Amador ledger., 1909-11-19
AMADoB LEDGER.
FROM OUR
AuKUM.

Your correspondent came down from
the highlands day before yesterday. He
found that the rains had started vege-
tation, clothing the earth in coat OF
green. About ten days ago snow fell
up around Caldor with depth of 5 in
ches, but the next day the sun drove the
snow off as a chinook wind of Idaho
would have done
A great sensation springs out of the
announcement that Cook and Perry had
discovered the North Pole. My
opinion is that they discovered it before
they started. Ronald Armundsen, Nor
weggian, in his modesty claimed moth
ing so far as the pole is concerned, but
he discovered all that is to be discovered
of it. He went as far north that his
splendid compasses would work. He
has passed the actual focus of attraction,
and that is all there is about it. This
bosh about its discovery being of great
scientific advantage is simply stuff.
An action, no matter whether of animal
or vegetation, is sustained by and
through electrical forces. The electrical
currents that play with terrific force
round the earth and keeps it in per-
petual motion is the attractive element
that causes the compass to point north
ward. Whenever they cross the center
of the electric bands the attraction
diminishes until you pass the force that
sustained it, then as Armundsen tells us
your compass is dead. His only COM
pass then was the North star which
guided him in his travels more than
once. P. T. Barnham, the great show
man, said more than once before he
died that the American people were the
easiest people of civilization to be
fooled. He had man tattood and
brought him out of the jungles as
Natures greatest wonder, and the people
believed him. The Cardiff giant was
dug out of the sands of Texas and for a
while was exhibited as a full historic
giant. 1t was afterwards asserted he
was chised out of marble in Columbus,
Ohio. :
The latest announcement, nonSensical,
was that of the Rev. DR.. Charles L.
Seasholes, who has located Eden round
the North Pole. II is safe to say if the
Rev-gentleman is correct Adam and
Eve have been a piece of glacial ice
for the last million years. This may
be little extravagant but not more so
than his. | would like for some of
these enthusiastic theorists to tell me
ust where heaven and hell is situated,
but don't expect an anwser. All men
are superstitious whether sages or fools
A man grouping his way in the dark is
superstitous that some terreble fall
awaits him.
This would spring out of evolution
Everything is moving forward with
evolution influence, and Nature never
stops for mankind no way and in no
manner.
If funeral cortege is passing on the
way 10 ina t0InO ana thunder shower
is overhanging when it is ready it
bursts with all its fury over the
mourners and cortege in general and in
silence says: my action is my own,
take care Of yourselves. Evolution is
a law Of the force of nature that is ever
in its action. It builds up
and destroys nations and empires, in
dividuals and vegetation, and in its
sweep onward will eventually destroy
this planet and leave it among the dead
actions of the past. No prayer, no ap-
peal can change these immutablc laws
Nature in its wonderful sweep carries
everything before it piling up its ac-
cumllation in utmost confusion on the
beach of Time. Bring out theory,
you must sustain it with actual proof or
it falls stillborn from your hands. A
theory might be a fact, on the other
hand, it might be a fallacy-a visionary
fancy or what a writer once said of
Edgar Allen Poe, an emanation of
foundered imagination. The late fnan-