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Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Ladies' the Best Company.

Thackery says that it is better for you
to pass an evening once or twice in a
ladies drawing room, even though the
conversation is slow, and you know the
girls song by heart, than in a club tav-
ern or pit OF a theatre. All amusements
of youth to which v~iftuous~ woman are
not admitted, fely on it, are de~lerious in
their nature. All men who avoid female
society have dull perceptions and are
stupid, or have gross tastes and revolt
against what is pure. Your elub swag.
gerers who are sucking the butts of bill
lard cues all night, call female society
insipid. Poetry is insipid to yokel .
beauty has no charms for a blind mar /;
music does not charm the poor beast who
does not know one tune from another !:
and as a true epicure is hardly ever tired
OF water, sauce, and brown bread and
butter, | protest | can sit for a whole
night talking to a well regulated,
kindly woman, about her girl coming
out, of her boy at Elton, and like the
evenings entertainment. One of the
great benefits a man may derive from
womans society is, that he is bound to be
respectful to them. The habit is of great
good to your moral men, depend upon it.
Oar education makes us the most eminent
ly selfish men in the world. We fight
for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, we
light our pipes and say we will not go
out: we prefer ourselves, and our case /;
and the greatest good that comes to a
man from woman's society is, that he has
to think of somebody to whom he is about
to be constantly attentive and respectful.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
A Visit to Robson Crusoe's Island.

While on board the ship Golden Rock
ct, laying at Greenwich dock, we were
permitted by Capt. G.. N. Pendleton to
examine his log book, in which he gives
an account of his visit to the Island Of
Jnan Fernandez, (Robison Crusoe's
Island.) The ship was on her last pass
age to this port from Boston, and had on
board IS passengers Us of whom were
ladiesl, who intend to make California
their future place of residence. Getting
short of water Capt. Pcndleton decided to
stop at Juan Fernandez for a further
supply, and therefore shaped his course
thither-the island being nearly in his
track. All six o'clock P. NJ, on the even.
ing of March "a, they doubled the East.
ern end of the island, and at seven
rounded to off the bay Of St. Joseph, at
the head of which the few inhabitants
now remaining on the island are located.
The facilities for loading water at the
island Capt. Pendleton represents to be
not very good. The casks must be taken
on shore and filled, rolled back into the
water and parbuckled into the boat
While the crew were at this work the
passengers rambled off in different d.
rections to make discoveries. The island
is twenty-five miles long by about four in
breadth. The land is very high, rising
in rugged PERCEPTIONS peaks-one Of them
called Tunkque, $500 feet above the lev
ell of the sea. The valleys are exceed
mgIy fef tile, the grass growing to the
height Of six or eight feet.
Figs, Strawberries, peaches and cher,
ries abound in their season. The Golden
Rocket a there in the season Of
peaches, and the valleys and hill sides
were full of trees loaded down with de-
%licious fruit. Captain Pendleton bought
four barrels, Of the inhabitants, and the
passengers about as many more. Straw
berries flourish best in December and
January. There are three remarkable
caves in the sides of the hill facing the
harbor about SO feet in length, Is in
width and about the same in heigth The
inhabitants now number but IA, whom
Messrs. Day and Kirkaldie from Valpa-
raise are the chief persons, they have
been appointed oyerseers of the island
by the Gillian Government. Formerly
a penal colony, numbering 500, was 10.
Gated here, and the caves above men
toned were used by them, but the object
was found to be impractical aala&Sss
convicts were taken back to the mainland.
The Golden Rocket anchored on the
opposite side from that uron which
Selkirk lived, and there being a noun
tain to cross to reach the Robson Crusoe
abode, no one ventured to make the
journey. The best landing is on the
eastern side, but the water is 20 fathons
deep at the head of the bay, and in some
places so bold is the shore that a boat
tied by her painter and drifting to the
limits would be in IS fathons. An i'm
mense number Of goats are running wild
over the island, and an abundance Of fish
are taken on every coast. The wat
er is obtained from a number of never
failing %rivulets trickling down over the
rocks from the cloud capped mountains.
San Francisco Times.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Blackberry Wine.
-

Blackberries being plenty, and very
cheap, our readers can certainly afford
to try their hand at making superior
Blackberry Wine, from the folio wing re.
ceipt which we publish for the benefit Of
our friends:
Take the ripe fruit, rub it with your
hands or a wooden masher in some suita
BILE vessel, until the cells which contain
the juice are thoroughly broken; the Der
ries should then be placed in a deep and
not very wide tub ; to each gallon 81
blackberries add one or two pounds oil
sugar: common brown sugar will answer
although white is preferable of course
Mix them well together, and for each
gallon of berries add one quart of boil
Tag water; let them remain ia the Tub fol-
t~wenty-four hours, stirring them occas
ionally. The heat of the water will
cause a sufficient degree of fermentation
without anything else. Skim off the
seeds and skins which rise to the surface
and at the end of twenty-four hours, lei
the juice be run into a cask; whatever
remains of skins and seeds, strain through
d ciotHs Vuen Inc cdSk Is luii, pull IL III
a cellar, or where it can be kept cool
with the bung left open. Keep some Of
the juice in a vessel, from which the
-cask may be filed every day, so as to al
low the skums raised by fermentation to
pass off. In eight or ten days the cask
may be closed and the contents treated
as you would any other wine. From
each gallon of berries treated in the
manner indicated, a gallon of wine may
be obtained, not costing over twenty-five
cents. What is there to prevent oul
farmers and others from making theil
own wine and plenty Of it?
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Crooked Enough

Speaking Of the Rio Grande a writer
says =
Imagine one of the crookedest things
in the world, then imagine four more
twice as crooked, and imagine to your
self a large river three times as crooked
as all these put together, and you have a
faint idea Of the crooked disposition OIL
this crooked river. There is no drift
wood in it from the fact that it is so
crooked that timber can not find its way
far down enough to lodge two sticks to-
gether; but few snakes, because it is not
straight enough to swim in; and the fish
are all in whirlpools in the bends, be.
cause they cannot find their way out
Birds frequently attempt to fly across the
river. but light on the same side they
start from-being deceived by the crook.
Indeed, you may be deceived when you
see across it; and some of the b'hoys say
it is SO twisting there is but one side to
IT'D
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
The Late Queen Of Portugal.

The Lisbon correspondent of the New
York News, writing on the 18th ult.,
says:
1.-THE death of the young and beauti.
full Stephanie, Queen of Portugal, which
took place this evening, at 8 P. NJ, has
plunged the capital into grief, and ex.
pressions of unfeigned sympathy and re
greet are heard everywhere; in the streets
and cofee-houses, nothing else is talked
of, for the young Queen. by the simplici-
ty of her manners. her unobtrusive piety,
and her great charity, had won the hearts
of all classes, from the noble to the cot
tager. We all remember how she passed
along the streets but twelve months ago,
a blooming bride, how her gentle and
winning ways Immediately gained for her
the affections of the people, and softened
and altered the gloomy and moody hab
it's of the King. The Queens illness
commenced on Monday last, when Her
Majesty accompanied the King to Vendas
Novas to inspect the proving of a new
rided cannon. The day was burning hot,
and on the sands there was little or no
shade. Shortly after returning home,
Her Majesty complained of an indisposi-
ton, which at first was considered to be
the result of a slight sunstroke, but which
at last vas recognised as diptheris, The
fatal disease ran its course, despite the
able attendance Of DIR. Gomez and the
Baron de Silva, who tried every means
known to the medical art to save the
Royal sufferer. Yesterday morning, l
believe, dangerous symptoms set in, and
slight modification appeared in the
throat. At this juncture, DR.. Simas, Of
the Misericordia. who has a high reputa-
ton for the treatment of this class Of
complaints, vas called in, but he at nee
gave up the case as hopeless. Towards
evening it became-known about the pal
ace, and was reported out of doors that
the Queen could not escape. AS a last
resource, however, an operation, common
ly had resourse to in desperate cases, was.
performed on the throat by the eminent
surgeon Barboza; but it was of no avail,
and shortly after s P. NJ, the Queen ex.
PRED. The confessor Of Her Majesty,
the Rev. Joseph Ilsley, President of the
English College, was in attendance, and
administered the consolation of religion
and the last rites of the Church. The
bed was surrounded by the ~sorrowing
King, and the Royal family, to all Of
whom the Queen had endeared herself as
much as if her relationship had been life
long. Sorrow is universal, and the Eng
lish Court will mourn for the royal lady
whose grace and beauty won the admira-
ton of all the parties given in her honor
before she cam to thi country.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

HORACE GREELEY N THE MULE.-A
writer in the Leayenworth Times, relates
the following anecdote Of Horace Gree
ley
When the party had mounted their
animals in front of the camp of DIR. Cas-
to, the President of the mining district,
for the purpose of treading the back
track, Horace found it, however, more
easy to bestride his long cared charger
than to induce him to move onward
The whip and spur proved unequal to the
task. Every forcible expedient being
exhausted, the words OF kindness and
encouragement flowed from his lips !; but
they availed nothing. The obstancy of
the animal finally seemed to excite the
admonitor, and in a half praying half.
threatening tone, he exclaimed moo
mule, for Gods sabe don't be a mule ~
This vigorous appeal was properly re-
sponded to. The mule moved.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
BIondin at the Falls.

Next to Louis Napoleon, Blondin is
confessedly the most wonderful of French
men. At the Falls, a few days since, he
performed all he promised, and more
Between 4 and 5 O'Clock, he crossed the
rope for the fourth time. He was dress.
ed 10 Indian costume. His journey to
the Canada side was not marked by any
feat of peculiar daring, He went over
on a trot, merely Ealting fol an instant to
balance himself. His homeward trip,
however, completely eclipsed his previous
feats. When about one quarter Of the
way across, he stood on his head, holding
the balance pole in his hands. A little
further along, he laid dQzsa@ hiw-sack.
with apparent composare. When near
the centre of the rope, he tied his bal
lance pole to the guy rope. and naviga-
ted by means of his hands and feet, his
body being in a state of suspended ami
nation beneath. After proceeding some
distance in this way, he assumed a per-
pendicular position and returned for the
balance-pole, and then walked on. An
other feat which he performed was, turn.
ing a sort of handspring. Lying down
on his back, he extended the balance
pole the length Of his arms, and then
his body over the pole, striking astride
the rope. Without the pole, he hung by
one leg from the rope, and supported
himself by one arm. During his passage
he stood on his head several times, and
performed a variety of feats which We
have not time to r~ecapulate. The num-
Der Of persons present was greater than
at any previous exhibition.-Bu6dlo Cour.
ier.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

FASHIONABLE LIFE.-Somebody says
that society is a nuisance in a fashionable
sense. 1t is nothing nor or less than a
stiff series of absurd and cold formalities.
1t has no heart, any more than the rock
Of Gibraltar has. The password is
money-if you've got it, or can make the
world think you have, go in. Brush up
your character-and go in. Learn the
last speeches of polite gossip, dress in
good taste, and keep up a fashionable
show and you a safely pass with gen.
teel elect. Society is fearfully and won
derfnlly made.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

BGF A G~entleman's Diary of his Wife's
Temper Monday-a thick fog; no see
ing through it Tuesday-Gloomy and
very chilly; unreasonable weather. We'd
~nesday-frosy; at times sharp, Thurs.
day-Bitter cold in she morning; red
sunset, with flying oloaaS ~porteading
hard weather. Friday-Storqa In the
morning with peals of thunder air clear
afterward. Saturday-Gleams Of sun.
shine, with partial thaw; frost again at
night. Sunday-A light south western
in the morning; calm and pleasant at din
ner time; hurricane and earthquake at
night.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Up the HiIl.

On a sunny summer morning,
Early as the dew was dry,A
bpfne hiffi ra- berrying;
Need I tell you-tel you why2
Farmer Davis had a daugter,
And it happened that 1 knew,
On each sunny summer morning Jenny
Up the hill went burrying too.
Lonely work is picking berries,
So joined her on the hill;
"Jenny DEAR" said I, "your baskets
Quite too large for one to fll."
So we staid-we two-to fill it
Jenny talking-I was still
Leading where the hill was steep,
Picking berries up the hill.
"This is up hill business" said Jenny
$50 is life," said l, " shall we
Climb it each alone, or Jenny,
Will you come and climb with me 2"
Redder thnn the blushing berries
Jenny's cheeks a moment grew,
While, without delay, she answered,
81 will come and climb with you"
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
My Mothers b
BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.

This book is all that's left me now;
Tears will unbidden start
With faltering hand and throbbfng brow
1 press it to my heart.
For many generations past,
Here is my family tree:
Ny mothers hands this Bible clssped;
She, dying, gave it me.
All! well do I remember those
Whose names these records bear
Who round she h~earth-stone used to close
After the evening prayer,
And speak of what these pages said,
In tones my heart would thrill;
Though they are with the silens dead,
Here they are living still!
My father reads this holy book
To sisters, brothers dear;
How calm was my poor mothers look,
Who loved Gods word to hear!
Her angel face-I see it yet!
What thrilling memories come!
And hat little group is met!
With the halls Of homel
Thou truest friend man ever knew,
Thy constancy I've tried;
Where all were false l found thee true,
My counsellor and guide,
The mines of earth 70 treasure give
That could this volume buy:
En- teaching me- the way to live,
1t taught me how to die.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
aea- Be and continue poor young ma

rs DIG anu C0nCInUG pUOT Young Man,
while others around you grow rich by
fraud and disloyalty be without place
or power, while others beg their way
upward bear the pain of disappointed
hopes, while others gain the accomplish
ment Of theirs by battery +; forego the
gracious pressure of the hand, for which
others cringe and crawl. Wrap your
self up in your own virtue and seek a
friend and your daily bread. If you have
in such a course grown gray with un-
blenched honor, bless God and die
HenzeJndn
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

NA For the type of Venetian beauty
says a writer in the Philadelphia United
States Gazette, we must look among the
lower classes, and there are found the
protest and maidens of Italy
perhaps of the whole world. Their hair
is hlsGde, with a golden tint, and there
are many who have black eyes with this
fairAshair. Their features are regular
and delicate. their skin white and thin,
their figures graceful, and their feet
small. They have a nobleness Of bear
ing, which is often wanting in the ladies
Of the aristocracy.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

BA A shoemaker received a note from
a lady to whom he was particularly at
tached, requesting him to make her a pair
of shoes ; and not knowing exactly the
style she REQUIRED, he dispatched a writ
ten missive to her, asking her whether
she would like them " Wround, or Esq.
Toad" The fair one Indignant at this
rich specimen of photography, replied,
I" Kneether."
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Memory.
A WALL of a child at midnight,
The chime of a minster-bell,

A Wall of a child at midnight,
The chime of a minster-bell,
The ~sorrowful moan of a sorrowing soul,
And the sound of a passing knell.
An old worn book, on a corner shelly,
And a spray of faded yew,
A locket of hair all golden and fair
And a ribbon of faded blue.
A needle-case, both empty and old,
And a case with hidden spring,
Wherein two golden wateh-keys lie,
A heart-and a wedding-ring.
I take the book frcm the corner shelf,
And the ribbon of faded blue,
And before me stands the form 1 lov'd,
With the hair of a golden hue.
And I gaze so long in those earnest eyes,
That my soul grows weak with pain,
Then she fades away-and l gertly lay
The old book down again.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Vanity.

oh the dark days of vanity while here,
How ~tasteless! and how terrible when gonel
Gonel they ne'er go when past. they haunt US still
The spirit walks of every day deceased
And smiles an angel, or a fury frowns.
Nor death, nor life delight us. If time past
And time possest both pain us, what can please 2
That which the Deity to please ordain'di
Tins us'ds The man who consccrates his hours
BY Vigorous effort, and an honest aim,
at orce he draws the string Of life and death;
lie walks with Nature; and her paths are peace.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
A Partisan Quack.

At the theatre of the Varieties there
is an actress, one of the best in Paris:
who has had the misfortune to be exceed
ingly, deplorably thin-we might almost
say serawny. A short time since, she
Heard Of d doctor, who, it is said, had
succeeded in manufacturing a mineral
water which had the power of making
people grow fat. She went to him in
stanter.
Doctor said she, "what must 1 do
to get fat?"
Take my waters"
"And shall l get fat ?v
Immediately"
The thin actress plunged into the doc.
tors baths, and drank the water early
and late. Three months passed away.
but she grew no fatter. At last she called
the doctor, and said:
doctor, I don't grow fat -
Wait a little while" replied the doc
tor.
"Will it be long? 2"
Fifteen days at the farthest. You
see that big, fat woman walking in the
garden. When she first came here she
was, perhaps, thinner than you"
What! may hope ?"
Fifteen days at most" said the doctor.
Two more months passed; the actress
grew thinner and thinner. One dav. as
she was taking her warm mineral bath;
she heard a dispute going on in the
bathing room next to her own.
Decidedly, DOCTOR" said the big fst
woman above introduced, decidedly doc
tor" | don't get a bit thinner"
"Have patience, madame" said the doc
tor; "you see that very thin lady who
sometimes walks in the garden %
"Yes."
"Well, she is an actress from the Va.
~rieties, whose excessive fat forced her to
absent herself from the stage; she came
to me-you see the result. Before fifteen
days | promise you shall be thinner than
she is"
At these words the thin actress arose
from her warm bath, dressed herself, and
with a heart divided by grief and indig-
nation, silently left the house, hoping,
however, to keep her misfortunes a secret;
but in Paris a secret is an impossibility,
and somehow or other the story got out.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
Our Strap 8ook
Kate Pink and the Sewing
sMachine.
BY sLulcr FsRK.

Kate sat in her seat looking fine as a fiddle
A machine sat before going diadle, diddle, diddle
It's q wag of Kate's foot sets the thb@g all q flying
Couldn't tell how it sswed, if 'twould save me from
dying.
I looked at the diddler and then at. fair Kate,
And | thought she was lucky in coming. SO late
When the work ofthe household is done by machines.
And the girls shine as brightly asfresh-caught sar-
dimes.
Not so in old times, few machines were used then
To abate the hard labor of women or men;
No machinery invented to rep or to NOW;
And no diddling contriyancea 10 help the girls sew.
Hates grandmother tramped by the old spinning
wheel,
And she reeled other yarn on al old fashioned reel
She wove her own cloth in a bis-timbsrsd loom,
And she swept out her house with a huge bircheI
broom.
Her garment she made with hel needle and thread,
And she'd sit up and sew whentne rest were in bed.
She made all the dresses w~hichKatesm mother wore
Of the plain-going homespun d times gone before
Yes labor, good heavens! how fe fair had to work
From toll, most severe, there vas no way to shirk
They labored without doors xAellras within
Make hay, milk cows, cIas<andspin-
The ladies of old didn't go'on extensions"
No 4" crinoline' then to enlarge their dimensions
A dozen could sit-and I don't know but more
Within the same space which vial now hold but four
They dressed in old tines more for comfort than show
And they put on less airs when tc meeting the'd go
In a business like mlnner they'd dash right ahead
And broad, shady bnnets were morn on the heads
But times are now changed, things are not as they
were
When household machines were the hands ofthe fair;
Much labor's now saed by arts active diddle,
And Kate looks as SILK as a new-varnished fiddle.
She's trimmed off with dounces from head down
to toe.
And balloon-like appers-Katy spreads herself SO
Instead of hard dnges those old fashioned things
Kate's 'bread-hooks' are tender and stuck DER with
rings.
Whereas in old timest was work, work, work;
1t is now to live idle, port fashions and smirk
And our Kate fhe plas on the piano and sings,
And she does little els than such frivolousvthings.
So Kate, wag your feAAlet machines do the work,
4Tfiis wisdom m you IN haf245f e shirE
Dress up in your finestlook charming and spruce,
You're better for o1nGnsat, far than for use.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18

nar An Irish clergyman once broke
off the thread of his discourse, and thus
addressed his congregation: MY dear
brethren, let me tell you that | am now
just half through my sermon, but, as 1
perceive your impatience, I will say that
the remaining half is not more than quar-
ter as long as that you have hoard."'
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-18
For the Monmouth Weekly Herald.
A summer Song.
BY HENRY WARD.

BY HENRY WARD.
Now Summers sheen
And mantle green
Ger wood and glen are waving,
And rill and stream
With silver CLEAN,
Their fowery banks are LAYING.
To greenwood shade,
And cooling glade,
The tuueful birds are flying; d,
And while they sing,
Their warblings ring,
Soft Echo's notes replying.
See! on the plain,
The golden grain,
The reaper's task is waiting;
The glorious sight
With rich delight,
Ths farmers heart elating.
What smiles adorn
-uUrvrs- or UUTr;
With silken tass els shining
Can rocks of gold
Such charms unfold
Such pleasure spring from mining2
The scented hay,
Each sunny day,
IT'S fragrance round is breathing,
More sweet than flowers
From Paynim bowers,
.Blithe Beauty's brow ~enwreathing.
IT'S thus awhile
That Summers smile,
Awakens rapt emotion
When all is bright
That charms the sight,
In earth, and air, and ocean.
rcHrlELD, July so, 1859.