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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

truly free, they would prove their in
Eerent goodness. Ignorance and hate
are the evil spirits; light and love are
the saviors of mankind This was the
philosophy of Victor Hugo as it was
of Jesus, and Les Miserables is the
Sermon on the Mount OF fiction"
Jean Vatican spent nineteen years
in the galleys for stealing a loaf of
bread. We have no use for that word
galleys' now. Thank God, that is one
word we have struck from our law
books. We may measure the progress
of our race by the words which it out
grows. In the dictionary of the future
the obsolete mark will be found after
the words monopoly, poverty, million
aire, gallows, just as now we have rele-
gated the words galley and slave to
the dead language of more barbarous
time"
"But let us not grow complaisant
The equality of men before the law is
still an ignorant or hypocritical boast
The other day congress voted itself
100000 mileage money for recess
which did not occur. About the same
time it was reported that man IN
Delaware after trial which cost the
county $225, was tied to whipping
post and fogged by the warden for
stealing three mackerel valued at
twenty-seven cents. Who will say that
big thieves stand on an equality with
little ones, or that human rights are
as sacred as property rights in the
courts of our land?"
Jean Vatican was angered that So
ciety should deprive him of chance
to work. He saw the bread in the win
dow. He thought of the starving chill
dren at home. With fash of resent
ment, he said, If they will not let me
work, I'll steal"
can imprudent act, you say? Yes,
imprudent, but not wicked. IL there
was any crime, it was the crime of So
ciety in doing what is done even to
this day-in permitting some to mo-
nopolize the common gifts of God and
condemning others to beg or starve or
steal
LES Miserables tells of the hateful
ness of force, of the power of love.
When will the world forget that death
less story of the common sorrows and
the common hopes? Jean Vatican and
the good bishop-they are the chill
dren of a noble genius! These lives,
exalted by the greatness of their love
and their pity and their sorrow, are
like the mountain peaks that rise
above the clouds of night, flashing
from their crimson heights, the light
of better day. They tell of the vast
Sunrise of liberty that is yet to dispel
the gloom of ignorance and shine upon
world where laws are just and men
are kind"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30
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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30
LES MlsERAaLEs
Human Rights Are Never consdered
When Property Rights Intervene

Cincinnati, O., March 26.-Sentences
from a lecture on Victor Hugo's mas
tefpiece, delivered at the Vine Street
Congregational church, by the pastor,
Herbert S. Bigelow.
1.-THE military hero is like a meteor.
With the flash OF his sword his glory
is gone. For its fighters the world
has fulsome praise and short mem
cries. But the thinkers and lovers of
mankind shine as the stars in heaven"
Victor Hugo believed that in every
human soul there is "a primitive spark,
a divine element, incorruptible in this
world, immortal in the next He held
that there was in every man an angel
whom ignorance could blacken and
hate transform into field of hell
For the unfortunates, society has
hard judgments and prison bars.
Church and state unite, with hang
mans moose and dungeon cell, to con-
denim and punish and kill these mis-
cradle ones. For the disinherited chill
dren of hunger and neglect we build
1ails and scaffolds, pausing once a
week to worship with Him who said:
Judge not Resist not evil. Love
your enemies!'
"The slums have been made by so
cial injustice. Vice and crime are but
the vomit of the slums. It is infamous
for the state to punish as criminals
the victims of it's own stupidity. What
men need is not law but liberty; JUS
tice and not punishment. Were they
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30

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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-03-30
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Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Drink More Water.

While Americans are pretty good
bathers outside, good bath inside
is really more necessary than one out
side. Americans as a rule do not
drink water enough. We are told that
one reason for Japanese hardihood is
their large consumption of water,
which washes out the impurities of
the system and gives vigor and tone
to the body.
1t is said that every one ought to
drink at least two quarts of water a
day, and it is doubtful If the average
American drinks more than a quart
Try putting yourself on a diet of two
quarts for a few days, and realize
how it seems to drown. The best, in
fact the only time to drink water, is
between meals. Most of us drink a
little water at meal time to wash
down the food, and let it go at that.
But this is not enough. The pre-
valence of rheumatism is said to be
due to the small consumption of
water. Water is a simple cure for
many ailments.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Fires Which Never Go Out.

There are domestic fires burning in
Yorkshire to-day which have never
been out for hundreds of years.
At the old-fashioned farmhouses in
the dales of Yorkshire peat is still
burned. The fuel is obtained from
the moors, and stacks of it are kept
by the farmers IN their stack garths.
The country roundabout is noted
for its "girdle cakes,'' which are
made from dough in quaint pans sus-
pended over the peat fires.
These fires are kept glowing from
generation to generation, and the son
warns himself at the fire which
warmed his sire and his grapdsire and
his grandsire's sire, and which will
warm his son and his sons son.
There is fire at Castleton, IN the
Whitby district, which has been burn
ing for over 200 years. The record
probably is held by a farmhouse at
Osmotherly, IN the same district
This fire has been burning for 500
years, and there are records to show
that it has not been out during the
last three centuries. London Times.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Almost BIed to Death.

John Prettyman, who occupies a
house with his brother, William,
near the foot of Saratoga Hill, just
north of town, came near bleeding to
death last Monday afternoon under
peculiar circumstances. He observed
blood lying in pools about the floor,
and called his brothers attention to
the fact, at the same time asking
him if he had cut himself, and was
answered in the negative. Ten John
arose from the chair in which he was
sitting and for the first time noticed
that the boot on is rigt foot was full
to overflowing with the crimson fluid
and also felt 1t squirting from the leg.
The brother hurriedly bound up the
wound and then summoned DR.. Brom-
ley. On the arrival of the physician
he found that Prettyman had tainted
from the loss of blood, and would
have died had surgical assistance
been delayed a short while longer.
The hemorrhage was caused by the
rupturing of large vein that had
been eaten into by varicose ulcer
from which Mr.. Prettyman had
suffered many years. Banner.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
FICTITIOUS FOOD-NAMES.
Delusion That Exists in the Terms
Applied to Various Ar
ticles on Sale.

George K. Holmes, chief of division
of foreign markets, bureau of statistics
of the United States department of ag
riculture, prepared for the year book
of the department a treatise on the
peculiarities of consumers in their sys
TENS of marketing and the delusions
they allow themselves to be placed un
der or blunder into themselves. The
digest has been considered serviceablt
for reprinting in pamphlet form under
the title of Consumers Fancies.'
The pamphlet points out the mistake
people of small means make in always
selecting the choice or most expensive
cuts of meats, when many of the un
sought cheaper parts of the animal are
equally or even more nutritious. Ii
quotes meat trades journal on re
cent prices as follows: Porterhouse
steak, 20 cents; prime rib, Is cents;
sirloins, 121a cents; round, 8 cents;
rump, Z cents; neck pieces, about {
cents, per pound, respectively. 1t com
ments in the following strain:
Although epicurians admit and
chemists demonstrate that the neck
piece is toothsome and nutritious, il
bears the lowest price. In fact it would
hardly be considered respectable tc
ask the butcher for piece of the neck
Perhaps low order of proficiency in
the housewives cooking in the past
gave the neck piece it's low place. The
story might have been different had
the housewife of former times pos
sessed the French housewives ability
to utilize meats in the making of at
tractive and delicious dishes" The
point of the argument is that cheap
cuts are as good as dear when judi
ciously selected and properly cooked
The pamphlet also treats of the de-
lusion that exists in the terms applied
to various subsistence commodities by
which their sale is Influenced Note
the following: "The amount of Can
ada lamb sold in the United States is
enormous. The word Canada has the
same magical effect upon lamb prices
that the word Philadelphia has upon
spring poultry or that of Long Island
on fresh eggs. These fictions seem to
sell the product, and the eating public
appears to feel satisfied. By tacking
the word Canada on to his product the
butcher is enabled to get two cents
more per pound for it, or, if he ad-
heres to normal prices his customers
think they are getting something un-
usual for their money. In certainly 95
per cent. of the cases they are getting
plain domestic lamb, and about so
times out of 100 are not getting lamb
at all, but mere mutton"
Many other commodities are set
forth under their respective delusive
titles with the same unreserved treat
ment of the deceptions practiced in re-
gard to them. A single illustration
would seem to be all sufficient, how
ever.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
SCIENCE SIFTINGS.

Prof. Reickenbach is said to have
proven that 80 persons in 100 can see,
in the dark, colored rays from the
human body and flashes from a mag
net.
The flicker" sometimes noticed in
lightning proves to be due to the fact
that several flashes sometimes five or
six-follow one path too rapidly to be
separated by the eye. The trails shown
in photography of very bright flashes
are caused by incandescence produced
in the air for very brief period.
A new product Of the electric fur
mace has been introduced in France
under the designation calstonite. 1t
is double carbide of barium and cal
cium, produced by NJ j. Cartier, an
observation-disclosures of Mancioux, which
decomposes on contact with water, like
calcium carbide.
A stereoscopic star chart is the sue
cegsfnl novelty of T, E. Heath, the Eng
lish Astronomer The stars in given
section of the heavens are drawn from
two points Of view that are sup
posed to be 20 years apart, and un-
der large stereoscope the double
view gives rough but very instructive
impression of the stars floating in
space at an approximation to their
relative distances, instead of as points
against the dark background of the
sky. The result is most interest
ing one.
Electric waves and sensitive re-
ceivers offer means of performing
a variety of operations at distance.
Prof. E. D. Branly has been trying to
attain such results, and has shown the
Paris academy an apparatus by which
he can start an electric motor, cause
incandescent lamps to glow, and cause
an explosion. These effects may be
produced or discontinued in any de-
sired order, one after another. They
were chosen arbitrarily for experiment,
and it is possible to bring about at a
distance other mechanical action or Sc
ries of actions, or to work a compli-
Gated machine.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Sees Bright'S Disease
Under Surgery

An operation so unusual that Rear
Admiral Suszuki, surgeon general of
the Japanese navy, travelled half
around the world to see it, was per-
formed at the French hospital in New
York, and to-day it was reported that
the patient-a woman-was in fair
way to recover.
This feat of surgery is known as
Edebohl's operation for relief of
Bright's disease, and has never been
performed outside of this country.
The surgeon who first attempted it
claims he has effected several radical
cures of the disease but the operation
is so dangerous that as yet few sur
geons have dared to resort to it. The
operation to day was especially
severe, as both kidneys were stripped
of their capsules at the same time to
restore the natural blood supply to
the degenerating tissues. The opera
tion is unique, in that the disease
itself is, not attacked but its remote
cause destroyed. The operation con-
sisted of making deep incision over
the kidney of the patient, and the
actual removal of the organ, while
the capsule that entirely covered it
was cut away. 1t was then put back
in its place, and before the patient
recovered from the anaesthetic the
operation was repeated on the other
kidney.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

St. Louis butts into the procession
with a tax assessment roll of $780,
100000, an increase of $4,000, 900 over
1904.
Only four per cent. of the men of
the British army have chest meas
urement of over 40 inches, and 20 per
cent. between 3S inches and 40 inches.
New York state is about to receive
from the federal government $118,-
5S5S4, interest and principal on an in
vestment of $4,000 in equipping troops
for the war of 1872.
At Cheboygan, Mich, is the largest
sawdust pile in the world. 1t is a
hill, 1880 feet long, 875 wide, 1925
in circumference, ranges from 20 to
so feet in height, and covers II acres.
1t is the accumulation of one lumber
company since 1877.
Camille Flammarion's new perpetual
calendar starts the year at the vernal
equinox, March 81. Every quarter
should contain two months of 30 days
and one month of 81 days. This would
make 354 days. The same dates
would occur on the same days of the
week, and one calendar would last a
lifetime.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Is II You?

Some ones selfish; some ones lazy
Is it you?
Some ones sense of right is hazy;
Is it you?
Some one lives life of ease,
Doing largely as he please,
Drifting idly with the breeze
Is it you?
Some one hopes success will find him
Is it you?
Some one proudly looks behind him
Is it you?
Some one full OF good advise
Seems to think it rather nice
In ''has been's' paradise
Is it you?
Some one trusts to luck for winning
Is it you?
Some one Graves a new beginning;
Is it you?
Some one says, 81 never had
Such a chance as Jones lad. -
Some ones llkwlse quite a cad
Is it you?
Some ones terribly mistaken;
Is it you?
Some one sadly will awaken;
Is it you?
Some ones working on the plan
That masterful 81 CAM
Doesn't help to make the man
Is it you?
Some one yet may ''make killing. .
And it's you.
Some one needs but to be willing,
And it's you.
Some one better set his jaw,
Cease to be man of straw,
Get some sand into this craw-
And it's you.
Baltimore American.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
NOT CENSUS QUESTIONS.

We're you ever happy, and who was
to blame?
Are you black or white, and how do
you account for it?
Do you eat patented breakfast foods
or just plain sawdust?
Do you think that the high price of
eggs is due to the foul-strike?
Did you ever hear a theater Joke,
and what did you take to remove the
effects?
What is your age, and how many
years is it since you celebrated that
birthday?
Did you ever love your wife so
much that you would like to eat her,
and are you sorry that you have not
done so?
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Nature Needs But Little.

Nature needs only a Little Early
Risers now and then to keep the
bowels clean, the liver active, and
the system free from bile, headaches,
constipation, etc. The famous little
pills 'Early Risers' are pleasant
Inseffect and perfect in action. They
never gripe or sicken, but tone and
strengthen the liver and kidneys.
Sold at City Pharmacy.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
HISTORICAL BITS.

Cromwell is said to have originated
the board of trade idea.
Sugar, when first introduced into
England, was only used for the pur-
pose of making medicines more palat-
able.
Wire drawing was invented r.
Rudolph of Nuremburg in the early
part of the fifteenth century. Wire
was first made in England in 1868.
Bombs, it is said, were first thrown
March "a, 1880, on the town of Wach-
tendenck, in Guelderland. The his
torian Hone says 1.-The invention is
commonly attributed to Gaalen, bishop
of Muenster."
In 1892, in England, butchers were
compelled by law to sell their beef for
a half penny a pound and mutton for
three farthings. The butchers of
London sold penny pieces of beef for
the relief of the poor, every piece two
pounds and a half, sometimes three
-,o"nds for penny.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
RECENTLY RELATED.

President Sprague, of the Union
Dime savings bank, of New York, says
that he was called up on the telephone
one day and addressed thus: "Is
this the Union Dime savings bank?"
Eyes" ''Well, I want to know if a
non-union man can deposit in your
bank"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Every Ounce You Eat

Every ounce of food you eat that
fails to digest does a pound of harm.
1t turns the entire meal into poison.
This not only deprives the blood of
the necessary tissue building material
but it poisons it. Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure is perfect digestant. 1t digests
the food regardless of the condition
of the stomach. 1t allows that organ
to rest and get strong again. Re
lieves belching, heart burn, sour
stomach, Indigestion, palpitation of
the heart, etc. Sold by City Phar-
macy.
For that falling hair use Ruhser's
Ouinina Hair Tonic
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
A. H. kUHLMAN
Contractor and Builder

Will do work in any part of
Amador County. If you want
to build, send a note to Jackson
POstoffice and | will call on you.
Estimates furnished without cost
on any kind of building. Will
make plans and specifications for
you. mar2tt
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A little girl called at grocery and
asked for a quart of vinegar to be
put in gallon jug. This being done
she asked for another quart to be put
in the same vessel. "Why didn't you
ask for half gallon in the first
placer" asked the grocer. Because"
answered the small shopper, "it's for
two different persons"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
BITS BY THE BABES.

A little girl was called upon to recite
her piece before an audience. When
she reached the stage she stood there
without saying word. At length she
exclaimed: Papa knows it."
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A four-year-old Brooklyn child was
watching the cook shelling peas. She
was noticed to be deeply interested in
the process. Finally she looked up
all of a sudden and said naively: "Oh,
let me unbutton Some of them"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A well-dressed man who registered at
hotel in st. Joseph, Mo-, casually
remarked that he never travelled with
out his own fire-escape, at the same
time exhibiting the contrivance he
carried. I'm case of fire." he said, 81
can let myself down from any hotel
window" The landlord said, gravely:
"Our terms for guests with frees
eapes are cash in advance"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

: Mamma" said 1ve-year-old Nellie,
"Pd like to ask your advice about
something" What is it, dear?"
queried her mother. after l get
through school, what would you advise
me to do while I'm waiting to be mar
ried?" asked the little miss.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

DO not be deceived by counterfeits
when you buy Witch Hazel salve.
The name of E. G. Dewitt & Co. is
on every box of the genuine. Piles
in their worst form will soon pass
away if you Will apply DeWitt's Witch
Hazel salve night and morning. Best
for cuts, burns. boils, tetteI, eczema.
etc. Sold by City Pharmacy.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

Headaches from any cause yield
promptly to Ruhser's Headache
Powders. Quick and sure relief
guaranteed.
Buggy robes, horse blankets at P.
Piccardo's harness shop. Prices to
suit.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
TO Cure a Cold in One Day.

Take Laxative Bromo Quibine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
if it fails to cure. Il. W. Groves sig
nature is on each box 25c.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

William H. Crane, the actor, says he
first learned what true love is by ac-
cidenta11g overhearing brief CONVEX
sation between a young man and a
very pretty girl. "And you're sure you
love me?" she said. Love you?" echoed
the young fellow. "Why, darling,
while I was bidding you good-by on
the porch last night your dog bit a
large piece out of the calf of my leg,
and never noticed it till 1 got home"