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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-03

"My health ia now excellent. but in the
"summer OF 1882, when | was making a
"canvass for appellate clerk, my health and
strength gave way. had great ssiiude
with pain in the region OF the Kidnevs,
"apd II was almost impossible to rally after
'sany effort. At this rime my wife induced
"me TO use Warmers Safe Cure, and to my
.great delight and marked satisfaction, |
twas restored to health and have remsined
so to this day. All tie difficulties com
.splained of have dissI ,peared and give
stbe credit wholly to the Safe Cure.
RICHARD T. JACOB.
Westport, KY. Ex Lieutenant Governor.
For nearly year was troubled with
''extremo wakefulneBs, a failure OF strength,
spain in the right side and general break.
..ing down of my system. had frequent
desire to uriDste, often as much rs ten or
"twelye times in an single hour. AT that
"time my urine was dark in color, roily and
"sndsy, with o lnrge percentage OF nlou.
smen. used various remedies prescribed
"by eminent collegiates. but experienced
ino relief. NV trouble being OF deeper,
"sie character, with no relief rom medical
"eouroes, / concluded to try Warmers Safe
."Cure, and am to-day as we'll AS have
..eyer been in my life. cordially com.
"merd it to al who suffer from kidney or
'.bladder diseases"
Toms Bro k Va. February 9th.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-03

This gentleman then entered ana IN
few hripf but happy remarks, said we must
go 10 work and build the Grapevine rail-
road without delay; and also tn. road
northeaeisrly. He believed The Galveston
&c Santa Fe, ii properly negotiated witn'
would CO. persts with us.
The meetjrg then adjourned, every one
i'm pressed with he conviction that day
lght was dawniug, and tha we we're now
terribly 10 earn. st, aud that we would have
Two or three more linqs % railroad under
toll head gsy ere the ffos's OF autumn TALL.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
TIL d MO N 1T O r.
BEATING A RESTAURANT.

"Git beat any to-day ?' asked waiter in
one of the best-known restaurants OF the
cashier.
eyes, got five checks. said the handler
Of cash. :FWe'll have to watch little closer
hereafter"
"Do you mean" said reporter, "that you
have been imposed upon by dead-beats?"
"That's about the size of it..
How do they do it ?"
"There are two ways that know of. The
first is this: A customer comes in and calls Tor
ten-cent lunch. The waiter gives him what
he asks for, together with a check, and goes
away to wait on some one else. Then the
man, as soon as the waiter has turned his
back, puts the check under his plate or
saucer and goes on eating. Then the lunch
fiend wants something more and calls the
waiter, who, after serving him, looks around
for the check, and not finding it asks
if one was not given before. The customer
responds in the negative, moving the crock
cry around The check not being In
sight, another is given and the waiter leaves
At the earliest opportunity the man slips
the first or ten-cent check from under the
plate into his pocket and finishes his meal.
The next move is to substitute the one in his
hand for the one on which is printed the
smaller amount in his pocket, pay the price,
and leave, and probably chuckling to himself
over his smartness in beating the house. J"
''Dont you ever catch them at it p
ooh, yes. Only to-day a finely dressed
business man was seen by the waiter to secrete
his check, but nothing was said, not even af-
ter he had called for more pie and received
another check. When he came to pay his
bill Charlie stood behind him and saw him
hand out the ten-cent check with dime
Then Charlie said, very blunt: That
mans got another check in his pocket for
twenty five cents The man turned all col
ors of the rainbow, while the twenty-five or
thirty men sitting near looked at the beat and
made remarks not at all complimentary
What did he say? What could he say? He
was caught, and, after some little talk about not
having the check, paid the extra amount and
left with his head hanging toward the ground
The other way is getting checks from another
restaurant which are of the same size and col
ors, and change as in the other case. Beats
are very careful to always turn the printed
side down, so we cannot read the name. You
see each color calls for different amount,
and serving. as we do, nearly one thousand at
a meal, we cannot examine each ticket closely !;
it takes too much time. AS you heard me
say, we had five checks belonging to the other
eating house, which are total loss Yes,
dead beats will do anything"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
THE ARMIES OF GERMANY AND
FRANCE.

FRANCES Readiness for War is the title
of pamphlet which appeared here toward
the end of September, is already in its fourth
edition, and is being translated into French
and Italian. The author is Prussian officer.
His opinions claim to be founded on careful
study of French affairs, and personal observa-
tons made at the last French autumn manou-
ly as follows:
Numerically the French army is decidedly
superior to the German-it has 1919, 900 men
and 1914 guns more. But numbers are not
everything in this question. On the German
side must be reckoned the greater uniformity
of training, which France cannot rival be-
cause of her system of dividing the recruits
into two portions, one of which serves forty
months and the other only eight or ten;
Greater solidity of the cadres, which are
stronger in time of peace; greater uniformity
in the augmentation of the number of the
men; better quality, and keener attention of
the subalterns strategetically better railways,
swifter power of concentration, and greater
number of squadrons and of horses fit for
service Germany has 372 field squadrons
and SO reserve squadrons France BOB OF the
former and "a of the latter, including the
African troops. In Germany squadron has
$50 horses in France nominally $50 and
really not more than 100. The French forts
which guard the road and railways near the
frontier will, contrary to the original inten-
ton, require the defence of active troops.
The French are warlike but not military the
Germans drink in the military spirit with
their mothers milk The French have no
permanent commander-in-chief. They are
not steadfast in adversely, and do not willing
ly follow any leader who has not bound vict-
DRY to his chariot wheels. Political societies
exercise a disintegrating influence in the
French army, both among officers and men.
In short there are many weak points in that
army as regards training, recruiting and gen.
eral administration, before it can be called
ready for war; With reference to the subject
matter of this pamphlet, may state that an
augmentation of the German artillery is now
seriously intended The Minister of War
seems to favor the project.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

Probably there is no quality more efficient
in dispelling ignorance than the courage
which dares to confess it. The child learns
fast simply because he has no self-conscious
fear of being thought uniformed. He asks
all manner of questions without any qualm or
misgiving, and exposes his own deficiencies
without any feeling of shame or distress 1t
is by his free and eager inquiries that he i'm
proves SO rapidly. Were he afraid to show
his ignorance, no one could help him out of
it. The enforced school lessons would COM
prise nearly the whole of his education, and
even they could not be adapted to his individ-
ual mental need. AS it is, every genial and
kind-hearted person with whom he comes in
contact is interested in adding to his stock of
knowledge The same privilege might be en-
joyed by the adult did not feeling of shame
prevent him from seeking knowledge in the
same natural and simple way. But, as the
years pass, he comes to feel that the confess
sion of ignorance will expose him to ridicule
or contempt, or censure, and he therefore
hides it under whatever pretext he can find.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION IN NEW
ENGLAND.

1t is probable fact that the present in
dustrial depression in New England is due in
great measure to the great progress made
in the south of late years in the textile manu-
features. The great natural advantages of
this region have attracted northern capital
and enterprise, and these are now fast de-
veloping its resources. The only industry
pursued hitherto has been agriculture. The
raw materials of manufacture only have been
produced and then sent north and abroad to
undergo the changes by which they received
their chief value through the application of
skilled labor and machinery. But this system
is about to give way to better one, and mills
are being erected throughout all the south and
southwest and fitted up with the newest and
best approved machinery for working up their
cotton into cloth on the spot where it is grown.
Such manufactures can of course be much
more economically produced than like grades
in the north, for they are free from the ad-
ditional cost of transportation. Labor can
also be obtained at least as cheap and probably
much more SO.
In the manufacture of cotton yarns and
many grades of cloth the southern mills now
rival those of New England. The policy of
bringing the mills to the cotton is proving
eminently successful, as is evidenced by the
number of factories springing up all over the
south. This section was once one of the most
profitable customers of the New England
mills; but all this is changed now. The new
south is manufacturing much for herself.
These mills are running short time.
The south, too, is becoming the seat of
many of the minor manufactures which were
heretofore unknown to her, and all of which
are proving successful and profitable. In
few years more she will be dependent on the
north and east only for certain classes of
goods, and for fine machinery. The south
and southwest will become the great manu-
featuring centres. Climate, abundance of
raw material and other advantages render
this inevitable
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
JUVENILE SOCIETIES.

1t has been decided that Mrs. Mary B.
Willard, editor of the Union Signal, should
prepare, each week, for that paper lesson
for juvenile societies, taking our best scien-
tifc books and simplifying their lessons to
the capacity of children ranging from twelve
to sixteen years. At the same time Mrs.
Craft, or some other we'll known primary
worker, will prepare lesson for the little
ones. An arrangement will be made to give
the paper for $50 per year to all superin-
tendents and Band of Hope workers.
Mrs. ANNA M. HAMMER,
National Supt Juvenile Department.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
THE VALUE OF ALASKA.

Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, is authority for
the ruthless and sweeping condemnation OF
Alaska as "the most worthless territorial
aconisition any government was ever afflicted
with" It is certain to those who know
much about Alaska that it is not nearly the
worthless territorial acquisition" that he
brands it. In the first place, Alaska is very
large-larger than all that territory which
forty years ago was known as the Great
American Desert" whereof the state of Kan
sas is part, and forty years ago not esteemed
more highly than the senator now holds
Alaska In the second place, Alaska has very
valuable fisheries of salmon, cod, halibut
and king salmon, as yet but little developed,
but enough to indicate that in few years,
with suitable government for that territory,
they will be worth as much as those of New
foundland and Nova Scotia, both for food
supply and the creation of mercantile
marine on the American coast of the Pacific.
In the third place Alaska is covered in many
parts with the best forests in the world.
Alaska has mines of gold, copper, iron, and
coal, uOl uuCu OoNcioPOo 40 ySt, cuo SAA0"6h
to encourage the hope that, after the gold
mines south of them in our country shall be
exhausted Alaska will become one of the
greatest producers of this metal in the world.
Its climate is on the coast less rigorous
than that of Newfoundland, or Sweden, or
Norway, or the Baltic coast of Russia. There
are good reasons for the belief that wheat
can be made profitable crop in parts of the
Yukon valley. And the cedars of Alaska are
better and infinitely more inexhaustible than
the famed cedars of Lebanon. Such a
country, covering as it does an area of more
than half million square miles, having a
long coast line, good harbors, many habitable
islands, mines of the precious and useful
metals, forests without end, fisheries and
great rivers, albeit its depths are as yet un-
explored, is not to be condemned out of hand
as the Kansas senator condemns it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

European journal relates that few
months since workmen employed upon some
constructions on the bank of the river
Dnieper, in Central Russia, employed the
electric light to enable them to prosecute
their labors at night. The brilliant rays of
light attracted SO many millions of nocturnal
moths, beetles, and other insects, that from
time to time it was necessary to stop work
and set all hands to destroying the clouds of
winged victims that frequently completely
obscured the light. This suggested the idea
of employing the electric light to destroy
nocturnal insects prejudicial to agriculture,
and experiments in that direction are to be
tried next spring. Not only to insects, but to
fish, the light proved fatally attractive. Its
rays, directed to the surface of the water,
drew together vast quantities of all the fishes
found in the Dnieper, and when within the
charmed field of illumination they lay crowd
ed together in masses, seemingly blinded and
stupefed. The workmen, improving the OPP
portunity, made notable haul of fishes
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

The price of license in Bridgeton has been
advanced to $500.
Randolph county, Miss, has it's Jail for
rent. 1t is empty. Cause-No liquor sold in
that county.
i. The Grand Trunk Railway, of Canada has
prohibited the sale of liquor in all its restau-
rants on the road.
At Bound Brook, in population of over
1000, only one death from natural causes has
occurred in five months.
Any person going into saloon on Sunday,
in Newburn, Tenn, is fined 1926. How is
this for a secesh town?
A clear-brained Vermont girl has Just
married plumber instead of foreign count.
Empty titles lose their attractive power when
opposed by solid wealth
1t is a pity that no way can be taken to pre-
vent the annual foolishness of the Philadelphia
Record, in making forecasts of the action of
the New Jersey annual conference. It does
gross injustice to worthy ministers, and is
positively injurious to themselves and
families -Mtlluille Republican.
amendment Herald: Who shall criticise
the lawless of New York City when two hun
dred and fifty policemen sit down at ban
quet board and use g six hundred bottles of
wine in one EVENING"" The rough and
drunkard will naturally plead that they have
a right to whiskey and beer if the guardians
of the law are allowed more costly drinks.
A writer in the Druggists Circular offers
the following remedy for earache, which, he
says, after repeated trials, never fails to afford
almost instant relief "Olive OIL one ounce !;
chloroform, one dram. Mix and shake we'll
together, then pour twenty-five or thirty drops
into the ear, and close it up with piece of
raw cotton to exclude the air and retain the
mixture"
The new telegraph company organized
under the name of the Postal Telegraph and
Cable company, has undertaken to solve this
problem. Several experiments have already
been tried. and other plans will be tested.
In Chicago the wires are laid in lead pipes,
within iron boxes, and the plan has been in
successful operation since last August. The
system to be tested in Washington is to lay
pipes containing the wires in asphalt. The
practical workings of the underground plan
will be watched with much interest as there
can be no doubts of the public benefits of it
if it is practical.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

Considerable interest is at present being
displayed in Russia concerning the temper
ance question. The sale of intoxicating drinks
was prohibited in the district of the Ural
Cossacks, apparently with perfect success.
The advocates of prohibition were congratu-
lating themselves and admiring the good sense
of the Cossacks, until they discovered that
certain kind of eau de cologne, manufactured
in Russia, had been made substitute for the
forbidden drink. On this, one can get quite
as drunk as on vodki, and the Cossacks were
satisfied. The temperance reformers, how
ever, are not
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

Mr.. Seth Green testified before a National
Senate subcommittee that the fish along the
coast could be entirely destroyed by allowing
them to be caught at all seasons of the year
In its report the subcommittee will recon-
mend legislation prohibiting the catching of
fish along the Atlantic coast during the
spawning season.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

What makes you so late tonight" asked
a wife of her husband. 'You promised me
you would be at home at 10 o'clock" "Pve
been (hic) lookin' at the comets" he replied
"Comets ?" "There is but one comet visible
to er-naked eye (hic); but yer see 1 had the
aid of er-powerful CLASH and could see two
of em (hic)."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
WANT OF MEMORY.

One of the chief causes that underlies
great many of the ills and mfortunes of
life, is the want of memory. Even in child
hood this defect is often manifest, and causes
much of the troublesome conduct complained
of by parents and teachers. Rewards and
punishments excite in them respective emo
tions of glsdness or suffering; but, though
strong at the time, these impressions seem
to fade quickly away, and impulse soon
leads them into the same fault, to undergo
the same experience. The same SHINING and
repenting character is seen in mature life,
and is the germ of many of its failures. A
young man has the habit of unpunctuality.
He suffers from its effects in various ways.
He is unhappy for the time being, when he
is reproved by his employer, or loses some
fine opportunity, or offends valued friend,
or misses his train, or finds cold and spoiled
dinner. Yet the next day the recollection of
his misery is too feeble to supply motive
sufficient to prevent the same thing, and
again he goes the round of delaying, suffer-
ing and forgetting. Another person thus
offending and reaping the penalty has such
vivid remembrance of the shame or loss,
that he takes good care to prevent its repeti-
ton business man makes false step
which costs him dear, but though he smarts
under the necessary effect, he does not on
future occasion recall the emotion with suf-
ficient vividness to deter him from a similar
blunder Another remembers SO keenly the
pain that no temptation will be strong enough
to induce him again to incur the risk. me-
chanic, through carlessness or unskillfulness,
performs bungling imperfect piece of work.
He may in consequence lose his situation or a
good customer, or suffer from his self-re-
proach, but whether he steadfastly directs his
energies to avoid the recurrence and to per-
form better work or not will depend greatly
upon whether he remembers wildly his for
mer uncomfortable feelings. AS success in
an undertaking demands constant correction
of Mistakes and avoidance of past faults, it
must largely hinge upon retentive memory
of pains and pleasures.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

The New Orleans Picayune says there is an
aristocracy of crime in Louisiana. No man
of wealth, no man of position no man of in
fuence, has ever been hung in that State
Such men have been accused of the vilest
crimes; such men have been proven guilty
over and over again. The result is lawless-
ness in society, in business, in politics.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

She-I am fond of poetry. He-Are you,
indeed SO am l. Do you like Burns
She-No, indeed; they are SO distressing
But then, am not much troubled with them,
as ma does all the cooking.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

The aim of education should be to teach us
rather how to think than what to think;
rather to improve our minds SO as to make us
think for ourselves, than to load the memory
with the thoughts of other men.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

Though conflicting opinions have been and
are still held as to the ACCESSIBILITY of putting
telegraph and telephone wires under ground,
it would seem that it is practicable and, if SO,
is certainly superior plan to hanging them
up overhead where, in large cities they are
SO frequently in the way.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

To get rid of the smell of fresh paint in
chamber or living room, slice few onions
and put them in the middle of the room.
After that it will be desirable to get rid of the
smell of the onions. This can easily be done
by putting on another coat of paint.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

COLUMBIA, Pa, Feb. 25.-An attempt was
made to burn the Methodist church of Marietta
yesterday The flames were discovered and
extinguished in time to prevent much damage.
1t is believed the fire was an act of retalia-
ton on the part of some person in sympathy
with number of saloon keepers, whose ap-
plications for a renewal of license have Just
been refused by the court on account of repre-
sensations, which were made by prominent
citizens of the town, among whom were
many members of the church.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

A captain, observing that one of the drums
did not beat, sent his lieutenant to inquire
the reason. Tell the captain" whispered
the drummer, "that my drum is loaded with
turkeys, and one of them is for him."
Well, well, ," said the captain, "he needn't
do duty if he isn't able"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07

The temperance work of the south goes
bravely on. Miss Henrietta G. Moore, of
Ohio, cultivated, intelligent lady, is lectur-
ing most acceptably in Alabama and South
Carolina has had wonderful campaign con-
Quoted by home workers, Mrs. Sibley and
Mrs. Chaplin, the latter speaking fourteen
times in five days and organizing five Unions,
some Of them with over hundred members.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-03-07
THE DANGEROUS LIFE LED BY
DIVERS

"The business is extremely hazardous"
said Mr.. Wentworth Thomas. I" It is now
twenty seven years since entered upon the
profession. During that time 1 have been
personally acquainted with twenty divers.
Three of these have persisted by suffocation
in their armor and thirteen more have lost
their lives by variety of accidents. Only
four remain. But many of these men worked
only two, three, or five years, so the average
life of the diver cannot exceed six or eight
years. "-Ntao Brunswick Telegraph.