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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
Grants Decision OF Character.
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LlNlA tut LSNENA
Grant as boy and young man was like
most young fellows, differing from them in
but few things. The great points in his
character began to show at the time when
he undertook the discharge Of important
public duties. From that period he exhibited
that decision of character which has ever
since been so conspicuous in his mental make
up and which was one of his most valuable
traits. He rarely doubted or showed any sign
of hesitation about what course 10 take when
action was necessary. 1t is not given TO
all men to see the way at important and
critical moments as clearly as he did, and
to decide on sight as truly what was the
right thing to do at the moment. But il is
within reach of every mau, who is a COM
petent free agent,to avoid that ''indecisiOn"
which is so great hinderer in the conduct
of this worlds affairs, This weakness
Grant never seemed TO know. Having the
quality Of decision, he was man OF action;
man who did things rather than one who
talked about doing them. Without intend
ing to substitute the act for the word, in
telling what he intended TO do, still that
was the effect of his modes of thought and
action. He was an exemplar and persona
fication of what the word duty means.
From the day when he went into the field
as an officer having charge Of other men,
and having responsibilities Of his own, his
first and last thought was 10 do his duty
faithfully, as duty should always be done. If
he was ordered to do duty he obeyed
promptly, TO his best understanding and
ability, without questioning the authority
that had the right to command him, and
accomplishing as to any personal discom-
fort or sacrifice. If the duty came 10 him
when he was commanding officer he kept
it steadily in view and performed it in the
same spirit. AS TO all this his career fur
nisheS great example He was human
enough 10 err, but, making mistakes as he
did, and as he himself frankly and sincerely
admitted, he was man enough TO confess
them and large-minded enough TO attempt
TO rectify them, and, whenever it was
within his reach. to Try and make repara-
ton. Commonplace as this virtue seems
to be, it is lofty quality in whatever man
POSSESSES il
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10

leave Jackson street at not earlier than IL 80
p. IN. and run the length of the road.
Every decent road in a city as large as st.
Paul runs its cars until midnight, any
way.
Unless they make some improvement for
the accommodation of the residents of that
large section of the city, an effort will be
made to induce the short line 10 stop its
early and late trains at Seventh street. when
we will be entirely independent of the street
cars. J. 4. L.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
Special to the Globe.
AHoIr war at the seaside.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Something of
holy war is going on between Asbury
Park and Ocean Grove. The adjoining
summer resort on the New Jersey sea
shore, Asbury Park, has gradually grown
away from its religious character and this
year its hot-weather population dance,
roller skate, play billiards and do many
other things common TO worldly people. but
right across Wesley lake the laws of Ocean
Grove are rigidly enforced against such
diversions. The joint use of the little lake
has brought about a fight. The Ocean
Grove Methodists seek to stop all boating
during the hours of worship and to prevent
the landing of visitors Sunday, but these
intentions are frustrated by the refusal of
the Asbury Park town commissioners to
adopt corresponding regulations. Moreover
they have retaliated by taking the ground
that shouting Methodists are a
public nuisance. An organization
similar TO the Salvation army
undertook TO march through the streets of
Asbury Park, singing, shouting and play
ing on musical instruments in order to draw
a congregation to hall which was backed
by the Ocean Grove authorities. Capt
Lizzie Roberts and Lieut.. Ella Kelly were
arrested while heading parade, and their
followers dispersed by the police. The Rev.
DR.. Z. 5. Stokes, president of Ocean Grove.
championed them holly in court, denounced
the prosecution and provided bail for them,
when the justice decided to hold them for
indictment. The battles are principally
fought on Wesley lake, where the Ocean
Grove police are instructed to arrest all
boating parties yenturing across the middle
line in forbidden hours, or including girls i'm
the scant bath costumes, which are now for
hidden in Ocean Grove away from the beach.
but which are still common in the street of
& ShnrN Park
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
EXPERIMENTATION.

A regular graduate. 2l4 East Seventh street,
treats, with unparalleled success. blood i'm
purities. nervous prostration, debility-dis-
eases from indiscretion. excuses. exposures
Moderate charges, safely. Advice free. Es-
tahlished longer than any advertising ply
sician in America Record OF cures for
twenty-seven years; never enc published
Patients from lAtlantic 10 Pacific Can or
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10

What toe is it that annoys a man more
than any other, and yet never has a corn on
it? A mosquito, of course. Why don't you
give us a hard one?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10

better husbands and fathers, and not to
make them narrow in their beliefs and
thoughts
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10

THOR SALE-Young Trotting Stock-I have several
i one and two-year-old colts the get of Baymont
1927. son of Alden Goldsmith, S37 out Of standard
mares. Colts all large and rangy, fine looking and
Enthusiastically showing the promise of speed G. W
Sherwood. 420
DRESTUN STOCK FARM, Preston, Fillmore
1 County. AIinn-For public service Herod C2:2416)
King OF the Morgans, Trample, the most successful
trottng sire of hts age in the Northwest; Comus
frst-clsss draft stallion. For pedgrees and terms,
address NJ T. Grattan. So
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10

a household necessity-Lactart, IS and
so cents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-10
Our State Fair.

The Spirit of the Times has the following
complimentary notice of the Minnesota state
fair:
American progress is gradually Illustrated
in the history Of the great Northwest. 1t
IS In the memory of thousands when the
buffalo roamed the wilds now covered by
the fleming cities of ST. Paul and Mime
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
NEWS.

1t has been decided that Italy will assist
England in Egypt, by opening a road par
allel to that from Suakim to Berber.
The storm of Monday night and Tues
day seriously delayed travel and caused
heavy damages, being the most severe of
the season.
General Gordon, it is now positively
known, was killed at the fall of Khartoum
on January %. Colonel Wilson's party
has been rescued by Lord Beresford and
brought to Gubat.
Out of the $50 places where liquors are
sold in Troy, n. V, only 125 have taken
| out licenses for the year. Saloon keepers
say the outlook is appalling, over >, 900 per-
sons having signed the pledge within the
past two or three weeks.
The Bill requiring thai Physiology and
Hygiene, with reference TO the effect of al
cohol and narcotics on the human system,
he taught in all schools receiving State aid,
passed the Pennsylvania Senate by a unan-
imous vote last Tuesday.
1t was stated at several of the labor head
quarters in Pittsburgh, Pa, ON Saturday.
that there are at least one-third idle men
less in the city nov than there were on the
list of January" Tile improvement in the
times is expected to continue.
\ fire in an annex to the Signal Service
Office il Washington on Saturday evening
dcst royed and damaged a large number of
valuable meteorological records and DANA
ged some of the finest Instruments in the
office. The records destroyed cannot be re-
placed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
making experiments with electric lights for
use in It's passenger cars. The experiment
has progressed so favorably that it is be-
lieved that within a few months the cleo
tric lights will be introduced into all the
passenger cars on its various lines.
The postal notes are a great success.
Over $1,000. 900 of them were sold the past
year. OF this amount $f51, 900 remained
unpaid. The main part of this sun is lost,
and will never be presented for redemp-
ton, and is therefore a clear gain to the
government. Over s22, 000, 600 in postal
orders were sent through the mails.
The people of Washington evidently
understand that an Inauguration only oc-
ours once in four years. Everybody who
has a room OF window on the line of march
from the Capitol to the White House is will
ing to rent it. Out of a score of adver-
tisements the lowest price for single win
dows is $40, or two for s15. The highest
prices are $50 per window; the average $50
to $50.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
HOW Sick Folks Got Meu.

No one needs wine, beer, brandy, and
gin as a medicine. We can get better with
out it. Consider these facts-for they are
facts.
THE yIRTUE OF MILK AND BEEF TEA.
A young lad was knocked down by a
van in a London street, and taken to a
large hospital. One morning the doctor
examined him. and said
sNurse, give him two glasses of port
wine daily and. looking kindly at the
lad, he said. you will get on very well.
my boy"
The young patient looked up. and re-
piled
PLEASE. sir. don't order me the wine
why not, my boy?"
IF you please sir, | belong to a Band OF
Hope
"Oh. answered he. do you? Well
Nurse, give him a pint of new milk in the
morning, and as much beef tea as he likes
and, laughing cheerily, he said to the boy,
'You will get on very well, my lad
And lie got quite well without the vine
Rec. George ". MCree.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
A BrOk III Father.

An affecting scene, one of the Saddest,
occurred lately at the visiting window of
the Jail in one of our cities. A boy. about
eighteen years old, was incarcerated await
ing transportation to Danemora prison,
where he is to serve a six years sentence.
The prisoner was a f~ine-looking fellow.
His father, an aged minister, had come to
visit hun. The son stood with shamed
face on one side of the grating and the
grief-stricken father on the other. Drink
Tle'father pleaded earnestly with his child
to reform while i'll prison, to read his Bible
and improve all spare time in study.
Son, continued the father. IF YOU had
the grace of God in your heart you wouldn't
be here. If those cursed grog shops were
swept away I'd have been spared all this.
Let it be a lesson to YOU, my boy. This is
the last time you will probably ever see
me. | am old and probably won't live
your six years out. Oh, my boy. promise
me to give yourself to God, that may see
you over yonder' The boy promised and
the old man went his way.
While this father returns to his home to
go down to a premature grave in sorrow.
the man who ruined his son is NOW engaged
in running other sons. Which shall we
have, I'll. Home or the Saloon?' 1t is
within the power OF the people to answer
this question. -DOmcsttc Journ0I.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
Love Thy Nesghbor as Thyseif.'

What shall he lone to save Them
The BOYS of our native land
shall we say, Lord help" and leave them
To be crushed by the tyrant's hand9
As long as we license evil;
As long as We vote for rum,
DO We think that God will hear IL,
When We pray thy Kingdom com
Ye men of the nation, rally,
Decide for right. and be true;
Though the conflict wages fiercely,
May we not depend on You:
Can YOU cover in this battle,
Can you simply pray Lord save
While the best among our darlings
Goes down to Il d~runkard's grave
And We. daughters of our country.
Who in fashions circles move,
viii You not forever Danish
From the homes YOU claim to love,
The ruby wine that sparkles,
With a false. deceitful glow.
That lures by its brightness,
But curses with its woe:
o, there's work enough around us,
For the willing heart and hand,
Let us only live for others,
Was there ever work so grand?
So | stop my tears from falling,
And eav my grief with Him,
Who said 'go after The erring,
And bring my lost ones in
Ella SpufH mOrIH CIdTj
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

The Camden Post has got to that point
Prohibition party "a right to set up for
themselves as well as any other parties
and to live, move and have its being in
this Republican country in common with
any and all other parties, > all which is a
refreshing sign Of progress ON the part of
the Post. and is what the MONITOR has
been trying to teach esteemed contem-
porary and Others for some time. We
have at all times insisted that if any num-
Der of temperance people saw fit to organ
ize politically they had a right so to do;
and IN so far as they were honest in their
motives and objects they were entitled to
respect. No one was compelled to go
| with them who did not think as they did.
But many of oar contemporaries seemed to
think that the Prohibition party had no
right to live; and, Judging from the abuse
layished upon the party by them, would
gladly have exterminated the whole lot,
root and branci,.
The Past proceeds to say that it is more
than surprised that such third party should
ask acquiesence in its views and measures
| from those whose boast it is. it il trying to an
initiate. " w care surprised at that ourselves,
because we did not know that the third
party aforesaid were up toany such wicked
doingS. VIII the Pest kindly send us par
ticulars? We suppose, however, that ref
ercnce is made to the effort to procure pro-
hibitory enactments from the Legislature,
on the part of the temperance men-third
party and otherwise. We have an old-fash-
ioned idea that the Legislature is the ser
want Of the whole people, and not the crca-
ture of the political party which happens
to have a majority therein. Can it be pos
sible we are in error in so surprising, and
that if the majority of the people desired
prohibitory legislation they would have no
right to ask it because some who advocated
il voted against the dominant party? In
other words, that the minority have no
rights which the majority are bound to re-
spect, save only to ''live, move and have
its being o. 1t is time this style of politi-
cal teaching was frowned down. If the
Legislature dare not take up a question of
Importance to the moral, physical and So
eial well being of the people, and pass it
on its merits, because there happens to be
a minority party that has incorporated
this question in its platform, then the
Legislature is not what it ought to be and
theoretically is supposed to be-a body as
sembled to represent, and consider the in
terests of, the whole people.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
"A Little Child shall Lead Them.

The following story from the United
Presbyterian illustrates the beneficent re-
suits of temperance instruction in the
public schools:
The law passed one year ago by the
New York Legislature did not go into
effect until Jan. 1885, and the incident
herewith given, is a single grain of the
glorious harvest that is to garnered by and
by.
The first fruits demonstrate how "a
little child shall lead them
The statutes of New York now require
instruction in its public schools concern
ing alcohol, and its effects upon the human
body. In some schools this instruction is
given effectively by teachers who have a
real interest in the subject. That great
good is thus being accomplished there is
no room for doubt.
\ well-to-do wife and mother, who pre-
sides over a beautiful home, wherein are
several lovely children, said to a friend re-
Gently: I'VE have made a change in our
household. We have always been accus-
toned to have wines and other liquors
upon our ~side-board, and we have not
thought it wrong. Our little Bessie, who
attends the public school, came home
awhile ago greatly interested, and said her
teacher had been telling her about alcohol,
and how much suffering comes from using
it, and how much better it is to be let
alone. And, mamma she said, i felt so
ashamed when | thought that we have it
upon our side-board. and that papa takes
it at his dinner, and sometimes gives il to
his friends who CALI The lady added that
Bessie had been so exercised about it, and
pleaded with them so earnestly, that they
had decided to make the change, and have
no more liquors in the house. The father,
an active New York business man. "a hail
fellow well met genial and popular
among his companions and friends, had
never before given the subject serious
thought. Now, W er, moved by his
lovely little daughters earnest pleadings,
he has signed IL temperance pledge, and
enrolled himself in the rank of total alb
stainers. And she received her impulse
from the faithful teacher in the public
schools.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

The Bill to submit a prohibitory amend
ment to the Constitution to the people, was
reported adversely by the judiciary COM
mittee of the New Jersey Senate on Tues
day. On motion of Senator Nichols, it
was placed on the calendar. notwithstand-
ing the report of the committee, by a vote
of 10 to !. Senator Y%oungblood opposed
the bill, saying, that ''only a set of COM
m-on-senseless fanatics desired the measure,
and it should be promptly suppressed.
Senator Youngblood should be suppressed.
He is making an ass of himself. 1t is one
thing to honestly oppose a bill on its mer-
its, but quite another to indulge in such
senseless abuse as the above. The case in
point, however, shows that in Senator
| Youngblood's county, at least, the third
party has good reason for being; for, ii
the Republicans of that county send such
men as he to the Senate, it is hardly likely
the party there will concede much to the
temperance men.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
Don't Sell it to Them

One day a young man entered the bar
room of a village tavern and called for a
drink.
No. said the landlord, you have had
the deltriHm tremeRs once. and | cannot sell
you any more
He stepped aside to make room for a cou-
pie of young men who had just entered,
and the landlord waited ON them very
politely. The other stood by silent and
sullen, and when they had finished he
walked up to the landlord and addressed
him as follows:
''Six years ago, at their age, | stood
where these young men are now. | was a
man of fair prospects. Now at the age of
twenty-eight | am a wreck, body and
mind. Iou led ME to drink. In this room
| formed the habit that has been my ruin.
Now sell me a few more glasses and your
work will be done. | shall soon be out of
the way: there is no hope for me. But
they can be saved. Do not sell it to them.
Sell it to me, and let me die, and let the
world be rid of me; but, for heavens sake,
sell no more to Them
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

Tho question of moving the county seat
of Salem county to Woodstown is being
agitated with renewed vigor now that there
appears to be an effort made to have the
Court House repaired. The Woodstown
Reqister makes a very forcible plea i'll be-
half of the change, giving as its reasons
that Woodstown is the centre OF the valua
BILE portion of the county and it is also
nearer the centre Of population, while Sa-
lem is Just ON the edge of the district.
The Register thinks that a new Court
House in Woodstown would be much pre-
ferable to a repaired one in Salem.-B11dge-
ton Nc1rS.
We hasten to assure our brother of the
Ners that the question of moving the coun-
ty seat to Woodstown is being agitated
nowhere outside the Register Office. We
have resided i'll Woodstown for many years
and claim a pretty extensive acquaintance
with men and things, not only here but
over most of the county, and have yet to
hear the subject seriously mentioned except
as the Register has had an occasional hack
at it. \ glance at the map will show the
absurdity of a claim to preference on the
part of Woodstown in point of geographic
cal position, even if any change was in con-
temptation. If Salem is ION the edge Of
the district Woodstown is within two
miles of the county line in the other direc-
ton. We suspect the people of Lower
Creek, Elsinboro, Quinton and Lower
PENIS Neck townships, to say nothing of
Salem City, would have something to say
as to whether Woodstown is the ''centre
of the valuable portion of the county"
But it will be time enough to discuss the
question when any change is seriously
talked of, which is not likely to be in the
lifetime of the Register.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

As the time for the township and Dor
ough election draws near it should be the
aim of every citizen to do his share in Sc
curing the nomination of men possessing
fit qualifications for the offices to be filled.
In too many cases the only qualifications a
candidate possesses is that he is willing to
accept the office or has the cheek to push
himself forward for the place. There is
little honor or glory in any of the positions
to be filled. The honor lies i'll doing the
duties required of the official faithfully and
well. and men should be selected for each
place who will carry out this idea. An
incompetent official can blunder into mis-
takes that will involve the municipality in
costly litigation or useless expenditure.
The men who seek the offices for the sake
of the temporary elevation it gives them,
and who work the offices for what there is
in them for their own pockets. should be
let severely alone. These places are created
not as rewards for party services, nor as
roundabout means of bestowing charity on
somebody who lis poor and needs the
paw" but because the welfare of the peo-
pie demands that certain duties be perform
ed to which the people cannot give their
collective attention. and they should select
those to do these duties who will do them
best-not for their private emolument-
but for the people.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13
childhood the Fortress of Humanity.

Beyond all other, this is The Children's
Age, and every word written or act done
i'll their interest is a force set in motion for
all mankind. For Childhood is the
fortress of Humanity posted away out on
the frontier of Time, and if we furnish
weapons, ammunition, aud military drill,
children will hold the fort" when the
veterans grow weary. As one of our gifted
W. c. r. L. workers has said: 1.-THE door
of m%illennial glory has a ehild's hand on
the LATCH BY as much as formation is
better than reformation, and prevention
than cure, by so much are we bound to
study the child in our midst as the
most impressive object lesson of the ages.
- Frances f.. Willard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-02-13

\ great proportion of the hardships for
which the laboring classes curse the
wealthy, they are themselves responsible
for; they can thank themselves and the gin
sellers for most of their misery. Ii a man
with a family earn eighteen dollars a week
and blow ten or twelve of it over a bar
while he listens to the gentle prattle of the
bar-keeper, who relates how monopolies
are grinding down the poor, can he ever
expect to accumulate . competence? When
hard times come. the drinking man is the
hrst to lose his place and the last to be
taken on again. Let the workmen nut the
s9oo, 000, 900 they annually squander for
drink, into manufactured goods and all
would find employment and business of ali
kinds would be booming instead of STAG
haht as 1t Is present; mills, factories and
other manufacturing industries would be
running full time; money would be plenty
anu everybody happy. Stop pouring your
money, employment, brains and health
down your thyast.-Pluck.