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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
DESTRUCTION OF TEfE TEMPLE AM
CITY EORETOLD.

And fearful sights and great signs shall there
be from heaven.-Luke, xxi: II.
While the Jews, miserable people, al
lowed themselves to be persuaded by de-
~ceivers, they did not attend nor give
credit to the signs that were so evident,
and did so plainly ~foretell their future des-
olation. Thus there was Il star resembling
a sword which stood over the city, and a
comet that continued il whole year. The
people being assembled to celebrate the
Feast Of UnleaveBed Bread, at the ninth
hour Of the night, there siione so great Il
light about the altar and the temple, that
it seemed TO be bright day, and this con-
tinued for half an hour. The E~asterngate
of the temple, which was of solid brass and
very heavy. and was securely shut at even
ing by twenty men and was fastened by
strong bars aud bolts, was seeii at the
sixth hour of the night to open of its OWN
accord, and could hardly be shut again.
Before the setting OF the sun there was seen
over all the country chariots and armies
fighting i'll the clouds, and bcseiging cities.
At the Feast of Pentecost, as the priests
were going into the inner temple by night.
as usual to attend Their service. they heard
first a motion and noise, and then a voice
as of u multitude. saying, sLet us depart
hence" And what might be reckoned the
most terrible of all, one Jesus, an ordinary
country fellow, four years before the war
began, and when the city was in peace and
plenty, came to the Feast OF T~abernacles,
and ran up and down the streets crying
day and night, "a voice from the east, a
voice from the west, Il voice from the four
winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the
temple, q voice against the bridegreoms
and the brides, a voice against all the peo-
pie The magistrates endeaYored by
stripes and torture, to restrain him; but lie
still cried with a mournful voice, 'Wo,
wo, to .Jerusalem,'' This he continued TO
do for seven years and five months to-
getller, and especially at the great Festi-
walls, and lie neither grew Loarse, nor was
tired; but went about the walls and cried
with u loud voice. "Wo, We to the city and
to the people, and to the templena And
lust as he added, at last, "Wo, wo also to
myself!'' a stone hurled from an eng inc
struck him and killed him immediately.
-,LynjsL JVnPs. LJ. nj.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

Did yen notice on the train You left
town on how the newsboys pressed yon to
buy travelling capss Fliinsy skull caps
they were of cheap black silk with a far
ing red lining. Fifty cents The boys want
ed. and Il ysa protested that the price was
too high. did yon notice how readily they
took the pfotfcred quarter ? A boy explain
ed why he SO readily grabbed at the quar-
ter. Mine cents a piece | paid FOR them
at wholesale" he exclaimed. ssThe par
Tor car fellow wko don't travel much is
flush when he starts out. He sees the drum
mer with one of EN-. secs that he looks
comfortable and coy and has a sort Of r.
knaw-how-to-travel air about him. lIa
val the air. and No buys the cap. When
he gets 1t on he believes every one will
think he is a seasoned and old tiinetraseler
He's the fellow who gives mp i half a dol
lar. lis the real old Traveller who's forget
bis cap that beats me down to quarter
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
GOOSE AND GANDER.

"Well, mother, : said a w~orkingman TO
his wife. as he returned from the common.
where he had been hobnobbiug all lie fore
noon with his fellow strikers, Tets have
dinner
mo dinner to-day, old man. she replied.
mo dinner? What's upss
tive struck for eight hours work and
two meals a day; so has Mrs. Johnson, so
has Mrs. Spring. In fact, we've had a
meeting, and we have concluded that six
teen hours q day is rough on females, when
big, strong men can only stand eight
hours
He seized his hat aud went out to see il
he could have a committee of arbitration
appointed.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
THINGS IN M BoIToM DRAWER"

IA mother supposed TO be looking over the
relics of her lost children.
There are whips and tops, and pieces of
strings;
There are shoes that no little feet wear:
There are pieces of strings and broken rings,
And tresses OF golden hair;
There are little dressed folded AVA
Out of the light of the sunny day.
There are dainty jackets that neveraie worn:
There are toys and models of ships:
There are books and pictures, all faded and
torn,
And marked with the finger tips
ofdimpIed hands Ihat have fallen TO dust
Yet l strive 10 think that the Lord is Just,
But II feeling of bitterness fills my soul
Sometimes, when | Try 10 pray,
Tint the Reaper has spared so many flowers,
And taken mine away;
And | sometimes doubt fthe Lord can know
That IL mothers heart could love them so.
Then / ihink Of the many weary ones
That are waiting and watching tonight
For the slow return of the faitering feet
That have strayed from the paths of right;
Who have darkened their lives by shame and
sin:
W nom The SHARES Oh the TEMPER nave ehtH-
cred in.
They wander far in distant chimes:
They perish by fire and flood;
And their hnlds are black with the direst
crimes
That have kindled the wrath of tod
Yet a mothers song has soothed them 10 rest;
She has hushed them 10 slunber upon her
breast.
And then 1 think OF my children three
My babies that never grew old
And I know they are waitingand Watching for
me
In the city with the street of gold.
Safe-safe from the cares of the weary years,
From sin and SORROW and war;
And | thank my God, through my falling tears,
For the things in the bottom drawer.
-lMilnes LerieE.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
EVIL OF ~INDORsING.

| affirm, says Judge Waldo Brown, in
the Boston Traveller, that the system Of in
dorsing is all wrong, and should be utterly
abolished. believe that it has been the
financial ruin Of more men than, perhaps,
all other causes. think that our young
men especially should study the matter
carefully in all its bearings, and adopt
some settled policy to govern their con-
duct, so as to be ready to answer the man
who asks them to sign his note. What re-
sponsibility does mi assume when he in
dorses a note? Simply this: He is held
for the payment of the amount in full.
principal and interest, if the maker of the
note, through misfortune, mismanage-
ment, or rascality, fails to pay it. Notice,
the indorser assumes all this responsibility,
with no voice in the management of the
business and no share in the profits of the
transaction, if it prove profitable; but with
a certainty of loss if, for any OF the reasons
stated, the principal fails to pay the note.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
VOL. III.
STRENGTH FOR To-Day.

Strength for today is all that we need,
As there never will be a tomorrow;
For tomorrow will prove but another today
With its measure of j and sorrow.
Then why forecast the trials of life
With much sad and grave persistence,
And wait and watch for a crowd OF ills.
That as yet have no existence?
Strength for to-day; what Il precious boon
For earnest souls who labor,
For the willing hands that minister
70 the needy friend o~rneighbor.
Strength for today, that the weary hearts
In the battles for right may quail not,
And the eyes bedimmed by bitter tears
In their search for light may fail not.
Strength TO to-day on the down-hill track.
For the vellers near the valley,
That up, iur up on the other side,
Ere long they may safely rally.
Strength for to-day, that our precious youth
May happily shun temptation,
And build from the rise to the set of the sun
On a strong and sure foundation.
Strength for to-day, in house and home
TO practise forbearlnce sweetly:
To scatter kind words and loving deeds,
Still trusting in God completely.
Strength for to-day is all that we need,
As there never will be It tomorrow:
For tomorrow Will prove but another today,
With its measure Of joy and sorrow.
From the Boston transcript.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

When the morning really came, with its
fresh, frolicking winds and sunlight, and
blue skies; with its merry faces and gay
voices, and the happy children rapping at
my door, / thought of what he said. "Per-
haps the boy has been to you." Some
times think lie must have been, so real
and sweet is, even now, the memory OF his
coming. All that day he stood beside me.
felt tue blessing of his smile, and heard his
low, sweet voice. What for months I had
locked upon and feared with the bitterness
of a great dread, the face, and smile, and
voice made almost painless.
The clildren's merry greetings did not
hurt me; my fingers did not tremble when
they twined the fresh green leaves about
the walls.
The older children went with lis to
church that morning. The little church
was very still and pleasant, and somehow
the service stole away down into my heart.
1t was no eloquent preacher that we heard;
only a plain man, with Gods p%lainest gifts
of mind and culture Bnt the day was
real to him, and | listened. A bit of Mrs.
Browning's music kept singing itself in my
soul:
| praise thee while my days &c ON,
l love thee while my days go on:
Through dark and dearth, through fire and
frost,
With emptied arms and treasure LOST,
1 thank thee While my days go on.
| think that I did thank him-I who,
only, last year, had sat there with my boy
beside me.
words flooded the church with harmony
again, as on that other morning, and John
and | clasped hands silently think we
uttered the old. old cry s'Blessetl be the
name OF the Lord
We stopped after church together Where
the boy was lying, TO let May lay down her
little green wreath, and | was glad that
She could do it calmly. Somehow | felt as
if tears would be proclamation just then.
Then We went quietly home.
1t was Il happy home that day-as happy
as it would be when we did not sec him
Yet | knew he was there.
s.Did you think | should not be with
yon, mother?"
| heard it over and over; | hear it over
and over now; | shall hear it WHEN the
next Thanksgiving sun brightens his grave.
He wished us to be happy; | know he was
with us. | think he always will be-
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
SIGNS OF

Where spades grow bright, and idle words
grow dun:
Where jails are empty and where harms are
full;
Where field paths are with frequent feet ont
worn,
Law-court yards weedy, silent and ~torlorn;
Where the doctors foot it, and where farmers
ride:
Where age abounds, and youth is multiplied;
Where poisonous drinks are chased from place
TO place.
here opium's curse no longer leaves a trace;
Where these signs are, they clearly indicate
A happy people and a wellruied state.
From the Chinese
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
..Origin of the Maine Law and of Pro-
hibitory Liquor legislation

This is the title of a pamphlet of fifty
two pages, compiled by ID. E. Appleton,
Esq, giving an able aud exhaustive report
of General James Appleton, a member of
the Legislature Of Maine and chairman of
the Committee on License Laws in 1887.
It is a remarkable document, clear, logical,
convincing, and complete. 1t was the first
announcement of prohibitory principles
and the origin of the Maine law. All his
tories of the Name law leaving this out are
incomplete. The pamphlet also contains a
memoir of General Appleton. 1t should
be in the hands of every intelligent friend
of temperance. Price only ten cents. Ad-
dress j. n. Stearns. Publishing Agent, SO
Reade Street, New York City.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

Last eve | pansed before Il blacksmith door,
And heard The anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in. l saw upon the iioor
old hammers worn with beating years Of
iiiGe.
Glow many anvils have you had - said l,
$40 wear and batter all these hammers SO :
one" h. answered; then with twinkiing
eve,
"rhe anvil wears The hammers out, you
know
And 50, / thought, the anvil Of Gods Word
For ages skepfic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise OF falling blows was
heard,
The anvil IS un-woan-the hammers gone.
The Cngrent.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
THE SONG OF THANKSGIVING.

We're thankful for II host of things
Too numerous to mention:
For sweethearts true and hearts 10 WOO,
And all things worth attention.
forall and everything that gives
Our lives so much of pleasure
We fife thanks. Long may we taste
Thine Overlooking measure.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

There is no reason for having a barren
ward or lawn in winter. Some kind OF
choice evergreens, ornamental trees or
shrubs should be planted. a hedge along
the front and on the borders Of the walks
will give an attractive appearance at all
seasons.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

That we can. in connection with the MONITOR,
secure you II subscription to any paper or
magazine published, mt n much lower price
than the regular rate, and you will do well to
let us know if you are contemplating q sub
scription to any publication.
THE MONITOR, Woodstown, N. }.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19
PATENT MEDICINES

Web,0bose to KEEP a st0ck Of
aHMe pa,7ons Rpbazeha,y Aeah-
zines that there IS any dcmaua
for, and 7ozH from time to time,
add 10 our stock all sueh that may
be euqaa,ed fer. Ne annex a
Price hst, and can furnish any
byoen7u6M articles IN this line
at abonk the same acreage 9ba7ee
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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-11-19

All kinds of crockery and Queensware;
We are selling lots Of goods OF TINS kiha
now that we've room to show them at Our
old stand at the corner.-E. u. mum
phreys 4 Co.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-05

stantial supper, Burlington and its thou
sands of visitors turned out en- mdsse to
participate in the evenings sports. The
streets were ablaze with electric lights,
Chinese lanterns and colored fires. and
rang with the musical chime of myriads
of sleigh bells. Thousands of torches In
double row extended from the grand
arch, corner OF Church and Main streets,
to Prospect at the head of the course.
Citizens along the course utilized the ice
cones in their front yards as braziers in
which to burn colored lights at intervals
of few minutes. Many of the traverses
were, in imitation OF Albany hobs, pro-
vided with handsome headlights which
added materially to the general effect
Burlington's fair daughters focked to the
hill by the hundred in company with
their stalwart protectors. The "Pilot,"
puritan" burlington" and ''Cygnet'
were in probably the greatest demand of
any on the course, carrying full boards
every trip without mishap. A party of
fair BOstonians after trip on the ''Pilot"
could not be induced to leave it. All the
toboggan slides were well patronized by
their regular crowds, but the general
rush was to the ''Russian' in the harbor,
where there was to be a grand display
of fireworks. At 8 o'clock every body
seemed en- route for the harbor and all the
streets leading to the Champlain Steamer
company's docks were alive with hand
some sleighs, and the hotel vans bearing
thousands of spectators to the foot of the
slide. The large electric lights placed on
thirtyfoOt towers "A short distance north
of the slide illuminated the ice for IA long
distance and made the vicinity of the
slide as bright as day.
The gentlemen's costumes are similar
to those used in Albany, save for the
colors, which are varied to suit the wear
er's taste. In the ladies' costumes. how
ever, there is a change. Some wear the
long Newmarket style, reaching to the
ankles. while others wear the regular
Canadian, consisting of short sack or
jacket skirt reaching just below the
knee, fancy leggings and high mocca>ins,
the whole Surmouuted by Il natty tuque.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-05
MISS EDITH HELPS THINGS ALONG.

"My sister'll be down in minute, and says
you're to wait, if you please;
And says | might stay till she came, if I'd
promise her never to tease,
Nor speak till you spoke to me first; but that s
nonsense; for how should you know
What she told me to say, if didn't? Don't you
really and truly think so?
"And then you'd feel strange here alone, and
you wouldn't know just where to sit;
For that chair isn't strong on its legs, and we
never use it II bit:
We keep il to match with the sofa; but Jack
says it would be like you
To flop yourself right down upon ii, and knock
out the very last screw.
"suppose you try! won't tell. You're afraid
to- OH you're afraid they would think
it mean
Well, then, there's the album; that's pretty II
you're sure that your fingers are clean.
For sister says sometimes | daub it but she
only says that when she's cross.
There's her picture. You know it? It's like
her; but she ain t;good.looki of course.
This is ME. It's the best of em all. Now, tell
me, you'd never have thought
That once | was little rs that? It's the only
one that could be bought;
For that was the message to pa from the pho
togruph man where | sat-
That he wouldn't print off any more till 1t
first got his money for that.
"What? Maybe you're tired of waiting; why,
often she's longer than this
There's all her back hair to do up, and all hci
front curls to friz.
But it's nice to be sitting here talking like
grown people, just you and me-
DO you think you'll be coming here often? Oh
do! But don't come like Tom Lee
"Tom Lee, her last beau Why, my goodness
he used to be here day and night,
Till the folks thought he'd be her husband
and Jack says that gave him fright.
You won't run away then, as he did? fol
you're not ii rich man, they say.
Pa says you're as poor as IA church mouse
Now are you? And how poor are they
"Ain't You glad that you met me; Well am
for know now your hair isn't red;
But what there is left of it's mousy, and no
what that naughty Jack said.
But there, must go; sisters coming! But
wish could wait just to see
If she ran up to you, and She kissed You in tn,
way that She used to kiss Lee"
p bret IKiyfe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-05

From the cellular tissue of the Black
oak is obtained the quercitron, of which
great use is made in dyeing wool, silk
and paper-hangings. According to sew
eral authors who have written on this
subject, and, among others, DIR. Bancroft,
to whom we are indebted for this discov-
cry, one part of quercitron yields as
much coloring matter as eight or ten
parts of woad. The detection is of "A
brownish-yellow, which is rendered
deeper by alkali and lighter by acids.
A solution of alum causes a small portion
of the coloring-matter to fall in deep
yellow precipitate; solutions of this af-
ford a more abundant precipitate of the
same color, but of a much brighter hue.
To dye wool, it is sufficient to boil the
quercitron with an equal weight of alum;
in dipping the stuff, the deepest shade
is given first, and afterwards the straw
color; to animate the tint, the stuff may
be passed, in coming out of the dyes,
through water whitened with a little
washed chalk. A brighter color is OBJ
tanned by means of a solution of tin.
Quercitron may be substituted for woad
in giving all the shades of yellow to silk;
the proportion is one part by weight to
twelve parts of silk. In the advertise
ments of Philadelphia for February, lSOS,
this substance is rated at forty dollars a
ton, and from that city chiefly it is eX-
ported to Europe.
Though the wood of the Black oak is
of better quality than that of the Scar
let, Spanish, Red, Pin, Gray, Willow and
Water oaks, which are all cOmprehended
under the name of Red oak. it is much
inferior to that of the European oak.
But its stature. the rapidity of its growth
in the coolest climates and on the most
Indifferent soils, and, above all, the value
of its bark in dyeing, recommend it pow
erfully to the notice of European fores-
tiers.
This oak produces Il small acorn,
and brown, in very deep cup. The
leaves figured are such as can always be
found on the younger, lower vigorous
sprouts the leaves on old trees are deep
| ly lObcd-almost as much so as those of
the Scarlet oak. Upon these, rs well as
on those of the Red and Scarlet, are
found round, light eXcrescences, called
oak apples, from one to two inches in
diameter. formed from the extension of
the cuticle of the leaf. They are produc-
ed by an insect, Cynis condUcntuS. which
punctures the healthy leaf and deposits
| therein an egg, about which the apple is
formed. "A single grub says Harris
elves on the kernel, becomes Il chrySal>
in the autumn. when the oak-apple falls
from the the tree, changes to Il fly in the
spring aud makes its escape out of d
small round hole which it gnaws through
the kernel and she'll"