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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

OFFICERS 7. y. T. T., wooDsTc
Infant Mortality and Environment

Starting out with the fact that 'from
one-third to one-half of all the persons
born into the world die before reaching the
age of five years" DR.. French discusses
the causes of this death rate ia the light of
certain facts which he brings out clearly
from the records of infant mortality. He
finds the most patent cause in hereditary
weakness of children and the two other
principal causes, c%ontagion and diarrGhal
diseases, he traces directly to the poison
and filth of over crowded cities. The con-
nection between this bad sanitary condi-
ton and the hereditary evils is also sug-
gested.
He first calls attention to the fact that
the infant mortality varies greatly in diff
ferent localities. The contrast is especial
ly shown in the contrasts between city and
country districts:
1.-THE younger the child, the larger the
death rate. According to DR.. jacob, more
than one-half of those who die under five
years of age die in the first year. DR..
Curtiss states that, in all the great cities of
North America, out Of every one hundred
live-born children, about twenty-five die
before the end of the first year, and from
forty to fifty before the close of the fifth
year."
The following paragraph gives the gist
of what is said about heredity as a cause
of mortality. The matter is discussed at
some length, and a number of the unfavor-
able effects of heredity are given. He
starts out by saying:
1.-THE first of these deleterious influences
in the order of time, and u~nquestionably
also of Importance, is heredIty. A very
large proportion of all the children born
into the world are either weaklings or in
valids from the beginning. They are born
wrong. They come from poor stock. The
influences which determine their weakness
to-day have been at work for ages upon
ages. That was no sarcasm but the plain
est statement of scientific truth, on the
part of Oliver Wendall Holmes, when, af-
ter declaring his decision, that every dis
ease might be cured if taken in season, he
added significantly, that in some cases it
would be necessary to begin a hundred
years before it was born. This is a hard
world and no weakling ever has half a
chance. The survival OF the fittest' is a
merciful provision of The strong
est live and the weakest de- A race of
paupers, criminals and idiots deteriorates
with each successive generation, and goes
down to speedy extinction. 1t is the ro-
bust, sturdy, clear-headed, strong-handed
toiler of to-day whose ons and daughters
will inhabit homes of wealth and occupy
positions Of responsibility a few years
hence"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

1t appears To be generally conceded that
the local option repeater annuls the cleo
tons held in the counties that voted dry
last summer and fall. This being the
case, it is presumed that the hotel keepers
at Alloway, Pennsyille, P~enasgrose, Eli
mer, Pole Tavern and Woodsto~n, Will
apply and receive their licenses at our
coming May term of court. If the town.
ship privilege in the Werts bill, that gives
to each township the right to hold cleo
tions and decide by popular vote the IL
cense fee in the township, is OF any prac-
teal good. it might be well for the people,
whose will has been set at defiance by the
party that now happens to be in power,
to make inquiry in regard to the case and
protect themselves by voting the license
fee SO high as to render it ~prohibitory.
Now is the time apd this matter should be
looked after without delay.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
Think oft.

Young man, you dodge into the near
est saloon several times each day for your
necessary glass of beer, or wine, or whis-
key-do you know what you are doing!
Do you know you are sowing a crop OF
miseries the future harvest of which will
bow down your soul in anguish and shame;
that You are riveting about yourself the
bonds of a habit that it may cost you a
death struggle to cast of, and that you may
never be able to free yourself from? Do
you See that tottering, g~ray-haired, blear-
eyed, ragged wreck, who shuff1es past, the
imagine of despair and the monumen of
moral ruin? He was once like you, young,
industr ious, respectable and respected; but
the demon of drink fastened its foils upon
him; for q while he rioted and he was mer-
ry; then came the reaction, when he found
himself a friendly beggar, a kissing and a
by-word. 1t was too late to retrace his
steps-it may soon be too late for you.
Stop now, and put by a portion of your
earnings for the benefit of your wife and
little ones when you are gone. Wine is a
mocker, strong drink is raging but the
approval of good men and women, and
yOur own conscience-the realization OF
duty done-will be solace in life and in
death beyond all price.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
Rum is ChampIon-Gtve it the BeIt.

John L. Sullivan, the gigantic prize
fighter, the iron-ribbed athlete who only a
few months ago strobe like a colossus
among his fellOw-men, is a wreck. His
tremendous thews and sinews are still
there, but they arc weak and tremulous.
His huge bulk. once the terror of pigmies
who looked at him in admiring wonder, is
nothing but a flabby mass, a dead weight.
The shattered giant frankly tells the story
of his own fall. 1t was drink that did it.
Drink robbed him of his strength, and
made him at the age of thirty as helpless
as a child. 1t is true that he does not use
the word drink; he calls it %'fun," but
drink is what be means. 81 have made up
my mind" he says, "that | have had about
fun enough Nor Vest Farmer and Man.
ito5a Miller.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

When the old king demanded of the
Spartans fifty of their children, as host
ages. they replied: "We would prefer to
give you a hundred of our most distinguish
ed men," This was but a fair testimony
to the everlasting value of the child to any
commonwealth, and to any age. The hope
of the world lies in the children. The
h ope of this nation lies in The little chill
dren tina throng the streets to-day. Is it
a small question, then, "Wlat shall We do
with II children" 1t seems to me that
the very best work that can be done for
the world is, work with the children. We
talk a vast deal about the work of reclama-
ton and restoration, reformatory institu-
tons, and the like; and all this is well, but
far better is it to begin at the beginning.
The best physicians are not those who fol-
low disease alone, but those who, as far as
possible, 60 ahead and prevent it. They
seek TO teach the community the avs of
health-bow not to get sick Sarah q.
COODef,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
Only One Fault.

was riding through a country town in
Vermont, when | noticed a concourse of
people in a c%lurchyard, encircling an open
grave.
1t was a warm day and | had ridden ten
miles; Sc l drew rein under some trees to
allow the horses 20 rest.
Presently a villager came towards me,
and | said, s'There is a funeral to-day in
your town"
"Yes,-Stephen. He was one of the
great abilities. We sent him 10 the legis-
lature three times. They thought of NOM
mating him for Governor. But. he added
sadly, "Stephen had only one fault"
! made no answer. | was tired, and
watched the people disperse, leaving the
exton to his solitary work.
"a very generous man, Stephen was.
Always visited the sick. The old people
all liked him. Even the children used to
follow him on the Streets"
ga good man, indeed" | said, indiffer-
emily.
Eyes; he had only one fault"
"Waat was that?" | asked.
"Only intemperance."
"Did it harm him 2"
ayes, somewhat. He didn't seem to
awe any power to resist it at last. He got
%behindhand, and had to mortgage his farm,
and finally had to sell it. HIS wife died
ON account Of the reyersc-kind of crush
cd, disappointed. Then his children turn
ed out badly. His intemperance seemed
to mortify them, and take away their
spirit. lie had to leave politics;
'twonldn't do, you see. Then VIC had to
set him aside from the church; and at last
his habits brought on paralysis, and we
had to take him to the p%oor-house. He
died there-only forty-fve. Poor man, he
had only one fault"
"Only ono fault!' The ship had only
one leak, but it sank.
"Only ono fault.' The temple had only
one decaying pillar, but it fell.
''Only one fault" Home gone, wife
lost, family ruined, honor forfeited, social
and religious principles abandoned, broken
health, poverty. paralysis and the poor.
house.
One fault, only one!
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

If reports can be credited, New Jersey is
to be blessed with numerous Democratic
candidates for Governor next fall. 1t is
said the nomination has been promised to
Baker, of Cumberland, Davis, OF Burling-
ton, Potts, of Monmouth, and Smith, Of
Sussex, in return for their services in COM
ing over and taking sides with the Local
Option repealers. Unfortunately for these
gentlemen, the people will no doubt take
a hand in the election, and they may get
knocked out, providing always that any of
them should succeed in securing the nomi-
nation. In this connection W. are remind
ed of a story from the Detroit Free Press,
OF an honest German, concerning a hanger
on about his establishment. Said the Ger
man, Gle CONS in my saloon und delis
me | am Won nice man, and drinks the
bebells should run me for Gufnor, und ask
me to lend him two t~ollars, which | do. |
see him dree weeks after und say Wy don'd
you pay me dot two tollars?' He say,
wy don'd de ~neigbbors ride you out oftown
on a railr"
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If some women make mistakes, or fall
ures. in business or in public, do not sue
coed equally with average men in the same
lines, the thoughtless or unfair man at
once hangs his legs over a dry goods box,
opens his jack-knife, and whittles off a lit
tie sermon entitled sOut Of Her Sphere"
But though more men make blunders,
there is no justice in comparing the men
and women of the current year; for almost
every woman to-day engaged in traffic or
public work has come to her present field
late in life, and minus the planting and
watering of present purpose through the
years of college tuition and professional
apprenticeship; yesterday in short and mar
row robes, to-day in wide purpose and full
of responsibility, one of the centers of pub
lie attention. and public criticism. My
young brother, withhold unkind cuts at
thy sister till thou art a grandfather, and
thou then shalt find scant cause to turn
them loose,
Within the brevity of fifteen years the
W. c. T. L. alone has inspired and taught
more women more ways to larger thinking,
broader purpose, and kindlier dealing with
self and others thar had come to her with
in the ten preceding centuries, and its phil
anthropic glow has ignited new and bright
ened old beacons all along the hill-tops of
human growth. Why. Mrs. Leavitt alone
the first triennisl circumnavigator for
Christ and a pure home in every land-has
breathed an iron tonic into the veins of
missions and cosmic unity for virtue on
every shore. And yet the union embraces
but a fiftieth of the women of this one Sec
ton. The legitimate wonder of the times
is that women with SO short a training and
so many ways and means still barred to
them, do SO much SO well.
But woman, certainly as the wheels of
Ged's time will not break an axle, is to
come into her kingdom, not as the rival of
her brother, but IS the recognized half of
humanity that kingdom is to come quick
ly; for. in His will, | think, He hath writ
ten her exclusion from nothing good but
fatherhood, and hath designed that the
daughter, as the son, shall be inspired by
the largest outlook-shall be built NJ near
est like her Builder by the right to do
whatsoever it be not wrong to do.-James
Clement ambrose.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
1ied.

BUZBY In Camden, Third month, 18th
Rebecea c. Buzby, aged 81 years.
BITTER.-In Roadstown, March II, Ephraim
L.. Bitter, aged 20 years.
BOLTON.-Near S~wedesboro, March sth,
Joseph ID. Bolton, aged II wears.
WALLEN.-In Salem, March 18th, Samuel l.
Wallen, in his I'D year.
HAINES.-At Mickleton, March 18th, Stacy
l.. Haines, son of JOB 5. and Ellen Il. IIaineS,
aged p years and . months.
Notwithstanding, Third month, 18th. 1889
Hannah Ann Moore. in the 6Ist year of her age
ROGERS-Suddenly, in Harrisonyiile Third
month. 2lst, Ann, wife of Samuel Rogers, aged
81 years.
Funeral from the residence of her husband,
on Secondary, third month, 18th, at ter
O'Clock. Carriages will meet the $50 a. IN.
train from Philadelphia at Jacksonville Sta
ton. Intern.ent in Friends Cemetery, Woods
town
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

the Royal Baking Powder Oh1eiaIiy
COmmended.-GOOd Effects from tne
Action of fine State Board OF Health.

v,,e Roval Raktug Powder officially
COmmended.-GOOd Effects from the
Action of the State Board OF Heaitn.
The action of the State Board of Health
in publishing the names of the alum pax
ing powders sold in this State will be
commended by all who are in favor Of pure
and honest food. Scare an article sold en-
tiers more generally into the daily food OF
every one thar baking powders. 1t Is well
understood that the alum and the alum and
phosphate baking powders are detrimental
to health, and consumers only require to De
informed as to the names ofthese unwhole-
some brands in order to avoid them.
This information the manufacturers oil
the alum baking powders have tried, how
ever, to suppress; one Of them going SO far
as to seek for an injunction prohibiting the
State authorities from proceeding with
their recent investigation and expose.
1t is particularly gratifying to consumers
to know that the baking powder which
they have SO long been accustomed to u.s.
ing. the Royal, has invariably gone through
these analyses not only without a reflection
against it of impurity or unwholesomeness,
but each time more emphatically endorsed
as the superior of all the baking powders OF
the market.
The health authorities of a number OF
other states nave Also IeCeuliy uldOc
exhaustive examinations OF this character,
and with the uniform result of finding the
Royal superior to all others. The United
States Government Chemist, after an exam
nation for the Indian Department, made
the emphatic statement that 1.-THE Royal
Baking Powder is the purest in quality and
highest in strength of any baking powder
of which | have knowledge" The author
tiles OF Canada have been making an elab-
crate study of the baking powders sold
there. The official analyst of Ontario says
as the result of his investigation that he
s'fnds the Royal Baking Powder far super
Tor to the others" and goes SO far as to re-
commend its use in preference to any other.
Likewise a series Of over five hundred tests
for strength made by public analysts and
other chemists of prominence throughout
the country show it to produce an average
of twenty-five per cent more leayening gas
than any of its competitors.
A company that maintains this high
standard for its product against the temp
tations of the enormously greater profit
that would accrue from the use of the
cheaper materials employed by Others (for
the alum baking powders are produced at
a cost of three cents per pound) is entitled
to this public commentator and endorse
ment.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

One of the most distinguished writers on
the law of hercdity, DR.. Maudsley, says:
at is certain that ~lunatics and criminals
are as much manufactured articles as are
steam engines and calico printing ma
chimes, only the processes of the organic
mandatory are SO complex that we are
not able to follow them. They are neither
accidents nor anomalies in the universe,
but come by Law and testify to casualty;
and it is the business OF science to find out
what the causes are and by what laws they
work" A republic that expects to sur
vivc, and to increase in power and great
ness, must see to it that she does not carry
within her the seeds OF her own dissolu-
ton. 1t remains forever true Of nations,
as Of individuals, thai ignorance and crime
breed dissolution and death.-Sarah 70.
Cooper.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
LOOKING GLASSES FROM lie UPWARD
DRY GOODS.

Bleached and Brown Sheeting
and Pillowcase Muslins, from yard
wide to ~ yards.
Best Feather Tickings, all quail
ties and prices. Blankets and Quilt
ed Comfortables; also cotton by the
pound for quilting purposes. In
fact, all kinds of goods for house
hold needs, and for personal COM
fort and adornment.
Come TO headquarters when you
want fair treatment, equitable ser
vice, and full value for your money.
f. B. HUMPHREYS & Co,
Woodstown, N. ].
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married.

CUFF-vALENTINE.-0n Sunday, March
18th, 1889, at the Baptist parsonage Canton, by
Rev. j. j. Davies, VIM Henry Cuff, of Quin-
ton. and Miss Maggie Valentine, of Canton.
WOOD-SHlMP.-On Wednesday, March
18th, 1889, at the Baptist parsonage. Canton, by
Rev. }. }. Davies, Mr.. James Ii. God and Miss
Anna Il. shrimp, both of Hancocks' Bridge. this
county.
PIERPOINT.-In Salem, March l4th, Helen
Torbert Pierpoint, infant %daughter of DIR.
George c. and Rachel A. Pierpoint, aged l
year, 4 months and q days.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

The color question appears to be rising
up to yex US again in this school district.
The call for the trustee meeting on Tues
day night mentioned the matter Of increas-
ed accommodations FOR the primary de-
partfnent Of the public schools, but with
out suggesting what in particular was
needed. At the meeting. which was large
Iy attended, the prominent idea seemed to
be to erect a new school house in Bailey
town. wIlereat our colored citizens are
somewhat exercised. More definite action
will be taken at q meeting to be called
later on. There will probably be a good
deal Of talk, pro or con, on the subject in
the Dext few weeks, but it might be Just
as well for all concerned to remember that
the color line in the public school system
of New Jersey has been thoroughly rubbed
out by the Courts, and it won't be worth
while for anybody to attepptto retraco it.
Let us havcincrcascd school facilities by all
mcans-as much and as often as needed,
but don't let it be the occasion of another
unpleasant strife over color and nationality,
like that Of a few years ago.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

Local option was enacted as a partisan
measure-by the Republicans. 1t was re-
pealed as a partisan measure-by the DEM
ocrats. When temperance gets into poll
ties the politicians certainly do in very
truth play the deuce with it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

If the number Of womcn present at the
crowded school district meeting last Tues
day night Is any index Of the real feeling
Of the women generally On the question Of
suffrage, then the advocates Of woman
suffrage might as well keep away from
Woodstown for they will find very infer
tile soil on which To SOW the seed of their
unbelief. Only two Of WoOdstown's fe-
male population yentured out to take part
in the deliberations and vote Of a meeting
called by law to discuss matters pertaining
to the education Of their children, a work
which is generally conceded to be about as
important as any that is influenced Icy
suffrage. We don't scold the women for
not coming out. That is as they please.
We only comment ON the fact as showing,
If it shows anything, how little, really, the
sex cares for the elective franchise. Theo-
retically we are in favor Of woman suffrage
az being as much their right as of men.
Practically we have no wild dreams of the
grand results to follow when they are per-
mitted the ballot. We strongly suspect
that female human nature is very much
like male human nature aud that the wo-
men would not, even il they all voted, vote
one way, aud they would possibly, in many
eases. vote the way that wasn't the right
way.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

The local option law has gone to pot, as
far as the Legislature has power to send it,
and the repeating bill undoes all the
work Of last year IN the counties that held
elections under the law. The law itself
was defective eno1gh, but Senator Bakers
substitute is a miserable puke of a subter-
iugc, and is not likely 10 run the gauntlet
of the Supreme Court, even If anybody
ever thinks it worth enough to take the
trouble to get up a township election under
its provisions. The temperance question
has evidently got to stay in politics a " lille
longer-long enough for the people to sit
down on the rum jerkers and beer singers,
who appear to have the State by the scruff
of the neck and are tumbling it around at
their own sweet Will. We are not dispos-
cd to question Senator Bakers motives in
backing out from his former position, but
we have no hesitation in saying that he is
another instance of a man who has let slip
the golden opportunity of a lifetime. Once
or twice in a generation a public man is
found who can rise 10 the greatness of an
occasion. The occasion was upon us this
winter, but Senator Baker wasn't the
man. He missed connection and will
eventually get left and never catch up
with the procession again.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

little townshipleeal option clause in the
werts bill, as amended by Senator Baker, is
worth anything. what'sth matter with get
ting No another election underits provisions
and making the license fee 5000, and set
ting down on rum and rumseIling in that
way. It's worth iuquiring into, anyway.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

It is probable that, from now on, there
will be a number of appointments to
Presidential postofices made each day.
Quite a number of appointments were sent
to the President on Tuesday for his APP
proYal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

at the local option election held in Salem
county last September, two-thirds oil the
voters in Piiesgrove township voted against
the licensed sale of intoxicants. The DEM
ocratic Legislature now in session has an
nulled this declaration, and given the people
to understand that they know better what
we want than we do ourselves.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

The proprietor Of a meat market was
asked for a dollar to pay a temperance
lecturer. ''There's your dollar. I've sold
more meat in one day since this town went
no license thar / used to in a week when
we had the saloons.'' Here's a statement
worthy the attention of all bushes men.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

In all things throughout the world, the
men who look for the crooked will see the
crooked, and the men who look for the
straight, can see the straight.-John Rus
kin.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

Bro. Smith, Of the J~erseyman, has been
duly elected and ordained lay Presiding
Elder in tile II. Z. Church for the province
of sonth Jersey. vice Cheeseman, resigned,
and has gracefully accepted the ''posish''
and entered on the duties Of the Office, and
is asking for ''poiuters." We have no doubt
the brethren of the press will keep him
well supplied. We trust nc may escape
tie allurements of Camp-meeting grounds
and cranberry specnlations on which
SO many Of the clerical element have
made ship-wreck, and that the interests
committed to his charge may not suffer.
We predict a warm time for the particular
p. E. who toyed with him in the matter Of
the appointments if he succeeds in locating
the individual.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22

The South d~rssgman says Woodstown
cant have salem's ~cistern, and intimates
that the MoNIToE would expect the water
to run out oil it Of its accord to put out
our fires. We didn't speak for the cistera
for water purposes. but to keep the Re
lance in. Put her TO soak, as il were.
Just what is the trouble with the Reliance,
no fellow has yet iound ont. It lies be-
tween the old Borough Council of Woods
town or the City Council of Salem TO rise
NJ and explain. Meanwhile the old rip IS
No good to Woodstown, and never will be.