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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
FINDING THE LAGOON.
How One Of the Greatest Ancient Master.
pieces Was Discovered.

now Ouo VI tne 1r0aCoBB Ancient MaSt0ru
pieces Was Discovered.
The LAGOON may be the original
statue bepraised by Pliny. but even
that is open to doubt. The history of
the finding OF this statue was in this
wise: 1t happened in 1906, when Ra-
phael. youth of twenty-three. was
painting in Florence. In the month OF
June messenger arrived in hot haste
at the vatican to tell Pope Julius III
that workmen, excavating in a vine
yard near st. Maria Maggiore, had
come upon statues. The Pope turned
to one of his grooms and bid him run
to his architect, Giuliago di San Gallo,
to tell him to go there at once and see
about it. San Gallo instantly had his
horse saddled. took his young son.
Francisco. who relates this, on the
crupper behind him and called for
Michael Angelo, and away the three
trotted through the hot and dusty
streets, as we may imagine, in great
state of excitement.
When they reached The place, thew
beheld that agOnized face which we all
know so we'll, and which many of us
have tried to copy so often ct is the
LAGOON of Pliny!' exclaimed San Gal
10. Mad with excitement they urged
on the workmen; great hole was
cleared away, and they were able to
contemplate that wonderful group. GER
tainly the finest monument of antiquity
which had as yet been revealed to the
modern world. After this, as Francisco
says, they went home to dinner. low
they must have talked! We can mag
inc poor wife crying despairingly to
her lord: ''Dear Giuliana, do leave off
talking for moment, dinner is getting
quite cold!' | should like to have been
there; but that is idle
The statue was transferred to the
Belvedere, and then arose the question.
Was it Pliny's LAGOON or a copy?-a
question not decided to this day. Pliny
says that the statue was carved by Ages
ander, Polydorus and Athendorus. of
Rhodes. out of single block of mar
BILE. The LAGOON is in five pieces, but
very skiilfully joined.-Magazine of
Art.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
cAsTk RULE IN india.

1t Makes Life Burdenso ME for the Unfortu.
nate European.
A Hindoo will make caste an excuse
for any thing, and Anglo-Indian law
will back him up in his villalny. III
in passing through crowded bazaar
your clothing should brush against
heap of grain exposed on the ground,
as every thing is here. and if this
grain merchant should claim that this
grain was set apart for native food; il
this honest native chooses to make
you buy that heap OF grain at his own
selling price, he has the law on his
side. and the judge also. if, as is so
often the case, the judge be Hindoo.
You may wish to keep house in mod
est sort of way. and you may wish to
have as few servants about the house
as possible. In America one servant,
or two at most, would be ample, but
here on the same scale of living you
must keep dozen at least. Your
bhistie will carry water and nothing
else; such is the rule of his caste.
Your khansama will cook your food
that is, the small portion of it that he
does not steal, but will not wait on
table; for this you must have your
khidmuggar. Your syce will drive.
but will not clean or harness your
horse; for this you must pay another
man. You must have the big
doors all around the house
wide open these hot nights or
you can not breathe, and so you
must have a chokidar (watchman),
who is generally Gujerati, well
known caste of acknowledged thieves.
The native police, as you would ex-
pect, are the worst of thieves in the
country. Not one of your bakers
dozen of servants has one good, honest
half hours work in the whole twenty
lift finger to do any thing which he
does not consider his work, and, as
you will see, this is matter which he
has entirely in his own hands. For all
of which the excuse is that caste rules
will not allow them to do any other
kind of work; and although you may
know very we'll that this is an absurd
lie. invented only for your annoyance
and robbery, yet, what are you going
to do about it? Every man of them
steals like a pickpocket, and every man
of them will lie in way which no
white man, no matter how talented he
may be, can ever hope to initiate
You may be annoyed beyond all
endurance; the inconvenience and loss
of time and money may be most
serious; but yet. if you let your angry
passions rise and get the better of
your judgment and proceed to kick
one of these fellows off the premises,
you will probably pay a fine of one
hundred rupees, and then they will
boycott you in way which no trades
union ever dared to do yet. Again
Anglo-Indian law is on the side of the
native.-COr. Minneapolis Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
SECRETARY WINDOW.
His Experience with Treasury Watch
man Who Didn't Know Him.

u
man Who Didn't Know Him.
Secretary Window. though giving
up SO much of his time to Treasury
appointments, is unknown even by
sight to great many of his subor-
dinates in Washington. The other day,
returning to the Treasury building
after lunch, he met some newspaper
correspondents in the street, and
stopped to chat with them until after
two o'clock, the hour at which the
Department is closed to the general
public. The party applied for entrance
at a side door, where the new watch
man recognized the journalists and
passed them in without challenge. The.
Secretary attempted to follow, but
found the wire gate closed in his face.
at is after hours, sir; you will have to-
know who amp" Mr.. Window began.
II am sorry, SIR" interrupted the
other. ''but no matter who you are, my
orders are imperative, and must keep
you out unless you have a pass" II
am the Secretary, pleaded Mr.. Win
dom. The Waterman only shrugged
his shoulders incred ulously and smiled.
He was going back to his seat, when
the correspondents, laughing, came to
the rescue, and succeeded in convincing
him that he had made bad blunder.
He was profuse with apologies and
overcome with confusion; but Mr.. Win
dom good naturally assured him that
he had only done his duty, and that he
deserved double credit for doing it
politely in the face of what looked like
so bold piece of etfrontery.-N. Y.
Post
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
INFLUENCE OF CICERO.
A Man Whose Art Was Natural Even WheI
1t Appeared COnsummate.

A Man Whose Art Was Natural Even When
1t Appeared Consummate.
1t is notable fact that no biographer
of Cicero, might almost say no stu
dent of his epoch, has ever yet sue
!ceeded in remaining Indifferent to the
mar. Over and above the homage due
to his transcendent gifts, his name has
always retained the power of stirring
emotion, of provoking partisanship, OF
moving to enthusiasm or anger. as
though that brilliant, lovable, fallibie
human creature were still alive, and
eloquent, and moving Sin his habit as
he lived among men. What CONTRA
dictory judgments have been passed ON
his course as a statesman, on the dis
interestedness or the mere blind obsti-
macy of his adhesion to the republic!
In how many ways, almost ludicrously
diverse, has his character been con-
ceived and illustrated, from the devout
point of view of the quattro-centro
humanist to the grotesque point of
view of the nineteenth-century imperi-
alist! This he owes in part, [ think,
to his own grand carelessness of con-
sistency; to that very loyalty to the i'm
pulses of rich and versatile nature
which the Delphian god had the in
sight to enioin upon him at the outset
of his political career. His art itself
was natural, even when it appeared
most consummate; for ''art's highest
works." as Goethe says, ''are also the
highest of nature, being produced by
man in accordance with true and nat
ural laws" l shall not therefore ad-
vance any theory or attempt any analy-
sis of my own, but leave the unguarded
correspondent of Atticus to speak for
himself to others, as he has very intel
lightly spoken to me. / will quote,
however, since it seems to me in it's
own way conclusive, the briefest sum-
mary of his case on record; the late
and perhaps remorseful admission of
the man who might have saved him,
but whose court we are glad, upon the
whole, that he did not live to adorn.
Plutarch tells us that grandson of the
Emperor Augustus was one day dis
covered by the latter porting over a
volume of Cicero's works. The boy in
stinctively thrust the book under his
mantle, but was ordered to produce it;
and the Emperor, taking it from him,
opened it and began himself to read.
He became absorbed; he turned leaf
after leaf; and when at last he gravely
handed the volume back to the relieved
culprit, it was with the single remark;
"That was good man, and one who
loved his country. Harriet Waters
Preston, in Atlantic
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
AFGHANiSTAN'S BORDER.
Sights and Seems on the Route from Lu.
eta TO L.ahki-Larwan.

sights and Seems on the Route from Luz
eta TO Lahki-Larwan.
The contempt of the traveller for
wild beasts and his craven fear of the
dog, the friend of man, were exempli-
fed recently. Sir Robert Sanderman
and passed close to wolf, of whom we
naturally took no notice, while he
skunk away as fast as his legs would
carry him without attracting too much
observation; but few minutes after
wards we had an engagement with
shepherd dogs which constituted a
more serious encounter. A scarcer
sight was that of the wOodcock, which
the sportsman of the party missed, for
it is no joke to tear along roads on
horseback and dismount to shoot. Sur
geon Major Taylor shot four rock part
ridges. The country was full of grave
yards, but controversy RACES among
travellers as to whether, in the dry
district which lies between the Eu-
pirates, the Caspian, and Thibet,
enormous graveyards in an almost I'M
habited district imply that once it con-
tanned far larger population. Per-
haps they do mean this; but on the
other hand it must be remembered that
nomadic tribes wander in great num-
bers for enormous distances in this
part of the world, and that they may
have their favorite burying places.
Then. even a small population here
makes large graveyard. because
the graves are kept up from
time immemorial. They are merely
heaps of stones, and passers-by fling
stones on to each cairn, and it may be
said that no grave once made is ever
lost. These grave-yards may have
seen the passage of Alexander, for the
rainfall is never sufficiently heavy to
disturb the stoues. A sign of the pas
sage OF many people is to be found in
the enormous number of rags which
decorate large trees where they exist.
At our breakfast place, close to stream
swollen by the nights rain, which we
had to ford, there was a great tama-
risk tree, which was sacred because
some holy man had been buried near
it, and rags-chiefy red, but not all
red-were tied to every bough. The
custom of tying red rags to trees to in
dictate peculiar sanctity is one which
is met with in parts of the world as
distant from one another as the county
of Galway, New Zealand, Lithuania,
Siberia and Thibet. In the little forti-
fed villages of the valley was shown
the miniature mosques" which are
put up outside the fortified enclosures.
They consist of a fiat stone, about the
size of an English gravestone. with a
headstone; and the villagers 60 out to
pray upon them one at time. In the
whole of the long distance from Quetto
to the shrine of Smithsonian did not
see single real ecclesiastical building
except those of our own Moslem SOL
diers. 1t is said that the Baluchis are
such bad MOhammedans that they used
not to pray at all until we came, and
that it was the example of our more
religious native soldiers which has in
duced them to begin. But think that
there is some exaggeration in this
settlement, although it is certain that
at Khur they have lately built pray
ing enclosure, like parish pound, not
having had any place of worship until
iaast year.-Fortnightly Review.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
FIVE LITTLE CHICKENS.
Said the first little chicken,

Said the first little chicken,
With u queer little squirm:
"Oh, ] wish could find
A fat little worm
Said the next little chicken,
With an odd little shrug:
"Oh, wish could find
fat LITTLE, bug"
Said the third little chicken,
With a sharp little squeal:
"Oh, wish could find
Some nice yellow meal.'
Said the fourth little chicken,
With small sigh of grief
"Oh. wish could find
A green little leaf"
Said the fifth little chicken,
With faint little moan:
"Oh, wish could find
A wee gravel stonel'
"Now see here" said the mother.
From the green garden patch,
"If you want any breakfast,
You just come and scratch"
Atlanta Constitution
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

Worth. the famous French"
dressmaker, is q native-born English
man. He is man of striking appear
anee, with rather Scotch type OF
face, which is made more noticeable
by the Scotch cap he usually wears.
His parents intended him for a printer,
but he disliked to soil his fingers with
printers ink, and decided for the dry
goods trade, beginning in London, and
finally going to Paris. where he found
favor with the Empress Eugene, and
consequently with the fashionable
world which she led.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

The Latest Agriculture News
JACK (excitedly)-"Mamma. you know
'nat ienon-pip planted last year that
came up a pea-vine? Well, it's got
string beans on it!"-Life.
-Flatte-'I see that the English
are buying up all our lager beer brew
eIles. l wonder how they will carry
the beer across the waterpn SharnY
~, In schooners, suppose. IN. Y.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

1t is hard to believe that when a
sleepy boy leaves his bed in the morn
ing that he will hate to return o it al
night. -Atchison Globe.
Mature has left every man a ca.
pacity of being agreeable, though not
OF shining in company; and there are
a hundred men sufficiently qualified for
both. who, by a very few faults that
they might correct in half an hour are
not so much as tolerable. Swift
AS a general rule. confidence OF
success is almost success; and obstacles
often fall Of themselves before deter.
mination to overcome them. There is
something in resolution which has s.l,
influence beyond itself; all is prostra
lion where it appeara Once Week
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
NERVOUS CHILDREN.
Never Make Fun of Them or Scold Then s
Without PrOvocation.

Never Make Fun of Them or ScoId Them
Without Provocation.
l want to say word about nervous
children. Never scold or make fun of
them. They suffer enough without
your threats or sarcasm. Don't let
them know you see their awkwardness
when in company nor their grimaces
when alone. A case was reported by
the Boston Globe of boy ten years old,
who, on being veXed, and often with
out any apparent provocation. will
clench his hands and make the most
frightful cOntortiOns of the muscles of
his face and head. till his poor mother
fears he is idiotic. By no means. He
is the brightest boy in his class at
school, fond of reading and of natural
history, but he is of a highly nervous
temperament. and has not been taught
to control the little wires, so to speak,
on which he is strung. This is no
single case. There are thousands OF
children who give way to their nerves;
in similar fashion. Never whip them,.
but talk to them about these curious
little strings that should be made their
servants, not their masters. A prom
inent physician in this city says the
man or woman who whips nervous
child should for every blow given re-
ceive five, and is on a level with brutes
that have no reason. 1t is our duty to
encourage and help them. Be patient
with them. They are the making OF
our future successful men and women.
for they will work har,l at whatever
they undertake. Brace up your own
nerves first, and then be indulgen'
toward the capers of your Over-nerv'
Gus children. Union.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

"A lady says that the mortality
among the Masons must be very great
this year, for every time she asks Tor
recreation her husband finds he IS
''obliged to attend q brothers funeral"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

Search for affinities before mar
riage, and never after. If the eyes
begin to wander from home, the love
of change in some natures is so DOM
inant. that, where love might have
been. discord prevails, and the same
reasons which caused the first mis-
taken marriage. would be likely TO
cause the second. third. or fourth
st. Louis Magazine
-Great Statesman-"Will the Aus
tralian ballot system interfere with the
sale of whisky?" Citizen-"No."
Great Statesman-"Can candidate
treat everybody he wants TOP" Citl-
zen-"Certainly." Great Statesman
docs it matter whether a voter 10
drunk or sober?" Citizen-"Not a
particle. Great Statesman-''Well,
I can't see any objection to it. Puck.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

Strawberry Gelatine: Take paper
of gelatine and soak it as usual, adding
one quart less of water with sugar and
the juice of one lemon. Have quart
OF strawberries sugared and left stand
ing for about two hours, when crush
them and rub them through the sieve
and pour over them through the sieve
the gelatine. Whip up pint and a
half of cream, stirring it into the gela-
tine, when put it into form and set it
on ice. Serve with or without cream.
Good Housekeeping.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13

No sane man. suppose, ever carried an episto
larry Irritation on to an actual proposal OF marriage
without seeing the object, or, except what her
pen has told him. without knowing something
about Transformations Magazine Writer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
SCAPEGRACE SONS.
A Manitoba Farm Devoted to Maxim
Men of Sewers of Wild Oats.

"A Manitoba Farm Devoted to Making
Men of Sewers of Wild Oats.
give seen almost all kinds of curious
farms, I Think said a traveller the
other day, ''from ostrich down to pep
permint farms, but one of the strang-
est is up in Manitoba, It's principal
crop is an annual growth of young
Englishmen, sons of wealthy parents
who have interrupted the boys in their
diligent work of sowing thick and
early crop of wild oats, and have sent
them out to the colony, to- have their
moral and physical health built up
and little industry and useful knowl-
edge instilled into them at the same
time. The owners of the farm, two
brothers, charge the boys for their
board and instruct them in farming for
nothing, but the work they manage to
get out of the young fellows is worth "a
good deal more than time spent in
teaching them, though occasionally
horse is foundered or a piece of farm
machinery is broken by the young
greenhorn.
1T is remarkable, though, how these
young sprigs of nobility, many of them,
take to the hard work of the farm
They have true British grit about
them and the managers have sense
enough to have the drudgery and dirty
work done by hired men. The boys
ride the hOrserakes, drive the moving
machines, learn to run thrasher.
pillow, etc., and all of them take kindly
to the care of livestock, the horses
especially, though propensity to race
the latter at every opportunity has to
be guarded against. The instincts of
gentlemen don't seem to desert them
either, for they will never sit down to
eat in the clothes they have worked in
and refuse to eat with the farm hands
who bring the smell of stables to the
table. Bathing, shaving and dressing
for the evening take up good deal of
their time-indeed, waste it, real
farmers would say-but the boys in
sist on it and also cling to their ciga-
rettes. Many of them get to like. the
life so that they stay longer than their
parents insist on. but nearly all return
gladly when the term of their Danish
ment is over. IN. Y. Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-19
THE STATE OF TRADE.

sItrnosR Juno ls-cotton dull; MiddlinS at iita
roaI artiye arm Howard street snd Western supernns
s2 SO o3 20 Extra 90 10 ~ O0 Family 90 Is - eo
Oily Mills, Rio Brands Extra " winsss wnsS
g s K S Is .esay
Soc western sasier No. Winter Red spot at s+ei
Jniy sIc August sl.sslLc Corn-southern steady;
whit. A3st6e Yellow at sist2c western ensr;
s s,..m.r s o. soss o,,. Steady western s:ss
Do Mixed 90 10; Graded White 81 33 &c souths1
ana Psnnsyvsais 90 S33s 70 Rye steady q sid6SS Hay
steady Primo % Choice Timothy as sig MAJ. ~
sSsS:.f Suss5 g. At Clear F0I sp sss
QUIET. steady At l28is,e Lard ssesdy Refined q sSA
Butter quiet: Western Packed 10 Beat hou
Creamey ssc Egg steady a. L. psfs , y
nm Rsaned at SOC Coaee unsetfss i, ss couo
ass assn.d nHs %n.sey steady 81
liverpool per steamer quiet Cotton $50 asked fioeL
per ton In sacks 3s ca Grain per bush 2+d CORK Sr
S.s Corn 2s 900 6usa oats 10000 bush shipmenn.
Flour 1000 b6ls saleswheat $4,000 bush Corn loooo
bush.
BuvlLo June s-whsat-Sprinz grades In good demand
old No / Hard 81 -; New No. Hard 81 2dsISo AW
No Northern csc Old No Northern &c No Northern
s2,asS.c No Northern 72c Winter grades scarce oas
Srn CGoco Rel 10; Extra 80 Red s2c in store no No.,
strong; No Yellow SO 3s1c; No. Yellow 80 6Sese
No 3sLa3sL 70; no 8, 81, Sc in store Oats anieti
No 9 White at Sic on track No 3 Waite At Zste;
No Mixri 2St629Sc in store Rye nominal fi s.
ga Heceipts-FlOur 1900 bbls Wheat 10000 oush
Corn 2oV 900 bush l4OOOU bush. Canal shpnenn-
Wheat IS 900 bush Corn $4,000 bush Oau l3OOo pusn
Rye : 500 bush. Shipments by Rau-Flour 1000 Dds
Wheat $4,000 Corn 10000 bush oats $4,000 ousa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-19
THE MARKETS.
Total RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE!
Par North River. Vessels and Railroads.
GENERAL, MARKET REPORT.

BUILDING MATER1AL-Ths supply ,DS OF brick Ats Is
ses4y ~ hard brick !, P gossb Il T. 81 SGs
IS 2Sas5 75 jersey a 606s5; pale Bricks ssass 20:
TSisdspsa Front sfsss Trenton Front sS E 90 70
se so German Portland o. Soas2 co. Rockland Common
Lime, o. per Dbl and do Finshng e. y Ssg Se pSs
Laths 50 IS per 600. Goats Hair. 2S2Sc per ousAei
Cattle Hair 1Sd2lc. ~,
coFFEETho spo. market tor Brazil nu ETSwhi i ar
Their sgRt decline Vas recorded to-day far Sargq:S
quoted II 3so, without business. MID grsaes WEE ap
dull. options continued ths down"aru ooutS Nv
tended at times with or less eAS.temss am. PA
siderable rrcguarlty closing, however, W.. "a 70
covery Further depression In cable SoVSes sonV wa
brcsp OF 40 10 so points early, and long .n53 "s,
resumed Subsequently HaVfs ssFenShs@IGG S8o pon.s
leaving on d Hayre opened frs on GSs o aSIS
hoguar First 400 Good second. 800 I EsSh9%Ss
M TnItca staos nil Rio ciea 1ancss for Europe, nil
total stock $4,000 bags santos receipts 600 bag:
receipts at Rio, July June II. 1882 wv ppasS,
t!mc 1855 $4,000 bags same !, nm guDe ~ ~
IE-9 2,5sl 600 bags time 1889 ltU.ooV 40 'r "a
saWe time 1887, 2,541Ooo bags; sales her' i'-''''