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The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
JAeE COOKS TWO RATTLERs
He Caught One Asleep, but Never Could
Tell How He Got the Other.

He Caught On. Asleep, but Never Could
Tell How He Got the Other.
mo, yoang man, l can I tell you
nothin, not but there's things enough
happened along the Delaware, an,
for that matter, right here in Cali
coon, to fill a hundred little books
chock full, but l amt no composer
But | wish to land you'd come
round before Jabe Cook died. He
could a 'commodated you with as
many yarns as you could shake a
stick at. True onesi OF course.
Jabe want no great hand on lyin-
not ginerally. He ferIied here for
oh, don't know how long. Begun
when / was boy. Run small
boat an when there was teams or
many people took them over in big
scow.
There amt scasly any heft of
work bout runnin scowo Jabe
wouldn't a-took to 1t II there had
been, for he was a sort of lazy coot-
didn t banker after work When you
pole out an git pinted right, the
scow'll run itself, an then there's
time for swappin horses an talkin.
That's where Jabe's talent come in
on tallSin. He could talk blue
streak-beat the hull shootin match
at it. 1t beat all how much ne
knowed about everybody for niles
round. An when he begun on Vne o
his stories he was bound to go
through with it. Never knowed him
to leave a story half way but oncet.
lone day passel of us young
chaps had been up Hollister brook
fishin. When we got back to the fer
ry, Jabe want TO he seen, an we set
down on the beach to wait for hit'.
to come an take W. acrost the river.
We'd been settin quite Il spell, when
all of suddint we heard him shout
in an callin to us. He was comm
from an old stone quarry, an | swan
if the feller didn have live rattle
snake in each hand We We're fast
enough bout runnin to meet hlm.
but a little sklttlsh bout glttin very
clost TO the snakes, until we were
sure he had each one gripped clost
enough to the head SOS it couldn't
turn to bite. It's safe enough carry
in rattlers that way-if you holo on
tight. The day was hot an Jake
was that excited he fairly suffered
a-tryin to tell us how he ketched the
snakes an the way we slung ques
tions at him didn't help to cool him
down none. A city chap, he said,
had promised him So an good jack.
knife for live rattler. He'd kinder
calkerlated on fndin one that day
because all the signs We're bout
right Tor their Sviii cat
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS.
<eme Ancient Instance. of Insurenee
Can BE Easily Found


Probably the first recorded instance
Of insurance was one mentioned by
Livy. During the second Punic war the
contractors for delivering corn into
Spain stipulated that the government
should indemnify them against loss ty
the enemy or tempest Cicero, too. aft
er his victory in Oilicia, seems to have
obtained security against the loss of his
booty during its transit 20 Rome These
instances, however. are not regarded as
true cases of insurance by many author
tiles, who assert that only after the re-
vival of commerce in the tenth century
did it come into vogue. II this be 80.
the first mention of insurance is the
establishment in 1910 at Bruges at the
request of the inhabitants of u chamber
Of assurance.
1.-THE contract of reciprocal insurance
was known likewise in Portugal in the
fourteenth century, and in the fifteenth
tSept. 10, l486) King Edward of Por-
tugal writes from Lisbon that the mer
chant vessels of the English, which had
been chartered for the Tangier expedi-
tion, had not been insured. owing to
the fault Of their proprietors, while
those of the Portuguese, even OF the
royal navy, were" 1t is probable, how
ever. that insurance came into use in
Italy early in the twelfth century and
WAS by the Lombards transplanted into
those countries with which they had
commercial dealings. To them, there
fore, the invention of insurance, rs it is
now understood, is generally conceded
Exchange
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Librarian Young Dead.

Washington, Jan. 17,-Hon.
John Russell Young, librarian to
congress, died at his home in this
city this morning. Mr.. Young
has figured promenently in nation
al affairs for several years, have
served as United States minister
to China under President Arthurs
administration
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
BROOKLYN AT HAVANA.
Arrived this Morning with Hon.
Charles Allen Aboard.

Havana, Jan. 1.-THE United
States cruiser Brooklyn arrived hore
last night with Hon. Charles Allen,
assistant secretary of the navy, on
board. The Cubans viii give him
a reception aud banquet tonight
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

School has reopened at Room
IA, Blunt Block. Bookkeeping,
Mathematics and Languages
taught. Special Spanish class
SIG
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
For Sale at q Bargain.

One furnished rooming house,
centrally located; one saloon doing
fine business; one restaurant with
good trade; one residence prop
arty, close in. See
63-tf j. j. FITzG ERELL.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Dimin,.hins in s,...

biologists say that all known spe-
cies of wild animals are gradually df-
minishing in size.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17

Become a reader of the TRIBUNE
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Stock Taking and CIea1
Ladies Muslin Underwear

Ladies Muslin Underwear
Taking stock we find that
our Muslin Underwear on
hand amounts to over
s 900. This will and must
be sold. This is your chance
to get a supply at greatly re-
duCed prices. On one of our
center tables you will find
them marked in plain fig
ureS. the incest assortment
of all kinds, up to-date. See
a few items below.
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Silk Department
Dress Goods Department

In this department you can
find dress patterns domes-
tic and imported goods, and
down to half. We also have
a big lot of remnants of the
best goods in all styles, the
Globe will sell them less than
cost. All goods marked in red
SOC at 15C
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-17
Lace Department

Our Oriental lace amounts
to more than nine hundred
dollars alone. in all widths,
patterns and shades, goods
which were never sold for
less than SOC yard; on this
sale we will sell them at the
great reduced price. Your
choice per yd 15c
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11
NEW STATUTE Is
DULY OBSERVED.

The mem ers of the last Legislature
OF California were so numerically lam
pooned by the press that they made 4
law requiring that newspaper writer's
ferences. This is the clever and eff
ectiye way in which the editor of the
Sacramento Bee observes the new law:
All, there. Henry Theophilus Gage,
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
Greeting likewise to you, Hotspur
Valiant Morehouse,
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
To you, Grove Lachrymose Johnson,
the Veepin' William of the Valley, Il
royal salaam.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
To you, General Julius Hannibal
Dickinson, hero of the Fourth of July
capture of the Sacramento depot,
salud.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
Caius Marius Simpson, valiant sam
l.
lutamus.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
Noble and thrice worthy Sigismund
Meshillemoth Bettman, the Gods of
Gall be ever with thee,
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
Lucius Regulus WORKS, may heaven
still continue to lie about thy spacious
ears,
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
Thou, Cassius Babylon Jilson, who
vert seemingly condemned to have an
itching palm like unto thy prototype Of
cid. we who are about to sign our
names salute you.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
And thou likewise. Heloreous Ele-
phantine Wright, do We turn our eyes
also unto you and give you the MORT
turf Salutamus act,
Rightly art thou named Heloreous
because you played hell or some other
game on your watch.
And we'll art thou entitled Elepnan-
tine, for, sooth to say, none but one
possessing the face of an elephant
would have daily occupied your posi-
ton in the forum in Sacramento when
the health giving air of San Quentin
invited.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
And unto tbaa JJvporbo1uc Cat;1ipa
Dibble, also do we give our greeting i!
There was a Brutus once that would
have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in
Rome
AS easily as a king
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11

But Brutus never knew Dibble, or
he would not have been so boastful-
for DibbIe can get away with any
thing
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
To one and TO all of the Morehouse
League, may your shadows never grow
less and your brains sometimes sprout!
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY.
All the rascaIs rejoice at it. All the
Legislators whose hands are unclean:
all public servants who have yentured
on midnight fishing expeditions into
the pockets of the taxpayers; the tribe
| of swindlers and scOundrels; the mac
queraux and the wife beaters; those
| who do bloody deeds i the dark; the
hypocrite and the sneak: the Michael
| Feeney and Iago; all the rank and
nasty vegetation of humanity-aIl these
are temporarily overjoyed at the pas
sage of a law which they think TO
/ considerable explanation before the
general public can be made 10 believe
that it was rot so intended
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY
Grove Lachrymose Johnson and Ju-
Illus Hannibal Dickinson were its De
mosthenes and its Cicero-Dickinson
and Johnson-Johnson and Dickinson
two men CT whom Diogenes would
not make a way station if he were
alive to-day and on his usual tramp
with his lantern.
CHARLES KENNY McCLATCHY
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11
4 LITTLE GIRL.

ter of a little girl who once went in
great distress TO her mother, saying
that she had committed a sin which
could never be forgiven and which was
too bad to be repeated. By dint of lit
tie coaXing she was induced to make a
full confession, which was in this wise:
Il felt so sorry for poor Satan and
wanted to give him a little comfort
So l got a glass of cold water and
poured it down a little hole in the
kitchen floor"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11
MINERVA TONIC

This, a phosphorised iron syrup,
containing certain rare restoratiyes Of
acknowledged excellence, will, in the
prescribed doses, restore wasted en-
ergy, promote sleep, quicken the ap-
petite, build bone and sinew, make
good, healthy blood, and give tone
TO the whole system.
VERY REV. DIR. O'HARAN, P. s., to
the Cardinal of Sydney.
MIR. HART, F. Il. NJ. s., Lecturer,
Bendigo School of Music.
MR.. G. d. CLARK, Grand Lodge of
Good Templars, Sydney.
MR.. STUTCHBURY, Senior Clerk II.
NJ. Customs, Newcastle,
and thousands of others, pronounce
Minerva a good tonic, and sure in the
results that are claimed for it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11
4 NEW PAINT SHOP.

HAVING ASSOCIATED WITH US
Mr.. John H. West, a practical House
Painter, Decorator and Wood Polisher,
we are now prepared to give estimates
on all kinds of work in that IiIe.
Mr.. West having had a practical ex-
perience OF over twenty years in San
Francisco and other large cities on the
Coast, we feel confident that any work
entrusted to us will give entire salts
faction to our patrons.
PEERLESS PRESERVING PAINT CO
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11
FEEDS BOTH
NERVE And BRAIN.

y H-ME-UP.
\ RESTORATIVE.
y LIFE-PRESERNE R.
Those are three good things which
NAV be found in bottle of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-11

LOM6SI PT.Ces TOT OF-IU-DATE
CLOTHING for boys in Wash Materials
and Cloth.
Our Boys and Childrens' Clothing are
manufactured by the most reliable houses
in the United States. Perfect f;tt;no
Suits that will keep their color. won't rim
and will retain their shape
Our margin of profit is as small as is
consistent with honest storekeeping. We
promise no disappointment.
Boys All Wool Knee Pants, sizes to
IA, at CSC pair.
Boys Wash Knee Pants at CSC
pair, sizes to IA.
Boys All Wool Blue Cheviat Sn;+,
sizes to IA, at So suit while the Io;
lasts. 1o'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
Warrington Stock Exchange

Saies-reguar call-l2 O'Clock m.-West End Ma
Trust, 10 at 1924, American Security AMI Trust.
10 at 200 at POO Capital friction 20 at a3l !,
IS at 56s IS at 563 % at stz., 10 at 5s.' Is S >,
S6N. Mergenthaler Linotype, 10 at 203, 10 ar acs.
at soa & at aoe Is at ao2 e at at "a aea a az
2o2la, 10 at 2oa.s, 10 at 2o2la, 10 2o21a. Ian
100 at IFS. 100 at IT'S. After "siergeathaler
District, Of Columbia Bonds-ss 1902 aoyear
5S5s, ia2t, funding :las bid A'e' S''tA' i0' DID,
127 bid Metropolitan RAILROAD cert i1 indeht o.
.l15 bid Metropolitan Railroad cert. indebt, B.,
Il l,l bid So" nl Rai15ead g. 49, bid Columbia
Co. Co. series A. g. Us bid Washington Gas Go,
s 5ss bid ( s n a fs home
5s, 1o3 bid: American security and Trust IS, 100
Market Co. extn: 6s, Ill bid Masonic Hall .Asso-
citation 5s, los bid American Graphophone deb. 5s,
100 bid. Anacostia and Potomac 5s, 1861 bid.
National Bank stocks.-Bank of Washington, 355
bid. Metropolitan 4so bid, $40 asked; Central 100
bid Gtizens 1s9 biz bid Columbia l3 bid 1ss
asked 70 BID s se s
g. Safe Deposit and Trust Companies.
Security aa and Trust ss c
q bid I'D Mstropolisa 80 bid 81 asked cSreoran.
1853 bid German American, 219 bid. National
Union, 121s bid, IA asked Columbia, 14as bid,
149s asked. Riggs, 8 bid, 9H asked. Peoples 6ia
bid, 67s asked. Lincoln, 14A bid. Commercial, 1
bid, a.ked
Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate Title IS
bid. Columbia Title, bid. District Title, 2 bid,
asked.
Railroad Stocks.-Capital Traction Company 500
bid, 931s asked. City and Suburban, 37Is bid, 40
asked.
Gas and Electric Light Observation-Disclosures Gas,
56A bid 56N asked. Georgetown Gas, sc bid, IS
asked, United States Electric Light. $50 bid
Telephone Stocks Chesapeake and Potomac, 7515
Miscellaneous Stocks.-Mergenthaler Linotype
'2O2as bid. 202h asked. Lansten Monotype, IT'S
bd R asked american bGaRhoph9ns 12 bid
Pneumatic Gun Carriage, - BID IS asked Wash,
ington Market, II bid. Is asked. Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat. 115 bid.
dividend
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
FOR HOME RULE.
Members of bar Association Go on
Record.

Members of Bar Association Go on
Record.
With the passage of resolutions urging
the President to appoint a District man
to the office of United States attorney the
members of the bar interested feel that
they have done all in their power to fur
Their the continuance Of home rule in gov
erning nominations to this important posi-
ton. The resolutions, as outlined in The
Star Of yesterday, were unanimously adopt
ed at a meeting of local attorneys. held
late yesterday afternoon. A committee Of
five. consisting of Benjamin F. Leighton,
Robert Christy, William John Miller, Jas.
E. Padgett and Charles Merillatt. was ap-
pointed to present the resolutions to the
President and the Attorney General
Mr.. Thomas C. Taylor, who practices
law in the District of Columbia, objected
to the resolutions declaring they were
aimed at Mr.. Thomas H. Anderson, who
Is prominently mentioned for the district
attorneys office. Mr.. Anderson, he says,
has practiced in the local courts for a.
number Of years. Both he and Mr.. Taylor
were formerly Ohioans, the latter still re-
tanning voting residence in that state.
Mr.. Taylor did not vote when the resolu-
tons were adopted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
HAITI FAST RECOVERING.
Eject Of the Able Ffnanciering of the
secEftarD of the Treasury.

Eject Of the Able Financiering of the
secEftarY of the Treasury.
Minister Legere Of Haiti has returned,
after his summer vacation at Deer Park.
Hts last sdvices showed that Haiti WAS first
recovering from the effect Of the financial
crisis through which It has passed, and the
political disorders resulting therefrom. A
new secretary OF the treasury has been
chosen. Mr.. Herard Roy, whose ability as
f1nancier has restored confidence and has
already resulted In reducing the annual
budget frop about 100000 to $4.0OO,OOO.
which includes q considerable reduction Of
the military establishment and the govern
ment police system.
One Of the main. causes of the recent
financial depression was the low price of
coffee, but Haiti Is recovering from this,
partly by finding new markets for her
products in Cuba. Large quantities OF
bananas and other fruits, cattle. hogs and
sheep are being shipped to Cuba.
The Haitian government has granted
large concessions to develop it's copper re-
sources to an American syndicate headed
by Mr.. Muhleman, assistant United States
treasurer at. New York. Three American
engineers have been sent to examine the
mines, and word comes to Mr.. Legere that
the inquiry is most satisfactory. Nego-
tiations are also in progress by which the
Haitian deposits of coal will be developed
by parties in Kansas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
A RoOHAqranE Boycott.
From the Cepraand Plain Dealer

In note recently sent to this office an
nouncement was made that the young wo-
men of MertaH East End progressive
euchre club, had held a meeting of the or
ganization and Unanimously decided to
boycott the, Rig Consolidated, and to demand
that the young men of their circle shall
provide caxEiages for all functions until
the union B recognized
There aretboycdtts and boycotts, and this
one seems to possess about as many novel
features ash the most original of them.
Perhaps the enthusiastic young women of
the progressive euchre club failed to per-
ceive that an. arrangement whereby
quartet of nickels Is saved from the hun
CRY nav of the Big Consolidated at an ex-
pense Of perhaps So to some steady youth
will strike the outsider as something of
boomerang blow It's all right for the Iiv-
cry stables, of course, but it's death to the
young man. Then, again, 1t rouses suspi-
cionS that the young women are insidiouSly
planning to fix the Carriage habit" on the
unsuspecting young men. When the car
rage habit once becomes fixed 1t is a hard
thing to shake off. A young man who
knows that the girl of his heart expects
him to produce a carriage at the door every
time he takes her anywhere will either be
chary with his invitations or he will plunge
bringing an early day of saddest reckoning
From the chronic carriage habit there
are but two escapes-marriage or flight
It does seem, therefore, that the Young
women would have made the entire unself-
ishness of their stand against the railway a.
good deal stronger If they had omitted all
reference to carriages and functions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
AMERICAN TURF CONGRESS.
Annual Meeting in Chicago Well At
tended-Lfst of Delegates.

Annual Meeting in Chicago Well At
tended-List of Delegates.
CHICAGO. September 20.-The American
Turf Congress, which regulates the racing
in the west, convened in annual session
here today. The question of a racing cir
cult and division of dates is the all-im-
portant subject. There was at one time
some doubt whether the smaller tracks
would bring the matter to an issue in to-
days meeting, but the local racing officials
are now prepared for discussion of the
question. They are still in the dark as to
how the matter will be preached or from
what source. Chicago is said to be includ-
ed in the plan and shortening Of the local
season is intended. This will be fought
vigorously
The delegates to the congress are as fol-
lows: New Louisiana Jockey Club, G. 8.
Bush; Harlem Jockey Club, NJ. Nathanson;
Chicago Racing Association. c. c. Riley:
Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Capt. ]. H.
Rees; Tennessee Breeders Association, ].
w. Russeum Queen City Jockey Club, G.
c. Bennett or F. w. Fowler; Highland
Park Club. w o. Farmer; Washington
Park, James Howard; st. Louis Jockey
Club. Robert Aull or Joseph Murphy; New
Louisville Jockey Club w. F. Schultz;
New Memphis Jockey Club. NJ. N. McFar-
Ian; Arkansas Jockey Club, s. M. Apper-
son; Latonia Jockey Club, w. E. Apple
gate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
MISS YATMAN,s CONDITION.
Bicycle Rider Greatly Exhausted, hut
VIII Recover.

Bicycle Rider Greatly Exhausted, but
VIII Recover.
NEW YORK, September 20.-When she
had finished 600 miles Of her 700-mile jour
ney Miss Yatman's weight had dropped
from 121 pounds to 1861 pounds at the
finish to ia pounds. Her face was marked
and she appeared to be at least forty years
old instead of twenty-four. She was exam
ined by a physician, who said that she had
a temperature of 100 and was physically
exhausted, but would recover with proper
care. She felt hunger during a great part
of the ride and wanted solid food, which
her handlers refused to give, and she was
very thirsty At one time only diu she
take liquor, and that was before finishing
the last five miles.
Then drink of brandy was forced down
her throat to keep her up. She ate nothing
solid, and was sustained by beef extracts,
raw eggs, ice cream. cold tea, and a little
coffee. with a few soda waters and plenty
of chicken broth.
The last fifty miles were ridden in the
hardest kind of rainstorm. accompanied
by a strong head wind. The roads were
muddy and slippery. and the riding was
very hard.
Her time by centuries was as follows:
First, 9:35; second 1910; third, 1858;
fourth, 1851; fifth, II: AS; sixth, Hiss; sew
enth, 1916.
She rode a wheel weighing twenty-three
pounds and geared to IS. The run was
completed without miShap.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-20
SOLID WALLS OF WHEAT.
Five Thousand Acres of Golden Grain
on One Ranch In Oklahoma.
From he K ansas CITY

Five Thousand Acres of Golden Grain
on One Ranch In Oklahoma.
From the Kansas City Star.
Oklahomas largest wheat field lies a few
miles west of the small railway station of
Bliss, in Kay county. 1t contains 5000
acres. and belongs to the noted ranch
'1O1.' which controls 1900 acres of land
leased from the Ponca Indians Two hun
dred men. more than 300 mules and horses
and twenty-four big Irvine binders were
employed in cutting and shocking the grain
grown on this magnificent field this year,
and 1T was not until last Sunday, with an
army of laborers working night and day
for ten days, that the last acre was har-
vested.
Every principle of good farming was OBJ
served in cultivating this big field. with
the result that the total output will not be
less than 100000 bushels of as good wheat
as can be found in Oklahoma. 1t is esti-
mated that the average acre yield will be
flom 30 to % bushels. There are many
acres that VIII run from 40 to 30 bushels
Buyers have already offered 20 cents a
bushel for the entire crop. 1t is probable
that the owners will get from 60 to 10
cents, gross sum of $4,000 or $1,000
The cost of producing this wheat and put
ting it on board cars will be % cents a
bushel, leaving net profit of about $50
coo
Wheat was king in the Strip last week.
on ranch ''1o1" Numerically, a 5OD-acre
wheat field is not very impressive To ride
over it, however, in blazing sunshine is to
give rise tc the feeling that it covers the
face of the earth The 5000 acres of wheat
on ranch "101" are divided into two fields
of almost equal size by the Salt Fork river,
a stream that pours down a large volume
of water at this time of year Great vel
low undulations Of grain swept alongside
the river and then away toward the dis
tant hills, until they seemed to reach the
sky. 1t far across the fields that
the shocks look like a solid wall Of wheat
In the field the south side Of the river
the first circuit with a binder was made by
Superintendent Miller.
There was not man who could guess
how long 1t would take me to make the
round" said he 81 piled supply of
Irvine on my binder and started. It was
almost dinner time when 1 got back
was gone four hours and Travelled six
miles"
The distances are great on the ranch
that 1t is impossible for the men to turn
in at one place for their meals The loss
of time would amount to hundreds of dol
lars in a SEASON, n Accordingly camps are
established at different places, generally
close to a streafne. where the men live in
tents and The meals are prepared by ranch
cocks. ~