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Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Eccentrtcities of English.

There is a new maid lin the family,
a Swedish girl, who has many things
besides language to learn, says an ex-
change. Her new mistress, who is a
young wife with husband many
years her senior, is trying to instruct
her. One of the lessons was upon
bread, the girl being told that she
should speak of bread which had lost
its freshness as stale, and not old. The
girl was sure to remember this, for
she was quick to learn, and she did.
So the young wife knew when few
days later the maid remarked to her
confidentially:
''It is too bad, isn't it, that your
husband is so much more stale than
you arew-Detroit Free Press.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
NATURAL HISTORY.

Ostriches live to the age of about
sixty years.
The mandarin duck is one of the
most ''aautiful Of aquatic birds.
So roracious is the cod that it will
swallow anything it sees in motion.
An eel has two separate hearts. One
beats 60, the other 160, times a minute
A ladybird can travel 20,000,00O,000
times its own length In an hour. In
that time sloth can only travel fifty
times its own length.
There is no country in the world in
which the raven is not found to be ma
tive; it is also the only bird known to
ornithologists which is of such cosmo-
pelitan character.
Only one existing reptile can sustain
itself in the air. This is the flying
dragon of the East Indies. 1t has no
real wings, but can glide from tree to
tree like flying squirrel.
The common house fly usually pro-
duces the note F in flying. To do SO
it must vibrate its wings 335 times a
second. The honey bee sounds A,
which means that its wing vibrations
are 440 to the second.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
YOUNG GRANTS COLT.
The Story of Purchase Thss
Earned the Boy Much Teasing

TAe story of Purchase THAI
Earned the Boy Much Teasing.
When Ulysses S. Grant was a small
boy living in Georgetown, O., he want
ed, like most boys, to own a horse,
and one particular colt belonging to
man named Ralston he wished espe-
cially TO have. To indulge the boys
taste and buy the colt his father Of
fered Mr.. Ralston $50, but the owner
valued the colt at $25 and refused the
offer. taking the animal home with
him.
AS the hours passed after the little
horse had trotted away with it's owner
Ulysses disappointment and eagerness
for possession increased, and he final
ly begged his father to pay the S25 de-
manded. His father said that $50 was
all the animal was worth, but since
Ulysses desired it so much he might
SO to Mr.. Ralston and offer $50 again.
IT,. hSS-1ather added, he could not buy
it for $50, he might offer $3.50, and If
the owner would not let it go for $3.50
he might, in order to obtain it, give $25.
Ulysses therefore mounted a horse
and set out for Mr.. Ralston's. He was
at that time probably about eight years
old.
When he found the owner, he told
him, Papa says 1 may offer you $50
for the colt, but if you won't take that
to offer you $225O, and if you won't
take that to give you $25.'
The eagerness of the boy to gain the
horse could not brook any barrier. 1t
is needless to say that he paid S25 and
led the animal home.
Grant said, in writing his memoirs,
that the story of this purchase of his
got out in the village and it was long
before he heard the last of it. The
schoolboys delighted in teasing him
about it; schoolboys are very often
little barbarians for tormenting one
another, and they did not let Ulysses
forget this one instance when he was
behind the rest in cleverness.
He kept the horse for several years
and finally sold it for $50, the poor
animal having become blind. Later
he found it taken from the road and
working the tread wheel of a ferryboat
which piled between the Ohio and
Kentucky banks of the Ohio river.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Washing In the Orient.

The Japanese rip their garments
apart for every washing, and they iron
their clothes by spreading them on a
fiat board and leaning this up against
the house to dry. The sun takes the
wrinkles out of the clothes, and some
of them have quite luster. The Jap
anese woman does her washing out of
doors. Her washtub is not more than
six inches high.
The hardest worked washerwomep
in the world are the Koreans. They
have to wash about dozen dresses
for their husbands, and they have plen-
ty to do. The washing is usually done
in cold water and often in running
streams. The clothes are pounded with
paddles until they shine like shirt
front fresh from laundry.-Chicago
News.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
pon,t BE a Second elias. MAN.

You can hardly imagine a boy say
ing: Il am going to be a second class
man. don't want to be first class
and get the good jobs, the high pay.
Second class jobs are good enough for
me-" Such boy would be regarded
as lacking in good sense if not in san
ity. You can get to be second class
man, however, by not trying to be a
first class one. Thousands do that all
the time, so that second class men are
a drug on the market, remarks Sue
cess.
Second class things are only wanted
when first class can't be had. You
wear first class clothes if you can pay
for them, eat first class butter, first
class meat and first class bread, or, IL
you don't, you wish you could. Second
class men are no more wanted than
any other second class commodity.
They are taken and used when the
better article is scarce or is too high
priced for the occasion. For work
that really amounts to anything first
class men are wanted.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
he TOOK THE SHOWER BATH
And 1t Drove Him From the YoseR.
lite Back to New England.

And 1t Drove Him From the YoseR.
lite Back to New England.
After week of little journeys, strik-
ing here and there a few miles to abb
sorb the Yosemite valley from dozen
coignes of vantage, we were whipping
the Illilouette one afternoon foS noun
tain trout, says the Worlds Work.
Tomorrow" said voice, 81 shall
take shower bath under the seven
teen hundred foot fall"
"You," said another voice, "are
fool"
Not at ALL" came back argumenta-
lively. ''The rivers very low. What
there is of 1t turns to spray in the
first hundred feet; it Will simply come
down like rain. Why, you'd go under
the Bridal Veil yourself. Only that's
prosaic. This is something big. Come
on"
Not l."
But l was there to see. The water,
as he had said, came down, consid-
erable part of it, in rain and spray
that flew out on the wind incredible
distances. But to crawl down, dressed
in a bathing suit, closer to the main
stream that falls to the pool and upon
the rocks with a murderous swish in
the air and a roar like a railway train
when it strikes was daring to fool
hardness. At any moment a veering
wind might swing the whole mass upon
the tall, slim figure backing tentative
ly on all fours down the Jagged talus
slope, his eyeglass pebbles glinting
cheerfully. A steady breeze kept the
fall swung out little the other way,
and the spray burgeoned out far up
the other slope. The roar was deafen-
ing.
All at once the wind shifted, the
water swung back, and in a flash the
human figure was blotted out in a del
uge that turned me sick For Sec
ond-that seemed an hour-it played
on the spot fiendishly, it seemed to
me, standing Mortified there, and then
slowly it swept away.
And then there was q movement, q
painful, crawling movement, down there
o: the slope. and scrambled down the
slippery rocks to help blinking, creep
ing, much surprised youth, bleeding
from a hundred cuts, up to where his
clothes lay. He was still too dazed to
speak. When his breath returned and
his extra glasses were perched again
on his nose, he said:
''The oceans fell upon me! For Gods
sake, come back to New England!"
And we went.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
BONE FOOD

Soft and crooked bones mean
bad feeding. Call the disease
rickets if you want to. The
growing child must eat the
right food for growth. Bones
must have bone food, blood
must have blood food and so
on through the list.
SCOTS Emulsion. is the right
treatment for soft bones In
children. Littledoses every day
give the stiffness and shape
that healthy bones should have.
Bow legs become straighter,
loose joints grow stronger and
frmness comes to "the soft
heads.
Wrong food caused the
trouble. Right food will cure it.
In thousands of cases SCOTS
Emulsion has proven to be the
right food for soft bones in
childhood.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT g. BOVINE. Chemists.
4oe-4l5 Pearl Street. New York.
soc. aud $loo; all druggists.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
idea. ofHapptness.

Two young women, patiently Of the
"saleslady" persuasion, rode down
Chestnut street in a crowded trolley
car on a recent morning. They chatted
animatedly about the merits and de-
merits of viii and Gus till they
reached Broad street, From there to
Twelfth they preserved dreamy 81
lence. Then one broke out with:
II say, Ag, what would you choose if
you could have everything in the world
you asked for?"
"Well," said Ag slowly and musingly,
Il think I'd choose enough silk dresses
to last me for the next ten years.
What'u'd you take, Sade?"
"Me" replied Sade. Its the dream
of me life, Ag, to have all the money
I'd want, so could go to me job in a
cab every morning." - Philadelphia
Times.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
The Home of Enel.nd., we.,t,.

The Bank of England generally con-
tains sufficient gold in sixteen pound
bars to make 20,00O,OOO sovereigns.
The bank, which stands in three par
ishes, covers three acres of ground,
and, as the current price of land in the
vicinity works out at 100000 an
acre, it is easy to form an idea of the
money value of England's wealth. The
ratable value is about $1,000 a week.
The bank employs about 1000 people,
pays quarter of million a year in
wages and $4,000 year in pensions.
There are f25. 100000 worth of notes in
circulation which have been handed
over the banks counter. = London
Globe.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
UNCLE SANS FREAK MONEY
Bills That Are Twenty Dollars on
One Side and Ten ON the Reverse.


One Side and Ten on the Reverse.
Scattered throughout the country are
few pieces Of paper money that are
known as freak bills" by the officials
OF the treasury department. One of
them turned up in this city not long
agoEit had the imprint Of a twenty
dollar note on one side and a ten on
the other. AS the face showed the
twenty, that was its legal value.
The deputy assistant treasurer of
the United States, who is stationed in
the New York subtreasury, was speak
ing of these freaks the other day and
said he had only seen one of them in
his life, although he had heard of sew
eral. Very rarely they have slipped
through the bureau of engraving and
printing despite careful scrutiny by
three or four sets of inspectors. In
most cases they have been national
banknotes, which, like regular treasury
notes, are printed at the bureau In
Washington. The face value always
Is recognized when the freaks come to
be cashed in at any branch Of the
treasury, and the imprint on the back
has no lawful status whatever.
"The notes are printed in sheets at
the bureau" said the official Usual
ly there will be one twenty and two
tens on a sheet. They are printed one
side at a time, so it can be seen that
the printer In turning over the. sheet
might get it upside down and thus put
a ten dollar back on the twenty dollar
note, or twenty on the back Of one of
the tens"
In the bureau are women who are
supposed to examine all the bills care
fully, but occasionally they neglect
to look at both sides as scrutinizingly
as they should, and so the money goes
out into circulation. When errors are
discovered, the misprinted sheet is laid
aside to be destroyed. 1t cannot be
torn up at once. for every sheet has to
be accounted for. After good deal
of red tape, it is ground up into pulp.
Most of the freak bills which have
been issued in the past have found
their way back to the treasury, there
to be destroyed. 1t is thought that less
than dozen are now scattered about,
most of them in the hands of curio
hunters. The official said that no eff
fort to collect them had been made by
the government and that the treasury
department did not consider the circu-
lation of the few notes q matter of
any consequence, inasmuch as there
was no doubt about the values as In
dicated on the face-New York Times.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
AHeartles. rnteyrupt,o..

A young Partisan, noted for his grace
and readiness as second in many
duels, was asked by friend to ac-
company him to the mayors office to
affix his signature as a witness to the
matrimonial registry. He consented.
but when the scene was reached for
got himself. Just as the mayor was
ready for the hast formalities he broke
out: Gentlemen, cannot this affair
be arranged? Is there no way of pre-
venting this sad occurrence"
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Starting the Conversation.

Il don't know what the trouble is"
said the hostess in tone of great an
noyance. MY guests seem very dis
tant and unsocial I wish could think
of some way to start them talking to
one another"
That's very easily done," answered
Miss Cayenne. 'Is there a musician
presentP'
yes"
Get him to play or sing something"
Washington Star.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Erench Maid.

Mrs. Houseleigh-Your name, | un-
derstand, is Bridget McShane. You
are Irish, 1 suppose?
Applicant-No, mem; Dim Frinch.
Mrs. Houseleigh-French? Were You
not born in Ireland?
Applicant-Yis, mem; but OF TOOK
Frinch Pave from it-Boston Tran
script
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
PrelininarN.

The policeman heard high words and
poked his head in the door.
whats goin' on hereP' he demand
ed.
'Nawthin'! Nawthin' at ALL" answer
ed one Of the belligerent Irishmen in
the middle of the floor. ''There's naw-
thin goin' on, but there's a fight COM
in off in liss than minute if yell only
keep movin'. '.''-Chicago Post.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
The Lapse of Time

When two married men who haven't
seen each other for some time meet,
one of them always says before they
separate. Lets see-how old is-your
Oldest now?" And then, after he gets
the answer, he adds, "It is astonishing,
isn't 1t, how time does fy?"-Somer-
Vile Mass.) Journal. i
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
He Had to Die.

'Tf you refuse me-" cried Moody,
Fmy blood will be upon your head l
cannC live without your'
'Well, self preservation is the first
Law of nature" replied Miss Cooley.
II simply couldn't live with you."--
Philadelphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
A Soft Answer.

Keep yer temper, laddie. Never
quarrel WI an angry person, especially
woman. Mind We, a soft answers
aye best. It's commanded, and, forbye,
it makes them far madder than ony-
thing else ye could say."-London Tit
Bits.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
HnW Trnai

"Say, Jinks, where is that fine gold
watch you used to sport? I see now
that you're wearing a plain affair in a
nickel plated case"
''Well, you know, circumstances 9i-
ter cases. Baltimore American.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

lily gazed breathless at this strange
tragedy of the air. Then they went back
to the sick room to tell of the terrible
struggle for life they had just witnessed.
1t did not occur to them that under their
very eyes a more terrible, more pathetic
struggle was going on daily.
There can be nothing more pitifu1
than the struggle the consumptive
makes against disease. The greatest
help in this struggle is gained by the
use of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It cures obstinate coughs, weak
and bleeding lungs, emaciation, and
other ailments which if neglected or
unskillfully treated find fatal terminus
ton in consumption.
Vim 1893 one of my daughters was suffering ON
account of a severe cough, hectic fever wasting
of flesh and other symptoms of diseased lungs
writes Rev Joseph H. Fespermau, of Bariurn
Springs, Iredell Co. N. c. rI promptly gave
her DR.. R. v, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
with gratifying success and she now cnjoys
excellent health. This being true, hereby
heartily endorse your medicines.u
Accept no substitute for " Golden Med
ical Discovery" There Is nothing ujust
as good" for diseases of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets assist thE
ss>jon Of the vDiscoyery,n
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

London is considered crowded city,
yet "a per cent of its inhabitants oc-
cupy one room tenements, whereas in
Bombay it is 80 per cent
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
COunterbaIanced.

Mr.. Brown-Darling, your butcher
gives you short weight for your money.
Mrs. Brown-But consider. my dear,
the long wait you give him for his
Illustrated Bits.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

Petitions and addresses to the soy
ereign or to members of the houses OF
parliament. if not over two pounds In
weight, are exempt from postage.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Geo. MCMiIlan49..-
Y PHOTOGRAPHER
''Fine Carbon Fotos" all sizes. Groups
and Mining Views. Stamp Fotos
and Button Jewelry.
JACKSON

G. II. McKenney, the lone tailor,
makes monthly trips to Jackson, and
brings with him 500 of the latest and
most up-to-date samples in season. 1t
will pay you to examine his samples
before placing your order. He has the
best lot of spring and summer suitings
in Amador county. jly 16-tf
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Good Manager.

You seem to manage remarkably
well on your housekeeping money"
"Yes. The tradespeople haven't sent
their bills in yet."-New York Herald,
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

kquence of self abuse and excess produc-
he following symptoms: Sallow counte-
dark spots under the eyes, pain in the
ringing in the ears, loss of confidence,
ence in approaching strangers, palpitation
+ pf memory. pimples on the face, coughs,
1mption, etc.
GIBBON has practiced in San Francisco
81 years, and those troubled should not
10 consult him and receive the benefit of
great skill and experience. The doctor
when others fail. Try him. Cures guar
ed. Persons cured at home. Charges reas-
be. Call or write.
J.-F.-GIBBoN, se6 Kearney street, San
eiaeo, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

Two papers for the price of one
Ledger and Sacramento Weekly Rec
ord-U nion for $3.50 per year.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
Church Notice.

St. Augustine's Mission, room situat-
ed on Court street. Services as follows:
Every 1st and Sd Sunday, services at
IL a. m. Every I'd and 4th Sunday,
services at 1880 p. m. Sunday school
every Sunday at 8 p. m. The Young
Peoples Society of Spiritual Growth
will meet every Sunday, at $50 p. m
If WILLIAM TUsoN, Rector.
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17
THE UNFORTUNATE
DIR. GIBBoN

This old reliable and
themost successful spe-
cislist in San Francis
CO stillcontinues to cure
all Sexual and Seminal
Diseases,Such as Ghon-
orrhea, Gleet, Structure,
Syphilis in allits forms
Skin Diseases, Nervous
De bility, Impotency,
Seminal Weakness, and
Amador ledger., 1902-10-17

Nearly 1000 vessels are lost annual
~.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-24
RESTING EASILY.
President Passed the Time in Read
ing on the Train.

President Passed the Time in Read
ing on the Train.
Richmond. Ind, Sept. 23.-President
Roosevelt's train arrived here at 9:45
p. m. The president was resting easily
and the wound on his leg shows no i'm
mediate effects from the short trip
from the hospital TO the train at In
dianapolis. On the contrary. the pres
ident suffered less pain than he has
for several days. He passed the time
during the run here in reading. He is
cheerful and is lying in bed with his
leg propped up on pillow. The train
win run on a slow schedule, making
about thirty miles an hour, and is due
TO arrive in Washington at $50 o'clock
tomorrow evening. He will be taken
to 222 Jackson Place, where the tenn
pOrary executive offices are located.
It was learned tonight that the de-
termination TO abandon the trip was
reached yesterday. and notices TO this
effect were sent out from Detroit. and
today from Indianapolis to those inter
ested in the places the president was
TO visit. No linking of this decision
was made known TO the members of
the presidents party on the train out
side of his physicians and secretaries.
until Secretary Cortelyou issued his
announcement. The president did not
speak to DR.. Lung. his official physi-
clan, OF the pain in his leg until
few days ago. Yesterday the pain be-
came so intense that IL was decided
TO take no further risks by continuing
the trip.
The president regrets exceedingly
that he has been compelled TO abandon
his trip. He has received a large num-
Der of kilograms of coincidence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-24
TOO MANY PHYSICIANS.
But State Legislatures Are Provid-
ing a Remedy.
Detroit JournaL.)

The decision of the faculty of the
Cincinnati College of Medicine not 10
reopen the doors of the college this fall
marks the way that a great number
of medical colleges will doubtless be
forced to walk within the next few
years. The faculty gives as a reason
for its action that the attendance has
fallen off so much since the enactment
of the state laws requiring rigid ex-
aminations that it no longer paid to
run the college.
It is estimated that 5000 doctors are
graduated each year ia the United
States. Taking this as a basis, il is
not a difficult problem in arithmetic
10 discover that the number OF doctors
is out of all proportion to the number
of possible patients. The number, how
ever, is not so great an evil as the i'll
prepared condition in which some of
these young ''medics" are turned out
TO practice. Many colleges take men
who lack entirely the education neces-
sary 10 fit them for the study of medi-
cine. These colleges run their students
through two, three or four years
course of study. and then let them
loose on a long-suffering public.
A law, therefore. which shall pro-
vide that men graduated from a medi-
cal college must be thoroughly quail
fed TO practice medicine according to
the most enlightened and humane
methods is a public benefaction. A
summary of the expression of the
opinions of many eminent doctors, as
published in a current medical journal.
shows that the method most favored
is that of rigid entrance requirements.
New York has led the way in estab-
fishing a uniform entrance examina-
ton, and in that state no one can
study to be a doctor without first pass
ing an examination. Ohio followed last
year, and it is in consequence OF this
act that the Cincinnati college has
closed it's doors. Minnesota has fallen
into line. and. to a certain extent,
Pennsylvania, also. Illinois has passed
a similar law, which will come into
force next January There is a propo-
sition 10 establish similar law in
Michigan
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-24
What the Senior Wanted.
New York Post)

One of the junior members Of q
Broad street engineering firm an
swered a long distance telephone call a
day or two ago. only to find that it
was impossible to hear the person at
the other end of the wire save in a
buzz which gave no clue TO his iden
THY. For five minutes he and Tong
distance" struggled with the far away
buzzer, catching a syllable now and
then, but for the greater part Of the
time trying TO decide what ''smzrr-
gugh-r-r-r" meant.
Finally a new voice broke in. and
inquiry disclosed the fact that the
newcomer was the central at PrOvi-
dence, r. l., who informed the Broad
street listener that someone out on
Cape Cod wanted TO talk with him.
The Junior partner knew at once that
il was the senior partner Of the firm,
and he redoubled his efforts to hear
the message. Again he failed and the
New York operator tried. Then the
services of the Providence operator
were enlisted.
Providence, you get the message
and repeat it," New York called out.
There was a pause. and then Provi-
dence said:
Mr.. Blank says he wants Mr.. Dash
to get him a 1902 cent which has never
been used