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The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

i erty in Greeley, see Scott i Lyon. They
have number of desirable properties on their
list.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

nor SALE-JERSEY cows INQUIRE
r X. F. ID. Not. H. ID. Ingersoll.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

TOR SALE-TO REDUCE STOCK, SPECIAL
prices for 30 days: Standard bred brood
mares colts and fillies. A pony outfit consist
ing OF pony. buggy and harness. safe for
Collie pups. A. L. Camp, Jr.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

WANTED INTELLIGENT GENTLEMEN
w or ladies for business proposition, guar
anteed salary $40 t, S15 per month, Call at
Union Hotel Parlor, two days.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

EOR RENT-ONE LODGING ROOM AND
L two rooms for light housekeeping. 1n
IuQuire 1927 Ninth avenue.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

LII KINDS OF JOB WORK. GREASE
"A traps, closets and moving dead animals a
specially. w. H. Senior. Phone lSo.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

+ tie six dry cows, nine l. and 2year old
steers, fourteen spring calves. three fall calves
Price ST. a head, +. p, Jessup, Bell phone b9-l2.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

lALE OR RENT-DITCH WATER. In
be Stanley Davis.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03
Cotton Blankets

Full l04 white aud tan double Blankets
s.0O quality mixed double Blankets. full 10 size \
Il % fancy notified plain tan aud fancy grey double
Blankets full l04 size.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

ENT-NO. . RIVER WATER. H. A.
BELL Greeley
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03

HLE-lal3 MOUNTAIN PEARL SEED.
tercer, LaGrange.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03
Heavy Wash Goods.

Heavy WASH UOOUS.
Fancy mercerized Waistings light shades,
worth 35c, alteration price ....... 2(c
2Oc fancy mercerzed Oxford Waistngs go yard 4c
All Of our best quality heavy heeced Flannelettes
worth up to l5c the yard lOc
36inch book fold Wrapper Flannes worth zoe, for &c
All our best l21sc heavy Outing Fannels go lOc
All Zoe Outing. the yard only ................7 &c
All wool Ederdown, for dressing sacques and cloaks,
worth 4Oc, go at............ ................ 3Oc
35c all wool srting and skrting Fannes the yard csc
25c all wool skrting 1annes the yard d........ 81
Fancy twiled Cretonnes for comforts and draperee
All of our best sc inch Skanes. 80
8 Pepperell Bleached Sheeting. the yard 11 &c
Another OF full standard &c Dress.
price the yard &c
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03
Underwear and Hosiery.

BUY NOW. Owing to the open great many have
put OH buying, but now is your opportunity.
Mems heavy ribbed feeced Shirts and Drawers,
good SOC value 35c
Mem heavy eeced Shirts Drawers 45c
Mems cames hair wool Shirts and Drawers,
eA'oo 'siuo .SS12c
Boys heavy velvet heeced Shirts and Drawers,
Boys heavy feeced ribbed Shirts and Drawers,
large siZes SOc
Same above smaller sizes l21bc
Ladies' wool ribbed Pants, small Sizes 65c value 35c
Ladies' cotton rib heeced Pants and Vests ....l5c
Ladies' extra heavy velvet heeced ribbed Pants
"uo 'ee'1' o'e bOc
Ladies' heavy eeced Pants and Vests quality csc
Ladies' fine rib black Hose, Just the weight for
"ihoi "eof' -oc 'diue... I@1ac
Boys extra heavy rib cotton Hose 25c quality l8c
Misses fine rib cotton Hose, 25c quality .......I9c
Childrens rib cotton Hose all Sizes good value lOc
Ladies' l2sc fast black Hose excellent value lOc
Ferris Good Sense Corset Waists
Childs Ferris Wasts sizaa vaare 5nc ,n,,y sn,
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03
Linens.

Buy your Christmas Table Linen and Napkins and
Table Sets Special reduction during Alteration Sale.
The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-03
VJ,ANTED-A SITUATION AS A HOUSE.
wv Keeper. Ranch preferred. COS 9th av.

WISCONSIN RURALS-THIS YEARS seed
w for sale. Ollie OFarrell, R. F. d. 3, Ind
phone %.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

wife and two children, whom he has been obliged long before to send home t0 the wife's mother. Like the story of Rey- noIds' tramp. there was nothing out of the ordinary with the exception Of the manner in which he stammered ans ehook telling it."
 At this point Caruthers appeared to exs perience some little difficulty In articszv
 lating. When he had recovered. "Real-
 Iy." He finished, 'it was distressing; m0ak
 distressing. It grieved me deeply I thrust five dollar bill Into hie hand and hurried away" E He had hardly time to resume his seat. when three members of the club roas eizn- uitaneously.
 There's some fraud about thisiss thay cried. s'We went together. We eaw xhw same man. He had the same wife and two children who were living with the same old mother-fn.law. By Jovel We were so distressed we gave him 6 apiece.
 and that made fifteen good old solid dol.
 lars between us."
 They flung themselves back in theft
 chairs and gazed in an excited and fn-
 dignant way from one face to another
 in search of some reasonable explanation of the phenomenon. l
 The newspaper man suddenly stooH. Te was as if he had just walked up.
 ''Was he tall and thin?" he duestiuneA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

Did he wear a shaggy red beard. lona hair. an old slouch hat and a ragged gray overcoat out at the elbows and fringea with a mighty fringe around the hnm9 I say. were his shoes old. and did he 60 Oarehanded in the snow7'
 ''Yes. yes." answered the rest in c chorus. "all that, and more"
 Then" declared the newspaper man. 'T. too, took out a i've dollar bill and made him a present of it." And, falling Imply back in his chair. he took to tar- ping the arm of 1t with impatient fTa. gers.
 The artist had slipped out of che room.
 After period he returned. transforms ed.
 His beard was shaggy and red, his shoes were worn at the toes and down at the heels. his hat was one of the slouch variety. and his overcoat was gray and long and 50 fringed at the hem as to assume the appearance of having been fringed Intentionally.
 Ten fingers pointed at him
 That" shouted ten voices, ''is the mani"
 The artist bent a humble and apolo- getio head man"
 But you are . member of the caub,s they stormed. You knew all abont our plan of relieving the poor. You had part of the money yourself Why UId you take ours2''
 The artist shrugged weary shoulders, Ha spread out two deprecating hands.
 am an artist" he explained simply. T needed it."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

ing I was in the calaboose. sentenced to be shot at sund own. It wasn't ve pleas ant waiting. l was quite glad when a gold-laced officer entered the cell toward evening with a paper informing me that His Excellency the Citizen President had been pleased to pardon me in cOnslHera- ton of the request of the American Min ister. and of the fact that 1t was Christ mas day.
 'I believe they had never intended to shoot me, but ony to frighten me, for they hardly dared to touch a white man whose country owned a navy that might Lombard their ports. Anyh W l got out of jail In time to eat my Christmas din- ner with some American and English friends on a coffee plantation near Mira goane."
 A Queer Christmas.
 An American gIobe-trotter tells how he once spent a Christmas hunting a croco- die in Jamaica. West Indies
 The crocodile was a famous ol1 bee st with a great local reputation. Ire me- groes swore 1t was about thirty feet iong and a hundred years old. For miles around, they lived in mortal terror of 1t. Besides carrying off goats and pigs. 1t used. If local legends may be trusted. to take a stroll now and then d )wn the main street of a riverside village and drive everybody helter-skelter indoors.
 As the American was sitting down to a Christmas breakfast at the table cf a hospitable planter the negro butler rush ed in. shouting excitedly:
 "Lahd. sah! Here's a ting hll De ole crok'di him nyam (eat) Nippy.'
 The planter was very indignant, for Nippy was hls faEorite dog.
 ''I'll kill that CT 3codile today, If waste my Christmas over it." he swore.
 After a long hunt. the COG 1dile was found buried beneath the mud in a shall low bend of river on the plantation. The hunters only carried small shotguns, which were usele-s against the beasts tough hide, covered as 1t was with sev- eral inches deep in mud.
 But the planter was a man of resource He sent hurriedly for negroes, and set them to work to construct two strong walls of bamboo poles across the bed of the stream. thus enclosing the crocodile in a prison, from which 1t could find no escape.
 After the walls were built. everybody hid quietly in the tall grass on the oanks and waited. Hour after hour they laid there. Their Christmas luncheon consist ed Of sandwiches and a flask of rum punch.
 It was not until the end of the after noon that the crocodile. finding if couId not break through the bamhoo barriers. crept out of the water. Before if could drag the whole of its huge carcass out of the mud. 1t was lassoed and haul-d to- ward the bank by twenty wiling hands
 Aoo surprised to ofrer resistance, the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

beast at first suffered itself to be almost dragged on to the bank; but 1t caught on the edge with Its forepaws and made a desperate struggle. Twenty yelling ne- groes hung on to the other end of the rope but could not drag that crocodile up; they could only prevent 1t from Hopping back into the water again Honors were easy in that terrific tug-of-war.
 At last a yoke of eight oxen had to ba brought. They soon dragged the beast to the bank. where 1t was tied round a tree and despatched with axes and mschetes.
 While the creature was being slain the negroes became wildly excited. Some gave vent to their feelings by dancing around and pl litely inquirlng of the croc- odile, How you feel now. eh. Massa Tom? or ''Warra. no more pickneys fe you. eh. Mdssa Tom?"
 They carried him to the house in cart, which they decked out with wild flowers and palm fronds. The whole pop ulation of the plantation turned out Aanc- ing and singing in triumph, to follow tha enemy's corpse.
 And, sir" the American always con- cludes that was the queerest Christmas ever 'pent and I've had many strange and curious ones"
 (Copyrlght, 1913. by T. c, McClure)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

The Globe-Trotter Spends the Queer est and Most Adventurous Christ masses Towadays-some Thrilling Stories Told by Men Who Have Faced Death in Remote Corners of the Earth on Christmas Day Christmas at Sea on a Life Raft How a Dream of Rescue on Christ mas Day Came T--e-Storm-worn Sailors Who Had an Albatross In- stead of Turkey for Their Christ mas Dinner or the Horn--A Dinner That . Rattle Tnterrupted-An Amsrican's Christmas Peril in Hayti-A Queer Fight With a Crocodile on Christmas Day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
How British Museum Was Started.

Harper's Weekly.
 An observer recalls the interesting cir cumstances of the establishment of the British Museum The funds for the inSti- tuition were raised by a lottery, which was authorized in 1753 by an act of Parlia- ment. the Archbishop of Canterbury. the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker being the managers and trustees, each to re- ceive 100 pounds as an honorarium. The amount of the lotteryy is said to have been $1,5OO.OO C3OoO0O pounds), which was raised by 3 pound tickets to provide 200. )o0 for prizes. varying in value from 10000 pounds to 10 pounds, and 100000 pounds for the purchase of the Museums nucleus the Sloane collections and the Harleidn Library; also to provide for the acquisi- tons and to meet other expenses. It will be remembered that the lottery became notorious through the activities of a cer- tain Peter Leheup. who shrewdly cor- uered the tickets and had them sold at a premium. Leheup was afterward prose- cuted for breach of trust and fined 1000 pounds which could not have troubled him much. as his profits from the deal were 4O.0O0 pounds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

of the club situated on his left. you may
 relate your experience last night in help ing the poor According to our agree ment. If you remember. we were to ex- pend a certain amount in charity on Christmas eve. not only for the purpose of giving immediate relief so far as our funds went, but in order to ascertain
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
The Tramp ON THE
 Park Bench
A Christmas Story by ZOE RSnM MORRIS

 Copyright, 1903. by Zoe Anderson Norriso It was Christmas night, and the Phll' anthropists' Club was holding It's usual celebration of the festival. The Christ mas dinner had arrived at the stage of the demi tasse and remarks.
 Naturally the president was the first to speak.
 Reynolds" said he, indicating by the gesture of a massive hand the member
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
Kind Old Man.

Ascum-What did that rich old uncle of yours give you for Christmas? Something use full. I'll bet.
 Hauskeep-Yes; little device for saving coal bills.
 Ascum-Ah! An arrangement to attach to the heater hill fila
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
A Treasure Tree.

One of the most famous Christmas treea an history was erected ct Windsor Castle in tha early foFties. It was not SO very FennarfabIe for it's height which was forty feet, but fus the fact that ln tlRe aggregate It's crop oe pres ents amounted in value to S4Sooo or ths value Of the product os e,ooo aaras a9 sssa land
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30
CASPIAN WON OHIO PURSE.

Cincinnati, Sept. 29.-The Ohio Stake
OF $4,000, three heats of one mile each.
for trotters of the 2:O9 class, was card
ed as the feature of the second day at
the Oakley Park Grand Circuit meet
lng but it proved a disappointment
Lilly Buch was withdrawn a short time
before the first heat, because of lame
ness. This left Caspian the choice of
the bunch. He won the first two heats
and the third went to Hawthorne
Summary:
The Horse Review. purse $4,000 for
Z-year-old trotters. Alta Axworthy won
second and third heats and race; Grace
Bond, first heat, second; The Hermit
third Time PA 3-5.
2:OS Pace-PWse. $1,000. Council
CHIMES won second and fourth heats
ana race; Larry Ginter, third heat,
second; Baron Rogers, first heat, third.
Best time 2:O7A. s.
Inc Ohio-Purse, $1,000 for 2:09 trot-
Iers. Caspian Won first and second
meats and race; Hawthorne, third heat.
2:O9A. f st'ffti9t 39sR' Aiiiie
2:8o Trot-Purse $1,000. Bessie
brown Won in two straight heats:
paIoh Wedgewoods second: Alberto
tnrla; Best time, 2:13A.
~ 80 Paee-Purse. $1,000. Irish Elder
"on IA Two straight heats; C. o. D..
second Hard Case third. Best time
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30

meeting Cresceus, the champion trot-
ting stallion, won the 2:OS trotting
class in 2:071a and 2;0634 In 1901, at
Memphis, on Oct. 26, he signalzed the
close of the season by defeating such
fast sidewheelers as Riley B., Ana
conda- and Indiana in 2:021z and 2:00%
His season last year was a most
brilliant one and presaged his culni-
mating triumph He was engaged in
twelve races or efforts against the
watch and in every case proved him
self to be a racehorse of the greatest
galneness and stamina. His first
great engagement was at Brighton
Beach on Aug. Ia, when he defeated
his old-time competitor and antagonist
Anaconda, in 2:03H and 2:04z. At
Providence, on Aug. %, in the free-for-
all, he was second to Anaconda in
2:0234 and 2:02. Sept found him at
Hartford, where in battle of three
heats he won the first and third in
2:03A and 2:04A. The half mile tracks
have always been his favorites, and at
Bethlehem, Pa, on Sept. 10, he won
in 2:05 and 2:0512. On Oct. 3, at Tren-
ton, n. j., he won again in 2:O7 and
2:081a.
He also won at Hagerstown, Md,
and at Philadelphia, He wound up
the season at Memphis. in the most
brilliant style. On Oct. 25 in the free
for-all he defeated Harold H. and Dan
R. in 2:02h and 2:03A On Oct 81, in
a half mile race he defeated Sir AL
bert S. in SIN seconds, winning the
half mile championship. Oct. 20 he
paced against time in ,2;O1%; on Oct
81 in 200 and on Nov. / in 2:00A, and
it is worthy of note that on the same
track on Oct. Is the best that Dan
Patch could do was 240f5s.
This season he has won both the
half-mile track and the mile track
championships. He captured the for
mer in 2:0S12, and comparing the trot-
ting with the pacing gait, it will be
we'll to remember that CResceus has put
the half mile trottingz mark at POS,
showing the PAGERS still four and a half
seconds ahead, while on the mile track
Lou Dillen's record of ZOO is three sec
onds behind the mark made by Prince
Alert at the Empire City track last
"Wednesday.
Of that wonderful performance too
much cannot be said. 1t is true the
track was perfection and that the
weather and wind conditions were fav-
oratble, but at that the performance still
remains the most marVelously brilliant
on record. 1t was not merely the speed;
it was it's frictionless perfection. The
equine motor was a realization. To the
quarter the veteran hero of a hundred
races went in 29la seconds as though he
was simply taking norning spin; as
he shot to the half he seemed to say
to himself, II will just spread myself
a little" and as he flashed by the post
the watches stopped at So seconds.
Then, with all the concentration of
power and speed developed to it's per-
feet extent, he came on and around the
RI 10 N
1:26A and home to the wire in 1:57.
Since the days of that greatest of all
the queens of the light harness brigade,
Goldsmith Maid who made her cham
pion record of 2:14 when II years old,
there has heen no such instance of con-
tinuous progress and such a magnificent
climax as Prince Alert's mile in 1:57.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30

From the Philadelphia Record.
"Why does an oyster sleep and live on
its left slider asked a man who is in
terested in oyster culture We'll, /
suppose we will have to put the ques-
ton to nature, and nature has her own
way of answering questions. have
been around in the oyster waters OF
the Chesapeake bay and Choptank riv-
err for many years, and am In a posi-
ton to say that this is the natural
position of the oyster. ! may remark
parenthentically that this is one of
the difficulties we have to contend with,
for in rebeddipg oysters and punching
upon it's right side and weighted so
that it cannot turn over II simply
dwindles away and dies by degrees.
Put upon its right side the oyster cam
not live.
"Of course, there is an explanation
of this popularity. The right hand
part of the oyster shell is the top and
movable part. If the oyster is put in
its natural position, that is on its left
side, it requires but a small amount
of physical energy to open and raise
the right hand section OF the she'll when
the oyster wants food. Reverse the po-
sition and put the oyster on the right
side and We find an extremely diff
cult problem from the oysters stand
point. In order to open the shell for
feeding purposes ii is necessary for the
oyster to raise not only the weight of
the left section of the shell, bat its
own weight as well. If we reverse the
natural position Of the oyster, put 1t
on its right side and wedge is so it
can't turn over, we simply smother
and starye it to death. OF course ] am
just theorizine about this thing. There
may be some other explanation of the
left-handed life of. the oyster, but from
my experience / am inclined to think
the explanation given is a reasonable
one"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30
PRINCE ALERT,
KING OF LIGHT HARNESS,
A PLEBIAN BY BIRTH

When Prince Alert, at the Empire
City track, paced his wonderful mile
in 1:57 and became the champion and
king of the light harness brigade, he
eclipsed the performance of Lou Dillon,
the trotting queen, by giving a solar
plexus blow to the orthodox belief in
blood lines and lordly lineage.
Though Lou DillOn's pedigree has in
it none of the fashionable strain of
Electioneer, George Wilkes, Fleetwood
or Mambrino Patchen, it does trace on
both sides to the line through Strath-
more and Happy Medium to HANDLE
tonan 10.
Prince Alert, who cut the light har-
ness marks for PAGERS two seconds be-
low the mark made by Dan Patch at
Brighton Beach, is the plebeian of the
turf. He has no lordly line of long
descent. His sire, Crown Prince, is not
standard, and his dam, Till, is of I'M
known pedigree.
However, it may be as well to remem-
Der that though Crown Prince pro-
duced nothing to speak of but the pres
ent champion, sris sires, ARENAS, with
but few opportunities, put twenty into
the standard list, seven of which were
PAGERS. ARENAS was by that grand
foundation of trotting speed, HANDLE,
tonian 10, and his dam was Dolly Mills,
the dam of Orange Girl, by American
Star. SO that whatever known speed
inheritance which the present cham
pion has he gets from the grand old
horse who made Orange county, New
Jersey, famous.
Unlike Dan Patch and Lou Dillon,
who in one or two seasons became ia
NOUS, Prince Alert has been upon the
turf for the past eight years, and has
graduated from all sorts and condi-
tions of tracks. He was foaled in 1892,
and began his active career on the
turf When years old. Indiana is IA
NOUS as the breeding ground for pac-
ers, and it was therefore natural that
he should have been bred there by G.
w. Fort of Kingston, and that at
Richmond in the same state, Sept.
II. 1895, he should have made a record
of 2:15A.
What a most marvellous horse he is
is shown by the fact that for eight
years he has been campaigned from
spring to fall over all sorts of tracks
and with different owners and drivers,
and yet to-day is as playful as a kit
ten and as sound as a new gold eagle
from the mint
In 1896 he took part in ten races
and at Boston, on Oct. 3, he reduced
his record to 2:12%. In 1897 he was
engaged in sixteen races, and again
at Boston reduced his record on July
to 2:O7%. His career in 1898 was
grand success. He won the majority
Of his races and cut his marks to
2:O7A at Albany, N. Y, on July %.
In 1899, at Providence, r. l., on Sept.
Is. he reduced his record to 2:05s4, and
in 1900 he entered the free-for-all brig
ade, taking a record of 2:02 at Cleve-
land, O., July q. In that race he de-
feated Anaconda and Indiana, ana IL
is worthy of note that at the same
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-30
RESULTS AT HARLEM.


lem: ssefs' - 4Ae'
WIS., Kaee-Five furlongs. William
w r,sht, : to 5, won, with Enverite, Il
thIrd Time 100 rs. ~ - :
second Race-one mile. Colonial Girl
op % ,, won; with Talpa. to /, sec
la 1-5. y ~ = liiifu' Alnle
Ba rm;Iu kace-Mile and a quarter Our
II nief IS 70 ;, Won. with br. Stephens,
2 ~ . second, and Postmaster Wright,
20 J. third. Time 2:O7.
10 ~ TuIIn Race--Six furlongs. Toah, Z
seco dy' won, with Golden. Rule. 2 10 /,
Time 1:14A. ~ J. 'Nirp
Droanh kace-Six furlongs. Ocean
son nam D. to TO- won, with Mayor John
third. Time TIA ~
Fnesiii h@ee--Nile and sixteenth.
!" ,e TO ?. won, with Marshal Sea Sea.
"'rd. Time Las ~ ~ -