The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-03

thAhS. W. 10 lAhc .tuts pLOFSfDidl lelIoN
full Of tangle-leg, who, when asked if he
was, in political faith, a Democrat said che
didn't know, (hic), he had the symptoms
II '.la grippe makes one feel lie had run
his head against a stone wall, aud had
broken his back across a telegraph pole, if
it makes one imagine a red hot stove, an
ice cream freezer, and ones nerves fiddle
strings, on which little imps play discords
with files for bows; if it moves one to a
longing desire to kick the dog, kill the cat
and then to lay down and turn up ones
toes, when then we've "got EN- We
give it out straight, no more Russian in ours.
What use have we for anything Russian
anyway? We have imported a high-toned
Russian malady that over there belongs to
the upper ten thousand. Oyer here in this
free land 1t refuses to herd with the ar
istocracy of Uncle Sam, and straightway
goes to m~onkeying with the under one
hundred thousand. We nave tried eros
Ing Russian Nihilism on American Demo-
crazy, and we now have a mongrel progeny
that loves dynamite and hates law. Al a
recent setting of our Court we incorporat-
ed some Russian names into our vocab-
ulary, and the names came near breaking
the Courts jaw. Last year we tried the
experiment of putting Russian political
CSSo uHdCi Jul ltCPupliCa4 it'll. duQ Mucu
they batcbed out into American sovereigns
they killed the hen. Can any good thing
come out of Russia, anyhow?
We saw the other day in the store of one
OF our enterprising merchants a dummy
dressed III a suit of clothes consisting of
pants, coat, vest, overcoat, collar and neck
tie. The suit vas of heavy material for
winter wear, well made and dressy in ap-
pearance. In fact it was such a suit as
would, when put on, make one feel stdress-
ed up" On inquiry We were told nine
dollars would purchase the entire outfit.
We express what we felt when we say we
were surprised. Never before as we re-
member have we seen, at any time or place,
clothing offered SO cheaply. We doubt if
such goods can be duplicated for the price
in any establishment in our larger cities.
We did not suppose it possible for any one
to furnish such goods for much less than
twice the price asked. We doubt if there
ever was a time within the memory of any
when one could clothe himself so cheaply.
notwithstanding certain political econom-
lists would nave US believe that goods are
dear in price on account of high tariff
protection. We hear a great deal in these
times about the manufacturer growing
enormously rich at the expense of mass
es because hedged about by legislative
favors. Whether so or not, one thing is
certain, they never gave us more for cur
money than at the present time. We were
led to think of the opportunities a young
man has to succeed in these times as COM
pared with the opportunities of years ago.
The young man who works upon the farm
today gets about twice as much pay as his
father got in his early days aud can clothe
himself more cheaply. There is no reason
why a young man working on a farm by
the month in these times should not be
able to clothe himself neatly and comfort
ably and lay by a hundred dollars a year.
A hundred dollars a year placed az interest
for a few years, together with its earnings,
will in a few years enable the one SO doing
to become a capitalist, and to command a
business for himself. Many of our wealthy
men Of to-day commenced life in this " ay
and under greater disadvantages than con-
front the young men of these times. These
men had a fixed, unalterable purpose. and
persevered in the effort to accomplish that
purpose. They hnsbanded their small
earnings, in time became capitalists. and
in the end wealthy men. To-day they are
envied by others who at the start had
equal opportunities, but who spent their
earnings as they went along and are COW
on the neither side of fortunes wheel and
complain of hard luck and of the inequality
of fortunes favors. There are young men
working upons farms to-day for wages, who
by industry and economy are laying the
foundation OF after success. In the years
to come they will be the Girards and As
tors and R~othschilds of their day. There
are other young men who drink whisky,
chew and smoke tobacco, visit soda-foun-
tains, theatres and brothels. They despise
economy and court extravaganza, they rid
icule plainness and chase after fashions.
These young men are doomed forever TO
be ''hewers of wood and drawers of
water" They ignore the essentials to sue
cess and success will never be wooed to
their embrace. There are other young
men who despise labor, and believe sue
cess depends on luck. They loll around
town and stroll over the country, waiting
for a lucky chance to turn up. They have
never learned it is pluck, and not luck that
turns the wheel Of fortune. These are the
young men that will make the gamblers,
thieves and eounterfeiters of the future.
Luck is a tickle jade, a will-o' -the-wisp.
Luck never built a palace, carved a statue
or wrote an idyl. What is luck but a
hap-haza-d-a dance of gnomes. JOSIAH.