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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
fHE WOMEN OF CuRA.
Graphic Picture of q Unique Type
Feminine Loneliness.

Graphic Picture of Unique Type OF
Feminine Loneliness.
The women of country are always
objects OF great interest and curiosity
to strangers. Those of Cuba have a
reputation for being beautiful 1t is
even said that no other civilized coun-
try produces so many generally
comely. In one way this is true, in
another it is not, for the average
Cuban beauty, outside of Cuba. would
be considered any thing but beauti-
ful. AS the background is skilfully
contrived TO bring out the picture, so
the tropical cline seems to have been
especially designed to show to the best
possible advantage the tropical beauty.
She appears to have been created to
lie in rocking-chair and lazily WELD
fan to and fro with graceful
charm positively bewitching. Her
thin, gauzy garments reveal to the
best possible advantage her exquisite
ly-molded form, her loose, tangled
black hair. the Oriental splendor of
her big, dark. almond-shaped eyes,
which blaze, and sparkle, and glow,
and soften, and send forth wonderful
lights. and never, never fade until the
end. Her face is oval, if not rounded
by superabundance of flesh; her
mouth small, full, red; her teeth little,
and white, and even.
Her hands and feet are tiny and well
shaped, but in her zeal to whiten her
skin that it may afford proper con-
trast to the negress or mulatto who
attends her she daubs it over with a
quantity of rice powder until the effect
in many cases is positively CHASTITY.
She has another weakness which is ap-
parent, and that is jewels of all kinds
and descriptions. With these she lit
orally bedecks herself, winding long
chains about her neck and arms, stick
ing brooches, and pins, and pearls in
the meshes of her long hair, and filling
her slender fingers with rings which
weigh them down and her ears with
big stones which almost hide them
from view. The graceful mantila of
Spain is In universal use. 1t is fast
ened also by jewels and held in place
by combplaced high on the top of the
head The Guiana in her rocking
chair and loose flowing, flimsy gown,
would be considered nothing more or
less than a shiftless sloven in an
American Northern home, where
thrift and energy and neatness prevail
But in Cuba, beneath the silvery
branches of the spreading palm. where
clustering orange trees glisten in the
sunlight and where the orioles fit like
flashes of gold among the olive trees.
there she finds her natural surround
ings and makes perfect tropical pict-
ure which would be incomplete with
out her. Havana Letter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05


"A Wisconsin man has patented
fence for intercepting insects. 1t IS
made with boards jointed together at
their ends, with tarred rope at their
upper edge. and an outwardly extend
ing board made to form a channel,
whereby bugs will be prevented from
passing from one field to another, anu
will be received in a receptacle where
they can be destroyed.
Gladstone once remarked that If ne
were foreigner obliged to learn the
English language, he would go insane
1t is no wonder foreigners think the
English language so difficult to master
when we think of the great change
that single letter makes in the pro-
nunciation of it. The letter changes
lover into clover, d makes crow
crowd, K makes eyed keyed, changes
son into a song. transforms pear
into a pearl, changes hoe into ashoe'
makes bough bought. ~ offers omen
into women.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
DANIEL BOONE'S COMRADE.
Death of a Man Who Fought Indian
with the Kentucky Pioneer.


with the Kentucky Pioneer.
John L. p McCune, who was the
oldest man in Clark County Ind, died
recently at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. C. c. White, at Charlestown. He
was a native of Jessamine County, in
this State, and was born March 5, 1898.
He served in the war of 1912. He par
ticipated in the battle of Tippecanoe,
and was in the fight at Thames, Octo-
Der Is, 1913, where he saw Tecumseh
fall
With Daniel Boone he was on the
most intimate terms of acquaintance,
and made many Indian raids with him.
After settling at Charlestown he
learned the trade of shOemaking and
followed it for living, making foot
wear for many of the most famous
lawyers, judges, doctors and other pro-
fessional men of the early history OF
Indiana. When General William Henry
Harrison visited Charlestown Mr.. Nc.
Cune, who had heard of his coming in
advance, made an exceedingly fine pair
OF boots for him, which were presented
to the old warrior.
In his day Mr.. McCune was a great
fiddler, and upon still evening the
notes from his violin could be heard all
over the town, as he sat in his front
door playing upon his favorite instru-
ment. He was familiar figure at the
annual meeting of the old settlers, and
was always down on the programme
for an exhibition of his skill on the
violin. At these gatherings he in.
variably played two pieces, which
were his favorites. washington
Wedding March" and Martha WASH
ington's Lamentations" At the meet
ing last fall he attempted to carry out
his part, but his strength had so
failed him that only the faintest sound
could be heard as his stiffened arm
drew the bow across the strings of his
fiddle.
A few years since his wife died. This
was great shock to him, and so sure
''~~S AN ohAo hO WOuIu SOOQ follow Clat
ne made all preparations for his death,
even to buying and having set up his
tombstone, with all the engraving
done upon it but the date of his death.
1t is located in the extreme western
portion of the Charlestown cemetery
and attracts the eye of every stranger
who enters the ground. The peculiar
part OF it is a small type of Mr.. Nc
Cune' which is surrounded by glass
covered frame and set in the marble.
he IS dressed in his shop garb, and on
his knee is partially mended shoe,
while in his hand is hammer. The
peculiar attitude and the fact that a
live man had his picture adorning the
tombstone which was to mark his
grave was frequently commented on
/ Louisville (Ky.) Letter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
The World and Chance.

How often might man after he had
jumbled a set of letters into a bag
fling them out upon the ground before
they would fall into an exact poem.
yea, or so much as make a good dis
course in prose. And may not little
book be as easily made by chance as
this great volume of the worldp How
long might man be sprinkling colors
upon canvas with careless hand be-
fore they could happen to make the
exact picture of man? And is
man easier made by chance than
his picture? How long might twenty
thousand blind men, who should
be sent out from several remote
places in our country, wander up and
down before they would meet upon
the Rappahannock and fall into rank
and file in the exact order of an army?
And yet this is more easy to be mag
ined than how the innumerable blind
parts of matter should rendezvous
themselves into a world Y.
Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
RE AUSTRIAN FORCES.
Furn:shed with improved Small Arms and
Drilled necessarily.

Furn:shed with Improved Small Arms ana
Drilled necessarily.
1t is characteristic of Austria that.
while every body is convinced that war
is coming, the Emperor is holding
daily councils with the chiefs of the
army and navy and the delegations are
convened to pass war loans. Austria is
making herculean efforts to furnish her
troops with new repeating rifles. The
factory at Steyr. where the operatives
have been raised from 1000 to 1000, is
now employed twenty-four hours day
on the Manlicher rife. Everywhere
extra drills are being imposed; troops
are being moved to frontier stations;
the lines are crowded with munitions
OF war. In Hungary grand popular en-
thusiasm prevails; the volunteers for
the landsturm are already TRIPPING the
number required by law and the women
are forming hospital societies. Austria
is reported to have summoned her land
wehr outside of the country to return
Immediately and join their colors. She
has made during the last few years
greater sacrifices than any other nation
in Europe. Her military educational es-
adjustments and systems of training,
botk elementary and professional, for
officers and men are of very high
order. Austria, like Germany and Rus
STA. talks peace but acts war. The
military council at Vienna has decided
in favor of spending 100000 of
fiOrins on the defenses of Galicia
which is threatened by Russia, and
Germany approves the move. The
Austrian Cabinet expresses the belief
that good relations with Prussia will
be maintained, but all the same the
rival powers hold the dogs of war in
loose leash. Count Kalnoky is peace
minister, but even he felt that a cate
gOrical answer must be made to the de-
mand regarding Russian intentions on
the frontier of Galicia. With regard to
Russia, Austria and Germany are act
ing as one nation. Austria will take no
steps without Germanys approval.
While not daring to lessen her military
preparation she will choose to face the
fortunes of war rather than face con-
tinuously Magyar discomfort and Mus
covite hatred.
Austria has been termed the 'com-
posite" empire. She has had three dis
astrous campaigns, yet Francis Joseph
is as completely the sovereign as Will
lam Ii. is in Prussia. No minister lives
for a day under his displeasure; every
order of Importance is referred to his
will, and when he has decided discus
sion ends. The strength of the Haps-
burgs was laid centuries ago in mill
tary autOcracy. Of the five great
states of Europe. Austria is supposed
by some to be the one most loosely
knit, but of the five it is the one which
it would be the hardest to sever. The
animal instinct of extreme danger
binds the units of Austria together, and
induce them, with political wisdom
for which they get insufficient credit,
to leave their executive, like their
army, one and undivided. The EN-
peror is the pivot. Unquestioning
obedience is paid to his orders.-Chi-
cagO Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

The girl who can't play on the
plano, and wont play on the piano.
deserves a brass medal, anyway, for
not trying. -Somerville Journal.
-Ihe Bible has to be printed ir
twenty -nine different languages to sup
ply the people living in Pennsylvania.
ne largely varied industries of Penn
sylvanla attract to that State a more
cosmopolitan population than any
other State in the Union.
The highest price on record for a
postage stamp was realized recently at
the mart. 1okenhouse-yard, London,
when an unusual 4-cent British Guiana
stamp OF 1856 was knocked down to
dealer for $3.50. The same gentleman
also bought a similar stamp, which,
however, had been through the post.
Tor $185
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

TO the true-born Westerner, In
whom the instinct of moving on to find
a more desirable country never dies,
not even the Pacific ocean can be a
barrier. A man of this class. who had
lived successfully in number of States
and Territories between his native Ohio
and his present home in California,
one day had revival of his migratory
longing. He must ''pack his grip" and
''go west. but how can you get any
farther west than California;" he was
asked. ssPshawp' he answered.
There's plenty of west left. all down
through Mexican California and South
America There's Peru, now. I'd give
a good deal to see the mines down
there. ! tell you, sir" he cried. warm
ing with his subject, sit must be real
good and westy dowp-in Peru!''
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
THE WHELplNc ICE.
Hunting the Seal on the Treachef0u1
Coast of Newfoundland.


Coast of Newfoundland.
Thousands of seals are found in
patches on the foes, but when one
patch is extermipated the men often
have to wander far from the ship in
search of more prey. and it is then
that their early training in copying
comes in advantageously. Occasion
ally the sealers 60 eighteen or twenty
miles away from the vessel over the
ice, and in all places it may not be
equally strong. Sometimes the pans
are scattered; then the experienced
copyist will use a slab of ice as a raft,
guiding it into the desired position
with his gait, and so ferrying himself
across the ''leads' or open water. At
other times the ''lolly" or ''sludge" is
soft, but will bear just one foot
at time, SO the hunters spring rapid
ly over till they find more secure
pan on which to take breath.
When they have gone far and have
to drag their ''tOws" of skin a
considerable distance back to the ship,
it may happen that where the ice has
been all secure on the journey out the
sealers find gap too wide to jump ly-
ing right in their homeward path. But
even if no floating pans are within
reach, they are at no loss what to do;
the ''tOws," each containing five or six
sealskins with the blubber attached,
are flung into the water; the blubber
causes them to float and the men use
them as stepping-stones across the
open water. Accidents, of course, Oc-
cur from time to time, and men often go
through the 'lolly'' or miss their foot
ing and come in for a cold bath, which,
considering their filthy condition.
may not be altogether an unmitigated
evil; but it is rarely that any of them
are drowned. as help is always at
hand. Occasionally the whelping ice
approaches so close to the shore that
the landsmen come in for their share
of the spoil, and then even the women
and children eagerly join the scene of
carnage. In the spring of 1888, at
place called Belts cove, one woman
secured five-and-thirty seals in one
day, and at Twillingate many women
killed heavy loads of seals, the people
going twelve miles from land on the
ice to reap this harvest. When the ice
remains tightly packed for any length
of time in the bays the seals some
times crawl on to the land, and at
Bonavista Bay it has happened that as
many as 1900 seals have been killed
among the bushes on one of the
islands. A few years ago the seal ice
came close to the town of ST. Johns,
and the inhabitants sailed out to reap
the benefit. AS they went seward in
the morning some of the hunters saw
man with his gun beside him sitting
on a hammock of ice not far from the
mouth of the harbor. At his feet lay
dead seal. They went on in quest of
their prey, and walked so far out that
it was late in the afternoon before they
returned. Happening to pass by the
same spot they saw the man still sit
ting on the same hummock and the seal
lying as before. They went up to him.
The man was dead, sitting upright
stark and staring. frozen hard as the
ice on which he rested. - Nineteenth
Cant1,rv
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

"A Pittsburgh doctor says he can
diagnose ailments by examining a
single hair of the patient. Two young
men, as a joke, took him a hair from a
bay horse. The doctor gravely wrote
a prescription, and said his fee was
twenty-five dollars, as the case was
precarious. They were staggered. but
paid the fee, and after they got out,
laughed all the way to the apothecary's.
The latter took the prescription and
read in amazement: lone bushel Of
cats, four quarts of water, stir we'll
and give three times a day-and turn
the animal out to grassr' Then the
iokeEs stopped lau0hina
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

There Is a story told of Mr.. w. D.
HOwells to the effect that on one oc-
casion he attended a costume party
wearing the conventional evening cos
tune of the present, where every guest
was required to appear in the dress of
enc of the characters in the novels OF
Scott On being brought to book for
this irregularity, he justified his garb
by the plea that he did represent one
of the chief characters in Scott, the
0ften-appesring gentle reader"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
LOVE OF NATURE.
The Pleasure Of Having Known in Child.
hood Brooks, Hills and Sea.

The Pleasure OF Having Known in Child
hood Brooks, Hills and Sea.
There are many pieces of sheer good
fortune for children of luck in this
world: it is well to have been born rich
or handsome, Or to have the talents
which command the prizes of life.
But it is perhaps no less happy and
supreme gift to have been born a
child of the universe; to have known
in early childhood brooks, mountains
and sea; to have felt the companion
ship of the sky, and in listening to it's
thunder to have heard deep calling
unto deep. There is often an incom.
municable and half-unconscious sense
OF these things in the heart of q
child. wholly apart from any training
or habit of observation. 1t is
seed which any soil will quicken; the
commonest landscape will be food for
1t as fine as the Alps. In fact, there is
sometimes with the child as with the
artist sort of instructive selection of
the humber phase. Among the mem
cries of journey through Switzerland
in my childhood, that of a woodland
bank at Rosenlani, covered with moss
and with tiny pink flowers, remains to
me as having afforded at least as keen
pleasure as the glacier itself, and the
image of Mont Blanc had no power to
efface the delights of the ''spring lot "
The power upon us of a scene or
thought lies partly in the extent of our
intimacy with it.-Atlantic.
"A messenger ..boy." aged seven
ty. is in the employ of the Western
Union Company at Bradford, Conn.
A messenger boy of that age has prob
ably gone on at least a dozen errands
in his career. Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
The good old times.' Georgy,
were the days when your great-grand-
father was working fourteen hours
day to get q corned-beef dinner and
pay the mortgage on the farm you
have cut up into city lots. Cincin-
nAtus was better man than Nero:
but he didn't have SO much fun
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

The president of Michigan Uni.
versity remarks in his annual report
that "a larger proportion of women
than OF men are taking by choice the
full classical course" for the practical
reason that there is demand for their
services in teaching Greek in prepare
tory schools.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

They had been engaged to be
married fifteen years, and still he had
not mustered up courage enough to
name the happy day. One evening
he called. in peculiar frame of mind.
and asked her to sing something ten
der and touching, something that
would s.move him." She sat down at
the piano and sang, Darling. am
growing DID,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05

The Baptist V. IN. State Mis-
sionary reports that of 866 Baptist
churches in the State TAP are in the
country and in villages; 1877 are una
BILE, without aid, to sustain pastors;
over two hundred of them are pastor
less from year to year, and although
the membership of the churches in
the State has in the last fifteen years
increased 1851. the membership in
the country and smaller villages has
fallen off fully 5000.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
HIT BY A COINCIDENCE.

A Man with a Wooden Log Meets the
Head of a Sympathetic Family.
The owner of a place on Second
avenue stood in his barn door on the
alley the other day when man with a
wooden leg and crutch came along
and passed the time O. day and finally
said:
"Say, want you to do me favor.
want to leave my leg with you for a
few minutes"
"Why?'
Il want to go around on Second ave-
nue. and work a house for half dollar
in money. I've got pointer that the
folks are very sympathetic. If l 60
with one leg I'm sure of it."
Very well; just leave your leg here
and L II take care of it.
The wooden substitute was UNI
strapped and handed over, and the
cripple used the crutch to help himself
down the alley. Five minutes later he
rang the door-bel of house around
the avenue, to have it opened by the
man he had seen at the barn.
"W-wha-what!' he gasped in as
constituent.
Very sympathetic family lives
here!" quietly replied the other. "You
seem to have met with sad loss, and
I'm anxious to help you. Here is a
wooden leg which may fit you.''
The leg was handed over, the man
sat down on the steps and strapped
it on. and as he got up and stumped
through the gate. he said to himself:
1--WE heard of condolences ever
since was knee-high to hop-toad.
but this is the first one that ever hit
me with both feet at once!"-Detroit
Free Press.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-13
SnlallnOX NrMs.

At the asylum all goes well with
George Alberts, the smallpox pa
tient. AS yet he has but mild at
tack and no serious results are ap-
pretended. Those of the patients
who have not yet been vaccinated
will be subjected to this precaution
at once. No new cases have devel-
Oped as yet, and DIR. Lane gives it
AS his opinion that none are likely
to. The quarantine is strictly en-
forced, and the gates are locked
against all. Supplies will be deliv-
cred to the institution in such Il
manner as not to coDtaminate.
When it is considered that the
asylum is two miles to the east of
the city and that the smallpox
patient is in pest house far re-
moved, there need be no danger.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-03-13
VALLEY CROP PROSPECTS.
Reports Prom Various Parts Of the
Valley are Flattering.

With view of learning some
thing concerning the prospects of
the grain and fruit crop in various
parts of the valley, JOURNAL re-
porter interviewed several gentle
men from different localities.
Not the usual amount of rain had
fallen up to the present week, and
none would be needed to insure a
crop. Farmers, however, are not
apprehensive oyer the matter, feel
ing certain that during this and next
months there will be a large addi-
ton to the rainfall. The precipita-
ton Of this week has been consider
able.
From Linn county it was learned
from a gentleman who lives near
Lebanon that the fall wheat looks
unusually well and a fine crop is ex-
pected. Many of the farmers have
their spring crop sown aRd have
been longing for the rain of the past
few days.
On the route between Mccoy and
Salem the grain looks well, the
wheat fields being in good cOndi-
ton. About Zena the prospect is
particularly encouraging. The rain
is bringing things forward in good
style.
Along the Salem and Silverton
route the farmers would be glad to
see a few weeks of steady rain, but
the grain is doing well and there
will be big yield should not an
other drop of water fall. The acre
age is large and the farmers have no
precedentto be other than confident.
From the Independence route
word is that the grain is in the
same good condition, with prospects
of an immense yield. The dry
weather caused a few farmers to
wear long faces but the gentle Ore
gon mists have succeeded in weav-
ing those faces into smiles.
Along the Dallas route nothing
but good cheer is heard. Grain
promises well and there is 80 fear
among any that full crop will not
be harvested. The fields are green
and beautiful.
Those who have examined the |
fruit trees tell us the prospect for a
heavy crop of apples, prunes, plums,
cherries and peaches, are as good as
were ever seen. The truth is, all
varieties of fruit trees are ready to
burst forth in full bloom. Oregon
1oes not know what a failure of
,rops is. This year will be no eX-
,eption.