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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
Good Reading for November.

AS the autumn evenings grow longer
one naturally turns from the outdoor
pleasures, the evening walk, or ride,
and seeks entertainment indoors,
around the family table and by the
fireside. For such a purpose one
might go far and find nothing so good
as the current November number of
DEMoREsT's MAGAZINE.
For variety of interest it certainly
meets every need, as a glance at its
most attractive table of contents will
show: Among the descriptive articles
we see "The Boston Public Library"
"Life in the Tyrolese Mountains" !"
"The Great Muir Glacier" and "To
the North Pole by Balloon" In fc-
ton there is a capital little story by
Clinton Ross called "The Pretty Wit
OF Captain Paul JONES'" the last in
stallment of Robert Louis Stevenson's
latest novel, and "The Savings of the
'?" by Mary Annable Fanton.
Of general interest are an exhaustive
article on Women as Lawyers, one of
Kate Jordan's sketches of "Paris Paint
ers and their Models" a biographical
account of Aubrey Beardsley, and a
lively symposium from five different
points of view on "The Passing of the
Small Waist"
In "Home Art" are beautiful pat
terms for linen embroidery and instruc-
ton in the making of birch-bark arti-
cles. In "Sanitarian" the cultivation
of beauty is discussed. In "House-
hold" some useful suggestions are Civ
en- in an article on "The Model Host
ess." "The Worlds Progress" keeps
abreast of current topics of interest.
"The World of Letters and Art" gives
interesting bits of information in it's
department, and the Fashion Depart
ment is suggestive and we'll illustrated.
In addition to this wealth of read
ing matter, there are pictures galore
on nearly every page, more than a
dozen full-page ones besides all that
are necessary to fully illustrate every
article capable of being illustrated.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
Silk From Wood Pulp.

In SO many ways has wood pulp
come to be utilized that the question
naturally arises, what next? Every
few days an announcement is made in
which 1t becomes the chief factor.
The latest is that of the new industry
soon to be started at Lancashire, Eng
land, for the manufacture of silk out
OF wood pulp. Quixotic as this idea
may appear, says the London Times,
1t has already been established that
silk, or rather artificial silk, can be so
made; that it can be nsed for the
many purposes for which natural silk
is used, and others besides; that it is
especially suitable for working up
with natural silk, cotton or wool for
dress material, ribbons. trimmings.
church decorations, vestments, etc.,
that the artificial silk can scarcely be
distinguished from that for which
we have hitherto depended on the silk
worm; and that it can be sold at prices
very much lower and still leave a SUBJ
stantial profit. Dress and other fabrics
made from this wood silk are, indeed,
already being sold extensively in Lon
don as among the leading features of
this seasons Paris novelties, though
the appearance Of them is so close to
that of the ordinary silks, and so little
has been said Of the new discovery,
that neither the ladies who have
bought them, nor, indeed, the shop
keepers who have sold them, have
realized the change that has been
brought about in the process of manu-
facture.
The idea first originated in France
where the wood silk now comes from,
large works having been established at
Besancon under patents granted to
Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, chev-
alier of the Legion of Honor, who dis
covered the process and first establish
ed in 1898 the fact that it might be
made into commercial success.-W.
G. Lumberman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
The Lumber Trade.

A country with 100000 people,
living in 100000 houses, 11,OOO, 600
OF which are built of wood says the
Chicago Hardwood Record, must have
enormous lumber resources. The per-
son who assumes that will not be COM
PEELED to change his mind when he
examines the records of production.
They show that the United States;s
now consuming about 4OOOO,OOO,OOO
feet annually, valued at $3.50 900 600.
AT this rate of consumption the esti-
mated standing supply of 3,3OO,O0O,-
OOO,OOO feet board measure, would not
last many years, but there are signs of
growing appreciation of the desirable
lty OF systematic forestry laws, and
other facts which point to the conclus-
Ion that timber will be moderately
plentiful in the United States for a.
long period to come.
The growth of the lumber industry
is a excellent index of the progress
and growth OF the country. In 1870
we find that the number of men en-
gagged in numbering was 149,997, and
that their wages account footed up
$32,OO7 1922, while the product of the
year was valued at $16S, ,127 1862.
Twenty years later 2S6,197 men were
engaged in numbering, and they earned
$o|, o4,433, their output being $4O3,-
667, 675.
Not only do we consume the major
part of this vast product of American
forests, but in addition we import from
Canada from $1O,OOO,OOO to $2O,OO0,-
OOO year. 1t is true, however, that
our exports of late years exceed our
imports reaching $27 1915 5,423 in 1892.
1t is expected that by the end of the
century our lumber interests will have
attained its climax, so far as quantity
produced is concerned. The growing
tendency to substitute more durable
materials for wood in the construction
OF buildings will have a great effect,
and 1t is not improbable that the new
forest growth will be more than suffi-
clent IN many of the older section of
the Union to supply the demand for
timber under the changed circum-
stances.-N. w. Lumberman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

The wife of Mr.. Leonard Wells, of
East Brimfeld, Mass, had been suffer
ing from neuralgia for two days, not
being able to sleep or hardly keep still,
when Mr.. Holden, the merchant there
sent her a bottle of Chamberlain s
Pain Balm, and asked that she give it a
thorough trial. On meeting Mr.. Wells
the next day he was told that she was
all right, the pain had left her within
two hours, and that the bottle of Pain
Balm was worth $500 if it could not
be had for less For sale at so cents
per bottle by Frank Tuell.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

Feed for Hens.

If your pullets have been properly
cared for they will begin to lay when
five or six months old, and when the
weather is cold they will keep right on
laying, providing they have a warm
house, are properly fed and have whole
some water TO drink. Do not compel
them to eat snow and ice. Suppose
you try that on your cow as S. P.
Yoder suggests, for about one week
and see what happy 90 effect it will
have on the flow of milk! 1 am often
asked what 1 feed my hens to make
them lay. l do not believe in "mak-
ing hens lay" We should remember
that the eggs in the ovary must have
a period of growth and development,
and all that we are required to do is
to furnish such food and otherwise make
their surroundings such as will enable
the hens to produce eggs. Watch lay
ing hens in the Summer when they
are at liberty to forage where they
please, and you will notice what a
variety of food they consume. Differ
ent kinds of grain, insects, weed seeds,
clover and other green food, with now
and then sharp gravel or other gritty
substance as "grinding material" AS
a substitute for insects, which they
cannot find in Winter, we furnish ami
NAL food in the form of crushed bone
or animal meal, not as quack medicine
to "make them law" but as part of
their regular food to supply the nutri
ment they require. Loose cabbage
heads that have no market value are
very good.-Farmer's Voice.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

THERE is now every reason to an tici-
pate that the fruit crop of the Pacific
Northwest will next year be far greater
commercial Importance than ever be-
fore. The era of orchard planting be-
gan on large scale in 1889 and was
at it's height in 1891 and 1892. The
great bulk of the prune trees in Oregon
and Washington will be of bearing ag
next year. Apple trees do not come
into bearing quite SO young; as rule
as prune trees, but the young orchard
will cut great figure next year and
give large supply of good apples.
Cherries have not been recognized as
of very much importance in COM
mercial way, but it will not be sur
prising if we have fifty or a hundred
carloads to spare next year. 1t is
probable that the shipments of straw
berries from Hood River and the Pacific
Northwest generally will bemore than
twice as large as this year. The pear
crop, which is very important in
Southern Oregon, is likely to increase
largely as a result of new orchards
coming into bearing there and else
where. The fruit growers of the
Northwest deserve year of good crops
and good prices and we can at least
hope for both.-Rural Northwest.
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Oregon Washington Cherries.

w. HI. Wild, an extensive nursery
man of Salem. Or, was in the city a
few days ago and gave the writer con-
siderable information concerning the
fruit growing interests of that section
of the country. Mr.. Wild in COM
munication to one of the horticultural
journals year Or two mentioned the
fact of a certain treatment for the
cherry tree affected with the disease
known is the gummosis. This now on
Puget Sound threatens the destruction
of a large portion of the trees of the
sweet varieties of this fruit the acid
varieties, as the Dukes and Morellas
being more hardly and not so subject
to attack. 1t isigenerally agreed that
the want of drainage in the oil is the
principle cause of the trouble with the
cherry, where this being the case, the
trees soon showing symptoms of the
diseases. No trees of the cherry kind
should be planted upon any soil that
is not of deep loam six to eight feet
of hard-pan and the soil should be
naturally dry. And Furthermore, the
trees should never be over stimulated
by high manuring or much cultivating
of the soil of the orchard. Excessive
wood growth seems to be favorable to
disease conditions. The best and
almost the only treatment commended
for the gumosis is to carefully cut away
all the gummosis exudations, and to
slit the ears of the trees. This Sitting
of the bark is as a rule beneficial to
the trees, whether they give evidence
of the disease or not. Mr.. Wild states
that this course OF treatment has been
very successful practiced in the region
about Salem, and that the trees there
are now in a much better and more
healthy condition than formerly. The
cherry is very largely grown IN that
section.-UniOn
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
1t Was the Way it Was Put.

II presume you gave the prisoner
some occasion to strike your
"Why, your honor, we were talking
about the coinage, and he made some
statement that called me to remark
that he had been misled and was argu-
ing from the wrong premises, and then
he struck me-"
"Is that what he said to you, pris-
oner?"
ayes, that was the substance of it,
your honor, but not the language.
What he said was that I didn't know
enough to pound sand in a rat hole
and was talking through my hat like a
ackass full OF thistles and bull-nettles. .
Indianapolis Journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

Magazine articles about the late
George Du Maurier are likely to be
quite numerous during the coming
months. The first noteworthy at
tempt to form an estimate of Du-
Maurier's career that has appeared in
America since his death in the form
of profusely illustrated article con-
tributed to the November Review of
Reviews, by Mr.. Ernest Knauffit, who
describes Du Maurier's qualities as an
artist and illustrator, rather than his
more recently developed gifts as
writer of fiction. Mr.. Knauffit has
for years followed Du Maurier's work
in Punch, and his article is illustrated
with many evidence of his zeal and
success as an enthusiastic collector of
Du Mauriana. There are several in
teresting portraits of the author OF
|"Trilby."
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
To Preserve Butter.

From Australia comes the news OF a
novel plan of packing and preserving
butter, says the Southern Farmer.
The arrangement consists of special
ly constructed box made of six sheets
of glass, designed in the form of a
cube, the joints being covered with ad-
hesive grease-proof paper. When the
box is filled it is covered with about
a quarter of an inch of plaster OF paris,
which in turn is covered with prepar-
ed paper if the box is small one, and
with canvass if it is large one. The
cubes are made to holdVarious weights
from one pound to two hundred OF
butter, and It is.claimed shat the plas-
ter of paris, being non-conductor OF
heat, preserves the hermetically sealed
butter from being affected by any tenn
perature likely to be encountered.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
Reward! Reward!

Wilbur's Puget Sound Cough Cure
positively cures la grippe, coughs,
colds, hoarseness, woooping cough,
lung and throat trouble, and consump-
ton. Can be taken by the most deli
cate female or child. Every bottle
guaranteed to cure. Price 80 cents.
Sold by Druggists.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

Good advice: Never leave home on
a Journey without a bottle of Chamber
lain's Collc, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. For sale by Frank Tueil'
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06
Society Cards.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
REV, F. H. WEBSTER, PASTOR.
Preaching services every Sunday at 1890 a. m.
and 7:so o. m. Sunday school at 2:3o p. m B.
Y,P. U. at $50 p. m. Prayer Meeting every
thursday evening at o'clock followed by G. G.
class All are made welcome at these services.
Corner Fifth and Gotta SITS.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

FIRST METHODIsT-EPISCOPA CHURCH,
o.
reaching every Sabbath at 10; 30 o'clock A. N.
iad 7:30 p NJ. Sabbath School at ll:5o A.
ersyer meeting at 1901 P. NJ. every Thursday
Everybody is invited to attend. Seats free.
REV. F. NJ. WHEELER, Pastor
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

.,ELCOME CHAPTER, NO 40.
w ORDER EASTERN STAR.
Meets every Saturday after Full moon of each
month. All members in good standing are
made welcome.
R \ BARGER ROSE E. DURREL,
Sec Worthy Matron.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

or RARNABAs' EPISCOPAL CHURCH
y REV. R. ]. MOONEY. PASTOR.
Services held in Masonic Hall each alternate
Sunday at IL A. NJ and 1902. NJ.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

CEDAR CAMP No $50.
y WOODMEN OFTHE WORLD.
Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Masonic
Hall Shelton. Visiting neighbors cordially in
vited to camp with US, DR.. w. M. Beach,
AL J. Munson, Clerk, Consul.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

DACIFIC LODGE, NO. 66,
X. OFP
Meets the first and third Friday evenings OF
steach month at the Masonic Hall. Visltln
Knights cordially invited to attend.
Thos McLarty, F. D. SHELTON,
K. of r. IS. Z. u.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-06

Mt. MORIAH LODGE, No. II,
M F. 81 NJ.
b OCULAR Communications. Saturday eve
II On or before the full of the Moon. A cor
dial invitation is given to all brethren in good
standing. Masonic Hall. Shelton, w. T.
BIS BARGER. W. NJ, L. K MUNsoN, Sec
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-10-28

went to hear Rhea the other
night l heard her talk Portia in
"Shylock." Abe Lincoln once said
about certain question of taste:
'.For those that like that sort of
thing, I guess it is the sort Of thing
they like +" Some may like Rhea,
but | don't. hate to hear the i'm
mortal Shakespeare, the greatest
English writer that ever lived, inter
preted by gurgly French woman. |
think that Shakespeare ought to be
interpreted by the plainest speaking
of. Englishwomen. No obscuring
medium of foreign accent ought
to stand between the genius of the
greatest bard and the people who
love him. My heavens, when is Rhea
going to learn English? 1t used to
be cute and coy, that French accent
of hers, but she's getting old now,
and she ought to put away the ways
of child.-Atlauta Journal.
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Estate Of Mrs. Olive Il, Stubbs,

MINOR.
Y WILL APPLY TO the Judge of Probate
! of Sumter County or November I, 1855,
for Flual Discharge as Guardian of Person
and Esta:e of aforesaid Minor.
MRS LILLIAN Il. STUBBS,
Oct 7-At Guardian.
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Excursion aud Express
Trains Come Together.

ST LOUIS, Oct. 25 "A headend
collision occurred on the St Louis
and San Francisco railway near
Meremac Highlands at 10 o'clock
this morning by which nine people
were killed and score injured. The
scene of the wreck is Is miles west
of this city. The Valley Park accom-.
modation train going east very fast
on downgrade came into collision
with the second section of west
bound excursion train going to St.
James, Mo, and carrying 240 G. A,
R men and their families The i'm
pact demolished both engines and
wrecked or derailed all the cars Tie
first news of the wreck reached
Union station and a relief train,
carrying nurses and physicians, was
sent out at ouce Nine bodies were
recovered during the afternoon and
it is believed that at least two more
are beneath the w4eck. Of the
twenty Injured, eight are likely to
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-10-28
Actual Potash.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
~-~r--~

FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
OF SUMTER.
STATE, CITY AND COUNTY DEPosI
TORY, SUMTER, S. c.
Paid up Capital $4,000 90
Surplus ana Profits l4,500 90
Additional Liability Of Stock
holders in excess of their stock SIS. 900 90
Tctal protection to Deposi,ors Sle4,5 500 90
Transacts General Banking Business.
Careful attention given TO collections.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Deposits of ST and upwards received. In
terest allowed at the rate of Fer cent. per
annum. Payable quarterly, on first days C
January, April, July and October.
P II. WALLACE,
L. S. CARSON, President.
Aug Z. Cashier.
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Charles Frederick Crisp.
The Distinguished Georgian
Dies Suddenly.

ATLANTA. Oct. 23.-HoO. Charles
Frederick Crisp. speaker Of the fifty
arss and 6fty-secoud congresses died at
Holmes sauisarium here at 45
o'clock this afternoon. A paroxysm of
pain in the heart preceded death. the
paroxysm resulting from rupture OF
the heart as the result of fatty degen-
GRAFTON.
Judge Crisp came to Atlanta six
weeks ago for treatment. He was then
snHeriog from a typical case Of mala-
rial fever, which had developed at bis
home iu Americas. He spent June,
July and part of August 10 the
mountains of North Carolina and Ten
nessee. His return to Middle Georgia
during the very hottest period of the
summer developed the fever. After
weeks treatment by Drs. Holmes and
Davis, the fever disappeared and the
judge improved slowly. Last week be
was out driving several times. aod be
was getting stronger until Sunday
night. when he was attacked With
symptoms of his old trouble. pueumo.
MIA. Drs-J S. Todd was called 10 and
on Tuesday the congestion Of the lungs
disappeared. bot the patient was so
weak that Mrs. Crisp telegraphed for
her children aud all came the next day.
On Wednesday and yesterday Judge
Crisp's condition improved. but be re
csi7ed no callers. His family we're
hopeful until 10 o'clock last night, when
he had paroxysm. and they continued
at intervals all through the night and
forenoon He suffered intense pain,
but was conscious up to the very last.
At 1.30 his SOD, Charles F. Crisp, Jr.,
and his younger brother and sisters
went across the street to a hotel for
lunch, Mrs. Crisp remaining with her
husband. At / 40 the pain reappear-
ed. A messenger was sent for the
children, They came hurriedly aud
Just in time to get come last glaoces Of
recognition.
Judge Crisp did not speak, dying
within FIVE minutes of the last attack
ALI Of his children were with him, and,
although they had been warned BY the
physicians that the end might come at
any moment. when it did come. it was
tragic in its suddenness.
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Perhaps the oldest bale of cotton
in the world was purchased last
Wednesday by Mr. Allen Fleming CT
Fleming & Fosters Compress Com
pany.
The cotton was grown in Lau-
rens County, s. C, 1884 by an old
man by the name OF Watts.
The cotton, though old, was snowy
white and not the least tinged with
yellow. 1t was curiosity to the
cotton men of to day and attracted
considerable attention. The bale
was of usual size and was packed in
a coarse home made cloth woven
from old rags into a sheet. The ties
which held the bale together was
made from grape vines aud we're as
hard and taut as raw hide thongs
The cotton has been in the family
ever since it was made and dumped
from the cotton prcss into the yard.
1t was then taken into the old barn
where ii has been safely sheltered from
the weather for more than sixty
years.
Mr.. Watts. though fairly rich
planter, refused to sell the cotton at
any price
Old man Watts after his crop of cot
ton was ginped and baled in 1884,
one was set aside from the entire
lot, saying to his son at the time !:
~ may be poor man wheu | come
to die, aud in case ! am, want that
bale of cotton, pointing to the par
ticular bae," sold, and the proceeds
used to defray my funeral expenses !"
The years rolled by, he continued
to add to his wealth. and when he
had lived his allotted time he was
pretty we'll fixed in this worlds
goods, and the cotton was left un-
sold. Some time before Mr.. Watts
demise he took occasion to remark
to his son that in case the cotton was
not used to keep it IN the family,
guarding it carefully and not to sell
it under any circumstances except
for funeral expenses. The bale was
then taken in charge by young Watts
and was more carefully watched by
him than by his father.
Mr.. Watts, Jr., was industrious
and when be crossed over the river
it was not necessary TO dispose of it
to pay the expenses of the funeral.
Before the young man died he
made will to his sister, and i'll that
will it was his expressed wish that
the precious bale be disposed of only
for the purpose of obtaining mon
ey to pay her funeral expenses if it
be necessary
When she died she was wealthy
and the cotton was not sold.
Miss Watts recently died intestate
and when the final winding up of her
estate was made the cotton was put
on the market and sold Augusta
Evening News
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An Outrage.
From the News aod Courier.

Twice in period of few weeks
have we'll known members OF the
clergy been "held up on the
streets of Charleston by whiskey
spies, and their robe cases searched
for contraband liquor. The first in
stance of the kind occurred about
four weeks ago, the last was on Sun
day. October Is, and in both in
stances the indignity was iuexcusable
aud in every way an outrage.
Bishop Stevens, venerable and
universally respected churchman, was
stopped on the streets of Charleston
on Sunday, October IS, by whiskey
spy who demanded to see the Bish-
ops robe case. The spy opened the
case and tossed over it's contents and
after satisfying his curiosity gave it
back to the astonished owner
The matter was brought to the
attention of Solicitor Jervey aud a
letter was addressed by the solicitor
to Chief Constable Holley. reques-
ting aa investigation Chief HolIey
reported the case to Constable Harlin,
who is in charge in this city, and
the constables here were examined
Each one stated positively that the
matter was news to him and denied
any connection with the outrage.
Constable Harlin then advised the
solicitor that Bishop Stevens must
have been held up and searched by
one of the metropolitan police whis
K eyspecials These specials wear
citizens dress.
The preceding "holp up" was, as
stated, about month ago, and was
very nearly Identical with last Sum
days. The clergyman's robe case
was taken from him and searched in
broad daylight and on public street.