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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
LeAs~4 S Clubbing Rates

Ledger and Daily Call, one year s Q 90
Ledger and Weekly Call one year 3 20
Ledger and Daily Chronicle, one
Lee nd Weekly Chronicle
Q. '...-,..... so
Ledger and Weekly Chicago In
ta' oooan so
Lad d Cosmopolitan Maya
q year...... 2 10
Ledger and McCall's Magazine, L
year, including free pattern. 80. 2 so
sfe Nbove Rates are Strictly in
Advance.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden OF
villainy.--D. Johnson.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
Sweetness,

He (sympathizing with his bride.
who has just been stung)-How intelli-
gent was that bee, my dear, to know
that we're ON our honeymoon Judy.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
An old rim Alderman.

Several patrons Of the restaurant at
Broadway and Tenth street were lunch
ing there Il few days ago, seated at Il
table between the corner windows on
the second floor which commanded q
fine view down Broadway, which
makes a sharp turn at Tenth street.
Said one Of them: do you know that
this bend in Broadway was made in
order to save tree? Well it was. As
originally planned, Broadway would
Lave cut a slice off the lawn of Hen
dirk Brevoort, who ran tavern in
the Dutch farmhouse which stood
where Grace church now is. He was
an alderman, like many of his profess
sion today,Nan not only succeeded in
saving the magnificent tree in the
shade of which his customers fingered
over their pipes to watch the traffic on
Bloomingdale road, but about 1879 al
so prevented the opening Of Eleventh
street from Fourth avenue to Broad
way, which would have necessitated
the tearing down of his tavern. New
York Sun.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23

The lists of English authors and their
works give the titles Of over 800 poems
and essays on Solitude"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
The Farmers Wife

Is very careful about her churn. She
scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives
it sun bath to sweeten it. She knows
that if her churn is sour it will faint the
butter that is made in it. The stomach is
a churn. In the stomach and digestive
and nutritive tracts are performed pro-
cesses which are almost exactly like the
churning of butter. Is it not apparent
then that if this stomach-churn is foul it
makes foul all which is put into it?
The evil of foul stomach is not alone
the bad taste in the mouth and the foul
breath caused by it, but the corruption of
the pure current of blood and the dissem-
ination of disease throughout the body.
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
makes the sour and foul stomach sweet.
1t does for the stomach what the washing
and sun bath do for the churn-absolutely
removes every tainting or corrupting ele-
ment. In this way it cures blotches,
pimpleS, eruptions, Scrofulous Swellings,
sores, or open eating ulcers and all
humors or diseases arising from bad blood.
If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste in
your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath,
are weak and easily tired, feel depressed
and respondent, have frequent headaches,
dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom-
ach, constipated or Irregular bowels, sour
or bitter risings after eating and poor
appetite, these symptoms, or any consider.
able number of them, indicate that you are
suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy
liver with the usual accompanying indi-
gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant
arrangements.
The hes. agents known 70 medical Sci
ence fOr t6e cure OF the above SYMPTOMS
and copdltionS, as atteSted BY The Writings
Of leading teacberS- and practitiQpeTs Of
al the several schools Of medical pracflce.
Combined in Dr. Pierce,s GoldenMedIca
Discovery That this Is absolutely true
will be readily proven to your satisfaction
il you will but mail postal card request
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into his world-famed medicines and show.
ing what the most eminent medical men
Of the age say of them.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS FOR J. F. MAR
IL tell Cognac, Moet & Chaudon, White Sea-
and Private Cuvee Champagne: Morgan Bros.
Puerto de Santa Maria SherrieS; Royal Wine
Company, Oporto, Port Wines; Dubois FrereS,
Bordeaux. Ciarets and Sauternes; CANADIAN
CLUB WHISKY. Hiram Walker & Sons, Linn
tied, Walkerville. Ontario, Canada: John de
Kuyper & Zoon, Cotterdam, Sim GilSa Kuenl-
mel, from J. A, Gilka, Berlin; Barthloomay
Brewery Company, Rochester, N. Y, Knicker-
booker Beer; Dogshead Brand Of Guinness
Stout and Bass Ale BOTTLED by Read Bros,
London; Cantrell Cochrane, Belfast. Ginger
Ale; Naglee Brandy; Reimoorted American
WHISTLES
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
F. A. Mitchell.


Three sons who had gone west to
make their fortunes in cattle raising
wrote home for an appropriate name to
give their ranch. The reply, Focus"
did not seem especially suitable until
the explanation was Forthcoming, ''The
place where the sons raise meat
Lippincott's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
General kuroki at Seattle

The arrival at Seattle of General Kuroki and party of fourteen became the occasion of a general welcome in that city to the distinguished Japanese commander General Kuroki was grad uated from Yale, and he went home to enter the army, where he stayed until he became its head and leader. It was he who planned beyond any other one man the campaigns of the Japanese army in Korea and Man churia, and today he is the idol of the Japanese people being outranked in that respect by no one except possibly Togo of that country's navy.
 President Roosevelt acted wisely when he sent Gen. Arthur Macarthur and brilliant staff to escort the Japa- nese party from Seattle to Washing ton. Japan paid this country a fine tribute when it selected General Kuroki to head it's delegation to the Jamestown exposition, and the Presi- dent very properly showed his appre- citation of the honor.
 No doubt the brilliant reception of General Kurol1i at Seattle will be free ly duplicated, and the ties that bind the two countries together will thus be strengthened. The first country in the east and the first country in the west should remain friendly, and Gen eral Kurold will certainly go back to Japan deeply impressed with Ameri- can hospitality and American friend ship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
Politics in Oklahoma

Tn August next the people of Okla homa, which includes Indian Territory, will vote upon the work of their con stitutional convention, and will at the same time select state and county of ficers, and five members of Congress. The legislature will elect two United States senators. Three of the five con gressional districts are assuredly dem- ocratic, but the democrats hope to carry all of the districts as well as the legislature.
 The campaign is progressing, and the democrats are hopefully aggres- sive. They controlled the constitution al convention, and the instrument they wrote is full of advanced democratic doctrine, including the initiative and referendum, the direct selection of senators by the people, and primaries at every turn. Chairman Griggs of the democratic national committee appeals to democrats in other states to send to him dollar subscriptions which will be turned over to the Oklahoma demo- cratic state committed
 After ratification by the people of the new state the constitution must be ratified by President Roosevelt and a proclamation announcing the admis- sion of the new state issued. It has been said that the President would withhold his consent if the state should go overwhelmingly democratic, but any such action on the part of thk President would be without preceds eut. It would be extraordinary and un- warranted and there is really no req sybn to expect any such action on the bart of the head of the entire country, democrats as well as republicans. The new state will go democratic, and it will be admitted At the best the democrats will be robbed of two senators, for there would have been two states where there is now one if the republicans had been convinced that they could control both.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
Butter Here and in Eluin

On Monday last in Elgn the price of creamery butter was reduced six cents. On that day the best grade of creamery butter was sold on the board of trade in Elgin at twenty-seven cents q pound, a decline in a single week of six cents.
 In Chicago the price of extra cream cry butter-the highest grade-is 25 cents, and other grades of cream cry butter range in that market from IS to 20 cents. The best grade is worth 27 cents in New York, but other grades of creamery butter sell down to 21 cents.
 If the best grade of creamery but ter is worth but 25 cents In Chicago grades below the best should not be sold in southern markets at 33 cents. The grades sold in the south would yield profit to the sellers if they were sold at the price of extra creamery In Chicago.
 Eggs, too, are held at as high prices as they command in Chicago or New
 Fix, and this will be found to be the
 as to all meats and all other table
 Eolies. The price of living Is unduly nigh in this district and, for that mat ter, in all southern cities, When, how ever, local markets ask higher prices for the necessaries of life than do those of New York or Chicago, it is time to look around and ask the req son why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
Coal Production,

Owing to overworked furnaces out of blast for repairs, the pig iron production in Alabama this year will hardly be up to last years total, which was 1,674S4s tons, but to make up for 1t to a certain extent the coal production will show a large gain" said a railroad official. About 13,- 100000 tons of coal in 1906 seemed to be large output for Alabama, but from the large development in progress 1t looks as if we would get up to eighteen or twenty million tons this year. The Pratt Consoli- dated, the Birmingham Iron company and the Tennessee company are increasing pro ductfon on a large scale and every com pany in the state is doing something in this way There seems to be ready mar ket for all Alabama coal, and this being so coal lands are In great demand at good prices. Coal property, indeed, Is becoming as fancy in value as ore land"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
ShipIoads of New Corners

On Thursday last in the course of twenty-four hours ending at o'clock at night 20,279 immigrants arrived in New York harbor from nearly every country of the Old World. All previ- ous records in immigration arrivals were exceeded on Friday by fully 5000. The facilities at the Ellis Island immi- grafton station were overtaxed, and our new fellow citizens are compelled to lie in the harbor on board of ship until official inspections can be made.
 Five steamers from Naples came in on Friday bringing S267 Italians. These are the people the south needs, and would perhaps get if gold brick im- migration bill had not been passed partly through administration pressure but chiefly through the secret con- nivance of New England spinners.
 After a while perhaps the effete east will be willing to let the south have the immigrants it needs and the east does not need. But with it's accustomed skill and selfishness New England is trying to say that all immigration shall be checked and decreased when it has got enough It is not willing to let the south get enough because in that way the south would go on building cotton mills, and the New England mills would feel the rivalry. This is the basic trouble in immigration. The east has enough labor, and it now desires to check the tide flowing to this coun- try, and the new law which goes into effect on July 1 is expected to cut down the number of immigrants. New England is small but it can through the g. o. D. outf1ank and outmaneuver the entire south, including the cotton belt. That section expects the south to grow the staple, but it does not desire it to spin any large percentage of the crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
Episcopal Convention.

While the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church has not met since the war in any city of less than 100000 population it did meet in Rich mond in the fifties said a clergyman. Richmond is a great stronghold of the Episcopal church. The church is, I be- Iieve relatively as strong numerically and financially there as it is in New York City, where it is exceedingly vigorous and influential. There are Tn Richmond and envrons fifteen Episcopal churches, most of them large and handsome. In num- bers Episcopalians exceed all other de- nominations in the Virginia capital. The fact of its Eplscopalian strength and the Jamestown celebration combined induced the convention to select Richmond for its meeting place this year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04

rich in coal and ore and will find itself fully occupied in developing that which is in the ground for many years to come. It is not reasonable, therefore. to think that the Republic-T Tennessee interests will seek to acquire addi- tional properties. And on the other hand there is no reason why the men controlling other companies should de- sire to sell their stock. All the furnace concerns are in good condition and are operating at profit. The situation in this district is highly satisfactory and from many points of view it is better that the status of affairs remain un- changed. A healthy competition is good thing.
 MT. Gates is only one of ten or dozen capitalists in the Tennessee pool. His friends hope he will come back from Europe thoroughly recuper- ated and full of his old-time energies; but whether or not he gives active at tention to the Republic-T Tennessee, Chairman Topping's vigorous improve ment policies will be carried out and that, too, without any thought of a general merger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
GIRLS REvEL IN RUNARoUTs.

New York Correspondent of Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 Runabout parties are among the joyous manifestations of this tardy spring. They may be seen any fine day-that is, on any of the few fine days New York has had this sprng-along the suburban roads. Bay Roads, Bay Ridge Benson hurst, Richmond and the Bronx teem with them. What is runabout party? Nothing connected with footracing or cross tag in spite of the name. It con sists of three jolly girls, squeezed into an electric or gas car with single There would not be half so much fun in tonneau with a chauffeur holding the wheels. The beauty of a runabout party Is that one of the girls has to run the machine, and as a rule all three take hand in the task. That's where the fun comes in. And the fun they get out of 1t Is delightful to behold. What bright healthy young women bowling along boulevard or lane, brimming with mirth, ruddy as to cheeks, blowy as to hair. yet all looking cool and sweet as gar den roses? The runabout is the girl car par excellence Whether the girl Is pilot ing a couple of chums about the by ways of the big city pr whirling with an or in a eafy road. it is vehicle that suits her from radiator to muffler and she is a goddess in or out of the machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04

of them the evil could be eliminated. or at any rate materially decreased. True, our judges fine some and sen tence others to hard labor; true, some fines and penalties are remitted or set aside, but still Chief Weir could drive the evil to a great extent out of sight if he would wage relentless war against it, as Commissioner Bing- ham is doing in New York.
 Pittsburg demands a crusade against the evil similar in every respect to the one conducted by General Bing- ham. Why should not Birmingham fight down the evil in like manner? Why should we not try to get rid of the homicides, shootings and other acts of violence that are known to grow out of the habitual carrying of concealed weapons?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
unbusInessIIke Methods.

Tn some respects I must confess that this city is a long way behind in the march of progress" said man yestef day as he came out of a bank. 'I have had to wait over five minutes in there while the cashier counted a sack of silver in which every coin in circulation, from dollar to a nickel, was included.
 This may seem a small cause of com plaint, but suppose there were ten or twelve depositors. each of whom brought such ] sack of money It would mean an hours wait for the man at the end of the line. A busy man cannot afford to lose five minutes from his office, especially when the loss of time is caused by the unbusiness1ike methods of people who should know better.
 Tn some banks I have known, the sack of coins would have been handed back with request to sort the coins out and make them up in packages with the amount of the contents marked on the package, and the name and address of the depostor; but if a bank here were to make such request as that 1t is likely the depositor would take his niekels and dimes elsewhere.
 If people only knew it, or could be taught to think. they would do all in their power to facilitate the dispatch Of business in public places such as banks, postoffices telegraph offices and railroad ticket offices If a man goes to a bank to deposit money it will help to hasten matters if he has his currency arranged so that bills of similar denomination come together instead of being mixed up; if his silver is sorted out 1t makes 1t so much easier and quicker to count; If his checks come in the same order as they are en- tered on the deposit slip it Is a simple matter to tick them off; and all these things are done by good business men.
 Everyone who travels on the street cars knows he must pay and he ought to have his fare ready for the conductor, but some people ignore the request, fares please and walt until the conductor comes to them and then they begin to tumble and search their clothes for the fare. All these things show we are be- hind the times in our methods
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
CLEVER REPORTING.

From the Montgomery Journal.
 The Journal is always pleased to com mend the work of a good reporter a man whose profession gives him wide field for the exercise of varied talents, and yet few are able to fill the broader field and fewer still discover their own fitness for speciality work in the more limited but none the less important field of re- porting.
 An instance of clever reporting, how ever, has come to the Journals notice It is that of the artist-for such he is-who has been writing stories for The Birming ham Age-Ierald describing the mysteri- ous stranger who was found dying on the streets of that city with his pockets turned wrongside out, and who died after reporter that the corIse was kept in pine box in an upright position in an undertaking establishment, where 1t was viewed by hundreds With the hope of recognizing 1t, but to no avail
 The description written by the reporter describing the corpse. standing upright in its pine box, as stranger after stranger came in and viewed the body with the hope of recognizing the unfortunate vic tim of foul play, was graphic wlerdly graphic, and the reader with bit of imagination could almost see the ghostly figure mutely appealing for some friend to recognize it and save it from the pot ters field.
 Then, on yesterday, the reporter tells us that the unknown man goes to the grave without friends. "The pine box in a potter's field is the final phase of great murder mystery-no one claimed the dead man as relative or friend"
 At last it is done" says the reporter. "The unknown man lies buried in the potter's field" Then continuing, the re- porter says:
 With the going down of the sun the dead wagon passed on top of Red noun tain. The blackened corpse no longer stood upright in the glass case, with vel low eyelids dropping before the gaze of the curious. The time had come when liOSc Wiio AAdd uohC what ehS9 ScSiN "N'N unable to do any more.
 'The door had ben opened, and with out any weeping or Sorrow, without any services. stripped of the gawky suit of clothes which had hung so ungainly on his stiff form, naked and friendless, he was laid in an old pine box, wrapped in a sheet and the top nailed down.
 Tt was growing late, and with haste the wagon jolted over mound and through ditch. carelessly. There was no one to mourn, no one whose feelings might be shocked. The horses logged on.
 And so the body passed on over the hill, and out of the minds of men. Down the slope it went to the other side, and spotted here and there were little mounds Some of them were cavlng in, as the pine boxes routed away.
 "The grave had been dug, a mere shall low ditch, and in a moment the box was jerked out and dropped in A few shovels full of dirt and the ceremony was over."
 There is a werdness in this story that is fascinating and shows a cleverness of imagination and descriptive powers that give promise of fame for the reporter in a more lucrative field of literature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
No General Meruer

In connection with the retirement of John w. Gates from the brokerage bus mess and his announced purpose to go abroad for long rest, some of the New York papers have started the story that the Republlc-Tennessee syn dicate would, on MT. Gates return, proceed to acquire and merge the Sloss-Sheffield, the Southern Steel and the Alabama Consolidated. This is substantially an old story revived
 The interests now in control of the Republic-Tennessee companies have been operating their properties long enough to demonstrate that they are developing mines and manufacturing plants on large and business-like lines; that they did not come into the dis trict for stock jobbing purposes, but as broad-minded and plucky investors. The men in charge of improvements have planned for increasing the raw material output and greatly enlarging the capacity of furnaces and steel mills. They will completely modern ize all their plants and this work is we'll under way. But it is to be long campaign and development and expan- sion will continue indefinitely, for no sooner will present undertakings be finished when new extensions will be begun. The Tennessee company is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
New York Viewpoint.

There is now feeling of confidence in financial circles in New York that had not existed for year.. is the substance of statement in private letter from a southern man of affairs now in the east said prominent citizen.
 "The March panic in Wall street was a wholesome thing for the business in terests of the country. It cleared the att mosphere and prosperity will continue for at least one year more
 "In January there was a feverish feel ing that was affecting business very ap- preciably. Then came the stock market slumps. But legitimate trade was on such solid basis that prosperity was not checked And now that Wall street has weathered the storm, business is more active and stable than ever"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-04
Disarmament in New York

The disarmament movement in New York is progressing to the satisfac- ion of every good citizen, General Bingham, sole police commissioner of the big city, proposes to wage war against the toters of pistols and other weapons "until we get every one of them" This is the right spirit and the right method.
 Chief Wier finds no diffifulty in getting "every one" of other classes of offenders, and if he would start a campaign against pistol toters with the declaration that he would carry 1t on until he had gotten every one