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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
TIMOTHY FOR HORSES.


A Stock RaIser's Experience With Grass
That Was Cut Early.
My observation and experience have
proven that nearly every one, espe-
cially farmers, feed twice as much hay
as is necessary or best for horses, the
common practice of feeding it being to
gather up fork or arm full and fill
the manger of each horse. 1t has
been thoroughly proven that fifteen
pounds of hay is liberal days allow
ance for horse. / have in Dy barn
a small scale and / bind up my hay
Gas grain is bound) in bundles weigh
ing seven and eight pounds each. BY
weighing one occasionally you soon
become so practiced that you can
guess very accurately as to pounds;
and any one who has never taken the
trouble to do this will be surprised
requires. You not only save in the
expense, but horses are much less liza
bic to sickness and disease when fed a
proper allowance of hay regularly
(the same as You feed grain). They
relish it and do better when fed in this
way.
Iprefer timothy cut early. Do not
think a little clover any damage in
timothy hay when cut early and prop
erly cured. Horses do better on
chopped hay; and 1 have added one
third oats straw (when nice and
bright and chopped together, when
hay is high, and found it gave splen-
did results when feeding horses to fat
ten for markse The best hay | ever
fed. cut so early and put in stack sc
green that all who saw it predicted it
would mold in the stack. | sprinkled
with salt occasionally as | stacked il
and 1t came out green and sweet.
W. Booker, insOrange Judd Farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
THE HORSE STARTED.
4 Lady Disciplines . Balky Animal Wi
Some Inconvenience to Herself

4 Lady Diseiplines q Balky Animal With
Some Inconvenience to Herself
what are we stopping for?" said
the lady. '.Balky horse on the track, :"
answered the gentleman. He won't
move for whipping or pelting or whis-
pers in his ear or-any thing" Did /
ever tell you," she asked, ...about my
experience with balky horse? Mop
Well. il was ont on the Colorado
plains. The most elegant young
e igi ,ls. of our set had invited me to
Ia & ride behind his high-spirited,
e-bleoded horse. 1 got myself up to
do justice to the occasion. All went
delightfully."- till. when we were on the
open plain outside Denver, that valu-
able animal concluded to pause in his
rapid motion and mediate. Ny escort
shook the reins. clucked persuasively,
demonstrated encouragingly. gave a
touch of the whip, 1t which the horse
reared aud kicked viciously, but still
we were stationary out on that lonely
sandy level. My elegant escort grew
red in the face with modification, and
clenched his teeth so as not to let slip
any regrettable words. If you will
allow me to get out could start him. ;
he said. o, by no means. rejoined, i
could never hold him. Let me get
out, and try putting sand in his mouth.
Eve been told that worked like a
charm And so it did. l clambered
out of the buggy, grabbed a good fist
full of fine sand. opened the jaws OF
that horse, and threw it in. The az
tonished horse tore off like a fash, aud
as stood alone, five miles from home
in that solitary place and watched the
maddened horse, the powerless driver.
and the black buggy grow mere dot
in the distance. decided the expert
ment had been a perfect success as far
Is starting the horse was concerned. )"
Chicago Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26

Its mystery to me" said dem
fist of large practice recently, that a
woman will make up her face to come
10 a dentists chair. Yet many OF
them do. Hardly a day passes that
don't have some women in here rouged
powdered and penciled to the last de-
gree You would think they would
hardly care to face the strong. cruel
ligh. which employ in my work, or
my own close. if involuntary. scrutiny.
but they don't seem to mind either
Only yesterday l worked for three
hours over a woman whose lips were
50 besmudged with some rermiilion
paste that it came OF generously with
every use of the syringe to wash oui
ner mouth The powder on her face
busted my coat sleeve with every mo-
ton. almost. and discovered. before
| was through with her. that even the
veins on her temples owed their del
icate blue look to some outside influ-
ence. N. Y. SUN
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26

a Story With Moral For Dissatisfied
Young Women.

AouuS w omeu.
Mrs. Hutton had never hid a parlor
In the farmhouse. There WAS the big.
sunny. clean kitchen where she
orked. and. opening out of it. the
living-room. with green and black
rag carpet on the floor. her pots of
geraniums in the windows. Jenny's
sewing machine in one corner, Abe's
shelves of books in another. fathers
big easy chair at one side of the fire
and her avn on the other. with the
little table beside it. on which lay the
Bible. the Baptist paper and the basket
OF stockings.
The summer boarders declared it to
be the most delightful and the pleas
ATTEST of rooms; but Jenny wanted
parlor. ''All gentrel people," she
said. had one"
After the boarding season was over
her father handed her hundred dol
lars.
You have worked hard this sum-
mer," he said Fit up the gray room
as parlor TO suit your taste. Jenny"
The sum seems small to city people,
but it was Enormous to Jenny. She
consulted all her friends. Each one
gave her different advice. but all
agreed that she must be '.in the STYLE"
Mrs. B told her that "pink WALL
paper was the rage in New York;
Mrs. C described a lovely set of
red furniture which she had seen in
Trenton. Mrs. R assured her that
her own curtains were 1.-The latest
thing out and offered to send for q
pair just like them.
Hence Jenny's walls were pink, her
chairs scarlet, her curtains blue. she
bought cheap tables and gilded them.
because somebody had seen gilt tables
and thought them lovely" She
bought baskets of colored paper how-
ers. purple plush tides. yellow and
violet ribbons to tie back the curtains,
because somebody else told her that
these things were the fashion.
When the room was finished, the
Earring colors fretted and annoyed
her. though e'le did not understand
the cause The summer boarders.
when they came, glanced into the
hideously fine parlor with a look of
amusement; but they sat with her
mother in the old living-room.
One old gentleman, who was an art
ist, made a sketch of the room. with
her mother in it at work by the fire,
and one day, when Jenny pressed him,
explained to her that the parlor, like
most show-rooms. expressed nothing
but the whims of fashion, while the
sittlng-roOm caught the character and
human interest of the people who
made it a home
Jenny was puzzled; but she felt that
her attempt at tawdry display was a
failure, and almost resolved never to
have any thing in her house hereafter
for show again.
Every girl, probably. who reads this
story will sometime have to decide
upon the furnishing of the room or
house in which she lives. Can she
learn any thing from Jenny's mistake?
Youths Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
THE TYPEWRITER GIRL:


xnouGn Sho may Chew Gum, She II
Very Valuable Member of Society.
1t is doubtful if there exists in the
land to-day q paragrapher. or any
other species of alleged humorist, but
who has not something to say about
the typewriter girl. She has been
ridiculed, and even maligned Col
umns of presumable wit have made
the compositor happy at her expense
She is one of the principals of the
photographers stock in trade. and
stands in the pigeon-hole beside the
mother-in-law, spring bonnet and
home-from-the-lodge jokes She has
been terribly abused. but with Spar
tan courage pounds the keys and
never utters word Of complaint II
is not unnatural, however, that SO
charming a subject should receive the
attention of the festive paragrapher.
but it is somewhat strange that the
serious side of the question has never
been considered The typewriter girl
does not thump the alphabet just for
her health. She learned how to
manipulate the keyboard through
necessity. 1t was a condition and not
a theory that confronted her. She saw
a territory of action before her and
rushed forward and planted her claim.
She is there to stay. She is regular in
her habits. She may chew gum. but
she never dallies with tobacco. nor
toys with the serpens lurking in the
wine-glass. In these respects her
superiority over her male competitor
is palpably evident. Her living ex.
penses are confined to food, tolu and
dress. She never INDUCES in draw
poker. nor high-low-jack. therefore
she can work for smaller salary
than male. and save more. too. She is
an angel of loneliness about the Office.
The proprietor swears less. and the
Office boy doesn't whistle as much as
before the advent of the typewriter
girl.
But towering above all these de-
iightfnl considerations is her business
usefulness. The typewriter girl has
discovered what nature knew long
ago. namely. that she is capable OF
doing the real business of the world
She has the capability. and is fast ac
curing the adaptability. Man has
slowly become monOpOlist, and adds
to his monopoly of vice a monopoly
of the business world. The pretty
typewriter girl, perhaps unconscious.
~, is surely breaking down this un-
worthy trust The typewriter girl is
rather lowly in station now. but if she
will glance into the horoscope of the
future she will see looming up before
her. in all the gorgeous colors of the
solar spectrum, supremacy. or at least
equality. in fhe business realm. From
mere automatOn. whose duty it is to
hold close communion with the En-
glish alphabet, she will advance in
time to business management and
even to proprietary interest Her
feeling of dependence will disappear
like dew before the morning sun. She
will amass enough wealth to remain
single until matrimonial stock has
reached far in the market of her
heart Then she can settle down to
domestic bliss, if desirable, and then
arrogance and assumed superiority
of the husband will be missing. be-
cause she will know her business and
he will be thoroughly cognizant of the
fact Minneapolis Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
NATURAL T;ME-kEEPERS.
How the Natives of Madagascar Measure
the Progress of Time.

now the NATIVES OF Madagascar Measure
the Progress of Time.
Clocks and watches are still rare
among the people of Madagascar.
Time is marked either by the more
regular incidents of daily life, or by
the points reached by the suns rays
in different parts of the house through
the day. method which reminds one
of the dials in use among the Greeks
and Romans. The other method has
all the charm of the shepherds cal
endars.
According to these the progress of the
year was marked by the appearance or
the disappearance of birds and bios
SONS. The following is given as the
order of the day in Madagascar:
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
To the perfumes Of aova-.M 7

10 the perfumes of flowers M. Un-
gerer ascribes the power of protecting
against. and even arresting consump-
ton In the perfume distilling town
OF La Grasse lung troubles are but lit
tie known.
One of the novelties which an Au-
gusfa, Me-. firm is sending out are
electric spectacles- At the end of each
bow Is miniature thermo electric pile.
IN which the electricity is generated
by the heat Of the brows. The cur
rent passing along the bows and rims.
which are highly magnetized, is said
70 Be highly beneficial to the eyes
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
WHAT THEY MAKE.
Actors and Authors Who Are Getting Rich
Without Much Effort

Actors and Authors Who Are Getting Rich
Without Much Effort
Ellen Terry is paid $500 week.
Digby Bell receives $3.50 week.
Fred Leslie received $500 week.
kyrle Bellew receives $3.50 a week.
Charles Cogh, an is paid $3.50 week.
DE Wolf Hopper is paid $3.50 week.
George Alexander is paid $500 a
week
John Habberton makes $4,000 a
year.
Mark Twain's income is $50. 900 a
year.
Joseph Pnlitzer's income for 1888 was
81, 600, 900.
K w. Glider receives $40, 900 year
from the Century.
Mrs. Chanler (Amelie Rives) makes
about So 900 a year.
W. ID. Howells receives from the
Harpers $40, 900 year.
Mayo w. Hazeltine receives $l75 a
week from the New York Sun.
Colonel John Cockerill is paid 800
600 year by the New York World.
Up to recently Francis Wilson was
paid salary of 1926 week.
Edgar W. Fawcett receives about 81
900 year for all his writings.
The late E. 2. Roe found no difficulty
in writing $50.000 worth a year.
Brander Matthews averages an an
nual income from literature of about
s., COZ
Charles Dudley Warner is paid 81
206 for his department in Harper's
Magazine
Miss Murfree's Charles Egbert Grad
dock 81 novels yield her about 81. 900 a
year
Frances Hodgson Burnett is getting
rich at the rate of from $50. 600 to $25,-
900 year. Chicago News
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
WIT AND WISDOM

1t is no credit to fool that he had
. wise observation-disclosures.
The next thing 10 having wisdom
ourselves. is TO profit b that of others.
-Shiftlessness catches water in leaky
tubs and then complains that there wac
- rain -Atchison Globe
"A Nee York D00EDfack OF an en-
terprising turn of mind sends out his
business cards with the inscription:
Shoes shined by week or month at
your residence daily. or other job
york done Send for me BIZ mail
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26
Lemonade which is intended for

Lemonade which is intended for a
sick person should be strained. This
is particularly necessary if there is any
trouble with the stomach, as the tough
fibers of the lemon are hard to digest.
The first half hour after milk leaves
the Cow has much to do With its excel.
lonoe.
Abroad they have also reached the
conclusion that the constant and una
voldable accumulation of gases and the
attending explosions are the most seri-
Gus questions in connection with plac-
Ing wires under ground.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26

1t is a well settled fact that de-
caying organic matter absorbs the ele-
mentary atmospheric nitrogen with
great eagerness. This process of de-
eaying is also conducive to the produc-
ton Of certain kind of bacterium. by
the influence of which this elementary
nitrogen is converted into nitrates,
which process is called nitri6cation.
DIR. Salisbury found malarial fever
to be propagated among persons sleep
ing in room in the windows of which
had been placed q box Of earth from
malarial soil House plants cultivated
in pots filed with malarious earth arc
= constant danger. The germs grow
laxuriantly in the moisture ard warm
ar Of closed rooms. :.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-26

Get out o here" said the hen to
HE china egg. You don't belong to
ny set--Harper's Bazaar
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
a Inrgotten Frnli

frequent error among thosa interested in
cookery Is % sUpyo9s that the imported
articles called currants. u-ed IL fruit cases.
mince pies, plum pudd.ngs. buns, and To
Ike, are fruit rambling our ovu black n
rel curTa1ts dTled. Ia reality thses dri.i
fruits which we call currants are Inst a. rsuca
rslsins IS anything hat l. ogYered under TIA.
s->sclfic raIrs. beng only a dTi~d grHDe. Al
though q an excse1in-ly -znali variety. each
grape no bigger than a Common pa. AID each
bunch DFl- two OF three inches ioug The
-.ttle grape Hlnches are pfcksi and dried Il
Toe ~, and ere - t1ll c! slzo~h4ri1s matter
that the eE4aLaE s<gs- CT y.tsillzes tnefn into
compact form o. sut7csut tardus~s % Re-
q4Ire considerable streIE-h % oz-a tbc mss
a1d prepare tic fTlii faT yac<iuz they beng
t1sn q second tune oCasyra -. gas t!iEs -
mans 4 trading VITA fss fs.t. which pr
ceeas peThApa s-ocoI-lf for a s,reat csAI = to
dlrt All grave. -s1ssitT ~ ~ fcg1d rarz~3
with them These Etcis grspes grow al
through tae islaz1s AM al acaut rezsors 3
the Grsrls1 Archipelago. srss beng s-rsIrtssi
originally from lor1ata. ftev wrye cslis-i a,
frs cc-iat5a, which word saa s-ra51zs!y err
ripped into csr--art. tiil re ygi-al-lss Tla-.
ard is t-71s- vevs t9Tgotts1 IN rsrs~Euss-As4c~
Fl. tHs hftas rozna berry q car ON garden.
~zsca isiEtt - 1rs4d frosn roz - eee,z.s-
dag vIta91t Gsv>loge1g enough s-7Esr % ra@sf
.hsra together IS zs Ed The Zza.s csTrAzts
r.a..eyi -HArp>x's Bazar.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
Tho Poetess of Passion Speaks.

The province Of the author is to entertain,
t. arnuse, to instruct, to elevate, to sympa-
thize with and to strengthen humanity. To
accomplish this with SO vast an audience as
the world offers, a variety Of methods must
be employed. The realist and the idealist
can work side by side in harmony. Nursery
tales however excellent, do not cover the
reeds Of all the reading world The deeper
experiences Of mature life have place in
literature when those experiences serve to
elevate and honor, kindness and unsefshness
in the readers Inind-as life, the great real
ist, elevates them in the eyes Of every dis
corning being.
Sin and its methods have a place also in
literature.
| once heard woman say she was saved
from moral peril by accidentally reading a
novel in which occurred a realistic deScrip-
ton OF q temptation like her own and its con-
sequent evils. But base and immoral actions
should be suggested, never dwelt upon or
dignifed by detail.
There is a proper place il literature for the
delineation of a great and loyal though mis-
directed passion; there is no place for the
portrayal of icentiousness.
\ lesson can be conveyed in describing the
steps by which the youth was led to the as
siguation, but not in relating the interview
itself
a murder described in detail incites more
murders of a like kind. The horrible and
disgusting shculd be passed over as quickly as
possible, the beautiful and noble fingered
Upon in literature as in life-Ella Wheeler
Wilcox in New York Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
Benefits of Travel.

4 gentleman who has just returned from
an extensive travelling tour through the north
and west said to party yesterday: Il have
been among all classes OF people since l left
Atlanta, and | have witnessed that which is
great in art and IN nature. My conviction is
that travel makes a man better and kinder az
heart II enlarges his vision it opens up the
narrow channels of his mind, and above all
things it kills pedantry and petty vanity.
When l left Atlanta a few weeks ago | felt
self important and M brain seemed too large
for nv hat | felt that wherever ! went
would make an impression. but such illusions
were dissolved, as | found nyself II New
York, pushing my way through the throng-
a great pulSing ocean OF humanity, who no
more Needed me than they did the smallest
bootb,ack. Wherever | went l found it 50,
until | ionged TO get right here in Atlanta,
where | would rather live than In any
city IN this universe. | Came back humbied
but already begin TO feel my identity ami
recover some Of ny waning sef esteem: but
believe that travel Is Z liberal educator Il
cultivates q rlan without making hin T.edan-
tic. ard gives him opinions which are not
hobbies Ee becomes refined but lot pune
tiEous. discriminating bIt not exclusive -
Atlanta AMERICAN
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
Stock Gambling In London.

London is the great place for stock gam
bling. We think we have it il this country
but i does not beSl 70 compare with what
il is there In London there Is an inmelsa
amount Of trading II dztaulted bonds, ard
bonds q bankrupt corpo-ations, ard African
and Burmese rriEes, winch cog.a not b had
here for q da7. Twas reading the otkgr dav
n q SPECIAL pub.losGon about sae pacing q
ths Burmese r1sy nalHes Tne E-uzrz-ctIs IL
sued plainly stated fiat tie venture WIS a
gamble. that Is could n. t1--n CIT f7- year.
L il ever turned oas- anls VILE tee p.oTs---
might !sossibly De valaaa-9 there were equal
probabilities that Il wcul4 have 10 vaiEs
And yet there was tzz-la.s rlsA OF tSe
Rcthsck.liza Office WHEN ~. ss1Sscri-7.lc1 zas
of.nei. the total s.o-k wss szibscrsbAi sly
e-al TIMES over and szares Immediately al
vancea from Il u -, OF g. Z 'sIn-S-
Louis Gicberie.cc.2-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Sept 10. The fall
meeting Of the louisville Jockey club
began here today. The weather was clear
and the track slow.
First race, half mile-Clean Heels won
all the way and through the stretch,
Kenilworth came fast and got the place
from Louoka by a head. third. Time 5l$4.
Second race, half a mile-Niajor Tom
led all the way, Lottie : came through at
the finish ana got the place from Fahir.
Time sos.
Third race. seven-eighths of mile, SELL
ing-Mirth won by length from Bon Air,
Buclller third. Time / 81
Fourth race-Stoval came up from be-
hind with Il rush at the eighth pole and
won handy. Corticello beat Milton a
head for the place. Time lis
Fifth race, one mile-k'amine won easily
from Glockner, Brandolet third. Time
l:45$i.
Sixth race, one and one-siXteenth miles
Long Light led most of the way with
Blonda second and won by two lengths
from Spectator, Churchill Clark third.
Time 1:52@4
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
MERRILL CAN BE PFRSuaDFD

BosToN, Mass. Sept. 19.-Up to tonight
Major Merrill had received no official
notice OF his appointment rs pension COM
missioner. He said to q reporter: 81 don't
want the place and If l should consult my
personal comfort and interests as well as
my personal desires | would not take it,
But it is being pressed on me as matter
OF duty. 1t is said of me, as | said to the
president in regard to Major Warner, that
il is necessary for the interests of soldiers
as well as of the administration that there
should be man In the Office who is known
among the soldiers and who is inclined to
deal by them literally, but one
who is not committed 10 ser
vice pensions have received a
letter today from General Corse Advising
me TO take the place; also kilograms from
General Fairchiid, General Roe and
others
There is little doubt in the minds of Mer-
riifs friends that he will accept the aD-
pointment when offered