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Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
The Name Niagara,

Everybody pronounces Niagara
wrong" said philologist. The accent
of this beautiful Indian word should
not be put on the syllable 'ag,' but
on the syllable 'ar'-the penult-the one
before the last. Niagara means 'hark
to the thunder It's accent should fall
on the penult because the Indians them
selves accent 1t there, because in prac-
tically all our Indian names of places
the penult is the accented SYLLABLE.
Think of the Indian names you know.
Don't you accent nearly all of them on
the syllable before the last? There are.
for instance, Toronto, Mississippi, Allie
ghany, Appalachicola. Narragansett,
Tuscaloosa. Saratoga, Ticonderoga, Os-
wego, Conshohocken, Wissahickon and
Hochelaga. In all these names the ac-
cent is on the penult Niagara is a
Huron word, and if you can find a
Huron You will find that he accents It
as he does Saratoga or Tuscaloosa. I
don't know how we have fallen into
the habit of accenting it wrong."-Chi
cago Chronicle.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
dra yUn for hat rurDOaa

for in this act, on controllers warrants duly
drawn for that purpose.
SEC, 8. This act If adopted by the people
shall take eject on the thirty first day of Decem
Der. A. D. nineteen hundred and four. as to all
its provisions except those relating to and neces-
sary for Its submission to the people. and for re-
| turning. canvassing, and proclaiming the votes.
and as to said excepted provisions this act
shall take effect Immediately.
SEC. 9. This act shall be submitted to the
people OF the State of California for their ratiica
| ton at the next general election, TO be holden
| in the month of November, A. d. nineteen hun
dred and four; and all ballots at said election
shall have printed thereon, and at the end
thereof the words For the san Francisco Sea-
wall Act" and in separate line under the same
words Against the San Francisco Seawall Act. "
ana opposite said lines there shall be left spaces
| in which the voters may make or stamp q cross
to indicate whether they vote for or against the
said act, and those voting for said act shall do
so by placing cross opposite the words For
| the San Francisco Seawan Act, and all those
voting against the said act shall do so by plac-
ing cross opposite the words against the San
state shall include the submission of this act to
the people, aforesaid. IN his proclamation
calling for said general election.
SEC. 10. The votes cast for or against this act
shall be counted, returned and canvassed and
declared In the same manner and subject to
the same rules as votes cast for state officers
and If it appear that said act shall have re.
ceived a majority Of all the votes cast for and
against Il at such election. as aforesaid, then
the same shall have effect as hereinbefore pro-
vtded and shall be irrepea!abe until the primo +
pal and interest Of the liabilities herein created
shall be paid and discharged. and the governor
shall make proclamation thereof; but II Il
majority OF the votes cast aforesaid are
against this act, then the same shall be and be-
come void
SEC. II. This act may be known aud cited as
the San Francisco Seawall Act"
SEC. IL. All acts and parts of acts in conflict
with the provisions of this act are hereby
repealed.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
PRESENCE OF MIND.
The Way Two Englishmen Captured
Four Hundred Prisouers

Four Hundred Prisoners.
Toward the close of the peninsular
war 400 prisoners were captured by
John Colborne, afterward Field Mar
shal Lord Seaton. Colborne, who was
wounded at Talavera, had been dis
abled for some time, but in 1913 he
was in active service again, and when
Wellington's army crossed the frontier
into France he performed what was in
deed the most amazing feat Of his ca
reer
When riding, with no comrade but
the famous Str Henry Smith, separated
from his column, he saw 400 French
soldiers passing along a ravine below
him. 'The only way was to put a
good face on the matter" he wrote.
so went up to them, desiring them
to surrender. The officer, thinking, of
course, the column was behind me, sur
rendered his sword. saying theatrically,
'Je vous rends cette epee, qui a bien
fait son devoir.' q surrender this
sword, which has done its duty well)
The 400 followed his example" Sir
Henry Smith used to declare that he
had never seen such cool presence of
mind as Colborne displayed on this oc-
caSiOn
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
MUSIC IN COURT.
Occasions When Melody Decide
Questions at Law.

Occasions When Melody Decided
Questions at Law.
On one occasion all who were pres.
ent In the court of justice at Berlin
had the great pleasure of listening to a
free performance by Professor Joachim,
the famous violinist. 1t appeared from
the evidence that a dealer In musical
instruments was charged with cheat
Ing customer by representing that a
violin which he offered for sale at
$1.25 was an instrument that could be
played. The great professor was call
ed In as an expert witness, and, taking
up the impugned instrument he pro.
ceeded to play upon it. Under his
magic fingers it really sounded like a
violin, but in few moments, much to
the regret of his listeners, the maestro
laid the instrument down with an evi-
dent air of contempt. But he had Sc
cured the accused's acquittal.
The great tenor Mario once had to
give free exhibition of his magnifi-
cent vocal power in court in order to
gain freedom for himself. He had
been arrested in Madrid in mistake for
a mischievous political agitator and In
vain proclaimed his identity to the
powers that be. Finally he was told
that if he really was the famous sing
er his voice was certain means of
convincing the court of the truth of
his claim. For seven or eight min
utes Mario held all within hearing
spellbound, and he was then allowed
to take his departure, with profuse
apologies for his arrest and detention.
Chicago Tribune,
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
simonides, Delay.

"Why should we expect religion, ~
says Sir John Lubbock, ''to solve ques-
tions with reference to the origin and
destiny of the universe? We do not
expect the most elaborate treatise to
tell US the origin of electricity or Of
heat. Natural history throws no light
on the origin Of life. Has Bibliology
ever professed to explain existence
Simonides was asked at Syracuse by
Hero who or what God was, when he
requested a days time to think of his
answer. On subsequent days he al
ways doubled the time required for de-
liberation, and when Hero inquired
the reason he replied that the longer
he considered the subject the more OBJ
scure it appeared"
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
RIVAL MUSICIANS.
The Earliest International Band
Contest Was Held In 1920.

The Earliest International Band
Contest Was Held In 1920.
The earliest record of an interna
tional band contest is of one held in
the year 1920 between the bands OF
Handel and Buononcini, a gifted Ital,
ian composer, who by his friends and
admirers was declared to be infinitely
superior TO the German master The
king headed the partisans of the Ger.
man and the Prince of Wales those OF
the Italian artist. The controversy has
been perpetuated in the lines of John
Byron, popular poet of his day:
Some say, compared to Buononcini
That Mynheer HandePs but ninny
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely At to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be
'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
An internationa band contest on
much larger scale was held in connec
ton with the Paris exhibition of 1867
in which selected bands from Austria
Bavaria, Baden, Belgium, France, Hol
land, Spain and Russia competed il
the presence of 10000 visitors. Russia
took the first prize, closely followed by
France and Austria.-London Standard
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
KANGAROO HUNTING.
Dangerous Sport In Which Thick
Breastplates Are Worn,

breastplateg Are Worn,
Tiger skins, elephant tusks, antlers
and a dozen other trophies decorated
the smoking room of the huntsman.
"You can't guess what this is," he
said, and he took down from the wall
piece of curiously woven mating. II
was about two feet square, green in
color and five inches thick.
This" he explained, ais the breast
plate that is worn in kangaroo hunting.
Without it the kangaroo with a fore
leg blow would smash in your chest as
though it were pasteboard box This
breastplate is souvenir of an exciting
kangaroo hunt in Australia.
"All big game enthusiasts are IA
miliar with tiger shooting, elephant
shooting, the chase of the grizzly, of
the boar and of the hippo, but 1 know
few men who have ever hunted kan
garoos,
"Yet this is an exciting and danger.
GUS sport. The kangaroo when he is
brought to bay will fight. He jumps
straight at you, like a great cat, and
with his small fore legs he aims at your
chest two tremendous blows-frst the
right and then the left-and these
blows. with a speed and an accuracy
that no prizefighter could equal, would
kill you if they landed on an unpro-
tected surface. So you wear, for a
protection, this thick green guard, WOW
en- of native grasses by native women.
You hunt the kangaroo in SETS
Eight huntsmen compose a set, and
each set employs half dozen native
runners to stalk the kangaroo.
THE kangaroo, on being stalked,
comes tearing over the plain straight
at you. He travels with the speed Of
an express train, and he makes great
bounding leaps. One minute he is
crouched on the grass, the next he is
ten feet up in the air, and all the while,
remember, he is going forty miles an
hour.
Hence he is a mighty difficult OBJ
ject to shoot. If you fail to shoot
him, and there is no tree handy, then
you must put your trust in your mat
ting breastplate. This breastplate of
mine. you notice, has a dent in it,
New York Telegram
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
SMILING AND SELLING.
There Are Times When the Two De
Not Blend Successfully.


IF you cannot learn to smile you
cannot learn to SELL" says an exchange
Now, we are willing to agree that q
happy disposition is a very essential
quality for a salesman to have. But
taken literally, the statement is not
true. Perhaps S5 per cent Of success
full salesmen sell goods with a smile
and find that it pays. But, on the 9TH
er hand. there are Is per cent or more
who scarcely ever indulge in smile
while waiting on customers.
Take, for example, some of the WON.
en- who make up the highest class of
city trade-the kind that drives up to
a shop in a swell turnout, enters like
a queen, snubs the hoorwalker, seats
herself in a comfortable seat and looks
around impatiently to be waited on. If
you know much about selling this class
of trade you know that If you smile
benignly and perhaps remark about
the beautiful weather you will receive
a frigid stare from the customer that
will make you shake. In most of the
stores where this class of trade Is ca.
tered to you will find statesmen who are
expert at handling 1t. They sell even.
Ing slippers, carriage boots, riding
boots, leggings, etc, with a cold polite.
ness that would drive away an ordi-
nary shopper.
There are times and places for every
thing, and the time and place not to
smile are in shoe store when one Of
the human icebergs which inhabit the
Four Hundred swishes in to buy $40 OF
$50 worth Of footwear-thati is, if you
expect to sell to her-Shoe Trade Jour
nal.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
The Making of Character

The order of the world is moral in
every fiber. Men may do what they
please within certain limits, and be-
cause they do what they please society
seems to be in state of moral chaos,
but every word and deed reacts in
Etantly on the man, and this reaction
is so inevitable that since time began
not one violation Of any law of life has
ever escaped the penalty. He has paid
the price of his word or his deed on
the instant in its reaction upon his
character. God does not punish men.
They punish themselves in their own
natures and in the work of their hands.
Hamilton Wright Mabie.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
ANCIENT MIRRORS.
The Old Egyptians Made Theirs q
Highly Polished Metal.

The Old Egyptians Made Theirs of
Highly Polished Metal.
Wilkinson shows that we are in
debted for our mirrors to the ancient
Egyptians. At first they were made
Of metal, so well compounded and pol
ished that some recently dug up from
Thebes have regained wonderful lus-
ter after burial for thousands of years.
Oval in shape, they were fastened to
carved wooden handles. References
are made to such looking glasses in
Exodus and job The Greeks and Ro-
mans made similar mirrors of silver.
Pliny says that the earliest glass
mirrors were made of black volcanic
glass. Through the middle ages glass
backed with thin metallic sheets came
into use, and "bullseyes, or glass
globes into which while hot metallic
mixture was blown for backing.
At Murano, near Venice, in the thir-
teenth century, the republic protected
the trade and jealously guarded its Sc
crets, securing a lucrative business for
a century and half Mirrors were
then made from cylinders of glass fiat
tened on stone, carefully polished, bev-
eled at the edges and silvered by an
amalgam.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
The SEYCHELLES Islands,

The Seychelles islands form an archi-
pelago Of ia Islands and are situated
about 1,4o0 miles east of Alden and
1000 miles from Zanzibar They rise
steeply out of the sea, eliminating in
the isle of Maize, which is about 5000
feet above the level of the ocean and
is nearly the center of the group. All
the islands are of coral growth. The
houses are built of n species of massive
coral hewn into square blocks which
glisten like white marble.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
straw For Hat, a Century AGO.

In the early part of the last century
there were fewer factories in this coun-
try than now, and many things were
made by hand which today are ths
work of machinery This was especial
ly true of the braid for straw hats.
Rye straw was commonly used, al,
though wheat was also in demand But
the rye straw had longer stems and
was more easily handled
In driving along the country roads, in
Massachusetts particularly, late in the
summer one would see great bundles
Of the straw hanging on the fences to
dry. When the sun and wind had
done their share of the work, 1t was
placed in casks where sulphur was
burning until 1t was bleached to a pale
yellow. Then it was split into narrow
widths suitable for braiding.-St. Mich.
Olas.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
SOFT COPE

Like the running brook, the
red blood that flows through
the veins has to come from
somewhere,
The springs of red blood are
found in the soft core of the
bones called the marrow and
some say red blood also comes
from the spleen. Healthy bone
marrow and healthy spleen
are full of fat.
SCOTS Emulsion makes new
blood by feeding the bone
marrow and the spleen with
the richest of all fats, the pure
cod liver oil.
For pale school girls and
invalids and for all whose
l>lood is thin and pale, Scott S
,mulsion is a pleasant and rich
blood food. 1t not only feeds
the blood-making organs but
gives them strength to do
their proper work.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists,
too-4I5 Pearl Street, New York.
soc. and $I.oo all druggists.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16

ever attained, the proprietors and makers
of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now
feel fully warranted in offering to pay $500
in legal money of the United States for
any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness,
Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they
cannot cure. All they ask is fair and
reasonable trial of their means of cure.
No other medicine than Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription could possibly twin
out" as the saying goes, on such PROPOSE
ton; but they know whereof they speak.
They have the most remarkable record CT
cures made by this world famed remedy
ever placed to the credit of any prepara-
tion especially designed for the cure of
woman's peculiar ailments. This wonder
full remedy, therefore, stands absolutely
alone as the only one possessed of such
unrivaled properties as to fully warrant its
makers in publishing the remarkable offer
above made in the utmost good faith.
IA short time ago was almost dead with
nervous prostration, general debility and female
weakness" writes Mrs. Loretto Webster, OF 3I7
Virginia Ave, Lexington, KY, Worthy Treasur-
er, Independent Order of Good Templars rDr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription was recommend
ed to sure cure, and found this TO be
true, for I obtained splendid results, securing
fine health. Women ought to be grateful to
think there Is one safe and sure cure offered to
them for their troubles I advise every sick
and suffering woman to stop spending money
and wasting time with doctors prescriptions,
when a few bottles of your remedy is sure TO
cure. I am the happy mother of two children,
boy aged sixteen, and girl, eight years"
Do not permit the dealer to insult your
intelligence by suggesting some other CON-
pound which he recommends as rjust o.
good" because he makes it himself Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription has stood
the test of time and experience Thou.
sands speak we'll of it-because thousc3.S
have been cured by It,
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
Ruined Bi. stomach For science,

One of the most singular things
about the great nervous specialist, DR..
Brown-SeQuard, was the way In which
he saved his nerves for science, but Ill
jured his stomach for the same cause.
Throughout his life he was opposed to
the use of tobacco. II never smoke" :"
he once said, because have seen the
most evident proofs of the injurious
effects of tobacco on the nervous sys-
tenn" But bis desire to investigate the
contents of his own stomach by swal-
lowing sponges to which a thread was
tied and pulling them up to examine
the gastric juice which they had ab-
sorbed brought on a rare affection,
known as merycism, or rumination,
which compelled him to mashcate his
tood Q second time,
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
A Good Recommendation.

An 1rishman was charged with a pet
ty offense.
Have you any one in court who
Will vouch for your good character?"
queried the judge.
eyes, sorr; there is the chief con.
stable yonder," answered Pat.
The chief constable was amazed.
why, your honor, don't even know
the man." protested he,
Now, SOFT" broke in Pat IT have
lived IN the borough for nearly twenty
years, and If the chief constable doesn't
know me yet, isn't that character for
yez?
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
To Keen Roses Fresh

Fill the vase or pitcher with very
warm water, and as each rose is in
serted cut off the tip Of the stem with
scissors under the water so that no air
may reach the freshly cut stem. Do
this every morning, leaving the flowers
to cool in the same water until the
next day, when repeat the process. All
hard stemmed flowers can be kept
fresh in the same way.-Ladies' Home
journal.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
A Sequence of TITLES.

A German periodical states that a
very strange but none the less true
fact is that the predecessor of the late
Queen Victoria Of England was at one
and the same time William l., H., III.
and w. He was William I. of Hano-
yer, William II. of Ireland, William
III. Of Scotland and William ". Of
England.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
A Last Resor.

Little Boy-I want you to write me
an excuse for being late to school yes
terday. Jeweler-Eh? You are not my
son. Little Boy-N-o, but mamma says
l had plenty of time to get to school,
so 1 guess the clock you sold her
doesn't go right.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
His HaQann

Judge-You let the burglar go to ar
rest an automobilist? Policeman
Yes. The automobilist pays fine and
adds to the resources of the state. The
burglar goes to prison, and the stats
has to pay for his keep.-Fliegende
Blatter.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
Getting Serious.

II guess Mr.. Olden doesn't feel as
young as he did several months ago."
remarked the observant man.
why do you think so?"
HE used to joke with that undertak-
er who lives near him, but he doesn't
do it any more. e."-Philadelphia Ledger.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
Inventive Gentua.

women have no originality, no in
ventive genius"
Nonsense; have seen my stenogra-
pher make memorandum with hat
pin on cake of soap when she had no
paper handy"
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
Her Victim.

Nell-You are simply making a fool
of young Mr.. Saphedde. Belle-Oh,
we'll, I'm probably only saving some
other girl the trouble. - Philadelphia
Record.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16

1t is a good thing to remember when
accepting favors that the time is liable
to come when they will be thrown up
to you.-Atchison Globe,
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
To His Credit.

He-So you are under the impression
that 1 am a woman hater of the worst
sort2 She-No, of the best sort You
say you never intend to marry.-Puck.
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16

Modesty should be the virtue of
those who possess no other.-Lichten-
berg,
Amador ledger., 1904-09-16
DR. e. V. LONI6O

IFrom the Medical School of Florence Qtalyy
graduate besides from the Medical Depart
ment University of the State of California,
and ex-Surgeon to the City Receiving Hospi-
tai of San Francisco begs leave to inform
you that he has opened his Office in the town
Of jackson, Kay building. formerly DR.. Rob-
ertspp's office, where all who call will be an
swered day and night
General Surgery Obstetrical attendance his
specislties. Telephone No. 467.