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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
WHITTIER AND ROBERT BURNs.

The poet Whittier once narrated to the
Rev. Robert Coll yer this episode in his
early lite. This 5 something like what he
said in his old quaint style: when was
ON the farm ia New Hampshire, and was
quite young, an old friend who was visit
ing the meetings came to stay one night.
After supper he said to me, John, lad,
I've something for thee, and then brought
out of his saddle bags two little volumes,
which turned out to be Burns poems. II
think thee'll like the book, he added. |
had never read any poetry before except
Friends poetry, and thee'll know what
that be. / began to read Burns aud was
lost in wonder. 1t seemed as il the sky
had lifted and the world widened, and |
saw mankind outside the narrow bounds
of the Friends. read on till mother came
down and told me to get to bed.
Next day, when the gray light was
dawning crept down and got the volumes,
and read as long as | could. The old
Friend came and said. Thee seems to like
it; Tn going further, and I'll leave it till
| come back That was the first revela-
ton to me of what poetry may be and do.
A good many folk find fault with Burns.
They say that his poetry is impure. Does
thee believe me when tell thee that have
not detected the least impurity in IL? His
genius is so great and noble that il there
be bIots they arc so little that | don't
see them. Home Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
PREcocEoUs CHILDREN.

As there has Of late been been quite an
eruption of preeoeious children in the land,
and such procecity is still widely regarded
as something to be applanded, or indeed
almost revered as q supernatural gift, it
may be worth while for those having the
care Of singnlariy gifted little children to
know what a leading medical authority
thinks of them. The Medical Bulletin, of
this city, has leading editorial, in which
the writer depreeates the unhealthful slim
ulous of admiration, study, and the CONVEX
sation OF older persons, and adds:
''Tbe physician who observes these con-
ditions in the environment OF preeoeious
child should do his best to counterfeit their
fatal tendency He should ON every occa-
sion endeavor to impress upon the child's
parents that this natural brightness is in
reality mental disease kind of cerebral
consumption The child should be held
back 18th strong rein. Itshould be kept
ont of school, away from the injndicious
praise of admiring friends and the society
Of persons Of older years. ''-PhiJa. Star.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20

| Mr.. Jefferson has built typieally South
en house of bafonial proportions, full OF
treasures from every country in the world,
on the very crest Of the hill; the yerandas,
with frontage of nearly ninety feet, over
look the plain of Attakapas to the Gulf.
A hedge of roses. nearly as thick as the
Chinese wall, runs for seven miles around
the uplands, dividing it from the sea-
marshes.
When the roses and magnolias and
orange plantations, which encircle the
house, are in bloom they send their soft
greetings through the pure air for miles
across the prairies.
The plantation is in the charge of an
Acadian overseer, NJ. Joseph Landry, who
is good representative of his race, and
curious specimen, too, of the kind of man
which intelligence, shrewdness. brave.
simple nature, and tremendous physique
VIII make, with no help whatever from So
eiety or schools The loyalty Of these peo-
pie 10 their employers belongs to the
feudal days. The night before, Landry
had faced single-handed a herd of angry
cattle, standing in the narrow lagoon in
water to his waist from dark until MORN
ing, to keep them from rushing down to
the flooded sea marsh, " here they would
inevitably have drowned. Can fight le
wat ct lie cat, he grumbled, ..bnt lie mos
quit'-he beat me-
Mr.. Jefferson is known to his Acadian
neigbbors and the negroes only as plant
er, wise in oranges and cattle, but they
have an intense curiosity concerning some
other mysterious ayoeation which he is
vaguely reported to follow during the sum
mer, and which they suspect has some
thing to do with swallowing fire and
swords. One Of his negroes, when they
were alone together on the prairie one day,
burst out with: MS Jefson, lemme see
dat ar. We hyah all by oursel's. Fob de
Lohd's sake, cut up bit. n-febscca Hard
ing Darts, IN Harper's Magazine.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
A GIRL GRADUATE IN INDIA.

The world moves, even under the thick
crust of social conservatism 10 India. Wo-
man $ advancement has reached even that
country and the first sweet girl graduate"
has won place and name which has
been denied women hitherto The snccess-
full young woman is Parsee girl named
Sorabji Miss Sorabji has distinguished
herself throughout her university course,
aud has succeeded in winning scholarships
each year. In 1885 she was declared Have
lock prizeman and gained the Hughling
scholarship, besides being at the head of
the list of competitors in English. She
has now succeeded in graduating in the
first class. Only six students in all, OF
whom the remaining five were men, sue
ceeded ia obtaining this degree. Miss So
rabbi is the only s'girl graduate in the
Bombay Presidency.
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GENERAL IGNORANCE.

Some OF the newspapers not long ago
who could not tell who discovered Ameri-
ca. Oh, well, my son, that is one of the
things you don't learn in college. am
like the above graduate; | do not know
who discovered America. If you know,
or think you know of man who does
know, / wish you would tell me. would
give some money to learn just that much.
am also away down in the spelling class.
| cannot spell Shaikespear as SHAKESPEARE
himself spelled it. | wish you would tell
me the proper way of spelling that great
man $ name do not know why there are
so many gray horses and no gray colts
do not know whether the egg began with
the hen or the hen started with the egg.
can't understand why We cant find the
North Pole when we know right where it
is. don't know why n matinee should
come in the afternoon. / don't know Why
man wears buttons on the tails of his
coat. can't see what earthly use an ele-
plants tail is to him. | don't understand
why people in town are always wild to go
to the country, and people in the country
are crazy to come TO town. Why don I
they change places at once, and be done
with it, | do wish | could somewhere
hear of a wise man who would devote a
few hours every century 10 teaching me
few simple things that everybody ought to
know, and that everybody except You and
seems to know already.-R J. Busdette
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
GIRLS WIG ARE Lost


Among the applicants for admission
were Young girls-some under IA, quite a
number under 16 years of age. Among
them were orphans and those driven from
their homes by the dissipation, cruelty,
poverty Of sickness of those upon whom
they were dependent for support; girls
from the country who sought the cry for
employment. and some who had been i'm
posed upon by mock marriages Many of
them were without a single dollar, and
utterly debarred by their condition from
obtaining employment. The desperate
character of their situation need not be
argued.
1t is a sad commentary on the boosted
beneVolence and Christianity Of the COM
munity that girl--perhaps a mere child
who has made the one terrible mistake
is thenceforth cut off from help and hope,
and finds every door fast shut through
which she would return to an honest life
Is it to be Wondered at that she grows
desperate under sense Of wrong and OF
subsequent uncharity and injustice until.
losing all faith and all shame, she herds
with the yilest and most degraded Of her
sex, and sinks into depths of depravity
known only to those whom society has cast
orr Do not society and the church have
their share of responsibility for every such
life9-F5arteenM Report Of TIE Aaternity
Hospital.
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PENIS MOTHER.

With such social environment it is
most remarkable that the youth of Will
liam Penn should have been what it was
! Unless we attribute it to special Divine
| interposition | can account for it in no
other way than by the fact that the wife Of
| Sir William Penn and the mother of his
| boy came of that quiet, thoughtfully earn
est race who have made Holland garden
spot, and the purity of whose domestic life
has been recognized for generations. The
blood of Margaret and of Honest John
| Jasper asserted itself in the younger Will
liam Penn. Each year of my life ! am the
more convinced of the influence of heiedity
| in determining the character of the off
spring. Had Sir William Penn chosen his
wife from the giddy creatures of the court
of Charles, or even from among the Eng
lish women of what was his own station,
in early manhood, | fear that William
Penn, as the Quaker, aud William
Penn, as the founder of a great peaceful
| commonwealth, would have been unknown
| to history.
| All of Penn's historians speak of the
| first year Of his married life as one of I'M
alleged happiness. A better testimony Of
that happiness is given by Penn himself
ten years later, when about to sail for the
first time to the New World. with all the
uncertainties which that voyage entailed.
He begins his letter in these words: MY
| dear wife Ranaan,bar fho,, xxa,4 tbf. I1,o ,f
my youth and much the joy of my life, the
most beloved as well as the most worthy
| OF all my earthly comforts God knows
and thon knows it was a match Of His
| making" She bore him many children
Springett Penn inherited with his name
the gentle spirit Of his mother, and his
death at the age of twenty, is sadly told
by William Penn himself, in one of the
most touching tributes ever offered by
bereaved father TO the memory of his dead
sou.
She was the mother also of William
Penn. third, who (heredity AGAIN. illns-
trated in his Maynard life that strange
law of atayism so well known to the medi-
cal profession, in which the morbid tend
encies OF one generation pass harmlessly
over the second, to reappear, oftentimes
with increased force, in the third. The
eonyivial tastes, the rollicking ways, the
dissipated habits of Sir William, the sailor,
skipping one generation, showed them
selves again, with full force, IN the son of
William Penn, the Quaker.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
cocoa FOR THE VOICE.

''What was that you drank last night
after your first song p, asked a reporter the
other day of a wel-known concert singer
who had taken part in musical entertain
ment the previous evening
GLOW did yon know that | drank any
thing ~
II saw you take drink of something
from my seat in the box"
cit was cup of cocoa. -
Nothing else ~
'Of course, nothing else" returned tho
lady with no little warmth. "And it is
the best drink for the voice in the world.
4 have used it FOR ten years and find it bet
than tea, coffee or any kind Of medicine
ever prepared,
"What effect does it have on the voice."
ut rests it and soothes the vocal chords.
always have small spirit lamp stove in
my dressing room. and before go on tho
stage have my maid prepare small pot
of thin cocoa. The moment finish my
selection / drink cup of it warm-not
hot, mind yon--and, as = consequence, my
voice is seldom tired and never is hoarse. "
''lIow does tea and coffee act p
''fea is better than coffee, but neither
compares with cocoa. Tea must be warm,
and it must not be drawn too long before
it is drank. Ii it stands for certain time
it becomes acid, and does more harm than
good. Tea must be drank without sugar.
Coffee makes one too nervous to be of
much benefit
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
uasse Given Away.

have just completed an arrangement
with a well known author for the pnbli-
cation of very pretty piece of music, en-
titled s.The Owl" which is destined to
become very popular, both words and
masic win send this music at 80 cents
per copy, or to every one sendinp me ten
wrappers OF the esOwl SOAP | will send
free OF postage enc copy Ladies. here is
an opportunity to secure beautiful piece
OF music, free Of cost. The Owl Soap H.
a pure white eoeoanut oil soap, made
from the best and purest material we can
buy. 1t is the best Cor laundry use, and
has no superior as toilet soap. Once
you try it, you will use no other For
sale by your grocer, and il he has not got
it for you, send six two cent stamps to
cover postage and win mail you sam-
pie cake.
Mar2s4t. Bridgeton, N. J.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
DIDN'T KNOW 1T WAS LOADED.

The young man fell dead
A friend had pointed a revolver at him.
He didn't know it was loaded"
We often hear it stated that man is not
responsible for what he does not know.
The law presupposes knowledge and there
fore eonvicts the man who excuses crime
by ignorancel
''If had only known has often been
an unfortunate mans apology for some
evil unknowingly wrought, but in matter
| Of general interests for instance that
laudanum is a poison, that napbtha is
deadly explosive, that blood heavily
charged with a winters accommodations of
the waste Of the SYSTEM is ones duty
to know the fact and the consequences,
thereof. Our good old grandmothers knew
for instance, that the opening of spring
was the most perilous period Of the year.
Why9
Because then the blood stream is slug
gish and chilled by the cold weather, and
if not thinned good deal and made TO
flow quickly and BEAUTIFULLY through the
arteries and veins, IT is impossible to have
good yigor the rest of the year. Hence
without exception, what is now known as
Warmers Log Cabin Sarsaparila, was
plentifully made and religiously given to
every member of the family regularly
through March, April, May and June. It
is matter Of record that this prudential,
preventive and restorative custom saved
many fit of sickness, prolonged life and
happiness to vigorous old age, and did
away with heavy medical expenditures.
Mrs. Maggie Kerehwal, Lexington, KY,
used Warmers Log Cabin Sarsapariila 'sfor
nervous sick HEADACHE of which had been
asufferer for years. 1t has been great ben
eft to me- Capt. Hugh Harkins, HAS.
18th ST., Philadelphia, Pa, says sit pnrifi-
ed my blood and removed the bIotehes from
my skin" Mrs. Aarea Smith, Topton,
Berks Co, Pa, says she was entirely
cured of a skin disease of the worst kind
by Log Cabin Sarsaparilla Bad skin in
dictates very bad condition Of the blood
If you would live and be well, go to your
druggist to-day and get Warmers Log
Cabin sarasaparilla and take no other
there nothing like it or as good, and
completely reneyate your impaired system
with this simple, old-fashioned preparation
os roots and herbs.
Warner, who makes the famous Safe
Cure, puts it up, aud that is a guarantee
Of excellence ali over the known world
Take it yourself aud give it to the other
members of the family, including the chill
dren. Yon will be astonished at its health
giving and life-proionging powers. We
say this editorially with perfect confidence,
because We have heard good things of it
everywhere and its name is guarantee
that it is first class in every particular.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
TRICKS OF MANNERS.

Avoid them by all means. Many good
and kind people, with many excellenees OF
character, render themselves disagreeable,
nay, odious to others, merely from lack of
shall it be said9-laek of delicaey, or
want of observation. They pick their
teeth, or, worse still, snck them, smack
their lips at table, or make other disagree
able noises when drinking or taking soup
IL they help themselves TO any dish ON the
table they bring it up beside their own
plate, edges touching, and perhaps plunge
the spoon into the Heterogeneous mass in
the plate, or clean it off with their own
knives, proceeding most exasperating to
persons of fastidious natures. Others
clean their ears, pare their nails, hawk
and clear their threats, forgetting thai in
the privacy Of their own rooms they should
attend to ali such matters of personal
cleanliness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20

l. Attend carefully TO the details Of your
business.
2 BE prompt in all things
3 Consider weli, then decide positively
i. Dare TO do right; fear To do wrong.
5. Endure trials patiently
6. Fight life's battles bravely, manfuiiy.
Z. Go not in The society OF the vicious.
$ Hold integrity sacred
.. InJnre not another's reputation in bush
ness
10. Join hands only with the Nirtnoas.
~ Lie not for any consideration.
III Make Jew aeQnain tances.
a. Never try TO appear what yuu are NOT.
~ Observe good manners
fg Pay your debts promptly.
4. Question no; the yeracity Of o friend
"a. Respect The counsel OF yonf PARENTS
No. sacrifice money ratber than principle
D. Take care OF the pence and the pounds
will take care of themselves.
p Use your leisure time for Improvement.
q Venture not npon the Threshold Of wrong.
"a Watch carefully over soar passions.
"a Xfend 10 every one kindly saiufafioa
s5 Yield not 10 encouragement
Vs. Zealeuslv labor for the right.
III ii xun will be neat and prueri5 Grnr
ntsnlieai and pfuaenf; and biiy New lxixh
Arm Davis Saving MncfliHe. VEN viii ~
healthy happy and xncceae3ui, For saie HY
Mrs n. A. Llppineeth Woodsrown. NsS-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20

James Whitcomb Riley, the author of
ssWhen the frost is ON the punkin, Moth
in to say. y and other popular poems, halls
from Indianapoli He began his career
as sign painter, and for a time travelled
through Indiana with patent medicine
man for the sake Of the unique experience.
His father could well have afforded to keep
him home aud give him an education, but
he preferred bis wandering life, which il
probably just as well. FOR it gave him
plenty of material for his dialect poems
Mr.. Riley is about thirty five years Of age,
of medium height, with thin sandy hair,
blue eyes, and beardless face. Tie looks
more like 4 comic actor than poet, and
he adds many Of the qualities of the former
TO those Of the latter. His humorous rec
itations are inimItable.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20

One of our religious exchanges boasts of
certain church possessing lady who
saves the congregation where she worships
$40, 600 a year. A woman of wealth and
of high social position, she makes it her
rule and the fashion to dress for church IN
so plain and inexpensive manner as to
throw the whole social influence of the
congregation against extravaganza in
dress. Ii she can overthrow the eultus Of
dress in our modern churches and replace
it with the worship of God, she has a
mission greater than that OF kimball or OF
Moody and Saukey. Hartford Religious
Herald
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
THE KETTLE ON THE CRANE.

How many pleasant pictures does the recol-
lection bring
OF home and bygone pleasures that around
the fireside cling.
What tender "reminiscences come thronging
on the brain,
When in dreams / hear the singing of the ket-
tie on the crane
Hear il singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and slow;
Hear it 1nurmur, murmur. mnrmur,
Soft and low.
There's the broad, wide-open chimney, with
its roaring, cracking fire,
Built up with logs of gen'rous size to make
the flames leap higher;
And near, the waiting fable stands, spread
bountifu and plain,
" lille eheerily the kettle sings and sings upon
the crane.
Hear it singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and SLOW;
Hear it murmur, murmuri murmur,
Soft and low.
Grandmother in the corner sits, and softly to
and fro
She rocks, and dreams of friends and scenes
in days of long ago;
Her face grows sweet and tender as the past
W lille listening to the singing of the kettle on
the crane.
Hear 1t singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and Slow
Hear ii murnur, murmur, murmur.
Soft and low.
see The children caper, as with gleefai laugh
and call,
They watch the dancing pictures OF tie shad-
ows on The wall,
And hear the baby cooling to the mothers low
refrain,
That follows the soft music of the kettle on
the crane,
Hear it singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and slow;
Hear it murmur, murmur, mnrmur
soft and low.
And, ere the evening hour Is done, win lin
gering steps and slow;
A youth and smiling maiden como, and in the
embers' glow
They read the futures story, and they see a
wedding train
And bells chime with the singing OF the kettle
onthe crane.
Hear il singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and slow;
Hear it murmur, murmur. murmur,
SOFT and low.
These precious old time memories, they hold
me like "a spell
The clock upon the mantei where L learned
the time to tell
The simple, homely furniture. the keepsakss
few and plain
And the murmuring of the kettle as it hing
upon the'crane.
Hear IL singing. singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and slow;
Hear it murmur, murmur, murmur,
Soft ana low.
Oh. there's bliss supreme in home, when its
joys are pure and sweet,
And life's most sacred memories around the
hearthstone meet,
And the tenderest thoughts ana saddest ones
come borne upon the strain
Ofthe singing of the kettle as il hung upon
the crane.
Hear it singing, singing, singing,
Loud and merry, fast and slow;
Hear ii murmnr, murmur, murmer,
Soft and low.
-Bar6dra Deane, in fo',kers &dfesmaa
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
CLEANING mATR-BRUsHEs WITH
AMMONIA.

The best way in which to clean hair
brushes, says the Popular Science Neus, is
with spirit of ammonia as It's effect is inn
mediate No rubbing is required, and
cold water can be used just as successful
~ as warm. Take teaspoonfui Of am
monia to quart of water, dip the hair
part of the brush without wetting the
ivory, and in a moment the grease is re-
moved; then rinse in cold water, shake
we'll. and dry in the air but not in the sun.
Soda and soap soften the bristles, and iu-
yariably turn ivory yellow.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
cxerys,odx likes

to be called handsome, especially the young
ladies. But that is simply impossible as
long as their face is covered with pimples
and sores. But wait. there is no need of
this; one or more bottles of Sulphur Bit
tiers will remove all such designations. and
make your face fair and rosy Fannie
Bel, Edisress. April 1924
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-29
COL. ID, ID. JOHNSON
Makes An Etsquent Speech at Noun DIS
villa ThnradaN.

Makes An Etsquent speech at Noun DIS
vile, Thursday.
The Democrat of MoundsVille had an
other enthusiastic nesting Thursday night.
Col. d. D. johnson addressed the audi
ence. The Colonel spoke at Cameron in
the afternoon, and there being vacant
place for the night was run down to fill
the appointment. The address was one OF
the most eloquent delivered this season,
aud was listened to by fully eight hundred
people. The meeting was called to order
by J. Alex Ewing, member of the State
Executive Committee, who named j. w.
Gallsher for President, and the following
Vice Presidents: B. W. Price, j ID. Reilly,
Lspe Shimp. J. b McLure, Samuel Elder
and T. J. johnson. j. 9. Simpson, Jr ,
and @. c. Newman were chosen
secretaries. The President introduced the
speaker in few complimentary remarks,
which brought forth hearty cheers. Col.
johnson begun by saying if the gathering
was of patriotic nature he was sure 1t
would be success, bat If they came here
az blind psrtisans he was afraid 1t wouid
be a sad failure. He then took up tie
great question of the tariff, showing that
the trus definition of high protective
tariff is a tax upon the productive inte'-
eats of country to help the
nonproductive. He took up the his
tory of the parties from the beginning
Of the country aud showed that the
country always pocspsrsd under low
tariff.
The Republicans think that the high pro
tectiys tsriff makes the sun shine, and the
droughts and the colds Of winter ae
brought about by this wicked Mills bill
The speaker spoke for over an hOur and q
half, and was heartily cheered ali through