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Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
GEORGE Elliot and 4Romo1a. %

George Eliot's first arrangement with
the publisher Of "Romola" was for no
less o sum than 10000 guineas. "As
that is so very large figure" he said,
Il must run it through fifteen numbers
Of the Cornhill." NO" she answered;
cit must finish in twelve numbers or
the artistic effect Of the story will be
lost. quite understand the necessity
for its prolongation from a commercial
point Of view, so We'll say 1000
guineas instead Of the 10000" And
1000 guineas was accordingly paid for
the copyright. Three thousand guineas
seem large sum to give up for an
artistic scruple, but she did it.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
grease In wool rnhrics.

Few persons realize when they put
on wooden garments what large
amount of animal fats wool contains,
for to the touch woolens are not greasy.
In the big clothing shops where mems
garments are cut, however, the floors
around the tables where electric knives
clip out the odd shaped pieces soon be-
come as slippery as though they were
waXed for q dance.
why do you wax the fioors-to keep
the fabrics cleanY is a common query
from visitors.
But the clothing cutters explain that
this accumulation of grease comes
from the friction of wool cloth over the
wood. The woods pores soon become
so charged with it that they feel greasy
to the touch, and even the harder woods
in the cutting tables absorb from the
wooden fibers so much of the animal
fat that to all appearances they might
be in steady use in the rendering de-
partment of an abattoir.-New York
Press.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
The Size of Canada.

Canada is larger than the United
States by quarter of a million square
miles. Canada contains one-third of
the area of the British empire. Canada
extends over 20 degrees of latitude
from Rome to north pole. Canada Is
as large as thirty United Kingdoms.
eighteen Germanys, thirty-three Italys.
Canada is larger than Australasia and
twice the size of British India. Canada
has boundary line of 5000 miles be-
tween it and the United States. Cana
da's seacoast equals half the earth's
circumference. Canada is $500 miles
wide and 1,400 from north to south.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Different Meanings.

Some words in our language have
several meanings, each different from
the others, so that it is not always pos
sible to know at first just what thought
the speaker wishes to express. There
is the word humanitarian" for in
stance. If you will turn to your Web
ster you will find that it means, first,
one who denies the divinity of Christ
and believes him to have been merely
human; second one who limits the
sphere of duties to human relations
and affections to the exclusion of the
religious or spiritual; third, one who is
actively concerned in promoting the
welfare of his kind, philanthropist.
The third sense is the one in which the
word is now most frequently used, and
Webster marks this definition as ire
cent"
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Impure Candy.

Beware Of impure candy. Sugar in
candy quickly ferments after eating,
and if too much is eaten serious trou-
bles often result. Pure sugar dissolves
quickly in water and leaves q clear
liquid, affording an easy way of test
ing its purity. Drop a small piece of
candy in glass, and over it pour boil
ing water. Let it stand twenty-four
hours. If there is any foreign SUBJ
stance in the candy sediment will be
found in the bottom of the glass.-New
York Post.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Notice to
Taxpayers

Office of the city tax collector,
City of Jackson, County of Amador,
State of California.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO
the taxpayers of the City of Jack
SOD, that L, +. e. jackson, City Tax
Collector of the City of jackson, did
on the 18th day of Septem Der, 1906,
receive from the City Clerk and ex-
ofiicio assessor of the said City of
jackson the original assessment book
for the year 1906, containing list of
the persons assessed for real and per-
sonal property and the amount of the
city taxes due thereon for said year.
That the whole OF said taxes are
now due and payable, and payment
thereon may be made to me, between
the hours of a. m. and p. m. at my
office in the Marcia building on
Court street in the City of jackson,
California.
That said taxes will be delinquent
on the first Thursday of November,
1906, at 6 O'Clock p. ~, and unless
paid prior hereto five per cent will
be added to the amount thereof.
Taxes not paid according to law
will be delinquent and five per cent
and other costs will be added thereto.
+. E. JACKSON,
Tax collector of the City of Jack
son, California.
Dated, September IA. 1906. ct
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Bad For Creditors.

In the faraway, benighted commu-
nifty Of Damen, in Africa, the old fash
Toned method of throwing a debtor
into prison, where he is safe from the
tormenting visits of his creditors, is
not followed. Instead, he is practical
ly turned over to the mercy of the
creditors in a literal sense. A heavy
tree log is attached to his bare leg,
and this he is obliged to drag after
him wherever he goes. There is no
escaping the creditors now, and the
log remains bound to his ankle until
his debts are paid.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
MARINE sUPERsTITIoNs.
The Changing Tides and the launch
ing of the Wick Smack.

The Changing Tides and the launch
ing of the Wick Smack.
In Orkney the ebb and flow of the
tides were attributed to the breathing
Of sea monster which lay outstretch-
ed on the confines of the world. So gi-
gantic was he that the simple acts of
expiration and inspiration took twelve
hours to perform. The resemblance
between this nature myth and that of
the Greeks is very remarkable. North
country sailors scorned at one time to
use a compass, for by the motion of
the ninth wave, the mother wave, they
could, even in the densest fog, ascer-
tain their exact whereabouts and gain
the shore in safety. The launching Of
a Wick smack was for years regarded
as unlucky unless the words which fol-
low were repeated by the onlookers:
Fac rocks an saans,
An barren lan's
Keeps free,
HWeel cot, weel in,
WI a gweed shot.
Harmful II not fatal results are be-
lieved to follow the utterance of GER
tain words at sea. The salmon is ever
Zine bit fish," and swine, minister,
kirk, hare and numerous other words
are solemnly interdicted. The presence
Of minister in boat is by many re-
garded with grave concern, and it is
sometimes with the utmost difficulty
that q crew can be induced to go to sea
if minister is on board. Those who
have sailed with these half Morse, half
Celtic fishers must have taken note of
the method adopted to raise the ''wun."
The mainmast is scratched energetic
ally, and the men "whustle" the while
London Standard
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Curfositie. of Woman.

Women pin from left to right; men
from right to left. Women button
from right to left; men from left to
right. Women stir from left to right
their tea, for instance); men from right
to left. Women seldom know the diff
ference between a right and a left
shoe, and If housemaid brings up a
mans boots she will nine times out of
ten place them so that the points will
diverge. Can these peculiarities be
explained?-London Truth.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

proven very efficient both for initial
imitation and for adding more gas
while the balloon is still in air.
In the search for economical light,
the mercury vapor lamp seems thus
far to have produced more light at
less cost than any other, but the lack
of red rays gives disagreeable ghast-
~ appearance. Two German electric
ians, Prof. E. Gehrke and E. Won
Bayer, claim remedy in the addition
of zinc to the mercury electrodes.
They mix about III per cent of bis
muth and a trace of sodium with the
zinc and, using a current of not more
than 100 volts, they find the light of
the tubes not different from that of
small arc lamps, while it is superior
in taking very little cnrrent and being
perfectly steady. The experiments
are still in progress.
Castor oil powder, according to a
new Holland patent, is prepared by
precipitating the casein of liter
Of skinned milk, then adding 5
milligrams of 10 per cent sodium
carbonate solution and 40 grams of
milk sugar, and incorporating 80
grams of castor oil. The mass is
dried and powered.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
-a-,,e unIo River.

No part Of the Ohio river is in Ohio,
the boundary Of the state is the north
ern or northwestern margin Of the riv-
er. The stream itself is wholly in West
Virginia and Kentucky, where it flows
past Ohio. The northwest territory, out
OF which Ohio was formed, was defined
as the territory north and west of the
Ohio, not north and west of the middle
Of that great river.
All kinds of harness from S15 up at
P. Piccardos'.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Mutual Disgust.

Look here" complained the victim.
you said the house was only five min
utes' walk from the station. To say
the least, I'm disappointed in you"
mo more than Pm disappointed in
you," retorted the agent Il thought
you were a good fast walker" -Phila-
delphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
After.

He five years after)-All this gush
about love is extremely foolish. Wher-
ever did this stupid book come from?
1 must say the person who selected it
showed very insipid taste. She
(quietly)-It's the book you gave me
during our honeymoon, John. We read
it eleven times the first week we had
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Cash Your Checks.

1t Is not well to keep checks locked
up In your desk. Cash them 1t Is Sc
curity for yourself, If the drawer is
not entirely reliable, and a favor to
him If he Is. "Stale" checks are an
annoyance to bank officials and a gen.
eral hindrance. Cash your checks!
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
SCIENTIFIC
MISCELLANY
Reported weekly for the Ledger.

Algerian F'Iuit-Soap.- In Radium-
land Ice-Pressed Flowers. = The
Plant Food Problem. "A New State
of Matter Handy Hydrogen. =
Kerosene Gaslight. -Improved Light
Tubes-Sugar Hidden.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

Our stock is complete for winter season. with the
best line of goods to meet the peoples demand SUI
perior in quality and inferior in price, Such an offer
has never been presented in Jackson before The
prices below will convince you that The Red Front is
the highest stand for good goods at the Lowest
Prices
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

For Sale or Rent-16O acres IL
miles from lone all fenced, house
and barn, ls head of uattle, go acres
under cultivation, living springs;
also irrigating ditch. For particulars
inquire of Mrs Norman Johnson, lone
City, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
A Guaranteed cure for Piles.

Itching, blind, bleeding, protruding
piles. Druggists are authorized to
refund money if Pazo Ointment fails
40 cure in to IA days. SOC.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Sarcastic.

Softly-I'd have you to understand,
sir, that I'm not such fool as 1 look.
Sarcast-Well, then, you have much to
be thankful for.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

I know no manner of speaking so
offensive as that of giving praise and
closing it with an eXception.-Steele.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

Bind together your spare hours by
the cord of some definite purpose
Taylor.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

If an article is initiated. the orl-
ginal Is always best. Think it over,
and when you go to buy that box of
salve to keep around the house, get
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve. 1t is the
original and the name is stamped on
every box. Good for eczema, letter.
boils, cuts and bruises, and especially
recommended for piles. Sold by 4.
w. Ruhser.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

up by some of the walking delegates,
and decision demanded from the de-
partment of Justice. Then 1t was
pointed out that the law of course
literally applied to government con-
tracts, and men who are perfectly
willing to work ten hours for the ex-
ira money that there was in it were
forced to knock off at the end of eight
hours where there we're absolutely no
recreations, except long trip to the
nearest town and night of drinking
and gambling. The order has inter-
fered materially with great deal of
government work, and has increased
the cost of the irrigation projects
above mentioned as much as twenty
five per cent.
The attention of the president was
called to the situation by labor men
last spring, and he stated that he was
willing to have the law enforced where
specific instances of violation we're
brought to his attention. Such in
stances were brought, and the recent
executive order was made necessary.
One of the most interesting features
in the long label controversy between
the department of agriculture and the
packers, and one that most closely
touches the man who buys at the COR
nerl grocery shop, is to be found in
pamphlet just issued by the depart
ment telling what labels may or may
not be used on Canned fgoods and
meat food products of all sorts.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-06

In case 1t should be Bryan and
Towne in 1908 it may prove difficult
to keep the silver issue in the back.
ground. Both were known in their
youth as "silver touDged," and it is
doubtful if either has trained these
glib members into the silence said to
be golden. Enquirer.
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The posthumous exaction of unpaid
taxes on the estate of Marshall FIELD
is not proof that Mr.. Field was less
honest than other people. tut only an
other demonstration of the mockry
which our attempts at personal taxat-
ion present all over the country
BaltimoreAmerican.
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MRS. SAGE is
OVERWHELMED BY
BEGGING LETTERS

New YORK, August e.-Mrs. Russell
Sage has been overwhelmed with beg.
ging letters from all over the United
States and from foreign countries.
Some of them show by their poEmark 8
that they were mailed as soon AZ the
news Of Mr.. Sage's death was m ade
public.
Mrs. Sage today at her shome at
Law erenoe, L. l., authorized the
statement that she would pay no at
tention to begging letters. She does
not read them beyond such perusual
as Is necessary to establish their char
acter Nons of them will be answered.
More than 700 letters asking Mrs.
Sage for aid reached here at her Law.
erence cottage this week and several
hundred more were addressed TO the
Russell Sage office. The clerks at
the office threw these into the waste
basket.
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The only tainted money that every
body is not reaching out an itching
palm for lie the sum in the possession
of George Rossett. the Syrian leper
who is living in box Car in the sub.
urbs of Baltimore. brooklyn Times.
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1t is pleasing to learn that MI. j.
Pierpcnt Morgan returned from
Europe Sin q cheerful frame Of
mind" 1t might prove disasterous
GUNNER for us if he should be displas-
ed about anything the country had
done in his absence. Washington
Post.
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tits only fair to assume that when
d. Col. Bryan hobnobbed with King Ed
ward he did SO as datto, not as a
leader and champion Of the common
people Kansas City Jonrnl.
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That Paris aeronant who is unable
to get enough hot ali to fill his talooD
can be accommodated by CON ing to
Wisconsin. -Milwaukee Sentinel.
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MONDAY. AUGUST 6, 1906

Air navigation has been in its in
fancy" about long enough to have
reached it's second childhood. Chi
cago Tribune.
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Gen. Stoessel is probably beginning
to see the hand of providence in his
dismissal from the Russian army
New Orleans Times.
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Yearning.
When IN fair July
There's a blazing sky
And the air is liquid gold,
Then ! long to go
Where the trees bend low
And the troutlets lurked of old.
For the boys have gone,
BY the whlsp' rings drawn
OF the brook aud glade and glen.
And such tales they'll bring
And such songs they'll sing
When they come back again.
And | yearn to slip
From my tasks Arm grip
Long to whip for the festive trout
So that l. too, may
When shall come that day
Have some things to yarn about.
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used in spelling the two words.
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Eighty Prize Credit Certificates for
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price of any new high grade piano in
our warerOOmS.
CONDITIONS
Only such words of the English Ian
guage are to be used as are found in
Webster's International Dictionary.
No names of persons or places or plu-
rails are to be used. Do not use letter
more times than it appears in the two
words JOHNSTON PIANOS.
Words spelled the same, but having
different meanings, can be used but
once.
Make out your list of words in al
phabetical order. giving the number il
contains, sign your full name and add
dress and send it to ID. S. Johnston Co.,
9O3 Second Avenue, marked publicity
Department., also state whether you
have piano or organ and what make.
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later than o'clock. August Is, 1906.
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Humor qno Philosophy
BY DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

White lies are often used to give col
or to story.
One way to keep wine from going to
your head is to keep TIC wine in
bottle.
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Generous Minded.

There's one very noticeable thing
about Brown
What Is II?
Hes always willing to acknowledge
that he is right"
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Summer Song.

Down In the field where the clover grows.
Where the sun drenched air the song birc
knows,
Where the crimson petals the heart dis
close
The golden heart Of the fragrant rose,
We wHnder at will
Our hearts athrnl
In the wonderful summer weather.
But down from the hills comes a gentle
man COW.
UNLIMITED. but keen to start row.
He lowers his head and shows us how
We may our backbones tor plow,
Then over the ferce
He tosses us h.nce.
Aad we land in the ditch together
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Humor ana Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The contingent that would rather be
right than be in Jail is considerably
larger than the one that would rather
be right than be president.
If things have no bright side. use
your biceps and polish up.
A person of mathematical mind
would rather get the average than go
to heaven.
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FOR SALE-Farm Land

sing
Not According to Specifications.
what kind of Il dish is this. Mrs.
Maybe
That Is new health food"
impossible. One can eat 1t ard en-
joy It,
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Extenuating Circumstances.
First Girl - Aren't men the stupid
things?
Second Girl-Yes, but just think how
much more clever we'd have to be II
they We're smart!
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Unusual Thing.
HE fell in love with the cook"
THE monster. | suppose it caused no
end of scandal"
mo: people were only moderately
surprised. You see the cook was his
wife"
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Fighting Combination.

Il am going to have me big brudder
lick you"
Huh, me big brudder will eat him
up"
Has youse got big brudder?'
"Sure. an he is dead tough"
Say. let's be friends. Wild dat back
in we kin bluff de hull town"
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A backbone that is stiff only under
pressure isn't TO he relied upon.
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Quite Different.

Quite Different.
HE saved her life when she was al
most drowned"
Il suppose she is going to marry
him."
mo; she always was so original"
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Not Explorers Either.

who WAS Fourth Of July discovered
by?''
1.-The fellows who had been up the
hight before and wanted to sleep that
morning"
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.'Gayzer seems to be having a prett,
gay time. Doesn't his wife object?'
"Yes, that's why he enjoys 1t So"
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The applause of the multitude may
not be intellectual, but it is intoxicat-
ing.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-06

Half Il loaf is better than whole
hand out.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-06

Kindness is Il quality we all like the
other fellow to possess and use for our
benefit
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An ounce of prevention gives the
skidoo to the investigating committee.
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Repentani.

''She IL trying to live down her past
Poor thing. An unfortunate mar
riage.'
No. she used to think that she could
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A Fellow Feeling.
Giddy Girl Don't YOU just love q
wedding:
Moody Man-Csn't say l do. I'm
married man myself.
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That hoarse roar may be thunder,
but it probably is a baseball game.
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Hard Lines
where are You living now?"
I'VE aren't living at all now; we're
boarding"
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No fool likes an old fool.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-06

What happens when people fall
love at first sight:
Usually marriage and second sight
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