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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
WOMAN'S FASCINATION.
Some of the Reasons That Attract til
Stronger Sex to the GentIer.

Some of the Reasons That Attract the
Stronger Sex to the Gentler.
The power of fascination inherent in
women may, moreover, be divided into
two kinds. All of US have seen the old
lady, generally white haired, with kind
ly, pleasant features, on which time has
set no unfriendly mark, who still retains
all her attractiveness. Note how the
boys and girls adore her; they will go to
her and cOntide their sorrows, their
hopes, their ambitions, even when they
would not breathe word to their
mothers. The kindly, loving interest
evinced in a lads affairs by such a one
has time and again first implanted the
impulses in his heart which eventually
led him on to an honorable career
Quickly, almost by stealth, the good
Is done by such, and the good seed sown
which will ripen in after time into a
rich and abundant crop. On the other
hand, we have most of us seen, perhaps
in real life, certainly on the stage, the
fascinating adventures who, by her en-
thralling beaute de diable, enslaves
mems souls and leads them ION the
W udIc dill lOT uoT SAKE. CuCu Is
q ectly opposed to the sweet old lady
in her Old-fashioned chair, and these
two form the opposite poles between
which the women who fascinate vary.
Types differ, and any one you may Sc
]ect has some position between these
two opposites. Take, for instance,
pretty and may be witty woman who,
hardly of her own free will, makes
every man fall in love with her to
greater or less degree. She may be in
nocent of all evil intention, but her po-
sitiOn on the scale is not vastly removed
from that of the melo-dramatis sorceress.
Or, again, take the instance of the pref
ty young matrOn who, while devoted to
home, husband and children, vet has
several intimate friends of the male per-
suasion. But her influence is all for
good. Her fascination is exerted in a
worthy cause, and she has found out
great truth-that there is no friendship
SO lasting, so true and so pleasant as one
between persons of opposite sexes,
where true feeling of bonnie camara-
derie exists and there is no pretense of
love-making. Such a woman, if she
lives long enough, bids fair to develop
into snowy-haired old lady on whose
friendship the children will rely
BROOKLYN Eagle.
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lMPENETRABLE FOG.
In 1t Lies the Greatest Danger to Ocean
Navigators.

NaSiSatOTSs
The source of the greatest peril to all
ships crossing the Atlantic, and that
most dreaded by all commanders, is fog.
The speed and size of the large steam
ers in the hands of competent and vigil
liant men are conducive in many in
stances to their safety; and were it not
for this bette noire of the sea, ocean tray
elers would have li.tle to fear.
The Importance of code of marine
signals, simple in it's arrangements for
use in foggy weather, can not be too
strongly advocated. A commanders
standing upon the bridge, his ship en-
veloped in a dense mass of impenetrable
vapor, has but his sense of hearing to
depend upon, and can be guided only by
that. He stands at his post, every nerve
drawn to its highest tension, listening
for sounds that for hours do not reach
him. At last, from a distance faint
whistle is borne on the ear, and he is
then instantly on the alert.
He strains his ear to locate the sound,
for the fog is so dense that he can not
see twenty yards away. Is she slower
SUodLuSQlp Gudu LID OWH UudU uO 10 OFOI-
taking, or is it one that he is meeting?
There is nothing in that one blast tn
give him any information and he can
only wait and listen. He sounds his
steamers whistle once or twice, accord
ing as he ports or starbOards his helm,
and awaits the answering signal. Moth
ing reaches his ear but the one blast at
short intervals. He can only rely on
his Judgment and, reducing the speed,
keep Oh the course he has selected.
The sound becomes clearer. The UNI
known ship is approaching, and he real
ICES that she is drawing nearer and near
er; so near that his heart is beating rap
idly, and he almost holds his breath in
the intensity of his anxiety. A dark
shadowy form passes so close by to him
that for moment his blood runs cold,
and every pulsation ceases: but the dan
ger is over. She has disappeared in the
fog, and he can breathe again, for his
ship and all on board are safe.
This is but one of the thousands of
hairbreadth escapes that have occurred
on the ocean which have never been re-
corded and which will never be known.
Captain Kennedy, in North American
Review
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AMONG THE PERUVlANS,
The South American Nation Described BY
Wisconsin Girl.

The South American Nation Described BY
Wisconsin Girl
When Hon. John Hicks was appointed
United States Minister to Peru he chose
as Secretary of Legation bright Amer
lean girl, Miss Eliza beth L. Banks
Since being domiciled at Lima, the cap
ital of Peru, Miss Banks has kept her
eyes open, and, with instinct sharpened
by her connection with various North
western newspapers, she has proved a
good news-gatherer. Writing to a
friend in this city, Miss Banks says:
Representation is the ruling habit Of
Peru. Ask Peruvian when he will do
any pthing and he replies 'Manana,"
which being translated means 'to-mor-
row. Nothing is ever done to-day, all
things take place on the 'manana,'
which never comes. This 'manana
habit is, I suppose, breathed in with
every breath of the air that one takes
in Peru, and / am afraid / have drawn a
good deal of it into my system.
''This is very interesting old city,
and yet the people and the government
are very much behind the times, their
ideas being those of one hundred years
ago. The city of Lima has been called
the heaven of women, the purgatory of
men and the hell of asses;' and to the
last proposition will heartily assent.
The city is full of donkeys, and the men
and women who drive and ride them al
ways carry big chunk of wood with
them, which they continually apply to
the ribs of the poor animals. Some en-.
thusiastic writer has called the women
of Lima the most beautiful in the world.
There are some pretty Peruvian girls to
be met on the streets or saying their
beads in some of the many churches.
Their dark eyes are the kind that would
make a man jump off Pizarros bridge
into the river Rimac if his suit hap
pened to go wrong. The Peruvian men
pay a great deal of attention to their
personal appearance and pass away
much of their time in dress suits and
tooth-pick shoes. They are very gal
liant, but are not half so nice as Ameri-
can men from any point of view.-Wash-
ingtOn Capital
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An ECCENTRIC DOCTOR.
The Quaint Ways Of Successful New
England Medical Man.

England Medical Man.
DIR. Charles Wild practiced medicine
in Brookline, Mass, in the days when
people insisted upon taking large doses
OF calomel. rhubarb, jalap, picra, ipecac,
anthony and countless other drugs,
and on being blistered and bled. The
doctor was equal to the occasion, and
gave his patients their moneys worth
of physic and service-when they could
secure his attendance.
For the doctor was a difficult man to
ind, and, when found, to impress with
the idea that he was actually needed.
Unless the case was represented as a
matter of life and death, he was apt to
delay his visit until the patient had re-
covered or died. Those who hunted for
him, knowing his habits of going from
one patient to another, without going
nome for day or a night, used to go
through the streets looking for s'old
Sal" his sorrel mare, and his familiar
old buggy. standing before some house
door.
But such was the public confidence in
him, that in ordinary illnesses people
would wait his tardy visit rather than
send for another physician
The author of Sketches of Brook
line describes him as entering house
In the breezy way, stamping off the
snow or the mud, throwing off his over
coat and letting down his black leather
pouch, with noise enough for three men.
His salutation, uttered in a deep, gruff
voice, was likely to be, if the patient
was an acquaintance:
well! well! what kind of kick-up
have you got now?"
he gave nicknames to the children,
and would ask: SLOWS Nicodemus to-
day?" or: SWELL! is Ichabod's tooth
ready for the lance this morning?" A
| friends child, whose name was Flor
ence, he called "Rome," Milan" or by
several other Italian cities.
A member of his family, while making
out the doctors bills, was perplexed by
charge upon the books of a visit to
Don Sebastian" On inquiry it proved
to be the nickname of child of the
Cabot family.
When the doctor had studied the case
and given the patient his dose of medi-
cine, he would, if there was cause for
anxiety, settle himself for a social visit
OF two or three hours, during which he
told droll stories, and acted them out to
the amusement of the children, who
were very fond of him. If the case was
serious he was grave and silent, catch
ing flies, if there were any to catch, or
walked the room in deep thought.
The doctor was more than physician,
he was the counselor of his patients,
who consulted him upon all sorts Of
matters, from choosing wife or hus-
band to building hen-coop. His opin-
ion was an authority that few disputed,
for his good sense was seldom at fault
Hisquaint humOr, on leaving sick
room, would often express itself in some
| such salutation as this: ''Now if you can't
| sleep we'll and don't know what to
do, you can amuse yourself with taking
an emetic. "-Youth's Companion.
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4 Country Where the Mexican Dollar n
Not Below Par.

Not Below Par.
The chief coin in circulation along
the coast of China is the Mexican dollar
and the copper cash. 1t takes from 1000
to 800 cash to make dollar, and some
OF the coins in use are so poor that you
can break them in two between your
thumb and finger. They are of the size
OF an old red cent, and have square hole
In the center, in order that they may be
strung on string. They are made in
different parts of China, and the Vicerov
OF Canton is now building mint with
modern American machinery, which will
turn them out by the million. In the
interior of China these cash and silver
and gold in the lump form the money!
The standard of weight for both is the
tael, which weighs about an ounce. and
the money is cast in the shape of
lady's shoe. Ten taeIs of silver make
lump of about the size of Chinese
lady's foot, and if you want to pay out
less than this amount you take YOUR
knife or chisel and pound off as much
as you want. 1t is the rudest way of
doing business, but the Chinese are
very suspicious of coins, and they like
the pure metal. Gold bricks about an
Inch long and half an inch wide and of
the same thickness are also used, but
you have to watch these, as you do every
thing else in the shape of money in China
In South China you will find a chop dol
lar, out of which little chips of silver
have been taken, or in which holes have
been bored and these holes filled with
lead. You will find coins under weight
and chunks of metal which are coun-
terfeit, and the result is that every
Chinese business-house has to keep one
man whose business is to detect counter
felt coin. This man is called the schroff,
and all the money of the establishment
passes through his hands. He gives a
big bond, and he is responsible for all
the money he takes in. If he makes a
mistake it is his loss, not that of the
firm. You will find these schrOffs con-
nected with our Legation abroad, and
they may be called the cashiers of the
kast. They are always Cinnamon, and
the foreign banks in Asia have all their
figuring and their money calculations
made by Cinnamon. The Chinaman
does this with his little box of buttons
strung on wires; he never makes mis-
take, and he is the great arithl- etician
OF the world.-F. G. Carpenter, in Ma
tiOnal Tribune
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The following communication was
addressed to the trustees of a certain
library: ] desire to make application
for curator of the reading room. l am
aware that there is no vacancy, but the
present curator is single lady and can
support herself in various ways that
can not, having family to educate and
support; also she has had the position
eight years, to my certain knowledge,
and it is but fair that some one else
should have chance. If it suits your
pleasure, / can give sufficient recon-
mendation."
1t Is Apply that so many people
suffer from insomnia when such sim
pie preventive is in reach. / have re-
lief which never fails. When find my
self tossing get up, walk across the
floor once or twice, and then get an ap-
pie, bit of bread, any thing to arouse
my stomach and set it to working, says
a writer in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. The moment it commences it at
tracts the attention of the nerves. so to
speak; the nerves forget they are ION
edge" and are soon soothed in slumber.
Commence on the inside to cure sleep
lessness, not externally, nor with dru9s.
for they are base deceivers
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATEs Ian

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
SEATTLE. w. T., October 81, 1885,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ compliance with the provisions of the act
Of Congress, of June 3. 1875 entitled AN act Tor
the sale of timber lands In the States of Cali
fornia, Oregon. Nevada. and Washington Terri
tory"
HENRY KENSMAN,
Of Hillhurst, w. r., County of Pierce. Territory
of Washington, has this day filed in this office hts
sworn Statement No. 1916 for the purchase If
the south west of Section No. Is. in Township
No. ~ N. Range No. w, and will offer proof
to show that the land 81 ught is more valuable
for It's timber or stone than for agricultural
purposes and to establish his CLAIM to said land
before the Register and Receiver of this office
at Seattle W. T., on Wednesday the 9th
day of February, $780,
He names as witnesses: James Tngraham. Of
Tacoma, w. T.; James Burgess. of Tacoma. w.
T.. f. A. Eske. of Media W. T.; John Front
man, of Stones Landing, w. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely tho
above described lands are requested to file their
claims in this Office on or before said 5th day Of
February. 1890. T. NJ. REED, JR.. Register.
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Country of the Upper Nile.

For the first five or six hundred miles
of it's course, from the Victoria Nyanza
to point somewhere north of Lado,
the Nile is known to the Arabs as the
Rahr-el-Gebel, the river of the noun
tains. This is the most beautiful part
of the river. The country is diversified
with mountains and forests; green hill
sides and bright brooks. For stretches
of many miles the river is broad and
slow. In other parts are wooded islands
and foaming rapids. About half way
between the Victoria Nyanza and Lado
the Nile flows through the northern end
of the Albert Nyanza. About twenty
five miles above the Albert Lake are
the Murchison Falls Below the lake.
for more than one hundred miles, the
stream is broad and placid, traversing a
comparatively level country, and always
navigable for vessels drawing four or
five feet In this part of it's course
about forty miles below the Albert
Lake, it passes Wadelai, the present
headquarters of the Emin's government.
Col. ID. q. PrOut, in Scribner.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFIc

UNITED STATES LAND OFFIcE,l
SEATTLE, w. T., November 2, 1889.
NOTICE l. HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act OF
Congress of June 3, 1878. entitled IAN Act for
the ale of Timber Lands In the States of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory,"
JAMES GAGNON,
of Seattle, county of King, Territory of Wash
ington, mas this day fled III this office mis- sworn
statement No. 5000, for the purchase of the
north west a of north west Il of section
q in township 10 north, range 3 west, and will
of proof t, show that the land sought Is more
valuable for its timber than for agricul-
tural purposes and to establish his claim to said
land before the Register and Receiver of this
office at Seattle, w. T., on Monday the 10th day
of February, 1890.
He names as witnesses: John Callow, VIII
liam Callow and Ed ard CallOw, of Kamilchie,
w. T.; ohm P. Shelton. Of Shelton, w. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims In this ofie on or before said 10th day OF
February, 1890. T. M REED, Jr., Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OPTIC

SEATTLE, W. T., October 81, 1885,
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN COM
~ pliance with the provisions of the Act Of
Congress of June 3, 1875 entitled "An Act for the
sale of Timber Lands In the States of CalifOrnis,
Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory"
JAMES INGRAHAM,
of Tacoma, county of Pierce, Territory of Wash
ington, has this day filed In this office HIS
sworn statement No. 1917, for the purchase of the
north west II of section Is, in town
ship ~ north, range west, and will offer proof
to show that the land sought Is more valuable
for its timber or stone than for agricultural pur-
poses and to establish his claim to said land be-
fore the Register and Receiver of this Office at
Seattle, w. T.. on Wednesday the 5th day OF
Feb uary, 1890.
He names as witnesses Henry Kensman, Of
Hillhurst. w. t.; james Burgess, of Tacoma,
w. i; A. E. Eske. of NJ dia, W. T.; 10 n Front
man, Of Stones Landing, W. T.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the
above described lands are requested to file their
claims In this Office on or before said 5th day
of February, 1890. T. NJ. REED, Jr., Register.
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The Poetry of Eating.

That marvellous story-writer Guy de
Maupassant says: GA man is a gourmet
rs he is poet, or an artist, or simply
learned. Taste is delicate organ, per-
fectible and worthy of respect, like the
eye and the ear. To be wanting in the
sense of taste is to be deprived of an ex-
quisite faculty, of the faculty of discern
ing the quality of ailments, just as one
may be deprived of the faculty of dis
corning the qualities of book or of a
work of art; it is to be deprived of an es-
sential sense, of part of human su-
periority; it is to belong to one of the
innumerable classes of cripples, infirm
people and fools of which our race is COM
posed; it is, in word, to have stupid
mouth, just as we may have stupid
mind. A man who does not distinguish
between langouste and lobster, be-
tween herring (that admirable fish
that carries with it all the savors and
aromas of the sea) and mackerel or
whiting. is comparable only to a man
who could cOnfound Balzac with Eugene
Sue and symphony by Beethoven with
q military march composed by some
regimental band-master." - Harper's
Bazar
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SIXTY YEARS AGO.
A Vermont Church Service In the Earl.
Part of the Century.


Part of the Century.
As soon as the text was given out,
Deacon Bachelor, who was old and
very deaf, rose from his pew, walked
heavily down the aisle, and half as
cended the pulpit steps. Then he ad-
justed an enormous tin ear-trumpet, and
sat there through the long sermon,
pious attentive, but most grotesque.
figure. The singers seats stretched en-
tirely across the church in front of the
pulpit-two long rows, with rack or
desk for hymn books between them.
The men singers sat with their backs to
the pulpit. while the women faced
them. When the leader struck his tun-
ing fork and gave the key, all stood up
and literally bawled and sang in each
others f..ces. All the old mournful
minor tunes were great favorites, and
the rhymed stories of hell fire, damna-
ton and lost souls gave the greatest
satisfaction to both singers and
parson. Questions of doctrine
were Elder Whiteinch's greatest JOY and
most frequent discussion, and several
times year he preached on the ''un-
pardOnable SIM" but we must remember
that he had none of the sins of great
cities to form subjects of sermons and to
preach against-not even that of intern
perance, for the simple reason that it
was then considered sin in no one to
drink strong liquors provided man
stopped short of gross intoxication.
Habitual drinkers were all those New
England farmers. In nearly every
household in the winter months little
pewter fagon or tanEard filled with
boiling water land witt ST aw-covered
handle to prevent burning the HANDY
was brought in to the farsae a: eight
o'clock, the regular bedtime. Then q
great pitcher of rum toddy or cider Zip
was brewed, and every one, men, women
and children, drank of it, and thus went
warmed to their ice-cOld cha mbers,
where the snow sifted in little drifts on
the floor. No farm hand would work at
blowing and haying without three glasses
of rum day. Even the few workwom-
en- who took their rounds among these
farms-a tailoress, wool-weaver, an In
dian ''squaw nurse"-all demanded, re-
ceived and drank their daily glass of
rum. Bears were not infrequent visit
ors in Vermont in those day, and may
bears tracks and depradations were re-
ported at the Sunday incoming" and
the hunt was planned there as we'll. 1t
was subsequently carried out in action,
dealing death to the bear, and giving
sufficient reason for the large consump-
ton of New England rum. But the bears
are gone with the forests, and the old
Anclover Church is gone also. A chance
spark from an oil lantern set fire to the
Jackson barn. The fire could be i'll
fought with only the bucket from the
old well-sweep and milk pals to carry
water it. So the flames spread, and the
high winds blew them across the road
to the old wooden church, and all were
destroyed together, and only cellar
wall and few half-burned bricks mark
the spot where so many dull happy Sum
days were spent. -Congregational Re-
view,
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Burglaries by an Elephant.

While Messrs. Sangers' men were pre-
pairing to leave Accrington one Monday
morning, one of the elephants got away
from the confines of the circus and burst
open the door of warehouse of a neigh
boring cooperative store, and when an
Accrington policeman entered he found
the truant indulging in biscuits and
jam. A basket of onions stood in the
elephants way, but as these were not to
his taste he hurled them in the road.
The officer did not attempt to seize the
animal, thinking it more prudent to OBJ
tain the assistance of its keeper. The
elephant was on Thursday morning dis
covered in another burglary at Chorley.
While the circus paraphernalia were be-
ing loaded up, he slipped away in the
darkness and forced open locked-up
grocer's shop in the High street. Here
he demolished a whole cheese. two
boxes of biscuits and other groceries,
and altogether did e10 worth of damage.
-Eastbourne (Eng.) Chronicle.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
UNITED STATES LAND OFF

UNITED STATES LAND OFFIcE,t
SEATTLE, w. r., November 5, 1889. !
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN CON-
IN pliance with the provisions of the Act Of
CONGRESS of June 8, 1873, entitled IAN Act for
the sale of Timber Lands in the States of Cali
fornia, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory."
HARRY e. FORD,
of Shelton, county of Mason, Territory of Wash
ington has this day fled in this Office his sworn
statement No. 5O94 for the purchase Of the
IS In township 20 north, range s west
and will offer proof to show that the land sought
IL ,re valuable for its timber or stone than for
agricultural purposes and to establish his claim
to said land before the Register and Receiv OF
this Office at Seattle, w. T., on Tuesday, the
18th day of February, 1890.
He names ~ Witnesses: William ID. Dunbf r,
James B. Trease, Henry Ksezer, lansing
Decker, all of Shelton, Mason cOant w. i
Any and all persons claiming Adversely the
above described lands are requested to ME their
claims in this ONCE or before said 18th day OF
February. leeo :. y. Red. Jr.s RegietR