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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
SALISBURY STEAK.
A Not Unpalatable Dish Which Contains
All the Strength of the Beef.

A Not Unpalatable Dish Which Contains
All the Strength of the Beef.
The Salisbury steak is made by taking
the best slices of the ''round' on the
beef, and chopping it with dull knives.
The object is not to cut, but rather
pound the meat. BY thus treating it,
the pulp comes to the top, and the
tough, tibrous portion remains below.
This pulp is scraped off and made into
cakes, like sausage cakes. OF into the
shape like a gOOd-sized steak, and gently
brOiled on a gridron. 1t has been
found that meat gently cooked is more
digestible than raw. The fire must be
good, SO that the meat may be rapidly
brOiled, that is, be cooked on the out
side and almost raw inside
A little salt and pepper and small
amount of butter added make a not al
all unpalatable dish, and one which col
tains all the strength of the beef, with
the tough, indigestible portion entirely
separated. This diet is used exclusively
in chronic eases by physicians profess
ing to treat according to the Salisbury
method. They use but few drugs, and
what they use are mainly tones. The
diet is used not only in diseased diges-
ton, but diseases of liver, kidney,
stomach, bowels, nerves, etc., and re-
markable results are said to have been
obtained. T. Medical Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
THE GRlMALDI FAMILY.
One of the Oldest and Richest of Europe
Princedy Houses.

One of the Oldest and Richest of Europe's
Princedy Houses.
The Grimaldi family, from which the
rulers over Monaco have sprung, is ar.
Gent and distinguished. Several fooliss
statements are current about the origin
of the Grimaldis. The authority for these
fables is Charles de Venasque, secretary
to Honore IL, the first ruler who as
sumed the title of Prince of Monaco
after it had been aScribed to him, proba-
bly, through error, in the official report
OF the French General who, in 1916, re-
captured the Lerins Islands. Charles
de Venasque drew up a pedigree of the
family to which his master belonged,
and he may have thought that Honore
II. would be gratifed by being assured
that he had distinguished ancestor liv-
ing in 712, and another who was Lord of
Monaco in the tenth century. These
particulars have been printed, and have
been reproduced as authentic. Indeed,
a genealogical fiction has tenacious
life. A long and illustrious pedigree is
possession which once acquired is not
easily renounced, every member of the
sonal interest and natural pride in cher
ishing it. Thus, when M. Henri Nett
vler-who was tutor, we believe, to the
late Prince of Monaco-wrote the large
and able work on monaco and it's
Princes, . which appeared in 1865, he in
corporated into it the family fables
which Charles de Venasque fabricated
or copied in 1647. The facts relating to
the origin of the Grimaldis and to their
careers as sovereign Princes of Monaco
do not require any coloring or varnish
either to attract the student of history
or to fascinate the reader who likes to
be diverted or thrilled. There is no
lack OF amusing particulars in the his
tory of Monaco; some of the incidents in
it are as tragic as any with which Shakes
peare has dealt.-Quarterly Review.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
NOT POISONOUS.
The Funny Mistake Made BY Good Par
son in a County Jail.

The Funny Mistake Made BY Good Par
son in a County Jail.
One never likes to be laughed at I'M
der any circumstances. but the minister
mentioned in the following incident
probably laughed himself over the mis-
take he had made. He certainly did if
he had any sense of humor. He was
Wis ting recently the jail at Vinton, to
minister to the spiritual wants of the
prisoners.
On entering the jail he met two men
in the corridor who looked as if they
might need title good counsel Being
prompt, outs eEen man, the minister
went stra CHIT to business, first address,
ing the elder of the two men, when
something like the following dialogue
occurred:
Minister-How long have you been in
here?
"AbOut two hours"
There was short pause The clergy
man looked at him curiOusly for a mo-
ment; then he turned to the younger
man and sad:
''How long have you been in here?"
81 came in with him." pointing to the
elder man.
Another pause ensued, and another
question was fired az the elder of the
two:
''What are you here for?''
"Well, | came here to fix the gas
pipes, was the prompt answer. "Do
you obiect?"-Youths' Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
I1aDIuS OF the SaIamander.

Considerable ignorance exists, even
among persons of education, as to the
habits of the salamander. The mere
mention of this harmless little betrach-
ian recalls to the minds of most people
mystic ideas with respect to fre-eating
and fire-inhabiting creatures, which
have probably caused many of the poor
little brutes to be burnt by experiment.
al philosophers who should have been
far above belief in such absurdities.
The spotted salamander is the color of
lamp-black, with numerous large yellow
spots and stripes, and is very common
all over Southern Europe, as well as in
Northern Africa. 1t haunts all manner
of dark and cool places, such as cavities
under logs of wood, and holes in old
walls, where they can find supply of
insects, worms or slugs. All the sala
mander's movements are performed
with such absurd solemnity that the
most hardened reptile-hater could not
be uninterested. Sometimes the opera
ton of swallowing worm will last
twenty minutes.-Science.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
THE BUSY BEE.
The Peculiarities of the Queen, Drones
and HOney-Eees.

The PecuIiarities of the Queen, Drones
and Honey Bees.
A swarm of bees contains one queen.
thousands of workers, and in the sum-
mer season a limited number of drOnes.
The queen is the only fully-developed
female in the swarm, and usually lives
from four to six years. The queen has
a sting, yet may be handled with inn
punlty, for, except in combat with a
rival queen, she will not use it. The
working bee is much smaller than the
queen, and on it devolves all the labor
of the swarm. 1t possesses an instinct
which is but very little inferior to the
reason in the human family. The
drone is the male bee, and swarms
should not be permitted to raise a large
number of these non-producers, as it
takes great deal of honey to support
them in idleness for several months
The natural increase OF the honey-bee
is very imDerfectly understood The
queen lays all the fertile eggs in the
swarm. A high temperature will for
ward. while low temperature will re-
tard the maturing of the BROOD The
controlling of swarming is now per-
fectly understood, and it is important
that the beekeeper should become ac-
Qu;tlnted with the best method
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
HEALTHY RIVALRY. ~
How Patriotic st. Paul Boy Conquered
His Mothers Wrath.


His Mothers Wrath.
''Why, what in the world have you
been doing?" demanded a st. Paul
mother of her hopeful as he came in
looking as if he had been caught be-
tween two cyclones.
s'Oh, thunder, ma, I'm all right-you
orter see the other feller.'
Thomas Rutherford! have you been
fighting again?'
Eyes, but licked"
THAT makes no difference, I shall
have to punish you
''Oh, hold on now, ma, you don't
know bout il"
q don't want to know about it.
Eyes you do. You see there was a
boy come down from Minneapolis and
we gottu talkln' bout the two places
and BLOWN little and 1 said we had
fifty cases of the mumps in St. Paul
and blamed if he didn't up and say they
had seventy-fiv in Minneapolis and
''Did you 60 for him then, my SOM"
"4Ou bet l did, ma. | waded right
into him and give him the daisiest
sluggin he ever got and choked him till
he said there wasn't a single mump in
his blamed old town.
did you? That's right, my child,
I'm proud of you. You shall 60 to the
circus when it comes ''-Estelline
Cd ~ Bell.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
GOOD SHFFP y,ORIES.
A Follow -My-Leader Game That Was Very
Disastrous.

Follow My Leader Game That Was Very
Disastrous.
Several ''sheep-men' from the Inland
Empire we're gathered around the stove
at one of .he hotels discussing the pros
poets for mutton this wiD ter and wool
next spring and the pr1its to be made
by driving sheep to the Willamette to
winter, and at last they got to telling
stories about sheep.
One told about the captain of
schooner who had band of sheep on the
deck of his vessel. AS he was turning
and twisting the wheel to keep the
schooner on her course the old ram, who
headed the flock, taking umbrage at his
motions, came up behind him and at
one fell swoop butted him over the
wheel. The enraged captain seized his
woolly assailant and threw him over
board, when, presto! away went the
whole flock, popping over the rail, one
after another, Tito the sea. Boats were
lowered and with much labor portion
of the flock was saved.
Another told story which illustrated
the same follOwmy-le trait in the
character of sheep. At port on the
sound one evening just after the deck
hands had got all the freight slowed
away, there came down five hundred
sheep to be put on board. All hands
were veXed because of the delay and
trouble connected with shipping them,
but finally a pen was made of hurdles
between decks and gangway rugged
and in the dusk all was ready to take
the sheep on board, and they were start
ed down the gangway. The first one, as
he struck the deck, saw an opening in
the other side of the boat across which
a hurdle had been placed. Instead of
going along to the corral prepared, this
sheep made a running jump, cleared the
hurdle and landed in the salt chuck
alongside. Every one of the band fol-
lowed suit, and in short time five hun
dred sheep were struggling in the water
The captain, having seen the last one
go down the plank, yelled out: ''All right
down there?" An answer came back:
Cali right, sir; send them down." ''Send
them down" roared the captain, haven't
you the sheep down there?" ''Not
sheep, sir" was the reply, and invesvi-
cation showed that there was not
sheep on the boat. The captain could
not delay any longer and so steamed
away, and only small number of the
sheep ever got ashore.-Portland Ore
gOnian.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
Longevity in Norway.

The Norwegians, it seems, are the
longest-lived people under the sun. So
we learn from an elaborate "Livs og
Dodstabeller for def Norske Folk" just
published by the Norwegian Official
Statistical Bureau, or tables of life and
death among the Norwegian people
The average duration of life in Norway
is 4S. 33 for the men, 51.30 for the women
and 40. II for both sexes. The director
of the bureau also shows, by COMPARE
son with earlier decades, that the aver
age longevity of the Norwegian folk has
considerably increased. eff the NOR
tality in Norway" he writes, sis seven
teen per cent. more favorable than in
Central and Western Europe,it is greatly
due to the comparatively slight NOR
tality among our younger children" To
what particular causes this compare
lively slight mortality among children
is due we are not told, but probably
anxious parents in warmer climates may
take a hint from it and make inquiries.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
DEMANDS PROTECTION.
An Irreclaimable Criminals Pathetic An
peal to the Court.

An Irreclaimable Criminals Pathetic An
peal to the Court.
A few days ago, in the district court,
aprlsoner, who had been defended by
one OF our young lawyers (who had
been appointed by the Court received
the highest penalty the law allows for
horse-stealing, fifteen wears.
After the verdict was announced this
young lawyer was observed to speak ex-
cltedly to his client, whereupon the eli
ent stood up and told the Judge that he
looked to him for protection.
His Honor, Judge Noonan, replied
shat the sheriff would see that his rights
were not interfered with.
:, but that is not what / mean" urged
the prisoner.
what do you meanP" inquired the
judge, kindly.
Il want you to protect me. This
young man you 'pinted to defend me
says ne is gwine to ask you to give me
new trial, and l want you to protect
me, judge
And now that young lawyer tells peo-
pie that he won't defend pauper GRIM
mails without being paid for it, not even
II Judge Noonan sends him to Jail for
refusing -Teras Sittinqs
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21

a few women are engaged in the work
of the photographic Office, in map
drafting and tracing, and as tele-
graph operators, typewriters and clerks.
| These are in most cases the widows or
daughters of deceased army or navy
officers. and many of them bear names
horored in the historic annals of the
| country.
The Agricultural Department en-
plovs 112 women, including those en-
gagged in the seed-room. They are
chiefly corresponding clerks, keeping
an account of seeds sent to each Sena-
tor, Representative and Delegate; also,
the records of all applications for seeds,
plants, shrubs, etc. Much OF the work
is manual, such as making seed bags,
labelling and putting up Seeds The
employees of this department were
classified under the civil service last
November.
The Government Printing Office,
which is the largest establishment Of
this kind in the world, employs 1920
women as stitchers and folders of PAM
phlets, gold-leaf ornamenters, opera
tors of ruling, fold 'ng, and sewing
machines, press-feeders and compost
tors. All of the work is manual, and
the employees are not subject to the
civil service regulations; but, as an Off
set to this, the Salaries are much lower
and the number of hours longer Much
of the work is done by the piece, the
average amount earned per day being
$1.33 1-3. The compositors are paid
80 cents an hour, and usually average
about $40 a month, which is the highest
salary paid to women in this depart
ment.
The Civil-Service law makes no dis
tinction with regard to sex, but in
original appointments the head of a
department designates the sex of the
persons appointed. Women are not
now chosen as frequently as before the
adoption of the Civil-Service rules.
Men are regarded as more available
for all sorts of work. Women are en-
titled to the same pay as men for the
same work.
Two women in the Treasury Depart
ment receive $1,000 per annum each
One is chief of section and the other a
law clerk of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau. Of the remaining women en-
ployes in the Treasury get 81 900 each,
81 81, 400 each, 1913 $1,000 each, 81
$1,000 each, 500 5000 each, and the re-
naming 17S obtain all the way from
$3.50, this being the pay of the char
women, to 1910 each. This list is also
exclusive of the women employed in the
Engraving and Printing Bureau, where
the highest salary is 81. 900.
In the Interior Department get
81, 600 each, 80 81, 400 each, 1876 81 200
each, 1914 81, 900 each, 154 5000 each,
and the salaries of the remaining "a
range from 1850 to $500.
In the Post-of1ice Department, &
women are employed at $1,000 each, 8
at 81, 400, 20 at $1,000, II at $1,000, 81
at 5000, 5 at 1910, and at 1920.
The pay obtained by these women
workers is good when compared with
that obtained in private vocations, and
the hours of service are generally easy.
The workrooms, too, are large and we'll
ventilated. Y Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
BOOTS AT A BARGAIN.
A Young Lady Gets Pair by Walking t
the POst-Office.

"A Young Lady Gets a Pair by Walking to
the POst-Office.
She was as gentle of eye as a soft
gazelle, that is, she was, for this didn't
happen this week. 1t was in a shoe
store in Lewiston, and the gentle
maiden was an acquaintance of the
proprietor and always bought her No.
Us there when she encased her dainty
foot in any thing brand new. Here's
something that would fit you," said the
jocular proprietor, passing out a pair of
wool boots fitted with pair of lumber
mans rubbers. I'll make you present
OF them if you will wear them down to
the post-office and back"
wait minute" said she, and in
minute" She was arrayed in wooden
boots and lumberman's rubbers. "Watch
me to the post-office," and she was gone.
Her feet beneath her petticoat, like
little mice, stole in and out as if thew
feared the light" wrote the poet two
hundred years ago, but he didn't refer to
the Lewiston young lady who did this
Feat on foot, or he never would have
said 1t. She was back in less than ten
minutes, red-cheeked and laughing.
There, said she, as she passed up
the boots. do them up. I'll send
them to my father down in Penobscot
County. 1 never lose chance to helm
the folks at home," and the shoe-dealer
was as good as his word, and dad, mar
veled at the pair of nice wool boots from
his thoughtful daughter in lewiston
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
PREHISTORIC MINING.
Some of the Ancient Mines to Be Found In
North Carolina.


North Carolina.
Cloudland, N. c., on the top of
Roane Mountains said to be the high
est habitation east of the Rockies and
the most elevated summer resort on the
continent. looking down mountain,
hill top and valley, with the scene be-
low sometimes spread out over fifty
thousand square miles, and sometimes
the world shut out and nothing Visible
but storm and cloud far below.
Long before the time of the races at
present known, this country was alive
with active industry. From the hotel
on the one side, you look over mex
haustible veins of iron, and, on the
other, over one thousand mines where
prehistoric laborers dug out the mica
that is found in the stone graves scat
tered all through the Mississippi valley.
There has never been mica mine
found that did not bear traces of having
been worked by these people. The
mica is found in veins of feldspar from
four to ten feet in width, between walls
of granite gneiss. Imagine quantity
of plaster of Paris made into thin
paste. then a supply of bricks and of
wheat poured into crevice in the gran
lite dipping an angle of seventy-five de-
grees; this would represent a mica
vein. The plaster of Paris is the
feldspar, the bricks the mica, and
the wheat the garnets and quartz crys-
tails. The largest blocks of mica are
fourteen inches by eighteen; about one
tenth is merchantable, the rest rotten
and too small. These mines have
been worked for thousands of years,
and by skilled workmen with excellent
tools.
GA brief description of one of these
prehistoric mines will not" remarks a
correspondent, ''be uninteresting. 1t
is about twelve miles from here and
three miles southeast of Baskerville.
The mine is in hill or mountain spur;
it was worked on open earth, cut seven
teen feet long, and, in some places,
eighty-five feet deep. At first, the
sides were evidently perpendicular,
but it was worked for such vast per-
iod of time that the rock sides disin-
tegrated and wore away until they as
sumed a natural slope. AS the sides
wasted, the debris was carried out at
the top and thrown over the side.
This was carried on through so long a
period that the bottom or under side Of
the dump has become crystalized to a
thickness of nearly two feet. At the
bottom of the drift, when it was
cleaned out few years ago to work,
tho ruhhich ha1 aooun1l1 tod tO q dnDth
of about ten feet, and on that was
growing white oak with five hundred
and twenty-three rings of annual
growth. Imagine the immense period
of time all this shows to have elapsed
since this mine was first opened. y
Midland Industrial Gazette.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
AN AMBITIOUS MAN,
Why He is Making Desperate Efforts to
Secure an Office.

Why He is Making Desperate Efforts to
Secure an Office.
A wealthy Austin man was asked re-
Gently by a delegation of his friends If
he would not consent to allow his name
to be used in connection with the
Uuited States Senatorship. He replied
that he never had meddled in politics
before, but just now he had made up
his mind to apply for position other
than the Senatorship.
"Ah! | suppose you want to get on
the Supreme Bench" said the commit
tee.
The heavy property shook his
head and toyed with his five hundred
dollar diamond ring.
Perhaps the President is going to
offer you place in his cabinet?h
mo. You haven't guessed it vet"
Foreign mission?''
Gentlemen, I'll be candid with Won.
For years | have been trying to get the
city authorities to have the slop-barrel
at my back gate emptied once month
and have failed. l am determined to
have that slop-barrel emptied, so have
applied to the city council for the posi-
ton of driver to a scavenger cart.n-
Ie1as Sittings
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-21
CHANGING NAMES,
Notable Men Who Are Not known by Their
Original Names.

Notable Men Who Are Not known by Their
Original Names.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has the
euphOnious name of John Nipple
Mitchell. His name originally was
John Nipple, but when he moved West
at the age of twenty-five he added his
mothers name to his own, and it is my
impression that the Legislature of Or
egon passed bill giving him the right
to do it. Senator Mitchell is not the
only prominent man who has been
known to the public by different
name than that by which he was
christened. Vice-President Wilson was
born with the name of Goliath, and he
got his name of Wilson from his
adopted father who raised him. Robert
Treat Paine, one of the first American
poets, was baptized as Thomas Paine,
but he did not like to bear the same
name as the great infidel, and he
changed the first part of it. General
Beauregard's real name is Pierce G.
Toutan, and the name by which he goes
is of his own adoption. Beauregard' S
ancestors come from; Canada, and his
grandfather, old Pierre Toutan, emf
grated at an early day to New Orleans,
where he made large fortune in a
very short time, and where he acquired
great political influence, He boug ht a
large estate outside the city and called
it "Beauregard," meaning fine sight.
General Beauregard was named after
this ancestor, and when, through him,
he was admitted to West Point, it was
under the name of Pierre G. Toutan,
After time, being of an aristocratic
.endency, he changed his name to
Pierre Toutan de Beauregard. The
act that General Beauregard has no
'eal right to his name will be a sur
prise to many.-Carp, IN Cleveland
Leader.