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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-05
Assignee's Sale

At the residence of Paul McAIlister, on the
road leading from Sharpto@n 70 Swedesboro,
about one mile from sharptown, he follow
ing described personal property:
HORSES, COWS aud HDGS-4 head of good
horses, l good mule, "A head OF good cows, l
SOW, shoats.
FARM MACHINERY-2 heavy plantation
wagons, l light MARKET wagon, | carriage,
nearly new; i express wagon, / good binder,
reaper, l mower, hay rake. cut harrow, good
roller, corn marker. coed corn shelters, 2
two-horse syr~acuseplows, 1 one-horse plows,
gang pillow, fallow harrow, 3 cultiyators, 2 sets
shelvings, 2 lime bodies. new fan mill, hay
cutter, sleigh. grind stone, hay fork with
rope and blocks, swingletrees, eyenels, clev-
Uses, stalk knives, potato drags, lot gambrels,
3 scythes, so grain bags , barrels half-bushel
measure, grubbing hoe, axe, . large casks,
vinegar and cask, , hay forks. : dung forks,
scoop shovels,4 good milk cans.
HARNESS and GRAIN-2 sets double heavy
work harness, ! single do, / set double light
carriage harness, good, . sets single do, : sets
hynets, rope lines, halters, one-half of IS acres
of growing wheat, 500 bushels of corn on ear,
90 pounds to busheD, tenants privilege of
fodder to March %, 1871.
Sale to commence att O'Clock, sharp. Con-
ditions at sale.
o. II. WEIGGINS, Assignee. :
James sharp, Auct.
Fogg & Richman, Clerks.-12-5-2t
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-05
Notice.

THEREAFTER hwil buy Poultry ana
Ii squads on Monday and Thursday ut
Woodstown from toSP. NJ. At Yorktown
on Wednesday from ~ to 5 z. NJ. Market
prices paid for allkfnds of poultry.
l0-2i-tf WNLBERT RICHMAN. Agent.
THE firm OF Crothers & King, harness max.
l. ers, Woodstown, n. J., is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. The business Will
be continued by the subscriber. to whom all
accounts are payable and all claims against
the firm Will be settled by him.
GEO. w, CROTHERS.
Nov. $. ls90.-Il-7
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-05
ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES,
SALE OF
Very Valuable Real Estate
WILL be sod Mt public sale, on
Saturday. Dec. n. 1890.


In front Of the Con- House, in the City of
Salem, between the hours OIL and 5 n. m. of
said day, all that certain very desirable farm
and premises in Warrington township, late
the property of CLEMENT Acton, decd. and
known as the Swing farm on both sides Of the
road leading from Sharptown to Salem. ad.
joining lands of Elizabeth Cawley, heirs of
Charles Swing, decd, heirs of Samuel Prior,
decd, and Chas. Humphreys, containing In
the whole,
90 37-l0o ACRES,
Almost the whole of which is arabic land. The
improvements are 2 frame dwelling house,
barn and wagon house.
The farm is ENCLOSED with fencing. The
land is light, alluvial soil, very susceptible 10
the application ofalI kinds of fertilizers. and
has always borne good crops OF all kinds OF
grain and cereals.
So At the same time VIII be sold the one.
half of the growing wheat crop.
This is a very desirable property: is within
mile OF Sharptown.
Any person wishing TO view this property
will be shown the same by calling on Clement
A. Ware nj Woodstown.
Sale positive. to close estate. Conditions
made known at sale, by
CLEMENT a. ARE,
WILLIAM W. ROBBINS,
Administrators and Trustees of Clement
Acton, deceased ll-2S-5t
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-12-05
COWS. COWS.
Extra Load of Cows at
PUBLIC SALE
Monday. Dec. Is. 1890.

be sold at public sale on the Woods
wv town Exhibition Grounds on
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Miss Helen WattersOu.

During the past year a great many IN
quiries have been made as TO the identity
OF The Woman About Town of the New
York Evening Sun. No end of surmises
have been INDUCED in in varions quar-
tiers. and not lOng ago one of the West
ern papers. in speaking of this clever
column. went 50 far as to assert that It's
author was not a woman at all. but a
"compositor in the form of "lwo ex-
ceptional clever men" Helen Waiter
son is the real name Of The Woman
About Town, and she comes from Cleve-
land. Ohio. Miss Watterson was edu-
Gated at Wooster University. a
co educational college of high stand
ing in her native State. She
was graduated in 'S3 and received
her first newspaper training on the
Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland
Sun. For both these papers she did
editorial work for the greater part Of
two years. She then abandoned news
paper work and became assistant pro-
lessor of English and rhetoric at her
alma mater. Last October she came 10
New York under engagement to the
Evening GUN. anu a ltn htt ~ hNi
arrival The Woman About Town made
her first appearance in print. 1t was
intended to be essentially a woman 3
column, but at the present time
the Woman is quite as wide
ly read by the Evening Suns
male readers as she is by the
sex for whom she was originally ere
atad There is no column now pub
lished in any daily or weekly paper
more widely read and copied than the
Woman About Town. Besides her
work on this column Miss Watterson
does regular assignments and special
work, and has her desk in the repoto-
rial rooms like any of the men report
ers. Miss Watterson is the author Of
The Girl With the Sweet Pease, OF
which a well known man of letters said
the other day: 1T is without eXcsp-
ton the purest bit of English | have
read IN years. Current Literature.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Woman American Literature.

The criticism that bases its classified
ton of literary work on distinction Of
sex is professionally misleading and
inexact, for facts do not justify the ex"
pectation that either the masculine or
the feminine element will be purely
incarnated in any individual human
beng. On the contrary, they show
that the difference between the literary
work of the women, and that OF tho
men of the past has been purely acct"
dental, inasmuch as Il has been due,
partly to difference Of environment
and training, and partly to the con-
seriousness in those men and women
themselves of a difference in the
feelings with which they were
respectively regarded by the ages
in which they lived. These trdisms
are abundantly exemplified by the lives
and works Of the literary women Of
America. In the days when American
women were iInperfectly educated,
when their circumstances made 1t Diff
cult for them to devote themselves ex-
clusively to literature, when they labor
ed under disadvantages in endeavorlng
10 dispose Oh lue1T literary ptOuuCliuus.
and when, above all, the female
writer" herself had lingering feudal
idea that she could hold literary terri
tory. only on condition of stout pen
service in the cause Of the domestic
virtues and pudding, when. as Thoma.
Wentworth Higginson said, lit seemed
to be held necessary for American
women to work their passage into lit.
erature by first compiling cookery
book" in those days Mrs. Child
wrote the Frugal Housewife, and
the clever Eliza Leslie put forth "Sev-
enty-fve Receipts" before she ventnred
upon her humorous and satirical Pen
Gil Sketches" but as these restrictive
influences tending 10 stamp feminine ge-
MUS with the impress of inferiority have
slowly disappeared, the women of
have made valuable contribu-
items to literature, more especially in
the departments Of prose, fiction and Of
poetry; and now in other branches also |
they are displaying not only thorough
pess but even speclalism. 1t 10 true !
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
9Th. House of the seven Gables"

There 10 yet living in our city gen.
tleman who was a friend and COM
panion of Haw thorne. whose memory
10 replete with incidents of the times
when Nathaniel Hawthorne was a
searcher for original facts upon which
70 base his writings. The House Of the
Seven Gables so called), which nov
stands on Turner street, was probably
built in 1862, as on the beems there
were discovered at one time when re-
pairs were being made these figures in
black, and when fire at one time de-
stroysd q portion OF the building this
beam was burned partly off, but leav'
ing the figures 10.
The house was owned by different
families. and each successor TO the
ownership gratified his freaks in the
way OF additions or removals, until 1t
became very queer sort OF astructure.
This house in Hawthorne's time was
owred by Miss Ingersoll, "a cousin OF
Hawthorne, and he was frequent Wis
itor there. Some time in the forties
there was very severe line storm in
the early part OF the year which dis
turbed the people living in the neigh
borhood OF the water front. and did
some damage. Ii was after this storm
that Hawthorne and Roberts were sit
ting In the office Of Roberts, who re-
marked II am going down on Turner
street 70 see what damage has been
done" and they both started. The
tide that day reached very nearly 10
the front gate OF the lugersoll house.
UpOu QOing in thav sal,,na c..
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Literature of the Imagination.

A large part Of the char m OF works
OF the Imagination is due 10 the fact
that they supply the deficiencies Of per-
sonal experience. 1t - long way from
the Had or the Kueid TO the seDsa-
tional serial which delights the con-
slant readers Of the Penny Dreadful.
but they have something IN common.
Both are departures from the dusty
highways II life, ard both are fraught
with romance and adventure. The APP
petite is universal for that sort
of entertainment. We grow weary
of routine. Of uneventful days,
of dull companions. We long for a
touch of the unusual nor do we forego
it because of any suggestion Of
the improbable. No. indeed: we
are ready enough to be cheated in that
behalf. While we read OF Homer's
mythic heroes and Spencer 4 fairies we
believe in them. We lend ourselves to
the illusion aud return with joy to the
glorious dreams Of the world 5 poetic
youth. Il is because those old days can
never come again that we love so much
to revive them in Imagination. We
crave a full measure Of experience, and
even in this busy, practical modern life
we would look upon nature aud man
from the ancient point of view. IL is
this desire OF the present for the expe-
rience Of the past that gives value to
the historical romance; 1t is the desire
of men in one condition of life to enter
into the joys and sorrows Of those in
another condition which imparts inter
est TO stories Of our own time.
There is something pathetic. not
wholly sad. in the thought OF the poor
boy or girl who finds delight in ticti-
tious annals in high life. Boy and girl
Put themselves respectively in the place
OF hero and heroine. They are richly
dressed. and in marble halls they taste
the sweets of elegant leisure. of power
and praise. Nothing is but thinking
makes it so.n and imagination has no
cage. Poverty is beguiled of its sting,
toll is lightened. and eunui gives way
to round of noble pleasures aud dra-
matte scenes. until the curtain falls
upon bafiied villainy and Triumphant
virtue. New Orleans Picayune.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Andrew Lang.

The pen picture of Andrew Lang is
given by one of his Boswells " Mr..
Lang, like all literary men Of slim build
and languid bearing, wears an old
fashioned silkfaced frock coat, wrink-
ling and buttoDing at angles that would
prevent any self-respecting tailor S
dummy from acknowledging a bow
from him in Bow street, He has the
figure and air of a young man, but his
worn face, with the chin. cheekbones,
and nose projecting under the drawn
skin. almost reminds one of the veteran
Professor Owen. His black hair is
streaked with gray and the front row
of il is silver white. The weakest part OF
the head is outside the eyes, where the
temples are cut scantlly away. Like
Sarasate. his remarkable appearance is
due TO his large, striking eyes. His
tongue does not betray the Scotchman
except by a certain prolongation of the
90 in book. and an occasional locu-
ton like parallel for 'parellel. Hi,
voice is high-pitcbed, and a little
criarde; his delivery is recklessly col
loquial; his best holt is on sly Clubbing;
and he punctuates his speech always in
the wrong place, by abrupt pauses after
every two or three words, the effect
being iresistibly suggestive of the artil-
leryman in Bleak House. Took me in.
With a second hand violin seller. For
a friend. That money was no object to.
And said he played the fife. When a
boy Mr.. Lang cuts it quite as small
as that: but he peppers in his pauses
much more arbitrarily"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Chaucer.

The genius of GeofIry Chaucer is not
TO be likened to lOnelstar Offering
down on us throughout a rift in sur
rounding darkness, or to a spring day
in the midst OF winter, that blossoms
and fades. leaving us to wait long for
its next fellow, He had in his own
time for brother writer's Wyclif, Lang
land. Cover, some of the worthiest
men of our race. and the light Of the
English mind was not quenched when
he died. Nor ia it natural in any way
whatever to think of Chaucer as an iso-
lated man. No English poet equal to
him had preceded him, or lived in his
own day. Only one writer since his
time has risen to his level, and he rose
yet higher. But much of Chaucer 5
strength came of genial spirit of com
panionship. 1t was his good will to
humanity, and his true sense of his own
part in it, that gave him his clear in
sight into life. In him the simple sturdi-
nsss of the dutiful GOd-seeking Anglo
Saxon is blended intimately with the
social jOyousness OF wit.
Chaucer worked to the same end as
Langland and Cover; not less religious
ly, though with much less despair over
the evils that he saw. He does not see
far who despairs of any part Of God S
creation. Having the sympathetic in
sight that is inseparable from genius at
its best, and entering more deeply than
his neighbor poets into characters Of
men. Chaucer could deal with them all
good humoredly; for he had the toler-
ance that must needs come Of large
view of life. exact in Its simplicity. OF
Chaucer 5 there is not thought colOred
by prejudice or passion. He paints, in
his chief work, character in all its va
riety. without once giving us. under
some other name, covert reproduc-
ton of himself. When he attacks hypOc-
risy that trades upon religion, and in so
doing strips vice of its cloak, the sharp
est note of his scOrn has in it a rich quail
ty Of human hindlineSs In perception Of
the ridiculous he is beforehand with
the most fastidious of his cOuntrymen,
and with his own native instinct he
knows where an Englishman would
turn with laughter or displeasure from
words or thoughts that might seem
SOOu 10 any Otilei pVOplV' bai hSol &c
he was-disposed at times even to di-
rect religious teaching Chaucer was
quick to see the bright side of life, and
ready to enjoy it In the flesh. When
he was rich he seemed to have delight
ed freely aud naturally in whatever
good things wealth would bring him;
and when stripped of substance he set
up no mean wailing of distress, but
quietly consoling himself with keener
relish of the wealth that was within
MIN, he dined worse and wrote his
Canterbury Tales. From English
Writers, Vol. ", by Henry Morley.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Literary Pathology.

In the University Medical School
there is a prize offered every year to
the members of the graduating class
who shall present the best record Of
anomalies found in the anatomical
rooms. In the modern school of litera
ture the prizes are competed for in a
similar line of research. The iiels OF
study Of the contemporary novelist Is
in the mental dissectiug room, and what
he cares most to record is not the nor
NAL structure of the human character,
but the anomalies that may DO observed
in a minute examination Of social pathol-
cgy. The novelists who dealt with the
healthy men and women, with natural
passions and with aims and motives of
at least average dignity and honesty,
are quite old-fashioned now. We are
supposed to know all about the normal
types of character, and the novelists re-
gard them with something like con-
tempt. The novelists have turned 10
pathology like the medical students.
They that are we'll need no physi-
clan, but they that are sick; and the
have discovered that we are
all sick aud greatly in need of
their services, not for delight or
but for discipline and
warning. The Frenchmen, the whole
clever group eff them. are all deep in
the study of diseased character. The
Spanish novelists have developed a
skill in the delineation of
morbid anatomy. Our new found
friend. Mr.. Ibsen, gives us a series OF
records of hereditary crime and moral
tuberculosis, and our older friend,
Count Tolstoi. has advanced from the
of natural men and women
to the record of anomalies. Even Mr.
Howells has gone in for mental pathol
cgy.
The bulk of contemporary fiction is.
like the graduating theses Of the young
the product of the anatomi-
cal rooms. Ii is we'll enough to stimu
late pathological research among the
medical students. That is what they
are there for. But why should we
rive all the prizes in literature for the
record of anomalies? For there
IAN be no doubt that while !
his pathological tendency is al
natural expression of the spirit of |
he time, il is immensely stimulated by |
he prizes of newspaper notoriety aud
fashionable favor. The big men. the
zeal Psychologists, who have something
% say, would say it anyhow. 1t ia the
little fellows, the ambitious pupils, that
produce such WEAKNESS, and for these
he fashionable "critics," who offer a
,rizs OF temporary fame to the most
lismal, are largelyiresponsible.
lelphia Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09

H. Aud Miss Ingersoll replied; You
can 90 any time-go now, II you IKE
and handed him the key. Hawt horne
started alobe. and, with the freedom
allowed, opened every door and exam
ined every crook and turn OF the old
house. except one room. which he could
not open. and returned. Upon being
told that he would find the key OF that
room on the raiter over the door. he re-
visited the attic and mcde a thorough
examination Of this room. After re-
turning. Miss Ingersoll asked him why
he did not write soTetbing. and he re.
piled: Il have nothing to write about.
She replied: Look at that old chair
over there, pointing TO it; put an old
Puritan in il and write about him, then
his successors, seat them IN the oid
chair, and you have story.
Roberts and Hawthorne then left the
house. and on his way up Turner street
Hawthorne took from his vest POCKET the
diary. which consisted Of scraps OF pa
ner. wrote down Seven Gables and
Graudfather's Chair, and remarked to
Roberts. Susan has more bIa'1s than
any of them. The story OF the House
OF the Seven Gables was written after
Gu tom-house hours. in the afternoons
and evenings. In the story the only re-
ation which the Turner-street house
bears to it is in the name. The back
yard porch, and old elm tree are the
only scenes in the story which
relate to this house, except 1t be
the death scene of Judge Pynchon'
and this was suggested to him as he ap'
proached the house one day, and, look
inc in the low window on the street, he
saw his friend 'tting in a spoon chair
his head hanging to one side, the pecu'
liar shade Of light giving his face the
appearance of death, and, rushing IN,
he grasped him by the arm, which
awoke his friend, who exclaimed
What is the matter 7 aud Hawthorne
replied. i thought you were dead -
Salem Gazette.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
Iincoln's Reading.

He read Shakespeare more than all
other writers together. He made no
attempt to keep pace with the ordi-
nary literature of the day. Sometimes
he read scientific work with keen APP
probation, hut he pursued no syste-
matte course. He owed less TO reading
than most men. He delighted in Burns
he said one day after reading those ex-
uuisIte lines to Glencairn, beginning,
like bridegroom may forget the bride. "
that Burns never touched sentiment
without carrying it to its ultimate ex-
preston and leaving nothing further to
be said.n OF Thomas Hood he was also
excessively fond. He often read aloud
"The Haunted House." He would go
to bed with a Volume of Hood in
his hands. and would sometimes rise at
midnight, and traversing the long halls
OF the Executive mansion in his night
clothes, would come to his secretary's
room and read aloud something that
especially pleased him. He wanted to
share his enjoyment of the writer; it
was dull pleasure to him to laugh alone.
He read Bryant and Whittier with APP
probation; there were many poems Of
Holmes that he read with intense
relish. THE Last Lear was one of his
favorites; he knew it by heart, and
used often to repeat with deep feeling:
The NOISY marbles rest
On the lips that he has pressed
In their bloom;
And the names he loved 10 hear
Have been carved for many year
On the tomb:
giving the marked Southwestern pro-
nunciation the words hear aud year.
A poem by William Knox, oh Why
Should the Spirit Of Mortal BE Proud
he learned by heart in his youth, and
used to repeat it all his life.-John Hay
in The Century.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09
ELCTRO-PLATING.
DICHMOND EIEcTpO.prAT,

RICHMOND INCORPORATING
IL WORKS. A, 5. EMMONS, Manager.
Gold. silver, Nickel, Brass and Bronze Pla-
ung done IN the best manner ana on all
kinds OF metal. Old knives, Forks. spoons.
and all kinds OF Tableware replated and
made 10 look like new. Stove Castings uar-
ness aud Carriage trimmings OF all kinds re-
plated upon short notice. Special attention
given 20 foiishing any Kind OF metal.
Works; Eleventh and Cary streets,
ss0-3m RICHMOND, VA.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-09

If political economy is the driest OF
sciences, the study of statistics is the
most entertaining of human pursuits.
The one deals with absract theories, the
other with concrete facts and figures.
1t happens, indeed too often, that the
economist treats with disdain the re-
searches of the statistician, or the lat
ter assumes the role of an economist, but
the two functions should always be
held distinct. OF late years many phil
osophers have labored to prove that
statistics cannot be called science, and
vet it may fairly claim to be the most
useful of all. No other study is OF
wider scope for it treats de omni r.
sciblli, ct quibusdam aliis." There Is
nothing affecting the welfare OF the
humblest member of the human race,
whether as regards mind OF
BODY, that is not embraced by this
science. 1t takes the infant at his birth.
accompanies him through every stage
of life, watches over his health with
parental solicitude, and records every
action till the moment of decease. Its
sole purpose is to promote the we'll
being of communities, the comfort and
happiness Of individuals. 1t nas no pre-
objection for race or country, politics or
party, creed or color, and it survives
the cataclysms of nature or the over
throw of dynasties. 1t is silent moni-
tor which no prudent statesman can
despise, while its utility increases with
age, and its language is Ineligible TO
all nations. Contemporary Review for
October.