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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

Will you listen to that Ole Olson mon
| ologue,' said the poolroom man, address
ing Sans friends at the card table. Where
dye suppose the square head thinks he is
doing a lumberjack stunt in a Wisconsin
logging camp? Sam, this Yellowtail lie
spilled cottage cheese, and he's run dead
last four straight times, but just because
you've got pink hair, why, III give you
5000 for that ticket Of yours
"'G'way,' eaid Sam, shufiing the cards.
Anybody but a steerage passenger d
know. without looking, that Yellowtail,
beat a fat man in a Mother Hubbard. But
III make allowances for you, Sam. You
can sell me that ticket for $40 ,0Oo.'
High, low and jack, said Sam to his
fellow players, ignoring the poolreom mans
persi1age.
Just at that minute the operator an
nounced a number OF scratches in HI Yellow
tail race at the California track. The house
prices were Immediately rubbed. Then the
track prices came in, and Yellowtail was
marked UP at 8 to 1 to win, even a place
and / to 2 third, Swede Sam hav ing
taken 2 to 1 third against the house
betting. Then the poolroom mar looked
worried for fair. With most Of the real
contenders scratched, Yellowtail looked the
best, in spite Of his recent poor races.
Last call, and no kidding, SAM said
the poolroom man. IN give o SOS 900
for you ticket
Give 'em a good shuttle this time. said
Sam to the dealer.
Then Sans card playing companions
began to prod him. They told him he was
a bone-head to refuse the SIS 900 for a ticket
that had only stood him 81 900,
eSam shoof1ied EN-, although they roasted
him good, and the poolroom man quit
dickering.
Then they we're of at the California
track.
-'Yellowtail in the stretch by a face
u out the operator, and the Swede
didn't leave Off playing his little seven up
gam for two bit stakes for a minute while
the race was being called of.
Now, curl up, you yellow dog!' rooted
the poolroom man, meaning Yellowtail.
''Yellowtail wins, e~-e-e-easy, by five
lengths called out the operator, and there
was a big roar all over the place, for all
hands knew about Sans ticket.
'It's my Zeal, amt it?' said Sam to
bis fellow players, never batting al eye.
"''God loves the Irish, but the Swedes
get the kale, a bunch Of fellows around
Sans chair began to sing in chorus, but
Sam never seemed to lose a minutes interest
In the quarter stakes seven-up game,
YOU'RE the luokiest immigrant that
ever wooden shoed it through these rooms
said the poolroom man disgustedly, ap-
preaching Sam then. or all the PIN
lidded--'
kick on that race at Frisco sung out
the operator just then. Foul claimed
against Y~ellowtail.'
s'Yee-owl Watch ne yeti howled the
poolroom man. Watch mel
Hey, boy, give us a new deck O. cards.
said Sam to the waiter.
Foul allowedl' sung out the telegrapher
q couple Of minutes later, and the pool
room man was in the middle OF the floor,
doing a war dance IN his hat.
II wasn't made TO have any pink haired
.scapdihooBban alp me q oitron like thntp
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

Montana started a $4s 900 to 81 1000 tune
down in a Hot Springs poolroom four or
FIVE winters ago. Swede San was the big
noise among all the high slddders playing
them in the Hot Springs poolrooms that
season. He was q hunoh player pure and
simple.
zone afternoon he turned up at the main
room with four horse names rafting around
under his flaxy hemp, and all Of them pretty
bad ones. He had 'em written out on a
piece Of paper, and he slid the piece OF
paper under the nose Of the proprietor Of
the room. The four horses were Kentucky
Colonel, Marcos and Witful at New Orleans
and Yellowtail at the California track.
Tm-soft, soft for me, Sam said the
poolroom man. Breakfast food. Con-
densed soup. Add hot water and serve.
Want EN- separate or oombined2'
Combination said Sam. grinning, for
he knew the horses we're punkerinos, but
couldn't forsake his bunch on them.
House or track oddsT' asked the pool.
room man.
'What're you got chalked up nowf' said
Sam, and the poolroom man made some
motions with his pencil.
Only two OF 'em straight-the other two
third, put in Swede Sam. I want Witful
and kentucky Colonel to cop and Marcos
and Yellowtail on the limbsky.'
Witful and Kentucky Colonel to win,'
repeated the poolroom man, gazing at the
board where the house prices we're marked
up, and Marcos and Yellowtail third. Fig
ures AZ to 1 that way. How mucnf
oh, five hundred said Sem, offhand,
passing over a 81 900 bill.
Chop that piking,' said the poolroom
man, stringingly. I need this NJ note to
pay of the hands-it's Saturday
An right-the thousand goes said SAM
and the poolroom man scrubbed him q
$4s, 900 to 81 900 ticket. That was the big
year down there, with Pittsburg Phil, Kid
Weller, Charley Ellison, Whitley Langdon
and a lot Of the other main squeaks push
ing in all kinds Of big change.
Then Sam and three others went OF
into a corner Of the room and played seven
up for two bits a game to put in the time
until the results should street along.
Kentucky Colonel was Sans first to
trek to the tape by five lengths, and then
Witful glided home alone in front Of her
handicap company, under wraps, although
her form for a number Of previous races
had been very POOR. Then Marcos, one
Of the real sad propositions In the racing
game Of that day, tottered in a distant third
to a couple Of even sadder ones in his race;
and Swede Sans buff colored ticket began
to make a noise like q possibility The
room proprietor looked O bit saggy In his
spirits when Marcos got the limb posi-
ton. In fact, he nudged over to where
Swede Sam was playing cards with bis
friends.
Hey, you s~candihoolihan hunch bug
he said to Sam, what's the present price
Of that piece Of ~pasteboard I slipped you
a while baok?'
sForty-nine thousand bones replied
Sam, promptly.
Don't make me- laugh this way when
you know I'm getting my teeth treated
said the poolroom man. My gums are
sore, and 1t hurts. What's that figure you
mentionedP
'Torty-nine thousand buckle said Sam,
tossing . -seard down.
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STUCK TO FOUR HORSE PARLAY
SWEDE SANS PLAY THAT UPSET
THE POOLROOM MAN.

Had o lunch and wouldn't Give 1t Even for
IN OHer OF SIS 900 for His 81 1000
Tieket-HIs Last Horse, Disqualified,
but Placed In the Money, Won for Him.
"a mud nut matey of mine made a parlay
the other day that's kept him moulting
foam ever since the last horse in the COM
bination also'd on him, said a racing man.
he isn't so sore on the horse as he is on
himself, for he had all kinds OF q chance to
orawfsh on the parlay; but he was there
with the frozen mule neck and couldn'
sec the chance the handbook man gave
him to worm out at a big profit, and 80 he's
been going around ever since saying things
about himself that d make him liable for
criminal slander if he felt like entering suit
against himself-and he's pretty near pig
headed enough to do that.
sHe couldn't get to the track that day,
and 30 he sauptered around to the plant Of
a handbook man in the forenoon and pushed
in o fifty paper on o five horse parlay, all
Of EN- to streak first. 1t didn't look like
any moral to him, that parlay, but he could
MT let a whole day get by without some
action. The combination was to wind up
with Ormondale. Two Of them were run
ming at Toronto in the first two races there.
The other three were Long Islanders,
O%rmondale to make the final connection.
my fat lid friend slid down own after
lunch to get the returns. When his two at
Toronto and the first two at the track here
creased by with as good as 3 to 1 against
one Of them and the others at fair favorite
odds he began to figure On an auto launch.
The parlay Of those four winners paid
- n,No - ecn oal u,Iao Orp1NnIala-
he executed a couple Of wing steps at this
stage Of it. they tell me, for he couldn't
see how Ormondale could help but win.
His handbook man nudged along to him
q quarter Of an hour before the o~rmondale
race was due.
Want to close That parlay as 1t lays2'
the handbook man said to my pulp pate pal.
Pays $500 to your $50, and that isn't any
such embalmed canned goods, is it2'
You for the old ewimmin' hole, was the
best the handbook man got for his. Stop
that squealing. Ma duck now, with a pink
ace like Ormondale sticking out from
underneath the table cloth? Run away
now, and sell the rest Of your shoestrings.'
Ten minutes later the fash poked along
that both Whimsical and Cairngorm had
brushed home in front of O~rmondale in
the four horse race and Ormondale at 2
to S, which wouldn't have boosted the
parlay such a hull lot ever IL he'd COPIED.
THE conversation that my friend has
been applying to himself ever since for not
having closed out the decker before the
o~rmondale race may relieve his mind a
little, but it doesn't get him anything. We
all push his profanely expressed penitence
along. too, by agreeing right out loud
with everything that he says about him.
self.
1T all reminded me Of some other parlay
Jokes that I've seen played out at different
times.
One Of them was when Swede Sam Of
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and one crop OF tobacco on the same lana
| in one wear and they have been doing ms
for more than one hundred al hfty years.
In Two years they can raise two crops o.
tobacco and three crops Of corn. :
They make staple products OF corn ana
cotton, rice and suSar cane. They raise
camotes, Irish potatoes, onions and peanuts
in enormous quantities; and they produces
oocoanuts, guava and copra for foreign
shipment. Strangeto say, they raise oranges
in this valley and they have an Immense
orange as large as a mans " hsts put
together, which though green when FUZZY,
ripe has a delicious flavor and Ia not ADD
az ia the case with some Of the Phiippinos
oranges. Cotton grows wild. 1t Is NOS
indigenous to the valley, but took to the;
soil when transplanted and now people
repard it almost as a sort Of pest that muse
be burned out
Almost every stranger who comes up
the Cagayan likens it to the Mississippi
River. Now the river runs In a broad
and gentle current; the low banks dis
close hundreds OF plantations where tho
natives are at work on tobacco and sugar
cane plantations or corn fields FIAT Dol
toned river boats take OF their cargoes!
which are rolled down the banks in hugo
bales,
Again the river narrows; great bfuhs'
$50 to 200 feet high and thickly covered
with oaks, lend a picturesqueness to the
view. while in the distance the suns rays
catch upon the roof of some huge tobacco
warehouse OF upon the tiles OF an immense
church built by the Spanish padres;
then at another stage the river banks meet
dense forests of immense trees which are
covered with huge climbing vines, winding
about them like giant pythons. In these
forests thousands Of monkeys dwell, while
great focks Of white parrots rise from thS
woods and circle for a brief ome over
the river before they return to the forest
with chattering din. Now the river flows
past great plains filed with cattle. Along
It's mud banks thousands Of native womeni
clad in garish print goods, are squatted
down washing clothes by. beating them
In the river and near the bank, perhapsl
a black lump and two horns mark the
location Of a submerged oarabao, while
native on a bamboo raft glides swiftly
across the river towed by a swimming
carabao and hanging to the o~reature's
tail. Near its mouth the Cagayan almost
seems to stop; the river divides itself into
hundreds Of channels which. thread their
way among low lying islands with green
jungles Of a
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he bawled. 'Yellowtaill Yellow h

he bawled. 'Yellowtaill Yellow hi
Wow!
Then the key began to rattle again,
while the operator, with his chin thrown
back as he listened to the message, looked
surprised.
'Yellowtail, the operator announced, lie
disqualified for first place. but placed
third
"The rule had recently gone into effect
on the California tracks that q horse dis
qualified and set back for interference
shouldn't be put at the bottom Of the list
but only roped back to the third position.
and Yellowtail was the very first bene-
lciary under that new rule.
THE horsemen in the room quickly
tumbled to the meaning Of the thing, after
having forgotten about 1t when word was
received Of Yellowtail's disqualification.
''Yellowtail gets third and Sam copsl'
was the big bawl then, and the poolroom
a war dance came to a sudden finish.
Ten minutes later the stolid Sam strolled
out with the $40 900 that he'd stood out for
when there was a bad horse In bad form
yet to run for him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
SHE TOOK NO CHANCES.
Precaution OF the Top Floor Gin Before
Going to Coney Island.

Precaution OF the Top Floor Gin Before
Going TO Coney Island.
what did you bring your pocketbook
for?" asked the nice young man when he
and the top floor girl with the pug nose
started for Coney Island. Il can put your
key in my pocket
II didn't bring it on account Of the key
said the top floor girl. q have So in here.
1 thought we might need il before we got
back"
swelll' exclaimed the nice young man.
He looked as II he would like to say more,
out was prevented from further utteranoe
by sheer indignation.
ooh, you needn't get angry said the girl.
1T has happened before under ciroum-
stances fully as propitious as these.
'Once l went on a pleasure jaunt down
the bay In care Of an escort who, to all ap-
pearances, had money enough to carry us
through all kinds Of emergencies. 1t seems,
however, that I overestimated his af-
fluence.
Fortunately I took my own pooketbook
along, not as a matter OF precaution, but
from mere force Of habit. Just before we
started home Mr.. Jinls began to eye my
purse GENEROUSLY.
4'What IL the NATTER I asked. Arc
Wv w eAAtOSt
'Mr. Jinls confessed that we were.
"a fellow spends so c~onfoundedly much
at these places. he said. i went broke
before | knew IT,
well, said I, I have a little change with
me. We can use that to get home on
Since then l have made it a point to carry
my pocketbook. When people 60 to
those ~dreadfully expensive places | think it
well to provide for all possible contingencies
beforehand, don't your
The nice young mar looked depressed.
Yes, / do" said he. Presently he added:
will you excuse me a minute? I want to
run in here and get a bunch Of cigars before
we start"
The pug nosed girl waited till the nice
young. man had got out Of sight and hear
ing before she said anything.
'You shouldn't have told him that, she
said, then. 1T worried him. I shouldn't
be at all surprised If be has gone to borrow
some extra money from somebody"
Il know he has" returned tho top floor
girl eerenely. Il meant him TO-. That is
the reason / told that story. l always tell
it. ! don't want to take any chances on
getting stranded agpn.'
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working capital it grew so that to-day the
General Tobacco Company has a capital
stock Of SIS, 600, 900 gold, upon which it pays
enormous dividends. The General To-
bacco Company has an agency in every town
of any consequence in the Philippine 1sl-
ands; it maintains it's own line OF steamers
between the Philippines and Spain, besides
a local line of six fast steel coast steamers
running from Manila to APART and other
points in the islands. All this has been done
with the profits Of Philippine tobacco. Yet
the General Tobacco Company has by no
means a monopoly Of the tobacco raising
industry. There are at least six other
corporations operating in the valley which
have large investments here. For the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

Cagayanes were 'paciicos' during the
instruction. The Cagayan River is at
once the Nile and the Mississippi Of the
Philippines. In high water it rolls a stream
a mile wide and from 20 to 80 feet in depth.
For river boats drawing three feet or less
it is navigable all the year as far as Echague,
a distance of lat miles. hi valley is 200
miles long and has an average width dur
ing its entire length Of forty miles.
No other section of the Philippines has
such a remarkable record for the diversity
and abundance Of its products. The
400 900 people Of the Cagayan valley raise
n%ine-tenths Of all the tobacco grown in
the Philippines. On the overlooked lands
Of the Cagayan they raise one crop OF corn
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year ended June 30, 1905, n Of the COM
panies declared dividends of IS per cent.
and the other OF 80 per cent, while all are
very prosperous.
Tobacco in the Philippines is cultivated
in a careless manner. The Spaniards who
have been here for generations have fallen
into the "malana" habit. They do not take
kindly to modern methods. Even the
Tabacalera company uses the carabao to
plough when a Chinese mule costing only
twice as much will plough up six times as
much land in one day, turning a furrow ten
inches deep, while the carabao only turns
a four inch furrow.
That the Cagayan valley is not better
known is due in part to the fact that the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
Woman Kills Zig GrizzlL.

Trinidad correspondence Denter Republican.
On the Duling ranch in Stonewall, q large
grizzly bear was shot and killed by Mrs.
DullnR. wife Of the county commissioner, a
few days ago. Mrs. Duling was alone on the
ranch inc was riding about looking after
stock when she saw the bear eattngsa heller
It had killed Mrs. DulinR had o Winchester
and promptly killed the grizzly.
She Is known as a remarkably ner Wy woman
the Stonewall has killed several bears.
at one time saving Der husband from what
tackled by q female grizzly he bad wounded.
Mrs. Dulfng. killed the bear whe5it was within
q few feet OF her husband. II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

the Spanish Government. The monopoly
was limited exclusively to the Cagayan
valley, So great were the revenues arising
from the control Of the industry that at
Its abolition in 1882 it was paying half Of
the then enormous expenses Of the Insular
Government.
When the monopoly was lone away with
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

In 1882 there was organized by the ~friars,
natives Of the valley and others, a corpora
ton known as the Compahia Tabacalera
General de Filipinas the Philippine Cen
eral Tobacco Company and capitalized at
$40, 900 900 gold. Stocks were peddled
around at ridiculously low figures, some
subscriptions being taken up in Spain.
Though the institution had little actual
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-12

Yard wide Bleeching, extra soft, worth ERR O
yard, for this sae.~..ce.e.,."...r..ov y
Yard wide Cambria the i2&e kind this SALE. Q
1000 yards India Linen, worth 1Se fof this ~
sale ~
1900 yards India Linen, worth 171Sf for this ~
sale
$50 yards Persian Lawn in white, 15s kind nj
for this sae.....e....oo..~..,..~"..e ~
200 yards Persian Lawn in white 2oe kind, Z
for this saleo~....4.....4,,....,~.~. ~
$50 yards Of White Madras, worth from lss -
to 25c a yard, for this sae.~~.o.,..r.~...~lI/4
200 yards Of White Madras. worth from 25g, >
to 4oe yard, for this sale...."....y.....li@
400 yards Light Null, in light blue, tan and
white worth $50 yd., for this sale only 10
500 yards of Wolfe, in blue ground with white ~
dots, worth 2ss yd., for this sale only ~
600 yds. Of Linen Finish chambray in brown ~
blue and pink, the 15c kind for this sale ~
4so yds. Solid-co Chambray in all colors, never
sold for less than 10 cents, for this sale O
only y
200 yds. solid-Color Chambray, the ioe kind =
in short lengths, for this sale ony..~".~.
1000 yds. II colored Lawn, for this sale. >
1000 yds of colored Lawn, our los grade, but sold
elsewhere from 1216f to l5e yard, for Q
this sale ....,....."....,,a,.,@.e.'",..."
All TX and 15c Lawns, for this sale ..-.~..~ ~
200 yds. Of Table Damask in white only oU
10 doz. window Screens, worth 100 for this 4
sale ...e~..
"a dou. Infants and childrens Undervests-.
100 doz. Ladies Undervests, the i21sS kind 7s
for this sale, for ~
10 doz Ladies Undervests the '2oe kind for %
this sale r.'.~.'',..'"-''"'''''
IS dou. Ladies Shaped Undervests with shor
sleeves, the Csc kind, our price for this ~
sale only
Mems CSC Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers for pc
this sale ''''''H
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1906-04-12


SO doz Men Fancy Undershirs, worth up to or
81 90, our price as long as they last.@".,. Do
50 doz Ladies Black or Brown Hose pair ar
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. ...,,,.."".",..~,.,''o 81
IS doz. Ladies Black Lace-striped Hose, the
CSC kind for this sale only ,...eo,,,v.".," -
10 doz. Ladies White Lace Striped Hose the
2Sc kind for this sale only ....~..vm~r =
12sdoz. Mems Black and Brown Half Hose or
pair for ~"
Ladies White Canvas oxfords, $l.oo, $3.50 and
Sl.75.
Full size Mosquito canopies, the $3.50 kind s,,r
for this sale @i'i"
100 Ladies' White Lawn Shirt Waists nicely
trimmed, would be a bargain for 75c, our E0
price for this sae.,.......".,...."..'". "D.~' -"
60 Ladies White Lawn Shirt Waists the 90
1.2s kind Our price for this saleo..."~... 90
as White Lawn Waists, worth from $50 to =, -
200 for this sale @l'V
60 Bows Wash Suits, special for this sale y =
100 pair Boys Wash Knee Pants, for this :,
sale only acknowledgements. IL
We stin have a few dozen Ladies StocK Sol'a'e'
worth from 2sc to 35c as long as they 1E
last ......o.....,o..
Also few dozen Ladies Lace Collars, worth %
from CSC to soc as long as they ast""."' ~
About 1000 yds Val Lace special tor days -
only, yard for .~;.,"'."'.".''''''''''"'''''''
Special 1000 yds TOrchon Lace yds ior'''
snecial Lot of Back Combs, worth lSc 2Oc IN
and 25c as long as they last your choice Az
specal. About doz. Side Combs never sold for
less than 20 cents pair, our price Tor this m
sale pair for ...,..,...''.','.'"..''.'4"'""..
Ladies Black Brown and White Leather Belts
never sold for less than Soc your choice ? e
aides silk Belts, in Black, Blue, Brown and
White, the so cent kind, your choice PC
We still have about 200 yards of Embrolderes IN
short lengths, worth up to zoe yard as long
as they last, your choice for SC IT, &c ana %
yard.
10 dozen Boys Overals, in blue only YOU pc
choice
IS
Ladies' soc Hand Bags tor~".'"' '''''''''''"''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-11-22
Foreign Titles and Culture.

Recently an italian countess visiting
this country gave to the press a novel
reason why American girls want to
marry foreigners. Heretofore it has
been believed that titles had weighty
influence in the vast majority of cases,
but the countess insists that this is not
so. American girls, she says, choose
foreign husbands simply because of
the superior culture Of European men.
This sort Of talk may set American
young men inquiring as to the particu-
lar faults Of the homemade brand of
culture. It has been supposed hitherto
that American frankness, honesty and
genuine manliness would outweigh any
mere veneer of studied politeness or
the superfcialities that come with edu-
cation in a foreign capital But Of
course this visiting countess knows,
or thinks she knows what constitutes
real culture. Doubtless the noble
Count Boni de Castellane would an
swer to her ideal.
If the countess would prove her as
sertion that American girls marry for
elgners simply for the brand of cul-
ture they receive let her bring over a
number Of Europeans who have cul-
ture, but no titles. Let them be put OH
the market and advertised as bargains
in European culture and see how many
Of them will be married in year. If
European fortune hunters had to de-
pend solely on their culture to contract
rich alliances there would be very lit
tie American money going abroad to
patch up decayed European estates. It
Is the title that attracts certain Ameri-
can heiresses, large proportion Of
whom rue the day they surrendered
hand and fortune for it.