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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
INDUSTRIOUS MExicANS.
An Americans Visit to q Cooperative WI
iage Near Orixaba.

While stopping at Orizaba, Mexico. ]
heard that tnere was a village near the
CITY which was run on the cooperative
plan, and | visited it 10 ascertain the
effects of cooperation in practice IN
stead of theory. TenangO. the co-Opera'
tive village, is located in a little ~
shaped niche in the angle where two
mountains Join. 1t faces the south and
is as pretty spot as could have oeen
found in Mexico for cooperative
,lony The population OF the village
consists of small tribe OF Indians
probably four or five hundred In num-
Der, who annually choose an Alcalde
and Ayuntamiento, or chief magistrate
and council to receive and disburse all
moneys received from the products OF
the village and look after the general
welfare of the place. These officials,
like the more common members OF the
community wear cotton suits, which
are made by their wives. and probably
cost about one dollar, leather sandals,
and cheap sOmbrerOs, and work the
same as those who hold no Office
A small church is located in the
center of the village, and a jolly,
round-faced padre or priest, who
is supported out OF the funds
of the community, ministers to the
spiritual wants of the villagers. The
village was in fair sanitary condition.
considered from q Mexican point OF
view, and the people app AIRED con-
tented aud happy. The principal prod
ucts of the village are coffee, lemons,
oranges, bananas and vegetables, and
these. along with corn, furnish good
portion of the pre- visions on which the
people subsist. The coffee raised is far
in excess of the amount necessary for
home consumption, and the surplus
when sold brings in much more than
enough money to clothe the people,
thus leaving snug amount IN the
treasury. There appeared to be no
d. les in the village, and during the
time when the help of all was not re-
quired in the village those who had
idle time improved it by going up on
the mountains and burning charcoal
and hewing out boards or planks and
taking them TO Orizaba to sell. This
Industrious disposition on the part OF
the cO-Operators caused enough money
to flow into the treasury to enable the
Alcade to deal out liberal portion to
each one and still keep an emergency
fund in the treasury. The only thing
which | saw to give me bad impress
sion of the village was the condition in
which every one who had been to mar
ket, returned. An ordinary Mexican
can get pretty drunk and enjoy HIM
self, but when TenangO cO-OperatOr
comes home from market it can be
safely calculated that he is drunken
than anybody, can yell louder than
anybody. and can lick anybody between
the ages of eight and eighty, and will
get satisfaction by pounding his poor
burro if he can find no cause to pound
one of his neighbors. Cor. Chicago
Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
HOGSHEAOS or WINE.
France Has Now q Huge Barrel While
H walls the Tun Of Held. lberg.

RIVALS the Tun Of Held. lberg.
The great tun of Heidelberg is to be
deposed from its proud supremacy over
all other wine casks. There is on the
road to Paris a huge barrel (sent by
the people of Epernay) which will
compel the colossus of Heidelberg to
take, in future. a secondary place. The
cask was naturally declined as freight
by the railways. for the obvious reason
that it could not pass under tn cir
arches. However its triumphal jour
ney through France. dragged by twelve
yoke of oxen and mounted on a lordiy
vain, was in better keeping with the
object it is to serve than any more pro-
sale mode of dispatching it to the grand
exhibition which this Overgrown YES
sci is intended to grace, and an appre-
cable portion of which it will I'M
doubtedly fill. The good liquor with
which it is to be cOnsecrated will fol-
low by more commercial route.
Epernay is understood to be. the dis
trict which the tun is to advertise in
an especial degree. But Epernay.
with its vast cellx..age hewn out of the
limestone rock. is the headquarters of
a number of famous firms. each of
which would feel that it had suffered
irretrievable disgrace if drop of its
precious vintage were mingled with
the less noble blood of its neighbours
grapes. How, then. are they to agree
on the contents of the great tun which
they have sent to Paris?
France has hitherto regarded the
huge tun at Heidelberg with mingled
feelings of envy and regret. 1t ap-
peared to the vine growers of the Gil
rOnde and the Cote dor that to conse-
crate such gigantic vessel to the sour
juice of the Rhineland was degrade
ton of mechanical art from the func-
tions which it was intended to perform.
The present tun is comparatively mod
ern. Even the one which Thomas
Coryat describes in his ''Crudities"
was not the first of the series, which,
as a matter of fact, was begun in 1913.
when it was made to contain twenty
one pipes of wine. When Coryat came
to Heidelberg iu 1908 the cask he de-
scribes was only seventeen years old.
1t had been begun in 1889 and finished
in 1891 AS history records that anoth-
err tun was made in 1864 to hold 600
hogsheads and was destroyed by the
French in 1888. the one which is at
present mOldering away in unhOnOred
emptiness must be the fourth of its
race. 1t was begun in 1751, and in its
height of twenty-four feet and length
of thirty six the great tun is. az Long
fellow has put it. ''next to the Alham-
bra of Granada, the most magnificent
ruin of the middle ages"
Nevertheless, the fame of the Heidel-
berg cask is somewhat undeserved.
The tun is really much smaller than
many beer watts in British breweries,
which attract no crowd of gaping tour
lists and are not described in volumes
of nineteenth-century travel. For in
stance, there is in one great English
brewery a cask which is said to be CD
pable of holding twice as much as the
Heidelberg tun. At any rate, this vat
measures So feet in diameter at the top,
or 113 feet in circumference. and is 40
feet in height. London Standard
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

MIR C. Button, the official short
hand write. says that while in cross.
examination an average rapid witness
will keep up an average of 100 words
a minute for several minutes together,
some Irishmen and Irish women who
have testified have gone 1t a speed Of
over 200 words in sixty seconds. One
witness attained speed, as accurate
" as he could estimate. Of go words
. minute
lie opinion Is expressed that if all
that is promised by recent applications
in the use of water gas be verified cleo
trio lighting will be outrivaled both
in cheapness and beauty Of light.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
A CHAPTER OF JEWS.
One That Is Full OF Both Information an,
Suggestion.

One That Is Full OF Both Information and
Suggestion.
Miss Potter's chapter on the Jews OF
East London strikes wholly different
note. 1t tells US of class we'll capa.
BILE of making its way in the world
and of adapting itself to the con.
ditions under which industrial success
is to be attained. The Jews of East
London form a distinct community
numbering from $4,000 to 10000, o!
whom $4,000 were born abroad, while
of the remainder at least one half are
of foreign parentage.
The Jews are picked race. Per-
secution has weeded out the inapt and
incompetent, and has sharpened the
wits of the rest into what Miss Potter
terms an instrument for grasping by
mental agility the good things with
held from them by brute force. 1t i
thus that the old promise to
the Jewish people has been full
filled in these latter days: Thou
shalt drive out nations mightier than
myself. and shalt take their land as
an inheritance" OF social morality
among the immigrant Jews Miss Pot.
ter can find no trace. They are law
abiding people; they keep the peace;
they pay their debts; they abide by their
contracts: but this is the measure of
the obligations which they acknowI-
edge to the society in which they live.
The struggle for existence and welfare
for themselves and their families
marks the limit of their interests and
the conduct which conduces to success
in it the limit of their social duties.
We have the picture OF the race OF
brain workers competing with a class
of manual laborers, and getting the
best of it and steadily rising in the
world.
The lesson which it points is on the
folly and mischief of indiscriminate
charitable relief. The Jew has been
sharpened by suffering. Kindness
might have made him a better man.
but would have left him without the
offensive and defensive arts which are
the great Inheritance of his race. In.
discriminate charity = kindness it is
not to be cailed-has twOfOld evil in
fluence 1t weakens and it degrades.
1t units its recipients for earning their
own living and it deprives them of the
wish to do so. Mr. Booths volume
tells us. among other things. how large
part of the misery of East London
has been due to this cause.-LondOD
Times.
When a pretty girl turns her head
to look at young man on the street II
is almost sure to sarn his head com
pletely. Binghamton Republican
-Itis sometimes said that college
men OF high rank seldom become dis
tinguished. The remark is proved by
statistics to be false The first quarter
of college class usually furnishes
more men OF eminence than the lower
three-quarters-
A Dutch minister has compiled
some statistics concerning religion in
the Netherlands The kingdom con-
tains 4.O12. 693 inhabitants. OF whom
/. 445. 425 are Catholics. 81. 693 are Jews,
Is. 761 without any church relationship.
and 2. 1863. 844 are Protestant The
great majority of these are connected
With the National ReforWed Church.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
A SOLDIERS DARING.
Running Bridge IN a Storm Ofs8ullets to
save Train.

Runnins n Bridge IN n storm OfsE3ullets to
save Train.
Stories Of the late war have been re-
cited without number. but the follow
inc true incident, although told, has
never been published:
II was. as near as | can remember.
in the fall of 1868, while on night
picket duty. the subject of this story.
Thomas A. Smith, of company A,
For1y-second regiment. was suspicious
that the enemy was in closer prOxim-
i1y to his post than it was safe for all
hands to have them. and he had scarce
II made up his mind to reconnoiter
when he heard musket shot from
the post next to him, and in a few
moments an excited German ran up
10 him GREATNESS, totally disregard
inc the command "Haltm exclaiming:
Il shot him. shot him." After Quiet
ing the dismayed man. my grandfather
told him TO go back to his post imme-
dately: but, subjecting himself to Sc
we're censure, and possibly the guard
house. he left his own post, and pro-
cetded to crawl through underbrush
in the direction of bridge over which
ran railroad, suspecting that the
enemy might have made mischief
there.
1t was beautiful moonlight night,
and objects could be discerned at some
distance. He reached the left bank
OF the railroad, and. peering over into
the woods, could distinctly see men,
one after another, leaping over log,
and he knew that if discovered he
would stand little chance of es-
cape. He made his way on
the bridge, dragging himself along
by inches. and to his horror found
that the rails had been misplaced
about the center of the bridge, and
not a mile from him came the train.
laundering along ''into the jaws of
death" He had no time to lose, and.
at the risk of his life, he arose to his
feet and ran the other half of the
bridge towards the train. His pre-
sence Of mind and true herOism were
further shown by his lighting match,
applying the flame to newspaper
which he happily had upon his person.
and thus signaling the train. Bang!
bang! came from the retreat of the
miscreants, who were expecting to
see a wholesale slaughter of Union
soldiers. Fortunately none of their
shots took effect.
The train, on which Rev. A. r. Mil
Ter, now of the Methodist Church, was
a passenger, came to a stop. explana-
ton was made, the boys in blue sent
up many hearty cheer and gave
many a warm hand-grasp to their pre-
server. The bridge stretched a deep
and rocky ravine, and the whole train.
with its human freight. would have
gone down to certain death.
squad of men was hastily made up
and chase given to the fiends, but
they had made good their escape.
1t would seem to me that all the
qualities of a hero are embodied in an
act as intrepid as this Edna Nj.
Smith, in Philadelphia Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

NJ. ~i~S.' ..se 'oOdy is more con.
tagious thaa that fever of the mind
which breaks ous in vain repinings and
complaints-whichb anishes the smile
from the lip. the light from the eye.
and the Joy from the life. No one is
able to resist its unwhOlesome atmos-
phere; it casts glO m over every so
cial circle. afIiicts near and dear friends.
and repels every chance acquaintance.
He who is its victim must expect to
live in isolation: for no one will will
ingly remain under the cold shadow
which forever surrounds him Once q
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Fisk University in Na@Aville. Tenn.
Is doing grand work among the col
Ored people of the South.
Nova Scotia has established a free
kindergarten in connection with her
public schools. The experiment of
school banks has SO far worked very
we'll
The nursery and school-room not
merely tain character which lies be-
hind all intellect but they begin the
training of intellect ITSELF Thomas
Wentworth Higginson
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
Why She Removed Her Hat.

Mr.. and Mrs. Simpkins at the thea
ter.
Mr.. S.-What are you doing?
Mrs. SIN going to take of my
bonnet and hold it on my lap.
never saw you so considerable Of
any ones pleasure before
"Umph! You needn't think it's that.
% the only woman in the house that
uasn got new spring bonnet, and
you ought to be ashamed of it. Chi
sago Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

Mistress Ga very kind-hearted
one)-''Did you drown the kittens as
l directed, Marie?" Marie-''Oui,
madame" Mistress-'.Did you warm
the water?" Marie-'.Non, madame. !"
Mstress-''What! do you mean to tell
me that you drowned those poor little
kittens in ice-cold water! You cruel
.glfl!'-Yaukee Blade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

He IS great simpleton who i'm
AGNES that the chief power of wealth
is to supply wants In nlnety-nine
cases cut of a hundred it creates more
wants than lt supplies. Cotton
The time one spends in planning
what he would do if he only had the
money, could be much better employed
in studying what to do and how to do II
with the means at hand Arkansas
Traveller.
1t is poor encouragement to toll
through life to amass fortune to ruin
your children. In nine cases out OF ten
q large fortune is the greatest curse
which could be bequeathed to the
young and inexperienced Burke.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
THE TOWN OF SHELTON.
Inducements Offered to Emit erprises mad
Manufactures.
SOME OF THE REASONS WILL BE IN
PUGET SOUND

SHELTON is incorporated
Big Skookum Bay Puget Sound
the County of Mason County Its
up to the needs of the people being large
twooy public school building departments at present
at work under the instruction competent teachers Among
the numerous substantial buildings used purposes
the splendid twosto Courthouse Hail. 32xOO to be
hteo up Tor theatrical and public block
S2xSO being built the upper floor be fitted purposes
Though but two DID, the growth of Shelton steady
and during thepas few months rapid Many the branches
represented started be-
sides those operaon factory
MILL two engines employ about SO hands,
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THE SATSOP RAILROAD


Has been operating here for three they per-
anent buildings warehouse and the railroad This company
has about IA miles of main line operation
sdeacks and all of the body contiguous
road Puget Sound during average
RATS of scaling away to the
mills each week be into the article of
export
The Mason County Central enterprise that will be
operation with the spring. and promises important
factor with the development opening the region
we'll the They also capacity sup
ply local demands Also the Port Townsend
will through Shelton open line travel direct
by rail with California and the East
AS for scenic beauty from the elegant residence ground
side of town. superb of the hoary monarch Rainier
had almost weather while from the upland opposite
be obtained fine of the rreg
ular and snowcapped peaks which lie
Pacific
Without doubt Shelton lying does valley and
facing the peest bays of this eligible
site for townone that hardly be improved upon
tered from continuous streams from the arrange
mens being made tospp the with pure at
fall of than fifty feet.
These are few of our advantages and they worth investigating
There boom headng of rumpets, Shelton proportion
atey growing rapidly than point the
from $50 upward. For further information address
DAVID SHELTON
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The old fashion of making bags Of
ribbon joined together with fancy
stitching is again revived. All the
ribbons with pearl feather or lace
edges are useful for this purpose, and
silk and velvet look well together.
Such bags have base of velyet-cov-
cred cardboard about five inches
square, and are made of ten stripes of
ribbon lined with contrasting color.
Some very gay bags combine several
hues. and they are the most useful be-
cause they are equally well adapted to
accompany any frQck.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09

There have long existed in Ger
many and elsewhere societies for col
lecting ciger ends-the tips cut off to
permit of suction on lighting, and the
parts left when the smoker dare not
proceed further out of mercy to his
mustache. 1t is customary to have
boxes for preserving these remnants on
the tables of hotel smoking-rooms. as
well as in private houses. They are
collected at given times and sold to the
manufacturers, who make snuff of
them. or cut them up after kindly
sleeping for smoking mixtures. Their
price goes to orphan institutions or
other charities.
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Sale of Valuable Town Lots

TIE DUNBAR PLACE.
DY virtue ofa power Of Attorney to me
ID made by Archie X. Stokes, dated Au-
gust Both, 1889, and recorded in the office
Of the Register of Mcsue Conveyance for
Union County, in Book X. No. 20, pages,
I'll, and 7l2, l will sell, as the properly Of
said Archie r. Stokes, before the Court
house door, in the town Of Union, on sales.
day in December, 1889, the following de-
scribed property to wit
All that certain tract Of land lying, being
and situate in the town Of Union on the
West side of Tosh's Branch, containing forty
one (4D acres, more or loss, known ss the
Dunbar place, bounded by lands Of Mrs Ann
II. Jeter, the Blassing.me Road, G. C..
May and others.
Said tract will be divided and sold in con-
venient building lots, pats Of which eau be
seen at my office.
TERMS OF SALE.
One-third Gosh; the balance on a credit Of
one and two years, with interest from day OF
sale, to be secured by bond ofihe purchaser
and a mortgage Of the promises. Purchaser
to pay for papers.
D. A. TOWNSEND,
Attorney in fact.
Union S. c. Nov. II, 1889
Nov 10 46 81.
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SHERIFFS SALES.
Foi. December 1889.

DY virtue of suudry executions to me di-
- rected, | will sell, before the Court
House door in the town of Union, on Non
day, the second day Of December, next,
during the legal hours of sale, the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
$50 ACRES.
, All the right, title and interest that l.. l..
Linder, Jr. owns in one tract Of lapd, situ-
ate, lying and being in Bogansville town
ship, Union County, containing three hun
drcd and thirty acres. more or less, bounded
by lauds Of Mr.. Harrison, estate Of Asa
Smith, deceased, J. T. l.. Linder, trustee,
and others. Levied on AID to be sold as
the property of E. l.. Lnder, Jr., at the suit
Of E. L. Linder, Sr., aud others, plaintiffs,
against E. L. Liuder, Jr., Defendant.
One tract Of land belonging to the estate
Of Robert V. Harris, deceased, situate, lying
and being in Pinckuey township, Union
County, containing one hundred and twelve
acres, more or less, bounded by lands of
Mrs. Elizabeth Wood, Mrs. Rapsey Gallman
E. v. Going and Mrs Vestian Ly!es. Levied
on and to be sold as the property Of Robert
V. Harris, deceased, at the suit Of Robert
W. Harris, Plaintiff against Thomas j. Har-
ris, as administrator Of II. V. Harris, de-
ceased, ct ai
}. &. LONG, s. U. c.
Sheriff's Office, Nov. 0, 1889.
Nov. Is 46 81.
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The State of South Carolina.
COUNTY OF UNION.

In the Court Of Common Pleas.
A. a. Gault, James o Gault, May S. ALI
man aud others, Plaintiffs.
against
Hortenoia Gauit an others, DsfcnilH's.
TN obedience t) an order made in the
i above stated case. by His Honor, a, p.
Aldrich, Circuit Judge, l will sell before
the Court House door, in the town Of Un ion,
within the legal hours Of sale, on the first
Monday in December 1889. the following
described property to wit
400 eCREs.
All that certain tract Of land lying, being
and situate in Union County. State afore-
said, containing four hundred acres, more
or less, bounded by lands of Newton Gall
man, II. s. Porter, J. g. Kelly, Joseph
Kelly and others. Said tract will be sold
in four tracts, plats of which can be seen at
my Office.
TERMS OF SALE
One-third cash, the balance on credit Of
one and two years, in equal installmen,s,
with interest from day of sale, to be secured
by bond of the purchaser and mortgage OF
the premises. JAMES MUNRO,
Master for Union County
Masters Office. Nov. 8. 1889.
Nov Is 4G 1T
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Valuable Properly f0f


| QY virtue Of power OF Attorney. riyer
~ me by James Grant, 1 will se.Nfo IN,
highest bidder, at the Court honse door n
Union, 8. c., on salesday in Decembsr next
the following described property, to pay
| mortgage liens held by ]. C. Edwards. J. G.
Hunter, L. II. Wallace, ID. c. Flynn, and M.
| A. Il. Sartor:
The property known as the Schoppaul
property, in the town OF Union, South side
of Main street, now occupied by ]. o. Buch-
heit. The lot will be sold in two parcels.
The lot adjoining the Schoppaul property
on the East, on which are the rooms now
used as furniture store and n jewelry store.
This lot will be divided and sold in three
lots, to correspond with the three store lots
thereon.
valuable farm of Ala acres of rich bot
tom lands; through which flows q stream of
water, two miles from town, OH the Cross
Keys road.
One pasture lot and Brick Yard, West Of
Tosche's Branch, and bounded by said
branch on the East, with a fine pasture CON-
tanning about three acres, OH the road lead
ing to Cross Keys. Will be sold in two loss..
Also the lot and improvements on which
Mr. George Geddes now resides.
VI
Also that lot of land, situated In the town
of Union, known as the Furniture Factory
lot.
TERMS OF SALE, CASH. Purchaser to
pay for papers.
Plats Of the above property can be seen at
the office Of d. A. Townsend.
ID. G. FLYNN,
Attorney in fact.
Nov Is 4G st.
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Mortgage Sale.

DI virtue of power contained in mort
ID gage given by Thomas F. Eison. to J.
G. ElwarIs, dated 18Th August, 1884, and
recorded in the Office Of the Register Of
Mesno Conveyance for Union County, in
Book of Mortgages, @. No. T., p %, will sell
at public outcry before the Court House at
Union S. c., during the legal hours Of sale,
on Salesday in December next. that tract OF
land lying on the Columbia Road one and
half miles South of the town of Union,
known rs the John Eison place, and adjoiu-
ing lands Of e. G.. Sartor, w. II. Wallace, c..
Lankford and bounded by the Columbia
a. "'ouUser to pay for papers.
j. G. EDWARDS.
No. :. Mortgage.
""' !" 40 81