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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
FOUGHT Under Six FLAGS.

A remarkable soldier has just died
at Budapest in the person Of General
Stephen Turr. one of the bravest revo-
lutionary generals that ever lived. He
commenced his military career as a
lieutenant in the Austrian army. Then
he fought for the Hungarian revolu-
tionary government, helped to quell a
German revolution and joined Carl
baldi in his great struggle. On the
outbreak of the Crimean war he served
as a volunteer in Omar Pasha's army
against Russia and finally received a
commission in the British transport
service. 1t was while buying horses
for the British army at Budapest in
1855 that the general was seized by
the Austrians as deserter and SEN
fenced to death. But both the British
and French governments made such
emphatic protests against this sentence
that it was committed to Punishment
Finally the old soldier settled down in
Paris.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04

Diners in Broadway restaurant the
other night were amused when a
young lady wearing an enormous white
straw hat trimmed with fiaring red
wings walked up to the telephone
booth in the corner and started to en-
ter. She evidently had forgotten she
was wearing her merry Widow" for
she fetched up against the sides of the
door with q bang, her hat failing to
clear the opening by a good three
inches on either side. However. the
young lady was equal to the emergen-
cy. she calmly grasped the brim Of
her hat with both hands, tilted it to
one side and glided through the door
like q sailboat going through a draw
bridge. Up to this time there had
been smiles and grins, but when the
young lady tried to draw the door to
and found that it would not shut at
all with her hat inside the room broke
into a roar of laughter that shook up
even the most imperturbable WAITER
New York Press.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
The Popping Stone.

''The popping stone" marks the spot
where Sir Walter Scott asked Miss
Carpenter to marry him. 1t is situated
in the beautiful valley of the Irthing,
at Gilsland. an inland watering place
near Carlisle. The popping stone is
visited by many thousands during the
summer months, and it is said many Il
laggard lover has had his courage
screwed up to popping point at this ro-
mantle spot. In the immediate neigh
borhood may also be seen "Mumps
Ha," which Scott immortaliZed in
Guy Mannering," while Il little far
Their afleld the Roman wall and Laner'
cost priory prove attractions to Wis
itors to Gilsland.-London Chronicle.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Only too True.

The politician is my shepherd. l
shall not want for anything in this
campaign. He leadeth me to the
saloon for my votes sake. lie
tilleth my pocket with goud cigars
my cup of beer runneth ,over He
inquireth into my family, even unto
the fourth generation. Yea, though
| walk through the mud and the
rain to vote for him, and shout my
self hoarse when he is elected,
straightway be forgetteth me. AL
though | meet him at his own house
he knoweth me not. Surely, the wool
has been pulled over my eyes all the
days of my life, and | shall dwell
in the house of a chump forever. -
Petaluma Argus.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
A COOL GUN FIGHTER.
Shot His Man and Then Leisurely
Proceeded to Sip a Cocktail.

SnoE tbs wan ana tneU EciSuTeiV
Proceeded to Sip a Cocktail.
when / went to Tombstone. Ariz..
In 1880 to practice law. there were
many desperate characters in that
community" said Hon Marcus A.
Smith. who has been delegate In con.
gross from that territory for the big.
gest part of the past twenty-five years.
AT one time could have men
toned by name no fewer than thirty
five men who stood in the front rank
OF killers. With one exception. | be-
lieve there was not one of. the entire
crowd who did not die with his boots
on, slain by a bullet from a Colt navy
six or a Winchester, in the same fash
ion he had himself meted out death
to many of his fellows.
1T was the memorable hand of fate
that these semiciviized beings should
get their quietus by violence. Yet
some OF them were as gentle in their
ways as the veriest dude who strolls
mincingly along Pennsylvania avenue
and apparently us harmless. l recall Il
fair skinned. blue eyed young fellow
all your killers have blue eyes-named
Harry Leslie. He was Georgia boy
and evidently the child of decent, well
bred people.
zone day while in the act of taking
a drink in saloon in Tombstone SOME
one whispered in his ear that an enc
my was waiting just outside with
Winchester and swearing to kill him
the moment he emerged from the bar
room. Putting down his untouched
liquor. Leslie walked to the door,
whipped out his revolver and sent
bullet crashing into the brain of the
intending murderer. who never even
got his rife presented 1t was the
most quickly acted drama l ever saw.
AS soon as he watched his man fall
prone to the earth Leslie walked back
as cool as if it were the most tritling
detail of life and eisurely slipped his
cocktail.
81 was his lawyer when he was put
to trial for his life. and the jury &C.
quilted MIN after being out only few
utes."-Baltimor American.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
MAcARoNl IN ITALY.
70 the Working People This Food IL
a Luxury.

Luxury.
Every one pictures the italian as
eating macaroni What If tell
YOU that the Italians. taking them as a
people do not eat macarOni and vet
this is virtually true. Macaroni in italy
costs to 9 cents II pound. and it is
TOO costly for common use. It is about
rs accurate to say that the Italians
i've on macaronl as that the Amer-
cans live on turkey. Macaroni to the
working italian is luxury. You often
see young fellows on Il holiday in
lulging In dish In n restaurant or
before Il street cook stand about as
Americans would eat Ice cream. A
customary wurkman's dinner Is hunk
of bread broken apart ana "buttered"
with n few traces of tomato sauce. As
for meat, It is the greatest rarity. and
the only drink they can afford is wa
ter. which has the advantage of being
cheap and filling. The Italians at
home are not only temperate. but NIB.
stemious. Wine and beer and even
tea coffee and chocolate are forbidden
TO them on account of the expense. In
all Italy we saw no one under the in
fuence of liquor. SO also there Is
practically no smoking. The govern
ment has monopoly Of the tobacco
business, buys its supplies in quaint
ties direct in America and elsewhere
and charges three prices for every
thing. The few tobacco shops keep a
piece Of smoldering tow tied at the
doorpost, so that patrons and passers
may light their cigars by it.-Los An
geles Times.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
A Lazy Boys invention.

The long handled shovel has MADE
over 100000 for fits inventor, and the
inventor was a lazy, shiftless boy OF
seventeen named Reuben Davis. whose
father lived in Vermont at the time.
He set Reuben to digging dirt and
loading it on wagon, and the short
handled shovel made the boys back
ache. One afternoon when his father
was away he took out the short handle
and substituted a long one and found
the work much easier.
When the father returned home Reu-
ben got a thrashing, but after the old
man had used the shovel himself he
said that IT was a good thing and got
It patented. They are now manufac-
tured almost by the million. That
boys backache turned out to bn good
thing for the Davis family.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Worlds Biggest
Electric Plant

The Great Western Power company
has set Thursday, December ION, for
opening day. Arrangements are being
completed to turn a river Through a
mountain and to let that tremendous
water power flood down upon the
generating machinery.
>, When the wheels revolve the dyna-
mos will hum and the electric thrill
will go through many miles of thick
copper wire down to the big new Co
we'll Cement works in Contra Costa
county, which will make their first
start when the impulse comes unseen
through $50 miles of overhead wire.
Already 500, 900, 600 has been ex-
pended upon the electric power plant
at Las Plumas, on the Feather river.
about twenty miles above Oroville.
For little more than two years a
small army Of men has been at work
up there in the slopes of the Sierra,
and the outside world has hardly
NAHSNH iNf " hAUbl5tOOl LUHb OHllTOr-
MIA was quietly establishing another
worlds record for bigger things.
When the power plant is completed
1t will be the largest electric general
ing concern in the whole world. II
will continuously produce 144, 0OO-
horsepower, the energy that it would
take vast herd of l44, 600 horses to
exert. How much that means NAV be
inferred from the fact that the next
biggest electric generating plant in
the world is at Niagara Falls, where
there are two plants of $4,000 horse
power EACH This one plant is nearly
three times as big as NIagaras big.
gest. 1t is so big that 1T could fur
nish all the electric power needed to
run the street cars, the factories, the
elevators, and all the electric lights
within tie city of San Francisco The
next biggest power plant in the whole
West is the California Gas and Elec-
tries station at Electra, which is
capable Of producing nearly O,O0O
horse power.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
LARGEST sRock -Crusher.

The largest rock crusher in the
world was recently thrown into
operation in a cement mill at South
Pittsburg. Tenn, and it brushes all
the rock used by a 1000 barrel plant.
The machine has an hourly capacity
of 800 tons and GO per cent of the
product is in pieces inches or less
and 30 per cent in pieces 2 inches or
less. The orusher is 10 feet IN height
and weighs 425, 00Ospounds The hop
per is 20 feet in diameter. The
operation Of this machine alone
requires twenty-nine horse power.
Can't look we'll, eat we'll or feel
well with impure blood feeding your
body. Keep the blood pure with
Bardock Blood Bitters. Eat simply,
take exercise, keen clean and you will
have long life.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04

Memphis on the Nile, one of the
greatest capitals Of the ancient world,
is buried beneath the ground which is
now Under cultivation by the villagers
of Mitrahineh. who will have to be
transferred to other plots and compen-
stated before the contemplated work Of
excavation can proceed very far. 1t is
estimated that an expenditure of about
$4,000 annually for fifteen years will
be required to eXcavate the temple
sites. apart from the city. The un-
earthing of Memphis, which contained
the finest school of Egyptian art, will
be by far the greatest archaeological
work of recent times and must result
in vast addition to the worlds llnowl-
edge of ancient Egyptian history and
civilization. The work will soon be
begun by Professor Petrie, head of the
British School of Archaeology in
Egypt.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
IT is SERIOUS
Some Jackson People Fail to Realize
the Seriousness

The consent aching of bad back,
The WEAKNESS, the tired feeling,
The pains ard aches of kidney ills
Are serious-i if neglected.
Dangerous urinary troubles follow
Mrs g Il lehman, living at No
1246 b Main street. Stockton, Cal. =,
says: 81 do not think there is a re-
NEEDY to equal Doan's Kidney Pills
for kidney disease or rheumatism.
My kidneys we're in a disordered con-
dltion, my back ached and | was
feeling miserable when Doan's Kid
ney Pills we're brought to my atten-
ton. They gave me relief after a
short use, l continued taking them
and | am better now than l have been
IN years. 1t gives me great pleasure
to recommend Doan's Kidney Pills.
Plenty more proof like this from
Jackson people. Call at the City
Pharmacy and ask what customers
report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan 's-a and
take no other.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Depth at which Miners Work

Below fifty feet the temperture
rises in the proportion of on
degree for every sixty-fiv feet of
depth; except where the currents of
water carry the heat away. The Ie-
suit is that at a depth OF about 1000
feet we reach a temperature of SO
degrees, or blood heat. This rem
ders it exceedingly difficult to work
coal pits below that depth.
This is the reason that Great
Britaln's Coal Commission has de-
cided that mines are not workable be-
low 1000 feet.
The thickness of the solid rocks
building up the crust of the earth
is al least thirty or forty miles. At
that depth the heat is such as would
reduce everything on the surface of
the earth to liquid. But the pres
sure of the over lying rocks is so
great that until the relation Of the
heat to the pressure is known it can
not be said whether the earth at that
depth is fluid or solid. Chicago Iii
hume.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
The Story ola Medicine.

Its name-rGolden Medical Discovery"
was suggested by one of its most import
ant and valuable ingredients - Golden
Seal root.
Nearly forty years ago, DIR. Pierce dis
covered that he could, by the use of pure,
tripe-refincd glycerine, aided by a GER
tain degree Of constantly maintained
heat and with the aid of apparatus and
appliances designed for that purpose, ex-
tract from our most valuable native me-
dicinal roots their curative properties
much better than by the use of alcohol,
so generally employed. So the now world
famed "Golden Medical Discovery" for
the cure of weak stomach, indigestion, or
dyspepsia. torpid liver, or biliousness and
kindred Heterogeneous was first made, as
it eyer, SINCE has 6Sen, without particle
A glanceStAthe fun list Of. its ingredi-
ents, printed on every bottle-wrapper,
will show that 1t is made from the most
valuable medicinal roofs found growing
In our American forestSO AL these in
gradients have received the StrOlgeSt eI-
d0Fsement from the leading medical -ex-
perfs. tedchers and MrlterS-an- Mlteld1
Medtcd who recommend them as the very
best REMEDIES for the. diseases for Which
"Golden MedlcaLQ lscQYerY1 IS -adYlsed:
A1ittIe book OF these endorsements has
been compiled by, Dr., R. V. Pierce, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, and will be mailed free to
any one asking same by postal card, or
letter addressed TO the Doctor as above.
From these endorsements, copied from
standard medical books of all the differ
ent schools of practice, 1t will be found
that the ingredients composing the "Gold-
en- Medical Discovery" are advised not
only for the cure Of the above mentioned
diseases, but also for the cure of all ca
tarrhal, bronchial and throat affections,
accompanied with catarrhal discharges,
hoarseness, sore throat, lingering, or
hang-on- coughs, and all those wasting
affections which, If not promptly and
properly treated are liable to terminate
In consumption. Take DR.. Pierce's Dis
covery in time and perseyere in it's use
until you give IL a fair trial and 1t is not
likely to disappoint Too much must not
be expected OF 1t. 1t will not perform
miracles. II will not cure consumption
In It's advanced stages. No medicine will.
II l0tU cure the affections that lead up To
consumption, " tGkell IN time.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
WoMAM'S WIT UNCERTAIN.
AS When This Wife Failed to APP
precate Hubby's Pleasantly.

Don't always rely upon the ready
wit Of a woman said the man who
is sometimes pleased to consider him
self an oracle. "That ready wit bust
ness is sometimes prone to get way off.
"For example, my wife and children
had been staying in the country for
several weeks, and 1 was regular with
my letters as every loving husband
should be- Finally on the day before
my wife was to start for home / con-
cluded my letter to her with these
words:
"'This will be the last letter 1 will
write to you for a long long time
''When 1 got down to my Office the
next morning / found telegram from
my wife waiting for me. What on
earth do you mean?' read the dispatch
"Later registered letter came from
her. She had blotted almost every line
with tears. What it was all about l
could not imagine.
"Then my telephone bell rang, and
when 1 answered I heard my wife's
voice speaking over the long distance
phone.
"'Oh, john said she. is that really
you? I thought you had committed
suicide! Washington Post.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04

Raising the left arm as high as you
can viii relieve choking much more
rapidly than the act of humping ones
back" said a physician. land it is
we'll that every one should know it,
for often a person gets choked while
eating where there is no one near to
thump him. Very frequently at meals
and when they are at play children
get choked while eating, and the Gus
tomary manner of relieving them is to
slap them sharply on the back. The
effect of this is to set the obstruction
free. The same thing can be brought
about by raising the left hand of the
child rs high as possible. and the re-
lief comes much more quickly. In
happenings Of this kind there should
be no alarm, for If the child sees that
older persons or parents get excited
the effect is bad. The best thing is
to tell the child to raise its left arm
and Immediately the difficulty passes
away"
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
VILLAINS IN OTHER LANDS.

Don't get it into your mind that
all the cunning bunko games played
on creduious people TO separate them
from their bank rolls are engineered
by sharpers of tho Anglo-Sexon race,
said Mr. George l.. Maroney, a New
Orleans lawyer.
Just to5the south of us, In the
sister republic across the Rio
Grande, as smooth specimens of the
swindling tribe are to be found as
anywhere exist. | have myself been
done in a small way in the City of
Mexico by having purchased birds of
the most gorgeous coloring, only to
discover later that the vendor had
neatly assisted nature by using "a
paint brush to enhance the splendor
of his feathered stock That is the
reason you will see a Mexican bird
peddler during a rain take off his
coat ard cover his cages, preferring
to take a wetting himself to having
the paint washed off the birds. They
even apply paint to the flowers they
sell to admiring strangers.
"rhere are also big scamps down
there who operate on scale of
magnitude, as certain New Orleans
capitalist can testify. About year
ago this New Orleans man was APP
preached by very serene, elegantly
dressed and fine-looking Mexican who
bore good letters of introduction. In
eloquent tones the visitor told of a
large tract of land in the state of
CoabuIIa that could he bought for
one-fourth its real value. II would
10 worth some day not less than ST.
00J, COO and could now be had for the
beggarly amount of 5000, 600. all
this and much more, ard as an evid-
ence of good faith, the New Orleans
man was asked to go in person to see
the property.
Gle listened and listening fell. To
be brief, he went, saw the tract
which was finer and bigger than many
a principality, and considered it dirt
cheap at the price asked. The seller
only asked s25, 900 cash and this the
other party put up in association
with couple of friends, who were
let in on the good thing. IL was the
grandest speculation of their lives.
To-day three sorrowing and re-
vengefuI New Orleans men are hunt
ing the world over for a willy greaser,
tawny of skin aud fluent of speech,
who, i'll the absence of the real owner
in Europe, sold them one of the rich
est estates in the land of 1.-THE Monte
zumas. The titles, which he deliver
ed them, as they subsequently found,
we're forgeries that called for some
barren mountainous sections that
wouldn't bring cents an acre. -
Baltimore American.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Hardships of the Very Poor.

Little Marion. having few real play.
mates, has supplied herself with sew
eral imaginary ones. with whom she
has many surprising experiences. Her
mother recently overheard her playing
with her large family of dolls and en-
tertaining visionary caller.
Eyes. Mrs. Sniff" she said. heaving
a deep sigh. 1--WE are poor, terribly
poor. We are so poor that have to
spank my babies to keep them warm"
.-Woman's Home Companion.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
phear's Express

Ring up Sam Phear for prompt de-
livery OF trunks, baggage and express
packages. Rates reasonable. Leave
orders with 2. Il. Cassinelli, phone
Main 80; and Express office, Main "a !;
residence Black 374.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Costs somatimes,

There's no use talking about tia
chronic disease is an expensive thing
to have"
"That depends. Mine never cost me
anything"
whats your troubleY'
"Kleptomania." -Cleveland Leader.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04

Hives, eczema, itch or salt rheum
sets you crazy. Can't bear the touch
of your clothing. Doan's Ointment
cures the most obstinate cases. Why
suffer. Al druggists sell it.
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04

AS soon as man acquires fairly
good sense it is said that he Is an old
fogy.-AtchisOn Globe
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
The Bitter Bit.

Hewitt-Who was that fellow who
IN a fit of observation-disclosures tried to
light his cigar from the electric light2
Jewett-Ees a joke writer who makes
a speciality Of jokes about countrymen
blowing out the gas.-New York Press.
Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-08
SPECIAL TO WALLACE
Over - Delegates Of Boise COuntry
VIII Attend.

Over - Delegates Of Boise Country
VIII Attend.
BOISE, Idaho, May Sit is esti-
mated that over 200 delegates and
republicans OF southern Idaho will go
by special train to Wallace to attend
the republican state convention. A
special train consisting Of seven Pull
mans, with a diner and baggage car
attached, will leave Pocatello at 1890
Sunday afternoon. At Nampa one,
perhaps two, cars containing between
80 and 40 Boise and Ada county re-
publicans will join the train. 1t IL
expected that the train will get into
Wallace at about o'clock Monday
evening. The train will pass Nampa
at $40 Sunday night, Weiser at
1910 and Huntington at 1916.
II has been planned TO take the
delegates across Occur d'Alene lake
via Harrison and Occur dAIene city
and back through Spokane and Lew
iSton, and over the RiparIa branch to
Moscow. The rate will be one fare
for the round trip.
Indorse Taft in Ada.
BOISE, Idaho. May 8. - Twenty
four republicans of Ada county we're
instructed to vote for Taft delega-
tion to the republican national con-
vention from Idaho. The delegation
will so to the Wallace convention
Tuesday not only instructed for Taft,
but they will 90 instructed to vote
for Senator Hepburn and Senator
Borah, II these senators will consent
70 represent the state at the big con
vention in Chicago.
This was decided at a harmonious
county convention held yesterday aft
ernoon In the district court room Of
which were present 141 delegates
from the various precincts.