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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-26

Summer cometh on apace, and soon will
fhs granger be engaged in his annual strug-
gle with chlls and fever. Take time by the
forelock and lay in a supply of Cheatham's
'l'asteless Chill Tonic that your days in the
land may be many. J. X. Barlow.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-06-26

w. F. Hinkle, Sec.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
THE MOURNING HABIT.
Long Grape Walls Are No Longer Worn b
Sensible Women.

Long Grape Walls Are No Longer Worn By
Sensible Women.
There is no matter that is regulated
80 much by personal preference, and
about which people differ in taste so
much, as mourning dress. DESTINATIONS
mourning, like any ostentatious show
OF grief, rather suggests insincerity than
any other feeling. Those who grieve
truly for their friends are apt to lose for
the time all sense of what the world
thinks of their sorrow, and shrink from
parading their woe in public. The ma
jority of people who adopt mourning
now wear simple garments of black,
with little Grape, and none of the elab-
crate insignia of sorrow formerly do
tated by etiquette. The long Grape vail
that muffled the face and stifled the
breathing in its poisonous dye, has lon :
been condemned by physicians, and
women of common sense refuse to wear
1t over their faces. A regard for tho
conventiOnalities of the world should be
observed by those who do not put on
black. 1t would be shocking to any one
to see widow with gay apparel at her
husbands funeral. Even if she does
not ''believe in mourning" she should
adopt on such an occasion garb that 10
In some consonance. with prOpriety.
Brilliant colors and snowy attire are
always indicative of gayety, and somber
colors of sorrow. The feelings of per-
sons in genu ne sorrow are usually such
that they desire plain attire. Ostenta-
tious mourning is often as dissonant with
their feeling, as gay apparel. 1t is
therefore becoming more and more the
custom of refined people to adopt during
the period of their seclusion from the
gayeties of the world simple outfit OF
black with gray and white, garb which
Is entirely different in effect from regu-
lation mourning as any thing can be, yet
which is so simple and requires SO little
thought that it leaves the wearer time
and thought for the weightier matters
of life and death, toward which she
turns continually at such times of be-
reavement.
Consistency certainly should be aimed
at when mourning is put on. The pict-
ure of a mother and sisters, who had
put on deep mourning, appearing two
weeks afterward at large social gather
ing once caused great deal of gossip
and worldly people imputed to them .
desire to display their grief in their
dress rather than sincere sorrow. Ger
tainly no one in deep black should ap-
pear at any gay entertainment It is
equally absurd to refuse all recreation.
A widow usually remains out of society
for one or two years. A person after
wearing light mourning for three
months may attend concerts and gradu-
ally accept invitations No person who
was in sincere sorrow would plunge into
social pleasures. A widow who wears
diamonds and other snowy jewelry with
deep mourning is not likely to pay much
heed to the conventionalities of life.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
FAMILY FASHIONS.
Suits for Little Boys and Wraps for LII
tie Girls-Children's Hats.

Suits for Little Boys and wraps for liz
tie Girls-Children's Hats.
The first colored dress which is mt
on little boys after they are a year old
is OF bingham, and is made with a
plated waist with rows of Insertion be-
tween the plaits and skirt laid in
side plaits. When the boy is about
three or four years old, according to his
size, he is considered large enough to
be put in a suit with the kilt separate
from the waist These suits are made
of Scotch plaid and plain woods of light
weight white pique and white flannel.
The skirt is laid in fiat, broad kits,
and If of wool is ornamented with a
decoration of squares of braid. The
jacket is square and short, to show the
blouse vest of white linen or white or
yellow China silk entirely around.
Short white socks, which display the
bare leg, are worn with black or tan
colored boots.
A long coat of pique or white wool.
with cape, is worn by little girls up
to i've and six years of age, when the
child is considered old enough to wear
reefing jacket of dark navy-blue
cheylot, or of the pretty striped fan
nels that are now used. A great many
mothers, however, retain a long coat
till the child is at least ten years old.
because they find there are many cool
days when the light REFER jackets are
not enough protection in the country.
The long wraps made for little girls are
usually loose in 'front.' reaching to the
bottom of their dress-skirts. Thew are
made OF plain and fancy cloths and
rough cheviot cloths in navy blues,
browns and also of light drab and gray
coachman's cloths. Dainty little jack
cts in mixed covert cloth, in stylish
Oxford and Cambridge mixtures, are
imported for little girls. The favorite
wrap for older schoolgirls is tailor
made Jacket of serge or mixed English
tweed, finished with stitched edges and
plain bone buttons.
Considerable difference is now made
in the first hat worn by baby boy and
girl. The little girls bonnet is vari-
ETY. of the French cap, fitted closely
around her head, while the little boy
wears hat of shirred lawn or crepon.
made with a pulled crown, and a ruche
of lace next the face. AS soon as the
boy puts on separate kilt, he wears
sailor hat of white straw. The little
girl of three, when she is too old to wear
a cap, has leghorn straw fat in
white or in some of the various colors
which have been brought out this sea-
son, simply trimmed with ribbons and
flowers. For school-girls there are large
hats, with brims projecting over the
eyes, to be trimmed with tips or ribbon
bows. Sailor hats are worn by girls in
their ''teens," and are now more popu-
Lar, it possible, than ever before
Helena Rowe, in Good Housekeeping.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
Why Boys Leave the Farm.

Farmers have themselves often to
blame for the dislike their sons take to
business in which they find only the
rough and hard side of life. Farm
work is not SO hard and disagreeable as
it used to be before the introduction OF
much labor saving machinery that now
lightens it. Still, though less disagree
able, the boys do not like to have its
toughest and worst features put on
them. Nor will it make it any better
for the father. who now shirks whatever
he dislikes, to tell his sons how much
harder he had to work than they when
he was a boy. Farm work is easier
than it used to be, and the boys should
be the first ones On the farm to find
this out practically. Then fewer OF
them would be led from the farm by
the attractions of city life.
So far as possible boys ought to have
a personal and pecuniary interest in
everything they do, and the girls also
for that matter Their labor legally
belongs to the parent until they become
of age, but he is indeed a strange father
who keeps his sons or daughters at work
without pay merely to save the wages
of hired help. This working without
pecuniary interest in what one is doing
is too much like slavery Just as soon
as the pressure is removed, and the
child becomes legally its own master,
all restraint is thrown aside. Every
young person should have some chance
to work for himself on some corner of
the farm, and whatever he thus earns
should be his, to be saved or spent un-
der parental supervision.
In this way the habit of earning
money, and the knowledge of what it
costs to procure it, as well as the best
means of using it, may be learned. The
farm has undoubtedly greater opportu-
mites for teaching both boys and girls
this practical knowledge of money
and its value than any other business
in the city can possibly enjoy. A great
part of the advantage of living in the
country for bringing up a family of
children will be lost unless this oppor-
tunity is utilized as much as possible
American Cultivator.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are over 90 600 children in the
Presby terian Sunday schools.
No man will ever feel right until he
believes right and behaves right.
There are 455 Lutheran ministers
resident in the State of Minnesota.
Lady Hopetoun laid the foundations
stone, at Melbourne, on March II, of the
first college for ladies established in
Australia.
The University of the City of New
York has decided to admit women to the
classes of the law department upon the
same terms as men.
Reported benefactions to forty-two
American colleges during the last year
amount to $3,675.000. the gifts ranging
from $40. 200 to $500, 600 each.
Those two lovers, grace and assur-
ance, are not by God so nearly joined
together but that they may, by sin on
our part and justice on Gods, be put
asunder.
-God has given man two eyes; if he
loses one he hath another But man
hath only one soul; if he lose that the
loss can never be made up again.-Chry-
session..
The total number of students ma
circulated at the German universities
during the last winter session was
9,1O3, this exceeding the number be-
longing to any other faculty.
An aged Clergyman met a man who
was declaiming against foreign missions.
"Why," asked the objector, doesn't the
church look after the heather at home?"
'We do" said the clergyman, quietly,
as he gave the man tract.
For the first time since Harvard Col
lege was founded, the quinquennial
record of it's alumni is issued in Eng
lish instead of Latin. During it's 254
years of existence Harvard university
has graduated 1890 pupils, of whom
little more than one-half (S,G27) are still
living.
In doing good we are generally cold
and languid and sluggish; and of all
things afraid of being too much in the
right. But the works of malice and in
justice are quite in another style. They
are finished with bold mastery hand,
touched as they are with the spirit of
those vehement passions that call forth
all our energies whenever we Cypress
and prosecute.
Several wealthy Hebrews recently Of
fered $500, 900 for the Vaticans copy of
the Hebrew Bible, but the Pope
wouldn't sell it. A similar effort to buy
this Bible was made in 1912, when julius
II was greatly in need of money, but
still he refused 100000. They do not
seem to realize that the treasures of
the Vatican are the heritage of the
Papacy, not the property of any single
Pope.-New Jersey Catholic Journal.
-Vassar College owes it's existence to
a woman, Miss Lydia Booth, cousin of
the founder. Matthew Vassar. Mr..
Vassar was planning hospital on the
plan of Guys Hospital, in London, as
his bequest to the community, when his
kinswoman suggested the founding of a
college for women which should be to
them what Yale and Harvard were to
men. Immediate application was made
for charter, and in 1861 there came in
to being Vassar College, which on each
18th Of June celebrates Founders
day."
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
A MUSCULAR HEN.
She vanquishes Biddy and Adopts Family
of Kittens.


At Stafford Springs Conn, a deter
mined old hen wanted to sit. Her owner
removed her eggs, whereupon in queru-
lous mood she quit her nest and clustered
about the homestead, finding a great
deal of fault with life. While she was
doing that the family cat discovered her
artistically wrought and rounded nest
curled upon it and deposited live kittens
in it. Then biddy came back, pitched
into pussy, fairly drove her off the nest,
flew in and sat down on the kittens
evidently inferring they were a new
kind of chickens, she had Matched in a
moment of mental abstraction. For a
day or two the hen brooded away and
the unhappy cat stalked about the
premises watching for an opportunity
to get back her own. At the end of
three days the hen had to quit the old
stand for food and water, and prompt Y
the cat slipped into the nest and taking
the kittens one by one by the cuff of
the neck, transported them all to the
distant part of the hay-mow.
Then came biddy home again. When
SHo lOuHu tHo uouS iHSS HOWL she raised
another no sy row all about the farm.
She looked allow and aloft vainly for
awhile, for the missing brood, and final
ly found them ranged like pegs, on a
telegraph pole arm alongside the parent
cat. Again another battle and the old
cat had to fly from the furious hen
pecking, but she took along one kitten
in her teeth, while the hen held the
field of battle, and four feline spoils.
With the kitten in her teeth the cat
scaled high scaffold and made for her.
self new home, with her one offspring
by her side. The old hen is still en-
camped on the rest of the kittens in the
new-made nest. She lays not. neither
does she cackle, but it really looks as if
she was going to bring up the four kits
in spite of all drawbacks and setbacks.
The Stafford Springs man has watched
the proceedings impartially, but with
interest," and he fancies he is proprietor
of the only case of cat and hen abduc-
ton and reabduction. Who can beat
this novel sigbt?-Ohio Farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
It All Came Back.

"Some clothes to-dayT he asked, as q
young man halted before his place on Jeffer-
son avenue and began stroking the right
hand leg of pair of pants
do you remember mer was asked In
reply.
"vhas dere something's wrong, my frendt r
"Don't you remembers | was here and
bought coat of you last fallT
LAST fall Was dot coat all right"
"You asked Sc for it and gave you IS.
It was a Prince Albert You remember.
don't yAr
"Vhas dere some moths in lit Did it fade
outp
II asked you if you remember met While
we were talking the fire engines went by"
Ibid somepody say dot coat vhas not wort
tree dollarsT
"Do you remember or don't your
"My frendt, did some crock come of on
your hands in a wet dayT
"No, sir The coat was all right and worth
the money, and now want pair Of
"Vhas It all right Rememper youl Ger
tainly I dol Dose fire engines vhas going py,
und gif you shange for ten dollar. und you
ask me where to buy refoIver. und you al
most buys a sachel of me- Rememper you
Well. shall shmile If donti How you
vhass Come inside vhas shust wondering
oafer you, and it pleases me dot you vhas in
good health How odd dot | don't shake
hands init you hull block AWAY. "-Detroii
Free Press
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
GODS PRovIpENce
a beiief That Helps the Unfortunate En-
Bear Their Burdens Noblv.

a Belief That Helps the Unfortunate e.
Bear Their Burdens Nobly.
Nothing so helps the unfortunate te
pear their burdens as belief that those
burdens are part of the providence OF
the world and come to them with purpose
and design, and, although not easy te
bear now, have future benefit not only
10 themselves, but to the whole universe
at large. This belief begets SD rit Of
humility which in itself gives the
strength to bear more than half of the
hard load, for with it's coming departs
all that defiance, all that fighting with
tate, which is as useless as it is desper.
ate. And with the willing spirit OF
humility comes also capacity for reli.
ance and trust, for dependence on SUI.
preme and fatherly care, that makes all
pain seem lighter than it could seem
otherwise, and that gives one all the
satisfaction that the little child has
when sobbing out it's grief after any
hurt upon a mothers breast It is a
tremendous tn ng for one to possess this
sense OF the fatherhood and providence
OF the power that rules the universe:
one who has it fully ceases to strugg q.
rests in the divine arms, and no matter
what deprivatiol, effort, loss or sorrow
comes, that person remains satisfied
with the d vine will, sees the sun behind
the shadow, feels that grief and trouble
are temporary but better things are
eternal. and finds it easier to endure
with that help, as if one were carried
over on strong wings.
But one who does not possess this
faith in Gods providence has the woes
OF the world, so far as they affect ones
sell, to carry all alone. has to fight with
the sun in the face, has burden under
which the giants of old would have stag
gered. The folly and fulfil ty of the eff
tort are as certain as if one undertook TO
make world ones self, or to hold it in
correlation with the other worlds. It
ends either in stony indifference that
mas It's consequence in an equal indiffer-
ence to pleasure and satisfaction. so that
II one no longer suffers, neither does
one any longer enjoy, or else in mad
ness. The moment that the effort is
surrendered comes peace, comes abso-
lutte abandonment of all ones self-re-
lance and resistance, comes complete
surrender to the all-surrounding power,
in which alone isrecompense for trouble
or hope of relief. They that disbel eve
In Gods providence are no wiser than
they that believe in it, they themselves
openly declare that they do not believe
because they do not know, and mean
time knowledge is wisdom, and they GER
tainly are no happier. Thus it seems
self-evident that in the beginning of
misfortune to be able to experience not
only non-resi' lance and submiss on to
fate. but acquiescence and loving trust,
is the part of religion and duty, to be
sure, but that it is also, in view of it's
capacity of producing comfort and hap
piness. the part of worldly wisdom also
-HarperS Bazaar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
Haunted Hotel Rooms.

"Yes, man who commits suicide In
a hotel causes vast deal of trouble, /"
said an old hotel clerk. eff the num-
Der Of the room in which the deed was
committed gets out we always have to
renumber the room before we can get
anybody to occupy it. l recall an in
cident of few years ago that is inter
esting. A well known Richmond man
had committed suicide in one of the
indianapolis hotels. About the time
the corpse was removed some of the
electric wires in the building got crossed
THAT afternoon a travelling man was
occupying a room several doors from
the one in which the suicide had &C.
CURED. Every time he would call for a
boy the register on the clerks desk
would point to the number of the room
in which the suicide had occurred and
from which the corpse had been re-
moved only a few hours before. A bell
boy answered the first call and came
back white as a sheet, with the an
nOuncement that no one was in the
room. Tinga-ling-a-ling went the
call bell again, and once more the regis
ter pointed to the room in which the
suicide had occurred A second bell boy
was sent to the room, and he came
back as badly scared as the first, with
the statement that no one was in the
room.
1T is the dead mans ghost, said a
guest who had become interested in the
proceedings.
again the bell rang, and for the
third time the register pointed to the
suicides room. l ordered a third bell
boy to go up and make sure that there
was no one in the ROOM Not much !;
he wouldn't go. Said | wasn't going
to steer him in among spooks Iscrewed
up my own courage and started up
stairs to make an investigation myself
My breath was beginning to come short
when l met the travelling man on his
way downstairs, Tuning because his
calls had not been answered. 1t oc-
CURED to me in a moment that the
wires had become crossed. "-Indianap-
oils News.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-10
CRUEL SLAvE-DRIVERS,
Narrowing Sights of the Inhumanity Prac-
ticed by Arab Slavers.

ticed by Arab Slavers.
M. MenOn, of the Island of Reunion,
who was formerly engaged in promot-
ing what he calls the African emigra-
ton to the French colonies, describes
the following scene on the River Lin
die, on the eastern coast: ''An Arab
chief told us he had, in the forest at
some leagues distant, depot of eight
hundred men, whom he would bring to
us the next day. / asked the chief to
conduct US to his camp, and at first he
stubbornly refused. But when 1 prom
ised him rifle-musket, which he eager
US thither. After three hours march we
arrived, but could see nothing.
"'Where are they lodged?' we asked,
and he pointed to palisade of BAN boo
open to the sky, where they were ex-
posed, at the worst season of the wear,
to fiery sun, alternating with torrents
of rain, and sometimes of hail, without
any roof to cover them. A man of tall
statue, with a spear in his hand and
poniard in his belt pulled up three
posts, which served for gate to this
Enclosure, and we entered. There they
were, naked as on the day of their birth;
some of them with a long fork attached
to their neck-that is, heavy branch
of tree, of fOrk-like shape so arranged
that it was impossible for them to step
forward, the heavy handle of the fork,
which they could not lift, effectually
preventing them from advancing, be-
cause of the pressure on the throat; 9TH
ers were chained together in parcels of
twenty. The expression is a trivial one,
but it exactly expresses the idea. The
keeper of this den utters a hoarse cry;
it is the order for the merchandise to
stand up But many of them do not
obey. What is the matter? Our inter-
prefer, who has gone among the groups,
will tell us; listen to him:
1.-The chains are too short; the dead
and the dying prevent the living from
rising. The dead can say nothing; but
what do the living say? They say they
are dying of-hunger!' But let us leave
the consideration of this traders pict-
ure as whole, and let us look to some
of the details. Who is this creature
who holds tightly in her arms sleep
less object covered with filthy leaves?
On looking close you see it is . woman,
lying in the mud, and, holding her
dried-up breast to the child of which
she has just been delivered. And those
little girls, who totter as they strive to
rise, and who seem to ask for pity, on
what are they leaning? On a dead
body. And this man, who is working
with his hands piece of mud, which
he is continually placing on his eye,
what is the matter with him Our
guide tells us: He is troublesome
fellow, who set bad example by
throwing himself at my feet this morn
ing and saying, in loud voice, 81 am
dying of hunger" and l gave him a
blow which burst his eye; he is hence
forth good for nothing and, he added.
with sinister look, he won't be hun
cry long To the question addressed
the Arab chief, why he dealt thus
with the men, his reply was: I do as
my father did before me. London
Tines