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Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
SCENES IN RURAL FRANCE.
Ideal Spot for the Home of Love, But
Young Folks Have De-
parted.

It would be difficult to find a more
suitable background for love making
than the rural landscape of central
France affords. Earth and sky combine
their beauties to form rustic paradise.
In June nature wanders down the fer
tile river valleys like lovely princess
who is crowned with flowers and goes
her way. carelessly, yet nobly, yelled
softly in rosy mist.
Whether you follow the high road or
the meadow path, presently you find
yourself lost in a veritable tanglewood
of sound and sense. Above the other
bird notes which thrill the air, the
cuckoo's call sounds clear, the cricket
chirps home song at your feet, and in
the neighboring clump of trees wood
pecker whistles for rain.
To the right the river, at this point in
its course no more than a creek. winds
gracefully between sweet meadows, or
under willow branches; further down,
where it widens out, just beyond the
small arched bridge, there is an old mill
and washhouse standing in the
stream. To the right, at distance, the
hilltops are outlined against a summer
sky, and ahead are uplands which seem
to touch the lightly floating clouds.
Yet youth is absent from every corner
Of the scene, and without youth you can
not have romance. IN the wide fields
where poppies flame in the waving
grass, and where bullets nod lightly mid
the ripening grain, you see only odd peo-
pie working, bending their backs wear
lily beneath double weight of toll and
years. For all the young men are serv-
ing in the army.
And the girls have gone to Paris, or
to some other lesser city nearer by, not
to earn a living merely, but also, if pos
sible, to earn dot.
You cannot help feeling that it is a
pity that strangers only, who are rarely
in a picturesquely sentimental mood.
have a chance to enjoy the attractive
lovers hooks that in this neighborhood
abound, the while the rightful owners
are far away, plodding through the
prose of life.
In the village customs hereabout,
however, trace of the poetry of the
country life of former days remains In
the crowning of the Rosiere which
takes place in early June. This is the
occasion when the most virtuouS
maiden of the parish receives a rose In
acknowledgment of her goodness, and
receives likewise a dowry, which has
been provided either by the cure or by
some kind-hearted aristocrat Of the
countryside.
The crowning of the Rosiere is always
charming festival, even though the
rustic queen of virtue who has been
chosen is homely, and utterly without
grace of manner-which is usually true
of course, else she would not be so sur.
passingly good. Dressed all in white
she goes through the streets on the
mayors arm, followed by a procession
of white-robed maidens bearing gar.
lands of flowers.
With appropriate ceremony the
mayor presents to her the crown OF
roses, the dowry which has been pro.
vided, and possibly little gift of his
own, as souvenir of the occasion.
/" Sometimes the festival ends in we'd
ding, and the Rosiere becomes the happy
bride of some rustic suitor, who appre-
ciated her virtues even before they won
her a dot.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
oLD-WoRLD ODDITIES.

A stork walked into a church at
Roermond, Holland, the other evening,
and stood on one leg on the top of
the pulpit until the end of the service
The owner of a house in a London
suburb altered the number 13 to 12A.
The borough authorities objected, and.
though he pleaded that he could not
let a house numbered 13, they made
him replace the 13 on the door.
A retired army lieutenant has been
arrested at Nauplia, Greece, owing to
having predicted some weeks ago that
M. Delyannis, the premier, would be
assassinated on June 13, which was
the murder was foretold to him in a
dream.
Apropos of a statement that coal
would appear strange article of die" j"
a correspondent writes to the West
minister Gazette saying that it is not
only children and cats who regard it
as luxury, as he has an Irish water
spaniel which makes away with num-
Der of Jumps day unless the coal is
kept out of his reach.
In the fashionable West end of Lon
don teacup especially made for for
tune telling is being sold. The cup is
engraved on the inside with the mystic
symbols of the fortune-teller-a bell,
heart, horse-shoes, and so on. The tea
leaves at the bottom are twirled round
the cup, and according to the position
or objects on which they stick so is ones
fortune.
Portsmouth, England, has passed
an ordinance for the suppression of
cock-crowing. The chicken fanciers say
it cannot be suppressed, but the Lon
don News says that a partial remedy
consists in placing perch where the
cock roosts so high that when he stands
up to crow he knocks his head against
the roof and desists. A swinging
board hung over his head answers the
same purpose, it says.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Substituting Bureaucratic Methods.

Some of the leading points in the
address that Samuel Spencer recently
made before the Newark, N. D.,
Board of Trade concerning proposed
legislation that were not contained in
the condensed press dispatches are as
follows:
cup to the present time, shipper
| and carrier have been free to work
together without political interior
ence, to facilitate the esta ablished and
development of new industries; to
reach out for new markets for our
farmers and manufacturers; to create
new communities and maintain the
prosperity of those already establish
ed, and to cooperate to the fullest
possible extent to enlarge the volume
OF both our domestic and foreign
trade.
''lt is now proposed to change this
system and substitute for 1t one in
which artificial bureaucratic methods
will take the place of the natural
laws of trade and commerce which
have been the controlling force and
evolution of the present system.
''And it must be borne in mind
that it is proposed to give those
enormous powers to body on whom
no responsibilities rest or can rest for
the preservation or maintenance of
the railroad property or for the dis
charge of its financial obligations or
the fulfilIment of It's duties to the
public as an efficient common carrier
eff it were proposed that the gov
ernment should acquire the owner
ship of all the railroads of the
country and assume the responsible
ity for their operation and manage
ment, the payment of their obligations
and the protection of the capital In
vested, entirely different questions
would arise. But that is not the
plan proposed by the legislation now
being urged. 1t is proposed to grant
power over the earning capacity with
out imposing corresponding RESPONSE
bility for the necessary expenses and
risks of conducting the business. ="
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
lone VALLEY NOTES.

Miss M. Gertrude McGaw, a teacher
in the high school, was summoned
to her Oakland home Wednesday, as
her mother had suffered a paralytic
stroke. j. Marchant took her tc
Stockton to catch the afternoon train,
as the train, had pulled out from the
depot here when she received the
telephone.
Morris Jones, as administrator o1
the estate of Bernhard lsaacs, deceas
ed, has executed a deed to the proper.
ty on Main street, containing lsaacs
hall below and Fraternity hall above,
| the property passing into the possess
ion of lone parlor, No, 33, Native
Sons of the Golden West The deco
is made to the trustees OF the par lor,
who are at present j. q. Jones, Ed
Riley and Walter Stewart.
The members of the parlor propose
to do considerable work on the prop.
erty and put it in good shape. 1t Is
said that some important changes
will be made in the arrangements OF
the upper story of the building. The
price paid was S2750.
Charley Swift's dogs are now two
years old and have killed nine coy yotes
during the past year.
Selim Clifford, the half breed
Indian, who was raised near here and
was generally liked by those who
knew him, was stabbed seven times
by other half-breeds near the Slough
house. 1t is said that SeIim Clifford,
Tom Valencia, William Smith and a
boy named Cleveland Ray, all half
breeds, who were employed on the
Sheldon ranch gathering corn, had
been at the Slough house and had
gambled. The Sacramento officers
believe they also had liquor to drink.
Valencia and Smith left the road
house and while later Selim and the
boy started for the Sheldon ranch
A short distance from the Slough
house the former pair attacked Selim
and the boy when they came along
and inflicted seven knife wounds on
Selim; one deep wound in the left
side and one across his abdomen
caused his death Sunday night. 1t is
said that an attempt was made to k ill
the Ray boy also, but that the lad
sprinted for his life and escaped with
only slight wound on the back of
his head. Valencia and Smith are
held for the murder of Selim Cliffo ord,
the Sacramento officers also holding
Cleveland Ray as witness.
Charley Swift sold % head OF his
horses and mules, with their harness,
to the company that is constructing
the Ocean Shore railroad, from San
Francisco to Santa CIuz.-Echo.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
MAKING FIREcRAcKERS.
Laborious Methods Employed by
the Chinese and Low
Price.

when was in China I used to see
them made" said c. M. Vest of Mime
apolis. "The firecracker has been in use
there few thousand years. Few peo-
pie outside of China know the method Of
manufacture. The straw paper is first
rolled by hand around an iron rod, which
varies in size according to the size of the
cracker to be made. To complete the
rolling a rude machine is used. This
consists of two uprig,hts supporting an
axis, from which is suspended by two
arms heavy piece of wood, slightly
convex on the lower side.
There is just room between this
swinging block and the top of the table
to place the cracker. AS each layer Of
paper is put on by hand, the cracker is
placed upon the table, and the suspend
ed weight is drawn over the roll, thus
tightening it until no more can be
passed under the weight. For the small
er whip cracker the workman uses for
compression, instead of this machine, a
heavy piece of wood fitted with a handle
ike that of carpenters plane. In fill
ing crackers 200 or 300 are tied together
in bunch.
Red clay is spread over end of each
cracker with punch. While the clay
is being tamped in, little water is
sprayed on it, which makes it pack
closer. The powder is poured in the
other end of the cracker. With the aid
of an awl the edge Of the paper is
.urned in at the upper end of the crack
er, and the fuse is inserted through this.
That is the way the Chinese make them.
In China they can be purchased at a
cost of 81 cents for 10000, although the
best quality commands twice that
price"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
ESN,e~ce.a These are the Original Little
V<enSSNN Liver Pills, first put up over
keWeNS 40 years ago, by old DR.. R V
S ALWAYS "JUST AS GOOD"
Another Piece Of Impertinence That
the Shopper Is In For from
: Druggists.

They were matching experiences in
,rder to kill time, and one of them
'emarked that he had struck a new
wrinkle in the drug stores that puz-
lied him, says the Providence Journal.
''It's well understood" he explained
that wherever you go these days,
when you're on shopping expedition,
something that's just as good as the
thing you ask for and want will be
forced on you, whether you're after a
yeast cake or smoked ham. That's
to be expected. And half the time
you'll have to take something that's
Just as good, or go without, because
they don't keep your brand. Moreover,
you'll be Informed that nobody keeps
your brand, and that there's precious
little demand for it among people of
intelligence, so that before you're
through you'll be more than half
ashamed of yourself for expressing
preference. All that's commonplace;
but lately, as 1 said, I've noticed
new one. I'll order bottle or package
OF mixture I've always used, and when
the apothecary is wrapping it up with
that deft touch apothecaries have. he'll
look at me compassionately ans say in
a soft, purring tone of voice: We've
a preparation of our own we consider
far superior to this, and we sell it 10
cents cheaper His bottle or package.
he adds, is much larger than the one
you're buying.
That kind of conversation makes me
little tired and provoked, and doat
quite see what it means. What differ
ence does it make to the druggist which
portion of his stock carry off? have
TO pay his prices and he can charge me
whatever he sees fit, whether take one
thing or another"
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Aetna School Report,

The following are the names of the
pupils, who we're neither absent nor
tardy during the month of October:
Media Morie, Arthur Belluomini.
Carrie Leonesio, Earl Garbarini,
Ralph Garbarini, Edith Thompson,
Clarence Brown, Hilda Ferrari, Cora
Fuller, Dora Mcmahon, Maude
McMahon, Emmet Garbarin1, Ray
Thompson, GuiIermo Traverse, Katie
DaIporto, Charles DigitaIe, Frank
Brown, John Leonesio, Dave Don
dero, Chester HoItz, Francis Gar
barini, Verena Bernecich, Byard
Holtz, Josephine Foppiano, Martina
Genollo, Earnest Brown, Emmett
Murphy, julia Foppiano.
Days attendance 986; days. absence
26; number of tardlnesses IL; average
number belonging 513; average daily
attendance 1913; percentage of attend
ance SO; pupils enrolled 90.
Principal Miss K. Driscoll.
Carrie NJ. Badaraco.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17

SAFE DEPOSIT.-Safe deposit boxes can be
rented from the Bank of Amador County at the
small expense of 35 cents a 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 pos toff1ce 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 hy 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., 1905-11-17

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
d1f1dence 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 practtced 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
anteed Persons cured at home. Charges reas-
enable. Call or write
DIR. J. F. GIBBoN. 500 Kearney street. Sap
Francisco. Cal
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
Diplomat Has N;ckname

Baron Speck Won Sternberg. German
ambassador, is the only member of the
diplomatic corps who can boast the pop-
ular distinction of a nickname. He is
known as "Speck."
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17

That's the personal question woman
asks herself when she reads of the cures
OF womanly diseases by the use of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Why shouldn't it cure her?
Is it complicated case? Thousands
OF such cases have been cured by ''Fa-
vorite Prescription" Is it condition
which local doctors have, declared in
durable? Among the hundreds of thou
sands of sick women cured by the use of
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription there
are great many who were pronounced
lncurable by local doctors. Wonders
have been worked by "Favorite Pre-
scription" in the cure of irregularity,
weakening drains, Inflammation, ulcera-
tlon and female weakness. 1t always
helps. 1t almost always cures.
II commenced taking your medicine. Fa-
vorite Prescription nearly a year ago for
chronic Inflammation of womb. and can truly
say it is the only thing that ever did me any
good" writes Mrs. L. G; Wagner, Of lg5 Edwin
not walk any distance before using it. After
taking six bottles of your 'Favorite Pre-
scription l find can walk without difficulty
and am greatly benefited in general health
Would advise all suffering women to use DE-.
Pierce'S medicine"
i1eS Ps afe 'ae fst pGt ap Ltte dTee
keWeNs 40 years ago, by old DR. R, V.
initiated but never equaied. Smallest. east
est to, take and best. They're tiny. sugar
coated. anti bilious granules, compound of
refined and concentrated vegetable extracts.
without disturbance or trouble, cOnStipa
tion. Indigestion, bilious attacks, sick and
bilious headaches, and all derangements of
the liver stomach and bowels are prevented.
BY their mild and natural action. these little
Pellets gently lead the system into natural
ways again. Their influence ldSts.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17

Give us daily some good bread. Pho
neer -four makes the best.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
GYpsies on the Sea.

In the archipelago off Mergui, off the
:oast of Lower Burma, Asia, live the
sea gypsies." Instead of carts they
OWN covered boats, in which with their
amilies, dogs, cats, chickens and pets.
hey float about on the sea and wander
rom island to island. By day they fish
,r harpoon turtle or dive for oysters.
But every night they put back to the
shore. If the weather is bad at sea
hey land with their dogs and then
ooach, catching porcupines, squirrels,
irmadilloes, hog, deer and the like, of
which they make savory stews, as
American gypsies do.-Chicago Jour
lal. --------
Realty syndicate" Continental
b & l. Stock. Certificates and stock
of above companies redeemed for cash.
Full cash price. Geo. ID. Shadburne
Jr. 512 Call Building, San Francisco.
ep8-tf
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
WEBB
United States COMMISSIONS
jackson

JACKSON, AL.
Will attend to Homestead and other filings
taking of final proofs and all other Land
Business.
Deeds and other legal documents drawn up.
Agent for Phoenix Assurance Company OF
London, and Washington Providence Fire In
Surance Companies. ie22tf
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
BANK OF AMADOR COUNTY
Incorporated November, 1895
Capital Stock $4,000
BOARD oF DIRECTORS

BOAHD OF DIRECTUHS.
Alfonso Ginocchio, S. G. Spagnoli, John Strohm
Frederick Eudey and Alex Eudey of Jackson.
Amador ledger., 1905-11-17
TO THE UNFORTUNATE
DR.. GIBBON

This old reliable and
themost successful spe'
cialist in San Francis
CO stillcontinues to cure
all Sexual and Seminal
Diseases such as Ghon
orrhea, ,Gleet. Structure
Syphilis in all it's forms
Skin Diseases, Nervous
De bility, Impotency
Seminal Weakness, and
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04
Preston

Miss Alpha Ruppe went to Ely
on the stage last Saturday.
A. Bruno and wife came up from
Little Cherry Greek on their way to
Ely on business.
c. w. Jensen started Saturday to
attend the Sunday School Conven-
ton, to be held in Cedar City, Ut.
on May 9th.
A crowd of young people went to
Barnes last Thursday night to at
tend ball given as farewell party
in honor of Miss Mildred Moyle,
the late Stockville school teacher.
Justice of the Peace Albert Gee
made two lovers happy last We'd
nesday by uniting them in wedlock.
The happy couple was Mr.. Vince
Tilby> and Miss Nora Thompson.
The wedding took place at the
home of the bride. After supper
they gave grand ball in the Pres
ton hall, where an enjoyable time
was spent with dancing and songs.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04
Pilot Knob

Base ball is the one topic of the
hour at present. The boys turned
out en- masse and cleared the sage
brush from large space of ground,
which will be laid off for a base
ball park and regular practice will
be engaged in in the future. The
new outfit has arrived and is a good
one, with the very latest equip
ments; i'll fact, everything for the
convenience of a ball player. 1t is
most opportune time for the cit
liens of Ely to announce program
for a celebration to be held in Ely
on July 4, when the question of SUI
premacy may be decided in the
many different sports, such as base
ball and drilling contests. The
champion single handed driller is
still with us and is quite anxious to
enter the contest if suitable in
duceinents are offered. Let some
public-spirited citizen take the mat
tea up soon and push it to success
full issue.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04
Yen Henry's Chop House.
IN REAR OF BASSETT'S SALOON
MEALS AT ALL HOURS
FRESH BREAD FOR SALE .
Notice Of Hearing Of Final Account
and Petition for Distribution.
In the Matter Of the Estate OF
Geo. w. Baker, Deceased.

IN THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WHITE
PINE.
Notice is hereby given that the final
account OF Philip M. Baker, the TX
ecutor of the estate of Geo. w. Baker,
deceased, has bsen rendered to the said
court for settlement, and that a petition
for the final distribution of the estate
has been filed with said account. and
that the 26th day of May, A. D. 1905,
at 10 o'clock A. M, has been appointed
the time for the settlement OF the said
account and hearing of said petition, at
which time any person interested in the
said estate may appear and enter his
AFFECTIONS to the said account, and con
test the same. Sii
F. d. OLDFIELD, Clerk.
Dated May 3, 1905.
First publication May 4, 1905
Last publication May %, 1905
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04

The heavy Snow oisMonday and
Tuesday will retard surface work
somewhat, but will be of material
benefit to ranch and range.
The grading at the Giroux shaft
is completed, with the exception OF
some blasting in some parts where
bedrock is the most prominent, and
the grading outfit is now excavating
for a large hotel just below the
Giroux shaft adjoining the smelter
site The hotel will be welcomed
by all, as the one now in use is too
small to accommodate the number
of men here at present. The ma
terial for the building is arriving in
large quantities and the structure
will soon be reality.
Quite number Of locations have
been made recently in this locality
and the necessary work is being
done upon them.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04
Notice Of Hearing Of Final Account
and Petition for Distribution.
In the Matter Of the Estate O,
William Hayes, Deceased.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF
THE STATE CT NEVADA, IN AMI
FOR THE COUNTY OF WHITE PINE.
Notice is hereby given that the final
account OF Ellen Hayes, the Executrix
of the estate of William Hayes, de.
ceased, has been rendered to the said
court for settlement, and that a petition
for final distribution of the estate has
been filed with said account, and that
Friday, Tho Goth day of May, A. d.
1905, at 10 o'clock A NJ, has been APP
pointed the time for the settlement
OF the said account and hearing of said
petition, at which time any person in
terested in the said estate may appear
and enter his objections to the said ac-
count and contest the same.
F. d. OLDFIELD, Clerk.
Dated May LIST, A. d 1905.
First publication May 4. 1905. 3
Last publication May 25, 1905.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1905-05-04
WAN ED

As soon as possible hens
and S ROSTERS; healthy, ftlll-grown
chickens, not over two years old /;
Plymouth Rock, Black Spanish.
Yellow and White Leghorn breeds
preferred; will pay Sc per doz. cash.
WONG YONG, Ely, New.
Apply at the News office.