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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
The FitfuIneSS of Life.

ga few weeks ago." says a man re-
turned from the west, 81 was in Mime
apolis. With me was friend who him.
self had friend in the city. This third
person was taken suddenly i'll and died
in few days, and to my friend were in
trusted the arrangements for the burial.
When we went together to the under
takers to select a casket, one particularly
pleased him, but there was some reason
why it did not commend itself to him
for his friend. Having finally chosen
me, he ordered it sent up; but said he
90 me, as he gave the order, when you
order one for me choose that other one.
We left the establishment and separated.
So far as either of us knew he was in
perfect health, but in two hours from
that time was back at the undertaker's
and ordered that very coffin to be sent
out for my friend. He had dropped
suddenly dead on the street from heart
failure. It's such a thing as this that
makes man feel eerie, isn't it?'-New
York Evening Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Where Will Heaven Be!

How about the location of the per-
manent heaven, the resting place Of the
saved? Where will it be located, on this
earth or in the skies above? We read, l
Thess. iv, 1917, that the Lord will de-
scend from heaven and resurrect the
righteous, and also catch up the living
holy ones, and that altogether they will
meet the Lord in the air. By reading
Rev. Xxx, SO, we also learn that that
will be the first resurrection, and that
they (the righteous will live and reign
with Christ 1000 years. According to
the Bible this 1000 years is all the time
the saints viii occupy the realms of the
air.
When this 1000 years expires, how
ever, the 'City of God" with the saints,
comes down upon the earth and the
second resurrection, that of the wicked,
will take place. AS these demons-elect
come forth from their graves they will
see the beloved city, and go up and en-
compass it: and Rev. Xxx, 81 fire will
pour down upon and utterly destroy
them. The same fire which destroys the
wicked purifies and renovates the earth,
and this globe in its redeemed state, if
the accounts above cited are to be taken
as conclusive, will become the home of
the saved throughout the ceaseless ages
OF eternity. Louis Republic
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Mind Your Own Business.

Keep your mind on your share of the
work; donot Try to manage for the whole
firm. | remember a man who used to
amuse me very much. He never earned
more than $15 week until he had passed
90 years of age, and during his married
life his wife had earned more than he
had. Yet he would grow intensely ex-
cited because large and exceedingly
prosperous corporation would not adopt
his plans, though his connection with it
was paying his fare as passenger on it's
cars. The firm employing him would,
IT managed by him, grow wealthy in a
year, he insisted. Still the firm dispensed
with his valuable services and were able
to conduct business. That man had been
so busy all his business life planning
affairs with which he had no connection
that he really had no time to think of his
personal work. He was not lazy, but he
did not know enough to mind his own
business. -Christian Union.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Rare Medical Cases.

Two remarkable medical cases wer,
reported from the City hospital. The
first was that of surgical operation
by DR.. Joseph Ransohoff, who per-
formed the difficult task of transplant
ing new nose on the features of
a woman who had lost that organ
through disease.
The second case was that of an in
FAINT which was born with it's liver alb
normally enlarged and out of place.
being situated over the stomach, which
held only fluid ounce instead of hav-
ing half pint capacity The liver itself
weighed a pound instead Of three or
four ounces. The child was brought
from Dayton and operated upon for
an artificial exit This was a success.
Then emaciation set it and the child
died. A post norton was held. which
disclosed the fact that the liver Law d.
agonally across the stomach. It is the
tirst case of the kind on record
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
ThresIliItS In SYRIA.

On the outskirts of each village is q
level space of ground of sufficient size to
answer the requirements of the village
which is Known by the name OF the ba-
yader. on threshing floor. Each farmer
and peasant has his own particular por-
ton marked off by row of stones, and
this portion is religiously handed down
from father to son and jealousy guarded
from encroachment. Hither the various
crops are borne on the backs of camels
or donkeys as soon as they are reaped IN
the fields, and they are there piled up
into separate sacks to be threshed out In
turns.
The threshing is long and tedious
process, occupying several months. 1t
commences about the beginning OF June
and often is not completed till the end
of September or even in some cases till
the middle of October. During all this
time the threshing floor presents a lively,
busy and most picturesque scene. The
process is very primitive one, being
Identical with that which was in vogue
in the times of Old Testament history.
Nay, the hieroglyphic representations ON
Egyptian monuments show that the
same method was adopted by the farm
ers of Egypt at least five thousand years
ago.
A fiat board something like the bot
tom of sleigh, with small sharp pieces
of basalt firmly let into its under sides,
is driven round and round upon the sur
face of the corn, which is spread out in a
circle of from six to twenty yards in di-
ameter, according to the quantity to be
threshed. A boy rides on the board and
drives the horse or oxen as the case may
be. Meanwhile one or two men stand
in the middle, and with three pronged
wooden forks turn the corn over so as to
expose all portions equally to the action
of the threshing board.-Blackwood's.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Tin Producing in Ma1acca.

1t did not take long to witness the ex-
tremely simple process by which the ore
is extracted. After clearing off the
ground, the surface and subsoil are re-
moved for one, two or three meters, till
the mineral, tin bearing bed is exposed;
this is sometimes several meters thick.
The mineral is carried in baskets, as we
have seen, up the cocoa trunk ladders, to
a wooden fume which is washed by a
current of water. AS the mine grows
deeper this labor, with the documentary
means at the disposition of the Chinese,
is made extremely difficult by the inflow
of water The washing of the tin bear
ing earth is done by coolies, who, with a
rake, remove the stones and work up the
material in such a way as to eliminate
the light sands that are mixed with
oxide of tin, till only 20 or 80 per cent. of
foreign matter is left.
The mineral thus enriched is melted
in little brick furnaces, with the aid of a
bellows Of bamboo, which is worked by
coolie as if it were a syringe. The
white metal as it runs out is cast into the
well known cubic ingots with one side
faring over the edges, so as to give tlien
pair of ears by which they can be more
easily handled. A great deal of metal is
certainly wasted in this process; and a
second washing of the refuse would prob
ably be very remunerative. The Chinese
and Malays call this lost metal young
tin, which is returned to the earth to
ripen, because it is not yet old enough to
stay in their primitive machines. 1t is
only now, after no one can tell how
many centuries since tin has been known
and worked in the peninsula, that a
rational system of operating the mines is
about to be adopted M. Brau de Saint
Pol Lias in Popular Science Monthly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
he had plunged it into his oCn breast

he had plunged it into his own breast
ment Of despair.
The two magistrates knelt by him. Hewas
not dead.
"He still lives" said NJ Lacroix. 1--WE may
yet save him"
"He will die within five minutes" said Piv-
olot
s'Speak! speak," said NJ. De Lignerolles,
ssin the name of God, before whom you must
soon appear"
Leaning over the form of Luversan, hardly
breathing, Roger listened.
u killed Larouette. and Laroque is limo
cent. did it for vengeance, but l am not
the only guilty one; had an accomplish.
And here the feeble voice stopped, and Luz
vcoan was dead.
"How dare I ask your forgivenessw said
III. Lacroix, with emotion.
"And l." said NJ. de Lignerolles, shave
much to atone for, and, please God, l will at
least be the means of restoring your good
and honorable name"
"All is forgiven" said Roger "You
thought you were doing your duty. All ask
is the restoration of my good name, for my
child's cake. Alas! you cannot restore my
Door, broken-hearted wife,"
While they were talking Tristot stepped to
the window to wipe his eyes, and as he
looked out they wandered mechanically to-
wards that little balcony where the unhappy
young mother saw the fearful sight disclosed
in Larouette's house. He thought he saw
something lying upon the balcony where the
young mother and child had stood on that
fatal night ten years before. s The moon
shone through rift in the waving branches
of the chestnut trees, and Tristot felt sure
that he saw the white, upturned face of a
woman, and in that one brief moment he
thought it looked like that Of the unhappy
woman whose death was SO deplorable.
He did not believe in ghosts or the re-
embodiment of spirits, or lie would have
been afraid; os it was lie gave a half articu-
late cry and sprang- through the open win
dow and from there to the ground, some six
or seven feet, and in an instant was speeding
across the l.wn that Roger had newly trim
med and restored to its forTser beauty. for it
grieved him to the heart to see the place
which was sacred to him by thousand en-
dearing memories so neglected and forgotten.
Tristot, in a few leaps, had crossed the little
space and with the agility of monkey he
climbed up one of the columns which sup
ported the balcony, and when there he found
the innnirna.e body of the poor young wife
+ who had been supposed dead SO many year2
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Wants a Patent.

An Ohio man named Burton has ap-
Piled for patent to dissipate tornado
or cyclone before it can dc any damage.
He does it by firing off an anvil heavily
charged with powder, or by using field
piece. This is done when the sky shows
symptoms of wind storm, and he claims
that the conclusions send the cyclones
70 do damage elsewhere. Detroit Free
Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Mixed Coal and Petroleum as Fuel

Some experiments made with q
mixed fuel of coal and petroleum on
an Italian man-of-war at Spezzia are
well worth attention. The vessel.
which never before surpassed fifteen
knots an hour, reached almost seven
teen with the new combustible. The
engineers complain that the high heat
generated injuries the boilers. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
The Place for Him.

Weary Pilgrim--I feel that am of
no earthly use whatsoever.
Observing Citizen--I know of just
the calling for you.
"What is it2"
"Janitor of an Office building or
fiat. Chicago Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
In the Witness Rox

Judge-You reside?-
Wltness-With my brother.
Judge-And your brother lives?-
Witness-With me.
Judge-Precisely; but you both liver
Witness-Together. -Eulenspiegel
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Cloth Made of Glass.

Ever since its invention glass has been
found to be available for numerous mir
poses as a decorative material. but it
was reserved for modern ingenuity to
conceive and carry out the idea of weav-
ing it into cloth. Not long since a
trenchman of an inventive turn of
mind discovered that it was possible to
make kind of cloth from glass. or
rather from glass and silk, the latter
forming the warp and the former the
wool. The process of weaving is very
slow, and of course the product is ex-
penslve, but not more SO than other fan
cies in decorative novelties in which
wealthy people indulge themselves AS
the pattern of the material is worked in
the glass, which may be of any color or
variety OF colors desired, it's brilliancy
may readily be imagined. York
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Inducements Offered to Enterprises ana
Manufactures.
Some of the Reasons Why Shelton Will be One of the Important
Cities of Puget Sound.

SHELTON incorporated of about 800 inhabitants located
Big Skookum Bay the Southwesey Puget
the County of Mason County. Its educational facilities fully
the needs of the people time there being
wostoy public school building with two departments present
at work under the instruction of Amono
the substantial buildings used for purposes
the splendid wostoy Courthouse 48xS fitted
up theatrical and public purposes three large buildings bank
building three large hotels machine shops During this year
dwellings have all the
the land cleared and opened which makes pleasing when
viewed from the bay by the incoming passenger
Though but four DID, the growth Shelton steady
and during tepast few months rapid Many of the branches
represented and industries started
sides those operaton sash
MILL engines employ about SO hands construction
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

Here is a thought suggested and illus
trated by the sugar trust swindle: ssPeo-
pie who float a worldly enterprise by
which they hope to gain advantage
through the utilizing of other people.
commonly keep private boat swinging
aStern"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
His CALLING.

Seedy Foreigner-Yes. I'm an ssartist:n
Avocallst, you know. It's all right.
Labor Representative-How do Won
make that out? ~
Seedy Foreigner-Well, I'm maker of
bellows. Bulletin.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
THE SATSOP RAILROAD

Has been operating here for three and they have substantial per-
manent buildings warehouse and the railroad This
has about IA miles of main line in operation and nearly
sideracks and into all of the body
to the line of the railroad The satsop the largest logging
road Puget Sound and during the busy
RATS logs scaling about 100000 feet EACH towed
mills each week to be cut into the lumber that
export.
The Mason County Central Railroad enterprise
operation about and important
ment and opening the region round about
They also have sawm of fair supply demands
Aso the Port Townsend Southern through near
Shelton, and line of travel direct by
the East Among the railroad projects foot is the building
road from Port Orchard bay Shelton and Gays Haror
transconinental connection with the Union Pacific
will become metropolis of the Upper Sound teo
AS for scenic beauty from the elegant residence ground
side of town. superb view of the hoary monarch Mt Rane
had almost weather. while from the upland opposite
can be obtained fine view of the Olympic with their
ua and snowcapped peaks canal and the
Pacific
Without doubt Shelton lying valley
site for ownone that hardly be improved upon we'll
tered from continuous streams from the of of which
men being made osuppy the with abundant pure
a fall of more than fifty feet.
These are few Of dvanages and they worth investigating
There boom herang of trumpe but Shelton proportion
atey growing rapidly than point the Sound Town lots
from $50 upward For further information address
DAVID SHELTON.
Or The JOURNAL.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
The Other One.

boy, you have tears in your eyes," he
said to little chap who was Slipping
along Woodward avenue. .
eyes, SIR"
"Father dead?'
mo, sir; last summers dead, and I'm
awfuily cold. Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
Pansy Points the Way

Three-year-old Pansy asks her mother
to read story. Mother replies:
my eyes ache. l cannot read today"
Pansy-Don't read wifi your eyes; read
wifi your mouf. -New York World.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

Come early and
ever before offered in Olympia My goods must order
to make for carloads of goods which
will be here this month direct from the
factories in the East.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

A Mrs. Z. D., whoever that may be,
writes to the Western Rural that II greatly
admire your way Of treating all f0sues,
trusts, combinations and the like, that are
trying to fleece the farmers If farmers ev-
erywhere would only combine and work for
their own gooowe would see great change
in one year" Now we believe that coinbn-
atoms are not for the public good, and we
suggest to Mrs. +. d., that whether the
great change" she predicts would be seen
"i's7one year, would DO FOR good or for i'll
would depend, entirely UPON the purposes of
the combine and The work that was done
by II. There Is Hanger that one set of COM
binatfons will be met by another in the OPP
posite extreme, and that the result of both
Will be to injure the best interests of the
people. We believe in the Grange the
Farmers Alliance, and in most OF the feb
lures of the Patrons of Industry, bat we do
not believe in ''boycOtts" any more than we
do in ''lockouts," and depreeate any state of
society that will give rise to either. We
think fair, open, legitimate competition in
the labor and i'm all other departments of in
dustry will in the end result In the greatest
good TO the greatest humber of people
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
HUNGRY FOR ACRES.
Train-loads of Settlers for the
Sioux Lands.
VERY CURIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Boomers Possessing the Earth at Cham
berlain Unmolested, While at Pierre
the Grim Soldier Still Stands on Guard
Some Exciting Chases After the Per-
sistent Land Hunter-Stole March ON
the Troops-skirmishingf for the Home
| steader.
CHAMBERLAIN, s. D., Feb. 12-Every in
coming train is heavily loaded with settlers
bound for the reservation, and the stream of
humanity crossing the river is almost con-
tinuous. Several thousand have already Sc
lected claims and begun the erection of
houses. The new arrivals are forced to go
farther into the interior. On the town SITE
opposite this city, the saw and hammer were
piled diligently all night, and yesterday sew
eral hundred buildings of temporary nature
dotted the prairie. Stocks of lumber and
provisions are being carried over, andj by
to-day many business house will be in run
ming order.
VIII Burn Their Houses.
Agent Anderson has ceased to attempt to
to remove settlers, having received instruc-
lions from Washington City, but he is de-
termined to guard the interests of the In
dams intrusted to his care, and he says that
If all the buildings erected by settlers on
lands filed upon by Indians prior to the issu-
ing of the proclamation are not removed
he will burn every one of them to the
ground. The nearest approach to bloodshed
yet reported was the drawing of a revolver
on an Indian policeman by an excited settler
when an attempt was made to obstruct his
aYtft int h.
thing that prevented the settler resorting to
extremes was the yielding:of the police, or
there would certainly have been a shooting.
ARRAY
Settlers Going by Thousands.
One interesting event yesterday was the
arrival OF a mixed train with a number of
fiat cars absolutely packed with settlers. A
special train arrived last evening containing
more than 800 persons, and reports are being
received from innumerable localities of the
forming of colonies to start at once for the
reservation. The people have been disap-
pointed so often regarding the opening of
the reservation that they have been little
conservative, and the rush week hence
promises to be greater even than it is now.
The influx will increase from day to day.
Gone to Hunt Coax
A party of old-timers, persons thoroughly
acquainted with the reservation, and who
are positive that they know of the existence
of coal. started out yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of prospecting and locating
claims on the White river at point about
forty miles from its mouth, where they
claim coal can be found in ineqhaustible
quantities. Indians have frequently brought
in specimens, but white persons have of late
been prevented from prospecting for the
mineral
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
Manly citizens of Grand Ledge are still
suffering with la grippe.


Many citizens of Grand Ledge are still
suffering with la grippe.
DR.. j. B. Abbott, promising young
member of the profession, for several years
in practice at Clayton, died Monday morn
ing of pneumonia
William Munich, farmer in Portsmouth
Township, Bay Co., was struck by piece
of iron Monday morning while loading hay
and is i'm critical condition.
Haulstead & Son, who have been running
p. of l. store at Grand Ledge the past few
months, are closing their business there and
are going to move the stock to MuskegOn,
as the p. of l. business did not pay.
Gen. VIM. Humphrey is now postmaster
of Adrian, taking charge of the Office Mon
day. He retains the present clerical force
for time, until he can familiarize himself
with the details, and in the meantime scores
of applicants will be uneasy.
M. Zerland has left Adrian for Washing
tom i'm responce TO a telegram from Census
Supervisor Porter, where he is needed i'm
case he can pass the civil service examin-
ation He will be examined in geography,
grammer, astronomy, history and arith-
metic, and itw be thus determined If he
rs IA No 1-stenographer and typewriter.
Gov Luce will make an effort to secure
the old battle flag of the First Michigan
Colored Regiment i'm order that it may be
given place of honor i'm the state armory.
This action is taken at the solicitation of
Maj. o. w. Bennett, of Philadelphia, cap
tain in the regiment who has learned that
the flag is slowed away in the garnet of one
of the public buildings at Washington.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
Epoch.

The transition from long,. lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks an
epoch in the life of the individual. Such a
remarkable event is treasured in the mem
DRY and the agency whereby the good health
has been attained is gratefully blessed.
Hence it is that so much is heard In praise
Of Electric Btters. So many feel they owe
heir restoration to health, to the use of the
Great Alternative and Tonic. If you are
troubled with any disease of Kidneys, Liver
or Stomach of long or short standing you
will surely find relief by use of Electric Bit
tiers. Sold at SOC. and 81 per bottle at
Parkhill e. Sons Drug Store.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
WILL PROBABLY ADJOURN.
The Iowa Legislators About Tired of
Their Amusement.

DIES MONIES, Ia, 12.-Three ballots for
speaker were had in the house yesterday,
each one resulting: Hamilton 35; Wilson 35.
The probability is that an adjournment will
be had without anything being done, and
then Governor Larrabec will call an extra
session for the purpose OF seating Governor
Elect Boies, passing the appropriation bills,
fixing the joint freight rates and considering
the prohibitory law. t
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14

Simply sppIy "Swayne's Ointment" No inter.
nal medicine required. Cures letter, eczema, itch
all erupfions on the lace hands. nose, &C., leay-
ing the skin clear. while and healthy, Its great
healing and curative powers are possessed by no
other remsdy. Ask your druggist for Swsynes
Ointment.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-02-14
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