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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Primitive Methodists held their
first National conference in Pitts burgh,
| Pa
One in twenty of the students in
hve OF the leading government schools
in Japan is Christian, but only one
in LOCO of the general population.
The annual reunion of the Luther.
ans of Maryland. West Virginia and
Pennsylvania was held the other day at
Penmar, Md, 10000 people present
The soul needs to be cultured as
well as body and mind. The knowl-
edge necessary to its development can
be learned only in the school of Christ
The Lutheran colleges founded and
endowed by the Baltic Germans in the
Baltic province of LivOnia have. in ac-
cordance with the order of the Russian
tyranny, ceased to exist
In looking around for Christian
work. do not conclude that it muAt be
just such as is done by some one else.
Our individual traits and faculties must
be consul. ed, and what our own hands
find TO do-what they are especially
fitted to dO-that must indicate our
duty.
The appropriations of the American
Baptist Missionary Union for the year
ending March 81 1890 amounted to
$4O2, 785. II. Much new work is pro-
vided for, and the schedule is more
clearly in accordance with the esti-
mates from the missionaries than for
many years
The teaching of subjects relating
to public health is now undertaken at
several of the medical schools in Great
Britain. and students are there pre-
pared for examination for the several
diplomas in Sanitary Science. and for
holding the appointment of medical Of
fcer of health.
The Methodist alliance convention
of North Ohio conference, at it's recent
session. pledged itself to bring about
the union of all the societies within the
conference, accepted the name Epworth
league, and passed resolutions looking
toward the organization of presiding
eliers district leagues as soon as pos
sible.
1t renews ones hope in the future
of American manhood to learn that no
smOking-cars wee called for on the
trains which bore to Philadelphia the
delegates to the late NatOna' Conven-
ton of the Societies of Christian En-
deavor. One train that contained
near.y thousand delegates, hundreds
OF them young men. had not single
smoker on board, "'even in the bag
gage-car.'
In the China Inland Mission Hos
pital and Dspensary at Chefoo, $3.50
out-patients lave been relieved. 217
surgical operations. performed, 96 in
patients treated and brought under
spiritual influences. not few of whom
are believed to have accepted Christ as
their Saviour; and all this work is done
at the small cost of f143 One of the
most encouraging signs of the mission
airy work in China is the hold the Cos
pei is gaining on the hearts of the wom-
en-. One lady has from forty to fifty
present at women's meeting each
Sunday.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE

SEATTLE. w. T., October 81, 1889. J
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ compliance with the provisions of the act
Of Congress. of June 3. 1878 entitled AN act Tor
the sale OF timber lands in the Sixties of Cali
fornia, Oregon. Nevada and Washington Terri
tory"
HENRY KENSMAN,
OF Hillhurst, w. T., County of Pierce Territory
OF Washington, has this day filed in this Office his
sworn Statement No. 4916, for the purchase ri
the routh west of Section No H. in Township
No. ~ N. Range No. w, and ill offer proof
to show that the land sought ia more valuable
for its timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes and to establish his CLAIM to said land
before the Register and Receiver of this office
at Seattle. w. T., Oh Wednesday the 5th
day of February 1890.
He names as witnesses: James Ingraham. of
Tacoma, w. T.; James Burgess. of Tacoma. w.
T.; E. A. Eske of NJ dia, W. r.; John Front
man, of Stones Landing, W. +.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are reques to file their
claims in this office or before said 5th day of
February, 1890. 7. M. REED. JR. Register.
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THE FIRST MATCH.

A Eeminiscence Which appeals Strongly
to the Sense of the Ridiculous.
A few days ago a gentleman, who is
now something over sixty yeaas of age
said to me: Il we'll remember the
time when l first saw a match. /
was then boy. and was working in
the barn with my father. when a young
man, the son of a neighbour, came in
with box in his hand and said he
could now light a fire without
borrowing Goals or striking a spark
with the flint. Opening the box he
took out one of the matches, which
was three or four inches long and had
a yellow looking substance on one end.
This end he dipped into small bottle
which came in the box with the
matches and contained sulphuric acid.
When the match was put into
the acid it instantly burnt into
a blaze. Although young Grant had
paid fourteen shillings ($1.75) for
his box, which held but fifty
matches, he was quite ready to use up
one or more of the costly fire-makers
in showing father how the wonderful
invention worked. But father. having
a wholesome fear of fire. and looking
with some suspicion on any new de-
parture from established ways. begged
Grant, if he would fool with that stnff
to go outside. for he didn't want his
barn burned down. adding. 1t may be
fun to see that go off. but it amt going
to do anybody any good to have fire
made as easy as that" The old gen.
tleman was mistaken. His son has
lived to see the time when fire can be
made much more easily. and it does
people good by SAVING time and temper
while the number of fires from the use
OF matches is comparatively few. Five
hundred .parlor" matches can be
bought for FIVE cents; between forty
and fifty million matches are made
every day in the United States. and
still the country is not yet destroyed
by fire in spite of the ease with which
we can make fire.-Christian Advocate
"A colored man living five or six
miles from Americas. Ga, caught a
seven-foot alligator in a steel trap set
for the purpose in Muckalee Creek.
The trap caught the ugly brute by one
toe on his hind foot and held him Sc
curely. When the negro found that
he had secured his prize he notified
the white people, who took their guns
and went to the creek. The negro
took a long pole, put it under the
beast. lifted it up so that the parties
could fire at the white spots back OF
his fore legs. and they let four loads oil
buckshot into the animal. killing him
instantly The darkies of that section
had big time of of alligatorsteak
which is pronounced superior to beef
steak any time.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFIc

SEATTLE. w. T., November 2, 1889.
NOTICE l. HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act OF
Congress of June 3, 1878. entitled IAN Act for
the ale of Timber Lands in the States. of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada aud Washington Ter
ritory,"
JAMES GAGNON,
of Seattle, county of King, Territory OF Wash
iDgton, this day filed in this Office mis- sworn
north west a of north west Il of section
2 in township 19 north, range west, and will
off proof to show that the land sought is moro
valuable for its timber than for agricui.
tural purposes and to establish iselaim to said
land before the Register aud Receiver of this
office at Seattle w. T., on Monday the 10th day
of February, 1890.
He names as witnesses: John Ca.low, Will
liam Callow and Ed ard Callow, of Kamilchie,
W.T.; ohm p Shelton, Of Shelton, w. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this offie on or before said 10th day Of
February, 1890. T. NJ REED, Jr., Register.
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A PECULIAR INDUSTRY
Raising of Kids for heir Skins by French
Mountaineers.

Mountaineers.
The raising of kids for their skins il
a principal industry among the French
mountaineers. and it supplies no small
part of their subsistence Softness,
del cacy of texture and freedom from
blemish are principal factors in the
value of kid skins, and to secure these
great pains are taken. Diet is the prin-
cipal thing, and mothers milk is what
keeps the kid in perfect condition for
the uses of the glover. AS soon as the
young animal begins to eat grass the
value OF the skin declines. for with a
grass diet its skin Immediately begins
to grow coarser and harder in texture.
and its chief merit vanishes. 1t is.
therefore, kept closely penned, not only
to prevent it f.,in eating grass. but
also to secure its skin from accidental
injury from scratches. bruises. &c. !,
which are fatal to perfection. When
the kids have reached certain age at
which the skins are in the best co.di-
ton for the use of the glover. they are
killed, and the skins are sold to travel
ing hawkers. through whom they reach
the great centers of the tanning indus
try at Annonay, Milbau. Paris and
Grenoble.
The superior quality of these kid.
skins, due to climatic causes, it is that
has given France the supremacy in the
manufacture of the finest grades of real
kid gloves-a supremacy that will
doubt ess be long maintained, inasmuch
as foreign manufacturers must in gen.
eral rest content with second-rate skins.
unless they maintain agents on the
ground. a policy that some English and
American houses have found neces-
sary.-Haberdasher.
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Winsomeness in Women,

Do you recollect what your feelings
were Immediately after you had spoken
the first unkind word to your husbandP
Did you not feel ashamed and grieved,
and yet too proud to admi it? That
was. is, and ever will be. your evil
genius! 1t is the temper which labors
necessarily to destroy your peace,
which cheats you with an evil delusion
that your husband deserved your an
ger, when he really most required your
love. If your husband is hasty, your
example OF patience will chide as we'll
as teach him. Your violence may alien
ate his heart, and your neglect impel
him to desperation. Your soothing
will redeem him-your softness subdue
him; and the good natured twinkle of
those eyes. now filling with tears, will
make him al your own.-Catholic
Standard,
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE


SEATTLE, w. T., October 81, 1889.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act of
Congress of June 3, 1875 entitled Gan Act for the
sale OF Timber Lands in the States of California,
Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory"
JAMES INGRAHAM,
OF Tacoma, county of Pierce, Territory of Wash
ington, has this day filed in this Office his
sworn statement No. 1917, for the purchase of the
north west a Of section Is, in town
ship % north, range west, and will offer proof
to show that the land sought is more valuable
for its timber or stone than for agricultural par
poses and to establish his claim to said land be-
fore the Register and Receiver of this Office at
Seattle, w. T.. on Wednesday the 5th day of
Feb uary, 1890.
He names as witnesses: Henry Kensman, of
Hillhurst. ". T.; james Burgess, of Tacoma,
w. :; A. E Eske. of NJ dia, W. T.; 10 Front
man, of Stones Landing, w. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or before said 5th day
of February, 1890. T. NJ. REED, Jr., Register.
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"A Fulton (Ky.) mother has Ave
IONS and the birthday of each of them
is July "a.
"A woman of Reading, Penn,
hanged herself because she could not
endure the toothache.
-Ihe force which California pump
:. AN exerts while growing is equal to
.ne strength of large horse attached
70 stick of timber.
Two focks of sparrows at Mounds
. .lne' w. Va, engaged in a pitched
oallle' and when they had finished
''eot birds lay dead upon tha, ground.
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WIT AM WISDOM.

"A man who rises above his discour-
agements will be only the better for bis
universities.
The way to gain good reputation
is TO endeavor to be what you desire to
appear. Socrates.
Man is not perfect of course, but
SO long as woman is. it does not matter
much. Bonneville Journal.
1t is too bad that the folks who
have 10 money to pay for meal should
have such good appetites. IN. Y.
Epoch.
To finish the moment, to find the
journeys end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good
hours, is wisdom. Emerson.
None are so seldom found alone
and are so tired of their own company,
as those coxcombs who are on best
terms with themselves. : Cotton.
BY adversely are wrought the
greatest works of admiration, and all
the fair examples of renown out of dis
tress and misery are grown. Daniel.
We part more easily with what we
possess than with the expectation of
what we wish for; and the reason of it
is, that what we expect is always
greater, than what we enjoy.
"A busy life, with good principles,
strong purposes. and wisdom enough to
secure fair cultivation of the different
sides of the nature, is one of the most
important factors for securing ripe
and happy old age. Once a Week.
Let every dawn of morning be to
you as the beginning of life. and every
setting sun be to you as its close; then
let every one of these short lives live
it's sure record of some kindly thing
done for others-some goodly strength
or knowledge gained for ourselves. =
Rusilin.
Blessings on the man who sows the
seeds Of a happy nature and noble
character broad cast wherever his feet
wander. who has a smile alike for Joy
and sorrow, a tender word always for a
child, compassionate utterance for
suffering. courtesy for friends and for
strangers. encouragement for the
despairing, an open heart for all-love
for all-good words for alL-Rural
New Yorker.
Cultivate good habits; they tend to
make virtue habitual, SO that j: be-
comes more easy TO do good than to
give away to sin. Thus make pru-
dence a habit, and reckless profigacy
becomes revolving; make sobriety a
habit, and intemperance becomes hate
full Hence the necessity for the great
est care and watch fulness against the
inroad of any evil habit. for the char
acter is always weakest where it has
once given away.
The IMPORTANT discovery has been
made that two chemically distinct kinds
OF sea water are present in the North
Sea- One is rich in chlorine, and
comes from the Atlantic to the south;
the other has less chlorine, and flows
from The Arctic Ocean.
Machinery especially designed for
the purpose is employed by shoe
backing manufacturers in grinding
and mixing ingredients used In COM
pounding that useful adjunct to the
toilet. The boxes are filed by hand,
experienced wOrkmen acquiring great
dexterity in this particular branch Of
the BUSINESS.
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PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

There is no one in the world 90
pleasant as the woman who knows she
has pretty smile. -Boston Post.
1t may be desirable to live to a
green old age; but when you have at
tanned 1t, please keep away from the
bunco men. Puck.
-Jack-'What are you doing. Ma
bel?' Mabel. Making angel cake;
don't you want some?" Jack-..No.
thanks; don't want to be an angel"
Puck.
"A young wife can be good house
keeper without bothering to polish up
the spare change in her husbands
pocket every time she cleans up the
rest OF the silver in the house.
erville Journal.
Ii the European inventor who has
invented smokeless powder will in
vent smokeless cigarette, his name
will be embalmed in the heart of a
grateful world. -Philadelphia Daily
News.
NO man ever talked of his work
without saying something about it's
great mental strain, We suppose that
'Een the wood-chopper thinks It's brain
WORK that makes him so tired at night.
|-Atchison Globe.
-Husband.-"Wife, I wish you had
been born with as good Judgment as l.,
put fear you were not" WHEY GU
are right. Our choice of partners for
life convinces me that your judgment is
much better than mine"
-Brown-'Did you hear that Young
Benedict suddenly became deaf on the
very day on which he was married."
Robinson-"You don't say so. That
shows that there is silver lining to
every cloud, no matter how dark it
may be for time. Texas Siftings.
Some women like to be told they
are pretty, but the really pretty ones
don't care for it. They have to be told
that they are brilliantly intellectual
George Washington's Ratchet wouldn't
stand ghost of a show now .a-days.- -
Merchant Traveller
-''Professor. said the destinations
young man at reception. I've heard
much talk about the anthropoid apes
approaching very closely to human be-
ings. Now. what in your opinion is
nearest to a man?' You want my
candid opinion, of course?' Ger
tainly." We'll, l should say his
undershirt. '-Washin gton Capital.
MIR. Jason-''Why amt supper
ready. want to know" Mrs. Jason
81 was down town and got caught
in the rain without an umbrella.
L had to wait in store until the
storm was over" Mr.. Jason-..So
you did have sense enough to go
in out of the rain, Ell? Well, you
are not an entire fool" Mrs. Jason
No; only the better half of one.'
Terre Haute Express.
How lady friends do hate one
another. to be sure! The other day
two of an uncertain age who had not
recently met were having chat.
Yes, said No. l. lit was my birth
day yesterday and my dear papa gave
me ring, as usual. He has always
given me a ring on my birthday ever
since | left school," Ever since, you
left school, darling?' re echoed No. 2.
why. what an extraordinarily large
collection of rings you must have, love-
TO be sure"
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE

SEATTLE, w. T., November B. 1899.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act OF
CONGRESS of June 8, 1878, entitled IAN Act for
the sale of Timber Lands in the States of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory."
HARRY E. FORD,
of Shelton, county OF Mason. Territory OF Wash
statement No 5Oo4 for the purchase of the
VII of sw14 and SEA of swH of section
Is in township 20 north, range s west,
and will offer proof to show that the land sought
is more valuable for its timber or stone than for
agricultural purposes and to establish his claim
to said land before the Register and Receiver OF
this Office at Seattle. w. T., on Tuesday. the
18th day of February. 1890
He names as witnesses: william D. Dunbar,
James B. Trrase, ny Keezer, lansing
Decker, all of Shelton. Mason G. ant W.T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested TO nle their
claims In this office on or before said 18th day OF
February. 1890. T. n. REED, Jr., Register,
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Will Writing Become a Lost Art7

Will the coming man write? Not at
all There will be no more need of his
learning to write than of his learning
to spin. Writing will have become one
of the lost arts, and wholly unneces-
sary art, by the time the coming man
appears. His writing will be done by
the photograph. which will be placed
on his desk as pens and ink are now;
and whenever he has story. a poem,
an essay or private letter to indite he
will simply talk into the photograph
and send on the plate which has
recorded his words. The teaching of
penmanship will be unknown in the
school of the future, and writing in the
present fashion will be regarded as
much among barbaric methods as we
now hold the rude hieroglyphics OF the
ancients to e.-Boston Traveller.
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HYPNOTISM IN MEDICINE.
Its Psychological Imp artance Recognized
By Leading Scientists.

Its Psychological Imp artance Recognized
By Leading Scientists.
The experiments made by DIR. Char
cot and his associates have been made
the subject of discussion at a congress
OF scientific men recently held at Paris.
Quite a number OF reports were read
Indicating remarkable success in the
treatment by hypnotism of diseases
that have often baffied the most expe-
rienced physicians. Two physicians
Of Amsterdam reported the results OF
no less than four hundred and four
teen cases they had treated by hpno-
tism. OF these lone hundred were full
ly cured. In ninety-eight there was a
noticeable improvement, and in only
seventy-one were there no results.
Fifty-eight cases were not followed.
The cases included organic maladies OF
the nervous system. mental diseases
and neuralgia" Other physicians re-
ported that in the treatment of the in
sane they have succeeded in some
cases, though it was admitted that the
difficulties were far greater than in
physical maladies. 1t seems to have
been conceded that there is more ex
pectation of relief from treatment by
hypnOtism in nervous diseases in their
various forms than in any others, and
even if this be so it will be a gain to
medical science. But the tests are only
as yet in their experimental stage. and
exactly upon what physiological basis
the Investigations of the most distin-
guished psychologists are founded does
not vet appear certain. 1t is curious
enough, nevertheless, that the methods
Of Mesmer. who was denounced as a
charlatan a hundred years ago, but
who has had some strong followers at
different times since among the higher
class of physicians, to say nothing OF
travelling lecturers who were able to
control the will of persons VINO SUBJ
mitted TO their treatment-it is curl
Gus. we repeat, that at the end OF a
century Professor Charcot should come
forward publicly 10 show the wonderful
power of mermerism, or hypnotism, as
It has been called, since the expert
ments of DIR. Baird, of Liverpool, and
that a congress of scientific men should
take up anew half forgotten subject
and recognize by long series of expert
uents its psychological importance.
But if there is good in hypnotism. there
$ also danger in its use, as Charcot
pointed out. if the person hypnotized
nav be made unconsciously to carry
,ut the will of the operator even to the
,erpetration of crime. Baltimore
SIN
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-Garrick was once accosted on the
street in London by man in rags with
"Halloa. Garrick. don't you know
me?" Il do not" replied the actor.
Strange, " said the tattered man. 1--WE
acted together at the Drury Lane
fheater." impossible, replied Gar
cick; in what play?' In Hamlet.
took the part of the cock. and crowed
Three tines behind the curtain."
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"A Chine q uOctOr IA oah FRANCISCO
is said to enjoy an income from the
practice of his profession of 100 per
month. He has been in America
nearly thirty years. and many Cau-
casians are among his patients.
Near Elmer, Ore. farmer cut
down a fir tree on his farm. He got
ll2 for the bark From the lumber he
built house 14x20. 8 feet high; shed
kitchen 8 feet wide and 20 feet long. a
woodshed 14x20 and had 200 boards 8
inches wide and feet long. He also
cut 1874 railroad ties and fifteen cords
Il wood-al this from .axe tree.
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.-le emblem may have been occa-
sionally worn by European brides ever
since the time of the crusades; but the
general adoption of orange blossoms
or brides is comparatively modern
practice, probably at first adopted be-
cause the orange flower was rare and
costly. and it has always been the
practice to be expensive at weddings.
The orange blossoms were found APP
propriate and suitable, the sentiment
under which it was used by the Sar-
acens was approved. and it became the
fashion for brides to wear orange bios
SONS. The orange fruit was brought
to England as early as 1890. but it was
long time before there was really any
cultivation of the orange. The tree is
supposed by many to have been
brought into England by Sir Walter
Raleigh. and the statement is made
that it was not adopted from the Sar-
acens. but probably from Inuia, or at
least from the far East. 1t owed it's
adoption at first from the fact that it
was both rare aud scented flower,
and was introduced without any refer
snce to its Observation-Disclosures
Magazine.