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FOR SALE.

$40 pr ft corr Montgomery and 13 ave. Sl6Oo-Niee 5-r. house: fronts F. Lake car. $S5O0-Nice place. lots. West End. $500-Pr a.. l5 acres. West End $l250-Lovely cor: Princeton place. $t500-Good home: IS st, H. and l. $2JO0-Good 7-r. house; Ave. G; cor. 50xl90;
 must be sold quick, owner leaving city;
 real bargain
 $750o-Good home. large lot. Quinlan ave. s9o00-l0ixll0: C, 12 st.; rents 5000 $lo0o-Lai-ge pretty Fountain Hts lot $2l00-61xl9O Norwood: east front. s2O.00o-2 ave. brick store: close in. S6500T-Nice ave. cor; rents $iS0. $l00 Pr. it. cor. ( ave. and 24 st. $5000-I.ot: 6 ave. bet. q and p sts.
 MCCONNELL G ANG,-IN. Both phones 1523 c01S Third Ave.
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islature to represent Bibb county. He is a farmer and has been prominent in poll tics in Bibb county for the last quarter of a century.
 The division of which Bibb county Is a part will be called in the supreme court .liis week. and several lawyers from this will attend.
 The extreme dry weather in this section is causing some uneasiness among the farmers
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Mrs. WinsIow,s soothlno svrup.

Mrs. WinsIow's Soothing Syrup. The best remedy for DIA2RHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHS the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAXS ali Pain. CURES WIND COLIC. and Is twenty-five cents bottle.
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AGENTS WANTED

WANTED-Agents to sell lots in new sub division: new plan; slo0o to be given away. Address B., care Age-Herald.
 S-s-7t
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ONE GENT A WORD.

cert word day; no ad. taken for less than 20 cents for first insertion Cash aust accompany every order.
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 HELP WANTED.

PIANOS tuned and repaired by expert; tuning g. Address Box, Age-Herald.
 6-10-2t
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ONE GENT A WORD

RATES-One cent Q word day; no ad. taken fo- less than 20 cents for hrst insertion. Gas. must accompany every order
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REAL ESTATE.

REAL ESTATE. >~~~-~~~~-~>~-~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~S~Sr~~sc~N~~~~~~~~
 FOR SALE. 75x1O0; $4250; corner; rents for $35 per month; terms 14 cash, balance 1, and 3 years, with per cent interest. 70x120-Northeast corner Avenue k and 18th street; double residence of 16 rooms and two servants houses; terms, A cash balance 1. ? and years. 233x240-Sth avenue, between 9th and 10th streets; a bargain; S3O00; one-third cash. 3 acres near baseball grounds; railroad front TOO feet; cheap for cash
 L. G. PETTYJOHN, Phones 465 and 1101. 1S26h Sd Ave.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08
Wanted All the Goodies.

Teddy was about to be ten years old.
In view of this interesting event Ted
dy's mother had ordered some ice
cream and cakes ond other dainties,
and Teddy was told to invite his little
friends to a birthday party. The even
ing of the celebration came around,
and all the goodies were waiting to be
enjoyed. Teddy and his mother were
also waiting.
Suddenly the youngster said:
Mother, don't you think it's time to
eat the ice-cream and cake now?"
mo, indeed, my son." she replied,
1--WE must wait until your friends are
here"
well, to tell you the truth, mother, "
began Teddy, 81 just thought that for
once in my life I'd like to have enough
goodies, so l guess we better begin
now, cause didn't invite anyone"
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Old Methods Succeed.

It has been claimed that old methods
of doing business cannot succeed in
this twentieth century of ours, but a
striking example of where old manners
have been and are yet successful may
be found in the busiest city of the world
New York. Right in the heart of
the wholesale district may be found a
restaurant that is feeding more people
every day of the year than any other
house in New York City, and doing it
along the line of "old methods"
1t is claimed for this famous eating
house that every pound of food used
is paid for in cash upon the day it is
purchased and that the proprietors
have never yet given a check in pay
ment for supplies, nor owed one dollar
at the close of the day, and they keep
no books.
Each morning the dealers supplying
this remarkable establishment deliver
the necessary goods at the receiving
department and then form in a line
leading to the cashiers desk where
each one in turn receives his money in
good hard coin.
When evening comes whatever is
left in the cash drawer is profit, less
charges such as taxes, light, fuel &C.
A further boast of the owner of this
restaurant is that its doors have never
been locked since first opened, way
back in wartime" and that no one
knows where the key now is.
An idea of the number of people fed
may be gained from the fact that table
salt uSed exclusively bV the DatrOns
at the tables and not including any
used for cooking, is purchased every
four months in ten barrel lots, each
barrel containing three hundred
pounds.
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the civilized West. who would no
longer rest the wick upon the edge of
the receptacle for the oil. to pass it
through the brass arrangement which
he called the burner, and to provide
it with screw in order that it might
be raised or lowered, and the essentials
of the modern oil lamp were as
sembled.
While we have the sea-shell, the
lamp of primitive man of over 5000
years ago, it would be interesting to
know what kind of oil was burned.
The olive tree produces the illuminat-
ing oil of the model l Orient, and al
though in other parts of the world
the fat of animals was used, the
unchanging customs of the East lead
us to infer that olive oil was also then
employed. The wick was doubtless a
twist of the cotton which grows wild
along the shores of ,te Tigris and the
Euphrates.- News.
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HOUSE FOR FREE SEEDS.
Continued from preceding page }

Currier, of New Hampshire, where it is
commonly understood one of the chief
industries is that of raising rocks,
granite, and marble, protested against
his assertion that the farmers were not
in sympathy with the free-seed busi-
ness. They declared the farmers of
their State demanded them anyhow
Mr.. Cocks read letters from the edi-
tors of practically every agricultural
paper in the country, denouncing free
seeds, and when he frankly admitted
he had written these editors asking
their opinion of the proposed action
of the committees he was attacked by
the advocates of free seeds as if he
had committed some crime.
ALL ABOUT SEED "ADS.'
Mr. Bartlett wanted to know if these
papers carried advertisements of the
seed dealers, to which Mr. Cocks af-
firmed that he had no doubt of it, as
the business of selling seeds was
legitimate one. Mr.. FOrdney did not
believe the answers represented an
honest opinion, as the replies had been
sought.
Mr.. Cocks endeavored to proceed
with his argument, reinforcing it with
citations from a stack of letters, but
he spoke amid a confusion that marked
the day as the most unruly of the en-
tire session. Mr.. Gains shouted him"
self hoarse-and that is a difficult
thing, even for Mr.. Gaines to do; Mr..
Mann scolded, as he often does when
he fails to approve; Mr.. Fordney, Mr.
Franch Mr. Sims Chandler and
others asked questions simultaneously,
and the chairman of the committee all
but broke his gavel in a vain endeavor
to maintain order. At one time it
looked as if the mace, that symbol of
the dignity and power of the House,
would have to be taken from it's perch
and waved over the heads of refrac-
tory and angry free-seed mutineers
who refused to take their seats when
so ordered.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08
N0W THE WATCH TRUST.
Representative Vreeland the Victim
of Joke During Watch Monopoly
Controversy

When Representative Rainey of Illi-
nois, a few days ago, made speech in
Congress on the alleged watch trust,
he opened up a subject that has been
of decided interest in Congressional
circles ever since. He had collection
of watches on his desk which he
showed as exhibits.
Representative Vreeland of New
York found another phase of the watch
question which he wanted to talk
about, and proceeded to stock up with
sample watches and watch cases, He
had the assortment nicely displayed on
his desk, when, by a prearrangement,
he was called out into the corridor.
AS soon as he was gone joker in a
neighboring seat produced three men,
orandum spindles, two short and one
tall. He set them in row on Vree-
lands desk. Then he produced three
oranges and carefully stuck one on
the point of each spindle, producing
the perfect effect of the three golden
balls of the pawn shop sign.
E'Well, by gosh!" exclaimed Vree-
land, when he came back. The laugh
scared his intended speech out of him.
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rams head. the lighted end of the wick
projecting from its mouth. After the
discovery of the hole for the wick, it
was an easy step to cover the entire
lamp, with the exception of an opening
in the center to receive the oil. Thus
the lamp of classical times originated.
Another interesting example from Bis
mya is an extremely large marble
lamp, oval in shape and with vertical
walls. The Snout for it's wick is a
deep groove extending out about 2
inches, and with it's support from be-
meath it resembles the handle of a mod
ern dish. This lamp held about two
quarts of oil. and, as it was found in
the ruins of the temple, it's unusual
size suggests that in the Babylonian
temple, as in the SynagOgues of later
era, and in some churches, even to the
present day, light was kept perpet-
ually burning.
Previous to 1000 3. C. the lamps, as
well as most dishes and household eff
fects, were of stone; after that time
objects of burned clay began to ap-
pear. Before that date lamps were
found only in the ruins of the temple;
later clay lamps were found in the
dwelling houses of the people. OF the
latter variety of shapes have ap-
peared. Some are triangular, the shape
suggested by the conch; one is a min
iature boat; others of a later period
are identical in shape and size with
those of Rome and Greece. The lamp
of these nations was undoubtedly bor
rowed from the older civilization of
Babylonia. The common clay lamp
of Persia and of the time of Haroun
er Raschid assumed a round form
with a dent in its rim for the wick,
resembling in every respect a minia-
ture frying pan, from which the handle
is missing. The lamp of modern Bag
dad differs from it only in being set
upon a pedestal and provided with
handle.
1t remained for the lamp-maker of
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postage stamps, and cash, instead of
the seeds he has been sending out
since he came to Congress. The read
ing of these letters again plunged the
House in disorder and confusion.
PITY THE POOR FARMER.
Mr.. Gaines, of Tennessee, endeav-
ored to be heard above the noise and
confusion. AS he sat down, by COM
mand of the Chair, he managed to say
that the bill was loaded with all kinds
of appropriations to take care of and
suppress the mouth and foot disease,
hollow horn, and hollow TAIL" but took
away from the farmer the few seeds
that he every year looked forward
to receiving.
This new outburst of eloquence on
the part of Mr.. Gaines threw the
House into convulsive laughter.
When the members had partially re-
covered their composure Mr.. Gainas
rushed down the aisle, carrying a mass
of manuscript in both hands, holding it
[aloft, shouting that he had hundre .
of letters from farmers favoring free
seeds.
AS chairman Wadsworth reached out
his hand for them. Mr.. Gaines laid
them on a desk and began pulling from
the bunch various documents. 1t
developed that among these hun
dreds" of letters there were an unusu-
ally large portion of bills of various
sorts and other pub. docs."' that had
no relevancy to the seed question.
Again the members shrieked and
gathered in the aisle, forcing the
chairman to resort to every parlia-
mentary expedient to secure order.
| When the bill came up for a vote
the free seeds were continued by a
vote of 153 to SO. A fight for the abol-
ishment of the free seed practice will
continue, for it is believed that the
sending out of the packages are Of ne
practical benefit to the farming classes
of the country, and it is safe to say
that next years bill will find the ap-
preparation for these seeds omitted
when it comes from the committee
and the probabilities are that by that
time majority of the members of the
House will support the committee.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

ington and Fielding Lewis, of Fred
ericksburg, and nephew of the great
George Washington. The wife of Law
renee Lewis was Nellie Custis, grand
daughter of Mrs. Martha Washington
and the adopted daughter of George
Washington.
The marriage of Nellie Custis and
young Lewis was the social event of the
year 1899. The marriage took place in
the mansion house at Mount Vernon
on the birthday of Washington, and in
the year of his death. Washington
gave to the couple tract of forest land
covering a range of hills on the Mount
Vernon property two miles southwest
of the mansion house. Lewis PERSONAL
ly saw that a part of the woods were
cleared away, and in the clearing he
had erected the great house which he
called Woodlawn. The place passed to
Lorenzo Lewis at the death of his
mother, Nellie Custis Lewis, and by
him was sold in 1S4S to two Quakers
from New Jersey, Chalkley Gillingham
and Jacob NJ Troth. The sons of these
men live near the estate to-day, Jacob
M. Troth, the younger, living on an
adjoining farm and on land that was
part of the original Woodlawn The
house passed through many hands and
in 1900 was bought by Paul Kester,
who now sells it to Miss Sharp.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08
FARMER IMMTGRANTs.
Some of Our Citizens Make Good
Farmers-But Poor City DwelIers.

Many Of our italian immigrants are
good farmers, after their fashion of
laborious intensive cultivation. They
are wretchedly poor, but they are chill
dren of the soil and where they occa-
sionally do get into the same con-
genial occupation in this country they
make good farmers and eventually
good citizens.
The greater part of the immigrants,
in fact, now pouring into the country
are better qualified for agricultural
and horticultural pursuits than for
any others. These pursuits were theirs
in their European homes, and but for
certain difficulties they would natural-l
ly resort to them here. The trouble is,
there is nobody ready, as a general
thing, to offer them employment. in
groups, on the land; and transporta-
tion to the land is more or less expen-
sive. On the other hand, there are al
ways contractors ready to engage them
for railroad, mining and similar en-
| ploymentS in the seaboard States, and
sometimes in other States; more often
they simply settle down in the big and
already congested cities. They take
what they can get; and, more espe-
cially, what will be most likely to en-
able them to enjoy the continued COM
panionship of their fellow immigrants.
The newcomer breads the isolation
which will usually be his lot if he ac-
cepts employment on a farm.
Under the far-sighted plan of the
men who are colonizing some Western
areas, particularly in California and
New Mexico, all these difficulties are
avoided. Groups of agriculturists of
the same nationality are brought to-
Igether, and invited to become owners
of small tracts, sold to them on easy
terms. Ten acres of good land, so OBJ
tainable-and the price of which he
can usually pay in labor for others
is very attractive proposition to the
average immigrant, especially when,
in his new home, he may be sur
rounded by others of his own race.
The plan has been already demon
strated to be very profitable to the
promoters also.
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THE LAMPS EVOLUTION.
EXCAVATIONS OF ANCIENT CIT
les SHOW 1T OYER SIX
THOUSAND YEARS OLD.
Originally was COnch Shell and a
Twist of COttOn-WeStern lngen.
uity Devised the Brass Burner
and Regulator.

By EDGAR JAMES BANKS, Ph. D.
The Oriental lamp is the same now
as it always has been-a simple dish
of clay, stone, bronze or glass, filled
with oil; its wick is rag or a twist of
cotton, one end of which is immersed
in oil and the other rests over the edge
of the dish to be lighted. This was
the lamp not only of ancient Babylonia
and Egypt, but also of the Hebrews,
Greeks, Romans, and all other, early
peoples. Even to this day it is the COM
mon lamp of Mesopotamia. In Saint
Sophia, the great mosque of CONSTANT
nople there is no other method of il
Elimination.
The first artificial light with which
primitive man frightened the dark
ness of night was the camp fire. the
same fire with which he slightly
roasted his meat and warmed his
naked body. At just what age the
idea of lighting by other means first
occurred to him is no longer known,
but the excavations at the Babylonian
mound, Bismya, the ruin of the Oldest
known city in the world. have shown
that it was in the very long ago, per-
haps thousands Of years before 1900
B. G.
During the excavations far beneath
temple which was constructed at
that remote date, among the ruins of
earlier ages, there was found large
conch shell about s inches in length.
Its exterior had been worn smooth by
constant handling, and a section at its
opening and half o. it's elongated
valve had been cut away so that it
formed deep dish terminating in a
long snout. In it's interior were slight
traces of a thin, black deposit. At
first the use for which this dish was
intended was puzzling; it was weeks
later when it suddenly occurred to me
that this sea-shell was the primitive
lamp, the ancestor of the great family
of lamps.
Some time later. while excavating
at higher level in the temple refuse
heap, where the priests of 1900 B. G.
threw the broken and discarded
utensils of the temp service, there
appeared among the dozens of baskets
full of polished and cut stone several
triangular objects which resembled
tAc ohSll III SAelpC. OAC VI
baster was entire; others were frag-
mentary, yet their original forms could
be restored. They were the lamps
which came into vogue after the conch
had passed away, or when it became
so scarce that it was no longer en-
ployed, and stone was substituted in
its place. Although the conch was dis
carded, it's triangular form remained,
even to the natural snout for the sup
port of the wick. which was repro
duced in the stone.
To the early Babylonian. the pure,
almost transparent alabaster lamp was
perfect in shape; the next step in the
evolution was in It's decoration. In
stead Of the plain exterior, it was
engraved with reticulated or curved
lines; but a more important step in its
decoration was when the lamp-maker
conceived the idea of supporting the
wick in hole at the sharp corner.
One such example from the Bismya
temple refuse heap terminated in a
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at home, mind our own business, let
other people alone, we shan't need a
battle ship any more than burglar
needs jimmy and dark lantern"
shouted Mr.. Trimble. This sentiment,
notwithstanding the speaker was
trifle mixed in his metaphor, met with
prolonged applause from the gallant
band of free-seeders.
Mr.. Lilley, Of Connecticut, read let
ters from his constituents, some asking
for Shropshire sheep, Durham bulls,
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'Do you think mans Importance is
measured by his pocketbook?"
Certainly not" answered Senator
Sorghum. "a pocketbook couldn't hold
enough to amount to anything. It's
the bank book that counts. .'-Washing-
ton Star.
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After threatening to call members
by name if they did not obey, the band
of agriculturists, shouting and yelling
for the free-seeds loot" quieted down,
and Ar. Cooks was enabled to proceed.
SEEDS VERSUS BATTLESHIPS.
Free seeds found another doughty
champion in South Trimble, of Ken
lucky. Mr.. Trimble asserted that the
seed dealers of the country were
instigating the newspapers to fight
free seeds. Real farmers wanted these
seeds, but kidglove farmers who
run the oranges did not need them
and did not want them. If this was
graft, he said, it was the only kind
of which every one of the 70,000.000
people of the country got piece.
Advocating economy in other direc-
tions, Mr.. Trimble suggested less ex-
penditure on battle ships "If we stay
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

The number of cameras made in the
United States last year was 100000,
worth about $20,000,O0O. A gener-
alton ago a camera was an unusual
object.
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Mrs. Ferguson.-George, dear, how
do you like my new hat?
Mr.. Ferguson.-Do you want my real
opinion of it, Laura?
Mrs. Ferguson.-No, don't, you
mean thingl
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

The most expensive fish in the fish
markets of the United States is the
English sole which retails. for about
sixty cents per pound.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

There are now one million pension
ers on the pension rolls of the United
States.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

The highest mountain in Colorado
is Massive, 14424, and the next is
Elbert, 14,421. Pixies Peak is IA, Jos
feet high and there are twenty noun
tains in Colorado higher than this.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-08

Since 1896 the worlds annual pro
duction Of gold has doubled.
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FAMOUS VIRGINIA HOME.
W0ODLA RN MANSION, PART OF
WASHINGTON'S ESTATE, NOW
CHANGES HANDS.
A Gift from the First President to
His Adopted Daughter-PlaywrIg
Paul Kester Disposes of Manor to
Princeton Woman.

Another change of owners has come
to Woodlawn Mansion, that historic
property having been bought by Miss
Elizabeth M. Sharp, of Princeton, N. j.,
from Paul Kester, who dramatiZed
When Knighthood Was in Flower" !"
and other plays.
Woodlawn Mansion was the home of
Lawrence Lewis, son of Betty Wash
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-12

tent like srrangemnt, the cloth o.
heavy cotton, extended like a great
roof. sufficiently spacious to shelter
seven people It's ribs were Of heavy
whalebone. half an inch thick and
braced with bars Of wood. Il required
man Of muscle TO accomplish a FIVE.
mile stroll with that f1st umbrella.
In a month after its appearance a
few others had bravely come Forth to
defy public opinion and the rain. but Il
was not until 81 years later that the
umbrella was seen on the streets Of old
New York.
In a modest shop in Philadelphia the
first umbrellas Of an American make
were turned out ia 1898. and New York
fashionables Of the period might have
zen seen the same year walking il
she rain. delighted with the unwield,
arrangement. which they called rain
stick. It's real recognition az a human
was synchronous with the
invention Of the steel rib in 1910.
From that time forward the umbrel.
Ia improved in shape and usefulness
though mo- very radical changes have
been made. Its principle is just the
same now as &c was 100 years ago. and |
when hurrying New
Yorker struggles with his rain stick in
! pouring rain. he feels a doubt about
he superiority Of the modern article
New York sun.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-04-12
Smiles

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laundry
April 20 you vote for NO. go on ,hs
primary ballot
EEshaagc Good weather for bop,
and caniidaies
A nov novel is eslloi "Ths Ea.
sion" Needles 90 say it IL political
hctioa.
Eugsue has if.sa almost everything
elso aad will now give municipal ouu.
efthip a trial.
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times sris maTs thau hs saatt There
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is eofusrti, bgt thank God tbsrs /, ra
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tso slraa snd able mru faT che a. IS
sfuaie-sa.it aud LsptL
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