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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

There Is no aspect of alcoholism more
deplorable than as 4 factor of insanity.
The Superintendent of the Insane Asylum
at Stockton, California, DR.. VIII. May, says:
"All my observations go to strengthen
the belief that there is no greater mind
destroyer than intemperance." He is ofthe
opinion that it is in the second generation
that the evil works its worst results. He
adds: Zone half the insane-perhaps more
owe their arrangement to hereditary in
%fluence, inheriting an ancestral faint or pre-
disposition. Butthis hereditary taint-how
had it its origin? Where the family history
can be searched into, the starting point will
often be found in a drunken ~progenitor."
He declares that '.the families of intemper-
ate parents are ecruiting-ground for insane
asylums." One of the strongest arguments
for total abstinence, which should be
thoughtfully considered, especially by all
who assume the responsibility o~fparentage,
is this tendency to hand down to offspring
the alcoholic appetite, or special brain or
other physical weaknesses, as a result Of
alcoholic indulgence. Temperance Adooeate.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
1Aarrfed.

DORRELL-REEyE.-April I'd, by Key. w.
Il. Cornwell, at the residence ofJohm b. isevxo,
the brides father, MI. Frank Dorrell ana MISS
Anna f. Reeve, both of Woodstowh' NJ.
COLLINS-HACKE eth Salem, by rev.
d. DeWolf, April 1st, 1889, william IL. collins
and Jennie Y. Hackett, both OF Salem.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES fauIsSo,o'
on March 30. by Rev. S. +. Wheeler, Mr.. sam
uel W. Wheeler, of Paulsboro, to Miss Mary ..
Lawrence, of Salem.
BIDDLE-LEW ELLEN - At PennsSfoVe,
on March 80, b V Rev. C.S. Powelson, Jeremiah
S. Biddle and Mrs. Mary e. Lewellen, both Oh
Pennsgrove, Nd.
HENDRICKSoN PARK. on March 81
1889, by Rev.B G. Lippincott, D.D MI. III ~
Mantua, Nj.
HORNER-RICHMAN-At Alloway, Maren
3Oth, 1859, by Rev. Alfred Wagg,. james W;
Horner, of Fairton, TO Mamie hlcnihah' VI
BridgetOn,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

For offensive partisanship, for trucking
subscrviency to the rum power, for neglect
of the best interests Of the State, for TOM
fooling and general eussedness the Legisla-
ture of New Jersey, in this year of grace
1889, takes the rag off the bush. 1t will
be nothing to brag of to their grand-cbild-
rem hat the present Senatorsand Assembly
men were sin the Legislator in 80. About
the best thing they can do would be as
their last act, before adjournment, to pass a
bill forever and absolutely suppressing the
fact that they, or any of them, were in any
manner identified with that body. The
respectable element owe it to themselves;
the others owe it to their descendants.
We imagine that about mex fall some of
the honorables will wish they never had
been members, if they don't wish it before.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

sonally unsavory to the bitter Republicans
of the Northern part of his State. Ohio is
a poor place to be praised by your enemies;
your friends don't like it. Mr.. Halstead
comes out of the fight with flying colors in
the regard that the most biting and vim
dictiye debate could discover in him ho
violation of personal honor or private inte-
gritty and no charge OF mental unfitness
could be supported. Mr.. Halstead
merely finds himself in the position of an
editor who has spoken so plainly at times
that the memory ranked in his victims
years after, and the gall and wormwood
was treasured up and finally vented ON
him. After all is said, it is a magnificent
for 1889.
At the White House as elsewhere yester-
day and to-day the great topic of CONVERSE
ton has been the Samoan disaster. All
day long Saturday the Navy Department
was besieged for news not merely by the
reporters, but by the anxious, suffering
friends and relatives of those who were on
the doomed vessels. The sight was pitiful,
and as the visitors scanned the list of the
unfortunates nearly every name called
forth expressions of regret fiom some per-
sonal friend. The mother of a mere lad
who was on the Nipsic, is expected to die
from the shock. 1t is like war times. 1t
is only hoped that out of the great sorrow
may come some good, inasmuch as it may
hasten the action of the Berlin Conference.
Experienced naval officers at this place
think the disaster was in no small degree
due to the parsimony of the Government as
to coal. American vessels in harbor are
not allowed to keep up their fires, and as it
is the work of two hours to get up steam
with cold boilers the United States vessels
were at the mercy of the sudden storm.
WESTON.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
W. C.. T. u.



There is in the last published volume OF
Tolstoi's works a charming short parable
entitled, "Where Love is there God is also"
which might be read with advantage in all
our churches. 1t tells how a poor little old
shoemaker, Martinn Avdyeditch, was start
led from the sleep into which he had fallen
when reading the Gospel story of how
Christ was neglected in the Phariscc's house
by a voice saying: ''Martiun! alb, Martiun!
Look tomorrow on the street. | am COM
ing" All next day he waits expectant and
wondering for the advent of our Lord. lie
takes in a half-frozen dvornik and gives
him tea; he clothes a shivering m and
her starving child, and he composes a quar-
rel between an applewoman and a street
Arab. SO the day passed and the darkness
came.
"The moment Aydyeditch opened the
Testament he rccollected his last nights
dream. and as soon as he remembered it it
seemed as though he heard some one step
ping about behind him. A~vdyeditch look
ed around, and sees-there in the dark cor
ner as though people were standing; he was
at a loss to know who they were. And a
voice whispered in his ear, 'Martiun-ah,
Martiun! did you not recognize me9'
.Who?' uttered Advyeditch. Me- repeated
the voice, it's L. And the dvornik step
ped forth from the dark corner. lie smil-
ed, ana like Il little cloud faded away and
soon vanished"
The starving woman and her child, the
apple-woman and the boy, also appear to
fade away, saying, sit is l." A~ydyeditchs
soul rejoiced, he put on his eye glasses
and began to read the Gospel where it hap
pened to open, and he read, '1nasmuch as
We lave done it unto the least of these my
brethren, We have done it unto me-" And
Avdyeditch, says Tolstoi, IN concluding
the tale, understood that his dream did
not deceive him that the Savior really called
upon him that day, and that he really re-
ceived him." That is a kind Of Christian
ity the hold of which on Society even the
most fervent of Positivists or the most pos
tive OF Agnostics can note not only without
regret, but with complete satisfaction. The
world which learned to love "the least of
these my brethren for the sake of Christ
will yet learn to love Christ for the sake
of the least ofthese.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
Josiah Aliens wife ON the License
Question.

"'How can we help a workin,' sister
Minkley? How can We hold our hands up
and rest on our feather beds? Ii a deadly
serpent had broken loose from some cir
Gus, and was wreathin' and twistin' his
way through Jonesville, swallerin' down a
man or a oma every few days, would
men stand with their hands in their pock-
cts, or leanin' upag'inst barn-doors a-whit-
tim, arguin' feebly from year to year,
whether it was best to try to catch the
serpent and cut his head off, or whether it
was best, after all, to let him go free?
After they had seen some of their best
friends swallowed down by it, wouldn't
they chase it into any hole they could get it
into? Wouldn't they turn the first key on
it they could get hold of? And if it broke
loose from that, wouldn't they try another
key, and another, till they got one that
would hold him?
DO you suppose they would rent out
that serpent at SO much a year to crunch
and swaller folks accordin' to law? And
would it be any easier for the folks that
was crunched and swallered and for the
killed by act of congress? What would
such a law be thought of, sister Minkley?
And this is nothin' to the laws es they be.
For what is one middle-sizcd serpent in a
circus, that couldn't eat more'n one man
a week with any relish, to this intemper-
ance, that swallers down a hundred thou
sand every year, and is as big as the great
Midgard serpent | have heard Thomas J.
read about, whose folds encompassed the
earth Sister Minkley sighed so loud
that it sounded some like a groan, and |
KEEP on in a dreadful eloquent way:
we have got to take these things to-
home sister Minkley, in order to realize
'em. Yours and mine are es far apart as
the poles when we are talkin' about such
things. As a general rule we can bear
other folkses trials and sufferin's with res
ignation. When it's your brother or hus-
band that Is goin' the downward road,
we can endure it with considerable calm
ness; but when it is a part of my own
heart, my Willie or my Charley that is 60
in down to ruin, we feel as if men and
angels must help rescue him. 1t was this
that sent forth the Woman's Crusade that
made tender, timid ONE into heroes
willin' to o oppose their weakness to banded
strength. 1t was this tina made victory
possible to them. What was the crusade
to the Holy Land that have heard Thomas
J. read about to this? That was to pro-
tect the sepulcher where the body of our
Lord once laid. but this was to defend the
living Christ, the God in man"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

Let's see, Didn'tthe third party cranks,
who helped the Democrats win control of
his Legislature. cry out in pious conf
dence: "Oh, they won't dare to repeal the
local option lawt' Where are the people
who made this prediction now? The pub
lie would like to look at them.-Stote
Gazette.
Well, here's one ofthem; crank Or not,
just as thee pleases. We plead guilty to
having formed a mistaken estimate of the
amount of virtue remaining in the Demo-
cratic party. Let the Gazette and the pub
lie take a good look at us, and then tell us
what they are going to do about it. 1t
appears that the Democrats we're as rank
partisans last winter as the Republicans
were the winter before.
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1isd.


HOWSoN.-In Philadelphia, March 29th
Medora Ware, wife of Charles Howson, anu
daughter of Dan and Cornella ware, III th'
39th year of her age.
IoIrDENSLAGER.-In Philadelphia, Marcel
3Oth. Anna Bella, wife of AlonZo Nj. Louden
Slayer, in the 42d year of her age.
LAWRENCE-In Quinton township, Marcf
Goth, John S. Lawrence, aged ~ years. hioh.h'
and 5 days. =.
GREEN-In Salem, March Goth, Charles IL
Green, in his 9th year.
STRETCH-In Salem. April I'd, james
Stretch, in his 47th year.
DOBSON-At the County Almshouse, on
March %, 1889, Henry Dobson, coloreu, ageo
lG3 years.
DEAN-Near Wing Lane, April Sd, 1889
David Dean, aged 73 years.
Funeral this (Friday) afternoon at O'CLOCK
from his late residence near Wing Lane. In
terment in the Presbyterian cemetery, Dare
town.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
A crusade has been begun in Pennsylva

A crusade has beer begun in P~ennsylva-
MIA by the different Unions against the
practice, already becoming alarming, of
putting liquor into candy. The crock and
rye drops" and wine cordial confectionery
sold to children are doing incalculable dam
age. The little ones have been found COM
ing from school manifesting every system OF
intoxication from the use of these PERM
cious sweets. The manufacturers claim
that SO little liquor is used in these candies
that ten pounds Of them would not cause
drunkenness, but facts go to prove to- the
contrary. The liquor iend is to be watch
ed and fought at every point. He spares
not even the babies, and the mothers must
take up arms in their defence.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
Towns and communities where prohibit

Towns and communities where prohibit
tion prevails are fast becoming famous for
both spiritual and financial prosperity.
Churches whose members and pastors take
a "no-liccnse" stand are conspicuous for
constant revival spirit. The Methodist
Church at Canton, ILL.,, is a fine example.
''No-license" has been the policy of this
town for eleven years. The church is a
unit for prohibition, and the remarkable
fact is noted that more young men than
women are members. there being seventy
five young men to sixty-fouryoung women.
Ninety members are heads of families and
300 conversions are reported for the last
three years. A corresponding increase is
noted in the membership of other churches.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05
The Why Rurdeffc Puts Ii.

Just now all the enemies of Prohibition
are crying out that "Prohibition is a fail
ure." But you never heard a Prohibition
list say that. It's the fellows who want it
to fail who raise that cry. Go slow about
joining that cry, my boy. Not one of the
States that adopted Prohibition has repeal
ed the Prohibition Amendment; not one.
Don't be in Il hurry to declare any cause,
any movement that aims I make bad
times good, and good times better, that
aims to help men, 4 failure, even though
you see the aust flat on its back, both legs
broken, and its sword arm twisted. 1t
isn't dead yet. Don't believe too much in
failures, my boy, lest you grow to be one
yourself. Believe in success; it is a better
watchword, has a clearer ring to it, and a
maj looks, and feels, and is prouder and
nobler fighting for success, than when he
is struggling in the name of failure. Don't
stop to explain and apologize for the faults
of your cause; maintain and enforce its
virtues. "Yon haven't Taught me any of
the parties" said a young soldier to an old
Prussian fcneing master. "Don't need
'cm," growled the old mustache; 'you cut;
let the other fellow parry" That man
didu't believe in failure.-Robert j. Bur-
dette, IN the BrooklyB Eagle.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

A despatch from New Richmond, Ohio,
under date Of April list, contains the fol-
lowing:
This place of 5000 population is the
scene of great excitement, which many fear
will end in trouble. In no part of the
state has the law abolishing separate
| schools for blacks caused so much trouble
as in this. This and Adams counties have
particularly suffered, and the court dock
cts are crowded with suits for damages and
school rows. At Felicity recently one man
was shot, a number injured and one house
demolished in an effort to forcIbly eject
! colored children from the schoolhouse,
black and TOO white school children here.
All the blacks consented to remain in sep
arate rooms except the children of James
| Ringold. They were made miserable in
every way. Ringold caused the matter to
be brought into the courts, suing the SUI
| perintendent of the schools and thirteen
prominent citizens for $4,000 damages.
Last Thursday the circuit court gave him
one cent and costs. All the blacks then
rushed for the schools and a rough and
tumble time ensued, which ended yester-
| day in the School Board closing the schools
until next September, though three months
Of the present term remains. Many whites
and not a few blacks are indignant that
their children must be deprived of three
months schooling, and feeling runs high
Yesterday was one Of the most exciting
Sundays the place has ever known. The
streets were crowded all day. All other
topics were forgotten. Ministers counsel.
ed forbearance, and wise heads attempted
to calm the impetuous. Each side pro-
fesses to fear violence from the other. All
the teachers will sue for their salaries fol
the remainder of the term, and costly liti.
CATION, if nothing else, is sure to follow.
There is prospect that a mandamus will be
asked for to compel the School Board to
reopen the schools.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

We notice a measure on foot in the Leg
~islaturc to give to the lay judges of the
Courts of Common Pleas an annual salary
of 500. Just what the lay judges do to
earn $500 or 500 cents we have up to the
present writing been utterly unable to dis
cover. 4 good law judge in each county
at a fair salary, and the adjustment of the
present |antiquated system of laymen OH the
bench, would cause the interests Of justice
to be better served, and as a consequence,
the interests of the people.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

The Association Of County and City Su.
Statehouse at Trenton on Tuesday. There
were fifteen counties and five cities repre-
scented. State Superintendent f. o. Chap
man presided. Professor Green, of the
State Normal School, made the address.
1t was bearing Oh the Normal pupils who
come from the various counties. A num-
Der Of standing committees were recon-
mended. The Committee on Course of
Study reported the list for the schools Of
New Jersey.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

The project of building a National Tenn
perance Temple twelyes stories high, and
costing $500, 900 is contemplated by the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Building stock to the amount of almost
5000, 900 has alreaday been subscribed, and
various methods are being employed to
will be called the "Woman's Temple"
and will be the National headquarters for
all philanthropic and literary associations
of women.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

When a Speaker of the House of Assem-
bly, refuses to entertain a motion properly
made and in order, he usurps a power not
delegated to him by the constitution and
which is in p violation of the common
est principles of justice and fair dealing.
This Speaker Hudspeth did and he should
be impeached for his conduct. Such meth
DDS may obtain and find justice in Hudson
county but they have no place in the New
Jersey Legislature.-W. j. Press.
Come off, Bro. Chew. Almost anything
has a place in the New Jersey Legislature
this year. And We tremble to think what
may happen next year, if the Republicans
should happen to get back whack at theil
friends, the enemy.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

In Sussex county at the school election
the local politicians tried to prevent the
election of a m as school trustee by
sharp practice. The clerk, whose duty it
is to call the meeting. staying away, Miss
Rose Morrow, one of the candidates pres
cnt, said the election should be held, and
called the meeting herself, at which the
farmers were so pleased that they elected
her school trustee and District Clerk be-
sides.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

My house is mine. May | not do what
/ will with mineown? No. am prohibited
gcring of my neighbours property and the
lives Of himself and family. The saloon
depreciatcs real values in its vicinity and
kindles q fire that burns to the extinction
of brightest hopes, happiest affections and
noblest endcavor in all directions; a fire
that burns only too often to the neither hell.
Shal. there be no prohibition here?-Reo.
DR.. W. r. Thompson.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

1t ought not to be necessary every day
to print evidence of the bad effect Of cigar
ettc smoking on growing youths, but the
evidence from 200 doctors before the Michi-
gan Legislature is worth needing, and they
each cited cases of boys beingdwarfcd, made
insane, killed or rendered incapable Of
speech, and the professors of Michigan
University also testified ut length OF the
effect on the students, who were made
stupid by cigarettes Waterbury amer
can.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
in its ticket selling arrangements. Ten or
more persons in a party will be carried on
one ticket at the rate of two cents per mile
per capita. The present rate is three cents
per mile, without regard to the number of
persons carried. The privilege is extended
over the entire system of the road east of
Pittsburg and Erie. The rate is the same
heretofore been restricted to that class of
passengers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

The Assembly passed Senator Mallon's
bill, giving to the Mayor in the cities of
so, 900 population the power to appoint five
tax assessors, the city council to confirm
such appointments; Assemblymen Davis's
bill, repeating last years act prohibiting
six-year terms for Burlington City Council
men; the bill repeating the Personal Reg
istration act in Jersey City and Newark;
the bill repeating the act providing for the
appointment of non-partisan election
Boards of -four persons in cities; bill prov
iding for six inspectors OF child labor, and
a bill giving Mayors of cities a two-year
term and providing for a two-year term
for City Treasurers.
Bills were introduced forbidding Sunday
ball playing Gained at Gloucester's Sunday
games) and making 10 hours in "a a legal
days work on all cable, traction and steam
railroads. The Assembly next took up
and passed a caucus bill providing that the
Governor shall appoint the five Inspectors
to manage the State prisons. AT present
the five Inspectors are Republicans, being
the State Comptroller, the State Treasurer
and three appointees of the Legislature.
Another caucus bill, giving the appoint
ment of the State Prison Supervisor to tho
Governor, was next passed.
The Assembly then passed a bill, estab-
fishing aldermanic districts in Newark and
Iorcov C;tv aoonr1inr "a tho camo lines nc
are established for the new Assembly dis
tricts in those cities; also a bill adding a
part of Quinton township, Salem county,
to Lower Alloway Greek township, with a
view to making the County.Board of Free
holders Democratic. Both bills were
adopted by the caucu some days ago.
In executive session of the Senate the
nomination of William V. Steel FOR Prose-
cutor in Somerset county was referred.
Bills were passed allowing railroad COM
panies to consolidate and allowing five
township committeeman in counties of TO-
600 or more inhabitants.
In the Assembly the Committee on Mis-
cellaneous Business reported adversely on
the bill legalizing Sunday base ball playing,
and the report was sustained.
A bill was passed exempting physicians
of 20 years standing from the law relative
to diplomas.
WEDNESDAYS SESSION.
Among the bills passed by the House to-
day were those authorizing the Mayor of
Newark to appoint a City Comptroller
without confirmation by the Council; and
providing for the creation of Hamilton
county out of a part of Hudson county, thus
giving the Democrats a new senator.
The Senate passed the bill making the
sale of property by women legal when
their husbands are confined in prisons or
lunatic asylums.
The Governor sent to the Senate the nomi-
nation of Lawrence T. Farrell, of Essex,
for Inspector of Factories. 1t was referred.
Senator Gardner, of Atlantic county,
introduced a bill amendingthe Werts liquor
law, so that the wine-growers can sell their
own products in quantities of quart or
over,
Senator Pfeiffer introduced a bill proyid-
ing for the appointment by the Governor
of five Commissioners to consider tho mat
ter of a State reformatory by investigating
those of other States, selecting q suitable
site, procuring plans, etc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

Bro. Smiths editorial confreres are wait
ing expeetantly to see him enter upon the
active discharge of his duties as Lay Pre-
siding Elder, but as yet he has made nc
sign beyond an acceptance of the Office
Let him make no mistake. The place is
no sinecure. Its duties must Re met and
performed, or he must make way for some
one with more sand.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

Between the Neps, of Bridgeton, and
j.. NJ. S....sof Camden, Bro. Gwynpe
appears to be between the devil and the
deep sea. But j.. M. So. and Bro. APP
plegate should give pause ere BRO.
Gwynne's wrath be kindled but a little.
When he rises up the hair will fly!
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-04-05

How petty seem the pomp, pride and cir
cumstance of warlike preparations between
great nations, while whole fleets of war
ships are gathered up and dashed to pieces
by the fury of the clements, over which
man has no control. Here is a grand text
for the moralizers. Let them improve it.
We give it up.