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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
Tricks Of
! the Stage

Stage animals are very proud OF the
organs they can move. II they can
roll an eye, they never cease to roll
1t 80 long as they think any one is
looking; and if they can switch a tail.
they switch IT. This weakness for
showing OF gets them into trouble
sometimes, just as weaknesses in
general get real animals into trouble.
Hence m elephant, with a fine, freely
moving tail began to switch that tail
with great vigor while on its way to
the front Of the house. Just as it was
emerging from the side into view the.
woolly end of the tail, in its abandon
cd Nights, caught a gas Jet, and at the
sause instant caught fire. The fire
spread as rapidly as dry, gummy can
q and dry withes could make 1t
spread, and the elephant appeared in
a blaze. Fortunately for the men In
side the flames were on the top, and
the first intimation they received OF
the contlagration was a feeling as Of
something cold striking them on the
back. It was water, and the water in.
creased andethey were drenched and
horrified, for they knew not whence.
It came or what it meant or what.
night come next.
A swordfsh is, no doubt, a very i'm.
pressive creature on the stage. the
sword naturally receiving great m
phasis from the maker and special
publicity from the man inside. It is
thus a common thing for that sword
to get into trouble, and for the poor
1sh, in. a stage procession, to ask a
harmless mussel Or oyster to ..take
care Of my sword!" A dragon thirteen
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
EXPERT AS cABlNET.MAKER.
Young woman OF Minneapolis Handles
the Plane and Saw.

| Youns Woman OF Minneapolis Handles
the Plane and Saw.
Minneapolis has q successful cabinet
maker in the person of Miss Helen
Heisser, whose work is equal in point
of excellence to that of any Of her
masculine competitors. She has set
up her bench in her own apartments
and there she may be found any day
fashioning some artistic piece OF work
out Of the rough boards which h pro-
cures from a ~neighboring lumber yard
Miss Heisser Is her own designer and
her work not only shows excellent
workmanship, but originality along
lines that are soundly artistic. Her
work has ranged from an ordinary
kitchen shelf to the finest kind OF del
lcately wrought little mahogany boxes
and chests Of drawers. The young
cabinet-maker has had no assistance,
and the transformation from rough
boards to the polished and carved
work is accomplished wholly by hand
tools. Woods are bought in rough
boards and Miss Heisser ven does her
own %veneering. The finest piece OF
work turned out last fall is a tiny ma
hogany chest Of drawers four inches
in height and five and a half inches
in width. This miniature piece Of fur
niture is for a mans writing table and
intended for small articles of dress
pins. studs, cuff links and collar but
tons. Quite in contrast to this is a
heavy, solid dark walnut reading table
with a sloping top on which to rest
heavy books. A substantial bench be-
longs with this table. A large and
handsome piece Of work is a screen
six feet in height in three panels. This
was carved and stained green. Some
Of the finest carving has been done on
boxes and jewel cases, but book racks
also afford an opportunity for carving
and work in color. Until this fall she
has been occupied chiefly in teaching.
She took the manual training course
at the central high school and followed
this by q curse in kindergartening.
While in school she executed several
good pieces of construction work and
wood-carving, following designs made
by her sister, Miss Marguerite E. Heis-
ser. art teacher at the Moorhead nor
nal school and formerly a leader OF
the Minneapolis art colony. For near
ly two years Miss Helen Heisser taught
manual training at the school for the
teeble-minded at Faribault, giving up
that work last summef.-ChicagO-
Chronicle.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
Dummy Animals That
Are Made to Ainuse
Theatre Goers.

feet long and emitting flames makes
us think that we must have got away
from canvas, .wickerwork and paper,
else the flames are certainly not real.
The flames, however, are. real enough,
and a man inside ingnites and. fans the
spirit-saturated cotton-with his
breath. It is out Of q canvas mouth,
too. that they come, but that mouth is
fitted with asbestos cloth.
Stage rats introduce US to another
method Of locomotion on the part of
tnanimate straw and canvas. Rats are
made big enough to admit small
boys; in such cases, OF course, the boys
do the moving. But the ommon stage
rat is usually stuffed with straw.
There issno man or boy or other In
animate thing inside. Power to move
Is impaired to them from without, by
means OF invisible wires attached to
their noses and manipulated from be-
hind the scenes. Their movement con-
sists OF only q glide, and that is as
nearly as possible the true movement
Of the real rat, 1t being the movement
that creates the beast disturbance, and
is, therefore, the most suitable for q
hunted animal. Stage rats may glide
in a straight line, or they may zig
gag and perform in more or less elabo-
rate ways, according to the arrange
ments made on the stage. These ar
rangements comprise the fixing Of pull
legs on the floor or in the wall or else
where and the laying Of invisible
wires over them. The more elaborate
the arrangement of pullys, the more
varied will be the lines of movement
traced by the rats.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01

most famous soldiers of the American
army fought.
To the lover Of the historic and ro-
mantle there is something cruel about
the destruction Of the remains Of old
Fort Crawford. To the residents Of
Prairie du Chen, who for years have
seen and thought little of the past OF
the dilapidated old walls, it Is a hard,
cold business proposition. They see no
reason why sentiment should retard
the progress of their city. They al
see nothing to be gained in the pres
ence of the staring sentinels of stone.
But a few rods north from the site
of the fort, hidden from the casual
glance by the thick growth Of rank
weeds, and made mor obscure by the
presence of broken down fences. is
the old federal cemetery. There is no
hand to strew flowers upon the graves
of the heroes whose remains lie there.
1t is a place of mysterious surroundings
and is avoided and Stunned. Though
upon the age-worn granite tablets the
epigraphs Of many whose names are
inserted in living letters upon the
pages Of history are carved in crude
broken letters, there is none to notice
them nor to give them a passing
thought. .
The massive old fort proper has long
since been torn down and upon its site
now stands the beautiful st. Mary's
ooodomv Uhoro tho ronntf NJ tho ION.
try's gun once startled the wilderness
now is heard the peaceful tones Of the
convent bell. IVA
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
MARCH OF PROGRESS DOES AWAY
WITH OLD TIME FORT
FAMOUS BUILDING AT PRAIRIE DU CHEN. WIS. TO
- - Be TORN DOWN - -

Old Fort Crawford, at Prairie du
Chen, Wis.,, famous in the history of
the settlement Of the northwest, is be-
Ing torn down and before many
days the last remnant of the old fort
will be destroyed. Already workmen
are tearing away the massive old walls
which long ago sheltered all who
sought refuge behind them. For a CEN
fury and a half they have withstood
the ravages of time and the attacks Of
the painted Indian warrior. Fort
Crawford is a relic of long ago;
around its barren ruins is grouped
more history than at any other place
in Wisconsin; it is, indeed, a thing of
history, romantic, bloody and price,
less.
Even before the pickax of the first
workmen clicked against the crumb-
ling masonry, there was but little left
Of the famous old fort. Barren and
alone, like towering sentinels guard
ing its sacred secrets, two walls of the
fort hospital remain. The remainder
of the once imposing series Of mas
sive buildings have been entirely de-
stroyed; they lie in a weed-grown heap
Of rocky ruins, like a fallen and neg
lected monument of fame. The stone
walls were fast falling to decay, but
the deep narrow windows and the bat
+~le-scarred buttresses still remain.
Toward the Mississippi, which flows
past a few rods distant, is a gnarled
and stunted oak tree. It is so near the
old fort that the afternoon gun sends
its thin, sharp shadow upon the barren
walls. This alone will remain to mark
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01

In order to become a wage-earner in
the city the girl must have some sort
Of preparation and experience. This
means that IL she is to learn her trade
she must practically give a year Of her
time and work without wages. al
though her brother at the very outset
earns something even as an apprentice
and is advanced according to his abil.
fly.
The wage-earning woman and hen
problem has accomplished two things:
she has formed a mutual bond between
women Of leisure and women Of labor,
and she has also opened the eyes Of
philanthropists to the fact that the in
dustrial problem Of women is at the
bottom Of the moral problem, with the
result that the Rescue Homes for
Women are being supplanted BY home,
for wage-working women.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
AN INCOMPATIBLE SYSTEM.
10 That of Transportation In tho United

70 That Of Transportation In the United
stateA.
One of the important factors in the
strength of our industrial position is
the unquestioned superiority of II
transportation system, says Frank A.
Vanderlip in Scribner's Magazine. II
one has fresh in mind the picture of
our luxurious trains, mammoth en-
gines, and. more important still, our
standard ffty-ton freight cars. it.
makes the Europeans seem like ANA
teurs in the science Of transportation
when we see their toy cars, small To-
comotives, and generally s%low-going
administration. II one looked into the
matter with the eye of an expert,
studying the unit of cost, the freight
charges per ton per mile, or the mil
cage rate for passenger service. and
made comparative statistics of the ton
mage Of freight trains and the cost of
moving them. he would discover a.
startling lack of efficiency, both in
Great Britain and on the continent.
Perhaps 1t is not quite fair to make
comparisons Of the average cost of
freight traffic per ton per mile in
America and in Europe, because the
average haul is much shorter there. and
terminal expenses Of a haul are prac--
tically the same whatever its length.
The average charge per ton per mile
on all American railroads for all class
es Of freight is now less than n Of a
cent. II We take the statistics Of the.
eastern trunk lines alone. that figure
would be cut to about y cent per ton
per mile. It compares with "a in
Great Britain. 90 in France. 1.6 In
Germany, and "a in Russia. One OF
the most remarkable illustrations OF
the failure Of European managers of
industries to keep pace with the times
is found in a comparison Of the ef-
hciency Of their railroads with ours
English railroads charge three times
.as much to move, q ton Of freight as
1t can be moved for In America. Eng
lish railroad managers have failed to
grasp the economies that are made
possible by heavy trafic, by the use of
engines Of enormous capacity and
freight cars that will carry afty tons.
But n the English railroads have
failed to keep pace with ours. what
can be said Of the continental roads?
Short trains. with pigmy freight cars.
each car holding only about eight tons.
make clear to any layman the handi-
cap which high transportation charges
have laid on industry all over Europe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01

Women Lose Faith in Each Other.
There are two Portland women who
nave recently lost faith In each other.
They were attending the meetings of
the Literary Union the other day, and
on emerging from the hall found a
sharp shower in progress. Each an
nounced to the other that she must
telephone for q carriage. and they de-
parted into different stores, o~stensibly
for that purpose. When, ten minutes
later, the women met in a Spring
street trolley a no allusion was made
to the carriage.-Kennebec (Me.)
Journal.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
ORIGINAL AS eEEKEEPER.
David Norton, Of r~l..,n,sld, Conn, Tells

David Norton, Of Plainfleld, Conn, Tells
OF Hi Experiences.
One Of the most original beekeepers
In Connecticut is David Norton Of
Plainield, says a correspondent Of the
Hartford Courant. Mr.. Norton IL over
20 years old and is in the bee business
with his son. At q; recent meeting of
the Connecticut ~beekeepers' associa-
ton, Mr.. Norton spoke at length Of his
Aees and OF his method Of working
over them. In the summer this enthu-
siastic apiarist sits out among his bee
hives under q large yellow umbrella.
and often maps there, lulled to sleep by
the humming. He handles the bees
fearlessly, and is never stung by them.
This year the honey produced by his
bees exceeded largely the amount Of
neighboring beekeepers. In his apiary.
he says, the bees enter each others
hives indiscriminately II: they find their
own hive crowded, and deposit their
honey burdens, and they ire like one
happy family. He observes none of the
usual precautions in regard to putting
a new queen in a hive-simply after
the colony has been %queenless awhile,
he puts the new queen in, and the bees
never fail to give her a kind reception.
This is contrary to most apiarists' ex-
perience, as a new queen is usually
placed in a wire-screened little box
that is plugged with sugar. The bees
observe their new queen through the
wire and thus become accustomed to
her; then they let out the sugar plug
and free her and she walks quietly N
to the combs in the hive. If a new
queen, ordinarily, is put unprotected
into a colony of strange bees they kill
her. Mr.. Norton approves of a very
large hive, so constructed that it can
be enlarged Or contracted. In the heat
of the day the hives in this unique
npiary are sheltered under umbrellas.
In regard to moving hives of bees, Mr..
Norton says he experiences no incon-
v%enience from losing bees, as in most
cases where the bees return to the old
location; but he says his bees after
flying out Immediately note the new
spot, and invariably return to it. A
suggestion offered by Mr.. Norton
whereby bees would always know their
own hive, which he had tried expert
mentally, was to paint each hive a diff
ferent color. The bees remembered the
color of their own hive easily, just as
they do the tints Of the blossoms. Mr..
Nor<0n thinks that the bees have be-
come SO accustomed to himself and his
son that their working among them
does not in the least disturb them,
therefore these beekeepers can open a
hive and examine the combs at leisure,
while the bees fly about and do not
get into an uproar. That there is a
great future for the b%eekeeper and
large profits in the bee business when
properly conducted, Mr.. Norton does
not doubt, but say that his only re-
greet is. that he did not begin at bee
keeping earlier in life.-Chicago News
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01

$s@ssSS aSNs9s Our Rscalinr5 Iaus. s a
sS'sAA mar down east didn't know he
had run y 0mce.'.
.'sWk Vel, how did he nlidsit out!
NssaThleIy arrestsd him for not dlfnggShis
expense account. s5@s S !,
.sBu,t he didn't have any expenses.
Mo but he'll have em III right
when the cont getsthroagh WITH
him ss Ss1
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01

To Prevent Rich from sponeine
With q view to preventing people Of
means taking advantage Of the free
dispensaries. meant only for the poor
of the country, the physicians and
druggists Of Philadelphia will petition
the next legislature to enact a law
requiring that a register, to be open
for inspection. shall be kept, giving
the names Of all persons obtaining
medicines.
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her Obssrntio.,

Her O~bservstion, s
! I must say. said the irascible per:
son, that this climate
Excuse me- Interrupted Miss Cay
enne. ..but I fear YOU / starting with
= misstatement. I have observed that
when anyone exclains 7 must say he
isss in reality going to give utterance 10
something that II Is quite unnecessary,
"a mention 8
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-01
He wanted 70 Know.

.W5gG9s 80 -. t1MS00 ~ NuUWe @a 1919
City Magnate----Of course I don't
wish to stand In the way Of my daugh-
ter's happiness, but I know 50 little Of
you. Mr.. Hawkins. What lie your yo-
cation? Mr.. Hawkins latfily)-oh. I
wrte--er-poetry. novels-er-plays.
and that sort Of thing. City Mag
nate-Indeed! Most interesting. And
how do you live?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-31
TOUCHING SELF,SAcRtF1cE

Mr.. Robert Meighen, president of the
Lake Of the Woods Milling company is q
self-sacrifcing British imperialist. He is
citizen Of the British empire frst and
afterwards of Canada. He goes so far In
his devotion to the empire that he would
not althougher view with regret the de-
struction of the entire -four milling bua
ness OF Canada, including that of his own
company, If it suits English policy. He
expe cts to see still higher English tariffs
on -four together with free wheat. In
consequence. he says, this win no doubt
be the means of transferring the manu-
facture Of -four from .thts continent. In
stead OF increasing our milling ca
pacity in Canada we will probably have to
look to London and Manchester as the
points OF future development
While oheerfhlly sacrificing the Cana
dian milling business, Mr.. Meighen, re-
calling that he still has elevator inter.
sests, calls upon all Canadians to put their
shoulders to the wheel to prevent "at all
cost" the diversion of the wheat business
from Canadian channels to Minneapolis
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THE 1MINNEAPutLI,Is JoURNAIl

and Duluth, Mr.. Meigheh Il / weli-mean-
ing man, but he must see that with Cas
madam mills eliminated by the English
tariff manipulation he cannot prevent the
diversion of wheat to Minneapolis and
Duluth. The wheat will so where 1t is
wanted and needed-in the great mills Of
the United States which have domestic
and foreign market outside of the United
Kingdom that ia large enough to keep
them busy. When the time comes that
the Minneapolis mills require Canadian
wheat, the American tariff on wheat will
come off and the. grain will pour into the
elevators Of Minneapolis. Only that part
of 1t will go TO England that is not re-
auired by the American mills. Those
mills have paid higher than the Liver-
pool price heretofore for what they want
and when the time comes they will do it
again. And as against devotion to the
empire a higher price will prevail every
time in the wheat market.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-31

together and should deem their oMa COM
pany more agreeable than that of those
who share neither their money, their
abundance Of time nor their views. But
It IL rather illogical that the society they
form should be universally admitted and
felt to- be the best society
IS The explanation is to be found partly in
hereditary influence and partly in the
tone of our literature, which is still much,
in respect to Its social rankings, as 1t was
In the old days. The king and the noble
Of old had wealth and leisure and at the
same time ruled society. They had a
monopoly of learning, a monopoly Of re-
fined pleasures. They believed that So
ciety existed for them and their power
was such that they had made society be-
lieve that it existed for them. They
esteemed themselves the best people and
We're actually believed to be ting best peo-
pie. and in many respects they were.
f With the passing of an official nobility
In this country we have continued to act
as II, and largely to believe, that high life
is based on wealth, leisure and name.
The romantic and idealistc literature
of the day almost totally ignores that
large and vital portion of the people that
make the nation. 1t is largely given up
to the doings of people who have city
palaces and country homes. yachts and
fine horses trains eff servants, carloads OF
clothes,,. or to theirs forerunners in an
other age. The impression is thus dis
seminated that persons who have the best
homes, the best horses. the best clothes,
the best facilities for pleasures, the best
opportunities in life, must themselves be
the best people. We all want these things,
they constitute the summit of desire for
millions. Is it any wonder then, that
those who have them who may be col
lectively, good or bad. brilliant or dull
useful or useless, are; without regard to
the actual fact, spoken of as the upper
class, observed with curiosity, obsequi-
ously admired, servilely initiated?
+ Yet this class is enc of the least use
full to the community, one which it
could dispense with without great incon-
venfence and without any grave injury.
In neither utility nor art is it essential.
1t has neither the intellect nor the culture
of the nation, speaking broadly. So-called
society in America is the froth Of the
nations wealth. That tits esteemed the
best is sufficient, evidence of how much
room there is for betterment of our ideals
Of life. - s-sz5r>5se: 3: III,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-31
PRUss1A,s RAILWAY SYSTEM

The Prussian railway system is the property
of the state; 1t has been slowly developed
from small beginnings into an organization
which pays above it's operating expenses NOT
only the entire interest on the Prussian debt,
but turn an annual surplus of many millions
into the public treasury. That the rates for.
freight and first-class passenger fares ars
very high-so high indeed that the former
constitute heavy handicap on agriculture
and many inland industries-is nnquesGon-
able German miners and manufacturers look
with envious surprise upon the economies OF
railway freight in America, and their main
hope for the future is in the extension and
Improvement of the inland river and canal
system which is advocated urgently by
the imperial government
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-31
FALSE SOCIAL IDEALS,

ThatEwe are still a long way from So
cial perfection is proved among thou
sand other things by the curious applica-
tion of the phrases, upper classes best
people," high life,' persons of posi-
ton ETC., These phrases are almost uni
versally taken to mean persons who have
time and money, to spend in the usually
and pursuits of what is called society,"
A person whose father was in this class
may always in Europe and often here
manage to hang on to a connection with
1t in some way even If he has neither
money nor time. And generally he tries
hard to do so.
The so-called t.high life never includes,
except by way Of exception to the rule,
those persons who really lead high lives,
but are without certain material advan-
tages. The "best classes" are often far
from being such in fact. So-called ESQ
,ciety," except 1t be in a small city, never
includes the really most desirable people.
Men of wit and humor are not very con-
spicuous In it, authors and artists are not
prominent In its ranks, the captains of
industry are rayely seen in its gatherings.
though their sons and daughters may be;
university professors, teachers, ministers,
scholars, able lawyers, successful phys1-
clans are not generally included, though
individuals here and there may beareck-
oned in society.
it's not unnatural or Objectionable that
persons who have wealth, leisure, and q
certain degree Of social polish should flock