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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
Two Different Methods.

The figures representing the republi-
can and the democratic methods of
treating the matter of public indebted
ness are so impressive and instructive
that they deserve to be urged strongly
upon the attention of the people who
pay the debts. Between March l, 1889
and March I, 1893 (When Mr.. Cleve-
land returned to office, the debt pay
ments of the republican party amount
ed to 1881, 1867 1878. Between March
l, 1898, and March l, 1896 (under the
rule of Mr.. Cleveland), the national
deot was increased to the extent of
$685., SOP ,245. That is to say, since
Mr.. Cleveland's return to office he has
put back upon the people just about
one-seventh of the debt that his repub-
lican predecessor took off. Give him a
little more time and no doubt he would
restore the whole of it. The American
Economist presents the fact in another
interesting form, as follows:
Republican monthly decrease of
debt, 1S65-1S93 -. .$5,7O2,114.T
Democratic monthly increase of
debt, 1S93-1896. 80. 7,5O2,921.2S
This is the work of the great states
man whose soul burned within him,
eight years ago, as he observed sur
plus in the treasury. In his letter of
acceptance, in 1888, Mr.. Cleveland said
ain reviewing the bad effects of this
accumulated surplus and the scale of
tariff rates by which it is p: oduced, we
must not overlook the tendency toward
gross and scandalous public extrava-
gance which congested treasury
produces.
And now the question is whether d
tariff producing surplus is really
more dangerous or extravagant than a
deficiency created by tariff legislation
and made up by buying gold at 90 per
cent premium from bankers who take
it out again at par. The American
people will supply an answer at the
polls in November next.-Astorian
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

MEHANs Monthly says that the
largest experimental orchard of apples
In the world is that of Benjamin Buck
man OF Farmingdale III. His collec-
ton embraces over $50 named varieties
1t seems almost impossible that in
any one fruit there could be so much
difference. that each variety could be
so surely identified, which it seems is
really the case. Those who give their
time and money TO enterprises like
this are public MISUNDERSTANDING
and Fruit Grower.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

This arportionment is made as provided by
the Barefoot law" viz: All of it according to
the number OF children in each district.
All moneys hereafter received from the State
must be apportioned in this way; while all the
moneys arising from county tax or from the
proceeds OF fines, forfeitures, license, etc. must
be apportioned according to the provisions of
section IL OF the old law. BY comparing the
new method with the old, we see that the dis
trlcts whose school population is rs or above
gain by the new mode at the expense of those
whose school population is less than that num-
Der.
To illustrate: School district No. l. with a
census of go gains $12 %; while Dist No. 25 with
a school population of 6. loses $175.
Eleven districts gain at the expense of twenty
two. G r GuNnRpsoM'
Supt. of Schools
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
Mothers

Anxiously watch declining health of
their daughters. So many are cut off
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
the early stages, when not beyond
the reach of medicine, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla will restore the quality and
quantity of the blood and thus give
good health. Read the following letter:
cit is but just to write about nv
daughter Cora, aged 10. She was COM
pletely run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
live over three months. She had bad
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

BECAUSE this is leap year, remarks
the Chicago Times Herald, is no rea-
son why the young man with his hair
parted in the middle and cane in his
mouth should dodge up the alley. The
new woman is not looking for him.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
Cough

and nothing seemed to do her any good.
happened to read aboc.. hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and had her give it trial. From the
very first dose she began to get better.
After taking few bottles she was COM
pletely cured and her health has been the
best ever since" MRS. adobe PECK.
II Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. Y.
81 will say that my mother has not
stated my case in as strong words as I
would have done. Hoods Sarsaparilla
has truly cured me and am now well. -
CORA PECK, Amsterdam, N. Y.
Be sure to get Hoods. because
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

LOST russia leather wallet con-
tanning letters and papers belonging
to H. c. Hu1gerford. The finder will
be rewarded by returning to this office.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

For SALE.-Comp1ete set of Cham
bers Encyclopedia, in full sheep bind
! ing for sale cheap. Apply to this office.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

E E. Cross Post No. 80, GAR
Meets in /. o. o. f. hall first and third Saturday
nights OF each month. Comrades are cordially
invited to visit and join.
E. DUNBAR, J,B, RITNER
AdJutant Commander
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
State Appointment.

The following is the apportionment of the
State School Funds OF $313G3 to the various
scnOOl districts of this county:
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
50 pure or 50 great u Ieav.
ening power as tie Royal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

DACIFIC LODGE, NO. &c,
i K. OF P
Meets the first and third Friday evenings of
OF each month at the Masonic Hail. Visitin
Knights cordially invited to attend.
ThOs .McLarty, F. d. SHELTON
K. of r. IS. &C
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
Society Cards.

E'IKoI METHUUIST-EPISCOPA CHURCH,
Preaching every Sabbath at 1890 O'Clock A. NJ.
and 7:3O P NJ. Sabbath School at IL 80 A.
Prayer meeting at 1880 P. NJ. every Thursday
Everybody is invited to attend. Seats Free
REV. F. M. WHEELER, Pastor
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

ct. BARNABAS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH
- REV. r. j. MOONEY. PASTOR
Services held in Masonic Hall each alternate
Sunday at II A. NJ and 73OPM
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

We Are Now Going TO Experiment A Little. On and
alter MONDAY, MARCH 10th all who pay spot cash at
time OF purchase will be allowed of Der cent
on all Groceries, except Sugar, Flour Canned Fruit and
Vegetables and Coal OIL and 3per other goods
these are about the discounts get for
we give our customers the benefit We believe
just and equitable plan and hope it will taken ad
vantage Of Our Prices no higher reduced
fast get reductions from the factories we
buy from. The quantities buy entte us to as low
prices any house in the land.
NA WORD TO THE FARMERS:~
Seeding time is with the
pete with California Yakima the Valley
dried fruit
o land them.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

No truer advertisement of the differ
ent localities of The state could be sent
east than the local paper Of each town.
1t is perfect mirror of the exact con-
dition prevailing, and will be read by
strangers with far more interest than
the average boom literature sent out.
-Bucod Index.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13
The Mason County Journal.
G. C ANGLE. Editor and Proprietor
City & County Official Paper
Editorial Notes.

GROVER, one more year of Grover.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-03-13

*xx
HALF million sacks of oats were
raised Oh the Swinomish Flats in
Skagit Co. in 1895.
THE Superior court has just rendered
a decision in the Pierce County case,
that the law allowing county superin-
tendents SIS. for each school visited is
-
unconstitutional, and that the officer
is only entitled to mileage, in addition
to his regular salary.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

The latest educational agitation is to
institute schools on wheels. 1t is pro.
posed TO fit out railroad trains, fur.
nished with dining and sleeping cars,
30 that pupils can combine travel and
study, halting at various sidings for
the study of minerology, botany, ge.
ology, and so on. OF course, only
pupils having money could patronize
this scheme to see the whole country
and study its resources ut the Same
time. This way OF railroading knowl-
edge into pupils is an advanced theory
of education. Ii it is proposed to take
tho pupils in the railroad schools out
into the region of train robbers, it
will also be necessary to teach tho
young ideas how to shoot. Ono pleas
ing feature of the plan, suggests the
New Orleans Picayune, is that should
the scholars prove refractory it will
be very easy to switch them.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
HUMOR or TIE DAY.

In autobiogrnphies there is no such
word as fail. Puck.
How lucky it is there are no taxes
on air castles Life.
al can see through your tricks,
said Photog, as he applied his X rays
to the magician's sleight-of hand per
formance. - Norristown Herald.
"When 1 lose any little thing like
that | know where to look for it. "
"You do?" eyes; it's nearly always
in baby's mouth. Chicago Record.
His Mama--"You children know
moro nowadays than they used to in
my time, Freddy" Freddy-"That's
coz there's more to know, ma. "-Rox-
bury Gazette.
Higgles-"Old Bilson called in four
doctors in consultation over him
when he died" Miggle-"There is
no danger of his being buried alive.
brooklyn Times.
Friend-"What did you find the
most difficult thing when you wrote
your first poems?" Poetz"To find
some one who would let me read them
to him. - Fliegende Blaetter.
Lady-'Is it true that you have
fallen in love with the princessP"
Lieutenant-."Q right. l just
wanted to see for once how hopeless
love feels. ."-Fliegende Blaetter.
"Can you lend me 105 marks?"
"That's singular amount to ask for,
What do you want of the odd fve?"
II wish to demonstrate my honest in
tentions by paying to you at once five
marks on account. "-Fliogende Blaet-
ter.
Benny Dictus-"There is an article
in to-day's paper should like you to
get my wife to read, but it is no use
asking her." Sam Singleton-"Ill
tell you how to do it. Cut the piece
out and put it in your pocket. New
York Herald.
Sportner-"You must have had
great fun when your football team
played Vassar." Jack Tackle-"Fuu?
| guess not. / am engaged to the
umpire, and che ruled me off for hold
ing IN tho very first scrimmage, -
princeton Tiger.
The Quantity: Old Carper-"It
takes an enormous amount of material
to make n fashionable gown nowadays" !"
Mrs, Carper-"Oh, no! Why, you
take the material for two skirts aud
make the sleeves, and take the mate
rial for one sleeve and make the skirt !;
that is all. Puck.
Insufficient Data :"You are an ex-
pert, are you not?" said the caller.
"Yes, sir" "Well, | wish you would
take these two papers and tell me
whether they we're written by the same
person." "Is it matter of litiga-
tionP" every possibly" Then it
would be really impossible for me to
comply with your request; not until l
have learned upon which side l have
been retained. " Washington Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
No Nccromancy About Invention.

One of the great inventors of the
age is Mr.. Edison, who has been called
in terms of we'll intentioued. but
doubtful, compliment "rhe Wizard
of Menlo Park" There is no spirit
of necromancy to be found brooding
among the vast collection of apparatus
in Mr.. Edison's laboratory. The
whole place is devoted to invention as
expressed in the good old Latin root
meaning of the word: "to como
upon" and hence to find. Invention,
in the case of Mr.. Edison, is search
and the search is prosecuted along
multitudinous lines with u perseeer-
auce which may have been equaled,
but has never been surpassed in the
history of the world. Speaking of
himself and his work, Mr.. Edison has
said 'ln my own case but few, and
those the least important, of my in
ventions owed anything to accidents.
Most of them have been hammered out
hitter long and patient labor, and are
the result of countless experiments,
all directed toward attaining some
well-deGned object. All mechanical
improvements may safely be said 10
be inventions, aud not discoveries. "
1t is not the man who dreams of
better mechanical ways of doing
work, but he who by intelllgent' ex.
pertinent works out the mechanical
forms that translate the dream into a
reality, who is entitled to the name of
inventor. Scientific American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
The ZerOgraplI.

The zerograph, an instrument in ap-
pearance very much like an ordinary
typewriter, is being used in England
for transmitting or receiving telegraph
messages. One machine is employed
at each end of the line. In sending n
telegraphic message no special train
ing is required. The operator de-
presses in turn the keys of what ap-
pears to be an ordinary typewriter
keyboard, with the usual arrangement
of the letters. The depression of n
battery of from five to ten small nc.
cumulators, which causes a current to
flow, not only actuating the printing
and linking mechanism of the trans
mitting instrument, but also closing
the line circuit, which in its turn com.
pletes the local circuit of the receiving
instrument. The two machines are
thus simultaneously actuated, aud as
the operator presses the key he not
only prints the message on his own
instrument, but makes an exact re-
production upon the receiving instru-
ment. As soon as the end OF a line is
reached the machine automatically
moves the paper forward, aud, releas-
ing a spring, causes the paper roller to
move along ready for the first letter to
strike at the commencement of new
line. The machine is thus perfectly
automatic in its action, and may safely
be left to take care of itself at the re-
ceiving end, the message as received
being printed on tho roll of paper
without any attention being required.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
A Golden Grain Garden.

A drive through the Red River Val.
ley will convince the most skeE tical
that there is brilliant future for 1t.
In no section of America does the hus-
bAndman reap greater reward for
his labor than IN this beautiful valley.
In no section of America may any
more beautiful sight be seen than in
this same country between seed time
and harvest. The vast field of "yellow,
golden grain" stretching as far as the
eye can reach, waving gently to and
fro in the gentle summer breeze, with
here end there pretty farmhouse
nesting among the trees the stretches
of virgin prairie thickly matted with
rich and succulent grasses and flowers
of every hue sending forth most de-
lightful perfume, the blue vault of
heaven meanwhile, stretching away to
the horizon on either side in unbrokeu
splendor, save hero and there ileecy
cloud all this is sight TO thrill the
heart of the most unromantic. To all
those men in the crowded East who
are endowed with spirit Of thrift aud
enterprise and who wish TO provide
comfortable homes for themselves and
families We say, come TO North Dakota,
She has room for the farmer, the mer.
chant and the mechanic. The Red
River Valley of North Dakota offers
facilities second to no place in America
for all such people. FARGO Record.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
A GREAT HEAD.

Financier - "You literary men
haven't the first idea about business.
Here you have about 10000 manu-,
scripts piled up in this dark closet,
and you say they are all paid for.
Editor Great Magazine-"Years
ago"
"Just think of it, Hasn't it even
occurred to you, sir, that you are los
ing the interest on all the money you
paid out for those useless bundles?"
"Huhl You financiers haven't the
first idea about literature. Every one
of those manuscripts is from a different
author, aud the whole 10, 900 Of them
will go ON buying our magazine at
thirty-liye cents copy until the
articles are printed. New York
Weekly
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The smoke of wood fires is not in
the slightest degree injurious to vege-
tation.
The Smithsonian Institution has do.
mated a collection of 215 duplicate
specimens Of fishes to the University
of Oregon.
Next October a scientific jubilee
will be held in honor of the fiftieth
anniversary of the fret application of
ether in surgical operations.
It takes the moon exactly 1854
minutes (twenty-nine days, twelve
hours aud forty-four minutes) to make
its revolution around the earth.
The first fossil insect ever found in
the southern coal field of Pennsyl-
vania, according to Naturalist w. Vic
tor Lehman. of fremont, Penn, vaI
sent by him to the Smithsonian In
stitution lately.
A new use has been discovered for
hops, namely, the curing of bacon. 1t
is found that spriukling of hops in
the brine when bacon aud hams are
put in pickle adds greatly to the flavor
of both, aud enables them to be kept
an indefinite period.
Paris gelee groseillce, which the
careless take to the currant jelly, is
simply agaragsr, or Ceylon seamoss,
favored with chemical essence which
| give it the taste of fruit. The au.
thorities refuse to interfere with the
sale of the substance on the ground
that it is harmless.
M. Moissan is reported to have dis
covered substance which is harder
than the diamond, in the form of II
compound of carbon and boron. II
is produced by heating boracic acid
and carbon in an electric furnace ut d
temperature of 5000 degrees. In ap-
pearance the composition is black and
looks not unlike graphite.
A gas lamp for checking boiler
furnaces. which performs for the
steam gauge do for steam and water
has been devised by Herr Walther
Hempel, of Dresden. 1t shows at u
| glance by the fluctuations of the jet,
what is the proportion of carboniC
acid and oxygen in the gases of com
bustion at any moment, enabling the
stoker to control the supply of air al
once.
An air tester, for showing the de-
gree of contamination of the air of Q
workshop or other place where people
are crowded together, is an interest
ing apparatus lately shown in Zurich.
A closed glass vessel is filed with q
red fluid having the property of being
bleached by carbonic acid, One end
of glass siphon dips into the liquid,
and from the other end drop falls
every 100 seconds, and glids slowly
down cord kept stretched by a
weight. The more carbouic acid the
air contains, the quicker the drop
loses color. The drop may turn white
near the upper end of the cord, if the
air is very foul, or it may pass nearly
TO the other end before the change
takes place, such graduations as sex
tremely bad, Every bad, "passable'
and "pure" being marked on scale
for the guidance of the observer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
EXPLAINING TT.

'Say, Name, said Maud, as she bit
off a tiny piece of chewing gum, 1--WE
been improving my mind again.
$50 way You haven'tl'
eyes, l have. | nave been reading
all about the convention. It's per
fectly fascinating, too. "
"Can you understand it?"
''Most of it. used TO think cOu.
vention was stupid, but 1t isn't bit.
It's just like a gymnasium or riding II
goat at an initiation, or something Of
that kind, you know.
"How do they do?"
"Why, they bring out plank
"Yes.
"And it's very wide; aud the can
didAtes try to straddle it, and other
people try to keep them from doing
SO aud the side that wins gets the
nomination. i don't know what it
means, but that's tho way it's dolr,
for l saw it in the paper, New York
Advertiser.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
PERM ENCE.

"Hnve you thought" +" said the rose TO the lily
"That our gardener Is god2
For they tell me he planted that plum-tre'
And even made grow the sod.
"He surely will live forever,
His life ls so strong and strange,
For the tulip who died this morning
Had never seen him change.
"She said he was surely immortal,
And the peony thinks so, too;
For he spaded her roots in the sprins-t...l
As her mother had seen him do.
''For my part think he has always
Been hoeing the tasseled corn,
And II we could only provo 1t,
Tho man was never bornl'
Then the lily bent near to the rose-treo
And, opening her snowy bell,
Exhaled her heart In perfume
While she whispered, ~ cannot toll;
''But feel II his life be lovely
And sweet as our own, and pure,
The One who made us will bless him.
And cause his soul to endure.
"For beauty, dear Rose, is deathess,
And goodness can never die;
While ever serens aud perfect
Dwolls the spirit Of purity.
"And since he is very gentle,
And tends US with 50 much care,
think when we bloom in heaven
We shall find our gardener there"
Cora Linn Dauiels, ia Demorest's.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05
Luck Comes to a wasncrmoman.

Mrs. II. IL. Leonard, of Wichita,
Kan, while looking over old papers,
found that the sum of Sl0,O 900 had
been deposited 10y her brother in a
bank ut Trenton, Tenu., in 1868. He
was killed in battle few weeks after
ward. A local bank wired the Ten
nesseo bank to-day aud got reply
stating that tho money was still there
and that they had been hunting the
heirs for over twenty-five years. Last
fall Leonard got Il divorce from his
wife and married woman named
Irene Leonard. In two months after
this marriage the second wife killed
him for $4,000 insurance policy on
his life. Since then the first Mrs.
Leonard has been washing for living.
Her fortune, with interest, is now
estimated at $4,000. Kansas City
Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-05

The Chicago TimesHerald remarks: ::
A tax of 81 per year upon each wheel
would yield nearly 5000, 900 in Chicago
alone and would bo opposed by very
few wheelmen if it were applied di-
rectly 10 roadmaking. This is merely
one of the numerous plans suggested
for inaugurating the movement in Ill
inois. A dollar wheel would build
more highways than thousand "good
roads" planks in National platforms.