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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
To Make Pulled Bread.

Pulled bread is liked particularly
we'll by English people, we are told.
They eat it with cheese. To make
pulled bread, take a loaf of freshly
baked bread, while it is still warm,
pull the inside of it out in pieces the
size of your hand and smaller, and put
these into the oven and bake them to
delicate brown. When cool they
are crisp and thought to be especially
good with cheese. York Tele-
Gram
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
Conclusive.

Mr.. Simkins is great enthusiast on
the subject of ''chest protectors, which
he recommends to people on every oc-
casion.
"A great thingl'' he says. ''They
make people more healthy, increase
their strength. and lengthen their
lives"
"But what about our ancestors9"
some one asked. "They didn't have
any chest protectors, did they2"
They did not" said Mr.. Simkins,
riumphantly, land where are they
aow9 Ali deadl" Youths Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
Family Thrift.

George" inquired the proprietor OF
the market, isn't this the day to send
Mrs. Neer her regular chicken?"
"No," answered the boy. sit doesn't
60 till day after tomorrow"
1.-THE Neers get just one chicken q
week." explained the proprietor to q
customer. 'They cook it for dinner the
first day, make soup from it the next
four days, and then live for two days on
the feathers, and I've got to be partic-
ular about sending the chicken at the
right time or I'll lose their trade
Chicago Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
The Que .tion 4. Unans wered.

You are an authority on feats OF
strength, believer" remarked a stran.
ger to the sporting editor.
The latter bowed and replied:
What can do for your"
Il wish you to tell me which Is
the stronger, the female shoplifter OF
the woman who holds up tramp
Munsey's Weekly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
The Requisites of a Husband.

A certain pretty little girl, with
great big serious blue eyes, was tell
ing her companion on the street car
why she was going to marry George.
You see, Maine" she said, George
is awfully good looking; he always
sends me flowers when we go to the
theatre; he never seems to be so shock
ingly busy, don't you know; he's got
plenty of money, and he does just like
| tell him." Prospective husbands,
there is catalogue of the requisites.
Memphis Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

Giles-How did you manage to get
your poem accepted by the new ed
itor2
Tubbs Told him the old editor had
declined it.-Epoch.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

The ancient Greeks used olive
leaves for ballots, and the Australian
voting system is a revival Of the prao.
tise in Rome 1000 years ago.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

The strength of women lies in their
accurate knowledge of the weaknesses
of understandable Journal
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
A LAME DEFENSE.

The New York Press takes Senator
Butler to task for an alleged allusion
TO 1.-The laws of Massachusetts and
Connecticut, which sent men to the
stake, because of their religious belief
OF for witchcraft."
The gist of the defensive argument
which the Press puts forth is that
people were only banished because of
their religious belief, and that others
were hanged, that is, perished igno-
miniously on what the Press is pleased
10 term "the far more merciful
gallows." But, all the same, they
were done to death for crime which
existed only in the distorted imagina-
lions of men. The Press seeks to ex-
cuse the New England witch hunters
on the ground that a belief in witch
craft was common to that age.
This lame, halting and purblind de-
Tense is the best the Press, or anyone
else, can make of the bloodthirsty
bigots who once ruled In New England.
1t takes no account of the whipping of
men and women because of religious
belief, and the cropping of human ears
because their owners happened to be
Quakers or Baptists-pastimes so pleas
ing 10 the Puritans.
The Press should confine its attempts
at argument to the tariff question.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
TnE FRENCH PEASANT.
His Thrift Forms the Backbone OF
His Country's Greatness,

His Thrift Forms the Backbone OF
His Country's Greatness.
The life led by d comfortable Eng
lish or American farmer would repre-
sent wicked waste and shameful indul-
gence to much richer French
peasant. ] myself know a laborer on
wages of less than twenty shillipgs
week, who by thrift has bought ten
acres of the magnificent garden land
between Fontainebleau and the Seine,
worth many thousand pounds, on
which grow all kinds of fruits and
vegetables, and the famous dessert
grapes; yet who, with all his wealth
and abundance, denies himself and his
two children meat on Sundays, aud
even a drink of the wine which he
grows and makes for the market. l
know q peasant family in Normandy,
worth in houses, gardens and farms at
least SOC, 900 francs, who will live on
the orts cast out rs refuse by their own
dodgers, while the wife and mother
hires herself out as scullion for two
francs day. The penuriousness Of the
French peasant is to English eyes a
thing savage, bestial and maniacal.
The French peasant, says Frederick
Harrison in the Forum" has great vir
tues; but he has the defects of his vir-
tues, and his home life is far from idyl-
lie. He is laborious, shrewd. enduring,
frugal, self-reliant, sober, honest, and
capable of intense self.control for dis
tant reward; but that reward is property
in land, in pursuit of which he may be-
come as pitiless as bloodhound. He
is not chaste Gndeed he is often lecher-
ous), but he relentlessly keeps down the
population, and can hardly bring him
self to rear two children. To give these
two children good heritage he will in
flict great hardships on them and on all
others whom he controls. He has an
intense passion for his own immediate
locality; but he loves his own COM
mune, and still more his own terre, bet
ter than he loves France. He is intel
ligent, but he is not nearly so well
educated as the Swiss or the German or
the Hollander.
He is able to bear suffering without
mutmer; but he has none of that i'm
| perturbable courage which EnglishmeD
and Americans show in thousand new
situations. Heis shrewd and far-see.
| luS, anu u hdhu III u uul gam, pu'
| he has none of the inventive audacity
of the American citizen. He is self.
reliant, but too cautious to trust him.
self in new field. He is independent
but without the proud dignity of the
Spanish peasant. He has love for the
gay, the beautiful and the graceful
which. compared with that of the
| Englishman, is the sense of art; though
he has nothing of the charm Of Tho
Italian, or Of the musical genius of the
| German.
If France is strong, the backbone Of
her strength is found in the marvellous
industry and thrift of her peasantry
And if her peasantry are industrious
and thrifty, it is because the Revolution
Of 50 has secured to them a position
more free and independent than tha
presented by any monarchical countr,
on the Continent of Europe.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
PERSONAL.

Mrs. j. S. Williamson, who has been
an invalid for some time past, left
yesterday for her home in Rochester,
N. Y.
Walt Whitman has been secured by
MuayonS Illustrated World (Philadel-
phia) to write poem for each monthly
issue.
Ignatius Donnelly is said to feel very
bitter over the fact that his cipher has
come to nought.
The New Sultan of Zanzibar has
only twenty-three wives. He is con
sidered practically batchelor in that
country.
President Harrison prefers fine claret
to the best brand of champagne. He
also likes nip of Irish whisky now
and then.
The Marquis of Salisbury now weighs
more than $50 younds, but the Parnell-
ties do not consider him good man on
that account.
Postmaster Wanamaker is seen fire.
quently riding at gentle amble nice
little mouse colored horse, while Secre-
tary Tracy bestrides in stately, old
fashioned way a superb thoroughbred
which he brought with him from his
farm in Western New York.
A romantic story is being told of Mrs.
Amelie Rives Chanler, who has adopted
the profession of artist. 1t is said that
while she was studying in Paris one of
her fellow students, a young fellow of
talent, fell in love with her, that he
made professions of his passion, and
that the fair young lady rebuffed him.
To end his misery he committed
suicide.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
wAsH1NGToN. MARCH 10. 1sOO.
THE FRENCH CABINET.

Ii is curious TO find NJ. De Freyciuet
once more at the head of French Cabi.
net This is the fourth time that this
public man has become premier of
France. Il strange circumstance con
nected with his accession to power at
this time is that, though it is less than
four years since he last held the pre-
miership, no politician who took office
with him in 1886 is among his col
leagues now.
DE Freycinet is by nature trimmer,
and this may account for the fact that
while he once more floats to the surface,
his former political comrades are hope
lessly submerged. In the matter of
party he is hard to place. If his
economic theories be regarded as a test,
he is protectionist. But expediency
is his only principle, and if it could be
shown to him that tomorrow an oppo-
site doctrine would prevail, that is the
doctrine which he would adopt. In
trnth, lie believes in nothing heartily
unless it be in his own Presidential
availability.
But the new Premier is very able
man. He is thoroughly versed in af-
fairs and has had large political and
administrative experience. Gambetta
used to say of him: 'De Freycinet
should be attached to every cabinet, for
he would serve them all with equal
ability" The probability is that the
new cabinet will have great admins
trative efficiency, and that its general
policy will be largely opportunistic.
ConstaDs, becomes again Secretary of
the Interior the post for which he is
hest fitted
The Foreign office has fallen to a new
man, Nj. Ribet, but the Premier's know
ledge of foreign affairs is so full and
intimate that he will be abuudantly
able to instruct q novice in that depart
ment. His ambition to attain the
presidency will doubtless go far toward
making the new Government both care.
ful and energetic.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
A PBbL STREET ROMANCE.

oh, Wah Lee Tung was Chinese youth,
Who dwelt in Pekin's classic shades,
And he cared much less for the great Han
Len
Than a bit of hop on an ace of spades.
And sweet Sho Mai was Chinese maid,
With tapering nails and very small feet
A Han Tsho great was her father dear,
And fair Sho Mai was short and sweet.
Now, Wah Lee Tung had very few cash,
But he loved ShO Mai with ardor strong,
Stonger far than the strong yen yen,
A love as sweet as bul-bul's song.
Aud he said: "Sho Mai, gung he fab toy,
Come, be my cherished, dear how tung;"
But Sho Mai answered, "My father says
must wed the mandarin Wun Lung"
'No, no. forsake the great Wun Lung,
Aud sail with me far, far away
Wen live in Mclean nance land
VIII you come?' "Ti loh," said sweet
Sho Mai.
So they sailed away to Mclean land,
And they lived IN state in the street
called Pell,
O'er chow CHOW suey, with soy a sauce,
Bold Wah Lee Tung his love would tell.
And he taught Sho Mai to hit the pipe
Aud to WELD with grace the sharp yen
hoe;
Her small hop toy of pearl was made,
And life went round like an eight-day
clock.
But one fine day bold Wah Lee Tung
Espied the buXom Kate O'Shea,
And he left Sho Mai and he fed with
Kate
To California, far away.
And poor Sho Mai did she hari kart
With grief at the loss Of her Wah Lee
Tung
No; she sailed back home to her fair Pekin
And married the mandarin Wun Lung.
--NeW York EueRing Sun.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
JOURNALISM.

The Philadelphia North AmerjcGB
appeared last Monday with widened
columns and general Improvement of
the appearance of the paper, resulting
from the Introduction of n new Hoe
perfecting press that doubles the print
ing capacity of the establishment Its
substantial prosperity is indicated by
the growing demand for increased
equipment, and it well merits its en-
larged circle of readers.
The Philadelphia Record announces
that it has ordered, as au addition to its
present new Hoe perfecting presses
capable of printing $4,000 copies per
hour, a new quadruple press of the
same make that will give it nearly one
half increased capacity for printing.
The new press ordered by the Record
could have printed the entire editions
of all the morning papers in Philadel-
phia fifteen years ago; now it is needed
as reserve press for the Record alone.
The Record was the pioneer in the sue
cessful cheap journalism of the age.
and il is gratifying to know that its
prosperity increases withits years.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19

duh under such an appeal. More corn
will be forthcoming than can be han
died. Colonel Murphy, who has the
matter in charge, is to build corn
palace in Edinburgh similar to the
spectacular exhibitions Of that kind
that have been made in some Of the
states of the West, and it would not be
surprising if the American corn exhibit
should become the leading feature of
the exposition.
The intention is to bring into promi-
nent notice the value of corn as n cheap
and wholesome food. But it seems u
little singular that in country where
oats have rcigned so long supreme
American maize should succeed in
thrusting in its aggressive merit and
compel Scotland to acknowledge the
corn.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
The Casino OpeTa Compan,


The first production of Jacques OGen-
bach's military operetta, "The Drum
Major" by the New York Casino Com
pany at the Grand Opera House next
week, will be one of the most notable
events in the comic opera line since the
first performance of "Erminie." The
music is said to be Offenbach's very
best work, while the story in itself is a
genuine novelty. The entire produc-
tion is one series Of charming stage pic
lures, the climax of which is the
triumphant march of the French troops
in the last act The uniforms worn by
the two hundred people taking part
were all made from original designs
taken from the plates in possession of
the French Government. Sale of seats
will begin tomorrow morning,
Little Lord FauntIerOv."
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnetts
dramatic idyl in three acts, Little
Lord Faunteroy," will be at the New
National next week. OF it the Boston
J0l1Hal says: ut is the most strikingly
beautiful example of dramalization
ever presented, If it were more beau
tiful il would be cruel. 1t siulSs now
so deep into the heart that the pleasure
of watching and listening becomes
pain, Its sweetness is like grand music
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
ALLOW DEBATE.

Colonel William Brown is one Of the
owners of the New York Duty No,0s.
lie miDgles craftsmanship with journal
ism, and is now q State Senator from n
New York City district.
Last Sunday his paper had an edi-
torial headed "The Way to Treat Long
winded Orators Presumably Colonel
Brown, the editor, wrote, or at least
suggested, the article II speaks of
"the great waste of time by men like
Senator Blair of New Hampshire, who
occupied several days in delivering a
single speech" The Colonel then tells
how long-winded orators are treated in
Winnipeg:
A Frenchman named Martin, who wanted
to talk on an educational bill for two or
three days in the Winnipeg Legislature,
was compelled to speak for nine and half
hours at n stretch in order to hold his right
to the floor. He was not allowed to rest
himself on his desk, nor was he even al
lowed time to eat, but had to gulp down
food while speaking. By these heroic
measures the Speaker and his fellow-mem-
bers, who went to sleep on cots while Mar
tin was speaking, were enabled to tire him
out at last and get a vote on the bill.
But" adds the Ne'cS, "Senator
Blair spoke for eight days at a stretch. I"
This is somewhat of an exaggeration.
He spoke only part of eight days, and
much public business was transacted in
the meantime
However, the Senate of the United
States is the only body left in this coun-
try where debate is really carried on.
It's the only genuinely deliberatiye as
sembly existing in the United States. 1t
is the only arena where public questions
are publicly and fully discussed. To
adopt the drastic methods of the Win
nipeg Legislature would put an end to
all this,
Opposition to Senatorial debate is
sometimes unreasonable. Because some
men, like Mark Antony, are no orators
it does not follow that there should be
no Senatorial speeches.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
OATS AND CORN.

Almost every one knows that DR..
johnson was not favorably inclined to
Scotchmen. The definition in his die
tionary Of "oats" as being food for
horses in England, but for men in
Scotland" has been generally under
stood as slur upon a pronounced,
special, and, so to speak, Indispensable
means of Scotch subsistence. The in
tended slur was, as everybody equally
knows, answered and removed by the
obsequlous Boswell, who said "Yes.
But what horses and what men"
Most people will agree that then the
lexicographer got the worst of it. But
since then-nay in this present year of
grace-Johnson has been avenged. At
EdiDburgh-known in Scotch history
and literature as "Auld Reekie' an
international exhibition is in progress.
il might be presumed that, in an ex-
position dominated by Scotch genius,
oats of all the grains. would have
The place of honor. 1t is within the
fcCOlleCtlOu OF all sCuOluTS luhl lne
motto, selected for the Edinburgh
Reuev by Sidney Smith, was
Virgil's line, IeAui muSam me,littH@I
dssnd, which he freely translated,
1--WE cultivate the muse on a
little oat meal" 1t was not adopted
though there can be no question as to
its wit and appropriateness.
In the present Edinburgh Exposition
however, oats do not seem TO be con
spicuous as a food exhibit. They may
be present in that other more subtle and
more inspiring form in which all the
cereals of all lands seem TO become
available at need. But in the form in
which they are celebrated as sustenanct
in Scotch story and song they are mol
visible.
As fact an American has corraled
the situation. He made an appeal IA
the corn States of the West-to Kansas,
10 Nebraska, and the Others. IL is moi
IN the nature Of the West 10 be dead oi
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
nAr1rs oF osrKIcHEs.
A Pugnacious Bard Which is Ever
Ready for u Fight.

From 81. Nicholas.
There are certain old traditions about
the ostrich which. have been told by
the owner Of the California ranch are
fallacious. He says that the ostrich
does not bury his head in the sand and
imagine that he is unobserved by his
enemies. On the contrary, he is a very
pugnacious bird and always ready for q
fight. Nor does the female ostrich lay
her eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch
them.
To do them justice, they are quite do
mestic, and deserve better reputation.
Nor is the ostrich ever used for riding.
as he has an exceptionally weak back
any person might break it with blow
from an ordinary cane. His strength
lies in his great breast and his feet. He
has one great claw and very small
one, and with terrible precision he
can bring down the large paw with a
cruel force that will tear open anything
not made of sheetiron.
Savage birds at best, they are danger
ously so during breeding times. The
twenty two birds brought to our Cali
fornia ranch trusted to their. instinct
and laid their eggs during the Califor-
MIA winter, which corresponded to their
summer south of the equator. 1t being
the rainy season, their nests were filled
with water and the eggs were chilled;
so the first season of their American
sojourn was failure.
The ostrich makes its nest by rolling
in the sand and scooping out hole
some six feet In diameter. and. eycept.
ing an incubator house, the California
ranch requires no buildings for the use
of the birds, though the land is divided
off into pens, fenced in, each about an
acre in extent, for the use of the breed
ing birds, every pair occupying ont
such inclosure.. The ostriches live
upon alfalfa and corn Alfalfa is 6
grass cultivated all over the ranch. L
resembles our clover and grows to {
crop some six times o year.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19
.HuMoRoUs AND LINGERING" /"
Worse Cruelty Than Death by Boiling
Oil Invented by Woman.

Worse Cruelty Than Death by Boiling
OIL Invented by a Woman.
From the Ne,D York Egeninq Sun.
Two fashionably attired women en-
tered an elevated train yesterday and
began talking about third person, who
was evidently rather obnoxious to them
both. The conversation, which was
conducted in tones loud enough to be
heard some distance away, discovered
q species of revenge that no one but
woman would think of, much less put
into practice.
"She's hateful thing" quoth she of
the shiny black hat.
Very" assented the one in the new
spring bonnet. 81 never could under
stand how you ever asked her to your
house."
II had an object in doing SO, you
may be sure. You remember those
lovely portieres my uncle brought me
from Persia? Well, she fell dead in
love with them at first sight. l knew
she would, because, Of course, she
never owned anything half so nice. /
knew then that my moment of revenge
was at hand. | pretended that didn't t
care very much for the pertieres, ex-
cept because they were q present, and l
asked her if she would take care of
them until l needed them, which 1
probably never should At first she
wouldn't listen to such proposition,
although / saw she was just tickled to
death with the idea, but when / con-
vinced her that she would be doing me
the greatest favor in the world she con-
sented.
"They were hung in her drawing.
room, and were as pretty a pair as the
city could boast. All her friends from
far and near were invited to see them,
and everybody went into raptures over
them. saw my plans were working
famously, but waited and bided my
time, knowing well that l should be
fully repaid for my patience. After
awhile, from hearing the portieres
praised by every tongue, she began
fairly to idolize them. Even her love
for her children began to wane, and she
would sit for hours in mute admiration
of the swaying folds. My time for
action had come. 1t was awfully cruel,
know, but had intended to do it all
along, so my conscience didn't trouble
me very much at the critical moment
II sent my servants to take the por,
there's away from her. She never said
word to me when we met, but shall
never forget the look of reproach in
her eyes until my dying day That's 8
month ago, and she has been frettins
so over her loss that she has become {
perfect fright. I am rather sorry
didn't wait until after Easter, because
when any of her friends ask her what
the matter she says she has been very
strict with herself this Lent"
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19

like q glorious rendition of Home,
Sweet Home" The sale of seats opens
tomorrow morning.
irwin Bros Company.
Irwin Bros. big Show" is the at
traction billed by Manager Herman for
the patrons of his popular house next
week. The aggregation is one well
known here, but many new and attrac'
tive specialties have been added.
George wilson's Minstrels.
The minstrel company which George
Wilson has brought to Lincoln Hall has
been drawing large audiences at each
performance. 1t is an aggregation Of
undoubted talent. The engagement
terminates to night.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-19

THE FEAR Is entertained that Senator
Sherman's remedy for the evils of the
system of trusts, if it could be practi-
cally enforced, would succeed is curing
the malady only by killing the patient.
The tendency of capital in modern times
is TO combine and aggregate, and
any interference with commercial ar
rangements is apt to prove not only diff
ficult but disastrous, To prescribe com
binations of business men attempting to
control markets may be desirable in
some ways, but may be found very dau-
gerous in others.