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The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22
ANTID0TE FOR THE BLUES.
NO REMEDY BETT ER THAN DOSE
OF FUNNY STORIES.

Buck AgainSt Eature-Made no Diff
ference Clean GOme-Appearan-
CeS are DeceiIful,
II understand that Spokeland couldn't
make living down in the bottoms"
said man meeting an acquaintance
mo; had to move away"
"Wasn't the land good2"
First rate; but the trouble with him
IS laziness. He was too lazy to live in
that country. That's no place for lazy
man, let me tell you. Why. sir, that fell
low had chill one day and was too lazy
to shake. In that country it is necessary
for a man to shake when he has chill.
1t amt right to buck against nature. -
Arkansato Ir0reler
The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22

Things which could never have made
a man happy develop a power to make
him strong. Strength, and not happi-
ness, or rather only that happiness which
comes by strength, is the end of human
living. And with that test and standard
the best order and beauty reappear.
The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22

The insolent civility Of proud man is,
if possible. more shocking than his rude
ness could be; because he shows you, by
his manner, that he thinks it mere con
descension in him; and that his goodness
alone. bestows upon you what you have nc
pretense to claim.
The N.C. Republican, and civil rights advocate., 1884-05-22

TNhich Shave l offended-the gov
ernor's niece or the orphan music
teacher2n he asked, with saucy smile.
Both 1t was daring impertinence
to the one, and piece of insolence to-
ward the other"
''Well, Idon't see what Pm to do about
it. 1t isn't the sort of thing yon can ex-
pect a man to take back.
"No,n she said, looking absently into
her cup, then suddenly realizing that this
was not just what she should have said.
she hurried to add, amid a confusion of
bushes: THAT is, Of course, you must
take it back; at least you .musn't say
anything more about it."
''Never!"
''Never"
but that's impossible"
''Mr. Hilder.
"AIiss Elton
Il think we've had enough of this. 1t
was my fault, l am willing 10 admit that
1t was wretched taste on my part, and l
have suffered all sorts Of things in conse-
quencen She waved her hand toward
her cabin as she spoke, indicating that it
was thus her hours of retirement were
spent. ''Let me go back to the first
question" " she continued. ''You asked
me whether there was anybody to make
it pleasant for me on shore. There was
no reason but my own perversity why I
should not have answered at once No,
nobody that | am at all sure will care to
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
Book Notices.

"PRoH1Brr1oN: FoR AND AGAINST. This
is new pamphlet on the subject of prohibi-
ton. containing the correspondence between
Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska, and Dr.
Dio Lewis, of New York, in relation to pub
lie discussion of the question in Ohio the
speech of DIR. Lewis against prohibition IN
Cooper Institute Hall, New York city, Decem-
Der %, 1883, and the thorough reply of Hon.
John B. Finch in Chickering Hall, New York
city, February 10, 1884. The reply of Mr..
Finch is one of the most unanswerable argu-
ments for prohibition ever given. The pam
phlet should be in the hands of every temper
ance worker and of every student of the tenn
perance question. Temperance societies
should circulate it throughout their communi-
ties. Large 12mo, go pages, with cover j;
price 10 cents per copy, 81 per 100. Address
John W. Cummings, Publisher, So Reade
street, New York city
THE HOUSE THAT Rum Built. is a
24-page pamphlet in verse after the familiar
style of the old nursery ryhme of which the
title is paraphrase, that has just been issued
by the National Temperance and Publication
Society. 1t is Illustrated from title page
throughout on every other page the pictures
explaining the text. The text is from the
pen of Rev. Dwight Spencer and the story is
supplemented by some interesting prose and
statistical articles, also illustrated. Price 10
cents in paper. Address J. N. Stearns, Pub
fishing Agent, So Reade street, New York.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
WoonsrowN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884.

The latest news from Albany states that
the New York legislature has passed the bill
providing that the people shall vote on the
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
liquor traffic to third reading. This in leg
islative bodies usually means the passage of a
bill, and doubtless has that meaning In this
case. In this the New York Legislature is
acting the part of common sense and justice.
Beyond question the people have the right to
vote on any amendment to their constitution
that they may desire to make, and no legisla-
ture can in justice deny them that right, nor
without an overt and arbitrary exercise of its
prerogatives.
Besides, the easiest and best way to dispose
of such question is to refer it to the people,
who are the highest authority. By thus CIV
ing it to the people to settle, the legislature
puts the settlement of the question of prohi-
bition where it belongs and relieves itself
from both censure and responsibility. 1t is
singular that any legislature will for mo-
ment hesitate to pursue this course. 1t is
to be hoped that our Solons at Trenton will
90 and do likewise.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

tiers great dealsof unnecessary discomfort,
for if they went out in the evening their fem
mime friends would be afraid they would go
to hotel or saloon, but as it is they know
they will come right here and that makes
great amount of comfort at home and gives
the " boys" many advantages which they
would not otherwise have For instance, II
they were under age they could not 60 to the
hotels or saloons and buy the hilarity they
would like to enjoy But by coming here
they can send some of the older ones out and
get enough to make full mess for the party
and then have a good time. In this partlcu-
lar my business is much superior to many
others as I have to stand no blame if some OF
the party get intoxicated, as do not furnish
the stuff. People know my business to be
honorable and are aware that it is only for in
nocent amusement and that parties can come
there and leave what little money they have
(for which 1 always feel very gratefully and
enjoy the sociability which here abounds and
go away happier if not better
In practicing these innocent games it af-
fords great pleasure, while they become very
proficient and sometimes play them for mon
ey when am not there $50 hear and [ have
heard that they have gone to other places and
actually gambled and made a great deal of
money by it. 1 haven't half told you the
benefits of pool room, but 1 am afraid am
taking up too much of your valuable space,
so must close with the regret that l cannot
tell you more, such as the luxuries I enjoy
as I am enabled to keep my horse and wagon
and am led to think myself one of the best
men on earth while feel quite sure I am one
of the happiest PROPRIETOR.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
.BridPeton.

Never in the history of Bridgeton have the in
habitants thereof been SO thoroughly aroused.
In my last stated that the action of city coun-
Gil, in laying the question of license over subject
to the call of the president, to say the least,
looked "spookish." Time reveals that our
worst fears have been more than realized. The
most remarkable city council that ever had an
existence called a special meeting and licensed
three of the prominent hotels in the city of
Bridgeton to sell rum during another long and
weary year. The only feature in connection
with the above meeting in the least redeeming
was the fact that the temperance councilmen
made all on the other side show their hands.
They certainly deserve much credit for the man.
ner in which they brought this about.
At the w. C. T. U. on last Sabbath PM. the
congregation was about twice the usual size,
showing the increased interest in this question.
Rev. Mr.. Hancock, of the Central, addressed
the meeting in very interesting and intelli-
gent manner.
You may expect some lively work for the next
two weeks; and then cometh election (and rep
robation). 8.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

8. But suppose we grant, for the sake OF
the argument, the claim of those favorlng
high license that such a license would crush
out the lower classes of drinking places,
which would not be able to pay the fee, how
would the case stand In the language of
late editorial in the Temperance Gazette,
What will become of the men who patron
ize these places? One of two things these
men must do. They must either reform or
become patrons of high license saloons. If
they will be made total abstainers by closing
up the low saloons, why not make moderate
drinkers abstainers by closing up all saloons
and taverns? If drunkards can be reclaimed
SO easily, why not save all who are entering
the path of drunkenness by prohibition at
once ? 1t is in the nature of things for the
moderate drinker to abstain much easier than
the drunkard But if high license will not
reform drunkards. what is to become of them
Will they not patronize the high license
places And if they patronize the high
license places, in what way will these places
be better than our present low license places.
Is it not evident from these considerations
that high license will neither reform the
drunkard nor put stop to initiating drunk
ard-making by closing the door to moderate
drinkers? For VIGOROUSLY moderate drink
ing begins at the higher classes of drinking
places High license is not the remedy
needed, but prohibition. Towards this pub
lie sentiment is fast coming up. Taxing sin
will never rid the world of sin. God prohi6-
its sin, and SO do human governments in some
forms of it, as murder and stealing. Why
not prohibit this form of it, which is murder
ing and robbing by thousands of lives and
millions of treasures all over the land every
year? Prohibition is more divine and more
humane than to license rumselling and rum
drinking, no matter how high or how low
priced the license under which it is sold may
be. Let us have constitutional prohibition
and do away with all forms of the license
system. 81,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

ENGLAND's troubles in Egypt are not yet
over. Arab Pacha's rebellion was quickly
crushed, but Ell Mahdi is proving himself a
more formidable foe. He has defeated all the
Egyptian forces sent against him, and his
success has aroused into activity the fanatical
all the neighboring regions of the north of
Africa, who see in him long foretold prophet
who is to conquer all the enemies of their
faith and give them supremacy. His victories
strengthen this belief, and unless Eng
land again acts as promptly and effectively as
she did with Arab, there is no telling what
the event will be-
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

AN exchange tells of man making good
to merchant the amount of bad dollar
bill unknowingly passed by his wife, and
says "such honesty is not often met with"
We should be ashamed of our country if a
majority of its citizens would act otherwise
than the person did whose honesty is here set
forth as an extraordinary thing. There is,
however, far too much dishonesty among
merchants in the way of getting off inferior
and damaged articles for the price of good
ones. This is just the kind of practice to
turn their customers into beats and knaves
Honest goods and one price ought to be the
main element in prosperous business,
whether they are or not
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

Four of the prisoners confined in the
Camden Jail made their escape on Saturday
last.
Large sums of money are being raised in
Philadelphia and forwarded to the sufferers
in the Ohio valley.
Should the lower house of the MARYLAND
legislature agree to the bill reducing the
cost of marriage licenses, already passed by
the senate, loving hearts that contemplate
wedlock will be able to have their wishes full
filled for fifty cents instead of 81 so, which is
the present tariff on welded bliss.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

The present condition of the work of the
in their recent annual report Notwithstand-
ing insufficient appropriations by the legisla-
ture, only $780, 600 having been given for the
purpose from 1879 to the present they have
made great progress in the work of stocking
inland rivers of the state with fish With
brook-trout, especially, the success attained
has been very encouraging. This fish had
been almost entirely driven from the natural
streams of the state when, in 1879, the Com
missioners undertook to restore them. In these
years they had planted nearly half million of
the fry, chiefly in the upper part of the state.
With black-bass the report shows the progress
made to have been sure and satisfactory,
though far less number of the latter have
been available for the purpose of the COM
mission than of brook-trout Twenty-Five
thousand two hundred and forty black-bass
were distributed, nearly every one of which
had to be caught with hook and line by the
experts employed, and were kept in ''lve
boxes" until ready for transportation. In
oPioO VI ohio otili ooLOl ulIuCultlOS, however,,
many ponds, lakes and streams which, a few
years ago, were worthless as producers of
food fishes are now densely populated by the
progeny of this truly game fish. In the
waters of Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Warren
and Sussex counties were placed up to 1882,
in all 50, 1872 land-locked salmon The efforts
made since 1879, to stock the Delaware with
salmon have, apparently, proven failure,
the fish having left for other waters. This is
thought to be due to the lowness of the waters
of the Delaware in the latter part of the sum-
mer and early fall, and to its temperature
being higher than the average of that of
streams to which this fish is indigenous Last
year the Commissioners were obliged for want
of funds to confine their attention wholly to
the increase of shad in the Delaware, and
from June 18th to July 21st, nearly two mil
lion fry were turned into its waters. These
supplies, together with the strict enforcement
of the law against Sunday fishing by the fish
wardens and those regulating seine fishing
and prohibiting pound-nets are needed
measures towards the preservation of the fish
of the state. Coast Pilot.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

We are told that prohibition is impracti-
it is argued that the liquor traffic can be re-
stricted and regulated by high license. If
regulation is practicable, why is prohibition
impracticable The power to regulate in
wolves the power to prohibit. Regulation has
been tried for centuries, and it has failed to
remove the liquor traffic. Now let us try
prohibition.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22
TCoMMUNICATIoN.
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E0it0rS of the Monitor ::

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To the Editors Of the Monitor:
saw in your last issue a question, 'Who
are benefited by the pool rooms in Woods
town ?" Now, perhaps your readers are not
well enough acquainted with all of the differ
ent bearings upon the interested parties to
give just answer to the question.
will give you some of my own experience
which is as follows:
At an early age went out to work at mea-
gre wages and as I advanced to manhood
found myself working for mere pittance,
which / could not be proud of. l worked
nine months in the year for fifteen dollars a
month, beginning at about half past four or
five o'clock in the morning and working un-
ing a short rest at noon, unless on extra occa-
sion and then we did not get very much holi-
day after dinner. In the winter l was obliged
to work for about five dollars month and it
was nothing but drudgery.
found could make business for myself
by keeping a pool room, SO I Immediately
quit this dirty drudgery and opened one
where I am now doing splendid business.
efts. am now man of business and recog-
nized as such and am gaining respectable
living. no longer have to toll in the dirt
for mean paltry wages, but have comforta-
come which allows me to wear good clothing
and indulge in many of the fancies of the day
such as smoking cigars and chewing tobacco,
and drinking beer and other fashionable
this manner, which I do, gain the friend
ship of the different hotel keepers throughout
the country, which are very good, reputable
men, each one of them known to twelve diff
ferent men for honesty and temperance;
hence I gain a great deal of acquaintance,
such as I can refer to the public records for
their evidence.
In fact I live in perfect ease and respecta-
bility So you see what it has done for me,
but it does not stop here. When opened
my room among my visitors was q man doing
small business here by means of which he
was enabled to poorly support his family. He
came occasionally to my rooms wearing a
weary look. AS I most always had jolly
crowd about me he found such pleasant soci-
ETY. that he gained some little rest and went
away feeling refreshed He began to come
oftener and it was not long before there was
visible falling off in his business and he did
not have to work SO hard, consequently he
had more time to rest and enjoy the pleasant
society which frequented my room. After
while his wife began to share his burdens by
taking in washing and finally succeeded SO
far in taking care of the family that he did
not have anything to do at all only to rest all
the time, which he fully improved, and now
instead of that worn and weary look upon his
face you find full, plump face that is daily
growing red and the end of his nose is all
aglow. In fact, sirs, my room has trans
formed that mans life from one of arduous
labor to one of perfect ease. Yet this is only
one of the many similar examples that 1
might refer to where my room has conduced to
private happiness and comfort.
Again, without pool room the youth of
the land would cause their mothers and sis
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

A correspondent of the London Electrician
gives the following as an instant remedy for
toothache: With small bit of zinc and bit
of silver (any silver coin will do), the zinc
placed on one side of the afflicted gum and
the silver on the other, by bringing the edges
together, the small current of electricity
generated Immediately and painlessly stops
the toothache.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-02-22

The writer's who oppose temperance reform
say that men cannot be made better by law,
that to make men sober and industrious we
must use moral suasion. No intelligent tenn
perance man expects to legislate drunken
men into sober men, but we believe that
dramshops tempt sober men to become
drunkards, and throw snares around drinking
men from which they cannot extricate them
selves We believe that dramshops produce
drunkards precisely as the shoe mandatory
produces shoes. The mill brings comfort to
men by grinding grain for bread; the still
brings misery to men by producing liquid
poison that destroys the BRAIN, the heart, and
the body. The store supplies the community
with articles of food and clothing; the DRAM
shop robs its patrons OF money, of brain, of
heart and life. Wherever the dramshop is
opened its fruits appear in ragged, filthy,
lewd and profane men who are a curse to
themselves, their families, and the community
in which they live. No father wants his son
to become drunkard A dramseller told the
writer that he never allowed his son to enter
the bar-room and that he advised him never
to drink, and warned him by the examples of
drunken men, and yet this man sold liquor to
the sons of other men and "made them
drunken Also" No man wants to employ
mechanic or laborer who is Incorporate and
yet many respectable men sign applications
for tavern licenses and vote for licenses to
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but that of making drunkards. No man
wants to sit in seat with drunkard, and
yet we tolerate men who live by making
drunkards. Dramshops take in more money
than grocery stores, and yet dramsellers never
organize societies to feed the starving and
clothe the naked. Dramshops compel sober
people to support them-a dramshop could
not live if all the people were inebriates.
The dramseler is sure to get his money from
the drunkard who patronizes his bar, although
he knows that temperance people and chris
tians are compelled to support the drunkard's
family Thoughtful people ought to know
that dramshops are not self-supporting.
Raum, the rum mems advocate, says that
ueal6IS Will De DaQKruDCeQ II tQoY
are compelled to pay tax on their liquors"
This apostle of whiskey says 1.-THE tax is un-
just and unequal" We reply, if dramsellers
will pay all the expense that their business
entails on the state we will consent that liquor
shall be sold as free as -four or bread If
dramsellers were compelled to pay conse-
quential damages they would all be hoplessly
bankrupted. How long will sober men pay
tax and dispense charity with open hand in
order that the dramseler may live? No man
has right to injure his neighbor, therefore
no man has right to sell alcoholic liquor
Whatever is public nuisance or curse ought
to be prohibited, therefore the dramshop
ought to be prohibited. No vested rights are
disturbed when men are prohibited from
selling intoxicating drink. The six thousand
dramsellers in New Jersey have no more
right to demand license to sell liquor than
the million citizens who do not sell liquor
Exterminate dramshops, and let the work
begin now Temperance Gazette
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-20
AUCTION SALES,
DUBLIC SALE OF MILL PROPERTY.
TTTTT 2 pJyEp lfTTTc

The undersigned will offer in Leesburg, in front
of the Court House. on MONDAY, Aug 25, 1884,
this valuable property, comprising first-rate
FIGURING, GRlST aud SAW MILL, situated on
Little river, 2l2 miles cast of Mddleburg in
Loudoun county, and with it an excellent Dwell
LING, with all the necessary outbuildings ee.
and THREE ACRES OF LAND. including Hss
good garden and orchard.
Terms: One fourth cash. and the residue in six,
twelve and eighteen months, with interest from
day of sale. Title retained until last payment is
made. J. S. MASON,
jy1sts Any. for heirs of L. c. silcott.
TRUSTEES SALE OF A DESIRABLE SMALL
i FARM, SITUATED ON THE NEW FALLS
CHURCH TURNPIKE, ABOUT TWO AND A
HALF MILES WEST OF WASHINGTON, D. C..
By virtue OF deed of trust, dated September
21st 1880, and recorded in liber E, No. 4, folio
'44 of the land records of Alexandria county.
Va, and at the written request Of the holder of
same, default having been made in tho payment
of one of the notes given by John J. Van Horn
for same, the undersiged, trustees, will offer for
sale at public auction in front of the prem
ses. on THURSDAY, the TWENTY-E1GHTH
DAY OF AUGUST, 1854, at y, o'clock p. m,
EIGHT ACRES. I rood and s poles of land, i'm
proved Ivy TWO-STORY DWELLING, &c.
Terms of Sale Onc-half cash, balance in six
and twelve months, secured by Il deed of trust on
said premises. all cash; 800 down soon rs
sold and if terms OF sale are not complied with,
within five days after sale property to be resold
at the cost and risk Of the dcfaultng purchaser.
W. WIlLOUGHBY. r..
ailgbltd JOHN 5. CROCKER. Ai"'''e'
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7LY BRUSHES. FLY BRUSHES In store
I and for sale a lot of Paper Fly Brushes.
Chnan ~ MCLEAN & UHLER'S,
ie3 so King street.
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