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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Trenton Prohibition Club elected
the following officers last Friday evening;
Henry B. Howell, President: J. S.
Schemerhorn, yice-Pesident: Jacob D..
1 Joslin. Secretary: Gilbert Dawson. Treas
urer; D. O. Ball, Chaplain.
1t is currently reported in this city that
| the Rev. Dr. Hanlon has come ont for
high license in opposition to third party.
A beer saloon was robbed in this city
last week. ON which occasion the burglars
stole twenty bottles of whisky.
There are now in this city p wholesale
agents of lager beer, nearly 200 saloons
and nearly fifty places where drink is sold
without. license.
A society known as the Liquor Dealers
Association held a picnic last week. The
feature of this picnic was to raise funds
TO fight the temperance element at the
primaries.
We have in our State Penitentiary So
convicts, in our State Industrial School
81 girls. in our County Almshouse II
paupers.
4 Methodist conference of local preach
ers will be held in this city on September
18th and 18th.
4 state prison convict died ON the prem
ises on Thursday of last week. from con-
gestion of the brain. He was sentenced
from Jersey City.
A Willow street resident. i'll this city,
has sunfiower in his yard the stalk of
which measures 16 feet in height.
State Normal and Model Schools are
having new heating apparatus put in their
cellars
Hon Secretary Kelsey and Hon. Staff
Little report their arrival in Europe on
Friday, August It'll.
Very little has been subscribed in this
city toward the Grant monument in New
York
OF the 100 applications recently pre-
sented to the court of pardons. % of them
were granted.
A labor picnic was held by the opera
tives of this city recently on which occa-
sion 300 kegs of lager beer We're sold.
The congregation of the 9TH Presbyterian
church has commenced the erection of a
new edifice.
Messrs. Hurley and Donaghoe, of this
city. have been awarded the contract to
furnish the Jamesburg Reform school with
800 tons of coal.
Three car loads of crockery were re-
Gently shipped from one of onr potteries to
San Francisco.
There is carpet factory now being
erected at Bristol, Penna., which will re-
quire 400, 900 bricks.
The Simpson Grove Camp meeting. over
in Bucks county, Penna.. few miles from
this city, has just closed successful season
of grace among the Methodsts of that
locality and among those from Phladel-
| phia as well.
There was Catholic Temperance picnic
held across the river recently, comprising
1000 persons from Philadelphia. on which
occasion not drop of liquor nor lager
beer was sold MERCER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost says: The
parents will is not the supreme rule of
conduct for the child, but rather the wise
consideration Of the child's future welfare
and the law of right and wrong, which is
the only authoritative criterion of all human
life. The parent has no right TO whip or
otherwise severely punish child. Parental
authority is not best promoted by whip
ping. Such punishment usually, if not
always, proceeds from anger in the parent;
it hardens the child: it degrades the mutual
relationship; it does not accomplish its
ostensible purpose; the after effect in the
parent or ehild's memory is not elevat-
ing With regard to incorrigible children,
no one knows what can be accomplished
with them until gentle, rational means
of influence are fairly and exhaustively
tried. If such means do not succeed when
so tried 1t is safe to say that whipping will
not. Whipping, in connection with the
prevalent notion that parents will is the
law of the household, is the heresy of home
life.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
An Ohio Clergyman Compelled TO Re
sign

Mr.. EDIToR:-All my calculations have
been disarranged. owing to my being com
PEELED to resign my church to the Presby-
terry. | preached prohibition, and that
gave a large minority of the membership
mortal offence. because for years some of
the congregation have been engaged in dis
filling whisky. Two of those engaged in
this business were deacons. and an elder
was the government faster. Some of the
ancestors of these liquor christians Were
found dead with their jug by their side.
Strange that the children should embrace
the fiend who murdered their parents. |
have been i'll the prohibition movement
since 1873. when in Pennsylvania we car
| ried local option by popular vote of nearly
70. 900, and shut up 157 breweries within
year. Within year and half the law
was repealed by the legislature. against
the protests of the people, and Gov. Har-
tranft signed the repeal at the behest OF
the liquor interests. DR.. Dorchester states
that the repeal of local option in Pennsyl-
yania was the result of third party move
ment. He is sadly mistaken in this. The
repeal of the law caused the organization
of the third party Yours for the war. j.
c. Hench. Ioice.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

y dozen years ago, an enraged workman
kindled fire in mine near Wilkesbarre,
thinking that it could be extinguished at
WILL but when a stream of water was
brought to bear upon it. quickly the heated
coal cracked on every side, and the
tongues OF flame leaped through every
crevice. Powder was used, but it opened
new channels for the fiery fiend to enter.
Dynamite has been tried, but in vain: the
fire will burn on until the mountain is
destroyed.
We must have mighty torrent of pub
lie sentiment with all the powder of state
law, and dynamite of national power to
destroy the mountain of the liquor traffic;
and to secure it We must educate, EDUCATE,
for upon education we depend to make
permanent and effective that for which we
legislate. VIII We not then press educa-
ton? Shall it not be in every possible
form; didactic, descriptive, pictorial, any
way, every way, to reach the people?
While we lessen not a whit our religious
teaching. while to save a soul to the glory
of God will ever be our chief delight, the
question in its proper phase must be
brought before all great gatherings, &c
clesiastical. educational, medical Scien-
tific, Legislative, and the great mass Of
people must be made to think. Can we
fail to believe that God will honor such
effort, when as our eye scans the field, we
fba T.. IL 81,
of contradictions Nine legislatures under
the appeal of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Unions of the states have enacted
laws requiring scientific temperance teach
submitted prohibitory amendments, Our
God is marching on. Harry A. Wood
bridge IN National Bulletin.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
Some Prominent People.

Mr.. George W. Childs. proprietor of the
Philadelphia Ledger. neither drinks.
smokes. nor swears. Mr.. Childs as is
well-known, makes it an inf1exiblc rule
never to tolerate Il drunkard in his employ.
A writer in the New York World tells the
following story: When he bought the
Ledger, in 1864, it was losing money badly.
\ gentleman named Coleman was city
editor, and lie was naturally solicitous to
keep his place. He went to see Mr.. Childs
the next morning and said: II understand
that you have bought the Public Ledger
You and are old friends. We come from
the same town. Baltimore, and there is no
reason why we should not get on" ITO
be frank with you,' said Mr. Chids in
response to this, Il had made up my mind
that yoH were the very first man that |
should discharge" why p stammered
Coleman. in dismay Because, said
Mr.. Childs, lyon are drunkard, and |
will not have drunkard in my employ. >
What if | should reform 90 said Cole
man. Mr.. Childs very quickly replied,
Then will retain you and siouble your
salary" Poor Coleman had never had
such an incentive to reform as this He
caught the proposition. He did reform,
and it is through the efforts Of this re-
claimed city editor that the large reforma-
tory for inebriates was established in Phil
adelpha. Mr.. Coleman remained with
Mr., Chlds until short time ago, when lac
was retired upon full pay.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Rev. Dr. Collyer says: Woman
ought to be at least the equal of man in hel
intellectual capacities; nay, she should be
his superior, for a woman's mission is so
much more important, considering the
great Office and sancity ofthe mother. The
nations that most reverenced woman were
those whose manhood stood highest in its
times. Who can count the lives wrecked by
ill-mated husbands and wives? As rule it
is the husband that is at fault. because
man has to take the world as lie makes 1t.
while woman's world is what it is made to
be by her husband.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
The Stale Census.

The census returns of the State are all
in now. The total population of the state
at present is 1,21G, S25, an increase of 49,
700 since 1890 when it was 1,131.1 As
will be observed by the table below, three
counties have fallen off in population
Hunterdon. Morris and Sussex Hudson
has increased the most, more than 10, 900
per year which, it must be admitted,
seems little difficult to credit The
increase was almost entirely in the eastern
portion of the State, around Newark and
Jersey City. Camden is the only South
Jersey county showing marked increase.
Several of the southern counties have
barely increased. In some eases the
growth is scarcely pereeptible. These
returns will probably figure largely in the
next Legislature. The large increase in
the eastern counties will be urged as an
additional reason why there should be a
constitutional change in legislative represent
tation, especially respecting the Senate. 1t
is claimed that the Senate should he COM
posed of representatives elected on the
basis OF population.
The counties compare with the year 1880
f,lIovrc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
Tell US Why.

Why does the liquor-trade take special
measures to conceal its customers when
other business seeks publicity and their
customers require no eoncealment? Why
are the windows of the saloon screened,
and even its door so managed as to swing
open with touch and close Immediately
so as to hide the customers within? lnthe
dry goods store the door stands open. and
the windows give the most tempting dis
play of its goods. A jewelers. shop is
thing of beauty TO arrest the eye.
grocery. provision or bakers store is open
to all and no one dives into it or sneaks out
from it like a culprit. The only way for
accounting for this fundamental difference
between the liquor-trade and other trades
is the conviction in the public mind, and in
the minds of the sellers and drinkers of in
toxicating drinks, that the business is a
thoroughly bad one. though they may not
admit the fact even to themselves. Nearly
all the fights, and a great majority of the
murders committed, are caused or aggra-
waited by Intoxicating drinks. and large
portion occur in saloons You never hear
of riots. battles, wounds and death in any
other places Of business; but You often
hear of them in saloons and dram-shops
When saloon keeper sends ont
drunken man who f1ourishes a knife
or revolver, and perhaps shoots one or
more of those who try to arrest him, it
IL, alta aa4a 10. iqht 1sf
as well have let loose into the street tiger
or mad dog. What other business vomits
crime in this way.
The moderation men mo one stands mp
for excess are all the time nursing
and defending this liquor buiness.
which may be called the mother of crime,
until they themselves are overcome by the
appetite which they have invited into their
system. and join the vast procession Of
immortal beings in the same degrading
condition, going not to honorable graves
and the kingdom of heaven, for no drunk
ard enters there. but to the potter's field
here and-awful words-hell hereafter
1t is this difference, not in degree, but in
kind, between the liquor-traffic and other
trades than points out the former, not for
futile regulation at great cost to the public,
but for extirpation. To license men to
destroy their neighbors. break up families
send souls to perdtion, make criminals
and paupers, is a barbarity of which the
cruelest savages might well be ashamed,
| aud yet such licenses are granted by tens of
thousands in this highly intelligent Ameri-
can Republic, from which much better
things might be expected.-lfoneer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
Why the Hard Times. -

1ou may take the range of mans cx-
pendtures, from the basin in which lie
gets his first bath to the coffin in which lie
takes his last sleep; from the toy whistle
of the infant TO the grand piano of the
finished miss; from the silks and satins OF
the millionaires to the shoddy of the day
laborcr: from the money given to the
church TO the aims bestowed upon the
street beggar, and you will find that for
every dollar the people of this country
spend for any purpose whatever, fifty-fiy
cents go for beer, whisky and tobacco.
again ask, do you imagine that if that vast
sum was spent for additional food, cloth
ing and houses. that there would be any
idle hands, or ragged, houseless and
hungry citizens? Certainly not What,
then, is the plain and obvious cure for hard
times? What the means that would for
ever prevent them coming, or make them,
if they did come, only an additional holt
day for well-to-do citizens? Clearly. it is
the diyerting of this enormous expenditure
into needfnl and productive channels, to
the manufacture of additional food, cloth
ing. furniture houses, and all the articles
of use and beauty which man requires for
his maintenance as an intelligent and
happy citizen. The radical cure for hard
times is PROFESSIONALLY the total and i'm
mediate prohibition of the liquor traffic
'htrd Times, : hy ID. r. foadie. GhicG0o,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

Temperance is subject worthy of the
attention and consideration of all good
citizens. 1t is a cause which no one need
be ashamed of espouSing, for it is calcu-
lated to raise the fallen clothe the naked
and feed the hungry ones who suffer on
account of intemperance.
When temperance prevails. prosperity is
the result
When intemperance hourishes, crime
and poverty does also--lames .stolJeH u
Missouri Agdotor.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Phlada. Nstcs of Tuesday has a
column devoted to General James Stewart,
Chief of Police, of Philadelphia, and the
old 9th New Jersey Regiment, in which he
enlisted as private and of which he was
finally Colonel, which will be read with
interest by the veterans of that organiza-
Colonel Jim" as the boys used TO call
him, is being doomed for the City Treas
urership of Philadelphia. He deserves to
get there.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

A friend stopped in to inquire Of us if We
knew 'show much of the fund for subsi-
dizing newspapers, belonging TO the State
Liquor League, is paid the Register for run
ming their paper on its present basis In
absence of any positive knowledge We vol
unteered the answer that the Liquor League
did not waste much money OH such brain
less sheets as the one named. \ paper
that cannot print four line paragraph
kind sensible people would select to defend
them or their business
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
CareIessness in Regard TO the Morals
of ChiIdreu.


Mary T. Lathrop, President of Michigan
W. c. T. L.. stating the causes of drunk
ennesS, enumerates as a first cause. the
carelessness with regard to the morals OF
children. The streets of towns, large
and small. are crowded with boys and girls
whose freedom from restraint is likely to
prove their ruin. In recent report of the
Woman's Prison of Massachusetts,, it APP
pears that 90 per cent. of these criminal
women come to their loss through drink.
and very large majority begin to get
their first appetite for liquor between the
ages of 10 and - years. by drinking cider
and beer, at the solicitation of older
women. These traps are everywhere for
the unwary feet and yet parents let the
younger children go beyond their care.
thinking their very innocence a safeguard
against sin. Alas. how many find too late
that childhood may be despoiled. At four
teen comes the danger line to youth.
have wished sometimes | could take some
careless and over trustful mothers with
me for a months trip, to see the young
miss of to-day, over-dressed. averaged,
over-vain, in company with empty-headed,
bold, bad boys. or older men who flattel
to destroy"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The farmers who have land to fence
will soon have the opportunity to see one
Of the beauties of protection. All the
barbed wire manufacturers, who are pro-
tected by heavy duty, have consolidated
their interest into one company. The
farmers will see the great benefit derived
by this monopoly when they have completed
their combination as they have ordered an
advancement of Is per cent on all wire
sold
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

There will be no insurance placed on the
its completion and the owners barn. in the
rear of his residence, is also uninsured.
This ought to be valuable pointer for
''Skeezieks,' of the Register, and his gang.
We Judge he is looking for such favorable
openings for his peculiar talent during the
temporary inactivity in the graveyard
robbing industry
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The next best thing to being right is to
make amends as far as possible when a
man discovers he has been wrong. 1t is a
rare virtue however, human nature having
bull-headed ingredient in its make up
that prompts many to stick to wrong
rather than acknowledge it. All which is
suggested by the fact that E. c. Haincs,
finding that he had done injustice to others
in his letter to the l%andard concerning the
recent sad drowning case in Woodstown,
makes manly retraction, and acknowledges
his error in terms that must raise him in
the regard of right-thinking people.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

There are now four widows of ex-Presi-
dents living Yrs. Tyler, who was mar
ried when her husband was President yet.
lives in Georgetown; Mrs. Polk. who en-
tered the White House as its mistress
more than forty years ago, still lives in the
Polk mansion in Nashville, ripe in years
and green in the affections of her people;
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant are fresh
in the memories of the country and the
world,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The train bearing the first instalment OF
tea shipped by the Northern Pacific road
from Tacoma. on the Sth inst. reached
New York on Monday, making the run of
1918 miles in eight days and four hours,
being the fastest time ever made by a
freight train from ocean to ocean.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The seventh annual Labor Congress of
New jersey, held on last Monday in Cam
den, was attended by 1873 delegates, repre-
senting, it is said, nearly 60, 600 members.
Resolutions favoring arbitration. declar-
ing working overtime to be unnecessary,
favoring reduction of the legal rate of
interest, and opposing the menhaden fish
cries, were adopted
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Register platform has gone to smash,
and the paper has formally abandoned the
ranks of respectable journalism and gone
into the more congenial mud-slinging bust
ness for good and ALL Early ripe and soon
rotten.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

We have linen table diaper from poe. to
40c. yard, bleached damask from 45c. to
9Oc,, the largest stock in this part of Jer-
sey, alsod' oyleys at zoe, cream and bleaehed
napkins, several qualities, and the incest
white counterpanes for 800 we ever sold
AT no place that we know of in town or
country can you get better served in these
goods or better value for your money than
in our stock. L. B. Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

We would acknowledge the receipt of an
invitation to attend the annual press COLA
ton of the State Agricultural Society.
which will be given at Waverly. on We'd
nesday. the goth inst.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Register says that our Borough gov
eminent is a success, but we never heard
any one else say So The mere mention
of the fact that the Register pays no tax
and gets all the Borough printing will
probably enlighten many as to how much
dependence can be placed in its assertion.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

When You see this paragraph marked
with a pencil mark it indicates that your
subscription expires with the number in
which it is so marked. The paper will be-
continued to your address for few follow
ing numbers until you have had an oppoI-
tunity to notify us, if you have not already
new
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

In density of population New Jersey is
excelled by but two states in the Union
Rhode Island with 255 inhabitants TO
the square mile and Massachusetts with
222. New Jersey has III, with thousands
and thousands of acres of good land in
South Jersey on which there is not single
Ihabitant
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

That VAS an argument for prohibition
which even the drinker can appreciate,
which was made by an Ohio drinking man
just before the election in that state. He
said: Il have three boys. One of them
is old enough to drink, aud is drinking.
He learned it in the saloon. My prayer is
and my vote shall be cast, to close the
saloons before my other boys get into
them and get to drinking; and know
scores and scores of other drinking men
who are anxious as | am to close the
saloons before the little boys reach them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21
An intelligent young mechanic stood NJ

An intelligent young mechanic stood up
in temperance meeting and said: Il
books. | saved my beer money and spent
it in books They cost me with my book
case, nearly 800 They furnish enjoy
ment for my winter evenings, ard have
enabled me, by Gods blessing, to gain
much useful knowledge, such as pots and
pipes could not have given me
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

The Woodstown MONITOR is one of the
best printed and neatest looking papers in
the state. --Byidgsfoa Neus.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

Roller skates are manufactured in
Newark at the rate of 5000 pairs per
month.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

John B. Cough, the temperance orator,
bears a close resemblance to Professor
Morse. the inventor of the telegraph, in
his blue eyes, long flowing beard and an
abundant head of silvery white hair. Mr..
Cough is now sixty-three years of age,
and has appeared before the public as a
lecturer for nearly forty-two years, having
addressed during that time more than
twenty-eight thousand assemblages in all
parts of America and Great Britain. His
recollections and fund of anecdotes of dis
tinguished persons is inexhaustible, as all
can testify who have listened to his
lectures. His complete mastery of audi
ences is marvellous. From the first word
to his last utterance he holds his hearers
by the closest attention, moving them to
tears or convulsing them with laughter at
his will He has accumulated large for
tune from his lectures or talks, and his
home at Worcester. Mass, is stocked with
relies and souvenirs picked up during his
extensive travels.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-21

Woodstown may be slow in the matter
she has been tolerably sure. Such enter
prises as have been taken hold of have
succeeded. Her building improvements
are substantial and there has been no
going backward if the forward march has
not been so rapid as some would wish.
There is little of the mushroom about
Woodstown