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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Are Women Careless of Money?

No woman. at least in America, has
any such talent as man has for spend
ing money. She spends for what she
believes to be beauty-for raipent,
books, jewels, decoration, furniture, pic
lures, marbles-rarely for what does her
serious harm. He spends most for his
vices, for the things that hurt him great
ly. He is apt to speculate, to bring evil
to others from his love of pleasure or of
gain.
He will get rid of more money in a
month than she would in years. She
would, however ignorant of it, be ap-
palled by the sums he dissipates. She is
constitutionally conservative; big state
ments of any sort are likely to alarm
her. Unless desperate or frenzied, she
invariably stops short of extremes. She
trembles and turns pale where he, in the
flush of egOtism, moves undisturbed.
Nearly all the talk of woman's care
lessness of money is really idle. The
opinion cannot be sustained. 1t is main
ly the echo of misapprehension. Where
she is even partially enlightened on the
subject, she is prone to be very cautious
in its use. Her temperamental tendency
is to the opposite of carelessness. -Junius
Henri Browne in Ladies' Home Journal.
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Annoyances of the openhan,led.

frequently I have expressed my pity
Tor rich people. Ny pity was renewed
when gentleman said to me: "My wife
and our children are to go abroad next
week" you've only just got back
from Europe" said by way Of surprise
and Interrogation. Eyes, but my wife
is just killing herself. Every morning
before we sit down to breakfast there
are from five to a dozen men and women
at the house, telling pitiful stories of
rent overdue, of hunger, and what not.
My wife can't turn them away with
No; she has neither strength nor time
to investigate each case, and she usu-
ally gives them what they want.
but she knows that such giving is
bad. She is so hemmed in by this circle
of beggars that she must go to Europe.
It's pretty hard" he added with sigh;
Twelve been separated but little since
we were married; but don't see any
other way than to close the house, and
for them to go to Dresden, and for me
to go to boarding."
wanted to tell the generous man that
If he and Mrs. Openhand would send the
mendicants to me, would investigate
and report to them, that could save
them several thousand dollars year and
the necessity of going over the ocean to
escape the cry of poverty, but thought
it would seem impertinent, and | de-
sisted. But Mr.. and Mrs Opehand
ought to have strength of will as well as
generosity of heart. l know that such
generous and unwise people do more to
promote poverty than many a secretary
of some associated charities can do to
cure poverty.-Chicago Advance.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Judging by the Label.

"What queer pumpkin! looks more
like squash, don't it?' remarked one
Lewiston woman to her visitor, lately.
"That's just what l thought" replied
the other, letting her work drop into her
lap. 81 looked and looked at my can,
but it was labeled Pumpkin and so
supposed it must be pumpkin and made
pumpkin pies of it; but Tom declared
they were queer pumpkin pies" "Well.
it says pumpkin and 1 believe-why, see
here" Her little girl had torn off the
outside paper and on that next the can
was a picture of squash. and under
meath: ''This squash, ETC." .Henceforth
these women put no more confidence in
labels. And perhaps when Tom gets
over saying. "queer pumpkin pies" one
of them will feel more kindly disposed
towards the manufacturer whose SQUASH
Is pumpkin if pumpkin will sell better
Lewiston Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Heat of the Moon.

A problem of great interest in physics
and astronomy, on which Tyndall, Lord
Roose and Professor Langley labored in
vain, has been solved, and trustworthy
evidence at last been obtained as to the
thermal value of moonlight. This has
been accomplished by Mr.. c. V. Boys,
one of the professors at South Kensing-
ton, who, by means of his quartz fila
ments has produced thermopile of al
most incredible delicacy. By this ap-
paratus he can render sensible the heat
of a candle up to the distance of mile
and three-quarters, and by directing the
minute disk of the instrument to the
moon he has shown that the warmth re-
ceived from it's reflected light is equal to
that given out by a candle at twenty-one
feet distance. The result accords with
the antfcipations of Professor Piazzi
Smyth. Observations seems to show that,
although the moons face is under the
blaze Of an unclouded sun for fourteen
days, it remains comparatively COOL and
that whatever heating it does ultimately
receive is rapidly gained and as rapidly
lOst.-LOndon Standard.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Wnneu RlackSmitlS.

1t is considered improper for women
to work underground in a coal mine,
writes Dudley England correspondent
Is it not equally wrong for them to toll
as blacksmiths? The scenes that occur
in the smithies, especially in summer
time, are quite opposed to the accepted
notions Of decency. The heat is intense.
There are the forge fires, the red hot
pieces of iron, and, above all, the ire
iron. Even in wintry weather, with the
snow on the ground, have seen women
perspire at their work. In the summer
it simply results in an indecent abandon
ment of clothing. The fellahin of Egypt
are better clothed than the women in a
smithy's shop on midsummer's day.
Then, to bring the olive hammer down
with greater force, it sometimes happens
that two OF three persons will spring on
the treadle at once. This is generally
done by boys and girls. They stand as
close as possible, hold each other by the
waist, and simultaneously spring with
the right foot on the treadle. 1t is hardly
necessary to add that the standard of
morality is not high among the members
of this trade, and would undoubtedly be
much improved if the women were de-
barred from such work. Whether the
men alone could earn enough to keep
them is question not so easy to answer,
though there can be no doubt that their
wages would greatly increase but for the
competition of their wives and their Sis
ters.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Giant Glaciers of Alaska.

The southwestern face of st. Elias, it
Is safe to say. will never be climed; it
presents mass of broken snow, beauti-
full, yet forbidding. We estimated the
summit to be about 1000 feet above us,
making it's total height 1880 feet. 1t
seemed to us that the coast survey in
giving it 10, 500 feet was too liberal in its
figures The day was cloudless; the
whole scene was one that battles descrip-
ton. 1t surpassed in grandeur, though
not in pichiresqueness, the very best that
the Alps can offer. Roughly speaking,
the eye encountered for miles nothing
but snow and ice. had never before
thoroughly realized the vastness of the
Alaskan glaciers, though during the past
fortnight we had spent many weary
hour in crossing immense moraines.
One of the glaciers we looked down
upon was not less than sixty miles long,
while another attained a breadth OF
twenty-five or thirty miles From below
I had gained the impression that ice
covered with debris predominated over
white ice now saw that this was not
the case, and that the ratio OF debris to
clear ice was probably not greater than
that of ten to one When standing at
considerable height one appreciates for
the first time the beautiful curves
through which the glaciers alter their
course. We noticed this in particular in
looking down upon the Agassiz glacier.
1t appeared at one point to describe
three or four arcs of concentric circles
with radii varying from eight to ten
miles, each arc being indicated by a
light coating of stones, the whole resem-
bling an immense race course. Through
the middle of the Tyndall glacier, and
for distance of several miles, two light
streaks of moraine ran parallel to each
other, presenting from above the appear
ance of huge serpent crawling the
length of the glacier.-Scribner's Maya
zinc
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Treating the Brain.

The brain has generally been regarded
as part of our organization which lies
entirely outside the sphere of operative
interference by the surgeon. 1t is not
generally known that the matter of the
brain itself is non-sensitive, and that
persons have recovered from severe in
juries of the head in which several
ounces of brain matter have actually
been lost. Professor Terrier, in a recent
address on the functions of the brain,
points out the interesting fact Ito which,
it may be added, surgery itself has been
leading up) that in the near future it will
be justifiable enough for surgeons to at
tempt to cure certain brain affections by
the actual handling and examination of
the great center of the nervous system.
Such view of matters certainly fore
casts veritable triumph of the healing
art, for it need hardly be said that there
are no cases in face of which medicine
stands more hopelessly than many forms
Of brain disease. Today operations are
successfully performed which but few
years ago were regarded as essentially
fatal il their nature. 1t is not too much
to predict that brain surgery will form a
department of the medical art of the
future from which great things may be
hoped for in the interest of suffering hu-
mainly. Herald of Health.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
A Clever Customs Trick.

A good story is told of clever trick,
by means of which some Russian Jews
have cheated the custom house. Stimuli
taneously at two frontiers very large
case came to each, but was not claimed.
After the regulation time had elapsed
they were opened and found to be gloves
and ordered to be sold at auction, ac-
cording to law. A Jew, on looking at
them, cried out they were all right hand
gloves and of no use to any one. Conse-
quently they went for next to nothing
and for far less than the tax would have
amounted to. Needless to add that the
case at the other frontier contained all
the left hand gloves, and of course they
were bought by confederate.-Ex-
change.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
An Amateur.

1t was Saturday evening, and the fam
lily, as they were accustomed on that
day, sat down to a meal of baked beans.
The Frenchman, who was a guest, was
asked by the hostess: "Are you fond of
baked beans, Monsieur du Crapaud?"
"Ah," said the Frenchman, with a
shrug Of his shoulders, an inclination of
his head to one side and a raising of his
eyebrows, 81 do eat re baked beans, but
l am not amateur of zem!'
All the family looked puzzled by this
remark, and little Tommy, who sat at
the foot of the table, could not restrain
his curiosity.
"Oh, Monsieur du Crapaud!" he ex-
claimed, 'does that mean that you are a
professional baked bean eater?'
Tommy had heard the word amateur
used simply to mark the difference be-
tween those who followed any sport or
occupation for pleasure and those who
followed it to make livelihood out of
it. To him amateur" had no other
meaning; and if M. du Crapaud was not
an amateur of baked beans" he must
be professional
The Frenchman. on the contrary, used
the word as meaning lover of an art or
anything else whatsoever, or one having
special knowledge of it. To be an anna
teur with him signifed very much the
same thing as what is ordinarily ex-
pressed by the other French word con-
noisseur. If he had said that he ''was
not a connoisseur of baked BEANS" he
would not have been. understood by
Tommy, perhaps, but he would not have
been so radically misunderstood. -
Youths Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Our National COcllroaches.

Hem! hem! hem! coughl coughl
cough! The hall of the house of repre-
sentatives sounded like an asylum for
consumptives. The senate was in execu-
tive session, and the hundreds of visitors
who thronged the Capitol on Saturday
afternoon, being debarred from that end
of the Capitol, thronged the house side.
There was a strange odor in the air. 1t
tickled the nostrils and irritated the
throat. AS it grew stronger and stronger
the crowds gathered around the big
tanks of ice water and helped themselves
most literally, while the ladies bought
up all the caramels at the candy stand.
The guides. usually SO fluent of speech,
grew husky. and finally spoke in dis
jointed sentences. Everybody coughed
and wondered
The cause Of the strange odor was To-
Gated in the restaurant. Half a dozen
employees were burning red paper by the
ream, and thousands of cockroaches were
succumbing to the fatal smell. The an
nual campaign of determination was in
progress. Washington Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

The longest pendulum on thiscpntinent
swings in the chronological 6ehool at
Atlanta. II is a heavy pear shared piece

The longest pendulum on thiscpntinent
swings in the chronological 6ehool at
Atlanta. II is a heavy pear-shSped piece
of iron attached to brass wire forty
two feet long. The upper end of the
wire is pivoted in a steel plate so as to
cause the least possible friction. The
swinging of the pendulum gradually de-
scribeS circle on the floor in direction
following the sun, showing in this that
''the earth do move"
Directly under the pendulum is a large
circle divided into twenty-four parts, of
fifteen degrees each, to correspond with
the hours of the day. The north pole is
placed directly under the pendulum and
the meridians Of longitude meet there
The parallels of latitude make smaller
circles inside the first.
DR.. j. S. Hopkins, president of the
school, who made and put up the pendu-
lum, performs the experiment as follows:
The iron is brought to the edge of the
circle in the meridian of Atlanta and let
swing across. Apparently it goes straight
across, but gradually it traverses the
circle in the direction taken by the sun
and opposite to the revolution of the
earth. The pendulum not being directly
over the axis of the earth, does not move
in exactly the same time as the sun, but
falls behind some hours day. 1t is said
that if it were at the north pole, where
it would be immediately over the axis, it
would traverse the circle in exactly
twenty-lour hours, and at the equator it
would not traverse it at all, for gravity
would operate to prevent. Atlanta (Ga.)
Cor. Philadelphia Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
EXPLANATION of Dreams.

Supposing man to have been evolved
from lower and animal type, the in
stincts and impulses of the animal state
would be most potent when, as in Sleep
the watchful inhibitory faculties, the re-
suit of civilization and development, are
dormant. In other words, the old prim-
tive animal is waiting close by to come
in and take possession when the evolved
soul has abdicated its function. That
would account for the fact that we sell
dom have any conscience in our dreams,
and do in them without the shade of a
shadow of conjunction things which all
the wealth and honors of the world could
not induce us to do in our waking hours.
The moral sense seems to be totally
wanting in dream.
That is theory which does very well
as far as it goes. But it does not by any
means cover the ground. In the case of
real imaginative dreamers, the dreaming
state of ten seems to be superior in point
of intelligence to the waking state; that
is to say, great flights are possible to the
mind then which are beyond the waking
consciousness Ineffable conceptions,
celestial visions, intense realizations or
recognitions of spiritual things, which
sometimes survive in waking thoughts
and really illuminate them, often fall to
the lot of the true dreamer. If the
moral sense has no place in such dreams,
it is because the soul seems to have risen
superior to moral sense! If the animal
hypothesis seems reasonable sometimes,
what are we to do in making up our
theories of dreams with such visions as
these, which rise only when the veil of
flesh is drawn from before the inward
eye?-Boston Transcript.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

From dawn to nightfa!l at her window sitting.
She waits, while drift the heavy hours away
And, ike the swallows, all her thoughts 90 lin
ting
To that sweet south wherein they faip wouIS
stay.
Yet, all day long she listens for his coming,
All the long day she dreams of one dear face.
She hears his whisper in the bees low humming
She feels his kisses in the winds embrace
Lonely she dreams, while the warm sunshine
fingers
Upon her face, her pallid face yet fair;
Alone sits sobbing, while with silver fingers
The moonbeams thread her soft, unbranded hair
An, heavy heart! so passionate its yearning,
She needs must know that all her peace is DER.
That eager pain meath her white bosom burning
Tells her It's gone, to enter there no more,
But once to feel, unchecked, his fond caressing,
One wild, sweet hour, close to his heart to press,
There her thought stops: what else of bliss or
blessing
The great world holds, she does not care to
guess.
Still at her window dreaming, longing, weeping.
While to their mates the gray doves COO and
CALL
She leans, and watches the slow clouds 90 Green
ing
Far down the Glue, beyond the city wall.
New York Ledger
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
The Stove of the Future.

"That looks neat" was the remark TO
the stove man. what is it?' at Is the
new gas stove. The day will come when
all the world who can get at it will want
to do its summer cooking by gas, ana
maybe its winter cooking as well. This
stove, you see, has burners for all the
stove holes and two ovens. 1t admits ar
into the gas at the point of combustion
and makes bunsen flame Of each. We
ran all the burners full blast for two
hours the other day. having the meter
taken before and after, and i cost ex-
actly twelve cents. We can raise ket-
tie of cold water to boiling in seven MIL
utes and all you have to do is touch
match to the gas and your fire is going
Handsome, too. isn't it? Looks like a
stylish fancy range. Lewiston Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
ECHO SONG.

Who can say where Echo dwells,
In some mountain cave, methinks.
Where the white owl sits and blinks:
Or in deep sequestered dells,
Where the fox glove hangs it's bells.
Echo dwells,
Echo!
Echo!
Phantom of the crystal air,
Daughter of sweet mystery!
Here is one has need Of thee:
Lead him to thy secret lair,
Myrtle brings he for thy hair;
Hear his prayer.
Echo!
Echo
Echo, lift thy drowsy head,
And repeat each charmed word
Thou must needs have overheard
Yestere'en ere, rosy red,
Daphne down the valley fed;
Words unsaid,
Echo.
Echo!
Breathe the VOWS she since denies,
She hath broken every vow;
What she would she would not now:
Thou didst hear her perjuries.
Whisper while shut my eyes
Those sweet lies,
Echol
Echo!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, in Atlantic Month,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Wrong Place.

Impecunious Acquaintance-Wi Will you
kindly favor me by loaning me SO to-
day?
Rich Merchant pretending not to
recognize appicante You have mis-
taken the door, sir. The loan office is
half a block farther up. Three gold
balls over the door. You can't miss it.
brakes Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
A Good Old Irish Maxim.

When George Nv complimented Lord
Eldon, after Christmas dinner at the
Pavilion. on the strength of his head,
the chancellor quoted, amidst the gen.
eral applause of an appreciative COM
pany, the famous old Irish maxim:
keep your back from the fire and don't
mix your liquors." which had been COM
municated to him by Mr.. Dundas, who
received it from the jovial Duke Of Rut-
land.-London Truth.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Nothing to Laugh A.

Blooms-What were the boys all laugh
ing SO heartily over?
Chumley-Smith got off one of his
beastly jokes.
why didn't you laugh?"
II was on me. "-Chicago Times
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

Richard Vaux, who succeeded to Sam
uel J. Randall's seat in congress, seals
all his letters in the old way, with wax,
using seal ring, which he wears on a
foreinger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Why We Say ..The Sneakern

We call the presiding officer of the
mouse OF representatives 1.-THE Speaker"
because the English did SO in giving a
Title to the head of the house of com
mons, and they chose that name because
that officer is the spokesman of the house
when addressing the sovereign. Chatter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
A Problem.

A correspondent is going crazy over
this problem:
"Did you go to the circus?' some one
inquired of him on Thursday morning.
"No," he replied; ''there was too much
Of crowd and hate crowds. If only
me-third of the people went that go
now I'd go myself"
eyes, - said the other man, ''but did it
never occur to you that the majority are
like you are, and if only one-third as
many went as go now, ten times as
many would go as go now? Seer"
He didn't exactly see, but he caught a
faint glimmer, and trying to see is what
Is now unsettling his mental balance
Waobiprton Cto-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Brave Though Wealthy.

Mr.. John Collins Wood, of Kentucky,
Is, perhaps, the richest Jack tar living,
having had many vicissitudes. The
death of his father and reverses of for
tune making him adry goods salesman in
New York, the death of rich uncle in
Paris gave him an inheritance of So ,000,-
600, and sent him to Atlantic City in
search of lost health. Here he lives in
hotel, but belongs to the life saving
crew, wears surfman's garb, and serves
regularly in the life boat, alternating the
hardships of his comrades with his free
purse.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Used to ROughinp IT.

Foreign Visitor-Don't you think the
United States should have great navy,
to cope with the battleships of other
powers in case of war?
American-Huh! With one-half the
country annually swept by floods and
the other half continually being kicked
up by cyclones, what would we care for
mere bombardment?- NewYorl Weekly
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
WAITING.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Atlantic MONTH,
, 1890-11-01

The British soldiers invaded Connecti-
cut in 1878. and during their march
through Fairfield village amused them
selves by setting fire to all the public and
many private buildings. all of which
were totally destroyed. Among the
former WAS the Congregational church,
at that time eve a landmark by reason
of its age. The good people were in
censed at the proceeding, as they felt
that the application of the match TO
churches was uncalled for; but they were
powerless to prevent it. They could sim
ply look on while the structure was con
Stunning. In due time another church
was built on the same site, and it was
used down through the decades till early
in June, 1890, when in some mysterious
way it took fire and was destroyed.
This circumstance, while it is a per
picking one, proves to have had one fort
innate phase, i. E., 1t gave the society an
opportunity, If there was any consola-
tion in it, to make things even in part
as regarded the old score, and in this
way: Some years ago the church com
mittee were instructed to insure the
church property. They did so, placing
a portion of the amount with American
companies, but the larger share with a
British company. In the insurance ad-
justment the latter company was called
on to pay, which it did promptly, the
sum of $l5, 200 One hundred and ten
years was a long time. but the church,
realizing the truth of an old saying,
Everything comes to them who wait, .
have a their reward the consciousness
OF having made-iu part at least-old
accounts square.-New York Tribune.