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Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
NOTED ANAGRAMS.
Ingenious Transmutation of the
Names of Well Known Persons.

Ingenious Transmutation of the
Names of Well Known Persons.
Anagrams that transmute the names
of well known men and women are
often startlingly appropriate. What
could be better in this way than these
announcements, evolved from two
great statesmen's names when the
reins Of power changed hands: Glad
stone. &c leads notP' Disraeli. 81 lead.
sir" Quite as happy is the comment
on the devoted nursing of Florence
Nightingale. whose name yields "Flit
on, cheering angel" Among those
that are most often quoted we may
mention Horatio Nelson, "Honor est
a Nilo;" Charles James Stuart, Claims
Arthur's Seat;" Pilates question,
"Quid est veritasT' C'What is truth? ?''),
answered by est vir qui adest," CIT
Is the mnn here presently: Swedish
Nightingale, "Sing high, sweet Linda"
David Livingstone, I'D. ", go and visit
Nile;;" the Marques of Ripon (who re-
signed the grand mastership of Free
masons when he became a RomanisD,
"R. l. P, quoth Freemasons;" Charles
Prince OF Wales, "Al France calls,
Oh, help" Sir Roger Charles Doughty
Tichborne, baronet, 'Yon horrid butch
er Orton, biggest rascal here" And
many shorter specimens, such as tele-
graph, great help" astronomers, mo
more stars" and moon starers;" one
hug, enough" editors, so tired"
tournament, "to run at men," peniten-
tiary, may. 1 repent" old England,
golden land;;" revolution, "to love
RUM" fashionable, "one-half bias;"
lawyers, "sly ware;;" midshipman,
mind his map" poorhouse, ooh. sour
hope;;" Presbyterian, "best in prayer"
sweetheart, there we sat-" matrimo-
ny, into my arm."-Chambers Jour-
nal
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
STEEL WOOL.
A Curious Material Used as q Sub
stitute For Sandpaper,

Steel wool is machine produced ma
terial that is used as a substitute for
sandpaper. 1t is composed of sharp
edged threads Of steel, which curl UP
together like wool, or somewhat as the
wood fbers of the familiar material
known as excelsior curl up together,
though the steel wool is very much
finer. the finest of it being not much
coarser than the coarsest of natural
wools. The steel wool Is put up in
packages containing one pound each.
These are something like rolls of cot
ton batting, but smaller, a pound of
steel wool, loosely packed, making,
rolled In paper and open at the ends,
a package perhaps Is incheslong and
two or three inches in diameter.
Made in various degrees Of coarse
ness, steel wool is put to a variety Of
uses, the finer woods for polishing wood
and metal, and the coarser for rub
bing down paint and varnish. It is
often used on special parts Of work,
while, for example, on the fiat surfaces
Of door a man would use sandpaper
with block back of it; for the mold
lngs he would use steel wool, which fits
into the crevices and conforms itself
to irregular shapes. Such work can
be done with steel wool far more readi-
ly and quickly than with sandpaper,
and 1t is used with like advantage on
irregular and small surfaces and on
carved work.
Besides the steel wool there is a
coarser material of the same kind call
ed steel shavings. which Is put to vari-
GUS uses, as in taking off old paint or
varnish and in polishing wood before
painting, and it is used on bowling al
leys and on floors for smoothing and
cleaning them.
Sandpaper clogs in use, steel wool
breaks down. The wool is commonly
used with gloves to keep the ends from
sticking into the fingers.-New York
Sun.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Beds,

We cannot tell with any certainty
when the first portable furniture was
Invented, and, to Judge by the ark as
it survives among our children, Noah
was either ignorant of such things or,
and more probably, denied himself
their use for the time being In order
to leave more room for the animals.
But long before Cowper somewhat
apologetically sang the sofa Homer
was proud to enumerate the cherished
and decorated pieces of furniture in
the tents Of the heroes before Troy
and described Odysseus' pleasure in
seeing once more his own beautiful
bed as sympathetically as any other
incident of the return, while that he
had a second best bed is one of the
very few personal facts we know re-
garding our Shakespeare.
Shades of Ulysses and Shakespeare
A bed was a bed then. In Greece, a
couch worthy of a hero; in England,
miniature stage of life, with its tap
estried roof and hangings and curtains
that rose or fell with fitting pomp on
the great scenes of the domestic dra-
ma.-Chambers' Journal.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
The Poisonous Pineapple.

'It is notorious fact" says The Ma
tional Druggist, that the pineapple is
considered the least healthy of all the
edible fruits of the tropics by those
who know anything of the matter. The
Juice of the green and growing plant
is credited In Java, the Philippines and.
throughout the far east generally with
being blood poison of a most deadly
nature. 1t is said to be the substance
with which the Malays poison their
krishes and daggers and is also credit
ed with being the finger nail poison
formerly in use among aboriginal Jaw
anese women almost universally.
These women formerly (or some thir-
~ odd years ago., and possibly do yet,
cultivated a nail, sometimes more, on
each hand, to long, sharp point, and
the least scratch from one Of these
was certain DEATH"
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
The Finger ra,I..

In days when superstition was more
prevalent than 1t Is now the shape and
appearance Of the finger nails were
considered to have reference to ones
destiny. To learn the message of the
finger, nails 1t was necessary to rub
thep- over with compound of wax
and SCOT and then to hold them so that
the sunlight fell fully on them. Then
on the horny, transparent substance
certain signs and characters were sup
posed to appear, from which the future
could be interpreted. Persons, too,
having certain kinds of nails were cred
tied with the possession of certain
characteristics. Thus a man with red
and spotted nails was supposed to
have hot temper, while pale, lead col
ored nails were considered to denote
melancholy temperament. Narrow nails
were supposed to betrsy ambition and
a quarrelsome nature, while round
shaped nails were the distinguishing
marks Of lovers Of knowledge and peo-
pie of liberal sentiment Conceited,
narrow minded and obstinate folk were
supposed to have small nails, indolent
people deshy nails and those Of a gen.
tie, retiring nature broad nails.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
why the Judge Paid Ia. Bt11,

For this story Of the relation of poll.
ties and medicine the Philadelphia
Medical Journal vouches: A physician
was summoned In haste to attend the
child Of family that lived In two
rooms in the heart Of large Ameri-
can city-not New York The child had
been seized suddenly and seriously
and just at election time. The mother
was In despair, and when the doubtful
prognosis was given she broke into
wailing and violent self condemnation
tor some horrible sin Of the family to
which she said the child's illness was
due-a direct punishment for their
crime. She would go and curse the mag
istrate for 1t all, her husband should
resign from ''the force" and such evil
ways should be renounced forever.
Curious to know how the magistrate
could be held responsible for the chnd's
Illness, the doctor finally secured the
confession that the crime of the poor,
conscience stricken woman consisted
In allowing the names Of many fraudu-
lent voters to be registered as residing
In her house, in swearing to the lie,
etc. The magistrate also had demand
ed this Of all the neighbors in return
for indescribable political favors.
The child recovered, and the magis-
trate paid the physicians bill.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
raIen nf the Knna

Indented nostrils evidence meanness,
wide nostrils spendthrift. A tip jut-
ting out far from the face is token of
vulgarfty, refinement being the pos
session of the owners of noses that do
not stand out far at the end. An aqui-
line bend denotes firmness of will and
sense OF justice; the long, narrow
bridge proclaims a fastidious, self suf-
ficient yet often tender nature. All the
active qualities-combatlveness eager
ness, passionate temper, power of ha-
tired, jealousy, ambition-go with the
more common type Of Roman nose.
The Greek form, on the contrary, tells
of artistic capabilities and love of in
animate beauty.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
GIadstone's Levity.

While Mr.. Gladstone interested his
audiences immensely by his endless
flow of animated remarks and brilliant
historical criticisms, he failed altogeth-
er to convey to them the sense of great
ness. Every one left his society pleas
ed. amused, perhaps delighted. But 1
cannot imagine anybody quitting 1t i'm
pressed with reverence. There was in
deed a leyity sometimes observable
about him which was very antagonis-
tic to reverence.
DR.. Martineau himself told me how
disappointed he was when, meeting
him after his great return to power,
he said to him, what an opportunity
you have for the great work before
you-the consolidation Of the empirew
Mr.. Gladstone shrugged his shoulders
and said: "Oh, don't know about that.
The clerks in the colonial Office have
got too much to do already."-Contem-
porary Review.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
AFrnnk Confessfon,

An old Ulster woman who had made
money by selling whisky in village
on fair and market days was visited
when she lay dying by a minister, to
whom she spoke about her temporal as
well as her spiritual affairs.
"And so, Molly" said the minister,
you tell me you are worth all that
money!
Indeed, minister. am" replied Mol
ly.
"And you tell me-" continued the
minister seriously, that you made it
by filling the noggln?"
"Na, ma, minister" exclaimed the dy-
ing woman; ~ made maist Of 1t by not
fillin the nogglnW
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
CAsk is NEVER EMPTY.
For Years Wine Is Drawn From 1t
to Celebrate Great Events.

For Years Wine Is Drawn From 1t
to Celebrate Great Events.
All really excellent champagne is the
result of judicious blending. Time
was when each big vineyard owner
had his own cellar and his own brand.
But it has been found advantageous to
sell the raw wine to dealers, who make
one district supply what another lacks.
But there are still few provincial
establishments that cling to the old
ways-crowning with a wreath of flow
ers the first tubful Of ripe grapes and
keeping "the bride of the cellar full
from year to year.
The bride, be 1t understood, Is a spe-
cial wine cask filed with the first run
ming Of the press. More accurately it
holds the Juice which drips away be-
fore any pressure is applied. Wine
from it is never sold, but used upon
high days and holidays. passed about
as a gift or devoted to the comfort Of
the sick and the poor.
Something akin to the bride exists in
the German free cities. Each Of them
has a wine cellar, and in each cellar
there is cask always yielding wine.
but never empty.
Any burgher is entitled to demand q
bottle of its contents when he marries,
when his first son is christened and
also when the son is 81. If the son is
adventurous or the burgher himself,
for that matter. he gets another bottle
from the cask when he comes home
from far countries.
But there is an official specially
charged to see that whenever a bottle
full is drawn out another bottleful OF
as near as possible the same quality at
once goes in.> And thus it happens that
the city cask is never empty.-Boston
Globe.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
rhs Ar.h,r L,ttls s.m..

In The Agricultural Journal Of the
Cape Of Good Hope appears an article
on the vitality Of wheat from Egyptian
mummy cases. 1t is often asserted that
samples Of wheat from the same crop
as that which Joseph stored In Pha-
raoh's granaries has been taken from
mummy wrappings and, when planted,
has grown. This is very likely erro-
neous, as the Arabs have habit Of
selling to tourists samples Of grain
which have in all likelihood come from
the nearest neld instead Of from the
ancient tombs. Indeed in many in
stances this mummy grain" has been
corn, and, As corn was not known until
It was brought from America, the
fraud is apparent.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Rough on His Lordship.

A carpenter in an English town hav-
ing neglected to make a gibbet that
had been ordered by the hangman on
the ground that he had not been paid
for the last one he had erected gave SO
much offense that the next time the
judge came 10 the circuit he was sent
for.
Fellow" said the judge in a stern
tone, "how came you to neglect max
ing the gibbet that was ordered on my
account?"
'I humbly beg your pardon" replied
the carpenter. Had I known it had
been for your lordship it would have
been done Immediately"
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Hired the Press Cen.or,

The average newspaper man is usu-
ally about as quick witted as the next
one. This was pretty well illustrated
when the Chicago Record was placing
its foreign correspondents. George Ade
was sent abroad by Victor F. Lawson
for that purpose. AIDE did all right
until he got into Servia. There he
found all the newspaper men in Jail
FOR political offenses. He was in q
quandary. so he cabled to Mr.. Lawson:
Newspaper men all in Jail. Press
censor very strict"
Lawson promptly cabled back:
Make press censor correspondent" T"
And Ade did Finland Printer.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
FraiI Historian. of sevr...

Only 2115 miles southwest Of Paris,
Sevres is well known to tourists. Beau
tiful porcelain has been manufactured
here since 1855, the royalties and re-
publics which followed each other TAX
ing pains to have each period stamped
on the back Of every piece made. Ini-
tails Of kings, the date and often the
palace for which the service was de-
signed were placed plainly on the plate.
Thus in this silent but most eloquent
way these frail historians indicate the
chsngeful, brilliant story Of their ma
tive land.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13

consequence of self abuse and excess produc-
ing the following symptoms: Sallow counte-
nance. dark spots under the eyes, pain in the
head, ringing in the ears loss Of confidence,
difldence IN approaching strangers, palpitation
OF the heart, weakness OF the limbs and back,
loss OF memory, pimples on the face, coughs,
consumption, etc
DIR. GIBBON has practiced In San Francisco
over 81 years, and those troubled should not
fail to consult him and receive the benefit Of
his great skill and experience The doctor
cures when others fail. Try him. Cures guar
anteed Persons cured at home. Charges reas
enable. Call Or write.
DR.. J. F. GIBBoN 625 Kearney street, San
Francisco, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Force on the Piano.

1t has been calculated that a mini
mum pressure Of the finger Of one
quarter of a pound is needed to sound
a note on the piano and that at times
a force of five pounds is thrown on q
single key to produce a single effect.
Chopin's last study in G minor has
passage taking two minutes five sec
onds to play that requires total pres
sure estimated at three full tons.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
She Was Ready.

He describing his journeyings)-
Then, leaving Gibraltar, 1 made my
way to Australia, and from there 1
went to the diamond mines In South
Africa, where I made my fortune.
Then-do you follow me, Miss Cryn-
klef
She with q vivid blush)-To the
worlds end, Mr.. Rocksworthy!-Chi'
cago Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13

An English actor who died on the
road was shipped in his coffin to Lon
don recently by his manager as "theat-
rical properties" This cost $4, where"
MS II he had gone as a corpse the cost
would have been $50.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Where the Blanc Lies.

mo woman" he said in his superior
masculine way, "can sharpen a lead
pencil"
WELL" she said, "do you know
where the blame hesP
mo. WhereY
with the pencil, of course. Woman
was invented first, wasn't sheY'-Chi-
cago Post.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
His Hearing to Come.

Old Lady (reading newspaper)-I de
clare! The poor fellow arrested yester-
day is deaf.
Listener-How do you know?
Old Lady-Why, it says here that he
Is expected to hare his hearin next
week.-Green Bag.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13

Only once in their history as a ma
ten have the Spanish achieved a naval
victory. That was at the battle Of
Lepanto, in 1911, when, with the aid
of Yenetians and Genoese, they ami
htIatod the Turkish feet.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
Genuine Optimism.

The Pessimist-That waiter Is awful
~ slow with those cheese sandwiches.
The Optimist-Oh, never mind. The
longer we wait the better grows the
cheese.-Indianapol Press.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13

You can't make a girl with new en-
gagement ring believe all men are
alike, and after she has been married
ten years you can't make her believe
they are not.-Chicago News.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
A Quarter of a MilIion,

To the individual worth $250,o00 ono
little 25 cent piece is a quarter Of q mil
lion. If you do not see the point i'm
mediately, think it over-it's there
Chicago News.
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13
TO THE UNFORTUNATE
DIR. G1BBoN

This old reliable and
themost successful Spe-
cialist in San Francis
CO stillcontinues to cure
all Sexual and Seminal
Diseases,suc as Ghon-
orrhea, elect, Structure,
Syphilis in all its forms
Skin Diseases, Nervous
De bility, Impotency,
Seminal Weakness, and
Amador ledger., 1900-07-13

We never know what we can do un-
til we have failed to make somebody
else do II for us.-Indianapolis Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-25
NOT STRANGE.


Serious this Cuban scandal Is. As Senator
Plntt said Wednesday, Senator Bacon has no
monopoly Of the shame and humiliation felt over
its revelations Careful selections were made
for these posts The men chosen failed under
temptation. Novel surroundings, large tempta-
tions and the opportunities Of a newly organized
service proved too much for their integrity. This
is the familiar experience Of every great business
when it newly organizes branch 1t is so when
railroads acquire a new branch 80 when man
ufacturing company sets up a new plant, near or
distant, and when a great department store
opens acquires a new store in another city.
There is probably not a business man OF wide
experience who reads these lines who is not aware
that, under these conditions, Irregularities always
occur in the new branch, plant or store, in
greater proportion than in the old, established
organization, where the men are all tried. But
when this weakness comes the responsible in.
qury must be as to its treatment The record
here is unanswerable. The administration itself
discovered the frauds. 1t exposed them. 1t IS
investigating them. It will punish them. Dem
ocratc interference with this work was certain.
For the Democrats Of the senate and house a
national disgrace presents itself as a partisan
opportunity, but the country will not be de-
ceived. The acts and the instructions of the
postmaster general demonstrate that these scan
dals will be probed to the bottom. Still more
the occasion is to be made the opportunity for
investigating the Cuban sery 'ucing its eT-
penses, improving its efncicI.. ID devising a
system which will prevent such scandals in the
future.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-25
"a LESSON FROM SCRANTON +,
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
There are several widely different theorie. as
TO who is behind the prosecution of the eighteen
scranton councilmcn who were arrested ON
Monday last on the charge Of soliciting bribes.
One story is to the effect that local corpora.
ton having the use Of the streets, and which is
alleged to have been persistently plundcrcd, hai
reNoltcd against the extortionate demands of inc
councimcn and resolved to stop the plunderinp
in the only way possible without incurring ,he
danger of adverse legislation. There may be no
truth in this theory but that it has been sug.
goSted is significant Evidently there are people
in Scranton who believe that there has been
bribery in connection with the granting of public
privileges to the corporation. Whether It is
the case in that community or not in many
cities the corporations which have acquired iran.
chiSes by corrupting the municipal LEGISLATORS
have had cause to repent.
When a councilman once sell. his vote he I ever
rolinqushes his hold on his unhappy purchaser
Although he may have been indifferent hJrest
IN the beginning, when he has once had his
hands filled with gold by ways interdic, al
by the laws Of God and of man he 1, never con.
tent with the slow profits Of conscientious effort.
Seeing him prosper by such methods, weak asso
catcs insist on being bought. Moreover, dis.
honest men still outside the council chamber
seek election solely in order to share in the
spoils. Thus the corporation builds up around
it rapacious body Of inscriptions men who
demand stih prices for the enactment Of the
most ordinary, necessary and proper legislation
such as honest counclmen would not hesitate tc
grant In the public interest. Menaced with
persecution, it has to continue its payments e
councilmen who may have resisted its first at
tempts at bribery and who may have surrendered
only when threatened with defeat at the next
election through the influence Of the tempter
These councilmen, once corrupted quickly iearr
their power, They encourage other corporation.
to enter into competition with the original buyel
OF votes in order 10 run up the price OF oficia
perfdy and crime.
Clearly, it does not pay in the long run for 4
company having permanent interests in a com
muniiy, and subject to the control OF municipal
legislators, to seek favors by dishonest means
II is far better TO boldly demand what is fail
and proper and to stoutly resist every attempt
at extortion rather than acquire greater and un
warranted privileges at the cost Of future black
mail at the hands Of organized rapaeity. Cor
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-05-25
Pennsylvania's Great Commoner

HE APPROPRIATE sugges-
tion has been made that
N special honor should be paid
at the st. Louis Worlds fair
in 1903, in commemoration Of the
Louisiana purchase, to Galusha A.
Grow, the author of the homestead
law, the one great instrument in
Fastening the marvellous DEVELOPMENT
of the territory comprehended within
that purchase. Upon this subject the
Washington representative Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial Tribune writes:
Mr.. Crows famous bill was enacted
In 1854. Up to that year the develop
ment Of the west had been slow. The
passage of the law made home-getting
easy. 1t enlarged and quickened the
currents of immigration, and home
seekers began to swarm over the vast
tracts Of virgin soil in the great sweep
OF country from the Canadian border
to the gulf, which jefferson had an
nexed to the United States. 1t is diff
cult for the present generation OF
Americans, surrounded by modern con-
ditions, with a fierce competition in
the struggle for existence to realize
that there is in congress today a man
who is a link between the infancy Of
the nation and its present giant pro-
portions-between the crude industrial
conditions OF the dawn Of the century
now in its twilight and the highly or
ganized machinery of the country's
commercial forces. In his personality
and record the Hon. Galusha A. Grow
is that link. If he lives until 19O3-and
indicate that he will-he viii occupy a
unique and conspicuous position in the
celebration of the great event at St.
Louis in that year"
1t is worthy sf note in this connec-
tion that Mr.. Grow takes a view of the
present problem of expansion strictly
in keeping with the precedents of his
young manhood and directly opposed to
the view held by so-called "anti-im-
perialists," who doubt the ability OF
this government to maintain a success
full colonial establishment. Mr. Grow
argues that there is nothing which
any government has ever done that
the United States cannot do If 1t
wants to and do better. He recognizes
all the shortcomings of individual con-
crosses and congressman but contends
that under universal suffrage the vote
of one fool counterbalances the vote of
another fool and in the long run the
common sense and common honesty of
the plain people predominate and de-
termine the policies Of the government.
From his long experience in public
life he draws the conclusion that no
nation in the world is progressing more