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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-07-28
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Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
VaIue of Advertising.

Once, beset with pain and trouble,
When the day was dreary and dark,
And felt most weary sinking
Of my liver, lungs and heart.
In the papers I was scanning,
Advertisements by the score,
Trusting there to find some doctor
In whose ears my woes I'd pour.
Then there flashed across my vision
AS if writ in living light;
Tell, oh, tell, old Doctor Cartini
Tell, before you sleep, this night.
All your woes and all your troubles,
All your aches and every pain
He can sooth you, he can cure you;
Put new life in every vein.
And when all your troubles vanish,
And your liver works all right,
And your lungs resume their functions
And your heart with joy is bright.
Then you'll sing loud Hallelujahs,
And you'll pay your bill in gold,
Thankful that to DR.. Gartin
All your troubles have been told.
And you'll know that lucky Fortune
Made you know, at any rate,
That it pays for all to keep their
Advertisements up to date.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
ATTRACTIVE FLOWER BED.
OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN A FAY
ORITE SPOT OF MRS.
ROOSEVELT.
This Corner of the White House
Grounds, With Its Blaze of Color,
Attracts the Sight-Seer.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Old Fashioned Gar
den, as the generous collection of
posies west of the south veranda of
the White House is called, has been a
continuous mass of bloom and color
during the summer and fall, quite
different from any of the other Govern
ment flower displays. There are many
of these, surrounding the different de-
partmental buildings, those of the De-
partment of Agriculture being particu-
larly elaborate and ornate, but it is the
opinion of summer visitors to Washing
ton that the old-time corner of the
mistress of the White House is the
most pleasing of all. At least it seems
to strike the majority of fancies, for it
recalls the scenes and times of earlier
days. This part of the White House
grounds has always been devoted to
flowers, but until Mrs. Roosevelt's ad-
vent it has been rather given up to the
latest fads of horticulture than to a
display of the familiar blooms of the
old-time flower garden.
The changes in the White House a
couple of years ago were officially
known as the restoration" but have,
perhaps, been more generally termed
the humiliation" 1t seemed necessary
that something should be done; there
was talk of reconstructing the White
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
IMPLEMENT MAKERS MEET.
SHOW GREAT EXPANSION OF
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL Ma
CHINERY TRADE.
Pass Resolutions For Land Law Re-
form-Against Giving Interstate
Commerce Commission Power to
Fix Railroad Rates.

A recent meeting of the National AS
sociation of Agricultural Implement
and Vehicle Manufacturers at Niagara
Falls brought forth a number of inter
esting and important facts relative to
the great progress which has been made
IN recent years in the making of all
classes of farm and working imple-
ments and also the great expanse of
this class of trade abroad.
Since 1899, when our exports in this
line for the first time shot ahead of
those of Great Britain, the United
States has been easily the heaviest ex-
porter of agricultural implements and
machinery in the world. Manufacturers
claim, and their efforts to secure for
eign markets seem to substantiate it.
that exports play most important
part in the successful conduct of agri-
cultural implement manufacturing.
The last census puts the annual value
of this class of production at $101 ,000,-
900, and it is estimated that the pres
ent years production is greater. This
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
POKER IN THE PHILIPPINES.
One Moro Who Knew the Game


Reports came from time to time from
Portsmouth showing that the Oriental
ENJOYS and attaches had found great
liking for American ways and manners,
and more especially for the true Amer
lean beverages, cocktails and high
balls, and for that little bit of diversion
known as poker. On top of these re-
ports came q message from q member
of the Taft party in the Philippines
that Datto Grande, one of the leading
citizens of Bambang, had fallen down
before the Sultan of GanaSSi in the
game of poker. Army officers stationed
in the Philippines are stated to have
carefully coached the DattO Grande in
this game and their estimation of their
ability to instruct has had a severe
shock, a result of the Datto'S losses of
his carabaos, wives and raiment, since,
it appears, his opponent had never been
taught how to play. but had relied upon
his untutOred skill and the devices
known only to the Moros. The next
thing we may expect to learn will be
that this willy Moro "Ah Sing" has
actually taken the uniform from some
of our army officers, aye, even those
considered adopts at the game.
This news is probably of more in
terest to the people of our island pos
session and to the citizens of the United
States than is at first implied, for it
shows that for GINNING and intelligence
the Moros show ability to defeat even
the skill of highly experienced and
practiced American army officers, and,
as an exchange remarks, it shows that
the Filipinos are, and of right ought
to be free and independent.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Does Sugar Make Strength /?

Various reasons have been assigned
for the increase i'll stature and strength
of the modern maiden, who has most
certainly grown uncOmmOnly tall and
propOrtionately muscular during the
past few years, says an English writer.
1t cannot be that outdoor sports, gym
nastic exercise and so on, have
stretched her out and made her as
strong as she is, because her brothers
have had precisely the same advant-
ages, and they have not developed AT
the same rate. 1t seems to me, there
fore, that the secret lies in the fact,
that of recent years girls have become
far greater consumers of sweetmeats
than ever were their mothers and
grandmothers.
Time was when we should never
have dreamt of having sweets on our
luncheon, dinner and tea tables. Now
it would be quite extraordinary were
one not to offer these dainties. And,
what is more, women are not merely
content to eat sweetmeats at our meals,
but they consume them at all times and
in all places between meals. 1t was re-
Gently said that boxes of bonbons play
a conspicuous part in modern lCvemak-
ing, Sweets to the sweet being ap-
parently the text by which every young
man of the day guides himself through
the devious paths of courtship.
The great Russian wrestler who is
shortly to enter again into contest with
the Turk, Madrali, tells us that the
more sweet stuff one eats the stronger
one grows. Sugar is the secret of
strength, he declares.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
GREAT CANALS OF MARS.
RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS ESTAB.
LISH APPARENT ARTIFICIAL
p. CONSTRUCTION.
The Cameras Eye, More Sensitive
than the Human Optic, Establishes
New Data a-Interesting Scientific
Discoveries.

Astronomers and scientists in gen.
eral are deeply interested in the
modest announcement made by Pro
fessor Percival Lowell and his
associates at the Lowell Observatory
in Arizona recently that after several
partial successes and some complete
failures the greater canals of the
planet Mars had at last been photo
graphed.
Hitherto the general public has been
compelled to accept or to reject the
existence of the Martian canals on the
word of the stargaZing fraternity. But
with the accomplishment of the Har-
ward observers in Arizona everyone
will now have an opportunity to see
the actual photographs in proof of
what has long been considered as more
or less of theory.
While several photographs were
taken of the canals some weeks ago,
it was not until a few days ago that
the solar photographers were ready to
announce the complete success of the
undertaking. Professor Lowell, in the
following account of the achievement,
is unreserved in his belief that the
Marian canals closely correspond to
the familiar waterways of the same
general classification on this planet.
Up to the present time human
knowledge of Mars has been largely
theoretical-the principal facts regard
ing the planet being that it is
141 100000 miles from the sun and
approximately 47,000.00O miles from
earth. The Marian year has 6S7 days.
Mars is 1890 miles in diameter, the
earth being 1918, Jupiter $4,000 and the
sun SG6 400 miles.
'To photograph the canals of Mars"
says Professor Lowell, ''has for many
years been purpose of the observa-
tory established and maintained by
Harvard College in Arizona. The first
attempt to meet with an even approx
mate success was made in 1901. when
more or less satisfactory print was
made of the Mare Acidalium, or Lake
of Acid.
"Yet, encouraging as that pioneer
effort was, no canal could then be
detected on the negative with absolute
certainty. To-day we can state as
positive and final that there are canals
on Mars--because the photographs say
so, and a Photographic negative is
nothing if not truthful.
I'm my firm belief, it is only a
question of time, possibly of months,
maybe few years, when we shall be
able to determine the exact nature and
probable purpose of the canals of our
planetary neighbor. Meanwhile we
have number of excellent negatives
which have served to bring us a bit
closer to Mars than ever in the past
'The negatives thoroughly confirm
the eye in showing not only the exist
enee of the canals, but reveal them as
continuous lines of tens and even hun
dreds of miles in length. OF course it
is yet impossible to say positively
whether the Martian canals are of
artificial or natural creation, or exactly
of what composition is the liquid or
molten substance in them. But so far
as we can at present conceive they
appear as corresponding to our famil-
lar waterways classified under the
heading of canals.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
A RATHER STORY.
Where a Miss Was as Good as a
Mile.


Mile.
sBeing no devotee of hunting, I sell
dom carried anything but my revolver,
while my partner, an enthusiast for
any game from bear to poker, great or
small, as l was the reverse, seldom
stirred from the tent without his
double-barrelled shotgun" said the old
timer from Nevada.
AS small game was fairly plenty in
that part of the Sierras Jim generally
took the right-of-way, lest it might be
frightened away before he had an op-
portunity to- shoot. This afternoon,
however, we were merely going a short
distance up the mountain back of our
tent to see that our horses had not
strayed too far. The gun was taken as
a matter of habit, but the prospect of
meeting anything for Jim to shoot was
so slight that l pushed on ahead and
was climbing the steep mountain side,
my body inclined far forward with my
head naturally but a short distance
from the ground.
"a sudden sharp gun shot report
roared in my ear, and l felt the wind
of the blast as the charge almost
grazed my cheek.
"'Devilish careless, Jim,' 1 said,
angrily as l wheeled around. Don t
make game of your best friends with
out at least a slight warning, and
don't fear but that after such a start
ling hint I'll always let you take the
lead, though not even chipmunk is in
sight
The color rushed from my face and
was succeeded by blush of shame as
Jim quietly pointed to the mangled
body of a six-foot rattler, whose head
had been shattered into a shapeless
mass.
Well said Jim, smiling good nat
uredly, your two heads were about
two feet apart. A bit too close, 1
tNOu9nt'" ,"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
SINGULAR INDIANS OF NORTH
VEST.
The Marriage Contract a Compli-
Gated Document,

Many peculiar customs exist among
the KWakiute Indians who live along
the coast of British Columbia. These
Indians are divided into numerous
tribes or clans, entry into one of which
ing laws. Marriage among them is
considered a purchase which is con-
Quoted on sound business principles.
But the object sought is not only the
woman, but also the right of member
ship in her clan for the future children
of the couple. The privileges of the
clan are not given as n present to the
son-in-law, but he becomes entitled to
them by paying a certain amount of
property for his wife. The wife is
given to him as a first installment of
the return payment. The crest of the
clan, its privileges, and a considerable
amount of other property besides, are
given later on, when the couple have
children, and the rate of interest paid
by the Wife'S tribe increases with the
number of children. For one child,
200 per cent. of interest is paid; for
two or more children, 800 per cent.
After the entire payment is made the
marriage is annulled, because the
wife's father has redeemed his
daughter. If she continues to stay
with her husband, she does so of her
own free will. Oftentimes, however,
to avoid complications, the husband
makes a new payment to his father
in-law in order to have a claim to his
wife.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
The Postmaster Generals Pants
Fitted.

Hoke Smith, Postmaster General
during Cleveland's last administration,
tells a story of a darky employed at
his home who was usually the recipient
of all of Mr.. Smiths cast-off clothing.
Many of the coats, vests and trousers,
when cast aside, were of fine quality
and as a result this negro shone in the
society of his fellowmen. On one oc-
casion the ex-Postmaster General pur-
chased an elegant pair of trousers from
Paris. Somehow, these trousers would
not wear out. Mr.. Smith would wear
them day in and day out, rain or shine,
and if apparently soiled little clean
ing up would make them as good as
new. Try what he would, the servant
could not get the master to cast them
away.
One rainy day, Mr.. Smith came home
from ride into the country on horse
back with his trousers very much the
worse for mud and water. "Sambo," :"
he said to his helper take this pair
of pants out and give them a good
cleaning, as l want to wear them to-
morrow" Sambo came back in an
hour or two, his face sad and gloomy
Deed Marsa Hoke," he said, somehow
L can't get that thar mud off'n your
pants, dey certainly am a sight"
TRY some soap and water, Sam,'
said Mr. Smith.
Done tried soap and water. sar."
"Try some gasoline" Mr.. Smith re-
piled.
Done tried gasoline.'
"Try turpentine," desperately cried
the eXPostmaster General.
Done tried turpentine."
did you try ammonia?"
"Taint no use to try EN- on, Marsa
Hoke / knows dey'u fit"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
System of Public Education
Far Less Practical Than That
of GERMANY.

The general public school education
of the country is complacently believed
by the majority of people to be the
best in. the world. There are some
however, who insist that much of our
education is impractical and does not
fit the youth of the country for the ac-
tual hard knocks of life. and that our
school system should include a much
greater preparation of industrial work.
An examination of German educa-
tional methods places the United States
at an APPARENT disadvantage in this re-
gard. An instance of this is seen in a
series of newspaper articles published
in Frankfort, Germany, by Mr.. Helm
rich Back, the director of the Frank
fort Industrial School, who has been
twice sent by the German Government
to study the industrial schools of this
country. Mr.. Back expresses surprise
that we have not provided in our
school system for training our citizens
in special directions, instead of leaving
the establishment of trade. Industrial
and technical schools to the enterprise
of individuals or the generosity of
The result is that COM
paratively small number of these
schools are found in certain favored
parts of the United States, while in the
major portion of the country little op-
portunity is offered boys to obtain prac-
tical and thorough instruction and to
increase their value to the nation by
themselves into trained
workmen.
The German Government, on the
other hand, maintains in every part of
the empire good trade, industrial and
technical schools, drilling the youth of
the country and sending them out, each
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Questions ofLegislation.

Judge Grosscup of Chicago, who re-
Gently attained fame in his beef trust
decision, addressed the association
upon the evils winch he slid would re-
suit in case the Interstate Commerce
Commission was vested with power to
act as both prosecutor and court, as
they would if they were given power
to fix railroad rates. He took strong
ground against all rebates and discrim-
nations and declared that it would be
wise to replace the present machinery
by government bureau empowered to
investigate all complaints, with a court
of transportation to adjudge the va
rious points raised.
Resolutions were adopted embodying
this idea.
The association also indorsed the re
port of President Roosevelt's Public
Land Commission, advising the repeal
of the Timber and Stone Act and
changes in the Desert Land Act, and
the Communication Clause of the Home
stead Act to prevent land frauds. The
interest of the association in this mat
ter and in the government irrigation
work is active, since irrigation and
home building on millions of acres of
Western lands will furnish an unpar
alleled market
The proposed parcel post legislation
came in for a scoring as being inimical
| to independent manufacture and de-
stroyer of the thousands of retail and
even wholesale dealers throughout the
country with whom the farmers do
business directly and tending to fur
ther concentrate manufactures in few
great centers, and create mouopolies.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Only a Portion of Russia.

In order to appreciate the size Of
Siberia one must imagine the placing
of all of the States and Kingdoms,
principalities and empires, ETC., of Eu-
rope, excepting Russia, and all of the
United States, including Alaska, in the
territory occupied by that portion of
Russia, and then would still have a
small amount of land uncovered.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
4 Few AnerthOughts.

The negro who demanded $1,000 from a
New York life insurance company is to
be prosecuted. This man is evidently un-
familiar with the New York methods. He
should have applied for the gift through
a syndicate.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

House, but the niggardly appropria-
tions made by Congress prevented any
extensive change or improvement.
There has, however, been nothing but
approval for the changes in Mrs.
Roosevelt's garden. The location is an
ideal one, somewhat sheltered and Sc
cluded, and when the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt gave the garden party
last spring to the International Rail-
way delegates there were many words
of praise for the charming effect of the
hundreds of climbing roses, displayed
in full bloom and fragrance, their vivid
coloring contrasting well against the
walls of the east and west terraces.
Special Floral Pets.
Particular pets of the Presidents
wife are hardy shrubs and ANNALS,
too, but all of the kind with which men
and women who loved flowers a half
century ago loved to surround them
selves and with each of which for the
older generation there fingers some po-
etc or sentimental fancy. Hollyhocks
jessamine, phloX, dahlias, China asters,
lavender, rosemary, columbine, clema-
It's, peonies and smaller shrubs and
flowers have contributed generously to
the riot of color and bloom which has
pervaded this nook during the season.
The mistress of this garden delights
to pick up new plants which are yet
old, and following her various visits
to Arlington, Mount Vernon and other
places have come many packages of
new favOrites TO find an unused corner
in this old-fashioned garden.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

has grown from $6O0O,0OO in 1850. The
increase in exports, however, has been
far greater as we have, one after an
other, captured foreign markets. In
1870 We exported only a million dol
lars worth Of foreign implements; in
1900 We were at the S16,000,000 mark,
and the high water mark was reached
in 1904 with $22.700,0o0, or over one
fifth of the product.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

In British Columbia as in England
the rule of the road is Keep to the
left and you're sure to be right"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A mining engineer in Guadalajara, Mex
leo, has found a petrified apple, 16 fee
This is almost as startling
as the seedless apple fake.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

Java coffee imported 1iOI into the United
States in the last six years. 1t seems
strange that during that time grocers
throughout the country have sold $780, ,00(
pounds of pure Mocha and Java.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
Much Work Ahead.

The Niagara meeting, however,
brought forth the fact that there are
many fields as yet unconquered by our
implement makers. In sharp contrast
with the. brilliant success achieved by
American harvesting machinery in Rus,
STA, American plows are practically un-
known in that vast agricultural coun-
try. The plows used are mostly Ger
man or of local make, while the Amer
lean types of light, strong plows, cap
able of doing almost twice the work
of the Russian plows, and which have
swept everything before them in South
Africa and Australia, have thus far,
for some reason, failed to gain an en-
try into Russia.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A hunting article in Scribners' Maga-
zine. contributed by the President, says,
Ordinarily my experience has been that
bears were not flurried when 1 suddenly
came upon them" Surely the President
was discussed.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03
American Manufacturers Foremosr

1t seems that the American imple-
ment makers are progressive set and
the secret of their phenomenal sue
cess LAS been in their good organiza-
tion and the close study they have
made of the wants of the foreign peo-
pies. The American manufacturer has
made a study of conditions and has
thus beaten the Britisher with his
take it or leave it, and the German
plan of making an exact imitation of
the native or local implement.
The National Association of Agri-
cultural Implement and Vehicle Manu-
facturers is an influential body and it's
annual meetings are participated in by
some of the heaviest manufacturers in
the world. 1t takes up, in addition to
its regular business, the various broad
questions of the day as they may have
some direct or indirect bearing upon
the prosperity of their industries
Among other questions discussed at the
recent meeting were the ten-hour la
Dor day, certain phases of the tariff,
the parcel post question, ship subsidy,
the railroad rate question and the re-
peal of the land laws. The principal
discussion, as noted by the daily re-
ports, centered around the railroad
rate and land law questions and parcel
post, although there was, of course, no
dissention to the view that everything
possible should be done to expand for
eiqn trade
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

One Purman got five years in prison for
stealing a bag of wheat. He should have
taken the precaution to do his business
through the Chicago Stock Exchange.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

Columbia University proposes to abolis
hazing by expelling the hazers. TIL
Board of Directors are to be congratulate
ed on having thought out q bright idea,
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

Hall Caine has concluded that he will
not write a novel on American million
aires. He was probably unable to find
one who would make a good hero.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

The German who has built house en-
tirely of cork must be an Irishman.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-03

A clever counterfeit of the ten-dollar
Buffalo" note is being passed in New
it has the misfortune to be technically
illegal.