The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-29
1893.

A review of the past year gives some
prominent items. Chief among them
has been
THE WORLDS FAIR
a great educating center, in arts, SCI
ences, commerce, manufactures, edu-
cation and religion. The value of its
exhibits and conventions cannot be
estimated. Those who have made the
twenty-one million visits to it, will
carry its benefits all over the world, as
they have returned to their homes
the newspapers have scattered its
knowledge to millions more who have
not visited it; and books will preserve
this information for future use. In
fact the future will show it's benefit
more than the present, as now the seed
has only been sown, in the future it
will grow. 1t has also shown us to be
A CHRISTIAN NATION
more than most people supposed.
Many people petitioned that the fair
might not be opened on the Sabbath;
Congress gave great bonus on the
same condition, and yet the courts
decided that it could be opened on
that day. and it was done. Yet the
nation as a nation show that 1t was
Christian nation for the government
exhibits and many of the state exhib-
its were covered on that day, and the
receipts on that day were far less than
on other days,-less than the expenses.
MR.. MOODY,
too, carried on his religious campaign
80 that for many months twenty
thousand were reached on each week
day and fifty thousand on each Sab
bath, ninety per cent of whom were
visitors at the fair. Twentythree
we'll known evangelists and hundreds
of resident ministers assisted in the
work. Among the
NOTABLE DEAD
have been Senator Stanford of Califor-
MIA, James g. Blaine of Maine, Gen.
S. C. Armstrong of Virginia, Justice
Lamar of the Supreme Court of the
United States, Jay Gould of New York,
Bishop Phillips Brooks of Boston,
Edwin Booth the great actor, Carter
Harrison of Chicago and R. B. Hayes,
late President of the United States.
THE SILVER QUESTION
has come in for large share of talk,
of newspaper discussion and of legisla-
ton by Congressman the end is
not yet.
have taken place between France and
Siam, in Southern Africa and in Bra
iii, and bloodless revolution in
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The subject of annexing those Islands
to the United States has come up fol-
consideration, and our present rela.
tions to that revolution and the Islands
is subject which attracts great atten.
ton from the president down to the
common people-who are high enough
to be the real rulers. Next year we
will probably know some things about
that subject that we do not know now
OTHER EVENTS
have been the great wave which swept
lover lowlands of Louisiana and adjoin
ling states, whereby two thousand lives
and millions of dollars worth of prop
erty were lost; an earthquake in Per
STA, when twelve thousand people were
killed; the settlement of the Be1in&
lsea question by arbitration between
the United States and Great Britiar
land
THE HARD TIMES.
For long time this will be remember
led as the year more than any othe
which people have suffered from tn.
hard times. Not only have the poo
suffered in winter when Thousands
have not had enough money to buy /.
5 cent meal, or pay for nights lodg
ing, but In summer many have not hat
enough to eat, and strong men coult
mot find work or money, so that by
hundreds they have taken possession
| of railroad cars and thus gone from
one place to another compelling tn,
inhabitants to give them food but al
so the rich have become penniless, BY
the breaking of banks, the shutting
down of manufacturers and mills, tn,
shrinking in the valuation of property
and the impossibility to collect thei
ldebts. M. E.
| The Pacific Northwest having com
paratively small population, has no
felt the hard times by any actual suf
ferlng of its poorer classes. Natur.
has been too bountiful to this country
with fruit and game, that any of it,
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