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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Brings Back Fair Bride

Henry E. Showers and Miss Dolly
Thornton were united in marriage at
Modesto on the 18th of August, and
after a short honeymoon trip along the
beach came to this city, where they
will make their future home, at AZ
Center street.
Showers and Miss Thornton have
known each other for some time, and
their marriage is the elimination of a
long and happy courtship.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Physician Locates Here

DR.. Franklin, we'll qualified
medical practitioner and surgeon, has
been here for the past week, and says
that he will probably locate per-
manently in Jackson. He is at present
at the National hotel. He is
specialist in diseases of the eye, ear,
and throat, as we'll as general
practitioner.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Ledger's Role of Honor

The following sums have been re-
ceived as subscriptions to the Ledger
since last report. This acknow-
ledgment is equal to a receipt for the
sums named If any have paid whose
names do not appear on this list, they
will oblige by promptly notifying this
off 90.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
PRIMARY ELECTION RETURNS-AnladOr Co.
UOFFICIAL0

The following complete
Republican
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Indoor Picnic Dance.

An indoor picnic dance will be given
by California Parlor No l6l, N. ID.
6. w. at Amador City on September
9Th. Proceed will be for the benefit
of homeless children. Something new,
don't miss it. aug rs 1t
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Worth Coming to Hear

Jackson's band concert last Saturday
night was exceptionally good. This
is the result of severe practice, which
the band subjects itself to nearly every
other night of the week. If our
country friends desire to hear we'll
rendered band concert, we would ad-
wise them to drive to our city to-
morrow night and hear the organiza-
ton render their program on Main
street at 8 p. m. Following is the
program.
l. Little Giant, ~ March,
H. Moon
?. Teddy Bear Dance, - Caprice,
Chas. j. Rockwell
3. "Manana," Gillian Dance,
j. M. Missud
4. "Nordica, Waltzes,
H. Tourjee
5. Popular,
a, "Put on your old gray bonnet,
P. Wennick
b, "Ciribiribin,
By request, A. s. Moore
6. Meditation" G. 5. Morrison
| T. Woodland, " Select,
Gustav Luders
8. "Noisy Bill, Char. March,
F. H. Losey
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
DIR. Has Fine Trip

DR.. Gall has been away on a vaca-
ton for over week. He has been
travelling through Siskiyou, Humboldt
and other northern counties. He is
expected home tomorrow evening.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26
Candidates Cards

We call attention to the candidates
cards in this issue. We shall give a
descriptive article of the local candi-
dates later on.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26

You can get your Billheads,i
Letter Heads, etc, printed at
the Ledger for less than you
can buy blank stock for else-y
where. ~ \
TRY 1T. ~
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1910-08-26

Receipt books, location blanks, deeds
mortgages, promissory notes, etc.
for sale: also mining signals on
cloth at Ledger office
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

lessly. Pools were under the house and cholera
unusually on the rampage. The rain came
down in such gusts that she had to fasten down
the windows thereby making the house too dark
for reading purposes. So the day long, while her
doctor husband wandered about through mud and
rain with chlorodyne in hand she peered through
the Stats. gazing at the bamboo palmtrees whip
ping to and fro before the fury of the storm. At
the appointed time she prepared dinner She pro
duced her row of cans. In her girlhood days
there was household joke what we cannot eat
we can" Now as she gazed at the canned milk.
the canned butter and the canned meats she
wondered If she could eat all they can. Some
how or other the feeting thought of the girlhood
days made her choke. You see it was the rain
and the storm and the centipedes and things
which got on her nerves.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

Upon Newport farm" which cost
q fortune the young owner lies iii of
typhoid fever. A wealthy woman near.
by suffers from the same disease of
Dirt In Manhattan last year there
was sporadic outbreak in the region
OF costly apartment houses. This year
1t is Brooklyn's turn, says the New
York World. In this city, with its
guarded water supply, 1t is likely that
typhoid at this season is brought from
insanitary summer resorts or Incurred
during automobile runs Every life
lost by typhoid is wasted life. It
is absolutely preventable. People who
i've In marble halls without caring
whether poison runs In the pipes be-
hind them; the very rich who spend
millions In display but neglect santa
ton; college professors caught un.
aware by epidemics like that in Ithaca
these have themselves to blame II
the disease occurs. Typhoid origina
ting In any community disgraces Il.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

A year ago tipless hotel of the
nrst class was opened In London. The
management positively announced
that no gratuities to walters, porters
maids or other employees would be per.
pitted or suffered. The experiment"
rs everybody called 1t, seemed ex.
tremely interesting. but the result was
considered doubtful. Skeptics said:
Wait month or two" The hotel
Is now a year old. The public is as
sured that the no-tip policy has been
enforced to the letter, that the es-
tabiishment has prospered beyond all
expectations. and that there has been
no trouble whatever in getting en-
pioyes-and good. fit, weIl-mannered
employees. too. This is very gratifying
news indeed. says the Chicago Record.
Herald Presumably the hotel pays
wages and salaries that compare ia.
vorably with those of hotels where
tips go" or run riot. at all hours of
the day and night. Mere prohibitions.
where temptations exist, will not eradi.
cate an abuse. But II everybody Is
satisfied at the tipIess hotel there is
no reason why its policy should not
succeed permanently.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
An ApMY OFFICERS VIE

Her husband came in for dinner and rushed
away again whereupon little Mrs. Army Woman
went to her trunk and for the first time unpackeo
all the fnery of the days that had been
81 found dress which l had worn at dance
at the Preside the last time.' she said. and
cried and cried"
Before leaving. the husband had pushed a chest
against the door, locking her In completely, TINS
being deemed the safest plan. Therefore on ieav
ing he had to crawl through the window, and as
he hung on the window sill she bent forward and
kissed him. Then she heard him drop with
splash into the disease infested pools below Alto
gether it was as nice spot for the pursuit OF hap
piness as could be found
Then she went to the loneliness and the dark
and the centipedes and cried. The wind whipped
the banana palms against the house. the rain
slashed down, she heard the lizards scudding
around and a big one outside. in mango tree
called s.tuck-coo" SO that she jumped up In fear
and alarm waiting and wondering.
All through the night she lived the horrors
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

yellowest bloom at present known is the creamy
Clara Curtis.
A novelty in the form of striped flower was
offered In the year 1897 by Mr.. James Carter and
in the year 1860 there appeared the first bloom
OF the choice picotee-edged varieties which are
go popular today. The latter was raised by Major
Trevor Clarke 1t was q fine white flower with
an edging of blue, and Major Clarke scored q
double triumph, for his new flower was also the
first sweet pea with blue coloring
The greatest revolution in the history Of the
sweet pea, however. was inaugurated on July Is.
1901, when, at the National Sweet Pea society's
first exhibition. held in the old Royal Aquarium.
London, Mr. Silas Cole, Earl spencer,s gardener
at Althorp park. displayed the famous Countess
Spencer. y beautiful pink variety with 4 vavv
instead of the conventional smooth standard The
ioveiiress OF the new form won the hearts Of all
growers at once and during the last ten years 70
great has been the Increase Of wavy or frilled ~
reties after the Spencer type that the latter now
rules the sweet pea world
Some hybridists are engaged particularly A.
present IN adding to the list of marbled varieties
OF which the blue-veined Helen Pierce is 20 choice
an example, and It IL possible that much more
enort may be expended In future in the attempt
to produce flowers with striking and delicate
venatjon. -
Just few figures in conclusion. showing ,ct
the least striking phase Of the romance 81 ~.
sweet pea The Sicilian monks ponderon.Iv
named plant has become about 500 different v.ri.
eties grouped into u clauses. according tn ,cio-
Over the culture Of these flowers 4 nafionsi ss,,.
ETY. numbering 938 members ana mehrscs,,. -,
analiated societies watches -S4
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
Romance of the SlDeet Pea

The most highly regarded and widely grown
annual in Canadian gardens of today, no matter
where In this fower-loving country the garden be-
or whether 1t belong to cottager or man of MEANS
toiling clerk or park-owning municipality, the
sweet pea first came to us from the Sicilian nuns.
Franciscus Cupani monk. who also a
botanist. sent the first seeds to England In the
year 1899, consigned to an Enfield schoolmaster
named DIR. Uvedale. The old Middlesex dominic
was both botanist and hortfcuIturist, sad he
grew the first sweet peas ever seen In England.
Cupan called the plant Lathyrus distoplaty-
phyllus hirsutis, mollis ct odorus-an unwieldy
name out Of all harmony with the winged grace
of the sweet pea. Later Linnaeus cut down the
clumsy designation to its present form Of Lathy-
rus odoratus.
Dr. UvedaIe found the seeds produced plant
with purple flowers. and SO here we have the
color Of the original sweet pea
The stock was gradually multiplied. and about
thirty years later one Robert Furber, Kensing-
ton gardener. was the first to offer seeds for
sale.
Progress In the production of new varieties
was slow in those remote days. and 1t was not
until the year 1893 (nearly century later than
Cupani's consignment of seeds) that any new col
ors became known. In the year mentioned, how
ever. catalogue was issued. which described
black scarlet and white varieties.
What became Of the black and scarlet sorts. II
they ever existed In those true colors Is not
known The black must have been deep purple.
The blacklist bloom Is still the dark purple Tom
Bolton. In this connection, seeing that for years
past hybridists have been trying to produce 4
pure yellow sweet pea, it may be said that the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

A new method of making physical
examinations to detect the presence of
tuberculosis has been demonstrated al
Guys hospital, London. The examina-
tion is made by the aid of x-rays. and
shows tuberculous ravages in the
iungs. 1t is said, at an earlier stage
than they are revealed by the stetho-
scope. The x-ray Is valuable for
many purposes. but must always be
used with caution. as numerous sad
experiences have taught.
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The storm passed and there followed the silences,
weird, uncanny, of dripping water. of moving
things underfoot. Ultimately she heard the splash
ing of kindly American boots, and looking outside
saw wet specimen of Private Sammy, marching
called to him. half hysterical, and he answered
her with cheering words Reassured. she waited
for her husbands appearance, wrapped in an
army blanket. chilled to the heart. Later, when
her husband and daylight had come, she learned
that she had been sitting opposite window with
lighted candle by her, offering splendid mark
for the prowling Filipino sharpshooters.
This was an experience and one which the fat
gentleman in the bank had never imagined. To
the army this ignorance and narrowness is ncom-
prehensible. The agony and bloody sweat of
hiding death had gripped him SO often that Pri-
vate Sam cannot understand why the gentlemen
who employ him for this class of work do not
realize that there particular horrors connected
with it. Being Of the army, he does not speak of
them, but his gorge rises within him when fat
gentlemen sneer at the uniform which he has
made respected.
But he remembers the pursuit of happiness
and the day comes when he Is ordered home.
Then 1t IL that the army and its women, gathered
aft. watch the walls of Manila fade from their
vision. The crowding thoughts chase each other
across their brains. forming themselves into mem
cries, horrible and happy of cholera and poisoned
bolo, of the perfume of the ihlangihlang and the
love fcurishing while the constabulary band
played songs of home, around the the Luneta.-
San Francisco Call
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

also Tor WaSnlng.
There was so much
cholera" she explained.
The meals were served
with wire MEETINGS over
the dishes and above and
about them and around
them was the one thought
cholera. There were
other. delights. The Moros
were out. A sentry had
been boloed. The roads
were knee deep in mud
and the rain poured down
in torrents.
There came a night
when the very soul of her
was tried to its uttermost.
The rain had fallen cease
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
THE BEST REAL "PuLL.-

Now that the summer is nearly over
hundreds of young men who were
graduated last June from colleges and
high schools are entering the voca-
lions which they intend shall be their
life's work. Some are still seeking suit
able openings. The young man with
out pull may believe himself handi-
capped. He is likely to see instances
where the employer gives first con-
sfderation to hfs son. his nephew or
the son Of friend. But that is no
more than right The average bust
ness man recognizes the obligations of
relationship and friendship, up to the
point where they do not impair his
material interests and those of his as
sociates. His nephew and hfs friends
son must make good-his own son.
most of all. His tendency, in fact, is
to be more strict with his son than
ne is with any Of his other employees.
says the Cleveland Leader. II a young
man thus favored with the first oppor-
tunity shows that he will be a failure
In the work he is doing. he is re-
moved. Family ties and friendship
usually will not hold him. Then comes
the chance of the young man who may
have felt discouraged because he had
no pull" The best pull" any young
man can have. In starting in life Is
honesty, industry and the determine
ton to work for his employer as
though he were working for himself.
He should realize that, in fact, he is
working for himself and that he has
financial interest In the business, to
the extent of his pay. Such young
man is bound to succeed.
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tor husband to Manila
They were ordered at
once to a native village
up the valley. where q
company of infantry had
been stationed to guard
the water supply for Ma
Mia. The natives, you
see, had q habit of throw.
ing the bodies of victims
of cholera into the riv-
ers and wells. thereby
making life most I'M
pleasant for those whites
who had to drink. Such
things are not mentioned
in the society reports of
the press.
OF course the wife
could have remained be-
hind. but she did not.
She was possessed with
the archaic belief COM
mon to the army that
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
WISE wosos.
4 Physician on Food.

A physician, Of Portland Dragon,
has views about food. He says:
I have always believed that the
duty OF the physician does not cease
with treating the sick. but that we
to protect their health, especially BY
hygienic and dietstic laws
With such feeling as to my duty
! take great pleasure In saying to the
public that IN my own experience and
also from personal observation have
found no food equal to Grape-Nuts.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
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the place of the wife Is by her
husband. So with him she plunged
through the jungle to the camp. She
was the first white woman In the
place and the only other one of her
kind was. 20 miles away. The situa-
ton was decidedly pleasant. The
house was like an inverted waste
paper basket, a three-roomed bam-
boo shack set up on bamboo poles.
One room was dubbed the centips-
dorium because-well. because ev-
cry time the bride went in it she
found centipedes and other things.
There were other advantages. There
was no stove and the cooking had
to be done over hot Goals. Also the
water had to be boiled and par
boiled: not alone the water for
drinking purposes. but
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

An interesting incident at the con.
vention Of the National Association Of
Master Bakers in Baltimore was the
reading OF paper by a Washington
lady dealing vigorously with the meth.
DDS Of bakers and pleading for home.
made bread both for sanitary reasons
and as matter of economy. The
bakers were gallant enough to allow
the lady to hate her say, and II her
objection to some Of the practises men
eioned are VEL bounded doubtless
there win " REFORM
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19
She Probably Could.

Senator La Toilette, apfopos of GER
tain scandals. said at dinner in Mad
ison: These things recall the legisla-
tor who remarked to his wife. with q
look of disgust: One OF those land
lobbyists approached me today with
another insulting proposition
The wife. young and pretty wom-
IN. clapped her hands. oh. good!'
she cried. Then can have that sable
stole, after all, can't I. dear?'"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

Cable reports that In Berlin during
ring bouts band always plays lively
airs. and many boxers not only keen
time with their feet but seem to take
their hitting and sidestepping cues
from the music. This is magnificent,
but 1t is not boxing. Over here there's
no music required save the thud Of
the padded glove and the contestants
have to move lively enough.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19


viewpoint of the
army is charming
ly crude. Follows
then a hysterical
S p lurg e. Also.
sometimes. a con-
gressional investi-
cation, or mayhap
garlands and hon.
ors and whatnots.
1t depends upon
the circumstances
that is, the polit-
teal circumstances.
To the men of
the army the gar
lands and frills
are accepted with
childish delight.
Somewhere in the
bottom of his we'll
drilled and Clearly
heart there is the
consciousness of
having done a big
thing well, and be-
ing most intensely
human. he , gives
ear to the praise
OF his fellow citi-
zen. And then
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

and somebody else does things
and behold. there spring up from
somewhere sundry happily profane
soldiery who carry civilization In
their cartridges and progress at the
point of the bayonet. For. in mo-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-11-19

NO Hurry.
What are you in such q rush
about? ?"
Promised to meet my wife at three
o'clock down at the corner"
We'll. there's no hurry. 1t isn't four
o'clock yet"
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a
Kid as Vanus." and Who prior tbereto bo,naa
the department of information of the British EN-
plre, with the judicious administration NJ hts
cleaning rod. Which goes to show that between
PRIVATE sammy and Private Tommy there is
heaithy Anglo-Saxon understanding particularly
brothers
All this is merely preamble, but when the
Moro has been carted away and the congressional
committee has committed itself and the earlands
are forgotten Private Sammy goes back to his
own life, which to him is highly important af-
fair Somewhere somehow there remains in his
brain an impression that he is allowed the nur
suit of happiness-and he pursues it. He does
1t in his own way and>in divers places. The tur-
bulent tides OF Juan de Fuca which race by the
guncrested heights of Fort Worden have heard
his raucous chorus: the watermelon patches dot
ting the desoIation Of Fort Riley know his foot
print On Florida sandspit, in the SHOWS of
Alaska, in the heat of the islands, he pursues it.
and catches what little there Is Of It,
The world which praises and abuses him
knows him not nor his life The point of view
is entirely different A ponderous civilian at
the window of the paying teller of local bank
observed an officer in uniform standing behind
him.
well, guess the country is safe" observed
the rotund one gazing superciously at the uni
form.
Thank you, sir" said the officer. saluting.
This officer was boy lieutenant, and his sar-
casm was natural. For within his short space
of years he had played with the fangs of death
and made snooks at the powers of darkness A
short time previously. at Luzon, he was ordered
to ind the bodies Of two soldiers that had been
murdered. The orders we're to find the bodies
SO of course they went and did With seven
troopers and a surgeon he pursued his way
through jungle scrub and cholera infested lands
without food, drenched with rain, sleeping In
swamps. They found them One was tied alive
over a reliant hill, after being slashed with
boo. and the other had been knitted and gagged
with portion OF his own flesh. Presumably the
supercilious circumferential gentleman did not
know of such things and-this Is what stings--
there seem to be so many citizens Of the coun-
try whose ideas Of the work Of the army is equally
limited. Unfortunately. the men who do big
things cannot talk about them.
II follows that what the man of the army has
to undergo, so must the woman of the army. The 3
outside world knows the army woman she is
not 1t sees in her life succession of society
events and realizes not the horrible other side.
Here is an Illustration:
Some years ago. in "the days of the empire"
q little army woman went as bride with her doc
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~oen, sal iduuS are lew, Wnlle con-
gressional committees are prolific
The army knows that 1t is impossible
to explain to the gentleman from
Long Island or Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
mat little brown brother, hopping in
ana out OF the brush, fanatically desir-
Gus OF clawing up an American citizen
with poisoned bolo. has little regard
Tor the federal statutes at large. And.
OF course, neither has Sammy, Jr., the
monumental gentleman who has en-.
listed for reasons best known to him.
self and whose duty 1t is to catch the
aforesaid Moro. and generally clear
the path for those that follow after.
Private Sammy does his work and he
does 1t according to circumstances.
which are essentially nonpoiitfcal.
Therefore it happens on occasionos
that the aforesaid Moro is sent yelp-
ing into eternity and Sammy Jr. re.
CARDS himself with a pleased grin
Also, circumstances force him I'd
other untoward steps. Once there
was a famous soldier, Mulvaney nv
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for COUGHS . COLDS 6

We often hear the expression, "as
poor as church mouse" But even a
church mouse doesn't have to live on
the collections.