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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
How They DO I'm Africa.

The following has been culled from q
letter from Rev. II. NJ. Bridgman for the
past twenty-five years missionary in South
Africa, on his return to his field after a
visit last season to his old home in Mass
In his round trip of some 90, 600 miles he
laid out definite plans beforehand and in
most eases met them to day. and finally
reached his station two days in advance of
the time set.
On the Sabbath over 300 came to the
service, so that he had to pull out three
naked boys from under the desk to find a
place to stand.
His first work on his return was to over
see the planting of corn aud potatoes for
his girls boarding school. in his truck
patch of some four acres, nicely enclosed
by hedge fence. The girls eat green corn
twice day for two months, or 200 ears
a day He also raises for them an acre or
two of sweet potatoes and one thousand
pumpkins.
AS to the climate it is Just superb, very
different from the west coast OF Africa
where Mr. Reading was missionary with
DIR. Nassau, the most trying climate on the
planet. Mr.. B. says he could not live here
in America, even in Summer with comfort.
and while here at the mildest part of the
year contracted cough which he only
threw off as he neared the African coast
The Zulu mission is now fifty years old.
When Mr.. Grout, now living in Spring.
field, Mass, went out there fifty years
ago, elephants, lions and leopards roved
about where is now a city (Durban) of
1000 inhabitants, with railroad, telegraph,
palatial stores, gas lights, and town hall
costing 5000, 900 dollars, where lately 1900
children sang in concert, and repeated by
request the concert a week later to an au-
dicnce of 5000, at 30 cents ticket. Where
is Jersey town of $4,000 that can beat
that?
The sanitary arrangements are admira-
bic, putting to the blush the loose and
filthy regulations in too many of our Amer
'S"' '""i'a bui oaii mas al inspector oi
nulsances at $1,000 year, who sees that
all garbage is removed, and water closets
and cess pools are properly and promptly
eleanscd, and everything calculated to
breed miasma and typhoid fever is re-
moved or deodorized; so that in climate
as hot as Charleston. S. C., there is less
sickness than in our best regulated and
most healthy American cities. So, great
and enlightened as we are, the United
States is not the only place, nor we Ameri-
cans the only people, in the world
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
GEN ERAI. NEWS.

Pocomoke City, Md, is lighted by the
Edison incandescent electric light, to the al
legged infinite satisfaction of its 1000 nhab-
tants.
In the Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
Conference lately held the Committee on
Temperance presented report declaring
that Complete legal prohibition of the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors is the duty
of civil government"
A special call to the ten thousand local
auxiliares of the National Woman S
Christian Temperance Union has just been
sent, requesting them to observe April II,
as the Sabbath for the memorial services
for the late John B, Cough.
Senator Sewell last week, laid before
the Senate the petition of the Woman 5
Christian Temperance Union of the State
of New Jersey, officially signed, represent
ing 900 Christian women, praying for the
better legal protection of the young girls
in the District of Columbia.
Samuel johnson, alias ''Mingo Jack.
colored, was taken from the Jail at Eaton
town, Monmouth county, ON Friday night,
and lynehed by persons unknown. He had
assaulted the daughter of a farmer in the
neighborhood The dead ruffian was about
65 years of age and had a bad reputation.
The temperance people scored 4 victory
over the liquor men in the Senate on
Thursday of last week. That body had
passed bill prohibiting the sale of liquor
in less quantity than a gallon when the
seller has no local license. And so inno-
cent was its appearance that the liquor
men did not realize its true character until
it had passed from the jurisdiction of the
Senate, when they made an effort to have
it recalled. but in this they We're unsuc-
cessful The bill was also passed by the
House.
Francis Murphy, the temperance apos-
tie and his lieutenants, are doing Won
derful work at Meadvile, Pa, and the sur
rounding country. Not less than $1,000
persons have signed the pledge to abstain
from Intoxicating drinks. The meetings
are still in progress and converts continue
to pour in. The excitement and enthusi-
assn are said to be unparalleled in the his
tory of the country. In every county in
Western Pennsylvania organized opposi-
ton is being made to the granting of
license, and, in most eases, with success.
All classes of people have entered the lists
against the liquor traffic, and if necessary
to success, will carry the question into
politics. Many temperance tickets are
already announced.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
Light Ahead.

There's light in the glad eastern sky,
Proclaiming the morning ut hand:
And the day of deliv rance is nigh,
W hen the curse shall he swept from our land.
CHORUS -
1t will come, by-and-by,
The glad day of dcliv rance will come,
1t will come, by-and-by,
Then our land shall be ransomed from Rum.
o. the hearts that will throb with delight,
Now broken with griefand despair,
o. the homes that will once more be bright
Now made dark by the shadows of care
CHoRUs:-
IT will come, by-and-by,
Yes, the day of redemption will dawn,
1t will come, by.and-by,
joyful millions will welcome the morn.
Then lets boldly press on in the fight,
Gath'ring cheer from the orient ray;
Tho we've passed through The darkness of
night.
soon We'll hail the glad coming OF day.
CHORUS -
1t will come, by-and-by,
Gods bright sunlight will cheer rs ere long,
Ii will come by-andby,
Earth's glad voices will join in the song.
-Ed,eard lii9din.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

We put a dropo of alcohol into mans
eye 1t poisons it. We try it upon the
lining of a living stomach. Again it poi
sons it. We study, after death, the stomach
of drinking men. and find alcohol produces
in regular stages rcdncss, intense conges-
ton, morbid sccrctions deeper hurt. de
struction of parts utter ruin. We study
its influence upon the health and strength
of sailors and soldiers, and find it helps to
freeze them in arctic regions, and exhaust
them in the tropics. We watch two reg
imcntS on long march in India, one with
and the other without grog, and are driven
to the conclusion that even moderate
quantities of alcohol weaken the muscles
and break the endurance. We visit the
training grounds of oarsmen, pedestrians,
and prizc-fighters, and learn everywhere
the same lesson-alcohol is a poison to
muscle and brain.-Iio Leicis' Nuqgctts
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The Virginia Legislature has passed a
Local Option bill for all the cities, towns
and counties Of that State and requiring
only Il majority Of the votes cast to decide
the question. Both the Virginia Demo
cratic and Republicans platforms last fall
promised to let the voters have a chance to
vote on the question, whether the majority
shall govern or not. Slavery was an
olgarehy and so is rum. Previous to the
vote on the Local Option bill prominent
Democratic organ contained the following
editorial;
off the question Of Local Option ever
attaches itself permanently to politics it
will not only, in our opinion, be placed in
Il position which will ultimately result in
its own DEATH but will add untold bitter
ness, rancor and demagogueism to our
already not very rose-scented or pelIucid
political stream We must say that we
have not and never have had the faith in
Local Option that some of our friends
have, but, as Democrats, we cannot oppose
any measure which proposes to allow the
sovereign people to express themselves at
the ballot-box for or against the sale of
whiskey in any county, city. district or
in the State, and this is all that
a Local Option bill means 1t does not re-
yoke license or curtail the privilege Of
any whiskey seller, but simply gives the
people the right, under certain forms, to
DO so il the majority of them so vote.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
AIden's CycTOpedia of Universal Liter.
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This work is the outcome of many years
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nent historian and author, says of it, Il
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trinsic value of the work as a popular ed
ucator in high department of learning.
The plan is admirable. Combining as it
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for good among the people, The work is
being published in parts of 160 pages each,
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in very handsome cloth bound volumes,
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nmes, at any time. Five parts are now
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lisher's f52-pagc illustrated catalogue of
standard books may be had for 4 cents, or
condensed 1G-page catalogue, free. John
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Gov. Fitz Hugh Lee, OF cold Virginia, :"
has signed the local option bill.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The signer of petition for tavern
license shonld feel proud of the fact that
the say-so Of himself and his eleven part
ners in the rum business has more weight
with the honorable court than that of any
800 other good and worthy citizens of his
county. In other words, if petition for
license bears the certificate in conformity
to law that the place sought to he licensed
lis necessary and Will conduce to the pub
lie good, signed by twelve reputable free
holders, no remonstrance, however numer-
ously signed, asserting the contrary to be
the ease that the ''inn or tavern is not
necessary, aud ,cA nat conduce to the pub
lie good, will be of any avail in defeating
the application. 50 that for the once, the
signer for license is a man of great i'm
portance and value in his community. The
indications are, however, that lie is getting
scarcer each year.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The proverbial Jersey justice is not the
kind dispensed in the court of Judge
Lynch, and the doing to death of the negro
johnson, at Eatontown, by a mob, is a
disgrace to our State. A resort to lynch
law is an implied ayowal that the ordinary
forms of justice are powcrless to punish
crime, but matters have not yet come to
that pass in our commonwealth. Perhaps
no man will be found who will not say that
Johnson richly deserved death. but it is a
sad day for the State when a criminals
deserts are to be melted out to him at the
hands, and in the discretion, of a mob.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The Governor to be elected next Fall
will have the appointment of large
number of officers. His term of office will
begin in 1887 and expire in 1890. In 1887
he will appoint successor to Chancellor
Runyon, and the new Chancellor will have
the appointment in 1889 of two Vice
Chancellors. In 1887 will expire also the
terms of the Secretary and Assistant
Secretary of State, the Attorney General,
Clerk of the Supreme Court Chancery
Reporter, Justices Depue, Parker and
Magic, Lay Judge Whitaker, of the Court
of Appeals, six District Court Judges, and
State Tax Commissioner, State Prison
Keeper Prosecutors of the Pleas in Mid
dlcsex, Monmouth and Ocean counties,
and Law Judges in sixteen counties.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The appctites of mankind as personified
and represented in the person of the rum
drinller, and the ayalicc of mankind as per-
sonificd and represented in the rumsellcr,
are the two great obstacles to-day in the
way Of the temperance reform. So long
rs men will drink, so long other men will
he found, who, for filthy lucre's sake,
will cater to their depraved appetites Re
move the first obstacle, the other will soon
follow. This means the personal work OF
reforming the drunkard and preventing
others from becoming drun<ards. But
how is this to be done, with temptation on
every hand? Remove the temptation
this means prohibition Of the liquor traffic.
Moral saasion and legal Suasion must go
together.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
4 Mothers Letter.

Before commencing his text Mr.. Jones
read the following letter, which he said he
had received from 4 mother:
''Rcv Mr.. JoncS:--God bless YOU 1t is
too late to do my poor boys any good. |
am praying that You may do some other
mothers boys some good. was left a
widow with two boys, on whom | leaned
for my support, but they Were led astray
by the terrible saloons. For months, and
even years, they came and were brought
home intoxicated. One was brought home
for the last time, and died of deirium
tremenS. Not long after him the other boy
was brought home a mangled corpse. hay
ing been run over by passing train while
intoxicated. Having no support, | have
mortgaged my little home to live on. Oh,
my soul, what n dreadful place of torment
awaits the men who will deliberately do
such damning business! My hope for
but, OH what 4 trial for mothers! Don't
spare the rasea Is.
That is an awful word for heart bleed
ing like that, but could she say less? A
great many times they have asked ME,
'What makes you so rough in your eX-
pressions - Are you going to handle 4
crowd that just goes about tearing moth
ers' hearts out of their bosoms, and just
suck the last drop Of blood ont Of them
before your face, with gloves? If you will
read tue letters have read the last three
years you will just be like | am. don't
expect anything else than to have largely
the ill-will of men in this traffic. | have
had their ill-will until am fully persuaded
the more they hate me the more God loves
me, and | like that-the last part of it.
There is not a saloon keeper in this world
| have aught against. | never have mis-
treated one in my life. I denouncc his
business his traffic | will denounce it
forever. And brethren, [ just put it on
record as the honest sentiment of my heart,
without any reference to what other men
do or won't do. | tell you | will steal !.
| will steal, before | would sell whisky !,
[Applause. And I would go into your
poor-house door and be toted out of that
room by insects before | would ever put 4
dollar into my pocket that came out of the
rents of Il bar room. | know how deeply
money comes into this question. And it
just takes a gentleman, scholar and 4
christian to have bar-keeper offer 5000
for that room and then dry goods mcr-
chant pay so and refuse to rent to the
former. tell you there is many Il man in
this town selling ont to the devil for $50 Il
month.
Well, you are fool to do that, without
saying any thing about any other aspect
of the question. don't think | could
afford that. Every man Of that sort the
devil has got rented by the month, and so
long as he has got you rented he has got
you. The devil rents Mcthodists for $50
a month, and finally the devils rent title
will turn to a fee simple and drag you
down to hell. And there is many widow
i'll this country who won't be sorry You
have gone there, you old hog, you!"-
CiaciHAafi Eaqpirer IF Feb !.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

A temperance man need not necessarily
he 4 christian but that Il christian must of
necessity be temperance man in theory
and practice, is as true as that two and two
make four.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

Wantcd-somc mild drink, that the
chuch member who has toiled all day at the
polls with the rumseller for the success of
his ticket, may consistently partake OF,
along with the boys who take sugar in
their'n,n when the treat is dealt out.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
Fathers and Mothers Take warning

A few years ago there lived in an in
land town of this province a wealthy mer-
chant; benevolent, Christian man.
deacon of the church, and teacher of the
Bible class III the Sabbath school. lie
brought mp family of healthy, intelligent
children; but, as they came of age, all
showed Il strange liking for alcoholic
drinks. OF his three sons, one is dead:
the others are confirmed drunkards. The
father discouraged, neglected his business
and failed. One of his daughters married
well, but found it impossible to let the
curse alone. She became so bcsottcd as
to be the victim OF dcliriurn tremens. Only
about three weeks ago, Disguised with her
self, and probably feeling one of the at
tackS coming on she committed suicide by
taking large quantity OF laudanum. She
left two boys and a heart broken husband
behind her. And now. fathers and
mothers, what was the cause of this
misery? A lady brought up in the same
family tells me it vas the custom 10 keen
beer in the house at all times, to which the
whole family had access. The stronger
liquors were also kept for special oeca-
sions. The children helped themselves to
the beer and pilfered. the other liquors.
She tells me that she herself acquired so
strong taste for it that she found great
difficulty in breaking off the habit but
being younger, and thus forewarncd. broke
the habit before it was too late The story
is an actual fact, and points It's own
morsl.-Uoatrea} Witness.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

We don't know who "Citizen" is and we
don't care, but when he says that any one
stated in the caucus ON Thursday of last
week that the Fourth of July celebration
last year cost the borough $500, or any
other snm of money, he proves his descent
in direct line from Ananias and Sapphira.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12
Tit For Tat.

If the brewers, distiIlefs, saloon keep
ers. and others who may have invested
money, with view to secure the ill-gotten
gains of the liquor traffic, are going to
demand compensation for the property
destroyed or deprecated by the process
of compelling them to stop their deadly
business. let their demands be acceded to
on one condition. Let the rule be applied,
what is sauce for the goose must be
sauce for the gander. Make a child's bar
gain with them, but it is a poor bargain
that won't work both ways.
Agree to pay them for their losses in
property, in the event of their closing bust
ness, if while they continue it they will
pay the bills occasioned by it. The pro-
perty near every rum hole, whether that
be factory for making liquors or drunk
ards, is largely deprecated thereby.
That is one item
The expense of our courts, of the police
of the support of criminals and paupers,
is largely liquor levy. That is another
item.
The earnings of the weak and depravcd
(rendercd thus chiefly by this busness)
which of right should supply necessaries
and comforts for wives, children or other
dependents, but which, instead, go into the
till of the vender, and for which no valua-
bic consideration is returned. This is
another item.
Nor are these all by any means. But
when these cXactmg grog-makers and
vendors Will agree to pay these little bills,
then by all means agree To pay the prop
erty losses of such as willingly, or other
wise close up their dclectablc places of
business. - fmperaltee GazeHe.
The ultimate aim of the w. C. T. L.
work is to make people understand, love
and practice temperance. Intelligence is
necessary, because alcohol is SO deceptive
that large share of those who hy il become
its victims Vast numbers still believe
that alcohol is good in small doses. There
fore they do not, us yet pr0hibH themselves
by human beings, the work that God
wants done will not be done until the
people understand and practiye temperance
voluntarily. To effect this we must COM
bine and win them. This is the Christian
method of work, to convert and elevate
the individual. Christianity does succeed
and temperance will succeed if we work
for it in the same way. Temperance is n
part of Christianity and it affords a grand
demonstration of the fact that the God of
Science and the God of Revelation are one i.
The science of temperance leads men to
know what is right and religion urges
them to do as we'll as they know. How
can they do right when they do not know
what is right? This plan goes TO the
root of the whole matter
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

Right always wins when its friends have
the courage to defend it. 1t may take
time but the victory is sure.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

A religion which suspends business six
days in week. including election day, and
opens up only on Sunday, is sham.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

direct from the makers, Ill Hid
delphia and New York. Cot
tage, at Zoe; Hemp, 2oc.; In
grain, from zoe. to 75c.; among
these some beautiful patterns OF
Atwood extra supers. Some
excellent new styles of tapestry
Brussels, at soc. per yard. Rag
carpets in great variety, at 80,
S, As and SOC; wonderful
cheap. Don't buy a carpet OF
any kind till you've seen ours;
you can surely save money.
Ladies striped Jersey collars,
&C. Cuffs to match, SC.
Twenty dozen just received.
See the gents suspenders i'm
our windows, at I3c. per PAIR, or
? pair for CSC.
All colors window shading,
ISc. per yard; 6 feet shades,
with all the fixtures ready to
hang up, 4oc. each. Elegant
dado shades, 6 feet long, with
spring fixtures ready to put up,
at csc. Looking glasses from
Ioc. to $3.50.
Good bleached muslin, &C.
better at 8, 9 and Ioc. per yard.
Yard wide foulards, Ioc; sat
teens, I2C.
Remnants of Ioc. corset drill
for Sc; remnants of I5c. for 10
cents per yard.
Crash towelings, AZ, 6, 8, 10
and nc.
All widths of sheeting mus
Inns, and every grade of table
linens.
Cashmere, part wool, suited
for boys wear, at IS to 35c.
Elegant pushes, both sides
alike, for curtains, old gold and
garnet, u &c.
Willow clothes baskets, 05c.;~
largest 75c.
Jute rope, for pillow lines, SC.
per h.; ? pair pillow lines, 20
yards, cost IL to I5c; cotton
clothes lines, zee per h.
White Italian CASTLE soap,
I5c. per lb.
Proctor & Candles OIeine
soap is up to &C, per pound, but
even now it is the cheapest soap
we sell.
Five pounds Turkey prunes,
25c.; pure pepper ISc. per h.;
nutne9s,, &C. per o.; all other
groceries in proportion. Head
light coal oil, 1907 test, I2c.
per gallon. Good white sugar,
6 cents; best, OF cents; granu-
lated, &C.
We conclude that most peo-
pie have given our ISc. coffee,
which we are selling pounds
of for CSC, a trial, and are using
it. But if there should be any
that have failed to hear of it, our
advice is to try it. We bought
nearly a ton of it this week, and
have it roasted as we have need
for it.
Our soc. best New Orleans
kcttle-boiled molasscs is work
ing its way into favor as rapidly
as we could desire. 1t needs
but the introduction to make
friends.
Few persons seem to know
that we keep a fair assortment
OF knives and forks. We buy
them as low as any merchant on
earth, possibly and don't want
much profit. You can save
from 10 IS, 20 or CSC. on
sett. Prices, so, IS, 90, S1.oo
to Sa.75 per set
Tablespoons and teaspoons
in good variety.
Cast steel scissors and shears.
8 inch, 3oc.;7 inch, $50; 8 inch,
45c.
Wash boilers modo of b.,x,,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

When n man prays for temperance and
votes for whisky ON which side is he to "
counted--that of the Lord or of the devil
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

me W. G. I. t., Of ST. Paul, Mimi
Keep open fine reading room in the hcar,
:" .ad me city and employ superintendent =,
t t,'o i month who gives his whole time to
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-03-12

The peoples train was side tracked, as it
were.
lis well. We may be happy yet, you
bet