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The daily tribune., 1905-08-19

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The daily tribune., 1905-08-19

A little foTethought may save you
no end Of trouble. Anyone who
makes II = rule to xesp ChamheriAin's
OoIic, Cholsra and 0iafrhosa Remsly
1t hand knows this to be . fact. For
sale by all dealers. tts
The daily tribune., 1905-08-19
Picture Baby Show

Monday night Aug. 81, K. Of P. hall.
PROGRAM:
The daily tribune., 1905-08-19
Special Meeting.
A speciAl meetinR of the stcck D

A special meeting Of The stOckhold.
ers Of The Union Ditch company is
nerebv called to meet 1t office Of DR..
Percival eln Florence. Colo. on Mon.
day, August 2lst at ? O'Clock p. m.
for the purpose Of considering the ad-
visibility OF taking action regarding
the proposed transfer by the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Go. Of the diversion
of 10 cubic feet Of water from point
below Pueblo to point above Port.
land. By order Of the Board Of
Directors.
A.aH. DANFORTH.
45 46 Secretary.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
Look For the Woman.

Where a community is blessed with
good churches, look for the woman.
Where the public schools have teach
ers of worth and the schools are of
recognized standard, look for the wo-
man.
Where good music is brought to a
town or city through private enter
prise, look for the woman.
Where there is prevalence of good
literature in small town, look for the
woman.
When a boy grows into an honest,
upright, forcible man, look for the wo-
man.
Where you find clean street cars and
clean streets, look for the woman.
Where you find lectures brought to
an eager public by private enterprise,
look for the woman.
Where you find healthful, cheerful
charities supported and encouraged,
look for the woman,
1t is woman who stands behind most
of these blessings of the world. 1t is
woman and woman's clubs that are to
be credited with many of these good
influences.
1t is woman and her home mission
ary society, woman and her church
fair, woman and her eagerness to help,
that make possible many of these dear
ly bought luxuries.- Chicago News.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
HOW MoIea Work

MoleS are usually actively at work
in the early morning or late in the aft
ernoon. 1t is not difficult to kill them
with a pitchfork when they are work
ing, the animals being located by OBJ
serving the movement of the ground
above them. If water is allowed to
run into the burrow and fill it the ami
NAL when present can be forced to
come to the surface to avoid drowning
and may be easily killed. The best
remedy for the damage done to lawns
and grass plots by moles is prompt
rolling with heavy roller. By contin-
ued repetition of this the moles will be
driven away at least temporarily,
Moles have few natural enemies.
Their food consists chiefly of worms
and insects that live in the ground, and
their presence in large numbers at any
place is an evidence of the abundance
of their food. There is no doubt that
they do much good by destroying
many noxious insects. If it were not
for the injury done to lawns by their
throwing up ridges Of earth along
which the grass dies, or to gardens by
their loosening the roots of young
plants, moles would be more beneficial
than harmful.-New England Home
stead.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
IN A MOMENT HE WAS BY HER SIDE.

ing an occupation as any man could
desire. Now it had ceased to be all
absorbing. He wanted to be consulted
about the color of wall papers, the de-
signs Of rugs and the style of furniture.
He wanted to hear some soft femi-
nine voice saying, But do you think we
can afford it this spring, dear? and
to answer grandly: Certainly, mad
am. Do you suppose your husband is
such a duffer that he can't pay for
few luXurieS now and then?"
Queerly enough, the eyes that looked
into his as in fancy he made this speech
were of clear, lucid gray, with long,
dark lashes and beautifully penciled
brows. To be candid, they were the
eyes of Elinor Grant, one of the few
girls of his acquaintance whose society
he had ever found as entertaining as
business. 1t seemed a sort Of miracle
that they should appear at the partic-
ular Juncture. Decidedly fate was Civ
ing him tip.
When he called that afternoon Miss
Grant was out, and he had a childish
feeling that the bottom had dropped
out of things. A dark suspicion that
other men besides himself might have
received tips from fate also haunted
him, and the thought made him tri6e
uneasy.
He wandered back downtown, feel
ing rather glum. There were Other
girls, of course, always, but he wanted
to see her and no one else. Some way
of all the girls he knew she was the
only one he could think of in connec-
ton with the household details that
had suddenly appealed to him with
their homely charm. In Imagination
he could see her bustling about her lit
tie domain, one of those narrow brown
stone houses huddled timidly between
more pretentious ones on some side
street, directing her maids and taking
lively interest in the affairs of her
little household.
The fancy pleased him immensely,
and he was going on to elaborate it
when the gay colors of a display of
wall paper in window he was pass
Ing caught his eye. He slackened his
PASpp anu lhCA Gl1u IOI uIllll lncll Nllu
he observe the figure of a trim young
woman standing before it, absorbed
in contemplation. In a moment he was
by her side.
"One would think you had an estab-
lishment Of your own and were getting
Ideas for having it done over,'' was his
laughing salutation as he looked down
at her with a pleased warmth in his
eyes and enjoyed the startled glance
she turned upon him.
1t seemed the sweetest thing that he
should have come upon her like this
as If some subtle influence had turned
her thoughts into the same channel
with his own. Decidedly, things We're
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
THE. TOWER OF HUNGER.
A Famous Prison of Pisa Long Since
Destroyed.

A Famous Prison of Pisa Long Since
Destroyed.
1.-THE Tower of Hunger" was a name
given to the tower of Gualandi, in
Pisa, celebrated because of the refer
ence made to it in Dante's Inferno"
Ugolino, count of Gherardesca Q22O-
S9). was the head of a leading Chi
belline family in Pisa. DESERVING the
Ghibellines, he went over to the
Guelphs. Afterward he returned to
his own side and joined that uncom-
promising faction which regarded
Archbishop Ruggieri as their head, un-
til dissensiOns arose between him and
them after he had killed the archbish-
ops nephew in quarrel
In the summer of 1888 Ugolino was
seized by the Ghibellines and sent a
prisoner to the tower of Gualandi,
with his two sons and two grandsons.
Here they were kept till March, 1889,
when the door of the tower was fas-
tened, the keys thrown into the Arno
and the prisoners left to die Of starva-
ton. The tower, which was ever after
known as the Tower of Hunger" was
in ruins at the end of the fifteenth cen
tury and was finally destroyed In 1855.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
OLDEST CLOCK IN ENGLAND.
Erected In 1920 In One of the Towers
of Peterhorouuh Cathedral

Erected In 1920 In One of the Towers
of Peterborough Cathedral.
Peterborough cathedral has the old
est working clock in England 1t was
erected about 1920 and is probably the
work of monastic clockmaker. 1t is
the only one now known that is wound
up over an old wooden wheel. This
wheel is about twelve feet in circum-
ference, and the galvanized cable,
about 800 feet in length, supports q
leaden weight of three hundredweight,
which has to be wound up daily.
The clock is said to be of much more
primitive construction than that made
by Henry de Nick for Charles V. of
France in 1870. The clock chamber
is in the northwest tower, some 120
feet high, where the sunlight has not
penetrated for hundreds of years, and
the winding is done by the light of a
candle.
The gong is the great tenor bell of
the cathedral, which weighs thirty
two hundredweight, and it is struck
hourly by an eighty pound hammer.
The going and the striking parts of
the clock are some yards apart, COM
munication being by a slender wire
The clock has no dial. The time is
shown on the main wheel of the es-
capement, which goes round once in
two hours.-London Chronicle
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
LOST COINS IN THE MAIL.
They Cause Much Trouble and Worry
to Postal Clerks.

They Cause Much Trouble and Worry
to Postal Clerks.
Ordinarily no man is rich enough
to escape that certain sense of elation
which comes from picking up a nickel
on sidewalk. but when a railway
postal clerk finds such a coin in
mail pouch where it has worked out
4 An insufficient wrappings not only
does he miss this elation, but it may
provoke profanity.
For a nickel lost in a pouch of mail
in transit becomes a matter for ma
tional concern. 1t comes to view per-
hapS just as a pouch of mail is emp
tied upon sorting table, and when
it has broken away from the bunch of
letters and cards and circulars, roll
ed to an open space on the table and
there-settled down, heads or tails, with
noisy spinning dance, the clerk who
first sees it is ''it."
A necromancer could have no more
idea than the man in the moon as to
what particular package it rolled out
Of, and if he had and should tell the
postal clerk the clerk wouldn't dare
try to restore the coin to the original
package. That would be too easy al
together
No, 1t is a lost nickel from the mo-
ment the clerk has to see it spinning
there before his eyes, and according to
the tender governmental conscience the
clerk has to get ready for the inau-
ur1sp1t 1tioD of about c1C xr-0,fI, 0f f,,ee,
over it.
For himself he doesn't dare to go to
bed for q short nap until he has got
rid of his cents worth of RESPONSE
bility to the government for the &C
ton of the fool person from whom the
nickel was parted. He digs up his
printed form for such occasions print
ed and provided and at once fills out
a long blank, describing the coin, tell
ing the circumstances of its being
found and whether it landed heads or
tails on the table, naming the pouch
from which it was emptied, the num-
Der Of the train carrying it, the date
and few other details.
This report, with the nickel, goes to
the headquarters OF the postal division
in which the car was operated, and
from these bonded officials, by the
same general red tape route, the small
coin finds its way to the seat of ma
tional government and to the fund rep
resenting the great constituency of the
postof1ce department, which persists
in sending money in envelopes through
the unregistered mails Of the service
Chicago Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
A WALK in THE WOODS.
Emerson Says It's One of the Secreta
For DOdging Old Age.

Few men know how to take a walk.
The qualifications Of a professor are
endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an
eye for nature, good humor, vast curl
osity, good speech, good silence and
nothing too much. If man tells me
that he has an intense love of nature. I
know. of course, that he has none.
Good observers have the manners of
trees and animals, their patient good
sense, and if they add words tits only
when words are better than silence
But loud singer or story teller or q
vain talker profanes the river and the
forest and is nothing like so good COM
pany as a dog.
When Nero advertised for a new lux
ury walk in the woods should have
been offered. 'Tis one of the secrets
for lodging old age, for nature makes
like impression on age as on youth.
Then l recommend it to people who
are growing old against their will. A
man in that pred&ament, if he stands
before q mirror or among young peo-
pie, is made quite too sensible of the
fact, but the forest awakes in him the
same feeling it did when he was boy,
and he may draw a moral from the
fact that it's the old trees that have all
the beauty and grandeur. 1 admire the
taste which makes the avenue to a
house, were the house never so small,
through wood; besides the beauty, it
has a positive effect on manners, as it
disposes the mind of the inhabitant
and of his guests to the Difference due
to each. Some English reformers
thought the cattle made all this wide
space necessary between house and
house and that if there were no cows
to pasture less land would suffice. But
COW does not need so much land as
the owners eyes require between him
and his neighbOr.-Ralph Waldo EN-
erson in Atlantic
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
Implements of Warfare.

There is a story of a priyateer's
crew Of forty to fifty men capturing a
Turkish galley with 500 seamen and
soldiers on board by means of swarm
of bees judiciously thrown among the
unspeakable ones. However this may
be, there are enough authentic In
stances of strange methods Of attack
TO provide amply sufficient material
for the casuist in deciding what is fair
and what unfair in war. Burning
naphtha, boiling lead, birds, carcases
of men and horses, Chinese stinkpots,
besides the implements already men-
toned, have all been used for offensive
or defensive purposes in actual war
fare.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
PITH AND POINT.

The man who changes jobs frequent
ly never has a good one.
When company goes there is a feel
ing about the house that suggests an
easy old shoe.
1t is the opinion of every mother that
a boy never loses an opportunity for
attempting to break his neck.
Because a friend shows q desire to
be sympathetic don't pull the family
skeleton out of the closet to entertain
him.
AS a man gets older he finds that
more of his friends are visiting the
cemetery when they go riding than
formerly.
The people who are used to good
things when at home are very patient
with the poor accommodations met
away from home.
1t often happens that a girl who is
not disciplined enough by her parents
gets the kind of a husband who disci-
plines her too much.-Atchison Globe.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
Lake Cayuga's Mysteries.

Lake Cayuga is one Of the wonders
OF the eastern states It Is situated In
west central New York and Is upward
OF forty miles In length, with an aver
age breadth Of but three miles. One
of its peculiarities is this: Although
hundreds of persons have been drown
ed in its waters since the settlement Of
the adjacent territory, not a single
corpse has so far been recovered, and
it is common saying that Lake Ca
yuga never gives up its dead" Those
who have made an attempt to fathom
this mystery say that the bottom Of
this remarkable sheet of water is SIM
ply a series of large openings and
eraterlike cavities, the entire lake bed
having the appearance of being one
huge honeycomb, each of the we'll
like holes being reputed to be bottom
less.
Another Cayuga mystery is its ir-
regular tides. There is no stated time
for their appearance, but when they
do come they are very decided, the
water often instantly receding 30 to
100 feet and as quickly returning with
a roar that can be heard for miles,
Exchange.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
Springs Fairy
Wand
By KEITH GORDON
Copyright, 1901. by K. N. Whitehead

1t was the English sparrows that put
1t into Mowbray's head, though per-
haps the rhythmic beating of carpets
and the sight of winter garments out
for their last airing in the sunlight may
have prepared his mind for. the idea.
The world, so far as he could see it
from the windows of his back room,
had grown suddenly domestic Every
time he approached the window some
new sign of household unheaval greet
ed him. Every one seemed distracting-
ly busy putting his house in order, and,
without realizing precisely what WIS
the matter, Mowbray had q vague, in
jured sense of being out of it.
Then one morning there was a deaf
ening clatter outside the window where
on an adjacent wall the ivy leaves
were already changing from russell to
rich green and the plumes of the wis
taria vine waved with languid elegance
in the spring breeze True to their ma
ture, the sparr0ws were wrangling
fiercely
Evidently fighting for the hand Of
the same lady or disagreeing about the
advantages of building slte'' chuc-
kled Mowbray as he eyed the reflection
of his lathered face in the mirror and,
puckering his mouth to the left, drew
the razor slillfully across his right
cheek and viewed the result with crit
ical attention,
1t was a homely moment for self rev.
elation, but so it happened, and so it
must be set down. An instant later he
was thinking that it wouldn't be half
bad to be one of those married fellows
who at this season were receiving such
injunctions as, "Now, John, don't for
get to telephone the paper hanger" or
Just stop at the carpet cleaners on
your way to the station and hurry him
up"
During the rest of his toilet Now
bray grinned at himself in the glass,
more or less humorously. Up to the
present moment the serious game of
money making, with occasional gay
hours, had seemed to him as satisfy
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
"Tatt1eta1e. Boys.

Both teachers and parents should
discourage tattling among children.
The practice is bad enough among
girls, but is contemplate among boys.
A boy who tells tales on others will
doubtless be properly castigated by
the courts of juvenile justice which
convene In alleys and back lots, but he
should not have the satisfaction of
feeling that his punishment is in the
nature Of martyrdom nor should he be
made favorite with his teacher for
doing that which most boys instinc-
lively detest. Boys have always been
educated to regard tattling as coward
Ice. This code of ethics has developed
some pretty good men. 1t is good
enough for the present generation of
schoolboys.-Chicago Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
THE HAGIoscoPE.
4 Relic of Olden Times Found In
Many English Churches.

u relic OF Olden Times Found In
Many English Churches.
In spite Of the close blood relation
ship" said an American who had Wis
tied England, 1--WE are frequently re-
minded in England that we are for
eigners. 1t crops up often in the ordi-
nary conversation.
AN English friend whose guest
was took me around to see his native
village. We entered the church.
Whereabouts is your pewY I
asked.
"'We sit over there by the hagio-
scope he answered, as though hagio-
scope were some common object like
table or candlestick. My friend no
ticed the blankness of my face, so he
repeated:
"'Over there. just below the hagio-
scope"
Would you mind telling me what
sort of an instrument it is that you call
a hagioscopeY / asked meekly.
''The Englishman looked hurt; but,
with sigh, he explained:
1--WE have them in nearly all the old
country churches. Do you see that
small glass window through the wall
beside the altar? That was made at
the time when lepers were at large
and they attended church services
They were of course not allowed in
side, so they stood outside and saw and
heard the services through that hole,
which is called the squint window, but
more often the hagioscope.'"
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20

Coinlng his way. he felt eXh1larated,
triumphant, boyish. Miss Grant laugh
ed rather foolishly as she greeted him.
Il was playing game that has been
favorite of mine since 1 was a small
GIRL she explained as they turned
aw5y from the window together, "a
game of make believe in which 1 ar
range everything in life to suit myself.
Nettte and I-Nettie was my best
friend, you know-used to spend hours
describing our husbands, houses and
children to each other. 1t was great
fun, can tell you, and we entered into
details until it actually seemed real"
She paused and glanced up at him to
zee if he understood and then contin-
ued, when you came up l was Just
furnishing love of a house in thought,
selecting the color scheme for my
walls, you know"
Niowbray listened almost too rapt to
speak. There was something thrilling
in the knowledge that her thoughts
had been the very complement of his.
A strange, strong happiness and GER
tainty possessed him.
"WouId you mind telling me whether
the husband that you planned bore any
resemblance to me?" he questioned
daringly.
She regarded him critically, then
shook her head. Don't think me rude"
she murmured; 'but, to tell you the
truth, he was always six feet tall and
blond. Once remember when we had
reached the end of a game-that is,
seen our daughters grow up and marry
I'VE began all over again, and for a
change l chose a dark, cold man who
filled me with a delicious fear. But l
was always forgetting and barking
back to my favorite type, so at last l
gave up"
''Too bad, too badw murmured her
companion, but his tone implied that
his pity was for her disappointment
rather than his own. They walked
along in silence for awhile, absorbed in
their thoughts and the lively scene
about them, yet strangely conscious of
each other. At last Mowbray spoke
81 don't see how the thing is coming
out" he began, with feigned bewilder-
ment, ''for when the sights and sounds
of early spring suddenly made me
homesick for the thing I've never had
"a home"-
His voice grew low, and he paused a
second, as if the thought were too sa-
cred to be mentioned lightly Elinor's
heart went out to him, though she
stubbornly kept her glance fixed indif-
ferently on the crowd about them.
''It was your face that rose before
me instantly; your eyes that looked
into mine; your dear presence that l
felt in the house that planDed, like a
benediction, caress. You were the
spirit of the place, its queen. the gra-
cious woman to whom l fancied my
self coming home each night with a
deeper, fuller love"
A needless pedestrian jostled them,
all unconscious of the fact that in do
ing so he had rudely brushed against
the sweetest thing in the world-a love
story. They continued their way, al
most in silence, until the bewildering
greenery of the park turned by spring
magic into fairyland confronted them.
In a flash Elinor seemed to see her
life stretching away into the future,
transformed into beauty as match
less as that before her, by love.
She laid her hand upon MOwbray's
arm and gazed at him for moment
with her soul In her eyes.
after ALL she said very softly, 81
believe that you dreamed truep"
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
PIGEON coURTsHIP.
II Sometimes Leads to Battles That
Result In Death,

Result In Death.
On south Jersey farm, which was
the home of a thousand pigeons and
which was conducted by woman who
had formerly been a bookkeeper in
Philadelphia, was found one particular
fly and coop which was the abiding
place of young doves that had reached
the mating season. Purposely these
young birds were associated together
so that they might select their life COM
panions.
The interior of the walls of the COOP
were filed with boxes, and those
pigeons which had mated would select
one of these boxes for their home and
nest.
This period Of courtship is one filed
with excitement for the birds. Two
young pigeon cocks, having selected the
same hen for mate, have been known
to fight to the death in their rivalry.
The method of combat is peculiar. The
beak and wings alone are used, the
combatants catching each other with
their beaks by the skin Of the head and
beating each other with their strong
wings.
Having once chosen his mate, the
dove, with an occasional exception, re-
mains constant to her through life. The
occasional instances of infidelity cause
discord in the coop, for when one
pigeon tires of his mate and seeks an
other he meets vigorous protest from
the companion Of the bird which he
covets. When they have agreed to
spend their lives together Mr. and Mrs.
Dove select a box and the laying be-
gins. The parent birds may then be
less than eight months old-Era Mag
aZine
Amador ledger., 1905-01-20
AFRICA.
The Way That Name Was Bestowed
Upon the Continent.

The Way That Name Was Bestowed
Upon the Continent.
The name Africa was given by the
Roman conquerors, after the third
Punic war, B. G. 146, to the province
which they formed to cover the terri
tory Of Carthage. 1t was most prob
ably adopted from the word AIRY
gah," the Carthagenian term for a col
ony.
This original Africa was limited in
extent. It's borders reached, according
to Pliny, from the River Tusca on the
west, which divided it from Numidia,
to the bottom of the Syrtis Minor on
the southeast, though Ptolemy carries
it as far east as the bottom of the
Great Syrtis, making 1t include Numi-
dia and Tripolitana.
In later days the whole African con-
thent took Its name from this part,
which in its narrower limits CORE
sponded with the modern regency of
Tunis and was called by the Greeks
Lydia. Africus, the stormy southwest
wind, was so called in Italy because II
blew from Africa.