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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Plain Talking,

Saturday night. Sept. Sth. James Per-
klns, residing on President street, near
Utica avenue, Brooklyn, while drunk, as
usual, drove his three children, Willie,
aged nine years; Lulu, aged seven years,
and James, a baby, aged ten months, out
of the house. 1t was dark and raining
severely when he drove the children into
the street. The brave little boy, Willie,
took the baby in his arms, followed by
Lulu his sister, wandered along the streets,
not knowing what else to 40. till, near
midnight, when they were seen by Mr.. E.
B. Howell, on eastern Parkway, one of
the loneliest streets in the city. The
drepching rain was beating into their
faces as the two eldest struggled on to find
some place OF shelter for themselves and
baby. Mr.. Howell took them to a police
station where they were kindly cared for.
Should a man sell diseased meat to a
man, the eating of which wonld result in a
stomach-ache; or sell poor milk to a FAM
lily, the use of which milk would produce
vomiting, church and state, politics and
religion would rise up and howl. But
church and state, politics and religion,
each unites to license the sale of liquor
and to the social and friendly recognition
of the man who thus poisons his fellow
man, converts him into a demon, and
causes him to open the door and turn wife
and children out into a storm and into the
grave. \ man, so-called, deliberately en-
cages for money to manufacture drunk
ards, wreck lives, rob children of love,
care, and property, and the more he does
of his hellish business the greater his in
fluence in politics, the more of a society
darling he becomes and the firmer his
clutch on the Government. Meanwhile,
nobody cares what becomes of the child
ren.-P5meroy's Advdhee Thought.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
prohibition Does Not pronibir

Brother Jones and l were out in Iowa at
one time, and we were talking about
houses and school buildings and the coun-
try generally. \ fat, bloated. big-necked
Dutchman was seated near us, but took no
interest in what we said until Bro. Jones
made some remark about prohibition,
whereupon the big fellow rolled over and
said to US:
Il dells you vot it is, prohibition does
not prohibit. Der is as much liquor here
as ever there was. 1t was a failure
.Well," said Bro. Jones. lis that SO? It's
a pretty good thing for the saloon keepers,
isn't il? They don't have to pay any H.
cense and they sell more than ever they
did: they are making money at both erds,
then"
well, I don't know pout dot"
What business are you ins'' said Bro.
Jones.
Il was in dc s'loon business.
swell. then, l suppose you are making
none hand over fist. You like it pretty
well here?"
mo, was net in yer gut health, and
mein bruder lives in Missouri, and ie wants
me to come down derc, and | vast t'inkin
of dom So"
So you see he didn't believe prohibition
was prohibiting aud lie was going Ia move
out.-.Srm Small.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
south Jersey yores.

Joseph Tyler. of Greenwich, Cumberland
county, was ON Friday a~djudged insane by Il
lunacy commission.
The Methodist Protestant Church Confer
ence will meet in Brldgeton, October -, and
continue its sessions for one week.
New York and Bridgeton capitalists have
organized a steamboat company, and pur-
chased the steamer Georgianna,
to ply between Bridgeton and Philadelphia.
Atlantic City Council has taken steps 10
build the permanent ocean-front boulevard
under the law passed by the last Legislature.
sixty feet of land will be taken along the
whole front.
While fifty calves were being unioaded at
l,ridgeton on Wednesday, they broke away,
ran mp the West jersey Railroad tracks and
were run down by a p passenger train. several
were killed.
Captain William Diament. while dredging
for oysters in Maurice river cove, hauled up
an anchor weighing Loo pounds, with forty
five fathoms of cable attached. 1t is probably
from a large wreck OF years ago.
4 severe hail storm passed over Camden
on Tuesday afternoon. but did not do any
damage. The stones that tell were nearly as
large as walnut and fell for about five min
utes. The hail storm was accompanied by
vivid flashes of lightning and loud peals of
thunder.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Wyoming Territory, after twenty years
experience of woman suffrage, has just
adopted a State Constitution which guar
antees personal, legal, and political equali-
ty to women Tlis IS the greatest even,
that has occurred in American history
since The Declaration of Independence and
the adoption OF the Federal Constitution.
Only the Emancipation Proclamation and
the Fifteenth Amendment approach IL in
importance But while those great acts
emzncipAted AID en~franehiscd a race, the
act Of Wyoming emancipales and enfrAn-
ehises The better half Of mankind. II
establishes for the first time in history. a
true Republic based upon tie divine dee
laration Of rights: God made man in His
own image; male sud female created He
them, and gave them dominion" Twenty
years hence, the worldly ide significance of
this event " III be more fully recognized.
All citizens are 10 vote irrespective Of sex.
Qualifications are required that electors
shall be able TO Rad English. shall be full
fieslged citizens. and ave bad six months
residence in wyomiug-Hsayg d. Blac3-
rsl.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
w. 4. II. u. 10 ola Liberty Rel.

O long silent bell from old Liberty Hall!
Ring out, till the echoes about us shall call.
Ring out all your changes, appealingly ring.
TIC the Century's ear the old music fiingi
"From Thralldom of Rum over mountain
and sea,
Ring on; us IL trumpet. BE free. oh, be
free,'
And waken the spirit chat thrilled the Old
Hall
When death was thought sweeter than Tyr
anny's thrall,
Memorial of freedom. thou hallowed Bell.
How heart of this Nation would quiver and
swell
If assured Prohibition thy voice might unseal
And roll out to the winds the awe of thy
peal,
That peal swellea the chorus when Liberty's
song
First awakened the wales. his glad shore
along:
So, ring the new anthem DER RUNS broken
sway.
Bnt set the old music to Freedoms new lay,
Ring in the new era; ring out the old wrong;
Ring out the oppression that tortured uslong;
Ring ont Licensed Evil, sin.steeped, thro' and
thro';
Ring in the evangel, the sweet and the new
Ring in. "Peace on earth and good will unto
menu
Ring in Prohibition, Ring ont Wrong, again.
Ring in fun redemption in the golden To-day
Bur set the old chorus 10 Freedoms new lay,
-Mdr9 4. Leacih.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Reduced Rates 10 Political Clubs Via
Pennsy iyania Railroad.

The Democratic Climbs Of New Jersey
will meet in convention at Newark on DC
tober ioth, and the State League Of Re
publican Gibbs will assemble at Elizabeth
On October 18th. Fer the accommodation
OF all who may desire TO attend these con-
ventions the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will sell excursion tickets st two
cents per mile from all stations on its
New Jersey lines. On October 9th aud
10th. good 10 return until October flsb,
tickets Tor the Democratic convention
will be sold; and on Oct cher 18th and I5th
good TO return until October 10th, tickets
fnr the Republican convention will be
sold.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

As a corrupter of boys the cigarette is
pre-eminent in this era. The tobacco
poisons the body, and vile pictures .ac-
companying the packages of cigarettes in
many instances poison the mind. In a
late number of the New York Independent,
Meta Lander, widely known as an anti
tobacco missionary, writes of the many In
c~entives offered in the way of pictures. il,
Illustrated albums of The Champions of
the World, The Worlds Beauties
cards, etc., to induce boys to purchase,
and says: Il am obliged, moreover. TO
add thai some of these cards should be
turned over TO the vigilant Comstock.
So s~ickeningly suggestive are many of
them of their antecedents that it has re-
quired not a little sacrifice TO examine
them, as | have done in the interest of
mothers and their boys" The evil wrought
in this direction is simply i~ncalculable.
There is no doubt, also, that cigarette and
other smoking does much to create and in.
tensify the abnormal drink appetite. In
every possible way it should be discour-
aged and restrained.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Six former Prohibitionists said yesfer-
day that the stand made by the Republican
party was strong enough for them, and
they would vote that ticket. Very sensi-
ble.-Bridqefoa Ronstr, Sept. II, 1889.
Six Ell, Let's see, ''the stand made by
the Republican party" is just seven days
old, or was when the little paragraph APP
pearing above met the public gaze. and the
result is nearly one Prohibition voter per
day gathered into the Republican house
hold since. Now the writer doesn't say
where the six former Prohibitionists be-
long, whether residents of Bridgeton, OF
Cumberland county. OF the State of New
Jersey or where, and St we don't know how
to blow it, but if the Poaesr editor wants
that number matched from the borough OF
" oodstowu alone by six former Republi-
cans who will vote the Prohibition ticket
this fall because the Republican stand is
not strong enough for them, let him send
us word, Office hours from six to six.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Tie leading article in BeeE Navs for De-
tober John WanAm=ker, ~PhiladelPlia) IS
by Professor BoyeseB, and Is a ye-y inter
esiing account of the Sagzs Of the old
Morse Kings. Other articles are ~"lIenrik
Ibsen,a IA Fiction Maker ii Toxic
James Penimore Cooper with postrait5,
How DR.. Holmes Spent His Eigbtseih
Birthday etc. There are reviews Of
many Of the newest books, among them
being Marion Cr2Efoni's SAINT Il4Fio and
Max 0'Reli's book On his own country
men. jacques Bonhomme. : \ Dew life
Of Benjamin Franklin and one Of Jane
Austen. The descriptive pEiec-list this
month comprises ever fny new publiea-
tons. The detached portrait Is Of the
Scotch literasenF and critic. ABdHew Lang.
aaa the numher eontains = shogt sketch Of
his life.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Who Is ~Re>ponsIble.

The death of fellow Iownsman. John
Fl. Edwards. Is sad 70 contemplate. Never.
perhaps. in the history ef our town has
death entered our midst nnder such tras-
zeal circumstances. When one i'll the
prime Of life and in full possession of his
faculties wiiialls and deliberately commits
physical and moral suicide we shuider at
the thought of the responsibility involved.
Death is solemn under any circumstance.
Around it gather eternal Consequences
The wisest and best Of men contemplate
it with misgiyings. The consciousness Of
a well spent life can scarcely disArm il Of
its terrors, and eniy the eye of Faith can
penetrate beyond il into the Unknown. Il
scarcely the righteous are saved from their
sins what must be the eternal consequences
10 those who. unprepared. wilfaliy thrust
themselves into the presenes OF Him, who
is the Oliver Of ahlifs, under circumstances
that appal the moral senses.
The death Of John II, Edwards suggests
the query as 10 who IS responsible for his
uutimely end. While he, anquesiionably.
is responsible 70 Him with whom are the
issues Of life and death, are not those who
made the circumstances OF his death posi-
bic equally responsible In that day when
God shall judge the ac5joas Of men. vii
he not hold those who sold the drink aud
those who leg&nzed the sale Of the drink
equally responsible? Gods judgments for
the death Of Nsboth was nor upon his i'm
mediate slayers but upon Ahsb and Jsze-
bel. Ia the equity Of heaven there i no
shifting of responsibility. Is not the marx
of Cain upon the Legislature OF last win
Ter that repealed the Local Option law,
against the protest Of the people Of Salem
county. aud again legAlized the sale Of
strong drink whereby the death OF Ed
wards followed as resulting consequence
Is not his blood 70 the charge Of every
member Of The Legislature who by his
vote gave 10 his death legal sanction. And
will God hold guiltless those who With
persistent Importantly belsbored tie Leg
islatuTs 70 break down the barriers that
hedged about the appetite for drink that
they might get unhallowed gAins 10 that
day when God shall judge ali men for deeds
done. there will be a mighty responsibility
som v here.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

The Millville Transcript hints at the
sadness felt by the Bridgeton Pioneer pub
Usher because the Ersniaq Netts has the
laws to publish. There may be something
in the transcripts innuendo, and we rather
imagine there is, but if the Transcript
scribe had just looked over the fence and
observed the Patriot stirring itself he would
have ~apostrophised otherwise. For years
the Pioneer and Patriot have stood to-
gether for the public steal (laws) when the
steal was on, and now the Fafffot is the
most "rattied" of the two. Decidedly so.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
w. C. T. u.
TaImage sketches an Ideal Home.


Make your home the brightest place on
earth if you would charm your children to
the high path of virtue and rectitude and
religion, says Rev. T. De Witt Talmage in
the New York Observer. Do not always
turn the blinds the wrong way, Let the
light which puts gold on the gentian and
spots the pansy pour into your dwellings.
Do not expect the little feet to keep step to
a Dead march. Do not cover up your
walls with such pictures as Vests death
ere of the Innocen;s.' Rather cover them
if you have pictures, with "The Hawking
Party" and 1.-THE Mill by the Mountain
Stream" and 'sThe Fox Hunt" and 1.-THE
Children Amid Flowers" and 1.-THE Har-
vest Scene,' and ''The Saturday night
Marketing Get you no hint of cheerful
ness from grasshopper's leap, and lambs
frisk, and quails whistle, and garrulous
streamlet which from the rock at the
mountain top clear down to the meadow
ferns under the shadow of the steep, comes
looking for the steepest place to leap off
at, and talking just to hear itself talk. If
all the skies hurtled with tempest and ever
lasting storm wandered oyer the sea, and
every mountain stream were raving mad,
frothing at the mouth with mud foam. and
there were nothing but simoons blowing
among the hills, and there were neither
lark's carol nor humming- birds trill nor
waterfalls dash, but only bears bark and
panther's scream and VOLTS howl, then
you might well gather into your homes
only the shadows.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
CLOTHING
CLOTHING!

We read of large stocks of cloth
ing and low prices. It's an easy
matter to write a flaming advertise
ment, but sometimes difficult to sus-
tain assertions by facts. We don't
aim to say anything in our
advertisements about our goods
that is not strictly true. 1t is we'll
known that our stock is at all times
the largest by far of any in this
county. There is none larger in
any town in South Jersey. 1t is as
we'll known that we are in position
to buy cheaper than others and at
all times prepared and willing to
work on close profits. This season
we are better fixed than ever be-
fore. We had most of our stock
made expressly to our own order.
Now therefore take notice, that if
you want to save from one to five
dollars on the purchase of a single
suit or o~vercoat, come to headquar-
tiers where you get full returns for
every penny you invest.
Buyers from Swedesboro, Salem
or Alloway, whose purchases
amount to TEN DOLLARS or
over, will have their fare paid both
ways.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

The tomato growers in this State and
Delaware have been unfortunate in their
crops the present year. When the early
crop was reaching maturity heavy rains
fell, washing the vines out of the ground
and destroying the fruit. Then followed
cold. unreasonable weather, which re-
tarded the growth of the vines and set
back the ripening of the fruit. Then there
came an interval of fine growing weather,
and strong hopes were based upon a large
late crop, which hopes seemed about to be
realized when the rains of week before
last descended, accompanied by high west
erly winds, which have, it is said, resulted
in a partial annihilation of the crop. 1t is
also said that this misfortune will result
in great loss to the Gamers, as they were
making preparations to do a large business
in putting up the late crop,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
III Something.

Let us all 60 10 preaching. Send pol
ished Paul up to Athens. and pain Bar
tholomew down among the fishing smacks
by the sea. Do not look so ~anxiously into
your pockets for your diploma from Yale
or your license from P~resbytery. If the
Lord does not send you into the ministry,
no canon of the church can shoot you into
it. But if He has put His hand on -FOUR
head, you are ordained, and your working
apron shall be the robe, and the anvil your
pulpit, and while you are shifting the iron,
the hammer of Gods trntli will break the
fiinty heart in pieces. Peter was never a
Sophomore. nor John a Freshman. Har-
Ian Page never heard that a tangent to the
parohola bisects the angle formed at the
point of contact by a perpendicular to the
direetrix and a line drawn to the focus. If
George Muller should attempt chemical
experiments in a philosophers laboratory
he would soon blow himself up. And
hundreds of men, grandly useful, were
never struck on commencement stage by a
boQnet flung from the lady's gallery.
Quick, Let rs find our work. You preach
a sermon; you give a tract; YOU hand a
flower; you sing a song: you give a crutch
TO a lame man: you teach the Sabbath
class their A B c; You knit a pair of socks
for a founding; you pick a splinter from a
child's finger. Dc something. Do it now.
We will all be dead seon.-T. De Fftt
Idl'nage. Y. 7. Observer.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

In a recent sermon on the sorrows of the
drunkard from the text, who slew all
these?" Rev. DR.. Talmagc said: There
is no use in trying to give you statistics
about the devastation and luin and the
death which strong drink has wrought in
this country. When 1
look upon tie desolAtion l am almost
frantic with the scene, while I cry cut
Who slew all thesee' / can answer that
question in half 4 minute. The ministers
Of Christ who have given no warning, the
courts of law that have offered the lieen-
sure, the ZONE who give strong drink on
New Years day, the fathers and mothers
who have rum on their sideboaFd, the hum
dreds Of thousands OF Christian men and
women ia the land who are s,olii in their
indifference on this subject-ihey slew all
these.''
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

There is 4 great difference in the neral.
personal, integral. aud there may be Others
.,als" that don't just non occur, CT political
conventions of the several parties-all the
difference in the world. Take the Repub-
lican party convention and mark its com-
plsxioa, (by the way, its come to be
pretty well tanned in part aawsdaysl aud
you eau tell at 8 glance it's an assembisge
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

Leon Albeit, the liquor-dealers lawyer,
has written his letter of acceptance of the
Democratic nomination for Governor. In
it he says:
Upon the question of personal lioeriy
and s~umptuary legislation stand upon the
platform of principles laid down by the
Democratic National Convention of 1854.
The late Democratic Legislature dealt
with the question of the regulation of the
sale ofliquors in a practical manner, which.
although perhaps not wholly satisfactory,
has given the State a better excise system
than the County Option scheme adopted
by the Republican Legislature OF 1888.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

The world keeps moving, as appears in
the encroachment of neE ideas upon old
time practices. One Of the latest of these
is the fact reported in the Northern Wig,
that Queens College. Belfast. Ireland,
will open It's medical department TO wom-
en-. Up 10 this time women have been ex-
eluded from this college. The fact that
tie University Of Paris and the London
University are open to women, aud that
medical degrees are conferred upon women
by the Royal University Of Ireland, did not
suffice TO open Q~neen's College. But
when 4 number Of youug women lately
applied. the medical faculty OF the college
unanimously voted to admit women. 1t
is pleasant TO report 50 encouraging a fact.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
A Great Trip at "a Low Rate via PENN
sylyar,ta Railroad.

No uniformed body of men presents
such a gorgeous spectacle as does the
knights Templar. 1t is only once in three
years that they assemble in a body IN one
of the principal cities of America, and as
they have selected Washington to be the
theatre of their triennial conclaye this
year, the double opportunity to witness
the brilliant gathering and to visit the
beautiful Capital City on the Potomac Will
be offered from every station on the various
lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad at one
fare for the round trip. The conclave will
continue from October Sth to 18th, 1889,
and tickets will be sold October 9th, 9th,
18th. and Sth, valid for return trip until
October 31st, 1889. Returning a stop-off
within the limit will be allowed at Balti-
more, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton,
Harrisburg. Williamsport, Elmira, En-
porium, and Cory, as the route of the ex.
cursionist may suggest. The occasion will
be one of the most enjoyable seasons OF
the year to visit Washington. Specific
rates will be furnished by agents en- APP
plieation.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04

The West Jersey and the West Jersey
and Atlantic Railroads report their gross
earnings for August at s245, 3T9. an in
crease of 81, Gal compared with the cor
responding month of 1888. The operating
expenses were 1923, $50, a decrease of SILL
996, and the net earnings s121, S23, an in
crease of s13, 637. For the eight months
ending August 81, 1889, the total receipts
were 81, 065. al, a decrease of $50, 369,
compared with the corresponding period
of 1888; operating expenses, s712, 135, an
increase Of $50. $50, and net earnings
1858, 406, a decrease of SOS, $50. The total
expenses and obligations for the eight
months were s913, OIL, an increase of 3d.
sos. and the net profit of the West Jersey
Railroad was s152 ,470, a decrea Sc of SOL
0GS
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
HEADQUARTERS NEW JERSEY PRoulBl,
TIoS STATE COMMITTEES.


u Brook, \. j., sept. 2, 1889.
\ meeting ef the State Executive Com
mittee will be held in the Office of T. j.
Kennedy. 80 Washington St, Jersey City.
Thursday October 10Th, al / P. m. \ full
attendance is earnestly requested.
T. W. BUReER, Chairman.
MATTER ". NESANs, Secretary.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
Keep Your Eye on Is. And Sec.

The Woodstown MONITOR seems TO be
undecided as to whether ii will supportthe
Prohibition party this fail or take 70 the
woOds.-Camdea Telegram.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-10-04
YEAR BEFORE LAST

We bought and sold a few cases
of the LESTER BOOTS, made at
Binghampton, New York. They gave
such general satisfaction that we
quadrupled our order last year, and
this season we have already made
arrangements with the maker for a
much larger supply. All who have
had them want them again, and not
only them, but they send us new
customers, and so it goes. 1T IS
THE BEST BOOT MADE. We
have yet to hear the first complaint.
but on the contrary all speak well of
them. They COST NO MORE
THAN OTHER MAKES, and you
may as we'll have the best. Don't
forget us when you want to buy.
Our Ladies Genuine Pebble Goat
Button Shoe, with worked Button
Holes, at sI.25 is a daisy. See a
sample pair in the window, or go in
side and inspect. All kinds of shoes
for Ladies, Misses and Children,
also Boys and Men. Low prices
for good goods.
F. B. HUMPHREYS.
Woodstown. N. !.
New Store Under the Opera House,
J. NELSON CURRY. in Charge.