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Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
COMPENSATION.
All Things Are to Be Had If One VIII
but Pay the Equivalent.


Life consists almost wholly of buy.
ing, selling, paying. There are nc
gifts, nothing that does not call for ar
equivalent. If we cannot pay for gifts
in kind we must pay in gratitude OF
service or we shall rank as moral bank
rupts.
If 1 would have a good situation ]
must pay for it not only in labor, but
in promptness, intelligence, faithful
ness and good manners. If 1 would
have good service must pay not only
In money, but in consideration, recog
milton, appreciation, fairness. 1 car
hold no one to me If misuse him.
All things are to be had for the buy
ing. Would you have friends? Their
pay the price. The price of friendship
is to be worthy Of friendship. The
price Of glory is to do something glori
GUS. The price of shame is to do some
thing shameful.
Friendship, glory, honor, admiration
courage, infamy, contempt, hatred, are
all in the market place for sale at a
price. We are buying and selling these
things constantly as we will. Even
beauty Is for sale. Plain women car
gain beauty by cultivating grace, ami
nation, pleasant speech, intelligence
helpfulness, courage or good will
Beauty is not in the features alone; II
is in the soul also.
Good will buys good will, friendli
ness buys friendship, confidence be-
gets confidence, service rewards serv-
ice, and hate pays for hate, suspicion
for suspicion, treachery for treachery
contempt for ingratitude, slovenliness
laZiness and lying.
We plant a shrub, a rOsebush, an or
chard, with the expectation that they
will pay lis back. We build roads
mend harness and patch the roof with
the same expectation We will trust
even these unconscious things to pay
their debts.
Some of our investments are good
and some are bad. The good qualities
we acquire industry, cour-
tesy, order. patience, candor-are sound
habits are bad investments, involving
us in losses. We become debtors to
them, and they are exacting creditors
forcing payment in full in money and
labor and sometimes in blood, agony
tears, hurHiliation or shame. = From
Balance The Fundamental Verify
by Orlando ]. Smith.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The most ineXcusable thing in the
orld is to unjustly abuse a decent cit

The most ineXcusable thing in the
world is to unjustly abuse decent cit
izen.
1t doesn't do people any good to be
old enough to know better unless they
are also too old to enjoy meanness.
Every man needs a chart to tell him
the degrees of kinship in his family,
but his wife knows them so we'll she
can say them backward.
The truth about some people who
seem to be doing so much Is that they
always put things off until the last
minute and then have to rush.
The early bird may get the worm,
but the late bird has as good an argu-
ment: He gets his rest which the early
bird misses and has never yet starved.
Be patient with the girl who takes
so long to dress. By and by she. will
be able to do up the work and dress
herself and three or four children in
half the time she takes for herself now.
-AtchiSon Globe
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
OFFICE OF THE TAX COLLECTOR,

OF THE COUNTY OF AMADoR,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
y Office IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
= taxpayers of Amador county, that 1. II. K
NORMAN, TaX-Collector of Amador county,
did on the 10th day of October. 1904, receive
from the County Auditor of mador county the
original assessment books for the year 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.
me at my office in the court house. in the town
OF jackson. county of Amador, State of Cali
foruia.
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
thereafter, at O'Clock p. m and that unless
paid prior thereto, five per cent will be added
to the amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid at the time the
drst installment, as herein provided, is due
and payable.
First nstallment, one-half real estate and all
personal property, due October 10th 1904.
First installment, one-half real estate and all
personal property, delinquent November 9th;
1904, at O'Clock p. m.
Second installment one half real estate, due
January end 1905.
Second installment, one half real estate, de-
| linquent April 24th, 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.
T. K. NORMAN,
| oc14 Tax Collector of Amador County.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
A Poor ReciDe.

Don't talk to me about the recipes
in that magazine" said Mrs. Lane,
swith great energy. WASN'T that the
very magazine that advised me to put
on that sody solution and leave the ta-
blecloth out overnight to take off those
yellow stains?''
I'm inclined to think it may have
been," said Mrs Lanes sister, with
due meekness. 81 sent you a number
of them in the spring, l remember"
well, and what happened? asked
Mrs. Lane, with rising wrath.
Didn't the stains disappear?" asked
her sister
Disappear" said Mrs. Lane In a
whitening tone. "It was the tablecloth
that disappeared. l don't know any
thing about the stains"
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Notice of Intention to Become
a Sole Trader.

In the Superior Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Amador.
In the Matter of the application of Annie
Pearce, to become Sole Trader.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I,
In ANNIE PEARCE, wife of Samuel j.
Pearce, resident of Amador City, County OF
Amador, State of California, being desirous of
availing myself of the provisions of Title XII,
Part III of the Code of Civil Procedure of the
State of California, intend to make application
to the Superior Court of the County of Amador,
State of California, on Saturday, the 10th day
of December, 1904, at the opening of the Court
on that day, or on such other day TO which the
hearing may be postponed by the Court. for a
Judgment and Order of said Court, authorizing
me to carry on and transact business in my own
name and on my own account as Sole Trader.
The nature of the business propose to carry
on and conduct is that of hotel, wholesale and
retail liquor business, at Amador City, County
of Amador, State of California.
Dated and signed this 1Ith day of November.
1904. (Signed) ANNIE PEARCE,
Petitioner.
ChaS. II. Crocker,
Attorney for Petitioner. novl2td
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
TEACHING THE HORSE.
WIN Learn Anything His Musclep
Can Perform


Expert horsemen believe that horse
can be taught to do anything that it ia
possible for an animal so formed and
to be utterly fearless. Thus we know
OF horses rushing into battle with a
fearlessness that is magnificent, al
though in the beginning of their lives
they may have been foolishly timid
shying at everything unusual that hap
pened to be seen in their travels.
In order to teach a horse fearlessness
he must be accustomed to all sorts of
sights and sounds. He must come to
Know that because something that he
sees or hears is unusual it does not fol
low that it is harmful, for 1t is the un-
usual things that frighten him. The
horse is an animal of one idea at a
time and is not able to discriminate, so
say the men who have made q study of
the horse. While he will travel along
quietly close by the roar of a train, he
$may tremble at the flutter of piece of
loose paper flying in the wind 1t is
not the frightfulness of the object that
seems to alarm him, but the unfamil-
iarity of it. Horse trainers say that
the mistakes made in breaking and
training a colt is that it is too often
done in the seclusion of some country
road instead of amid the sights and
sounds that the animal must necessari-
ly become familiar with later.
AS soon as the horse becomes famil-
lar with anything and has learned to
believe that it will not hurt him he
will stand quietly or trot along peace
fully, even though all sorts of noises
and queer sights are about him. Thus
the artillery horse will stand amid the
roar of cannons, being used to the
noise and not knowing that the sound
predicts anguish and DEATH 1t Is well
to accuStOm a horse to unusual sounds
as soon as possible after he is trained
for riding or driving. It renders him
safe and docile, even though he be
spirited animal A certain trainer of
horses said that an ideal school for
horses would contain thrashing ma
chimes, pile drivers, steam drills, cleo
tric, steam and elevated cars. a band
of martial music and gang of quarry
men blasting rock. A horse that was
drilled among such a bedlam as this
would indeed prove immune to strange
noises. The gentle family horse petted
by man and child, is not always train
ed to all this, yet he often makes a use
full and faithful animal, loved by his
owner and evidently making some re-
turn of affection.-Detroit Tribune.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
A. the Child Saw It.

A New York tenement house child
who had spent happy day in the
home of settlement worker describes
the visit in the following letter, accord
ing to Charities:
Miss - lives in a big beautiful
house There are three floors and lots
of rooms. 1 should think it would be
hard for them to find each other, there
are so many rooms. 1t is not so hard
to find each other when you live in
part of one floor. The floors were hard
and shiny, with little pieces of carpet
on them. No piece was big enough to
cover a whole ROOM"
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Dangers of Melancholy.

The weak, broken spirited person
grows morbid and melancholy, and the
brain degenerates rapidly under the
influence of these mental states. Mel
ancholia is something that comes more
within the province of the will power
than anything else. 1t can be cast of
and avoided only in this way. Some
times for the lack of stimulating the
will physicians will recommend a
change of occupation, scenery and as
ISOLATION. This is merely an attempt
to rescue the mind from introspection
and give the will an opportunity to as
sert itself. Sometimes this is accom-
plished, and then, if followed up by
cultivating the will, permanent cure
may be effected.-Exchange
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
A Watoh,. Variation

AS to the sympathetic vagaries of
watches a correspondent writes: Il dis
covered some years ago that it was the
metal buckle of my braces that caused
the irregularities Of my own particular
watch. l therefore now make a rule
of putting my spectacle case on the In
side of my watch pocket, thus cutting
off the connection" London Chroni-
Gle
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Late BEGINNING.

Sir Walter Scott began to write his
celebrated novels at forty. Milton be-
gan Paradise LOST at fifty. When
EAST Lynne appeared it's author
Mrs. Henry Wood, was forty-fve
Cromwell was forty-one when he be-
gan his public career. The year of the
hegira was the f1fty-third of Moham,
med, and Marlborough reached his in
dependent command at the same age
In spiritual examples Abraham was
seventy-five when called out of Cha
ran, and Noses was eighty when he
stood before Pharaoh as the champion
of Israel.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
They Were All Right

He was typical backwoods farmer
His first visit to city restaurant, how
ever, had taken away none of the ap
petite he had at home, where every
thing was placed in large dishes on the
center of the table and each one help
ed himself. The waiter had piled the
food around the plate in the customary
little dishes, which the farmer cleaned
up in turn. Settling back in his chair
he hailed the passing waiter:
'Hey, there, young man! Your sam
pies are all right. Bring on the rest
of the stuff. Judge.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Mutual SLIPS.

Tom-What made you give me away
so when 1 was telling that yarn at the
dinner table? Dick-I didn't mean to;
1t was only a slip of the tongue But
that's no reason why you should have
kicked me so hard! Tom-Oh, 1 didn't
mean to-it was only slip of the foot.
Detroit Free Press.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
SEEING A PICTURE.
Try to Look at 1t Through the Eyes
of the Artist Who Painted 1t.


of the Artist Who Painted 1t.
The first necessity for the proper see
ing of a picture is to try to see ii
through the eyes of the artist who
painted 1t. This is not a usual meth
cd. Generally people look only through
their own eyes and like or dislike pic
ture according as it does or does not
suit their particular fancy. These peo
pie will tell you, "Oh, 1 don't know
anything about painting, but 1 know
what like" which is their way of say,
ing, IF l don't like it right off 1 don't
care to be bothered to like it at all.'
Such an attitude of mind cuts one
off from growth and development, fol-
it is as much as to say, 81 am very
well satisfied with myself and quite
Indifferent to the experiences and feel
ings of other men," Yet 1t Is Just this
feeling and experience of another man
which a picture gives us. If you con
slider moment you will understand
why. The world itself is a vast pano
rama, and from it the painter selects
his subject-not the copy Of 1t exactly,
since it would be impossible for him
to do this even if he tried. How could
he represent, for example, each blade
of grass, each leaf upon a tree? So
what he does is to represent the subject
as he sees it, as it appeals to his SYM
pathy or interest, and if twelve artists
painted the same landscape the result
would be twelve different pictures, diff
fering according to the way in which
each man had been impressed by the
scene-in fact, according to his sepa-
rate point of view or separate way Of
seeing it, influenced by his individual
experience and feeling.-Charles 81. Cof-
fin In St. Nicholas
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Finding an Excuse.

An irascible old colonel who used to
play golf at Sandwich, which is or the
river Stour, had habit, common with
many, of blaming everybody but him
self for his bad strokes. Finally one
day, becoming badly bunkered, he first
took mighty vengeance on the turf
with his club; then, glarlng around i'll
expectation Of the usually friendly
comments and nobody saying anything,
he blurted out, How can you expect a
man to play decent golf on these cursed
links with ships passing up and down
the channel p'-Londcn Mail.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.
souru EUREKA MINING COMPANY.

SOUTH EUREKA MINING COMPANY.
Location of principal place of business, San
Francisco, California. Location of works, SUIT
ter Creek Amador county, California.
NOTICE is hereby given that at a meeting of
IN the Board of Directors, held on the Both day
of November, 1904 an assessment (No. 40 of
Two (2) cents per share was levied upon the
capital stock of the corporation, payable imme-
diately in United States gold coin, to the Sec
$50 California street, San Francisco, California.
Any stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 31st day OF December, 1904
will be delinquent, and advertised for sale at
public auction, and unless payment is made be-
fore, will be sold on Saturday, the 2lst day oil
January: 1905, to pay the delinquent assess
ment, together with the cost Of advertising and
expenses Of sale.
BY order OF the Board of Directors.
W. H. WILLIS, Secretary.
Of1ce-50 California street, Room 28, San
Francisco, California, dec2
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
EsTRAY NOTICE.

Came to the Prindle Ranch near Rich Gulch,
one small bay mare, star in forehead, weight
about 90O No brands. Owner can have same
by proving property and paying charges, The
animal was formerly owned by H Newmeyer,
the blacksmith at Electra, some eight months
ago, oct2S
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
Sick
Blood

Feed pale girls on SCOTS
Emulsion.
We do not need to give all
the reasons why SCOTS
Emulsion restores the strength
and flesh and color of good
health to those who suffer
from sick blood.
The fact that it is the best
preparation of Cod Liver Oil,
rich in nutrition, full of healthy
stimulation is a suggestion as
to why it does what it does.
SCOTS Emulsion presents
Cod Liver Oil at its best,
fullest in strength, least in
taste.
Young women in their
"teens are permanently cured
of the peculiar disease of the
blood which shows itself in
paleness, weakness andnervous-
ness, by regular treatment
with SCOTS Emulsion.
1t is true blood food and
is naturally adapted to the cure
of the blood sickness from
which so many young women
IN= suffer.
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| | kEs E8 EHi wrapper OF every bottle OF
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Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
A Different Thing.

"I didn't suppose that Cupid could
move a stony hearted man like Jones"
"Cupid has nothing to do with it.
Cupidity is what moved him."-Detroit
Free Press.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
John Bright,s RepIx,

On one occasion John Bright received
a letter from a very bad writer, to
which he replied:
Dear Sir-Many thanks for your letter
of the 18th inst l have no doubt but that
1t Is very good letter and that 1t con-
tains matter as interesting as 1t Is impor-
tant; but by the bye, If you should be in
town In the course of a few days, would
you mind just stepping in and reading 1t
to me? Yours faithfully,
JOHN BRIGHT.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

NEW MAP OF AMADOR COUNTY, correct
~ ed up to August, 1904, with townsite map Of
each town, now ready. Price, mounted and col
ored $40 each. The map shows occupied and
unoccupied lands, mineral patents township
and school district boundaries, location ot
schoolhouseS, etc. For sale only at the Ledger
office. The number is limited. Apply at once
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
His Winnings.

did your husband ever win any
thing at the racesT
mo-" answered young Mrs. Torkins,
nothing except the esteem of the
bookmakers and the sympathy of his
friends. s."-Washington Star.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
A. H. KUHLMAN
Contractor and Builder

Will do work in any part of
Amador County. If you want
to build, send note to Jackson
Postoffice and l will call on you.
Estimates furnished without cost
on any kind of building. Will
make plans and specifications for
you. mar2tf
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

We make speciality of printing all
kinds of notes, receipts, checks etc.
Send your orders to the Ledger Office.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

p ECEIPT BOOKS for rent or general pur-
N poses, in books of so or 100 each, for sale at
the Ledger office. Specially printed for Anna
dor county. $50 per 100 receipts, l5c for so.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

Ambition is pitiless. Every merit
that it cannot use Is contemplate "
its eyes,-Joubert,
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

Ingratitude is a form Of weakness. l
have never known a man Of real abil.
ity to be ngpateful.-Goethe.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
He Gets Results.

The man who advertises most is
never the one who does the kicking
about results.-Baltimore American.
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16
College of Notre Dame
MARYsvILLE, CALIFORNIA.

Boarding and Day School conducted by the Sis
ters of Notre Dame (Namur). Founded in 1S5t
The curriculum embraces all the branches Of
solid English education. Preparatory an6
advanced courses in art, language and music
Amador ledger., 1904-12-16

For further information address
ap1o.tf SISTER SUPERIOR.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-04-15
SOFICORF

Like the running brook, the
red blood that flows through
the wins has to come from
somewhere.
The springs of rcd blood are
found iii the soft core of the
bones called the marrow and
:.on.c sly rel blood also comes
to- tie spleen. Healthy bone
1Aa:r j; al Healthy spleen
e., f:.:l cf fat.
Sc It !; Emulsion makes new
bIool ~ feeding the bone
rlIrrov end the spleen with
the r:Chc. t c. Il fats, tie pure
col liver &.
For a,c school girls and
invalid, al f>r all whose
blood t.: TIA and pale, SCOTS
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the blood-making organs but
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their proper work.
Send for free sample
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists
SOC. and $1.oo; all druggists.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-04-15
CROP REPORT.

The Weather Bureaus weekly summary
Of crop conditions is as follows
LAS whole the weather conditions
during the week ending April 4 were not
favorable for farming operations in the
principal agricultural districts east of the
Rocky Mountains, being unseasonably
Geld in the centra! valleys and Southern
States, with too much moisture over the
Middle Gulf States and large part Of the
central valleys. More favorable condi-
tons prevailed in the Middle and South
Atlantic States and in the Rocky Noun
tain region. Temperatures below freez
ing occurred as far south as the interior of
the South Atlantic States on the 4th and
5th with more or less damaging effects.
In the northern and central districts east
of the Rocky Mountains the season is
from one to two weeks later than usual.
The season is also backward on the North
Pacific Coast, but more Favorable temper
ature conditions prevailed during the lat
ter part of the week.
East Of the Mississippi River no corn
has been planted northward of Tennessee
and North Carolina, but large part OF
the crop has been planted in the last
named State, and this work is we'll ad-
vancel throu shout the Gulf States. Some
corn has been planted in Missouri and as
far north AS Central Kansas, and Il large
acreage OF fall plowed ground is ready
for seeding in Iowa. In Texas the crop
first cultivation.
"The least favorable reports respecting
winter wheat are received from the States
of the Ohio Valley, the crop having sus-
tanned much damage from overf1ows in
Indiana, Illinois and portions Of Ohio,
and also in Michigan. A considerable
acreage in Indiana and Ohio will be pillow
ed for other crops. An improvement,
however, is noted in portions of Ohio and
Illinois, and the general outlook in Mis-
souri,, Kansas, and Nebraska is encourag-
ing, although rain is needed in the west
ern portion of the wheat region in Ne
braska. Over the southern portion of the
Middle Atlantic States the crop has ex-
perienced general improvement. On
the North Pacific Coast the crop is in fine
con ition. and fair crop is promised in
California, except in the recently flooded
sections and in portions of the southern
counties.
Spring wheat seeding was in full pro-
gress and we'll advanced over the southern
portion of the spring wheat region until
interrupted by the severe rain and snow
storm of the 7th and 9Th, which will delay
this work for several days.
"Oat seeding is well advanced in Ne
braska and Kansas, and has begun in
Iowa and the Ohio Valley, although in
the last named district this work has
been greatly hindered by excessive mois-
ture."
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-04-15

this cty-a holiday peculiar to Wash
ington. Early in the morning thousands
of children headed for the White House,
armed with baskets Of boiled eggs of fam
boyant colors, all ready for the game. 1t
consists in flinging the eggs up hill and
down and then gathering again as many
as possible. Before sunset the White
House lawn was sight to behold-c>v-
cred with paper, broken victuals, eggs, egg
shells, and everything that could desc
crate it. A street cleaning brigade has
been busy ever since trying to clean it up
and restore the lawn to its normal color.
Loads of stuff have been carted off. 1t
is to be hoped that this imbecie game
will not become contagious