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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-13

1t has been decided by Assistant
Secretary Taylor to abolish the immi-
grafton inspectorship at Winnipeg to
prevent immigrants from getting
across the Minnesota border illegally.
Inspector Ladweg's service will ex-
pire this month. He is a St. Paul
man.
Professor Horatio w. Parker Bat
tell, professor Of music in Yale uni
versity, and author of Hora Novissima
and other works of music. has brought
suit against a New Haven newspaper
for 100000 damages for failure to re-
turn a manuscript of his lecture on
Church Music.
At Platte Center, Neb., W. ]. Gentle
man, wealthy stockman, held the en-
tire town at bay and shot four men.
The injured: Henry Tanger, may die;
Pat Hayes, city marshal, shot in the
back; Robert Wilson, seriously
wounded in side; S. Olson, right arm
shattered and thumb shot off.
The annual report of Secretary of
War Root treats of military and re-
construction operations in the Philip
pines, Cuba and Porto Rico and makes
some interesting statements. The
war department asks for an appro-
priation of s171 ,773,SS for 1902. as
against S1S5,903,551 for 1901.
The goth annual convention of the
Iowa State Travelling Mems Associa-
ton, held at Des Moines, elected Of
ncers. Secretary Haley's report
shows 1929 members in good stand
ing, an increase for the year of 1925.
The receipts for the year were $780,
S72 and the disbursements s96,147.
The committee of clergymen and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-06

down on the ground, rolled on him ana
over him. but all iu vain. Blacky simaiv
stuck Nothing could move him, notbin.
tempt him or compel him to relax his
hold for single moment. To have dona
so would have been almost certain d.ate
to himself; but, through all the rearings
leapir gs, tossirgs, writings and hissi9gs
of his victim. on he held with a reient-
less tenacty that was equal OILY 10 HE
love of his own life and his hate of bis
foes.
Thus for more than an hour and haze
the life and death game was kent nm
without a minutes internniss;on ana
wi bout any sign of weakening on either
side Then we perceived that the ratfle,s
strength seemed to be giving way. and
all of a sudden he cooled himself m ana
lay still, as if 10 die. Whether it vas
from sheer exhaustion or only rusa ~
deceive his enemy, faint or feint. wa
were not sure. We thought it was tha
former, but blacky evidently thouobt
otherwise. lie understood his enemy betS
ter than we did, and did not mean to be
tricked. Down he lay by the side of the
PROSTATE victim, but with his teeth firm
ly set in the now torn and crumpled
throat.
Then, aften a quiet interval. the one
sided truce having come to an end or the
ruse having failed, the rattle rose again
and resumed the unequal struggle with
the energy OF desperation--a supreme
struggle for life. Again he reared and
rolled and coiled, and darted up and
down, forward and backward CARRYING
his enemy with him in all his contor
tons. trying by every conceivable twist
20 get his fangs into the mercness foe:
but all in vain. Then we began TO see
in the poor victim renewed signs of fail
ing strength; but, Notwithstanding in
creasing weakness, he struggled for a
time continuously, and then intermittent
ly, until, more than two hours and half
after the first attack, the poor rattle gave
up the contest and lay down 10 die. This
time il was no ruse. The poor fellow
was done for, and within ten or fifteen
minutes he yielded up the ghost But
even then blacky still stuck, and It was
not until the corpse began to stiffen that
he for the first time withdrew the nails
which he had driven nearly three hours
before into the sure place-the throat Of
the unhappy rattle.
Then, the tragedy being ended the com-
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dition. A year ago. In one of the girls
clubs here. league for the emancipation
Of cab horses was started and people who
come 20 the exposition should not take 1t
amiss IL they are waylaid in shops, tea
rooms, or in the fair grounds by very de-
termined-looking dansels who beg them
to take the pledge TO help the horses The
pledge is simple enough, and exacts that
no cab with an ill-groomed, weary, half
fed horse between the shafts is to be
patronized, and that after calling a cab
the cocher is TO be fairly warned that
should he beat his horse his pour boire
win be cut down one-half, while If he
gives the beast decent treatment the tip
will be doubled.
LAS you may imagine, the making pub
lie of this determination created no end
of an uproar at first. Then the cab com
panies, who were waited on by a delega-
ton of very determined looking ladies. and
who refused TO lend their potent infiu-
ence, came TO the conclusion that 1t was
a feminine freak and would soon pass,
but now and then you can see tableaux
on the street that convince you that there
is nothing the women of our race SO dear
ly love as philanthropic labors at any cost.
Many a time and oft have seen smart
ly dressed woman step out of a cab and
endure the rage of the cocher on his box
and the comments of the passersby while
she stalwartly delivered a lecture on the
evils of cruelty, and handed over the sad
ly reduced pour boire. This method bears
fruit, in spite of all opposition on the part
of the cabmen and the company behind
them, just as you will find the police of
Paris falling into the way of helping wo-
men across the street
a Yankee Spinster's Spirit.
"Of course you know that. clearing the
way at crowded crossings for the pedes-
TRANS is not one of the duties of our we'll
dressed policemen. They seem to Ameri-
can eyes rather more for ornament than
rvice, and are on the alert chiefly for
the purpose of arresting the unfortunates
who may be run over by the absolutely
undsciplined and autocratic drivers of
cabs and carts. Having adjusted some of
her grievapces with regard to her claims
on life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness in the streets and having also found
what move will checkmate the merciless
cab driver, l see the foreign women in
this town evidently propose to bring the
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sells voyaging about on their own hard
earned pennies 10 enjoy vacation abroad
saw less of what / may call the seamy
side, but unless they were well chap
eroned and escorted the Partisan street
customs made theirs hard road to trav-
el.
when I first came here from Ohio it
took me about three days 10 discover that
l wasn't anywhere; not in the ateliers,
where the male students pestered and in
suited me, often TO a fearful crisis, not
by the iandladies, who wanted nothing to
do with so eccentric and suspicious char
acter as a young woman alone and not on
the streets, where only servant women
and market girls in that day.-sweffs> IN
escorted. can assure you If il had not
been for a few other American girls here
enduring the same bitter Initiation l
would in sheer fright and loneliness have
gone back TO Ohio. Well happily, that
semi-medaeval condition has passed, and
smile when l hear American parents OBJ
feet to their daughters living in Paris for
fear they will adopt Partisan notions and
habits. l can promise you that the shoe
is on the other foot and the American girl
is the most dominating presence and in
fiuence in Paris.
Just watch them, If you please swing
ing along the streets In groups or singly
every day. With the exposition on hand
you can't go a block without looking into
a pair Of frank, young eyes that speak
in their glance Of independent Anglo-Sax-
on womanhood. Why, In my student days
a decently good-looking, tidily dressed
girl could not walk twenty steps from her
own door without suffering the egregious
impudence or unpleasant fattery. such as
am sorry to say even the most gentle
manly Gaul thinks it his privilege to
thrust upon the lonely female. To-day,
though, the man in the street has not
quite foresworn his old teasing habits, it
is being more and more forcibly born in
on his very percephve Gallo mind that
the daughters of Uncle Sam are neither
timerous or easily forced to give ground.
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lively young artist to me not long ago.
Then he admitted with a laugh that this
very spring he plucked up4the courage
10 address tall pretty creature in
grey golf dress who was walking alone
down the Rue de Rennes holding a map
open in her hands. He informed her in
her politest language that he considered
her goddess of beauty. and as he was
going in hor Direction he would bear her
company When his compliments fell aP-
parently on totally deaf ears he deliber-
ately stepped in front Of mademosselle
and thrust his smiling face over The edge
Of the stiIl outspresd map. But his smile
died into frozen grin and then into a
slckly grfmace. and then he retreated in
pathetic disorder
What did she do 40 you? I inquired.
Nothing but stare he answered. She
had large and rather mournful brown
eyes, and she stared without a flicker
of an eyeIash. as if had been a curious
insect, and all the while she walked stead
lily forward, pushing me with the edge
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lceman to a clearer recognition of his

policeman to a clearer recognition of his
duties.
$50 long as I have lived in Paris I have
never mustered up the courage to ask one
of the stately officers of the law to as
sist me throug the widest tangle of hoofs
ard wheels, but the Yankee spinster who
proposes to cross the Champs Elysee at
its most crowded hour, and furthermore
to cross in security and infinite dignity.
forces the policemen to bend to her will.
i saw just such a lady gain her point
yesterday. She wore glasses. she was fol-
lowed by a Boston bull terrier of aristo-
cratic features and she carried in one
hand the tail Of her gown and in the
other her black lace trimmed parasol 1t
was perfectly clear that she feared both
for her own life and that of the fat ter
r.er II she tried TO cross the wide boule-
ward. and she looked pretty miserable
until she sighted an officer Marching up
to him she said in very bad French;
Kindly help me ana my dog to cross this
street.
"The policeman glared at her in blank
amazement, but before ne could object OF
explain that his duties did not include that
OF plotting stout ladies and their stout
pets across the streets she had lifted the
weighty Fido by his gay harness. plump
ed him into the officers arms, pushed the
two OF them ahead. and with her parasol
furled and her train high above the dust
she swept as grandly through that wild
current of dashing equippages, scorchina
bicycles end rushing motor-carriages as
IL she had been crossing her own Back
Bay drawing room. When she got to
the opposite side she gave thanks polite
ly, but quite matter of factly, which left
the policeman more fiabbergasted than
ever, and he stood bewildered until an
other American woman. taking heart of
grace from the Boston womans example,
nabbed the officer and made him steer
her across in securely. After that he &C.
tually seemed to find the thing amusing
or something i'm the prettily expressed
thanks of the women fired the instincts
OF gallantry in his soul and i hear he Is
the most popular officer on the avenue.
"His example will naturally tell on the
others. and 1t wouldn't surprise me in the
least II to that stout Boston heroine will
not ultimately be due the credit of having
originated one of the most important
and necessary police reformations in
Paris.
Freedom Is Now Theirs.
1T takes time, you see,and 1t has needed
a great deal Of patience" said the artist
in conclusion but the quiet determine
ton Of the Anglo-Saxon woman to have
her way has broken down all opposition
and Americans who come over for the Elk
position will be amazed to see the amount
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A SNAKE FIGHT.
The Black Reptiles victory Was
Followed by a Feast.
From Chambers Journal.


1t was in Australia and in the fall of tho
year. My friend and 1 were returning
from a tour which had carried us far into
the bush, as the forests of gum tree and
scrub are there called. We were walking
through a clearing, when the unmistaka-
BILE rattle of a snake arrested us, and in a
few minutes we saw the beginning of a
fierce encounter between two deadly en-
emies-a blacksnake and a rattle. These
two branches of the snake family are he
reditary and implaeable foes, though what
was the origtni of the feud Darwin saith
not. Between them there can be neither
fellowship amity, compromise nor even
armed neutrality. War TO the death is their
unalterable law from generation to genera
ton. The blacksnake is much smaller
than the rattle but he is a terribly foo
midable foe, and, as science is superior TO
mere size or strength, he generally comes
out of the fray victorious. He seems to
scent the battle Cor rather the rattle)
from afar," and gives himself no rest I'M
til he gains point of vantage from which
he can make a sudden swoop upon the
noisy foe. On this occasion we did not see
the blacksnake until he leaped on the
rattle's throat, nor could we afterward
make out how he had got so near without
being seen. That power of silent, stealthy,
rapid movement gives the black fellow an
immense advantage over the. rattllrg en-
envy. 1t Is that, indeed on which his hope
of victory mainly depends. Let the blacky
by a sudden leap grasp the throat of the
unwary rattle, and the chances are that he
will never let go again until death DO
them part" but II that first chance be
lost, and the two meet In fair fight. after
fair warning, the fangs of the rattle are
pretty sure 10 gain him the victory.
In this instance no such misfortune was
the blacky's He made his spring and
got his grip of the throat, and there he
held on like grim DEATH" With a fury
that was sometimes awful the rattle wrig-
gled and shook. and rolled and writhed.
He leaped into the air twisted and toss
ed himself about, banged his assailant
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of liberty accorded women here. For ex-
APPLE, in which one of our own towns would
a couple or trio of smartly dressed girls
dare 20 sit at a table under a sidewalk
awning and drink beer or lemonade, or
iced tea, or any cool decoction teic thirsty
palates craved? In Paris during the Elk
position you win sea them dong that ev-
cry day though I'll confess the men cid
struggle hard to prevent them. SmoSli
and drinking at the cafe tab es on the trot-
toir used TO be the exclusive comfort OF
idle men, the gay, bare-headed isettes
and the palmer working and tradesmen
and their wives. Ladies never dared sit
down there. and French ladies even nov
would die rather than stoop to such
humble and public a seat. but the Amer
lean, cut off from her soda water fountain.
yearned nightly after the cherey Gales
and their glasses of cool liquids.
so from all points at one season, the
girls invaded the inviting little tables and
squelched and opposition. saw and
he ard only last week an extremely we'll
dressed, well-bred looking Frenchman lay
a wager with his friend that he would
drive off two particularly charming
young women who had chosen table
and ordered cups of iced coffee. He went
deliberately over to whers with profound
interest they had spread out a handful
of silk samples, ard with the most I'M
speakable insolence announced that he
would join them in their little treat Girl
number one looked little frightened but
number two was equal to the occasion,
for quick as a wink, idto the hat of the
officious intruder she dropped two PEN
MES, and with the kindly smile of one
who loves to bestow aims on the needy
she turned back to her problem Of choos-
ing between a pink or a blue sample. It
was a master stroke, and the girls had
their drinkables in perfect peace, and If
in time the Partisan gentleman is not one
of the NEST docie and chivalrous rep
resentatives of his sex it won't be because
his American friends have failed to show
him how or fail to accord him in return
consideration and admiration for his
courtesy" Emily Holt
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wore. She knew him, for one of the youth
full poets of her neighborhood and Lead
er that spring Of a students crusade
against the sailor hats worn by the Amer
lean and English girls, and she determine
ed to make an example of him. AS he
walled behind her he fired balls of bread
ard paper on the new nat, and that super
auous annoyance had nerved her to do
her best.
so you wish me 10 take off my hat,
monsieur do you? asked Miss Kansas
City in an ominously sweet tone.
LAT once. mademoiselle,' commanded
the lank locked, baggy trousered youth.
who wore very dingy, but to him very
precious six hat on his own unkempt
head.
"'WeH. in America replied madem-
oiseiie gently the gentlemen always re-
move their own hits when making any
request of che ladies. Allow mer the
tightly rolled umbrella described a half
circle in the cir and struck the top hat
blow that sent it spinning into the middle
of the boulevard and while the poet COM
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half its snares and difficulties and ugly
reputation, and then by the hordes of
fair travellers from the states, who are
coming over in relays of thousands this
summer to thoroughly Americanize the
life on the foreign streets. So predom-
inant is the influence of our women here
that If had young daughter to edu-
cate in art I'd just as lief she went to
Paris alone to pursue her studies as to
New York, Philadelphia or any of our
home cities Thirty years ago. would
have packed my trunk. come along with
her and never let her out of my sight, for
what we went through with In those days
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edy began, and a comedy indeed II "ss,
at any rate to the two spectators. On 'no
part of the victor there was no sign "a
triumph, no dancing around the prosua'o
enemy; but, with all possible stalunsss
and straightforwardness, the hero prep11It
ed for the celebration of his victory. nv
began by stretching and Strengthening ou'
the lfeless body, smoothing out ever
crease and every wrinkle on its scaly SUI
face, with what intent we could not eve.
guess He seemed to have assumed sn9
role of undertaken, and to be prepaiNo
the corpse for decent burial, mash ~
nous toward brave though defeateu "
Not a twist or wrinkle was left upon nv
carcass from tip to toe, from nose 70 "a
stretched tail Then, to our greater oe" ss
derment, we saw that he was licking ~
body from end to end, making stIas
parallel lines of saliva along It's euu
length. which. with the rays of the s q,
ting sun falling on It, exhibited an ~
varied hues, and made us long IoI .sv
possession, that we might carry u Nv" Nv
with us. But the darkey had soinetnI
better to do than indulge beneVO
sentiment for our qualification. for FOR.
minutes or more he continued MS pl svs
atoms, until he had made four OF Ian
streaks of saliva, which shone IKE S.si
ribbons, laid horizontally in the
body from end TO end ..g
Then blacky rose and shook hinl 1sos
and, having done So took up his posi .s,.
at the head Of his victim and calmly e ~.
ed upon him, with the first CLEAN Oh "a
isfaction in his bright littls eye; .,rrs
were still full of wonder and conJeG,.,en d
as to his purpose, interment or so some II.
being the only thing we yet thoub No
But then we saw him calmly open .ata
mouth 10 its utmost capacity ana , rat.
into 1t the entire head Of the detunc' men
tier; then he gulped and swallowed, .,bs,
rested; then another gulp and at.,'votsd
swallow; and so on until he had 1 ,a,csr
into him the. whole body, a ioot Yin q
than himself: and then, with the bs
the tail stiil dangling from his NOUN Issrcs
dragged himself into the scrub, ana ia
probably into a gulley, there TO sp Sarons
month or more digesting his poheuooap'
meal. and lighting the battle DER az
in bllssful dreams.
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man If seeing what has been accomplish
ed BY the American and English girls,
they did not yearn to profit by the i'm
provement in street customs. The Paris
ian young lady owes a genuine debt of
gratitude to her Anglo-Saxon sisters, and
l dare say II the Partisan cab horse could
organize and pass resolutions he'd vote
a piece Of plate and handsomely engross-
ed set of parchment resolutions of thanks
to the women from the states, who are
actively interested in ameiiorating his con-
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He has discovered that If by her dgnifed
bearing she fails to gain his respect she
viii not hesitate to enforce her rights,
like the girl from Kansas City, at the
point of her umbrella.
The Girl From Kansas City.
Down in the Latin quarter, where the
masculine art and literature students as
sumed far more license than even the
absinthe Slippers of the boulevards. it was
the girl from Kansas City who practically
broke the back of all opposition to the
peaceful coming aud going of the femi-
nine artists. She was a pretty creature
of twenty-one. as hard working a little
artist as there was in the city. and as
she FASTENED home one historic spring
day TO her luncheon she carried in one
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of that beastly map, and I walked help
lessly backward like an imbecile right into
the gutter, and If anybody ever tells me
that there is not a freezing power in the
human eye, IL will be because they never
met one Of those tall Americanes and tried
to scrape acquaintance with her on the
street.
In Defense of the Cab Horse.
You can very easily guess that French
women themselves would be less than hui
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pletely paralyzed with establishment,
watched its demolition under countless
wheels and iron shod feet, the bystand-
ers broke into wild and generous applause,
and the girl disappeared safely down a
morrow SIDE street From that day to
this straw sailors have been persona grata
m the studio region. and the girls have
been no longer troubled by the superflu-
Gus attentions of the embryo Byrons, De
Mussets and Daudets, who, in costumes
absurdly initiative of their re-
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when the American girl student was a
novelty TO Parisians, you could now hard
ly believe possible.
A frontier mining town was about as
cafe and comfortable location for high
souled, well-bred young woman as the
Latin quarter then, particularly IL she in
sisted, as our girls do now, on having her
o . STUDIO and living right in and Of
this Bohemian life. A couple Of nice dam
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A MISSIONARY ALLIANCE.
AN6Lo-AMERICAN wOMAN's PLANS
FOR REFORMING THE PARTISAN.

she Takes in Turn the Idle Boule-
Warbler with His InsoIent Admirn-
tfon, the Theater and Cafe LounG-
err. the Reckless Cnbby. and the In
efficient Little Gendarmc, and She
Goes About Reforming Each and
Principles The way the Latin
Quarter Girls Taught Paris stu
dents 10 Mind Their Manners.
paris. May 4-"There are, all told, 1
should say, about one thousand American.
women living more or less alone and UNI
protected In Paris for the purpose OF ae-
curing the language or studying art or
music" said a successful artist in the
Latin quarter the other day. as she pre-
sided over a prettily spread tea table in
her own big, luxurious studio.
1T sounds both forlorn and dangerous,
doesn't it, when l say they are living
alone and unprotected. and really thirty
years ago, when l first came to Paris,
that sentence would have implied an in
ISOLATION from all that is sweet. safe and
wholesome in woman's life. and ex-
posture to all that is hard to endure; but
Paris is not any longer the Paris of my
student days.
Latin Quarter Girls.
1.-THE real revolution in this gay city
has been created by American women
chiefly; first and foremost by the girls
OF the Latin quarter, who have robbed
that locality by their presence of one