Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-06-14
WASHINGTON, D. G.
June 8. 1900.

Lear EDITOR SHEAF - Z
It occurs to me while here in this
the fairest city of our land that it is:
merely duty to write something which
can be read by all my friends In War
rem and Marshall county. It has been.
my exquisite pleasure to- always be
dealt with in the most considerate
manner by all who have known me.
And may God forbid that any favor
shall have been spent anniss
lnnumerable recollections of pleas
ant things and occurrences have nat
urally been left behind, but they are
sacredly kept in 'sMan's wardrobe Of
the BRAIN
No part of United States is richer in
for an industrious young
man than the northern part Of our
North Star State although other
localities may excel her in beauty,
elegance of appearance as we'll as the
products of artisans, artists and the
highest civilized nation on the globe,
in the evidences of nation such as
ours, who fights and wins the battles
of humanity and assumes the burden,
the thankless task Of subduing re-
bellious tribes to peacable subjects Of
the most glorious republic of the world
and to establish law and order where
chaos reigned supreme, liberty where
tyranny held sway, and free church
in place Of bigotry, superstition and
corrupt friars.
This place is Washington more than
any other. And / shall endeavor from
time to time to give the readers of the
"SHEAF" a glimpse of this city, one OF
the most beautiful as we'll as best gov
erned in all the civilized world. But
paraphrasing Kipling
Thus, the artless things say
Do not deal will h.anythfng
New or never said before !" Ss,
So, those to whom this is old, are
asked to exercise patience with what
may be described herein.
Before going any further it might
be we'll to say a few words of oul
graduating class and the exercises
connected Herewith.
The class graduated this year con.
sisted of seventy nine members, Of
whom your correspondent was one
from the advanced course. It is the
largest class in the history of the
school, being almost twice as large as
the one graduating last year. Miss
Anna Ahlberg, also from Marshall
county, graduated at this time and
with honor. .,7 .s
The play presented was an Original
production of the class mot in compo.
sition but in dramatizing. We pre-
sented Homer's Cd yssey and, judging
from the opinions expressed by the
public, it was the most successful per.
Torrance of any class-play.
The sermon, the Junior entertain.
ment and all other things connected
with the commencement week were
highly creditable. Indeed, the class.
sermon was the best ever heard.
But now to the trip to Washington,
D. G..
The description so far as related by
this communication applies to the dis.
trict through which the Northern
Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul, and Baltimore and Ohio rail.
roads pass.
The country through which the first
runs is SO often travelled by Minneso,
tans that little, if any, interest might
be attached to it's description. Yet
it may not be out of place to point Out
the facts that as one rides along in
one of the elegant trains recently
placed on this route with a conlmodi
Gus observation car and other modern
conveniences, he cannot but exclaim
"What wondrous change in quar-
ter of century, or half of one a,
most !" Over these plains, beneath
these hills, across these rivers and
around these lakes in trains like those
of king, where but twenty-five o.
fifty years since the naughty semi.
barbarous Indian roamed in leisurely
idleness, looked upon by the remnante
Of the wondrous Ice-Age, the Red
River of the North and the Ten Thou.
sand Lakes of Minnesota, we speed al
the rate of forty-fve miles an hour,
Here you see big hill, there deep
ravine and again the semblance Of a
lake-all but the product Of a mighty
glacier, probably a mile in depth and
encircling the greater part Of the
world. How marvelously divinity
plans for man! First the glacier
travelling southeastward, over oul
state piling up vast banks of dirt,