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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
BRONZE In ATHENS.
The Use to Which the Metal Was Put in
Works Of Art.

The Use to Which the Metal Was Put in
Works Of Art.
Bronze was used by the Greeks for
works of art of many sorts. but very
few ancient bronzes remain to u.s. The
metal having considerable value, capa-
BILE of being coined into money and
always in demand for decorative ap-
planes. is sure to be melted down
when found or seized, unless the love
of art Or display prevents it. So it
happens that the Naples Museum alone
contains more large early bronzes
than all other museums together and
that nearly all these works of art
come from the one villa, which was
explored in Herculaneum between
100 and 1850. The earliest Greek
works in this magnificent collection
are the so-called dancing stately
draped figures of life-size and larger
than life, statues of extraordinary
dignity and refinement The noble
head called portrait of Plato, and
also by various other names, not orig
lnally bust. but evidently cut out of
a bronze statue which probably had
been thrown down and ruined. is also
OF great epoch in art Half a dozen
large statues. and twice as many busts.
all in the same hall, are of value in
ferlor only to those that have been
named. The Spinario. or boy extract
ing thorn from his foot, in the Cap
ltol Museum at Rome. and the So
called Idolino at Florence, are also
early bronzes of great Importance. and
the Victory at Brescia and the Prav-
ing Boy at Berlin are works OF later
period.
bronze was so much used bv the
creeks for weapons and armor that il
was natural for them to decorate these
arms more richly than could have been
the case with steel. Accordingly, very
elaborate decoration was given to parts
OF this suit of defense, the Sirins
hronzes in the British Museum heinz
the most elaborate specim Ems so far
discovered. These are shoulder pieces
having figures in high relief upon
5nem; more commonly engraving was
used' and subjects Of many figures
were given by this means to breast.
plates and helmets. Bronze mirrors.
too, we're decorated in this wav. their
oacks being covered with engraved
designs; and there exist also engraved
DISKS which were not mirrors, but an
parently votive offerings. But richest
OF all were the cists of boxes of sheet
oronze' circular o. oval in plan, with
stralgnt' upright sides having cast
feet and handles. but decorated other
wise wholly with engraving.-Chau-
tauQuan.
lie Lawyer at Home-"Amelia.
De sure and put away every thing that
Is OF any value. because the tbiaf
VINO has just been acquitted on INV elo-
auent defence is coming TO-DAY to
thank me. "-Fliegende Batter
Police Judge-..State how tho
trouble originated. Accused
wus noidln debatin' society and 7
nao the floor and he called me a liar -
'udge-''What followed?" Accused
FROM that time until we were ar,,esr
ca we both had the floor. Omaha
World. ana
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
POVERTY IN INDIA,
Millions of Families Raised on an IncOm
of Fifty lQnis Naalx

NAiOuD VI rdAAlIIeS hAlSeO Oh an Income
of Fifty Cents a Week.
Wages are terribly low and millions
of men in India live, marry and raise
children on an income of fifty cents a
week. This is a good income for a
family and women work in the fields
for three cents day. and many serv.
ants get little more than a dollar a
month. The embroidery of India is
noted the world over and there is
as much skill in the making of pat.
terms and doing this work on cloth
with gold and silver thread as there is
in the art work of the Western world.
A good einbrOiderer gets from two dol.
lars to three dollars a month, and men
working on the railroads in minor
positions get about the same. An
American or German would starve on
such an allowance, but the Indians who
get this much grow fat. Among the
working men of the world they have
reduced themselves to the least num-
Der of wants. They pay no millinery
bills and they never have a tailor.
They need neither needle nor thread
and it is against their religion to
drink. The HindOo eats no meat nor
any animal fat and he lives upon the
cheapest of rice and millet. These.
with vegetables and milk, make up his
diet. and as a rule he has not enough
to fill his stomach. Whenever the
crops fail there is a famine, for he has
not enough income to enable him to
save. and about ten years ago the En-
glish government spent $50, 900, 900 in
relieving the wants of the people. In
some parts of India. such as Allahahad.
which visited last week. the popula-
ton is so dense that it does not increase
from year to year. In twenty years in
this district there was only an annual
increase OF SIX persons in every 1000,
and at the present time the increase il
not much greater. The people are 50
underfed that disease and death keeps
down the natural increase which goes
over the rest of the world, and Won
see them apparently starving before
your eyes. r. G. Carpenter, in Kansas
City Times
MS Is the very day to ask papa =
consent, Arthur Arthur-..Whvp
Is he in good humora" Bertha-..N..
mes frantic over my dressmaker's hin
ana Will let you take me of his hands
at once "-Roseleaf
kind Lady-"Here's a pair of
trousers nv son wore at co,looo ".
can have them Tramp (sadly)-
Madame, I'm only tramp, but I
have some consideration for the com
munitles through which travel.
shouldn't want to arouse the people
rom their slumber if should happen
to pass through village at q ght.
Life.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

Patti says plenty of sleep is the
secret of preserving ones beauty. The
hired girl believes this. Boston Cour-
Ter.
The good men do live after them,
but the good some men do doesn't take
up much room.-Snmerville journal.
Simon Gratz and Ferdinand J,
Dreer own the largest and most valu
able collection of autographs in the
country. They are Philadelphians.
Dir Gratz' collection is worth $50, COX
Aod Mr. Dreer's three times q much
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16

Many people might smile if I said
that a horses color was an index to
his gameness, but such is the case. as
/ have found from experience, says a
veterinary surgeon. l have closely
noted this fact and have had an oppor-
tunity to judge, having performed
thousands of operations on horses,
some of them sufficiently painful to
test the gameness of the subject /
have found that the most arrant cow
ards among horses are sorrels and the
gamest brutes bays or browns. Some
time ago | performed an operation on
pair of chestnut sOMels and they
groaned like human beings. A bay or
brown will usually suffer without a
noise of any kind, just rolling its big
eyes in an appealing way which is
almost human in its intensity. Gray
and white horses, as a rule, are not
particularly game. Chicago Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
Miss Bluffins-.I want a pair

Miss Bluffins-"f want pair of
slippers. Two and half is my size.
Clerk-.'What! two an a half?'' MISS
B.-''I believe l spoke distinctly-two
and half. (The clerk seizes pair
Of slippers and blue pencil. and re-
tires to the rear of the store. Presently
be returns.) Clerk-"Here you are,
Miss-two and half, extra narrow.
Miss B. tries n the slippers and ac-
cepts them. After her exit the clerk
says to the proprietor: "You nao
better order some of those No. 0 b 5.
I Just sold the last pair. America
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
"A recent French tale has the fo

"A recent French tale has the fol-
lowing gruesome plot: "a lover who
has lost his mistress by death passes a
night in the cemetery where she is
buried. and witnesses q general resur-
rection, in which all the dead rectify
their own epitaphs, candidly telling
the truth about themselves, however
uncomplimentary it may be. The
spectator of this scene has the happi.
ness OF seeing his dead love inscribe
upon her own tombstone the comics.
sion that the cold of which she died
was taken while deceiving her lover. !"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
"KEEpiNo COMPANY"
A Singular Custom which Ia a. Indelicat4
as 1t Is Dangerous.

as 1t Is Dangerous.
A singular custom prevails in some
of the rural parts of Pennsylvania and
the other Middle States which will
surprise such of our readers as are
used only to the habits of city life On
Sunday evenings the parlOr is aban-
doned by all of the family except the
young girls, who, arrayed in all their
inery, sit there prepared to keep
company" with the young men who are
supposed to be their lovers, or to
whom they are engaged. No older
person is expected to enter the room;
the seance lasts until midnight. On
other days of the week the engaged
couple meet openly in the kitchen or
elsewhere, and carry on their re-
searches into each others character in
the presence of the whole family.
In some villages of Northern New
England it is common for young girls
to entertain their male visitors alone
until late at night, long after the rest
of the family are asleep.
The Companion would not deserve
its name. so far as the multitudes of
young girls are concerned to whom it
has been friend since their childhood,
if it failed faithfully to warn them
against any gross solecism in good
manners, or of any habit which may
lead them into contempt or temptation
In city life. among well-bred people
whose aim tits to make young girls
life not only pure in reality, but in its
outward appearance, such customs as
these which we have described are
vigorously condemned and avoided.
A girl belonging TO this class receives
her male friends at night only in the
presence of her mother or some other
matron.
1t is probable that the young girls in
the country who practice these habits
are at heart quite as innocent as their
more protected sisters. Their error
arises from ignorance, not viciOusness.
These customs have descended to them
from the early pioneer days. when men
were too busy at the pillow in daytime
and women in the kitchen to become
acquainted with each other, prepare
tory to marriage. They had to sit ui
while others slept to find time fOl
courtship. Their descendants are
surely not so taxed for time as to make
this necessary.
American mothers sometimes de-
fend the laxity among our young PEG
pie by the plea that the innocence O.
the American girl is her protection
and that she is too pure to need the
guardianship of chaperones. To al
extent this is true; but no girl Cal
place herself in the anomalous position!
which we have described without los
ing in degree that delicacy of wO
manly feeling which should accompany
her as the aroma does flower.
Besides, however good and true she
may be, she places her reputation a
the mercy of the tongue of a man who
it is possible, may be both sensual ant
and merciless. No girl of refinement
and no thoughtful mother should coun
tenance custom so indicate ani
dangerous. Youths Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
PHILOSOPHER DUNDER.
He Delivers Address to the Children
of America.

H0 Delivers an Address to the Children
of America.
DEAR SHILDRENs You vhas all
right. DOan' let somepOdy make you
belief dot you doan' Aaf some good
times. If could pc some shilds again
kick OOp my heels like a bird und
doan' care for nopody. l shall nefer
be shmall again, und wear some knee
breaches und play horse NIT broom
stick, und When reflect on dot feels
some Jumps in my throat.
When man comes along und says he
vhas glad he Wasn't some shildrens
any more doan' you pellet him. He
says dot because he doan' take any
comfort and doan' want nopody else to.
He vhas lame und cross. und his bones
ache, und his head vhas growing bald.
und he vhas shealous of you und wants
revenge.
Maybe it vhas peter for me dot I
vhas a girl, but dOan' know. 1t vhas
awful nice to be sweet young girl,
und to be called angels. und to hat der
poys look at you so silently like a
sheep. If you vhas girl doan' you
be ashamed of it. Dot vhas all right
und according to Hoyle. Maybe you
can't climb trees run out nights und go
in swimming by der mill pond, but if
you go Ply a circus you vhas in der
front seats, und somepody always pays
for your ice cream und puys your
ticket to der picnic. If vhas girl /
keep my face so clean ash nefer vhas.
make my voice shust like music.
walk along NIT nip! nip! nip! keep
my hands white und my hair combed.
und when sOmepody meets me und says:
Hello! Susan, how you vhas?' l
answer him: "If you please, sir, my
name is Birdie. und l vhas so weller
ash meier vhas." If l could be a leedle
girl, / learn how to sew. und knit, und
make some bread, und sphlit wood,
und bring up coal, und wash dishes,
und hoe in der garden, und den when
l grows oop und vhas married my hus-
band would say: "Ah! noble vomans,
you vhas der capital prize in der lot
terym
How bully it vhas to be some poys.
He doan' hat some taxes to pay-no-
pody talks politics by him-he doan' hat
some barns dot burn down NIT no in
surance. Nopody wants to borrow
money of him-no gas bills to pay
nopody comes to insure his life. All
he has to do vbas to go by der school
house, play marbles, fly kites, see der
circus procession, eat sweet-cakes und
grow oop to be Governor.
Dot vhas all. shildrens. Doan' you
be troubled. 1t vhas all right. You
vhas getting along peter as could be
expected by der circumstances und all
you hat to do vhas to wipe off your
noses und speak nottings to nopody.-
Detroit Free Press-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16

A Philadelphia lady says that Toll
stoi is. in great measure, respon-
sible for Miss Kate Drexel's retire
ment from the world. she having been
early impressed with his works
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16

Fresh barber (shaving customary
who is that old hen going along
the other side of the street with a
hustle on her like a boxing glover"
Customer (rising deliberately and
tookingl--..rhat? Oh. she's my wife. y
Lowell Citizen.
stranger - ''how are baseball.
prospects in Terre Haute?" Terre
Haute citizen-':;Bad. All gone to the
dogs. SO to speak" Stranger-.Ah
'nat accounts for the sight OF so many
CANNES with catchers' masks on. !
suppose. "-Terre Haute Express.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Life is too short for one man to
know all that can be known about even
one branch OF farming. Iowa State
Register.
Nearly all kinds OF vines are bene-
fitted by mulching after the last cuIti.
walton is given. They require consid-
cradle moisture, and this can be sup
piled easier by mulching than BY at
tempting TO wafer.
Have q good fence or have none.
1t is better to have good fence around
the pasture and no other than to have
poor ones that are constant tempta-
tiOn to the stock To break them down.
"A prominent stockman says that
while he thinks he is raising very fine
calves for fattening and breeding pur-
poses by letting them suck their dams.
lie thinks that dairymen raise better
ones for their purposes on skim milk
and nitrogenOus grains.
ALL tIlage OF heavy crops goes by
the name Of hoeing. There must be
frequent and thorough stirring Of the
soil by horsepower. This will not
only kill the weeds, but is equal to y
dressing OF manure. There is no crop
which requires more thorough weed
ing than potatoes.
"A race or family Of hogs kept on
the same farm will improve or de-
generate, according to the ability or
shiftlessness Of the owner. BY keep
ing the same family for a few years the
farmer can produce hog suited to his
circumstances and manner Of feeding
1t is a little difficult during the
busy season to attend to the feeding Of
the stock at regular hours, bat it
should be done, Irregularity in feed
ing and especially irrcgularity in
milking will show in decreased flesh
on the stock and decreased milk in tie
pail very soon,
AS rule white clover springs lp
on land that has been well dressed
with wood ashes, and though it af-
fords excellent pasturage it IS very
persistent weed ii it is allowed to grow
where it is not wanted. Cutting it off
only causes it To grow more vigorously.
1t should be pulled up by hand from
among rows Of vegetables.
According to the Ohio Farmer, an
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
Protection Against Insects.

Many people do not know how easily
they can protect themselves and their
children against the bites OF gnats and
other insects, Weak carbolic acid,
sponged on the skin and hair. and In
some cases the clothing, will drive
away the whole tribe. A great many
children, and not a few adults, are tor
mented throughout the whole summer
by minute enemies We know persons
who are afraid of picnics, and even Of
their own gardens, on this account.
Clothing is an imperfect protection, for
we have seen a child whose foot and
ankle had been stung through the
stocking SO seriously that for days she
could not wear leather shoe All
this can be avoided, according to our
experience, and that we believe Of
many others, by carbolic acid judici-
ously used. The safest plan is to keep
q saturated solution of the acid The
solution can not contain more than six
or seven per cent, and 1t may be added
to water until the latter smells strong
ly. This may readily and with perfect
safety be applied with sponge, We
have no doubt that horses and cattle
could be protected in the same way
from the flies, which sometimes nearly
madden them, United Presbyterian
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
Women Are Not Humorists.

Women as rule are not fond OF
jokes; they listen to clever stories with
simulated amusement and forget thom
Immediately. The reason for this lies
in one of the essentials in the makeup
of woman; her profound and tender
sympathy. HumOr. deals with the
weakness of humanity; it exposes
foibles and punctures tender skin.
Humor sets the world laughing at
some blunder of man. 1t is woman
nature to cover up, excuse, and re-
form. Follies are too serious in her
eyes to laugh at If women were
humorists they would not be the most
earnest church workers, the most
tender OF nurses. and the most senti-
mental and refined portion Of human
ity. The same inherent quality which
would make true woman, real
woman, shrink as judge from pro-
nouncing a death sentence, or as
soldier from shooting an enemy
through the heart makes il impossl'
BILE for her to become a humorist.
Wit woman may have, wit she does
possess, and is formidable adversary
with her stiletto points of irony and
satge: ashipgtol Post
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02

According to lie Genie Civil, DR..
Dujardin-BeaumetZ recently exhibited
at the Paris Academy of Medicine a
new alimentary substance" "fromen-
tine which is obtained from wheat
by the aid of special millstones.
Fromentine is the embryo OF wheat
reduced to -four and deprived of the
oil which it contains. The substance
contains three times more nitrogenous
substance than meat and strong pro-
portion of sugar Thus, the amount
OF heterogeneous matter in it is 81 per
cent, while that of the richest meat,
mutton, is but q per cent. and the
proportion of digestible substance
reaches 81 per cent OF the total
weight. Hence it would appear that it
might advantageOusly replace powder
ed meat as a concentrated food. IL
can be used for making soups, and
even for making biscuits, the taste OF
which would not he disagreeable, The
wheat germs employed are a by-prod-
uct in the Schwetzer process Of manu-
featuring -four which can be kept for
long time without deteriora.ng.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
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CUPlD'S NEW ARROW.

Young Cupid went storIning to Vulcan one
day,
And besought him to look at his arrow.
"'Tis Useless" he cried; you must mend Il, I
sayl
'Tis not fit to let fly at a sparrow.
There's something that's wrong in the shaft or
the dart,
For it fiutters quite false TO my aim;
'Tis an age since it iairly went home to the
heart,
And the world really icsts at my name.
81 have Strengthened, I've bent I've tried all,
declare;
I've perfumed II with sweetest Of signs;
It's ieathered with ringletS my mother might
wear,
And the barb CLEANS with light from young
eyes;
But falls without touching III break it, I
VOW
For there's Hymen beginning to pout
He's complaining his torch burns SO dull and
so low
That Zephyr might pun it right out"
Little Cupid went on with His pitiful tala
TIL Vulcan the weapon restored.
''There, take 1t: young sr; try 1t now-it it fail
will ask neither fee nor reward
The urchin shot cut, and rare havoc he made; ;
The wounded and dead were untold
But no wonder the rogue had such Strengthening
trade,
For the arrow was plated with gold
Nebraska State Journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
Hard Work in the Blue Grass.

1t was day Of perfect beauty ON
which | drove through that region OF
perfect lovcIness. The recent rains
had refreshed the face OF nature, and
the sunshine lay bright and warm on
the green fields. The corpuIcut cattle.
frisky colts, and fecCy sheep seemed
to be taking holiday of rest or play,
but the gait of the horsemen and
vehicles | met was not slow. The
scenery, the air, and the sunshine cX-
cited religious feeling, and | sought to
talk little on that line with George,
my driver. II was not an easy matter.
George do you ever pray?" asked.
''No, sir; it wouldn't do any good for
a boy like meto pray" he answered.
why not?" Cause ho'd 60 and Jest
do the same thing afterwards. w
"Can'ta boy do right when he tries?'
'les, he mout if he'd stay by hisselt;
but when he gifts wild a gang-qou
know how dat is. Howdy, Uncle
JimP" George broke off suddenly, as
we met stout-brilt, shrewd-looking
old negro riding clean-limbed, slim
looking bay. "Da. horse Uncle jim
is on is sister to Castillo continued
George with genuine Kentucky enthu-
siasm. And 80 it was when l would
talk religion to George he wanted to
talk horse 10 me, and it was a pret-
ty even race, the horse being little
ahead much Of the time, DR.. Fitzger-
aid, in Nashville Christian Advocate.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02
Advice to Young Horse Trainers.

John NpIan gives the following ad-
vice to your trainers: "lf ] was going
TO advise boy on the subject would
say first he must have a natural love
for the horse in his character. and
then the determination to learn, and
the harder he applies himself the bet
ter for him. The younger he com
mences the better, aud to be an expert
he wants to commence at the lower
round of the lndder that is, to groom
and properly care for a horse. While
this part Of his education is going on
he must not neglect his school
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02

-Real-Estate Agent can let you
very pretty cottage on Piano street
for only" House sceker--"W What
did You say the name of the street
was" Real-Estate Agent 80 "Piano
street" House-seeker--"Thanks. ]
believe | viii look little further. -
Burlington Free Press
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-02

Let the hors run in the pasture
through July anJ August, and don't
give them ,oru They are hot enough
without it.-Wcslern Plowman,