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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
High License-A Unitarian View.

A recent number of Unity, a Unitarian
periodical of Chicago, commenting upon
high license, > says:
'But high license marks real danger,
too. 1t makes the entire public partner
with the barkeeper. The $50 license does
this also, but that is partnership invisible.
again; a $500 license makes it visible and
very tempting, In the little co~untry-town
two $500 saloons will pay for the better
roads or the new school-house. In
Chicago the $500 saloons will pay 81, $50,
600 toward police and schools. This
operates as an enormous bride on all tax
payers; it secures the newspapers as aiders
and abettors; it is hush-money to the min
listers; it tempts every father and mother
of boys by paying so much sure benefit in
return for harm. Let the system rule I'M
disputed for ten years, and the general
conscience would be palsied. The $40, 600,
600 tax which the United States Treasury
receives from brewers and distillers is
moral chloroform to the whole country.
After the towns have paid for police, and
schools, and new roads ten years by the
saloon-tax. it will take heroism to go back
to pocketbooks rather than be partners
longer i'll the whisky-business."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Georgia has passed, by a vote of five to
one, an iron-clad local option law. Under
it an election can be held every two years,
in any county, on the question of license OF
no license. until ''no license wins the day.
That ends the matter; no more elections
ON that issue can be held. But if the
license vote is in the majority, the issue
can be tested again and again every two
years. Under the old law 104 out of 13s
Of the counties in Georgia were under
prohibition; the new law makes perma
nent the no-license victories. -Amendmen.
Herald.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
General Grants Disease.

DR.. Shrady, referring, in the New York
Medical Record, to the cause of Genera
Grants disease, since his death, says: at
is, however, quite probable that the irrita-
ton of smoking was the active cause of the
cancerin General Grants case, or, at least,
it is fair to presume that he would not have
had the disease if his habit had not been
carried to excess. This is the opinion OF
the medical expert most familiar with the
case. 1t would be well for all smokers to
be admonished thereby, and to consider
that aay use of tobacco is excessive, and
therefore wisely to be avoided .-Adoocate
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
william Penn n Temperance.

correspondent Ofthe christian 1dCOcdte.
writing of the temperance sentiments OF
the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, says;
an the frame of government drawn up
by Penn in 1862 for the Province of Penn
sylyania, Article 81, Section 3, Volume of
Colonial Charters (1526,) published by
authority of Congress, William Penn says,
that as a careless and corrupt administra-
ton of justice draws the wrath ofGod upon
magistrates, so the wildness and l~ooseness
of the people provoke the Indignation OF
God against the country. Therefore that
all such offences against God as swearing,
cursing, lying, p%rolane talking, drunken
ness, drinking of healths, and the like,
which excite the peopleto rudeness, cruelty,
looseness, and irreligion, shall be respect
lively discouraged and severely punished,
according to the appointment o the Cover
nor, and freemen in Provincial Council,
and General Assembly, and Court OF
Justice
S'The first Colonial Legislature, which
met at Chester in the latter part Of 1852,
declared as follows: The sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors is a cause Of annoyance and
disqniet to the people, and of murder
among the Indians(3and a heinous offence
to God, and a ~reproach to the blessed name
of Christ and the Christian religion"
The correspondent adds, Significantly:
in view of Penn sentiments and action
and Pennsylvania's record with reference
to the liquor interest during the past tive
centuries, have not (if such a thing be
possible PENIS bones turned in theiI
grave many times with horror and dis
gust ?"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Alcohol a Poison.

j. S. Nowlin, NJ. d., in the Nashville
(Tenn.) Cumberland Presbyterian, writes.
"Alcohol is poison to the body. 1t
Injuries the mind, and transmits it's baneful
influence to the progeny of its lover. Nc
one at this day who has looked into the eff
fects of alcohol denies that it is a poison
slow, certainly, but nevertheless sure,
The peculiar direction the poison may take
depends npon the amount, the rapidity
with which it is introduced, the length OF
time it is kept up, and the susceptibility Of
the person.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
rhe Horrors of Beer.

1t needs no scientific analysis for the con-
sumner to determine whether the beer he
| drinks is wholesome or otherwise, and
without expert warranty he knows that a
great deal of the stuff sold as lager dis
agrees with him.
Dir. BARLEY, who made the chemical
analysis for the Health Department, has
discovered the reasons for this unwhole-
someness. In the first place, the use of
brass faucets without doubt affects the
quality of the beer drawn through them.
Traces of the mineral are perceptible in
the comparatively small volume of two
or three glasses, and when the veteran
beer-drinker has INDUCED in his ordinary
amount he is pretty well loaded with a
brazen solution; sufficiently SO, in fact, to
suffer the specific pains of metallic poison
ing.
That fault, residing, as it does, in the
dispensation and not in the composition of
the beer, is remediable by the substitution
of wooden for brazen faucets.
But the fact that the beer is not lager at
all constitutes a far more scrious evil. No
matter how pure may be the ingredients
of beer, unless the process Of making it is
perfected it will be unwholesome, and like
most unwholesome compounds which the
oblique ingenuity of man does not disguise,
tie liquid is unpalatable. In their mad
haste to make millions, where their fathers
were content with thousands, the brewers
will not give their brews time to ripen.
They will not clay them by" and there
fore the beer is not ''lager." The pro-
cess of fermentation is not complete when
the kegs are tapped.
According to DR.. BARLEY we consume
what may with a little stretch of metaphor
be called bob beer, since it is only two
weeks from the vat it is brewed in. Fer
mentation not having time to set up the
effervescence which is the life of lager beer
artificial a~eration is produced by firing in
to the keg, just before bunging it up, what
the analyst describes rather neatly as a
cartridge composed of t~artaric acid and BIZ
carbonate of soda, the result of which is
that the consumer takes with each draught
something akin to an embittered seidlitz
powder, mixed with undigested and indi-
gestible substances, such as the vegetable
equivalents of cheese, and upsets his
stomach horribly.-Br0ohlyn Eogle.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
woODsTOwN
purI.ADEIpHIA MARKETS.
EVERY THURSDAY b W. c. GARRISON
al- snI,ru EpnNT ST. PHILAD

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY VIC. GARRISON
327 SOUTH FRONT ST. PHILADELPHIA
BuTTER-Prime PRINT 22c to 25c: fair lsc to zoe;
roll l5c to Isc; common Sc TO Zoe per Id. Egsslsc
to 2oc. per doz. DRESSED PouLTRY-Fowls lic to
l5c per lb; Spring chickens lie to lsc perIb;
ducks BE to nc per ID. ~STocK-Calves &c to nc
peril: fair &c to SIC per h.: lambs &c to619c per
ID; sheep SIC to 4c per ID; fair &c to 313c per Id.
WooL-unwlshed lsc to 20c per lb: washed lsc
to zoe per ID. FEArHERs-Geese choice Doc t o60c
per ID; fair 80 to 52c per l: turkey &c
to Sc per Id; duck 2sc 10 SOC per Id: chicken
sc to &c per lb. ~GAME-Squabs SOC to 35c per
pair; pigeons zoe to &c per pair; black birds lsc
to DOC per doz plover 35c to 4Oc per pair; snap
pers l2c to lie per ID; reed birds soc to 60c per
doz wood cock 75c. to $l.00 per pair :;
FRUIT AND NEGETABLEs-Cabbagec choice 81. % to
$l.50 per lbI: Tomatoes 40c to SOC per basket.
Egg plants l0c to l5c. per basket. Corn l0c 2Oc.
per basket. Lima beans 60c to I5c per basket.
Peaches extra sI.m to $l.2 per basket: fair 15c
to soc per basket. Apples choice $50 to 81 90
per Dbl fair ST. to $l.25 per Dbl. Pears bart
let's $3.50 to 500 per Dbl pears cooking 81 90
to 800 per Dbl; onions 1925 to $3.50 per Dbl.
Turnips 800 TO to $50 per Dbl. Grapes % to
Sc per pound. WateTmelons prime $1,000 to
Sl2.M per 100; culls $500 500. Cantelopes 15c to
81. 90 per Dbl. Potatoes prime 81, IA to 800 per
Dbl. Culls zoe to Sl.00 per Dbl. Sweet potatoes
prime s. p to $50 per Dbl: eulis $i.25 to $l.50.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The official of the West Jersey Agri-
cultural and Horticultural Association
who opposed the granting of space to the
w. c. L. L.. in the fair building to dis
tribute temperance literature and canvass
for temperance papers, on the ground that
it was a scheme in the interest of the Mon
fToR, is respectfully informed that he
is frightened without due reason. The
MONITOR knew nothing of the proposed
arrangement. it being the exclusive affair
of the w. G. 7. [. of Salem county, and
dis to introducing itself at the fair or else
Where in any other manner than OF its
own merits, we don't do business that
way. We furnish our paper to subscribers
for a consideration, and subscriptions are
received at our office or by our canvassers,
and we ask no boot of the fair managers.
and no space or privilege on their grounds
to push the paper. If the ladies of the
W. c. I. L. had our paper in mind as one
they intended to circulate ON the fair
grounds we thank them heartily for
their good intentions, but must decline
their well-meant courtesy. The MONITOR
will take care of itself, and the super
sensitive official above mentioned may
rest easy on that score.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
Trenton Letter.

Rev. J. l.. Sooy after a vacation of four
weeks occupied his pulpit last Sunday.
The German singing societies usually
hold all their business meetings on sun
days.
Rev. G. C. Stanger addressed the tenn
perance meeting at Chambersburg last
Sunday afternoon.
A Presbyterian Sunday School is needed
in Chambersburg to keep on footing with
other denominations who are operating in
the borough.
Rev. Judson Conklin commenced his
pastoral relations with Clinton Avenue
Baptist Church on Sunday. September 9th.
Rev. Chas. II. Trowbridge opened his
PASTORAL relation with the Taylor st. Eng
glish Lutheran church on same date.
An Episcopal Sunday School has recent
ly been opened in Chambersburg, the first
of the kind for that borough.
The temperance meeting at the W. G..
+. L. hall last Sunday afternoon was adj
dressed by Rev. j. O. r. Corlis,.
1t is said that the Salvation Army is con-
templating the erecting ola barracks inthis
city. Their first effort here three years
ago was a failure.
There are at present A. criminals in our
county jail, > of whom are females. The
arrest of about two-thirds of these can be
traced TO ufulkClillCSS
Our police justices had on their calendar
1870 arrests during the month OF August,
the greater portion Of whom may be at
tributed TO strong drink.
4 new street drinking fountain has been
erected in the sixth ward, convenient to a
couple of ~well-known saloons, recently
licensed to sell malt and strong drink. 1t
is safe to say that this fountain would not
have been erected had the Excise Board
refused to grant the licenses OF these two
saloon keepers.
Were it not for malt and strong drink
there would scarcely have been an arrest III
this city for week ending Sept. ). This goes
to show that a whole police force is le-
quired to keep the peace as disturbed by
the drinking element. Remove the cause
and the evil will be checked. But our ex-
else board fail to see even Il limit III grant
ing of licenses.
Thomas L. Baker, a veteran printer, is
lying dangerously i'll at his home. Mr..
b. as well as a printer is a Methodist loea
preacher, and has done good service in the
church. He has also lone good service in
the cause of temperance. Mr.. b.. has
many friends and mas the sympathy OF
all who know him.
Another brewery is to be started in the
suburbs Of our city. AS we have stated
before, there are 81 agents in this city sol
letting orders for lager beer by tile keg,
load or cargo. and still there is Il great
deal Of moral and material restitution in
our midst. We would suggest high license,
as low license cntices too many into the
business.
The flower mission connected with the
w. G. #. L. of this city distributed 800
boquets offlowers during the months Of
July and August. The ladies' who do this
work visit the hospital, penitentiary, re-
form school, aims house, and houses of the
poor and afflicted. MERCER.
The semi-annual meeting Of the New
Jersey Homeopathic Medical Society will
be held at New Brunswick, u Wednesday,
October It'll.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
What Is PrOhiDitiOn?

I'm IL prohibitionist, through and through,
As the woes and crimes of this world ! view,
And l pity its sad condition.
The fountain of wrong, ia forever dry:
To stop the flow. ia stop the supply;
And this is prohibition.
If knew a baker SO bad and bold,
That he poisoned each loaf of bread hesoid,
I'd try him by inquisition.
Then I'd oven him mp in stone walls four,
Where he could not peddle out death any
more,
And this is prohibition,
If 4 saw a butcher selling meat,
Putrid and spoiled, for patrons to eat.
Unworthy the son of perdition-
I'd fasten him mp in that kind ofa "pen,'
When he'd never break loose on the public
again.
And this is prohibition!
Ii | had II Iold, and II wolf should creep
Within 10 devour my lambs and sheep;
Inever could wait for commission;
But 10 stop his prowls, I'd stop his breath,
And save my flock by his instant death;
And this is prohibition.
fla scorpion by the roadside lay
In wait for the people who passed that way,
ia curb his satanica ambition.
An iron heel on his head I'd bring,
And crush ont his life and his venomous
sting:
And this is prohibition!
%Ifvenders Of rum throughout The land,
Are dealing ont poison on every hand,
Regardless of age or condition,
l want law to stop this supply,
And the law enforced till the traffic shall die:
And This is prohibition.
zSydney Social Refornier.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

We challenge any man in this commu-
nifty to point out any instance of benefit re-
ceived by this town from the Rum bust
ness since the time that Jackanias Wood
first settled here, or before either, for that
matter. We consider the question entirely
apart from the business of entertaining
travellers, as there is nothing more than a
long established custom to connect the two
together, there being no more reason, in
fact. why the business of feeding and lodg-
ing guests should be bolstered up by the
side attraction of the rum bottle, than that
the shoemaker, the grocer or the black
smith should be authorized to keep rum
for sale TO his patrons. On the other hand,
we could multiply instances innumerable
of poverty, distress, suffering and crime,
caused in this community by the abomi-
nablo traffic. This being the case, it is a
matter of wonderment to us how any man
who. has a heart in his bosom can put his
hand to an application for license TO sell
rum and thereby endorse the rumseller as
a good citizen, and his business as con-
duciye to the public coed. II the free
holders who are qualified to sign license
petitions would give these matters Il half
hours honest consideration, and then act
according to the teachings Of their con-
science. we don't believe they would pnt
pen to another application for license.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The professional masher comes to the
front in a new role. This time he assumes
the character of a robber, and plumbers
the giddy girl that has been mashed by his
art. Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the
scene. of the plot. Amanda Fatzinger, one
of the beauties Of that city, was the victim,
she permitting the masher to escort her
home and remain in her company until an
early hour in the morning. After the de-
parture of the fascinating rogue, Amanda
discovered tina she had been fostering a
wolf. and mourned the loss of five dollars
which had been stolen from her satchel.
Suspecting her companion of taking the
wealth. she made complaint against him
and arrest followed. The masher confessed
his crime and offered to settle. The case
being out of'the jurisdiction of the magis-
trate, the plunderer was committed for
trial. He is supposed to be III old often
der. Beware OF the masher. He is a de-
1Iusion and snare.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
10000 Temperance Sermons.

Every minister in the nation is earnestly
requested to preach a temperance sermon
one hundredth anniversary of the temper
ance reform, Sunday, September 20, 1885.
Let every minister and preacher raise his
voice for temperance on this important
occasion. The friends of temperance all
over the land should personally request
their pastor or the nearest minister to
preach on this great question on that day.
Send to the National Temperance Society,
5S Reade Street, for circulars and appeals
to ministers, and give them a wide c%ircula-
ton.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

At the recent camp meeting held at Pit
man Grove, Capt. R. Kelso Carter. princi-
pal of Higher Mathematics in Hyatt's
Chester Military Academy, took for a text,
from the book of Hosea, the words,
"Ephraim is a cake not turned" and
preached therefrom a remarkable sermon.
He said that ''many Christians of to-day
were only half turned cakes, done only on
one side, and not cooked through. They
want turning over and baking all the way
through" Will this idea truthfully apply
to any in this locality?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

A temperance meeting address lately
fate that befel twenty-seyen men who or
ganized a counter movement to the temper
auce workers in a Maine town. As given
in the Lewistown J0ufndl, the whole lot of
them were made examples of, thus: II filled
a drunkard's grave, : were lost at sea, 4
while intoxicated drove into an arm of one
of the lakes in this vicinity one night and
were drowned, 2 committed suicide, 2were
hanged in the South, and 1 went to sea and
never was heard from
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

gMarried.

Observation-Disclosures Thursday sep
tember ,, 1885, at the residence of the brides
mother, Glassboro, by Rev. Robert FL.
Pierce, Mr.. George A. D1uinmond TO MISS
Della Brown, both of Glassboro.
MILLS-HARRIs.-On the 10Th ult., by Rev.
James Trickett, ut his residence in Allowayy,
Mr.. Richard W. Mills, to Mrs. Anna Harris, all
of Quinton.
OTTINGER-RAIGN.-On August 30th, by
Rev. W. Margerum at the NJ. E. Parsonage,
Isarah Ottingerand Mary L. Raign, all ofPenns-
grove.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

An effort is being made by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union to induce all
druggists in Burlington county to sign an
agreement that they will hereafter sell no
liquor to minors or other irresponsible per-
sons under any pretense whatever.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Our esteemed contemporary, the CAM
den Daily Gourter. comes out in a new fall
suit, upon which evidence of prosperity
and determination to print one of the best
dailies i'll the State we extend to our f.
G.. aforesaid the hand of congratulation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
To Iicemse S~igmers.

Don't protect and license the rumseller
to ruin your own or your neigllbors boys.
Don't give your name to an application
that opens hell to your fellow men.
Don't give evil men authority to fill
almshouses and prisons with their fellows
and throw them on your hands for sup
port.
Don't take share in such damning bust
ness.
Don't 90 into eternity with the blood of
lost souls upon your hands.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

The political stew pan has commenced
to simmer. Candidates are out, and it will
not be long before the contest will begin in
earnest. The men presenting themselves
for the Offices to be filled are all well
known to the people. and it would be en-
tirely useless to comment upon their mer-
its and dement's. When the contestants
get fairly in the field, the MONITOR will
have something to say about their qualitica-
tions to occupy the position sought. The
gentlemen that in our opinion would
grace office and perform their duties faith
fully and to the entire satisfaction of the
populace. are not many, bat there are some,
and in the event of those we have in our
minds eye coming prominently before the
people. the MONITOR will warmly aid them.
To the outside world some parts of New
Jersey are considered to be a perfect Sodom
and Gomorrah of political corruption and
wickedness. While it is a notorious fact
that there has been much official malad-
ministration and crookedness, still the
number of political tricksters and plum
derers is offset by a greater aggregation OF
honest men, who would be fully worthy of
the support of the voters. The candidate
whose reputation is unsmirched can win
in an honestly fought battle. The politi-
cal crook must be crushed. 1t remains
with the voters to defeat the election of
any man who is known to be inimical to
the good of the State and people. The
ring politician must go. He has lived and
grown corpulent upon plunderings for
many years. and the citizens of New Jer-
sey have no further use for him. The con
stituency of South Jersey will brook no
bulldozing, and the scoundrelly and guilty
rogues must scatter.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
woopsrowS. FRIDAY, %srrrrrnEE II, 1885.

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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Poverty and misery, crimes and infamy.
diseases and death, are all the natural and
and usual consequences of the Incorporate
use of ardent spirits. "-178j, DR.. Benjamia
Rush.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11

Give people facilities for travel and they
will be quick omake use of them. Another
demonstration of this was given on the
West Jersey Cape May Railroad on Sun
day. An excursion to Cape May allowing
seven or eight hours enjoyment Of the
shore was offered for fifty cents for the
round trip of eighty-one miles down and
back. This would have been considered a
fair success if a train of fifteen or twenty
cars had been taken down with a thousand
to twelve hundred people: but to the sur
prise of even the railroad officials nearly
fifty-five hundred persons embraced the
opportunity; and it required four long
trains with nearly seventy cars to carry
them. There is a lesson in that experience,
ever if it goes no farther that to counsel a
renewal of the experiment. of the folks
in Philadelphia and vicinity who have been
to the ocean shore it is not unlikely that
ten have been at Atlantic City for every
one that has been at Cape May.-Phlada.
Led1er.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
gen. Grant Last Message Concerning
Alcohol,

General Grant, a few days before his
death, being urged by his physicians to
take alcoholic stimulants, mentioned to
Rev. DIR. Newman his reluctance to do so,
and wrote the following, winch we have
been permitted to copy from the original;
"JuLY I, 1885.
"Alcoholic stimulants are not good for
me. | can feel it or did the few times |
took port-wine. 1t simply heats me, and
leaves me weak for a time. | worked a
good four hours to-day, and wrote a short
chapter for my book. L. :. GRANT
-Adg0cHte.