The Jacksonville Daily Journal from Jacksonville, Illinois • Page 12

i amm JOtRXAt, StXDAY, 3, 1803. rfnmrni Requires Good Sense To Give a Piano Is to (live Wisely and Well. The gift of a Piano will bo a constant reminder of the discernment ami wisdom of lie donor It is a present that will give a lifetime of service and satisfaction. The question is, whereto purchase a Pianof Anybody will answer, The Live Plano Store, ANCIENT CLOCK MAKERS Bell Phone Bruce Co Largest Flnno Dealers In the State Outside of Chicag No 333 W. State St.

Huntoon Building MASON TAMILA OT BOTH- TittflA IN TUT BI SINTSS TOR 400 YEARS With Interesting Htslde in This Fuels Trnnt nn Fuglisli of Recent lin tallowing the Mason family ot ami watch makers will have particular itiier- si it is known that Messrs. Oliv. Mason ami I lioi.ua¡s this i und William Mason, 1 Iftivcr, are with this iammis bramdi of timo nia nu aet rs. The is taken from til Oberhaut (Fughimi) Christmas Problem EASILY SOLVED loir 4tJ a as 4 1 1 tftl fti 4 i hi ft 4 f4t 4 'ni tf the aj Ht If (tic Hi tn lit 4 4 44 tS i tt a ij it 4 ejtf-s, I ii if amts, jtfiiftf'ii t'S, St cefi a I tes Mai a st faff (tifi iti et e. iiigh si pll'slllt elusi I in i its ha par! of Rotherham is behind High ami its 1 the church ya i so past and the modern arc at all events lie iii touch with each other, which stands at the street, its front win- looking on elect humming by.

and overlooking the CLOTHIERS. Babb Bros. FURNISHERS. Our Line of Suits and Overcoats OFFERS YOU THE WIDEST SELECTIONS AND THE UTMOST ADVANTAGE IN STYLE, QUALITY AND PRICE. they go wimhiM ha I i Vi similar promut links with ha lead E.

Jf bassi rr WE I I C. gra a ii eel vest i rday. li was not to buy a or one of many of jewelry on view that 1 visited Mr. Masons premises the other day, hut come of tie- Mementoes of mote than bygone ge, and hear other and ni ter i ing them and hearing their comment. I came away with a general impression that there were Mu watch and 1 the flood, and that Adam ami L.ve spun Mu-on was a rh that it was and not Mseuitj, wit le a tig.

1 1 fateful year jots of the figliali throne, eh.ekmakers," in this neighhor- and what i- move of hands going with ill the of an hammer, and ever -o much more ill in on Mr, and with this early clock- Mr fusoti of i present John Ma aou kindred, and can show ami for the th We tin I their if of the I wa Holiday Neckwear. Rich Silk Fabrics in Four-in-hands. Royal Ascots. Puff eek Scarfs. BABB BROS.

Holiday Suspenders. Silk Webs. Novelty Buckles. Individual Boxes. taken oil their What a beuighte sure! And yet women, hoys and tir-! birt hda.vsi I age it was, to perhaps men und girl- am! 1 1 11 lay bies were as happy a- nr at all vents on living, and amongst them was this who clocks very good as present day shows; he mended clocks and children, and be and women Rotimi hum to who regard him, or his memory.

la kindly sentiments, who ea tlmir great-great-great great-groid- ami, mayhap. how is going on! von, reader, know who your great- grnmlfather 1 am bound to confess 1 That I till of .11 him I)o great VVSl.s don't. of that but unlike oblivion lifts sei zed certain, named. mind, ut A I Market Opposite Court Mouse, You (jet The Best Grade of OYSTERS many I louse fiitficilltv Lords in And Fruits VEGETABLES. New Supplies Received 1 )A 1 LV.

PantatoriumamlCleaning Co TM filili! tied have Clothes Cleaned, Pressed, Dyed and Repaired muter caster in- net orv claim. How many business people are in who can their 1 1 as farf Two tiftv v.ar is a time to back pc no mug wirtthl same. lids John Mason the seventeen th century was vary likely making thai cluck winch steadily hehiud one of Mr, other equally as good, when Monmouth was making his last timor. If he the -t in current events as his -eeixleUt docs Wotlhl in th rv in acquittal of in am, flight from and country, ami in arrival of Will orni of Orange. What a lot of he by it is I must have done, Masons of to know very lit lb- him, except that he nuuh that whiiJi is still tilling of has to do with Wlnm 11 John Mason was alive there was no national debt, Mar! wars in low 111 where wort baJ not and tbc for them yet r- inanent on nation, ami yet rate kiugibrnta.

them British empire. no India wa- not on map and at ml 1 wlu no no 1 rieitv. sanitary was unhorn, railway atm ocean and no thl John Ma oil ver language about his au-e their luid led a cane ii a son lain. lh they don To to wtiers the name. When tin- Mr.

John a voitng man working nt Work was brought to him to b. a by of it naturally him in a logically on jt something to funi work family far hack, and termined, if ever he grew to he milliottaire, to buy that clock at He is not a nul the clock i not yet in his ession. hut other maker, ami of tla- hi- and to prottJ toree is in the rham other with hi- 'on in third 1 in High 11 in thev an all in good hv age is lient. Ra ru-ley. Thev a teeiith century tan ib) if Mr.

WI th i ftj all first month ami Dry ini limit! Met ring n-rea en an i-iltl-ill! now nsa them Jtrjuk. tbn Tailor-Made Clothes We ure a you pav for up. posit i Mi nuuh makt suit front PRESSI NT Luiti cm ral i tee Wit TO 11 tit. Bkirt mer. ter, m- WaiM ,1 ueket rate, Ilk- sum will II NO I Gn riiii-tv, fate.

Tran sc if find Din I STEA Skirt to Had $1 2 00 Waists .1 Hm fa le $1.2 tli wing Ye-ts, tO I fu. Hats, pro fa it lom rain, it bi ladies. ung 111! Ill no no 1 tlu- morning train as no pa no leap tes for voun 'rii-iM-" written in T. E. WEST West State Street, Jack so li ville, 111, I re tin tlttd art bln to Ito public ntutl no no fact acts, no days bad no eiet they imdny no no free li atte.

mtt-eunis, tin earlv ebvsing saving- batiks, the women of sewing 111! no no tut! I bfnln even a ion. bovs and girls had no magic Uint-em no or balloott- or or t.no bad neither nor nor nor not I. Jote bottles nor foods, tle ven going to day, to give the be of the time- any all apjx-aram-ew made to Ph. builder of regime Ui hoye on lini-s of him it may laud. a- mg fellow -aid dral builder- ot the In ot art.

Rudder- wrought with gr K.uJt minute and part. For the It is on Waterhltrv Some years ago, a wrote him saving that during the cleaning of a to G. Ohctwyud, ot Bark Lane Hull, rn-ar I the of to of ebw-k Ute in fion hail made in 1767. I his receipt payment 1 1767. Received of Mr, Roln-rt Bollos sum pounds, fifteen and in full all for a m-vv I say hy me.

pounds. I A SON Rolhn who the five half gut i for that father-- is not now in iirne. But this is still going, stdl telling of a truthful, honest servant yet. lor more than 12.7 for more than 7.000 for more than days, for mofe a million hours, for more than seveutv million minute- it- has been and it shows no signs whftt- of 1 tug tired or weary. It ticked the itim eertturv in and the eettttiry, too, and it look- fii-king to John a made this wa- an workman, his descendant 11 that t.raet ieall.v than a lmn 1.

bv him. Hi Timothv Mason, was husv twin imitisify having teiniing hist syllable of re as unis if. 1 hey turn up in hcsti-rfteld, in Raw try, in in in Rotherham, all of family pretty nearly the pat ion. is rich in roin- wellum tradition, and I that onu- of by ltis ronsiih-s owned another of tin- tln-ir The clock which is now in possession of Mr, Mason son in Ba rushes a rather curious history at- it. for in prohahility it was at otie time the of John Wesl.

It was by John somewhere about it was found in Fpworth Yic-arage. and has I voiu I the nrmmory of living man been there most likeK Mr. time. I shot thl almost think that Mi Mason holds in oitin rv for his collect ton of curious old to one family ami 1 was not a to find that like otlu-i -utlmsiasls be his Here what he got to say fin rhyme) bout that in Rotherham In reign of Hu- time of was rcckotu-d John Mason, Donca.st«*r, fy ancestor, bis in And old boy still 1 bis is poetic fiction But a past For clock is still a-going, day correctlv And it like to Jti't to our Mtiw um. You may that Termvson even Austin, the present poet couhl make than -or rather poetry would more -this may he though we can without jMtefrv, cannot do without clock- sntd in addition to making Mr.

can make th t(MJt that taken all round, it that is better man Perl poetrv nips huh (lie ludy ami cynic Masons if so. one that runs in the family. When place was pulled down, thi- pane ot glass was and i- still in existence. Mr. Mason himself started business in town in fifty years the bottom of High and just above the when vaults of Duncan Gilmour now was a young man of twenty (Saturday) is can tell of many great changes in the town during long pernal 11 11 1 1 In it, rom here he went to a shop in College street; from thence he removed half way up High ami hi- last move tla- that brought him to top in Issj- since.

Mr. ran 'tiilirr th unit- when there was a farmyard in front ol square. The Colh-gt- inn stood hehimi it, ami the was fem-ed was no through it. and Ltf iiigham Wla-n Fairs were held, da show fixed in tiu- Wd.mbweH's menagerie used hi buck as far la-hind to one oe ion it so far that it brolo lennmds to tv or old in Mr. shop, skeleton watches One of watch as well as cosy rooms them is an made h.v was -1 ii iny the ghts For at the I Win of making and this in the 17Itf, and various im-mIm-px family all interested fO tmik- tnav traced through eighteenth ami the bent Ml thun day.

There above th ant ique Mason, of Ravytry. huu- and fifty ago, and tlmugh thi- vvaieh a mere it is uum-ci-ssiiry to that it is still going! So too. is another old watch, a curious looking piece, by 1 i mot by Mason (Jiri dian namix of family run to ami L'mmfhys), of in 1788. If any one in Rotherham want an obi watch they might try Mr. a son it i.s possible he be to part with them -on htitid, it is al possible that lie might not.

of fatnilv with Rotherlutm bm-k more tlwm i hundred 1 here I i ii far as history di-pom th eight of Masons, watchmaker makers how many, of which history not. it wouh! hard to nay and of these four rm-uJw-rs of Mr. farnib in have business in Rotherham. Mr, grandfather in st in four years tlu- 'Trafalgar. The in which hiisi- stood Mr.

(idling- itow stands -another place His hi the of spirit vaults. In of of window' of this old there were, says Mr, a following lines written on the with a diamond: vain! In vain, is all -aid! Fm resolved die a maid! voiiug holy was tlwit uunh- sidutioii will never known, hut ly of low it: lioly who this it on glass, thinking it would be n-ver m-lo Imps it yard -it olh-i tia- wa- little h.v lit was laid open, ami tin of Beckett, Ttiif and mov stand farm nu-e I U-ad ire i pa uu mg now, to mis ge 11 itself was vvnh umi boublers in- the smooth, hard -tones that now munie buildings stand 1 it may a.s and mention that Mr. Mason rs Sliavv, ton Shaws throvving a into tin river just by gas works aim killing a trout! He would an xeelb'Hi marksman who kill a rout tln-re to day i In- Alnsuua of those bad apprentices, of am! Mr. Maoon has a iuin! ot that caniuit be here, it may be ment however, that tinetly remembers alight from iln- ami emne into bis lather shop to make his stas as I hat apprentice was afu-rwards John bapmaii, tin- well know Lutnloti who published the works Jean Raul liter and ol man. A not tier was the whose obi epitaph in lias quoted.

It lies in a tmriaonial of Thomas ami vvateh maker, who this woumi up in being taken in hand by his Maker, ami being thoroughly and agoing the worbl iln- liitli Aust. in the Ifith voir of his mere enumeration of which 1 find room for here. of Rockingham ware in tin- Clifton Bark museum is famil iar most of pie; that which he at home is or more interesting, and of matters are a great which never requires winding up. It is placed on a slanting (Jane in the morning, and immedi- itely it is put into position it sets by the time twenty-four hours have roll away tiials- it has itself the but tom of the hill, and merely to put back the obi ojyeration again. 'This was an I veut ion he Marquis Worcester that universal pat it in so rare are clocks of kind that Mr.

Mtison tells he has seen But une 1 1 owns- rhaps some ootdd la is old Then there is a medbJIion in wax of imab-h-d by Mi.ss Amins, Historie Gallery, Ball an valuable momento or- -and for vv hh-b, Mr. a son lias many from is an ancient spoon owner saw miong-t (la- ruins of of monks, ami if sjieak tel! us 1 doubt not there is a benn- i ful little glass jewel l(f 1 1 a box. with ami in and bearing date the originals of in h.v (Jiristopher Tlaimpson, ami a iew of from Bow by W. Cowen, with many other matters a Curiosity without fact, you pass tmdde glass door which Mr. business premises his private ones, step from Rother ham into a much amnent town, and when I 1 was so taken back past that 1 in a reat part to forgotten rn Riitherdam, and 1 to sk which was way up 1 had thank our worthy (uvmsman for an morn-, ng, ami I that, though the( vvrnr all obi and oldl to day, hel aay going o.ing and going! hy winding which meeting, Rotherham ipiurier a sex, luul written be gu Mr.

Mason, 1 am i seii" ion on up at last wa- a member ot th tor tur.v he warn a town councillor about or tbirtetu years and a lull- blown ablernian like same jM rtod, by did you 1 asked, thotigbt niv he said, 1 is something to be sjiiJ for that view ot the case after twenty years' He was mayor ot town in 1888, year in which his father ami has always taken a great r- in business. about the I laughed. no very he answered, it has a sentimental value all same. My grandini lier woittul for forty two Queer Miasuns -you euiumt them tf tlmy hold. Bike their clocks, they keep ami on.

There is very intercut log lection of in Mr, po- Eygi. Boil six eggs twenty minutes, make one pint of cream sauce, have six slices of toast on a hot dish, put a liner of suuce on one and then part of the white of the eggs, cut in Btii ami rub part of yolks through a sieve on to the toast. Repeat this ami tftmh wnli a third layer of sauce. Blaee in oven for three minutes. (Jar Dish wuh parsley and serve.

Filling Bath Bags. Bags of cheesecloth ure the best These should be made ubout three or four inches square ami tilled vv illy the follow tug mixture. Not tuu much should be pul lulo each bag' Two and a halt of oafUteut, one half pound of altuoud meal, one-half pound of puwdeted urrii root and one-quarter pound uf tile wiiicli baa hist been actap ed to a fine powder, Ceaktng Potatoes will bail mure quickly if of boiling water are pre pared, one of which poured the and after a moment the potatoes are lifted into the other kettle, and boiling will not cease When potatoes are to be baked, if they are thoroughly heated on top of the stove (turning them once) thev will bake half the usual tune..