Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 6

RIVALRY OF THE DANCERS New York the Battleground of the Various Schools. ANTIQUE ARD MODERN THEORIES Art with Bare Feet in a Contest with the Classic BaMet—Interpreters from Paterson, N. J.,, and Callfornia. ~ NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—It looks as if New York were to be the battlefield of the dancers this winter, and- whether the vie- tory is to lle with the old school or the new will probably be decided in this city. Bo far honors are easy. Isadora Duncan as the exponent of pseudo-antique posing and gesture has had New York at her bare feet for two seasons, That circumstance might show that New Yorkers had decided wholly in her favor were It not true that Adeline Genee, who repregents the classic art of the ballet— not classie in the sense that it is Hellente, | but because It rests on the principles of an art founded several centuries ago—has cap- tured the theater-going public here and In the large cities just ns completely as Miss Duncan has. These two expenents of differing arts may. contemplate thelr success with pride. But how about the .small army of their followers who are to carry on the struggle Quring the rest of the winter? How about Anna Pavieva, the Russian premiere, whose success in Berlin and Parils has awakened & new Interest in the old fashioned ballet and has thrown the so-called iInterpretative dancers Into the shade? Some Who M, How about Michael Entered. Elllot, who has ap- pearéd on the horizon this winter to Inter- | eastern potentate. pret. even the funeral from ‘Got- terdammerung,” Ruth Denls, who has come back to this country after ecarrying her Indlan dances triumphantly through Europe; Rita Sacchetto, who In her one public eppearance has revealed an art more truly Interpretative in the aesthetic and podtic sense of the word than any of the newcomers; Orchidee, Irene Sanden, Ger- trude Van Axen, Thamara de Swirsky and the rest of the lithe limbed young women that Lole Fuller has brought to this coun- try and called muses of the dance? What, to repeat the question, Is to be the fate of these dancers of the new school in combat- ting the Influence of Genee, Pavova and the new ballet school to teach old prin- clples, which has been opened at the Metro- politan? “Will victory lie with the ladles who pirouette on thelr bare feet or those who twirl serenely on stiffened toes en- cased in slik tricot? Rita Sacchetto showed at the Metropoli- tan matinee what an Interpretative dance march st may really be. Dressed as an Itallan peasant girl she danced the “Tarantelln’ of Chopin: This ‘13 not a tarantella ex- pressing & festal mood nor the clumsy ex- hibit now arranged for the edification of visitors to southern Italy Italian Tarantelln, Mile. Sacchetto dashes on the stage in the agony of terror caused by the-bite of the venomous Insect which in the belle of the people can be counteracted only by frantic dance. She fncludes this among national and pantomimic dances, and it is a wonderful expression of the spirit of the music ag she conceives it. In few of these modern dances Is the symbollsm sa inetstve. The demonlacal fury with which she Whirls through the wmusic of Chopin, illustrating the dramatic mood poignantly. revealing her musiclanship in her -adher- ence to rhythm and expressing her poetic fecling in her steady adherence to beauty, I8 the strongest plea made it behalf of the new kchool since Isadora Duncan returned to this country. Miss Duncan and this young Ttallan Whose youth was passed in the artint cdolony of Munich have only one point in comn 4and that lies iIn their rebellion against the canons of the ballet. Milo Sacchetto ney dances in bare feet, none of her arrangements of the music of the master composers goes back to lente period and her Interpretation is much more dramatie. ‘It is impossible to sag 30 far just how successful all of them gre, although her dancing of the “Tarantella ' has been regarded by forelgn critios as nothing exceptional; so it is falr to pre. €ume that the rest of her reppertolrs is st as satistying. This repertoire fncliddes Hungarian dances to music by Brahms and Lisst, Spanish dances by Rublnsteln, Aschor and MoszkdWvski—which she dances In a cos- tume of the period of Velasques seen in Ben All Haggin's portrait of her in. the lobby of the Metropolitan—Indian dances arranged from Bizet's “Djamileh,” in two «g!*odes, dances to Brahms's songs, to the “Vove de Premarcra” of Johann Strauss, sung by Mme. Sembrich, to the ‘“Valse Erilllante” of Chopin and a series of what she calls dance poems, to the musle of Waldtetusl, Carl Beine: rnest Gellet— yes, "Loin du Bal" of course, and a scene in dance and pantomine from Auer's Muette de Portior.” Music Alds Her Daneing. Mile, Sacchetto's musical Intclligence, which makes her dancing so aifferent from that of many others who take' up this are nouveau of terpischore, mxs from her mother, whose family for several genera- tions have been musiclans In Austria. Her father wes born in Venice and it was the “La Bee Building Offices for Rent We offer gmound floor of the building witn space, 15x35-6, on eutrance from court. This room would make a_very convenient of- fice for Real Estate or Insurance business, Room 613 faces the court and is exceptionally well lighted. A large sized office rents for $18.00 per month, Room 442 fronts on 17th street and has two windows. affording splendid light. It is 14x17-6 in size and bhas a large vault 4-0x6. This desirable room at $27.50 per month, «oom 520 is partitioned so as to afford a recepton and private office. This office 1s $14x22 and faces the west. Reats for $15.00 per month, demember that in renting an the ‘Hel- | 'HE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE painter Lenbach who first noted the danc- er's talent and by arranging for her first | | appearance at the Kuenstterhaus in Mun. | ich, sent her away from Munleh with the | Indorsement of the whole artist colony. In Vienna she was the pet of such paint- | ers as Klimt and Hofmann, who acted as impressarios when she appeared there first. | | “My art is essentially modern” Mile. | Sacchetto sald to the reporter at the Me ropolitan opera house the other afternoon, “In the best sense of the word. I have tried to revive the dramatic side of danc- ing, to retain always Iits fundamental | traits, such as they were developed by the | people or in the society of courts. I have| at the same time tried to make them, If | possible, richer in beauty and suggestion That is the theoretical formula of my | art.” Mile. Bacchetto makes her own costumes and designs the background against whica she dances. She was even able to do one {of her English dances at the palace of | Schonbrunn, and so high does she stand in the favor of royalty that Schonbrunn bas provided the background for a num- [ber of her most striking photographs. | Mille. Sacchetto shas danced before the | royal family in Madrid often. She has also | danced for the Empress Auguste Victoria of Germany, who is known not to possess | |any particular fondness for ballet dancers |ot any kind. | Dances of the Mystic East. Ruth St. Denis, with her Kast Indian dances stands more properly in line with Mile. Sacchetto than any of the other new school dancers, although her reportoire Is limited to a eingle specialty, which she has elaborated and extended since she car- ried it successfully through Kurope. Miss St. Denls does little dancing even in the most literal interpretation of the term. Most of that is done In the episode of her entertainment called “The Nautch Girl," in which she is supposed to show her graces for the delight of a coffee colored She has devised a charming costume for this episode, which is more appreciated perhaps from the fact that during the progress of the other scenes she reduces clothing to a minimum. This young native -of Paterson, N. J., who has nobody but herself to thank for the career that raised her from the humble part of a dancer to”“Du Barry” to her| present prominence, covers her program with varlous psychological explanations and suggestions which may be understood | by persens of vivid imagination. The wrlg- glings and contortlons, for Instance, that accompany the Yosi tableau under the in- genfous lights simulating sunrise are sup- posed to mean a great many mighty and | serfous religlous facts which Miss St. Denls | may feel even if they are not obvious to ail the spectators of her dancing. She has at least the distinction of being the only oneq of the new school who tried to dance a frame of mind. ' “Yet,” sald a blase ‘spectator at Miss St. Denis' first matinee who looked as i he| would have been more in place staring out of a club window on Fifth avenue, “I can understand that this dancing may mean all the program says it does, just as well as I can realize that to see Isadora Duncan pick tmaginary flfes off the curtains with her back turned to the audience is an ip- terpretation of the third movement of Beethovon's seventh symphony." Dancing a Funeral Mare So are all interpretations more or less | subjective. They must be in the mind of the spectator who would see in-‘them all | that the dancer Intends. At the revelation of Lole Fuller and her muses, for instance, the program announced that Gertrude van Axon was to dance the Beethoven funeral march. Then in very diaphanous draperies copled from ' Miss Duncan's the young woman mached around and around the stage with great deliberation~and an as- sumption of great digmty, The lights were low, the music olemn, {of course, and there may have been per- sons in the audience ‘who found the spirit | of Beethoven's music incarnated in the per- son of the comely young Scandinavian, who | was strutting about so splendidly. To-less | sensitive persons, however, the dance might have been called by any other name. Just how far the idea of interpretation | may be carried was shown last month by | | Michael Elliot. She does not hesitate to | dance an interpretation of the death march from ‘‘Gotterdammerung,’” showing by pose | |and gesture such motives as “Love and | | Death.” Her “Greek Day,” danced to the | | music of Max Bruch's “Lauricas,” is also |rather a large order, since the dancer an- |nounces that she Hilustrates in that “a re- | | liglous festival, the foy of spring, the pro- | | censional with tife and harp and cymbals, twining of garlands and the ball game.” That certainly seems dancing some when |one young girl undertakes so much. Comes from California. | | She has already gained high pralse from | {all' who have seen her, and it is practically | at the very beginning of her career. She 1s a native of Californta, studied dancing |there and brought her teacher, Mrs. Fair- | weather, to this city when she deemed that | |the time had come to reveal her art to a wider field. Miss Elliot does not dance in her bare feet, which puts her rather| into the class with Mile. Sacchetto and | Ruth St. Denis than along with those who are devoted to the Duncan school, “1 do not consider that to dance with bare feet would be In the least in accord- | |ance with the spirit of my work,” she |told the reporter. “I am not trying to re- | |vive the anclent Greek art, but to carry | {out on modern lines the spirit of the in- | | | terpretative dance. ! “In the '‘Odysseus’ dance, for Instance, I am not reproducing figures from Greek |vases and freizes. I am alming to In-| terpret in bodily motion the spirit of the music. | “However appropriata bare feet may| | have been In the days of Homer, they are | |certainly out of place today. If the art| of the dance is to play any part In modern lite and hold its own with other arts it cannot remain forever in the days of an- |familiar with the musoc of those ancient | tery of his career, had declared himself to founded the Foland seminary, llam McKinley numbers was a delight to those who had occasion to deplore the lack of rhythm In Gertrude Van Axen's dancing of three Chopin studies. Miss Van Axen is of a blond Scandinavian type of beauty, younger than Miss Duncan and mot unijke her in figure. Her costume, modeled on the Dun- can draperies, were not a square inch more voluminous, which was a detail likely to please the devoted students of such aesthetic dancing. New Light on Str ,Irene Sanden Interpreted a Strauss waltz in & way that put that composer's music in an entirely new light before the public There has always been an impression that Strauss represented, If his music repre- sented anything at all, the abandon and enthusiasm of the dance. Miss Sanden, however, had other ideas of the music and meandered through “roses from the South” with as much deliberation as If she were at the village cemetery on Deco- ration day. She scattered her flowers about and picked them up again, always In the same self-contained manner. Rameau and Durand are interpreted more agreeably for an audience much less familiar with the music of those an- clents and naturally with no such deep con- viction as to what their music stands for. Some wonderful Viennese damvers of these waltzes have appeared In Paris and Lon- don and thelr success has been won through the fire and abandon which they wove through this music. Miss Sanden is not of this kind. PACACE, POVERTY AND PRISON All Shades of Life Experienced by a Worldwide Adventurer from Pennsylvani News of the death at Carson, Nev., on Tranksglving day of Ross Raymond, war correspondent, author and adventurer, whose daring disrezard of men and laws led him from palaces to prisons and back again, recalled his remarkable career to many New Yorkers who had known him intimately in his earlier days as a news- paper man in that city. Raymond up to eight years ago, when the New York Herald cleared up the mys- be of British parentage, the son of an Erglish officer, born in Sussex and edu- cated ih a famous Latin school: that he joined the English navy and after promo tions and long and honorable service he resigned and left his ship at S8an Francisco to becomo a newspaper correspondent and writer of books. He sald he entered the British navy through the Influence of his uncle, His real name, the Herald sald, was Frank H. Powers. He was born in Beaver, Pa., In 1850, His father died when he was a child and his mother moved to Poland, 0., and married Barnabas F. Lee, who where Wil was educated. was hig classmate. Raymond entered the United States navy, resigned, served on a British warship, then became a corresponent of newspapers in San Franclsco, York and London. writer, Chicago, Baltimore, traveling the world over, friends everywhere. ter He served a rajah in India and was on the khedive's staff in time of the bombardment of Alexandria, Next he impersonated distinguished men, generals and noblemen, in Portland »rison, in Sing Sing. Raymond was an ac- complished journaiist, had engaging man- ners, a breezy military alr and was good- looking. He said a power beyond his con- trol took possession of him when he drank and was not responsible for the extraordi- served ten vear: England, nary episodes in his life, of money Raymond | New Later he became a living in poverty and luxury, yet making powerful Egypt about the and several STEALING TRADE SECRETS Tricks on Which Great Industries Have Been Built. TRAINED EYE OF AN EXPERT Switserland’s Low of the Monopoly n Watch Springs—Wire Secret Twice Stolen—Slip of =& Supposed Minister. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Ever since Devo! | stole an English loom, one plece at a time, | taking the fragments to France and after- ward bringing them to Fall River, where the reassembled parts formed the basis of | the chief ndustry of that city, manufac- turers all over the world have been trying to get at the trade secrets of thelr rivals br to prevent their rivals from discovering | Many another | has a similar basis of a| their own specia: processes. great industry stolen trade secret. Take the watch business for instance. For many years Switzerland was the home of the watch Industry. The watches that bore the name of makers in other coun- tries depended for their accuracy upon the spring, and the springs were all made In Switzerland, no other country knew how to temper them. The secret was held by two men who ran a' factory in the canton of Berne. A man who Is well known throughout the world as an Inventor of children’s toys and was recognized as'a mechanical genius in | his day undertook to get this secret from | the Swiss. He had all the quaifications necessary for the task, being an expert | chemist, a trained worker In metals and a fluent German and French scholar. He went to Switzerland In the capacity of a country region. He cared nothing about the watch business and absolutely declined to talk watches with any of his friends, although it was the chief Industry of the country and most of his acquaintances were en- gaged In It. Met His Men Easily, By his genla! manner and free spending he found It easy to get ac- quainted with whom he chose and in the course of time he brought things around 80 that he met the only two men In the world who knew how to temper watch springs. The younger of these two men took quite a. fancy to the visitor and they soon be- came fast friends, but the older man seemed to have an intultive suspicion that the stranger wes not what he repre- sented himself to be. The visitor was sharp enqugh to Afscern this feeling of distrust and to avold the older man, never alluding to him even, so as not to risk any quarrel with the younger, with Whom he was getting on better than he had hoped. The seeker after secrets was one of those who belleve In seizing opportunities, but who have no faith in this talk about mak- irg opportunities yourself. He was willing to walt long and patlently for his oppor- tuLity to come, but he war not going to seek it. He knew that several of his pre- decessors had falled by being too anxious to" create the opportunity they sought, either by leading the conversation to the subject or by protending to be arxlous to s [see something else that they hoped would lead to their secing what they sought. This man's plan was deeper than that. He did not want to see anything. He cared nothing about anythinz connected with the watch business and never took any part In the eonversation on that sub- Ject. He was to get $10,000 if he could find out the secret he was after, and he could afford to bide his time. The story of his public career besan when he blossomed out as an ptian His Waliting Won. war correspondent and press agent of the| The building in which the secrct temper- khedive. He appeared in Paris in Egyp-[!N8 Process was carrled on was on the tlan uniform after the war in Egypt, companied by a retinue of the khedive | He engaged whole floors at a| hotel for ‘the khedive, who was soon to| officers. % gems s ac each Paris. Raymond had trays of rares ent to him for inspection. proval, he explained. the gems with champagne, walked out o!'} the rear windows with a fortune In dia-| monds, dieappeared, and later appeared in and a hundred servants, He surfeited the messengers in care o ndia as a mighty rajah, with elephant; The best | would be reserved for the khedlve's ap- He drove in state | | at breakneck speed, making daily twenty-| | TOM JOHNSON'S PLAN WINS mile trips from his country establishment | to Calcutta, the garrison each day turning out to see the rajah enter the city with a procession of barefooted natlves running ahead crying his name and shouting for the crowds to make way. In October, 1899, Raymond visited Po- land, O., for the first time in a quarter of a century. He found his mother dead and was deeply affected when he knelt by her tomb In the village cemetery. A remarkable feature of Raymond's ca-| ress—was the devotion of his wife. ‘‘She stood by me for thirty years,” he sald, “with unfaltering hope and never fnflm“ ald” His wife said, “Why have I clung to Ross all these years?’ Because 1 love him. Some day, in another world, w! all this fnsanity of sin has passed away, 1 shall see him as he is—a grand, big-hearted | s man, a genius now lost in darkness and shame.” temporarily Three-Cent Fares Are a Reality in Cleveland Under the Adjust- ment, As the result of Judge Tayle s appralsal |0t the street car property in Celeviand the people of that city will get 3-cent fares, clent Greece. with an additional cent for transfers until | "The Grecks, moveover, wore ballet slip- experience shall demonstrate that this wil { pera In their dances, as anybody who may [not pay expenses and 6 per cent on the | take the trouble to study the subject even |in ‘the slightest degree may readily dis- | cover.” With these three dancers out of the way there remains practically only the imita- tors of Miss Duncan. The whole program of the darcers brought here by Lole Fuller is made up of one Imitation of Miss Duncan | after another, Miss Fuller'’s muses cavort In the Duncan way throughout all the numbers on the program not devoted to Miss Fuller's beautiful light effects. La Loie Not a Dancer. | | Miss "Fuller was never a dancer and! | never pretended to be ing sticks and their hanging accordeon pleats brought her first fame, and the advance she has made over those early | principles was purely mechanical. eries followed, but the dance always re- tial features The ocmpany comprises some very skil- ful and graceful dancers. The young American woman who 1s pleased to ecall office In The Bee Building, janitor|"rseif Orchidee, appears in an interlude rvice, lights, heat and water are all included in the rent asked for office. Elevators run until o'clock p. m, THE BEE BUILDING (0., . RW.BAKER Sopt 17th aad Farnem S 1| lled “Diana,” In which pursued by the other nymphs, she dances with all the grace and beauty possible to the virgin Eoders. No Diana ever stood more re- vealed os a goddess of gracefulness than thig little woman, whose movements are are gmbodiment of youthful fire and spirit. Thamara de Suirsky dances beautifully in the Duscan dress and manner and her rhythmical Interpretation of the Chogin |won by Mayor Johnson lof the ordinance are not itraction company Is Her skill in wav-, But malned as purely mechanical in its essen- | investment, in which case the fares will be raised to 4 cents, with an additional cent for transfers, but with seven tickets for % cents. Judge Tayler's appraisal s a little lower than the valuation agreed some time ago by the representatives of the eity and the company. A great and substantial victory has been Fon nine years, s mayor, he has contended for d-cent fare and now, as he is about to retire, he sees the realization. Undoutedly some features wholly to his | Uking, and it s equally probable that the not entirely pleased both sides are Immense gainers. The ! mayor has established a principle for which {he has worked patiently and indefatigably. The traction company gets a renewal of | on More | franchises and an assurance of just profit and prettier lights and diaphonous drap- Mr. Johnson cannot ask, for the car | riders, a rate of fare so low as not to pro- vide adequate and satisfactory service. He | has consistently stood for $-cent fare, and now he is assured of 3.cent fare for a time, of permanent 3-cent fare if this rate can, with; proper management, give the de- manded service and the just 6 per cent return to the stockholders. Bven such de- talls as the installation of pay-enter cars are provided for in the ordinance, so that it may be assured thet there can be no waste In operation. The mayor and the company should be satisfied; the public assurelly is satistied. Low fare and good sorvice are made essentials of the settle- ment.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, ) For that slack business ury & Bee adv, | tor side of a hill. The two friends had passed it time and ggain, but the owner never alluded to It and the other never expressed any curiosity about it. That is where he ¢|was smart and showed the stuff he was made of. Your true diplomat never speaks until his turn comes. | One day the younger of the two wateh- ¢ | makers was passing this bullding with his |friend, | the supposed geologist, and In a moment of boastful pride offered to show him where the most important part of the | work was done. He opened the door for a moment only, to let the visitor have a | peep at the forbidden room, | That moment was enough. The style of s | he wanted to know. The As the two turned away from the door they met the older partmer. One glance at the stranger’s face was enough to con- firm his suspicions. Perhaps he read the concealed look of triumph in the visitor face, perhaps he felt it in his bones that something was wrong. Turning to his bro- ther he shook his fist in his face ,and | whispered hoarsely: “You have ruined our business!" The geologist lost no time In getting out of the town and out of Switzerland. Within an hour he was far on his way and for a day or two he stood in dread of foul play of some kind, He brought the ecret to America with him and gave it to the company that had employed him but on his deathbed he confessed to his near- est friend thet he had never ceased to regret having robbed the two Swiss watchmakers of thelr secret and rufhing | thelr business. Wiredrawing Trade. Drawing wire is a large and important industry in'this country now, but it is not 50 many years since American were 5o crude that the English wire had the call in all the principal markets of the world. A certaln wire company In Con- necticut wanted to learn the secrets of tho | English wiremakers and they sent with instructions to get the tricks. The men were of more than ordinary in telligence, thoroughly trained, and It was heped that If only one or two got into the | works it would justify the expense of the | whole twenty. The scheme worked oul viry well. As soon as a few of these me had the whole process of wire making|out down pat they threw up the job in Eng- land and came back to Connegticut, With the natural aptitude of Americans improving everything, the wire com- panles on this side soon developed much better ways of doing things than became the turn of the English to look to their laurels. Business got so good in Con- necticut and orders piled In so fast that the factory could not get haffds enough and offered such wages that they attracted men from other trades. Among the men that they took on was one who was particularly apt, and he was soon made a foreman. He was & glutton for work and seemed to be heart and soul in every dotail of the business. After he had been In the factory a month or two he gave a big dinner one Saturday night to & number of the employes in his department and they had a great time. People wondered where the fore- man got the money to pay for all the wine they drank Next Monday merning when the bell ‘|rang s particuiar foreman and eight gentleman_who was inter- | ested in the geological fdrmation of that the furnaces and the smell of the flux told | the expert all | secret of the tempering process was dis- covered. , | over | about twenty skilled workmen to England | carried on the proprietor pointed jobs in the fac-| torles over there If they could and learn | the | English tirms that they had copled, and it | High Rent District 16.60 .....810.60 French plate compartments $13.45 9x12 Velvet Rug 9x12 Brussels Rug ... 9x12 Axminster ... And low as, each ..... 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Many years ago, when marble cutting machinery was a new thing, it was & great problem to construct a mi chine that would cut the oval basin holes that were just coming into vogue. A certain firm had made a machine for this purpose but had not patented it It was set up in a separate room in the shop and was run by & man who was thoroughly trustworthy. /t night it was covered up and locked in. A young fellow from the south, sup- posed to be selling patent medicines, got acquainted with the foreman of this marble shop and one day he was shown through the works. He stopped In front of this particular machine only long enough to see it cut one basin hole In & marble slab, but in that time he had seen enough to enable him to go back to his hotel and make a complete working drawing of the whole machine. How did he do it? All machinery is simply a transformation of power from one kind of motion to another; stralght to circular, from fast to slow, |or from continuous to interrupted motion. This young fellow started with the driving belt from the pulley overhead and noted the changes of motion through which this power was sent from one part of the machine to the next untll it arrived at the cutting wheels. Bometimes a person will tumble on & trade secret entirely by accident. The writer was once getting some photographs made, when a part of the camera shutter broke. The man that fixed It betrayed the secret of soldering aluminum, which was then known to very few. He had no idea, of course, that the customer sitting ot the other side of the room knew what he was doing and recognized both the solder and the flux. One Man Fell Down. Then, again, a man who has worked his way slowly and carefully up to a certaln point and has the secret he s after almost within his reach will betray himself by some simple action which excites suspicion. There was at one time a great secret about certain processes of treating rubber, and an expert In the business undertook to dis- cover it for the benefit of a rival concern. Disgulsed as a clergyman, he got ac- quainted with the proprietor of the wor and after a reasonable time expressed a very natural desire to go through the shops. The proprietor took him through methods |angd explained things as they went along in the casual way that one explains them to @ person who knows nothing of the techni- cal side of the trade. When they arrived at the particular de- partment In which the secret procass wos .0 some of the results before taking his friend ihe clergyman into the operating room. 'The | clergyman expressed his astonishment at he great difference between rubber In this state and its appearance as he was accus- tomed to it uggested the manager, upon which minister stepped up to the bench, his penknife and wet his lips. The manager grabbed his arm and turned on him like a flas “Hold on there!" he exclalmed. ‘“You get out of this factory damned aalck, or I'll throw you out. No minister knows that you must wet the blade of your krife to cut rubber.” Had this man not betrayed himself he would have been taken Into the room where the process he had been in search of the took the blade with s0 long was being carried on. As it was, all he saw was the result. Russia’s Trade rets, Every one knows the story of the man who stole the secret of making Russia iron, that peculfar blulsh tinted metal seen in stovepipes which will not rust. The Russians tried very hard to keep the secrot of tanning Russian leather, and made it a penal offense for any one to export the bark of the tree which was used in the Process of tanning the goatskins. The many fancy articles that one brings from Russia as souvenirs are made of the wood of this tree. As a rule, when one manufacturer steals from * ““Take a plece of it with you if you like " l the secret of another's success they ars sworn enemies and rivals from that time on. It is very rarely that when two share a valuable trade secret they are wise enough to come to terms and work to- gether. Probably the most remarkable Instance of this kind was the secret of the so- called squeezer mark on the edges Of playing cards. One manufacturer con- trolled the patent that was supposed to protect this device. A rival. manufacturer accidentally discovered that this patent would not stand Investigation. Instead of acting on his knowledge and golng to court to defend himself, which would throw the secret open to the whole trade, he arranged quietly with his rival to patent a similar device, to be called down on it, and to agree to pay a royalty for the use of the original patent. This agreement was paraded before the rest of the trade, who argued thut .if such a big house as that had to pay a royalty, the patent must be O. K. Thelr requests for licenses were re- fused, and the two big houses made all the squeezer marked cards In the world for years. Of course no royalty was ever pald, and the secret was so well kept that it made fortunes for both houses. Many Private Proce: In many large manufacturing concerns there are departments which are set apart for processes more or less secret, and these special shops and offices are guarded with the greatest care. The secrets of these departments rivals would give many thousands of dollars to learn and they are continually laying selge to them with the aid of men who are trained to the business of ferreting them out. “Do anything and be patient” 1is the thotto of these men who steal trade se- crets. They will take any old job round the yards or the shop, just to get inside the factory walls for a starter. A man of this sort wiill sweep up or carry things, run errands and rush the growler. He makes himself solld with the employes by his_willingness and disarms suspiclon by his apparent ignorance. After a time ho worrles his way Into carrying dinners into the forbidden ghop, or blucking boots, or some trifles like that. The first thing you know he is among the secrets of the concern taking notes. ECHOES OF THE ANTE-ROOM Woodman Lodge Members Will Hold Annual Masked Ball Wedunes- day Evening. An_event to which the members and friends of Mondamin lodge, Fraternal and friends of Mondamin lodge No. 11L, Fraternal Union of America, have been looking forward to is the annual mask ball, which will be held Wednesday even- ing at Fraternity hall. Wednesday even- ing, January 6, will occur the Installation of the new officers for the year. Speclal efforts are being made to make this occa- slon a noteworthy one. Banner lodge No. 11, F. U. of A. will glve a progressive high five party Thurs- day evening. Order of Scottish Clan: Clan - Gordon No. 63, Order of Scottlsh Clans, met Tuesday evening and had new members proposed. Plans for the Burns celebration were perfected. It will be on January 25 at Chambers' academy. Roynl Highlanders. Ferncliffe castle No. 458, Royal High- landers, will give a ball New Year's eve at Fraternity hall. Highlanders and their friends are cordially invited. | The efficacy of Chamuerfain’s Liniment in the rellef of rheuniatism is being demon- strated dally, I =2 oV Dorothy Dodd"” Shoes $3.50 and $4.00 a pair. one person in a hundred $8.00 custom made shoe. service, just received. SHOES The mystery to-most women is how we can sell these beautiful tell a “Dorothy Dodd” from an have them for every kind of See the new styles BENNETT’S at Not can We FEWMANEN provi A L Engraved Stationery Wedding Invitations ST s S vel sapape saprured promised. 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