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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16
SONG.
AS birds soar high
In the charmed sky.

AS birds soar high
In the charmed sky,
And far from earth exultant fly,
My love to you,
Which is old and new,
Wings away through the gray and blue
OF wintry skies between us two.
Both new and old
Is this love I fold
Deep and safe away from the cold.
Not old you say.
Dear heart, each day,
Though skies be blue, though skies be gray,
Older it grows, yet new Away.
Laura N. Mdrqud,ad, in Hafper's.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

Among his many other curiosities and his
toric relics, George w. Childs has in his pri-
vate Office locks of hair from the distinguished
heads of four of the most famous men of
modern Washington, Wellington, Jack
son and Lincoln. They are all well authenti-
Gated. Washington's, which is powdered, is
in miniature which he left to his niece.
Wellington's was presented to Mr.. Childs by
General j. Grant Wilson, who received it
from the present duke. 1t is fine and gray.
Jackson's, which is coarse came from the
Hermitage, in Tennessee. Lincolns, which
is coarse and black mixed with gray, was cut
from his head the night of the assassination
by DR.. P. King Stone, who attended him.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

Knowest" Went to Pere la Chaise, grand
cemetery. Saw the tomb of Heloise and Abe
lard, the vault of Rossini, and many others.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

Hundreds of young women work for forty
five cents day making shirts in New Yorl
city
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

In conversation humor is more than wit
easiness more than knowledge; few desire to
learn, or to think they need it; all desire to
be pleased, or, if not easy.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

jolly-looking Irishman was saluted with
the remark, "Tim, your house is blown
away" "'Deed, then, it isn't" he answered.
for l have the key in my pocket"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

The evils of the liquor traffic have not been
reduced in this city one particle by high
license, SO says the ST. Louis National Amer
lean. And we add nor anywhere else
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

Deacon Dowgoods son returned home very
late the other night from pressing engage
ment with his pretty sweetheart. Where
have you been ?" growled the old man, as the
youth came sneaking up stairs in his stocking
feet. Dear father" he replied " l cannot
tell lie; I've been to protracted meeting"
And the good old man upbraided himself for
treating his pious son SO harshly. York
Journal
1t is said that cure for alcoholism much
in use III reformatories consists of half
ounce of quassia stepped in pint of vinegar,
and a teaspoonful in pint of water taken
whenever the thirst for liquor comes on.
The retort houses, pits, &C., now being
constructed for the Asbury Park Gas Works
will cost about $50, 600. Fifty bricklayers
are at work on the huge pit intended to re-
ceive the gas-holder.
A circular has been issued by the grand
master of the A. F. and A. M. to the effect
that all who belong to the order and who are
intidels or atheists should withdraw - Cd1adda
Cdsket
LONDON, May 8.-Judah P. Benjamin, the
distinguished lawyer and advocate and ex-
member of the government of the southern
confederacy, is dead.
All the saloons have been closed in Tampa,
Florida, and the prohibition cause is booming
and will keep them closed.
How to make money fast-Nail dollar to
the counter. How to make it faster-Use
screw in place of a nail.
The temperance reformer Booth has per-
suaded 700, 900 persons to sign the pledge in
Great Britain.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

1t is the successful shad fisherman who
catches the early rose.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16

Without the spur and incentive of hope we
become perfectly helpless in evil; therefore
all doctrines and PHILOSOPHERS which tend to
quench or limit hope, or which are bounded
by the narrow horizon of time and earth, are,
in certain emergencies, but dead weights
dragging down the soul
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

eiuslon was that as fat-producing feed
Jurnlps are almost without value. Never
Lneless5 IN the economy Of feeding they
play an important part. 1t was said by
those who had fed them many wears
that they gave increased appetite and
consequently increased thrift; that cattle
with moderate allowance of turnips
would eat even more grain and fodder
than when deprived Of the stimulus.
When making layer cake, with choco-
late and cOcOanut filling the quantity of
each depends on your taste. If YOU use
a great deal of the chocolate you viii not
be able to taste the cOcoanut, and this
fact should be borne in mind. Only
enough chocolate should be used to color
1t light brown, and to give a delicate
flavor.
Very nice batter for baked pudding is
made by melting one large tablespoonful
of butter, beat three eggs very light,
warm two Cupfuls of milk, put the but
ter with 1t, remove from the fire, add the
eggs, a pinch of salt and a cupful of
flour. Pour this over the fruit laid in
the pudding dish. Bake In a quick
oven.
PIGEONS AS WOODCOCKs.- Toast some
bread as for WOOdcOcks, butter it and
drop a few drops of essence of anchovies
on the butter, spread it all over the toast.
then put the toast under the pigeons
while roasting.
ROASTING PIGEoNs-Let your pigeons
be picked clean and washed, then stuff
whole inside of the pigeon with fine
veal stufhng, if preferred; if not, merely
a few breadcrumbs and parsley, pepper
and salt
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

the boys, who had gathered around the
General IN the expectation that the
event would furnish an occasion for q
display of his characteristic humor.
noticed there was something in Black
Jacks face that they were not wont to
see. There was a certain humid tender
ness lar diHerent from their usual fash
ing brightness He stood for a moment
silent, gazing at the unhappy mother and
fatherless child, and the pitiful surround
ings, and then, turning to those about
him, said tersely:
''That looks -rough.n
Then, -glancing around at the ruins
wrought by our shells, and addressing
the men in the cabin, he called out: al
say, boys, can't you straighten this up a
httlef Xix up, that roof. There are
plenty Of stakes around that old stable
and push that log into place, and help
the old lady to clear out the litter, and
1 don't think it would hurt you any to
leave part Of your ratiOns"
Prompt to heed the suggestion the
boys leaned their muskets against
the logs, and, while some of
them cut brush, the others swept the
splinters and pine knots that the shot
and shell had streWn over the floor, and
not one Of them forgot to go to the cor
ner Of the cabin and empty his haver-
sack. 1t made pile Of cOmmissary stores,
consisting of meat, coffee, sugar, hard
tack and chickens probably foraged
from her neXt-dOOr neigh Dor, surprising
any that this poor cracker" woman had
probably ever seen or possessed at one
time.
What are you going to give her for a
name? L want suthin' right peart, now"
said grandmother. She was told that
the name should be satisfactory, and
forthwith she brought the baptismal
bOWl-which on this occasion consisted
of a gOurd-full of water fresh from the
spring.
General Logan now took the baby
wrapped in It's sWaddling clothes of
coarse hOmespun, and held it while the
Chaplain went through with the cere-
mOny. The latter was brief and char
acterized with due solemnity, the spec
tatOrs behaving with beCOmingreVerence,
and thus the BATTLEFRONT babe was christ
ened "Shell Anna" I like to think that
as the Chaplian's prayers were Winging
their way to Heaven the CORY goddess
who nurses a gOrgOn at her breast stayed
her red hand a while.
The party. now formed to leave the
cabin and resume the march, when Gen
eral Logan, taking a gold coin from his
pocket, presented it to the old lady as a
christening gift for his god-child, and
the officers and men, as they had recent
ly drawn their Pay, added one by one a
greenback, until the sum was sWelled to
an amount greater than this braYe-heaTt-
ed cracker" had ever handled. The old
lady's good-by was: "Waal, them thar
Yanks is the beatenist critters I ever
seen I"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
THE OLD n1UsIC-BOx.

There fingers in the quiet of my room
An old quaint muslc-bOX of dusky hue;
No hand but mine rests on il in the gloom,
Nor oft for strangers is it brOughttO view.
Yet naught more sacred than his treasured gem,
Nor dear. more precious. has this earth for me
I'd sooner have it than a diadem,
This relic of an immortality.
Its notes are silent yet often hear
Sweet strains of music waited on the air;
listen as the sound comes to my ear,
And seek for loved Ones but they are not there.
The fair white hands that Weakened the sweet
chord,
The angel forms with voices blent in song,
Have fallen meath the unrelenting sword,
And long ago have Joined the heavenly thrOng.
All sacred tres sure, bound by sweetest ties,
Rest thee forever safe in my abode;
Though grande T music fills the baIrny skies,
And louder strains are echoed from the road,
The memory of thy tones is hweeter far
Than all this clamOr, all this Wanted sound;
For memory bath made thee star,
That sheds fOrme a sacred halo found.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
Food for FAttenine Pigs.

Prof. Samson, of France, has been ex-
perimenting on the relative value of car
bOnaceOus substances for the fattening
of pigs. He selected a Windsor pig,
aged ten weeks and weighing sixteen
pounds, and a Yorkshire, aged eight
weeks, weight tWenty-four pounds. The
first was fed from Decembei 10, 1880, to
April II, 1881, exclusively on barley,
amounting to l0l pounds, when 1t
weighed at the end of four months fifty
two pounds, thus representing q net aug
mentatiOn ftWenty-eight pounds. The
Yorkshire was fed on barley, potato
starch and sugar from November II,
1881, to February %, 1882, in the total
proportions Of seventy-fve pounds OF
barley, sixty Of starch and seven Of su-
gar. At the end of the experiment it
weighed fifty-fOUr pounds, or an augmen-
tatiOn of thirty pounds. In 128 days the
in one hundred days the Yorkshire
had put up thirty pounds Of flesh, or re-
spectiVely, an augmentation of the rate
of three and one-half to four and three
quarter ounces per day. The Professor
concludes that for young pigs a highly
carbOnaceOus food is not that which is
conducive to their development or even
more favorable to the production of fat,
though the latter, he maintains be
formed from the hydrates of carbon, and
not from the protein compounds, as Ger
man scientists maintain. The practical
inference is that the pig, being an ON
nivOrOus animal, stands in need, when
young, of an alimentatiOn that viii de-
velOp the body rather than produce
flesh, and that during the period Of
growth the food ought to contain q large
amount Of animal matter, as dairy and
kitchen refuse and the cooked debris
from slaughter-hOuses and packers
yards. These adjuncts viii supply the
protein compounds.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
LONELY.

am lonely without thee to-day, love;
miss thee away nom my side;
All joy from my heart is away, love
That place where but bliss should abide.
miss thy dear hand placed in mine, love-
miss the sweet lips have pressed,
miss the bright smiles that are thine, love-
The form which so Oft I've caressed.
I think of each word that you spake, love,
OF each little act thou hast done,
Ny heart feels as though 1t would Dreak5 love,
To think that to-day I'm alone.
Alone, without thee to console, love,
Without thy sweet accents to cheer
Ny emotions cannot control, love;
cannot suppress sad tear.
I try to forget that thou art gone, love
T. think of the past as a dream
That for thee 1 am foolish to mourn, love
Regertless and careless to seem.
But deep in my heart is a pain, love,
Which nothing on earth can remove,
Unless tits to see thee again love,
And my hearts fond devotion to prove.
All little do we mortals know, love,
How deep our affection may be,
Until from each other we go, love,
AS 1 am parted from thee
IT'S then that we feel how sincere, love,
And firm our devotion has been;
IT'S then our true feelings appear, love,
To cause US emotions so keen.
IT'S then we reflect o'erthe past, love
IT'S then we recall happy hours,
Which though but a short time did last love,
We're hkened to beautiful flowers,
That lived but short time for us, love,
But while they did last did impaIt
Rare beauty and fragrance for Us, love,
To ill and 70 comfort each heart.
Alas it is thus with me now, love,
The weight of deep sense Of woe
Compels me before thee to bow, love,
And tears Il ON my dimmed eyes TO now.
All! there is no other can cheer love,
NO other can make me feel glad;
Thy presence TO me is 100 dear, love,
Thy absence to me is too sad.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
The Mines.

The discovery of gold in the Frazer
river and its tributaries, in British Co.
lumbia, occurred in the year 1858, and
among the thousands who started from
Victoria for the land of promise was
your humble servant, Joseph Taylor.
did not 90 alone on my gOld-seeking
expedition. Harry CleaVe went with me
as partner.
1t was a journey of twenty-three days
from Victoria, often Wading waist-deep
through the mud and slush, and crossing
mountains of immense height.
At last we arrived at the mines in a
deplOrable condition. Here we found
the suffering fearful, provisions scarce,
and although we had read such glowing
accounts Of the mines, the gold was slow
in coming.
Day by day we toiled, and at the end
of the first week we were not much rich
er than when we arrived.
The second week, however, we struck
a "vein," and our anticipatiOns seemed
about to be realized.
1t was the last day of the second week,
and Harry and were seated in our tent
smoking, and discussing our unexpected
luck
had just put down my pipe when a
man entered the tent. 1t was Bob Riley,
the bully of the mines.
He was a man of about six feet in
height, splendidly formed, with an arm
that looked as though it might fell an OK.
He took a seat without even saying as
much as: By your leave"
Hey, old boy, guy US that pipe" he
said at length, pointing to my pipe I had
Just put down. "And harkee, old teller,
fill it up to the bTim dye hear?
Bob Riley" L replied, 1 know you're
a bully, and Pm not afraid of you. If
you call me rightly and speak respect
fully I'll lend you my pipe"
"Guv me that pipel" he cried, his face
growing red with rage. "GuV me the
pipe and mind who you're talking to-,
dye heart"
I viii not give you the pipe, Bob
Riley, ill you do what I told you" was
the answer, interpreting my body be-
tween him and the object of his inquiry.
With an oath he arose and came to-
ward me. Harry jumped up to take my
part, but told him to keep quiet and
I'd make it right.
1t certainly looked as though Bob
would demolish me- was SO slight in
comparison to him.
"Get out of the way ]" he cried, with
an oath, his face white with rage.
I did not move.
He then raised his braWny fist to strike
me down.
Iparried the blow and the next mo-
ment he had measured his length on the
ground, his hand touching the canvass,
from a Well-measured blow on the mouth
from my fist.
In a minute he was up again, for I
would take no mean advantage Of his
position.
With a volley Of oaths he cried:
'Joe Taylor, my time will come. I
shall never forget this /" and with that
he disappeared from the tent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
Grselv,s Ear North.

HaFp6rB weekly.
The full record of the scientific discoV-
cries of the Greedy party is nOtyet avail
able for examination. If the press re-
ports are corroborated, however, the
present expedition must take first rank
in Arctic exploration. 1t has determined
coneIusively that man may live comfort
ably at a temperature Of-59o Fahren-
heit, and by artificial means conform
himself to an inconceivable environ
ment. During the long Arctic night the
explorers lived in a house within house.
They breakfasted at eight, lunched light
" at eleven q. N. and nine p. m, and
dined at four. Observations were taken
daily IN meteOrolegy, astronomy, mag
netism, sea temperatures, ice thicknesses,
tidal motion, and velocity Of sound at
different temperatures. Military disci-
pIine, one hours exercise per day, and q
weekly bath we're required Of all. The
living apartments we're kept clean. The
National holidays were observed with an
extra dinner, and aninterchangeo Of pres
entsO on Christmas. Thus the dread dis
ease Of scurvy, which wore out two ships
crews for Mares, was prevented, and
fairly eontented life enjoyed.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

In the recent document put forth by
the associated charities Of Boston, il is
stated that the four causes Of poverty are
pride.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18
HOW IT HAPPENED.


shall never know how it could have happened,
OR whether she gave some look or sign,
Or whether leaned my face toward her,
Or whether she raised her face to NINE
never shall know how it dared to happen;
But close and glad as the wild bee sips
From hishOney clover, 1 know kissed her,
Full and square on her lovely lips.
She turned within o God, bless and keep herl
The door closed softly, and al still.
I walked in a dream through the mOOnlights
splendOr,
The crisp snow crackled-the air blew chill.
How Will She meet me again? How greet ne
With lofty anger or keen delight?
Have opened the gate of her love forever,
Or closed myself into darkest nigh?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

He held my hand-the quiet moon was shining
The street lay half in shadow, half in light,
AS on the doorstep for one little minu e
We stood to see the beauty of the night.
He, just to say good by my hand had taken,
1 could not snatch il rudely from his grasp;
And so. the while we talked, he held it gently,
In the kind, friendly shelter of his clasp.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

Notwithstanding it has been claimed
that the Black Hamburg" grape win
grow nowhere in the United States but
in California, Baron de LuttechaW has
IN his vineyards at Waldo, Fla, q num-
Der of vines laden to their utmost with
clusters Of the largest size.
lately celebrated her I01st birthday.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-04

At the last session of the Legislature
law was made requiring hotel and Testau-
rant keepers to put up a sign if cleo
margarine were used in their establish
ments, notifying their patrons of the fact.
The law also required dealers in butter to
notify their customers when OleOmarga-
rine, hutterine. and other substitutes for
butter were sold to them. There is no
doubt that the law is being violated all
the time, but so far as known
there has not been a single instance
where a violator of the law has been pun
ished. 1t is folly to make laws unless
measures are provided to enforce them.
1t ought to be made the duty of some one
in each county and town to see that the
provisions of the mock butter law are
complied with. If people want to eat
lard or tallOw because it is cheap let them
do it. but 1t is hardly fair to
deceive them into the belief that
they are eating butter. The mock butter
business has assumed immense proper
tious. There are establishments IN the
West which make thousands Of pounds Of
this sort of butter daily. Ii is all sold as
butter Indeed, 1t could hardly be sold at
all if its true character We're known. a
committee of the. New York Legislature
is now making an inquiry into the cOun-
terfeit butter trade. One of the witnesses
testified that he made $500 pounds of
butterine a day which contained about so
per cent. of lard. This stuff
costs about % cents pound
| and is sold at retail at from 80 to 40 cents.
A New York butter dealer said that last
year about 800, 600 packages of substitutes
for butter were sold in New York. AL
though there is a law requiring the tubs
containing these stuffs to be branded with
the name OF the material they contain it
is so cIeverly evaded that the public think
they are buying genuine butter. 1t may
be said that as long as the public
don't know the difference between butter
and oleomargarine there is no use going
to the trouble and expense of trying to
protect them against the deception. This
is mistake. The public are entitled to
have what they pay for, and, besides, some
of the counterfeits are deleteriOus to
health. Swindlers, in whatever way they
cheat the public, should be punished.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-04
The Unwise AIr. Wise.

Readjuster Congressman John ;. Wise
is getting to be as irrepressible as the
| gentleman from Texas-T. 2. o. He ap-
pears not to have been pleased with his
testimony before the subcommittee on
Privileges and Elections. His statement
that colOred legislators only consulted
with him in his kitchen caused him to be
attacked and cOntradicted by the negroes
and laughed at by the whites. The latest
rUmor about the matter is that Mr.. Wise
got hold OF the official copy Of the evidence
and had it materially changed before it
appeared in pamphlet form next morning
1t has long been the practice with many
Congressman to revise their speeches be-
fore they appear in the Record, and it is
probable that the Virginia member
thought he could take the same liberty
with his testimony, which was really a
political speech backed up by his affidavit.
Whatever credibilItY it may be entitled
to, technically it was evidence, and the
indications are that the gentleman will
be called to account tor tampering with
it.
1t is said that Senator Vance has a copy
OF w lse's testimony as transcribed by the
official reporter and a copy of it as it APP
peared after the interlineatiOns and
changes were made, and that he will pre-
sent them to the committee and demand
that the original shall stand. 1t Is doubt
full if the committee has power to ade-
quately punish a member of Congress for
the offense with which Wise stands
charged, even if it had the desire to do so.
The majority evidently favOrs Readjuster
methods, but it can hardly sustain such
a notorious contempt as this.
Mr. Wise has already made quite a spec
taclo Of himself before the country. He is
not competent to sustain the character of a
prosecuted patriot, and the more he flOun-
ders about the deeper he sinks in the bog.