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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

Your health depends on the purity d your
blood. People Who realize this are taking
Hoods saraparilla with the best results.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

THAT Il sweeping argument" SAID a
boy, when bis mother used broom 70
convince him that be should have been
Al school Instead Of fishing for sun-pcrch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

"The city must pot lis foot down on
such corruption shrleks an excited edl-
tor. bat Il can't, you know Corpofa'
ton. have no sOles.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19
wouLp HAVE BEES sEI UroS.

been A remedy OF unquestlonable merit,
they would have been set down upon oy
the public as thousands Of medicines have
been when their worthlessness was dis
covered. Burdoek Blood Btters have re
celyed unbOuuded praises from the Sick
thus establishing their merit beyond dis
pute.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

srDSHr ssIrurs SALAD
TO ikrxe potAtoes passed throagh kiicheu
sieve.
NnEouts.i softnsss 10 The sNiai give.
" hordsnt mustard All a single spoon
uisirust N eoniiimsnt which bites TOO sooni
eai ocsm Il not. thoa msn q heros. a tAnit
~ all toaols Qusntity of salt
taies uues ne spooa With oil of Lnccs crown
- enos VIA vinegar procured RON tosn-
r.as saver nessls n, an y0ar post oexs
ne pounded yello. q too ~eii boilsd exxs.
Lei ouions lurk within the bo-t
a. sAros -aspcc,s.t. Animate M Whole.
Aaa lAsiiy. o. N 1Asored eosaponnd 49,
Amagie teaspoon % snchoxy -aaoe
'oes. ihoa<h grcsa tsrtis f.il. though vesison I
toaxh.
Ani ham snd tarssy srs not boiled enough.
srvnsiy nail. tns spicsrs may ssy.
ssls e<anos harm me. have dinei today
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

Mary Henderson will visit IIamsrica neat
season. Doctor Am Grifin will hacc0mpa'
ny er. They will return ONE howftsr
short tour In the States.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

Let Us tell you what Dr. Thomas Eclee-
ulc Oh f. good for. II Is death 10 rheum'
atlsm and neuralgia. II viii cure burn.
bite, or pain. and equally good for spralns.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

i nats q one hAf cup Of batter. one and
ooe-ha'f of sugar. OBs of sweet milk, Two
% Soar. ons te.spooufal of cream Of tar
lar, ard hAif q tsaspoonfal OF soda, the
whites of foar eggs. Flavor wlth rose or
amoud.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

Mrssns. c. T. HooD a Co. Lowell. Mass.
Gentlemeii-I was great sufferer from
salt -kheum on my limbs. for dox.n lssnts
previous tO the summef ~ isit, Az ehisn
lime I VAS cured ~ lioof's sarsapanlls.
The skin would become dry, chap, st.ss
oten, bleed and Itch intensely, - ulst J
could not help scratching, vhleh ~ eoui~
made them worse. A. the time ! c.m-
mencsd taking Hoods safsapAfiiis Ih u.
sumlnsr II 30 they were - bad thst ny
DISCHARGED. and Was obliged % kesl tntm
bandacrd With linen cloths. ~. - NHs
drawn ~ tight By The hfaf q the siseAss
that IA sfelTd over they would eIsek o-n
and aefnall, 1rlng tears Into my t}es. Ihr
fsst bu,tls benefited me - much ihAt con
tInusd taking u flll Was CURED J nsed ..c
I~x of Uo0d's olive Ointment, 10 relieve the
iiehInc' Hoping many othsFs may learn ths
mneh Lsnsft a. have, am,
Nefy truly loufs. -
No. Is broadway.
Lowell. Mass, Jan. Is. is7s
Hoods SavsaparIIIa
Il sold BY druggists. Price ti. OF an fcr es
Prepared ~ G. l. HOOD Co.. Lowell. hAsA
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

A school teacher la Lawrence. Mass,
recently fell heir to s50,OO0 She immedl-
stsly bought ton Of pare. spruce gum and
retired for the rest OF her life.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

Il sold BY druggists. Price ti. of xix fcr es
Prepared ty c. l. HOOD Co.. Lowell, MAsA
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1884-08-19

sfuxHr ssTrIf's SALAD
'Hrxe potAtoes pssse,i throagh q Kitchen
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11

In q recent issue we referred to the harvest
of crime that has been gathered from the
three hundred thousand dram-shops in the
land. The Cincinnati riot reminds us of
some points made in that article.
We have no intention of charging the dram
Cincinnati riot, but the pertinent question
arises, Where were these rioters educated |?
Did the men who manifested a readiness to
engage in the work of arson and bloodshed
come from churches and Sunday schools or
did they come from saloons and kindred sinks
of vice?
1t will be said that good citizens were
aroused by verdict that trampled justice
under foot and robbed the gallows of it's legal
prey. 1t may be that good citizens were the
innocent occasion of the riot and from their
movement a spark flashed among the de-
PRAYED timber that the numerous dram-shops
of the city had accumulated. But it is never
theless true that Cincinnati is cursed with
large number of dram-shops that are kept
open night and day, Sundays and weekdays.
We spent month in Cincinnati four years
ago and we were amazed at the great number
of tipping houses and beer gardens that were
kept open on the Sabbath. Every hill around
the city is occupied by beer gardens of i'm
mense proportions and every street is held in
front and flank by these strongholds of sin.
Young men and young women may be seen
every Sabbath night so completely intoxicated
as to be unable to walk
After attending temperance meeting in
the near vicinity of one of these places one
Sunday night in the spring of 1880, in COM
oany with DR.. Babcock, we entered one of
these gardens and we were Mortified at what
we saw. There were well dressed young men
and women sitting at the beer tables so drunk
that they could not walk and policeman
told us that such scenes might be witnessed
every Sunday night during the warm weather.
The place We looked in upon was said to
be an aristocratic establishment. We were
told that at the common beer gardens there
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
WoopsrowN, FRIDAY, APRIL IL, 1854.

THE signs of the times are most encourag-
ing. The good effects of agitation IN our
temperance work are clearly apparent IN the
action of congress upon the whiskey bill, the
defeat of which by SO large majority is not
only matter of sincerest congratulation, but
a proof of the wholesome respect felt by our
legislators for that temperance sentiment
which has grown SO nightly in breadth and
depth within the last year or two, and which
is beginning to assert itself as power IN the
land Let but this agitation be faithfully con-
tinued, and the children are now well grown
who will see our laws framed In righteousness
in obedience to the outspoken demand OF the
people.
The rum power may confess itself beaten
in this one instance, at least. Let us hope
and believe that it is the beginning of the end
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
THE WAY IT WORKS.

On March 18th man in Broad Neck near
Elmer, went home from Elmer intoxicated
and tried to make his wife drink whiskey out
of his bottle. She refused, and he struck her
on the head, inficting severe cut and knock
ing her senseless. The children alarmed the
neighbors and they gave her money to 60 to
her mother at Bridgeport. She and her chill
dren arrived there in late train and the
mother would not let her come in The
neighbors cared for her week and an old
friend took her and her family to Elmer and
thence to justice of the peace and COM
planned of wife beating against her husband.
Then she was taken charge of by the over
seer of the poor
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
EVIDENTLY A MISTAKE.

Major Scott, the temperance lecturer, does
not believe in high license. As he wanted
500 for one nights effort in Morristown, he
evidently believes in high lecturing fees
Neocton Register.
There must be some mistake about this
The majors fee in Salem was only $40 a
night. South Jerseynaan.
We know Major Scott very well, and If he
did ask 800 for a single nights lecture he
asked no more than his lecture was worth.
The probability, however, is, that the Neaoton
Registers report is high license " story.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
Burlington.

1t has been long time since have written
anything to the GAZETTE about temperance al
fairs here, and my neg lect has not been for lack
of interest in the cause or for something to write
about but simply from lack of time. The tenn
perance element still exists, and its leaders are
pushing things as hard as they can, but there
are so many so-called temperance men who take
no interest in anything but themselves that it is
up bill work. gentleman once told me that
"a good many temperance men were like his
cat They never drank anything, and like the
cat never said anything about it" We have
goodly number of this kind here, who, while
they never drink or lounge around the saloons,
are about as much good in the temperance cause
as so many sticks of wood, and they always vote
the straight out party ticket. When asked to
vote the temperance ticket they say, "Well, 1
would vote it if 1 thought it would win, but
don't like the idea of throwing my vote away, "
and so they vote for rum.
At the election last fall the township polled 11S
Prohibition votes, and at the city election,
March 18th. about 100 were poed. This leaves
eighteen votes outside the city limits, and shows
no falling off in numbers. The committee ran
separate and entire Prohibition ticket com
posed of about an equal number of Democrats
and Republicans.
Petitions for license have been presented to
council for eleven hotels and thirteen saloons
twenty-four liquor places to a population of
about 5000. This makes one saloon to every
1926 persons including women and children.
There are about ,450 voters in the city, making
one saloon to every sixty This is pretty good
showing, that is, taking it for granted they all
license as they have heretofore. The temper
ance committee published list of applicants
and signers on Monday, showing that two of the
hotel and five of the saloon petitions were illegal
some of the signers having their names attached
to other petitions, and others not freeholders.
If council grants license to these it will be in
open violation of the law, and every one will
know it. There seems to be u movement in fa-
vor of high license. Some are of the opinion
that it would be worse than the present system
and others that it would be good way to begin
One thing is certain it would cut down the num-
Der of saloons at least one-third The license
was raised somewhat last year and caused con-
siderable growing among the linen of good
moral character" who run the saloons, and if it
was doubled this year some of them would be
compelled to go out of the business unless their
sixty supporters became unusually thirsty. At
ter council acts the matter we shall know
whether they will license everything that comes
up, or whether they intend to do what is right
under the existing laws. In the meantime we
hope for the best. w. In Temp. Gozede.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
were fights and other unruly conduct every


Sunday.
The churches in Cincinnati are poorly at
tended while the beer gardens are thronged.
If we nurse tigers, we must expect to raise
tigers, and if we raise tigers we must expect
to see tiger fights The men who commit
crime and are ready for riot and bloodshed
are the men who have been educated IN
saloons.
Some of the rioters in Cincinnati howled at
the soldiers, ''Wait till night when we are
good and drunk and we will show you"
If we SOW thorns we cannot expect crop
of wheat. Dram-shops breed criminals.
A first class riot can be organized IN
moment if you have plenty of dram-shops and
drunken men, Temperance Gazette.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11

Self-made men are not 60 born to command, I"
because they are not made to order
A mammoth hotel shaped like an elephant
is to be erected at Cape May City.
From the Democrat Adcertiser we learn
that temperance is booming in Pennington.
President Arthur and his son will occupy
suite of rooms in the Octagon house, at Sea-
bright, the coming season.
An iron foundry to cost $50 900 is to be
erected in Beverly for a former member of
the Starr concern, of Camden.
The saloon men of Trenton are kicking
against the action of the excise board The
e. b. must have done something very exasper-
ating- probably refused to give 'em the
earth.
Inspection has shown that about four per
cent of the pork imported into Germany
from the United States is trichnous, and al
most a similar result has followed French in
spection
A New York man who was married in the
morning was maniac before night Of
course it is a shame to print this news during
leap year. but instances are known where
men have been saved heap of trouble by be-
ing notified in time.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
How would this do for saloon-keeper's

How would this do for a saloon-keepers
advertisement
Friends and Neig15ors: Grateful for the
liberal encouragement received from you, and
having supplied my tavern with new and
ample stock of choice wines, spirits and lager
beer thankfully inform you that continue
to make drunkards and beggars for sober,
industrious and respectable community to
support. My liquors may incite you to riot
robbery and blood, and will certainly dimin-
ish and shorten your lives. I confidently
recommend them as sure to multiply fatal &C
cidents and distressing diseases, and likely to
render these incurable. They will agreeably
deprive some of life, some of reason, many of
character, and all of peace; will make fathers
fiends, wives widows mothers cruel, children
orphans, and all poor.
will train the young up to ignorance, dis
sipation infdelity, lewdness, and every vice ;
corrupt ministers of religion. obstruct the
gospel, defile the church, and cause as much
temporal and eternal death as [ can.
1 will thus accommodate the public, it
may be- at the cost of my neyer-dying SOUL
have family to support-the trade pays
and the public encourages it. l have license
from the court; my traffic is lawful, even
christians countenance it: and if [ do not
bring these evils upon you, somebody else
will. 1 know the Bible says, "Thou shalt
not kill, pronounces woe unto him that
giveth his neighbor drink, and enjoins me
not to ''put stumbling block in brothers
way" I also read that mo drunkard shall
inherit the kingdom of God," and | can't ex-
pect the drunkard-maker, without repentance,
to share better fate; but I wish lazy liv-
ing, and having deliberately resolved to
gather the wages of iniquity and fatten on the
ruin of my species, 1 SHALL therefore, carry
on my trade with energy, and do my best to
diminish the wealth of the nation, impair the
health of the people, and endanger the safety
of the state. AS my traffic fourishes in pro-
portion to your ignorance and sensuality, l
will do my utmost to prevent your intellect
ual elevation moral purity, social happiness
and eternal welfare. Should you doubt my
ability, L refer you to the pawnshop, the po-
lice Office, the hospital, the lunatic asylum,
Jail and gallows, where so many of my Gus
toners have gone. The sight of them will
satisfy you that do what promise.
JUDAS HEARTLEss.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11

A Ravenwood, L. l., drunkard tried to kill
his wife on Sunday while drunken with low
license whiskey. Had he been full of high
license rum he would not have acted that way.
Rev. j. R. Mace, of Grace Methodist Epis-
copal church. Red Bank, is live temperance
preacher. He is stirring up things in Red
Bank according to the Standard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11

The brewers association has sent out cir
culars to all its members instructing them to
make a list of voters connected with them
also, to see how many have failed to take out
naturalization papers.
This means that the beer men, like the
whiskey men, intend to vote in the interests
of beer and whiskey. If it shall appear to
them that the interests of the beer traffic will
he promoted by voting against either of the
existing parties, their votes will be cast in
that direction To us this seems like good
opportunity for political editors to pour their
anathemas on the rebellious voters of Gam
brinus
Honest and upright citizens are whipped
into subsection by the party lash, while party
leaders bend the suppliant knee to men who
are the enemies of free government and
whose sole occupation is to ruin the nations
manhood and destroy its wealth.
The liquor dealers organ says, Liquor
men will have their rights or know the rea-
son why" If this means anything it means
that they will maintain the right to sell liquor
by force if they fail by the ballot. To rea-
son with politicians whose seven principles
consist of five loaves and two fishes, is a waste
of time.
From the politicians we turn to the people
and ask, How long is the drink curse to be
tolerated? The dram-shop units men for all
the duties of life. Every day men are dis
charged by their employers on account of
drunkenness. Even an actor in theatre
was denounced and dismissed for insulting the
audience by acting while intoxicated. Not
day passes but that men are arrested for
crimes that they have committed while under
the influence of strong drink. Every day
their wives and children. Every day the
wives and children of drinking men are de-
prived of good clothing and proper shelter, be-
cause dramsellers have taken the money that
of right belongs to them. Every day boys
and men fall by the power of strong drink,
and every day dramselers are tightening
their grip on the reins of political power.
Unless the people arise and overthrow these
enemies of God and humanity our republic
will perish and the star of Columbia will
sink below the horizon to be seen no more
forever.
1t may be said that all this is but the dream
of disordered mind. Let us look at this
awful picture as it is not as it might be-
Could our nation have lived if the war had
continued for twenty-five years instead of
four years 1t will be answered, no. Why
could not the nation survive a war of twenty
five years Because, it will be answered, we
could not furnish enough soldiers.
In no year of the war were there one hun
bred thousand men killed and six hundred
thousand disabled by wounds and disease.
But every year one hundred thousand men
are killed by rum and six hundred thousand
are disabled by rum.
Again, it may be said the nation could not
pay the bill of twenty five years war. And
yet, in no year of the war did the nation
spend eight hundred million dollars, but
every year this startling sum of money goes
directly into the tills of dramsellers, saying
nothing of consequential damages = Temper
0nce Gazette
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
HEAR THE FIREMAN.

Editor Of Monitor:
Having noticed several communications In
your paper, and heard many complaints among
the citizens of our borough-especially from
the ax-payers-about the recent purchase of
the fire apparatus from the city of Salem, and
thinking it foolish to raise such racket about
the matter, I have concluded to take up my
pen in defense of our borough council.
1t must be evident to everyone that the city
of Salem was very anxious to sell their Old
equipments, for at the next meeting OF their
council after the bargain was made, vote OF
thanks was extended to the committee having
the matter in charge, for their excellent man.
agement, and another committee appointed
to at once purchase new and improved hose
carriage with the money obtained from us.
Two points of merit in favor of our council
that I fear our people do not give them proper
credit for: They helped Salem to get rid of
an old and almost useless fire apparatus and
to purchase something of a new and improved
pattern in its place.
Our borough having only two fire compa-
MES. and our council fearing the people would
not ratify their doings, thought it well to or
ganize a third company, and held out as an
inducement for people to join the statute law
allowing a rebate on each freman's tax of the
sum of five dollars About thirty have joined
the new organization, and it was perfectly nat
ural to expect that they would advocate and
vote for very liberal borough appropriations.
This rebate will probably exempt more than
half of the members of the new company from
paying borough tax, which I believe is right,
for 1 don't think our people take into consid-
Grafton the hardships the firemen are COM
PEELED to endure-exposed to all kinds of
weather, sunshine and storm; liable to be
called upon at any moment, daytime or mid
night, to go on duty.
Now if any complaining taxpayers think
the extra privileges extended to our firemen
are too great let them take hold of the ma
chine the first opportunity that offers, and
they will soon be satisfied that the Reliance is
mighty hard to cork.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11

At the recent term of court no licenses were
granted at Hackensack.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-11
Williamstown,

The protracted temperance meeting of last
week, of which we gave you some account, was
one of real revival interest. A large number
of new members were secured to the club and
everybody is talking temperance. The tavern
keeper appears to be growing desperate. Early
in the week he put out flaming poster about
" Buck Beer for sale, which was removed in
couple of days, and there appeared in its place,
put up by himself, small bill announcing
g Essence of hell for sale by the glass or quart"
That was, no doubt, very correct advertise
ment; but what could be his motive? Has he
gone mao? Well, if so. the temperance people
have done it, and $ whom the gods would de-
stroy they first make mad Rev. Geo. Ireland
who may justly be called the apostle of temper
ance reform here, told me that the excitement
had never been so high before. In the absence
of any relief by local option. we take refuge in
hope of soon making the patrons of the bar
room scarce that the rum business will be
starved out.
Thursday night of last week, j. F. Heilenman.
who had announced for his theme (Which way
the wind blows" was kept at home on ac-
count of sickness from severe cold The
place, however, was ably filled by Revs. Jane
way and Ireland, and we had grand good
meeting.
On Friday evening, however, though not in
the best physical condition, Rev. Mr.. Heilennlan
was on hand and conclusively proved by cita-
tons from all quarters, from friends and foes,
that for the rumseller the wind blows from the
north. a brisk breeze, soon to become a cyclone.
The attendance of the people was large all the
week and the universal verdict is. "a week of
wonderful advance" Music was furnished
every evening by the Glee," excellent. cheer
ing, attractive. The members of it deserve
much praise for the faithfulness of their service
In Sharptown, Quinton, Hancocks Bridge,
Roadstown, Fairton, Cedarvile Newport,
Port Elizabeth, Harrisonville, Clayton Lees
burg and every town in Cape May county
where the court has jurisdiction in the grant
ing of license to sell whiskey, there is not
single rumshop. When it is remembered
that Vineland and Millville have prohibition,
and Bridgeton will soon have it, an idea may
be conceived of the prohibition sentiment in
south Jersey. And the sentiment is growing
constantly