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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

alone is master of the situation, and
lord of the result,
UP-TO-DATE HINTS FOR WOMEN.
Empire STYLES are Icing limited at
for such widely differing sorts of
things as rain coats. evening coats
and lounging robes.
Don't get your rain coat too long
It only gets wet and muddy besides
Tapping around your ankles in way
conducive to your catching a heavy
cold
For the women who are wearing
Tho Sc wool boas come odd little looms
to weave them on
Lots of women are sewing away on
shirtwasts. getting them out of the
way before they begin the regular
fall sewing And a significant point
about those shirtwaists is that they're
more and more severe
Chemisette styles bid fair to be
coed again this fall, but there's a rare
difference in chemisettes, for the ex-
quisitely sheer little things, all lace
and beading, or handwork, are being
replaced by severer styles-those of
pique and of linen, the lighter weight
linens laid in small pleats, being al
ready here. With them are worn stiff
little ties of black.
Embroidered ties promise to be
wonderfully popular-that is. ties
fashioned on the same lines as the
small butterfly ties, but of heavy linen
of pique, or that other form of pique
that is like a honey comb, embroider-
So HOd NAt. AC Sllu l1lIlc UOW lOS6S
all of its mannishness through the en-
broidery. yet keeps the individuality
of the severity of the style.
Some of these ties are embroidered
as though single great flower form
ed each end; and some look. when
tied, as though the butterfly at each
end were poised there. A few, of heavy
linen, have broderie Anglaise ends;
and very few are of handkerchief
linen or sort of MULE. But these
last are too soft to carry out the tailor.
made idea.
Broderie Anglaise has spread even
to buttons. those on some of the en-
broidered shirtwaists echoing the
main motif.
Girdle corsets haven't lost bit of
their popularity. They're the most
comfortable corsets of all for slender
figure. The prettiest little new ones
have come out, made Of white ribbon
satin, or a dull silk with tiny, shin
ing dots thrown to the surface in some
mysterious way in the weave.
Broderie Anglaise is shown with the
newest of fall blouse designs. And
hand-embroidered blouses-and blouse
patterns are everywhere.
Hints of black coming strongly to
the fore for fall and winter suits are
becoming more definite each day.
Black broadcloth suits are the most
evident form as yet.
Ribbon ruffles on petticoats. al
though rather expensive, give splendid
service. Some of the ribbon sales
give opportunity to rid them of that
one Objectionable feature-their great
er cost than silk
Velvet ribbons are being worn with
white blouses and white linen skirts,
and with lingerie blouses and white
woolen skirts. Torquoise blue is first
in favor, but white velvet is worn a
great deal, and the lighter shades of
violet.
ToLSToY'S EXPERIENCE IN WAR.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30
A WOMAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY,

France does not want her, nor does
Germany. When she finds her way
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

Don't get your rain coat too long
It only gets wet and muddy besides
Tapping around your ankles in q way
conducive to your catching a heavy
cold
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

Velvet ribbons are being worn with
white blouses and white linen skirts
and with lingerie blouses and white
woolen skirts. Torquoise blue is frs:
in favor, but white velvet is worn a
great deal, and the lighter shades OF
violet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

Lots of women are sewing away on
shirtwaists, getting them out of the
way before they begin the regular
fall sewing. And significant point
about those shirtwaists is that they're
more and more severe.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30
UP-TC-DATE HINTS FOR WOMEN

Empire STYLES are being limited at
for such widely differing sorts OF
things as rain coats, evening coats
and lounging robes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

For the women who are wearins
the Sc wool boas come odd little looms
to weave them on.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

Chemisette styles bid fair to be
coed again this fall, but there's rare
difference in chemisettes, for the ex-
quisitely sheer little things, all lace
and beading, or handwork, are being
replaced by severer styles-those of
pique and of linen, the lighter weight
linens laid in small pleats, being al
ready here. With them are worn stiff
little ties of black
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-30

Some of these ties are embroidered
as though single great flower form
ed each end; and some look. when
tied, as though the butterfly at each
end were poised there. A few, of heavy
linen, have broderie Anglaise ends;
and very few are of handkerchief
linen or sort of MULE. But these
last are too soft to carry out the tailor
made idea.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Where He Made His Money.

Years ago a gentleman settled in the
south of England and became very
popular in the neighborllood. The coun-
ty families could never discover how
he had made his money, but were sat
istied by his solemn assurance that it
was not in trade. Nothing could eX-
ceed the ordinary gravity of his de
meanor which, indeed, caused him to
be placed on, the commission of peace.
but now and then, without any appar-
ent provocation, he would burst into
such laugh as no one ever heard be-
fore except in one place.
Where they could have heard it puz-
zled the county families for five and
twenty years, but at last he was be-
trayed unconsciously by his own grand
child, who after visit to a travelling
circus innocently exclaimed why,
grandpa laughs just like the clown!'
James Payn.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

holder complaining thereof, and on
proof of such refusal or failure, he
may recover judgment for actual dam
ages sustained by him with costs of
suit. Each of such defaulting direc-
tors is also liable to removal for such
neglect.
The official explanatory note on
the above codification is as follows:
The statute of 1884, page 1856, as
amended in 1880, page "a, and 1897.
page 80, is codified in the above sec
tion, the only substantial change
made being in the omission of the
proviso in section of the amendatory
act of 1897 limiting it's provisions to
corporations ''whose stock is listed
and offered for sale at public ex-
change" The provisions of the part
of section omitted are unconstitu-
tional.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
A story of Sir Robert Ball.

Sir Robert Ball, the noted British as
tronomer, on one occasion went to a
remote town in Ireland to lecture on
his favorite topic. Arriving at the sta
tion, he looked for the expected convey
ance, but found none. After all the
other passengers had disappeared a
man stepped up and said, Maybe
you're Sir Robert Ball?" On receiving
an affirmative reply the man hastily
apologized, saying, Sure, your honor,
I'm sorry kept you waiting, but was
tould to look for an intellectual gintle-
man." Sir Robert thought that under
the circumstances it would be better
not to inquire what was the mans idea
Of intellectually.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
WISDOM'S WHISPERS.

It's lucky we don't know how un
lucky we may be-
1t is difficult to take woman by sur
prise in a love affair.
Some people are cranks simply be-
cause you can't turn them.
Some men secure all the glory at,
tached to whatever part they assume.
A woman may know very little anG
yet have a way that carries conviction.
The want of refinement in a man
cannot be corrected by the gloss of set
phrases.
Some men take on an air of conse-
Quence to conceal the weakness Of their
position.
When a man can hide his thoughts In
a smile he holds powerful weapon of
defense-Philadelph Bulletin.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
WHY TRAVEL ABROAD?
An American Should Give His First
Study to His Home Land.


Study to His Home Land.
When Payne wrote There's No Place
Like Home" he gave poetic expression
to the love he bore toward the ingle
nook more precious than temples or
palaces" What flowers of rhetoric
could approach in power of assertion
these five little monosyllabic words,
There's No Place Like Home"-to
gainsay which were impossible!
1t is the great privilege of Americans
to be able without hyperbole to apply
them to travel, for what is there in any
part of the habitable globe more
fraught with interest, instruction, edu-
cation, refreshment of mind and body
and uplifting of soul than nature has
provided, with hand SO lavish, for the
delectation of those having the good
fortune to dwell In this goodly land7
Would he see a Riviera? We have
several on the shores of the azure wa
ske-s both of the gulf and the Pacific,
Far distancing that laved by the Med
iterranean.
Does he pine for snow capped noun
tains2 Let him repair to the plains
whence Pixies Peak, Mount Logan and
our other great elevations rear their
hoary submits into cloudland.
Would he witness majestic cata-
ract2 There is but one without rival,
the imperial Niagara-in the chain of
our great lakes, most turbulent Of
links.
Neither Nile, Niger nor Ganges great
rivers though they are, are comparable
to our own Mississippi, we'll named
"The Father of Waters" Our peerless
Hudson excels in picturesque effects
the vaunted Rhine.
What Of the beauties of the Golden
Gate, on whose shores sits enthroned
dueenly San Francisco, pronounced
peerless among cities by much trav-
eled European prince of imperial
blood?
Where is there, even in miniature,
anything to vie with that earthly para
disc, the valley Of the Yosemite; what
to compare with the deep and rugged
gorge through which passes to the sea
tAC LlpCtuOuS ElN0E
The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, one
Of the worlds wonders, is as yet but
partially explored
Why, then, travel abroad, while all
these and vastly more than can be
enumerated remain unseen at home?
"Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers
Of Damascus, better than all the waters
Of Israel?' said Naaman the Syrian of
old when ordered by the prophet to
betake himself to the Jordan for heal
ing. Who can help admiring his pride
Of country and robust patriotism? {?
Most worthy are they of emulation.
Be it for health or recreation, there
is no grander travel field than that we
have at home-Travel.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
The Rainy Day.

A well known artist recently received
letter from chap who has regularly
made it practice to borrow money
Of him. In this letter the chap who is
a1rrays In f--ee-.et~I- -t1ifas..l4io4- -alirp.t~.-
ed his correspondent by saying:
''This time have decided to reverse
the usual order Of things, and, instead
Of borrowing from you, 1 inclose here
with $50, which am going to ask that
you will lay aside for me for a rainy
day"
But the artist couldn't find any re-
mittance In the letter. He searched for
1t on the floor, under the table-in fact,
everywhere he thought he might have
dropped it. Then quite accidentally he
turned over the sheet on which the let
ter was written and discovered this
postscript:
"1've just looked out Of the window
and find it's raining like the very
deuceW-Collier's.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
EVERYBODY WANTS A TIP.
Experience of an American Woman
While XisAtino. Nenice

Experience of an American Woman
While Visiting Venice.
One of the things that most astonish
you with regard to the working class
Italian is the perfect franknsss with
which he shows his desire for a tip.
No false modesty obscures 1t. You
may sometimes fear that you will for
get it. Let such fears forever rest.
He won't let you. He will follow you,
asking you if you have your parasol
when he sees it in your hand or if you
know the way out when he has Just
told it to you. The whole poor popula-
ton of Venice is absolutely naif in its
exhibition of a desire for any small
sum Of money the passerby may throw
It, The children, one and all, make q
demand for a soldino as a matter Of
course. 1t is sort of greeting to ev-
cry foreigner casually as a phrase of
general usage.
Coming from the bath you fee the
girl who has charge of the lighthouses.
If you don't she has a dozen ways Of
making herself disagreeable next time
you come. And do not allay your trou-
bled anticipations by the thought she
may not recognize you. One glimpse
Of a face fixes 1t in her memory for
months After that you fee the wom-
an who takes care of your purse and
jewelry. If you fee her enough she
drags out from some inner recess a
cheap mirror which distorts your coun-
tenance and allows you to look into it
and see how truly hideous the human
visage can be made to appear. Before
the bath you have to fee the old wom-
an who gives you your bathing suit
If you neglect her the next time you
come she will give you a suit that
doesn't At you or is full of holes.
When you go out on the terrasse for
a black coffee, which costs 10 cents.
you fee the waiter. When you get into
your gondola you fee the old man. who
draws it close to the steps with hook
ed stick and offers you his withered
old arm to lean on. When you get out
Of your gondola at the hotel you fee
another old man with hooked stick
and q withered arm. And then at din
ner, if you haven't just feed the wait
er he will be cross, and up in your room
afterward If the femme de chamhre
has not recently had a tip she will re-
fuse to answer the bell-San Francisco
Argonaut
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
THE OLD PORTAGE ROAD.
euflt by Pennsylvania With Material
Brought From England

Built by Pennsylvania With Material
Brought From England,
For some time prior to 1900 travel
across Pennsylvania had been in ca.
noes and in river barges propelled by
poles or along the shores of rivers by
horse and foot and by intervening
portages on Indian trails. connecting
points on the different rivers. The
Philadelphia Pittsburg national pike
was built upon such substantial basis
that wherever undisturbed one still
finds the gracefully modelled arches of
solid masonry almost intact after more
than century has passed. The com.
pletion of the Old Portage railroad by
the state of Pennsylvania in 1884 put
an end to the time honored coach and
six," with the many picturesque and
commodious inns and taverns along the
line of this broad macadamized toll
road, which with its substantial con
struction was in point of endurance
second only to the Roman military
roads of Great Britain,
This Old Portage road was construct
ed from material brought from Eng.
land. The British government sent
over experienced engineers to instruct
the Americans in the running of the
stationary steam engines used upon
the inclined planes of the road in the
Allegheny mountains. The railroads s
highest point was about 2,700 feet
above sea level, being only 200 feet
lower than the neighboring hill, which
is the highest point of the Allegheny
mountains in Pennsylvania. The road
consisted of ten planes, five of which
were on either side of the mountain
and intervening levels. In 1885 the
canal boats were so constructed that
they could be taken in sections and
hauled over the mountain on fiat cars
without disturbing their cargoes. The
rails were secured to stone sleepers,
twenty inches square, which were sunk
in the ground.
On the Old Portage road the best
time for the forty miles between Hol.
lidaysburg and Johnstown was twelve
hours. Express trains on the Pennsyl.
vania railroad now run a closely par.
allel distance over the Allegheny noun.
tains in a trifie over one hour The
passenger traffic on the road in those
days was usually limited to one car
each way day, with capacity of
thirty passengers.
In 1854 the Pennsylvania Railroad
company bought the Portage road from
the state of Pennsylvania-Chic
News.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Horse. In the Time of Homer,

The horses used in Homers time
were war horses. The warriors were
drawn in chariots. The art of riding
was known, but 1t is alluded to as
something unusual Ulysses at the
time of his shipwreck 'bestrode Il
plank, like horseman on big steed.'
There are reasons for believing that
the practice of riding was much later
than that of driving, and the myth or
the centaur, where, according to Shake
speare, man is incorpsed and demina-
tured with the beast" probably orig
mated at an early period when the ap-
pearance of man on horseback was
a novel sight.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
The Pin In ENGLAND.

The date of the first manufacture Of
pins in England is shrouded in uncer
tainty, but it is authentically recorded
that as early as 1864, when money was
tight" extensive cloth workers COM
PEELED their laborers to accept in pay
hent for their work "pins, girdles and
other Improbable wares instead Of
money" The march Of Improvement
had begun and kept on steadily until
toward the middle of the sixteenth
century pins began to win appreciation
SO high that statutes were enacted pro-
tectlng their manufacture. and rigid
laws were passed prohibiting the i'm
portation of numerous minor articles,
ipcluding pins, gloves, knives, tailors'
shears, scissors and irons. Up to this
period female dress was fastened With
ribbons, laces, clasps, hooks and eyes
and skewers of brass, silver and gold.
The latter were, in fact, pins without
heads.-London Globe,
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

Another move is the levying of an
assessment of 20 cents per share on
the capital stock of the Hamilton and
Amador tunnel companies. This will
amount to $50, 600, one third of which
is expected to fall on william Elem
ming.
Last week W. A. Nevills located a
mining claim adjoining the Mammoth
OH the west, at the same time rumors
are in circulation that the main ledge
runs through the newly located
ground.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
HOW SECRET CODES ARE MADE.

No government dare send its orders
openly. What more could be needed
to make the foreign spy's lot a bed
of roses? Consequently secret codes
are heing used more extensively than
ever. This question of secrecy,
through very valuable addition to
the uses of code. is by no means the
most important advantage offered,
especially as far as private firms
which use them a1e concerned.
Economy has great deal to do with
their popularity. When a firm is dis
patching many wires day TO all parts
of the civilized world, it can be easily
imagined what an immense saving is
effected by the use of code which
cuts the message down to perhaps a
its original length.
Suppose, for instance, a partner
in large firm wishes to send the fol-
lowing wire from, say, Hongkong to
his partner in London:
"Am entirely without money.
Send by this mail sure.'' JONES. -
It would in the ordinary way cost him
80 cents word to telegraph-that is
S8. Now if the partners possessed
code, merchant No. 1 would take hi=
cookbook from the shelf and look up
money-Hazel. Then he would
turn to "send" and see that the single
word "nauseously'' meant "Send by
this mail sure So his wire would
read:
''Smith Blank street. London.
Hazel, nauseously." JONES'
And in addition to saving a matter
of $40 he would keep his business as
secret as though he had had private
interview with his partner. The in
ventor of codes, needless to say, has
no light task before him. In addition
to the fact that he must have a very
intimate knowledge of the terms used
in every trade and profession, he has
to insure secrecy.
On an average code would repre-
sent ten or eleven words, but this
number is often exceeded. The record
IN this direction is telegram sent to
China. In this 1O2 words we're ex-
pressed in two.
Roughly speaking, quarter of
million of words are used in code
making, only $4,000 of these being
English, the words in that unfortu-
nate language having an awkward
habit of clashing with others. The
uses of a.code are many, but there is,
perhaps, no more curious one than
that OF the bearer of marriage pro-
posal. Yet, time after time, have
such offers come in code language.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Silver Thnw.

"Silver thaw' is a name applet to
winter phenomenon of frequent occur
renee at Ben Nevis observatory. 1t con
sists of rain falling when the air is be-
low freezing point and congealing
whenever it reaches the ground. OF
course this points TO an inversion of the
temperature. which is lower on the
mountain top than at greater heights,
and being largely associated with IL cy-
clonic distribution of pressure. it is of
considerable ''forecasting' value.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Old Time Railway TrnveI.

Third class passenger coaches in
England used to be coupled on next to
the engine. The travellers came in for
terrible treatment when any accident
occurred. At times the engine was
driven tender first in which case
frozen hands could be warmed at its
smokestack. The passengers were
packed, seventy of them, into a truck
eighteen feet in length by seven and
a half in width There was no roof
and not, as rule, proper protection
at the sides.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Marital PersifdaEe.

II must confess remarked Mrs.
Crabbe, "I don't believe there ever was
a really perfect man." WELL" replied
Mr.. Crabbe, adam would have been
perfect, 1 suppose, If Eve had only
been made first How do you
meanT' "Well, she would have bossed
the job of making Adam" ."-Philadel
phia Press.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

Sea-birds frequently spend weeks at
sea. and are believed to quench their
-thi.~t ,-A5,tlR-tr ON the falling rains
and partly from the fat and oil which
they devour ravenously when oppor-
tunity puts them in their way. The
keen eyesight of birds is we'll known,
and sea birds have been observed
focking toward the storm cloud about
to burst from all points of the com
pass, and apparently drinking the
water as it descends from the skies.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
A Suuh For MoIiere,

A remarkable incident is reported for
q suburban theater in Paris. The play
was "Tartuffe," and at the end of the
fourth act the manager Of the company
came in front of the curtain and said,
"Ladies and gentlemen, we shall not go
any further with this piece, for the fifth
act is unworthy of Mollere." How the
audience took this announcement is not
stated, Perhaps they went home and
read the fifth act critically in the seclu-
ki0b Of the library.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Had His Own Troubles.

care you an advocate of woman's
rights?" asked the woman with the
square chin.
mot me-" answered the meek and
lowly representative of the other sex.
MANS wrongs take up all my spare
me"-Chicago News.
Something Lacking.
Il can shave myself as we'll as any
barber"
"Ah, but you can't talk to yourself
while you're doing itv'
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Cautious.

Markley--I say, suppose you pay me
back that 10 shillings you owe me
now" Borroughs-Reall old man. I
can't do that. Markley-But you've
got it to spare today. Borroughs = /
know, but there's no telling when ]
may need it.-London Telegraph.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
A. H. kUHLMAN
Contractor and Builder

Will do work in any part of
Amador County. If you want
to build, send a note to Jackson
Postoffice and l will call on you.
Estimates furnished without cost
on any kind of building. Will
make plans and specifications for
you. mar2tf
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
Doubling Dennis.

Judy-Win ye give me yer promise,
Dennis, that yell love me foregerf
pennis-sure, an ORD like to do that
Dame, Judy, but Dim hardly Of tie
SuiniQp that Oril last as long as that
New York TAnAe.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30
The Thing to Do.

Johnson-He said was an addle pat
ed jackass. What do you advise me to
do about it? Jackson-See a good vet
erinary.-Jeslie's Weekly.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

Fresh picked olives of the season
just received; 65c per gallon; Nettle's
market.
Piccardo keeps every new device in
he harness or saddle line.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

We make speciality of printing all
kinds of notes, receipts, checks, etc.
Send your orders to the Ledger.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

Your money back if not salts fed
after trying "Alti-Tone. Sole agent,
City Pharmacy.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

DR. l.. T.. PHILLIPS
Physician and Surgeon
JACKSON CAL.
OFFICE-Weil g. Renno Building. Residence,
north Main street, opposite California
Hotel.
Telephone No. 40l.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

Dr. E. " TIFFANY
Physician and Surgeon
PLYMOUTH, CAL.
OFFICE-Forrest House HoURs-S to y a. M,
and to and to 8 p. IN.
Telephone Main Al.
Amador ledger., 1905-06-30

DR. IL. n. FREEMAN
Physician and Surgeon
SUFFER- CREEK, CAL.
ONE hours-l2 to , and to $3.50 p. IN.