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BE-SEY CONRAD.


Htsd garments In the wntry wind
the remainder stood over the man who had
neglected his domestic duties, while he loaded
the rude conveyance and then two guarded
journeys to and from the hitherto empty
wood yard. This work was kept up for hours.
the result being Iile Of fuel such as had
S been seen beside The rHds cabin since bs
household goods within its rude walls The
indolent man improved from that time. and
soon became noted round for his industry.
seldom week passed which did not bring its
tale Of outrage. They arrogated to themselves
all tho functions OF Judge. jury. and eXecu-
happened to come under the displeasure Of
any member of the hand. He was called to
his door. speedily tied to o tree. and had the
regulation hogSlng msted out to- to HIM The
spicuous lapse from virtue on the part Of the
rustic beauties very shortly was punished
with the supple hickory switch.
when the Air Line was M built. isoIat eli from tie
outer world. the only means OF Preaching it being
by the Ohio River and over the rude country
roads. said to be the worst In the state. In this
years ago they became so bold that they
whipped several women and at last lynched o
man with aim ost no atom pit at con aim ent and
hearly the whole gang 9a were rsGognzed Coy
were indicted and tried. They were acquitted,
but the experience rather cowed the regua.
ago when they renewed operations.
1t Is likely. however that the Mosquito Creek
Bottom affair Will put an eifectuai check on
this lawlessness. It cannot stand the light Of
and Crawford counties will not suppress White
Capism the rest Of the State probably will.
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Yrom he S4nap civ tWa,hJ Jownal.

FT0n Mf SuIf1n NV IHd'h.J J0uIndE, -
Ed Sherwood killed four bears near his place
up the Sultan River last Saturday evening and
Sunday. ON Saturday evening Mr. Sherwood's
attention was attracted by violent cpmmo-
he discovered a huge hear In the act of tear
Ing a calf 10 pieces. Mr. Sherwood yelled lus-
With club, but bruln was not to be robbed OF
his supper Of fresh veal. and no advanced
thrcatepingly toward the dlstnr6er Of his ss r.;
not stand upon the order Of his going. but
trusted to the lightness Of his heels 10 In
self in ns short n dime as possible He pro-
cured his rifle and returned 70 the pasture.
a Very large male-was quickly despatched.
The calf was so badly. torn that II had to he
Killed. Mr.. Sherwood swors vengeance on the
went out, and before he came back he Tagged
NO less than three, female and her two cuba
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THE ROUTED WHITE CAPS.
REASON FOR THEIR NIGHT ATTACK
UPON zHE CONRAD BROTHERS.

They ThcuEht the Boys Were the HIurdercrs
TO Ne Done-Somcthiur Was Done-Five
LOUISVILLE. Aug. 0.--The White Caps OF
Harrison county. Indiana. mover before got
such terrific reception as William and sam
uol Conrad gave them In Mosquito Creek Bot
tom on last sunday morning. Four men kill
ed outright one so terribly wounded that he
was unable to crawl away. and writhed in pain
for many hours until picked UP just before
death by neighbors, and three others whose
riderless horses suggested an equally serious
fate show the result OF that raid. MOSQUITO
Creek Bottom is part OF Boone township in
Harrison county. whore the White Caps oriRi-
mated. Boone township skirts the Ohio River.
and is hilly and barren. Mosquito Crock Bot
tom is thirty miles below this city. and 10 four
teen miles from Corydon. the county seat Tho
little stream gets its name from the enormous
number and extraordinary size Of the mos
auitoes that grow there. The bottom is
only few hundred acres in extent where the
Conrad family and few others have farms
that soantily repay the tillage. Surround
ing the Conrad homes arc low hills.
which make tho place difficult OF access.
Tho population is scanty. and hills
rise on every side OF the Conrad cabin.
which 10 at one end OF the bottom. To ap-
proach It one must drive or ride up narrow
stony road with many crooks and curves. and
pass through thick forest. The house can
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ss who pIsisfss to Sa
a book to read at night.
The other institution Is the Pouponniere.
built up by Mme. Chnrpentier, wife OF tho
great publisher. Young mothers. who cannot
them to this nursery on large scale. from one
day to two years old The mother pays So
month, or. II she Is unable to do this. there
may be some diminution In the price. The
child receives its cradle. Its diapers, Its
clothes and the use OF half wet .EI5s nHTsS That
are twelve nurses. none OF whom Is engaged
until after an examination into her state Of
health by the Council Of Physicians.
or all the. species Of working girls. most
view are the sewing hands in the great dross-
making and millinery shops OF the boulevard:
the Hue de la Paix. the Rue dc Rfvoli. and
around the Place EendOme At tho noon s0rtis
a perfect flood Of little women issues forth
wrapped In their eternal little gowns OF black
merino In winter and STAN ped calico In sum-
mer They are speckled here and there with
bits OF thread: their faces are flushed and eyes
are bright from the ovorheated afehe'. and they
are. going now to eat their lunches at the
All are young: the older ones, married for
the most part have remained at the workshop.
where they cook or heat up what they have
brought with them from their homes. The
hold, responsibilities, love better TO take the
air. Some go TO tho library RESTAURANTS; others
go to little restaurants where the. may meet
their sweethearts The beau. who Is q clerk OF
the neighborhood. will pay Tor the girl 4 break
him such necktlos, from silk and satin which
she has robbed from the Workshop, that he
may easily rival tho most flaming dude.
sewing girl no matter how skiliuL will
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WILLIAM MAY. JOHN TIMBERLAKE.

ried but with no children. He lived two miles
up Mosquito Creek. A sad feature in connec-
tion with his case is that his wife was nearing
confinement. and tho news Of her husbands
death prsstrated heri II is doubtful II she
victim, was q farmer. 81 years old. hut unmar-
ried. He lived with his mother, brother. and
two sisters four miles from the Conrad house.
and stock trader. He lived. In Heath
township. seven or eight + IN miles away.
also stock trader and iarme or and was a near
neighbor OF Wiseman. lie was married and
left wife and Ave children. He was oIo Of
OF belonging to gang OF outlaws were II not
that the, yistence OF the re2nlators was tacttly
sStWeuI%Si eSSntrW %iiam lam a'e Nay was 81 % handsome %
bright -facad boy OF twenty ms. who lived on
his fathers farm two. miles away.
and who were either wounded or fed TO ss-
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cans could scarcely believe it.; and they will be
70 slice Of land TO be married and in posse", 20 sss
sioP n the smallest field which she herself
husbands day labor In the fields and stables
and otherwise, is considered a paradise by a
French peasant girl in comparison with being
There. II she be both plain and poor. or has
had romance In the country, and has small
Of all work among the petty Paris bourgeois. so
close, so ayariciOus. and so greedy, For ten
tha Gr hiteen Teen francs a @ m9nth she must carry up
make the beds. wax the looJ. and sometimes
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never receive moro than from 75 oents 10 $1.20
q day. A good cutter may have 50 q day. but
be an ourriere In the ordinary sense. A girl
may also. II she has good figure and deport-
ment, be promoted to the salesrooms and the
fitting rooms to show on gowns upon her per-
son. putting on. taking OF. walking to the
right and to the left, turning and bending and
Of a considerable promotion. She may also. II
she gets money ahead. take q contract from q
make so many gowns. Then her profits win
depend on her Industry. economy, and taste.
What determines them to enter their pnr-
ticular form OF employment or to be work
ers" at all. instead OF taking a step higher
and going into commerce." as they say. Is
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louis wISTMAN. SAMUEL CONRAD.
ner Of the room were percussion o. caps: such IS
ecutlon. The room looked IKE a pioneers
oT In The 'H corn ' patch @ where the brothers lay
were picked up butcher knife with blade OF
aht af bae The powder horn
was i fiied iil wit With heavy duetshot: the bag CON
tanned gun waddjng and some bits 81 coarse
evidence % Of battle. Just outside the porch
hSred y t6eTa By Mrs so that es
plosion would show her boys how to aim. 1t
fsyf sSs eES gssS .oGa It's Rs Ts on which
father last spring They sHd they had found pand
crushed In with some blunt Instrument; AZ AZ
the old man had lived very unheppily With hls is
Wss sur I s" that
had heard John Conrad say: .F9r the Past ten y
ygease bessy Ss boy
hard enough: put they abuse me terribly; Ny ny
years. year .s and Betsey & W encourages @ ~ them In it,.
Betsey was tho old mans wife She has
bad reputation In the neighborhood. the men men
tried. tried Nothlns but elrqumstsntial evidence oi
@ has bns The tsht fling wGuS hs hSss wave
will, White Caps. The case was one which
seemed to be exactly adopted p2h to settlement In
"0ld Man Conrad" as they called him in
Harrison county; was powerful man. and his
veiopment. Each weighs fully ITS pounds.
and they are tall and well proportioned. They
look very much like young farmers who have
big city. Their faces are not at all bad. as may
be seen from the accompanying pictures.
eyes. Either would be tough customer to
tackle In a fair fist fight. to say nothing OF the
dark, with shotguns and keenly whetted
butcher knives.
Their Victims were Of rather better SOCIAL
position and far botter reputation Albert
Howe was n young farmer Of thirty-two, mar
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not be seen until one Is within seventy-flve
yards OF 1t. There are many trees near the
cabin. and the little patch OF corn whore the
brothers lay in their am bush Is within twenty
feet of the door. and Is protected by a high
board fence. The brothers had hoard the rid
ers coming and slipped out OF the house by the
rear way with shotguns aud revolvers. When
the White Caps dismounted and gathered on
the porch to force the doors they were as easy
to hit as hudded covey Of quail At the short
range there was no missing
A curious circumstance was that every one
OF the raiders was shot In the back or back Of
the head except William May. who had turned
in time to face his death. Immediately after
the shooting the Conrads deserted the house.
Their mother notified Mrs. Jones' a neighbor
that there were "some dead men In the road"
Then she left The house was abandoned un-
til Monday afternoon, whom q venturesome
newspaper man approached. He found 1t
just as the Conrads had left It,. The
two dogs which tho raiders had poi
sonsd the night before lay dead In
the yard. The only living things on the prem
ises were COW. q billy goat. and pig. all Of
which had been fed regularly by the hidden
men. The porch was still covered with tho
blood Of the slain knights Of the Switch"
The furniture Of tho cabin was found to be Of
the rudest description. There were o few
cheap chairs. a dining table. and some beds.
On the table and scattered all over that cor.
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according to her success. Many receive as
high as $50 month in salary and make n much ,sh
great business OF all Paris. but the better
places are hard to get and require almost as
much push ing and influence as TO obtain o
tractive girls will always stand the best chance
at the irst. and many keep their places on the
hand. with girls who are not merely on show.
who como In on their merits and without
most important recommendations. The whole
temper OF French life Is for investigating.
classifying. searching out. and recording.
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the street,: and the poor girl laments upon
her mattress Of shavings From the case OF
such one to the smart femme de chdmbre Of
o fourishlng household there is a greater gulf
than that between an ouUriere and an employee
du commerce.
II.
All girls, not in domestic service who
labor with their hands. are called alike on;
class i.etory hands, ianndresses. @ dyers. sew sew
ing girls. millineEs' assistants. and tho rest
the attitude OF their employers: no eccentricity
of conduct nor fighttness OF disposition bars
working girl. in tho central or tourist part Of
Paris. shall behave herself Ia q matter for her
emphasize their. appreciation OF this choice.
have established. within recent months, two
institutions for their comfort. one on the right
hand 90 to speak; and the other on the left;
The first aimed solely at preventive relief,
is a series OF restaurants and libraries COM
bined exclusively for the use OF working girls.
They were founded about o year ago. at the
instance OF well-known priest They admit
only women. Apprentices who can only mako
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nents OF the dinner. They even stint her
in the matter of bread. With ali that
when the mistress, is =. out Of the. way.
the master the son. At the New Year a drama
with many scenes 10 played IN these bourgeois
sending away the girl who has been working
faithfully for months. This is to avoid giving
her New Years ,present-ten, francs to be
cannot be eaten: you have not sawed the
wood; you stayed out too long talking on
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espouse herself to another servant butler.
valet, restaurant. or cafe waiter. The two
may open some little shop and be compare
they may end their days In comparative ease
as Soncierges. that H. ianitors.
The great mass OF Paris domestic servants
into two species; First, the descendants Of
other Paris servants. who inherit their parents
girls who come In from the country. These
are oftenest the drudges. it's not con nsidered
want A peasant girl whose parents plot OF
ground Is too @ small to permit their keeping
nsr % at a home home VIII rather work in the fields, II
enough to find a lover Of her own condi-
ton; whom. n - after bis term Of military
together with what he has saved and his father
has @ given n him. VII make the start Of their
nnances' Ihey VIII live 80 meanly that Ameri-
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mans and to earn her bread By the sweat OF
her brow before bringing forth children IN
enough with the facts. keeping ever and al
ways her eye open for chance Of marriage.
Along with this she has s., to Grapple with a. tn the
tions. leRa! and social. which concern all mar
riages in France. and which are at the bottom
OF those half marriages and Illicit connections
which so distinguish Paris. At q time
when the hearts of young men are most
exception. so that they be able bodied and not
the eldest sons Of widows. arc forced into q
three years military service; to learn the
mere fact that six months previous residence
In their particular ward is a sine qua non for
obtaining q marriage license, Is capable Of
operating unfavorably. on the one hand.
against tho ardor which backs up hasty but
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large shop. whether as a ookkeeper. cashier.
or sell Ter Of goods must have a satisfactory
Satisfactory. Of course. does not mean here
exactly what It would In England or America
its way. with no gaps In 1t.
:. The great Imag4sips, like the Printemps the
elaborate Systems with regard to the treat.
nent OF their clerks. First. In their "ciyil
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force of circumstances. love OF freedom. lack
Of education, or lack OF ambition. They are.
as day workers. almost absolutely fndepend1
tention and enforced good humor. as q shop
girl must be: they are not obliged to dress so
we'll az sbe is. and IN they lose place. as fre-
Guentiy happens. through mere caprice or
love OF pleasure they can find another with
infinitely more ease than any shop girl could
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name. for she Is called bonne-a good girl"
In France. as in America, It is che who is at the
foot Of the feminine social ladder. although she
often has more dignity and ease and pleas
snter SURROUNDINGS than many another higher
mp. And " Is thence on. from the laundry girl
and the factory girl. by way Of the seamstress
and shop girl. the clerk, the cashier. the typo
writer. and the Government employee. until
one secs. in the apotheosis Of femininity the
dazzling features OF tho lady who merely
spends her husbands money. though he be
but clerk himself Nevertheless. within these
ranks there is certain forced fraternity. along
four broad lines. These are domestic servants.
oiprieres, employees du commerce. and Govern
ment clerks.
Ina boarding house in the Quarter Marboeuf
"a French pension bourgeoise patronized by
Americans and English-there Is bright
and pretty little bonne rejoicing In the name
OF Sophie. On the Fourteenth Of July, the In
dependence Day OF the French republic. this
brown-haired. clear-eyod French girl danced
and rigoled tho whole night long In the lam
tepn decorated open street before cafe In the
Avenue de rAlma to music paid for by the
municipality. She danced in the open street.
In company with other servants. male and
female, young and old. concierges' and shop
keepers sons and daughters, and English and
French Jockeys. all decent and respectable.
At 4 o'clock A NJ. she returned to the kitchen.
where she sat up doing two hours in her chair.
because she had to serve an early breakfast
and feared to sleep II she should 60 to bed.
year ago this young lady was shop girl.
She did not SEQ her way clear to do brilliantly
In this line and took her refuge In domestic
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service. In great Paris boarding house the
conditions are favorable to servants. They
get tips Of clothes and money from ladies who
wish to lie In bed instead Of dressing for lunch.
from ladies who send them out for cigarettes
and brandy. and from business men who wish
an early breakfast Of meat instead Of the ordi-
nary bread and butter and coffee. In word.
the girl has found her sphere. She Is amassing
money and takes pleasure in her life. Never
theless. she has descended socially: and such
STOPPING to conquer 10 as rare In Paris rs In
New York. As an enploy6s du commerce she
might marry any sort OF clerk. AS DOMESTIC
servant her best chance 10 to save money and
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gum GheiI our4 Sener serftort.

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