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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
A silver Wagon Road.

"You may talk about nickel plated
railroads" said vice president L. I.
Stanley Of Walnut street, but wha,
do you think of q solid silver wagon
roadl The Horseshoe mine, in Colo.
RADIO, has one, although when il was
built they didn't know it would pan
out that way. They had to have a
road from their mine, a distance OF
three miles, over which heavy loads
were 10 be drawn. They took the rock
that had been taken from the shafts
they were sinking, and which lay
around in the way, and macadamized
the road all the way through. The
wagons passing over the road ground
the rock down. One day they had q
heavy rainstorm, and when things
got dry again after the rain wind blew
the dust off the road, and all through
the road bed, every which way, they
could see big streaks of silver. Well,
maybe they didn't collar on 10 the
rest of hat loose rock that lay around
those shaftsl They sent away a lot OF
il TO be assayed, and when the report
came back they found that their road
bed was worth $500 a ton. II was q
little expensive TO drive over, but they
had 10 have the road, and they've got
it yet, if their mines have held out.
Philadelphia Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
A Fish Hospital.

A hospital for fish, This is the odd.
est thing heard Of for a very long
time, but il exists, and an ichthyolo-
gist, who knows all about il, sends
particulars. Hospitals arc springing
up in all parts of the kingdom for the
benefit Of domesticated animals. The
horse, the dog, the cat and winged
creatures are cared for, and now a hos
pital for fish has been opened at the
Midland Counties Fish Culture estab-
lshment al Malvern Wells. All fish
are liable 30 epidemic and fungoid dis
eases, together with other maladies,
which may be due to natural or I eli
dental causes, and those suf ing
from any Of these affections are re.
moyed from their habitats at the eS-
adjustment and placed in the hospi.
tai. where they are carefully attended
10. The homo Of rest, or hnny hospi-
tai, consists Of ponds. constructed in
such a way that the patients NAV be
readily scrutinized and doctored. A
hospital without surgical aid would be
lacking in an essential, and, therefore,
the art Of fish healing has been care
fully studied by. the founder and pro-
prietor of tho hospital, who has IN.
vented and manufactured special me-
decimal solutions for application TO
fishes Of different species, according 10
the nature Of their suiferings. Lon.
don Sporting and Dramatic News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
How He Lost the Cane.

II was out on the West Side Mon.
day night to a progressive heart party"
remarked a young attorney yesterday.
Ever been to q progressive heart
partyl NOT Well, just take my ad.
vice and send regrets TO one if you
are invited. You'll feel better the
next morning. Now, l thought
knew how TO play hearts when / went
to this party, as | had the best sort OF
training. Learned 10 play il with
men who slide their hats over their
eyes and hold their cards up under
their eyebrows-fellows who play as
though their lives depended upon the
game. So, you see, / felt pretty easy.
| drew the last table, and started in by
winning a game with a good partner.
| moved up a table, and there | had a
partner who made things pleasant for
me by leading the ace of hearts at the
start. When | raked in the four big
hearts she looked at me and timidly
inquired, Was that right l had to
smile and tell her it was. Have you
ever smiled when there was murder in
your hearth It's awful hard. II was
my luck TO strike hat woman for @
partner five times during the evening,
and she kicked a big hole in my other
wise good record, knocking me out Of
the buckhorn cane, which was the
first prize, and which | had q deat
cinch on had il not been for her. Ant
l had TO look pleasant through il all
too. / wonder where that woman
will go when she diesf'-Chicago Her
oil
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
hesssn Posxhing.

This is always beset with difficulty,
and the pheasant poacher is usually a
desperate character Many methods
can be successfully employed, for the
pheasant is rather a stupid bird. Ow-
ing TO their wandering ~proclivity, Thy
no means follows that the mar who
rears the pheasants will have the priv
ilege of shooting them. At the time
of the falling of the beech and oaken
mast the poacher watches as closely by
the covert side as the keeper himself.
The former knows perfectly well that
the birds feed in the morning, that
they dust themselves in tie turnip
fields at noon, and that they ramble
through the woods in the afternoon.
He, better than any n else, knows
the coppice TO which the wandered
birds have gone and in which
trees they will roost Is he slow
TO use his knowledgel AT dark he
passes over the land, and lights a bit
of birthstone beneath the roosting
birds. The powerful fumes soon over
power them and they come Tapping
down one by one. This method has
the advantage of silence, aud if the
night be still need not be detected.
Away from the covert time is no OBJ
iect, and the poacher who is content
with a brace of birds at a time usually
gets the most in the end. The poacher
knows that no bird is more pugnacious
than the pheasant, and out of this
trait he makes capital. He takes a
trained game cock under his arm, fit
ted with spurs, the latter as sharp as
needles. Upon the formers growing,
one or more cock pheasants immedi-
ately respond and advance TO meet the
adversary. \ single blow suiliceS TO
lay low the pride of the pheasant, and
in this way half a dozen birds may
often be taken, while the poacher's
representative remains unhurt-The
Gentleman's Magazine.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
A Pnzzler.

A man had sold himself { the devil,
who was 10 possess him a certain
time unless he could PROFOUND a ques.
ton TO his satanic majesty which Inc
could not answer, he being allowed u
put three questions to him. The time
came for the devil to claim his own,
and he consequently appeared. The
first question the man asked was con.
corning theology, 10 which the devil
with no trouble replied. The second
he also answered without hesitation.
The mans fate depended on the third.
What should it be2 He hesitated and
turned pale, and the cold dew stood ON
his forehead, while he shivered with
anxiety, nervousness and terror, and
the devil triumphantly sneered. Al
this j~uncture the mans wife appeared
in the room with a bonnet in her hand.
Alarmed at her husbands condition,
she demanded 10 know the cause.
When informed she laughed and said
II can PROFOUND a question which the
devil himself cannot answer. Ask him
which is the front of this bonnet"
The devil gave it up and retired in dis
gust and the man was free .-Salem
Gazette,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
UnIyersitIes Of Argentine.

The two Argentine universities un.
der the patronage Of the government
are among the best in South America,
and rank with Yale and Harvard In
curriculum and standard OF education.
The public school system also is under
the patronage Of the government, un.
der a compulsory education law, and
includes all grades from the kinder.
garton 10 the normal school. There
are thisty,collegesand normal schools
for tho higher education Of men and
women in tho republic, and 2,729 pub,
ho schools Boston Transcript.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
Not n nad Precedent.

An English court has rendered a de.
cision which would not be a bad prece-
dent here. II seems that the engineer
a q dummy engine, which ran by the
s&1e Of a public highway, caused the
Seam 10 be blown off suddenly. there
By Frightening a horse and causing a
runaway and smash up. The owner
q the horse sued the railroad company
md recovered full damages. The Judge
bald that the right TO run the engine
along the highway did not carry with
Il tho right 10 cause runaways by
means which could be prevented.-San
francisco Chronicle.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17
Lord Chancellor Tburlow ou

Lord Chancellor Thurlow owed
much OF the reputation which he had
while living TO hisawe inspiring man
ners. 1T Is impossible for a man 10
be as wise as Thurlow looks 10 be-
said a critic, referring TO the chancel-
lor's face, which was so remarkable
for its appearance Of wisdom that the
Duke OF Norfolk called one Of his owls
Thurlow.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-17

Australia has made TO a projected
railroad a grant Of 16, 600, 600 acres, or
20,oo1 acres a mile. The grant TO the
pacilc railroads in this country
amounted 10 about e,4oo acres a mile.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

Here is a bright idea, though it is not
a new one. In a family where there are
several children let them start a little
family paper, doing all the editorial work
themselves, with perhaps a little direction
aud oversight from father and mother.
The little ones could write up the news
Of the home and the neighborhood; telling
all the bright and pleasant things from the
schoolroom that would not be the forbid
den telling tales out of SCHOOL, bits of
natural history in which Rover and Pussy
and the birds and the flowers and the
horse and the COW and chickens would
supply the information to observant little
eyes: appropriate selections could be made,
ard the whole neatly written on paper
in due form and order. Then what fun to
have ''the paper read aloud when the
family gathered in the evening about the
sitting room table. 1t might even be car
ried farther if father would get a little
printing press and let the boys and girls
learn to set type and have their paper
printed.
Cornelius Vanderbilt's children carried
on, until they left home to &C to school.
a successful little magazine called The
Comet, and now another magazine called
Little Folks, with Lew Vanderbilt as edi-
tor. has taken its place, whose contribu-
tors will nearly all be children under ~
years of age. We all know of the little
journal carried on by Frances Willard and
her brother and sister in their childhood
days, and the part it played in directing
the course of their lives. Many papers
give a column or more to children's letters.
and the effect is very helpful to both child
rem and paper, If the boys aud girls were
taught early to express their thoughts on
paper there would not be so much dread
of essays and compositions when they go
to school. There will be more, ratherthan
less, newspaper work done in the future.
and it should be better done. Schools of
journalism are good, but the very
best school of Journalism is the daily
practice with eyes and ears open to the
how and why of everything. Christian
Statesman.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
a BOX ON THE EAR.

One of Browning's most beautiful and
pathetic powers, and one ineligible to
w~homsoeyer runs, commentaries the act
of an old Earl of Arundel, who, having
struck his little child on the head, had the
picture of himself and the child painted,
the child, as he became in after years, i'm
beetle from the effects of that blow. It
would be well, we think, for every parent,
and for all those having children on their
hands, to commit these verses to memory,
and to put the lesson in practice; for the
injury done to children by the quick and
careless box on the ear that is thought
nothing of at the time is something meal
culable. 1t is impossible to hit a tender
child upon SO delicate an organ as the ear
without doing an evil and unseen work,
even when the blow is given with the fat
and open hand. The action, it has been
fully ascertained, has produced violent in
Examinations in the ear, and running dis
charges for years; blood has been known
to follow it Immediately; and when this
has not happened partial, and even total,
deafness has been the consequence in many
instances. Intercranial difficulties of a
dangerous type are not at all rare either as
the result Of these a~dmonitions. Idiocy
has been traced to them; and in more than
one case of those surgically examined it has
beer found that fatal brain disease has fol-
lowed a box on the ear. -Harper's Basar.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
TEACHING THE LITTLE ONES.

If you viii permit me, | would like to
say a few words to the mothers of the
Household Band about teaching the little
ones purity in thought, word and act. I
think most mothers watch the little girls
carefully, but | fear the little boys are sad
~ neglected. It seems to be the general
opinion that it does not sound as bad for a
boy to use bad words as it does a gil, and
a boy can do things that would not be
tolerated in a girl. Is this right? Do you
sible for his actions and words than a wo-
MAI? | do not think be has given two
codes Of morals, one to man and another
to woman. No: anything that is wrong
for a woman to say or do is wrong for a
man. just so long as a boy is allowed t
think he can say or do things, or go to
places that it is not right and proper for his
sister to go to just so long will our daugh-
tiers be in danger from those that should
be their natural protectors, but, alas, are
not. Not only that, but we are terribly
wronging our boys by allowing them to
think so. We mothers are just as respon-
sible for the training of our boys as for our
girls. 1t makes me shudder wien l think
how boys, even little boys, are allowed to
frequent places where they hear profanity
and all that is bad. just think of the
purity of their little hearts being stained
and blackened by such influences.
Dear mothers, awake to your sacred
duties. DO not think more of clothing the
bodies Of your little boys and girls daintily.
and filling your homes with fancy work,
than you do of caring properly for their
immortal ~well-being. lam just as anxious
to send pure boys out into the world as /
am pure girls. ] feel deeply on this sub
ject when | consider the deplorable condi-
ton Of our country, morally, and | know it
is just here that the reform must COM
mence. The stream cannot be pure un-
less the fountain is pure.-IHe HousehoM.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
HE SAW

did you see any Quakers IN Philadel-
phia?" was asked of a Detroiter who lately
returned from that city.
sOnly one that | was sure Of"
"Did he thee and thou you?"
HE did. He got down off his hack and
said. If thee don't pay me 50 I'll knock
thy blamed head off, and l paid, although
| knew the regular fare was IL shillings.
You don't want to fool with those Quakers
any, and don't you forget. it!'-Detrot
Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
HOW 10 be HEALTHY and WEALTHY.

Don't worry.
seek peace and pursue it
Be cheerful, "a light heart lives long,"
Work like a man, but don't be worked
to death"
Never despair. eLost hope is a fatal
disease"
Spend less nervous energy each day than
you make.
Don't hurry, TOO swift arrives as tar
dy as too slow"
Sleep and rest a%bundantly. Sleep is ma
lures benediction.
Avoid passion and excitement. A mo-
ment's passion may be fatal.
Associate with healthy people. Health
is contagious as we'll as disease.
Don't overhead. Don't starye. "Let
your moderation be known to all men"
Court the fresh air day and night. so,
if you knew what was in the aire"-Boston
Adrertiser.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
THE TENDENCY TO UxTRUTnFyL.
MEAS.

But coming down to the detail of the
child with any tendency to untruthfulness
cherish the tendency thar to let him know
that you are aware Of the tendency, and to
let him know it, most Of all, in any obnoxi-
Gus way. 1t is possible that with a child
with whom you have established a con-
hdential intimacy, SO that he considers you
more as his dear friend than as his correct
or and overseer, you can let such know
ledge OF yours be known, aud can become,
agreeably to him, a fellow watcher with
himself over the fault. But this is not a
very frequent possibility, since children's
intimates and eonfidants are liable to be of
the same age with themselves, and it is rare
ly that they do not look up with a little
awe and distance upon the person, whoever
1t may be, that is appointed to take care of
their morals and behavior.
But there is one course that can always
be pursued, and that is never to let the
child for a moment dream that you suspect
him of the wrong doing or saying. Unless
it should be absolutely necessary, for some
reason better known TO yourself, that you
should betray your knowledge. keep it to
yourself and maintain your -watchfulness,
but let the child hope that you consider his
STANDARD Of truthfulness to be as high as
any in the world. You can do it without
either deceit Or untruthfulness on your
own part if you look to it with care and
are precise in your statement as to what
the child ought to be rather than as to
what he is.
Once given a reputation to live up to, a
character to maintain, and the child's pride
comes to the rescue, his sense of honor is
cultivated to the point of giving birth
to truthfulness and theneeforward noblesse
oblige, until at last he seizes on the
real beauty and value of truth, upon
which truth itself obliges. And on
the other hand, if you would make
the little liar a big liar and eter-
nally a liar, then constantly confront him
with the fact that he is a liar already. He
will have small motive for telling the truth,
since all the world believes and knows
that he is a liar; he sees that he would not
be credited if he told the truth: he will not
have the name without the game; and his
fate, which the tact and watchfulness of
which we have spoken might have made
very different, is early sealed.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

BLESSED be Drudgery:' "The aim in
life is what the backbone is in the body;
without it we are iuvertebrate, belong to
some lower order of being, not yet man.
= y 4 The lot of many a girl, especially
of many a girl with rich father, is a trag
edy of aimlessness. Social standards, and
her lack of true ideals and of real educa-
ton, have condemned her to be frittered;
from twelve years old she is a cripple to
be pitied, and by thirty she to know it.
With the brothers the blame is more their
own. : 1t is the angel-aim and stand
ard in an act that eonsecrates it. He who
aims for perfectness in a trile, is trying to
do that trifle holily.* The smallest
roadside pool has its water from heaven
and its CLEAN from the sun, and can hold
the stars in its bosom, as we'll as the great
ocean. Even so the humblest man or wo-
man can live snlendidly!'
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

1t is a foolish habit that some anxious
parents have of discussing the health OF
delicate children in the children's presence.
The Christian Union says: "a physician,
speaking out of a deep and practical mind,
said: If you hear a mother refer to her
daughter as nervous in the daughters
presence, if you cannot sneak, glare at
her, but if you can speak, say, Madam,
your conversation would make a wooden
girl nervous, to say nothing of a fiesh-and-
blood Young person like your daughter =
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
THE THING NOT DONE.

IL isn't The thing you do, dear,
It's the thing yon leave undone,
Which gives you a bit of a heartache
At the setting of the sun.
The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear,
Are your haunting ghost. tonight.
The tone you might have lifted
Out OF a brothers way,
The bit OF heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much TO say;
The loving touch Of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone,
That you had no time or thought for
With troubles enough of your own.
Forlife Is all toe short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great,
For all our slow compassion,
Tint tarries until too late.
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone,
Which gives YOU the bit of q heartache
At the setting of the sun.
-1Horgaret E. Sdngsfe5
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

.Wen, Charley, further argument is useless.
| have tried almost all kinds of sewing
machines I'm the market. but none OF them
come anywhere near the New Hfgh Arm
Davis BY its nse labor Is made an absolute
pleasure. SO rapidly and easily does 1t perform
the most elabora-e work, no "nts'-no basting
no skipping stitches, or breaking threadsl
SO rapidiy and easily glides the perfectly nn-
ished work frpm under that magical ~Ftrftc0t
Feed that sewing seems one OF the me ars.
The Attachments toe. seem as wonaerlui ~
the machine. They are so nearly automatic IN
their action that they seem 70 WORK Dy an
stEncti / tell you. Challey,-that You must
buy me a "Daviss to-day. FDr sale by Arks
III. a.. Lippincott woodstoMn, N u
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11
poor hut

Charlie sullivan is a poor but honest
Irish lad. who, while walking down Wash
ington street, found q wallet containing
checks and money TO the valEe of several
hundred dollars. Although almost desti-
tute, he returned it to the owners, Messrs.
A. p. Ordway & Co, proprietors OF Sui
phur Bitters, who gave him a liberal re-
ward, and also gave him six bottles of Sui
phur Bitters for his mother, who has been
a terrible sufferer with rheumatism, and
who returned many blessings after being
cured by their use.- Weekly World.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

The best and simplest cosmetic for wom-
en- is constant ~gentieness and sympathy for
the noblest interest of her fellow creatures.
This preserves and gives her features an
indelibly gay, fresh and agreeable express
sion. If women would but realize that
harshness makes them ugly, it would
prove the best means Of conversion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

A young lady Of seventeen summers,
highly educated, refined, and of proposes
ing appearance, desires to form the &C.
quaintanee of som nice young man, whom
she would advise, if troubled with dyspep-
STA. to use that great blood purifier, Sui
phur Bitters.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

If you can only restrain a child from
wrong conduct by hurting it, | fear you
have little to hope for in its future. At
it should be good from love for you.
It should obey because you have proved
yourself wise and loving liz its eyes. After,
because you have taught it to be honorable.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

Never even scold a child for an accident
the breaking of a glass. the tearing of
garment-and listen to its explanations.
Don't brighten the little ones from making
you their confidant; don't scare them into
falsehood.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

We women are born governors by virtue
Of our mothe rhood. | pity the man., the
miserable coward, who says that women
must not vote because she cannot fight.
The whole tendency of the day is toward a
peaceful arbitration. - Mrs. Zerelda G..
Wallace.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

1.-THE sweetest thing that ever grew be-
side a human door, was May, until she
took TO having headaches-for a time she
lost her beauty, bat one bright day her
Papa bought a bottle of Salvation Oil, and
loi she is as sweet and pretty as ever.
(Only twenty-five cents a bottle.)
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

The prettiest sight in the world is a pref
ty woman's foot in a Jersey Lily boot, and
since DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup cures all
sorts of colds all women can wear them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-01-11

When BABY YVES sick. we gave her Castcria.
VIXEN she was a Child, she cried for Castorias
When she became Miss. she chung to castoria,
wlsen She had Children, she gave them castoria,