The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-08-13


The editor OF She Westiield hdepeadcnt
announces that he can no longer run tliat
| paper IS an Independent paper, but that
hereafter he will 'enleavor to serve God
and the Republican party lie offers to
| refund The money to any subscribers who
want to withdraw on this aecount
Speaking Of the force required for play
inc a piano an esteemed contemporary
says Many pieces of music contain from
1000 to 1000 notes and every time the
keys are struck the muscles of the forearm
must exert a pressure equal To lifting a
| two pound weight. Thus a full horse
power may easily be expended in a few
| hours. This explains why a young girl
who spends the evening banging the
music box tur the benefit of her young
man is unable to assist her mother at the
washtub next day. and it should put
Il stop la the II newspaper item
about the yonng oman playing the piano
in the parlor while mother does the house
work. The Y. w. has much the hardest
task of the two.
Even the watermelon on the vine is now
subjected to 4 ilavoring process while 1t is
ripenine by a sort If grating of the flavor
ing substance into the stem neartle melon,
SO that the juices Of the plant must pass
through this substance into the fruit. The
experiment is reported to have been sue
ccssful ON a Georgia plantation, but must
remain a fancy except in some places where
labor is extremely cheap and melons ex-
tremely Apply. Most people would prefer
the crisp watcriness of the pink tieshed
fruit "a any coal oil chemical tlavors that
would bring il to taste like a pineapple,
for instance. Dut in California, where the
melons are quite insipid and Chinese labor
still works wonders on the fruit farms, it
might pay 10 make the trial.
The II. J. Press must not misunderstood
the MONITOR OF give MS credit for more of
the peculiar kind of political good sense
iiiul TN 4 ftNN tN'l ilt' i'rftIs 'ti'fSH
to us. Our neiehbor eommends us for
being willing to wait and see what kind of
temperance plank the Republican party
will put in its platform. But our willing
ness to wait is simply a repression of our
bump of curiosity in the meantime, The
kind OF platform that suits us To Il / was
built OF good prohibition timber at Newark
some time ago, and w don't believe the
Republican party can beat it, and further
more we don't believe they will try to beat
it. We are not ~postponinG taking our own
position while waiting for the Republican
output on the temperance q~uestion-we
have already taken IT. 1t is s~traight~out
Prohibition with a big p and nothing
short. And the Press furnishes us with
the best argument III favor of prohibition
when it says: Now suppose that in New
Jersey We start ont with local option, and
see how that works. II is a short step
from local option 10 prohibition, and when
it is demonstrated that public sentiment
s~lstains the former TIE latter ill as surely
follow as the day follows the night. 2"
Now if local option and prohibition are SO
inseparably one and the same in practice
that adopting The formed necessarily brings
the latter, it follows that the same public
sentiment that will sustain the former will
sustain the latter. Why then should time
be wasted over any half way measures ?
Why not come 1T once to the ultimate
object , In the present state of affairs
local option, high license and other plans
short of prohibition appear 10 us as mere
subterfuges over which parties may daily
and hedge and accomplish nothing. \
ram man might find room to stand ON the
local option plank, but 81 the prohibition
plank never. We don't want to forfeit the
communication Of the estimahle Press, but
all the same we cannot keep il on the terms
suggested.
II g~rati1cS Us 10 be able to say t. the
Wnodstown MONITOR that the Chatham
Morris county, temperance law was the
work of a Republican legislature, as Mas
also the lladdon township local option law.
In answer to the M~oNIToR's question as To
Why every temperance bill introduced into
The Legislature was defeated We have TO
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