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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16
Can Oysters Climb Trees?

M. ID. Egbert has on exhibition, at
his newsstand, spruce limb about
eighteen inches long on which are
cIinging about twenty-five or thirty
young oysters. M. D. solemnly explains
that the oysters didn't have to climb
tree to get there but that the limb
was broken off by the wind and lodged
on the bed where the oysters climbed
on and now stoutly refuse to 'scome off
the perch" The limb was contributed
by Johnny Black who also contributed
a true story to the effect that an old
joint of stoye pipe was once thrown
overheard on an oyster bed where som e
kind of convention was in progress
and when fished up some time latet it
was completely covered inside and out
side with able-bodled oysters big
enough to eat-Or be eaten. The
oyster seems to be of very slothful
have if he once goes to bed he never
gets up. He's no gutter though if
he once gets hold on anything he
never lets go.-Willapa Harbor Pilot.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16

uCTIvE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY
lwhere for 1.-THE Story of the Philippines" by
Murat Halstead, commissioned by the Govern
ment as Ofiicial Historian to the War Depart
at San Francisco, on the Pacific with General
Merritt, In the hospitals at Honolulu, in Hong
Kong, In the American trenches at Manila, In
the insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on the
roar Of battle at the fall Of Manila. Bananas
for agents. Brimfu1 of original pictures taken
by government photographs on the spot. Large
book: Low prices. Big profits. Freight paid.
Credit given. Drop all trashy unofficial war
books. Outfit free Address, +. T. Barber, Sec'y,
Star Insurance Bldg, Chicago
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16

B. S. Barger. local agent for the Vic.
tor Bicycles. has special price of
$40 for the high-grade Victor.
High Grade Victor Bicycles reduced
to $40, at Barger's.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16
Commissioners Proceedings.
SHELTON. Wash. June 12tf

SHELTON. Wash. June 18th, 1899.
O'Clock q. m.
Board of County Commissioners of Mason
County met pursuant to adjournment. Present
commissioners Duckworth, Latham, O'Neill and
the Clerk.
1t appearing to the Board that F Merriman
was assessed for two COWS for the year 1897 and
he had but one COW. The treasurer is hereby
authorized to deduct that amount from his tax
At 10 o'clock Board proceeded to hearing and
consideration of report of County Road petition
ed for by John Labor ct al and after examining
all papers, the same was, on motion ordered
established.
In the matter of the hearing of report OF roads
petitioned for by W Pratt ct al aud Thos Lums-
den ct al, the same was deferred until right-of-
way for road could be secured.
coll orx-io0 md
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16
Puget Sound
Marble Works.

Having. secured the agency
for the above firm for Mason
County all orders for work
in that line can be left with
ANDREW GETTY,
Shelton, Wash.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16


as follows:
G Wells Dist No Is $3.50
H C Ashfeld /" CPS
John Mcnamara 4" 1925
from Bdg fund 1903
Hawksley " IL 1890
J w Pratt II 1925
f G Wyatt 1925
Commissioner Duckworth reports having ap-
proved the Bond of Frank c Wiley, appointed
Justice Of Peace of Shelton Precinct No and
action was approved by Board.
The following bills were presented and war
rants ordered drawn on current expense flu nd
for same:
w Clark so Kicks wood s47O0
Geo Vogtln livery and drayage 7.95
C board prisoners $3.50
c l. Ansorge, treasurer's clerk May 225
&C auditors Z" &C 1915
Eli Robinson deputy assessor 1900
Metropolitan & Co Office supplies S7O
Pioneer ." 975
Neal Cheetham blanks 2S.43
Leroy Jones chairman Lumsden road 200
w Specie &c &C 90 200
J w Shelton, surveying and plating 1000
6 post notices Pratt road $50
C W Fisk Justice fees 800
H L Spencer, witness Satte VS. Horner 400
c Wiley P, State VS. Oxley 6.25
w 4 Lott Co printing 1880
McDouald & O'Neill supplies Co Poor 1899
smallpox patient 36.0S
] w Shelton viewing Webb Hill road $50
On motion Board adjourned until o'clock.
JUNE 12-1 o'clock p m.
Board reconvened.
Present-Full Board and Clerk.
The Auditor was instructed to notify the SUI
pervisor of Road District No. 6 to remove the
distractions from the Arcadia and New Kamil-
che road.
W Rodenburger was allowed 5000 from Road
District No for road work, to be paid when
funds accumulate to the credit of the district.
The County Surveyor is ordered to see that
that part of the Barrickman-Kubi road now
being opened be put on the line of survey and
report at July meeting.
Alta O'Clock the Board adjourned until to-
morrow.
A. l.. BELL, Clerk.
JUNE Is, 1899.
The Board of County Commissioners spent
the forenoon examining the Webb Hill road,
aud reassembled at / o'clock at the Court
House.
Appeared W Moore, Supervisor of Road Dis
trict No. s. and in settlement was allowed SIS. so
from General Road fund.
1t is hereby ordered that Commissioner of
District No be authorized to accept the Geo
Webb road when the same is completed and the
Auditor is instructed to draw warrant on the
General Road fund for the amount.
On motion C Wells, NJ D. was duly appoint
cd Health Officer for Mason County, upon his
filing good and sufficient bond in the sum of
81 900, according to law
The contract and bond of w Lott for
County printing for one year from July 1st
1899, to June 3Oth 1900, fled and the same was
approved.
No furthcf business appearing. the minutes
were read. after which the following allow
ances were made:
Duckwor;h. days, Is miles.... 80
Henry Latham, days, 20 ........ 10 90
Thos O'Ne'il, days. 90
Board then adjourned until July Sd, 1899.
d. N. DUCWKORTH.
Chairman.
Attest:
\. !. FEEL. Clerk.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16
Paper-hanging,
Painting, Graining
AlabaStine-wOrk.

Inspect my work on the
Hotel Dipman and residences
in Shelton, and leave orders at
Post-ofhce. Prompt work at
reasonable rates.
JOHN KUBIK.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16
How about a SUMNER Surf


How about a SUMNER SUIT.
We are still supplying the
trade with fine tai1or-made
suits from leading tailoring
hrns at prices with the
fancy" knocked off, so every
body can afford one. Fit,
style and goods guaranteed.
For the neatest stock of
MEMS FURNISHINGS, head to
toe, try NEEDHAM's.
Candies, Fruits, Tobacco, etc.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-06-16

IN TIL: SUPERIOR COURT OF MASON
tuuNfi SIZE OF WASHINGTON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
PIGS ON pAsrURk
Important Extracts from the AnDua
Report Of the Oklahoma Ex-
pertinent Station.

April %, 1899, eight pigs were divid'
ed into two lots, one weighing 2sC
pounds. the other 2.o pounds. They
were placed alfalfa plats of about
one-half acre .ach, one lot receiving nc
other food, the other full feed of kafiE
meal or shellcd corn. &MS
During five weeks the pigs with nc
food but alfalfa made gain of 81 pounds,
or 1925 pounds each. For next three
weeks, to June %, they gained only
seven pounds, less than two pounds
each. While there was q good stand
Of alfalfa and the season was favor
able for its growth, the four pigs. aver
aging about so pounds, each kept IL
well eaten off.
The four pigs full fed grain with the
alfalfa gained 1919 pounds in five weeks
or practically so pounds each in IS days
In next three weeks they gained 12s
pounds. or nearly one and one-hait
pounds per day.
With this last was sow with litter
of pigs. She gained 81 pounds in first
five weeks, when she was removed. her
FIVE pigs gained 146 pounds in first five
weeks and 96 pounds in next three
weeks. A young boar in same lot
gained 46 pounds in a6 days and 29
pounds in next three weeks.
There was fed to all the pigs in this
plat 1.6sS pounds corn and Kafir. They
made total gain in eight weeks of 764
pounds. using only 2.2l pounds grain
in addition to the alfalfa for each pound
of gain. Counting the small pigs with
the others the grain eaten was less
than three pounds per day each.
Obviously the grain feeding was
profitable. Possible equal or greater
profit might have resulted if only par
tial feed of grain had been given. The
plat pasturing the pigs with grain feed
carried at least one-half more stock
than the other. but alfalfa remained
green and fresh.
Six young brood sows, with pigs, were
kept during same period on a small
native grass pasture with access to 3
very small quantity of the droppings
and waste from feeding the work
teams. They gained so pounds in five
weeks and 90 pounds in next three
weeks. The sow which had been full
fed grain on alfalfa pasture during
May was put in this pasture June
and lost 1 pounds in three weeks. This
trial illustrates the fact that our ma
tive grasses will enable pigs to make
some gain during the early part of the
season. They become less palatable as
the season advances.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
WHERE TO STRIKE THE BLOW

side and little in front of it, and aims
his blow at spot in the middle of a
line drawn across the forehead about
one and one-half inches below the base
Of the horns, or, perhaps better, at a
spot where two diagonal lines inter-
sect, drawn from the eyes to the base
of the horns, as illustrated. In most
cases, if the blow is heavy and proper
" directed, the animal falls instantly;
but it is better even then to repeat the
blow, and to follow it by immediate
bleeding. This is accomplished either
by drawing back the head and cutting
deeply across the neck at the upper
portion of the windpipe, seyering all
the blood-vessels, or by plunging long
ard sharp-pointed knife into the heart
and large blood-vessels at point cor
responding to the upper portion of the
brisket, and just above the breast bone.
Failure to fell the animal at the first
blow cannot be attributed to any differ
ence in the anatomical structure of the
part, but rather the fact that the blow
was ill-directed, almost invariably too
low, that it was not sufficiently power
full, or that both of these faults were
combined.-Farm and Home.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
ct the ground dry before digging po-

Let the ground dry before digging po-
tatOes.
Just as well not to let the frost get on
the pumpkin.
The deacon that speculates in stocks
is not a good deacon.
Hasn't that wife of yours gone away
for = little vacation yet? Now take her
and make her happy.
Hardly worth while to sow clover seed
with the wheat in the fall. The young
clover plant is too tender to winter over.
This is the time to plant Dutch bulbs
in the flower border, such as hya-
cinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus, etc.
They will bloom early next spring.
The way to get credit is to be pune
tual in paving ones bills. The way
to preserve it is not to use it too much.
Settle often; have short accounts
Farm Journal.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

PITH AND POINT.

A pun is merely play on words, but
it's hard work to understand some oil
them.-Chicago Daily News.
Look at child, and its mother will
Immediately take out her handkerch:.f
and go to polishing its face.-Atchisol
Globe.
Employer Grascibly) : 'Confound
that boy! He's never here when he's
wanted" Clerk-"I think it must be
hereditary with him, sir. His father is
q oliceman."-London Tit-Bits.
II say, Nell, the Dad says that he re.
members that old boy when he hadn't
shirt to his back. ard now he has thou
sands" ''Good gracious, how eytrava.
CANT! And how hot!"-N. o. Times.
Democrat.
Accounted For.-Mr. Pitt-"Isn't il
odd that in so many robberies in Chi.
cago a long and short man were i'm.
plicated?" Mr.. Penn-"Not at all. The
short man was the victim after he was
robbed" Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele.
gram.
"Well, little chap" said the stranger
in the family, picking up one of the
children, what are you going to be
when you're a man?" Muffin" said
the child. Nothing? Why sop
asked the stranger. Because" said
the child, "Tm little girl."-London
Tit-Bits.
Sociological Discussion.-Weary Wat
kins-'Of course, it amt none OF ouI
business, but don't think no man has
got a right to stop no other from
workin' if he happens to have mania
that way" Hungry Higgins-'I dunno
bout stoppin' him. but the injestice.a an
tyranny of maxim him begin is what
riles my southern blood. ."-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
His Proposition.-"Are you abAe to
support my daughter?' asked the old
gentleman. "You know, she has pretty
expensive tastes, and don't mind say
ing that the burden has been pretty
hard for me at times" That's just
the point" exclaimed the prospective
benedict. "If marry her we can di-
vide the expense."-Chicago Evening
Post
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
W. g. KENTZEL, Edito
GOD KNOWS.
often wonder and question so
About the how and the why;

OFTEN ] wonder and question so
About the how and the why;
There IS so much should like to know.
But God knows better than /.
On! why do some have all the bright hour?
Always cloudless sky?
Ever rainbow after the showers?
Only God knows better thanI
There are others whose lives are warped
with pain,
Who would so willingly die;
Why doesn't Death come? It would be
their gaip.
All. God knows better thanI.
Some lives are bare. though watered with
tears,
There's failure each time they try:
Others ripen and mellow. and know few
fears, MN
Why? God knows better thanI
Many lives are mixed with bitter and sweet.
Sometimes a smile, then sigh;
Twill all be right some day when we meet
God who knows better than /.
Heart OF mine. cease questioning Gods
plan,
Trust for the how and the why;
He Is wiser far than any man.
This God who knows better than L
-Ser1na Clarke, in N. Y. Observer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
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GE:K.SS1Q1Dl5S
BARN OF DR1FTwooD.
Dailt b. q Long Island Farmer at q
Total Cash Expense Of just
Twelve Dollars.

Some of our western friends, who To-
Gated on the treeless prairies and built
a house and barn of sods, are sometimes
fond of telling their descendants of the
low cost of their first dwelling. 1t is
true that sod makes cheap building
material, and, in many cases. gives "a
comfortable house. But at the other
end of the country there are even
cheaper building materials than sods.
The little barn shown in the cut is
found in Suffolk county, L. 1. Mr..
Stephen Austin, the owner, lives on the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
DISEASES OF CORN.
They Are Not Only More Nuner0as
But Also More Destructive Than
IL Generally Supposed.

The corn plant is subject to rust that
is similar to the red rust that affects
wheat and oats. Usually its presence
may be noted about the middle of sum-
mer. by the appearance of blotches on
the leaf of the plant. These blotches
are dust-like, and contain the spores of
the disease. Near the end of the sum-
mer the blotches become blackish. For
tunateIy the disease does not attack
corn until the plant has arrived at a
stage of growth when it will not suffer
as much injury as it would if it were at
tackled in the earlier stages. 1t has
never been regarded as economically i'm
portant, yet healthy plant is always
better than a diseased one.
Prof. Burrells bacterial disease of
corn is more serious matter. 1t causes
dwarfed condition of young plants on
areas of few yards to an acre or more,
and more usually than otherwise upon
the richest soil of the field. The plants
that are attacked are sickly in appear
ancc, being more yellow than healthy
plant. Especially is this the appearance
Of the lower leaves. The lower and old
er roots are badly affected as is also the
lowest portion Of the stalk which often
dies. On the surface of these diseased
stalks may be found spots that are Of a
brownish color and are corroded. After
the middle of the summer the sheath
leaves of the stalk will be found to be
spotted on the outside. But on the in
side they are much more affected.
Sometimes the ears become diseased.
In bad cases everything connected with
the ear, husks, cob. kernel and silk are
reduced to a condition that may be
called nothingness, and such ears often
become moldy through and through,
the fungus being very white. The juices
the ear, husks, cob, kernel and silk, are
shown by the microscope to be alive
with bacteria. 1t was at one time
thought that cattle feeding upon such
diseased corn would be poisoned, but.
like smut, it has more recently been
shown to be harmless.
Like smut in wheat the remedy for
the disease is probably rotation. though
we are not prepared to say just what
the rotation should be. However, if the
disease is bad on eay part of the farm,
it would prove profitable to experiment
rs to the proper rotation. II is not often
that diseases of this character will at
tack crops that are dissimilar in charac-
lter.-Agricultural Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
HOW TO KILL CATTLE.
Failure to Fen the Animal Mt the
First Blow with the Ak Means
Terrible Torture.

Cattle are most readily ond conven-
iently destroyed by blows on the head
with heavy AK or hammer, followed
by immediate blood-letting. The ami
NAL which is to be killed should be Sc
cured by means of rope passed round
the horns and fastened to post, or.
il practicable. carried through a ring
in the floor, and held or made fast by
an assistant. The animal being blind
folded, the operator, armed with a
heavy AK or hammer, stands at the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

In the increase of insect pests the pas
turing of horses and colts becomes
serious problem. 1t surely will not pay
to allow them to be raced to death by
flies, for il is as true in the pasture as
harm that il the colt is not gaining il
is losing and the loss can never be re-
gained. For this reason, if the flies give
trouble. keep the colts in the barn dur
ing the day and turn them out at night
1t will well pay for the extra trouble
Colman'S Rural World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

On a very much Travelled road there
n q great deal of excrement dropped
from the horses used in drawing vehi-
cles and from other animals driven
thereon. Most of the soluble parts of
this excrement are washed into the
bitches on either side of the roadway.
They accumulate in all the depressions
and make a strata of rich so. which is
well worth the labor of living into
adjoining fields as fer1tzer. II il
best to do this while the I'D is plowed,
and the roadside should also be plowed
and cultivated, SO that the rich soil can
be evenly distributed over the surface.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28


Great South bay, and his occupation
frequently takes him along the shores.
Last winter, while making these trips.
he began a collection of barrels and
other timber which had floated to the
shore as driftwood. As this timber
gathered, the idea of building a barn
occurred to him, and the result is
shown in the picture. A barn of this
size, 90 by IL feet, would have cost. at
the regular price for new material.
about S175; but Mr.. Austin gives the
actual cost in cash as follows:
Shingle laths. ......... 2 10
Floor and doors. rs.......................... 70
Total cash cost...;12 .;12 90
The barn is built entirely of drift
wood. The barrel slaves were cut in
two and nailed on just as shingles are
used. In all. aIr. Austin used 720 bar
rels in covering the barn. 1t serves his
purpose for stabling horse and his
fodder, implements, ETC., as well as a
more expensive barn. Many of our
western readers, who never saw the
ocean or listened to the roar of its
breakers, will be interested to know
how this driftwood has been utilized
for building purposes. The waves
throw ashore each year vast quantities
of wood, sometimes taken from the
wrecks of vessels, and sometimes
washed or thrown overheard from pass
ing ships. If anyone can tell of cheap
er barn than this, with the timber or
other material thrown up into ones
dooryard. we shall be pleased to report
it.-Hural New Yorker.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28
ODD TIPS TO WATERS.
Costly Umbrellas and Canes Given
by One Patron-AnOther Pays
for Weight Gained.

Although, said the head waiter at q
West end restaurant, our tips are for
the most part cash and vary in amount
according to the means and generosity
of the donor, we receive at times other
and strange acknowledgements of our
services.
The late Gustaye Dore, the artist.
when at times he patronized our es-
tablishment. was wont to dash off a
sketch on the back of his bill-gen-
orally lightning spit on some person
present-which he would hand me with
the exact amount of his reckoning; and
as these pencilings found ready mar
ket among the other diners, l cen.
sidered the remuneration more than
adequate.
At the present time we have most
esteemed patron, well-known city
man, whom when some three years ago
he first dined with us. regarded as q
niggardly skinflint, for not one penny
over the exact amount charged would
he disburse. One evening, however,
about a week after his first appearance,
he left his umbrella, a handsome one
next evening, upon my handing him his
property, he returned it with the re-
mark that he always considered his for
getfulness the walters gain. And
since that time my gain has been con-
siderable, for every fortnight this gen.
tleman forgets-of course purposely-
his stick or umbrella, which, being in.
variably an expensive article. fully re-
quites me for my two weeks attend.
ance.
A friend Of mine who is a waiter al
one OF the principal hotels at Brighton
has very eccentric patron. This gen.
tleman, who often takes a weeks hol
iday at the seaside to recuperate his
health. gauges the benefit derived
from his stay by the amount he gains
in weight. Immediately on his alight-
Ing at the station he gets on the scales,
and then. having made note of his ex-
act poundage, repairs to his hotel.
where he summons my friend. to whom
he intrusts the entire charge of his di-
etary during his stay.
On the morning of his departure he
is again weighed. and my friends re-
| ward is commensurate with the amount
gained. 1t always. however, takes the
form of some article of clothing. for
which the gentleman pretends to have
no further use, as being disproportion-
ate to his recently acquired obesity,
amounting often to only pound or so,
At various times my friend has been the
recipient of shirts, hats. overcoats.
vests. and once, when the increase was
nearly a stone. his patron left behind
two portmanteaus filled with clothes.
taking with him only those garments
he CHANGED to be wearing at the time of
his Observation-Disclosures Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

There are 1000 vessels which cross
the Atlantic ocean regularly cvr-v
uopth, some Of them twice . month
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

Gentleness does more than violence;
The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28


1t is customary among the Kaffir
tribes when trouble is brewing among
themselves or witL white races to skin
oxen alive in order. to ascertain which
side will win. \ white OK always rep
resents the Dutch. red OK the English
and black one the natives. The Ba-
sutos in the Free State, having heard
of the trouble between the English gov
ernment and the Transvaal, put their
old custom to the test a short time ago.
They reported that the white OK lived
four days longer than the other one;
beth oxen were skinned alive. The re-
suit is that the Basutos think il war
comes about that The Beers will win,
and they have decided to take no part
in any trouble that may ensue.7-N. 4.
Tribune.