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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

1t is not total prohibition alone that rouses
the demon of carnage and murder in the
breast of rumseller. The city marshall of
MITCHELL Dakota, was shot dead by liquor
dealer this week for attempting merely to en-
force the low compelling saloons to close at
midnight. Rum is an outlaw, and its devotees
become outcasts or outlaws Hasten the day
when no rumseler can say, "My business is
respectable; my saloon as respectable place
as there is in the city; the state says so."-
The Christian AdUocate, april II.
The above shows what DIR. J. M. Buckley
thinks of rumselling, the business that some
people want to make respectable by high
license.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

Shall we license the store-keeper and black
smith to sell liquor? What folly! And yet
that is just the folly that many people are
pleading for to-day on the necessity OF the
dram-shop curse.
When the question of licensing hotel In
village of twenty-five houses was considered
in one of the courts last week an editor swore
he chad to go collecting in that town four
times year" And yet that man had but ten
or fifteen subscribers at that post office. 1t
may be added that he had two or three lads. :"
also, and possibly little job printing. But
why did not this editor apply for railroad to
that place? Surely this would accommodate
travellers. All other industries must take
care of themselves except that of entertain
ing travellers In plain words, the dram-shop
is rider on the hotel necessity.
1t would be cheaper and better to build a
hotel and let some one occupy it rent free in
consideration of keeping accommodations for
travellers.
This necessity" for hotels CD so-called,
but more properly known as dram-shops, is
too transparent. There is no dram-shop at
Millville, Haddonfeld, vineland and many
other places, and yet travellers are entertained
in these towns as we'll, if not much better,
than in places where liquor is sold. As for
the public good" the least that dram-shop
advocates say about that the better.
The country is filled with drunkards, the
product of the dram-shop. What good do
these drunkards do that sober men cannot
do? Will some high license saint tell us ? -
Temperance Gazette.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

The views of Judge Parker on the beer
question, as given to the court at Mount
Holly, are clear and in perfect harmony with
the law
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25
THE TEEToTAL ALPHABET.


rThis can be spoken by twenty-six children, each
advancing saying one verse and tnen retre.J
A - Is for Alcohol, with poisonous breath,
Brings us misery, wretchedness, death!
b Stands for Brandy,-its use we know wei
Brings woe to our homes, is of hope the
death-knell!
C. Constitution, so ruined by drink!
Then folks shouldn't use it-so all OF us
think.
D-For the Drunkard. God help him, say we;
May he soon take the pledge, and he'll hap
pier be.
E-For the End which the drunkard must
reach;
For he cannot gain heaven, the scripture
doth teach.
F. For Puddle; glorious name
Which means getting drunk, or all
the same
c. For the Cannon the landlord tries on,
While he gets all the money, then bids you
BECOME.
H For the home which the drunkard neglects,
kN His happiness ruins and his prospects
~ wrecks.
/ Fer the Inn where the liquors are sold;
Where they soften your brains, and swallow
your gold
j. For the Judge, who fines you a crown
Because you get drunk, and make rows in
the town.
k For the knowledge which oft comes too
$50 late:
Of the way drink can sting,-see, the poor
drunkard's fate!
l. For the Land where they license such sin,
And where neighbors get drunk upon goU-
eT7naerat gin!
M-For the Money that's wanted at home;
To the landlords big till it will oftener
come!
N-For the Noodle who drinks night and day,
While the stuff kills him hourly, his brains
steals away.
O. For the Outcast the drunkard becomes;
Thankful to gather the landlords poor
~ @ crumbs
P The good Pledge which I'd have you to
sign.
Against liquors of all kinds, GIN rum, bran
dy, winel
O. For the Quarrelsome, beer is the thing,
With quick, angry words, friends, to make
a house ring.
R The Resolve which we all ought to make,
Never to touch liquors. taste, handle, nor
take.
s. Is for Substance; beer hasn't any!
Though of folks who think different, there
are sadly too many!
t For the Topper who drinks all the day!
way.
u Means United; so let us stand
In arms against drink, strong, hopeful
band
V Stands for Viper and such is strong drink !
You nurse it, twill sting you before you
may think
W-For Water so pure and so bright;
Gods drink for his creatures, and each
Rechabite!
x Two or three, means strong sort of ale;
But it makes the men weak, as can go
bail
Y For the Youth of Columbas fair land;
Who 'gainst liquors intoxicate make brave
stand.
4 For the Zany no sense much remains
As he puts in his mouth what makes off
with his brains.
four Band of Hope superintendent are clamoring
for suitable rectatons for their entertainments.
Here is a grand one. Each child should have the
letter they represent marked on an Illuminated card
and hung around the neck with blue ribbons. j.
O. d.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

Starve the d. m-shop to death is the motto,
South Jersey
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-04-25

in the hands of class of men who bid def
ance to law, and who are determined to carry
out their own selfish purposes in spite of it.
1t is often said sneeringy of towns where
local prohibition prevails, s. thought this was
a temperance town, but here is a man drunk;
what does this mean? ," Why it simply means
that there are men in every town who are
mean and wicked enough to do anything for
money; and it also means that those who
sneer at these failures of the law are practi-
cally although perhaps unwittingly, aiding
and abetting them in their wicked designs.
Now what do we learn from all this? Why
simply this: that the law is the safeguard of
society, or at least is SO intended and what
ever loosens its obligations or fosters lawless-
ness, strikes at the foundation of society and
hence every loyal, patriotic citizen, whatever
may be his personal views as to the use of
intoxicating beverages ought in view of
the inevitable spirit of lawlessness of the
liquor traffic to do all in his power to over
throw it.
There is an awakening public sentiment
against pernicious literature and the obscene
pictures that are Haunted in our public
streets, as having tendency to corrupt
our youth, and every thoughtful person
will say God speed every effort for their sup
preston but while this prolific source of
lawlessness of Jesse James gangs, and of
youthful desperadoism should be attended to
and cut off, let not the still more prolific
source, to which all desperadoes resort for the
inspiration needed in the commission of their
crimes, be neglected. We are slumbering
this enemy of all law and order may at any
moment belch forth to our destruction.
May the warning contained in recent events
be needed before it is too late. Temperance
Gazette.
The General Superintendent of the Key
East Seaside Assembly, to be held this sum-
mer, is Rev. G. G. Maddox, who will be at
Key East every Monday to give information
needed on the subject. DIR. James A. Wor-
den is announced as general superintendent
of the Sunday school institute, and the Rev.
James Morrow is to be the superintendent of
the normal department. DR.. Worden has en-
tered into correspondence with the following
gentlemen with view to securing addresses
from them: Joseph Cook, the Rev. DIR. T.
De Witt Talmage, the Rev. DR.. Henson, and
John B. Cough. There will be a musical
college, in charge of a capable professor.
Special attention will be paid to normal in
struction, which will be divided into two
parts, the Bible section and the Sunday
school section. Four topics will be considered
under the first section: The Bible-its struc-
ture; the tabernacle-with models Bible his
tory and geography-two lessons; the life of
Christ-two lessons. And the subjects for
the Sunday school section are: How to pre-
pare lesson; how to teach lesson; schol-
ars study out of school; pastor and superin-
tendent; visible illustration how to apply
lesson.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
Playing With a Greenhorn.

At the Michigan Central depot the
other day three or four citizens who
happened to be waiting for the same
train to come in got to talking about
confidence men and their victims, and
one of them pointed out particularly
verdant specimen of young man-from-
the-country, and said:
THAT fellow would he ripe subject
for the fraternity. The chances are
that he could be bamboozled as easy as
rolling off a log"
81 dunno" replied another. "Sup-
pose you work on him little as an ex-
pertinent. Here is a check which |
VIII fill out, and I'll come in at the
right time as YOUR pal"
The idea was entered into, and in a
few minutes No. l put himself in the
way of the greenhorn and made some
inquiries about the trains and ascer-
tanned that the stranger was going to
Michigan City.
80? Why, I'm going right there
myself. l own a big saw-mill there. :"
"Yew dew, eh?"
"Yes, and I'm here looking for a
foreman. | have boss place for man
at sixty dollars month"
That's me to q huckleberry. I've
worked in sawmills all my life"
"You can have the place, and I'm
glad to get hold of such a man. Con-
slider yourself engaged for year at
sixty dollars per month"
"Snakes and tom cats, but amt that
luckn' chuckled greeny. stranger,
ls5u must be an awful good man.
"Well, l run Sunday-school and
try TO live an upright life. Maybe you
want q months salary in advanced"
'Woogh! yew don't say so! No, 1
guess can git along, being as l have
forty-tiye dollars in my wallet"
At this moment the pal came up with
the usual bill, which must be paid at
once or the new saws for the mill would
not be shipped No. l had only three
or four dollars in bills, but offered q
check for 1920. Following out the
usual programme greenhorn was asked
to hand over his forty-five dollars and
take the check as security. The words
were hardly off the mans lips when
greeny spit on both hands at once, shot
out with his right and left in chorus,
and there was thump! thump! which
knocked two men fatter than pan
cakes.
Softly, gentlemen-softly p COM
manded greeny as half dozen men
rushed up. 81 look like last years
pumpkin saved over in the basement of
canning factory, but after travelling
with circus for the last eleven years I
ought to know buckwheat from spring
goslings. Pick 'em up and sponge off
the blood and turn 'em loose. They IL
feel tired all the rest of the day.-De-
tr0H Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
81 MEM TO WAIT FOR JACK.''

LESSON FOR LOVERS.
Sweet Kate at Wyndham's Dairy, and Jack of
Oldham Mill
o, long they wood and fond they Good, a
faithful Jack and Jill!
But times were bad for lass and lad and sadly
both confessed
Twas not the thing to buy the ring before
they'd lined the nest
"Courage, lad!' said Katie. Eyes Wen have
to wait;
But though. my dear, it's twenty year, I'll
take no other mate"
But England wanted Jacly, for war was in
the air,
And arms more grim were press'd on hIh
than Katie's bonny pair.
SO all through Spain, in rough campaign, he
chivied bold Mossoo
And fired his gun and made him run like fun
at Waterloo
When the lads came round her, Katie babe
them pack
There's girls enough for you to WOO; 81 mean
to wait for Jack"
The gray in Hatie's ringlets were minging
with the browH,
When bump a-thump, an eager stump came
pegging through the town.
sits me, you see, come back" says he, Tex
cept Il leg or so;
And safe and sound here's twenty pound; so
let the paTson know"
Jingle, jangle, jingle! set the bells a-chime,
And health and bliss to love like this that
bravely bideS its time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
An Arkansas Divorce Case.

Several days ago young negro and
his wife appeared before Simon Patter-
son, a black knight of the rural Arkan-
saw bench, and demanded divorce.
whats the trouble twixt yer?"
asked old Simon.
81 KANT lib wild her an she KANT
lib wild me- replied the husband.
"Why KANT yer?'
"Cause she amt eddycated up ter
my standpoint. w.
Use better eddycated den he is,
ledge, case 1 ken read and he kahn t, -
said the woman.
go, she mout hab more book-larnin'
den l has, boss, but her knowledge ain t
de kline what suits de undersigned.
She ken spell cat an dog, but she
KANT spell billed cabbage to suit me.
Ebery time l comes ter de house,
finds dis o man han'lin' her book, but |
doesn't smell nuthin' bilin in de pot :"
EFF yer wuster fetch suthin in de
house, yer wouP smell hit bilin' in de
pot, rejoined the wife.
80, dat ain my lookout De oman S
duty, ez | un' erstans de case, is ter fur
nish suthin' ter eat. OATS whut
married yer fur. KANT 'speck me ter
keep up de repatriation O de family an
hussle for bread. L longs ter de
s'ciety."
Madam" said the Justice, ode case
is ergin yer. De Bible says dat err
oman mus mind what her husban'
says. Eff he tole yer ter put suthin in
de pot, an yer didn't do hit, why den
yer's laid yerself liable. Mr.. Clerk,
write out er 'vorce fur dis gennerman,
but doan' gin one ter de lady. "-Te1aS
SiftinnS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
Graham Flour.

The high proporti on of proteine mat
ter found by chemical analysis to exist
in wheat bran, and the quantity sup
| posed to be thus removed from the flour.
in the process of manufacture, has led
many intelligent and well-intentioned
people, and induced many physicians of
high standing, to advocate the use of
whole meal-that is flour made from
the whole grain and unbolted-in bread
making. instead of the white bolted
flour ordinarily made employed. 1t Isl
believed that with the removal of the
bran and other matters in the process
of grinding and boiling, causing sep
aration of from thirty to sometimes as
high us seventy per cent, of the weight
of the grain used, large proportion of
the most nutritious part of the cereal is
rejected, while if the whole product is
saved in the flour the value OF the latter
for human consumption will be CORE
spondingly increased. But that this
belief is wholly erroneous has been
lately proven by DR.. Max Rubner, who
has made some careful digestion eXper-
iments to determine the amount of ma
terial used up in the animal economy,
when each kind of flour is used in the
bread consumed, respectively He ex-
amined the residues from ordinary
hours and those from the flour or wheat
meal of the Bread Reform League, and
as q result of his examinations he az
rives at the conclusion that the larger the
proportion of bran left in the flour the
greater will be the amount of nutritious
matter unassimilated and excreted
While he considers it quite possible
that the digestibility of the bran might
be increased by finer grinding, he
doubts the ACCESSIBILITY of such a pro-
cedure, OF its economy from the fact
that it may be more proftably fed to
tho lower animals. which digest It SO
much more readily. The higher palat-
ability of bread from the best bOlted or
purified flour renders it at all times
more desirable. and the facts determined
by DIR. Rubner must therefore be hailed
by dyspeptics, who have been confined
by their medical advisers toa diet of
Graham bread, with sigh of relief at
least, if not with feeling of positive
pleasure. -ETchGnge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

The most important part of picnic
is not the weather or the place or the
dinner. You may choose the most
beautiful spot in the world, and spread
the most delicious lunch ever prepared,
and yet have the whole thing a COM
plete failure, simply because the COM
pany was not well selected Out-of-
doors, where people are free from for
mality, unless they are congenial
friends, and what Mrs. Whitney calls
''Real Folks" they will be likely to feel
i'll at ease, and miss the support giveu
by company, clothes and miliiners.
Small picnics, for this reason among
others, are usually much pleasanter
than large picnics.
In making up the party, be sure to
leave behind the girl who is certain to
be too warm or too cold, or to think
some other place better than the one
where she is, and who has ga horrid
time" if she has to submit to any per-
sonal inconvenience for the sake of 9TH
ers; and with her, the boy who loves to
tease, and who is quite sure that his
way is the only good way. Put into
their places some others, young or old,
who love simple pleasures, and are
ready to help others to enjoy them.
Next in importance to the company
is the place. 1t must not be at great
distance, or you will all be tired, not
to say cross, when you arrive there. 1t
must be reasonably shady, and not too
far from supply of good drinking
water. If the company are to walk,
you must be especially careful not to
be overwhelmed with baskets and
wraps, for the bundles which seemed
so light when you started are sure to
weigh down much more heavily before
you reach your destination. Be careful
TO have this work fairly distributed.
Never start until you are sure that
you know just where you are going,
and the best way of getting there.
Wandering about to choose place, and
thinking constantly to find one more
desirable, is very fatiguing. That mat
er should be settled beforehand by two
or three of the party, and the others
should go straight to the spot, and
make the best of it. If any do not like
it, they can choose different place
when their turn comes to make a selec-
tion.-jSuSGR A1aHa BrOUn, IN 81. Mich
olaS.
/ \ 4.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

julie attended the public school as
| regularly as her duties at home would
| allow, and, unlike most little girls of
her age, when she came home she did
not care to run out in the street and
| play at tag" or ''hide-and-seek, but
instead staid at home and relieved her
mother of the care of her Younger
| brothers and sisters, and acted the part
of a small housewife.
The other evening, about half past
nine, little Julie sat in a room ON one of
the lower floors patiently waiting for
her mother to come in that she might
go to bed. She had Just put her little
baby sister to sleep in the back room,
and as Julie sat waiting so quietly. her
half-closed eyes and frequent yawns
told only too well that the ''dustman"
was on his rounds.
Suddenly. as she sat there, some
bright sparks fell from the ceiling and
smouldered on the floor. Almost at the
same instant a number of the tenants
who lived upstairs ran wildly through
the hall and past the door, screaming:
'Fire! fire." at the top of their voices
In another moment the flames appeared
in the very room in which little Julia
sat. She heard the cries of fire
and the people rushing madly
into the street. But there was
no one to to tell her what to do, or even
to think of her, in that moment of eX-
element
Perhaps a good many of the little
girl readers of Young People, if they
had been in Julia's place, would have
screamed and run out of the house as
quickly as they could. But that was
not what brave little Julia thought of
as she saw the sparks falling about her,
and the red glare of the fast approach
ing flames.
No. indeed: for she knew that in the
back room her baby sister slept uncon-
scious of any danger, and the brave lit
tie girl thought first of her duty to that
helpless infant. SO, without thinking
twice, she dashed forward. and CROPPED
through the smoke and falling sparks
until she reached the baby's crib. Then,
snatching out the little two-year-old,
sleeping peacefully as it was in its lit
tie night dress-a pretty heavy burden,
too, for so small q girl--and clasping it
tightly in her arms, she ran out of the
room, struggling through the smoke of
the hall, until at last she reached the
open air.
She did not stop even then, but ran
on until she had reached the opposite
side of the street. There she sat down
on a convenient rock and watched the
fire, still holding her little sister tightly
to her breast to protect her from the
cold. And in this position, after hunt
ing all over, and almost concluding
that Julie had persisted in the flames,
her mamma and the neighbors found
her.
Brave little girl! Though only eight
years old, when danger threatened She
did not have to be told what was right
for her to do, nor did she for moment
lose her presence of mind, but bravely
rescued her baby sister.
So, little' girl readers, think what a
brave little girl Julie Brohmer was, and
try to learn from her brave act a lesson
of courage and self-control.-Ha'per's
Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
A Brave Little Girl.

Just between the towns of Hoboken
and Weehawken, in New New jersey,
lies the little hamlet of Union Hill, an
old-fashioned village, peopled mostly
by Germans, and in this village has
stood for many years great frame
building, used principally as a hotel,
and known to all the towns-people by
the name of "The Old Swan"
In years gone by this place was
quite a famous resort, but it gradually
ran down until it became at length a
cheap clearinghouse.
Among the many inmates of the
building we've Julie Brohmer, q little
eight-year-old girl, her mother and
three younger children. The smallest,
a little girl baby of two, was little
jules especial charge, and her mother
leave the little baby with Julie, sure
that no harm would come to her so long
as her faithful little sister was near.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

In Barbour County, w. Va, Mr..
Vanseroy dreamed three nights in sue
cession that he found the body of his
sister, Mrs. Jacob Campbell, in Middle
Fork River. He did not mention this
to her or anybody till after the third
time, when he told the dream to an
other sister 1t was not then known
that the woman was missing, but search
in the locality seen in the dream re-
suited in the discovery of the body. 1t
is believed she committed suicide while
laboring under mental alteration
Detroit Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19

This is how Sir James Stephen de.
fines mankind: "a stupid, ignorant.
half-beast of creature, the most dis
tingushed specimens of which have
passed their lives in chasing chimeras,
and believing and forcing Others to be-
lieve in fairly tales about them-a
creature made up mostly of units, Of
which majority can not even read,
while only a small minority have the
time, or the means, or the ability to de-
vote any considerable part of their
thought to anything but daily labor. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-07-19
For Young Readers.
4 WISE DRUGGIST

4 WIDL Oh q UUIOIs
man who kept a store
Once wrote upon his door:
oh, can make pill
That shall ease ev'ry ill
keep here plaster
To prevent disaster;
Also some good ointment,
To soOthe disappointment"
When customers applied,
These words are what he cried:
Now, Patience is the pill
That eases ev'ry ill;
IGte-cdre is a plaster
Which prevents disaster;
GODd-hltmOr an ointment,
Soothing disappointment"
Mary Lang, in st. Nicholas.