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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
FRENCH SLEEPING-CARS.
They Are Not UP to the Standard OF u
Pullman or Ws gner Coaches.

They Are Not UP to the Standard OF Ou'
Pullman or Wagner Coaches.
The charge for a bed in the sleeping
cars from Basic to Calais, is about 19
francs. and from Basic to Paris, for
some occult reason, francs more. BY
one of those extraordinary arrange
ments that can exist only in countries
where nobody trusts any body, and
every body is suspected by every body
else, even the unfortunate traveller who
has hired a bed at 9:15 is not allowed
to turn into it until 11:30, the reason
assigned being that at the French
frontier the "small baggage must be
examined, and if people were allowed
to ..turn in before the examination
took place there is no saying what
amount of tobacco and laces and the
rest of it might not be secreted in or
under the bed by the tourist or by the
servants of the sleeping-car company
When, however, the conventional GER
emonial of affirming that you have
.nothing to declare" has been gone
through and your dressing-bag has
been defaced by hieroglyphics in white
chalk, then the operation OF bed-mak-
ing in the wagon-lits commences. Any
one who has watched it will be disposed
to exclaim, with Macbeth: "Sleep no
more.'' In a small and sometimes
filthy den narrow cushions and hard
pillows of boar antiquity are prefunc-
torily covered with a shabby rug and
sheet, and under covering OF sim.
liar character the traveller who has
paid more than FL for this extraOr-
binary indulgence is invited to betake
himself to slumber. If he happens to
have a travelling companion they can
procure the luxury, such as it is. OF
privacy, though one of them. on the
Dogberry principle, must needs sleep
on the upper shelf, which is an exper-
fence several degrees more painful
than lying on the lower one. If the
number of passengers be not equal to
the number of beds they will be able,
by bribing the person in charge, to gel
a four-bed compartment, and thus both
will avoid the torture of being sus-
pended from the ceiling.
AS a rule these vacant compartments
are to be had by tipping the dirty of.
fetal in charge of them and thus, per-
haps, for % shillings apiece two people
can secure the mitigation of misery we
have described. One of the main in
ducements to many people to have re.
course to q wagon-lit is the belief that
at any rate in the morning they will be
able to have "a good wash" and will
thus emerge from the train the simula,
ton of civilized being instead of an
unwashed. unkempt, vnshaven savage.
Morning throws fuller light on this
pleasing anticipation. AS some Of oul
correspondents point out, the ''lavato-
ry' arrangements in the sleeping cars
between Basic and Calais and between
Basic and Paris are abominable beyond
description, and can not be turned to
the slightest account by any one OF the
most ordinary NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Standard.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
ELECTRIC MOTORS.
They Will Soon Take the Place of Stea
Locomotives,

They Will Soon Take the Place of Steam
Locomotives.
The practical use of electricity as q
motive power during the past few years
has demonstrated that in the no dis.
tant future it will, to considerable ex.
tent, supplant steam as the principal
agent in maintaining and fostering hui.
man industry. Although electricity is
still but partially understood, and is
far from being under complete control
OF those who use it, still the knowledge
OF its powers has reached a stage
where they can be successfully put to Q
thousand uses.
Electricity now moves all classes oil
small machinery, such as fans, eleva.
tors, printing presses. street cars and
other mechanical chef d'oeuvres OF
mans ingenuity. Judging from the
progress steam has made since it's in.
PRODUCTION less than hundred years
ago, there is every reason to believe
that electricity will reach an even
greater degree of development.
AS matter of fact electricity when
1t shall become thoroughly subjugated
to mans will. will render possible the
accomplishment of things that are
now but mere fanciful dreams. When
Jules Verne, that inimitable creator OF
fantastic things, wrote his ..Forty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. -
and described a vessel that travelled
beneath the waves by the aid of cleo.
trlcal machinery and was Illuminated
oy electric lights, he little imagined
that the time would so soon come when
his purely fanciful romance. concocted
merely to please the lovers of fiction,
would become a possibility. The in
ventlon OF the storage battery and the
Perfectlng of the electric light seem to
indicate that the submerged ship OF
verne" is now no more an impossi-
bility.
MODERN Invention has opened up the
possibility of electric motors to do the
work OF the cannon BALI trains that
are now the wonder of the time. That
the competition of electricity in run
ming railway trains is looked for In
the near future is proven by the actual
existence of companies controlling
patents that are expected to put cleo
trlclty in service on railroads. Steam
seems now to have almost reached the
limit OF its power in increasing the
speed OF trains and engines have
grown In consequence of proportions
mat In reason permit of but little
further increase; but electricity. set
ting at naught as it does all questions
o1 bulk and weight, promises to do in
an unknown degree what steam seems
incapable of doing. The powerful
agent that annihilates space and car.
rles our thoughts to the ends of the
eartn In an instant may well be capable
d transporting freight and even pas
sengers long distances in an incredibly
short time. IN. q. Picayune.
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lt Was q Trick He Learned During tho
Serred Him We'll

lt Was a Trick He Learned During tho
War. and 1t Served Him Well.
From where we sat on the tavern veranda
we could look right across the Mississippi
river, although at the edge of the river on
our side there was bluff 40 feet high, with
strong current below. All along this bluff
were commons, and we had an unobstructed
view. We were talking and smoking when
. goat came around the corner Of an old
abandoned warehouse and began to feed
toward US Five minutes later an old white
leaded darby, using cane to help him
along, came out from behind the same ware
house and stood almost on the edge Of the
bluff, and appeared to gaze across the river.
"What fat take that goat has got, if he
only knew it'll" whispered one of the party.
"What fool of niger to take such
riskI' growled second.
We ought to have warned the old man,
who seemed totally unsuspicious of danger,
but we didn't. Human nature is just that
way. He had been there two or three min
utes when the goat observed him and began
to twitch his tail 1t was none of his bust
ness that the man was there, and no law COM
PEELED him to kick up fuss, but we all saw
that he meant to do it. As he gathered for
run every man rose up to warn the victim,
but no warning was uttered. It was human
nature to want to see the fun. The goat shot
away like flash, and as he drew near he
made a long jump to give full force to the in
tended blow Next instant both had disap
peared, and we ran down expecting to see
them struggling in the muddy waters. AS
We reached the bluffs the old man rose up
from pit dug within two feet of the edge,
and grinned and lifted his hat and said:
'Mawnin', gem'len. 'Spected to find me
down dar', reckon"
He pointed to the goat, which was swim
mind wildly about as the current carried it
Town, and one of the party replied:
Eyes, we certainly thought you were a
goner You dropped in there, eha You must
have been pretty quick about it."
"Wall, sorter, but dat was no trick at all
Ooorin' de wah, when de Yankee gunboats
lay ober dar' an frowed shot at de guns up
heah, war one of de Guild gem'len who
handled de shovel an de sand bags OATS
whar rarned to duck. Dem Yankees didn't
know me- an dey kept tryin' to kill me, an
had to duck an dodge so often dat arter de
wah closed nebber got Strengthened up agin
LIE bin layin' fur dat goat more'n two weeks,
an now he's dun gone an won't bodder no
body no mo-. used to cuss dat wah when it
was goin', but now l see what a blessin' it
was. Whar' would de ole man be now if de
Yankees had not frowed ten tons of cannon
balls at him an Earned him to duckf"-New
York Sun
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
FLOWER THOUGHTS.

How the Cultivation of Flowers Affects
the Human Mind.
Il do not believe that any really bad
person ever cultivates flowers"
wherever have found flowers in
the yard have found sunshine in the
home.'
"As a general thing you won't see
the rough element of the human family
taking to flowers"
II think those who cultivate flowers
are far more apt to clean up the rub
bish, cut the briars and straighten the
fences"
"When go by house where flowers
are well cultivated think there must
be cultivation inside. When a man
can sit down in his own yard and en-
joy flowers, he grows better day by
day."
IL believe in the male members of
the family giving assistance to the
ladies. Let us give them moro time
for thus beautifying our homes by MAX
ing every thing about the house as con-
venient as possible for them"
81 have travelled over a considerable
portion of this country and have no.
tieed that wherever attention is paid
to the culture of flowers, there was a
higher moral tone to the people; they
were more cultured, more refined"
II think that flowers not only help
to beautify our homes, but to make
them more valuable. They help to
elevate the tastes of those who Guilt
vate flowers. The husbands and sons
who help to elevate the flower garden
will be refined and elevated by their
influence"
1.-The best education ever had was
what my mother gave me as l worked
with her among the flowers. You
can't start a real home without some.
thing to beautify it. We go to the
flower garden to get the decorations
for the grave and for the bride. Let
one of the family pass through the
flower garden; he can hardly resist
Plucking flower here, pulling weed
there or helping struggling climber
TO a firm hold. Suddenly his eye
catches some new beauty; he calls
some one else to admire it; then another
member of the family is attracted to
the spot, and before you know it you
have family gathering about one of
the most beautiful affairs God ever
gave to man. home.
"A negro was convicted of robbery
at Walker. Ga, the other day on very
circumstantial evidence. He stuck his
hand through a window. and woman.
Lit q match and looked at it. She ex-
amined q Negroes hand in court and de-
clared that it was the same that had
been thrust into her room.
"A Summerville. Fla. paper says:
I'VE have man in our country who is
thirty-five years old who was never
more than forty miles away from home,
never rode on q train or steamboat.
never wrote or received 3 letter, never
sopseribed Tor : newspaper and never
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
WOman's Career.


She was fair girl graduate. enrobed In spotless
white,
And on her youthful features shone look of holy
light
She bent with grace her dainty head to receive
the ribbon blue,
Whence hung the silver medal sdiudpe6 to he
her due.
watched her face with rapture rs she raised to
heaven her eyes,
And moved her lips In prayer as her fingers
clasped the prize,
For knew to education she had pledged her com
ing days,
To unclasp poor woman's letters, and tree hea
from mans ways
Time passed Our pathways parted, but ever and
anon,
My thoughts would stray toward her, and I'd spec
ulate upon
What my graduate was doing, If athwart the
scroll Of fame.
Among unselfsh workers. had been written haeh
her name.
At last CHANGED tomeet her, but her books wen
pushed aside
While around a. dainty garment she sewed the
lace with PRIDE
And ct her feether baby. dimpled happy Growing
youth,
Upon that silver medal WIS cutting his first tooth.
-Iifa
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

White Elephant of Siam, Lion Of Eng.
land, Dragon of China, Cross of Switxer,
land, Banner of Persia, Crescent of Egypt
Circle of Japan, Harp of Erin.
To get these buy box of the genuine
DIR. G. MCLANE's CELEBRATED LIVER
PILLS, price % cents, and mail us the out
side wrapper with your address, plainly
written, and cents in stamps. We will
then mail you the above list with an ele.
CANT package of Geographic and chro.
matte cards.
FLEMING Bros, PITTsBURG, PA.
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Can Life Be Prolonged?

The prolongation of human life. the
restoration of decayed functions to their
normal activity by electricity, even when
suggested as remote possibility, rouse
and chain the attention. When this sug.
gestion is made by man whose record of
achievements has given him reputation
on two continents, and whose statements
are always received with respect. if not
with difference. incredulity forgets to
smile, and we listen with the feeling that
the path of discovery always runs through
apparent impossibilities. No snap judg-
ment avails in this modern age. To say of
anything that it can't be done is 10 exhibit
ignorance of what has been done. The age
of miracles is not in the past, but in the
present and future. We walk in the COM
pany of maryels ev ry day, which the
science of electricity has recently achieved.
DR.. Darrin has at any rate given us some
thing serious to think about, and encour-
aged the hope of new victories over the
ills to which flesh is heir by his system of
electromagnetic trt atment, as the follow
ing references show:
Geo. H. Papenberg, Tualition, Or.-Deaf-
ness ten years so he could scarcely hear
sound; cured in twenty minutes.
MIS- COuu luCOtuulS, duCOuVCIs W. l.
-Paralyz ed arm cured sixteen years ago
by Dr. Darrin while in San Francisco.
Ex-Mayor G. III. Hills son, of Albina,
Or-Cured of an offensive discharge of
both ears since five months old.
John B. Dougherty, Roche Harbor, w.
T.-Hydrocele entirly cured and removed
by one operation of five minutes.
Mrs. S. A. Wooden's girl, 81 Columbia
street, Portlaud-Nervous debility and
malarial fever and discharging ear; re-
stored.
VIM. Altnow, Drewsey, Grant county,
Or Catarrhal deafness and ring in the
ears for twenty years; perfectly cured.
Mrs. s. w. Metzgar, Gresham, Or.-Dys-
pepsia, liver complain4 and pain in stom-
ach twenty-three years, restored.
Mrs. g. Magenson, Merchants hotel,
Observation-Disclosures neuralgia, and
female trouble; cured permanently one
year ago.
w. E. Ogle, Seatco, w. T.-Liver and
kidney complaint and dyspepsia, also deaf
ness and whole system run down; cured.
William Little. Seattle, w. T.-Pain in
his chest of over eight years standing; en-
tirely cured by electromagnetic treatment.
]. w. Zumwait, Albany, Or, formerly
of Moro, Wasco county Or. } cured of an
aggravated case of rheumatism and spinal
complaint.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

diaphragm, though playfully meant and de-
livered, is calculated to evoke profanity from q
chappy whose liver is out of order. When that
region is sore and congested, pokes seem iend-
1sh. Look at a mans countenance ere you prod
him under the ribs. If his skin and eyeballs
have sallow tinge, you may infer also that his
tongue Is furred, his breath apt to be sour, that
under the right shoulder-blade. Also, that his
bowels are irregular and his digestion impaired.
Instead of making jocose demonstration on
his ribs, rec.llmend him to take and steadily
persist in taking, HOstetter's Stomach Bitters,
the finest ambitious and alternative medicine
extant Incompatible is it, also, for dyspepsia,
rheumatism, nervousness, kidney trouble, and
fever and ague.
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Dr.. Darrin,s place ofBusiness.

Drs. Darrin can be consulted free at 235
Fifth street, corner of Mair, Portland.
Office hours, from 10 to o'clock daily;
evenings, to s; Sundays, III to IL. All
durable chronic diseases, loss of manhood,
blood taints, syphilis, gleet, gonorrhoea,
structure, spermatorrhHa, seminal weak
ness, or loss of desire of sexual power, in
confidentially and successfully treated.
Cures of private diseases guaranteed, and
never published in the papers. Most cases
can receive home treatment alter visit
to the doctors Office. Inquiries answered
and iIculars sent free.
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To Bargain Hunters.

Proprietor-We must do something to sell
these goods.
Clerk-Yes, they are going slow. What
would you suggesta
Proprietor-Mark them 10 per cent. higher
and label them damaged remnants" and
they'll be closed out today.-Omaha World.
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"A Mean Trick.

Griggs-What is the matter between you
and Diggsa thought you used to be sworn
friends.
Biggs-So we were once, but that is over
now.
Griggs-Why, what separated youi
Biggs-He made me present of fountain
pen.-Somerville Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
ALI Forgiven.

Fanny-Why, Emma, how cordially you
shook hands with Miss Frizhair at the party
last night. l thought you were deadly enc
mics
Elnma-Oh, that is all past l have for
given her everything, she has grown SO plain
looking. Traveller.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
A Hint to the Wise.

Guest-How does it happen, landlord, that
your house is full this summer, whereas your
rival hasn't hardly soul2
Summer Hotel Landlord-Oh, you see, his
guests found out that there weren't any pi-
amor in his house, and they came over here
in Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointmentis the only
sure cure for Blind, Bleeding or Itching Piles
ever discovered. It never fails to cure old
chronic cases of long standing.
Judge Coffinbury, Cleveland, O., Says:
81 have found ny experience that DR.. Will
liam's Indian Pile Ointment gives immed . e
relief"
Do not suffer an instant longer. Sold by Will
l1amsOn's Manufacturing Co., Props, Cleveland,
Ohia. SOC and ST.
gists, Portland, Or.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Nearly every article sold is cheapened,
in cost of production, at expense of quality.
Dobbins' Electric Soap is ecactly to-day
" hat it was in 1865 absolutely pure. harm
less and uniform. Ask your gr, GER for it.
Look out for limitations.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18
Fitted for the plaza

wen, Mr.. Assessor, what are Won going
% make out OF your boyi" 81 think he viii
90 tor policeman, because can never find
nun when want him. NJ liegende Blaettar
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Noting IN the Name

IL Is gratifying to be assured that the Earl
o. flie' who is soon to wed the English prin-
cess, Is most exemplary man. Fife. it is
sa as never goes out on a Chicago Her
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But Found He Couldn't.

rom-Hello, Jack, what's the matter2 You
are all cut up.
Jack Gust returned from the country)-I
thought ! could swing scythe.-Yankee
Blade
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

When man disagrees with you 1t is often
best to let him alone. The same is true OF rich
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SURE CURE FOR PILES.

He who boasts of his lineage boasts of what
does not properly belong to him.
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Experience

Teaches that certain vegetables exert In diges-
ton powerful influence on the blood; deficient
nutrition is stimulated, the burdened current
is unloaded, and pOisons withheld from the
parts which they pollute and defile. This simple,
natural action, purifying the blood, is promptly
accomplished by Hoods Sarsaparilla, q skillful
combination of such vegetable extracts, whose
active qualities and native excellences are con-
centrated by process peculiar to itself, and
found in no other preparation. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla does actually strain out impurities, re-
moves distractions, and opens the natural out
let's of the system. No rack, no strain, no pain
accompanies the administration of Hoods
Sarsaparilla.
growing so bad that was completely broken
down in health. began taking Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, and soon gained strength and appetite,
and was restored to my former health" J.. E.
Penn
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Sure cure for blind, blee ding and itching Piles.
One box has cured the worst cases of ten years
standing. No one need suffer ten minutes after
using Kinks German Pile Ointment 1t absorbs
tumOrs, allays the itching acts as q poultice,
gives relief. DIR. Kinks German Pile Ointment
is prepared only for Piles and itching of the
private parts, and nothing else. Every box is
warranted. Observation-Disclosures.
Sold by Druggists aud sent by mail on receipt
of price, $1.00 per box. ]. J. Mack & Co., Whole
sale Agents, San Francisco.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

To preserve in ones duty and to be silent is
the first answer to calumny.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11IIINl

Young Bud-I've had eleven proposals
since my coming out.
Withered Leaf-Yes, the men all know you
are having too good time to think Of mar
riage-Life.
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The shortest way to do many things is to d.
only one thing at once.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

A long nOvitiate of acquaintance should pre-
cede the vows of friendship.
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Don't Waste Your Time

and money experimenting with doubtful RENE
dies, which DIR, Pierces Golden Medical Dis
covery is so positively certain In its curative
action as to warrant its manufacturers in sup
plying it to the public, as they are doing through
druggists under a duly executed certificate of
guarantee, that it will accomplish all it Is re-
commended to do, or money paid for it will be
promptly returned. 1t cures torpid liver, or bill
iousness, Indigestion, or dyspepsia, all humors,
or blood taints, from whatever cause arising,
skin or scalp diseases, scrofulous affections,
mot excepting consumption or lung scrofula)
If taken in time and given fair trial.
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FILES! PILEk!! PILEAIlI

Ambition it is that gives men the energy and
the will to accomplish great things.
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Each year finds "Broton's Bronchial Tro-
ches'' in new localities, in various parts of the
world. For relieving Coughs, Colds, and Throat
Diseases, they have been proved reliable. Sold
only in bo1es.
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A Dig In the Ribs,

Philosophy is good horse in the stable bu
an arrant jade on a journey.
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In months of sun so live that months of rain
shall still be happy.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Thousands of cures follow the use of Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy. so cents.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-18

Swift's Specific cured m, of Cancer, which was
hereditary, for my father died of Cancer. My case
resisted all other treatme t, in fact grew worse all
the time. left off all other remedies, and took
8. s. s. which forced out the poison until my system
was cleansed, when the Cancer healed, not even
leaving sign. My health sin e has been excellent.
MRS. LAURA E. DEEGAN,
Danson, Ca, Sept. 26, '88.
Send for Treatise on Cancer and Blood Diseases:
mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
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Do not be quick to speak: say much by mod
est and iudiciOus silence