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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
FROM BUccANEER TO PIRATE
The Brethren OF the Coast Warred
Against Every Nation.

The Brethren OF the Coast Warred
Against Every Nation.
Mr.. Frank R. Stockton continues in
st. Nicholas his series of narrative
sketches of "The Buccaneers of Our
Coast" In the May number Mr..
Stockton says: The buccaneers had
grown to be reckless freeboOters. And
when they became soldiers and march
ed in little armies, the patience of the
civilized world began to weaken. Pan
anna, for instance, was an important
Spanish city; England was at peace
with Spain; therefore, when a military
force composed mainly of Englishmen,
and led by a British subject, captured
and sacked Panama, if England should
not interfere with her buccaneers she
would have a quarrel to settle with
Spain. So new governor was sent to
Jamaica with strict orders to put down
the buccaneers and to break up their
organization, and then 1t was he set a
thief to catch thieves, and empowered
the eX-pirate, Morgan, to execute his
former comrades. But methods of
SOACLlAGASAOA4y Co NCil do IlISdIS VI puu-
ishment, were used to induce the buc-
cancers to give up their illegal calling,
and liberal offers were made to them
to settle in Jamaica and become law
abiding citizens. But these offers did
not tempt the Brothers of the Coast;
from active pirates to retired pirates
was too great a change, and though
oF - !, It,,
avocations of cattle butchering and
beef drying, some, it is said chose
rather to live among the wild Indians
and share their independent lives,
than to bind themselves to any form
of honest industry. The French also
had been active in suppressing the OPP
erations of their buccaneers, and soon
the Brethren of the Coast, considered
as an organization for pgeying upon
the commerce and settlers of Spain,
might be said to have ceased to exist.
But it must not be supposed that be-
cause buccaneering had died out that
piracy was dead. Driven from Jamaica,
from San Domingo, and even from Tor
tuga, they retained a resting place only
at New Providence, an island in the
Bahamas, and this they did not main
tain very long. Then they spread
themselves all over the watery world.
They were no longer buccaneers, they
were no longer Brothers" of any sort,
they no longer set out merely against
SpaniaTds, but their attacks were made
upon people of every nation. They con-
fined themselves to attacks upon peace
able merchant vessels, often robbing
them and then scuttling them, delight
ed with the spectacle Of a ship, with
all it's crew, sinking hopelessly into the
sea. The scene of piratical operations
in America was now very much chang
ed. The successors of the Brothers of
the Coast, no longer united by any
bonds of fellowship. but each pirate
captain acting independently in his
own wicked way, were coming up from
the West Indies to afiict the more
northern sea coast.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
RAceooN Kites.


Their Immersion OF Infant Ceops ana
Ih ta Washing hing 81 Food before Eating.
From the Cincinnati EnQuirers You
haTe- missed couple OF mighty singu-
lar events il you never saw coon
christening or coon food cleansing out
at the Zoo. The coon home at the Zoo
consists simply of plot of ground
ABOUT as large as barn door of extra
generous size would cover This is
surrounded by wire fence four feet
hlgh' topped with a broad, up-curving
TIN rail, which prevents the little
cloWn-like creatures from escaping. In
the center of this yard is a tree twenty
feet high and having many and heavy
limbs Near the base of the tree is a
several foot square pool of water. This
pool marks two very exclusive, very
notable characteristics that distinguish
the coon from any other animal. The
pool is the coon's christening and food
cleansing place. When a coon gives
birth to young almost the first thing
she does Is to take her babies one by
one IN her mouth and, accompanied by
the rather coon, proceeds slowly and
solemnly to the pool Arriving at it's
brink. and while the dad coon stands
thoughtfully by, the mother baptizes
the little one beneath the wave with
all the decorum and solicitude that
baptist clergyman immerses a candi-
date for church membership. After
lowering it gently down beneath the
surface and lifting it up again. Mrs.
Coon and her husband wend their way
back again to their family corner of
the yard. This service, solemn and
staid, is continued by Mr.. and Mrs.
Coon until every mothers son of their
Just arrived offspring has been duly
christened. Viewed soberly, it is real
ly one of the most unique, impressive
professional performances imaginable.
But the indesCribable drollness of the
picture made by the wee husband and
wife as they go through with the per-
Torrance is inimitable, and smiles, If
not laughter, come to almost every one
who witnesses the serio-comic bit of
drama. Almost any hour any day in
S-NS , vi JCu SCLu IlIlu SIOup VI DGOplS
tossing bits of goodies to the coons.
Upon picking up one Of these Mr.. or
Mrs. Coon instantly, with the "goody"
held daintily in it's teeth, trots over
to the pool and swashes the morsel
back and forth in the water two or
three times. Then returning to it's ia
vorite corner or up to its favorite
crotch in the tree, the little chap sets
to devouring it in a way so dainty and
sedate as to put food-gulping humans
to the blush. But of course you would
mt blush at Clown Coons etiquette.
There is so much original comedy in
every move he makes in this food
cleansing and eating process that you
laugh in spite of yourself His very
appearance, particularly in motion, his
judge-like sedateness, and his display
of extreme neatness, his exquisiteness
in all things, form subtle and sure
ticker for anybody's laugh spot. It
beats the funniest man the stage can
show.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
No Tltne for rrnnbin.

No Time for Trouble.
Amt got no time fer trouble-fer Billy's
at the gate
With a little willer basket that is wrig-
glin' with the bait;
An the river looks invltin', an it's shady
as kin be.
An fer all the fish that's bitin', thars a
hsh II wait fer me!
Down by the river
Life is like a song,
An the yaller perch air bitin'
The rosy mornin' long!
Amt got no time fer trouble-fer wealth
er's mighty fine,
An see the worm wriggle on the fur
end o. the line:
The mockin' birds air singin' in the bios
SONS all eroun',
put the best the weather's bringin is
the cork a-goin' down!
Down by the river
Life is like a song,
An the waller perch air bitin'
The rosy morn;n' long!
Atlanta Constitution.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
ChIldren,s Hour OF sIeen.

One of the most fruitful sources of
the illness of children is the habit
which some parents have of allowing
them to stay up upduly late at night.
1t is one of the greatest INTAKES of
those who have charge Of them to let
them have too little sleep. It is con-
fessedly a difficult matter always to
get little ones to bed at the time thew
ought to- go; they, of course, plead for
only a little longer to stay up: but If
parents would realize the extreme i'm
portance of plenty of rest they would
remain obdurate to all such entreaties.
1t should not be forgotten that chill
dren are naturally wakeful in the
morning, and in consequence of having
to be off to school betrnes are fire.
quently called before they have finished
their morning nap. Children as a rule
ought to sleep ten or eleven hours, and
to do this they ought to be put to bed
early enough at night so that they NAV
have this amount of Undetermined
sleep. If children do not get the need
ed amount OF rest 1t is no wonder that
they become nervous, fretful and diff
cult to manage. Their nerves. Inherit
ed in many cases from dyspeptic par
ents, are keenly alive 20 every sound.
and their tempeTs are irritated by be-
ing called out of bed when they are so
much inclined 10 Eleer. During the
earlier ysars CO childhood. whatever
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09

From the Chicago News Jennie
aged 4, had been poking at the CRATE
fire and burned a hole in her dress.
you must not do that, Jennie" said
her mother, cor you'll catch fire and
burn up, and there will be nothing
left of you but a little pile of ashes.
Then what would mamma do?" "Oh,"
replied Jennie, 81 suppose you would
call Bridget and tell her to sweep up
the ashes"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
MILK IN THE COCoANUT.
There Are Two Ways of Getting at II
When One Wants to Drink 1t.

There Are Two Ways of Getting at 1t
When One Wants to Drink 1t,
Every boy knows the three eyes to
be found in one end of a cocoanut, and
many boy has bored these small eyes
out, or one or two of them, with the
small blade of a pocket knife so as to
get at the milk in the cocoanut, which
he has then drained out into cup or
drunk direct from the cocoanut itself.
But there is a more fascinating way
still of getting at the milk in the
cocoanut. By this other method
the cocoanut is opened at the
other end from the eyes. The
cocoanut is struck all around gent
ly and repeatedly with a hammer, or a
stone will do, at a distance of about
one-third of the way down from the
top, about where the Arctic circle
would be on a globe. A continual gem
tie tapping will finally crack the shell
of the nut all around; not in line ex-
actly on the circle opposite, but pretty
near to it. Sometimes it cracks shell
and meat of the nut, too, so that both
can be lifted off together; sometimes it
cracks out only shell cap at the top,
which is lifted off, and the cap of meat
underneath is then cut out around with
knife. And then there you are with
the white-lined cocoanut cup to drink
from.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
Farmers Cow Bank.

Fear of robbers induced a farmer in
Mishawaka, Ind, to conceal $500 in
gold in a corncrib. Some weeks after
ward the money was missing. The
farmers COW became i'll and died, and a
post-mortem examination revealed the
coin in the cows stomach.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
FOR BOYS AND. GIRLS.
SOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR
, JUNIOR READERS,

The BePy's Outht- Chndren's H0ue of
sieep-In Childish Eyes-The Origin
al Siamese Twins-Their NIem01y stiIl
Revered.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09

Don't think because a man holds a
position Of trust that he will trust you.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09

Art is long when drawn out through
the kaleidoscope.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09
WHEN SPAIN GA.VEIN /
AsPINWALL CASE AND SA-
GASTA'S POLICY.

Three Monthu of diplomacy That Brig
ties with Lies and .subterfuges
characteristics of the CastIliansLA
Demand That Meant Business. "
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-07-09

A srecl, Is what ven c&n lake on
the tip CT 2 ranl-~'fn
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
Doesn't Prohibit.

In seven weeks the police of Buffalo
have reported 1900 violations of the
Raines license law. This law is boosted
by the license advocates as the best ere
strictive" license law in operation.
1t is evident from the number of yio-
1ations that it doesn't restrict the illegal
traffic i'll whiskev This is all the COM
plant the rum party and hypocritical
temperance people have to charge against
local option-it don't prohibit the speak
easy sale-that is, the clandestine, illegal
sale of liquor, for that is the meaning of
"speakeasy."
Columns of editorials are published in
the newspapers charging that ''prohi.
bition don't prohibit" but scarcely word
is said when the restrictive license laws
are violated and the speakeasy principle
f1ourishes and is worse than under pro-
hibition laws, ten to one There is where
the rags and tatters of the beggarly con
sistency of our very correct high license
advocates show to their confusion and
shame.
The liquor traffic has a certain econ
servative," correct people, in the socia
and moral class-as the world wags-or
its side, reinforced Ell masse by the bum
and rabid whiskey clement.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
Friday. Dec. 23, 1898
BRYAN on Expansion.

AS soon as Col. Bryan had put off his
shoulder straps and quit the army news
paper reporter sought his views on Tex
pansion," the new question of the hour.
The sum and subsistence of Mr.. Bryan's
answer to the newspaper man was that he
was opposed to the colonial system as
practiced by European nations, that such
a system was antagonistic to our repub-
lican form of government. The treaty
should be signed, however, and the
islands Of the Pacific, for whose future
government and welfare of the people the
United States had become responsible,
should be treated in a way that would
educate the people to fit them for local
selfgovernnent. Mr.. Bryan deprecated
the idea of either making the Filipinos
COLONIAL subjects, as Great Britain. or i'll
cooperating them as citizens of the United
States, or admitting the islands and their
mixed races as States of the Union.
With this policy we believe vast ma
iority of the people of this country will
agree. Col. Bryan when asked gave his
views promptly and outlined very
clearly defined policy. What is Maj
McKinley's policy? Can anybody an
swer? The President has made hun
dred speeches and written enough tc
make fair sized volume, supposed to be
on our national affairs which are now
uppermost in all minds. He has in the
line of official duty presumably advised
congress as to his views and plans Of
managing these new possessions, and nc
one knows to this day what his views are
ON this important subject, and there are
more than a few who believe he has nc
clear view or plan.
1t would be we'll if President Mckinley
would take Lord Ketchener's advice when
speaking of dealing with the people Of
the Soudan. The first thing to be done
was to civilize them. cat the same time
The added we wish TO prevent as far as
we can with the introduction of trade
those pernicious adjuncts, the liquor traffic
and dishonest dealing with natives which
too frequently in new countries accom-
pany it."
Mr.. Mckinley wouldn't dare to oppose
the saloon or the sharp trading rascal.
He isn't built that way. That would be
assuming brave responsibility which our
President never does.
The goldbug press with its chronic
unfairness and dishonesty of purpose,
misconstrues and distorts what Col. Bryan
says on the subject of future management
of the Philippines, and charges him with
holding the same views on the expansion
question as Carl Shur.z and Grover Cleve-
land, and that he has abandoned "frce
silver" Nothing could be more unfair
or further from the truth. The news
paper man did not seek his views on
silver, but on the new question of expan-
sion, hence there was no occasion to say
anything about silver. The world knows
Bryan's views on that. You may look for
anything but honest expression in gold
bug newspaper of the Mckinley brand.
The gold party evidently fear Bryan and
lose no opportunity to abuse and misrep-
resent his views.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
SIOO Reward, $Ioo.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh cure is the only positive cure
now known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes-
tmonials Address,
FL CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

VoU MUST have pare blood for
good health. Hoods Sarsaparilla
purifies the blood. Take Hoods Sar-
saparilla if you would BE WELL.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

The President and his Cabinet have
completed the grand swing round the
southern circle and delivered numerous
fine speeches. He gave the south >rn
people plenty of taffy, which, perhaps,
was all proper, as they relished it very
much, but the President while skimming
round the questions of the hour in de-
lightful, breezy way said nothing directly
to the point on any subject. His con-
stitutional evasive, non-committal policy
is conspicuous in every speech he makes.
The goldbug chose wisely as goldbug
wisdom plans, when he chose Mckinley.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
Lower Passenger Fares.

Railroads are finding it profitable to
run tour or excursion trains to all points
of interest, or to places that the managers
believe the public would like to visit
The excursion business is increasing
which is all evidence that people would
use the cars more in general travel if the
fare was brought within reach of their
means. This suggests the question
profitable to make all their passenger
business excursion business, that is, re-
duce the passenger fare to excursion rates,
which is about half the regular rate.
Cheap fares in Europe, where the gov
ernments run the railroads, have more
than doubled the number of passengers,
and increased the aggregate earnings OF
the roads from passenger fares. 1t costs
no more to run:a car full of passengers
than one-third full. Cheap fares would
probably not increase the amount of
travel Immediately but the increase in a
short time would be very perceptible, and
as people acquired the habit of using the
cars more and more i'll their business and
for pleasure the increase in passengers
would be steady and permanent, without
adding to the expense of the company, or
adding very slightly.
In Hungary the railroads are owned
by the government and are as completely
government business as the post office
is in this country. The country is divided
into zones something after the manned of
the time zones used by the railroads in
this country. The fares are regulated as
the street car fares are managed. The
same fare will carry passenger to any
point within that zone, as street car fare
will carry passenger one square or to
the end of the line.
The system of low priced fares where
ever adopted has proved profitable, yield
ing the governments revenue. 1t would
seem that the fares reduced to one-half
what they are in this country would in
short time increase the earnings of the
roads in about the aggregate that raising
fares would decrease them.
By making the rates all excursion rates
the travel would be greatly increased and
permanently so, while the roads expenses
would not be increased, or at most very
little. The light of experience derived
from other countries seems to confirm
the hypothesis that one-half the present
rate per mile OF three cents would put
more money into the companies passen-
ger fund than present rates.
The increase of business that the COM
mercial papers parade with considerable
flourish is all enjoyed by the large bus
mess concerns and not by the mass of the
people. The individual, excluded from
the benefit reaped by the concerns repre-
seuting great aggregations of capital, is
growing more circumscribed in his means
aud ability to use the railroads, hence a
reduction in fares to change in conditions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
Two Pointed Questions Answered.

What is the use of making a better
article than your competitor ifyou cannot
get better price for it?
Ans.-As there is no difference i'll the
price the public will buy only the better
SO that while our profits my be smaller or
single sale they will be much greater il
the aggregate.
How can you get the public to know
your make is the best?
If both articles are brought PROMINENT,
before the public both are certain to be
tried and the public will very quickly pas:
judgment on them and use only the better
one
This explains the large sale on Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. The people
have been using it for years and have
found that it can always be depended
upon. They may occasionally take M
some fashionable novelty put forth will
exaggerated claims, but are certain to re
turn to the one remedy that they know to
be reliable, and for coughs, colds ant
Group there is nothing equal to Cham
berain's Cough Remedy. For sale by E
T. Reynolds, druggist
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

WaheS and eeJ-n this line made special effort
supply the demand detail. We have unlimited stock
of Ladies' and Gents Solid Cold Gold Filled Silver and Nickel
Watches, with Egn and Waham movements, late styles and
every fully purchaser the lowest possible
price, also in Chains Guards Fobs Charms Iocke Plain Gold
and Set Rings Ladies' Lace and Stick Pins Waist Sets Cuff and
Collar Buttons Belt Buckles Child Sets fact everything
pertaining to the Jewery trade.
such Hollow and Flat Ware including Knives Forks Spoons
and Fancy pieces also Sterling Brushes Combs Thimbles, Mani
cure Sets etc.
POCKET Books PUsHave added stock fine line
Leather Pocket Books with silver trimmings for ladies and gentle
Call and them.
Photograph 4lbuS-Boxes and Frames Cuff and Collar Glove,
Figures Books Games Atomze Pen Knives Tree Trimmings,
Fancy Box Papers and Stationery Hand Glasses and Mirrors Per-
umey in great quantities. in fancy crystal glass cut bottles by
the ~. botle-all the leading OdOrs.
ToLEr ARTICLES Toilet Soaps,
Sponges and Chamo Cloth, Tooth Flesh, Bonnet and Nail
Brushes besides usual line of Drugs and Chemicals Call
early and look stock-it will you.
ELI r. REYNOLDS.
Cigars in 6ores Of IL, IS, so and 1oo
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
The Administration press "point Y

The Administration press point with
pride" to All overlooking treasury. Within
six years Cleveland borrowed S262 900,
ooo and Mckinley $500, 900, 900, besides
LAYING an extra internal revenue tax
principally on the things most used by
the masses Of the people-the bond holder
and the income of the great capitalists
don't pay cent With all this borrowed
money and increased taxation there is
something over three hundred millions i'll
the treasury. Is borrowing the road to
wealth and prosperity?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The hest salve in the world fol
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilhlains, corns and all
skin eruptions, and positively cures
piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by DR.. l..
r. Kirk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

Many household is saddened by death
because of the failure to keep on hand
safe and absolutely certain cure for Group
such as One Minute Cough Cure. See
that your little ones are protected against
emergency. Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1898-12-23

The President has appointed Ethan
Allen Hitchcock of Missouri, at present
Ambassador to Russia, as Secretary of the
Interior, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of c. N Bliss.