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Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
Likewise Mistaken.

A small boy was fishing on Sunday
morning. He had a basket Of fish
alongside Of him. A clergyman hap
pened to see him, and. going over to
where he was busily watching the bob
said:
"You naughty, cruel boyl Don't you
know that 1t is a sin to fish on the Sab
bath? Besides the sin. think of the
cruelty of it-taking the poor little
worm out of the ground and sticking
that nasty sharp hook through its
body"
''That amt no worm. That's an ar.
tiicial fyw answered the boy.
"Ah, was mistaken" said the
preacher. EEfs
$50 were these fish," said the boy,
picking up the basket and showing
them to the ciergyman.-New York
Sun.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
How to Avoid the Terrors Of Group
and Whooping Cough.

1t Is useless these days for parents to
worry over croupy children or to have
their rest broken by them. Modern
medical science has robbed these dis.
eases of their terrors, just as it has
smallpox and diphtheria. Have this
remedy for any cough or cold always
at hand; simply ask your druggist or
storekeeper for a bottle of DIR. Gi11's
Botanic Cough Syrup, or send 25 cents
{stamps) to Scott s. Gilbert, San Fran.
cisco, fer trial size, prepaid,
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
"eTT oFF'N THAT Hoss |"

1Is relations. He chanks bis teeth and
oils his eyes and pulls his guns. He
wants that cayuse. and he wants him
inside Of two minutes. Ye may fgger
hat Pete. who hadn't any gun with
aim. turned pale and fell out Of the
saddle with q thump, but yen be mis-
.akep II ye do. 1t took him some
eetle time to realize the situashun, but
ae didn't gkeer. When he got things
straight he slid OF his critter and Lit
en to Sam. Did the bold, bad man who
aas carried the county of Cold Chuck
In his pocket fur a year drill holes
through the half breed as he come?
Not q drill. Was thar an awful strug-
gle lastjn half an hour before victory
perched on either banner2 Not
struggle. That half breed. who was
thought to be q worm of the dust, takes
The bold, bad man by the nose and
eads him around fur awhile. Then he
tripa him Of his weepins. pulls his
ears. slaps his jaw and kicks him
.lround bend Of the trail.
What does the terrible terror of
.Joid Chuck county do? Hevin given
nirseK away as a coward and blow
nard does he fall over a cliff that men
may furgit him? Does he strike out
fur q pint 1000 miles away. that his
fSue may never be known2 Not
much. He comes right back to town
md to me, and the fust thing he says
%:
%'Jedge, 1 want 1estice.'
:" "'What sort Of jesticeY
90 Jestice fur bein held up and robbed
ey Pete the Half Breed
But why didn't ye shutter
. he skulked up on me. Gimme jes-
nee, edge-gimme lots of IT.
"That was Arizona Sam, bold, bad
man. and believed his yarn and sent
cut warrant and had Pete arrested.
! WAS calkerlatin to gin him mighty
hose Of jestice, but hearin his side of
the story has changed my mind. Sam.
the buffer. stand up. Are ye denyin
that what Pete says is trueP
"'He LIT on me mighty sudden,
iedge,' was the reply.
But you didn't try to pull gunT
'Mebbe not
"'And you didn't fghtr
"T don't think so.'
~-That's nun. Ye ar simply great
big blowhard and buffer, and ye've
made every good man in this town back
water. Wen be the laughin stock OF
Tin Cup, Pine Hill and all the other
disgin's. and we'l feel the disgrace fur
6ve vars. can't send ye to jail fur
helm buffer and a duffer, but I'm
goin to sentence ye to be booted from
this we're temple Of 1estice to the Red
Dog saloon. and If ye amt over the
hill and out of town ten minits later
won't answer fur consequences. As
fur Pete. he is sot at liberty, and be
kin keep yer weepins and be the fusi
man to apply the boot. The rest Of US
trcIudin the court, win fall in artel
him. and as ye feel yerself lifted cpal
or the earth l hope ye may come t.
realize that though jestice is blind ant
moves along like kyote with two legl
broke, she keeps reachin out her hand
till che gifts the right critter by thu
neck" M. QUAD.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
A Catalogue.

''Miss Mary" said the sable maiden,
I'VE 'spect to have an en'tainment at
Dur chu'ch nex' week, and l got to
speak piece. l was Jest goin to asst
you If you had book with some OBJ
them pieces inT
"Why, yes, Dora, have a book of
recitations. What kind of a piece do
you wantT
"Well, l was thinkin OBJ somep'n in
lie nature OBJ catalogue"
"a what?"
"a catalogue-you know. piece with
one person a-talkip and mother one
answerin 'em back. Has you got a
piece like dat2 I'd like it fust rate."-
New York Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
The EARLY Bird.

Ethel-Do you like Mr.. Eames, man.
ma?
Mamma "a young widow)-Why,y-e-s
darling.
Ethel-And Mr.. Webster2
Mamma-Yes, dear.
Ethel-And Mr.. Fish and Mr.. Dixon
and Mr.. Sheldon?
Mammal like them all, pet.
Ethel-Which one are you going to
marry, then?
Mamma-The one who proposes first
darling.-Harlem Life.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
Youths Companion.
His Plain story wan

An ungroomed man slouched up to
Smith in Farnum street the other day
and accosted him as follows:
"Say, mister, if L was to tell you that
/ wanted quarter to get a square
meal you'd think l wanted 1t to buy
whisky, wouldn't your'
That's exactly what 1 would think. u
replied Smith
"And if l said wanted a quarter to
buy whisky you'd say you didn't pro-
pose to encourage the drink habit
wouldn't your"
That's what I'd say"
"And if said wanted quarter To
buy food for starving wife and II
children you'd think l was a liar.
wouldn't youT'
II would"
well, say, mister, l want a quarter
to pay for having me mother-in-law's
trunk hauled to the depot Do l get
itY'
Smith effected compromise by part
ing with dime.-Omaha World-Her.
aid.
After q Dreac cher has made narria5
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
A Secret of Youth,

One night at a reception which Sen
ator Beveridge and attended soon aft
nr his election the hostess said in mock
surprise:
"Are you Senator Beveridge, the SEN
ator from Indiana~
The senator bowed modestly.
"It hardly seems possible. Why, you
are mere beardless youthw
MADAM" replied Mr. Beveridge with
out smile. F shavs."-Saturday Even,
Ing Post.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
what women Admire In Men.

What we admire most in men is 9
loving appreciation of ourselves. The
most admirable man Is he who makes
comfortable home for the woman
who loves him and who delights tc
make that home bright and CHEEKY fol
his sake, for, after all, 1t matters little
what we admire in men. 1t is what we
love in them that is the important fac.
tor in the well being Of the world
Pail Mali Gazette.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
Acorn. as Charming ornamentr

Take large acorn, suspend it by a
thread 80 as to nearly touch the water
in any glass vessel, set 1t upon your
mantelshelf, bracket or table, and let
1t stand there for about two months
without in any way interfering with II
excepting to supply fresh water
The acorn will burst, throw a root
down into the water and stem up.
ward, sending out from the stem beau.
tiful green leaves.-Home Notes.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
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 I will call on you.
Estimates furnished without cost
on any kind of building. VIII
make plans and specifications for
yQM mar2tf
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
Her WayS

els Georgiana sympathetic friendY
well, when she praises anything l
wear SIZE does it in way which makes
me feel that everything usually wear
Is simply hideous." s."-Indianapolis Jour-
aal.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

The highest point at which Towering
plants have been found was in Tibet
at 1e,200 feet. Nine species were re.
corded at $4,000 feet or higher.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
PARAGUAY Tea.

When the yerba mate. or native tea
Of Paraguay. is cultivated, the seeds
are treated to an acid bath before
planting. This softens the hard shell
which surrounds the kernel Of the
seeds and enables them to sprout In
three or four months. If planted in
their natural state, 1t requires three
or four years for the seeds to germi-
nate.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

Minorities lead and save the world
and the world knows them not till long
Rfterward.-4ohn Burroughs,
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

The average height of an English
man is 8 feet Ok inches
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

The average duration of marriages in
England is % years; in France and
1ermany. 2a Norway. "a: Russia. 20.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

The average man likes to point to
the good traits in his children as a
heritage from himself.-Chicago News.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

After preacher has made married
couple one they each Immediately set
TO work to find out which is the one
Kansas City Times.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30

stomach. The whole body and brain are
dependent for health and life upon the
ordsrliness and completeness of the pro-
cesses which 60 on In the stomach and
allied organs Of digestion and nutrition.
People who have been treated for dis
ease Of head, heart, lungs, liver, nerves
or blood have often been treated In vain,
until they began the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. When this
medicine had healed the stomach and
cisarssd the blood, the other diseases
disappeared.
csi1 yesn ago last August wes attacked with
YaiAfia fsvef," writes Nj Daniel A. Carter of
Ydat, RsYAn o.. j. G.. any spleen become en-
ys9A f~eE to the doctors and soue Of them
Nd ! Tag GSrseete, others said 7 had liver
Wet cad aonfeh disease. So I paid out MONEY
! se4mSfcSd Ehl3s bf fierce,s Golden VA.
ssa M sSss ssys a:sa o tfn s1sslsl ss :S and nov
Dr.. phfbe's Pleasant Pellets are q
boon 70 hlioua people. They cure.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
~Se.p
hlAkEs
| TM
! SOLDIER .

The great En-
peror understood
that primarily the
soldier is a stom-
ach. Pri ari1y
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
"A DOSE OF JUSTICE.
-ADLED OUT WITH a LIBERAL HAND
eV JUDGE HokE.

rue Court Considers the Case of Ari-
zoHa Sam. General bad Man, and
Disposes of 1t without the Ala of
Advice TPom His Lawyer.
Amador ledger., 1900-11-30
Incorporated November, 1895
Capital Stock :: $4,000

bOAftD OF DIHECIOHS.
Henry Eudey, S. G. Spagnoli, John Strohm,
Marelia and Alex Eudey Of Jackson.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

cessful rearing of bottle babies" of
any place in the world. The first pro-
cess consists of straining the milk,
which is done by a patent separator,
for Randalrs Island is raising just
now no babies on the bottle.
The straining of the milk is n most
important feature, and can be done
quite as we'll at home as at Randalrs
Island. Mrs. Dunphy showed the
young mother how. Taking two yards
of cheese cloth which had already been
boiled twenty minutes, she folded this
into little bundle about eight inches
square, laid it in an earthenware pie
plate and placed the plate in hot
oven, where it remained until the top
fold began to get brown. A coarse
towel was also put in the oven at the
same time.
Nine little squares were cut out of
the cheese cloth with bright clear scis-
sors. Three of these squares were tied
over a common milk strainer, the milk
was poured through into another SINH
lar strainer, similarly fixed with steril-
lied cheese cloth, and still through an
other strainer.
1t is appalling how much dirt and
dust there is even in the cleanest milk.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07
The COOLING PROCESS.

to wabble. The kettle was placed on
bubble and boil around the bottles for
not less than twenty minutes. Then
it was pronounced steriliZed.
Lifting the cylinders out of the ket-
tie, they were set in a sink and the
cold water faucet turned on. 1t is
very important that the milk should
be thus cooled and in running water
before being put il the iceboX; If put
in the iceboX Immediately after taking
from the boiling water the milk gets
cold too quickly, and all the beneficial
results of the sterilizing are neutral
lied.
The milk must then be kept on ice
until time for feeding the baby, when
the bottle is again immersed in hot
water until the milk is heated to 9S
degrees, or the warmth of mothers
milk.
After feeding, just as quickly as pos
sible, the bottle and nipple must be
rinsed in cold water, then put in ket-
tie with a piece of boraX and allowed
to boil for twenty minutes.
While the bottles were boiling Miss
Margaret Mccarthy, the assistant su-
pervising nurse, showed the young
mother how to sterilize the bottles and
nipples after they came out of the
water.
Never lay a bottle on its side, but
turn it up" said Miss Mccarthy.
MANY mothers imagine if they have
boiled nipples and laid them on the
window sill to dry in the sun that all
the germs are destroyed. That is all
wrong. The warm sunshine only
warns the little stray germs into life"
Two folds of the sterilized cheese
cloth were then laid on piece of
clean, unpainted board-a kneading
board is a good thing-and the bottles,
necks downward, We're dropped into
the interstices of n wire rack and al
lowed to drain on to the cheesecloth.
The nipples We're dried with piece of
the same steriliZed material and then
wrapped in cheesecloth. The remain
der of the cheesecloth was folded up
in the sterilized towel and put away
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

In the morning to last all day, and in
the evening to last until next morn
ing. More than that should never be
sterilized, because, while the milk may
keep sweet much longer time it loses
much of its nutritive power if allowed
to grow the least bit STALE
If baby appears to be not thriving,
and the mother can determine this by
weighing it carefully every other day,
then its milk is not agreeing with it,
and physician should be consulted
Immediately. The healthy baby will
increase in weight between certain
ages while at others it will remain al
most uniform, but it will never lose
weight. The falling off in weight of
even an ounce or two means some
thing. and what this something is none
but the physician should determine.
In just what proportions to dilute
the milk after it has oeen sterilized
and bottles and nipples made germ
proof, is n question often asked by
mothers through the columns of news
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

When Julia Marlowe was in London
a few seasons ago and attending gar
den party she had the unique expert
ence of meeting a woman who, feature
for feature, was so exactly tho coun-
terpart of her own fair self that she
confessed that she might have greeted
the lovely marchioness of Downshires
as her own twin sister. 1t is true that
both the charming actress and the
equally lovely marchioness are Irish
women, hut there the relationship
ends, while the resemblance can read
lily be traced in their photographs
a resemblance made all the stronger
by the fact that in height, weight and
Coloring there is scarcely any differ
ence between them.
Just as Miss Marlowe is considered
one of the most delightful women on
the stage today, her double, the mar
chioness, is regarded as leading belle
and beauty in smart British society,
and what is even more to her credit,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07
Science Guards Baby's Dinner.
Object Lesson Young Mothers Regarding Proper
OF the Nursing Bottle.


That the nursing bottle, either di-
rectly or indirectly, is the cause of the
majority of deaths of infants is the
consensus of opinion among the best
medical authorities. Much as has
been written and prayed and preached
against ii, there are few mothers who
regard the nursing bottle with the
proper amount of fear which it in
spires in the man of science.
always remember that there is a
risk-a great risk-however careful
you are, in bringing up your baby on
the bottle" was the advice given
young mother the other day by Mrs
NJ. c. Dunphy, the superintendent of
Randalls Island, New York City.
The young mother the wife of
well-to-do Harlem tradesman, had
gone over to the island to find out how
milk and milk bottles and nursing nip
pies We're really sterlized. She had
read i'll the papers and the magazines
hundreds of directions, and none of
them seemed to agree, or else the di-
rections We're not worded plainly. Her
three months old baby was not thirty
ing, and she very wisely determined TO
have somebody show her exactly how
to sterilize milk and bottle and nurs-
ing nipples.
Like hundreds of other would-be
scientific mothers, this one had been
"sterllizing" milk by simply immers-
ing the bottles in water and allowing
them to remain until the water reached
the boiling point. and as a matter Of
fact the milk was thereby rendered
even more dangerous than before it
had been steriliZed.
The mother was then shown by sim
pliiied process how she could prepare
her baby's milk at home with the joy
full certainty that after steriliZing it
was absolutely pure and germ proof.
At Randalfs Island they have the
most complete facilities for the sue
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07
BY OSMOSIS.
Sugar in Solution Easily Passes Through
Animal HIpmbrnnas

Animal Membranes.
Sugar is substance that dissolves
easily and in considerable quantity in
water When in solution it easily pass
es through an animal membrane by
osmosis, and so the question OF its
absorption seemed simple enough. The
disease diabetes showed, however, that
sugar might exist very plentifully in
che blood, and yet the nutrition of an
individual suffer very much for the
lack of it. Something else besides its
mere presence in the system was nee
essary to secure its consumption by
the tissues. Bernard thought that the
liver was active in the consumption OF
sugar, and that disease of this organ
caused diabetes. He therefore secured
some OF the blood going to the liver
of living animal, and some of the
blood that was Just leaving it. To his
surprise the blood leaving the liver
contained more sugar than that enter
ing it. After assuring himself that
his observations were correct, he tried
his experiments in different ways. He
found that even in the blood leaving
the liver of an animal that had been
fed only on substances containing
no sugar, sugar could be demonstrate
ed. Even in a fasting animal the liver
itself and the blood leaving it showed
the presence of a form Of sugar. The
only possible conclusion from this was
that the liver was capable of manu-
featuring this form CT sugar out Of
non-sugar- material, or
even from the blood of fasting ami
NAL. This was the first time in physi-
ology that the idea of an internal Sc
cretion was advanced. Glands within
the body that gave off a secretion
always possessed a duct By which the
secretion was conducted to where it
was to produce its effect. The idea
that glands exist which poured their
secretion directly into the blood stream
had not occurred.-Catholic World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

Some time ago Professor Franklin
II. Giddings, Of Columbia University,
proved by a great army of statistics
carefully gathered that factory en-
ployment had the effect of making
women marry later in life than they
probably otherwise would. Now comes
Miss Mary Roberts Smith, of Leland
Stanford University, with an interest
ing study Of the comparative marrying
age of women who are educated at
college and women who are not. Miss
Smith has been convinced by her in
vestigations that the marrying age for
all women has been growing greater
for a generation past, but she finds
that college women marry later than
other women. The average marrying
age of the latter she fixes at twenty
four, and the average for college wom-
sn is twenty-six.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

The chief officer of Yorkshire yeo-
manry regiment, while congratulate
ing one of the troops on its appear
ance, made Il stirring allusion to the
medals worn by some army veterans
in the ranks. One of the men, ma
tive of Wharfdale, afterward went
home in a very thoughtful frame of
mind, and next morning he came on
parade with several medals on his
breast. Said the ofiicer,"I didn't know
you had been in the regulars" mo,
l amt" said the man. well, how
about the medals, then, my good fell
low? They can't be yours" The man
promptly answered.: Cant they! Aye
but they be. My old coo won 'em all
at Otley Show."-Upper Wharfdale.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07
to minimum within the next two


to a minimum within the next two
years.
The Randall's Island babies, poor
little waits picked up in doorways,
railway stations, deserted warehouses
and occasionally fished out of damp,
leaky old scows or garbage cans, wax
strong and flourish on a bottle diet,
while the child of well-to-do parents,
living in a comfortable home, often
dies of neglect-that is, neglect of the
milk bottle.
The Randall's Island babies are in
variably more dead than alive when
they reach the hospital. Every so of
ten when tie shabby little bundle is
unrolled on arrival it is discovered
that the little feet are stiff and cold,
and many a feeble life GIBBS out ere
the boat that carries the frail burden
is moored TO the landing.
And still a larger percentage of these
babies live and grow into strong,
hearty children than any other class
of bottlefed infants, not because they
are pampered and cared for like hot
house flowers, for where there are 142
babies there is no time for pampering,
but because the milk bottle is feared,
as it must be by all conscientious
mothers.-New York Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

The excellence of the agricultural
schools, colleges and experiment sta
tions of the United States is COM
tnanding wide attention. "A striking
bit of proof to this effect is that the
Government of the Argentine Repub-
lie has sent to this country fifty of
its young men to profit by what we
thus have provided. An agricultural
writer, commenting on this, regards
st as unfortunate that we have room
for th"-' young men. Every faculty
OF our agricultural colleges should be
taxed to the utmost with an attend
ance of young men and women from
the farms of the United States"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07
RUBBER BISCUITS.
The Shape in Which the Para Product
is Shipped.

The Shape in Which the Para Product
is Shipped.
To form the biscuits, the natives
take long stakes of wood, sometimes
pointed at the end, and quite frequent
ly shaped like paddle, dip them into
the sap buckets or basins, holding
them in the smoke after each dipping
until the successive films of rubber
solidify around them. A biscuit of
Para rubber, therefore, represents the
slow and laborious accumulation of
hundreds of dippings, so that quite 4
stretch of the Imagination would be
necessary to arrive at the number of
dippings required to form the huge
Para biscuit illustrated herewith,
which weighs 1920 pounds, and meas.
ures four feet five inches in height,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

lated to answer this question. That is
something which the. physician alone
can determine. The formula that will
agree perfectly with one baby often
proves the death of another. Each
baby requires individual attention,
and the wise mother will avoid any
thing except professional advice re-
garding the preparation of her baby's
milk
If the mother at home will guard the
nursing bottle for one mite of baby
with as much rigor as Mrs. Dunphy
and her assistants look to the bottles
for their 142 babies, the death rate
among city children might be reduced
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-11-07

one of the old-fashioned death-dealing
horrors with long rubber tube, but
with just single fubber nipple.
Mrs. Dunphy filled ten bottles, the
requisite number for one baby. The
bottles were inserted in cylinders,
bound together for convenience by a
tin band. These cylinders can be
made ~ any 'tinsmith for twenty-five
or thirty cents per set of ten. The
bottles, corlled up tightly, the cylin-
ders were set in a porcelain kettle full
of lukewarm water, just large enough
to hold them without allowing them