Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-11-22
FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENTS
AUKUM.

aurora of misty sky, sauntered forth
for day or two and probably as aim.
lessly as the nomadic wonders in
their tramps in the immensely Of
space.
Around Grizzly Flat and vicinity
there is dearth of news save alone
the shutting down of the Calder saw
mill for the winter, and stopping the
wheels of the locomotives on the
narrow gauge railroad owned by the
same company, until the burst of a
summer sun starts them rotating on
the track again.
Jim Blakely, who has run a stage
from Placerville to Grizzly Flat for
the past 80 years, broken down in
vitality by his ceaseless toll through
the scorchlng summer sun and pierre
ing biting cold in winter. lies danger
ously sick in PlacervilIe, dying from
an Incurable disease. His friends
now turn in sympathy and inquire of
his daily condition. Even the ones
that had enmity against him suften
in demeanor, and with that human
feeling that is certain to burst out
over the helpless and dying, say
sympathically, sit is too bad. for
old Jim was not bad fellow Such
is human life, man gets only credit
for the good that is in him when he
is dead. This is brought about by
one single feature alone-the extinc-
tion of Jealously.
William Cole, who owns noun
tain farm about three miles this side
of Grizzly Flat, got $50 in gold coin
for the fruit on six pear trees he has
for this year. Joe Jukes, six miles
this side of Grizzly Flat, got s36 from
three trees he had this season. This
ought to be good advertisement for
mountain farms situated all along
the foot hills of California, where
pure air, good water, plenty of wood,
and as delightful climate as one
could wish, always dealing out spon-
taneously the health giving properties
of life. Let the valleys look we'll to
all their laurels, else the foothills
will snatch their trophy from them
before they know it.
At Placerville the financial ques-
ton is the uppermost topic. 1t is
not unlike any other city, but is
simply in the maelstrom of financial
fever with all of the rest. While
standing talking to landlord of
one of its principal hotels, a man
whose contour of face, showed mix
ture of blood crossed by the Mexican.
came up and asked the landlord to
cash check for him. Cant do it. ~
he answered. ''Well, uttered the
other, "It's a hill of note; can t
get this check cashed anywhere; I'll
be d ID if can eat it. - The landlord
with a sort of saIdonic sympathic
smile passing like ripple over his
lips, said: Stranger, you are no
worse off than l am, I've got money
in the bank and can't draw ito L
afterwards saw the man with tie
check filling up with "boose:" sup
pose the saloonkeepers turned it
into whiskey for him.
Ny esteemed friend, the editor of
the Ell Dorado Republican. has an
old poem IN the last issue of his
paper entitled 81 want to be an
angel. with all respect to the author
OF the poem, | must dissent from the
truth of its assertion. In all nv
travels over the rugged hills of time.
never yet knew man or women so
anxious to be an angel as not to get
out of the way of cooked six
shooter. or try to outrun a cyclone
into the nearest cellar, or send for a
doctor when they were dangerously
ill.
Professor Joseph &. Drake. of the
law department of the University of
Michigan. is in favor of browning
President Roosevelt king. 1t is only
safe to say that all the jackasses are
not confined to the undergraduates
by any means.
suppose we missed the first and
only chance in this community of
having in our midst a zeal book
author in the person of woman,
who had made temporary arrange
ments for board for short time from
the billions. She came as far as Ply
mouth and had all the romance OF
xpectation quelched by the outlook
OF the country. If we're she