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MEN AND WOMEN.

The Baroness de Rothschild has Civ
en- during the past month 10000 francs
to Partisan hospitals.
Mrs ]. G. Croly adopted for her nom
de plume Jennie June the name of
one of Benjamin F. Taylors poems
When George Wyndham entered the
British war Office, little more than
a year ago, he did not have gray
hair, and now his hair is silvery
white.
During the coming summer Charles
Eliot Norton, whom John Ruskin ap-
pointed his literary executor, will go
to England to take charge of Ruskin's
papers and writings.
Mr.. Frank Stockton, the novelist,
has been living at Morristown, N. j.,
for number of years, but has recent
ly purchased a farm near CharlestOwn,
w. Va, where he finds better climate
and greater privacy.
The kaiser has shown his increased
interest in the building of the Kaiser
Wilhelm church at Ems by another
donation of $4,000 marks ($3,57O). This
will make total of SO, 900 marks ($11,-
900) granted from the imperial treas
ury for this purpose.
The wonder is that such creature
as the empress dowager should be al
lowed to reside in Pekin and to retain
her unwholesome influence so long.
She has no hesitation in numbering
her most enlightened subjects whole
sale, without regard to their ability,
work or k-Correspondence Chica-
go Record.
The president Of Harvard college
who served longest was Edward Mol
yoke, whose term extended from 1887
to 1853, in all thirty-one and half
years. President Eliot's term began
May 10, 1869. If he lives and survives
until the end of November next he will
surpass the years of service of Presi-
dent Holyoke.
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Another Article TabOoed.

A Spruce street physician who is
dietician to the extent of being known
as crank on the subject, is warning
all his patients not to eat celery, which
has always been regarded as not only
harmless but actually beneficial. This
doctor claims to have discovered that
the soil in which celery is grown is
laden with germs of enteric fever, and
that in the ordinary process of wash
ing it is impossible to remove all OF
the SOIL any portion of which, he says,
if taken into the system, would contain
enough germs of typhoid to fill hos
pital. And now his patients are Won
dering what is to come next.-Phlla-
delphia Record.
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ASSORTED INFORMATION.

Two years ago the Beers had in
their pay Is German officers, 40
French and 40 Russians.
Dry guncotton will burn slowly
without explosion. Wet guncotton ex-
plodes with terrific force.
In the process of the manufacture
Of cordite the constituents are thor
oughly kneaded for seven hours.
The Transvaal government has 25,-
100000 of bullion in Pretoria, and is
said to be coming $4,000 sovereigns per
month
British landlords are said to own
10000 acres of land in the United
States, an area larger than that OF
Ireland.
Mississippi expects it's new capitol to
be ready for occupancy when the leg
islature meets in January, 1902. 1t
is to cost s1,OOO,OO0.
A flag of truce is usually heralded by
trumpet sounding to arrest enemy 8
attention. On permission to pass be-
ing given the party is blindfolded and
led to the commander of the outposts.
A botanical garden has been estab-
lished at Coquilhatville, Congo Free
State, by the Belgian government. 1t
will be called the Kew Gardens, and 1t
will probably be important to the ruu-
ber and other tropical industries.
In a Chinese household the parents
are the head, especially the mother.
She rules without appeal. Each son
must obring his wife to his mothers
house on his marriage, and he must re-
main there with his growing family.
Fruit farms are being developed in
the South. In one place in North
Carolina there are strawberry farms
of fifty acres. The berries are large.
The peach orchards are being cultl-
waited. Several other kinds OF fruit
are being raised, and the enterprises
have been very successful.
Women spectators are not numer-
GUS in New York. The average woman
speculator, according to the brokers
of the Stock Exchange, is about as
cautious and timid creature as ever
ventures into Wall street at all, and
when she goes into the market, it is In
ten-share lots, and with fear and
trembling.
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Small Den ordinations Coined.

In Turkey the unit of value Is the
piastre, which is divided lhto WY
paras. while the para is divided INTO
three aspes. AS the piastre ID only
worth 4.4 cents, the para is worth a
little more than a tenth of cenk ana
m aspe Is worth trif1e oves one
twenty-seventh of a cent. Whso an
American in Turkey wants to feel flcn,
he goes forth and buys some S,'oo
aspes, which he spends with lavish
hand over the bargain counters q tne
Oriental baZaars.
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1fiE ~ \
i4Rlls or iNrEREsr.


h The best wagon road in Kansas, ie
Ii said, is the bed of the Arkansas
river.
Ladies who sleep with their hair
tightly pinned up ought to know that
this practice retards the circulation Of
the blood and injuriously affects the
growth of the hair,
An ocean steamer OF the first class,
going at full speed, cannot be brought
to halt in less than three minutes
In the meantime she will have trav-
ersed distance of about half mile.
The Scots Greys, now fighting in
South Africa, are all mounted on gray
horses. These they have dyed the
color of the soil. to prevent them from
being too conspicuous to the expert
marksmen among the Beers. :.
A greengrocer in London brought
suit against a bankrupt for a debt Of
$481. The magistrate decided that the
debtor must pay, but made 1t easy for
him by exacting only five shillings a
week from him. At this rate it will
take him thirty-seven years to pay the
debt.
An odd excuse for burglary was CIV
en- by one-legged boy, aged fourteen.
He broke into a hardware store in
Kansas City, and was captured. He
pleaded that he wanted to steal some
tools which would enable him to make
wooden leg for himself.
Suicide by refrigeration was deliber-
ately committed by Stuart st. Clair,
of Williamsport, Pa. He entered re-
!frigerator car on its way from Texas
to Colorado, stretched himself on a
mass of ice, and was found frozen to
death when the car reached Eaton,
Col.
San Francisco girls have organized
a boycott against cheap young men"
They mean the parsimonious gentle
men who are ever ready to escort them
to church, or social entertainments, or
take an inexpensive stroll with them,
but rarely offer to take them to the
theater.
A Sunday school teacher in Boston
saw little boy in his class who was
present for the first time. Desiring to
enter the new pupil on the list he ask
ed his name. WELL" promptly re-
sponded the lad, my folks call me
Johnny for short. but my maiden
| name Is James,"
| A New York sharper, who was cram
med with useful information, which he
was ready to impart, advertised his
willingness to tell any one "how to
prevent shotgun from scattering" A
hunter in Missouri sent one dollar to
the advertiser and received this ad-
vice: Put only one shot in your
gun"
Progressive dinners are becoming
popular in some of the western cities.
One Of six courses was lately enjoyed
in Janesville, Wis. At the first house
twenty guests ate oysters, and then
fastened to the second house, where
they partook of soup; then on to the
third house, where they had fish, and
then they continued until the sixth
course was served.
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Striking EpitaphR

The following epitaph is said to be
found in a cemetery in Burlington,
VT: "She lived with her husband fit
ty years, and died in the blessed hope
of better life Another, equally am
biguous, is found in Marshfield, Mass; !;
Here lies the bodies of Obediah Will
kinson and Ruth Wilkinson, his wife.
Their warfare is accomplished"
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Town AGENT SallA Liuuor.

Vermont has law prohibiting the
sale Of liquor in any town unless the
citizens vote for it. and then it must
be dispensed by town agent for med
icinal purposes or use in the arts.
Northfield, town Of 5000, has had
such an agency, and its receipts have
been so large that the temperance peo-
pie have had law passed requiring
the publication Of purchasers names.
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Iittle TillIa,s Endless ChaiA.

Eva-Mother, Tillie gets a dime
every time she takes cod liver OIL
Mother-And what does she do with
the money. Eva-Well, she puts 1T in
q box until she gets SO cents, and then
her mother buys more cod liver oil
New York Sun.
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Population of st. Louis.

Ten years ago the St. Louis direc-
tory contained 5,429 names. This
year the number is 229 ,265, an increase
in the decade of nearly SO per cent.
The population of the city can not be
far below 7OO.OOO.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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NorE.-A Alum low priced
alum costs
a
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Their sunicient Reason.

Miss Maison-Excuse my ignorance,
but ought to call you Mr.. Bones or
DR.. Bones? The doctor (irascibly)-
Oh, call me anything you like. Some
of my friends call me an old idiot.
Miss Maison-Ah! but those are only
persons who know you Intimately
Tit-Bits.
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From the hour of the invention of
printing, books, not Kings, were to
rule the world. Weapons forged in
the mind edged and brighter
than a sunbeam, were to supplant the
sword and batf1e-ay -Whinnla
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GREEN SICKNESS.

+ rssAss sounss Alssass saA h - Vim
anonass yuuns wnmsa. Ie n. caused hPsa ~
,u.pos erish.i c,,uiit3en Al The b,o.,A Dslng .
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
SeasfcknesE.

A stewardess, after Is years service
on one of the transatlantic liners-and
an opinion on the subject from per-
son in her position is undoubtedly to
be respected-has this to say about
seasickness; almost everybody is q
little sick, but great many more per-
sons could be less sick than they are
If they would only be careful for a
day or two before they sail. Lots of
folks going off to Europe eat big din
ners and luncheons for two or three
days before they start, and as soon as
they get the motion of the waves they
have really a bilious attack. Some
times when the crossing is very rough
and 1 have been little careless in my
diet feel the motion myself, but nev-
er when 1 take proper care. At the
slightest dizziness or nausea 1 stop
eating anything at all for eight or ten
hours, and above all. never touch tea
at that time. 1t is the overeating
usually before they come on board
that makes all the trouble.
York Post,
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
Did she Get the HAITI

1t was mean trick. Of course, and
some day she will doubtless get even
with him.
She saw him take piece of paper
from his pocket, carefully fold it up,
put it in-an envelope and then place
the envelope in one of the far corners
of the drawer of the library table.
whats thatY she asked
"Oh, nothing of any consequence" +"
he replied
Now, If he had simply thrown 1t care
lessly into the drawer she would have
thought nothing Of It, but the care he
took to put 1t clear over in the far cor
ner and the fact that he seemed i'll at
ease after he found that his action had
been observed aroused her curiosity.
She wondered what 1t was, and she
reasoned with herself that he had said
1t was nothing of Importance" so he
would have nobody but himself to
blame If she took look at It, She was
justified in inferring from his words
that there was no reason why she
should not. And this is what she read
scribbled on piece of paper:
"I'll bet you . new hat your curiosity
will not permit you to let this alone"
1t was a terrible predicament in
which to place woman. How could
she claim the new hat without giving
herself away?-Chicago Post.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
Tom Corwln,. Readx Wit.

Governor John Brough was once
matched against Corwin and in his
speech said:
Gentlemen, my honored opponent
himself, while he breaches advocacy
of home industry, has a carriage at
home which he got in England; had it
shipped across the water to him. How
is that for supporting home industry
and labor?"
When Corwin came to the stand, he
made great show Of embarrassment.
He stammered and began slowly:
"Well gentlemen, you have heard
what my friend Mr.. Brough has to say
about my carriage. 1 plead guilty to
the charge, and have only two things
to say in my defense. The first is that
the carriage came to me from an Eng
llsh ancestor as an heirloom, and had
to take 1t. Again, have not used it
for seven years, and it has been stand
ing in my back yard all that time, and
the chickens have converted 1t into a
roost. Now, gentlemen" with steady
look at Brough, II have nothing fur
ther to say in my defense, but would
like to know how Brough knows any
thing about my carriage if he has not
been visiting my henroostr = Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
Nassau. a,z Tree.

In Nassau, the capital city Of the Ba-
hama islands, they say "the tree in the
public square"-not the trees. Now
the public square Of Nassau is quite as
large as that of most cities of the size,
but there is only one tree In It, and
that tree literally fills the square and
spreads its shade over all the public
buildings in the neighborhood. For 1t
is the largest tree In the world at its
three story house. It Is variously
known as ceiba or silk cotton tree,
but the people of the low islands Of the
West Indies call 1t the hurricane tree;
for no matter how hard the wind
blows it cannot disturb the mighty,
buttressed trunk Of the ceiba.
Its trunk throws out great curving.
windlike braces, some Of them 20 feet
wide and nearly as high. These extend
into the ground on all sides and brace
the tree against all attack, while the
great branches spread a thick shade
overhead. In the tropic sunshine Of
midsummer, hundreds, even thousands,
Of people may gather IN the cool Of its
shadow. No one knows how old the
great tree is, but it must have been
growing hundreds, If not thousands, Of
years. A very old picture In the library
at Nassau shows the tree as big as it
is at present, and even the oldest negro
in the island cannot remember when 1t
was bit smaller.-Washingt Post
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
Think. They Need Bditing.

The blue pencil apparently did not
exist in olden times. We have read
ten pages Of Marcus Aurelius at a
stretch without understanding a word
of it. Epictetus is equally hard to
read. Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus
are philosophers without doubt, but
they have q style that gives you a
headache. Both need editing. The
man with the blue pencil should get
after Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus.
Emerson's books also clamor for the
blue pencil. Carlyle is another clumsy
writer greatly in need Of the blue pen
Gil of good editor. A wise saying is
not matter Of faith. Unless you can
see 1t and understand it 1t is not wise
STANDARDIZATION Globe.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
CAPTAIN KIDD.

champagne and race horses and going
a-Ashing; but, alas, 1t is also full Of
bnghted souls.
Let me herewith present you the
eieture Of Captain Kidd, the pirate
He was a man who had honor and
kame and the respect Of the world
within his reach. He had only to keep
on being good to arrive at that point
.Rhete men would doff their hats to
him and women fall over each other to
ret q view of the back of his neck.
Ehen he suddenly changed. He flung
his goodness to the winds and went in
10 be screaming old pirate. He was
hummer from Hummersville. he
knocked seven bells out of everything
be came across and had money to
bury on every island he came across.
He thought he was having high old
time and that 1t would last to his
eighty-hfth year and that he would
then give $4,000 to an orphan asylum
and die in his bed. All Of you know
how he ended. He was still prancing
and cavorting and high rolling when
the law seized him and he was hung
by the neck. He figured 1t all out be-
fore he went his way, and he came to
ihe conclusion that he hadn't been in
I. He Ernta Il doRn on his shirt col:
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lar in red ink that his having had a
high old time was all a mistake and
that the farmer who had stuck to corn
and potatoes was ahead of the pirate
business. | see before me a bald
headed, broad backed man, who is evi.
IDENTIFY itching to become pirate bold
call on him to pause ere it is too late,
Let us take a still more historical
case Behold the picture of Judas Is
CARROT 1t is a sketch made of him
while he was a young man, and you
see that he holds the plow behind an
OK Judas was tiller of the soil for
many years. He was naturally good,
and daily contact with nature added to
his goodness. He came to be known
far and wide as a man who always
shoveled the snow OF his sidewalk
clear up to the line, and If he had
lawsuit about a line fence he didn't
drag in the whole country. When he
went up to Jerusalem, he was honored
and respected of all men, and his daily
life was without blot. No one has
tried to explain why Judas suddenly
made up his mind to change and give
things away. He was rewarded with
"A pieces of silver, but he had no note
coming due and was not hard up for
cash. But change he did. and he no
doubt expected to have high old times
and lead the band. His career, as you
all know. was brief and rocky. Things
didn't turn out as he hoped for. He
was Stunned of men, lodged of dogs
and died without having enjoyed him
self for a day. l am now looking at a
man in this audience who closely re-
sembles Judas Iscariot and who may
be planning to Sell rut and cut loose.
If SO, let my words sink deep into his
heart when | say that the result Of
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
A TelltaiI.

A "befo' de wah" matrcn was teach.
ing one Of the little darkies on her
plantation how to spell. The primer
she used was a pictorial one, and over
each word was its accompanying pic
ture, and Polly glibly spelled COX. OK, +"
and box, box" etc.
But the teacher thought that she
was making too rapid progress, so she
put her hand over the picture and said,
Polly, what does OK SPELL"
COX" answered Polly nimbly.
"How do you know that it spells OK.
Polly"
"Seed his TAIL" replied the apt Polly.
San Francisco Argonaut
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27

Women hold up DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and rFavorite Pre-.
scription as examples of what all med
icines should be in absolute freedom from
alcohol and narcotics. They are strictly
temperance medicines. They contain no
alcohol, neither opium, cocaine, nor any
other narcotic. False formulas of Dr..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
oFavorite Prescription" having been pub
lished by ignorant or unscrupulous per
sons, DIR. r. v. Pierce as president of the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, N. Y, the manufacturers
of his remedies, offers one thousand
dollars for any bottle of these medicines
which on analysis shall show the pres
ence either of alcohol or of opium, CO.
caine, or any other narcotic.
Suits against the originators and pub
fishers of these false formulas have been
instituted, and in order to effectually stop
the publication of these malicious false.
hoods, DIR. Pierce asks that his friends
will send him copies of any circular,
pamphlet, or other advertisement, in
which the statement is made that Gold
en- Medical Discovery" or cFavorite Pre-
scnption contains alcohol or opium or
other narcotics. Address DR.. R. Y.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
A Mile a Minute Down The Alp..

The spot in the Swiss Alps that at
tracts the winter sportsmen of Europe
is the Cresta run, at st. Moritz, which
Is Just one mile in length. The tobog-
gaming season here begins about the
middle of November, when the first
snow falls. The condition of the run
is not left to chance, but the slide Is
prepared under the direction of a COM
mittee. Swiss toboggans in contrast to
the Canadian ones, made entirely of
wood, are raised on runners shod with
iron or steel. The expert rider lies
prone upon the toboggan, head fore
most, both hands grasping the frame
work at the sides and both feet en-
ployed in steering Iron spikes are Sc
cured to the toes of the boots, and by
trailing one or the other foot along
the ground the big sled may be guided.
But as this fashion of steering tends
to diminish the speed the most skilled
riders use the feet as little as possible
and depend upon shifting the position.
Though the Cresta run is q mile in
length, the whole distance may be COW
cred In 20 seconds. At the steepest
point mile minute is made.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
An overcautiou. wife.

An incident occurred at the redemp-
ton bureau Of the treasury which
ought to be warning to wives. A
woman in New England placed $4S in
bank bills in the oven of the kitchen
stove In order to hide it from her hus-
band. She forgot to take it out, and in
the morning he kindled hot fire and
reduced the money to crisp before
his wife remembered where 1t was.
She picked up the ashes, enough to
half fill wineglass, put them in lit
tie box and sent them down to Wash
ington to be redeemed. The experts,
by the use of magnifying glasses. iden-
tilted the bills to the amount of $36
and sent her that money, but it cost
her S12 to fool her husband, and she
will probably not try 1t again.-Chicago
Pacar5
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
FREAKS OF THE MIND.
some Of the Strange Powers 1t Otter
Has Over the Will.

Has Over the Will.
Did you ever think how often you eat
and never stick your fork in your eye?
You always stick your fork in your
mouth. If you ate In the dark. it
would be the same thing. You would
never put out your eye by putting your
fork in It, Why? Because your sub
conscious mind is doing its automatic
duty and knows very well that you eat
with your mouth and not with your
eye.
Many other actions are automatic.
For instance, 20 people have gathered
on street corner to board passing
car. The very fact that they are there
means that the car will stop. The first
man has already signaled the motor
man. So do the other 10. And the
same thing happens If ten people
gather to descend in an elevator. The
first conner rings the bell. So do the
other nine-merely automatically. The
sign says "Ring," so each man takes
this sign to himself and rings.
A shoemaker once had shop in the
basement Of large building down
town. The shoemaker worked with
his back to the door. Every time the
door opened the shoemaker turned his
head to the left to see who entered.
For ten years the shoemaker worked
and turned his head almost every hour
in the day. Before many years had
passed the shoemaker's head turned
automatically, and now that man has
spent all the money he has ever made
trying to be cured of this automatic
habit. But his head still jerks, so that
he looks over his left shoulder con-
stantly.-New York Heiald.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-27
JUDAS AT THE PLOw.

badness is inevitable. 1t may prosper
for short time, but the bad man is
busted and laid low when his pride is
greatest. 1t may not pay above 3 per
cent to be good, but with a. clear con-
science, a good crop of potatoes and D
sure interest on your money you can
fall asleep on the cellar stairs or the
kitchen roof and know that all will be
we'll with you when the cows come
home to be MIXED, NJ. QUAD.