displays of Paintings, Objects
of Art and Prints.

'iSsl scum Ancient Arms and
Armor.
Fine Arts Building. The Spring Academy.
National Sculpture
q. A Ward.
National Arts Club. Paintings and draw
ings by the late
Walter Shirlaw.
Salmagundi Club. ... Paintings by the late
c. II. McCord.
Century Club. Works by the late
Worthington Whit
redge
Society Of Beaux-
Arts Architects. The Independents.
American Art Cal
leries Collection Of the late
John LaFarge.
Berlin Gallery yum. Paintings by Arthur
r. Freedlander.
Brandus allery.....Paintings by Leonard
NJ Davis.
Charles Gallery. ...... Mannheim Collection.
Cottier Gallery. Century English
Portraits.
Durand-Ruel GalleryPaintlngs and Pastels
Ederhelmer Gallery. Primitive Wood Cuts
Enrich Gallery. Masters.
Fischer Gallery. .....Old Masters.
Fukushima Gallery. Paintings by Leon
DabO
Folsom Gallery Paintings by W. R.ts-
chel.
Glaenzer Gallery.....1sth Century Prints
and Barye Bronzes.
Haas Gallery. y......... Paintings by T.. NJ.
Manigault.
KatZ Gallery. Paintings by Arthur
iioehcr and Etchings
by Katharine Kim
ball
Kennedy Gallery y.."old German aud
Dutch Prints
| Keppel Gallery. .Etchings OF Paris by
McrNOn.
! Kn0edler Gallery. Paintings by Angus
! tus koopman
! Macbeth Gallery .....Palntings by r. Fos-
ter Il. l.. Groli, l..
Ochtman. q. T.. Ry-
der and g.. Symons.
Madison Gallery ......Paintings by -. T.
Brinley and Por-
traits by W. IA.
HYDE.
+, Montross Gallery. Ten American
Painters
] Powell GALLERY. Drawings by Franklin
Booth.
Photo-Scccssion Gal
lcry Water CoiOrs by
CcZanue.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

solidity and movement in his figure ana
an amazing sense of the upward rush OF
billows of vapOr from the little recepta-
Gle at the bottom Of the picture. Look,
too, at the sketch Of Boys Bathing and
note how the lurch of the boat, most
vividly expressed, is Enthusiastically
caused by the active weight Of the boy
pulling at its stern, and observe the true
impression of motion conveyed by the
family sketched swimmer in the fore
ground. In hundreds of such drawings
La Farge's extraordinary force as
craftsman is revealed. He is swift.
brief, and often seemingly careless,
merely jotting down. as 1t were. the
vision Of the moment. He could he most
faithful realist. His studies Of form.
pure and simple. fulllength drawings Of
the figure, or such minutely careful
drawing of a hand as the one We re-
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
York which has been marked by s
many affairs Of the sort.
TIE CULT OF THE DRAWING.

When good Master GiOrgiO Nasari was
writing those biographies Of the artists
Of his time without which the history Of
Italian PAINTING and sculpture would 10
this day have been full Of irreparable
Obscurites. he often had occasion TO dip
into his portfolios Of drawings. He knew
the value Of those waits and strays OF
the studio and so did many Of his con-
tcmpofaries. though the artists them
Selves were not by any means always
careful 10 preserve their working studies
and sketches when once they had fin
ished with them. For generations there
were connoisseurs as shrewd as the gar
rulous Florentine. The French. in the
heyday Of their cultivation Of art as a
social luxury, namely. in the eighteenth
Century, made craftsmanship one or
Their peculiar enthusiasms. You see it
in their prints and illustrated books,
TIE work Of their own men in their own
ume and YOU see it in the records Of
tAe collections they formed. In that
same period the young English noble
lan, making the grand tour with his
Dear leader. brought back TO his manor
house not only antique marbles ana
PAINTINGS Of the Renaissance, but any or
tne fugitive drawings Of the masters
Upon which n could lay his hands. Then
followed long period during which the
Ua"ing cherished for its own sake was
70 be found more in public than in pri-
'ate collections. Here and there the
'a'ter counted heavily, but not often
WIN quite the significance Of the great
suite cabinets in Vienna. Berlin, Flor
ehce- Paris and London. which, starting
~ some cases with rich possessions,
S"aally absorbed whatever came into
Ne market and occasionally proiited by
priceless gifts In recent years the OLD
oiuor Of the amateur has been revived
eAu Tor some time now the private col
'e''or abroad has been as keen upon
"@"lngs as upon paintings. prints,
~pesuies, furniture and the like.
from the moment that bodies like the
'"safl Society in London and the So
'"te dc Reproductions in Paris were
-'"''ed' and in fact long before, we
nave Iald stress in season and out OF
''"Soi. 1y9n tnc great importance Of this
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

His figures may be in attitudes of re-
pose. as witness the one we give from
the Christ and Ncodemus,' but they
suggest arrested movement. not inertia.
Also they suggest-and this is the
crowning virtue of La Farge's work s a
draftsman-the personality Of the ar
tist himself They have the indefnable
beauty Of style. Among our reproduc-
tions Is the classical figure he drew in
Illustration of passage in Virgil. n
stately figure in swelling draperies. The
form Is noble, ii moves grandly toward
us. and in the sombre background, TO
which n reproduction can scarcely do
justice, there is n subtle suggestion OF
poetic atmosphere. But it is to the i'm
palpable sentiment in this drawing. TO its
personal quality. that we would particu
larly draw attention. We make no pre-
tence OF calling it n masterpiece. La
Fargo himself would not have exagger-
ated It's weight. But merely In its auto
graphic character it has compelling
charm, all of the nneness, all Of the dis
tinctiCr, All or the great manner WiiitH
we associate with his genius. IN that.
we maintain. il is an invaluable record,
comparable to the finest of the paintings
and water colors and the windows IN
glowing glass which fill a large part o,
the present exhibition. In those re-
markable productions Of his, religious
subjects, examples of decorative design,
irlpres sions Of travel in Japan and in the
South Seas. there are qualities of color
and OF thought-to be found nowhere
else. But so. too. I'm the drawings, there
are qualities which they alone can in
terpret to us, giving us curiously inti-
mate sense Of his genius. La Fargo was
a notable pioneer as those familiar with
the development of mural decoration AID
stained glass in America well know. 1t
would be felicitously in keeping with all
that his influence has meant to his time
If this sale should mark a new forward
movement among our collectors. leading
them 10 estimate the drawing of mas
te- at its true value. +. {.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
Matters of 1Hrf

branch of collecting. Why did Vasari
attach such value to his portfolios? Be-
cause he recognized in their contents
perhaps the most personal expressions
of the genius of the men he held in
honor. Mariette, that historic type OF
French taste in collecting. used to say
that in drawing YOU surprised an artists
idea in its first freshness and therefore
got its very essence. The point surely
need not be labored. It is obvious
enough that as the painter sits brooding
over some great conception and presently
jots 1t down upon paper he is thus re-
cording it's essential spirit In its broad
arrangement and in its details he may
easily depart from his original sketch.
but in that sketch it is odds that you
will get the very soul Of his meaning,
and. above all. you will get the closest
possible imprint Of his individuality. For
III his first drawing he is, so to say. off
his guard. Whatever ne possesses Of
style will pass into his line and leave it
as exact record Of his very self as a
thumb print would be. The student Of
Rembrandt apprehends many sides OF
his genius in the paintings and prints,
yet he gets an even deeper initiation
into the masters mind when he turns
20 the drawings. So it Is with many OF
the great men OF the past, and, indeed.
there are instances in which the draw
ings are all-important. Leonardo, for
example, left very few paintings but
many drawings. and these offer us indis-
pensable Clews TO the secret of his artis-
tic character. Perhaps the most striking
Of the modern illustrations Of the impOr-
tance Of drawings is supplied in the his
tory of Ingres. Although his paintings
alone would have proclaimed him an
astounding craftsman, their curious
character in respect to color might easily
have blinded us to his true greatness.
/ That has been magniiicently affirmed by
his thousands of drawings. 1t has been
said that Of all the treasures in the
house Of Degas those of which he is
most tenacious are few drawings by
the master at whose feet he sat In his
youth and whose genius as a drafts
man he still reveres.
In the United States the drawing has
only just begun to come into its own.
There have been some signs of the right
development Of taste. The Metropolitan
Museum has been giving some attention
to the subject, Sitting out the rather
mixed collection long in its possession,
and latterly making a few additions to
II. A year or two ago there was an eX
hibition at the Colony Club disclosing
the fact that we had a number Of COL
lectors aware of the charm OF the eigh-