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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
FIRESlDE FRAGMENTS.

Lemon juice and salt will take spots
Of iron rust from linen, which 81 ould la
left in the sun to bleach.
BOILED Spinach: Pick and wash a
peck OF spinach, put in a pot without
water, sprinkle with salt, and let cook
half an hour. Season with pepper and
large teaspoonful of butter. Take m
pour hot cream over, garnish the ton
with slices Of hard-boiled egg. Ladies,
Home Journal.
-Ryo Mullins: One cup sifted rye
meal, one cup white flour, one-fourth
cup sugar, one-half teaspoon salt. two
teaspoons baking powder, one egg. one
cup milk. Mix the dry ingredient is
thoroughly; beat the egg, add the milk.
and stir quickly into the dry mixture.
Bake in hot gem pans twenty-five min.
uteS.
Forest Pudding: Make one quart of
soft custard, flavor with lemon and add
one wineglassful of sherry, dissolve two
heaping teaspoonfuls of dessicated CO.
coanut and add to the custard: line a
glass dish with thin slices of sponoe
cake, and when the custard is cool, turn
it in. Sprinkle cocoanut over the ton
and serve cold.-Boston Herald.
Cold fish and macaroni is an excel.
lent way to use up cold boiled fish.
Take equal quantities of fish and maca.
roni, and one cup of tomato sauce. cook
macaroni in sailed water, drain off hot
water and pour over cold; prepare sauce
the same as given With egg tymbals,
butter shallow dish. put a laver o..
macaronl, then tomato sauce. then fish
with pepper and salt, then macaroni and
tomato sauce, cover with cracker crumbs
and bake until juice bubbles through
the top The Home.
"A Salad of Herrings: Take tw.
herrings, and let them soak in milk 70,
an hour or so to draw out the salt. bone
them, and fake the flesh; cut half
dozen cold boiled potatoes into slices
and small teaspoon of finely minced
onion. Put these with the fish. mix all
well together, and work lightly into
them plain salad dressing of vinegar,
oil, salt and pepper. AS this salad
should be rather moist, add little milk
If too dry. The dressing should be
added just before the salad is served.
Fried Pork with Cream Gravy: Cut
the PORK in thin slices and freshen it BY
soaking in either milk and or water.
then wipe dry, roll it in flour, have
ready hot pan or spider and fry it, not
too fast, to a nice crisp brown. Take up
the pork, drain off most of the grease
and stir smoothly into it spoonful or
mora of flour. When perfectly smooth
add teacupful of cream, or milk and
cream together, season to taste with
salt and pepper, and when we'll scalded,
pour it over the pork, or, if preferred,
take it up in 4 tureen to serve with it.
Orange Judd Farmer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
The Accommodation of Fat.

Growing fat seems to be a constitu-
ional and hereditary affair, and to de-
bend very little on ones own personal
habits, or the amount that one eats and
thinks. Although at his death Daniel
lambert weighed more than seven hun
lred pounds, and was not quite six feet
all-his vast bulk never, however,
Ieeming to incommOde him-yet when
le weighed over four hundred he walked
.ong distances with less fatigue than
vas endured by his companions who
weighed comparatively nothing, and un-
III shortly before his death he was active
n field exercises. Henever spent much
lime in bed, sleeping less than eight
hours in the twenty-four, was moder-
.te eater. and drank only water, and
IT'LL, in spite of all this, he went on ac-
STIMULATING adipose in way that leads
me to inquire seriously if eating, and
thinking. and Incidence, and self-indul-
renee have really great deal to do
With the laying on OF fat.--Harper's
sazar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
Army Life Is Not an Easy One,

The supposition that army life is an
easy one is a civilians delusion. No
occupation on earth is more exacting.
The reveille is sounded at daylight. and
the soldier must be up and ready. Be-
tween reveille in the morning and
TAPS, at $50 at night, he has to at
tend the majority of thirty-three bu-
gle calls, and he is on his feet most of
the time till retreat" at sunset. The
officers are busy at nearly all times
over new military problems. They
are called to mount and manage new
artillery that would have struck dire
dismay into armies like those of Ca-
sar, Hannibal or Alexander Today
war is science, requiring all the
skill of the best navjgators, the most
able engineers and the finest electri-
clans. ALI the known means: of defense
and destruction are availed of, even
down to the last electric triumph, the
telephone. baltimore American.
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SUCCESS.

As we gaze up life's slope, as we gaze
In the morn, ere the dew drops are drE
What spendor hangs over those way2
What glory CLEANS there In the skyi
What pleasure seems waiting us high
On the peak of that beautiful slope,
What rainbow hued colors of hop4
As we gael
Aswe climb up the hill, as we climb
Our hearts, our Illusions are rent;
For Fate, who is spouse Of old Time.
Is jealous of youth and content
With brows that are brooding and bent
She shadows our sunlight of gold,
And the way grows lonely and cold.
As we climb
As we toll on through trouble and pain,
There are hands that will shelter and feed:
But once let us dare to attain,
They will bruise our bare hearts til w
bleed
IT'S the worst of all crimes to succeed
Know this as we fast on q crust,
Know this in the darkness and dust
Ye who climb!
As we stand on the heights Of success,
Lol success seems as hard as defeat,
Through the lives we may succor and bless
Alone may its bitter turn sweet;
And the world, lying there at our feet
With its caviling praise and its sneer,
We must pity, condone and not hear,
Where we stand
As we live on those heights, we must live
With the courage and pridesof god;
For the world, it has nothing to give
But the scourge Of the lash and the rod
Our thoughts must be noble and broad.
Our purpose must challenge mems gaze
While we seek not their blame nor Their
praise.
As we live
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
King Sham Reiyns.

This is an era of shams, and shams
ia dress, about which so much is said
and written, are particularly notice
able. It no longer pays to purchase
good things" because good things
go out of date as fast as poor things,
and their extra cost is dead loss, hence
expedients of all sorts mark the APP
parel, the furniture, the houses even,
of this now almost defunct Nineteenth
century. A very expensive cheapness
has been substituted for enduring in
vestments There are some few old
fogies yet remaining who demand sub
stance rather than style, and who
trust they are getting an Al article by
paying an Al price for it. Let 'em
still hopel Do not disturb their Gre
dulity in advance. But it is none the
less true that sham is king, precisely
as shoddy ruled the world in post bel
lum days. The source of this condition
of affairs is not far to seek; the in
creasing populations, the greed for
money, the struggle to live, all COM
bine to father shams and nurture pre-
tense. Make believes are the order OF
the day.-Boston Herald.
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A Fortune Just Missed.

Quincy Robson related an incident
of the early history of the oil regions
recently which may give the children
OF the present generation a vague idea
of the magnitude of the transactions
which took place when oil was So and
SO barrel, and poor people gained
competency by scooping it off the
surface of creeks Or gathered it from
pools around the tanks which had
overlooked. The story, as told by Mr..
Robson, was as follows:
within a month after Col. Drake
had struck the first petroleum ever
brought to the surface in America by
means of drilling, my father and the
father of my relatives here bought
tract of land. comprising 1880 acres,
adjoining the farm on which the
Drake well was located, for $3.50, 900.
Not long afterward / was sitting in
their office one day remember it
as distinctly as though it happened
only yesterday-when an agent for
an eastern syndicate walked in and
offered $500, 900 for the 1880 acres.
The owners looked at him rather in
credulously for moment, bnt before
they could speak he had counted out
on the table $500, 900 in cash and
drafts, which he offered for deed of
the tract. was appalled, by the sight
of the pile, but my father and the
father of these gentlemen retired for
consultation, and decided that if the
property was worth 100000 it was
worth 100000. and the offer was
refused. Their heirs still own the
land, and now it is valued at about
$50, 900. Where they could have got
dollars we could scarcely get nickels.
Thus you can see what seemingly
fairy stories could be told of those
days. They are almost Incompetent
sible to the present generation, but
they were red hot facts" And a sigh
of regret that the offer had not been
accepted went around the circle
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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"A book that is likely to make some
stir"-the cookbook. Her.
aid.
-Bacon-''The doctor said you had q
very high fever, last week." Egbert-
II guess he was right. / notice by
his bill his charge was s25." -Yonkers
Statesman.
-Gilhooly-"I heard you were not ex-
pected to live" Gus De Smith-"Yes,
the doctors gave me up" "How did you
come to get well?' 81 gave up the
doctors. Texas Siftings.
Miss Gushlere-"Howt orturing, how
fearful the thought must be for great
singer to know she has lost her voicel"
Mr. Praclere-"Itsm ach more torturing
when she doesn't know it. "-Hartford
Lampoon.
Sir he said to the proprietor Of
Try goods store, 81 have called to notify
you not to trust my wife on my account.
as She" Don't worry, sir, it has
been ten years sin you had any credit
at this storc."-Detroit Free Press.
Get out Of this" said tailor to an
untidy looking tramp, who had strayed
iDto his store This is not fitting
s'ace for you" 81 doubt If it's fitting
place for any body. replied the tramp
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

edgment that he owed his throne to
election by the nation. The fact is that
James l. was King of england by a kind
OF adoption, not altogether dissimilar
to that which prevailed under the Roman
Empire, and with the working of which
Nj. Renan is so we'll pleased that he
would like to see it introduced into the
public law of modern Europe. The ex.
treme doctrine of divine right which
Shakespeare puts into the mouth OF
Richard II. is an anachronism. 1t be.
longs not to the fourteenth century, but
In germ, perhaps, to the closing years
OF the sixteenth and the commencement
OF the seventeenth, to the Tudors and
Stuarts, and not to the Plantagenets.
In the words
Not all the water in the wide rough sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed King:
The breath Of worldly men can not depese
The deputy elected by the Lord"
it Is noticeable that it is not the heredi.
tary title, but election by the Lord. the
eonsecrating balm and not primogeni.
ture and rule Of birth, Oh which an in.
alienable right is based. So in Hamlet,
the usurper and murderer, Claudius,
avows himself safe in the shelter OF
that divinity which doth so hedge a
King that treason can but peep to what
1t will. A subject and courtier of Eliza.
beth and of James /. could not identify
divine right with hereditary title, in
which they were lacking. Elizabeth,
indeed, during the Essex rebellion, is
said to have detected incentives to sedi-
ton in the story Of Bolingbroke's ad.
venture, and to have exclaimed: "Know
ye not that am Richard lip" But il
We are to suppose that Shakespeare was
writing as politician and not as poet,
1t must be kept in mind that his politics,
II they were not, as is sometimes con.
tended, those of the House of Lancaster,
were certainly in succession those of the
houses of Tudor and Stuart, whose title
was through the House of Lancaster.
Till near the close of the fourteenth
century Of our history the doctrine that
the King never dies, expressed in the
formula Of the French monarchy, ''The
King is dead; long live the King" did
not prevail. The reign of the new mon.
arch was Supposed to begin, not on the
day of what is now called his accession,
but on the day of his coronation; the in.
terval between the two was often law.
less anarchy, and the Kings peace died
with him. The inconvenience which
this state of things produced when any
considerable interval elapsed between
the death of the King and his corona.
ton made it necessary to adopt the sys.
tenn which recognizes no interregnum
contemporary Review.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

writer, in answer to the question.
"Are more shoes worn out in wet than
in dry weather." says there are more
actually worn out particularly at the
bottoms, when the walking is fine; but
the destruction of shoes is at least
twenty-five per cent. greater during
wet spells. In the former case the shoes
have not the protection of the rubber,
and they grind out rapidly; bat then
again. in stormy seasons, hundreds Of
pairs of shoes are caught in drenching
rains without overshoes, and they are
more injured then than would be in a
month of walking in dry weather. A
long walk in a thoroughly soaked shoe
causes it irreparable damage. The strain.
ing motions of the foot in this soft mass
wreak damage that could never be DOS.
sible in the .ame shoe when dry. Even
the soles of shoes worn much in the wet
especially those of the poorer grades.
have their term of usefulness consider
hlv curtailed. Troy IN. ~ Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
AMONG THE SEALERS.

an interesting Account Of Life on the
Fur Seal Islands.
twas interesting to note the differ
enee IN character crop out as the COM
1aunity gradually took upon itself civil
i@ation. Some were naturally prudent
anu easily saved a surplus; others would
ne IN debt at the end of the year. In
i'', a small proportion of their number,
peFhaps ten per cent, had invested
@oout ten or twelve hundred dollars
m4'H ene fur company; another ten per
y''i'' We're always in want; the remain.
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THE ENGLISH sovEREIoNs.

James 1. tho First Believer In the Divine
Rights of Kings.
There seems to be little ground for
contending that in England the monarch
was ever held to rule BY divine right,
at least by any other divine right than
mat which sees the benediction OF
Heaven in acual possession-beot' post.
destes. 1t was not much heard of till
the accession of James l., and was used
by him to supplement notorious defect
Of hereditary title. which he was I'm.
willing to strengthen BY N acknowl'
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Ten Dollars for One Word.

Professor Foster, of Waterville, re.
Gently received dispatch from Swa-
tow, China, consisting of but one
word, ''Good." It cost him $40, but
he considers it cheap enough, as it an.
nounced to him the birth of a grand
daughter, and that all were doing well.
The dispatch came from his son, Rev.
John Foster, and left Swallow o'clock
In the morning, and before noon was
delivered to the professor at his house
in Waterville.- Waterville Sentinel
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
An objection.

Mamma" said Harry, as he walked
into the parlor with a rebellious air,
II amt going to have light hair any
more"
why not2" asked his mother.
cause it amt useful. You can't
wipe your pen on it 'thout its leaving
streaks. Traveller.
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WHY BOOKS FAIL.

It Is Because the People Who Wrote
Them Have Nothing Original to Say.
The reason why SO many books fail is
because the people who wrote them
have nothing original to say, or what
they say is said badly. Another reason
is that few of those who can write know
any thing. They have no invention.
They do not see with their own eyes,
but with other peoples eyes. They
write books about other peoples books
and have little of their own to tell US.
Chamfort gives another idea of author
ship: ''What makes the success of
numerous works." he says, sis the Atm
ity between the mediocrity of the ideas
of the author and the mediocrity of the
ideas of the public"
When an author has composed work,
he necessarily takes an interest in it.
Every writer Of books, says Shelley,
likes to breech his bantlings. He may
have spent many years upon it. and
probably forms an excessive estimate of
its value. He is under the impression
that most readers of books will desire to
possess it. Lackington, the bookseller,
tells the story of gentleman who,
not being able. to find purchaser for
his manuscript, resolved to publish it
at his own expense. The publisher de-
sired to know how many copies should
be printed. The gentleman began to
compute how many families there were
in Great Britain, and assured the pub
Usher that every family would at least
purchase one copy. He was of opinion
that at the lowest $4,000 copies only
might be printed of the first edition.
The publisher prevailed upon him,
much to his disgust, to print only 1, $50
instead of 10000. The result was that
only 100 copies were sold, not even
enough to pay for the advertisements,
and the author departed, railing at the
stupidity of publisher, bookseller and
public.
Book-writing is quite as much Spec
ulation on the one hand as book-selling
is on the other. Only a small numbe Of
the books published pay their expenses,
and very few of them reach a second
edition. Every year." says De Quin-
cey, "buries its own literature" When
an author writes for money, he goes to
the publisher and endeavors to sell him
the manuscript for as much as he can
get. He may get too little, or he NAV
get too much. The publisher takes the
risk, and incurs the expense of printing,
binding and advertising. If the book
sells and the author thinks he has got
too little, he proclaims that he has been
out-witted or defrauded. But if the
book does not sell, it never enters the
authors head to refund the copy money
Or return the amount of loss to the
publisher. Both have run the risks of
the speculation, and both must be con-
tent to abide the issue.-Murray's Mag
azine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

-Adifferentvegetable.-Tom
oere. Dick, enough joking about this.
I'm in earnest now, and I demand, sir,
that you pay me that ten you borrowed"
Oiek-'So you're getting on your dig
aity, are you? Well, go ahead. You
:an't get blood out Of a turnip, you
xnow." Tom-"I'm not trying to- am
trying to get money out Of q beat
Munsey's Weekly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
ANCIENT VOTING METHODS.
Leaves Used for Ballots More Than Tw
Thousand Years Ago.

Leaves Used for Ballots More Than Two
Thousand Years Ago.
Before the New York Academy OF
Anthropology in University place L.
Benet, one of the trustees, undertook to
present the history of voting in the
form of regulation paper. His research,
however, was too comprehensive and
exhaustive for one reading, and he was
compelled, for lack of time, to defer the
presentation of the American branch of
The subject. His investigations went back
20 the fifth century before Christ, when
;he Greeks voted by ballot as the ex-
preston OF the individual will. Democ-
:acy was comparatively unknown before
;he discovery and use of the ballot. In
ancient times leaves were used for bal
OTIS. They were rejected when it was
!Ound that they could be easily broken
Ind tempered with tosecure false counts.
Black and white stones, small pieces of
orass, and other convenient material
we're used by the pioneers in voting
before paper was known.
Athens set high price on her citizen
ship after the great principle of popular
representation was adopted. Citizens
who did not come out and vote were
ined. The Syracusans used at one time
,live-leaves for ballots. Rome, at an
,arly day after democracy was intro
luced, borrowed the ballot-box system
If the Greeks, but never took kindly to
t. The Australian system of to-day is
! revival of the practice in Rome two
thousand years ago. The voting CLASH
ication in Greece in olden times was
both social and territorial-not unlike
;he arrangement in this country in
Presidential elections. Many of the
.ncient systems of voting were corrupt
ID by extravagant favoritism, and brib-
Dry was not uncommon.
Probably the most extraordinary sys-
lem of voting was in Hungary, where
the ballot-boxes were immense casks,
md the ballot-poles from four to six
!eet long, which the citizen carried and
deposited for his favorite candidate with
peculiar pride. This form of ballot
would probably be popular in Ireland,
where its handy use as weapon would
20 appreciated. IN. Y. Times.
The impassioned orator who ex.
,laimed, 81 smell rat; I'll nip him in
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20

AT distance of some five thousand
miles from dynamite it very safe %
we'll as edifying t. gave instructions y
the Car. Puck
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OLD-TIME CURRENCY,

The Dangers That Beset Business Men
Sixty Years Ago.
A few days ago the Albany Journal
reprinted in fac smile the first page OF
The first number of the journal OF
March %. 1880. The post of honor az
containing the most important news OF
that day, was given to a table filing
more than column and half, to be
corrected weekly. In this table was
found information about the bank bills
which a person was likely to find among
his money. One of the prime neces-
yities of that time was bank note de-
tector, and one of the risks was that a
man might wake up any morning and
and half the bills in his pocket worth
less from the failure of the State banks
that had issued them. Again, bust
ness man coming from another State
Or even from another part of this State,
needed the detector to tell him how much
discount the bills, which were good at
their face value in the place he came
from, were subject to in the town where
ne wanted to use them.
In the table referred to the bills of
the banks iu and around Albany, at
Schenectady, Troy and Lansingburg
are quoted at par, but from Newburg,
Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo
they were from one-fourth to 1 per
cent. discount-that is, the bills Of
sound banks. The bills of a bank at
Catskill and one at Poughkeepsie are
quoted as worth 80 cents on dollar,
one at Hudson 40 cents, and one in New
York 20 cents. The New England bills
averaged about one-half Of per cent.
discount, but the number of banks re-
ported as ''broken" is large, Connecticut
furnishing two, Rhode Island one, Mas
sachusetts four, and Maine five in the
list in the Journal. The more distant
the banks that issued the bills the
larger the discount. Pennsylvania bills
averaged ~ per cent. discount, Vir-
yinia bills Q, South Carolina and Geor-
ria bills 8, Ohio bills 4, Mississippi bills
10, and Alabama bills 90. Bills that
we're perfectly good one day might be
worthless the next These troubles
with the old State bank bills are
worth remembering and worth re-
calling when proposition is made.
As it has been in Congress this session.
to abolish the prohibitory tax which
alone prevents return of wildcat and
eed-dog State banking. IN.
~ Herald.