Amador ledger., 1909-03-12
ITEMS WORTHY
OF PERUSAL

manufactured annually IN Jne OnlJed
States.
Senator Stephenson admits spend
ing s1O7, 900 in acquiring his seua
torlal nomination in Wisconsin.
John ID. Lawson, dean of the Co
lumbia law school, declares the legal
profession needs more newspaper
English"
Already the contributors of this
country to the Italian earthquake
sufferers have amounted to the I'm.
mense aggregate Of $500, 900.
1t is announced that Senator For.
aker may go west and become a sen.
ator from Arizona, in case that terri.
tory is admitted as a state
President elect Taft is Il lawyer by
profession, but politics is his bust.
ness. lie has held public Office al
most contiu ously since leaving col
lege.
The longest steel bridge in the
world crosses the Columbia river at
Vancouver, Wash. Inc main spans
have total length of 3,GSG, feet.
Liston long enough, aud you will
hear something to the credit of any
thing or anybody, 10 matter how de-
spised. The Russian police are after
Maxim Gorky.
1t is curious fact that even the
most skilled of women dressmakers
in Paris admit that they would be
lost but for the inventive faculty of
man in the matter of women's cloth
ing. These men creators, who are
employed only by the foremost firms,
earn from 50, 600 to 81, 800 year.
Kansas has IL, ,257.O6 miles of rail-
road, of which 2,064 miles are yard
tract and siding, leaving total OF
main line operated 9,193.O6. The
latest statistics show the following
states with greater mileage than
Kansas: Texas. II, 600; Illinois, H.
OS5 SO; Pennsylvania, 1l,226.5l; Iowa,
9,9i3; Ohio, 9,2l4.23.
1t is charged that the Sugar Trust
has defrauded the country out OF
s24O, 900 by tampering with the scales.
in weighing the imported product.
lt is so simple for the Sugar Trust to
make money out of tariff graft that
this latest charge is hard to believe.
Tariff stealing is not only a simple
method, but it is safer.
Since gold was discovered in the
Klondike ten or twelve years ago,
Sl25. 900, 600 of the precious mineral
has been taken out of that region,
which is possibly more than has been
spent in hunting it. However. il you
figure the time and lives and health
that have been wasted in the pursuit
the profit hasn't been much.
From the beginning to the send OF
its journey, the camel is never reliev-
ed of its load. 1t eats, walks and
sleeps under its burden. 1t takes
about three years to train camel to
work satisfactorily, which is surely a
record IN stubboInness. The ordinary
young horse or mule is trained into a
reasonable degree of usefulness in a
week.
Or. Dubois. of the University of
Berne, Switzerland, is noted for his
success in the treatment of nervous
diseases. A large part of his treat
ment consists in drinking milk and
mole milk. If patient doesn't like
milk, he is required to drink it any
way, and always with the result that
he learns to like it. No country is so
beset by nervous ailments as America.
1t is possible that Amer leans drink
too little milk. But with milk prices
soaring as they are, even were the
milk theory of treating nervousness
established, it could hardly be said
to solve the problem.
One of the encouraging signs OF the
Japanese situation (and it is all most
encouraging since the action of Cali
fornia's legislature) is the fact that
the big men of the two nations are
opposed to the war. Baron komura,
minister of foreign affairs, made that
fact plain in a recent address, and
Ambassador TakahiIa confirmed the
stand of higher japanese otticialdom
in his Lincoln day address PeoIin.
Of course the position of our nation
al leaders has never been IN doubt ;
they are working IN the interest of
peace. 1t is almost always safe to
assume that the people of nation do
not want war, and. when the leading