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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-31
WE'RE NEARLY FROZEN.

Three Steamers Carrying Two Thou
Sand Russians Leave chefoo.
chefoo, Jan. si.-Three steamers
carrying 1000 Russian refugees left
here for Odessa. Two 1unks. the
Vanguard OF twenty-five. which left
Port Arthur Jan. u. arrived here sum
day. The coolest weather Of the sea-
son was experienced during the trip
and majority Of the women and
children aboard were nearly frozen.
sHALEM COLONY.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-31
Three LEADING Men Die.

Tahleauah. 4 r. Jan. al.--George o.
Butler. yolney r. Boon and w. I.
Leorier. three prominent citizens. are
dead.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-31
Sam Carroll Killed.

st. 10. Tex. Jan. 31.--.Sam Carroll
was killed near here. His, brother-in-
law, J. L. Petrey, surrendered.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-31
HOME FOR WIDOWS.
Daughters of tho confederaey viii
Soon Begin It's Erection.

Soon Begin It's Erection.
Austin. Jan. 31.-At q meeting Of
The Daughters of the Confederacy held
here Saturday 1t was decided to build
at this city a home for INDECENT wild
The building will be patterned after
the Confedarte home. The site has
been selected. There is me ney enough
on hand to erect the structure.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
WEAK CAN BEAR PAIN BEST
Physical Power Not Always Best in
Severe Operations, Declares
Famous Surgeon.

DR.. ]. P. Lockart Mummery, the IA
nous British surgeon. says it is often
extremely difficult to estimate the con-
dition OF a patient with regard to his
power of standing a severe operation
Often a weakly looking individual. who
looks as if he would not stand a severe
operation we'll. stands it quite we'll, and
vice versa
This is accounted for by the fact
that a person of poor physique who
leads a strenuous life has often much
more highly developed nerve centers
than one of robust physique who leads
a life of ease and Incidence, which
makes but slight calls upon his nerve
centers for great or sudden activity.
The mental condition of a patient
prior to operation has a considerable
influence upon the development OF
shock. Patients who dread All opera
tion and who are in a state of consid-
cradle mental anxiety before the an
aesthetic is administered are more liza
BILE, other things being equal, to devel.
op shock than those whose mental
equilibrium is undisturbed.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
TIE IN BRITISH COMMONS
An Unusual Occurrence in This Famous
Body-Has Happened Three
Times in Century.

London journalists were reminded of
an interesting bit of political history
by a recent incident at the British
house of commons. A division in the
house upon question relating to Lon
don street railways resulted in a tie
Ill members on each side Thereupon
the speaker gave the casting vote in
the negative. A tie in the house of
commons is unusual, for this was the
first time in many years that one had
occurred. The last important division
previously that called for the vote of
the speaker took place in 18e1. But
just century ago, in April, 1905, a
resolution aimed at Lord Melville, a
leading member of the cabinet, re-
ceive PIC votes. and an equal number
was given in opposition. The speaker
gave the casting vote in favor of the
resolution In consequence of this vote,
Lord Melville was impeached the next
year. 1906 He was accused of appro-
priating public funds but was finally
acquitted. He was great friend of
Mr.. Pitt. the prime minister. who did
his utmost to protect him. and who
was greatly grieved at the vote of the
speaker.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
USE MODERN BUcKBoARDS
Rubber Tires Now on the Wheels Of
This Originally Primitive
Vehicle Are in Vogue.

IF the man who made the original
blackboard could see one of the sorts
we turn out nowadays" says a carriage
manufacturer in the New York Sun,
he would certainly turn around in
the road to look at it.
THE first blackboard, consisting OF
"a seat placed on an elastic board whose
two ends rested on pair of axles, was
very simple and very rough and
ready vehicle, designed for use on
rough and rocky country and noun
tain roads, and there are parts of the
country in which such buckboards are
still used, turned out by local makers;
but the modern blackboard, while 1t
still preserves in a general way the
blackboard simplicity of appearance, is
very different proposition from that.
I'VE put now between the axles un-
der the blackboard longitudinal steel
springs which prevent the boards sag
ging unduly, and give it greater
strength and power Of resistance and
elasticity. We make such buckboards
with one, with two or with three seats,
seating two, four or six persons; and
we make them either without tops or
with them-a buggy top on single
seated blackboard. and suitable tops on
larger buckboards if they are desired.
"And on some buckboards, to be sued
in districts where the character of the
roads is such as to make their use ad-
vantageous, we put rubber tired wheels.
No owner would want rubber tired
blackboard to be used in regions where
the roads were sandy or rocky; in such
steel tired wheels would be best, but
rubber tires are very good for buck
board to be used in the city, where
few buckboards are used, or on buck
boards to be used in parts where the
roads are macadamized
''The seats of these modern buck
boards are made wide and with high
backs, for comfort, and they are up
holstered with the best of materials;
which are, for that matter, used in
these vehicles throughout, for they are
made for service as well as comfort,
and they are in fact most serviceable
as we'll as most comfortable. But the
man driving one of the old original
buckboards, and who had never seen
one of these, would certainly turn to
look at it if he should chance to meet
one of these modern buckboards on the
road"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
UNCLE SANS BIG BUSINESS
Likely to Do Things on Large Scale
When He Operates at All-Navy
Yard an Example.

Uncle Sam may not set up as busi-
ness man, but when he does go into
business he is likely to do it in large
way, as he does, for instance, at the
New York navy yard, where are located
the largest naval storehouses in the
United States.
In the general storehouses there Is
carried stock Of material, merchandise
and supplies of the most varied charac-
ter, including lumber, cordage and pro-
visions, clothing, shoes and libraries,
including many articles of ship sup
plies and everything required for the
sailors personal wants, amounting in
value to upward of SIC, ,OOO,O 900.
The business done in these store
houses during the fiscal year ended in
1904 amounted to more than $50, O,0OO,-
600.
Supplies are received here from many
sources. and from here they are shipped
to all parts of the world. The shipments
in the course of the fiscal year 1904 ag-
gregated 21,OOO gross tons and COM
prised more than 100000 packages.
The official who administers this busi-
ness, of volume that would be counted
big among the biggest businesses done
by private concerns, is known as the
general storekeeper, this post being oc-
cupied by pay director of the United
States navy.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17

greenish color and consists of the
salts; the second is bIackish- brown,
and is practically ''glass;" and last
OF all, deposited by its specific grav-
ity, is button of gold. Accidents
will happen at times, however, and
occasionally the metal ''sputters
during the process of melting, with
the result that tiny globules of gold
adhere to the side of the crucible, in
which case the vessel is pounded to
dust in a mortar, and the process of
melting repeated.
At times a crnclble bursts and the
contents are precipitated into the
fire, necessitating the pounding up
and remelting of the entire contents
of the furnace. The sweepings from
the floor of manufacturing jewellers
premises are always rich in metal,
owing to the amount of things they
include. Another curious substance
that is sent regularly to the retiners
is the rubber used by bookblnders to
remove the superfiuous gold leaf from
Illuminated covers. After laying on
the Leaf, the cover is wiped by the
binders with handful of plastic
rubber, to which all the loose gold
leaf adheres, leaving the lettering
sharply defined. A ball of this pure
rubber, after being used for month
or two, will yield button of con-
siderable size and value. These balls
are not purchased by the firm, but
sent to be melted down, and the pro-
duct returned to the binders to lie
beaten again into gold leaf.
The rags used oy the workers, who
execute the gold lettering on marble
slabs, etc.. are carefully preserved
and treated in the same manner.
None of the ashes from any of the
furnaces are ever thrown way, but
are carefully sitted, and the larger
ones sent to crushing mill. When
the finer ones have accumulated
sufficiently, they are assayed by eX-
tract1ng two ources from the bulk.
The addition of lead to the tiuxes
carries all the metal to the bottom of
the crucible; it is then smoked of by
means of considerable heat and
great draught, what remains in tine
capel being pure metal.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
VENICE FREE FROM FASHION
Women of Watery City Care Little for
DEGREES of Parisian
Modiste.

The women of Venice are absolutely
free from the rule which Dame Fash
ion exercises over their sisters else
where. They care nothing for modes.
With them the length of the skirt re-
mains always the same. neither short
nor long. and they always wear plainly
made dark dresses. black stockings
and the heelless slippers of the east.
Hats are unknown. The universal
outdoor wrap for all ages and all sizes
is the black shawl with a deep silken
fringe. 1t is folded with short point
above and long one below. and some
times it envelops the figure from head
to foot. 1t is never fastened at the
throat, and when it slips off it is gath
cred up with one outstretched arm,
which makes the spectator think of
big bird stretching its wing. In their
attire the women of Venice are inde-
pendent, only wearing local clothing;
but, with feminine inconsistency, they
are thoroughly up-to-date in the m st-
ter of hair dressing, the style of their
coiffures changing from time to time,
according to the vogue of the moment
in London and Paris.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Conductors Must Be Scholars.

Conductors on the German state rail-
ways are to be discharged unless they
can pass an examination in the English
and French languages. Some Of them
have been 20 years in the service.
Charles H. Holm, paper-hanger of
Maiden, Mass, the father of "a chill
dren by one wife, is nearly 80 years old
and his enlistment in the United States
navy in 1887 probably antedates that
Of any living man. His pension began
at two dollars month and he now
gets s12.
Mrs. Emma Ranslow Allen, of Swan
ton, VT, aged SO, has Joined the Wom-
ans Relief Corps of Jesse A. Jewett
post, G. A. R. Mrs. Aliens grand
father was with Arnold at Quebec.
She is also grandniece of Samuel Hop
kins, signer of the declaration of
independence.
Frank Bosworth Brandegee, who has
been elected in Connecticut to succeed
the late o. H. Platt in the United
States senate. can trace his ancestry
back to the Mayfiower. He is a Yale
graduate of the class of 1883 and was
quite an athlete while at college, row.
ing in the crew.
Henry K. Bradbury, of Hollis, Me-.
who recently died after practicing law
for over half a century, is said to have
had the distinction of being graduated
from Bowdoin college at younger age
than dQy other of its alumni He on
tered college at 13 years and was
graduated at II in the famous class of
1874.
Cornelius Zabriskie, the Jersey City
banker, has purchased a plot of 20
lots and will present them to the city
for playground. He paid 100000 for
the tract. A few years ago Mr..
zabriskie offered to contribute $150, 1000
for a new city hospital building if the
citizens would contribute like
amount. but his proposition was not
accepted.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
TOO RICH AND RECKLESS.
Butler Gives Reason Why Wealthy
Peoples Servants Go the
Wrong Road. 4

"You see, SIR" began the old butler,
according to Everybody's Magazine,
my son took service with Mr.. IiSgard.
AS honest and well-meaning a young
man he was as ever lived when he
started, and that's why l want to speak
out now and tell you gentlefolks that
it amt altogether a servants fault
when he goes wrong. You don't mean
it, but you're careless in your talk, and
it's all heard and repeated and set store
by in way you'd hardly believe. Your
fathers and mothers, gentlemen and
ladies, they were different, and looked
after their servants and their houses
different. But you don't care what we
are like If things run smooth and give
you no trouble. The tradesmen, may
be, bid to the butler and cook for your
custom, and the higher the bills are
the better it is for them both, and half
the time you don't take no notice, and
it gets kind of easy to pick up things
in little ways. Everybody's too rich
and too reckless and that's the whole
trouble. What do these young men
that's waiting on the table hear talked
about all the time? Why, money, and
how much you can do with it, and how
mean you look without it. That's not
just what you say, but that's how they
hear it. They see extravaganza all
round them, and hear it talked all the
time, and they go and do the same. If
you boast of how much you've made
playing cards and betting on the races,
why they'll think it's grand thing to
do, and they'll do it once too often and
be catched like my poor boy. l amt
defending William, but, if you will ex-
cuse me, you stole his conscience, sir,
before he stole your silver. You'll get
back your property, but he'll never get
back what he's lost-and if you send
him to prison, he-he'll come out
worse than he went in. He was a good
lad when he went to you, but you do
keep a rather fast house, sir, and it's
hard for an ignorant man to see higher
than his betters. If you'd give him a
chance-if you'd let him Off"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Color Treatment of Disease.

In long experimenting with grass So
lutions. an English biologist has no.
ticed that putrefaction does not occur
in strong red or blue light, is only sim
ulated in clear yellow, but really takes
place in dirty yellow light or in dark
ness. He has also seen that workers
behind dirty yellow screens are subject
to skin eruptions. This has suggested
to him the novel idea of color treat
ment of disease. a dirty yellow of the
skin being assumed to indicate a de-
generation of the yellow fluids of the
body-the bile, etc.-and to require a
yellow restorative, like dandelion, lem
on or sulphur, while lack of healthful
redness shows the need of red tonic
and massage with red stone. Blue is
needed for "black blood" congestion,
chills and to destroy mold fungus.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
SAY BRIDE cLlNos TO VEIL
Artists Declare Newly Married Wom-
an Loves Her Costume and
Always Wears It.

Artists say that only on rare occa-
sions will bride take her veil from
her head and lay it aside when she is
photographed. They assert that prob
ably once in hundred times will such
thing happen, for they want the veil
to show up prominently in the photo
graph.
H. w. Mills, of Wheaton, ILL.,, says a
bride and groom came into his studio
the other day, and he was surprised to
see the bride remove her veil and.
with the flowers she carried, arrange it
on a table. Then she drew the table
close beside her and told the artist she
was ready.
Nothing will tempt a bride to part
with veil that she has once had pho
tographed as part Of her wedding
dress. In Du Page county, Illinois, a
singular custom regarding the preser-
vation of the veil prevails A large,
boX-like frame is constructed and a
cabinet portrait is placed in the center
of the background Then the veil is
neatly arranged around the picture,
and the outer edge of the frame is en-
twined with artificial flowers to repre-
sent the ones that the bride held or
wore when she was married
Such frames adorn hundreds of walls
in Du Page county farms and other
homes. A wedding frame will occupy
one part of the wall and another frame
will hold the silver nameplate that has
been taken from the coffin of some
member of the family of either the
groom or bride.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
CHINA A POULTRY COUNTRY
Farmers Of the Orient Handle Enor-
nous Consignments Of Eggs
at One Time.

The keenest of poultry farmers is, as
Mr.. Chamberlain once said of himself
in another connection, "a child in these
matters" as compared with the poul-
try farmers of China. A traveller pass
ing through the province of Chekiang
a few weeks ago was struck with the
enormous number of young chickens
carried in the farmers carts he met in
the T'int'al country. He made inquiries
on the subject, and at length he was
asked by a poultry farmer to go and
inspect his rearing arrangements. The
plant deals with 10000 eggs at a time
and the average product is 5000 chicks.
The arrangements are simple and in
expensive, but they include opportuni-
ties for the scientific examination Of
the eggs in the course of incubation,
and it is amusing to hear that where
the eggs on examination through the
testing holes do not show signs of fer
tilization at the end of the fourth day.
they are Immediately discarded to be
sold cheap"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Craze of the "Improyer.,

One of the employees of small manu-
featuring concern in Gotham, says the
New York Sun, has craze for taking
apart new bits of machinery and seeing
the how" of their operation AS rule
he assemblies them again without much
difficulty. The other day, however, he
assisted in taking down small electric
motor. He overhauled it and laborious-
ly put it together and then gravely an
nounced that the blamed thing won't
rum" His employer and the rest of the
force worked for the better part of the
day in vain attempt to get the motor
to work, and then began to quiz the ''im-
proven" as he is known. What did do
to it," he replied. 81 didn't do blame
thing to it but improve it. l got it all
together again the first try, and saved
these two pieces out of it."
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
FISH BANK IS INTERESTING
Discovered Four Hundred Years Ago
BY Cabot, st. Johns Is Base Of
World Industry.

st. Johns is place teeming with
interest. 1t is over 400 years old, hav-
ing been discovered by Cabot in 1897
and settled by Devon fisherfolk a few
years later, since when it has been al
ways the base for the worlds greatest
fishing industry, that for "cod on the
bank" says P. T. McGrath, in Four
Track News. In its harbor will be
found argosies from France, Spain,
Portugal, New England and Nova SEQ
tia, all engaged in reaping the harvest
from the ocean, while the British in
dustry was permanently transferred
there as the colony, the Oldest in the
empire, became settled. Along the
water front, on each side of the spa
cious land-locked harbor, which opens
through a gap in the beetling cliffs,
are stores and warehouses filled with
cod, while at every wharf steamers and
sailors are loading this staple COM
modify for transport to the markets
of the world.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Told by Sense of Smell.

Snakes have a very keen sense OF
smell, by which they are largely guided
in the choice of their food. A zoologist
has discovered that the larger snakes
at ZOOS often refuse to eat rats captured
about the buildings, but quickly devour
those caught out of doors. Rats taken
indoors were kept for day or so in a
cage with an earthen floor, after which
they were rapidly eaten. A similar
experience was had with smaller snakes,
copperheads, these declining to eat
house mice, letting them run freely
about the cage, or even over their bod
les. with impunity while field mice were
quickly disposed of. even if they had
been dead for some little time,
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Gilded Rubbish.

"a VdludUlo ODJeCG-leSSOn Oh CD6
indestructibillty of matter, and gold
in particular, is to be derived from {,
visit to gold refiner's establishment.
Gold is present in or on an endless
variety of articles in everyday use,
and it can be extracted and reused
after the article has been rendered
useless through age or damage. One
would scarcely think, for instance,
as one hands in a gilt-edged visiting
card that after it has served it's pur-
pose there still remained enough gold
on it to be worth extracting, yet such
is the case.
Old picture frames, books with gilt
edged leaves or gold lettering on the
covering, scraps of gilt holdings and
thousand and one odds and ends
are carefully collected by dealers.
and when a sufficient quantity has
been amassed they are dispatched to
the refinery. Nothing with the tiniest
speck of gold or silver upon it is
over-looked, considered too insignific-
ant or too cumbersome.
On the occasion of recent visit to
an establishment there was found a
large consignment awaiting treat
ment. Among a carload of broken
picture frames were the sections of a
huge and eIaborately ornamented
frame must have cost $500 or more.
Sawn into convenient lengths and
sent to the retiners an expert estimat-
ed that probably about S20 worth of
gold would be extracted from it.
This is by no means an exceptional
example of the "mighty fallen'' that
find their way to the furnaces, for
everything that has gold IN it at all
is always worth putting through the
furnace. Several large sacks we're
found stuffed full of odds and ends
book covers, waste Photographic
material, etc. These were all cramm-
ed into furnace and burned. The
furnaces are arranged in row and
are fitted with a plain sliding lid.
They are of various sizes, according
to the work in hand.
The rubbish having been reduced to
ashes, the latter are then carefully
slfted and the cinders thrown into
another fire to complete the COM
bustion. To the fine ashes fux is
added, and the material is then
ready to be placed in the crucible I'D
which it undergoes its final fiery
ordeal and by this means the metal is
discovered. Flux is compound of
borax, bicarbonate of soda, saltpetre
and pearl ash. Different combin
ations are used according to the con-
tents of the ashes to be treated.
The flux, when melted, greatly
facilitates the reduction of the mater
iaI, and at the same time eliminates
all the baser metals except copper.
Eventually point is reached beyond
which the contents of the crucible
can be reduced no further, so the
vessel is Withdrawn. The fierce heat
and the glow of the furnace when
open necessitates the men engaged in
this task wearing long, thick mitten,
and also pair of specially construct
ed glasses to protect the hand and
eyes.
After being allowed to cool, the
crucible is conveyed to little iron
anvil and the bottom broken off with
a hammer. The contents are then
found to have stratiied into three
distinct layers. The top is of
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Every Ounce You Eat

Every ounce of food you eat that
fails to- digest does a pound of harm.
1t turns the entire meal into poison.
This not only deprives the blood of
the necessary tissue building material
but it poisons it. KodoI Dyspepsia
Cure is perfect digestant. 1t digests
the food regardless of the condition
of the stomach. 1t allows that organ
to rest and get strong again. Re-
lieves belching, heart burn, sour
stomach, Indigestion, palpitation of
the heart, etc. Sold by all druggists.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
She Was It.

Miss Gaddie-Your brother and were
partners in a little game of whist at
Hoyle's house last evening.
Miss Knox-Oh! 1 thought it might
be you.
Miss Gaddie-Why? What did he tell
you about it?
Miss Knox-He just said he had had
a rubber at twist.-Philadelph Press.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
But Few Are Free.

But few people are entirely free
from indigestion at this season OF
the year. KodoI Dyspepsia Cure is
not only the best remedy to use
because it digests what you eat, but
also because it enables the digestive
apparatus to assimilate and transform
all foods into tissue building blood.
Kodol relieves sour stomach, heart
burn, belching, and all forms of in
digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
An OBLIGATION.

do you think that we are descended
from monkeys?" asked the off-hand sci
enlist.
81 am not worried about that" an
swered Miss Cayenne. What we should
do is to prevent our own posterity from
feeling that way. y."-Washington Star.