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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
GETTING MALARIAL FEVER.
Dir. James Tells How it May be Ac.
quired with Certainty.

Dr. Bushrod W. James, in his Angus
number of Sanitary Gleanings, gives tbs
| following timely hints how to get CRANE
attack of muIarial fever:
To the individual who wishes to obtain q
grand attack of ''malarial fever" we would
suggest these rults: Drink water from any
| and every source, and have your tea and
coffee made of the same, without having
which it has been obtained is in the best
sanitary condition. Slerp in a small, close,
| Authenticated room at night, with cess
gases flowing in day and night, either
from an untrapped or badly trapped sta
tionary washstund.
Go out boating in the evening and moon
light nights on mud band streams and
ponds. Better take an early morning walk
through some lowland or woodland while
the dew is on the fallen leaves. If you are
fond of driving, take a drive along such
streams in the early part of the evening,
and during the day go out to supper in the
woods on picnic, and drink the spring
water saturated with decaying leaves, the
bark of trees and weeds.
If there is any ditching or exeavating
going on near by it will help you to go and
stand about these places by the hour every
day. Go to bed late and get up early.
Eat promiscuously of fruits, berries, ETC.,
hat +o Aa.ar Nihhla nd
knaw and eat all kinds of fruit, candies and
cakes between meals, SO as to impair your
digestive powers as much as possible.
Then get up dance every night-the hot
ter the night the longer the dance.
Have plenty of lights buaning; crowd
the room WE'LL then dance with all your
might, and as often as possible, so as to
become thoroughly saturated with perspi-
ration: then go out ON the porch where
there is a nice breeze; or, in the absence of
the same, get large fan and fan yourself
shoroughly-this is a valuable method of
BEGINNING chilled.
There are other methods of becoming
chilled which will naturally suggest them
selves to you; but, as this is the most ap-
proved method during the summer, while
resting for your health, we give it to you as
the most fashionable, and it will probably
be the most agreeable for you to adopt, es-
pecially if young. If you are at the sea-
shore, very good method is to remain in
the water an hour or two at time and
when you come out of the water, especially
if it is windy day, stand or lie on the
beach for half hour or longer.
There are other rules we could suggest,
but, no doubt, the above will be sufficient
to so PROSTATE the vital powers as to ena-
BILE you to suffer all the fall and winter
with the most exquisite and fashionable
disease with the doctors, for want of a bet
ter name, and want of better information
as to the causes which have induced your
sufferings, very adroitly and to your salts
faction denominate ''malarial fevet.' If
you are not partial to the disease, We would
advise the avoidance of these rules as
strictly as possible.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
MORPHINE.

In July, 1885, lady fell from some
steps in New York City, and was uncons-
cous for short time. When conscious
ness returned there was some pain. A
doctor, who never learned nor practised
the theory that pain had better be endured
than to destroy the power of the system to
remove the cause of suffering, was called,
and he gave the patient a hypodermic in
lection of morphine. Quiet and sleep fol-
lowed, which proved to be the quiet and
sleep of death. After receiving the NOR
phine she had two injuries to endure and
could not endure both. If the physician
had done what some irregular physician
who thinks more of common sense than he
does of the nonsense taught about pain and
morphine in most of the Irregular" col
leges, would have done, probably his
patient would not have died.
If most druggists were to speak out
about opium, they would state as one did
in New York City to a newspaper reporter,
and from whose report | extract as fol-
lows:
''You would be greatly surprised, if
should show you a list of my customers,
who are in the habit of purchasing this
drug. do not mean those for whom it
is prescribed by physicians, but those who
use it as regularly as they would tobacco.
These slaves of the opium habit comprise
lawyers, artists, preachers, merchants and
all kinds of mechanics, tradesmen and
laborers Women, as well as men, are
slaves to the opium fiend. think physi-
clans are much to blame for people acqulr-
ing the opium habit. They are so willing
to prescribe it to patients who could get
along without it. y
Should not the world awake to the mn
portance of such testimony, and not remain
forever stupid about the effects of opium
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
THOUGHTFUL SAYINGS.

| Forgiveness costs less than revenge.
| Character is perfectly educated will.
Dare to be true Nothing can need a
| lie
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be
good.
People will worship calf if it be gold
en- one.
Beware of the man or woman who as.
sunes perfection.
A mans wisdom is his best friend, folly
his worst enemy.
Lucky the man whose enemy is forced tc
lie against him.
Gratitude and hope should make us faith
full and fruitful.
Goodness overacted can only secure very
transient regard.
Negligent handiwork paves the way for
listless brainwork.
Disease comes in by hundred weights and
goes out by ounces.
anu pun SClttoii taii
at the right moment.
To win, work and wait, but work great
deal more than you wait.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou
callest new flowers to birth.
Poverty and misery are near relatives, but
riches and happiness are no kin.
He who betrays the confidence of one is
not worthy the confidence of another.
The points of struggle and of danger are
not all passed when conversion is reached.
When we are alone, we have thoughts to
watch; in our families, our temper; and in
society, our tongue.
The moment anything assumes the shape
of duty, some persons feel themselves in
capable of dscharging it.
Hypocrites are wicked. They hide their
defects with so much care that their hearts
are poisoned by them.
1t is generally true that we judge too bit
terly and harshly the faults of every office
which we do not ourselves hold.
Foolishness rushes into publicity to draw
attention, while intelligence modestly keeps
in the back ground to observe.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by con-
tact; and the public stock of honest, manly
principle will daily accumulate.
Hard words are like hailstones in sum-
mer, beating down and destroying what
they would nourish were they melted into
drops.
There is no courage in surrendering what
is true; no real courage in defying public
sentiment when that sentiment springs
from the truth.
Each soul is much like the chameleon,
which is changed in color by the tree on
which it creeps. Each soul, however gift
ted by nature must therefore confess the
influence of other souls and other objects
beside itself
The hiding places of men are discovered
by affection. AS one has aptly said, "our
refugees are like the nests of birds; in sum-
mer they are hidden away among the leaves,
but in winter they are seen among the
naked branches"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
VOL. I.
EVENING.

When the long, bright hours are numbered
And the daylight beauty dies;
When the stars their nightly watch-fires
Kinde in the azure skies
What is that which gently stealing
Dream-lil<e DER the musing mind,
Gains each hayward thought and feeling
With a magic undefined9
Hank! the dash of distant waters
Murmring in their ceaseless play,
Comes upon the breath of evening,
Blending with the night-bird's lay
Whence the power that strangely sways us,
As we list that mystic tune,
Bringing back sweet faded memories
With the chances of the moon?
Now the evening star arises,
Brightly DER the wooded hill,
Gliding with her mellow radiance,
Field and forest, fount and rill.
knowest thou whence this strong emotion,
Stirring cen the fount of tears
Why the glance, so quick and searching,
Backward flies to childhood's years?
Is it memories of the wildwood,
Where in early life we strayed!
Or the moonlit haunt of childhood,
Where we innocently played?
Is it name of friend or brother,
Hoarded long in memory's cell?
Or the mild glance of our mother
That awake the mystic spell?
Deep within that spell is centred
Yet what tongue can speak the whole?
Who reveal the hidden power
OF the strange mysterious soul?
Ever unexplained, yet present
With our spirit, dwells the power,
Potent thus to move and sway us,
In the pensive evening hour.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26

Four men were killed and six badly III
jured by the explosion on Monday Of the
boiler of the cotton compress OF the Geor-
gia Central Railroad, in Eufaula, Ala.
Seven persons are also missing, and it Is
feared they are buried under the debris.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26
HE MADE A LITTLE.

Der clothing peesneSs, he replied, as
he wiped his face with a red bandana and
sat down on 50 trunk at the door, ''vhas
what you might call played oudt. 1t vahs
hard scratching to make a tolar -
''But people wear clothes all the time"
"Oxactly, but people hat changed good
deal. Some folks vhas all for style, and
dey go to a tailor to get fit Odder peo-
pies puy ready-made clothing, but so many
of us vhas in der peesness dot it vhas hard
shedding. Eafery mans who come into my
blaze expects to beat me down. Eafery
man look der goots all oafer for cotton, und
it vhas hard to deceive him.
'What do you ask for that tweed suit"
''Vhell my first brice on dot suit vhas $14.
After talk for ten minutes drop to s12.
II der customer pegins to pull oudt cotton
fibers l make der price $40, at which l put
my hand on my heart und assure him dot
lose oafer tree tollar."
''But if he dosnt take it?
''Vhell, go oudt und my White sells it to
him for 50 as a great favor. Dere vhas no
more brofit in tweed suits. | hat to pay
81 in Rochester"
II suppose you make up on trunks and
satchels?''
make oop! Why, man, it vhas dot part
of der peesness What ruins me! Look here!
Here vhas a trunk NIT patent lock und
all convenences dot ask 81 for. III doan'
get so much drop toss. If der gentleman
says he Will look around leetle, l tell
him to take it along for SO, but it vhas sooch
loss my children cry all night long
''They must cost you nearly that"
''Vhell, | hat an uncle who makes der
wood work, broder who puts on der lock,
a sister who papers der inside, und my fad
der screws on der hinges, und by sweeping
oudt my own store vhas able to puy dot
trunk for sixty cents
do you ever let customer go out with
out buying?"
''Vhell, doan' remember of sooch ca
lamity. If | can't sell him, my White comes
in und tries it. If she can't sell him, her
sister comes in und speaks like an angel.
Sometimes man vhas sharp as steel. He
WANTS an $1S suit for $12. He knows dot
we hat to sacrifice, because our stock vhas
too large, und he hangs off und peats
aroundt, und finally close der bargain und
assure him dot leaf for der county house
tomorrow"
"And you lose"
''Vhell, dot suit cost me S.. % in Roches-
terri
Il guess you'll pull through"
81 hope So You see, lif oop stairs to
save house rent. | keeps no clerk to en-
bezzle from me. | use some kerosene to
save gas My rent vhas low because vhas
a good tenant. | hat aunts und uncles und
brudders in der clothing und trunk peesnes.
| vhas acquainted with Vanderbilt und
Gould. puys When it vhas hard times.
| discount my own paper. All dis vhas
VERY favorable for my peesness, und it
vhas dose reasons dot makes me offer you
a complete suit of dot French broadcloth
for $22. | assure you dot it vhas der great
est bargain in der world
''And that suit cost you"
''Seven tollar in Rochester, but if You
pay $14 fare to Rochester und back, lose
two days und vhas oudt "a hotel bill, how
must you make, Ell? You must think of
dose things. "-Detroa Free Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26

A child taught TO believe any occurrence
a good or evil omen, or any day Of the week
lucky, hath wide inroad made upon the
sca.ldness &C his understanding
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26

A word is but little thing, but it may
brighten all the years of life and cast
glory ON the expiring hours; while an evil,
bitter speech may sting the heart, and
plant thorn that rankles until the dying
xar
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26

Either Blaine or Cleveland would give
half their worldly possessions, just now,
for st. Johns good name Western Ware
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-26

For personal and political purity, St.
John probably leads all the candidates.
Trenton Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Guarding uncle Sans money.

1t is often said that IF thieves are de.
termined TO get in, they will do so in
spite of all your precautions" That
may be true of private houses, and or
binary banks, but that there is such
thing as perfectly guarding valuable
property is shown by the fact that tho
great public treasures are seldom mo-
ested by burglars, and one at least has
never had so much as an attempt mado
upon it, The resources of whole coun-
try are needed, however, to pay for such
expensive protection.
A party of Englishmen who recently
visited Washington expressed surprise
at the absence of guards at the Treas
ury.
aWhy," they said, "at the Bank OF
England the military is always on duty,
and to get past it and into the building
is worth ones life, unless he has author
ity. Here / don't see a guard"
But there are guards, and plenty of
them, only they don't wear red coats
and parade up and down the street in
front of the building.
do you see this armory?" said Capt.
Cobaugh, the chief of the force, TO your
correspondents to-day, opening door
as he did so and displaying line after
line of loaded revolvers They were of
the largest and best variety known to
the military authorities.
"We have sixty men armed with
these" he said, "and nearly all old sol
diers / should like to see any success
full attempt to rob the treasury. These
men are divided into watches. and are
on duty in all parts of the building at
all hours. After the force of clerks and
officials goes home at night. our officers
enter and inspect every room, see that
the safes ane all locked, the heating APP
paratus all right and the water turned
off.
"If a safe is found unlocked, man is
put in charge of IT, and the person whose
duty it was to see it locked is sent for.
OF course it does not often happen and
the man who does forget once to lock
his safe, does not forget it twice; but
occasionally we do find one open. Then
after the rooms are inspected and the
guard set, the lieutenant makes his
rounds every two hours, and the watch
man patrols his beat every fifteen MIN
utes or oftener."
HAS there ever been an attempt, suc-
cessful or otherwise, TO rob the Treas
ury?"
'Never. 1t would be an impossible
ity."
Col. Webster, Chief Clerk of tho
Treasury, is at the head Of the watch,
though Capt. Cabaugh has the personal
direction of their movements. They
are all inspected, and are liable to visits
at any time of night from the Secretary
or his Chief Clerk
Treasurer Spinner, it is related, once
found himself in very nervous state of
mind at night, and unable to sleep,
having an indetinable feeling that some
thing was wrong at the Treasury.
He tossed about awhile unable to
sleep, and finally dressed himself and
started for the Treasury, to be met by
messenger coming to tell him that a
safe containing millions of dollars had
been found unlocked. 1t is sail that
he always slept in the building after
that, and always visited the safes in per-
son before retiring to see that they were
locked Perhaps it was his nervous
ness over the fright that made his sigma
ture so crooked. Baltimore American
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
rhe oueen to parltament

The British parliament was prorogued last
Thursday with the usual ceremonies. The
queen in her speech said
Isincerely regret that an important part of
your labors failed of result in a legislative en-
actment Friendly intercourse exists with all
foreign powers; diplomatic relations have been
resumed with Mexico, and the preliminary
agreement for the treaty of commerce has been
assinged. l have to lament the nature of the
conference to devise means to restore the finan-
ces of Egypt, which are so important to the we'll
being and good order of the country l shall
continue to fulfill the faithful duties growing
out of the presence of my troops in the valley
of the Nile; trust the especial mission which
/ have determined to send there will materially
aid me in considering what steps to adopt 1view
with undated satisfaction the mitigation and
denunciation of the agrarian crimes in Ire
land and substantial improvement in the con-
to call your attention to the great subject of
the representation of the people; rejoice to
observe amid the numerous indications of in
terest in the subject, constant proofs Of loyalty
to the throne and respect for the laws These
indications inspire me with the full belief that
the great national aim will be pursued with or
der and moderation; the best securities for
such settlement as may conduce to the hap
piness and liberties of the people and the
strength of the empire.
The speech closes with thankfulness for the
favorable season which is alternating the pres
sure that has so long and SO seriously affected
the agricultural industry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
Popular Personals.

Miss Phoebe w. Couzins, famous rs
lawyer in st. Louis, is the leading
advocate III advancing the claim of Miss
Anna Ella Carroll, whose alleged sug-
gestions that the Tennessee River and
not the Mississippi was the key of the
war in the Southwest led TO the adop
ton of the Tennessee campaign plan in
the civil war She wants money for it
now.
A German writing in one of the Ber-
lin papers of his campaigns makes the
following remarkable statement: "In
this battle we lost the brave Captain
Schulz A cannon-b ball took off ms
head His last words were, Bury me
on the spot where / fell
David IT, Strother, who was once on
Banks staff, and is by courtesy a colon
ell, has been United States consul at the
city of Mexico long enough to have
been forgotten as the delightful "Porte
Crayon" of twenty years ago. But he
is coming home in May, and will again
take up his pen and pencil.
The Grand Duke Alexis, who was
only a lieutenant when he visited this
country a few years ago. is now high
admiral of the Russian navy. He is
going to England in May, partly to see
his sister, who is wife of the duke Of
Edinbnrg, but more to inspect the Ia
test improvements in the British navy
yards.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt. Brit
ish Home Secretary who married
daughter of the historian Motley, has So
cured very favorable lease of crown
lands in the New Forest near Lyndhurst,
and will build thereon fine country
house with surrounding extensive
grounds and gardens.
Mrs. Eugene Hale has left Washing
ton for Ellsworth, Me. where the Sen
ator has just finished a magnificent
house on the hill overlooking the town
and commanding a view of the coast,
with Mount Desert and other islands.
The announcement is made in New
York of the engagement of Mrs. Frank
Leslie, widow of the publisher, to the
Marquis de I,uville of France. The
Marquis is an Anglo-Frenchman born
in England and inheriting his title from
the ancient house of Oliver de Lourn-
court. He has a European reputation
as a poet and painter Mrs. Leslie will
continue after her marriage as before
the active personal supervision of the
business with which she has been inden-
titled during the five years of her widow
hood.
The Bishop of London has suspended
the Rev H. f. Limpus, vicar of Twick-
enham, for three years, for drunkenness.
--Cablegram. "Loo-ee ere Limpus,"
SAYS is Ludship, the Bishop, "hif ye
muss get drunk hI'll give we three yares
fur a rattlin' spree, han then hi wants
We to COON back han tend TO business,
fur We knows has 'ow there ere goings-
on hoy yourn beant the ioight thing no
'ow."
DeLesseps, until late years, never
neglected an ice cold water bath every
morning in order to maintain himself IN
vigorous health. Latterly, however, he
has taken to horseback riding, and one
of the interesting sights in the Bots de
Boulogne nowadays is the great isthmua
piercer galloping amid his eight chill
dren, boys and girls, mounted on smart
little ponies
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-21
British courtegieg to America.

A special from London saws: The
putting" of the war sloop Alert-lc-
Gently presented by England to Ameri-
ca, to participate in the Greedy search
expedition-in commission the 10Th,
was becomingly celebrated. James
Russell Lowell hoisted the American
colors at the Alert's peak. Fifty guests
lunched on board. Among them were
the Earl of Northbrook, first lord of the
admiralty, and Lord Alcester; Admiral
Seymour; one of the junior lords OF the
admiralty. Conspicuous among the
company were many famous Arctic ex-
plorers. such as Vice Admiral Sir Fran
CHS McClintock, who accompanied the
Sir John Franklin search Of 1880,
and commanded that of 1856; Sir Allen
Young, who served under McClintock,
and made two expeditions sn the
Pandora Sir George Mares, who com
manded the Alert ON her previous visit
to the Arctic regions ten years ago,
Commander Parr, who accompanied
the same expedition, and Mr.. Leigh
Smith, who, in the last twelve years,
has made twelve voyages to the North !;
Lieut.. Commander Chadwick, naval
attache of the American legation, was
present; also Lieut. Commander Good
rich. who takes the Alert to America.
Mr.. Lowell proposeda toast to the
queen. the Earl of Northbrook respond
ing. He said the queen took deep in
terest in the expedition in which the Alert
was to share, aud lad felt great pleasure
in authorizing the offer to the Alert to
the American government. A toast was
then proposed to the success Of the *
petition, with which was coupled che
health of Lieut.. Goodrich.