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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-06-26

mnstration. But experience has
shown that It's effectiveness can be
strengthened aud its real object better
attained by such amendments as will
give to the federal government greater
supervision and control over and Sc
cure greater publicity in the manage
ment of that class of corporations en-
gagged III interstate commerce, having
power and opportunities to effect
mOnOnOlieS
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-06-26

Copies of the license ordinance of
the City of jackson in pamphlet form
may be had at the Ledger office; price
lhc. each.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-06-26
College of NOtre Dame
MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA

Boarding and day school conducted by the
Sisters of Notre Dame( Namur). Founded
in 1856.
The curriculum embraces all the branches of
solid English education. Preparatory and
advanced courses in art language, and music
For further information address
MID SISTER SUPERIOR
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-06-26

A mans conversation is the mirror
Of his oughts.-Chinese.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-04-01
HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT


Recently a prominent fruit grower
of Oregon wrote me highly commend
ing the article by ]. f. Littooy on grow
ing cover crops in orchards. He real
ICES that the problem in an irrigated
country is quite different one from
that in the Puget Sound country and
in the Willamette Valley. He wants
me to suggest how the end may be
attained in these non-irrigated Sec
tions. He asks me to present my
views on this subject in my depart
ment in The Ranch. l feel it is
difficult matter to give sound and safe
advice in such a matter. | will make
some suggestions and invite others
to give their experience in this line.
doubt the propriety of seeding
down an orchard to anything but le-
gumes. Our readers no doubt know
by this time that one great point
gained in raising legumes anywhere
is that in this way we make the soil
constantly richer This increased
richness is in nitrates and not in the
other elements of fertility. But it is
we'll known that the supply of nitro
gen is soonest exhausted in all our
soils and is replaced most extensively
by the use of commercial fertilizers
such as nitrate of soda, guano or
barnyard manure. I beneve that any
farmer is pursuing an unwise course
to continue to buy nitrate fertilizers.
They can be secured from the atmos-
phere for nothing. While the atmos-
phere is almost fOur-fifths nitrogen
none of this can be used as found
in the air. This nitrogen is not in
the available form. The chief way
of making this atmospheric nitrogen
available for plant food is in growing
legumes. There are certain forms OF
bacteria that work on the roots OF
leguminous plants that have the power
of putting this free nitrogen of the
air into the available form In this
way we can secure the nitrates OF
sodium, calcium, potassium and other
combinations by which more nitro
gen as nitrates is stored up in the
soil than is used by the growing
plants l suppose that most of our
readers know that the vigorous growth
of all plants is owing to the use of
these nitrates in the soil. There are
in all ten or eleven elements of fer
tility that are necessary to plant
growth. These are carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen sulphur, phosphorus,
potassium, magnesium, calcium and
iron. Some would include chlorine
in this list and others would not. AS
a general rule the fruit grower or
gardener need not be concerned about
any of these except nitrogen, phos
phorus and potassium (potash). All
the others will take care of them
selves. If there is need of additional
potash or phosphoric acid these can
be supplied without very great cost
by the use of commercial fertilizers.
Nitrogen can be supplied by the use OF
commercial fertilizers also, but it is
the most expensive Of all of them.
Here, then, comes in the benefit of
growing legumes-we get an abund-
ant supply of this costly fertilizer
from natures great storehouse, the
air, and it does not cost cent. 1t
is true it costs something to grow
these legumes, but this is all paid back
in the hay we can make from their
tops, leaving the nitrogen in the soil
without cost.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-04-01
Edited by Il. Walden

This growing OF leSumeS Is noC Ie-
stricted to orchards, and ought not
to be. l noticed in passing up the
Willamette Valley in May, 1906, that
many farmers had vetch growing
among oats as forage crop. This
is a wise step, for they are enriching
their soil in this most costly element
of fertility That it may not seem as
if | am riding hobby in thus per-
sistently pressing the claims of nj
trogen fixation in growing legumes,
wish to quote from two scientific
works on the great value of this ele-
ment:
Percival in his great work, "Agri-
cultural Botany on page 172, says:
nitrogen when applied to plants in
considerable quantity specially in
creases the luxuriance of their leaves,
stems and vegetative organs" King
in his valuable book entitled, ''The
SOIL" page 112, says: Nov we are
not trying to point out here just how
the energy manifested in the tissues
of plants and in the bodies OF AMI
mails is derived; we are rather trying
to point out how indispensable to the
life of plants nitrogen is, that we may
the more fully feel the urgency OF
holding it's amount and condition in
the soils we till up to the standard
demanded by vigorous plant growth.
All are agreed that, varied as the
constructive and destructive processes
of plant life are, they take place with
in or are directly or indirectly set up
by, the molecular shiftings, adjust
ments and readjustments within the
protoplasmic substances of cell life, OF
which nitrogen is the indispensable
ingredient.
1t must not be overlooked that what
is the best method in an irrigated
country is not always best in non
irrigated country, especially as it per-
tains to fruit growing and the use OF
legumes In an irrigated country we
may use perennials, such as alfalfa,
but not in a non-irrigated country.
Why this difference? To answer this
properly we must know that all grow
ing plants use up vast amount OF
water. This is much larger than many
would suppose. Let me again quote
from King: "Hellriegel found,
through experiments conducted in
Prussia, that the amounts of water
withdrawn from the soil and given to
the air, almost wholly through the
plant, were as follows: Barley used
80 pounds of water to each pound of
dry matter produced, summer rye 353
pounds, oats 376 pounds, summer
wheat 33S pounds, horse beans 282
pounds, peas 273 pounds, red clover
80 pounds and buckwheat 1868 pounds
of water for one pound of dry matter.
This is at the mean rate of 1926 tons
of water to each ton of dry matter
produced"
This immense amount of water used
by growing plants is a factor that
must be reckoned with in growing
crops in our orchards. l am not able
to give the exact amount of water
used by a growing tree in producing
a pound or ton of dry matter, as He'll
riegel has given in the growth of an
nuals, but no one can doubt for a
moment that it is very great A tree
grows by the same process that any
other plant does that is, it takes in
water through the roots and carries
it to the leaves, where most of it is
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-04-01
Consider
INEQUALITY

A good tree at fair price is
cheaper than a tree of questionable
worth as gift. The cost of a tree
is not measured by the few cents
you first pay for it; the time spent
in bringing it into bearing and the
interest on your land are much
larger factors.
The trees we grow are superior
in every respect. Our Nursery is
in the heart of the Yakima Reserva-
ton, isolated from old orchards or
forests, hence free from pest or
contamination. This with the eX-
ceedingly fertile virgin soil and
fine climate enables us to put on
the market trees not only clean and
healthy, but possessing a splendid
root system that brings them into
early bearing, the prime essential
for the commercial orchardist
If first-class quality, prompt serv-
ice, courteous treatment and care
full, systematic handling of your or
ders are worth considering, we
want your business.
Washington Nursery
Company
Toppenish, Washington
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
The Same Family.

An official of the Department oi
Commerce and Labor, who had beer
directed by his chief to draw up a
summary of the conclusions of GER
tain distinguished authorities in en-
gineering, met with disaster not long
ago, when he had occasion to refer
to certain statements of Mr.. A. r.
Colquhoun, the British engineer.
The official had been told that af-
ter Mr.. Colquhoun's name there
should be placed the letters IN. l.
c. E." (Member of the Institute of
Civil Engineers). That's easy to
remember" the official had said,
adopting an easy system of memo
nics. NJ. l. G. E.. spells mice -
This memory system was of lit.
tie avail, however, for when the of
hcial handed in his summary, the let
ters after Mr.. Colquhoun's name
were "R. A. T. S."-Lippincott' s
Magazine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
C0LCONDA FOUND IN THE CANAL ZONE.
Commissioner Collins, Washington, D. Says
Is Pleasant and Living Economical mt Colon1ndanS
Trade in Gold NuggeiS--C5arblng Not POPULAR
All American Games as

Outdoor Sports.


thrilling adventures have ever
heard. His companions, two Ameri.
can boys, were killed by the Indians
last January
"The Baron described the San Bias
country as being very rich and the
natives warlike. He was certain
there is plenty of gold back in the
mountains, as the Indians traded for
merchandise in gold nuggets. which
had evidently been washed down
some mountain stream. He said that
the difficulties TO be encountered in
the San Bias country were very great,
as there were no roads at all, the only
means of travel being by canoes
and navigating tortuous waterways,
where an exploring party could be
easily ambushed. In addition to the
Indians there was the malignant
black-water fever to be contended
with.
"The Baron is making monthly ex-
pediGions into the San Bias country
on behalf of the Panama Govern
ment to teach the natives how to get
rid of the swarms of locusts that de-
stroy their crops. He stays in as
long as his provisions last. He is ac-
companied by his brother, a Heidel-
berg student. The baron said it
would be perllous for any white man
to attempt to reach the mountains in
search of the gold, as the natives
have never allowed any strangers to
penetrate into the interior. He was
only there on suffrance, and had to
be always on the alert. Their coun-
try is rich in coal and all kinds of
minerals"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Crazed BY His Rescue.

Two Gloucester fishermen, one of
whom was a raving maniac from
Joy, were brought into this port by
the steamer Republic today. They
were picked up in open sea by the
steamer Michigan and transferred to
the Republic four dayH ago.
The two men are John Burke and
James Burbine. Their dory was lost
from the fishing schooner Bohemia
off Cape Race, and for seven days
they drifted without food or water.
The fourth day Burbine drank sea
water, and for the next three days
Burke fought him constantly to
prevent him from committing sui.
eide. Both men were unconscious
when rescued
When Burbine came to on the
Michigan and realized that he was
saved he became hysterical from Joy,
and then began to rave. Both men
will live.--New York Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Wise BEYOND Her Arc.

Rene La Montague, the crack polo
player, tells this story of a very
small miss, the five-year-old daugh.
ter of a prominent merchant of the
Cedarhurst set.
Mr. La Montague was driving a
small trap from the Rockaway Hunt
Club to his home in Cedarhurst,
when he encountered the little miss,
who was out for a walk with hei
nurse and a small baby brother, who
occupied the perambulator. Being
an intimate friend of the child's par
ents. he offered to give her a lift
as far as her house. The offer was
accepted, and on the way Mr.. La
Montague was regaled with interest
ing items OF family news which were
lisped out in rapid succession until
he pulled up In front of the house
The child alighted, and as there
was nobody in sight on the grounds
he asked her If she could get indoors
safely.
oh. yes" said the little tot, "and
thank you very much"
Don't mention It," nodded back
the polo player: when to his surprise
the child opened her eyes very much
and murmured:
Il won't. t."-Philadelphia Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR
Old Lady Got Well With Change of
Food.

a great scientist has said we can
put of "old age" IL we can only nour-
lsh the body properly.
To do this che right kind or food,
Of course. is necessary The body
manufactures poisons in the stomach
and intestines from certain kinds OF
food stuffs and unless sufficient of the
right kind is used, the Injurious ele-
ments overcome the good.
my grandmother, II years old"
writes q N. Y lady, had been an In
valid for IS years from what was
called consumption of the stomach
and bowels. The doctor had given
her up to die.
II saw so much about Grape-Nuts
that / persuaded grandmother to try
1t. She could not keep anything on
her stomach for more than few min
utes.
"Sh-s began Grape-Nuts with only a
teaspoonful. AS that did not distress
her and as she could retain 1t, she
took little more until she could take
all of four teaspoonfuls at meal.
"Then she began to gain and grow
strong and her trouble in the stomach
was gone entirely. She got to enjoy
good health for one 80 old. and we
know Grape-Nuts saved her life.
1.-THE doctor was astonished that
instead of dying she got we'll, and
without a drop of medicine after she
began the Grape-Nuts." There's q
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," IN pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
rrc genuine, true, and full Of human
interest
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29

New York City.-Aftcr spending
fourteen months on an investigation
along the canal zone regarding the
allegations that have been brought
against certain officials in the employ
of the Canal Commission, j. II. Col
Inns returned from Colon, en- route
for Washington, d. c., to make his
report. He declined to discuss it be-
fore submitting it to the authorities.
Mr.. Collins said last month was a
record one for the amount of money
sent to the United States by men en-
ployed along the canal. He found
them all in good spirits and fond of
baseball, bowling, tennis, rowing,
and all kinds of healthy outdoor
sports. Gambling is not popular nor
drinking to any extent, Mr.. Collins
found, and this had been so marked
during the last year that many of
the saloon and gambling house pro-
prietors in Colon and Panama have
closed up and gone to pastures new.
The health of the employees as a
whole was good, he said. and the
labor conditions at the present time
satisfactory. Excellent food at cost
price is sent down by the Canal Com
mission twice a week for the en-
ployes and their families.
Just before leaving Panama."
said Mr.. Collins, 'I met Baron Won
Tuber. He was sent out by the
Smithsonian Institution to study the
conditions of the San Bias Indians,
who live in the interior of the Re
public of Panama, about seventy
miles up the coast on the Pacific
side. He told some of the most
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Rare curio From ForhIdden Clty.

DR.. Hermon c. Bumpus, director
of the American Museum of Natural
History, announces the acquisition by
the museum of an exceedingly rare
Chinese curio from Kinching, the
Forbidden City of Peking. II is call.
ed a Judges staff or scepter," is
fashioned of lacquered wood more
than a century old, and has on one
end an elaborately carved crested
head of the winged dragon, the EN-.
perial emblem of China, and the 9TH
er end is sharpened to a point.
After judge has heard the evi.
dence in the case of a prisoner charg.
ed with a capital offence he takes
up the scepter. If he points the
dragons head at the prisoner the lat
ter goes free, but if the prisoner is
confronted with the sharpened end
he must be beheaded. This is said
to be the only specimen of its kind
ever obtained from the Forbidden
City and brought to this country
New York Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market ReDOrts.



Continued warm, unreasonable
weather and the approach of the
national election tend to hamper dis
tribution of seasonable merchandise,
the puchase of any but immediate
necessities and the projection OF new
enterprises. On balance, industry Is
slightly more active, some branches
of the iron trade having increased
forces, while building is more brisk !;
but, at the same time, drouth or
low water In various navigable
streams tend to affect such lines
as coke, waterway navigation and
paper mills. Railway tonnage is
heavier and current gross earnings
show smaller decreases than for any
time in the past 10 months.
Summed up, caution still prevails,
but confidence is very strong, and,
therefore. natural conditions, togeth-
er with light stocks, should produce
a marked degree of expansion after
the turn of the new year.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says:
Moderate improvement is indica-
ted in reports of current trade from
most sections of the country, with
pronounced confidence regarding the
future
Although many large undertakings
are held back in the iron and steel
industry pending the result of the
election numerous small contracts are
being placed and specifications on
old orders involve a considerable ton
mage. Progress is slow. but, on the
whole there is a distinct improve
ment each week, export business con-
tinuing liberal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Jottings About sports.

]. Mara, of Paterson, won the one
hundred yard championship of the
Eastern Z NJ, c. A. at willard Park,
Totowa, ~ J.
The Bosto1 Globe Is OF opinion that
tne cleveland Club pays too much at
tention TO picking up outfielders and
not enough TO securing competent
pitchers.
Captain Currier OF the Harvard
varsity baseball team. announced the
appointment OF L. p. Pieper, 1908,
to be coach of the team next season.
Pieper has served as coach for the
last two years.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Hungry Dog Shoots A Hunter.

Abraham Scott, aged 81 years, of
McKeesport, started on a hunting
trip Saturday. Today he is in the
McKeesport Hospital in csitical. con-
dition, and the doctors there say
he cannot recover. Scott arranged
to spend the day in the woods and
took his lunch along. He also took
two dogs. At noon they were very
hungry, and Scott sat down, placed
his gun across his lap, and opened
his lunch box. When the dogs
smelled the food they made jump
for it. One of them got his foot
tangled with the trigger of the gun
and both barrels were discharged,
blowing off Scott's right foot and 9TH
erwise injuring him.-New York
Herald
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
JAPAN'S CORDIAL WELCOME.
The Reception of the American Elaborate
Perfectly Out.

Toxic, Japan.-The reception ac-
corded the American Atlantic fleet by
the Government and people of Japan
is conceded by the American naval
officers to be the heartiest and most
perfectly carried out of the many re-
ceptions received by the feet since it
sailed from Hampton Roads. Rear
Admiral Sperry said that he was ut
terly unable to say how it had been
accomplished, but that the welcome
given the fleet and its officers and
men here had been so carefully
planned and carried out TO the most
minute details that lasting impression
has been stamped upon the mind Of
every American who has witnessed
1t.
1t is impossible to doubt the sin
cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri-
can officers and sailors are already
beginning to understand the fact that
the evident desire on the part of the
Japanese for the friendship of Amer
lea is not founded upon opportunism
but finds its source in q sincere wish
to show that such friendship, at least
on the part of the Japanese, has ex-
listed always, and that this visit of the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Signs OF Long Life.

Every person, according to a medi-
cal writer, bears physical indications
Of his prospects of long or short
life. THE primary conditions of
longevity are that the heart, lungs,
and digestive organs, as we'll as the
brain should be large. If these or
gans are large the trunk will be long
and the limbs comparatively short.
The person will appear tall in sitting
and short in standing. The hand
will have long and somewhat heavy
palm. and short fingers. The blue
or brown hazel eye. as showing an
lntermission of temperament, is a
favorable indication. The nostrils, If
large, open, and free, indicate large
lungs A pinched and half-closed
nostril indicates small or weak lungs.
Chicago Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29

fleet has merely afforded the Japan
ese an opportunity for that express
sion.
Admiral sperry was received at
the imperial palace. On the next day
the admirals and captains of the fleet
were the guests OF the Emperor at
the palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed
to the Emperor a message from Pres
ident Roosevelt. This message
breathes spirit of friendship and
sympathy and expresses keen express
slons of the traditional friendship be-
tween the two nations and an earnest
wish for the strengthening and con-
tinuance of the friendly relations Of
the past.
Three thousand sailors from the
American feet were granted shore
liberty daily, and 1t is remarkable
that Notwithstanding their long con-
fnement aboard ship not single diff
ficulty has been reported, bearing out
the statement of Admiral Sperry,
made in one of his speeches here, that
the American sailor of to-day is the
result of that development and edu-
cation which Japan is seeking in
every department of her national life.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
FORTY FOOT FOSSIL FOUND.
Complete
TyrannosourUs Rex Now For American
Natural History Museum.

New York City.-Dr. Henry Fair
field Osborn, president of the Ameri-
can Museum of Natural History, re-
ceived word from Great Falls. Mon,
that a research party from the mu-
scum. headed by Aarnum Brown, had
discovered part of the skeleton of the
Tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric ami
NAL. in the Bad Lands several miles
south of Glasgow, Mon.
The fossil, which is forty feet long
and twenty-five feet high, has a per-
feet skull, an entire set of ribs, back
bone and hip girdle and practically
supplements the specimen discovered
in the same section in 1909.
Ever since the hrst fossil of the
king Of the reptiles" as the Tyran-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-10-29
Feminine Notes.

Nine. Schumann-Heink sailed for
Europe to begin years concert
tour.
Thirty-nve entries were received
for the national women's golf cham
pionship.
Miss Mary r. Sanford. a member
OF wealthy family OF New York
City and New Haven. has become a
Socialist.
A storm of protest followed the
removal Of the Professional Woman s
League from its fine clubhouse in
New York City to humble quarters
In hotel.