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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
Use of Foreign Titles.

The Intelligent foreigner is highly
amused at the ludicrous custom adopted
by some of our leading" London papers
of giving the German title ''Herr" indis-
criminately to Teutonic, Slavonic and
even non-Aryan gentlemen. One finds
it natural that the une0ucated masses do
not know the difference between a
'Roossian" and ''Proossian;' but when
our leading lights fall into the same
error it is difficult not to smile at their
ignorance. Nobody will find fault with
any of our ''dailies'' for not securing the
services of a Mezzofanti, but on the
other hand, they should try to hide their
want of knowledge, and not pose as
learned In matters of which they are
hopelessly ignorant. "Herr Tisza" or
'sHerr Ristich" looks exceedingly dron
in English print; "Mons. Dragumis'' per-
haps less so. The rule which the papers
seem to wish to follow is to give every
gentleman his title. Well and good.
But in that case they should write, if
they wish to be polite, elisa ur, )" ''Pan
Ristich,' ''Kyrios Dragumis," etc., OF
drop the title altogether if they do not
know it.-Notes and Queries.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
Some Peculiar Crabs.

In Bermuda the soldier crab carries
heavy shells up the hills to puzzle flu
ture biologists. Another species
climbs the mangrove trees A shore
crab in the Cape Verde islands may
"be seen running along like piece of
paper blown by strong wind" In
Ascension islands there are crabs
which 'climb to the top of Green
mountain, and the larger ones steal
the young rabbits from their holes and
devour them" The famous robber
crab of the Philippines, that cracks
and eats cocoanuts, is itself routed out
of its hole and Toasted ON by the wild
swine.-Edinburgh Review.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
A Fortune After He Was 65.

1t is singular that just as Saratoga
loses the Vanderbilts she gains Gould.
'The old commodore, as the elder Van
derbilt is always called, and civilian
H. as the late president of the New
appeared at Saratoga as regularly as the
season came round. Their heirs have
cut the springs and spend the summer at
Newport and other resorts 1.-THE old
commodore" was great man to sit on
the veranda and talk with anybody and
everybody. An old timer says he once
sat in group which included ''the old
commodore" and William III. Seward,
who so narrowly missed the presidency
in 1860. They were talking about money
making.
Commodore, asked Mr.. Seward,
"you are not always successful in your
business plans, are you?'
'No," replied Mr.. Vanderbilt, with
extreme frankness. Sometimes / lose
$4,000 or $4,000 or 100000, but l
generally come out leetle ahead at the
end of the year."
Another veteran of thirty Saratoga
seasons tells this: II have often heard
Vanderbilt say that he made his great
fortune after he reached the age of IS.
He had only SIS, 900, 900 or $4,000, 900
when he was IS. His first big hit was
the purchase of the Harlem road. That
doubled his fortune. Then he bought
the Hudson River and Central, and
doubled another. And finally he took in
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
and his western property, and doubled
his estate the third time. Thus, when
he was at the age when most men are
thinking of making their wills, his estate
jumped from $15, 600, 900 to $50, 900, 900
by the purchase of the Harlem, from
$50, 600, 900 to 100000 by the pur-
chase of the Hudson River, and from
$50, 900, 900 to $3.50, 100000 by the pur-
chase of the Lake Shore. That is the
whole secret of the building up of the
wonderful Vanderbilt fortune. But the
heirs have shown better quality of hold
ing on to the money than was expected.
There isn't one of the younger Wander
bilts who lives up to his income. They
have more than the amounts left them. T"
-Globe-Democrat.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24

~ DEE SS-CU At SIGHT OF MY PISTOL.
he was soon secured ana taken to JAIL
The woman was brought face to face
with him, and he covered before her.
The lock of hair found in the dead
woman's hand matched his own exactly:
and, finally, confession was wrung from
him.
He had loved the woman, but she had
repulsed him. He soon found that she
loved another, and on the evening be-
fore the murder he had met her. by 90
cIdent, and walked with her - ~,
place where her body was subsequently
found. In fit of jealous rage he had
choked her to death. though he did not
mean to kill her.
The sound of wagon approaching
had frightened him so that he fed, leav-
ing the body where it was found next
morning.
believe the captain is serving time
in the penitentiary now.
1t was the first detective work I had
ever done, and I hope it will be the last.
/ was not working for the reward, but
the mayor thought l deserved it, and
was five hundred dollars better off in
bank when the case was concluded and
1 left Brounfield.- L. Stanton, in
Atlanta Constitution.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
The Locusts in AIgiers.

This year the sirocco, that terrible hot
wave of the desert, swept over Agiers
with unusual fierceness, charged with
the sand of the great Sahara, and with
millions and millions of locusts. In a
few days the whole country was covered
with these pests. Their ravages are ter
rible. The cattle, of which the colony
contained sixteen millions, are dying for
want of nourishment, and famine is
threatening the European colonists. The
government employs thousands of ma
tives and all the available troops in sys-
tematic effort to destroy the voracious
little insects. Philadelphia Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
In EternalsummervilIe.

Hotel Waiter Gin southern California)-Or-
acknowledgement dstewedfriedbakeda
Guest (desperately)-I don't want 'em in
any shape. I want meat and potatoes.
"MeatF
eyes, meat"
sPotatoesT
"Yes, potatoes"
Waiter Ito proprietor few moments later
Send for the police; crazy man in the
dining room.-Omaha World.
Water Thicker Than Blood ms Time.
Stranger at Table Ito Mrs. Washington
Boomer)-I understand the Potomac river
water is very bad.
Mrs. b. hadn't noticed it
Stranger-Why, heard it was exceedingly
thick and muddy
Mrs. B. Ito servant)-Mary, bring In q
pitcher of water.
Mary from the Htchen)-Yes, mann.
Where's the shovel2- Washinoton Critic.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
UNEXPECTEDLY Small.

Two little boys of my acquaintance,
writes correspondent of The Compan-
ion, had been invited out to tea at the
house of third little boy, and their
mother had told them to take but one
cooky each if there were cookies for
tea.
Sure enough plate of fancy cakes
was passed at the table.
Freddy, the older boy, looked at the
diminutive "baby cakes moment
and then took two, saying as he did
so to his little brother of four years:
"You may take two, Willie; I'm
sure mamma had no idea they would
be so very small. youths Compan-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24

der great excitement, they reported the
matter to the authorities.
All Brounfeld was excited over the
terrible news. Never in the history OF
the town had such a tragedy occurred.
The woman was we'll known in the COM
munity as a young widow whose nus
band had led a somewhat reckless life,
but who had left her we'll provided for
at his death. which occurred after two
years of welded life.
AS was most natural, with the added
attraction Of snug fortune the pretty
young widow was quite popular, and it
was rumored that she had half dozen
.suitors.
But this is in the nature of digres-
sion. have introduced you to the
woman-dead. and the principal object
of this story is to unravel for the reader
the mystery of her death.
The mayor the five councilmen, the
town marshal, and perhaps fifty citizens
of Brounield, after they had heard the
story of the two laborers, followed them
to the spot where the body lay.
1t was fitting spot for murder. The
sandy road;,' arched by meeting trees
that shut the Sunlight out, led abruptly
to a covered bridge which spanned a
bleak and sluggish stream; and just
fifty yards from the water, in a clump
OF bushes by the roadside, the body lay.
Why did the muir lerer leave it there?
was the: question we involuntarily
asked ourselves, as the white face and
staring eyes met our gaze. Why did he
not seek to conceal his crime by throw
ing the body in the river?
The woman had been strangled; the
print of human fingers was visible on
her white throat The fingers of the
right hand were closed tightly until
the blue nails seemed to pierce the
bloodless palms. Evidently she had
not died without a struggle.
''Look!": cried one of the men, point
ing to the closed hand, and we saw fol-
the first time that it held little tuft
of coarse, black hair.
This may be clue to the murderer,
said the mayor. Justice Brown. you
will hold the inquest. Had we not bet
ter remove the body at once to Broun
.ield?' ;.
Inc 1uStlce aSSeHCeu, anu we lol Inoo
little funeral procession, and bore the
dead woman to the town
The two laborers who had discovered
the body were held as witnesses, bu'
the inquest developed nothing, excep
that the woman was fond of taking long
walks In the afternoon, and that on the
evening preceding her death she hat
been seen leaving her house by col
Grad woman. who testified that she SOW
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
The Pane of the Dentists.

Neuralgia and assesses are the bane
of the dentists. Patients come to them
with their faces swollen to twice their
natural size and as sensitive to the touch
as a equity foot, and win insist upon
having the tooth taken ont at once. They
are in misery and must have relief. In
vain the dentist assures them Of the i'm
possibility of an operation. They insist
and he protests. He dare not suggest
the idea of leaving the extra amount OF
cheek in the Office with him for week
or until it subsidies, and SO he probably
attempts lancing operation that may
be successful or otherwise, as the case
may be, but the patient is appeased. and
that is the chief result to be desired
Chicago Herald.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
TITS BETTER so.

We stood together you and I,
And gazed across the sun kissed sec
The lightest wave that rippled by,
The highest cloudlet in the sky,
Had not less thought or care than We
That summer day so long ago
We stood beside the sun kissed sea.
stood beside the sea today,
The weary, restless, surging sea.
The clouds were drifting dark and gray,
Life's light and hope had gone their way,
And left its cares and tears for me-
Lonely and sad / stood today
Beside the restless, surging sea-
And yet, dear heart, sometimes feel
would not change it if could
The woe must mingle with the veal,
The heart that knows not sorrows seal
Has never found the highest good
It's but part of life'sgreat plan,
Would we then changeit if we could!
May f. Carman. in New York Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
Not a Bad Mistake.

The editor wrote it: while this
cold weather lasts be mindful of others
poorer than yourself. Turn not away
in silence from the appeal for charity.
Give the applicant something, if only
some kindly word" The intelligent
compositor made the last clause "if
only some kindling wood" and he
builded better than he knew.-New
Vork Ohserver
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
IN HIS SHIRT SLEEVES.
My First and Only Piece of De-
tective Work.

BE A y T IFUL
woman foun d
dead in the gray
morning on the
outskirts of the
town. Two Las
borers going TO
their work in
the woods had
discovered t h 9
body, and in
their fright had
thrown t b 9 i r
axes down and
beat a hasty re-
treat to the viii
lage, where, I'M
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24

"And did you grow up with the coun-
try?" was asked of young man who
had taken Greeley's advice and lived to
repent
mo" was the reply; ''but I came
near getting planted"-Puck
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
x,e workingman,. Luck"

English shoemakers always cut in
the bench leather for luck. Swedish
carpenters mark cross on their tools
for the same purpose, and many painters
mark a cross and triangle on high scat
folding before they feel comfortable upon
it.-New York Graphic.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24

-Friend-''You have only been mar
ried two weeks and you are fighting al
ready, so hear" Mrs. Young-"Yes,
LIES too short to waste any time.
ought to have tackled him two weeks
ago."-Texas Siftings
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-24
The Wonders of Baseball.

There must be something wonderful
about a game that can bring together day
after day throughout the summer months
of every year from 1000 to $4,000 peo-
pie and hold them despite dust, heat and
an atmosphere strong of tobacco smoke
for two or three hours. Nine great big
men are placed at stated distances from
each other over five acres of ground. A
tenth man takes a. bat, and as the ball Is
pitched to him he tries to strike it out
into the field. If he succeeds, he tries to
run around block at the four corners of
which an enemy is placed. If he gets
all the way around without being inter-
cepted by the ball in the hands of his op-
ponent, he scores a run. This is all there
is to it. But before the ball is hit and
before the run is completed there are SO
many thrilling dangers to escape, so
many pursuers and intercepters to elude,
so many opportunities for the exhibition
of strength, courage, ingenuity, audacity
and skill on the part of both struggling
sides, that no one to whom these qualities
appeal can fail to enjoy the contest.
To see a herculean figure suddenly go
into momentary CONFUSION, to see the
ball he has held in his hand dart through
the air with force enough to break an
ox's skull, to see the batter swing his
club and hit the missile squarely, which
means that a single point of a sphere has
met single point of circle, to see it
plunge into the air or whiz across the
field, to see the striker tear along to his
first objective point as if chased by the
furies, to see the ball descend plumb into
the extended palm of an alert fielder or tc
see its course cut short by the daring
hand of shortstop who thereupon hurls
it over to the point whittier the striker is
aiming so that even his flying feet arr
outstripped in the race-this is spectacle
over which even wooden man should be
ashamed not to enthuse.-New Yorl
Tribune.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
From Wheatley.
June 9, 1890.

Regular Correspondence
Health is generally good in this
section of the county.
j. w. Brown was run over by a
tan-bark wagon a few days since.
While the wound is very painful,
it is nothing serious.
We have had two weeks of very
dry yweather. Crops look very well,
and farmers are moving promptly.
The oat crop is a failure.
The post-office at Wheatley has
changed hands no less than six
times since January. j. II. Ma.
theny waspostmaster this morning
An occasional hint of a contem,
plated marriage is whispered into
our listening ear, but from an un
known cause they fail to material
ize.
Quite a curiosity in the nature
of a monstrosity has been on exhi
bition at this place this week. On,
morning recently William Name,
went to his cow-lot expecting t,
see a young calf, but to his sur
prise what should have been a cal
he found to be a well-formed dos
with long tail, and ears laying dow
lover its nose. It was dead whe-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
From MatIook's Chapel.

Regular Correspondence
E. L. Woods went to Camden
Saturday,
Miss Mollie Bird, who was re-
ported sick last week, is able to be
out again.
Rev. Abe. Gossett delivered an
excellent sermon at Mt. Zion last
Sunday evening.
Next Sunday is the day set to
observe sacramental services, fol
lowed in the evening with a foot
washing.
Theo. Weatherly accompanied by
his sister, Miss Mollie Weatherly,
visited at Bakersville Friday, re-
turning Sunday.
Arrangements were made last
Sunday and music books have been
ordered for the class in vocal mu.
sic. Singing Sunday afternoon al
2 o'clock.
A. j. Fry and sister, Miss Ada
Fry, returned home Sunday from
Mckenzie. A certain young maj
has been unusually cheerful since
Miss Ada is at home again, anC
her return will enliven and inspir
our young people for season o
joyous gayety and pleasure.
Again the farmer is wearing
long face, on account of the DIR,
weather this time, but a good rail
now would make the boys put o.
their four-mile whistle while en-
gagged in keeping up in their crops
There has not been enough raj
since my last report to lay the dus
in the fields.
June 9, 1890.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
From Areadne.

Regular Correspondence
Several from this place attended
childrens' day at Flat Woods Sun
day.
Jasper Cole says he will chal-
lenge this end of the county for
fine corn.
Miss Matte Lowry, of Paris, is
visiting the family Of H. Rushing,
this place.
Mrs. Louisa Matheny leaves in a
short time for her home at East
Prairie, Mo.
Farmers have about finished
planting, and the crops are in a
prosperous condition.
Mrs. Mary Mckenzie, of Big
Sandy, was the guest of H. r.
Pierce and family last Sunday.
A. L. Hassell, better known as
"Dock," has developed a decided
fondness for small fruit, such as
Cherries and cherries"
June 7, 1890.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
NO. 5.

found by Mr.. Nance, and has at
tracted no little curiosity here.
While there are various rumors
ahoat over the county, no one has
announced for che legislature so
far. We would ike to hear from
the candidates, if there are any.
The name of Col. w. p. Morris has
been suggested by some Of our best
Democrats, but as he has already
had the honor and has plenty of
this worlds goods, I do not know
whether he would accept or not.
We have been fortunate in having
agoodrepresentative in the Fiftieth
and Fifty-First Congress, and can
afford to let well enough alone as
to the Congressman. Let us have
John M. Taylor for governor, elect
the straight county ticket, and Gro
yer Cleveland for president in 1892.
June 9, 1890.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
Good Men in Politics.
Selceted.l

Selcetedl
The churches in this country are
in danger of playing the role of an
tagonist to the general government
while they profess loyalty. Many
ministers and not a few prominent
laymen seem to have lost all re-
spectfor our presentpolitical meth
ods. They claim that it is sacri-
fee OF ones good name to enter po-
litical life; that NO man can become
a legislator, use political machin-
cry, represent his fellow citizens in
the National Congress, and breathe
the air of Washington political life
without being contaminated ,soiled,
and spoiled for amy work of moral
reform or christian activity there
after. It is an admission that pol
ities is so intensely demoraliz-
ing that the average christian char
acter now building in the church
can not stand up against it. The
logic teaches us that good men
keep out Of politics Shave nothing
to do with it. We should hand
our Legislation over to men of weak
consciences and damaged character
Besides it is an insinuation that
men in our public service are of 6
doubtful reputation. 1t is a dan.
gerous tendency when our best
people are at variance with oul
Legislators; when christian men il
all political organizations prefer ,
prayer meeting always to a caucus
when they do not assert themselvet
in politics but leave party manage
ment to men who adopt method
which do violence to good con
science. How shall we seeur
wholesome laws if good men CT,
down the character Of their law
makers and stand at the doOr-wa
: of political parties to counsel me-
Z of character to keep ont ofpolitics
| How shall the public service be in
proved? Where is there any rool
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13

to hope for better order of things?
n y n No man is too good for
the public service, but this is just
what the christian church does not
seem to believe, and that, too, while
the pulpits, semi-occasionally, and
especially on thanksgiving days,
thunder against the evils of the
Government. To have justice and
equity In our laws, we must have
Lawmakers who do Justly and love
mepcv ~
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
From Texas.
Special Correspondent !

Special Correspondent
| noticed letter in your paper
few weeks ago written at Dallas,
Tex, by my young and enterpris-
ing friend, James j. Wyly. Twill
not contradict his statement in re-
gard to high prices in Dallas, but
| will say that nearly every branch
of merchandise is cheaper here than
in Tennessee. [ travel through
the smaller towns, often remaining
from four days to two weeks in
place, and [ know that | can buy
goods here cheaper than in Cam
den. You can buy goods a great
deal cheaper in the smaller towns
than you can in Dallas, Galveston,
and other larger places. | was in
San Antonio during the exposition
last fall, and | bought a couple
of very nice shirts, paying $3.50
for them. Three weeks ago [ was
in Giddings, town of about $500
inhabitants, and could have pur-
chased the same piece of goods at
$l35. | mention this as an in
stance of the difference of prices
in the larger and smaller towns.
Hearne is situated in the center
of the finest farms in Texas. The
entire country is owned by not
more than a dozen men. They en-
ploy contract labor. There is one
farm 4 miles from this place that
contains 5000 acres of cotton and
corn It is owned by Mr.. Wat
son, of st. Louis, who has 250 con-
victs and a great many negroes
employed, and it is a grand sight
to see them at work.
Texas is indeed a cosmopolitan
State. Germans, Poles, Mexicans,
Bohemians, Italians, Negroes, and
"poor white Americans are here
struggling in bewildering confu-
sion for the almighty dollar, and
some of them are doing we'll
There are great many things
. hard to find here, but you can find
anything in the entire country
easier than Prohibitionists or a
Republican, while Democrats are
thicker here than molasses in win
ter time.
In this little town of more than
1,8O0people there are nine saloons,
= ranged as follows: First, a saloon
then dry goods establishment, a
law Office, saloon, church, saloon
!, grocery house, saloon, and SO Oh
around the entire square, and there
: are hundreds of towns in Texas
laid out in similar style, but W.
! can not censure the people, for yor
know Texas has a national reputa
- ton for its enormous amount O
!; snakes, principally "black racers.
70 | am, respectfully,
G. II.
20 Hearne, Tex, June 4, 1890.
+ The passage of the silver bill i
lie III
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13
A Farmers Taxes.

Chicago Herald.l
Adolph Oehme, an intelligent
farmer at Brainard, Nebr., has
figured up how much tariff taxes
have cost him IN a year. He has
done more or. less trading at the
village stores, and, of course, has
paid protection prices for every
thing he had to buy The follow
ing rs his account for the twelve
months:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-06-13

THE census taRer is abroad in the
land Trot out your secrets Smile
and take your medicine. Every
body's health will be asked about.
Chronic troubles and secret dis
eases Will have to be told. The
farmer will have to- tell of the mort
gage on his farm. The doctor Will
be called on to- tell the secrets Of
his patients. The lawyer will be
asked about his clients. And, the
worst Of all, the old maids Will have
to disclose their age. Uncle Sam
will find out everything about you,
and there is no way Of escape
Just shut your eyes, open youl
mouth, and take your medicine
and don't mind the nauseous dose
if it does taste bad.