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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

Let me alone growled the sleeper.
Stand up commanded the Chaplain.
This peremptory command the fellow
seemed to think it would be best to obey.
and accordingly stood up"
''Search him" said the chaplain to some
of the men-which suggestion was at once
complied with with a vim-better imagined
than de~scribed-as ''the boys'' were thor
oughly aroused and indignant at what they
believed to be "a game"
For awhile nothing was found to con
firm their suspicions-no writing or mes
sage of any kind, until one of the boys dis
covered a pocket on the back seam of his
pantaloons-which being examined was
found to contain several small rdt-tdl tiles.
"Ha, this is encouraging" said he
what else ?"-thrusting his hand again
into the same receptacle he brought forth
an accurately drawn map of the entire line
of defenses-each fort and entrenchment,
with the roads leading to them, correctly
marked thereon-an invaluable document
to those meditating an attack upon the
Capital.
''He is our prisoner said the chaplain.
''Take him to the guard house.
After securing the fellow the captured
files were examined, when it was found
that some of them were broken off short
near the points.
Now let us examine the guns"
On doing so, they found that five of those
commanding the approach to the city had
been spiked by these same r~at-tail files, and
so rendered utterly useless in case of an at
tack from that direction, which, it was af-
forwards learned, was contemplated. Sew
oral of the guns in the other forts, com
manding the same approach, were in the
same condition-doubtless by the same
means.
The fellow was sent, under guard, to
Headquarters, and from thence to the Old
Capital prison
What his subsequent fate was we are not
qualified to say. Probably official inf1u-
ence procured his discharge. But we feel
safe in saying that from that time no ped
oilers were allowed inside the lines of the
til P. VS., and that Lieutenant-Co Colonel
L felt that he had one man in camp
upon whose ''presentiments'' he could
safely rely.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

Girls do not always know their power.
1t is far greater than they think; and,
were they true and brave enough to exert
it, they might almost in a generation re-
volutionize society about them. Exert
your power for good upon the young men
who are privileged to enjoy your society.
Gentle and good, be also brave and true.
Try to exhibit the ideal of a woman-a
pure and good woman-whose life is
mighty as well as beautiful in its maidenly
dignity and attractive loveliness. Do not
let it seem that dress and f%rivolity consti-
tut your only thoughts. but let the eleva-
ton of your character and the usefulness
of your life lift up the man that walks by
your side. Some of you are in intimate
associations, which, under exchanged pro-
misses, look forward to a nearer and a more
enduring relation. In these hours donoth-
ing to lower, but everything to refine and
ennoble each others Characterization
transcript.
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Florida Chautauqua.-

The National Temperance Society will
hold a two-day's meeting, March 3D. and
4th. on the new FLORIDA C~hautaugua"
grounds at Lake de Funiak, Florida.
when addresses may be expected from
George W. Balm, Esq, the silyer-Tongued
Orator of Kentucky; General Clinton B..
Fisk, of New Jersey; Rev. G. II. Mead
and ]. Y. Stearns, Of New York; Rev.
w. w. Hicks, of Florida, and others.
This new assembly ground has recently
been secured in a most delightful part OF
Florida, and comfortably fitted up for a
southern resort, where a month Of meet
ings can he held similar 10 those at Chau-
tauqus in the north. Let the friends OF
temperance rally at these meetings. and
make them worthy Of the cause which they
represent.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
A Special Notice to Our Readers.

THE COTTAGE HEARTH is, as its name indi-
Gates, a home magazine, and to those who are
acquainted with ii, needs no higher recommen-
dation than to say it is better than ever before.
For ten years it Las had a steady growth both
in circulation and literary quality, and now is
a most excellent home magazine, crammed full
of good things, among which there is always
something to amuse or instruct every member
of the family. Its poetry is by some of onr
very best writers, its short stories entertain
ing, its descriptive sketches most attractively
written, and its articles on gardening and
other homes ubjectsare of great practical value.
Special features of this interesting magazine
are original stories and poems by the best
American writer's, and among its recent con-
tributors we notice Edward Everett Hale, Lucy
Larcom, Celia ThaXter, George Macdonald,
Louise Chandler Moulton, Joaquin Miller,
Mrs. a. NJ. DiaZ, Thos. ;. Collier and h. T. Shil-
laber. Its departments of music, fancy-work,
Horticulture, fashions, receipts and household
hints are filed each month with articles of
great practical worth, and will prove invalua-
BILE to ladies. We would especially commend
to our young readers the Young Folks De-
partment where they will find puzzles and
games, with prizes offered for correct solu-
tion. In fact, the magazine from its old-time
fireplace on its front cover, all through its we'll
printed and Observation-Disclosures pages, is
wholesome and interesting, and taking the
magazine, all in all, we do not see how a family
can get along without its monthly visits. We
are therefore glad to call our readers attention
to the fact that we offer the COTTAGE HEARTH
for a year, free of charge,
LIST. To anyone not now a subscriber who
will send us $3.50 for a years subscription to
this paper.
I'd. To anyone of our subscribers who will
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who will renew their subscription and send
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If you want to see the Cottage Hearth before
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copy. Address,
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HINTS FOR THE HOUSE.

Fancy covers for tables of nearly all
sizes and conditions still retain their popu-
larity. Three shades of garnet, olive, or
red browns may be combined thus artis-
tically. Make a square of the lightest,
which may be left plain, or embroidered in
wild roses, pansies, or daisies. About this
square put a band of velvet or velveteen a
shade darker, and finish this with flannel
of the third and darkest shade, pinked at
the lower edge. Feather-stitch one to
the other with gold color, and you achieve
a very handsome cover, and II that can
not fail to be much admired.
The s'bang'' is doomed. London women
and girls who make up fashionable soci-
ETY. nave entirely abandoned the bang and
all styles of wearing the hair down ON the
forehead. They brush their hair straight
back. showing the whole Of the forehead
and temples, knot it very carelessly on the
very top of the head, and wear it without
the faintest suspicion of a curl or crimp.
A glue to join the parts of broken crock
cry is made by stirring plaster of paris into
a thick solution of gum arabic until the
mixture assumes the consistency of cream.
Apply with a brush to the broken edges of
the ware, and join together. In three days
the article cannot be broken in the same
place. The whiteness of the cement adds
to its value.
A remedy for corns and felons is salycilic
acid. 1t is easy to apply and sure to afford
relief. For the corns apply a pinch OF the
powder and drop a little collodion on it; it
forms a film and needs no bandage to keep
it in place.
A New Orleans doctor calls attention to
a very simple fact which merits attention
from medicine takers. If the medicine is
mixed with very cold water and a few
swallows of water be taken as a prepare
tory dose, the nerves of the organ of taste
become sufficiently benumbed to make the
medicine nearly tasteless. The method
will not disguise bitter tastes, but acts
we'll in oils and salines.
Cracks in floors, around the mold-board
or other parts of "a room, may be neatly
and permanently filled by thoroughly soak
ing newspapers in paste made of one pound
of flour, three quarts of water, and a table
spoonful of alum, thoroughly boiled and
mixed. The mixture will be about as
thick as putty, and may be forced into
the cracks with O. case-knife. 1t will
harden like papier-mache. After getting
it into good shape let it dry thoroughly
and then color it to conform to the wood
work around it
An experienced and notable house
keeper says that she has used a silver
polish made after the following recipe
with marked success: Three or even four
drains of cyanide of potassium, from eight
to ten grains of nitrate of silver, with four
ounces of water. Apply this to a silver
plated article with a soft toothbrush, then
wash the silver thoroughly with clean
water, dry it with a soft linen cloth, and
then polish with a chamois skin; this will
not waste or scratch the plating, and yet
will brighten it perfectly.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
VOL. II.
THE MOSS ROSE.

Beneath a rose, as morning broke.
An angel from his sleep awoke.
Pleased with the flower above his head.
So fair and beautiful, he said
"Thy fragrance and thy cooling shade
Have doubly sweet my slumbers made.
Fairest of flowers on earth that grow,
Ask what you will and I'll bestow.
"Grant, then" it cried, "l1l ask no more,
Some charm no flower has known before?'
The angel first seemed at a loss,
Then clothed the bush in simple moss.
And, 10! the moss rose stood confessed.
AIoyelier flower tina all the rest.
The North american.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
A leading undertake told a Newark Jon

A leading undertaken told a Newark Jour
nal reporter recently that al innovation
had been made lately in the manner of con-
Quoting funerals. So many people, he said.
have caught such severe colds and other
sicknesses through standing in the open
air with their heads exposed that it has
been decided to do away with the custom.
Hereafter it will be considered proper for
the p~allbearers to pnt their hats on as soon
as they leave the house or church where
the funeral services are held, and to keep
them on during the services at the grave.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

The Philadelphia Weekly Press promises
to o~utrival the magazines, in their own
field. besides giving all the news, helping
the women, and furnishing valuable hints
to the farmers at the same time. 1t has
levied tribute upon the brains of the great
est of living statesmen, scholars, and men
of letters, and each week during the year
it will publish three or four of these special
articles, which will make the best of good
reading until the next paper comes.
Already have been printed articles by Adj
miral Porter, Mark Twain, Gen. Stone,
Archibald Forbes, Robert Buchanan, Lieu
tenant Greedy, Gen. c. c. Long, Thomas
A. Edison. Prof. Proctor and others. These
will be followed by contributions from
Gladstone, General Grant and Mr.. Blaine,
poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Whittier, and stories by Wilkie Collins,
Bret Harte, Ouida, Miss Braddon and
others. In short. the foremost men in
statecraft, in art. science and literature,
will make the Weekly Press, during the
year 1885, a storehouse of story, song, dis
coveries, and useful thought,
In addition, Mr.. Robert p. Porter, for
merly a member of the tariff commission,
and now of the editorial staff of the Press,
has already started to Europe, whence he
will write a series of popular letters to
that paper, presenting the economic con
dition of European nations, showing the
comparative cost of production, and the
conditions of life of the European labor in
the shop, the mill and on the farm. These
letters win be Of the highest value TO every
producer and working man.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

A gentleman of Howard, y. j., has an
invention which will be a boon to bald
headed men from the pestiverous flies. It
consists of a large spider painted on the
bald part of the head, and of course not a
fly will alight ON the Uranium. The inven-
tor has tested his invention and it works
like a charm. He viii take II a patent
for the same.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27


st. Nicholas for March opens witha front
ispiece picture of the Inauguration of
President Garfield to illustrate this
months installlnent of Among the Law
makers" in which the boy-page tells also
of General Grants second Inauguration,
and compares these with the inaugurations
of Presidents George Washington and
Thomas jefferson. This is of special and
timely interest TO all patriotic American
boys and girls.
Another attractive series, entitled 'The
Children of the Cold, : is started, to take
the place of '.Davy and the Goblin.
who make their farewell bow and end their
''belieying voyage in this number. The
new series. while s~earcely. less wonderful. is
quite true. and in it Lieut.. Schwatka. who
has spent several years living among the
Eskimo in their OWN homes, relates the
many interesting things he knows about
ehild-life in the Arctic circle.
E. P. Roe. in the second chapter Of
Driven Back to Eden. tells the enter
tanning story of how the little family OF
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ~journeyed back to the
~garden-land, aud of their very un-Edei-
like reception-rendered even more graphic
by the numerous Characteristic i%llustra-
tons by Birch and w. II. Drake; while
W. A. Rogers successfully performs a SIM
liar Office for three chapters of J. T. Trow-
bridges popular serial, Ills One Fault.F
Among the shorter stories are: a charm
ing tale by Mrs. Julia Schayer, called
'.Liesel, telling Of a little German girl
who was befriended by the famous and
benevolent Prince Poniatowski; Little
Kline, a bright story-sketch, by NJ. G.
Griffis. of child-life in Japan. in which
there is much that is new and strange to
us who live on the other side Of the world:
and a clever story by Sophie Sweet, with
the title, How Santa Claus found the
Poor-houser; and there are other ste lies.
sketches and poems by Louise Stockton.
Celia Thaxter, Malcolm Douglas. and
others.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

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A noble and attractive everyday hearing
comes Of goodness, of sincerity, Of refine
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moments
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27

William Robertson, Of L%ouisbnrg, n. G..
drank a quart Of whiskey on a wager ID
thirty-one minutes. lie drank from the
quart measure. lie died two hours after
ward.
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-27
CARRYING A LADDER.

Did you ever see q person carry q ladders
He puts it on his shoulder, or II may be he
puts his head between the rounds and has
one of the sides resting on each shoulder,
and having it nicely balanced walks along.
A man with a ladder is an interesting OIL
iect in a crowded street. He looks at lie
end before him. but the end behind him he
cannot see. If he moves the front end to
get out Of the way of a person, away & jes
the rear end just as far III the opposite d.
%rection, and the slightest turn of his body
only a few inches, will give the ends !
sweep of several feet, and those in the way
may look out for bruised hats and bumped
heads, while the window-glass along the
street is in constant danger from the nh
seen rear end Q fthe ladder. When a small
boy, ! was carrying a not very large ladder
when there was q crash. An unlueky
movement had brought the rear end Of my
ladder against a window. Instead Of
scolding me. my father made me stop.
and said very quietly: Look here. my
son, there is one thing | wish you always
to remember; that is, every ladder has
two ends. | never have forgotten that.
though many. many years have gone, and
| never see a man carrying a ladder or
other long thing but what remember the
two ends. Don't we carry things besides
ladders that have Eve ends? When | see
a young man getting fast habits ! think
be only sees one end OF that ladder. and he
does not know that the other end is wound
ing his parents hearts. Many a young
girl carries a ladder in the shape of a love
for dress and finery: she only sees that
qualification of a foolish pride at the for
ward end of that ladder. while the end
She does not see is crushing true modesty
and pure friendship as she goes along
thoughtlessly among the crowd. All yes,
every ladder has two ends, and it is a thing
to be remembered in more ways than one.
The Morapian.
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BY this time it had become quite dark.
and passing ON to the quarters OF the
officers in charge, the party stated their
suspicious, and learned that the man had
been ordered to leave the place a couple of
hours before, which it was supposed he
had done. A search was proposed, when
ringing out upon the still, frosty air was
heard the sharp click of a hammer striking
some hard substance, as of iron. Pro-
ceeding at once in the direction whence
the sound was heard, a careful examina-
ton was made, revealing nothing, when,
almost ready to %relinquish the search, one
of the men espied the valiant knight of the
button basket apparently sound asleep on
the ground under one of the guns.
Vigorous shaking failed to arouse him,
SO sound asleep was he, but the applica-
ton of '.moral suasion' with the bayonet
point finally prevailed.
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Current Magazines.

One of the best short stories in the August
Wide Awake is civilian Rufus" by Mrs Jessie
Benton Fremont William Rufus the hero be-
ing dog How the Boojums Went Down the
Crater is an illustrated article, written by the
ten Boojums, themselves. Chapters of four
serial stories two or three historical papers and
several poems go to make up the number. The
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American literature.
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ing As a source of inspiration to cooking
school or guide TO the practical housekeeper in
the preparation Of dainties it is invaluable. Z.
c. Wilton, publisher, Philadelphia
Good Housekeeping gives proof with each sue
ceeding number that it has come to fill want. Its
treatment of all matters connected with house
hold affairs is practical and sensible, and women
inexperienced in these matters cannot fail to
find it useful guide.
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The Value of Petitions.
!Great applause. !

GALVESTON. Tex, Aug. lin a suit at Long
View Hon. John W. Duncan, one of the attor-
neys in the case, vehemently argued that no
value or reliance could be placed upon petitions
proniscuously signed by citizens. The opposing
counsel refuted Duncans argument scathinsly
and characterized it as absurd and idiotic The
court and the jury were also against Duncan
They believed petitions in any cause, if signed
by good men, were entitled to respectful consd-
GRAFTON. Chagrned and defeated, bu6 not con-
WINGED that he was wrong, Duncan quietly went
to work to prove that tho petitions were of
no value Ingenious zeal was rewarded yester-
day, when, in open court, he read solemn petit
ton praying that the court would hang their
fellow-townsman Luke Howard. who is one of
the most respectable and enterprising citizens of
the place. Duncan displayed the names of all
the county officers and fifty business men signed
to this ludicrous petition. Among the signers
were the brotherinlaw ard fatherin-law of
Howard. Every signature was proven genuine
and it was conceded last night that Lawyer
Duncan is just little the smar test man in Long
View"