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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
Pecu1iaritie. of Asthma.

The peculiarities of asthma are well
known, and one New York woman
thinks that she has more than usual
reason to complain Of the vagaries Of
the disease. She had always lived in
the lower part of the city on one of the
and had suffered in no unusual degree
from asthma when the weather was
not unfavorable. The doctor was not
consulted when her husband bought q
house in another part of the city, and
1t Is indeed doubtful if he could have
foreseen the effect upon, her of living
In the new neighborhood. =.
1t took the sufferer only few hours
to realize that it would be impossible
for her to live in the new house, which
was only a short distance from the
North river. Her discomfort became
so great that she was compelled at the
end of week to give up all attempt to:
reside there, and the house that had
been built with so much care and ex-
pense had to be abandoned.
Another example of the vagaries Of
asthma is to be found in the case of q
New Yorker who is comfortable enough
in this city so long as he lives on the
upper stories of lofty hotel or other
residence building. but is in great dis
tress so soon as he is compelled to be
on terra firma New York Sun.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05

Some amusing instances of trans
iators' MISUNDERSTANDING are mention
ed by the London Daily News. An
Italian paper not long ago turned Mr..
Rudyard Kipling's "Absentminded Beg
gar" into u DISTRACTED Mendicant"
A footnote to the same version explain
ed ''son of a Lambeth publican" as a
reference to Mr.. Kruger! The trans
lator who explains is often lost.
Another Italian editor who translat-
ed passage from an English paper
about a man who had killed his wife
with a poker added an ingenious foot
note to say. I'VE do not know with Ger.
tainty whether this thing 'pokero' be a
domestic or surgical instrument"
In the French version of one of
Scott's novels Welsh rabbit has to be
dealt with. The translator. never hav-
ing met with that article of food. nat
urally turned it into 'un lapin de
Gales" Unfortunately be had some
doubt whether his countrymen would
understand this and added a lengthy
footnote describing how the peculiarly
delicious flavor of the rabbits of Wales
created a large demand for theEa in
Scotland, whittier they were exported
in bulk that would compare with the
trade of Ostend.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
HINTS FOR FARMERS
The Grass Crop.

The cool weather CT April and May
has caused the grass TO grow slowly,
and it has made a thick growth at the
bottom rather than Il rank growth. AS
a result many are prophesying a heavy
hay crop. good pasturage and a plenti-
full supply CT milk and milk products.
We hope they will not be disappointed,
but it is well TO remember that many
grass fields were severely injured by
the drought of last year, and even copi-
Gus spri,% rains cannot restore life to
dead roots. Such fields will produce
but light t:'ops, and those will not be of
the better quality of hay. The coarse
and comparatively innutritious grasses
will live, while many of the better va
rieties will have disappeared or will
make but scanty and feeble growth.
Again, so much surplus moisture in the
first four months of the year is very
likely to be followed by dry season
later on. The total rainfall in year
varies but little from one year to an
other, and wet spring usually IS a
forerunner CT a dry summer and fall
If this proves true this year, we cannot
hope for heavy second crop upon the
moving lands and may find pastures
furnishing but little late feed. The
farmer who is not in haste to clean out
all the old hay in his barns or the ones
who provide forage crops to help the
cattle when they do not get.enough in
the pasture will be the lucky ones
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
Costly Wines.

Our millionaires think SIS a gallon
for rare old Madeira an utterly impos-
sible price simply because their tastes
are blunted by champagne, and they
care no more for bottle Of Welsh Re
serve, Newton Gordon or Chillings-
wOrth-O glethorpe than for a cheap
sherry. In the famous cellars Of the
Hotel de Vile at Bremen there are
dozen cases of holy wine which have
been preserved for go years. A mer
chant figures out that if the cost of
maintaining the cellars, payment of
rent, interest upon the original value of
the wiHe and other incidental charges.
are considered a hottie of this choice
Madeira has cost no less than S2,000,-
600, each glassful $4,000, and single
drop could not be sold without loss un-
der 5000.
1t is probable that this very old wine
is worthless ON account of starvation"
Charles Bellows, our ablest authority
on Madeira, says that it becomes
starved after feeding upon its own
lees for 80 or 40 years. SIT seems to
me that it is very human and requires;
companionship." he says. "Demijohns
of the same variety should be blended.
The marriage of the two wines would
probably give the lees more character,
and the wine would thus continue to
improve. This certainly ought to be
done as a tonic after the Madeira has
been 80 years in glass" -New York
Press
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05

The coast of Japan. Notwithstanding
its long shore line and numerous har-
bors. offers scant allurement to an in
vading army There is very little
beach. The bold crags and bluffs over.
looking every spot where modern
war vessel can ride at anchor are pro-
tected by strong Notifications defended
by the most modern guns.
Yeddo bay the most feasible blight
for invading purposes, needs careful
navigation even by steamers of moder-
ate draft. When torpedoes are planted,
it is simply impregnable. says writer
in Golfers Weekly. When the war
with China broke out, small steamer
was selected to pilot merchant steam
ers up and down the bay. | remember
perfectly the unexpected curves made
by this steamer, showing plainly the
countless dangers besetting a hostile
fleet regardless of the care that may
be used in feeling its way. No invad-
ing army could possibly land, and even
if it succeeded in doing so the rice
fields, readily submerged as they are,
would aid materially in thwarting the
advance and in isolating the enemy. A
successful invasion of Japan is simply
impossible.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
An ImnnrtiaI Wnman

This is the grave of the most impair
dal woman on record" said the guide
In Cave Hill cemetery to party who
visited the beautiful cemetery the 9TH
err day. Away over that second knoll
there is lot containing only two
graves, and the headstone of each is
marked Father
THE woman who is buried here was
married twice. and the two graves in
that lot are the graves of her two hus-
bands. She tried hei. best to treat her
second husband as she did the first,
and even when he died she had no idea
of showing any preference. But she
her second husband was held. She di-
rected that the partner of her second
matrimonial venture be laid by the
side of the first, but that enough space
be left to bury her between the two.
by some hook or crook mistake
was made. and when she visited the
cemetery she found that they were
buried side by side. with no space lie
tween.
We'll, sir, she didn't l:now what to
do. She argued thai if she should be
buried by the SIDE of her first husband
it wnCil not be fIir to the memory of
her last spouse, and vice versa. What
did she do? Why, when she died she
left request that she be buried in an
other lot, away from both of them. and
it was needed" - Louisville Courier
Journal
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
striped Cucumber Beetle.

We have seen cucumbers and squash
es protected from the striped bugs by
putting over each hill box covered
with mosquito netting and have also
seen a square of netting fastened to
four small sticks which met in the CEN
ter running to the corners and project
ing far enough to be stuck in the
ground, forming a sort of pyramidal
tent. And we have seen many of them
and of the black or sinking squash
bug killed by putting a shingle or bit
of board at the side of the hill and be-
fore sunrise in the morning visiting
them and killing those that had found
shelter under it. Those who are trou-
bled with these pests may take their
choice of the above methods. Many
cannot or do not like to visit the field
nr garden at or before sunrise every
morning. yet the insects will not re-
main under the shingles much later. or
If found there will not wait to be killed,
as they will fly as soon as warmed up.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
The 4outhpick HnhIt.

"I'd like to knew what my custom
ers do with all the toothpicks they car
~ away" remarked a restaurant pro
prietor the other day. Few men take
a single toothpick. Most of them take
half dozen and many whole hand
full, and when they come in here again
for the next meal they take as many
over again. They don't need them. lt's
all due TO the loothpick chewing habit,
which seems TO he growing, There
isn't anything particularly pleasant
about chewing wooden toothpick and
it may be injurious If piece of the
wood lodges in the throat or gets down
into the stomach. as it is very apt to
But the toothpick chewing habit is be
coming rival 10 the gum and tobacco
habits. The only reason | can give for
it is that the toothpicks are free and
gum and tobacco are not."-New York
Sun.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05

place. Rostand needs no Introduction
to the American reader. We have all
either seen, read or heard of his "Cyra-
no de Bergerac" and "LAiglon."
Though still in the early thirties, when
he gave it to the world Rostand's "Cy-
rano" made him famous. He had writ
ten plays before and was regarded
with favor in France, hut it was his
many sided hero with the abnormal
nose that gave him worldwide fame.
Sarah Bernhard has for years been an
admirer of and firm believer in Ros-
tand, and the tie which bound them
was made stronger when he gave her
"L'Aiglon," part after her own heart.
He is writing another play for ''the
divine Sarah"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05

few are familiar with its remarkable
efticacious properties. Everybody ought
to know that the very hest thing they
can do is TO eat apples just before re-
firing for the night The apple is an
excellent brain food because il has
more pbosphOric acid in easily ,li"r$ird
shape than any other vegetable known
IL eXcites the action of the liver. pro
notes sound and healthy sleep and
thoroughly disinfects the mouth That
Is not all The apple agglutinatps the
surplus acids of the stomach. helps The
kidney secretions and is one OF the hest
prpventiveS known of diseases OF the
throat.-Journal Of Agriculture.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
Loss of Ammonia.

In all decomposition there is re-
sulting production of ammonia. which
becomes a total loss or evaporates in
the atmosphere if not absorbed by
some substance which has the power of
absorption. Land plaster has that pow
err, and it is said that kainit has even
more of it. Dry earth is also good
absorbent. and the drier it is the better
it is as an absorbent. as water alone,
while holding a certain amount of am
monia in solution, does not readily alb
sorb it. but rather parts with it to the
surrounding atmosphere. Lime and
ashes liberate ammonia, the ashes or
any material containing potash more
than the carbonate of lime. They there
fore should never be mixed with ntrog-
cnous manure until the latter is mixed
with earth or some other absorbent of
nitrogen.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
A Cursing Contest.

A professor of languages some years
ago on returning from India remarked
upon the paucity of Objectionable
phrases among the British working
classes when compared with the abun-
dance supplied by the orientals of sim
liar rank. To prove this he gives {
case which came under his own notice
He had dismissed 4 manservant for
dishonesty, and the next morning at G
o'clock he sought an interview with his
former master. He flourished a cary
ing knife, with which he plainly in
tended to emphasize his remarks.
When he found it impossible to gain
admission, he sat under the window,
and the swearing" process began. He
cursed the professor along the gene
illogical tree back to the first ancestor
of his race. Then he dwelt upon every
detail of his anatomy, from the top of
his head to the end of his toes. For
three consecutive hours he sat there
and swore," says the professor. with
out once repeating phrase"
While travelling on the underground
railway in London a party of working
men entered the same compartment
and interspersed their remarks with
the commonest forms of swearing"
The professor politely asked them to
desist, whereupon he was told to mind
his own - business. He at once COM
menced to translate into English some
specimens of eastern oaths which be
had heard Calcutta merchants serv-
ant use TO missionary's servant. The
men sided from him as if he had the
plague and at the next station sought
another compaftment.-Liverpool Post.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05

There was time when the gardener
who had his produce ready for the mar
ket earlier than his less enterprising
neighbor was well repaid for his care
and trouble by better prices for the
products. Then the early bird caught
the wealthy consumer. Now the early
worm in the northern states finds his
profits if not himself picked up by
those in southern climate, who can
plant, grow and put on the market a
crop before the pillow can penetrate the
frozen soil of the northern states. We
are inclined 10 think the chance for
profit today for market gardeners in
the north, says American Cultivator, is
in growing such crops as will not ma
ture until southern produce no longer
fills our markets and perhaps in put
ting that in cold storage that it may
not he brought out until there are indi-
cations that it is much wanted by those
who are willing to pay liberal prices
for it. Let early crops pass by and
strive to grow crops of such quality as
will suit even those who have been
using the earlier products of the south
which are not improved hy long trans
portatiOn.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
Spraying to XIII char1ock.

Up to this time all the experiments
we have seen reported for killing char
lock and other weeds by spraying have
been made with solutions of sulphate
of iron or sulphate of copper. While
they have been moderately successful
an English paper tells of another ex-
pertinent by NJ. G. Dasserre which has
proved even more so. He used 20 per
cent solution of nitrate of soda. or 200
pounds in 100 gallons Of water per
acre. Not only was the charlock de-
stroyed at once and very thoroughly,
but the wheat received the full value of
the fertilizer in the nitrate and was de-
cidedly benefited.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
when Matches Were Introduced.

The Atlas. London newspaper, pub
lished on Jan. 10. 1880. the following
paragraph under the head of "Instan-
taneous Light: Among the different
methods invented for obtaining light
instantaneOusly ought certainly to be
recorded that of Mr.. Walker. chemist.
Stockton-on-Tees. He supplies the pur-
chaser with prepared matches, which
are put into boxes. but are not liable
to change in the atmosphere, and also
with piece of fine glass paper folded
in two. Even a strong blow will not
inflame the matches, because of the
softness of the wood underneath, nor
does rubbing upon wood or any COM
mon substance produce any effect ex-
cept that of spelling the match. But
when one is pinched between the folds
of the glass paper and suddenly drawn
out it is instantly intlamed. Mr.. Walk
er does NOT make them for extensive
sale. but only to supply the small de-
mand in his own neighberhood." New
castle (EnglanO Chronicle.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
PECULIAR NAMES.
The Queer Way Ten Million Children
Were Designated

I'm long experience in the treasury
department | have come across a very
large number of names, many of which
are rather peculiar" explained an old
official. but ! think the list of names
In connection with the subscription to
the per cent bonds surpasses any
thing in the way of popularity that
have ever observed; OF these the one
that struck me most was a man who
signed himself Ten Million and who re-
sides out in Oregon We thought the
name was an imaginative one and
wrote the man that it was desired that
the bonds should be registered in real
names only and that no further atten-
ton would be paid to his subscription
until he was heard from. He replied
that his name was Ten Million. His
letter was written on the printed letter
head of the firm of Million & Million.
two brothers.
Then followed an explanation that
his father and mother were unable to
select names for their children that
were mutually satisfactory and that as
a result, though they had had ten chill
dren, none of them was ever christened
formally. The first child was a girl,
and she was known only as One Mil
lion. The second child, also a girl, was
known as Two Million. Thus they ran
along until Ten Million was reached,
and he was the writer of the letter, the
other member of the firm being
brother whose only name, as far as the
family was concerned. was Seven Mil
lion, the seventh child He added that
One Million had afterward called her,
self Una Million. that the third girl was
known after she had grown up as Trio
Million. The others had taken on addi-
tons to their names, and he had adopt
ed the name of TENTS Million but his
real name was Ten Million and nothing
else. The bonds were issued to him
and on the books of the department
were registered in the name of Ten
Million. Washington Star.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
a COUNTRY ROAD.

dusty, stony way, whose bord'ring sod
Is thick with blackberries and goldenrod;
Abrupt, bare hills on one side looking down,
And from the other you see the town
Follow the rivers course through meadows green,
Ger which thick woods and marble lodges lean.
little farther, where the road descends
brooks soft tinkle with some bird song blends,
Ozone from its edge the dear old DANES small
cot
Half hidden by quaint howers); lush bergamot
Makes sweet its banks, its depths the boys still
swim
Or watch the minnows from some willow limb.
Upon its bridge how often ! have stood,
Watching the west, whose glory seemed to food
With tenderest light the poorhouse and the graves
Beside it-turn to gold the brooklet's waves
I'LL from the hill, oh, dearest sight of all.
saw my father, and heard him CALL
He came with sturdy stride and swinging pail
hy hand in his-told my days whole tale
Of Joys, that meath his bright smile seemed to
grow,
While lessened was my every childish woe
As his sweet words fell my soul like balm
While we walked homeward through the fragrant
calm.
Mary NJ. Mccarthy in Boston Transcript.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
Anecdotes About j. j. Hill.

Mr.. Hill was one day walking down
Third street, once a fourishing thor
oughfare, but now deserted by the gen.
eral public. He stepped into little to-
bacco shop kept by German who had
known him in the village days of 1860.
Hello, Joer exclaimed the railroad
president. Flows business" BAT,
ferry bat. 1 hat der chop, but we're is
der beeples" Mr.. Hill glanced over the
shop. There was no assistant tobac-
conist whose discharge could be recon-
mended. But Mr.. Hill asked for blank
check, and the following week the old
tobacconist was besieged by ''beeples'
in modern well stocked shop on the
principal retail thoroughfare.
Some months ago Mr.. Hill visited the
Office of railroad in the stock of which
he had just obtained an influential in
terest. CHANGING through the doorway
of one large Office room, he asked curt
ly, "How many men hereT' "About
49," was the answer. "Can't you get
along with less?" "No, we never could"
'Well. I'll get a man who cam
Worlds Work
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
MI. Carnegie's High Price.

Mr.. Carnegie is fond of telling how
he was once asked by the editor of a
popular magazine for an article on Or
ganization in business.
"Well," said he, 81 think | could
write that article, but am afraid the
price I'd have to ask you would be too
high"
"Oh. no." said the delighted editor,
with vision of a magnificent "fea-
ture" in an early number. Pm SIZE.
we could arrange that satisfactorily.
Name your own figure
"Well." replied Mr.. Carnegie, ~
could hardly afford to do it for less
than S5,000,000." He smiled a little ut
sight of the EDITORS face and then went
on: "No; must withdraw that. What
should put into it has cost me much
more than that, and of course you
would not expect me to sell it to you at
less than cost"
AS the diplomatist puts it. 1.-The nego-
tiations fell through"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-07-05
SALTED BUTTER.
Why 1t Keeps Better Than Butter
That Is Fresh.

Why 1t Keeps Better Than Butter
That Is Fresh.
Why does salt butter keep better
than fresh butter? We must first real
lie that the bacterial population of a
moderate sized pat of butter may be
reckoned by millions, that a tiny lump
only large enough to go into thimble
has been known to be tenanted by
nearly 4S.00O.000, that, in fact. in con-
Stunning slice of bread and butter you
may uncOnsciouSly be assimilating in
dividual lives exceeding in number
those of the whole of Europe. Thus
the urgency for keeping these hordes in
check and hence the efforts which are
made. first. to set up effectual barriers
to their ingress by taking proper pre-
| cautions in the production of milk and,
second. in the conduct of the processes
involved in the manufacture and distri-
button of the finished article =.
Included in these processes is the ad-
dition of salt in such quantities as to
justify the butter being known as salt
butter, this addition being made with
the object of extending the keeping
powers of the butter or, in other words,
to suppress to large extent the activi-
ties of the butter bacteria. That salt
| does act in this manner is shown by
the fact that in butter thus treated a
very large reduction in the number of
HETEROGENEOUS present is effected.
There can be little doubt, therefore,
that the common butter microbes do
not by any means regard salt as their
elixir of life.
In England boracic acid is said to be
extensively used in butter as preserv-
alive or antiseptic agent, while in the
United States a recent public health
document states that none was report
ed to have been found in the samples
of butter examined. This is probably
| due TO the fact that in America there
exists strong prejudice in favor of
salt butter, whereas in England the use
of salt butter is the exception and not
the rule. Hence in America salt can
be used as preservative instead of the
boracic acid employed for that purpose
| in England
The densely populated condition Of
| butter above referred to is not to be
wondered at if we realize that the raw
| material in the shape of milk may con-
tain from 100000 to as many as 169,-
100000 of bacteria in few drops
| Longman's Magazine.