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Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
NIGHTS OF UNREST.
No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace for the
Sufferers from Kidney Troubles.

No peace for the kidney sufferer
Pain and distress from morn to night.
Get up with a lame back,
Twinges of backache bother you all
day,
Dull aching breaks your rest at night,
Urinary disorder add to your misery.
Get at the cause-cure the kidneys.
Doan's Kidney Pills will work the
cure.
There for the kidneys only
Have made great cures in jackson.
Ben. Gilbert, living in jackson,
Cal, says: 81 have used Doan's
Kidney Pills and they proved of great
benefit to me. suffered from back
ache for long time and the trouble
gradually grew worse in spite of the
different remedies 1 used. l got so
that could not do my work and at
night was so tired and played out
that l could not sleep. A friend
finally advised me to give Doan's
Kidney Pills trial and / procured a
box at the City Pharmacy. felt
their good effect Immediately and 1
continued taking them until 1 was
cured. Whenever have felt any
symptom returning, 1 always applied
Doan's Kidney Pills and they always
gave the satisfactory results
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milb Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agent for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-t
no other.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

The Peacock Throne'' of Persia
is the most extravagant thing of the
kind in the world. Its value is esti-
mated between ten and fifteen million
dollars,
What is said to be the largest tele-
graph circuit in the world is that be-
tween London and Teheran, the
capital of Persia. 1t is 1000 miles
long and is divided into twelve Sec
tions.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
The Name Bismarck.

Few people know how Bismarck and
his ancestors got their name Bis
marck is the name of one of those
ancient castles short distance from
Stendal, on the road from Cologne to
Berlin, in the center of the old mar
quisate of Brandenburg. The castle
had this name because it defended the
"marca," or the line where the river
Biese formed a boundary in former
times or mark of defense against in
truders; hence the name of Bismarck.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAI

Hundreds of women are employed
in the secret service of Germany.
The rebuilding of San Francisco
has been hampered greatly by the
exorbitant wage schedule. The rates
exceed by a dollar per day the maxi
mum scale in New York.
Austrian mines are provided with
rescue chambers at convenient loca-
tions underground. They are equipp-
ed with food and conveniences for
miners in case of accident. -
Experiments made by German
scientists show that butter keeps best
when preserved with from 3 to 5 per
cent of salt. II the proportion OF salt
is higher than that the results are
less satisfactory.
OF the worlds population there are
GA to the million who are blind.
The founder is said to deposit
Z 900, 900 eggs in the course of year.
Germany sends $1,000, 900 feathers
per year to England for millinery
purposes.
The growth of girls is greatest in
their fifteenth year; of boys in their
seventeenth.
Squares, triangles and similar i'm
nlements used by draughtsmen are
now made of glass.
The floor space of st. Peters, Rome,
is 227, 100 square feet, the greatest OF
any cathedral in the world.
The swiftest river in the world is
the Sutlej, of British India, which IN
lsO miles has descent of 1000 feet.
Savings banks are established in
22s schools in Scotland. There are
s5, III depositors, with s4S,99o to
their credit.
When the herring fishery season is
at its height something like 5000 or
5000 miles of nets are set nightly in
the North Sea.
Some European savants have dis
covered that one-half grain OF silver
fiuoride in quart of water effects
complete sterilization. Experiments
we're made with complete success on
sewage water infected with various
injurious cro-organisms, including
those of typhoid.
Punctuation marks we're first used
in 1880.
The charge on the Congo Railroad
is higher than that of any other rail-
road. 1t is one hundred dollars for
25O-mile journey.
Centlpedes are eaten in some parts
of South America.
Over 10 per cent of the natives OF
India till the land; hence the pupula-
tion is scattered, and their power OF
cooperation is greatly lessened.
1t is estimated that theresare 2,5OO,-
600 dogs in Great Britain.
Vanilla comes from a genus OF
climbing orchid which grows plentl-
fully in the tropics.
The difficulties of sending wireless
messages during the hours of daylight
have been overcome to great extent.
Harvard leads all American colleges
in point of number of students.
The output of all the vineyards OF
the world is estimated to be 3,oo4,-
416, 900 gallons.
There are nineteen American COL
leees swith fan enrolment of mure
than 5000 students each.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
Royal House.

4th and Howard Sts.-San Fran
cisco, +. l.. Turpin, Prop. European
House before the fire, SOC, Toe, 81 and
S1.50 per day. Special weekly rates.
200 room reinforced concrete build
lug containing all Modern Conven-
lences, Reading room, Ladies' Parlor,
etc., 2 blocks from 4th and Market.
From the ferry take Mission street or
Market street cars to Fourth. From
Third and Townsend the Fourth
street cars pass the door.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

COLLEGE at Stockton, one of the old
est and best. prepares in Bookkeeping,
Business Stenography, Normal and En-
gineeriug Branches. 1t is one of the
Celebrated HEALD'S COLLEGES,
with schools in San Francisco, Oaklann
Los Angeles, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Sad
Jose, Riverside, Long Beach, Ocean
Parh and Reno.
Tuition my be used in any of the
Heald's Colleges.
Write to Heald's College.
Stockton, Cal.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
Cost of Raisin Boxes Oppressive
to California Packers

The California raisin packers and
fruit growers are hard hit by the
excessive and increasing cost OF
wooden packing boxes. They have
not yet found satisfactory substitute
for wood, suitable grades of which
are becoming scarcer each year.
| The chief market for raisins is
thousands of miles away, and pack
| ing cases must be strong. Paper has
been tried but has been only partially
successful because it is injured by
dampness, and even when dry it is
not strong enough except for small
parcels. Besides. paper is only
another form of wood and its cost
climbs with lumber as timber scarcity
increases. The far western fruit
shippers see little promise of relief
from excessive cost of the lum ber
they use.
The burden which the packing box
lays upon the California fruit in
dustry is apparent when it is stated
that the boxes for carload of raisins
cost 500. When used once they be-
come dead loss. The California
orange grower. apple grower, lemon
grower, and the growers of nearly
all fruits which go to eastern markets,
are hurt in tins same way. From, 20
to 30 per cent of the retail price of
many fruits is due to the cost of the
boxes which contain them. In some
instances, it is said the box costs
more than the fruit packed in it.
There is no hope that wood for
boxes will ever be much cheaper. In
past years the raisin packers ideal
lumber was choice sugar pine-light
in weight-white in color. and SO free
from pitch that no favor was impart-
ed to the fruit packed within. Little
box mills in the Sierra Nevada
pineries culled the finest of the sugar
pine trees for the raisin men. The
tray shakes' on which the grapes
were spread in the sun to dry, the
sweat boxes" in which they were
hauled to packing houses. and the
boxes in which they we're sent to
maIketswere all of the same material
the prime timber of the California
forests. But the sugar pine is runn-
ing short. 1t is going as the white
pine of the East went. Those who
are able and willing to pay for it may
still have it, but many prefer to get
along with fir, lodgepole pine,
poplar. or other cheaper wood. These
have been substituted to some extent,
for sugar pine in box making, but
scarcity is striking all along the line.
and prices have gone up until the
purchase of box lumber of any kind
has become an excessive burden upon
the fruit growers of the Pacific sIop,
and upon the purchasing public.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
Equality.

Uncle-Hello! Dot got a new doll?
Little Miss Dot-Hush, uncle; don't
speak too loud! She is not one of my
own, but belonged to Millie Simpson,
who was cruel to her and 'bandoned her,
so have 'dopted her, but don't want
her to know, because 1 mean to make
no difference between her and my own
lollies.-London Tit-Bits.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
What 1t Was.

'These deceitful women are so ridic-
ulous" said Miss Passay Gas for me,
was never afraid to tell what my
age was"
mo woman replied Miss Wise,
sever minds telling what her age wss." ("
London Answers.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

"Three was crowd, and there were
three,
The girl, the parlor lamp and he;
Two is company, and no doubt,
That's why the parlor lamp went
out. - Elk.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15
When Greek Meets Greek.

Gracious, my DEAR" said the first
society belle, 81 do hope you're not ILL;
you look so much older tonight"
"I'm quite well, thank you, DEAR" re-
Piled the other. "And you-how won
derfully improved you areI You look
positively young" g."-Philadelphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

Soothes itching skin, Heals cuts or
turns without a scar. Cures piles,
eczema, saltrheum, any itching.
Doan's Ointment. Your druggist
sells it.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

King Edward VI celebrated his
sixty-sixth birthday November 9.
The event was made the occasion of
the presentation of diamond valued
at $3.50, 900 by the executive council
of Transvaal.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

Facts are Gods arguments. We
should be careful never to misunder-
stand or pervert them.-Edwards.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

Nothing is so new as what has long
been forgotten.-German Provern.
Amador ledger., 1907-11-15

Ledger and Weekly Chicago Inter-
Ocean 81. so a year.
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
IN A MODERN HAREM.
Circassian Slaves Now Wear Copies
 of Paris Fashions.

Less picturesque than the descrip- tion in Pierre Loti's "Disenchanted' was my reception in the harem of Ros- ma Hanum, the wife of a close re!a- tive of the throne, says a writer in the Boston Globe.
 l was assisted out of my carriage by a gaunt eunuch in a black froc1 coat and red fez, who gave me the shivers as he clutched my arm with his sable paw.
 Inside the hall 1 was met by crowd of female slaves, who helped me to remove my wraps. They variei in age from 15 to 40; some of them were negresses, but the majority were Circassians.
 The latter are supposed to be the most beautiful of all Turkish women, on which account the slaves of tho sultan are always selected frorl among them; but in this instance looked in vain for any trace of good looks, and, indeed, could hardly help smiling at the comic effect they pro- duced, dressed up to the hines in the latest Paris fashions, executed by To- cal dressmakers
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30

when we used to burn whale OH Tn lamps and use whalebone for umbrella ribs. Those old-time whalebone rib bed umbrellas were not much like the present steel ribbed close rollers.
 No. They were of the bulgy out sort of gingham umbrellas that you see now sometimes reproduced after a fashion on the comic stage, but which are now never actually used by any body, though once they were used by everybody, umbrellas with whalebone ribs. And what I was going to say was this:
 People are out all the time look ing through the country for old furni- ture, quaint old colonial, and that sort of stuff. Why couldn't we hunt up those umbrellas must be millions of them lying around in country garrets-why couldn't we lock up those old whalebone ribbed ging- ham umbrellas, for the whalebone there is in them? Don't you think there may be an idea here for mak- ing money.
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
Political Economy.

A certain continental countess was interrogating her little sons tutor on the progress that the young hopeful was making ill his studies.
 And how is the viscount progress ing?" she asked.
 Wonderfully well, madame" an swered the tutor. We are working very industriously at the sciences The viscount is very far advanced in the sciences for a young gentleman of his ago.
 Indeed? Then, Henri, my dear, tell me, what is dynamite?"
 Pardon, madame" interrupted the totor, but of later years dynamite does not belong to chemistry It is now considered as part and parcel of political economy"
 The countess grew suddenly thoughtful.-Le Petit Journal Pour Rire.
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
Dresden's Municipal Newspaper.

Dresden is one of the few cities pos sessing a municipal newspaper, and this was bequeathed to the city by the late Dr. Cunt. The bequest is a very valuable property, and consists of a daily newspaper, which, in conse- quence of it's extensive circulation, is the principal advertising medium in the neighborhood. The profits are applied to the beautifying and i'm provement of the city and to charity.
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
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Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

I found Von Minden on that humid, sultry nighttime Fist of June-pac- ing the floor of his observatory, a huge boX-like room that reared itself on steel legs far above his house. He was in a suppressed state of excite ment, which he attempted to conceal as I entered.
 Its no use," I said to him, q cannot work tonight. And, anyway, I'm going to the strikers meeting. 1 want you to come along, if you can
 He sprang to his feet and opened the window. Look! Put your hand out here,' he exclaimed. I did so. When I drew it in, it was sprinkled with a few small specks of what re- sembled soft coal soot.
 Rub your hands together" said Von Minden. Now look at them" Where I had rubbed and where each speck had been there was a small greasy smear of a bright red color l glanced up at him, inquiringly. What are these?" I asked. He laughed a strange laugh.
 Those" he responded, "are the germs of lunacy. That's all" He laughed again. I looked at him anx- iously. I thought his mind was wan dering under the terrific heat. glanced involuntarily out of the window. It had become dark singu- larly early for the 21st day of June. The moon was high in the heavens. As I glanced at it I leaped from my chair.
 Won Minden," I cried aloud, look at that"
 Won Minden sprang to the window. The moon was full and large-and red as fire. That was not all. Tie whole town seemed to be on fire. A thick haze had settled down upon the housetOps, and, like the moon. the haze was red as flame
 VOn Minden stood with outstretch- ed arm. Its come!" he exclaimed. The great epidemic of lunacy has come" He pointed far out into the space beyond
 The strikers met that night in an old, abandoned skating link--a large, rambling wooden structure. It was filled to overflowing. A loud-voiced, red-faced demagogue stood in the ros- rum, surrounded by an excited mass of humanity. We were late-Von Minden and myself. The speaker had Had time to rouse his hearers to pitch of fury.
 Its a good time," he cried, "a good thing to be here, restin' easy an Iuiet. What the h. dye mean by it? Dye know what's happenin up town
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
WHALEBoNE AT se,75o A TON.
t Might Pay Now to Look Up Those Old Whalebone Ribbed Umbrellas.

q see by the papers" said MT Grillfinby, that the last quotation for whalebone in England was e1,75O, or, say, about sS,75O ton, making whale bone worth now somewhere in the neighborhood of $45O a pound a pretty costly commodity.
 ''l can remember the time when whalebone was cheap, very cheap:
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30
Ronnets for Brittany Babies.

The baby bonnets of Brittany are marvels of art. Some are trimmed with gold lace and pearls, and on the side often is little sachet or cockade, wherein the devout mother places a bit of consecrated wafer. Boys caps are ornamented with tassels and pom pons.
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30

eXperlmented with Won Minden' S steam generators. They sent for me chanics and engineers from every state, and called Von Minden in. h. side of AS hours Won Minden's ap- paratus was being manufactured and distributed all over the country
 In week, however, the officials and Von Minden with them-began to wake up to the fact that, while steam was the great remedy, it was a rem edy that the masses didn't want To them madness was intOXicatiOn- they preferred it to sanity.
 It was Independence day, July 4th, that the crisis came. On that day from every town and city in the United States, by prearrangement, men by thousands and tens of thou sands, started out, mad as they were yet with semblance of order bound for one common destination.
 They were bound for Washington They had become anarchists. They had determined to wipe out the United States government-the presi dent, congress, and every depart. ment.
 Or July 15, that fateful day, l stood with Von Minden on top of the Washington monument.
 The mob had surrounded the city The entire government had left it and was speeding west by separate routes.
 At a preconcerted signal the mol entered. Nothing could have kept them out, and no attempt was made to do so. Von Minden sat at my side wit: his finger on a button He was ready at an instant's notice tc loose upon the mass of humanity pow erful jets of steam that would either kill or cure. For awhile there was no disorder. The great army entered rank upon rank, and filled every street and every park. They were there to destroy, but to destroy wher the time came. Suddenly we heard murmurs- something was wrong.
 Then a wild yell of rage, growing stronger as the time went on, burst from the threats of a million men They had been thwarted.
 At that moment Von Minden pressed the button. I looked out Nothfns happened. Something was wrong Von Minden became himself almost a raving lunatic.
 What the devil is the matter?' he yelled. Again and again he tried the apparatus. It would not work The crowd had evidently cut his wires. He was about to descend tl investigate himself, but I held hin back.
 Look, look," I cried. "Below!"
 It is quite unnecessary for me tc describe it. The mass of citizens be low, in its frenzy and disappointment had become UncontrOllable-they haC become wild of rage, they threw themselves, not upon the city, no against the public buildings, but upor one another. All day long that fierce battle ragged within the streets o the city. It was not men against mer it was man against man.
 Von Minden covered his eyes witt his hands. My God" he moaned We threw ourselves upon the floor nauseated at the sight-a sight O which the world had never seen tho like. Then suddenly the madnes. seized on us. The end of the world, cried Von Minden, Ieaping to his feet
 The blood surged into my head "Hurrah!" 1 exclaimed in a deliriun of frenzy. The end of the world Let us die now!"
 We laughed again in unison, anC muttered incoherent things
Holbrook argus., 1907-04-30

m mine-dye know that McDavitt lolds open house tonight for the silk ;tockin' crowd, whiles you an me is ;tarvin' an chokin'? His house is lblaze wit light-wine is flowin' like Eater The sky is rainin' blood to- night" he cried. Let those stay who will. I'm goin' to McDavitt's oall Who'll come where Mullen 'eads the way?"
 He leaped to the floor and plunged through the crowd and out of the loor, wild cheer greeting him as he went. And the men went with him, pulling guns and knives from their pockets, picking up stones and slaves as they went along, with Mul- en at their head. We followed them.
 McDavitt's was ablaze with lights but not for long. As we approached he house. it suddenly became dark.
 Some one produced a torch and fred the house, filled as it was with lorror-stricken guests. The flames spread, curling up on all sides.
 Suddenly the changing of many bells vas heard upon the night air. Von Mfnden and 1 looked in the direc- ion from whence the sound came t was Lelp! Half a dozen horseless ire engines were charging down the ill. They drew up on the outskirt )f the crowd. The waterbutt was lear where Von Minden and I stood the crowd had forgotten it. Now hey surged around it, and we were taught
 The fremen tried to get their ma chimes through the throng Let us | trough" they cried. "No," yelled he crowd
 At the water-butt near which stood one of the crowd, a burly fel- ! low, was waving a crowbar round and round his head. The firemen with 1 tleir itsc l-l |. ..- - ,. )I U .s and an he beat then Of. watched | aim.
 l don know what ka~pened. Every thing was red be,orc my eyes l was conscious only that something fel with thud to the ground -some,hine hat the crowd trampled under foot and that the tiremen were attaching he hose-and that I had done it.
 Blood! Blood!" I cried in 2 wild frenzy, breaking away from the crowd and running up the street "Blood!"
 As I ran a great number of police officers passed me, on their way tC the riot. Their eyes were wild anC | blOOdshOt
 i l staggered on until I reached Vor : Minden's house. He had got ther, before me.
 Won Minden," I cried, beatinl the door frantically.
 He came out, and I started back il surprise. Von Minden it was, but ht was completely encased. from the waist up, in a metal cylinder tha surrounded his body. It was full O holes and emitted a white vapor tha almost completely enveloped him.
 He laughed. Steam" he cried Its the only thing-the only anti dote for the madness. Wait" Ht opened small valve, and out came flood of steam. Instantly the blood left my brain. For the first time in hours I felt like a rational being
 Then he produced another portable generator and attached it to my per son.
 We must go, Anson," he explained ''in the cause of humanity
 We then proceeded to the two leading newspaper offices and dictated notices for their bulletins, directin! everybody to keep their windows ] shut to keen indnnrs and tn kael
The Washington herald., 1907-07-22
NO NEW EvANGEI, SAYS DIVINE
DIR. Palmer, of Columbus, breaches
at New York Avenue Church.

at new Aork Avenue Church.
The congregation Of the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church is being treated
to a series Of three sermons by DR.. S. S.
Palmer, OF the Broad Street Presbyterian
Church, Columbus, Ohio.
The first of these, on Evangelism" was
preached to a large audience yesterday
morning.
we sometimes hear about a new evan
gelism." said the speaker; that the old
has served its purpose. A new message
fer new age, we are told, Is needed.
In the nature OF the case, we can never
have q new evangel. There may be--a
new emphasis, a new method, but never
new evangel
In the second century, Lucian and
CELSIUS, and a little later, Periphery, tried
to destroy the church. In more modern
times, deism of England, inhdelity Of
France, and rationalism of Germany made
their assaults and failed. Twenty-Five
years ago and more they would rob us Of
Christ by making Him a mere man, by
bringing Him 10 our level Now they
would do the same thing by bringing us
10 His level and saying that all men are
divine; but the truth stands.
The greatest twenty years OF the
worlds history was when the church
moved from Jerusalem to Antioch, and
Antioch became the missionary center,
whence Paul went forth. blazing his way
acr oss two continents. The gates OF hell
literally fell. He changed the map Of the
world more than did Alexander or Gaze
sar. The signal victories that have been
won in modern times make it clear that
the promises Of God do not fail"