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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
IMPROVED BLOOD.
Why the Farmers of Our Day Can Not ST
ford to Raise Scrub Stock

Why the Farmers of Our Day Can Not Af-
ford to Raise Scrub Stock.
The value of an animal in the veins
OF which improved blood predOminates
is certainty. Some owners are igno-
rant of this superior worth, but the
fact remains the same. The horse in
whose composition is at least one
half standard or registered blood, as a
rule; has either better speed or weight
as the lines are determined; better
disposition and intelligence, as we'll as
other important qualities. 1t follows,
of course, that such horse has supe-
rior money value. From $25 to $500
measures the increased value of a
good four-year-Old grade colt As the
breeding season opens, an owner
should not let $40 to SIS extra in a
service defeat his chances for a full
portion of the profit in growing horses.
Such thing is possible as spending
but half enough in such cases. with
the result that the venture is a loss
instead of a gain. This is illustrated
in the case of producing a $50 scrub
horse, when one worth 5000
might have been secured by
little more outlay at
the start. Cattle improved are always
enough more valuable to recompense
for the pains taken to secure higher
merit. The cow with increased record
for milk and butter is the product of
intelligent action, and leads the novice
to wonder why he has been so long in
getting proper estimate of the ques-
ton of Improvement. When the
greater worth of feeding steer is
considered in the fact that a three
fourths grade can be brought to 1 400
p funds at twenty-four months to thirty
months ofage. easily, on two-thirds the
feed required to make the same weight
with common steers-the latter year
older alsO-such a result alone makes
the growing of such cattle desirable in
business sense. Add to the above
truth the further quality of enhanced
value of the meat in the market.
amounting at present prices, on an
average. to about one dollar per
hundred pounds, and no man, in
Guiding the one who bOrrows money
to buy common feeding steers, has ex-
cuse for not investing now in an i'm
proved sire and some good grade fe-
males. Orange Judd Farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
FAMILY SCRAP BASKET.
Carefully Compiled Bits of Household Fa'
Ear

Carefully Compiled Bits of Household Fact
and Fancy.
Chopped onions are desir able and
healthful addition to chicken feed.
Leather chair seats may be revived
by rubbing with egg-white, well
beaten.
A bit of cotton saturated with am
mOnia is recommended for an aching
tooth.
Physicians say that the fashionable
boa is responsible for many ailing
Threats.
A raw cranberry cut in two and half
of it bound over corn is recommend
ed as cure.
Lemonade is not only an appropriate
temperance beverage but it is cor
receive of bilousness.
Coarse tough beef may be improved
by being run through sausage cutter
and brOi!ed in cakes like pan sausage.
Cherry wood can be dyed to initiate
old mahogany by dipping it in a color
ing fluid made by soaking logwood
chips in vinegar for twenty-four hours
or longer.
For chapped lips dissolve beeswax
in small quantity of sweet oil and
heat carefully. Apply the salve two
or three times day and avoid wetting
the lips as much as possible.
A good way to cook or heat hash is
to pack it in buttered baking dish
and let it bake brown in the oven, or
brown it in hot buttered skillet or
spider and then fold over like an
Omelet.
Don't neglect your finger-nails just
because you have to do so much rough
work that cleaning and polishing seem
to make little impression on them.
That's an additional reason for taking
care of them.
10 remove iron spots and black ink
stains: White goods, hot oxalic acid,
dilute muriatic acid, with little frag-
ments of tin. On fast dyed cottons
and woolens, citric acid is cautiously
and repeatedly applied. Silks, impos-
sibe
Malaria is due to microbes, which
reach their victims either from the
air, by inhalation or from drinking
water which has absorbed them. Boil
the water, avoid the night air, sleep
in the higher rooms of the house and
guard against all excuses.
Celery is a sedative, and is good for
rheumatism and so-called neuralgia.
which is often only another name for
it. Cucumbers cool the system-when
fresh cut, of course. Lettuce is not
only cooling, but produces sleep, es-
pecially if the stalk is eaten. Aspar-
agus purifies the blood, and especially
acts on the kidneys. Peas, broad
beans and haricOts are positively
strengthening, and contain for a hui
man being the properties specified by
farmers when they say that peas
''harden" pigs flesh, and that "oats
may take horse out, but beans will
bring him home again" Potatoes
should not be eaten by those who are
disposed to get too stout, and many
who suffer from arrangement of the
liver eschew them altogether.-Good
Housekeeping.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
Notable Historical Events

First jury, $40.
Pins made, 1850.
Needles used, 1916.
First cast iron, 1914.
Matches made, 1929.
SurnameS used, 1852.
First newspaper, 1894.
Coal used as fuel, 1884.
Lead pencils used, 1894
Window glass used, 694.
First gold coin, B. G.. 206.
Tobacco introduced, 1888.
First steam railroad, 1880.
First postage stamps, 1910.
Kerosene introduced, 1926.
First Illuminating gas, 1892.
Electric light invent d, 1874.
Iron found in America, 1915.
First insurance, marine, 533.
First wheel carriage, 1869.
First American express, 1921.
Musical notes introduced, 1888.
Latin ceased to be spoken, $50.
Bible translated into Saxon, 637.
Gunpowder used by Chinese, 80.
Bible translated into Gothic, 872.
Old Testament finished, B. C. 43O.
Photographs first introduced, 1902.
Emancipation proclamation, 1868.
Paper made by Chinese, B. G. 22O.
Bible translated into English, 1884.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
THE MOONS REVOLUTION.
Why We Have Need to Be Devoutly Crate
full for Our Satellite.

Why We Have Need to Be Devoutly Crate
full for Our Satellite.
If we could take bird's-eye view of
the portion of the solar system con-
tanning only the sun, the earth and
the moon, we should see the sun NOV
ing with rapid pace through the vast
regions of space, taking with him the
earth and the moon. We should see
the earth revolving round the sun,
taking with her the moon. We should
also see the moon revolving round the
earth, her motion round both sun and
earth causing her to move in an ir-
regular curve, always concave to the
sun.
We could then realize as no words
can describe how exceedingly COM
plicated is the motion of the moon in
her orbit, and admire with reverent
awe the heavenly harmony that pre-
walls even in this small portion of the
material universe. For it must be re-
membered that our majestic sun is but
shining point, seen from the nearest
fixed star, and our earth and moon are
invisible to the suns of space.
The moon revOlves around the earth
from any fixed star to the same star
again, in twenty seven and three-tenths
days, completing periodic or sideral
revolution.
The earth meantime has advanced in
her orbit, and the moon requires more
time to complete revolution in regard
to the sun, bringing sun, moon and
earth into line, and making the time
from new moon to new moon again
twenty-nine and half days. This is
called a lunar month, lunation or
synodic period.
The moon is often considered as of
little consequence in the economy of
creation. But what would the earth
do without her? She is our minister
and companion. If she were blotted
froc the skies there would be no tides
OF any amount, no silver crescents
hanging in the golden West, no glori-
GUS full moons flooding the sleeping
earth with soft lights and shadows,
and no total eclipses of the sun. the
most sublime phenomena on which
mortal eyes rest.
We have need then to be devoutlv
grateful for our satellite, for her posi-
ton in the heavens, for the short period
OF her revolution. and for all the bless
ing that follow in her train. Her move
ment round the earth is but one short
chapter in the complex history of our
nearest and most intimate celestial
neighhor. Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

The 1ronwood (Mich.) Times re-
lates that the other day a freight brake
man on the Lake Shore road was Or
dered to get the number of eight ore
cars in the train taken on at Wakefield.
He stood on the platform as the cars
passed by at a moderate rate of speed
and read the numbers, all of which
were in the ten thousands. Without
writing them down he went to the con-
ductor and reported the numbers. 1t
was afterward ascertained that all
were correct.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
SOME QUEER BUGS.
The Egyptian Scarabaeus, Death watches
and Earwigs.

AS is well-known, the scarbaus or
beetle was worshiped by the ancient
Egyptians and was considered sacred to
various deities. 1t was represented on
monuments, in hieroglyphic writing and
engraved on royal escutcheons. Earth
ern images of it as well as of other an
imal forms, were entOmbed along with
mummies to keep evil spirits from the
dead. Its figure was cut in gems and
worn in iewelry as talisman to keep
the wearer from harm. The insect
was embalmed after death and given
honorable burial. Engraven on the
emerald the scarabeus was a remedy
against witchcraft and headache, and
quite likely also to bring its possessor
into favor with the king.
1t is not surprising to find that the
curious insect known as the FREELY has
been regarded with superstitious awe
by various savage tribes The natives
of West India and other warm cOun-
tries, however, are said to put the flies
to a very practical use. They cap
ture them in large numbers, and
putting them in cages OF wire
twenty or thirty together, keep them
alive by feeding them and using them
at night to light their houses and save
candles. If the light grows dip the
insects are wet and their cage shaken
up, causing them to shine brightly
again. The ladies pin large numbers
of these creatures, alive, to ballroom
dresses and wear them as ornaments.
The little insect known as the death
watch is a very common pest OF Ii
braries and frequently perforates large
volumes with straight, tiny holes. Its
presence in a house is supposed to por-
tend an early death to some of the in
mates. Watchers by sick-beds and suf-
fering patients have been so terrified
by the uncanny ticking sound, heard
in the silence of the night, that nothing
could convince them that the death
angel was not almost in their presence.
If there were anything in the supersti-
ton, those whose dwellings are old
would lead but brief and uncomfortable
lives. for it is frequently the case dur
ing the summer time that the noise of
this insect can be heard at almost any
hour of the day and night in all parts
of the house.
The earwig, a small winged insect.
commonly found in moist earth and
damp places in England, is another
harmless creature which has got hard
name through no fault of its own. AL
though there is no authentic cases on
record of this insect injuring any hui
man being, there is widespread pOpu-
lar belief that it only watches for an
opportunity to creep into the ear of a
sleeping person, destroy his hearing
and drive him to madness. if not to
death. In America the animal known
as the rwig is a creeping, crawling,
many-legged worm, called by scientists
a ''myriadodous crustacean," name
which is fully as long and as ugly as
any specimen of the earwig tribe.
Thousands of people believe that this
animal also has a habit of investigating
the anatomy of the human ear, though
those who profess to know say he is
perfectly innocent of any thing of the
kind. Boston Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
a SERMON TO PARENTS.
Tow Children Are Made Imperfect Physi-
cally and Mentally.

Tow Children Are Made Imperfect PhyS1-
cally and Mentally.
A child comes into the world as the
great preparatory field from which it
is very soon to emerge into the bound
less beyond. 1t is taken from the
womb and thrown into cradle. 1t is
doped and dosed with something to
deaden it to sleep and stagnate its
blood. 1t is denied fresh air, pure
water that goes to help make pure
physical system. 1t is left unfed hours
upon hours when its stomach is empty
and its physical system is worried by
want. 1t is neglected when it wants
food, water or care. 1t is helpless in
the hands of those who torment it
with pins, bandages, yanks, jerks,
sharp words and fault-finding, till the
growing mind finds itself in hell in
stead of Heaven.
AS the childs grows On in years, it's
mind, ever on the alert, as it seeks for
information of some kind. it detects it's
parents in hundreds of petty falsehoods
and learns to lie. 1t experiences
cruelty and becomes cruel. 1t is
abused and learns to abuse in return.
1t is cuffed, slapped, kicked. yanked,
jawed, scolded, worried and hung upon
the outer walls as trash, when it is the
only thing on the place that is to ac-
company its parents into the beautiful
haunnd 1ICfnno Jfu md
vulgarity, and becomes vulgar and
profane. 1t is lied to in all manners
of direct and indirect ways by its
parents, and thus learns to consider
falsehOOd as a pleasure or necessity, Or
both. 1t is not turned to the beauti-
full, as is the work of the glassmakers,
but is left to get up and out of darkness
as best it can. 1t is fed with food that
does not nourish, and it's body becomes
the home of ailment, malady and dis
ease. Then, when it has a headache,
a stOmach-ache, blind eye, a de-
formed foot, a blemish, or weak,
deformed spot, it is taught that God
made it so, when God never yet made
an imperfect human being. Every
physical imperfection is the protest of
nature against ignorance. carelessness
and Indifference to results.
Every mentally-imperfect child is
the result Of the carelessness and neg
lect of its parents and the public.
Impure food, deleteriOus fluids, i'm
proper care, lack of paternal love,
pernicious reading matter that distils
dirt into the young mind. all injure
and unfit it for the future. Men have
no business to have land. horses, cat
tie, wives or children until they can
properly care for what they have, and
the most valuable of all they have is
their children. Why is it that we do
not all try to treat them and their
mentalities in proper manner? Good
father and good mother, is not a child
better than horse, a COW, a hog or a
farm?- Brick" Pomeroy, in Advance
Thought.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

First lady (behind tall hat at the
theater)- Rather out of style, ism t
itP" Second lady Gin loud whisper)
Yes. They were wearing hats like
that in Paris when / was there two
years ago" "Yes, thought it was
about that old. What flimsy material
it is made OFF, Horribly cheap. I
saw some Of that in the window of a
secondhand store marked Lady
In front (to companion) -" It's so
dreadfully warm here / viii have to
take on ny hat "-Philadelphia
Record.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

1t is generally known what a won
derfully soothing effect rubbing o.,
stroking the sole of the foot has in that
terrible nervous uneasiness that many
lnvalids suffer fromP 1t also will oft
entimes prove of great relief in severe
nervous headaches. Only try it anu
you will find the relief wonderful. ~
Detroit Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

DO not allow the birds to be des-
troyed. They are of too much benefit
in destroying insects. worms and pests
that prey upon the fruit and trees.
The cat-bird eat and destroys pear
bugs; the woodpecker digs in and
destroys the borer; while the iaybird.
chlckadee, wren, thrush, robin and
blue-bird all do good work in the
orchard.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

"A log. cut lately on the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad, in Wash
lngton Territory, was nearly eight feet
six inches in diameter. 1t was taken
from spruce tree. 1876 feet high.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

1t is wrong 70 suppose that all the
people in Kentucky are Colonels. Half
OF them are, or want to be. Colonels'
w4ves- -Somerville Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

Fish have some Giscomforts, but
they manage to escape the annoyance
OF being called ''too fresh. Boston
Globe.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

He proposed on the way home from
church with a Buffalo girl one SUNDAY
evening. She was too young to marry,
and did not want him anyway. But
she said yes with the stipulation that
he should get her fathers consent. The
young man was happy until he dis
covered the next day that the adored
ones father had been dead several
years. He has removed to another
CITY, Buffalo News.
Entering one or the street cars in
valparaiso, the stranger first gazes all
around for the conductor, and then a
look ofsurprise steals over his face as
he sees pretty young woman coming
down the aisle and collecting the fares.
The fact is. that in the recent wars in
which Chilli has been engaged, all OF
the able-bodied men, including the car
conductors, were pressed into service.
The conductors places had to be sup
Piled by girls. They made themselves
so popular that, although the men
have since been mustered out of SER
vice, the girls have continued to hold
their POSITIONS as conductors.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

One OF the attractions in a chear
circus that showed at Albany, Ca, the
other day was a large baboon that
proved very interesting to lot of lit
tie darkies. From admiring it they
fell to teasing the baboon and were
having great fun, when the big
monkey, worried beyond endurance,
grabbed a brick and flung it at one par
ticularly aggravating negro boy. The
baboon's aim was good, his strength
great. and the brick. hitting the boy
behind the ear, knocked him sense.
less. For long time it was thought
he was killed, but he got over it.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
Boiler Explosions in 1888.

The Safety Valve gives this record
Of boiler explosions during 1888:
Total number of boiler exploded, 263:
estimated loss to property, 81, 100. 600;
estimated loss by stoppage of business
$1,000, 900; number of employees thrown
temporarily out of work, 10000; mum.
Der of lives lost. 1885, number o. persons
injured, 491. Of boilers in saw-mills
and other woodworking establishments,
there were 90 explosions; locomotives,
Il; steamships, tugs and other steam
vessels, 10; portable boilers, holsters
and agricultural engines, 81; mines,
oil wells, Golfers, IS; paper mills,
bleacheries. digestersf etc., 10: rolling
mills and iron works, %; distilleries.
breweries, dye works. sugar houses and
rendering works, 81; flour mills and
grain elevators. 13; textile manufacto-
ries, 16; miscellaneous, Fl.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24

An old farmers daughter died ana
the family pastor preached the SER
mon. In the course of his remarks ne
said: Our dear sister has gone TO d
better land" This made the old man,
who was trying to sell out, highly IN
dignant. "A crow never flew over
better land than mine," he SAID
Sand, besides, just look at it. all
Offering it for fifty dollars an acre
one-fourth down and the balance on
deferred payments, with good securf
ty."-Peoria Transcript
Chief Justice George w. Stone OF
the Supreme Court of Alabama, cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday ami
versary by dancing jig with his
great grandson.
1t it worthy of note that most 0,
the gifts for the promotion OF medical
education come from doctors who arc
themselves eminent in the profession
Boston Traveller.
"A new rival to coffee is ''MusS%
enda," or wild orange, plant proauo-
ing purple fruit. About "a, OO0 acres
of this plant are now being cultlVa'E0
II the island of Reunion.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-13


Buffalo Express: Among the resi-
dents of Buffalo to whom the news Of
| the election of General Benjamin Har.
risOn, of Indiana, to the pre- sidcncy of
the United States were glad tidings was
a lady living on Whitney place, who
thirty-six years ago stood by the side OF
Mr.. Harris0n's BRIDE while those words
were spoken which in duo course OF
time will make her the first lady in the
land.
at is IA pleasant reminlsccncc to me,
and | will tell you all about it on the
condition that you Withhold my namc,'
said the bridesmaid of that occasion.
Mr.. Harrison first met Carrie Scott,
his destined wife, while he was attend
ing Il boys academy at Walnut Hills,
o., and she was a pupil in II girls sem
mary at the same place. He was about
nineteen years old then, and she was a
girl of seventeen. Later on they both
removed to oxford, o.. whore he became
Il student in Miami university, and she
busted herself with the household duties
of the family home. Her father was John
w. Scott, who at the time OF her mar
riage, was the principal of a young
lady's seminary at Oxford. The family
lived in the seminary boarding house
Ia two-story building just across the
street from the schooll, which was man
aged by Mrs. Scott. About thirty of the
girls boarded at the place.
Carrie was a bright, vivaciOus,
witty girl, rather petite in figure with
swapping black eyes and pleasant fca-
lures. She was very popular and had
many admirers, but one OF them re-
ceived any encouragement except
Ben as she called him liz those days.
She was somewhat sarcastic, but she
used this dangerous gift with such
kindness and judgment that no one
ever suffered thcrefrOm. | am inclined
to believe that her father, who was a
staunch Presbyterian, did not look with
any degree Of favor upon the match,
for Ben was chockful of politics even
then, but | have no doubt that the old
gentleman, who is now elghty-ninc
years old and has IA position in the pen
sion department at Washington, when
he looks out OF the window upon the
building where the inaugural ball will
be held on the 4th of March, is fully
reconciled to his son-in-law.
The wedding toOk place during the
vacation season, when most OF the pupils
were at home and only "A few Of the
teachers fingered at the boarding.
house. The ceremony was performed
about 10 O'Clock in the morning by
President Anderson, OF the university,
in the parlor. There were only about
thirty persons present, most of them
intimate friends n kindreds Of the
families. The bride wore IL simply
white cashmere veil and looked very
sweet. The bridal party came in from
Mrs. SCOTS room, adjoining, ana stood
between the windows while President
Anderson tied the knot. In those days
it was not fashionable TO give wedding
presents. After the ceremony we all
sat down TO "a wedding breakfast in the
dining room of the boarding house, and
as soon as this was over Mr.. and Mrs.
Harrison were driven I" I railroad sta
ton twelve miles asI where they
took the train for NORTH Bend, Presi-