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SAVED.

Major Scott, the temperance advocate, in
illustrating the terrible grip the drink habit
has, and the pledge as a means of deliver
ance, gives the following thrilling incident
A man was crossing the railroad track in
the night time, when his foot caught in a
of no avail. His boot fitted so closely that
he could not draw his foot out. And at
length he could hardly move his foot for
pain. He found he must either be run over
by the next train or make known his situa-
ton. He shouted himself hoarse, but no
one came. After having been a prisoner
for upward of an hour he heard the whis-
tie. He had a match box i'll his pocket,
papers in his bundle, and the idea came to
to signal the train. Tearing the paper
off his bundle, and getting at some letters,
he rolled them into a heap, and for fear the
flames would die out too suddenly, he added
his clothes. The bundle was then made
fast to the end of his walking stick, and he
waited until the headlight of the locomo-
bA'N H'iO'iNA appeal 1 = IiioiiN SIttbtd lie
vision and he struck his match, but a gust
of wind blew it out Another match was
struck, but another gust of wind blew
it out With the greatest desperation he
struck still another match; and in another
instant he waved his signal zach and forth,
and just when he thought death was GER
tain, he heard the whistle for brakes. He
was saved, but the engine had only thirty
to go to crush him.
oh, you who dream of peace and secur-
ity-links riveted to the demon chain of
the drink habit-this pledge of total absti-
nence stands between you and the cup of
death Take this pledge before the muir
derous wheel of the pitiless Juggernaut of
appetite brushes out all semblance of man
hood all love for that which is good and
pure and sweet. God help you to stand fast.
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Cause for fuIness.

Could / have borne it, l often think,
| If one of my idols had bowed to drink,
If one of my kings had laid his crown
At the feet of the mighty monster down;
If one of my darlings had sold his soul
For the pottage mess in a drunkard's bowl?
| thank Thee, dear Father, / do not know;
/ thank Thee Thou hast not tried me so.
Could | have borne ii, to see the light
Of the demon flash from the blue eyes bright,
Telling that reason and will had flown,
And wine and wildness sat on their throne
While the sweet, pure look had gone from the
face,
And base brutality sat in its place?
I thank Thee, dear Father, 1 do not know;
| thank Thee Thou hast not tried me so.
Could | have borne it, and live long years,
With sorrow for meat, and drink of tears,
While the heart was dying of hunger and pain,
As it loved and longed and hoped in vain?
Oh. the dead that live on this bright glad day,
While the sunshine sweet DER graves doth
play,
thank Thee, dear Father, | do not know;
l thank Thee Thou hast not tried me so.
If The plants [ have loved, my own dear boys,
My care and my pride, my dearest joys,
lion them had fallen this dew of death.
And they never had wakcned at mornings
breath,
Would the spring for me have brought its
flowers,
Or the roses have bloomed in summer bowers?
l thank Thee, dear Father, 1 do not know;
| thank Thee Thou hast not tried me so.
How many must bear ii: the very air
Is full of the smoke of dwellings fair.
And the sound of signing on every breeze,
While thousands are planting their willow
trees.
If the fire that lives in the fruit ofthe vine
Had scorched and bIackened this house of
mine,
How | could have borne it | do not know:
/ thank Thee Thou hast lot tried me so.
How many must bear ii, the mighty woe
That is making graves DER the hillsidcs grow,
That is tying the Grape folds on cottage door,
And sitting the music on palace floor,
That is topping the tallest towers dowu
Where the hands the hopes of men doth crown.
If il had come and called for my dead
And laid them to sleep in Il hopeless bed.
Oh it is better to praise than pray,
To be thankful than weep ON this bright, glad
day.
Help me To remember those Who bear
An aching heart under garments fair:
Help me remember the tempted and tried;
Ever, good angels, be by their side,
Help me remember those who know,
And thank Thee Thou hast not tried me 50.
Mary Il. Dustin, in christian at Work.
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Temperance Lectures in Churches.

The time has come when there will be
a contest over the admission or exclusion
of temperance lectures. Already a few
churches have resolved that their doors
shall be henceforth closed against the en-
tire class of temperance speakers and the
reason of this action is that nearly all of
the public speakers on temperance are
pronounced Prohibitionists, and argue
against the liquor traffic from that stand
point Prohibition has gathered a political
party in its support. and hence these
churches say that to admit a Prohibitionist
speaker is to admit a political speech and
this they resolve not to do-not because they
love the old parties less, but because they
hate the Prohibition party more.
At first glance the position taken by
these churches seems plausible and iusti-
fable but on closer view it is found not
to be tenable. If Prohibitionists were to
enter a church to make a party speech, it
might be more than questionable as to the
propriety of admitting them, since such an
act would, in consistency, compel the
throwing open the doors of the church for
all parties and it is well-known that a
political rabble, gathered for political pur-
poses, %unwashed, unmannered, and over
flowing with tobacco juice, are not desira-
BILE occupants ola place where Cleanliness
is next to Goodness if there We're no
other objections. We do not, therefore,
advocate the opening of churches for mere
party speeches-not even if the party is
Prohibition.
But there is another phase to this ques-
ton. Prohibition stands for a principle
as well as for a party name. The princi-
pie can be discussed, and the party wholly
left out. And, indeed, this is what the
Prohibitionists are busy doing. They send
out their speakers now, not to induce men
to join their political organization but to
convince men of the necessity of prohib-
ting the liquor traffic. The work in hand.
at the present, is sced-sowing. 1t is to con-
vince men Of the right and duty of Prohi-
bition and to induce them to exercise that
iiSht diiu uuby WITHOUT lufIHef delay. 1t
leaves them to seek party affiliations where
they will-only so that they will carry their
prohibitory convictions into action. If the
liquor traffic shall be put under the ban of
Prohibition by the Republican or Demo-
cratic party. the end we Prohibitionists are
seeking will be attained, and we shall be
fully satisfied. 1t is the end we seek and
not party ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Under this phase of the question, Prohi-
bition may justly and properly be admitted
into the church as a fit subject for discus
sion. No one would think of excluding a
lecturer On Mormonism from the church.
because the suppression of polygamy has
been incorporated into the platform of the
Republican party as a prominent subject of
political faith and action. So of civil
service" and other questions which parties
are advocating, 1t is one thing to discuss
the principle and another to discuss the
party advocating it. The two should not
be COMPOUNDED. -Liring Issue.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30

The annual report Of the State Lunatic
Asylum, published in yesterdays Times,
reveals an interesting fact. 1t is generally
stated that intemperance supplies a large
proportion of the lunatics. The present
report emphatically contradicts that state
ment. Out of the I75 lunatics admitted
last year, but ten were made insane by
drink. Overwork, worry and religious ex-
citement furnish ten times as many luna
tics as liquor.-Irenton Times.
All of which goes to show that it is pos
sible for two people to read the same facts
differently. The report of the Asylum
shows that out of 175 patients admitted
last year IS cases are ascribed to domestic
Affections, domestic troubles, loss of prop
erty, over study, disappointment, remorse,
and overwork. Religious excitement was
not the cause in a single case. The 80 cases
which might be ascribed to ''overwork
and worry as the Times put it, won't figure
out by our arithmetic quite ten times the
number of lunatics ascribed to liquor. The
Times should revise it's figures. OF 95 men
admitted to the asylum, alcoholism is
given as the cause of their insanity oftener
than any other known cause except that Of
ell health Another point the Times
overlooks is that the report shows that in
80 cases the father of the patient was in
temperate in the use of alcohol, in four
cases the mother, and in four cases both
the parents. This may have had nothing
to do with the insanity OF the offspring,
hut the asylum authorities seem to think
the fact worth noticing in that connection.
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The Youths Companion.

The editors of The YOUTHS Communion
seem to have put their fingers on the pulse
of every boy and girl of healthy tastes and
Instincts in America. The COMPANION is
full every week of interesting stories with
a thoroughly wholesome influence, tales of
adventure, articles that entertain and in
struct at the same time, and most carefully
selected miscellany. 1t is a weekly treas
ury OF good reading, and is already read
and priced in 1925, 900 families. The price
is only s1.75 a year. Perry Mason & Co.,
Boston.
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kiShf TO The Point.

Two years ago it was about impossible
to md IA newspaper that said anything for
or against prohibition. Now it is almost
impossible to find a paper that says nothing
about it. The movement NAV be imprac-
tlcable, inopportune, unpopular, unreason-
able, but it is now the most popular un-
popular question of the day. Keep on agi-
tating it, denounce it all you want to, the
more you knock it about the brighter it
will shine.-l0nit0r -Jou4naE.
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The New Jersey State Temperance ALI
ance held its annual meeting in Trenton
on Tuesday. The annual report was made
by the Secretary, Rev. Mr.. Ballard. This
referred to the difference of opinion among
the friends of temperance, and stated that
the course of the Secretary had been to re-
frain from all partisan measures. 1t con-
cluded by recommending several resolu-
lions for the adoption of the alliance. The
purport of these is to have the question
of a constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
drinks submitted to the people, and that
which ever political party will advocate
this submission shall receive the support
of the alliance. In case neither party will
advocate this submission, then the alliance
will place an Independent temperance ticket
in the field. 4 resolution was adopted
%petitioning the Legislature for the prohibi-
ton of the liquor traffic, either by general
local option laws or by means of a consti-
t~utional amendment.
- ohn' " ih"i lcdttIt VI tHt on
vention that the necessity of educating the
people up to appropriate legislation was
recognized, and that this was a work of
time. In his direction a resolution was
passed approving of the efforts of the w.
{. T. |. to secure legislation introducing
into the public schools of the State scien-
tific instruction upon the effects of alcoholic
drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the
human system.
These were the two resolutions of i'm
p%ortance to the public offered by the COM
mittee. There was no reference to the
st. John movement. The Temperance Gag
cite, of Camden, was endorsed.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, Rev. b. S.
Everett, of Jamesburg Vice President.
and General Agent, Rev. A. f. Ballard,
Ocean Grove Secretary, J. w. Morris,
Blackwood Treasurer, II. b. Howell.
Trenton Executive Committee, Gen. C.
b. Fisk, Seabright Charles Rhoads, Had
donfield Rev. c. II. Pool. Raritan .
Thomas RyerSon, NJ. d., Trenton Rev.
G. r. Snyder, Point Pleasant; Rev. DR.. II.
SymmeS, Cranbury.
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Mr.. EDIToR.-I was pleased at the sug-
gestion in a recent number of your wide
awake journal that an effort should be
made to induce Mr.. Humphreys to provide
a public hall on the second floor of his pro-
posed new building, on the northwest corner
of Main and Salem streets. The best hall we
now have is in the third story of the Hunt
building, almost as far up in the air as the
discarded Rumsey Hall, in Salem. Hunts
Hall has very poor stage c%onveniences, and
but a single dressing room. 1t has miser-
able means of access and egress, and in the
event of fire, when occupied by an audi
ence, could not prove otherwise than a ter
rible death-trap. Now, if Mr.. Humphreys
will build a hall as suggested. of sufficient
size for general use, with ample stairways,
allowing for quick exit in case of fire, with
a roomy stage, a couple Of dressing rooms
and other needed conyeniences. he will
greatly benefit onr borough as well as him
self, for we believe such a hall will pay
financially and otherwise. PROGRESS.
Woodstown, Jan. Goth. 1855.
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1t is amusing to read the different COM
ments on the sport of roller-skating which
has of late gained such prominence all
over the country, from persons who look
at the matter from a variety of stand
points. In some sections the Kinks are
work, by drawing the young men from the
hotels and saloons in the evening to the
greater attraction of the skating floor.
This is good as far as it goes. The trouble
is there is no permanent moral lesson to be
learned at the rink, which will keep the
young men from drifting back to the rum
mill after the other attraction is over. Still,
ifa man can be keep out of the bar-room for
one month of the year it is well, even if
during the other eleven he is to be found
there. In other localities the Kinks are de-
bounced in the strongest terms as leading
to immortality. The Christian Ad00cate, in
an editorial a week or two since, condemns
them without qualification and a Melville
pastor lately took occasion to speak of the
skating rink rs an invention of the devil to
keep people from church. We think that
some of the clergy are too apt to ascribe to
satanic origin anything that interferes with
the size of their congregations, and so far as
our observation goes wholesale denuncia-
ton like this does not nave the desired
effect. The simple fact is that people will
be amused in some way, and We suspect
that If the truth were known it would be
found that ninety per cent. of the attend
ants at church, who are not actually pro-
fessors Of religion, regard their church
going more as a mild form of amusement
than as a duty, and are ready TO exchange
it at any time for whatever may offer a
greater degree of pleasure. There is moth
ing intrinsically wrong in physical exer-
else combined with physical pleasure in the
form of skating, whether on wooden rollers
on a floor or steel runners on ice. If in
any given case the matter is ovcrdone, the
exercise continued too long, the health CHI
dangered, time or money " asted, or other
duties neglected, or if in the pursuit of
pleasure bad associations are formed lead
ing to vice-these are matters calling for
individual correction and not for whole
sale denunciation. Vicious people will find
opportunities for vicious conduct anywhere,
and have found such opportunities long
before roller-skating was invented.
So far as the younger portion Of the com
munity is concerned, the subject is one
calling for parental supervision. Parents,
as a general thing, do not take sufficient
interest in the recreations of their children.
In matters of food or clothing careful over
sight is given, while in matters Of amuse-
ment they are too often left to follow their
own devices and inclinations, sometimes
greatly to their hurt. AS a means of exer-
else, under proper supervision. the roller
rink ought to be welcomed as a
benefit to the young folks. Older people
who may incline to renew their youth to
the extent of engaging in the sport, will, of
course, have the benefit of experience, to
keep them from excess of any kind.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30

1t is no chance association which leads
to the cry; "Down with the Sunday laws
and the liquor laws in so many parts of
the country. The traffic wants the day
it wants the Saturday night wages it
wants the opportunity and temptation to
drink on the day of rest. 1t has the day
in Europe, it coyets it in America. 1t will
have it unless the political power of the
traffic is broken. Igdge Pfnan,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-01-30

The following from the Camden Courier
of January 23d ought to meet general APP
prevail in Methodist circles. Rev. Mr..
Crate possesses in a marked degree the
qualifications necessary for the Office OF
Presiding Elder:
There seems to be a unanimous sentiment
throughout Atlantic county in favor of the
appointment of the Rev. J.. G. Crate, OF
Mays Landing, as Presiding Elder of the
Camden district, to follow DR.. Graw, whose
term will expire with the conference in
March. OF course, the conference is capa-
BILE of attending to the work of the
churches, but from many Methodists
standpoint, considering Mr.. Crates abili
ties and the time of service he has rendered
the church, as well as his evident adapta-
ton as a representative MAI to such a posi-
ton, it would be generally regarded as an
exceedingly appropriate appointment. II
would alse be a recognition of merit that
has been delayed longer than might with
propriety have been done. Mr.. Crate is
one of the ablest writers and preachers in
South Jersey, and would fill the position
most satisfactorily.
On one occasion some years ago, we i'll
perance lecture to be given in one of our
churches. He replied that he would be
glad to come if he could hear anything new
on the subject, but that addresses Of that
kind appearedto be pretty much a repetition
of the old story. This set us to thinking.
How much of sameness there is in the
question to be sure, on both sides and es-
pecially on the side of rum. What a
blessed thing it would be if the hell-born
traffic could occasionally show us some
thing new in the way of results by way of
alleviating the dark picture of misery and
want, on which We have gazed until our
eyes are weary and our hearts faint. If
only the business could show us one little
child made happy, one man made better,
eternity, to say nothing of the more mater
ial interests in the way of fortunes accu-
mulated, great enterprises founded, charities
conducted, the hungry fed, the naked
clothed, or humanity in any way benefited,
then there might be something new adj
vanced upon the other side, but for long
and weary years there has been only the
same old story of blighted lives, ruined
homes, Borrowing wives, worse than or
phaned children, and an endless procession
to a drunkard's grave and a drunkard's
hell. These are, and ever have been,
the fruits of the liquor traffic, and we
challenge any one to point to any re-
verse side of the picture. There is moth
ing new in the business beyond an occa-
sional novelty in the connection of a drink;
men get drunk just the same, neglect their
families just the same, squander their
properties just the same, become bummers
and beats just the same as they always
have. Every community can tell the same
story every bar-room has its list of vic
tins, and while this continues there will
be nothing new in the temperance work
but a presentation of the facts over and
over and over again, until at last the heart
and conscience of the peoples shall be
aroused to a sense of the enormity and in
people themselves unite to crush it out.
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We present you this week with No. l,
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How Much it Amounts To.

Three drinks a day is 1,095 drinks a year;
at 10 cents a drink costs $109. so.
For hard times the above item is well
worthy studying by the moderate drinker.
House rent one year at 50 per month and
81 80 left for bread.
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wooDsrowN, FRIDAY. JANUARY 80, 1885.

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Putting the question of duty aside, all
sensible people should be total abstainers.
This is what a brand of pure whiskey was
recently tonnd to contain-oil of almonds,
kerosene, potash, salts of lead, and strych-
nine; and a bottle of brandy yielded tur-
pentine, lime, s%ulphuric acid, fusiI oil, log
wood and %strychnine. If the choicest
brands thus yield, what can be said of the
still viler compounds dealt out in low
whiskey dens of our large towns ?-LrfsA
Itmplar.
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Besthigh grade coal oil, 1900 ire test, no bet
ter made or sold, Is cents a gallon. Granu-
lated sugar, 7c.; standard A white, 65c /:
light yellow, &C.; new rice, &c.; 3 ID cans
tomatoes, &c.; kingsford pure starch, Sc. lb.;
large bottles Rumford's yeast powder, lie,
nutmegs, DC. per OF. or zoe. per quarter Id:
strictly pure pepper, 22c. per lb. We have
all u coffee roasted to our own order and
sell none but the finest. Parks celebrated
Trenton mince meat, Zoe. Il. b. Hum
nhreys & CO.
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John B. Cough, in a late interview, =
is reported as saying: II voted for John P.
st. John. 1t took me three months to
make up my mind to do it, but did, and
| do not regret it.