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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20
Lumber Prices Raised.

One of the most important gather
ings of the lumbermen Of the Puget
sound country ever held in Tacoma
convened at The Tacoma hotel yester-
day afternoon. The meeting was for
the purpose of adopting a uniform
scale of prices, among all the mills
and dealers.
For some time past the different
mill men of the Sound have been quo
ting prices to the eastern buyers re-
CARELESS of the condition of the mar
ket or the prices of each other. This
has tended to mix up matters, especi-
ally as shingles have been rapidly adj
vancing of late, and the demand from
the east has been the greatest ever
known.
The meeting yesterday was for the
purpose of settling this difficulty and
if possible establishing uniform scale
of prices that would be adhered to by
all of the mill men on the Sound.
1t took the representatives OF the diff
ferent mills only thirty minutes to
settle the question after they got to-
gether.
Star shingles were set at $1.3O to
$1.35; clears at $l.4O to $1.45, with
the usual difference on lower grades.
an advance of $1.00 per thousand was
made on cedar and spruce siding and
all other grades of rough and dressed
lumber were held at the prevailing
scale of the larger mills.
All of the lumbermen present at the
meeting were of the opinion that q
uniform scale of prices should be
maintained, and in the future no
trouble on this score is expected to &C.
cur.-Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20

II is singular colndden ce, to say
the least, that every time great de-
preston has occurred in this country
1t has been while free trade or low tar
III was IN operation. And it is also q
slneu ar TACT that is worthy of serious
consideration that as soon as high
protective tarsff law was placed upon
the DO ks that times soon began to
mend, and the people were enabled to
get money enough to buy The necessa-
RES OF life, at least. There are class of
free traders in this country who adyo-
cate that doctrine because they do not
want to see England crippled.
journal.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20
/ Really Sensible POpOCrat.

a prominent Porter Creek Popocrat,
q personal friend Of the editor, and a
really intelligent and influential citi-
zen, remarked to US the other day !:
"After due deliberation, have arrived
at the conclusion that God Almighty
is on the side of the Republican par
ty."-Elma Chronicle.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20

Let mo give you a pointer" said
M. =. GTegg, popular conductor on
the Missouri Pacific railroad. "Do
you know that Chamberlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrh@a Remedy cures
you when YOU have the stomach acbes
Wen, it does" And after giving this
friendly bit OF advice, the jolly con-
ductor passed on down the aisle. II is
a fact that thousands of railroad and
travelling men never take a trip with
out a bottle OF this Remedy, which is
the best cure for bowel disorders in fhe
world % and so cent bottles for sale
all druggists.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20

HE stock spectators of the great
cities will now have an opportu nifty
to contribute directly to the support
OF the Government to the tune of
about IL to ID million dollars per an
mum, says the Sidney Independent.
The republicans placed in the tariff
bill an amendment proposing to place
a tax Of cents share on all pur-
chases OF stock of par value of 500
or less, and of stamp tax when issu-
ed, except on building associations
and other organizations of that char
acter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20

HERE is PROBABLY not newspaper
IN the whole country, which does not
contain reports OF bright prospects
and increasing prosperity everywhere,
from one cause or another.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-20

1t you drop in before long and pay
for your JOURNAL in advance, a years
subscription to the Ladies Home Ideal
will be given free, provided only that
you ask for it.
Shoes that wear at Hunter s. Eato ms
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
THE YOUNG GIRL IN SUMMER.
The Unconventional Outdoor Life Not
without Its Dangers.

Edward w. Box, writing under the cap
ton of breaking Down the Fences,
gives some wholesome and sensible ad-
vice to young girls in the August Ladies
Home Journal and sounds n warning
against allowing them too much freedom
of action--too much liberty. Mr.. Box dis
cerfs that summer brings greater freedom
to young girls than any other season ana
presents TO them many more opportunities
to unconsciously break down the fences
the barriors--C the best and wisost de-
portment. Getty girls" he contends,
"often think that they are freer to do
things in the country or at the seashore
than in the city Little licenses seem SO
much moro natural in summer, when we
live an outdoor life We feel that we can
be more unconventional. We can be, but
il is Just when We are most unconven-
tional that we arc in greatest danger OF
going lust little beyond the point where
we know and feel we ought to stop.
cit is magnificent tribute to girl s
character when she can be unconventional
and yet preserve in every sense the dignity
of oirlhood. That is what commands the
| highest respect for girl. 1t is very Inc
! line which divides unconventionallty In a
! GIRLS derortment from a certain license
| and freedom of action, which Is so fraught
with danger--a very, very fine line. And
vet on one side of that line lies girl
! highest possession, her self respect, and
on the other side the loss of it. That line
is the fence, and girl cannot be too care
full about removing one stone from IT,
She may think it smart or clever or moi
very harmful if she just seeks to remove
the small stone which lies on the top, bu'
in that very act she shows lack of clever
ness. ,
at is the clever girl who can leave th'
first stone untouched. That Is the clever
ness which wins the only respect worti
having, the inner respect of herself an'
the lasting respect of Others. And whei
she is a few years older, when things us
sumo q different aspect to her, she VII
look back to that summer time when sh
heard the warning voice of her parent
and, although she did not understand IL
thank God from "a full and grateful hear
that she needed 1t. No greater satisfactio
than this can come to woman, the con
seriousness that she preserved at all time
in her eirlhood the precious possession :
her future womanhood. And one It'll
slim can dim that satisfaction"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
THE GYPSY MOTH.
4 Massachusetts, Town In 80 State OF Arms
Against a Caterpillar"

This menacing forager Of the eastern
hemisphere was brought over 26 years ago
by French sayant in considerable num-
beers to Medford, suburb of Boston. The
object is said to have been TO cross the crea-
ture with the delicate silkworm, and so
originate a robust, silk producing hybrid
for America, but the statement has been
gravely questioned. The scheme, what
ever il was, came 70 nothing, and the gypsy
caterpillars, liberated from their netted in
closure by gale, spread slowly over Med
ford and then into adjoining and more dis
tant towns. In nine or ten years from
their Liberation they had developed into n
noteworthy local nuisance, and by 1889
they swarmed upon Modford in irresistible
hordes. Extensive tracts were swept clean.
Groves and gardens, fields, orchards and
tree Swallowed streets all felt the fierce
tooth" Of the rRvageT. The sides of houses,
walks and stoops were black, and the evil
swarms, having devastated district,
marched upon the next and the next.
When the impulse of transformation
drove these creatures in July TO shelter,
they huddled under whatever offered them
! protection about and even in the houses
| they had beleaguered. Here, casting their
hairy coats, they soon changed into pupe.
These about August evolved into moths,
which, dying, as their nature is, soon after
birth, left behind them myriads of eggs.
The egg clutches thus deposited embossed
their shelters with spongy ocher nodules,
close huddled as the globules in fish spawn.
The householders scraped them of by the
peck Additionally, eight trimming cart
loads were removed by small official force
Each gypsy egg cluster contains on an aver
age about 600 eggs. During six weeks Of
1891 760, 900 of these clusters, within re
stricted local district, were by official means
destroyed.
But this wholesale destruction did no
even liberate the territory immediatel.
threatened.
The careful reckoning of science ha
demonstrated that the unrestricted cater
pillar increase of single pair OF gyps
moths would suffice In eight years to de
YOUR the entire vegetation OF the Unlte
States. "a State In Arms Agains
Caterpillar" by Fletcher Osgood, 4
Harper's Magazine For August.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Traffic ON the Great American Lakes.

Five years ago there was not vessel on
these lakes that displaced 5000 tons wneh
floating on the st. Mary's river. Today
there are not fewer than 20 high powered
steel screw steamers which displace about
& 400 tons on the same draft of water. ms
represents an average increase in the carry
ing capacity of no less than 40 per cent
and the percentage increase in register ton
mage Is still higher. Steel cargo steamers
415 feet In length and AZ feet In preadtn'
are now being constructed.
These dimensions are greater than tnose
of the average modern ocean steamer,
though several British cargo steamers are
about 100 feet longer, and their depth aho
draft of water is much greater. The carry
inc capacity of this new lake fleet VIII
equal $500, 900 tons OF ore, Transporter
from tho head of Lake Superior 10 LAKE
Erie i'm one season of navigation.
IL is well known that the number Oh YES
sci messages through the st. Mary's cana
is much larger than tho number OF vesse
messages through the Suez canal per an
MN. tho number of such passages belnt
os follows Suez canal, 3, 434 steamers; So'
canal. 1866. The tonnage of the iorme
a. 3. 44s.246, and of the latter l6,oOo, 20
| tons. Thus it Is seen that the tonnag
nassinq the 500 canal during only sever
months of n year is 90 per cent greater tna'
| the tonnage passing the Egyptian canal u
10 months. u II. Oldham In easier
Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE.
Mr.. Moody's Graphic Illustration OF the
Doctrine of the Resurrection.

MIR. Moody's Graphic Illustration of the
Doctrine of the Resurrection.
"There is little book entitled The Life
Boyond that presents the truth of The
resurrection in wonderful manner,
writes Evangelist Moody in the August
Ladies' Home journal. "It is an allegory
and pretends to give the experiences OF Il
little dragon fly grub. The little insect
longs to know what is beyond the sphere
of its little world. In vain 1t inquiries OF
the fish that live in the same pond, Dut
they have no experience in any other
sphere, nor can any of its fellows satisfy
it's anxious yearning. The only world u
knows Is little meadow pond. All its
experience Is limited by the bounds OF the
surrounding banks. At length the grub
is overcome by a strange attraction up
ward, and, gathering about 1T all its fell
lows. il tells that IL must leave them for
the regions above and promises TO return
TO tell them what 1t has found to exist IN
the beyond, if indeed there may be any
thing above the bulrushes of their little
pond, and then quietly 1t disappears from
the sight of its fellows and energies INTO
the bright sunlight Of the greater world
| Here it is transformed, and now with OUT
| stretched wings it darts hither and thither'
/ rejecting the brightness of the sun from
its gorgeous body, but it does not forget
the promises it has made to the friends II
| has left below 1t tries TO return to the
world from which it has just been resur
! rected, but cannot now leave the atmos
! phere in which it lives. All 1T can do j
to wait for them to come to where 1t nov
lives, a beautiful dragon fly.
! "And thus it is with those who have
! disappeared from our sight. Their love
for us is not lessened because they are no
able to commune with us, but they arr
waiting in the presence of the Master iol
that glorious moment when in their resnr
rected bodies they shall unite once mor'
with those whom they have loved OF
| earth -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Berries and Appendicitis.

The appendicitis scare has struck
Wayne county, N. Y, and berries are a
drug ON the market. Merchants cannot
dispose of berries, and farmers, being
forced to hawk their products from
house to house, experience great diiii-
Guilty in selling them. Everything III
the line of sickness above toothache is
called appendicitis, and all deaths are
credited to the berry seeds. Farmers
are forced either to evaporate their ber-
ries or convert them into wine, thus de-
priying them of ready cash. which Der
ries usually are depended upon to bring
at this time of the year. Housewives
are refraining from canning raspoerries
and blackberries. New York sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
TIE VOLUNTEERS WIN.
Question Of Precedence Decided Against
Army Officers.

An echo of the czar's coronation cere-
mony, which led to so much CORE
spondence on such subjects as diplo-
matte uniforms, court procedure and
matters of precedence in official cere-
monies, is found in an opinion Just rem
dered by the attorney general touching
the respective rights C volunteer and
regular army and navy officers 10 wear
the uniforms of the highest rank which
they attained during the rebellion. Colo
mel John r. ,icCook, who represented
the United States army, and Captain
c. II. Wadleigh, the representative OF
the United States navy at the corona
ton, had some difficulty over the ques
tion Of precedence. growing out Of the
fact that McCook claimed the lead by
virtue Of his high volunteer rank, Us
shown by the uniform. Minister Brock
/ inridpe sustained the army officer, and
the state department was obliged to call
upon the war and navy departments for
their construction Of the statute granting
| officers the right to bear the rank AID
wear the uniform Of their highest vol
unteer rank.
The direct issue was presented in q
recent application Of James Il. Farrell,
brewer major of the United States vol
unteers and late captain of the Fifth
New York artillery. The two depart
ments were unable TO agree upon the
matter, and it was referred to the attor
ney general. The latter has decided thai
only ex-officers may wear such uniform
and bear such rank. In other words, M
officer at present on the army rolls cal
wear the uniform of the voluntee
rank, but persons who were honorabl,
mustered out of the volunteer service
and who have no army connection nov
may wear it on occasions of ceremony
This is in line with former construc
ton given to the law by the war dc
partment, but it appeared that tn
practice was about to be reversed, whic
, would have been severe blow to man
thousands of volunteer officers. CHI
cago Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04

one OF those benefcent institutions
whlch are talked about great deal
ana winch some time will materialize.
Mr. Cannon does not believe there 10
any especial antipathy to postal savings
banks among members of congress. He
simply says congress has not yet been
Impressed with the belief that there is
widespread sentiment for their estab-
ilshment. When that sentiment mani
Tests itself, he says, postal savings
banks will be organized.
Senator Butler of North Carolina.
one OF the leading Populists of the SEN
ate, Is much interested in getting a pos
tai savings bank bill passed. He has
INDUCED the senate TO pass resolution
calling Tor reports from consuls as TO
the working of the postal savings bark
system III foreign countries. He also has
had printed as senate documents several
articles bearing on the subject. Mr.
Butler thinks the establishment of post.
al savings banks would do much to i'm
prove the condition Of the negroes in
the south
Among the more scholarly men in the
government service are several enthu-
siastic advocates of postal savings banks.
One Of these is Professor Wilson, in
charge of the Smithsonian institution.
lie has investigated the working of such
banks in foreign countries, more espe-
cially in France and Belgium. and is so
impressed with their value that he
thinks the United States ought to es-
tablish them without further delay.
Mr. Harlow of the national civil
service commission is another believer
in postal savings banks. He has been
for many years in the postal service and
was at one time postmaster at st. Louis.
He says poor people are afraid of bank
that is really bank and consequently
are more apt to get into the smaller in.
situations that are most likely to fail.
He says that while he was postmaster
he was continually besought by persons
to have the government take charge OF
their savings. He reports that the mum
Der who use the money order system al
a means of making the government re
ceive their deposits is rapidly increas
ing. Mr.. Harlow gives an instance of |
workingman who once came to him ant
wanted the postoffice to take his none.
and keep it for him. Mr.. Harlow offer
ed to introduce the man at bank, bu
the man did not want that. He said n
had been to the bank before, and the,
looked at him suspiciously because b
was i'll his working clothes and aske
him for references. Mr. Harlow think
there ought to be postal savings bank
to encourage such persons to save. ID
believes man with $40 i'll a posta
savings bank would be to that extent
better citizen, and.he says the govern
ment ought to encourage good either
ship Washington Cor. Chicago Re'
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
A Dog of Royal Degree.

A real blooded Chinese dog, such as,
it is said, has never before been without
the walls of the palace of the emperor
of China, arrived at Tacoma recently
ON the steamer Pelican from Tien-tsin,
China. The dog is of the species known
as the Picking pug, which is kept ex-
clusively within the emperor's harem
at Picking. 1t was bought at Tien-tsin
from a Chinese servant, who stole IL
from the royal gardens. The dog is a
natural pet and an ideal house canine
It's body is long in proportion to its
legs. The legs appear to be double JOINT
cd at the knees. 1t is said that were II
known where the dog has gone the man
who stole it would surely lose his head.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
Free pills

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They are guaranteed to be perfectly free
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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
GET BRITISH CONTRACTS.
Americans Furnish a London Railroad
with Material.

English firms are very indignant that
the contracts for the traction plant OF
the London Central railway, which is
to be an underground electric line,
amounting in value to hundreds OF
thousands of pounds, have been given
to Americans.
The secretary of the company eX-
plcins that the contracts for carriages,
locomotives and machinery were given
10 American firms on the advice OF the
electrical experts, who represent that
the greater use of electrical traction III
the United States has brought its man
ufacture to a higher degree of pertec-
ton and made it far less expensive than
in England.
In the house of commons recently
Lord George Houlton, secretary OF state
for India, in reply to a question why
the East Indian railway, owned by The
government, had purchased 7,7OS tons
Of rails from the Maryland Steel com
nanv of Baltimore said that the loves
British bid was eS, 675 higher than TIT
American.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
UNASKED ADVICE.
Crank Suggestions Made to Grant For the
Capture OF Richmond.

General Horace Porter's campaigning
With Grant" In the August Century,
deals with the preparations for the last
campaign. General Porter says:
General Grant had become very tired or
discussing methods Of warfare which were
like some of the problems described in al.
zebra as "more curious than useful, ana
he was not sufficiently interested in the
canal to be present at the explosion which
was expected TO complete 10. About tins
time all the cranks in the country, besides
men of real inventive genius, were send
ing extraordinary plans and suggestions
fer capturing Richmond. A proposition
from an engineer was received one day,
accompanied by clabuIate drawings and
calculations which had evidently involved
intense labor on the part of the author.
His plan was to build masonry wall
around Richmond of an elevation higher
than the tallest houses, then to fill the in
closure with water pumped from the James
river and drown out the garrison ana
people like rats in cage. The exact num-
Der of pumps required and their capacity
had been figured out TO IA nicely.
Another inventive genius, whose mind
seemed to run in the direction of tho sci
once of chemistry and the practice of ster-
mutation, sent in chemical formula Tor
making an all powerful snuff. In his
| communication he assured the command
| ing general that after series OF expert
ments he had made with it on people and
animals he was sure that If shells were
filled with 1t and exploded within the enc
my's lines, the troops would be seized with
such violent fits of sneezing that they
would soon become physically exhausted
with the effort, and the Union army could
walk over at its leisure and pick them up
as prisoners without itself losing man.
A certain officer had figured out from
statistics that the James river froze over
about once in seven years, and that this
was the seventh year, and advised that
troops be massed in such position that
when the upper part of the James changed
from liquid to solid columns could bt
rushed across it on the ice to position II
rear of the enemy's lines, and Richmond
would be at our mercy. A sorcerer II
Rochester sent the general word that h
had cast his horoscope, and gave him
clear and unclouded insight into his fu
ture, and added to its general attractive
ness by telling him how gloriously he wa
going to succeed in taking Richmond.
One evening the general referred to thes
t1DulullOnS VI pIuiihO VI w"
people and the many novel suggestion
made to him, beginning with the famou
powder boat sent against Fort Fisher, an
closed the conversation by saying: "Ihi
is a very suggestive age. Some peopl
seem to think that an army can he whippe
by waiting for rivers to freeze over, explot
, ing powder at distance, drowning oil
troops or setting them to sneezing, but
will always be found in the end that II
: only way to whip an army is to go out an
| fight it.