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Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20
LOCAL AND GENERAL

business IdS' week.
Next Thursday will be
Thanksgiving day.
Have you cooped your
Thanksgiving turkey!
Collector Seabaugh is kent
very busy receiving taxes.
This world was not made
in one day, nor for one man.
ERobert Caldwell did a good
i6t en- the courthouse cistern.
There will be preaching in
tn Christian Church tonight.
j. T. Wells shipped a car
Of fat hogs to st. Louis this
week.
60 to August Bohnsacks
for great bargains in heating
stoves.
EMrs. F. NJ. Wells is assist
ing County Clerk Wells in his
office.
--FRESH BREAD will al.
ways be found at A. & E. Millers,
Lutesvllle.
Birds mill of Birds Point
was burned to the ground last
week.
Millinery goods in endless
variety at Mrs. E. p. Biggs'
store in Lutesville.
><-The ravages Of the hog
cholera are reported on the in
crease.
-Bohnsack has the finest
stock of heating stoves ever
seen in the county.
The sale of H. c. Scholl's
(deceased) stock Of mdse. began
Tuesday.
Jones and Degueire are
keeping dramshop at Boan's
old stand.
james Ports has put aneat
pail;ng fence around John Il.
Welch's property.
IN-Prosecuting Attorney elect,
G. +. Caldwell, has been very
sick for a few days.
ALI hungry people should
not forget the cheap restaurant
at Lutesville-A. 4 E. Miller.
This Fall has been a fine
growing one and wheat, in con
sequence. looks we'll.
See the combination offer of
the PRESS and the Coslnopoll.
tan magazine in another column.
If you will keep right your
self, other people will not ap-
pear half SO wrong. Try it
once.
Send US the cash or a card
if you WISH your paper contjn-
ued after the time paid forex-
pires.
-Drs. J. N. Fiuney and G M.
Wilmer attended the medical
convention at Bismarck last
week.
Saturday was a bad day,
but that did not prevent a good
crowd of people from coming to
town
Ladies', do not forget to call
and examine our fine assortment
of Vases, Lamps g. etc, A. u E.
Miller.
1k-A party of Jackson hunters
passed through town Friday on
their return, having six deer
with them.
Mat. Whitebread of Cape
county has been here this week
on a visit 10 his brother, Fritz
Whitehead.
k-Dr. A. j. Maytiield of Lutes.
Vile will De glad to receive corn
or pork in payment of debts
owing to him.
Il B. James and Benjamin
Bollinger bought the Campbell
farm last week-paying there
for about $1,000,
Robert Fisher of Liberty
township lost a good horse a
few days ago. from collc, OF
something similar.
MA score of Marble Hill.
handsome bellies serenade oul
citizens Friday night with some
choice vocal selections.
l<--We hear OF cOnsldera Dlt
sickness among the horses o
this county, and it is attributed
to the feeding Of unsound corn,
IL the names of the lad.
about town who are affected by
kleptomania we're disclosed
their parents would be sur
prised.
I'VE have just received Il new
lot Of Sugar aud Cohees, ant
canned goods ofall kinds. Viii
be sold cheap.--A. a. Il. Mile
Lutesville.
-Hagey's King Heater /
the best stove made, IL give
double The hent Of other siove
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

PROBATE COURT.
Jasper Frvmre Judge, regular terms.
I'd Monday in February, May, August
and November
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20
County Officers.

County Officers.
Prosecuting Attorney, w. X. Chandler
Circuit Clerk & Recorder, VIM. NJ. Nor
gan.
County Clerk, F. M. Wells.
Sheriff, John Huskcy.
Collector, James Seabaugh.
Treasurer, Robert Drum.
Assessor, Albert Perkins.
Surveyor, John Reilly.
School Commissioner, W. A. Dunn.
Public Administrator, j. r. Welch.
Coroner, Louis Mayer
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

SEDGEwIcKvllLE LODGE No. 426 A.
F. & A. NJ. meets Saturday night on or
before each full moon, ard two weeks
after. Visiting brethren cordially invit-
ed. D., B. Hill, W. NJ,
F. +, Seabaugh, Secy.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

I'M, Il, FIN NEY M. d.,
LAFLlN, = MISSOURI.
Office over A. Clippard's store dur.
ing the day. and at residence Of nights
W-Plofessional calls receive
prompt attention. 9-49.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20
COUNTY COURT,

COUNTY COURT.
N. N. zimmerman, Presiding Judge.
W. P. Shirley and d. d Hill, Associ.
ates. Reular terms, I'd Monday in Feb
Iuarv, May, August and November.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-No regular
pastor. Sunday School at $3.50 a, m.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

CIRCUIT COURT.
]. D. Fox. Judge, regular terms, 2nd
Monday in March and September.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES.
BAPTIST CHURCH.-Services as follows:
Preaching every fourth Sunday and
Saturday before. Sabbath School at
$50 a. IN. j. W. Revelle, Supt
B. L. Bowman, Pastor
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR meets every
Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian
Church IN Marble Hill.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

TKowELL LEDGE, No. 44O, A. II. & A.
M. meets at their hall in Lutesville on
Friday night on or before each full
moon Transient brethren cordially
invited. A. r Jaques, W. M.
Geo Statler, Secretary.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

MARBLE HILL LODGE No. 44O, i. O. O.
F. meets regularly at their hall in Mar.
BILE Hill on the 2nd aud 4th Friday
nights In each month. A. Sander, N. G..
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-No Regular
pastor. Sunday School at 9:45 u. IN.
Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1890-11-20

MARBLE HILL LODGE No. 29S, A. +.
& A. NJ. meets Saturday night on or be-
fore each full moon at their hall in Mar
bic Hill. Chas Snyder, w. M.
B. L. bowman, Secy.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31

An ingenious man at lion, this
State, has invented machine by which
pancakes may be turned hot out of a
hopper at the very breakfast table. This
is an encouraging invention, but within
tho next few years it will probably be
antiquated. Even now scientific men
are looking about them for means of
making nitrogen and carbon unite in
such manner that with little trouble,
a hungry man may draw his food directly
from the common air.-Troy Times.
The carrying of money in the glove
is fixed habit among the female shop
pers of all large cities in this and all
other civilized countries. Glove manu-
facturers have at last recognized the
custom and made preparations to meet
its requirements. The very latest
thing in gloves is palm pocket at
tachment, roomy enough for a respecta-
BILE roll of bills or all the small change,
necessary for the current expenses of an
afternoon among the stores.
Life in Jersey City.-A jersey CITY
man was going through back yard one
day recently, trying to make short cut
down town, and ducked his head in
lodging wire clothes line, and a woman
thought he was bowling and winking at
her, and her husband came out and
chased the poor man six blocks, and
finally run him under barn and then
got down and jabbed a pitchfork into
his legs for half an hour. And now the
rest OF the Jersey City men walk right
in the middle of the street when thew
60 down town.-Drake's Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
- ------~'->-- - -. -
LOVE UNExPRESSED.

The sweetest notes among the human heart
strings
Are dull with rust;
The sweetest chords, adjusted by the angels.
Are clogged with dust.
We pipe and pipe again for dreary music
Upon the self same strains
While sounds of crime and fear and desolation,
Come back again in sad refrains
On through the world we go, an army marching
With listening ears,
Each longing signing for the heavenly music
He never hears;
Each longing. signing for a word Of comfort.
word of tender praise,
word of love, to cheer the endless journey
Of earth's hard busy days
They love u.s. and we know it; this suflces
For reasons share.
Why should they pause TO give that love expires
sion
With gentle care:
Why should they pauses But still our hearts an
aching
With all the gnawing pain
OF hungry love that longs to hear the music.
And longs and longs in vain.
We love them, and we know it; if we falter.
With fingers numb,
Among the unused strings of loves expression.
The notes are dumb
We shrink within ourselves, in voiceless sorrow.
Leaving the words unsaid,
And, side by side with those we love the dearest
In silence on we tread
Thus on we tread, and thus each in silence
Its fate fulflls,
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills
The only difference of the love in heaven
From love on earth below
Is: Here we love and know not how to tell It,
And there we all shall know
Constance F. WoOlson.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
THE INSTITUTE PAsrEOF.
hut One Per Cent. of Its Patients Hav.
Succumbed to Hydrophobta.

but One Per Cent. of Its Patients Hav.
Succumbed to Hydrophobia.
Many years of labor proved to Pasteur
that by incubation he could give the
disease, or cure it, in dog; but it was
not until July, 1885, that the experiment
was tried on human being. The first
patient, small lad, having been severe
ly bitten in some dozen places on the
hands, arms and legs, his mother, sim
pie peasant, brought him from Alsace
and asked nj. Pasteur to do the same 20
her son she heard he did to dogs to pre-
vent their getting hydrophobia Pas
teur hesitated; but having procured
medical advice, ell of which concurred
as to tho impos ;ibility of the child's re-
covery, he mot being himself doctor)
let his surgeons inoculate the boy, which
operation was repeated fourteen times
on two occasions twice in twenty-four
hours'to accomplish the task as quickly
as possible. The child has not only
never showed symptoms of hydrophobia,
though it is now over four years since
he was treated, but is fast growing to
manhood. During the four years that
have elapsed since M. Pasteur inocu-
lated his first patient no fewer than
1000 persons have been treated in the
Paris institution alone, of whom 70
have die1-that is to say about |
per cent.-while before he COM
menced his incubation treatment
from Is to 30 per cent. invariably
succumbed. Pasteur has now made the
interesting discovery that the nearer
the part bitten is to the brain the
shorter is the period of incubation and
the more virulent the attack of the dis
ease produced. While the ordinary NOR
tality in such cases is eighty per cent,
NJ. Pasteur by his treatment has re-
ducedit to four per cent. Surely these
facts speak for themselves. 1 will now
give short description of the modus
operandi of the incubation itself as
saw it. The large outer hall of the in
stitution by eleven o'clock contained
eighty-nine persons, composed of all
classes, all nationalities and all ages,
who had come to be inoculated free of
oharge), having previously had the mis-
fortune to have been bitten by some
rabid animal. On the right hand of the
hall is a regular Office, in which
every case, with all particulars, is most
carefully registered. After the patient
has furnished every possible particular
he crosses the passage to small room
on the left, where the incubation is
performed. There sits the operator, who
is assisted by doctor. nurse and
clerk, furnished with full particulars
and the number of each ease. The proc
ess is remarkably simple one.
small hypoder mic syringe filled with the
preparation is injected under the skin,
the point of the instrument being no
bigger than a wool needle; the opera
tiPn is as trifling as it is painless, and
occupies about five seconds 1t is re-
peated on fourteen successive days. the
desc being made slightly stronger each
time.-Murray's Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
ORIENTAL JUSTICE.
How an Eastern Judge Decided . Com
plicated Case.

How m Eastern Judge Decided . Conn
plicated Case.
DR.. Henry M. Scudder reports the de-
cision of case in an Eastern court in
which the nice discrimination of the
bench was conspicuous.
Four men, partners in business, bought
some cotton bales. That the rats might
not destroy the cotton they purchased a
cat. They agreed that each of the four
should own a particular leg of the cat,
and each adorned with beads and other
ornaments the leg thus apportioned to
him.
The cat by an accident injured one of
its legs. The owner of that member
wound about it rag soaked in oil. The
cat going too near the fire set the rag on
fire, and being in great pain rushed in
among the cotton bales, where she was
accustomed to hant rats. The cotton
thereby took fire and was burned up. 1t
was total loss.
The three other partners brought an
action to recover the value of the cotton
against the fourth partner, who owned
that particular leg of the cat. The Judge
examined the case and decided thus:
THE leg that had the oil rag on it
was hurt; the cat could not use that leg:
in fact, it held up that leg and ran with
the other three legs. The three unhurt
legs. therefore, carried the fire to the
cotton, and are alone culpable. The in
jured leg is not to be blamed. The three
partners who owned the three legs with
which the cat ran tn the cotton will M .
the whole value of the bales to the part
ner who was the proprietor Of the in.
jured leg"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
FEEDING OYSTERS.
How Lean BivaIves Are Fattened by Dea
ers in Eastern Cie.es.

How Lean BivaIves Are Fattened by Deal.
ers in Eastern Cis.es.
The big oyster on the top of the bar
| rel opened its jaws YEARLY and closed
them with snap, as if in response to a
| scarcely audible gurgle from the bottom
o. the keg.
''Hes dry and hungry, too, guess"
said the dealer, in explanation. 'It's
about time to give him and the ofler
fellows some dinner" and he poT ed
over the oysters a bucketful of salt and
water.
''Do you call that dinner?" asked the
reporter.
''More after the style of LUNCH" was
the reply. "YOu see, sir, it isn't posi-
BILE, for some unknown reason, to feed
oysters in Washington as they do in the
North. Up there man will buy bar
rel of lean oysters, without any flesh at
all on their bones, as you might say.
and feed them three square meals a C,y
of corn meal and salt water, poured
over them, and at the end of month
they will be as fat as hutter. But Oys-
ters won't take hearty grub like that
uOWh uCIO. dI1u GWO WCOho 10 DIS lOIlS do
they can be kept alive and in good con-
dition on salt and water plain. It's
funny thing that if one hundred bushels
of real salt oysters are put on top of one
hundred bushels of fresh oysters for
four or five days, so that the drainage
from the salt oysters will drip down
over the fresh ones, at the end of that
time the fresh oysters-supposing them
thin at the beginning be as plump
as possible and properly salt, while the
salt oysters remain pretty much as be-
fore. Of course, salt water must have
been thrown over the whole stack daily.
But, on the other hand, if the fresh
oysters are put on top of the salt ones,
every thing else being as in the other
case, both the salt oysters and the fresh
oysters will lose and become thin.
When you see oysters on top of pile
opening their mouths it is because they
are thirsty, the water having drained
off them. Oysters, by the way, will
keep longer and better in dry cellar
than in wet or damp one; they want
an equable temperature neither too
high nor too low; an oyster that freezes
is dead oyster. Listen to those oys-
tiers in the barrel nOw-you can hear
their jaws go as they Washington
Star
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

I'm revival meeting at Walla Wal
la, Ore, aman confessed that he was a
murderer and asked forgiveness. He re-
fused to reveal the circumstances.
An advertisement in the Media
(Pa.) Record announces the location of
piece of property up for sale as one
and one-quarter inches from the town
of Wawa.
81 always return from Europe more
in love with my own country than ever"
says Senator Washburn, of Minnesota.
Europe isanothing but an armed camp"
just what full-grown black bear
can do in the way of hugging was DEM
onstrated in Maine week or two ago,
when bruin seized barrel of beef, gave
it squeeze and crushed it in pieces. 1t
was estimated to be a squeeze of two
horse power. u
-Unacquainted with the game birds
of this country, newly arrived Ger
man, living near Scranton, shot barn
yard turkey under the impression that
it was a wild fowl. He took it home
and had it cooked, and was about to sit
down at the dinner-table to eat it when
he was arrested for killing his neigh
boris poultry.
"A Saco (Me.) blacksmith is the
latest convert to the belief that early
rising is not always in practice what it
is in theory. He got up dark and early
the other morning, and had his fire
blazing by four o'clock. The next thing
he knew the Saco fire department had
the hose turned on his blaze, and the
neighbors we're Streaming fire" at the
top of their voices.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31

DacK from mat lal u crazed beng. sup
posed had nothing to fear, and yet he
recognized me that night in front of Lone
Hollow, when he fired with murderous in
tention. 1t is well that made sure work
of the old man at last The pool will never
yield up lis secret to mortal man."
The mention of the pool seemed to affect
the Captain strongly.
He Strengthened suddenly and began
walking away from the edge of the gulch.
Soon his form was lost to view In the gath.
ering gloom.
He gained a position near the bank Of the
cedar-fringed pool
How cold and forbidding looked the black
water. There was not ripple on its sur
face, and the silence that rested over ev-
cry thing was oppressive.
An uncanny place" muttered the Cap
tain. 'sMuch like tomb, indeed. No Sc
cret can come forth from thy depths, old
pool. How much safer than the Califor.
mia gulch. You reveal no secrets, that gulch
did"
Then he walked completely around the
pool, scanning the water from every point.
1t was a solemn place, and the time one to
bring gloomy thoughts to the brain of the
lone man who stood thoughtfully regarding
the calm water.
Swiftly the minutes passed.
Nights curtain dropped from the skies
and wrapped its folds softly over bush, and
tree, and water.
Not a sound but the faint murmur of the
evening breeze through gold brown tree.
tops. And Captain Starbright allowed his
thoughts full sway.
He had ouce bee. the pride of kind
mothers heart-hlS fauner he neverKnew,
and he recalled the time now when his
hands were free from stain, his soul unfair.
nished by blood outlines.
81 have gone too far to retrace my steps
now" he cried aloud, as though holding
argument with his inner self
"T0O fdr!''
What was that? An echo of his OWL
thoughts? His words had been lightly ut
tered. He trembled and gazed about him
in the shadows. The words were Eot re-
peated, hut his eyes became riveted on one
spot on the further shore of the pool. Slow.
ly human figure rose and stood facing
him. A glimmer of starlight touched the
face. 1t was CHASTITY white. There was a
rope about the neck, clinging stone, drip
ping wet! Starbright gazed in silent hor-
ror at his murdered victim. 1t was the face
of the dead man of the pool! The blood re-
coded from his heart, deadly faintness
seized him, and, tossing uphis arms, Clinton
Starbright fell fainting to the ground.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
CHAPTER XXI.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT,

Found at lastr'
1mpenetrable gloom surrounded the per-
son who uttered these words, save for the
small circle of light made by strong
smelling tallow dip, that sputtered and
threatened to go out at any moment.
Weird shadows danced alon g the rafters
and played hide and seek among queer
little hooks. A young man knelt on the
rough boards of the garnet at Lone Hollow,
with an old, battered, hair-covered trunk
open before him. That which brought from
his lips the words opening this chapter he
held up to the light in his hand-a folded
legal document, yellow with age. tied with
red tape.
The young man who held up the folded
paper read On one side these words:
LAST will and testament of Morgan Van
dible"
C Found at lastr' again calculated the
young man. my search has not been in
vain. I have looked everywhere, and was
on the point of giving up, when, To- it pops
up like thing of life from the bottom of
this old chest. Your course is we'll nigh
run, Clinton Starbright, falsely dubbed
Captain, and"
A sound below cut short the young mans
speech. He concealed the precious paper,
extinguished the light, and hurriedly made
his exit from the close air of the garnet.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
The First Lamp Chimney.

petroleum, says correspondent in
Notes and Queries, twas known, and
even refined, long before it was used in
lamps. A Frenchman is said to have
spent years in vain endeavors to con-
struct lamp in which the new oil would
burn without smoking. Accident helped
him at last. Vexed by failure, he had
drained his wine fask-a long necked,
thin bottle, like oil fasks-and set it
down on the table so hard as to break
the glass bottom. He then CHANGED to
catch it up and hold it over the flame of
his smoking lamp. The smoke ceased,
and no saw that what he sought was
found"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31

He hurriedly closed and locked the door,
then walked over and glanced at trace
who. he was glad to note, lay in a semlun-
conscious doze.
cat last." he muttered
Then he turned hurredly to the little
stand which contained glass half hiieo
with water and some walls.
He lifted the glass, glanced at 1t an IN
slant. then drew from his pocket small
glass-stoppered vial and poured few drops
into the glass of water.
THAT will do the work at once and leave
no trace. was fool not to have resorted
to the swift method before"
Secreting the vial, he bent over the bed
'.Grace, just sip of this, please"
With one hand he lifted the girls head,
and passed forward the glass with the
other.
"What is its'' questioned the SICK girl,
YEARLY, not fully comprehending.
"A little cordial that Lura prepared"
Grace opened her lips to partake.
"Stop, Grace, for your life! There's dedth
In the glass;" uttered voice, husky with
intense excitement.