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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
A Drive Through Salt Lake City.
utah Letter.


Salt Lake City is a deep disappoint-
ment. 1t is so like any other clean,
well shaded, well watered, well gov
erned village. One expects to see 'the
abomination of desolation stalking
through the streets" Instead thereof
you look earnestly into the faces of the
women and find them just like any other
women of low degree. They are stand
ing on their door-sills, with laughing
babies in their arms; they are talking
with each other gayly on the sidewalks;
they are walking by the side of men;
they are carrying burdens or seeking
pleasure, just as other women do-ap-
parently." On the Saturday evening Of
our arrival the city was like village
festival; brass bands blaring here and
there; marketing by the poorer kind of
folk was going on vigorously; gayly
dressed girls walking twos and t6rees
together; orderly looking young men
cycling them with no disreSpect, waiting
for the chosen lassie to join, that they
might re dice together.
On Sunday We were particularly
strUck with the Sabbath atmosphere.
Quiet reigned; all the shops were closed;
no bars, no gambling saloons stared us
in the face as in the so-called Christian
villages we had just left behind us.
Well-dressed men and women were
vending their way to places of worship
Everything was bien regle. Between
church-Gentile church-and tabernacle
time we were driven to high point
whence we would command view of
the city and its surroundings 1t is
compact, but not crowded. Each house
has its enclosure of fruit and shade
trees, so thet as you look down on the
city from above it looks like huge
garden. 1t had no struggling SUBURBS
or dilapidated poverty stricken houses
Our loquacious driver took great delight
in pointing out the houses of the polyga-
nous magnates. Evidently he belonged
to the anti plurality party, who heartily
hate ehe polygamists. AS We looked
down from the heights above upon the
well-ordered village one could not but
think, if he could Danish from his mind
the undercurrent and consciousness of
this great wrong, of the vile dissertation
of womanhood, it would be one of the
most delightful spots in the world.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
HURT HIS DIGNITY:
How Jones Had the Eternal Fitness of
Things Pointed Out to Him.

How Jones Had the Eternal Fitness OF
Things Pointed Out to Him.
"Say!' he called as he overlook an
acquaintance on Woodward avenue
crosswalk, ''can you spare me five
minutes?"
Certainly, sir. What is it?"
you've got taste in such things, and
I haven't. I want to get a diamond
ring for my wife, and wish you'd come
over and help me select it."
''Ah, yes. Let's see! You owe the
grocer small bill?"
''Y-yes, sir, but"
Sand the butcher?"
swell, you know, 7"
'And your coal is not paid for YETI"
eyes. but"
Sand there is probably balance due
on your overcoat. and you may not have
paid your ice bill for the summer"
''Sir! l think I know"
''You think you know your business.
Just so. So does your hired girl. She's
going to sue you for two months back
wages. and I notice your two boys look
very shabby on the street Want
ring, worth about $500, suppose? Come
on"
"You go to Halifax!' was the indig-
nant exclamation.
''Oh, certainly! Didn't want to hurt
your feelings, but thought you ought to
see the eternal fitness of things, you
know. Going? Well, good bye!"-De-
troit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
The Man Who Marries Money.

The man who seeks wife for the pur-
pose of securing the means of living
without working does not merit the re-
spect of the meanest person on earth.
His intentions are so manifest that thew
deceive no one. He plans his attack
with the ingenuity of a General. His is
an aggressive courtship, and hypocrit-
ical one as we'll. He can not afford to
let the flame flicker for a moment. He
must act the role of deception contin-
ually. If there should ever come the
moment when a feeling of self-inde-
pendence and self-respect enters the
young woman's mind, his hopes in that
instant may be shattered beyond re-
demption. There is the necessity OF
eveI-present caution and constant re.
course to hvpocritY. Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
A Growing Industry.
lLiYerpOOI Colrierl


The industry of cat-skin collecting as
all industry is of very recent growth. If
within SO short space of time the casual
destruction for their hides of few stray
cats has assumed the respectable dimen-
sions of solid traffic estimated IN round
numbers as hundreds of thousands of
skins, what will it be a decade hence?
About the superiority of cats skins, in
one way or another, over those of rat,
rabbit or squirrel, there is no question.
The cost OF production, too, cannot be
called excessive, seeing that each skin is
stolen, and the whole original outlay is
one stout stick for dispatcbing puss and
a sack to carry her home in, while the
total working expenses are the wear and
tear of shoe leather in tramping the
streets for prey, and a very casual 50
penalty for such as are detected in the
act. How under such combination of
favoring circumstances can an industry
doanything but thrive2
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
LINCOLN'S WHISPERS.
The President Ceased to Shave to Gratifv
Very Young Lady.

Inc PRESIDENT Ceased to Shave to Crafty
very Young Lady.
President Lincoln's kind heart ALWAYS
responded to a child's advances. He
INDUCED his own children, saying: at
is my pleasure that my children are
Tree and happy. and unrestrained by
parental tyranny. Iave is the chain
whereby to bind child to it's parents. %
Before his election in 1860 little girl
OF eleven years, seeing his lithograph
portrait, thought his appearance would
be improved should he wear whiskers.
She uttered her childish thought in a
letter to Mr.. Lincoln, and in a few DAYS
received friendly answer, in which he
asked:
LAS to the whiskers. as I have never
worn any, do you not think that peo-
pie would call it a piece of silly affecta-
ton were to begin wearing them
now?'
During his journey to Washington,
after his election to the Presidency. the
train stopped at Westfeld, Chautauqua
County, at which place the little girl
resided.
AAs'S +" wi OoEOdOcuG LII UQIS place,
SAID Mr.. Lincoln, "a little girl whose
name is Grace Bedell, and / would like
to see her."
She was brought to the station. He
stepped from the cars, extended his
hand and said: You see | have let
those whiskers grow for you, Grace
Then kissing her, he babe her good bye.
When he stood up at the Capitol to
deliver his inaugural address friends
were surprised to see that the President
was raising crop of whiskers. Vexed
at his spelling face which expressed
power and pathos by wearing coarse.
still, ungrlceful beard of the BACKING
brush variety, they made inquiries. and
learned that he had ceased to shave to
gratify a very young lady Youths
Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
EXPLORER STANLEY.
His Latest Achievement Even Grandel
Than His First Successes.

His Latest Achievement Even Grander
Than His First Successes.
In the history of exploration and ad-
venture few things are more memorable
than the dispatch lately received from
Stanley, announcing that he and Emin
journey to the east coast of Africa. 1t
is almost quarter of century since,
to the amazement and admiration of the
world, man previously unknown I'M
dertook to find Livingstone, and found
him. Of the career thus begun it was a
fitting crown that Stanley should deter
mine to rescue Emin, and should tri-
umphantly fulfill his purpose.
We had learned from former dis
patches that when Stanley, after accom-
plishing the long and difficult ascent of
the Congo and one of it's main aff1uentS,
first encountered Emin Pasha, the lat
ter was unwilling to forsake the equa-
torial province which his selfdevotion
had carved out of the heart of Africa
Although cut off from Europe by
the capture of Khartoum, Emin Pasha
continued faithfully to humanize and
civilize the people committed to his
care, and he had up to that time sue
ceeded in protecting them from Mahdist
aggression. Should he abandon them,
he knew that they would speedily re-
lapse into savagery and be anew sub
jected to slave-hunting devastation. He
would stay at his post, therefore-so he
Il
for him to do.
1t is fortunate that Stanley did not
take the man, whom he had come to
rescue, at his word. Had he done so,
and returned to Europe by way of the
Congo, we now know that Emin must
have shared the fate of Gordon. He re-
traced his steps, however, only as far as
the place where he had left large de-
posit of arms and ammunition with his
rear guard. Once possessed of these re-
sources, Stanley FASTENED back to the
last surviving representative of the
Khedive's authority in Central Africa,
but found that in his absence Emin had
been made a prisoner by some of
his own men, and that the ferociOus
NdHuioOo "OIO ouF"hO1HS up Gn0 N1le
From the meager news thus far forth
coming, we know not what measures
were taken for the liberation and es-
cape of the heroic Governor. But the
measures must have been effectual; Mr.
Herbert Ward, who was for several
years SANKEY'S companion in Africa,
has no doubt of the correctness of the
information.
Both rescuer and rescued deserve TIE
homage OF the world. The high aim of
Emin's self-cOnsecrating labors and the
brilliant gallantry of Stanley's achieve
ment will shine forth on the dark back
ground to which. it is too probable. the
heart of Africa is now condemned for
many years.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
A RECEIPT FOR SLEEP.
Bertha Scranton POOL

bertha Scranton Pooll
Take of peoples, handful
To brush the lid, down soft;
A night moth, dressed in shaded grays
To hover just aloft,
And moon to look in at the window,
Not round and staring, 0 no!
But yelled like fine reserve in mists,
And only silver bow.
Then mix of dreams dozen,
Changing, like purple dyes,
Full of purpling, dripping water,
And battle the tired eyes.
Charles Lamb say: "Imagine high gate
Where sheep follow, one by one;"
Or, rhyme may be chanted backward
I've heard that it could be done.
This with little Browning,
Or Shakespeare sprinkled fine,
A thought of Kaats-like thistle down
A scent of Tuscan wine.
Or, if the case should be obstinate,
As last resort, escaew
All methods, and try to keep awake,
And you'll sleep the whole night through
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
Louis Napoleon's Bravery.
George Augustus Sala.

Some people say that Louis Napoleon
was Lot brave. | say that he was one
of the most phlegmatic and bravest of
men. He rode through the streets of
Paris fully ten horse; lengths ahead of
his staff, when at every window there
might have been an assassin, with the
same imperturbable countenance and the
same expression of being only half
awake that had first noticed i saw
him when, a young man, in the zenith
of his power, and again after his down
fall, but always there was the same
semi -somnambulent-le thargic express
son.
Professor David Swing: The simple
truth is, wages must be increased before
We can have d cent kind of civillza-
tion Man cannot live well if he lives
BY the day in the literal senSs.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28

Bess went to church one sultry day,
She kept awake, Pm glad to say,
Till "fourthly" started on its way.
The moments into hours grew;
dear! o dear! what should she do?
Unseen, she glded from the pew,
And up the aisle demurely went,
On some absorbing mission bent,
Her eyes filled with look intent.
She stopped and said in plaintive tone,
With hand uplifted toward the dome:
"Please, preacher man, can go home?
The treble voice, bell like in sound,
Disturbed sermon most profound;
A litter swelled as it went round.
A smile the pastors face O'erspread-
He paused and bent his stately head:
ayes, little DEAR" he gently said.
christian Advocate.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
Two Celebrated Canadians,

The little Canadian city of Kingston,
on Lake Ontario, has given the world
two leading evolutionists of our time,
Grant Allen and George j. Romanes,
both now living in England. Grant AL
lens father, a retired clergyman of the
Episcopal church, still resides in Kings
ton. Although his son has made botany
his principal theme, psychology is the
subject on which he hopes to write his
most valuable work. Mr.. Romanes' re-
cent Origin of Human Faculty. is per-
haps the weightiest contri Tuition to the
development theory which has appeared
since Herbert Spencer laid down the
pen. Curiously enough, while two of
the foremost evolutionists of the day
are Canadians, one of the chief critics
of their doctrine is also Canadian.
Sir William Dawson, of Montreal, is
generally regarded by orthodox church
men as the successor of Agassiz in
championing the Mosaic account of Gre.
ation.-N. Y. Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28
The Reason Why of Advertising.
bridgeport Post.l

My son, there's nothing on earth so
mysteriously funny as newspaper adj
vertlsement. The prime, first, last aud
all the time, object of an advertisement
is to draw custom. 1t is not, was not.
and never will be designed for any other
human purpose. So the merchant waits
till the busy season comes, and his store
is so full OF custom he can't get his hat
Off, and then he ruShes to the news
papers and puts in his advertisement.
When the dull season gets along, and
there is no trade, and he wants to sell
goods so bad he can't pay his rent he
takes out his advertisement. That is,
some Of them do, but occasionally a
level headed merchant puts in a bigger
one and scoops all the business, while
his neighbors are max ng mortgages to
pay the gas-bill.
There are times when you couldn't
stop people from buying everything in
the store if you planted a cannon be-
hind the door, and that's the time the
advertisement is sent out on it's holy
mission. 1t makes light work for the
advertisement, for chalk sign on the
sidewalk could do all that was needed
Ni1N httFO eb IttAL IlOliOtly OLA udl D Ill GL0
week, but who wants to favor an adver-
ii ement. They are built to do hard
work, and should be sent out in the
dull days when a customer has to be
Knocked down with hard facts, and
kicked insenSible with bankrupt reduc-
lions and dragged in with irres stible
slaughter of prices before he will spend
cent.
That's the aim and end of an adver-
tisement, my son, and if you ever open
a store don't try to get them to come
when they are already sticking out of
the windows, but give them your adver-
tlsement right between the eyes in the
dull season, and you will wax rich and
own a fast horse, and perhaps be able
to smoke good cigar once or twice a.
year. Write this down where you'll fall
over it every day. The time to draw
business is when you want business, and
not when you have more business than
You can attend to already.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28

Lamp wicks give better light
when cut squarely across. They should
not be picked of as some advocate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-15
REFORM AT CASTLE GARDEN.

Solicitor IIepburn'S exhaustive report to the
Secretary of the Treasury, urging that the
work now performed by, or, at least, COM
mitted to the charge of, the NcwYork Board
of Emigration Commissioners. shall he here
after confded to Federal officers, confirms a
Judgment long since reached by everybody
familiar with the duties at Castle Garden
Nothing is more illogical than that the landing
of immigrants destined to all points III the
country should be made under state super
vision simply because the port they land at
is State soil That consideration would as well
require that the landing of merchandise should
be also watched over by officials commissioned
at Albany. Many Federal interests must be
cared for on State soil, and certainly nothing
is more a Federal interest and less an interest
of the State than the disposition OF immigrants
The system now in operation has been fruit
ful of scandal and trouble 1t has generated
much political wrangine, and. might be
expected has developed loose and unSatiS-
factory. if not actually bad. administration, be
cause the state which had control over it had
no intimate interest in il. and because the
Treasury Department. which did have the in
innate interest lacked the necessary authority.
Mr.. Hepburn has investigated all these dill
culics and scandals. and has traced them 10
their proper source. He shows that the state
is reapine all the profits of the immigration
business and forcing all its expenses upon the
NatoAal Treasury. He shows the bad work
ing Of all thcvarlous contract systems by which
immigrants are 50 Sorcly prosecuted. and cX-
poses the want OF discipline over their en-
poycS which has been prominent "A feature
of the administration of Castle Garden affairs
by the Emigration Commissioners. The con
cluSi0n he reaches that the Secretary should
cancel ali existing arrangements with the Com
msSoners and should supply Federal agents,
under Federal regulation, and directed 10y the
Department itself. 10 perform the work in
which the Federal Government is concerned. is
a conclusion TO which every one will be brought
who reads thi, exhaustive report
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-15
AmusemenI5.
The Old Homestead.


ACADEMY-s:i5-The Old Homestead
AMBERG NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nishs
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TO 10 D. m.-Mllets "Angeus"
sIJOU THEATRE 2and S-A Midnight Bell
BROADWAY THEATEE-S-Faust up TO DAtA
-kSINO-s-The Brigands.
cHICKERING HALL-S:l5-Concert.
pALY'S THEATRE-2 ami s-As Like IT,
EDEN MUsEE-wax Ta5lcaus
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, and Sine Briganos'
HARDMAN HALL-3SO-Lecture
fyCEuN rfEkTRE-S15-The Charity Ball
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-s:so-A Man OF the World
and Aunt Jack
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoUsE-s-Aida
xfwpARK THEATRE-s:l5-rhe Gondoliers
yIBLos GARDEN and S-Bluebeard lr
PALMERs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. HI
PRbcToRs 2SD.sT. THEATRE and sA3-shenanoeah'
sraNDARD THEATRE-S:l5- The seven Age@
s.rAR THEATRE-S-Tne Senator.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-s:lj- County Far.
5TH AVENUE THEATRE-s- Ingomar
Urn sTRkEr THEATRE and The Corsican Brothers
9TH AVE AND 9TH-sT.-tiettysburS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-15
TEN PAGES.
TIE NETS THIS MORNING.

Foreign-The new Portuguese Ministry was
formed more patriotic demonstrations were mace
at Lisbon and OpOrtO. 80 The new French
Chamber of Deputies met and elected NJ tloquet
;,s president. - Several officers of the Cars
bodyguard killed themselves. - Earl Cairns
died. - The fate of Baron Gravenreuth IS
uncertain. --- Stanley has arrived at Cairo
- The eighth game in the chess tournament
ut Havana was won by Gunsberg. - Lord
Naocr died - Seventy-iye miners were in
jurcd in a railway collision at Chesterfield. -
The Princess of Wales is i'll with the influenza.
Congrcss-Both branches in session. --
The Senate: There was bitter debate between
Mcssrs. Call and Plumb over the Florida swamp
lands question: in executive session several nom
nations were received from the President =---
The House Tie report of the Sicott Committee
was received accompanied by bill appropriating
So. geo for reimbursine members for the salaries
lest the debate was not finished
nopestic-In the State Senate Mr.. McCarren
introduced bill for another bridge across the
East River. and resolution authorizing the
Taxation Committee 30 take testimony at differ
rnt places was passed -=-- Tie blll-bON in the
Assembly worked we'll among the bills intro
duced WAS one providing foI the use Of an zee
rical vOtin" machine. --- The Ncw-JcrscN l-csls-
lature organized: III his last message Governor
Green urged ballot reform. --- Judge Me- onn'ii
granted q new trial 10 Kun1c. the Cronin convict,
Tut denied tie applications o. Burke, Conealin
and C'Sul'ivan; the last three were taken 10
joliet. =---- Calvin 6. Bic WIS elected United
States Senator in each house OF tie Ohio Legs
lnture ==- T. X Wilson wa reelected United
States Senator from Maryland. -- Widespread
damage WIS dorc by tie storm.
City and Subu1banIhe lfar Association con
demned the action Of Judge nookStaver in tho
Flack case and appointed committee 10 secure
an investigation Of his course by the Assembly
Republican primaries We're held
with contests in few districts -
Tho motion to compel the Board
Of Health to regulate electric lighting denied
=- Incoming steamships reported unusually
heavy weather. IL Houreoenc ia collision. --
The steamer lIcrschcl brought news Of addi-
tioral rioting and bloodshcl IT, Brazil -=
franklin Woodruff reelected chairman of the
Kings County Republican General Committee
- 4 contest over tie election % L'eUt"n-
ant Colonel Of the odd REGIMENT - Stocks
dull and lower responsive 20 a speculative senti-
ment, closing steady
Tie Weather.-FOrccast for to-day: lncreas-
ing cloudiness and light rain; warmer. 1empcia-
ture yesterday Highest, 40 degrees; lowest
"a: average, 35 rs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-01-15
HORACE GREELET'S STiTUE.
THE WORK. THE FUNDS AND THE SITE

THE WORK, THE FUNDS AND THE SITE
Paris (Jan. 49, dispatch in The New York Herald
showed Mr.. Whlteaw Reid today a cabled sum
mary Of The New York Tmcs's" story about the
funds in his hand, "a the Greeley statue. and asked
him what IL meant
Il can't guess he answered lauehingN, unless
II IS another Of the pcasantrcs TO which, my friends
Of the Typographical Union occasionally treat me.
They have recently appointed a committee to raise
funds for q statue to Mr. Greeley and, If this story
be correct they seem to be wanting to lay hands on
the money other people had raised long ago.
The funds sent to me or 10 The Tribune for the
Greeley statue have been kept at interest. ON the
strength Of them one Of foremost American
sculptors was years given tie commission for
the statue lie has tried it several times but could
not satisfy himself and each time abandoned his study
and began over again.
when left New York he had study with which
he was satisfied and which seemed to fine. !
have heard since that he is making good progress and
Is preparing it for its casting in bronze. II is to DO
larger than life Size and will, trust, be thought a
worthy memorial.
There will be due consultation about the place
for 1t. No site will be chosen not approved OF by
the great bulk of subscribers The commission for
this statue given long before the existence Of the
committee now at work hope they will succeed.
too