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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

THE OBJECT OF EXERCISE.

If a strong, active man, in perfect health,
months, his strength and vigor would de-
part from him, his muscles would become
soft and weak, and he would be, in fact,
an invalid. Were he then to rise up and
take moderate exercise at first gradually
increasing the amount until he had resum-
ed his accustomed activities, his muscles
would resume their former firmness and
strength. Men have control over their
health, and if they fail to do their part in
the world it is usually their own fault. If
they strive to do too much and thus impair
health and shorten life, it is still their own
fault. Those are happiest and live the
longest who are well nourished and whose
regular business demands about the same
amount of bodily activity every day, as
would be essential to health under any cir
cumstances.
The object of exercise is to stimulate the
vital organs to healthful activity. The
breathing becomes more rapid under exer-
else, the blood is more rapidly oxygenzed,
the circulation is quickened and the refuse
matters are eliminated more promptly from
the system; the digestive organs do their
work more promptly and more throughly
and demand is soon made for new ma
terial; the individual is hungry and takes
food with an increased relish. Thus the
machinery of life runs on smoothly, and
naturally under the stimulus of fresh air
and exercise. the strength is renewed and
disease banished.
The best of all methods of exercise is
horseback riding, and this is the reason
The horse does most Of the work and the
rider receives most of the benefit. because
he does not exhaust his own strength but
that of the horse in taking the exercise.
The rider is passive to a great extent, par
ticularly if he has a horse with an easy
gait lie is shaken up without becoming
fatigued, and he really gets more air in the
lungs than if he were walking. Another
most important point is the excitement and
pleasure of riding; it is often new sensa-
ton, while walking is common place and
soon becomes tiresome, and then its bene-
fits diminish. Still walking is next to
horse back riding and is method of loco
motion that renders us quite independent.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14
A BRAKEMAN.S PLEA.

If there was law compelling the compa-
MES to pay for smashing brakemen you
You couldn't find a link and pin coupler in
the country. Dangerous! ! don't sup
pose you have any idea of the dangers of a
brakeman work on a freight train. He's
got to have muscle, activity and Judgment,
and if he fails in one of these fora moment
why, they just shovel him up in blanket.
Married men won't couple cars, except
when they can't get any other job. It's all
done by young fellows-poor boys who can
better afford to get killed. Some day the
poor boy is helping make up long train.
He's 200 yards away from the engine.
There's the conductor on top of the train
passing signals with his hands. The
engineer don't want to kill anybody, but
he can't see the whole length of the train
and it S hard to tell by the motions of a
mans hands just how much more to back.
The brakeman gets in between the cars
holding pin in one hand and waiting to
lift the link with the other. Along comes
the train like the hammers of hades; the
draw bar gives way, retreats clear to the
head, or the brakeman loses his footing in
the shock. They carry him home, tell his
folks that Johnny got killed on the road,
and get another brakeman.
Then in the winter there's ice and snow
on top of the cars. Everything is slippery
and it's awful easy to miss a step and go
down between the cars. Overhead bridges
break good many heads, too. It's
dangerous work, and we get paid sl.S5
for ten hours work. 1t costs a brakeman
$50 year for 81 900 life insurance, about
six times what it would cost you. lnsome
parts of the country the brakemen have
associations, and when one gets killed the
association pays his widow or his mother
or his sister Sc. 600. There is no association
like that here | wish there was, or that
the companies had to pay for us. The only
coupler that will ever catch them will be
one that saves money. That may sound
rough, but it's Gods truth.
Get up a coupler that doesn't cost much
more than link and pin and doesn t
lose pins, and you'll have EN-. Let me tell
you why. The average loss of pins is five
year to each freight car. Boys steal 'em
for junk, and they get lost in hundred
ways. Pins cost go cents each; that's 50. OF
a car per year. There are nearly 1000, DOG
freight cars in this country. That's $500,
100000 worth of pins lost every year
Looks big, don't it? Well knock OIL a
third for pins that are recovered and you
still have a sum worth saving. Show the
railroads self-coupler that doesn't cost
more than s.. 90 al the most, and saves pins,
and the brakeman will get better show
for his life than seven chances in eight
Boston Globe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14
VOL. I.
CLOUDS WITH SILVER Innings.

There S never a dream that's happy
But the waking makes us sad;
There's never dream of sorrow
But the waking makes us glad:
We shall look some day with wonder
At the troubles we have had
There's never way so narrow
But the entrance is made straight;
There is always a guide to point us
To the "1ittle wicket gate"
And the angels will be the nearer
Toa soul that is desolate.
There's never heart so naughty
But will some day bow and kneel;
There's never heart so wounded
That the Saviour cannot heal;
There is many Il lovely forehead
That is bearing the hidden seal.
There's never Il day so sunny
But little cloud appears;
There's never life so happy
But has had its time of tears;
Yet the sun shines out the brighter
When the stormy tempest clears.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

\ man says his wife is only half like a
telescope. He can draw her out, but he
can't shut her up.
A little girl spending the summer in the
country, wrote to her father: Please bring
me new tooth brush Mine is molting. =
A man in Burlington, Vt. is bewailing
the fact that his wife is descending to the
low arena of politics. He says she is a
boiler, and won't let him in after 10 o clock
night.
Judge, l desire to be excused from jury
service. ''Why?" asked the court BE
cause can only hear with one ear ''Oh,
you'll do, said the judge: I'VE only hear
one side of a case at a time.
Sometimes get discouraged, sighed
Parson Jones; for aught can see. men
are as bad as ever. However" he contin-
ued, IF they should all become perfect, l
don't know what | should do for living. .
What do you think of my mustache >,
asked a young man of his girl. "Oh, ii
reminds me of Western frontier city
was the answer. In what respect, pray ~
Because the survey is large enough,
but the settlers are Struggling
Il came up here to get the air said a
city school-ma am, who had engaged board
at a Vermont mountain farmhouse.
well, by gosh, you won't get him.
remarked the son of the family, soto voce,
as he picked up the milk pail and went out
to milk
First Old Gentleman-''N hois that hand
some young man standing there?' Second
do. - That's my daughters husband
very brilliant young man: he made for
tune through the law" First O. G. TN
deed" Second 0. G.-''Yes. the Law
made me his father
Il was mighty thankful for that rain We
got yesterday Eyes, it did the corn Z
world of good How many acres hay,
you got planted in corn? I've got NJ
| corn planted this year at all. WASH
thinking about crops well. how ther
can the rain benefit you?' you see
don't often get decent dinner at home, a
my wife says she can't cook in hot weather
but yesterday there was to be churel
picnic, and She fixed up lunch basket TO
the preachers table, but it rained SO TIN
picnic conld not come off To keep tn,
preachers lunch from spelling we had
for dinner, and it was the best dinner Nv,
had since we were married. There wa
no end Of chicken and jellies, and that sor
Of alterations. | feel like new man
just as if was born again. Don't tell IN
that rain yesterday didn't do the countr
any good. 1t was the most refreshin
/ shower we have had for years.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

Lodge has tried every means to turn m
against him, and failing, has even dared t.
attack the purity of my life. ] am heart
broken and weak woman, but let him be
ware. | shall remain here during thu
| three years of my husbands confinement
and then trust God that we may be one,
more united. =
M'AFEE's STORY OF HIS LIFE.
McAfee, or Moore's, story of his mar
riage, abandonment of his wife, his meeting
and marriage with the Countess and his
subsequent movements is almost as re-
markable as that of the lady herself. He
was found in the county Jail and said:-..l
was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1852 Up
to my fifteenth year | attended school AT
that time my father dying | went to work
in music store. After remaining there
ten years | was appointed manager While
in this position | met young lady named
Mary Lodge. and became so infatuated
with her that | married her against the
wishes of my mother. 1t Immediately be-
came evident to me that had made a great
mistake. My wife was person of unre-
fined manners and entirely without educa-
ton. | became so angry with my mesal-
lance that during the ten months
| lived with her | was not at home
two hours out of the twenty-four Ny
domestic troubles drove me to drink,
and | spent all my leisure time in sa-
looms. endeayoring to drown the thoughts
of the fearful folly had committed. At
the end of eleven months | could endure it
no longer, and telling my wife that | had
embezzled large sums and must fly. | went
to Paris whence sailed to America by
met the Countess Won Mutzenbach. and
fell i'll love with her at once. saw in her
the woman who could reclaim me from the
depths of degradation into which | had
fallen. did not believe it to be necessary
to procure divorce from my wife: as |
had been married in a different country
from the one | was going to. | could not
relate to the Countess the details of my
past life, and wanted to blot them from
my memory. We were married and lived
in New York until Lodges appearance
drove us to St Paul. Mary Lodge was
shop-girl when | married her. and her
mother lodging house keeper Her bro
Their, who is now in St. Paul, was working
for coal company at s10a week. She is
now in New York with her brothers wife.
Reaching St. Paul. met one Curtis. who
assured me that he was making 50. 200
month, and We went into partnership in
the stationery business We had built up
a good business, and was living happily
at last, when suddenly the phantom that
had driven me from New York doomed up
and ! was arrested and sentenced. That
sentence am willing to serve in order to
free myself from what was once my wife.
In regard to my present wife | will say
nothing that will associate her with my
former life. She has reclaimed me
from my fallen condition. and had
but met her in the first place | should
never have been disgraced. Beyond this
act | defy any man to breathe word
against my character. There was an en-
bezzlement in our office, one partner de-
frauding the other, but was wholly I'M
connected with it and used it only as an ex-
cuse to leave my wife
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

We should endeavor to purchase the
go, will of all men, and quarrel WITH no
man needlessly; since any mans love may
be useful, and every mans hatred is dan
gerouS,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

Liberty is privilege which carries with
it high duties and grave responsibilities
The right to say what is false implies the
duty of declaring that which is true
Liberty is a glorious light, but it demands
duties and sacrifices greater than any which
tyranny exacts and more is required from
free men than from slaves.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14

Wealth legitimately acquired valuable,
and it is only valuable when thus acquired.
A camel will work seven o. eight days
without drinking. In this he differs with
some men who will drink seven or eight
days without working.
Regulations for profound thought are
usually gained by intellectual confidence
men, The checks they give on the bank
of brains show big figures on their faces,
but they never yield the coin. The pro-
foundest thought has no dubious mean
ing.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
order to get into New York without us
ing the Pennsylvania lines, is said to be
contemplating branch to the shore Of
Delaware bay, opposite Cohansey creek,
n. j., where connection by ferry would
be made with the Jersey Southern Rail,
road, which is controlled by the Reading
The distance across the bay is about 81,
miles.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-11-14
FRIENDS IN ADVERSELY.

Il tried in vain to find boarding place
until at last | met lady by the name of
Hoeninger, who has charge of news
store. She kept me for three days. Rev.
Mr. Gilbert kindly interested himselfm my
behalf and procured for me my present
resting place. God knows how grateful
am to these kind friends Since my
husbands arrest have tried to raise money
on my property to engage competent law
yers to defend him, but the lawyer who
has charge of my affairs in the east refused
to advance money for that purpose. One
lawyer here charged me $50. and to pro
cure it | was obliged to part with seal
skin sacque worth si25. After receiving
money from the esat tried to get it back,
but was unable to until yesterday, when it
was obtained through the kindness Of Judge
Egan. Bnt why weary yol, with these
petty details9 My God, you cannot COM
prehend 1.-THE of what | have suf-
fered. Ever since my husbands arrest
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11
Unpunlshed Grimes,

The great operators in Wall street,
who by the turn of stock ruin hun
dreds of poor and crodulous specuia-
tors, are likened by Joaquin Miller to
the Mormon Danites, who in early
days executed the vengeance of the
Prophet on all apostates. The COM
parison is striking one, but it is not
far fetched. The murders committed
in Wall street can be laid at no man s
door, but the crime is there, and too
often it is reputation, honor, and all
which men hold dear which is slain
that the great dealers may make the
'sturn" which they have worked up
for months.
The dupes are Of high and low de-
gree, but the result is the same in all
classes This year they have been
largely among respectable and con-
sentative bankers, who are deluded
by visions of the great wealth which
follows lucky turn of fortunes
wheel. The only way to reach these
Danites who have fattened on public
misery is to create a sentiment so
strong that it will not tolerate man
who has made his money in this fash
ion any more than it will receive the
physician who has amassed wealth by
malpractice, or the man who is pro-
fessional gambler. 1t may take some
years to do this, but in the end the
so-called operator in stocks who coin
money out of the misery Of humanity,
and at whose door may be laid crime,
shame and many unspeakable offens-
es, will be held in contempt as a Pa
riah, whose presence detiles and de-
grades. = Chronicle.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11
BORN,

In Garden Valley, Oct. 90. 1884, to the
wife of Daniel Dobbs, a daughter.
The above was handed to candidate
for office a couple Of weeks ago, with in
structions to give to the WORLD" The
candidate well, you know just what one
would do in a case of this kind-stick it
in his pocket and forget all about it. That's
what this candidate did B he thought
of it the other day and brought it in. Can
dldates are eXcusable About election
times small matters i'll occasionally slip
out of mcmory's grasp.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11
COWBOYS AND HORSE THIEVES

A Reavy set-to at NingusvilIe.
The scene of operations by the COW
boys against horsethieves has recent
ly been transferred from the Missouri
to the Yellowstone and a pitched
battle occurred between the two re-
GENTLY at place called Mingusville.
The Yellowstone papers were singu-
larry reticent on the matter, probably
for good cause, and the only advices
we have are from kilograms to the
st. Paul Pioneer-Press. We give the
following, with the statement that we
are reliably informed no COWBOYS
were killed, but that three were woun-
ded, and that there would be more
news SOON New Northwest.
Miles City Pioneer Press Special.
Parties Just in from Powder River
report that thieves stole sixteen head
|of horses in the Belle Fouche valley
and were closely pursued to Powder
by vigilanties.
1t is reported at Poplar river that
sixty men crossed the Missouri Sat
urday last short distance east of Fl.
Buford, en- route to Grinnel's rancho,
noted as a general resort for horse
thieves. The same day Grinnell APP
Iplied for assistance to protect his
place but was refused. The band is
composed of cowboys from Little Mis-.
souri,, who, it is said, will ransack the
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11

thief harbor and capture its in
mates.
The fight at Mingusville between
cowboys and horse-t thieves must have
been hot one. A report reached
here that five empty cowboys saddles
were found on the field. The cowboy
vigilanties are said to have come from
Wyoming. II SO they are bent on
vengeance, and the four that were
hanged on the Beaver, II miles north
of Mingusville, near the Wibaux
ranch, are part of their prey. Ole
Berg, who led one gang of cowboys,
was respected son-in-law of Judge
Allen, Of Glendive, whose son was
recently arrested, charged with horse
thieving, and taken via Glendive to
Miles City. Berg has not been heard
from. since this recent raid, and is be-
lieved to have fallen. Jim CASTILLO,
one of the four hanged, was only ~
years Of age.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11
Things Worth Knowing.


|. That fish may be scaled much
easier by dipping into boiling water
about minute.
2. That fish may as well be scaled,
| If desired, before packing down in
salt, though in that case do not scald
them.
3. Salt fish is quickest and best
freshened by soaking in sour milk.
4. That milk which is turned or
changed, may be sweetened, and rem
dered fit for use again by stirring in
little soda.
5. That salt will curdle new milk
hence, in preparing milk porridge,
GRAVES, etc, the salt should not be
added until the dish is prepared.
6. That fresh meat, after beginning
to sour, will sweeten if placed out
doors in the cool overnight.
z. That clear boiling water will re-
move tea stains. Pour the water
through the strain, and thus pre-
vent its spreading over the fabric.
s. That ripe tomatoes will remove
ink and other stains from white cloth,
also from the hands.
8. That tablespoonful of turpen-
tine boiled with your white clothes
will aid the whitening process.
10. That boiled starch is much i'm
proved by the addition of little
sperm or little salt, or both, or a
little gum arabic dissolved.
IL. That beeswax and salt will
make your rusty fatirons as clean and
smooth as glass. Tie lump of wax
in rag and keep it for that purpose.
When the irons are hot rub them first
with wax rag, then scour with pa
per or cloth sprinkled with salt.
IL. That blue ointment and kero-
sene, mixed in equal proportions, and
applied to bedsteads, is an unfailing
bedbug remedy, and that coat of
whitewash is ditto for walls Of [log
house.
13. That kerosene will soften boots
or shoes which have been hardened
by water, and render them as pliable
as new.
IA. That kerosene will make the
teakettles as bright as new. Saturate
a WOODEN rag and rub with it. 1t will
also remove stains from clean warn
ished furniture.
10. That cool rain water and soda
will remove machine grease from
washable fabrics. Every one of the
above recipes is unfailing.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11

Three causes are found by Mons.
Durand for spontaneous combustion
in collieries-the oxidation of iron pv-
rites in the coal, friction from slipping
and heat Of air currents.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11

Eyes, Belva is shackle breaker
without doubt, Z replied the reporter.
"lnjun love pale face woman. She
love big chief; give him home in
White House. No more fight; plenty
fire water; keep drunk all time. Me
vote Belva. Big Injun caught on
too"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11
sitting Bull ON Politics.

A New York Truth reporter inter-
viewed Sitting Bull on politics with
the following result:
"What do you think of the country
of the pale faces as far as you have
been?" inquired the reporter.
big country; heap big. Pale face
like the blades of grass. Iniun big
chief, too; much fight. Ughl"
eyes, there are number of scalps
to be taken hereabouts," suggested
the reporter.
"Scalps? Yes, many. But big chief
no want more scalps. Him have plen-
ty. Make peace with white brother
all the time. White brother too ma
ny for poor 1njun."
''Have you looked over the political
situation, MIR. Bull, with view of
casting your vote?"
eyes, / shall vote for Belva DEAR
This in pure English. The reporter
staggered.
"Wha-what did you say, Mr.. Bull?
"Ugh! Big Chief !"
''You are acquainted with Jas. G..
Blaine, presumed"
"Me know Jim Blaine. Him no
good. Him write Mulhgan letter.
Make heap wampum. Him sly fox"
'sThen you won't vote for Blaine"
''Not this moon."
ssWhat?"
light"
"Does Grover suit your taste any
better?"
Slim great chief, but no squaw.
N. G."
SHOW does Bold Ben suit you, Mr..
Bull?"
Slim better. Him take many
scalps, fight much. Too long tongue
though.
Sand St. .John?"
''Him no drink fire water. Not do.
Me no vote him tinket."
"What about fair Belva, Mr.. Bull?
surely you will vote for her?"
"Belva! Uh! Great graf! Heap
fine gal. Me vote for Belva. Big
chief speak; his tongue straight. She
great chief, too. She GO big wigwam
sure. Large head; know much; talk
little; do good"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-11-11

"What's this thing?' asked man
who was inspecting music store.
s'That? Oh, that's used on violins.
We call it chin rest" eGimme
one!" exclaimed the visitor. "S'pose
it would work on my wife?" Bur-
lington Free Press.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-07-05
ADVICE TO MOTHERS

Are you disturbed at night and broken OF
your rest by u sick child suffering and CRYING
with pain OF cutting tecth9 Ii So, send at once
and get arbottle of Mrs, " INsLow's SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETIING. lis value is
incalculable. II will relieve the poor little
sufferer Immediately, Depend upon it moth
ers, there is no mistake about it. 1t cures dys-
entery and iarrhma, regulates the stomach
and bowels,ourcs wind eolic,softens the gums,
reduces infamation,and gives tone and energy
to the Whole system MRS. MISSIONS SoorH-
ING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHINGisp pleasant
to the taste,and is the prescription OF one OF the
oldest aud best female nurses and physinians in
the United State and is for sale by all drug
gists throughout the world. Price, 25 cents a
bottle.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-07-05
A WARNING.

The people of st. Charles and the neigh
boring Parishes, are warned against c0nt'ibu-
ting any funds to Jules (llias James TaylOr)
and Jeff. White, for the benefit of the Hahn
vile Baptist Church, as they have not been
authorized to solicit or receive subscriptions for
us. When any one is properly authorized to
act In this matter document in due form will
be gwen him by me.
REV. WESLEY Gross,
Pastor of said Church.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-07-05

Our parish has been favored for
several weeks past with a visit from
several charming ladies of New Or
leans. viz: Mrs. L. p. DeBautte
and her sister Miss Annie Ernst,
also Miss Jennie Forester, Miss
Besche aid Mrs. j. w. Wenck, who
have been on a visit to their rela-
tives and friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Rouselle, residing about two
miles above Hahnville.