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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14

threw ripe persimmon and hit mo
right In the eye. said right out In
plain English: You're q liar and
can knock the stuh1ng out of YOU"
l pulled OF: my dress coat and started
Tor him, but pa grabbed me on one
side and the monkey trainer on the
other, and they, tried to get me to
return to the monkey character, and
cnatter, and pa put my monkey mask
on me, but struck right there, and
pulled it of, and told him and the
managers that I would not play mon
key any more with tail pinned to
my spine, my stomach full Of cayenne
pepper and my nostrils full of Scotch
snuf, and my face all puckered up
with persimmons.
The crowd yelled: "Fraud! Fraud!
Kill the bald-headed old man who is
the father Of the monkey" and they
were making rush to clean out the
show when the dressing-room door
opened to let the hippodrome chariot
racers out, and the way the chariots
scattered the crowd was a caution.
for the chariots run over lot of ne
groes, which pleased the audience, and
they let us off without killing us.
They got me back to the dressing-room
and had to take a pair of pinchers to
get that safety-pin out of my spine,
and on the way to the dressing-room
some one walked on my monkey tail
and pulled it OFF, and that was q dead
loss. Pa sat by me and famed me.
cause I was faint. and then he said:
MY boy, you played your part we'll,
until the persimmon hit you, and
then you forgot that you were an
actor. and became yourself, and
don't blame you for wanting to punch
that boy who called you little mig
ger, and said l was your pa. After
this chariot race is over we will go
around in front of the seats, and find
the boy, and you can do him up.
Your monkey business was the fea-
ture OF the show today
We went out and found boy that
looked like the one that sassed me,
but he must have been his big broth
er, cause when I went up to him
and swatted him in the nose, he gava
me a black eye, and I am sight.
That evening, at the performance.
we cut out the educated ourang OIL
tang, and the lawyer we met on the
cars came to the show, and said we
would all be arrested for not perform
ing all we advertised, but he could
settle it for hundred dollars, and
pa paid him the money, and he went
out AID got jag and came in the
show and was going to make trouble,
when pa took him to the cage where
the 40-foot boaconstrictor was: uncoil-
ing itself, and the Virginian got one
look at the snake and went through
the side of the tent yelling: 1--WE got
'em again. Catch me, Somebody"
We got out of town before morning.
and nobody was arrested, except the
negroes that got run over in the
chariot race.
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that Dennis, the educated ourang
.outang, that had performed before
crowned heads in Europe and sap
heads in Newport, the only man-mon-
key in the known world, would now
entertain the most select audience that
had ever been under the tent. Then
l was dragged into the ring and put
on the platform
They didn't put on my dress clothes
at first, but had a little screen on the
platform for me to go behind to dress,
and appeared first in the natural
state of the ourang outang, with suit
of buffalo robe stuff that looked exact
ly like big monkey. I bowed and
the audience cheered, and I stood on
my hands and scratched at an imagi-
nary flea, and pa, who was leaning
against the platform, whispered to me
that I was making the hit. Of the sea-
son.
Then the attendants set the table
and the keeper took me behind the
screen and dressed me, and the ole
fool forgot to. put on my tail. He led
me out and I sat up to the table,
hitched up my cuffs, put napkin un-
der my chin, took a knife and fork
and began to eat, just like a human
being. The audience cheered, and
the circus people crowded around and
said was just as good as Dennis him
self. I went through the whole of Den
MIS- performance and never skipped a
note, until smart white man yelled:
Where is the tail of your ourang
outang?" and the crowd began to be
suspicious, and more than a thousand
yelled: There IL no tail on your
monkey"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14

and if any man about our show should
all to be polite to the white people
hey would be shot or lynched, but if
We wanted to shoot niggers the game
laws were not very strict about it,
lause the open season on niggers run
he year around, but you couldn't shoot
white people only two months in the
year. He said another thing that
scared pa and the managers. He said
II travelling show did not perform all
It. advertised the owners were liable
to go to state prison for 20 years, and
that each town had men on the look
but to see that shows d1un't advertise
what they didn't carry out. =:
Pa and the managers held consul
tation, and couldn't find that~we adj
vertised anything that we didn't have,
except the ourang outang that we took
on at New York, which eats and
dresses like man, cause that animal
got whooping cough in Delaware and
had to be sent to a hospital, but We
heard he was we'll again and would
join the<show in a week. Pa asked the
Richmond lawyer how it would be if
one of the animals that was advertised
was sick and couldn't perform, and
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1ngs are made up of but few planes:
later, as the drawings are more COM
plicated, more tones may be used. 1t
should be understood that shading
for the laborious end Of covering a
drawing with marks is utterly value
less. AS more damage can be done by
it's use than by it's omission, shading
need not be urged upon the class.
From time to time the subjects illus
trated will be treated with tone color
methods of simple shading No par
ticular handling of the shading is
recommended. The lines may be verti-
cal, diagonal or otherwise if they are
but clean and gain the tone desired
by simple means. The child will often
be inclined to make up for deficien-
cies in the drawing by elaborate shad-
ing. 1t Is wasting its time that way.
Insist on the outline drawing being
first acceptable.
If the teacher will but refer to the
article" on the proportion of forms he
may apply the same suggestions to the
proportions of tone color. The illus
trations then given of the two trees
and the river will be an aid in judy
ing Of excess of color in shading.
An accompanying drawing is done in
shaded tones for the same purpose.
1t is not intended to be given the child
in that way at present.
BY this time the child may be more
generally permitted to indulge in the
accented tint and to supply the pure
~ geometric form with freer and more
natural treatment. There will be some
whose limitations by lack of the
drawing instinct will not find this an
advantage. They should continue to
draw: by the purely geometric forms.
The natural temptation of the child
to overdo the accent must be guarded
against. g.
About Object Drawing.
,. A. query has been received asking
if object drawing has no place in this
method OF teaching: The opening arti-
Gle stated the disadvantages and i'm
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LAKE

drawing OF these mechanical forms.
There is no need of ruler, compass
or other aid in the drawing of the
straight lines or the rounds. There
is no need or virtue in the lines be.
ing straight or the rounds being ab-
solute circles. Aside from the ron.
straint of expression it is not desir-
able that they should be a mechan-
ical performance. The constant rec
ommendation of the intelligent use If
the accented line has been against tho
expression1ess line that would result
from the use of ruler or COMPASS.
The drawing should be done with alb
S0lute freedom no matter how far the
forms may be from round or the limos
from straight.
Some New Subjects.
These subjects are given to follow
the last subject of farmhouse, trees
and road: The park with the pond.
bridge and trees, the marsh with tho
haystacks and lake and the boat race,
Present them on the blackboard as
usual, drawing the figures as much
as possible before the child that It
may see how form as complicated
as the sail boat is really made up Of
very simple forms. Continually vary
the shapes of the combinations given
as examples of the possibilities OF
using the forms.
Discourage among the brighter chill
dren any attempt to copy these exam
pies while giving the less clever soma
latitude in that direction, for it is a
way OF learning to present ideas
Where the inventive faculty is not pres
ent In the boat race the interest
gained by overlapping forms may be
noted as well as the placement of the
boats -
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Copyright, by Joseph u. Bowlss.)

Among the questions which have
come up by this time is that Of shad-
ing the drawings So far the draw
ings for the child have been in out
line purely, and might remain so
throughout the series. There is no
gain by the mere smudging Of draw
ing that would have been better in
pure outline, and there is often much
strength and simplicity to be gained
by the separation of one plane from
another by the use of tone. 1t stands
with the accented line in it's partial
usage. When children can use it to
good and proper effect they might be
permitted to shade with clean, flat
tones. At first not over two OF three
tones should be used, for the draw
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14

while turned away my face Ia thu
darkness, that he might not 500 me
smile, Twas not surprised to find the
man in a moment changed, and become,
in the closing Of the door, as sober
and suspicious as before. ashamed OF
himself and enraged with me, and in
a mood to cut my throat for q tribe.
1t was not my cue to quarrel, how
ever-anything but that. made,
therefore. as If I had seen nothing and
when We were back in the inn praised
the horse grudgingly, and like a man
but half convinced. The ugly looks and
ugly weapons I saw around me were
fine incentives to caution and no
Italian, I flatter myself, could have
played his part more nicely than I did.
But was heartily glad when it was
over and I found myself, at last, left
alone for the night in a little garrett
mere fowl-house-upstairs, formed by
the roof and gable walls and hung with
with strings Of apples and chestnuts.
1t was a poor sleeping place-rough,
chilly and unclean. I assembled to it
by a ladder; my cloak and a little
fern formed my only bed. But was
glad to accept it. 1t enabled me to be
alone and to think out the position un-
watched.
OF course M. de Cocheforet was at
the chateau. He had left his horse here,
and gone up on foot: probably that
was his usual plan. He was therefore
within my reach, in one sense-I could
not have come at better time-but in
another he was as much beyond it as
If were still in Paris. So far was l
from being able to seize him that I
dared not ask a question or let fall
rash word, or even look about me
freely. I saw dared not. The slight.
est hint of my mission, the faintest
breath Of distrust, would lead to throat
cutting-and the throat would be mine;
while the longer lay in the village,
the greater suspicion should incur and
the closer would be the watch kept over
me.
In such position some men might
have given up the attempt and saved
themselves across the border. But
have always valued myself on my fidel-
1ty, and did not shrink. II not to-day,
tomorrow; If not this time, next
time. The dice do not always turn up
aces. Bracing myself, therefore, to the
occasion, l crept. as soon as the house
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could have killed that trainer. He run
that safety pin about an inch into my
spine, and jumped into the air about
four feet, and was going to use a cuss
word that I learned in PHILADELPHIA
but had presence of mind enough to
grunt just as Dennis used to, and chat.
ter like monkey, and the day was
saved. The tail was on and 1 turned
my back to show that it was on
straight, like woman's hat, when pa
said to hurry the performance to q
conclusion, because he could see that
there was spirit OF unrest in the al.
dience, and he would not be surprised
any moment to see Virginia secede
and 90 out Of the union.
There was nothing more for me to
do except to drink my cup of after
dinner coffee. and smoke my cigarette,
and quit, and was patting myself on
the back at my success and squirming
around in the chair, cause the pin in
my tail hurt my back, but never said
a word The attendant brought in the
coffee and. I took couple of swal-
had put cayenne pepper into it, and /
was hot under the collar, but though
I was burning up inside, L never
peeped, but just choked, and took, a
swallow of water: and vowed to kill the
person that made the coffee. :
I kept my temper till the trainer
handed me the cigarette and match,
and the first puff I realized that they
had filled the cigarette with snuff,
and after blowing out, the smoke be-
gan TO sneeze, and the audience. fairly
went wild: I sneezed about. eight
times, and at every sneeze the pin in
my spine hurt like thunder, but never
lost my temper, till about; the seventh
sneeze, when my monkey mask few Of,
and then 9 boy about my size, right il
front. Of me, yelled: 1T amt mon:
key. It all; It is l. little niger. and hes!
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he told pa the people would mob the
show If anything was left out.
When we got to Richmond the whole
population, principally niggers, was at
the lot when we put up the tents, and
everybody wanted to catch a sight of
Dennis, the ourang outang, and. the
posters all over town that pictured
Dennis smoking cigarettes with q
dress suit on, and eating with knife
and fork and napkin tucked under
his chin, were surrounded by crowds.
It was plain that all the people cared
for was to see the monk.
The managers held a council of war
and decided the show would be ruined
il we didn't make bluff at having an
ourang outang, so it was decided that
I was to be dressed up in Dennis
clothes, and put on monkey mask,
and 60 through his stunt at the after
noon performance. =
Gee, but hated to do it, but pa said
the fate of the show depended on It
and II didn't take the part he would
have to do it himself, and I knew M
monkey, and so said I would do If
but will never do it again for anv
show. The wardrobe woman fixed me
up like Dennis, and had seen him 20
through his stunt so often thought
I could initiate him, and of course
zthere was no talking to do, but Just
to grunt once in awhile, the way Den
mis- did, and have an animal look. :.s
Well, sir, the keeper who, trained the
ourang outang took me in hand, and
in an hour was perfect. I had rub.
Der feet and wore black gloves; and
had tail fastened on with d safety
pin, that would deceive the Oldest
Snowman in the business. When the
crowd was the biggest, in the middle
ring, the keeper led me out Of the
dressing room with a chain. The am
Spouncement was made by the barker
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was quiet, to window, a small, square,
open lattice, much cobwebbed, and
partly stuffed with hay. I looked out.
The village seemed to be asleep. The
dark branches Of trees hung few feet
away and almost obscured gray,
cloudy sky, through which a wet moon
sailed drearily; but as my eyes grew
used to the darkness-1 had only just
put out my rushlight-1 made out the
stable-door and the shadowy outlines
of the lean-to roof.
had hoped for this. I could now
keep watch and learn at least whether
Cocheforet left before morning. II no
did not should know he was still here.
If he did, I should be the better for see.
ing his features, and learning, perhaps
other things that might be Of use.
Making up my mind to be uncom-
Portable, sat down on the floor by
the lattice, and began a vigil that
might last, l knew, until morning.
1t did last about an hour. At the end
of that time heard whispering below,
then footsteps; then, as some persons
turned the corner, a voice speaking
aloud and carelessly. ! could not catch
the words spoken; but the voice was
a gentleman's, and Its bold accents and
masterful tone left me in no doubt that
the speaker was NJ de Cocheforet him
self. Hoping to learn more, I pressed
my face nearer to the opening, and
I had just made out through the gloom
two figures-one that Of tall, slight
man, wearing a cloak, the other,
thought, woman's, in a sheeny white
dress-when a laundering rap on the
door of my garnet made me spring back
a yard from the lattice, and lie down
hurridly on my couch. The noise was
repeated.
'Well'?' cried, cursing the untime-
ly interruption. I was burning with
anxiety to see more. what is it?
What is the matter?"
The trap door was lifted a foot or
more. The landlord thrust up his head.
"You called, did you not?" he asked.
He held up a rushlight, which illumin-
ated half the room and lit up his grin
ming face. -~.-
"Called--at this hour of the night,
you fool?" I answered angrily. mo!
I did not call. Go to bed, mani"
But he remained on the ladder, gap
ing stupidity.
II heard you," he said.
"Go to bed! You are drunk" I an
swered, sitting up. II tell you I did
not CALI
ooh, very WE'LL" he answered slowly.
"And you do not want anything?"
''Nothing-except to be left alone!"
replied sourly: -. ..., S.. -.
:.'Umph!' he said. Goodnight"
Goodnight! Goodnight" I an
swered, with what patience might.
The tramp of the horses hoofs as 1t
was led out of the stable was in my
ear at; the moment. "GoQd-night!" I
continued feverishly, hoping, he would
still retire in time, and have q chance
to look out. II want to Sleep III
Good" he said, with q broad grin.
But it is early yet, and you have
plenty of time" And then, at last, he
slowly let down the trapdoor and I
heard him chuckle as he went down the
ladder. .e .ss,s..5 5siS::s 4z , %st
Before he reached" the bottomsI was
at.the wind The woman whom I
had4seens still stood below, in the Same
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practicability of teaching object draw
ing in the schoolroom. 1t did not
state that object drawing in itself
was to be undervalued. If the draw
ing of solids, dry as it is, could be
placed in the schoolroom and taught
by a competently trained teacher it
might be beneficial adjunct to the
inventive symbol drawing for the
artistically inclined, but it would be
of little use to the many who could
never be taught to see with the
draughtsman's eye. 1t is the especial
advantage of symbol drawing that
something can be drawn without this
draughtsman's eye.
The same inquirer asked about the
use of mechanical appliances in the
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The Reporter as a Soldier.

An item in Kansas City paper tells
of the death of a reporter in Wichita
through injuries contracted in the per-
formance of his reportorial duties. The
reporter was sent out at late hour
of the night to "cover" suicide and
fell over pile of bricks in a dark al
ley, injuring himself internally and
dying from the effects of the fall a
few days later. This man died at his
post of duty as truly as the fireman or
policeman who loses his life in any
great catastrophe that brings his
duties into play. And the death Of this
young man ought to. impress upon the
newspaper-reading world the sacrifice
and often the heroism that the news
gatherers on the daily papers arc
capable of. The reporter is a soldier
who never disobeys call to duty. even
though it be to face death in a. battle
OR enter burning building or night
run on q locomotive: or, to- enter a. den
Of thieves in order to give his paper.
and its readers the news. Denver
News. s. S.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-03-14
SURGEONS USE Blue LIGHT
According to Physicians of Geneva
It Is Valuable as an An
aesthetic.

A rather new use of blue light has
been reported from Geneva-namely,
it's use as an anaesthetic in dentistry.
In the course of some experiments to
ascertain the effects of light of diff
ferent cOlOrs upon the nerves, Profs.
Redard and Emery found that blue
light was very soothing The some
what remarkable statement is made
that q 16-candle-power blue light, di-
rected upon the eyes of a patient for
three minutes, caused him to lose
sensitiveness to such an extent that
a tooth was painlessly extracted, with.
out after effects of any kind. Whether
the anaesthetic was general or only
local is not reported.
1t is probable that had Gen. Pleas
anton been true scientist and a
skillful experimentalist he might
have made some discoveries of value
to the world, for, as DR.. Finsen him
self has saiu: 1.-THE general was on
the right track" In 1877 Pleasanton
published book with the following
explanatory title: THE influence of
the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of
the Blue Color of the Sky in Develop
ing Animal and Vegetable Life, in
Arresting Disease and in Restoring
Health in Acute and Chronic Disor-
ders to Human: and Domestic Ami
mails, as Illustrated by the Expert
ments of Gen. A. J. Peeasanton and
Others Between the Years 1861 and
1876"
The book is printed on blue paper,
and abounds in fallacious and dog
matte statements. One of his dicta is:
''Lignt is the great source OF terrestrial
electricity, magnetism and heat"
Quite a large portion OF the book is
devoted to testimonials from physi.
clans and various others relating to
the efficacy Of the blue-ray treatment
in cases Of general ill health, rheuma-
tism, etc. Pleasanton believed that
the results claimed by him were due
to the "juxtaposition of plain uncol-
ored glass and blue glass in the pass.
age of sunlight and the transmitted
blue light Of the armament and tne
eliminated blue rays of the sunlight
through them respectively. which
evolves an electromagnetic current,
which imparts to vegetable or animal
life subjected to it an extraordinary
impulse to the development of their
respective vigor and growth" He OBJ
tanned pa%ent for his so-called dis
covery and for the method Of its an.
plicati0n.
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Went Fast

4 Customer-Look here, this bicycle /
bought here only three weeks ago has
: all gone, to pieces: 81. .y,~,y~e =. J..
Dealer-Yes, sir. q You remember
warranted it to go fast.-Tit- Bits. >
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By HON. GEORGE ". PEcK,
Author Of '.Peek's Bad Boy Abroad" Etc.
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Author Of Peek. Bad Boy Abroad. Etc. ::
Copyright by ]. B. Bowiss.l

The Show Strikes Virginia and the
Educated 0urang outang Has the
Whooping Cough-The Bad Boy
Plays the Part of Monkey, But
They Forget to Pin on Tail.
Well, I have broke the show all to
pieces, just by not being able to stand
grief. Everything is all balled up,
the managers are sore at me, and
afraid of being sent to jail, and pa
thinks I ought to be mauled.
It was this way: when we left
Washington we cut loose from every
home tie, and plunged into Virginia,
and the trouble began at once. We met
a lawyer on the train, on the way to
Richmond, and fed him in our dining
car, and got him acquainted with all
the performers and freaks, and he told
hs that we would have to be careful
In Virginia, cause all the white people
were FIRST families and aristocratic,