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The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

The report in circulation that
Recorder Matthews has q list OF
coiored employees to be discharged
from different departments, we are
authorized to state, is untrue. Mr..
Matthews doesn't want any color.
ed man discharged. To the con-
trary he is helping the colored
people. 1t was but q few days
ago that he contributed $25 to
the colored N. G. state fair and
other liberal contributions he has
made to colored industrial enter.
prises.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09
THE NEGRO AS A LABORER.

There has been much written OF
late about the Negro as tenant
and laborer, and many positions
taken by the varions writer's, aud
as sample of his industry and
thrift the following speaks for it.,
self. Within the past week l have
seen numbers of them driving into
town in all kinds of vehicles loaded
with fodder, and | made it my bus
mess TO investigate, when about
the following dialogue ensued:
"Old man what are you going to
do with that fodder?'
s'I'se gwine to sell sem."
"What forw
"I needs a little meat, and
up and sell 'em''
''It seems to me, old man, that
you would need that fodder next
winter and spring"
81 knows that boss, but yer see
| must have a little meat to work
on
"What are you doing on the
farm now?'
"Well, yer see, we's done laid by
der crop and dar amt muffin now to
do"
while yon are doing nothing at
home why don't you work out by
the day and make enough to buy
your meat and other provisions %
"Weli Is work hard all dis yer
and l wants some rest"
''Then you intend to sit at home.
idle all the summer and eat up
what you have made and what you
will need so much next spring ~
[ cant work all the time, and /
must have some meat.
This is the way they all do, Be-
fore they will hire out for wages
they will sell the last thing they
have around them, including chick
ems, except the dog, which must be
kept in the family at any cost.
When the 1st of January, 1887,
comes these same darkeys will
pOuDce down on the landlord for
credit, and he will have to buy corn
and fodder for them. They will
trade off the last bushel of corn
for tobacco or flimsy toggery and
useless articles-Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle.
The above article was graciously
clipped by the Hatchet paper
claiming to be republican.
The publication of the above lie
is attributable to one of two causes:
either that the managers of the
paper are inexcusably ignorant or
that they are inordinately prejndic-
ed and are deshased to misrepre.
sent the colored people in order
that the tide of prejudice, which is
now beginning to ebb and disap
pear may be reowed and increased.
As regards the interview, which is
believed to be a mean fabrication,
We have but little to say. 1t reads
ike a lie invented by shallow
p ted school boy whose object was
TO show how funny he could be.
But assuming the interview to be
true, what follows?
1t is the same old story which
can be fully appreciated by hun.
1reds and thousands who are cheat.
ed and robbed every year. They
work from early morn to dark; raise
all the corn, cotton and tobacco
and when tbs year is ended they
ind that they have barely enough
corn for bread, with no prospect of
neat and other delicacies, except
IS it may be procured by the sale
If such as fodder and the like.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09
NEGRO ILLEGITIMACY.

Ii the white papers can dare pub.
lish it, we certainly should be al.
lowed to dare to make an inquiry,
and express our regret and disap
probstion for such if true.
In the Issue of the evening Critic
of Sept. S0th, un der the caption of
o "pretty hardy do,"
The following Published state.
ment occurred: Of the 155 white
still births, only fourteen were
illegitimRte.
If the BEE can be allowed to in
quire what the Critic can dare to
publish with delight we would
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

New York city is bubbling over
the nomination of Mr.. Henry
George for mayor. MIR. George
deserves well of the people of
New York and there is much Gu.
riosity manifested to know wheth
or Gotham can really stand a good
man for mayor MIR. George was
nominated by-whu? When the
election is over he will be elected
where?
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

The address of the committee
appointed at meeting of the lot
owners of Harmony Cemetery,
will be found on the first page. it
shows that the former managers
bought the grounds for $3.50 per
acre and sold in lots at $50 real
izlng about $4,000 per acre. Let
every lot owner respond to the
call of the committee.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

Hon L. G: Moore, formerly of
the Mississippi Legislature has
been added to the staff of the BEE
as its advertising agent. Mr..
Moore is a wide awake business
man, popularity known in
this country. We hope that
our merchants will see the neces-
sity 10 giving Mr.. Moore an ad-
vertisement when he calls.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

The latest riddle out: Why was
my baby's last attack ofcroup like
this paragraph? Because it was
very short and ended with that
wonderful cure. DIR. Bulls Cough
Syrup. Price Is cents.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

The discharge of Charles III.
Danenhower as foreman of the Sd
division document room in the
Government Printing Office was a
qualification to the employees in
that division.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

An unpopular matron at pop
ular educational institution is
very common object. When such
an object is removed everything
becomes very popular.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09
The appointment of Mr.. Oyster,

by Mr.: Benedict is a recognition
of merit and ability. One of the
most commendable acts of Mr..
Oyster was the appointment of a
oolored man, Geo. M. Proctor, af
ter he had been reduced by a
white republican renegade, who
10 proof reader in the office now.
We congratulate MIR. Oyster and
hope that he will go up higher.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09

Subscribers are requested to pay
up.
The Washington bee., 1886-10-09
THE
THE
B OYS! T H F
30 Y y

Boys will be boys until time
shall be no more. As bows thew
will continue to buy their clothes
and therefore will constantly be
in nee of a new outfit until their
parents procure for them one of
our wear resisting Cassimere suits
which we sell from $3.50 up to
$40 for boys between the ages of
1 and 13 we ,rs. Short Pants.
For the larger boys ages ii to Is
we have a large stock, a great
assortment at prices from Soup
to S18. In Gentlemens Suits,
over coats, and Seperate pants
our stock is now complete, our
prices lower than ever, our styles
correct, our statesmen courteous
aud our methods OF doing husi>
ness popular. For anything in
the clothing line for man, boy or
child. Come right here you are
sure 10 find what you want at
prices that will please you.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
hill NyE ON HENS.

| am convinced that there is a great
Gent room for them and thorough knowl-
edge of how to manage the fowl properly.
But to the professional man, who is
not familiar with the habits of the hen,
and whose mind does not naturally and in
stinctively turn henward, l would say.
Shun her as you would the deadly upas
tree of Piscatequis county, Maine.
Nature has endowed the hen with but
limited amount of brain force Anyone
will notice that if he will compare the skull
Of the average self-made hen with that Of
Daniel Webster, taking careful measure
ments directly over the top from one ear to
the other The well-informed brain
student Will at once notice great falling
off in the region of reverence, and an alb
normal bullying out in the location of ali
mentiveness.
Now take your tape-measure, and bcgiii-
ming at memory, pass carefully over the
occipital bone to the base of the brain in
the region Of love of home and offspring,
and you will see that, while the hen suffers
much in comparison with the statesman in
the relative size of sublimity, reflection.
spiritually, time, tune, etc, when it comes
to love of home and offspring she shines
forth with great splcndor.
The hen does not care for the sublime
in nature Neither does she care for music
Music hath no charms to soften her tough
old breast. But she loves her home and
her country. have sought to promote
the interests of the hen to some extent, but
| have not been marked success in that
line.
can write poem in fifteen minutes. |
always could dash off poem Whenever |
wanted to, and very good poem, too, for
a dashed poem. | could write speech for
a friend in Congress--a speech that would
be printed in the Congressional Record,
and go all over the United States and be
read by no one | could enter the field of
letters anywhere and attract attention.
But when it comes to setting hen, feel
that | am not worthy | never feel my I'M
worthiness as l do in the presence of a
setting hen.
When the adult hen in my presence ex-
presses desire to set, excuse myself and
so away. That is the supreme moment
when hen desires to be alone. That is
no time for me to intrude with my shallow
levity.
1t is after death that most fully appre-
ciate the hen. When she has been cat
down early in life, and fried, respect her.
No one can look upon the still features Of
a young hen overtaken By death in LIES
young morning snafied oat, as it we've.
like an old tin lantern in gale of wind,
without being visibly affected. Chicago
Daily Noes
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
Daisies.

Ripping and tossing at every breath,
OF the random zephyr that passes by,
The daisies sway like sea beneath
The deep blue vault of the cloud-flecked sky,
Over the pillows of gold and white
Flicker The shadows and fall the light.
There's never daisy in all the host
Was here in the summers of long ago,
And still in the fancy that charms us most
Is II haunting whisper, sweet and low,
Stirring our hearts with its tender strain,
"Here are the daisies back again"
The same dear daisies used to cull
When hands were tiny and hearts We're gay,
Gathering them till our laps were full,
Many and many simmer Gay,
softly repeating II magic rune,
bringing the petals to time the tune.
And here in the midst of the white and gold.
Old as Eden yet ever new,
Is the same sweet story of gladness told
Under the sky so wide and blue,
Her face on the daisies shyly bent,
His eyes on her with IL proud content.
There may be, far from this hushed retreat,
Din and tumult and sordid care
Somewhere, perhaps, is the drums harsh beat,
And women knecling in fearful prayer:
There is only peace where TO and fro
In the silent meadow where the daisies blow
There arc always dreams in this tollsome
world,
Pure lis heaven and true as God,
Who sends us dawns with the dcws impaired,
And scatters the glory OF bloom abroad,
May the story that's ever both old and new
For the lovers here be dream come true.
--Margaret E. Sangster, in Hdrper's Bazar.
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PATENTS GRANTED.

Patents granted to the citizens of New
Jersey during the past week, and reported
expressly for the MONITOR by c. A Snow
and Co., patent lawyers, opposite I. ;.
Patent Office, Washington. ID. CD.
Weis, Jersey City, motor; c. Golde, Union,
making sheds; w. Scott, Plainheld, sheet
gage for printing machines; f. 5. Renwick,
MIlbum incubator; J. W. Kohn, Newark,
shutter fastener; J. Jenkins, Montclair,
pencil sharpener; II. Hennig, Paterson,
spark arrester; o. II. Gilbert, Newark,
latch operating device; G. c. Drake, Tren-
ton, telegraph and telephone protector; j,
f. Denton, Hoboken, rock drill; w. A,
Compton, Liberty Corner, enclosing
wood. II. Abbott, Newark, stem winding
aud setting watch.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
VOL. III.
YOUR COMING.

l know not, love, how first you found me,
What instinct led you here;
/ know the world has changed around me
Since once you came so near.
yield thousand claims to nourish this
At last the dearest hope, the nearest tie;
And looking but to yon TOR happiness,
Happy am l..
How lightly passed the maiden leisure
That youth and freedom choose,
The careless days of peace and pleasure,
The nights of pure repose
SO swift II touch could set the tune amiss
So brief shadow could blot the morning sky
Yet if the heart be made for happiness.
Happy am L.
O love, your coming taught me trouble;
Your parting taught me pain.
My breath grew quick, my blood ran double
It leaped in every vein.
Yet, ah has Time outdone the lovers kiss,
The look-the burning look-thc low reply
If these be all he holds of happiness,
Happy am l.
You lend to earth vague emotion;
Myself q stranger seems;
Your glance is mixed with sky and ocean;
Your voice is heard in dreams.
The good choose is weighed with that miss
My idest laughter mated with IL sigh,
And moving only in your happiness
Happy am |.
Dora Reed Gooddle, in Harper's Magazine
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
SILENT SOUNDS.

You do not hear it? Unto me
The sweet low sound comes ccaselessy
And floating, floods the earth and sky
With tender tone.
You do not hear the restless beat.
Upon the floor of childish feet
OF feet that tread the fiowery street
OF heaven alone.
At morn, AT noon, at eve, mt night,
l hear the pattcr, soft and light,
And catch the gust of wings, snowwhite
About my door.
And on the silent air is borne
The voice that from my world was torn
That left me- comfortless, 10 mourn,
Forevcrmore.
Sometimes floats up from ont the street
The boyish lnughier, brd-like, sweet
turn, forgetfully, TO greet.
My darling fairs
Soft us the ripple of the stream,
Breeze-kissed beneath the moons pale beam
How strangely real doth il seem
And he not there
All, no; you cannot hear his call;
You catch no laugh, nor light football;
| am his mothcr--thnt is all;
And He who said,
81 will not leave thee desolate,'
Has somehow, loosed the bond of fate
And left aar the golden gate
Which hides my dead.
Nellie Watts Ne Tey, in Frank Lesfie'S
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26

SHE HAD ALL THE PRIDE.

He was new convert to the ranks of the
Salvation Army aud was one Of thcloudest
shontcrs in the meetings which were, and
stili arc, being held He was telling what
religion had edone for him, and after
enumerating various sins Of which he had
been purged, he came to the matter of
pride.
Before joined the army saidhe. ~
was as proud as any of You sinners in the
back part of the hall But now my pride
is all gone; there hain't more humble
man than me here Tonight.
Perhaps You don't take any stock in
what say" continued the humble con-
vert, "Bnt it's true, every word of it. To
show you that my pride is all gone I'll go
right down from this platform and kiss
that old Niger woman in the front seat. .
True to his word the convert started for
the front seat, and when he reached the
floor both he and the audience had become
motionless Old aunty had slowly arisen.
Her eyes glowed with Indignation at the
blatant insult which he heaped upon her.
The convert who would have ventured to
have kissed her in that mood might not
have pride, but it would have required a
large amount of nerve
In a shrill voice she exclaimed: Keep
away from dis yere; if We hab got no pride,
why tank the Lor hab, an You won't
do none o your kissing ROM heret"
As the humble recruit sank back on the
stage she said ''Yon ought to be 'shamed
oh yussclf, you ole hypocrit, and the
audience applauded the sentiment as aunty
took her seat
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
THE wIFE's REWARD.

Last January held a mission III great
drink-troubled town in the North. The
last night was standing at the edge of the
platform, when poor, thinly-dressed wo-
man came up to me and held ont her hand.
She was trembling for joy, and her care
worn face was lighted up with a beauty
that only a great happiness can give.
''God bless you.' she said; I've suffered
for thirty years from the drink. Oh, God
only knows how much! But look, my
husband is signing Tonight He's been
here all this week, and he has had nothing
to drink. But know what my poor man
is; if he signs the pledge he'll keep it"
few weeks before, that man had been
arrested for ill-treating his wife. You can
fancy the scene. She stands in the police
court. What for! To condemn him to
show the poor half-broken arm? Oh, mol
The tears are slowly trickling down her
face. and the eyes of all in court are fixed
upon her as she appealingly says to the
magistrate: '.Ie could not help it, sir; it
was the drink that did it; he is very kind
when he is sober" And she makes excuse
after excuse, till he is let off simply with
fine.
The judges say it is mystery. The
people declare it strange thing that
such down-trodden women should 50 shield
their cruel husbands y But there is no
mystery at all; that woman sees hundred
little lovable traits in him, of which no ono
else can see a CLEAN, and she knows that
were it not for the drink they woud all
blossom and bud forth.
This is true story; and | am thankful
to say that poor woman's faith has been
realized and blessed. Last April | saw
them both--the man so wonderfully alter
ed that | scarcely knew him; but shall
never forget how he drew a little behind
his wife, and looking proudly at her, gently
touched her dress aud said: 81 bought this
for her last week, and she had it made for
you to see Thank God, we are happy
now, and my wife's got her great wish, a
pew in church, and we go together every
Sunday" For years that man spent the
greater part of his handsome wages for
drinks, and seemed to care nothing at all
about his shabbily dressed wife; but " len
he became sober all his tenderness and
love returned. ask you whether such a
fact as this, which is only one amongst
many. is not enough to elevate total alb
stinence so high that it is no wonder il it
seems to us second in Importance only 10
the Gospel itself?
May God hasten the day when every am
bassador for Christ, every single member
of the church-seeing the brothers need,
the sisters danger, the nations peril
shall come over to our aid. With the
whole army of christians Oh our side, We
should band ourselves into league so holy
and irresistible that not only drunkenness,
but other crying evils would flee away and
on the soft evening air as we listen there
would rise from ten times ten thousand
happy homes and peaceful hearts a song
like this: Sing, o heavens, and be joy
full, o earth, and break forth into singing,
0 mountains, for the Lord hath coinforted
His people, and will have mercy upon His
afflicted y
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
CHANGES WROUGHT IN FIFTY
YEARS.

In domestic life the change wrought by
the last fifty years is even more wonderful
than that brought about in public affairs
and general business. Ask woman what
most she counts upon for comfort i'll house
keeping, and she would hardly be able to
decide between Happy Thought range
and friction match; between sowing
machine and paper of solid-headed pins;
between the coal that has supplanted
wood, and the kerosene that has supplant-
ed the tallow candle. The life of house
keeper fifty years ago was tollsomc and
never-ending round of sewing, spinning,
knitting, alternating with cooking, dip
ping candles and making soap. Now even
tories, and all fabrics arc woven in the
power looms by steam. Not even a can of
peaches or tomatoes ON our table We
had not learned to cat tomatoes, and tropi-
the weekly newspapers. Now the banana
is almost as easily procured by poor famil-
les as are apples, and oranges are frequently
a glut in the market.
But this is nothing compared to our own
gardens. Fifty years ago our Strawberries
were to be gathered in tiny morsels from
the wild pastures; our raspberries grew in
fence corners, and all small fruits were
really insignificant, inferior and scarce,
Our potato of to-day is thing of culture,
superb and luscious, compared with what
our fathers ate. The Seckel, Sheldon and
Bartlett pears are marvel OF the creative
skill of our horticulture And what can
be said to do justice to the fact that by the
simple process of canning we can have the
choicest summer vegetables and fruits in
mid-winter. 1t is not saying too much to
say that no dream of fairy's palace, and
of magic, could, in 1886. have pictured so
fair scene as is fulfilled in every home of
1SS6.-lst Louis Globe Democrat
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LET NJ BE REPEATED.

There was sensible clergyman in a
neighboring county who was disturbed by
the noise made by male members of the con-
gregation putting on their overcoats while
the doxology was being sung and said;
''Now that you have your overeoats ON we
will sing the doxoiogy over again. This
is strictly orthodox rebuke, bat telling
one II is said that no one dared touch his
overcast the next Sunday, until the last
note of tic organ vanished out Of the
church window Hgsah'tyg, H.. Times.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26
AGIaL AND HER SENIORS.

When girl is pert and bold toward her
seniors, the reason may be because she
has not been perfectly trained; but when
she is overbearing and mkind toward ser
wants or work-people, | am afraid il Is
because she has not good heart. Perhaps,
however, it is only because She is thought
less Yomh's Compaaioa
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26

A little Of what by some would be pro-.
nounced Jersey justice has been adminis-
tered in Marshall county, Kas., in the case
of druggist, who, upon being convicted
Of violating the prohibition law, had his
druggists permit revoked, aud was scia-
fenced to an Imprisonment Of six months
in addition 20 paying fine Of $500.
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26

Neuralgia and rheumatism are depicted in
engrtvings as demons tearing at the human
form, but they could be more trnthtuily de-
scribed by showing n disordered stomach OF
cloggcd blood vessels Vinegar Bitteis affords
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-02-26

The Opening story of the New Volume (foi
January 3 1866 is entitled