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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
THE CHLoRAL HABIT.

Life insurance companies are careful to
inquire into the habits of those that apply
for policies. The latter are asked if slim
lants are regularly taken and also as to
the use of tobacco and opium. Some of
the companies have added choral to the
list of inhibited articles. 1t seems the
chloral habit is steadily on the increase,
not only from sufferers from sleeplessness,
but from persons who are irritable and ex-
citable and broken down by late hours and
dissipation. This nepenthe is more allur-
ing TO sensitive and refined people than is
opium, and the habit once formed is more
difficult TO cure than the opium habit, or
even drunkenness. Anasthetics have done
much to alleviate human suffering, but un-
fortunately, the invention of choral has
brought into existence a new and alarming
form of drunkenness. The physician who
recommends this seductive drug should be
held to a stern accountability if his pa
tients thereby acquire a peruicious habit
which they cannot break of.-Demorssts
Monthly for dprg.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
SAYINGS.

Because men believe not in providence,
therefore they do so greedily scrape and
hoard; they do not believe in any reward
for charity, therefore they will part with
nothing.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and
warm handshakes-these are secondary
means of grace when men are in trouble
and are fighting their unseen battles.
We should endeavor to purchase the good
will of all men, and quarrel with no man
needlessly; since any mans love may be
useful. and every mans hatred is danger
Gus.
Do not think of knocking out another
persons brains because lie differs in opin-
ion from you; it would be as rational to
knock yourself on the head because you
differ from yourself ten years ago.
All successful men have agreed in one
thing-they were ca~usationists. They be-
lieve that things were not by luck, but by
law. Belief compensation, or that nothing
is got for nothing, characterizes all valua-
BILE minds.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
THE DEVIL.

Men don't believe in a Devil now, as their
fathers used to do;
They've forced the door of the broadcast creed
to let his Majesty through.
There isn't a print of his cloven foot, or a fiery
dart from his bow,
To be found in earth or air to-day, for the
world has voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal draught that pail
sizes heart and brain,
And loads the bier of each passing year with
ten hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the Land to-day with
the fiery breath of hell,
If the devil isn't and never was? Won't some
body rise and tell?
Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint and
digs the pits for his feet?
Who sows the tares in the field of time wher-
ever God sows his wheat?
The Devil is voted not to be, and, of course, the
thing is true;
But who is doing the kind of work the Devil
alone should doc
We are told he does not go about as a roaring
lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible for this
everlasting row,
To be heard in home, in church and state, to
the earth's remotest bound,
If the Devil, by a unanimous vote, is nowhere
TO be found:
Won't somebody step to the front forthwith,
and make their bow and show
How the frauds and the crimes of a single day
spring up? We want oknow.
The Devil was fairly voted ont, and, of course
the devil is gone;
But simple people would like to know who
carries his business on.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
VOL. II.
SECRET

l hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with being, breath and wings.
And that We send them forth to fill
The world with good results or i'll.
That which we call our ''secret thought
Speeds to the earth's re1notest spot,
And leaves its blessings or its woes
Lik tracks behind it as it goes.
1t is Gods law. R~ememberit
In your still chamber as you sit
With thoughts You would not dare have known
And vet make comrades, when alone.
These thoughts have life, and they will fly
And leave their impress, by-and-by,
Like some marsh breeze. whose poisoned
breath
Breathes into homes its fevered death.
And, after you have quite forgot
Or all outgrown some vanished thought.
Back to your mind to make its home,
A dove or raven, it will come.
Then let your secret thoughts be fair;
They have some vital part and share
In shaping worlds and moulding fate
Gods system is so intricate.
Ella Wheeler Wilcor in Good Cheer
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
WOMAN

In Wyoming, where woman suffrage
was legalized in 1869. and where it has
been practiced ever since, say for thirteen
years, the following testimony, which looks
to us very conclusive, is borne concerning
its results by the Laramie Sentinel:
/. Fewer women fail to vote than men.
2. Women are less persistent office
seekers than men.
3. When elected they make good off
Gals.
4. They are entirely free in their ac-
tions.
5. There are no signs of Generalization
on account of obtaining the franchise.
6. The polls. once r%iotous, are now as
orderly as churches.
Z. The votes and influences of women
have doubled the better element in society.
1t is probable that in all rural or village
constituencies the same results may be ex-
pected as those given above. In larger
cities there might be more difficulty; but
even then, with a proper system of giving
in votes, there might be great improve
ment if women voted.
We notice in the New York Tribune the
following:
'Chief Justice Greene, of Washington
Territory, in his last charge to the grand
jury, bears the following testimony to the
good effect of women serving ON juries:
Twelve terms of court, ladies and gentle
men, | have now held, in which women
nave served as grand and petit jurors, and
it is certainly a fact beyond dispute that no
other twelve terms so s~alutary for restraint
of crime nave ever been held in this terri
tory"
In Seattle. w. T., as soon as the suffrage
was given to women they cleared out the
dramshops, gambling dens and bagnios,
and introduced good order.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
INGERsOELIsMS.

There is only one aristocracy in this coun-
try, the ar~istocracy of brain and heart.
The rich men viii find that the time is
coming when they will be judged solely by
the use they make Of their wealth. They
will find that they must not go on piling
up wealth until the tigers of hunger crouch
ready to spring at the throat Of capital.
When dyspepsia leaves this world super
stition will receive its death-blow.
Treat your wife like a beautiful flower
and she will fill your life with the perfumes
of JOY.
Genius cannot be bred where there is no
domestic firesidc.
Man has advanced in exact proportion as
he has mingled his thought with his
labor.
As a man depends upon himself in that
proportion he ceases to be superstitious.
The orthodox man is the man who has
quit growing.
| am a believer IN the Institution oil mar
rage. 1t makes a good home the unit III
good government.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

lHE COTTAGE HEARTH Is as iS h"iho "ui
cafes a nome magazine, ana 10 thoSe VINO are
acquaih'eu WIN IT. heeus ohlshei
datloh nan 10 say II Is oetter IMAM Ever eiore'
For ten years III mas haa Il steady grown poth
IN circuia'loh anu literary quaitS' anu now -
"a most eNcelicht nome lhagazlhe, crahiiheo iuil
OF GOOD Things among winch there Is always
soihethihS ahlusc u instruct Every nieiioei
OF the 1amliy. us poetry Is by some olour
very best WRITER'S, It's snort stories entertain
ing lts descriptive sketehes most attrae'iNe'y
written, ana It's articles III gardening ana
otherho1nes uDJectsare OF great pfactlcai value
special features OF TINS interesting magazine
are original STORES ana poems by lhe pest
American writers, ana among It's recent con
lripu'ors Wehotice huMaia hNelet. i''ie' Lucy
Iarcolh, Cella IhdNter' george Maepohaio,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

Godeyis Ladys Book for April comes to
us as a pleasant mid-Lenten indulgence.
The number is an excellent one. embellish-
ed by a suggestive frontispiece, SAT Pray
err" and many other attractions of the
usual character. A very winning story.
called ''Beauty's Child opens in this
number. and Jamie" is brought to a con-
clusion. Next month we are to have from
Godey's a new story by Christian Reid.
called AN Instrument of Separation.
which promises to be very interesting. The
short stories in the April number are good
and strong, Miss Hobbs particularly. A
timely article on .'The Soudan'' opens a
possible series. which will doubtless inter-
est the readers of Godey's. The President
ial series closes this month with Grover
Cleveland. A very neat littlei book has
been compiled by the publishers of the
magazine, including all the Presidential
sketches that have appeared. This is offer
ed as a premium to club-raisers, and the
general offer of book premiums has been
extended for a month. This chance is
one that rarely occurs, and the wide-awake
subscribers of Godey's are taking advan-
tage of it. So much satisfaction with the
books given away as premiums on every
new subscription furnished by an old sub
scriber has been testified, that the publish
ers of the magazine have extended their
original offer as above stated. It is such
liberal policy as this that has popularized
Godeg's Ladgs Book, and made it, beyond
peradventure, the best and cheapest maya
zine, in its W special field, that is fur
nished to our reading public. Published
by j. II. Haulenbeek & Co., Philadel-
phia, Pa.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

DIR. NJ. L. Wadsworth says the earth has
''heterogeneo u viscid, elastic, liquid inter
Tor irregularly interlocked with and grad
ually passing into a lighter heterogeneous
crust" That is a good definition of a Gus
tard pie.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

'.Your honor and gentlemen of the jury,
l acknowledge the reference of counsel of
the other side to my gray hair, My hair
is gray and will continue to be gray as
long as | live. The hair of that gentleman
is black. and will continue to be black as
long as he dyes"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

A ministerial acquaintance thinks that
he alone should decide what hymns are to
be sung during service. He thinks that
the choir should have no voice in the mat
ter. They haven't, in very many churches
that is to say, any voice to speak of.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

A lawyer once asked the late Judge
Piekens, Of Alabama, to charge the jury
that sit is better that nine and ninety gull
ty men should escape than one innocent
man should be punished Yes, said
the witty Judge, Il will give that charge;
bnt in the opinion Of the court, the nine
and ninety guilty men have already es-
capped in this country.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

getting her feet wet, and if any one fired a
revolver within a foot Of her head the
weapon alw avs missed fire and She calmly
knocked the fellow down and went on
chewing her quid of gum as if nothing had
happened. Boys who beg and steal and
sleep under the wharves are made heroes,
and burglars and outlaws are held up as
shining examples of a brave nation.
Drop 'em, my lad There's more moral
poison in one such story than you will get
at the circus or theatre in five years. Bet
ter be unable to read at all than to imbibe
such stuff. You hate a boy who lies to
you. Then why pay these men in money
and time to deceive and poison you? If
you were told that a boy Of 10 had captur-
ed six or eight Detroit burglars you wouldn't
believe it. Then why believe in these
wretched exaggerations? Shut right down
on that class of men and their publications.
and in three years they'll have to earn
their dollars in an honest manner or you'll
hear of EN- behind the bars.-Em Q0ad
in Detroit Free Press.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27
ycYYccLoPGola' E~NePAvlNes AND A DICTIONARY
PUBLISHERS AMERICAN AGRICULTURIS7
ISL Broadway, New York.

Remnants of double and twisted cotton
AIDES, from one to three yard lengths, suit
able for boys pants, 10 cents per yard.
Would cost 16 cts. il bought in long pieces,
f. B. Humphreys & Co. II
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

We can sell a package of late caught
family mackerel, not large, but fat, Tor
50. 25 and will warrant it to contain AZ lbs.
of fish. +. b. Humphreys Il Co. tt
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EDWARDS.
DRICKLAYfNG AND pLAsTERING.

The subscribers announce that they have To-
Gated in Woodstown. and are prepared to exc
cute orders for bricklaying, plastering and all
kinds of mason work. by contract or by the
day. at reasonable rates. Residence, Newtown,
I'd door south of Railroad, East side.
66m. a. BRO.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-27

Tie city is full Of men of genius whose
wives are earning a precsrious living for
both-over the washboard.
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02
NEW YORK APPOINTMENTS.
Selections which All Factions Claim
but None Dictated.

NEW YORK, July 1.-The appoint.
ment by the president of ex-Lieut.-
Gov. and ex-Congressman William
Dorsheimer as United States
marshal was the general topic OF dis
cussion among politicians and club.
men this evening. Nearly everybody
appears pleased with the appointment
Mr., Dorsheimer's appointment was
recommended by Tammsny. While
he has not been member of either OF
the prominent Democratic clubs of the
city, it Is understood his affiliations
have been with TammRny.
Gen. McMahon's appointment is
claimed both by the County Democracy
and Irving Hall, but it is thought by
some Of the leading politicians that
his appointment Is due to no one or
ganization but to several. Gen. Nc
Mahon said: MY name has never
been mentioned in connection with
the office to my knowledge.
was candidate for collectorship,
but not for this, so you can Judge
whether or not L am surprised. The
office pays only $1,000 year more than
| am now receiving in my present po-
sition. don't know If i shall accept
or not"
Mcmahon was appointed depart.
ment clerk in the postoffice at WaSA-
ington at the close of Pierce's admin
istration. He was made special
agent for the Pacific coast soon after
and took up his residence in San
Francisco, when he was admit
ted to the bar by Judge
Field. In 1861 he was made captain
and aid de camp to Gen. Mcclellan.
He served with the Army of the Poto-
mac until the close Of the war. He
was Acknowledgment OF the depart
ment of the East. Since then he has
been minister to Paraguay,
corporation attorney and latterly re-
Geiyer of taxes for New York. Irving
Hall and the County Democracyihave
nothing to say against the appoint
ment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02

are indications OF movement to &C.
complish by q coup d'etat what di.
plomaey has failed TO do. Csceres will
not retire in favor of Iglesias.
LIT Is thought that he
might be willing to yield
| TO PierOta and when he and his
army of Indians have approa cbed
near enough to Lima to make such =
movement effective it Is said Pierota's
party will give Iglesias an opportunity
to choose
BETWEEN PIERoTA AND CACEREs
and then terms can be made with both
the government party and the
revolutionists for peace with Pieiota
as dictator until a constitutional pres
ident can be elected. Until this peace
comes it Ia useless TO encourage COM
merce with Peru. The country Is now
stripped Of Everything that Is valuable.
The conscripts for the armies have left
the farms untitled. The people are
producing nothing.
TRADE rs PRACTICALLY SUSPENDED
and PEOPLE who few years ago were
in aflluent circumstances are now liv-
ing upon what they can borrow of the
pawn.broker. The importing mer-
chants say that they cannot
buy goods without sending
the cash with the order and
the distrust is 80 general that credit is
absolutely ruined. The government
has incurred an immense debt and
the principal sources OF revenue, the
Grand islands, have been seized by
Chill, but, with few years Of
peace and industry, prosperity
would return to Peru for
her national resources are abundant.
In the interview between the commits
sion and the president and the minis
ter of foreign affairs OF Peru
the latter said: This government is
indisposed to give possible facilities
for increased trade, but | think
another line of steamers would be
very desirable The line would be
called an American line, but we would
like shares In it offered TO the citizens
Of Peru, so as to allow them and the
government interest to make really an
line.
THE COASTING TRADE
IS the privilege of each country, but it |
las been, for different reasons, allowed |
% be taken up by foreign traders, |
nut this line should, if possible,
ail under the flag of the
liflerent nations and countries on the
Htire coast. Then these countries !
would give Immediately the right of
he coasting trade to the steamers and
ould nnally rive an exclusive ripht.U
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02
CLEBURNE.
Judgment Against the Santa re-
Other Notes.
correspondence OF The Gasofie

Correspondence OF the Gazette
CLEBURNE, Tx. June 80 -Yesler.
day evening two tramps persuaded a
German all -traaRors 10 20 down to
thu creek 'ot the purpose OF taking a
bath. The fellow vent with them,
not anticipating anything but social
swim Alter taking the bath the
Dulchmsn started back to town, but
,ne ramps stopped him and demanded
his loose change. Seeing their inten-
zion was to rob him he ran, the tramps
firing five times at him rs he ran.
He was unhurt, however, and came TO
town and reported his case to the city
marshal, who Immediately went In
pursuit of the would.be robbers. He
succeeded in capturing only one of
them, who is now lodged in Jail.
In the Justices court to-day f. M
Westbrook got judgment against the
Gulf, Colorado 4 Santa Fe railway
for $3.50, amount claimed for steer
that strangled himself by sticking his
head out OF the small end-door Of the
stock car in which he was being trarrs.
ported to New Orleans.
Charles Coffee, an insane man from
Caddo Peak, was taken to'Austin yes
terday morning by Sheriff Boyd.
Six cars Of Cleburne brick were
shipped to Fort Worth this week.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02
LONGVIEW.
speclalto the Gazette.

NUVV1NI 10 Iut NazeLte,
LoNavIEw, TEX July l.-Long.
view Lodge of knights of Homer to.
day paid $4,000 each to Mrs. r r
Harris and Mrs. w. F. Casey, amount
OF insurance carried by each in that
AZ the residence Of II. r Chanev ut
sne JUNCTION, were married last nivht
Mics frankie Belle aud Mr. JsE
smith, by Rev. l. Alexander Roth
are teachers in the Kilgore Institute.
OF which Mr.. Alexander is the founder
ana superintendent, A large number
OF invited guests We're present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02
DALLAS.
United States Marshal Beheaded-
Reunion Of Parsons Brigade.

Special to tho Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX July 1.-The report
obtains circulation to-day that Mar
shsl Mckee has been suspended. He
says he knows nothing about il, but
he has been expecting IL for some
time. II is believed that the report Is
true. In event of his removal, Cabell
will probably be appointed in his
stead.
The man Tate, who escaped from
the Hunt county officers and was
afterwards arrested by Sheriff Smith.
was taken away this morning by an
oiiicer who came after him from Hunt
county. He declares he il willing to
stand trial on the charge against
him, but his attempted escape doesn't
look that way.
Hon. Seth Sheppard OF Galveston Ia
IN the city for the purpose of defend
ing ). >. Floyd, the bucket.shop man.
Judge hunt Will probably be here to-
morrow, and Floyd will waive an ex.
animation and secure writ of habeas
corpus before Hunt The question OF
the constitutionality OF the bucket.
SHOP law will be presented, and the
matter settled at once,
IL, Nj, q. Canaha was up before the
county court again to-day on the same
OLD charge of stealing saw. He got
SlVV liue and three months imprison.
ment on the poor farm. He had iust
returned from that institution, wnere
he had been for like offense. At one
time there were twenty-five ipdict.
ments against him for stealing n,
many saws and nineteen against him
for stealing axes. His game Ia to Dor
row an AK or saw to work with ant
then dispose of 1t to some second. hanC
store for small amount.
The annual reunion OF Parsons
Texas Cavalry Brigade association
Will be held at Clebprne, johnson
county, on Wednesday and Thursday
August and 6, 1885, Judge Joe Alb
bott, Hon. w. II. Getzendaner, Coils
Ed J Gurley, Nat M. BuioId, ID. G
Giddlngs, w. ID. Wylle, Mai. L.. ]
Farrar, Gov. Jno Ireland, ex-Goy. Il
Il. Lubbock, Col, w. ]. Swain, stat
comptroller, Col, II, O. Mills, Hon
Olin Welborn, Hon. Richard Coke
Mai John + Elliott OF Dallas Herald
MAJ. John Henry Brown, may or o
Dallas, Gen. w, III. Parsons and othe
distinguished speakers are expected /,
be present and address the association
All ex-soldiers. who wore either tn
gray or the blue, and their families
all old Texans, all representatives q
the press and the public generally ar
cordially invited, Ample prepare
tons Will be made to accommodate
25 600 people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

A dispatch from Yokohama saws
there is no hope of ever saving the
steamer City of Toxic that is ashore
near there. A large portion of the
cargo has been saved.
An engagement between the Indians
and whites took place last Thursday
thirty miles south of the Ariz )na from.
tier. rhirty-six Indians and sixteen
Americans were killed.
A. j. Dumont, late naval officer of
the port of New Orleans and chairman
OF the Louisiana Republican state cen.
trail committee, blew his brains out
Tuesday at his home in Alglers.
Family trouble is said to have been
the cause of the act.