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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27
rhe Pathway of Gold.

In the light of the moon, by the side of the
water,
As l sit on the sand and she on my knees,
We watch the bright pillows, do I and my
daughter,
My sweet little daughter Louise.
We wonder what city the pathway of glory,
That broadens away to the limitless west,
Leads up to-she minds her of some pretty
story,
And says. 80 the city that mortals love
best"
Then l say, st must lead to the PARKWAY city,
The beautiful City of Rest"
In the light of the moon, by the side of the
water,
Stand two In the shadowof whispering trees,
And one loves my daughter, my beautiful
daughter,
My womanly daughter Louise.
She steps to the boat with the touch of his
fingers,
And out on the diamond pathway they move,
The shallop is lost in the distance, it fingers,
1t waits, but l know that its coming will
prove
That it went to the walls of the wonderful city,
The magical City of Love.
In the light of the moon, by the side of the
water,
1 wait for her coming from over the seas;
/ wait but to welcome the dust of my daughter,
To weep for my daughter Louise.
The path, as of cid, reaching out in its splen
dor,
Cleans bright like a way that an angel has
trod;
1 kiss the cold burden its pillows surrender,
Sweet clay to lie under the pitiful sod:
But she rests at the end of the path. in the city
Whose builder and make is Cod
Homer Greene.
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formed them into enemies threatening his
life, hope still bore up in his own breast.
Until at last true to his convictions lie be-
held the long sought land Of the Western
world. 1t was hope that piloted the May
flower on her Western voyage to an un-
known land peopled with wild aud beathen-
ish tribes, and landed on the Rock of
Plymouth that sturdy band who we're
destined to conquer the wilds aud mould
the character of a future nation. Hope
guided the chisel Of Phidias, the thought
Of Demosthenes, the march of Alexander.
and led Napoleon before the French Con.
y%ention with his plans for the Italian cam
paign.
Hope is always strengthened by success.
Successes are the rounds Of the ladder on
which We climb to higher things. They
are the foundation on which we build, the
rocks on which We stand and cast our
lines into the deeper waters beyond, an-
Cling for richer prizes that live in the oh
soure depths.
By hope we are able to endure the dis.
appointments that fall so heavily upon US,
and take new resolution from despair. By
hope calamities are rendered p0werless
and impossibilities fade before our march
Aapoleon's answer to the engineers de-
scription of the difficulties to be encouat.
cred in passing the Alps, was, Forward
march" Hope enables us to look beyond
the mere present with its inconvenience
its limitations, into the broad future with
its possibilities, and to follow the effects
Of an Insignificant act to its fual conse,
quences. By hope we occasionally catcl
glimpses of a life beyond the present, q
life of happiness, a lie of beauty, a life Of
love. JACOB.
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Tho clouds are lark DER the palace towers,
But more dark the scowl of treason lowers,
They throng the hall and the courtiers all
Fly as they view each cruel dirk
Barred for treason's murderous work.
The king who dared their might to brave
VIII find this day at their hands a grave.
'Tis his last days dawn, for his sword is
gone;
They have stolen the bar from his chamber
door:
Despair is on him and hope is DER.
But as he fees, a woman's face
Lights up with the fire of the Douglas race.
She hears the shout of the traitor rout,
And swift she bares her arm so white
To give her Iiege lord chance for flight.
Now hare against the doors stout oak
Resounds the crash of furious stroke,
Till it yields at last. and crowding fast
The murderers all in their murderous might
Stand face to face with the maiden slight.
She stands erect; let them strike as they
list,
AS she braves them ell with her broken
wrist:
For leal to trust, her arm she thrust
In place of the bar to hold them at bay
For love of her king on his dying day.
For love of her king and pride of her race,
She thrust her arm in the irons place;
She held the oak till the good bar broke,
And now as She stands, let them strike as
they list,
For she braves them all with her broken
wrist.
w. V. Byars.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27
EDIsON's LATEST.

Edison has at length completed his cleo
trio motor. and announces that as soon as
the needfal preparations are made, which
will net be a long while, he will be prepar-
ed to put it On to what are now steam and
street railways and accomplish at one-third
the expense what is now accomplished
through tae agency Of steam. He says
that the problem of how to supplaut steam
power on railways is a wonde rfully simple
one, In reply to a request for information
in regard to the new mctor-that the cur
rent will pass from the stationary engine
to a central rail betH eenthe tracks, through
the mechanism attached to the bottom OF
the cars OF motor.
"A freight train of course would need a
motor because Of the number Of cars, al
though a single passenger car could be run
carrying its own motor beneath it-thenee
TO the wheels, and thence back by the side
rails To the power house or stationary en-
cine. Three Of these stationary engines,
of from 10. 600 to IL, 900 horse power each.
would run the whole Pennsylvania Rail-
road system betv cen here and Jersey City,
and Philadelphia's freight, local, express
train. and ALL"
Edison is not a b~raggart. He is one Of
the few inventors who has never predicted
more Of his invention than they in practise
proved themselves capable of performing,
and for that reason his prediction in this
case may be accepted with entire conf
dence. Henry Willard has sneh confidence
in them that be has promised to have the
new system in operation between Chicago
and Mils aukee during the Worlds Fair.
Edison says he Ill be able TO run a train
With safety at a speed Of I " hundred miles
an haar.
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DOLLARS
How Abraham lincoln Felt when he
Received fl.


One evening in the executive CHAMBER
there were present a number Of gentlemen,
among them Mr.. Seward. a point in the
conversation suggesting the thought, Mr..
Lincoln said: Seward, you never heard,
did you, how | earned my first dollar"
Nc said Mr.. Seward.
We'll, said he, II was about eighteen
years OF agt-belonged, you know to what
they called down South the'scrub.' People
who did not own land or slaves were no.
body there. But We had succeeded in rails
ing, chiefly by my labor, S efficient produce,
as thought, to justify me in taking itdown
the river to sell. After much persuasion I
got the consent of my mother to- go and
constructed a latboat large enough 10 take
a barrel or two of things that we gathered,
witt myself and a little bundle down TO
New Orleans. 4 steamer was coming down
the river. We have, you know, no wharves
along the Western streams, and the custom
was, il passengers were al any Of the Iand
ings, fol- them TO 60 out in a boat, tie
suzanne EbtpBiE anu GhIIG Eutil III ODdiIs
/ was contemplating my new fatboat AID
wondering whether / could make it strong
er or improve il in any particular, when
two men came down TO the shore il car
riages with trunks, and looking at the diff
ferent boats singled mine and asked: w no
owns this Iauswered someB hat modest
ly / do viii you take US and our trunks
out to the steamer?'said one Of them. Ger
tainly, said l.. | was glad to have the op-
portunity TO earn something. | supposed
they would give two or three bits.
The turks were put on my flatboat,
the passengers sat down them
selves Oh the truI ks and | pushed them
out to the steamer. They got on board
and | lifted up their trunks and put them
on the dock. The steamer was about to
put on steam again when I called oct that
they had forgotten to pay me. Each took
from his pocket a silver half.dollar and
threw it on the floor Of my boat. l could
scarcely believe my eyes as | picked up the
money.
Gentlemen, you may think it a very
little thing, and il these days it seems to
me u tnfe, but it was the most important
occurrence in my life. l could scarcely
credit that I, a poor boy, had earned 81 in
less than a day, and by honest work. The
world seemed wider aud fairer before ne.
l was a more hopeful and confident being
from that time. "-Nat5onal Stoekman.
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His Joy Was Brief.

"Whoopy..s yawped old Higginbotham,
Meeting rural friend in Gotham,
Talk about your wedlock's blissesl
What is sweeter, sir, than this isl
First wife used to call me ~'Snoozer,'
Wretch and Reptile and old Boozer,'
This one'-beamed his joys Completeness
Calls me Blessing and old Sweetness"
Then his thumbs he twirled and twiddled,
Tol-de-rol'd and tol-de-riddled.
Danced and cut up many a caper
Indescrihable on paper,
Climaxing his joy emphatic
With this speech in tones e~cstatic
AS some rhapsody from Verdi
I'm her Sweetness she's my Birdie"
Next day friend discerned "old Sweetness
Looking thoroughly conceitless.
Binders on, his visage battered,
One arm broke and four ribs shattered;
Railway casualty?' he queried;
H~igginbotham, with a wearied
Shake of head and voice not sturdy,
Mournfully responded, Birdie
Boston Courier.
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LIFELONG DISAPPOINTMENT

"What a sad face she has. 1t looks as if
it might have a woeful life history"
1T has. She was disappointed in love
when young. She has never been able to
get over it,
Did be jlt her, or die, or whatq''
Neither; he married her."-Dstrot
Free Pres
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GEMS IN VERSE
The Relic in MY Desk

In a forgotten corner Of my desk
found this little lock of golden hair:
And as by magic, visions picturesque
Rise from the past and hover in the air.
Methinks We sit once more beside the stream
In summer time, beneath the old elm's shade;
Once more-and oh, the rapture Of that dream
Those golden locks are on my shoulder laid.
Once more methinks l whisper words of love
And see love answering back to me from eyes
That shine as blue as heavens expanse above
hold within my grasp lifes dearest prizel
But stay-tbis little lock of shining gold.
What maiden was it that the token gave?
What maid of all the maids l loved of old?
Blithe Annabel, or May, sedate and gravel?
Or Maud, or Rose? In sooth, l cannot say.
so many faces through my memory fit,
The lock has half its value ta'en away
Because, alas. l have no key to it.
-Munseyis Weekly,
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God Give Us Men.

God give us meni A time like this demands
Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and will
ing hands.
Men whom the lust of Office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor, men who will not lie;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn
creeds.
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Wrangle in selfish strife-loi Freedom weeps,
Wrongrules the land and waiting justice sleeps.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

Is the family doctor your friendg How
many unnecessary visits does he make your
How many days does he keep you sick
that you ought to be at your work, and so
doing how many hari-earned dollars does
be extort from you. Would il not be bet
ter for yen I o place your trust in Sulphur
BitteTs? Try them, they will be a true
friend. Saving you a long sickness and q
large bill, which you have hitherto paid 10
some avafieious Doctor Editor Stats Jour
nal.
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At Your Command.

"At your command" All, did men try,
What modern mode could e'er come nigh
That fine, felicitous, fair phrase
Thatin a many maidens' praise
at end of letters old doth lie:
All vainly now do lovers vie
With them who oft did defy
Their ladies thus in ancient days
AT your commando"
All, Love, my Love. you are so high
Above me, o my Sweet, that I
Go back to those dear, antique ways
With trembling! Yet, tho Hope betrays
I sign myself, to live or die,
AT your commando
-Posfon GIohe
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". raueraew HARD

any druggist tries 10 sell you his own couHb
medicine, rememb er be does il because be
makes more money on it. Insist on having
Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs, Tor
there is 20 cough remedy SO pnre and Rome
40 quick to break up q Geld. For infiasnn,
soreness of the throat and tickling irntAaon
with constant cough Kemp's Balsarn 10 A.
immediate care. Large bcssaes 300. and 81
At all drsggseis'.
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Do Your Own Painting.

VoU can get a half-pint can of Sherwin
Williams ready-nixed liquid paint in
IA colors or shades for lScts, a pint for 2octs,
or more at less rates, q good brush for locts,
and find it not only a saving, but a-pleasure
also, to brighten M such OF you furniture or
housekeeping utensils as need 1t. Nearly
every home must have about it some OF The
followiug articles which need painting:
Baby Carriage, Box or Bench, Tables,
Bucket or Barrel, Bird House. Cupboard,
Coal Box, Garden Tools, Hitching Post,
Old Furniture, Window sash, Blinds,
Flower Stand, Wainscoatins, Tubs,
Harrows, Plows, Pumps, Pals,
Chairs, Desk, Wagons, Etc.
The paint is the very best, being mixed with
pure lfnseed oil, is a quick rye and gives q
high gloss to all work it is used on. The oher-
win Williams Company make the highest
grade paint on the market to-day, tall other
dealers are willing to own to this4 and while
the price on some of their goods is q trlhe
more, the covering qualities are greater ana
the lasting qualities much more permanent.
Our store at the corner is painted with it..
Yeu can see what it looks Ike. We are pre-
pared to furnish it from a half-pint can to
such quantities as might be required to paint
q town, at the manufacturer lowest rates.
Those who think Of painting might save
money by seeing rs.
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rne nou.neeper. rr.ena

A friend IN need is a friend indeed, and
such a friend you will always iind 10 SOL
phur Bitters? They cured me of dyspepsia,
when | had given up life in despair and
was almost at deaths door. They are a
true friend of the siek.-Nrs, Cra1ne,
l5Hnecticut.
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Alone.

The lilies clustered fair and tall,
| stood outside the garden wall;
Isaw her light robe ~glimmering through
The fragrant evenings dusk and dew.
She stopped above the lilies pale;
Up the clear east the noon did sail:
! saw her bend her lovely head
Der her rich roses blushing red.
Her slender hand the flowers caressed
Her touch the unconscious blossoms blest:
The rose against her perfumed palm
Leaned IFS soft cheek in blissful calm.
l would have given my soul TO be
That flower she touched so tenderlyi
/ stood alone outside the gate.
And knew that life was desolate.
Celia Thaxter.
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NOMPToN's LIQU0RINE eares zap
chicken. every time. At Humphrey
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

Stop In at the store under the Opera
House and see what a nice dfessy overcoat
You can buy for $500.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

Better a day OF strife
Than a century of sleep.
Father RYAN.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-11-27

"vE have near ly SOC wiadew shades. all
w goods. at fSc, ne, Ios ~ eee kr Ne eses
Fine Dade'G all en- spriag relies =
HUMPHRnYs \ 60.
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A the Chemise.

A great many ladies are abandoning
the chemise, and are wearing only
small silk undervest, or a vest of ribbed
Isle thread or wool. This extends far
below the hips and clings in closely to
fit the figure Over this a perfectly
fitting corset and corset-cover are worn.
This dispenses with all thick gathers,
and leaves no excuse for a misft in the
outside dress Where the chemise is
worn it is of some sheer material like
mainsook, which does not add any per-
ceptible bulk in gathers at the waist.
1t is as simple as possible, made with
out sleeves, with mere feather stitched
band. edged with torchon at the neck.
The neck may be cut round Or square,
or slightly pointed in front A row Of
beading is often set in the band, through
which row of ribbons is run to confine
the garment around the ssgoat Boz
ton Globe
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HARD AND SOFT WATER.
A Scientific Analysis of Their Different
Properties.

Scientific Analysis of Their Different
Properties.
The difference between "kard" and
''soft" water is that the former con-
tains in greater or less degree earthly
salts, while the latter is nearly free
from them and in a greater state of
purity. The earth most frequently oc-
curing in natural waters is lime. The
quantity of earthy salts varies consider
ably in different instances. 1t is OBJ
served, says the Brooklyn Eagle, that
when they exist in the proportion of
five grains to pint such water will be
hard and unfit for washing and many
other household uses and manufactures.
The solvent properties of water are the
true causes why we never obtain this
universal and important fluid in state,
of absolute purity. 1t constantly par
ticipates in the properties of the mani
fold sources whence it is derived, or
through which we obtain it. When
ever it is in contact with the soil it in
variably dissolves the soluble constitu-
springing from rocks which are only
slightly soluble, as sandstone and gran
ite, is very pure, and is called soft
water, while that which is derived from
calcareous formations is termed hard
water, and contains lime, which pro-
duces ani.ncrustation on the sides and
bottom of the vessel wherein it is
boiled. Pure water is known only to
the chemist, for all the ordinary kinds
of water contain either gaseous, saline
or organic matters. For chemical pur-
pOses watnr = obtainnd WV G'etillntion.
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CAPES AND CLOAkS,
Fashionable Wraps for Fall and Winter
Wear.

Fashionable Wraps Tor FalI and Winter
Wear.
Capes that reach to the knee and
have an air of great comfort, are i'm
ported for autumn and winter cloaks.
They are very full and round, giving
the effect of great breadth, are moder-
ately high on the shoulders, and are
belted in behind. Armholes are pro-
vided in some capes; others open on an
inner front in Russian circular fashion
The neck is very much trimmed with
ruche of lace or feathers, or with a far
ing collar, which may be of velvet or
fur. The lengths mostly imported are
from thirty-six to forty-two inches
though, of course, shorter capes are
provided for small women.
Black capes will be fashionably worn
with colored dresses. They are made
of short-napped silk plush, velours de
Nords, Lyons velvet, and brocades with
garland and arabesque designs on peau
de sole ground They are embroidered
in lengthwise bands in front and back,
and in all-over designs of small feathers
or medallions done in finely cut jets.
Around the neck and sometime down
the front is boa of cog pluEes. or of
the new fluffy black fur called Mon
golian, which is the white crinkled Chi
nese fur dyed jet black
Elderly ladies can no longer complain
that wraps are not provided for them.
Besides the comfortable round capes,
which they can not fail to like, they are
various visites, dolmans and mantles,
shert in the back, folding warmly
about the arms, and long in front, re-
calling the fashions of generation
ago. These commend themselves anew
because of their easy fit, as they are
given the ample width which is now
stylish, and therefore do not restrict
the arms as they formerly did. They
come in black box-plush, velvet or
brocaded peau de soie embroidered by
hand in silk and jet, and trimmed with
chenille fringe, fur or feathers
ner'S RaZar
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<onsEioHt 1891

your sufferings from Catarrh.
That is, if you SO about it il the
right way
There are plenty Of wrong ways,
that perhaps you've found out.
They may relieve for time, but
they don't cure.
Worse yet, they may drive the
disease to the lungs. You can't
afford to experiment.
But there Is q right way, and a
sure way, that does cure. Thou.
sands Of otherwise hopeless cases
have proved it. It's with Dr.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. BY its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
worst chronic cases. Catarrhal
Headache, "Cold in the Head -
everything catarrhal in its nature,
is cured as il by magic.
It's way SO sure that the pro.
prietors Of DR.. Sage's Remedy
offer, in good faith, $500 for
case Of Catarrh which they can.
not cure.
If it's sure enough for them to
make the offer, it's sure enough
for you to make the trial.
They risk $500 What do yoa
risk?
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realized this vast possibility: but the homo
Is the great nursery of religious fait1 and
life. They are one sided theories OF con-
science which prevent our looking for signs
of the religious faith and life with the dawn
of intelligence and the first development
of will False tests in which the nature
of child is quite forgotten prevent
us from finding them. We would that par
cnts should feel that they can not look too
early for the faint beginning of the spiritual
life In til hearts of their children, nor too
carefully foster them. At the same time we
must insist, as we have always done, that
the nature OF religious life should be definite
and conscious. 1t may arise as gradually
and gently as a summer morning breaks.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the address it was unanimously adopted
without amendment by the conference.
1t will be signed by all of the officers
who have presided over the conferences
and by the four secretaries, and will
then be distributed by the senior bish-
ops and presidents of Methodist confer
ences throughout the world as an en-
bodiment of the views of the ecumen-
ical Methodist conference respecting
the present state and future of Meth
odism
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A MILLIONAIRE GUEST.
How the "Supe" Said He Would Entt
Mrs. Astor's House.

How the "Supe" Said He Would Enter
Mrs. Astor's House.
It was during the rehearsal of SUI
premely swell domestic drama, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser The
act in which banquet at the house of
the merchant prince is portrayed had
been reached, and the stage manager
was breaking in the five gentlemen who
had been engaged to play the million
aire guests at the revel.
A man who does the millionaire-guest
act at a frst-class theater rarely gets
more than fifty cents night for it, and
off the stage he doesn't look the part.
Among the five in question was ono
whose clothes would have been reject
ed by any self-respectlng secondhand
dealer, and whose awkwardness was
worthy of an infant camel Seedy,
broken-down and wretched he looked
like lithograph of misery personifed.
In ten minutes he had driven the stage
manager to the verge of paresis. He
would not come upon the scene prop
erly.
He fell over his feet, the furniture
and everything else, while the more the
stage manager fumed the weirder grew
his actions. Finally the manager walked
up1o him with forced and deadly calm
upon his features.
"My friend" he said, grasping the
arm of the lowly super, "this is sup
posed to be the house of very rich
man. Now, how would you enter Mrs.
Astor's drawing-room?'
with jimmy" was the answer.
There were only four guests at the
bankers banquet when that play was
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Rough Experience in a Storm.

LEwEs, Del, Oct. 20.-The schooner
Rebecca j. Evans, Capt B. M. Fernan.
dez, from Brava, Cape Verde islands,
for Boston, put into the breakwater
for repairs and provisions yesterday
morning. She encountered a severe
gale October 2, which blew with great
force thirteen days from southeast to
northwest, blowing sails, tearing away
sheeting from stern, stern boat anchor
and sixty fathoms of hawser. The
cabin and forecastle were filed with
water The ballast shifted and consid-
cradle of the vessels material was
washed off deck. The vessel is leaking
badly. Seven passengers are on board,
including two ladies.