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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04
ItPUIU PlOBEO55 dHU 20 LHG6I dEdIH.
Hoboken Notes.
1.-THE Runaway Wife, will close mo-
,ccessf11I enOaoamant at Jaeobs, Hob

''The Runaway Wife" will close most
successful engagement at Jacobs Hobo
ken Theatre tonight Tomorrow after
noon and evening the great Hermann
will exhibit his magic art. The sale of
tickets for the two performances is un-
usually large. and the house no doubt
will be crowded. Next week n. S.
Woods in ''Out in the Streets" will be the
attraction.
The John Stein Association will hold
its annual ball at Vasels Hall on Satur-
day.
Councilman Londrigan was on the war
path last night He accused Surveyor
Mccain of deceiving the public and the
Council. Mr.. McCann bore the insults
meeklY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04

The total value Of school property in
Jersey City, including the new school in
Lafayette. is about $4,000. The valua-
tlons, as stated in the last annual report,
do not include School No. %, which had
not then been completed, and they footed
up at $685., 900.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04

VAN HourEN's Cocoa -Fure, Soluble. Ecoao
mical
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Failed to Work Somehow.

Mr.. Billus has theory that his wife is
too indulgent to tramps and beggars.
With dimly defined purpose of teach
ing her lesson he disguised himself the
other day as an abandoned vagabond,
boldly rang the bell at his own front
door and inquired for Mrs. Billus.
"Have you any old clothes to give a
poor man, mum?" he asked in loud,
aggressive, but carefully disguised voice
when the lady presented herself.
Mrs. Billus looked at the soiled, grimy,
disreputable looking object before her
with some interest. Whether or not she
suspected the genuineness of the mendi-
can't is not certainly known, but she an
swered:
"None that would fit you, my good
man. My husband is much smaller
man than you are"
She shut the door in his face, and Mr.
Billus made his way back to his office
down town.
Darn it ALT" he calculated, as he
sneaked through a back alley, II must
have looked laundering sight bigger
than feel just nowr'-Chicago Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Lads and Lasses in France.

When l was a boy at school in France
I can well remember how we boys felt
on the subject. If we heard that I.
young girl, the sister of some school
fellow, was with her mother in the
common parlor to see her brother,
why, it created perfect commotion, a
perfect revolution in the whole estab-
ishment. 1t was no use trying to keep
Us in order. We would climb on the
top of the seats or on the tables to en-
deavor to see something of her, even if
1t were only the top of her hat or bit
of her petticoat across the recreation
yard, at the very end of the school.
1t was an event. Many of us would
even Immediately get inspired and com
pose verses addressed to the unknown
fair visitor. In these poetical effusions
we would imagine the young girl car
RED off by some miscreant and we
would fly to her rescue, save her and
throw ourselves at her feet to receive
her hand as our reward. Yes, we would
get quite poetical, or, in plain English,
quite silly. We could not imagine that
woman was reasoning being with
whom you can talk on topics of the
day, or have an ordinary conversation
on any ordinary subject. To us a wo-
man was being with whom you can
only talk of love, or fall in love, OF
maybe for whom you may die of love.
Max O'Rell.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
A Case of TeleDathv.

A story with a little romance in it is
that of S. R. W., of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
who was returning from England on an
ocean steamer. One night he dreamed
that his wife, who was then in Bridge
port, opened the door of his stateroom,
looked hesitatingly in and then came for
ward and kissed him. When he awoke
in the morning the man who occupied
the upper berth in his stateroom looked
down and said: ''You're pretty fellow
to let woman come in here in the night
and kiss you" Pressed for an explana-
ton, he described the scene which he
had experienced.
Arrived at home, he was asked by his
wife: "Did you receive visit from me
on such night? made you one. Twas
worried because of the reported storms
that night. l dreamed | went out on the
ocean and came upon a great, black
steamship. l went up the side and along
the corridor and opened your door.
saw strange man looking at me from
an upper berth. was afraid at first
but finally | stepped in and kissed you.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
POCAHONTAS NO. 2.
She Was a Cabassas Beauty and Known
as Schools.


as Schools.
1t is generally known that in 1914
Captain John Smith, of Pocahontas
fame, made a trip to what is now
Gardiner, Me-, but there was an Incl
dent that occurred during that visit
that is known by very few people. The
incident in question resembles very
closely that of the Indian maiden Po-
cohontas that has been handed down to
pOsterity.
At the time of Smiths visit here the
valley of the CObbossee-contee stream,
which at this point joins it's water with
the Kennebec river, was inhabited by a
powerful and intelligent branch of In
dians called Cabassas, belonging to the
Kennebec clan, which was in turn one of
the tribe of Abenakies. The Cabassas
were presided over by a chief, having
headquarters at what is now Gardiner,
known as Cabassa, who had daughter
named Schools, famed among her tribe
for her beauty and grace. She was, I'M
fortunately, smitten at once with the
gallant Captain, who was. by the way,
the first white man to visit these parts,
and who was received with great cor
diality. Smith had with him Lieu
tenant named Hunt, who was of rather
quarrelsome disposition and prone to
mutiny.
When the time came for the party of
whites to depart Hunts mutinous spirit
showed itself, and with small party of
followers he left Smith, going in an OPP
posite direction. His party took with
them as captives several of the tribe Of
Cabassas.
The chief considering the whites one
party, by great mistake followed Cap
tain Smiths loyal band, which camped
that night about four miles from the
present location of Gardiner, in an east
erly direction. Schools thinking to
warn the Captain hurried on before the
party of enraged Indians, but arrived
too late, for as she arrived at the camp
the first volley of arrow was delivered.
Thinking to save Smith, she fled to
him, threw her arms about his neck,
and in that position received an arrow
in the breast that caused instant death.
The chief was palsied at the accident,
and ordered hostilities to cease. This
allowed Smith an opportunity to ex.
plain that it was the other party that
had perpetrated the kidnapping.
After a sOrrOwful return and the
burial of Schools near the Randolph
church, opposite this city, the party OF
red men went in search of Hunt He
was overtaken near Norridgewock and
his band exterminated to a man.
Captain Smith had the martyred Sc
boots to thank for his life, for the arrow
that reached her heart was meant for
him. The grave of Schools is unmarked;
in fact, its exact location is unknown
Boston Globe.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

make it air tight That's the invention
Miss Polly. and bet my bottom dollar
it makes your fortune"
"Wa-al. it does beat all what luck
some people have" observed Jim Bates
to the usual audience at the store, few
months later. ''Now, there's John
Spriggs, ben workin' fur years at sew
ing-machines, an cyclometers an half
q dozen other inventions that never
brought him in cent, and when he hit
on can cover, that any of US could have
fixed if we'd only thought ont, he's
offered six thousand dollars fur the
patent the first thing. Six thousand
dollars. | wouldn't believe it if he
hadn't told me so himself. 'Spriggs'
Patent Cans they're going to call
them"
"Polly's Patent Cans, fought to be, y
piped the storekeeper. ''They say d
never done a thing about it if it hadn't
ben fur Latham's thinking of the rub
Der. an if it hadn't ben fur Polly he'd
never hev concerned himself with
Spriggs' inventions, or Spriggs either.
They're going into partnership now, he
an Latham, an cackelate to make a
mint O. money. But twas Polly started
it in the first place.
can it's my opinion Polly had the
biggest interest in it," grinned the post
master. ''Her fathers pervided fur
now, an nothin' to hinder her marryin'
when she wants to; an you can't make
me believe they're movin' into the city
lest to be near Dan'l Latham. Not SO
long as Polly's ben writin' letters to
George Remington, New York City,
ever since she come from there in the
spring. Wa-al," refectively. sit amt
much to invent can cover, any way;
but guess what credit there is to it be-
longs more to Polly than it does to
Spriggs."
''That's So" assented the crowd. But
Jerry Telles, seated in the corner, paid
no attention to these derOgatory COM
ments. Il alters said the boy would
mount to somethin' yit," he chuckled,
fumbling for his pipe.-Leslie's Illus
trated Newspaper.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
The Finest Thermometer.

'"The finest thermometer in this coun.
try, and / suppose in the world, is at
Johns Hopkins university" remarked
Lieut.. Finley, the government signal ser
vice inspector. Lieut.. Finley inspects
a great many thermometers every year,
and he knows something about them.
"This remarkable instrument" he con-
dnued, lis known as Professor Row
lands thermometer, and it is valued at
the enormous sum of $4,000. 1t is
absolutely perfect, and so fine are the
graduations on the glass that it requires
telescope to read them. There are a
number of fine instruments that are
rugged with telescopes. But an instru-
ment like that would be of no possible
use to an ordinary Individual. 1t re-
qulres a scientific education in order to
read them. "-Jewelers' Review.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
REMARKABLE CAREER.

An Arab Founding Now Colonel in the
French Army.
The public has been reading lately q
great many dispa tches from France and
Africa giving the yrogress of the war
which the French Government has been
waging in Dahomey. Lieutenant
Colonel Archinard was the officer men,
toned as being in command of the
French troops, who. although merely a
handful of some 400 or 500 cavalry, have
inflicted great slaughter on their oppo-
nents, killing as many as 1000 in a
single engagement
There recently arrived in this city a
young French officer who is an intimate
friend of Colonel Archinard and who
relates the following strange history of
the dashihg young Colonel's life:
'About twenty-six years ago. at the
time France was engaged in series Of
petty wars against the nomad tribes in
Algeria, and after one of these engage
ments, a certain CASTOR Archinard,
then Captain in cavalry regiment,
was attending to the removal of the
wounded, when one of his men discov-
cred little Arab child who had evil
IDENTIFY been abandoned by it's parents
In their flight. Being bachelor, and,
liking the bright, intelligent look in
the little fellows face, the Captain de-
termined to adopt him and give him
his name. He therefore sent him to
lycee or French school in Bordeaux,
where the lad was educated, and later,
In 1875, the Captain having risen to the
rank of Brigadier-General, he caused
him to be enlisted as pri-
vate in the Seventh Hussars, I'M
Ger his own name of Archinard.
Gaining rapid promotion he was soon
sent to the cavalry school at Saumar,
from whence he graduated in 1880, only
ten years ago, as a sub-Lieutenant Of
cavalry. He was then sent to Tunis
and fought through the campaign of
1882, and the following year saw him
commanding battalion in Tonouin.
In 1887 he was sent to Senegal as
Major in the famous regiment of Spahis
Senegalais, which he commanded az
Lieutenant7Colonel in his late success
full campaign in Dahomey. Although
pure blooded Arab, with a thorough
French military education, Colonel
Archinard. it is whispered in promi-
nent Partisan military circles. is next
on the list for promotion to the coveted
rank OF General of division of the
French army.-San Francisco Exami-
Uer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
IF l WE'RE THE GAR.
were the Car.

IfIwere the Car,
wouldn't send 10 Siberia
Every man / could find whom / thought my
superior,
Wouldn't paddock the lips of my best men Of
letters,
Flog women TO death, and put old men in fet-
tiers;
And wouldn't ride around in powder-proof
car
II were the Car.
IfIwere the Car.
would rule SO benignly
That men would all say: "Why, you're doing
finelyr'
For d drive all the men who say, in hot weather:
"ls this hot enOagh.'' in the river together;
And I'd let them cool off while gggled: "Ha,
har'
IfIwer the Gar.
III were the Car,
And could rule arbitrary,
And impose my commands upon Tom, Dick and
Harry,
Iwould drive sharp slick and slaughterlng
Right through the left ear of my flute-playing
neighbor,
And then carry his scalp on my triumphal car,
II were the Car.
nIwere the Gear
And wanted to Snore,
And my five O'Clock neighbor got out his lawn
mower,
And went rafting around while his neighbors
were sleeping,
I'd give him right up to my constable's keeping,
And tell him to bruise him, and Danish him far;
II were the Car.
II were the Car,
would mako people like me,
And not try to shoot me, and slap me and strike
me;
But the fatally fluent I-told-you- sofellow,
I'd run through wringer until he was mellow,
And send him back home, c. o. D., to his ma,
If / were the Gear.
II 1 were the Gar,
I'd adjudge, with good reason,
All men who talk tariff as guilty OF treason,
And that cruel musical monster, the Nero,
Who whistled 'McGinty' should follow his
hero;
He should go down and down where the white
mermads are,
If were the Car.
S. w. FosS, in Yankee Blade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
A MYSTERY.
That sunless day no living shadow swept

That sunless day no living shadow swept
Across the hills, fleet shadow chasing light,
Twin of the sailing cloud; but mists, wool
white
Slow stealing mists, on those heaved shout
ders crept,
And wrought about the strong hills while they
slept
In witches wise, and rapt their forms from
sight.
Dreams were they-less than dream, the no
blest height
And farthest; and the chilly woodland wept
A sunless day and sad; yet all the while
Within the grave green twilight of the wood
Inscrutable, immutable, apart
Hearkening the brook. whose song she under
STOOD
The secret birch tree kept her silver smile,
Strange as the peace that CLEANS at sorrows
heart
Helen Gray Cone in Century
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
PlTH AND POINT.

-"Oh, mamma, won't YOU please give
me piece of that cake?" mo, my
dear; it will make you sick" II don't
want to eat it; only want to make
some sinkers for my fish-line. "-Golden
Days.
-Beggs-"I wonder why Mrs. Jaggs
won't let her husband employ female
typewriter OPERATOR" Foggs-"Don't
you know? She was his former type
writer operator herself" - Munsey's
Weekly.
-Doctor-"What Is your husbands
complaint ma'amP Is it chronic %
Wife-"Yes, sir. / have never known
him to be satisfied with a meal for the
last thirty-ive years "-Burlington
Free Press
-"Dear, do wish ! could think Of
some way to make the congregation
Keep their eyes on me during the SER
mon." Little Tommy-"Pa, you want
to put the clock right behind the pull
pit. The Epoch. :
Miss Debatante-ssWere you at the
Rjones' reception, yesterday, Mr.. Bjon-
son% Mr.. Bjonson stepped IN
for few minutes, but there was such a
lot of uninteresting girls there sQ0a
left. Were you there?"
Young Husband What! You are
twenty-five years old to-daYs Why yen
told me year ago, just before the we'd
ding. that you we're only twenty"
Young Wife (wearilyl-'I have aged
rapidly since married"
Clerk Tin ready made clothing-store)
-"Will you please give me an hour off
this afternoon, sir ?" Proprietor
What do you want to get off for ?"
Clerk-'I want to go and buy suit of
clothes. boston Courier. j.
-"Hullo, Stiggins! I hardly knew
you. When last saw you you were dy-
ing from sleeplessness, and here you
are. fat and happy. What has cured
you?" "Been appointed on the police
force. "-Philadelphia Times.
Aunt Maria-''Your husband seems
unusually amiable and pleasant now,
dear" Ethel (recently married.
SWELL, yes. You see, have stopped
going to cooking school, and We now
have cook. "-Harper's Bazaar.
First Citizen-sI hear the Cover n
ment has rejected one of the new cruis-
ers. What was the matter with it"
Second Citizen-'I presume it hadn't
enough speed to get away from for
eign hattle-ship"- N. Y. Weekly.
-Batchell Ito happy father)-'Con~
graduate you, old man. on the new ar
rival. Whom does he look like?"
Father remembering the visitors COM
ments)-"He looks like all his relatives
on both sides of the family."-Ex-
change.
Fond Mother-'T have called John
ME dozen times to come in and 60 on
an errand, but he won't come He is
out there playing with one of the neigh
boris children" Caller (meaningly)-
"He-won't Gomez" Fond Mother
mo. Those neighbor children ought
to have more. respect for my feelings
than to go on playing with him after he
has been called, and shall send them
home this instant"-N. Y. Weekly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
A NaruraI Inference.

Mr.. Slowpay Madam, am a repu-
table drummer, and you need have no
anxiety about this bill.
Landlady-You're drummer, and
suppose you take this house for drum.
Mr.. Slowpay-What do you mean2
Landlady-Well, you are trying to
beat it.-New York World.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
The Contribution Box in Maine.

A story comes to us about a wealthy
Maine lady who sat in Sabbath school
the other day when the contribution
boxes were passed. She pulled out her
pocketbook bullying with greenbacks
and looked carefully through it for a
copper or a nickel Unable to discover
one, she closed her purse, remarking,
Il haven't anything smaller than a ten
cent piece and guess l won't put in
anything today. Lewiston Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Huntington,s Odd Aversion

Coils p. Huntington will never ride
up in an elevator in which there is q
colored man. This does not arise from
antlpathy to the colored brother, but
Is solely a superstition.
Mr.. Huntington has been known to
wait for several elevators in the Mills
building sooner than go up in Car
which carried a colored passenger.
Where the elevator conductor is a col
ored man Mr.. Huntington prefers to
walk up several flights of stairs. New
York Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

Barber guarantee this Magic Hair
Restorer. 1t has never been known to
fail.
Jones-But, my dear sir, tried 1t and
1t had no effect whatever.
Barber-Then there was something
the matter with your head.-Texas
Siftings
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

-Traveler-''What splendid land
scape you have up here; the great noble
mountains. these peaceful lakes in the
valleys !" Mountain Maid-"Oh, just
let me have your glass for a second. {"
Traveler-'So you would like to admire
this beautiful prospect nearer?" Mount
ain Maid-'I only wanted to look down
as Tar as our pasture, to be sure the
COWS were feeding all right Fliegende
Batter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

First detective-''That pawnbroker
is guilty of buying stolen goods. Did
you notice him turn white when l
looked at the watches?' Second de.
tective-'Yes, but what of that?" First
detective-"Why, when you catch a man
paling it is fair to suppose that he is
| fence. THE Jester.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

In view of measures before the
United States Congress imposing duties
on French goods the press of Paris has
sounded an alarm. They assert that 1t
would prove advantageous for France to
rescind the law prohibiting the importa-
ton of American pork. The wine-grow--
ers fear the loss Of their valuable port
trade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

How music spreads among the masses
can be imagined from the estimate that
b Sheffield there are about 600 artisans
who play the violin.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

worked out, Mr.. Latham, l wouldn't
take twenty-five thousand dollars for
the patent"
Daniel rubbed his head. 81 s'p'ose
not, sir. You-you won't mind accept.
Ing a little money from me, Miss
Polly, for the time you couldn't work on
account of your hands? But I'm sorry
what are you doing?"
Polly was christening jar of pickles.
She turned around. cit is a cover "a.
ther fixed for me because it was such
hard work TO unsersw the others. You
press on this spring, you see, and it
slips right off. It's ever so much easier
than the old way. Why. what's the
matter?"
She was hardly prepared for the ex-
cltement with which Mr.. Latham
sprang to his fe "My land! my
landV' he exclaimed. ''Here you and
your father have been puttering along
for months, not knowing from one dav
to another where the next meal was to
come from, and right here using an in
vention worth whole fortune in itself.
Heavens and earth! want there anv
body to tell you about it?"
Mr. Spriggs laid down the wrench he
had been using. "Do you mean the can
Govern" he asked, calmly. ST did think
OF it, but it wouldn't be good for any
thing you wanted to keep air tight.
You"
"Air tight?" interrupted the me-
chanic "Air tight? And do you mean
to say man who's got such a taste for
inventing machines with one thousand
nve hundred parts to them didn't know
enough to put rubber. around and
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-07
PERSONAL ITEMS.
What People are Doing In and
Out of Roanoke.

Messrs: Niningcr, Bandy & Co, sold
yesterday, for Sl6,5OO lot on tho rail-
road between Commerce and Park street,
known rs the Hambric property.
Chief of Police Morris is confined to
is acting as chief during his sickness.
j. Il. Coburn, the able representative
of the Vulcan Road Machine Works
Company, of Kenneth Square. Pa, is in
the city. lie is stopping with his friend,
Il. a. Swing, of $40 First street s. 4.
Il. w. Walthall, of the Lynchburg Ad-
vance made flying trip to the city
yesterday.
j. O. Harris, formerly of the City
Hotel, will shortly open to the public IA
line restaurant ut Is Jefferson street.
1t was III. j. Morris, instead of DR.. St
John. who had the runaway on election
afternoon.
Mr.. William GoodyKoontz. u repre-
sentative citizen of Floyd county, is in
Roanoke prospecting.
Robert u. Manly, of Dalton. Ga:
Thomas +. Franlllyn. of the Lynchburg
News; W. II. E1iason, of Washington.
d. C., and w. V. Marker and wife, OF
Tyrone, Ind, are among those registered
at the Hotel Continental.
q. X. Collins, of the Roanoke and
Southern railroad, of lIillsboro. n. G e,
registered ut the Commercial Club YES
tcrday
List of fortunate drawers in the &C.
operative Land Co.: Geo. jackson. Il. O.
Mays, :. 4. Wctzlcr, \. l.. Powell. |.
Schwallenbcrg, bernard Adams.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-07
DUBLIC SALE OF STOCK.

The following named subscribers to
the capital stock of the Crystal Spring
Land Company, having failed 10 pay the
first and second call on the said stock.
as required by the president and board
of directors of said Company, in pursu-
ancc Of resolution of the board OF di-
rectors of said Company, the stock of
said delinquent subscribers in said Com
pany will, on WEDNESDAY, tho 10Th
day OF November, 1890, at 1900 o'clock
m, in front of the Courthouse, in the
city OF Roanoke, Va, be sold at puolic
auction for cash
Said calls were each for 10 per cent. of
the amount subscribed. and were pa va
bic on or before the Goth day Of March,
1890 and the Goth day of July, 1890, re-
spcctivcly.