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the United States, said. When You were
weak and was strong, / toiled for you.
Now, you are strong and am weak. Be
cause of my work for You, ask your aid.
| ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As
l stood by you, pray you stand by me
and mine
..Gentlemen, there are Clara Bartons all
over this fair land. asking the opportunity
to unite with us in dischargiDg duties
which we alone have not always we'll per-
formed. Without their God-speed, without
their fortitude, without their care and sym
patty and love, the army of the republic
in war had never marched to victory.
Without their God. speed, without their
fortitude, without their care and sympathy
and love, the army of the republic never
will. in peace, march to victory. Hand IN
hand, heart responding TO heart--wc want
the whole of humanity to do humanity
work. -
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wbeeI for women.

A writer in the Pal 1NaH Ga-ftf says
"Now, when it is feared by the pessimistc
that She higher education of women will
interfere with their maternal functions, nc
kind of exercise can be as beneficial to
them as cycling. My attention has been
called to this fact by 4 letter | have just
received from a woman doctor of New
England, who has been practising medicine
successfully for the last seventeen years,
and can therefore speak from experience.
She is an enthusiastic cyclst. She writes:
so many of our women of to-day are CON-
plete failures in child-bearing that in look
ing for sound, natural reason find it, or
think | do, in the fact that they take very
little exercise which develops pelvic and
thigh muscles. Women and girls are
pushed into this quiet by their dress.
Those who think all forms of sport unwom-
anly should lay this to heart. The fact is
that women are physically in need of as
good sound exercise as men, and it may be,
by emancipating themselves from the old
conventions, and sharing manly sports as
well as manly studies, they will do much
to counteract the physical weakness which
is their inheritance from their mothers and
grandmothers, whose noblest ideal was to
stay at home in ladylikc repose OF mind and
hndv ~
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woman.s partin,ne war.

Rev. Fred A. Hinckley, addressing the
Grand Army of the Republic, lately, said:
''Ihere are innumerable evils abroad in
the land-intemperance, prostitution, gen.
eral vice and crime | will not try to cata-
logue them all; | will not dogmatize about
them; but in the civil war men and women
worked together. Shall they not work to-
gether still9 Women could follow close
upon the heels OF an army with bayonets,
enduring prvations and hardships 10 free
the land from rebellion and slavery. Shall
they not become an integral part of an
army with ballots TO free the land from the
rebellion of selfishness and passion and the
slavery of the dram-shop and the brotbel?
Shall We not recognize the magnitude of
the tasks before us, and summon u:
fractional part, but all the brain power,
and all the heart power, and all the con-
science of humanity, to the work? Clara
Barton-and who if not she fttingly rep
resents the woman's part in the VAR
Clara Barton, appealing to the soldiers of
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washington Letter.
From our regular coIrespondent.1
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Sept, Q. 1889.


WASHINGTON. d. c., Sept. ., 1899.
The tide of fashion which ebbed away
from Washington at the beginning of sum-
mer has flowed back. back with the oyster
and the months with the 'R' in them.
Houses are being opened for the season and
preparation being made for the winter
campaign. Washington fashionables have
not learned to stay in the mountains during
late September and October TO feel the SEN
sitive dying Of the summer and hear the
fire cracking in the back log when nights
grow cool. That is fad they have yet 70
acquire.
The Chinese minister Will return, with
his snite, next week. and Immediately
thereafter will start for the Orient. The
successor to the present minister has been
named, but the date of his departure for
America is not stated. The new minister
will be accompanied here by his wife. the
first instance on record where a Chinese
woman of high caste has been permitted
to leave the Celestial Kingdom. Prior TO
this time such permission has never been
granted and even the permission is a very
great surprise to all persons acquainted
with Chinese customs and government.
The strict surveillance which is exercised
over wives in the Celestial Kingdom will
be carefully preserved here Thenew envoy
will be driven in closed carriage, with
his wife, to the legation house, where
madame will at once be installed in her
apartments, She will not receive visitors
nor 60 into society. Occasionally the min
lister, when madames health absolutely
demands it, will take his wife driving, but
these drives will be few and far between.
as long indoor life has accustomed these
women to go without exercise or outdoor
airing
The oyster season is always inaugurated
in Washington with a tremendous eating
of fried, s;ewed, steamed and raw oysters.
The belated husband on his way home on
the night of August 81, cunningly carries
a box of fried oysters aud fears not the
wife's wrath. lie even wakes her, il she
has been asleep, to explain to her that he
has not been at the club this evening but
has been naugurating the oyster season.
What tons Of oysters are eaten in Wash
ington in year! Everybody eats them
from the dusky street Arab sitting on the
oyster wharf with a dozen stolen bivalves
and an old pocket knife, to the aristocrat
taking ga dozen and a small bottle " at
Chamberlaius. The fleet employed to
bring oysters to Washington alone would
make a fair sized navy. The average
Washingtonian can eat oysters with relish
every day as long as the season lasts.
Heaven be mercifnl to the man who ,ion't
like oysters and is ont late at night and
hungry. In nine tenths of the restaurants
he viii be told that they are ''just OUT of
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

As for McPhersoa and Smslley there
isn't much to say. Mcpherson isn't Of the
kind Of stuff that Senators are made OF,
though Heaven knows there's little enough
in the stuff nowadays. and ex-Revenue
Collector John Smalley has an opinion of
himself that isn't shared by the great ma
iority of the outside world Wethink that
is enough to say at the two latter, who are
both high license men and in this respect
would make be tier Republicans than Dem
ocrats. But as for Philip, we don't know
a better place for him Than ON one of the
sand bars at Wildwood Beach. He could
have his option there and it would be con-
siderably local, too.
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senator Eyarfs on the White II Ouse POr'
trait of Mrs. Hayes.

A Wash ington representative OF the n.
Y. Tribune writes:
One of the cleverest things ever said
about the portrait of Mrs. Hayes, hanging
in the Green Room OF the White House,
was said by Senator Evarts, who, it will be
remembered, was President Hayes Seere-
tary of State. The portrait is one OF three
in the Green Room, the others being those
of Mrs. Polk and the second Mrs. Tyler.
Mrs. Hayes portrait is the chief attraction
of visitors. After passing through the
Blue Room. where the receptions are held,
people are sure to make their first halt be-
fore this picture. 1t is a full-length figure
in wine colored velvet gown, and the
first frame was of carved wood in the de-
sign Of grape clusters and their leaves.
There is also something in the background
intended to be an urn, but looking more
like punch bowl. President Arthur,
however, had the portrait taken from this
caryed-wood frame and put IN heavy gold
frame, improving the picture very much
by the change. It is now considered salts
factory to the pubic eye. onc Gay oeha-
ator Eyats, with a party of friends, stood
before the portrait discussing its merits as
a work of art and as likeness of the or
iginal. After each had given an opinion
and had come to the conclusion that time
would prove the portrait to be faithful
copy of the White IIonse mistress, Senator
Evarts startled his friends by saying in
serious tone:
Eyes. Time may do a great deal for
that portrait. But there was mistake at
the first, when it was painted, which time
can never correct.
"a mistake?'' echoed the astonished
group.
EYES. The artist painted the portrait
in oils Mrs. Hayes should always be
painted in water-eolors.H
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Editorial ruyinis.

| would rather be tin can with dog
tied at the other end than have a woman
point her finger at me and say, You sold
the liquor that ruined my husband and
sent my son on the downward road to
rain
would rather be sent to the woods and
have q log placed across my neck. and be
told to sit on the other end Of it, than to
fill the shoes of the above fellow.
.sI'd rather be dumb,
And always mum.
Than pray thy kingdom come
Then vote for rum.
I'd rather be tied to a mules tail, and
the mule dead at that, than vote license
ticket with the bark on "a high license
ticket.
I'd rather be preacher. or teacher. or
an Allegheny man, than a door keeper at
the house of a growler.
I'd rather be anything that rots than
church member who signs licenses.
There are some men who would just as
leave live as die, and you needn't go ont of
Weodstown to find them.
The best thing about some good bed
ticks is the straw, and the best thing
about some good men is straw spelled
backwards
It takes as much brains to shovel dirt
into road cart as it does to run patent
inside newspaper, tie only difference be-
ing IN the quality Of the brains.
OF the two kinds OF fool, the one with
his mouth wide open and the other with
his mouth wide shut, wen take the latter
by large majority.
once heard Friesburg dominic say
that it is your poor man that always has a
dog, and that when lie becomes quite poor
he gets two dogs, and just before leaving
for the aims house gets third.
Lip service is not at par at this Office.
In fact, we would rather have pint Of
blue milk and water mixed than pound
of COW baYl.
Young man, if you want to be consider
ed smart. aim high and sack your girl
first. Don't wait until she tells you she is
engaged to another fellow and then sack
her on the spot, 1t looks too subsequent.
If good name is more to be desired
than riches, what's the matter with Good
enough, Lovejoy, "Richman, . 'tWise"
and the like?
am told that a woman and dog are
the only living creatures that leave their
kind to follow man-whieh is all very well
for the man.
There is nothing in ?uryis, Mississippi,
so far as we know. to attract the summer
tourist. Jake Kilrain and Jack Sullivan to
the contrary, notwithstanding.
As a rule, don't slop over until full. and
don't cross a bridge when you can ride on
a ferry boat
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sThc melancholy days have come-
nh. ..st54 dot IF +I,,. wear. -.

The saddeSt Of the year.
Or nearly come to the boy who has been
having a good time all the vacation. To
the breezy youth who would rather play,
who would rather work little even than
attend school, and who is looking ahead
not to The intellectual and honorable pos
sibilities OF the future, but TO the time
when he shall use fathers pocket book,
drive fathers fast team, visit fathers big
farms, use fathers big check book and col
lect fathers big interest money with faith
er in the grave, and be the sole legatec of
the estate.
He will smoke then IS father now docs,
swears as he occasionally hears his father,
visit the same club houses, drink the same
sherry, the same religion, and sheer,
as father now does at those who, in the
endeavor 10 better their fellows, preach
temperance, Righteousness IS aud a Judgment
to come.
To such a youth the thought of study
and close indeed q melancholy
one. and school days are verify the saddest
of the year But to the boy who aspircs to
BE- something, who wants and expects to be
heard from in the future, and in short,
with the thousands Of others who have
made for themselves history, il looking
with hopeful expectancy to the day when
he shall occupy an honorable place in So
ciety-t0 such one, there is no brighter
date on the calender than the day that
closes up vacation and opens mp the
school course.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

"Ihe Rev. DR., Of Bridgeton, made
the opening prayer, &e."--Reporf "a tie
PHILADELPHIA Times Of seruiee ut Oeean
GrOue.
Strange how people toy with
the good name of an individual
in these latter days, and strange, too, what
an aggregation of titles, ready made and
made to order, nisft and otherwise lie
around loose at Ocean Grove and other
noted places of resort. and all too, at the
disposal of the newspaper reporter.
Here now to illustrate is the case of an
inofiensye clergyman who has done moth
ing to deserve such treatment at such a
time, bnt on the contrary has dono much
to deserve well of his fellows, who opened
meeting With prayer as common Rev.
and the very next day is dubbed by a
metropolitan newspaper reporter as D..
D.
1t must be in the place-guess there's
something in the airat Ocean Grove. Per-
haps if this same n. II. had heard the same
brother deliver the same prayer at Bridge
ton he would have said in tbs columns of
the Times the next day 'Our rustic broth
er" etc, or ''our brother from the hay. seed
district" or something Of the kind
But can't there be something done in
matter Of this kind? Must it go on for
ever, and is our reputation and all We hold
sacred be shyed around by any newspaper
reporter that takes it into his head to do
so? What guarantee have we, what guar
antee has any one. no matter how upright
and just their past life, that in an hour not
looked for, some one may not saddle them
with the title of ID. ID. and thereby blast their
fair name forever? Let up, for the sake al
the family name, let up.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

Cbief-Justice Agnew, OF the Penn
sylyania Supreme Court bench, has given
it as his opinion that the local option law
of that State is constitutional. and il con-
stitutional there, of course elsewhere. We
are not giving the decision of this eminent
Court Judge as news to temperance men,
bnt to our friends on the other side OF the
house, who will probably be an extraordl-
nary long time in finding it ont. Local
option is constitutional, and now you may
apply it without injury to the most deli
cate constitution.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-06

We are informed that the Prohibitionists
OF New Jersey intend sending ont 100000
copies of the New York poief for sratuit-
Gus circulation, the few weeks preceding
election. and if our advice is Of any value
to them would say don't. Tie time is too
brief to impress the average reader. In
fact it has a contrary eiIect-the effect to
stiffen up the reader and put him on his
musele, SO to sneak. The time to have
circulated the Voice, or any other good
Prohibition paper, was Immediately after
the last general election, and not have
missed number until the coming election.
An experience OF nearly ten years in the
journalistic work and almost twice ten
years Of literary work, leads Us to this be-
lief, and We have frequently urged it upon
representative temperance workers.
In nothing is It more true than in news
paper circulation that ''the constant drop
wears the stone, but Eighty and spasmod-
ic appeals are no good. Circulate all the
copies now you please, bat don't expect
any results to follow at this election, but
if kept up year after year Will in the future
bring its golden fruit.
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Senator Baker. of Cumberland, positive
ly declines denomination. The contest
on the Democratic side is between Coun-
Gilman John Mcpherson, OF Bridgeton, aud
ex-Revcnuc Collector John Smalley.-Er-
cAange.
Did you hear anything drop in the above?
"Senator Baker of Cumberland positively
declines denomination. Oh the pretty.
winsome way politicians have Of putting
things. Isn't that just toe sweet FOR any
thing? They re match, some Of them.
for the old fellow who was selling a horse.
What a gentle, ioyable horse he was: so
sweet, 50 nice il his disposition. No kick,
no baull. no nothing hat vas bad, but
everything that vas good, real angelic in
his make up, etc. Just al that moment
the horse said, as plain as horse .could say
it, You lie, you villain, you know you
lie" He didn't say it in the way that
Balaam's ass spoke 10 the prophet. bat in
so unmistakable manner, nevertheless.
as to almost take away the breath Of the
old liar by kicking at him with both feet
Did the old chappie flush out confession
of guilt? Did he own to a mistake in the
animal and say it was altogether another
''hoss'' lie was referring to, and all that9
Oh no, not he; Chat isn't the way Of horse
jockeys but shying around TO the front
of the animal he patted him on d safe spot
and said, " Oh, the playful critter, that's
ooa &c I,ic F,ielyv vrav-
Tallerand couldn't have beat that, and
Mr. Samuel Hill and Thomas Pepper. Esq.
would hardly have got out a tight place
with more credit to themselves and the
general fraternity Of liars (to which they
belonged) than the above sly hammered old
horse jockey.
THAT'S one Of his risky ways may as
well be said, too of the preyarieating re-
porter who got off that little joke on
Baker. positively declines a renomina-
ton is rich. Philip P. Baker has horse
sense and knows some things we'll Some
things he don't know so well, but among
the things lie docs know, and knows best,
is that Charles X lands founded Vine
land, and that one Philip r. Baker will
never again represent Cumberland county
in the New Jersey State Senate, or, as
for that matter, in any other elective
way. His goose is cooked, Bakers is
In fact, the featheiless biped is cooked
brown through and through, and if any
thing somewhat oyerdone. The fact is
Philip turned his goose on the political
spit once too often. II he lad allowed il
to remain local option side up, as he once
had it, until thoroughly done it would
have been well for Philip and well for the
guests at the table, too but that wasn't
Philips way He was too 'playfnl' and
So over went the goose, and over went
Philip. too, proving himself no mole of
baker than Senator.
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this and that and the other, but they have
"oysters. sab And he must eat oysters.
or starve,
So many years have passed since brave.
dashing Fernando Wood went home to the
still country, that it is almost necessary to
tell anyone except New Yorker what the
great mayor was No man ever had bet
ter control of New York politics. He was
almost without academic education but he
was one of the finest natural orators that
ever charmed an audience. When he first
came to Congress, his tall, handsome fig
ure, his dash and his impetuous eloquencc
attracted the attention of both Houses.
In resources he was inexhaustible. One
day he stepped into cigar store on Penn
sylvania avenue with Henry Clay, who
prided himself on his knowledge of to-
bacco Clay was watching the def work.
men making cigars.
"Those men are very skillful at that
work" remarked Clay. 9 Yes, very, re-
Piled Wood. but it doesn't look very
difficult to do.
''Sir. think that to be one of the most
cunning of trades" retorted the Senator in
his positive manner. "Oh, nc" responded
Wood Il believe could make cigar
equally we'll" al doubt it, SIR" said
Clay. I'll bet you box of cigars | can, .
replied Wood Clay accepted the wager
and in minute Wood had cigar wrapped
and finished and held up before the great
Kentuckian's eyes.
Henry Clay's wonderment at the ease
with which naturally expert man had
learned skilled trade in a moment never
ceased to be expressed and to his philo-
sophie mind it seemed like the discovery of
a new principle.
And Henry Clay died without ever know
ing that Fernando Wood had learned the
cigar makers trade and spent several years
at the bench. where, as everywhere else,
he had excelled.
The men who lived such lives as Clay
and Wood, and nearly all the public men
of that day, are gone as class. 1t appears
to me that do not hear " the future of the
Republic, talked of so much as of old.
There is more talk now of "what my State
wants in the department and of "the
administration Great men have learned
to live more in their own class and to hold
themselves, if not more honest, at least
more bonored. WESTON.
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1ied.

HOG ATE - At liarmersvilie, August 18th,
Frank :. son OF Joseph and barbara liogate.
in his nth year.
CARI.L - In salem, August :;0th Hannah,
wife OF David CARL, in her 59th year
CHAMPIONSHIP salem, Sept. ID, Emma in
FAINT daughter of " illiam and Anna X. Cham
pion, aged months ana Is days.
BEE-in Alloway, August 29th George +.
Bee, aged - years.
KIRBi-In IIarrisonville, Aug. 2sth Charles,
son of Alfred Kirby, aged years.
kIGER AT Courses Landing, September
lst Matthias kiger, aged ~ years.
THOMPSON - Near Sharptown, sept sd
James Thompson, in the 7fth year OF his age
Funeral services ut his late residence near
shagptown tomorrow Saturday morning,
at halfpast ten O'Clock. iniermcnt in sharp
town Cemetery.
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II, = it'll the purchase Of the beer brew
cries of this State, the English syndicate
had also secured possession of that hitherto
insepaTable attachment, the Democratic
party. the good people of New jersey
would heave sigh Of inexpressioie relief
aud murmur hearty good rIddanee 70
both 1t is thought in this connection,
that while The breweries may possibly be
able 10 subsist apart from the Democratic
party. vet viii it be a very difficult matter
for the Democratic party to get along with
out the breweries, hence we prophesy that
the alliance between the two viii eoniinne,
under whatever ownership the latter may
be carried on.-H J. Press
The Press is hardly all '.all-around' tenn
perance paper, as everybody knows. and
we suppose the above, as Josh Billings
would put it, is meant TO be sarcastiek,
but is it? Leaving out nearly as many
Democrats of the rank and file as there are
Republicans of the rank and file who are
earnest temperance men, what eau be said
Of the remainder Of The Democratic party
of this State? Why precisely what the
Press intimates above-that the two are a
regular pl,friBas aanma affair.
Certainly they are Why TO assert any
thing less would be as absurd as to say
that Tanner isn't fraud, or the average
member of Congress statesman-just as
absurd. The Democratic party of New
Jersey, from Leon Albeit down. are mort
gagged to the rum power of the State, and
tile rank and file of the party ase response
bic just as FAR as they assume part Of the
obligation and bob up at the command
of their bosses Don't do it any longer,
fellow Democrats. if you have done it in
the past. Tho party Of jefferson, Jackson
and Cleveland has no business TO be found
in any such crowd. Come ye out and be
separate from them.
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No Democratic editor has yet volun-
teered to answer the Gazette'S eonundrlm.
of whether man wLo is not fit TO be
member OF the New York Bar Association
is fit to be Governor Of New Jersey?--Stafe
Gazette.
Great Scott, what set-down. Why not
ask child whose father was hung II he
believes in capital punishment; itwouldn
hurt any worse in the one case than the
other. Not fit Tor the bar, but fit for
Governor. Could the hypothesis be more
exasperatinea Tear from his body the
very vitals. pluck from their sockets bis
eye or eyes. but don't, for goodness sake,
don't ask an Albeit Democrat such a
question as the above. 1t CRATES, it does.