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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
THE LUG TAVERN"

Would it not be proper move for the Leg
islative committee to present bill to the
legislature prohibiting the sale of spirituous
and malt liquors by the quart and doing away
with what is termed the jug tavern
The law granting the right and governing
the sale of spirits by druggists with the re-
strictions thrown around them, would meet
all the demands of the public for medicinal
and mechanical purposes, and do away with
large number of beer saloons and other
places where they professedly sell by the
quart. In many instances where persons fail
to procure licenses to keep hotel they at
once commence to sell by the quart, and sell
in such way that all persons, both old and
young, can obtain it, and although the spirit
of the law is violated, yet it is evaded by the
pretext that it is drank in the street or in some
building over which the proprietor has no
control.
Those that have experience know that it is
almost impossible to convict such persons be-
fore the courts I question whether there
would be much opposition to the passage of
the law referred to, as the persons generally
engaged in the traffic in this way are looked
upon with discredit in the community where
they operate. / think movement of this
kind will be an advanced step in the cause of
temperance and result in much good by re-
moving great evil 1 think the correct the
DRY is that if we cannot obtain what we desire
and Justly should have we should endeavor to
get all we can and labor hard and pray ear
nestly for more. It is better to take the loaf,
slice at time, if we cannot get it in bulk.
INQUIRER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
WHAT HE WANTS.

Petroleum '. Nasby's report Of the rum
sellers address:
81 don't want the regular drunkards no
more, and am willin 700 shell make it
penitenshary offence to sell EN- ikker. 1t
wood be good idee to reform EN-. 700 kin
keer for EN- in the poorhouse till they git
strength enuff to go to work agin, and then,
ez they woodent be drunkards any more they
Good cum back to my place with renopd
yoose to me, you may hev the drunkards and
welcome.
But the boys insist upon hevin wack
at. They hev strength, they hev vigger and
they kin work. don't perpose to hev them
incloodid in any perhibishen movement.
Take yer drunkards but leave me the boys.
When they become drunkards 700 may hev
them too, but not now"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
Gloucester County Alliance.

The regular quarterly meeting of the Glou-
cester County Temperance Alliance was held
in the Unionville Methodist Episcopal church
on Thursday, February 21st. Rev. D. Thack-
ara, president, called the meeting to order at
10 AM. The roll was called by Rev. S. S.
Weatherby. Quite large number of dele
gates were present. Reports from township
vice-presidents were made during the morn
ing. The reports were of highly encourag-
ing character. There are only sixteen dram
shops in the county but this is sixteen too
many. Considerable earnest work is being
done at Clayton, Mullica Hill and other
points. The w. G. T. q. at Mullica Hill is
especially an active organization. Reports
were continued in the afternoon also.
number of short and stirring addresses we're
made by Revs. J. Rogers, VIM. Staulcup, S.
S. Weatherby, j. DeHart Bruen, J. B. Hew-
ard and j. B. Graw. The next meeting will
be held at Mullica Hill.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29

the foundation stone of our republic. When
it is removed there will be anarchy lowering
near u.s.
Now, under this principle of human nature
the law that licenses the bad business OF sell
ing liquors becomes conspicuous object les
son at public expense, teaching the young
that liquor-selling is right. Gentlemen of the
committee, we ask that the state should cease
to demoraize its young men. You should
enact prohibition and so employ all the pow
ers of the state to teach that the liquor bust
ness is the great enemy of the commonwealth,
the fierce destroyer of men,
Our request has been repeatedly refused
Perhaps it will again be denied u.s.. Permit
me to say that every time we are turned away
from these halls disappointed the indignation
in the public mind increases. Each refusal
increases the number of resolute men who are
determined to succeed. 1t would not become
me to threaten, and have no desire to do So
but with propriety | may foretell the future
hour, when the friends of good government
shall secure such representation in these halls
as will make prohibition an accomplished
fact We sincerely pray that God may hasten
that day. Ia concluding, gentlemen of the
committee permit me to thank you. for the
hearing granted to this committee representing
four great ecclesiastical bodies, and for the
attention you have SO kindly given to our
r-ny1C
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
THE MO Nj T Q r.

Let me say in conclusion to those of my
readers who are inclined to visit the drinking
saloons ''beware of the DEVILS kindllng
wood" All of these so, 900 whose bodies are
yearly burnt out and go into drunkards
graves commenced with the kindling wood.
Oh the wretchedness of their lives as have
experienced it. to say nothing of their horri-
BILE death and their undone eternity Thanks
be unto God we see the star of hope arising
through the church of Christ which no longer
looks at the great cause of temperance like
Jews did on the cause of Christ, as STUN
bling block nor like the Greeks did as
'sfoolishness, - but is sending her missionaries
out through all the land and to all the inhabi-
tants thereof. proclaiming liberty from the
curse of intemperance And may high heav-
en- speed the day when the rulers OF our ma
tons shall look upon this curse as we do and
give us. the people, chance at the ballot-box
to shut up the 5000 saloons in our state
where the devils kindling wood is dealt out
and stronger fuel along with it. Then God
would smile upon our work and these, now
dens of vileness and iniquity, would become
places of worship to our God, and in homes
where the rum bottle is found the family
altar would be built up instead. This too has
been the experience of the writer and he
thinks it would be the same with thousands
of others if our state was mantled with law
prohibiting the sale of the accursed stuff, thus
removing temptation from among us. That
the words of eternal life may no more be OBJ
structed by intemperance is the fervent pray
er of the writer now A REFORMED MAN.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
Extracts from a Kansas Letter.


I received the second copy of the MONITOR
yesterday. Hope it will be success and
want to be numbered among its subscribers.
I sent the copies 1 got to the w. G. T. U.
here. would suggest that you send them a
copy and ask them to subscribe for it. Mrs
Col Tailor is the president.
They give entertainments and oyster sup
pers occasionally in order to raise funds to
support their reading room. They have over
800 in the treasury now. One of the papers
here publishes all their matter and they will
not be compelled to publish separate sheet.
wrote you some time ago that the saloons
of Wichita would be closed in less than year.
The election of Judge Sluss has put new
face upon things in this district, comprised of
six counties. Of the twenty-five or thirty sa-
looms here not one of them is open. More
than half the saloon keepers of Wichita have
fled the state being in fact refugees from JUS
tice. Court is in session now, two saloon keep
ers have been found guilty of violating the
law and their fines will amount to several
hundred dollars
Of course there will be more or less viola
ton of the law, but the business has been
driven into hole and being hard pressed,
will sooner or later succumb to law and order
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

A huge crystal throne has just been manu-
featured in England for an Indian rajah. It
cost a princly sum. Wood and iron are used
to some extent in its makeup, but all such
parts are covered over with glass and hidden.
The cushions and hangings are of crimson
velvet.
Our knowledge of the animal kingdom is
increasing rapidly. The number of mammals
is now estimated at 200, of birds 1850, of
reptiles 1900, and of fishes 10, 0OO-making
total of about 20, 900 species belonging to
the higher classes. The whole animal king
dom is believed to embrace about ], 00O, 600
species.
Mr.. James Stevenson, of the geological
survey, has discovered the site of several
ancient cities in the San Juan region, Arizona,
which probably have been deserted since
long before the christian era. The remains
belong to what is called the stone age, which
was long before metals were used for the con-
struction of weapons for war or of domestic
utensils for household purposes. Plenty of
stone axes and mauls were found-but iron
was evidently unknown to the jewellers Of
these ancient cities. The houses were pecu-
liar. The apartments were dug down into
the rocks and the only entrance was from the
top. Evidently these cities were intended as
places of refuge in time of war. Their great
antiquity is shown by the fact that the
geology of these regions has greatly changed
since these cities were inhabitable. Demo-
rests kont1ly.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
THEY DON'T LIKE 1T.

The Bridgeton people are still having their
ups and downs over the question of prohibit
ton. Just now they are having pretty
spicy cup" The whiskey people have
cheated them again, and they are talking the
matter over in an humor more energetic than
elegant. The run of the story is this: The
temperance people elected councilman, put
ting him in by majority of about four hun
dred. This gentleman absented himself from
the city on visit to Mays Landing, while an
understanding among the city fathers was
pending that the next meeting of said fathers
for the transaction of business was to be held
at the call of the president, Mr.. Charles G.
Hampton. Mr.. Hampton happened to call
the fathers together in council while said
father was away on his visit to Mays Land
one in the majority
At this meeting the question of licensing
the hotels in Bridgeton was brought up, and
a license to sell rum granted to three of
them, which, from all that appears were all
that applied.
The course of the absent city father, Mr..
Stephen Cox, is now being looked into.
Some say that telegram notification of the
meeting was sent him which happened to
reach him too late to make the train Others
say that by some accidental mistake about the
train time he got left.
OF course regular gulf-stream fog will be
spread over the proceedings to hide the
facts from the eyes of the cheated denizens
Of the city. The main thing is that little
lease of life was secured to three hotels in
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
IT'S No EXCUSE.

There is in some quarters disposition to
shield the rumseller, because of the legal lib
erty given him But we fail to understand
how language can be applied too strongly in
denouncing the man who voluntarily sells
rum for a livelihood, in view of the crime,
degradation and misery it causes.
The legal bolstering given it is no excuse
nor paliation for it whatever, even if the SELL
er does not violate the statute, which perhaps
no rumseller fails to do.
When congress passed the bill making the
African slave trade piracy, it provided that
the law should not take effect for twenty
years, virtually thereby legalizing the inhu-
man traffic for twenty long years. And ali !
the thousands of homeless families-their
towns and hamlets burned, and the poor crea-
lures captured and sold by the traders to the
ship-masters. For thousands of miles along
the coast of Africa the iendish trade was
carried on Men, or rather brutes, were en-
ployed to incite the tribes to war against each
other, and all the captiyes were hurried off
by the traders to the slave-ship and sold or
exchanged for trinkets, whiskey and tobacco
Then followed the horrors of the middle pass
age. Thousands upon thousands persisted,
manacled and crowded together between
decks as wild animals. And those who sur
vived the passage were doomed to fate still
worse.
The suggestion of the temporizing wing of
the temperance army often is that the bat
teries of temperance should be turned upon
the traffic rather than the rumseller. We
think better suggestion to be the motto of
the Irishman in conducting fight That is,
"wherever there is a head to hit it." which
we hope will ever be the motto of the MoNI-
TOR. But taking the premises universally
admitted, that "Me traffic is imnaoral," we
fail to discover how the traffic can be assailed
without assailing the miscreant engaged in it.
The rumseller can no more shirk his respon-
sibility than could those monsters, the slave
robbers, and with them he equally merits the
excavation of all good citizens. He deliber-
ately ruins human beings and families, while
he all the time knows he is doing it for
money. W.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29

The Rum LORDS had quick ride to Tren-
ton last Monday. Lord Blank sent the light
ming after them over the wires on the morn
ing of that day, to get to Trenton in the
quickest way possible, as there was business
for them to look after at the capitol. AS
nothing faster than steam has yet been dis
covered as motor, it is presumed they went
up by steam-and perhaps steamed up after
they got there.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
A Word with Our Correspondents.

We thank those kind friends who have sent
us communications for our MONITOR.
Our rule is to accept all communications
sent US that are suited to our paper, and hold
them for insertion as fast as we have room
for them For want of space several valued
articles are crowded out this week. We hope
to have room for them in our next issue.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29
THE DEVILS KINDLING WOOD.


EXPERIENCES OF A REFORMED wooDsTowN MAN
WHO WAS A DRUNKARD FOB 20 YEARS
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. .
When the writer of this experience was
young, by drinking cider sometimes he soon
found that an appetite was created for some
thing stronger and he was led on to try some
ale, beer, &C., which were a little stronger.
These were relished without much cultivation
and before he was aware of it he had a burn
ing thirst created for strong drink which last
ed him through twenty years experience of a
drunkard's life.
All this was caused by first tasting of mild
drinks which we shall call the 'devips kind
ling wood" Just as we use some light mater
ial to kindle the fire on our hearths, so does
Satan use mild drinks to start the laundering
within us for something stronger and when
our experiences hold out thus far in his SER
vice he holds out other inducements such as
pool, card and domino playing, to lead us on
in the work we have already commenced
The saloon keeper being in the same en-
ployment in different way throws out all the
inducements possible by these games to lead
us to drinking at the bar As his love for
money is strong he wishes us to play much
and drink often that he may receive what
money we have and leave our families want
for bread, and in return for our money we get
some of the ''devils kindling wood, or what
is worse, stronger drinks made from poison
GUS drugs with which he is poisoning us from
time to time.
By this time Satan has so blinded our eyes
that we can see no farther than the laundering
desire we have within us for something to
quench this terrible thirst which was first
formed by trifing with the ''devirs kindling
wood" If, perchance, there come a few
sober moments of calm reflection, what dark
picture our surroundings present Our neigh
bors point the finger of scorn at us and our
character is gone. Those who love us use all
their power of entreaty to draw us back, and
we promise them and resolve in our own
hearts to drink no more But, alas in an
unguarded moment Satan makes use of the
saloon keeper inviting US to take glass of his
Xxx ale. AS we see it frothing and foaming it
arouses the old appetite and we find ourselves
unable to resist the temptation We take
drink after drink until we go staggering and
Keeling from the saloon, probably kicked out
after our money is all gone, thus finding to
our sorrow that the DEVILS kindling wood has
done its work and done it well.
We are now in the ranks of the 80, 600
American drunkards who every year fill
drunkards graves and whose souls are hurled
into the presence of an angry God, who has
said that ''no drunkard shall inherit the king
dom of Heaven" But the writer was rescued
just on the verge of eternity, plucked as
brand from the eternal burning and is to-day
held by the power Of Almighty God
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-29

Bridgeton by the rum people, and the tenn
perance people are given one more glaring
example of the INSCRIPTIONS manipulations
of the rum power.
The name of this Chas. G. Hampton, who
managed to get the city fathers together so
cleverly for the rum interests, is being vigor-
ously pushed upon the governor for nomina-
ton to the position of associate judge of the
county courts Mr.. Hampton has made an
excellent city father for them, and what else
is proper for them to do than to say, ''Well
done. thou good and faithful servant, come
up higher into the chair of judge in our
county courts. Then if any of our brethren
get in trouble by too free use of the license
thou hast helped them to, we will have a
friend at court We will do thee honor, and
thou canst further serve u.s.
The whiskey people are now in the eyolu-
ton of flank movement in their tactics.
The popular uprising taking place all over
the state leads them to despair of their hold
ing the popular vote much longer to their
interests, and they are resorting to securing
the court judges where practicable, so as not
only to secure license from the courts, but
also that in case any of them get brought up
for their villany, have friends on the bench
to shield them. If they can secure whiskey
prosecuting attorneys and lay judges-the
former to oficiously meddle with the works
of grand juries, and the latter to persuade the
presiding judges into favorable rulings-they
can get on right well in spite of the popular
disapproyal.
The signs all round the horizon go to show
this new departure in their tactics. We ven
ture the prediction without taking any risk to
our prophetic reputation that in our own
county the place of Judge Cook-an excellent
and worthy judge, whose term soon expires
will be filed by a rum-favoring judge, or one
SO pliable to the rum interests as to amount
practically to the same thing; provided,
nevertheless that there is influence enough
in the hotels and their abettors, acting on q
um-leaning administration, to bring it about.
Can any one explain how it was that man
could in Woodstown predict with such GER
tainty, and even offer on the Thursday before
the Saturday night on which the Bridgeton
Councils trick in licensing the hotels was
consummated, to bet that Stephen Cox would
not be present at said meeting of the Bridge
ton Council? If any one can explain, let
him rise up and seize his quill. 1t will make
interesting reading.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-01-03

c. & o. Main Line trains run by Washington
time; Lexington Division by Columbus time.
n os. and daily except Sunday. Do not run
between Clifton Forge and Huntington.
Nos 2 and 5.daily between Clifton Forge and
Ashland, KY. No. daily except Saturday, Cliff
ton. Forge to Richmond; except Sunday, Rich.
mond to Old Point. No. 5, except Sunday, Old
Point to Clifton Forge.
Nos. and 4, Washington, Louisville and Gin
cinnati FAST LINE,ru daily between louisville,
Cincinnati, Washington, and Richmond, Va.
Do not stop for local business, except that No. 3
stops between Richmond and Charlottesville.
No. 5, Louisville and Cincinnati Fast Line,
and No. 4, Washington Fast Line equipped with
Pullman New Drawing Room, Smoking Saloon,
and Sleeping-Cars, and Solid Trains between
Louisville, Lexington, and Washington ID. c.
Pullman New Sleeping-Cars between Cincin-
natl, White Sulphur and Richmond; Day Coach
between Cincinnati and Richmond.
G. & o. Sleeping Cars on Trains Nos. and 5,
betw cen Richmond and Clifton Forge.
No. Z, daily, except Sunday, leave Canneltnr
$40 am arrive Huntington 11:l5a m.
No. S,daily, except Sunday, leave Funs ington
3:15, p, M, arrive Cannelton $40 m.
Old dominion Steamers will leave either Nor
folk or Newport News for New York, ON Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Saturday, at 600 p.
m. fiIfj
For Rates, Tickets Baggage Checks, apply to
any office of c. & Q: Ry; or Depot or Ticket Of
flee of connecting lines. II. W. FULLER,
c. W. SMITH, Genl Passr Agent.
Genl Manager. Oct25
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M,x,Sa TIMES. who have

M1xING THINGS. Those who have
..camped out" know that they can dispense
with many utensils which are necessary to
the home kitchen. A trapper thinks him
self thoroughly furnished if he is provided
with frying-pan, coffee-pot, and tin
cup. ButE traveller. in ''the poor lands = OF
Indiana found family which made
skillet supply the place of many domestic
utensils. Tie thus told his experience
How do You like it over there? =
Not so powerful much as might.
.Don'r they live well -
sThey mix too much.''
What do you mean by that =
s.Wel, I'll tell you. stopped one night
at a poor.farm-house. because couldn't
lind any place else. and after putting away
my horse went in to wait for supper.
The old woman had just begun to ceoA
some meat in a stew-pan, so | concluded
to watch:her, Iand see how they got up
real homemade meal.
After the meat was cooked she filled the
same stew-pan with potatoes, and then
with cabbage. an last with coffee, and
supper was ready.
At the supper table the stew-pan served
as water-pitcher, and after supper she
washed the dishes in the pan and then car
ried the slops out in it.
This looked to me like stretching the
uses of culinary vessels but when i was
ready to go up in the loft to bed saw the
old lady bring out the stew-pan again and
wash the baby in it right before my eyes
Now that is what l call mixing things.
and didn't like it well enough to stay to
breakfast. ctH ....