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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
How Paris ENJOYS Herself.

Every inch of open ground i'm Paris il
made available. and the tiniest park has
its benches free, and the more aristocratic
chairs, which may be had for two or
three sous an hour. The beautiful Bots
de Bologne, rapidly recovering from the
destruction and desolation of the last
days of the Communal war, has its
groups scattered in the shade of thicket
or tree over all the 2,700 acres. while a
constant stream of carriages in the main
roads and of bicyclists wherever they are
allowed pours through all day long.
though notably larger and more brilliant
in the afternoon. Here, as everywhere
else, every possible provision is made for
enjoyment The cafes plan ingeniouslv
to make the most of the plot of ground
at side or front, and the little gardens are
marvels of art. A glass of sugar water
or cup of coffee gives right to space as
long as drop fingers, and by early even
ing every place is filled.
That there is working Paris is very
certain, but the fact is so disguised that
playing Paris seems the only tangible
thing, and watching these throngs that
come and go one wonders when and how
the work is done. Wandering acrobats.
who lay their strip of carpet in any
vacant space, and are instantly sur
rounded by group eager to be enter
tanned; jugglers of all grades, Punch and
Judy shows, puppet shows, trained dogs,
and a thousand other varieties of amuse-
ment are before one at every turn, and
when these lesser means fail, there is
the Trocadero, with its enormous con-
cert hall, its beautiful corridor, where
one may walk or linger to gaze at the
rushing cascade, the innumerable colored
lights, and the gay throng which pours
through it till midnight The lower end
Of the Champs Elysees and the gardens
of the Tuileries are lined with attractions
less pretentious but apparently as popu-
lar, and turn where one will, from the
stately Odeon to the smallest cafe chan
tant on the narrowest and most obscure
of Streets it is always Paris, amusing it.
self to its utmost bent, and well content
so long as the stimulus continues. Helen
Campbell's Paris Letter,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
He Could Carry a Trunk.

The Earl of Stradbroke arrived on
the Umbria dressed in light suit OF
clothes. The earl is a nice looking
young man who hasn't figured much
in English history yet. but he hopes to
get there some day. He distinguished
himself in the Cunard pier shed. By
some mistake one of his large trunks
was placed in the 80" section of the
pier instead of the IS" section. The
customs inspector who was attending
to the trunks of the eos" would not
examine the earl's trunk and told him
that it would have to go over to the
IS" section.
The earl was in hurry end there
was nobody around to carry his trunk
for him, so he bent down, got a firm
grip on his trunk, lifted it to his shout
der. and walked off with it through
the crowd to section "S"
'That's the first time l ever saw an
earl carry trunk" said one of his
fellow passengers, land he seems to
know how to do it. too. New York
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A Kind HOusemaid.

A quiet young man occupied the rear hall
bedroom on the third floor of Forty first
street boarding house. He was pleasant,
ingenious youth. and he evidently had not
been long in New York, for he had number
of knickknacks with him and tried to make
his room look attractive. On his bureau was
the photograph of a very pretty girl, taste
fully framed, which he seemed to regard
with considerable affection. Returning from
business one evening he noticed with much
surprise that the photograph was gone, and
Immediately proceeded in search of the
chambermaid for an explanation.
s'Mary," he said, when the genius of towels
and bed quilts appeared, what have you
done with the picture that always stood on
my bureaup
"Sure, and I put it in yer trunk. Yen find
1t in the second tray below thin fancy
weskits."
"What did you do that fors" inquired the
boarder, angrily.
'sOh, ye needn't git mad" she answered,
placidly; Sin the last letter We got yerself
and the gal had scrap, and thort if I put
her pictur' away I'd be doin' the both av yez
dilicate favor New York Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Doing the Wrong Thing.

Wesley, my colored man of all work,
possesses in wonderful degree the abil-
ity to understand just what you don t
say. One day called him to the garden
gate and pointing down walk on either
side of which grew some shrubbery, said:
wesley, want you to trim the
shrubbery on the left hand side of this
walk"
Eyes, 'um."
Aware of his aptitude for misunder-
standing, l repeated, Remember now,
Wesley, the left hand side.''
eyes, 'um.'
A few hours later he came to say the
work was done. went to the gate and
found the shrubbery on the right hand
closely cut while the left remained un-
touched. wesley" l said angrily,
didn't tell you to trim the left hand side
and not the right?''
Eyes um, but begun at ter cen no
the walk. Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Railway Stations In Germany.

At the railway stations in Prussia there
is evidence of the military feeling that
pervades the country. At large stations
the officials are in brilliant, soldierly uni
form, and at small ones when a train
passes, even without stopping, a switch
man or subordinate appears in front Of
the building, salutes the flying carriages
and then stands erect, feet close together,
his stick or staff of Office poised perpen-
dicularly against his shoulder in true
military style. In Berlin and other Ger
man and Saxon cities, when you drive
in a cab or public vehicle to a rail-
way station you pay the driver before
you start, or on the way to the station.
He is not allowed to wait at the station.
The moment he sets down his passenger
he must drive off so as not to be in the
way of other arriving passengers. If he
loiters he is fined marks (three-quarters
of dollar) for the delay.-Home Jour-
nal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
ADlEU.

With what sad heart, o love, I say
The words that cause me bitter pain
With what sad heart go away
Who knows, shall return againr
And yet. o love- they must be spoken,
Tho lives are wrecked and hearts are broken
And so, adieu, my love, adieu,
Believe me, can say no more;
My life is full of love for you
1t holds within no other lore
And yet, o love, say adieu
To keep the world and give I'D you.
And many day and many night,
The heart will ache and tears will blind.
For all my life and its delight
Are in the world leave behind;
And so, adieu, my love, my own
I face the bitter world alone.
But you will miss me, viii you nott
Mayhap as much as will you;
-Tis not So easy as you thought
To say "Adieu, my love, adieur
For If we stop to count the cost
without the one the others lostl
George Wilmot Harris in Woman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
EARLY AUTUMN.

Through shimmering mists the warm light drifts,
Sleepiy over the dun wet fields,
Where the sumach burns, and the wild rose lifts
Its pale sweet face mid the odorous gifts
That the golden harvest yields.
There's moan from the heart Of the waving pine
Wind tossed by the creeks dim shore,
And hint Of death on the purpling vine,
Though still in the shadowy dingles shine
The violets that autumn bore.
In the cool, gray light of the day spring fair.
Ere the skies take on their blue
strange wild beauty the woodlands wear,
Where the sedges sway in the scented air,
Aglitter with silver dew
Till the day, with its slumbrous, purple glow,
wonderful splendor weaves
On the hazy fields when the soft winds blow,
And the fading rose with its heart of snow
For the vanishing summer grievesl
Adelaide D. Rollston in Once Week.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Sinking an Artesian Well.

In attempting to decide as to when an
artesian well will succeed this general
principle must be borne in mind: Water
that falls on the earth's surface either
flows off in rills and streams, OF evapor-
ates, or sinks into the earth. That which
sinks flows downward until it meets a
non-porous stratum; it follows the sur
face of this, still downward and onward,
to break out at the base of some ravine
OF slope as a spring, or to fill some hid
den reservoir. When, as it sometimes
happens, the reservoir is large, it's pres
sure forces springs to the surface, far
out in the valley, or even out at sea. At
the foot of canyons and in the lower levels
Of small valleys it is always reasonable to
bore for artesian water, but first, the
fountain head must be higher; second,
the surface water dips toward the well
third, the porous and non-porous strata
must alternate.
The ordinary diagrams of artesian
basins are insufficient, for they make the
supply appear in narrow veins, which is
more rare. The real artesian basin is
best illustrated by pile of saucers with
porous paper placed between them. The
water fills between and rises to the rim.
The nearer the center of a basin a well
is the deeper it has to extend to strike
water. Artesian wells are not always
flowing wells.
Thousand of wells that are rightly
called artesian bring the water from deep
strata nearly to the surface, but require
some pumping. The ideal well is, of
course, the flowing well, delivering its
supply like fountain at the surface or
higher. Once put down, an artesian
well is, of course, complete and requires
no further expense to run it and nothing
for repairs. Charles Fl. Shinn in Over
land Monthly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
THE LAST LEAF.

We see the patriarch still
Briskly treading Beacon Hin
Full of joy;
For his heart is pure and glad
AS the good Sir Galahad,
Or boy
BY the teacups when he sat,
The unrivaled Autocrat,
Did he know
He would some day cling, ah msi
Last leaf on the lonely tree,
Bent with Snowl
Had he felt and had he known
He would wear the bays alone.
Still l hold
Never would have blanched his cheek.
Still his harp had blessed the weak,
Charmed theold.
His the gospel of good cheer,
Doctors art and poets ear
Joined to bless;
Heart with humankind atouch,
Like the Master healing such
In the press
Writing no imprisoned screeds
To uphold a party's creeds
Or its wrongs;
Broader than his Brahmin caste,
He has won the world at last
With his songs
Still he walks the Boston streets,
And he smiles at those he meets
AS he roams
All! we love that gray haired man;
Grasp his hand, dear, if you can;
That's our Holmes!
l. Knowles in Boston Traveller.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
THE ROSY WRAPPER.
It's Charming Influence in the Ken
dali Household.

Beautiful, beautiful, but perfectly
useless!" exclaimed Helen Austin. as
she lifted cashmere wrapper from the
box in which it had been packed, and
shook out its soft folds.
1t was beautiful, in truth. The
ground was lovely rose color. over
which meandered delicate vine, with
sprays of wild roses and buds of deeper
tint, and faint green leaves. A little,
not too much, soft lace finished neck
and sleeves, while one or two bows
gave piquancy to the whole. 1t was a
bridal present, which had just come to
Helen Austin on the day before her
marriage.
1T is just like cousin Mary" con-
tinued the bride-elect: fine, dainty,
exquisite: but it would be utterly ont
OF harmony with my blacks and browns
and grays. l could never wear it in
the world"
But, my dear, is there any law COM
pelling you to wear only blacks and
browns and grays?" asked Mrs. Lind
ley, the friend to whom she was show
ing it.
Certainly there is; the law of fitness.
OF propriety. An elderly spinster, who
marries doctor of divinity and his four
BOYS, keeps his house and does her
share of parish work, ought to be at
Nred with becoming sobriety."
but the colors would be so becoming
TO you," pleaded her friend.
Yes, l used to wear those CO ors in
my young days, and if were eighteen,
even twenty-eight, instead of forty
Light, as l am. it would be just the
thlng. But will you look at the label:
"A Rainy-Day Wrapper?' Whatever does
cousin Mary mean?"
Just what she says, Helen. She
wants you to wear it in your new home
10 Brighten the dull, rainy, depressing
mornings for your husband and chill
dren."
i thought cousin Mary had better
sense OF correspondence. Now, if ]
eoulc ever bring myself to put on this
oalnty thing, it would be upon some
eiouoless Sunday morning in early June.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A New Seaman's Log.

Official trials of a new form of log
have recently been made on board some
of the French torpedo boats. The log is
made of bronze, of cylindro-conical form,
and weighs about 5.5 pounds. 1t is pro-
vided with hollow tube running down
its center, which is connected by can
vas covered india rubber tube to pres
sure gauge on board. When the ship is
under weigh the flow of the water past
the log establishes partial vacuum in
the tube and causes the pointer Of the
pressure gauge to move over its dial,
which is graduated to give the speed of
the vessel from four up to twenty-five
knots. Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A Diversity of Opinion.

Mrs. Hobson Ito Bobby, who is out calling
with his mother)-This is the first time you
have seen my baby, isn't it, Bobbys
Bobby (o.itically)-Yes, ma'am, and I
think it's quite nice.
Mrs. Hobson-Nice, Bobbyi Why, it is
lovelyl
Bobby-Ma says it's the homeliest child
she ever saw.-The Epoch.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A Piano of Flowers.

A pretty conceit in flowers was
shown in the Hotel Brunswick at the
meeting of the piano makers. 1t was
an imitation of an upright piano of
regulation size. Violets formed the
body, ilacs and white carnations the
keys, and red and white roses oonsti-
tuted the rest of the design.-New
York World.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Suuelched.

Young Man About Town Gnsinuatingly)-
Is there any way in which could get to see
1.-THE Bloody Knife; or tine Red Hand" at
the Thespian this weeks
Newspaper Man promptly Ger.
tainly. Do as do.
Y. M. A. T. eagerly is that2
N. M Nonchalantly) buy a ticket
Boston Courier.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

George w. Childs, the rich Phila-
delphia editor and philanthropist, be-
gan his business career by sweeping
out stores in Baltimore He arrived in
Philadelphia unknown and penniless,
and finally worked his way into a
bookstore.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
just Think of It.

Some people will say things about
other people without thinking that other
people can say things about some people
as big as beams compared with notes.
Think of it.-Galveston News.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Tne Cup was Gall.

A man who had both eyes BACKED
and his nose badly bunged up entered
the Third street depot the other day
and asked of Officer Button:
GLOW many trains leave this depot
in day2"
"Oh, about fifty"
"Good! Get me tickets to go on the
whole blamed fifty, and if there are
any specials let me in on 'em, for I
ache to get out of this town in hur-
ryp'-Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

Sir Edwin Arnold, the editor of The
Daily Telegraph, wrote his "Light of
ASIA whilst travelling in the railway
carriage to and from his newspaper of
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
More Thread.

Referring to the new machine which
sews on 5000 buttons day, The Norwich
Bulletin says: "What this world wants
is not more buttons to the minute, but
more thread to the button" Amenl
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
His Own Diagnosis.

Mother-And do you really feel so very
bad, Bobby?
Bobby-Yes, ma. Iain't quite sick enough
to need any medicine, but I'm little bit too
sick to go to school.-New York Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Retired.

Miss Travis-I understand that your en-.
gagement has been broken off?
Miss De Smith (who has been taking lessons
at the girls athletic club)-Yes, have re-
tired from the ring.-Burlingto Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Gold Dollars Scarce.

Gold dollars are used for bangles and
trinkets to such an extent that they have
become scarce and command a premium
of twenty cents.-Chicago Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

Old Lady to tramp who has asked for
something to eat)-What kind of vituals do
you mostly get when you beg bite2
Tramp Cold shoulder, ma'am.-Boston
Courier
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A-~s----~-----
No Time to Waste.

Friend Ito business man)-You seem to be
busy this morning, Brown.
Brownies, I've got about fifty letters 70
write.
"Why don't you use your type writerT'
"rm in too big hurry. Texas SiftingA
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Ericsson, the Noted Inventor.

Engineer Ericsson, although IS years
old, is as brusquely youthful as ever. l
asked him once to what he attributed his
surprising mental and physical juvenility,
which enables him still to work out the
most intricate problems and to spend
many consecutive hours daily perfecting
his great solar engine, which stands in
his back yard and is the mystery of the
neighbors. His reply was in effect that
hard working and plain living conducted
on an unvarying system were all the
secret. He eats every day precisely the
same amount at precisely the same hours,
and 70 this rule there is no exception
The Epoch.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

The first eclipse upon record was a
lunar one and was observed at Babylon
721 B. G.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Hard to Sustain With Dignity.
Bilks-Do you live near here, sonnyi

Friend in Need-Yep.
Bilks-I wish you'd run home and get an
ak. struck this position this forenoon, and
couldn't get back, and got frozen up. Hurry
I'D will you2-Tid Bits
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

And especially upon dull morning,
when it was so easy to strike minor
keynote for the day? Neat she always
was, with immaculate collars and. cuffs
and frills, but couldn't she add beauty
TO neatness sometimes? Could she not
strengthen her influence over the boys
/ by making herself more pleasing in
their eyes? Yes, cousin Mary and Mrs,
Lindley were right How blind she had
been not to see it before. She would
henceforth wear that wrapper whenever
there should be occasion.
/ Occasions came in plenty. Once when
Teddy was sick he asked beseechingly
if his mother wouldn't put on the
s'rosy Dress" and, when she did, he
quoted down and went off into re-
freshing sleep.
One morning before she left her
| room there was tap at the door, and on
opening it crack Howard whispered
through:
Mother, won't you please put on
your rosy wrapper this morning."
Wonderingly she complied, for it was
bright morning, and it had come to be
understood that that garment was for
dull days.
sT'm all out of sorts, mother" Howard
explained; ''got desperate fit of the
blues, and thought sight of that 'ro-
sy wrapper would do me good"
Happily Helen was able to provide a
more effectual remedy In her ready
counsel and sympathy; still she had
no doubt the wrapper did its part in
bringing sunshine back to the clouded
face.
One time DR.. Brown was visiting them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-09-29

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