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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
A Strange Pennsylvania Accident.

We were the victim yesterday OF
one of the most distressing accidents
ever known in this territory, writes
the editor of the Mifflin Center Pa.)
Blade. Yesterday morning our wife
took occasion to do the family wash
ing. having been kept from it earlier
in the week by being very busy put
ting up our winter supply of apple but
ter. Among other articles of wear
ing apparel which she included in the
wash was our white vest, rightly
thinking that the white vest days were
about over, and intending to do it up
and lay it away against the return
of the next picnic season.
Now, unbeknOwn to her, in the
lower right hand pocket of this vest
there was large roll of bills, twelve
ones and a two-$14 in all. She did
washed the garment thoroughly she
hung II out OH the line in the back
yard to dry All might yet have been
we'll had it not been for Mr.. Ferden-
baugh's large brindle COW, which is
well known to most of our citizens.
While our wife was in the parlor
visiting with Mrs. Parmley, who call.
ed to see how TO make her grape pre-
serves jell. this beast-she deserves no
better name-broke through our back
gate and deliberately ate up our vest,
money and all! When our wife reach
ed the scene of trouble the beast was
just swallowing the last bill. with ev;.
dent relish.
Our wife seized the mop and rushed
at the niarauding intruder. but she
only tossed her head kicked sideways
with both hind feet, and leaping light
ly over the fence trotted off, switch
ing her tail defantly Neither the
vest nor the money, VS. are sorry to
say, seemed to have any had effect OH
her scoundrelly good health.
Our wife Immediately informed us
of the accident, and we instantly called
on Mr.. Ferdenbaugh and demanded
that the animal be slaue htered, doubt
ing not that we should find our money
IN the first Of that suite of stomachs
with which we learn from physiology
the cow is provided. This Mr.. Ferden-
baugh refused to assent to- He pleaded
that he was poor man. and, as he
iittN iNCNheiS OOuS tllC WV, tudI ali
his ready money was in her. We nat
urally replied that all of our ready
money was in her, too. but it failed to
move him.
1t was a sad affair, take it all
around. but one about which nothing
can be done Our wife's excuse for
not looking in the pockets before she
began her laundry operations is that
she had gone through our pockets for
money for twenty years and never
found any. and had therefore become
discouraged. And, if the reader will
believe it, that beast of COW had the
etfrontery about the middle of the af-
ternOon to lie down under tree di-
rectly opposite our house and content
edly chew her cud-remasticating our
S14 we doubt not.
Remember We editor needs money
worse than ever since the COW ate up
that roll of bills. Pay up, you de-
linquents! CordwOod taken the same
as cash-in fact, we had rather have
1.-THE cow can't more than gnaw the
bark off that at the worst
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
Az Ingenious Prisoner.

A prisoner who was being taken with
some other criminals in train from
LIE Mans to Sille lie Guillaume con
trived to effect his escape III very
clever manner Each of the culprits
was in small cell. and, having mau
aged to conceal sa W about his person
the captive in question set to work OIL
the floor. He succeeded in saving out
piece of wood sufficiently large to
enable him to drop on the line when
the train stopped at a station, and bis
escape was not discovered until the
party arrived at their destination. :
New York Post.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
A Good Subject.

The native Egyptian is an extremely
good subject for surgical operation
Clot Bey, the founder of modern medi-
cine in Egypt, has it that 1t requires
as much surgery to kill one Egyptian
as seven Europeans. In the native
hospital the man whose thigh is ampu
tated at 2 O'Clock is sitting up and
lively at six" Shock Is almost entire
ly unknown, and dread of an i'm
pending operation quite an exception
In explanation may be noted the res
ignation inculcated by their religion
the very small proportion of meat
they eat, and the total absence of al
cohol from their diet, and in general
their regular, abstemious out of door
life.-Science.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
The Bust of Cesar Augustus.

Two years ago last summer, att kir-
mess given in Keene, a bronze bust of
Caesar Augustus, loaned by Mrs. c. FL.
Faulkner disappeared and was sup
posed to have been stolen. A few
mornings ago the missing bust was
found on Mrs. FauIkner's front steps,
where it had evidently been left by
some person during the night.-Con-
cord People and Patriot
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17

THAT rival OF yours seems to be in
fair way TO cut you out He's a
pretty athletic fellow. Are you not
afraid of him7"
III Oh, no, but her father is. so
he has better show than ] have. -
Harper's Bazaar.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
The PyrOphOne.

A musical gas machine is an English
invention, and it is called the pyrO
phone. Its compass is three octaves,
with keyboard, and,it will be played
In the same manner as an organ. Ii
has thirty-seven glass tubes. in which
a like number of gas jets burn. These
jets. placed in a circle, contract and
expand When the small burners
separate, the sound is produced; when
they close together, the sound ceases.
The tone depends upon the number OF
burners, and the size of the tubes IN
which they burn, so that by careful
arrangement and selection all the notes
of the musical scale may be produced
in several octaves. Some of the glass
tubes in which the jets burn are nearly
eleven feet long. g.-New York Tele
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
VALLEY or THE WINDING wATEe

The valley of the winding water
wears tie same light it wore Of old.
stlli Ger the purple peaks the portals
or distance and desire unfold
stu break the fields Of opening June
10 emerald. In their ancient way.
The sapphire OF the summer heaven
Is infinite. as yesterday
MY eyes are on the greening earth,
The exiiltant bobolinks wild a-wing:
And Yet, of all this kindly gIaduess.
My heart beholds not anything.
But in still room far away.
win mourners round her silent head.
BIND TO the quenchIess tears, the anguish.
see. today, woman dead
Charles D Roberts In Century
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Public Officers

Public Officers
Governor-E. p. Ferry.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS E. Laughton.
Secretary of State Allen Weir.
Ireasurer-A. A. Lindsley.
Auditor T. M. Reed.
Attorney -General-W. C. Jones.
Superintendent Public Instrnction-R.
Is. Bryan.
Commissioner Public Lands-W. T..
Forrest.
Judges Supreme Court-R. o. Dunbar.
1: Z. Stiles, L. j. Anders and John p.
Hoyt.
Senate-Watson c. Squire and John B.
Allen.
Congressman John l.. Wilson.
State .nator-W. III. kneeland, of
Shelton.
State representative McReary Of
Union City
Superior Judge Mason Irwin, of Nor
te ano.
Prosecuting Attorney-W. A. Reynolds,
of Chehals.
Land Officers-Seattle District: T M.
Reed, Jr., Register; R Hayden. Re-
ceiver.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
Statistics Are Funny.

A clever hand at figures says: Twelve
thousand vehicles. quarter of them
omnibuses, pass through the Strand in
the day. and the narrowness of the street
causes each of their 63 900 occupants to
waste on an average thee minutes. The
total waste of time equals 3.l5O hours.
the money value of which. at the very
moderate rate of one shilling an hour. is
e157 per day. or over EAT 900 per annum.
London Court Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-17
Mason County Officers.

Mason County Officers
Auditor-JoSeph w. Day, Jr.
County Clerk Joseph w. Day, Jr.
Treasurer-Frank Fredson.
Sheriff and Assessor-D NJ Duckworth.
Probate Judge w. H. M. Dunbar.
Surveyor. S. w. Shelton.
Supt. of Schools c. s. Brumhaugh.
(Wm Potts.
county commissioners Franklin Purdy.
NJ. c. Simmons.
Coroner-A. f. Chapman.
Justice of the Peace (Sheiton Precinct
George Cyphert.
Unstable (Shelton Precinct)-George
Vogtin
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-11
Special Notices.

son of Mr.. NJ. D. Pusser. merchant of
rheumatis for year more, to be una
BILE to work or to go to school. His father
concluded to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm
the boy. 1t soon cured him and he has
since walked one and half miles to school
and back every school day. so cent bottles
for sale by Flint Bros.
For pain in the stomach collie and cholera
morbus there is nothing better than Cham
berlain's Colo, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rene
dy. For sale by Flint Bros.
The laws of health taught in the
schools; but not in way to be of much
practical benefit and are never illustrated by
easily be done. If some scholar, who had
just contracted a cold, brought before
the school, so that all could hear the dry,
loud cough and know it's Significance; see the
thin white coating the tongue and later,
as the cold developed, the profuse watery
expectoration and thin watery discharge
from the nose, not one of them would ever
forget what the first symptoms of a cold
were. The scholar should then be given
Chamberlain Cough Remedy freely, that all
might that even a severe cold could be
cured in one or two days, or at least greatly
mitigated, when properly treated as soon as
famous for its cures of coughs, colds and
and is the most prompt and most reliable
medicine known for the purpose. SO cent
bottles for sale by Flint Bros
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-11

the best element) in the government
of the country. 1t is the parents,
those who are surrounded by home
influences, who have children grow
ing up around them, who are most
DESTROYS of, and interested in good
government The wicked, vicious
and criminal classes are not, as a
rule, those with homes and families.
L. H. THOMPSON, Irasburgh,
HOSEA MANN, .JR., Wilmington,
]. K. DARLING, Chelsea,
]. c. ENRIGHT, Windsor, Com
w. l. ROBINSON, Barton,
f. c. SMITH, st. Adams,
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by de edge of dot water" Il will walk
we're please" "All right, Rebecca; but
choost hand me right away dot booklet
book nit de moneys, so dat it will be
only a case of mitigated affection, and
not so much of der heavy bereavement
pishness. Texas Siftings.
You seem to be glad, papa, that Mr..
Litewate has gone West, and yet you
said you liked him much better than my
other suitors" You misunderstood
me, my dear. When you asked my opin-
ion said: 4 liked him far and away
the best | do. . The World
There lives out in Joe Cannon's district
in Illinois an old farmer who is a zeal
Gus republican, one of the red-hot parti-
san stripe. When he heard of Cannon's
defeat he said to his wife, who is one of
those women who obey their lord and
master blindly; MARY, pack up every
thing, I'm going to move" why ~
asked Mary. Because Joe Cannon is
beat, and | won't live in democratic
district" Very well, said Mary, with
a little resigned sigh. Then the old man
went to town to sell his farm. There he
heard all the election news. He returned
home and entering the house, said ::
Mary you can quit packing up. l amt
a-going to move why ?" inquired
Mary. Because he replied sadly,
there's no place to move to- Boston
Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-11
FACTS AND SUGGESTIONS.

A recent survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at
1855, of which 249 have a length of
more than 4s4 miles. The French
Alps contain IA glaciers, those of
Italy seventy-eight, Switzerland All
and Austria 462.
Prof. T. Russell defines a cold wave
as a twenty degrees fall in tempera
ture in twenty-four hours over an
area of $4,000 square miles, the tenn
perature in some part of this area
descending to go. During the past
ten years there have been no less
than 691 cold waves in the United
States.
Three thousand millions of pounds
is the estimated yearly production OF
paper. The United States has SS4
paper mills and HOG paper machines;
Germany, 800 mills and S91 ma
chimes; France, 400 mills and 525
machines; England, 361 mills, SAL
machines; Scotland, SO mills, 90
machines; Ireland, 13 mills, 1 8 ma
chimes; Russia, 1873 mills, 1877 ma
chimes; and Austria, 22O mills, 27O
machines.
Recent information gathered by
the German Forestry Commission
assigns to the pine tree 500 and 700
years maximum, 425 years to the
silver fir, 275 years to the larch, 245
years to the red beech, 200 to the
birch, ITO to the ash, 145 to the
alder and $50 to the elm. The heart
of the oak begins to rot at about
the age of 800 years. The holly oak
alone escapes this law, it is said, and
there is a specimen of this aged 40
years in existence near Aschaffenburg
in Germany.
Now that there is literary Astor,
why does he not write the story OF
the founder of the family fortunes
says the New York Sun. Washing
ton Irving's sketch of John Jacob
Aston, in the early chapters OF
Astoria" deals only with the mil
lionaire's fur trading ventures. Be
sides, it is too fattering. James
Parton's essay and some random
notes in various newspaper letters
are all that the public has about the
first great American millionaire, who
lived in a time when there were only
half a dozen millionaires in New
York. Today there lives no man
who can name the New Workers who
are worth a million.
Red Cloud, the well-known Sioux
chief, and Sitting Bulls lieutenant in
his rascality, is said not to be an
Indian by birth. His sister is a
Chattanooga lady, who tells his
story as follows: When 8 years old
he was stolen from his parents, who
then resided Ill Wisconsin on an
Indian reservation in the northern
part of the state, and all track OF
him was lost for eighteen years,
when he was found among the red
men, having been brought up by
them. He had forgotten his own
name, but remembered that OF his
father and his dogs, and his identi-
fcation was complete. He remained
with his family few weeks, speak
ing English imperfectly, but French
fiuently. But all his sympa thies
were with his adopted tribe, and he
rejoined the Sioux, to the grief of his
parents and brothers and sisters,
and has since then been to all intents
and purposes semi-savage.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Cosmopolitan continues hope
fully on its brilliant and vivaclOuS
way. Each month its illustrations
grow better and more numerous and
its articles more meritorious. This
is only a just tribute to progress.
In the December number the reader
will be struck by the novel page
borders, a special allegerical design
for each page THE Passion Play"
THE Army of Japan, lyon Nj oltke, "
Literary Boston" and other papers
are in most interesting vein and
among the writer's are Elizabeth
Bisland, Arthur Sherburne Hardy,
Gen. James Grant Wilson, and Others
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Short stories by Richard Harding
Davis, Maurice Thompson, George
Parsons Lathrop, Joel Chandler
Harris and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Mrs Ward), make an unusually
attractive announcement for the
December Century, especially when
it is added that the stories are
worthy of their authors. These with
the beginning of one of James Lane
Aliens charming Kentucky stories
make this noteworthy number IN
the way of fiction. Nor is it at all
lacking in more substantial reading.
The California papers are proving
intensely interesting. DR.. Lyman
Abbott discusses the grave question,
Can a nation have a religion" and
there is so much more of the cream
that we will leave the task of skim
ming down to the milk for the
reader
The New England Magazine makes
rapid steps along its chosen course.
1t is one of those fortunate periodi
Gals into the editing of which SO
much good, thoughtful work is put
that each number can be said to be
better than the last. This is true of
the December number, now before us.
Especially noticeable is the raising
of the standard of the illustra tons
of the New England. If we under
take to specify attractions in this
number we should perhaps name
Emerson and his friends in Con
cord" by F. B. Sanborn, Anti
slavery Boston by A. H. Grimke,
among the illustrated articles, and
two thoughtful papers on subjects of
serious What shall we do
with our millionaires ?" by Rev.
Charles F. Dole and "Our unclean
fiction" by Joshua ". Caldwell. The
prospectus for 1891 in this number
is worth reading 1t will give a
good idea of the scope of this excel
lent young magazine.
One of the most attractive calen-
dars that has come to our notice In
this or any other year is one COM
piled by Alice F. Stevens of Peacham
1t is on heavy linen surface paper
with serrated edges, each page octave
size. The outer sheet is beautifully
embossed, in gold. yellow, and pale
green, with the figures 1891 and the
words with Modern Authors.
Within this. as an appropriate pre-
face, is Mrs. Julia c. R DORIS poem,
The Years" Each leaf beyond this
has one week upon it, with quota
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SO Eastern Ave-, st. Johnsbury.

1t is not the Mckinley Bill that made all
the people rush to S3 Eeastern Avenue. but
it is the Peoples Clothing louise Bill by
which everything in the line of Clothing fur
nishng, Hats, Caps etc, were reduced to half
price. 1t was the great Compulsory Sale
that we had, that made people from far and
near crowd into our store. 1t is the great
Bargains that offered the public that
made realise $4,000 within the last 3
days. Being yet in need of some more
spot CASH and at the same time, anxious
to close out immense stock of winter
clothing and furnishing goods by the 1st of
January we have decided to continue
great Compulsory Sale up to the end of this
year and will offer everything in line at
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"Uneasy Lies the Head that
Wears Crown"

And unhappy ought to be the man whose
CaIedonian is not paid for 1T is a condi-
ton that confronts and not theory" and
if everybody paid for their paper into 1891
or even S92 il would CRAFTY the publishers
and the subscribers conscience The
Mckinley bill has no effect on the price of
the subscription but if necessary can
introduce a bill into your letter box to
remind you of your Indebtedness to this
Office You can easily prevent the passage of
such a bill by looking your label and send
ing along the necessary cash.
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tons from some modern author.
The selections are choice, the mechan-
ical execution is perfect, and the
whole makes a most attractive
holiday gift This calendar is pub
lished by Greenough, Hopkins &
Gushing of Boston and is for sale
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Northampton, the meadow city,
and its beautiful county of HamP-
shire, in Massachusetts are fortunate
in the memorial produced for them
by one of the enterprising publishing
firms of the city, Wade, Warner &
Co, of the Hampshire County Jour
nal. Picturesque Hampshire" is an
elegant folio, richly illustrated with
400 fine half-tone views and portraits
and many engravings. Some of
Hampshire's artists have contrib
uted to the attractiveness of the
work and Hampshire's poets have
enriched its pages. 1t is in no sense
an advertising dodge" everything
of this kind being relegated to its
legitimate place, the regular adver-
Using pages at the end of the book.
The enterprise of such publications,
showing graphically by illustration
and description the characteristics
of different localities is becoming
more and more common on the part
of bright newspapers, and some very
good work of this kind has been
anything of the sort on SO monu-
mental scale and leaving SO little
ground for others to cover, so little
to be desired, as Picturesque Hamp-
shire
A reading of the Rev. NJ. ]. Saw
ages grand defence of the good new
times" against the much-lauded
good old times" in the December
Arena and of the ringing paper by
President Andrews of Brown Univer-
sity on Patriotism and the Public
Schools" will do much to dispel
pessimistic thoughts, to inspire, en-
courage and elevate. In both essays
the spirit of the best Americanism
sounds a trumpet note that must be
heard far and wide. Many will be in
terested in the correspondence, first
made public in this magazine, which
passed between Count Tolstoi and
the late Rev. Adm Ballou of Massa-
chusettS on the doctrine of nOn-reSiS-
tance, of which Mr.. Ballou was as
earnest an advocate as Tolstoi,
though not as extreme in his views.
Excellent full page portraits appear
in this number of TolstOi, Rev.
Lyman Abbott, D. D., who has a
paper answering the question
What is Christianity ?"-Helen H.
Gardener and Hamlin Garland
The Home-M aker, now edited by
Mrs. Croly Uennie June) presents an
excellent Christmas number, keeping
well up with the procession of
magazines, all of which seem to be
improving steadily. A pleasant
illustrated article on Hawthorne
old home in Concord, Mass, by
Jean Kincaid Mrs. Estelle M. H.
MerrilD and a forcible unillustrated
one answering the question What
exactly is the poison Of unventilated
rooms" by Mrs. H. NJ. Plunkett
are two of the notable papers.
There are many others, good ones,
on a variety of topics and the usual
depart ments.
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To the Newly Welded in 1890.

The Californian is offered free to newly
welded couples for year from date of
marriage The conditions are that the
applicants shall be residents of either Cal
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the marriage be sent the Caledonian for pub
LEGATION, together with request for the pa
per under this offer. and 10 cents to cover
postage. This offer will stand good from
Dec. 1st 1889. until further notice
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