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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
Bugs In Vegetables.

People who have an objection to bugs
in their food need to take much pains
with the cleansing of vegetables, espe-
cially succulent plants, such as aspara-
gus, greens. lettuce, ETC., before cook
Ing or serving up raw. If left for
awhile, tips downward, In well sailed
water. the plants will drop an interest
ing assortment of discouraged living
creatures on the bottom of the vessel,
and more may be gathered by carefully
brushing and rinsing the crevices and
hollows Of the plants. When cooked,
this animal food may be harmless to
those who like it, but in uncooked sal
ads 1t Is possible to swallow dangerous
germs unless they are knocked out by
the help Of antiseptic salt. The same
precautions are commended to pru-
dence and refinement with respect to
fruitS.-Medical Record.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
The HcartIesa Druggist.

the papers say the butcher uses?
want to keep dear Fido's meat from
spelling.
Brother Fred-Formaldehyd
Flossie-That isn't what the druggist
told me.
Brother Fred-What did he say2
Flossie-Prussic acid.-Indianapolls
News
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22

In Abyssinia the coffee plant grows
wild in great profusion and derives its
name from Kaffa, a district of that
country.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
Casts No BIaul

Casts No Blame on His Ancestors,
Mrs. Goodsale-To what do you at
tribute your appetite for strong drink2
Is it hereditary?
Wragson Tatters-No, lady; it's
Observation-Disclosures Press.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
JACKSON REPUBLICAN, Gu B

Stated meetings the second Monday evening
OF each month at o'clock p, m. Ali Republf-
cans in jackson and vicinity cordially invited
to attend and sign the roll of membership.
Membership free. All funds raised by volun-
tarY contributions.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
EYES, EARS, NOSE AND THROAT

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waysro
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22

New
Wonderful Discovery this Diseases
Oh and
c ornot
the | e'N'
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-11-22
LAWYERS.

N B. SPAGNOLI
Attorney and Counselor at Law
JACKS ON, CAL.
Practice iii all the States and Federal courts
once: Spagnoli building, opposite Hall &!
Records.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
PREDICTS TERRIBLE TIMES.
Ex Gov. Booltwalter Sees In the Future
Contest Between Agricuiturists
and Capitalists.

London, July 14.-John W. Book
walter, ex-governor of Ohio, who
sailed for the United States yesterday,
spent few days in London after a
2,OOO-mile bicycle trip through south
ern EErs pc. during which he traversed
Italy almost from xnd to end, crossed
the ADennines, went over the Saint
Gothard range and wheeled over the
mountainous roads of Switzerland.
Bookwalter spent the greater part of
his time living among and closely
studying pcasantry, and he is thor
oughly convinced that a crisis is i'm
minenr between the urban and rural
populations of the world. In the rise
in the price of grain he sees the begin
ming of struggle of the agricultural
element against the concentration OF
capital in cities. This movement, he
believes, will commence in America,
where he belives the economic condi-
tions are inferior to those of Germany
and France, especially the latter.
which he maintains is the soundest
country in the world. owing 20 the
distribution of wealth between tho
agrarisn and metropolitan classes.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
DENoUNCE BARLEY PAROLE.
Nebraska People Condemn Gov. Savage for
Releasing Ex-State Treasurer Who
Embezzled Nearly 100000.

Omaha, Neb., July 16.-The release
on parole from the state penitcntiary
at Lincoln of Joseph S. BARLEY, the
defaulting state treasurer, reopened
the bitter fight which marked the tri-
nj and is denounced as unwarranted
by the great mass of citizens who re-
joiced Mt the conviction of the former
official. Already those who took sides
in the feud which was feature of
the famous case are lining up for
a renewal of the struggle. Nearly
100000 was lost to the state during
Bartley's term rs treasurer and 1t Is
limited that the convict has agreed
to tell what became of all this mon.
ey as a condition of his release. While
friends of the prisoner uphold the
action of Gov. Savage, the majority
of taxpayers fail to find excuse for
lberating after four years man they
deem entitled to serve every day Of
his 20 years sentence.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
NO ONE TO PROTEST.
Kansas City People Take Little Interest In
tho Fight Against Frisco Memphis
Consolidation.

Kansas City, No.. July 16.-The
state board of railroad commission
ers met at the Coates house Monday
to hear protests from the shippers
and people of Kansas City against the
proposed consolidation of the Mem
phis and frisco railroad systems. The
most remarkable feature of the meet
ing was that no one appeared to pro-
test and the railroad board openly
said that the sentiment in Kansas City
was apparently different from what
It hal been led to understand.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20

away from her helpless little ones
1t is a wonder how these little doves
escape the proving cats which hunt
in the meadows and woods all about
but so far they have done finely, and
on Saturday last the elder Of the two
was already able TO use his wings in
\ flight of three or four feet.
Out in an old telephone pole which
stands ut the corner of two country
roads is n regular birds fiat building.
About Is feet up from the ground, just
high enough up To be the despair OF
small boys, is n small hole leading
down to a circular chamber. Here q
blue bird family has its home. Five
feet higher up is another and larger
hole. This is the front door to the
residence of red-headed woodpecker.
At present the young woodpeckers
are just getting ready to try their
wings, and Mt almost any time one Of
the youngsters may be seen looking
out of the hole at what must seem q
strange world. Still higher up, in the
third story of the fat building, is an
other opening evidently made by q
flicker, who changed his mind and left
before he completed his work. There
is likely to be an English sparrow's
nest in that cavity before the summer
is over, for the "avian rats" are going
out into the country for the summer
in great numbers and bid fair soon to
be as big a nuisance there as they are
now in the city and nearby suburbs.
There seem to be other birds be-
side the blueiay which sometimes eat
or at least destroy the eggs of their
fellows. Thus the other day horri-
BILE suspicion was aroused in regard
to that symbol of innocence and gem
tleness, the robin redhreast. The rob-
in flew from tree down into the grass
Of a swamp meadow. There he disap-
peared for a moment. When he came
into sight again he was flying for. dear
life with a red-winged blackbird close
behind it, shrieking stop thief" at the
top of its voice. OF course, the robins
intentions may have been perfectly
honorable, but why should the red
wing be reused to such sudden pitch
of fury at sight of him?-Chicago
Tribune.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
doMEsEEKERs FARING WELL.
An Abundance Of Water ut FL Reno and
Prices of Food heasonab le--A Heavy
Registration.

FL Reno, Ok, July 16.--All records
were broken here yesterday by the
registration clerks under Gov. Rich
ards. when 10,967 people were given
papers emitting them to number in
the great drawing which will begin
on July %. This makes total regis
tration Of 31,O15 at I'll Reno. At
i.awton there were $500 persons
registered in the four days ending
Saturday evening.
Homeseekers from different towns
are arriving in companies equipped
fer every emergency. They bring
boxes filed with fried chicken, boiled
hams, biscuits, pies and pickles,
cooked ut home. 1t is impossible to
get drinking water on the trains and
passengers supply themselves with
Jugs ard beer bottles filed with
water. There is now IN abundance
of water here, barrels are kept filed
in the streets, beds can be found for
everybody and no man need go hun
cry. 8.
The most surprising thing at Ell
Reno is the absence of fighting and
boisterous drunkenness. There has
not been q disturbance sufficient TO
attract attention since registration
began. Drunkenness is at a minimum.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
TROUBLES OF BIRD
& HOUSEKEEPING 8
Siss s11padaasss1tss1 = sssssd

IF THE average small boy knew
what hard time birds have to rear
their families under the best condi-
tions he would hesitate to disturb
their nests. even If there was no law
TO threaten him with punishment if
he does so.
There was patient pair Of robins,
for instance, who built their first nest
more than six weeks ago in a low APP
pie tree in the orchard. Presently
there were two blue eggs in the nest.
Then came the first catastrophe. Next
morning the nest was empty. On the
ground under the tree lay one of the
eggs with two holes picked in its shell.
The other was entirely missing. That
was the work of Il big, snealiing blue
jay. if one may judge by the fact that
the same afternoon the robins were
seen chasing scolding jay about the
orchard, and that the picture of the
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
GLADSTONE ONCE SHIRKED.
Only Recorded Instance in Which
the Grand Old Man Shifted n
Responsibility.

There is on record but one instance
in which Mr.. Gladstone was guilty OF
Sinking 4 responsibility which he him.
self had invited, and on this occasion
too, he wore gloves in the house OF
commons, the only time in his long
public career. The story is told by
I. p. O'Connor in NJ. A. P.
During the fight on the admission
of Mr.. Bradlaugh to the house The
government and Mr.. Gladstone were
beaten, for the majority of the house,
consisting Of AL the Irish members
all the conservatives and many of the
more religious liberals, united in keep
ing Mr.. Bradlaugh out. On that ques-
ton, then, Mr.. Gladstone ceased to be
the representative of the majority of
the house, though he was the leader
of the house, and his place was taken
by Sir Stafford Northcote, though
on other questions poor Sir Stafford
was the feeble leader of a feeble mi
nority. And Mr.. Gladstone made up
his mind that he would wash his hands
of the whole business. the tremendous
difficulties of which he was shrewd
enough to see, and throw all the re.
sponsibility for any future action on
Sir Stafford. That is to say, Sir Stat.
ford had to confront Mr.. Brad.augh-
and he was formidable person to con-
front-when he tried to force his way
into the house-had to confront the
angry crowds which sometimes accom-
panied Mr.. Bradlaugh-had also to
confront the constituency of North
ampton, which insisted on returning
Mr.. Bradlaugh again and again-in
short, never was q poor man put IN
tighter place.
1t was to mark all this that Mr.. Glad
stone almost ostentatiously relieved
himself from the responsibility and
position of leader of the house. On
one of the big days Of the fight with
Bradlaugh the G. o. m. entered with
his hat on, with stick in his hand and
wearing gloves. He looked just as IL
he were about to start on little holi-
day trip to the seaside, and as if he
had disengaged himself from all the
work and worries of the house-in
short, as il he were just going on o
little spree.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20

Jars dainty little nest, and laid one OF
,,s big spotted eggs there. Then 1t
few back to the pasture again, and
got down on the ground among the
cattle, with others OF its sneaking
kind.
Sometimes when yellow warbler
finds n cowbird's egg in its nest it will
build false bottom over the egg and
proceed to make its nest above it on
the second floor. But this poor warb-
Ter got no such opportunity. This has
been a cold, late spring, and the war
blers and other similar birds have
been slow in building. Also there were
many cowbirds about looking for n
chance to saddle off the Matching and
rearing of their young on their bet
tiers, and before the yellow warbler
mother could get chance to lay one
of her own eggs in the nest she had
built it was actually filled almost to
overlooking with four big cowbird
eggs. This is believed to be the rec
ord in the way of cowbird greedness.
Often two cowbird eggs are found in
the same nest, but rarely If ever be-
fore have four been found.
The greed of the cowbird in thus
completely occupying the warbler's
nest brought its own punishment with
it. The warbler, Disguised. aban-
doned the nest completely. A day or
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
A DAY FOR PRAYER.
Gov. Dockery Names Sunday. July FL
When Missourians should Pray That
Terrible Drought Be Broken.

Jefferson City, Mo-, July 16.-No
rain has fallen here and in different
parts of the state since April II, and
crops of all kinds. except wheat, are
almost failures. Gov. Dockery has re-
oeived many requests to issue proc
lamaticn calling upon the people to
observe certain day in fasting and
prayer that the drought might be
broken, and he has set aside Sunday,
July 81, on which the people IRE re-
quested "to assemble ut their usual
places of worship to invoke the bless
ings of Almighty God"
Drought Worse Than Civil War.
st. Louis. July 16.--Norman J. Col
man. secretary of agriculture in Pres
ident Clevelnnd's cabinet, takes issue
with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
regarding the drought. at is my be-
lief" said Mr.. Colman, "that the re-
ports from the corn belt have not
been exaggerated. l am firmly of the
belief that to the farmers of Missouri
this drought is greater calamity,
financially. than was the civil war;"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
RATIO OF SEVEN TO ONE.
It Is Estimated THAT About 80 900 Persons
VIII Register for the $4,000 Claims In
tho New Indian Country.

Ell Reno. Ok, July 1.-THE total
registration at both Ell Reno and Law
ton will probably not exceed $4,000
persons. Among these $4,000 claims
are to be distributed. Last Tuesday it
was thought that the minimum reg
istration would not be below 100000,
but in four days only 2O,422 registra-
tons have been made ut the two
towns-15,622 at FL Reno and 1890 at
Lawton. This is an average of about
$500 a day for both places combined.
Commissioner Richards is Of the opin-
ion that the total for the 16 days
would not be greater than 60,0O0.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
A WOMANS WAY.

Jim alters 'peared { be afraid
or girls. an airy saucy maid
Could with coQuettsh smile an sweet,
Make Jim blush red as any beet;
An so folks loo.J!n' out fer fun
Thought sure they'd see him cut an run
An hide In some OF garnet dim,
When Molly set her cap fer him.
Wed heard how Moilie vowed that she
Would conquer Jlms t.m!G!ty.
An jes' as sure as any fate.
Shed make him WOO her. so0r CT late!
But. KNOWN Jim so well. We thought
He'd leave the country, like as not.
An all agreed her chance was slim,
When Molly set her cap fer him!
But. somehow. all she do.e an said
In some way 'peared t turn his head,
An. lookin' at her rcd lips. lush.
An blue eyes. he forgot to biusn!-
II wasn't any time at all
TIL he'd jes' come at beck an call
or her, an pshaw.-'twas good-by. Jim,
When Molly set her cap fer him!
Roy Farrell Greene. in Brooklyn Life.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
NEW PARTY IN THE FIELD.
Bryan Democrats In Ohio Bolt Recent
state Convention and Will Name
Ticket.

Cleveland, o., July 15.-On July 81
Ohio democrats who believe in Bryan
and the issues which he represents,
which the recent democratic conven-
tion ignored. will assemble in Column
bus and make up state ticket. Ten
men met yesterday morning in a
downtown Office building in this city
and decided that bolt shonld be
made and that new party should
enter the field of Ohio politics. The
attendance Mt the conference was
large and represented greater area
in the state than was expected by
those who called the meeting.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
DEMANDS OF EDUCATORS.
National Association Adopts Resolutions In
Favor OF Compulsory Education aud
Consolidation of Rural Schools.

Detroit, Mich, July 1.-THE Nation
al Educational association, ut the last
session of it's fortieth annual con-
vention, adopted declaration OF
principles declaring that the problem
of elementary education is the most
important one with which the state
must deal. The association declared
that its powers should be extended
so that it should have jurisdiction
over matters of education in oil our
new possessions. Compulsory educa-
ton laws and the consolidation of
rural schools were Endorsed, and state
support of institutions for the train
ing of teachers is recommended.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20

COWBlHDS STOLE THE WHOLE NEST.
two later something-boy or beast
had discovered the deserted nest and
stolen all four of the eggs.
If the yellow warbler builds another
nest and succeeds in raising its brood
where the cowbirds cannot find teven
the first catastrophe may be all for the
best. Even when only one cowbird's
egg is laid in nest and is Matched out
with three of four young warblers the
latter are likely to get the worst of it..
The young cowbird from the moment
it breaks the shell is bigger and greed
Ter than its foster brothers and sis
tiers. 1t will crowd them to the side
and insists on eating much more than
its share of the food which the yellow
warblers bring for their young.
Across the barbed wire and rail
fence from the warbler's nest is big
woods pasture. Close to the fence
grow thick clumps of hazel brush and
wild crab and plum trees. In some
places the thicket is so dense that
man has hard work in forcing his way
through it. High up in these tangles,
six or eight feet from the ground, two
pairs of catbirds have built their
nests. They are apparently safe
from all other but bird enemies, for
the long, sharp thorns and the inter-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
TERRIBLE DEVASTATION.
A Volcano in Japan Shoots Out Lava and
for Fifty Miles Around the Country
h strewn with Corpses.

Tacoma, WASH, July 16.-Oriental
advices give details of terrible devas-
tation and loss Of life caused by an
outburst of the Kloet volcano in
northern Java. Torrents Of lava and
hot mud flowed amid showers Of
ashes and stones. Seven hundred na-
tives and about dozen Europeans
persisted. Several scores of great COT
fee estates were destroyed. For 80
miles around the volcano the country
was strewn with corpses.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
AIimony No Bankruptcy Debt.

Discharge in bankruptcy, according
to q decision rendered by the state
supreme court at Springfield, ILL.,, does
not relieve q husband from the obli-
cation to pay alimony to his divorced
wife. The decision was in the case Of
Alta L. Deem against Charles Bloomer,
coming on appeal from Mercer county.
In reversing the decision of the appel
late court and upholding the circuit
court ruling the supreme court says:
Alimony cannot be regarded as q
debt owing from the husband to the
wife which may be discharged by an
order in bankruptcy, whether the ali
mony accrues before or after the bank
ruptcy proceedings. The duty which
the law imposes upon husband and
father to support his wife and chill
dren is not such a debt as is contem-
plated by the bankruptcy act. 1t is
n social obligation as well as q pecu-
MARY liability; it is founded upon pub
Lie policy and 10 for the good Of 60
ciety.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20

gallery.
Immediately after the destruction
of their eggs the robins set about
building a second nest on another
limb of the same tree. They got so
far as to have three blue eggs in this
prospective cradle when a red squirrel
came down one afternoon from the
oaks adjoining the orchard and made
a robins egg omelet of what he found
there.
Then third nest was built, and on
that the old mother bird has now been
sitting for two weeks. Perhaps she
will succeed this time in rearing an in
teresting family, but there is an old
white cat with three kittens under the
hay NOW stairs, who spends hours
standing motionless, all but the tip Of
her tail, in the tall orchard grass, and
who thinks that a dinner of young
robins would do her own children
much good.
There is little yellow warbler who
built down in the pasture wood lot
and who had equally hard luck in diff
ferent and really peculiar way.
The yellow warbler's nest was in
itself an exquisite thing. 1t was built
near the top of some thick bushes,
about five feet from the ground. It
was lined with soft, silky gray MOSES
like the inside of spun silver cup. 1t
was built so artfully that leaves and
branches hid it on all sides, and it took
hard work and good luck to find it
even after one knew it was there. 1t
was found the day IL had been COM
pleted, when the mother bird was
just ready to begin laying her eggs.
But there was another bird out that
day, sneaking through the bushes like
a pickpocket, looking for a chance to
leave one of its eggs in a newly-built
nest. The sneak was q coward, which
never builds a nest of its own, and dis
misses the whole subject of maternal
responsibility from its mind when it
has left an egg in some other birds
nest. One of these big brown and
block cowbirds found the yellow warb-
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
Rushing Stock 70 Market.

Kansas City, No., July 15.-The
drought in Kansas and Missouri has
played havoc with the live stock in
terests of the two states in the last
few days, and II it continues through
out this week it may require several
years to recover from its effects. Tho
fact that more than $1,000 cattle and
more than 122, 900 hogs were marketed
In the last week il cause for alarm.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
sailing Alone in Alld-ocean.

Galveston, Tex, July 15.-Capt.
Woods, of the British steamer No
hawk, which has arrived here, reports
having spoken the little sloop Great
Republic, bound from Boston to Lis
bon, in midocean. The sole occupant
of the little sloop asked to be reported
'all we'll" The little sloop was about
half way to Lisbon. It was about
LOGO miles east of Boston them.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
Held for scruVRA' Wurtier.

Kansas City, No., July 1e.-Joseph
Rousch and Harvey Ryan have been
held to the grand jury in sums Of
$1,000 az accessories to the murder Of
Thomas Scruggs by Thomas Redmond
at Troost park June %. Rousch and
Ryan were with Redmond when the
murder was committed.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
ALstter from Pat Crowd.

St. Joseph, No., July ia. w.
Brewster, m attorney of this city,
hns received draft for $3.50 sent to
him by "Pat" Grove from Johannes
burg, South Africa. The amount was
sent to the lawyer to pay an attorney
fec Grove had been owing q number
Of years
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-07-20
Rn Cnrrr ErhibIts of TheIr statea.

Omaha, Neb., July 14.-Maj. R. g.
Wilcox, department commander Of the
G. A. r. for Nebraska, invited Colo
RADIO, Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wy
oming to join the Nebraska delegation
to attend the Cleveland encampment
in September in body. Most Of the
states will carry exhibits Of products
of the western states.