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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17
MEETINGS..

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.
Ohice OF the Secretary.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
regular annua! meeting OF the stockholders
Of the ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD
Company in tho city OF Richmond. Va, on
TUESDAY, The 18th Day OF NOVEMBER. a.
D. 1908 at - O'Clock A. ~, The transfer
books OF the Company will be closed from the
7th to the 18th OF November. both dates H.
e'0'''' II. L. BORDEN. Secretary,
Dated October slst. 1908.
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The Busy Bees - ~
Tee-Dee Want Ads.
AGENTS WANTED.

WANTED, BY A CANADIAN MEDICINE
CO... general Representatives for tho state
Of yirginiaa with headauarters IN Richwond;
care this Office.
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SITUATION WANTED, Female
HELP WANTED-Female.

: old preferable "a widow. to travel In Vir-
ginia and take charge OF lady canvassers:
no experience necessary; salary so week an. ana
at homs E. p. care this office.
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MAN {PR1NTER AND
Linotype operator,. desires attending Z. NJ.
c. A. night school. position: will ,/do any
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17

LosT-BETWEEN sas W. GRACE AND THE
Masonic Temple, between fifteen and six
teen DOLLARS. Reward II returned TO sss
West Grace.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17

SOMETHING NEW in dentistry. High.gra6el
sibility OF cracking or breaking OF; fact19
not submitted TO heat In process OF soloefss
Ing. can positively guarantee the wosNs
y G. J. DAVIDSON. Seventh and Brood. XII
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17

THE EMPIRE LAUNDRY-Best Of work.
prompt delivery: discount on gentlemen's
weekly or monthly wash: also dyeing cleans
ing and pressing. Phone 3l4t: 1903 w cary
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on Test FRANKLIN, furnished or unfurnlshed;
excellent table board next door; references
exchanged Address g., caro- this Office
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17

JUST THINK! ONE DOZEN PERFECT PHO.
togrnphs for 1.as and one lovely 1915 likenesos
THE ORIGINAL DAVIS GALLERY. sl7 d
Broad Street. Si i.s5 oG5s4 az sse
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-17

TEN YEARS EXPERT
h;: 70 rsrd oa sys sna uasr
books; state terms; would exchange Short
hand instruction tor above r. F., care thls
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-AT A BIG REDUCTION. A
standard PIANO. as good 40 new and with
out scratch; reason for selling no one
plays. Call at 116 East Broad. IA
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TouND-oN TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10TH
instant. on tho grounds at the Barnum &
Bailey circus. one gold WATCH. Upon sat.
costs OF advertisement the owner may get
the same by calling at No. 6. GODDIN'S
HALL. Eleventh and Bank Streets, city.
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HELP WANTED-Male.

ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON MAY EARN
good income corresponding for newspapers;
experience unnecessary. Send for particulars.
+ PRESS SYNDICATE, Lockport, N. Y.
PEIYsICIAN-wANrED, AN UP-To-DATE
unmarried physician for a new sanitartum
near Richmond. Va SAN1TARIUM care this
Office.
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CALL AND SEE US. We buy and sell second.
hand and new furniture. stoves and heaters
Call and see what bargains you can get. II
B. HALL AND co., 428 N. Sixth street.
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ROOMS FOR RENT.

CLAY, d.. 8i2-FOR REET.--3i2 e. CLAY,
two or three bright, desirable rooms, newly
papered. Furnished or unfurnished: heat gas.
bathst board across street; private family.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

MANAGER WANTED. FIRsT-cLAs5 Me-
chanlc, one who Ia competent to take charge
door and blind factory. aud whose principal
work viii be estimating work on office and
store fixtures, and the Interior finish for
houses; q man preferred who can put FROM
two thousand I'VE hundred Si:,6ool dollars 70
Address WOOD WORKING CORPORATIONS,
Norfolk, Va.
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WANTED. YOUNG MAN. % YEARS OLD. TO
collect and sell: must furnish bond and team;
excellent opportunity to the right man In any
Of the following counties: Nelson. Alhemasie.
pahannock. Address Box $50. Richmond. VI.
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ali modern improvements. cost originally $500,
as good q. the day It LETT The factory. viii
be sold this week for s.oo. foM want 70 $50
the music line. THE CABLE COMPANY,
No 21S East Broad Street.
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LOST AND FOUND.

tan wrist BAG, containing lady's gold
watch and purse. Finder. will please return
TO ZIG West Franklin and receive reward.
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ROOMS WANTED.

WANTED, A ROOM IN PRIVATE FAMILY.
within two Or three squares Of Seventh. Street
location ana terms, no boarding house. p.
K, caro- this office.
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T. BOARDING.

MAIN. e.. si2-FIRsT.cLAss BOARD.
briSht rooms. newly furnished; porcelAin
BATH: permanent aud transients desired.
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ONE FULL SIZE STERLING UPRIGHT
Plano. practically as good as new. must DO
THE CABLE COMPANY. No, 2la East Broad
Street.
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SITUATION WANTED-Male

EXPERIENCED FARMER WANTS TEAM
and land to work. on shares or to manage
farm. Address J. T. D.. 2L1 East Marshall
Street. Richmond, Va
sTENoGRAPHER-wAN BIZ AN Elk.
per1enced stenographer, stenogrsphic and
typewriting work to do at home, or In oflice;
references furnished. Address K A. UNDER
WOOD. care Carrier No. 4S.
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STRAYED-FRoM 6is NORTH txTH
Street on Saturday. sucking pointer B1CTH;
brown face, white, with black ticks Ro.
ward II returned to above number.
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PRESS FEEDERs-wANTED. CYLINDER
press feeders. EVERETT WADDEY CO.
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A $3.50 UPRIGHT PIANO. BEST HIGH
Ted us to seii Tor iiso This is not only
bargain. but q sacrifice. See II and DO con-
WINGED It will not stay with US long. THE
CABLE COMPANY. No. 2l3 East Broad st.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Diaenosine Under DimcuIties.

DR.. Sundberg, former consul to Bag
dad, related with much gusto an ad-
venture that befell him in a Moham-
medan harem in Bagdad. One of the
wives of a rich merchant fell sick, and
DR.. Sundberg was called in to prescribe
for her. With a pardonable scientific
interest the western physician waiS4l.
Enter black gunnysack. 1t is the pa
tient. The doctor would like to feel her
pulse. A white hand is slipped through
an opening. Good. And her tongue
impossible!. No man save her husband
may see the face of woman and live
or, more accurately, no woman may
unveil her face to any man save her
husband and live. His professional in
terest aforesaid deeply aroused, the dip
lomatic doctor insists. The difficulty is
at length solved by the eunuch in chief.
Though the woman may not lawfully
unveil herself, the doctor under the cir
cumstances might perhaps be allowed
to crawl in under the gunnysack and SO
examine the telltale tongue. Delight
ed, Pm sure" says the doctor, and does
SO. Then after the most thorough dag
nosis imaginable he prescribes, as did
Abernethy before him, ga little sun
and airP'
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
MARINE ART.
Virtues and Defects of the Ships
That Sailors Paint.

virtues ana De1ectS OF I0e Sh1pS
That Sailors Paint.
1t is an axiom with sailors that there
never was man who put in three
years before the mast who did not
think he could paint ship better than
the most skillful landlubber that ever
welded brush. In the homes Of re-
tired sea captains specimens of this
kind Of marine art are often displayed
on the walls to admiring friends and
are handed down as family heirlooms
A good place for the man who has no
seagoing relatives or friends to see
such pictures is in some of the win
dows Of ship supply stores on South
street In New York Sailors buy them
occasionally.
Ships that sailors paint are absolutely
correct in every detail. From a brig to
full rigged three master there is not a
block or tackle missing from stem to
stern or from masthead to water line.
No marine painter could get in half so
much detail if he tried But the ships
painted by sailors look as If they were
caught fast in frost tipped waves
There is absolutely no life or any sug-
gestiOn of motion about them even
when represented as going under full
sail. When sailor tries to get in a bit
Of landscape as a background, as he
usually does, he makes matters hope
lessly worse. As general thing it is a
lighthouse or a fort looking for all the
world like little images that children
take out of their toy arks.-New York
Press.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
In Frozen Russia.

In Russia, where the cold in winter Is
very intense, the markets are very curl
GUS things. The meat is frozen, the car
casses of dead animals, as sheep and
pigs, stand upright outside the stalls;
everything, even game and poultry, re-
quires to be thawed before it can be
cooked, and the market peoples dress
is as picturesque as it is warm and
comfortable.
Then the rivers are frozen over all
the winter long, and SO thick is the ice
that every one can skate anywhere and
any time. Stalls are put up on the ice
and busy markets held there.
In the Asiatic part of Russia the peo-
pie live chiefly by hunting and fishing,
and the fur Of the Russian animals is
very beautiful-the ermine, fox, sable,
sea otter and others.
At the end of the winter, when the
snow melts, the huntsman pursues the
elk, wearing long shoes, in which he
can glide over the snow very quickly,
while the poor elk sinks into the snow
deeper and deeper every step and is at
last overtaken and killed.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
The HeIOdern.

The venomous lizard. heloderm, lives
in the warm zone between the Cordille-
ras of Central America and the Pacific
ocean. 1t secretes poisonous saliva
and has the curious habit of throwing
itself on its back when struck. Its bite
is not always so dangerous as popular
opinion makes it, and after severe pain
it often rapidly heals. Recent observa-
tions show that the saliva is sometimes
very poisonous and sometimes very in
offensive. The poison acts by coagulat-
ing the blood and first increasing then
diminishing the irritability of the
nerves.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Speaking without words.

Spanish young ladies hold animated
conversations with their lovers by
means Of fan, which they always car
ry. Italians use a flower for similar
purposes, and young girl who may be
apparently idly pulling the petals from
rose is in reality making arrange
ments for perhaps secret visit to the
opera house with her lover.
In Malta comparatively few people
can read, yet nearly every one holds a
prayer book when at church. The rea-
son for this is that prayer book Ian
guage is in existence, and by carefully
watching each others movements two
persons can readily and secretly COM
municate with each other through the
various positions in which the books
are held being recognized as code
words.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Mn1axan Tree pweIler..

The Sakais, or tree dwellers, of the
Malay peninsula build their houses in
forked trees dozen feet above ground
and reach them by means of bamboo
ladders, which they draw up when
safely housed out of harms way. The
house itself is a rude kind of shack,
made of bamboo, and the flooring is
lashcd together piece by piece and
bound securely to the tree limbs by
rattan.
These curious people are rather small
and lighter in complexion than the Ma
lays, though much uglier. They have
no form of religion at all-not even
IDOLS uo written language and speak a
corrupt form of Malay.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
TIME TO HEDGE.
B0okmaI<er Wouldn't Lend Money,
but Gave Good Advice

but Gave GOOD Advice.
Several turfmen were discussing the
sharp methods Of certain bookmaker
who adds to his income by money lend
ing. He was conceded to be hard
man to deal with.
But I'll bet $500 that l can borrow
$1,000 from him on my personal re-
cognizanee," said one.
''Doner' answered the otowd stimuli
taneously, and as he could only stake
one bet they pooled against him.
Thinking he had a sure thing, he went
off with an accompanying committee
to see the money lender.
''Mr. Cash" Chat wasn't his name), he
said, these gentlemen have bet me
$500 that cannot borrow $1,000 from
you. don't need the money, but you
let me have it for day, and I'll di-
vide the bet with you"
The committee gasped, but the effect
of the cool proposition was unlocked
for. Instead of jumping at the chance
Mr.. Cash buttonhoied his interiocutor
and said:
"Did you make that bet?"
81 did"
'You bet $500 that you could borrow
money from meT
'"That's what did"
"Then," in a whisper, ego and hedge"
New York Press.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
study Them, Don't XIII,

If, instead of shooting the birds,
scotching the snake, smashing the
beetle and pinching the tiny life out
of the butterfly, we were to watch any
one of these creatures on a summer
day the day would pass like an hour,
so packed with exciting experience it
would seem. Through what mystic
rious coverts of the woodland, into
what haunted underworld Of tunnel
ed banks and hidden bitches and Sc
cret passages the snake would show
us the way, and we should have
strange hearts If, as we thus watched
it through its mysterious day, we did
not find our dislike of the clever little
creature dying away and even chang
ing into deep tenderness toward the
small, self reliant life, so lonely speck
of existence in so vast a world.-Suc-
cess
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Where There. a VIII There. a way

Where There's a VIII There's a Way.
"One of those things which go to
show that where there is a will there
is way is well exemplified by a
happening in a certain southern city,"
said well known former railroad
man. "a man before his marriage had
purchased beautifully located lot in
the city cemetery and paid $100 for IT.
After awhile he married and some ten
or twelve years afterward died and
was buried in the aforesaid beautifully
located lot, and his grave was care
fully tended for awhile by his widow
When the big fair came off in Chicago
and all the world was en- route to that
Mecca the widow took a notion she
must see that show. AS result of a
long cogitation over ways and means
she had the body of her deceased hus-
band exhumed and railroaded fifty
miles away and reburied at cost Of
about $75, when she sold the ceme-
terry lot for 5000 and had a good old
time at the big worlds fair. Some
what of a financier, wasn't she?'-
New Orleans T1mes-Democrat.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
The BIRD Monopolist.

AS is generally known, the cuckoo
lays its eggs in the nests of other birds,
leaving them to be Matched and the
young cuckoos reared by their foster
parents. The young cuckoo throws the
other birds out of the nest and gets all
the care itself. After numbering its
foster brothers and sisters In the most
deliberate and callous way it is thence
forth tended with the greatest devo-
tion. Long after 1t has left the nest
the great bird, apparently big enough
to get its own living and many times
larger than its foster parents, is fol-
lowed about and fed by them with the
same care as when In the nest.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
HIS Two Purchases.

A story is told of Louisiana mer-
chant who came to New York deter
mined to secure bargain. He wanted
cheap cloaks, and after trying in vain
to suit himself at the wholesale houses
he bought Job lot at auction. He ex-
amined the goods hurriedly and had
them shipped home. In due time he
was confronted by an excited head
salesman who said the garments were
out of style.
'They didn't look that way" said the
merchant.
"But they are" replied the clerk.
The merchant persisted that the
cloaks would sell, but they didn't In
desperation he returned them to New
York to be disposed of to best advan-
tage. On his next trip to New York he
again visited an auction house and
bought lot Of cloaks. When he re-
turned home and examined his pur-
chase he saw that he had bought the
same lot as before.-World's Work
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
ALONG PlccADILLY.
There the Tide of Social London
Flows to the Fullest.


Flows to the Fullest
Piccadilly seems cold and blatant by
contrast as one charges down it. Yet
even here, be the sunshine ever SO
bright, the visitor Is crowned in the
pearly haze that tones, sttenuates, uni
fles, most If not all of London, that
haze that has tantalized and defeated
how many artistsI Even over Piccadil-
ly, even over this the most mundane of
all London streets, 1t throws its saving
glamour. Indeed the whole splendid
avenue might serve for a studio, not
for its values alone, but for the COM
plexity of the types that throng it. 1t
is the quintessence of London, the dis
tillation Of all London humanity, to be
studied nowhere so narrowly as from
bus top. Perfect Du Mauriers in the
original approach, pass by and are left
behind or stand in groups looking from
the club windows. Phil Mays in the
life swarm beneath one, and characters
from Thackeray and Dickens jostle
unsuspectingly on the sidewalk. The
clubs alone, which never look so thor
oughly clubbable as when hastily
glanced at from a passing bus, will
store ones memory with hundred
recognizable types. All England, all
the empire, indeed, sooner or later finds
its way to Piccadilly. One cannot pass
down 1t without a sight of some gilt
tering, turbaned, alien figure, majes-
tcally isolated, majestically unheeded.
Regent street may claim a grander
sweep, and by virtue of its shops a
more devoted femininity, but it is along
Piccadilly that the tide of social Lon
don flows brim full.-Sydney Brooks
in Harper's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
lRELANo's ANIMALS.
Species of Frogs and Toads Are
Found In the Green Isle.

Species of Frogs and Toads Are
Found In the Green Isle.
II is not correct to say that there are
no frogs or toads in Ireland, though il
Is very remarkable that the common
toad is native of Kerry, though it
does not appear to be found elsewhere.
1t is an example of the mania which
some people have for meddling with
nature that DIR. Guithers in 1899 took
the trouble to procure frogs spawn
from England, since which time they
have multiplied in Ireland. But the
common lizard is found in many parts
of the island. The slowworm is not
Though the common toad and till re
cent times the frog were not found in
Ireland, 1t is worth remembering that
the English reptiles and batrachians
are very local in their distribution. The
natterjack toad is only found in certain
counties The edible frog was formerly
only found in Foulmire Fen, in Cam
bridgeshire, and the sand lizard is most
capricious In the choice of home. The
beautiful green lacertee" which Gil
bert White saw on the sunny banks
near Farnham are to be found there
still, the males being of the green color,
and also near Bournemouth and in
Dorsetshire beyond Poole Harbor Yet
there are many suitable places where
none are seen, and then they reappear
again ON some sandhills ON the coast of
Lancashire. near Southport.
On the other hand, the absence of
many species in Ireland which are or
were commonly found in the larger is
land can only be explained on the sup
position that they never reached the
country. Among these are the wildcat,
the polecat and the weasel. Yet the
marten was always plentiful on the
other side Of st. Georges channel, and
stoats abound in the west. Five of the
fourteen species Of bat found in Eng
land have not been taken in Ireland,
neither is the common shrew found
there or the water shrew or the MOLE
though the last is found in Anglesey.
Only six of the fifteen British rodents
are found in Ireland, and of these one,
tAc c9ullIel, WAS prOudUly nIOuuCeu.
Neither is the roe deer indigenous. In
support of the general theory that the
immigration of the English fauna was
difficult in the earlier periods and sub
sequently checked altogether may be
cited the analogous instance of the Isle
of Man. There, as in Ireland, there are
no moles, no snakes and no toads.-
London Spectator.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25

SAFE DEPOSIT deposit boxes can
rented from the Bank of Amador County at IL
small expense of 35 cents a month, thereby s
curing you against any possible loss from q,
or otherwise. Don't overlook this opportunil
of protecting your valuables.
SAVE MONEY-Patronize home instia
tion. Send money away through the Bank
Amador County; you will save 10 per cent al
upward over postoftice or express. Money se
to all parts of the United States and also /
parts of the world. We have the latest quot
tions on foreign exchange.
SAVE MONEY-Gt doesn't cost anything
deposit money in the Bank of Amador Count
They receive deposits from S. up. Commen
the new year by opening up bank account.
man or woman with q bank account has
financial standing. Don't bury your none
when you die it can't be found and you are II
BILE to be robbed while alive
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
APHORlsMS.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
John Selden.
All imposture weakens confidence and
chills Observation-Disclosures
The only wealth which will not de-
cay is nowledge.-Langford.
Trouble teaches men how much there
is in manhood.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Your real influence is measured by
your treatment of yourself.-A. Bron-
son Alcott.
Human judgment is finite, and it
ought always to be charitable.-Wil-
liam Winter
Kindness in us is the honey that
blunts the sting Of unkindness in an
other.-Landor
Politeness is sort of guard which
covers the rough edges of our charac-
ter and prevents their wounding others.
-Joubert.
The constant duty of every man to
his fellows is to ascertain his own pow
ers and special gifts and to strengthen
them for the help of others.-Ruskin
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
The Absent Jack.

The wife of q Washington street
merchant is very fond of roses, espe-
cially of the brilliant varieties. BY
way of reminder she said to the hus-
band the other morning before he
started for business:
81 see, my dear, that Jacks are be-
coming cheaper"
"That may be true," said the hus-
band absently, "but / have known
men who would have been willing to
pay 500 for one to put with the two
already in their hand."-Indianapolis
Sentinel.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Marital IFS.

Most homes would be far happier if
men were as considerate Of their wives
as they were Of their sweethearts.
If each remembered that the other
was human being.
If they endeavored to be as agreeable
as they were in their courtship days.
If domestic trials and tribulations
were not told to neighbors.
If household expenses were in pro-
portion to the husbands salary.
If privileges taken were given. =
American Queen.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
Raising the Limit.

Don't you think that the ideals Of
craftsmanship are higher now then
they used to be?'
"Sure they are" answered Senator
Sorghum. "I've known the time when
$500 was considered big money. Now
you can't get man that amounts to
anything to look at less than $4,000"
Washington Star
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
rmpudent Ma.culine Assumption.

Mr.. Ferguson-Whose character were
you and Mrs. Tarrup discussing when
l came in?
Mrs. Ferguson-What made you
think we were discussing anybody's
character?
Mr.. Ferguson-I noticed you were
busily talking-that all.-Exchange.
Amador ledger., 1903-12-25
The strategy of Samuel.

Proud Father-I tell you, sir, that
boy of mine will be wonderl
Friend (wearilyl- What wonderful
thing has he done now?
Proud Father-Why, the other day
he ate all the preserves in the pantry.
I overheard him say as he smeared the
cats face with the stuff, "I'm sorry,
Tom, to do this, but can't have the
old folks suspect mew-Smart Set.