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Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Friendly Gray wolves.

have never had any difficulty in
making friends with the gray wolves
I happened to be sketching, says J. NJ.
Gleeson in st. Nicholas. Impediately
on my appearance, no matter what
they were doing, they came at once to
the bars to be scratched and talked to,
and when their coats were changing
and their skins sensitive they would
stand there any length of time while 1
pulled away the loose tufts of hair,
their every action expressing a some
what sullen friendliness. But with the
coyotes it was different. They never
make friends with or lose their fear Of
man. Generally speaking, they resem-
BILE the prairie wolf, but are much
smaller and Of browner color. Their
fur is also longer and the tail more
bushy. They vary considerably in col
or, changing with the seasons. In win
ter their coat is lighter, in summer
darker and with more brown. Black
coyotes, while not common, are some
times seen, but these are only freaks
of nature.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
killing a King Cobra.

Tales of tiger shooting in India are
common enough, but one does not hear
much about king cobra hunting. A.
Mervyn Smith tells how, accompanied
by two natives, he went to a spot
where Il pair of king cobras were
known to be. On arrival at the place
be was made to get under basket,
the meshes of which were too small
for a king cobra to put Ills head
through. While he was beneath this
basket one of the snakes came out and
was shot with arrows by natives The
other cobra then appeared and endeav-
ored to overturn the coop. Describing
the incident the writer says: N"The ter
ror of that moment l cannot express.
What if 1t should overturn the basket
The strength of thirteen feet of muscle
must be enormous, and if used in the
right direction would soon overcome
my pull at the cord. What would then
happen? Certain death for me, 1 felt
sure. Again the whiz of an arrow and
l saw a gaping wound along the neck
of the fierce brute as it quilted its hold
to look for this new foe Fixing my
knee on the cord, 1 now placed. the
muzzle Of my gun just through one Of
the square openings in the basket and,
aiming at the hood, fired both barrels
in rapid succession, and had the salts
faction of seeing the horrid brute fling
up the leaves and dust in its death
throes."
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
A Vigorous Preacher,

Beginning his sermon one Sunday
a muscular Scotch minister said that
in every congregation there were gen.
orally three kinds of people. Some
were very worthy men and women.
Others were just middlings and might
be better than they were, but others
were actual deevils. He did not in
tend in this discourse to speak to the
first kind, who were already good
Christians and not greatly requiring
either advice or censure. The second
class would be all the better for some
plain speaking, but their case was moi
so urgent as that of the third class
whom he had spoken of as positive
deevils. ITO them," he said, 81 mean
TO speak" Then, rolling up the right
sleeve Of his coat and stretching out
his clinched fist in front of him, he
said, "Now, ye deevils."
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
AFRICA.
The Way That Name Was Bestowed
Upon the Continent.

The Way That Name Was Bestowed
Upon the Continent.
The name Africa was given by the
Roman conquerors, after the third
Punic war, B. G. 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. It's 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 II
blew from Africa.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
The Limit.

A number of actors were discussing
recently the merits of different board
ing houses in a certain city, and the
argument turned on the comparative
meagerness of the table board provid-
ed by the various landladies. One Of
the party who had listened quietly to
the talk now spoke up.
''If one Of you fellows really wants to
put yourself on rigid diet" he said.
''go to Mrs. IS boarding house in
Cincinnati. came down to breakfast
there one morning, and the servant
waltzed up and asked me if I'd have
ham or eggs. said didn't want to be
grasping' and ordered the yolk Of an
egg said I'd have the white Of it for
lunch. Weekly.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
THE TOWER OF HUNGER.

A Famous Prison of Pisa Long Siace
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 Dante's Inferno"
Ugolino, count Of Gherardesca Q22O-
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 a quarrel
In the summer of 1888 Ugolino was
seized by the Ghibellines and sent a
prisoner to the tower of Gualandi,
with his two sons and two grandsons
Here they were kept till March, 1889,
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 1866.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
OLDEST CLOCK IN ENGLAND.
Erected In 1920 In One of the Towers
of Peterborough Cathedral


Peterborough cathedral has the old
est working clock in England 1t was
erected about 1920 and is probably the
work of 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 it 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., 1904-12-02
Notice of Foreclosure
Sale by Sheriff.

~ NDER AND BY VIRTUE OFAN ORDER
~ OF sale and C-ltee Of foreclosure and sale
issued out OF the superior court OF the county of
Amador state OF California, on the Ist daV of
November, 1904, in a certain action entitled w.
H. McCormick, platntiff, against James O'Brien,
J. Q. Heald, H. p. Gordon, and The Rising Star
Gold Mining and Development Company a
corporation. defendants, wherein the above
named plaintiff obtained Judgment and de
cree OF foreclosure and sale against James
y OBrlen and j. @. Heald, defendants, on the 18th
DAY OF October, 1904, for the sum of two hundred
lorty SIX and 50-l0O dollars, besides interest
costs and counsel fees, amounting to the sum
OF one hundred fifteen and 5000 dollars, which
SAID decree was on the 29th day of October 1901
recorded in Judgment Book "4n of said court al
page 6.
1 am commanded to sell that certain lot. niece
or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the
county OF Amador, state of California and
bounded and particularly described as follows,
to wit: All that certain quartz claim in PIv,
mouth mining district, Amador county. Cali
tornla, and known as and called Rising Star,
or Red OAK quartz claim, being described
ana designated as lot numbered ninety-nine
(g9) IN section eleven, township seven north,
range III east, M. ID. b. q NJ, according to the
field notes in the United States Land Once.
FuDne nc n9tiee is hereby given that on Satur
uay, the 10th daENof November, 1904 at ten
O'Clock a. m, OF said day. in front of the court
house door OF the county of Amador, l will in
obedience to said order of sale and decree of
foreclosure and sale, sell the above described
property, or SO much thereof as may be neces-
sary to satisfy said judgment with interest and
costs, etc, to the highest and best bidder for
gold coin of the United States.
Dated this 1st day of November, 1904.
T. K. NORMAN,
Sherlh OF Amador County, California
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
british BarOnetcies.

The first baronets We're created by
James l., and any one might obtain the
hereditary title by the payment of
$500. Since then 1 have rarely heard
of any baronet being created for his
personal merit. Baronetcies are main
ly conferred for party services. Any
one in the house Of commons who is
prepared to vote invariably as his par
ty whips tell him can receive baron
etcy if he is sufficiently persistent in
pushing his "claim" and does not al
low himself to be put off with a knight
hood. In some cases he has to con
tribute to the party funds, but if he
bustles about and shows his teeth oc
casionally this is not always necessary
London Truth.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
MONEY MADNESS.
The Evils of the Mania For Getting
Rich In a Hurry.


The mania for getting rich-the mad,
false idea that we must have money
has played worse havoc among ambi-
tious people than war or pestilence. A
member of the Chicago board of trade
says that the men and women of this
country contribute $100,0O0,OO0 year
to the sharpers who promise to make
them rich quick. They work the same
old scheme of a confidential letter and
shrewd batting until the victim parts
with his money. Thousands are plod-
ding along in poverty and deprivation,
chagrined and Inundated because they
have not been able to get up in the
world or to realize their ambitions, for
the reason that they succumbed to the
scheme of some smooth promoter who
hypnotized them into the belief that
they could make a great deal very
quickly out of very little.
The great fever of trying to make a
dollar earn So is growing more and
more contagious. We see even women
secretly going into brokers' offices and
''bucket Shops" investing everything
they have in all sorts of schemes,
drawing their deposits out of the
banks, sometimes pawning their jew
elry-even their engagement rings
and borrowing, hoping to make lot Of
money before their husbands or fami-
lies find it out and then to surprise
them with the results, but in most
cases what they invest is hopelessly
lost
Thousands of young Americans are
so tied up by financial or other entan-
clements even before they get fairly
started in their life work that they can
only transmute tithe into that which
will count in their lives. A large part
of it is lost on the way up, as the en-
ergy of the coal is nearly all lost before
1t reaches the electric bulb.-Orison
SWEET Marden in Success.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
ExcIusiveness.

Exclusiveness is a brand of nothing,
used by nobody who is anybody, to
protect somebody from the dangers of
nothing. You'll find it everywhere,
more in Boston than in New York,
more in New York than right here in
Hayfield, but Hayfield isn't rid of it.
Exclusives are people who don't know
enough to go at large. Exclusive soci-
ETY. is rickety, leaky, lopsided asso-
citation Of idiots, fools, tailors' dunn
mics, larguiders and hangers on, so
substantial-less that you have to feed
couple of dozen of 'em into a hopper
to grind out a dwarf-Hayfieid Mower.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
THE FOURTH DIMENSION.
P1atO's EARLY Efforts to Define This
Intangible Quality.


In Harpe1<s Magazine c. H. Hinton
writes on the much debated question
of "The Fourth Dimension" In open
ing his article he cites Plato as an
early exponent of this idea.
"Plato, at the beginning of the sew
enth book of the Republic, describes a
set of prisoners who are held in chains
before the mouth of a great cavern,
bound so that they cannot turn their
faces in any other direction than look
ing straight into the cavern.
"On the wall in which the cavern
ends they see their shadows projected
by the sun. Their only experience Of
objects is derived by watching these
shadows. If passers by traverse the
roadway behind them all they see is
the shadows of these passers by on the
wall. If an object strikes them what
they see is the shadow of that object
striking the shadows of themselves.
plato draws the conclusion that they
would identify themselves with their
shadows. Since events occurring among
these shadow forms are the invariable
accompaniments of all their sensations
they would think that they themselves
were those shadows and lived and
moved in shadow world.
"Now the shadows can only move on
the surface of the wall They cannot
approach and recede from it; hence the
prisoners think of themselves as hav-
ing a two dimensional existence only.
And, says Plato, as these prisoners
think of themselves as less than they
really are, so we in our turn think of
ourselves as less than we really are.
His philosophy was an effort to find
that greater which we really are"
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Implements of Warfare.

There is a story of 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., 1904-12-02
He Likes Mothern-in-1aw.

That a mother-in-law is not always
an unwelcome adjunct to the family
Is proved in wholesale way in the
case Of Bavarian who is steward on
a large estate in Monaco. He lost two
wives, but in both instances after their
death he retained the mothers-in-law,
and now he has taken unto himself
wife No. 8, who comes into his home
accompanied by her motherlas well as
three unmarried sisters. Allithese good
women, who constitute his ihousehold,
are said to dwell together in,peace and
harmony.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02

SAFE DEPOSIT-Safe deposit boxes can be
rented from the Bank of Amador County at the
small expense of 35 cents month, thereby Sc
curing you against any possible loss from fire
or otherwise. Don't overlook this opportunity
of protecting your valuables.
SAVE MONEY-Patronize home institu-
tion Send money away through the Bank of
Amador County; you will save 10 per cent and
upward over poStoffice or express. Money sent
to all parts of the United States and also all
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 S. up. Commence
the new year by opening up bank account. A
man or woman with a bank account has a
financial standing Don't bury your money {;
when you die it can't be found and you are liza
BILE to be robbed while alive.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Prank of the Lightning.

In 1874 fishing smack off one of the
Shetland isles was struck by light
ming during a fierce storm. The bolt
first struck the mast, which it splin-
tered completely. 1t then passed to a
watch in the pocket of q man sitting
close to the mast and completely melt
ed It, The man not only was unin-
jured, but he did not know what had
taken place till he took his watch from
his pocket and found it fused into q
mass
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Chinese Music.

The notes of Chinese music read, like
the written characters, from right to
left, and the intervals of the scale are
different from those Of the scale adopt
ed by the nations of the west The
music is not very harmonious and
sounds meaningless and jangling to
western ears, but it has a pretty, music
al cadence that makes it attractive
and interesting in spite of its frequent
HtScOrdS
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Judgment Deferred.

what do you think of a man who
would spend thousands upon thousands
Of dollars in politicsT"
81 can't tell what 1 think of him.
answered Senator Sorghum, until
see whether he gets the officetor not
Washington Star.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Hesitated and Didn't Lose,

Never was glad for this impeachment
in my speech but once" said the man
from the country.
when was thatT'
"Fe-fe-fellow asked mesh-h-how much
would take for a-a horse, and while
LII was t-trying to tell lhim $40 he Of
fered me 50.s-Kennehec Journal.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
"fndmfIIa-

II never knew till now why this was
such a windy country" said the bright
little girl travelling through Illinois.
"And have you discovered whyT'
asked her father.
"Of course. See all the windmills On
these farms we're passing" ."-Phlladel-
phia Ledger.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Cause For Sorrow.

Brown-Croker's down with brain fe-
yer. The doctor says If he recovers his
mind will be blank Green-I'm sor-
~ to hear that. He owes me $40.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
Ready For Something Else.

The New Boy-What do you do IN
your Sunday school? The Rev. DR..
Saintly-We study the Bible. The New
Boy-But I've been through that
Brooklyn Life.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
SOured.

Mrs. Caudle-You used to say that
you could eat me. Caudle-That was
when 1 thought you would agree with
me.-Town Topics
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
His Method.

Mrs. Newpop-Why don't you stop
whipping the child? You make it hol-
Ter. Mr.. Newpop-Pm licking 1t to
make it stop hollering.-Chicago Jour-
nal
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
The Wall of the Victim.

"You can't get something for moth
Ing" said the man who affects prov
erbs.
NO." answered the easy man; 81
can't, but the people with whom 1 do
business seem to manage 1t every now
and then."--Exchange.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
L. OETTINGER 8. N KNIGHT
KNIGHT & CO.
FOundrysMachine Shop
Sutter Creek. Cal.
L. OETTINGER
8. N. KNIGHT
Sutter Creek, Cal.

BUILDERS OF WATER WHEELS OF
ID latest and most approved patterns, and
all kinds of sheet iron pipe. Every description
of mining and milling machinery made at the
shortest notice. We desire to cali the attention
of blacksmiths and other workers in iron to the
fact that we keep constantly on hand large
and complete stock of bar, refined and Norway
i-on, gas pipe, gas fittings, etc., which we will
sell at the LOWEST CASH PRICES.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02

That they are sinners few are willing
to deny; that they are SHINING few are
ready to admit.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02

Pity is the virtue of the law, and
none but tyrants use it cruelty
Shakespeare.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02

consequence of self abuse and excess produc-
ing the following symptoms Sallow counte-
nance dark spots under the eyes, pain in the
head, ringing in the ears, loss of confidence,
difidence in approaching strangers, palpitation
Of the heart, weakness OF the limbs and back,
loss of memory, pimples on the face, coughs,
consumption, etc.
DIR. GIBBON has practieed in San Francisco
over 40 years, and those troubled should not
fail to consult him and receive the benefit of
his great skill and experience. The doctor
cures when others fail. Try him. Cures guar
anteed. Persons cured at home. Charges reas-
enable. Call or write.
DIR. J. F. G!BBoN, 6es Kearney street, San
Francisco, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
BANK Of AMADOR COUNTY
Incorporated November, 1895
Capital Stock $4,000
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:


Alfonso Ginocchio, S. G. Spagnoli John Strohm
Frederick Eudey and Alex Eudey of jackson.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-02
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-18
LARGE TONNAGE in SIGHT
BEARIsH VIEWS OF president
THOMAS NOT WELL FOUNDED.
Pere Marquette VIII Not Make En-
Make Railway Employees Loyal.

A local traffic official who travels over
the country extensively, in speaking of the
gloomy view that L. b. Thomas, president
OF the Lehigh Valley, takes of the traffic
business for the railroads, says that Mr..
Thomas could not nave been very well in
formed, as a trip over the country would
show that at every division point of i'm
portance there are thousands of carloads
of freight held for lack of power to move
it. and much of this freight had accumu-
lated during the past winter, some cars
having been held on sidetracks two
months or more, and meantime the West
ern country is full of corn and other GER
calls. In fact, when present congested con-
ditions are relived there will be large ton
mage to be shipped as quickly as cars can
be furnished. The scarcity OF cars is now
about as pronounced as at any time dur
ing the car famine of 1903. he illustrated
TINS Dy reference to the Cincinnati, Hamll-
ron q Dayton, which now has at Toledo
200 carloads of freight to go East. and of
this freight there were sixty carloads OF
cotton which should have been on the
market some time last month The c. III.
& d.. received this grain and cotton from
its l., ID. a. w. division and if this road
is troubled to get rid of its freight prompt
~, what could be expected of one of the
trunk lines, where at every important d.
dision point their sidetracks are full of
loaued cars yet 10 be forwarded AS soon
as any of this moves out freight shipped at
a later date is run TO the sidetracks 10 be
held to take It's turn in the loaded car
movement. Strange as Ii may seem, the
Pennsylvania lines, which were last year
more blockaded than any of their competi-
tors, are this year freer from freight con-
geStion than they were last year at this
time. but the Pennsylvania lines still have
thousands of loaded cars standing on the
sidetrackS yet to be forwarded and the
same is true of the Lake Shore. The Big
-Four and the Lake Erie * Western also
find it difficult TO prevent congestion, but
as West-bound business is now improving
ii will somewhat relieve the situation.