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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
CANNED DELIoACIES


The Export of Northern Shell-Fish am
Salmon to Tropical Countries.
Progress in manufacturing has
greatly increased the physical COM
fort of the tropical resident. No
longer is he dependent for subsistence
on the flesh, fish or fowl of the south
ern land. Though far on the other
side of the equator, northern products,
either animal or vegetable, are within
his reach; at the worst, with a slight
ly ''tinny'' flavor. There is far
greater quantity of fish sent to the
tropics than any other class OF canned
goods. Within the past year very
nearly half million dollars worth has
been exported to tropical lands, and
this does not take into consideration
those goods which were carried to
Africa, etc., via England. Salmon is
the popular variety; the consumption
of other fish is small in proportion. 1t
is caught in the Columbia river, and
in other streams of British Columbia
and Washington Territory, and canned
and labeled on the spot. By far the
greater part is carried to New York by
rail, but good-sized shipments so
across the Pacific to Australia and
Southern Asia, and British vessels take
it around the Horn to England. whence
aportiou finds it's way to Africa.
HOLSTERS are dear to the man in the
South and reach him by way of New
York, after being caught on the coasts
of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and
the adjacent provinces. The catch
diminishing recently, the export has
of late fallen off. Shrimps, another
export delicacy, are caught in the
Gulf of Mexico, largely on the coast of
Mississippi. Instead of being shipped
directly from New Orleans to South
America or the West Indies, they are
sent via New York, whence they are
dispatched southwark. Oysters, which
are sent down in goodly numbers, are
packed and labeled in Baltimore, but
they are seldom sent from there, as a
general rule passing through New
York.
Thus New York becomes, from its
great shipping facilities. the port of
distribution and out-sending for the
tropical export trade. Nowhere else
Is tonnage available, nor do lines of
vessels run; nowhere else is there
surety of transportation. The export
market is widening rapidly, and espe-
cially in the canned and preserved
goods line, as is shown by the con-
slant importing and success of new
brands upon the market. Besides fish
there is a growing demand for canned
fruits and vegetables, as peaches,
pears, cherries, tomatoes Gin marked
degree), corn and peas. This special
branch, as we'll as that of condensed
milk, of which large tropical ship
ments are being made, is yet in it's in
fancy, but it shows promise of great
expansion. Y. Mail ara CSpross.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

For twenty-five years in success
sion. Isaac Richmond. a North Carolina
colored man, has won the prize in his
neighborhood as the most skilful
curer OF the tobacco leaf. This sue
cessful planter owns an excellent plan
tatlon. but still remains with the
gentleman who formerly owned him.
-Horatio G. Onderdonk, who died
recently at his homie on the Hudson.
left a will providing that If any OF his
heirs marries before the age OF twenty
i've wiz the consent of his parents,
or habltuallv uses tobacco. or omits
rising by nine o'clock in the morning,
the one SO offending is debarred from
receiving any of the money. The
estate Is yalued at 100000.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

lin the German city of Frankfort
there is an old bakers shop in which
successive generations Of doughwork-
ers have carried on their trade since
NE year 1467.
Ethel -'.Do you think he loves
you, NellieP" Nellie-.sO, am GER
tain of it Why. he wants me to
marry so much that he has borrowed
money of papa for US to get married
on-a thing his proud. sensitive soul
could not brook If he did not love me. !"
Journal.
Books published 800 years ago
sell at $25 to $500 q volume" Many
modern authors, whose unstable edi-
lions are reposing on booksellers
shelves. mast regret that they didn't
have their works printed in the fifteenth
century. But We don't suppose they
thought Of that -Norristown Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
SANITARY MAxIMs.
Abstract Of . Leafet Issued by the No
tional Health Society of Londan

AOstFoct OF . Loanet Issued by the M
tional Health Society of London.
1t is the duty of every households
to ascertain for himself whether hi
own house be free or not from we'll
known dangers to health.
This duty, imperative at all times, i.
OF surprising urgency in house where
woman is about to become a mother,
or surgical operation is about to be
performed.
AS rule, the sOundness of the SAM
tary arrangements of house is taker
Tor granted. and never questioned unit
"draln-begotten illness has broken out
In other words, we employ Illness and
Death as our drain detectives.
Whenever gas from sewers or the
emanation from leaking drain, cess.
pool, or fouled we'll make their way
into house the inmates are in i'm
mlnent danger of an outbreak oil
typhoid fever, diphtheria, or other
febrlle ailments classed together under
the term "zymotic," not to speak OF
mlnorillness and depressed vitality. the
connection of which with sewer gas is
now fully established. Sewer gas en-.
ters a house most rapidly at night,
when outer doors and windows are shut,
and is then perhaps most potent in
communicating the meat. the milk, and
the drinking water, and in poisoning
the inmates.
/ A house in which children and serv-
ants are often ailing with sore throat,
headache or diarrhea is probably
wrong in its drainage.
Scamped drain work is one of the
most dangerous of the sanitary flaws of
new buildings; it is also one of the
most common and one of the most diff
cult to detect, and is rarely found out
except by the illness it produces.
If you are about to buy or to rent a
house, be it new or be it old, take care
before you complete your bargain to
ascertain the soundness of the sanitary
arrangements with no less care and
anxiety than you would exercise in
testing the soundness of horse before
you purchase it.
Ii you are building house or can
achieve it in an old one, let no drain
be under any part OF your house.
If there is smell of drains in your
house or damp place in wall near
which a waste-pipe or a soil-pipe runs,
or damp place in the cellar or kitchen
floor near drain or tank, let no time
be lost in laying bare the pipes or
drains until the cause be detected.
If rat appears through the floor of
your kitchen or cellar and strong
current of air blows from the rat-hole
when chimneys are acting and the
windows and doors of the house are
shut, feel sure that something is wrong
with the drain.
If you are tenants, and your landlord
refuses to remedy the evil, do it at
your own cost rather than allow YOUR
family to be i'll.
A landlord may reasonably look for
interest on the money which he spends
for the benefit of his tenant: but he is
committing little short of manslaughter,
if by refusing to rectifv in his property.
he saves his own pocket at the expense
of the health and lives of his tenants.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
WHAT CHiNAMEN EAT.
Astronomical Delicacies to Be Found In
Shops and Restaurants.

Gastr0nomical Delicacies to Be Found I'm
Shops and Restaurants.
Canton is of about the size of Paris
or New York, and it is one of the best
Of places to study Chinese gastronomy.
The restaurants here have birds'-nest
soup at s. a plate, and bought a rat
which was sailed, pressed and dried,
yesterday, for cents. 1 douot not
the price was five times too high, for
the rat was the smallest which hung in
the butcher shop. It lies before me as
write. It measures foot from nose
to tail, and it looks little bit like a
piece of dried pork. It has been
skinned even to the tail. Its legs are
cut of, and the liver and heart are
pressed inside of it. It smells like
salt meat, and it looks as though il
would make the center of good sand
wich. propose to send it to the Grid
iron or Glover Club as a sample of
Chinese gastronomy. In this same
shop saw cooked cats, and I visited
yesterday cat and dog-meat restau-
rant Carcasses of small dogs, which
looked not unlike clean sucking pigs,
nung from hooks about a low, dark
room, and these, in most instances, had
tuft of hair left on the tip of the tail.
This hair was black, for black dogs
meat is worth more than that of vel
low dog, and black cats flesh costs
here 10 cents plate.
just below these dogs. and next to
the street. were two clay bowls filled
with burning charcoal, and upon these
was stewing the flesh of dogs and cats.
In little cages on the floor were num-
Der Of live cats ready to be killed and
cooked to order, and saw this after
noon peddler showing a cat to a
woman in one of the narrow streets of
Canton. The woman was examining
the cats teeth in order to know its age.
and she felt of its body as though it
we're a rabbit There were about a
dozen Cinnamon dining in this dog
and cat restaurant, and good dinner
costs on an average of Is cents-F. G.
Carpenter, in Cleveland Leader.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
NOT A HAPPY THOUGHT.

Inc IrlaIS ana Ir1DulaCiOnS Oh society
Young Man.
While the society girl is subject of
SO much sympathy and comment IN the
newspapers, it might not be amiss to
cast kindly glance toward the young
society man. PROFESSIONALLY the sea-
son tells heavily upon debutantes, but
after they have been out for a year or
two they thrive upon fashionable life
in a way that is wonderful to see. The
leaders who set the pace in the lively
circles of New York society are with
out exception magnificent specimens of
robust and beautiful womanhood. They
have bright eyes and clear skins; they
are quick of movement and apparently
happy. Although the years roll by,
many of the old leaders continue to
keep in the van. and the incessant
round of balls and parties has no other
effect upon them than to emphasize
their charms.
Meanwhile how about the society
man? Any one who casts a glance at
the vacuous, round-shouldered and
narrow-chested youths who block the
doorways at evening entertainments,
and drag themselves YEARLY through
their social PAGES by day, will see what
wear and tear society exercises upon
the system of the masculine portion of
the Four Hundred. The main trouble
with society man is that he does not
get enough sleep. His sister goes to a
ball in a comfortable brougham, very
often after having taken a cosy and
healthful nap after dinner, and dances
until about two or three o'clock in the
morning with vivacity. The next
morning she sleeps snugly in her bed
until eleven or twelve o'clock. The
whole house IS hushed that the beauty
of the family may indulge in her re-
pose, and after eight or nine hours of
healthful slumber she lounges around
in an easy wrap over breakfast, and
then goes to walk, ride or drive, pre-
cisely as an athlete would who is train
ing and building up his strength.
Her Brother goes to the ball, dance
until three o'clock, lights big cigar,
smokes it on his way home, tumbles
into bed at a quarter to four, is reused
at eight, dresses hastily, and runs
down town after hurriedly swallowing
a mouthful of breakfast. All day long
he works with a heavy head. and at
short intervals he builds up his failing
strength by visits to the nearest cafe.
At the end of five years, or even at the
end of two, the difference between
brother and sister is wonderfully dis
tinct. Any body can observe the con-
trast who cares to look at society peo-
pie. Take any of the horseshoe curves
at the Metropolitan Opera House, for
instance, and observe the pallid,
wearied and languid men who sit be-
hind the radiant beauties that adorn
the boxes. 1t is a picture of full sig
nifcance.-Once Week.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

Some time ago the British Museum
bought magnificent marble bust of
the Emperor Hadrian at very rea-
sonable price. Recently, when the
authorities exhibited it with pride to a
party of distinguished foreigners, one
Of them. member of the Greek
diplomatic service, said that he had
seen the same bust in the Royal
Museum at Athens He notified his
government, and the investigation that
followed revealed the fact that a large
number of very valuable articles in the
museum at Athens had been stolen. It
Is said that evidently systematic thefts
had been carried on for some time,
and some high Greek officials are under
suspicion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
How the Permanent Service of Railroad
Companies Should Be Arranged.

Each of the several divisions of the
operating department of railroad
should have on its rolls two classes OF
men: First, those who have been ad-
mitted into the permanent service OF
the company; and second, those who
for any cause are only temporary in
that service. And no man should be
admitted into the permanent service
until after he has served an apprentice
ship in the temporary service. In other
words admission into the permanent
service would be in the nature of pro-
motion from an apprenticeship in the
temporary service.
The permanent service of a great
railroad company should In many es-
sential respects be very much like a
national service, that of the army or
navy, for instance, except in one par
ticlar, and a very important particular,
to wit, those in it must of necessity al
ways be at liberty to resign from tin
other words. to leave it. He
who had passed through his period of
probation, and whose name was en-
rolled in the permanent service would
feel that his interests were to a large
extent identified with those of the COM
panys and that he on the other hand had
rights and privileges which the COM
pany was bound to respect. =
Beyond this, he should feel that,
though he may not rise to high posi-
ton, yet as matter of right he is en-
titled to hold the position to which he
has risen just SO long as he demeans
himself properly and does his duty
we'll. He should be free from fear of
arbitrary dismissal. In order that he
may have this security, a tribunal
should be devised before which he
should have the right to be heard in
case charges of misdemeanor are adj
vanced against him.-Charles Francis
Adams, in Scribner's.
Experiments nave Deen maze on tne
preservation of wood placed in the
ground. Piece of oak sunk in the
ground in the direction of the growth
of the tree, decayed in twelve years,
while indentical pieces, coming from
the same tree, but inserted in the op-
posite way, showed hardly any trace
of decay in the same time. The phe-
nomenon is explained by the moisture
which follows the capillary tubes in
the wood. The simple precaution of
placing the wood in the ground. oppo-
site to the way in which it grew would
seem to augment considerably its dura-
bility.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
CHINESE LADIES' FEET.
A Sight Well Calculated to Disgust Intel-
1lgent Foreigners.

A Sight Well Calculated to Disgust Intel.
1lgent Foreigners.
The small feet of Chinese women is
one of the first sights in China that
sickens the foreigner. In Tientsin and
North China all of the Chinese women
compress their feet, and they hobble
about the streets with canes, resting
their heavy forms on the stump of the
natural foot. There is woman here
in Canton whose foot is so small that
the part which goes into the shoe is
not bigger around than trade dollar,
and the compressed foot is horrible de-
formity. had one photographed and
the sight fills me with disgust. The
leg from the knee to the foot is like a
pipe stem. The beauty of the ballet
girls calf is missing and the skin
seems to be wrapped around the shin.
1t is cracked and rough and the foot
itself seems to be broken in two in the
middle. The instep was doubled over
upon the heel ana the TOUR sman toes
were wrapped around under the sole of
the foot. The big toe and part of these
four were all that went into the shoe.
and the Chinese ladies. in reality, walk
on their toes. They have the heel set
about in the middle of the shoe, like
the French heel, and we get French
heels and rouge from China. The COM
preston of the feet is said to date back
to an empress who had club foot and
who made the other ladies of the court
bind up their feet until it became the
fashionable thing. Another explana-
ton is that it was adopted to keep
Chinese women from gadding, and if
so, it succeeds. ALI Chinese women.
except the Manchus or Tartars, now
bind their feet and it is a very low
peasant who has feet of the natural
shape. The pressing is with bandages,
which are put on the foot when the
child is five years old. They are
wrapped so tightly that the toes are
forced into the flesh, that the instep is
forced up so that the heel and the big
toe forms a perfect bow, and so that
the flesh often breaks at the instep,
and the bones sometimes protrude.
This binding is kept up through life.
and swelling takes place whenever the
bandages are removed. The woman
must be in continual pain. and in the
winter these compressed feet are liable
to freeze. DR.. Mary Niles, Of the hos
pital here, told me yesterday of the
case of a woman in the country near
Canton Her feet became frozen and
sloughed off. She came into Canton on
the stumps with her feet in her hand,
brought them to the hospital, and
asked the doctors to sew them on
again. A cast of one of these feet is
now shown at this hospital, which lie
larger than any in America, and which.
since its foundation half century ago.
has treated a million of patients.-F.
G. Carpenter, in Cleveland Leader.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

Planting. in pain and weakness,
Good seed in the ground so bare
The sad tears, falling, number
The grain that is planted there;
There, in the ground SO fallow,
With never the sun to warm,
Under the SHOWS deep cover,
Beat on by sleet and storm,
Till the failing limbs grow numbed
Yet YEARLY ploddlng on,
Scattering still the seedlings,
Patiently, one by one.
Lifting eyes to the leaden,
Cheerless, gray-hued skies,
Rifting and renting its dullness,
A transcript vision lies;
Away and away over hillsides,
Waving fields OF grain,
Is the harvest planted in sadness,
In weakness and. in pain;
And seeing with sight immortal,
The rains Of Heaven which fell,
terminating the seedlings,
Were the tears could not quell.
'Eana Miller Sheldrake, in Good Housekeep
Ing.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

The rock to which a chain was at
tached during the war Of the Revolu-
ton to prevent vessels going up the
Hudson river will have to be removed
in making excavations for the Peeks-
kill bridge in the Highlands. 1t will
be taken out entire and preserved at
either West Point, Newburgh, or in
the rooms of the Historical Society in
New York.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31
Got the Quarter.

Dude to chance acquaintance,-Tha shah
by looking fellow is making right for US Bet
he wants to borrow money He. he'll III get
ahead of him Please, sir, cant you lend me
a quarter or dime to get something to eati
Shabby Fellow-Certainly. Hands out q
quarter.) Now, young man, il you are
through begging Of this gentleman, would
like to speak to him He is one Of the depos
TORS in my bank York Weekly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

Undoubtedly the good fame O.,
every man ought to be under the pro-
lection of the laws, as well as his life
and liberty and property. Good fame
is an outwork that defends them all
and rends them all valuable. The law
forbids you to revenge; when it ties up
the hands of some it ought to restrain
the tongues of others. Burke.
nolr groJesque aIpnapet Is max
ing the Germans q nation of near
sighted people. Defective vision is
not only acquired, but it appears to be
handed down to Offspring.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

Two English servants, Ann Warde
and Eliza Wylde. went to Salvation
Army meeting on Sunday evening,
overstayed the time when they should
have been home, and for fear of
scolding, tied themselves together with
a wooden scarf and drowned themselves
in canal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

Many men spend dollar to save
ten cents; they wear out nickle's
worth of shoe leather In getting gift
of two cents worth of grindstone from
a naigh bOr.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

all webs within his reach. and not lik-
ing to leave the owners of them home
less, he devours them, too. He is very
fond of hard-backed beetles; but these
delicacies are now strictly forbidden,
as they are not calculated to agree
with bread and jam or with rice-pud-
ding.
1t was not an easy matter to keep
Sam alive in the tropics; now that he
Is not only well out of the tropics but
in region where the winters are Sc
we're, one may well despair of being
able to preserve him. During the
twenty-seven months which he has
now spent with me, he has been nv
constant companion. He went with
me to the Office when I was in the
south OF China; he goes with me now
that am in the north. In the south
ne used to pull the hats of nv chair
coolies OFF; here he continues this play,
varying it by pulling my hat off and
throwing it out of the chair. At the
Office he constitutes himself nv
special guardian. making strong
protests against any one ap-
preaching my desk. He will allow a
Stranger to go up to him and scratch
MS head; but he makes the noisiest
demonstrations possible if any one
ventures to shake hands with me or
touch any thing on my desk. If I
leave my home in the morning without
MIN. he speedily lets me understand
bow sore in spirit he L.. and 1 have
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-19
Tennis Match.

In response to the invitation of the
Bonita Tennis Cub, about fifteen mem
bers of the Plymouth Club arrived in
town on Tuesday noon. The games
were called at 2:30 the first event be-
ing gentlemen's doubles, best three out
of five to decide. Messrs. Woodruff &
Davenport,of Plymouth, played against
Mess's. Fred Ikeler d Smith, of Blooms
burg. The score was 80, 0-6, SO,
Bonita winning every SET.
The second match in gentlemen's
doubles was between Messrs. Ware &
Chamberlin, of Plymouth, and Messrs.
Rishton 81 Leverett, of Bloomsbury /;
the score, 4-6, 4-6, 20, in favor of the
home club.
Next were played the gentlemen's
singles, in which Messrs. Woodruff &
lkeler, and Messrs. Chamberlin & Rish-
ton we're the contestants. The score
in the set of Woodruff vs.. lkeler was
4-6, 2-6; this event being decided, by
agreement, by best two out of three.
This proved the most exciting event
of the afternoon, and the good plays
ON both sides were warmly applauded
The score in the set of Chamberlin
vs.. Rishton was 0-6, 0--6, 3-6 J.; thus
giving Rshton the three sets necessary
TO make the winner, after a prettily
played contest.
The umpires for Plymouth were DR..
Jones and M. Turner, and for Blooms
burg Messrs. Harman and Patterson.
Mr.. Frank keller acted as Referee.
The afternoon was much enjoyed by
Tennis enthusiasts, whose pleasure was
not little enhanced by the excellent
feeling manifested between the contest
ing clubs.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-19
The Republicans s-Prohibition Issue.

Having burned their own fingers in
neddling with the Prohibition issue,
remarks the Philadelphia Record, the
Republican leaders betray great anxiety
rs to the position the Democrats in
Pennsylvania will take on the liquor
question. The Democrats, however,
are not troubling themselves. The
position has been taken from the start.
All sumptuary legislation is obnoxious
TO the Democratic party. The voting
done in June indicates that large
majority of the people OF Pennsylvania
agree with the Democratic party as to
this matter. The trouble will come
when the Republican platform shall be
written. What starting-hole will that
party next fiud out to hide its past
tEeacheries from its Prohibition allies 7