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n. H. CAitteHdsn. the Michigan poll
tistaa who. .Aied recently. dearly slovsl
joke His own Initials. 81. i c."
he alWAIa inssstsd, stood fosi MseAod-
1T 2piscep6E church. whisA oreanisa-
tioa. could It have Occurred him. woulA
have acquired very Mvsly member.
"Nart' - Mr.. ChittsndAn was h.
miliarly called. partially lost his hear
ing some ysars 40 and communiea-
tion with him thereafter was one Of
the llne arts. Being the ageat oe he
Standard oil company for Z Arss ~
ritory, he travelled considerably, and
ON . certain occasion fell In with
couple Of friends At Hillsdale. who -
vited him to 30 with then 70 dinner
at the house of resident acquaiAt-
ancs. One of them quietly said to the
host: "Mr Chittenden 10 an exceed
ingly pious man and likes to have the
food blessed before partaking. You
must invite him to ask the blessing"
Accordingly, when all were seated,
silence fell upon the company, while
the host turned to Mr.. Chittendon With
will you ask the blessingr' Up
went Chittenden's hand to his ear,
with his usual. quick, nervous gesture.
as in listening attitude he ret ponded
in tone more decided than unctu-
GUS: ."Tve grown 50 all-hred deaf
lately that II you've got anything to
say Ito me you'll have to say 1t devil
ishA loud" roar from the two
friends disclosed to Chittenden and
the astonished host that they had been
made the victim Of a practical Joke.
But "Chit" enjoyed it amazingly when
he understood what had happened.
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Maud. Ad.n.' Mountain Hon.

Miss Maude Adams, in addition to
her well-known Long Island farm, has
cottage in the Catskllls in a re-
stricted little village and in the most
inaccessible part of the village. To
this house she goes for the thorough
rest needed after winters exhaust
ing work and to he gained in the So
clusion Of her mountain retreat. Her
own, room is sixty feet long. to permit
rehearsals when desirable.
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Editors PROFIT IL $50.

The compensations of literature are
exemplifisd in the case of the Cali
fornia editor who was held up and
robbed Of $50 by stage coach bandit,
but who expects to make $50 by SELL
ing his account Of this thrilling experi-
snce to an eastern magazine.-Chi-
cago Post.
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Refuses Gail to Belfast

Rev. W. J. McCaughan. the pastor
Of the Third Presbyterian church, in
Chicago, mas refused call to Belfast.
Ireland, alt aough the Belfast church
offered him . life appointment, with
. salary Of 5000 a year. He has de-
Sidsd to remain in Chicago perma-
nently.
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Belgium ~ IA Gambling Place.

& The gambling propensities Of the
public as manifested at Ostend have
made the authorities Of Blanken-
bsrghe envious and they have decided
to open gambling club there to at
tract visitors. Belgium bids fair soon
70 become the gambling den of Eu-
ponn
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
he Wa, very Aecommodatirr.

Apropos of the ready comprehension
and native wit attributed to the sons
of Erin, Patrick's compliance with the
customers wish stands out In bold ap-
position. Patrick was clerk In a sub
urban. grocery store. 1t was busy
season and the grocer was waiting up
on two or three customers at the same
time. He was IN a hurry, and every
thing had to be where he could get II
without much trouble or he would be
delayed and probably lose money, so
when he found that the pound weight
was gone he was bothered.
Patrick" he called eat, where's the
pound weightr
THE pound weight, is itT' said Pat
rick complacently. "Sure, an it's Mis-
ther Jones has the pound weight"
. "Mr. Jones has it What do you mean
by saying that Mr.. Jones has the pound
weight? l thought the pound weight
get it?'
"An shure, didn't yez tell me TO be
perlite to the regular customers"
"Of course"
"Well, thin. Misther Jones comes into
the store for a pound Of tay. An, says
be, yhin l asked him what quality of
tay he would have. WHATEVER yez give
me-, says he, give me the weight So
1 put the pound weight in the packa ge
with the tay, perlite like, an it's him
self that's gone with it."-Chicago
Post
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
THE CRlMEAN WAR.
It Was Started In Controversy
Over Door Key.

II Was Started In Controversy
Over Door Key.
AS an instance of what great events
can follow trivial happenings the
genesis of the Crimean war is inter-
esting.
In 1851 Louis Napoleon demanded of
the sultan that the Latin monks should
have a key to the great door of the
church at Bethlehem; that they should
have a key to each of the doors of the
Cave to the Nativity and the privilege
of setting up there silver star bear
ing the arms Of France.
After year Of arduous negotiation
the Turkish government yielded and
in February, 1853, the keys were hand
ed over to the Latin monks, and the
silver star was established In the sane
tuary of Bethlehem.
Unfortunately Emperor Nicholas, as
head of the Greek church. considered
this an infringement of his rights and
Immediately ordered 10000 men
across the Turkish frontier Al the
same time he demanded that tue
claims of the Christian population cf
Turkey should be secured by treaty
with himself. but the sultan refused
this, with the support Of France, Aus
tria and Prussia.
The car then proceeded to seize the
Danubian provinces, proclaiming at the
same time that he had no intention
to commence war"
The central European countries at
tempted to secure compromise but
neither party would agree to their
mediation, and In October the sultan
declared war.
England and France Joined him. and
so from such slight. beginnings sprang
the most merciless, bloody and fruit
less struggle of the nineteenth CEN
tury.-New York Journal.
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NOT MUCH OF AN ORATOR.
A Conductor to Whom Q Woman
Gave the Wrong Coin,

a OONuuctUk 20 WAuM woman
Gave the Wrong Coin.
"Is this all you've got, madam" ask
ed the conductor on North Side car as
he scruttnized the coin in the semidark-
ness Of the tunnel.
whats the matter with lti" she ask
ed in such frigid tones that the con.
ductor looked confused.
Nothing, butt
"Then IL there is nothing the matter
with it why do you want me to give
you another nickelT
Nothing, but that he ventured
again.
"Well, then, somebody else must
have given It to you. 1 didn't have Q
penny in my purse"
Eyes, but you did give 1t to me, mad
am, and it's all right. butt
She had got red IN the face, The
other passengers were watching the
outcome, and one youth who was
standing craned his neck and got a
good look at the coin. He grinned.
She saw him grin. That broke what
remained or her dlgnit1ed and chilling
patience. She testify snatched the coin
from the bewildered conductor. As she
was tossing 1t into her open purse she,
too, got look at the coin. The car
was coming out Of the tunnel, and It
was lighter so that she could make out
the coin.
why, that Is a. but she was too
much confused to finish the sentence.
"Yes. It is S. goldpiece madam.
You gave 1t to me-"
"You might have said so," she mur-
INJURED meekly as she fished out real
nickel.
We'll, you see. amt much Of an
orator, madam" he said and resumed
his march down the aisle, reaching for
nickels.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
THE MAN WITH A CLAIM,

A Pathetic Figure Who II Regularly
Snubbed at Town Meetings.
The most pathetic figure at town
meeting Is the man with a claim. The
man who has the claim or grievance
goes to the selectmen each spring and
has them put an article In the warrant
bringing this matter up. Some years
he goes into town meeting himself and
urges his claim. In other years for
the sake of variety he will hire some Of
the local lawyers to present the matter
In the best manner possible. Usually
the man Is listened to, though the
whole thing Is. horribly familiar to ev-
cry voter in the town.
Then, when all the oratory has been
spilled into their ears, some long cared
man from the back districts will rise
and will drawl with q grin:
"Move we pass over that article"
and forthwith the article is passed
over with whoop. And the man is
around next year as usual. 1t is curl.
GUS thing, but the average town ap-
pears always ready to repudiate these
matters of long standing. have heard
voters admit that certain claims
against their town were perfectly Iegit-
innate and perhaps ought to be paid,
but they are of the coterie that regu-
larly votes against granting the ap.
peal Of the petitioners.
Why?
oh, well. it's "an old matter" and
the town is irritated by the persistence
of the man who keeps coming to claim
his own. When town gets set In that
direction, there is no reputation so
heartless and so constituencies as that
which marks its action. You see, the
blame Is so equally divided. Refusing
to pay honest debts is treated as
joke. Even the man who at last with
awakened conscience gets up and urges
his fellow citizens to do the right thing
and pay the bill Is smiled away as
chap that means we'll, but doesn't
know what he is talking about-Lew.
iston Journal.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
SUITS OF ARMoR.
fhe Last Battle In Which They Were
Worn by European Soldiers.

The last occasion, 1t is believed on
which suits Of armor were worn in bat
lie by European soldiers was in 1899.
The Incident, according to chroniclers
Of the Napoleonic wars, took place In
that year, when a small French force
was holding the little fort at Auuilla
In the Abruzzi against rising of the
hostile peasantry of the district.
The French were not strong enough
10 fight their way through the lines Of
their opponents, who outnumbered
them 20 to 1. while. as the latter had
no guns. the Frenchmen could hold
their position with confidence.
There were, however, left on the
space lying between the opposing
forces some dozen or SO guns which the
beleaguered had not been able to take
with them into the fort.
An attempt was made by the besieg-
ers to remove these guns by means of
a long rope worked by a capstan plac-
ed In q house short distance away,
and, though their first endeavors re-
suited In failure, the French realized
that the ultimate capture Of the ord
nance would seriously jeopardize the
chances Of the fort holding out.
The necessity Of spiking the guns
was apparent, but sortie in the face
Of the overwhelming musketry fire of
the insurgents was out IF the question.
AT this juncture an idea occurred to an
artillery officer. He remembered hay
Ing noticed, in making an inspection of
the magazine, some old plate armor,
and, selecting from the best preserved
IL suits, he determined to try whether
they would not afford sufficient protec-
ton for his men to attempt to work un-
der cover of their own guns.
Twelve stalwarts, therefore, marched
out clad in this cumbrous, unaccustom-
ed accouterment, taking with them the
necessary tools, and succeeded In exc
cutting their purpose under a hail of
bullets from the besiegers.
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Doing II Well.

Half heartedness never wins in this
world. If thing is not worth doing.
do not do 1t, is good rule. The late
Robert Louis Stevenson was ALWAYS
an enthusiast in whatever he under
took. even when at play.
His stepdaughter. Mrs Isabel Strong,
who was for time his amanuensis,
says that Stevenson used to maintain
that no one could write good story
who was not good player-who could
not enter fully into the spirit of a
game. He himself threw all his ener-
gies into whatever he might be play
ing.
At one time he was visiting q house
where a small boy was playing boat''
on the sofa. When the lad got tired,
he did not wait for the ship to come
to port, but got down from the sofa
and walked toward the door.
Stevenson, who was watching him
eagerly. cried out to him in apparent
alarm: "Oh. don't do that! Swim at
leastP-Youth's Companion.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
Admiralty Weak on Geography.


During the Boer war of 1880 the ad-
miralty was hopelessly ignorant of the
geography Of South Africa.
The admiral in charge of the feet at
Cape Town received strict orders that
he was not on any account to lombard
the town Of Potchefstroom. Now, as
Potchefstroon Is good many hun
dred miles from the seacoast and lies
on the Mooi river, which is barely 200
yards across and dry for three parts
Of the year, this order was superflu-
GUS.
During the same period the feet was
at Port Elizabeth, and the admiral
headed dispatches to the admiralty
from that seaport. BY the next mail
he again sent dispatches, but happened
to head them Algoa bay.
The admiralty cabled out asking him
what business he had to change the
location Of the feet without instruc-
tions, sublimely ignorant of the fact
that Port Elizabeth and Algoa bay are
one and the same place.
By the way, the names Algoa bay
and Delagoa bay are derived from the
outward and homeward voyages Of the
old East Indiamen who, on their voy.
ages to Goa. In India, were wont to
call at Port Elizabeth on the outward
voyage and at Lourenco Marques on
the homeward voyage. Hence the
names Algoa Ito Goa) and Delagoa
(from Goa).-Stray Stories.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
Tee-tee-tofnl.

About September, 1888, DIcky Tur-
ner, the converted weaver, when deliv-
ering one Of his feryid speeches in the
Temperance hotel, Preston, the cockpit
where the earls Of Derby formerly
fought their cocks for three centuries,
in favor Of the new pledge, declared
with emphasis that nothing but the
tee-tee-total pledge would do" Mr..
Joseph Livesey upon hearing this i'm
mediately cried out amid great cheer
ing, THAT shall be the name" The
newly coined word was taken up by
the succeeding speakers and was after
ward used at all the meetings held In
the town and neighborhood. 1t was
soon adopted in every part of Lanca-
shire and was eventually accepted as
the true designation Of total abstainers
not only in the United Kingdom, but
throughout the civilized world.
I.had the above facts from the lips Of
Mr.. Joseph Liyesey.-London News.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
WORKING UP A SICKNESS.
The Story of q Man Who Thought
He Had Appendtcitis.

AS AAo0 EARVCAhAACANAbs
"a nervous man recently called on
me-" said a New Orleans physician,
"and asked, In what part of the abdo-
men are the premonitory pains of ap.
pendicitis felt? On the left side, ex-
actly here replied, indicating a spot
n little above the point of the hip bone.
HE went out, and next afternoon I
was summoned in hot haste to the st.
Charles hotel. found the planter
writhing on his bed, his forehead bead
ed with sweat and his whole appear
ance indicating intense suffering. 4
have an attack Of appendicitis he
groaned, and I'm a dead mani I'll
never survive an operation!
Where do you feel the pain? I
asked.
"'Oh, right here he replied, putting
his finger on the spot had located at
the office. I feel as if somebody had a
knife In me there and was turning It
around
"'Well, then, 1t isn't appendicitis at
any rate I said cheerfully, because
that is the wrong side.'
The wrong side! he exclaimed,
glaring at me Indignantly. Why, you
told me yourself it was on the left
Then must have been distracted ,
replied calmly. L should have said
the right prescribed something that
wouldn't hurt him and learned after
ward that he ate his dinner In the din
ing room the same evening. Oh, yes;
he was no doubt IN real pain when I
called" said the doctor In reply to q
question, "but you can make your fin
ger ache merely by concentrating your
attention on it for few moments."-
New Orleans Times emocrat.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31

rn1s paEIy OF IuHuy 1U5a1S anu uuex.
ampled virtue, is to bestow on Boss
Croker in exchange for his immoral in.
duence in this campaign? One who
scrutinizes the Bryanistio platform in
search of some expression in favor of a
reformed civil service and has found
nothing-not a line or syllable, may
we'll be excused if he concludes that the
consideration was New York appoint.
ments without civil service strings tied
to them. What luscious peach that
will be for Tammany and its boss |
With what an aroma will that peach be
attended fresh from the fair hand of
this vestal virgin of end-of f-the.century
politics, the new Democracy with great
moral ideas
A hankering after reputation is an
other besetting sin of this new tangled
party of great moral ideas. Four years
aRo the purpose was thinly disguised by
sophistioal augmentation to the effect
that free coinage Of silver would not re-
suit In deprecated currency, but the
real bait held out to those who were
then IN debt was the ability to discharge
their obligations in cheaper dollars than
were lawful money when the debts
were contracted. That was the very
soul Of the cheap money movement Of
the concluding decade Of the century
and without that promise held out to a
people whose want Of business conserv.
Atism had brought them into debt the
Popuhst party would never have come
Into being and the new Democracy
would never have risen to humiliate
and bring into disrepute the party that
was founded by Thomas Jefferson and
which, in 1872, declared "That the pub.
bic credit must be sacredly maintained
and we denounce reputation in every
form and guise." Let It be remember.
Cd by the reader that this multum in
parvo organization, masquerading as a
party Of great moral ideas, is still held
together by this one and only common
bond TO union, cheap money, and that it
stands pledged to inflict upon the coun.
try a food of deprecated currency and
with that currency to repudiatingly
discharge bonded obligations for which
the faith and credit Of the government
are plighted. For sake of merited EN-.
phasis the proposition is again repeat.
ed: There is not between the cohorts
Of the new Democracy, Populism and
free silver Rennbhoan .graenbackism
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
HIs PROPOSAL.


She knew he loved her by each sl.ncs,
Though hs'd not spoken;
His hands quick pressure IN the dance,
Each flower and token.
She waited for the story old
As she had read it,
But though his eyes the legend told
He never said It'll
He sang to her In verses sweet,
His accents sued her;
He played the banjo at her feet,
In ragtime wooed her;
On smooth yacht decks all golden glow,
Where starlight blended,
Till she began to think him slow
As we'll as Splendid
She led him into quiet hooks,
On stairs, demurely,
Where lights were low and tender looks
Might pass securely,
And when the band throbbed some deem hyus
Or old song story
She steered him gently for the dim
Conservatory
But In a crowded cable car
One rainy morning
They rode with many jolt and jar,
The weather scorning,
TIL swerving round curve she leaned
Against his shoulder,
And safely by her big hat screened
Twas then he told herl
Kate Masterson in Saturday Evening Post.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
Unchanged.

The lapse Of years makes quite q
difference in things, and Rip Van Win.
kle was not to blame for feeling out Of
place after his long nap.
Everything is new" he murmured
pitifully, the while tear pushed man
fully away at his eyelid. Nothing is
like it used to be. Oh, for the sight Of
something familiarw
Wandering into store, he carelessly
picked up comic paper, more to hide
his emotion than anything else. Sud-
denly he gave a cry Of exceeding great
joy.
"The same old jokesV' he sobbed joy
fully. "The same old iokesP'-Kansas
City Indenendent
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31

70 die Tor II. The oonsc1ence of the ma
tion will have little objection to the
adoption in any state of this union of
suffrage laws that impose an eduoa-
tional qualification SO that the uualif.
cation apply to men Of all colors and
conditions, but a law which specifically
excuses from the operation Of whole
some electoral regulation the illiterate
and inoapacious whites because their
fathers or grandfathers enjoyed the
right Of suffrage prior to 1897, for no
other purpose than to discriminate
against the black yote-such provision
as has been adopted into the organic
law Of North Carolina and other south
ern states is an outrage upon the ma
tional conscience. Only one more step
remains, that of closing the schools of
these states to colored pupils, and the
negro population Of the south will be
reduced to a peonage as hopeless as
slavery. And yet neither this new party
of great moral pretensions nor its lead
er has had one word of protest to utter
against this most fragrant usurpation
of power, through intimidation, by
self constituted aristocracy. 1t is q
boundless assurance and not a regard
for consistency that gives the new De.
mocracy leave TO SPEAK OF taxation with
out representation in Porto Rico and
the Philippines.
And there are the American mission
aries in Chinal What is the attitude of
the Bryan press toward them? Why,
the mcuthpieces of this new party of
great moral ideas give expression to a
reluctant willingness to have American
4
representatives from the clutches Of the
fanatical and bloody Boxers, provided
It can be done without too much diff
Guilty and cost, but as for the mission
aireg-they are set down as busybodies
regarding the fate of whom it is not
worth while to make a scene, The
verdict is that these fearless and self
sacrificing forerunners of world religion
ought to have remained at home, that
if the Chinese had wanted to be con-
verted to Christianity they would have
asked for the privilege and that our
missionaries had no natural right to
penetrate to remote regions and there
over persuade sinners to repentance. If
they ventured upon 80 hazardous an un-
dertaking 1t must be at their own risk.
Any effort to enforce upon China, with
the power Of the army md navy Of the
United States, the treaty stipulations that
such people are not to be, "Harrassed
on account of their faith and shall in no
case be interfered with or prosecuted"
viii be greeted with frantic declaration
that the same is only another mani
festation Of heinous world conquoring
imperialism.
Another incongruous element in this
newly fiedged party of great moral ideas
Ia Boss Croker with his Tammany hall
backing. Mr.. Bryan. the highly moral
Mr. Bryan, the Mr.. Bryan Of great
moral ideas, has been caught openly
consorting with that harlot. Boss
Croker is at the head of the New
York city push. That is his stock in
trade and he has openly testified that
he is in politics for what he can make
out of politics. He has engaged to
throw the state Of New York into the
Bryan column in the forthcoming cleo
tion. What is the consideration which
tAis aaY. pe-tz Of great zas.A ie---
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31

Some Populist papers are manifest
ing a certain degree of restiveness on
account of feeling that because the
renegade Republican their party nomln-
mated for vice president was pushed
off the ticket their party is not being
properly recognized by the Bryan ag
grsgation. The fact that they secured
the nomiation of Populist for the
head of the ticket ought to satisfy them,
but Democrat-well, it is pretty hard
dose for him and dose that many Of
them will not take.
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31

t d e Obligations
and consequences
of marriage are a
lasting happiness.
To q woman suf-
fering from irreg-
ularity or other
ailments Of the
sex, marriage may
prove a mockery
and motherhood
a misery. Where
such ifregularity
exists DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton can be used
with the assurance
that health will
speedily be re-
stored. It is the
most reliable med
icine known to
medical science
for the cure of
diseases which af.
feet the delicate
womanly organs.
WEooo~;f. De
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31

scr1ption" Is a non-alcoholic medicine
and is also free from opium cocaine and
other narcotics.
Vat an early stage Unmarried life, )" writes Mrs
Flora Arm, of Dallas, Jackson Co., Mo-, uI was
greatly bothered with painful periods, also a
troublesome drain which rendered me very weak
and unfit for work of any kind became SO
bone. My husband became alarmed and got
me bottle of Favorite Prescription After
he saw the wonderful effects of that one he got
me two more, and after used those up there
was no more pain, and I began to gain in flesh
very rapidly. ! owe all praise TO Or. Pierce and
his wonderful curative medicines"
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser sent free
on receipt of stamps to pay cost of mail
ing only. Send 81 one-cent stamps for
book in paper covers, or 81 stamps in
cloth to DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y,
Amador ledger., 1900-08-31
In sixe,

Willie Good-Pa, our teacher says
that collect" and "congregate" mean
the same thing.
Rev. Good-Well, you tell your teach
er that you have information that
there is considerable difference be-
tween congregation and collection.
Baltimore American.