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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
sweet Lamb Cider"

The Lamb cider man, so well known
in our community. is working the upper
part of the state as will be seen from the
following interview published in the Tren-
ton Times:
"Sweet lamb cider, fresh from the ice;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" or words of a SINH
lar import, with maybe a slight variation
on the latter part of the sentence, came
floating up one of our main streets this
morning. As is often the case they fell on
the ears of a Times representative. And
yet the cider man was Nowhere in sight.
Tho voice had gone before him. And then
the scribe waited until the little low black
wagon with its yellow letters came sedate-
ly around the corner of the street. There
in sat the distributor of the cooling apple
syrup, pouring out a glassful with one
hand and guiding his horse with the other.
And there amid a congregation of small
boys, who made facetious remarks and
threw out hints for cider, the inquisitor
CLEANED the following information:
We'll, if you would really like to know
about the business regale yourself with a
glass of cider and | will tell YOU"
The first part of the programme having
been quickly and thankfully accomplished
the latter part required attention. The
colored gentleman then said:
sPersons as a rule call me the lamb
cider man., but my right name is J. II.
Richardson
Where do you reside ."
"My home is in Bridgeton, Cumberland
county, in this State; but with a business
like mine ! see but little of my residence.
| take a certain section of country to work
up for my trade and remain there till |
have sold all | can. This takes from six
months to three years, and during that
time it is likely that | will return to
Bridgeton only once or twice"
''How long nave you been in Trenton 2"
was asked. ''Since New Years replied
Mr.. Richardson, and | intend staying in
town till business is slack; but as | receive
an invoice of fresh cider about September
list | will most likely remain for some
time. You may not know it but all my
cider comes from Bridgeton. Upon receipt
| put it IN ice till used"
'Do you have any regular route ~
s'Strictly speaking | have not. go
through Chambersburg, Millham and Tren-
ton city, and supply all the customers.
This usually takes Inc about two days.
The first | spend in the borough, the sec
ond in IRE nton. Then. once in a while, /
will TAKE a iaunt into the country, more for
recreation, for you know the people out
in the suburban districts have their own
orchards and consequently their own
cider"
In reply to a question concerning the
length of time he had been in the business
Mr.. Richardson replied:
about thirteen years, but most of my
work has been in South Jersey. My route
was between Camden and Cape May City,
and | used to travel through the fine fields
of lower Jersey the year in and out"
SIS the business profitable ~
II don't like to say how much | make,
but you may say that it is paying and |
feel prosperous.
After another glass Of cider the scribe
travelled officeward, thinking that if Mr..
Richardson's business is as good as his
cider he is surely making money.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
..OuIy this Once


"Onlv this Once"-Exodus X. Il.
"sOafHfhix 0nee'-thew ine-cup glowed
All sparkling with its ruby ray,
The bacchanalian welcome flowed,
And Folly made the revel gay.
Then he, 50 long, 30 deeply warned,
The sway of Conscience rashly spurned,
His promise of repentance seorned-
And, coward like, to Vice returned.
"sOaly this once;-thist tale is told,
He wildly quaffed the poisonous tide;
With more than Esau's madness sold
The birthright of his soul. and died.
Il do moi say that breath forsook
The clay, and left its pulses dead,
But Reason in her empire shook.
And all the life oftUe was fed.
"Again his eyes the landscape viewed,
His limbs again their burde bore,
And years their wonted course renewed,
But hope and peace returned no more.
Yes, angel hearts with pity wept,
when he WHOM Virtue fain would save,
His vow to her 80 falsely kept,
And madIy sought a ~drunkard's grave.
".OaIy this on~ce'-beware. beware,
Gaze not upon the blushing wine;
N. ny Temptations's syren snare,
And, prayerful. seek for strength Divine,
Mrs. l.. H. SigoHraey
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The newspapers are again talking about
Charles X. Lands, who several years ago
achieved an unpleasant notoriety by shoot
ing an editor for publishing libels. The
editor died and Lands. after a long trial,
was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
He recovered from his insanity rapidly
and is coming to the front with a new and
gorgeous summer resort on the sea coast
below Atlantic City, N. j.. Lands has
had remarkable success as a developer. He
spent some time when a mere youth trad
ing with the Indians around Atlanta.
Later he went to Philadelphia, studied law
under Benjamin Brewster and embarked in
a number of speculative schemes. His
most successful enterprise was the purchase
of a tract of sandy land in New Jersey.
-Atlanta Constitution.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Some person or persons, so far unknown.
placed dynamite or some other powerful
explosive in the cellar window of the tay-
ern of James B. Rogers, at Nineteenth
and Callowhill streets, Philadelphia, on
Wednesday morning about two O'Clock
which, exploding, destroyed a part OF the
building and sent the rum to kingdom
come. 1t is time the American people had
put the dynamite of public opinion under
the whole internal system of licensed OF
unlicensed rum selling and blown the in
iouitous traffic out of existence.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

81. Nicholas for September contains a
fanciful tale by Frank r. Stockton, en-
titled 1.-THE Battle of the Third Cousins. "
"a Great Financial Scheme" by Sophie
SWEET. is a very funny story with a very
good moral. In "Spiders of the Sea- G..
F. Holder contributes an interesting paper
about crabs. Henry Frederic Reddell
writes on Nickname which is historical
rather than analytic. The number is well
supplied with poems and verses. OF the
serials, 'Sheep or Silver?' is concluded;
while both ''Driven Back to Eden" by Z.
p. Roe, and Ellis One Fault by J. T.
Trowbridge, are evidently working to
satisfactory conclusions, next month.
Schubert is the subject of the ''From Bach
to Wagner" paper; and Edmund Alton
tells about Congressional Investigations
and Republican Simplicity, in "Among
the Law-Makers.'' The illustrations are
especially noteworthy this month, and in
clude a full-page engraving by Elbridge
Kingsley. and a full-page drawing, by
Alfred f. Steiner, called 'tBy the Sea"
w. II. Drake contributes two full-page
Illustrations To ''Driven Back 10 Eden"
aud there are other drawings.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Don't drink any more, Margeret,' said
Justice Stilsing, in the Jersey City Police
Court, to Mrs. Coyle, who stood up before
him.
I'm never drink again" She said.
We'll, then, you can 60. and don't let
me see your face again"
Margaret left the courtroom. An hour
later she was discovered lying in a hallway
in a beastly state Of intoxication. with a
bottle Of whisky at her side She was
sentenced for ninety days and fought the
officers on her way to the cell.-N. Y.
World.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Of greatest public interest in tie Septem-
Der Gntary are General Grants article on
''The Siege of Nicksburg;' the forcible
frontispiece portrait, and a communication
from General Grant, dated Mt. McGregor.
June %, in which he withdraws what was
said by him in TIE CeRtHTy of last Febru-
airy in regard TO the conduct of General
Lew Wallace and General McCook at
Shiloh" An article of great interest is
"A Woman's Diary of the Siege of Nicks-
burg" The Memoranda on the Civil
War" embrace, who Projected the
Canal at Island No. 1902" by General
| Schuyler Hamilton; The Charge of
Cooks Cavalry at Gaines Mill" by Gen
eral Philip st. George Cooke, with Re
collections of a Participant in the Charge .
by Rev. W. H. Hitchcock; and General
Beauregard's Courier at Ball Ran, by
Major Campbell Brown. Wendell Phillips
Garrison describes the Prudence Gran
dali persecution of 1888, and the encour-
agement given by William Lloyd Garrison
to the brave school mistress who wished to
educate young ladies OF color" The
article is very suggestively entitled Con
n~ecticut in the Middle Ages" Lieutenant
Schwatka's paper on THE Great River of
Alaska" is profusely illustrated. Mr..
Howells continues his charming Italian
papers with a second article Oh .Panforte
di Siena." Miss Alice Maud Fem describes
"Among the Red Roofs of Sussex" Ed
mund G.. SJedman completes series on
American poets with an article on the
Twilight of the Poets" George W.
Gable contributes a paper entitled ''The
Silent South" Short essays of general
interest are in Topics of the Time" The
shore story of the number is Il war story
by Mrs. Burton Harrison, entitled Grow 5
Nest" This number contains the eighth
part of Henry James serial, THE Boston
ians." Poems arc contributed by many
good writers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
SPECIAL TO THE LADIES'

If those who need and have
occasion to buy materials for
white dresses, such as India
Lawns, Victoria Lawns, Mulls
and Nainsooks, knew how much
lower our prices were than 9TH
ers hereabout, we would sell a
larger share of these goods this
season than ever before. There
is but little doubt that you can
buy as much of us for $500 as
elsewhere for $3.50, or as much
for $500 as elsewhere for $500.
Get samples of the very lowest
prices you can find, bring them
along and let US match them.
You can then make a compari-
son OF price and quality.
f. B. HUMPHREYS & CO..
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
Liquor and Labor.

\ correspondent of John Swinton's
paper, the organ of the labor unions, calls
attention to the claim of the breweries that
they give employment to 800. 900 men, and
says: ''rhink of this, workingmen. Half
a million men employed in destroying food,
in rotting grain, etc, turning it into a poi
son that makes men fiends; wives. widows;
children, orphans; the industrious, lazy;
the intelligent, num-skulls; and sends
women and children to work in place of
men. thus filling the land with tramps and
~lOafers, for the workers to support. If it
is true that every person who produces
nothing beneficial to society is no better
bar a pauper. + < 4 then all labor
employed in making, handling or selling
such drinks is labor wasted, and people so
employed are paupers and makers of
paupers. = Z = The brewers. distillers,
liquor, wine and beer dealers are among
the worst enemies of ~workingmen; the
temperance people are their friends. The
former rob them Of their health. happiness
and life; the latter van to see every man,
woman and child well housed, clothed and
fed. The objects Of temperance are the
abolition of poverty, crime, disease and
premature DEATH
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

President Cleveland is taking his vaca-
ton in the woods of New York and, if re-
port is to be believed, is making heroic
efforts to rid himself of the presence of the
ubiquitous newspaper reporter, but with
out success. 1t is one of the penalties OF
greatness that a man shall be denied all
privacy. His every word and action, al
most his Utmost thought, must be laid be-
fore the public as a book, to be known
and read of all men," That it must be
disagreeable to a mar of fine instincts goes
without saying. If~one-halfthe stuff found
inthe columns of the newspapers to-day con-
corning public men was repeated among
women in a sewing society or a drawing
room it would be voted unanimously what
it really was, the sheerest gossip and twad-
die. and the lords of creation would carl
their noses at it in supreme contempt. But
in his capacity of reporter one OF the lords
aforesaid will penetrate family privacy and
go roaming ''up the house and down the
house and in my ladY's chamber or my
gentleman's dressing room and no grief or
joy is protected from his descriptive and
imaginative pencil. What the public did
not know or were not told about the Grant
family during the period of the Generals
sickness and after his death was probably
the few trifling items the reporters had for
gotten to mention. The people have a
right to the time and services of those
whom they honor with public position,
but this gives no right to be admitted to
their family circle and a participation in
their domestic affairs or their private rec
reations, and the tendency Of the press in
this direction would seem to indicate that
the people, to whose demands the press
caters, were reaching a low level of title
tattle and unwholesome curiosity.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The Pennsylvania State Prohibition o
vention was held in Harrisburg on Tuesday.
There were $50 delegates present. A. A.
Stevens was chosen permanent chairman.
The platform adopted advocates the pro-
hibition of the importation, manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors for the
purpose of use as a beverage; endorses the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union;
declares that the qualification of all Ma
tional and State officers should be based on
proved capacity and faithfulness, and not
on party considerations; favors civil ser
vice reform; declares that the Sabbath day
should be protected from proclamation by
secular pursuits and pleasures, and that
the conditions of labor and capital should
be such as to secure equal protection to
both. Barr Spangler, of Marietta, Penna.,
was nominated for State Treasurer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

What good reason can any maj give for
siguing the application for a man to sell
rum? Does the rumseller do any good by
his business? He makes most OF our
paupers and criminals; he increases our
taxes; he degrades the morals of society;
he causes untold suffering from cold and
hunger; he tempts men to ruin, and sends
them to hell: he makes it dangerous to-
your daughters to walk the street at night
he s~llarpens the murderers knife and
sends the thief into your house. Ihei
why sign any application for license. I'M
less you can show some good to come
from il.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The storm at Charleston, Soath Carolina,
on Tuesday, was the most disastrous ever
experienced there. Within comparatively
a very few minutes the injury to private
residences was very large in the aggregate,
though individual losses were comparatively
small. Some of the wholesale houses, how
ever, lose heavily by damage to stock. The
heaviest losses were along the water front.
On the favorite promenade, the East Bat
terry, the ground floors of residences were
from three to six feet under water. The
sea rose so rapidly as to have the appearance
of a tidal wave. The railroads were con-
siderably damaged. The new concerning
the crops is meagre. A rough estimate
places the losses at 81, 123, 900.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY ". {. GARRIso,
81 SOUTH FEoNT 81. PMILA nELPMIA.

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY W. c. GARRISON
327 SOUTH FRONT ST, PHILADELPHIA
BUTrEE-Prime PRINT 25c to 30c: fair 1sc to 20c:
roll Ijc to lSc; common Sc to l0c per lib. Eggsl6c
Ollie. per doZ. DRESSED PoULTRY-Fowls l+c to
ljc per III: Spring chickens l6c To lSc per lb
ducks lac to l6c per Id. ~sToCK-Calves sc TO Sic
per Id: fair Sc to SIC per ID: lambs 6c to 10 per
fb: sheep 4c to &c per Id: fair SC 10 $40 peril.
WooL-unwashed lSc to 20c per lb: washed SOC
to 32c per ID. FEATHERs-Geese choice jJc o60c
per III; prime ~ to SOC per ID: turkey &c
10 Sc per Id; duck 2sc to SOC per Id; chicken
sc to &c per lD. G~AME-SquaDS SIC to 40c per
pair; pigeons 25c to SOC per pair; black birds ljc
to 1sc per doZ plover 25c to 30c per pair snap
pers l2c to lfc per ID; crabs sl.2j to SIa1 per 100.
FRUGT AND NEGETAB LES-Cabbage choice 81 p to
$l.J0 per lbl: fair Sl.O0 to SIPS per Dbl. Toma-
toes Zoe to 50c per basket. Egg plants l5c TO
20c. per basket. squashes loo 10 l5c per basket.
Cucumbers soc to soc per basket. Corn SOC 50c
per 100 ears. Lima beans 1jc TO soc per basket.
Peaches extra Sl.00 to SIPS per basket fair G0c
10 75c per basket. Apples choice $3.50 to 500
per Dbl fair $40 to Sl.2j per Dbl. Pears choice
SOC to zoe per basket fair Doc to ic per basket.
Grapes 4c to &c per pound. Bltckberries &c
to Sc per at. Pluins 10 TO SO per quart.
Watermelons prime 500 10 $500 per 100
prime 500 to $1,000 per 100. Cantelopes lc 10
20c per basket. New potatoes Sl.75 to 500 per
Dbl. Culls 75e to - 90 per bbl. sweet potatoes
$50 to $500 per Dbl; cullS SI.23 to 81. sd. onions
800 10 500 per bbl. Turnips s2.25to $3.50 per
Dbl.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28


Outing for September is an admirable
number. of special interest to lovers
of aquatic sports and of cycling. The
leading p on ''The Buffalo Meet ofthe
League of American Wheelmen, by
Charles Richards Dodge, is a description
of tie annual meeting of this national
association of cyclers. isle au Haut isa
very readable sketch, by Arlo Bates. Jay
Howe Adams tells of the exploration. a.
wheel, of a quaint locality contiguous TO
Philadelphia; the paper is entitled Through
the Neck on a Bicycle, and is fully illus
trated. The second installment of Captain
Bourke's powerful narrative with
General Crook in the Sierra Madre, >
appears in this number. Eleanor Putnam's
boating sketch. ''Who Wins, Wins AL, F"
eharmingly illustrated, will be heartily
enjoyed. Another pleasant sketch, "0n
the Proper Economy of Truth, is n of
the best by President Bates. Canoemen
will find enjoyment and instruction in
II. b. Burchard's descent of the St.Law-
renee haplds Ill q Nahoe. haTl Mum
contributes a paper on the ''Naugatuek
and Pennington Valleys" Connecticut,
and there is a review of "A Canterbury
Pilgrimage, " with a number of Joseph Pen
nell's charming illustrations. The serials.
..Love-or a name" byJulian Hawthorne,
and "A Modern Tramp, by f. G. Gardner,
are concluded in this issue. The monthly
record is particularly full, and a number Of
interesting topics are discussed III the edi-
torial department and Outing Club. A
recent interesting letter from Thomas
Stevens also appears. For sale by all
newsdealers, or supplied by subscription,
from the office, 17j fremont St, Boston,
Mass, at $500 a year; p cents per copy.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Don't drink, treat or be treated. No
man ever made an ounce of reputation or
money by doing it, and enough has been
lost to make a paradise OF the United
States, and pave the streets with gold
National Educator.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
pays the Pullman Palace Car Company
eight hundred dollars per year for the use
of each of the parlor cars ON the New
York Division.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

New steel rails are being laid by the
Pennsylvania railroad between Jersey
City and Philadelphia. They are about
1850 pounds heavier than the present ones.
The old rails will be used for the side
tracks.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

The Woodstown MONITOR is for free
trade. Strange but true.-W J. Press.
Dearly beloved brother of the Press,
don't jump SO hastily at conclusions. and
pray tell us what particular thing you ma
in the MONITOR to lead you to the partie-
ular conclusion above quoted. "Giye 1t a
name, we beg"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

A dam sixty feet wide is to be put IN
the Delaware river. above B~rrdentown, at
the expense Of the Government. 1t will
nave the effect of diverting the channel
| and improving navigation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Let it be made a matter of record that
on the 9th day of August, 1885, fires were
kindled aud oyercoats found comfortable.
It was a cold day.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
Local Option.

4 great many persons are talking about
the excellent results of local option. Tenn
perance men are being constantly told that
instead of voting the Prohibition ticket
they should endeavOr to get local option.
Well, local option is good as far as it goes;
it is prohibition in spots. it has some dis
advantages and great difficulty of enforce
ment. but at the same time immense good
can be done under local option laws. But
how are we going to get local option ?
The liquor dealers are opposed to local OPP
ton, and neither of the old parties dare do
anything that is displeasing to the liquor
traffic. A few years ago a Republican
Legislature was fairly delnged with petit
tons for a local option bill-the bill was
introduced and defeated: the last Demo-
cratic Legislature was applied to for a local
option bill, they ignored it. No one who
has examined the history and condition of
the temperance work in the State for the
past ten years can have any reason TO sup
pose that we will ever get a local option
law through either Il Democratic or Re
publican legislature. There is just one
way, and only one in which we can get a
local option or any other temperance law
and that is to elect a Prohibition legisla-
ture.-NeU Era.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

John Milton said: "Reformers look
small in the eyes of the world, they are
so far in advance, but large in the eyes Of
God, they are so much nearer Him; for all
real reform is Godward."
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Rev. Sam Jones, of Georgia, says he
would as soon have high license for small
pox as high license for whisky.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

We have a good assortment Of the popu-
lar batiste dress goods-heavier than lawn,
and lighter than cretonne. We are selling
them freely and the buyers are pleased with
them. Price lie and Ice. Nearly a yald
wide. L. B. Humphreys d Go.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
Notice,

nEGBEN WOOLMAN, Executor of Abigail
Il Noolman, deceased, by direction of The
Surrogate OF the cosnty of salennghereby gives
notice to the crediteEs Ofsffe said Abigail
Wooiman, deceased, 10 king ia their debts,
demands and claims gainstf lie estate of said
decedeut, underA33fh or atfrmaiion, within
nine mopthsfT5m the date hereof, or be for
ever barred of any action thereof against the
said executor. REUBEN WoOEMAN,
Dated 7fll mo, 18th, lsS5. Executor.
JniNal-2m
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

Can there be a greater Inconsistency in
law to teach that alcohol is a poison and a
law to license thirty thousand men to sell
that poison as a common beverage?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

There is a Temperance Insurance Com
pany in Scotland; and by its regulations a
total abstainer can obtain insurance at ten
per cent. less premium than a moderate
drinker.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28

There is no need of paying $500 for a
clothes wringer when you can get the
best made for 50. 10. We have both kinds,
the Novelty and Universal. +. b. Hum
phreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
Bridge Up.

FyITE bridge over the millpond at Woodstown
will b. mp until further notice.
CHARLES u. HI MPHREYS,
August Eth, 1885,. Freebooter.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
Porcelain lined preserving kettles,
3qt. Doc. 4 qt. 44c.
) at. soc. at. zoe.
< qt. zoe. 10 at. roc.
II at. soc. IA at. SOC.
1R az II M

Mason's glass jars with porcelain lined
tops and the celebrated Lightning jars,
said TO be the very best made. Both these
and the Mason's in quart and pint sizes,
also tin cans, sealing wax, etc, etc, at
f. b. Humphreys & Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-08-28
For Sale.

second Hand Peerless Horse Power
- Thresiier and Cleaner and Glover Huller
for sale, cheap. Tbrtsher and Cleaner and
Horse Power both mounted. Apply to
ADRIAN COCHRAN.
Julv3l-tf Elmer, Nj.