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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
CHINESE VEGETABLES.
Several Likely to Be Useful Introduced In
This Country.


In bulletin g., just issued by the
Cornell agricultural experiment sta
ton, Prof. Bailey gives some account
of several garden vegetables which
have been introduced into this country
by the Chinese. The most valuable
for American gardens, says Garden and
Forest, is the so-called Chinese cab
bage. pe-tsai. 1t is a plant with loose,
lettuce-like head of crisp leaves. which
may be used in all the ways in which
cabbage is served. 1t is an autumn
vegetable, and requires a cool and
moist soil. The same cultivation and
attention are der1anded for the Chinese
mustard, which Is an excellent plant
for greens. and produces an enormous
amount of heritage. California pepper
grass. which was brought prominently
into notice by John Lewis Childs in
1890. seems to be finely cut leaved
form of a mustard which has been long
known in old gardens i'll this country,
but has not been described either in
American bOtanies or gardening books
1t is one Of the best Of all plants for
early spring greens. 1t is not known
how or when the plant first came to
this country. for, although it is Guilt
waited in China and Japan. it does not
appear to have been Independently in
PRODUCED from either of these countries
in recent years. There are other mus
tard-likc plants which have been intro
duced from China which possess less
merit than the foregoing species for
American gardens Among them are
the pak-choi, used as green's and for
the thick white ieaf-stalk; and the
tuberous-rooted mustard. grown for it's
small turnip-like root. Of the cucur-
bitaceous plants introduced by the Chi
nese the best is the wax gourd. zit-kwa,
the fruit Of which is excellent for con-
serves. 1t is easily cultivated, but re-
quires long season. The lakwa, or
Momordica charantia, is not new to
the American city trade, but has more
merit as curiosity and an ornamental
vine than as an esculent for our taste.
The lutfas, or dish-cloth gourds, are of
two species, which differ chiefly in the
contour Of their fruits. The one best
known has rib1ss cylindrical fruits,
but the one chiefly cultivated by the
Chinese in the neighborhood Of New
York has club-shaped ribbed fruit.
These fruits are chiefly interesting be-
cause they yield sponge-like fiber
which is useful for household pur-
poses. The tau-kok is bean Of some
merit for late home use, but the Chi
nese pea has little to recommend it,
and the other vegetables named have
hardly any value for our gardens.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
A PETRIFIED WOMAN.
An Awful Cash on Her Forehead Indi-
Gates a Violent Death.

catob u SkOIcHC DeaUns
Sixty years ago, SO the story goes,
there lived at Wallerville, Greene
county, ILL.,, a man and wife by the
name of Lovess and near by family
of Bridgewaters. They were intimate,
as all new settlers were. says CORE
spondcnt of the st. Louis Republic.
About that time land seekers came to
Walkerville and began surveying and
locating lands. Mrs. Lovess was d
beautiful woman and attracted the at.
tentiOn of one of the land buyers and
he paid her a great deal of attention,
SO much SO that Lovess became jeal-
Gus and in fit of rage left his wife
and country
About that time the Lovess log ca bin
was burned to ashes and there was no
tracerof the Lovess woman to be found
1t was generally supposed that she was
cremated in the burning cabin. The
land buyer, too, was missing.
A few weeks ago, hear the spot of
the old cabin, was found the body of
petrifed woman. The neighbors as
sembled to take the body out of the
limestone formation in the ravine,
where it was discovered. Mrs. Bridge
water, as soon as the body was pre-
sented to view, recognized it as the
body of her old friend and neigbbor,
Mrs. Lovess. There was the trace Of
CHASTITY wound on the forehead made
by a sharp instrument, cleaving the
skull, and which must have produced
death. 1t is supposed that the Lovess
woman was murdered and buried in
the ravine where found and the cabin
burned to avoid detection or suspicion.
tits thought that the limestone water
trickling down into the grave petrifed
the body. and that the ravine washing
out exposed the body to the view of
the man who found it.
The petrlfed woman has been ex-
hibited to large crowds of curious peo-
pie.
.iiiod wooe FOR Chinese Collins.
A curious sourec of wealth is reported
By the cnch .nsul at Mongtze, in
Upper Ty11llin. j, lies in wood mines.
The wood was orr inally a@.pine forest,
which the earth wallowed in some
catacl5.hil Some s.f the trees are a
yard in diameter. They lie ina santing
direction and in san, soils, which cover
them to depth OF shout eight yards.
Asthe top branches are well preserved
1t is thought the geological CONFUSION
which buried then cannot be Of very
great antirs-.ity. The wood furnished
by these ti.nler mines is imperishable. &
and the CAlinsse gladly buy it for cof-
fms.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
TEA-HOUSES IN CHINA.
They Take the Place of the Club.R
of the West,


of the West.
The restaurant or tea-hOuse In China
takes the place of the western club
room, write Messrs. Allen and Sacht-
leben in the September Century, de-
scrrbin. their bicycle tour in Asia. All
the current news and gossip is here
circulated and discussed over their eat
ing and gambling. One of their games
of chance, which we have frequently
noticed, seems to consist In throwing
their fingers at one another, and shout
ing.at the top of their voices. 1t is
really a matching of numbers, for
which the Cinnamon make signs on
their fingers, up to the numeral ten.
The Chinese of all nations seem to
live in order to eat, and from this race
of cpicures has developed nation of
excellent cooks. Our fare in China
outside the Cobb district, was far bet
ter than in Turkey or Persia, and, for
this reason, we are better able to en-
dure the increased hardships. A plate
of sliced meat stewed with vegetables,
and served with a piquant sauce, sliced
radisf,es and onions with vinegar, two
leaves of Chinese mono, or steamed
bread, and pot of tea, would usually
costs us about three and a quarter cents
apiece. Everything in China is sliced
SO that it can be eaten with the chop
sticks These we at length learned 10
manipulate with sufficient dexterity to
pick up a doves egr-the highest at
tainnent in the chop-stick art. The
Chinese have rather a sour than &
sweet tooth. Sugar is rarely used IL
anything, and never in te;i The
stepped tea-fowers, which The higher
classes use, are really more tasty with
out it
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
He w.s Too Easv.

Chief-Justice Richardson. of New
Hampshire, was ready to abandon one
OF his own rulings, If argument had
convinced him that it was not tenable
"a readiness not relished by some
lawyers That great lawyer, Jere-
miah Mason, was once pressing point
on the judge with his usual force;
Brother Mason, !" said the Judge, .sthe
impression Of the court is in your Ia
vor, Yee retorted Mason, ssbut I
want your h0nor to sticEt'
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

Lstcsary iame does not always mean
wealth IN Fsnnce. In the list Of tobac-
GO ahop licenses just published appears
tas names of the widows of John Lee
moanne and Camille Rousset the Aca-
Senicians. and OF the novelist, Leon
sta6ei, while the Soliel makes an APP
Pea % charity for the two sisters Of
AocoAse de Leslie, who are old and had
s'say dependent on the poet
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28
MYSTERIESI
The Nervous System the Seat
of Life and Mind, Recent
Wonderful Discoveries,

No mystery has ever compared With sil:zt OF
H. imam life 1t has been the lea6ins: S10:ect
of professional research ant; study IL i ages.
Ru notwithstanding this faca II i not gSfae1-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

AElceS 5chOOIfOrtfS CfBOth Se<<eS
IT'S ATTRACTONSFne
Grounds and Good Heathful and No
Nearer than Tacoma, eight miles distant.
GRADUATING COURSESSiX
Departments A Full Corps of Able Instructors
EXPENSES LOW than College log
And information desred Ito the Presden
PROF: A. c. JONES' QUARTERMASTER, WASH
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-28

y3oses,t 5;coov.>f les have demonstrated aat
al the .,sr.snS Of IAN body are under the (;sal-
troll of tl,ss terye e. enters, located III Or 1car
the base of ss bYSirlN ana tI;ts When ttes sare
deranged the organs Wa ieIe 1hS 5{, supp, hIlh
nerve fluid are also terst 'Su WHe: ., - -. re-
membered that sefSeus >ihsu 70 isS plil'tl
cord will cause paralysis { ne body oelC "
prevented by the injury fro. 7rs"cnillS u 70
paralyzed portion, it will be tn "efS ,s no "
the arrangement of the nerve cen.eIn VI II
cause the arrangement OF the var. oos oiS0E 5
which they supply with nerve force. -
TwO-thirds of chronic diseases are uiG
the imperfect action of the nerve caliteis "A L
the base of the BRAIN not from q deraGgG-
ment primarily originating IL the organ IT.
self. The great mistake OF physicians Ia
treating these diseases is that they treat the
organ rather than the nerve centerS which
are the cause of the trouble.
DR. FRANKLIN MILES, the celebrated Spe-
cialist, has profoundly studied this subject for
over 20 years, and has made many important
discoveries in cohnec ton with it, chief among
them being the facts contained in the above
statement, and that the ordinary methods or
treatment are wrong. All headache, dlzzl-
ness, dullness, confusion, pressure blues,
mania, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, st.
Vitus dance, etc., are nervous diseases no
matter how caused The wonderful success or
DR.. Miles Restorative Nervfne is dueto the
fact that it is based the foregoing principle.
DIR. MILES RESTORATIVE NERVINE Is SOLD by
all druggists on positive guarantee, or sent
direct by DIR. MILES MEDICAL Co., Elkhart,
Ind on receipt of price, 81 per bottle six
bottles for S., express prepaid. III CONTAINS
oejther opiates nor dangerous drugs.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
REMEDY FOR Roup IN FOWLS.

This disease is exceedingly con-
tagious, and is similar in every respect
to the diphtheria of persons. 1t arises
from the same causes, viz, poisoning
by bad air or dampness, by which the
germs of the disease are encouraged.
The remedy lies, first, in removing
the cause, making the poultry house
clean and dry, and keeping it as warm
as may be. The sick birds are treated
by giving doses of powdered chlorate
of potash, one small pinch of it being
dropped in the throat twice day.
The swelled heads are bathcd with
warm vinegar, and the mouth and
throat washed by means of soft
feather. The house should be well
disinfected by burning sulphur in il
during the day, keeping it tightly
closed for an hour or two while the
fumes of the sulphur are acting. All
dead birds should be buried deeply,
away from the house. New York
Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
GROWING ALFALFA.

Just now there IL much inquiry go
ing the rounds MS 10 proper methods
10 be employed in the starting of II
stand of alfalfa. In reply 10 "A query
along this line from correspondent
of the Nebraska Farmer, Professor
Charles =, Bessey has written us fol-
lows:
lin the growth of alfalfa il is nee
essary, first of ALL To take great pains
To III the soil for the young plants.
The ground must be rich and mellow.
Unless IL has had legumes growing up-
on u IL should he treated 60 II good
quantity OF harnyard manure in order
70 supply the soil with available nitro
Gen. Then when the alfalfa has oh
lainod foothold IL will thereafter
supply iisoli with all the nitrogen IL
needn
Prepare the ground with great
care, and have Il like n garden ~ te
mellowness aud freedom from clods.
Sow the sned ar early a. possible in ths
spring, bat 10 not snw Il on another
crop, - we Generally do with clover
II is well io rew peck or 80 Of cat
pes pcfe with the alfalfa. simply tu NJ
ford r. little nha,lo to the young plants
Since field ought to last many year'
when usge o. good stand Is secured, Il
will pas go take great pains With 4
DO not try g. aeei too large field aI
once, hat begin with few aerss, e
as iQ give these the grealebl care, ans
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

This astonishing yield was reported by Abr.
Hahn, of Wisconsin, but Salzer's potatoes
always get there. The editor of the Rural
New Yorker reports yield of7sS bushels and
pounds per acre from one OF Salzer's early po-
tatoes Above lil0 bushels are from Salzer's
new Seeding Hundrel-fold. His new early
potato. Lightning Express, has a record of s1j
bushels per acre. lie offers potatoes as low as
s..5O barrel, aud the best potato planter in the
world for but 81.
IL you WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND 1T with
jc postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co, L.
Crosse. Wis, you will receive free his mann
moth potato catalogue aal a package of six
teen-day "Get There, Eli" radish. A
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
Killing Perpoises by Electricity.

Electricity has recently been util-
lied for purposes of fishing. A net of
sardinal, as it is called, which was
nearly 1900 feet long, and is used for
catching sardines, was taken, and an
electric cable with dynamite cartridges
at intervals of fifty feet, was placed
upon the edge of it. The cable was
connected with an ele ctric battery up
ca the tor pedo boat in such way
that all the cartridges might be fired
simultaneously. The net was let down
at five in the morning in very deep
water, and before this was done the
neighboring fishermen had been asked
not to go out, in order that there
might be nothing to disturb the por-
poises. About an hour after the net
had been let down, the pospoises came
up in large numbers, and when good
many fish had been got into the net,
there we're about eighty just around it,
The cartridges were then fired, and
the explosion was so effective that one
only of the eighty porpoises escaped,
while the boats in the vicinity felt no
shock, and the water was very little
disturbed. Invention.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
The GarrOte.

The mode of execution by the gar
otte seems to have been originally de-
vised by the Moors and Arabs, and to
have been taken from them by the
Spaniards, by whom it has been trans
mitted to the Spanish colonies in
America. In the earliest form it con-
sisted in simply placing cord round
the neck of the criminal, who was
seated on chair fixed to a post, and
then twisting the cord by means of a
stick inserted between it and the back
of the neck till strangulation was pro-
duced. Afterward brass collar was
used containing a screw, which the
executioner turned till its point en-
tered the spinal marrow where it unites
with the brain, causing instant death.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

According to F. E. Emery, Agri-
culturist at the North Carolina Ex-
pertinent Station, the successful calf
feeder will use more tact than force
in teaching calf to drink He will
never allow foolish calf to betray
him into passion or display of brute
force. Do not allow the calf to suck
the whole hand or a single finger, but
placing the palm of either hand over
its nose, gently bring it to the milk
held in a convenient sized pail in the
other hand. By separating the fingers
hold back the sides of the tongue and
insure the entrance of milk when the
calf sucks
If the milk is warm there will be
less trouble, then give the calf more,
or less, of the two fingers, according
to the success in keeping it interested
in the milk. When the calf is doing
well the fingers will scarcely be touch
ing its tongue or lips. If it acts badly
give the fingers to suck and contrive
to let in dash of milk so sup now
and then will encourage the calf to
continue.
have been obliged to dip my hand
repeatedly into the milk and thus
give taste of it before the calf would
allow Its nose to be turned down into
the pail. Some calves will drink dur
ing the first to third trial, while
others will need the fingers much
longer time. Farm, Field and Fire
side.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
How to Cure a Black Eye.

The Medical Times some time ago
gave this antedote for black eye :
There is nothing to compare with a
tincture or strong infusion of capsicum
annuum, mixed with an equal bulk of
mucilage or gum arabic, and with the
addition of few drops of glycerine.
This should be painted all over the
bruised surface with camel's hair
pencil and allowed to dry on, second
or third coating being applied as soon
MS the first is dry. If done as soon as
the injury is inflicted the treatment
will invariably prevent the blackening
of the abused tissue. The same remedy
has no equal in rheumatic, sore or stiff
neck.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
SCIENTIFIC FEEDING.


A bulletin Just issued from Cornell
University Experiment. Station, on the
feeding of steers in Texas, shows the
following results
Roasted cotton seed do not have the
laxative qualities of raw seed and are
more pslatsble.
Faster gains are made by feeding
the boiled seed, but at a greater cost
per pound gain.
The advantages to be gained in the
use of roasted seed hardly justify its
general use.
Boiled seed are more palatable than
raw seed, less laxative and make
faster gains. May continue to be used
with profit.
Steers fed on raw seed, eating a less
quantity of seed, ate slightly more
hay in consequence.
Cotton seed, at usual prices, is a
good and cheap addition to corn and
hay ration.
The best beef ration fouI% by pre-
vious experiments cotton seed meal,
hulls and silage, is not here proven the
best, when calculated at former prices
raw seed, corn and hay being better.
When value of raw seed is raised te
near market present prices, ten dollars
per ton, the meal, hulls and silage
are again the best ration; raw seed,
corn and hay being next best.
The average cost of gain per pound
in all lots at present price of food was
3. GA cents.
The cheapest feed per pound gained
for all steers fed, when raw cotton
seed is valued at SO per ton, was raw
seed, corn and hay.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
TREE WOUNDS.

Tree trimming is in order, and
many large limbs will be cut off un-
avoidably. No stump should be left,
but the cut should be made close to
the trunk and the wound should be
painted thoroughly after as it has
seasoned for few weeks. Left to de-
cay in the weather it will soon admit
water to the heart of the tree, when
rapid and certain destruction follows.
Some people make the mistake OF
painting the wound as soon as it is
made. Paint and oil cannot adhere to
a wet surface, but will peel off, or will
let sap and water blister beneath it,
and very soon the application is value
less.-New York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
Mans Mechanism.

The wonderful mechanism of ami
mails, as Jeremiah Head, mentioned in
his British Association address, can be
but imperfectly initiated here and
there in the works of man, although
man has greatly enlarged his powers
by the artificial devices. By the COM
bination of his natural capacities with
the mechanical aids, he has been en-
abled to compete successfully in diff
ferent sphere of action with other and
specially endowed animals. The bodily
frame of man is adapted only for life
and movement near the earth's sur
face. Without mechanical aid he can
walk for several hours at an ordinary
speed of three to four miles an hour,
and under exceptional circumstances
he has accomplished over eight miles
In one hour, and an average of two
and three quarter miles an hour for
141 hours. In running he has covered
about Ill miles in an hour. In its
power to withstand diverse and exces-
sive strain, the human mechanism is
quite unapproachable by artificial
constructions. While fitted for an ex-
ternal pressure of about fifteen
pounds per square inch, man has been
able to ascend in balloons to heighth
of seven miles, breathing air at a
pressure of three and half pounds
per square inch; and, on the other
hand, has safely dived eighty feet be-
meath the waters surface, where the
extra pressure has reached about thirty
six pounds per square inch. No ami
NAL burrows downward INTO the earth
to greater depth than eight feet
Trenton IN. J.) American.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
How Sugar is Refined.

The method used by the best sugar
refineries is substantially as follows:
The raw sugar is dissolved in large
cisterns on the ground floor, enough
hot water being added to produce q
specific gravity of 1.25. The solution
is then drawn through connecting
pipe having a coarse wire stralner in
to large pumps, by which it is pumped
into the highest story of the building,
usually the seventh or eighth. 1t there
passes into vessels heated by steam
coils TO temperature of about 2l0
degrees. Milk of lime is added to the
solution in these pans for the purpose
of neutralizing any acid which it may
contain. From these pans the liquid
passes down to the next floor, where it
is filtered through a series of bags,
each made of two thicknesses of cloth,
an outer one of coarse and an inner
one of fine cotton. The bags are en-
closed in boxes to prevent cooling.
After leaving these the syrup is run
through filters Of bone black, which
absorb all the coloring matter left in
it. After leaving these, it is pumped
into vacuum pans, large vessels heated
by steam and exhausted by air pumps.
The pressure being thus reduced the
liquid is boiled at lower tempera-
ture, until, at 140 degrees, evapora-
tion is completed and the syrup rapidly
crystallizes into sugar. This is the
process by which the best white sugar
is made, while poorer qualities are
prepared by method less complete.
Boston Cultivator.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06
Fatal Field for Missionaries.

Sierra Leone, on the west coast OF
Africa, has sometimes been styled the
white Mans Grave" and no fewer
than three Bishops in succession died
within three years of their consecra-
tion. In the first twenty years of the
MISSIONS existence fifty-three mission
aries or missionaries wives died at
their posts. In 1928, out of five mis-
sionaries who went out, four died
within six months; in the next year
six volunteers were accepted, and of
these two died within four months of
their landing. These losses seemed to
draw out more zeal, for next year three
more went forth, of whom two died
within six months. Boston Post.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-04-06

II life is so short as some think it is, it may
be made to seem much longer and sweeter
by better care for our comforts. Minor
troubles are much magnified by neglect and
delay. We give too much time to hunting
up causes when we ought to deal promptly
with effects. This is much the case with pain,
which should be cured at once and cause
looked into afterwards. Miss Ida NJ. Flem-
ing, S. Carey Street, Baltimore, Nd, states
that for years she was subject to frequent at
tacks of neuralgia, and tried any number OF
remedies without avail. She was given quiz
nine, which she says affected her nervous
system. She suffered night and day during
these attacks until she tried ST. Jacobs Oil,
which finally cured her.