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Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
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Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
A Clause In Napo,eon.. WIN.

Peter the Great is said to have made
a will in which he exhorted his heirs
to approach as nearly as possible to
Constantinople and toward India, but
the authenticity of this document has
been disputed, and it Is shrewdly sus-
pected to have been forged late in the
eighteenth century by August Won
Kotzebue. OF the genuineness, how
ever, of the last will and testament
Of Napoleon l. there can be no man
sner of doubt. One Of its clauses was
as vindictive as the testamentary in
junction Of Queen Austrigilda to her
husband to have her two doctors killed
and buried with her.
The exile of Longwood absolutely
bequeathed 10000 francs to a fellow
called Cantillon, who had been tried
in Paris for an attempt to murder the
Duke Of Wellington. The man was
still surviving in Brussels when Ma
poleon III. came to the throne, and
Cantillon was duly paid his legacy
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
The Pansx and the Butterfly,

She was pansy. There she stood in
the great garden of Japan, coquettish-
ly tanning herself with leaf. And he
was a butterfly, handsome fellow
Daily he flew to her to embrace her
slender form and to kiss the tears away
the night had left upon her brow. Wah
Hu, the gardener one day espied the
beautiful flower, and soon the pansy
found herself installed amid the most
luxurious surroundings in the dressing
room of the geisha. There she rested
in the costly cloisonne vase. And she
longed for her mother, the earth, and
her father, the great sun, and her low
er, the butterfly. No more tears be
dewed her eyes. Her soul left her. she
pined away, and one day she died. And
the butterfly who missed her-well, he
found another Chicago Record
Herald.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
woman,s Aversion to Indexes.

"Talk about the inclination to study
the envelope to discover the sender in
stead of opening the letter being a trait
Of womanhood," said Brooklyn man
the other day, ''it isn't in it with a
woman's aversion to indexes Give a
woman book of poems like those of
Burns, for instance, and she'll turn the
pages for twenty minutes or more to
find the piece she is really after rather
than look in the index. Suggest the in
dex to her and she'll say, oh, I'll find it
in a second and away she'll go, turn
ing the pages again.
''The other night by actual timing it
took my wife twenty-five minutes to
find Mary In Heaven in a copy Of
Burns, for not only did she lose actual
time turning the pages, but if she'd
come to anything she liked, such as
Holy Willie's Prayer and Polly
Stewart she'd daily over them awhile.
Rarely do men do that The first
thing they go for is the index."-New
York Press
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
An Actors nlunder,

A theatrical manager tells of an anus
ing and ludicrous mistake made by a
young actor in play.
The young actor had up to this time
employed his talents in enacting such
roles as called for no speech ON his part
But in this play he was intrusted with
the following line, the only words to
be spoken by him during the entire
play:
"The king is dead! Long live the
kingr'
The critical time arriving, it was OBJ
served by other players that the young
man who was to acclaim the new mon
arch in the words just quoted was suf-
fering from a dreadful attack of stage
fright. His cue came, but no words
could he speak, so frightened was he.
Finally, however, he pulled himself
together and in desperation shouted at
the top Of his voice:
Long live the king; he's dead!'
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
FISHING IN FORMosA.
fheir Rods Superb, but Their Hooks
Are without Barbs.

Uhelr AOus superb, but The1r HOOKG
Are without Barbs.
Three of us, two Americans and one
Japanese, started out in jinrikishas
from Taipeh, the modern capital OF
Formosa, or Taiwan, to go to the house
of wealthy gentleman about eight
miles up the river which runs through
the valley of Taipeh. The way led
through beautiful and fertile country
the valley covered with the second crop
Of rice and the hills with the famous
Formosa tea shrub. After luncheon
and after photographing some head
hunting savages we found there we
proposed to fish for salmon trout at an
altitude less than 25O feet above sea
level and in latitude about "a degrees
40 minutes north, practically in the
tropics. The temperature of the stream
was about 20 degrees or higher, and the
water was well aerated. This stream
from 60 to 100 yards wide, is clear and
full of rapids and rifles.
We used Japanese tackle -horsehail
line and .horsehair leader, the latter
consisting of one strand only; bamboo
rod and most delicate palmer tied or
small barbless hook. The rod is de.
cidedly good and, weight for weight
Is stronger and a better caster than
our jointed rod. 1t rarely weighs over
four ounces (mine weighed about two)
but the line is practically worthless for
casting as we understand the term
The t1y is perfect, but the hook lacks
strength, and the fish when hooked
| may easily detach himself in a current
or an eddy or by fouling the line. We
all know how 1t is done from our expe
rience with pin hook and thread ir
the brooks at home.
The Japanese, however, have another
method of fishing which may be as new
to some of our readers as 1t was to me
1t is quite successful. They catch one
fish in any way they can and then
fasten the line securely through Its
upper jaw, passing it through the root
of the mouth and out at the top of the
upper jaw we'll in front of the eyes
and then attach through the body OF
the fish not far in front of the tail q
horsehair to which is tied three
pronged barbless hook, which trails in
line with the fish and few inches be-
hind, while it Is slowly worked up the
stream by the fisherman. The theory
is that other fishes, seeing the captive
moving along as though feeding or per.
haps spawning, will pursue it and be
come impaled on the hooks. In point
of fact that does happen, as saw a
Chinaman take two fine trout in this
manner.
Our success with the flies was poor
We got thirteen or fourteen fingerlings
but we saw the fish we wished to iden-
tify caught in fairly good numbers by
the Chinese fishing with decoys.-Fo
est and Stream.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
struck Him UnfavorabIy.

Mr.. Gaswell, who had come recently
into the possession of a considerable
fortune, had decided to erect large
Office building and was discussing the
plans with an architect.
"As to the floors, now," said the ar.
chitect, '.you would want them in mo
sale patterns, presumeT'
II don't know about that" responded
Mr.. Gaswell, obviously scratching his
jaw. II hain't got any prejudice
against Moses as a man, and he GER
tainly knowed good deal about law
but when it comes to laying floors II
kind O. seems to me I'd ruther have 'em
unsectarian-like. Don't it strike you
that way?"
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
AN OLD INDIAN LEGEND.
Tradition of the Origin of Wheat
Corn and Tobacco.


Tradition of the Origin of Wheat,
Corn and Tobacco.
II have been favored with an Indian
tradition concerning the origin of to-
bacco, Indian corn and wheat, which,
although you may have seen it before,
1 shall relate" said the poet laureate
of all the Pascagoulas.
"At some distant period two Indian
youths, pursuing the pleasures of the
chase, were led to remote and un.
frequented part of the forest, where,
being fatigued and hungry, they sat
down to rest themselves and to dress
their victuals. While they were thus
employed the spirit of the woods, at
tracted as it is supposed by the un-
usal and savory smell of the venison,
approached them in the form of q
beautiful female and seated herself
beside them. The youths, awed by the
presence of so superior a being and
struck with gratitude for the conde-
scension which she had shown them in
becoming their guest, presented to her
in the most respectful manner a share
of their repast, which she was pleased
to accept and upon which she regaled
with seeming satisfaction.
'"The repast being finished. the fe-
male spirit, having thanked them COR
daily for their attention and informed
them that If they would return to the
same place after the revolution of
twelve moons they would find some
thing which would recompense their
kindness, disappeared from their sight.
The youths, having watched the re-
volving moons and having returned at
the appointed time, found that upon
the place on which the right arm Of
the goddess had reclined an ear Of In
dian corn had sprung up, under her
left stalk of wheat, and from the spot
on which she had been seated was
growing a fiourishing plant of tobac-
co."-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
He Died Cured.

There used to live near Dunbarton, in
New Hampshire, a physician who had
a reputation for pigheaded stupidity.
A good story about this physician
used to circulate in the town. Accord
ing to it, an old woman stopped his gig
one day and pointed toward a house
with Grape on the door.
$50, doctor" she said maliciously,
'Mr. Brown is dead, for all you prom
ised to cure him, ehY
The doctor looked at her in his pom
pous, stupid way.
you're mistaken" he said. You
didn't follow the progress of the case
It's true Mr.. Brown is dead, but he
died curedp'
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Dinner Time

Englishmen in Queen Elizabeth's
time dined at II a. M, and Shake
speare rang up the curtain at the Globe
theater at 1 p. m., the performance
ending between and 6 o'clock. By
the time of Charles II. dinner had ad-
vanced to 1 o'clock and the play began
at 8 p. M, as Pepys records. A CEN
tury later Horace Walpole complained
of dinner being as late as o'clock and
evening not beginning until 6 o'clock
Up to the middle Of the last century
theaters opened at $50, dinner being
proportionately earlier.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Legal Courtesx.

An instance of legal courtesy occur
red in a courtroom not very long ago.
A lawyer with Mac prefaced to bis
name and a brother lawyer engaged in
a heated discussion. The latter main
tanned his position, claiming he could
find his authority and turning over to
the pages of the statute book, when,
quick as flash, Mac said, "You will
find what you want on page :, Sec
ton ="
Macs opponent looked up the refer
ence and found the law governing
asses. A ripple of laughter spread over
the court.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Sounds.

The whistle of locomotive is heard
$500 yards through the air, the noise
Of railway train $500 yards, the re-
port Of musket 1900 yards, an orches-
ira or the roll of a drum 1000 yards
and the human voice reaches to a dis
tance Of 1000 yards. Distinct speak
ing is heard In the air from below to
distance of 600 yards; from above II
is only understood to have a range Of
100 yards downward.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Willine to Heln Him.

"My husband is so poetic" said one
lady to another in car the other day.
"Have you ever tried rubbin' his
j'ints with hartshorn liniment, mumT
interrupted a beefy looking woman
with market basket at her feet, who
was seated at the lady's elbow and
overheard the remark. "That'll straight
en- him out as quick as anything know
of, II he amt got 1t too bad"
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
stunfd Mani

Mrs. Ascum-But why didn't you buy
the material If you liked it? Mrs. Nu-
rich-The salesman said it was domes-
tic dress goods. Mrs. Ascum-Well?
Mrs. Nurich-You don't suppose I'd
wear anything meant for domestics, do
you?-Phfladeiphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
A More Important Matter.

why" said the punctilious person,
II got letter from the person you
have been praising, and there was ac-
tually capital in the wrong placer
MAY be so," answered Mr. Cumrox.
"But he never gets his capital in the
wrong place in the market And that's
more important" Washington Star
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Cheaper to Move.

'T am told the stimlers have but So
600 a year."
"What are they going to do with it"
"Going abroad"
"Why?"
'They can't afford to stay at home
and keep up with their Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
His Drawback.

'They tell me-" said the Junior part
ner, "that the man to whom we have
been sending SO many bills belongs to
a rather fast set.'
WELL" answered the senior partner,
''he may belong to the fast set, but he's
a slow settler."-
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11

1t is not what man earns, not the
amount Of his income, but the relation
of his expenditures to his receipts that
determines his poverty or wealth.
Anon.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Fugitive Poems.

Poets Little Boy-Why do you call
them Fugitive Poems," papa2 Poet
Because when begin to read them my
listeners generally fiee.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
Made Quite Plain.

"Say, pa, it says here in Lady Clare
I trow they aid not part in scorn'
What does T trow' mean?"
'That's the poetic way of saying you
bet Chicago Record Herald.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11

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upward over postoffice or express Money sent
parts of the world. We have the latest quota
tions on foreign exchange.
SAVE MONEY-It doesn't cost anything to
deposit money in the Bank of Amador County.
They receive deposits from s5 up. Commence
man or woman with a bank account has
financial standing. Don't bury your money; /;
when you die it can't be found and you are lia-
BILE to be robbed while alive.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
A MonrnQr

Mike-Did ye attind Casey's funeral? ?
Pat-Oi did. Mike-Was ye wan av tn
mourners? Pat-Oi was; somebody
stole me hat.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
BANK OF AMADOR COUNTY
Incorporated November, 1895
Capital Stock $4,000
President. ....-..... Alfonso Ginocchio
vice-President ..2....S.G G. Spapnoli
Secretary and Cashier. Frederick Eudey

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Alfonso Ginocchio, S. G. Spagnoli, John Strohm,
Frederick Eudey and Alex Eudey Of jackson.
Amador ledger., 1904-03-11
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Arizona republican., 1904-01-06
CURRENT COMMENT
RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE NAVAL
 STRENGTH.

Apropos of the apparently increas- ing possibility of war between Russia and Japan the comparative strength of the naval fleets of the two nations in the far east becomes of increasing in- terest. According to the North China Herald Russia has been employing he- time very usefully of late
 Tn January last. the aggregate ton- mage of the Russian Pacific squadron stood at some S7.OOO tons. the fleet in- cluding the Peresviet PetropavloVsk Gilyak PoltaVa. SeVastopo1 Rossia Gromoboi and Rurik, with other small vessels. But in March last the ton mage went up to 93,0O0 tons. thanks to the arrival of the Askold from the Baltic. In May the Diana Pallda Novik and Retvizan came; in June the B0gatyr and Boysrim. in Julv the Pooieda. Thus the RuSsisn naval strength includes seventeen oattIe- Snios aao cruisers. and iS now est. mated at about I7O,0O0 tons, and still inferior in amount to the Japanese (taking only those ships above the Takachiho type) by some 25,OO0 tons. The Czarevitch and Bayan. however arrived at Port Said about two weeks ago enroute 10 the far east, and. the Aslabia was also coming when she was stranded off the Grecian coast. By the arrival of these three ships the Muscovite naval forces will stand d. l7".OOo tons. exceeding" adds the Herald. the Japanese navy by some 1000.
 Moreover, if the Alexander III. and Aurora duly reach here in January next as reported the Russian figures go up to 199,00O tons, and numerically. outclass the Japanese total by 2s.OOO tons. But it my be open to question whether the coaling and docking facil- ities available to Russia in the extreme east favor the continuous operations of such an immense fleet in these wat CTS By the way, it may be noted that
Arizona republican., 1904-01-06
PERHAPS A NUCLEUS.

The Cockrell boom for the presidency, which was suppose re nil ol hating. has been warmed into show of life Ivy R.p", sentative Jonn DOugherty. of Missouri. who says that the candidacy of the senator lis seriously meant an1 must be reckoned with" There IS one man in the country who is not walk ing the floor and worrying about the boom of the venerable confederate brigadier. ana that is the gentleman himself. MT. DOugherty says the sen ator's familiarity with the affairs of the government is second to that of no other man in the country" It cannot be denied that senator who has so many important committee assign inents as Mr. Cockrell ought to be pretty wise. He is the chairman of the committee on engrossed bills and a member of the committees on rules, approprfa tions, military affairs. Pacific islands and Porto Rico. geological sur vey and industrial expositions. Sena- ter Cockrell's activities extend to the Columbia institution for the deaf and blind, of which lie is d director. So his eye teeth were cut long ago and not much is going on about him which he does not understand.
 Representative Dougherty intimates that an active canvass will be made in the spring for the aged senator. While Senator German and Judge Parker. of New York" he says. are now prominent before the country as candidates for the nomination. you will find that when the convention meets there will be very decided support of Senator CockreH" There may be something more in this move ment than the desire on the part of certain politicians in Missouri to fill MT. Cockrelrs capaciCus shoes in the senate. Some time ago when his name was proposed for the nomination and his friends suspected a plot to lay him in the political lumber room, the aspirantS tumbled over one another in their eagerness to have it known that they were entirely disinterested and. above all things, desired that MT. CCckrell in the event of his defeat as presidential candidate, should remain in the senate. After that the Cockrell boom went fast asleep. It's revivals at this time are curious. The old gentle man himself has no illusions about it. He knows that he is impossible: so do the boomers. For whom is he being used as a stalking horse? Possibly by the Bryan element. which is still hold ing it's entrenchments in Missouri. where regularity is a fetich The Bryan crowd must have something te rally around if it is to be heard from at all in the conventions, and the old briga- dter of W&rrensburg will do as well as another. But it must not suppose that because Francis Marion CCckrell IS director in an institution for the blind and dumb he cannot see or speak his mind.-N. Y. Evening Sun.
Arizona republican., 1904-01-06
PRESERVING REVOLUTIONARY
 RELICS.

While the closing year has witnessed the passing of one of the four pre- revolutionary structures that remained in New York city, 1903 will be memor able for the precautions taken to ore % serve tNo of the others that have fo? Structiou. The Roger Morris hou.e commonly known as the Jumel Man sion. probably owing to the romantic events that occurred when the place was in possession of Madame Jumel. who married Aaron Burr, has been purchased by the city, the house con Verted into a museum for revolution ary articles. the grounds to be used as a city park. It will henceforth be known as Rogers Morris Park The site is magnificent one. Bein sit uated as it is on Washington Heights. it commands a view of the eastern ani southern portions of the city. Long Is- land sound and many miles of Man haitian and the Bronx
 The other property preserved in Fraunces's Tavern. which the city has purchased. and which is one of the few semi sacred spots in the city hal lowed by associations of revolutionary events. As yet the hand of destruc- tion- has not been raised against old St PauFs, though greedy eyes of real estate men have long been glaring at it
Arizona republican., 1904-01-06

imposed upon Wall street. The storm was finally safely weathered because of the prudence of our bankers ard the strength of our national resources. as we'll as the continued prosperity of the farmer who once more proved himself the backbone of the nation. These ex- periences have effectually killed the trust mania and it's revival is exceed ingly improbable. Big corporations. it is true, will remain, for the reason that they are the best known rneons oe de- ing the worlds work; but the era of excessive capitalization. of good Will promoters fees, monopoly profits and the delusions of visionary econo;nies are happily at an end.
Arizona republican., 1904-01-06
The Death ct a Noted Linguist.

Henry L. Thomas chief translator of the state department, died Monday morning of pneumonia. He was born in Poughkeepsie. N. Y, sixty eight years ago. and his body will buried there.
 MT. Thomas was d linguist of re- markable ability. He read and spoke every EurouDean language, including Polish, and had a thorough Knowledge or all of them with the exception of the Russian. He could translate Greek. Latin. Hebrew. Arabic. Sanskrit and several other Oriental languages. It was said of MT. Thomas that he was never daunted by any document that he was called upon to translate. and anecdotes are told by his associates in