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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN.

One of the surest signs by which we may
know that the Spirit of God is striving with
us. is our beginning to recognize our own
sins and defects, so that they become
cause of grief to us. A good man one day
in the presence of his wife gave expression
to his fear that the Spirit of God would
have nothing to do with him. Il have
been reading the Gospel" he said, land
praying and meditating upon the things of
God during the last six months; but in
stead of getting better am getting worse.
Every day | am conscious of new sins and
impurities which never discovered before,
and which cause me great deal of sorrow
and anxiety. l am of opinion that floods
Spirit were working in me, should see my
holiness increase and not my sins. =
Whereupon his good and well-instructed
wife answered: ''My dear husband, you
will never be able to see your holiness in
crease except by seeing your sins more
clearly than you did before. Your case
is very like that of our Johnny, when he
was recovering from his dangerous and
heightened illness. You know how ema-
ciated he was when he left his bed for the
first time. He was afraid he would never
get strong again. oh mother, he would
often say to me, Il shall always remain
thin, weakly boy.' No, no, Johnny, !
would answer; you are growing stouter
every day, and you will soon be as well an
ever But cannot feel | am growing,
he would answer. Well, my dear, /
would say, 'one cannot feel it, but it is none
the less true. Other people can see it,
This answer, however, did not satisfy
him. and he continued TO be afraid that true
health would never be restored to him.
| But one day he came to me and complained
that his coat was growing uncomfortable
for him, and his feet beginning to ache be-
cause of his boots. sAy Johnny, ] said to
him. there it is. You're beginning 10 feel
now that you re getting stronger The an
noyance which your tight coat and boots
cause you. tell pleasant story-that heal
| thy life is working within YOU
And thus, my dear husband, the wo-
man continued, your old man was wide
dress to you, which caused you no displea-
sure, so long as you were dead TO God and
living only for yourself. But since the
new man was born in you through the Holy
| Spirit, that old dress has become too tight
| for you and it makes your soul ache. This
shows, my dear, that there IL new life
| within you; and the best counsel can give
| You is that which the Apostle gives to all
| who are in Christ: Put off the old man,
which is corrupt according to the deceitful
lusts, and put ON the new man, which
after God, is created In righteousness
and frsxa halsnarQ ~
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VOL. I.
THE OLD SPIDER.

claw is n spiders web, and ever was
Brdth,Cait, A. ID. 1868.
An ancient attorney, gaunt, grizzled and grim,
Had dingy old office, damp, dreary and dim !;
Where he sat in a corner, penned plausible
pleas,
Considered his cases and counted his fees.
Where he sat at table, half buried in lore,
With one eye on his papers and one the
door,
For, however absorbed with complasant
grin,
He saluted each stranger who CHANGED to come
Any client was welcome, by day or by night,
But the trustful and weak are his special de-
light,
And widow OF orphan who happened to call,
Was received with the heartiest greeting of
ALL
For the trustful and weak on the stronger rely.
And are ever prey to the selfish and sly,
And his credulous clients all came, by degrees
To find they were valued as many fees.
He lived upon fees, though twas hard to ex-
plain
How his limited practice living could gain;
But Justice is blind. and is never to blame
For the many strange things that are done in
her name.
Now, it Glanced that in one of numerous hooks
Which were formed by the boxes containing
his books
A cunning old spider with little gray eyes,
Had woven a web of very large size.
And there he persistenty watched night, and
day,
For any small insects which happened that
way
And vain were the struggles of those that were
caught,
In the web that remorseless old spider had
wrought.
He welcomed them all, but could never dis
guise.
His exuberant glee when his victims were flies
He enjoyed their temerity, folly and zeal,
And he knew that they made n most excellent
meal
That cunning old spider is watching to-day;
From the weak and the trustful still taking his
prey
And may not fifty parallel draw,
Betwixt him and the spider whose web is the
law?
Francis DeHdes Jdnrfer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19

No temperance paper in the United
States makes any allusion in its headline to
water, and but few of the religious journals
have striking names; among them may be
cited the Tongue Of fire, Restitution, the
One Plan Herald, and orr Brother IN Red.
Dental science supports two remarkable
papers, the Dental Jairus and the Dental
Headlght. Little Rock has Deaf Nute
Optic. and Council Bluffs a DeW MITE
Ha@keye. Among the odd, homogeneous
and inexplicable names borne by Ameri-
can newspapers may be cited the Andal-
usia, Ala, Wiregrass Waterman; the Hart
ford, Conn, Journal Of heJrity; the jack
sonville Tropical Paradise and the Wad-
GOOD Orange Leat, of Florida; the Ashmore
Roses 1oothpiek, and the Stone Fort Wafeh-
man at tie four corners, Of Illinois; the
Romeo, Mich, Hdrant; the Sedalia, Mo-,
Bazoo; the Canajoharie, N. Y. Rada; the
Baker City, Ore, Sage Brush, and our es-
teemed Texa1 contemporaries, the Nc
Kiny Black acary, the Bowie Gross TIM
5ers. and the Jefferson Jmpleeute
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19
VOTING FOR PRESIDENT.

We lately came across statement in an
exchange that certain man now living
had voted for jefferson, and at every cleo
ton since. He was born in the year 1884.
The story could not be true, because JEFF
erson was elected the last time in 1904,
when this venerable man was only twenty
years old.
But it could not be true for another rea-
son, If that We're necessary. There Were
only one hundred and sixty-two persons,
all told, who voted for Jefferson in 1904,
and he was not one of them. This year,
although some ten million voters will ex-
press preference by their votes who shall
be President, only four hundred aud one
persons in the United States will actually
vote for one.
That is the number of Electors Of
whom each State chooses one for each
Senator and one for each Representative
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19

Lulu bIushed again. Aunty said moth
ing. She was plainly dying to hear the
mysterious sounds conveyed through the
receiver, but as plainly she was afraid to
touch it.
The arrangement was satisfactory, and
peace and content reigned. Lulu staid
more at home, and mother was better sat
isfied. We had grown accustomed to have
an almost continual tap-tapping in our
ears 1t bored us elder ones. with our
books and studies, to be always watching
and counting for our own call, but restless
Lulu did not mind being kept on the alert.
Weactually began to take great comfort init
using it for all sorts of trifiing messages,
the only drawback being that Lulu had to
know everything, for we one and all adher-
ed to our resolution never to have anything
to do with it. Aunty at first lowered about
Lulu when she went to send a message, but
finding that she called up all her girl
friends and held interminable chats, of
which aunty only heard the whats -
and ''ohs!' and ''ahs." and you didn is, -
and what did he says?" she too lost inter-
est, and stopped experimenting it, except
on occasions of her own
We would all be sitting in the library,
Missy painting, Jane, Nan and reading,
writing, studying, aunty nodding over a
book, Lulu restlessly skimming over no
a1 tbo lit ha, S1,n1,I1ar xrlaa
''tap-tap-tap-tap.
That's four, surely says Nan.
Lulu springs up and flies to the telephone
and conversation something likes this
ensues:
LULU. ssHello, Who is it,
LULU. Eyes. Be careful"
Lulu. ''Oh, no! forgot.
- Nong sentence from the maud
ible sender)
Lulu (doubtfully) q don't know
LULU. perhaps not
Lulu COMPATIBILITY ''oh, no! Indeed
No!'
- Uong pause.) -
LULU. ''Well, perhaps. Ishall be here. ;"
Lulu AT the telephone.
Lulu Tomorrow.
Lulu. -Four o'clock
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19
THOUGHTFUL SAYINGS.

Devotion is the last love ofwomen.
Draw not your bow till your arrow is
fixed
Friendships multiply joys and divide
griefs.
He who wants little, generally has
enough.
A lass that has many wooers oft fares the
worst.
He that falls to-day may be up again to-
morrow.
Friends tie their purse with a cobweb
thread
From prudence peace; from peace abuE-
dance.
A good presence is a letter of recommen-
dation.
The frailest bodies sometimes have the
strongest souls.
Travellers change their guides, not their
characters.
To childhood all hopes are plausible and
all wishes possible.
Without economy none can be rich, and
with it few can be poor.
The future destiny of the child is always
the work of the mother.
Goodwill, like good name, is got by
many actions, and lost by one.
Youth and will may resist excess, but
nature takes revenge in silence.
Old age is a tyrant that forbids the plea
sures of youth on pain of death.
Happiness grows at our own firesides,
and is not picked in strangers gardens.
The whisper of beautiful woman can
be heard farther than the loudest call of
duty.
Take care to be an economist in prosper
ity; there is no fear of your being one in
adversely.
If the way to heaven be narrow, it is not
long; and if the gate be straight, it opens
into endless life.
Self-denial is the most exalted pleasure,
and the conquest of evil habits the most
glorious triumph.
Some men are just blind enough not to
see their duties, but they can see all their
rights very clearly.
Training the hand and eye to do work
well leads individuals to form correct habits
in other respects.
To conciliate is so infinitely more agreea-
Bile than to Offend that it is worth some
sacrifice of individual will.
To build up that strength of mind which
apprehends and clngs to great universal
truths is the highest intellectual culture.
There should be as little merit in loving
a woman for her beauty as in loving man
for his prosperity, both being equally sub
jject to change.
True wealth consists in health, vigor and
courage, domestic quiet, concord, public
liberty, plenty of all that is necessary, and
contempt of all that is superiiuous.
Beware how you allow your words to pass
for more than they are worth, and bear in
mind what alteration is sometimes pro
duced in their current value by the course
of times.
The desire of power in excess caused
angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in
excess caused man to fall; but in charity is
no excess neither can man nor angels
come into danger by it.
1t is not the dress that makes the monk;
many are dressed like monks, who are i'll
wardly anything but monks; and some
wear Spanish caps who have but little OF
the Spaniard in them.
The confirmed prejudiees of thoughtful
life are as hard to change as the confirmed
habits of an indolent life, and as some
must trifle away age because they trifie
away youth, others must labor on in a
maze of error, because they have wander
ed there too long to find their way out.
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LULU. Eyes. Goodbye

LULU. Eyes. Goodbye
Re-enter Lulu. blushing rather more than
usual.
''Who Were you talking top inquiries
Nan, with more curiosity than correctness.
Signs of embarrassment on Lulu's face.
The kitten on an unauthorized exploring
expedition ON the mantel-piece, slips,
snatches frantically with all its eighteen
claws at the mantel scarf. Crash. destruc-
ton, All our thoughts are turned another
way, and Mans question remains unan-
swered. We are becoming, as | said, more
content, though aunty could never get over
her nervous tremors at the running fire of
''tng-ting- ting to which We were sub
jected. She always thought it was our call
could not tell % from 4, or even from
and call at a late hour of the evening
sent her sleepless to bed. One night We
had retired very early, after a fatiguing
day. Jane and I, after working very hard,
were wakeful but we fell asleep at last. to
wake some hours later to the daZed consei-
BUSINESS of a hideous uproar. We clutehed
each other nervously.
Il saw light said Jane.
Il heard noise. said |.
We did indeed We sprang up and rush
ed down stairs. The telephone bell was
ringing furiously, viciously, first one num-
Der then another then all together-a cease
less string of taps. Mother, in ample
white robes, like Ristoria as Lady Macbeth
was there before u.s. ''Where is Lulu?'
she demanded.
We looked around Missy, Nan, Jane
and |, with and without slippers, some in
shawls, some in wrappers, were there.
Aunty, i'll her red sleeping wrapper, silk
handkerchief tied over her night-cap.
shawl over all. crouched ON the lower
STEP shaking more with fear than cold.
The unearthly racket went on. Call
Lulu, repeated mother.
Lulu came, rosy with sleep, and very
cross. Bother said she, when aunty
gasped out Fire.
Il insist upon knowing what this means, )"
sdlu luptueT.
Hello = said Lulu to the transmitter.
''Whom do you want" What is it?
Who are you"
The ringing went ON fast and furious
a string of tours, string of twenty -threes
and twos, and then hundred at least at
breath.
perhaps some children have got hold
of it, suggested Lulu, sulkily.
children. at two o'clock A. M said
mother, in whitening tone.
Perhaps our house is ON fire." said
Missy, ''and they arc ringing to warn
u.s.
600 and see," said mother
Nan and Lulu started ON a round
through the cellars. Jane and l went
round the house out side looking for a
glare. All was calm, still, and pitchy
dark; the unseen surf scarcely Kissed as
it slid off the rocks, which it struck with
a little velvety thud. We re-entered the
house; the telephone was still ringing
furiously, increasingly. Mother had placed
herself ON the sofa with the air of one
who means to stay. Aunty had retreated
to the top step, where she sat with an
eve on the open door of her room. In a
voice faint with terror she reiterated her
belief in supernatural agency. We all
sat down. For an hour, one dreary hour
of bitter November night, we sat and
listened to that awful bell. Then II died
away gradually, with few spasmedic
taps.
This settles it,, said mother: TO
morrow we get one of the other bells,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19

The Butler badge has been adopted 1t
is red rose on green leaf-suggestive
of the Generals inseparable button-hole
bouquet. The Republican badge is gold
EN- pine cone, with a green sprig on each
side, and the badge of Logan's army corps;
a cartridge box and $40 rounds, beneath.
The Democratic badge is Maltese cross
on a rosette, with the monogram sc. " IL.
in the middle, and the date 1884 in the
arms of the cross. st. Johns badge has
not been announced.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-19

The prettiest baby in York has got new
head gear.-York Dispatch. The prettiest
baby in Chester has got new bottle
Chester Times. The prettiest baby in West
Chester has got a new tooth. West chester
Republican,. The prettiest baby in Phila-
delphia has got a new yell.-Phttd. eau.
The prettiest baby in creation is just learn
ing to talk she calls us dad.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28

good paying business for sale at Santa
Monica Call at Sc corner Los Angeles and
Commercial strcets. Los Angeles. mis-tw
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armuau ss 4 100000 on IT."
The Rsd-Haired Oracle of the Bar
room Solves Solemn Problem.

"Do you know why Clarke killed him.
self" asked the red-haired man as be
spat on the saloon stove.
"Because he was hard up" replied
one.
mot much," said the r. b. IN. EN-.
phatically.
because he was sick, said another.
"You haven't struck it yet"
"The doctors say 1t was due to de.
spohdency, brought on by physical all.
ments," timidly ventured a young man
with eye glasses.
The r. b. IN. spread look of scorn a
foot thick over the party, and with an i'm
precsive air, replied: Gentlemen, the
doctors don't know anything about il.
Now I'll tell you the reason why. That
office has hoodoo on it. That Office was
hoodooed when II was first built. First
Joe Barnert took it for clothing store.
He busted twice, and was burned ont in
the big fire. The bank rebuilt it, and
Tritle 4 Driscoll rented it. Their head
bookkeeper, Lee, cut his throat with q
razor. Then Driscoll fitted up a hand
some residence in his new building on
U street where the post0ffice is now,
and just as he got it finished and elegant
ly furnished, and before be had moved
into it. he died. but was buried from it,
Tritle stayed in the hoodooed office, and
along came the crumble in stocks that
cleaned him ont. Joe Ryan L Co. tried
1t next, but the hooaoo was there and
they had no success in It. The office
stood empty for six or eight months, till
Clarke. who was getting rich across the
street. was induced to move into it.
Well, you all knew the result. tell
you, gentlemen, there amt no use talk
in 10 me; the place is under hoodoo,
and hoodooIl beat the best man in the
world"
Strange to say, not one Of the COM
pany ventursd to ridicule or dispute this
senseless superstition, but without re.
plying they all eazed at the stove in seri.
Gus contemplation. =
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Tho Crash In Not springs.
Use Report Aseut LInc.I..

Galantry; A Astyiish-looking young lady
recently stepped into one " the New
York branch offices Of the Adams Ex-
press Company and, accosting young
man who was chewing the handle OF :
pen behind the counter. tirnidly inquired,
Us this the Office Of the Sheltfna Arnsl''
No." responded the Audacious clerk,
"but II you1l vast moment ws cAn lei
yoa ~ pair"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
FOR SALE.

one OF the prettisst and best home places in
Los Angeles. owners business requires him to
go East. Orange orchardin full bearing; also
peach orchard. walnuts, pears. Applcs. vines and
ornamental shruhhery. Net income sisco to
ssooo from orchards. Elegant house Of ten
rooms; hot and cold water and gas throughout
cottage. barns and cutbuildings In perfect order
Good well and windmill Cost Of irrigation ss
par snnum- rwos street car lines and ten min
utes' drive from the postodhce.
For further psrsiculars addross
nys-ln ~A-o - Bon w. Cry.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28

Lots lo53xI7S feet at 5000
each.
Fine Corner, fronting east
on a I2o foot street I78
feet, by ali feet on a Go
foot street, for 5000.
lao feet corner New High
and Franklin streets, with
three cottages, $4,000.
Lot Is, Block X, Mott tract,
on Pearl, between Second
and Third streets, 6oxI65,
$3.50
Lot west side Carlisle st.
i'll Cells Vineyard, 5oxl4o
to ao-foot alley, $500.
East ! Of Lot 20. Meserve
4 Loop Tract, 20 acres,
with fine water right, Po-
mona. $4,000.
SO acres. one mile from Se-
pulveda Station and ad-
joining San Rafael foot
hills; ten acres has water
right, $500.
$50 acres in Travis Tract at
Orange, subdivided into 20
to 40 acre lots, at from $25
to SOS per acre, with wa
ter right.
A large amount of land in
Antelope Valley at S. per
acre. Come and see it.
I7oxI65 feet on Olive street,
near Temple street, at$2o
per front foot.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
Notice Of Dissolution,

Notice Is hereby given that the co-rertnershp
heretofere existiug between .. L. kies and
Jsmes Barnett, ~ propristors Of tho So Antho-
ny saloon, In the city Of i.1s Angeles, Is hereby
dissolved BY mutual consent, ?. 1. Ries retiring
from nd buzincsA Messrs. Barnett and solo
mon bein9 In charge Of sAid sAloc Will collect
and pay all bills Of .Ald nrm (of Ries = BArnett)
from and alter this dats.
y. L. RIkS.
Los Angslsa NV 2Ass. lssA nyAsw
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Masonic Notice.

w Los AxesLEs LopeK No. ~. F. A
M M.-The stated meetings of this Lodg
" \are held on the first MONDAY of each
month at 1880 ,. NJ. Members of Pentalpha, No.
202. and all Master Masons in good standing are
cordially invited
By order OF the W.. NJ.
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K. of p.

OLIVE LoDaE No. 26 Meet first and third
THURSDAYS In the month at Odd Fellows Hall
p. o. Building. Sojourning Knights invited.
J. X. SUMMERS, G. G.
A. YoRBA. K Of r and s. ial-Iy
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
ORANGE TREES FOR SALE.

Three thousand nne budded orange trsss six
years old ~ thirty dollars per hundred. Apply
At 40 North Main street. over G. II. Bush's
ieweiFy stos~ Apl1u
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
Los Angeles Lodge No. 1925. K. of Il.

Regular meetings Of the above Lodge are held
every Wednesday evening at Old Masonic Hall,
Spring street. Visiting brothers are cordially in
vited to attend. H. C. AUSTIN
m2 Dictator.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28

Advertissm uts inserted at reasonable rate
Job Work done to compete with Sal Francisco
ice style and elegance Of @orkmanship.
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RE NJ OVAL.

The Continental OIL and Transportation Com
pany (E A. Edwards, Nanager) have removed
their Office into the Hardware Store Of Lacy,
kYTelephone No lis A. before mh6tf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28

Regeneration
for enfeebled
systems suffer
Ing from . gem
ersl want oftone
and it's usual
concomitants,
dysPep In and
nervousness, ie
seldom derivable
from the use OF a
nourishing diet
and stimuli of
appetite, unaid.
ed. A medicine
that will effect q
removal Of the
specific obstacle
to re n Q W 0 d
health andvigor,
that Is . genuine
corrective, is the
real need. II IL
IuiremeDt which
ters 20 effective
II Druggists and
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
Eagle Corps, N. @. G.

REGULAR meetings at the Anmory. Cour
street, every Friday evening OF O'Clock
W. II. II. RUSSELL,
Captain Commanding.
@. A. KErLER. First Sargent. je24u
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WEEKLY HERALD

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING.
TRIMS:
One year by mail or express. ono copy. s2.so
Six months, iUO
Three months W
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
FOR SALE.

Fifty-Seven Acres Of Choice Land;
Ten acres in Mission grape vines, 8 years old; ?
acres in BlAckenburg grape vines, years old;
II acres In Mission grape vines, | year old; 3
acres in Gum Trees; IS acres in Alfalfa and Bar
ley.
A good house OF rooms, stable for horses
and room Tor hay and grain.
No. Wind Mill and Tank that contains 4soo
gallons; Also tank that contains 1000 gallons
This property is all fenced, and is = fine bar
gain II taken soon.
BARRETT = ALEXANDER,
iAn22tfl No. West First St.. Bernard Block
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28

Just arrived from the East, has opened her
Office al 40 North Main street. rooms ae and a.,
opposite tho 81 Elmo Hotel Gsntienen and
ladies' who wish 10 consult the Madame On any
business whatever will please cali between tho
hours OF 10 A. n 70 . ?. y. daily. sundays In
cludeti. 0cntlemen, ~: ladies. SO cenfs
r. S-Entn aAtisfAction guaranteed. mysu
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
Freddie Gra.ts Layout

NEW YoRK, May 27.-Individual
schedules in the assignment Of Frederick
ID. Grant and Jesse Grant to James Nc
Nance we're filed in court to-day. The
schedule Of Frederick ID. Grant shows
the following debts and liabilities,
which amount to 81. 2l5, ,O66. made up as
follows: Creditors, other than pre-
ferrsd, $3.50, 800; creditors preferred,
e243. 966; contingent liabilities, $40. 600.
Par value Of securities borrowed from
Grant 4 Ward. Sl,llO, 800; assets nom
inally worth Slg9. .003; actual worth un-
known.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-28
Carpenters Union No. 56.
American Legion of Honor

SAFETY COUNCIL No. 664 meets First and Third
Thursday evenings Of each month at Good Tenn
plars Hall.
Visiting Companions always welcome.
ID. r. PAYNE, Commander
Y. u WiLlhAN. Secretary ap5-3m