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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-25
TORN BY CANINE JAWS.
MRS. MARY GRAVES is FRIGHT
FULLY LACERATED BY A
HUGE MASTlFE
IN SAVING A PET POODLE

She Receives injuries Which May
Cost Her the Use of Her Right
Arm, Which Is Badly Hurt at the
EIbow-Taken to ST. Luke's Hos
pitaI on the Advice of Her Ply
stefan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-25
PIANOS AND ORGANS AT HALF
pRICE
we.k-End E,nur.,on.

HOWARD. FAREWELL & CO.
20, 70. "a West Fifth Street
Reliable Plano Dealers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-25
TROLLEY CAR NAILS
THEY WILL COST UNCLE SAM
MORE, BUT WILL BE CON-
TINUED
NEW BID FIXES $2,7oo RATE

1t Has Been Accepted, and There
Will Be No Abandonment of the
Present Service - New Salary
Schedule Gives Number of Lo-
cal Employees an Increase In
EmOluments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
DIDN'T HIT BOB TOONBS.
How Big Georgia Politician Unwit-
tingly Saved His Own Life.

| Don Balm gave me a new Toombs
story yesterday. l call it new because
| It has never been printed.
One night when the legislature was
in session, the old Markham House was
| crowded with statesmen and loungers.
| General TOOmbs was there. Sometime
had gone wrong at the capitol and he
was mad. As usual, he took no pains
to conceal his sentiments.
When Balm entered the hotel he
! found the General talking excitedly
with crowd around him. Toombs OBJ
| jected to something said or done in the
/ legislature and proceeded to ''cuss out
! the whole body. The eloquent 5alker
was perfectly reckless. He threw off
! brilliant epigrams, epithets and out
| bursts Of profanity until he almost
equaIed a volcano in the force, fury
and fire Of his eruptions. The loungers
| listened and laughed. They enioyed
it tremendously and looked at the poll
ticians to see how they stood it,
Among those present was a member
from a middle Georgia county. He
was a giant in stature, tall, broad
shouldered and muscular. He was not
in a good humor, and Toombs frritated
MIN. Finally he resented the Generals
remarks.
''I'l be - if I stand your talk any
longer" he said. You are too per-
sonal, and if you repeat your state
ment I'll hit you'll"
This interested the crowd The
legislator lowered over everybody
ready to strike the General. Toombs,
in his fearless way, was about to say
something when several of his friends
gently drew him into the elevator and
took him to his room.
Il was just about to hit him." re-
marked the legislator
Just then a very small, delicate-l look
ing man, with a pale face and mild
blue eyes, walked UP to the big poll
tician.
Yes" said the little man, quietly, 81
saw that you were about to hit him
That's why I came up
Il don't understand" replied the
other.
Il got close to you" continued the
little man, because l was going to kill
you if you struck General Toombs. I
am fixed for it, and if you had touched
him I would have shot you through
the hearth"
Saying this he tapped his hip pocket
The tall legislator in some confusion
said something apologize and explana-
tory and remembered an engagement
elsewhere.
THAT little man." said Balm in con-
clusiOn, was Col. John S. Hart, one of
the brayest cavalry officers in the con-
federate service. He was afraid of
nothing, and he meant just what he
said. He would have killed that man
if he had struck Toombs.-Atlanta
Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
AGUINALDO'S CAPITAL.

Malolos is twenty-five miles from
Manila, in the province of Bulacan,
on the railway connecting Manila with
Dagupan, the only one in the Philip
pine islands. This made it very &C.
cessiEole, but the real reason for the
selection of Malolos as the insurgent
capital was the fact that the present
revolution had it's first beginnings
there; that the place persistently re-
manned hot-bed of revolution, and rs
a reward for the patriotism and loyalty
Of this picturesque little town, the leg
endary seat of the Bulacan kings,
Aguinaldo fixed upon it as the site of
mis- permanent capital. Aguinaldo now
now lays claim to descent from the
Bulacan kings, but the best informed
Filipinos say that this occurred to him
after coming to Malolos, and was
prompted by an effort to inspire among
his followers a greater awe and respect.
His followers ascribe to him supernat-
ural powers that enable him to perform
miracles and make him proof against
the bullets of his enemies. Whether
u6 encourages Lu6ul Ill Lulo bbllcl Cali
not be verified. This peculiar power
among the Filipinos is known as
'fanting anting," and is popularity sup
posed to be possessed by many. A
willy Filipino goes through battle or
escapes some danger and then exhibits
a curiously carved knife-handle or
matchbox or piece of jewelry or coin
and claims that his immunity is due to
this trinket. He is at once regarded as
an ''anting anting" man, and his power
and fame grow and spread at each sub
sequent lucky escape. Malolos lies in
/ the heart of a valley of marvellous fer
| tility, extending north from Manila
and is surrounded by fields, large and
| small, fringed with rows of bamboo
and cultivated principally to rice As
one rides through this valley, with the
beautiful, glossy-leaved mango trees
! dotting it in all directions, he cannot
fail to be reminded, if he has seen
| them both, Of the beautiful Santa
Clara Valley of California, so much are
they alike.-Lt.-Col. J. D. Miley, in
/ Scribner's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
DANCE OF SANDHILL CRANES.
Wooing Of the Long Legged Birds Seen
on Illinois Plains

when | was a boy in Illinois," said
a native Of that state, now New York
lawyer, che greatest fun we had, along
IN the spring Of the year, was to
creep up through the prairie grass to
the islands, as the scattered tracts of
timber were called, and get as near as
we could to where a colony of sand
hill cranes had their home and watch
the long-legged birds at what we called
their cotillon parties Sandhill cranes
were plentiful on the prairies in those
days, and used to play havoc among
the wheat and corn fields. There
would always be a dozen Or more of
the cranes in the dance, and one
solitary one standing off by itself
For long time we took it for granted
that this one was a sentinel posted to
watch for the approach of danger and
to warn the dancers SO they might take
themselves off, for the sandhill cranes
were extremely shy and disappeared at
the slightest suspicion Of danger. The
greatest part of the fun was the
fights that would occur between the
dancers, in which more than one
crane would be knocked out. The
dance usually ended in free fight, in
which the crane that we supposed was
a sentinel always joined, and then
few away with some Of the others that
were left. An old pioneer told us, by
and by, that the crane we supposed
was a sentinel was a female crane, and
that the dance of the others was not
intended to be a terpsichorean revel,
but was simply the male cranes way
of wooing the favor of the fair, a
statement which later knowledge OF
the habits Of sandhill cranes, as we'll
as other feathered wild creatures,
| corroborated.
Ordinarily, there isn't a more
| solemn or dignified bird living than the
| sandhill crane, or one that more loves
repose, but at wooing time he loses
his dignity and makes himself about as
ridiculous by his fantastic actions as
any living creature could. He abandons
| repose and becomes a regular dervish.
| Apparently the grotesque actions Of
| the male sandhill crane at this season
are to show his grace and endurance
| before the female he wooes, in COM
petition with other wooers, and it is
evident that she selects from the COM
petitors the one that strikes her as
| best filing her idea Of what proper
mates accomplishments should be-
| The sandhill crane is not the only bird
that wooes grotesquely and even pug
nacious1y. The wild turkey, the
bustard, the humming bird, the pin
mated grouse, the woodpecker, the
b1uejay, the little snipe known as the
ruff, the COX Of the rock, the night
hawk, the quail and many others
| conduct their counting after similar
peculiar methods
when a party Of rival sandhill
cranes meet to exhibit their attrac-
lions to the female they desire for a
mate they first ruf1e up their fathers
spread out their wings and comfort
! their long and flexible necks into the
most intricate shapes and positions
Then, with light and dandified tread
and affected gait, they pass in review
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
WHAT OF THAT?

Tired, well, what of that?
Didst fancy life was spent on beds of
ease.
Fluttering the rose-leaves scattered by
the breeze?
Come, rouse thee, work while it is
called today;
Coward, arise; go forth thy way.
Lonely, and what of that?
Some must be lonely; It's not given to
ali
To feel heart responsive rise and
fall
To blend another life into its own.
Work may be done in loneliness: work
on.
Dark. well, and what of that?
Didst fondly dream the sun would new
er set?
Dost fear to lose thy way? Take cour-
age yet!
Learn thou to walk by faith and not
by sight.
Thy steps will guided be and guided
I1SuI.
Hard! we'll, and what of that?
Didst fancy life one summer holiday
With lessons none to learn, and naught
but play?
Go. get thee to thy task. Conquer or
die,
Il must be learned. Learn it then, pa
tieNtly.
No help! nay, It's not so;
Though human help be far, thy God is
nigh,
Who feeds the raven hears His chill
dren cry.
He's near thee wheresoe'er thy foot
steps roam,
And He will guide thee, light thee,
help thee Home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
CURRENT GOOD STORIES.

At temperance gathering held in d
cathedral city in the south of England
the chairman thought it desirable to
reply to an attack which had been
made upon him in the royal press. MY
opponent" said he, calls me an
ascetic. I hurI the accusation back in
his teeth. l have been a total alb
stainer from my BIRTH"
At a tea and concert given in a dis
senting place of worship in an English
village a local magnate presided, and
when the programme was entered upon
he rose and said: Ladies' and gentle
men, the choir will now sing a solo,"
The correspondent of a London news
paper relates that he was travelling up
from Windsor and met in the train Sir
Laurence Alma-Tadema, who had been
to Windsor to receive the dignity of
knightdhood from the Queen. The dis
tinguished r. A said that day or so
after he had been knighted a lady
called on one of their Eat home" days
and expressed herself to him as fol-
lows: ooh, dear, Sir Laurence, I am
d"IuIIy Sldu W near OIL Tie uOuOT you
have received; suppose now that you
have been knighted you II give UP
painting and live like a gentleman,
NJ. de BloWitz's anecdote about a
mOnOmaniac who poured a bucket of
water over him to make him grow mas
a Scotch pendant. In a county lunatic
asylum in Scotland there is an amiable
visionary known as John, who had to
be put under restraint because he i'm
agined that he had been robbed Of an
estate which had no existence. He
was so sane on other subjects that he
was employed in the administra tive
work of the asylum and practically
carried it on. He interviewed the new
lunatics on their arrival. whats the
matter wi ye?" he said to one. a
glass ball in the middle O. my back -
GA glass ball in the middle of your
back will bring ye here, ma freen, but
it will no TAX We oot," remarked John.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
THE QUEENS STOCKINGS.

A little story, quite in the style Of
Hans Andersen about the Queen of
Italy and poor child points an impor-
tant political moral which we leave it
to our readers acumen to discern. Her
majesty was recently walking in a Ro-
man suburb when she noticed a pleas
ant-faced little girl and spoke 10 her.
There was little conversation, and
the queen asked the child what she
could do in the way of needleWork. II
can knit stockings, signora," replied
the girl. 'Do you know who | ann"
continued the queen. Eyes, signora,
you are the queen" well, then, make
me pair of stockings and send them
to the palace" A few days afterward
the stockings arrived, and Queen Marg-
herita in return for the gift sent the
child a beautiful pair of rose-colored
stockings, the one filed with sweets,
the other with money. Next day the
queen received a letter from her little
friend couched in the following words:
"Signora, your gift has caused me no
end Of tears. My father collared the
money, my elder brother grabbed the
sweets, and as to the stockings, why,
mother put them on herself. London
Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07

! before the females, who stands apart,
a solemn and entirely undemonstra-
tive looker-cn. Now a crane will
Qirouette on one long leg, putting his
neck and body through all sorts Of
Srotesque movements, then change to
the other leg, posturing while balanced
on that. He viii suddenly abandon
these antics and make short, cratic
nights in the air, sometimes actually
turning somersaults while poised above
the ground. Then he will brace him
self like pugilist in fight, lodging
his head quickly from side to side and
backward as if a7oiding blows, and
then striking out yiciously here and
there, conveying the impression that
he is hitting at imaginary foes. Some
times hewill throw himself on his back
and kick and wiggle his silt like legs
IN the air, and almost tie himself in a
knot by running his long neck between
them. Singly the members of the
group Of wooing cranese will parade
themselves in this way, and then ad-
vance in pairs and double pairs, threes.
single file and all sorts of combina-
items, and will give the appearance to
the spectator Of actually going
through the figures of some intricate
dance. AS the exercises are prolonged
the cranes become excited to the pitch
of frenzy and jump and leap and con-
tort themselves until one by one thew
become exhausted and lie painting on
the ground until sufficiently refreshed
to join again in the fantastic proceed
ings
Sometimes these exercises will con-
tinue for hours, varied by frequent
fights between rivals, which are so
desperate and savage that it is no I'M
common thing for one or the other of
the contestants to be killed in the
combat. Sometimes the female, after
putting the wooers to a long and
severe test of their powers, will de-
liberately rise and fly away, but
usually she makes a choice from the
contestants. That choice is always
followed by a fight, one or more of the
disappointed wooers being sure to
pitch into the favorite. But then the
latter will have the aid of the female,
who will fight for him as desperately
as any of the males. If the pair find
themselves too hardly pressed by the
others they will beat retreat and fly
away together, sometimes followed by
the others, who continue to fight In
midair.
There are no more sandhill cranes
on the illinois prairies, but there are
plenty of them on the plains of Da-
kota, as the wheat farmers know to
their sorrow, and I have no doubt, If
he is smart enough, the Dakota small
boy gets as much fun out of the cranes
spring cotillon parties as the Illinois
small boy did years and years ago.
New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
A MURDEROUS FILIPINO SOCIETY

In 1894 the formidable and bloody
Katipunan Society was formed under
the leadership of Marcelo Hilario del
Pillar. It's object was to secure the
freedom Of the Philippines by putting
to the sword all the Spaniards in the
Archipelago. Manila, of course, was
the seat of the supreme council of the
Katipunan, and its branches or
chapters were established in all the
provinces and principal towns of the
islands. Every member, on being in
itiated into the Society, received a
name by which he was always there
after known to the other members, and
all were masked. In this way no one
knew the identity of any other mem
Der. and even a mans DeXt-dOor neigh
Dor or his brother or partner in bust
ness might be seated next to him
nightly at the Katipunan lodge and
he would never be the wiser. At mi
tiation the new member took bloody
oath and subscribed TO it by dipping
his pen in the blood drawn from an in
cision in his left arm. This is said
to have been derived from a painting
called ''Pacto de Sangre," executed in
Madrid by a famous Filipino painter
Juan Luna. After the revolution
/ broke out in 1896, the members of the
Katipunan could always be identified
among the dead and prisoners by the
scars A symbolic chart was in tht
| possession OF each member and BY
that he could find the katipunan lodge
! in the provinces or towns wherever hs
might be and identify himself by mean:
OF it, As an example Of the name:
born by the members, General Ricarte
now in the insurgents army, wa.
known under the name of "Vivora,
meaning viper, poisonous snake. TIL,
| present General Pillar, Of whom s.
much is heard in the uprising agains
the Americans, is not the Pillar Of Kati
punan fame, though it is general,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
CIVILIZATION AND THE BRICK

It is wonderful how important is the
by common brick. man, while yet in
the savage or primitive" state, no
doubt managed to build himself houses
Of wood and leaves-as, for that mat
ter, do some of the lower animals But
it was not until he became part Of a
regularly organized community with
it's subdivision of labor and it's COM
mon life, that he was able to construct
for himself temples and palaces out Of
uniformly shaped pieces of burnt clay.
Hence a collection of Chaldean bricks
just exhibited by NJ. Heuzey, of the
Louvre 10 the French Academic des In
scriptions, excited great interest. The
earliest were rudely shaped, evidently
made without a mold, and had their
upper faces arched, each brick being
marked by way Of stamp by the i'm
press of the makers thumb. These
which were found in some quantity il
the very lowest strata excavated al
Telloh and Nippur, are considerably
over eight thousand years old. Mex
to these came the bricks made for the
city of Sirpurla, bearing the ancient
cognizance Of that city, an eagle with {
lions head. And so we go through the
stamped and dated bricks of kings like
Eannadu, who reigned in Babylonis
some four thousand years before oul
era, to the beautifully painted AMI
glazed ones found by Layard on th'
site Of ancient Babylon.-Pau Nal
Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
THE FEMININE OBSERVER.

Illusion fade, but facts remain.
Few bachelors have better quarters
until they get better halves.
A woman shows rare discretion IN
not grumbling at Ter cook in hot
weather.
woman never Gun forgive Il man
for getting ink on the pen-wiper she
gives him.
Half hearted interest in work is
never productive of wholesome inter
est on a fortune made.
1t is strange how much yelling issues
from the office where painless dentistry
is in operation.
The more elegant mode of express
ing rubber neck is to say peninsula
because it is stretching out to sea-
1t is not necessary to waste pity on
the plainest man living. Some woman,
somewhere, thinks he is handsome
There are few persons in the world
who believe a man is perfectly sane
who doesn't take at least six weeks to
select his first bicycle
There are more persons who price
diamonds without even thinking of
buying them than ever follow the prac-
tice Of any other line of trade.
After a woman reaches the age of 30
she takes especial interest in all arti-
cles citing the fascination of heroines
history who were 40 or over.
If the X-rays were turned on the
brains on some of the ex-nigh officials
now figuring in the DreyfUs trial there
would be some exciting developments.
When a man ceases to dr2s, the eX-
preston, my wife," into every alter
nate sentence you can rest assured that
he has passed the honeymoon period.
When a melon is good the young
housekeeper never ceases talking about
having selected it; when it is bad her
husband harps on the same string.
1t is to be hoped that the readers Of
this column are sufficiently versed in
up-to-date slang to appreciate the fol-
lowing:
Small bcy-"I dreamt last night
was arrested"
Brother of the small boy-"Thats
easily CAPITALIZED, L plHCueu YOU
And now we are informed that silver
toilet articles are no longer 'onsid cred
elegant. They must be Of ivory. This
statement is corroborated by a we'll
known Chestnut street jeweler, who
tells of a certain society woman buying
twenty pieces of ivory for her own
dressing table and similar number in
silver for her maid. Think what she
has done for the next poor creature
who Will have the honor OF paying that
Ynnid'S ga 1ary
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
LABORI'S BEAUTIFUL WIFE.
She Was Divorced From a Russia,
Musician to Marry Him.

NJ. Labori is young, fair. handsome
and full Of lusty life and high spirits.
His talents as speaker are not of The
highest order, but no other member of
the Paris bar knows better how to use
law to defeat it's object. He can drive
a motor car through the code. Until
he pleaded for lola his luck was unin-
terrupted. He had an attack OF
typhoid fever, which greatly weakened
him and forced him to neglect his
business. The lola affair was a great
advertisement, but it brought him no
direct profit and created for him end
less enemies. He refused the hand
some fee the novelist offered, nor does
he accept pecuniary reward from Drey-
fus. Labori is proud of his wife's
beauty. She is equally proud of his
looks and talents and loses no oppor-
tunity to hear him plead. She is an
Australian, received, as a pianist, her
musical education in London, became
a player at concerts, made the &C
Quaintance Of the deformed but highly
gifted pianist Pachmann, married him.
had two children. and then fell in
love with Labori. She and Pachmann
were divorced and then she married
Labor. The children live with her
and find devoted stepfather in him
Nine. Labori has attended all the pub
lie sittings of the Rennes court mar
tial. Her beauty is beyond dispute.
She is a striking blonde.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07
Lord Lynnc'S Choice
BY
BERTHA M. CLAY.
BERTHA M. CLAY.
Continued.


Mad, my dear" said the poor lady.
mo; what can you mean?"
you intend Julia and myself to
marry WE'LL" continued Maria. you
are taking us abroad, hoping we
shall marry there, and you engage that
girl to go with us. Do you know what
We look like beside her? What chance
shall we have near herr"
4 never thought Of that, replied
Mrs. Caldwell, nervously; she speaks
Italian SO we'll"
.EOf course she does" retorted the
daughter, with a sheer; ''she sings
and plays so well, too. What man in
his senses would look at us when she
is by?"
But my dear" said the mother,
meekly, you forget her position. You
are heiresses, remember, while she is
only a companion"
T shall take good care that she re
members her position" said Maria;
those kind of people are always pre-
sumfng. Now remember, mamma,
she must be taught to know her place,
and keep it,