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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
A CURIOUS Prophecy.
TIleFuture Greatness of American Ind
try Fo-ctold.

TheTuture Greatness of American Indus-
try Fo-etold.
An almanac for 175S contains a curious
prophecy of the future greatness of North
America.
Here we find" says the writer, "avast
stock of proper materials for the art and
ingenuity of man to work upon:-Treas-
ures of immense worth; concealed from
the poor, ignorant aboriginal natives"
He aliudes especially to the immense
deposits of iron ore, saying:
"This metal, more useful thar gold and
silver, will employ millions of hands, not
only TO form the martial sword and peace
full share alternately, but an i%nfinity Of
utensils improved in the exercise of art
and handicraft among men. Nature
through all her works has stamped u
thority on this law, namely, that all fit
matter shall be improved to its best pur.
pose
"Shall not then those vast quarries
that TEEN with mechanic stone,-those
for structure be piled into great Cities
and those for sculpture into statues to
perpetuate the. honor of renowned heroes;
even those who shall now save their coun-
try?
"Oi we unborn inhabitants of America!
should this page escape its destined con-
fagration at the years end, and these
alphabetical letters remain legible,-
when your eyes behold the sun after he
has rolled the seasons around for two or
three centuries more, you will know that
in Ammo Domini 175S we dreamed of your
timcs.n
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
AMERICA THE OLDEST CONTINENT.
This Is the Opinion Held By Modern
biologists.

GcolHSisis'
America, according to modern geolo-
gists and other scientists, is in fact not
the new but the old world. Had this
most ancient continent no human inhab-
itants, and these no history?
When speaking of the primitive history
of man on earth, America is never taken
into account. Yet, recent researches and
discoveries awe proved c~onclusively that
the mighty races that lived on this con-
tinent thousands OF years ago adreached
a high degree of civilization; that they
not only knew how to express their
thoughts by means of a written language,
but that they had preserved the principal
events in their history, by carving the
record on the stones of the facades and
walls of their public buildings and in
books illustrated with colored pictures,
as ours are today.
These writings are no longer a mystery,
a key to their reading having been found.
BY translating some of them it has been
discovered that their civilization eXerted,
once upon a time, as great an influence
on that of various nations of Asia and
Africa as does the English to-day.
The ruins of the extensive cities they
inhabited, of the superb monuments they
erected to the glory of their gods and the
memory of their kings, prove that they
had made great progress in the arts of
drawing, sculpture and architecture, as
well as in mathematical and other
sciences.
Is not this sufficient inducement to call
the attention of American scientists, of
American archaologists, to a field of in
quiry still unexplored, that offers the
promise of such q bountiful harvest of
knowledge?
The history of America a few centuries
previous to the Spanish conquest shows
that the civilized countries of Central
America had been invaded and overrun
by hordes of barbarous people who, set
tlingin them, had introduced sanguinary
and other barbaric customs and rites that,
at first, were extremely repugnant to the
inhabitants.
Among these rites, that of sacrificing
human beings as the most precious offer
ing that man could make to Deity, in the
course of time became quite general.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
A MlLLIoNAIRE's MANSION.
gl,e FINEST Country House on The
Amcrican Continent.

g1,e Finest Country House on The
american Continent.
Almost every American las heard of
]. C. Flood, the California millionaire,
Init very few are aware of the fact that
Mr.. Flood is she owner of the most mag
nifcent country house and grounds in
North America.
This estate IS at MEMO Park, near San
Francisco. Il covers LEGO acres, and is
under the charge of a landscape gardener
and 100 assistants. Tie drives are sew
eral miles in length, and are made of
white gravel kept spotlessly clean. The
foliage, shrubbery and towers are be-
yond description. Everything is Il sym
phony in white and gold"
The p%orter's lodge is a beautiful cot
tage near the only entrance to the
grounds and the great gates are white
and gold.
The grounds are lighted by hundreds
of gas lamps with ground glass shades,
the gas being made on the place. Stat
uary of the most chaste and eloquent de-
sign and of exquisite workmanship gives
q finish to the smooth-shaven lawns and
closely trimmed hedges.
But the house is the main attraction.
NJ Is DlllG III u SbA IL VI NiSilNSSttiS eh"o
might be termed French, although not
decidedly of that school. 1t is dazzling
white, the roofs are of black slate in pat
terms, and the decorations are all in gold.
Even the inside blinds and the furnish
ings are white and gold, and this effect
has been preserved in the finishings OF
the servants quarters, the superb stable
and all the buildings on the premises.
The house stands on an eminence and
overlooks one of the most beautiful lawns
that art could produce. Fountains plash
on every side; a terrace of ivy and flowers
hens in the eastern view, while a bank of
violets and u wall of roses temper the
force of the ocean brcezes and perfume
them.
The perfect creation of an artistic
mind, with all the necessary funds to
maintain it in its perfection, Floods pal
ace stands unrivaled in America, a typ
ical home of n self-made millionaire.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02

An obliging lady customer in n certain
store in one of the two cities Friday in
sisted that she always traded with the
proprietor and not with mere clerks.
"But the proprietor is not in" said the
clerks.
"Oh, WELL" was the reply, "Ill sit
right down and wait for him."
She waited, and as the half hours sped
she grew impatient.
"IVhen will he be back" she said, loft
lily.
"In about four weeks, madam" was
the reply. He is now on Il business trip
to Montana"
She traded with the clerks.-Lewiston
Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
CHINESE PATRON OF DUCKS.
An Interesting Superstition Relieved In
by the Celcstials.

An Interesting Superstition believed In
by the CelestiaIs.
Playing such an important part as they
do in their country, and in the life ofsuch
asuperstition-ri ridden mortal rs John Chi
naman, the duck itself has not escaped
superstition.
There are in China quite q numerous
sect who religiously abstain from eating
duck, and regard their duek-deyouring
neighbors as wanting in reverence.
They are the followers and woIshippers
of n god named IIon-Yuen-Shuce, whose
mother was cured of some dread mal@dy
by a mysterious duck, which brought her
herbs in it's bill every day until she reeov-
cred health. Out Of gratitude for this,
the woman brought up her son under
strict %iniunctions never to eat duck. Ec
became the patron Of ducks, and one day
when pursued by robbers II big flock of
ducks appeared between him and his pur-
suers and hid him from view.
At his death he Was c%anoniZed and bo-
fore his shrine his followers nowadays
dedicate their children to his principles,
and train them to regard ducks as sacred
birds.-Thomas Stevens.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
SOME SCANTlLY CLAD PEOPLE,.
Dissertation of the Female Attendants
in New York Enthusiastically and Wig
orous Young Women.

Description of the Female Attendants
orous Young Women.
The attendants present the most pic
turesque appearance, being clothed only
in a short tunico of white cotton, caught on
one shoulder, falling away from the
other down under one arm, and reaching
to the knee.
These girls are very beautiful in form,
their round, shapely limbs cleaning
white, like marble, and soft to the touch
as a baby's skin. Not an ounce of super
flous flesh encumbers them, not al out
line of bone or joint mars the fair round
ness of shoulders and limbs.
They seldom know disease of any kind,
and are splendid specimens of physical
strength and symmetry.
On first engaging in work of this kind
they lose flesh rapidly, and become very
much exhausted each day, but when ac-
customed to the work they regain their
normal weight and experience only II feel
ing of lassitude, from their long exposure
to the heat, which passes away after an
hours rest. Their hands are never ex-
posed to any other kind of work, and are
as soft as velvet, supple, firm and exquisite
in touch.
In the Russian bath the chief attendant,
a 1.-THE, vigorous girl, with Il cropof kinky
brown hair that curled all the tighter in
the steam and heat, wore a very unique
and original costume Of Turkish towels.
Two towels we've knotte,l by the fringe
at the corners on one shoulder, passed I'M
derneath the other arm, and were again
tied by the corners on one hip; two more
towels knotted blythe corners on each hip
formed the abbreviated skirt OF this strik-
ing regalia.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
BE7TYsKzlToN KNEW JAKE LYNCH
uer ~ldcst Girl and His Oldest Toy We're
the san,e Age to IA Day.

her "idost Girl and uis oldest Toy Wore
the same Age to n Day.
"You know the defendant in this case,
do youy'' asked II Kansas lawyer of a fe'
male native of the soil.
know which,n asked she
1.-THE defendant, Jake Lynch"
"Do l know Jake Lynchs'
"Yes."
ssYou want to know If l know Jake
Lynch-well, if that amt = good one.
Why, mister, the Lynch family an -"
Cant you say 'ye~' or nor"
"Why, Jake Lyrch's mother an my
stepdad's father was once first cousins,
am"
"Then you know him"
"Who, Jake LynclY Me know Jake
LYNCH You're Il stranger in these parts,
amt your
''That has nothing to do with the case.
If YOU know Jake Lynch, say So"
"If I know hint femme tell you that
Jake Lynch's birthday and my brother
Hiram's is on the same day, an -
"You know him, of course, then?"
"Who-Jake Lynch? Ask Jake if l
know himl Ask him if he was ever in
terdooced to Betty Skelton.'
81 don't care to ask him anything. |
simply want to ask you if Jake Lynch is
known to you personally"
"Pussonly? Well, l don't know what
you mean by '%pussonly,' but if you want
to know if | know jake an he knows Inc,
1 can tell you in mighty few words. Jake
Lvnch's father an my father"
"Now, / want you to say yes or mo-"
"Thought You wanted me to say If
knew Jake Lynch
CHATS just what do want"
"Well, then, lemme alone am I'll tell
you all about it. Jake Lynch was born
in Injeeany an | was born in the same
county AMI
"And of course you knew him?"
"Who-Juke Lynch? Do know Jake
Lynch, when the very boss he rid here on
was one he traded my man II pair OF
young steers for? Why, man, Jake's
wife was Ann Elizy SAiG, an her an Inc
is the sameage to II day, am"
''That will do. see that you do know
him"
know him Know Jake? Why
man."
''That will do"
"Why, l was married on u Chewsday
an Jake was married the next day, an
his oldest boy an my oldest girl is most
the same age, an'-"
''That will do. "-Chicaso Tribune.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
GOOD MANNERS.
Regard to Courtesy as IL Test of Social
Quality.


The higher n person rises in the Old
World the better his No one
is so respectful of an engagement tomeet
other people as the crowned head. Queen
Victoria would not appoint an hour to
meet Il lady and &c away and forget it.
This carelessaess of forms and cere-
monies may be Ignorance; probably it is,
but it is an ignorance which Is culpable.
Probably the reverse is true. A newly
made monarch commits The errors which
marked the career of Sancho panza on
the Isle OF Baratnra. Ills new wine had
made him drunk, and lie insults the
people to show his greatness.
No American citizen should allow his
family to come up without some idea of
good manners, for there is no end to the
privileges of these who have good man
ncrs; no remuneration could cover those
from which IL person is dcbarred by the
lack of good manners.
1t is the duty of every educated Ameri-
can to disseminate this knowledge. 1t is
the duty of every uneducatcd American
to condescend TO learn it.
Merit, without m3uuneys, is Il flower
without perfume, or IL tIcc without
leaves"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02

GLOW many rooms in your new house,
my dearS" inquired II good old-fashioned
mother Of her daughter who had just ac-
quired q West Side homr.
Ten apartments reception room,
drawing room, dining room, harder,
cuisine, lavatory, and foar chambers, be-
sides the attic and furaac, room," was
the reply.
Dear me, how your father gets things
mixed, exclaimed the oldlady. "He told
me after he bought the house that there
was a parlor, sitting room, dining room,
pantry, kitchen. bath room, four bed
rooms, Il cellar, ami Z garret. buffalo
Express.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
Had Lost Her Culver.

She wanted to take some lessons in
archery, but she was very, very verdant.
"Have you q bow and quiver?" asked
the teacher.
"Ye-ye-yes," she hesitated, 81 have a
beau, but haven't a culver any more.
He's been coming for about two months
now and I'm used to it.''-Washington
Critic.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02

az have looked mp the whereabouts O.
your friend" wrote an ex-Bul1alon'an
now in New York to a former fellow cit
izen.
Il find that he holds a very important
and trustworthy travelling position with
- Co. He has seen many of the UPS
and downs of life since coming to the
metropolis. To be explicit, he is running
tAs elevator. n-Buffalo Express.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
The Most Enpensiye E.inc.

"pa," asked n speculative ycangster,
twas | made OF dfst?"
"Certainly, my son; We al were"
"Just common road dust like that rag
ged boy out theref"
yes" admitted the puzzled father;
"just the same. Why do you askY'
"Oh. Thought maybe as was such II
nice little boy l might be made Of dia-
mond dust"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
PEN-AND-INK sKErcnorNAPoLEoN
The Great Warrior as Described by Sam
ueI Rogers, the Poet.

u'f TsVStISl 1T UCTs
Following is II description of Napoleon
B~onaparte, when Consul, written by the
poet Rogers.
"His profile is very striking and elc-
giant, but his eyes are of a light gray and
his eyebrows scarcely distinguishable
and his face is overspread with one dead
yellow tint. His head, to use the express
sion of a celebrated painter here, is une
tete de mort-but it is the head of agiant.
He measures in height but Gve-feet-five;
but his hat, when he has left it on the
table, as / have been assured by those
about him, has moved round the head Of
the %tallest and most robust general in
his army"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
Not what He ExpecteJ.

Darling" said he, tenderly, 81 have
made up my mind to ask you-to ask
you"
Eyes" she whispered breathlessly.
"To ask you II become my wife. |
know, dearest, it is bold, it is prcsumptu-
Gus for me TO 10 50. You are SC much
superior to me. | am, | feel, Unworthy
of you, bnt-"
"Say no more, Johr. I'm YOU. You
may be unworthy Of me, l. IT."
"But what, dearest"
''Haff a loaf IS better than no bread"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02

Mr.. Derringer twho has a weakness for
pretty nurse girls)-"What u pretty baby
(snapping his fingers at the baby and
boldly cycling the girl), and such an ele-
CANT carriage. Whose baby is it?"
Pretty Nurse-''It is yours, sir. Mrs.
Derringer engaged me- this morning.
Detroit Free Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02

Speiglehamcr (of whom Uncle Reuben
has Just purchased Il bill of goods
''Racheli' =
Voice from behind curtain)-"Vell?"
Speiglehamer-"Gif dis shentlemen q
goot ten-ccnt cigar, 'tswei fer lnfg"-
Puck,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
REV. oLEUs BACON, DID,.


IA tsatA
lie v-ns a Lowry missionary
And he sailed upotithe sea.
Is FAR as Western 3!tEtJale.
One hundred, siXfy-ihroe.
OF such a porily presence
And so unctuou5 W,s he,
There seemed no @,edlicr preacher
In all the qttsbTtcry.
But n very uAlt IT. n'tto Tcrson,
As ali mo miiet agree.
Was tho Hteye;ahd Dleils s.t'"'i,
To DO sent upon 1t MISS. b..
To the islands OF teeIor.
He was much too Geehya person.
As any one nj atsee;
Imay say, in fa- /. htsNl5 corpuient
To tho very lass datree.
His cheeks were ,.s lump as buildings,
His thighs wer,t is fat as could be,
And his beautiful double CHA reposed
Upon his bosom free;
And no man in his Waistc0at
Ever buttoned SO much rs hc,
This Reverend Oleus Bacon.
As was sent upon u mission
To tho islands OF Feejee.
1t was in fore and aft schooner.
That he sailed to that far countree,
And. according to Captain SimIninson.
1t was beautiful to se.-
How warmly those hc"thene welcomed him
And how grateful they Seemed to be;
And how, in their simple innocent way.
They atted Hilu-nOW on his knee,
And now on his check, and now on his chin
And, in siort, made only too free
With the Reverend Oleus Bacon,
As was sent upon u HilSStVA
To the islands OF FeeJee.
But have an affidavit
Captain Siinminson took before me,
land Simminson is a Christian mani
How, standing that night on his lee,
And a-swearing up his canvas,
All ready to put 10 sea;
He noticed a fire on the island,
As was burning r5gm4abFe eaa E,i ire91;
We're a-makin' a fricassec
OF the Reverend OleuS Bacon,
As was sent upon Il mission
To the islands of Feejee.
But so it turned out; and therefore I say,
As Simminson said to me,
II the Board of Foreign Missions
Had any eyes to see,
They'd never have sent a man out there
A missionary to be,
The make of whose person was tempting
In tho very least degree,
Or one as was anyway bulky at all,
Still less oneHS bulky as lie,
This Reverend Oleus Bacor,
As was sent upon ~ mission
To the islands OF FceJee.
However. the Lord was in it.
At least as it seems to mo
o. something about btr. Bacon
AS didn'ta at all agree
With the stomachs ofthOse heather men,
But made them uneasy be: twas,
And [ happen to EnOW whit that something
1t was CaVendish and Rappee!
Nevertheless, il WIS somewhat unfortunate,
AS most any man can see,
That the Reverend OfeuS Bacon
Ever started on that mission
To the islands Of FeeJee.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-02
One Cause of Hcudache.

A physician analyzed Il black band
worn by a patient suffering from head
ache and found three grains of lead. He
concludes that many headaches are due
to the absorption of lead from the hat
band.-Medical Bulletin.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-11-15
MATHEWS MAJORITY.

Sioux Falls Press:--The press has re-
turns from forty four counties s--half the
territory. OF these, thirty nine giye
Mathews maiorities, and FIVE give Harden
inajorites Brule. Hafnlin, McCook, Cav
alier and Stutsmsn. Mathews majoriti
IN these thirty nine counties, so far as re-
ported. amount to 22.oss. Harden's ma
jorities in the five courtigs psmed amount
to 1876. leaving Mathews net majority in
the forty-four countlee heard from 2l,3G2,
The same counties two years ago gave
Clifford majority cf 1874 which IN
dicates an increase OF 8 per cent in
Mathews majority. If this should be
maintained throughout the territory,
Mathews majority will be 81 ,37s- Gitford'e
having been 29,o54--a gain OF 2,324.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-11-15
THE AUTHORSHIP

As we understand the previous cansid-
Grafton of the authorship by the board,
the objection to creating the office was
because the Register of Deeds could do
the work of an auditor without additional
ostlay to the county. After the first Of
January however, this will be changed, as
the Register will be salaried Office. If
the auditor work remained in the Regis
ter's Office additional clerk hire would
have to be allowed by the county, and
the services rendered would never be
equal to that obtained from a distinctive
office. We believe 1t is a matter of ad'
visibility, If not economy, for the com
m ssioners to create the Office Of auditor
at the time the other officers change. and
the new Law regulating salaries takes eff
feet, January lst, 1889.
The recent vote indicates the desire OF
the taxpayers for the Office.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-11-15
THE NEXT CoNdRE So

Sioux Falls Press:-The dempcratic
clerk Of the present house is the man who
makes up the provisional roll Of the next
house--the one that takes its seats March
A. There is no power to compel him to
put upon that roll any person whose right
he may question either honestly or dis
honestly. The names on that roll organize
the next house-elect the speaker, and
the speaker appoints the elections COM
mittee, and the elections cemmittee tries
the contestant the contests may pcssi-
bly, be decided according to their merits,
but who thinks they will, in the Light of
past experience? The only thing that can
save such an outcome as is here iptimated,
defeated democratic congressional candi-
dates found who will ship mp excuses by
which their names shall get on the roll.
But it is reported the clerk of the hosse
has already l6l democrats on his roll, and
only needs two more, with eight doubt
fur districts from which to get them.
The prospects for republican house are
not SO good as they were. "
1t seems rather absurd to thIpk one
man can knock congressional elections
galley west, as Indicated above. =
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-11-15
AGAINST THE SALE.

In the buried preparation OF last weeks
paper a foot note under the tabulated vote
said little change would be made bv the
full report. In one particular this was
incorrect. Our report on the liGuor ques-
tion was without the vote of nine town
ships. The 81 reported gave majority OF
33 for the sale. The full report will. we
think, chlnge this to q majority of over
100 against the sale.
However, il matters little, as the cleo
ton was certainly illegal Miller obtain
ed the best legal opinions to be had in
Oak ,ta and Iowa, on the county seat
question. and no less than six eminent
attorneys said the liquor, bond and coun'
ty seat removal vote would be Illegal, be.
cause sufficient notice thereof was not
given. But as the questions have b'el
settled in the negative by tie voters them
selves, there will be no necessity OF inter
ference by the courts.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-11-15
A runeral in I,ri,ish Honanrn..

1t was In British Honduras that first
attended velorio. or the ceremony Of
watching with corpse. The family
home consisted of single long and mar
row apartment, rounded at each end, with
earthen floor and roof thatched with guava
leaves. From the cross poles hung few
hammocks, aud In the middle of the room,
upon a rude bier made of two boards up
held by casks. lay the dead woman, with
o wee infant clasped in her arms. The
face Of the mother, who could not have
been moro than Ia years old, was calm,
and peaceful, bat that of tho hshy wvs<.,
strangely distorted, as If terrified with its
brief look ON life. Fresh flowers were
scattered upon the scarlet blanket that
partially covered the still figures; lighted
candles stood at the head and foot, and
near by sat the sisters and parents of the
dead woman. silent and sad. lnquiring
why the husband and father was not
among the mourners, was carelessly In
formed, as though it was nothing to cause
remark, that In brobraerta (the poor dear
girl had never been welded: and as tor
the father-quien sahsY A great crowd
occupied the house of mourning. laughing
and jcsting as though the occasion was
one Of rejoicing rather than sorrow.
Many Were playing cards. Outside. under
a pomegranate tree, refreshments were
spread, and music and uproar resounded
in startling incongruity with the dread
mystery of death, - Cor. Philadelphia
Record