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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
STATE NEWS.

The State Agricultural Society has de-
cided to hold its next fair during the week
commencing Sept. ID.
The Salvation Army has rented the skat-
ing rink at Moorestown for period OF six
months, and proposes to remain until ithas
regenerated the place.
The speech of Senator Gardner in opposi-
ton to the bridging of the Arthur Kill is
being circulated as supplement in some
of the weekly papers throughout the State.
The embarrassment to the State finances,
caused by the Supreme Court decision was
relieved by the payment to the State on
Saturday of $50, 900 by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, on account of taxes
due and to become due. The Comptroller
on Monday prepared the vouchers, and the
payment of salaries of the past month be-
gan on Tuesday.
An exchange says the members OF the
Assembly at Trenton are just now enjoy
ing Joke on modest and unostentatious
member from Bergen county, who has
been very quiet so far this session. The
Assemblyman referred to received tele-
gram during recent meeting that he had
become father. Several members MOTTO
ed his excitement on receiving tie telegram,
and concluded something serious had hap
pened when the Assemblyman went up
and. with tears in his eyes. asked permits
sion of Speaker Armstrong to return home
to his wife, The permission was granted,
of course and the Speaker asked sympathiz-
ngly; elias anything serious happened -
With gulp the Assemblyman replied
s'Twins!" and took the next train home.
About forty members of the New Jersey
Legislature arrived at Washington on
Wednesday evening of last week They
went direct to the Ebbitt House, where
quarters had been secured for them.
Thursday morning they were breakfasted
at Chamberlain by Senator Sewell and
then received by the President. At 80 on
Friday they lunched with Senator MacPher-
son. Friday evening the Legislative party
were entertained by Representative Phelps
at 91S Farragut Square, and General
Sheridan, Chief Justice Waite, Judge
Bradley, Secretaries Whitney and Lamar
Senator Logan, Representatives Randall
Hewitt, Hiscock and Reed, and the New
Jersey congressional delegation were
present. On Friday morning the legisla-
tive party visited the Capitol and We're
accorded the privileges of the floors of both
Houses of Congress. During the day they
visited the Patent Office, National Museum,
Corcoran Art Gallery and other places of
public interest, and left for Trenton at 4.20
p. M. Friday.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
GEN EKAL NEWS.

Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, was
married at Akron, Ohio, last week.
On Sunday next memorial services in
honor of John B. Cough will be held at
Chickcring Hall, New York, at which
many eminent men are expected to speak.
Harrison Phebus, one of the greatest
hotel men of the day and proprietor of the
celebrated Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Mon
roe, where the State Editorial Association
stopped last Summer, lied suddenly of
heart disease on Thursday of last week.
The Virginia House of Representatives
has passed the local option bill previously
approved by the Senate and the measure
now goes to Governor Lee, tor his official
sanction. An amendment providing for
the exemption from Its provisions of cities
and towns containing more than 5000 i'll
habitants failed, the argument being that
if the law was good one it should be
made to apply throughout the entire State,
Naturally the temperance people are jubi-
liant and local option elections are promised
in plenty.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
Christians Backed Him.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap
Announce the truth to the world. If
you SOW whisky you'll reap drunkards.
You'll reap drunkards | declare to you,
if | were to sell whisky, or wanted to sell
whisky-and never will and never shall
but if | should, | would want to 90 to Il
Christian city in christian country, and
would want to have the endorsement of
Christian aldermen and Christian council
men. And when | procured my license,
signed up and ndorsed | would file it
away with my wife and tell her:
''Wife, when | come to die put this
license in my coffin with me-
''And when the resurrection trump should
wake me from the dead, the first thing
would think Of would be my license
Uaughter) And when God called me to
the Judgment and showed me what | had
done for the race, | would pull out my
license, Endorsed and signed by Christian
mayors and council, and tell God:
81 didn't know there was 4 bit of harm
in it. These Christian people backed me. ="
''And Almighty God will put the whole
shc-bang in hell together. Now mark
that. 1t is time for us to wake up.-lSam
,T0DPe
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The GlasSe of Time, in the First and
Peyton, of Lincolnes Inne Gent. Seen
and Allowed. London: Printed by Ber-
nard Alsop for Lawrence Chapman, and
are to be sold at his shop over against
Staple lime, 1920. Now reprinted in a
neat volume, long primer type, bound in
fine cloth, gilt top, beveled boards. Price
30 cents.
The quaint poem, of the title page of
which the above is transcript, appeared
nearly half century earlier than Paradise
Lost, and it is intrinsically probable that
it wonld have fallen under the eye of Mil
ton: in any case there are striking points
of resemblance between the two poems,
and many have supposed Millions immor-
tai work to have been inspired by the for
mer. Only two copies of the work are
known to be in existence previous to the
issue of the present edition, one being in
the British Museum, the other in the Bod
leian Library, Oxford. The copy in the
British Museum was purchased at a noted
sale of old books in 1919 by Baron Boil
land, who notes upon blank leaf that it
cost him 2lI. 11s 3D.. about $4,000.
Some years ago gentleman of Virginia,
Mr., ]. l.. Peyton, sprung from the old En-
glish family of that name. made an accu-
rate transcript of the copy in the British
Museum, preserving even the quaint spell
ing, punctuation, eapitalzing, and italicz-
ing of the original. This present edition
is printed without alteration. Apart from
its presumed connection with Paradise
Lost, the poem has very considerable mer-
its Of his own, and is in every way n liter
airy curiosity. John b. Alden publisher.
New York.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

February 23d was the anniversary OF the
organization of the w. c. 7. |. at Wood
bury and in answer to an invitation to be
present stepped off the cars at that sta
ton to be met by whom why Mrs. Stokes
herself, looking we'll and apparently in her
usual health. | know | can note no fact
more pleasing to the workers of the state
than this The reports of the past year
were by no means dscouraging, although
the ladies have felt that being deprived OF
their president and leader everything must
of necessity run behind. But they have
held the fort nobly, and are now rewarded
by having her back among them. When
the officers for the next year were to be
elected however, she was ready with
nomination of another for her former Office.
Mrs Turpin, wife of the Rev. Mr. Turpin
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was
unanimously elected president, with some
changes in the vice presidents, all the
other officers being reelected. More de
partments were filled and additional work
laid out for the future. | have attended
the annual meeting of this Union before as
well Us other meetings, but at none have
there been so many encouraging features
as at this 1t starts off well . Mrs. Stokes
will combine to help all along the line, but
it is well that she should be relieved of res
possibility in a degree. Woodbury. has
invited the county organization to be made
there, which we hope 10 do sometime in
April Mrs. s. j. e. D0cns, IN Temperance
Gnzfkfe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The christian Adcocate, New York,
February 25th, 1886, says; The Moristo,ra
ChroHicle tells of funny scene at tenn
peranc meeting at Madison, n. j.; The
Temperance meeting was enlivened by the
performances of an ambitious dog, who
mounted the platform and sat gravcly
down near Major Scott during one of his
most eloquent appeals The audience
were diverted and the speaker subsidized.
Gentlemen came to the rescue, and when
terms of endcarment and friendly winks
and calls failed of their purpose, the in
truder was hunted about the platform
among the chairs, under the piano, and
finally down the steps, in and out among
the people to the delight of the boys and
the CONSERVATION of the ladies, who had
floating visions of ocean voyages and for
eign "Pasteur's" The climax was reached
when the leader struck up "Rcscde the
Perishing." aud poor doggy was ignomin-
iously pitched down stairs another victim
of misplaced confidence. The Major, how
ever, with characteristic GOODNESS, resumed
and got there all the same.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

Assemblyman Corbin is of the opinion
that no temperance enactment will succeed
this session. The carefully-drawn local
option bill passed the Senate with ease,
but the House is against it. Its friends
can only muster twenty-five votes in its
favor. As to Mr.. Corbins high-license
measure it will have a close call. There
seem to be thirty votes in its favor, but
that is not enough. There should be thirty
one. The truth is there are probably only
twenty nine votes that can certainly he
counted upon. In the event Of the defeat
of high license and local option the Pro-
hibitionists talk of introducing prohibit
tory amendment bill. They know it will
be showed under, but they say they want
to put the various members on record, and
use the record in the gubcrnatoral and
legislative campaigns next fall.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

In town of 5000 inhabitants you gen.
orally find about thirty-iive saloons and six
churches. The saloons hold Especial meet
ings' every day in the week, and keep
them in full blast half the night The
churches are open only one day and per-
haps two or three evenings. Each patron
of the saloon will spend from % to so
cents day toward keeping the meetings
going. The churches have to resort to
fairs and other ''show business and after
all are often in debt. Is this right? Pro
hibition would change this state of affairs;
therefore ministers and church members
should surely vote for it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
Patents Granted.

Patents granted to citizens of New Jersey
during the past week, and reported ex-
pressly for the 'MoNIToR' by G. a. Snow
& Co. Patent lawyers, Opposite L. s.
Patent Office. Washington. ID. c.: II. E..
Winans, Newark, shot concentration; J. f..
Creamer Fort Lee, cartridge loading
machine; o. Smith, Bridgeton drill press:
S. Crump, Montclair, matriX; and granulat-
ing molten metal; f. V. Poole, Newark,
manufacturing nitro eellulose; f. r..
Parkhurst, Montclair, machine for feeding
wool; A. NJ. Lewis, Newark, fan attach
ment; A. f. Misselbach, Newark, fishing
reel; NJ. ]. Hughes, Jersey City, pen
holder; II. A. Groux, Montclair lawn
mower; f. r. Parsil, Newark, curtain fix
ture; l.. Daft, Greenyille. motor; G..
Cambell, Newark, purse.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

In deciding who to vote for next Tues
day, it will be good plan to first find out
who the rum ring and their satellites want
to have elected-and it's not very hard
thing TO find out-and then cast your
ballot for the other ticket. You will be
perfectly safe in following this rule
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
Woodstown, March LIST, 1886.

The grocer and butcher are proud of
their business, and therefore make all the
show they can of their goods, and throw
their doors wide open for men, women and
children TO walk in, look around. and buy.
Why don't the liquor seller follow out the
same plan, if his business be a good one
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
POOdIes ana Babies.

In recent speech Col. Balm hits public
sentiment as follows:
We are told that public sentiment is
not ready for prohibition. | answer that,
if God had waited for public sentiment to
get ready, we never should have had the
Ten Commandments. There is n fashion
able law in New York here, which DEGREES
that woman may with perfect propriety
carry a poodlc-dog in Fifth avenue: but
what would be thought of the same woman
who wonld carry her own child in the pub
lie tlloroughlarc? That is a consequence
of public sentiment; and you and every
one else but those who live in the inner
circle of fashionable emotion, know that
the public sentiment is false. By an abom-
inably false education it is considered per
iectly right For a political party to put the
rum jug in its platform, and perfectly
wrong and cranky to put the home there.
This political public sentiment in favor of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS home in favor of the
rum jug is no more right than is that fash
ionable public sentiment in favor of dis
eliminating against the child in favor of
the poodlc-dog
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

Let your boys sec that you love them
better than you do party organizations.
They will not think you do if you vote for
Il party willing to take its chances to ruin
them by backing up system that, for $95
or 500 year, lets loose upon society that
which plays worse havoc among the youth
than smallpox or any other pcstilcncc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

Tie signs of the times are to the effect
that the days of rum domination in this
country are numbered. King alcohol is
losing his grip, as his oppressive subjects
gradually find that his continued reign
means nothing but ruin for them. Woods
town is ripe and ready for her share of the
new dispensation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

Never do a wrong that good may come
out of it. a vote for right requires no ex-
PLANTATION. 1t pcases God, and that will
yet count to your credit when you will be
anxious to have something GOOD reeorde1
concerning you.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

If You have one saloon in your town. if
is one too many. Therefore your duty is
to prohibit it. The only present way to
accomplish this is by voting against license
every time you get an opportunity.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The National Temperance Society has
just published the first Quarterly Lesson
Leaf for 1886, entitled ''Paradisc Lost
1t is No. 30 Of the series. and is by +. N.
Peloubet, ID. d., the wel-known writer of
Sunday school Lesson Helps, who has been
secured 10 prepare the Lessons for the
Society. Price, 30 cents per hundred, post
paid. Address j. N. Steams, Publish
ing Agent, IS Reade Street New York.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

1t would be funny if one of the uses of
the ''Relianee" this Spring should be to
sprinkle cold water on the aspirations of
ring candidates for borough positions.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
Department of Health and Heredity.

To tie local Unions Of he State Of Ne,o
Jersey.
DEAR SISTERS In beginning the study
of these subjects we need, first, to be
aroused by the fact that there is a positive
right and wrong in regard to our bodily
conditions.
We know that our wise Father with
Divine care made these bodies, and placed
them in wondrous harmony with their en-
vironments. Benefcent law was written
on their members, called in the language of
our national president, health tlecaloguc
violation of these laws bringing its sure
penalty, sickness and death.
To inform ourselves of these laws and
conform our living thereto will bring to us
a religion of the body that will guarantee
us against sickness and untimely DEATH
1t will further establish such harmonious
relations between the spirit and body, that
the oft mysterious scripture, "Your bodies
are the temples of the Holy Ghost" will
be but the disclosure of an actual relation
ship. 1t follows, unless one has inherited
Il very defective organization, that to say
I'm sick, means, translated with 'rigid
honesty" | have sinned, | have broken
law.
To become intelligent ON this subject we
need to acquaint ourselves with the differ
ent parts of our organism and the distinc-
tive function of each, also with the food
elements necessary in the child for its
growth and development, and in the adult
for its maintenance in vigor. We need
further to study the subjects of ventilation
dress reform, pure water rest, sleep, excr-
else, the evils of stimulants and Of drug
and alcohol medication also the laws that
shall enable childhood to start out on its
life journey endowed with inherent power
to live and to live rghteonsly.
These matters are all vital, for to each
failure the penalty is suffering and not
only so, but physiological laws are in their
sphere as sacred as moral laws; and when
we are called to face our final record Can
non Farrar is authority for saying that
such questions as these will confront us:
'IIave you kept your body in temperance,
soberncss and chastity? Have You been
rigidly honest? Have you heightened the
moral standard of the world by your pres
ence in it ?" These questions are enough
to make the most thoughtful consider.
Since Christianity is a system Of living
as well as of belief and applies equally to
the body as to the spirit, let us call a halt
along the line while we ask ourselves: Do
we glorify God in our bodies, and will we
teach others so? Rest assured this health
reform undcries and is essential to the per
manent prevalence of Christian temper
anee, which is a holy or clean spirit in n
healthy or clean body.
Dear fellow laborcr5, in order that we
may prosecute systematically the study of
this subject, | would urge each local Union
to appoint superintendent and report
promptly to me- as | desire to commun-
cate our plan of work. If your county is
organized, please report TO your county
superintendent.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
March LIST. 1886.

Miss Frances +. Willard has selected
some gospel and temperance songs, faml-
lar tunes, 200 copies of which will be sent
to any church or Sunday school by address,
ing the publisher Laura G.. Fixen, Albert
Lea, MINI.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The people are in rebellion against ring
and rum rule, with the outlook favorable
to the rebels.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The Peoples train will start next Tues
day ''Gct on board, children"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
BIuntIy Stated But True TO Life.

Deacon Pratt WIS II Democrat, and GRIM old
chap was he
Deacon White, Il Republican, of the same
church, too, you see;
In religious matter they were one, but in poll
tics, oh, my,
They quarreled and tangled terribly and some
times gave the lie.
They both, of course, We're temperance men,
as Deacons always arc
But the way they differed in their views oft
made the people stare
They both were Prohibitionsts but they
couldn't vote that way,
For if they did, of course, they knew the pco-
pie all would say
They helped elect the other man-their party
pride was strong
And so these Christian temperance men help
ed whisky right along;
And there they stood: neither would jog, but
long and loud would pray
To tod to help the temperance cause; then
vote the other way !
Now worldly men and wicked mon can he eX
cused somewhat
For party pride and selfish cnds-l'vc been
there, who has not?
But how a Christian temperance man who
daily knccls and piavs
And knows the sin and misery of rum in all its
ways,
Can vote against his prayers is strange, can
not make it out;
| may be wrong, but it seems TO me, he'll have
10 change his route
Ere he reach that happy place where
Deacons all should GO
If not, fear he may be shipped with drunk
ards down below.
EL1 PIERCE in I0cdf Ne1ps
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The National Temperance Society has
just published eight additional fonr-pase
and one page leaflets. which are very for
chile arguments in favor of this great ques
ton oftemperanee. Price, q per 100. Post
age 80 cts Address j. N. Stearns, 81
Reade St. New York.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05
II. s. G. GARRISON,
Supt. Health and lIeredity. s. w. c. T. u

In looking over some little keepsakcs
that once belonged to my departed son,
found a Band of Hope pledge, with his
name signed to it in his own handwriting
The Band of Hope was then held in the
Methodist Sabbath school, OF this place.
During his sickness, he did not wish to
take any stimulants. | was so thankful
he died temperance boy; and | have no
doubt, if he had lived, he would have been
a temperance man. He loved to go to the
6 O'Clock meetings which We're led by Miss
Abbott. | am sorry those meetings were
broken up. Many boy went there that
never thinks of going inside Of church.
May many more boys JOIN the Band of
Hope.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The call for Reform caucus, ''sot
the porter bottles to workin'.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

Ht;tle OF New Jersey, county OF salem. -:
|, William T.. FlitclHft, Cashier OF the above
named bank, do solemn affirm that the above
statement Is true To the best of my knowIr,ist.
and belief s7N
WILLIAM H. FLTCnAFr, Cashier.
subscribed and affirmed to before me This An
day OF March, 1886 ' IN
Epw. WALLACE, Notary Public.
tORRECr-Att
:. IL. WEATHEpBY
EDWIN CoLsoN Directors
NATHAN THoRNE
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

If the people of this borough ever in
tend to take the borough affairs into their
ownhands, neXtTuesday is the time to catch
IN. 1t is well known that the manage
ment of borough affairs on it's first organi-
cation was committed to the hands of
those who had fought tooth and toe nail
against borough incorporation, and that,
when defeated on that question, they made
their boast that they would capture the
Council at the first election and so gain
control of the engine, the construction of
which they failed to prevent, and run it off
the track. The scheme was partially sue
cessful and has been on trial ever since.
People say they are not satisfied with it.
If they can show just cause why change
should be brought about, and we think
they can, next Tuesday is the time and the
ballot box the place to make it known. or
ever hereafter hold their peace.
A correspondent of the ". T. Wortd
makes very good exposition Of the rcla-
lion of local option to the present license
system. He says:
"a How me to state that as the law now
stands twelve reputable freeholders, by
their petition pray the judges of the
court, etc, representing the applicant to
he man Of good moral character, etc.
This law is a real monopoly, because the
minority rule the majority. will venture
to state that there are twelve times twelve
good men in each community that have to
submit to the power of the twelve under
the existing laws. BY the Local Option
laws if the majority, by their votes cast,
declare for license, that is also final. If
against license that is final. The
Local Option act is one ofthe most whole
some of laws, because it is democratic. A
legislator, if he be of that statesman type,
ought not be afraid to vote yea ON any
measure that will allow his constituents
the privilege of voting for what they want.
Should they vote nay, they may properly
be classified with Horace Grceley's mar
row minded blockheads.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-05

The injunction 'sDon't be clam" con-
Times to stare us in the face from the adj
vertising columns of many esteemed con-
temporaries, and yet, why not? The clam
i'll many respects sets an example worthy
of imitation. For instance, it is of an
even and placid disposition, bubbling over
with happiness. ''Happy as clam at
high water is an ancient comparison.
The clam also attends strictly to its own
business, and though generally admitted to
be 4" hard case, yet never carries its
rowdyish propensities to the point of in
juring its neighbors. The clam don't in
dulgc in gossip or SANDER, never gets
drunk, never tells a lie, and in many other
ways is a paragon of perfection. Don't
abuse the clam!