The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-11-21

vote at the South? Not a bit of it. 1t
isn't his OK hat was goied that time.
Does the Democratic party newspaper at
over tie mention of a force bill? Not il
you know yourself. It's the Prohibition
lists that are under the barrow this time
and they, Democrats and Republicans,
rather enjoy the spectacle. oh for an
hour of General Jackson.
Within a fortnight we have listened to
two famous lecturers and to a third who
may yet become so. The first two were
Sam Small and "Tommy" Maslin, and the
third from a Miss OIof Kraren, a native
Esquimaux. Everybody by this time
must he familiar 18th the history of San
Small. How from a young lawyerof good
standing aud irreproachable character he
succeeded in a course OF d~ebauchery and
dissipation i'll bringing himself to the verge
OF ruin and dragging his family down with
him.. They know. too, of his after re-
formation. How by the merest accident,
humanity speaking, he was brought under
the influence and teaching of the ned
Sam Jones, from which circumstance he
credits his conversion and all that it
implies.
Tommy Masiin is less known and is alto
gether Il different type of humanity from
Small, scarcely indeed appearing to belong
to the same race. Small is 4 typical
Southerner of the better class, tail, sallow
looking ard spare. With black eyes, dark
hair, and a wealth Of dark, heavy mus
tache. Tommy would be recognized
almost anywhere as a tough" He has
the mark Of a pugilist in every line of his
face, arc the Impression is heightened by
an ugly knife scar over his left cheek.
Compact, squarely built ard broad shout
dered, his heavy head rests ON a short,
thick neck, bespeakipg him a man of won-
derful energy and large animal power.
His early history was bad enough, but un-
romantic. 1t is the old, old story, told
over and over again, of life in the slums
of New York City. His parents, how
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lead him in the way of respectable living,
but all in vain. Twice a convict in a New
York penitentiary, with a two years SEN
tence each time, a frequenter of gambling
hells and saloons, with never a days
schooling in all his life, tell tie whole sad
story. Indeed, as we listened to him tell
the story of his life in his earnest, impas-
stoned way, with never all attempt at en-
Enlistment, it appeared NOE like a tale
of fiction or the distorted. wild imagining
of a disordered brain than II c record Of a
real life.
The third person in the trio, Miss Olof
Kraren, has an * experience more romantic
and strange than either the two above
mentioned. Miss Kraren is a native Es-
quimaux, 80 years of age, height 40
inches. weight about 1870 pounds. The
first fifteen years of her life was passed in
Danish America, on the western coast of
Greenland, in latitude north rec. When
fifteen years Of age, as near that period
as she is able to tell, She made the passage
TO Iceland, previous to W hich time she had
never seen or heard tell of a book or any
soft of scholastic instruction, oral or writ
ten. While in Iceland she had access to
books ard attended school for some time,
and later on crossed over to British North
America and then to this country, settling
first in Minnesota and then in northern
Illinois. where she now resides. Miss
Krareu tells some strange stories of her
home life in Greenland. She SAYS her
country is without any form of govern
ment whatever, and has ouly the unwrit-
ten law of home regulation, handed down
from father TO son. They are not only
destitute of all law and officers of the law
and every sort of n andatory discipline,
but are also without physicians, school
teachers. mechanics, and every other civil
jzing adjunct. She describes the women
az without any occupation whatever. No
clothes to mend, nc rooms to keep clean,
10 cooking to do, absolutely nothing at
hand whatever, but to eat, drink and