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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

would work anywhere rather than here; ]
would stsrve before I would sink to such a
DEPTH
Starving is not SO easy" was replied.
Besides, a man must have money to buy
liquor. and liquor Dan Warner will have
at any cost. His father will feed him rath.
er than have him 60 hungry, but liquor is
under lock and key in that house,
81 suppose the old man drinks the same
as ever.a
Yes, and always will though two Of his
boys have been ruined by it, and the other
two have escaped only because their wives
had power to hold them TO total abstinence.
Dan has gone down a little lower than
Ben, but they arc both pretty near the bot
tom of tie HILL
They are nearer the bottom of the hill
now than when this was said. They are
poorer, too, if possible. although Dan, as
he is Familiarity called, continues to earn
enough to supply himself with liquor. A
weeks work will pay for a weeks debauch,
when he hides himself in some wretched
place where even his father viii not in
trude.
Once his father visited every saloon and
hotel i'll town, asking the proprietors not
to sell to his son; out as might have been
expected, his request vas treated with
contempt. Said one saIoon-keepeI:
tFYAha Fl psr o,I acS If Ifa,a. ovar 1.owIx 7
bought in your hotel. Dan sold it to me,
and part of the profits went to you. You
said everybody had a right to sell or drink,
just as they pleased, and | believed you.
am taking my right to 10 both.
when the law shuts down on NE, as ]
expect it will, now the women are making
a fuss about il, | shall stop, and notbefore.
As long as | sell to anybody, | hal sell to
Dan when he has money 1t don't do to
trust much on such BILLS; | found that out
some time ago. Sorry | can't oblige you,
Mr.. Warner. but business is business, and
my business is selling liquor
Mr. Warner could make no reply. He
remembered when the widowed mother OF
this very man had begged him for the sake
of the young men of the town to close the
bar of his hotel, and he had told her that
his hotel was run to make money, not to
save anybody-young or old. So he went
his way with bowed head, thinking, it may
be, regretfuIly of the past, yet giving nc
sign.
He is still living, and still a moderate
drinker, while his son is a drunkard of the
lowest type. Each exercises his right to
decide for himself in regard to the use Of
intoxicating drinks; bat alas, no power OF
theirs can make it possible that the con-
sequences shall fall only upon themselves.
Experience and revelation alike teach that
no man liyeth to himself alone.
A few years since a clergyman, eminent
fer scholarship and a clear outlook in
to the future. said to me with marked EN-.
phasis:
HThe time is coming when the curse Of
intemperanee " i'll have assumed such gigan.
tic proportions that the people Of tbs
country will be forced to rise in self
defense and crush the monster. It cannot
be done easily, but it must be done. or WI
shall be utterly ruined"
Has not That time now come? If not,
what new Developments are required tt
arouse us 10 a sense of our DANGER
| Nary DyoiaeU CAeUis.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

Last summer my wife's health was all
ran down, and she wanted me to hire a
girl to do the work. In a little while |
found one l thought would suit her, when
to my surprise she said need not hire any
one, as she felt much better. and thought
another bottle of sulphur Bitters would
cure her. Donald Grey, Al Worcester
Square. Boston.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15
rne momelie.l Nan in wooa.,own,

As we'll as the handsomest, and Others are
invited to call on any drugg list and get free
a trial bottle Of Kemp's Balsam for Throat
and Lungs, a remedy that is selling entirely
upon its merits and guaranteed to relieve
and cure all Chronic and Acute Coughs,
Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption.
Large bottles SO cents aud 81.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15
the popuIa.ron Of woodsaown

is about 1900, and we would say at least
one half are troubled with some affection
of the throat and lungs, as those complaints
are, according to the statistics, more nnmer-
Gus than others. We would advise all our
readers not to neglect the opportunity to
call on their druggist and get a bottle of
Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs.
Trial size free. Large bottle SOC and 81.
Sold by all druggists.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

The time-honored Notre Dame, Balti-
more. Md. We have had ample opportu-
nifty to convince ourselves of the efficacy of
Salvation Oil. We eheerfully submit our
names to the public as reference. Respect
fully, Sisters of Notre Dame. Aisquith &
Eager SITS, Baltimore, Nd.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

r. T. Barnum thinks that he has got the
nineteenth century boom in Jumbo, but be
must not forget the great excitement cans
ed BY tie sale Of Dir. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

But whist l SFItftu. Dtuolu4-tHt East SiEW
With morning.
/ sighed that merry Spring was forced TO go,
And dofr the wreaths that did so well be-
corne her;
But whilst murmured at her absence, To-
Twas Summer
/ mourned because the daTodils were killed
BY burning skies that scorched my early
posies;
But whilst for these | pinea my hands were
With roses.
Half broken-hearted 1 bewailed the end
OF friendships than which none had once
seemed nearer;
But whilst I wept l found Il newer friend
And dearer.
And thus / learned old pleasures are e~stranged
Only that something better may be given;
Until at last we find this earth exchanged
For Heaven.
EyTe0 tn o,.y,e ttcran En,nfs4.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

Ii yon have any need for dishes see our
immense stock before You buy. We have
nearly all kinds, f. b. Humphreys &Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

If yca want tho celebrated Reeve" Or
Lester boots, 10 to the New Store under
the Opera House
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

You can get a 8 ID. box Of best Satin
Gloss starch for ls cts, or a 0 ID. box for
IS cts. at Humphreys store.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15
LOSS \ GAIN.

I sorrowed that the golden day was dead,
It's light no more the country side adorning;
But whilst l grIeyed. beholdi-the East grew
roll
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-15

l.. S. Fogg will give attention to practice of
law, as formerly, in all the courts.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Goi,ag II Alone.

Already there begins to arise from
summer resorts that cry in the text of
the old Hard Shell sermon: 'sMen is
source and women is plenty" Girls are
good and pretty, and with wardrobes gor-
geous to look upon, butalas! there are no
young men to appreciate it all 1t is the
same old story. The boys best worth
having are too poor to go to summer re-
sorts and wear six costumes day. It
really does seem as if all the civiliza-
ton was becoming like England and
Massachusetts,, where there are not men
enough to go around. Possibly in time
a large per cent. of American girls win
have to go without husbands. Looking
ahead to that time, good many seem
already preparing for it. They are form
ing clubs of their own, and going on
long. delightful excursions, to the sea
shore and to the mountains, IN parties
composed only of women. Long rides
and tramps in the country are pleasanter
when there are men along, of course,
but they can be made very jolly with
out. In cities women in the trades
and professions rent flats and go to
housekeeping in a dainty and delightful
way. They seem quite happy, apparent
" ceasing altogether to look for the hazy
hero who is expected to come into every
woman's life as disturbing element.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Our Forty Immortals.

Some time ago The Philadelphia Press
sent circular letter to large number
of persons asking their Judgment as to
which were the ten greatest names of
living persons in each profession and
business in this country. 1t received
many replies. Then, after obtaining the
names, The Press sent letters to those
whom the vote of their countrymen had
distinguished. asking them briefly what
circumstance or event, and what per-
sonal quality or gift had chiefly con-
tributed to their success in life.
Theten distinguished artists are George
Inness, Eastman johnson, William III.
Chase, Thomas Hovenden. Winslow
Homer, 4 ST. Gaudens, r. S. Church, j.
@. A. Ward and Olive Warner
Among authors are poets Whittier,
Lowell, Holmes and Whitman: novelists
and general writer's, Mark Twain, Bret
Hlrte, George W. Gable, W. d. Howells,
John Burroughs and Frances Hodgson
burnett.
J Preachers Dr.. Richard S. Storrs, T.
De Witt Talmagc, Lyman Abbott, all of
brooklyn. G. II. Parkhurst and John
Hall. of New York; Phillips Brooks, of
Boston; o. II. Tiffany, William NJ. Tay-
Tor and the Methodist Bishops Foss. War
rem and Foster.
Physicians-Drs. D. Hayes Agnew, j.
NJ. Da Costa. Alfred Stille, S. Weir Nit
cheli. w. A. Hammond, T. Adds En-,
met. 4. l.. Loomis, A. Jacob. Henry T
Bigelow and Robert Bartholow
Lawyers-Senator Evarts, George Tick
nor Curtis, David Dudley Field. Roger A.
Pryor. Robert G. Ingersoll Mr.. Hitch.
cock of St. Louis, Wayne MacVeagh.
John G. johnson, John C. Bullitt and
George w. Biddle.
Actors-Edwin Booth, Lawrence Bar
rett, Joseph jefferson, w. J. Florence,
Nat Goodwin. Maurice barrymore, John
Drew. Fanny Davenport, Modjeska, and
Agnes Booth.
Z 1t Is Ilot EeIleIdlLy 6upposeu tIidI dItlStS
are of a pious turn, but both George In
ness and Albert Bierstadt ascribe their
success to power higher than them
selves. Bierstadt speaks of his love OF
nature and his out door life, but adds:
This could have awaited me little but for life
ong trust in God and faith that ones aim in art
an be achieved only by working unfiinchingly to
tain it,
Iilness says:
Il can only attribute any success which I may
ia7e obtained to the viii of God. This is a safe
estirS place for weary brain, and l have quies
ioned myself until mine is tired.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
The Dlssecting Propensity.


Following the case of Mind Reader
Bishop comes from Paris the story Of q
man who died In strange way at Chan
lilly, near Paris. Physicians examined
him and pronounced him dead. They
prepared for an autopsy. The supposed
dead man was stretched upon the table.
and the dissecting knives were used.
One or two strokes had been given, when
suddenly the subject sat upright, opened
his eyes, looked around him an instant,
and fell back dead indeed. BE had been
in a cataleptic trance. The touch Of the
sharp instruments had in the same in
slant brought him back to consciousness
and destroyed his life.
OF course the dissecting table, with all
its CHASTITY accomplishments, is necessary
to give students knowledge of surgery
and anatomy. But it may also be that
familiarity with dissecting room scenes
destroys to some extent in the minds of
physicians the sacred regard for the hui
man body, living or dead. It was not
quite without reason, perhaps, that butch-
ers were forbidden by the old English
law to sit on a jury that tried man for
his life.
It is, perhaps. quite true also that
many an armless or legless veteran
goes crippling through the world today,
whose limb might have been saved had
army surgeons been little less hasty In
performing amputations. At any rate,
it is to be hoped that recent events win
tend to make doctors restrain their dis
secting instincts until the propriety and
necessity of autopsy cannot possibly be
called into question.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Long Time Bonds.

Various railroad companies that are
staggering under load of debt are col
lecting all their outstanding obligations
and refunding the amount of them under
long time bond, at uniform lowrate
Of interest. The mortgage bonds have
different periods to run, from twenty
five to 100 years. Railroads that make
such terms at present have probably the
advantage, both as to past and to future
time. Corporations that issued fifty
year mortgages.ten or twenty years ago
now find themselves obliged to pay an
annual interest considerably above the
current market rate. On the other hand,
interest was never 80 low in the history
Of the Union as it is now.
It is by no means certain this win con:
tinue. Corporations and individuals,
therefore, that can escape near payment
Of debts by giving long time mortgages
at 81 TO 4 per cent win find this an easy
way out, and be able to shove their debts
off upon posterity.
In 1870, the Erie Railroad company
issued fifty years bonds at 7 per cent.
Some Of the new Erie bonds are for
eighty years. When the New York Cen
trail leased the West Shore road. three
years ago. $50, 900, 900 bond was issued
at per cent. that had 475 years to run.
Possibly by the tine that debt comes due
mankind viii need neither railroads nor
interest money. The Illinois Central has
out various seventy year bonds at from
81 to per cent. The Kentucky Central
hasasome 100 year 4 per cents, while the
New Jersey Central has s50, 200. 600 5per
cents that rum 100 years. Atchison and
Topeka bonds run fifty years.
A gentleman well informed on rail-
road topics says there are now in the
stock market fifty-year railroad bonds
to the amount Of $500, 0OO, 900, and Of
thirty and forty-year bonds, S500,000,-
o00., In Great Britain railroads have
carried the long bond business SO far
that their mortgages are practically
never paid. Their permanent debts
amount to 90, 800, OOo, 900. Their rate of
interest is from 8 to 70 per cent, with
very small amount at 6;per cent.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Dwa.rfs in Africa.

Probably the most ancient race on the
globe are. the strange dwarfs who. it is
now certain inhabit considerable por-
ton of Central Africa. There are two
tribes Of them-the Aka. or Wambutti
people, north OF Stanley's Aruwini river,
md the. Batwa, south of the Congo.
The two appear to be a kindred people.
In general there seems to be about as
much yiciousness inclosed in their make
up as a body Of A feet high can hold.
Their tufts of kinky hairare often paint
ed red, and stand out like rays over
their heads. They are fcrocious canni.
balls. An Aka deserted Emin Bey and
went home because he was .'tired Of
beef and wanted some stronger diet.
The two tribes are lighter in color than
tile full sized negroes about them. They
are wandering in their habits and are
skillful hunters. It was the Wambutti
people who fired poisoned arrows at the
last stsnlny expedition. Stanley says
these tiny folk are thieYisll, cowardly
and ycnomous.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

an instant like cloud upon the coasts
and river mouths. One moment the sun
w;ll BE- shining upon the water. In an
other the cloud drops, and all is gray
and dark, Fog bells ring. steam, whis-
ties acream on all sides, and not thing
can be seen, not even an electric light, q
little distance away. The great May fog
on the Atlantic fingered eight days out
at sea before 1t finally closed in and en-
veloped shore and harbor. The line of
1t between sunshine and gray was sharp
" defined rs it stole across the waters.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

wear their gray jackets so tight that it
requires shoe buttoner to fasten them.
Thus they compress the most vital part
of the human system In order to give
them that wasp waist appearance con-
sidered essential to the good looks of q
West Point cadet of the first class. 1t is
said on this account that the authorities
are going tochange the tight gray jacket
uniform to another that viii not afford
such temptations for the display Of the
human form
. Certainly old army officers have out
lived amy prejndices In favor OF slight
waists that they may have entertained
when they wore gray jackets. They are
not slim to an alarming degree now.
many Of them tipping the beam at $50,
Nothing is palmer than that they do not
injure their health by tight lacing. The
boys, too, viii get over their passion for
tight jackets in time.
The lainentable lack of resources in
the masculine wardrobe has meantime
been made painfully apparent by the
tight jacket episode at West Point. In
order to give the requisite slender effect,
the young men were obliged to discard
all underwear except thin knit shirt.
To that they pinned collars and cuffs,
and then buttoned the tight jacket over
it; this, too, in the coldestweather. Nay,
more; they even cut away the lower por-
ton of the thin undergarment In order
to bring the buttons together. Now, if
they had only been girls. they could
have just taken hitch around the
bed post with their corset LAGER and
drawn themselves as small as they de-
sired. But the poor boys had no corsets
allotted to them in their regulation out
fits. They ought to have them.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
The Verdict Unanimous.

w. d. Suit, Druggist, Bilious Ind,
testffies: 81 can recommend Elect
rics Bittess as the very best remedy.
Every bottle sold has gwen relief in
every ease. One man took six bottles,
and was cured of rheumatism Of TO
years standing" Abraham Hare,
druggist, BeliriIe, Ohio, affirms
.sThe best selling medicine / have
eyer handled ia my 20 years. expert
eaiec,sis EiectFic Blttefs. I1iansanti
of others have affixed their testimony,
so that the verdict is unanimous that
Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of
the FLYER, Kidneys or Blood. Only
a half dollar battle at Fritz Bucken-
tins drugstore,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
A Corner of Paradise.

Four thousand miles west of the Chill
coast in the South Pacific is Pitcairn's
Island. The story is known to every
school child how, in 1889, nine white
men, mutineers from the English ship
Bounty. settled Pitcairn's Island, taking
with them dusky wives from Tahiti.
Being mutineers. they took pains to leave
no trace behind whereby they could be
pursued.
Nothing was known of them till 1908,
when am American captain, Folger, Wis
tied the island and was surprised to find
it inhabited by light race, who spoke
excellent English. They were the de-
scendants of the nine nrutineers, and
were handsome, peaceful, civilized
people. The island is very small, only
two and one-quarter miles long and one
~,ile wide, and became oyerpopulated,
at thirty-two years ago part of the in.
hahitants migrated to the neigllboring
island OF Norfolk.
On Pitcairn Island there are now III
persons. It was recently visited by
Capt. Bum, of the American ship Mika-
do. The people are the happiest on the
globe. They have no money, and the
land Is owned in common, each cultivat-
ing as much as he needs. The climate
Is perfect. the soil bringing forth in
abundance both tropical and temperate
products. Sickness, poverty and crime
are alike unknown. The people behave
themselves because they like to. They
have achurch and a school. Their ISL
and is garden of delicious fruits and
beautiful flowers. The natives have the
manners of courteous, high bred gentle
men. There is no liquor on the island
and no tobacco. They are governed,
such as it is, by magistrate. elected
every year. They gave fruit, flowers
and fish to Capt. Bum, but declined to
receive money in-return. Money was OF
no use to them. they said. How could
electricity and taxes and a. mortgage on
their island improve the condition Of
these people?
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

The new capital punishment law in
New York forbids the publication of the
details of an execution. 1t is . grave
question whether the law is wise one.
An execution need not be open to the
public, but events in the nature of star
chamber proceedings are Objectionable
in free country.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Cardinal Gibbons has defined his posi-.

ton clearly on the temperance question.
His view is also that of Bishops Ryan
and Ireland, earnest and eloquent tenn.
perance workers in the Roman Catholic
church, and of the priesthood generally.
Cardinal Gibbons favors high license,
with moral sllasion. as the best means of
promoting temperance. He would have
the sale of liquor on Sunday strictly pro-
hibited The police should be compelled
to enforce the Sunday liquor laws.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

The Times-Democrat and many promi-
nent citizens Of New Orleans have been
endeavoring for months to persuade the
voters of that city to pass an ordinance
levying an annual tax of three mills for
drainage. Il is claimed that, once thor
oughly drained, New Orleans win be one
Of the most hea1thful cities inthe Union.
But the ordinance was voted down.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
Mrs. Stewards win.


This month the case of the win Of the.
widow of A. T. Stewart is brought up In
the surrogate court of New York again.
After the death Of Mrs. Cornelia NJ.
Stewart, Mrs. Resale Butler, one Of the
heirs under the win, brought suit to
break it. In May of the present year,
the SUIT had been going on in the court
for one year. As far as it has progressed,
the court costs alone of the case have
amounted to 100000. The fees to the
lawyer are in addition to this, and, Of
course, come out of the private pockets
of plaintiff and defendant.
incidentally, the. crumbling away of
the great Stewart millions is one of the
points of interest in the suit. These mill
ions somehow seem to be of evil omen.
There is a popular tradition that the
Stewart mansion itself was haunted, and
| that its builder and owner himself feared
to live nit. And it stands empty and
desolate today.
The great cathedral which Mrs. Stew
| art built has been the cause of litigation
almost ever since the beginning. The
architect who planned it sued for sum
! outside of his. contract, declaring that
judge Hilton had overreached him In
bargaining,
Poor Mrs. Stewart was no more than
six-months-old baby in the hands of the
various contending factions Judge Hill
ton seems, from the evidence at this long
trial, to have ruled her with despotic
sway. He even told her what gowns
she should wear. She did not care for
pictures, and did not wish to buy any,
but the Judge wanted me to, and what
could dor She knew nothing Of bust
ness except to sign papers when she was
told to.
Judge Hilton managed the great store,
and q witness testified that Mrs. Stewart,
at her own store, was charged twice as
much for articles as Judge Hilton paid
Mrs. Stewart was poor, little, kindly5
deaf woman, who never could learn the
| difference between principal, interest or
/ percentages, and it made her mad" for
anybody totalk to her about such things
When the plans for her cathedral were
! shown to her she looked at them and
said: aOh, myr She was as innocent
and ignorant as q lamb, and as helpless
Left to herself she would probably have
been robbed Of all her millions in two
| years, time.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05

Congo, and win take its way around the
cataracts to Stanley Pool. Belgium Il
to build the road, and it win be four
years in construction. Work is expected
to be commenced this fall.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-06-05
French Rights i'm Newfoundland
Waters.

Waters.
Here is. something scarcely any body in
the United States knows: Of the vast
possessions France had in America one
hundred and fifty years ago. one insig-
nificant speck remains. This is the Mi
quelon islands, an infinitesimal group
near Newfoundland. With these islands
France has still held fast to certain fish
ing privileges ON the Newfoundland
coast. The fishing privileges have been
q bone of contention between the New
foundlanders and France for many
years. Treaty rights count for little
with Newfoundland fishermen, who
neither know nor care what was done
more than a century ago. They are
determined to drive French fishermen
from their shores. British man-of-war's
men are constantly employed in these
waters protecting the rights of France
against their own countrymen. It is
rather an unusual state of affairs.