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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18
YOUR CHRISTMAS DINNER
will not be complete without
JeII-O

Americas most popular dessert. which
received Highest Award, Gold Medal,
at ST. Louis Exposition. An artistic
table decoration that also pleases the
palate. Very easy TO prepare. Six
choice favors:--Lemon. Orange, Rasp-
berry Strawberry. Chocolate and Cher
ry Order q package of each to-day
from your grocer, 10c. When you
make Ice Cream use Jell-O-ICE
CREAM powder. All Ingredients in
the package. AT all grocers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18

A GENTLEMAN TO A LADY.

Also 100 visiting cards make acceptable present
be executed in ample
end application. ]. p
STEVENS ENGRAVING co. manufacturers of Society Sta
tionery Wedding 81 Whitehall street Atlanta
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18

j. f. Taylor & Co, New York, an
nounce a new holiday edition Of Ten
Girls from Dickens" The new cover
is embellished with panel drawing,
showing q most attractive picture OF
one OF Dickens favorlte girl charac-
terS.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18
G,AYENE,SS--.IONES.


Tho following cards have been sent
to friends out of the city. No cards
in fale gh:
Mrs. Mary Catherine Jones
invites yop to he present
at the marriage Of her daughter
Corinna
to
Or. Il Marvin Caveness,
Tuesday, December twanty-scVenih,
nineteen hundred and -four,
at tWo-thirty o'clock, y. M,
Baptist Tabernacle Church,
Raleigh. n. c."
"At Home
after January the fifth.
Wakefield North Carolina"
The Dride-elect is an accomplished
and charming young woman Of this
city, who has a large circle Of friends.
Dl. Caveness is a prominent citiZen If
the county and is a highly successful
and cnterprisihg ply sician.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18

The felloW who sits down and waits
Tor something TO turn up should ut
least be armed with a meal ticket
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18

MRS. L. c. Glover, ViCe-Pres.R
ident Milwaukee, Wis.,, Business
WOman's Association, is another
one of the million women who
have been restored to health by
using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Twas mar
ried for several years and no children
blessed my home. The doctor said
had complication of female troubles
and could not have any children I'M
less l could be cured. He tried to cure
me, but after experimenting for sew
eral months, my husband became dis
gusted, and one night when we noticed
the testimonial of woman who had
been cured of similar trouble through
the use of Lydia Il. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound, he went out
and bought a bottle for me. used
your medicine for three and one-half
months, improving steadily in health,
and in twenty-five months a child
came I cannot fully express the iov
and thankfulness that is in nv heart.
Our home is different place now, as
we have something to live for, and
all the credit is due to Lydia
e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. Yours very sincerely, MRS.
L.C. GLOVER, GA Grove ST., Milwaukee,
Wis" Vice President, Milwaukee
Business Woman's Association. 49, $4,000
forfeit If original of o6oUs letter psovfng genuine
Hess cannot be produced.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
THE TOWER OF HUNGER.

a Famous Prison of Pisn Long STAGE
Destroyed.
"The Tower of Hunger" was a name
given to the tower of Gualandi, In
Pisa, celebrated because of the refer
ence made to it in Dantes Inferno"
Ugolino, count of Gherardesca Q220-
S9), was the head of a leading Chi
belline family in Pisa. DESERVING the
Ghibellines, he went over to the
Guelphs. Afterward he returned to
his own side and Joined that uncom-
promising faction which regarded
Archbishop Ruggieri as their head, un-
til dissensions arose between him and
them after he had killed the archbish-
ops nephew In quarrel
In the summer of 1888 Ugolino was
seized by the Ghibellines and sent a
prisoner to the tower of Gualandl,
with his two sons and two grapdsons.
Here they were kept till March, 1880,
when the door of the tower was fas-
tened, the keys thrown into the Arno
and the prisoners left to die of starva-
ton. The tower, which was ever after
known as the Tower of Hunger" was
in ruins at the end of the fifteenth cen
tury and was finally destroyed in 1865.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Two Headed Symbols.

Both Russia and Germany display
two headed eagles on their standards.
Yet this symbol is considered by some
heralds to be merely the result Of the
heraidlc practice Of ''dimidiation." This
was simply child's way of impaling
two coats of arms on the same shield
by the primitive method of cutting
each in half and taking the dexter half
of one and the sinister half of the other
and placing them back to back, as It
were. Strange two headed beasts nat
urally resulted, as, for instance, when
lion and an eagle were halved and
Joined together. The griffin is sup
posed to have been evolved from two
lions rampant by dimidiation. 1t robs
the two headed eagle Of half its ter
rors to know that it owes It's origin
to this sort Of child's play.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
When Koi Floats In Japan

When the koi floats from its bamboo
pole it means trouble is brewing-in
Japan. The koi is paper fish brave in
purple and gold, orange and black, so
skillfully made that the wind, initiating
it, sets 1t swirling and swerving as II
alive with an energetic tapping of its
fms. A fisherman will tell you that 1t
represents the carp, that mighty swim
mer which makes its way upstream
against all obstacles. A poet will af-
firm that the koi typifies predominance.
1t Is all one and the same When the
fish floats over Japanese dwelling it
announces the birth of male child,
but when war is imminent or in prog
ress the streets of the cities are gay
with the polychromatic emblem flaunt-
ing and flashing before the door Of
every loyal household. This is equiva-
lent to the display of bunting In the
occident when troops go forth to war.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
AFRICA.

The Way That Name Was Bestowed
Upon the Continent.
The name Africa was given by the
Roman conquerors, after the third
Punic war, B. c. 146, to the province
which they formed to cover the terri
tory Of Carthage. 1t was most prob
ably adopted from the word "Afry-
gah,'' the Carthagenian term for col
ony.
This original Africa was limited in
extent Its borders reached, according
to Pliny, from the River Tusca on the
west, which divided 1t from Numidia,
to the bottom of the Syrtis Minor on
the southeast, though Ptolemy carries
it as far east as the bottom of the
Great Syrtis, making it include Numi-
dia and Tripolitana.
In later days the whole African con-
tinent took its name from this part,
which in its narrower limits CORE
sponded with the modern regency of
Tunis and was called by the Greeks
Lydia. Africus, the stormy southwest
wind, was so called in Italy because 1t
blew from Africa.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
A Seven Days Feast.

Here is description of the marriage
entertainment of the eldest daughter Of
q knight of King Henry Wills time:
Seven days of feasting and revelry
were indulged in, the following being
among some Of the numerous items
provided; Beer and ale, $50; two hogs
heads Of wine, 500; one hogshead OF
red wine $40; nine cranes, twelve pea
cocks, three red deer, twelve fallow
deer, seventy-two fat capons, thirty
dozen Of mallards and teal, two dozen
of herons, two oxen, and among the
fish turbot, pike, sturgeon, ling, salt
and fresh salmon, eels, lampreys, oys-
tiers and porpoise figured. For the
amusement of the guests there were
first play and straight after the
play mask, and when the mask was
done then the banquet, which was ITO
dishes and all of meat, and then all
the gentlemen and ladies did dance,
and this continued from the Sunday to
the Saturday afternoon" The we'd
ding outfit, included in which was ap-
parel for the bridegroom, cost $135.-
Chicago News
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
A Useful Tiger.

Snakes and hyenas are strange pets,
but strangest of all is full grown IT,
ger, and such pet had Major Mansell-
Pleydell," says A. Mervyn Smith in his
book. 1T used to be chained up just In
front of the door of his bungalow. The
major had a method of running up
bills with local tradesmen, but there
was great difficulty in getting pay
ment. as none of the bill collectors was
venturesome enough to cross the
guardian at the door. 1t was great
joke of the majors when asked to Fay
his bill to reply: Have you sent your
bill? Your man has never presented 1t
at my house Brutus. as the tiger was
named, seemed to know what was re-
quired of him. When chained before
his masters door he would lie with his
head between his forepaws and watch
the gate. If stranger entered he
would lift his head and breathe heav-
lily, and this was enough to scare the
most yenturesome of bill collectors"
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
OLDEST CLOCK IN ENGLAND.
ERECTED In 1920 In One of the Towers
of Peterborough Cathedral.

6SGcISU IN Lsb<O One OF Nne IOWeE0
of Peterborough Cathedral.
Peterborough cathedral has the old
est working clock in England. 1t was
erected about 1920 and is probably the
work of a monastic clockmaker. 1t Is
the only one now known that is wound
up over an old wooden wheel. This
wheel is about twelve feet in circum-
ference, and the galvanized cable,
about 300 feet in length, supports a
leaden weight of three hundredweight,
which has to be wound up daily.
The clock is said to be of much more
primitive construction than that made
by Henry de Nick for Charles V. of
France in 1870. The clock chamber
is in the northwest tower, some 12O
feet high, where the sunlight has not
penetrated for hundreds of years, and
the winding is done by the light of a
candle.
The gong is the great tenor bell of
the cathedral, which weighs thirty
two hundredweight, and 1t Is struck
hourly by an eighty pound hammer.
The going and the striking parts of
the clock are some yards apart, COM
munication being by a slender wire.
The clock has no dial. The time is
shown on the main wheel of the es-
capement, which goes round once in
two hOurS.-LOndon Chronicle
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
DO 1T TODAY.
Tomorrow May BE Too Late and Then
You Would BE Sorry.

Tomorrow May BE Too Late and Then
You Would BE Sorry.
II you have a flower to give, give 1t
today. One thBob of gladness is worth
more to the living heart than a wealth
Of costly blooms laid, however tender
ly, above the dead one.
II you have kindly visit to make,
make it today lest another step in and
lay his quiet hand upon the longing
heart and still forever its fret and pain
and power Of glad response. In the
city of the dead, in the silence Of the
grave, hearts are never lonely any
more. They have no heed or need.
II you have kisses to bestow, let the
dear living lips their sweetness know
today.
If you've smiles to give, give them
today. Living eyes are often hungry.
Though their gaze be seemingly SO
calm, 80 quiet and mayhap so proud,
the smiles may be touch Of heaven
for them. If they are closed In death,
tomorrow your fondest smile would
matter naught.
If you have a helpful, hopeful, loving
word to say, say 1t today. 1t may keep
some heart from breaking, some soul
from falling. No word or cry can
break the seal tomorrow-if death
whispers then-to ears that hear today.
Exchange.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
INDIA RUBBER.
It's Form of Structure which Permits
1t to Be Elastic.

It's Form of Structure which Permits
1t to Be Elastic.
Modern physics teach us that the
molecules Of all bodies are in a state Of
incessant motion; that the intimate
structure Of matter is, in fact, a repro
duction on an infinitely minute scale of
the revolving SUNS and planets.
In gases and liquids this motion Is
most extensive in range, but in solids
the movements Of the molecules are
more restrained, and they merely o.
cillate or rotate about a certain mean
position, the range of motion being
strictly governed by the attractions
producing it.
If by the pull of an outside force the
molecules are drawn out beyond the
limit of their mutual attractions the
body is broken, but within this limit II
will recover itself when the pull ceases
We may regard the particles of rub
Der as revolving in circles. When 1t ia
stretched these orbits become elliptic,
returning to the circular form when
released. AS then this substance DOS
sesses very wide range of variation
of molecular distance without rupture
it is eminently elastic
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Implements of Warfnre.

There is a story of a privateer's
crew of forty to fifty men capturing a
Turkish galley with 500 seamen and
soldiers on board by means of a swarm
of bees judiciously thrown among the
unspeakable ones. However this may
be, there are enough authentic in
stances of strange methods of attack
to provide amply sufficient material
for the casuist in deciding what is fair
and what unfair in war. Burning
naphtha, boiling lead, birds, carcases
Of men and horses, Chinese stinkpots,
besides the implements already men
toned, have all been used for offensive
or defensive purposes in actual war
fare.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Mongolian Sheep killers.

A recent traveller in Mongolia writes:
ION arrival in camp a sheep is killed
for the strangers benefit 1t ia worth
going to Mongolia to eat mutton, which
is unlike any other in my experience.
No traveller who has written on the
country fails to mention it. Mission
aries, Protestant and Catholic alike,
refer to its succulence. The method of
killing sheep is curious and unpleas-
ant. The animal is thrown on its back,
when the butcher makes an incision in
its belly, into which he thrusts his
hand. where he presumably sewers an
artery, as death ensues and the car
cass is suffused with blood. He then
takes ladle and transfers the blood
to a receptacle at his side. No drop is
spilled"
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Childish Curio.ity,

Little Florence, aged six. had been
spending the afternoon with a neighbor
who had just lost a near relative, and
who was working very hard to get
some mourning gowns made. Florence
had been very good and asked no ques-
tions, but when she returned home her
inquisitiveness asserted itself. Her
mother explained as clearly as she
could, and for few moments Florence
sat in deep silence. Then:
Are all her gowns going to be black,
mother?'
Eyes, dear"
"And is she going to wear black
nightgowns7"
mo, dear"
well, doesn't she feel just as bad
In the night as she does in the dayT
Brooklyn Life.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
A LOGICAL SAVAGE.
The Way He siIenced a Missiona1T
In an Argument.

The Way He Sflenced a Missionary
In an Argument.
Il used to know in Australia an in
telligent and interesting missionary
said an English nobleman. HE and
were talking one day about the ma.
tives of New Guinea, and he told me
how one of these natives had stumped
him in a certain argument 1t seems
that he had accosted the native and
urged him to let himself be civilized.
but what good the native asked,
will this civilization of yours do me?
"'Well,' said the missionary, you
will cease, for one thing, to idle al
your time away. You will learn the
delights of honest labor
"'What good will the labor do meT
Through it you will gradually &C.
cumulate money, and in time, with
frugality, you will possess much store
of honestly acquired riches
'The native was still unconvinced
What good will the riches do meP was
his next question.
They said the missionary, will
enable you to cease from work at last
and to spend the rest of your days IL
we'll earned rest
"The native laughed.
1T seems to me- he said, that II
did as you say l would be taking q
mighty roundabout course to get to the
place / started FROM"
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
OFFICE OF THE TAX COLLECTOR,
/ OF THE COUNTY OF AMADoR,

Orf1CE OE The lax
OF THE COUNTY OF AMADoR,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
= = taxpayers OF Amador county, that l, T. K.
NORMAN, Tax-Collector of Amador county,
dld on the 10th day of October. 1904 receive
from the County Auditor of Amsdor county the
original assessment books for the wear 1904
containing list of the persons assessed for
real and personal property. and the amount of
state and County taxes due thereon for said
year.
That said taxes are now due and payable to
me at my office in the court house, in the town
fornia.
That the taxes on all personal property Sc
cured by real property, and one-half of the
taxes on all real property were due and payable
on the second Monday in October. 1904, and will
be delinquent on the last Monday in November
next thereafter, at O'Clock p. m, and that un-
less paid prior thereto. fifteen per cent will be
ADDED TO the amount thereof, and if said one
half be not paid before the last Monday in
April next at O'Clock p. m, an additional five
per cent will be added thereto.
That the remaining one-half of the taxes on
all real property will be payable on and after
the first Monday in January next. and will be
delinquent on the last Monday in April next
there after, at O'Clock p. m and that unless
r3id prior thereto, five per cent will be added
to the amount thereof
That all taxes may be paid at the time the
hrst 1nstallment, as herein provided, is due
and payable.
personal property, due October 10th, 1904
First installment, one=half real estate and all
personal property, delinquent November 27th,
1904, at o o'clock p, m.
Second installment, one-half real estate, due
January 2nd 1905.
Second installment, one-half real estate de-
linquent April Gath, 1905, at o'clock p. m.
All the taxes may be paid in full at the time
the first installment is due.
Taxes not paid according to law will be de.
linquent and IS per cent and per cent and
other costs will be added thereto.
Positively no checks received for the pay
ment of taxes.
7. K. NORMAN,
oc14 Tax Collector of Amador County.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
J0kafs Joke.

At banquet held in his honor in the
town Of Torda, Maurus Jokai, the Hun
garian writer, was called upon to pro-
pose the toast Of 1.-THE Ladies'" He
made an excellent speech, during which
he continually toyed with the brown
curls upon his forehead. Finally he
said: "I raise my glass in honor Of the
gracious ladies of Torda. May they all
live until my hair grows gray" His
audience drank to the toast, but 1t was
easy to see by the faces of the ladies
present that they did not think much
of the compliment. Jokai rose again
from his seat and took from his head
a magnificent brown wig, showing an
entirely bald head beneath 1t. my
hair" he added, will never grow
gray" And the ladies, who had not
known Of his badness, were more than
pacified.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
The Mauser,s Breath.

The old fable of the siren has its
duplicate in one of the most deadly Of
modern weapons. The whistle Of a
bullet ought to be deadly sound; 1t
Is surprising to be told that it is a
beautiful one. Mr.. H. f. Provost Bat
tershy says in his South African notes
called I'm the Web of War"
The Mauser's most melodious period
Is from 800 to $4,000 yards. Over that
distance its note is the most exquisitely
lovely of single sounds. "The silky
breath of the Mauser'' is a phrase that
adequately describes it,
But there is something more about it
than its beauty, something strange and
baleful 1t goes by like the singing of
wondering soul that can find rest on
ly by bringing death to another. 1t is
q signing so indescribably tender and
sad and sweet that every sound of hui
man lips seems without charm beside
It
After lying for a time under that
silky breath, one has even to. resist
desire to lift his head and take the
pe2t pun cs t IN hts face.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
"Sacred Ladybirds."

Among the insects that can be claim
ed as friends of the market grower
probably none are more useful than
the ladybirds. 1t is said that in
medieval times this insect was sacred
to the virgin, hence its popular name
Although in these prosaic times we
may" says the Fruitgrower, have got
over the superstition regarding the IN
sect's sacredness so far as the virgin
is concerned, for the good they do they
should be sacred to every market grow
er. Perhaps the most beautiful Of all
the family is the eighteen spotted lady
bird that Linnaeus named Coccinella
octodecimpunctata.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
DOCTOR OF DANCING.
This Title Was Given to Beauchamps
by Louis XIV.

This Title Was Given to Beauchamps
by Louis XIV.
In France during the reign of Louis
XIV. dancing took a very prominent
position among court festivities, and
many members of the royal family
took part in the complex ballets of the
time. Louis himself, no mean perform
er, took lessons for twenty years from
Beauchamps, who was called the fa-
ther of all dancing masters and upon
whom the king conferred the title doc
tor as a special mark Of favor.
Beauchamps had the honor Of ap-
pearing MS partner with the king in the
minuet, dance which was introduced
in 1850 in France, and no court ball
was opened in Europe for a century
and half without it.
About the year 1861 a royal acad.
emy of dancing was formed under the
auspices of Beauchamps, Lulli, Moliere
and others, the object Of which was to
elevate the art and check all abuses
OF this academy Beauchamps was
chief, with the title of director.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
A Story of n Scholar.

Theodor Mommsen, the famous his
torian, had not only the appearances
but the manner of a scholar. Once
during the half hours drive from Ber.
lin to Charlottenburg the car in which
the professor rode went badly off the
track. The rest of the passenger.
alighted, the horses were removed and
the stranded car was left until help
could be found. Mommsen remained
reading his book. An hour passed, and
the sound of levers and jacks and the
plunging of horses hoofs aroused him
from his reverie. With no sign of dis
composure he arose from his seat and
went to the door. "Ah," said he, 1--WE
seem to have come to a standst1ll."
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Mans Worst Enemy.

Wherever you see ten people togeth-
er, ten average people of all ages, you
may say: One of those ten will die Of
consumption. In the long run you will
be more than justified in your prophe-
cy. 1t will be nearer one out of every
nine born into the world. We are hor-
ribly afraid Of cholera and all bowel
diseases of diphtheria and Of scarlet
fever. Add to these the annual deaths
from measles (measles is far from be-
Ing harmless) and the sum total is not
half of what the great white plague
claims. Only pneumonia approaches
it as a slayer Of men.-Everybody' 8
Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Timber Land Act, June 3, 1878.
Notice for Publication.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SACRAMENTO, CAL, Sent. &c

SAL-i sSpP. "a, ltC4
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
IN compliance with the provisions of the act
of Congress of June 3, 1873, entitled AN act for
the sale of timber lands in the States of Cali
fornia. Oregon, Nevada and Washington Terri
tory as extended to all the public land states
by act of August 4, 1892 HORACE WILSON
of Volcano, county of Amador, State of Califor-
mia, has this day filed in this office his sworn
statement, No: 1861, for the purchase of the M
of NW4, section 80, and NE4 of NE4 of sec
tion 81, in Township No. N, Range No. 10 E,
NJ. D. NJ, and will offer proof to show that the
land sought is more valuable for its timber or
stone than for agricultural purposes, and to
establish his claim to said land before Richard
Webb, U. S. Commissioner, at Jackson, Cal, on
MONDAY, the 18th day of DECEMBER, 1904
He names as witnesses Charles Johnson OF
Sutter Creek, Amador county, Cal. a.; W. ]. Rich
ards, of Sutter Creek, Amador county, Cal. ;
G. E. Allen, of Sutter Creek, Amador county
CAL. Samuel LESLEY. of Volcano, Amador
county, Cal
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file
their claims in this office on or before said 5th
day of December, 1904.
JOHN F. ARMSTRONG;
Sep3O-td Register
Amador ledger., 1904-11-11
Ivy Poisoning,

Country Life says that all the drugs
IN the world will not prevent a bad
case of poisoning from poison ivy or
sumac unless one does something as
soon as the telltale itching begins.
When the pustules break open, there
is nothing to do but grin and bear
It." The remedy advised is extract Of
grindelia, which should be always kept
In the house Rub on the affected parts
every FIVE minutes till the trouble is
averted.