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life tunbe bpoe noset up mob oct, % iau
brelte ban ralenpe: "Saa isb bal"
Decorah-posten., 1891-09-02

@ub6rauS Q. Mellem, Den igrIte
bpiOe Settler i @Ortb County, Soma,
ssee @OrtbluOpO i S0nOnss. aiopoe
fem ira 5Rpd 9ounta ISIS, til Smea-
nen al 9prtttpooo i 1850. San bar
sOet flcnot blanot 9onosmeno / gsis,
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Decorah-posten., 1891-09-02

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poa BapirteinIteus Smraabe. Oct er
notnriispis J amerifa. bpOr maj ale.
rsee bar Sernunnebjul, Stiuner o.
2asiten al %Gpiret. @a~pirtsnberne
'tal oare parisers % lsttsre at renic
cub 1r9tenoerns.
Decorah-posten., 1891-09-02
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Decorah-posten., 1891-09-02

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Decorah-posten., 1891-09-02
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Immediately at the conclusion of the
speaking dinner was announced, and a gen.
eral invitation was extended for everybody
to help themselves as there was plenty to
eat and the folks We're expected to eat it,
s'ladies to have first places and attendance
at the tables, but room enough for all"
Whereupon the crowd adjourned to the
tables, which were literally loaded with
barbecue and everything else in the way
OF substantial and tempting food. There
was also a generous supply of sparkling
cider, as we'll as peach and apple brandy
and cold soul mash" whisky, for toddies
and mint juleps. The liquid refreshments
were INDUCED in freely, but drunkenness
and disorder rarely ensued. The residents
of the immediate neighborhood considered
themselves as hosts, and saw that every one
was beautifully served.
After dinner there was a general move
ment to the arbor and an intermingling of
the people. Acquaintance were renewed,
strangers were introduced and partners Sc
lected, and the floor was soon filled with
sets of dancers. The music was furnished
by four fiddles, two banjos and a tam
BOURNE, and a prompter called the figures
for cotillons or quadrilles. The dane went
merrily on till shutdown, when many par
ties repaired to n~eighboring houses to CON
tinue the Fourth of July frolic until the
dawn of the 9th or later.
The old folks and others soberly inclined
enjoyed themselves as best they chose,
sons watching the dancers and others dis
cussing the Craps and matters of local
and general interest, while the children en-
gagged in romps and games.
Generally a number of enthusiastic horse
men chose a level stretch Of road and had
fine sport at quarter racing, while the
hunters got up a shooting match, and the
sharp crack of the rife mingled with the
music of the dancers and the cheers and
shouts of the racers.
Taking it all in all, a Kentucky Fourth
of July was a most enjoyable affair, and
many a far off wanderer from his old Ken
lucky home would gladly travel back to
join in an old fashioned barbecue and
bran dance' celebration.
FRANK PHILLIPS.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
IT Was Powder.

One Fourth of July, in Plugtown, the
bows who were firing the anvil at intervals
ran short of powder and started around
town to solicit money to buy some more.
When they came to Uncle Billy Smith,
sitting on the drug store steps and telling
how his grandfather helped whip the Brit
ish in revolutionary days, the old man
broke off his story and said:
Boys, up'ards of two years ago a ped
der left a key of sunthin' in my cooper
shop over thar. 1t may be 'lasses or vine
gar, an it may be gunpowder. amt any
wise sartin what she is, but you'll find it
in the corner to the right as you enter the
back door. Night knock in the head and
see what's in it,
Three or four of the boys started for the
shop while lie went on with his yarn. Ten
minutes had passed, and he was giving the
red coats fits at Lundy's Lane, when there
came t~remble-a grassland the cooper
shop seemed to be lifted bodily fifty feet
into the air. All the men on the steps
were rolled off, but Uncle Billy was one of
the first up. Looking across at the heap
Of debris on fire in Il dozen places he
waved his hand and exclaimed:
I'll be gosh burned if it wasn't gun
powder after aIl!'-New York Sun.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
Pnblic Opinion and Morality.

The Rev. DIR. Wayland thus happily
describes the attitude of public opinion
toward morality: "We go along and
wink with both eyes at the wrongdoings
and shortcomings of A and also of B,
and exc of G, and all the rest of them;
but by the time we get to 0 or P, we
pull up and cry aloud that this thing has
gone too far, and we must make a stand;
and so we come down upon P, who is
not a whit more guilty than any n else,
his only crime consisting in the fact that
he CHANGED to be standing just in the
place where the lightning struck; and
we denounce P; we excoriate P; we os-
tracise P.
.Having done that, u virtue, wearied
with the unwonted exercise, falls asleep,
and all the other letters go along doing
exactly the same thing, until finally, by
the time X is reached, we wake up again
and go through the same process. If one
wants to go astray with impunity all he
has to do is to select his time and u in,
as it were, between the spasms of public
virtue."-New York Tribune.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
A GOOD TINE, But

First we bought a 10; Of rockets,
With an extra lot Of whizZ;
Then we emptied out our pockets,
Buying sauibs and things that hzz;
Serpents, snakes and Roman candies,
With q dozen colored balls,
And some blue things on long handles
That they called Niagara Falls"
Half a gross Of cannon crackers
And q dozen monster bombs-
Regular old Barnum whackers-
Fit to use when Gabriel comes
Half q hundred double pinwheels,
Showers of sparks in every one,
And a set of wheels within wheels,
Warranted to dim the sun;
Red Iights.green lights, blue lights, flashes,
In profusion and a box;
Things that slowly burn TO ashes,
Things that flame like Martyr Knox
Just the dandiest miscellany.
One no carping crank could scoff
Anthem, by George, the night was rainy,
And we couldn't set 'em off
-Somerviile Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
An Artists Wife.

l worked hard, though there was little
to show for it, as my wife told me when
she turned over my many sketches.
"What, three shiny poles and a lot of
green water!'' she exclaimed. "Was
that all you did in a day? Why didn't
you paint a whole yiew?' l do not like
her to criticise my studies. She handles
them unlovingly, looks at them upside
down, and says, "If you would only en-
large that and make a picture of it, and
put in some figures, l might have the
pink dress, after all" Three palaces,
several gondolas and a flock of pigeons
mean the pink dress, and six palaces,
more gondolas and more pigeons, mean
Paris.-Von Degen.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

A LITTLE WORKING GIRL.tle Mothers"
Every two weeks an excursion is made
for these tiny %toilers.
The good results will be only second
to those of the fresh air fund. AT the
first excursion this season many of these
little girls who had never seen anything
but back tenements and dirty alleyways
wept when they saw the country and
the water, Some gathered oyster shells
to plant in their meager back yards, that
a crop of oysters might grow for their
delectation. Others shouted and ran like
demented beings. One child lay prone
upon the grass, her face to the earth,
nearly all day, and just before leaving
this poor little mother flung herself down
and passionately kissed the ground, cry
ing out: "Goodby, dear earth. shall
never see you again!"
EDITH SEssEo1s TUpPER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

right, besides there's always the groom,
you know. Oh give me AK instead of
Newport every time," by which it is
readily seen that an exclusive society
belle likes a lark as well as anyone.
As Newort is the favored resort of the
fashionables, SO Saratoga and Long
Branch are selected by the rich women
the women who blaze with diamonds,
who have ninety-nine trunks of indie
scribable fnery, and who are not over
particular as to their parts of speech.
To be sure, very many refined and brill
liant women are seen at both these re-
sorts, but they are also Enthusiastically the
bourne Of the nouveau richesse.
The actresses, too, are fond of Long
Branch. Maggie Mitchell and Lille
Langtry both have cottages there, and
hundreds of lesser stars twinkle gaily
there during the season. Very many
actresses go abroad for rest, recreation,
new gowns and new plays. The exodus
in this direction has already begun. Go
down any day to see a transatlantic
steamer off, and among the soberly clad
and undressing feminine voyagers you
will find a fair sprinkling of lemon haired
and startlingly gowned ladies, whose
conversation will at once give you a clew,
not only to that station in life to which
it has pleased Providence to call them,
but to their actual identity as well.
You will catch such expressions as son
the road" lin front" my mash, make
up" ga glorious jag" a beastly fake"
and you will quickly comprehend that
the American drama is setting out for
fresh war paint and tomahawks.
There are the dressmakers, too, who
go over for the fashions and come back
with their trunks fairly bursting with
gowns ostensibly for themselves, but
in reality for their smart customers.
There are women buyers for many
of the large dry goods establishments
of the town, wh,s combine business
and pleasure ON Sheir summer va
cation. There are, moreover, the women
''complexionists," who go over to Lon
don and Paris for the latest toilet fads,
formulas for identifying the skin, recipes
for creams, oils, perfumes, sweet scented
waters, odors and sachets. The most
famous n in town goes every sum-
iiE ~ ldiios NAC4O cliC SOASAlto biIO
leading chemists and physicians and
returns with a panacea for every bit Of
u~gliness the feminine face or form can
show. Another complexionist has al
ready gone to spend the summer with
Patti, who is her greatest drawing card.
The newspaper women are satisfied if
they get a change Of work. Happy the
seribbler who is sent to the mountains
or seashore to write up the gowns, jew.
els, horses and carriages of her more ia
DO You Cough?
Don't defay. Take Kemp's Balsam, the
best cough cure. 1t will cure Sour coughs
colds. 1t will cure sore throat or a
in the throat. 1t will cure pains in
he chest. 1t will cure influenza and bron-
and all diseases pertaining to the
ungs because it is a pure balsam. Hold it
o the lig bit and see how clear and thick it
is. You will see the excellent effect after
the first dose. Large bottles soc
and 81.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

In the dance. Inc ground nau peen scrapeu
to a smooth, hard surface, until it was per-
fectlv level, was covered three or four
inches deep with wheat bran, making a
velvety and springy footing for dancers
that nothing else could equal. Sawdust
was sometimes used, but bran was pre-
ferred, hence the term "bran dance"
The people came to the barbecue in
crowds from every direction and in all
sorts of ways. The aristocratic planters
and their families in carriages; the poorer
farmers and their wives and children in
wagons and o~xcarts; young ladies and gen.
tlemen in buggies and on horseback; hunt
crs with their rifles and dogs, and others
on foot, with negroes here, there n every
where.
About II o'clock the assemblage was
called together by the blowing of q horn,
and the exercises of the day begun. A ven
cradle preacher opened the proceedings
with prayer, and then came the reading
OF the Declaration of Independence by an
old veteran. This was the browning
honor of the day, and the quaint Ian
guage and tremulous tones of the aged
reader gave additional interest to the i'm
pressiveness of the occasion. The orator
of the day was usually the congressman
for the district.
After this were several impromptu ad-
dresses by persons called for by the crowd,
and in these there was much of the spread
eagle style, but they were all brimful of
patriotism, and were pathetic or humorous
as best suited the speakers within. Party
politics were ignored, and Wings and DEM
ocrats for the time forgot partisan ques-
tions and differences, and linked arms for
the joyful occasion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

yored sisters. There are a few wrisers
who draw comfortable enough salaries
to warrant their resting for several
weeks. The smartest fashion writer t
the town goes abroad cath season Tor
new ideas and comes back with a stock
sufficient for the next winters work, but
she is a glittering exception. The ordl-
nary newspaper woman counts a fort
nights vacation in this mountains or by
the sea ample enough time to rest that
weary machine, the brain, for Its next
season of grinding out copy"
The working girls-the factory and
shop toilers-where do they go2 There
is a vast army of self supporting young
women in this big town whose wages
range from three dollars to twenty-five
dollars a week, Do they get any sur
cease from toll, and where do they md
it? One of the best outcomes Of work
ing girls clubs has been the establish
ment of resorts for girls Of this class,
Holiday House and Holiday Harbor, on
Long Island, are frequented by the
workers, and up in Orange county, N.
Y, is another charming resort, the
Brookside House, Mountainyille. The
terms at both these resorts are three dol
lars a week, and the hotels are filled
throughout the season. Many women
of wealth and leisure, instead Of fritter-
ing the summer away in the feverish
life of some fashionable resort, spend
their time with these girls, teaching
them and forming plans for their amuse-
ment and entertainment.
One Young heiress takes a half dozen
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete Sc
curity against ~suffocation from smoke.
1t permits free breathing, and at the same
time excludes the smoke from the lungs.
1t is a wise thing when travelling always
to keep a silk handkerchief within easy
reach for the emergency of fire.-New
York Journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
July the Third.
said Dorinda,

July the Third.
t'Adolphus, p said Dorinda,
Leaning on his shoulder,
"Dost know tomorrow is the time
For lovers to grow holder,
And to declare their passion deep in words or
tuneful lay?
For it's Declaration Day, Adolphus-Declara-
ton Day"
"Dorinda, y said Adolphus
(He well knew what she sought of
Him and trembled). dearest, there is
One name you've not thought of.
The day is fit for fellows from their girls to
break away,
For It's Independence Day, DoTinda-Inde-
pendence Day"
L'ENVCI
And Dorinda to Adolphus now has nothing
more to say.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

A cool and shady spot, accessible to a
large community, was selected for the jubi-
lee, and fitted out with pits on which to
barbecue pigs, lambs and beeves. Con
venient to the pits were long rows of tables,
and on them were spread, as accompani-
ments to the piles Of crisp, brown meat,
liberal stacks of baked chickens, vegetables,
pickles, pies, cakes, etc. A large and
roomy stand built against giant beeches
served for the accommodation of the speak
ers, and in front of this were seats for the
audience, the whole being completely
shaded by the tree tops overhead.
The dance yard was a huge arbor, some
times IS feet long and 80 feet wide, built on
a framework of stout posts and poles, and
covered with green bushes, while there was
a raised stand in the center for the fddlers
and banjoists, and seats arranged around
the outer edca for those who did not Join
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

He ION the evening of the 3d)-I've
brought up a package of ~firecrackers for
your small brother.
She-How thoughtful. will give them
to him now, and then he won't break in on
us.
He-But won't he make too much noise
with them outside?
She-Oh, 1 think not (c%heerfullyl They
will help to keep me awake.
AN OLD TIME FOURTH.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Gardening, piano tuning and sanitary
engineering are some of the occupations
women are taking up in Great Britain.
A school Of gardening will be opened in
MAY
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
Be CAREFUL!

No matter what disease you may have.
Be su re that the medicine you TAXI is re-
liable. Such a medicine you will always
fnd in Sulphur Bitters. They are not a
cheap rum drink. but are made of the
choicest roots and herbs to be found in the
vegetable kingdom. Daily -4rgus
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

ooinp fhis summer If You are an acute
student Of human nature you can, as a
rule, correctly gauge the answer. tor
example, look at this beautiful woman
with a high bred, queenly air in an ex-
uuisite fawn cloth gown, a Louis Quinze
coat of black satin brocaded with pink
roses and the tiniest love of a black lace
bonnet, as she turns her head to answer
the invariable question put to her at a
matinee. You know as well as you can
know anything that she will say New
portland so she does. She is a famous
member of the Four Hundred, and that
august and awful body always summers
at Newport.
Many fashionable women, however,
prefer to go abroad for the summer. The
writer was an amused listener to a con-
y~ersation between three well known socl-
ETY. women on the subjects of the Continent
versus Newport. Il detest Newport"
said one, an absolutely raying married
beauty. Everybody knows You there
and everybody minds your business. Be-
sides, the women are SO frightfully jeal-
Gus. If a man pays you the slightest at
tention the tabbies are after you. Stupid
place-nothing but dress, dress, and go,
go, every minute. Ny dear, do you
think there Is any fun in putting on a
light dinner gown and eating a lot of
stuff every evening:
@'The garden parties are very we'll to
be sure-picturesque and all that, but
wretchedly stupid. But do you know
AK? Going there this summer? For
tunate woman. It's far nicer than Ham
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
No, No, No.

First Boston Boy-Are you going to the
celebration tonight?
Second b. BIO, indeed. Do you sup
pose / would miss a meeting of the
Ibsen-Browning society for a few fire.
works?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

heavily on their
slender should
ers, whose faces
grow old before
their time he
Little Mothers
OF the Poor"
Last a 5 a
movement was
set on foot by
certain charita-
bly, disposed la
dies to give these
little girls to
whose care their
hard working
mothers confde
their babies, a
glimpse of that
part of the earth
which God made.
Beautiful Pei
ham Bay was Sc
lected as the re-
sort for the ''Lit-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
An Observing Child

Little Boy-Mamma says you were
born with a silver spoon in your mouth.
Homely H~eiress-That means was
born rich.
Little Boy (after closer Inspection
Was il p tablespoon. Good News.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

THE THEATRICAL WOMAN. wealthy pa
tents. They go to California, Wash
ington and Oregon, and the little doc
tor gets $500 a month and her e1-
penses, and has nothing to do bat dole
out pills and feel a pulse.
There are the song and dance girls
who exc out their meager earnings at
some East Side concert hall by Shrek
ing in their thin, cracked voices Bury
Me by Mother Dear" and between the fu-
nereal verses proceed to do a lugubrious
jig presumably on the grave Of the ma
ternal relative, at Coney Island concert
saloons. There are the cheap actresses
who do not go abroad. In New York
during the regular season they come on
and say, "Stand aside and let the coffin
pass but in Summer they go barn storm
ing in New Jersey and other unenlight-
ened countries, and play East Lynne
and Lady Dedlock." There are the
bellies of the Fourth ward and the Ten
derloin precinct whose outing consists in
a Saturday afternoon at "Cooneys' Or
Far Rockaway, One wonders, seeing
the latter splashing their ''fellers" in the
surf or engaged IN a Wild 0 n sarsa-
parilla debauch, if they do not get about
as much enjoyment out Of their holidays
as many a dissatisfied Gwendolen at
Newport.
Then there is an innumerable throng
of mothers who go away for the sum-
mer. Mothers with good solid bank ac-
counts backing them, who take an over
whelming family to the mountains and
turn their fragile lambs out to pasture.
Mothers with shaky bank accounts and
daughters to marry off. What hours of
planning and scheming to get invitations
to some country house, of contriving
costumes which shall set off the value of
the marketable goods and of devising
ways and means to bring some back
ward man to the sticking point!
Then there is another class of mothers
whose lives are weighted with cares and
responsibilities, whose burdens weigh
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
AN OLD TIME FOURTH.

How They Used to Celebrate the Day in
Kentucky.
The Fourth Of July in Kentucky in olden
times was a universal holiday and a gen.
eral jubilee. 1t was usually celebrated by
q barbecue and bran dance" ''institu-
lions that have well nigh become things
Of the past, and live now chiefly in the
memory of old timers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
THE SUMMER EXODUS.
ALL SORTS or NEW YORK WOMEN
WHO NOW LEAVE TOWN.

Not All who Seek Relief from the Dis
couraging Heat and Dust of the Metrop-
oils Are Rich and Not All Who Go
Away in Summer Go for Pleasure.
ICopyriFht, 1891, by American Press Associa-
tim
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

COW comes the
| time when New
York women pre-
pare for the sum-
mer exodus. In
the L trains, on
the streets, after
church or be-
tween the acts of
the play, every
where is heard
the que
=nWlere are o
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

There is a
hard
working woman
physician in
town who tray
els this summer
Ill G l..