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ocaLa OCCURRENCE.
JOSH.

Mr.. NJ. j. ROess, OF Cornell, was
registered at the Ocala House Tues
day for dinner.
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Mr.. c. E. Douglas and family re-
turned from Ocala and will again
make their home in Fernandina.-
Fernandlna Star.
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Mrs. Sheldon Stringer passed
through OcaIa Tuesday afternoon on
her way to her home at Brooksville
from Waynesville, y. c., where she
has been spending the summer. Her
sou, Mr.. Frederick L. Stripger, of
Arcadia, met her in Ocala and ac-
cOmpanied her home.
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90 You Know What You are Taking

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula il
plainly printed on every bottle show
ing that it is simply iron and quinine
in a tasteless form. No cure no
pay, soc.
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Explosion Kills Miners.

Wallace, Idaho, Seut S0.-Two mi
ners have been instantly killed and
two others injured by the accidental
explosion OF a powder magazine al
Mammoth Mines, short distance from
the mining company Of the Black Bear
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Ex-senator Pfeffer, of Kansas, says
that the pOpulist party has been dis
solved to its original elements and its
members have gone back 70 the par
ties whence they came. The ex-
senator is a republican and is hid
away in a snug birth in Washington
City.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01

selected the dark hours of night for our
trip. Mendoza knew every foot of the
road, and, having started from Wallen
about 6 p. M, of lovely September
evening, we arrived without accident at
the old ranch about midnight. Here we
dismounted, partly to rest our horses, to
water them later on and partly TO sleep a
few hours, as we did not wish to enter
the town before daylight. We rubbed
our horses down, picketed them near by,
spread our saddle blankets against wall
of the house, and two of us prepared for
sleeping, while Wooster made little fire
inside the walls to cook some coffee. But
there was no sleep to be had. We had
hardly lain down when we seemed to be
alive with vermin, mostly fleas-tieas in
squads. platoons, companies, battalions,
regiments, brigades, divisions, and whole
army corps! That was under our cloth
ing. We were soon made aware, however,
that our outer surfaces were not to be
neglected: all sorts of bugs began to crawl
over us, big bugs, small bugs; Wooster
killed within 10 minutes TWO scorpions
and centipede, which, probably, attract
ed by the heat of the fire, came crawling
out from the chinks and crevices of the
old cracked walls; soon another army,
seemingly allies to the flea forces, came to
attack US. Already the skirmishers were
coming, and how well they shot! They
never made miss, and each shot was ac-
companied by buzZing not unlike that
made by distant shell traversing the air.
They We're musketos; they understood
their business. and they did it like experts.
There being no possibility of escaping
our tormentors, we resolved unanimously
that it was far better to arrive in Santa
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
His Remarkable Feat on the Big Bridge
ACROSS the Niagara

81 remember" said bridge contra ctor,
while on the subject of workmen's dare
deviltries, when working ut the big
bridge across the Niagara, when the two
cantieyer arms had approached within 80
feet Of each other, a keen rivalry as to
who should be the first to cross sprang up
among the men. A long plank connected
the two arms, leaving about two and a
half feet of support at each end. Strict
orders were issued that no one should at
tempt to cross the plank upon penalty of
instant dismissal. At the noon hour
suddenly heard a great shout from the
men, who were all staring up.
Raising my eyes. | saw u man step on
the end of that plank, stop minute, and
look down into the whirlpool below.
knew he was going to cross, and shouted
to him, but he was too high to hear. De
liberately he walked out until he reached
the middle of the plank. 1t sagged far
down with his weight until l could see
light between the two shore-supporting
ends and the cantiIevers on which they
rested. He saw the end in front of him
do this. hesitated, and looked to see how
the other end was.
l thought he was going to turn He
stopped, grasped both edges Of the plank
with his hands, and, throwing his feet up,
stood on his head, kicking his legs in the
air, cracking his heels together, and yell
ing to the terrified onlookers This he
did for about a minute-it seemed to me
like 40. Then he let his feet drop down,
stood up, waved his hat, and trotted along
the plank to the other side. slid down one
of the braces hand over hand, and regain
ed the ground. We discharged him, of
course, but what did he care? He got all
the glory, his fellows envied him, and he
could command work anywhere"
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Two Perfect Gentlemen

They were of foreign birth and newly
acquired riches. They entered the restau.
rant with much aplomb and mutual defer
ence. When Jacob called for trout, his
friend Isaac was too polite to ask for any
thing else.
The waiter brought in the double order.
And one fish upon the plate was large,
while the other. by contrast was pitifnlly
small. 1t was an emergency foreseen
by neither Jacob nor his friend. But the
courtesy of both would have edualled apy
crisis.
Jacob flung himself back in his chair
with a generous Indifference.
Isaac. hellup yourselfs.'
Jacob, id iss you who der honora bleness
shall haf."
Isaac, l insistings ubon idr'
Jacob, will you me to shtarve allow?"
With q deep sigh of content, Jacob
helped himself to the larger fish.
An awful silence fell. 1t lasted until
the third forkful found capacious immola-
ton behind the shrubbery of Jacobs
beard.
do you" inquired Isaac with bitter
ness. I'D ISIS boiteness machine. der pig
gest feesh to take?"
Didn't you," with elaborate suayity.
me to helup cmeinselfs reekvesty'
"But to der biggest feesh-"
well, if you yOurselfs hat first helluped
vich would yon took?'
Me" with JUNCTION of proud virtue. II
would hat took der liddest feesh."
"Vell. you got id, amt id?''-Lippin-
colts Magazine.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
&.SSWih the Regulars
AR in Ariz0f,a "a
zS28SSsS in the Sixties, 81
in The Sixties.
By JOHN A. SPRING.

ances were modern and on q much larger
scale. The agave is there cultivated in
large fields irrigated by immense bitches:
its leaves attain hight of 10 feet and
more, and the mescal heads are, of course,
proportionately large, having to be cut
into four or sometimes eight pieces for
convenient handling and transport.
A PROJECTED VISIT TO OLD MEXICO.
In my position as Quartermaster and
Commissary Sergeant of the camp, which
was no sinecure by any means, l had to
receive and check the grain and hay
as fast as these articles were delivered by
the contractors, to issue all clothing, ra-
tons, forage, horse medicines, etc. Be
sides, it devolved upon me to run" the
bakery, blacksmith, butcher and carpenter
shops, keep an account Of all the ma
terial used therein, and to make out all
the monthly returns. with their CORE
spending abstracts and many vouchers.
This latter part of my work was more tie
dious than difficult, because at first we
had very few blanks, and these had all
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01

and close personal friendship Of the men,
expected nothing of the kind. The great
adversaries clinked their glasses to en-
phasize their love for each other, drank
deeply, and then separated to fight ter
rife battle in their journals, all of which
created a phenomenal demand for the
Journal and the Advertiser.
PRENTICE AND THE PAPAws.
A little girl had been unsuccessfully
trying to sell some papaws. near the
Louisville hotel. Prentice. about half
seas over," came shuffiing along and the
child pleadingly appealed to him to buy
her papaws. Always kind-hearted and
sympathetic, he bought all she had, and
then, not caring to eat them, he stood ir-
resolutely looking upon the papaws, which
were so many little elephants" in his
hands. Finally. having gravely pondered
the matter, he took off his sombrero, de-
posted the papaws therein, and then put
the hat on his head again, pulling it down
hard. The fruit being rare ripe" the re-
suit may easily be imagined. The colored
juices streamed down over the philanthro-
pist's face. and he then made break for
a saloon near by, where, being well-known,
he was cleaned up and given a fortify-
ing portion of spiritus frumenti.
| often saw Prentice on the streets of
bent upon the pavement, slowly shutting
along, apparently oblivious of his sur
roundings. His familiar form in marble
occupies n niche in an external corner of
the Courier-J Journals building, where it is
plainly to be seen by the throngs of peo-
pie who pass along that busy street.
Whenever L pass that way my hand invol
unfairly touches my hat in reverential
homage TO him whose form that sculptured
marble represents. He died Jan. 81, 1870,
at the age of 81. Thus, in the language
of his immortal poem,
""Time, Time the tomb-builder, holds his
fierce
Career, dark, stern and pitiless,
And pauses not amid the
Mighty wrecks that strew his path,
To sit and muse, like other conquerors,
Upon the fearful ruin he has wrought"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
c. D. PENNEBAKER. JOHN PAUL JONES
PENNEBAKER & JONES,
Ind Counselors,

1881 F STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Special attention to adjustment of accounts Of civil
war Volunteer Officers.
We think very officers properly paid.
Widows even if remarried), other heirs, enti-
tied. Write for details.
We are especially anxious TO communicate with Off
GERS Tor their heirs who % were not paid for recruiting
services for services rendered prior In
(2) who were denied bounty by reason of promotion:
81 who dismissed from the service; a. who were
denied travel pay by of resignation for personal
reasons or convenience: (5l who not mustered
and paid because command was below minimum num-
be and 49, who lost U. s. pay by of State pay
ment
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
NARROWING ALLIGATORS.
A Perilous Sport in the Great Cypress
Swamp.
Country Life in America.)

Country Life in America.)
Alligators move rapidly under water,
are hard to see, harder to hit, and the har-
poon will penetrate only the least accessi-
bic portions of the body. Nor does the
| title to the hide necessarily pass with
making fast the weapon.
One afternoon in the Cheesehowitzkee
River, l harpooned large alligator which
towed me up and down the stream for an
hour or two and then sulked in its deepest
part. l pulled on the line until the boat
was directly over him and stirred him up
! with the harpoOn pole. He rolled himself
up on the line, in the manner peculiar to
sharks and alligators, and banged the boat
| suggestively. We rowed to the bank and
making fast to some bushes, hauled on the
line until We succeeded in worrying him
nearly to the boat, when he rose to the
surface and attacked us with open mouth.
We repealed the attack with harpoon pole
and rifle. The former was promptly bit
ten in three pieces, but the latter appar-
emily finished him. 1t was so nearly dark
that we decided to carry him in the skiff
mile down. the river to where our slOop
next morning. We broke the seats
out of the boat, and together man
aged to lift the head of the alli-
gator aboard and tie it. We then
tried the other end, when the reptile came
to life and landed blow with his tail
which lifted me out of the skiff into the
saw grass, with the breath knocked out OF
my body, and hand and face badly cut by
the grass. Boat and boatman were cap
sized. AS my rifle had fortunately been
left upon the bank, l was able to kill the
alligator again. We secured him by float
ing the boat under him and then bailing
IL out The alligator comnletely filled
the boat. SO that my companion and /
sat on his back as we padded down the
river with gunwales unpleasantly near the
water.
1t was growing very dark and the water
around US was becoming alive with ALI
gators. While we were rejecting upon
our overloaded condition, our alligator
came to life again and shifted ballast
until water poured over the gunwale. We
quickly balanced the boat, only to see it
again disturbed. and to ship more water.
A scramble for the shore followed, which
we reached without capsizing, and where
we left our victim for the night, after
again killing him. In the morning our
buzzard friend of the Homosassa River,
surrounded by his family, was sitting
above him in tree, waiting for us to
attend to our carving duties.
There are drawbacks to hunting in the
Great Cypress Swamp. Even natives
have been lost end have died in its re-
ccsses. II is bounded on the east by the
Everglades End on the west by a series
Of imnenetrahle mangrove thickets, alter
Uniting with deep channels. IL lost, one
should turn his face firmly to the north,
and, az q guide remarked to me, she
ought 10 get somewhere in three or four
days"
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Definite.
ATLANTA Constitution.)

Asked his age in court of justice
Georgia darby replied:
We'll, sub, | ez OF ez de big white-o oak
tree on Marse Toms plantation
And how old may that be?' inquired a
lawyer.
well. sub, eff l makes no mistake. de
whte-oak tree is de same age ez de mill
dam, EN- de mil-dam amt day older dan
de red barn. what come nigh ter ben'
burned up wen de stars felled.'
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
A Fine Kidney Remedy.

Mr.. a. S. Hitchcock, East Hampton,
Conn. (The Clothier), says if any sufferer
from Kidney and Bladder Disease will
write him he will direct them to the per-
feet home cure he used. He has nothing
whatever to sell.
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PENSIONS

If they can be had, we can get them Our
pension allowances in one week in the
present year have reached as high a
$50. This firm is one of the oldest estab-
lished and most successful, and has the
largest clieniage Of any practicins
before the Executive Departments.
EEr Officers accounts. and mill
tary and naval pay claims generally, receive
careful attention. We have secured favor
able settlement of as high as los Of these
claims in one week.
s1 Consultation free. Fee cd
Esls- dependent on success. va
MILO B. STEVENS & CO., Atiys.,
$50 lain 81. n. W.. W:,as,ia:IOa. ID. G.
Founded 1854 by Milo B. Stevens, l4th Ohis
Battery.
Branches at Chicago. Cleveland and Dc
troit.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE April l. 1897:
1.-The firm is worthy of confidence upon the
ground both of competency and honesty
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FRIENDLY FOES.

When l was boy l was familiar with
personal relations of Penn and Prentice.
indeed many of them are current in
Louisville and throughout Kentucky to-
day. | cannot vouch for the validity Of
the stories, however, and the reader will
do well, perhaps, if he accepts the fol-
lowing statements cum grano sails.
Although they were political and jour
nalistic adversaries, Penn and Prentice
were personally the best of friends, in
fact, boon companions, enjoying many
things in common. Both men INDUCED
in ardent spirits, in 'the old kentucky
way" Arm in arm they would visit the
''resorts," and sometimes they would i'm
bibe so generously as to lose the power
of naviGa ton" Upon such occasions kind
and admiring friends would put them to
bed-in the same room and in the same
bed. If Prentice should be the first to
sober up he would hasten to his ed toiial
sanctum and fire number of pasquinades
at the luckless Penn. For instance. Prem
tice would say in one of his inimitable par
agraphs that Penn was dead that
the statement was authentic, as he
had seen him laid out" with his
own eyes. Readers of the Journal,
knowing Prentice, would interpret the
mOrtuary asSeveration to mean that
Penn was dead drunk. People outside of
Louisville, reading the Journal and the Ad-
vertiser, were constantly expecting to hear
of tragedy-Of deadly personal en-
counter between the two editors. Louis
vile people. however. knowing the habits
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
PENSION BLANKS.
Official Forms for Use OF At
torneyS and Agents at Low
Prices.

We are prepared to furnish the follow.
ny bank forms upon Applications:
l. DeciaIatio for Invalid Pension, Act
of June "a. 1880.
2. Declaration for Guardian Of Chill.
iren Under IL Years of Age.
). Declaration for Original Pension Of
Widow.
4. Declaration for Restoration to the
Rolls.
5. Power of Attorney.
t.. Articles of Agreement.
Z. Declaration for Increase Of Invalid
Pension.
sion, under Act of July Il, 1862.
3. Declaration for Dependent Mothers
Pension, Act of June 81, 1890.
10. Declaration for Dependent Fathers
Pension, Act of June %, 1880.
IL. Power of Attorney and Articles OF
Agreement combined.
II. Declaration for Rerating OF an In
valid Pension.
Pension, Act of June p, 1880. and May 8,
IL. Declaration for Widows Claim for
Pension, Act of June q. 1890, and May 8.
1900.
Ii. Small General Atfidavits.
IL Physicians Aflidavits.
Is. Accrued Widows.
In ordering, please order by number.
These blanks are all according to the
form authorized by the Commissioner Of
Pensions, and are printed on good paper.
They will be sent by mail to any ad-
dress, postpaid, ut the rate of 10 cents
per dozen, 65 cents per 100, or s. Der
1000. assorted. Lots Of 1000 or more by
express.
TaE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
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Wanted, Land Warrants.

Issued to soldiers of the War of the Revolution
Issued to soldiers OF the War of 1917
Issued to soldiers of the War with Mexico
Issued to sol ers Of any war. VIII also purchase
urveyorGenerals Certificates, Agricultural College
Scri Sold ers Additional HOMESTEAD Rights. Forest
Reserve Land, any valid Land Warrants or Land
scrip VIII pay spot cash on delivery Of papers
W. e Moses. Jacobson Bldg, Denver. csia
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-01-01
A DAREDEVIL WORKMAN.

To be continued.)
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
PARENTS CAN'T TEACH.
Notable and Singular School Test De.
cision in Monroe County,
Pennsylvania.

Justice Robert Gruver, of Strouds-
burg, Pa, in the case of the Pocono
township school board against DR..
Richard Slice, of saltwater, has de-
cided against DR.. Slice, who imme diate-
]y entered bail for appearance at the
May term of court.
The school board recently arrested
DR.. Slice for not complying with the
compulsory school law. Arthur Slee,
a young son, was kept out of school
on account of poor eyes, and is receiv-
ing his education at home.
Both DR.. Slice and his wife are we'll
educated, the former college grad
uate, and DR.. G. M. Gould, of Philadel-
phia, an eye specialist, wrote the Sec
rotary of the school board that young
Slice must not attend school for the
present. The school board, however,
insists that the law must be en-
forced.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
SANTOS-DUMONT'S GROUND.
The Noted AerOnaut Intends Build.
ing Balloon to Garry Mt Least
Ten Persons. ..

Extending from the Rue Long
champs to the Seine, at Neuilt, is M.
Santos-Dumont's new balloon ground
of $4,000 square meters. It faces the
ground of the fashionable club of the
Isle Des Petteaux. FL, ~
Thirty-fve fir masts are to be part
of the framework of the big balloon
shed, which will have four partitions.
The two central aisles will be reserved
for big airships, the narrower ones
for the storage and repairing of the
various, Establishments"
M. Santos-Dumont said that the big
balloon which ' he intends building here,
the ''Santos4Dumont X.,'' will be Of
1000 cubic meters and the basket!will
carry at least ten persons.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
GOOD ADVICE TO PREACHERS.
Bishop Fowler Tells Theological
Students Not to Cable in
the Pulpit.

''If you expect to be only exhorters,
we've got another bench back there
which you may go way back and sit
down on" said Bishop Charles N. Fow-
Ter, the presiding officer of the New
Jersey Methodist conference, at AS
bury Park, addressing the conference
class of candidates. "You are not
called upon to gable or twaddle in
the pulpit" continued the bishop. IT
hope you have each a good wife. If
you have not, get one. Don't marry
her because she is pious; marry her
because she has good common sense.
If I had two women to choose from,
one with common sense and the other
with only religion, would take the
woman with common sense, for if g.
person with common, sense undertakes
this work she will be religious within
the next hour. A woman who is only
religious may backslide"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
A VALUABLE MARKET
South Africa Proving a Most Impor-
tant Commercial Field.
Conditions in That Part of the World
Assuming Normal PrOpOrtlOns,
and American Trade Relations
Are Very Promising.

South Africa is proving an impor-
tant commercial field now that con-
ditions in that part of the world are
returning to normal state. Figures
just received by the treasury bureau
of statistics show that the imports
into Natal in 1902 amounted to $75.-
100000, against $50.ooo,O0O in 1901; and
those into Cape Colony, $17o,00o,000
in 1902, against $120,000,000 in 1901.
This makes the total importationsi into
Natal and Cape Colony in 1902 $685.,
100000, in round terms, against $780,
100000 in 1901. This increase in the
importations into the South African
colonies is not merely a recovery from
the depression of the war period, but
is an actual and large gain over condi-
tions which existed prior to that time.
The importations into. Cape Colony
in 1894 were, in round terms, e 12.O 00,-
900; in 1896, e1s,oOO,O00; in 1897,
e1S,0OO,0O0; in 1899, e19,000,OO0; in
1901, e24,OOO,OOO, and in 1902, e 34,000,-
600. Into Natal the imports of 1894
were e2,5O0OOO; 1896, SIS, 100000;
1899, e6,5OO,O0O; 1900, e6,5OO,O0O; in
1901, 6 100000, and in 1902, 6 12.000,000
of merchandise, to which may be add
ed 6 1,25O,000 of government stores
and war material, s2,25O,OO0 of bullion
and specie, and half million for the
Transvaal government and for mill
tary purposes.
These statements of the rapid
growth of the importat tons into
South Africa are especially interest
ing in the United States because of the
rapid increase of our own exports to
that part of the world. Exports from
the United States to Africa have
grown from $5.OOO,OOO in 1892 to $685.
100000 in 1902, and in the seven months
of the fiscal year 1903, for which re-
ports are available, were nearly 49,
100000 in excess of those of the cor
responding months of the fiscal year
1902. Africa seems likely to prove,
in the. near future better field than
South America for the exporters of
the United States. To South America
our exports grew from $33. oo0,0 900 in
1892 to $3S, 0OO,O 900 in 1902, an increase of
$5,000,OOO; while to Africa, as already
indicated, our exports grew from $5,
100000 in 1892 to $50, 100000 in 1902,
an increase of $2S,000.0O0.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
Hotel For Sale.

The Scandal Hotel at Argyle,
Mimi, newley furnished and having
a good run Of business, is for sale,
or will trade for farm. A good
well which never runs dry is found
on the premises. Apply to the own
er.
Mrs. G. Hiaasen,
Box s., Argyle, MINI.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-04-16
American Coffee-Drinkrr.,.

The American people drank more
than $7o,0oo,0oo worth Of coffee last
year, but, says the Chicago Record
Herald, slept fairly well in spite Of it.