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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09

Stephen Myers spent Satur-
lay and Sunday out on the
farm.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09

Miss Jessie Brandriff is the
guestof Council Bluffs relatives
today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09

Mrs. j. N. Fitzgibbon and
Miss Francis Fitzgibbon are
ON aha visitors today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09

Mrs. C. P. Brandrif is an
Omaha visitor today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-09

DR.. McGavern reports a
daughter born last night
to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wood
Iof Loveland.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
THE ANSWER,

Tel me no more that once you toved me
well,
For love Is still Immortal, and its day
Dles not In night, but at the evening bell
~ uames anew. and drives the dusk away
nor tell me that you love me still despite
- some passing tribute TO another heart
ror love demands the rapture to requite
And asking all. dlsdalns the lesser part
An, sneak no more OF love not in your ken,
- Love Is JOY that first to lovers seems
To0 subtle for reality. and then
100 real, too potent too divine for
dreams.
Louise Morgan SHI. In Harper's Weekly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
1t Had Rained.

This is how the junior reporter does
it in some newspapers. He was asked
to write a paragraph mentioning the
fact that it had recently rained, and
this is what he let loose: after
many days of arid desiccation, the
vapory captains marshaled their thun-
dering hosts and poured out upon
scorching humanity and the thorough
ly incinerate vegetarian a few inches
of aqua pluvialis. New York News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
"Butting In"

81 was watching the bulletins, when
my attention was attracted to two
youngsters who were squared off at
each other in Queensberry style. While
| watched they rolled into the gutter,
scratching like cats.
81 separated the belligerents. Then
they turned on me. Hey, mister,
what yer doin'?' yelled one. @Can't
two friends fight without somebody
'buttin' in?' permitted the fight
to go ."-Washington Post.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24

GTTJ
oockades maintained
farther at sea- safe of submarines
ehame soldiers within distance
with twenty detenseshp
noe snip supplies these
slip by the bath sodes And
except by
VIII since
THIS is physically will sale
say that expended upon sun
baleships Japanese regiment
could With suma
fifty action at
hed baeship would
proach
The baeshp die when d1saster
its continuance
the thick
bateshp be developed
still further be by the
submarine is increased
Destroyer
speed vision deadly that strikes out of the unknown
must give
probable, their vanqushe
become Work
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24

In the Stonewall mine, San Diego
county, California, an earthquake so
twisted the shaft that the timbers
were pulled around to the opposite
sides of the shaft from their original
position
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
Nothinu More to Learn.

James," said the parent, heard
that boy next door swearing this
morning. | hope you don't play with
him"
mo, ma am" replied the hopeful;
mot any more. He's taught me all he
knew"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
Unpie asant.

Would-Be Actress-In the third act
| simply lose myself.
Manager-Well, let us have that act
first-Philadelph Bulletin.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24

The regents of California State Uni
versity have decided to buy 200 acres
of land to "round out" the present ir-
regularly shaped tract on which the
Lick observatory now stands.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24

proclaimed republic
classic
said I'VE
founded
form pea change WILL and that it trans
with
whether king convention assembly committee president or anything else
will the
United
title the
will this
principle which follows that
saed its ability exist Recognition extended earlier of the
merits President Roosevets
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
~"~sA~~>~~essS9g5 E26ss~~~~"As~~~"
Our attitude TOWARD
NeLU Governments
BY John Bdsseft Moore, IL D.
~~~s%~r>s~~aASoe3 E3cSes~~~~-~%s~~s

NY exposition OF the American doctrine of
would be incomplete failed specially to notice the rule
of the United with the recognition OF new
rule which is indeed coroaTy OF that doc
trine In Europe governments had been treated as eg
mate Legitimate according what conceived 10 De
the regularity the rreguay OF the succession OF tne
rulers The attitude of the United States this question
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
Or UW BdttleShipS
; Be Obsolete?
LOhdt ELiU Happen LDi1en The Submarine
is in General Service.
BY Morgan Robertson s-.~0N.4s-SIV$
BY Morgan Robertson.

batteships exist to repe them will be worth
less They expensive batteships and much
more effective Then il transports have bateshps 10
oppose them they need have batteshlps !"
protect them and for base for scouts and torpedo
boats all they admiral to report to An
Improved destroyer admiral not in such com
tort does the big and battleship but faster And
with the additional speed available coang stations may be
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24


noticeable fresh
with the public
bottle which English rather less than
of delicate
shlng n
in life after all"Metropolian
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-03-24
By 3. L. Benslssdn.

AN los oros! When you have lived awhile in Spain you
understand what this the of sunsricken
pleasureovng people free from the cruelty
bull is half in shade and half in binding sunshine
shady side dear the side is cheap and crowded
every corrida but Pedro and Juanna could only
annual visit to the side and this luxury
lowed Holy Week To be it event On the
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
FOCUSING" RODS.
Art of DiyinatiOn In the Bowels of
the Earth Explained.

ART of Divination In the Bowels of
the Earth Explained.
There is undoubtedly Il practical art
Of discovering springs. Indians OF
frontiersmeE can find water in the des.
ert when ''tenderfoot'' cannot. MeXi-
cans and experienced prospectors can
similarly find ore These arts consist
mainly in the recognition of superficial
signs which escape the ordinary OBJ
server
1t is not necessary that the operator
should consciously note these signs
separately and reason upon them. No
doubt he frequently does so, though he
method to others. But in many in
stances he recognizes by association
and memory the presence of Il group
of indications, great or small, which he
has repeatedly found to attend springs
or ore deposits. Tht; skill, due to habit,
is often almost uneIring for Il given
limited district, but under new condi-
tons it breaks down. Old miners from
California or Australia have often
made in other regions the most foolish
and hopeless attempts to find gold be-
cause they thought this or that place
'1ooked just like" some other place in
which they had mixed successfully.
Apart from the magnetic minerals
there is no proof that ore deposits eX-
hibit their presence and nature by any
attraction or other active force. With
regard to water, however, there may
be an action affecting the temperature
and moisture of the everything surface.
Even here, however, it seems more
likely that such effects are manifested
visibly to a close observer rather than
by direct affection of his nervous or
muscular system. The favorite fields
for water diviners are regions in which
water is abundant, but not gathered
upon given horizons of impermeable
strata underlying porous rocks.-Cas-
sier's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
The Chaplain's
CleVerneSS
BY C. B. LeDis
By C. B. Les'is
Copyright, 1904, by C. B. Lewis

one day at the Third National bank,
In the city of Cornopolis, a stranger
walked through the presidents room
and past the boollkeeper's and took
from the pile of money stacked ut the
paying teller's right hand four pack
nges of $4,000 each. He was coolly
walking out again when stopped by the
president and a gun.
The man was known to the police as
'Slick Charlie" and to tell of all his
adventures would fill book 1t was
for his attempted theft of the $4,000
that he was sent to the WoonsOn peni-
tentiary for five years. The officer who
delivered him behind the doors of that
institution said to the warden:
Here is a man you want to keep an
eye on. Don't lose sight of him day
or night He is bold and nervy on the
one hand and slick and sly on the
other. Don't trust him for an hour
or he'll beat the game"
The warden was a new man at the
prison; but, having been sheriff of a
county, he thought he knew about all
sorts of criminals and replied that
No. $40, as 'Slick Charlie" was re-
corded would have to get up early in
the morning to beat him.
If prison chaplain were to be ques-
toned about religion in prison he
would answer that scores of prisoners
lived up to it and were earnest and de-
vout. If an experienced warden were
to be questioned, he would answer that
just when a prisoner began to get
good" he should be watched the closest
The chaplain at Woonson was good
man and one who had faith in him
self. He thought his advice and ap-
peals to burglars and murderers pro-
duced the desired effect Among the
prisoners he was known as an easy
mark.
The new warden was wary of antag
onizing the captain and man not
well posted on the tricks of criminals,
so No. SO found things easy for him
when he entered prison. When he had
had full opportunity to size up the
chaplain he began to get good" He
was as earnest about this rs he had
been in appropriating other peoples
goods. He became contrite and hum
BILE, and he wanted to be turned from
paths of wickedneSs. OF course the
chaplain did his best When the DO
lice officials heard that "Slick Charlie"
had been converted they notified the
warden in writing that he would be
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
Blue ,JayH,

Blue jays never go south, but stay
north during the coolest winters, 1t is
said they live to be a hundred years
old. Very few people have ever seen
their nests or young. They can sing a
dozen different tunes. l never kill them,
for they once saved my life I had been
lost in the woods for tv-" days. Night
was coming, and it be- 4 to snow. 1
built bough camp, and while cutting
wood cut hollow stub. When l split
1t open l found four blue jays and
about a bushel of bread and meat.
built fire and ate about peck of the
provisions. The jays did not go away,
but came up to the fire and appeared to
enjoy the heat. My feet were cold, and
l commenced to dance to warm them,
Then the birds sang the prettiest jig
tune 1 ever heard. The storm lasted
twenty-four hours. When it was over
l climbed tall pine, but l came down
mad as a wet hen. 1 had discovered
the lumber camp about fifteen rods dis
tant.-Lewiston (Me) Journal.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
ONE CAUSE OF ILLNESS.
Ridiculous Fads That Spring From a
Smattering of Knowledge.

Ridiculous Fads That Spring From "a
Smattering of Knowledge.
A famous physician upon being asked
recently what is the chief cause of ill
health replied: Thinking and talking
about it all the time. This ceaseless
introspection in which so many of the
rising generation of nervous folk in
dulge is certainly wearing them out.
When they are not worrying as to
whether they sleep too much or too lit
tie they are fidgeting over the amount
of food they take or the quantity of ex-
ercise necessary for health. In short,
they never give themselves a moments
peace. Our grandfathers did not con-
Germ themselves with these questions.
They ate, drank, slept, as nature
prompted them. Undoubtedly they
were healthier in mind and body for
their sublime Indifference, and if we
asked ourselves fewer questions we
should have less time to analyze or i'm
agine ailments.
That medical science has made re-
markable progress in the last few dec
dueS cduIlOl De ueHleu. Lie ldulC IOf
some presentAlay undesirable conditions
lies not with the doctor, but with the
patient. There has been too great
tendency on the part of the laity to ac-
quire a smattering of medical knowI-
edge through the reading of so called
health" magazines and pamphlets and
to put into practice on their own ac-
count that '1ittle knowledge" which, 1t
cannot be denied, is a dangerous
thing" The following of some most
ridiculous fads along the lines of eat
ing, drinking, sleeping and exercise has
assisted in swelling the mortality sta
tistics. Our grandfathers would hold
up their hands in horror at many of the
foolish things we do in the name of
health" 4 little more of the COM
Portable nonchalance of our healthy an
cestors would do no harm to the rising
eration.-Housekeep
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
DON'T RECOGNIZE DEFEAT.
Prove Your Manhood by Battling Os
Bravely After Reverses,


After 1900 of Napoleon's soldiers
had been overwhelmed by the advance
or I5,OOO Austrian troops he addressed
them thus: Il am displeased with you.
You have evinced neither discipline nor
valor. You have allowed yourselves to
be driven from positions where hand
full of resolute men might have arrest,
ed an army. You are no longer French
soldiers. Chief Of staff, cause it to be
written on their standards, They are
no longer of the army of Italy,"
In tears the battered veterans re-
piled: eve have been nflsrepresented
The soldiers Of the enemy were three
to one. Try us once more. Place us
in the post of danger and see if we do
not belong to the army of Italy" In
the next battle they were placed in the
van, and they made good their pledge
by rolling back the great Austrian ar
my.
He is pretty poor sort of man who
loses courage and fears to face the
world just because he has made a mis-
take or slip somewhere, because his
business has failed, because his prop
erty has been swept away by some gen.
eral disaster or because of other trou-
BILE impossible for him to avert.
This is the test Of your manhood,
How much is there left in you after
you have lost everything outside of
yourself? If you lie down now, throw
up your hands and acknowledge your
self worsted there is not much in you.
But if with heart undaunted and face
turned forward you refuse to give up
or to lose faith in yourself, if you scorn
to beat a retreat you will show that
the man left in you is bigger than your
loss, greater than your cross and larger
than any defeat
81 know no such unauestionable
badge and ensign of sovereign mind"
said Emerson, ''as that tenacity of pur-
pose which, through all changes of
companions or parties or fortunes,
changes never, bates no jot of heart or
hope, but wearies out opposition and
arrives at its port"
1t is men like Ulysses S. Grant, who,
whether in the conflict of opposing ar
mics on the battlefield OF in the wear
and tear of civic strife, fighting against
reverses, battling for competence for
his loved ones, even while the hand of
death lay chill upon him, "bates no jot
of heart or hope" that wiring victory
from the most forbidding circum-
stances. 1t is men like Napoleon, who
refuse to recognize defeat, who declare
that impossible" is not in their vocab-
ularies, that accomplish things.-Suc-
cess.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
Correggio md His Life.

Little is known of Correggio, which
would argue that he was of a retiring
disposition. He was born in the little
town of Correggio, twenty-four miles
from Parma. In the latter city he was
educated, but in his seventeenth year
an outbreak Of the plague drove his
family to Mantua. By 1914 he was
back in Parma. For some years he
worked here and painted many famous
pictures. 1t may have been because Of
grief over the death of his young wife,
but at the age of thirty-siX, indiffer
ent to fame and fortune, he retired to
the little town where he was born. All
that is known regarding his death is
the date, March 5, 1534.-Charles H.
Caffin in ST. Nicholas
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24

dad secured his man with ropes and
locked the door behind him as he
emerged. Shambling down the corri-
lor to the first guard, he had said:
James, came away today with
only Il dime in my pocket. Can you
lend me Il dollar until tomorrow
with the greatest of pleasure, chap
Iain.'' And the money had been hand
ed over
The same game had been played on
lie two others, and then the Chap
lain" had entered the warden's office.
He could have passed right through, as
the official was busy, but instead of
that he took chair and waited for
ten minutes. When the warden was
Mt liberty he was asked for a loan of
$40, and the chaplain reported to
him on the welfare of three or four diff
fereut prisoners before saying good
night. Fifteen minutes after leaving
the prison the disguised prisoner en-
tered the largest store i'll the town and
borrowed $50 of the merchant and
then disappeared.
When the library door was broken
open at 6 o'clock and the real chaplain
found there was a great commotion.
Three gatemen were ready to swear
that the clergyman had passed out,
taking dollar from each as he did so.
The warden had seen and talked and
loaned money to the same man. Two
guards had also seen him. Here were
six prison officials who could swear to
thing, and yet that thing was not
fact. No. SO had simply initiated the
chaplain down to a line-his voice.
gait, speech and general look.
AT II o'clock the next forenoon the
president of the Third National bank
of Cornopolis was called out of his
room for a moment. During his alb
sence a man dressed like one of the
clerks in the bank entered the room
and bore away package of bonds Of
the face value of $4,000. "Slick Char
lie' wanted to be revenged upon the
bank, and he wanted money with
which to leave the country, and he tar
ried in the town to get both. The pres
ident of the bank is sure of this, be-
cause note left on his desk told him
so.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
The Bill Was Not In the Sen.

One of Senator Fryes scintillations
as presiding officer, when the Philip
pine bill was near its passage in the
senate, should not be lost to the world.
Such measures, till perfected, are con-
sidered in committee of the whole, not
in the senate, as the term goes. The
distinction is of little popular sig
nificance, but of great parliamentary
Importance.
Senator Bacon, wishing to make a
certain motion, was informed that the
bill was not in the senate, but in COM
mittee Of the whole.
"Oh, 1 thought we were in the sem
ate," replied Mr.. Bacon.
eve are in the senate" Mr.. Frye re-
sponded, "but the bill is not"-Wash-
ington Post.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

1t is well to take time in thinking be-
fore making accusations.
A woman who can use her eyes with
effect is dangerous rival
Women take fright easily over low
er's compliments to another of the fair
sex.
There is species of treason in carry
ing water on both shoulders in a love
affair.
In every man there is a disposition to
do the grand where women are con-
cerned.
1t hurts woman's pride to have an
other woman share with her a mans
attention.
When one man sneers at another it is
fair to presume jealousy is at the bot
tom of it.
When a man regards himself as IL
resistible it is time to do some quiet
thinking and self abnegation.-Phi
phia Bulletin.
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24
Henry VII. and Puddings.

Bluff King Hal, otherwise Henry
VIII. of England, was exceedingly fond
Of puddings. At one time he gave a
certain Mistress CORVALLIS house in
Aldgate for herself and her heirs for
ever '1n reward of fine puddings." In
King Henry Wills private accounts
occur again and again entries of his
rewards to different housewives for
bringing him puddings. A typical in
stance runs thus: "Item. The same
day paid to the wife that made the
king podings at Hampton corte, Wis.
Wild" This would be about $1.75, but
its value was much greater when the
entry was made. This love for fine
puddings" explains much in the IA
miliar rotund figure of King Hal
Amador ledger., 1905-02-24

HE WAS CooLLY WALKING OUT AGAIN WHEN
STOPPED BY THE PRESIDENT.
out Of the pen within three months,
and the chaplain sent an official COM
plant to the governor that the police
were trying to discredit his labors.
The chaplain was a man forty-five
years old, while No. $40 was only thir-
ty. The chaplain was four inches the
taller, had stoop shoulders and sham
bled as he walked. He also had pc
culiar intonation. The slick convict
gave UP his original idea of digging for
liberty to study the chaplain At the
end Of five months he was one of the
teachers in the evening school. At the
end Of seven he asked and got liberty
to hold Bible class ON Sundays. He
wrote and the chaplain delivered ser
mon on christianity In Prison." which
was commented on by hundreds of pa
pers. Up to this time he had been
working in the tailor shop. He was
now given charge of the prison library,
and his plans were as good as carried
cut
1t was the habit of the chaplain to
visit the prison every afternoon from
8 to 8. A part of the time was spent
with prisoners in their cells-men who
were undergoing light punishment
and a part in the library, and he al
ways left pretty promptly at 5. In 60
ing out he passed three guards at lock-
ed gates and went through the ward
ems office and out of the main door,
No. SO had held the position of libra
rian for three months, and it was mid
winter One afternoon the chaplain
had been visiting in the prison and re-
turned to the library at quarter of 5.
AS he entered the room he received
blow that knocked him senseIess, and
when he recovered his wits half an
hour had passed and he was tied hand
and foot and gagged. 1t was o'clock
before he was released.
In the course of that hour No. $40
had done some wonderful things. Aft
er knocking down the chaplain he had
stripped off the latter's outer garments
and clothed himself in them; then he