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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14

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having the least number of parts 10 move
there is less friction and wear. The MACHINE
is q perfect model of ncatness, and is u mod
ern idea throughout. Don't fail TO examine
the Davis. 1t prove an inspiration, new
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Lippincott, Woodstown, MI.
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when they took her home, Serapbina's
clothes fitted her perfectly, and she was
soon arrayed in a pretty set of under-cloth-
ing complete, with a pair of boots on, and
then the dainty sailor dress, with broad
white collar, pretty red tic and jaunty hat,
and was pronounced quite charming.
Then they took her down to little Hitty's
house, not forgetting some good things for
the child to eat. And very pretty it was
to see the rapture with which Ethelinda
was received, and Marjorie's WI delight
in it when they came away and left little
Kitty hugging the doll closely to her, and
smiling down at Ethelinda like a little
mother.
That night when all the dollies had been
undressed and laid in their own little beds.
with an extra kiss for poor Josephine. who
could never be like the rest any more, Mar
jorie went up stairs to her own little room,
carrying the faithful Ethel, who always
slept with her, and whispering to her soft
ly, "Ethelinda's a great deal handsomer
than you, you poor old thing; but she's
Hitty's, and l love you a Thousand times
better because you're mine -
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14
CARE OF THE HEAD.

DR.. Nichols, senior editor of Popular
Science Neans, in an article in that Journal.
attributes the early badness of men,
which is now so noticeable in churches,
theatres, lecture rooms and political as
semblies, to modern false methods of treat
ment of the hair and scalp. There is too
much washing, shampooing and rubbing
done, too much soap, ammonia and alcohol
used for the good of the hair. He says:
Women do not shampoo or wash their hair
as often as the other sex and consequently
they are in a large degree exempt from
badness in middle life. 1t is true, how
ever that many women in the cities make
frequent visits to the hairdressers, and
subject their tresses to the securing pro-
cess. IF this becomes common, it will not
be long before badness will overtake the
young mothers as well as the fathers, and
the time will be FASTENED when the child
rem even will have no hair to destroy with
ammonia or other caustie.
The advice we have to offer to young
men and maidens is: Let your hair alone;
keep at a safe distance from Undressing
rooms and drug shops, where are sold oils,
alkaline substances, alcoholic mixtures,
etc., for use upon the hair, The head and
the hair may be washed occasionally with
soft, tepid water, without soap of any kind.
As a rule, the only appliances needed in
the care of the hair are good combs and
brushes, and they should not be used
harshly, SO as to wound the scalp. Avoid
all electric and wire made brushes. No
electricity can be stored in a hair brush;
if it could be, it is not needed. The hair
is a beautiful gift of nature, and it must
not be destroyed.
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ANTECEDENTS OF THE PROFESSION.
AL PAUPER.

If We could get at a literal history of the
lower strata of society in our larger cities
we should be convinced that it consists of
an clement permanently degenerated. 1t
is very seldom that a member of this class
rises to anything permanently worthy.
You must, however, consider society every
where as consisting of three strata-the
upper, which is cultured and yet very sub
ject to degenerative influences; the middle,
which is less plastic, but on the whole
moves under the influence Of a better class
of motives; and the lower. which is settled
in habits of mendicancy and unchastity,
and is frequently addicted to crime. OF
course, by this lower class | do not mean
the poor, and not invariably the drunken;
for the poor are often the victims of mis-
fortune, and the drunken are not seldom
recoverable. But there is a class every
where that is hopeless, a~mbitiousless, lost;
and the only good thing about them is that
they die early, and, under proper restraint,
the stock easily dries up and perishes.
l have at hand the statistics of one city
of about 100, 900 Inhabitants. In this city
it is ascertained that there are nearly 1000
professional paupcrs. Now yon would
laugh at the idea that in America we have
fixed castles. But we certainly have one
caste-that Of mendicancy. Very few ever
rise out OF its ranks. Yesterday two child
rem, very pretty, begged at my door.
Their father is what | call a half caste;
that is, he does work at inferior, brainless
Jobs; but he retains his instincts Of beg
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14

81 do not need to do any worrying in
this life said one friend, good-naturedly,
to another; ''my wife attends to the anxiety
department IN our household We are
quite sure that this particular friend does
not suffer, but we have an impression that
in many households this anxiety depart
ment'' is overfilled. Worrying, if indulged,
gets to be a passion; and just as some per-
sons with unconscious irony say they ''en@
JOY poor health, so there are mothers who
are never quite happy unless they are mis-
cradle over some real or imaginary trouble.
If they made only themselves miserable
it would not be of much consequence; but
the fact is, they frequently succeed in an
noying and exasperating other people who
do not enjoy being miserable. There is no
pleasure in worrying all by ones self.
Somebody else must be dragged into the
anxious circle to make enjoyment CON-
| plete. Another unfortunate thing about
this anxiety departmental is constantly
charging.
II begins, perhaps, with the baby's
eroup. but it extends its domain until it
takes in all the children and the husband
and servants and the whole neighborhood;
so that neighbor Jones canno hang out
her clothes on Tuesday, instead of Monday,
! and neighbor Brown cannot go out to the
barn ten minutes later in the morning than
is his wont, without giving occasion fol
anxiety and remark.
We acknowledge that undue anxiety is
| often but an excrescence on other most adj
mirable qualities-care and thoughtful
ness, and loving self-sacrifce-but on that
account it is ever the more to be avoided;
a flaw in an otherwise perfect gem is the
more noticeable. Let all curtaii the an1-
iety Observation-Disclosures
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14
DON'T BET.

Young men, don't bet! Perhaps no evil
of our time is working more mischief than
this. The extent to which it has reached
is alarming. The land is filled with the
curse Of gambling from one end Of it to the
other. In quiet country hamlets, in pleas
and iron districts, and in the fashionable
resorts OF great cities-eyerywhere this
horrible vice exists. There is the gambling
of commerce, the gambling of the stock
exchange, the gambling Of the ~race-course
and casino, the gambling Of games of haz-
ard, and the gambling of the unwashed ur-
ehins who toss coppers on the street. If
possible, thief CANDLES with thief in goal;
aye, perhaps the judge who tries them, the
lawyer who prosecuted, and the counsel
who defended, all gamble, too. Strange
in~fatuation! Prolific source of iniquity and
misery,
| defy any man to look me in the face
and say that he could kneel and thank God
for a shilling or a hundred pounds which
he had acquired by a bet. The gain is due
to no merit nor industry of his own, and
mean proportionate loss to some other
person. Therefore, there is no blessing or
it. Nay, there is a curse upon it, and you
cannot do better now than fling it into the
sea.
This evil is spreading; and it is time to
speak out plainly on this subject. There
is not a Christian merchant in London;
there is not an astute business man, be he
a Christian or not, who would not at once
dismiss from his office a clerk who was adj
dicted to this practice. 1 reeollect reading
a speech Of the late Mr.. Faucet, the excel
lent Postmaster-G General, in which he stat
ed that nearly all young men in the post
office who went wrong did so through bet
ting. Even the Times newspaper, to whose
columns we would not turn for instfuc,
ton of a religious character, used these
words in an article upon the subject
"Horse racing is an amusement to which
is directly traceable more misery, more
ruin, more generalization, than to any
other lawful pastime." The late Mr.. Gre
vile, whose ''papers, | dare say, some OF
you nave been reading, says in his journal,
in reference to attendance at the Epson
races This demoralizing drudgery re-
duces me to the level Of all that is most
disreputable and despicable, for my
thoughts are entirely absorbed by it. Jock
eys, trainers and blacklegs are my com
p~anions, and cannot leave it off, though
l am disguised with the occupation all the
time"
Now, young man, tamper with this devil
at your peril Remember, to bet even a
~sixpence is wrong, because it is just the
beginning of the evil. Many a lad started
a gambling career on no bigger a sum.
l once went, as a uisit0r, to see that
strange place-a material paradise and a
moral hell in one-Monte Carlo. peeped
into the gambling saloon. What a picture!
What agony ON those faces gathered round
the green table, Hollow eyes, haggard
looks, pale compilations, quivering nerves;
may l never see the like again The pas
sion C reused becomes desperate. and
everything must yield before it. never
knew a gambler who did not come to a
wretched end. Young men. whatever You
do, don't 6et-7he Young Nan.
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a STRIKE.

once upon an evening dreary,
As ! %pondered, sad and weary,
Der the basket with the mending from the
wash the day before;
AS 1 thought of countless stitches
To be placed in little brooches.
Rose my heart rcbellious in me, as it oft had
done before,
At the fate tina did ondemn me, when my
daily task was DER,
To that basket evermore.
John, with not a sign or motion,
sat and read the Yankee Notion,
With no thought of the commotion.
Which within me ranked.
Gle. thought 1, "when day is ended,
Has no stockings to be mended,
Has no babies to be tended,
He can sit and read and snore:
He can sit and read M rest him
Must l work thu eyermore ~
And my heart rebellious answered,
"Nevermore; no, nevermore.'
For though l am but q woman,
Every nerve within is human,
Aching, %throbbing, overworked,
Mind and body sick and sore,
will strike. When day is ended,
Though the stockings are not mended,
Though my course can't be defended,
Safe behind the closet door
Goes the basket with the mending, and Ill
haunted be no more.
In the daylight shall be crowded all the work
that l will do;
When the evening lamps are lighted, | viii
read the papers, too.
-Sefocfed
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14

M6PIFs~ LOG CABINS have become
NJ f. % a thing of the past. From
~ A-SEA them have come great gen
W. EBgE,lerals, statesmen, lawyers
SGaElaAlWa and divines, equals in every
Mn ~ way of those who were born
sss in the purple of European
courts. No better remedy for purifying
the blood was ever made than Warmers
Log Cabin S~arsaparilla. Try Warmers
s'Tippecanoe" to-day.
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vOL v.
MEDICINES

Webrabose TO KEEP a stock Of
aHMe 0aa7oats Rrab7etay Meal-
cines that there as any Qenzana
for, and uzW, from time to time,
add to our stock all Such that may
be eaaqulrew for: We annex a
Price list, and can furnish any
brocuru6M articles IN this line
at about tie same Average of brzee
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14

500 pairs ladies Lislc thread gloves at
10 and 10 cts, usual price 20 and % cts,
all the shades at E. B. Humphreys " GO.
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If you have any need for dishes see our
immense stock before you buy. We have
nearly all kinds, h. d. Humphreys &Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-09-14

Mems Tennis Oxford shoes. rs cents 1t
Humphreys New Store. under the Opera
House.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-01-22
PLENTY TO DRINK IN PORTLAND.
A Clergyman Makes tho Rounds and De.
scribes tho sights He saw.

NV wv
scribes tho sights He saw.
PORTLAND. Me-, Jan. I7.-What some pol
iticiaas regard as being the first gun In the next
municipal campaign was fired by the Rev. F. T.
Bailey from his pulpit In the State Street Con-
gregational Church on Sunday. Mr.. Bailey
took for his subject: THE Dram Shops OF
Portland. and Who Are Responsible for Them"
He said that he had been tho rounds OF Port
land. and even from the street had seen rows
OF men drinking at bars. and several barten-
refused to do so without a warrant. He also
fo md Gpsn bars d IL three Leading hotels -
al nnS Increase Ia is s. p tSsrs We're d 5S7 k91es,s T f"s
drunkenness, while In 1887 there were 992. In
tho last six months the increase had been very
great; .nd He s, ,Gld a pat ath Pct story Of a prominent
himself in Portland's best hotel, and said that
bottles were found in his pocket. This was the
fi5st .i aS: t6s Inn eis S%Sjic Of al his Mn mf Ra;,e dSa snIa has as
n nnde ,GH nine y years S sIa had Pfb, sSn int ssasa, GaufHlI H.
said that that the partial manner in which the lay
serious charges against policemen for winking
II face OF all these things, and to their reply
that the law could net be enforced he referred
nine consecutive days, police Captains kept the
and put down the terrible traffic. which Is get
Mayor Chapman has replied to Mr.. Bailey in
an interview In an evening paper. and with his
Marshal and the Rev. pr, Wh,itaksr has Visited
purpose OF refuting his statements. 1t Is said
that some Inconsistencies were found; Fix:
CITY Marshal Andrews has now publicly denied
To-day the MOTEL bars are very shady. with all
he can give the proper tip" as It is termed.
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Back Burning In Japan.

YOKOHAMA, Dec. 15.-While we lunched In
OF cheery J~npanese came IN chatterihg as gayl!y
straw sandals, washed their feet. and disap-
pI smnId in w jHlly va parties dran1 to the hsr interior nbnds so Of t the
lSliy ehatterers ali thhsre, sitting il rows VIII
y Whit and and the { old T priest m made De marks aa'iS'o on theis
tie IHsn mona n 's should be- buried. Following him
S SsrS s z s@a don n9y IN w, ONE TEaann td a Ritb dsat co De
fingers this younsster pinehed of a bit of
over the priests mark; Alter him came a staid.
stoical youngster, who In the most cold
Dlo9aed DIVA way d to%c nsnt a a match to- t. th lfDs tip s Of ths
lights, 1t burned without flame. a slow red
GLOW like charcoal consuming, the cone down
few seconds, that must have seemed, years to
the I. victims tn 7 81 Soaring WIN a rsdohot iron would
to to t ( ifusS iow amt nsn are Of the mosa' compared
few minutes that | could endure it stood It
f!sir t agony; one old %an folded his arms
e esne nIs h thst 9 Tspiea iH Wiz lhhd srSsas IN a s"PP bystsri
ic,aii Tia! Hal Has! x woman buried her face
In a blue cotton towel and made no sign or
ing down and into her flesh. 4 young man
started to rock to and fro when the Are began
1t, braced himself, and sat. motionless. The
priest, having set his seal on his Victims.
sat down by a brazier, put. on his big spec
t@acles. and was soon lost In, reading = ,plops
book; wholly indifferent TO the row Of backs
frizzling beside him.
This mine priest has some secret or compo-
sltion for his moxa dough that has kept 1t In
favor for many years. and about the only rev.
eenue Of the temple IL from his patients fees;
For rheumatism, lumbago and such aches and
Ills, II Is most beneficial, and gives quick
relief to any one heroic enough to en-
dure 1t. The Japanese resort 10 moxa for
almost everything that. ais them, and ono
sees coolies with their backs and the calves
of their logs covered with moxn scars. For
eign doctors have discovered the virtues Of tho
treatment for certain things. and in Paris
many cases OF paralysis have been success
fully treated. Charles Sumner having been
one OF the famous cases, whose paralyZed
nerves were revived by the mOxa.. A variation
of tho treatment used In Paris under the name
Of moxa consists In burning, with white hot
irons. which Is much less painful than with
paste cones, and Clara Morris was one Of The
best advertised subjects undergoing tho white-
iron moxa. When he patients descended from
the moXa room. put on their sandals and nut.
tered q sullep prayer toward the open door OF
the temple. they were hardly to be identified
with the gay people who had arrived carrier,
and when they walked. it WAS plain by the, way
they held their shoulders that the raw places
still 5marted.
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Sale OF Mare Coins.

Messrs. ltheby. Wilkinson. and Hodge con.
lions OF cod medals aud tokens some remarkable
prices w.rfaiized. Five raro Anglo saxon pennies
fetched Ets. Eight silver pieces ~ Jams. l and
Charles l., bstly ~sixpencer, s6lt ior q i2s ID while
Q Charles IFiots crown went Tor FL DC. I'D. A Charles
IL pa,ternLrthipS another Of Anne; and pattern
land. reA,is, E5, and "a was paid for q Commonwealth
los piece q . james ]; OF scotland Lion, The Trent
bronze penlof 1854 the haifpcnny. and the far:hing
struck % kei sold for fi3 q or q =. each, Only
Mann prod hallpenny and penny struck IN silver
fsr,hing aIher OF Mary IL, = Manx 5s token usiil.
and = fsrEg pattern of Charles II fetched - A
proof set oto coinage OF Victor \. dated 1881, With an
le4I pattse geihic crown and a mannday heL i5pIsces
In all fetostt32, OF the gold pieces, william ~. I'VE
guinea pis a7op, sold for gro "a Id George ". rat,
i HsnrH gy y piece ,s, n Sy %Y9 and beat bent ~ ~ i9s' 4 nc
Hong Kop bttern dollar 1860 OF Queen Victoria very
price PsidR each Of the last Two spesimens IN The mar,
lowing: yiam aud Mary tcoIonationl, $40 lis. Cd;
Anne tpsf Of gtreohp, - i5s "a; defeat OF me
y SslSsSIffh WT BiSsSs f.:.ISsSi q ,as s Sslsss
nsaAl ty ~. II EuiAseA