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the very life they lead. so that one sea.
son takes the bloom from tho face nd
tho modest look from the eye. Oh,
will you help to do away with these
thingsP'-NeW York. Sun.
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INASMUCLI.
a Eenfeu Meditation.

"IfI had dwelt"-so unused n tender woman,
All fine emotions stirred
Through pondering DER that Life divine yet
human,
Told in the Sacred ord.
"IfI had dwelt of old, Il Jewish maiden,
In some Judean street,
Where Jesus walked, and head his word 50
laden
With comfort strangely sweet;
"And seen the face where II most pity blend
ed,
With each rebuke of wrong:
l would have left my lattice and descended,
And followed with the throng.
"IfI had been the daughter, iewel-girdled,
OF some rich Rabbi there;
Seeing the sick, blind, halt, my blood had
curdled
At sight of such despair,
"And had wrenched the sapphires from my
fillet,
Nor let one spark remain;
Snatched up my gold, amid the crowd to spill
it,
For pity of their pain.
81 would have let the palsiedi1ngers hold me
l would have walked between
The Marys and salome, while they told me
About the Magdalene.
".Foxes have holes'-I think my heart had
broken
To hear the words SO said.
hilc Christ had not-were sadder ever spo
ken?-
"A place to lay His head
81 would have flung abroad my doors before
Him,
And in my joy have been
First on the threshold, eager 10 adore Him,
And crave His entrance in
All, would you so? without Il recognition,
You passed Hin yesterday;
Jostled aside. unhelped, Ills mute petition,
And calmly went your way.
With warmth and comfort, garmented and
girdled.
Before your window-sil,
Sweep heartsick crowds-and if Your blood i,
curdled,
You wear your jewels still.
You catch aside your robes, lest want shoult
clutch them,
In lis impiorings wild;
Or lest some woful penitent might fouci
them,
And you be thus defIed.
on dreamers, dreaming that your faith i
keeping
All service free from blot,
Christ daily walks your streets, sick. suffering
weeping,
And We perceive Him not.
Margaret j. Preston.
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w. c. t. u.
ebert Barns and Hartley Coleridge.

Robert Burns and Hartley Coleridge.
Among others whom | have seen thus
cast down by the devil, have been not a
few e%lergymen. Once they were full OF
the hope of honorable, useluland consc-
Grated lives now they herd in the vilest
dens of the wretched and the criminal, and
have gone down step by step into the
lowest abyss of misery. One such figure
stands mentally before me nov. lie has
~disgusted his friends, he has alienated his
family, he has lost his living, he has de-
stroyed his usefulness. He was onceNa
scholar and a gentleman. If yoa would
seek him now, it must be in the slums and
lodging houses, where the glittering wave
of modern civilization leaves its useless
and congregated scum. And such cases
too, must be multiplied by tens of thous-
ands. Drink is the worst obstacle to the
spread of Christ's kingdom. 1t defaces
the page of history and retards the progress
of the world. Tile Dam, London.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12

The campaign is rapidly assuming that
phase where discussion of issues give way
in a large measure to speculation on the re-
suit. Within the last few days there mas
been a remarkable revival OF kepuolicaii
hopes. This is mostly predicated upon tno
information received from New YORK
This is of the most extravagant character
and does not limit Harrisea's vote to plu-
rality. AtRepublican headquarters tnefels
a marked revival of h%opefulness. al Tue
Democratic headquarters any expression %
doubt about New York is met with deri9ioh
and Impotence. Concerning INDIANA 1888
is known than about New York. It's gem
erallv understood that, unlike New lork,
it is usually carried one way or the other
in the last hours of the campaign by coup
de main organized with outside resources
| Indiana. if left wholly alone by outside IN
huences. is admittedly a Democratic state,
but with these at work it has come to De
simply a question as to which party Will
roll the biggest barrel into the state.
Illinois Democrats know very little about
the actual situation in New Jersey, when
has always gone Democratic. The TACT
that it is Il heavy manufacturing state ana
to some extent susceptible to protection
arguments, it is conceded, renders it less
certain than usual. New Jersey, how
ever. is set down first in the Dem
ocratic column outside the old slave
states. Connecticut is very little can
vassed in these speculative discussions.
| Chairman Barnum when here the
last time gave the broadcast assurances III
regard to its going Democratic. But there
are Democrats who are gravely doubtful
about Connecticut. California is claimed
as a Democratic possibility by the over
confident, upon the principle that one mus
either claim or eoncede, and that it is bet
ter to claim.
Really conservative and valuable estl-
mates of the situation are hard to secure.
AS a rule, politicians are badly warped in
their Judgment. Besides, their sources
| of information are limited to their own
partisan advisers. There is no one less ca
pable of giving an unbiased judgment than
the man who is on the ticket or running
the campaign. Here is the way a promi-
mont mupUumn STATES the situation:
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Political Points about women.

In the great Prohibition parade at Min
neapolis, the W. c. T. U. carriages were
decorated with notices, flags and banners,
and each lady rider held aloft a white-rib-
boned broom. 1t took more than a car
load of brooms to Ego round" Miss
Wizards carriage was drawn by foHr
white horses and was literally covered
with white roses.
The ladies at Medora, Ind. raised a
Harrison and Morton pole which was 100
feet high. Mrs. II. II. Edwards, of Bed
ford, discussed the issues of the campaign
in an able and patriotic speech of more
than an hours length.
The Woman's Democratic Club of Mil
waukee is becoming quite prominent as an
organization. 1t has as its object the ac-
quirement of information on the political
issues of the day.
There are two political clubs Of young
ladies at Cerro Gordo, Ill. One is a Dem
o~cratic, the other a Republican club.
These young ladies' marching clubs will
take an active part in the campaign, and
will be uniformed.
One hundred uniformed young ladies
carrying torches headed one division of a
recent large parade of Democrats in In
dianapolis.
A Broom brigade" of uniformed
young ladies was a picturesque feature of
a Republican parade at Newton, Ia.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12
Farrar on the s.Drink Curse

Archdeacon Farrar in a late article on
"The Drink Curse" writes
ut involves the innocent as well as the
guilty in the sulphurous blast of destruc-
ton. Ic spreads It's eoncentric circles of
Overwhelming misery, devastating the life
of families, blighting tho peace of homes,
making horrible the childhood Of count
less little ones, annihilating the happiness
of that holy matrimony which still sur
wives to us from the wreck of Paradise,
and which Christ beautiied and adorned
with his presence and first miracle. Null
tiply each Of these instances by hundreds
of thousands, and you may arrive at some
faint estimate Of the extent OF human life
which is ravagcd by the diffusivcness and
perpetuity OF this master curse Of drink.
And it spares none Men of all ranks
aid professions have at some time or other
come to me in the last stage of destitution
and wrctchcdncss, whom drink had drag
ged down as with a hand OF fire from posi-
ions Of high aud even sacred usefulness.
Through drink, said Father Matthew, 4
have seen the Stars of heaven fall, and the
cedars Of Lebanon brought low Il is not
only the vile and the animal which the
craving for drink attracts, and the power
Of drink subdues. Men Of fine magma
tons, men Of splendid genius, men of un-
rivalled attainments, have again and again
fallen victims to it. Think of Alexander
the Great dying, as the fool dicth, in the
midst OF his career. Think Of Prince
Charles Edward, and how he, who had
kindled the chiyalrous affection of so
many hearts, became a despised, broken
idol. Think of the passionate remorse,
the agonizing self-reproach of men like
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Committee. The fighting will be "fast
and furious" from this on. We must not
be cramped for funds. What can 200, 900
W. c. T. L. women do? Let one in ten of
their number see the other nine, collect
ten cents from each and send to head
quarters within the next week and We will
push our work and theirs with renewed
energy and lift the cause of God aud Home
and Native Land more conspicuously into
prominence. Remember that the cam
paign of 'SS will pave the way for victory.
SAMUEL DIeKIE, Chairman.
Sc Fifth Avenue, n. y.
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At our old stand at the corner you

At our old stand at the corner you
NAV expect to find as good an as
sortment as at any other store in
South Jersey. We don't particu-
larly need to take profits into on
sideration-if we don't want to-
therefore we can sell on close mar
gins, and we work cheap on all
our goods. You're always sure of
fair treatment, truthful representa-
ton and Just and equitable returns
for your money. Come and see us.
Seventy-hve pieces of Floor Oil
Cloths, from to az yards wide,
bou hit last June and been stored
away to get the paint seasoned and
hardened. All qualities, all prices.
No such variety at any store in
South Jersey, go where you will.
Fifty pairs of colored blankets,
sI.5S per pair. They weigh Obs
and are we'll secured. Made forthe
government service and cost S2.lo
to make. They are the biggest
bargain in bed blankets we have
ever had the good fortune to show.
IoA all wool. 6Tlb, white blank
cts, $3.50. Sold last year at s..
Red twilled, blue twilled, and
plain red fannels, medicated and
non-medicated. Everything for
skirting underwear for Ladies,
Gents, Misses, Children and Boys.
Quilting Cotton, by weight, 1t
IL to IS cents per pound. We have
all needed articles for making quilts
and comfortables.
We buy our Black Cashmeres di-
rect of the importers, and can give
you lower than city prices-bring
samples. 40 in, all-wool, soc, bet
ter, So, 90, CSC. 40 in. Black Hen
rietta Cloth, 75c.
Yard wide all wool suitings,
brown, cardinal, navy blue & green,
25c. All wool Tricots, 40 cts, sold
last year at 50. Fall stock of Dry
Goods in every needful variety.
Z. 3. HUMPHREYS & Co.
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AT THE
New Store under The Opera House

Never in our history as merchants
have we been SC well prepared to
take care of ourselves and our GUS
toners on BOOTS and SHOES as
we are at this present time. We
placed our orders early in the sea-
son when the work-people were not
hurried, and the consequence is hat
we have a BETTER, LARGER and
CHEAPER stock than ever before.
We own now and have in posses
sion over Fifty Cases of Mems and
Boys Boots-all kinds, all prices.
The celebrated L. S. Reeve boots
as low as S2.25. You all know this
make Of goods. Mr.. Reeve is a
conscientious man and don't put his
name on anything that is not worthy
oft. We are the only agents for
the Lester Boot. We sold these
largely last year and have not had
a single complaint, though we have
taken great pains to make inquiry
of those we sold them to. The uni
versal verdict is that there are none
better. We a give you good bar
gains in boots and you do yourself
injustice if you fail to take a look at
our stock. We don't care so much
for profits as we do to sell the
goods.
In Ladies and Children's wear
and goods adapted to their wants
we are quite as fortunate as on
Mems and Boys goods. While we
have all desirable makes and grades
in Children's and Women's wear,
We would especially call attention to
our French Kid, hand-welt, extern
sion sole, common-sense heel, but
ton boots for Ladies at s.. It's the
ncatest made, neatest fitting, easiest
wearing and most dressy shoe for
the money that we have ever been
able to offer.
All kinds Mems and Boys Hats.
Five cases lately received. Every
thing in Mems wear and Boys wear.
Also the largest stock of Clothing
IN this county at our we'll known.
popular low prices.
New purchase children's two
piece suits, sag upwards.
p doz. Mems Medicated Scarlet
Shirts, with Drawers to match. The
best by far that we have ever offered
for the money.
Fifteen doz. new purchase Mems
Knit Jackets, from the lowest at 90
cents to the finest seamless all wool
at $3.50. No stock in these parts
to equal it IN variety.
F. B. HUMPHREYS,
Wocdstown, N. ].
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Headquarters NATIONAL PROHIBITION
PARTY, Sc FIFTH AVENUE.
New York, Oct. 6, 1888.

To the Women Of Amertca:
Confident that the party which We rep
resent stands for the protection of the
American home and the dearest interests
of American womanhood, we make our
appeal to you with a conviction lhat your
hearts will promptly respond to our call.
We need yo~r aid. We are in the midst
of a great campaign. Mighty forces are at
work to build up and strengthen organized
systems Of vice and debauchery. No par
ty but the National Prohibition Party has
shown honor enough, conscience enough,
courage enough to pronounce clearly in
behalf of the home against the saloon, or
dared to champion the "chief concern of
government.
The Prohibition party is the friend of
woman, and would arm her in her own de-
Tense against the destructive agency of the
saloon. 1t is the defender of childhood
and the exponent of all that is best in the
politics of the day.
But what can woman do? Much every
way. She can assist in the distribution of
literature, give her aid and presence in our
meetings, raise and forward funds and by
prayer and persuasion, by argument and
appeal bring many a doubtful voter to see
and do his duty. At this moment, may I
not ask every temperance woman in the
land to rally to the support of our National
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12

Another sugar refinery was closed yes
terday. and over TWO hundred working
men of Brooklyn thrown out of employ
men without a word of warning. The re-
finery was in the trust, and was shut down
in order to prevent too great a supply,
with a view. it is believed, OF a further adj
vance in prices. And the New York au-
thorities are not pressing the suits begun
against the eonspirators. Between the
grain gamblers, flour spectators and the
sugar trust, the poor people will have a
hard time Of it this winter.-Camden
Courier.
Mr.. Blaine says that is none of your
business; that the trusts are private affairs
with which you have nothing to do. So
quit your growing. If the poor people
can stand it you ought to.
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The Cigarette Peril.

A correspondent of the Plainfield (N.J.)
Fleming Meas, writing of the cigarette
peril to the young, says:
81 know many young men who a few
years ago had cheeks as red as roses,
whose lips looked as though they would
burst with warm, rich blood, and whose
eyes shone like diamonds; but now the
lustre is gone from their eyes, which are
sunken in their heads, and they look pale
and l~istless. There doesn't appear to be
any elasticity in their step, as formerly,
and even their breath is offensive-all
brodght about by smoking cigarettes"
The writer adds: Il had a nephew who
was as straight and erect as an arrow, as
see in a months travel. He had large
beautiful black eyes, and checks like roses,
and he was a first-class singer. He sang
with Campanini, Amy Gordon, Emma
Thurston. and Clara Louise kellogg, last
year, and made 50. 900. clear of all ex-
| penses. This year he was to have had
Sc, 900. The doctor told him one year ago
that he must stop smoking cigarettes or
they would kill him, but he would not
consequently the color left his cheeks ard
the lustre his eyes his skin began to
turn sallow, and still he would persist 10
smoking. Two weeks ago he died. He
first sent for his doctor, and asked him to
try to help him. The physician told him
that he could not, as his blood and whole
system was poisoned. His death has
broken his fathers and mothers hearts"
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little higher and fewer can get it to drink.
Applause aud laughter That is my
reason and the only reason, for the drink
ing o liquor is a great vice; but in this
election l do not consider that a great or a
leading question. It does not have q
feathers weight in deciding that which the
American people must decide now for a
whole generation or lose for a whole gen
Grafton. james G. Blaine al Detroit,
oct. J. 1888.
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Having flung the local option high license
bone to the Prohibition party last winter,
our Republican friends now US TO sit
down quietly under the fence and enjoy it
till this election is over. The Prohibit
tionists don't see it in that light. The
prohibition question IS not for this election
only, but for all time. When the Repub-
lican party finds this out they may be will
ing to give something more than a bone,
if the Prohibition party has not been be-
forehand with them and helped them
sci Ives.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12

The vital problem which license laws
substantially though unconsciously pres
ent, but which they can never solve, is
how can appetite and greed secur gain to
the seller and intoxicating beverages to
the drinker, and at tue sama time prevent
those intoxicants from Intoxicating kow,
to state it otherwise, to throw ones sell
down a precipieo and not break ones
bones how to ran into the fire and not be
burned how to defraud the government
and not steal how to blaspheme the name
of God and not sin. Whoever solves one
of these problems viii solve them all
ReU. 4. a. Miner, Boston.
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Sunday temperance work

For some years past | have made it a
rule to carry with me, while travelling by
rail, a quantity of temperance papers, to
hand to passengers and to throw to idle
men at country stations. But the best op-
~portunity for distributing leaflets, in town
or city, is early Sunday morning. There
is a large class Of people who have no
church to go to, and who cannot dress
well enough to go if they had a church.
You will find them at the livery-stables, or
sitting on the steps of saloons, or wander
ing aimlessly along The streets, glad to
take and read anything that may be given
them. Here in this little but beautiful
town | gave out on last Sunday morning
fifty copies of "a Woman's Cry" by
Elizabeth Cleveland, and every one was
reioiced to rave something to read from
the Presidents sister. Talmage's sermons
on temperance are always acceptable. The
Water Lily and the Koath's Temperance
Banner, for children, should never be for
gotten. And while you are listening to
your minister, you will have the satisfae-
ton of knowing that, through these in
strumentalities, you are preaching to
scores of immortal souls, many of whom
never attend church. Don't send a boy
out with them, but go yourself; and you
will be learning grand lessons while You
are distributing words Of truth to Others.
Lay in a supply. 1t will cost you but a
few cents, and give an hours time to this
work next Sunday morning, and you will
ever be thankful for the experience.-O.
IT II
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one OF Many testimonials.

Ettars p. o., York Co, IA, Sept. 3, Is.
BIZ j. +. TRufTT, Bridgeport, Nj:
Enclosed find $3.50 Tor which please send me
six l6l boxes of your LOzenges, and l do saw
they are the best in the world. They have
done me more good than any medicine l ever
II sod, and shall recommend them to all | can.
Yours truly, ELMER b. BRuNNEE.
This article has no equal for dyspepsia
in any form. You can eat whatever you
wish and at the same time be cured. Price
soc a box. For sale by +. b. Humphreys
& Co, or by mail. Good men wanted to
canvass every home in every county.
j. f. TRuITr. Manufacturer, Bridgeport,
u. j.. ~sept2S-1y
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"The first concern of good government
is the virtue and sobriety Of the people and
the purity of the home. Tall piece Ne
tional Republican Platform, 1888, popu.
larly supposed TO make it a good enough
temperance platform
II am in favor Of continuing the tax on
whisky, except that part which is used in
the arts aud in medicine. "a voice,
'Why?'1 | viii tell yor- why am in
favor Of it as reported in the new Tariff
bill before Congress. l am in favor of it
because | think the tax tends to make it a
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-10-12

According to the Standard there was
diversity of sentiment among the Prohibit
tionists as to the policy Of making a nom
nation this fall, but the Standard did not
undertake to give any reason therefore.
If there was any difference in opinion it
did not crop out in the convention where
one would naturally expect it to be mani
fest. On the contrary there was a unani-
nous sentiment in favor Of making a ticket
and supporting it. too.
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1t is said that Candidate Riley said in
the Democratic convention that the Local
Option bill was conceived in a Re
publican Legislature, born in ~iniquity,
aud was 4 trap to catch temperance votes
All that might be, but all the same Candi-
date Riley had better not monkey with the
local option bill or he may meet with a
surprise. If the local option majorities in
the Democratic townships Of Salem county
contain no lesson for him, he may learn
something later on.
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Headquarters NATIONAL PROHIBITION
PARTY, Sc FIFTH AVENUE.
New York. October @. 1888.
To Pro1iJitonists Esergrhere:

C NV
10 ~PrOAD1jonists E~ceryrhere:
Believing, as most of us do, in the
watch-care and oycrruling %providences of
Almighty God, let us, in harmony with
the call of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, unite with that organiza-
ton in observing Sunday, October 18th, as
a special day Of prayer in behalf of the
cause which, we believe under Gods guild
ance, We have been led to espouse. 1t is
recommended that without interfering
with our usual attendance upon the regu-
lar services of our various churches, we
devote a portion of that day to special and
earnest supplication to God for his bless
ing upon our efforts, and for his guidance
in all of our activities. In our homes.
about The family altar, in the secret place
of prayer, and at special meetings. called
for this purpose, let us ask for wisdom and
grace from Him who ruleth in the affairs
of nations and of men, devoutly confident
that in His own good time He will Tut the
wicked to confusion and crown the right
with victory.
All of which is most earnestly recon-
mended, and respectfully urged upon our
friends everywhere.
SAMUEL DIcKIE, Chairman
Prohibition National Committee.
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yellow Fever and Alcohol.

y correspondent writing from Jackson
vile, Fla, of the prevalence of yellow
fever in that city, mentions that out of six
deaths which had then occurred, four were
of habitual drunkards, and adds "The
doctors have stated publicly that those who
drink liquor are less liable to ecove "
This is a significant warning which those
who would avoid the fever contag;ou
would do we'll to heed. The alcohol,
which renders the human system more ex-
posed to fatal attacks of such ~contagion,
it would certainly be wiser to abstain from
altogether.