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JUST RECEIVED--A CARLOAD AN,
derson'' celebrated buggies runabouts
NOW IS the lime to buy. w. X. BACHE
e SONS, l4OG East Main Street.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

a leasing bill which will give some pro-
lection to the overcrowded grazing
lands and at thr same time afford the
honest settler an advantage at all times
to establish home, is considered to be
dubious question. Chairman Lacey's
leasing bill does not seem to be much
of an improvement upon the measures
previously brought before Congress.
Unless the small stockman and the
homesteader, with 25 or so head of
cattle or a band of 100 or 200 sheep,
feels that he is to be protected, and not
driven out of business by the big out
fits, he will kill this bill as he has
killed all such previous bills which
have been presented.
Viewed from a broader standpoint
the danger to the country lies in tying
up under lease large areas of fertile
country which are suitable for home
making under their present natural
condition without irrigation, and which
are gradually settled as further know
ledge is gained of them, and better
methods of farming them are intro
duced
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
A Fair Patent Attorney.

Miss Florence H. King of Chicago en-
joys the distinction of being one of the
few women patent attorneys registered
in the Patent Office at Washington.
Fifteen years ago Miss King, then an
ignorant country girl, earning her l1v-
ing as domestic, chanced to over
hear a quarrel between two families
which was taken to court for settle
ment. Miss King was subpoenead, as
witness, and among other undreamed
of things which dawned upon her in
the course of the trial the occupation
of the court stenographer was the most
interesting. After court adjourned she
questioned the court stenographer on
what he had been doing and his ans
wers settled the vexing question of a
profession for herself. She was not
satisfied to remain a domestic; the
more genteel employment of a school
teacher, which her family had suggest
ed, did not appeal to her. 81 will be-
come court stenographer," she said.
At this point in the story of her life
Miss King said with smile: Having
become court stenographer 1 wanted
to become the court"
In May, 1895, Miss King was admit
ted to practice at the bar of Illinois.
She specialized on patents, and soon
relinquished court reporting to devote
herself to her practice.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

of the river-22 feet wide-just the
width of the steamer and the scraping
and scratching of the branches on
either side awoke me. We stepped out
on deck, and saw the most wonderful
sight of all, "The Gates" as it is called
Here the stream is so narrow that the
branches of the great cypress meet
overhead, and the gray Spanish moss
hangs down like a long delicate veil
1t all seemed very uncanny, as if the
witches were after us, with gurgling
water and the disturbed birds scream
ing and crying like lost children.
The next morning when we left the
Oklawaha and passed into the Silver
Spring, the water suddenly became as
clear as if cut off with a knife. I'm
mense gar-fish and catfish swan about
in shoals. A large hawk perched on an
old dead trunk, and great blue heron
winged his stately way, slowly over
our heads. We soon landed and with
regret bade goodbye to our pleasant
fellow travellers. We reached Eustis at
half past five for it had taken all day
to make 20 miles.
At Eustis We spent nearly two weeks,
surrounded by lakes and pine woods.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
FROM ANAsTAsA IsLAND.-oLD FORT MARION

tive measures as suggested themselves
to himself and his son, DR.. Perry A.
Terhune.
After a time doctor Dick" found
that he could no longer retain food,
and gave up eating. For five weeks
nothing except water, and now and
then a little medicine passed his lips
One Sunday night several physicians
dropped in to see him, and he took the
opportunity to enlarge upon his nom
starvation theory.
You see," he began with a smile,
81 cannot retain anything but water,
yet l am strong and able to move free
ly about in bed. 1 am proving my old
theory that no one ever really dies of
hunger. So-called death from hunger
is simply due to terror, if there is
plenty of water to be had.
81 will call your attention to the
case of young girl that came under
my own observation. She was i'll with
a disease which was pronounced in
durable by skilled physicians. That
girl did not eat anything for forty
eight days except about half a soda
cracker day. Did she die? Not a bit of
it. On the contrary she got entirely
well, and in the forty-eight days when
she did not eat, she pursued the even
tenor of her ways, went to parties and
danced too"
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
STARVATION SELDOM OCCURS.
Doctor Proves Theory That Terror
More Frequently Causes Death.

DR.. Richard A. Terhune, dean of the
physicians of Passaic, N. Y, by whom
he was always spoken of affectionately
as Doctor Dick" died at his home re-
Gently of intestinal cancer He had not
eaten anything for over a month, and
to the last bantered his brother prac-
titioners on the fact that he was a liv-
ing example of his pet theory that no
one would die of starvation if he had
plenty of water to drink.
The aged physician, who was a stall
wart man, became i'll about seven
months ago. He speedily diagnosed his
ailment as intestinal cancer,and gave
out fatal prognosis of his own case
All the Passaic physicians and scores
more from the neighboring town and
cities called on him in the months of
his illness, with many suggestions as
to treatment, but he turned deaf ear
to all and only employed such pallia-
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CONTINUED on page 81.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
LEASING PUBLIC LANDS.
DANGER TO THE HOMESTEAD IN
ATTEMPTS TO PROVIDE LIVE
STOCK GRAZING.
Measures Pending in Congress to
Allow Stockmen to Fence and
Graze-Difficul,y Lies in Protect
ing Rights of Settlers.

There is a strong movement afoot
and several bills have been introduced
in this Congress to provide a system
OF renting or leasing the public graz
ing lands of the West at a small charge
of from one to five cents per acre.
There are some 300,000,OOO acres OF
western public lands which come under
the general classification of Grazing
Lands" some of which are extremely
barren in character almost desert
and are capable of sustaining live
stock at the rate of only about one
head of cattle to 80 or 40 acres; other
lands where there is more rainfall, are
much better for grazing purposes, ana
some of the best of them are capable
OF sustaining steer on probably 2, 3
or 8 acres. Many of the latter class are,
however, suitable for homesteads.
The difficulty has always been, as it
is today, to provide rental plan which
will give stock raisers sufficient con-
troll of the land to warrant them in
fencing it and improving it's grazing
capacity, at the same time leaving the
conditions such that the settler and
prospective home-steader will at all
times have free access thereto.
Under the improved methods of farm
ing advocated by the Department of
Agriculture, and the new drought re-
sisting crops which are being intro
duced by that Department, large tracts
hitherto considered fit for nothing but
grazing, are being constantly brought
under the head of agricultural land.
The climatic conditions of the inter.
mountain region are extremely varied,
and the settler (where he is not hin
dered by stock growing interests which
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

An ancient gentleman telling of Alex
andria in Washington's day, announced
that breeches were hung on hooks and
the wearer donned them by going up
three steps and then letting his person
down into them from above. Such
breeches hooks can be seen at the pres
ent time in the Roberdean home in
Alexandria.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

An old lady has recalled that the
first boots for women's wear came in
fashion in 1928. They were laced at
the sides and CATERS and boots both
had fringes at the top.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

In the new uniform recently adopted
by the Chinese army the only badge
distinguishing a general from private
is one Of three gold buttons on a sleeve.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

Permanganate of potash is being
successfully used in India as an anti.
dote for the bite and venom of the
dreaded cobra.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

Gold coins usually remain in circu-
lation twice as long as copper ones.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06
Mattresses Of Moss.

Mattresses Of Moss.
This Florida moss, by the way. IS
not moss at all, but a kind of minute
pineapple, and it seems that both it
and the pineapple are true air plants
There is no underbrush in these Flori>
da pine woods except now and then
patches of scrub palmetto, which looks
like the ordinary ornamental fan palm
that we cultivate for ornament in the
north, except that it never grows high
nor has any trunk.
Coming over little rise we would
perhaps look down on a pretty lake, it's
banks lined with orange groves. Every
drive we took showed US several new
lakes so that this seems well named
the Lake Region of the state.
: Colonel T. has a beautiful home
among the pines, and there 1 plucked
my first orange and grape fruit, my
first lime and lemon. There, also, saw
the fragrant blossom, the green orange
and the ripe, yellow fruit, all growing
on one tree. One of the finest groves
we visited contained 1000 trees, cover
ed with oranges, while many of the
trees were full of bloom. These brides
flowers look like white wax stars
among the rich, dark, vanished leaves,
and the trees met overhead, forming
arches under which we drove-one of
the most attractive sights imaginable.
We pulled all the fruit and blossoms
we wanted. 1t is a fascinating expert
ence to stand under a large orange or
grapefruit tree, and look up through
the branches, the leaves so rich and
green, with golden globes hanging
from them, their weight sometimes
bending the branches to the ground,
and all this wealth of vendure grow
ing out Of white sand.
Picnicing Among The Oranges.
On the first day of March we drove
to the young grove in which my hus-
band and son were interested, there
picnicing in the pine woods along
side and sucking oranges by the dozen.
This reminds me that when oranges
are ripe-and the season is six months
long-you never take a water bottle
with you when you go driving through
Florida
The mornings and evenings have
been cool enough for a little fire, but
the days are like those of our northern
June. We saw bananas growing, and
the long purpllSh blossom is very odd.
The fruit grows exactly upside down.
Eustis Park is pretty place; just
a drive through pine woods almost
clothed in Spanish moss. They bury
this moss in the sand to rot off the out
side, the inside fiber making a good
substitute for hair which is used in the
manufacture of mattresses. There are
several factories, 1 am told, in the
State which make fine mattresses out
of this moss. In the Park the gray
squirrels chase each other up and
down the branches, and we counted
IA in less than two minutes. The blue
herons fly continually back and forth,
and the little ponds through the park
are full of white water lilies. Next
week will tell you about real south
ern darky baptism. C. G. G.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

Each day we drove through the deep
sand, the horse just walking; but it
was lovely, lazing along after this fash
ion, through pine woods, tall straight
trees with a sheaf of leaves at the top,
and always the gray moss swinging
gracefully in the breeze.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-06

are naturally against any settling and
development of their regions), is con-
stantly encroaching upon their graz
ing domain and finding new localities,
here and there, of very great aggre-
gate extent, where he can acquire a
successful foothold to carry on agri-
cultural operations.
The Lacey Leasing Bill.
One bill in particular has been intro
duced by Chairman Lacey of the Public
Lands Committee of the House, and is
apparently intended to protect small
stockmen as we'll as to prevent any re-
strictions against the settler. In the
first place it provides that no corpora
tion can lease government land. A
man who had homestead or owns
a piece of land, may lease as much as
5000 acres, which in most grazing To-
calities would not be an excessive
amount. The measure provides that
such leases shall not be transferred,
and that where they include watering
places there shall be left open fright
of way for other stockmen to pass
through the land and to use the water
for their stock. 1t also leaves the
leased land open at all times to home
stead entry by actual settlers.
On the face of it this looks equitable.
and as though it might be administered
so as not to work to the detriment of
settlement and of the small stock
holder. On the other hand it seems
apparent that it would be exceedingly
difficult to prevent big cattle corpor-
alton from hiring a dozen cowboys to
take up homesteads in their own names
erecting thereupon shanty residences,
as has been done in thousands of cases
in the West, and simply to hold their
claims and their 5000 acres each, of
leased land, for the benefit of their
employers; SO that single cattle bar
on might easily acquire the use of 80
or 40 thousand acres.
Hard for the Homesteader.
1t is also not at all certain that once
holding a lease to the land and with a
fence around it, the cowboy might not
bulldoze intending settlers into passing
on to some less hostile region. No
homebuilder, unless he be made of eX-
ceedingly stern stuff, cares to attempt
making a home in the face of a Win
chester or of threats that if he at
tempts a settlement, his fence wires
will be cut, his grass all eaten off and
the place be made so hot for him that
he will wish that he had never gone
into the COW country. This course has
been pursued by the stockmen with
great success in many western sections,
even where the settler was trying to
make a home upon free public land,
where the cattlemen had no shadow of
legal right to fence or hold it. That
the legal lease-right to fence the land
and keep other stockmen off would be
invoked to repel settlement goes with
out saying.
Whether it will be possible to frame
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FLATS IN PHILADELPHIA.
Expensive Building Planned on an
Elaborate Scale.

The big apartment houses In the center
of Philadelphia and West Philadelphia
are practically hotels, and receive tran
silent guests with but few exceptions. The
Majestic. at Broad street and Girard ave-
nue., owned by the Majestic Apartment
House Company, is the most valuable. be-
ing assessed at $SO0,0O0. Hamilton Court,
which comprises an apartment house and
two fiat buildings. at 39th and Chestnut
streets. is owned by the Hamilton Apart
ment Realty Company and represents a.
valuation of $650.000 The Gladstone. mt
18th and Pine streets, which was practi-
cally the first of the large apartment
houses to be built in the center of the city,
is owned by Sarah B. Warden, the widow
of the Standard OIL ma ynate. and is val
ued at $iS5 900. The I;elgravia, at Nos.
1S11-17 Chestnut street, is owned by Frank
B. on, who pays taxes on valuation OF
$500. 900. -
owner OF two apartment. honses-the Ritz
tenhouse, at 22d and Chestnut streets, val
ued at $3.50 O0O and the Royal at Broad
street and Girards aHanne.-epposite the
Majestic. and appraiseds,et $1,000. The
nue.. Is owned by the Lorraine Hotel
Company, and Is appraised on the city's
books at $4,000
John W. Hallahan owns the Plenheim,
at 18th and Chestnut streets. which Is
taxed on valuation OF $3?5 900. German
town has but one apartment house. the
Delmar. owned by John w. belong and
located at Chelten avenue and Morris
street 1t Is valued al 100000. II Is also
proposed to erect $i.000,000 structure al
Tulpehocken station. in Germantown.
There are a number of other fats In
Phi!adeiphis. ranging in value from $40.
600 to 100000 1t 10 now likely that O
number Of less costly ones viii be erected
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In this Enclosure attracted crowds Of visit
ors.
Well Built Before Fifties.


Though for the first quarter of a century
little promise was shown In the square be-
tween 9Th. 7th. F and G streets. the street
front was before the fifties we'll built up
and there were not a few Of the residents
who occupied high positions in the national
government. The 7th street front in the
seventies showed signs of business, and
some well-known families had their homes
there. A few now prominent Washington
people can boast Of the success and stand
ing won by their grandparents In business
here.
This square was, before 1900, in the
Burns tract. and some OF the lots were
long included in the estate and in the
possession Of Gen. Van Ness. But two.
cents per foot was the first valuation put
upon the ground by the corporation. II
remained but short time at this figure.
and at the assessment In 1907 1t was re-
duced to one cent. In the course Of
twenty years the ground Increased In
value to between IS and 20 cents per foot.
There was In 1903 but one improvement
assessed, and this was lot 4, on F street
of the valuation of $50. in the name Of
Burns. In the appraisement In the thir-
ties Gen. Van Ness was assessed On 900
for a blacksmith shop. In 1915 Benja min
Burche bought part of lot on F street
near 9Th street, and some years later
Remegius Burche. a carpenter, was as
sessed for $3.50, presumably on shop.
John Douglas, q whitewasher, occupied
lot the following year as a lessee. and
lived there for over forty years. Tho
same year George d. Barrtck bought lot
5, and Samuel Phillips, a carpenter. was
at the corner of 7th and F streets. whore
he had 5000 in improvements. In 1918
Samuel Miller owned lot 5, and Noah
Stinchcomb, also carpenter, leased lot 3.
afterward buying the property and erect
ng a 81. 900 house on it. VIM. Cockins,
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such an assurance is not In itself sufficient
to account for the Increase in the number
the reason that the condition is by no
means q recent one.
Change in Public Opinion.
It is probable that the interest which
government employees are manifesting In
property here arises from a change in their
situation. which makes them more or less
permanent residents here. and also to
changes in sentiment which has made 1t
somewhat the thing to own the house
which one occupies. There. is no idea now
adays since homecoming has become more
general among those employed in the gov
eminent departments that simply because
q man happens to own a house that there
fore he Is person of Independent means.
There 10 more intelligence on the general
subject of property and such annoying and
misleading conceptions, as the one above
mentioned, are not apt to be held to any
extent in these days.
1t Is also looked upon as gratifying in
dicauon of the growth of the business in
terests of the city that such a large pro-
portion of the men engaged In what might
be termed the small lines of business have
become we'll fixed financially that they
are able to own their homes.
Resident City.
For the more expensive grade of houses
the demand to large ex tent comes from
people who live here and also from those
who have selected Washington as the fu-
ture home. The latter is growing class
here. and Is recruited from those who
have retired from active business or who
for one reason or another find themselves
In a position where they can select their
place of residence purely from the point
OF view of its agreeableness for such a pur-
pose. They are not hampered by bust
ness or other considerations. but have
merely to be guided by what they regard
as pleasant place to live. 1t Is natural
of course that Washington, of all the cities
In this country. should be given the prefer
ence by those who are looking for a place
to locate their homes.
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worked where the Interior Department Is
located, as a husbandman. From this point
eastward the natural grade of the land
descended. When 1t is stated that from
the square east Of the patent office. Orrs
cabin and farm and James Caden's school
house were In the westward vista, that
the rising walls Of the patent office build
ings and the adjacent work sheds with
paling fences incIosing the square in 1892
would be seen later some idea of the scenes
familiar to the ancient occupants of the
square may be formed. With the erection
Of the patent Office. which for some years
was regarded as one Of the finest govern
ment buildings, the location Of the museum
and greenhouses on g. 7th and 9th streets,
there were attractions for visitors. Late in
the forties the encampmept of the Mary
land Cadets of Baltimore for several days
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cabinet maker; Joseph Downing. carpenter;
Henry Dimes. coiored. and Patrick Nc
Gowan
In 1925 B. o. shecken lad lease on
part Of lot Q, on It'll street north Of r.,
where he kept tavern for a few years.
John Sheckell succeeded him and later es-
tablished boarding house James Owner
about this time bought 7th street prop
erty. and he was assessed for an $500 I'm
provement. N. Mullikin had bought on F
street. as had Mr.. Lord, and some of the
properties had been improved By the
middle sos that Of Mr.. Larner had in
creased to $1,000 valuation: 8. Phillips
at 7th and streets, to $3.50: Jonathan
Phillips. at 7th and G. streets. $1.7OO:
Thomas Bates. $1,000 and $500: Samuel
Bacon on street. s1.4OO: e. Murphy, at
9th and g streets, s., 600
History Of One Corner.
Thomas Magill bought the property at
the southeast corner of 7th anu G streets
when Jonathan Phillips had established
grocery and conducted the same bust
ness there for twenty years or more. This
corner became a tavern or saloon stand in
ante-bellum days, and Is yet used for such
purposes The adjoining property was &C.
cupied by Capt. John l.. Goddard, gro
Ger, for some years. During this decade
there were grocery stores on 7th street
conducted by A. G. Emack, A. Prather,
and about 1889 one by Sharrett & Brere-
ton, at the northeast corner of 7th and r
streets. This firm was formed by John
Sharrett and Samuel Brereton who had
been in business at 18th and I streets. and
when Sharrett retired 1t was conducted a
long time by the other partner.
The boarding house of John Shec ellis.
next to Brereton's grocery was a WELL
known place. In the '40s this was the
residence of Mr.. T. J. Fletcher, who had
been in the tavern business on the avenue
When the work Of erecting the patent Of
fee was in progress many mechanics were
brought to the neighborhood, and among
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them was Lewis Goldsmith, stone cutter
Of Philadelphia. Seeing there was an
opening for public house, and having
become popular among the workingmen,
opened business on 7th street near G street
The place was named the Northern
Liberty" In fact, the neighborhoo6 was
known by the same name. and everybody
living north Of F street between what is now
4th street and 18TH street, described their
homes as being in the Northern Liberties.
At meeting held for the purpose Of estab-
fishing fire company for that section this
name, which was synonymous to No. 6 for
many years under the volunteer fire system,
was selected for the company.
Residents in the Neighborhood.
In addition to the names given above.
there were among the residents Of F street
Lambert Tree Of the city post Office. VIM.
Woodward, a printer; 8. Fridley. a tailor;
George Thompson. messenger Of the engi-