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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
INSOMNIA PARTIES THE LATEST
Buffalo Bellies UniGue Plan of Wooing
the OrowsY God.

the CroUSy God.
A society young woman of Buffalo
has devised novel entertainment.
which is shortly to be made public. 1t
is to be a reception for people who
can't sleep at night. Among her
friends, says the Medical Record. are q
great many delightful people who are
troubled with insomnia, and who con-
fess that they spend many frightful.
wakeful hours walking the floor. look
ing out of the window, rocking in cay
chairs. trying to read or write and in
other useless and tiresome occupations.
When her plans are fully matured this
original young women intends. on at
least two nights in every week. to be
at home to those distressed female
trends from midnight until morning.
The guests are requested to appear in
any unique. respectable bedroom gown
bath robes not excluded; the lights are
to be dim, soothing music and stunid
conversation will be the ONLY diver
sions permitted, hot chocolate and
hight waters will be served, couches
and easy chairs will be provided in
abundance, and the insomnia victims
are earnestly desired to fall asleen as
soon as possible. 1t is whispered that
prizes will be offered for the first snora
but this detail is not authentical1v on.
nounced. The reception is to be a
1act' however, and an eager expec-
fancy as to invitations is in the air
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
Old Egypt'S Slot Hoxas

Inc Alexandria correspondent of the
st. James Gazette thinks that ancient
Egypt is looking up in every wav
Some OF its contrivances appear to
nave been quite up to date. Actually
they had already, more than two thon.
sand years ago, what we call nickel
IN the SLOT" for the extraction of some
thing useful, pleasant or otherwise
servlceable. Heron, the philosopher
OF Alexandria, who fourished in the
thlrd century B. c., himself an in
ventor, describes an automatic ma
chine used in the Egyptian temples for
a long time past. BY throwing piece
OF money in the slot the worshipers re-
celved some consecrated object through
"a valve. The box. the two-armed lever
with Its closing valve. and the other
details of the machine are all correct.
ly described.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
A MUD VOLCANO.
The Natural Curiosity of the Island o
Sumatra.

The Natural Curiosity of the Island OF
Sumatra.
There are many mud volcanoes scat
| tered throughout the world, but there
are few whose action is SO regular and
SO characteristic as that of Dempo in
! the island of Sumatra. This volcano,
about ten thousand feet in height, was
visited by Henry o. Forbes a few years
| ago, and is described in his wander
ings in the Eastern archipelago"
After breathless climThe had gained
the rim of the crater, from which he
looked down some three hundred feet
of precipitons rock to what seemed
white, polished mirror set in central
basin. From this basin was slowly ris-
ing a column of steam.
All was quiet and placid, and 1 sat
down little while to take in the de-
tails of scene so novel: vast circular
basin half mile in diameter, with
rocky sides of sheer precipices, dis
playing at various places horizontal
strata; at the bottom of this another
smaller basin. some two hundred feet
in diameter, filed to within about thir-
ty or forty feet of its rim with smok-
ing substance, whose surface. like bur-
nished silver. reflected the blue sky
and every passing cloud.
We had sat thus for perhaps ten or
twelve minutes, when [ noted that the
center Of the white basin had become
intensely black, and was scored with
dark streaks. This area gradually in
cod T1- cfnaIyr with
glass. for it was difficult to make out
what was slowly and silently taking
place, | at last discovered that the
blackness marked the sides of chasm
that had formed in-what l now per-
ceived the white FURNISHED mirror to
be-a lake of seething mud.
The blacl1ness increased. The lake
was being engulfed A few minutes
later dull. sul]en roar was heard and
| had just time to conjecture within
myself whence it proceeded when the
whole lake heaved. and rose in the air
for some hundreds of feet, not as if
violently elected, but with calm, ma
jestic upheaval, and then fell back on
Itself with an awesome roar, which re-
verbcrated round and round the vast
calt!ron, and echoed from rocky wall to
rocky wall like the surge of an angry
sea: and the immense volume of steam,
let loose from its prison house, dissi-
pated itself into the air.
The wave circles died away on the
margin of the lake, which resumed it's
FURNISHED face and again reflected the
blue Sky: and silence reigned again I'M
til the geys1r had gathered force for
another expiration.
The roar Of the coming explosion
was SO awesome that my porters, who
had never been to the top before, looked
the picture Of terror. and when the
lake rose. they took to their heels and
fed in 4 body.
Thus all day long the lake was swal-
lowed mp and vomited forth once in
ever iitcc2i or twenty minutes. That it
wa rot always so quiet even as now
the stones CT the Sa yah aod the ScOriso
on the sides OF the cone testified. Once
IN about every three year., the natives
toi me, - crops o. coffee. bananas and
rice were q':ii4 destroyed by sulphur
rain" whic:l covered everything for
miles round the crater
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
THE ANCHOR NURSE.
A Man Who Twenty Years Ago Had 1t
Down Very Fine Indeed.

A Man Who Twenty Years Ago Had 1t
Down Very Fine Indeed.
II see that Ives made a great run at
billiards the other day said the old
man as he chalked his cue, land that
he did it with the anchor nurse. Now
the papers are talking about that an
Choir nurse as if it was new thing. l
saw an anchor nurse used way back in
~, and the fellow who used it had
used it before, too"
Pressed for the story by a Buffalo Ex-
press writer, the old man said: Il was
in hard luck that winter and was act
ing as room keeper for friend Of
mine. One day a fellow came into the
room and got into game. He proved
to be very good player, and for Il
week or two he came up regularly and
laid out the local experts to the queen S
taste. Then match was made be
tween him and the best player in town
for one hundred dollars. 1t was to be
five hundred points up, straight bill
lizards.
1.-THE night for the match came and
the room was crowded. They began
to play, and dubbed along until each
one of them had fifty or SO buttons.
Then the stranger got the balls against
the rail and held them in one spot. He
ran out tae game, making, to be exact,
four hundred and forty-seven billiards.
The last shot he made was a hard drive
from the lower end of the table and it
broke the balls up. He was loudly ap-
plauded, and there were many com
ments on his skill in keeping the balls
anchored as he did. He got the money
and went away.
Next day we were talking over the
game, and one man said he didn't be-
Eeve any man could make so many
points off two balls without moving
them. He talked SO much that we eX-
amined the table. Then we got on to
the anchor nurse
did he have hole punched in the
cloth?" asked a listener.
"No," said the old man, she didn't"
"All on the square, was it?''
swell, not exactly. You see he car
ried a small bottle of liquid glue with
him, and he put COB of it Oh the table
next the cushion when we didn't see
him. The old man picked up his cue
and made "a carom. There was a
man." he said, ''who had the anchor
nurse down about as fine as any of
Them,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
Proposed Ship Channe, in France.

Inc proposition for great shipway
through France, between the English
channel AMI the Mediterranean. came
before the Chamber of deputies again
recently. The plans submitted at
tracted mu attention and were re-
ported as ''--avorably considered" Ma
Poieoc III. was vastly interested in
TINS magnificent project and favorable
10 II. but the national exchequer was
never IN a condition to warrant his be-
ginning the word. The project turns
up every once in awhile, and it is nre-
aicted that it will surely be accomp-
ilshed and at no distant date.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
For information and terms call at JOURNAL Office Shelton.
G. G. ANGLE, Owner

Woodward Of Pennsylvania by Polk;
E a. Bradford Of Pennsylvania, by
Fillmore: Jeremiah S. Black OF Penn
sylvania. by Buchanan; S5tanberry of
Ohio. by Johnson; Caleb Cushing of
Il. lockwood Hoar of
Massachusetts, and George II. Williams
of Oregon, by Grant.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18
ANARCHISTS ARE VAIN.
Nothing Pleases Them More Than to Get
Their Pictures Published.

Nothing Pleases Them More Than to Get
Their Pictures Published.
M. Lepine, the French minister of
police. thinks vanity has good deal to
do with the anarchist craze, saws the
London News. That is why he hegs
the papers not to publish the portraits
of men who are arrested for being con-
cerned in bomb-throwing and other Of
lenses of the kind. 81 consider that
all the anarchists" says M. Lepine,
"have mental twist, although l do
not class them as madmen. But it is
noticeable that there is in them desire
for theatrical display that must not be
encouraged. They have a very high
opinion of themselves, and are much
concerned with regard to what is be-
ing said about them. Whether thew
are at public meeting or in a prison
cell, they always keep their eyes upon
the public. See what happened at
Montbrison, at the execution of Rava-
chol. AS project of the Loire at that
time, [ had to take charge of that an
archist. He had written an abomina-
BILE song which he hoped to be able to
sing on his way from prison to the
place of execution, before a great
crowd. upset his calculation by hav-
ing the guillotine fixed at distance of
only couple of PAGES from the prison.
When he found he would be without
an audience, his fortitude forsool1 him.
All who were present will tell you that
he collapsed SO utterly that he was, as
it were, dead before the knife fell"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-05-18

The record shows that there have
been thirteen nominees for the United
States supreme bench rejected by the
senate besides Mr. Hornblower. Those
were John j. Crittenden of Kentucky,
nominated by John Quincy Adams;
Roger b. fancy of Maryland, by Jack
son; John c. Spencer and Reuben II.
Walworth of New York, Edward kim
OF Pennsylvania, and John NJ. Read OF
PENNSYLVANIA, by Tyler; George n
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

favored few to ensIaye the common
people, governments have crumbIed
and the most brilliant civilizations
have faded into barbarism. Wealth,
idleness, and aristocratic presumption
have been the curse of the world and
the ruin of nations. Whenever the
masses, on the contrary, have started
out to achieve any sort of change in
systems, it has been 3 change for the
better; it has been a step toward a
higher civilization and an aim to es-
tablish manhood upon its proper basis.
This is history. But suppose there
were danger in the organization of
labor, whose fault is it? As Wendell
Phillips used to say capital set the
example of organization. Before there
was an effective labor organization in
this country capital was combining in
all directions for the plumber of other
interests. Railroads we're pooling;
banks were associated; manufacturers
were combined and the few were in
position to to rob the many at will. 1t
not only comes with an exceedingly
poor grace from a representative of
these classes to denounce labor organ
izations as a menace to civilization,
but the declaration is brutal Would
this judge have the masses live like
cowardly ours to be kicked and cuffed
and robbed by the capitaIistic- combi-
nations. without a remonstrance? Self
preservation is the first law of nature,
and is it the aim of this 18th century
civilization to nullify that law and
compel quiet acquiescence on the part
of the masses in anything that wealth
may demand? If it is our civilization
is a more monstrous barbarism than
we have ever suspected.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
DANGER 10 CIVILIZATIONS.

In an address on Memorial day a
United States judge expressed the fear
that there was a menace in the labor
organizations to civilization. It is a
curiously constructed mind that can
see, among all the various combinations
that exist, danger only in those organ
izations that are composed of the men
and women who produce all the wealth;
and it is still more curious that an in
telligent man can read history and
come to any such conclusion. Never
since time began has a government
been destroyed or civilization been re-
tarded or injured by the masses. That
has been the special work of the capt.
talistie classes and the drones of
society. just as soon as these classes
have been enabled through the power
OF wealth and the assumptions of the
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Hazard Circular.

Slavery IS likely TO be abolish
ed by the war power, and chattel
slavery be destroyed. This I and
my European friends are IN favor
of, for slavery Is but the owning
of labor, and carries with it the
care of the laborer. While our
plan is for capital to control la
Dor by controlling the wages.
This can be done by controlling
the money. The great debt Chat
capital viii see to it IS made out
of this war; must be used as the
means to control the volume OF
money. To accomplish this, the
the money must be bonded, and
the bonds must be used as the
banking basis. We are now
waiting for the secretary of the
treasury 10 make the recommen-
dations TO congress. 1t viii not
do to allow the greenbabks &c
circulate as money any length OF
time, for we cannot control them
but we can control the bonds and
through them the bank issue.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

THE Russian government has develo-
ped plan by which the farmers can
secure loans on their growing crops at
81 per cent interest. Some of our one
story American statesmen should
hasten to tell the car that it is not
practical for government to do thati
An ''eftete monarchy seems to be do
ing more for its farmers than our gov
eminent of the people by the people
and for the people thinks it possible
for government to do.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
BANKERS, Circular.

Its advisable to do all in your
power to sustain such prominent
daily and weekly newspapers,
especially the agricultural and
religious press, as will oppose
the issuing of greenback paper
money, and that you also with
hold patronage or favors from all
applicants who or not willing to
oppose the government issue OF
money. Let the government is
sue the coin and the banks issue
the paper money of the country,
for then we can better protect
leach other. To repeal the law
icreauug national bank notes. OF
Ito restore to circulation the gov
lernment issue of money, will be
ito provide the people with money
land VIII therefore seriously affeci
your individual profit as bankers
and leaders. See your congress
man at once, and engage him tC
support our interests, that we
may control legislation.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

thing that is in the interest of the peo-
pie who have been 1egislated against so
long. The Republican ticket is made
up of men who are bankers, lawyers
and loan agents, or their adherents,
while the Populist ticket is composed
of men who are known to be in touch
with the agricultural and industrial
classes of the state. The one is the rich
mans ticket, the other the poor mans
ticket. Voter, can you afford to help
out your oppressors to the detriment
of yourself and family?
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
THE sUFFRAGIsr PLANK.

The insertion of a suffrage plank in
the Populist state platform may lose
the Populist ticket a few votes, but it
will also give us a few votes. But
whether it does or not the Peoples
party of the state of Kansas showed by
their action that the motto of ''equal
rights to all" was not i'll chosen. Does
any man, who has respect for his wife,
mother and sister, honestly believe
that they have not the mental ability
to vote as intelligently as himself? In
this country the woman, as a rule are
better educated than the men, they are
as intelligent, if not more so, as their
lords and masters. This being the fact
why are they not as justly entitled to
the rights of franchise as the sterner
sex-simply because tradition and
custom for centuries have served to
keep women in the back ground.
This custom originated with the an
clients who looked upon all women kind
as little better than slaves, who had no
rights that their masters we're bound to
respect. But that time has gone by and
today finds women successfully com
peting with men in all the professional
walks of life, and barred only from en-
joying the same privileges as man at
election time. In putting in their plat
form the plank that tends toward the
complete emancipation of our mothers
and sisters the Peoples party endorsed
principle that the old parties have
not dared to do and would not have
done had they dared. The Populists
can now point to the standard of ''equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none'' without a blush.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

The Coxey bill providing for the
building Of roads by the issue of non
interest bearing bonds by the govern
ment has been introduced in both
branches of congress-in the senate by
Mr.. PETER of Kansas, and in the house
by Mr.. Geary of California, and Coxey
and Carl Browne have been granted
hearings by the senate committee on
education and labor, but their argu-
ments made so little impression on the
senators that they now speak of the
senate as the twelfth juror does of the
eleventh. The supply of food at the
camp of the Coxeyites is once more
short-very short and appeals to the
public for contributions are being
made. These appeals bring in less and
less each time, and it requires no pro-
phet to predict that the time will soon
come when they will bring in nothing.
and the men will be compelled to scat
ter in order to obtain sustenance
Even those who are in sympathy with
the objects sought now say that moth
ing can be gained by keeping several
hundred idle men camped in the sub
urbs of Washington: If anything can
be accomplished anywhere it is in the
congressional campaign and elections,
and not in Washington that Il can be
done. Galvin's men have made a
leisurely start on foot for the Pacific
coast.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

GOLD is still going from us. 1t is a
good radiance. In times of panics and
war gold always hides his cowardly
head and leaves the hardships of the
nation to be alleviated by silver and
paper currency. But when prosperity
once more lifts itself gold, with its
treacherous face, comes forth from it's
place of hiding and usurps the honors
that rightfully belongs to silver. We
do not want such a basis for our cur
rency. Give silver and legal tender
greenbacks a chance to redeem the ma
tion and see how quick they viii put
hardtimes to fight and once more let
prosperity rule the people.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22
Panic Bulletin.

The interests of national
bankers require immediate fsnan-
cial legislation by congress. Sill
yer, silver certificates and treas
ury notes must be retired and ma
ltianal bank notes upon a gold
basis made the only money. This
will require the authorization of
from $500, ooo, 900 to s., 900. ooo, 900
lof new bonds as a basis of circu-
llation. You will at once retire
lone-third of your circulation and
lcall in one-half of your loans. Be
careful 20 make money stringen-
icy felt among your patrons, es-
lpecially among influential bust
mess men. Advocate an extra
session of congress for the repeal
of the purchase clause of the
Sherman law, and act with the
other banks of your city in secur-
ling a large petition to congress
for its unconditional repeal, per
accompanying form. Use per-
sonal influence with congress-
men, and particularly let your
Interests be known to your sena-
tors. The future life of national
banks as fixed and safe invest
ments depends upon immediate
faction, as there is an increasing
sentiment in favor of government
legal-tender notes and free silver
tonnage.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

WELL, that everlasting and tiresome
tariff bill has not yet been voted upon
in the senate, and there is no probabi-
lily that it will be during the present
week. The wool schedule has been al
ready worked for nearly week and al
though an attempt is now being made
to force it to a vote there is no GER
tainty that it is going to succeed.
There is no indication that the delay
is going to be favorable to the sugar
trust. On the contrary, the final adj
option of the sugar schedule appears
to be daily growing more doubtful, as
the sentiment of the people in all sec
tions of the country becomes better
known. As a straw showing the effect
of this sentiment it may be mentioned
that a proposition has been made by
one of the majority senators to avoid
the humiliation of having the house
smash the whole schedule by modify
ing it before the bill leaves the senate.
The free sugar sentiment is apparently
stronger than ever in the house.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

The coal strike has practically ended
and thousands of men are again busy
digging the dusky diamonds from the
earth. Railroads and big manufac-
turtles we're badly affected from want
of coal and other business suffered
also In some parts of the country the
mine owners are still holding out and
by their self1shness are losing thousands
of dollars for themselves and others.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

FROM present indications it looks as
though the sage of Medicine Lodge
would be renominated by the Populists
on the first ballot. Mr.. Simpson has
done much to help the down trodden
people and to force recognition of
his party. It is no more than just that
the new party give him the honor of a
denomination and reelection as a tes-
timonial of their appreciation.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

the close of the civil
when victory perch the banners of the northern
Circular issued along in the 7os when the
pie enjoying tie benefit of abundance of calculating medium;
Bulletin issued in March, 1893 by the Bankers
all national banks Farmers, mechanics aboreT
the and behold the of
this hat and show them the
support party that made these things possible
Help break the shace that binds labor and industry the
treadmil of the money power
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

on acc of the scarcity of currency.
The tariff as not effected the business
of the country, because there hasn't
been any change, and it would not
make it any worse if there had. What
this country needs at present is free
silver and free trade-when We get that
every one will have money.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-06-22

THE Republicans are claiming that
there is plenty of money in the coun
try and that free coinage Of silver
would make cheap money There may
be money IN deposit banks and IN old
boots, etc, but the people of the coun-
try have not sufficient coin to pay of
their small debts and cannot get it be-
cause it cannot be had Business all
over the country IS simply paraIyzed