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Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
THE 1000 z EAR OLD PowHATAN OAK.

teachers to the grounds, AprilI16 1906,
and under direction of Warren H.
Manning, landscape designer of the
Exposition, every boy was assigned to
a small plot of ground in the garden
and was given sseeds to plant and in
structions how to- plant them In
these gardens are: now growing, beans,
peas, parsnips, carrots niarshmallow,
parsley and other vegetables. They are
attended by their little gardeners and
are kept clean and free from weeds,
most of the boys taking a special pride
in their gardens. n+....st
This is but preliminary training
for the schoolchildren in gardening,-a
trial heat, as it were, for the race next
year. The actual work is to be taken
up at the jamestown Exposition next
spring.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
WILD WOODS BECOME. PARKS

The landscape gardening which has
transformed a wild woods into one of
the most beautiful scenic parks, will
also serve as an object lesson to farm
ers and all who have grounds to beau
tify with flowers, shrubs and trees.
More than a million plants, and trees
are growing ron the Exposition
grounds, many of which have been
transplanted; sothers are native to the
soil. Among the trees transplanted
were several hundred old trees, some
comprising an apple orchard, whose
trees were removed and planted
around the thirty-acre drill plain on
the grounds These and the pines,
cedars, dogwoods and other trees have
not suffered by being transplanted.
Even trees which were hauled many
miles over land and water and plant
ed on the Exposition grounds are
thrifty. They have all been handled
under the guidance of Landscape engin-
GERS. The work has been done scien-
tifically and skillfully. The results are
seen in the fine condition of the trees.
The arrangement of trees, flowers
and plants of all kinds, in various
parts of the Exposition grounds can
be studied to great advantage by all
landscape gardeners, and the unique
fence of wire and Towering vines, is
a study worth going miles to see a
magnificent model which every fence
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17
lENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC.

: THE girl who had been separated
by professional etiquette from the great
singer, looked forward with some ap-
prehension to meeting divinity in
sweeping sun-embroidered velvet drap-
cries. Soon Mrs. Story came out in
a. white duck skirt and drawnwork
Abirtwaist.
kAsk0y
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

century, was in the hands of a few
monks. The scattering of the monastic
order was the first of innovations. The
locality, famed for its health-giving
properties, offers peace and immunity
from the world, in few hotels and
sanitoriums. Two or three American
millionaires have erected summer
homes on nearby hill tops and several
families Of the aristocracy of Florence
spend the hot months here in feudal
strongholds. -------.
The shooting box of the ancient
Medici family, where the American
poet lived and died, is occupied by his
daughter; and Julian Story, because
the spot is endeared to him through
his fathers memory, has built on a
farm of many acres a great square
tower and hall. Campiglioni is the
farm, and Tore Di Campiglioni is
the home, which signifies the happy
abode of art and good fellowship.
Mr.. Story paints pictures, and
spends his energy wherever his por-
trait commissions may take him while
his wife is singing. To the visiting
friend of the singer the 20 mile trip
from Florence was a fitting approach
to her beautiful retreat. The road
which eventually led up to the terrace
OF II Tore was tied in bowknots, and
worked out like puzzle. The puzzle
was solved, however, and in the open
living room or "loggia," Mr.. Story
gave me hearty welcome.
Amador ledger., 1906-08-17

pear like streaks of intensely white
light on the surface of the gray-colored
vapor.
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does not entitie a man to take the attitude
of an old friend when next relations of any
sort are resumed, there is nothing in the
world that does. Also-and this was not
minor pofut-she had accepted him and
thrown him over. Neither by look nor by
word did he appear to cast that up against
her now. Yet though in the week that had
passed he had assumed-so justly-his right
of friendship. he implied much more. She
knew perfectly well that he still loved her.
and on the night of the ball he had let her
know that. and had then never referred to
it again. But as he went away then he
said:
They told me you were more beautiful
than ever. and l said it was not possible.
But they were right"
He was norid perhaps; his manners, excel
lent though they were, had always been
a little florid But he was always sincere
He felt things wildly, and thus expressed
them.
1t was characteristic of her and of the
worldly wisdom with which she always
ordered her life that she crammed into the
week that followed the ball things which
would ordinarily have taken even her ten
days to get through. She had seen at
once that a question of some Importance
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would at once set about the task of break
ing himself of it. That must be done by
degrees, however; the intervals between his
treats should become longer and longer till
he craved for 1t no more. Craved? How
he craved now! 1t was that which made
him SO nervous and irritable. Meantime, 1t
was important that Lily should not think
that anything was wrong So before the
pause after his last rather snappish reply
to her had become long, he spoke again in
a different tone.
You must forgive me for speaking rude
ly," he said. land 1 am sure that Marcel
Is really careful. But l had rather Il try,
ing time up in Scotland. and DR.. Symes
told me my nerves were little jumpy-
But 1t is nothing. He said the best thing
could do was to come down here and
amuse myself and forget all about the
typhoid"
Wont you see a doctor?" she asked.
mo, there's not the slightest need. "f'' ~
but it's nice to be told there is moths
ing wrong" she said.
He laughed.
'Oh, l am sure of that without seeing
one he said
CTo be continued next Saturday, j.
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body in the crowd whom she recognized.
though she had not seen him for so long
He was neither bald nor stout; he was as
she remembered him. And again the dis
tant lightning fiickered on the horizon.
Apparently, though he had only arrived
In England two or three days ago. he had
more than two or three friends here, and
for half an hour after she had seen him
first he was occupied with handshakes and
recognition speeches Then, after her stall,
which had been beseiged by buyers, was
bare, he passed and caught her eye.
"Ah. Lady Thurso, he said. in the accu-
rate foreign speech which she found now
that she remembered SO well, "a thousand
greetings. I tried to get near your stall.
but 1t was impossible. And one never
wastes time in attempting the impossible.
But now you have nothing that can buy;
SO /. as a purchaser. am impossible. toor'
She tried to say something natural; and
since the attempt to say something natural
faiied, she was natural without trying.
Yes. here l am she said. but have
sold everything. You are too late"
II was too early once" he said
She who was generally so apt of speech,
SO quick to take up point. or drop it for
another, so as to avoid any pause, which
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This again was utterly unlike him; his
tone distinctly failed In courtesy.
IF you are nervous. 1 will set you down
at Paddngton, she said, and you can
take the train"
That is absurd" he said shortly.
They went on in silence for a little and
Thurso made a great effort to pull himself
together. He knew quite we'll that his
nerves were out of order. and though 1t
was true that he had no headache since
coming TO town. that was because he had
always stopped 1t coming on by the liberal
use OF that drug which never failed. Nor
had he taken II only for those purposes.
and he knew in himself that he had begun
to be dragged into the habit as a man
whose clothes are caught between revolv-
ing cogwheels is bound to be dragged in.
unless by a superhuman effort he can
break away. 1t was now two days since
he had touched It, and he had promised
himself as a reward for his abstinence
dose of 1t when he got down to Bray. After
that so he had planned. he would begin to
break away from it again: his next treat
should be three days afterward. his next
four days. But during the last week in
Scotland he had taken it every day. and
sometimes twice. That would never do; he
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she always said was an insult to the per-
son you were talking to, as we'll as a dis
NAL comment on the quality Of your own
intelligence, let perceptible 3ause ensue.
For as she stood there, in one moment
twelve years had been wiped out of her life.
some thrill, some nameless bitter-sweet
agitation, again like the distant lightning,
f1ickered through her. She was no stranger
to that feeling; she had felt 1t before. But
for the Observation-Disclosures in duration
it. tied her tongue; it was like some tune
that we have heard in childhood, and sud
denly hear again, SO that we must pause
and say to ourselves, All what is that?"
Then she recovered herself partly.
THAT Is the diplomatists duty, is 1t not .
she said, always to be a little earlier than
other people?"
She pulled herself together again, deter
mining on her attitude toward him.
"And your excellency is coming to our
dance tonight, are you not?" she said.
A faint smile quivered for a moment on
his mouth, and showed itself in his dark
eyes.
Yes, my lady," he said.
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sandwiches and pale yellow drinks with
mint and anise and cummin floating about
in them, among footmen who logged their
elbows with plates of strawberries, while
the elect. Olympian-wise, refreshed them
selves behind closed doors Tonight. in fact,
Thurso House was to be reopened with
proper regard for its statelness and the
huge hospitality that il ought to exercise.
after a period. so to speak. of ten lean years
in which the late lord had lived alone here
with half the rooms closed. a secret and &C.
centric life. He had not even been wicked,
and held infamous revels here: he had only
been morose and shut himself up misery,
and not entertained anybody. He had died
Just year ago. and tonight the house was
going to be re-launched Lady Thurso would
almost have liked to rechrsten it, too: it
was associated In her mind. and In the mind
or everybody else, with such very dis
agreeable old gentleman.
But Lady Thurso, during these ten lean
years in which she and her husband had
plugged along" as she expressed 1t, In a
poky little house in Grosvenor Square ow-
ing to the tightness of the purse strings
for the time when she would be installed
here No one had greater contempt than
she for the modern hostess who makes use
OF her time and money only to give expen-
sive entertainments and to appear at them
when they are given by her friends. She
had seen during these ten years the invas-
ion of London by those whose sole invasive
power was money and their willingness to
spend II to any extent In order to be con-
sidered what is called smart" and she
entirely disagreed with those conservative
and old-fashioned moralists who shook their
heads over the equalization of London to
the almighty dollar. London-all London
that was worth anything. that is to say
had not In the least capitulated to the al
mighty dollar. and those-there were many
of them-who thought that they were MAX
ing a great splash in the world merely be-
cause they were rich and willing to spend
their money on bands, prima donnas. and
things to eat and drink. made a great mis-
take They never got anywhere really: they
never got intime with the society they COW
eted. They thought they were founding
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And as soon as lunch was over she went out
to see If poor Mr.. Hopkinson had at length
understood He had the staircase was a
country lane, exactly as she had visualiZed
1t. And somehow with this adaptability
that was as natural to her as the change
of color is to the chameleon, as she stood
below a clump of Towering hawthorn, she
looked, for all her 'air of the world" and
exquisite rose-colored dress, like some Wis
ionary milkmaid But the milkmaid had
the critical eye. and she looked very slowly
and carefully up and down this delicious
bayfield, vista.
More buttercups there" she said, point
ing to the place. land one big bough OF
hawthorn at that corner"
She waited. sitting down on the top step
with Ruby till this was done. Then eager
ly. though carefully, she looked at 1t again
Yes, that will do" she said. But only
hope 1t won't give Thurso hay fever. He
and I will have to stand at the top of the
stairs till the royal quadrille. He and
Maud get here this afternoon"
And the typhoid?' asked Ruby.
All this last week there has been no fur
Their case" said she, 80 I hope it Is really
all over. want Thurso to be in town a
bit before the end Of the season. other
wise. 1 only heard from Maud: she wrote
chiefly about a Mr.. Cochran. to whom
Thurso let the fishing. He is Christian
bad case. 1t sounds interesting. and Maud
never exaggerates. think 1 shall go in
for Christian Science next August"
why August?'
Because I haven't got time in July. DEAR
Oh, yes. Maud did not know that the fish,
ing was let-so like Thurso not to tell her.
and was caught by this Mr.. Cochran poach-
ing on his river He wasn't annoyed it
appears. Do you think l should never be
annoyed If became Christian Scientist?"
II can't say; but hope you wouldn't get
the Christian Science smile. 1t is particu-
larly fatiguing to look at. Alice Yardly has
II; that is why I can't look at her.
Lady Thurso was still not quite satisfied
with her staircase, or. at any rate, she
wanted to be sure that she was So she
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Walking and Bathing.
From the Mothers Magazine

From the Motner Magazine.
Two clubs of Jackson, Mich. are pursuing
health and happiness afoot.
The members are pledged to walk at
least 400 miles a year. This is an average
of little more than a mile day, which
rate almost anybody with feet should be
able to maintain.
But the members of the Sunshine Club
and the Overland Club regard the specified
400 miles as a mere nothing. The first
named club is composed of women and the
latter of men, and they make some glorious
marches.
One evening a week they have a good,
lively cross-country tramp of from five to
thirty miles. This is taken in company.
In summer they go by train to some region
of historic or scenic interest, and there
spend two or three delightful weeks afoot.
This summer. just coming to a close, the
Sunshine ladies have made their tour along
the shores of Lake Superior. The men OF
the Overland Club-those who could go
took their tramp in Colorado.
Once or twice year the two clubs have
a field day, with contests especially bearing
on the sport or exercise of walking. They
have walking contests, including one walk
ing backward.
l am told that every member of the clubs
is marvel of good health, and has clear,
fine complexion. In the case of three mem
bers l personally know this to be true
l would add that the clubs are not what
might be termed fashionable" 1t is not
expensive to belong to them, and they have
added much cheer and wholesomeness to
the community life. AS many mothers and
fathers belong as do young folks.
So much attention is given to the unique
jackson organizations because in this
month of August, anticipating the coming
autumn, my thoughts have turned to the
hard roads, the crisp air OF the days, the
harvest-scented nights of the fall-and 1
love to walk. 1 may say without any fear
of medical contradiction that the person
! who cannot or does not enjoy walking -
physically defective. .-
The walking which goes with household
work. that done in home or business hour,
when the brain is occupied, is not true walk
ing 1t is necessary exercise. but in the
sense of rebuilding the body and resting the
mind 1t is not helpful. 800 o.. 80
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she felt convinced that common sense in
dorsed the policy that they both pursued,
IN that they saw very little Of each other.
Never had she admitted. either by direct
word or by unspoken implication. that he
bored her, and, to do him justice, never
had he admitted except to Maud the incom-
patibility of their matrimonial association.
If idle and stupid tongues wagged about
them-she had no reason to suppose that
they Cid-that was only the concern of the
idle and stupid, who might say what they
pleased. 1t could not concern any one vitality
constituted what suburban minds said to
each other when they met, SO to speak, In
semidetached villas. Much as she valued
the world there were portions Of it that
she valued not at all. and IL the fact that
she and Thurso were seldom together con-
cerned anybody. 1t only concerned people
who were entirely negligible. Remarks
dropped from the garnet into the gutter
could only hurt those who happened to be
sitting in the gutter What really mattered
was his comparative happiness and hers.
She did not want to be bored, he DID not
want his nerves set on edge by her. She
realized his side of the question quite as
keenly as she realized her own, nor did she
blame him because he bored her. any more
than she blamed herself because she made
him. as he would have expressed it,
''jumpy.''
Any one as efficient as Lady Thurso GER
tainly was has to march through life with
out impedimenta, and all emotional lug
gage which is no. likely to come in must
be firmly thrown away. She had long ago
realized this and had always acted on 1t,
so that 1t was more from force of habit
rather than by any conscious effort that
she eliminated from her mind any emotion
that was likely to clog or hinder her ener-
gies. Worry. sorrow, regret for what was
| irremediable, she simply threw away. as
one throws the envelopes of opened letters
| into the waste-paper basket They were
of no earthly use, and you did not want
| the drawers and compartments in your
brain crammed with rubbish like this. Thus
| it was but very seldom that she let her
| thoughts dwell on the one great thing that
| she had lacked all her life. She had never
loved. Her marriage with Thurso had been
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Abyssinia.
From the London Chronicle.


When the door into Abyssinia has been
finally flung open by means of the proposed
French railway under an Anglo-Franco-
Italian agreement, the Cooks tourist may
confidently rely upon few new sensations.
For the ancient country, which is to be
opened up to the new civilization. is a
country not only of impossible maids play
inC upon impossible. dulcimers, but 1t has
II sects birds, beasts and diseases that ara
to be found nowhere else in the world.
There is a tree, for instance. that has to be
seen to be believed. Mr.. Salt Is RESPONSE
BILE for the declaration that this tree bears
fruit all the year round, although in differ
en-: parts. The blossoms appear and tho
fruit ripens first on the western boughs,
then on the southern. then on the northern
and finally on the eastern, which continues
to produce blossoms and fruit till the COM
mencement of the rainy season. The leaves
of the trees being rough and ''varnished."
are admirably adapted to resist the rains.
And yet the country which gives birth to
the tree of the fadeless bloom is the mother
of elephantiasisi
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The Lobster an Idiotp
From the. Boston Transcript.

From the BostOn IfdnscrIW.
The best naturalists remain timorous
enough and hesitate to dogmati7e. Take
the case of the lobster. Poke him here, he
does this: poke him there. he~does that;
poke a thousand of him In the same way
and they do the same things. Shall we,
therefore, conclude that the lobster lacks
mentality, that he's a mere machine; that
he doesn't even know he's a lobsterf By nd
means. All we can affirm with scientific Jus.
tice is that apparently-and only apparents
ly-he's an IDIOT. The way to know for sure
lis to be lobsterl
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-10-05
BLOOMINGTON
(From the Advocate.)

liz
Mrs. w. l. Hayden yesterday gave a
dinner party in honor of Mrs. Feigly
who will next week return to her home
in the south.
License was issued Wednesday per-
hitting Ed II. Vannier aged % and
Miss Ida Nortrup aged 90, to trot in
double harness.
Geo. w. Prather was down to Lincoln
this week where he and Geo W. Castor
we're preparing a brief in the case of
L. Nelson VS.. the Burlington.
Some time ago Sheriff Walrath at.
tached some property of Eph L'Hen.
reux, of Campbell, and the same has
been replevied as it Is claimed the
property belonged to his wife.
Last Wednesday Ed Muzzy's team
broke away from him at his home ant
ran to town before they were stopped
They a up the street and into james
Thompson's buggy, all without doinl
any particular damage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-10-05
CAMPBELL
(From the Citizen.)

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Nc
Coy, Saturday evening, September %,
a boy.
Hans Hanson, accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. Jennie Hanson, his sister,
Emma and his brother Theodore, came
in from Madison, S. d. Thursday of
last week to be present at the funeral
Of Mrs. Ole Bergman, who was a near
relative.
About A o'clock Tuesday morning,
Mrs. H. p. Nelson saw flames at the
rear of the Campbell Mills and at once
spread the alarm. Mr.. Greene, who
was reused suddenly from pleasant
dreams, did not wait to complete his
toilet, but grabbed the coal scuttle
and, single handed, with the aid of his
improvised fire extinguisher and q
large tank of water which luckily stood
back of the mill, he soon had the fire
out.
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-10-05
SUPERIOR
From the Journal.)

The shipping Association shipped
two cars of hogs to st. Joe yesterday
James Peterson and wife we're down
from Red Cloud yesterday, the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Usher.
Arthur Catchadal will leave Wednes-
day for Logansport, Indiana, where he
has a position in u iewelry store.
The sad news came from Ottawa.
Iowa, yesterday that Simon Calder, of
this place, had been run over by a
train, cutting his lower limbs off near
the hips. The report comes. that he
was riding the pilot Of the ,engine and
it is thought that he fell asleep. No
particulars as to exactly how it hap
pened have yet been received. The
accident happened about one and one,
half miles this side of Ottawa. While
on the operating table the young man
died. 1t is thought the remains will
be here on the b. & M. train this even,
ing.
The Red Cloud chief., 1906-10-05
LEBANON.
(From the Times.)

Michael Kudrna of Red Cloud, Neb.,
/, visiting the Johaneks southeast of
town.
The little six-months old baby Of
Lawson Viers died yesterday of cholera
iufantum.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Miller and daugh-
ter, Mary, started Monday for Ger
many. They will stop off for a few
days visit in New York on their way
over.
w. j. Dennis, proprietor of the South
Main street livery barn, was kicked in
the stomach by a horse about $50
Saturday evening which laid him up
for awhile.
The high school won another nice
game of ball here Saturday against the
pickups by the score of IA to 7. Bat
teries for the Ii. S., Adams, Linton and
Hislop; pickups, Mace, Wysel and
~Bonecutter.